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Severus Snape’s POV -
Severus withheld a sigh. Madam Bones glared at Ms. Granger and Mr. Weasley. The two of them just looked at each other.
“If you are unwilling to cooperate with our investigation, I will charge you with interference and press charges,” Madam Bones threatens. A few side notes before we continue. 1) Severus will refer to Granger, Ron, and Ginny respectfully because he is a teacher, and he can’t slip up and call them their nicknames. 2) Madam Bones is kind of mean here because she is pissed. Granger and Weasley endangered the entire school, including her niece, who is her only remaining direct relative. In this fanfiction her husband is dead and Susan’s dad is her only brother. Everyone else directly related is dead. So she is taking this very seriously and while I’d like to depict her as the perfect stereotypical Hufflepuff, I just can’t do that here.
“Now, Amelia,” Dumbledore starts looking disappointed but is cut off by Madam Bones’ glare.
Granger’s eyes widened. Severus heard about her ambitions to become Minster of Magic (from Albus and Minerva, who won’t shut up about it), and to do that, she would need to have a spotless record. However, that didn’t make her any more bearable in class. She seems to have not yet realized that being a teacher’s pet (that only 1 out of the 5 teachers main teachers [potions, transfiguration, charms, herbology, and astronomy] she has, excluding the DADA teacher and Binns, likes her, and the elective teachers already dread having her next year) she has of is a good way to get yourself pranked and attacked in the hallway. Being teacher’s pet is not a good way to get friends or to become Minister since you have to be, you know, likable. Now that Severus thought about it, they really need more teachers. Severus added talking about hiring more teachers with Marvolo, Hadrian, and Lucius on his to-do list.
Ms. Granger opens her mouth. “Well, we… we… we were visiting Hagrid so Ron’s rat, Scabbers could be healed… and then Scabbers ran off after seeing Fang… Hagrid’s dog… so we chased after it… and it went into the Forbidden Forest… and… and…”
“And what Ms. Granger?” Severus asks, glaring at them.
“And… and we… followed him… right into the Acromantula nest… and we escaped after being chased… with Scabbers… and we went to the castle… but the Acromantula followed us… which is where Ron screamed… and Professor Snape and Flitwick met us…”
“Mr. Weasley, is this true?” Madam Bones asks.
“Um… yes?”
“Is that a question or an answer Mr. Weasley?” Severus asks.
“An answer.”
“In that case, 50 points each from Gryffindor for going into the Forbidden Forest and a suspension for… Madam Bones, how long should they be suspended for?” Severus asks.
“I’d say for a week. In school, serving detentions,” Madam Bones says.
“That's a wonderful idea.”
“Now Severus, they were trying to save Ronald’s pet,” Albus says.
“Thank you for reminding me. Mr. Weasley, you will be sending that rat home as it is not on the list of approved animals and be spending the rest of the year with Flich in detention for having an unauthorized pet,” Severus says.
“But! BUT!” Mr. Weasley cries.
“Keep talking Mr. Weasley and I will find a way to extend this detention to the next school year.”
Mr. Weasley snarled.
“10 points from Gryffindor for disrespecting a teacher.”
“Now Severus,” Albus starts.
“He did not have an authorized pet, so he will be spending those detentions, after all, I’m sure he was warned by Minerva that having an unauthorized pet will result in detentions and to send it home. Since he still has it, I will assume that he ignored those warnings.”
Albus was speechless. If he said that Minerva didn’t say those warnings, he would be admitting that she had been neglecting her duties as their head of house. If he says that she did tell Mr. Wesley those warnings, then Mr. Weasley ignored them. Speaking of which, Hadrian would love a snake for Yule, Christmas, or whatever Hadrian celebrates… if he celebrates anything at all. He’d also have to get the paperwork together to authorize the snake so Albus couldn’t get rid of it. Severus still remembers the moment they found out Hadrian was a parselmouth, he’d never seen the Dark Lord speechless before.
~Flashback~
Severus leaned back on the sofa in the living room in Malfoy Manor.
“Severus, don’t you have seats?” The Dark Lord asks.
“No,” Severus replies.
“Isn’t your mother a Prince?”
“Yes, but she was disinherited.”
“Perhaps you should go to Gringotts and check.”
“If I inherited the title?”
“Yes.”
“I will go later today.”
