Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter that belongs to J.K. Rowling, though I wish I did.
A/n: This story fits into several cats: Tragedy, Romance, Horror, Supernatural and prolly Angst. I will try to make this story as horrifying as I can come up with, so if you don't want to read it I suggest you stop now. This is a crossover of The Crow and Harry Potter.
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Summary: Severus and Dumbledore have been dead for a year, but when a female crow goes to take Severus's soul to the afterlife, she can't because the weight of his soul. After closer inspection she realizes what kind of loss and regret occurred. Doing what she thinks is right; she gives him a second chance to revenge those who hurt him the most. Unfortunately something that had never happened before has occurred, he falls in love, but he doesn't just fall in love with anyone, it's our favorite know-it-all Hermione Granger.
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Chapter One: While I Slept
"People once believed that when someone dies a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it, and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right." – The Crow: Opening Monologue from Sarah
Whispered words floated through the air as the wind began to blow. The wind made its own voice heard as it howled and whipped around the faces of the young and the old who dared leave the safety of their homes.
The leaves blew carelessly through it as though they had given up the fight long ago to stay firmly upon the tree. Everywhere the nights' noises were beginning to rise over the wind, whose anger howls were beginning to fall on deaf ears.
As the body was found and taken to be cared for by those that loved him, his counterpart was being thoroughly question and killed mercilessly. No one could have known what was to happen to them. No one except for the two that lay slain on the ground.
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The night wore on as all gathered around the body. Never would they have believed that this man could kill Dumbledore and yet still be loyal to the Light. As Voldemort looked over Severus's body, he went through his mind as the last amount of life faded through his eyes.
"So it seems that even in death the only things I am allowed to see is what he wanted me to see. It seems, my dear Death Eaters' that he was a spy for Dumbledore and has been for the last 17 years. All of the information that he was privy to was passed on to the old man, and he seems to have saved Potter from me all of these years. Unfortunately, I cannot see what he was privy to during his years with Dumbledore. It is amazing the amount of work that was done to keep his mind from me. That is the only thing I can say for the dead man."
"As for the rest of you, if I EVER find another bloody spy in my ranks you can count on a VERY painful death, more then what this sap went through," Riddle said as he looked out upon his Death Eaters'. He looked at them once more, and then in a blink of an eye, he was gone.
"Well, I guess this means he won't be joining us for Christmas this year," someone in the back called.
"Yes, so it seems. Well don't just stand there you lot, get over here and depose of this excuse for a man!" They all got busy, not caring who had said the order, as they all took the body and began to lift it. No magic was allowed in the clearly of Malfoy Manor, so they all had to dig a hole, about 10 feet down, and dumped Severus Snape's body in it. As they covered the body back up, they all took one last look at his deformed body and prayed to god that they would never be privy to such a death.
Malfoy was the only one who found this is slightly funny under it all, though it pissed him off to no end that the body of a traitor had to be buried in his yard. It would seem that the Dark Lord was very precise in where he buried a body of a traitor. Guess this was to remind everyone of what could happen to them all. He shook his blonde mane as he walked back to his house. At least the body was far enough away from his house in some respect.
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A year slipped slowly by. As the year began to progress, a magic that hadn't been seen in awhile was beginning to take shape. Magic was binding back to the dead as powers that weren't humanly began to flow though the body as well. A destiny that was halted was coming back with full force and then some.
Crows were always known as a bothersome sort of beast. They could ruin a perfectly good harvest, and then ransack a small garden, but unbeknown to the average muggle and even the magical counterpart, they also had their own use for the dead and their souls.
When a body dies, their soul is then given to one crow. Their job is then to transport them to the afterlife, but when a soul is full of either love so powerful that was extinguished too early, a regret so strong it weighted the soul so much that a crow may have trouble carrying it, and/or sometimes a certain amount of guilt, a crow can decide on its own whether or not to give the soul a second chance if you will, to return to the land of the living and take care of the problem.
Some can return as a ghost, forever doomed to wander the earth because they either didn't finish what they came back for, or had a change of heart. Some, depending upon the circumstances, can return to their former body and resume a normal appearance. The crow, of course at its own discretion, can even lend a human their abilities.
This, at the present time, was happening slowly over a year. A crow stood over watch of the dead body she was supposed to have transported to the afterlife. When she had tried to carry it, the soul felt like it weighed as much as a living elephant. Upon closer inspection of the soul, bits and pieces of their life had played for her like a horror movie. She could almost feel the agony of the last three hours of the soul's life.
Having the ability to have emotions, she watched as she understood what she was going to do. Crows in their lifetime may never have the chance to do this. This was also a great sacrifice on her part. If someone were to find out, they could try to take the power for themselves, which would be very daunting task, but nevertheless, a possible one.
Over the last year, she had begun the task of binding herself, magically, to this magical being. She was going to give him the opportunity to kill all of those that had caused him great suffering, though it was also limited to maybe 30 or so of these so called Death Eaters. He was going to have the job of eradicating them all. The leader of this cult was off limits because that was attached to another destiny she could not interfere with.
She slowly watched as the body began to look like a body again, she also watched as the world around her prepared for a battle. She had slowly figured out the comings and goings of these little two-bit hacks. She was very interested in what they did, but the task of piecing a soul back together with the soul of another, was no easy task for her.
Beady little eyes watched everything around her, the night he would be fully regenerated, would be the night when 2/3 of this cult would be at this manor, minus 10 underlings and the leader.
This was going to be an easy task with little problems, or she thought . . .
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Ok, I know this prolly wasn't the best opening chapter, but I wanted to give some history and lore to the story. The crow parts I making up on my own, cause I want it to fit in my story and in my world so deal with it, though I still plan to keep some of the movie aspects of it in here, though loosely prolly, and prolly a little of the second one as well, but mostly in the wanting/having a relationship aspect. But hopefully you guys will enjoy the twists and turns of this story. Sorry for the whole ghost thing as well, I'll have Hermione look into it later to solve any issues anyone might have over what J.K Rowling had proposed in her books, so please don't kill me and please review, cause you know you want too, that little button isn't too far way I promise!
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