I own nothing! I don't own Harry Potter or any of the characters! I just own the Snape family members (except for Severus, of course), and the other OC's.
Snape looked out over his backyard, glaring out at the group of teens play fighting in the hot, sticky August afternoon. Dudley and Harry were fighting Kiru and Hermione, with Kiru and Dudley wrestling with each other violently. Severus wasn't caring and simply waiting for the muggle authorities to show up and give him the thumbs up, even though Hermione was already living with him. Four children were enough, he groaned, knowing he still had room enough for a few more children with Chessie, having no room in his heart or life for any more that he didn't sire.
"Severus," Chessie said worriedly, "what'll we do if I can't conceive quickly enough to - to..."
"Appease him?" he asked quietly before shrugging slightly. "Just let him know we're trying as hard as we can."
"Stupid jackass bastard snake," Chessie yelled angrily as Severus waved a wand across the books in the house, transforming the exterior into something Muggle related. "Why can't he just leave us alone?"
"I'm his right-hand man," he snarled, "and such a position isn't easily obtained. Now stop whining and help me set up for the Muggles!"
The two Muggles approached Prince Manor, and Severus and Chessie cut off all magical connections in all fireplaces as they felt the protective wards shift. The four teens raced up to the library, grabbing books to help their studies. Dudley grabbed an Astronomy book, Kiru a potions book, Hermione a Charms book, and Harry a DADA book. The two Muggle authorities were stunned by the tranquility at Prince Manor, put off only by the terrifying vibes coming from the Potions Master, who was in the library as well, fiddling around absent-mindedly in a set of books - the half-blood prince's books to be exact. What nobody but him knew was that he was copying the notes from his old books and into the books that Kiru would be using for school. He only wrote potions editing marks in her potions books, and his curses and spells in her Defense books. He quickly shut the books once he noticed the Muggles had arrived.
"Kiru, could you copy the notes from the margins of my book into your textbook," he said quickly. "I think it will help you in your studies to get ahead next year."
"Sure thing, dad," Kiru grinned while abandoning her Most Potente Potions and going to his textbooks. She knew now that her father's textbooks often had potions cheats and rare hexes in the margins, and used this to her favor every chance she got.
The Muggles questions were all answered, but quite a few had nothing to do with adopting Hermione in any way. "How do you think your daughter will react to Hermione?", "What kind of home lives do you have?", "do you plan on creating children anytime soon?", to name a few that really got under Severus and Chessie's skin. The couple told the social workers that Dudley and Harry were the sons of Severus' "sisters" that he took in when his older sister died ten years after their younger sister was brutally murdered. The two workers' eyes widened at these remarks, but they were shocked nonetheless to find that Chessie was unable to have children of late, and had had the hardest time trying to conceive and keep Kiru.
Chessie assured the social workers that the family was very close knit and tried to keep from trouble as much as possible. After the social workers were finally done interviewing the parents took the duo on a tour of the mansion. When they reached the library, the social workers stared at the four teens. The foursome were working together on different tasks, all at the same table and discussing the uses of math and chemistry. Chessie smiled and Severus smirked in pride at the good behavior the teens were portraying and their cooperation. Such behavior astounded the social workers, not expecting the trio to so eagerly accept Hermione without a qualm or fight. They also didn't expect to find such a large library with a group of teens so eager to be within its walls, or parents who encouraged such behavior and chemistry experiments, so long as the latter was supervised by the adults.
"Whoa!" Kiru suddenly exclaimed, "Bloody Wicked!"
"Hey, Language," Severus scolded with a glare, and Kiru grinned sheepishly while muttering out a quick apology.
"Hermione," one of the social workers said, "What do you think?"
"I love it here!" She said enthusiastically. "I had my doubts when the headmaster told me I'd be staying here, but I get along with the others, and the size of this library is humongous! Chessie and Severus have been nothing but kind to me! I love it!"
"Alright, then," the other said formally. "We'll leave you to it. Have fun. By the way, Mr. and Mrs. Snape, Hermione here attends a private school, you'll need to-"
"Take her to King's Cross, we know," Snape said to cut her off. "Harry and Kiru go there as well. Dudley wasn't accepted due to poor grades, and we've kept him in regular schools ever since. They started a few years ago, and Harry and Hermione already knew each other."
"Well, we'll leave her in your more than capable hands, then," the first one said as they left. "Oh, and the money that has been helping the two of you pay for Hermione is from her mother's second cousins – they want nothing to do with her, and continued to call her a monster. I suggest looking into it since we got almost nowhere with our searches up until now. Good day to you all."
Severus flicked his wand and the gates slammed closed behind them, his every nerve on fire as to the slow pace of the Muggle authorities that now knew he had custody of all four children. Chessie was now in the kitchen, keeping an eye on the two house elves, but from afar. Dobby and Winky wanted only to be treated fairly as payment for their work, and were at the Hogwarts kitchens while their new masters were at school. Dobby had joined Winky as an owned house elf when Severus offered it to him and had taken to liking Winky. Thus, the family now had two house elves under their roof. Hermione was as quiet as ever, but that didn't come as a surprise to anyone since she was a bookworm to the extreme degree.
