Title: Changes for the Better (Or Maybe Not)
Challenge: #300: Severus Snape: De-aged
Word Count: 2 x 100
Rating: PG
I. Another One of Your Schemes, I'm Sure
They said these people were Wizarding Britain's best minds... but look at what they came up with. They even dared to look amused.
"You could've just let me expire. Less hassle for everyone. Certainly for me."
Gasps of horror here. A tearful eye there. Better. He closed his eyes.
"It's only temporary. The Ministry can't be this stubborn forever," someone said.
Meaning this could be permanent. He hated growing up the first time.
He looked at them carefully this time. Those tearful, hopeful, fearful faces.
Then again, he's much smarter this time around. Oh, the possibilities.
He felt better already.
II. The Negotiation
"Now to hide you from the Ministry."
"No more schooling." It's one thing teaching dunderheads. Quite another to actually have to live, learn, Merlin forbid, socialise with them.
"He's already too smart for his own good."
"He should be hidden far away from Britain."
Maybe they'll let me travel the world.
"Far away from the Wizarding World, as well."
Made small. Exiled to a muggle community. Abroad. They could've just let me die.
"A muggle home stay?"
"With a nice family, of course."
Not a muggle orphanage, then? Afraid of a smarter Dark Lord with a French accent, are we?