(Chapter 2, The Peace Before The Storm)
(I did not make or own harry potter or the character's in it)
The next day I, Ron and, Hermione, were sitting in the great hall for breakfast that morning; it was bacon, eggs and, French toast with a lot of other yummy food. Ron cleared his throat as I and Hermione turned our attention away from our food to him.
"Hey Harry, what happened with you and professor Snape yesterday? Did you make it in time or were you... late?" Ron asked looking up from his food worriedly. I just roll my eyes as he could really be dramatic at times. I stopped to think about his question.
'What did happen yesterday?' I thought blankly in thought as I tried to remember the detection last night which came flooding back.
(Flashback)
After our awkward greeting, I had gotten started cleaning as silence filled the room. I looked over to where Snape sat writing and found that his frown eased a bit when he concentrated. it made him lock a bit younger which shocked me.
'Why is he always grouchy and mean' I thought but stopped when I saw he relax more than he usually did. I noticed Snape had finished the documents long ago as he pretended he was still doing them. It got me to look at him weirdly as I wondered what would cause him to do that. He looked over at me and our eyes meet which caused Snape to raise an eyebrow at me.
"Why are you always so upset? I want to know" I blurted out with a blank face, trying to make it look like, I was not staring at him and from what I could tell, it shocked Snape as he let his mask slip out of place. he soon found composure tho and shoved his mask back on to his face.
"A long time ago, I lost someone special to me and ever since then, I've been like this even before people were mean to me, so I have a hard time trusting people now," Snape said sadly looking away from my eyes as my mouth hung open in shock. Snape looked bitter as he had said that and I worried that I might have hit a soft spot in the professor, so I quickly thought up something to cheer him up.
"It's best to not forget the past but to learn from it instead. If you hold onto the past for too long you'll miss something greater" I said with a proud and wise voice as I went back to cleaning. I could feel Snape's sharp gaze nail through me as I tried to control my breathing as my heart was beating a mile a minute.
I could hear Snape get up out of his chair and make his way over to me, slowly. I panicked as each of his steps towards me, echoed in the empty classroom. I wondered if maybe, I had gone to far this time but my thought's ceased when I looked up to see Snape in front of the desk I was working at.
He had a very small smile pulling at the corner of his lips and he saw that I was done washing and only needed to dry the vials, So he sent me off to bed and said he'd dried the rest of the vials himself.
I was surprised but something in me said he was acting kind of weird for a whole other reason. I did not really feel happy about that fact, so I ignored it as I went on my way back to my dorm to sleep.
(End of flashback)
"It went better than I thought it would be," I said with a shrug and continued eating as Ron and Hermione dropped their forks and looked at me like I had grown a seconded head.
"Harry, what happened in order for you to think that!" said Hermione a little scared as Ron cowered behind the table in fear. I sighed when Hermione put her hand to my forehead to see if I had a fever.
I swat it away telling them that I was not sick and what happened but not the part when Snape told me something personal. I finished eating and telling them what happened, as I left the hall without another word leaving them in shock.
I was on my way to the library. I wanted a quiet place to study on the quiz we had in, History of Magic and a test in, Astronomy and Herbology that was in two weeks. I wondered how I was going to get all my studying done and be ready for them in time. It sucked.
I was making my way through an empty hallway near the moving staircases when I felt a stinging pain in my chest and tried to brush it off but when it turned into a burning sensation much worse. I had to lean on the wall and stop walking.
I chock out through the pain as my lungs started to squeeze painfully together and my vision got blurry. I fell to the stone floor of the castle on my knees as the pain overwhelmed me. I could only remember the last time I ever felt like this. it was when I drank Ron's stupid potion.
' what's happening to me? I need to get help!' I thought in a panic as I started to feel numb but as soon as the pain started, It faded. I got back up slowly, as I climbed up the wall in support shaking a bit and pushed myself off the wall. I tried to shake off what just happened and figure it out later when I noticed professor Lupin, the professor of Defense against the dark arts class down the hallway.