“Great, now back to the topic at hand, we have no way to deal with Dumbledore. Any bills we try to pass will tie his army of seats.”
“Do we know if he got them legally?” Hadrian asks from the other side of the room.
“No, but there is no way to check,” Lucius says.
“And there is no way to figure out who he is proxy for?” Antonin asks. Since becoming a proxy for Hadrian, he slowly merged into the group.
“No,” Lucius answers.
“And no way to narrow it down?” The Dark Lord asks.
“No,” Lucius says again.
“Then we are screwed if he has more seats available,” Hadrian states.
“Pretty much,” Severus says. The Dark Lord hisses something, probably curses at Dumbledore. Hadrian looks at the Dark Lord, opens his mouth, and hisses? The Dark Lord’s eyes widen before he quickly puts his mask back on.
“You can speak parseltounge?” He asks.
“Parseltounge?” Hadrian asks.
“Speak to snakes.”
“Yeah.”
“How?”
“I have all speak and am an heir to Slytherin.”
“Oh, right.”
“You forgot about that didn’t you?”
The Dark Lord kept his mouth shut.
~Flashback Ends~
“Now, now, they were only trying to save themselves,” Albus says placatingly. Little note here, during the flashback, Severus missed some stuff, so that is why it doesn’t make to much sense if you read the dialogue before and after the flashback.
“Yes, but they put themselves in danger by going into the Forbidden Forest, which is, as the name suggests, forbidden. By putting themselves in danger by somehow walking into an Acromantula nest, which I’m entirely sure how, and then having it chase them back to the school and failing to alert a teacher that it was chasing them, they put the entire school at risk,” Fillus lectured.
“I’m quite certain they didn’t mean any harm,” Albus insisted.
“Like you would know, you let a Cerberus into the school,” Severus muttered under his breath.
“It doesn’t matter whether they meant any harm. They put the entire school at risk,” Amelia responds.
“No one got hurt.”
“I’m not going to argue with you over this. They are going to be suspended and have those detentions. If they don’t I will arrest them for child endangerment and you for neglect. I will also be bringing this up to the school board, whether you stop arguing with me or not.”
Albus wisely shut his mouth.
~The Next Day~
Hadrian’s POV -
Hadrian went to Severus’ office the moment the day ended. He went to the portrait of the 27th Head of Slytherin and asked him to tell Severus that he was outside. Moments later, the portrait swings open.
“Hadrian,” Severus greets him.
“Severus,” Hadrian replies.
“You want to know about the Acromantula?” Hadrian nods. “Mr. Weasley and Ms. Granger were chasing after Mr. Weasley’s pet rat and entered into their nest in the Forbidden Forest. They were chased out of the nest and were followed back to the school, at which point Ms. Granger screamed alerting the rest of the school. They will be suspended for a week serving detentions at the school. For keeping an unauthorized pet, Mr. Weasley will be spending the rest of the year helping Flich with keeping the school clean and will have to send the rat home to his parents. If the owl which is taking the cage happens to kill the rat to be its next meal, then it is most certainly Mr. Weasley’s fault as he should have told the owl otherwise.” Hadrian smiled ever so slightly. It seems like Dense’s rat will not be making it home after all. Oh well, nothing of value would be lost.
“Why is there an Acromantula nest in the Forbidden Forest?”
“Well, Hagrid once had the patriarch of the nest as a pet, when Marvolo found out, he reported Hagrid. Hagrid let the creature escape to the forest. He still visits it now and then.”
“Has the oaf finally been arrested?”
“Yes, though Dumbledore will try his hardest to get his pawn out.”
“How wonderful. I wonder if Lucius and Antonin would be willing to get involved.”
“They might be. I know they love to get under Dumbledore’s skin.”
“I’ll write to them.” Severus nods.
Hadrian left Severus’ office and went to the common room. On the way there, he saw a girl with blonde hair skipping.
“Hello your highness,” she says.
“What?” Hadrian asks, tense.
“No need to worry your highness, I won’t tell anyone.”
“Great. What’s your name?”
“I am Luna Lovegood your highness.”
“Cool. I’m Hadrian Peverell-Potter. You can call me Hadrian.”
“Then you can call me Luna.”
~Two months later~
The past two months were… fun. Let's say fun.
