When they thought of what had just happened, they both closed their eyes and twitched the corners of their mouths until the whole bed shook, and Catherine couldn't help but let out a muffled laugh, but then Snape flicked her head.

"Not used to it?" Snape sat back at the head of the bed, his tone calm again, but there was still a smile on his lips.

"Hmm!" Catherine lay on her side beside him, blinking at Snape, "I never thought I'd wake up with someone one day. ”

Snape's heart trembled, and he couldn't help but reach out and take Catherine into his arms, and bow his head to kiss her forehead.

Catherine was dumbfounded, Snape's rare tenderness had completely lost her, and she didn't know how to react.

"I'll be with you always!" Snape lifted her face, looked Catherine in the eye, and said in the gentlest voice of her life, "Forever!" ”

Catherine was stunned, stupefied by Snape's tenderness, but her belated reason awakened her from the dream.

"Don't you know?" Catherine asked bitterly, "Such a promise cannot be said lightly to a person of the opposite sex." ”

Catherine pushed Snape's hand away and tried to sit up, but instead he pressed him down on the bed.

"Do you think I told anyone else?" Snape roared angrily.

Catherine looked at his mad appearance, and was stunned for a while before closing her eyes and smiled helplessly: "No! You certainly didn't say that to anyone. ”

Snape was also stunned, he didn't understand what Catherine was thinking, since he knew that he was a person who didn't make promises lightly, why was he so helpless and bitter, he felt for the first time that the way of thinking of women and men was really completely different.

"Can you get me up?" Catherine asked politely, her expression already calm.

As soon as Snape saw the clarity in her eyes, he immediately understood that Catherine had used Occlumency again. For the first time, he hated why he had taught her this magic, but he also knew that even if he didn't, her ability to keep it secret was already very high, and what she didn't want others to know, she wouldn't leak any relevant clues lightly, just like last night.

"Humph!" Thinking of this, Snape snorted, straightened up, and slammed the door out of his bedroom.

See Snape leave. Catherine's tense nerves loosened suddenly, and she lay limply on the bed, slowly closing her eyes, her chest rising and falling unusually fast until the crystal tears slipped from the corners of her eyes.

Because it was a Sunday, no one noticed that Catherine had been missing since breakfast, so when classes resumed on Monday, she seemed to be no different from before.

But closer people. I still think that Catherine's smile seems a little weird, but when I look closely, she quickly turns her attention away, and only a few people can find it. She couldn't smile at all, and the only ones who could tell that her eyes were completely devoid of emotion were Draco and Hermione, the former of whom had studied Occlumency. The latter is meticulously observed.

"What the hell happened to you and my godfather?" One day after class, Draco stopped Catherine and asked angrily. "Why do you have to keep your Occlumency all the time?"

"What if this is training?" Catherine asked rhetorically with a smile.

"Do you think I'll believe it?" Draco asked.

"Draco!" Seeing that she really couldn't hide it from the other party, Catherine no longer looked for excuses, but smiled helplessly, "You really can't control this matter." ”

"So who's in charge?" Draco asked, frowning.

Catherine hesitated for a moment before saying, "Anyone other than me who can communicate with the professor normally." ”

"This-" Draco was stunned for a moment before whispering, "My father, okay?" ”

"Don't ask me, I can only tell you that the problem is with the professor, but I can't tell you what the problem is, so I don't know if your father can solve it." Catherine tossed the option back to Draco.

"You're too irresponsible!" Draco couldn't help but laugh, "It's obviously your business, I'm kind enough to help, and you're still like this--" He couldn't find the right words for a moment.

"I'm not the one who is afraid of being angered by him." Catherine shrugged her shoulders and walked away.

"I'm!" Although Draco was choked by Catherine's anger, he finally had to admit that she was right, "Get out!" He could only complain, turned around and rushed back to the dormitory to find the two-way mirror and ask his father for help.

On the other side, Catherine had only turned a corner before she was blocked again, and this time it was not one, but three people who blocked her.

