"NO GREATER MAGIC THAN LOVE" A Severus Snape Love Story

St. MUNGO's🚨

"Rosaline! Look up!" I looked at my mother's blur face.

"This is Uncle Rupert." I turned my head towards the man he was pointing at. A man of average height with burgundy hair and wide eyes looked at me, smiling and ruffling my hair.

"Hello" I said in a shy voice. He kneeled in front of me to look me in the eye and it kind of felt good, that instead of looking down he preferred to sit down and reach my height. This is like marking me as an equal.

"Hello Rosaline. I am Rupert. You can call me Uncle Rupert." He had a very gentle voice, a soft calming one. I liked him at once and gave him the brightest smile possible.

"Val, I like this kid, she has a sweet smile." He stroked my smiling cheeks with his rough hands and looked at my mother.

"It's really great to see you both getting along so well." She smiled at me as I looked back at her.

"Right, so Rosaline, you are going to stay with Uncle Rupert for some time. Okay? He is a very nice person." She said sternly, already leaving my hand. I tried to grasp her hand but she flung it away, instead Uncle Rupert caught hold of my hand gently and smiled at me.

"Oh Rosaline dear, don't you worry, you and I are going to have so much fun. I live alone and you will be staying with me. We are going to have so much ice-cream............so much." And he rolled his eyes upward in a funny way, as to show he was gulping down many ice-creams together, "that we will end up puking ice-creams for days and days. Do you like ice-cream?"

"Yes." I giggled.

"I like them too. What's your favourite flavour?"

"I like chocolate. What's your favourite?"

"I like chocolate too. This is great. I can already foresee the amount of fun we are going to have." He pulled me inside the house and went to close the door when I looked around, searching mother.

"Where is my mother?" I asked him.

"Oh honey she is gone. She was in a bit of hurry." My face drooped down immediately.

"She didn't say goodbye." I looked down at my feet.

"No! She did not? Wait let her come back, I will scold her. How can she just go away not telling goodbye to this pretty little face." Saying he tickled me on my belly and I burst out into laughter and then he scooped me up into his arms and carried me inside.

The memory changed.......

I was sitting on the couch playing with a plush Panda that I got on my birthday from Uncle Rupert.

"Rose! Come here at once." I ran towards his room. His room was all dark. But I could make out his silhouette; he was sitting on the bed, looking out his window.

"Come here." He called me. I went up to him confidently; I knew he would never scold me because I have not done anything wrong. I do whatever he says me and he often praises me for that. He loved me more than my mother. When I got near him, he suddenly picked me up and made me sit on his lap. Then he was slowly caressing my feet and gradually his hands slipped inside the hem of frock and it's like he was pinching me near my thighs.

"No! Stop! Don't do this....." I tried to wriggle away his grasp but it was getting stronger and the pain was increasing.

"Stop, stop, please........No!" I was now trying to let go off his hands, he was tightly groping my wrists. Now the pain was in my wrists and he was pinching me in my forearm.