A/N: Here is the new update :) Elsanna time! :P About Snape living and all that, imagine that instead of Voldemort getting Nagini to bite his neck he just used the cutting curse and slit his neck so Hermione could use her Essence of Dittany to stop the bleeding until he could get to St Mungo's. And Dumbledore... imagine he didn't get killed on the Astronomy tower and was fine afterwards :)

Disclaimer: Frozen is not mine, nor are the other things that are recognisable.

Anna gasped and shuffled back as far as the wall would let her, her chest heaving as her eyes kept trained on the snake, which had slithered its way around Elsa's fingers and was idly wrapping itself around them as it went. Elsa put up her other hand in a calming gesture and brought the snake hand up.

"It's okay Anna, he won't hurt you unless I tell him to and I promise I would never do that."

Anna was shaking a little as she brought up her hand, pointing at the snake, her eyes still wide.

"S-s-s-sn-a-ke!" she squeaked.

"It ssseems ssshe isss observant mistresss." The silver snake cackled and Elsa flicked it on the head.

"Enough Xypher."

The snake lowered its head a little and continued to slither around Elsa's fingers.

"Sorry about him, he has always been a little… shall we say, ignorant?"

"Hey!" Xypher hissed, Elsa shot him a look and he immediately quietened.

"He was a bracelet, b-but now h-he's a s-snake?" Elsa smiled and nodded.

"He was given to me at a young age when I was alone in my big old house. He kept me company when others could not."

Anna felt a twinge of curiosity, wanting to ask who these 'others' were, but she did not ask. Instead she let out a breath and slowly inched forwards again. Be brave Anna, be brave…

"C-can I touch it?"

Elsa nodded and held out her hand, Xypher slithered up it so he was facing Anna, his body still wrapped around Elsa's hand with his head leaning above it. Anna touched his scaly skin, a little shocked at the metallic feel he had, forgetting momentarily that he was in fact a bracelet.

"He can do many things too you know," Elsa stated as Anna stroked Xypher's head, giggling when his gentle tongue tickled her thumb, "he can change his size to that of a Titanoba if he so desires."

"A Titan-what now?"

"A Titanoba, aka the largest snake to have ever roamed the Earth, they can grow up to 42 ft you know."

Anna froze in her petting of the small little snake, which seemed to be smirking, if that was possible.

"Merlin…" she breathed, Elsa grinned and held Xypher up a little higher.

"He is my protector for when I need protecting."

"He's amazing." Now Anna was over the shock, the snake was quite beautiful, so unlike all the others she had seen and feared.

"Well I could get one for you if you'd like."

"Really!"

"Yes, if it is what you would want. But you cannot talk to it in front of your friends if you don't want them to know about your ability."

"About that…" Anna fiddled with her hands and looked up with confusion coating her blue eyes, "Why do you think I can speak Parseltonuge? It's not like it's a very common thing to be able to do."

Elsa frowned and put her hand down, Xypher looked up and saw his mistresses' distress and quickly slithered up her arm to her face, leaning against her cheek and flicking his tongue out every so often, his own way of comforting her like he did since she was a small child.

"I- I cannot tell you why Anna. But I will, soon. But it's… too complicated right now for me to share with you. I am sorry, but I think it would be for the best."

"How do you know what's the best for me? I want to know, I have a right to know!" Anna found herself yelling angrily at Elsa, frustration returning. Elsa flinched slightly, almost unnoticeable, but Xypher noticed, and he didn't like people speaking like that to his mistress.

He turned and jumped from Elsa's shoulder, growing while in the air to the size of a Cobra and landing with a violent hiss.

"Do not ssspeak to my missstresss in sssuch a way!" he snarled, his mouth full of deadly sharp teeth which were black in colour, standing out starkly against his silver mouth.

"Xypher!"

He froze in place and let out a low hiss, recoiling back and curling around Elsa's neck, still the size of a Cobra.

"Sorry, he is very protective of me."

"No, no I am sorry, I shouldn't have lashed out… its just, this I all too much!"

"Anna, it will all become clear, soon, but until then I must ask you to wait, please."

Anna brought her gaze up to those unnatural blue hues and she sighed, nodding in agreement.

"Alright, I shall. I'd best get back to my other friends, they'll be wondering where I am." Anna stood up and brushed the back of her skirt off.

"Okay, and Anna?"

"Yes Elsa?"

"You may want to stop speaking in Parseltonuge." She winked and Anna's mouth dropped.

"I've been speaking in Parseltonuge this whole time?!"

"Indeed, you may want to stop before you startle your friends anymore."

Anna grinned and bit her lip, thinking for a moment, and then shooting forwards to envelop Elsa in a tight hug, feeling the blonde girl tense for a few seconds until eventually awkwardly bringing her arms up to wrap around Anna's waist. Anna buried her head in Elsa shoulder and smiled.

"Thanks for everything."

