enchantement - SOULBOUND I̲̅ || SS/HG ✔️

59. Limbo

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An awful silence followed, no one dare to speak, overwhelmed. Severus hands were now fisted, his nails digging into his flesh painfully. There was nothing he hated more than being oblivious and having a student see past the smoke of confusion that blinded him from the truth angered him. Clenching his jaw, a potent sound of teeth abrading against each other startled the student. Severus's mind focused on the engraving, trying to understand why such words would appear on a time-turner.

"Professor, do you know where to find this artefact?" Asked Ron, before correcting himself, "what I mean to say is, before now, has it ever been in your possession?"

For a moment he wondered if he should give an answer, afraid to reveal far too much about his personal life. Yet the longer he waited, the more compelled he felt, as if a little voice in the back of his head obliged him further. "When Riddle searched earth in the quest of finding the parchment - to which he believed was still intact somewhere - I had found the time-turner and buried it under the roots of a tree, hoping no one will ever find it."

"Didn't you say you thought it was burned along with the Sibila Inferni?" Noticing the contraction, Harry couldn't help but wonder if Snape was still hiding a key element from finding out a new piece to this impossible puzzle.

"There were two time turners Mr Potter, one is currently a few feet under the ground and another one has dissipated in the air centuries ago."

"Oh bloody hell, Merlin's balls!" Swore Ron shooting up on his two feet, "magic is like art, subjective but also multi-dimensional, you need to see past the words and its message to understand its true meaning. The engraving actually says: 'an eternal soul lost in misery of time', in other words Snape's other soul is in hell, as their time is endless and you are forever stuck in relieving your last moments on earth.

And all of a sudden the fragmented pieces of the puzzles drew together into forming the answer to his questions. He was struck, unable to move, realisation daunting him, freezing his every limb. Hermione said she felt him, her husband, seeing crossed lines and droplets of blood gliding along them, terrifying her.

Rushing to the back of his room, Severus threw his body against the shelves, knocking over books as he searched for one on ancient wiccan magic. Once in his possession, he placed the book on his dining table and began flicking through the pages, his fingers shaking in fear.

Ron and Harry had noticed the blood being drained away from Snape's face, his mouth agape as Ron's words worked their way through every gear in the wizard's mind. In a flash, he was in the back room, his fingers flipping through pages, his eyes scanning each one of them in search for something. Nodding to each other, the two wizards stood up and circled their teacher, waiting to see what had caused the commotion.

Harry notice the tear that was menacing to fall from Snape's jet eyes, panic flickering behind his usually mischievous glare. "Professor?"

The pages kept moving, his fingers nearly ripping them as he frantically flipped them. "It can't be," he whispered astonished, his finger trailing down the star on the page, "all along, that was what connected me to her."

Following his movement, the chosen one looked down at the page only to be met with a huge pentagram in the centre of the yellowish paper, "what does it mean?"

"It's a symbol of hell. It is a sacrificial ritual were the star is drawn around a body of a living soul, candles lit at each end awaiting blood from the chosen. It is the embodiment of dark magic, killing instantly whomever is trapped within those lines."

"You mean that Hermione's husband is still alive?"

Ron waited for Snape to answer, but judging by the murderous grip he had on the table, he knew instantly. "Wait a minute! All along we have been focused on her husband and this Hermione, but not ours! Think about it, 'an eternal soul lost in misery of time'! What if our Hermione, when her soul was switched with her older self, got stuck in a limbo eternally waiting for her vessel to welcome her back!"

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A/N: You might have noticed that many things said here, the parchment, the time turner has never been mention in the real HP series. It is normal, I've invented those 📝🔒🍀🌺 please although I know many will respect other writers work and ideas, do not copy anything that has been created by me or simply the story,
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⚠️I know there is a lot of things going on really fast, but don't worry the other mysteries and questions will be either answered here or in the upcoming sequel ⚠️

😲At first I wanted to go further than 70 chapters in this book, but with a step back I realise that draging a storyline will only make this book boring so it will be shorter than planned and will continue right were it ended in the second book.🧐

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