Disclaimer: I don't own anything except the plot and Hope. The rest just do as I tell them.

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Chapter Sixteen: Memories

Hope looked at her father like he was crazy. "This is mine!? No way! It's so big!"

Severus laughed. "It's large. Fourteen bedrooms, eight of which have balconies, an indoor swimming pool, indoor Quidditch pitch, and ballroom, a workout room, four offices, two sitting rooms, a study room, a kitchen, two dining rooms and a room for all the animals your mother had. And, of course, a huge basement where your father brewed all his potions."

Hope shook her head. "It's bigger than your manor!"

"Your parents were the richest people in the wizarding world. Their manor was the largest manor."

Hope's eyes got even bigger. "This is impossible."

Severus shook his head. "Look closely, this is where you and your children will live one day."

Hope smiled. "How do I get in?"

Severus took his wand out and touched the gate. He muttered some words and a house elf popped out to the other side of the gate.

"Mister Snape, how is you?"

Severus nodded his head. "This is Hope, I'm sure you remember her?"

The house elf jumped up and down. "Mistress Hope is returning home! All is thinking Hope is dead, but mistress is here!"

Hope smiled as the gates opened. Hope stepped into her manor and gasped. It was gorgeous.

"Your mother did a good job decorating it the first time. I imagine you'll leave the paint and décor downstairs the same, but the bedrooms may need updated into the current designs."

Hope looked at her father. "I don't want to use magic. I want to do it the old fashioned way."

Severus smiled at the girl. "Your mother did as well. Don't worry, I won't stop you."

Hope laughed. "But you won't help me?"

Severus rolled his eyes. "I don't have a choice. It'll be good to relive the days I had with your parents."

Hope hugged him. "I'm glad you're on board. Now let's get moving. We need to go to Gringotts and sort through all the furniture. Whatever we decide to keep, we'll have them send here. Everything else, we'll donate to an orphanage or something."

Severus stared at his daughter. She sighed and grabbed his hand. "Let's go!"

Severus smiled and apparated his daughter to the bank with a pop.

Hope and Severus apparated into the manor. Both were extremely tired and worn out. They had picked out the furniture they wanted to keep, as well as found a suitable home for the other pieces they didn't want. When they returned back to Hope's manor, they sorted it all into rooms where it was going to be. Then they went out and bought the new furniture they would need and picked out paint for the rooms.

After that they realized how late it had gotten. Severus reset the wards so they could both apparate directly into the manor and they left.

Upon arriving back at Snape Manor, Severus and Hope went upstairs. He heard noise in Harry's room and opened the door to see Draco and Harry wrestling around in the floor. One of them had bumped into a table and caused the lamp to fall. Hope reached out her hand to stop it and was surprised when it froze in mid air. Everyone stopped and looked at her.

"How did I do that?" she asked incredulously.

Severus walked over and took the lamp before putting it on the table. "Albus thought you would have wandless powers. You're taking after your parents."

"I can do wandless magic? I was just joking around with Harry earlier!"

Severus smiled. "I know. But go ahead and get some sleep. We can practice them tomorrow while we're working on the manor."

Hope nodded and went to her room. She pulled out her journal, but decided to skip writing it and just went to sleep.

Hope scratched her forehead with her arm as she painted the room again. The last week and a half had gone by quickly. She was painting the last room this morning. They had the furniture set basically where they wanted it. Severus had checked the wards and they were still holding strong. All that was left was to decide what she was keeping here and what would go back home with her.

Severus took the paintbrush from her hand and banished them. The light blue color of the room had come out better than either had imagined.

Hope moved her hand in a movement that caused the room to dry. She had learned some basic wandless magic during the past couple of weeks, but she was very inexperienced. Severus said they would work on it during the school year.

Severus took Hope back downstairs where they had put all the pictures. Hope sat on the floor beside him as he lifted one up and smiled. It was of a beautiful blonde and a brown haired man standing with a young Severus over a baby's crib.

Hope smiled. "Are those my parents?"

Severus nodded. "This was taken the day after you were born. You were their pride and joy. This was the day they named me your godfather."

"Oh, so that's why you're smiling. You got the pleasure of being a godfather to little old me?"

Severus pushed her playfully. "Yeah, Merlin knows I was losing my mind."

"Hey!" She yelled, reaching for another picture. It was a picture of her mother and father again. This time, they were younger, around sixteen. Her mother was dangling her father over the lake, smirking as he yelled at her to put him down.

"Oh, no. What did he do?"

"He was teasing her about her ability to talk to animals. Her pet owl suggested throwing him in the lake."

"Aww, poor guy."

They shifted through pictures for another couple of hours. Finally, Hope hung all the pictures up and had kept some to take with her. She nodded to Severus and they were on their way. They stopped at the door and turned around.

"You did a good job, Hope," Severus said.

"It's done. Now Hermione and I can decorate it for the ball."

Severus smiled and the two left to go home together.

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A/N: Tell me what you all think? Like the manor? Hate the manor?
I'll post again in a week.
Kayla