"Come on Sevy" Tilly said as Snape was sorting out potion ingredents, "No, Tilly." he said plainly "Why not Severus?" Tilly asked as she started to help out. Snape looked firmly at Tilly "Why are you so intament on having me chose her as an Apprentice?" Snape asked "Because Severus, she's the best of her house at potions, hell she's almost the best of her year next to Hermione." Severus rolled his eyes, "yes by that logic miss Granger should be my apprentice." Tilly sighed "yes but she has told me time and time again in counsaling sesions that she wants to be a poitions master like you." Snape scoffed "Severus i am Serious." Snape studied Tilly "You don't looked like Sirius black." "Really, Severus?" "Don't complain, you pull that joke on me all the time." "Thats not my point Severus." "Then what is you point?" "my point is that she ideailzes you! and I think she'll make a great apprentice for you!" the bell rang "I'll look over her skills when she's in class and maybe I'll consiter it" Tilly knodded.
The bell rang again as students walked into class. Snape looked over the class and saw the girl Tilly was talking about, she was a hufflepuff with messy yellow blonde hair, she wore a flower crown with one flower in the center of it. (Snape didn't think it counted as a flower crown though) she sat with three other girls, a mis-matched eyed Irken Girl named Mystery, a quiet, dirty blonde girl named Misty, and an ambered eyed, brown haired girl named Quinta, Snape saw a black haired red eyed ravenclaw child start talking to them her name was Angel, one Snape's and Tilly's children. Angel's twin brother, Angelo was a gryffindor which his father some what resented. "Zira, wanna join me and Angelo to the Quidditch match this weekend?" she asked looking towards the yellow blonde haired girl, "sure! I would love to go! gryffindor Vs slytherin is it?" Angel knodded "yep, first game of the seson!" "oh by the way" Quinta started "Did you hear of what Harry Potter and Ron Weasly did?" "Everyone! In your seats!" Tilly called out. The students sat down. Snape stood in front of the class "today will be brewing swelling solution and hopefully it will go better than it did earlyer" some students looked at each other, a few laughed, "So Tilly and I will observe you more closely" The sound of books opening filled the room as students started to light there cauldrons. Zira fliped through her book as she prepared her cauldron. "hey Zira, I thought you weren't a big fan of quidditch." Mystery said as her curled anntena flicked Zira shruged "well it's been awhile sense I seen Angelo so maybe I can catch up with him." "so you have a crush on him" Misty sqeaked Zira's cheeks started to tint red "no, I don't. he's nice and all but I don't like him like that." Myster shook her head as she added 2 scoops of dried nettle leaves to her mortar. Zira started to crush the combination of dried nettles and pufferfish eyes in her mortar to a medium-fine powder, Zira Looked through her book, reading the next step, Misty continued to crush her ingredents, she looked up at Zira, then jumping back Zira looked at Misty, "Misty? are you ok?" she didn't answer, she just went back to work, being a bit shooken Zira hesitently looked behind her. the black haired potions master stood there, observing Zira "Hello, sir." Zira said. He didn't say anything as he walked around the table. he exsamined Zira's mortar, containing the powder, then walked off, Zira, shruged and add 2 mesures of the crushed powder, a table spoon of water, and stired.
students chated as they waited for their potions to brew. Zira, Quinta, Mystery and, Misty where talking about classes and their recent transfiguation test. "Zira, how did you do on the test?" Quinta asked, Zira immiently quieted. "Not the best..." Zira said in a hushed tone "What did you get?" Mystery asked Zira shuffled through her bag pulling out a crumpled paper along with extra parchment, ink, and quill. Zira handed Mystery the crumpled paper. Quinta and Misty looked over Mystery's shoulder, looking at the paper. Zira started doodling on the parchment, looking disappointed. Quinta looked at Zira, "At least you passed..." "Barely," It's not that bad." "It's a 65." Zira buried her face in her sleeves. "At least you didn't fail." Misty said trying to cheer Zira up. "Alright everyone! your potions should be finish brewing, add the last ingredients and finish your potions." Tilly said "Professor snape and I will test one of your potions." Zira quickly added Rat spleen to her potion and stired anti-clockwise, Mystery put Zira's test face down on the table as her, Quinta, and Misty went back to thier potions. Zira took out the wand that her father gave her, it's handle was wraped in a lime green ribbon,
she finished her potion puting her wand next to her while in the prosses. droping her Transfiguration test on the floor with out her notice. Snape walked by again and picked up the droped test and looked at it. He looked at Zira slightly and walked to the front of the room, puting the test on his desk. "Your potions should be completed by now." Snape said, students looked up at him. He turned his attention to Zira. "Ms. Dumbledore, we will be testing you potion." Zira went stiff, she was able to anwser with a trembling "Yes, Sir." "everyone gather round!" Snape said as he went over to his desk. as if in a second the whole class was around Zira's table with Snape approching and carrying a plant. Students moved as Snape set the plant down, he took an eye droper out of his cloak and used it to take a bit of Zira's potion. Zira trembled "what will he think of it?" Zira thought in panic "what will happen if I fail? will I still be able to be a potion master myself?" Snape put a drop of potion on the plant leaf. It took a moment but the leaf started swelling up. Zira smiled almost proudly, students mummerd. Tilly smiled, Snape pulled out a potion bottle and poured a drop on the swelled leaf. "good job Ms. Dumbledore" Snape said as the leaf shrunk back to normal. "thank you, professor" Zira uttered cheerfully Tilly walked up next to Snape "very well done Ms.Dumbledore" "thank you Mrs.Mal."
