Full Description: What if we were to tell you that in an alternate universe, Severus Snape had moved on from Lily's death and that Lucius Malfoy had divorced Narcissa? What If we told you the two Slytherins had fallen for two new young ladies who had applied for apprenticeships? What if we told you that one of those young ladies was a shapeshifting werewolf and the other a head-turning Veela?
In this story, we introduce not just one but five new OC's. Lucinda Malfoy/Avalar, Evangeline Lestrange, Bryn Gilios, Selvillius Derramore, and Velyssa Domhnull!
We will explore the dynamics of Other students at Hogwarts and out in the Wizarding world other than the much loved "Golden Trio."
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and Co., as well as the wizarding world, does not belong to us in any capacity, the only characters that we do are Lucinda Malfoy/Avalar, Evangeline Lestrange, Bryn Gilios, Selvillius Derramore, and Velyssa Domhnull! This story is not making any money and will never do so. The wonderful world of Harry Potter belongs to the Fantastic Ms. JK. Rowling.
Authors' note: Hello, fellow Potterheads! Welcome to our world. This story is very much not canon; however, there will be some scenes that follow canon lore. We are aware that having five contributing authors is a bit much, but this collaboration has been in the works for quite some time. Please feel free to give us feedback so that we can improve what we are doing, and we would love to hear what you have to say!
Email us at Thefivefounders2019(gmail)
P.S: The Italic conversations are legilimency conversations
Chapter One: Truth and Travel
Platform 9 ¾ was loud and cramped as students, parents, and a few of the Professors at Hogwarts made their way to the edge of the platform to board the Hogwarts Express. Yet another School year has arrived, as with every year, new students and old, have gathered on the platform with bright eyes and excitement shining in their faces. What would this year hold indeed? We come across two students talking to each other, Lucinda and Evangeline.
Lucinda brushes her long blond hair away from her face while chatting with her best friend Evangeline, holding her Kneazle Snowdrop.
"I can't wait for potions this year, Eva. Do you think he got my apprentice application? I've been nervous all summer." She said quickly.
"I'm almost certain the professor got it," says Evangeline with a laugh. Lucinda groans.
"But what if he doesn't want me to be his apprentice…" she said just before bumping into the exact professor she had been speaking of. "P-p-professor Snape, I'm sorry I d-d-didn't see you there," she said, blushing and looking down with her with wide silver-grey eyes. Evangeline just snickers and begins to squirm past the professor.
"Miss Malfoy...you really should watch where you are walking. I would think one such as you would be above such...negligence." Snape said with a mock sneer. "Do try to be more careful next time." his lips twitched for a millisecond as if he was going to smile. Lucinda turns a slightly darker shade of red before gulping and taking a step closer to him and whispers in his ear.
"Maybe you too should watch where you're going, Sev, and I wouldn't bump into you. Kind of like we've been dancing around each other since my 17th birthday party at the manor. Or when I wrote out my application to you, and you ignored me." her silver eyes gleamed at him when she stepped back, grinning and starting to turn around, flipping her hair as she began to walk towards the train before feeling a hand on her wrist.
"Miss. Mal- Lucinda, Wait…" Snape said, catching Lucinda's wrist in his hand. She whipped her head around; her silver eyes had a slight edge and guarded around them.
"What!" she growled a low, almost sinister sound. by now, her Kneazle was on the ground by her feet walking beside her. "You did all summer; you ignored me, Sev. We shared feelings on my birthday, and you ran." tears pricked at the corners of her eyes as she looked away towards the ground to avoid his obsidian ones.
Snape proceeded to lean down close to Lucinda's ear and lowered his voice so only she could hear his words.
