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Chapter 1: The wife
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It was summer holidays when Severus Snape was walking towards the staff meeting. When he entered he saw that everyone was already there, except Hagrid. This confused him seeing as this was a full staff meeting and Hagrid was part of the staff. 'Maybe he still has to arrive?' thought Severus and sat down next to Minerva.
When Severus sat down Albus, wearing orange robes, stood up and said: "Now that we are all here we can start."
"We have a problem." said Albus without twinkle in his eyes and with a sad tone. "The ministry has decided that Hagrid cannot teach Care of Magical Creatures anymore. They have investigated and seeing that Hagrid is not a Master in the subject, he is unqualified for teaching it. So I have been looking for a replacement, but until now have been unsuccessful. Do any of you know someone who is a master and is willing to teach this subject?"
'Hagrid fired?' went through everyones mind. Even though some had expected this, they after all did get a lot of complains from students about the dangerous animals he brought in. Plus the level of students continuing in the subject for the NEWT's decreased drastically.
On the question if they knew someone else to teach the course? The answer had to be no.
Until suddenly Severus Snape spoke "I might know of someone, however, I will need to confer with her first. There will of course be conditions before she will agree to come here."
"So what will these conditions be?" asked Albus.
"She has two sons who will need to be transferred to Hogwarts. One of them will be first year, the other third year."
"Are you certain she is a master?" asked Minerva McGonagall.
"Seeing as she is a high elf, and has studied magical creatures for half her life, yes"
"So how do you know her?" asked McGonagall.
"You all know her, she went to school here. Her name is Serena Moonlight."
"You mean the silent girl from Ravenclaw? I thought she moved away after graduating?" asked Filius Flitwick.
"Yes, she did. She was always so good with plants. She could keep them so calm. A bit like Mr. Longbottom today." said Mdm. Sprout.
"Yes, such a sweet girl. Was she not a year above you Severus?" asked Minerva.
"Yes, she was." answered Severus, liking were this conversation was going.
"I did not realize you were still in contact with anyone from school. So how do you still know her?" said Minerva.
"She is my wife." said Severus, inwardly smirking at the shocked looks he got from the other staff members.
As soon as everyone confirmed that they had heard it right. The questions started.
"When did that happen?"
"Why do we not know anything about that?"
"Severus married? Impossible."
"Wait does that also mean he has two sons?"
"Silence!" said Albus with a bang of his wand.
When everyone was calmed down and still looking at Severus, Albus asked: "Why did we not know you were married?"
"I wanted to keep them out of the war, but I do not think that will work any longer, seeing todays situation."
"What do you mean with that?" asked Albus.
Severus did not answer this time.
Seeing that he would not get the answer, Albus said: "Can you bring her here next week Thursday at 6pm? Then I will see if she can have the job." Thinking that he would get the answer from her.
The day of the interview Albus was waiting in his office. When there came a knock on the door, Albus called: "Enter".
In walked a beautiful woman. She had long brown hair that fell to just beneath her shoulders, hazel brown eyes that could see into your soul, and a blood red robe draped around her. The thing that drew all the attention were the green wings that were hung folded on her back.
"Good evening, Miss. Moonlight." greeted Albus.
"It's Snape now, and thank you for giving me the chance for this job." greeted Serena back.
"The pleasure is all mine. May I offer you any tea or lemon drops? They are delicious."
"No thank you."
"So I heard you are married to professor Snape?"
"Yes"
"He also mentioned that he never told us about you because he wanted to keep you out of the war. So why are you making yourself known now?"
"I wish not to answer that question, seeing as it has nothing to do with the interview."
"All private business of my professors concerns me" Albus said, getting angrier that no one was telling him what he wanted to know.
Seeing as Serena was not going to answer Albus and he really needed a new professor for Care of Magical Creatures, he decided to get on with the interview.
"Do you have any proof that you are a master in the subject?"
"Yes, here are the documents confirming that."
Looking through the documents, Albus said "All seems to be in order. Now I heard you have conditions?"
"Yes, I would want both of my sons transferred to Hogwarts and have shared quarters with Severus."
The shared quarters and your son who starts first year will be of no problem"
"Then what about my other son who is a third year?"
"He will have to be sorted with the first years and can follow classes with the third years, but if we see he is not up to their level he will have to be lowered a year. Both sons will have to stay in their dorms and will have curfew as everyone else. If this is all ok with you, you have the job."
"Thank you."
"You will be known as professor Moonlight, so people do not confuse you with professor Snape." Albus said with his twinkle.
"No problem, but I would like people to know that Severus is my husband, just to prevent speculating of the students."
"See you on September first." dismissed Albus, twinkle now gone.
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So that was the end. Hope you all like it! Please review so I know what you thought about it.
Next time Hogwarts starts and we are with Harry
This was done with the help of beta mousehounde; Belldandy and Alice