reunionatlast

Severus lay on his bed wishing sleep would come. But as his luck would have it, sleep was a long time in coming. The package worried him. He had recieved it that day from a particularly large golden eagle. It was a long package wrapped in a purple cloak. Somewhat surprized he had opened it, he had recognized it at once. It was Sekhmet's sword, scabbarded in black and belted the same. Seeing it made his heart skip a beat, he hadn't seen her for three years and he became worried. But, he remembered, as the sword wasn't shrouded in black that she wasn't dead.

But why would she send him this of all things? It was her most treasured possesion. Her father had raised her to be one of the best swordswomen in all of England, in the world even. This sword marked the time when she had passed her final test. He lay on his bed and random memories of her came in a flooding torrent about to engulf him, swallow him whole so that nothing would be left but a memory of himself.

It was three weeks before his first year at Hogwarts, and already he had become excited. His mother took him into Diagon Alley to buy his school things. They were walking up the street to Gringots to get money out of their vault and he couldn't stop staring at all the things around him, shops filled with cauldrons and spellbooks, potions ingredients. He had been there before when his brother Octavian had gotten his school supplies a year ago and for his sister Levinia two years. But everything looked different because it was his turn this year to be fitted for robes, and, best of all, he would get his first wand.

As his mother tied to hold the twins and keep his little sister from getting trampled in the crowd, he saw her. A girl who looked to be about his age, with her mother. He had never really been interested in girls before, partly because he had three sisters of his own to deal with, but this girl was beautiful. She had thick, hip length ebony black hair that shone in the sun. And lips as read as the roses in his mother's gardens. As he looked at her, a group of teenage wizards and witches stepped in front of him and blocked his view. He impatiently waited for them to move, and when they did she was gone. He sadly followed hi mother into Gringots, and about fifteen minutes later they emerged with a large sack full of money as Octavian and Levinia needed supplies as well. First they would get their school things, then, as all the first year and above students in the family were allowed, they could go off by themselves for an hour.

The first shop they went into was the robe shop, the salsewitch was already fitting a boy who had messy black hair. And a wizard ws fitting someone he couldn't see, since the wizard blocked his vision. The witch finished, and as the other boy went away with his mother, it was Severus' turn to be fitted. As he stepped up on to the stool he looked to his right and nearly fell off again. It was the girl from across the street. She was even more beautiful up close. She saw him looking at her and said:

"Hello. Is this your first year too?"

(Oh my gosh, she's speaking to me!) he thought.

"Y-yes." he stammered, "I'm Severus, Severus Snape."

"I'm Sekhmet," she said, "Sekhmet McFeerson Dumbledore."

"Dumbledore!" exclaimed a very surprized Severus, "you don't mean you're related to THE Professor Dumbledore?!"

"Yes," she said brightly, "If you must know, I'm his granddaughter."