Prologue to the Aura Snape Series:
Hey everyone, thank you for reading this story and for being patient with me through the rewrite and adding new chapters. School is hectic right now but I will be posting at least 3 chapters per week or more. (Hopefully)
Here is some info about the Snape family that may or may not be mentioned again throughout the series:
Katherine Evelyn Davis-Snape = wife of Severus
Severus Tobias Snape = husband of Katherine
Damien Darius Snape = eldest Snape son
Eileen Evelyn Snape = eldest Snape daughter
Asher Arcturus Snape = youngest Snape son
Aurelia Amethyst Snape = middle Snape daughter
Violet Victoria Snape = youngest Snape daughter
Ages at beginning of this prologue:
Severus = 27 years old
Katherine = 27 years old
Damien = 11 years old
Eileen = 9 years old
Asher = 7 years old
Aurelia = 6 years old
Violet = 3 months old
I will probably be making a story with Severus and Katherine meeting later on, but for now here is a small idea of how they met:
Severus was once more at the site of his mother's grave, mourning her for the last time as an unmarried man. He saw his angel walking towards him out of the corner of his eye and he turned to her immediately.
"Sev." Katherine said, kissing him lightly on the lips.
"Kat." He said, using a pet name he had for her.
"We should go, you need to rest. You look as if you haven't slept in days." She said, concerned for her fiancée's health.
"I haven't, but it's of no importance." Severus said, closing the topic.
"I love you, Sev." Katherine said before he Apparated both of them away after echoing the sentiment.
Now the Prologue:
Aurelia Amethyst Snape was not tired, no matter what her mother said. Katherine was trying without success to get her daughter to go to sleep, but she wouldn't budge. This ended with Katherine storming out of Aurelia's room and down to her husband's study.
"Severus, can you please put Aura to bed? She's not listening to me." Katherine said as she entered the study.
"What is she doing now?"
"She's probably in one of her brothers' rooms, playing around."
"I'll go get her." Severus said, closing the book he was studying from.
Once he had left the room, Katherine let an amused smile escape from where she was holding it. 'If only those two knew how much alike they were…' she thought.
Meanwhile Severus was having much more success than Katherine had. He had successfully gotten her back into her room and was now reading to her from The Tales of Beedle the Bard.
"'There were once three brothers who were traveling along a lonely, winding road at twilight. 'In time, the brothers reached a river too deep to wade through and too dangerous to swim across. However, these brothers were learned in the magical arts, and so they simply waved their wands and made a bridge appear across the treacherous water. They were halfway across it when they found their path blocked by a hooded figure.
"'And Death spoke to them. He was angry that he had been cheated out of three new victims, for travelers usually drowned in the river. But Death was cunning. He pretended to congratulate the three brothers upon their magic, and said that each had earned a prize for having been clever enough to evade him.
"'So the oldest brother, who was a combative man, asked for a wand more powerful than any in existence: a wand that must always win duels for its owner, a wand worthy of a wizard who had conquered Death! So Death crossed to an elder tree on the banks of the river, fashioned a wand from a branch that hung there, and gave it to the older brother.
"'Then the second brother, who was an arrogant man, decided that he wanted to humiliate Death still further, and asked for the power to recall others from Death. So Death picked up a stone from the riverbank and gave it to the second brother, and told him that the stone would have the power to bring back the dead.
"'And then Death asked the third and youngest brother what he would like. The youngest brother was the humblest and also the wisest of the brothers, and he did not trust Death. So he asked for something that would enable him to go forth from that place without being followed by Death. And Death, most unwillingly, handed over his own Cloak of Invisibility.
"'Then Death stood aside and allowed the three brothers to continue on their way, and they did so, talking with wonder of the adventure they had ahead, and admiring Death's gifts.
"'In due course the brothers separated, each for his own destination.
"'The first brother traveled on for a week or more, and reaching a distant village, sought out a fellow wizard with whom he had a quarrel. Naturally, withthe Elder Wand as his weapon, he could not fail to win the duel that followed. Leaving his enemy dead upon the floor, the oldest brother proceeded to an inn, where he boasted loudly of the powerful wand he had snatched from Death himself, and of how it made him invincible.
"'That very night, another wizard crept upon the older brother as he lay winesodden, upon his bed. The thief took the wand and, for good measure, slit the oldest brother's throat.
"'And so Death took the first brother for his own.
"'Meanwhile, the second brother journeyed to his own home, where he lived alone. Here he took out the stone that had the power to recall the dead, and he turned it thrice in his hand. To his amazement and his delight, the figure of the girl he had once hoped to marry, before her untimely death, appeared at once before him.
"'Yet she was sad and cold, separated from him as by a veil. Though she had returned to the mortal world, she did not truly belong there and suffered.
Finally the second brother, driven mad with hopeless longing, killed himself so as truly to join her.
"'And so Death took the second brother for his own.
"'But though Death searched for the third brother for many years, he was never able to find him. It was only when he attained a great age that the youngest brother finally took off the Cloak of Invisibility and gave it to his son.
And then he greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him gladly, and, as equals, they departed this life."' Severus finished, closing the worn covers of the book as Aura clung to him.
"Is it true?" Aura asked, frightened.
"Death will not claim you under my watch." Severus said, trying to deter her from asking more questions when he heard a loud crash. "Get under the bed Aurelia!" Severus shouted to her as he ran towards the door.
