The Junior Marauders
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.
A/N: Sorry I'm updating this so late, but I've been on holiday, so I wrote most of this chapter while on holiday :D
Melody Snape
My dad didn't even know about me… And my mum didn't exactly want me either, so I guess I didn't have the perfect up-bringing that most half-bloods expect to have. In fact, I was thrown into an orphanage… A MUGGLE orphanage and I was forced to live a lie, I was forced to pretend my parents were dead and gone.
I guess for a while I was too young to care that I had no family that cared for me… And even though I had no friends, I was well looked after. There was this house near my school, that a girl and her mother lived in. She seemed even more downtrodden than me, and that was saying something. I was 8, when I stood in front of the house and watched the girl's mother running away from the house, leaving the girl standing there, tears rolling down her cheek.
"Mum! Come back!" The girl called out, as I watched.
"I can't, Abigail…. There's plenty of food to last you long enough until you find more money!" The woman said before disappearing around the corner.
The girl called Abigail then turned to look at me, smiled awkwardly and waved before running back into the house. The school bus had then come and I hopped on, feeling bad for the girl.
It was a year later that I had had enough with living a lie and practically destroyed my room in the orphanage out of frustration. After doing that, I calmed down and went in search of my suitcase, all the children in the orphanage had a suitcase, I found mine in the storage room. I dragged it back to my wrecked room, and grabbed all my possessions and stuffed them into the suitcase. I then crept down the stairs and out the door, walking down the street.
I didn't know where to go for a few minutes and then it hit me, I could go give that Abigail girl some company, if she was still alive, that is… I walked quickly in the direction of my school for about twenty minutes and then slowed down.
What if she didn't want to talk to me? What if she shut the door in my face? Well I'd just have to find out, wouldn't I? So I started walking faster again, dragging my suitcase along with me. I soon came to the house, it looked very much abandoned. I didn't realise I was holding my breath as I walked down the driveway and knocked on the door, and I only let the breath go when I heard footsteps. The door opened and someone stood before me, but it wasn't Abigail, it was someone I had never seen before in my life.
At first, I thought I'd got the wrong house, but then I heard a familiar voice,
"Lile, who is it?" I heard Abigail say.
"Some girl." Lile replied, looking into the house.
Abigail came to the door, and blinked at me before smiling.
"I recognise you! You're that girl that was there when my mum ran off, aren't you?" She asked.
"Yeah… That was me. I was going to keep you company…. But it seems you've all ready got that." I smiled sheepishly.
"The more the merrier! I'm Abigail, better known as just Abbie." Abigail smiled.
"I'm Melody… Melody Snape." I hesitated and looked at my feet.
"Snape?" Lile said, looking shocked.
"Yeah, that's my name, don't tire it out." I rolled my eyes.
"Sorry, my mum always goes on about how bad this guy called Snape was when they were at… School." Lile hesitated with her last sentence.
"Hogwarts?" I tilted my head as Abigail's eyes widened.
"You know about Hogwarts?" Abbie gasped out.
"Of course I do… I'm a witch…" I frowned.
"Oh… You related to Snape then?" Lile asked.
"If you mean Severus Snape, then yes." I bit out.
"Ah… Well I'm Peter Pettigrew's daughter…" Lile smiled.
"Never heard of him…" I blinked.
"Your dad doesn't tell you anything?" Lile asked.
"I don't even know my dad." I sighed, looking at the ground.
"How come?" Abigail asked.
"My parents dumped me in an orphanage before I could walk and talk, the only reason why I know the stuff I know is because they left me a letter…. If they saw me now, they wouldn't recognise me…" I sighed.
"That's horrible… Come in…" Abigail sighed and stepped aside so I could come in. I heaved my suitcase over the threshold and left it in the hall. The three of us walked into the living-room and sat down on the sofas.
"So where are your parents?" I asked, turning to Abigail.
"Well my dad didn't think it was safe for him to be around me… Because he's a werewolf… and my mum? Ran off, didn't she? You saw her do it." Abigail sighed and drew her legs up to her chest.
"That's so… horrible." I looked to the ground. "What about your parents?" I looked up at Lile.
"Well… My mum is in St. Mungo's… She kinda tortured herself into insanity… Don't ask how cause I don't know… and as for my father… Apparently he's dead…. I don't believe that he is though…" Lile Explained.
"Ah…" I sighed.
I'm going to say it was about 3 weeks after that, that Natalia arrived. By then I knew all about the Marauders and what they did. After joining us, Natalia also came to know everything, a week later and Keanna arrived, making us complete as the Junior Marauders. No one cares that my dad wasn't pleasant…