[HP] Don't talk to me

"Red, green... Still, the blue one is better." Ta Effa stood in front of the cabinet, pointing to a blue silk evening dress hanging in a pile of clothes, and suddenly blushed.The boss took off the clothes and handed them to her, and said with satisfaction: "You have a good eye, this dress must look good on you.

Ta Efa did not speak, took the clothes, leaned on himself, and gestured in front of the floor-to-ceiling mirror.Andrew stood aside a little awkwardly, blushing deeply.

The boss looked at them with deep meaning in his eyes and smiled.Unexpectedly, Ta Efa tried it for a while, then turned around and said, "Forget it, I won't buy it."

"You'd better try it on the upper body and see the effect, it really suits you." The boss persuaded in surprise.

Ta Effa shook his head.

Andrew followed Ta Effa on the streets of Diagon Alley.Ta Effa bowed his head and said nothing.

He had been called out by Ta Effa today because Ta Effa was going to buy a proper evening dress for the Yule Ball.Since he is a male companion and a good friend, he is naturally obliged to accompany her out to choose clothes.But after looking around, Ta Efa didn't buy a single piece of clothing.

At an intersection, Ta Effa stopped, sighed and said, "Come on, let's go back to Hogwarts."

"But your clothes..."

"Andrew, I don't have any money to buy new clothes now." Ta Effa turned around and smiled wryly at Andrew, "I thought the clothes wouldn't be so expensive, but after looking at the price, I can't bear it. My dad is now You only give me 5 galleons a month for living expenses, where can I get money to buy clothes?"

"I can lend you a little." Andrew said immediately.

"No, I don't want to owe you money." Ta Efa raised her eyes, and took a last look at the out-of-the-ordinary clothing store on the far corner of the street. The blue evening dress lying there, and the one in her dream Almost exactly the same, but after all, it does not belong to her...

Snape hadn't seen Tal Effah for several days, final exams were over, and the week before Christmas was free time for the students.Inside and outside Hogwarts Castle, there are laughter and laughter of students playing after the holidays. There are snowmen of all sizes piled up on the lawn outside the castle. Every day, people have snowball fights on the ground outside the top window of the cellar, making Snape Had to use a few silencing spells.The cellar itself was lonely, except for Snape, no one would come here in the first place, and when Tal Effah didn't come, this loneliness became even more prominent.

Snape wished to hide in his bedroom, reading by the fireplace.He borrowed a bunch of tomes of ancient potions books in the library, and the dust on each book was as thick as a finger, so dirty that the titles of the books could hardly be read.He cleaned the book several times before he turned the book upside down, but stopped at the first page he turned.

He also thought about setting up a cauldron to make medicine, whatever he wanted to do.However, the samples of wolf elixir have been completed, and they are waiting for the one sent to the Ministry of Magic to find a suitable werewolf in Azkaban as the experimental subject to test the effect.His thesis on wolf meth has also been written and is just waiting for the results to be published.

For the first time, he felt that there was nothing to do.

For several years, he hadn't been free during the week before Christmas.Ever since Ta Effa had been pestering him as an assistant, she would stay in the cellar at this time, talking to him and bugging him with questions so that he had no time to do his own thing. Because in order to watch Ta Effa without causing damage, he can almost expend all his energy.But as the little girl grew up, Ta Efa became sensible.She no longer mentioned the matter of leaving Hogwarts, perhaps because she could never get No.1 in the exam no matter how hard she tried, and her friend Andrew always took the first place, which made her almost see no further hope for herself.She stopped being mischievous, became a good student, and even became a Ravenclaw prefect in her year.She also doesn't do so many unexpected things, doesn't sneak away from school at Christmas, but always comes home on time and returns to school on time.She began to show the intelligence and calmness that Ravenclaw students were accustomed to, but the madness gradually became less and less, until it almost disappeared.

Snape sometimes thought about it, and even felt a little nostalgic for Tal Effah's original appearance, the girl who stood in the cellar to make promises to him, with long blond hair and bright blue eyes.

Snape sat in the corner of the empty cellar, feeling empty and cold inside.He got up and left the cellar, determined to walk around the castle.

He walked to the air corridor on the third floor of the castle, stretched his head to look outside, but suddenly froze.He saw that on the lawn by the Black Lake, there were many male and female students fighting, and not far from those students, there were two people standing.One is Ta Effa, and the other is the eternal No.1 in Ravenclaw College, Andrew.

Ta Effa's and Andrew's hands were clasped tightly, sometimes raised, sometimes swung from side to side.Ta Effa still stopped, grabbed Andrew's hand, and put it on his waist.After a while, the two started spinning, and Ta Effa asked Andrew to hold her hand, and then she turned around and spun in a circle.The two interacted and laughed.

Snape observed for a long time in amazement, and finally realized that the two were practicing dancing.

Hogwarts occasionally chooses to hold a dance at Christmas, and this year happens to be such an arrangement.When he was a student, before he had time to dance with Lily, he said the words that he regretted for the rest of his life. From then on, there was only pain and no happiness.In the seventh grade they finally ushered in the prom, but Lily's dance partner was already the prong.

There was another dance this year, but as a teacher, he didn't need to worry about inviting a partner, he didn't plan to dance at all.He just needs to sit in his place with a straight face and get through the night.