'maybe he can help me?!'I thought with relief as I went over to get help from Lupin trying to forget the pain that had somehow gone away.
"Sir, I need... Do you need a hand with those?" I asked him politely tapping his shoulder when I saw him having a really hard time carrying a lot of big, heavy looking books. He looked around and saw me with a smile of relief on his face as I silently stared at him.
"Thank the heavens! Yes! ...thank you, dear, I was worried about how I was going to get these books to class, who might I say you are, young lady?" He said with a kind smile and something else in his eyes but I couldn't quite place it. I smiled back. I wondered if I should tell him who I was but if he knew I was a girl. I couldn't tell him. so I came up with a random name on the spot. ;p
"It's Amy professor Amy.p" I said in a mature manner with a bright smile which he returned as We walked down the moving staircases talking about magic and animals. I had told him my favorite ones were dogs and wolf as We got to his classroom.
I put the book's I was carrying on his desk, in the front of the classroom. I looked towards him as he was placing his books on a shelf in the back of the classroom and turned around to meet my gaze, as He too stared at me in the same way I had caught snape doing towards me. I frowned as I was not going like the outcome if I stayed.
"Oh! my, look at the time. I need to go sorry, professor Lupin," I said blushing a little as I felt uncomfortable at how he was looking at me with disappointment but nodded with a glint in his eye.
"That's okay, thank you, Mrs. Amy. I hope to see you again, where are you going to sit at the head table? So I can join you in a nice chat again" he said with the same look as before and I paused halfway out the door. I wondered if I had not heard right when he said head table.
'What? only teachers get to sit at the head table, why does he think I would be sitting there?' I thought as I turned around in confusion but When he saw me turn around with a confused face he smiled brighter.
"as, a new teacher here too. I want you to feel comfortable since you're new you as well, and probably don't know anyone yet. so you and I can sit together if you'd like" he said so joyfully that my mouth almost fell open but I kept it shut.
'Holly Crap! He thinks I'm one of the new teacher's but why does he think I'm a teacher in the first place? Come to think about it, he did know I was a girl too!' I freaked out inside my mind as the headmaster never said anything about new teachers aside from lupin. After my thoughts were under control I looked up at him and gave him a wicked smile.
"Sorry, that's classified!" I said in a teasing way and left the room to go to the girl's bathroom on the third floor. when I was out of his site I ran like the wind as I noticed Lupin as he just stood there in shock of what just happened.
"What an interesting woman, I like her" I heard from the classroom as I locked the door to the girl's bathroom. The bathroom was right next to lupins classroom. I went to the sinks that connected to make a circle in the center of the bathroom, to wash my hands when at the moment I looked up at the mirror everything shattered.
The whole school heard a high pitch scream and went deathly quiet as I heard people Running down the hallways outside the bathroom door and I started to panic for two major reasons. how the hell was I going to explain why?
(narrator prov)
Dumbledore, Snape,McGonagall, Hagrid, and some other teachers hurriedly ran to find out what the noise came from. They had gotten info from Mr, Squid that it came from the third-floor girl's bathroom.
"What has happened?" asked professor lupin running up beside Snape after coming out of his classroom and saw them all surrounding the bathroom.
"Apparently, there were screams heard, that were coming from the third-floor girl's bathroom," Snape said metaphorically with a sneer to lupin as they were now in front of the door to the girl's bathroom as well. McGonagall came up to the door and knocked three times.
"Excuse me is anyone in there? are you OK?" she said with a loud stern but also concerned voice as no one answered, All they heard was a movement from the other side of the door.
'What am I suppose to do? Why does Ron's potion have to wear off now!' Harry thought in fear looking into the mirror and seeing that he was now a girl again but then it all made sense to her now.
