Chapter One -Establishing Friendship.
Severus Snape was sitting in his small bedroom in his family's mansion when a large tawny owl clipped its beak against the windowpane. Looking a tad annoyed, Severus threw open the window, and freed the bird of it's burden, before it ruffled it's feathers and hopping back out into the sky.
Mr. Severus Snape
Smallest Bed Room 234 Woodrow Ave. Hogsmead.
A bit weary, he tore open the envelope.
Dear Mr. Snape,
I am pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
At that point Severus stopped reading and exited his room, walking down the long, narrow hallways of the family mansion before stopping in front of his fathers study.
He knocked on the door softly, knowing better then to just let himself in.
"Come in." The soft voice that was his father replied.
"Father?"
"Yes Severus?" His father looked up from his papers. "What is it?"
"I just got my letter from Hogwarts."
"Oh, good, good." His father nodded. "We'll wait a few days to see if your letter comes from Durmstrang. Other wise, just.leave it on the desk there." He motioned towards the corner.
"Yes father." He set the letter on the desk, keeping the supply list.
As he was turning, his father called him back.
"Severus?"
"Yes father?"
"Call your sister in here, would you?"
"Of course." Severus made no attempted to hide his disappointment. He was used to being ignored by his father, and treated harshly by his siblings. There was one good thing about all of that though. No one knew about this extensive knowledge of the Dark Arts. His father rarely noticed his books or spare wands missing. Severus was sure he'd be going to Hogwarts, which according to his mother had an extensive library and was sure to have something in which he had never read before.
Severus was sure to be accepted to Durmstrang, but his mother would beat his father down into letting him go to Hogwarts. After all, two of their four children already attended Durmstrang.what was one that didn't?
School list still in hand, Severus knocked softly on his sister's door.
"What do you want you ugly little troll?" His older sister, Lani, a recent graduate from Durmstrang asked.
"Father wants to see you. And I am not ugly, nor a troll." Severus retorted.
"Get out of here!" Lani swatted at him. "Before I hex you!"
Lani had graduated from Durmstrang the year before, which was a school that specialized in the Dark Arts. He was sure he knew ten times more then she ever would about it though. He could think of some pretty good hexes to use on her as well.some sort of steel trap to clamp over her mouth and suffocate her-
By now he had approached his Mother's door. "Mum?" He knocked.
"Come in Severus." Her voice sounded bright and chipper.
"Mum, I got my letter from Hogwarts."
"Wonderful!" She smiled at him in her mirror as she pulled back her thin black hair in a ponytail. "Do you have your supply list? I'm sure your father has already gotten the acceptance letter." She rolled her eyes.
"Right here." He handed his mother the list.
"Wonderful." She smiled at him again. "We'll go to Diagon Alley for your wand the week before school starts. Everything else we'll mail order."
"Of course." Severus nodded.
"Oh Severus!" His mother pulled him into a hug, something of which he wasn't used to. "I'm so happy!"
__ A month later, Severus sat alone on the Hogwarts express. He had a small backpack at his feet, and a large Dark Arts novel open in his lap, something he had ordered from one of his Father's magazines.
"Excuse me?" The voice was extremely girlish. "Is this seat taken?"
"No." Severus shook his head. "Go ahead."
"Thanks." The girl smiled gratefully. "I'm Lily Evans." She held out her hand.
Severus made no move to shake it. "Severus Snape."
Lily bit her lip, and withdrew her hand. "So.what are you reading?"
"Just a book." He offered no more information.
"Lily! There you are! I've been looking all over the train for you!" A short boy in glasses with rumpled hair stuck his head in the compartment. "Oh.Hello Snape."
"Potter." Severus nodded curtly at his acquaintance.
"You two know each other?" Lily asked. "Wonderful!"
"We know each other through our mothers." Severus went back to his book.
"How is your mother?" James asked. "As long as we're on the subject."
