It was 9am on a saturday in august when severus snape , the notoriously unfriendly and evil professor of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry apparated outside of number four privet drive .

Severus had not been looking forward to meeting Harry Potter or harry's aunt , uncle and cousin , he expected to find a pampered arrogant brat , the clone of James Potter living here.

Severus had never met the Dursleys and Lily Potter had never talked of her sister or the man that her sister had married if she could help it .

Severus came to the door and pressed the doorbell hard , he could hear it ring inside the house.

'Who is it?' came a woman's voice , it sounded high and somewhat cold, bringing back memories of a much higher and colder voice than this-the voice of the dark lord . Severus mentally withdrew from this memory , 'now was not the time for this' he told himself.

The door opened a crack and a woman opened the door. On seeing Severus she nearly screamed . The woman who Severus recognised as Petunia Dursley took a moment to compose herself , she would have screamed but she did not want the neighbours to talk because in her mind that would be nearly as bad being a freak like her ghastly sister was.

'So can i come in then' Severus asked

'Erm'

Severus smirked at her lack of decisiveness

'No,NO, go away we have enough freaks here as it is' the voice of Vernon Dursley shouted down the hall , Vernon seemed to have picked up enough of the conversation to know that he definitely didn't want 'the other lot' inside his house.

'You will invite me into your home or I will use magic to enter' Severus demanded.

Petunia , going white at even the thought of magic being used in front of her ushered him in.

Severus glanced at his surroundings inside the house , it was clean inside , painted in clinical white with a few carefully chosen photographs on the walls , they were various pictures of a fat boy with a melon shaped head and blond hair (he assumed this was Harry's cousin) and Vernon and Petunia Dursley . Severus took an unusual interest in these photos , wondering where was Harry Potter in these photos, was he not such a pampered boy as he had thought?.