Narcissa Black was not amused at Severus Snape.
Her friend had went and completely transformed himself over the summer.
No longer he had a hooked nose or gaunt figure.
Now standing infront of her was a boy of 16 who was completely healthy and dare she say completely gorgeous and she inwardly wondered what was going to through his mind.
Even Bellatrix's jaw had dropped when she had seen him on their cabin in the train as the three shared a cabin to Hogwarts.
Oh never had she seen her older sister lose her composure like this and her sister had then tried to pry out Severus secrets only to be politely rebuffed every time.
Well she considered him as her friend as he was in her class and one of the only people completely honest and genuine to her.
She liked his brutal honesty as compared to the other people who usually tried to be in her good grace due to her family's wealth and influence.
He was not like that, instead he never cared about it and treated her like any other girl though she admired and thanked him for that.
She was sad for her friend after his fallout with the mudblood girl but she had comforted him by just pointing out that she too was at a fault.
Severus as typical had lashed out at him and she never spoke about it again.
But it seemed her words had hit a spot and he was trying to change and Narcissa couldn't help but think this change as a welcoming one.
Narcissa never really had a boyfriend, it was a perk of being a Black family daughter.
Everyone feared her name and she was told to keep her chastity till marriage.
She knew what her duty was towards her family and though she never liked it, she had come to terms with it afterall she was a Black and she had a duty to fulfill.
She liked to think that her future husband would be kind to her and allow her to work on her dream, perhaps it was her childish naivety but she took joy in the dream.
Though she had a tiny spot in her heart wishing her dream would be fulfilled and looking at her friend sitting across him whose back was across the hall she suddenly had an idea remembering the rings he had shown her in the cabin alongside Bellatrix.
But the idea was dangerous and she would have to tread on it carefully or otherwise her friendship with her friend would be damaged permanently.
Severus Snape had always considered himself as a smart and calculated man.
He liked keeping his composure and never let his guard down even for a second after the lake side accident with the Marauders.
He still seethed inside remembering the incident.
But even he couldn't believe his mind when suddenly he was supplied the memories of his adult self and of another person who lived in a different world during the last day of the school term.
The memories had overwhelmed him and he took the entire summer to analyse himself and his actions.
He knew he never wanted to join the rising Dark Lord for torturing or killing but seeking some power for himself, was it wrong?
He watched as his adult self died obeying the orders of both Dumbledore and The Dark Lord Voldemort and he couldn't help but shudder at the memory of his death.
He had planned that he would continue his growth in magic and skill after Hogwarts but it seemed that he was stuck teaching some children who couldn't even brew a potion nicely.
His achievement of being the youngest Potions Master after Salazar Slytherin meant nothing as he just served two master who were both playing Chess in the Wizarding World.
He cringed thinking of it, the memories of his adult self devastated him.
He saw Lily marrying Potter and reproducing with him to create a brat who was the reason he had died.
He was disgusted by himself, sure he liked her and she had been his first friend but never had he thought he would go so down for her, had his older self forgot his pride?
Thinking of Lily there was a pang at heart. He had seen how she was getting more comfortable with her housemates and was slowly dwelling into their narrow view of the world.
The most anger he had was upon himself for the poor choices his older self had made without thinking of the other remaining choices.
Another thing which baffled him was that the memories of the another person.
In his world, he was a character in books and movies.
It amused him to no end.
From the man's memories he saw his actions in both movies and books.
He also watched as the person read and watched shows or animes with people having superpowers.
Severus had never been more curious than that moment.
Some of the powers he had never seen and never heard yet they sounded interesting to see and watch.
He had taken ideas from those powers and attempted to replicate them during summers.
Spells which would replicate some of them as he had slowly started to learn new ways of using some things.
Till now he had made some progress in them with most of them being in their last stages.
The one thing he had succeeded in achieving was the famed 'spidersense' of the Spiderman.
When he had fully processed the memories he had went in search of the Room Of Requirements to test it.
He wanted to see it in action.
He had asked the room for something which would help him in progressing smoothly and the room had given him the answer in a Book of Rituals written by Rowena Ravenclaw.
Severus had read the book and cursed himself for never giving much thought about Rituals.
The First Ritual he had used was a ritual which helped in making the facial features fit perfectly to the face.
He had done it after a reluctant visit to a magical beautician who had treated his nose and teeth by listening to the advice of Alex memories which told him that a good facial figure helps in making impression
He had used another ritual in which a Person sacrifices an animal's part and could gain one attribute of the sacrificed animal.
After his research and a visit to Knockturn Alley with Lucius whom he had visited during the summer he had managed to found a Thunderbird feather which he sacrificed to gain the Thunderbird's sense of danger.
Never he had been more happy because it was near impossible for the Marauders to ambush him now as his senses alerted him from everything that seemed danger.
After that he had searched through the books and found a magical spider which has the quickest reaction time to danger and had sacrificed a spider which he had ordered from a magical petshop to gain it's fast reaction towards the attackers.
His body had been not able to catch up with the reactions at first but after a litte training he was fine.
It was a good thing that he was an orphan now as his father had died during the start of the summer by a truck accident.
He didn't feel sorry for his father as his actions had drove his mother to her death.
Infact he still believed that he should have suffered more.
He moved on quickly after his father's death and spent the rest of the summer improving his skills.
His adult self memories gave him much needed knowledge and he was now proficient in Occlumency and studies now but the former he still practised heavily after knowing Dumbledore's usage of it.
The most important thing which he had achieved was the musculature potion which he had improved.
The potion now improved muscle mass, bone structure and density as well as base strength of someone's magic.
The potion was tricky but thankfully it was completed in a month.
Never he had felt pain on a level like this and when he woke up after passing out from pain he saw that he now had muscles in his previous frail body.
His magic had changed and no longer his walnut wand worked for him.
Ollivander had been giddy when he had reached his store.
After fifty seven attempts he had found one perfect wand which suited him, it was an Ebony wand with Phoenix Feather Core.
He had now new ideas for spells and he was working slowly to achieve them all as he had realised that he needed spells which could change the tide of a duel in a second.
A visit to Gringotts had also helped him very much when he discovered that he was the Heir to four families.
He himself was shocked but passed it as the result of the ritual he had performed five days ago.
The Magical Blood Awakening Ritual was a Ravenclaw family ritual which helped in awakening the traits of the magical blood.
Apparently somehow this ritual had resulted in him becoming the Heir to four different families and a ton of wealth.
It was like that his destiny was completely changed now.
He was now heir to families of Prince, Dawn, Wilson and Nesbitt.
Two through his mother and two through his father.
He was astonished to hear it afterall he never knew that his father was a squib descendant.
As the summer ended he had finally returned to Hogwarts as a changed man, no longer he was naive and follow around Lily like a lost puppy.
He was finally what he had always wanted to be, he was the Half Blood Prince.
But little did he know that there would be three arrivals from the future who will cause more trouble for him.
He gave a half smile to Narcissa as the Sorting started and couldn't help but think that her friendship was the only thing which was genuine at this moment of his life and he secretly vowed to never let any harm fall upon her.