Snape's cold words made Harry's anger rush over his head like a rocket, but when he saw Catherine's expectant gaze, he could only hold back his breath, biting his lip to prevent his retort from spurting out, but the Potions Professor continued to abuse the fragile nerves of the black-haired boy mercilessly.

"Forty-three failures! Biting your lip and not speaking, it is better to scold directly! ”

"Forty-four failures! If you don't bite your lip, do you think that others don't know that you are refuting in your heart? The fire in both eyes was about to erupt. ”

"Forty-five failures! Turning your head away from others is simply covering your ears and stealing the bell. ”

"Forty-six failures! No matter how big your eyes are, someone else can poke you blind with a cane! ”

"Forty-seven failures! Turn around and run away, and dare to say that you are the bravest Gryffindor! ”

"Forty-eight failures! Pretending not to hear is simply deceiving yourself! ”

"Forty-nine failures! Hiding is always the worst option, and waiting for the enemy to find it is definitely a dead end. ”

"Fifty failures!"

It wasn't until Harry's figure disappeared from view for a moment that Snape's scolding stopped for a moment.

"He must have been crying." Catherine sighed helplessly and turned to look at K, "Can you help me persuade him?" There was not the slightest hint of pleading in her tone.

"Why don't you go by yourself?" K asked angrily with an angry raised eyebrow.

Catherine didn't explain, just smiled faintly, and in this silent confrontation, K was quickly defeated.

"Alright! All right! Am I still going to be able to go? Please, stop smiling at me like that! I really don't know what I owed you in my previous life? K shook his head vigorously and walked towards where Harry was hiding with a helpless face.

"Twisted melons are not sweet!" Not long after K left, Snape suddenly spoke, but his voice was hoarse.

"I know, it's just—" Catherine sighed before continuing, "there are so many pits around him that I can only try to correct his recklessness before he falls into the pits, or at least learn to see where the pits are?" ”

"Sue me!" Snape suddenly reached out and clasped Catherine's chin, forcing her to look up at her, "What the hell is going on?" ”

Catherine was stunned for a moment before smiling: "Something has indeed happened, and I haven't thought about the possible consequences yet, so I can't take the liberty of involving you." She raised her right hand and took Snape's hand tightly in an attempt to calm his uneasiness.

Snape couldn't help but squeeze the red-haired girl's hand hard, he knew very well that she was not an ordinary child, and she had enough strength to deal with a difficulty, but she was the only concern for him to survive, and he couldn't let it go lightly.

"Give me a deadline!" Snape hesitated for a long time before he spoke again, his voice resolute and without the slightest room for rebuttal.

Catherine felt as if her heart had been pricked by a needle suddenly, and the pain was so painful that she couldn't even breathe, she hurriedly lowered her head and opened her mouth wide, and took a deep breath very slowly, so as not to let Snape notice the difference, until she calmed her mood, and then said in a calm voice: "Before the end of the third year!" ”

Snape breathed a sigh of relief, his nervousness finally calming down, and he relaxed the strength of his hand, but he didn't let go.

Catherine still kept her head down, her eyes staring at the hands they were holding each other very blankly, slowly savoring the warmth on her hands, thinking about her sudden and very strange mood, not understanding why it had become like this.

Just like the hands that the two are holding together at this time, it always gives her an urge that it should be more solid, and there is a danger that it should not be contacted, but once it is really separated, the cold and cold always makes her hesitate about her choice.

"What the hell is going on with this love of gain and loss?" Catherine asked in her mind, puzzled, and didn't have time to pay attention to K and Harry for a while.

"Catherine really got it, and you're crying." K silently approached, noticing tears hanging from the corners of Harry's eyes.

"I didn't cry!" Harry hurriedly removed his glasses and wiped his eyes vigorously.

"Okay, stop rubbing, your eyes are not good, and if you rub it again, you will easily become blind." K is persuading, but the action is just the opposite, looking at her posture leaning against the tree with her hands on her chest, it is clearly an honor to watch a play, "Although a man has tears and does not flick, in fact, it is only because he has not reached the sad place." ”

Harry was stunned, his face flushed. "I know I'm not good enough, I'm much worse than Catherine, I'm worse than you." He said with his head down in embarrassment.

