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Severus Snape sat in one of the plushie armchairs in Dumbledores office playing absent-mindedly with a piece of soft velvet that had been picked off the chair. He flicked it across the room and it landed with a slight plop in a goblet of water on Dumbledores desk. Severus smiled.
"I do hope he dosen't drink that." He muttered to himself and grinned. Severus was feeling in surprisingly good spirts considering he had just been flung across time, or at least his body had, as far as he could tell anyway. It had been a bit of a shock though to say the least.
Since waking up in the hospital wing earlier that night Severus had changed out of the lord of the dead ensemble his future self favoured and managed to find something a little more him. From the school washing room he had got a pair of dark, loose fitting jeans, a long black t-shirt, a pair of black dragon-hide boots and of course the Hogwarts school robes. He had also found a piece of deep red ribbon to tie his raven hair into a ponytail at the base of his neck .
Severus stood up and looked around the office, he had been in here plenty of times before but it had hardly changed at all. Still the same portraits of old headmasters and headmistresses of Hogwarts hanging on the wall and the same glass case with its beautifully crafted jewelled objects by the large, carved oak desk. The Pensieve was something he had never seen before,of course he knew what one was but he wasn't aware that Dumbledore had one.
Severus had some fond memories of this place, like the time he had been bought in here for gluing Potter and Blacks heads together with Zonkos super sticky chewing gum and they had spent a whole 5 minutes trying to get in the door! They had only managed it in the end with Black doing a kind of high kick and Potter twisting round sideways, the memory was enough to bring tears of joy to Severus' eyes. But he had some experiences in this room he would rather forget, the time he had had to sit here for half an hour with his trousers round his ankles with what seemed like half the faculty shouting at him is one that would spring to mind.
He glanced around the room again and his eyes came to rest on the penseive in the corner. Severus walked forward and curiously leaned forward, his hand out-streched and lowered his fingers to touch the smoky contents of the basin.
"Mister Snape," Dumbledores warm, reassuring voice drifted into the office and Snape spun around on his heel. "I am so sorry to have kept you waiting." Severus nodded politely even though he'd never really liked Dumbledore, he found him a bit to patronising. Dumbledore walked behind the desk, his sweeping purple and gold robes swishing behind him dramaticly and sat in the other armchair behind the desk.
"So, Severus how do you feel now ?" Severus also sat down quickly.
"I feel fine professor." Dumbledore suddenly looked at him again in a concerned and rather apologetic way. "I am sorry but we have not been able to discover what has happened to you." Severus raised his head to look the headmaster in the eye. "madam Pomfrey has no known record of this ever happening before and therefore no antidote. So far me and herself are the only people who know of your um condition."
"Oh" Severus looked at his hands that were cupped in his lap. Then he looked up with a hint of a grin. "Does this mean that I won't be able to play Gryffindor tomorrow then?" Dumbldore raised an eyebrow "You do not seem particularly upset about all this?" Severus shrugged "I'm sure I'll get back eventually." To be honest Severus was rather looking forward to the adventure.
"What's going to happen then?" Severus asked making sure to looked as though he couldn't care less ( just because he was in a different time it didn't mean that he had to give up his Slytherin principles of being rude to the headmaster.)
"Well" Dumbledore shot him a Voldemort crushing look that said get your foot off my desk now. Severus could take a hint. " I have thought about it." Dumbledore sighed but looked much friendlier "and I belive it would be wise for you to join the ranks of the students for a while, just as a reasonable excuse as to why you're here."
Severus looked at him and cocked an eyebrow arrogantly. "And that excuse would be..?"
"That you're an exchange student of course." Dumbledore smiled.
"Wait, can't I be something more interesting?"
" Do you have any suggestions then?" Dumbledore asked pleasantly.
Severus thought for a second then smirked in a self satisfied way. "I'll have gotten myself expelled from Durmstrang."
"O.k then I suppose that will work and it's a good bit more intresting than the exchange student idea. How did you get expelled then, and there will be no saying that you blew up the school or a ridiculous idea like that ." He told Severus sternly.
