As one adventure ends another is surely to begin!
By Fallensoul62
Warning: This story is a mixture between canon and AU containing a Sherlock like/powerful fem harry, character bashing, alive-snarky but nice Severus, nice Malfoys and all around occ-ness.
Guide
"Hello"...means talking
"Hello"...means flashbacks/memories
'Hello'... thoughts
'Hello'...thoughts in a flashback/memory
"Hello"...means parseltounge
"Hello"...means spells
Chapter 1 part 1
Severus Snape and her
-Previously-
Rosemary ignores it all to gaze in absolute shock at Voldermort's dead body as thoughts of disbelief fly through her head, "I did it! I finally did it, I killed him!" Her thoughts quickly turn into ones filled with happy relief causing her to suddenly laugh uproariously, "He gone. I'm free. I'm free to be normal again. I'M FREE!" Oh if only she remembered at the time that nothing is normal when concerning herself, because as they say when one adventure ends another is surely to begin.
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It's been seven years since the battle in the ministry of magic which finally, with the deaths of the light lord, Albus Dumbledore, and the dark lord, Voldermort a.k.a Tom Riddle, resulted in the end of the fourteen year long wizarding war. For the next year the population of wizarding Britain celebrated and rejoiced the fact that they could now live without fear of being attacked for something as simple as their blood or beliefs, so you would think that with the end of a war that was built upon prejudice they would change how they viewed and treated those they think beneath them e.g. muggles, mugglesborns, creatures, dark/grey inclined wizards and witches. Shame to say this was not be as in those five years very little changes were made mostly do to the corruption that still has it's claws buried deep within the ministry, and also because of the pig-headed, haughty and bias views and opinions of the population.
Not say that people didn't try, oh how they tried, to make sure things changed like Amelia Bones for example who, after the resignation of Cornelius Fudge, became the Minister of magic. With this new position she was able to at least flush out the corruption in auror ranks and mostly within the court rooms. Another example would be Minerva McGonagall who became the Headmistress of Hogwarts after Dumbledore's death, and it wasn't even a month before she reinstated a few subjects that she felt should be taught at Hogwarts such as spell creation, healing, Latin and a classes on wizarding traditions. She also, after Hermoine's insistences, added the typical muggles subjects of maths, English, science, German and French, while she added one of her own that she felt the future students of Hogwarts needed to know of, the history of the dark arts and the witches and wizards who used them.
Lastly would be friends Luna Lovegood and Penelope Clearwater who, with the help of the Potter fortune and Rosemary's political influence, opened up a Primary school, which Luna became headmistress of while Penelope became deputy headmistress, for muggle raised half-bloods and muggleborns to help them learn about wizarding culture and traditions, as well as the theory behind first year spells to give them a chance to get use to the new world they've found themselves in before going to Hogwarts and mixing with the wizarding raised half-bloods and pure-bloods. Unfortunately the fight for more and better changes to wizarding Britain is still on going even with the helpful influence of the-girl-who-lived Rosemary Potter.
-The ministry of magic~2002-
The sound of multiple footsteps echo throughout the hall of prophecies as three black cloaked and hooded figures carefully but quickly make their way through the tall black shelves , each shelf holding hundreds upon thousands of small glass orbs containing the sliver misty memories of seers who predicted the prophecies most of which stay unfulfilled. Suddenly the smallest of the three picks up speed and with a whispered, "Dad. Luc, Hurry up! Quickly, now" urges the other two, one now known to be Luc, behind to move faster, only for an alarm to suddenly starts blaring throughout the ministry a few seconds later causing 'dad' and Luc to stop and look around in surprise.
"Bugger!" The smallest figure exclaims loudly as the doors to the hall slam open and in runs a group of red robed aurors, who upon seeing the three instantly take out their wands as they rushes towards them with shouts of "over there" and "stop them." The three soon begin running towards the door at the end of the hall, dodging and weaving through the shelves and around the spells fired towards them. The smallest figure suddenly falls to the floor with a pained cry as a large gash, spanning their whole back, appears after failing to dodge a red coloured spell, causing 'dad' to yell out "Rose" in panic and Luc to quickly pick her up bridle style and continue running towards the ends of the hall. 'Arrrrgg! God damn it! All this better be worth it or I'm going to kill someone when we get out of this,' thinks Rose before fainting making the other two re-double their efforts to escape the aurors.
-Earlier that day ~Prince Manor: library-
The room is decorated in an 18th century French styled white wood panelling that's outlined in a thick gold piping. Sconces of gold line the walls above the wide oak wooden bookshelves, which are filled to the brim with books on every subject imaginable most of them written in Latin, French and English, while some of the darker books that are kept out of sight are written in Russian, German and Egyptian. Hanging from the high ceiling is a large crystal chandelier that glistens in the firelight, that's coming from the blazing golden-yellow fire roaring in the French styled white marble fireplace. Above the fireplace hangs a large ornate gold framed mirror the glass of the mirror reflecting the image of a wooden oak coffee table, that's sitting on top of a light royal blue rug outlined with a swirling ornate pattern in gold, while behind the coffee is a French styled light royal blue love seat that has two matching arm chairs to the right and the left of said coffee table.
