"You know what? Anna! Old Mr. Prince stretched out his hand and gently stroked the portrait, "I just want to hold you in my arms and do whatever I want." ”

"You old man doesn't cultivate!" The woman was so angry that she dodged around in the frame, but she couldn't avoid her husband's touch, and finally turned her back to her.

"Since you think I'm an old man, then I'll do something that is in line with my identity." Mr. Prince said, and began to write and draw on the paper.

"What do you want to do?" Curious, the woman turned back and leaned over to the edge of the frame to watch her husband's movements.

"Add some catalyst to them." Old Mr. Prince replied with a smirk.

The woman looked at what her husband had written, and after a long time, she reluctantly praised, "You really deserve to be a Potions Master!" ”

"The Potions Grandmaster confined to this manor!" Old Mr. Prince pouted self-deprecatingly.

The woman looked at her husband quietly and asked softly, "Are you going to do it right away?" ”

"Of course not!" Mr. Prince replied with a smile, "'Confidant does not know the other' is a big taboo, I have to understand it first." Billy! ”

The house-elf appeared beside Old Mr. Prince.

"Prepare lunch for them at noon today." Old Mr. Prince wrote quickly on another piece of paper, "You will come to me before dinner to get the menu for dinner," he glared at Billy with a sharp gaze, "and you are not allowed to let them know that I decided the contents of the menu, understand?" ”

"Yes! Master! Billy respectfully accepted the menu, but his face did not have the usual unconfidence of a house-elf.

"Good!" Old Mr. Prince smiled appreciatively, "Don't let them find out that you're different from other house-elves. ”

"Yes! Master! Billy bowed again, and waited for Old Mr. Prince to wave before disappearing from the room.

"Do you need such a big battle?" The woman asked, confused, "You didn't spend so much energy cultivating Billy to deal with the two juniors. ”

"It's not true. And how do you know if he can be a weapon against the sage? Old Mr. Prince smiled cruelly.

The woman looked at her husband with a deep fascination in her eyes.

For Catherine, this Easter holiday at Prince Manor was the most comfortable day of her life, because it was the only time she was forced to isolate herself from the outside world that she was able to completely ignore the troubles.

Or rather, if it weren't for Mr. Prince's forced stay, Catherine's mental wounds would not have healed at all, after all, since the beginning of the third grade. She'd been hit hard several times, otherwise she wouldn't have drunk Harry when she was sure he had Voldemort's soul shards on him.

Because Catherine at that time, as Dumbledore had speculated, had bowed her head to fate and compromised with the helplessness of life, so if she hadn't spent this completely relaxing time at Prince Manor, and had not been re-energized by Mr. Prince before leaving, she was afraid that she would sink forever.

Once that's the case. When the moment when the puzzles are solved and the truth is revealed, Catherine is afraid that she will fall directly.

So when old Mr. Prince put his plan into action, so much so that Catherine decided to see him again. But it also made her have to thank him from the bottom of her heart.

It's just that when she was still at Prince Manor, Catherine, who was at a low point in her life and was completely relaxed, didn't notice Old Mr. Prince's abnormal behavior at all.

After all, Mr. Prince's plan did not threaten Catherine and Snape's personal safety in the first place. Naturally, it was impossible to attract the attention of these two ultra-vigilant people, not to mention that he waited until he had collected relevant information before he began to take advantage of the home advantage.

So Catherine and Snape were completely unaware. Their bodies are influenced by their environment and food, and they change every day until the redhead girl suddenly enters puberty.

Because her physical development has been stunted since she was a child, and she was later told that she was a living dead being, Catherine did not pay special attention to the growth rate of her body, after all, there were too many things that bothered her.

So when Snape noticed blood on her robe, but couldn't find any wounds, the red-haired girl didn't realize what it meant.

However, as a master of potions, Snape had to specialize in human physiology, so he quickly thought of the reason, and immediately called a female house-elf, and Catherine realized that she was completely embarrassed on the spot, but fortunately, the house-elf named Emma immediately took her back to her room.

After a long period of confusion, Catherine regained some composure, and then she had the leisure to stand in front of the mirror and look at herself, when she noticed her delicate waist and slightly bulging breasts, the red-haired girl realized that she was no longer the girl who had not grown tall before, she had begun to grow up.

