Chapter 36

After taking classes for half a day Hope and the group come back to their dormitory where they found Severus and his clones studying lots of papers.

Lily asked with wide eyes," what are you doing Severus from where all these papers come from."

Real Severus lifted his head from the document and said," Oh these are the documents sent by professor Mcgonagall which has all the details about the budgets of different events that has to be organised by us and others are complaints registered by the students for mostly Slytherin's students about bullying, use of inappropriate language towards muggle students of other houses and I also asked for a piece of land where we have to create an arena for house wars which are going to happen next month so some documents are about that also."

Hope," Then aren't you going to join us for lunch because it's almost the time and you are still doing this."

Severus said," No, I don't have time actually and I still have to create your uniforms and also have to create a training plan for Amelia and Regulus or their value of participation will be zero in competition. so I will just make something for me from the kitchen."

Everyone heard Severus' words and looked at him with kind of greedy eyes and Severus also understood their intentions and said hurriedly," Guys I know what you're thinking and how much you like food made by me but please I can't make something for everyone."

Lily with a pout," oh come on Severus are you going to make me use my hidden eye powers." Lily said while almost making puppy eyes.

Severus looked at her expression, he sighed and said," Ok fine I guess, I never said no to both of you and now I am still not going to say that."

Severus smiled and made a shadow clone and sent him to cook for everyone while he looked at the other four members and said," Now while he is cooking food for you, I want all of you to help me with this paperwork."

Everyone's eyes got wide and Severus said with a smile," Don't you hear the famous saying 'There are no free lunches in the world' so quickly get to work because in future all of you are going to take over this work while I will take care of other matters."

After that everyone got to sort out the documents of each subject while Amelia and Lily also used the shadow clone but there was a clear difference between the quality and quantity of shadow clones.

Soon Severus's clone bring lunch for them and all of them took a break from their work and enjoyed the Italian food made by Severus's clone.

While they were eating Lady Hogwarts came to the common room and saw all of them eating and said," Children I knew that you have a kitchen inside your dormitory which is practically against the school rules to some extent but I let that pass as all you get a rundown building in place of a proper dormitory but you should have come to the great hall for lunch because it is disrespectful towards Headmasters and professors."

Severus looked up from his plate and said," First of all I am really surprised that you have to come all by yourself just to tell us this Lady Hogwarts and *Severus pointed towards papers on his desk* we have got so much work from professor Mcgonagall that we didn't have time to come great hall."

Amelia also said," And if we didn't join them for lunch, how is it disrespectful towards them?"

Lady Hogwarts narrowed her eyes on papers for some second before sighing and said to Amelia," Child, as much as you think that the Headmasters are good the reality is completely different from it. they are wearing a mask of goodness for the outside world. All the people present at Hogwarts have come hereafter them but I am here for centuries and have seen their reality. All of you must remember this phrase in your whole life ' you can trust a goblin with money for a second but never trust your back to a wizard' because no one knows how they look from inside."

Everyone heard her words seriously and nodded their heads in understanding. Hope said," we understand that we are on everyone's target and we should do everything very carefully but don't all of you think that this is not something an 11-year-old like us should care about. Why can't we have a normal school life just like any other students of other houses?"

Hope said this with emotion in her voice and others looked at her with sad faces while Severus suddenly chuckled.

Everyone looked at him with confusion and Severus said," Sorry sorry, I disturbed in your emotional moment."

Lady Hogwarts and everyone looked at him with a frown and Severus's face suddenly turned cold and he said in a cold tone voice," No seriously Hope have you forgotten what I said when I was still training both of you. I always told both of you that the Wizarding world is not a playground for children and it is not as good as you think, no one will even care about your life and death here, we have a dark lord outside who can kill hundreds of people as if crushing ants under his feet and even we forget about any of them for a sec, have you thought what will Groudon think when he will hear your words, do you think he will appreciate you as his master for these words. Remember my words Hope only by making your will stronger than steel and relying on yourself, you can survive here because finding true friends in the wizarding world is as difficult as finding a needle in the grass." (An/: I don't know if you have noticed but I am trying to make Severus' personality as straightforward as possible so he still uses hard truth even while motivating Hope.)

Hope lowered her head and started remembering her time of training which will be no better than hell for anyone and she completed it by her will. Hope looked into Severus' eyes and said with determination," I am sorry for being weak for some time Sev and thank you for making me remember who we are. We are Astarot the strongest and the proudest house of Hogwarts and we will not be bullied by anyone."

The mood again become lighter and everyone smiled while they again started to enjoy their food but Severus' smile different from others had a cold feeling inside of it.

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