CHAPTER XXV

For Severus's strict inner world of lack of love, in fact, Gail has a certain understanding. But Gail always thought that the object of Sever's lack of love was Lily, after all, Severus in the original book was for Lily to never marry, risked his life to be a double agent to protect Lily's child, and before he died, he still looked at Lily's child's green eyes"""! Therefore, Gail never felt that the object of Severus's lack of love was himself.

Of course, this was because Gale had lost so many minutes of his memory about Severus. And the first time he met Righteous and Brave and Seaver was nearly five years ago. The events of that day, Gail only regarded as a small episode in his life, and did not remember it deeply. Nor would he associate the emaciated boy, who was apparently a few years younger than himself, with Severus, who was now pale but had begun to grow taller.

But Severus remembers it clearly. Both times, it was for no reason, and even the second time he helped himself, Gail was injured by something that seemed "not too strict" to the wizard. Even though Gail doesn't remember anymore, it's enough for him to remember.

The day ended with a sumptuous dinner at Hogwarts. Potter and Blake stopped focusing on Gale for a moment after they passed the bickering under the tree.

Potter always looked bitter and hateful, and he didn't know what he was doing. But every time he saw Lily from afar, Potter seemed to fall into an invisible bubble of soft light, and became docile.

Gail felt that such a Potter was acceptable, so he hadn't been unhappy with the "hostility" of the "Hebjack" quartet to him recently.

The previous conversation between Dumbledore and himself still taught Gale a lesson in a certain way. Even if he has lived for two lifetimes, even if he is familiar with many hidden things in this world, even if he has power that ordinary people do not have, but in front of Headmaster Dumbledore, who has lived for ninety years, conquered Gellert Grindelwald with his personality charm, and has both wisdom and stability, he is actually an ordinary person with a combat strength of 25! (The reason why the combat power is not 5 is because he has lived two lifetimes and still cultivates the truth.) It's a lot better than the average person. ）

So Gail decided to keep a low profile. I'm not invincible either!

After Gale was almost like a normal student and no longer attracted attention, Professor Slughorn gave Gale and Severus a continuous TM score, which fully made Gale realize that he was still within the range of the Slytherin headmaster!

To Gail's relief, Professor Slughorn was probably reluctant to see Gail, so he didn't let Gale come to his office for additional labor services. But even so, it made Lily more and more annoyed.

"What should I do with the results of the final exam? This is unjustified anger! Gail, we should figure it out! Lily said unhappily. Penny said that a good boy can't fail grades!

Gail wasn't as angry as Lily, and he didn't want to be a little aggrieved like Severus. As someone who has lived a lifetime, Gale still knows what matters. Compared to the classroom grades and final grades assessed by the classroom teachers, the first really important test they have to face is the o.w.ls. test score in the fifth grade.

At that time, it was an examiner appointed by the Ministry of Magic, and Slughorn didn't have a chance to give himself and Severus. To use a simple analogy, even if there is a teacher who deducts points for seeing a student unpleasantly during the monthly exam, but when it comes to the high school entrance examination and the college entrance examination, the teacher has no chance to wear small shoes for the student. And the results of the college entrance examination are bright enough, so do you still need to be entangled in the various unsatisfactory times during the monthly exam?

So Gail really doesn't care about Slughorn's T. But if this continued, he didn't know whether the potion he brewed was good or bad. This situation, which is equivalent to self-study and self-testing, still has a certain impact on Gale. Thankfully, he had Severus, who was absolutely gifted with potions, and Lily, who had always studied hard, which made it easier for Gale to judge his potion results more accurately.

So after Gale told Lily about this theory, he succeeded in making both Lily and Seaver's negative feelings disappear because of Professor Slughorn's targeting. Lily, in particular, fell into another kind of euphoria: "Gail, Seaver! You must practice potions well! When it's time for the o.w.ls. exam, be sure to get an o! I'm sure you can do it! When the time comes, let Professor Slughorn see how bad his vision is! ”

If Lily had come from fifty years later, she would have known that the reason she was so excited was because it was actually a sour act called "slapping her face".

