I don't own Harry Potter. The Muggles and Sarah, I own, unless you recognize the name from Harry Potter. I also created a few students for my pleasure to give myself something to work with.
"Will it hurt?" the witch asked as she watched Severus pour out small doses of the potion into tiny vials. "What about all those potions?"
"It's the same one, ma'am," Harry said calmly, "If I'm not mistaken, Severus is separating it out for me in the increments I need to give it to him and only the amount needed so I don't screw up."
"Exactly," Severus smirked as he finished his task. "Alright, Potter. That should work. You'll start it at eight and keep going every half hour until it's gone. Keep an eye on the wolf, understand? Don't let it attack him, but let him try to get dominance over it verbally first. If it goes to attack him, you stun it. if it obeys his order to sit in a corner, you leave it be and let him do what he wants with it. Understand?"
"it it attacks, I stun. If it obeys, I leave it alone," he verified, "Potions are to be taken every half hour until gone."
"Correct," Severus smirked. "Looks like seven years of schooling has finally taught you how to listen to me."
"Greasy git!" Harry called out after him as he left to give the same lecture.
"Severus," Hermione nodded sharply as he entered the room that she and Horace were in. "What do I need to do once I've gotten the potion all the way into him?"
"You can read?" Severus asked by wandlight, and she nodded as he handed her a rather long roll of parchment. "Good. Here are the instructions, do not, under any circumstances whatsoever stray from them in any way. If there's trouble, send me a Patronus, as I'll keep an eye on Sarah. Wolfsbane isn't perfect you know, she still gets a little out of line."
"Of course," she said as she lit her wand to read the instructions that he'd left her.
"Professor," Ron gasped as he looked at Bill's animalistic urges manifestation, "What is that? Why am I in charge of watching it?"
"That is what the result of your brother taking the potion is, Weasley," Severus sneered, "We wanted to see if it worked on him to expel even the slightest bit of werewolf in him, and this was the result. Your brother healed while this thing is locked away. I believe that a familiar face will help keep it in line, so I chose you. Do try not to get killed by being a dunderhead. Good luck."
"No, wait!" Ron cried out as he went for the door that Severus had slammed behind him. Snape quickly warded it, keeping the redhead in there until a life or death situation arose. "Don't leave me here!"
"Send a patronus if it tries to bite your head off, but only then," Snape called through the door before walking over to the room Sarah was in to give her the Wolfsbane.
"Ready?" Sarah asked nervously, "Do you think it'll work?"
"I don't know," Severus said calmly, his insides churning. "I hope that boy will be alright – he is one of your students, after all."
"Oh!" Sarah gasped as she realized why he had chosen that specific boy. "That's ingenious! Preventing another incident like your own with Remus Lupin by getting rid of the wolf within before he even arrives at school! That's brilliant, Severus!"
"What's brilliant is your Potion making," he smirked before kissing her just as the clock struck eight. "We have four more hours until they transform. Would you like to join me on a little stroll outside?"
"And you said Hagrid was dangerous," she laughed before she drank the entire large goblet full of Wolfsbane Potion. "But yes, I'd like that."
"Well then, let's," he smiled, leading the way outside.
The night passed, and Severus and Sarah were enjoying the hot summer air on Hogwarts grounds. She decided to swim in the lake before the Giant Squid tried to kill her, so she swam to shore and shook herself to dry off, getting Severus just as wet as she was. She gave him a wolf grin before pushing him into the lake with her back legs. He landed with an almighty splash and spitting out the water that had gotten in his mouth before glaring at a laughing wolf in front of him.
He gave her an evil glare and smile before beginning to chase her around the grounds, before a familiar Stag Patronus appeared before them.
"Everything's fine, the wolf is out," it spoke in Harry's voice, "He wants to see you, Severus and Sarah."
"Come," Severus grinned before they raced back through the dungeons. He almost wouldn't have stopped at the door if it hadn't been closed. Instead, he put his hands out and rammed into it full speed eagerly. "Potter! You sent the bloody Patronus now open this door!"
