Author's note: In the story you will here talk about being a "Guardian" this was something I made up for my Harry Potter RolePlaying character which this story is about. A "Guardian" is something like a "Whitelighter" from the TV show Charmed.
Before the real story begins let's take a trip back in time to explain some things you might know otherwise. We'll start with a short trip to a time that to one seems not so long ago, a past one won't forget so easily that shaped the way for our story's true beginning.
Lillian "Hope" O'Reilly was raised by friends of her parents', the Black family, after her parents' untimely death when she was just barely 12 years old. She was just a few years older than the Blacks' eldest son, Sirius, whom she became very close to over the years. Although he was younger than Hope, he acted more like an overprotective older brother towards her; more so, after, he started school at Hogwarts with her. Hope was around thirteen at that time and had already been at Hogwarts for two years.
In school, Hope became pretty close to Sirius's best friends, James Potter and Remus Lupin who become like brothers to her just as Sirius had. Hope was very shy at the time and it was because of that Sirius, James, and Remus became protective when it came to Hope. It was as if they were her older brothers rather than younger brothers. She never trusted Sirius's other friend, Peter Pettigrew; there was just something about that made her uncomfortable. She became very good friends with Lily Evans, who later married James Potter, around the end of Hope's last year at Hogwarts. She was sad to have to leave her friends behind since they still had two more years left, but during the summer, she did visit them all often.
She graduated and became an Auror, just as she had wanted to since her first year of school. It was after that when she met someone she had gone to school with but never quite gotten to know, a wizard by the name of Severus Snape, during her first few months of being an Auror was her first encounter with him since her days at Hogwarts. They fell completely in love despite what others thought about their relationship. Their relationship was different from most mainly because Severus was well known as being Death Eater and Hope being an Auror (two things most said should not get involved in such a relationship as they had). However, Hope's life was cut sure five days after the birth of their daughter Sarah Snape, when sadly Hope was murdered by a Death Eater by the name of Bellatrix Lestrange. After Hope's death, nevertheless, because she was a Guardian, she became a Custos, or a watcher, after she was killed. It was then that she was able to watch over, protect, and even help her daughter when she became 15 years old. That is another story for now lets skip ahead in time a bit.
Severus continued working at Hogwarts after the unexpected death of his wife. He never got over her death; he had lost two he had loved in his life and never quite healed from them. It wasn't easy for him raising his daughter alone since he had to spend so much time at Hogwarts, but he hired a Nanny that he trusted to help take care of her as she grew up. She was all he had left, she was his whole world now, and he would do anything to keep her safe. However, he sent Sarah to America when she was five years old when the nanny quit so that she could take care of her own granddaughter. Sarah learned magic at a very early age in America taught to her by the very wise and old wizard that she was sent to stay with there.
Sarah was a Metamorphmagus, which means she can change her appearance without the help of potions or spells, a rare talent for anyone really and unexpected when she was younger and through a fit over her hair color and suddenly it changed to a bright red. She could use wandless magic, something she didn't expect as well when she started coming into her powers and started making things happen without even a having a wand yet. Her father taught her Legilimency and Occulmency when she was fifteen as a way to help her protect herself and was very skilled at both of them within a very short eight months of training. Due to being half Guardian, she was a telepath being able to do both telekinesis and telepathy, surprising her and her father the first time she realized she could do them both. Having these, powers meant she could move things with her mind and speak to people using her mind. Though, unsure if it had to do with telepathy or being half Guardian, she would tell what people were thinking as well; a freaky thing when you don't know about it and suddenly you can hear people inside your head. However, her telepathic powers were very poor at first, but the older she got the better she could control them and understand them.
