Dear diary, August 29
*The margins of this page have multiple drawings of birthday cakes and doodles of Lily and Snape.*
I will miss Cass but I got Lily and Sev. I have a big sister now! Lily is the best. She braided my hair, let me play with her dolls and she taught me how to play marbles! I'm good at marble. Lily said she made a big mistake teaching me cause I always win, though Sev is good at it too.
Lily always gets grumpy when she loses but gets happy when I hug her. Daddy and Mommy still argue a lot Sev has been taking me out more when they start arguing, I wish I could hug them all happy like I do with Lily.
Lily took me and Sev to her home a lot, when she found out it had been my birthday a week before Cass left and she gave me this diary and Mr. Evan gave me a pound and gave me one of Lily's old dresses, a pretty summer dress that had leaf patterns. We sneaked back in, Mommy said the dress looked great on me and I wore it the entire time till it got too cold to wear. I'm eight now! Three more years and I will be at Hogwarts with Sev and Lily and Cass and Petunia.
Dear diary, September 5
*The page is stained and many of the letters are crossed out.*
Daddy came home after taking the bad potion. Sev and Cass said it takes all the pain away, but too much makes you evil and stupid. Daddy was always evil when he came home in the dark.
He came into our room and said Sev spread this magic disease to me and Cass. I don't know what he meant but he spat at Sev and left the room almost tripping over.
Sev cried but I told him I didn't care, magic was the best thing in the world and Daddy was stupid.
We slept in the same bed, Sev said I kick a lot in my dreams, and that I stole the blankets.
Dear diary, September 31
*There were drawings of deer and snakes.*
Sorry for forgetting you, I had weird dreams. In one dream I saw Sev fighting a Deer, a black dog, a wolf, and a big ugly rat. They jumped at him and I screamed, then he fought them back and the rat ran away, the wolf was slashed and the dog got hit with lightning. Is there a lightning spell? He cut the deer's horns and held his wand to its throat but the. The dream ended.
Another dream was Cassius in a castle and we had all our room but mommy was outside and next to her was a black robe-wearing man.
The last one was the weirdest; there were two deer. They were going with a little deer and then there's a dragon and it swallows the father and then the mother. It glared at the youngest and then tried to breathe fire but lightning struck the dragon. The baby deer runs and gets picked up by a giant. Dreams are weird.
Dear diary, October 2
Mom found me and Sev playing with marbles, she showed us a game she liked to play at Hogwarts Gobstones and it sounded fun! Funny how her gob stones farted!
Told Lily she thought it was icky because the marbles smelled weird when she lost.
Mom said there's a gobstone team and club at Hogwarts. It sounds better than Quidditch! Because the balls don't fly at your head.
Dear diary, October 16
*A folded letter was stuck with glue.*
Professor McGonagall Sounds Scary Cass wrote that she was the head of the lions.
"My dear Julia and Sev.
Hogwarts is amazing. The professors range from the sweetest people in the world to stone walls.
Professor Slughorn seems to dislike me because I keep changing the recipes in the textbooks, I'm not the one who measures the needed amount of horned slugs! You can substitute snake fangs with Hedgehog spines. Mommy did it and it's much more Humane than defanging snakes!"
I agree, combing hedgehogs is better than pulling snake teeth out. Though Sev did tell me you then need At least a hundred hedgehog quills, he said Hedgehog has thousands of quills and it regrows.
"Professor McGonagall is a tough teacher. I guess you have to be when half your house acts like starving dogs. Still, I liked her, I think I'm the only Slytherin who likes her.
Professor Sprout is the kindest woman in Hogwarts. When I asked if I could help her with some Knuts she said yes, Maybe I was too mean about Hufflepuff.
Did Lily tell you Petunia ended up in Ravenclaw? Yea, I expected that for her, suits her honestly, though he hasn't talked much since we met in our compartment. The charms Professor Filius is always filled with life and joy and I truly believe he loves his work.
Astronomy is fine, the late hours are a drag but still getting out of it with Excellent and Binns. For the love of Melin, that man sucks the life out of you! I mean that he is so monotone and always sounds disinterested! I have a theory he is draining the life out of the students to revive himself!
Anyway, I know where the kitchen is, Professor Sprout told me and I used that knowledge to get back at one of the other Slytherins. That triggered the potion theory you had Sev. I tested it out and it worked!"