"She's dying, how do you think she is?" Severus asked, raising his eyes slowly from his book to look at him, piercing daggers into James Potters heart.
"Sorry." Potter apologized. "I mean.oh crap."
"Why don't you go sit with Potter?" Snape spoke to Lily. "I'm sure he'll make a better conversationalist then I would."
As Lily got up, she shoved James out of the compartment, and then turned to Severus. "Don't mind James. He's very inconsiderate of other peoples feelings sometimes." She paused again. "I hope we can be really good friends, Severus." She smiled at him before leaving.
A smile tugged at Severus's lips before he went back to his book.
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"Black Sirius" was the first name called for the sorting. He being a tall, lanky boy seen chattering with James Potter was topped number two of people to dislike on Severus's list. He became a Gryffindor soon after the Sorting Hat was placed upon his head.
It went so on and so forth, Agatha Figg a Ravenclaw, Rosier Silks a Slytherin, Remus Lupin a Gryffindor, and some Heather person became a Hufflepuff. These were the only names that Severus heard before Lucius Malfoy became a Slytherin, followed by James Potter becoming a Gryffindor, until Severus heard his name.
"Snape, Severus."
Severus sat on the three-legged stool, silently begging for Slytherin.
"Ah." The hat spoke in his ear. "Severus Snape, eh? Slytherin house runs in your veins lad! Wise choice. SLYTHERIN!" the last word was heard over the entirety of the Great Hall.
"Hello there." Lucius Malfoy held out his hand as Severus sat down across from him. "Lucius Malfoy."
"Severus Snape." He made no move to shake the other boys hand. Reading about the dark arts had made him weary of other people.
Lucius smiled, and withdrew his hand. "You've been here less than an hour, and you have a reputation."
"That's nice to know." Severus turned to listen to Professor Dumbledore speak.
"-And a few new notices from our Castle Caretaker-"
"Are the rumors true?" Lucius pulled his attention back. "You've been studying Dark arts since you were eight?"
"Since I could read." Severus corrected him. "Is there anything else about my life you would like to inform me about?"
A malicious grin covered Lucius's face. "So you don't deny it?"
"Why should I?" Severus asked. "Look at it as a hobby."
Lucius laughed as food covered the table. "Very well then."
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A few nights later, Severus sat in the dimly lit common room, his personal copy of Potions For Dark Wizards open in his lap. Several of the older students had already come over to comment him on it.
"How old are you?" One had asked.
"Eleven." He had replied curtly.
"Where did you get such a book?" Another had asked.
"My mother bought it for me as reference."
After almost an hour of people asking him stupid questions, he was surprised to hear a bell.
"C'mon! To bed with all of you!" One of the Prefects stood. "Lights out in fifteen minutes!"
Shouldering his bag, he walked down east side of the common room to the boy's dormitory, which was sectioned off into separate dungeon rooms regarding year. His particular dorm was the first on the left.
"Read anything interesting?" Lucius Malfoy was already on his bed, shirtless, studying a rather shabby copy of Deal With The Dark Side, the book they used for Defense Against the Dark Arts class.
Severus chose not to reply to him, stuffing his bag into his trunk, and taking out a fresh pair of shorts and a crisp white t-shirt.
"I got your tongue?" Lucius asked.
"No, but if you don't shut up, I'll have yours." Severus hissed, changing quickly before the common room got to awfully full, ignoring the fact that Lucius was watching him. Hopefully the other boy knew how to advert his eyes.
"I heard that Gryffindor talking about you." Lucius had now stood, and was folding tomorrow's robes over the back of a chair. "That Lily girl you like. I reckon she fancies you as well, Snape."
Severus was silent for a moment, before speaking sarcastically. "Yes of course. Hogwarts has everything. Brave Gryffindor, Smart Ravenclaw, and Humble Hufflepuff, but none with ever succeed to the sexiness of Slytherin."
Lucius laughed in a cackled sort of manner, before calming down long enough to say, " I think we're going to be good friends, you and I."
