Hogwarts. Ground. Day. Henry was talking with the Slytherin student that was his potion teammate at the corridor about their project in potions class.
He leaned on the balcony corridor as they spoke. "We should try harder this time, Jinks. My dad is a potion teacher and I can't fail. Shame on my dad if his son failed in potions".
"I understand, Hen. We've tried before but it doesn't work. Should you ask your dad how to create a wounded antidote? This is a rare antidote, Hen. This anecdote is not just healing outside, it is healing from the inside too. Which means the wizard and witch who drink this antidote will get quickly healed, so then the Ministry of Magic which is your mum could help people who need it".
"Include muggle?"
Tommy Jinks nods. "Not all muggle got. Half.. I think. That is why I ask your dad about this".
Before Henry could respond, the corner of his eyes saw variable hair color walking down the stairs to the clock tower courtyard ground. It seems hurried then vanishes between the crowd of students.
It was Teddy Lupin.
"You hear what I say, Hen?"
Henry looked up at him. "I'll write to him but now I have something to do. I'll see you then".
He quickly ran down to the ground where Teddy had walked. He follows him until they reach Hogwarts ground, Teddy waving his wand that makes the Whomping Willow tree stop swinging before he could get hurt and he accesses inside.
He still didn't notice he was followed by Henry Snape. "Where are you going, Teddy?"
Susannah had been followed by Scorpius Malfoy wherever she went, he even followed her into the girl's lavatory. Tobias was snickering when he saw how much his sister Susannah wanted to get rid Malfoy away from her.
At that moment Tobias walks up behind Malfoy and stops him. "Where'd you go, son?" he patted Malfoy back. "Going somewhere?"
"Tobias!" he said, shocked. "I-I was walking, that's all. Looking for ideas for my next project with my friends". he lied. "Honestly".
Tobias snickering more like an evil wizard. Even Voldemort couldn't help it.
"You never had a friend, Malfoy. Nobody wants to be your friend except my sister, Sue. You follow her, why?"
"I wasn't".
"You are obsessed. Why?"
"I wasn't obsessed, Tobias. Stop questioning me why! I say I wasn't". he looks pale, the same hair color Tobias notices. Scorpius gently pushed him, their eyes met. "What are you doing?"
"Nothing. Just admiring the place. I mean.. it wasn't like this before you know.. the battle. Our parents will say Hogwarts was destroyed and I'm not blaming you for that because none of us were born when the battle took place".
Tobias leaned closer to Scorpius. "I'll watch you very carefully, Malfoy".
He grinned. About to walk but stop, he turns back to Malfoy.
"Don't worry, Scorp. I like the way you chase someone you love. Like my dad chasing my mum while they're still in Hogwarts. That's what adults always say.. love". Then he walked back inside the castle.
Scorpius could hear Tobias evil laughing echoes inside the castle. He sighs, resuming searching for Susannah Snape. He will not stop until he'd get her.
Shrieking Shack. Same day. Henry passed the entrance of the Whomping Willow. There's a passageway through the tunnel.
What he hear from his mother, Hermione. The Shrieking Shack is supposed to be the most severely haunted building in Britain.
The building was an abandoned house in Hogsmeade. For many years, villagers thought it was haunted because they often heard screams coming from inside.
Until now. The mystery of Shrieking Shack still had no answer to the call. Even his dad Severus Snape was killed by Voldemort's pet, Nagini in this very building.
The Shrieking Shack's entrance from the Hogwarts grounds was the base of the Whomping Willow. The trick was to poke the knot in the trunk, which paralysed the tree. The secret passageway could be seen on the Marauder's Map.
Slowly he walked deeply through the tunnel and from below he could hear Teddy Lupin sobbing above his head.
The windows and doors boarded up. The rooms and halls were all dirty, covered with dust, and the furniture was moth-eaten and broken. There was a chair in the foyer of the shack that had one of its legs ripped off.
In the foyer, a staircase led to the second floor. Upstairs where sobbing Teddy was placed. Henry breathed and almost sneezed because of all this dirty-dust all around him.
"Go AWAY!" he pushed the spiders away from his shoulder as he creeped upstairs.
In one of the rooms, there was a magnificent but dusty four-poster bed with rickety doors. This room was also where Peter Pettigrew was caught.
Henry stood behind this room.
"I knew you there". Henry, shocked, Teddy looked over his shoulder. "Come in".
Henry took a sit at one of broken chair which now he facing Teddy. His eyes are red after crying.
