[Comprehensive HP colleagues] That year

Cokeworth is a bustling town adjacent to London in the southeast of England, but even a bustling city has its dark side.Spider's End is the dark side of Cokeworth. It is dirty and decadent, like a homeless man who hasn't bathed in more than ten years.

Most of the people who live here are homeless old bums, but the Snape family doesn't count.

When talking about the Snape family, one has to mention the mistress of the house, Irene Prince Snape, a down and out witch.

The status of the surname Prince in the wizarding world is actually very embarrassing.Princes have been Slytherins for generations, but Prince was not on the list of 30 sacred pure-bloods in the "Pureblood Guide" published in the 28s, which made many Slytherins question Prince. Whether the blood of the Si family is pure also makes Irene's life in Hogwarts not so happy.Before that list appeared, most of the bloodism existed within Slytherin. As long as it did not affect the other three houses, the Slytherins could think whatever they wanted in private, but the publication of this book will make the hidden differences public. As a result, Slytherin began to be vaguely excluded.A family like Prince's is regarded as a representative of Slytherin outside, but they are regarded by Slytherin as a person to be tried internally. How can they not be caught in a dilemma?

It was under such circumstances that Irene spent her student life.Frankly speaking, Irene knew that, apart from doing well at Gobstone, she wasn't good at anything academically.But fortunately, she was surprisingly talented in brewing potions, and thus won the favor of Slughorn, the head of Slytherin at the time.

Just when many people, even Irene herself, thought she would stay in school to become Professor Slughorn's assistant, she met the man who turned her fate around, her future husband-Thor Bea Snape.

It was the Christmas vacation of her seventh grade. Professor Slughorn found that there was a shop in the Muggle world that had delicious candied pineapple, so Irene helped him buy it, but she got lost accidentally.She hadn't been able to Apparate at the time, and she didn't have a Portkey at hand, so she was trapped in the Muggle world.When she was feeling desperate, Tobia appeared. When everyone turned a blind eye to her helplessness, he kindly told her that the place she was going to was not in this city at all, and then took her to London himself. And found the Broken Ax Bar - next to the video store.

Irene didn't know that Tobia didn't send her to London personally.When he met Irene, he was about to go to London for an interview, so he gave her a ride by the way.However, Tobia personally saw her off along the way, which not only freed Irene from the predicament, but also made her heart sink.She knew that she wasn't pretty, she wasn't smart, and she didn't have any specialties except potions and gobstones.In her 17 years of life, there has never been a man who is so gentle and caring for her like Tobia, not even her strict father who died young, and Tobia's elegant appearance is just what Irene likes type, so she fell in love with him.

For the first time in her life, Erin decided to take a chance on her future.She turned down the internship opportunity provided by Professor Slughorn. During the whole vacation, she almost got tired of being with Tobias, and used the potion to trick Tobias a lot.She knew his preferences, his ideals, and his worries, and she followed suit.Fortunately, Tobia is not a member of the Appearance Association, because he thinks that Irene is the person who understands him the most in his life, and because of the effect of a little Felicity Potion, he finally accepted Irene's confession.

Therefore, because of Tobias, Irene made an astonishing move, and this move was undoubtedly equivalent to a big slap in the face of the whole Slytherin—after she graduated, she married a Muggle and stayed away from wizarding world.

Irene and Tobias officially married after living together for a year, but after the marriage, bad luck came to the Snape family one after another.Six months after marriage, old Mr. Snape died of illness; one and a half years after marriage, old Mrs. Snape died in a car accident; two years after marriage, Tobia's brother was robbed and killed by robbers. At that time, he His wife was pregnant, but half a year later, the child was lost due to an accident.And Tobia, whose career was going smoothly, also began to decline after two years of marriage with Irene.

Later, they had a son - Severus Snape.He is Irene's only son, her hope, but also the beginning of her broken marriage.

The birth of Severus can be said to be the happy news that this unfortunate family has never had for a long time. He nourished the love and family of Tobia and Irene like rain after a long drought.However, this "rain" is not abundant enough to really solve the "drought situation".As the days passed, Tobia realized more and more that Irene didn't know him as well as he imagined, and the unsatisfactory career also made his temper more violent.Finally, when little Severus was three years old, Tobias' company laid off a large number of employees, and Tobias unfortunately became one of them.After that, Tobia hit a wall everywhere when looking for a job. As a college student, he didn't want to wrong himself to do manual labor, and Irene was purely a housewife, so none of the two adults in the family could bring a lot to the family. income.

When little Severus was four years old, hunger caused his magic to explode, and Tobias was so frightened that he almost went crazy.In desperation, Irene had to confess to her husband that she and her son were both wizards.

This became the last straw that overwhelmed Tobias.It never occurred to him that the love and marriage with his wife for many years had always been based on deceit.He thought of all the bad luck that the Snape family had suffered since he married Irene, and he couldn't convince himself that it had nothing to do with the witch in front of him.

He threw out the word "divorce."

Erin was literally scared out of her wits by the word.She abandoned everything she had in the wizarding world, and lived with Tobias in the Muggle world. What would she do if Tobias didn't want her anymore?How could she still have the face to return to the wizarding world?Besides, what about Sif, she can't let him have no father!

She hugged her husband's leg and begged for forgiveness: "I swear, I will never cast magic again in my life, as long as you stay. I need you, my son needs you, please, for the sake of your own son Forgive me this time."

Such humbleness only got Tobias indifferent "impossible".

Seeing that begging was useless, Irene trembled and said something that she regretted for the rest of her life: "If you refuse to forgive me, I have no choice but to use magic to make you stay."

Originally, Tobia had gradually believed that Irene had never used magic to harm him. He insisted on divorce only because he thought that he really didn't love her.However, such a sentence extinguished the only remaining trust in his heart.