"Lucinda, I panicked, and I am sorry. You technically are still my student. I could lose my position as Potions master if it came to light that I was seeing a student. It's bad enough that I am the youngest professor at Hogwarts, it would damage my tenure at the school and also your reputation and possible future in academics if I were take you on while you were still in school. The Board of Directors would have a field day putting together the paperwork to send me to Azkaban. I am in no way telling you to discontinue your education, but there isn't much that we can do until you graduate." Snape stands up, adjusts the sleeves of his overcoat, and looks at Lucinda with a rather piercing gaze. She lets a tear fall down her cheek before looking away from him and to the ground, refusing to keep his gaze throwing her shields up around her mind.
"Then I will see you at school Professor." she wipes the tears away as she walked to the train. Locking silver and obsidian eyes with the man, she knew she was in love with but buried it deep in her mind. 'I love you more than you will ever know,' she thought, knowing he would read it.
He nodded at her with a knowing look in his eyes, and as she walked away from him, he gave her a subtle yet telling bow.
Severus Snape was the last to board the train, and as the door to the passenger car slid shut, he set about doing his half-hour rounds on the train before coming to a halt just outside of a compartment with two seventh year girls. From the look of the shadows through the shaded window, he could make out that one of the young ladies were crying while the other sat and tried to console her friend to no avail. Upon hearing the two speak, Severus could make out the voice of Lucinda and her damned know-it-all Ravenclaw friend Evangeline. He quickly disillusioned himself and gently but quietly leaned against the compartment door, trying to catch snatches of the conversation.
"I-i-i don't know what to do, E-e-Eva. I love him so much it fucking hurts." Lucinda cried.
"Come on, Luc, you're over reading him. I'm sure he has feelings somewhere in that cold black heart of his somewhere."
"Eva, I never told him something vital," Lucinda said quietly. Evangeline looks on with curiosity.
"What haven't you told him?"
Lucinda looked up at the ceiling, sighing. "Ever since he started coming around the manor, my wolf goes nuts. I looked it up in one of Dad's books. When a werewolf comes of age, they start to find their one mate." she looked at the floor. "His scent, everything about him, drives me insane. He's my soulmate. I haven't told him because if he rejects me….. It could… it could kill not just my wolf but me as well." she sighed and got up. "I need some air to think I'm sorry, Eva. If I don't return, I'll see you at the feast," she whispered and walked out of the compartment.
Trying desperately to hide her tears, she ran to find an empty compartment, Snowdrop, right behind her. She found one and just sat on the floor, holding the Kneazle crying into her fur.
Dropping his concealment spell, Snape tore off down the train car's hall in a flurry of billowing black robes, following the direction that Lucinda had run with her beloved pet kneazle.
"Snow, what am I supposed to do? Just ignore these feelings all year and wither like the book said I would? I don't know what to do, girl." she sobbed into the kneazles fur, her pet licked her tears as they fell trying to make her mistress feel better.
Snape rounded the corner with such speed that he nearly slammed into the Treat Trolley. He stopped just before tripping over the trolley and sending sweets in every direction. Severus moved around the trolley with a growl. Then he continued along the short hallway towards the sound of sobbing, coming from the compartment in front of him. Severus disillusioned himself once more and took a peek into the compartment to find Lucinda on the floor crying with her Kneezle. With a sigh, he dropped the enchantment and walked in, slamming the door behind him and casting every warding spell he knew along with silencing the door so that no one could hear them.
He knelt and pulled Lucinda up off the floor and onto the seat by the window, careful not to cause her pain when he pulled her up.
"Lucinda...I heard everything. Why didn't you tell me sooner?" He looks down and studies the toe of his Dragon hide boots, allowing his long, inky black hair to fall into his face. Lucinda sniffed, not sure if he was there with her.
"B-b-because you ran before I could tell you." she whimpered softly. She lifted her hands to push his hair out of his face and make him look at her. "Can you honestly tell me that if I had said you were my soulmate. Everything you do, watching you make potions the way your hair falls into your face. The way you read, and you gently turn the pages, your scent, everything drives me crazy the way I want to curl up at your feet in my wolf form during the full moon because you calm her enough not to attack people. That's why I want to become your apprentice so that I can be by your side for as long as you will have me." she whispered, looking into his obsidian eyes smiling then gave him a peck on his nose and laid her head on his chest.
