Ravens and Asphodels | Harry Potter Marauders Era (Regulus Black x OFC)

Operation Princess

Over the next nine days, Diana saw her Aunt Mary eight more times, Paul six, Barbra four, and her uncle two more times despite him saying he wouldn't see her until he picked her up for the Wizengamot session on the thirtieth. One of the two times she saw her uncle was when he stumbled through her Floo yelling about how he found "her" and scaring the crap out of Rilly, who promptly sent the other four other elves to find Diana, who was out in the gardens ironically planning to change the landscape of the manor by trying to figure out where she wanted to place the willow tree she had decided she had wanted to include on the property.

As it turned out, the person he was screeching about was Eileen Snape, née Prince. After he didn't get an immediate response to the letter he had sent to Headmaster Dumbledore inquiring about any Snape's in attendance at Hogwarts, her uncle had decided the best way to go about finding Eileen Snape was to load up on caffeine and go to Hogwarts himself to get answers. This idea lead to, what Diana was told, a stern scolding by Barbra's Head of House Professor Minerva McGonagall after her uncle accidentally came through the Floo in her office instead of the one in Dumbledore's scaring the crap out of the poor Gryffindor Head of House. But in the end, Charles said the scolding by 'dearest Minnie' was well worth it because he found Eileen Snape. It turns out she did have a child who not only went to Hogwarts but was, in fact, still attending and was only a year older than Diana.

Diana spent the morning of June twenty-seventh listening to her uncle vocalize every aspect of Severus Tobias Snape's academic career because her uncle had somehow managed to acquire her estranged cousin's academic transcript and, more shockingly, his disciplinary report.

Once Diana got over her uncles excess of energy and his babbling about how this was why Hufflepuffs were known as 'particularly good finders,' she looked over her cousin's transcript herself and noted her cousin's proficiency in Potions, which made her happy as the Prince talent for Potions skipped right over her despite her fathers best efforts. It wasn't widely known, but the Prince family were fantastic potioneers. They were singlehandedly responsible for several healing potions, including the widely used Skele-Gro. The Princes were also known for the art of spell crafting, which Diana pick up.

It also seemed from his record that Severus was a Slytherin who was not a fan of Gryffindors. His record was full of disciplinary notices for repeatedly fighting with what looked like to be the same four Gryffindor boys: James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew. Diana frowned at that as it seemed it was always the four Gryffindors, or at least two of them, James Potter and Sirius Black, against just Severus and sometimes another Gryffindor named Lily Evans, at least for the first couple years of their shared educational experience. However, around Severus's second year, it seems he must have made friends in Slytherin as an older perfect named Lucius Malfoy began appearing in the transcript, seemingly protecting Severus. The record read, at least from how she was reading it, like a childish bullying situation that had now grown into a full-blown rivalry but suddenly stopped as all reports about fighting between the Gryffindors and Severus ceased this past April.

She recognized the last names Potter, Black, and Malfoy, as they were families with Wizengamot seats. She had been memorizing the familial history of those families who held seats in the Wizengamot and their political standings, so maybe she would be able to judge the Potter and Black boys if they attended the session on the thirtieth as well as Malfoy. She knew it was a stretch to hope for the boys to be there for her to observe because who even knows if the boys were their family's heirs, but who knows, maybe she would have a little bit of luck.