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.
