Title: Snape's Revenge
Rating: K
Summary: Voldemort makes Snape Headmaster but when Voldemort tells him who will be Muggle Studies Professor and Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Snape has his own ideas on who would be perfect for the positions. Guess who comes to Hogwarts?
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters, they all belong to J.K Rowling, but I do like to play with them.
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Chapter 12: Dinner And Crates
That night, after Snape had turned his type in and told Tom to feed the cats, he took Minerva to a nice restaurant that he had heard about from Lucius. He had to make a reservation but luckily there were plenty of tables so the man just told him to bring him and his lady friend over. As he read the message he wondered why there were plenty of tables. Minerva had to wear the same robes that she normally wore teaching because there was nothing that Madam Malkin had that would cover the fact that she was nearly two months pregnant.
When they arrived at the Star Restaurant the man showed them to a table and asked them what kind of wine they wanted.
"None for us," Snape told him, "Medical reasons."
He pointed to Minerva's stomach and thankfully the man got the message. They were given the menu, which was all in Italian. Snape wondered why the owners hadn't given the restaurant an Italian name.
"So what do you think about your former boss being a reporter?" Snape asked Minerva, pointing out what he thought was the best.
"I don't really have a comment," Minerva said. "Though I think it's a waste of talent."
"I agree but what can you do when it comes to the Ministry of Magic," Snape told her. "So how are the little ones doing?"
"Well," Minerva said, "Though their not kicking yet or anything. I went to Poppy yesterday and she said their all healthy. I'm very worried that I might lose them due to age."
Snape held her hand as the waiter appeared.
"What would you like to order?" he asked.
Snape told him what they both wanted and he took the menus and left.
"So how's the DA doing," Snape asked Minerva.
"Well I talked with Neville yesterday and I offered him the post of Herbology teacher when Professor Sprout retires in five years. He said that he would take it but he wanted to be an Auror for awhile. I think he thinks that his parents would expect that."
"I feel sorry for him, though don't tell Neville that," Snape warned.
"I promise that I won't," Minerva vowed.
The food appeared at once and Minerva slowly consumed her soup. Snape knew that despite the fact that she was nearly two months along she was still bound to be sick. He ate his pasta without looking at Minerva but his thoughts were on the baby's health. When they were finished Snape paid for the meal and then they left.
"I've got something that I need to take care of," Snape told her. "If you want to come then you can."
"Sure, what is it?" Minerva asked.
"Well I'm not exactly sure," Snape said. "My father has these crates that I haven't even gotten around to open. Now that he's dead and the crates belong to me I want to see what he has and if I can, get rid of them."
"Well then I'm going to come," Minerva said and they took the Knight Bus to Spinner End.
Spinner End hadn't changed since Snape last stayed there and upon arriving he led her down to the basement that smelled like mold and ruin. He used his wand to levitate the crates, one by one, until they littered the living area. The tags had long since faded away and so he conjured a crowbar and opened the first crate. There was a lot of packing, whatever you want to call it, and when Snape found something worth lifting a large jackal-like creature came out.
It was black with gold trim and it looked Egyptian. Minerva gasped when she saw it and Snape looked dumb founded.
"Severus, this is Anubis, the jackal head God of the Underworld and Embalming," Minerva told him. "What is your father doing with such a thing?"
"I don't know," Snape said.
They looked in the crate and saw small pieces of statues that had ancient writing on it.
"And these are shabti figures," Minerva said, her face glowing with excitement. "Is that all that's in this one?"
Snape checked the crate and nodded. He then made it vanish and they opened the next one.
The next one had a sold gold box and even though Snape couldn't read the writing he had a feeling that the person who was connected to these things had to be very important. The sold gold box made up the entire bulk of the box. The next one had an entire boat that had been dismantled to be placed inside a tomb. There were chariots in the next one, as well as mummified cats, dogs, and even a monkey. There were small scarab objects and then Minerva pulled out a queen's crown as well as several papyrus scrolls.
Snape carefully unrolled them and found that this one was written in Greek, a language that Snape knew. He read it to Minerva.
"This book of the dead is to serve her majesty Queen Cleopatra the seventh, the God-queen of Egypt, the female incarnation of Horus, the divine ruler. May she walk along side Anubis, be judge by Ma'at and be shown favor, and live in the Field of Reeds forever."
Minerva almost had a heart attack.
"Cleopatra, THE Cleopatra," Minerva said.
"Yes," Snape said, rolling the scroll up.
"Severus, you don't think that your father really did have a job," Minerva said. "Cleaning out tombs and he found the tomb of Queen Cleopatra."
"If he did then he was worse then I thought," Snape told her. "But I thought that no one knew where Cleopatra was buried."
"That's what history tells us," Minerva said. "Let's see if I can work a translation spell and see who these riches belong to."
