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Chapter 10 – Green Eyes
I was frozen. Petrified to be exact. Snape was the first to see us. He stopped on his tracks and looked at us like he couldn’t believe we were there. Right behind him was Alecto, who stumbled on him and then looked around to see what was that had gotten Snape’s attention. And she saw us too and then her brother did. And then they all knew we were there. Okay, so now we are officially basted. Damn.
Amycus was the first one to break the silence the shock caused.
“You little monsters!” he screamed with his squeaky voice. “You filthy kids of the blood traitors!”
The next moment he pulled his wand out from his robe and was ready to attack us, but Neville was faster. He sent a curse against him before he could perform his own, but Snape blocked it easily and then turned to us again. It was obvious that he was furious but there was something more in his face that I couldn’t quite get. I hurried and pulled my own wand out, Luna doing the same next to me.
“What are you going to do?” Alecto asked. “Fight us?”
I grunted and sent a full Bat-Boogey curse after her as a reply. Snape blocked that too. She walked forward, her wand pointed at me.
“Crucio!” she yelled.
“NO!”
My whole body stiffened but the curse never got me. Neville fell in front of me and the curse hit him instead. He fell down heavily and started wriggling on the floor, trying to hold his screams back, but he couldn’t quite manage it. I had never been under the cruciatus curse and never before today had I seen someone under its influence; I was completely shocked, I couldn’t even blink or tear my eyes away from Neville. Luna next to me knelt down beside him.
“Stop!” Luna yelled. “STOP! Please stop!”
She laughed. I couldn’t even control myself as my anger clouded every other thought and I launched against Alecto, forgetting all about my wand and slapping her across the face. She wasn’t expecting something like that; she was completely taken aback, which helped me push her down with all my strength. She fell down, her wand slipping from her hand and the curse lifting from Neville.
I didn’t had the chance to go for her one more time though, because Amycus had too crossed the room and before I could register it, before I could back away, he punched me right on the face. I gasped and beside my best efforts, I too fell on the floor from the strength of the blow, holding my face. I felt something sticky against my skin. Blood. Great, that troll broke my nose.
“You think you’re brave pretty lady?” he laughed from above me. “We’ll see how brave you’ll be when I’m through with you!”
And with that he grabbed my arms and pulled me up roughly.
“Let go of her!” Neville yelled from behind me as Luna helped him on his feet again.
“ENOUGH!”
Amycus let go of my arms like he was hit by electric shock, as Snape advanced forward. I didn’t back down, but Luna and Neville came next to me.
“Amycus, Alecto!” Snape bellowed and both of them looked at him obediently. “This is my office and I will not allow you to destroy it for three stupid kids!”
“This is not your office!” I yelled. “This is Dumbledore’s office, you murderer!”
Neville made to stand in front of me again as Amycus raised his wand this time, but Snape disarmed him before he could act.
“What are you doing?” he demanded furiously as his sister picked his wand up.
“Again this is my office and it’s my responsibility to take care of any intruders!” Snape said.
“Oh, I get it”, Alecto smiled. “You want all the fun for yourself, Severus”.
“But if they broke into your office then they must be the ones that wrote those slogans on the wall outside”, Amycus said.
My eyes widened. There was no way I was going to let Luna and Neville to pay for that too. Before I could confess though that it was just me, Snape sneered.
“Longbottom?” he said looking at Neville. “That buffoon isn’t capable of holding his wand straight not pulling off something like this. I should know I used to teach him for six years!”
Neville made to raise his wand but Luna held his hand, shaking her head.
“Yes, but the other two?” Alecto questioned. “The little blood traitor and Lovegood’s daughter!”
Snape considered us for a few seconds.
“No”, he said then. “There must be someone else organizing them”.
“Then we should torture them to learn who!”
“Easy Amycus”, Snape said. “Why are you inside my office?” he questioned us then.
“To take Gryffindor’s sword from you”, I replied making both Neville and Luna gasp.
“What?” Snape asked taken aback. “And what good would that do to you?”
“It’s Gryffindor’s sword!” I shouted. “It doesn’t belong in here! It doesn’t belong with you!”
“Are you seriously that idiotic?” Snape asked. “You risked your heads to get something you couldn’t even use?”
“Yeah, we did”, Luna replied from my side. “But I guess bravery seems idiotic to you, professor”.
“You silly girl”, he said shaking his head. “Do you have any idea what we can to do you? What we have to…?”
He stopped his sentence in mid air as his eyes fell on the photo I was holding, that had slipped through my hands and was now on the floor. The woman of the picture was still laughing blissfully. I could swear that Snape’s face whitened so fast like it was sprayed with paint. He looked up at us wide-eyed and then he scooped down and picked the picture up.
