Disclaimer: I am not Joss, nor am I J.K. Rowlings, but I like to borrow
characters for a little while.
Author's Note: Buffy's mom is younger, despite the fact that she will not be appearing. I enjoy cliff hangers and I'll try not to rush! Set after Season Two, so Buffy is about 17 and Oliver would be just a smidge older! Thanks for the reviews.
Chapter 4
Buffy sighed in boredom, she had just gotten out of potions with her father and she was amazingly advanced for never having studied the subject. She was advanced in all of her subjects, but most especially Defense Against the Dark Arts, although she hadn't met the teacher, instead her father had been teaching her. She got praises from all of her teachers for being a quick study and so far advanced that she could easily surpass the third years without trying very hard.
Her flying was incredible also, she had learned everything she was supposed to learn about flying that first day and Oliver had been teaching her how to play the different positions in Quidditch, although she was better at a beater, because of her slayer strength, but she was a great as a chaser too, because she was tiny. Anlon would join Buffy and Oliver in the air, loving being able to fly free and they would occasionally play tag, until Snape would get worried and yell at them. Oliver had finally taught Buffy everything he knew about Quidditch and the summer was almost over. Actually the summer was over and school would start the following day, although she was supposed to go patrolling that night with Giles, she was supposed to go and get on the train, so that she could meet more people, which meant she had to get up early. Buffy sighed, again, and got up to go get Giles.
"Giles?" Buffy asked, as she gave the password to the picture and stepped into his room. "It's time to go on patrol."
"I'll be out in one second, Buffy." He called from the bathroom, where he emerged where his normal tweed. They walked out into Hogwart's courtyard where Anlon was waiting patiently for them; he could not wait to fly. As Giles and Buffy walked towards the forbidden forest, Anlon took off into the air, he would warn them should anything come their way.
"How is Angel?" Giles asked, at first Buffy thought that he meant her Angel, the one she had sent to hell, but then she remembered that she had finally named her phoenix Angel, in remembrance of her Angel.
"Good. She is upstairs in my room sleeping, I'm have her cage out, so that we can go on the train tomorrow." Buffy told him and tensed, because she could feel something coming, just then Anlon landed.
"Vampires." He told them, "About ten of them, on their way." They stood side by side, waiting for the vampires to walk out of the woods; they didn't have long to wait.
"Slayer." One hissed.
"Yep, that would be me." Buffy said flippantly, before throwing a stake into its heart and watching it explode in dust. "Whose next?" she asked and the vampires looked at each other in confusion, before shrugging and making a very sloppy, uncoordinated attack on Anlon, Giles, and Buffy. The fight lasted all of three minutes, but Giles was once again knocked unconscious.
"Are you sure we aren't in Sunnydale?" Giles asked rubbing the back of his head, while Buffy helped him to stand.
"Yes, according to Oliver, we are somewhere in Scotland." She told him and laughed at his disgruntled face.
"Well, lets head in, it is time for you to go to bed, so that you can make the train." Giles told her and Buffy made a face at him, while Anlon took one last look from the air, to make sure everything was okay. He landed next to them and followed them inside.
"Good night, Giles." Buffy said, kissing him on the check and then heading to her room, where she changed into her pajamas and fell asleep, with Anlon asleep at the end of her bed and Angel at the top.
Next Morning: Train
Buffy sat in the compartment by herself, waiting for the rest of the students to board.
"Stupid dad and Giles. "It will be good for you,"" she mimicked, in a fake British accent, " "You need to get out more." Yea, well just look at all the students flocking around here." She said to herself, indicating her empty compartment.
"I hope you don't mind if I join you." Oliver said, walking into the compartment and Buffy blushed a bright red, when she realized that he had heard a great deal of what she had said.
"No, go right ahead." She said. "So, how have you been?"
"Good. I'm excited to be going back to Hogwarts." He told her, as he set his owl next to Angel.
"Sure you are," she said, teasing him, "you just want Quidditch to start." Oliver shrugged and grinned, knowing that Buffy was right.
"Speaking of.."
"That's all you speak of." Interrupted a new voice. It belonged to a young man, with unruly black hair and a lighting bolt scar, Buffy looked him over for a moment, realizing that this was the boy that her father had told her about and turned back to Oliver.
