Hi everyone, I'm back! I'm Sailor Dreamer95. You may know me from my other Harry Potter story 'Four Black Eyes' This is my new story that I really love and hope you love too. I've taken some creative licensing with this and it is definitely AU. I've also made it so that Snape came to become Potions Master at Hogwarts when he was 20 or 21 and Voldemort died when Harry 'killed' him as an infant. Both Regina, who will be refered as 'Reena' for most of the story, and Henry, are the same age as Harry and the rest of the Golden Trio.

Disclaimer: I own nothing. All rights go to J.K Rowling and ABC.

And if you can guess what TV show some of the names of people and places come from, I'll give you a shout out in the next chapter!

And presenting my new story: Reluctant Daughter


Prologue

I looked out over the edge of the boat we rode on as we pushed forward to Hogwarts. Unlike the rest of the morons on the boats, I'm not a first year. No, at nearly thirteen, I am definitely not a first year. My name is Regina Severa Ellieen Cromwell. I've got waist length wavy black hair and black-brown eyes and I'm skinny and pasty white.

The English Ministry of Magic located my family in America two months ago and attempted to force my twin brother, Henry, and I to attend Hogwarts here in Scotland because we had minimal magical training. And by minimal, I mean in a school. After a week of threats from both sides, I finally volunteered to go if they left my brother out of it. They thought we were full blooded witch and wizard and looking at our family history, most would assume that, I mean, my mom went to Hogwarts and she was in Slytherin, so most would assume we were. They forgot to look at my grandmother's family.

My mother Selene Cromwell, or Salem, which is the name she's used for years as an alias, even when she went to school and was with my father. Unbeknownst to everyone at the school, my mum is half Etheral. Etherals were often known as enchanters or enchantresses, but unknown to most, possess immortality. My mother had the powers of a witch from her father, so she was able to attend school, even knowing the consequences if her true identity was discovered.

At twenty, she returned to Hogwarts as Madam Pomfrey's assistant. While she was there, she began a relationship with the new potions master, who had been in her year and was only ten months older than her. He had still been hurting over the recent marriage of the woman he'd been in love with that had occurred only a few months before. They had struck up a friendship because he enjoyed my mum's company. Needless to say, that friendship led to more, even though he didn't love her, but she fell hard for him.

When my mum learned she was pregnant, she'd been ecstatic and had rushed to tell him. But unlike what she'd thought, he'd been furious and had demanded for her to have an abortion and told her if she didn't, he'd never acknowledge the child. My mum was shocked and hurt, understandably. Especially when he started ranting about how he didn't love her and never had. Well, needless to say, my mum fled from his chambers, packed her things, left a letter of resignation for Madam Pomfrey, and fled from Hogwarts and England.

She returned to her family's manor outside of Storybrooke, Maine. My grandparents, James and Snow Cromwell, took her in immedently, before she even told them what happened. (Though I'll admit, afterwards, Grandpa James wanted to hunt down my father and give him a fate worse than a Dementor's Kiss. Pity my mum talked him out of it.) Now, nearly fourteen years after my mother fled the school, I'm returning (In a way) to the school my father still teaches at. And if you still haven't guessed by now (Which you ought to have), my father is Severus Snape.


That's it for the Prologue. The next chapter should be longer. Please review, cause I only got about six reviews for my last chapter and I'd really like more feedback on the story, I'll even take flames, I'm desperate. Reviews keep my annoying little writing muse with me, bugging me to write faster. So please review. See you in the next chapter!