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Eileen Prince wondered how her life became like this.
She had graduated with flying colours from Lakewood and immediately got a job as a therapist.
She was making good money and did not have to go to night school because she had the grades.
And then he came.
Tobias Snape.
He was a troubled man but had charisma, she has never seen a man walk into her office with such pride as he had.
Ans as they cracked open his problems together, something about him just made her fall in love him even though she know she shouldn't.
He was like her bad boy instead of that night and shinning armour, plus he too was making money.
They began a relationship when they were both off of work.
She got pregnant.
She had to quit her job to make sure she could properly take care of the baby.
Tobias was from a background that told him, if he got a girl pregnant then he had to marry her.
Together they managed to wed and get a decent sized house in a decent neighbourhood.
She had no idea that in another life she would have been forced to live in a terrible neighbourhood.
But as she got further along with the pregnancy, her worries about the possibility that her child could be magical grew by the day.
How do you tell your husband, why their child could change the colour of clothes or even heaven forbid that he was even floating in the air?
So she had came out to him and told him everything.
She was a Witch.
She had to get out her wand and prove it to him before he believed her, he stood in shock for what felt like days before he walked away to think.
He thought for days but he came back and told her that he didn't care about that, he just wanted his baby safe.
That acceptance only lasted for 6 full months, because something major crashed down on their heads.
Tobias had fired from his job.
She would always remember the day, when he first came home, heavily drunk.
He blamed her for losing his job, convinced that she had cast a spell on him or his manager.
But he was drunk and he could barely stand, how could she take this seriously?
She helped him into bed before going to the wizard village to get ingredients to stop the terrible hangover, he would no doubt wake up with.
When he woke up, she was exhausted.
Maybe seeing her who rectanlly gave birth, lay at his bed side, a complete mess, made him take the baby and make sure she had a good day.
Both of thought, they would pass through this and she even suggested going back to a therapist to help them out.
But he said, no.
They lived in a time where the man was the breadwinner of the family, what would people think seeing him stay home while his wife brought home the beacon?
So she stayed with the baby and he went out to find a new job.
Fail, after fail.
Tobias transformed from a reasonable man, into an angry man due to all those failures.
And when he was angry, he looked for somebody or something to channel his anger to.
Her.
Alcohol soon followed this anger and she found out, that he blamed her for his misfortune in that haze because she was a witch and he claimed that if she really was innocent, she would help him by using magic.
She refused because he wouldn't have earned the job, what about those who were more qualified and had a better temper?
So they fought and avoided each other like the plague, he was always drunk and the only one who he was nice to was their baby.
Because the baby was normal.
But that went out of the window when the baby turned 6 months and he changed her husband clothes into something more colourful.
The look in his eyes when his son had done that, made her quickly snatch her baby and protect him.
Tobias got worse.
With proof, he now could blame two people for his misfortune and she had to constantly take her child from the room to protect him from her husband's drunken wrath.
The shouts became physical and she drowned a potion to help.
She thought she could fix him but in the process, she lost her sense of worth.
She made sure to always do as he says and keep her head down, she became a shallow husk of her former self.
She was filled with shame.
What if the neighbours found out? What if her married classmates found out?
It was then she remembers something.
Something she learned in class years ago, but it was only now echoing today.
"You always have a choice. Nobody can take that away from you. If you're in desperate need, even when you graduate, the school is open to help you back onto your feet. Don't let anybody tell you to sacrifice your self worth for them. This can be applied to both males and females. It would only lead to misery"
It was a comment she thought was an inspirational speech but now she felt like her professor was talking directly to the future her.
But could she do it?
She could.
When Tobias went out to find a job, she packed her bags with her heart beating loudly in her chest and her fingers shaking.
She had hours but it felt like she had seconds.
She kept expecting him to appear behind her, she kept expecting to smell his alcohol breath on her neck, she wrote a letter of goodbye to Tobias and took off her wedding ring, and then she scooped her baby up in a dark blue blanket, kissed his forehead and then appraited to near the school grounds.
She had no idea that she had changed her baby's life for the better by doing this.
The school was still there and thriving, and people were going to turn in for the day.
She pretended to be a student for night school before she got the courage to go to a professor doorroom.
The door had the words 'Professor Maxiusm' engraved onto the door ans she knocked on it and was greeted to a stunningly good looking man.
He had white hair and crystal like eyes shone underneath black thin glasses, he wore a professor robe.
However, she was taken back because she know this man.
He was the older version of the guy who many had a crush on in her schooling years.
Luther Maxiusm.
He had become a professor here!?
And the only look of surprise the now man had was the widening of his perfect eyes, but a flash of recognise soon entered them.