Snape went on to test the other students potions on the plant. Quinta's potion work well, along with Mystery's potion, but Misty's potion made one of the plant's leaves exsplode. Snape took away 10 house points from hufflepuff for that and told Misty to clean up the plant goop from the exsploded leaf without magic and told Zira, Quinta, and Mystery not to help. Misty cleaned up the mess, whilst her friends kept saying that "your so lucky that Snape didn't give you detention" Misty knodded, "Maybe he's busy tonight." "ya, with his wife." Quinta Whispered whilst motioning at Tilly and Winking. Mystery elbowed her "what ever the reason, it's his bisness not ours." Quinta shruged, Misty giggled, Zira shook her head. Snape continued testing the student's potions, "Very well job Ms. Snape." He said when he tested Angel's potion. kids mumured, Angel just read her Defence Agenst the Dark Art's Book. "of course she gets a pass, she's the professor's daughter." Whispered a Hufflepuff girl to her friend behind Mystery. Mystery's curled anntena flicked as she Growled Zira grabed on to Mystery's shoulder "don't, She's not worth it", "It's not like she's actually make the potion right, she just has an advantige." the girl continued. Mystery spun around to face the girl, " be quiet!" Mystery said in a low whispering tone. "Angel doesn't 'get a pass' because her father is the potions master! she actually worked to make her potion correctly!" Mystery wanted to lunge at the girl but Zira kept her back with Quinta and Misty ready to pull Mystery back to her seat. "And I have seen professor Snape be harder on his kids than to on Nevil Longbottom and Harry Potter and that's saying a good amount!" Zira sat Mystery back down Mystery spun back around towards the table. Misty, Quinta, and Zira knew what Mystery said was true. the four of them seen How Snape acted with is kids, once when Misty and Angel had a Defence Agenst The Dark Arts class with him, Angel messed up on a question she was asked because she was to destracted by her herbology book, Snape walked over to Angel and took her book, she didn't get it back for a week, and Angelo, when he was making a potion (a subject where he was not good at) his cauldron lit on fire, it was put out after a while but he had to serve detention for 3 months and he was grounded and not allowed to leave the griffindor common room.
Mystery calmed down covering her face with her hands. "you all right?" Misty asked "ya..." Mystery sighed Zira started bottleing her potion, Quinta followed along with Mystery. Misty went to dispose her potion. "Hurry up everyone! bottle your potions, or dispose of them if you messed them up. Class is almost over!" Tilly said as she stood next to Snape. Zira went to. clean her cauldron, she didn't know why but she always profered to clean them by hand, "guess that's one of the things dad taught me." Zira thought as she hummed "hurry up, Zira" one of the students behind her uttered, "we have to clean our cauldrons too!" "oh sorry," Zira said backing away with her cauldron, she quickly dried it before puting it away. as the students finished the bell rang, "Alright everyone! Come on! Go on to your next class students left in groups, Zira, Misty, Quinta and Mystery where usaly the last ones to leave. as they started to head to the door, Snape walked over "Ms. Dumbledore I need to have a word with you." the four girls looked at him "ok sir." Zira said the other three girls stood there. "what are you three doing? go on to your next class" Snape said Bitterly "see you at Defence Against the Dark Arts, Zira." Misty said Zira knodded, they left. Tilly went out to the hall to monidor the kids and go the the next class that she needed to assist. It was just Snape and Zira alone in the potions room. "sir? don't you have another class coming in?" Zira said anxiously "No Ms. Dumbledore, this is my free peirod." Snape replied in his cold almost low whisper of a voice. Zira knodded as she down at looked at the ground "come, sit down." Snape said standing near his desk Zira Hesitated but accede. Snape sat at his desk but before he could say anything... "Did i mess up on my potion? I knew I did something wrong! i'm so sorry I thought it correctly! I was foolish enough to think-" "You are foolish enough to not let me speak Ms.Dumbledore!" Snape raised his voice almost to a yell "I know I'm a horrible student Sir! you would know! you the Potions master and I'm barly a beginner!" "Ms.Dumbledore!" Snape bellowed "If you would be quite and let me speak you would know that I wasn't going to say anything about your potion you dunderhead!" Zira piped down, and sank in her chair. she squeaked out a "Sorry sir..." Snape sighed "I pitty you father, dealing with you all