All I'm Asking

by viskiprinceza

Harry returns to Hogwarts after the war only things are not as they once were. His best friend needs put back together, new grudges have been formed, old enemies have become friends, and learns about Severus Snape biggest secret. Add in a meddling Ministry and a couple of angry red heads, it may be Harrys hardest year yet. (rewrite of Cover Your Tracks)

1. Life Lessons Learned The Hard Way

Severus Snape sat in his study wondering when life had become so complicate. He supposed it was the day he had called Lily Evans a mudblood. Everything did seem to go down hill from there, although one could argue his problems started the day he joined Voldemort. Really, what had he been thinking following a man (who was barely even human) who was a half blood yet declared on anyone who wasn't the purest of the pure. No, he supposed things became complicated the day he told Voldemort about the prophesy. Because that of course led the mad man to kill the first person Severus had ever loved. No, it all started the day Severus Snape found the daughter of James and Lily Potter in their blown apart house and decided to raise her as his own.

And now he realized just how complicated things had gotten. The war was over and the Dark Lord was dead. This meant that his daughter would be transferring from Beauxbatons to Hogwarts for her final year of schooling. This meant that the secrets he had been holding in for 16 years would now have to be told. He only hoped the house would survive.

As he was thinking about what he was going to say he heard the floo and moments later his daughter stepped out having returned from her shopping trip with Narcissa Malfoy.

"Cassie, can you come in here for a moment please?"

"Yeah dad, what is it?"

Severus took a moment to look at his daughter. He was glad that she looked nothing like James. She was a miniature Lily in every way except for her hair. Somehow she had ended up a blonde.

With a sigh he launched into his story. He told her everything, from telling Voldemort the prophesy to going to the Potters destroyed home. He told he of the lies he had told her entire life (and before that even). In the end he expected her to be angry. She had been a death eater for the simply fact that it was expected of her and unavoidable. Not that he hadnt tried. he had expected her to scream and cry and destroy his study as she had once before during one for her tantrums. What he hadn't expected was the look in her eyes as she turned and walked to the floo. The look he had never wanted to see.

He waited five minutes before flooing directly to Lucius Malfoy's study. No doubt his daughter had run to her godmother, or her boyfriend.