Sev was so happy about it! Rode on his shoulder til he fell over.
"No one figured out it was me. Because I asked the elves to bake him some biscuits, I added a special spice in between, remember the dyeing draught Mother made so she never has to worry about stains?
Yeah turns out that when you drink it, it dyes your skin and hair add a spoonful of paprika in the finished product and red dyeing draught, but add a little drop of gold dust and it changes your hair gold."
I didn't know what he meant until Sev explained what the prank was. The dyeing draught is one of Mom's inventions, Sev told me.
"I found that when you don't add the shed chameleon skin it doesn't have an effect the cloth stays the same color, yet when I added a solution of crushed shed skin and made a solution of it added a drop, and done! The colour changed
There will be a lot of Exams in November so no letters until December, Sorry guys.
Love Snape."
We were sad but Sev was happy that his theory worked.
Lily told us the same, Petunia and her friends were trying to get the best scores so she couldn't write. Which made Lily less sad and more angry, but a hug made her calm down.
Sev said I was a giant ice pack for Lily's hot head, I had to hug her extra for her to not clobber him, mostly keep her arms in place.
She said I'm her little ice anaconda.
Dear diary, December 15
Our parents have stopped talking to each other. Sev said this was bad and I trust him! Mommy is calm but Daddy throws a chair, there's a hole in the ceiling now.
We spent most of November with the Evans. Said it's nice having company around she mostly talks to Sev. works a lot when he sometimes drives us home, though he whines a lot about his cavity Sev said there might be a potion for but he said not to worry about it, when it comes he would have it pulled.
Today Father came out and glared at Mrs Evans. He pulled Sev into the kitchen and interigated him.
I put some Balm on his back. Father whipped him with his belt. I stayed in my room like Cassius told me.
I had another weird dream where there were flying skeletons calling a pink elephant with the head of a toad and then they sang Twelve Days of Christmas but with their lyrics.
Sev thinks I'm just excited for Christmas.
Dear diary, December 20
Four more days till Cassius comes home! I'm counting the days.
Dad hasn't been home in a few days because he is spending Christmas with his real family.
The house was silent but Mommy was more happy without Father in the house she was using her wand! She was going around fixing things around the house and got a book called "Tales of Beedle the Bard." From the attic Read it to us and it felt normal.
Neither of us had chores to do, mom used magic and cleaned the house. The only chores we did were prepping the potions, we told Mommy that Mr Evans had a cavity and he was too scared to go to the dentist.
Mom gave us a potion the next time we went to their house and we gave him the potion, mom's label was "Eileen tooth stuffer". drank it and said "It's cheaper than the bloody dentists." He downed the entire vial. Mrs Evans said there could be side effects.
Good thing most potions didn't have bad side effects if made right. The next day when we visited he was laughing, saying all the paint was gone. Sev said it was an early Christmas present and not to think of it.
Dear diary, December 29
*The page has an Origami bird in the middle of it with "Love Julia." Written on it.*
Cass is home and he brought jelly beans and many other sweets. Though I'm addicted to these chocolate frogs! I got Morgana!
We spent Christmas at the Evans, and even Mommy came! There was a Christmas goose, singing songs. Sev will be ten years old next Jan!
I wish every day could be like this.
Dear diary, January 6
*Page marked with doodles of Sev and birthday cakes.*
We celebrated Sev's birthday, Cass leaves tomorrow. But the cake was delicious. Everything mom makes is delicious, she says it's because cooking and potion-making are two books with a different cover. If she has a recipe and the right ingredient she can make it.
Dear diary, January 21
*Many of the letters are stained and running down the page.*
Father came back two days after Cass left. Father was in his usual mood, got drunk, and laid down on the couch. After that the arguing came back and while Mom was shopping Father got his hands on Severus while drunk and used his belt till he bled.
He kept blaming him for bringing some disease into the house, his father has the disease. One day I will cure that disease I promise that!
Author's note: OK I will be honest I went through three different POV ideas before settling on this one, warning you will never See Cassius' POV till he finishes Hogwarts.
Anyway the other two felt too much blowing smoke. I mean rereading them I got disappointed with myself. One was the Hogwarts staff praising Cassius and the other was simply put Bellatrix wanting to kill Cassius, not out of character but yea not fun to read.
The third was Cassius taking Severus to a wand maker that the prince family uses. That felt too early in time so it will be in storage till we reach that point and in Severus Pov.
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