Chapter 12

During the summer vacation, Severus began to correspond with his little pen pal. To his surprise, Ariana didn't talk to him about her dolls or ribbons, and she would ask him a potion question every time.

Severus wondered how she could ask him this, but at least he wouldn't have to worry about how to communicate with her. If she really only talks about her baby.

He wrote back carefully, and considering that she was still young, he tried to explain the difficult potions so that she could understand them. And it can be seen from her reply that she also asked Professor Riddle to help her explain the content of his letter, so she is not perfunctory. This made him write more attentively, sometimes writing too much, and it was nice to have a friend who liked to talk to him, even if she was just a child.

A month later, Mr. Bonn finally couldn't hold back at the breakfast table. After exchanging glances with Mrs. Bonn, he said to him: "Sever, I have noticed that you have been corresponding. You've got friends, haven't you? ”

They had always been worried about Severus, probably because of family reasons, he didn't seem as cheerful as a child his age, and even if he had an owl, he had never seen him write letters to friends.

Mr. and Mrs. Bonn always wanted to encourage him to make more friends, and sometimes took him to visit friends' children in the hope that he would play more with children his age.

Mr. Bonn wanted to cultivate in him how much interest he had in not just reading a book or making potions in his room every day. He demanded that he ride a broomstick for an hour a day to boil potions or to ask him for potion materials, hoping that this would make him enjoy the outdoors.

Mrs. Bonn gave him the garden, so that he could grow whatever he wanted, even if he wanted to grow the devil's net or the mandrake, at least that would make sure he would go outside every day.

Like Mr. Bonn, she wanted him to be like a child.

They were overjoyed to find that Severus owls often went out to deliver letters during the summer holidays. But he didn't ask him right away, but watched from the sidelines. Severus was glad whenever a letter came, though he went to read his book or boil potions when he was happy. Then he would write a reply to that unknown friend, and he would revise the reply again and again, very seriously.

Mrs. Bonn said happily to Mr. Bonn: "It seems that we little Seifer have made a friend, and I don't know who it is?" She wondered if it was if he made friends at school, maybe maybe she had those clothes for him, or maybe his hairstyle? He's a lot more likable now than he used to be.

Mr. Bonn shook his head and said, "If it was really a school friend, it is impossible that he did not write a letter before." But Severus didn't like to go outside, so where else could he meet friends but his school friends?

Today they felt that the time was right, and they could see that Severus had been very fond of this friend with whom he had corresponded all this time. They also want to know who the person is.

Severus was eating scrambled eggs at the breakfast table while thinking about the last time Ariana had written about the moonstone, and she asked if there were any artificial moonstones, or if wizards could make moonstones by magic or something. She said, 'In the Muggle world, if there's something that's popular and expensive, it's likely that someone will make it.' Of course, man-made products are very cheap and affordable for everyone, and they are not much different from natural ones. Since you're saying moonstone is so rare, why don't we do it? ’

Severus had never thought of making those rare potion materials, and Ariana said that he had never heard of the 'Muggle' and 'artificial' technology. Since he entered Hogwarts, he has regarded himself as a wizard, and his Muggle father has made him have no good impression of Muggles, because of Muggles' prejudice and rejection of wizards, which made his father treat his mother like that.

He never cared what Muggles were going to do, the so-called 'technology' stuff or anything like that. But consider that Mother Ariana is a Muggle, and that there is no wizarding or Muggle discrimination in the Riddle family.

That's why Ariana knew that Muggle technology would have such a problem. Severus can't treat her as coldly as his classmates, and he can't be sarcastic about her, because she's just a child.

Instead of getting angry with Ariana, Severus began to seriously consider the possibility of doing so. I wonder if you can make moonstone with alchemy?

When Mr. Bonn asked him, it took him a while to react. They say Ariana? But how would he answer? He had a pen pal with a little girl.

The Bonnes were worried that Severus would not be happy that they interfered with him, and Severus was worried that the Bonnes would not like him to be a pen pal with a little girl so much younger than him, and that he actually regarded her as a friend, and God knows that she was so young, would it seem ridiculous to him?

