A/N: I know that there do exist many stories where Harry is taken away from the Dudleys, but I hope this one is a little different.

I always thought this: what if Severus Snape would have been the better man since the very begin, even if he was bullied by the maunders. In this story he started Hogwards a few years earlier than expected due the fact that he was a prodigy, both his parents where purebloods and believed in Voldemorts cause, the only family member he got along with was his grandfather-Prince whom died before he was 15 years at the hand of death eaters, his father was abusive toward him because of his ideology and so was his mother. He became an Auror after finishing his education surprising many, he is close to Dumbledore whom mentored him since his parents death in the last year of the first WW, he became friends with Lily Evans in his first year causing being bullied by the maunders. In this story Dumbledore won't be a manipulative old goat and Harry won't be a Horrocrux. This is a story about what happened if Dumbledore had send Severus that night for Harry so that his aunt saw a familiar face. Harry will defeat Voldemort in first and second year, Sirius will still be in Azkaban, the three wizard tournament will still happen, but without Voldemort, and the order of the phoenix will come together again because death eaters are coming together again. And that is it for now Enjoy!

Chapter one:

One minute and he would be eleven years old. Thirty seconds…..twenty…ten….nine…..he might wake Dudley, only annoy him…..three…two…one…..

BUM!

The whole place shook and Harry stood up, looking at the door. Someone was outside, knocking to enter.

BUM! The person outside knocked again. This time Dudley woke up.

"Where is the elephant?" He asked like the idiot he was.

They heard a sound behind them and turned to see Uncle Vernon enter the room followed by Aunt Petunia. He had a rifle in his meaty hands: they now knew what he had brought the day before.

"Who is out there?" He screamed. "I'm telling you I am armed!"

There was a moment of silence…then:

A violent knock! It had been so violent that the door fell to the floor; due this the sound of the storm could be heard very well. In the door opening stood a tall man (a little over 6'3 feet tall) he was dressed all in black or at last dark clothes from what Harry saw. He couldn't really tell due the storm and all going on and the man standing in the shadows. The man entered the room and Harry got a fast look at him: he had dark shoulder length hair probably black and neon like blue eyes that didn't held any emotion. To Harry it seemed that the man must be between his 25 and 30.

The man turned his back to them and lifted the door, put it back in place and mumbled something Harry couldn't understand. This caused the sound of the storm to lessen. The man turned to them: first to Harry to whom he nodded, Harry nodded back hoping it looked respectful. Then he turned to Dudley at whom he grimaced, showing perfectly white teeth….the man probably thought similar things as Harry had many times seeing the pig like boy. He sneered at Uncle Vernon and his rifle and tilted his head at Aunt Petunia. The man's eyes twinkled and that with the tilted head made him look years younger.

"Tuney?" He asked surprised. The man's voice was velvet like, but it sounded cold.

"SNAPE!" Screamed his Aunt from behind her husband near hysterics, she to sound surprised. This caused the man, Snape Harry corrected himself to chuckle.

"Ahhhh….. That is good. I almost thought I was at the wrong place; do you have any idea how difficult it was for me to find you in this storm?Anyway you changed a lot since I last saw you, not that life was kind to you…." Said Snape in a mocking tone that made Harry's eyes almost pop out of their sockets! "But by the reaction I knew it was you Tuney." Harry could see the man was amused by the look on his Uncle and Aunts faces.

"You know this man?" Asked Uncle Vernon, demanding answers from his wife, the gun still pointed at Snape. Before Aunt Petunia could answer Snape did.

"She does or better said she once did, but that was a life time ago." He told them before turning toward Harry again.

"Now Mr. Potter…..Harry happy Birthday!" His voice sounded kind this time.

While he said this it looked like he was searching in his pockets for something. When he found it and took it out of his pocket Harry saw it was a small box.

"Here for you…. I know it's not much, but it is all I could do at such a short notice." He handed the box to Harry who opened it and to his delight he saw a chocolate muffin inside. There was a small orange card that said: Happy 11th Harry! In green letters. The muffin looked delicious and Harry wanted to thank Snape, but he also wanted to know whom he was exactly. So he said:

"Who are you?" Snape raised an eyebrow and Harry blushed realizing what he had said, before correcting himself. "I'm sorry Sir that was very rude: Thank you for the muffin…who are you?" Asked Harry, hoping the man was forgiving.

"You're welcome, Harry." The boy was told before the man gave him a small smile, it was really little more than the twitch of the man's lips, but to Harry it seemed like smile. "And to answer your question: I am Severus Vladimir Snape-Prince, better known as Auror Prince these days and Snape in the past. I am an Auror as is obvious by what I told you." The man's voice held warmth this time and Harry was sure it would sound beautiful singing.

"An Auror?" Asked Harry confused.