Elsa chuckled; Anna could feel it vibrate up through her chest.

"Don't thank me yet."

Anna regretfully pulled away from Elsa's cool body and after another shared smile made her way to the door, opening it with a final glance back to Elsa, who was looking out of the archway again, and then she left through the door.

~Ax~

"So what did you two actually get up to?" Rapunzel asked Anna, sitting next to her on Anna's soft bed in the Gryffindor Girl's dormitories. She was lent back across the sheets horizontally with Anna propped up against the head of the bed, Rapunzel sprawled across her legs.

"We just… talked."

Rapunzel snorted, "Yeah right."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Well, when Flynn and I got to 'Just Talk' we actually end up pressed togeth-"

"Aye! I don't wanna know any of that Punzie!"

"Oh come on Anna, it's not that big of a deal!" she sat up and got on her knees, eyes sparkling with excitement.

"Now give me details!"

Anna smiled, and thought of what she could tell the excitable blonde.

"Well, we told each other secrets and-"

"Ohh I do love me some secrets!"

"Punzie!"

"Sorry," she made a sweeping gesture with her hand, "continue."

"And we talked. About everything and nothing."

Rapunzel's smile widened at the dreamy look in her best friend's eyes, and then she gasped with shock, shuffling forwards on the bed and poking Anna in the nose.

"Oh sweet Merlin! You love her don't you!"

"W-what?! Don't be s-silly Punzie, I d-don't love her I just-"

"Oh you soo do, you are stuttering for a start, and… you are blushing! Aww you're so cute!"

"Punzie!"

"There is no use lying to yourself Anna Banana, now come on, say it."

"Say what Punzie?" Anna groaned, leaning back to cover her eyes with her hands.

"Say you love her Menzel!"

Anna glared at her blonde friend, and then she sighed in defeat and spread her arms to either side of her, staring up at her ceiling with confusion.

"… How do I even know that it is love Punzie? What if it's just a lie that I'm creating for myself." She asked, her voice small and quietly spoken, like a whisper. Rapunzel saw her friend's vulnerability and smiled sympathetically at the small red head.

"Tell me," she spoke, her voice equally as soft, "what do you feel when you see her? And be honest."

"I don't know… I feel kinda, good I guess."

"Care to elaborate?" Rapunzel teased, Anna couldn't help the gentle smile that flittered onto her face as she thought about the platinum blonde girl.

"She makes me feel warm, like I'm constantly in her warm embrace. I feel stronger around her, better, like I can do better, be better. I feel like every time she looks at me a swarm of butterflies erupt in my stomach and my heart races like it's in a marathon. I can't help but feel happy when I see her or when I think about her smile, her hair, her face, her eyes… every thing about her is just so…"

"Amazing?" Anna lifted her eyes to Rapunzel who had a similar smile on her face, "Like you can't believe that the person before you actually exists, that they are even real?"

"Yeah, and if you look away they'll be gone."

"So you don't want to look away because you want them with you for as long as they will stay?"

Anna nodded, "How do you know all that?"

"Because that's what I feel whenever I'm around Flynn. He may have his moments where he's dumb, or when we fight or when he is just an overall idiot, but I still love him."

Anna sat up and ran a hand through her hair, smile never leaving nor wavering.

"Sweet Merlin…" she breathed, looking up to Rapunzel who had an expectant look in her eyes, "I-I'm in love… I'm in love with Elsa Arendelle."

"Ya what?!"

Anna and Rapunzel both screamed in horror and shock at the voice which had suddenly shot across the room. They looked around for the source only to find that Merida was stood at the end of the bed, wand held loosely in her hand as the invisibility spell she had been using to pull jokes all week wore off. The two girls on the bed gulped.

"Y-you're in love with the Ice Queen? What the Hell Anna?!" she yelled, throwing her hands up in frustration.

"Mer, please calm down." Rapunzel tried to stop her yelling, firing a silencing spell at the door to block out any further noise from leaving the room.

"No I will not be calm Rapunzel! How long have you been feeling this way? A year? More than a year?"

Anna shakily stood from the bed and too raised her hands.

"Merida please-"

"No! How long Anna? How long!"

"How long what?!"

"How long have you known you love her?!"

"Well I just found out now that I love her, but I've been crushing on her since first year!"

Merida stopped in her tracks and let out a breath.

"F-first year? You knew since first year?"

"Yes, why is that a bad thing?" Anna was shocked to see some tears in the bushy haired girl's eyes.

"We have been friends since first year Anna; I thought that we were close, that we were all like sisters. That we could trust each other."

"Merida I do trust you-"

"Well obviously not enough! You've known for five years that you like her, but you didn't feel the need to tell me?!"

Anna winced, saying it out loud really did make it sound bad.

"I-I didn't mean to hurt you Merida, I was just scared that you'd… I don't know…"

"That I'd what? Stop being your friend because you're in love with a girl? That I'd hate you? Or I'd tell someone?"

