Chapter 6

When she got to her fathers class Anna was in higher spirits than she ha been that morning. When lunch had come round she had been so hungry that she had ate her first proper meal since she had come to Hogwarts and there was a shadow of the Anna that Severus had always known.

When he got there he was satisfied with the come any the child was in as she had chosen to stay with her elder and over protective god brother.

Though she had had to endure many taunts they were all in good heart, the Slytherins were all young and while trying to b e 'hard' were still kids at heart.

Just then they watched as there head of house and father walked down to them the rest of the children in his wake.

They hadn't yet learned her bloodline as her last name had not come up in there last class and she hadn't told any one who did not already know.

Going in side the class room all the students who had already been here a term went to there seats and Anna looked around. She didn't any idea where her place was.

While he was not pleased about it the only spare seat that Severus could see was at the back of the class with the golden trio.

Directing h is child there; Severus moved to the front of the room and begun his lecture.

Anna was shocked at the difference between her father, the dad she knew and the potions master. When he was teaching he was a lot firmer on the class than he was on his own child.

When he was done with lecture he wrote the instructions on the board.

"Get on with it," he told them. "Anna I'll set you something different." he said going to her.

"Was that over your head a lot," he asked and was answered by a nod from his child. "No matter we can catch up," he said and set her a simpler potion. While he knew she had done potions before, due to all the stress she had been under had caused her studies to be neglected not that he would have had it any other way. She had needed time to heal. She still did.

"If you need help just ask me ok," he said.

Hermione which had been listening in was shocked by there reply she gave him.

"Yes dad," Anna said.

So that was where Hermione had thought she was familiar the first time they had met.

Seeing the girl work on happily in the presence of her father she was shocked. Surely if she had Snape for a father she would hate it but then again maybe he was different as a father than a teacher.

The two boys looked at her as if to say what the hell, but what could she do. If she spoke she would get in trouble and she didn't want that.

Finally the class came to an end.

"Come on Anna," said Draco and ushered her rout the hall.

Giving her house mates a smile she followed out her friends.

"Do you think Snape honestly has a daughter?" Asked Ron.

"Yes," said Hermione. "I do."

Anna spent the afternoon by the lake. They had no class that evening and she didn't have to rush any where.

Though she was a little cold while she was out there she enjoyed it. She hadn't had a lot of quiet time just to be restful of late.

She was grateful for the beginning of her classes. Things were finally getting back to normal for her, or as normal as they could be now.

She liked it out by the lake a lot. It just seemed soothing.

Suddenly there was a bark. Turning to see where it came from Annabelle saw the game keeper. His name was Hagrid. Draco had told her about him and didn't seem to like him a lot but Annabelle thought he looked like a kind man.

"Ello," he said to the student. He knew a lot of them but he hadn't seen this girl before, then again he thought he had heard of her. The staff had all been told in one of the meetings what had happened to Severus' ex lover and that he had had tot take in his child.

"Hello sir," she said to him

"Yer 'right?" he asked her.

"Yes sir," she said to him.

"Aint yer cold out here lass, why don't yer come n hav' a cuppa tea at mine if yer at a loss end for the after noon." He suggested.

Smiling sat the suggestion she nodded. It seemed her first impressions of him were correct.

She had a very good time in Hagrid's hut. He seemed to be a very happy man and funny too. She enjoyed his company immensely.

He got the impression of her mother quickly. He had been friends and had helped Jane whilst she had been a student and the similarities between the mother and her daughter were only too easy to spot. And her father. She had a lot of traits from Severus as well.

Leaving she knew she had to write to her god parents. They had told her to before they had left at Christmas and she had to the common room she saws her defense teacher.

"Oh sir," She said to her defense teacher, "Did we get any home work?" she asked. She would have thought they would, she had always got it at her old school but she honestly didn't remember

"No S-s-snape," he said to her nervous as always.

Just then as they stood in the corridor some one else entered.

It was her father and when he saw his daughter so alone with Quirrell he didn't look favorable on the situation. He did not trust the man with any thing least of all the thing he cared for most in the world.

"Annabelle," he greeted his daughter.

"Dad!" she smiled.

"Why don't we go ands look over your notes from class, I can help you out," he suggested, getting her away from the other man with out knowing that was his true motive.

"Ok," she smiled glad for the time she would get with her father alone.

They went back to the quarters he thought as 'there's', no longer his. They shared it.

After she had had some time with him she headed back to his dorm were she met up with the other girls from her year and her house.

"Hey!" She said as she got back in.

"You alright?" Said lavender as she lay reading through a magazine.

"Fine, you" she said.

"Yup,"

That night she ate with her ho use. She had to get used to them. She knew the next day shed was going to get some taunts from the Slytherins but she'd get over it.

"So your really Snape's daughter" asked Ron.

"Yup," she said as she ate some bread and butter.

Sighing from where he sat Severus saw her talking to the Gryffindors again.

The child had a mind off his own he reminded himself and she had to live in a tower with them but god did he wish could live in the dictionary sometimes.

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