Chapter 20: Hogsmeade
"Severus, is there anything you'd like to visit?" asked Gloria, standing on the street, looking at the rows of shops, a little confused.
Snape looked left and right, "No, where do you want to go?"
"Well, I don't either, we're both here for the first time, why don't we go around?"
Snape nodded dispensably and followed Gloria.
The two wandered aimlessly, and when they passed by the famous three-broom bar, they saw the crowd of people in the house, and frowned at the same time, and turned around and left here, there were many people in the clothing store and bar, which made the two lose a lot of interest, Gloria saw a store called "Literati House Quill Shop", there were not many people in it, and she pulled Snape in with interest.
"Some of the quills here are so beautiful, Severus, you can choose a new one, I see that yours is a little fluffy and looks bare. Gloria looked left and right, and said with some excitement.
Instead of picking out the fancy looking quills, Snape carefully looked at the descriptions of the functions under each quill, and finally chose a green, very ordinary-looking quill, and then watched Gloria choose between the very beautiful and expensive but not very practical piles of pens, and walked over slowly, "I assume you came to buy quills to write and not to stick them on your head to go to the ball?"
Hearing this, Gloria raised her eyebrows and looked at Snape, "That's amazing, you're right, it seems that you've proven that you're not a troll with a brain full of sage, so how about bothering my beloved potions genius to pick one for me too?"
Snape let out a heavy nasal voice from his nose, "I think Miss Pendragon's eyes still work." β
Gloria quickly snatched the green quill from Snape's hand, "Aha, it seems that Mr. Snape's vision is still good, then, I'll take this one." β
Snape glared at her viciously, but said nothing, and turned back to get another green quill.
The two of them walked back and forth at a leisurely pace, only to find people everywhere, and Snape thought with a calm face that it was a disaster, and hoped she wouldn't want to huddle with the mandrakes.
Fortunately, Gloria didn't have this idea, she pulled Snape to the Screaming Shack, because there was no way to enter the Screaming Shack, and this was a legendary haunted place, so there was no one, she pulled Snape to sit on the edge of the grass outside the Screaming Shack, "Let's sit here, when we go back, there are too many people, let's wait until we are adults and then choose a day when there are no people, okay?"
Snape's ears were a little red, and he hummed a note from his nose to indicate that he had heard, flicked his wand, took out a book with a shrinking spell from his pocket, lifted the spell and looked at it carefully.
Gloria was a little surprised, she didn't expect him to come out with a book, okay?
She was bored lying on her knees, looking at the side face of Snape reading, her black hair covered her cheeks, a little greasy but not dirty, it looked very smooth, a firm hooked nose, thin lips, a full forehead, the most attractive thing was the eyes, like black gems, not as sparkling as her own eyes, but like a deep lake, quiet, dark.
She unexpectedly thought of the eyes in the dream, the same darkness, the same quietness, but the pair was even deeper, not like a lake, like two tunnels, bottomless tunnels.
"Severus. Gloria spoke suddenly.
"Huh?"
"Your eyes are so beautiful, the best I've ever seen. β
Snape turned his head to glare at her, but saw her face full of sincerity, and a trace of obsession looking at his eyes, he suddenly stopped, slowly, the whole face turned red, your eyes are also the best I have ever seen, he thought silently in his heart, at this moment, he really felt that if Lily's eyes were green water, then Gloria was the ocean, the ocean reflecting the sun, so clear, it was a landscape he had never seen, and the obsession, sincerity, joy, and, admiration in those eyes were also feelings he had never seen beforeγ