13 12. Karma.

# Hogwarts #

-Slytherin Table-

- Severus POV-

I was having a good time talking to Cissy, but Avery and Mulcibler decided that it was their time to open their useless mouths.

"Hey, Snape, You seem to have been ignoring us since you arrived," Avery said.

"That I was. If you have a brain that is capable of basic understanding, why don't you lose your brain cells somewhere else?" saying that I turned back to Cissy, who looked at me in amusement.

I raised an eyebrow at her, confused at what was so amusing to her.

She just smiles and takes a cup of ice cream.

"Have this," she gives me the cup and urges me to eat it.

I reluctantly took the cup and had a scoop of ice cream.

"It is good" I added, to which she smirks with triumph.

"Hey stop ignoring me," Avery shouts.

I think I hit his nerve by ignoring him.

before I could shut the useless sack of flesh, Narcissa turns to him and said "It seems your boyfriend Mulcibler is getting jealous due to Severus hogging all your attention. Here take this and feed him to lessen his anger, then kiss to make later." causing laughs from the surrounding students.

Mulciber and Avery, both shut up and hid their faces due to the embarrassment.

After the Dinner, Narcissa and Regulus tagged along with me to the common room,

"It was nice seeing you open up a bit, I enjoyed your company today. I hope you don't go to being the distant Severus I knew, While I want to know why you changed, I like the change."

Cissy stares at me with a slight smile.

"This change is here to stay, I liked the evening as well,"

Cissy's smile widens when I replied with a smile of my own.

"Good night, Severus," she said but she wasn't moving away.

"Good night, Cissy"

I replied gazing at her ruby blue, her beauty was truly hidden due to her cold expressions, now with a smile, she looks breath-taking.

Regulus clears his throat breaking me and Cissy out of our trance.

"I exist, you know. You both seem to have forgotten about me, and Cissy."

Cissy glares at him.

Regulus gulps and continues "I mean Narcissa, it is getting late. Why don't you leave for your dormitory before Filch starts his rounds"

"Ok"

She turns to me and gives a kiss on my cheek, "Good night, Mr. Prince" and left.

I was confused about what just happened.

I touched my cheek where she just kissed, her lips were soft.

I looked at Regulus who was having an odd expression on his face,

"I'm not calling you brother-in-law."

He said and ran to his room before I could say anything.

I went back to my room and found that my roommates were already asleep.

I went back to my bed and slept, that night I had some graphic dreams.

The next morning, I woke up with a morning boner, those dreams must be the reason.

I quickly freshened up and went to meet Slughorn, I knocked on his door.

He opened the door, he seemed a bit surprised to find me standing at his door, that was expected as I never came to him for either doubts or any problem.

Even though he invited me to his party multiple times, I never attained.

"Ah, Mister Snape, it's quite a surprise seeing you come to me, please come in"

He gestured for me to come in.

"It is Prince now, Sir."

I emphasized my last name as I knew he valued connection to powerful people and families.

"Oh,"

On seeing the shift in his demeanor, I knew this is going to be easy.

"Please take a seat, Severus. Tell me, how can I help you?"

"I need permission to take some books out of the restricted Section"

"That's it. It is rather an easy request. I will write a note for you. Is there anything else I could help you with?"

"I would like to know about Cursed Vaults and Room of Requirement that is rumored to be built in the Hogwarts Castle"

He seemed hesitant at first but he relaxes and asks

"Have you thought about attending my party this year, Severus?"

I knew if I went to the party, he would gloat about me and lily to his friends and colleagues, which was exactly what I want.

"Yes, I feel bad for declining your invitation before, so I decided to attend this year."

I knew he didn't give two shits about me attending or not before this, but now due to my heirship, he would surely insist until I accepted the invitation.

At the party, I can make some connections with people in power and those who are talented.

He told me about the rumors about the Room of Requirement being on the Seventh Floor in the left corridor of the Castle, but he didn't know how to enter the room or how it appeared.

