[HP] Can you be gentle with me

Lucius was in his living room, pacing back and forth in a panic.

"Lucius! You should sit down." Abraxas ordered impatiently.

Lucius sat down immediately, but still looked disturbed. "Father, we're leaving Tahlia alone and Lord—"

"Hush!" Abraxas snapped. "What's going to happen, even if something really happened, it's impossible—" He squinted at his son. "Are you concerned about that girl?"

"Of course not!" Lucius quickly denied, lowering his head and whispering. "It's just a pity... After all, father, you know that Tahlia is very talented──"

"The Lord has the final say on whether he has talent or not." Abraxas raised his hand and directly stopped Lucius from continuing. "Or do you think your judgment is more accurate than his?"

"No." Lucius whispered.

Abraxas snorted. "Then you'd better learn to control your mouth early." Paused. "You've been too slack recently, do you want me to worry?"

"I'm very sorry, Father." Lucius said in a very low voice, ashamed.

It seemed that he had indeed forgotten the demeanor he should have as a Malfoy recently, he let his father down, and clenched his fist unconsciously.

"As long as you know." Abraxas said flatly.

At this time, the living room door opened.

The two turned their heads and found that it was Tahlia who came, and it seemed that the conversation between the two of them was over.

"Ah, Mr. Malfoy, you happened to be here too. The gentleman asked me to tell you that he still had something to do, so he left first."

Once inside the door, Tahlia spoke.

"I see." Abraxas nodded and stood up. "Then I have some things to attend to, Lucius, Tahlia will leave it to you."

"Yes, Father." Lucius also stood up and said.

After glancing at his son indifferently, Abraxas nodded slightly towards Tahlia, walked past her and walked out of the living room, closing the door behind him.

"Lucius, who the hell do you think that gentleman is?" Tahlia asked immediately, causing Lucius to cough for a while. "Hey, why are you reacting so violently?"

Lucius managed to stop coughing and shot Tahlia a glare. "What do you think?" He asked angrily.

Tahlia spread her hands. "I just asked you because I didn't know." She said. "Why didn't you say that he was the one who helped me answer questions during the summer vacation?"

"You didn't ask."

"..." Tahlia was speechless, but after thinking about it, she realized that she had never asked Lucius, so she spoke again. "Okay, then—"

"Just now Lo──what did that gentleman say to you?" Lucius still couldn't bear it, interrupted Tahlia's words, and asked the question that he had been puzzled in his heart.

"Speaking of which!" Tahlia replied cheerfully. "The gentleman said he would teach me!" Her eyes sparkled. "I can use the owl to ask him any questions in the future, ah yes, he also said that you will continue our course in terms of practice, won't you refuse?"

The corner of Lucius' mouth twitched. "Of course I'm fine." How could he dare not agree...Since the Lord has given such clear orders.

"But why are other people so nice?" Tahlia frowned and glanced at Lucius. "It's not that I want to speak ill of you. If you help me, it's just that I owe you favors. What about him?"

"──Why would he help me like this?" He raised his head and asked seriously.

"I'm not that gentleman, Tahlia." Lucius instinctively wanted to avoid the question, and the Lord's purpose was absolutely unspoken. "So of course I can't answer you."

"...Okay." Tahlia didn't ask again, she didn't expect to find the answer from Lucius.

"It's inappropriate to speculate on other people's thoughts," Lucius said.

Tahlia froze for a moment, then chuckled. "I know that," she said. "Didn't I not ask?"

Lucius nodded. "As long as you know."

"Yeah." Tahlia replied, then looked around and spoke again. "Why do I feel that the decoration here has changed?"

"There's an extra statue of Clendia that my father brought back." Lucius was stunned for a moment by Tahlia's sudden change of subject, but only for a moment.

"Really..." murmured, and casually sat on the sofa, which was indeed made by Malfoy Manor. The sofa was so comfortable to sit on, that he couldn't help but kick a few times on it.

Lucius' mouth twitched. "Tahlia, I don't think I need to remind you that tomorrow is the party," he said.

"I know." Tahlia said cheerfully. "I still have the clothes you picked out for me during the summer vacation!"

"The clothes are not the point." Lucius said with a headache. "How you behave." There was a pause. "I have to say—to be strengthened."

Tahlia was speechless.

"Hopefully at the dinner party tomorrow—" Tahlia straightened her back immediately. "You won't make father regret inviting you..."

"I know." After saying something in a low voice, he raised his head and smiled brightly. "I'm not so rude, am I? Lucius, after all, you're more—"

"Watson!" With wide eyes, he almost couldn't resist the urge to go up to cover her mouth, looked nervously towards the door, and heaved a sigh of relief after confirming that his father had really left.

Tahlia chuckled.

It seemed that Lucius was really annoyed and even called out her last name, it turned out that he was so afraid of his father.

"Tahlia, you'd better not say—"

"I know." She said with a smile. "Did you see that I told others?" After a pause, he smiled smirk and spoke again. "Take it easy, Lucius."

"You..." Luicus didn't know what to say at all.

This girl is really getting better at talking, and she often makes herself wonder how to respond. Where did she learn it?

