The Ancients Revival

By Tan and Lin

Hermione sat in the library trying to do her homework, and for ones she was having trouble. She could not get what had happened the day before out of her head, why would Julia want to get Harry's blood and hair and give it to Voldemort, that didn't make sense. Yes they had thought she was the one Harry had heard about but to know what it was true was still scarey.

We know that Julia and Emma were the ones Harry had heard about but as far as we can tell they don't have any relation to Snape, their last name is Cardigan.

Hermione sat pondering this for a while before getting up and walking around the library, she had seen some yearbooks on a shelve the other day. She picked on that she thought Snape and Harry's father might have been in and then a couple more and returned to her table.

She slowly flips through the one book, studying all the names as she goes. She comes across a Snape and stops, thinking it would be Severus she looks over at the name. She's about to turn the page as she sees it start with an 'S' but stops as her eyes roll over the name. Instead of saying Severus it said, Septimus.

Hermione stares at the picture above the name and whispers to herself,

"he does have a brother?"

She continues to look through the book and pauses again when she finds another picture of this Septimus, this time he is dancing with a woman the caption below the picture says,

"Septimus snape and Elizabeth Cardigan, maybe the perfected couple."

This might be it, she thinks to herself, Septimus snape married Elizabeth Cardigan and for some reason the kids are using her maiden name.

she picks up the book and the rest of her stuff and runs out of the library to the Gryfindor common room to try and find Harry and Ron. Spotting them she hurries over to them and sitts down.

"You are not going to believe what I found, Snape does have a brother look," she says quickly setting the book down in front of them.

"Ok so we found the brother but what does that have to do with Julia and Emma," Harry asks.

"well look at this and see for your self,' Hermione says turning to the other picture she had found of Septimus and pointing, 'read the caption?"

"Septimus Snape and Elizabeth Cardigan, maybe a perfect couple' Ron reads then gets a confused look on his face, 'yea so?"

"it could explain why Julia and Emma are not using Snape right now at school, they are using their mothers maiden name' Harry states looking over at Emma who was sitting a ways away, 'but what do we do now, I mean we don't trust Julia but Emma's turned into a good friend, well up until now?"

Hermione shrugs, "I don't know, she did try to stop her sister from getting the stuff from you Harry, but can we fully trust her now?"

"That seems to be the question of the hour," Ron answers after a bit.

The trio look up as Julia hurries into the common room waving a paper around moving towards Emma, stopping right in front of her she finally speaks.

"Hope you are happy now sis, I hope you and your new friends are happy now?" Julia says before turning and racing up to the girls doms, but not before the trio notices the Green and silver snake around her neck.

The trio moves over to Emma's side as she picks up the paper. It was turned to one certain page and one store stood out.

"Friendly children's bookstore witch found near death"

The kiddy place bookstore owner Elizabeth Snape Cardigan was found near death with her husband Septimus Snape hovering over her with blood on his hands. The ministry at this point have no idea what spell or method he could have used to do this but is being held at Azkaban at this time. Miss Cardigan's condition is unchanged at St. Mungo's Hostipal.

Emma lets the paper slip through her fingers until her lap, "this is a lie its got to be" she says quietly.

"That's your mother and father right', Harry asks placing a hand on her shoulder, 'Cardigan being your mothers maiden name or something?"

"I guess you figured everything out, and yes it is, but dad would not hurt mom, he loves her to much, and me and Julia." She answers.

"so you think Lord Voldermort did this to her and framed your father," Ron asks.

Emma stands up quickly letting the paper fall to the floor, "no way', she says, 'this a trick Julia is trying to play on me."

Hermione had bent down to pick up the paper where it had fallin and now spoke up, "it looks like a real paper to me Em, I think it's real!"

"She just stuck the page in there or something, it can't be… no way." Emma replied starting to pace a little.

Maybe you should go to the hospital and see for your self Em, I don't think you have all the facts yet. Harry tried to reason with Emma.

"Yea, maybe you are right, I'm going to go talk to Dumbledore right now." Emma say running out of the common room.

