Solar Side of Me Lunar Side of You
Summary: Life is not fair, but her mother never had time to tell her that… She died before she could tell her everything, if she had, maybe things would have gone differently. But anyway, here she is, Scarlett Duerre Snape, 38, and about to teach at Hogwarts.
Severus had told her to be careful, to stay away, but she didn't listen. She was a grown up woman; she could fight if someone attacked her, but what about love? For that she is not ready.
She was never good at romance; maybe George could help her with that. So all she's got to do is let him, but will she?
Chapter One - The Beginning
The January of 1960 brought another daughter to the Evans family. Lilian, or Lilly as she was fondly called, a pretty little girl with emerald green eyes and flaming red hair. As for the Snapes living around the Spinners End, January gave them a boy, an exceptionally gifted, intelligent and magical boy. Severus was the name his father chose for him hoping that he would be as strict as him, staying true to his name. While The Evans were happy with their two daughters, all was not well in The Snape's household. Tobias, a short tempered man, was enraged after learning that his wife was a witch and never believed it until Eileen proved it to him by conjuring bunch of flowers out of thin air. Instead of being proud, he chose the other way and treated her as if she was some sort of contamination. He took pride in being perfectly normal as he called himself and, very soon, every night Eileen was to be seen sleeping alone with the little Sev wrapped around her. Growing up with a rejected mother and a bullying father was quite a task for Severus. He found it rather relieving to get out of the house and watch the two Evans sisters playing happily with each other. When he learned who he truly was - a wizard – it was the happiest moment of Severus's entire life….being different from others…being gifted…being special. But that wasn't the only thing that made that day memorable. It was Scarlett who made it even more special. On that evening, his father came in first and toeing him was a frightened little girl with a look on her face that reminded Severus of the dreadful times he suffered because of his father. His instant liking and sympathy for the girl didn't waver after learning that she was his stepsister, from that moment on he was her brother, the one who would always be there to protect her. Eileen, on the other hand, seemed to have picked up little courage and argued a lot with her husband for cheating on her, but she couldn't be harsh on the little girl either, she had lost her mother at such a young age. The car accident that took away her mom, Charlotte Duerre, had left seven-year-old Scarlett so scared that it took days for Sev and her stepmother to bring her back to normal. Both of them befriended the Evans sisters, Lilly and Petunia, the later to much of her distaste. Lilly, as he had expected was kind and friendly whereas petunia was much more arrogant and prejudiced. He saw Lilly's underage magic and was more than happy to tell her all he knew about the wizarding world. Petunia, at first, was jealous and then followed Severus's father's footsteps by calling them Freaks.
One year after Scarlett's arrival to Spiner's End, Sev and Lilly got their Hogwarts letters and left for the school. She missed them a lot, and although they were in touch through letters, it wasn't like having them with her. She only heard Sev's warnings of keeping away from her father during those owl letter deliveries, and she tried to, she really did! But some things are easier said than done…She first experienced Tobias's wrath on her birthday. He forgot to wish her on that day, He must be really busy, she had first thought, but then couldn't control her anger at the dinner table when she realized he did actually forget her birthday and within a fraction of second, the dozens of bowls resting on the kitchen cabinet came crashing down on her father. Eileen, torn between fear and happiness, as she recognized the underage magic performed by her stepdaughter, quickly sent her into her room. Tobias, even though he was badly hit by the bowls, was yelling at Scarlett with the same fury he had against Severus and Eileen. Later comforted and consoled by Eileen, Scarlett understood that she wasn't bad, or a freak, she was blessed and unique. When Sev and Lilly returned from Hogwarts, they were simply delighted to have one more witch with them.
During the rest of those summer holidays, Sev and Lilly told everything they could about Hogwarts and Magic to the little Scarlett.
When they went to back to Hogwarts, Scarlett was really sad about coming back to her nostalgic Muggle life, the only thing that she had was her brother and best friend's letters and the hope that one day she would be in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to learn how to be as good of a witch as her brother. "And maybe then" she thought "I will find the home I lost three years ago. Severus, himself, said that there was a place for everyone at Hogwarts."
At the August 25th of 1974, two letters were delivered at Snape's house, one was to Severus and the other one was aderessed to Miss Scarlett Duerre Snape…
The moment had come and she would finally go to Hogwarts. On the 1st day of September she went with Snape and his mother to the platform 9 ¾ and got even more fascinated with what she saw than with all the things that her brother and best friend had told her. She wasn't even in Hogwarts and everything screamed MAGIC already!
Once in Hogwarts she was sorted in Slytherin and she became a great student at all levels and, thanks to her brother's help, one of the best students at Potions and Defense Against the Dark Arts.
As she was Lilly's Best Friend she met some Gryffindors and soon started hanging around with James Potter, Sirius Black and Remus Lupin, but she never liked Peter Pettigrew, as for her, he just wanted to become popular, that's why he was with them. As expected Severus didn't found this relationship good and he actually forbade Scarlett to be with them. This attitude had the opposite effect and she even started dating Sirius in her second year but she broke up with him in the end of that same year because he supported James when he humiliated her bother in front of the entire school when Severus hadn't even said anything to him.
Scarlett also stopped talking to her brother because he called Lilly a Mud-Blood and that's one of most insulting things he could say to someone like Lilly and Scarlett, who were both Muggle borns. She never trusted him the same way she used to because after that unfortunate event she had the confirmation of what she already suspected tough she was refusing to believe: Severus would join Lord Voldemort and become a Death Eater as soon as possible. Of course they talked during the Summer Holidays, they had to, but it was never the same. Besides, any conversation that lasted much more than five minutes was likely to end up with a screaming Scarlett, rushing down the street to meet Lilly.
From then, on she was the only person that she really trusted and they were always together until that, in her fourth year, Lilly started dating James and Scarlett made things up with Sirius and they all became really close to each other, for Scarlett it was just like a second family. The only one she still could not bring herself to trust was Peter Petigrew.
Soon after leaving Hogwarts Lilly and James married but Scarlett didn't go to the wedding because she was at school. Although, after she completed her seventh year Harry James Potter was born and she was invited and named as his Godmother by Lilly, just like Sirius was the Godfather.
Since then she really completely stopped having any kind of contact with her brother for obvious reasons. They never accepted each other. Severus didn't approve the Potters and Scarlett didn't approve Voldemort. In order for them to talk again one of them had to take the plunge and Of course Scarlett wouldn't leave her family and Severus would n-e-v-e-r accept the Potters. Furthermore Severus was also protecting her at the same time as she could be in danger if Lord Voldemort knew he was related to a "Mud-blood" as they called them.
When, in 1981, the Potters were murdered and Lord Voldemort apparently defeated. She had rushed to the Potters' house and that was when she saw him…Severus Snape, her brother, was holding Lillian's body and crying, crying like she had never seen him cry, she actually had never seen Severus cry.
She should have noticed earlier: all that hate for James… It wasn't just peeve; he was in love with Lilly.
From then on she never dared to doubt Severus ever again and she kept on his side forever, trusting and supporting him, no matter what.