The breakfast table became quiet.

Mr. and Mrs. Bonn looked at each other, and just as they felt that they would have to wait a little longer to ask little Severus this question, Severus said, "I have made a friend." ”

Mr. and Mrs. Bonn are in a state of great joy! This was the first time little Seifer had told them about him! Originally, they thought it might be a long time before little Severs believed them.

They looked at Severus expectantly.

Severus was forced to tell them about his acquaintance with Ariana, including how they became pen pals and their correspondence. He slowly talked more and more, and he hoped that the Bonn couple would like Ariana and that he would be friends with her.

He said that although Ariana was still young, her father was a Hogwarts professor, and Mr. Riddle was a professor of the history of magic, and he was very knowledgeable. There's also Professor Riddle Jr., who is the Slytherin Headmaster, and in his third year he attended his tea party and met many other House students.

When the Bonn heard that it was the daughter of a Hogwarts professor, they asked little Severus if he liked the professor, and Severus's eyes immediately lit up and said that he had never seen someone as adored as Professor Riddle the Great, and that even Gryffindor liked his class. And Professor Riddle Jr. took great care of him.

It was evident that Severus was very fond of the two professors, as well as his friend Ariana. The Bonn couple decided to visit the Riddle family, and if little Sever liked the family, why didn't they make friends?

Mrs. Bonn prepared some gifts and a letter of sincerity and sent them to Riddle's house, and when she received the letter, she wondered why someone she didn't know had sent gifts, and after reading the letter, she realized that it was the adoption of Severus Snape.

She took the letter to find Ariana, and she was holding a copy of "A Thousand Magical Herbs and Mushrooms" in her study, and there was also a copy of "Little Wizard Literacy Helper" next to her.

She sat down and looked at her for a while, and found that she was very serious, but a month ago she had only waved her wand around.

"Ariana, do you like to read?" She wanted to ask if she could read it? Since writing the first letter, she has been holding the book every day, and if she doesn't understand the contents, she asks Red to explain it to her over and over again. It took a long time for her to write to that Severus Snape every time, and it took a long time for her to read his reply.

Ariana looked up at her mother and said honestly, "My brother said that if I want to be friends with that boy, then I have to find the same interest as him." ”

Baosi sighed, touched her little head, and put the letter in front of her: "Your friend is coming to see you, can you make his family like you?" ”

Ariana picked up the letter and read it carefully, and asked, "Why is his family's surname Bonn?" ”

"It's a secret," said Paus. "It involves the kid **, she can't tell her.

Ariana obediently stopped asking. The secret is what, it's just that adults deceive children. But since the adults won't answer her, she can find the answer herself.

"Do you want to see your friend?" Rose asked her.

Ariana certainly does. Severus was the first person she had ever seen outside of her family, and her mother rarely took her out of the house, only occasionally taking her out on the street. Grandpa Dumbledore never wanted to take her to Hogwarts, I heard that there were hundreds of children, so much fun, but Grandpa Dumbledore said that he couldn't go until she was eleven years old. My brother has to go out every day, and my dad likes to sit in the study.

She wants to be able to play with friends, not mom or dad.

Pauss also understood that Ariana wanted a friend, and that she was indeed negligent in that regard. But whether it was Tom or Red who introduced the kids, she didn't think it was appropriate for Ariana to be a friend. She always thought that she was still young, and with a lot of people in the family, she wouldn't feel lonely. But now it seems that a friend or family member can make her happy.

From the beginning, Ariana was much smarter than the average child of her age, she grew bigger and bigger, and she didn't look like Tom at all, but her magic was very strong, and she was able to consciously control her magic from a very young age.

Although Tom doesn't say, Poise guesses that Ariana may have inherited the Gaunt family traits from generation to generation. Luckily, Tom didn't seem to mind, and Ariana had always been a good father in front of him.

Seeing Ariana's expectant little face, Pauss agreed to invite her friend's family to visit. At dinner, she told the two men in the family about it.

