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VALENCIA EMERSYN SNAPE went to Hogwarts every single year of her life. Her father, Severus had no one he could leave her with every year, so he brought her along.
She was the result of a one-night stand, born on February 1, 1980, to Severus and a woman she never knew.
The first decade of her life was spent roaming every inch of Hogwarts. She helped Madam Pomphrey in the med bay. She sat in on Minerva McGonagall's transfiguration lessons. She helped Hagrid collect unicorn hairs and took care of Fawkes whenever Dumbledore was away.
When she turned eleven, she was allowed to be sorted. Everyone had different guesses.
McGonagall thought Ravenclaw, Hagrid thought Hufflepuff, Flitwick thought Gryffindor.
But Severus, he knew. Valencia was going to be a Slytherin.
He could see it in her eyes.
Severus saw it in the way she followed Marcus Flint blindly when they watched Quidditch. He saw her staring at the oldest Slytherin girls with utter adoration when they asked her if she wanted to go with them to the great hall. He saw it in the way she slept in the Slytherin common room late at night, just for a chance to see the merfolk through the window that looked out into the Black Lake.
Of course, Severus was right. The Sorting Hat took less than a minute to call out 'SLYTHERIN' and the entire house launched into cheers, breaking their stony, cold, perfectly polite exterior.
They were even louder than the Gryffindor table when they got Harry Potter.
Valencia made her way down to the Slytherin table, they were still cheering. They all moved and cleared a space for her. At the very head of the table. To her left were the Heads and prefects.
Before she could thank them, someone caught her eye. A blonde-haired boy, who looked rather sulky.
Perhaps he was Narcissa Malfoy's son. Narcissa had taken her shopping for 'girl things' the past summer.
The hat did not even have to touch his head before calling out Slytherin.
Valencia clapped the hardest for him, which made him look at her. She took the opportunity and waved him over to sit by her. She would have him. He would stand by her side. Draco sat down on her right.
