Headmistress McGonagall looked up as the Gargoyle told her a child wanted to see her.
She gave a nod to let the pupil in.
Al Potter walked into the office and looked over the headmaster portraits. A few of them were sleeping, others were interested in his reason for coming and a few had left their portraits.
"Mr Potter. This is the first time you came here. Did something happen?" Headmistress McGonagall gestured him to sit.
Albus concentrated on the living Headmistress.
"Headmistress, Professor Binns gave us a project about the last war. We have to base our work on one Person of our choosing."
McGonagall nodded and waited for the child to go on.
"I wanted to write about headmaster Snape. I thought I could ask his Portrait for a few things."
Minerva beamed.
Binns gave this project every year to his third years. Nearly half of the pupils every year decided on doing their project on Harry Potter or one of of the other two of the golden trio or Albus Dumbledore. A few had relatives they based their work on, a few decided on an auror or a prominent victim like Madam Bones. And fewer still decided on a notorious Death Eater like Bellatrix Lestrange, Walden McNair or even Voldemort himself.
Nobody ever tried the very complicated case of Severus Snape. Because of his role in the war he was to much work for most especially just for a history project.
"I'm very happy to hear that, Mr Potter. You can't ask at the moment if he wants to be of help. But I know that he likes to go to the picture of the library of Alexandria for new reading material. It is on the third floor of the Ravenclaw Tower."
Al Potter smiled and left the office.
The formerly and the current Head of Hogwarts looked after the child.
"The boy doesn't know what he has done to himself." Muttered the portrait of Armando Dippet.
Most of the other Portraits nodded in their canvas. Dumbledore thought the same but decided against saying anything.
It was Phineas Nigellus Black that answered. He was sure that Dippet was wrong.
"He knows exactly what he is doing to himself. It just doesn't matter to him."
Most of the other Heads made it clear that they had a different opinion.
A Headmistress of the 16 century, Headmistress Rebecca LeCroix, a regal Ravenclaw that all her successors knew as an intelligent witch with a sharp tongue and even sharper mind looked thoughtful to the Slytherin.
This could be an interesting diversion for the portraits.
She didn't know how right she was.