This story was posted before under the title- Sequel to Sirius' Moon, no title ideas yet. After reading through it, I noticed several errors, that I needed to amend. This is being done a chapter at a time, though it should be up to chapter 9 by Monday... This story is not complete, though I do have it planned out, chapter 9 is half written... the rest merely a wicked gleam in my eyes... Enjoy.

~Story~

Honey colored eyes watered, and though their owner struggled, a tear made it's way slowly down her face. Jamie closed her eyes. The sound of the first shovel full of dirt hitting the top of the empty coffin caused her to tighten the eyelids for a second, and then she opened them again. She bit her lips and turned her eyes to the left where her brother Aidan stood stoically, reminding her so much of the boy she had known, and the man they were supposed to lay to rest now. She heard a broken sob to her right and turned to face Adrian 'Ray', Aidan's twin sister. The wind picked up suddenly pulling at her dark hair. Jamie smiled a bit to reassure them.
The man giving the eulogy began to say something else and Jamie turned to face him. "Not many people knew him, but those that did will remember him always. Missing since he was sixteen, the government of the United States of America has declared Severus Snape legally dead. God rest his soul."

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Jamie was well accustomed to the pain and sadness, even if she was only twenty-four. She had lost her parents at age thirteen. Severus had disappeared about two weeks after their funeral. The only reason they'd stayed out of foster care had been the Snape family fortune. The state had forced them into boarding school. As soon as she was eighteen, she had petitioned the court for custody of the twins. They had been 11 then and 7 years younger than she was. The judge had given her custody and Jamie had pulled them from the boarding school. Jamie's entire group of siblings had the Magic. Aidan and Ray had been young enough to go to the United States Academy for Witches and Wizards. USAWW. Jamie had to settle with her six months of magical education. As a result, she lived a mostly muggle lifestyle.

Another thing that was painful was when she had asked Mr. Wills for Severus' school records, she had been told he hadn't attended USAWW but that Severus had still gone away to school every year. Jamie had come to a dead end in her search for him.

Aidan and Ray were juniors this year. It was only November, but next June, they'd be graduated and done with high school. Jamie still couldn't believe it. Ray was more like their mother with a pixie face. She was slim, and rather, ahem, 'vertically challenged'. She had her ears pierced all the way up along with her navel. She tended to dress a bit on the dark side, but that was just her. Her dark hair was about four inches long. She'd had the ends bleached and dyed a violent shade of purple.

Aidan... Aidan was broody. He was always respectful, but he had a dark side. He had his left ear pierced, and had at least two tattoos that she knew of. On the other hand the girls always seem to have found him very attractive. Every vacation he had one come home with him, and there were at least two phone calls a day whenever he was home. He favored some very hole-y jeans and tight t-shirts. He was hardly ever seen without his leather jacket. His hair was a little more than shoulder length and kept in a tight ponytail.

Jamie thought herself to be more normal. Well, as normal as a person named Jamison Lynora Snape could be.... She favored well worn jeans and t-shirts. Most of the time her long mane of black hair was pulled into a tidy knot at the back of her neck. She was a waitress during the day, but she was taking classes to get her teaching degree. This happened to bring her back to her current dilemma.
She had been fired. So it looked like she was going to have to break her rule and use her trust fund. That such a wasn't a big deal. If she wanted she could live her entire life without ever working again. Ever. Then again she wanted to work, needed to. She felt useless otherwise.

The phone rang, bringing her out of her contemplative state. Jamie reached it on the third ring. "Hello?"

Ray's excited voice filled her ears. "Jamie! You know that contest? The one Aidan and I entered, the one where the winners get to go to a Wizarding school in England? Aidan and I WON!" Several moments of excited shrieking filled the line.

Aidan's voice came over the line. "Yeah sis, but they'll only let us go if you go too."

Ray snatched the phone back. "Please Jamie? It's ENGLAND for Crissake! Think of all those yummy accents!"

Jamie pictured Aidan rolling his eyes and laughed.

"Please Jamie! Mr. Wills says it's all expenses paid... everything. That's totally cool, and we get to stay until June! That's like an entire school year! It's only November!" Ray seemed to have gotten into the sugar again.

"Ray... I don't know..." Jamie was only kidding of course. There was no way in Hera she could say no to this.

"Please? You'd be in a MAGIC school... you could learn some more. Maybe sit in on some more classes..."

20 minutes later Jamie hung up the phone. Well, it looked like she was going to a school with the unusual name of Hogwarts.