Opposites Attract | By : Animalium Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Lily Views: 2492 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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This is what im going to call a "Participation fic". Nearly all of the characters in this story are based on real people who wished to be a part of this book. Other things have been voted on by those same people. You guys are helping me write thks story. This is my first fan fiction, i hope you enjoy it. Please leave reviews and constructive criticism if needs be. I have a lot of plans for this story so bear with me. This will eventually be a snily pairing. For the first several chapters of this story there will be some exerpts taken straight from the Harry Potter series. All credit goes to JK Rowling and Warner bros.
Disclaimer: I don't own any part of Harry Potter or the wizarding world.
Prologue
Love had existed once in their life but that was many years ago. Virginia Walsh moved from Belfast, Ireland when she was a young girl. Her memories of her home town faded long ago. For all anyone new she was an English girl. Virginia was a very beautiful woman. She had flowing red hair down to her waist, a face full of freckles, and eyes that looked like they were crafted from emeralds. She met Frank Evans while attending university. He was a blond Englishman with dark brown eyes and a passion for helping others. It was a whirlwind affair and they quickly fell in love. With the muggle war looming over their heads Frank and Virginia were quickly married a few months after meeting and gave birth to two beautiful daughters. Petunia came first in 1958. She took after her father in looks. Petunia inherited his hair and eye color. In many ways they looked more alike than they did different. Lily was born next in 1960. She was the polar opposite of her sister. Instead of her father's looks, Lily received her mother's Irish roots. Her hair was deep a red and her eyes a bright green. The muggle war ended when the girls were still young. They never got to know a father who loved them, never experienced the man that their mother had fallen in love with. Like many soldiers, Frank returned with a severe case of PTSD. He self medicated by drowning himself in alcohol. Frank was a mean drunk, the problem was that he was always drunk. Eventually the loving Frank was gone and the abusive one had taken over. He had a hard time keeping a job in the old mill town of Cokeworth. The constant cost of losing a job only made frank drink more and beat more. While Virginia tried to take the brunt of Frank's beatings the girls didn't escape unfazed. Many school days were missed completely because of the abuse they'd received from their father. Other days they attended school in long sleeves and pants in an attempt to hide the bruises.
The little money the family earned was spent on Frank's addiction. Virginia worked when she could but living in a poor town meant few people could afford to pay her. As the money situation continued to get worse the Evans family moved across town to the poorest of the poor, Spinner's End. The house was dilapidated. The ceiling was falling apart and filled the house with dripping water during storms. The walls were slanted from a crumbling foundation. It was a death trap waiting to happen but it was home. It kept them warm enough and provided a place to keep their few possessions. The house was mostly empty as they were unable to afford furniture. Frank and Virginia slept on a pull out couch while the girls slept on the floor in sleeping bags.
The house wasn't the only problem. As hard as Virginia tried to stretch it there just wasn't enough money for all the expenses. There wasn't always food in the house which led to many nights of rumbling bellies. The girls were skinny from a lack of proper nutrition. Their clothes were tattered and worn. They'd been patched up as good as possible but the neglect was obvious all the same. At least they fit longer due to the limited growth the girls experienced.
Summer was always the hardest for the family. Virginia couldn't rely on sending her daughters to a neighbor's or friends house. She did so whenever possible to protect them as much as she could. Unfortunately the people who could afford to help her took vacations during the break from school. The families that stayed behind were barely surviving themselves.
Suddenly, one glorious summer morning in 1966, their lives changed forever. Petunia had dropped a dish which shattered on the battered floor. Of course, dishes cost money, money Frank couldn't earn. He lashed at his daughter, striking her across the cheek. As tears welled in Petunia's eyes, Lily came to her aid without even knowing it. As Frank's hand had passed across Petunia's face He received a stinging pain in the back of his hand. Unbeknownst to all of them, this was Lily's first performance of magic.
Across town lived another family, quite unlike the Evans. They were the Snape family. Tobias and Eileen had met by quite literally bumping into each other. Tobias had been loitering on Charing Cross Road near the entrance to the Leaky Cauldron when low and behold a women walked straight into him seemingly put of nowhere. That had required a bit of explaining and so they set up their first date to do just that. Tobias wasn't sure how to trust her at first. There's no such thing as witches and magic, surely she had to be a con artist. He couldn't understand why she was so unwilling to prove it to him. Muggles aren't aware of the secrecy laws after all. It took some convincing but Eileen eventually gained his trust that one day she would show him. They quickly fell in love and were married within the year. Eileen kept her promise to Tobias and decided on a cliché piece of magic by making a rabbit appear inside Tobias' hat much to his astonishment. On October 2nd, 1955, the Snape family learned they were due to have a child. Unfortunately it was the first of many miscarriages for the couple. Each one resulting in a devastating blow to them and their relationship as those things tend to do. In May of 1959 Eileen learned once again that she was pregnant. This one would turn out to be their miracle child. On January 9th, 1960, Eileen gave birth to a beautiful black haired boy that they would name "Severus Tobias Snape" and thus the family they had so desperately craved had finally begun. It was no longer just the two of them. Severus was their only child. There had been attempts at having more but something always seemed to go wrong. In 1963 the Snape family decided they had all the family they would ever need and so the 3 of them went on with their happy lives.
Tobias was a hard working man. In his years before Eileen he'd scoured the countryside looking for any job that might teach him something. This ended up being a great benefit later in life. Early in the year of 1969, Tobias landed a management position at a mill in Cokeworth. They secured a pleasant little cottage on the east side of town with enough room for their small family.
Lily and Severus were polar opposites. She had deep red hair like her mother while Snape had jet black hair like his mother. Her eyes were green, his were black. She was poor and abused, he was rich and loved. The one thing they did have in common was their magical ability. Severus had a witch for a mother. He'd learned how to control his magic and kept it hidden from the other kids in school. Lily was muggleborn. She didn't have anyone to show her how to control the magic inside which often resulted in unusual and inexplicable out bursts. Kids tended to avoid lily and bullied her for being unusual. That small difference separated her from the rest of the world but brought her close to another.
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