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I hope you enjoy this story,

One the day that Lord Voldemort attacked the Potter home at Godric's hollow something happened that was not expected. He was meant to kill the child of the prophesy to save his own life. He killed his father James rather quickly and viciously, he gave a chance to Lily to live and get out of the way, he did this as a favor to his follower Severus Snape, but she would not move so he ended up killing her too.

But when he saw the smiling face of the little baby boy, something weird happened, this child was not afraid of him. He did not look upon him with hatred or even fear, he was smiling such a beautiful smile. That was when he decided not to kill the child, instead he would try and see if he could be useful to his cause. He of course didn't know a thing about taking care of a child, so he decided to have Severus take him as his adopted child.

Severus was not happy to hear Lily had been killed, but when he heard that he gave her every chance to move out of the way, and if she had done so she would be alive, and her child too. Since he didn't even kill the child or even attempted it. "Severus, you know why I am doing this, a revolution is a long process, and I have no one to keep this war going so that we can effect the chances we so clearly see that need to be made. The corruption of the ministry of magic can not be allowed to continue."

"But I am not even married. How can I raise a child all by myself." His lord has a away, if anything he was quick to come up with alternatives. "Simple, marry Narcissa's sister. Bellatix, come in here we need to talk to you." Bellatrix Black was happy to be called by the dark lord. "As you command, my lord how may I be of service?"

"Bellatrix, I would like to ask you would you consider marrying Snape here?" Bellatrix had not even considered it but she had to admit there were a few thing she liked about the potions master. "If he treats me right, and I know the reason for him wanting to marry me, I don't see why not." Snape told her he wanted to adopt a child, and he could not do that while being single. "And who is the child?" Her lord told her it was the child of James and Lily Potter.

"But my lord, that child is in the prophesy, why would you let him live, while he is a danger to you and your glorious cause." Voldemort thanked her for her concern, but he told her that the child could be useful, as useful as the father and mother had been, had they actually accepted his proposal. "Very well, I have a few things that I would like in return." Bellatrix said that she wanted a child of her own too and should there be any opportunity she would raise both of them as if they were their children, and never to reveal that her son was adopted at all.

Snape was not going to be in a hurry to reveal that he raised the son of his most hated enemy, and he was fine with all her demands. And so Bellatrix and Severus were married and the child was adopted into the Snape family under ther named of Serpentus Snape. Almost a year later Bellatix Snape gave birth to a daughter named Belladona Snape. The couple was pretty happy and would raise their children as any good honest pure blood family should.

When young Serpentus was about six years old, he was outside playing in the family yard. Bellatrix found it rather odd that he was spending quite a bit of time in the backyard, so she decided to investigate and he saw the strangest thing. There was her son seated on the ground talking to not one but three separate snakes. And by the look of it the snakes and her son were having a rather happy conversation.

"Son, mind telling me what are you doing with those snakes?" Serpentus being the respectful child, got up, dusted his clothes and bowed to his mother. "I am merely talking with my friends. The one on the left is Snozle, the one in the middle is Sneer, and that is their sister Siza." He began to hiss something at them and they all bowed. "I just introduced you to them, they say they are honor to meet you."

"Well it is time for lunch and you are helping me today, your sister did it yesterday, remember? so excuse yourself with your friends and come inside." Serpentus did as he was asked and the snakes told him that they would continue their talk another time. Siza still wanted to continue their talk about if he would pick her as his familiar. Serpentus found it pretty funny that his mother never realized that those three were in fact some pretty young basilisk that were born in a nearby cave.

Serpentus helped his mother setting the table and even took the jug of juice to the table. His sister was seated and was waiting for her brother to serve her a glass, which he did. Serverus entered the kitchen like he always did, he asked a question on alchemy and waited for his son to answer, if he answered correctly he would eat while the food was hot, if he answered in correctly he would be made to march to the family study and read why his answer was wrong, and would eat last.

In his whole life he had gotten one two of the questions wrong, and that was because he hadn't learn to read that well. But he learned to read and write to prevent it from ever happening. Again he got it right and so he was allowed to sit down and eat, his sister however did not. So off she was sent to the family library and told to read a book and find why her answer was wrong. Serpentus sat down and began to eat.

When his sister finally found the answer she came and sat down and she began to eat, and that was when Bellatrix told the entire family that Serpentus has been talking with three snakes out in their backyard. "So Hild finally allowed her offspring to off on their own, that is pretty nice of her. What? Did I say anything strange?" Everyone looked at Severus like he had just said something that needed a clarification.

