10 things you didn't know about Alice Longbottom
1. Alice was best friends with Severus Snape in school. She always thought that Lily was too harsh with him after the 'm-blood incident'. After all, if she had just been humiliated in front of the entire school her temper would be a bit short too.
2. She always knew the real reason Severus didn't want her to become an Auror, but she felt that she had to do it anyway.
3. When she graduated from Auror training she received a package wrapped in Slytherin colors. Inside was a small looking glass pendant on a golden chain.
4. Alice never liked Frank's mum. She thought that the dowager Lady Longbottom was far too overbearing, and that perhaps her husband had died just to get a little peace.
5. When Alice found out that she was pregnant she sent off two owls then called her husband. One owl went to Sola Lovegood, the other to Severus.
6. Severus sent back the owl with a small vial of purple liquid and a note. The note said that it was anti-Cruciatus Curse potion and that it would protect her and the unborn child for 2 and ½ years each, or five years for a non-pregnant person. Sola sent her a baby mobile with butterbeer corks hanging from it, 'to protect the baby from Nargles'.
7. Alice and Lily were in the same post birth recovery room. When a nurse came in to get baby boy Longbottom's full name, Neville Anguis Longbottom, Lily flinched.
8. In the first feeding after Neville was brought home, Alice put the purple potion into his baby bottle for him to drink.
9. The first time Neville saw someone blow a bubble-gum bubble he started to giggle and bounce up and down. From then on the site of a bubblegum wrapper would make him smile.
10. When the Death Eaters came to torture them and she saw that Severus was among them she felt betrayed. After the first Cruciatus Curse she looked him in the eye. She expected to see the same manic look in his eyes as the other Death Eaters had, but she saw only horror. As she lowered her eyes from his she saw him mouth the word 'potion'. She looked over to the corner that they had tossed her baby boy, and then Severus understood.
Anguis is latin for snake (in astronomy, the constellation Draco, or Hydra, or the Serpent.)
I know, its been a while, but I have a dozen more 10 things done, so thats 3mths worth of updates!
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A/N: This story is related to "Ten things you didn't know about Severus Snape (CH1 of this story)