"Wondering why am I here". he smiled. "This haunted house was built for my dad, Remus Lupin. Dumbledore build this as he was the one who commissioned it, due to my dad lycanthropy..
"Madam Pomfrey used to escort him here before his transformation. The yells and shouts heard by the villagers were really my dad biting and scratching himself due to lack of humans to infect. Your dad almost got killed by him due to his monthly transformation, in order to eliminate spying on them, James Potter saved your dad in time, but not before he witnessed what my dad was".
Henry cleared his throat. "Where'd you hear all this stuff?" he asked.
"From Uncle Harry". their eyes met. "And your dad was forbidden to tell anyone of what he saw that day".
Teddy begins to cry and sobbing again.
"I barely knew my parents because they died in battle. I only know them through Uncle Harry and the rest of the order, your mum and Uncle Ron. Your dad didn't talk about him much but I know he is still missing him".
Teddy wiped his tears. Henry then took a seat beside him and calmed him down.
"Now I feel how Uncle Harry felt without his parents beside him to support. Raising a family was never like you. I was raised by my grandmother Andromeda. I'm not inherit my dad lycanthropy, I was like my mother Metamorphmagus".
"It was their faith, Teddy. So did Uncle Harry's parents when they left him orphan as he was a baby and we cannot change that faith".
He laid his hand on Teddy's shoulder. "It's all written before we were born. Like me.. I was lucky to be alive when my mum fought in battle. If my mum wasn't thinking straight I probably died inside her belly that day".
Henry rubs his shoulder. "This is all faith. My dad lived because of me and as for you Teddy.. you have us. So did Uncle Harry, he had my mum and Uncle Ron. There's no way you both are alone".
"I am glad. Thank you. Just missing them much".
"I know. We all do".
Moments later. Henry climbing back to the castle, Teddy Lupin are left behind in Shrieking Shack alone.
He walks through the empty corridor as he feels pairs of eyes watching him since he left the Shack's. He looked around him.. nothing.
He was about to turn but then someone pushed him on the wall, his back knocked on the wall, he hissed in pain. Groaning, he met these familiar eyes.
"SUE!" he shouted. Susannah snickering. "What did you do that for!"
"Is it true?"
"About what!"
"Teddy of course. Dumbledore built the Shrieking Shack for his dad, which is the place he could transform into a werewolf. Are you joking!"
Henry rubs the back of his head, pushing her aside gently. "Where'd you hear that?" he studied her eyes. "Oh no. You were there? you are sneaking mint just like mum and curious dad. Who else knows about it".
"Just me. Oh come on, Hen. It wasn't that bad when you find out a shocking story.. but then why dad never told us any of this".
He shrugged. Susannah bite her lips.
"His dad almost killed our dad because they put a prank on him to stop him from spying on them. Sirius Black, James Potter and Peter Pettigrew. Merlin beard was a long time ago. Do you know our dad is kinda ugly before he transforms into like.. right now".
"How should I know about that, Sue. Ask mum or dad if you want the rest of the story. Look? What are you doing in the first place? Stalking? or running from Malfoy". She didn't answer but he knew the answer. "Running from Malfoy I'll get it. That boy won't stop chasing you".
She rolled her eyes, said. "Then do something about him. Ask him to stop following me!"
"You start it first. I've told you not to. Don't talk with him, done".
"Is it forbidden to talk to someone like Malfoy? Henry.. he is just a boy. He had nothing to do with the battle in Hogwarts and that wasn't his fault. Can't you people stop blaming this on him. I get it his family, formerly of Death Eaters, still his grandparents are worse than his dad".
Henry shook his head then walked. She follows him aside. "Go back to your dormitories, Sue. I want to write a letter to dad".
"Why?"
"I have an assignment that I had to ask him how to create a potion that could save the wizardry world and muggle".
She frowned. "Sounds serious. Don't try to fail in potions classes. You're Severus Snape first born son, if dad finds out you failed in potions well, what can he say? Mum never failed every school subject she took except.. Divination".
"She didn't hate Professor Trelawney just.. how she treated mum in her class sort of. Besides, Trelawney class is boring, board your mind.. does she know what she is doing".
Susannah shrugged. He spoke back. "I bet she doesn't".
"I'm going to the Library. I'm not gonna waste my time waiting for Malfoy to chase me behind. If he asks you where am I.. just saying that you push me inside the black lake where the giant squid eats me alive".
She met his eyes. "You understand?" he nodded his head. Both Henry and Susannah then walk separate ways.