Harry Potter and the Revised Edition
Chapter 4
No sooner had Narcissa finished, they heard hurried footsteps echoing up the stairs. "We've got it…!" Hermione breathlessly announced, appearing with Neville at her heels.
"Toss it to me!" ordered Narcissa eagerly, and Neville tossed Nagini's head into her outstretched hands. She opened up the snake's mouth wider and with a swipe of her wand dislodged its fangs. She then handed the head to Harry. "Harry, pull off the largest scales and hand them to me when I ask."
As Harry assisted, Narcissa conjured up a mortar and pestle and ground the fangs into a powder. Then from a small bag she wore at her waist, she pulled out a small amber vial and emptied its contents into the mortar. While uttering an incantation, she stirred the potion with her wand. Each time she asked Harry for a scale, she immersed it in the potion and then placed it on Snape's neck eventually covering up the entire wound. She tipped the mortar to Snape's parted lips to dispense some of the remaining potion into his mouth.
After more chanting and pleas for Snape to return, Narcissa fell silent and bowed her head.
"You did all you could, Mrs. Malfoy," said Harry soothingly, "--Perhaps it's best this way. He's at peace now." Hermione and Neville mumbled in agreement.
"Have I…?" Bleary eyed, Narcissa had responded weakly. "-- After all he's done for us?"
"Didn't you say," recalled Harry, "that he would want to come back also? Maybe he's happier where he's at."
"And maybe he's just been dead too long," added Hermione.
Narcissa shook her head. "No…this should've worked. I had the pendant, the remedy, the spell, my wand... WAND!!" She looked frantically to Harry. "Your wand, Harry! The Elder Wand! You have it?!"
Harry quickly fumbled for the wand and pulled it out.
"Okay, Harry," Narcissa resumed excitedly, "listen to me carefully. Have the tip of your wand touching the center of the pendant and repeat after me…"
Harry touched his wand to the pendant and as soon as he finished repeating the last strange word spoken from Narcissa, everyone instantly had fallen back, shielding their eyes, and like Harry, at first could barely see the scene unfolding before them as their eyes adjusted.
Directly above Snape's body, a cosmic shaft of bright light had suddenly pierced through the dawn lit atmosphere of the room aligning itself with pinpoint precision to the center of the pendant. The beam of light began to glitter within itself as if infiltrated with tiny diamonds. Everyone gathered closer to Snape's body and watched as a flow of glitter slowly moved up out of the pendant towards another flow moving down from above. Upon convergence, an even brighter flash of light ensued filling the room and knocking everyone back once again.
The room had darkened and as Harry rose to his feet, he heard Neville shout –
"Look! He's…he's breathing!"
Everyone crept in closer, saw color had returned to Snape's face, and his chest rose and fell.