That Damn Weasley Charm II G.W

Part 3, Chapter 21- Sirius Black and Love Potions

At around midnight when nearly everyone was in bed, Snape came barging into the common room in his bed robes. Unfortunately for us, Emma, Wally, and I were still awake talking quietly on the couches.

"Miss LeStrange, Miss Fay, Mister Clarence. Have any of you let a man into this common room?" Snape says. His voice is full of sleep but it still sounds menacing.

"Uh no sir. We were just getting ready to go into our dorms. What's the matter?" Walter says as he stands from the couch.

Snape comes further into the room, "Go wake all the boys, Miss Fay go wake all the girls. Miss LeStrange, can I have a moment." Snape snaps at us. Walter and Emma jump from their seats and go do as they were told.

I stand up slowly and walk over to Professor Snape, "Your uncle. Has he said anything to you about your cousin Sirius Black?" He asks coldly.

I shake my head no, "No sir never. Uncle Lucius told me to stay out of it for now and he would fill me in if need be."

Snape raises his chin slightly, his eyes look down on me, literally. "And you have no idea how he could sneak into the castle?"

My heart instantly starts to beat faster. Sirius Black? In the castle again? "No sir, not a clue. Our family doesn't speak about him due to his traitorous past."

Snape looks at me long and hard before nodding once. By then Slytherin students from both corridors file into the common room, yawning and rubbing their eyes.

"Who the bloody hell woke us all up?" Marcus groans.

Snape clears his throat and the entire room falls dead silent, many of the students not fully registering that he was in the room in the first place. "I didn't come in here... voluntarily. But Headmaster Dumbledore sent me in here to tell you all... Sirius Black was spotted in the Gryffindor common room tonight." Snape pauses for that dramatic effect that all Slytherins love. It's like the entire room took a sharp breath, everyone looks as if they might cry, hide, or vomit. Snape's lips twist into a strange, sort of sad smile before continuing. "The castle... is being searched as we speak... I must advise you all to not open the common room door for anyone that may knock on it... People that need inside know the password... Stay here for a moment. I have to search your dorms." Snape then quickly spins around, his cape moving in the wind he's created and he marches straight into the boys dormetories.

"If Sirius Black can sneak past fucking dementors how the bloody hell do the teachers think that they can find him?" Seventh year student Theodora says through a yawn.

"If they found him in the Gryffindor common room then why are they searching the dungeons? Makes no sense to me." Miriam says from the back of the room. A few students mumble in agreement.

Snape darts from the boys corridor to the girls corridor and the room goes quiet as he passes through.

"Malfoy. Aren't you and LeStrange related to that monster? What do you know about it all?" Someone says from the right side of the room.

I find Draco in the small crowd really quickly, Draco looks at his friends before saying anything. "He's no relative of mine. That damn Blood Traitor." Draco says loudly. That gets a small round of applause from nearly every Slytherin in the room. All except Em, Wally, and I pretty much.

Snape comes out of the girls dormitories and stops at the common room entrance, "Not like Slytherin is known to break curfew..." He pauses and looks at me with raised eyebrows. "But no one is to leave this common room until tomorrow morning when the breakfast bell is rung." He then opens the door behind him and rather gracefully leaves the common room. Until his robe gets caught in the now closed door.