“Where did you find this?” he questioned, looking way more furious than a minute before.
“In you drawers”, I replied. “What do you have to do with that picture?”
“That is not any of your business Miss Weasley, is it?”
“But it is!” I shouted. “Why do you have a picture of that woman?”
“Alecto, Amycus!” Snape yelled turning to them. “Go and get me Hagrid”.
“Hagrid?” Alecto asked confused.
“Didn’t I already said that? Go! Now!”
Both of them walked out of the office looking rather disappointed to leave.
“Listen to me, Miss Weasley”, he said with a soft voice when they left. “You shall never ever speak to anyone about this”.
“Oh, really?” I snorted. I wasn’t good at keeping secrets and sure as hell wasn’t going to try to do so for Snape. “Make me”.
Snape’s wand moved so fast that Neville didn’t have time to stand in front of me and I didn’t have time to even raise mine. I flew in the air and banged on the wall right beneath Dumbledore’s empty portrait. Dizziness clouded my mind for a few moments as I slid down the wall on a sitting position, my head throbbing painfully.
“No, Longbottom!” Snape yelled and I opened my eyes to see Neville’s wand fly from his hand. Luna was right next to me. She grabbed my arm and pulled me up. It didn’t took me long to get over the hit though and I walked forward again.
“Why do you have this picture?” I asked Snape again.
“Whose picture is it?” Neville asked as he stood between me and the hateful man.
“It’s someone that has nothing to do with you, Longbottom”, Snape said angrily. “It’s someone I know”.
“You’re lying!” I pointed out the obvious. “Or do you think that I don’t know who that is? You think I can’t recognize her when she has the exact same eyes as her son?”
Snape was actually trembling from anger; his eyes were but two splits and a vein had popped on his forehead. I had dropped my wand, so I had nothing to protect myself from the attack I was sure there was going to come, when he was able to overcome his shock. Meanwhile, Neville looked completely puzzled, but Luna walked forward to stand beside me, looking at the back of the picture on Snape’s left hand.
“This is Harry’s mum?” she questioned. Neville gasped.
“No”, Snape said.
“Yes!” I retorted.
Snape laughed softly.
“I hate to break this to you Miss Weasley, but not the entire world revolves around you Harry Potter”, he said.
Oh yeah, wanna bet?
“If that’s not Lilly Potter, then I’ll chop my head off!” I cried out more dramatically than I meant to but whatever.
Before Snape could say anything else Alecto and Amycus entered, Hagrid behind them. Hagrid was extremely upset and as result he banged his head on a shelf, but he ignored it and hurried next to us.
“They ain’t guilty of anythin”, he said taking my hand. He looked up at him questioningly. What was he getting at? We were caught in the act. “I told ‘em to come ‘ere”.
“WHAT?” both Neville and Amycus cried out.
“No, you didn’t, Hagrid”, I said coolly. “He didn’t”, I repeated addressing Snape.
“I know he didn’t”, Snape smirked. “You can’t get them out of this Hagrid. So, please keep your head on Miss Weasley, we have no need for it and its traitorous thoughts. Your punishment will be a full night in the Forbidden Forest…with Hagrid”.
That’s it? I pressed my lips together before the words escaped my mouth and glanced at Luna and Neville. They both had the same bewildered expressions. Damn, Neville had been in the forest when he was eleven! Harry, Ron and Hermione had gone there numerous times (though they may not be the best example of what is safe and rational).
“That’s it?” Amycus asked the question I wanted to ask.
“Yes, that’s it.”, Snape nodded. “Oh, wait, about you Miss Weasley…”
And there we go. What was he going to do? Chain me? Torture me? Starve me? What?
“You are banned from even going to Hogsmead for the entire term”, he said.
Huh?
“Now get them out of my sight!” Snape nodded and Amycus grabbed me and Luna, Alecto taking Neville. “Hagrid!” I heard Snape say as we were pushed up the stairs. “Make sure our little friends enjoy the Dementors, will you?”
So that was it. Dementors. He was sending us to a forest filled with those…creatures. I shivered as I thought of how I would feel next to them, of what they would make me remember. But still apart from that, I was…confused…yeah that’s the word. What the hell was going on? Lilly Potter’s picture had upset me more than I could express. Why Snape had it? What if that was a way to get to Harry? My blood froze at the thought. Of course, that must be it; there was just no other explanation for it. Somehow, someway he was going to hurt Harry through it. Why else would Snape care for the picture?


-Angie-