Chapter 23: Chapter 23 - Second Day 01.
[Chapter Size: 1900 Words.]
Third Person POV
Hogwarts.
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Snape woke up before sunrise just like the day before, the sun hadn't even risen as he left the bed, going to train another day outside the castle. There was no secrecy as he left his house's common room and proceeded through the corridors of Hogwarts while some seventh-year prefects were monitoring the place, but Snape didn't care about being seen by them.
"Hey, you!" A boy saw him and quickly called out, but when he saw it was the guy from yesterday, he froze.
"You again?" Snape asked, looking back at the Hufflepuff student, the same one who had approached him again.
Seeing that the boy said nothing more, Snape continued walking to leave the castle. He passed without problems through the corridors while only a few portraits that were awake saw him and looked at him surprised; they would tell the headmaster later, but since Snape had an agreement with the man, he couldn't care less.
However, a man appeared in his path, and it was none other than the caretaker, Argus Filch, following his cat who had followed the scent of the student.
"Mrs. Norris! You've found a student out of the dormitory!" He exclaimed, pointing at Snape. "You rule-breaker, wait until the headmaster hears about this!" He exclaimed.
Snape continued walking without stopping until he got close to him, "It doesn't matter, go ahead and tell him that Severus Snape is leaving the school at this moment." Snape commented with an arrogant smile, tired of always seeing someone trying to hinder even his walks through the school.
Argus Filch was quite surprised by the boy's audacity, but he could do nothing but watch the boy pass him in the darkness of the corridor. He looked at Snape's back and started walking, towards the headmaster's tower.
Snape kept walking, and as he was finally reaching the exit of the school, a third person approached him, if he could call it a person.
"Look what I've found here!" A ghost emerged from the ground in front of Snape wanting to scare the boy.
For a moment of reaction with reflex, Snape quickly moved his arm towards the ghost who tried to grab him, surprising him.
Peeves, who was one of the very old ghosts of the castle, liked to play tricks and snitch on students breaking the rules. He saw that this student was certainly not one of the prefects, so he thought to scare him to see him running in fear, but he did not expect this student to simply attack him as he approached. If that was surprising, what happened next scared him to the core.
"I've got you... hm?! HMMMMMMM!!!!!" Snape grabbed him by the neck while clutching it tightly, making him feel something he hadn't felt in over 100 years, pain.
'What is this?!! How can he grab me in this state, I am a ghost!!' Peeves was so frightened by this that he became even more terrified when he saw the student's eyes shining with a strong blue color, making Peeves feel that his end was near.
"Do you want to die?! Never do that again." Snape spoke while he had his dangerous and threatening glow.
Peeves began to shake his head rapidly with the pain of his neck being pressed and even feeling short of breath, a condition that shouldn't happen after his death...
Snape let him go, and Peeves quickly began to retreat as if the student was a monster. "Help!!" He shouted as he started to dive into the walls escaping from there still feeling the pain of his neck being pressed.
Snape stopped having shining eyes and looked at his hand a bit surprised. 'Strange... From Snape's memories... No one could touch a ghost... since they are dead beings... why was I able to do this and even felt that I could kill him... if I wanted to.' Snape murmured, analyzing the strange situation.
Snape proceeded outside the castle; he saw the night still covering the whole place, 'Should I go back to train in the lake...?' He thought, but seeing that his classes would only be in the afternoon with spell class and potion class, he decided to explore places he had not gone to yet... like the forbidden forest, he could also train against the local creatures. He thought and quickly started heading north, where the forest was on the road to Hogsmeade.
As he walked out without anything to stop him as he left the school through the north gate. The headmaster was sleeping until his phoenix appeared, waking him up, as it called him.
"Fawkes?!" He asked, rubbing his eyes.
"Hoo!" Fawkes made a sound.
"Is a student calling me?! Has something happened?" He asked as he got out of bed in his pajamas, grabbed his wand, and with a flick, he turned his pajamas into his normal clothes as he left to find the student.
As soon as the statue's door opened, he descended the stairs and encountered a seventh-year Hufflepuff student, quite scared.
"Hello, young man, you must be Luke Rog." He remembered the student came from a Muggle family.
"Hello-Hello headmaster..." The boy was somewhat apprehensive as he stuttered.
"Tell me, what happened, you're a prefect, aren't you?" He asked.
"Yes-Yes! I came because I found a Slytherin student walking around the school yesterday and today while the sun hadn't even risen! He scares me, headmaster!" The boy said.
"Snape?" The headmaster already guessed who this student might be, after all, the portraits had reported Snape's departure yesterday, so it was just him who would do such a thing in the early morning. He looked at the scared student and touched his shoulder. "Don't worry about that, I'll handle the student, you can ignore him for now." He said, thinking about asking Snape not to leave the school so early to train his body outside, something uncommon among wizards.