When it came to classes at school her favorite subjects had always been Potions, Charms, and Defense Against the Dark Arts; she always made top marks in each of them, but Potions seemed to be the easiest for her (perhaps because of her father being so skilled at Potions and it had rubbed off on her). Then Defense Against the Dark Arts was her next favorite class. She too was very skilled at Potion making just like her father and she knew a lot about Dark Arts because of him as well, but like her mom, she was great at whatever she did and tried. She did make top marks on most if not all of her O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s when she attended Hogwarts. Most saw her as extremely smart and talented, but she worked hard at everything she did. For her own private reasons and to make her father proud of her were two reasons why. Although her father was already proud of her like most father's are of their daughters…
She was almost killed by Bellatrix when she was a baby probably 4 or 5 years old and again after Bellatrix had escaped from Azkaban when out with her friends from Hogwarts in Hogsmeade when Sarah was 18 and half years old, but she was saved by her father just in time thanks to her mother's old friend; it was also just after that when she saw her mom for the first time.
Sarah moved in with her best friend, Ricky Black, and his father, Sirius Black just before her 20th birthday, as another way to be in safe protected place. Sirius had escaped from the Wizarding prison, Azkaban, about two years before she moved in. Unlike most people in the Wizarding world, she knew he was innocent of the crime he was accused of by the Ministry of Magic. She hated what the Wizarding world was saying about him and it took a lot of strength to keep from telling people off when she heard them talking bad about him, but she knew it was safer for him if she said nothing. Sarah was 20 at this time and had just become an Auror, as her mother had when she was alive. She also was a member of the Order of the Phoenix just like her father and Sirius were despite her father's warnings that he thought it was to dangerous for her. And now we go forth in time again, to where our story really begins.
Most know the story of Harry Potter and the events of his life especially of his fifth year at Hogwarts and the second war has already started; though at the moment, Voldemort was still not making any huge moves just yet, but this story is not about Harry exactly. This story is what was going on for Sarah Snape at that time and what was going on outside the walls of the wizarding school where and Harry and friends were.
"I'm up," she replied with a smile while putting on her shoes before she opened the door as the light from the morning down shined through her two windows. She could smell the food cooking downstairs and it smelled delicious as it always did when Mrs. Weasley was cooking. "Thanks again for letting me stay here."
Her room was kind of large found on the Topmost Landing, or fourth floor. Sirius had agreed to let her bring some of her own furniture to use in the room to make it more "her room" now that she was officially living there. The room had once belonged to her mother when the Blacks had taken her in after her parents' death.
Most of her furniture was antiques she had gotten over the years from family and friends who knew of her love for antiques; some she even found herself on her travels. She had an antique wooden ebony desk in front of the smaller window in her room on the opposite side of the room from the door, which if guessing the desk was probably made in the early 1600's or late 1500's. There was a large picture of her mom, in her Gryffindor robes during her seventh year at Hogwarts, in an antique frame hanging on the wall between the two windows in her room. Her antique dresser was sitting against the wall to the left when you walked into the room alone since there wasn't much room on that side of the wall because of the two doors; her bedroom door on the wall connecting to the other wall and the other leading to the bathroom on the same wall as the dresser.
Sirius had given her the room that had its own bathroom, which was on the other side of the dresser to give her more privacy. Her large four-poster canopy king size bed was opposite the bathroom door right in the center of the room against the wall. Her bed had thick dark velvet curtain like material on all four sides of her bed. She kept them open most of the time by putting black velvet like "tiebacks", her father had gotten her, around each four post of the bed leaving the one along the wall at the head of her bed closed at all times so that only the foot of the bed and sides where open. A trunk sat at the end of her bed that had been in her family for centuries that she kept some of her most important possessions in for safekeeping. Two matching antique ebony nightstands sat on either side of her bed, both cluttered with pictures, letters, and other things she had been going through the night before. Two antique iron, possibly 14th century made, wall mounded candleholders with everlasting candles placed in them that had been past down by her mother's family. She had a large antique ebony wardrobe, that Sirius had given her, sitting in the corner on the right side when you walk into the room on the same side as the door. A small wastebasket sat next to it beside the door.
"Good thing you're up," he chuckled, sounding almost like a bark. "I've told you before it are a pleasure having you here and I don't think my son wouldn't have had it any other way. For that matter, Hope would have made my life a living hell if I hadn't."