"Yes, so?" Oliver asked, indicating that Harry should join them.
"I'm just saying that if you paid as much attention as you do with Quidditch to your school work, you would be the top of your class." Harry told him and then turned to Buffy. "Hi. I'm Harry Potter." He waited for Buffy to go nuts over his name and ask for his autograph or something like that.
"Buffy." She said, purposely keeping her last name a secret for the moment.
"Which year are you?"
"Third." She said, looking back at Oliver, "So what had you wanted to tell me before?"
"Oh! Katie Bell won't be attending Hogwarts anymore." He told her.
"What!" Harry asked shocked, "How do you know?"
"I talked to Katie, although she wishes us luck, especially against Slytherin." Oliver told Harry, before looking back at Buffy, "I think that you should try out." Oliver told her and Harry just looked shocked, he couldn't imagine the small, blonde girl playing Quidditch. Before he could say anything though a man dressed in tattered robes opened the door.
"Would you mind if I stayed here?" he asked, looking at everyone in the group. Buffy looked at him as her spidey sense went off, she nodded and he sat down.
"I am Professor Lupin." He said, "I will be teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts, along with Rupert Giles."
"I'm Oliver Wood." Oliver said, pointing to Harry, "Harry Potter, and she's Buffy." He told the professor. Lupin looked at Buffy and they exchanged glances, both realizing that there was more to be said. Oliver and Harry got up.
"If you will excuse us, we will be right back, we need to go find the rest of the team and Harry's friends." They quickly departed leaving Buffy and Lupin alone in the compartment.
"So," Buffy started looking at him, "What are you?" Lupin glanced at her sharply and then quickly looked around. "Don't worry no one is around that can hear you." She told him.
"I'm a werewolf and how did you know?" he asked.
"I'm the slayer."
"Oh." He said, falling silent and then looking at her, "So, is Snape your father?" he asked.
"Yes." She said, "How did you know?"
"I can smell him on you, but I can also smell Ripper on you."
"He's my watcher."
"oh." They fell silent again, but that was okay, because Harry arrived back with Hermione and Ron. They entered the compartment and the introductions started again.
"I am Hermione Granger, the red hair boy is Ron Weasley." She said, looking at Buffy and Lupin with interst.
"I'm Buffy." She said simply, "And he's Professor Lupin, he's our new DADA teacher." Everyone settled in for a long ride, each person taking turns asking questions, while Lupin slept in the compartment.
Around mid-afternoon, a young man and two companions opened the door.
"Well, look who it is," the boy said as he opened the compartment door, "Potty and the Weasel." Ron jumped to his feet and approached the boy.
"What do you want Malfoy?" he asked and Buffy got a really good look at him, Spike!
"I heard that your father got a little bit of gold this summer, Wesal. Did you mother did of shock?" he asked and Ron looked ready to punch him, but Buffy beat him to it. She grabbed him by the throat and held him to the comparment door.
"Hey, mini-Spike, why don't you take a hike the way you came out?" she said and let him slide down the door.
"Why you no good mudblood!" he said, reaching for his wand, but Buffy grabbed him again.
"I have no idea what a mudblood is, but I know by the way everyone in this room gasped that it is not good. So here is the deal, you walk away and leave us alone and I won't tell my father or you get your ass kicked and you can't walk away and my father will find out."
"Ohh. I'm so scared." Malfoy muttered, refusing to be intimidated by the blonde girl. "Who is your father? Some muggle?" Buffy grabbed his wand hand and twisted, until Malfoy went down on his knees from pain.
"No," she said smiling, "My father is Professor Snape." Everyone in the compartment gasped in shock, except for Oliver who had already known. "Now leave." She let go of his arm and kicked him into the hallway, but as she was closing the door, she heard him mutter,
"Sure he is, stupid mudblood." It would have been soft enough that a normal human wouldn't have been able to hear it, but Buffy wasn't normal. Without thought, she kicked him hard, sending him into the other side of the train, causing people to stick their heads out. She walked over and picked him up.
