Something to Regret – Chapter Three
Harry Ron and Hermione raced down the dungeon hall towards the potions classroom. It did not bode well to be late to one of Professor Snape's classes especially with exams coming up so soon. They expected that Snape would be furious but what they did not expect was to arrive at the classroom and see all the students standing about in the hall, whispering amongst themselves.
"Hermione, Harry, Ron where have you been?" questioned a somewhat short frightened boy.
"Never mind that Neville, what's going on" Harry asked looking around at all the students.
"Well I don't really know, but that girl over there" Neville pointed to a fairly shaken up girl sitting in the corner of the hall. "She was the first one to get here and she went in the classroom just the same as any other time, only-"
"Only?" Hermione questioned.
"Only when she went in Professor Snape freaked out on her, started screaming at her to get out of the room, but when she didn't move, I think she was in shock, he sent her flying out of the room and slammed the door behind her" Neville said looking particularly horrified himself.
They all stood quietly for a second taking in what they heard, then Hermione spoke.
"Did anyone go get another teacher?"
Neville shook his head indicating no.
"Hmm, okay well we are just going to have to go in there then" Hermione said.
"What are you mad!?" Ron said loudly. "You heard what Neville said, Snape's snapped!"
"We can't afford to miss any more potions classes with our exams coming up" Hermione stated firmly.
"What are your grades more important than your life!?!"
"It's not like he would purposely harm us."
"Oh and whipping a girl out of a classroom isn't purposeful harm!?"
Ignoring his friends bickering Harry slowly walked forward and opened the door to the potions room.
"Professor" he called out as he slowly entered the room spotting Snape at his desk. Harry moved up towards the front of the room where Snape sat at his desk muttering to himself.
"Um, excuse me sir" Harry stopped in front of Snape's desk. "Are you okay?" he asked.
The muttering had stopped and a piercing glare was upon him. "What do you want Potter? Why aren't you in your seat?" Snape barked, looking around only to see an empty classroom.
"Where is everyone?" he snapped almost surprisingly.
Harry stared for a moment then answered "Professor, you wouldn't let anyone in when the class started."
Snape almost looked confused, almost. "Let them in then" he barked.
The rest of the potions period consisted of Snape yelling at everyone to study and him retreating to his desk. There were no criticizing, no mean jokes, not even a whisper it was just silent for the remainder of the period. The bell rang after what seemed like hours and everyone filed out of the classroom.
"Well that was just horrible" Hermione stated as she Harry and Ron headed up the many flights of stairs towards the special room Dumbledore had provided for Sirius.
"- absolutely mad!" Ron wailed as he flung open the door to Sirius' room.
"Thank you for knocking" came a gruff sarcastic voice as Sirius looked up from his newspaper.
"What's mad?" he asked.
"Snape! He's gone absolutely mad he has!" Ron exclaimed.
Sirius looked towards Harry with a questioning look.
"He freaked out on a student and literally tossed her out of the classroom, I went to see what was going on and he was just sitting there muttering to himself." Harry lowered his voice so that Ron and Hermione wouldn't hear. "I could have sworn he was crying" Harry said.
Sirius' heart gave a tug and he frowned. He knew exactly what was going on, having gone threw the same thing earlier, well the exactly the same thing, from what he knew it was probably much much worse. He really did need to talk to Severus again, he needed to-
"He didn't give us any homework or anything! Do you think he's dieing or something!?" Ron yelled excitedly, interrupting Sirius' thoughts.
"What do you think is wrong with him" Harry asked quietly. "I don't know" Sirius lied.
Eventually Ron's blabbing subsided and the three of them left for dinner.
"See you Sirius" Hermione said as she headed out the door.
Sirius had decided he would go see Snape, though he could not go now for there where too many people out who would see him, so he waited for midnight then headed out