Hour of the Raven

3

Elizabeth walks into Dumbledores office and seeing the other victors already there waiting on her arrival.

When she entered the room she made immediate eye contact with Severus causing her to be furious. Elizabeth is constantly feeling the throbbing pain of her hand, as a reminder of how much of a jerk Snape is.

She makes her way to the other side of the room, trying to stay far away from him as possible.

"I've called the four of you here because i want you, to get to know ,one another." He says causing a weird look to go around the room.

" What do you mean Headmaster" Snape says speaking out.

"i'm putting you in pairs of two, to dig deep on history of this tournament and help each other out, and remember they are not your enemy" he said.

"will we be partnered during the competition " Henry asks.

" No just outside the competition, and you will have the same classes too"

"Victors with Victors" he says, "to build friendships and remember who the real enemy is " he reminded

A low scoff comes from Severus mouth.

"your names are in this box, after the first person pulls a name the partners are sealed for the year"

"Mary please come worth and pull from the hat " he says to the green eyed Beauxbaton girl.

She walks over to the hat and pulls out parchment paper.
A gold name appears to be written on it.
"Henry" she said softly.

Elizabeth sinks into her feet, knowing who she has to be with.
"oh great" she mumbled under her breathe, but still being heard by Severus.

"And that means Ms. Hook and Mr. Snape will be partnered up" Dumbledore says.

Elizabeth nods to him with a fake plastered on smile.

The victors leave the room and Mary and Henry go off to talk about their plans leaving Severus and Elizabeth left.

"Let's go to the library " he says beginning to leave expecting Elizabeth to follow.

Elizabeth scoffs at his demand but follows.

They both make their way to the dusty library that smells like old pages.
" Their should be a record of previous tournaments, let's find it to see what we are up against" he demands

Elizabeth doesn't answer she just scans the books looking, trying to ignore his words but knowing his plan is genius.

She looks up to see a book with a black cover and gold binding with gold words engraved in it reading "Tri-wizarding tournaments "

"found it " she says

Elizabeth goes to grab the book but then a shock of pain goes through her hand causing her to drop it.

"ouch" she whispers trying not to alert severus on how much pain he caused her, thinking it would make him happier.

she goes to grab the book but then severus grabs it before her.

"Go sit" he demands

"Stop demanding me like i'm one of your lap dogs" she said fed up with his demands.

He suddenly Grabs her waist and pushes her back to sit on the table.

"What are you -" she questions. but before she could finish that question he pulls out his wand and grabs her hand and then without even mumbling a word he does a spell on her hand causing the bruise to go with the pain.

"Thank..you" she says confused about how to feel, because he caused the bruise in the first place.

" i'll never touch you like that again, you have my word" he said with a sense of guilt.

For a minute Elizabeth was gazing into his deep black eyes until she snapped back to reality and pulled back her hand back after realizing he still had it, causing Severus to snap back too, after being stunned himself of his actions.

Odd she thought to herself. Why change so fast ? She wondered.

"here take the book, read it, and since we are going to spend time together , don't get in my way" he said putting of what just happened.

Elizabeth scoffs and just says "whatever" before he leaves the room.

This whole situation is strange she thought to herself, maybe he did that so he wouldn't look bad to lily or he has some type of dignity.