"If you ever say that to me again, you will find out how much pain you can stand, before you pass out." She said and let him go, but as she was closing the door, she stopped and looked at him. "By the way, I will be informing my father." She closed the door and turned around to look at the rest of the group, who was staring at her in shock.
"That was amazing!" Ron said, "Will you marry me?" he asked and everyone started to laugh.
"You know I should deduct points." Lupin said, surprising everyone that he was awake, except for Buffy who had heard his breathing change, "But I believe that Mr. Malfoy needed to be taught that lesson." Lupin told them, before turning over and really going to sleep. Everyone looked out the window and noticed that it was nearly dark.
"We must be there soon." Ron said and as he said the train came to a stop.
"We can't be there yet." Hermione said and suddenly the lights went out, throwing everyone into mass hysteria, except for Buffy who could see well enough.
"Whose in here?" asked a small frightened voice.
"Ginny?"
"Yes?"
"It's Hermione, come in here and sit."
"No, not here," Oliver said, as Ginny tried to sit on his lap.
"Out," Neville exclaimed, when she stepped on his foot.
"Shh!" Buffy and Lupin said at the same time. Suddenly the compartment was lit and Lupin was holding something that looked to be on fire.
"Stay here," he commanded, but before he could reach the door, it was slid open. The creature took a look inside and it's gaze settled on Buffy and Harry.
Buffy could see herself thrusting a sword through Angel and her mind replayed everything that had happened to her. She gave a startled scream and got up, advancing on the creature. Grabbing the creature, she felt a chill go through her and she could feel everything that Angel had, screaming in rage Buffy ripped it's head off and then passed out.
"Buffy?" she heard a voice ask, "Can you hear me?"
"Yea." She said, "What happened?"
"Well, you took out a dementor." Lupin told her, "They guard Azkaban." He told her and then handed her a piece of chocolate. "This should help you." He turned and left the room, while Buffy looked around, she noticed Harry had a piece too. She also noticed that they had picked up more people and that she was sitting on the ground.
"You can either sit on my lap or have my seat." Oliver said, when he noticed that she was awake. Buffy thought it over and got up, making her way to Oliver, where she sat on his lap and snuggled into him falling asleep.
When the train stopped moving, Oliver simply picked Buffy up and carried her, not wanting to wake her, everyone exchanged glances. It seemed their Quidditch captain had finally fallen in love.
"First ye'rs this way." Hagrid cried and they piled into carriages, where they arrived at Hogwarts. Snape and Giles rushed outside and waited for the carriages to stop. When they saw Oliver carrying Buffy they assumed the worse and went running. Snape swept her up in his arms and carried her to the medical room.
"Poppy!" Giles exclaimed.
"She needs help." He said and their yelling had awakened Buffy.
"Hey dad." she said and then noticed her surroundings, "No! We need to leave." Giles winced, remembering how much Buffy did not like hospitals.
"It's okay Buffy, she is going to make sure you are okay and then you can go to your room." Giles said, shooting a glance at Snape.
"I'm fine."
"What seems to be the problem?" Poppy asked.
"They meet a dementor." Lupin said, as he escorted Harry into the room. Snape and Giles looked at him sharply, before looking back at Buffy.
"I'm fine," she told him, "Besides I took care of the nasty thing."
"How?"
"Well I decapitated it."
"With her bare hands." Lupin said, looking at Buffy and Snape, who was glaring at him. "I gave them chocolate on the train, but she passed out, so I just wanted to be sure she was alright."
"I'm fine." She said, "Can I go?" without waiting for a response, Buffy hopped off the bed and made her way out of the room, Harry following her example.
"Care to explain?" Snape asked, looking at Giles.
"She is afraid of hospitals." He turned and looked at Lupin, "Long time no see." They nodded to each other and then followed the two teenagers out of the room, they arrived at the feast, just in time to see Buffy and Harry sit down at their table.
"Welcome!" Dumbledore said, "I have a few announcements to make. First off, our school is playing host to some dementors, who are looking for an escaped prisoner." He waited for everything to calm down before continuing. "I have the pleasure of introducing some new professors. First would be Professor Lupin who will be teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts," there was some applause, but it mostly came from the Gryffindor table. "Next there is Professor Giles, who will be assisting Professor Lupin." There was some more applause and Buffy stood up and clapped the loudest. "Finally, our new care of Magical Creatures is Rubeus Hagrid." The entire Gryffindor table stood up and clapped. "And we have a new student, Buffy Snape." Buffy stood up and the entire hall was quite, she could see Malfoy glaring at her and then he looked a bit worried as he realized that she had been telling the truth. "Let the feast begin!"
