AN. Voldemort revealed. I wonder what happens next. Italics are words spoken from the Bond

Chapter 29 Pursuing

Justice paced in the watch room while the full contingent of Aurors sat, watching Justice's movement.

He stopped and looked at them. "I worked with you for years before I took up this job and deep down I am just a simple policeman." Using the muggle term they all were familiar with in their duties.

"We have one of our own taken away from us and come hell or high water we will retrieve him. I need ideas! Any thoughts for you worked with Auror Potter longer than I."

Stoddard spoke up. "Justice, Harry is resourceful. There is no choice but to wait. Voldemort was just a rumor and now he is here. We have no background. In the past our hands were tied as Voldemort ran the Ministry. Only the Order of the Phoenix had true intelligence and that was because of Snape."

Justice sat at the Watch wizard's desk deep in thought. Severus Snape. The wizard did help hide the Phoenix after some became missing and none disappeared since. Stoddard said true intelligence. He realized he had that here in his Watch Room.

He stood up. "Auror Binns go to the Department of Mysteries and get the Head to arrive here with sealed Penseives. All of you save go about your scheduled duties and the team that was at Lord Malfoy 's funeral stay behind and have your memories pulled and placed into the Penseives so we will have a fresh start of intelligence. Thank you Stoddard for the reminder."

Stoddard nodded, feeling confidence in his young leader once again. The grizzled veteran had seen many come and go in his career.

Justice called out watching the Aurors leaving and called out. "Binns!"

The brown haired mustached man stopped and looked to him in question.

"Where is Professor Hermione Snape? You did arrest her."

"Justice, she is in Interrogation Room 12 bound to a chair with a bright light for twelve hours with no contact per Article 32 of the Code of Magical Law." Binns replied back.

"Go about your task Binns and be quick about it." Justice growled out.

Binns left the Watch room and Justice closed his eyes to think. He did not want to stress Hermione but there was nothing he could do to prevent it, knowing deep down she was innocent in this affair.

He bent down and pulled up his briefcase and opened it, ruffling through its contents until he found a particular sealed envelope, one of many that Kingsley gave Harry Potter when the missing wizard became Head and the man handed the briefcase over to him when he resigned telling him Kingsley told them they were fall back positions approved by the Wizengamot based on scenarios. He looked at the title of the envelope in his hand titled "Assasination" and broke the seal and read it. He re-sealed it with his seal and called out to the First Assistant to the Minister. "Percy, I think you know the relevance of this briefcase"

Percy Weasley came forward from the wall his was leaning against watching the events unfold. Directives in place were that the Head of Magical Law Enforcement was the lead in case of assassination. "I do Justice and my directive is to be an observer and make sure proper protocol has been met for the record."

Justice handed him the re-sealed envelope. "No doubt he dictated this to you Percy Weasley. Am I following proper protocol?"

Percy swallowed for a moment. Kingsley designed the protocols with Harry in mind when he took office. He protested many times about the fact that the envelopes gave sweeping powers to the Head of Magical Law Enforcement and Kingsley brushed him off. He felt uncomfortable for he did not know the brown haired, mustached wizard before him now held great power held in the wizard's hand.

Justice chuckled, trying to dispel the alarm on the wizard's face. "You have a good heart Percy. I have no desire to take over the Ministry for I could with this parchment. I am a servant of Justice despite my surname. Deliver that to the head of the Wizengmout so protocol can be followed for Kingsley wished it. Travel to the Veil in peace I hope for he was a good man."

Percy visibly relaxed. "You are a good wizard Justice and I will do what needs to be done." Rushing from the Watch Room parchment in hand to perform the last act of Kingsley Shacklebot, Minister of Magic.

Justice watched the Head of the Department of Mysteries walk in with three assistants holding the required Penseives and placed them in front of each Auror.

He looked to his Aurors to assure them. "There was no fault in your actions tonight and I want you to focus on the unknown man. We know Severus Snape and Voldemort. We need to focus on the unknown man for he may be the key."

HGSSHGSSHGS

Hermione sat in the bright white room bound to the chair with a bronze metal band clasped on her left arm. The Auror who arrested her said nothing and left her after he completed his duties and turned up the single light to full brightness in his departure.

She sat there for six hours not risking contact her husband through the Bond they held in case he was with Voldemort. Instead she spent the time thinking of Ron and her memories, thinking as long as she did not think of Severus she would be safe.

"Severus!" She called out through their Bond.

Severus shot out of his bed. "They've arrested you?" He thought back

"An Auror took me from Hogwarts and left me bound in this locked room with bright light. They have subdued my magic with a bronze band they placed on my wrist before leaving. That was six hours ago!"

"Calm yourself Hermione. It is standard procedure. The same was done to me as soon as I recovered enough to be arrested. Someone will see you in six hours as they want isolation to break you. Being in a plain white room aids in it. You are safer there than out in the open. Have faith for Harry gave me a way to escape. Unfortunate for him for he is my prisoner for a week."

"Severus I don't think I can stand this."

"Do what you did while on the run Hermione. The answer is in your mind."

Hermione smiled at his reminder, closing her eyes and thinking of her lessons at Hogwarts. She had enough information rattling around in her mind.

Severus felt a pleasant thrum along his Bond as she fell into her mind. A shower was definitely in order before going downstairs to see what Harry was up to.

He dressed quickly and walked down the stairs, observing Harry sitting at his desk, a tall thick candle burning brightly at the edge of the desk allowing bright light on the parchment that he concentrated on.

Severus moved silently and stood next to the desk un-noticed watching Harry sketch. The wizard was not that bad but the man he was sketching did not look like anything of the unknown wizard with Voldemort.

"Harry what are you doing?" Asking in a low silky voice not to scare him but it did not matter for the wizard jumped up in fright anyway, dropping his quill.

