I
realised I didn't think of the disclaimer at all. It is late but
better than never. Especially since I don't have a few millions for
legal purposes lying around.
Harry
Potter belongs to Joanne
K. Rowling,
Scholastic Books and
a few others. This is not for profit. I'm only playing with them
and promise to put them back after I'm done with
them.
Severus Snape decided he had
enough new scrolls to read und left the canvas to walk back to the
headmistress office. When he wanted some privacy and quite he made
himself comfortable in a still life in the same corridor as the
library picture. He could read there, write into his notebook and eat
fruits. Nobody bothered him there.
Not normally at least.
The
child had all the signs of a Potter. The Eyes, the unruly hair and
the face that told him one of the parents was a Weasley.
The crest
of Slytherin.
Even with seeing the boy the first time he knew this
was Albus Severus Potter. Minerva had told him of all the children of
the Weasleys and the Potters. When he was told the name of the second
Potter child he didn't react, but he found it interesting.
And
after the sorting of Al Potter to Slytherin he took the liberty of a
little Slytherin smile.
"Mr Potter. I'm surprised to see you
in this corridor."
Albus was surprised that the Portrait knew
him. He decided not to react. "The headmistress told me you like to
come here. I thought a former headmaster stayed in their canvas to
help the current head and that that was the reason for the
portraits."
Snape lifted an eyebrow at that. Yes, that was the
dominant reason and could be found in "Hogwarts a history".
There
were also other reasons he had realized after his death. It wasn't
something that was normally discussed when somebody living was there,
but whatever the wizarding world thought of Albus Dumbledore, the
other heads were clearly not impressed with him and his way of
handling things. And they had no problem to let him know it
either.
But Snapes currents thoughts went to why Mr Potter had
wanted to see him.
"And why did you search for me, Mr
Potter?"
Albus knew that Headmaster Snape had a …complicated
character and was perhaps not as happy as others would be about being
researched. His help would made it easier but it was not mandatory.
"Professor Binns gave us a project about the last war. We have
to base our work on one Person of our choosing. I wanted to write
about you, Headmaster."
Snape didn't say anything. It was a
surprising choice, but the boy was a Slytherin. He would have
reasons.
"Mr Potter, explain to me your reasons for choosing me
and I think about it."
Albus was not surprised about that. He
would have been disappointed had it been different. Rushing ahead
without thinking was not a Slytherin trade.
"Everybody expects
me to do my project about one of my family or even my father seeing
that my brother did the same. I don't think such a project will be
interesting with all the people who have already done that. I looked
through the old projects, nobody ever tried to do a project based on
you."
Doing something nobody tried before, yes, the boy had
ambition befitting a Slytherin.
Snape would have to think about
it. He would have to think on what the terms he wanted for him to
talk about certain things and what would be acceptable for 14 year
olds.
He looked thoughtful after the boy as he took his leave and
decided to reflect over the irony of a Potter doing a project on him
on a later date. Now he wanted to go over the scrolls he found in the
picture of the library of Alexandria. He had a bet with the portrait
of another Potions Master at ground level of Hufflepuff tower that
the potion they had different opinions about had already been used in
antiquity.
