AN: With my crappy writing skillz, I managed to neglectfully write out the fact that Harry and Belldani got to know each other and are on some sort of friends basis. NO, it will not be Belldani x Harry. I have more respect for the girl than that... She's not going to go from dating someone old enough to be her father to robbing the cradle. Also, yes she could have just magically carried Sev's body like Molly did, but given what was going on... she wasn't thinking! C'mon... like in Sorcerer's Stone, when Hermione's all freaking out because Devil's Snare reacts to sunlight but they're in the dark.... Yeah you just don't always think. Also I *still* don't own or have permisson to use Harry & Co. Bite me.
Ch 8: The Curtain falls.
In the flurry of events that followed, Harry was transported back to the Order, his prescribed time at his relatives' over, and Snape was buried in a distant corner of the Hogwarts grounds.
The Order and Hogwarts' staff were the only people present at his funeral. Belldani had leaned on Harry for support as the casket was lowered into the ground. He tried to ignore the strange looks from Ron, who was very confused about the whole thing.
After that, she disappeared again, as mysteriously as she had shown up in Harry's life.
Dumbledore said that she was in a better place; Belldani had been sent to stay with Aberforth Dumbledore in the Scottish countryside. She wrote Harry a letter once, just before term began.
Harry Potter,
I never had friends before this summer and now, because of Sev, I've been blessed with meeting people I'm proud to know. This includes you, Harry. Scotland is really nice right now - Aberforth has a strange flock of goats - they're rainbow coloured - but other then that there's not a soul for miles. In a few weeks I may journey to Snape Manor, I'm still not ready to visit it yet.
Right after Sev and I were married, he left, and the few times I saw him after that were when Percy and I were caught with the Death Eaters and then when I rescued him and we were at your house. Thanks for sending me the license when it came in your post, by the way, it was the only address I could think of at the time. It's strange… Aberforth calls me Widow Snape, but I was hardly married.
Thank you for being there as someone to talk to and, since I never had before, thank you for letting me borrow your cloak. You don't know how much it means to me that even though he's dead now… his body isn't rotting in some forgotten corner of Voldemort's strongholds. If you ever need assistance, Harry Potter, don't hesitate to write to me. At the very least, I can help you with girls, can't I?
Belldani
