Ch. 15
The Granger cousins and Harry Potter were in Severus Snape's chambers with the Potions Mater himself, they sent out for an order from the kitchen for the house-elves to come and give them lunch in his dining room area. Once the food, tea, and other drinks had arrived; all four of them had started eating their lunch, when Professor McGonagall showed up and ran over to Hermione and gave her a hug.
"I'm sorry that one of your so called best friends had done that to you Miss Granger."
"Mrs. Snape," growled out Severus, "it is about time you remember it too."
Professor McGonagall sighed, "Yes Severus." She kneeled down, in front of Hermione as the young woman sat, and said, "I am letting you know dear that I have written to the Weasleys of what has happened and he will be serving detention for the remainder of this week with Mr. Filch in the Forbidden Forest. Maybe that will give him something to think about."
Both Harry and Hermione started laughing. When Hermione was finished, "That will teach Ron for a while at least."
Lyra asked, "Why do you say that Hermione?"
Harry was the one who answered, "Ron is afraid of big spiders, which lives in the forest and whatever else that lives there. He is mainly a big terrified cat towards everything that lives in that forest, even more so than Draco Malfoy was."
Severus spoke, "Indeed," like it was the most natural thing in the world that Draco and Ron shared a fear with the creatures of the forest.
Lyra had heard stories about Hermione and her two so called best friends; she could not believe that Ron would have done that to her cousin; then again he was known to be the most jealous out of the bunch. Then again Lyra knew that Ron was the worst when it came to emotions and stuff, she heard about Lavender Brown; who Lyra believed that Ron used to toy with Hermione's emotions because of the way he was treating Lavender around her.
McGonagall had gotten upon her feet again and faced Lyra, "Is it true that you have married Tom Riddle, the most feared wizard of our world?"
Lyra knew she had to use her words wisely here. "I really didn't have much of a choice when he approached me with a marriage contract. He had kidnapped Hermione and I, he made a deal with me if I were to marry him that he would leave our family alone, even Hermione. I told him that I would as long as he would not make me fight in the war, for I would not fight on any side, as long as I am not a part of it. So he made an agreement with me."
The female professor asked, "What about Hermione and Severus, why were they married?"
Lyra smiled, "He asked Hermione which one of his men would see be alright of her marrying and she told him Snape. So he made arrangements for both of our weddings. The day after the weddings was when I started talking to Tom openly and let him know that the magical world would fall apart if it is only ran by purebloods only, and I told him that within five or so generations that the magic would be bred out. He then asked me about Salazar and why would he was against muggles and muggle-borns during his time, then I reminded him of the witch burns of the age."
McGonagall shrieked, "Oh dear God; we have all been misunderstanding one another for so long, no wonder Tom was so lost during the time he was at Hogwarts. No one was teaching History of Magic right or anything else for that matter." She calmed herself down and then asked, "Is he really willing to end this whole war nonsense?"
Lyra glanced over at Severus, who Minerva had done the same. Severus sighed, "It looks like he really wants peace Minerva, all because he wasn't to keep his wife safe from all of this bloodshed."
Harry spoke up; after he had drank some of his tea, "I would really like to sit down with Riddle and see for myself that what these three have been saying is true. Then again I have seen him in my mind lately and I have never seen him as happy as he has been with Lyra here."
The aging woman sighed, "I also would like to see this war end as well, but we are going to have to do it without Albus knowing about it. It would be head if things end up going worse from this point forward. So how are we going to do this?"
Severus smirked, "Well; just to let you know, Tom does come to my chambers to spend time with Lyra at night."
"WHAT," screamed Minerva, who was having hard time breathing.
The potions master was calm in her Scottish rage. "He only spends time with Lyra and nothing more, woman. Plus Albus had set it up so that Tom would not leave these chambers unless it is through the floo network. I was thinking that tonight; with you being here too, we can have Mr. Potter and Riddle talking to one another with us in the room."
She humped, "Alright; I'm game, but no funny business Severus because I will not have it."
Severus bowed at the Deputy Headmistress of the school. Once everyone was finished with their lunch; everyone had head off to whatever class they needed to go, and left the potions master to his own class. He hoped that the Dark Lord would behave himself that night.