From then on, there was no peace in the Snape family.

After talking about Irene, let's talk about her son Severus.

Anyone who knows the Snape family knows that little Severus has inherited his mother Irene's unsmiling and dull personality. Coupled with his weird dress and sallow and gloomy face, he is simply an insulator in Muggle primary schools. Except for the monitor of their class, no classmates are willing to take the initiative to talk to him "well".

Of course, they looked down on him, and he looked down on them, and in Severus' mind, they were just a bunch of lowly, stupid Muggles.

Severus was willing to live as a passer-by, but was changed by a girl named Roseanne Mac who was one year older than him.The girl started to pester Severus frantically after she accidentally learned his name, treating him like a long-lost lover.Severus’s food is not good—send her hand-made love bento; Severus’s hair is greasy—send him high-end shampoo and urge him to go home to wash his hair every day; Severus’s clothes are shabby— —Send him a well-tailored high-end custom-made clothes...

Roseanne was a very bright and pretty girl, and although she was only a year older than Severus, she was three grades ahead of him because of a grade skip.Girls with such beauty and intelligence were so favored, if they were in Roseanne's class, they would feel happy to die, but Severus didn't think so.

Severus didn't know why Roseanne was so kind to him when everyone hated him, this kind of inexplicable care for no reason made him instinctively resist Roseanne's approach.He hated her benevolent attitude, hated her meddling in his life, and most hated her forcing him to wash his hair every day-God knows that his house had been without water for a week because he didn't pay the water bill!

He threw away the shampoo in front of Roseanne, who immediately looked hurt.Sadly, this scene was watched by several boys in Roseanne's class who liked Roseanne.So, on a cloudy afternoon, Severus encountered a very bloody thing. He was surrounded by a group of boys - they accused him of failing to live up to Roseanne's kindness, and they thought it was an unforgivable crime.

Severus refused to admit his mistake and was besieged.As a result of being besieged, Severus' magic power erupted again, and several senior boys were swept to the ground by a gust of wind, injured and unconscious.And this led to an even worse result: the parents of several children later jointly put pressure on the school, and Severus was ordered to withdraw from school.

Dropping out was welcome news to Severus, who didn't like being in a place full of Muggles who looked down on him at all.But he was not reconciled - it was obvious that the group of boys provoked him first, so why was he the one who was expelled in the end?

The news that the Snape family injured four classmates by himself quickly spread among the neighbors. The gossip of the neighbors made Tobia feel that his wife and son were demons. As the economic conditions got worse, Tobia was overwhelmed, quietly sold the house, moved into Spider's End, and left the rest of the money to Irene—in fact, to Severus, no matter what Said, after all, it is also his own flesh and blood.He felt that he had done his best by not giving away all the money.He originally thought that he could get rid of Irene in this way, and if he got rid of Irene, he would no longer have bad luck, and he could start all over again...

But he still underestimated Irene's attachment to him.Looking at Irene who was holding Severus standing at the corner of Spider's End Alley, Tobias didn't have the slightest sense of gratitude that this woman was willing to share with him through thick and thin.Instead, he despises her.

He has seen many career-oriented women in college. He used to think that those girls who were too strong were not cute, but now, he saw this woman who was humble to the bottom of her heart for love, but could not bring any help to her husband's career. , he really regretted it.

If Irene can be stronger, maybe he will still retain a respect for her, but now...

She followed him to her new home, and he committed the first domestic violence against her in front of her son.

Since then, the damage has been unscrupulous.

From then on, he felt hopeless in this life, drank heavily all day long, and never tried to find a job again.

From then on, he never even smiled at his son.

After the move, Severus stopped going to Muggle primary school, and Eileen taught him himself.

Severus didn't like his father, and he didn't like his mother either. He still couldn't understand why his mother was so humble to his father, she was a wizard!This is too embarrassing for the wizard!

But he likes to learn potions with his mother, because only when his mother teaches him potions will he show a confidence that he would never have in normal times.He wished his mother could teach him potions from morning to night, but unfortunately, mother spent most of her time crying secretly.

So Severus decided to rely on himself, he read Irene's previous magic books all day long, and tried to operate it himself.However, due to lack of effective guidance, he began to have frequent magical riots, so that in the end, the neighbors around, even those who were several blocks away, knew that the Snape child was a freak.

During this period, Roseanne came to visit Severus, but Severus scolded him mercilessly away.He didn't have the slightest affection for this lowly, self-righteous Muggle girl who had brought her down in the slums of Spinner's End!

As the days passed, Severus' life remained the same, monotonous and dull.It wasn't until he was eight years old that he finally found something worth looking forward to besides learning potions with his mother-peeking at Lily Evans, a little witch from a Muggle family.

That day, his father beat his mother again. He couldn't stand the smoky environment at home, so he ran out while his father was not paying attention.He was not thinking about walking, walking, and after an unknown period of time, he found that he had walked into a small park.He remembered this park, which was very close to his original home.A month ago, his mother brought him back here, because an outdoor food competition was held here at that time, and after the game ended, they picked up a lot of delicious food.He clearly remembered that it was several blocks away from his home, and it would take him an hour to walk back.

Turning around to leave, he suddenly heard the joyful laughter of a girl not far behind him, he turned his head, and then froze.

What made him stunned was not the girl's beautiful face, but her behavior—she was swinging on a swing, and when the swing reached the highest point, she let go of her hands and flew into the air, really flying, laughing and jumping at the girl. Sky.Instead of falling hard on the asphalt of the playground, she glides through the air like an acrobat, stays there for a long time, and finally lands very lightly on the ground.

At that moment, the girl's lithe figure and fiery red hair dazzled his eyes with the brilliance of the setting sun.

Merlin, she's a witch!