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The Potion Mistress and the Half-Blood Prince	By : FonzFan Category: HP Canon Characters paired with Original Characters > General Views: 2096 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Disclaimer: I do not own any of the people (Dumbledore, Snape, Voldemort, etc), places (Hogwarts, etc), other keywords (Occlumency, etc.), and text ("") that belong to the wonderful world of Harry Potter, as they belong to J.K. Rowling. I am writing this story to entertain myself (and hopefully others) and make no money from it. The OC (Katherine) is entirely my own.

Chapter 30: Returning to Hogwarts
"So what was that about last night?" Katherine asked, as she leaned against the doorframe that separated the kitchen and the sitting room. Severus was sitting in his usually chair, a cup of tea in one hand and the Prophet in the other.
"I don't know what your talking about," Severus lied, not even bothering to look up from the paper.
"You don't know," Katherine raised an eyebrow at him, and crossed her arms across her chest. "Well, lets backtrack shall we. You follow me to headquarters; Narcissa obviously interrogated you about something, because that's how she is; and then you take me in the library. So, I'll ask again…what is bothering you?"
"Nothing," Severus snarled from behind the paper. He didn't even notice Katherine cross the room, until the paper was ripped from his hands. Severus scowled at the witch, as she threw the paper to the other side of the room.
"Nothing," Katherine sneered. "Don't you dare tell me there's nothing wrong Sev. You were forceful last night, and you're only like that when something is weighing heavily on your mind. So out with it!"
"FINE!" Severus snapped. "I was concerned that you and Bellatrix would go at each other like the last time. Last thing I wanted was to see you return here barely alive."
"Sev, Bellatrix wouldn't try anything with the Dark Lord standing right there," Katherine said more calmly. "You know she wouldn't, especially after having to endure the Dark Lord's wrath the last time."
"Still," Severus said, leaning back in his chair. "I felt impatient, more so since I wasn't involved in the take over of the Ministry."
"You know why you were not involved," Katherine said, sitting down in the chair next to him. "The Dark Lord wants you well, since you will be the Headmaster of Hogwarts."
"Indeed, but…" Severus started, but was cut short as the floo blazed green. The emerald flame danced inside the fireplace, before emitting the body of Avery. The wizard stood, brushing himself off of sot from the fire.
"Snape. Dumbledore," he muttered, as he finished brushing himself off. "I've been sent here with news and information for the two of you."
"Avery," Severus said, as he crossed his arms across his chest, eyeing the other wizard. "By the look on your face, I would have to say it's bad news."
"A bit, anyway," Avery muttered again, as he sat down on the sofa.
"Could I get you some tea?" Katherine asked, half rising from her chair.
"Wouldn't mind some," Avery sighed. The two wizards watched as Katherine walked the short distance to the kitchen, and disappear within to fetch the tea.
"It must not be too bad of news since Katherine tells me that the takeover of the Ministry went smoothly," Severus began, as Katherine came back into the room, levitating three fresh cups of tea in front of her.
"Well, it is and it isn't," Avery started, as he plucked a teacup from the air. "The Ministry takeover did go smoothly enough, and the Dark Lord wants Yaxley to continue the Imperius Curse on Thicknesse, and make Pius the Minister of Magic.
"After you left Katherine, Shacklebolt found Scrimgeour dead body and sent word to the Burrow straight away. When the group arrived at the Weasley home, the boy and his friends had already fled.
"Dolohov and Rowle tracked them, but when they returned to headquarters this morning, they claimed they never found them."
"Obviated," Severus said as he took a sip from his fresh teacup.
"Believe so," Avery confirmed. "Anyways, the Dark Lord wants the two of you to return to Hogwarts on the fifteenth of August. The Carrows are to arrive on the twenty-second."
"Is there anything the Dark Lord wants us to do between now and then?" Katherine asked, as she sipped from her own cup.
"Not that I'm aware of," Avery said, as he finished off his tea and stood from the lounge. "Those were his only instructions."
"Tell the Dark Lord that we will be at the school on the fifteenth," Severus said, rising from his chair as well.
"Very well. I better be going," Avery said, as he grabbed a handful of floo powder and threw it into the fireplace. "Malfoy Manor." Avery stepped into the green flame and disappeared from view.
"Well," Katherine started, finishing off her tea. "Might as well start on lesson plans. Want me to add poisons to the seventh years?"
"No," Severus said sharply. "If Longbottom is returning, we don't need him poisoning the entire school."
"He does that already with his botched antidotes," Katherine snorted as she summoned paper and a quill to her.
"Very true," Severus said, picking the discarded newspaper back up, that Katherine had tossed across the room. "But I just don't want to risk it. They may try to use it on you after all."
"They'd be daft to try it," Katherine said, as she began writing out her lesson plans. Severus sighed inwardly as he sat back down in his chair and continued to read the Prophet.
'It's going to be a long two weeks.' Severus thought, as he glanced up occasionally at the witch in the chair next to him.

