Beware The Billowy Cape of Doom

BEWARE THE BILLOWY CAPE OF DOOM!! Chapter 2-Think of Me

It was a few weeks before Krystall passed a brown parcel to Severus during one of their Potions lessons.
“What’s this?,” he asked.
“The book, obviously!!,” she replied, pushing the parcel closer to Severus’ side of the desk.
“Oh right! I forgot that you had said you were trying to get hold of an English copy!!”
“Well, now you can make up your own mind as to who you think you are!”
“I shall peruse it’s contacts tonight and we’ll soon see, shan’t we!!,” replied Severus, a smile playing on his face.
“Wow!! That’s a rarity!,” Krystall laughed, smiling back.
Once again, time passed quickly and the class was once again filing out of the room. Severus had already torn off the brown paper that covered the book, to reveal a small, black, hard backed book with a white half mask with a single red rose lying underneath it on the front cover.
“Cool!,” whispered Severus, to his-self as he walked to the Great Hall, sat down, head in the book, just pulling random dishes the food towards him and scooping the food onto his plate. He didn’t noticed that what he had put on his plate, because he was too engrossed in the book to care over what was being ingested. The more and more he read, the more he began to realise how alike he was to the Phantom. What he could see and feel was so alike those of the Phantom.
“So this is who Kyrstall thinks I am,” he thought. His feelings were quite a mix of glee and sadness (though he never showed it) over the fact his newest female friend thought of him as the scarred and lonely soul that was the Phantom. He had to admire the Phantom’s cunning and musical talent, as he had none that he knew of!!! But, the fact that the character had been shunned by all but the beautiful Christine, until the end.
“That’s what my life has been like, until I befriended Lily first, and now Krystall,” Severus thought.
The boys of Hogwarts just thought he was too weird and tended to agree with the foursome of Gryffindor lads who made his life hell at school. The rest of the female population in the school just thought he was a slimy weirdo who was into the Dark Arts too much for their liking!!!! Apart from Lily and Krystall, Severus would never have known friendship of the fact that someone did care for him. His father never gave him the time of day and regularly beat his mother and his-self when he got in the way. Many a summer was spent now hidden in his room, surrounding his-self with his studies and books. It was the only escape he had!!
But instead of completing his homework that night, he continued to read and eventually finish the book just a little after midnight. Tucking the book into his bag, thinking he would give it back to Krystall the next time he saw her. But that wasn’t for a few days and happened to be on the next Hogsmeade weekend.

Severus was wandering through the small town, lost in his own thoughts when he bumped into Krystall and Lily- together, talking amicably.
“Hey Sev. We were just talking about you!,” said Lily cheerfully.
“Yeah, are your ears burning?,” Krystall asked cheekily.
“As a matter of fact, yes, my right ear seems a little warmer than the other!,” he said, trying not to laugh out loud at the Muggleness Krystall had just come out with.
“So, where you off to Sev?,” Lily inquired eyes glistening brightly in the chill of autumn.
“God, what’s wrong with me?,” thought Severus, “Here are two of the most attractive girls in the year, both my friends and yet I can’t say a thing!!”
“Erm… no where in particular.”
“Oh well. We’re heading over to the Broomsticks if you want to join us,” Krystall said, eyes pleading and just as beautiful as Lily’s- only more hazel than of vivid green.
“No thanks. I better head back and get my Charms homework finished.”
“Ok. See you later?,” asks Lily.
“We’ll see,” replied Severus, as he walked off towards the castle.
The two girls walked towards the Three Broomsticks and were soon joined by their friends from their own houses.
“Just what do you two see in ‘Snivellus’?,” asks Kiki, one of Krystall’s friends. Lily was the first to answer.
“He’s really sweet under all that anger and angst.”
“Yeah, he’s ok really,” added Krystall.
“Really??,” said one of Lily’s crowd, shunned as the rest of the collection of Gyffindors and Ravenclaws.

Soon their time in Hogsmeade had ended and the rather large group of girls all made their way back to the castle. They soon passed plenty of other groups and were soon joined by four Gryffindor lads, intent on annoying Lily. Well, it was James Potter and Sirus Black that were annoying her more than the other two. As Lily and her friends walked off, being followed in a pursuing manner, by Potter and Black, Krystall was left behind with her fellow Ravenclaws and the two remaining Gryffindor lads.
They were Remus Lupin, a prefect and a mousey looking lad, called Peter Pettigrew, who soon ran after Potter and Black, eager not to miss anything.
“I don’t know how Lily puts up with James constantly varying for her all the time,” Remus finally said once the groups entered the castle grounds.
“She’s a strong and determined person, who can stand her own ground,” Krystall answered back.
“I know. How do you know her? Aren’t you in Ravenclaw?,” asked Remus, wanting to know more of this pretty brunette he was walking with.
“Yeah I am. We’re in the same Divination class. She had seen me talking to Severus in Potions the other day,” explained Krystall, as they entered the Entrance Hall.
“See you round then,” Krystall said as she skipped off towards the Ravenclaw Tower. Remus made a mental note to ask Lily about the vivatous Ravenclaw, who had just left him in the Hall.

Severus was sat in an unused classroom, staring out of the window, gazing down at the scene of Lily storming into the castle, pursued by Potter and closely followed by a gaggle of Gryffindor girls, amongst them was Black, beaming a smirk at his luck, who was being tailed by Pettigrew on his own.
Severus laughed at this scene and suddenly stopped when he saw his Ravenclaw friend talking, quite friendly-like with Lupin!
Something stirred in Severus’ chest and it hurt him. He had no idea what was wrong with him, but he knew he didn’t like the idea of Krystall talking with the Lupin boy. Severus knew something about Lupin that he wished he could tell Krystall, just to warn her. He also noticed that Lupin was looking pale and peaky, so it was soon his time to become a very dangerous person!! But he had promised Dumbledore he would not say anything to anyone. His head and his heart were fighting a battle he knew one of them would soon win!

Over the next few weeks Krystall found herself thinking too much about both Severus AND Remus, and for shame, thinking of them as the Phantom and Raul- the two lovers of Christine from her book!
“They are the complete opposite,” she thought in a moment of solitude when she was sending an owl to her aunt to say thanks for the new version of her book.
“But, how perfect would it be if the school could perform the musical version- like on the West End stage!!,” Krystall pondered as she returned to the Great Hall for breakfast.