Harry and the others sighed in relief at their good fortune, and he headed outside into the backyard, just beyond the boundaries of the wards. The others continued goofing off in the backyard, practicing charms and minor hexes and jinxes on each other. Kiru, having played the Prelude of Light and gotten a vision as a result, alerted her father to the danger that Harry would soon be in. Severus, knowing of Kiru's perfect prediction abilities that stemmed from said song and his daughter's abilities as a Musiclancer, or someone who controlled things with music and magic combined, raced out after Harry to defend him from harm.
Naturally, Severus saw the Dementors surrounding Harry just as Harry got outside the warding boundaries. Thinking quickly, he nonverbally cast his patronus, and the thestral charged angrily at the group of dementor, stopping them from performing the Dementor's kiss on his charge. He raced forward, kneeling and checking Harry's pulse and temperature. Normal, he diagnosed, considering he'd just been attacked by a dementor. He breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that there was a very good chance that Harry had been set up in an attempt to get him expelled and to get his wand snapped for more underage magic.
He snarled angrily, knowing that Dolores Umbridge, the woman after his coveted Defense Against the Dark Arts post, was behind this. He grinned as he hefted Harry up off the ground, knowing that he'd get the last laugh. Chessie had already gotten the DADA job, much to everyone's dismay, and that left Umbridge for History of Magic. He knew that Umbridge hated half-bloods, and wanted them all gone as quickly and as much as possible. He also knew that if all went well this year, he'd have her begging to leave as quickly as humanly possible.
He grimaced, realizing that if she used her position in the Ministry of Magic, he'd likely to be losing his job for his relationship with Chessie. Unless, of course, they explained that Dumbledore hired Chessie after the two of them had gotten married, in the hopes of helping her get by and raise a family since she was a very talented Muggle-born that people hated for who knew why. She'd landed in Slytherin as a Muggle born, much to everyone's confusion, until it was revealed that her parents were squibs and that their parents were some of the most powerful witches and wizards their age in Japan.
Severus scowled as someone in pink apparated just outside his wards. She tried to get in, but Severus wouldn't have any of it. With a jerk of his head, he ordered the children inside. They raced in, unsure of what was going on, and Dudley carried Harry in with little prompting from Severus, who went back out to the edges of his warding boundaries. He stepped out, and Dolores Umbridge jumped in shock. He leered, and she cleared her throat, raising an eyebrow that was meant to order him to move.
"If you think I'm going to step aside for you to charge in onto my property just because you're from the Ministry, you've got another thing coming," Severus snarled, brandishing his wand dangerously. "I'm no fool. You have no reason to be here since none of us broke the laws that were placed. No youth have performed magic without my consent, and the only Muggle within viewing distance also lives under my roof and is more than aware that he is surrounded and protected by witches and wizards."
"Hem-hem. I heard there were Dementors nearby," she said sickeningly sweetly, which Severus had the strange, yet accurate, inclination that she was holding back and trying not to kill him. "I received word that Harry James Potter performed a Patronus charm."
"That was a lie. I, Professor Severus T. Snape, performed the patronus to protect Mr. Potter from getting killed by two dementors," Snape snarled. "I know for a fact that Dementors will only leave Azkaban on orders, and the only way that could have happened is if a Ministry official ordered them there, or if someone aforementioned was put under the Imperius curse and told to send the Dementors here."
"Do you want to lose your job, Professor?" Umbridge asked sweetly, and Snape had to lock his jaw and clench his teeth to keep from killing Umbridge. Kiru raced out from the wards, a snake in hand.
"What'd I miss? Who's she?" Kiru asked, jabbing a thumb at Umbridge. "And why the hell is she dressed in such disgustingly pink clothes? I swear, I see less disgusting things in a Potion than her clothes!"
"What is your name, child?" Umbridge asked with a sickeningly sweet smile.
"That's none of your damn business, yerou," Kiru spat. "And for the record, you're not welcome here, or anywhere but your precious…den, if you would. Actually, I think the only thing that would be your soul mate is a Dementor – you're putting off the evil enough vibes for it."
"You little brat!" Dolores spat angrily. "Give me your wand right now!"
"Hm, let me think… No!" Kiru spat. "I swear, one day you're going to regret coming here. No matter how much you snoop, Orochi here will make sure that you don't get into the house." Dolores' eyes widened in shock. "Yes, I have a snake for a familiar. Voldy's not the only one, and if I didn't know any better, I'd say that he was your lover before he fell from power."
"Child," Severus warned. "That's enough. We'll continue tutoring tomorrow, same time. I don't want your mother getting mad at me for sending you home late, and we both know how paranoid your mother is."
"Yes, sir," Kiru moaned as she headed back towards Prince Manor. "Oh, and by the way – if you come to Hogwarts, yerou, I can assure you, I will make it my personal duty to make your life a living hellhole."
Severus and Kiru didn't pay the Ministry of Magic any mind as the pink-garbed brat screamed profanities at them all the way until they couldn't hear her anymore. Kiru grinned at her schedule for her upcoming school year – she knew Severus wouldn't like one of her classes, but she knew that with help from her Ocarina, she'd be more than able to out-perform the teacher, if what Hermione was saying was true.
Kiru's mouth gets her in trouble. No surprise there, I tried to base her off of what I was like when I was her age, which was a complete brat.
Yes, I just admit that.
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