Snape had woken up, groggily his eyes scanned the room and stopped on Raven's sleeping face. She was breathing faintly, her chest rising and falling under the covers. He stood up, walked over to the side of her bed, and gently slid his hand across her cheek. Raven pulled away at his touch as if it burned her skin, still lost in her sleep.

"How…could you…Odin…I'm the only Valkyrie on Midgard…the last half…blooded…Valkyrie…Why Odin?" she mumbled letting a few tears slide down her cheeks. Severus taken by surprise at what she had said.

"Now my Dear, I am rather truly curious about whom you are." He whispered to her gently and with his black robes swooshing behind him, he left her room.

-A day later-

Raven awoken by the sound of slight yelling outside her portrait door, listened to hear what the person was saying.

"But Valkyrie Silmeria you have to let me in! I was with Valkyrie Freyja the other night! Don't you remember me?" Raven giggled as she got up from her bed and walked over and knocked on the backside of Valkyrie Silmeria's portrait, "its fine let Diego in, he is welcome to come in without a password as long as I am present inside." Silmeria must have heard since she swung open to let in Diego.

"Hey Diego~ how are you today?" Raven said smiling at him, but he just rather stood there staring at her. He wanted to charm the colors of her uniform to something other than green and silver, but they were charmed against charms of that sort. "Diego what's wrong? Are you okay?"

"How… how could such a nice, wonderful, beautiful girl end up in the most horrid of Houses in Hogwarts?" He said firmly not meeting her eyes as he sat down at her tea table. He sighed in frustration, running his hand through his hair, and then he finally looked at her. She was standing there with tears welling up in her eyes, almost as if she was refusing to let them fall. He felt his heart break at the sight; he never meant to hurt her feelings. He walked over and took her in his arms, hugging her tightly, "I'm sorry Raven I never meant it like that, it's just that Slytherin House in known for holding corrupt little bastards for students-" he felt her wince at that statement "and you aren't that type of student or person, you don't belong in that House!"

They stood there like that for a few moments, but then Diego had to ruin the moment (but was there ever one?!?!?!).

"We should be getting off to Potions now; today it is double potions, which means double of Snape." He groaned letting her go to get ready.

After a few minutes of running around in the other room she came out to her bed room and saw Diego sitting on her bed, "I'm ready!" she chimed holding her books like it was her first day of school in her whole life.

Severus watched as the Gryffindor walked into his class with His little Slytherin tugging at his shirtsleeve. "Diego can I sit with you?" she whispered in his ear, noticing that the entire classroom was staring at them including Professor Snape.

"Miss Michelle, I would suggest sitting with your (he put major emphasis on your) own House." He said rudely, while the Slytherins and the Gryffindors both were glaring at each person of their house. Raven's cheeks turned crimson as she sat down next to a blonde boy, which Severus noted in the back of his head, should happen much more often, due to how it looked very nice on her, the blushing anyway.

"I want all of you to turn your pages to 231 and copy down everything that has to do with wolf bane." In addition, he sat at his desk doing research of his own.

"Valkyries are the Servants of Odin, commonly called Odin's Battle maidens. They fly above battles and choose the souls of fallen heroes, in which those souls go to Valhalla to be in Odin's army. Their eye color are usually so pale that they seem to have almost no color, but in most cases their eyes are not visible , due to their helms. In addition, their wings are pure white, but because of all the bloodshed, they have seen the tips of the feathers are stained blood red. -"

Raven abruptly stood up with a look of pure anger in her face, "Malfoy Give me back a pen this instant!" he was twirling her feather quill in his fingers, "I've never seen a quill quite like this…it's very odd" He wanted to get her mad, or rather a detention for hanging with that Gryffindor. Snapes eyes were stuck on the feather for about 5 seconds then he realized that Draco was about to take Raven's fist to his face.

"Ah Miss Michelle, I do believe that violence isn't allowed, so this is a cause for Detention with me from 7pm - 11 pm for a week starting today."

Diego stood up saying it was not fair, that Malfoy started it. Snape caught sight of his quill too which was the same as Raven's, "Mr. Owens, 10 points from Gryffindor, and you shall stay after class; I need to have a talk with you." Snape turned with his back to the class, "Class is done, now leave!" and stood there waiting for everyone to clear out. Everyone gathered his or her stuff quickly and left. The trio gave Diego worried looks then they left too. Raven was gathering her things very, very slowly. Snape noticed this

"Miss Michelle, do try to hurry, or else a few more detentions will be given." he pale eyes shot up to glare at his. He only gave a smirk, since he was beginning to understand the connection, but he was not 100% positive yet. Raven grabbed her things, huffed at Snape, and she was gone.

Snape's lips curled a bit as he stared at the door, "Such a charm she is" he said with sarcasm dripping from every word. He turned to Diego, "Mr. Owens, that quill you have there." he said vehemently, "Where did you get it? It's a Valkyrie feather, isn't it?!" he began to feel as if someone was listening at the door. Anger spread across his face, he pulled open the door but to him there was no one there. However, in all reality, Raven was there invisible and she was now in the classroom. He shook his head and closed the door.

"Well are you going to answer my question Mr. Owens?"

"Honestly Professor, I'm not aware of what type of feather it is." Diego was a bit worried, but he was not going to spill Freyja's or Raven's secret. Snape knew he was lying he knew one thing that could tell him the truth.

"Sit! I'm going to find out by myself!" Snape stared into Diego's eyes and entered his memories.

"A flash of bright light, then white wings with red tipped feathers - A pair of pale angry eyes glared at him covering up the memory. "Get out of his head" came Raven's voice from the pair of eyes, though there was something different about the voice, it seemed to be laced with another females voice, only older. Before he knew it, the pair of eyes had him thrown back against his desk.

Snape got up and rubbed his back, where he had hit the desk and said, "I'll find out who she is, and then she will be in grave trouble! He yelled staring at Diego is anger. Now. Get. Out.!"

Diego left in a hurry hoping to get away from the Professor, with invisible Raven hurrying right behind him. As soon as they were out of Snape's view Raven un-cloaked herself. Diego was shocked, but started to chuckle, "So that's why Snape was kicked out of my mind by your eyes?"

Raven nodded, "Yep I was in the room. I came in when he opened the door. I'm worried though," when she said this, it shown truly in her eyes, "He is dead set on finding out who I am, or rather who Freyja is, ever since that night he saw me in my Valkyrie form."

She hugged Diego tight, "Thank you for not telling." she whispered to him. He wrapped his arms around her, "Your welcome Raven, I'd do anything I can to keep your secret, just like I promised."

"Ahem, Miss Michelle, Mr. Owens…I do believe that hugging like that in the halls, is, well not allowed." McGonagall came into view, though she really didn't seem mad at all, her face clearly had a look of amusement upon it. Nevertheless they two jumped away from each other, Raven looked down at her feet, red as a tomato, "He's not my boyfriend," she stuttered out, "He's a loyal friend."

A smile crossed Minerva's face, "A Slytherin and a Gryffindor, Loyal friends? This is a very rare sight!" she chuckled walking away.

The two said goodbye, and Diego went to the Dining Hall and Raven to her Chambers.