Here's my next chapter. Read and review, love Moon x
She entered the classroom looking very worried at the extremely nervous expression on the face of her potions professor. What had he to be so worried about. "Ok Arianna I am going to name a few women and I want you to tell me if you know any of them ok? Good. Lily Evans, Petunia Evans and Lily Potter! Tell me did you recognize any of those names?" he asked her. "Well I know that these women have the same surname as me but I don't know them. I do however know that Lily Potter was the mother of Harry Potter!" she answered him honestly looking confused as to why he'd be asking her these things.
"Well years ago I knew a lady called Lily Evans and she was my very best friend. She married James Potter becoming Lily Potter the mother of Harry Potter. When she died she left me a journal of hers that she insisted I was to have upon her death. I was twenty one when she died and her father gave me the journal which I read cover to cover. It was boring and didn't contain anything much of interest to me at the time. I say at the time as I didn't know the spell to look for hidden things at that time until I thought of it recently and tried it out on the journal. Initially I got no response but suffice to say I found tonnes of letters hidden magically within it and it is some of these that I need you to read for me now" he said producing the book with the pages she was to read marked. Not understanding why she took the book and began to read the first letter her hands shaking the more she read through it. By the time the last letter had ended she was in a heap on the floor crying her eyes out. "Oh my word the poor girl. I am so sorry she had to do this for me. She will never know how much I will appreciate all that I know now. Oh my god I never thought I'd ever find my birth parents. This is so overwhelming for me I mean Harry Potter is my half brother and he probably doesn't even know yet. What do I call you professor, Severus or Dad?" she asked him as she looked around in awe wiping her eyes.
Arianna was tall enough with long cascading black wavy hair, nice curves and deep green eyes. She was in Ravenclaw and was very studious indeed. "Well to be honest Arianna I'd prefer you call me Professor in class and either Sev or dad outside of class. Now as you can see from these letters I knew nothing about you as she was not at liberty to tell me about you. I had never thought too much about having children until recently. I loved your mother with all my heart but we both made difficult choices and I have always until this morning regretted somewhere deep in the back of my mind that I never met someone and had children. You have essentially changed my life dear girl. I am neither equipped nor experienced enough to even begin parenting you but I am sure I can learn on the go. I promise to do my very best by you always but you must understand that as a young child I was vulnerable and got trapped into becoming a death eater. I am obviously no longer a death eater as Voldermort is disgusted with me and so has removed my dark mark freeing me. I hurt a lot of people in my life but I'm not about to hurt you. I have never hidden who or what I am and I will not start now. Now I have one question I need to ask you as I am curious. Is there anything unusual about you? I only ask as there was always some confusion as to whether there was creature blood in our family when I was young!" he said looking totally out of his depth and making her giggle slightly.
It was not everyday one got to see a flustered Professor Snape and it was pretty hilarious. "Well now that you mention it dad oh wow it's strange to say that to you but I know I'll adjust eventually I'll have to. I have been feeling very weird recently but I don't know what's causing it. I didn't always look like this. I used to have ginger hair and be very short but I changed when I turned sixteen this past April. I shot up a few feet and got this gorgeous black hair. Do you remember how I used to look?" she asked him as it dawned on him how correct she'd been. "Yes I do now. Stand still I'll cast a spell which will tell us what you are and what happened" he said casting the appropriate spell which showed her to now be a full veela. She was shocked to the core. "I know that that spell is saying I've turned into a full veela but I think I've already mated with my soul mate from what I know of them. I was intimate with my boyfriend and we both bit each other at the end. I now hear his thoughts in my head and vice versa but having not known anything about this beforehand I just assumed we were special and that this is why we loved each other unconditionally and could read each others minds. Before you ask it's Adrian Pucey from Slytherin!" she said as Snape gasped.
