Author's Note: This contains HUGE Book 6 spoilers! If you have not read the book already before reading this then YOU ARE ONLY HURTING YOURSELF! Thank you and ...enjoy!
Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters and settings are owned by JK Rowling. Except what I made up. That, obviously, is mine.
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This is all coming as a complete shock to me. Of all the people who could have died...Albus Dumbledore is the last i would have imagined it being. He was the greatest wizard of all time. The most intelligent man I've ever met, wise beyond his many years. The most loving person I've ever met with the best sense of humor. It seems impossible to me that he is actually gone. That I will really never be able to speak to him again. Never be able to ask his advice or see his smile. But even more than that...I cannot believe that my father was the one to kill him.
Albus Dumbledore was my father's closest, and I believe only, friend. He was the man who believed my father when no one else would. He was the one who comforted my father when living as a spy was breaking him apart. Dumbledore healed his wounds, lifted his spirits, and always, always trusted him. He was the only one other than myself who saw my father as more than just a cruel potions master, or an ex-death eater. It is impossible to me that my father couldkill this man who he cared about, his mentor, the only person to treat him like a son...his heart would never let him kill Albus.
My dad, though cold, is not truly that way. To see him as I or Albus or my mother had seen him, people would see a compassionate individual. A man with a passion for music and art. Someone who, though not the nicest teacher, loved what he did and wanted for his students to learn. He was harsh only to help them! But they never saw that. They never heard him speak of how proud he was of them as they improved. And no one ever knew the fierce loyalty he had for those he cared for. No one ever sat to confide in him and allowed themselves to be comforted by his quiet words. So who would believe that he loved Albus as a father? Who other than myself is left to know this?
People only see the outside of Severus Snape. They never heard him calling out in his sleep for my mother, who died giving birth to me. They never saw tears shining in his eyes when he told me I looked exactly like her. They would never appreciate his attempts at joking, by telling me I was lucky to not take after him. No one left on this earth knows the man who taught me how to play guitar, or wrote me lullabies at every birthday. The man who read me bedtime stories and checked my closet for monsters. That is the man who Severus Snape really is.
He doesn't kow how like him I am! I'm too stubborn to not search until I find the truth...I get that from him. I know that there is more to the story than I have. There has to be. I will not give up until I find the truth. I would wait up every night he had to go to the Dark Lord for information because I was afraid he would be found out, and not for no reason. My father could not possibly be working against the side I'm on...helping He-who-must-not-be-named would be putting me in a compromising psition. My father would never do that. Ever.
He swore he would always protect me and do everything he could to keep me safe. I believe him. I have my reasons, like Albus Dumbledore. What his reasons for trusting my father were i do not know, but that seems as good a place as any to start in seeking the truth. The person who can help me there is Harry Potter. It's probably not wise to go to him for help; he must hate my father. But I will try anyway. For my dad, because I know he loves me, and love him too. The truth needs to be out, and for that to happen it needs to be discovered.
From here on out I will work towards discovering what made my father kill Albus Dumbledore. I will search until I know everything and then I will find my dad and then everything can be normal again. I, Sarah Annabelle Snape will do everything I can to set the record straight and clear my fathers name. I swear it.
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Author's Note: SOOO...what do you think? Is it worth going on? I rather like the basis, but let me know what you think. As always...ROCK ON!