Lounging on the love seat is a young women of 20 who's staring into the fire with glazed sapphire blue eyes ignoring the first edition copy of Charles Dickens Oliver Twist laying in her lap, while her older male companion of 40/41 relaxes with his legs crossed in the armchair to her right reading his old copy of tödlichsten und gefährlich dunkle Tränke im 1700s. (Most deadly and dangerously dark potions of the 1700s) Suddenly a rather large sigh left her full pale pink lips catching the attention of her companion, "Rose." He enquires questioningly causing her to look towards him, "Is everything alright?." Rose stares at him for a moment before turning back to face the fire place and closing her eyes, "Yes dad just thinking about us and all that's happened in these last couple of years." Is her distracted answer as memory after memory flies through her mind.
-Flashback: a week after the duel in the ministry~1995-
Thick black clouds covered the morning sky as rain continued pour down upon the whole order of the phoenix , the staff of Hogwarts and the minister of magic along with the press, as they stood in silence and stared with forlorn eyes at what is now to be Dumbledore's final resting place, a simple rectangular stone tomb of white that sits in the middle of a grove of oak trees. So caught up in her chaotic thoughts Rosemary jumped startled when black clad arms wrapped themselves around her in an consoling hug, the owner of the arms hoping to bring comfort to the young teenager he sees as his daughter. With tear filled green eyes Rosemary pulled away slightly to up at the man holding her, "Daddy..." She started to whimper only for Severus to pull her back in and hug her tightly to his chest, "Shhh." He whispered, clear silent tears falling down his sharp pale cheeks, as he slowly started to rub up and down her back when he felt her body start to shake.
-End of flashback-
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-Flashback: after the cursed broom incident~1991-
An eleven year old Rosemary stood in front of the entrance to professer Snape's office as she tried to gather up some courage to knock on the dark wooden door. Apparently it wasn't needed as a gruff shout of "Enter!" Is heard through the door which caused Rose to let out a startled gasp and for her hands to start shaking nervously. Slowly she pushed open the heavy door and quickly but quietly shuffled into the cold stone room until she stood in front of the solid dark wooden desk, which professer Snape sat behind as he marked the 6th and 7th years homework . "Professer," Rose says quietly a slight tremor could be hear in her voice.
At the sound of her voice Snape's head snapped up to glare at her with dark eyes, and with a cruel sneer on his pale face he all but purred sarcastically, "Potter to what do i owe the pleasure of this visit." Rose internally cringed at his tone that made her want to turn tail and run, but pushed it down determined to do what she came here to do. "Thank you," She chocked out which earned her a raised eyebrow from Snape the only indication that showed his confusion. "Thank you for saving me yesterday. You know from falling off my broom," she elaborated once she noticed his confusion as she shuffled nervously from one foot to the other. Surprise , disbelief then suspicion flew over Snape's face before it quickly turned back into his normal stoic expression, "i see. If that is all then leav..."
Only to be interrupted by Rose, "Please sir, believe me! I mean it! I really do! No ones ever bothered to help me before and i...and i just...just want to thank you sir." She quickly ran around Snape's desk and hugged him only to realise what she's done, and with a fearfull look on her ivory pale face ran out of the room leaving Snape to sit with a stupefied expression on his face as he stared at the wide open door.
-End of flashback-
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-Flashback: after everyone heard Rose speak in parseltounge~1992-
Crying, which caught Snape's attention as he walked by, could be heard echoing throughout the empty library, and Snape being the teacher he was followed the crying towards the restricted section of the library. He quickly found the source of the crying which just so happened to be Rosemary Potter, who upon closer inspection was sat on the floor covered with black bruises and bleeding cuts ranging in all different sizes. Quietly he walked over and then knelt down beside her where he then carefully placed his hand on her shaking shoulder nearest to him. Suddenly he found himself on his arse with his arms full of a crying Rosemary, who's arms had tightly wrapped around his waist as she cried into his stomach. It took one look into those tearfully green eyes , that so reminded him of his dear lily, when Rosemary looked up at him for comfort for his heart, unknown to him at the time, to slowly begin to soften and create a place for Rosemary who he will quickly come to see as his daughter throughout the next couple of years to come.
-End of flashback-
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-Flashback: Christmas~1996-
Severus and Rosemary sat and cuddled on the pale cream sofa in Severus' private quarters at Hogwarts, as the both of them basked in the warmth coming from the open fireplace in front of them; clearing his throat nervously Severus reached into the inner pocket sewn into his robes, brought out a roll of parchment tied up with a blue ribbon and once he saw he had Rose's attention holds out the roll to her. "Happy Christmas," he says as Rose looked between the roll of parchment and Severus for a moment before taking the roll, curiosity shinning in her eyes as she untied and unrolled the piece of parchment carefully.
Suddenly Rose gave a loud ecstatic squeal before she jumped on Severus and hugged him tightly as she repeatedly shouted "yes", both of them ignoring the parchment as it slowly float to the floor where once it's reached the floor the words 'On the 7th December 1996 lord Severus Snape-Prince is here by granted with the permission to adopt a one, Rosemary Potter, in accordance with..."
-End of flashback-
Suddenly Rose is knocked out of her thoughts when she hears Severus talking to her, "As hypercritical as this will be coming from me you shouldn't hold on to the past rose. It will only bring you pain and suffering. Beside we won't be here much longer." Severus advises her as he stares at her with his bottomless dark chocolate almost black eyes. "I know dad. I know," She replies with a small smile and just as she goes to pick up the book on her lap to read a knock at the door stops her. "Severus, Rose it's time to go. The goblins are excepting us in half an hour," announces a voice through the door to which Rose replies to with a chirpy, "thanks Lucius. We'll be down in a minute."
-End of chapter 1 part 1-