She took out her wand and started tapping any thing that had writing on it. The name Cleopatra appeared on most of them and Snape knew that if most of them were connected then his father had found Cleopatra's tomb and had robbed it of its riches. Snape felt disgusted with this man.
"We still have one last crate to bring up," Snape told her.
He disappeared and a long box appeared. Snape took the crowbar and opened it. Inside all the packing whatever it was called was something that he never thought he would see in his life, the sarcophagus of Queen Cleopatra herself. At first Snape didn't know if he was right but Minerva did a language spell and it was proven to be her final resting place.
"There has to be a journal," Minerva said. "Thieves like to boast where they stole it from."
They searched everywhere until Snape found a small book. He showed it to Minerva and she read it.
November 12, 1959
My brother has told me that he believes that he has found the tomb of Queen Cleopatra, the most important female ruler ever. I'm planning on looting the site for the treasures and then sell them. I'm hoping that my brother won't be too difficult.
Tobias Snape
"Now that's disgusting," Minerva said.
"That I agree with," Snape said.
He closed the book and looked at everything that had been looted. His father was a thief and that made him a thief. Snape had no idea what to do.
"Severus, I know that you hate seeing another bad side to your father but I think that you should make these treasures available for people to see," Minerva told him. "There's a spot in Diagon Alley that has empty. I'll buy it off of the man and you can move the things there. There are a number of wizards and witches that would love to study these things."
"I think I'll give some of them to the British Museum," Snape said, "The mummy defiantly and a lot of the other things. I'll keep a few so that our children will have something that will give them inspiration."
"I think they'll like that," Minerva said.
Snape spent the next few days talking with the British Museum. Snape offered to truck the mummy to them and let them check it over as well as any items that had been part of the tomb. His uncle was dead so he could never tell anyone what his own brother had done. When the mummy arrived several men lifted it up and brought it in the back. At once several men and women started swarming over it.
"I can't believe it, this is her," said one woman. "How in the world did you get it Mr-.'
"Snape," he answered. "My father stole it from Egypt back in the fifties and I wish to allow others to see it. I didn't even know he had it until I was getting rid of a lot of his junk."
"This is amazing," said another. "We thought that Cleopatra's tomb didn't exist with what happened to her in 30 B.C."
"I fully understand," Snape said. "Also I have my father's notes here. I hope you can use it because I don't want any memories of what he did."
He handed the book to her and the woman nodded, sympathy in her eyes.
They paid Snape for the crown, the mummy, the scrolls, the shabti figures, the chariots, the boat, the mummified animals, and all the jewelry. The only thing that Snape kept was one scarab beetle, the queen's necklace, and several figures of the Gods. Thankfully his father didn't keep a record of everything he had stolen so they would never know that he had kept some back. The pay was beyond anything that Snape could imagine and the woman told him that his name would be placed in the paper.
"I'm sure my wife will like seeing that," Snape told her and then left.
When Snape took care of the check, thus adding to what little he had, and then headed back to the Leaky Cauldron. No one tried to hex him and for that he was grateful.
The first article about a gallery came out a few days later. With all the excitement of finding out the truth of what his father had done he had totally forgotten that it was coming out. Snape gave the cats their breakfast and then opened the paper.
Half-Way Gallery Art, Some To Be Missed And Some Not
The half-way gallery has the appealing look of an Egyptian temple but inside the appeal vanishes. The sculptors that are on display leave a lot to be desired and stomached. Why, pray tell, does the artist believe that people want to see the inside of their stomach. The paintings painted by Mr. Coffin are sometimes horrid and sometimes appealing. There's one part of the gallery that is appealing, the art from Madam Sooch, a woman that paints children playing in the field, by the ocean, and in a schoolyard. Her paintings are not to be missed.
Reported by Severus Snape, Daily Prophet Art Writer
"YOW!" yelled Koko.
"Does this mean that you like it?" Snape asked the cat.
"YOW!" the cat repeated and Snape hoped that was a yes.
Snape was glad that he had left out what had happened at the gallery. He had a nasty feeling that he wouldn't have heard the end of it. He closed the paper and pulled out the box that had the small items that he had held back. He placed a statue of Bast, Isis, Horus, and Anubis on the shelf as well as some of the scarabs. He gave them all a smile and then left the room.
The article about the discovery of Queen Cleopatra's mummy as well as the items that came from her tomb was front-page news and soon everyone wondered when they could see them. Naturally Snape suspected that the Egyptian Government would want them back and they could have them, though they would have to work with those other people and not him.
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A/N: No one knows where Cleopatra's tomb is, if there's one. I personally think there is one and it hasn't been found. Also stealing from Egypt is something that Tobias would do, we have no idea what he did prior to Severus being born.
Shabti figures: Made for wealthy Egyptians that feared that they would have to work in the Field of Reeds. They looked like mummies and had a spell on them that enabled them to come alive and work for them.