Angela Marie Snape and The-Boy-Who-Lived
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and all related Characters belong to J.K Rowlings; Angela Marie Snape belongs to me however…
Note: I'm going to drastically change Severus' childhood and that it was someone convinced Severus to take the mark so that he could spy on Voldemort…
This is my Christmas gift for all of you dear readers… Mary Christmas and a Harry new year…
Have fun reading this chapter
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Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Lady of the Woods
After the dinner date Severus went straight for his daughter's too and was relieved to see her awake.
"So how was your date?" Angela asked her father.
"It went well," Severus said giving Angela her tea in which she took. "By the way how are you."
"Weak, but fine," Angela said.
Severus' mind flew to Angela's future wedding but he shook his head, it was just the shade's trick to give him the potion but he swore that Helen would pay.
"Well, young lady I've got something for you," said Severus and reached into a pocket and took out a little box.
Angela took it and opened it and gasped, inside was a pendant with a gem in the center, Severus took it and placed it around his daughter's neck.
"Dad, I was thinking about a while ago why didn't you make me comfortable, you let Rowena," She said.
"Well, I wanted to see if she was motherly," he said. "I was watching, more like observing. Now since you are coughing up blood that does not sound good, you are not to leave this bed, you are only to leave this bed when you have to use the bathroom I'm sorry if I seemed to lax in my father duties."
"I accept the apology," Angela said
Severus looked at his daughter and Severus leaned backward and they started bringing back memories of the times when Angela was sick.
"Remember the time when you had Chicken pox," Severus said.
"Oh, yes, I hated being in bed," Angela said. "I was everywhere, when I got cured it was your turn to get the Chicken pox, you were so mad at me that you couldn't teach and brew for weeks."
They were both laughing away, Severus went and felt Angela's forehead and frowned there was no fever but this was an ancient potion anyway so he started to make his daughter comfortable.
"I'm not a child anymore," Angela said.
"I know that," Severus said sighing. "I just wish I should have gotten to know you better."
"You do know me, Dad," Angela said. "I'm not dying yet."
Severus gave Angela a weak smile and gave his daughter a kiss in the forehead and removed the lights around the room and left.
Outside he leaned against the wall and slid down, he couldn't do anything for his daughter all the healing potions he had were useless the hope he had was in Harry to finish the quest and come back before it becomes to late.
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For weeks they hiked trough the woods, twice the had gone around in circles and they had to have Sirius change to a dog to smell which trail they haven't tried yet and they were nearing what Harry felt was the center it was nighttime when they camped they were eating when Harry heard something he shushed them and strained his ears.
His hand went to his sword and crouched ready to fight then from above him the Morfrey jumped on him and Harry dropped his sword as he fell.
Harry grasped the hand that was about to plunge a dagger on his neck but it was difficult when the other hand of the assassin was holding his neck, it was also very hard to think.
Then the Morfrey melted on top of Harry into nothing as Sirius stabbed the thing and Harry was helped up.
"What was that thing?" asked Hector. "Didn't that thing already attack you before?"
"The Morfreys is the shade's deadliest assassin," Harry said. "Come we must hurry."
They stopped when they reached into a vast space of mud and they looked around in confusion, the Lady of the woods might just be nearby...
"Where are we?" Sirius asked but Harry was not listening he was staring at he mud.
"My lady of the woods I call thee for help," Harry cried and waited but nothing happened but nit was Hector who noticed it fist
"Look what is that?" Hector cried and pointed to something.
"Merlin," Sirius cried. "What is that thing?"
The thing they were looking was made of mud but it had eyes that were yellow but you could see the muzzle it was just looking no barking or tail wagging just staring.
"What do you suppose it wants?" Sirius asked.
The mud thing just turned around and started to walk away but then stopped and looked back at them.
"I think it wants us to follow him," Harry said.
"Whoa, there," Sirius said. "How do you know if it will not eat us?"
