The Other Aunt (A Harry Potter fanfiction)

Severus

"No way." Remus had noticed and now he was less keen on sending his wife to a castle in the middle of nowhere that he can't apparate to right away. He wasn't mad at her. It was obvious in the photo how uncomfortable she and Harry were. No. He was angry because Gilderoy had done it even after she told him she was married. He didn't want Lockhart trying to seduce his wife. Anna was shaking her head in exasperation, "Oh come on, Remus. You are being completely ridiculous! It's not like I would ever leave YOU for some phony baloney wizard who can't even do a simple levitation spell." He shook his head, "It's not that. In that picture he wouldn't let you go. I don't want him making you uncomfortable and being so unprofessional."

She rolled her eyes, "Remus, I'll have my wand on me the whole time. If he anything happens, he'll be a toad before you can say "hocus pocus." He furrowed his eyebrow in confusion, "Why would I say that?" She shrugged, "It's a muggle thing. But never mind that. The point is I'm gonna be fine. Severus will be there too." He gave her a dry look, "That doesn't make me feel better." She sighed, "Remus, I made three cauldrons full of your potion, it's in the fridge along with some stew in case your hungry. Owl me if you need more. I'm already packed, so I'm going to apparate somewhere near the castle. I'm leaving now, do you have that witches glass I gave you?" He nodded, "Yeah, what is it?"

She showed him how it worked, "This lets the two people who have the glasses communicate face to face, but I still want letters." He nodded before snapping his fingers, "Wait, your owl!" She gasped and whistled. In a instant Anna's magnificent gray and white owl, Avalon, flew over and perched on Anna's shoulder. She gave Remus a long kiss goodbye before apparating away.

Anna had forgotten how big and beautiful Hogwarts was and most of all, how hard it was to navigate. She realized when she got there, that she didn't know where the teachers stayed. Luckily though, a lot of teachers came early to prepare their rooms and classrooms. She smiled when she spotted Professor McGonagall telling off Peeves, the local poltergeist of Hogwarts. She practically bounced all the way to who was her favorite teacher, "MINNIE!" That was what all the Marauders had called Minerva McGonagall, though Anna seemed to be the only one of them aloud to say it, because she was her favorite student.

Minerva smiled and gave Anna a gentle hug, "Oh sweet little Anna, I haven't seen you in years! Look at you!" Anna thanked her and awkwardly rubbed the back of her neck, "I seem to be having trouble-" Minerva gave her a knowing look, "Your lost again aren't you dear?" Anna nodded, "Yep, takes you back doesn't it?" Minerva nodded, "Indeed. After all I was always the one who had to escort you to the Gryffindor common room every single year. And your lack of navigational skills has gotten you into more trouble on accident than the Weasley twins get into on purpose.

You managed to accidentally wander into some of the most dangerous rooms in the whole castle, rooms that many students try and fail to find in the first place." Anna didn't deny it, "So can you show me my room?" Minerva nodded, "Certainly."

Anna had even managed to get Minerva's help setting up her room my filling the book shelves, hanging posters, put on her covers to her bed.

Once they were done, they admired their work, but Anna didn't know what to do next, "What now?" Minerva sighed, "I, unfortunately, have a classroom to prepare, while you don't because you are our new head of security and assistant teacher. You don't have a class." Anna thought for a second, "I know! I'll go see Severus." Minerva smirked Knowing that she and Severus were still almost like siblings, Anna being the younger one. Severus seemed happier around her and was protective of her for reasons even he probably didn't know.
Despite Anna's contrastingly happy personality, they seemed to just click. She knew he missed the conversations they used to have, both the intellectual ones and the random ones. It was very strange. McGonagall suspected that his brotherly nature towards her hasn't changed. She smiled as Anna practically skipped all the way to Severus' classroom. That girl was going to drive him absolutely mad this year.

Severus wasn't expecting any visitors before the children arrived. Maybe McGonagall would stop by to place an early bet on the outcome of the next quidditch tournament, but that was unlikely considering the team members hadn't even been picked out, yet. So he was fairly surprised he heard a knock on the door. He opened the door, prepared to slam it again depending on who it was, when he realized it was Anna, in the flesh. He didn't even get to a word put before she wrapped her arms around his neck, "Severus! I missed you!" He managed a small smile, "I missed you as well." She grinned, "How have you been?" He shrugged, "The same. Has anything new happened with you?" She smiled sheepishly and held on her hand with her wedding ring on it, "I got married." Severus face palmed almost playfully, "PLEASE don't tell me you married that mutt." She stayed silent. He got impatient, "Well? Did you marry him?" She smirked, "You told me not to tell you, assuming your talking about Remus.

You seemed surprised when I came here. Did you not know I was coming?" He scowled, "I assume the Headmaster kept this information a secret so I would be surprised." She raised an eyebrow,"But.... It was on the front page of the newspaper, since Lockhart decided to tell everybody. I wish he hadn't made me do that uncomfortable photo shoot, though."

Recognition flashed in Snape's eyes, "Oh that. I burned it the moment I saw Lockhart's face. I didn't get to see the face of the person he was holding, I remember feeling pity towards the poor woman in the shot, though. It had to be torture, standing that close to someone that stupid." At this point he was giving her a knowing look and a sly smile. She smirked in amusement, "Yeah, and it gets worse. We're both going to be working with him the whole school year. Especially me." He put a hand on her shoulder, "Hopefully, this will be one of the DA teachers who end of quitting before half the year is over."

She laughed, "But when have we ever been that lucky, Severus?" He returned her smirk. She smiled cheerfully and shrugged, "And besides, I doubt he'll want to hang out with us. Usually, when we don't want someone near us, we make it pretty clear." Severus nodded reassured, 'She's right.' He thought, 'Even the stupidest people got the message when we wanted them to leave us alone. You'd have to be dumber than a bag of sand to not get the message and surely he's not that dumb.'