The Best Years of Our Lives (a Hogwarts story)

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter I simply own the Idea for this story and my Character Serafina. Kiyoko is copy write of my friend who is writing the next chapter.

By: KaityXBlindXAngel

Sera's POV

I slowly woke up looking around at the camp site we had set up, it had already been two long days and we were still out searching for the Pure manor. After sitting up I rubbed my ankle, its was still a little sore, but I could manage. Sighing I looked through some tree's and saw off in the distance what looked like a mansion. 'The Pure manor,' I though to myself, my eyes widened, 'It has to be it!' I then darted over to my dad's tent and practically tackled him. He jumped up and glared at me, "Serafina Snape, what was the point of waking me up!"

"Look dad," I stated as I pointed over to the mansion. I could only hope I was right and that was the manor, as soon as we got there I knew we would be safe for a while.

He then took out his wand and with a flick of it his tent was neatly folded and back into his shrunken suitcase. He looked at mine and again did the same thing, then looking down at me with a smile, "come Sera, we are almost there."

It wasn't long after we started walking towards the house, I started thinking again. I had been almost killed by a Hippogriff, seeing Dumbledore's dead body laying in the cold grass, Hagrid's hut aflame. None of that bothered me as much as me almost killing Kiyoko, the girl whom was like my sister. Since the day I met her, she had always been this happy go lucky girl who couldn't hate anyone, but now, I think she will make and exception and actually hate me. I mean the words Avada Kedavra almost escaped from my lip and my wand pointed at her heart. I wish I had never had to do that, I wish I could just go up to her and tell her how I really felt, that I want her to forgive me for what I've done. My though was then interrupted my a familiar voice, my fathers. "Sera?"

"Yeah dad," I said look up at him as we walked closer to the mansion.

"You seemed out of it, what is on your mind," he asked me, it was the first time he had asked me something like that. My eyes widened and my jaw dropped.

After I shook myself out of being surprised I pulled up enough guts to finally tell him, with out him prying through my thoughts. "It's just… what I almost did to Kiyoko, I mean sometimes she too upbeat and happy for me, but I never wanted to hurt her. I mean we go way back…"

Flash back

I was five at the time, and I was walking home from the last day of school. I saw a little girl with two toned eyes sitting on the front porch with my neighbors at the time. I hadn't seen her around at all, and at that time I was actually some what social; so after I had had walked into my house I asked my adopted mom if I could go play with the new girl. She happily said yes I could and so I walked over to the house, and introduced myself, she smiled at me and relied with , "I'm Kiyoko Lupin, I'm living with my aunt and uncle this summer." I had asked her why she wasn't living with her mom and dad and she answered, "mommy left to go see god and daddy is in London looking for work." After we talked for a little bit more, we became friends and were playing together everyday. She had stayed at my neighbors for then next year and when she turned seven she had to go with her dad back to London. She said she was going to be back next summer, and so I would write to her and my adopted mom would send them for me. So for the next few years she would come back each summer and visit and we would be together. We then started our own best friend things, I had found a plain jewelry box and I glued a little clay frog on it and painted it. And for me, she made me well then belt that I wear now. At the time it was way to big for me, but now, the bottle cap belt fits. Then when she turned eleven she had to leave early one year to go to a 'special' school and my adopted mom lost her job and we had to move to a really fuck up neighborhood. That's when things went downhill for me, and I started becoming distant from everyone and started getting into a lot of trouble. Kiyoko was also worried that I might get hurt badly, but I just blew off her warnings, until I met Ethan and the trouble really started. Kiyoko would try to tell me not to listen, but at the time he was really cool to me. When I had realized how cruel the bastard really was is when he wanted me to hurt Kiyoko, and I refused, but by that time it was too late. When I was thirteen the whole party incident had occurred and the day after I couldn't tell my adopted mom so I turned to the only person I could really trust, Kiyoko. She promised me that she wouldn't tell but had told me to just forget about it and that life would be better as she smiled but it couldn't really change my thoughts on everything. Now Kiyoko and my adopted mom were the only two people I would talk to, I started secluding myself from everyone in school and I was kicked out of schools for fighting or skipping school, now it was a regular routine for me. Skip school, go smoke, drink, get kicked out, mail Kiyoko, and it happed so much that I was forced to be home schooled. That wasn't bad though because my adopted mom stopped hanging around with her drunk friend and became a manager for a big business. So after she started making money again, we moved out and back into a nicer house, and closer to Kiyoko's aunt and uncle. So we started hanging out more again when she would come for the summers, but she also started questioning me about my parents and if I had know anything about my dad in particular, this confused me, but now makes so much more sense. Well anyways I showed her the one abandoned house that I was going to work on and it was going to be our new hang out spot, but that didn't happen well because, I found out this stuff and this is were we are now.