Tom put down his knife and fork and wiped his mouth with a napkin, touched Ariana's little face and said, "My little princess, do you like that Slytherin?" ”

After receiving an affirmative answer from Ariana, the atmosphere at the table became a little strange.

Pauche ate the food on her plate calmly, until the elf removed all the plates and replaced them with dessert, and she said, "So, this Sunday?" ”

It seems that Mr. and Mrs. Bonn and Severus Snape are indeed coming. This was the first time Ariana's friend had come to visit the house, and after Rose took the elves to clean up the house, she prepared a lot of food that the children would love. After seeing the faces of the two fathers and sons, she asked them to go outside that day.

"You can go visit your friends." She said. She wanted Ariana to be happy all day.

At eight o'clock in the morning, she urged the two fathers and sons to go out. Then, at ten o'clock, the Bonn couple arrived punctually with Severus Snape.

"You're welcome, please come in." Pauss stood at the door to greet them.

Ariana also prepared well, she read a book last night and saw it in the middle of the night, and promised to talk about it with her friends all day today. She is like her father and brother, as long as they want to please people, they can always do it well.

After the meeting, Pauss asked the elf to take the two children to the small parlor to the east, while she accompanied the Bonn couple to the large parlor.

Mr. and Mrs. Bonn were very kind people, and they brought gifts to everyone in the Riddle family. They are very grateful to Tom and Red for taking care of Severus at school, and are glad that Paos has made Ariana friends with him.

If someone on one side only says something to make him happy, the atmosphere will definitely not be bad. Paussy also slowly relaxed, she guessed that the Bonn couple were both Hefpuff College, and they were witty and funny, and they always made people laugh.

When it was time for lunch, the elves had everything ready, and they went together to call the children.

Everything was fine in the small living room too.

Mrs. Severus Bone brought Ariana two gifts, a toy cauldron with a toy medicine box containing twelve delicate crystal bottles and two hundred potions. Because it is a toy, it is not dangerous. If you put the potion ingredients into the cauldron, the toy potions will appear if you are correct, and the potions ingredients will be restored if you fill twelve crystal bottles, and if you make a mistake, you will emit various kinds of smoke.

The other is a doll house. The Wizard Doll House is much cuter than the Muggles, the little dolls can move, and the furniture is a miniature version of real wizard furniture. A family of seven dolls, with grandpa, grandma, dad, mom, brother, sister and little doll, and an owl as a pet.

Mrs. Bonn told him that Ariana was a girl, so since she had discussed potions with him first, he should have played with her as well.

So he decided to play with the toy crucible for a while and the dollhouse for a while. When Pauss and Mr. and Mrs. Bonn entered, he and Ariana were directing the dolls to clean up the dollhouse.

Severus solemnly pointed his wand at Toy Dad and asked him to climb to the roof to clean the roof, Toy Dad helplessly watched him slowly climb up the roof with his wand, Toy Mother Kitchen, Toy Brother and Toy Sister shouted at Toy Dad who climbed to the top of the yard Come on, Toy Grandpa and Toy Grandma hugged the little doll and laughed.

When he was still trying to get Daddy Toy to go into the chimney and clean the chimney, Mr. Bonn interrupted their game with an embarrassed cough.

"Lunch is ready, Ariana, take your friend to the restaurant." Pretending not to see Severus's flushed face, Pauth went out with the Bonnes first, and when they walked around the corner, Mrs. Bonn could not hold back, and laughed so hard that tears came out of her eyes.

"Great!" She said, "I've never seen Sever so happy!" ”

Severus's face was still a little red when he sat down at the table, but he was calm and his table manners were impeccable. Under his influence, even Ariana straightened her waist and ate apple pie with a serious expression.

Poise asks Tom and Red to have dinner before they can come back, but they both come back before six o'clock.

"The guests haven't left yet, have they?" Tom said solemnly, taking off his coat and handing it to the elf. Without waiting for Pauss to say anything, he walked up to Mr. and Mrs. Bonn: "It's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Tom Riddle." ”

The Bonns, of course, were glad to meet Professor Severus, who had previously said that he was working on an important paper and was not at home. When the Bonn couple asked, he said, "Yes, I just had some ideas, about some small issues in the wizarding world, such as pure-blood wizards and half-blood wizards, I don't think the blood pure-blooded wizards should be used to divide wizards. ”

Pauss glanced at him, as if he really thought so.

