[Chapter Size: 1800 Words.]
Third Person POV
Hogwarts.
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"Is that all you can do?" Snape spoke in a mocking tone as I watched the girl lying on the ground, panting and sweaty.
At the same time, she looked at him with anger. She couldn't even form a word at first, still trying to recover after an intense training session of 20 minutes without stopping.
"You bastard!" she muttered, trying to get up, gripping her wand tightly in her hand.
"Is this how you treat other girls when you're training them?" Bellatrix didn't hold back her anger, speaking furiously before pointing her wand at him.
She cast a spell, attempting to knock him down, though she struggled slightly due to her current state. Severus looked at the energy coming toward him without any expression and simply raised his own wand when the spell got close enough. Despite reacting like lightning, he deflected the attack as if wielding a sword, blocking the strike.
The spell was redirected and exploded against one of the mannequins Snape had forced Bellatrix to buy, saying they were necessary for her training.
She tried to cast another spell, but a hand stopped her. Snape appeared in front of her using his teleportation, gripping the hand that held the wand.
"You're too emotional, has anyone ever told you that?" Snape said as she gritted her teeth, trying to break free.
She attempted to use her other hand to push him away, but his hand easily caught her delicate wrist, preventing any movement. Bellatrix struggled against his strength, but Severus simply pulled both of her hands toward himself, forcing them together as he kept her restrained.
Bellatrix was surprised, having to step closer to Snape due to the pull. Now she found herself uncomfortably close to him, struggling to break free from his grip, but nothing worked.
Snape observed the situation with an amused look.
"Yes, you're right. I never trained Clarisse or Pandora this way," he said, smiling.
"After all, I know their weaknesses. I know they can never reach the full potential of what I can teach. But you... You are different. That's why I expected you to learn even more than they did." He sighed and continued, now with a disappointed look.
"But in the end, all I see is a girl complaining... What a disappointment."
Bellatrix was speechless for a moment, unsure of how to respond. Her face became slightly flushed.
"I'm going to say something..." Snape continued before she could speak, stepping even closer and looking down at her.
"You certainly have beautiful breasts. And with that sweaty outfit, revealing yourself without any bra, I can see them perfectly. I don't blame myself for noticing. But if you're trying to seduce me... I thought you'd do better than just looking like a helpless girl." He spoke provocatively, making Bellatrix turn even redder from embarrassment at hearing those words so close.
"Who's trying to seduce you?!" she retorted, trying to force her arms free once more.
Snape, however, kept his grip firm until he took her wand in one of his hands.
"Well, I'll be holding on to this for a few seconds. We're done." He said, finally letting her go.
"Just try to improve everything we've trained so far. We're just getting started, and we're still in the early weeks. I'm sure you'll become very strong with what we'll learn here."
Snape stepped away from Bellatrix, spinning her wand between his fingers before giving it a slight flick in the air. That's when the girl realized that her soaked blouse had betrayed her, revealing her body.
She wasn't exactly naked, but her breasts were clearly outlined against the wet fabric.
Snape smiled enigmatically, tossed the wand into the air, letting it fall to the ground, and finally began to walk away.
He had spent the entire afternoon training. Wanting to make the most of the last hours before nightfall, he decided to take care of a few things before returning to Hogwarts.
Your shadow phoenix finally appeared beside you for an instant and, without saying anything, disappeared in an apparition created by the creature itself, traveling undetected.
Bellatrix watched everything in silence, surprised by the creature she didn't quite understand and a little frustrated with Snape leaving after all those words.
Finally removing her hands from her almost-exposed breasts, she approached the wand lying on the floor and picked it up.
At that moment, the door opened by itself. She looked toward the exit, her face still marked with anger, but soon after, her expression softened.
"Grandfather…" she murmured upon seeing Astraea enter the room.
"So he left?" she asked, almost as if in relief, while Bellatrix used her wand to immediately change into something more decent.
She no longer looked so bold, having not even bothered to put on a bra before coming here. At the same time, as soon as Snape arrived, she had to wait for her grandmother to deal with him in some way.
Now Bellatrix could see that Astraea seemed quite apprehensive—perhaps as much as she had been the first time she encountered Severus, when, somehow, he had threatened her.
"Tell me, Bellatrix," Astraea suddenly asked, looking at her granddaughter. "When you train here, does Snape ever show anything… special?"
There was a note of caution in her voice. She still remembered that black beast and how powerful it was just by its presence. She even doubted that there was only one. After what she had seen in that vision, when she entered Snape's mind in the middle of the abyss, there had been multiple creatures in different forms: dragons, beasts, and winged beings she had never seen before.
