Chapter 4-The Halloween Festival
Warnings: Slash/Yaoi, some OotP spoilers, hints of twinscest, AU, swearing (just a couple of bad words in this chapter)
Disclaimer: J.K Rowling owns Harry Potter, characters and such. So don't sue me. I only have the HP books and my imaginary dolls!
Pairings: HP/SS, HG/RW, hints of DM/BZ, and FW/GW
What Happened so Far: Harry is stuck with having extra lessons with the loathed potions master, Severus Snape! Ron and Hermione hooked up last chapter, and so far, they're having a blast out of being a couple. Hermione and Severus found out that Fred and George are well... an item. Snape teaches Harry occlumency, and for their first lesson, -accompanied by the rest of the golden trio- Harry gets his very own pensieve. Draco is trying to get Blaise Zabini to go out with him, and he uses Harry to try make Zabini jealous. But Harry promises himself that Draco will have to get Zabini without using Harry.
Archive: Anywhere as long as you get MY PERMISSION to do so.
Harry: I want some presents!
Baka Otaku: Don't worry sugah; we'll get you some presents.
Harry: YAY, I'm getting presents!
PsyO: I want presents too!
Baka Otaku: Ok, my yami is making a fool of herself, and she's supposed to be the sane one...
Harry was working extra hard this year since he had extra lessons, and because his occlumency lessons were never on a set date or time. The teachers were planning a fun event for everyone since Halloween was coming up, and they decided to help students to have happy memories to help the students to recover from the War. They were deciding to on whether to have a carnival or a dance.
Everyone was excited and all the female teachers were babbling excitedly on what would happen and so forth. As much as possible, professor Snape was trying to be anti-social because he didn't want to be stuck supervising and taking part in the games. Albus was taking a vote on what to have for the Halloween festivities and mostly of all, the student body wanted a carnival, because they thought a dance would be boring, since they had dances for previous years since Harry's fourth year.
The students were so excited that they wouldn't pay attention in class, so most of the teachers let them talk and play, while only two still gave them work: Professor Snape and Professor Binns. Professor Snape kept on muttering on how the carnival, was a waste of time. As the carnival approached, all the couples were excited because Halloween was a time they could snog, since most of the time they couldn't snog due to the strict rules. On the day of Halloween, Harry was hanging out with his friends, as they were going booth to booth, they saw Professor Trelawney's booth. She was predicting people's futures and the golden trio decided to go check it out and surprisingly, there was a long line!
Harry joined the line and waved at his friends and said, "Hey guys, want to check out Trelawney's booth?"
Hermione sighed and shook her head saying. "Oh Harry, she's just a fraud. She had only one prediction that was true and that was in our third year!"
Of course Harry had never told his friends about the prophecy that he had learned in his fifth year; he was still worried -2 years later- that his friends would overreact, but little did he know that prophecy wouldn't really matter. There was one that would change his life for better means, but a small set of problems would arise at it's own time. But that's not important right now...
Professor Snape was walking by, bumped into Harry, took 5 points off of Gryffindor, tripped in front of Sybill and she entered a trance-like prophecy. "You will find true love by the end of this year, Severus Snape, it will be with the person you least expect it with..."
Severus knew what was going on, so did Harry, the Aurors appeared from the Ministry to record it and stayed there to see if she would prophesise again . When Harry passed by his Divinations teacher she went into another trance and spoke again, "Harry Potter, saviour of the wizarding world, finally at last you will find the happiness and family you seek on your quest of love and belonging."
"Huh, I'll find the belonging I've been yearning for?" asked Harry stupidly.
Severus was mildy surprised at what Harry had said, while on the other hand... his friends were didn't hear what he said. Professor Trelawney's crystal ball was showing a swirling mist then, a small pond with water drops dripping into it. Harry walked back to his friends, bumped into Snape again and 5 points was taken off Gryffindor.
For the rest of the day Harry kept to himself and bumped into Severus repeatedly, so he got a detention at 9:30 p.m. The potions master was very irritated that he received a prophecy from one his most disliked colleagues. He locked himself in his office, activated the wards, sat himself at his desk, and thought about the events throughout the day.
At 9:30 Harry went down to the dungeons to do his detention with Snape, found Snape setting up his cauldron, pensieve and occulmency book. Snape looked up, sneered, demanded, while ticking off his fingers " Why Harry... why did keep on bumping into me? To make fun of me? You, yourself..."
In his own defence Harry, shot back , "It was just an accident, I just wasn't looking at where I was going!"
Severus became irritated and began to draw out wand to hex Harry, but Albus head popped out of Severus' fire place and said calmly, "Don't. You know that you will get suspended from teaching if you hex a student outside of school hours. But you know the exceptions..."
