Power of the Prince Lineage

SeverusxLily & Children

Rated T

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or its characters from the franchise. That honor belongs to JK Rowling

Power of the Prince Lineage

Chapter 2: First Day of Classes

Roderick waited patiently for his siblings to descend the stairs so they could walk into the Great Hall together. Even though they were all in different Houses they all promised to sit together, no matter what anyone said or thought. Before long he spotted his sister and brother come down the stairs and they walked over to him. Nodding he said, "Good morning, younger siblings."

Eileen rolled her eyes and replied, "Good morning to you too, Rod."

Tobias smiled and said, "Hi! Why do you have to call us that every morning, Rod?"

"Because it's true, Tobias. I am the eldest," Roderick replied with his usual smirk.

Eileen shook her head and asked what table they would sit at together. After some debate between the brothers and a game of rock-paper-scissors, it was decided they would sit at the Gryffindor table. They would also be able to sit and spend time with their older brother before classes started. They walked over to the table and took a seat across from Harry, Eileen sitting between them. They greeted Harry before looking at his friends. Tobias greeted Ron and Hermione before beginning to eat. Eileen and Roderick sat in silence and stared at Ron and Hermione, making the Fourth Year Gryffindors feel uncomfortable under their scrutinizing gazes. Roderick and Eileen both definitely had Professor Snape's hard, intimidating stare down, especially his look-a-like Roderick.

Hermione decided to break the silence and said after clearing her voice, "Hello, Eileen and Roderick. Harry talks about you all the time; he absolutely adores you both, as well as Tobias."

"We know," Eileen replied curtly as she reached for a strip of bacon to eat. She didn't know what it was, but something about Hermione didn't sit well with her. It was probably the bossy aura coming off of her, as well as the fact she was talking to them like they were five again.

The brunette let out an uncomfortable laugh before turning to Roderick. Giving him a small smile she said, "Roderick, you have little indentions in your cheeks when you chew your food. Are those your dimples?"

"Are those your large front teeth?" Roderick replied about as quick and curt as his sister.

Eileen snickered as Roderick smirked, giving him a fist bump under the table. Hermione, feeling insulted, huffed and gave up trying to talk to her friend's siblings. Harry had told her that Eileen and Roderick were a little harder to get to open up, especially Roderick but she didn't think it would be like this.

Harry gave his younger siblings an exasperated look and asked, "Could you please not insult my friends and play nice?"

The brother and sister looked at each other, then looked back at Harry before saying together, "We could but we make no promises."

Ron shuddered and said, "Those two are like Fred and George, but probably worse because they are Snape's kids."

"And what are you insinuating, Mr. Weasley?" a deep baritone voice asked behind the redhead.

Ron slowly turned around and looked up into stern black eyes. His blue eyes darted back to the oldest of the Snape triplets, then back to their father. Eyes darted back and forth before the ginger quickly stood with his bag and hurried out of the Great Hall. Eileen and Tobias giggled as a smirk found its way on Roderick's face. Harry sighed and shook his head, taking a sip of his pumpkin juice. Hermione turned to the Potions professor and said, "Professor Snape, I don't mean to sound like I'm telling on your children and since I am older I should be the bigger person, but they sure are rude and snarky."

Severus looked down at his children before saying, "It runs in the family. And if it does bother you Miss Granger, I suggest you just avoid them."

"Dad," Harry said, his tone implying he was defending his friend.

The man looked at his stepson and quirked an eyebrow, an imperceptible smile on his face, though his four children could see it clearly. Looking at the First Years he handed them each a piece of parchment and said, "This is your class schedule. Memorize them and their locations so that you won't be late. Your professors won't tolerate tardiness, especially me so you had better not ever show up to my class not even a minute later."

"Yes sir," the triplets replied.

Eileen looked down at her schedule before looking at her brothers'. Looking up at her father she said, "We all have Charms at the same time."

Tobias grinned and said, "That means we'll be together!"

Roderick gave a genuine smile and said, "Wonderful."

"But Toby and Rod will have the most classes together, seeing as Gryffindor and Slytherin have classes together most times than not," Harry put in, a smile on his face.

Tobias stood and slung his bag over his shoulder and said, "Well let's go and learn!"

He grabbed his siblings and pulled them out of the Great Hall, Eileen and Roderick telling him to stop pulling them. Draco walked over towards his best friend and godfather and said, "Tobias seems chipper this morning; he certainly is like Lily. But I can't wait to see how those three navigate their way through Hogwarts. After all it should be fun seeing not only one, but four Snapes walking the corridors."

Harry nodded before standing and saying, "I'll see you later, Draco. Come on, Hermione."

Hermione nodded and looked at the platinum blond boy and said with a scowl, "Malfoy."

"Granger," Draco replied politely, though his eye twitched. Many people thought they hated each other due to them being in different Hogwarts Houses and of different blood statuses. However that was preposterous considering Harry's mother was a Muggleborn like Hermione and Draco and Harry were best friends in different Houses. No, the reason why they seemed to hate each other was because Hermione was besting Draco in every single class, making him second in their year. Even in Potions, his best class, she was besting him and it didn't sit well with him, not at all. And as for Hermione, Draco's contradicting statements to her answers and explanations irked her, especially when he was right. She would always feel embarrassed that he was able to make whatever she said sound better and in less than twenty words while sporting his smug smile. Harry and Severus deduced there was probably some hidden affection for each other between them.

Severus rolled his eyes and left the Great Hall, heading for the dungeons to get ready for the first day of classes of this new year. He had to silently admit that he believed it was going to be a very interesting year, especially with Hogwarts' guests arriving later in the evening.

"Eileen, wait up!" a voice called out.

