Favorites. book 1

"Was she a friend of yours?" I asked quietly. And, remembering the problem of the lack of photos and my guesses, I decided to ask: "Maybe you still have a photo of her? I'd like to know what she looked like."

"You don't know?" Sensei was amazed. Both of his eyebrows rose slightly.

"The fact is that my aunt didn't have any photos or personal belongings of her sister. She said that before my birth, Lily took absolutely all her things and her photos, as if she wanted to disappear from their lives. She also probably cast some kind of spell that distorts memories. So that... my aunt wouldn't grieve for her. But I've already figured that out myself. My aunt loved her younger sister very much."

"I'll look for..." Snape-sensei faltered under my pressure. "For me... I need to go to the lab...."

"There are still a few pages left in the Scroll," I reminded him. "And tomorrow already..."

"Yes," he rubbed his temple. "Then go to the library and start translating, and I'll be right there."

I saw that Sensei was in a mess, so I didn't bother his eyes and went upstairs. It makes me very sad that I'm unlikely to see any of my friends. I died there. And many of my comrades died with me. It's so stupid and it hurts so much.

Hinata's smile. She said she had no regrets. Stupid girl! And Sakura? She could become a new Hokage... Why is everything like this? Is it because of me or because of Sasuke? Or maybe both of us, because she saw that neither I nor he could help anymore.... It hurt so much that I wanted to destroy the whole world. It's a good thing I threw the others away. I hope they continue to live.

Don't think! Here, all thoughts are tied to actions! The table is already covered with frost. It seems that all systems have just been shut down. Don't piss off Snape-sensei by ruining an expensive rare book.

It's time to let go of your past and focus on the present. It is possible that I will not be able to ruin the life of the local Chosen of Fate, like my own.

Wow! Yes, there is only one potion for all the remaining five pages, or rather, another ointment. Does it have to be cooked for a year? Is sakura supposed to drop petals from spring to spring, or will there be time to roll a stone with a mountain stream? So, the name is "Seiketsuhontai". It's a painfully complicated composition for a simple cleansing ointment. What, I wonder, does she clean up on five pages of descriptions and ingredients? Yeah, that's the description of the action.

"Lapping ointment that resolves scars, potholes, acne, boils, mushrooms on the body... wow, mushrooms, that's creepy! received as a result of curses, magical diseases, healing bites and scratches of magical creatures..."

And a bunch of other stuff for as many as five columns. Well, it's clear, the super ointment is "all right", then. But it seems to me that it will not be easy to cook it at all....

I wonder if it would have worked against that stupid scar on my forehead, too. Well, well. Offhand, if you don't read the text, about sixty ingredients are used here. Holy shit, how did they even come up with it? Is everything mixed up in the lab? How much should such an ointment cost?

"Why are you puffing so unhappily?" Snape-sensei entered the library. Calm and cold, as usual.

"Yes, the last recipe for the ointment "from everything" was a little outraged, sir," I replied.

"Oh, the one with a lot of ingredients?" He understood. "And what does "from everything" mean?"

"Everything from pimples to bites of magical creatures and all sorts of magical marks cleans up there. It translates as "Pure Body". You'll probably put it on, and you'll have skin like a baby's, even if you had scars all over your body after meeting a tiger. Oh..." I shouldn't have said that about the tiger, they don't live in England. I just saw a guy in the hospital who was injured by them....

"Hmm. Let's start the translation," fortunately, Sensei did not notice my mistake.

I've cheered up, or maybe it's just that I've regained my strength.

"So. "Seiketsuhontai", or "Pure Body", is prepared on the basis of spring water taken from the top..."

Part 1. Chapter 14. Almost goodbye