Disclaimer – All characters and places do not belong to me, they belong to JK Rowling, and no money is being made…
Prologue
"This one certainly looks interesting," remarked a fourteen-year-old wizard to his sister. The siblings were idly searching for a halfway decent book to amuse themselves with in the vast library of their New Zealand home.
"Rather Pointless Yet Amusing Charms. There'll be some great stuff in here…"
"I think the wizards who wrote this in the 16th century may have had a different idea about what was amusing than we do now. You'll turn us both mad or something!" The young witch was forever taking that responsible tone with her younger brother.
"No, look! There's one here which makes a load of randomly selected people act all melodramatically. Where's the harm in that?"
"I forbid it! Isidore, don't you dare! You'll ruin someone's life – "
"Randomis melodrama!" As the incantation was said, there was a great POP! in the air. The sound echoed around the high ceilings of the room.
"What have you done?"
Many people's lives were altered by that foolish act, but reader, I shall tell the tale of only a select few.
Six feet below a modest grave in Spinners' End, the man known as Severus Snape was rudely taken from his heavenly bliss and unceremoniously shunted back to reality, very much buried alive. Many miles away, in an even more modest grave, the soul of one Bellatrix Lestrange was pulled from the deepest pit of Tartarus back to its' grateful body. Sirius Black found himself standing in the Department of Mysteries, feeling as alive as he had been in his youth.
The 'Pointless Yet Amusing' spell had chosen them for its melodrama. And so they were wrenched from their eternal sleep. As they fought out of their 'final' resting places, each felt as though they had a new purpose in life – even if they could not, at present, figure out what that purpose was.
Sirius decided immediately to go and see his beloved godson, Harry Potter, who would no doubt be as overjoyed to see him alive as Sirius himself.
Bellatrix decided, after contemplation, to go and see her sister Narcissa. Things had been a bit strained in the years up to her death; Bellatrix was now determined to be a reformed woman, after discovering the true horrors of hell.
As for Severus, he only wanted to see one person: Lily Potter. But, as that was impossible, he went to his old home and decided to see only solitude, desperately unhappy at being brought back to the cruel, harsh world.