Where Your Loyalties Lie - {Severus Snape x Reader}

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Every running step I take echoes around the castle's stone walls. I need to find Severus and let him know that I lo..- All of sudden, familiar girl runs behind a corner. We almost run into each other, but managed to stop ourselves just in time. "Woah!!" I let out. "Professor (Y/L)! There you are! We have been looking all over for you." Cho's eyes widens out of surprise. I pant and try to continue my way:"Cho..- I-I'm so sorry, I need to..-", "But..- Professor!" she calls after. I keep glancing over the shoulder after walking past her:"I just need to..-", "Professor Snape left five minutes ago!" she informs. Huh?! My legs stops themselves and head snaps at her:"What?! W-where?". She shrugs:"I'm not sure. He left right after solving the fight in the Great Hall. Neville guessed probably to see You-Know-Who.". Of course. Cho frowns determinedly:"But we need to go now, Professor.". I'm still too focused on going after Severus here:"But..-", "We are not going to get another chance like this again. Come on!" she quickly holds onto my wrist and we start running to the Room of Requirement.

Right away when we enter the room, I see everyone is already here. Remus shoots up from his seat:"You finally found her. Brilliant! Let's get to work.". All the rest of the group got up as well, ready to do as we planned. Which is; Neville and I will take the Polyjuice potion, and turn into the Carrow twins. Therefor, we can easily get out of the castle without anyone's notice. Luna and Vivian keeps an eye on Alecto and makes sure she stays asleep during this whole time. What's good about this, is Amycus hasn't stepped his foot in Hogwarts after what happened in the girls bathroom. Our Headmaster has taken care of that - luckily. So we don't need to worry about him as well during all of this. To keep everything calm and collected, Cho is also going to turn into Alecto as well, so she can go to the Dark Arts class and order students write some essays rest of the day. That way no one will suspect a thing.

"Who's going to take care of History while you're gone, (Y/N)?" Neville asks back when we were planning all of this. "Remus." I answer. "W-why? Who's going to teach Muggle Studies then if he takes your place?" he asks confused. "Cedric." I simply answered. He and the others are now more confused:"Now you have lost me.". "To play it safe, I'll let Remus be me. As we all know, Remus is 'untouchable' to the Death Eaters. Therefor, if anything happens while I'm away, Cedric is going to be safe if he pretends to be him. Remus knows me well, so he can play the part - even if he ever happens to run into the Headmaster himself, for example. Which will be unlikely, but we need to be prepared." I tell them. Slowly, Neville nodded his head:"Right... Sounds reasonable.".

The Room really knows what we need since couple dressing walls appeared before us, and soon enough, we all started to dress up ourselves and get ready what's about to happen. The students managed to collect some hair and clothes from the twins chambers. "There, all dressed up! Not much of a fashion icon, but will do." I come behind the wall, all dressed up as Alecto. Neville comes behind the other one, dressed up in Amycus's clothes:"Don't think I have ever worn this much black at once in my whole life.". Small chuckle comes out of me and I turn to Luna, who is holding the Polyjuice potions:"Think we are ready here, Luna.". The girl is holding two identical bottles in her hands. For a moment I stare at the bottles with awkward smile, then lifted my gaze up to her:"So... Which is which?". Luna looks down to the bottles:"Oh. I'm not sure.". You got to be kidding me.

I stare at the students in disbelieve:"You... You didn't..-", "Try this one." she hands me one of the bottles. Before taking the gulp out of it, I take a quick glance at her:"Alright...". Then, I drink the potion and immediately taste the bitterness that sends shivers down my body. I turned my head away and cough couple times:"Urgh..!". Never going to get used to the taste. Neville drinks the other potion and makes a face as well. Soon enough, we both started to form into the Carrow twins. Only... "For Merlin's sake..." I sigh under my breath while looking in the mirror. I have turn into Amycus instead of Alecto. Last person on this earth I wished to be... And feel. Neville isn't happy about this either as he's looking his new form little bit stressed:"What do we do now?". I shook my head quickly and went back behind the dressing wall:"Change our clothes.". After all, these potions should last two hours and we have no time to waste!