Beware The Billowy Cape of Doom

BEWARE THE BILLOWY CAPE OF DOOM- Chapter 7
- Prima Donna

The entire room fell as silent as the couple and they all heard what about and seen just what Severus had.
“Sev, that kiss was an accident, honesty,” Krystall tried to convince her friend, holding back bitter tears.
“Well it looked like it was just an everyday occurrence to me!”
“Now now Mr. Snape, raised voices will not help any,” Professor Flitwick said trying to ease the tension. It didn’t help. Severus just turned heel and walked out of the room. Remus was pulled to one side by Sirius, James, Peter and Lily, who all started to ask lots of questions about how, where and when he and Krystall had got together. Krystall was quizzed by Kiki and everyone else but wasn’t in the mood or frame of mind to answer right there and then.
‘I should have told him earlier,’ she thought as she pushed her way past the gossiping gaggles of students, to get to the door and out of the room. She soon felt a tug on her sleeve which made her stop and turn to see who it was. It was Lily.
“How could you do that to poor Sev?”
“How could you say that Lily? I’ve seen how Sev looks at you and it’s the same as he does at me too! Don’t lecture me about hurting a friend in such a way, because you’re just doing the same!,” Krystall ranted back. Lily stood amazed at what she had heard and had no chance to answer as Krystall had walked off and disappeared from sight.
‘Oh god, she’s right!,’ thought Lily as she made her way to the Gryffindor Common Room and to the waiting hordes of the rest of the house.
The next day the whole school heard about the fact the rumours that were denied were in fact true! People cat-called at Krystall as she walked down the corridors and in lessons the other houses, people who usually talked to her. ignored her and left her to get on with the work in hand. The most difficult lesson was yet to come, in the form of Potions. Professor Slughorn insisted on them all working in pairs and had paired Krystall and Severus together, as always.
‘Huh, so this is his way of getting us to talk again,’ thought Severus as he cut up his daisy roots savagely and throwing them into the shared cauldron. Krystall too was cutting her Potions ingredients roughly and too was throwing them haphazardly into the cauldron.
“Now my dears. How are we getting on?,” Slughorn asked, bouncing on his heels.
“Fine sir,” they both chirped back, heads not raising from their work.
“Good, good,” he muttered as he went on to the next cauldron, which was giving off bright green smoke, when it should have been coloured a pleasant grassy green and bubbling, not spitting the potion everywhere! Thankfully the lesson was about to end and phials of the potion they had been making were taken up to Slughorn’s desk for marking and the cauldrons cleared of any remaining potion.
Back in the Ravenclaw Common Room, Krystall was given the news that the musical was on hold as Severus had left the role and sworn not to come back. This disheartened Krystall even more. She spent most of her spare time crying into her pillows and writing depressing thoughts into her diary.

Diary,
Why, oh why didn’t I ever tell Severus before it all got out? He was right about me not being a very good friend! Oh god, I’m so very confused now! Remus is so sweet and caring, whereas Severus is much darker but just the same as Remus underneath. What to do!
During the next Charms lesson, Professor Flitwick quietly asked Krystall to have a word with Severus about coming back to the role and musical.
“I’m not sure he really wants to talk to me Professor. I’m sure you can guess that I’m not his favourite person at the moment.”
“My dear girl, I’m sure you will come up with a way to get him to talk. You always do. You’re not a Ravenclaw for nothing dear,” Flitwick said, patting her arm as he went on to another student. The only way Severus would hear her was through the form of a letter. She could say things better when written down and she hoped that he would read it rather than throw it away. She would have to send it to him rather than give it in person. So that night, Krystall found herself seated at the desk in the dorm once more, with screwed up pieces of parchment littering the desktop and the floor from the over flowing bin.
“Merlin, this is hard!,” Krystall thought as she scrunched yet another sheet of parchment up and throwing it on the floor.
Finally she managed to write a letter which was sent with Kiki’s owl Hester and now could go to bed and wait for a reply. Krystall soon fell into a deep and troubled sleep, during which she dreamt it was Remus who wasn’t talking to any one and not wanting to take part in the musical. Also she dreamt of Severus and the pair of them sharing quite intermit times together , getting very hot and steamy! She woke with a start and found she was too warm and sweaty so she sort the coolness of the window seat until she felt better.
‘What on earth was that all about?,” she wondered as she climbed back into bed and fell back to sleep, this time with no dreams.
The following morning at the Slytherin table, Severus had received the letter and now had taken his toast and his-self outside to find a quiet spot to read the letter.
Severus,
Please read this and not throw it away. I’m writing to one, apologize for causing you any embarrassment and two, to beg you to reconsider your action of leaving the musical. I know either myself or Remus should have told you about us, but it was hard not to tell anyone let alone my friends! Believe me when I say that I am so, so, so, so sorry about what has happened.
Hoping to speck to you soon,
Krystall.
His walk had led him to near the Woomping Willow and he contemplated going back to the castle to find Krystall and tell her what he thought about the letter. Bet her please kept him from marching to the castle and made him wonder even fether around the grounds until it was time to go to lesson, which happened to be Herblogy.
Thoughts of answering Krystal’s letter were pushed to the back of his mind and just got on with his work in the lesson.