Snape's POV

What was I thinking letting Lily talk me into this? This is insane! And of course the ENTIRE Order would want to come! Morbid curiosity is all it is. A daughter! I have a daughter, and all the way in America at that.

I remembered the night when I met her mother, which was the only night I met her mother. It had been a particularly bad Death Eater meeting with more murder and torture then I had ever seen before. I felt the need to get as far away as possible, and get as drunk as possible. America seemed far enough away and besides it was the farthest away I could get by flew-powder. And much farther away then I could get by apperating.

By the time she walked into the bar I had waved goodbye to merely intoxicated several drinks ago. It was amazing that I remembered that night, but that's a perk of being a skilled at Legilimency. Apparently English accents are particularly seductive in America.

Serves them right for pushing all that tea in Boston harbor.

Anyway that was the last time I had ever seen her. We found out about her when she applied for a job at Hogwarts. She had sent in a rather impressive job resume and had sent a picture of herself so that the staff would know who to look for if she was accepted. It was the picture that made everyone in the room gasp. Black eyes like mine and black hair like mine. Her facial structure was also similar, although more delicate and female. High cheek-bones and a pale complexion. But on her pale skin looked good and she had obviously gotten her mothers nose. Delicate and straight it complimented her face nicely. Her name was Sarah Riley

Of course the moment we found out she existed Granger started researching her background. Lily would let me Rest In Peace until I had spoken to my daughter.

Apparently her mother had married a muggle about a year after she was born and given birth to a muggle daughter but the father died about two years later while in military service, so she was left to raise to small girls on her own. She seemed to have managed just fine because because my they both were invited to prestigious boarding schools. One for muggles and one for wizards and witches. Both had graduated at the top of their class and Sarah had applied for the job of Muggle Studies teacher at Hogwarts shortly after.

And now here we all were in Texas walking up a hot, dust path to a ranch house. Well supposedly it was hot, it's a bit hard to tell when you're a ghost.

Even though I was dead I was happier then I had been since I was a small child. I loved Lily as my best friend but it no longer hurt when I saw her and James Potter holding hands, and she had forced Black, Lupine, James Potter, and I into a delicate truce. Although it still warmed my dead heart to see her hit Black over the head when he was rude.

Harry Potter found the Resurrection Stone and brought back anyone who wanted to come back. The best he could do though was to have them come back as ghosts that were capable of touching things and people when they wanted to. Fred Weasely was having the time of his... Life? Being dead. It meant he could get away with pulling pranks with his brother and no one could prove he was doing it if he was invisible. It was like having another Peeves around.

I walked up the porch steps and knocked on the door. After a few moments a good looking brown haired women opened the door. It was obviously the mother, she had hardly changed. Maybe a bit older looking, but not that much. She stared at me for a bit and then said the last thing I expected her to.

"You're dead. We went to your funeral and watched and everything. You're a ghost now aren't you?" Se said.

I could think of anything to say so I merely nodded.

Well come one in then the lot of you. You might as well sit down and rest for now. Sarah isn't home right now, I'm asumming you came to see her."

I nodded again.

"Well she and her sister are at the high-school right now. Mixing some kind of nasty concoction the lab probably." She muttered in a fed-up voice. Apparently Sarah and her sister had an interest in potions.

I smirked.

"I'll call them up and tell them to come home. Hopefully they haven't been arrested for destroying the school lab. Again"

She picked up the phone and started dialing.