Mr. Bonn said: "You are very right. Then they had a lively discussion about it, specifically the Minister of Magic who ate six meals a day without reading a single report. Mr. Bonn was interested in guessing what the Minister of Magic ate for all six meals and who he ate with.

Paise took the tea from the elf's hand and put it on the table in front of them, and said to Tom, "Dear, why don't you go and change your clothes and talk to Mr. Bonn again?" She smiled embarrassedly at the Bonn couple and quickly pushed him away.

Ten minutes later Tom returned, this time mentioning how many bureaucrats in the Ministry of Magic were eating idle, and had apparently been interested in Mr. Bonn, and they had been talking on their way to the restaurant.

Red returned, too, and while Poise had been staring at Tom, he sat down with Severus and Ariana, and in less than a minute asked what they had done today.

At eight o'clock, Dumbledore arrived.

"Oh, I hope you don't think I'm bothering you." He brought a bottle of mead. It seems that Red told him that Ariana had a little guest coming today, and he was curious to come and see.

Everyone welcomed the great wizard, not to mention that he had brought gifts. Mr. Bonn was full of praise for the bottle of mead.

12. Chapter 12

Then, after dinner, all the gentlemen continued to lash out at the Ministry of Magic while drinking mead.

At eleven o'clock, the Bonn couple took their leave and agreed that the two families would go out for a picnic the following weekend. Mr. Bonn was drunk, but he was still in good spirits and continued to shout, 'To hell with the Ministry of Magic!' I'd rather have house-elves as Minister of Magic, at least they've never been out of work! ’。

Pauss sends off the guests and asks the elf to take Ariana to sleep. Then, standing in the living room, he looked at the three men.

"Ah, it's so late." Dumbledore took out his pocket watch and pretended to look at it, then said he was leaving.

"I'll see you tomorrow, Professor." Pauss smiled and helped him into the fireplace. The old wizard just wanted to make a joke, and he really loved these children, so she just scared him.

There were two people left, and Red was still a child in her eyes, so she let him go to sleep. Only Tom was left.

"Tom," she said, "we're going to talk." ”

Tom's face was a little red, and not only did they drink a bottle of mead, but later they drank half a bottle of gin when they were happy, because they said they wanted to drink something 'strong'.

This made him a little dizzy now.

He stood there, leaning on the back of the couch, looking quite sober, but as soon as he opened his mouth, Paucus knew he was drunk.

"'We're going to talk.' He imitated Bowsy's tone, then shook his head: "You always have to 'talk' with me, every time you have to 'talk'." He hiccuped, leaving Rose dumbfounded.

- It's so rare.

Tom waved his hand, looking like he didn't want to pay attention to her. He turned and walked back to the bedroom, where Pauss followed him, and when she saw him undressing at the door, she hurried to close the door.

But she didn't want to remind him, so why didn't she look at it for a while? It's rare for Mr. Tom Riddle to behave like a normal husband.

He took off his wizard's robes and staggered into the bathroom with his socks on, where he heard the sound of water and steam coming out of the bathroom.

She waited ten minutes before she walked over, because she didn't hear the sound of the shower. Then she saw him lying in the hot tub, his eyes closed as if he were asleep.

"Tom?" She shoved him, and he didn't move.

She reluctantly said, "Tom, you can't sleep here." Come out. She poured him a glass of mineral water and filled it with ice. Drink it, sober up and rush out. ”

Looks like I can't talk to him tonight.

She stared at him and drank the glass of ice water, then dragged him back to the bedroom and put him in his pajamas to put him to sleep.

But seeing that he looked drunk, she didn't believe it much. So he was too normal.

- Does Tom really get drunk?

She thought he was even sleeping with his eyes open.

