Ravenclaw Bless

Snape stopped in his tracks. It took a full six or seven seconds before he came back to himself. Slowly, he raised his head, his gaze toward the statue more complicated than it had ever been, and his wand appeared silently in his hand.

The statue of Ravenclaw ignored his wary movement and expression as if it had not seen them. "Until death, you could not free yourself from your remorse toward her. Your pain and regret followed her to the grave." [Author's note: In Victorian Britain, people liked to communicate through the language of flowers. In floriography, every flower has its own particular meaning. Different flowers combined together produce different meanings. Daylily is a type of Lily (Lily Evans's name, Lily, means the lily flower), and Mugwort is a bitter-sweet Herbology plant, so it also represents bitterness and sorrow. In the first Harry Potter book, Sorcerer's Stone, the Potions question Snape asked Harry, when put together, means the above.]

The wizard, whose greatest wound in this life had been torn open again, clutched the front of his robes. The hand holding his wand trembled faintly, and grief and remorse nearly spilled from his eyes.

A snap of the fingers rang out. Snape tried to look in the direction of the sound, but the sudden feeling of something foreign in his palm made him pause slightly. He stretched out his hand and opened his palm, then his eyes widened sharply. A black diamond-shaped stone with the symbol of the Deathly Hallows in its center had appeared in his hand. Along with another snap of fingers from the direction of the statue, the stone turned three times in Snape's palm from across the air.

At that moment, the wizard heard a faint movement behind him. He turned around, his black robes