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It was the end of term.
Most pupils went home but a few stayed over at school during the break.
There were no need for all teachers to be at school, so a few got to go home aswell as the children.
Dumbledor had given Snape some time ''off'' from work,
so that they both could go out and search for that egg they had seen in the memory of Alice Malfoy.
They left a bitterly cold wednesday morning around 9'o clock.
9.01 that morning they arrived at a small town.
Mainly a town where muggles lived, but it was also the home of an important person.
Alice Malfoy had lived here, in a house ontop of a mountain.
And because of the good location because not many wizards ran in here to accidently put their nose where it did not belong.
They had to walk a few kilometers before arriving at the and of the mountain.
It was more of a very large hill with some very big rocks on it, but mountain sounded a bit more unwelcoming.
Also it would sound alot more cool when people talked about it if they ever lived to tell the tale. On top of the hill stood a big black mansion.
It was like a little black spot in the deep snow.
Severus Snape and Albus Dumbledor trudge through the deep snow.
It was up to their waist's. It took them 10 minuits before they finally stood just outside the door.
Both Snape and Dumbledor was out of breath, but were a little to proud to show it.
Everything about the house and the area surronding the place revealed that no one had set their foot close to this place in a very long time.
Snape felt the door handle. It was locked. He waved his wand and mumbled alohomora.
He opend the door and walked in first. The hallway that met the was full of dust.
It was almost like a mist wich made it more difficult to breathe. Dumbledor followed closely behind snape as they made their way inside.
"I suspect that this is the place" Snape luminated his want to be able to see better.
The wizards went into the house and closed the door behind him. A terrible stench came at them when they came into the entré.
"I suppose we should check the basement first, Severus" Dumbledor insisted.
Then he thought to him self that its always the basement somehow. If not it then must be attic.
Two places that you usually should seach in first.
Slowly the two maid their way down a staircase leading down, hopefully to the basement.
The stench became stronger the futher down they came. In the end of the stairs was another door which snape again opened with the unlocking spell.
The door slid open and the smell just hit them with full force.
Never had their noses experienced such an discusting odour.
It reeked of rotten flesh and horror. They were a bit unsure if they were to proceed but decided that if they had come this far, why not continue.
The two men came into a room where a giant cocoon at the end of it, spreading its roots all around the floor.
They were like snares around the dead bodies lying on the floor.
The victims looked like their insides had been sucked out by a monster.
The both wizards did not feel comfortable at all by this.
Slowly they walked closer to the cocoon.
Through the thin shell they could see a girl floating around in fetal position inside some kind of liquid.
It was too dark to be able to tell how she looked, but her hair was for sure as white as snow.
Dumbledor made his way past Snape and waved his wand at the cocoon. The shell started to crack open.
Within a moment a liquid slightly thicker than water burst out over the both of them. Dumbledor having quick reflexes was able to sheild them from getting hit by it.
The girls body followed the flowing fluid and out onto the floor.
Her eyes shot opend and she gave away a shreik loud enough to compeete with a baby mandrake.
The girl was trying to move around but she was so disoriented that she could not tell what was up or down.
She crawled around on the floor, above the bodies of the dead men.
Snape took her arm in a tight grip and pulled her up on her legs, only for her to sink back to the ground again.
She was to weak to be able to walk.
The poor girl was thin and short. Her hair was indeed as white as snow and her skin pale as the moon.
Age wise she looked like a first year student, maybe second. But because of her hight they did not want to guess that she was any older
The girl looked up at Snape with blurred vision. Three men in dark clothes stood there and she tried to reach her hand to one of them.
She missed Snape by many inches.
Dumbledor watched as the master of potions took of his matle and placed it around the girl before he picked her up.
"And now?" Snape asked Dumbledor.
They had the girl now, and they either would keep her or place her somewere safe.
"We must keep her safe, Severus... And as i said earlier this year. No place is safer than Hogwarts"
Dumbledor gave Snape a smile before they made their way out from the house.
