Chapter 2
Just as potions class was ending and the remaining students were filing out of the room Professor Lestrange popped her head around the corner of the doorway and knocked softly. Harry, Ron, and Hermione were still gathering up their things and trying to hurry but it was taking them a little longer since Ron's potion exploded everywhere and Professor Snape told them they couldn't leave until it was cleaned up.
Upon hearing the soft rap Snape looked up at the door and eyed Miss Lestrange, then lowered his eyes back to his desk and said "Yes, Zyria, what is it?" with a slightly annoyed air.
Professor Lestrange stepped into the classroom and said in her low silky voice "A word, Severus?"
Snape stood abruptly and said very quietly but highly irritated "I would prefer if you called me Professor Snape in front of the students" he paused looking her up and down then said slowly and with enunciation "Professor, Lestrange."
She smirked, and looked over at Harry, Ron, and Hermione and said "Hello you three, I'm Professor Lestrange, and you are?" she said with raised eyebrows and a smiling face.
Harry, who was used to everyone knowing who he was because of his scar said "This is Ron and Hermione."
"Nice to meet you Professor Lestrange." Said Hermione, and Ron nodded in agreement.
Then she looked at Harry and said "And you are?"
Harry looked at her oddly and Ron blurted out " Blimey don't you know who he is?"
"Watch your tone when speaking to a professor, Weasley!" snarled Snape.
Ron turned his head back to Professor Lestrange and said apologetically "sorry, it's just, well, everyone knows who Harry Potter is."
Professor Lestrange looked at Harry with a smirk, "of course I know who Harry Potter is my dear, but I think it's rude to assume you know someone without being properly introduced" she said.
Harry liked this. "Nice to meet you Harry" she said.
Harry looked up at her and smiled "You too Professor, looking forward to class today."
"Enough with the pleasantries Potter" Snape said annoyed. "Professor Lestrange came into my classroom for a reason and it obviously wasn't to talk to you three so get out or I'll start removing 10 points from Gryffindor for every extra second you're in this classroom."
Harry, Ron and Hermione grabbed their things and without another word or look at Snape quickly left the room. As they turned down the hall they could see Professor Lestrange leaning against the wall with her arm and her feet crossed as Snape grabbed the heavy door to his classroom and with his robes swirling behind him slammed it shut.
"Well that was interesting" Hermione said as they walked down the hall to get ready for lunch.
"Pretty cool isn't she?" said Ron when Hermione looked at him with a sideways glance "I mean for a Slytherin that is" he said.
Harry shrugged "Yeah, she is pretty cool for a Slytherin. She's nothing like Snape that's for sure."
Hermione rolled her eyes "Are you two forgetting that her sister is sitting in Azkaban this very minute for being one of Voldemort's biggest supporters? And now she's here teaching defense at Hogwarts!"
"Well" Harry said "Bet she knows a thing or two about the dark arts that's for sure."
"Oh you only like her because she was the youngest ever Slytherin seeker and played against your dad Harry" Hermione said.
"Yeah and beat him a few times, didn't she!" said Ron with an overly happy face which fell quickly with the look he got from Harry.
Ron recovered himself quickly "Well the only reason I like her is because it rather seems like Snape doesn't" he said with a laugh. At this they all laughed and walked into the great hall.
Back in the Potions classroom Snape had returned to his desk and continued on the work he was doing before, completely ignoring Professor Lestrange. She walked casually over to the desk and sat down on the corner, staring at Snape as he scribbled insults on the students' potions reports. She knew she was annoying him and waited for a response.
Finally he stopped writing and without looking up said "You've had plenty of time to speak up Miss Lestrange, so if you're not going to talk and you want to continue watching me grade reports I would much prefer you sit somewhere other than the corner of my desk."
Zyria narrowed her eyes at him "Not changed at all have you Severus?" she said with a curled lip.
His head jolted up "And what's that supposed to mean?"
"Well, with all the nasty remarks you're writing on your students' papers I wouldn't want to try very hard in your class either" she said with an upward glance. He watched her face as she did this and thought to himself that she was indeed very beautiful, much more so than when she was just a young scrawny little seeker for the Slytherin Quidditch team so many years ago.
Then he brought his thoughts back down and said "You're not in my class, are you."
"No, thankfully" she said as she got off the desk and turned around.
Snape yelled after her "Really Zyria, what was the point of you coming in here and wasting my time, I'm too busy to entertain all your whims and fancies." She spun around and put both her hands on his desk, her face inches from his cold, mean one. She stood there leaning over staring into his black eyes for a moment and she could see how uncomfortable he was and yet too stubborn to move away and she loved that power. She supposed that's why she was placed in Slytherin in the first place.
"Perhaps then it'll have to wait for another time, Severus" she paused and said his name in that low silky tone of hers and it make a chill run up his spine, though he didn't show it. Then she turned again and walked out the door, closing it hard behind her leaving Snape behind breathing heavily from frustration and possibly something else.
