The Newest Snape - 2015

"Ten galleons she'll be in Ravenclaw," said Septima Vector with a grin and a slurp of coffee. "That girl is so talented she'll have people asking if she's descended from Merlin himself!"

"You're kidding yourself if she'd be in anything other than Slytherin!" shot back Auriga Sinistra. "I've seen her! She could jinx Gringotts if she wanted to and she can slither her way in and out of trouble before you can say 'Salazar Slytherin'."

"Want to bet on it?" challenged Septima.

"Fifteen galleons!" Auriga slammed the money onto the table with glee.

"Well, be that as it may," said Minerva, smiling slightly at the younger teachers' argument, "the Weasley twins were the finest tricksters of their age and they were in my house."

"But she's far too sweet to be in anything but Hufflepuff!" protested Charity Burbage, defending her godchild from behind a book on the newest Muggle inventions.

"Who are we talking about?" Neville asked, sitting down with a cup of coffee to join the small gathering of female teachers by the fire.

"The newest bundle of trouble that's going to be arriving this year," said Auriga with one of her famous Slytherin worthy grins.

"You mean James Potter No. 2?" said Neville.

"Well, him too," said Minerva. "But we were actually discussing Minerva Junior."

"Minnie!" exclaimed all of Eowyn's friends at once.

"Come off your high horse, Minerva," said Septima. "It's her nickname and she likes it even if you don't."

"What are you going to call her in class?" Neville asked, his curiosity taking over him.

"What do you mean?" asked Charity.

"Well," said Neville, "as I remember it, Professor Gondolin didn't lose her last name when she married Snape. So wouldn't you have to call her 'Miss Snape-Gondolin'."

"Well, I'm glad you brought it up now when it's your first year as a teacher," said Minerva, crossing her legs and putting on her teacher's face. "The fact is, when the children arrive in school, their parents allow them to chose which of their parent's names they want to go by. So far Eileen and Remus have chosen the Snape name, but I rather think that we may find that Minerva is more inclined to her mother's name."

"I still can't believe they had children," murmured Neville, shaking his head.

"Why?" asked Charity. "Late thirties are hardly old in wizarding terms you know. You're only really past that when you enter your sixties or seventies."

"No, it's not that," said Neville, going slightly red in the face. "It's just ... they were our teachers ..."

"So that's why Potter looked like he was going to explode when I told him the news," mused Minerva.

"Well, the poor kid had only just recovered from finding them in a bed together," pointed out Septima.

Auriga sniggered. "I don't think that was half as bad as discovering about you and Albus," she said with a sly grin.

Minerva's eyes looked fit to carve the Astronomy teacher in two. "How," she said slowly, "were you not in Slytherin."

"Exactly!" exclaimed Septima triumphantly. "She may be the most cunning creature sin Salazar Slytherin himselft, but that doesn't mean Minnie won't end up in Ravenclaw!"

"It's Minerva!" shot back Minerva Senior, eyes flaming.

I originally was just going to leave my story 'Severus Snape's Secret Lover' where I left it. But I had a free weekend and, motivated by Desidral's review asking to see more of Severus and Eowyn later in life and DrarryLongbottom's suggestion that I write a sequel, I wrote this. It will only be a few chapters long but it will explore a little of Severus and Eowyn's lives after the Second Wizarding War and will hopefully give you all a laugh. Enjoy! :)