Sophia made it through the ice breakers relatively unscathed. Only once did she accidentally give the wrong name. She decided the next thing she needed to do was try to befriend Harry Potter. Dumbledore requested she get close to him to help keep an eye on him and thought she would be a good choice since she was a student of the same year. She and Dumbledore were close since she spent so much time growing up in the castle. He felt like a grandfather to her. Dumbledore was also one of the few people who knew about Sophia and her mother. It was Dumbledore who first told Maria the story of how her parents' relationship came to be.
Maria Snape was a pureblood Ravenclaw two years ahead of Severus Snape. She was one of the more popular students well liked because she was kind, intelligent, and very beautiful. She had long wavy brown hair with bright blue eyes and was always the first person to help another person in need. Maria and Severus never talked much at Hogwarts but met again once Severus had graduated and was already working for Lord Voldemort. It was Maria who convinced him to be in a relationship with her. Severus always said he never truly understood why she fell for him. He knew he was not the most attractive guy with his crooked teeth and oily hair but she liked his dark mysterious side as well as his sarcastic sense of humor. After Maria convinced Severus they should try being together they fell in love quickly and married.
Once Maria discovered she was pregnant she became worried. She did not want her child involved with Voldemort and she and Severus decided to keep the child a secret to protect her. Several months later Severus overheard the prophecy that would later be attributed to Harry Potter. Except when he heard the prophecy was meant for a girl he changed it to referring to a boy so that his daughter who was due at the end of July would never be suspected as the prophecy child. Therefore, when he reported the prophecy to Voldemort he stated that it referred to a boy not a girl. He then began spending more and more time at home trying to find ways to hide his daughter or possibly to get them all away. Severus had almost completed his plan around the time Sophia had turned one; after all people cannot just leave Voldemort's service. Voldemort noticed Severus' increased absence and blamed it on Maria. So on the same night that Voldemort decided to kill Harry Potter, he also sent a few death eaters to kill Maria. He sent them when he knew Severus (and by luck Sophia) would be away and told them to make it look like a muggle attack.
Maria died that night and according to Dumbledore Severus' was never quite the same, he more a more cynical and pessimistic. He could tell it was not a muggle accident and had his suspicions about what happened. Severus had lost his wife and his childhood friend, it was this that drove him to become a spy for Dumbledore.