I probably forgot that in Slytherin, it is absolutely impossible to survive without a certain amount of thoughtfulness. Tahlia has been tempted by other people for a whole year, but she has learned the skills to deal with it unconsciously. up.

It's just that Tahlia is usually not very defensive about acquaintances, so Lucius is often blocked with a few words without warning.

"Speaking of the banquet," Tahlia asked, suddenly thinking of something. "Will that gentleman attend?"

"No." But it will be in another room, and only a few people will see it.

"Really..." I feel a little pity. "I thought he would be there."

As that gentleman is Mr. Malfoy's friend, how could he not attend the banquet when he was here?

"The gentleman is busy, Tahlia," Lucius said flatly.

Tahlia seemed quite depressed.

"But if you think about it, hasn't he already agreed to let you ask him questions?" Seeing her disappointed expression, Lucius couldn't help but speak. "So it doesn't matter at all whether he was at the banquet or not."

After thinking for a while, Tahlia nodded. "Too."

He stood up and pulled the robe on his body. "Then I'll go to the study first, okay?"

Lucius nodded. "I'll go with you."

Tahlia raised one eyebrow and looked at Lucius. "Don't you have anything else to do?"

"Father wants me to entertain you, what do you think?" Lucius shot Tahlia angrily. "You think I don't need to prepare for the NEWTS exam?"

"Oh, I'm sorry──" Tahlia felt embarrassed immediately, and said embarrassingly, rubbing her head. "I don't know, I wasted your time."

"No." Lucius said slowly, smirking. "I wouldn't be a Malfoy if I wasn't even remotely sure about this test."

Tahlia was speechless.

Did Lucius just say it was fun?

The time after that seemed to pass very quickly, and Tahlia felt that it was already the moment before the banquet after reading a few books.

For some reason, she felt a little nervous.

Those were all prominent figures in the wizarding world, or they were from famous pure-blood families. A Muggle-born like myself should be a special case among the special cases, and I must be extremely embarrassed by then.

"Do you really want to participate..." Tahlia asked Lucius again unwillingly.

Looking around, Lucius rolled his eyes in relief. "You've been asking all day today, and you still hesitate to invite you to the banquet even if your father invites you?"

"But..." Playing with the stitching of the cuff uneasily.

Lucius stretched out his wand and waved it, and the indelible stitches disappeared.

"You—"

"I'm 17."

"Oh." Tahlia said enviously. "That's great...I wish I could use magic outside of school as soon as possible."

"How long have you been?" Lucius raised an eyebrow. "Isn't it too early to think about using magic?" Paused. "And even if you can use it off-campus, what can you use it for?" he said. "Do you want to attack people outside of school?"

Because the training with Tahlia is focused on the enemy.

"It's not." Tahlia retorted. "Just a representation," she said. "Besides, being able to use it outside of school means that I can also use apparation, although I don't know how to do it yet."

The corner of his mouth twitched. "Since you don't know it yet, don't expect so much," Lucius said. "Apparition is not something everyone has to learn. It should be said that some people can't learn it in their lifetime. You should lay the foundation first."

Tahlia didn't suffer much, and still spoke cheerfully. "But that's the magic I most want to learn!" she said. "I learned that it is very convenient to go wherever I want."

"Aren't there still fireplaces and portkeys?"

"That's different." Shaking his head. "That's still limited, isn't it? It's better to apparate."

"Whatever you want," Lucius said. "Anyway, you still have to attend the banquet, and—" He looked up at the clock on the wall. "It's time for us to go."

"Lucius──"

"Protest is ineffective."

The banquet was held in the independent banquet hall in the Malfoy Manor, which has always been a space dedicated to holding banquets. Tahlia once again saw the vastness of the Malfoy Manor, from the main house where they usually have activities to the banquet hall, You have to go by horse-drawn carriage.

She had truly experienced what it meant to be that the Malfoys were never short of money.

When she got there, she found that the interior of the banquet hall was also very gorgeously decorated. All the decorations around the walls were polished and shiny. Under the illumination of the large chandelier on the ceiling, the entire banquet hall can only be described as brilliant.

It was indeed the banquet hall of Malfoy's family, and it really fit the impression they gave.

There is a large long table in the middle of the hall, which is filled with all kinds of exquisite dishes. Tahlia's eyes widened when she saw it. She thought that Hogwarts food was already very diverse, but after seeing After eating a dish on the long table that she couldn't even tell the name of the dish, and she didn't even know what kind of food it was made of, she realized that she was wrong again.

There were no guests yet, and the hosts, Malfoy and his son, were already waiting here, along with Tahlia.

Later she would stand with the two of them at the entrance to greet the guests, which was really awkward, and she really didn't know why Mr. Malfoy insisted on her doing this, and she was not from the Malfoy family.

Finally, the guests arrived one after another.

Tahlia stood aside with a stiff expression, didn't say anything, just watched the Malfoys and his sons and the people from various families in front of them politely, she really felt that standing here was superfluous, but she couldn't find an excuse to leave.

Unconsciously, he maintained a smiling expression, but he didn't know where he was in a daze.

"Tahlia?"

"Tahlia!"

"Tahlia—"

Three voices came at the same time, with different tones, but they all called Tahlia's name.