'So that's why professor lupin thought I was a girl, but still, doesn't tell me why he thought I was a teacher, though? ...OK, I need to find a way out so they don't see me!' Harry thought to try to pull herself together as she Looked around the bathroom and found no way out. she started to panic when she felt moaning myrtle taped her shoulder, with a giggle and point to the sinks.
'Oh the chamber of secrets, how could I forget!'
thanking myrtle with a wink, Harry disappeared into the chamber below the school and just as the chamber closed, the teachers burst down the door and saw that there was no one in the bathroom.
Dumbledore sighed in relief that a student was not harmed and looked at myrtle with a smile that was a bit sad as she floated away from them but close enough to hear. He would alway regret not being able to help her back then.
"Well that was eventful wasn't it, I'll be going back to my quarters now. I hope that this doesn't happen again," Dumbledore said happily to the teachers before leaving as the other teachers did as well. except for one tho.
Severus stared at the sinks wondering if they missed something but after a while, he turned to leave as he could not find anything. Snape was about to leave the bathroom when the door to the chamber of secrets suddenly opened shocking Snape as he turned around to see it that caused his robe to fly swiftly around him angelically.
Snape stepped closer to the entrance as it descended down into nowhere, he wondered if it wound be safe but having the possibility that a student fell dow it. snape didn't hesitate to jump down into the big hole which leads him down into a pile of bones which he kicked away from him.
Snape was not affected by the creepy atmosphere cause he was a bad ass. he went throw an open door and into a hall with a giant lion head carving at the other end of it on the wall making Severus stop at the entrance in shock, while myrtle snickered evilly floating away behind him as she had been following him silently till now.
'How come I never knew this place was here till now' Snape thought annoyed looking around the hall but stopped when he saw someone at the other end facing the carving and headed straight for them.
(Harry pov)
I sighed relieved that I got away and looking at the head carving as I remembered my second year and how I saved jenny here. I smiled a bit in reminiscing about old times but when I remembered that I was now a girl, stopped.
'How is this happening, I thought that potion was permanent?' I though unamused but pushed my thoughts to the side again as I heard someone enter the hall and Turned to face them only to freeze. I saw Snap, who was probably about to demand answers for why I was here. He surprisingly stopped as our eyes met and There was a long silence.
(Severus, Snape pov)
I didn't know what to say. well, who would when there right before me was the prettiest woman I had ever seen; her hair was a beautiful tree bark brownish-red and her eyes were the color of the green forest of which the tree's grew from, just like lily's, she had skin as white as snow and was half my height.
'what a beautiful woman... wait what is she doing in a place like this?' I thought suspiciously in a daze while unknown to me, the girl, on the other hand, was freaking the hell out, as she soon fainted.
I ran over to her as fast as I could and saw she had a head wound from hitting the ground. I picked her up (princess style of course) being careful of her head and took her to my chambers as madam Humphrey was asleep now.
'Why did I bring this girl here I could have just left her there?' I thought mildly annoyed with myself and this woman as I look at the girl that I had laid down on my couch, she was sleeping soundly and Smiling a little I just shook the thought away.
'this woman is not anything Special' I grumbled tiredly as I leaned back in my seat dozing off , not noticing the woman stir awake.
(Harry pov)
After feeling that I was on a couch, I slowly opened my eyes and saw that I was in a small dark room. It had a desk in one corner and a fireplace in the other that was still burning. The couch that I was on was in the center of the room and beside it was a black leather armchair was inhabited by a professor, Snape as He looked to be sleeping.
Snape had a glass that was half filled with orange liquid in his left hand that was laying on one of the chairs arms, while his right was holding his head up. I stared at him for a long time wondering how he got there and started noticing things about him; like how calm he is when he's sleeping or how he's not so bad to look at until one of his eyes shot open.
"What pray tell, has gotten you so intrigued that you cannot stop staring at me?" Snape said sarcastically as he interrupted my thoughts and making me Blush profoundly as I looked away.