When the feast ended, everyone stood and was headed back to their rooms, except Buffy who was walking towards her room.
"Buffy." Hermione said, "Our dorm is this way."
"I have my own room." Buffy said.
"Why?"
"I can't really tell you." She said and then walked down to her room, where she opened the door and quickly went inside, leaving the terrible trio to wonder what had happened and who she was that she was able to have her own room.
Later that Night:
Buffy walked down the hallway and made her way to her father's room, giving the password she stepped inside.
"Hey, dad." she said and he turned to look at her. She walked over to him and sat down next to him. "I'm sorry about the whole hospital wing thing." She started off, "But I am terrified of hospitals, ever since I was little not that the Der Kinstood helped any." She muttered and Snape tucked that knowledge away to later ask Giles about it.
"It's okay. But you do have school tomorrow, so you need to head off to bed." He said.
"Okay." Buffy gave him a quick hug and was turning to leave, she stopped and looked at him. "What is a mudblood?" Buffy took a step back as Snape stood, she had never seen him so mad.
"Who said that to you?" he asked through clenched teeth.
"Malfoy." She said and almost felt sorry for him, because her father looked ready to kill. "I met him on the train. I was talking with Harry, Ron, and Hermione and he came in a started to harass them, so I grabbed him and told him to leave and he called me a mudblood. Then he told me that I was lying about who my father was." Buffy told him, filling him in on everything that had taken place. "Also, what is a dementor?" Snape was momentarily distracted from his thoughts of torturing Malfoy by the question.
"They guard the Azkaban prison and force the prisoners to relive their most horrible memorie. But a demontor kiss has the ability to steal a soul." He told her. "now, you really should be off to bed." He told her and wondered what the dementor had forced her to face. She gave him another hug and went back to her room, where she curled up to Anlon and fell asleep.
Author's Note: Buffy's mom is younger, despite the fact that she will not be appearing. I enjoy cliff hangers and I'll try not to rush! Set after Season Two, so Buffy is about 17 and Oliver would be just a smidge older! Thanks for the reviews.
Chapter 4
Buffy sighed in boredom, she had just gotten out of potions with her father and she was amazingly advanced for never having studied the subject. She was advanced in all of her subjects, but most especially Defense Against the Dark Arts, although she hadn't met the teacher, instead her father had been teaching her. She got praises from all of her teachers for being a quick study and so far advanced that she could easily surpass the third years without trying very hard.
Her flying was incredible also, she had learned everything she was supposed to learn about flying that first day and Oliver had been teaching her how to play the different positions in Quidditch, although she was better at a beater, because of her slayer strength, but she was a great as a chaser too, because she was tiny. Anlon would join Buffy and Oliver in the air, loving being able to fly free and they would occasionally play tag, until Snape would get worried and yell at them. Oliver had finally taught Buffy everything he knew about Quidditch and the summer was almost over. Actually the summer was over and school would start the following day, although she was supposed to go patrolling that night with Giles, she was supposed to go and get on the train, so that she could meet more people, which meant she had to get up early. Buffy sighed, again, and got up to go get Giles.
"Giles?" Buffy asked, as she gave the password to the picture and stepped into his room. "It's time to go on patrol."
"I'll be out in one second, Buffy." He called from the bathroom, where he emerged where his normal tweed. They walked out into Hogwart's courtyard where Anlon was waiting patiently for them; he could not wait to fly. As Giles and Buffy walked towards the forbidden forest, Anlon took off into the air, he would warn them should anything come their way.
"How is Angel?" Giles asked, at first Buffy thought that he meant her Angel, the one she had sent to hell, but then she remembered that she had finally named her phoenix Angel, in remembrance of her Angel.
"Good. She is upstairs in my room sleeping, I'm have her cage out, so that we can go on the train tomorrow." Buffy told him and tensed, because she could feel something coming, just then Anlon landed.