With a reluctant sigh, he put his wand in pocket of his robe, ordered Harry to help him make potions and salves for Mme Pomfrey and decided that he would teach Harry also. They made potions for a simple cold to more complex ones, then they made salves for all sorts of ailments. When Severus started to tell Harry to get his things for Occlumency, Harry darted off to his dorm as quickly as possible and took his time to get back to the dungeons. Severus became more irritated and zapped Harry with a simple spell.
Harry was fascinated with the pensieve Severus owned, he examined the designs which were similar to Harry's and had the same effect in the carving in the material as Harry's. Severus noted that Harry took in his pensieve and asked him, "Wondering how I got this?"
Harry snapped out of his trance and murmured, "Huh? What? Oh yeah, I guess... I like the designs."
"Although, I am reluctant to show you, it is my duty to answer as many questions that I can." answered Snape slowly as if Harry was slow at grasping the concept
Snape motioned Harry to step near his pensieve and told Harry to look at the silver flowing substance, so he could learn how the potions master of Hogwarts acquired his Pensieve. In the memories of Severus Snape, he saw a young boy of five with a man who appeared to look like a younger version of Severus Snape. The young boy had an enthusiastic energy while he was jumping up and down, after he jumped around a little he took his father's hand. He giggled and said, "Papa, Papa! What are we going to do today?"
His father smiled, squeezed his son's hand and answered, "We're going to see your mother, and she and I have a surprise for you."
Harry who was a little confused asked professor Snape what this particular memory had to do with how he got his pensieve, Snape told him that he thought it best for Harry to see the entire story. The little boy was thinking deeply letting his robe fly about in a particular way that seemed familiar to Harry, his eyes lit up and said, "Really? You and Mama have a surprise? Can you tell me please? I'll still act surprised even if you tell me!"
A rich tenor laugh escaped the father's lips and said, "No son, I can't tell you. You know, it won't be surprise if I told you what it was."
A small pout was etched on the son's face, then he laughed and spoke, "All right..."
They walked into Saint Mungo's hospital, found their way into the room of the mother and saw a baby girl with light ebony hair, bright onyx eyes, and rosy cheeks. She was laughing at every thing she saw. They walked up to the mother and the boy smiled and said, "This is my surprise? Wow! What's her name?"
The woman smiled and tiredly said, "Now Severus, now that you have a little sister, we want you be careful with your magic... And we haven't decided yet on her name."
Severus excitedly said, "I know what her name should be! Her name should be... Willow!"
His mother smiled, turned to her husband and said, "What do you think, sweetie?"
His father laughed again, turned to his wife, two children and said, "I think it's perfect."
"Then that's her name!"
Harry was shocked to find out DADA prof. had a younger sister, he knew that Snape had parents. (Obviously.) 'How come his family doesn't contact him or visit him?' Harry pondered.
"I know what you must be thinking..." spoke the professor softly, "why haven't I had any contact with my family? You see, Voldemort learned of my interest in the dark arts from Lucius... He wanted me to join his cause and I refused once, and..."
A single tear drop from Severus' eye and it fell into the pensieve. The tear created ripples in the memory strands. Harry put his hand on his professor's arm and comforted him and said soothingly, "I understand... My loss is kind of like yours..."
Severus looked down at the understanding young adult and gave a small smile, "Thank you for your comfort. I appreciate your gesture... You know that this helps, but it won't bring them back..."
The scene changed altogether by fast forwarding as soon as Severus finished speaking. It was when Severus was ten and his sister was five. The Snape family was at the same spot where Harry got his pensieve. A young witch did the same things that her descendants did after her, examine the recipients aura. Severus' was blue and red like fire and water representing passion and tranquillity. Willow's aura was pink and purple colours of her innocence to the evil soon to come and pain to come to her soul. While the children were discussing on how cool their newest possessions were; Alexander, their father watched them, it filled him with a serene feeling just being there with his family. He loved how his family was, he knew they loved they way it was too, but every now and then young Severus would feel a pain for no reason, then cry and want his whole family there...
"That bastard murdered my family and now he's paid the price..." spat the bitter DADA professor.
Professor Snape straightened his robe, cleared his throat and motioned Harry away from his pensieve. From that point on they reviewed the basics of occulmency until midnight. They drank some wine and Snape used a simple breath mint charm on Harry. Before going, Harry paused and looked up into his DADA professor's deep onyx eyes and searched for something in those eyes. He left the office and found his way to the Gryffindor dorm rooms. When he went to sleep he couldn't stop thinking about Snape.