"Dang." Severus pretended to look disappointed, actually he was a bit. "If someone asks I'll just make something up Professor." Dumbledore seemed to consider it for a moment. "Yes I do belive that will work and there's no reason to inform anyone else of who you are because it would just panic them or make them interfere in madam Pomfreys work, the teachers don't even know for the same reason. The student body will be informed that Professor Snape has accompanied a research expedition to Africa, I think that is a believable excuse."
"O.k Professor."
"Good, I'm fairly confident that Madam Pomfrey will have the cure soon enough," he sighed then looked slyly out of the corner of his eye "Alougth it would be helpful if our potions master was here, he was somewhat of an expert in these matters."
Severus shrugged . "I'm sure we'll manage without him. Should I go to the Slytherin common room then Professor?" Dumbledore raised his eyebrows.
"That is rushing things a bit Severus, you have not even been sorted yet." Severus gave a small snort. "It's just a hunch Professor but I think I'll be in Slytherin." Dumbledore stood up. "Even so you are not allowed to be a student in this school without being sorted, in the last 20 years anyway. The sorting hat knows if a student hasn't and will report it immediately." The headmaster glided over to the door. Severus was surprised he didn't trip up on those stupid robes. "We may as well go now."
Severus stayed put. "Doesn't it have to be done in the sorting ceremony?" he frowned. "You know where everyone's staring at you, to reach maximum embarrassment levels." Dumbledore gave a small, amused smile. "Not nessacerily Mister Snape, Contrary to your belief I'm am not here simply to make your life as difficult as possible." And with that and another twinkling smile he swept out of the door. Severus stood up huffily and followed, "That's what you say," he muttered and took long stride to catch up with the headmaster whose robes had just vanished around the corner a few seconds after he did.
Severus was sure that this was better than his first sorting, although that wasn't hard as he had almost tripped up and then run off with the hat still on his head, not that he'd do anything like that now of course. He sat on the stool that Dumbledore had handed to him and let the patched and battered old dishrag fall down over his face blocking the little room next to the old mans office where the sorting hat was kept from sight.
"Hmmm hello Severus Snape missed the train did we?" Severus recognised the voice of the hat which didn't really seem to come from anywhere but the inside of his skull.
"No I got expelled from Durmstrang." Severus thought back, before it occurred to him that the hat knew everything about him so there wasn't really a lot of point in lying.
"I think we both know that's not true." The hat said smarmily. "I suppose you want me to sort you into Slytherin again.
"If it wouldn't be to much trouble."
"Don't be cheeky. Now lets have a look here. The hat pause for a second, seemingly to give his mind a more intense scan. "Clever, ohh very clever, not such a hard worker though," Severus gave the equivalent of a mental shrug. "If there's an easier way to do something then you might as well do it." The hat continued as though it hadn't heard Severus' thoughts.
"Ohh sneaky little sod aren't we?"
"Hey!"
"Well you are!"
"This is taking longer than it did before, could we please get on with it."
The hat sounded annoyed, "I'm bored, that's why, I haven't got anything to do up here so I'm just taking a bit more care than I did last time ok. Good, now what else, plenty of bravery excellent, but I suppose I will put you in. It seemed to do a mental double take "hang on a second, this is intresting." Severus was starting to get irritated now.
"What's intresting!"
The sorting hat sounded smug when it spoke again, could hats really sound smug?
"Oh nothing much." It stated airily. "I expect that you'll find out eventually."
Severus was getting a bit exasperated now, "Can you just sort me please!"
"Ok then let's make it...
.GRYFINNDOR!" the hat shouted the last bit out loud and Severus froze. He pulled off the hat and glared indignantly up at Dumbledore. "What?" he demanded. Dumbledore put on a slightly puzzled smile. "I am not sure Mister Snape, still the hat never lies," he looked amused "Gryfinnder it is, I suppose." Snape gazed up at him in disbelief.
