3 years later. ...
At the end of their 4th year at Hogwarts, Wanda was being allowed to have her friends visit her at The Xavier Institute, in Westchester, New York. Her father, Magneto, sent her, and her twin brother Pietro, to be tutored by his friend, Charles Xavier, a world renowned telepath, world renowned by everyone except the general public, who ran a school training young mutants. When he sensed Wanda's magical gifts, Prof. Xavier contacted a colleague of his, Professor Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where she still ,unofficially, was a resident of the school in the summer friends Lily Evans, Sirius Black, James Potter, Remus Lupin, and Severus Potter would be arriving that afternoon.
Severus had been adopted by the Potters after the end of their first year. Upon discovering his home conditions, and beseeching his mother,whose health was fading, Charlus and Dorea swiftly retrieved Severus from his home, and taken him in. They blood adopted him, which changed his features dramatically.
A blood adoption is a ritual for magical parents to adopt a child by magic, and blood. The parents, using an athame and a ceremonial bowl, slit their palms, and allow some of their blood to flow into the bowl. The child does the same. They make a vow, and the blood transforms into a potion, which the child will drink. This will allow the magic in the ceremony to rewrite the drinker's DNA.
The Potters and Severus performed this sallow skin turned an ivory color, his hooked nose changed to a more straight aristocratic look, and his eyes turned a silvery grey. His jawline grew sharper, like Charlus'. He also grew about 2 ½ inches in height. His whole demeanor also brightened. He flourished with having parents who loved him, and treated him with love, not malice or neglect. He was truly happy, unlike at his birth parents' home.
His birth father was an extremely bitter, violent, closed minded drunken muggle who insisted upon normalcy. His birth mother was a witch who fell in love with a dashing badboy muggle and married him, before she realized how bad he truly was. Before she could escape from him, she discovered she was pregnant, and then she was truly trapped. Tobias Snape and Eileen Prince Snape gave birth to Severus, and by the time he was 7,he had received no less than four broken bones, and several bruises, all explained by tripping, and a fall down the stairs.
To say that James, like his parents, especially his mother, wasn't pleased would be an understatement. Same with Sirius, whose childhood was, to be very mild, less than pleasant, was right along with James. Wanda, upon learning the truth, was itching to hex a certain drunk. Lily and Remus had to grab the three of them by the collar to keep the, from unleashing their displeasure on Severus' father. Dorea, appealed to her niece Walburga , Sirius's mother, as well as a former classmate of Eileen Prince's, to convince her to sign custody of her son over to Dorea. Walburga didn't want anything to do with it, but eventually agreed. Eileen eventually signed away her rights over to the Potters, and forged Tobias '. A week later, she passed away, and Tobias was hauled away to prison for her murder.
Wanda had noticed something peculiar about her Hogwarts friend, Lily Evans, as well as her Xavier's friend, Jean Grey. They looked almost identical. Same shade of green eyes, same shade of red hair, similar build,it was almost as if they were sisters. The international floo ,that had been arranged for Wanda to get to Diagon Alley, or Hogwarts, flared, and one-by-one the five teenagers stepped through to Professor Xavier's study/office. She hugged each of them as they came through, and had her friend Piotr carry their trunks to the guest suites located by the students rooms.
Her twin brother Pietro walked in the room just as Lily stepped out of the fireplace. "Ooh Wanda, why didn't you tell me your hottie Jean look-a-like friend was going to be here today!" "Pietro, shut up! Plus Sev and the other boys would be tempted to kick your tail." "Oh please, as if they could catch me." "Oh really?", Sirius said, "I'm able to shoot a hex at a golden snitch mid-flight, which fly at about 75 kilometers per hour. My Grandfather taught me how to do that when I was 12." "I thought your family hated you," Wanda said. "I'm his heir. He doesn't approve of my beliefs, but I'm still his heir. Just between all of us, I think that he thinks my parents are too extreme, so he recognizes that my parents,Mother especially, is a nutter. I wish I could've seen the look on her face when she found out that Father wasn't the heir to The Ancient and Noble House of Black any longer."
