"Catherine said that the problem this time was with my godfather, and I wanted to find my father, but he was too busy to come to Hogwarts! So we had to come to you. Draco said reluctantly.

"You're looking for the wrong person!" Lupin smiled helplessly, "Severus and I can not quarrel, it is already very restrained on both sides, if I try to persuade him, it will definitely only backfire." ”

"Even you don't know, is there anyone else who can persuade Professor Snape?" Hermione asked anxiously.

"Unless Harry's mother, Lily, is reborn." Lupin spread his hands and said, "Only Snape can hear her." ”

"Isn't it just Catherine!" Harry shouted plaintively.

"Why?" The puzzled person becomes Lupin, who knows why, but he doesn't understand why the children know.

"A lot of adults say Catherine looks very much like Harry's mother!" Hermione replied honestly.

"My parents also said she was just Ms. Evans from twenty years ago, except for the eyes." Draco also recounted the Malfoys' observations.

"Indeed, they are very much alike!" Lupin recalls Lily in third grade and finds that there really isn't much difference between them just by looking at their faces, "but their behavior and habits are completely different." ”

"Lily is generous and cheerful, likes to spread her hair out, laughs when she is happy, intervenes when she doesn't like it, and is very helpful, four typical Gryffindors, so even if she and Catherine really stand together, no one will mistake them, not to mention that Severus is very familiar with Lily."

"Why?" Harry blurted out.

"Because they have been friends since they were 7 years old, and the relationship between the two is so good that even if they are assigned to rival academies, they still learn and play together, and the reason why Lily's potions are so good is that Severus taught them by hand."

"What about my dad?" Harry couldn't help but ask.

"Jaime—" Lupin reached out to hide a smile. "He offended Lily with Sirius on the train. ”

"Isn't it!" Hermione exclaimed.

"To be honest, Severus is a mess on the outside and unusually mean when he scolds people, but he is a very self-disciplined, extremely serious learner, and very powerful wizard, and he has been the head of the Slytherin grade since his second year."

"But James—" Lupin sighed, "he really didn't show anything when he first started school, until he got rid of all his faults in seventh grade. Lily just started dating him. ”

"And what about my godfather?" Draco asked, frowning.

"Towards the end of fifth grade, he and Lily fell out." Lupin paused for a moment before continuing to explain, "The form at that time did not allow for swaying from side to side, Severus and Lily had chosen different paths, their friendship simply could not last, and it was only a matter of time before they fell out. ”

The two Gryffindors nodded in understanding, and Draco fell into deep thought.

"Alright, now you guys go back first!" Lupin smiled and patted them on the shoulder. "I'll ask Catherine if I can help."

Now that Lupin promised to help, the three children stopped pestering him, just waiting for them to leave. Professor DA had a thoughtful expression.

"Catherine!" After Slytherin's DA class, Lupin stopped the red-haired girl, "Harry, Draco, they've come looking for me. ”

"You're definitely going to do you a disservice! Didn't you sue them? Catherine asked with a wink.

"Of course, but I didn't look for you for that." Lupin pondered his words. Then he continued, "Do you know the relationship between Severus and your mother? ”

Catherine looked at Lupin meaningfully for a moment before replying, "I have seen his patronus. It's a deer. ”

"Sure enough!" Lupin sighed, his eyes glazed over, and he wondered how to express it, "You've often heard that you're very similar to Lily, right?" ”

"I specifically looked for her pictures." Catherine waited for Lupin to recover from her surprise before continuing, "In first grade, I deliberately tried to test their relationship, and in the end he really took me for her. ”

Lupin's mouth opened wide in shock, Snape would have been mistaken, he had said that he had expected it, but he didn't expect it to be deliberately guided by Catherine.

"Then he confessed his mistake to me and promised that he would never think of me for her again." Catherine turned her head to look out the window.

"He didn't do it?" Lupin couldn't help but ask.

"Twice." Catherine sighed silently, "The first time he found out, but the second time he didn't. ”

"Why didn't you find out?" Lupin asked, puzzled.

"He made another promise, but with my current relationship with him, that promise shouldn't have happened."

"What promise?" Lupin asked.

But Catherine didn't answer, just glanced at him.

Lupin immediately understood that his problem was already about privacy, and that a real Slytherin would not reveal the privacy of others without their consent.

