Snape Dragons and Dance Lessons

“Professor Sabria, marvelous to see you out of the hospital wing.” Albus greeted later that night at dinner as Fred Weasley piggy backed the dance teacher through the Professor’s entrance to the Great Hall.

“Hello Albus.” Allegra greeted wearily, she had exhausted herself when she had walked around the room to correct many students that day, most of them having forgotten their ability to dance in the short time she was away from class.

“Mr. Weasley, may I ask why you are carrying Professor Sabria on your back?” McGonagal questioned as George pulled Allegra’s seat out and Fred slowly lowered Allegra down into the chair.

“Oh that’s simple Professor,” Fred looked at the aging professor.

“Professor Sabria is still on-“

“A sort of bed rest, so it’s up to-“

“Us to make sure she doesn’t-“

“Hurt herself further.” George smirked down at Allegra.

“Make sure you signal us when you want to leave,”

“We’ll take you back to your rooms.” The two grinned like the cat that ate the canary.

“Weasley’s, that will not be needed.” Severus’ cold voice cut through the friendly banter.

“Severus is quite correct, I will escort Professor Sabria back to her chamber.” Igor quickly cut off Severus as he placed a too friendly hand on Allegra’s shoulder and smirked over at Severus and a surprisingly mute Arianna LeRissa.

“Actually none of your effort will be needed, I can make it back to my chamber by myself.” Allegra defended, but it was as if she had said nothing for all the weight anyone gave her words.

“Professor Sabria’s chamber’s are on the way to mine, it would be out of your way to escort her.” Severus said coldly as he glared viciously over at Igor.

“But you yourself said earlier that you had tons of work to finish up, I would simply be freeing up time for you to get your work done.” Igor retaliated.

“Honestly I can walk by myself.” Allegra pressed, but again she was ignored even by the vastly amused gaze of Albus Dumbledore that was watching the exchange with rapt attention.

“It is of no trouble to help Professor Sabria to her rooms.” Severus persisted.

“Nor would it be for me.” Igor bantered. Allegra sighed as they continued to argue back and forth over who would escort her for that night before quickly shoving herself to her feet, still going unnoticed by the bickering two. She looked at them incredulous before turning on her heal and hobbling from the Great Hall, trailing a hand along the wall for safe measure.

She stopped every few staircases as she slowly made her way down to the dungeons, leaning heavily against her right side as to rest her left side and try and lessen the throbbing pain. She was halfway to her chambers when she finally sat down for a rest, her forehead pressed hard against the marble of the wall.

“A-are you alright professor?” the voice made her jump and she turned around to look at none other than Harry Potter.

“Oh, Harry. Yeah fine, just a bit woosy.” She smiled up at him, he wasn’t so bad when he wasn’t acting all St. Potter like. Harry hesitated for a moment before coming to sit down next to her, she could clearly see a few gashes on his face from when he had fought the Dragon a couple of days ago.

“I was sorry to have missed the first challenge, but I heard you were valiant out there.” She chattered softly as she looked down the darkened hallway.

“Wasn’t anything special, honestly.” Harry mumbled.

“Anything special? Harry you survived a dragon! I was in the hospital for five days after getting into a catfight, I think what you did was special.” She smirked over at him and he shook his head.

“Alright then, how are you doing anyways, your side I mean.” Allegra gave him a confused look. “Oh, after the challenge I was sent to the hospital and I heard Madame Pomfrey reading your chart to herself.” Harry quickly explained and Allegra laughed at him and patted his shoulder.

“Ah, Potter-“ she was cut off by a loud and long yawn escaping her lips and she blinked tiredly.

“Professor, do you want me to help you back to your rooms?” Harry asked innocently and Allegra was immensely glad that instead of demanding or telling her that he was taking her, he was asking her.

“Actually, Potter, that sounds amazing.” Harry was quickly on his feet and helped Allegra up, wrapping one of her arms around his shoulders and one of his around her waist as they finished the rest of the journey to her chamber.

“Thank you Potter.” She said once she was leaning against the open doorway to her rooms, a fire already flickering inside.

