A Hogwarts Adventure Book 2: River of the Spirit
Chapter 8: Concerns of the Potions Master
Severus Snape, while intimidating, was a fair man, when he chose to be. This was one of those times. He knew of the Gryffindor girl who had made her way into the Slytherin dorms, without the password. He knew of the loss of one his best students. And he knew what it was doing to her twin, the girl who had moved into the Slytherin dorms.
"Miss Yami," he said as she walked by.
Kura sighed as she rubbed her eyes. Another day had gone by.
'I need to go back to that room,' she thought. 'But I need something...'
She was making her way to the dungeons, and made her way there easily. She walked over to Sakura's side of her dorm, and smiled slightly at the ceramic looking mask. Grabbing it, she placed it in her bag and quickly made her way out.
"Miss Yami."
Kura stopped and cringed. She turned around and smiled at the Potions professor, "Hello Professor Snape."
"Miss Yami, it's not often I approach a student with my concerns-"
"No offense Professor, but, I uh-"
"-I can see the loss of your sister has changed you Miss Yami."
Kura gripped her bag and looked away.
"If you wish not to speak to Minerva," the Potions master continued, " then know that I am willing to listen."
Kura nodded and slowly made her way around the man.
She managed to get a few feet away, when he said, "After all, she was one of my best students. It'd be a shame, if her sister became lost before she returned. And Miss Yami? I believe you won't let her down."
She turned around, but Snape had left.
She reached into her bag and pulled out the mask. She rested her back against a wall and slid down slowly. She looked at the mask and let out a sob. She felt something wrapping around her, knowing it was the shadows, simply giving her comfort. After all, she had had other professors approach her about coming to them.
But why did Snape have this effect on her?
What did he do that the others didn't do?
'He said she was his best student,' she realized, 'he...he doesn't think it's all for nothing.'
She broke free of the shadows embrace and ran towards the room she had called her own.
"I'm getting you back yami," she promised herself.
After all, it was the concerns Snape had shown that finally broke her out of her stupor.
She was getting the other half of her soul back. And nothing and no one was going to stop her.
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