Sorry these chapters are so short, but I know once you read the ending of
this one that you'll have to agree with me that there was nothing else that
could have been said to make the chapter ending any better. Hopefully the
chapters will get longer once the crew gets back to Hogwarts and the adventure starts, but no guarantees. Anyway. Thanks so super much to No
Name LOL, Sarahamanda, and RandiWeasley for reading this. Oh, and I've been neglecting my disclaimer. This whole thing belongs to J.K. Rowling and not me, though I want to claim Koraleigh if I can. I'm kinda partial to her. However I am making no money off the deal, it's simply a form of entertainment to me. Ahh. Now, that that's out of the way....on with the
show!
CHAPTER FIVE
Harry walked down Diagon Alley, not entirely sure whether he wished to burst out in hysterical laughter, hurry and find Ron and Hermione to tell them of this newfound knowledge, or simply sit down somewhere and meditate on the absurdity of it all. So Snape actually had a family. That was...interesting. But something irked him about Snape's older daughter. Koraleigh was her name, he thought. She was...different. It was almost like he couldn't stop thinking about her and that really bothered her. It wasn't as though he had a crush on her, she was only eleven for God's sake, but something entirely different. Though she was pretty, in a little kid sort of way. It was extremely strange for Harry to be thinking this way about Snape's daughter and even weirder to contemplate the fact that he actually had two of them. But yet, this fact seemed irrelevant in the confusion that followed Harry around concerning Koraleigh Snape.
Harry walked into a little shop filled with different knick-knacks, almost like a Muggle pawnshop. He was in Diagon Alley with Ron and Hermione, but they had shooed him away for a while, presumably to buy his birthday things. He had been forbidden to enter any store that he thought they might possibly be in. Ron and Harry both were staying with the Grangers for two weeks, Mr. Weasley thinking it a wonderful idea that his youngest son could learn first hand what it was like to be a Muggle. Harry had almost not been allowed to go. Dumbledore, Lupin, and Mrs. Weasley wanted him to stay at the Dursleys where it was safe, but had finally given in after Dumbledore had been given permission from the Grangers to completely safeguard their house from all Dark Magic, as well as hooking their fireplace up to the Floo Network.
Harry checked his watch and sighed. Still another hour until he was scheduled to meet Hermione and Ron in front of Gringotts. He began absentmindedly browsing through the dirty shelves, all the time thinking about Koraleigh Snape.
Almost an hour later, Harry had neither found anything of extreme interest, though he had found a few things, most notably a book dedicated to his own life in explicit details, though most were blatantly wrong, nor come to any conclusions about Koraleigh. He left the little store and walked toward Gringotts, where Ron and Hermione were waiting. Neither was carrying anything, but Harry was well-aware that didn't mean anything.
"Hey Harry." said Ron nonchalantly. "Find anything interesting?"
"Actually I did." replied Harry. "But it was more in the way of interesting information."
Hermione's eyes began to shine, the way they always did when someone mentioned acquired knowledge. "Well?" she demanded.
"You'll never believe who I saw." said Harry mysteriously.
Ron shrugged. "Who?"
"Professor Snape."
Ron winced a bit. "I'm sorry, mate. But what's so interesting about that? I mean, the man is a git, pure and simple."
"Did Professor Snape tell you anything about who the new Defense teacher is going to be? I hope it's someone decent this year. " asked Hermione hopefully..
Ron gave her a disgusted look. "Right. And he's hurried back to tell us that. Is he..." Ron wrinkled up his nose..."dating someone?"
Harry paused. "Well, I guess you're kind of close. Snape apparently has kids. Two daughters. Koraleigh and...um, Kinelli, I think. Koraleigh's starting at Hogwarts this year. Snape didn't seem too thrilled to see me."
"Are you sure?" asked Hermione in disbelief. "Maybe they were his nieces or something."
"No. I talked to him. They're definitely his daughters. The little one looks almost identical to him. It's scary."
"What did he say?" asked Hermione.
"Nothing really, introduced me to Koraleigh and Kinelli. He was actually polite. Course, I was trying to be nice too, for information's sake."
Hermione nodded thoughtfully, as though trying to process all this.