Sarah laughed at his words. She knew he was telling the truth about it, especially about his son Ricky (her best friend) whom had practically begged her to move in with them. Sirius had become like an uncle to her in the last year and a half or so after reuniting with him after his escape from Azkaban. They walked downstairs to the kitchen were Remus Lupin, a former Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts whom happened to be a werewolf (something that did not bother Sarah at all) was sitting at the table and Molly Weasley, a friend of her mom's from back when she was alive, was getting breakfast finished.
"Good morning, Uncle Remus," Sarah said as she hugged him from behind as she walked around where he was sitting. He too had become like an uncle to her just as Sirius had.
"Good morning," Remus said sleepily as he patted her arm before she let got of him. The sound of his voice made her wonder if he had slept at all last night and by the looks of him, she doubted he had.
She turned her attention to Mrs. Weasley as she sat down next to Remus. Molly placed a plate of food in front of her. "Good morning, Molly. This looks great as always." She looked at the food on her plate that seemed enough to feed ten people.
"Molly, this does look great," he added to Mrs. Weasley, agreeing with Sarah as he too looked down at the plate of food that now sat in front of him.
Molly, who had been setting another plate on the table in front of Sirius, who was sitting at the end of the table, looked at Sarah and Remus. "Thank you both," she replied with a gentle smile. "Sarah, you look to thin. Here have another pancake." She placed another pancake on Sarah's plate before Sarah could object.
Sarah smiled kindly and took a bite of one of the sausages that sat next to a huge pile of pancakes. She was more than a little nervous for work to talk much, as she had been a lot lately, or to eat for that matter. Sirius and Remus where talking about the last Order meeting as she tried to eat as much food as she good to not hurt Molly's feelings.
"It seems Snape thinks that Brett Linstrue is going to join Voldemort," said Lupin unhappily at the words coming out of his mouth. Linstrue was a well-known Auror in the wizarding community, the last person they'd expect to join Voldemort.
"Well, if you ask me, Snape doesn't know what the bloody hell he's talking about," growled Sirius defending the Auror. "He's probably just saying that about Brett to hide the fact that he's not really 'changed' like he keeps claiming."
"Well, actually, my dad is right," Sarah snapped suddenly interested in the conversation, eying Sirius and trying to keep her tone as polite as humanly possible. "I wasn't here for the meeting, but I already told Dumbledore before I came home last night what I know." She paused as she pushed her plate away from her, no longer in the mood for forcing food down her throat for Molly's sake. "I overheard Brett and another man talking and he is joining Voldemort. He made that quite clear to whomever it was that he was talking with. I told my dad what I heard and he checked into it after talking to Dumbledore about what I had told him."
Lupin tried to hide a smile, he had to admit she had guts and always stood by her father's side no matter what. It was clear in her eyes just how much she loved and respected her father.
Sarah turned to Mrs. Weasley. "Thank you so very much. That was a wonderful breakfast." She turned back towards Sirius her eyes narrowing slightly as she looked at him. "I would appreciate it if you would not say anything bad about my father, in my presence at the very least." She stood up and pushed her chair under the table. Her voice wasn't harsh, as she spoke to him, but it let him know she meant what she was saying. She gave him a 'I really mean it' look. "Is that understood?!" She left the room before he could say a word.
"She's her mom up and down," Sirius said, with a look of shock spreading across his face. It was the first time she'd ever gotten that testy, so to speak, towards him.
"No, she is exactly like Snape," Lupin stated shaking his head at his friend, Molly no longer paying attention to the conversation as she began cleaning up. "Dumbledore keeps saying it and I can clearly see it. She is both of her parents, which is possibly worse. Hope had just as bad of a temper as Snape and Sarah is worse than either of them put together when backed into a corner."
Sirius looked at him wearily. He knew Hope's temper all too well, seeing that he'd been on the receiving end of more than a few of her hexes in their time spent together. Some of her hexes where quite bad when she got angry enough; that was something he'd never forget as long as he lived, then again there was probably very little he would ever forget about the sister he never had.