"Eileen come in" he said, even with age his voice was still dream like.
He did remember her!
She came in and was stunned to be met with a glamorous looking room that had shelves of books on each side, purched on a rail was that hawk that would circle the school sometimes.
She was gestured to sit down and she did.
"Would you like some food?" He said, push a plate of biscuits.
She tried to resist but she was very hungry especially after breast feeding her child.
He slid the plate over to her some more and she managed to take one.
It was delicious.
"I'm not going to ask you what happened" said, Ziggy, because he had a very good guess, but he just didn't expect her to appear at his doorstep when it got rough, though. "However, this school is still a sanctuary even to former students. However since you have all your qualifications, my family will help you the best way we can, until you can get back on your feet." And then he got out a small bag and out poured Gallons. "Take this"
She was shocked.
"I can't in good conscious allow you to go without guaranteeing that you baby will have the means to be taken care of" he said. "You may stay here for a few days as you search for a place to live."
She couldn't believe that somebody could be so nice.
Of course she didn't know, he saw her as a quest and was raking in rewards right now.
"Thank you." She said, not realising she was crying. "Thank you"
She would make sure to not disappoint him.
The house elf iggy was called to take her to a spare guest room in the adult wing.
In the adult wing, she found out several students were mothers with their own small children living her so the wing had necessities needed for mothers to take care of their children.
As long as Hogwarts keeps praying on ignorance and the fact that their world was so small that information could be controlled, the adult wing would always have residence.
She spent several days before she used the money to get a new house far away from husband and then she warded it so well, that she could have gotten a job as a professional wader.
With her qualifications with her, she easily got a job as a financial adviser, she had learned her lesson with being too close to the costumer.
She cared very little her husband who was currently drinking his way to unconsciousness and spreading lies about her.
A week later, she came to Ziggy with a beaming smile, telling him how much her life improved and that the baby was doing well, they had a house elf to help around the house and she was making sure her son knows how much better this school was compared to Hogwarts.
She had taken to visiting the school with her son on the holidays, the child had taken to calling him uncle.
And Ziggy couldn't really say no to adorable little snape who wasn't bitter.
Whenever they came to visit, he would shower the child with hugs and kisses, his heart went out to the mini professor when he thought about what he could have easily went through if his mother stayed with his father.
Maybe by the time Harry meets Snape, the man can be cracking smiles and making jokes.
Ziggy would give his entire fortune to seeing Harry face when that happened.
But Ziggy wondered if it was too much when gave little snape a toy broom for his second birthday.
And then came the day, Ziggy knew would come when he saw how many people transfered over to his school from Hogwarts.
It was the day that the ministry got off their high horse and begged him to allow them some means to get money from the school.
Hogwarts was just running on steam now and the name was panned as secondary education by the masses and pure blood's after, a fact confirmed with each end of term test.
The principal got a message from the Minister of Magic who had tucked finally tucked his tail between his legs and was asking for them to meet.
Now it was time for Ziggy to play coil.
He always told the man, he was too busy and lazily promised that there would be a meeting, the man was so desperate that he didn't see what he was doing.
And then after 2 months, Ziggy allowed pity to enter his heart and scheduled a meeting at school.
The man arrived with two officials, one of them was the head of the treasury and the other the head of the Aurors.
Aurors who hadn't catches Vodermort yet or figured out his true identity.
Their previous smug appearance had gone and was replaced with absolute shock.
They were shocked to see how lively the magical school in front of them was.
Hogwarts was like a ghost town while Royal Lakewood magical academy was breeming with life.
So many students smiling and dressed in robes that were so much better than Hogwarts, walked the school grounds.
So many students bringing in revenue that they has no piece of.
The minister was a sweating mess when he was told adults could stay here but a cheap fee.
Before him was where their homeless population went, that used to run rampant on the streets.
The treasury head could only imagine how much the school made after tax cuts.
It was money the ministry were stupid to not acknowledge for years.
They were allowed into the school and was stared down by most teachers at the school like how they would usually do to the common people.
Their jaws were dropping when Professor Maxiusm walked by them, they had never seen a man so good looking and the female students eyes turned to hearts when he walked past them.
It would be a stretch if many check into the school just to catch a glimpse of him every day.
But what was even more shocking was to see the half giant Hagrid who was convicted but they found out was proven innocent, now a full grown half giant man with a pregnant wife and holding the title of head of magical creatures for the school.
To end to the embrassment the half giant was dressed in a much finer cloth than the Minister himself, when they saw him!
The Minister looked ready to climb into a hole when they finally came to the office.