"But I can't be in Gryfinndor, I..I'm a Slytherin."
"I really do not know what happened but I would get up to Gryfinndor tower if I were you, you do know where it is right," Severus nodded dumbly "good you'll have a long day of lessons tomorrow, goodnight Mister Snape sleep well." And with that he opened the door and left quickly followed by Severus, who was left standing in the corridor wondering what the hell had just happened. He couldn't possibly be in Gryfindor, it didn't make any sense.
He grinned evilly, there might be an advantage to being in Gryfindor after all. "I'll take down the system from inside." He muttered in voice full of dark mirth.
At least finding their common room hadn't taken him long as he knew it of old. It wasn't until he was standing outside the portrait of the fat lady that he realised that stupid old fool had forgotten to tell him the password.
"Password please." The fat lady asked him politely. "Umm, can I phone a friend?" Severus' mother was right he probably did watch too much muggle television. Luckily before the rather confused fat lady had a chance to respond to that, two figures came walking round the corner. One was a tall, gangly red haired boy with a rather long nose, whose robes, Severus noticed were hanging an inch above the floor revealing a pair of battered, old trainers. The other was an attractive girl with velvety looking curly-ish brown hair and beautiful cinnamon eyes. She was carrying an extremely heavy looking bag with books practically spilling out of it over her shoulder. They walked up to the portrait hole, Severus realised he was about to lose his chance.
"Hello," he ran up to them from were he had been standing in the shadows. "I'm sorry you couldn't tell me the password could you?" he grinned sheepishly "It's my first day and nobody bothered to tell me." The girl smiled in a very friendly way and said "Sure, it's popydomell." The portrait swung open to reveal the circular hole that lead to the Gryfindor common room. They walked together.
Severus took in the beautiful circular room. Soft, comfy looking armchairs were scattered about, the wall was decorated with gold hangings and pretty ornaments and at the back he could feel the heat coming from the fire blazing in the massive fireplace. Severus felt a slight twinge of annoyance, this was much nicer than the dungeon, where it was damp in winter and you occaiaionally sat in puddles, he made a mental note to complain to somebody and to take one of the throws draped over the chairs back with him.
Severus suddenly noticed the girl was looking at him. "Oh," he smiled back, "hi."
"I'm Hermionie Granger nice to meet you." She flashed a delicious grin and tucked a piece of silky chestnut hair behind her ear. "The pleasure's all mine." Severus put on a cocky grin and kissed her hand. "My names Se..." wait no it wasn't, Severus paused in a slight panic as this was another thing Dumbledore had forgotten, the idiot, he was ruining Severus' moment.
"Um. Alfred," he glanced around the room for inspiration, "Alfred um. Fireplace." Smooth Severus, very smooth. What was wrong with him he could usually lie for England. Hermionie seemed to stifle a giggle.
"That's an intresting name how did you get it?"
"Oh well it's an old family name, hardly anybody calls me by it though. Most people just call me Sev 'cause I seem to be in "Severe" trouble all the time." He chuckled.
"I can see why." A chortle came from an armchair just in front of them and the red haired boy got out of it. "No offence or anything." He had a goofy lop-sided grin on his face. "I'm Ron Weasley."
"Hey." Severus paused for a second, he was sure that he could remember a Weasley who had graduated as he was coming into his 1st year. He had come back to give a speech to the 3rd years about the use of muggle technology in the magical world or some equally tiresome subject for Severus' first (and only) muggle studies class. He was Arnold or Archie or something.
Ron was nice enough Severus was sure but was rather lacking in the gorgeous leg department so he turned back to Hermionie. "What year are you in? I'm a fifth year myself, unfortunately I was unfairly excluded from Durmstrang so I've come to this wonderful school." Ron frowned.
"You were excluded, why was that?"
"I'd really rather not talk about it," Severus raised his voice an octave "It was very unfair and not my fault, it still gets me angry when I think about it." Ron shrugged "Alright you can always tell us later. What were you doing out of bed so late?"
