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the ritual and sev scaring the pants off neville longbottom

a promised a certain  reader 2 updates (you know who you are lol XD) and im not going to be able to make 2, so here's an extra long one  here ya go guys!

kat

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the court decided to spend yule together, Neville told his gran that he was going to stay at Hogwarts for Christmas, and the court was now sitting in Severus' room waiting for him to be done  with a potion for Lucius. harry was alternating between leafing through a a dark ritual book (given to him by the twins) and watching Neville shift uncomfortably on the couch, looking around sev's room as if he was expecting the man himself to pop out from behind the sofa and strangle him. he watch Neville relax considerably as Blaise rested his hand on his mates thigh. Neville had fitted well into the group and harry had noticed a considerable change in his  confidence as the weeks went by, but he had yet to get a wand, and harry was going to fix this as soon as they got back to the manor, and he had found a way to make them untraceable as well.

with that thought, the crackling merry red flames of the fireplace turned green, just in time for Severus to stride into the room. Neville gasped. he was wearing black slacks and a dark blue silk shirt with no tie, and had forgone his teaching robes and greasy hair, for a loose fitting short summer robe and silky hair tied up on a bun. his wand was strapped to his arm in its holster and most striking of all was his black nail polish. (god i wish this was fanart)   severus raised an eyebrow and watched as Theo, and the twins stepped though the flames " something wrong Longbottom"
"no sir you just look...um different"

"different?" Severus drawled

"w-well-"

"give the boy a break sev" harry laughed  "he's positively quaking look at him"

Severus smiled at his godson "oh but how i do like to play with my victims before i eat them harry"

harry just shook his head and laughed, watching as Neville squeaked and practically threw  himself through the flames after his mate. 

"what book have you there harry?"

 harry turned the cover toward Severus "need anything in particular?"

harry sighed. there was no use lying to his godfather "i think I've found a way to bring back tom using the resurrection stone but I'm not sure if it'll work. i never realised how seeped in blood that stone truly is and I'm not sure if it'll work to heal his soul."

"steeped in blood?" Severus asked sitting down next to his godson, looking down at the book in his hands.

"the resurrection stone was dark magic, death told me. to create it would have mean incredible evil. you cannot resurrect a person. to resurrect a small life form would mean the death of another. an exchange of sorts. to resurrect a human? thousands of life's. the stone itself has the blood of a thousand souls bound within a draconite. to use this stone to give tom life would ultimately destroy what little soul he has left, given how dark it truly is. im not sure that would be a wise way to go about this and im not sure what else to do"

"these horcruxes, are they all non human?"

"no, there's me. i was accidental"

"well what if we combine a strengthening ritual with the old Samhain witchery ritual? you as his mate would give a small portion of your blood in the ritual and then we can mix it in with a strengthening solution and a portion of the resurrection stone, we could probably regain the dark lords strength. it would recognise that riddle was better human, and hopefully revert him back to the way he was before everything went horribly wrong. its a risk, but it might work, and if we do a cleansing ritual before then and have a goblin alongside in case he needs a mind healer  afterwards, i think it might work"

"strengthening solutions need basilisks blood to brew though right"

"true" Severus nodded "but we have a resident dark lord and rumour has it a girl of Hogwarts was petrified to death 50 years ago when said dark lord  was around, if anyone knows where a basilisk might be its him, or that oaf Hagrid, mini dragon i ask you" 

harry grinned as Severus scowled. Ron's  attempt to get said dragon to Charlies dragon reserve before the teachers found out had ended in an irate potions professor with a burnt hand, a loose dragon finally cornered and caught up in the astronomy tower and a 250 point loss from the Gryffindor house.  

"I'll ask him when we get back from yule"

"oh no you won't" said Severus 

"why?" said harry warily, not trusting the almost (almost) happy expression on his godfathers face 

"you can ask him before then, he's coming to the Malfoy yule ball"