Entry for the "Unusual Ships Challenge" - Rolanda Hooch/Severus Snape
Entry for the "Halloween Collection Competition" - prompt: 24. (object) Mask
Rolanda had been sure that she had known everything about Severus that you could know about the reserved and very private Potions Master.
She had been convinced that she had revealed the person that was hidden underneath the mask made of a layer of dark fabric and sneers. That he was something like a oddly pleasant-natured person when you talked to him in the right way. Someone who was actually joking around, even though most people felt intimidated by his sarcasm and therefore were not able to see the humour.
But now, as she stood in the Headmasters office, next to her other colleagues, it felt as if she had been utterly foolish to believe she knew him.
"Severus killed Dumbledore," Minerva announced in a shaky voice, her announcement wiping Rolanda's mind blank. "He killed him and did flee with the other Death Eaters. He is one of them..."
She could not believe it...
And in the back of her head, a voice whispered:"Obviously, it was just another mask of his..."