When they came out they finally remembered the smell of fresh air.
Dumbledor placed his hand on Snapes shoulder.
He took a last look at the village beneath the hill before they stood in Dumbledors office the next second.
The effect of traveling like this effected the girl.
Without any warning the girl hurled all over the professor who held her.
Snape looked very displeased by this.
Dumbledor looked quite amused by this.
The fact that Snape had very little to say no to when he asked was sometimes very amusing.
"Severus. Thank you for helping me..."
Snape lowered his head a bit. He were about to place the girl on a chair when Dumbledors voice once again rang through the air.
"would you be kind to take care of her? You are the one i trust the most..."
Snape gave Dumbledor a crossed look before he turned around and left the office with the girl.
Two things needed to be done now.
Washing and then a bath for the little miss.
The next day Dumbledor entrusted the information about the girl to Minerva Mcgonagall as well as Poppy Pomfrey.
They were all in the hospital wing with the girl to sort some things out.
First of all. Clothes.
The two women could not stand the fact that the girl wore one of Snapes white old shirts.
It was twice as big as the girl and reached her to the knees.
On her feet she wore two very thick gray socks. To protect them from the cold floor.
Even in these rags she looked very pretty but the clothes Mcgonagall and Madam Pomfrey gave to the girl was well needed.
She now looked just like a student.
They had given her a school uniform they had found lying around somewere.
It fit like a glove on her.
Second thing.
With some help from Madam Pomfrey the girl was now able to walk.
A few waves with the wand and a few potions later the girl walked on her own, a little slow and unsteady, but still.
She looked very proud when the girl slowly walked over to Snape.
Slowly the girl turned around infront of the professor as if she was showing him what she had gotten.
Snape nodded to her and only that made the mouth curl into a smile.
"so... Whats her name then, Dumbledor?" Mcgonagall asked.
Names... well that was the third thing that had to be sorted out then.
A long silence followed.
"Aurora"
It was Snape who suggested it.
"Her mothers middle name was Aurora"
The other agreed to that and Aurora it was.
The last thing that were a problem was ofcours language. And potions and spells were not going to work on this matter.
Aurora was not able to talk... yet.
A few words she could say, such as hungry, no and yes.
Names were hard but she already knew Snapes name by heart.
The first night he had tried to tell her some stuff but in the end she did not understand a single thing and
he ended up trying to get her to say his name correctly.
Dumbledor was a tricky name to learn, but eventually she got it.
The rest of the christmas break went to make Aurora feel at home.
She was staying in the dundgeons with Snape wich some how made her comfortable.
It was Late night and she was about to go to bed. Snape was not very good at putting someone to bed.
But he pointed at the little bed they had fixed for her.
She laid herself on the bed and Snape covered her with a blanket quickly before he turned around and put the light out.
This task made him feel uncomfortable.
He went out for a walk in the castle. Also checking if there were any students out of bed.
Dumbledore had explained to Snape, when he had asked why he had to take care of the girl,
that Aurora was almost like a little bird that hatched from an egg.
The first person she laid eyes on were going to be the person she trusts the most.
As weir as it may be the girl almost always took cover behind her whenever she was scared.
Which happened a few times when Snape had used magic or when she met with a new teacher that Dumbledore wanted her to know.
He returned to his residence where he found a Aurora asleep.
But there was a problem. The girl had crawled out of her bed and into his own.
The man got annoyed by it and waved his want to lift her up in the air and place her back into her bed.
He had to teach her that his bed was forbidden for everyone except himself.
Then went to bed too. It took a few hours for him to finally fall to sleep.
One last thought were in his mind before he drifted off.
'This term was not going to be very fun.'
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Thank you for reaching the end of the second chapter.
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Just a little fun fact that happened while i wrote this chapter.
When i were supposed to write Dumbledor i accidentally wrote Dumplingdor.
I live in china atm and have had too many dumplings
