AN: Oh! Yay, the italics are working okay for most likely new people I changed this chapter and made Snape's dad meaner! thanks for reading and (hopefully!) reviewing!! :)
With a flourish, Severus strode into the Great Hall, walking heartily as if nothing was wrong.
He passed by Professors Trelawny and Sinistra and he overheard part of their conversation.
"Did you feel the castle sort of shake this morning at around...... 9ish?"
"Why, yes I did, do you know what caused it?"
"No idea, although afterwards, I thought I could almost smell a......." Professor Sinistra paused, searching for the right word, "peroxide smell about."
Severus paused almost as if he were about to say something to them, then thought better of it and proceeded to his seat next to the Headmaster. As soon as he'd sat down, he quickly busied himself with putting food onto his plate.
"Well, good afternoon Severus, so good to see you looking so......uh......umm, punctual," Flitwick stuttered over his words, hoping not to anger the already furious potions teacher by showing him that he'd noticed Severus' blonde head.
Snape just glared at him and returned to pushing his beans around on his plate.
Dumbledore just chuckled and clapped Snape on his back. "Don't worry Severus, I'm sure that it was just some accident hmm? Looks almost like the time you tried-"
"Excuse me Headmaster," Snape said loudly, "Could you please pass the potatoes?" Hoping to compel Dumbledore into forgetting what he was talking about. He shuddered to think what the other teachers would think of him when they'd found out what had happened when he had first arrived at Hogwarts and was trying to concoct a powerful potion that had, literally blown up in his face.
Dumbledore looked confused for a second, then smiled, grabbing the potatoes and handing them to Severus. "Come now, Severus, there's no need to be embarrassed. Everyone here knows what a good potions master you are. I'm sure they wouldn't mind hearing a story about your not-so-good first days here at Hogwarts." Dumbledore then smiled brightly at him and continued to tell the rest of the Staff Table about Snape's little incident with his cauldron.
Severus groaned loudly and burrowed his face in his hands.
He lifted his face when he heard everyone laughing heartily.
"Ah, it's alright Severus," Professor Sprout commented wiping a tear from the corner of her eye. "But you have to admit, it is pretty funny," She started laughing once more.
Severus groaned again, he did not need to be consoled by a plant teacher for gods' sake! He started shoveling food into his mouth, trying to hurry so he get out of there as fast as possible so he could get rid of this damned hair colour! Grrrrrr!
Once again Severus' thoughts wandered to think who could have done such a thing. Surely none of the teachers would have tried such an absurd prank; none of them had that sense of humour. Only Dumbledore possessed such a happy-go-lucky nature, all of the other teachers were so uptight most of time. Wait...there was no way Dumbledore would do this to him; Dumbledore knew how much Snape hated his original hair colour. Yes Dumbledore knew the whole story. Snape's mind suddenly drifted back to when he was five.........
[ The five-year-old Severus Snape stood in front of the bathroom, trying to do something to his hair. Being a child prodigy, he had concocted a plan to finally get rid of the ash blonde colour. And no he wasn't going to shave his hair off. He'd stolen his father's wand while his father was at work. These days his "father" always seemed to be at the Ministry. His was a member of the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad and lately he was working double shifts, so often he wasn't home to keep an eye on his genius son. Severus' mother was off next door, gambling away all their savings. Severus knew that was why his dad was working so much; his mother just couldn't stop throwing their money down the drain.
Severus leaned close and peered at himself in the mirror. Already tall, he had extremely dark brown eyes, sometimes making him look like he had black eyes, which the neighborhood kids teased him about, as well as his peroxide hair, which they knew he hated. He couldn't help the single tear that crept out of the corner of his eye and dropped onto his cheek. His mother was always out of the house, doing something with someone else and his dad was constantly working at the moment, he was often left at home all alone. But not anymore, Severus was determined to make some friends and to get them he needed to do something about this blasted hair for starters.
He slid off of the chair that he had been using, placing the wand next to the sink; he toddled off to his father's study where he knew a big book of spells was kept. He stood up on his tiptoes to reach it and pulled. It fell to the floor with a heavy 'thud' and he dragged it into the bathroom. He started flipping through the book, trying to find the section that he had found the other day.
He suddenly remembered that his father was due home early today. He rushed to his living room to check the family clock. His father's hand had moved from 'At Work' to 'Travelling'. Looking horrified, Severus ran as fast as his little legs allowed him to, dragging the big book back into his father's study, leaving it beside his desk; he rushed back to the bathroom, grabbed his father's wand, pushed the chair into the living room and set it next to the mantle. He climbed up and placed his father's wand exactly where it was supposed to be, stepped down off the chair and hurried to push it back to where it was in the dining room.
Severus ran back to the living room, turned the TV on and sat down, trying to look animated. It was funny, he thought, his father absolutely despised muggles and anything to do with them but Severus really couldn't see what all the fuss was, they were the same as wizards, just they couldn't do magic.
When Severus heard the fireplace in the next room flair up, announcing his father's arrival, he knew he was safe. Dreading seeing his dad, Severus prayed he wouldn't anger him tonight. His father was extremely severe in his beatings when he was tired after a long day at work. Hoping to please him, Severus rushed out to see his father.]
Shaking his head Severus came out of his reverie. He looked around stunned.
All the teachers were looking at him confounded.
"Severus, are you alright?" Dumbledore asked, looking concerned. "We didn't think we'd upset you that much."
"What? What are you talking about?" Severus asked gruffly, wondering where this was going.
Suddenly he realized his eyes were damp. Quickly he blinked away any unshed tears for his dire childhood. He realised the teachers were still watching him, baffled.
Severus thought he had better get out of there before what little dignity he had left was shredded into billions of tiny, tiny pieces. Clearing his throat he stood up and begun to walk out of the Great Hall. He could almost feel the teacher's eyes following him till he was finally out of sight behind the double doors.
He sighed with relief and hurried off; back to his office, the sooner he got away from humankind, the better.
Snape shook his head ruefully; he couldn't believe the day he was having. First his hair and office were peroxided, now he had nearly burst into tears in front of the entire school! Would this horrifying day never end! Too bad he had lessons all afternoon. At the moment all he wanted to do was shack himself up in his obliterated office and search for an antidote to fix this cursed hair.
Clearly, nothing else can go wrong, he thought exasperatedly.
How very wrong he was...
AN: Okay, there's chapter 3! I'm glad I finally wrote it, I've been really lazy with summer holidays and stuff. I know I ended it with the same words as my last chapter but I like them so I decided to use them again and I know this chapter doesn't have much humour, in fact it's quite sad, I cried after I'd written it! That just shows what I'm like doesn't it? Okay, I want to ask if you have any ideas of what else can happen to Snape and if you do, just let me know! Then you can review at the same time! Well, yes, please read and review, thank-you!!! -Hope (AutumnGoddess)