Kitchens

Snape and Diane were in the kitchens getting butter beer and fudge cakes while all the house elfs were running around trying to get them more food. They were sitting on a bench eating the cakes and talking about their lives so far. Diane told him about how she had been at a school with mostly boys before so they would all try to go out with her because she was so pretty. Snape looked kind of mad because of anyone just liking Diane for her looks. Snape told Diane about how his father was so mean to him and beat him sometimes. Diane looked so mad that anyone would hurt Severus. They sat there for a while but then Diane felt something happen in her wand. A message came to her brain.

Diane,

I'm locked in a broom closet somewhere in the castle. Malfoy has trapped me in here. He doesn't know that I can reach you so please come help me. Bring Snape with you. I trust him. I think I'm on the fifth floor. Hurry, Please!

Raven

Diane jerked suddenly. Snape looked surprised.

" What's wrong? Did I do something?" Snape said concerned.

Diane shook her head.

" Raven has been trapped in a broom closet by Malfoy! I've got to go get her. You're coming with me!" Diane said. She pulled Snape out of the kitchen and dashed down the corridor before Snape could say anything. Snape ran to catch up with her. They ran down the corridor to a trick passageway to the fifth floor.

" Why am I coming? She doesn't need me!" Snape protested.

" You're coming because we both want you to help!" Diane said laughing.

They bounded up a set of stairs and into a corridor. Diane walked down the corridor looking for a broom closet. She heard a voice somewhere in the wall next to her.

Diane,

I'm in a broom closet. Can you hear me?

I think Malfoy put an illusion charm up somewhere. Please hurry! Is Snape there?

Raven

Diane looked startled. She suddenly started banging on the wall in front of her.

"Raven! Are you in there? I hear your voice but I don't know where you are! I think you're behind here though." Diane said quietly.

Snape watched from behind. ' How does she know where Raven is?

She must have a tracker or something in her mind. That's a form of the Dark Arts! Maybe her talent is coming out and she will be a true Slytherin.' Snape thought.

" Yes! I'm here. Help me get-" Raven started to say but then it got quiet.

" Raven? Raven! Are you still there? Answer Raven!" Diane said, panicked.

" Be quiet! I hear something!" –and then- " Diane, run! Malfoy is coming and closing in fast! Get out of there!" Raven yelled.

Snape heard her and grabbed Diane around the waist and held her protectively. Malfoy suddenly appeared in front of him with his wand pointed at them.

" Where do you think you're going?" Malfoy sneered.

" What are you doing Malfoy? We're in Slytherin with you! We're on your side!" Snape said loudly.

" Oh really? Looks like you're trying to rescue Raven here. You won't be able to get her out. Only one counter curse can do that and nobody except very high-powered Slytherins can do that counter curse but first they have to learn it. Sadly for you, they're all on my side." Malfoy said, smiling.

" Really? Well then apparently you can't count because we're Slytherins too and we are definitely not on your side!" Diane shouted.

Malfoy looked suddenly at Snape and stopped smiling.

" So what about you Severus? Are you on my side or with your little girlfriend here? You know what I can write to your father if you slip out of my group." Malfoy said evilly.

Snape stopped and muttered something like 'blackmailer'. Then he took Diane's hand and said, " let's go."

She looked at him in disbelief.

" You're just going to leave my sister here? You're not even going to try to get her!" Diane yelled at Snape.

Snape leaned down to her ear and whispered

" We'll come back in a hour. Tell that to Raven if you can."

His breath on her neck chilled her. She barely nodded her head and said

" Malfoy, you will get punished for this! STUPEFY!"

Diane yelled.

Malfoy, too surprised to act, fell to the floor.

"Raven, we will come back later. In an hour. " Diane said to the 'wall'.

" Why in two hours? Why can't you get me out now?" Raven asked.

"I don't know the counter curse and Malfoy sure won't do it for us! I have to look in the library. Since my family goes back generations I should be able to learn it quickly. Don't worry!

See you in a little bit!" Snape said to Raven.

"Bye!" Diane said, and they rushed down the corridor.

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Severus and Diane reached the library and ran to a curse section.

Severus grabbed some books and sat down at a table. He first looked at a book titled Curses and Counter Curses for the Advanced. A lot of it was for 5th years. Diane skimmed through Professional Counter Curses. After about a half an hour looking Diane found a counter curse for a curse called ILLUSIONARY DECEPTION.

" Severus, look at this! It's an illusionary curse! This might be what we were looking for!" Diane said excitedly.

Snape came right over and yelled, "That's it!"

They got kicked out of the library but the still got the book.

" Read this Severus!" Diane whispered.

The Illusionary Deception Curse was perhaps one of the most used curses when You-Know-Who was in power. Death Eaters would mostly use it when trying to hide someone from Aurors. They would cast illusionary walls, stoves, sinks, or even toilets to hide their prisoners. The curse (said Dellusion Hidia) has even been used to smuggle items into England disguised as baby rattles. Anyone who uses this curse has 50 years in Azkaban. Only people with Salazar Slytherins' blood in them will be able to work the counter curse and curse for it was Salazar himself that made this curse. There is only one counter curse called the Revealer and it is said "Revella". If you use it on something that has not been cursed then it will bounce back to you and you shall be blind for 3 days.

" Great! Now all you have to do is start to learn it! " Diane said happily. "I know you can do it!"

Severus smiled in gratitude and started to practice the counter curse.