The last "event" - Post BMT

• Snape and Mae visit Harry before Mae's Saturday clinic shift. Snape spends the day at the hospital and then sees Mae on his way out to Spinner's End for a few hours. He talks to her and confirms he'll pick her up for dinner around 7pm.

• Snape is at Spinner's End alone, just about to leave to pick Mae up when Mae arrives via her necklace and tells him Jessica is dead. She got home to Jessica's body on the floor, still in her scrubs, and a glass of wine (the same wine Snape brought to Christmas, but she doesn't make the connection) spilled next to her.

• Muggle police arrive the next day to arrest Snape for Jessica's murder. The neighbor positivity identified him entering their flat right after Jessica got home and leaving less than fifteen minutes later. Snape tells Mae to contact Lupin: "Harry knows how!"
  • Muggle police take his wand (comment on strange hobby) when they search him - left in muggle prison.

(Off screen - quarters searched**)

• Auror liaison arrives and transfers him to DMLE. In custody Snape find out:
  • Neighbor who gave him the umbrella in the rain identified him at Mae's house before Jessica arrived.
  • She stated that he's caused trouble to them before - broken window
  • Claims he brought a bottle of wine (poisoned with Belladonna) which Jessica drank
    • SS knows she'd never willingly let him in or eat anything from him
  • Williamson shows shipping manifest found in the Dark Arts book when they searched his quarters once he became a "person of interest"
    • Snape: I told you, I never went to Mae's house and I never saw Jessica.
    • Kingsley: Can anyone verify your whereabouts during (time)?
    • Snape: I was home by then… alone. Why don't you take my memory?
    • Williamson: unreliable because he's a master Occlumen

• Sent to Azkaban until trial

• Mae with HP during recovery
  • Mae asks Harry - is there any type of… magic… that could make a person be in two places at once?
  • HP: polyjuice

• March 20th: Harry discharged to home quarantine with Lupin - talks to Mae about polyjuice. Kingsley visits with an update, officially introducing Kingsley and Mae.

• Azkaban: Snape learns about someone searching for information on Death Eater masks (how to identify them) and the new rotation of aurors

• Trial: Snape is brought from Azkaban - Mae testifies about Jessica's body, Lucius testifies about the manifest… charges dismissed.

The Reveal:

Everyone is back at Spinner's End rotating care for Harry. Lupin or Snape are always there, with his friends visiting after school – using the sterilizing spell and Muggle masks/isolation gowns.

(Connecting the dots)

Hermione's material: Hermione was visiting the night before and left her growing portfolio for her newspaper job out on the sitting room table. The portfolio contains various newspaper clippings throughout the decades with Hermione's notes on each one. Sitting near the top of the pile is the NYE article from the first war that Hermione showed to Harry.

While listening to a message from Mae Snape is casually looking over Hermione's journal/study material: Mae pauses mid message to answer a knock at the door and Williamson's voice is heard asking about her coming down to the Ministry. At the exact same time Snape recognizes the girl from cave (Caroline Jennois) sitting next to Williamson in the newspaper article – he has a flashback of the girl screaming on the cave floor as they (the Death Eaters - Snape, Lucius, Jugson, Gibbons) tortured her to her death, leaving Ash & Talpin to "clean up the mess" – *Snape is suspicious* 'no, it can't be'...

Mae through the phone: yeah, I remember. You work with Kingsley, right…"

Flips the newspaper page over to a picture of Williamson and the girl dancing, they stop to smile at the camera, then she leans over and kisses Williamson… Snape's eyes move to read the caption "Auror Mark Williamson and new fiancé [Caroline Jennois] share a kiss to ring in the promise of a New Year" Snape connects all of the deaths to the people present on the night Williamson's girlfriend was murdered, right as Mae's message abruptly ends.

Next chapter: opens with Snape telling Lupin (with Harry) about Williamson and that he probably has Mae. Harry begs to go with (if Mae's hurt I have to help. Snape snaps at him to keep his Gryffindor courage in line for once in his life!) Snape immediately goes to DMLE. Mae is not there and neither is Williamson. Kingsley confirms that no one requested Mae's presence. Goes to Malfoy Manor. Narcissa is missing too – the dissolving spell that had been tried on the grounds of Malfoy Manor worked while Narcissa was in the garden! Snape tells Lucius what he knows about Williamson. Lucius questions: how does he know who was there? Why now? Why all the other stuff: Slytherin common room, magical creature, Jessica's death? Where would he have taken them?

Snape: We killed his fiancé in the cave…