A/N: Okay so I have started another story but I have MAJOR writer's block on my other 2 fics and I'd quite like to get this fic and any related ones published.

WARNING: This fic is rated T for slight language.

The Legacy of the Princes

Severus Snape couldn't say that he had the best life.

With an abusive father, a loving yet quiet mother, and an old tiny house -he wouldn't dare call it a home- with very little hot water to spare and… well let's just say that he could go on and on about his home life but there was definitely one thing that he could say -to anyone- about his home life; it wasn't the best.

Then again he supposed it was better than living on the streets -with nowhere to go, and no one to turn to.

If by some horrifying ordeal his parents lost the house or they died and left him all alone in this world then he assumed that that would be him.

Living in the streets, sleeping in the gutter and forced to beg passersbys for money or a scrap of food.

That was until he met her, a fair-skinned, red-haired, emerald-eyed angel.

Lily.

His first real friend.

Others -muggles- had tried to befriend him before, but only for his knowledge and understanding of Earth Science (it was very closely related to potions after all- and he longed to be a potions master), or what they called Biology.

(Sure, he was young -only seven years of age- but he understood quite a lot of things.)

Back to the point, meeting Lily Evans was the best thing that had ever happened to him. She was kind and accepting and best of all; a witch. Yes, she was muggleborn but he had no prejudices towards muggles (except drunken, bad tempered, shabby, callous, wife-and-children-beating bastards like his father) or muggleborn witches or wizards.

After all, his mother raised him to be a -quote 'respectable member of society -in both worlds- and to judge for himself and not by the words of others. As many do'- end quote. (She'd gotten strangely teary-eyed after that and had to excuse herself from the room. Severus never did understand why until a few months later.)

Personally Severus thought she raised him to be the man -well boy really- that his father wasn't, since his father was mostly passed out drunk somewhere in the house -or out of it- or with a hangover and out of his mind -not that he had much of one to start with.

So with that Severus had graciously approached the young muggleborn and told her what she was: a witch (her older thin-faced and skinny sister hadn't taken too kindly to that).

They'd been friends ever since. Best friends. He knew she would definitely help him if he ever -Merlin forbid- became homeless.

Nevertheless Lily was the only real friend he had at the tender age of seven.

But unbeknownst to him that was all about to change…

And he would probably wish it never had.

That was just to set the scene and have a bit of a look into not only Sev's home life but his thoughts, ambitions and prejudices -or lack of- as a mere seven year old.

Next chap is up soon.

But just as a warning don't expect daily updates or anything coz school is hectic as I'm doing my GSCEs so any fanfic author in the same position as me should now what I'm going on about.

I might be able to update this fic once a week I don't really expect this fic 2 b more than 8 chaps but I will base a series of short fics on this one and any characters -oc or canon.

Review, plz, even if it's to tell me that this prologue was unnecessary as you already knew all this from DH. But I don't really care what you say, just review!