"Talking to Professor Dumbledore and getting sorted," he paused thinking of something, "What about you, it's nearly one in the morning." He folded his arms defiantly. Hermionie lowered her voice and spoke to him quietly.
"A teacher had an accident this evening, a nasty one, we were going down to the hospital wing to see what had happened to him. He wasn't there though. Harry is still down there in his invisibility cloak trying to find out more."
"Harry?"
"Oh he's another friend. You'll meet him in the morning, I'm sure you'll like him he's really nice." Her eyes glazed over slightly as she thought about him. Severus realised he was losing his audience.
"Any friend of yours is a friend of mine, goodnight Hermionie." And he smiled in what he hoped was an alluring way then walked up the stairs with Ron showing him the way to the fifth year boys dormitories.
Later, he lay in bed and smiled slyly to himself, this wasn't going to be so bad, a chance to play some great pranks, lounge in the common room, get the gorgeous girl (well he assumed he would, he almost always did after all) and then go back to his time with some brilliant stories. He felt very at peace with the world as he drifted off to sleep.
Meanwhile, miles away in a dark and sinister-looking underground room two men stood looking at a magnificent sword. One picked it up and held it close to his face then sighed dramatically, "I'm afraid it is as you said my lord the prophecy is getting closer." The second man glanced suspiciously at the glowing, amber jewel embedded in the swords hilt.
"Yes, the scrolls never lies," the second man spoke in a cold voice as hard as diamonds "but it is unfortunate that we still have no idea who he is."
The first man spoke again bowing slightly. "I will track him down my lord, he will be dead within the week I can promise you."
"Good, you have done very well Lucius, I am pleased."
"Thank you my lord, I will not fail you."
"Indeed," the tall, pale man gave a smile that was pure ice, "The last thing we need is the heir running around while we put the plan into action." Lucius nodded and with that he swept from the cave.
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Feedback is so appreciated I promise so please review. Praise, constructive criticism, suggestions, any characters you might want to see, flames or anything really. (Actually, not too many flames!)
Disclaimer- I'm not making money off of this, if I did own Harry Potter, I'd be off buying a pool or something.
Severus Snape sat in one of the plushie armchairs in Dumbledores office playing absent-mindedly with a piece of soft velvet that had been picked off the chair. He flicked it across the room and it landed with a slight plop in a goblet of water on Dumbledores desk. Severus smiled.
"I do hope he dosen't drink that." He muttered to himself and grinned. Severus was feeling in surprisingly good spirts considering he had just been flung across time, or at least his body had, as far as he could tell anyway. It had been a bit of a shock though to say the least.
Since waking up in the hospital wing earlier that night Severus had changed out of the lord of the dead ensemble his future self favoured and managed to find something a little more him. From the school washing room he had got a pair of dark, loose fitting jeans, a long black t-shirt, a pair of black dragon-hide boots and of course the Hogwarts school robes. He had also found a piece of deep red ribbon to tie his raven hair into a ponytail at the base of his neck .
Severus stood up and looked around the office, he had been in here plenty of times before but it had hardly changed at all. Still the same portraits of old headmasters and headmistresses of Hogwarts hanging on the wall and the same glass case with its beautifully crafted jewelled objects by the large, carved oak desk. The Pensieve was something he had never seen before,of course he knew what one was but he wasn't aware that Dumbledore had one.
Severus had some fond memories of this place, like the time he had been bought in here for gluing Potter and Blacks heads together with Zonkos super sticky chewing gum and they had spent a whole 5 minutes trying to get in the door! They had only managed it in the end with Black doing a kind of high kick and Potter twisting round sideways, the memory was enough to bring tears of joy to Severus' eyes. But he had some experiences in this room he would rather forget, the time he had had to sit here for half an hour with his trousers round his ankles with what seemed like half the faculty shouting at him is one that would spring to mind.
He glanced around the room again and his eyes came to rest on the penseive in the corner. Severus walked forward and curiously leaned forward, his hand out-streched and lowered his fingers to touch the smoky contents of the basin.
