HP: By the lake of Snake Garden, flowers bloom on the other side

Dumbledore always wanted wool socks, and Severus Snape knew about it.

That's what he said that day when the two children looked into the Mirror of Erised. Although he was perfunctory with the two children, he was not entirely lying.

He never thought that one day he would receive this gift.

The young man lowered his head and stroked the soft wool socks. No one saw the rare tenderness on his expression.

Just like the ground that has been dry for a long time has already been covered with cracks, a sweet rain falls from the sky.

Only he knew Snape's mental activities at this moment, but he was not willing to take his fingers off this Christmas gift.

In Severus Snape's memory, receiving this kind of Christmas gift was a long, long time ago, so long that he almost forgot about it.

Many years ago, when he was a child, his mother would hug him tenderly and put on new clothes to celebrate the arrival of Christmas.

Happiness is a residual emotion from childhood.

Looking back now, I have some uncertain impressions.

Broken, broken.

Later, the smell of alcohol, accompanied by the men's endless curses, and the women's hysterical screams, constituted all of Snape's childhood memories of family.

He wanted to escape, but there was nowhere to escape.

Snape hated, disgusted, hated, but couldn't live without him.

Until I met Lily, a girl like a flower. Smart and kind, he puts himself to shame.

She was a ray of light in Snape's gloomy life, tearing apart the dullness and giving him a moment to breathe freely.

Being with her is carefree.

Snape was lost in memories, a look of vulnerability on his face. But soon he realized his problem, closed his eyes, and let Occlumency work.

Opening his eyes, Snape regained his composure, his eyes empty.

These two pairs of green wool socks were treasured and placed deep in the closet, and the set of potion bottles was placed in the most conspicuous place of the cabinet.

The two slips of paper were tucked into an old notebook by Snape. Before this page, there were many slips of paper, all of which were written "Lucius to Severus".

Putting away his notebook, Snape left the office.

The Christmas party was so lively.

Lycoris took a quick look at the Christmas-only Hogwarts decorations, and came to the Slytherin table in a happy mood.

The professors at the guest table were also beaming and chatting with each other with smiles on their faces.

Liklis tasted the Christmas pudding. She really liked the taste of caramel pudding.

"You like it so much?" Theodore Nott handed over his pudding, "Would you like another one?"

"Thank you, I can't eat any more." Licoris smiled and declined his kindness.

"Okay." He took back his hand and started eating by himself.

Snape watched the student talk to his goddaughter about something, and even handed over his dessert. She refused, and the two chatted happily.

The banquet lasted for a long time.

In the afternoon, Licoris passed by the playground and saw Potter and the others having a snowball fight. The screams of crazy play could be heard from a distance.

"Want to try it?" Nott held a snowball in his hand, eager to try.

"I don't want to!" Lycoris refused even her hair. It was so cold to be hit.

"Okay." Nott let go of his hand regretfully, and the snowball fell to the ground and splashed with snow foam.

"You can make snowballs instead." It's not a good idea to reject your partner's suggestions again and again. This is a big deal. Licolis thought about it and came up with a compromise idea, "Come?"

When the professors came out, the playground was full of children who had been detained.

Snape saw a group of children wearing conspicuous red uniforms in the distance, and their shouts were very penetrating.

From this distance, I could hear Potter's voice shouting that Ron couldn't hit him because he boasted his agility, Weasley's angry roar that he would definitely hit you, and Weasley's provoking his brother to see him go into a rage. The twins laughed.

"Sev, let the children go today." Dumbledore looked at his expression as if to say, "Gryffindor will be deducted five points for laughing and making noise." He quickly spoke, trying to save himself, "It's a holiday today, they are just having fun." Just have fun.”

"I didn't mean to deduct points." Snape said firmly as he saw the boy's beautiful green eyes shining brightly because he was having so much fun playing.

This tone was so pale that Dumbledore didn't believe it, "Okay, okay, you didn't want any points deducted."

Snape, who originally didn't want to deduct points, had the idea of ​​​​deducting Slytherin points in his life.

What did Snape see?

Dumbledore noticed that Snape, who had just seen Harry with a relaxed expression, suddenly became tense, and looked over with interest.

I would like to see what happens that makes our Potions Master feel threatened. Dumbledore, who is not afraid of big things, even puts on glasses.

The fair little face of the girl in the green lambswool scarf was red from the cold. In front of her was a large fox as tall as an adult.

The boy next to him was lying on the snow fox, shaping the fox's ears, and his hat was tilted.

The two children didn't know what to say, one raised his head and the other lowered his head.

"Nott, I don't think it looks Slytherin." Since it is a Slytherin fox, how can it not have a symbol?

Licoris took a step back and looked carefully.

"Give it green eyes?" Nott thought for a moment, "Pick up two pebbles for me."

Licolis found two stones of the same size, chanted a spell to turn them into stone balls, and dyed them green.

"Here you go." She tiptoed and handed it over, and Nott took it and pressed it on.

"The little girl learned Transfiguration well, right?" Dumbledore said goodbye to Severus, "These two stone balls are quite round."

"Okay." Nott jumped down and patted Xue Mo tightly together with Licoris who was working hard to shape her big tail.

"How's it going? Just now you were reserved and reluctant, but now you feel like you're having fun making a snowman?" Licoris squatted on the ground and trimmed the tip of her tail, looking up at him.

"It's not bad." Nott shrugged, "I think it's almost done."

"Really?" Lycoris, whose feet were numb from squatting for too long, sat directly on the ground and stretched out a hand in front of her.

She raised her head and looked at Nott.

"Thank you." Licoris held the cold hand and was pulled up.

His hands were just like his own, red and cold.

"What does it feel like that's missing?" Licoris huffed and looked at Snow Fox.

She took off her hat, climbed up and put it on.

After coming down, look at it with satisfaction.

"Aren't you cold?" Nott saw that her scarf fell down due to her excessive movements, and turned around to help wrap it up.

"It's not too cold. It's okay. Let's go back and warm ourselves by the fire." The girl waved her hand to indicate that she was fine.

She didn't see her not-so-good father looking at her from a distance. Why was that brat so close to her?

After watching a good show, Dumbledore looked at Severus beside him, "Are you okay? Severus?"