Heed The Roar: Hogwart's Lioness & Protector (On Hold)

Chap 41- Final Year & Task at Hand

Y/n's POV

My summer has not been a good one with me at frequent meetings with the order, Dumbledore informed them of what I was going to do this year. Sirius, Remus, Minevra, Severus and Molly were aggressively against it while Fred and George, Harry, Ron and Hermione supported me. "I'll see you again Albus when you go to pick up Harry. Knowing my brother, he's hopping train to train." I said as I pulled my black cloaks hood over my head then placed the silver mask with lily motifs onto my face before vanishing without a trace in dark black smoke. I appeared at the Malfoy Manor as Nessie greeted me thus letting me into their home. I looked over at Bellatrix and Draco before removing my mask from my face while tossing Bellatrix her wand. "Next time Bella be more careful around me and my temper." I said seriously as I walked up to Draco as I looked over at Nessie. "Is Voldemort giving Draco here, the mark tonight and his mission?" Bellatrix nodded excitedly til I glared at her. "Insane or not Bellatrix, act like a bloody grown woman not a child!" I yelled at her before sitting down on a chair and used my wand to remove my cloak as my dress showed. "Are you prepared Draco, I'm not going to lie to you the placing will be agonizing painful." I said honestly before fixing his hair. An hour or so later I was in Draco's room comforting him while healing the bleeding around his new dark mark, the worse part is the mission Voldemort gave the soon to be sixth year regardless of this boy being a git most of the time, I cared about the Slytherin prince as if he was my own blood. After the the meeting I had apparated away to right beside Dumbledore and Harry to which Harry looked like he was gonna puke.

