ThePet

"We dark ones, we lost ones, do not feel less strongly than the others... we feel more intensely. We suffer more intensely, live and die more intensely than they. And when the end comes, it is our torment which is greatest and most enduring." The redemption of Severus Snape begins with the loss of a young life on the field of battle. Set several years after GoF, this is not about the Final Battle, but what happens afterwards...

When sinister Grandmama Livia, the matriarch of the Snape family, decides to hold a Family Gathering at Hogwarts, Severus is understandably perturbed...especially when he discovers she's invited the mysterious, undead Sackville-Snapes. Things go from bad to worse when the trio, plus Neville, put in an appearance. 'Snapes...dozens of them...'