Title: Petunia Evans and the Foundation of the Wizarding World
Rating: T
Summary: No one knows how wizards and witches got their magic and most have given up trying to figure it out. This is the story of Petunia Evans suddenly falling into magic and how one moment unlocks the foundation of the Wizarding world.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of Rowling's characters and I'm making nothing from this.
Chapter 3: Talking to the Old Man
Eileen Snape wasn't one to inform anyone that she was coming. She just appeared and damn if you liked it. She had sort of stopped doing that when she married Tobias but it was time for her to take the practice back up. She apparated outside the grounds of Hogwarts and opened the small gate. As she walked up the drive to the castle she saw that nothing had changed since her Hogwarts days.
The grounds were empty and Eileen knew that classes must be in session as she saw no other soul around. When she entered she headed right for the Headmaster's office, ignoring the moving paintings and them staring at her. It took ten tries before she got the password correct (Blood Pops, really) and stepped on the moving staircase that would take her to Dumbledore's office. When she knocked she heard him say, "Enter."
The Headmaster's office was the same it had been the last time that she had been inside. The only difference was that Dumbledore's phoenix was looking as though it was on the verge of death.
"Eileen," Dumbledore called out, "Welcome back."
"I'm glad to be here," she said.
"Lemon drop," he asked and she shook her head. "Pity, I don't have many that will accept one."
"I need to have a word with you?" Eileen told him.
He motioned for her to take a seat, which she did.
"What is the problem?" he asked her.
She told him what had happened with Petunia Evans and that both St. Mungo and she, herself, had sent letters to Hogwarts to let Lily know that her sister was a current resident of the hospital.
"So this thing attacked Miss Evans and somehow she has magic," he concluded.
"The things that have been happening around her has even gotten the Department of Mysteries to get involved. Naturally, a good mystery is exactly what that department needs right now."
"I'm going to agree," Dumbledore said. "Naturally, I wouldn't reject any visit that Miss Evans might want to have with her sister. I sense that Lily's talent might of drove a wedge between the two of them. However, Miss Evans hasn't informed me that she wishes to visit her sister."
Mrs. Snape gave him an odd look, but didn't get any sense that the Headmaster was lying.
"I wish to have a word with Lily," Eileen told him.
"Of course," Dumbledore said. "I'll have a Prefect summoned to have her brought here."
"Thanks," Eileen said. "So how is Severus doing? The only letter that I got from him was to inform me that he had been placed in Slytherin."
"Slughorn believes that he's got great promise, but I'm afraid that he's having trouble with Gryffindor. Minerva refuses to see reason and there's nothing that I can do about it unless something major happens that forces my hand."
"Is my son being bullied?"
Dumbledore sighed and nodded.
"Who is doing the bullying?" Eileen demanded.
"Potter, Black, and Pettigrew," Dumbledore answered.
She knew of those names. She would have a long talk with the Heads of those houses and get it to stop. There was no way that she was going to have her son treated like he didn't deserve to be here.
"Is there a reason that by son is being bullied?"
Dumbledore gave her a look and then said, "I believe it's your son's friendship with Lily Evans. I believe that James Potter has taken a shine to her."
"I'll give him something to take a shine to," Eileen threatened.
She saw Dumbledore wincing.
"I'll have the Prefect collect Miss Evans," Dumbledore told her.
"I want to have a word with Potter, Black, and Pettigrew," Eileen told him. "I want to make my house family stand on this."
"You've been disowned."
"Partly," Eileen told him, "All I need to do is to make one visit to my father and he will allow me to take care of Prince family business. There's one thing that father doesn't like, a Potter bullying a Prince. He has ways of making James Potter's father's Ministry life a living hell."
Ten minutes later the Prefect dropped all four Gryffindor's to the Headmaster. Eileen gave them all a look that told them one thing. A Pureblood was in the room and she was the one that would be talking.
"Miss Evans, did you get a letter from St. Mungo?" Dumbledore asked her.
"Yes, but I threw it away," Lily answered. "I've never been there and I didn't see the letter as being important."
"If you had even bothered to open it you would have read that your sister is currently a resident of the hospital."
"What did Petunia do? Try to do magic when she knows that she can't and got herself hurt?"
"Your sister got bitten by an animal that oversaturated her body with magic," Dumbledore told her and she laughed. "I don't find someone in St. Mungo to be funny."
"Oh and how long did it take for her to come up with that story," Lily asked. "A creature that gave her magic. She's just bidding for attention."
Eileen stood up, the power that she had coming off of her in waves. The other Gryffindor's all backed away.
"Listen here, you nasty little girl," she said. "I would call you what you are, but others like yourself at least would have been worried about a family member being in the hospital. So, to me, you're a self-centered nasty little girl that thinks that she's better than her own sister because she's got magic. Your sister isn't faking it, isn't bidding for attention, and if you don't visit her I will inform your parents that you care nothing for your own blood.
"I wonder how long it would take for them to withdraw you from this school. I think the world would be much better for it." She turned to the boys, "Potter, Black, and Pettigrew. I think it's time for the Heads of your houses to have a nice little chat…with my father."
The last part was enough to make the three boys realize one thing, they were screwed.
"You will visit your sister," Dumbledore told Lily.
"But my studies."
"Your damn studies can wait," Eileen snarled. "You have a sister in St. Mungo that's been prodded by members of the Department of Mysteries. I think that visiting her is more important than how well you do in Potions."
"You will visit her and I'll have Professor McGonagall ensure that you visit," Dumbledore told her. "You will not back out of this one."
Lily glared at Eileen, but she had made her point.
"I wish to see Severus," Eileen told the Headmaster.
"Your Snivellus mum," Black said and then went white when he saw the furious look on her face.
"Merlin, I can see where he gets his ugly looks from," Pettigrew said.
Eileen walked over and glared at him, the look that she was giving him making him shake. It was Dumbledore that spoke.
"Fifty points from Gryffindor for insulting a guest of mine," Dumbledore told him, "Each!"
"Each, but I didn't say anything."
"That's to make sure that you don't" Dumbledore told Potter. "I'll have a house elf summon your son."
"Thanks," Eileen said. "I will be having that word with your father's."
Dumbledore had them leave, setting a Patronus to McGonagall so that she would know that Lily would be visiting her sister at the hospital. Twenty minutes later her son arrived.
"Mum," he said.
"My baby," Eileen cried out and she ran over and hugged him. "Merlin, it's been two months."
"Mum, I'm fine," Severus told her. "Why are you here?"
Eileen told him what had happened to Petunia and that she knew about the bullying. The look that Severus gave her told her that he didn't want her to do anything. However, Eileen wasn't going to let this drop.
"Your friend will be visiting Petunia," Dumbledore told him. "I will not stand for this kind of division."
"So is this creature a new one?" Severus asked.
"No one knows," Eileen said. "I heard that Newt Scamander is taking an interest."
"Then it must be real if Scamander is helping out."
"Lily thinks that Petunia is making it up," Dumbledore told him.
"If my mum is here then there's no way that Petunia is making it up," Severus told him. "No one can fool mum."
Eileen was glad that Severus had such faith in her.
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A/N: So there will be no Dumbledore bashing in this story. The next chapter will have Newt in it for a bit and then Eileen will be visiting her father. No, Mr. Snape will not be in this story. I don't like him at all. The chapter after this next one will be going back to Petunia.