(Your dress)
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"Merlin, Albus did you have to apparate with Harry?" Y/n asked as she waved her wand over her black dress thus turning it into a pair of jeans, and red button up shirt with a Weasley sweater around her waist and tied her long h/c hair back with a gold ribbon. Harry looked over at his sister smiling weakly as she sighed softly while the three looked up at an impressive home in a charming village of Budleigh Babberton. "I assume Y/n and Harry you both must be wondering why I brought you two here. Am I right?" Dumbledore asked the siblings as Y/n laughed softly. "Not really Albus considering what I've been faced with these last seven years. I just sort of go with it." She said while the three noticed the door was broken in. Dumbledore, Y/n and Harry drew their wands before walking into the wrecked house. "Horace? Horace?" Dumbledore whispered as Y/n and Harry looked around the room til something dropped onto the eldest corner of her mouth, she licked it off before sighing softly. "Albus it's dragon's blood about a few hours old." Y/n said as the headmaster looked over at a striped chair as they approached it slowly. Dumbledore poked it with his wand as a man's head popped out of the chair as Y/n recognized the man instantly. "Merlin's beard. No need to disfigure me, Albus." Y/n laughed softly before shaking her professors arm lightly excited before smiling over at Harry. "Well, I must say you make a very convincing armchair, Horace." Dumbledore said as Y/n and Harry watched the man in front of them revert back to normal. "It's all in the upholstery. I come by the stuffing naturally. What gave me away?" Horace asked Dumbledore as he looked at the ceiling. "Dragon's blood, one of my top students figured it out cause she is a natural at transfiguration and potions given both of her godparents are my own professors at Hogwarts. Oh, yes, introductions. Y/n, Harry, I'd like you both to meet an old friend and colleague of mine. Horace Slughorn. Horace, well, you know who these two are." Dumbledore said as Horace looked over at the siblings astonished. "Y/n and Harry Potter." He chuckled softly as he locked up a door. "What's with all the theatrics, Horace? You weren't, by chance, waiting for someone else were you?" Y/n looked over at the elderly man as he walked bout til Dumbledore looked straight at him. "Someone else? I'm sure I don't know what you mean...All right, the Death Eaters have been trying to recruit me for over a year. Do you know what that's like? You can only say no so many times, so I never stay anywhere more than a week. Muggles who own this place are in the Canary Islands." Horace said as Dumbledore sighed before waving his wand. "Well, I think we should put it back in order for them, don't you? Mind." Y/n and Harry watched the once wrecked house become clean and restored to it's former glory til they heard squeaking beneath them as Y/n laughed softly seeing Harry was stepping on a crystal of the chandelier light fixture both smiling as they looked back at their headmaster. "That was fun. Do you mind if I use the loo?" Dumbledore asked Horace as Y/n looked around the home with Harry beside her as they put their wands away, Y/n placed hers in her boot while Harry put his in his jacket. "No, of course. Don't think I don't know why you're here, Albus. The answer's still no. Absolutely and unequivocally, no." Horace said as Y/n and Harry looked over at the man in front of them. You're very much like your father and mother. Except for your eyes Y/n and Harry you both have..." Y/n spoke up. "A mixed of green/brown flakes in my eyes and Harry has our mother's eyes, yeah." Y/n smiled sweetly before shaking the man's hand. "Lily, Lovely Lily. She was exceedingly bright, your mother. Even more impressive when one considers she was Muggle-born." Horace said as he shook her hand back as Harry spoke up. "One of my best friends is Muggle-born. She's the best in our year." Y/n looked over at Harry til Horace spoke up. "Please don't think I'm prejudiced. No, no. Your mother was one of my absolute favorites. Look, there she is. Right at the front." Y/n and Harry looked over at where Horace was pointing at shelf filled with moving pictures. "All mine. Each and every one. Ex-students, I mean. You both may recognize Barnabas Cuffe, editor of the Daily Prophet. Always takes my owl, should I wish to register an opinion on the news of the day. Gwenog Jones, Captain of the Holyhead Harpies. Free tickets whenever I want them. Of course, I haven't been to a match in some time." Horace said as Y/n and Harry picked up a picture of the Slytherin Quidditch team. "Ah, yes. Regulus Black. You both know of his older brother Sirius, was saved a few weeks ago. I taught the whole Black family except Sirius. It's a shame. Talented boy. I got Regulus when he came along, of course, but I'd have liked the set." Horace said as Y/n placed the frame back down carefully. "Horace? Do you mind if I take this? I do love knitting patterns." Dumbledore said holding a latest issue of a magazine as Y/n and Harry walked back towards their headmaster. "Yes, of course. But you're not leaving are you?" Horace asked as Dumbledore answered back. "Oh, I think I know a lost cause when i see one. Regrettable. I would have considered it a great personal triumph had you consented to return to Hogwarts.  Oh, well. You're like my friends Ms. And Mr. Potter here, one of a kind. Well, bye-bye, Horace. Bye." Dumbledore said as he walked out of the house as Y/n and Harry looked over at Horace. "Good evening, Mr. Slughorn. It's a pity that you'll not be teaching me in my final year at Hogwarts." Y/n said as she and Harry followed after Dumbledore as Y/n walked beside Dumbledore counting down as the three were outside reaching four when Horace Slughorn approached them outside. "All right. I'll do it. But I want Professor Merrythought's old office, not the water closet I had before. And I expect a raise. These are made times we live in. Mad." Horace said as Y/n and Dumbledore looked at him nodding. "They are indeed." Dumbledore said as they walked off while Harry asked Dumbledore. "Sir, what exactly was all that about?" Y/n laughed softly as she side hugged her brother close. "We are talented, famous and powerful. We are everything Horace Slughorn values. Professor Slughorn is gonna try to collect us, Harry. We would be his crowning jewels. That's why he's returning to Hogwarts. And it's crucial he should return, isn't that right Albus?" Y/n asked Dumbledore as he nodded slowly as they returned to the destination they appeared at. "I fear I may have stolen a wondrous night from you, Harry. She was truthfully, very pretty, the girl." Dumbledore said as Y/n pitched her brother's cheek harshly. "Cheeky devil you are Harry." Y/n said as she breathed slowly before apparating away before Dumbledore and Harry to the Burrow on dry land til she heard water splashing causing her to laugh. "Landed a bit to far, Harry?" Y/n asked as she noticed that her little brother was staring unknown to him longingly at Ginny Weasley in the windowsill. "Ah, young love."  Y/n thought as they headed towards the Burrow.

