The Death Eater [HARRY POTTER]

9

"It's time to end this," Calla remembered Hermione telling her. And then the girl had gone quiet, and Calla had known that something must have happened. "Calla, your father was there. He disarmed Sirius and Professor Lupin. He was talking about getting awarded the Order of Merlin First Class. And then he saw you. And he didn't even look like he cared."

Calla imagined that Hermione had expected Calla to cry, or something. And then she had appeared rather baffled when Calla hadn't even batted an eye at that. Calla was unsurprised that her father had little to no reaction to her unconscious form playing on the ground. Severus Snape was not a caring man. He looked after Calla because she was his responsibility. But he had never been horribly worried when she fell down and hurt herself. Calla had once gotten lost for several hours while exploring Hogwarts, and Severus had hardly seemed to notice she was gone. Nearly Headless Nick had lead a crying Calla back to her father, and Severus had simply thanked the ghost, and sent Calla to her room until she was done crying.

"Professor Snape threw himself between us and Professor Lupin, though," Hermione had told Calla. "Professor Lupin hadn't taken his final dose of wolfsbane and he transformed. Professor Snape threw himself between us and a fully transformed werewolf."

Calla looked out the window at the London streets, and smiled to herself.

"What are you going to do this summer?" Hermione had asked her. "I know you plan to teach at Hogwarts at the end of the summer, but what are you going to do until then? You can come home with me and stay with my parents and I if you want."

And that had been just what Calla had done. She had spent nearly the entire summer with Hermione and her family. And their fun had only come to an end, Calla's trace had been lifted early because of her graduation from Hogwarts so she and Hermione had endlessly played with Calla's magic, especially when Hermione's parents weren't around to scold them for causing mischief, when Hermione was invited to the Quidditch World Cup with harry, Ron, and Ron's family.

"You can come, if you want to. I'm sure Mr. Weasley would be able to get you a ticket if you wanted one. I know you're not the biggest fan of quidditch, but the player might be cute. And Ron promises that the mascots will be brilliant. Bulgaria and Ireland always go all out for the World Cup."

And Calla had turned her friend down, saying that she needed to return to Hogwarts and begin getting ready for the new year. It was still a couple weeks until the school year began, but Calla wanted to be prepared for anything. And, Calla needed to go to Hogsmead and get some new clothes. Before he graduated she had been living in her school uniform. Even during the summer, Calla was wearing her school skirt and a light blouse. And over the summer, Calla had been living out of Hermione and Mrs. Granger's closets, something she had no intention of doing while she was at school. Calla's father had given her a bit of money when she had graduated, and she planned to use that to purchase a wardrobe worthy of a professor at Hogwarts. She might need to purchase her clothes second hand, but they would be new to her and that was what mattered.

So Calla watched her only female friend leave for the Weasley's on the twelfth of August, and prepared to floo- it had been decided that Calla was not old enough, despite her graduation, to take her Apparition test- back to Hogwarts to begin her preparation for the upcoming year.

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"And I would also like to introduce two new professors that will be joining the Hogwarts staff this year," Headmaster Dumbledore gestured toward where Alistair Moody and Calla Snape had been positioned at the end of he table. The two of them stood up, the prior with a bit more difficulty, and they received some polite applause before the Headmaster motioned for them to sit back down. "And Finally, I would like to make the announcement that there will be no quidditch this year. Instead Hogwrts has the honor of hosting two other schools, which will travel here on Hollaween to participate in the Triwizard Tournament. Now, I know that some of you may know the history of the Triwizard Tournament, and rest assured that the Ministry and I have taken every precaution to ensure that there will be no deaths this time."