Snape's secret

Chapter 5: Otter and the Doe: part 1

Hermione's POV:

When I hit the ground I think I bounced a little, but when I finally got myself together I looked around and saw I was somewhere on Hogwarts grounds but I didn't know. My back hurt like hell because of the giant coffee table I skimmed. This wasn't any room I recognized but then I remembered the Room of Requirement from last year, where Dumbledore's Army was born. It looked like a cozy old house when it had furniture and no Death Eater mannequins for target practice.

"Severus...?" someone called out, I whipped my head around so fast I got a little dizzy. A girl who didn't look any older than I did showed up behind a long black couch. "Sev are you in here?" she whispered. She had long, curly, brown hair that looked totally manageable and she had dark cocoa colored eyes, exactly like I did. She must be my mother...

"Yes. I'm here..." a man said, he popped out from the other entrance. It was Snape-er my dad when he was my age. They both smiled and kissed each other.

"I hate having to stay in these secret rooms all the time Sev..." my mother said, they kissed again "I just wish everyone could accept the fact that we can be happy together..." They sat on the couch and played some music on an old record player, they had good taste in piano music.

"May I have this dance?" my dad stood and held his hand out. My mum laughed and they danced for a couple hours... I smiled and leaned against the solid entrance. I could hear faint pounds on the wall but ignored them. Just then BOOM! The wall was blown to bits. Someone stepped out of the rubble but I couldn't see who it was.

"Enjoying your little Mudblood Severus?" a woman hissed, my dad stepped in front of my mum. Wire-haired Bellatrix Lestrange-er Black stepped out of the smoke and rubble, her wand pointed at my mother. "I told you, you wouldn't be able to hide her." Three other Slytherin's came out also.

A man stepped behind her "How could you Severus?" Rodolphus Lestrange pointed his wand at my dad. "We thought you were better than this!" Rodolphus walked over to my mother but my dad stopped him.

My dad put his wand at Rodolphus' throat "Touch her and you'll pay..." my dad hissed.

"Calm down now. Everyone calm down..." some Slytherin guy stepped between them. They didn't move but the man shoved my dad's wand away from Rodolphus' throat, the other tried to hold my dad and Lestrange back from attacking each other.

"You're just as filthy as she is." Spat Bellatrix "You always were and always will be..." someone hit my mother with a nonverbal spell but none of them responded and walked away. I distinctly heard someone say "Filthy Mudblood runt...": probably Bellatrix.

I turned back to my parents but my mum was unconscious. "Evelyn?" my dad knelt by her "Evelyn!?" no response. He swept her up and carried her all across the school, and into the hospital wing. "Madam Pomfrey! Madam Pomfrey!" he cried. The salt and pepper hair of the old healer came running out of her office.

"Snape? What are you doing-Oh my word!" she gasped at my unconscious mother "Set her over here." She popped in some blankets and a pillow. "What happened to her?"

"She-Bellatrix-Rodolphus-and-and-" he stammered.

"Mr. Snape please calm down. Just try to explain everything..." she waved her wand a few times and a bright yellow spark came out of her wand. "Well, she was hit by a Jelly-Legs jinx and she might've hit her head on something. Where were you two? This is a nasty bump..."

"We... we-we were... uh..." mum groaned when Madam Pomfrey touched the back of her head.

"Ms. Grealds are you alright?" she whispered. Slowly mum's eyes opened.