Harry potter fic
Move along
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Chapter one – the bitter taste
It was a dark night in London city, a slight rain feel solemnly upon the rooftops and the sky was a starless expanse of grey. In a cobbled street called Spinners End a small somewhat depressing looking house echoed angry voices out into the dusk. Inside the damp grey walls a family sat in the dingy living room candle light cast harsh shadows across their faces, each holding a very different expression form the other.
Firstly there was that of a tall sour skinned man called Tobias Snape. He had short grey hair which was balding in places and dark, dark eyes. His lips were curled up in a sneer over his yellow teeth as he looked over at a woman shorter than himself. His wife, Eileen had ivory skin and eyes of the colour of chocolate she was also a witch. Only now after 10 years of marriage had he finally worked it out. Ten years and two children later and at least one of which was just as bad as her. Tobias knew this because one of them, his son had received a letter telling him that he was one of them. A letter coming from some place called Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. The man was amazed they even had places for freaks such as the ones he lived with and even more amazed that two such freaks lived under his roof.
Behind the glaring parents a ten year old boy with long black hair just like his mothers and eyes like his farthers called Severus Snape stood he too had magical powers but at this particular moment he wished he wasn't. His dark eyes were wide with fear as his farther gaze turned to him. He hated it when they argued and the fact he was the cause of one was extremely distressing. "What about her? Is she a freak like you two? " Tobias snarled nodding to the small figure behind him. Severus's looked down at his younger sister. She had indeed displayed magical qualities; he had watched his sister make leaves fly and grass sway without any trace of wind whilst playing with their friend Lily Evans. She could even do a few things that not even lily knew of, things that were just the siblings secret.
Their parents however knew nothing at all about these gifts. From day one her brother had made sure his sister kept quiet about what she could do, knowing it would cause nothing but arguments. "She can't do anything she's normal" Severus whispered trying to keep his voice from trembling. "That's right, Sydney can't do anything out of the ordinary. She's just a plain ordinary child" added Eileen. Sydney's blue eyes flicked to her mother. Her eyes matched no family member in this room but nine year old had jet black hair and ivory skin and was small just like her mother but she was extremely different in personality. For example she wanted to be anything but ordinary.
Right now the Sydney's small frame trembled with not fear but anger. She was so sick of with bottling up her anger, her feelings and most of all her magic. She hated pretending to be something she wasn't and watching them argue she also hated being made to feel like she was a monster. The girl glared at the floor the magical energy building up inside her most of all she hated that her mother never defended them. She was a witch and she should be proud of it she should be happy to use it without fear of being attacked by a stupid muggle man with less brains than a troll and a personality to match. Her brother was just as wet sometimes. Sydney caught his eye, the boy shook his head at her silently telling her not to argue.
That was his usual way of things; it wasn't that the gesture didn't have good intentions. On the contrary her brother was just doing his best to protect her and her mother but it bothered Sydney that he was so passive. Neither child was well cared for, their cloths were filthy their bodies thin and with their hectic home life how could fighting back make things any worse?
Sydney sighed she loved her brother Severus or "Russy" as she called him from since she was three as s's are rather hard to pronounce for a toddler. She really did love him but right now she wished he wasn't so like his mother. So quite, so gentle so unprepared to fight for what he was thought was right not just what others told him were. Her brother was a born follower not like her atall.
Tobias glared back over at them for a second before turning back to his wife. "Good it better stay that way and as for him, well I'm sure I can squash it out of him somehow" he sneered jerking his head at his son. Eileen gasped. "No don't hurt him Tobias, please Severus will stop performing magic. He will stop for you just like I did" she rambled scrambling over to get between him and her children. "Get out of my way woman! I said get out of my way" Tobias roared. "No please love, please. It doesn't have to be done this way he doesn't have to go I would rather he was raised normally" the woman replayed, her black hair flying wildly as the two began to scuffle.
Severus called out to him mum as she was knocked to the floor he silently willed her to get up and fight back, to use magic to do anything to stop his fathers onslaught. He watched as his so called role model reined blow after blow on his already defeated mother and listened to her screams. The boy backed away wishing his own magic would work but as he felt his sister trembling behind him no magic came. He instead looked over his shoulder to offer some sort of comfort but as he did his farther kicked his mother aside leaned forward and grabbed him by the front of his filthy smock.
"Say it, say you won't ever perform magic" Tobias growled his face inches from his son's. Severus stared down at him eyes wide with both fear and sadness. It was a promise he didn't want to make but if it meant his mother and sister would be better off then he would do it but as he opened his mouth to say the words a dog like snarl from the other side of the room stopped him dead. "Don't you dare hurt Russy and don't you dare pick on him just because he can do something you don't understand!"
