*I own nothing except Ravens snake tattoo *
Xxx-Flashback-xxX
I was about five years old, wandering through the halls of Hogwarts castle when young me came to the girls bathroom. Little me went in to wash the spilt potion off of my hands, thinking out loud to herself that if uncle Sev knew i'd get into a mountain of trouble. Little Raven was just finished when she noticed the tap had a weird design on it. A metal snake had coiled itself around the tap and looked ready to lunge at any minute. Stroking its silver head, young Raven jumped about a foot into the air when the sinks started shuddering and relocating themselves so there was a wide, deep hole in the floor where the snake sink had previously been. While leaning over to see what was inside, I lost my footing and fell down into the hole. About two seconds later I heard a crunch, I sneaked a glance down and saw bones, piles upon piles of brown bones. Young me gulped down a scream. It was then she saw a circular tunnel. Hastily jogging forward, not sure if she should yell for help or not, she came to the end of the tunnel to see a cavern. The cavern had a high ceiling and it was built out of stone. Along either side there were rows of snakes carved out of a black crystal and had blood rubies for eyes. At the far end of the cavern there was a face carved out of stone with its mouth opened slightly. I froze, senseing another presence in the cavern. It slowly slithered out of the statues mouth, a giant snake with dark green and silver scales, with its eyes clamped shut. With its size it could have rivaled a T-Rex and won. It slithered around so its body had circled me, I turned so I was facing it. As if sensing I was looking at it, it slowly opened its eyes. I saw deep, bloody crimson eyes, darker than Kyd Wykkyds. The snake lowered its head so we were looking each other in the eyes, it didnt look menacing but curious. The thing stuck out its long black, forked tongue and flitted it across my left ankle. I suddenly felt a searing pain where it had licked me, as if I was burning up, but as soon as it begun it was over. I looked down to see what had happened, but what I saw made me stare. A tattoo, an exact duplicate of the thing that was in front of me, was coiled around my ankle. It looked so real that I feared it might jump off my skin and attack. I looked at the serpent quizzicaly. It pointed with its head, without taking its eyes off me, to the stone head. I gracefully swept to where it was pointing, cloak billowing. A silver plaque that read, ' For those who are pure but yet corrupted of blood, my basilisk'. "A basilisk?" Said creature had a triumphant gleam in it's crimon eyes. I looked back to the plaque to see nothing, there wasnt even a plaque there. I looked back up at the basilisk, frowning confusedly. Its eyes seemed to get brighter. It hissed at me, but I heard it in plain english, with just a hint of the original hiss. "Worthy" was all it hissed before slithering back into the mouth of the statue.
-End of Flashback-
"And who are you ?" A voice brought me back to the present. I opened my eyes to come face-to-face with an overly pink, toad like old woman. "I am a late student, professor." I said as pleasantly as I could, so not that much. "Your name ?" Pinky said with a strained smile. I leaned back into my seat with an amused smirk plastered on my face. "Raven" my lips curling upwards into a dangerous, awkward smile. Everyones eyes were on me and Professor Umbridge, her eyebrow twitching, I think thats her name? The newest Defense Against the Dark Arts, the class Sev always wanted besides Potions. I dont remember seeing her last night at dinner though.
"Raven Snape" I replied .
"Impossible," she screeched "Professor Snape does not have any children!"
"I'm his niece " now I was growling at her. Everyone grew pale so I tapped into the closest persons, which just so happened the be Harry's, thoughts. I saw him writing with a black quill, which resembled the one I had in my messenger bag that was beside my seat right now, with blood red ink. He remembered pain, an image of his hand, scratched into it was the words ' I will not tell lies '.
" Two weeks detention !" Through my Empathy I felt Harry's fear...for me?
" What !? For what !?"
" For lying "
" I'm not lying !" We were now yelling. I jumped out of my seat and slammed my hands on the table, startling Harry who I was sharing a table with.
" Three weeks ". Umbridges eyes were now popping out of her head.
" What !? You dont believe me, ask him yourself !"
" Four. Weeks " She smiled wickedly.
" BULL SHIT " I screamed.
" I'll see you in my office tonight, you'll be missing dinner, "Now I was fuming, how dare she. Giving my FOUR FREAKING WEEKS of detention. Harry put his hand on mine, giving me a gentle smile, I felt my mouth twitch,trying to return it . I flopped back down on my seat, putting Rage back in her cage and hoping nothing horrible happens.
"Now be a good girl and sit down, dont make a scene " at hearing that, I kicked my table forward so it would smash into her legs, just light enough so it wouldnt break her bones but hard enough that it would form bruises all the way up her legs in a matter of seconds.