Pietro made an impatient gesture, and cleared his throat. "Oh yes, this silver haired speedster whose as cocky as the entire Gryffindor quidditch team is my twin brother Pietro. Pete, this is Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Lily Evans, and the Potter brothers James and Severus." As she named off her friends, she gestured to each of them. The wizards and witch all waved as their names were called by the scarlet clad friend. "Is he a sorcerer like you?" "Oh no, thank goodness. But he's not what you would call a muggle. He can run at unbelievable speeds. I think his record is either 90 miles per hour,or 100 miles per hour." Pietro's chest puffed up with pride. "Sounds like James on his broomstick." "Sounds like we need to race." "I wish I had brought my broom. I didn't bring it with me because I didn't think there would be anyone who could give me a challenge." "That, and Mum searched your trunk, and pockets for it." "Shut up Snivellus!" "As you wish Jamie!" "Boys! Knock it off!" "Yes Lily!" The rest of the Hogwarts students were shown to their rooms, and made themselves comfortable. Wanda was in her room reading a book for her training when she heard a knock at the door. "The doors unlocked!" Jean came in. "You wanted to talk to me in private?" "Yes. Is there something about you and Lily we need to know? Every time I see the two of you together, the more I think that the two of you are related. It's like looking at sisters!" "I've thought about that," Jean said, " I have found, a lack of a better phrase, a barrier of some sort over pieces of my memories, the same thing with my parents' minds. It's almost like an opalescent film over a group of memories." "Have you asked the Professor to help with retrieving them?" "He said that he wouldn't dare mess with a magical mind barrier, that and, he said that these memories are bound for a reason. …. I just scanned Lily's mind, the same barrier is there as well. Do you know anything I could to find out what these memories are?" "Hmm, I want to say that Severus is a natural Occlumens, Mind Magic focused through the eyes. Maybe we need to bring him into this."
Severus, who loved a challenge, sat Jean and Lily down, and probed their minds. He found the barrier in both of their minds. He began to probe at the barrier, which started swirling angrily, and the gem in the center started flashing. A voice was also heard coming from the barrier that sounded familiar to them all: "do not disturb these memories. They were sealed for a reason. It will only cause pain, and confusion for the girls." Severus got a dark glint in his eyes, a sign of trouble. "Oh really? Wanda, could you give me a hand? I'm going to patch through, can you hex this barrier?" "I can try…" " No." Jean and Lilly said at the same time. "Jean is a telepath, she could be of assistance," Lilly said. "Alright, Jean, let's see if you can help with this barrier on Lily." Jean joined Severus in probing Lilly's mind, and together, between Severus' casting, and jean's prying they were able to unlodge the barrier's gem, which made the barrier vanish. All of the sealed memories started to restore themselves to their rightful place in Lily's mind. Lilly's eyes flashed, and her head drooped. When she opened her eyes, they were full of tears. "Jean, we're twins. We're sisters!" At that point, the barriers in Jean, and her parents' minds vanished. Professor Xavier wheeled into the room at this point, and sighed. "I'm afraid that I must explain about the barrier."
The professor explained why the barrier had been placed over all of their memories. When the girls were six, jean's best friend was hit by a car and passed away, which caused jeans power to emerge early. Lilly was terrified of her sister after that. Her parents, which the professor had been intouch with, asked him to help them figure out what to do. The professor explained," I had suggested separating the girls, and binding memories , just to be safe. I now realize that was a mistake, especially with Lilly's being a witch. Lilly was sent to live a distant cousin of her Mother's, and her family. I bound all of the parties involved memories, and your headmaster, Professor Dumbledore,sealed them so that they couldn't escape." Lilly spoke first after a few moments of silence. "So Tuney isn't even my sister, she's a cousin?" It should also be noted that her voice had more of a neutral accent, as opposed to a British accent like she had before. "Why should my parents just give me up?" "I think it was to protect you, and Jean both. Actually, it was more your mother's decision. She knew your father would end up making the problem worse, so she listened to my suggestion." At that point, the phone rang. "I imagine that's your parents now. If you'll excuse me, I have an upset set of parents to talk to." With that, he wheeled away.
"So,I meant to ask, what is with the emphasis on you being a Sorceress?," Jean asked a couple of days later. She and Lily had been bonding as the sisters they were. "Basically, I'm a magic user who is too powerful for a wand. I have this family necklace, a focus for my powers." The purebloods went on to explain that sorcerers and sorceresses were revered in the wizarding world. "Basically," Sirius explained, "they are like a movie star in the wizarding world. They are adored, and very powerful." Wanda blushed. The friends spent the rest of the summer enjoying themselves, and two cases of budding romance formed: Wanda and Sirius, and James and Lily. Severus initially bristled at the thought of Lily with James, but he saw that it was truly meant to be. The look in their eyes told him everything.