"Hild is an old friend of my old mentor. She is a basilisk that let's me collect venom from her every once in a while." That was when Bellatrix dropped her knife on the table and did not look that pleased. "You mean to tell me those three were basilisk our child has been playing with, and you never told me about it!?" Serverus could not be happier at hearing his son could speak with them.

"Serpentus is fine, they don't attack speakers of their tongue it's an ancient tradition after all. But looks like our boy is going to have to start learning magical theory and laws. I couldn't be happier, we have a parseltongue in our family, there are simply no words to describe the honor that is to our home."

Belladona was not that happy more studies would only mean one thing, less time to play with her big brother. She simply loved playing quidditch with her big brother, she always picked the position of keeper and he the one as chaser, in terms of skill Serpentus had her beat, but so far the score had the tied for points, since he wasn't as talented as a keeper, or so she believed, little did he know that he let her win a few times just so that she didn't feel down.

The classes with his father were tough, demanding and loaded with knowledge that was hard to grasp. Serpentus took it as a personal challenge, and he never backed out of a personal challenge. He studied with gusto and his father could not be happier, as the years went by he began doing magic and he even was bought his own wand. The wand maker was stunned when he saw which one had chosen him.

It was thirteen inches long, holly, the core was a phoenix feather, the wand was the brother to the wand that cause the deaths of both James and Lily Potter. The wand maker used his occlumancy skills to hide this fact from them and congratulated the boy for being selected by a wand so early in his life. As the two left he said that he expected big things from him in the future, Severus told the wand maker that indeed his son could one day change the world.

At long last after so many years of training and study he finally received the letter to invite him to study at Hogwarts. Bellatrix was happy as she could be, and she took him to buy all his school materials and robes. While on the alley he whispered to Siza to go into the mark on his back. The young basilisk had grown rather big, but thanks to the skills taught to her by her mother, she could change her size and even her appearance. She finally got her wish of being her childhood friend's familiar.

As mother and son went to buy his books, he asked if he could buy a new book on potion theories that had just been published. Bellatrix told him that he could, but he could only read it during the days that he returned home, from his holiday and vacation days. He did not like it but he agreed to the condition. The shop owner asked why would a child just entering would ask for such a difficult book, that only a master in the art of potions would ever want to read.

Bellatrix told him that her husband was the one that instilled in him the love of potion making. She joked and told him that he was practically an alchemist, and would one day try to make the one item that Nicholas Flamel was so well known for, the philosopher stone. The shop keeper was nice to her and smiled, it was typical that a mother would think her child would do great and marvelous things.

As they walked over to the robes they saw a familiar looking boy. Familiar simply because she saw Narcissa talking to the shop keeper about her son's robes. Bellatrix smiled and hugged her sister and asked her what she was up to? Narcissa told her that she was doing exactly the same thing as she was, buying school robes for her son, much like she was for hers.

Draco got done being measured for his robes and stepped down from the small platform that the seamstress had him stand on to adjust his robes. "So you are going to Hogwarts too cousin?" He stepped on to the platform, and he looked at his cousin. "Yes, Draco I am going to Hogwarts, just like you. Honestly I hoped that I could go to Durmstrang there I could actually learn some dark arts, the proper way, but no I am going to Hogwarts."

"Son, you are simply to young to learn dark arts, and trust me you will learn to defend yourself just fine with the way Hogwarts teaches, you just need to look at me, your dad and your aunt and uncle, we all studied in Hogwarts and we learned everything we needed to live a decent life." Draco wanted to change the subject he asked which house did he think he would be placed in. "You know as well as I do, cousin, it would be pretty weird if we were placed in any other house that wasn't Slytherin. Our parents were members of that house, so chances are we will placed there too."

Draco decided to make a joke and teased him that maybe he would be place with Griffindor. Harry was not smiling at that idea. "I certainly hope not, I could not deal living with a bunch of people that have so little control over their impulses. Living there must feel like living in an insane asylum." Bellatrix was laughing as she heard her son say that. Narcissa could not stop herself and told both boys that her sister said exactly t he same thing before she was sorted into Slytherin.

The two mothers talked about how things were in their marriages and the cousins talked about the newest development in sports, and dueling. Narcisa bought for Draco a owl as his means to receive letters and send letters to his parents, Harry told them he had his own means to communicate with his parents. When she asked what it was, Bellatrix told them that he had enchanted a pair of dairies and what was written in one would appear on the other, and the reader could erase it with a family pass code.

Narcissa was impressed that her nephew had managed such an amazing feat at such a young age. The two sisters wished each other best, and they each went into the fireplace at a local bar one after the other. Serpentus was happy to be able to spend the day with his mother, and Siza told him that his cousin would try to out do him when they reached the school. He asked how she knew, and she told him that it was simply a feeling she was getting.