"By the way, Gail, I've heard from a couple of Year 7 seniors that a few Slytherin seniors have been going to have spells malfunctioning lately. I asked, and the representative figures were the seniors who had been affected by the Bulak Seniors' Magical Riot. You say, could they have some after-effects because of this? Lily suddenly said with a gossipy face.

Gail would have thought that Lily was playing a trick on her if she hadn't been sure that she had full faith in her statement that the accident was a "magic riot." But Lily is actually a good girl who completely trusts Gail, so she doesn't mean to be tempted at all, just because of the person she hates - yes, the other party actually wants to bully Gail! Whether it succeeds or not, she will become the person she hates - a little happy when she is out of trouble, and she just wants to gossip with her friends.

Gale was still a little weak about Lily's unconditional trust, so he was a little unconfident when answering: "...... Well, probably. I don't know. ”

Severus looked at Gail's somewhat stumbling look, and it was immediately clear what Gale was struggling with. But in Seaver's view, Gail's entanglement was unnecessary. Lily wasn't like either of them. ――

First of all, in that incident, Lily was completely an outsider, not even an outsider. On Monday, most people knew about it through various means, but Lily didn't know about it when she was angered by Bella's brother Siris. As the nth batch of Lily who only knew about this matter, there was no need to know the facts at all.

Secondly, although Lily is a good girl, she is sometimes too impulsive and has no brains. If you tell her the facts, maybe one day when you quarrel with someone or get excited, you will blurt out this matter. Then Gail's efforts to cover up this qiē will be in vain.

Moreover, if Lily really blurts out the facts, then as a friend of Gail, the initiator, Lily may become one of the targets of those people's anger. For Lily's safety, not letting her know is the right choice.

But now Gail is feeling guilty for such a thing as "loyalty" to his friend. This made Severus a little uncomfortable. In fact, compared to Gail, although Severus is usually very introverted, he is actually more Slytherin than Gail.

Slytherin is loyal to friendship, and this loyalty is only established after numerous temptations. But once established, there is no betrayal. Despite this, there is no such thing as "completely confessing yourself to your friends" in Slytherin friendships.

Just as he did not accuse Gael of his own mother for "forgetting everything" of Gael in order to exonerate his father, and just as Gale did not hide it, but did not explain all of his magical powers, Slytherin's friendship was hidden and private. It's a polite gentleman's demeanor.

But there is no doubt that when facing a typical Gryffindor like Lily, the very Gryffindor concept of "friendship is unreservedly loyal" was subconsciously passed on by Lily to Gail, making Gale feel guilty after completely confessing to Lily for his concealment!

Severus was unhappy because of this, but he didn't know why it was unpleasant. Lily is also his friend, but the fact that "Gail has a bad relationship because of Lily" is just unpleasant for him.

He didn't like Gail to have such a negative feeling, so he interjected as a matter of course: "The human body is a delicate instrument, and none of us know what kind of damage that impact caused to their bodies. Who knows if it's because of the sluggishness of a certain part that they can't cast spells flexibly? That's why the professors solemnly warned us that when there is a magical riot in the people around us, we must leave the riot as soon as possible and notify the professional therapist, instead of thinking that we can handle any situation. ”

Seaver's words directly made the failure of these people's spells self-inflicted. Lily's attention shifted from "why their spells failed" to "yes, they just deserved it".

Once again, Lily praised Gail for fleeing in time. Although this still made Gail a little weak-hearted, but because Lily's focus had changed, Gail could indeed agree with Lily's point of view: "Yes, they just did it themselves!" "Whoever asked them to follow Bella to snipe at him deserves it!

Gail and Lily agree that they deserve it, and take the moment to give Severus a big smile and thank Severus for opening the conversation.

Severus looked at Gail's bright smile, and suddenly felt as if his heart was beating faster.