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.