He didn't know what he was thinking, the memory overlapped in the reality and the past, Lily's red hair appeared in front of him for a while, and the eye-catching blond hair in the distance appeared in front of him for a while, as if suddenly, he changed back to His young heart was beating non-stop.He was dazed for a long time, until he saw two people on the lawn withdrew their hands, walking side by side into the castle.Only then did he come back to his senses, pursed his lips and walked back to the cellar.

The ball started at eight o'clock sharp, and as soon as eight o'clock arrived the oaken front doors of the Hogwarts Great Hall were thrown open.Young students in beautiful dresses walked into the hall in pairs.The walls of the hall are all covered with silver shimmering frost, which looks bright, clean and full of life.12Hundreds of mistletoe garlands and ivy interweave beautifully on the star-shaped black ceiling.The tables in the room had been repainted, and there were about a hundred smaller, lantern-lit tables, each seating a dozen people.

Snape was sitting in the rearranged teachers' bench, facing the flickering candlelight in front of him, drinking from his glass alone.Hearing the sound of Professor McGonagall leading the students into the arena, he looked up.

He caught a glimpse of Ta Effa walking in the middle of the procession, and she appeared to him for the first time in evening dress.She was wearing a purple dress, which didn't seem to fit well, so that she had to walk forward carefully with the hem of the skirt with her hands.However, the advantage of the dress is that it can properly highlight the charm of the sex. Ta Efa's slender waist looks so youthful, while her breasts have been developed, plump and straight.Her blond hair was draped across her chest, adorned with hairpins, and she was smiling excitedly.She was wearing makeup, her lipstick was pale pink, and she looked moist and lovely in the distant light of the candlelight.

Snape's heart tightened, suddenly overwhelmed by his own shame - what was he thinking?

He hardly dared to take a big breath, took another sip of wine, and then turned his head to say some kind words to Professor Flitwick, who was already dizzy under the influence of alcohol.

One after another, Snape never looked up at the dance floor.He drank three or four glasses of brandy and chatted with the professors sitting around him, but he never glanced at the students in the distance for a moment.He felt a kind of panic and shame, because of what he had thought unknowingly just now.

In fact, he was also trying to convince himself.Ta Effa has indeed grown up!What is there to escape?She was not the first batch of students he had taught to such a great age. Before her, he had another class of students who had graduated and entered the magical society.She was going to grow up, and was she to be expected to remain forever the clumsy, trembling sprite kid in the cellar?Wouldn't it be nice that she had grown into the beautiful adolescent girl he had imagined she would be?

After an unknown amount of time, Snape, who was already a little drunk, suddenly felt a figure appear in front of him.

"Professor, have you been drinking?" Ta Effa looked at Snape who was silent with his head bowed in surprise, and could hardly believe his eyes.Snape rarely drank, let alone drank like this.

Snape glanced at the girl in front of him, unconsciously clenched the wine glass in his hand, but pretended not to hear her.

Ta Effa was a little hesitant. It took a lot of courage for her to walk up to Snape just now.After dancing a few routine songs with Andrew, she pushed her male companion to a female student beside her, and sat alone at the table directly opposite the teacher's bench, eating something while quietly observing Snape's movements.She saw Snape drinking glass after glass, but he didn't seem to fit into the ball at all.

Ever since Snape chased her to ask her about her "dream" in the cellar last time, she felt so embarrassed that she didn't dare to stay in the cellar for a long time, and she also avoided walking when she saw Snape.Fortunately, after the final exam, she didn't need to face him in class.

However, not daring to face him doesn't mean she doesn't care about him.Especially it doesn't mean that she can watch him get drunk.

"Professor, we, I, I..." Ta Efa made up his mind, but became embarrassed the moment he took action, his voice was almost trembling, "Dance, let's dance, let's go together."

Snape didn't answer.

Tal Effah reached out to grab Snape's wrist by the table, but he dodged it.

Snape looked up and said expressionlessly, "No, Miss Alpha, you might as well dance with Mr. Brown behind."

Ta Effa turned his head and saw Stuart Brown from Hufflepuff College standing not far behind, staring at her blankly, the boy's face flushed red.

She suddenly became a little annoyed, and turned to stare at Snape. "No, I want to dance with you!" She reached out again, grabbing the wine glass in Snape's hand.

Snape dodged it, simply stood up, and strode out of the hall without looking back.The black robe fluttered at the door and disappeared in an instant.

Ta Effa froze on the spot, suddenly felt his heart sinking, tears were hidden in his eyes at some point, and at this moment, he couldn't control himself, and fell down rustlingly.She sniffed quickly and tried her best to hold back.

She felt extremely uncomfortable, as if in an instant, all the bustle in the hall no longer had anything to do with her.The evening gowns and jewelry she had the cheek to borrow from someone else, the makeup Natasha and Allie would do her with full anticipation, just hoping to catch a glimpse of it from the person walking out.But he didn't notice it at all, and he didn't care at all!

Ta Efa felt the pain. This pain was different from the pain she experienced when she was beaten by her stepmother, and it was also different from the pain she secretly thought about her mother at night. What kind of pain is this?

She thought of the stack of books lent to her by her roommate, the words and sentences on it she didn't understand at all, but at this moment they suddenly hit like a flood.

The smart Ravenclaw seemed to understand something for the first time. She stood among the brightly lit crowd and shivered.