"Mister Snape," Dumbledores warm, reassuring voice drifted into the office and Snape spun around on his heel. "I am so sorry to have kept you waiting." Severus nodded politely even though he'd never really liked Dumbledore, he found him a bit to patronising. Dumbledore walked behind the desk, his sweeping purple and gold robes swishing behind him dramaticly and sat in the other armchair behind the desk.
"So, Severus how do you feel now ?" Severus also sat down quickly.
"I feel fine professor." Dumbledore suddenly looked at him again in a concerned and rather apologetic way. "I am sorry but we have not been able to discover what has happened to you." Severus raised his head to look the headmaster in the eye. "madam Pomfrey has no known record of this ever happening before and therefore no antidote. So far me and herself are the only people who know of your um condition."
"Oh" Severus looked at his hands that were cupped in his lap. Then he looked up with a hint of a grin. "Does this mean that I won't be able to play Gryffindor tomorrow then?" Dumbldore raised an eyebrow "You do not seem particularly upset about all this?" Severus shrugged "I'm sure I'll get back eventually." To be honest Severus was rather looking forward to the adventure.
"What's going to happen then?" Severus asked making sure to looked as though he couldn't care less ( just because he was in a different time it didn't mean that he had to give up his Slytherin principles of being rude to the headmaster.)
"Well" Dumbledore shot him a Voldemort crushing look that said get your foot off my desk now. Severus could take a hint. " I have thought about it." Dumbledore sighed but looked much friendlier "and I belive it would be wise for you to join the ranks of the students for a while, just as a reasonable excuse as to why you're here."
Severus looked at him and cocked an eyebrow arrogantly. "And that excuse would be..?"
"That you're an exchange student of course." Dumbledore smiled.
"Wait, can't I be something more interesting?"
" Do you have any suggestions then?" Dumbledore asked pleasantly.
Severus thought for a second then smirked in a self satisfied way. "I'll have gotten myself expelled from Durmstrang."
"O.k then I suppose that will work and it's a good bit more intresting than the exchange student idea. How did you get expelled then, and there will be no saying that you blew up the school or a ridiculous idea like that ." He told Severus sternly.
"Dang." Severus pretended to look disappointed, actually he was a bit. "If someone asks I'll just make something up Professor." Dumbledore seemed to consider it for a moment. "Yes I do belive that will work and there's no reason to inform anyone else of who you are because it would just panic them or make them interfere in madam Pomfreys work, the teachers don't even know for the same reason. The student body will be informed that Professor Snape has accompanied a research expedition to Africa, I think that is a believable excuse."
"O.k Professor."
"Good, I'm fairly confident that Madam Pomfrey will have the cure soon enough," he sighed then looked slyly out of the corner of his eye "Alougth it would be helpful if our potions master was here, he was somewhat of an expert in these matters."
Severus shrugged . "I'm sure we'll manage without him. Should I go to the Slytherin common room then Professor?" Dumbledore raised his eyebrows.
"That is rushing things a bit Severus, you have not even been sorted yet." Severus gave a small snort. "It's just a hunch Professor but I think I'll be in Slytherin." Dumbledore stood up. "Even so you are not allowed to be a student in this school without being sorted, in the last 20 years anyway. The sorting hat knows if a student hasn't and will report it immediately." The headmaster glided over to the door. Severus was surprised he didn't trip up on those stupid robes. "We may as well go now."
Severus stayed put. "Doesn't it have to be done in the sorting ceremony?" he frowned. "You know where everyone's staring at you, to reach maximum embarrassment levels." Dumbledore gave a small, amused smile. "Not nessacerily Mister Snape, Contrary to your belief I'm am not here simply to make your life as difficult as possible." And with that and another twinkling smile he swept out of the door. Severus stood up huffily and followed, "That's what you say," he muttered and took long stride to catch up with the headmaster whose robes had just vanished around the corner a few seconds after he did.