Julia had gone up to the girls domes and had fallen onto her bed, and just laid there. After a couple moments she got up, moved to the end of her bed and opened the trunk that laid there. She quickly pulled out some clothes and throw them onto her bed and started to pull off her school uniform. She changed into a black mini skirt and navy tank top She then pulled out her knee high boots and carried them as she walked to her mirror was with her makeup.

She put on some black and navy blue eye shadow and her red lipstick and then turn in her stool and put on her boots. She went back to her bed and started to pack up her trunk with all her stuff.

The other girls, who were up there kept looking over at the questionly. She sat back on her bed and waited for the girls to leave before snapping her fingers and disappearing.

"You saw today's paper didn't you?" a voice called out questionly behind Draco.

Draco turns to find Julia sitting on his bed out of uniform, 'yes I did', he says walking over to sit beside her placing a arm around her shoulders, 'and I'm sorry, I'm sure my mother has been down to see her already."

Julia nods resting her head on his shoulder, "Yea probably, but I don't think I will go and see her', she says, 'she is just so trustworthy and she is now passing it on to Emma and its kind of sickening."

Draco snares at that, "True, True, but we did try to warn her that something like this might happen!" he says.

"Yea which is why she's not going to go right away to see her, she thinks it's a trick by me or you." Julia says getting up now and paceing. "Ego head is driving me crazy,' she says throwing her hands in the air, 'Voldemort kills thousands of people and even his parents, yet he thinks anyone can just not do what he says. I mean, yea Harry will not surrender to him but if he tells people to do something and it doesn't get done he usually kills them or at least puts them in the hospital."

Draco stands up trying to stop her now, "Hun, girl, you tried your best, Emma is the one who ruined everything. You did everything you could." He says.

Julia falls into a heap on the floor into draco's arms, "Yea I know but it still spilt our family up, moms in the hospital." She says a single tear running down her face.

Draco reaches up and wipes the tear and some hair that had fallen into her face away before running his knuckles slowly down the side of her face, "Yes I know hun, but know you just got to do something else for the lord to try to make it up to him." He answers.

Julia leans forward slowly and her and Draco almost kiss but she turns her head away, "Yea but what', she asks, 'and if you hear anything else from your dad just tell me ok, Em will just run straight to the "Famous trio" and tell them."

Draco smiles at her, "That I can do hun", he says, "but where do I tell you? From the look of your clothing, your not going to be around here much longer right now?" he questions.

"I'm going home', she answers, "my attic room is always locked so even if there is any ministry people there they will not find me. But don't send owls, just use our mind link ok?"

"Sure think hun, but Dumbledore might send someone after you, you know?" Draco says.

"Yea he might but it would not do him any good, and you know it. I need to go", she says kissing him lightly on the cheek, "I'll tell you when I get there.

Draco says bye as she snapped back to her dorm and then out of the castle.

Emma had gotten Professor McGonagall to get her into the head office, and she slowly knocked on the door.

"Come in" what heard through the door so Emma slowly entred.

"Headmaster I need to talk to you?" Emma said as she entred.

"Yes Miss cardigan I was just going to get Professor McGonagall to get you and your sister so we could talk." Dumbledore answered.

Emma rolls her eyes at the word sister, "so you know about this trick she is trying to pull over on me. The one about our mother and father?" she askes.

"The newspaper story about your parents is true Miss Cardigan," Dumbledore says, "I have talked to the ministry of magic and he confirms it."

"You can think what you want headmaster, but I don't by it. She's just trying to make what she did right." Emma snarles.

"What your sister and Draco did might not but right but I have reason to believe it might have had the right intentions!" the headmaster answers.

Emma sits in one of the chairs and sighs, "ok, ok, can I just go to the hospital and see what's there please." She asks.

"I think that is reasonable Miss cardigan, is your sister going with you?" he asks.

"I don't know and I don't care!" Emma replied with an empty heart.

"As you wish, you may leave right away if you desire!" Dumbledore says.

Emma nods and leaves the head office. Onces down the steps she disappears to her dorm room.

Dumbledore watches as she leaves knowing that both girls would leave the castle that day.