Hadrian and Draco pranked Lockhart right out of Hogwarts. Every day, Lockhart was pranked. After every prank, the Weasley twins were smiling like it was their birthday. It went from turning Lockhart into a peacock (Hadrian had to push for it to be a peacock, Draco wanted it to be a dodo bird, apparently Draco owned several albino peacocks, which Hadrian and his friends got a good laugh at) to Lockhart having to sing his words as if he were in a musical. Their pranks were crazy, hilarious, and most importantly, embarrassing. Eventually, Lockhart had enough because the next day, Dumbledore announced that Lockhart had resigned and Severus would be taking over as the temporary professor until a replacement could be found.
That replacement came in the form of Lucius. The board decided to send Lucius because they thought Dumbledore was getting out of control and because Lucius had a mastery in the subject.
Lockhart left around the beginning of November and Lucius joined the staff in mid-November. Hadrian sent a few letters to Marvolo and learned that he did curse the defense position so that only someone he approved of could keep the job for more than a year. Lucius liked being close to his son and thus asked permission to stay as the teacher indefinitely. Marvolo agreed.
Hadrian was also constantly stalked by Brainless, Dense, and Ignorant. Severus and Lucius had a lot of fun constantly taking points and assigning detentions to the trio. They tried to take it to the board, but the board ruled in favor of Lucius and Severus. The trio lost Gryffindor 100 points each. Gryffindor was now sitting firmly in the negatives despite the rest of McGonagall, Dumbledore, and the rest of the house’s efforts to get them out. The trio was also ostracized from Gryffindor for losing so many points.
Gryffindor also lost every quidditch game they played. Wood was training his team from sunrise to sunset on the weekends.
Hagrid, unfortunately, was not put in Azkaban for his dangerous creatures or even fired, just banned from ever touching another animal (even his dog was taken away).
Meanwhile, Severus and Lucius took to teaching the Slytherins the dark arts. Not really bad ones like the unforgivables, in fact, in other countries around the world, the spells they taught them weren’t classified as dark but neutral. Every other weekend, all the Slytherins went to a classroom deep in the dungeons and were taught a new spell.
Hadrian was at the top of his year, followed by Draco, Blaise, and a few Ravenclaws. Ignorant was in 10th place and was fuming about it. From what Hadrian had heard, she was going on a rampage. She set up a study schedule for finals, despite finals being months away. Not even the Ravenclaws are that bad. She also constantly checked out all the book copies on a subject. For instance, she checked all the books that even mentioned the disarming charm for an essay that Professor Flitwick assigned. Even some of the older years were mad because they needed those books too. Hadrian also heard in the Gryffindor, that she didn’t let anyone touch let alone borrow the books. It happened again when Professor Sinistra assigned an essay on a constellation and its mythology. Ignorant took all the books on Greek mythology and constellations. Needless to say, everyone was very mad when they went to the library and there were no books available.
A bunch of students went to Professor Sinistra about it and their heads of houses (except the Gryffindors). Severus told Hadrian that they brought it up to Dumbledore since second years shouldn’t even be allowed to check out that many books (note that she took out at least 20 at once if not more for one subject). Dumbledore tried to write it off as an overeager student. But Severus and all the other teachers threaten to take it to the board. So now, Ignorant can only take out 3 books at a time, like the rest of the second years. So instead, she hogged all the books in the library, and Ms. Pince, the librarian, didn’t do anything about it. She just ignores people when they try to talk to her.
So everyone complained to the teachers again. The teachers took it up with the board this time. Ms. Pince was fired for not doing her job and replaced with William Harris, Lord of the most noble house of Harris. Ignorant also got banned from the library for the rest of the year. If she wanted to research her assignments, she had to “ask one of her housemates for books” as Lucius put it. Though it's pretty well known that no one but Dense and Brainless shares books with her.
Marvolo also found a way to hide that he was back by changing the dark mark. Now, for Severus, it looks like it did when he was “dead” and for Lucius and the rest of the death eaters, no one but Marvolo, Hadrian, and other death eaters could see the mark. Admittedly, it would have been smarter to have done that before they went to war, but better now than later. Marvolo also started recruiting again.
In the Wizengamot, Dumbledore has been stalled from passing any bills thanks to Antonin. All in all, the past two months haven’t been that bad. And now, they were on the train to go home and start Winter break.