Chapter Six

A devastating Secret

(Three days prior to Hermione's suicide)

Severus Snape's Journal

At long last the day that I have been dreaming for, for so many years has finally arrived. It's seemed like just yesterday when I was seated beside Lilly Evens in potions class, laughing over our professor's strange method of teaching or working together on a complicated potion. Every ounce of information I have attained these past several years has been worth the struggle, pain, humiliation and frustration.

I have finally acquired a piece of information that will hopefully set my heart free from its rusted cage. My Lilly (should never have been Potter) Evens is not dead; her spirit has somehow been transferred into a student's body. A student who I must admit has been a nuisance since the day I first started teaching her.

Though I must confess that as the years passed by I grew a fondness for the Griffindor Know-it-all's likeness to my greatest love. Even though I never showed her any of my feelings I could not help but watch over her and make sure that every situation she was brought into I would be there to protect her. She always assumed it was Potter who saved her whenever there was an ordeal, how very mistaken she was.

I paid dearly for the information that I currently possess, not only was money sacrificed but so was blood. This is the scroll I received from a mystical oracle after searching for many years. On the night Potter's parents were murdered a child was born, a child that would be born as a daughter of eve, a muggle, born from parents of no magical blood. And on that night, when the blood flowed from both a woman's womb and a woman's heart, a spirit of a pure muggle born witch would be given a second chance, and would be intertwined into a baby. Although there would be no likeness in physical appearance, there would be a great spiritual bond between the deceased and the infant. Powers would combine, and a new form of magic would be born. According to the Gods the baby will be named Hermione and she will become either the end of humanity if found in the wrong hands or the beginning to a world without He-who-must-not-be-named if nurtured in manor of goodness,

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Severus read and re-read the same page every night before he made his way to his bed. But not before carefully hiding his journal and locking it in several of his strongest wards. It would not do for this information to leak out, in fact if it did manage to fall into the wrong hands; Gods know what would become of Hermione, not to mention every being in world.

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The following night Severus fell asleep in front of the fire with his journal spread out across his knees.

"Snape." Draco whispered as he knocked lightly on his professor's door before peering in and spotting him fast asleep with a book in his lap.

"Whatever I'll come back later, seems like your far to busy to remember that you were supposed to be taking me Malfoy Manor tonight." He shrugged as he turned to leave...

Mmm might as well see what your reading, Draco thought to himself.

"What on earth." Draco exclaimed before quickly covering his mouth and seeing whether or not he woke his professor up.

Thank the Gods, he thought as he watched Snape turn his head to his side and start to quietly snore.

Lightly Malfoy pride the journal from Snape's arms and quickly ran for his room, while laughing inwardly at his good luck.

"At last something worth reading." He chuckled under his breath.

Sorry it was short guys, promise a long one next time!

Meanwhile, what about Hermione!!!