Where Your Loyalties Lie - {Severus Snape x Reader}

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Feels like someone had just struck me with a lightning. The woman who's sitting there... About to get sentenced for whatever reason by Umbridge Dolores... Is Edward's wife?! Ho..- How could this be possib..- "Mrs. Woods. A wand was taken from you earlier today when you arrived to the Ministry. Is this... That wand?" Umbridge lifts up to show her a wand that has been confiscated from Emma. Emma nods timidly. "Will you please tell the court, which witch or wizard you took this wand from?" Umbridge asks. Wait..? My gaze keeps shifting from her to Emma, confused what's going on here. "I didn't take it. I got it when I was eleven - back when me and my parents lived in France." she answers, looking so stressed, yet so sincere. She's a witch too!

It soon became clear Emma didn't go to Hogwarts like the rest of us. She went the Magic School in France - Beauxbatons Academy Of Magic. After she turned twenty, she moved here in England, and soon after met the love of her life - Edward. The reason behind her visit in the Ministry originally was because she wanted to come all the way down here to discuss about her children and how she'd wish not to receive a letter for her daughter - (Y/N) Woods, to Hogwarts in next year when she'll be turning seven. Seems that everything that has happened here in Wizarding World got her so worried she wanted to tentatively prevent from her children get in touch with the Magical World. It seems that Emma doesn't really wanna have anything to do with the Wizarding World now that she has a family in the Muggle World, where she's happy and feeling safe. But...

As soon as she arrived here to deal with the matter, a guard snatched her and now they are accusing her of stealing someone else's wand because according to them, 'a person like her' can't be a real witch. No matter how much Emma pleads and tells Umbridge the truth, she doesn't seem to want to believe her. "You're lying." Umbridge ends up gritting her teeth with venomous tone. There is desperation written all over Emma's face as she still tries to explain herself. We need to help her somehow - and get the locket! My eyes starts darting around the room, trying to come up with the plan. Then, my focus goes to the cat and the Dementors. It'll be dangerous, but... With slow movement, I pull out my wand and carefully place it beside me while pointing it at the floor. Neville notices this, but does his best to just act normal.

When I've made sure no one's watching what I'm doing, I close my eyes for a quick second to think a happy memory. The moment when we were all at the Burrow... Eating great food, drinking and laughing... When Remus announced the gender of their baby and asked me to be the godmother... Then, my Patronus - a niffler - that looks just like Sniffy, appears right next to my foot. The silvery, playful beast looks up to me which makes me feel half joy, half sadness when Sniffy comes to mind. Go get them. With that, the niffler starts running around the Courtroom, immediately catching everyone's attention and some of us got up 'acting surprised' by this. "What is that?!" Umbridge asks baffled. Right away, the cat hisses and jumps down from the podium to go after the niffler.

It all happens so fast; Just when I'm about to draw my wand to stun Umbridge so I could take the locket from her, someone else gets to do that first! "Stupefy!" a man in long and dark leather jacket - who has been sitting other side of the room from us - casts the spell and hits Umbridge right in her chest. What?! Everyone in the Courtroom got up from their seats, about to draw their wands. But before anyone could do anything, another man joins in and they both casts spells all around the room to momentarily petrify people - Yaxley included. Neville and I were quick to hunch down to avoid getting attacked. "Shit!" I curse when going down for a cover with 'Alecto', shielding his head just in case.

Now that Umbridge is out of it - and her Patronus disappears, the barrier that has been keeping the Dementors away breaks. Ooh, shit. Mine Patronus disappears as well in that moment. Immediately Umbridge's assistant - whose been sitting beside her, snatches the locket from her. Emma has been sitting in the chair whole this time, shocked what has just happened. She then noticed something about the man who was the first one to cast the spell on Umbridge. "Ha-Harry Potter..?!" her voice shakes shocked. Huh?! The man who's in the long, dark leather jacket is actually indeed Harry himself! So that must mean..- All I get to do is take a peek when Harry and two others runs out of the Courtroom. Those two must be Hermione and Ron in disguise as well! My focus then goes to the ceiling. The Dementors are approaching, hungry for suck our souls. That's not good.