Thinking back on all this made me want to cry so badly, but I could I had to hold myself together, I failed at this and I felt my dad's hand on my shoulder as I hugged him and started to cry. After a few minutes of crying I started to feel a little better but not much, but the one thing I didn't notice is that I was being carried, once I realized this I snapped back to reality and wiped away my tears. "Your really light you know that, what do you weigh, ninety pounds?"

I then stood up again and rubbed my eyes, "no I weight one hundred and twenty-five thank you every much."

He raised an eyebrow, "I was close, anyways you look like skin and bones, your mother is going to kill me thinking I haven't fed you in a week."

He then started walking again, "HEY!" I then jogged to catch up with him, but I had lost weight I mean I hadn't eaten in about a week, I just didn't feel hungry. As we walked into an opening the mansion was in plain view. It was huge, at least three stories high, made of pure brick; there was also a stained oak porch that wrapped around the house. I looked over once again and then I noticed two figures sitting on the steps leading up to the door. There were two women sitting there one, was unforgettably my mom and the other, was an elderly lady with pitch black hair pulled up in a bun. She seemed to be trying to comfort my mom whom had her hands cupping her face and crying. My dad then sighed, then started up to the house again, although I was very confused I simply followed him. The Elderly women then looked up and saw us, then stood up and tapped my mom on the shoulder. After that she started up to us, "Severus Snape!"

"Morgana," he relied as he hugged her, this confused me even more, but I really didn't have time to think because the next thing I knew mom had me in a death grip of a hug.

"Serafina! I'm so happy to see you, I was so worried about you and your father," she was also crying and I really didn't know what to do, so I just hugged her. After she finally released me I took a deep breath. Then I was introduced to Morgana, whom ended up being my grandmother. Mom then warned me to watch what I was once I get into the house, considering my grandfather was nothing in a good mood. As soon as we walked into the house I was astounded by the interior of the house, it was fancy, VERY fancy. Everything looked antique, stuff from every era, it was obvious that the pure family line has been around for a long time. Then my attention was caught by a man, he seemed to be a little older the my mom, he had shaggy black hair and five o' clock shadow. "Severus, it been a long time," he said as he shock his hand.

"Yes it has Terence," dad relied to him.

Mom then looked at me, "Sera this is your uncle, Terence Pure."

He looked at me also and smiled, "Sis when you said that she was your angel, I didn't think you meant she looked like one too." HA! Me an angel, try a little demon, I mean yeah I know my name means ANGEL, but that's far from how I am. Though I just went along with it, it defiantly was a complement and that's not something that I got every day. Though that didn't last long before dad had to go and irrupt, "Angel? No you can't be talking about our daughter." I glared at him and he smiled, the introductions went one for about another ten minutes, until you could hear a male voice, and it didn't sound friendly. It all went drop dead silent, mom told me and dad to stay here as they existed the room, to where the man was. There was some talking, and I just looked up to my dad who again looked extraordinarily serious about something. Mom then entered the room and motioned for me to come in and I slowly walked up to her. After I entered the room I saw a elderly man with graying black hair, but with two familiar green streaks. He had thin reading glasses and a slight beard, he was dressed in old formal looking clothes, and leaning on a old oak cane. He looked down at me with an unreadable look. "Dad, this is my daughter Serafina," mom finally spoke.

