"What are you doing?" Harry asked as he came out of his room and saw Anastasia crouched down on the floor with her ear pressed against the door to the library where Severus and her Grandmother had disappeared into a few moments before.
"Shh." Was the only reply he got then after a few more minutes Anastasia said, "This is useless, I can't hear anything." Then after a muttering a few words and waving her hand over the door both Anastasia and Harry could hear the conversation going on inside.
"…did it for her own good." Juanita said angrily.
"Her own good? Do you know how what you did affected her? Before she barely wondered if I was going to abandon her now it's obvious that she worries about it all the time. I thought that we had worked through her fear but then all the had work that we went through over the years went up in smoke the moment that you kicked her out!"
"She knew the rules and the consequences-"
"Damn the consequences I knew it was a bad idea to allow her to come here year after year but I let her because I thought that it would be good for her to get to know you and her grandfather. I didn't like it but I continued to send her thinking that she was at least getting to know her family. But I made a very big mistake by doing that. Do you realize that by not sending her to Hogwarts we almost ruined any chance that the wizarding world had at peace. Both you and I are to blame for that but I am taking responsibility for it. Do you also realize that I was almost the one to put an end to the Snape line? A pureblood line of powerful witches and wizards that went back centuries before my sister and I were adopted into it and Anastasia was born into."
"Adopted?" Harry mouthed to Anastasia.
"I'll explain later." Was the reply.
"…never contact her again. This will be the last time any Snape enters this house. We will stay for dinner tomorrow then we will leave and that will be the last time you will ever see either of us."
At this time Harry and Anastasia heard people moving around with no where close enough to get to. So Anastasia did the only thing she could think of, she knocked on the door and entered.
"Harry and I are going to walk into town, I'm going to show him around. We'll be back later." Anastasia said then left dragging Harry out the front door and outside behind her.
The two walked in silence for a while; finally Harry broke the silence, "What was that about adoption?"
"Dad probably won't like me telling you this, my father's father was a muggle. The man wasn't all that nice either. He would hit my grandmother, aunt, and dad. Finally when dad was eight grandma divorced him. She met Tobias Snape they got married and he adopted dad and Aunt Vittoria into the family. When they started Hogwarts everyone believed that they were Tobias's real children because he had been living in Italy for years and no one had seen him so it made sense that people would assume that they were his. The adoption has never gotten out."
"So if your dad is a half blood why would he join Voldemort?"
"His only experience with muggles had been with his father so in his mind all muggles were evil and he wanted to help Voldemort rid the world of them. That is until he met my mother."
Anastasia and Harry continued walking around the small town with Anastasia pointing out various places. After they had circled the whole town Anastasia announced, "I'm hungry, how about you?"
"A little"
"So what do you want?" at this Harry looked confused like no one's ever asked him this before and he asked what she meant.
"It's a simple question, what do you want to eat?"
"I don't know I've never really had the choice before, it was mostly whatever aunt Petunia gave me."
"Well now you do, so do you want pizza, burger's, or subs. Because Hailey's has good subs but Robbins has the best pizza, and for burger's it would have to be Diana's."
"I still don't know. I haven't had any of those before."
Anastasia's jaw dropped and her eyes just about fell out of her head as she said, "You've never had pizza or any of the other food?" Harry just shook his head wondering what the big deal was. "You poor deprived child. Come on we have few stops to make."
"Where and why?"
"We are going to all three places, because it's about time that you learn the glory of take out. We will get so much food that we will be five hundred pounds when we're done."
So with that Anastasia led Harry to all three bars to order their food. At Hailey's they order a six-inch of each type of sub, at Robbins they again ordered each and every type of specialty pizza that they had, and at both places they charged it to Anastasia's Grandmother's tab since neither had enough money. While waiting for all their good to get done the two went over to the grocery store where they spent a considerable amount of time picking out just the right kinds of pop and movies along with some more junk food.
When they got back a few hours later laden down with food, pop, and movies Harry was shaking his head wondering how they would ever get through so much stuff.
"Get enough?" Severus asked as Harry and Anastasia entered the house.
"Hi dad, can you believe that Harry has never had pizza or anything good like that?"
"No I can't so I take it you took it upon yourself to see that he try's everything" Anastasia nodded. "So what happens if you can't finish everything before we leave?"
"Take it back to school with us. I'm sure that some muggle born students will love to see this again." Anastasia replied resisting the urge to add a "duh" to that.
"Of course whatever was I thinking?" Severus asked sarcastically as the two sixteen year olds made their way up to Anastasia's room to watch movies and eat everything that they had bought which also included popcorn, gummy worms, and various other types of muggle candy that had been on display at the video store.
"What is going on in here?" a voice said from the doorway of Anastasia room a few hours later.
"Hello grandmother." Anastasia replied, "Do you want something to eat we have plenty."
"No I would not. It's time for dinner and Cilia has made a wonderful meal. Also there's someone here to see you."
Anastasia looked confused for a moment then her eyes got big and she gasped out, "No, no, no, no."
"What is it?" Harry asked worried about the girl's reaction.
"Pedro." Was all she said.
"Yes, why don't you put on the dress that I set on your bed, and your friend can come with me while you change." The old woman said indicating to Harry that it would be in his best interest to follow.
Anastasia hurried over to the bed to see what her grandmother had found. The dress- if it could be called that- was big, poofy, and worst of all in Anastasia's mind pink. As she held it up Anastasia wondered if her grandmother had gone temporarily insane and didn't realize Anastasia wasn't a four hundred pound female wrestler. There was no way she was going to wear that hideous thing, not in front of Harry anyway.
So Anastasia hurried over to her closet and pulled out a pair of black pants and a blue top that was sparkly and the sides came down just a pit more than the front or back. After changing she practically ran to the dinning room worried of what she would find upon entering.
okay now that july is finally over with I will probably have more time to write and update. Someone was asking if there is going to be more series probably not. I think that when this is done there will either bea sequel or nothing, you see there are two ways that I have thought of for this to end either way will work but one way there will be nothing after this, and the other will have a sequel or it will just continue on to this and it will be really long. My guess is that there will be a sequel. and I've rambled long enough.
Go read Rude Awakenings by BriMcPoopers if you haven't already.