Anna hated to do it, but she nodded.

Merida huffed through her teeth and sat on her bed, crossing her arms.

"Well, that was a dumb thought."

"What?"

"I said 'well that was a dumb thought', I'm not going to abandon you Anna, and although I am very, very pissed off right now, I will eventually forgive you. And Hell, we could even talk about this if you'd want."

"Why? Why are you so accepting of this after I hid it from you for so long?"

"Because, like I said, we're basically sisters in all but blood."

Anna flew off of her bed and into Merida's arms, hugging her and crying silently in her arms.

"It feels so good for you to finally know." She whispered into the bushy haired girl's ear. Merida hummed in agreement and squeezed her tighter.

"Erm, you guys? You might wanna see this…"

Anna stood up and pulled Merida to her feet, her jaw dropping the second she turned around to see what Rapunzel was talking about.

"Oh sweet mother…" Merida whispered, Anna blinked and stepped towards the corporeal white form of a wolf stood in the centre of their shared room.

"…Elsa?" she asked herself, the wolf's mouth opened and the voice of the aforementioned girl came from it.

"You may want to come downstairs; I don't think your friends are too happy to see me."

The three girls shared a look and quickly made their way downstairs, as soon as they were through the door they could hear shouting coming from the common room.

Oh Merlin… Anna groaned mentally to herself, they finally got to the common room and saw quite the sight.

Kristoff was on his feet along with Flynn, red in the face with tense anger in his shoulders. Flynn looked just as angry while Sven and Olaf sat awkwardly on the sofa. Hiccup was stood behind the two taller boys trying to calm them down, but it was doing little to help. The Gryffindors in the common room were each edgy and glaring to the area before the fireplace, tense and most were either standing or half way out of their seats.

And before them all was Elsa Arendelle, arms crossed over her chest with her expression almost none existent if it weren't for the single mocking eyebrow raise. Her eyes moved to the staircase the moment Anna stepped off of it and she sent her a warm smile.

"Hello Anna."

"Elsa! Hey! How did you, get into the common room?" Anna questioned, stepped closer to her, well aware of all the eyes following her.

"Oh I have my ways…"

"That you do Milady, that you do." The Fat Lady, who was still open and facing into the common room, stated with a hearty chuckle.

"I'll explain it to you later Anna, but right now we really must go." She held out her hand for Anna to take, but Anna hesitated.

"Go where?"

"Well, you did ask for me to come collect you when the lights were shining, did you not?"

Anna frowned, lights were shining? What does that mean… oh! The Mating Lights of the Merpeople!

"Really?! Its happening now?!" she squealed, jumping up and down on the spot in excitement.

"Indeed, and we must leave now, unless you want to miss the beginning."

Anna took Elsa's hand; her heart jumped a little as she did. She couldn't help but notice how Elsa's cool hand felt so soft and right in her own. Like two pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.

Elsa pulled gently on her hand to snap her out of her thoughts and made her way to the door, but then their exit was blocked.

"And what makes you think that we're gonna let you take Anna away on your own?" Kristoff asked, puffing his chest out as he glared at Elsa. Elsa narrowed her eyes and took satisfaction when he shivered a little.

"Excuse me?"

"What, you just think we're gonna let our friend go off alone with the Ice Queen?" Flynn added, Anna tensed and glared at the two boys.

"Who are you to tell me what I can and cannot do?" she asked, glaring at them.

"Guys come on…" Hiccup tried, again, only to be ignored by them, again.

"Anna it isn't safe to go off with someone like her by yourself, we are doing you a favour by not letting her take you away." Kristoff tried to reason with the shorter girl, receiving only a glare in return.

Elsa stepped in front of Anna and pushed Kristoff back a few steps with a hard shove to his broad chest, her glare intensifying to the point where it felt like the temperature was dropping in the room.

Actually, Anna thought, the temperature has dropped.

"And what makes you think that you can stop her from going?" Elsa asked, voice deadly quiet as she took a step towards Kristoff, the blonde boy stepped back and she smirked in victory.

"That's what I thought. Now come on Anna, or we'll be late."

Anna squeezed her hand and was soon walking out of the Gryffindor common rooms with the Ice Queen herself leading her out.

"I am so sorry about them." She apologised as soon as the Fat Lady had closed, Elsa smiled and squeezed the hand still held in her own.

"It is fine, I am used to it."

Anna tilted her head.

"But you shouldn't have to be."

Elsa's smile seemed somewhat forced, but then it returned to its normal self and she pulled her a little faster.

"Now if we don't hurry we are really gonna miss them!"

Anna giggled and ran with the blonde haired girl out of the castle doors and to the grass, heading towards the Black Lake, all previous events in the common room fading away as she ran with Elsa Arendelle, the woman she loved.

A/N: Did you like? Please tell me in a review or a PM! The response for this story has been amazing so far! Thank you all :)