Title: Innocent Ideas
Author: Nesma
Disclaimer: I, obviously, do not own Harry Potter or the characters, all that goes to JKRowling.
Summary: It's hard to predict the results of words and actions at such a young age. It's difficult to fathom that an idea formed without much logic or reasons at a young age will carry on through to adulthood. It's terrifying and exhilarating that the ideas and stories from childhood have such curious results in adulthood. And this could be no truer than with the case of Lily and Petunia Evans and Severus Snape.
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Minerva McGonagall was usually exhausted by Monday evening. It was those afternoons that she had Transfigurations with the Gryffindor first years and James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew often made her feel like she was a zoo keeper rather than a professor.
In the quiet dim of her quarters, she often pulled out a potion that remedied for her throbbing headache and the Daily Prophet newspaper of the day and the Muggle newspaper. It was during these quiet times that she would read these papers cover to cover and start clipping at the unusual articles. In the Daily Prophet, she would clip out articles that mentioned the disappearances and odd maladies that were spreading to certain types of people (muggle supporters). She would track what the Prime Minister was promoting at the time and any increase of werewolf attacks (hardly none).
In the muggle newspaper, she would often clip out the disappearances from certain muggles (keeping in mind the magical areas close by). She would read about the odd maladies that muggles were suddenly suffering (certain type of boils and warts).
Isolated, these articles that she clipped out made no sense. Together, there were trends and patterns that horrified McGonagall. After all, it was only the start of something much bigger.