Putting Trust into the Wrong Man

Chapter 2: Hogwarts: A History

6 years earlier

A warm breeze brushed against Poppy as she sat in the windowsill looking over their small Muggle town as she slid the window closed and sighed, looking at her almost packed trunk. She had been waiting to transfer to Hogwarts for some time now and her father finally said the words of approval.

She fell back onto her floor where her trunk was, double checking her packing list while looking around her small, but cozy room. It had Muggle boy band posters hanging around the room, the walls were a tint of gray, but almost all of it was covered. This would be the last time she would be in her room until the summer.

She would be starting her third year of schooling, a little late she knew; she would have trouble finding friends. Her owl, Poe, was sitting nicely in his cage, looking for scrapings leftover from his dinner as the house fell more silent with just the wind blowing. It was a late August night, almost the last of the month and she would be on the train soon enough.

"Oh, Poe, there's no food left you ate it all, we have to finish packing before father comes up to check on us, wouldn't want him having any doubts-" but before she could finish, Severus Snape entered his daughters room for the third time that day.

"Everything still going alright. Are you really sure you want to go to Hogwarts, I've seen the students that go there, not your average teenager," he said smirking while looking to her trunk filled with books and caldrons and her wand laying on top of an old knit Slytherin sweater worn out from her mothers touch.

"Yes, dad, Im ready, I want to really learn magic and go to the school you and mom met and fell in love. I want to experience a world full of magic with no Muggles taunting me. Im ready," Poppy smiled as she closed her trunk and clasped it shut, she felt as ready as she could be.

Severus stood up and kissed Poppy on the forehead while gliding out of the room with one last hopeful smile. He had to prepare himself to send his only child away to Hogwarts, somewhere he once loved teaching, but now just visits on occasion.

He went down the stairs and down into the kitchen where he brewed a cup of coffee, a Muggle drink filled with caffeine, as he waited, he looked around the house and could feel the sense of it emptying while his daughter was packing upstairs to leave for months.

Poppy went to an all-girls academy in the Muggle world, she was never allowed to use magic as that would expose their whole world. She could barely use magic at home due to the wizarding laws of underage magic. Her Hogwarts letter arrived once a year, but her father never allowed her to go, why, she would never know.

There have been mishaps, of course, involving the tips of a classmates blonde hair to turn a horrid green. Another time, Poppy was so angry one day, she set a trash can on fire by accident, but no one ever knew how this all happened, only that she was the weird one of the class.

Severus stopped teaching after his wife, Amelia, passed away, he couldnt bear to teach at the school they fell in love at anymore. And with that, he didnt want to send his only child away for months at a time, for he would become lonely in the small house and have only Muggles to make conversation with.

But as time went on, and when Headmistress, Minerva McGonagall sent him a personal letter about how great Poppy would do at the school, Severus finally gave in and allowed her to go to her dream school.

Poppy fell asleep dreaming of wizards and witches surrounding her casting all kinds of spells, quidditch players zooming by her flying on broomsticks trying to catch the golden snitch, she was in her happy place.

Beep. Beep. Beep.

Poppy rolled over and snoozed her alarm, it was 8am.

Three hours until the train leaves for Hogwarts, I have so much to do!

And with that thought, she jumped out of bed and ran downstairs to eat breakfast before she had to go to Kings Cross Station.

A/N: I'm gonna try and post the first few parts at once and then upload a few times a week, I have so many ideas for this story!