Snapes family
“Thank Merlin Severus! We became friends with you and Lilly, our lives would have been hell otherwise with the new DADA professor Snape” Sirius commented leaving the DADA classroom after their first DADA lesson with the Ravenclaws
“Yes, why didn’t you tell us that your family are well known Assassins, and how come you didn’t go to the Assassin guild like the rest of your paternal family” James asked Severus “My father is considered the black sheep or more correctly the white sheep of the family! He never wanted to become an assassin or attend the thieves guild……..much to the family shame and embarrassment he didn’t even become a police officer…just kept to the right side of the law, except for the small matter when I was eight and befriended Lilly and Petunia, then he remembered a few of the assassin moves to scare the Evans into stopping the abuse or so he thought!....he had already taught me the moves the first day of primary school when I was bullied….I went in the next day and taught the bullies a lesson they never forgot in a hurry! don’t get me wrong he loves his family and would do anything for them….but he was always a nervous child apparently according to Great Aunt Rosemary”
“How many are in your immediate family then Sev!” asked Remus “Lets see…I have two older brothers from Da’s first marriage, and Lilly and Petunia as my adopted sisters” Severus answered
“YOU mean your father was married before!” asked a scandalous Sirius “Oh yes! Both my da and step ma who has another two boys and a girl who I consider as my siblings divorced….due to the fact that they loved each other as siblings but not as a man and wife….which was good seeing my step ma is a lesbian and had to wait until her parents died before coming out, then she married the woman of her life and they had three children through IVF” Severus finished
“Mundanes and their outdated views on homosexuality, causing trouble and heart ache for the people involved” James muttered to the group
“Oh no! my step ma is a pure blood witch who had to marry someone just to stop her family from selling her to the highest bidder! I think there was a list of the most wealthy wizarding families that her family wanted to sell in to” Sirius just nodded at Severus words and explain to James who had his mouth hanging open “James! Welcome to the real wizarding world!...most wizarding families see the bonding of their children as a basic business deal…with one side bonding a child for money or status and the other side for any number of reasons, and before you say anything! Look at my poor parents..they hate each other, despise the ground the other walks upon, but it never mattered to their parents they had to get married to ensure the Black line remained pure and untouched with other filthy blood for the last couple of centries”
“So any webbed feet, extra toes or fingers or small dicks run in your family now?” asked a serous Lilly to Sirius, Sirius looked at Lilly and replied “Not that I know of why? I mean there are more squibs who are discarded into the mundane community and the magical power that most of my family wield has declined…except for me and Regulus my younger brother, why?”
Severus took a deep breath and informed the group of friends about the mundanes research into genes and interbreeding, he also explained why nearly all mundane societies and countries had laws prohibiting close relatives marrying each other. Lilly finished the conversation just as they reach the Transfiguration classroom with “seeing as you and Regulas have a high level of magical power to wield, it would be safe to say that Orion might not be your real father!” with that the group of friends entered the classroom of the most boring and irrelevant class that Hogwarts had to offer.
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It had been a surreal experience thought Severus to be arriving for the first time at Hogwarts School by floating boats, they were only allowed to have four pupils to a boat. Remus had gallantly allowed his other friends to go in one boat. Soon they were standing outside on the pier by the school gates. The grounds keeper, the biggest and tallest man than any of the friends had seen, knocked on the old oak wooden doors.
The doors opened to show a stern woman standing there, the two adults exchanged pleasantries, the woman turned to the group of new Hogwarts pupils and stated “Welcome to Hogwarts, in a moment you all will be sorted in to one of four houses. These are Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin, while here your house will become your family at Hogwarts. Your behaviour not only reflects upon your house but will either gain or loose your house points for the house cup competition”
The woman then turned and led the pupils into the corridor and instructed them all to ensure they were ready for the public school sorting. Black who had nabbed Remus whispered to his new friends “look everybody! As agreed we will all try to be sorted into Hufflepuff….but if we cant be then we will still remain friends and as the mundane say ‘watch each other backs’” Severus looked at Sirius with a raised eyebrow, there was obviously more to the sorting of pupils then what the professor had said. He would wait to interrogate Sirius when they were all alone.
The stern looking woman came back and led them into the enormous dining hall of Hogwarts School. There was a hat upon a stool, and when all had crammed themselves into the small space left for the first years sorting the hat had started singing a insane song, which did not make sense but which everybody clapped to loudly. Then the sorting began, there was a record amount of stalling that year from the sorting hat, five in total and all were the five friends who either begged, pleaded or informed the hat of their pedigree to be sorted into their preferred house of Hufflepuff. The boys had of course snagged the first dormitory for themselves and had spent the rest of the night making friends with the other ten boys in their year.