"Yes an Auror one of those who work at the MoM, but don't worry you aren't in any kind of trouble. I am here as a personal favor to Albus Dumbledore and on Hogwards business." Harry was told and that only confused the poor boy more.

"Auror? MoM? Albus Dumbledore? Hogwards?" Asked the boy testing those strange words confused.

"You don't know?" Asked Severus somewhere between disbelieves and surprise.

"I don't know what Sir?" Asked Harry back, he saw Severus turn toward his Aunt and Uncle while his face changed.

"You are telling me that this boy…..this boy doesn't know anything, about anything?!" Screamed the man furious, breathing hard…Harry found it funny to see his Uncle pale and his cousin run to hide behind his Aunt and Uncle. Even so the man's words had hurt Harry: his grades weren't that bad!

"I know things Sir: my grades aren't that bad!" Protested Harry and Severus turned to face him again. He made a movement with his hand as if pushing Harry's words aside.

"Trivial things boy trivial this….."Severus mumbled. "I was talking about things from our world: Yours, mine, your parents…." He was interrupted by Uncle Vernon.

"No! Don't you dare! When they gave us to him we vowed he would never know! That we would take the freak out of him! He won't go anywhere and you won't tell him anything!" Screamed his Uncle like a madman pushing the rifle forward, Severus turned to him raising his eyebrow.

"Really ? Tell me what is a big Muggle, like you going to do to stop me? Please don't tell me you are going to hit me with those flowers?" Severus sneered at Vernon Dudley, both Vernon and Harry looked at the rifle at the same moment…..only to see it gone! Harry laughed while his Uncles screamed and his Uncle threw the flowers at the ground.

Harry was still laughing on the ground while Severus left the Dudleys trembling in a corner of the room. Severus sat on the sofa looked at Harry on the ground and Harry saw how he waved his hand to the fireplace and it lit! This had Harry silent and wide eyed.

"Harry come here please." Ordered Severus softly patting the spot next to him on the sofa, Harry did as asked and was sure that by his families reaction he should be afraid, but he wasn't as he sat down. "Look Harry….Uhm this is going to be difficult. When I was asked to play owl and deliver your school letter I was told there might be difficulties…..I only never thought this many…."Harry heard Severus mumble the last part to himself. "Look Harry I will make the story short: You are a wizard a magic user, just like your parents and me." Harry's eyes grew large, but he kept silent. "Your mother: Lillian 'Lily' Potter nee Evans was my friend when I was your age and a muggleborn witch, muggles are non-magical people like your grandparents on your mum's side and the Dudleys, muggleborns: are magic people without magic parents." Harry nodded. "Your father: James Charles Potter was a pureblood a magical person with magical parents, I knew him since I was a small boy….but we never where friends." Harry nodded again he was absorbing the information like a sponge. Severus was trying hard to make everything as simple as possible.

"Many years ago a wizard turned bad, he turned dark….bad is saying it lightly he became evil. And about 30 years he started to have followers, in time people started to disappear: some to never appear again and some to turn up death. People didn't know whom to trust, it was a very bad time it became a war…..Now about 10 years ago this bad wizard went to your parents' house, I'm sorry I don't know why exactly, and ended up killing both your parents. First your father and then your mother…." Harry was paying full attention to the story and Severus and saw him take a faraway look in the eye. "He did try to kill you to, but failed: most say that your mums' love and sacrifice saved you and killed him instead." Severus said touching Harry's scar. "But I don't think he was human enough to die…. Yes he disappeared, but I don't believe that he died." Severus ended the story almost whispering. Harry had so many questions swimming around in his head, but only could ask one thing.

"My parents didn't die in a car crash?" He asked in disbelieve, this shocked Severus not because it was a lei but because he had expected the boy to demand him to show magic.

"What? By Merlin boy no! I am sure that James Potter probably didn't even know what a car was." Said Severus, Harry found his way of talking amusing and he like Severus. He was the first adult that didn't talk to him like he didn't understand like he was a baby.

"Harry?" Asked Severus taking Harry out of his thoughts.

"Yes, Sir?" Asked Harry looking Severus in the eyes….they were so blue they seemed magical.

"First don't call me that: you aren't an Auror trainee or a Junior Auror. please call me: Rus. Second it's late already and you still have so much to learn, beside that I don't think this is the right place for you to stay…. Would you like to stay with me?" Asked Severus unsure about where he was getting himself into. Harry looked at him a moment…

"Yes S…..Rus I would like that a lot." Said Harry grinning and jumping to hug Rus who patted his back.

"Kid do you want to see a bith of magic before we go?" Rus asked Harry with a gleam in his eye.

A/N:I don't own any recognizable characters and please leave a review. Have a good/Morning/Day/Evening/Night.