"I don't but it might lead us to the Lady of the Woods," Harry said and started to walk and they followed albeit at a slower pace.
They entered a place that was homey and beautiful, there seated on the seat was a lady she was made of mud and she wore a very fitting dress made out of vine, her hair was long and green she stood up and glided gracefully to them her eyes were like garnets in the light she gave out a distinctive air that she was wild.
"How is it that I can help you gentlemen," she asked.
"I am in need of help my lady," Harry said. "Your sister the lady of the lake sent me to you."
"What is it that my sister asks?" she asked.
"Well, it's acutely because I asked for her hair to make an ancient curative," Harry said. "I ask permission if I can get a twig to show her that IU have done what she had said and I have also come to ask the way for the entrance of the fairy realm."
"I will help but thee need to bring to me a leaf from the gold tree too." She said. "To go there must only be one, which of you is it?"
"I will, my beloved is dying and I will complete this quest," Harry said. "I love her."
"Very well, so be it," The lady of the woods said. "Remember."
"I am as wild as the fire,
I am as tame as the ground,
I am as free as the water,
I am as strong as the wind,
Sun and moon I command,"
Harry nodded then exited and found himself in a maze high with rocks there was grass on his feet, he blinked, and started to move and until he caught himself in a fork.
"What do I do now?" Harry asked himself looking left and right, he took a coin and flipped it and it turned out heads and he turned to the left and turned left again and again then came to a fork in the road.
"Hadn't I been here before?" he asked, then he tore a piece of rock and wrote "H" on it and turned left once more then turned left again and came facing once again on his "H"
"Merlin's beard, I was going around in circles," Harry shouted enraged and kicked the wall then turned to right which he turned left, then left then right, and left and came upon a large snake.
"Hello," Said Harry then did a double take he wasn't speaking in Parseltongue when he managed to remove the Horcrux from his body he must have also lost the ability to speak Parseltongue too. 'Oh, boy.'
Harry jumped aside as the snake lunged at him he then drew his sword when he heard the shade's voice.
"A simple gift from me to you Harry," Helen said.
Then he remembered fighting the basilisk in his second year but this time he could see his attacker, and there was not much space to fight.
The snake lunged at him again fangs exposed but Harry was quick he knelt and swung his sword around and it cut through the snakes neck, causing the snake to fall and writher in pain, slowly dying as Harry went past him blood soaked but unscratched to finish this maze once and for all.
The only time he stopped was when he came upon a dead end he started at the wall incredibly and kicked the block.
"Merlin, does this mean I have to start from the beginning?" he asked, then as if he heard something inside him say…
"Remember,"
What was it that he should remember, and then it hit him he straightened up and said in a loud voice…
"I am as wild as the fire,
I am as tame as the ground,
I am as free as the water,
I am as strong as the wind,
Sun and moon I command,
I am Mother Earth"
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Weeks past and Severus had been in his daughter's room keeping her company, every evening Angela would tell her father to go and have fun with Rowena and her father would give her the stabilizing tea and make her comfortable and kiss his daughter good night and Angela would just smile and close her eyes.
Severus just left Angela's room when his eyes were covered and he stopped.
"Rowena, I know it's you," He said smiling and the hands detached from his eyes and landed on the shoulders and they turned Severus around and they kissed.
"So how's Angela?" asked Rowena after she removed her lips from Severus'.
"Much better," Severus said. "I need a drink."
"I have the thing you need in my room," Rowena said. "I'll just bring it to the living room."
She entered her room and Severus went to the living room and she came by with two wine glasses and a bottle of Tequila.
The fire was blazing and the room was comfortable and Rowena snuggled at Severus side as Severus opened the bottle and poured it on their wine glass.
"Tell me about your childhood," Rowena said.