Catherine couldn't help but approach the mirror and look at her face carefully, and then compare the other two faces in her memory, and after a long time, she showed a happy smile, because she found that when she grew up, others would no longer be so easy to admit that she was wrong.

"You look pleasantly surprised?" Snape's voice suddenly rang out in the doorway.

"Professor!" Catherine turned around in surprise and looked at him blankly, "How long have you been here?" ”

"Just now!" Snape raised an eyebrow, hugging his chest against the doorframe, "You haven't answered my question yet." ”

"It's... I—" Catherine hesitated for a moment before replying awkwardly, "I just found that I might not be so much like her again." After saying that, the girl lowered her head uneasily.

Snape was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "You've never looked like her." ”

"Huh?" Catherine looked up in shock, trying to ask something, but as soon as she opened her mouth, Snape spoke first.

"I think you'll need to get used to it for a while." Snape suddenly drew his wand and pointed at the only four-poster bed in the room, and it split in two, side by side, cramping up the otherwise spacious room.

"This, yes!" Catherine blushed and bowed her head in embarrassment, "Thank you, Professor!" ”

"Today you can rest, but tomorrow," Snape's tone became stern, "I want you to be back to normal." ”

"Yes!" Catherine nodded in agreement, and her expression finally regained her composure.

Snape gave a look of appreciation, then turned away.

Catherine waited for the Potions professor to disappear from the doorway before she took a deep breath and closed her eyes to relax the strange feeling that she was starting to get irritable again.

Love, that is, the happiness that human beings take the initiative to give, also refers to the ideological state and words and deeds of a person who takes the initiative to respect, support, protect and satisfy the human needs of others that cannot be achieved by himself.

The basis of love is respect, that is, unconditionally acknowledging and accepting the possession of the beloved, without being critical or judgmental.

In fact, when Catherine decided to trust Snape, she had already fallen in love with him, but the love at that time was not love, but only love.

As for when this relationship changed, it may be the first time that he noticed that he would be jealous, or the first time he noticed his indulgence towards him, or the first time he heard him promise to protect himself.

Catherine first realized that change was happening when she returned from the Weasley house, and from then on, she began to worry that she would lose Snape, that he would marry another woman, that he would test his attitude towards her, until he made a second promise, and she was not relieved.

A series of accidents that occurred at the beginning of the second year made it impossible for Catherine to be distracted from the changes between herself and Snape, and it was not until Madam Pomfrey condemned her for Lily that Catherine decided to choose a different path from her mother.

However, Salazar's appearance disrupted Catherine's arrangement, and she had to rearrange the chess game and reconsider the possible consequences of each of her choices, so she had to temporarily hide the Horcruxes from Snape, and she had to put aside the change in feelings between the two for the time being.

During the summer vacation, Catherine went to Brazil to help K, but was completely disturbed by K, but Catherine still didn't figure out what had happened to her feelings for Snape, and she still thought that the person Snape loved was still Lily.

So Snape's attitude always made Catherine feel uncomfortable, and even her heart hurt so much that she couldn't breathe, she tried to get along between the two back to the original state, but it ended in failure, she had no choice but to give up, but let Snape break the heartstrings that had been tightly tied.

Catherine knew she had done something wrong, but Slytherin's stubbornness made her rather make amends than regret it, and K's coincidental mending knife and Snape's sudden third promise for some reason made her barely healed heart crack open again.

This time, with Catherine's self-control, it was impossible to hide, even with the use of occlusion, people close to her still discovered her abnormality, she could only hide as much as possible and lick the wound quietly.

Then, the Horcrux disrupted Catherine's life again, and then, she accidentally discovered Dumbledore's lies, and in a hurry, Catherine could only forcibly control the troublesome soul fragments, and then hurry up and find the headmaster for verification, and the result was naturally not unexpected by her.

An enraged Catherine impulsively reported Snape of her discovery, and then, once again, hurt by Snape's attitude, developed a psychology of escaping.

Had it not been for Snape to enter her spirit world and let Catherine know that she was the one she cared about the most, she would never have been able to return to Hogwarts, but as soon as her mood improved, Salazar told her bad news in a vague manner. (To be continued......)