Brittle: His Childhood

Part 1 in a four-part series. One-shot. "When the neighbours saw little Severus sitting outside his house, on the pavement, they thought him a cute boy, with floppy black hair and good manners. But once they found out that he was Eileen's son-a very bad woman, according to rumor-they kept well away from him and shot him dirty looks as if he was just like his mother. Or his father."