He looked over me closely, "Marissa, I wouldn't be incorrect to say that the father is Sirius Black now would I? I mean you two were going to be married, we had it all arranged."

"No father, Sirius is not the father…" she said in a scared voice.

His face then twisted into an evil glare at me as he looked me over again, "damn it Marissa I better not be that filthy half-blood Snape!" He then looked closely at me once more and then gripped his can tighter in rage. "IT WAS! DAMN IT SEVERUS SNAPE SHOW YOUR BLOODY FACE!" Slowly the door started to open again and dad stepped into the room.

"Mr. Pure," he said in a clam voice and lowered his head to him, there was some bad blood between them two I don't know what and personally I don't want to know.

He then limped over to him with the help of his cane and glared at him the whole way. Grandma and uncle Terence followed closely as though they know something was going to happen. "YOU, I warned you to stay away from my daughter! And you get her pregnant then have enough nerve to walk into MY house like you are welcome here! GET OUT NOW," he yelled as uncle Terence then held him back from striking him.

"DAD stop it now, he's not going to leave, because if you are kicking one Snape out, you are kicking all three out," mom said as she walked up between him and dad. "Yes I'm married to him, and Sirius and I have told you before, we weren't going to marry one another, and I am happy married to him."

That seemed to be the wrong thing to say because then he glared at mom, "so be it." He then turned around and walked away slamming doors as he left. Grandma then walked up to us and nodded.

(2 hours later)

It ended up that we were going to stay here, but on the third floor away from my psychotic grandfather. Also grandma was also going to stay on this floor with us until he had time to think over all that happened. It was actually pretty cool though, I mean the room not my grandfather, it was a penthouse suit, nice big room with a queen sized bed all to myself! A kick ass walk in closet, a nice sized bathroom. My room was designed in Slytherin style, there was green walls, nice silver silk sheets with dark green drapes hiding the bed, also a stained oak floor! Oh and a balcony leading right from my room, well that wasn't all that grand, considering it was also connected to my parents room. Oh and they have been arguing non stop since the incident with my grandfather, its getting REALLY annoying REALLY fast. Though the arguing I can change quickly, and you know what I think I will. I opened my suitcase and pulled out my cauldron, measuring equipment, small knifes, and a box full of potion ingredients. Then after pulling out my notebook full of potions and their ingredients I began my work. I was almost half way done when my grandmother walked into the room to check how I was. She looked down at me as I was sitting on the floor, "ah, a potion I see, just like your father, may I ask, what type of potion are you making?"

I smirked to myself, "oh just a little something to get mom and dad to stop arguing." Which they really needed to they have been going for two hours straight of yelling at each other and they were not quiet about it at all.

"Oh a love potion is it? Or a silencing potion."

"Better that a normal love potion, I was looking through some really advanced potion books and well I found Amortentia." I smiled and added the last needed ingredient, "OH but I'm not going to use it all on them I'll save some, I mean it will keep them from arguing."

"Well don't just give them the potion straight," she said to me, "here I'll make some tea so they won't be able to tell." Ok its official, my grandma is the most kick all person ever! She was helping me with my little plot! I smiled as she went and got the tea ready I poured the potion into a bottle so I could keep for later use. After she got the tea ready it was about seven and I put a little of the potion in each cup and then carried the tray over to their room. I opened the door to see them still yelling at each other and I set the tray on the coffee table. "Uh mom dad…"

"WHAT," they yelled at me in sync, this made me jump slightly.

"I made some tea for you two, ya' know, just incase you wanted any." They both looked at me oddly then my mom was the first to causally take a drink of the tea and, followed by my dad. As soon as I was them take another drink I smiled, "alright well have fun." well not to much fun, I then walked back into my room and talked with my grandma a little more before I decided to go to bed.

Authors Note: Well poor Sera and Severus, they just never seem to get a break anymore do they? Well maybe they will, also same as before at least one review before I post the next chapter. Well I hope you enjoyed!