"Vampires." He told them, "About ten of them, on their way." They stood side by side, waiting for the vampires to walk out of the woods; they didn't have long to wait.
"Slayer." One hissed.
"Yep, that would be me." Buffy said flippantly, before throwing a stake into its heart and watching it explode in dust. "Whose next?" she asked and the vampires looked at each other in confusion, before shrugging and making a very sloppy, uncoordinated attack on Anlon, Giles, and Buffy. The fight lasted all of three minutes, but Giles was once again knocked unconscious.
"Are you sure we aren't in Sunnydale?" Giles asked rubbing the back of his head, while Buffy helped him to stand.
"Yes, according to Oliver, we are somewhere in Scotland." She told him and laughed at his disgruntled face.
"Well, lets head in, it is time for you to go to bed, so that you can make the train." Giles told her and Buffy made a face at him, while Anlon took one last look from the air, to make sure everything was okay. He landed next to them and followed them inside.
"Good night, Giles." Buffy said, kissing him on the check and then heading to her room, where she changed into her pajamas and fell asleep, with Anlon asleep at the end of her bed and Angel at the top.
Next Morning: Train
Buffy sat in the compartment by herself, waiting for the rest of the students to board.
"Stupid dad and Giles. "It will be good for you,"" she mimicked, in a fake British accent, " "You need to get out more." Yea, well just look at all the students flocking around here." She said to herself, indicating her empty compartment.
"I hope you don't mind if I join you." Oliver said, walking into the compartment and Buffy blushed a bright red, when she realized that he had heard a great deal of what she had said.
"No, go right ahead." She said. "So, how have you been?"
"Good. I'm excited to be going back to Hogwarts." He told her, as he set his owl next to Angel.
"Sure you are," she said, teasing him, "you just want Quidditch to start." Oliver shrugged and grinned, knowing that Buffy was right.
"Speaking of.."
"That's all you speak of." Interrupted a new voice. It belonged to a young man, with unruly black hair and a lighting bolt scar, Buffy looked him over for a moment, realizing that this was the boy that her father had told her about and turned back to Oliver.
"Yes, so?" Oliver asked, indicating that Harry should join them.
"I'm just saying that if you paid as much attention as you do with Quidditch to your school work, you would be the top of your class." Harry told him and then turned to Buffy. "Hi. I'm Harry Potter." He waited for Buffy to go nuts over his name and ask for his autograph or something like that.
"Buffy." She said, purposely keeping her last name a secret for the moment.
"Which year are you?"
"Third." She said, looking back at Oliver, "So what had you wanted to tell me before?"
"Oh! Katie Bell won't be attending Hogwarts anymore." He told her.
"What!" Harry asked shocked, "How do you know?"
"I talked to Katie, although she wishes us luck, especially against Slytherin." Oliver told Harry, before looking back at Buffy, "I think that you should try out." Oliver told her and Harry just looked shocked, he couldn't imagine the small, blonde girl playing Quidditch. Before he could say anything though a man dressed in tattered robes opened the door.
"Would you mind if I stayed here?" he asked, looking at everyone in the group. Buffy looked at him as her spidey sense went off, she nodded and he sat down.
"I am Professor Lupin." He said, "I will be teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts, along with Rupert Giles."
"I'm Oliver Wood." Oliver said, pointing to Harry, "Harry Potter, and she's Buffy." He told the professor. Lupin looked at Buffy and they exchanged glances, both realizing that there was more to be said. Oliver and Harry got up.
"If you will excuse us, we will be right back, we need to go find the rest of the team and Harry's friends." They quickly departed leaving Buffy and Lupin alone in the compartment.
"So," Buffy started looking at him, "What are you?" Lupin glanced at her sharply and then quickly looked around. "Don't worry no one is around that can hear you." She told him.
"I'm a werewolf and how did you know?" he asked.
"I'm the slayer."
"Oh." He said, falling silent and then looking at her, "So, is Snape your father?" he asked.
"Yes." She said, "How did you know?"
"I can smell him on you, but I can also smell Ripper on you."
"He's my watcher."
"oh." They fell silent again, but that was okay, because Harry arrived back with Hermione and Ron. They entered the compartment and the introductions started again.
