Good or bad, does it matter?

After returning home, Nagini, with curiosity, watched the mysteriously smiling Snape, sorting through the rolled parchments, which he pulled out of the purse "confiscated" from the Lestranges. 

"Why are you smiling so strangely?" with bewilderment on the muzzle, she asked, coming closer and also looking at the contents. 

"Documents confirming the ownership of all the shops in Kosom and Lutnoy lanes, enterprises, as well as some foreign assets and many other interesting things…"

"Isn't it possible to restore them?"

"It's possible, but it's a chore, especially at this time, do you think the Ministry will help potential enemies?" he looked at the pensive snake with a grin, putting the one hundred and eighth parchment on the table and that was not even all of them.

"The situation is the same abroad and until they restore them, they will not be able to manage all this normally, which threatens with huge losses and fines, unless of course they find out about it …" a parchment and a pen with ink appeared in front of the wizard. 

"And he calls me a "snake"... " with an unkind laugh, Nagini drawled, "But why did he keep all these documents with him, is he an idiot?" 

"I won't deny the fact, but they usually kept them to the north, in a small muggle village, with another hundred thousand Galleons, and the place is very good, no one would have guessed that they could be there, but tomorrow is the annual family meeting, where all this will be checked, so he decided to take everything in advance so that tomorrow he wouldn't have to go anywhere," when the pen finished writing, Severus folded the parchment and pulled out the second one.

"I just remembered, we do not have an owl, after all, how will we send it?" tilting his head to the side, he looked puzzled at Nagini.

"I don't want to reveal my identity, but they can easily recognize the house-elf ... eh ... so I have to do it myself," with a groan, he got up, threw on the mantle lying nearby and took the parchment in his hand and disappeared. 

But in less than ten seconds, Snape had already returned and, having thrown off his robes, he sat on the sofa. 

"You're quick…" 

"Harold wasn't in the office, so I left the letter and back-office books on the desk, let them have some fun at the Ministry" After saying that, Snape continued to study the paperwork, and the snake had already decided not to interfere and simply lay down next to him ... 

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The next day, Severus completely devoted himself to the house, taking up the replacement of the core, as well as the spell of invisible expansion in the barrier so that all the animals could fit under the dome and as soon as everything was ready, Snape , slightly ennobled the empty clearing around the building, adding trees and other various vegetation, and the animals, as soon as he released them, almost immediately divided the territory into four parts, because of which the hellish wolves had nowhere to settle, yet they were no match for other, therefore the black hound allowed them to settle in her area…, well she allowed them out of kindness of soul and laziness, and they were not against it, especially the leader, who in the truest sense of the word drooled over the she-wolf. 

Snape was quite satisfied with this and even pleased that they did not fight for the territory, about wolves, he allowed them to walk everywhere, nevertheless, the space was not small, almost three hundred metres, and it was very difficult to keep track of everything. 

Of course, Severus was not going to just lock the monsters in the "four walls", because their instincts and hunting skills could be dulled due to such inactivity and calmness, so in the future he wanted to understand the barrier above the "Magic Jungle" and create a portal connecting it a house with the same place so that at least once a week the animals could normally hunt in dangerous conditions, and he had the skills to create an artifact capable of this, as well as the resources. 

But he decided to postpone this until later, as he was finally able to figure out that barrier, and the magical creatures were very much inspired when they heard his idea, well, except for the black hound, whose laziness pierced all conceivable and inconceivable limits.

And in the evening, having finished with everything, Severus decided to take a short break and read the newspaper, but as soon as he took it in his hands and opened it, he could not help smiling, because right on the front page there was a live photograph of the Lestrange brothers trying to cover their faces, and under it, in huge letters: "Scammers!" 

In the article itself on the next page, there was a long, devastating article about the machinations of the brothers and how they got their tens of thousands of galleons every month, how they laundered and how much they earned in this way, but that's just how this Rita S. had so much information, even Snape found it interesting, he doubted that it was the Ministry which disclosed this information, they would rather use it and make them pay all the taxes, and on top of another hundred and another thousand galleons, since they really needed funding at the moment, but because of this article, they really can be condemned, which was not part of Snape's plans. 