Lupin shut his mouth and began to think about how to speak next so as not to touch the Slytherin principle.

"Because of his behavior, you're sad now?" Lupin asked cautiously.

"To be precise, I can't stand being used as a stand-in for someone else! Especially—" Catherine paused abruptly, closed her eyes, and continued for a moment, "when I was at my most vulnerable. But her tone was flat throughout, as if talking about the weather, without the slightest sadness.

So much so that Lupin thought at first that he had misheard, but by the time he paid attention, Catherine had already opened her eyes and her expression was completely restored.

"I heard you right!" Lupin couldn't help but ask.

"Nope." Catherine habitually smiled, "It's just that I've been using Occlumency lately." ”

"You're only 13!" Lupin exclaimed, "Why do you want to learn that kind of thing?" ”

"The enemy will not show mercy to me because I am a minor." Catherine stated with a blank face.

"But—" Lupin was stunned for a long time, but did not know what to say, and finally had to say helplessly, "I intellectually agree with your approach, but emotionally I don't want you to work so hard. ”

"I'm used to it." Catherine's eyes finally had a smile in her eyes, "If I were to be as carefree as a normal child, I would be overwhelmed." ”

"This—alas!" Lupin sighed, since Catherine herself did not contribute to creating a good environment for her in her childhood, she could not be forced to change her personality habits now.

"I just want you to have a good time, so between you and Severus - it's really only Lucius. Will Malfoy be able to solve it? ”

Catherine winked and asked, "Do you think he can listen to Mr. Weasley?" ”

Lupin imagined the scene for a moment, then shook his head vigorously.

Since Lupin's efforts are ineffective, the children can only reluctantly accept the reality and be alert to Snape's frenzy, Fred and George even devise an early warning device that automatically sounds an alarm when the warning target set by the user is ten meters closer.

In less than a day, this thing took the whole of Hogwarts by storm, almost reaching the level of one manpower, and although it could only be set with one goal, it was enough to avoid Snape. Thankfully, the twins prioritized the improvement of the alert sound so that the user could set it for themselves, so that the same alarm sound did not go off when the Potions Professor walked there.

Despite the terrible weather at the beginning of November, and even a violent storm on Saturday, the Quidditch match between Slytherin and Gryffindor was not cancelled, but Catherine did not play, and only agreed to be the goalkeeper in the last game when Slytherin was in the bottom score, otherwise all the matches would be out of suspense at the beginning.

Therefore, in this stormy and tense moment, she and Ixesi drank morning tea at the highest point of the stands.

That's right, the two of them are relying on their own strength to forcibly prevent the heavy rain and wind from invading their side, so they can still drink hot food as usual in this bad weather.

"You're really fame and fortune this time!" Seeing that the rain had completely obstructed his vision, Ixace simply chatted with Catherine.

"Profit has indeed gained a lot, but fame is not necessarily." Catherine waved her wand and condensed several water mirrors in front of the two of them, allowing them to see the two pairs in action.

"At least you've achieved your goal!" Ixissi didn't delve any further, his attention was already drawn to the water mirrors, as he noticed that Catherine's method of condensing them seemed to be a little different from the magic he normally used.

"Senior Ixissi, could it be that you are already willing to make peace with Gryffindor?" Catherine couldn't help but turn her head to look, and her mood couldn't help but become a little nervous.

"I don't care, as for the whole of Slytherin, you need to keep trying." Ixissi's eyes were still fixed on the water mirrors.

Catherine couldn't help but be stunned, she felt that Ixissi's words sounded less like an answer, more like an exhortation.

"Ixissi-senpai, what do you mean......" Catherine couldn't help but ask.

"I'm in seventh year, and I'll graduate in just over half a year, and even if I'm willing to change Slytherin now, I can't do it, and you're different, you're only in your third year, and you still have four years to go, enough for you to slowly correct. I believe that in four years' time, Slytherin House will have a completely different look. Ixissi looked up into the distance, as if looking for a ray of hope through the pouring rain.

"If you're going to change, why not just sit up from this moment?" Catherine chuckled and persuaded, but her eyes looked to the right front of Ixissi.

Ixissi looked over and saw three men walking towards him, Cedric, Penelope, and Percy, who still couldn't hold back his magic and looked like an egg cover in the rain. (To be continued......)