I'll Be Good

Chapter 3: An Accidental Jump

Chapter 3! Let's gooo!

My past has tasted bitter, for years now.
So I wield an iron fist.
Grace is just weakness.
Or so I've been told.
I've been cold, I've been merciless.
But the blood on my hands scares me to death.
Maybe I'm waking up, today.
I'll be good, I'll be good.
And I'll love the world like I should.
I'll be good, I'll be good.
For all of the times that I never could.....

"Right, I want you to grab my arm and try to skip ten minutes ahead. It's currently 10:04 It probably won't work, but at least we are ruling options out." Severus postulated as they re-entered the main room. She did as he had said, closed her eyes, and thought of appearing in this room again but at 10:14. A white mist started to surround them and Severus had to close his eyes when it got too bright. After a couple of minutes the mist died down and they both opened their eyes. Nothing had changed so Severus checked the time with a muttered Tempus. It showed the time 12:42 still. Obviously that mist hadn't worked.

"Right, well that was anticlimactic. Maybe you needed the fear and adrenaline from the car crash to fuel it as well?" Severus was just guessing here, but unfortunately there wasn't any books you could read on time travel because the only time turners were kept in the Department of Mysteries. And they probably wouldn't be any help because they only dealt with several hours of time travel and not almost four decades.

"Yeah, I guess so? Something like the car crash might have caused my accidental magic to flare up. But why didn't I get it as a young child? I should have incidents I can't explain. I've never floated things when angry or turned someone's hair blue, so why did it act out now?"  She could remember when she had desperately went through her memories as a teenager, looking for anything that might seem weird. But there was nothing.

They both sat down on the small sofa in Severus' rooms and continued their conversation. " It's common in dark aligned pureblood families to block any remaining magic in the squibs before sending them but that doesn't explain why you don't have it. Hold on, I'm going to do a full medical scan on you. It should let us know if you had a magical block cast on you." He hovered his wand over Holly and muttered something she couldn't hear. A blue light levitated over her, moving down her body. When it reached her toes it disappeared and paper shot out of Severus' wand. He grabbed it expertly out of the air and looked it over.

"Well, it seems you did have a block. It was cast on you at 3 years of age and was only recently broken, a bit still remains. I'll take that out, but it'll need to be the weekend when I do. It takes a lot out of someone to remove a spell so powerful. Only very powerful wizards can cast something like that." Now all they had to figure out was who cast it. There were only a few hundred wizards who could cast it. And maybe 10 or so of them lived in the UK. The Dark Lord would probably be the most likely, as Holly had said that he won the second war. But why would he block her magic and not just kill her?

"Dumbledore. It must've been him. He's got Horcruxes, so he could have come back to life after yo- errr, never mind, spoilers. He could have used his portrait in the headmasters office to find out that I was magical. Or could have had someone in the ministry.... Doge! I bet it was Doge that helped him!" She felt she was really getting somewhere now. Honestly she wasn't surprised Dumbles was so so evil. She had never liked his whole 'I'm your headmaster but also apparently your grandfather and I care a lot about you Harry' act. How could he have not noticed Voldemort literally possessing one of his teachers? And it was obviously a basilisk that was attacking the muggleborn students! And how could he have not found the chamber, even if he wasn't a parslemouth, he could have found the entrance instead of leaving two twelve year olds and a stupid professor to do it! There was just to many inconsistencies in his story.