So this is my new story. I just had the idea a few hours ago and wanted to write it so badly that I couldn't wait. I hope you like the first chapter and I would be really glad to get some reviews, not just about the prologue but also about the idea in general :) Everything you know isn't mine, but the things you don't have read before belong to me
Prologue
Hermione POV
The air in the Shrieking Shack was cold.
But that didn't matter. I had been feeling cold since the start of the battle a few hours ago.
Many terrible things had happened and we just succeeded at destroying one Horcrux, so there still was Nagini, the snake of Voldemort, and that made it impossible for us to kill him. We didn't have the sword of Gryffindor. Gryphook had stolen it and so we couldn't get it back. But Ron and I had the idea to go to the chamber of secrets to get some basilisk fangs and thanks to Ron we were successful. Harry was also very happy about it, even though he was angry, too, because we didn't tell him where we had been going. And then we killed the part of Voldemort's soul which was living in the diadem of Ravenclaw.
The snake.
Harry had looked into Voldemort's mind and saw that he was in the Shrieking Shack, together with the snake. And he wanted to see Severus Snape.
Suddenly, I heard a voice in front of us.
"I have a problem, Severus." Voldemort said softly and I exchanged looks with Harry and Ron. We had to be very careful. Even though Voldemort was distracted because he was speaking with Snape, he was still the most dangerous wizard in the world and Nagini could find us, too. The thought that something could happen to my best friends made me shiver and I tightened the grasp around my wand. I wouldn't let them hurt my family.
"My Lord?" Snape asked.
I tried to sneak a little closer to the two of them. Harry and Ron looked alarmed as soon as I started to move again, but I didn't care at that moment. I wanted to see what was going on.
When I had a good position to watch the two men, I turned around and looked at my friends reassuringly. They seemed to relax a little bit and Harry nodded.
I could see Voldemort raising the Elder Wand. He looked at it with a thoughtful expression on his face. "It doesn't work for me, and I wonder why, Severus."
"My - my Lord?" Snape asked slowly and I could see that he wasn't sure what to say in that situation. I pitied him very much. But why? I didn't know, the feeling was just... strange. "You have performed-"
"My usual magic with it!" Voldemort hissed and I felt like my blood was freezing. Poor Snape. Or was it his fault that he was in that situation? "There is no difference between this wand and my old one!" He started to walk around the room and suddenly I feared that he might see me, but luckily he didn't. He turned to Snape again.
"You may ask yourself why I called you, while everyone else is still fighting."
"Yes, my Lord. With your permission I would go back to the battle and find Potter for you." While he said these words, Snape didn't look into Voldemort's eyes. He was observing the snake in it's cage.
"No, Severus. Nobody is going to find Potter and bring him to me. He will come to me, without being forced to do it. I don't think that anybody understands him as I do. He can't stand watching others die for him and so he'll come. He wants to stop the battle at any cost."
I turned around to Harry and Ron as quickly as possible. Harry was very pale and Ron as white as a sheet. He looked at his best friend with an expression of fear in his face. When Harry looked into my eyes, I saw that he wasn't afraid. He looked determined, as if he really wanted to go to Voldemort and get killed, just to save us. He couldn't do that. There were many people who loved and needed Harry and that's why we had to stop him.
The expression on Harry and Ron's faces changed and I noticed, that I didn't listen to the conversation of the two men for a while. When I turned around again, I saw Voldemort standing a few feet before Snape, looking at him thoughtfully.
"The Elder Wand doesn't serve me properly, Severus, because I am not his true master. The Wand belongs to the wizard who killed his last owner, and that would be you, Severus. While you live, the Elder Wand cannot serve me."
My eyes grew wide. He wouldn't... would he?
"My Lord!" Snape protested loudly and raised his wand, but I knew that he would be too slowly. Before anybody knew what happened, the cage of Nagini had vanished and the snake was moving towards him very quickly. It bit into the wizard's throat and he fell to the floor.
"I regret it." Voldemort said coldly and then he disapparated together with the snake.
I didn't know how I got the Dittany in my hands so quickly, but at that moment I didn't care. I just wanted to save Severus Snape, if he was still alive. I left my hiding place and knelt down next to the older wizard. He was still breathing, but there was so much blood on his cloak and now on my hands, too, that I didn't think he would make it much longer.
I trickled some of the Dittany on his throat and I could see the would closing slowly. I also pressed my hands on it, trying to prevent the loss of more blood. Luckily the snake didn't use it's poison. If Nagini would have done that, Snape would already have been dead.
Snape's breath was easing off slowly and suddenly I felt tears in my eyes.
"You cannot die, please, you just can't die!" I pleaded and more tears began to run down my cheeks. "We need you." These last words were just a whisper and my whole body was shaking. He was dead.
But what was that? I felt something under my left hand, which was still on Snape's throat. Yes, there was a heartbeat! He was still alive!
I bent forward to him and I felt a soft movement of the air on my ears.
Then Snape opened his eyes slowly and looked directly into mine.