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Of Portraits and Punishments
Albus POV
"Well, well, well, . What brings you to the Headmaster's office?"
As I turned, I found myself looking at a portrait. Yes, a portrait. Of a man, this man has black hair, black eyes, and sneer. I literally did a double take to make sure I wasn't hallucinating. Something in the back of my mind told me I knew of this person.
"Who are you exactly?"
He looked at me with cold eyes and sneered. "I am Severus Snape."
I couldn't help but look at him in awe. This man, well, the portrait of this man was a double agent. Fooled the darkest wizard in history, protected my dad for years on end, and gave his life to the light. Who wouldn't be amazed. I couldn't stop the grin from forming on my face.
"Why are you smiling like that?"
"Why? Why am I smiling? I don't know maybe because you're Severus Snape. Double agent for the light, hero from the Second Wizarding war, and my namesake! Maybe that's why." I retorted sarcastically.
"Your namesake? Why would your parents name you after me? Severus is a terrible name, I would never wish it upon anyone."
"As a matter of fact, I love my name. My dad said you are the bravest man he ever knew." His features softened. For a second his faced formed the look of happiness. Just as quickly as it was there it left.
"You do? What is your name?"
"Albus. Albus Severus Potter."
"Who said my name?" An old man with a long white beard, glasses, and blue eyes appeared in another portrait.
"I did sir." As I took a closer look, I finally realized to whom I was talking to. "You must be Albus Dumbledore!"
"Indeed I am." He said with a laugh, "I believe you are Mr. Potter. Mr. Albus Severus Potter."
"Yes sir." I was about to bombard them with questions before Severus interrupted-
"Going back to the original topic of conversation, what sort of trouble has our noble Gryffindor gotten himself into today?" Severus questioned.
I tried to hide my face, as if it were to stop them from seeing how embarrassed I am. "I'm not a Gryffindor. I'm a Slytherin and proud of it." I announced with pride as I stood to my full height. " I wouldn't want to a lion anyway. I'd never be able to run away from my father's shadow."
"A Slytherin eh?" Dumbledore chuckled, "What exactly did you do?"
"I got into trouble because my Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher was being completely unfair and mean to all of us in Slytherin. Rose and I were talking. She was expressing how Professor Wilson was more than likely being unfair because we are in Slytherin house. I told her that he was being a git and that he doesn't know us, therefore he shouldn't judge. Mr. Wilson called me out. He was being a great prat so I said to his face 'You're being a bloody git, and you don't even know us.' He sent me here to be punished."
"That takes a lot of courage to stand up to a teacher like that young man," Dumbledore explained, "You should have said it in a nice way though."
"Well sir. I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but patience is not one of my virtues. Not to mention I can be a bit of a hot head at times. I wasn't really thinking at that particular moment."
"At least you are well aware of your faults my boy" Dumbledore praised.
Severus jumped into the conversation, "Tell me . Do you have any siblings and such?"
"Yes I do. I have an older brother named James Sirius Potter."
"Typical." Severus replied with a snort.
"Then there's my cousin Rose weasley. She's also in Slytherin."
"A Weasley in Slytherin!" Dumbledore laughed as if it were the funniest thing he'd ever heard. "This world has definitely changed, don't you agree Severus?"
Severus nodded in affirmation. "Yeah, I thought she was going to be in Ravenclaw. You should have seen her after the sorting. Sheet white she was, Scorpius says Slytherin is a big family. Speaking of family, I also have a sister. She's going to be in Hogwarts next year, her name is Lily Luna Potter." I explained.
At that Severus' eyes popped. His response was not what I expected.
"Lily?" he asked with a shaky tone.
I was about to respond when Headmaster Vohler came in.
"Hello Mr. Potter come along."
"Yes Headmaster."
I followed Headmaster Vohler into his office.
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I sit down in one of the seats Headmaster Vohler has in front of his desk. his office is big, but hardly any room has been used. There are dusty old cabinets, papers stakes, and a pensive in the corner.
" you do understand you must be punished for what you have done, no matter how much the Professor deserved it?"
"Yes sir. I understand Sir."
"Your punishment will be two week's worth of detention. One week with Professor McGonagall and another with . Also thirty points will be deducted from Slytherin."
"Yes Sir, but on a more serious note, can you please tell Professor Wilson to keep the Slytherin bashing to a minimum please. None of us can learn anything because he doesn't answer our questions and when we do ask something he keeps shooting us down and deducting points."
" I will tell Professor Wilson to try to be fair with all of you. Yes?"
"Of course sir, thank you."
"Alright then Albus, off to dinner with you."
"Yes Sir."
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I walked to the great hall, and got dirty looks from the Gryffindors as I walked through the corridors alone. Suddenly someone decided it would be funny to pull my cloak from behind me.
He bellowed in laughter, "Hello Al, did you have a good time with the Headmaster." James mocked. "What did you and your fellow snakes do? It's only the second day! I didn't even get in trouble that fast."
"Shut it James, thank Christ my ego isn't bigger than my head unlike someone I know!"
"Watch it snake!"
He pushed me, I was Infuriated, ready to blow my top. Before I could hit James I settled for just pissing him off, I didn't need to go to the Headmaster's office twice in one day.
"At least I'm a berk running around in the Crimson and Yellow Gryffindork colors!"
I booked it, didn't want to get in a fist fight. I went straight for the Slytherin table, and met up with my friends.
"What happened?" asked Anna.
"Got detention. Two weeks worth. One week with McGonagall and another with the Gryffindork git Wilson, also got thirty points deducted."
"Gryffindork? Bloody hell that's good." Scorpius laughed.
Rose rolled her eyes "Well then. What held you up so long?" she prodded.
"Ran into James. Gave him an earful, and got away before he could hit me."
We all realized this topic of conversation wasn't getting us anywhere. Soon enough dinner was over, and we made our way to the dorm rooms. We all stayed up for a while. Rose and I decided to start tackling our Transfiguration homework, while Ana and Scorpius settled for Wizards Chess. By the time Rose and I had finished our essay, Ana and Scorpius were on their third game. Scorpius was losing, royally.
"Alright, that's it! I'm done! You win!"
Anna sat up with a smirk. "I'm glad you realized defeat. It only took you three games and two hours."
"I think it's time we all went to bed." Rose pointed out.
With that we all went to bed. As I fell asleep I could only wonder what the next few months would hold.
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