I'm Snape's daughter?

Chapter One

Elizabeth (Ellie)

It was the day before my 11th birthday when a weird letter arrived with the mail. I had seen it laying on the table, there was this big red wax stamp on it.

"Strange.." I thought, "Mom? Whose letter is that?"

"Which one?" She yells from upstairs, she probably watching her favourite tv-show again.

"The one with the big red stamp?" It goes quiet "It says Hegwerts, or is it Hogarts? It kind of hard to read.."

Then mom comes running down the stairs pulling the letter from my hand.

"Hogwarts.." she mutters, reading it swiftly.

"What is it? Is there a problem with it?" I ask because every time I move closer so I can read along, she turns away. It's almost as if she hiding it from me. "Mom? What Is going on?"

Holding the letter behind her back, she turns to me "Nothing, dear, why don't you go read a book or something?"

She turns to go back up the stairs but I block her path.

"Mom? What is Hogwarts?" I ask, knowing she is hiding something.

"I said it is nothing! Now out of my way!"

"No, I need to know.." I say, crossing my arms.

"That is enough! Go to your room, Ellie!"

I run upstairs while grunting angry because she never tells me anything and I swear, I saw my name on that letter.

Entering my room, I slam my door closed and my cat jumps awake at the sound. He growls when I let myself fall right next to him on my bed.

"Can you believe her, Marlow? She's so unfair! Always keeping secrets..." He purrs when I pet him. "You're the only one that understands me."

He opens his unnaturally green eyes and walks to my face. I start to laugh when he licks my face, "Ew, stop it, stop it. You crazy creature, you are not a dog! Stop it!"

Marlow was a present for my birthday last year. He sat in this very big box and at the time was this very minuscule, black kitten with big green eyes and white paws. It was the best present I had ever gotten.

"Ellie, dear?" She asks from outside the door. I can hear from her tone, she regrets everything but I'm not ready to forgive her yet.

Grabbing Marlow in my arms, I walk to the door. Opening it, I say "What do you want?"

When she doesn't answer, I start to tap my foot letting her know that I'm waiting.

"Ellie, you need to start packing your stuff, we are leaving.."

I almost drop Marlow, "What?! Why?!" She turns around. "No, mom! You can't turn away from me now!" I yell, "Why?! Why are we leaving?"

Her face is totally blank while I'm yelling at her. Then she simply answers with "Something came up."

"The letter.." I mumble and mom stops going down the stairs when she hears. "It's the letter, isn't it? We're leaving because of the letter, what did it say?"

"That's none of your business, now start packing! Or we leave without your stuff."

When I walk back in to my room, there are two suitcases waiting. For a moment, I stand there confused, where did they come from?

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I am laying on top of my second suitcase, desperately trying to close it with my bodyweight when mom walks in.

"Everything packed?" She asks, I only nod because still too mad to talk to her. "Let me.." She points to my suitcase.

So I get off and walk to the other side of the room to take Marlow, not wanting to look her in the eye. I hear her mumbling something and when I turn around to suitcase is closed, ready to leave. I want to take one of the suitcases but mom waves me off and tells me to go downstairs.

"There's food in the kitchen, have some.." I don't answer, just take Marlow and start walking down the stairs. I'm in shock when I get downstairs, everything is gone.. How did she do that? I wasn't in my room for that long but looking outside and seeing that it's already dark, changes my mind.

In the kitchen is a plate of spaghetti waiting for me, bribing me with my favourite food.. of course.

While I'm eating, I notice how abnormally quiet it is and I start to focus on a sound in the distance. It's voices, the voices of the neighbours two doors from our home.

I can hear them talking about how relieved they are that we are moving, that my mom is one crazy lady and that it's such a shame that a beautiful girl like me can be so peculiar. My blood is boiling and I'm seeing red, how dare they?!

Slamming my fist down on the table, "Confringo!" The word escapes my lips without me knowing what it is. Then there's a loud bang, the windows break and the light flash before going out completely. There's glass all over the place and mom comes crashing down the stairs.

"Ellie, are you alright? What happened?"

"I.. I.. I" I stutter while looking at my hands, did I do this? "I don't know.."

There are voices outside, It's the neighbours and they're sounding confused. Mom rushes out the door with me behind her, the street is covered in glass and it seems that the power is out in the whole street.

"Mom? Is this my fault?" I ask timid.

Mom looks at me and hugs me. "Of course not, now I want you to get Marlow and get in the car. We need to leave." Even though she tells me it's not my fault, the look on her face tells me otherwise.

She pushes me towards the door and I run inside, grabbing Marlow who is growling and hissing. "What's wrong, Marlow?"

I look outside through the broken glass door and see several people in robes walking towards me. I stand frozen when these strangely familiar eyes catch my gaze.

"Elizabeth, What is taking you so long?" I hear my mom coming around the corner and gasp. "Snape.."

The eyes look confused for a moment and break the gaze to look at my mom. Marlow is hissing at the robed figures and I'm slowly walking backwards. When I reach mom, she whispers "Run, Ellie and don't look back."

"Mom?" I ask scared but she only answers with a loud "NOW!" so I run with Marlow in my arms. Out the front door and onto the street, I can hear the men shouting. "She's escaping! Go get her!" and my mom defending herself and yelling "Don't you dare touch her! I'm warning you, Severus!"