Meanwhile, at Severus' office, Severus found that he couldn't sleep. So he decided to go through his family's possessions, Severus' heart was heavy, he told himself that they were gone and nothing could be done about it. He also tried to tell himself that they were probably not feeling pain wherever they were. But that wasn't the case...
"Oh honey, look our son is unhappy. I am sad, my love, our son knew the pleasures of the world and now... he's so depressed. Voldemort is gone but we're not there for the important parts in his life... Graduation, defeating the Dark Lord, and finding happiness at last." sobbed his mother watching her child from the above.
"Our son, Marissa...He misses your comforting touch and my comforting words. We will pray for the one that the fates have chosen for him to help him. Someday we will visit him for a time then that will make him happier. But the gods say it is not time yet..." comforted Alexander.
"Papa, I want to go down there and hug him and tell him that we're watching over him no matter what he does, I miss him papa..." cried Willow.
"In time love, we'll do that soon, the gods will tell us when though. As we learned, everything has a reason, time and place." Alexander told them.
The bottle of scotch in Severus' hand shattered magically. The scotch flowed over his hand and dripped to the floor. He cleaned the scotch up and walked around the private office and downed a glass of gin and tonic. He sat down at his desk went through the family possessions again. At the sight of these items he remembered many memories. He felt the anger that he buried for so many years rise up and decided take more vengeance on Voldemort. He apparated to the secret burial site of Voldemort and burned it down.
In the darkness of the forest, two gleaming eyes watched the burning grave...
Severus looked at the grave with hate because most of his life he had been living in fear of Voldemort, and sorrow of his family's death. He finally had the peace inside that he had been wanting for so long. Now knowing that his family rested in peace, he then apparated to their graves and watched the treetops swaying in the wind. The sun became brighter dispersing the darkness in the sky and the birds were singing unlike before he arrived at their grave standing there, his hair flying in the wind thinking, 'I am free at last, and my family is at rest ...'
Or so he thought...
Random A/N: OOOH! I know I'm no good at suspense but I thought this to be an ok way to end this...
Harry: What does she mean by 'Or so he thought' ?
Sev: Yes, what do YOU mean by that?
Baka Otaku: Too bad. I'm not telling you, you just have to wait till the next chapter!
Harry & Sev: Review pwease! (They chibify and their eyes grow watery, they look so kawaii you just can't refuse their request...)
Warnings: Slash/Yaoi, some OotP spoilers, hints of twinscest, AU, swearing (just a couple of bad words in this chapter)
Disclaimer: J.K Rowling owns Harry Potter, characters and such. So don't sue me. I only have the HP books and my imaginary dolls!
Pairings: HP/SS, HG/RW, hints of DM/BZ, and FW/GW
What Happened so Far: Harry is stuck with having extra lessons with the loathed potions master, Severus Snape! Ron and Hermione hooked up last chapter, and so far, they're having a blast out of being a couple. Hermione and Severus found out that Fred and George are well... an item. Snape teaches Harry occlumency, and for their first lesson, -accompanied by the rest of the golden trio- Harry gets his very own pensieve. Draco is trying to get Blaise Zabini to go out with him, and he uses Harry to try make Zabini jealous. But Harry promises himself that Draco will have to get Zabini without using Harry.
Archive: Anywhere as long as you get MY PERMISSION to do so.
Harry: I want some presents!
Baka Otaku: Don't worry sugah; we'll get you some presents.
Harry: YAY, I'm getting presents!
PsyO: I want presents too!
Baka Otaku: Ok, my yami is making a fool of herself, and she's supposed to be the sane one...
Harry was working extra hard this year since he had extra lessons, and because his occlumency lessons were never on a set date or time. The teachers were planning a fun event for everyone since Halloween was coming up, and they decided to help students to have happy memories to help the students to recover from the War. They were deciding to on whether to have a carnival or a dance.
Everyone was excited and all the female teachers were babbling excitedly on what would happen and so forth. As much as possible, professor Snape was trying to be anti-social because he didn't want to be stuck supervising and taking part in the games. Albus was taking a vote on what to have for the Halloween festivities and mostly of all, the student body wanted a carnival, because they thought a dance would be boring, since they had dances for previous years since Harry's fourth year.
The students were so excited that they wouldn't pay attention in class, so most of the teachers let them talk and play, while only two still gave them work: Professor Snape and Professor Binns. Professor Snape kept on muttering on how the carnival, was a waste of time. As the carnival approached, all the couples were excited because Halloween was a time they could snog, since most of the time they couldn't snog due to the strict rules. On the day of Halloween, Harry was hanging out with his friends, as they were going booth to booth, they saw Professor Trelawney's booth. She was predicting people's futures and the golden trio decided to go check it out and surprisingly, there was a long line!
