A day out at the fair should have been so exciting for the young Severus but it ended up so devastating for the young boy.
To take Eileen away like that was so shocking and traumatising . I am glad Tobias acted to get his son the toy he had so longed for even if it meant him doing some unknown work. To be so poor and treated so dreadfully by magical law enforcers probably did not help anyone.
i try not to think too much about Smol Sev because his whole childhood doesn't seem to have been very happy! So i generally focus on a post-war Snape being dragged kicking and screaming into a better life ;-) But i'm glad i was given the opportunity to focus on a different stage of his life!
He will understand, later, and it won't make him look particularly favourably towards a whole lot of people, no. i think his social origin started him on a path he didn't manage to deviate from until his early 20s, and even then ended up stuck in a mental and physical place he couldn't escape for the greater good and his own slow, inescapable destruction.
Hence my usually sticking to a post-war Snape finding happiness somehow ;-)
i like to think their family could have been happier, in other circumstances, but poverty just crushed them beyond what they could recover from and Severus bore that weight for the rest of his life.
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Oh, little Sev! And Tobias going back for Ghost-not to mention what Eileen did for her boys. Oh! *sniffles*
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Poor lil Sev made me sad as i was writing it!
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To take Eileen away like that was so shocking and traumatising . I am glad Tobias acted to get his son the toy he had so longed for even if it meant him doing some unknown work. To be so poor and treated so dreadfully by magical law enforcers probably did not help anyone.
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It certainly didn't help Severus and his family, no.
Tobias may not get caught stealing this time, but it's the start of a downward spiral for the Snape family :-(
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i try not to think too much about Smol Sev because his whole childhood doesn't seem to have been very happy! So i generally focus on a post-war Snape being dragged kicking and screaming into a better life ;-) But i'm glad i was given the opportunity to focus on a different stage of his life!
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Oh! Poor Eileen... being forced to transfigure money and then being punished for it... although, yes, the Aurors would ignore the Muggle...
Severus is too young to understand the true cost of that stuffed toy.
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He will understand, later, and it won't make him look particularly favourably towards a whole lot of people, no. i think his social origin started him on a path he didn't manage to deviate from until his early 20s, and even then ended up stuck in a mental and physical place he couldn't escape for the greater good and his own slow, inescapable destruction.
Hence my usually sticking to a post-war Snape finding happiness somehow ;-)
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A day that should have been one to remember becomes something not one of them can forget. So sad. And Eileen having to deal with Azkaban.
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i like to think their family could have been happier, in other circumstances, but poverty just crushed them beyond what they could recover from and Severus bore that weight for the rest of his life.
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