My
Father's Eyes
Chapter 1: A Snape in Gryffindor
There is no
end to the violations committed by Children on Children, quietly
talking alone. Elizabeth Bowen The House in Paris.
Disclaimer: I
don't own anything but the plot and a few of the characters. Based
on the Harry potter series by J.K. Rowling
"Daddy!" Astra's
shrill voice rang through the abnormally quiet house.
Severus
stifled a groan. "Yes Astra?" he said as he turned to face
her.
"Sarul threw a book at me!"
"Well what did you do to
deserve it?"
"Well. . ." Astra trailed off.
"Just as I
thought" Severus scolded as Sarulan entered the kitchen "Now you
leave each other alone. Astra your mother is going to take you to get
your school things tomorrow and I swear!" He said as they turned to
leave "If you two don't learn to get along I am going to mark
both of your hides with a perfect imprint of my hand!"
Both of
his children paled.
"NOW GET!"
The Children ran out of the
kitchen.
Severus rubbed his temples as he turned back to his
breakfast
"Too bloody early for this." He growled.
"Now
Severus." Serena chuckled. "You know you love it"
"Love
the fact that they give me a splitting headache every morning without
fail?" He scoffed "hardly."
"Da da" he heard a tiny
voice beside him and looked down to see his youngest child look up at
him with her big doe eyes, stretching her arms out to him. He sighed
and picked her up, placing her on his lap where she sat contentedly
sucking on her thumb.
"Oh, Narina," he mumbled as the small
child laid her head on his chest "at least you are still willing to
be daddy's little girl." He planted a kiss on her head.
"Serena?"
"Yes?"
"How long do you think it will be
before Nari follows her older siblings and turns against me?" Snape
asked dryly
"Oh Severus!" Serena shook her head and
laughed.
Severus shrugged and gently and cradled his child who was
rapidly falling asleep in his arms. "So while you are out taking
Astra shopping I will move everything we need to the school." He
said changing the subject.
"Alright dear." Was all Serena
said.
September first
arrived to quickly for Severus, true they had been at Hogwarts for a
few weeks now but it wasn't going to be easy not having his little
girl sleeping in the family's rooms. She would be staying in the
student dorms with the rest of the students. Severus was very
confidant that Astra would be placed in Slytherin. She was as good at
potions as her fathers N.E.W.T. level students and that was in large
part to Severus's doing. Since she was old enough he had been
teaching her to learn how to make potions. He had discussed this with
Professor Dumbledore and got permission for her to take the N.E.W.T.
classes to give her a bit of a challenge. Dumbledore agreed and to
have her in Slytherin would be the icing on the cake so to speak.
That night at dinner Astra stood in line with the First years to
be sorted. Minerva had brought out the stool and sorting hat. The
hat, as always, sang its yearly song. Oh how Severus hated this part
of the ritual. He wished the hat would just stop singing those songs.
He came back to himself as he heard McGonagall call.
"Snape,
Astra"
He heard murmuring and gasps as Astra made her way to sit
down on the stool.
McGonagall placed the hat on her head.
"Hmmm.
. .A Snape eh?" The hat said in her ear "you don't feel like a
true Snape. Ah well who am I to judge? Now where to put you? I see
you have a thirst for knowledge, a cunning mind and you are very
loyal too. But where do I put you. . . Ah yes, better be,
GRYFFINDOR!" The hat shouted out loud.
Snape groaned loudly as
the Gryffindor's half heartedly cheered for their newest addition.
Astra was the only girl so far added to the Gryffindor's. After she
was sorted if you happened to take a look at her father, you would
have seen a look on his face that looked like someone had slipped him
sour goat's milk.
Serena noticed Severus's sour look. He was
mumbling.
"What's wrong dear?"
"Not Gryffindor!" He
mumbled miserably "anything but Gryffindor." He must have still
been in a trance because the next thing he knew someone had expertly
placed a hard punch to his arm.
"Ow!" Severus growled
"What?"
"I was talking and you ignored me!" Serena hissed
and gave him a stern look that plainly said she was angry with
him.
Severus sighed "Sorry, I guess I just wanted her to be in
Slytherin with her dad. That's all dear."
"Ahh. . . Well,
can't have everything we want all the time dear, it is time to let
her grow up a bit.
"I know I just wish she didn't have to be
in Gryffindor." He scowled
"Well, don't skulk too
long."
Severus knew he could not change the fact that his
daughter was a Gryffindor but he didn't have to like
it.
Astra awoke alone
first time in the Gryffindor Dormitories. She being the only girl
that had been sorted into Gryffindor for her year, she didn't have
to share the room. She felt thankful for this. She had shared her
room at home with her sister Narina and was glad for some privacy at
last. She looked in the mirror on her wall. Reflecting at her looks.
She studied her reflection in the mirror on the wall, realizing that
she looked like her mother but had her fathers black hair But
couldn't think of where she had gotten these stunning Emerald green
Eyes. Her mother and father both didn't have them. Her father's were
brown and her mothers were blue. She filed the question back into her
mind as something she would have to ask her mother, though she had
been meaning to ask since she first realized this. She did not have
the same nose as her father though and for that she was truly
thankful. She got dressed and went down to the common room. She
noticed the odd looks from her fellow classmates and felt downtrodden
at all the mixed looks of fear and disgust. What had she ever done to
them? She had never even met most of them until now. She was not
going to let them know how their initial rejection hurt her. She just
wanted to fit in but when your father is a professor and not just any
professor but the most loathed professor in the entire school she
figured she could not expect less.
Astra sighed and headed out
the portrait door. She walked towards the Great Hall, with every step
her face falling even more. She had made it to the steps when she
heard a voice.
"Do you think that slimy git could truly be her
father?"
"I don't know. She does look a bit like him."
Said another boy.
"Honestly!" exclaimed a girls voice
"McGonagall read the name Snape. She has to be his daughter. She
looks like him."
Astra turned to see where the voices were
coming from. She looked down a side corridor to see the Gryffindor
prefect and Head Girl with a black haired boy chatting along
nonchalantly as if they didn't care who could hear.
"Can you
imagine anyone loving that slime ball?" the tall redheaded prefect
with disgust.
That did it! Astra thought as she walked toward the
three with a scowl that would have even made her father wince. Her
eyes flaring with anger.
"Who in the hell do you think you are?
You have no right to talk about my family that way!" Astra's
words flowed like an icy river out of her mouth. "You are no better
then us. In fact my parents are better then you are. At least, if
they have something to say they will say it to your face."
The
red haired boy gaped and the other two blushed furiously.
We
d-d-didn't think." The girl tried to stammer out what Astra
seemed to think a feeble attempt at an apology.
"Well that is
apparent. You didn't think what would happen if I heard you and you
didn't care." Astra turned her icy glare onto the girl "I'll
have you know I love my father and so does my mother and if I ever
hear another bad word about my family I will hex all three of you
until your ancestor's feel it." She turned and started to walk
away. "And if you think I'm joking, just try me! With that she
stalked angrily towards the great hall leaving the three to think
about what had just happened.
"Wow" Harry stammered "guess
we shouldn't have been talking about Snape, eh?"
"Yeah,"
Ron managed.
Well we did insult her father." Hermione said. "I
think we should apologize and try to find some way to make it up to
her."
With a nod of agreement the three headed in the same
direction that Astra had departed.