Ron, however, was looking at Harry as though he'd grown an extra nose. "But, to have kids, that means, someone would actually have had to..." he gulped, in obvious distress, unable to finish the sentence.
chapters will get longer once the crew gets back to Hogwarts and the adventure starts, but no guarantees. Anyway. Thanks so super much to No
Name LOL, Sarahamanda, and RandiWeasley for reading this. Oh, and I've been neglecting my disclaimer. This whole thing belongs to J.K. Rowling and not me, though I want to claim Koraleigh if I can. I'm kinda partial to her. However I am making no money off the deal, it's simply a form of entertainment to me. Ahh. Now, that that's out of the way....on with the
show!
CHAPTER FIVE
Harry walked down Diagon Alley, not entirely sure whether he wished to burst out in hysterical laughter, hurry and find Ron and Hermione to tell them of this newfound knowledge, or simply sit down somewhere and meditate on the absurdity of it all. So Snape actually had a family. That was...interesting. But something irked him about Snape's older daughter. Koraleigh was her name, he thought. She was...different. It was almost like he couldn't stop thinking about her and that really bothered her. It wasn't as though he had a crush on her, she was only eleven for God's sake, but something entirely different. Though she was pretty, in a little kid sort of way. It was extremely strange for Harry to be thinking this way about Snape's daughter and even weirder to contemplate the fact that he actually had two of them. But yet, this fact seemed irrelevant in the confusion that followed Harry around concerning Koraleigh Snape.
Harry walked into a little shop filled with different knick-knacks, almost like a Muggle pawnshop. He was in Diagon Alley with Ron and Hermione, but they had shooed him away for a while, presumably to buy his birthday things. He had been forbidden to enter any store that he thought they might possibly be in. Ron and Harry both were staying with the Grangers for two weeks, Mr. Weasley thinking it a wonderful idea that his youngest son could learn first hand what it was like to be a Muggle. Harry had almost not been allowed to go. Dumbledore, Lupin, and Mrs. Weasley wanted him to stay at the Dursleys where it was safe, but had finally given in after Dumbledore had been given permission from the Grangers to completely safeguard their house from all Dark Magic, as well as hooking their fireplace up to the Floo Network.
Harry checked his watch and sighed. Still another hour until he was scheduled to meet Hermione and Ron in front of Gringotts. He began absentmindedly browsing through the dirty shelves, all the time thinking about Koraleigh Snape.
Almost an hour later, Harry had neither found anything of extreme interest, though he had found a few things, most notably a book dedicated to his own life in explicit details, though most were blatantly wrong, nor come to any conclusions about Koraleigh. He left the little store and walked toward Gringotts, where Ron and Hermione were waiting. Neither was carrying anything, but Harry was well-aware that didn't mean anything.
"Hey Harry." said Ron nonchalantly. "Find anything interesting?"
"Actually I did." replied Harry. "But it was more in the way of interesting information."
Hermione's eyes began to shine, the way they always did when someone mentioned acquired knowledge. "Well?" she demanded.
"You'll never believe who I saw." said Harry mysteriously.
Ron shrugged. "Who?"
"Professor Snape."
Ron winced a bit. "I'm sorry, mate. But what's so interesting about that? I mean, the man is a git, pure and simple."
"Did Professor Snape tell you anything about who the new Defense teacher is going to be? I hope it's someone decent this year. " asked Hermione hopefully..
Ron gave her a disgusted look. "Right. And he's hurried back to tell us that. Is he..." Ron wrinkled up his nose..."dating someone?"
Harry paused. "Well, I guess you're kind of close. Snape apparently has kids. Two daughters. Koraleigh and...um, Kinelli, I think. Koraleigh's starting at Hogwarts this year. Snape didn't seem too thrilled to see me."
"Are you sure?" asked Hermione in disbelief. "Maybe they were his nieces or something."
"No. I talked to him. They're definitely his daughters. The little one looks almost identical to him. It's scary."
"What did he say?" asked Hermione.
"Nothing really, introduced me to Koraleigh and Kinelli. He was actually polite. Course, I was trying to be nice too, for information's sake."
Hermione nodded thoughtfully, as though trying to process all this.
Ron, however, was looking at Harry as though he'd grown an extra nose. "But, to have kids, that means, someone would actually have had to..." he gulped, in obvious distress, unable to finish the sentence.