G, HARRY POTTER, SEVERUS SNAPE + JAMES POTTER
§ platform 9 3/4 §
A small boy drifts into the station, dressed in faded robes with worn edges, his pale, pointed face watching the ground in front of him. He is tugging along a suitcase half his height, the scuffed edge dragging along the brick floor as he steps stiltedly towards the platform. He looks up with bright black eyes to search for the sign Mummy told him about--- there's Platform 8 right in front of him, pasted in big blocky letters. He keeps shuffling along, a lonely figure against the rushing families and businessmen. And there it is≈Platform 9.
He looks carefully for the wall and hesitates, looks around, and hurtles through, a tiny whimper let loose right before he hits the wall. He looks around and after careful inspection finds himself unharmed. Platform 9 3/4 lays before him like a shining beacon. He wishes Mummy was there so that he could tell her how excited he is, but she is at home--- which he refuses to think about. There are many other children running around excitedly, in front of the train; the Hogwarts Express. He is filled with joy, terribly happy, it's the best thing that has ever happened, ever--- he is going to Hogwarts. It's really happening.
In his bliss, he walks right into another boy, a boy with short and wild black hair. Severus gives a stammered apology and is given an angry look in return, and the boy stalks off with a tall woman in tow. His mood plummets--- he has already made a magical person angry with him. He is filled with doubt≈suppose this was all a scheme by his father, who had sold him to the gypsies, and the train was full of gypsy warriors, armed with swords and bows and arrows and rabid dogs who were waiting for him to come onboard and then they would eat him or worse, the gypsies would make him do the dishes until his fingers turned to prunes and fell off? His knees quivered, and he sat down on his luggage, staring up with dread at the tall train.
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27.3.2009
AN: Uwaaaaah, this is the first thing I've written in months! This is meant to be childish, but it does seem to read very awkwardly. I mean to write more, perhaps snippets of his life, mostly childhood. Please let me know if you would like more, or maybe give me some scenarios! I do plan to do a part 2 for this eventually~ since he's not even on the train yet! (And yes, I know the gypsy thing is a bit weird... but I imagine as a child Snape would be very imaginative and prone to panic.) :3
OTL please review?