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Chapter 1: The Debate
"No I will not do it!" Said a furious Severus Snape.
Snape was pacing around Dumbledore's office, Dumbledore had just in formed him that his sister and brother-in-law had been murdered, and that he wanted Severus, he being the children's uncle, to adopt her two twin three years olds.
"But Severus" said Dumbledore calmly. "You're the children's only living relative"
Severus thought about this for a moment and said,
"Its not my fault my parents didn't produce more children so I wouldn't have to deal with this sort of thing later on in life. And its not my fault that my git of a sister ran off with Sirius Blacks cousin and got herself killed trying to murder The Dark Lord. Anyway why can't they just send the children to an orphanage or something?"
"They will not send them to an orphanage if they have a living relative who would willing take them in." replied Dumbledore.
"But I'm not willing to take the two little monsters in! Why would you even consider me an option for this sort of thing? I don't know how to be a good father, I don't even know the first thing about children and this isn't just one child, no, its two, two that look the same!" Severus threw himself down in one of the large armchairs in Dumbledore's office and waited for the headmaster to explain the method of his madness. Dumbledore stood up slowly and started walking around his office.
"As you know the children's parents were extremely good aurors, some of the best Iv seen in years, the deatheaters would do anything to make sure that their children did not grow up to become as great as their parents. And since their is no safer place than Hogwarts I decided that this would be the best option."
"The best option! yelled Snape "The best option for who, I would be a terrible parent for the little creetens and the situation wouldn't do any good for me either."
"If you don't take them in the children will be dead in a week!" said Dumbledore
"Fine I don't care, let The Dark Lord go a kill them if he must."
"Is that really what you want to happen to them?" said Dumbledore growing angrier. "Do you want them to die just because you were too stubborn to do something for nice for someone other than yourself once in your life? For heavens sakes they are your own flesh and blood and believe it or not you are those children's only hope, do you want to have to deal with their deaths too?" finished Dumbledore.
They sat there in silence for a long time, Snape and Dumbledore just stared at each other until finally Dumbledore broke the stare by saying,
"Well are you going to take these children in or send them to there deaths?
"It seems I have no other option." said Severus quietly
"Fine then meet me here a 9:00 tomorrow morning and we will go and collect the children from there foster home, and in the mean time I suggest that you prepare you room for the children's arrival" said Dumbledore who was starting to look at some paper work on a pile on his desk."
"Prepare?"
"Why of course you don't want potion bottles and potentially dangerous ingredients lying about with two young children running around." said Dumbledore who went back to his paperwork.
"O I see" Said Snape clearly thing about how he was going to toddler proof his room before the morning.
Snape left the room quite preoccupied and began walking to his room in the dungeons.
'What was he thinking that crazy old loon?' Snape asked himself forgetting about having to prepare his room 'How could he think that I Severus Snape could ever be proper parent, I don't have time for this sort of thing, and what will the students think, I can see those goody-too-shoes Griffindors now.' Just then another thought passed through Snapes mind ' What will those little brats be like? I bet they will be Griffindors, bloody gits or worse Hufflepuffs, I'm not raising a Hufflepuff I refuse. And what is the chance that they will get into the only respectable house, Slytherine, well at least they are purebloods, the Snape and the Black family don't have a drop of non- magical blood in their entire blood line. That may be enough to get them into Slytherine. But what am I worrying myself about this now for? Maybe the Dark Lord will have killed them by then.' Snape felt a pang of guilt right after he said that, he may not like kids but he wouldn't want them to be tortured at the hands of the most evil and powerful dark lord since the dark wizard Grindleward.
Snape arrived at the door to his room and unlocked the magical spells that would allow him to enter and prepared for bed. Afterwards he made some dreamless sleep potion, he did not want to think, not even in his dreams, of the horror that awaited him the next day. Or so he thought...