The student nodded with some reluctance as he started to move away, the headmaster sighed, since Snape returned, everything seemed so disturbed... He then began walking back to sleep, however, Fawkes appeared again.
"Hoooo!!!" Fawkes announced another visitor.
"Another one?!" He said, returning and now found the caretaker with his cat in his arms completely angry at this time.
"Headmaster! We have a rebellious student in the school who needs to be punished!" Argus Filch shouted.
"Don't tell me he was also from Slytherin..." The headmaster commented.
"Yes! Walking through the school corridors at this time! I said I would make him be punished, but he didn't seem to care as he continued walking! I wish you would punish him!" Filch spoke with a tone of anger.
"I will resolve this when the day breaks, caretaker, you may go." The headmaster sighed while Filch nodded and began to leave.
"Come on, Mrs. Norris!" He spoke to the cat and started moving away from the place.
"I hope this is the last..." Dumbledore murmured, returning to the staircase as the door closed behind him.
When he returned to his office before going to his bed, the phoenix was already waiting for him. "Don't tell me there's another one?!" He said, tired.
"HOOO!!!" Fawkes flapped its wings.
"Let's see who this is now..." Albus commented, but before he could react, Peeves emerged from the ground looking at him with fearful eyes.
"Headmaster!!!!" He shouted, waking even the portraits of the former headmasters who were asleep.
"Peeves?! What is this?!" Dumbledore looked surprised to see the ghost looking as if he saw a "Ghost".
"Headmaster! I was attacked by a student!!!" He complained.
"What do you mean attacked by a student?" Albus raised an eyebrow at this.
"I saw a student walking through the corridors as he was heading towards the exit of the school, I thought to scare him, but when I did that, he attacked me!! I swear, he grabbed me by the neck and threatened me, I thought I was going to die!!" Peeves looked so scared that his playful personality disappeared as he had a fearful look.
"What do you mean he grabbed you? You're a ghost..." Albus was a bit surprised, after all, what could kill a ghost would be the Dementor among other dark creatures...
"He grabbed me, I swear! I felt pain!" Peeves continued to exclaim.
"..." Dumbledore was left not knowing what to do, whether to believe the ghost or not.
"I will think about it, Peeves, you may return..." He said, and Peeves, reluctantly, dived back into the ground.
"What was that?!" Albus scratched his head in confusion.
"Grab a ghost?" A director who had woken up spoke from his portrait.
"These ghosts know who is forbidden to enter here, yet he still entered..." Another said with a stern tone.
"Did you see his state? He was terrified." A woman spoke.
"Did you hear what he said. He said a student grabbed him by the neck..." Another scoffed.
"Excuse me, gentlemen, but I believe him," a director from over a hundred years ago spoke. "Albus, Peeves has never been one to lie. He may be playful, but his words have always been true..." The director spoke to Albus.
"What does this mean, it surely was Snape, but grabbing a ghost?!" Albus debated with himself. Snape kept proving to be a more mysterious person with strange abilities with every piece of news he heard about him.
"I have to somehow get closer to him, to find out more, perhaps I should talk to Lily Evans..." He spoke, hoping to place the girl as his spy on Snape.
Meanwhile, Snape was unaware of the new confusion he had caused in the castle while he was beginning to explore the Forbidden Forest, feeling the atmosphere becoming grim and evil.
'I am being watched...' He felt as he walked through the place with dense and dark foliage.
He didn't care as he followed the path among the giant trees; there was also a pleasant feeling for him being in a place like that. 'I feel stronger here... how strange...'
'I am becoming increasingly different from what I was... my personality is becoming more arrogant and darker...' He began to realize, having behaviors he never had before like in recent days... Snape had always been cautious, but he was becoming more ruthless, not even caring about beating up some kids and intimidating them as they annoy him since he returned to the school.
He continued walking through the dark forest while thinking about the personality changes he was undergoing. He didn't care as he left the road and entered a dark clearing, at that moment he stopped, after all, the feeling of being watched intensified at that moment.
From the trees around him, dark paws began to emerge, and a group of more than 20 Acromantulas started to surround Snape, seeing an easy prey, with a student entering the forest alone.
"So these are the creatures they call giant spiders in this world?" Snape commented calmly looking at the Acromantula around him, not caring about them wanting to kill him at that moment, he took out a dagger and his wand, "It seems that a battle this morning will be welcome." He said with a smile.
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Raccoon here:
I always base myself on the Hogwarts Legacy game to identify all the places and landmarks of the school and its surroundings.
It's no surprise that Snape can touch and kill a ghost; he has the power of the king of the dead in his body.
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