She seemed to be fully in control of herself and a sly wandless spell showed she wasn't pregnant. Thankfully she'd not noticed him cast that one otherwise she'd have freaked out totally. Snape knew Pucey and he was a good student thank god. "I understand. Excuse me while I call Harry Potter here to me as he'll need to see this!" he said as he sent away his patronus to get Harry. Harry was in his rooms preparing to leave for breakfast when he got the emergency summons to professor Snape's office and asked Hermione to tell anyone if he was late for class that Professor Snape had requested to see him to which she agreed. He entered the classroom shocked to see the girl he'd not seen before crying her eyes out and shaking uncontrollably. "Please come in and sit down as you'll need to be seating for what I tell you next!" he said as Harry gave the girl a weird look and sat down.
"Years ago Harry I knew your mother and when she died she told her father to give me her diary which he did. I read it cover to cover and found nothing of extreme interest in it and it was only today that I thought of the journal and how I'd not known the spell to check for hidden items in something when I was twenty one. I thought I'd try it out today expecting nothing but alas I found it loaded with secret letters she'd written to me but never sent to me. Here you need to read this as your life is about to be changed drastically!" he said as Harry thought right that's it I'll discover I'm not James' son after all he thought sarcastically. He carefully read the three letters and placed the book down on the table in front of him. "I...I have family living! I mean family who actually cares! This is amazing!" he said as he wiped tears from his eyes. "I have a confession of my own to make. I can see that this is Arianna so I have no fear telling you both this. I need a vow from you both that what I say next will go no further then this room. Professor Flitwick knows about it but it is essentially my choice as to whether I want to tell anyone or not and despite what Dumblefork might try to say I am not obliged to tell anyone if I don't want to!" he said seriously.
Both Arianna and Snape performed the vow. "The reason that Hermione and I have the same name is because over the summer before we started school we met and had a soul bond. She is my wife and I love her dearly. As you've no doubt guessed by now the same applies to Luna and Neville. I hope you will just be saying to them should you mention anything to them about it that I told you about me and so you knew the same applied to them. She is my reason for living and I love her more then life itself. I have a sister I am so excited! Please say I can spoil you! Oh how awkward! Do I call you Sis or Arianna or what?" he asked making her laugh as he mirrored her earlier question to her dad.
"You may call me Anna as it's what most people do and I hope I can call you Harry or bro. As you've confessed so too will I. Severus or dad and I just discovered I'm a full veela and that I've already inadvertently mated for life with Adrian Pucey from Slytherin!" she said as Harry tentatively walked over to where she was now standing nervously wringing her hands in front of her. "Um Anna can I please hug you? All I've ever wanted was a normal family that didn't hate me or blame me for my mother's death!" he said as tears gushed from his eyes. Seeing her younger brother cry set her off and she grabbed him holding him close. "Look I know we've both had shit lives with you living as you did and me not knowing who my real parents were but at least now we have each other. I know Severus is not your father and he's mine but seriously please know we are both going to be here for you always in your life. We'll nearly always get it wrong somehow but we'll never stop trying. I have my family now and now the hole I've had in my heart can heal now. I've always felt so empty without a real family of my own. Thank you Harry for giving me my family back and you too Dad!" she said charging at Severus and hugging him deeply.
He was initially so shocked that he didn't say anything as the feeling of being cuddled by his very own daughter was so alien to him but as he relaxed a bit he finally wrapped his arms around her vowing to never let anyone harm his little girl and that he'd always support her choices and love her forever. "Harry you're not my son but I did love your mother more then anyone will ever know and my door will always be open to you. I'll always hate your dad but you are not he and I see that now. I've never been a parent or guide until now and this is all knew to me but I am willing to try and learn as I go. I am proud of you both so much. Thank you for completing my life. Please go now the both of you to breakfast and hurry up as I don't want my class to see me getting all emotional. I am Professor Severus Snape, severe man and we Snape's don't cry. See you later on Anna please call by my office for tea later today and Harry you and Hermione should come by as well!" he said as he hugged them both and they left. I may not have always done right Lily my sweet but one thing is certain I will watch over our daughter and your son to the very best of my ability he vowed sincerely feeling such utter elation at the prospect of a good family. All three of them had come from fractured backgrounds and together they could all learn to heal one another.