"Coming, sir," Harry said before opening the door for his ex-Professor. Severus immediately came in, tripping over Sarah's wolf form, both of them looking around.
"No! Go to the corner!" the first year yelled at the wolf, but the wolf's hackles were raised angrily, even if it was very young. Sarah let out a low growl before letting loose a few angry barks and it immediately went to cower into the corner. "Whoa, how'd you do that? Were you a werewolf, too, sir?"
"No, young one, this is Sarah's," Severus said patting his leg to make her return. "The Wolfsbane, as you probably know, allows you to control your wolf form. Congratulations, little one, you're the first werewolf cured with this potion to survive. The other one… well, you know. Sarah here hasn't been a wolf for six months, and so we're waiting for her to hit that mark."
"Wow," the kid said excitedly, "Mom, can I bring him to Hogwarts? Please?"
"That's up to the Headmistress," the witch said sternly.
"Actually," Severus stepped in, "The headmistress has told me that I am to take over some of her duties this upcoming school year. I am, however, going to update the rule about familiars. Instead of the students only being permitted to bring a cat, an owl, or a toad, I am going to permit them to bring any non-deadly familiars with them. You'll understand more when I send out the letters in a few weeks. I will say, however, that I believe that as long as the wolf stays outside or in your common room, it should be allowed to stay. I will need to talk to the headmistress about it, though."
"Would you? Oh, thank you so much, sir! How can we ever thank you enough?" he asked excitedly.
"Hm, perhaps by being a good little boy and not breaking the rules and by doing all your homework and as best you can?" Snape shot back with a smirk, and the boy nodded eagerly just before his final chain restraint was removed.
"I will, I promise!" he said as he ran to give a tight hug to the oldest wizard in the room.
"Good," Severus said calmly, "Now, why don't you stay here for the rest of the night and go see Madame Pomfrey? Potter, care to escort him? I need to check up on Horace and Granger. Sarah, come!"
"Of course," Harry said as Severus swooped out of the room with Sarah's paws making click-click sounds behind him. "Come on, kid, let's go show her what you can do now! I'm sure it'll be a lot easier for you to do your checkup now than it will be once you're sorted! Heck, I can even show you the bed there that I managed to occupy at least once a year, if you want."
"What?" the boy cried out in shock as Severus snuck into the room Hermione and Slughorn were in.
"How is he?" Severus asked, and they shook their heads.
"No good – the wolf came out, but it mutilated them both. I don't think they're going to-going to…" she began sobbing, pointing across the room.
"Bloody hell," Severus murmured, his stomach becoming suddenly close to losing its contents. "I-Kill it! kill the useless bastard! Merlin, it smells like death! Oh, god!"
He ran out of the room like his life depended on it, his robes billowing behind him. He raced past the student, turning into the room that Sarah had gone into for comfort and immediately started getting sick into one of the cauldrons. He heard the two other wizards and the witch approach behind him with the wolf, but paid them no heed. After a long bout of nausea, and forcing an anti-nausea potion down his throat, Severus joined the trio on their way to the hospital wing. This time, however, he was on wolf-back since Sarah decided to let him ride her.
"What happened? Did it work?" Poppy Pomfrey panicked with Minerva sitting down nearby.
"Success for this little guy," Harry pronounced happily, "We just need you to do a checkup, Poppy. I think Severus might need one, too… he was wretching into a cauldron just after checking in on Hermione and Horace."
"Oh, no," Minerva said shocked, "It won't work until after they've been a wolf for six months?"
"That's correct, Minerva," Severus gasped, holding his stomach. "Both human and wolf were so mutilated… it was worse than looking at Voldemort, and that's saying something…"
"What?" the others all yelled in shock.
"Tell me everything," came Kingsley's voice from behind them. "I want to know everything."
I don't own Harry Potter. The Muggles and Sarah, I own, unless you recognize the name from Harry Potter. I also created a few students for my pleasure to give myself something to work with.
Snape didn't do it for the kid – he wanted Sarah's familiar there as well, and to get all the students' complaints about not having familiars there off his back.
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