Holy crap! I can't believe all the support and nice words of encouragement I'm receiving for this little thing! Words cannot express how happy I am: thank you. I'm also a little nervous, because the end is drawing near and I really don't know how you're gonna react to that last chapter…
I'm noticing something: I'm posting Albus Severus on Lily Evans' birthday…
Mmmmh, weird…but somehow, it's fitting…
Things you don't know about…
ALBUS SEVERUS POTTER
1. He was born a month and two weeks early. His birthday was December 31st.
Like Tom Riddle.
2. When he sat down next to him, a stunned Scorpius Malfoy asked him why he was put in Slytherin. Albus answered, "Because I chose it."
3. In his first year, the night before the start of Christmas break, he received a present, with a note attached that said: "I'm giving this to you in the same way I received it many years ago. And I'm giving you the same advice someone else told me: Use it wisely." It was Dad's Invisibility Cloak.
4. No matter what people said he kind of liked his two weird names.
5. He met his namesakes several times: he thought Dumbledore was a little boring. But the other one, he was pretty cool.
6. His father told him Severus Snape was one of the bravest men he ever met.
He was. He really was.
7. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't manage to get on a broom not even by a miracle. On Christmas Eve there was a family tradition: a Quidditch game, 7 against 7, of all the cousins, plus Teddy. He was always the last to be picked. When Snape told him what an awful flier he had been, he felt suddenly better.
8. Merlin's pants, was he in big trouble.
He was in love with Seleena Malfoy.
His dad was going to kill him.
9. Rose was even in bigger trouble than he was. She was in love with Scorpius Malfoy.
10. Snape always looked him in the eye with a mixture of revulsion, disappointment, and something else he couldn't quite figure out. When he asked his father about it, he explained to him that it was the special "Snape glare", reserved only for the Potters who had inherited Lily Evans's green eyes.
It was the Professor's own wicked way of saying "I love you".
11. He looks from the open grave to the still smoking cauldron next to him, to the empty portrait in his hands and he doesn't know when everything went horribly wrong. Maybe it was when his sister started messing around with the Dark Arts, or when she started befriending that damn painting, or when she started asking about the Hallows. A lot. She fooled everyone: she assured dad she was getting over it, and that she was fine. The only thing Albus knows is that's his fault. He was supposed to take care of Lily.
My goodness, I can't even start telling you how much in love I am with this kid. He's, like, the loser of the family, the middle child, but somehow, deep down, he's the best (Harry knows that too, since he's giving him his Invisibility Cloak). While James is the power of youngness and the embodiment of recklessness, Al is the power of choice, and the epitome of sensibility. He's like a bridge between Gryffindor and Slytherin.
I'd really like to write more Al/Snape interaction in the future…
And finally, we're almost done…
Next will be Lily, and I hope that mysteries will be solved. I don't know if I will be able to update tomorrow, because Friday morning I'm discussing my thesis, and I'm afraid I might just throw up on my laptop...Do you want to send an extra gift for my thesis? keep your fingers crossed for me...and leave a review...
PS: I need a beta! Who wants to be my beta???