Both Gryffindor and Slytherin paled incredibly. Umbridges hand sprung and grabbed my hair, pulling me to the floor do she was literally dragging me across the floor.
"Corporate punishment, child abuse, thats illegal. I'll sue you for every penny you have and throw you in jail"
I screamed at the top of my lungs. We were now out of the classroom and being dragged towards the Headmasters office.
The rest of the DADA class were now following wide eyed and the other Professors had now come out and were staring wide eyed at what she was doing. There was a 'crack' and none other than Dumbledore and the Minister of Magic, Cornelious Fudge.
I know a chance when I get one and with Umbridge dragging me by the hair it was all too perfect. Again I started screaming "Corporate punishment, child abuse, i'll throw you in jail and sue you for every penny you have, you-" I didnt get to finish because the pink toad pulled me up by the hair so we were eye to eye and slapped me, hard.
"Dolores !" Fudge bellowed. Said womans head snapped up, eyes full of confusion but a second after they cleared and widened in fear "M-m-minister, H-h-h-headmaster I-i-"
"My office now" Dumbledore snarled. She nodded fearfully and scurried of up the stairs, but not before dropping me and almost breaking my back.
" Shit " I hissed through gritted teeth when my back hit the ground. Sev along with Fudge, Dumbledore, the Golden Trio and the twins rushed over to me.
"My dear, what happened ?" Dumbledore asked. I looked around, most of the school was there and I didnt want to curse in front of the younger children, so ill try to keep my cool.
" She asked me a question, I answered then she started yelling at me, when she gave me four weeks of detention I got pissed " I said coldly. " Yeah it was bloody brilliant !" Ron chimed in.
"Are you alright ?"Fred asked. I glared at him "do I look alright?" He blushed. I sighed " whats the next class ?" Hermione perked up at hearing me ask something school related. She looked incredibley smug "Potions" smugness was dripping off of her.
I raised a brow, giving her a 'your-kidding-right' look and glanced over at my uncle. Telepathically I asked him ' why does she look so...'
'She's the ex-top of Potions'.
'Ex ?'
'Your the niece of a Potions Professor, you've grown up around potions, do you honestly think she will be competition !?' He somehow put emphasis on the 'she'. Considering we were speaking telepathically, that was quite an achievement.
I remembered my tenth birthday, at that time I was in Azarath with Arella. Uncle Sev had came to visit for my birthday and gave me a year 7 potions book and herbs to go with it. The memory brought a smile to my face. Yeah 7th year books when I was ten, wait till I tell Miss-know-it-all about that. I nodded.
"so...will Professor Anger Issues still teach ?" I was honestly curious. Dumbledore's soft face suddenly turned hard " not a chance " he said then swept up the stairs with the Minister of Magic trailing behind.
The rest of the day passed in a blur, as I suspected I was top of the class in Potions much to the dismay of a fuming Hermione. Divination was crazy, but considering Professor Trelawney kept me in after class was finished and recited my prophecy her talent seems to be genuine. History of Magic was thought by a ghost but it very boring, even for me. The Creatures class was cool though, after saying my name the teacher, Hagrid, kept asking if I was sure I was a Snape. I actually enjoyed the class. The only thing that put me off about this school so far was the lust radiating off the majority of the male population.
It was dinner when Dumbledore spoke about Umbridge, he said that she will no longer be teaching, at that the twins high fived me, but that they will be bringing in another teacher and it will continue tomorrow.
I had just finished decorating, no plastering my wall with posters of My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Black Veil Brides, Falling In Reverse, Metallica and the odd picture of me and the Titans or me and Jinx, Kyd Wykkyd, Kid Flash and Seemore hanging out, obviously all in civilian clothing.
I dropped onto my bed, ignoring the shocked lookes I was given by the other girls at my choice of decoration. I picked up my MP3 Player off the locker, putting the buds into my ears I felt my lips curling into a rare smile while listening to 'I Dont Care' by Fall Out Boy. Thats when I sensed it, a presence that was vaguley farmiliar. It's heart pure and good but there was definately a hidden evil. 'Just like me' I mused in my thoughts. 'Alright its late im going to bed' I thought taking off my earphones and placing them on the locker. As soon as I closed my eyes I was pulled into a dreamless sleep.
*Well R+R what'll happen next? Who is the presence? And im sorry but I like those bands, theyre much better than that crap they call music now, if you have a problem with that shoot me why dont you* xx_A.M.A.M_xx