The principle, the owner of the office was approaching 50 but he was still criminally good looking for his age, his short beard was turning white but it only added to the man's class.
The man was dressed in an expensive three-piece suit and looked far better off than the Ministry or Hogwarts combined, sitting on a large leather chair with his head resting on his arm which was resting on the chair.
"You want to make a trade deal?" Said the man. "What can your Ministry give me that the British government isn't giving me? And I seem to recall that you did not even give me your financial backing because I refused your demands"
And at the very pointed question, there was a long and uncomfortable silence as he proved his memory wasn't failing him.
They did refuse to give financial backing and waited in the wings for the school to fail and go bankrupt.
Who know that when the very first year that the school started, that they would take several hits in their big wallet?
Any unplanned expenses they had, the ministry were scrambling to find money for while the British government was raking in money from the school.
It also helped that Lakewood reputation was attracting foreign students as well to enroll into the school.
"Businesses are closing down because we can't afford to support them," said, the financial person while the Minister gave him a mental pat on the back. "Our economy is plunging and even the Goblins are looking to do business else where because were struggling"
"So?" Said, the man, making them freeze. "What does that have to do with me? The Goblins are very kind towards me and my students have the complete option to support the British magical world or not. After all, the Muggle world is a far more wise choice to put your money into instead of such a tiny world. What happened to Hogwarts? Aren't they your big cash cow? Why do you need my school now when you've ignored it for almost a decade?"
And you could almost hear the laughter.
The man know very well, how much Hogwarts was struggling to stay afloat, the only reason why the school doors weren't closed was because the ministry refused to stop the money due to pride.
"Oh, and did you know that a lot of Pureblood families are sending their children here?" Said, the Principle robbinh salt into the wounds. "It isn't a good look when the Heir to a family is charged with being a death eater. A lot of families have noticed the Death Eaters usually turn out to be Hogwarts students or graduates under that mask. So Hogwarts is quite notorious. I also heard the Weaselys have managed to change their financial situation and have moved into a lot bigger house to give the whole family that much-needed space. The head even sent me a letter that his children will b coming to my school when they reach 11."
He could almost see Ron Weasley growing up with his own room and wearing the Lakewood school uniform.
And all three men faces turned red at the mention of the Weasly family success story.
The well-educated head of the Weasley family was shocking the British World left and right by clawing the Weasley out of the poverty that had haunted them for decades.
He was the only Weasley who graduated from this school and seemed to be the most knowledgeable Weasley to ever emerge from his line.
Now compared that to Hogwarts who was becoming known for producing Death Eaters and constantly on the Daily Prophet because honourable Lakewood students keep catching them and revealing their identity to the world before the ministry could even get there.
It was wards that was stopping Voldermort from find some way to harm Lakewood principle and son and even Hogwarts staff were going behind Albus Dumbledore back wanting a teacher position at Lakewood.
And who could blame them?
Not only did the teachers not have the stigma of producing Death eaters, the pay was much higher as well with the respect to match.
It was quiet a reality check when not a single of them can pass the teaching exam the school set, while those who sat around them got much higher scores than them.
"So let's talk about why you have managed to really lower your heads today," said the man. "The Ministry is bleeding money and your decision to not fund this school has come to back you in the pocketbooks. Hogwarts is now a liability but you don't want the daily prophet coming after you, if you close the school down but if you keep it open you'll have to channel the money you are making to keep it open. So now you need me to save your ass"
The three men got even redder, but they couldn't afford to not agree right now.
"So here is my deal to you," said, the principle. "I will give you 0.5 percent of the school's earnings and in exchange, I have a say on any financial decisions that the Ministry. This say with continue even after my death, the principles after me will have a say"
"The Au-" the minister began.
"I seem to recall you tried to take over my school," said, the Principle, firmer. "I have a foothold in the muggle world that makes sure my family will never be poor. Companies court my students every time graduation rolls around because they are guaranteed a high qualified adult after they are finished with schooling. Various rich business are trying to court me so I am a very busy man. I have given up half an hour of my time to listen to people who once looked down on me and were betting on how long my school would last. So either get out and never appear before me again or we sign a magical contract today"
Silence.
The Principle stared them down before getting up and saying. "All three of you are wasting my time, so I'm leaving. You can either be escorted out or be thrown out"
They all realised that the man was serious as he began to make his way and alerted the house elves.
"Wait!" Said, the Minister stopping him in his tracks.
"We are willing to sign anything"
[Quest Complete]
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Next chapter, the ministry is shocked by the money been deposited into thr bank account and become Lakewoods lap dog. Albus is stunned by called into a board of education meeting to explain to them why he should keep him job. Review. Fav and follow!