Severus Snape was sitting in his small bedroom in his family's mansion when a large tawny owl clipped its beak against the windowpane. Looking a tad annoyed, Severus threw open the window, and freed the bird of it's burden, before it ruffled it's feathers and hopping back out into the sky.
Mr. Severus Snape
Smallest Bed Room 234 Woodrow Ave. Hogsmead.
A bit weary, he tore open the envelope.
Dear Mr. Snape,
I am pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
At that point Severus stopped reading and exited his room, walking down the long, narrow hallways of the family mansion before stopping in front of his fathers study.
He knocked on the door softly, knowing better then to just let himself in.
"Come in." The soft voice that was his father replied.
"Father?"
"Yes Severus?" His father looked up from his papers. "What is it?"
"I just got my letter from Hogwarts."
"Oh, good, good." His father nodded. "We'll wait a few days to see if your letter comes from Durmstrang. Other wise, just.leave it on the desk there." He motioned towards the corner.
"Yes father." He set the letter on the desk, keeping the supply list.
As he was turning, his father called him back.
"Severus?"
"Yes father?"
"Call your sister in here, would you?"
"Of course." Severus made no attempted to hide his disappointment. He was used to being ignored by his father, and treated harshly by his siblings. There was one good thing about all of that though. No one knew about this extensive knowledge of the Dark Arts. His father rarely noticed his books or spare wands missing. Severus was sure he'd be going to Hogwarts, which according to his mother had an extensive library and was sure to have something in which he had never read before.
Severus was sure to be accepted to Durmstrang, but his mother would beat his father down into letting him go to Hogwarts. After all, two of their four children already attended Durmstrang.what was one that didn't?
School list still in hand, Severus knocked softly on his sister's door.
"What do you want you ugly little troll?" His older sister, Lani, a recent graduate from Durmstrang asked.
"Father wants to see you. And I am not ugly, nor a troll." Severus retorted.
"Get out of here!" Lani swatted at him. "Before I hex you!"
Lani had graduated from Durmstrang the year before, which was a school that specialized in the Dark Arts. He was sure he knew ten times more then she ever would about it though. He could think of some pretty good hexes to use on her as well.some sort of steel trap to clamp over her mouth and suffocate her-
By now he had approached his Mother's door. "Mum?" He knocked.
"Come in Severus." Her voice sounded bright and chipper.
"Mum, I got my letter from Hogwarts."
"Wonderful!" She smiled at him in her mirror as she pulled back her thin black hair in a ponytail. "Do you have your supply list? I'm sure your father has already gotten the acceptance letter." She rolled her eyes.
"Right here." He handed his mother the list.
"Wonderful." She smiled at him again. "We'll go to Diagon Alley for your wand the week before school starts. Everything else we'll mail order."
"Of course." Severus nodded.
"Oh Severus!" His mother pulled him into a hug, something of which he wasn't used to. "I'm so happy!"
__ A month later, Severus sat alone on the Hogwarts express. He had a small backpack at his feet, and a large Dark Arts novel open in his lap, something he had ordered from one of his Father's magazines.
"Excuse me?" The voice was extremely girlish. "Is this seat taken?"
"No." Severus shook his head. "Go ahead."
"Thanks." The girl smiled gratefully. "I'm Lily Evans." She held out her hand.
Severus made no move to shake it. "Severus Snape."
Lily bit her lip, and withdrew her hand. "So.what are you reading?"
"Just a book." He offered no more information.
"Lily! There you are! I've been looking all over the train for you!" A short boy in glasses with rumpled hair stuck his head in the compartment. "Oh.Hello Snape."
"Potter." Severus nodded curtly at his acquaintance.
"You two know each other?" Lily asked. "Wonderful!"
"We know each other through our mothers." Severus went back to his book.
"How is your mother?" James asked. "As long as we're on the subject."
"She's dying, how do you think she is?" Severus asked, raising his eyes slowly from his book to look at him, piercing daggers into James Potters heart.
