A/N: I haven't written anything for FF for a long time, and I fear that I've forgotten how. So this is a mini-series just to get me back into the groove. Snape is one of my favourite characters, and I find his point of view fascinating and often wonder how he got the way he got. In the fifth book, where Harry gets into his pensive and into his mind, that sheds some light on what made him who he is. But there are still some big gaping holes. So this is my take on Severus Snape's life. The first few chapters are more or less an intro to Snape's parents. R&R!
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CHAPTER ONE: Samuel Snape.
Severus sat in a compartment on the train, alone as usual. He was about to start at Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and he was glad. It would give him a chance to get away from his violent home, away from his mother's crying and his father's shouting. For ten years he had been forced to put up with beatings and verbal abuse from his father and now he was glad that he could get away. He didn't know what to expect from Hogwarts: he hadn't heard much about it from his parents. His mother had gone to a school overseas and his father had been expelled from Hogwarts in his third year. Severus's mother had told him that he had been expelled due to attempted murder, and had refused to say much more then that on the subject.
Severus's father had been a violent man. In his first three years at Hogwarts he had been honourable and intelligent, taking home decent grades. He had come from a wizarding home but knew not much about his past due to an accident at the age of eight. There had been a fire in the Snape house and he had lost his memory. Snape's father, Samuel, had two years to learn as much about the wizarding world as he could. On his tenth birthday a letter was sent to him declaring that he had been accepted into Hogwarts. He was sorted into Slytherin due to his extensive family tree. Since he had minimal knowledge of the wizarding world he was treated as a muggleborn and bullied. In his third year he got into a serious fight with one Darcious Malfoy and their brawl got out of control. Darcious fell down a flight of stairs and hit his head. He claimed that Samuel had pushed him from behind.
Darcious's father had come to the school and demanded that Samuel be expelled. The headmaster of the school at that time had no choice but to expel Samuel from Hogwarts. His wand was snapped and he had to return home. His parents disowned him and he had to live life on the streets, that is, until one day when he wanted revenge. He tracked down Darcious Malfoy and in the night when Darcious, his wife Katherine and their newborn Lucius were all asleep, Samuel snuck into their house, destroyed Darcious's wand and killed him.
Samuel was never caught. Less then a week after Darcious's murder he met a woman named Antoinette and she took him in. After Severus was born the two married. But Samuel was not his once sane self, he hated living and despised Antoinette because she had received a proper education. He started beating her and once Severus was four years old, he started beating him too. Severus grew up to be afraid of his own father.
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There, chapter one down. Chapter two coming soon. Now that you've read, please review.