"Don't say anything, don't ask!" Seeing someone coming, Catherine immediately spoke first, "Draco just blocked me, so I know what you're worried about?" But Draco might still be able to find a suitable candidate, but you can't even find a single candidate, so the three of you don't have to meddle in this matter. ”

The Golden Triangle looked at each other, and finally Hermione spoke, "Even if you think we don't have the ability to help you, you can't hold everything in your heart!" ”

"It's best to vent the troubles that don't go well in time, this truth is still taught to us by you." Ron rarely put on a straight face and taught a lesson, "You know it's not a good thing to hold back, but you take everything to heart. ”

"Catherine! Can't you even trust me? Harry asked rhetorically.

"Sorry! Harry! It's not that I don't believe you! Catherine smiled and patted Harry on the shoulder, "It's because I'm not used to showing my weakness in front of others, especially since I've already decided to protect you." She turned to look at Ron and Hermione with a smile.

"What about Snape?" Harry couldn't help but ask, "Why would you be so defenseless to him?" Why did you choose him to protect you? ”

Catherine was stunned for a moment before she replied, "Because I trust him and will do everything in his power to protect me!" ”

"Impossible!" Ron exclaimed, "How could that old bat—"

"You've been through too little." Catherine kindly explained, "When you have experienced as many things as I have, you will be able to tell at a glance which people are good mentors, who are worthy of life, who can share their lives, who are worthy of a lifetime of followers, who will betray friendship, who need to be careful, who need to be cautious, who will fight for their lives." ”

"Is intuition really that accurate?" Hermione asked incredulously.

"Everything we experience, the brain stores it as a memory, but very few people can remember it and remember all the details, so the brain will blur these memories, and when you encounter something similar again, these fuzzy memories will help you make judgments, and that's where intuition comes from."

The three Gryffindors nodded understandingly.

"If you want to make sure your intuition is more accurate, you have to go through a few more things, and although it doesn't work so well, it's safer than nothing, so now go back and do your homework!"

Ron, Hermione, and Harry all obediently turned away, and by the time they sensed something was wrong and turned back, Catherine was gone.

In the days that followed, Catherine began to keep the illusion charm on her body at all times to prevent being blocked again, and although Snape was eager to ask her face to face, when Madam Pomfrey brought someone to the door, he had to go to the medical wing to obediently cooperate with the treatment.

Draco had informed his father of the incident, but Lucius didn't have time to bother with his friend's problems right now, as he was currently involved in three lawsuits.

The first thing to do is to accuse Buckbeak of scratching his son, although this was Draco's intention, but in order not to arouse suspicion, he had to drag it out until recently, and only recently did he find an excuse to settle out of court;

The second thing is to accuse the Ministry of Magic of wronging Sirius. Blake, although the prosecutor is Sirius's cousin Narcissa, Lucius, as Narcissa's husband, naturally has to attend and support her;

The third case is also an accusation against the Ministry of Magic, and the prosecutor is the parents of all Hogwarts students, accusing the Ministry of Magic for not restraining the Dementors and almost hurting the students, and Lucius naturally has to attend the whole process as the leader.

Seeing that Lucius was busy and Snape was too busy to take care of himself, Draco and Harry discussed with Hermione and found the SG group's mentor this year, Remus. Lupin, apparently in their hearts, felt that Dumbledore was very unreliable, not to mention that the old headmaster had not had much time lately.

"Catherine and Severus?" After class, Lupin looked at Harry, Hermione, and Draco who were surrounding him, "Isn't their relationship very good?" ”

But the three children immediately began to complain.

"It used to be really good, but when school started this year, the two of them became weird. Especially a while ago, they almost all avoided it. ”

"And Catherine has been smiling since Halloween, and when we found her, we were perfunctory."

"Now she's avoiding us directly with the Illusion Charm!"

Although Lupin knew that "Snape" before Halloween had always been pretending to be Catherine, he also heard that the reason why Snape was hospitalized was indeed related to Catherine.

"It sounds like it's already very strict." Lupin couldn't help but regret that he had focused all his energy on finding Sirius, and completely neglected his friend's children.

"Not seemingly, but sure, sure, sure!"

"After the first Quidditch match in the first year, Catherine and Professor Snape had a falling out, and as a result, Professor Snape was deducting points everywhere from the next day until the Christmas break, causing panic throughout the school."

"And now that the four houses have only a fraction of the scores, if Snape breaks out again, then we won't have to count on another gem under the hourglass this semester." (To be continued......)