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In August, Pauss heard that the Porters had been born, a little slower than she had imagined. She asked Severus, "What was the number of that child born?" ”

Severus: "July thirty-one. "Lily Evans wanted to join his workshop when she graduated, but she got married. But she wanted to keep a position for her, and he agreed. But then she became pregnant, and now she has a baby. Severus congratulated them on the birth of their child and told Lady Potter that the position would always be reserved for her, and that she could come back after the child entered Hogwarts if she wished. But Mrs. Porter Jr. apologized and refused, wanting to be with her family.

Pauss insisted on visiting the young parents and their children with Tom. They brought gifts to the little Porters' house, a beautiful house, and I heard that the old Porters had given it to them.

A team of young Quidditch players. They were received by his wife.

"Welcome, Professor, thank you for coming." Little Mrs. Porter said.

"Let me see the kids." Bowsie can't wait.

The child came, and he had green eyes like his mother, and his hair was messy like his father, and he slept soundly in his swaddling clothes.

"It's so cute." Paoth said, handing him to Tom, "Dear, come and hug this little cutie." ”

Tom gave her a strange look and took the child skillfully.

Little Lady Potter was surprised and said, "I really didn't expect the professor to be so skilled." ”

"We have a little daughter, and he has always taken care of her. ”

They said goodbye.

As she left the little Porters' house, Pauss said to Tom, "I hope this is your first time here, and the next time." "Only God knows how frightened she is. So she insisted that she must come and see for herself, and she knew for sure that Tom's fate had changed completely. But she still hoped that he would stay away from this place.

Tom: "Of course, it's all up to you, dear. He took her hand and left.

Since then, Pauss has never heard from the Porters Jr. and his wife.

Ariana was eleven years old, and she was about to go to Hogwarts.

Baosi had already prepared everything, and the little princess of the Riddle family wanted to take her father's textbooks, and since she said so, who could oppose her?

Tom painfully agreed, he still had the Death Eater Project in his textbook, a cute prototype. When Ariana asked him, he said it was a 'little party to get your friends together,' 'you could give it a cool name,' and 'you could do something interesting.' ’。

Ariana went to ask her mother, and she knew that if there was one person in the family who knew all the secrets, it would be mother, and maybe Habit, who was always there where everyone needed it, as if it had been there.

"What did Daddy Death Eaters do?" Ariana asked Rose.

"He once plotted to overthrow the Ministry of Magic and become a king," she told her. ”

"That's cool!" Ariana exclaimed, excited, "Did he succeed then?" ”

"No," said Rose, "he married me." ”

Looks like Dad failed.

Ariana thinks this is normal, young people are always a little stupid, they usually think they are great people in the universe when they are seventeen or eighteen years old. But they change their minds when they're thirty years old, when they think they're the world's number one fool.

That's what Mom said.

As for the elder brother, the thrilling thing he did at school was to discover the Slytherin Chamber and get a basilisk.

Ariana ran to ask her brother how he had caught the basilisk.

"I heard it screaming hungry in the bathroom drain, and I fed it a lot of chicken," Rhett recalled. ”

This is completely informative. If she wanted to catch another basilisk—unless there was one more basilisk in that castle, then she should keep the bathroom every day?"

Since there were two Riddles who had done something amazing in that castle, she should have done something about it.

Ariana thought about this for a few days, and asked Sever and Headmaster Dumbledore, hoping that they would give her some advice.

"What should I do?" She asked.

After headmaster Dumbledore once again flooded her with all sorts of gadgets and sweets, he laughed and said, "Enjoy your school life, make a few friends, take risks, or have a little love affair or two." He winked at her.

Seifer was serious: "Protect yourself, go to school safely for seven years and then graduate." "It sounds like Hogwarts is a dangerous place.

Later, she still asked her mother. Although she felt that she was an adult anymore and should not look for her mother again.

"Do what you want." Mom said. Very simply: "Then remember to take responsibility." This sentence is a bit heavy. But she liked it.

It's still mom amazing.

She already had textbooks, she wouldn't buy her wand until she was fourteen, and Seifer had the cauldron and potions ready for her, so all she needed was her uniform.

Early one morning, a Hogwarts owl flew to Riddle's house, landed on her bedside, and when she woke up, she could see the letter immediately.

Hair messed up like straw Ariana sat up from the bed, she exclaimed, and took the letter in her hand, and on the envelope was a familiar badge made up of four college animals.

She opened the letter, and the content was exactly the same as the letter her father received when she collected it at home, except that the principal and vice principal were replaced.

She immediately took out a double-way mirror: "Seifer." ”

"Enna." His low tail pitch was a little up, like he was asking her.

"I got the letter." She said excitedly.

Even through the mirror, he could see how happy she was. "Hmm." He pronounced only one sound. But Ariana didn't care, since Seifer became the president of the institute, she had been weird, but she fully understood, think about it, he founded a Potions Institute as soon as he graduated, and if he didn't show seriousness, there might be a lot of people who looked down on him.

And she knew Seifer so well, he smiled and was kind like a miser purse, you can't say he didn't, but that wasn't always revealed.

She closed her mirrors before she began to dress and wash, but when she went downstairs to the dining room, she found that Sever was already sitting there.

"Why are you here?" She sat down in surprise, "When?" Where were you when I called you in the mirror? If she remembered correctly, she saw him in the mirror just now, and he was obviously still in the research room.

"I just arrived." Severus pulled out a chair for her and sat down again.

All four Riddles at the table looked at him. Rose cleared her throat, as it was clear that Tom and Red weren't looking at each other so kindly. Maybe because they heard that in the morning in the bedroom, their little princess had just broken up with a man.