"No… The only thing he does is exhaust me and hit me," Bellatrix murmured, a little embarrassed at the end, as she stood up.
"You haven't seen any black creatures appearing out of nowhere?" Astraea pressed, while her granddaughter raised an eyebrow.
"He summoned a black bird that looked like it was on fire… Except there were no red flames. It looked a lot like a phoenix, but black and purple," Bellatrix murmured.
Astraea's eyes widened slightly at hearing that.
"I see…" she murmured for a moment, looking at her granddaughter.
"Tell me something, Bellatrix. If I decide to marry you to Snape, would you have anything against it? Even with him being a half-blood with no family?"
"Marry me to Snape?!" Bellatrix turned to her grandmother, showing hesitation. Despite her neutral expression, Astraea seemed to see something different from the usual anger.
"I will do what is necessary… Even if it means doing this with that guy," she murmured at the end before her grandmother responded to her first question.
"That is good. Because Bernart and I believe Snape is a powerful wizard on the rise. He could bring many changes to the wizarding world, and you must realize that. That is why we believe that, among all your sisters, you are the most fearless… Thus, you will marry the best suitor for the family and make the Blacks strong again. We will bet on Snape…" Astraea said.
"But… Does Snape know about this?" Bellatrix suddenly asked, seeming hesitant.
"No, not yet. But he will soon. I hope that won't be a problem."
"No… It won't be a problem. As long as he doesn't dare to refuse," she murmured.
"Very well, then. Go rest. I will talk to Bernart once more." Astraea disappeared, while Bellatrix nodded, looking toward the place where Snape had left.
"Idiot," she murmured one last time before leaving.
Meanwhile, Astraea returned to her room, where Bernart's portrait had appeared once again.
"So he left?" the man murmured, still unable to comprehend what had happened in the room when Snape summoned that beast emerging from the ground.
"Yes. And I proposed the marriage between Bellatrix and Snape," Astraea said, making her husband raise an eyebrow.
"Really…?! You made the proposal to Snape?" he asked, while Astraea shook her head.
"No. When I arrived, he had already left, as I said I would go there as soon as Kreacher informed me that Snape was gone. I only spoke to Bellatrix."
"Wait… Why so suddenly? I thought you were going to talk to him first," Bernart said to his wife.
"Yes, but Bellatrix described another one of those magical creatures… And it was a phoenix…" she spoke with a tone of realization, while Bernart widened his eyes, also understanding what that meant.
"Of course… So Dumbledore's disappearance was caused by him?" the man murmured, quite surprised. Dumbledore was among the most powerful beings in the world, while she nodded.
It was obvious that the news about Dumbledore and whom he had fought had quickly drawn the Dark Lord's interest. All the Death Eaters were trying to understand what had happened and who had been fighting Dumbledore—after all, it wasn't any of them.
The Dark Lord wanted to know exactly what it all meant. The appearance of someone openly facing him had also surprised them, but still, the suspicion that Dumbledore was getting involved in other matters was arousing even more interest among them.
The Dark Lord himself wanted to understand if it was truly Dumbledore and whether he had been gravely injured.
Whoever Dumbledore had fought, it would enrage Voldemort, as he hated not knowing things. It was one of the things that irritated him the most. This had been happening a lot since last year, while an even greater mystery was unfolding in England, making him hesitate when he would normally act promptly. But after losing so many Dark Wizards, he first wanted to understand what was happening.
"So… Was it him who took down Dumbledore?" Even Bernart could hardly believe that someone so young could possess such power. Even the Dark Lord feared Dumbledore.
"What kind of monster is that boy?" Bernart murmured with a frown.
"That's why we must choose a side quickly. I wouldn't want, whatever happens in the future, for the boy to see us as opportunists trying to switch to his side."
"You are right. Proposing the marriage between Bellatrix and Snape, even with him being a half-blood wizard and shocking the entire noble community, is the best path," Bernart murmured in the end.
"Now… Let's see what happens," Astraea said, just as Snape teleported.
His figure disappeared, and in another location, Severus Snape emerged, engulfed in flames, reappearing on the second floor of his shop. He wanted to take care of a few things.
First, he would check on his store and watch customers buying items while observing from the second floor.
Then, he planned to go to the black market, where he could purchase some interesting things, one of them being a visit to an old friend with an inventory full of potions he had created—now all stocked and unable to be sold.
Meanwhile, Snape would discuss certain ingredients that Salazar had revealed when he showed him the counter-potion to neutralize the effects of love.
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Chapter 180 - The daggers are ready!
Chapter 185 - Rivalry.
Chapter 195 - News about the chaos
Chapter 204 - Baran?
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