Sydney's whole body shook with rage as the words rumbled out of her. Severus went even more wide eyed as he recognised the first signs of Sydney's greatest magical gift so far. Her thin neglected limbs trembled with the threat of transformation. "Syd no don't do it!" the boy pleaded. If his father saw what she could do it would all be over he would reject her just like everyone else in the family and subject her to his beatings. Sydney shook her head sending her black locks flying "No I'm fed up with keeping it all in! I can't stand it! The fighting, the secrets I hate all of it and most of all I hate him and if nether you or mom will teach him a lesson I will" the girl said her last word trailing off into a deep growl.
Tobias snickered at the sound "Yeah right, even if you could do magic you couldn't do it right your just as useless had your broth..." the man was cut off his face contorted in a mixture of wonder and horror at what he witnessed and behind him Eileen let out a fearful gasp. All three of the Snape family watched as the youngest long black hair turned a brilliant white and cover her body in a thick fur like coat, her limbs lengthened as did her ears, he face also changed. It curved into a thick muzzle full of sharp pointed fangs and a lastly a long tail curled out of the base of her spine.
Sydney Snape was no longer human. Instead a young white she wolf stood in front of them, her black lips pulled back over her powerful jaws she released a single harsh bark before launching herself at her father. Her aim was true and she collided with his chest forcing him to drop her brother who quickly scrambled to his mother's side to watch in morbid fasination as his sister continued her assault.
Tobias was pinned to the floor using his arms to deflect the wolf's blows but his own daughters was furious in her attacks. Her fangs found his hands and arms as worthy target as any, they ripped through the skin and buried deep into the flesh drawing blood and bone. She attacked with relentless abandon all the anger, resentment and unhappiness flowing out of her with every blood lust. The man screamed the only word that he knew even described this , the one word that he thought fit his daughter. "Werewolf!" he shrieked.
Eileen turned to her son who blinked back "Don't worry she's not a werewolf mum, she just can do this. She's some sort of anmagi. She's never changed out of anger before though. I'm not sure how, I'm not sure if I can stop her" he stammered in fear partly for his farther but mainly for his sister. What would his mother do now she knew their secret? And for that matter could she explain how Sydney had gotten such a strange power, after all most wizards need a spell to transform like this. Eileen held her sons desperate gaze for a second before reaching into her pocket. Servers watched as she pulled out her oak and unicorn horn wand and pointed it at the brawling pair.
Whatever it was Severus hoped for it didn't happen his jaw dropped as his mother sent a spell directly at his little sister sending the wolf flying into the bookcase and landing with a thud on the floor in a snarling ball of fur. Tobias crawled away "Curse her again, knock her out kill her anything" he screamed. Eline glared at him "so now you want my magic" she growled as her daughter made a point of advancing back on the man leaping on him with enough force to wind him. She had known this could happen and was ready for it.
Tobias screamed again "Do something" he shrieked as the wolf's jaws snapped at his throat. Eileen flicked her wand "Stupefy" she cried as the wolf fell to the ground stunned for a few seconds before standing up and shaking her body and doing so changing her form back to human. The woman let a sigh of relief her daughter hadn't mastered the form yet. Severus ignored his mother's strange behaviour and instantly ran to her side and helped his sisters wobbling form to her feet. The girl's body quavered as the adrenaline left her body the transformation had never been so sudden, so powerful or lasted so long. Nor had it carried so much emotion in it.
"Russy" she stammered her blue eyes wide. Severus smiled weakly but it was quickly whipped away as his sister was snatched from him. "Let her go!" the boy roared as his farther picked the girl up by her hair and carried her to the door in his blood stained hands. Sydney refused to cry out despite her pain as she was thrown into the cold hard cobbled road. "Now get out of here and never come back you little monster" the man spat. Severus stood behind him staring out at his sibling, rain poured over her soaking her cloths instantly. The boy glared at his farther and made to push past but he was caught by his shoulders by his mother and had to watch as his farther slammed the door shut tight.
Outside the rain seemed to come down even heaver. Sydney Snape sat and looked about the darkened street called Spinners End before looking back at what once was her home. What should she do? Where could she go? And why weren't her brother and her mother stepping in to protecting her ? again emotion took over and where once a nine year old girl crouched a white she wolf sat solemnly, its delicate ears flat upon her head her blue eyes closed as she turned her nose to the moan and began a series of mournful howls which mixed with the echo of thunder and driving rain in a dismal symphony. Was she really a unwanted freak?