"It's up to you to decide." she sighed the torrent of emotions calming as she sat curled up on his lap.
"I-I initially did not consider your application because of the way things look, If the Headmaster approves the application, I will as well, but being near one another is going to be difficult… anything we do in the classroom or around the school must be strictly professional. Though, I am sure we could find a way for everything else in between. I'm almost certain we could find a hidden, unknown corridor or something, but I mean it. During school hours and time in the lab, things are to be completely formal and professional. Do those terms sound unreasonable to you?" Snape said, quirking an eyebrow at Lucinda.
She looked up with a smile that reached her silver eyes, making them appear almost white and nodded her head. "During the full moon I'll be rendered to my wolf form for three days do you think I could stay by your side as a familiar? With you around, I won't hurt anyone." she whispered, "I just don't want to be away from you during that time."
"That would be pushing it. However, since you're not registered, I don't think anything could go wrong, though it is against my better judgment, seeing as I have been after the Defence against the Dark Arts position since I signed my contract to teach at Hogwarts. However, I am confident that I can keep you and the students safe if you manage to lash out. Also, Keep in mind that I am personally overseeing that you take your morning dose of Wolfsbane potion, I'm also going to be the one to brew it, is that understood?" She nods her head, but upon hearing someone's voice in the hallway, she shifts to her wolf form a blond timber wolf with silver eyes. She laid her head on his lap and flattened her ears.
'I will stay like this through the end of dinner to prove to you I just need your presence to keep her calm.' she used the legilimency skills he had taught her to be able to communicate even during the full moon. Snape chuckles softly at Lucinda.
"It's alright. The door is locked, warded and silenced, no one can get in or even hear us." Lucinda nodded and shifted back. She turned in his lap so that she could lay her head on his chest.
"Once we get to the castle wake me, I will shift and join you for dinner so that everyone sees me, and it won't be as much of a shock," she whispered as she fell asleep.
"You should tell your friend Miss Lestrange that you will be missing dinner."
She jolted but looked around for something to write on and wrote a note handing it to her Kneezle. "Go, girl, take this to Eva and stay with her come to find me in the common room after dinner," she whispered kissing the cat on the nose, the Kneazle licked her nose and ran off.
"All done. Now, where was I?" Lucinda said, giggling, climbing back on his lap and staring into his obsidian eyes. "I love you Sev." she whispered, placing her hand on his cheek.
Severus looks at Lucinda with wide eyes. "Lucinda, I'm unable to return those words just yet, but do know that I care for you deeply." She smiled and nodded, rubbing his cheek gently.
"It's ok." she laid her head down on his chest and just snuggled into him humming as she fell asleep.
For the remainder of the trip to Scotland's Hogsmead village, Severus and Lucinda stayed in the train compartment together. As the train pulled into the station, Snape gently nudged Lucinda awake, making sure that she was fully cognitive before telling her that he had to go and make his rounds on the train again to make sure there were no stragglers.
She nodded and shifted to her wolf form, shaking her head and yipping showing him she was ready to go with him.
"Make sure your luggage gets to the Slytherin dormitory before I unlock this door and step out."
She rolls her silver eyes, flicks her ears, and looks at him.
'Done. I am a seventh-year after all Sev.' she made a motion as if she were sticking her tongue out at him before scratching the door whimpering.
Severus rolled his eyes and heaved a sigh of minor annoyance. He took down the wards and unlocked the door as well as dropped the silencing charm on the door. He looked both ways down the Hall before stepping out and starting down the hallway into another train car, checking every compartment as they passed, flinging open the doors with a swish of his wand.
Once the train had been deemed clear of all students and staff, He adjusted his cloak and set the pace for walking to the carriages, which unknown to most, were pulled by magnificently macabre creatures called Thestrals. As he approached the last carriage, he picked up the wolf that had been following him and placed her in the seat before climbing in behind her and sitting down, leaning against the wall next to the carriage window.