"I am Hermione Granger, the red hair boy is Ron Weasley." She said, looking at Buffy and Lupin with interst.
"I'm Buffy." She said simply, "And he's Professor Lupin, he's our new DADA teacher." Everyone settled in for a long ride, each person taking turns asking questions, while Lupin slept in the compartment.
Around mid-afternoon, a young man and two companions opened the door.
"Well, look who it is," the boy said as he opened the compartment door, "Potty and the Weasel." Ron jumped to his feet and approached the boy.
"What do you want Malfoy?" he asked and Buffy got a really good look at him, Spike!
"I heard that your father got a little bit of gold this summer, Wesal. Did you mother did of shock?" he asked and Ron looked ready to punch him, but Buffy beat him to it. She grabbed him by the throat and held him to the comparment door.
"Hey, mini-Spike, why don't you take a hike the way you came out?" she said and let him slide down the door.
"Why you no good mudblood!" he said, reaching for his wand, but Buffy grabbed him again.
"I have no idea what a mudblood is, but I know by the way everyone in this room gasped that it is not good. So here is the deal, you walk away and leave us alone and I won't tell my father or you get your ass kicked and you can't walk away and my father will find out."
"Ohh. I'm so scared." Malfoy muttered, refusing to be intimidated by the blonde girl. "Who is your father? Some muggle?" Buffy grabbed his wand hand and twisted, until Malfoy went down on his knees from pain.
"No," she said smiling, "My father is Professor Snape." Everyone in the compartment gasped in shock, except for Oliver who had already known. "Now leave." She let go of his arm and kicked him into the hallway, but as she was closing the door, she heard him mutter,
"Sure he is, stupid mudblood." It would have been soft enough that a normal human wouldn't have been able to hear it, but Buffy wasn't normal. Without thought, she kicked him hard, sending him into the other side of the train, causing people to stick their heads out. She walked over and picked him up.
"If you ever say that to me again, you will find out how much pain you can stand, before you pass out." She said and let him go, but as she was closing the door, she stopped and looked at him. "By the way, I will be informing my father." She closed the door and turned around to look at the rest of the group, who was staring at her in shock.
"That was amazing!" Ron said, "Will you marry me?" he asked and everyone started to laugh.
"You know I should deduct points." Lupin said, surprising everyone that he was awake, except for Buffy who had heard his breathing change, "But I believe that Mr. Malfoy needed to be taught that lesson." Lupin told them, before turning over and really going to sleep. Everyone looked out the window and noticed that it was nearly dark.
"We must be there soon." Ron said and as he said the train came to a stop.
"We can't be there yet." Hermione said and suddenly the lights went out, throwing everyone into mass hysteria, except for Buffy who could see well enough.
"Whose in here?" asked a small frightened voice.
"Ginny?"
"Yes?"
"It's Hermione, come in here and sit."
"No, not here," Oliver said, as Ginny tried to sit on his lap.
"Out," Neville exclaimed, when she stepped on his foot.
"Shh!" Buffy and Lupin said at the same time. Suddenly the compartment was lit and Lupin was holding something that looked to be on fire.
"Stay here," he commanded, but before he could reach the door, it was slid open. The creature took a look inside and it's gaze settled on Buffy and Harry.
Buffy could see herself thrusting a sword through Angel and her mind replayed everything that had happened to her. She gave a startled scream and got up, advancing on the creature. Grabbing the creature, she felt a chill go through her and she could feel everything that Angel had, screaming in rage Buffy ripped it's head off and then passed out.
"Buffy?" she heard a voice ask, "Can you hear me?"
"Yea." She said, "What happened?"
"Well, you took out a dementor." Lupin told her, "They guard Azkaban." He told her and then handed her a piece of chocolate. "This should help you." He turned and left the room, while Buffy looked around, she noticed Harry had a piece too. She also noticed that they had picked up more people and that she was sitting on the ground.
"You can either sit on my lap or have my seat." Oliver said, when he noticed that she was awake. Buffy thought it over and got up, making her way to Oliver, where she sat on his lap and snuggled into him falling asleep.