"My childhood was a happy one except for when I was in school," Severus said. "My mother was Eileen Prince a witch and my father was Tobias Snape a Muggle, so therefore I am a halfblood, my childhood was in fact a happy one, I met one of my best friends in Hogwarts in a playground not far from my home she was a muggleborn witch, she was playing with her sister in the swings I was playing in the seesaw with a muggle friend when I saw to my surprise that that muggle witch jumped from the swings in the air and stayed in the air then land gracefully in the ground from that day on I wanted to bee her friend since she was the only witch child that I knew and I wanted to talk to someone my age about magic… so anyway her sister was horrified at what her sister could do that one day she was magically closing and opening this flower when I just came out and told her that she was a witch."
"I'll bet she didn't like that," Rowena said.
"Lily didn't like to be called a witch," Severus confirmed. "She wouldn't speak to me until the time she magically fixed the vase she broke that she ran to me and asked me more about magic… she was my first bestfriend."
"Wait, Lily as in Lily Potter?" Rowena asked sitting up from reclining from him to look at him.
"Yes, that Lily but she used to be know before as Lily Evans," Severus said impatiently as he pulled Rowena so that she could recline in him again. "Anyway we were both excited when we got our first Hogwarts letter, and there I met Anastacia Anderson, Lily's other bestfriend, Anyway Anastacia and Lily ended up in Gryffindor along with that James Potter and his so called marauder friends, and I ended up in Slytherin."
"Must have been hard for you," Rowena said. "To be separated from your friends."
"It was, James started picking on me because of the Slytherin-Gryffindor house feud," Severus said with bitterness in his voice. "But I still continued to hang out with Anastacia and Lily in the library, we three were the brightest students in Hogwarts, We were all straight a students."
"It was during my sixth year when I started to court Anastacia and after two years of dating I married Anastacia and Lily married James," Severus said. "At that time I have received the dark mark so I could spy for the Order."
With that he showed Rowena his mark it was slowly fading into nothing but it still could be discernable.
"It was the happiest day of my life when Anastacia told me she was pregnant, a year after Lily gave birth to Harry," Severus said. "On that fateful day of October 31, I was summoned by that Evil wizard to see the death of the prophesized one… I could not do anything, I had to duel James potter, My plan was to stun him and send him to the order and replace a dummy in his stead but someone threw a killing curse at him now I know it was Lord Voldemort he was watching the fight, he fell, then as I hurried to the house but I was stopped by Bella, I saw a flash of green and a scream from Lily I froze in horror then in my eyes, I saw another flash of green light and then silence."
Rowena was looking at Severus as a tear fell from his eye, he had witnessed the deaths of Lily and James and could do nothing.
"So what did you do?" He asked.
"We waited, we waited for that Evil man to get out but he never did, It was I that entered the house and I headed straight for the nursery, a sight entered my eyes, I saw Lily on the floor her eyes open unseeing Voldemort on the floor the same way and little Harry unconscious on his crib," Severus said. "I went to the window and I shouted "The Dark Lord is dead" and they all scattered and I went straight to Albus… Anastacia gave birth two months after wards and four years later Anastacia was murdered by Lucius Malfoy's hand, I passed my potions mastery, became a teacher in Hogwarts and I raised my daughter with the help of my father."
Silence reigned for several minutes until Rowena took Severus in her arms and hugged him.
"I should not have asked you to tell your life story if it was painful to remember," Rowena said.
"It's nothing I just didn't have anyone to tell after Anya was murdered," Severus said. "I guess I have you now."
"Yes you do," Rowena said and kissed Severus, Severus answered back with fervor he drew her body much more closely to his and Rowena allowed it and entwined her arms around his neck and Severus' hand rested on her hips and she moaned.
In a darkened corner where Angela was hiding watching everything and she was happy, for Rowena and her father, she listened to their conversation and she was contented, she went back to her room slowly and went to her bed and made herself comfortable and willed herself to sleep.
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Harry watched as light seeped through the wall and it formed into a door with the inscription he had said earlier engraved in the door he pushed it open and saw in front of him a golden tree.