“Anytime Professor.” Harry smiled before turning on his heal and strolling off.

Allegra was dead asleep in her nice warm comfy bed when she suddenly startled awake. Not by the feeling of someone watching her, or a random nightmare, oh no, she was jerked harshly back to the world of the conscious by….her door being blown off its hinges. She squealed in surprise, snatching her wand from the bedside table and firing a random curse over her shoulder as she dove off the side of her bed, slamming into the floor. Clutching her side she slowly crawled under the bed, the long comforter falling to hide her.

“Where are you bitch?” She instantly recognized the shrill, overly high pitched scream of the one, the only Arianna LeRissa.

“Petrificus Totalis.” Allegra muttered barely above a whisper as she shoved the comforter up and shoved her wand out. Arianna instantly snapped to attention, teetering on the spot before falling onto the ground still quite frozen.

“What the fuck is your problem?” Allegra ground her teeth together and slowly crawled her way from beneath her bed. She slowly released some of the intensity of the petrifying spell until Arianna’s mouth was free, something she quickly took advantage of.

“Merlin’s whore ass bitch!” Arianna screamed viciously, her face stuck in a stunned expression.

“Now that isn’t too nice.” Allegra looked evenly at Arianna as she sat back against the side of her bed, knees bent.

“You ruined everything!” Allegra was mentally cataloging the almost nonexistent difference between Pansy Parkinson’s voice and Arianna LeRissa’s.

“And what exactly did I ruin?” She pressed her hand to her throbbing side, grinting her teeth as white hot pain shot through her entire body.

“My plan! My brilliant plan! Now he won’t even talk to me! Either of them!” Sobs were escaping the still frozen shocked face of Arianna LeRissa.

“Alright, listen to me. If I release you, you will not attack me, you will calmly explain to me what the hell you are talking about.” Allegra offered, sighing in defeat, there was no way she was going to get better at this rate.

“Alright, fine, just release me.” Arianna’s voice was soft as her malevolent violence dissipated. Allegra quickly released the spell, bracing herself for a tackle, but she was quite surprised when Arianna simply sat up, crossed her legs, and civilly faced her.

“Sooooooooo, care to explain to me what you are on about at this horrible hour?” Allegra rested her head back against the side of her mattress.

“Before we came to Hogwarts, I knew that Igor and Severus have never gotten along well,” Allegra nodded, having picked that up the first minute she was around them. “so I planned to use that to get what I wanted.”

“And what do you want?” Allegra held in a yawn and blinked rapidly, damn she needed sleep.

“I want Igor.” Arianna said bluntly, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

“Wait, woah, back up, I don’t comprehend.” Allegra’s head shot up and she looked Arianna completely confused.

“My plan was to use Severus to make Igor jealous so that he would finally notice me, and maybe take enough of a fancy to me that he would ask me out.” Arianna said glumly. “But instead he fell for you when we got here. But ever since our fight, neither of them will talk to me.”

“Wait, so, you don’t like Severus?” Allegra asked raising an eyebrow.

“No, I only like Igor.” Arianna stressed Igor’s name and Allegra smirked.

“Fred, George, get out here!” Allegra yelled and instantly the bathroom door shot open.

“Whose there?”

“We can take ya!”

“Prepare to face the Weasley twins!” both Fred and George finished, leaning against each other looking half exhausted.

“Fred, George, shut up!” Allegra pulled a pillow from her bed to chuck at the two of them. “I have a little task for you boys.” The two instantly perked up.

“What?” They questioned at the same time.

“I need you to gather intel on Igor Karkaroff for me.” She smirked over at Arianna who was looking confounded over at the twins. The two red headed boys looked over and Arianna before nodding their heads.

“Right, got it.” They muttered at the same time before quickly running out of her chambers, staring at the debris of her bedroom door.

“Why do you have students in your room this time of night?” Arianna questioned narrowing her eyes at Allegra.

Allegra smiled and shook her head. “Let’s just say, this isn’t the first time I’ve been woken up tonight.”