"Katherine!" Severus shouted up the stairs on the early afternoon of the fifteenth of August. "Are you ready to go?"
"In a minute!" Katherine shouted back. Severus glanced at his pocket watch, scowling at the time, when he heard Katherine coming down the stairs. "Alright I'm ready."
Severus eyed her up from head to toe. Katherine was redressed back into her typical black frock and pencil skirt. Her black cloak flowing around her as she walked, and a soft clicking sounded from her shoes as she walked across the hard wood floors. She had a small pack in her hand, as the rest of her clothes were still at the school, after having fled in early June.
But something else, caught his eye as she turned to face him. A small silver locket hung around her neck, glistening in the lamp light from the small room. He didn't have to ask where it came from, because he knew.
Katherine had worn that locket everyday before her capture, which was the only day that she seemed to have forgotten to wear it. It had belonged to her mother, who had died shortly before Katherine's twelfth birthday during their first year at Hogwarts.
It was the only thing that she had inherited from the woman, and it seemed to never leave her person back then. He remembered finding it among her possessions after she was imprisoned, and saved it along with all the other items that had belonged to her.
"Sev? Ready?" Katherine said from the front door. Severus cleared his throat and followed her out into the street, so they could disapparate to the gates of Hogwarts.

Black and blue eyes fell upon the castle walls. Severus and Katherine stood just outside the large oak doors of Hogwarts, after having apparated to the gates and walking the long stretch up to the castle.
It was only around two in the afternoon, but one would think it was midnight. The sky was pitch black; layered with heavy dark rain clouds, that spilled liquid from the heavens as soon as the two had entered the grounds.
The Black Lake turned violent; producing sinister looking whitecaps that rolled swiftly over the water's surface, then striking the shore with great intensity. Great gusts of bitter winds swept around the soaked grounds, chilling ones body to the bone. Lightning illuminated the atmosphere, as claps of thunder followed.
Severus and Katherine swiftly made their way up the steps and Severus made to open the doors. But he was stopped in his tracks, at the doors burst open revealing a stern looking, gray-hair witch on the other side.
"I won't allow this, I just WON'T," shouted Professor Minerva McGonagall, as she blocked the doorway into the school. "The school cannot afford to have Death Eaters in charge. Mark my work Severus, if you or Katherine harm one student, I will strike you both down myself."
"Minerva, if you should so dare to take aim at me or Katherine, I shall have you locked up in Azkaban for it," Severus replied sternly, although he never would throw the elder witch in prison.
Minerva seemed ready to respond, but chose not to. For her fear of the students safety kept her at bay. She knew that if she were to be exiled to Azkaban, the students would have no one to watch over or protect them. As she backed away into the corridor, Severus and Katherine followed her.
Severus and Minerva's eyes met for a moment as though trying to figure out what each other was thinking. Then they parted. Severus and Katherine heading for the stairs to the headmaster's office and Minerva heading for her study.
"And, by the way Minerva," Severus stated as he paused on the steps, "you are no longer the Deputy Headmistress. That position has been given to Katherine.
"Also, Amycus and Alecto Carrow will arrive next Friday. They will be teaching as well." Minerva has stopped, but didn't turn to face him. Fear fell upon her face, and she drew her breath. She closed her eyes for a moment then continued on.
Severus watched her walk out of sight, then continued on his way, following Katherine towards the headmaster's study. It was the first time the two had walked the halls of Hogwarts since Severus had taken the life of Albus Dumbledore.
But Severus knew the orders that he had to carry out, and reassured himself about them. His mind constantly reminding him to protect the students and staff, protect Harry Potter, and protect Katherine Dumbledore. He couldn't not fail any of them.
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