The courting

Chapter 14. That was quick!

Snape POV

I left Hogwarts at ten p.m.
I still worked at this horrible school, so that Dumbledore wouldn't get suspicious. At least school was a little bit easier when McGonagall was headmistress, less discrimination for Slytherin and Hufflepuff. 

When I asked my students about the traits of the houses, muggleborns and halfbloods often only know one trait for each house, and it mostly looks like this:
Gryffindor: great, strong and courageous.
Ravenclaw: geniuses
Slytherin: bad people.
Hufflepuff: collects everyone that doesn't fit into another house. 

What traits did we negotiate to our children, when we told them such things? The problem was, that magical children, living in the muggle world didn't connect enough with their world they are to live in after their 11th birthday. Wizards and witches that married a muggle lived a muggle lifestyle and loosed their connection to their magic.
Long times ago, Hogwarts provided extra courses for these children in the summers, so they would be on the same level as purebloods, fullbloods and halfbloods living in the wizarding world.

Sadly, Dumbledore decided that it was best to surprise the parents of muggleborns at the end of summer, so their children would be thrown in a life they knew nothing about and could be corrupted by Weasleys and Dumbledore.
Together with some other teachers like Professor Flitwick and Beans, I was working on a new way of introducing new wizards to the magical world. 

The best way, we decided, was a magic camp, for one week each summer, from their sixth to their seventeenth year of living. There they would learn about the right way to act in our world and understand us.
The children would be eased into our world, without taking them from their parents for a too long period. 

Hopefully, parents would become more understanding, too.
Enough about plans, I had arrived again at the Burrow. Thankfully, nor Granger nor her boytoy were here. They must have been on their horcrux trip. 

Tom had reabsorbed 5 from his 7 horcruxes two years ago, and he would absorb them all, but he loves Nagini too much to hurt her, and Harry is out of the question.
"Severus, my boy. It is good that you arrived now. We were just talking about young Neville." I sat myself down and tried to ease my headache the old goat gave me.
"We visited his grandmother in London, but she seemed confused and tried to hex us. It seems that the death eaters have visited her before and she has followed an equal fate like her son and daughter-in-law. She was able to escape when we called the healers. We weren't able to find Neville nor in the house nor in London." 

I nodded my head. The young enforcer had told us about the unwelcomed visit of the OotP at his place.
"Severus, what can the death eater say about this?" Mrs. Redhead asked.
"The dark lord is too, searching for Longbottom. It seems the boy just disappeared."

I lied with full confidence. "Arthur dear, were you able to contact all your children?" Dumbledore asked.
The muggle-lover turned to the old wizard and replied: "Bill is, of course, on our side. He and Fleur just settled in in their new house, but they will fight with us. Percy is infiltrating the ministry and quite successful doing that."
 I wouldn't be proud that your son is whoring his way up the business ladder.
"Ron is with Hermione, they have already destroyed one horcrux. Little Ginny is still at Hogwarts, she is too young to fight in this war."
Yes, but old enough to lose her virginity to the first male creature she saw.
"We couldn't reach Charlie, we fear for his well-being. Romania is known for their good connections with Bulgaria, and with Karkaroff as an important leader there..." 

Oh, yeah Karkaroff. 

By handing over some names to the ministry of magic, he lost sympathy points with Tom, but he is still more than just a normal death eater.
"But what about your twins?"
"You mean Gregory and Finn, you mean?" 

Woman, you don't know the name of your own sons?! And you call yourself a mother?! Her husband took over quickly.
"They decided to turn their backs to their family. They say, 'a good soldier knows when he has lost', and that they 'won't fight a war they will lose'. I don't know what they are talking about, but Molly and I are thinking about disowning them."
I was tempted to shake my head, the twins had a well-known shop at diagon ally and were thinking about expanding, when I understood Harry right. 

They made more money than their parents ever had, so disowning them, won't hurt the two in any way.
You can't tell your own children apart, nor remember their names! Being a mother myself, this hurts my heart.

I only had one child, but even if I had more, I would cherish them the way they deserved. Again, the smell from the kitchen made me disappear quickly, and I returned home, to my husband and my child. And this time,
Tom won't be allowed to touch me, as punishment for forgetting to put up silencing charms.

 Yeah, that seems like a good punishment! 

A/N: Sorry I took so long, even though you (especially )were so quick on giving me what I asked for, I was sooo caught up on translating my book 'Rebels' so that I will be able to post a chapter soon! 

I am trying to bring in a bit more than just the courting, to keep it interesting!

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