"There's no comparison, and if you've been through as much as we have and survived to this point, you'll be just like us." K said lazily, "Because nature is always the survival of the fittest, and the unfit are eliminated." Children who grow up in the city are always sheep in the sheepfold, and in the event of an accident, they basically have little ability to protect themselves. ”

"It's not that exaggerated!" Harry put on his glasses in shock, only to find that K's face was unusually stern.

"Let me tell you a fact, the criterion for evaluating the best spider is not how big its web is woven and how evenly the web threads are, but how quickly it can weave a new web after its web is broken."

Harry was stunned, he seemed to understand a little, but when he thought about it, he was still a little confused.

"In fact, this is the same as when people encounter setbacks, the most important thing to care about is not that they are knocked down by setbacks, but how long it will take for them to get back up and continue to meet the challenges after being knocked down."

"It's like dealing with the venom of that old bat—" K turned to Snape, "it's useless to run away, to dodge, to act like you can't hear, and to refute without coherence is to waste your own saliva, and the best way to do that is to sift through the dirty leaves, mud, and gravel like a gold digger to find the brightest gold." ”

"Can there be gold in snake venom?" Harry asked rhetorically, somewhat noncommittally.

"The venom of the American cobra, $28 per ounce, is 6 times the price of gold, do you say there is gold in the venom?" K said angrily.

"But I can't find out!" Harry couldn't help but sneak a peek over at Snape.

"You really don't know how blessed you are!" K ran his way around Harry's neck and rubbed his hair vigorously, "That old bat's heart is long dead, and it only reacts when it meets you and Catherine. Don't you notice that from last night to now, he hasn't even looked at me directly, and has treated me like air at all. ”

"How is that possible?" Harry said this, but in his heart he vaguely felt that K was telling the truth, Snape's indifferent attitude towards outsiders, he had seen it the day he stepped into the wizarding world, only when facing the teachers and students of Hogwarts, he would spray his venom, especially when he met himself, is this his "concern".

Harry looked at Snape in shock, but was surprised to find that the atmosphere between him and Catherine was very strange, the black-haired boy rubbed his eyes, and when he looked over again, Catherine already had that familiar smile on his face, and Snape also regained his cold face.

“Kate！ Did you notice that they seemed to ...... just now," Harry asked uncertainly, but he didn't expect K's answer to be so powerful.

"You saw that right! Now I'm absolutely sure that there must have been an unknown affair between the two of them. K is very aware of Catherine's character, and it is impossible for someone to hold her chin without retorting at this insult, unless that person has already occupied a very important place in their hearts, but this qiē is temporarily hidden in their hearts, "I really want to tear off the mask on their faces immediately." K couldn't help but shout viciously.

“Kate?” Harry looked at K in horror, he realized for the first time that she was so terrifying.

"It's a pity that I can't beat C all the time, and I can only find abuse when I really start, as for the old bat that only drinks 'blood', as a normal human being, it's better not to find monsters to challenge the limit." K nodded suddenly, then put on a hearty smile and waved vigorously at Catherine, as if what she had just said was not what she had just said.

Harry stiffened his face back, only to receive another lash from Snape.

"You only know how to cry, do you want to learn from women to win sympathy? But to be honest, you really don't even look like a man, your feet are floating, your limbs are weak, and you may be dizzy for three days when you are hit by a spell spell, so you should obediently learn to be a woman! No! You can't even be a woman, a woman has to hold her head up and show off her posture, and your spine is simply made of the intestinal tube of a mollusk, the place where it should be bent is not bent, the place that should be straight is not straight, you should return to the nest of paramecium, don't occupy this body, you can't be a good person. ”

Snape really scolded Harry this time, but compared to the "mental storm" that K had just cast, the strength was a little insufficient, and the black-haired boy actually had time to notice the worry in Catherine's eyes, and finally, the blown up head finally remembered his sister's expectations, and tried very hard to pull out a smile.

Snape was stunned for a moment, but instead of giving any praise, he cursed more viciously.

"Smiling? You'd better look in the mirror first! Snape literally used his magic to conjure an ice mirror in front of Harry, "Laughing is worse than crying!" Are you ready to come out and be scary? Then you have to cultivate for another hundred years! Fifty-one failures! ”

With that's done, Snape walked straight past Harry and into the forest.

"Well done! Keep up the good work! Catherine reached out to help Harry rub his stiff cheek, and then followed Snape's footsteps.

“Kate！ Am I really that bad? Harry looked at K plaintively, Catherine's praise seemed more perfunctory to him.