"Would you like some rolls? It was just done yesterday. Pauss broke the silence and asked Severus to take it, then her youngest daughter, and then she pressed the two men in the house to take one too.

Ariana ate her breakfast as if she was in a hurry.

"What do you want to do in a moment? Dear. Pauss asked her on behalf of the two men in the family.

"I need to go to Diagon Alley." Ariana pulled out her letter, "I think I need a school uniform." ”

The whole family cheered.

Tom and Red each stood up and hugged their little princess.

Pauss smiled at the scene, and when they sat down again, she asked, "Do you need someone to accompany you?" As she said this, she looked at the only guest and smiled suggestively at him. Since he was here, it was obvious who would be accompanying her little daughter.

Tom put down the Daily Prophet in his hand, and even Red was in no hurry to go out today. They suddenly seemed to be laid-back.

Pauss immediately understood, and she asked them solemnly, "I think you're late." ”

"I think I can spare a day." Red said. She looked at Tom and said, "I don't have a class today." ”

"Don't be stupid, you guys." Pauss stood up, took their coats, pulled them up from their chairs, and pushed them into the fireplace. When they were gone, she turned around and sighed, "It's unfortunate that I have a lot of work to do today, and I still have to buy some things, and I don't think I have time to take Ariana to Diagon Alley." ”

With that, she looked at Severus.

"If so, you don't mind. Madam. He wiped his mouth with a napkin, stood up, and straightened his robe, looking a little nervous: "Maybe I can go with Miss Riddle?" I happen to be free. "I don't know when the young man insisted on calling Ariana 'Miss Riddle' in front of others.

"Great." Paucus breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You've helped me a lot. She did seem busy, "You can eat out for lunch, I don't think I have time to cook at home at noon today." She hurried into the kitchen, leaving the remaining two in the dining room.

Ariana, who had been quiet, threw away the plate in front of her, looked up and said, "When are we leaving?" "She was so much more relaxed when she saw that there was no one in Seifer, did this kind of scene make him nervous?

"Anytime." Severus sat down again, he needed a glass of cold mineral water: "As long as you're ready." He said.

Ariana ran upstairs and was down in a minute. They went diagnomy alley through the fireplace, which was packed with students and their parents who had come to buy school supplies.

They went to Lady Morkin's robes shop.

"Oh, Miss Riddle, Mr. Snape, are you here to buy robes?" Mrs. Morkin said when she saw them come in.

"Yes." Severus said.

Ariana stood on the footstool, and Severus confessed, "She is not used to knitting cotton cloth only by hand." The buckle should be silver buckle and inlaid with white crystal. ”

After coming out of the robe shop, Ariana wanted to take a stroll around Diagon Alley: "The letter says I can have a pet. ”

Severus said, "What do you want?" ”

Ariana shook her head: "Mom has pirates, you have Oberway, brother has a basilisk, I think I can have one too." She walked into a pet shop called Fantastic Zoo, with Severus following behind.

The shopkeeper greeted them happily: "Welcome, cute little girl, what do you want?" ”

"A pet." She said, "I want to see it." She spun around the shop. The shop isn't big, but it seems to be packed with all the animals you can find.

The shopkeeper kept telling Ariana that the girls would like it, such as a white rabbit in a top hat and a cat in a cage, about twenty of them.

Ariana made up her mind not to have owls, and if she wanted to, she could find a dozen in the attic of Riddle's house, and her mother's pet pirate was a particularly evil fellow, and he would go out every year to kidnap the little female owls back.

After she didn't buy anything.

Severus asked her why she didn't buy it, and she said, "I wanted to buy it, but I didn't see a liking." I think I should buy one that I like, my mother is a pirate among a bunch of owls, and my brother also ran into a basilisk by chance. ”

After Severus bought a cage of white rats, he liked to use them to experiment with potions. He gave the cage to Ariana: "You can pick two and go." ”

Ariana shook her head, sometimes she felt that there were certain aspects of Seifer that were indeed a little sluggish.

Then before she went to school, Seifer brought her a cat that looked very beautiful, with a light-to-dark golden back and a pure black tail and claws.

"It's beautiful." Ariana fell in love with it at first sight, but the cat looked at her for a moment before jumping into her arms, and seemed reluctant to take care of the rest of the family except her.

Severus crouched down and said to her, "It just left its mother, and you're going to take good care of it, aren't you?" ”

"Of course I will." She proudly said, "It belongs to me." She took him by the hand.

After Ariana took her pet to bed, Red poured Severus a glass of wine and they could sit down and talk for a while.

"How long have you been preparing?" He asked.

"About what?" Severus said as he leaned back in his armchair.

"Ariana Pet. I bet that one of the cat's parents was a raccoon, and it wasn't that easy to get them to mate naturally with a regular cat. Rhett said that raccoon cats are not easy to tame, and that they even require a license to keep them. This is, of course, because they are very precious.

"About two years." Severus admits that the kitten is the only one he's ever had inherited a portion of a multi-cat civet in the past two years. He wanted to give Ariana a pet that would help her distinguish between good intentions and bad intentions, so that she would be safe at school.

Red sat down, shaking his glass and saying, "Actually, I have to leave Hogwarts." ”

Severus looked at him in surprise and said, "Why?" Ariana has just enrolled. ”

"I have other things to do." "So, I'd like to ask if you'd like to succeed me as Head of Slytherin." ”

Severus was of course vaguely aware of his teaching ambitions, after all, he spent far more time at the Ministry of Magic than he spent on Hogwarts.

“…… Let me think about it. He said.

"I believe in you." Red patted him on the shoulder and said secretly, "I know, you gave my little sister a nickname." ”

Severus' face flushed. It was his little secret to Ariana, and when he called her by her nickname, he had a special feeling as if she belonged to him.