Prologue

All in all it was a beautiful wedding. Lily looked extravagant in her white dress. The groom wore his usual black, but today it was happier. His smile was huge as he watched his wife-to-be walk down the aisle with a bouquet of lilies in her hand.

"Do you Severus Tobias Snape take Lily Harmony Evans as your lawfully wedded wife?"

"I do."

The shrill cry of a baby pierced the air, replacing pain filled screams.

A baby boy was placed into Lily's arms. "The second is coming, Mrs. Potter. What is this young man's name?"

Lily looked at James and wished that her real husband were here, not James. "Gabriel Tobias…Potter."

Hours later, St. Mungo's records showed that Harry James Potter was born. In Lily's mind however, he was Harisson Severus Snape.

"Excuse me, are you James Potter?" James looked over and saw a young woman looking at him. She was pretty, with long blond hair and blue eyes.

"Yes I am. Is there something I can help you with?" He recoiled when her saw her mouth split into a fearsome grin.

"As a matter of fact, you can. Imperio!"

There was a loud knocking on Severus's door. He opened it warily, expecting Death Eaters to barge in and start shooting hexes at him for playing spy to the light. Instead he found a sobbing Lily. "Lily, what-" he was cut off when Lily threw herself into his arms.

"James…Emma…twins…gone!" Lily sobbed out. Severus shushed her and helped her to the sofa where he plied a calming draught into her. She finally calmed down, her sobs reduced to hiccups.

"There now, tell me what's wrong Lily."

"There…there was a woman—Emma. James married her and s-somehow was able to gain custody of the twins. He kicked me out, and I can't get back in, and I can't get the twins!" Severus's expressions grew dark. He had known that James would somehow manage to mess up the protection Dumbledore had set up. And now he and his wife couldn't even be a part of their sons' lives. Oh no, he would not let that stand. No matter what he had to do, he would get his sons back from that two faced slime ball.

"Ssssso, thisss is the boy who will sssupossedly kill me?" Cruel laughter filled the air as Lord Voldemort looked at the Potter twins. He pointed his wand first at the smaller of the two. His big green eyes looked up at him with seeming acceptance. "Avada Kedavra!" The wicked green light shot straight towards the baby's head but bounced back and struck the caster, who crumpled to the floor, dead.

A woman ran through the door. "My lord? My lord!" She screamed when she saw the pile of clothes. She rounded towards the two babies, the larger cowering behind the smaller. Emma looked at the scrawny child and saw a blood running between his eyes from a lightning shaped cut. "You little bastard! You killed the Dark Lord!" She stopped her advance when she heard the male voices shouting at the bottom of the stairs.

Emma thought quickly and pointed her wand at the small boy. "Falsa Morte!" The door burst open right after Harry fell to the floor of the crib with wide unseeing eyes. James ran to the crib and let out a yell of anguish when he saw his 'son', lying dead in his crib. Sirius and Remus followed James through the door and both began to cry when they saw their godson dead.

It had been easy to duplicate Harry, easy to switch the fake body in place of the live one in the casket. And it had been easy to leave Harry next to the Dumpster in an abandoned alleyway in London, undetected.

"I curse you, Harry James Potter, with a life of pain and anguish. May you die in despair." Emma spat on the tiny bundle as she apparated back to Godric's Hollow.

But of course, Harry did not die in that alleyway, because fate had another plan for the small boy whom everyone believed to be dead.

…And so, it begins!

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