"So you made it Kiddo," Sirius said coming up.
"How did you…" Harry started to ask but Sirius raised his hands.
"Little Anfaran here," Sirius said pointing to the little mud creature. "Showed us a shortcut for us to join you and we were waiting for you… the Lady of the Woods wanted to test you but she wasn't expecting that snake."
"Yeah, me too, I can't speak Parseltongue anymore," Harry said.
"I see," Sirius said. "Well get on to it."
Harry went to the tree and saw an inscription in it.
"Beware, take only what you need, but never from greed," Harry read out loud and he reached up and took a twig that had a leaf from it and tore it from the branch and held his breath and let it go when nothing happened.
He quickly made his way to Sirius who patted Harry in the back and they were one step closer to the fairy dust they entered the a secret door and found that Harry was once again in the beautiful court room of the Lady of the woods.
"You have done well," Said the Lady of the lake. "Show the golden leaf to the fairy queen and tell her of your request and she will gladly give it to you."
"My lady, could you start us to the right direction," Harry said.
"My Mudpuppy will show you the way," The lady of the lake said. "But for now you will rest as my guest for tonight."
"Thank you my lady," Harry said bowing while the lady's handmaidens, the dryads, led them to their rooms there they took a bath especially Harry and they changed to fresher clothes that were laid out for them.
Nighttime came and they ate in the presence of the lady, fruits that were laid out for them, and in the center of the Dryads and the satyrs were dancing and then the centaurs entered the castle along with them was Firenze.
"Mr. Potter, the pleasure to see you again," he said going up to them. "I see that you have met the queen of the woods."
"Hello, professor, you of course know Sirius," Harry said.
"Well, Welcome back to the land of the Living," Firenze said extending his hand. "It was of course time for the veil to return a soul that did not deserve death yet and you are one lucky man Mr. Black."
"Couldn't be happier," Sirius said accepting it.
Harry looked at Sirius and Sirius knew he had explaining to do, he didn't look at Harry for the duration of the talk.
"This is Hector," Harry said. "He is a new student for Hogwarts."
"Ah, Mr. Clwyd," Firenze said. "You will have a good future due to your good soul, it is lucky that you have met Mr. Potter, but beware your life at home will be very difficult indeed your only refuge is in Hogwarts."
Hector's face fell and so did Harry's but Harry knew Hector didn't know anything about Centaurs doing Divination, so he kept his mouth shut.
"I'll have to join my herd," Firenze said. "Good evening and have a nice time."
But the rest of the evening Hector and the rest of the group retired early to wake up at dawn and leave early and follow Anfaran to the gate.
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Severus groaned when Rowena moaned, his familiar yet long overdue hormones had kicked in and he was groaning because his pants were too tight for him and Rowena must have known because she stood up and pulled Severus after her and they entered the first bedroom they came across and Rowena pushed Severus to it and went on top of him.
((Scene fades to black please and skip this scene))
"That was a beautiful night," Rowena said as she leaned to Severus who had his arm around her.
Severus nodded, he was happy; he had lost a wife but gained a girlfriend after twelve years of loneliness.
"We have to get dressed," said Rowena. "Angela will be waking up soon and I promised I would bring her breakfast."
"You do that," Severus said and they dressed in their rumpled clothes and made beelines to their rooms and were out after an hour for Rowena's case an hour and a half.
They both met outside Angela's door and they smiled and they entered, to see Angela reading a book, she looked up with a raised eyebrow at them wondering why they were all smiles and Rowena seemed to be glowing with happiness and so was her father.
"Good Morning, how was you night?" Rowena asked.
"Peaceful," Angela said. "What were you both doing last night to be so happy and… and Glowy?"
"It was the happiest day of our lives," Severus said coming near and resting his hand on Rowena's shoulder and Rowena smiled some more.
