The woman I became

Author Sara Viktoria (Lady-LunaPotter)

They were wrong

The island of Azkaban was dark and gloomy. It was quiet and not a single being could be seen outside the great walls of the castle. Yes, Azkaban was a castle, or maybe you could call it a fortress. First, there were thick walls that surrounded the main building. The only way through them, was a big gate that, on the inside, was guarded by five aurors. When you passed through those gates, you could feel a creeping feeling coming down your spine. That was the effects of the dementors.

In these times, there were very few dementors left under control of the ministry, so to make up for the missing dementors, the minister had decided that 20 aurors, in groups of two, would patrol the prison, and keep the prisoners in check.

To get in, you had to have a special pass, issued by the minister himself, or the head of the Aurors. The pass got you through the wards, and allowed you to stay for no longer than two hours, before you got thrown out.

The prisoners were many, and most of them were death eaters. The few death eaters the light side could capture were thrown into the prison. But, the light side also threw others in there, and one of them was the savior himself, Harry Potter.

Harry was sitting in his small cell, in the high security level. He had been there for three years, and had seen many horrible things during this time. Not just the death of his parents replaying in his mind every time a dementor hovered past his cell, but people who had taken their lives in their cell, just to end it all.

He had been spit at by the aurors who patrolled past his cell. They had called him a murderer, a traitor of the light, and Voldemort's first man. At this however, Harry had laughed. He was by no means crazy, not yet anyway; he was just frustrated and thought it was rather sad that they thought so little of him. But not once did he reply to their taunts, he just sat there, thinking of everything that had been.

Severus Snape was sitting in the library of Snape manor, reading through a potion book, searching franticly for a solution to his problem. He had been working so long for this and was nearly done, but something disturbed him. A loud knock on the door to the library made him stop.

"What is it?" he snarled and the door cracked open, showing a small delicate woman in the doorframe.

"Severus, don't take that tone with me!" The woman said sternly.

"What is it?" The potion master said, a little calmer.

"You have a visitor in the drawing room." She stated and was about to close the door when Severus spoke again.

"Who is it?" He was rather surprised to have a visitor. That did not happen often during the summer.

"Ahh Alastor Moody, I think his name was."

Severus went stiff. What did HE want? He had never been fond of the old Auror, quite the opposite. However, he had always respected him for his knowledge and skills.

Rising, he walked down the stairs to the first floor and turned left into the drawing room, where Mad-eye Moody sat in one of the many armchairs. He looked absently out through the window, and jumped when Severus entered.

"Ah Snape, finally." The man rose and looked at him with a calculating look.

Severus crossed his arms over his chest and looked back. "What are you doing here Moody?" His voice wasn't cold, nor was it friendly.

"I have a problem Snape, that I would like your help with." Alastor stated and sat down again.

Severus's eyebrows rose, and after a while, he sat down himself. "So, what can I help you with?"

"Potter has been proven innocent."

Severus's face went a shade of red. "I told them!" He flew up from the chair and started to pace.

He had gotten to know Harry during his seventh year because of the training sessions they had had together, in potions and defense. He had seen that Harry was nothing like his father, and that he was rather fun to spend time with, but he would never admit that.

When Harry had been accused of killing Ginevra Weasley, the whole Order and wizarding community had turned against him. The only persons who had believed him innocent were He himself, Alastor Moody, Kingsley and to their surprise, the Weasley twins.

The twins had openly supported Harry, while Severus and Kingsley had made it clear to the headmaster on which side they stood. Alastor had remained quiet, never telling anyone of his beliefs, not until a year after Harry had gone to prison.

"They are going to release him as soon as the minister has decided what to do with him."

Severus turned to the ex Auror. "We got to take him first. Albus can't have him, neither can the ministry; they all betrayed him for fuck sake!" Alastor nodded.

"Yes, Kingsley has a plan. He will be here shortly. We can only hope that Potter's still sane. Either way, we need to hide him, they will be searching."

Snape sat down in the chair again. "I have been working on something that may be able to help us, but I don't know if Potter will agree to it."

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