From what I gathered from him, the cursed Vaults were five hidden rooms created by the founders, No one knows what they house but they were told to be precious.

He told me about Professors Fortinbras and Bartholomew, who researched and left their findings in the library after they were unsuccessful to solve the mystery surrounding them.

"Thank you, professor," I said and left his office.

I spent the day in the library reading through the material I could find on the cursed vault.

The professor seem to have found the location of the first vault but they didn't research it as their investigation was shut down.

"It is time to leave the library."

Madam pince sent students away. I took all the books and left the library.

As I was making my way back to my dorm, I felt someone's presence behind me.

I turned back but I found no one.

I cast a 'Homenum Revelio' non-verbally and wandlessly.

It revealed four people were following me but they weren't visible.

They must be under an Invisibility Cloak.

I took a right around the corner and merged with the shadow.

I saw four students come out of nowhere.

They were Potter, Black, Lupin, and Pettigrew.

It didn't come as much of a surprise to me that they were the ones who were following me.

Either way, it was their bad luck they choose to pursue me.

I was planning to make them pay a bit later but it seems they were too eager to let their fun days go.

I saw them from the shadows looking into a map.

"Prongs, he just disappeared after he turned to the corner. The map isn't even showing him" Black showed a parchment to Potter.

"Yes, Padfoot. He isn't anywhere in the castle, where did the snivellus go?" Potter grumbled.

From what I can understand that map can show everyone in the castle and it seems it doesn't register me on the map since I am in the Shadows.

"Since he isn't here, let's leave. We can find him later" Lupin said

"We can teach him a lesson later," Black said.

Oh, he wanted to teach me a lesson.

Since he wanted to teach me a lesson, I must be present to the class, should I?

I emerged from behind them through a shadow and clapped at their audacity, gaining their attention.

"You wanted to teach me a lesson, Black. I am here right now, why don't you come teach me that lesson?"

"We don't want any trouble, snape." The pet wolf tried to restrain the dog.

Now he didn't want any trouble, but he didn't have any problem when his friends were planning their schemes.

"You shut your fucking mouth, wolf. I heard you talking. You have the nerve to say that you don't mean trouble when you planned to ambush me."

He looked almost ashamed.

Well, I don't give a fuck if he was feeling ashamed, he was in this scheme with his friends and was going to get what he deserved.

"don't call him that!" Black barked and brandished his wand at me. A big mistake.

Taking advantage of Black's outburst, Potter sent a hex in my direction.

Feeling the spell moving in my direction, I just turned my head a bit to deflect the spell.

Potter and black started to send hexes and curses in my direction.

I merely passed through each spell without much effort since I remember their dueling pattern and they were just goddamn predictable.

I felt each spell that was thrown in my direction, due to the magical sense.

They were getting more impatient and aggressive with each deflected spell.

"How are you able to deflect the spell?" potter shouted.

Lupin and Pettigrew stood by the side looking confident in their friend's abilities.

"Don't you get it? You are trash, Potter. You needed fucking invisibility cloak and your fuck buddies to take me on. You were never my equal. You are just sheep that dream of being a Lion." I said just to mock his pride, which was a big part of his ego.

Potter was fuming at this.

He shouts "They are not my fuck buddies, they are my best friend. Something you won't understand."

"Oh really, didn't you take Black in when his parents threw him away for that? Tell me black, do you both sleep in the same room. Don't worry, I don't judge, I am a very open-minded person. Does the Wolf join in as well?"

Raging in anger, Black ran towards me since his spells weren't hitting me, deciding to hit his bare hands, which was a mistake, he would pay dearly for.

I took the hit to my face without a flinch.

He seemed shocked that I didn't even flinch.

"What were you expecting? You thought I would just fall when you hit me? a four year hits harder than you."

Making a fist, I hit him hard enough to not break his bones.

