Location: Professor Dumbledore’s Office, June 1997

LOUISA SNAPE: Good Evening Professor.

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: Good Evening, I trust that things are going well.

LOUISA SNAPE: Yes Sir.

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: I’m afraid I must ask, perhaps one final thing from you.

LOUISA SNAPE: A final thing?

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: Unfortunately, Yes. I am indebted to you and Severus for the work you have done and yet I feel our roles are not quite over. The work you have carried out has been valuable beyond which I think you know.

LOUISA SNAPE: My Grandmother’s pendant.

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: Among so many things, however when I am gone, I hope that you and others will not think that I used you as a tool in a mere venture.

LOUISA SNAPE: Never Sir.

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: I know you lost your mother, Sirius and Cedric very suddenly without the opportunity to say goodbye. I believe that we can use a grave situation to our advantage.
Please take a seat. (his hand is worse than ever and he is not afraid of covering it up)

LOUISA SNAPE: (taking a seat) I don’t know what to say sir.

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: Then perhaps I may say a few words to start us off.
When Severus took you into his care, he was a young impressionable man. His sister was undoubtably one of the most important people in his life and I knew he would do anything for her.
Yes, Even take in a child that he had no idea how to care for. It was one of the reasons I allowed him to teach you know.

LOUISA SNAPE: Really?

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: (nodding) One of my better ideas.

LOUISA SNAPE: But only Potions

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: Yes, well. Experience with your father taught me much.
When I discovered you at the school, I cannot say that I was surprised.

LOUISA SNAPE: You weren’t? Did you know?

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: You may say that I heard things in the trees. Whispers, I began to wonder why Severus did not return to you as often as he had before, and you were not afraid of making friends. (he lowers his eyes)

LOUISA SNAPE: I simply learnt what I could at the time.

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: Yes, and the Forest has been heavily guarded ever since.

LOUISA SNAPE: Oh,

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: But we must not dwell. When you were sorted I was happily surprised to find you in Gryffindor and I think that we have seen in the last few weeks that you have been given the bravery to do what needs to be done.

LOUISA SNAPE: Given the bravery? Sir, I don’t understand. Aren’t we sorted by what we have already?

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: Yes, yes we are but we are sorted into the house that would help us on our way to greatness. If you had been a Slytherin, which is highly likely, you may have never helped Draco, you may never have found friends, just like your uncle and father. But you were sorted into Gryffindor and have not only found friends but have the bravery to attack the challenges you face.

Remember that we are never dealt more than we can handle. You have been given an extraordinary hand to play, and so far, you have played it well. I fear that the future may offer far more challenges but I know that you are prepared to face them.

LOUISA SNAPE: (taking it all in) You think too much of me sir.

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: Perhaps, but would you have me think you otherwise?

LOUISA SNAPE: No sir.

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: I thought not.

LOUISA SNAPE: I don’t want you to go sir,

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: Most amiable

LOUISA SNAPE: But if it is a choice, between someone that is ill and someone that is innocent then I’m afraid this should be it.

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: The truth.

LOUISA SNAPE: Yes.

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: It is a most terrible thing and yet beautifully resolute.

LOUISA SNAPE: It is the hardest thing.

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: Hmm and I suppose your vote …to Mr Malfoy?

LOUISA SNAPE: Not exactly.

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: No?

LOUISA SNAPE: I just don’t think he deserves the attitude. It’s unjust.

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: And Potter? I know Severus has less regard for him.

LOUISA SNAPE: Harry is a fool.

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: A fool?

LOUISA SNAPE: I’ve never known him that well. You all steer me away from him. But what am I to think when he…
constantly “finds” trouble.

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: Did you ever think, Louisa, that trouble finds him.

LOUISA SNAPE: Yes Sir, but…

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: And did you ever consider that trouble may have already found Mr Potter?

LOUISA SNAPE: No Sir, I don’t understand.

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: Perhaps, Mr Potter follows trouble wherever it goes.

LOUISA SNAPE: Because he wants to?

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: Your lives, however much you may want to fight it are inexplicable linked. Had it not been for, certain circumstances, Mr Potter would not have lost his parents, you would still have at least one. Do you not agree?

LOUISA SNAPE: (thinking) Yes Sir

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: It is by some coincidence, by an eternal path that you both must travel together along your lives. You are like opposite side of a coin. You must be placed together.

LOUISA SNAPE: I don’t think I’ll marry Harry, Sir.

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: No, No, you don’t have to marry him. Your existence is but enough. Just bare in mind that without one there is no other.

LOUISA SNAPE: Like the vanishing cabinets

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: Indeed, and there I believe we shall leave it, as I am feeling rather tired and I believe I have an appointment in the Astronomy Tower.

LOUISA SNAPE: Don’t Go.

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: Ah! But I must. For you see, I must not allow the innocent to bare a heavy strain. I alone must carry that burden. No, do not follow me. I do not want you to be involved. You must be in the Common Room. You have done so much and I wish to say Goodbye, and most of all, Good Luck.

LOUISA SNAPE: It will be a great adventure.

PROFESSOR DUMBLEDORE: One I have never taken.

I did as I was instructed, I was to be in the Gryffindor Common Room, I was to be seen by people. This is the last conversation I ever had with Professor Albus Dumbledore. I never saw him again.
He died as he wanted it, without causing injury to his students and yet I think my making my uncle kill him he caused his death too. I still miss him.