"Nothing, ...I was just wondering how I got here? that's all..." I said shyly as Snape looked at me sternly for a moment and got up. I flinched when he left the room and banged the door to one of his rooms closed before coming back out again, with a potion that was bright blue. I was thinking he had just left me alone, I was wrong.
"Here drink this, it will help heal your head trauma," Snape said bluntly shoving the potion into my hands, and sat down beside me as I looked at the bottle to avoid eye contact with him but when Snape kept staring at me, I knew he wanted to talk.
"What is it you want to tell me, sir? because if this is all, thank you…" I mumbled out when Snape lightly touched my cheek with his thumb while Looking at me. I knew that Snape noticed that I had blushed by the way he smirked at me as I shy away from his hand. Snape's black eyes looked into mine and were slowly getting bigger as I noticed he had green flecks in his eyes that made them glisten from the fireplace's light. I felt like I was in a trance.
"No woman can get my attention, why is it you can?" he asked in a low silky purr. I snapped right out of it when I heard that and felt his breath on my face from how close he was now. it was just an inch from him to me and I panicked shoving him off the couch, as I got up to leave when Snape quickly pulled himself off the floor and grabbed my wrist.
"Wait! you're not going until I know how you are and why you were down there?" he demanded his grip on my wrist loosened as he looked at me glaring coldly. I saw his eyebrows narrow when I glared back at him just as intensely. I was not impressed in how he was treating me and why he would treat any woman this way for the matter but silently seeing how Snape was acting. I figured it out.
Why would a man, who acts so coldly towards everyone else, want to have anything to do with a girl like me or anyone for that matter? A man who fancies me, that's what.
I let my glare soften when I figured it out. he didn't want me to leave, did he? I thought about that time I caught him staring at me in the great hall, and smiled at him softly with a giggle as it made his glare turn into a frown with a raised eyebrow.
Snape, had no Idea that the harry potter he hated was the same woman he fancies and that got me to grin cheekily. If he was going to be a Git then I'm going to get payback, plus pretending to be two people sounded like fun to me at the time.
I got up closer to the professor as close as we were on the couch and smiled sweetly at him which made him turn to stone right there. I could not get any emotion out of him at all as he just stared at me.
"It's Amy.p and please don't treat a woman the way you are now its rather rude, sir but I'll forgive you, this time, Now I have to go, so can you let go please?" I said softly as I gestured to Snape's hand around my wrist, he didn't let go at first but somewhat reluctantly he let me go. I smiled in thanks before I left the dungeons hastily as Snape just stood by the door watching me leave silently.
I ran up the stairs away from the dungeons as fast as I could go and making it to the Gryffindor common room passageway, I tried to calm myself down. It was scary dealing with snape in class but trying to deal with a perverted one was more frightening in of its self.
'Oh god what am I going to do now Snape knows I'm a girl and fricken has a thing for me ew …wait a minute this feel-OW!' my thoughts were cut off by a stinging sensation in my chest as my body started to glow bright blue then I was "magically" back to being a boy again. magic was annoying at times.
"What the…what's happen to you child," the fat lady in the painting of the passageway says in a questioning but shocked voice as I look up at the fat lady with a sheepish grin. I knew she was nosy but she could probably help me.
"I wish I knew," I said sheepishly as the fat lady looked at me up and down then back at my face blankly with a frown.
"Go see Hagrid, he knows more about weird things than anyone," the fat lady said with a blunt tone and look away into the distance as she admired a painting of a knight from the wall across the stairs from us. I really wanted to roll my eyes at her.
"Thank you, fat lady… um, could you keep this a secret for me please" I asked quietly as The fat lady smiled and nodded opening the entrance for me as I made my way inside where I went to the boy's dorm and got dressed for bed.
I planned my next actions to do since snape and lupin, who had the same expression on his face as snape like me but I had to be sure lupin did before doing anything or everything would go wrong.
' I need to visit Hagrid tomorrow' I thought mischievously as I grinned and slipped into bed before dozing off for the night.
To be continued...
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