*Crack*

Oops, I must have hit him a bit strongly,..hmn..Madam pomphery can fix it though, let's leave it like that for now.

He fell back with Saliva dripping from his mouth.

"Padfoot!" Potter jumped towards his friend and held him close.

When I looked to the side, I saw Lupin and Pettigrew pointing their wands at me.

How disappointing, they think they can take me on.

I raised my wand and cast an 'expelliarmus' and jelly-legs curse, simultaneously, non-verbally at them.

Their wands fly from their hands and they fell to the ground.

I looked at potter and point my wand towards him, "I hope you will find my present, pleasant, Potter."

I cast a leg-locker curse at each one of them.

I used legilimency on each one of them and learned that they were Animagus.

A dog, a deer, and a rat.

"I will be borrowing this."

I took the Map from them.

I will make a copy of it with better features.

After getting the information I spoke looking into their eyes

"I hope the Headmaster punishes you four for what you were doing. If he didn't, I will just expose this map and cloak to the students of Hogwarts."

They seemed confused about what I was saying, but I wasn't speaking to them.

I want to torture them more, for what they put me through.

I wanted to make them choke on a soap bubble, strip them naked and leave them stranded in the air but I had a more humiliating plan for them.

I put them all under a sleeping curse and left them in the hallway with a bit of touch-up.

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-The Next Day-

* 3rd POV *

Students were gathered in the hall, they were whispering among themselves, in the center laid four Gryffindor students conscious, they were all in green gowns and each one of them was smelling like shit.

The word clowns were written on their gowns, their cheeks were swollen and red.

"Thank god, someone finally put them in their place. They were a bunch of bullies. They pranked me when I just came to Hogwarts, even before I knew who they were."

A 3rd year Ravenclaw whispers to his friend.

"Yes. They think they are some kinds of stars, and Hogwarts was theirs."

His friends replied.

Many people passed by their unconscious bodies but no one helped them, even younger Gryffindors just left them there.

They woke up and looked at themselves, and cry "Aahhhhhhhhhhhhh!".

"Padfoot, I don't have any pants under this gown," James said to his friend in panic.

They stood up but didn't find their wands.

A group of Slytherin students, who they pranked in the past started throwing hexes at them.

They try to run but they trip on the gown and fall face-first to the ground.

The group of students levitated them using levicorpus, they saw that they were wearing pink color underwear, and the girls covered their eyes.

James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter were red due to embarrassment.

"Let us down, you slimy snakes."

James and black shouted.

But the group of Slytherins didn't stop, they moved marauders around in the air, and everyone was laughing at them.

Narcissa looks at Severus and whispered

"It was you, wasn't it?"

-Severus's POV-

I looked at Narcissa who stood beside watching as the potter and his gang were levitated around.

"What do you mean?"

I try to look innocent.

"No matter how much you try to hide, the smile on your face gives it away?"

I was smiling at the scene in front of me, I couldn't hold my happiness at their distress.

"They ambushed me last night. I thought them a lesson, it is just the beginning though"

"I will be waiting for the next part," Cissy winks at me.

Seeing her like this, I blushed I remember the dream I had the day before yesterday.

"Don't you feel sympathy for your cousin?"

I changed the topic to distract myself from those thoughts.

"No, I only consider Regulus as Cousin. He showed from a young age that he didn't like us, so I don't like him. He was a piece of shit from a young age."

Cissy said with anger.

She doesn't like anyone who badmouths her sisters.

I saw black speaking ill about Bellatrix, no wonder Cissy doesn't like him.

"Now, now, you don't want others to know that the perfect daughter of the black family uses foul language, do you?"

I teased her a bit, she hits me on the arm and smirked

"I will blame it on you then, I will say I only spoke those words due to your influence. I am sure they would be willing to believe me" Cissy said.

We both moved towards our class.

I saw Prof. McGonagall scold the Slytherin and take the four away.