~In the Weasley Clan Burrow~

"Mum?" Ginny called out as she saw Hedwig and Lily along with two trunks. "Ginny, what is it?" Molly asked from the stairs as the only Weasley daughter asked her mother. "I was just wondering when Y/n and Harry got here." Ginny asked while Molly walked downstairs. "What? Y/n? Harry? Y/n and Harry who?" Molly questions half asleep. "Y/n and Harry Potter, of course." Ginny responded " I think I know if Y/n and Harry Potter was in my house, wouldn't I?" Molly said as walked up to Ginny as she smiled. "Their trunk's in the kitchen, and their owls." Ginney says smiling at the thought seeing her metaphorical big sister and friend. "No, dear, I seriously doubt that." Molly said til Hedwig and Lily chirped happily as footsteps echoed throughout the Burrow. "Y/n and Harry? Did someone say "Y/n and Harry"?" Ron said as Ginny smirked. "Me, nosy. Are they up there with you?" Ginny asked Ron. "Of course not. I'd know if my best friends was in my room, wouldn't I?" Ron said as Hedwig and Lily chirped louder. "Is that a set of owls, I heard?" Hermione asked as Ginny nodded. "You haven't seen them, have you? Their wondering about the house." Ginny said as Ron and Hermione said in unison. "Really?" Til Molly, Ron and Hermione run downstairs to the door with Ginny. "Y/n! Harry!" Molly cried out happily as Ginny smiled seeing Y/n and Harry in the living room area smiling at her. Ginny ran over and gave Harry a big hug as Y/n was bear hugged by Molly. "What a lovely surprise. Why didn't either of you let us know you two were coming?" Molly said as she let Y/n go while she breathed deeply new air into her lungs til Ron and Hermione hugged them both. "Y/n, Harry." Y/n shrugged at Molly. "Dumbledore, Molly you know that man a clever but tricky genius he is." Y/n watched as Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Harry went upstairs to Ron's bedroom as Y/n talked with Molly while reading the Daily Prophet til she saw Draco Malfoy's face beside his mother. "I'll be right back Molly, watch out for Harry for me please." Y/n said as Molly nodded before the eldest stepped outside then waved her wand around her body making her black dress and cloak appear back onto her along with her mask then vanished in a stream of black smoke to her godfather's house. Severus read the Daily Prophet as a knock filled the house as Wormtail opened up the door to Narcissa Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange taking them into his little library of sorts. "Run along, Wormtail." Severus said as with a flick of a wand the door shout in his face while the three adults looked at whom shut the door. "My, my Nessie? Bella? What are you two doing here in my godfather's house?" The cloaked figure said removing her mask and hood while showing her face. Y/n gave Nessie, Bella and Severus a glass of wine. "I-I know I ought not to be here. The Dark Lord himself forbade me to speak of this." Y/n snatched trinket from Bellatrix's hands."We mustn't touch what isn't ours,  Bellatrix." Y/n growled at her while placing it back where it belonged. "If the Dark Lord has forbidden it, you ought not to speak. Thank you, Y/n well said." Severus said as Y/n forced Bellatrix to sit down. "As it so happens, I'm aware of your situation as does Y/n, Narcissa." Severus said as Bellatrix scoffed. "You two? The Dark Lord told you two?" Y/n walked in front of Bellatrix with her wand out at the ready. "You doubt my godfather, Bella? Maybe I should show you some manners." She growled angrily at the woman. "Y/n stop it's understandable. Over the years I've played my part well. So well, I've deceived one of the greatest wizards of all time. Dumbledore is a great wizard. Only a fool would question it." Y/n stepped back from Bellatrix as Narcissa spoke up. "I don't doubt you, Severus nor you Y/n." The eldest Potter girl rolled her eyes at Bellatrix as she spoke up. "You should be honored, Cissy. As should Draco." Y/n laughed dryly as the woman looked at her. "He's just a boy, Bellatrix do you not understand that? Azkaban has turned your mind into sludge?" Y/n and Bellatrix glared at each other til Severus spoke up. "I can't change the Dark Lord's mind neither can Y/n, she's already tried. But it might be possible for me to help Draco." Y/n looked over at Severus and Narcissa til Bellatrix said towards him making the three look at the unhinged woman. "Swear to it. Make the Unbreakable Vow. It's just empty words. He'll give it his best effort. Bit when it matters most he'll just slither back into his hole. Coward." Y/n pressed her wand against the woman's throat harshly. "Call my godfather that again Bella, I dare you too!" Y/n shouted out angrily making the women flinch in fear til Severus lowered her hand holding her wand tightly. "Take out your wand, Bella." Y/n looked at her Godfather and Narcissa Malfoy as Bellatrix Lestrange began forming the Unbreakable Vow. "Will you, Severus Snape watch over Draco Malfoy as he attempts to fulfill the Dark Lord's wishes?" Bellatrix spoke as Severus said "I will." Y/n looked directly at the white lines forming over Severus's and Narcissa's joined hands. "And will you, do the best of your ability protect him from harm?" Y/n glared at Bellatrix while standing beside Severus. "I will." Bellatrix walked over towards Severus til Y/n stopped her. "And if Draco should fail...will you yourself carry out the deed the Dark Lord has ordered Draco to preform?" Y/n looked over at her godfather with worry in her mind yet did not show it. "I will." Severus said as the Unbreakable Vow was fully set in flesh til Y/n left without a word.

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