[STORY ON HOLD • RE-WRITING ON 'THE POTIONS MASTERS APPRENTICE' FREQUENT UPDATES] Aria Dumbledore has never had an easy life. She has been beaten, raped, bullied, battered. And now she feels so worthless that she punishes herself too. But when her mother dies and she is rescued from the rubble of her home everything changes... For better or for worse? New country, new school, new family, new life? When Aria moves to Hogwarts EVERYTHING changes ... But was it what she was hoping for ? Severus Snape could make her or break her ? ... So what will it be ? [WARNING possible trigger] *Disclaimer- I do not own any of the original Harry Potter characters or main plot, everything belongs to Queen J.K Rowling. Aria Dumbledore and her immediate family are my personal creations and the plot surrounding Aria and Snape belong to me. The chapter pictures are mostly my collages but the actual pictures and drawings do not belong to me, so credit to the artist and who over else created them.*

A talented young witch is employed as an apprentice professor at Hogwarts, but who will she be working under? Severus Snape is not best pleased with his new responsibility of taking on an apprentice, however she is relentless to create a friendship between them. Will she be successful? Or might the friendship just go a little two far? With the eyes of her grandfather constantly watching over them, an attempt at a relationship might not be in the cards for Aria Dumbledore and Severus Snape. . . . . . . . [Essentially this story will be an updated and hopefully improved version of "Loved By You" one of my earlier works. Although it will not be an exact replica many things will be similar and plots may be repeated.]

(Based on 'Once Upon A Time'.) Three years after her brother Baelfire left and two after her mother died, Elizabeth Gold is left alone with her father - Rumplestiltskin. She knows she can't live in this small town forever and she knows she has to find a way out but for the time being she is still living with her father and has a job at one of the local pubs 'The Rose and Swan'. Many sailors and Pirates who have docked for the weekend tell her of their adventures and voyages, her dream is to go and travel with them one day but she just can't find it in her heart to leave her father just yet. She's afraid that is she leaves him his dark magic will take over him and power will be his priority, she just wants to keep him safe! But what will happen when a certain pirate who may have crossed paths with her father and goes but the name of 'Hook' docks for a few days and she falls for him? There may be a deal involved and some complications but the question is; Can they make it work ?