"No Severus, you have to let her go she's too dangerous to stay" Eileen said pulling him tightly to her as he tried to again get to the door. "What? Don't be stupid mother she's my sister, your daughter you can't leave her out in the rain she'll get sick" the young Snape cried. After a brief struggle he managed to pull free but his father blocked the door so Severus made to the window instead outside where his sisters cries echoed eerily in the night as a blot of lighting lit up the street. "She's crying mum, she's crying and she's sorry please let her in. I know she won't do it again dad ill talk to her I can make her stop" he pleaded hoping against hope one of them would finally act like a parent for once in their lives. Tobias stalked over to the window and glared out.
Sydney stopped her howling to stare sadly at her brother through the glass. Let me in she thought but as her father appeared and she couldn't help but give a slight growl. Her father looked startled for a second before turning away. "No way she goes, that monster will never be welcome back in this house" he snapped trying to hide his obvious fear. "Don't worry Severus, she'll be fine" Eileen whispered in his ear. "ill contact your uncle Alex, he can look after Sydney" she soothed running her hand over the boys head in a faintest sign of affection. "But you hardly talk to him farther hates him too, I'll never see her again" he said voiced pained. Eileen stared at him for a second "Maybe its better this way. She can't hurt anyone there and she will be safe too" she added quietly before leaving to tend to her husband's wounds.
Severus watched for a second as his sister paced up and down outside her white fur soaked though felt his eyes well up, how would they survive without each other ? What would they both become? The boy turned to his parents and felt a twinge of pain as his father snapped at his mother for using magic to heal him. He couldn't leave her; if he did she would have no one left but a cruel muggle man who didn't love anything but himself.
Severus couldn't do anything to help his sister now. The boy turned back to his sister sadly and then taking all of his will force he closed the curtains, cutting his sister off from them forever and along with it the secrets to her strange powers. He didn't want to know anymore after all if she had only kept her temper she could have stayed. It was her fault, and it was this moment where the bitter sting of betrayal entered a small boys mind.
Meanwhile outside Sydney stopped pacing her form still that of a wolf stared at the house. The curtains had closed cutting her off from those inside. The she wolfs tail dipped in remorse and she slowly forced herself to turn away. Severus had made his choice and she had made hers. They would go separate ways. At least he had lily to keep in company in days that were bad the girl thought sadly as she slowly padded down the street, wishing and regretting silently under the dusky gray clouds. Who did she have now? no one that's who. Sydney made her way slowly out of the street towards town her claws clicking against the hard floor, thinking nothing about being in wolf form and not even hearing the faint popping sound behind her.
"Now then you young pup I don't think the muggles around here will take lightly to wolf wandering the street, even less a depressed looking wolf. They generally like their local animals to be happy" called out a male voice. Sydney snarled and turned to face the intruder. "You always were the feisty one weren't you?" said a tall man with a smiling face and, long red hair a blue eyes, it was if Sydney's own eyes stared back at her. The wolf stared for a second before bounding towards the man who laughed and caught her in mid jump as she leapt she changed form back into that of his niece.
Sydney held on to her uncle Alex wrapped her little arms around his neck around tightly realising that she wasn't alone bring on a fresh wave of raw emotion. Relief, happiness then sadness again at realising what she had and lost. "Oh Uncle Alex it's horrible none of them want me anymore not even Russy" the girl swept bitterly. "Aw they do, well he does his just trying to protect your mother. No really trust me I know these things" the man smirked as the girl shock her head sadly. "No they don't want me because I'm a monster" she cried.
"Now that's enough of that you are not a monster, bad tempered, feisty, passive aggressive but not a monster" the man soothed. Sydney stopped crying to glare at him "Gee thanks uncle thats really swell of you to say so" she grumbled sarcasm dripping off every word. "Your most welcome" Alex said brightly the younger brother of her mother he was very clearly very different from her. Sydney only saw him once a year if she was lucky but now it looked like he was the only one she would ever see again. The red haired man smiled gently as tears began to well up in the girls eyes "Don't be sad you can come home with me and I'll explain everything" he said. Sydney smiled weakly and gave a nod and with that there was another faint pop and the street of Spinners End was empty.
Well that's it for now, I hope I did ok with this rather dark first chapter not my ualy style atall. The next chappie will explain more about Sydney's gift, how her uncle jut turned up magicallys and more about her past with her brother and will start to go into her new life with her uncle and how he influences her in the future. The title comes from a song called move along by the all American rejects and the chapter title is fom a song by threedays grace