Originally Posted: Apr. 1st, 2007
Length/Rating: 100 words, PG, Gen
Pairing/Warnings: none
Summary: Some choices make all the difference. Written for snape100 challenge #171: Snape’s Sorting AU.

HARRY POTTER is trademark and copyright JK Rowling, her publisher Bloomsbury, and, to some extent, Warner Bros. All rights reserved. No copyright infringement is intended nor implied.

Once upon a time Severus Snape was never sorted into Slytherin. Never the focus of torment. Never the genius at potions, and curses, and all the ways he learnt to make four-on-one fights fair.

Once upon a time he was never sorted into Ravenclaw, nor Gryffindor, nor Hufflepuff.

He was never sorted at all.

And in that once upon a time, in a small town that wasn’t in England, or Scotland, but far from the Wizarding World. There was a small house where a woman lived in something akin to happiness, with a dark-haired boy who never had to learn.