What do you do when you are being sent to the school where the person you fear most will be watching you every day? What do you do when the person who changed your life forever is your teacher? Will you be able to stand it or will you crack? These questions plague the mind of Lexi Walker, 16-year-old Gryffindor. She's made it 5 years without cracking. This year, things will not be so easy. Since she was 2, she has had to live with the nightmarish memory of seeing her father die at the wand of one of Voldemort's darkest followers, Severus Snape. At age 11, Lexi went off to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry excited and afraid. To her horror, the man responsible for the brutal death of her father was going to be her potions teacher. This is the tale of Lexi's sixth year at Hogwarts.
Chapter 1-The Battle Fought and Lost
Lexi's mother, Karen, skimmed through the mail that the family post owl, Barny, had brought.
"Alexandra, you've got mail," Karen called from the kitchen.
"From who?" came the voice of 16-year-old Lexi from down the hall in her room.
"Looks like the book and supply list for school," responded her mother. Lexi appeared in the doorway wearing tattered jeans and an old Hanson t-shirt.
"Mum, please don't make me go back," Lexi whined. "I don't think I could stand to see that...that...that filthy, rotten killer for another whole year." Karen put down the rest of the mail, closed her eyes and sighed. "Alexandra, I don't want to hear it. What he did was horrible and I wouldn't wish it on anyone but it was 14 yrs ago. Let it go." Karen said patiently to her daughter.
"Mum, you don't get it," Lexi said. "He hasn't changed. You don't know anything about him" "Oh and I suppose you do then, seeing how many detentions you've had with him," Karen said in a tone barely above a whisper.
"Why are you defending him!" Lexi screamed at her mother. "He murdered your husband!"
"Alexandra, don't bring your father into this. We aren't talking about him. We are talking about..." Karen began.
"Stop it! Stop acting like he isn't important. Stop acting like he never existed. You don't love him!" Lexi interrupted, tears welling up in her eyes.
"Alexandra McKenzy Walker, you do not interrupt me when i am talking," Karen said trying to keep her voice steady. "You didn't even have the decency to keep his last name. When you married Michael you took his last name, Lascher," Lexi spat back.
"That's it! This conversation is over. You are going back and that's it." Karen said.
As always, Lexi started the battle and always, always lost it. Life just wasn't fair.
