Querencia // George Weasley

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My Life Before Hogwarts

                   It was a warm spring morning on May 16, 1978, when I was born. The name chosen for me by my loving mother, Thalia, was Seraphina Rose Noland. As the story goes, my father died a few months before I was born and my mum was devastated, but she swore that she would raise me to the best of her ability in my father's absence. 

Mum always tells me about when I was a baby, things would move on their own whenever I cried and as I got older, when I wasn't allowed to have something those things would come to me. She told me not be afraid of this and that if it was really dangerous then it wouldn't be as innocent as the acts that were being committed. 

Before I knew it, time had passed and I was 11. Things were normal, until July 28th. Mum and I were sitting at the kitchen table playing a game of checkers after lunch and I was winning.

"Ha, I win again, Mum!" I bragged. She rolled her eyes and we started to set up the board again. Then there was a knock at the door. Mum furrowed her eyebrows, I knew we weren't suspecting anyone today.

She got out of her chair to the left of the head of the table, that chair was my father's no one was allowed to sit in it. I turned in my chair toward the doorway, my chair is to the right of the head of the table, or opposite to my mum's. 

The person at the door knocked again, Mum hurried over to the door, this time not as hesitant. She unlocked and opened the door. A tall man with almost shoulder length, straight, jet black hair with floor length black robes was standing there. 

"Hello?" Mum greeted questioningly. I could tell from just that one word that Mum didn't know him, so I became a little nervous.

He looked my Mum up and down with a look of almost distaste in his eyes. "Good evening, I assume you are Seraphina Rose Noland's mother." The words that he spoke were dull and monotonous, it was almost like he didn't want to be here, which was ridiculous considering he was the one that knocked on our door. 

Mum nodded and mumbled, "Yes, my name is Thalia Noland. Who are you?"

The man explained, "I am Severus Snape, a professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."

At this point I was standing in the entry way to the living room where the front door is. Mum looked back at me with a confused, but almost understanding look. While I was too perplexed to understand what was happening, but I was still listening out of curiosity.

"Witchcraft.... Wizardry.... what are you talking about?" Mum questions.

The man, or Severus Snape how he identified himself, puts a more polite tone in his voice and asks, "Can I come in to explain all of this better?" Mum nods and opens the door wider for him to come in. He strides inside the living room and Mum gestures for him to sit down in the living room on either the couch or the chair, he chooses the chair.

Mum then acquired, "Would this conversation be better if Sera was in the room or would you like her upstairs in her room."

"It may be better if she was up in her room, so that all of this can be explained to her later." He states confidently. Mum nods and turns her head toward me.

She smiles and kindly states, "Sera, honey, can you please go up to your room and then I will come get you in a bit." I stare at her still perplexed and then turn and walk up the small set of stairs that lead to the bedrooms upstairs.

Mum's room is a few feet from the top of the stairs on the right side and my room is at the clear end of the hallway, which I don't mind since it gives me some space and privacy from Mum, when I need it.