Severus was sure that this was better than his first sorting, although that wasn't hard as he had almost tripped up and then run off with the hat still on his head, not that he'd do anything like that now of course. He sat on the stool that Dumbledore had handed to him and let the patched and battered old dishrag fall down over his face blocking the little room next to the old mans office where the sorting hat was kept from sight.
"Hmmm hello Severus Snape missed the train did we?" Severus recognised the voice of the hat which didn't really seem to come from anywhere but the inside of his skull.
"No I got expelled from Durmstrang." Severus thought back, before it occurred to him that the hat knew everything about him so there wasn't really a lot of point in lying.
"I think we both know that's not true." The hat said smarmily. "I suppose you want me to sort you into Slytherin again.
"If it wouldn't be to much trouble."
"Don't be cheeky. Now lets have a look here. The hat pause for a second, seemingly to give his mind a more intense scan. "Clever, ohh very clever, not such a hard worker though," Severus gave the equivalent of a mental shrug. "If there's an easier way to do something then you might as well do it." The hat continued as though it hadn't heard Severus' thoughts.
"Ohh sneaky little sod aren't we?"
"Hey!"
"Well you are!"
"This is taking longer than it did before, could we please get on with it."
The hat sounded annoyed, "I'm bored, that's why, I haven't got anything to do up here so I'm just taking a bit more care than I did last time ok. Good, now what else, plenty of bravery excellent, but I suppose I will put you in. It seemed to do a mental double take "hang on a second, this is intresting." Severus was starting to get irritated now.
"What's intresting!"
The sorting hat sounded smug when it spoke again, could hats really sound smug?
"Oh nothing much." It stated airily. "I expect that you'll find out eventually."
Severus was getting a bit exasperated now, "Can you just sort me please!"
"Ok then let's make it...
.GRYFINNDOR!" the hat shouted the last bit out loud and Severus froze. He pulled off the hat and glared indignantly up at Dumbledore. "What?" he demanded. Dumbledore put on a slightly puzzled smile. "I am not sure Mister Snape, still the hat never lies," he looked amused "Gryfinnder it is, I suppose." Snape gazed up at him in disbelief.
"But I can't be in Gryfinndor, I..I'm a Slytherin."
"I really do not know what happened but I would get up to Gryfinndor tower if I were you, you do know where it is right," Severus nodded dumbly "good you'll have a long day of lessons tomorrow, goodnight Mister Snape sleep well." And with that he opened the door and left quickly followed by Severus, who was left standing in the corridor wondering what the hell had just happened. He couldn't possibly be in Gryfindor, it didn't make any sense.
He grinned evilly, there might be an advantage to being in Gryfindor after all. "I'll take down the system from inside." He muttered in voice full of dark mirth.
At least finding their common room hadn't taken him long as he knew it of old. It wasn't until he was standing outside the portrait of the fat lady that he realised that stupid old fool had forgotten to tell him the password.
"Password please." The fat lady asked him politely. "Umm, can I phone a friend?" Severus' mother was right he probably did watch too much muggle television. Luckily before the rather confused fat lady had a chance to respond to that, two figures came walking round the corner. One was a tall, gangly red haired boy with a rather long nose, whose robes, Severus noticed were hanging an inch above the floor revealing a pair of battered, old trainers. The other was an attractive girl with velvety looking curly-ish brown hair and beautiful cinnamon eyes. She was carrying an extremely heavy looking bag with books practically spilling out of it over her shoulder. They walked up to the portrait hole, Severus realised he was about to lose his chance.
"Hello," he ran up to them from were he had been standing in the shadows. "I'm sorry you couldn't tell me the password could you?" he grinned sheepishly "It's my first day and nobody bothered to tell me." The girl smiled in a very friendly way and said "Sure, it's popydomell." The portrait swung open to reveal the circular hole that lead to the Gryfindor common room. They walked together.