Harry joined the line and waved at his friends and said, "Hey guys, want to check out Trelawney's booth?"
Hermione sighed and shook her head saying. "Oh Harry, she's just a fraud. She had only one prediction that was true and that was in our third year!"
Of course Harry had never told his friends about the prophecy that he had learned in his fifth year; he was still worried -2 years later- that his friends would overreact, but little did he know that prophecy wouldn't really matter. There was one that would change his life for better means, but a small set of problems would arise at it's own time. But that's not important right now...
Professor Snape was walking by, bumped into Harry, took 5 points off of Gryffindor, tripped in front of Sybill and she entered a trance-like prophecy. "You will find true love by the end of this year, Severus Snape, it will be with the person you least expect it with..."
Severus knew what was going on, so did Harry, the Aurors appeared from the Ministry to record it and stayed there to see if she would prophesise again . When Harry passed by his Divinations teacher she went into another trance and spoke again, "Harry Potter, saviour of the wizarding world, finally at last you will find the happiness and family you seek on your quest of love and belonging."
"Huh, I'll find the belonging I've been yearning for?" asked Harry stupidly.
Severus was mildy surprised at what Harry had said, while on the other hand... his friends were didn't hear what he said. Professor Trelawney's crystal ball was showing a swirling mist then, a small pond with water drops dripping into it. Harry walked back to his friends, bumped into Snape again and 5 points was taken off Gryffindor.
For the rest of the day Harry kept to himself and bumped into Severus repeatedly, so he got a detention at 9:30 p.m. The potions master was very irritated that he received a prophecy from one his most disliked colleagues. He locked himself in his office, activated the wards, sat himself at his desk, and thought about the events throughout the day.
At 9:30 Harry went down to the dungeons to do his detention with Snape, found Snape setting up his cauldron, pensieve and occulmency book. Snape looked up, sneered, demanded, while ticking off his fingers " Why Harry... why did keep on bumping into me? To make fun of me? You, yourself..."
In his own defence Harry, shot back , "It was just an accident, I just wasn't looking at where I was going!"
Severus became irritated and began to draw out wand to hex Harry, but Albus head popped out of Severus' fire place and said calmly, "Don't. You know that you will get suspended from teaching if you hex a student outside of school hours. But you know the exceptions..."
With a reluctant sigh, he put his wand in pocket of his robe, ordered Harry to help him make potions and salves for Mme Pomfrey and decided that he would teach Harry also. They made potions for a simple cold to more complex ones, then they made salves for all sorts of ailments. When Severus started to tell Harry to get his things for Occlumency, Harry darted off to his dorm as quickly as possible and took his time to get back to the dungeons. Severus became more irritated and zapped Harry with a simple spell.
Harry was fascinated with the pensieve Severus owned, he examined the designs which were similar to Harry's and had the same effect in the carving in the material as Harry's. Severus noted that Harry took in his pensieve and asked him, "Wondering how I got this?"
Harry snapped out of his trance and murmured, "Huh? What? Oh yeah, I guess... I like the designs."
"Although, I am reluctant to show you, it is my duty to answer as many questions that I can." answered Snape slowly as if Harry was slow at grasping the concept
Snape motioned Harry to step near his pensieve and told Harry to look at the silver flowing substance, so he could learn how the potions master of Hogwarts acquired his Pensieve. In the memories of Severus Snape, he saw a young boy of five with a man who appeared to look like a younger version of Severus Snape. The young boy had an enthusiastic energy while he was jumping up and down, after he jumped around a little he took his father's hand. He giggled and said, "Papa, Papa! What are we going to do today?"
His father smiled, squeezed his son's hand and answered, "We're going to see your mother, and she and I have a surprise for you."
Harry who was a little confused asked professor Snape what this particular memory had to do with how he got his pensieve, Snape told him that he thought it best for Harry to see the entire story. The little boy was thinking deeply letting his robe fly about in a particular way that seemed familiar to Harry, his eyes lit up and said, "Really? You and Mama have a surprise? Can you tell me please? I'll still act surprised even if you tell me!"
A rich tenor laugh escaped the father's lips and said, "No son, I can't tell you. You know, it won't be surprise if I told you what it was."
A small pout was etched on the son's face, then he laughed and spoke, "All right..."
They walked into Saint Mungo's hospital, found their way into the room of the mother and saw a baby girl with light ebony hair, bright onyx eyes, and rosy cheeks. She was laughing at every thing she saw. They walked up to the mother and the boy smiled and said, "This is my surprise? Wow! What's her name?"
