"Finally" Ashley screamed as her father walked through the door. "I missed you daddy. I hated being at that Muggle school I missed being able to scream Avada Kedavra and Crucio at people who annoyed me. I missed not being able to make potions or practice my quidditch" she said. She then ran up to her father and gave him a huge hug. Ashley had been living in a Muggle Boarding School ever since she could remember only coming home when her father returned from his job in the Wizarding World teaching at Hogwarts. Ashley may have only been 10 but she knew almost as many spells and potions as a 7th year. Her father turned to her and replied "I have missed you to my little Ash darling. Daddy has missed watching you succeed. I have missed your quaint little laugh and your little plots. I have missed you very much my dear" replied Severus Snape. "Now I would like to see what my little snake here remembers from what daddy taught her last year. What are some of the spells I taught you?" "Let's see" replied Ashley. "Ummmm Expecto Patronum" and out of her fathers wand burst a wolf. "Very good. Any others you remember?" "Legilimens, Accio, Sectumsempra, Levicorpus, Avada Kedavra, Crucio, Impetimenta, wingardium leviosa, enevrate, stupefy, riddikulus, and Imperius. I can't think of any others right now daddy I'm sorry I let you down" Ashley said. "You didn't let me down darling you did very well. Now can you tell me some potions and how to make them?" Snape asked her. "I can try to daddy" Ashley replied and with that she sat trying to remember some of her potions that she was taught. "Love potion- Ashwinder Eggs, Polyjuice Potion- lacewing flies leeches, powdered bicorn horn knotgrass fluxweed shredded boomslang skin and a bit of that person". "Very good my dear" her father cooed. "Now we must wait till nightfall so that you may show me your Qudditich moves". So while they waited for night fall to come Ashley told her father about her Muggle School. She told her father how she was the youngest kid in her school and how bad things happened when she got mad and she would start to mutter words under her breath. After a while it got dark Ashley, happily bouncing after her father, obediently grabbed her broom and went outside. She placed the broom on the ground. "Up," she commanded the broom. The broom popped up into her hand and she threw her one leg over the broom and kick the ground. She steadily gained height until she was so high above ground she couldn't find her father she then dived toward the ground in a Wronski Feint. She went straight toward the ground only pulling up last minute. She didn't crash. Her father looked at her with a sincere and loving smile. "Go to bed please," he said. Ashley climbed the two flights of stairs to her room. She opened her door. She was immediately greeted by her green and silver fabric room and her modeling dolls and her fabrics and her designing kits. She walked to her bed and put on her pajamas and sat on her little chair in the corner with her book in hand reading until her father came up to say lights out. "Daddy" she said "Can you please tell me a story?" "Which one my little snake?" he said. "Tell me the one how you and mommy fell in love, again, please" she pleaded. "Ok, my little snake anything for you" he replied. So he began "Me and your mother we were next door neighbors for a while. After a couple of years we both noticed we were different from everyone else. We got our letter on the same day. Our parents told us then we went to our hiding place and told each other. When she told me I was so happy we would be in the same school. We got on the train together. Once we got to the school and saw we might have a chance to be separated we got worried. She was the first to be called she got called to the Slytherin table just like everyone in both of our families. After a while I was called and ended up in Slytherin with her. We were both very happy. After a while I started to have problems in my Charms class and she was excellent so she tutored me till I got it. In that time we realized what we hadn't in our friends as little kids. I loved her and she loved me." She then got on her bed and fell asleep very quickly. In the morning when she woke up she was upset. It was, in fact, her 11th birthday. She got up and honored her favorite house team. She put on a light green tank-top with a dark green T-shirt a silver mini skirt and flip-flops. She then started to walk around and memorize her house. When she finally wandered in to the kitchen she gasped. "Mum your back your really truly here" Ash cried. "Well, my little snake you didn't think I'd miss your big day did you! Happy Birthday Princess. Here's your gift but don't open it yet."Bellatrix Lestrange said. Ash rarely ever saw her mother because her mother was supposed to be traveling but really Bellatrix and Severus both had gone their separate ways years ago and Bellatrix married Rholdophus Lestrange. "Why don't you go and get your money bag. Once your letter comes we will do to Diagon Alley and get your supplies for Hogwarts" Snape and Bellatrix said at once. So Ashley smiling ran up to her room jumping a trick step that she had placed at the top so that if there was any intruders they wouldn't be able to get to her because her room took up the whole 2nd floor. While she ran up to her room Snape and Bellatrix we quietly fighting about her. "Look at her she thinks were still together we haven't been for 5 years! She's not going to understand if we don't tell her soon! I love her with all my heart but I think it's time to tell her" Bellatrix said. "Bella my dear I don't think she will ever understand that her real mother is Alecto Carrow and not you. I don't think she will ever believe that you and me aren't together and I'm not going to break her dreams of us all being reunited once you stop "traveling". If you feel fit enough to ruin a little girls dream go straight ahead you know where her room is" he told her. Neither noticed Ashley standing by the door until she broke down crying and ran to her room and locked the door and placed everything she could in front of it this way they couldn't use Alohomora. She ran over to her trunk and started to fill it with everything that she was going to need "Ok let's see what am I going to need where is that list? Oh there it is. Ok so:
Manikins
Cloth
Design patterns
Scissors
Candles
Quills
Parchment
Ink bottles
I think that's all I'm going to need" she whispered to her self as she tried to calm her self she was still shaking violently and crying her eyes out. "How could I have been so stupid I look nothing like mu-Bellatrix" she cried. While she was in her room packing and crying. Snape and Bellatrix were now fighting more violently wands at the ready. They were ready to duel over Ashley. Snape turned to Bellatrix and said "You lay a hand on her and I swear I will crucio you faster than you could yell protego. She is now crying in her room because you had to start that stupid conversation" He said in his dangerously low voice he only used when protecting Ashley. Bellatrix took a step toward Snape he held his ground he was ready to start to yell out protection curses if need be. Except she took a step around him toward the stairs she then turned to him and said "Are you coming I'm going upstairs to see if she's ok. I heard her door lock so were most likely going to have to use Alohomora" "Well" he said "She knows how to avoid that spell she piles stuff in front of her door so that even if we unlock it by magic we still can't get in" So they started there climb to the top of the stairs. They didn't know about the trick step so they stepped on it and got stuck which sent off an alarm in Ashley's room. She quickly looked out her door to see them. She opened her door and started to giggle. "Ashley Olivia Snape you get down here and help us out of this hole" her parents commanded her. "Ok I will after you two stop fighting and I want the wands till we get ready to go and you know I can't use them yet" she said only managing between giggling fits. She went over and pulled her parents out of the step and took there wands. She then went back to her room and started to play with the wands because she knew that she could still do magic because only once the letter came and confirmed. So she started to make things fly in to her hands.