Eileen turned and saw another First Year Ravenclaw that she recognized from her dorm run towards her. She had short dirty blonde hair and her eyes were the color grey. When she reached her Eileen said, "Oh, hello…you."

The girl giggled and replied, "Hello, and my name is Holly O'Neil. I'm Muggleborn. And I hear you are the Potions professor's daughter."

"I am."

"Cool! Anyway, I was thinking that if you wouldn't mind we could walk to that class together since we have it next."

"Um, sure?"

Holly grinned and grabbed Eileen's hand, pulling her off towards the dungeons. It wasn't long before they reached the Potions classroom where Professor Snape was standing outside of the door watching his Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw students walk inside. He saw his daughter being pulled by a fellow classmate and he raised his eyebrow in question, to which Eileen just shrugged before being pulled inside the classroom. Two minutes later the last few students walked inside, followed by Professor Snape who swiftly walked in, his black robes billowing behind him dramatically. Quickly turning to face his students he said in his deep monotone voice, "Welcome to Potions. This is not a class where you can roughhouse and play games. This class will be taken with the utmost seriousness, and should you do otherwise will be the immediate retraction of House points and will earn yourself a detention. I do not tolerate idiocy and I expect absolute hard work and your undivided attention when I am teaching. In the class I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the senses. I can tell you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper in death. There will be no talking out of turn unless being called upon. I have one student who does that frequently and I won't have another. Are there any questions before we begin?"

The class was silent, none of the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw First Years daring to speak. They were very intimidated by this dark man, even if his own child was in the classroom with them. Even Eileen was sitting in silence, her black eyes widened slightly after her father's speech. She had never seen him in his teaching mode, and now she understood what Harry meant when he said that he could be intimidating and scary. She wondered if her brothers had had Potions already; if not Tobias was in for a treat.

Professor Snape nodded before saying, "Let us begin. Today you will learn to brew one of the simplest potions there is to brew. So simple, simple minded First Years as yourselves can brew it: a Cure for Boils. The ingredients are written on the board. Get the in the written amount with your partner and we will begin. And do this with the utmost haste."

The class stood in unison and headed towards the ingredients cupboard, waiting patiently with their partner. While waiting Holly whispered to Eileen, "Your dad is scary."

"Not really," Eileen replied with a small smile. "He's like a big, cuddly bat."

The two girls giggled but instantly stopped when Professor Snape called out, "No giggling in my classroom, Miss Snape and Miss O'Neil."

Roderick sat in silence as he listened to his DADA professor. It was esteemed Auror Alastar "Mad-Eye" Moody and a lot of his classmates were excited; however he wasn't. There was just something about that man that didn't seem quite right. First of all he always had some weird looking flask with him, and he only ever drunk out of it when he stuck his tongue out of the side of his mouth. If that wasn't weird already, then he didn't know what was. Despite that Roderick couldn't deny that he was learning. The man definitely knew his work, especially since he was an Auror. But Roderick still couldn't shake the feeling that there was something weird about Moody.

A shadow fell over him as he was working, causing him to look up to see Professor Moody standing over him. Moody's fake eye whirled around in his head as he said, "Roderick Snape, Professor Snape's son and Harry Potter's half-brother, correct?"

"Yes," Roderick answered.

Moody hummed before his tongue stuck out of the side of his mouth three times. The dark haired boy frowned as he watched his professor take his flask out and drink from it before walking away. And as he did brown eyes narrowed before turning back to his work.

"This is a simple charm, the Wand Lighting Charm. Wave your wand like so, and repeat after me. Lumos," Professor Flitwick said, his wand lighting up on the end. "Make sure to put emphasis on the first syllable of the word, or else it will be ineffective."

His charms class began to wave their wands and repeating the words, none of their wands lighting up. Tobias picked up his wand and looked at it before looking up at his little professor. Flitwick gave him an encouraging nod and the redhead waved his wand saying, "Lumos."

The tip of his wand began to glow a bluish-white color, the light catching the entire classes attention. Professor Flitwick clapped in delight and exclaimed, "Wonderful, Mr. Snape, just wonderful! You are a natural like your mother, I see. Ten points to Gryffindor!"

Tobias smiled and blushed, looking down in his lap as his wand dimmed. A Slytherin girl sitting next to him nudged him and smiled, saying, "Good job."

"Thank you," Tobias replied. He couldn't wait to tell his mother he got points for his House. She was going to be so proud!

Around lunch time Lily received three letters, all of them from her children. She was at the moment visiting Petunia and Kurt, helping her sister watch the eight year old boy. Kurt had to come home early because he had an accidental surge of magic and had pushed a boy who was bullying him, causing him to fly back several feet and hit the wall hard enough to knock him unconscious. His teacher had thought he had an unexplained surge of strength, but Kurt has seen a blue light surround his hands when he pushed the boy. Petunia had asked Lily if she wouldn't mind helping Kurt try to control his magic since Sirius was back at work as an Auror and couldn't at the moment.

"Who are those letters from?" Petunia asked.

Lily smiled and she answered, "The triplets. Toby said he was awarded points in Charms, Eileen says Severus is very intimidating in his teacher mode, and Roderick…"

The red haired woman frowned as she reread her son's letter. Looking up at her sister she said, "Roderick thinks there is something not quite right about the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor."

Kurt looked at his aunt and said, "Dad says that's the best class you could take at Hogwarts."

"I beg to differ. In my opinion, Charms is the best class," Lily replied as she ticked her nephew, causing him to laugh.

Petunia smiled at the sight before asking, "What makes Roderick say that?"

Lily shrugged and answered, "I don't know. I'll write Sev about it and ask him what he thinks Rod means by it. Rod has always had a good spirit of discernment just like his father and if he's getting a bad vibe about the new professor, then something must be wrong."