The woman smiled and tiredly said, "Now Severus, now that you have a little sister, we want you be careful with your magic... And we haven't decided yet on her name."
Severus excitedly said, "I know what her name should be! Her name should be... Willow!"
His mother smiled, turned to her husband and said, "What do you think, sweetie?"
His father laughed again, turned to his wife, two children and said, "I think it's perfect."
"Then that's her name!"
Harry was shocked to find out DADA prof. had a younger sister, he knew that Snape had parents. (Obviously.) 'How come his family doesn't contact him or visit him?' Harry pondered.
"I know what you must be thinking..." spoke the professor softly, "why haven't I had any contact with my family? You see, Voldemort learned of my interest in the dark arts from Lucius... He wanted me to join his cause and I refused once, and..."
A single tear drop from Severus' eye and it fell into the pensieve. The tear created ripples in the memory strands. Harry put his hand on his professor's arm and comforted him and said soothingly, "I understand... My loss is kind of like yours..."
Severus looked down at the understanding young adult and gave a small smile, "Thank you for your comfort. I appreciate your gesture... You know that this helps, but it won't bring them back..."
The scene changed altogether by fast forwarding as soon as Severus finished speaking. It was when Severus was ten and his sister was five. The Snape family was at the same spot where Harry got his pensieve. A young witch did the same things that her descendants did after her, examine the recipients aura. Severus' was blue and red like fire and water representing passion and tranquillity. Willow's aura was pink and purple colours of her innocence to the evil soon to come and pain to come to her soul. While the children were discussing on how cool their newest possessions were; Alexander, their father watched them, it filled him with a serene feeling just being there with his family. He loved how his family was, he knew they loved they way it was too, but every now and then young Severus would feel a pain for no reason, then cry and want his whole family there...
"That bastard murdered my family and now he's paid the price..." spat the bitter DADA professor.
Professor Snape straightened his robe, cleared his throat and motioned Harry away from his pensieve. From that point on they reviewed the basics of occulmency until midnight. They drank some wine and Snape used a simple breath mint charm on Harry. Before going, Harry paused and looked up into his DADA professor's deep onyx eyes and searched for something in those eyes. He left the office and found his way to the Gryffindor dorm rooms. When he went to sleep he couldn't stop thinking about Snape.
Meanwhile, at Severus' office, Severus found that he couldn't sleep. So he decided to go through his family's possessions, Severus' heart was heavy, he told himself that they were gone and nothing could be done about it. He also tried to tell himself that they were probably not feeling pain wherever they were. But that wasn't the case...
"Oh honey, look our son is unhappy. I am sad, my love, our son knew the pleasures of the world and now... he's so depressed. Voldemort is gone but we're not there for the important parts in his life... Graduation, defeating the Dark Lord, and finding happiness at last." sobbed his mother watching her child from the above.
"Our son, Marissa...He misses your comforting touch and my comforting words. We will pray for the one that the fates have chosen for him to help him. Someday we will visit him for a time then that will make him happier. But the gods say it is not time yet..." comforted Alexander.
"Papa, I want to go down there and hug him and tell him that we're watching over him no matter what he does, I miss him papa..." cried Willow.
"In time love, we'll do that soon, the gods will tell us when though. As we learned, everything has a reason, time and place." Alexander told them.
The bottle of scotch in Severus' hand shattered magically. The scotch flowed over his hand and dripped to the floor. He cleaned the scotch up and walked around the private office and downed a glass of gin and tonic. He sat down at his desk went through the family possessions again. At the sight of these items he remembered many memories. He felt the anger that he buried for so many years rise up and decided take more vengeance on Voldemort. He apparated to the secret burial site of Voldemort and burned it down.
In the darkness of the forest, two gleaming eyes watched the burning grave...
Severus looked at the grave with hate because most of his life he had been living in fear of Voldemort, and sorrow of his family's death. He finally had the peace inside that he had been wanting for so long. Now knowing that his family rested in peace, he then apparated to their graves and watched the treetops swaying in the wind. The sun became brighter dispersing the darkness in the sky and the birds were singing unlike before he arrived at their grave standing there, his hair flying in the wind thinking, 'I am free at last, and my family is at rest ...'
Or so he thought...
Random A/N: OOOH! I know I'm no good at suspense but I thought this to be an ok way to end this...
Harry: What does she mean by 'Or so he thought' ?
Sev: Yes, what do YOU mean by that?
Baka Otaku: Too bad. I'm not telling you, you just have to wait till the next chapter!
Harry & Sev: Review pwease! (They chibify and their eyes grow watery, they look so kawaii you just can't refuse their request...)