When the train stopped moving, Oliver simply picked Buffy up and carried her, not wanting to wake her, everyone exchanged glances. It seemed their Quidditch captain had finally fallen in love.
"First ye'rs this way." Hagrid cried and they piled into carriages, where they arrived at Hogwarts. Snape and Giles rushed outside and waited for the carriages to stop. When they saw Oliver carrying Buffy they assumed the worse and went running. Snape swept her up in his arms and carried her to the medical room.
"Poppy!" Giles exclaimed.
"She needs help." He said and their yelling had awakened Buffy.
"Hey dad." she said and then noticed her surroundings, "No! We need to leave." Giles winced, remembering how much Buffy did not like hospitals.
"It's okay Buffy, she is going to make sure you are okay and then you can go to your room." Giles said, shooting a glance at Snape.
"I'm fine."
"What seems to be the problem?" Poppy asked.
"They meet a dementor." Lupin said, as he escorted Harry into the room. Snape and Giles looked at him sharply, before looking back at Buffy.
"I'm fine," she told him, "Besides I took care of the nasty thing."
"How?"
"Well I decapitated it."
"With her bare hands." Lupin said, looking at Buffy and Snape, who was glaring at him. "I gave them chocolate on the train, but she passed out, so I just wanted to be sure she was alright."
"I'm fine." She said, "Can I go?" without waiting for a response, Buffy hopped off the bed and made her way out of the room, Harry following her example.
"Care to explain?" Snape asked, looking at Giles.
"She is afraid of hospitals." He turned and looked at Lupin, "Long time no see." They nodded to each other and then followed the two teenagers out of the room, they arrived at the feast, just in time to see Buffy and Harry sit down at their table.
"Welcome!" Dumbledore said, "I have a few announcements to make. First off, our school is playing host to some dementors, who are looking for an escaped prisoner." He waited for everything to calm down before continuing. "I have the pleasure of introducing some new professors. First would be Professor Lupin who will be teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts," there was some applause, but it mostly came from the Gryffindor table. "Next there is Professor Giles, who will be assisting Professor Lupin." There was some more applause and Buffy stood up and clapped the loudest. "Finally, our new care of Magical Creatures is Rubeus Hagrid." The entire Gryffindor table stood up and clapped. "And we have a new student, Buffy Snape." Buffy stood up and the entire hall was quite, she could see Malfoy glaring at her and then he looked a bit worried as he realized that she had been telling the truth. "Let the feast begin!"
When the feast ended, everyone stood and was headed back to their rooms, except Buffy who was walking towards her room.
"Buffy." Hermione said, "Our dorm is this way."
"I have my own room." Buffy said.
"Why?"
"I can't really tell you." She said and then walked down to her room, where she opened the door and quickly went inside, leaving the terrible trio to wonder what had happened and who she was that she was able to have her own room.
Later that Night:
Buffy walked down the hallway and made her way to her father's room, giving the password she stepped inside.
"Hey, dad." she said and he turned to look at her. She walked over to him and sat down next to him. "I'm sorry about the whole hospital wing thing." She started off, "But I am terrified of hospitals, ever since I was little not that the Der Kinstood helped any." She muttered and Snape tucked that knowledge away to later ask Giles about it.
"It's okay. But you do have school tomorrow, so you need to head off to bed." He said.
"Okay." Buffy gave him a quick hug and was turning to leave, she stopped and looked at him. "What is a mudblood?" Buffy took a step back as Snape stood, she had never seen him so mad.
"Who said that to you?" he asked through clenched teeth.
"Malfoy." She said and almost felt sorry for him, because her father looked ready to kill. "I met him on the train. I was talking with Harry, Ron, and Hermione and he came in a started to harass them, so I grabbed him and told him to leave and he called me a mudblood. Then he told me that I was lying about who my father was." Buffy told him, filling him in on everything that had taken place. "Also, what is a dementor?" Snape was momentarily distracted from his thoughts of torturing Malfoy by the question.
"They guard the Azkaban prison and force the prisoners to relive their most horrible memorie. But a demontor kiss has the ability to steal a soul." He told her. "now, you really should be off to bed." He told her and wondered what the dementor had forced her to face. She gave him another hug and went back to her room, where she curled up to Anlon and fell asleep.