Hi, this is my first Harry Potter fanfiction so if it sucks please don't hate me! I'm just trying out this idea right now but I will do my best to finish it right to the end.
*Note: In this version Snape fell in love with a fellow Slytherin during his sixth year and ended up marrying her (he did love Harry's mom Lily at one point but got over his feelings for her and became a friend of hers and James')
Disclaimer: If I owned this series it would never end, unfortunately I don't so…yeah.
Chapter One
In front of an old black house on Spinners End a small dark haired girl was skipping rope. A muggle toy, her father called the plastic rope, decorated with smiling yellow faces the toy had been given to her by a muggle neighbour, but he let her play with none the less. The exercise would be good for the small child. She sang a little rhyme about a faraway school to the rhythmic sound of the plastic rope's slap slap slap on the cracked sidewalk. Wrapped up in her singing she did not notice the group of larger children approaching her.
"Freak!" One of the boys shouted at her. "Dirty little freak! Where's your daddy, freak?" The other children circled around her, similar taunts directed at the small girl. "My name is not Freak, it is Lucinda and I would appreciate it if you refrained from calling me other names such as that." Lucinda replied to their taunts as properly and calmly as a seven year old could. "She even talks like a freak!" One of the children exclaimed as he picked up a stone and threw it at her. The other children quickly followed suit and began throwing stones at the girl. Too caught up in their stone throwing the children didn't notice that many of their stones bounced away from the girl as if by magic but one stone managed to hit Lucinda's forehead leaving a small gash above her eyebrow.
The windows in the nearby homes began shaking violently, the sound alerting one man in his study that there was some type of trouble going on outside. "Get away from me!" Lucinda shouted at the startled children who had obviously been spooked by the rattling windows. "W-what are you doing freak?" The lead bully stuttered, obviously scared by the happenings around them. He picked another stone and threw it at her. With a quick wave of her hand the stone dropped from the air. "Go away!" She screamed at the children and a circled of fire knee high surrounded her. "What did you do freak?" The children shouted at her. Lucinda covered her ears and screamed for them to stop as the wall of fire grew higher around her. The door to the house behind them flew open and in the shadow of the doorway stood one of the most mysterious and feared men that lived on Spinners End, Severus Snape.
The neighbours told stories of him to their children; he was strange even as a child- a freak and his daughter was a freak as well, the disappearance of his wife sparked intrigue into the stories of Snape-had the strange man murdered her? Or perhaps she had been trapped in the house for eight years? Whatever the situation the appearance of him on the street was rare and very scary at this point in time to the children who had been terrorizing his daughter. "Lucinda." He said sharply to the hunch over girl, the barrier of flames that she had created dissolved. He stepped from the doorway on to the side walk and the children surrounding Lucinda parted like the red sea. Severus looked at his daughter's tormenters and said just two words. "Go home." The children scattered, terrified of the tall man in dark clothing.
"Lucinda," He walked toward the girl sitting on the sidewalk whose head was buried in her knees. "That was an impressive use of magic for someone of your age," Lucinda looked up at her father, "But it was dangerous dealing with such type of magic and even more so dangerous preforming magic in the presence of muggles." She sniffed and wiped the tears off her face with the back of her hand. "I'm sorry daddy, but why do they have to be so mean?" Severus leaned down and picked his small daughter off the sidewalk and brushed some of the grime from the street off of her dress. "Jealousy, when muggles see something they can't do or don't understand they hate it and try to destroy it. It's really as simple as that."
Severus walked Lucinda inside their house. "Do you have to go back to Hogwarts so soon?" Severus sighed, "Yes, start of term is in a few days and your nanny Ms. Barnaby will be here in two days' time to take care of you until the Christmas holiday. However, I still need to purchase some potion ingredients before I leave how about you come with me to Diagon Alley to help find what I need?" The seven-year-old mulled over her father's proposition, "Can we get ice cream when we're all done?" Severus smiled, "Certainly." Lucinda beamed, "Okay! I think I'll get strawberry! Or chocolate! Or…" Lucinda yammered on about their upcoming trip to Diagon Alley.
Several hours after the next day had been planned; Severus and Lucinda sat together in the small drawing room of the house, Lucinda was on the floor playing with a beginner's potions set and her father read the Daily Prophet. Finished with the article he had been reading on the minister of magic, Severus focused on his daughter who was carefully reading the instructions on a potion with the attention of someone who was more than just seven. After adding some type of dry leaves to mixture in the cauldron Lucinda concentrated on the small Bunsen burner beneath it and it ignited itself, satisfied with this Lucinda continued to add and stir her potion. Severus was pleased with the fact that Lucinda had such a skill with potions, though he realized that when he returned to Hogwarts he would have to ask Professor Dumbledore about ways to control her budding magical talents, especially after the events of that day it was obvious she would be a very powerful witch.
Okay, so that's it for chapter one please review! But don't flame, just highly constructive criticism I'm really appreciative of that.
Peace and cupcakes –Alyssie10