Harry settled down. "I'd forgotten how silent you could be in the dark. I'm sketching the wizard with Voldemort as there is not a Penseive I could find dump my memories into."

"Clever Harry." Pulling the parchment from the desk and observed it. "Not bad but he does not look like this." Placing the parchment down.

Severus conjured up a chair pulling two parchments out of the third drawer of the desk and placed them side by side on the desk. "How much do you know of Wizarding art Harry?"

Harry looked to Severus as he was amazed the man addressed him as "Harry" versus "Harry Potter" in the past

"Not much Headmaster Snape. The opportunities to learn of it have been sparse in my life. You know running from evil, hiding in forsaken places and all that. My job as an Auror after that did not give me much time."

Severus laughed out loud surprising Harry. "I appreciate you humor. Penseives are expensive and most cannot afford them."

Severus fell into teaching mode. "Unlike Muggle artist, a Wizarding artist can use a type of parchment or canvas to capture whatever they think of and transfer it. Even today wanted posters are created like what I am about to teach you."

He pulled out his wand and motioned Harry to do the same. "Clear your mind Harry and think of who you wish to draw. Just like you pictured him in your memory. How you observed him. Focus on the little things that you may have not caught. When you think it is perfect touch your wand to the parchment."

Harry closed his eyes. The night was chaotic. He remembered Voldemort arrival with the unknown wizard. He took a deep breath and eliminated Voldemort, zooming in on the unknown wizard. There he was, grinning evilly as Voldemort gave his speech.

Severus watched Harry's eyes open and placed his wand on parchment. He leaned forward watching the image slowly take shape on the image. Soon the lines stopped and the drawing was completed.

"That's exactly what he looked like!" Harry spoke in excitement.

"I've seen this wizard before, courtesy of your friend Ron when he followed me to float through a suspected hidden assassin spying on me. That man is Voldemort's assassin." Severus murmured.

"Headmaster, release me so I can get this to the Ministry so we can hunt him down!" Harry demanded.

"No Harry I will not. The Department of Magical Law Enforcement has plenty of Penseives, no doubt using them to get the same picture as we speak."

"Then why the second parchment?"

"I want to show you what my Bond to Hermione revealed. Her current place of residence."

Harry watched Severus placed the wand on the empty parchment as the image slowly appeared. Half the image was blurred as if a right light was on the room and found the image revealing Hermione slumped down, eyes closed in the bound chair.

"They've arrested her." Harry moaned out. "Justice knows her alliance. How could he do that to her?"

"Because she is married to me and Voldemort does not trust me. I do not trust that wizard and I have told you both time and time again that he hides something and it fell on deaf ears. I have proof of Voldemort's distrust as I am a sacrificial lamb for some other plan of his." Pulling the sleeve of his left arm up and revealed a pale arm. "Notice something missing that was there before?"

"Your Mark." Harry whispered. "It has disappeared."

"Yes and now there are no spies in Voldemort's Inner Circle. He planned on me being captured and you took that away from him. Well done and I thank you for saving me as a quick trial and the Dementor's kiss would have been my fate. Thank you for that."

The tall pale Professor that he hated in the past was being completely honest with him and he shivered. It did not bode well.

"What are you going to do Headmaster?"

"I am persona non grata in both circles now so I am going to do the only logical thing. I am going to look out for myself and the one that cares about me."

Harry looked at him, sadness crossing his face. "You have Hermione but I care what happens to you Headmaster." Harry whispered out.

Severus observed the once hated wizard that he grew to tolerate. He was definitely his own wizard despite the brashness of the father that appeared in him from time to time. The man's action to save him was one that spoke volumes.

"You may address me as Severus because you earned the right. I doubt that I will hold my position after these events."

Harry extended his right hand out. "Shall we plan together?" Pleased at the dour wizard's words.

Severus eyed the offered hand for a moment before he extended his right hand and shook it. "Get some sleep Harry. There is a bedroom up the stairs and to the left that you can inhabit while you enjoy your stay here. We will plan when you get some rest."

"Can I have a few of those parchments Severus? I might think of something else to help us."

Severu smirked. "Despite your years as an Auror and Head of Magical Law Enforcement you cannot lie to me. " Leaning down and pulled a dozen of the Artist parchments out of the drawer and handed it to him.

"Thank you and I will not ask why you have them available. You are not a wizard to be interested in art after all.." Harry smirked back and left the room with parchments in hand.

Severus thought of Hermione under him, unruly hair splayed out around her head as she demanded to be loved and touched his wand to the parchment he pulled out un-noticed and watched the image begin to form. His art was a different sort and enabled him to continue on in the past.

He watched the image of her revealed. She is beautiful and truly his.

Pulling out the drawer he pulled out a thick binder not bothering to open it and moved to the fire place in the room, flames burning brightly.

Severus tossed the binder in feeling no remorse, watching the bright flames wrap around the binder and soon turned to ash.

"These memories of you are no longer needed." He whispered out. "I am free of you Lily Evans."

HGSSHGSSHGSS

The Wizarding world woke to turmoil with wanted posters of Severus Snape, traitor posted in every villages of the Wizarding world all across the globe.

Every family read the Daily Prophet and Rita Skeeter's report that He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named was back, along with her articles and graphic moving pictures revealing that the Minister was murdered and that Auror Potter was taken as a hostage to ensure Snape's freedom.

Severus Snape was now a hunted man, removed from Hogwart's as Headmaster, his wife arrested and the Ministry promising to arrest him and a temporary Minister would be announced shortly.

HGSSHGSSHGSS

Hermione's eye's flew open as the door to her cell opened up, revealing two known wizards with a third standing next to them.

Justice conjured up chairs and a desk motioning to the two with him to be seated.

"Would you like a glass of water"