day," Zira looked up. "running around the house, making a racket." Snape continued Zira giggled "What's so funny Ms. Dumbledore?" Snape sneered Zira imedeny stoped "well, it's just that what you said was actually wrong..." Snape Rasied an eyebrow "Really?" his voice was a low grumble. Zira knoded "Dad makes me do all kinds of chores, cleans dishes, sweep, mop. things like that." "At least you're kept busy." "yep and sometimes Dad teaches me how to cook," Zira exclamed with a big smile on her face. Snape rolled his eye's, the bell rang again. Zira shot up out of her chair. "I'm late for class!" Snape took out a slip of paper "where are you going?" Zira looked up from checking her bag "what?" "what's your next class?" "Defence Agenst the Dark Arts" Snape wrote something down on the paper, "Here." Snape said. handing the paper to Zira, "Obviously I can't talk to you sensibly with out going off topic, and you won't pay attention while your worrying about being late." "but i'm already late." "take the bloody pass Ms. Dumbledore." Zira could tell that Snape's patiance was running low so she took the paper. "give, it to who ever is teaching Defense Agenst The Dark Arts," "I know how a Late pass works sir." "then get going, I'll talk to you after dinner" "yes Sir" Zira said running out of the room, "If I'm not in here wait at the door!" Snape yelled, Zira, barly listened as she ran to Defence Agenst the Dark Arts.
As she walked into the classroom, she grouned when she saw who was teaching today's lesson. "Ms. Dumbledore, how nice of you to join us." said a sickly sweet voice, "afternoon Proffesor Umbrige." Zira said with a fake smile the other students where looking at Zira. she saw her freinds in the front row and scurried over to them. Zira looked around, Mrs. Mal was sitting in a chair by the wall sketching, Umbrige never liked Tilly, and Tilly didn't like Umbrige. "Mind telling us way you are late Ms. Dumbledore?" "Professor Snape had to talk to me." Zira sat down at her desk "you wouldn't have any proof on you. wouldn't you?" Umbrge walked towards Zira's desk. Zira reached into her cloak pocket and pulled out the late pass Snape gave her "here." She examined it, "excuse Zira for being late, I held her after class for a talk her signed Professor Severus Snape." Umbrige read out loud "well it seems you are telling the truth" Tilly walked over and looked over Umbrige's shoulder at the note. "But," she began "it is possible that you can forige his hand writing." a few kids whispered to each other Tilly steped back with a look of shock "I did not forige his handwriting!" Zira almost yelled "Why would Zira out of all people forige a professor's hand writting?" Tilly uttered "Nevertheless Snape's?" "well why wouldn't she dear?" "Because she respects him." Mystery replied as she stood up Tilly and Umbrige both looked at her "Mystery, sit down." Tilly said calmly "And where's your proof that Zira could even forige anyone's hand writting, or even there signature?" Umbrige put the pass infront of Zira. "copy this signature Ms. Dumbledore." Zira obeyed and pulled out parchment and her quill and started write. "Doloras, this is ludacris! I know my husband's hand writing, and that," Tilly pointed as the pass "right there is his handwriting and signature." "done." Zira said laying back in her chair. Umbrige examand the copyed signature "Now tell me Mrs.Mal," Umbrige said "do you still think that Zira couldn't of forged his his handwriting?" Umbrige showed Tilly the copied signature. "It's close," Tilly replied students mumbled "Back to your work please." Tilly hushed. Tilly placed the parchment back down. "close?" Umbrige asked "Yes, Close" Tilly rebutled "see, Snape's handwriting is neat and careful, Zira's is fast written and unorginized. Zira's copy seem's correct but when you look at it closer, you can see the difrence." Mystery Smirked, "but if you don't believe me." Tilly shruged "you can always ask Snape, he has a free period right now so you ask him, and I can hold down the fort here." "I guess you made your point Mrs. Mal," Umbrige's voice was still sickly sweet but had a hint of bitterness and malice to it. "Ms. Dumbledore you may start your book work now," Mystery sat back down feeling a bit smug. "As for you." Umbrige turned to Mystery "For your outburst and arguing with a teacher, You will have-" "A weeks worth of detention with me" Tilly interupted " "Next week with me. meet me at my office after dinner." Mystery knodded and went back to work Zira got her work out and started on it. Tilly and Umbrige walked away. Zira looked up for amoment and saw them Whispering aggressively to each other. Zira Shook her head. she knew Umbrige didn't like her or her father, Professor Carrow was the same.