A/N: Song belongs to Evanescence.

Mary lied on her bed after an exhausting afternoon at Hogsmead. Questions were flashing back and forth in her mind. Who were the Knights of the Wizardry Order? How did they know her father? How did they know about her mother's death? What was so special about them?

But the most important question: How did they find out that Lucius killed her mother and how he did? These questions were making her head ache. Carolyn was in her room, also lying down on her bed with questions flashing back and forth in her head.

Mary sighed at the thought of her sister on her bed with her arm over her forehead. She sat up on her bed, got her guitar, and strummed it to make sure it was still in tune. She looked up at the ceiling with a loud sigh, thinking what song to play.

That's when the song hit her. She looked down at the guitar and started playing and singing a song from Evanescence, one of her favorite girl bands.

I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone

Carolyn looked up at the ceiling when she heard her sister playing. She was an awesome guitarist and an excellent singer. The thing that bothered Carolyn was that Mary was playing a really sad song. Carolyn sighed and placed a hand over her face while listening to her sister's beautiful yet sad singing.

These wounds won't seen to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you cried I'd wipe away all your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all your fears
And I've held your hand through all these years
But you still have all of me

Carolyn got off her bed and walked into her father's room. She saw her father with his nose buried in one of his books. But he wasn't really reading. He was listening to his daughters playing. "Daddy, what's wrong?" Mary asked.
"I'm worried about you and your sister," her father said when he looked up from his book. "Are you all right?"

"Yes. But I don't think that Mary is."

"Neither do I."

You used to captivate me
By your resonating light
But now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away all the sanity in me

"Do you remember that one time Mary and I both woke up from horrible nightmares?" Carolyn asked her father. "We ran into yours and Mom's room. Mom held us and told us to just imagine a happy ending for the nightmare?"

"How could I forget?" her father asked.

"Well, I feel that we're living in a nightmare right now. I felt like it when Mom died. I felt like it since this summer started. Daddy, what are we suppose to do?" Her father stood up and hugged her.

"We'll find a way," he said to his daughter softly. "We'll find a way." His daughter looked up at him as the two of them walked to Mary's room to hear her still singing and playing.

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase

When you cried I'd wipe away all your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all your fears
And I've held your hand through all these years
But you still have all of me

Carolyn and her father looked at each other, sighed, and looked back at Mary still singing and playing her guitar like professional. Carolyn squinted her eyes and looked closer to see that her sister, the tough and brave one, had tears running down her eyes.

Carolyn looked away from the image of her sister weeping, but she started weeping herself. Her father clutched her as they stood in the doorway with the whole family of Snapes weeping.


I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
And though you're still with me
I've been alone and I'm alone

When you cried I'd wipe away all your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all your fears
And I've held your hand through all these years
But you still have all of me

Mary carefully placed her guitar on the floor, wiped away her tears, and looked up to see her father and sister. She stood up and let her father and sister hug her. She also clutched her sister and father. "I love you two," their father whispered.

"We love you to, Daddy," Mary whispered. The three family members stood there in Mary's doorway, clutching and weeping on each other.

Harry stared up at the ceiling when he lied down on the couch. How is Mary going to survive? Harry had that conversation in his mind with himself already. I thought she liked Seamus? It was obvious. Maybe Malfloy just settled that bet with her. But will Malfloy really keep the whole Snape thing to himself?

Or will he tell everyone in the whole entire school? Harry looked down on the floor. He realized that he befriended Mary and Carolyn. When he noticed that Mary and Carolyn were Snape's daughters, he almost freaked. But he thought of something.

Maybe they were just like any other family. Maybe Mary and Carolyn were just ordinary kids. Harry half smiled and looked up to see Ginny standing by the couch. "Is everything all right, sweetie?" she asked.

Harry smiled, held Ginny's hand, and looked up at her. "Yeah," he said. "Everything's fine." They both smiled at each other and walked into the room where everyone else was in. Today was an exhausting day. That was what Harry thought. Well, maybe things will go a little better