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Don’t get me started on Severus -- too late
Severus’s father was some mid-level manager type for the East India Company, sent to oversee trade on the Indian side where he picked up a Native Wife. His fortunes took a dramatic turn for the worst as he found himself out of favour with his superiors and not long after being recalled to England, he was out of a job. His resentment bubbled against his wife and then his son, and he spent most of what money he did make on alcohol. Severus, however, rose well above expectations guided by the image of his father, proving to be a remarkable scholar, to the point where he earned a scholarship first at (Eton or Harrow) and then (Cambridge or Oxford). He also found a lasting friendship in the daughter of the local Squire who faithfully wrote him all his long years away at school. It was at school that he fell in with the burgeoning Knights of Walpurgis, attracted by their elegance, power, wealth, and connections as much as he disdained the booze, drugs, and whores their meetings were often wrapped in.