She stood by the bed and watched him for a while, then returned to the living room and found Dumbledore through the fireplace, where the old wizard appeared in a white pompom nightcap: "Rose, dear, is there something wrong?" ”

She frowned and said, "Tom is drunk." ”

The old wizard looked almost drunk, his face was still red, and he laughed: "We had a good conversation with Mr. Bonn, and Tom must have done the same." ”

But he could see that Paussy still had a worried expression on her face, and although the gin and mead had already made him fall asleep, he still asked with concern, "My child, what is bothering you?" ”

Then he saw Ross squatting in front of the fireplace, and said to him seriously, "...... Do you think he's really drunk? "Maybe he just doesn't want to talk to her?

The old wizard pressed his forehead, and suddenly burst out laughing.

"Oh, Rose, my child!" He realized that in Rose's eyes, Tom was magically not drunk, and maybe even if he laughed at a joke, she would think he was going to do something.

"Rose, Tom is just Tom. Even if he's a wizard, there's nothing special about it. Dumbledore sat down in front of the fireplace, "I promise you. ”

Paussie wasn't sure enough and said, "...... Yes, it is. She stood up, "Professor, I'm sorry to bother you. Good night. ”

Dumbledore came up with a good idea: "Rose, if you're really worried, you can do some...... Let's make sure. I would say that we did drink a little too much today. Well, good night. ”

Do something to confirm?

Rose didn't think it was a good idea. But she couldn't get Dumbledore's words out of her head, and when she got back to her bedroom, the ghost messenger locked the door.

She climbed into bed, and after pulling up the bed tents around her, it was only her and Tom in bed. And he was sleeping soundly.

She leaned next to him for a long time and thought that he was indeed asleep.

"Tom, Tom?" She whispered in his ear and insisted on waking him up.

He rolled over in annoyance and struggled to open his eyes: "What's the matter?" ”

Bao Si asked a question directly after a long time: "Do you still want to get the wizarding world?" When all are kings. ”

Tom seemed to wake up at once, he didn't speak, sat up and turned on the lamp, and put the bed net away.

"Yes." He looked at her and said.

Baosi was not surprised to find her: "Then what do you want to do?" She asked curiously, maybe she should have asked him that a long time ago, instead of guessing for herself. If Dumbledore hadn't spoken today, she would have guessed for more than ten years.

Tom didn't know why she was suddenly interested in it. But there was nothing to hide, he thought she probably knew what the Death Eaters were all about, and of course not because he was just trying to find a group of people to kill people together.

But he didn't know the answer to this question, not only did she ask it, but he asked himself it.

- What is he going to do?

Ross waited a minute.

- Maybe he didn't know it himself?

She thought so, but immediately overturned it. Is this possible? He is the Dark Lord, and if he wants the wizarding world, of course, he is to wage war. She also always thought that he was troubled by how to recruit troops.

"Do you want to try to be the Minister of Magic?" She advised him like she had done to Red.

"I want not to be right." He immediately refused, as if insulting him in this way.

He wanted not that false power, he wanted all wizards to submit.

Rose looked at him incomprehensibly. Why should he be the Dark Lord if he thinks he's just talking empty words and doesn't want power?

But she recognised that he was serious.

“…… Do you want to be a god? She said this suddenly, as if asking him if he was joking.

Tom relaxed when he heard her say this, and he looked at her appreciatively.

- Did he really think that?

Tom found that he didn't like the way she looked at him, like he was a kid who couldn't eat candy.

Pauss yawned, crossed over to him and turned off the light, lay down and said, "Good night, dear." ”

Tom was about to continue the conversation with her, only to find that she didn't want to talk anymore. This disappointed him greatly. Finally, this woman finally understood his ideals, and she described it very appropriately, although there was no god in the wizarding world, he understood what she meant.

- This wife is still good. Although it was a little late, she still understood him after twenty years.

He gently patted her on the back, which was already lying down, and said, "Good night." ”

Wrapping her back to him under the quilt, she rolled her eyes in disdain. She wasn't scared at all, maybe he had been a Dark Lord once.

- Sure enough, men are sometimes as innocent as children.