Guardian Angel (Severus Snape adopts Harry fic)

Chapter 2

Disclaimer in the first chapter/ prologue

'-Sigh- why did I agree to do this again? Oh ya. For Father.... Damn he owe me big time after this....' Liana sigh again and looked out of the window on the Hogwarts Express, silently watching the other student noisily bidding their family goodbye and boarding the train. 'When will this lump of metal move??' She thought to herself, frustrated.

It was September 1st at last, the start of her mission to guard Harry. Severus brought Liana to the KingCross Station to board the Express to go to school with the other students. She had boarded the train at 8am in the morning and now it was currently 10.30am. She closed her eyes briefly before turning back to her potions journal. Picking up her quill and flipping to a new page, she started to the theory for a Non-addictive Dreamless Sleep Potion to pass the remaining time.

-Some time passed... 10.59am-

'Hmm... After adding the diced flobberworm... What should I do? Leave it to shimmer for 10min or add the powdered unicorn horn...'

BANG!

Liana turned her head to face the door in shock so quickly that she almost gave herself a whiplash. She quickly gathered her wits and glared furiously at the people who slammed the compartment door open. A girl with bushy hair entered followed by two boys, one with flaming red hair the other with jet black hair.

"... Honestly Ron, what were you thinking!!" The girl screeched at the redhead.

"Mione..."

Liana snap her book shut in annoyance, gaining the attention of the trio."What are you three doing? Barging into an occupied compartment, talking loudly as though you own the place... How rude." She hissed thoroughly pissed off. Her red eyes narrowed to slits glinting dangerously.

The girl that slammed the door open gulped and stuttered, "S-Sorry. We apologize. We did not realize this compartment is occupied. Can we sit here? The others are full."

Liana opened her mouth to answer but found herself at the end of two wands. "V-Vold-dermort how despicable, possessing an 11 year old girl!!" Liana's eyes widen a little before returning to being slitted, fury flashing dangerously in her ruby orbs. She reached for her wand, planning to hex the two boys into oblivion, totally disregarding her mission. Before she could do any lasting damage however, the girl turned onto the boys. "Use your eyes, both of you!! She is an albino obviously she will have red eyes!! Not everyone that has red eyes is Voldermort or is being possessed by him!!" She then turned back to Liana, "I apologize again for their stupidity. (Both boys:" Mione!!!") My name is Hermione Granger. The redhead is Ron Weasley and the other is Harry Potter all of us are 2nd years, may I ask for your name?" All three of them held their breath, seemingly waiting for an outburst.

'Ah the infamous Griffindor trio.... interesting. Seems like they are expecting me to react to Harry's name. No matter...'Liana studied them for a while before answering in her soft tone, characteristic of the Snapes. "I'm Liana Snape. 1st year."

They stared at Liana for a moment before their jaws dropped to the floor. Harry broke the silence by stuttering, "S-Snape??" She raised an eyebrow and smirked, her expression uncannily similar to her father's. "Yes, I'm a Snape. My father teaches potions as I'm sure you know." She drawled, her amusement vaguely showing in her expression. "Snape can reproduce??!!" The redhead blurted out without thinking. He was then promptly elbowed in the ribs from both sides. However the damage was done. Liana's face darken and the air around her seem to move on their own accord. The trio suddenly felt as though they are being suffocated. "Care to repeat that?" She hissed furiously. "I know father is not the nicest person in the world nor is he the best teacher around, he is at least civil and polite to people who gives him the respect he deserved. Why do you think he dislike students? Plus he is still human."

Ron flushed red with anger, "H-He Is the o-one who started it!! He is so cold and unfair.Favo-"

"Use your brains and open your eyes fools!! The only reason why he favors Slytherin is because no one else would!! In addition, almost everyone else favor the other houses especially Griffindors! Honestly labeling every Slytherin as evil wizards and future dark lords will only make them go dark don't you think? They would be thinking 'Since everyone thinks that I will become evil, I might as well do so and let whatever others say be true. At least I actually did what they accuse me of.' And voila! A new evil wizard/witch!!! Besides last year when you are in school, he was still a spy! What do you the Dark Lord will think if he treat other houses fairly especially you Griffindors!!! In addition people who practice the dark arts aren't necessary evil. If you are such narrow-minded people I shall ignore your existence since I don't associate with your ilk!" Liana yelled then sat back into the seat, opens her journal and continued in creating the recipe for the potion, still fuming inwardly.

The compartment fell into awkward, tensed silence the trio looked at each other then at Liana. Finally, Hermione broke the silence, "I-It makes a lot of sense when you put it like that. We are sorry if we insulted you and Professor Snape."

"We or I Miss Granger?" Liana asked coldly after a few minutes, not looking up, still thoroughly pissed at them. "Umm..." Hermione looked nervously at the boys. "We... Definitely we. Right Ron? Mione?" Harry answered awkwardly. Liana looked into each of their eyes with her piercing crimson gaze for a while, creeping the three of them out. "Fine. Well what are you waiting for? An invitation? Sit down before the train start moving." She finally let out. The three students sighed in relief and quickly sat down with Hermione next to Liana and both boys across from them.

The trip passed in silence for a few hours. Finally, Hermione's curiosity got better of her, "Umm... Liana I was wondering... What are you writing? It doesn't seem like a journal entry." She asked hesitantly then added hastily, "I mean if you don't mind me asking." Liana scribbled another sentence before looking up. "You are right, it's not a journal. At least not a journal for my thoughts." Hermione looked confused. "Then what is it?" Liana smirked, "It's my potions journal. Honestly, my Father is the best Potions Master in Europe what else could it be? It contains every potion I made with some modification or some theoretical recipe that I may try brewing."

Hermione's eyes shone with curiosity, "Is this your only journal? What are you working on? Can I see?"

Liana perked up a little at her favourite topic and moved closer to Hermione, letting her see her journal."No, I have another one in Father's chambers at Hogwarts. I'm working on the recipe for the non-addictive form of the Dreamless sleep potion. I'm considering which ingredient I should use as a stabilizing component that dont react with the other ingredients as any potion with unicorn horn and flobberworm together would be highly reactive with air or metal. Which will be disasterous. If you catch my drift."

Harry looked confused, "Dreamless sleep potion is addictive? And I thought that there are many ingredients to stabilize potions?" Liana and Hermione looked up from the journal and nodded together. Liana continued, "Yes it is. Because of Belladona which is one of the ingredient that give the potion it's dreamless property. One of its side effects is the addiction. For the non-addictive Dreamless Sleep I will have to find ingredients to replace it. Therefore I chose to use unicorn horn, shivelfig and asphodel which theoretically should react together to give the dreamless property. But this presents the aforementioned problem of instability thus the need for stabilizing ingredient which is made difficult by the fact that most of the known stabilizing ingredients also react with the other ingredients in the potion. Either that or the ingredient is not strong enough to stabilize the potion."

The boys blinked, dazed with the overload of information. "-sigh- Looks like I have to consult Father's library..." Liana said dejectedly, tiredly running her hand through her white ponytail. "Why don't you search the Hogwarts library? I mean it has quite a lot of books there." Hermione asked curiously. "Father's library focuses more on potions. At least for the one at Hogwarts. The family library is quite extensive."

Hermione's eyes positively glowed in excitement. "No you cannot have access to the books in Father's library. The rest of the trip then passed with the girls chattering about potions and boys, about quiddich.