Angela looked at Severus and at Rowena and understood what they just did and she raised the other eyebrow.
"Is it a little early to be doing that?" she asked. " You both barely know each other."
"Well, I love your father," Rowena said. "And your father loves me… your not the only girl in his life now sweetcakes… got over it."
Angela looked like she was slapped in the face she was gaping for the first time and Severus too was in shock.
Angela raised her nose in the air and took her wand and summoned her clothes and her baggage and placed her clothes in and left the room.
"Where are you going, Angela?" Severus asked.
"To Hogwarts, to my quarters, away from people who are infidels," Angela snapped. "I can make my own stabilizing tea I don't need you two to make it for me, thank you."
She walked away nose in the air, with the door slamming behind her back and Severus felt her floo away a minute later he sank into a chair a migraine forming in his head.
"Why, are you like that Severus," Rowena asked.
"I feel something bad is going to happen and I don't like it I have to convince Angela to come back," Severus said and stood up and walked to the door but then the Severus paternal instinct kicked him to know that Something bad was happening to Angela and he stopped mid walk.
"Severus?" Rowena asked nervously.
"Something has happened to Angela," Severus said in a panic and rushed to the door Migraine forgotten and into the Floo he took some and shouted. "Hogwarts, Angela's quarters."
He stumbled into Angela's quarters and he rushed all over but then he didn't see her anywhere or her baggage or any sign at all, he then rushed to Albus' office in alarm.
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Angela fell into the floor and looked up to find herself not in Hogwarts but in a cave.
"Where am I?" she asked.
"You're in my lair," said a voice and Angela went to get her wand only to let it fly away from her.
"Now, Now, Angela that is not the way to treat your hosts," asked Helen disdainfully.
"Shade Helen," Angela said her face turning white.
Helen pointed Angela's want at her and Angela's closed her eyes expecting death but then she started to cough blood but The shade with a spell stabilized Angela.
"You will be used as ransom," Helen said. "After I get the Elixir of eternal life and beauty, I will cure you and if you die… well see this…"
She brought Angela to a mirror and it turned to see a future with her… she saw Harry in despair turn to dark arts in hopes to revive her, killing witches and wizards in hopes to make a philosophers stone thus become a dark wizard… Severus had once again become his bitter self and had locked himself away from the world oblivious to what was going around him…
Angela didn't want to know anymore and Helen stopped it and faced her…
"That's why we need you alive," Helen said. "I need that elixir."
Angela glared, defiantly, she was angry, at the shade, at her father, at the world, now she was a captured prisoner to the shade
"You are so full of lies," Angela said and the shade backhanded her.
"Whydyn," The shade called and two of her pig like soldiers went to her and bowed. "Please bring our guest into her room and makes sure she never leaves it."
"Yes, your honor," they said and they both took Angela and threw her to a barely furnitured room with no color at all and her clothes also came with her but it hit the back of her head causing her to lose consciousness, she barely saw Helen step closer tapping Angela's wand on her hand causing sparks to fly from it.
"My, dear Niece, you have yet to realize that you are going to stay here until your father gives me that potion, as for your wand I'm sure you don't need it at his moment," Helen said as she snapped Angela's wand into like toothpicks and threw it on the floor beside Angela and Darkness claimed her…
To be continued…
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Thank you for reading this Chapter… please review
Long authors Notes:
1.) Please forgive me for my poetry, I am a very bad poet… I prefer writhing stories than rhyme
2.) I got the idea of the maze from the book called "The Silver on the Tree"… it's from the Dark is rising sequence… I like the story… and the Harry potter crossover with TDIR Fanfics are fantastic…
3.) Excuse for my poor taste of liquor, My family and I do not drink we fear, for our liver…you know one thing We do not drink but my mother said that we die the drunkards way with our stomach bloated due to liver failure… yeah, most of my family gets sick because our liver starts to give out when they start to menopause… they die before they reach eighty…
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