The Tales of Hogwarts

Severus Snape II

Severus walked down the marble steps and straight out the double doors instead of turning into the great hall. The autumn air hit him in the face and the cool breeze blew at his greasy hair. He walked across the grounds and knocked on the hut door.

"Who is it ?" Came the voice of the keeper of grounds and keys and the care of magical creatures.

"It is I, Severus Snape, open up." Snape yelled, he had a plan. And that plan was blackmail.

He had been blackmailing people since the start of term, he threatened to tell about Trelawny's night of passion with Lockhart (He had held that information for quite sometime.), to tell about filch stealing things from various offices and about Vector's expired teaching licence. But this one was his best one yet.

"What is it ya want ?" Hagrid asked, "Why aren't you at the Halloween feast."

"Why aren't you more like," Snape said coldly.

"I..I.." Hagrid struggled to think of an excuse, " I've got to tend to Dumbledore's new herd of Tree lions, they don't feed there selves, you know." But Snape new very well why Hagrid wasn't attending the meal.

"Spending Halloween with Grawp are we ?" Snape hissed. Hagrid looked shocked. Grawp was his giant half brother, how could Snape possibly know about him. Snape noticed him thinking.

"Hagrid I have a proposition for you."

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Snape sat in the great hall a look of misery on his face. He had already used all his ingredients to make Zipinteir juice and now he had no one left to Blackmail. He thought for a moment that the great oaf Hagrid would come in handy but as Dumbledore already new about the giant in the forest this information was useless.

"Lady's and Gentleman," Dumbledore was about to start his usually speech, Snape leaned back to sleep.

"This not going to be my usual festive Halloween speech. I would like to take this time to announce my retirement."

The whole crowd looked surprised and Snape was just as surprised as they were.

"I will, however, not be leaving you until Christmas, In which time you will have the chance to vote for who you think the new head of school should be." The crowd roared into chatter as did the teachers table.

"Vote out of all the teachers ?" Vector questioned

"I hope so," Flitwick replied.

However Dumbledore continued, "You will be able to choose one of 3 people. Your former headmistress Dolores Umbridge, your current Transfiguration teacher Professor McGonagall or.." All the teachers stared at the head of griffin or, "..Slytherin head, Severus Snape."

Snape's stomach felt like he had missed a step of the way down the stairs. He could become headmaster.

"The voting will take place of the last day before the Christmas holidays, now tuck in."

And at that the tables filled with foods of all varieties. Snape grinned. If he was head he could do what ever he wanted. Bye bye potter, Zipinteir juice ingredients and Malfoy head boy