"Sorry." Potter apologized. "I mean.oh crap."
"Why don't you go sit with Potter?" Snape spoke to Lily. "I'm sure he'll make a better conversationalist then I would."
As Lily got up, she shoved James out of the compartment, and then turned to Severus. "Don't mind James. He's very inconsiderate of other peoples feelings sometimes." She paused again. "I hope we can be really good friends, Severus." She smiled at him before leaving.
A smile tugged at Severus's lips before he went back to his book.
__
"Black Sirius" was the first name called for the sorting. He being a tall, lanky boy seen chattering with James Potter was topped number two of people to dislike on Severus's list. He became a Gryffindor soon after the Sorting Hat was placed upon his head.
It went so on and so forth, Agatha Figg a Ravenclaw, Rosier Silks a Slytherin, Remus Lupin a Gryffindor, and some Heather person became a Hufflepuff. These were the only names that Severus heard before Lucius Malfoy became a Slytherin, followed by James Potter becoming a Gryffindor, until Severus heard his name.
"Snape, Severus."
Severus sat on the three-legged stool, silently begging for Slytherin.
"Ah." The hat spoke in his ear. "Severus Snape, eh? Slytherin house runs in your veins lad! Wise choice. SLYTHERIN!" the last word was heard over the entirety of the Great Hall.
"Hello there." Lucius Malfoy held out his hand as Severus sat down across from him. "Lucius Malfoy."
"Severus Snape." He made no move to shake the other boys hand. Reading about the dark arts had made him weary of other people.
Lucius smiled, and withdrew his hand. "You've been here less than an hour, and you have a reputation."
"That's nice to know." Severus turned to listen to Professor Dumbledore speak.
"-And a few new notices from our Castle Caretaker-"
"Are the rumors true?" Lucius pulled his attention back. "You've been studying Dark arts since you were eight?"
"Since I could read." Severus corrected him. "Is there anything else about my life you would like to inform me about?"
A malicious grin covered Lucius's face. "So you don't deny it?"
"Why should I?" Severus asked. "Look at it as a hobby."
Lucius laughed as food covered the table. "Very well then."
__
A few nights later, Severus sat in the dimly lit common room, his personal copy of Potions For Dark Wizards open in his lap. Several of the older students had already come over to comment him on it.
"How old are you?" One had asked.
"Eleven." He had replied curtly.
"Where did you get such a book?" Another had asked.
"My mother bought it for me as reference."
After almost an hour of people asking him stupid questions, he was surprised to hear a bell.
"C'mon! To bed with all of you!" One of the Prefects stood. "Lights out in fifteen minutes!"
Shouldering his bag, he walked down east side of the common room to the boy's dormitory, which was sectioned off into separate dungeon rooms regarding year. His particular dorm was the first on the left.
"Read anything interesting?" Lucius Malfoy was already on his bed, shirtless, studying a rather shabby copy of Deal With The Dark Side, the book they used for Defense Against the Dark Arts class.
Severus chose not to reply to him, stuffing his bag into his trunk, and taking out a fresh pair of shorts and a crisp white t-shirt.
"I got your tongue?" Lucius asked.
"No, but if you don't shut up, I'll have yours." Severus hissed, changing quickly before the common room got to awfully full, ignoring the fact that Lucius was watching him. Hopefully the other boy knew how to advert his eyes.
"I heard that Gryffindor talking about you." Lucius had now stood, and was folding tomorrow's robes over the back of a chair. "That Lily girl you like. I reckon she fancies you as well, Snape."
Severus was silent for a moment, before speaking sarcastically. "Yes of course. Hogwarts has everything. Brave Gryffindor, Smart Ravenclaw, and Humble Hufflepuff, but none with ever succeed to the sexiness of Slytherin."
Lucius laughed in a cackled sort of manner, before calming down long enough to say, " I think we're going to be good friends, you and I."