Severus took in the beautiful circular room. Soft, comfy looking armchairs were scattered about, the wall was decorated with gold hangings and pretty ornaments and at the back he could feel the heat coming from the fire blazing in the massive fireplace. Severus felt a slight twinge of annoyance, this was much nicer than the dungeon, where it was damp in winter and you occaiaionally sat in puddles, he made a mental note to complain to somebody and to take one of the throws draped over the chairs back with him.
Severus suddenly noticed the girl was looking at him. "Oh," he smiled back, "hi."
"I'm Hermionie Granger nice to meet you." She flashed a delicious grin and tucked a piece of silky chestnut hair behind her ear. "The pleasure's all mine." Severus put on a cocky grin and kissed her hand. "My names Se..." wait no it wasn't, Severus paused in a slight panic as this was another thing Dumbledore had forgotten, the idiot, he was ruining Severus' moment.
"Um. Alfred," he glanced around the room for inspiration, "Alfred um. Fireplace." Smooth Severus, very smooth. What was wrong with him he could usually lie for England. Hermionie seemed to stifle a giggle.
"That's an intresting name how did you get it?"
"Oh well it's an old family name, hardly anybody calls me by it though. Most people just call me Sev 'cause I seem to be in "Severe" trouble all the time." He chuckled.
"I can see why." A chortle came from an armchair just in front of them and the red haired boy got out of it. "No offence or anything." He had a goofy lop-sided grin on his face. "I'm Ron Weasley."
"Hey." Severus paused for a second, he was sure that he could remember a Weasley who had graduated as he was coming into his 1st year. He had come back to give a speech to the 3rd years about the use of muggle technology in the magical world or some equally tiresome subject for Severus' first (and only) muggle studies class. He was Arnold or Archie or something.
Ron was nice enough Severus was sure but was rather lacking in the gorgeous leg department so he turned back to Hermionie. "What year are you in? I'm a fifth year myself, unfortunately I was unfairly excluded from Durmstrang so I've come to this wonderful school." Ron frowned.
"You were excluded, why was that?"
"I'd really rather not talk about it," Severus raised his voice an octave "It was very unfair and not my fault, it still gets me angry when I think about it." Ron shrugged "Alright you can always tell us later. What were you doing out of bed so late?"
"Talking to Professor Dumbledore and getting sorted," he paused thinking of something, "What about you, it's nearly one in the morning." He folded his arms defiantly. Hermionie lowered her voice and spoke to him quietly.
"A teacher had an accident this evening, a nasty one, we were going down to the hospital wing to see what had happened to him. He wasn't there though. Harry is still down there in his invisibility cloak trying to find out more."
"Harry?"
"Oh he's another friend. You'll meet him in the morning, I'm sure you'll like him he's really nice." Her eyes glazed over slightly as she thought about him. Severus realised he was losing his audience.
"Any friend of yours is a friend of mine, goodnight Hermionie." And he smiled in what he hoped was an alluring way then walked up the stairs with Ron showing him the way to the fifth year boys dormitories.
Later, he lay in bed and smiled slyly to himself, this wasn't going to be so bad, a chance to play some great pranks, lounge in the common room, get the gorgeous girl (well he assumed he would, he almost always did after all) and then go back to his time with some brilliant stories. He felt very at peace with the world as he drifted off to sleep.
Meanwhile, miles away in a dark and sinister-looking underground room two men stood looking at a magnificent sword. One picked it up and held it close to his face then sighed dramatically, "I'm afraid it is as you said my lord the prophecy is getting closer." The second man glanced suspiciously at the glowing, amber jewel embedded in the swords hilt.
"Yes, the scrolls never lies," the second man spoke in a cold voice as hard as diamonds "but it is unfortunate that we still have no idea who he is."
The first man spoke again bowing slightly. "I will track him down my lord, he will be dead within the week I can promise you."
"Good, you have done very well Lucius, I am pleased."
"Thank you my lord, I will not fail you."
"Indeed," the tall, pale man gave a smile that was pure ice, "The last thing we need is the heir running around while we put the plan into action." Lucius nodded and with that he swept from the cave.
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