"Apparently they were not lucky, but I only wanted to teach these idiots a lesson, but okay, it's their own fault, it was better to hide such documents, or even better to burn them right away," grinning, Severus continued to read and was more and more surprised by the ability of this Rita , after all, it was still necessary to try to destroy someone else's name so effectively and mix it with dirt, but at the same time he wondered whether she was immortal or not, because the Lestranges are one of the richest and most influential families, and slamming one brisk writer is not a big problem, although how this article was even allowed into the newspaper was still a mystery.

"Maybe this is some kind of plan of the Ministry? Nevertheless, not one publishing house would have dared to let something like this, even if they had a hundred lives, so most likely I'm right, without their consent, this article would never have been published, and there is too much exact data ... What were they even trying to achieve then?"

And just at that moment, Snape's thoughts were interrupted by alternating magical impulses from the purse and a second later a small mirror appeared in his hand, on the surface of which ripples passed and a cold but beautiful female face appeared in it, at the sight of which, the Snape's smile became wider. 

"I never thought that you yourself would decide to call me, squirrel" hearing his appeal, she snorted in annoyance. 

"How many more times do I have to tell you not to call me that!" 

"But I want to, and "Squirrel" sounds very nice," and a squirrel tail and ears appeared in the wizard's hand, at the sight of which, Bellatrix began to throw lightning from her eyes in the direction of Snape.

"By the way, I brought you a souvenir from Brazil. I wanted to meet you tomorrow and give it to you."

"An almost married woman?" 

"Almost? Isn't it at least a month away?" 

"In a month," she answered in an even voice, looking at the young man with suspicion in her eyes , "Tell me ... is this your doing?"

"Are you that interested?"

" No, I don't care."

 "But since you don't care, it means you still missed me?" In response, Severus heard another irritable tch.

"Well, I'm silent, I'm silent, how about meeting tomorrow in the park near your house? I can follow you if anything."

"It's not worth it," Bella said sharply, "We'll meet at the usual place."

"Can I still come in?" he asked again with a cheeky smile, quite watching the sorceress's gloomy face, he still liked to anger her.

"Okay, in the park, so in the park."

"Then …" but before she had time to finish, she noticed a familiar snake, climbing up Snape's chest and hanging around his neck while staring at her with an unkind squint, not knowing why, maybe female intuition, but it seemed to her that in the look of a reptile, she saw jealousy, which looked very strange. Snape, in turn, was a little amused by this and stroked the top of Nagini's head, he smiled softly and said "Well, then tomorrow, at eleven at our place."

 "Yes…" Bella nodded sluggishly, still looking with a strange look at the snake, not taking her eyes off her, but after a few seconds she shook her head and threw stupid thoughts out of her head, yet a reasonable reptile sounded too strange, especially one such size, 

"Although anything is possible in the world of magic, this is already nonsense ... or maybe not nonsense ..." she remembered the snake that she saw that day at Ichiros, 

"Then he simply could control it with the help of some spells…"

 "Miss Black?" he said but there was no answer from her.

"Miss Black?" and again without an answer, "MISS BLACK!"

"A?" and only after hearing his exclamation, she nevertheless came to her senses and was even embarrassed, which looked very nice, "I beg your pardon, I was thinking something".

"Nothing, apparently I need to embarrass you more often," from his words, a treacherous blush appeared on the lady's face, so she wanted to end the conversation as quickly as possible so as not to put herself in an even more awkward position.

 "Then see you tomorrow…" and her image quickly disappeared from the mirror, which made Severus laugh sincerely.

Putting the artefact aside, he looked at Nagini, who was studying the ceiling with interest, as if nothing had happened at all a few seconds ago. "Let's go, my jealous woman, let's start your development…" Patting the embarrassed snake on the head, he got up and headed up the stairs towards his workplace…