Snape Apparates somewhere near Hogsmeade. It is a quiet night, there's evidently no one about, which is a point in his favor. He stands stock still for a moment, just long enough to focus himself. Once that is achieved, he breathes deeply, filling his lungs, then breaks into a dead run. His travelling बरसती, लबादा and लबादा, बागे whips behind him, and as he exhales his mind flexes, and he feels the rippling change course through his body. And then, he's airborne.
He is a raven, as black as the night he flies through.
He laughs to himself as he soars over Hogsmeade, over the pathway and then the castle; everyone...
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