**A/N POV is teen Snape, not adult so style is less polished but just as pompous. Title translates Ruler Severe Snake.
Through this benighted veil
My sight is yet clear
Exalted as idols by the blind,
The clay kings must fall
Crushed under true power and might
Helpless for aught but pleas
As the subjugated serpent asends
Consuming the lion fattened on praise.
All the flowers in the valley
Shall bedeck his lustrous crown.