The Lion and the Serpent

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Chapter one: Best for both

In a small house in London, lived a couple with their newly born baby. They loved each other, but then something occurred…

- You must be kidding Eileen, this… this can't be –

- It's true, do you think that I will lie to you? –

- I love you, but if this is going to be this way, I won't be able to face it –

Eileen Prince had married Tobias Snape a year ago, but she hadn't told him everything about her, since today.

- You'll be able to face it. Nothing is going to change –

- Eileen, you are a witch, and may be this baby is going to be a wizard; I won't be able to rise him properly if that happen –

- But he'll need you, you are his father –

- When will we know if our son is going to be a wizard? –

- Approximately, when he is eleven –

- Let's make a deal… you, with our son, return with your parents, I'll stay here. If our son is a wizard, you'll rise him without me; but if he isn't, come back and we'll be a family again –

- But, he'll need his father –

- But I won't be able to tell him things about the magical world, I'll be useless for him –

Eileen understood what Tobias said, and she leave the house of his husband.

The years passed, Severus Snape had grown with his grandparents and his mother, with the idea that his father died.

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In a house, far from London, live a witch and a wizard, who had returned from St. Mungos with their baby-girl

- Well, since now, I won't return to work –

- Charlotte, don't worry about that, you know that my brother will be willing to take care of her –

- Oh really, I don't think that being professor at Hogwarts gives enough time for caring a little girl –

- You don't have to leave your job if you don't want to –

Albert and Charlotte Dumbledore work for the Ministry of Magic, he is an Auror and she is an Enforcer. Albert is the half-brother of Albus Dumbledore, professor of Transfiguration at Hogwarts.

- I don't care of my job, there are others that can do it better than me –

- For me you are the best Enforcer, but are you sure you want to leave it –

- Sure, rising my little daughter is far more important –

Charlotte left her job, and she dedicated her time to the little Alondra, who grew up full of knowledge and with the love of her parents and her uncle.

Alondra and Severus are meant to do great things, some of them horrible, some of them putting the other in danger; but they'll survive through the war that is heading, although they'll be in different sides.