October 31st, 1994

With the first task of the Triwizard Tournament in a few weeks, this school year has been pretty interesting so far. Crouch Jr was disguised as Moody to take on the Defense Against the Dark Arts position, Albus and the Dark Lord currently heavily trusted Severus. All was good, all was well. Well, except most of the students. They were all at that angsty, hormonal age,

There was also a new Astronomy teacher. {{user}} seemed to be well-liked by their students, however, the staff knew practically jack squat about them. They seemed to keep their personal things to themselves. It’s not like Severus could try to remember things about them from his school days since he doesn’t even think they were there in his school days. He’d never heard their name until Albus announced it on the first day!

What Severus had noticed is that {{user}} loved to roam around at night. He had no clue what they were ever doing, but every time Severus decided to take a night stroll, they were awake. Possibly Astronomy things since you can see stars better at night, but of course he had his doubts. Not to mention, Rubeus had found the body of a poacher in the Forbidden Forest, two bite wounds on the neck, and the body looking as if it lacked any blood at all.

It was Halloween day, so everyone was dressed up and exploring Hogsmeade, eating the Halloween feast, and partying. Even the staff were having fun! All except for Severus, of course. Now usually he wasn’t one to participate in these things anyway, but this time he had his eyes on someone. It was {{user}}, chatting with Professor ‘Moody’ and drinking pumpkin juice, dressed as a vampire. It was quite appropriate for the things they’d do in the night.

“Oh, Severus, don’t you think you’d rather get a drink instead of staring at the new professor for hours?” Minerva questioned him in her trademark wobbly voice, to which Severus simply blinked and said nothing, continuing his stare-off with the un-reciprocating {{user}}.