Chapter 66: The Foe Glass and the Carrier
The Foe Glass and the Carrier
As loathe as Severus was to allow Miss Granger to watch over Sage, it was an unavoidable necessity. In the situation, Miss Granger was as competent a person as he could have chosen, so he had to be satisfied with that.
Unfortunately, Sage was not strong enough to transfer any power to Severus, to help his uncle heal him. If Sage had not been medically stable, Severus would never have left his side. But despite the fact that his skin was sickeningly translucent, and his eyes were growing icier and whiter as they faded from blue, Sage was not yet on his deathbed.
What drew Severus away was his need to talk to the headmaster. Something was indeed happening, and Severus was now sure that Sage somehow did fulfill the last blood relation of the prophecy.
Knowing this, he had to show the headmaster what he had seen in Moody's Foe Glass. He muttered the password and allowed himself to be lifted to the door of the headmaster's office.
His eyebrow quirked upwards when the man was waiting for him with the door open.
"How is he?" the headmaster asked, with what Severus saw as much less concern than the man would have showed for Potter.
"How is he?" Snape repeated, deeply, with anger hiding behind his tongue that he could barely control. "His skin is showing bluish veins up his neck and cheeks, it is so translucent. It is growing down his chest! His eyes aren't blue, the pigment is draining out of them and becoming white. HOW IS HE, INDEED!"
The headmaster backed up a step. Things simply had not been the same since the headmaster had accused Sage of trying to curse Moody that night.
"Should I be concerned," the headmaster asked, as a nice way of asking if Sage was going to die.
"Concerned? Yes, you should be concerned. Does my description not concern you?"
"Yes, it does, Severus, but that isn't what I meant."
"Your only concern is if he is going to die or not?" Severus boomed, unleashing the full power of his voice.
"No, it is not. Stop putting words in my mouth. This is distressing to us all, everything is, not just Sage or Harry."
Severus' lip curled distastefully, as he took a deep breath through his nose.
"Do you need my help with him, Severus."
Growling softly, he answered, "He needed your help a long time ago, and you didn't give it."
"Come now, Severus, this is petty. Is the boy all right and do you need my help?"
"The boy isn't dying, yet, although I have never imagined him being this bad. He is stable for now. So no, I don't need your help and neither does he."
Dumbledore looked over his glasses at the Professor, "I don't suppose that you just came here to yell?"
Seething, the Professor crossed his arms.
"I came here to tell you that you must reinvestigate the blood relation in the Prophecy. You have put it off for too long. It must be true and it is your responsibility to figure out how."
Dumbledore twirled the end of his long beard around two fingers, "And why must it be true? And why is it so important now? There are other things that need attention, like the recalling of the order, that are much more important."
"If the Prophecy is being fulfilled as we speak, headmaster, then there is nothing more important!"
Dumbledore slammed his hands down on his desk in final exasperation.
"Severus, I've told you. It is NOT possible! I have looked and examined the lines. I have commissioned people to look and examine the lines. It just isn't true. Perhaps Merlin was wrong about that one piece, or as I said, it was metaphorical. Right now, I am concerned about Voldemort, NOT ONE BOY! OR ONE PROPHECY!"
His face deathly pale and his hands quivering with frustration and anger, Severus pointed a finger at the headmaster.
"You are a fool then, Albus, a fool! Because it is true, I know it to be true. I have SEEN it and I could not have otherwise SEEN it! You were wrong in your searching, you missed something, or something is under the Fidelus."
"What proof have you seen?" Dumbledore asked.
"In Moody's office, in the Foe Glass. Let me use your pensieve and I will show you." Dumbledore humored the man and got his pensieve from the cabinet. He placed it down purposefully on the desk in front of Severus.
With a touch of his wand, he pulled the wispy memory out of his head and placed it into the pensieve.
When they ascended out of the pensieve, Dumbledore's head was reeling. When his feet were once again on solid ground, he looked up into Severus' black eyes.
"Merciful Merlin, it cannot be."
"Do you doubt me now?" Severus asked darkly.
"No, Severus, it must be, but I do not know how... This is troubling."
Snape crossed his arms again, "Indeed it is."
Dumbledore sank down into his chair and put his head in his hands.
"You do not understand the implications of this Severus, the possible implications of this. He could be the carrier! I do not know what could happen!"
"The carrier? What the bloody hell is the carrier!"
When Dumbledore looked up, Severus realized how worn out the old man looked. Whatever this was, it was bad.
"Merlin's line branches out, as all lines do, but the direct line carries the inheritance of Merlin's powers. The firstborn child of the line is the carrier, and the trait is only passed to the firstborn of that child. If Sage is the carrier and he comes into power so early..." Dumbledore shook his head.
"What, for Merlin's sake, Albus?"
"A wizard doesn't generally come into power until he is an older man, Severus, you know that. Merlin's new heir coming into power while the former heir is still alive...could have drastic and deadly implications..."
Severus stood silent, he was fairly certain he knew the answer to his next question, but it was beckoning to be asked and confirmed.
"And who is the heir now, Albus?"
Severus walked away from the headmaster's office feeling numb. There were always consequences to everything, but the unknown during such a time was enough to wrench feelings of strength from any man.
If this was true, which Severus was sure that it was, the headmaster had kept much of the possible consequences of the Prophecy hidden from Severus, Sage, and everybody else. Not without good reason.
The headmaster had finally come face to face with what must be the truth and he was looking more overwhelmed and uncertain than Severus had ever seen him. The man had spoken only one coherent sentence after that, "Sage must go back to Lyon Llyonyss, without fail, Severus. He must be trained to use those powers, before he comes into them fully, and before we are all left without anybody to protect the magical world from Voldemort."
Never once had Severus ever seen the headmaster cry, but a few tears traced the deep wrinkles in that old face that night. Tears of sacrifices long ago, tears of sacrifices left over from a war much before Severus' time, and now everything was coming back. Everything was swiftly coming to a head, much faster than any of them had ever imagined. The time was upon them.
Merlin had spoken his Prophecy, and it was true. His new heir would soon be coming to power.
It was Sage's time and he was not ready.
THE END
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