A Ludicrous Love
By: puresilver
Disclaimer: All characters/ places are property of JK Rowling (except for a few of my own)
PLEASE READ!!! Authors Note: Please disregard everything that happened after GOF. In this case, the Dark Lord was defeated by Harry Potter at Godric's Hollow. However, it was during his 5th year not 4th. In the later Chapters you will understand more. There are no are no such thing as Horocruxes, therefore Lord Voldemort will never rise again. At the time of His death, all of the Death Eaters were immobile, and the aurors were able to take them all to Azkaban for questioning and in some cases the Kiss. Also any students that had Death Eater parents but were in Hogwarts were not given the Mark, so they are still at Hogwarts in this story. A few of the Death Eaters were spared because they were spies for the Light.
Chapter One: Lost and Found
All of the Hogwarts Professors were seated at one table in the Great Hall. There were 6 weeks left until school would be starting, and Albus had called a faculty meeting to discuss how this year was to be handled. With Harry Potter defeating Lord Voldemort at Godric's Hollow with the help of his parents spirits, this year was going to be a celebration of the highest sort.
While many lives were lost, many more were saved. The wizarding world could go on without fear of Lord Voldemort. His lackeys, the loyal Death Eaters, were all captured and sentenced to life in Azkaban or were given the Kiss. Albus Dumbledore would be allowing the children of Death Eaters to return to Hogwarts. The Ministry wanted to deny the Slytherin children the right of their magic, but Dumbledore knew this was unfair. And in Dumbledore's world, everything is fair and equal and just. If not, he just uses Harry Potter to achieve his goals.
Most the students had never openly sided with Dumbledore anyway. They could not make their parents get rid of the Dark Mark, and they could not openly refuse their parents wishes. He was willing to give them a chance to regain Slytherin's honor and live a better, prejudice-free life without their parents pushing them to get the Dark Mark.
The meeting was coming to an end, and Sybill Trelawney was rather parched. A large pitcher of water was to her left. "Could you pass the water, please?" she rasped to Severus Snape, who was on her left.
Severus Snape was quite bored with this meeting. Albus droned on and on about how this year should be conducted in reference to the Slytherins. He advised his fellow professors to treat them exactly as before, no more or less. Severus was trying to pay attention, but Sybill was continually swallowing her spit and making large gulping noises.
Finally, she asked him to pass the water. He did so effortlessly, but in her rush to pour water into her goblet, Sybill she dropped the pitcher onto the table. With his luck, Severus knew he would not go unscathed by this clumsiness. Sure enough, when he looked down, his robes had contracted the water from the table.
"Oh, Severus! I'm so terribly clumsy. Here let me help," Sybill twitted, grabbing a cloth napkin.
As Severus could easily perform a simple drying spell and did not wish to have her hands anywhere near his person, he grabbed her arm. She, in turn, grabbed him.
The bad thing about Seers is that when they "see" something they tend to blurt it out for everyone to hear. Before this moment, Severus Snape did not have any secrets, or anything hiding. Or so he thought.
"Severus, my dear boy. How dreadful! Your poor daughter is going to be revoked of her magic today at noon," Sybill said eyes glazed over.
Of course, this was quite a shock to everyone, but especially Severus Snape, who believed that his daughter was no longer in existence. Yes, Severus Snape kept his one night stand to himself. He had also kept the fact that he had gotten said one night stand pregnant. He had not seen her until she had been six months pregnant and said it was his.
And indeed, the simple charm had proved that without a doubt it was his. He had offered to marry the girl, but she refused. She said she would pay him a visit when the child was born to go over the legal matters. When she came 4 months later, it was without a child. She said it had been lost in childbirth. He had not even learned the supposed sex of his child. He felt quite gloomy after that, but he never mentioned it to anyone.
He was still stunned to have that particular memory brought up. It had been 17 years since he had thought of it. "My daughter died during the birthing process," he claimed half-heartedly.
"Oh, no, my dear boy. She is alive and well. Looks just like you. And into mischief as you always were yourself," Sybill reassured.
Severus had heard the others around him shout in surprise but had filtered everything out in his shock. Now there shouts were reaching through to him. "Severus, is it true?" "You had a child?" "Who did you shack up with?" Thankfully, he was saved by Albus.
"Quiet everyone, quiet. Perhaps, Severus you could enlighten us?" Albus said with a merry twinkle in his eye.
Severus fairly glared at his mentor, "I suppose I have no choice. I had just graduated when a mutual one night stand told me she was six months pregnant. I, of course, was not stupid and we did the charm to see the parentage. It proved her words that I was, indeed, the father . We had no fondness for each other. She was happy on the streets with her gentlemen friends and turned down my offer of marriage. Although any other pureblood would have forced her into marriage, I left it be. She came back 4 months later. She did not have a baby with her. She said it had died in childbirth. Strangely, I think that I was disappointed. I was technically too young to be a father, but the idea had grown on me. She died a year later. She was raped by a Death Eater."
Someone blew their nose. It was Minerva McGonagall. "Oh, Severus! How tragic! Albus, you must do something!"
It was almost comical how motherly Minerva was being. During the school year, they could barely stand each other due to each punishing the other's students severely and not punishing their own. Then again, everyone in the room was looking at him with pity. Everyone except Albus Dumbledore.
"Of course, I will investigate this matter Severus," he said with his usual enthusiasm.
Minerva let out a sob, "Oh, Severus! You'll be united and have a family once again!"
Severus Snape just rolled his eyes. Albus called an end to the meeting and sent everyone on their way to prepare lessons, make lists of things they needed, and giving them time to get ready for the students. He questioned Sybill about the location of the hearing, and surprisingly, she was able to give it.
Severus was getting ready to Apparate there when Dumbledore stopped him. "And just what are you going to do?"
"Well, claim her of course," he scoffed.
"That will give you parentage rights, Severus, but it won't stop them from taking her magic," Dumbledore pointed out.
"Well, what do you want me to do? You obviously have an idea," Snape snarled.
"Now, now my dear boy, when she gets here you will only scare her away with your manners," Dumbledore lectured. "And yes, I do have an idea. I will go and request that she be allowed a chance to change her mischievous ways by attending Hogwarts."
Severus could not argue with his logic, but instead went into his dungeons where he could pace nervously, leaving Albus to Apparate to the hearing.
