A/N: Hi, I'm Carrie this is my first work I'm publishing on FanFiction, It's Harry Potter and there are many parings in this story. I have no Beta as of yet, so if you are interested let me know. Basicaly this story is only canon compliant with the first book, afterwords it's all up in the air.


Chapter 1
Surprises Indeed

It was an average sorting at Hogwarts, Deputy Headmistress Minerva McGonagal stood next to a stool, scroll in hand, and the four houses sat in watch, waiting for the first years to be sorted. With pursed lips she announced the first name.

"Black, Corvus!"

A small boy walked to the stool. He looked uneasy. His eyes were bright amber, and his hair fell in midnight coils around a pale heart shaped face. He had scars running through the left side of his bottom lip, and bandages on his fingers. As the sorting hat was placed on his head he closed his eyes.

"GRYFFINDOR!" Was joyously called out by the sorting hat, amber eyes opened and he walked to the Gryffindor table without applause, the scrutiny of thousands of eyes following him.

"Black, Lyra!" McGonagal called, and a girl with tied back mousy brown hair and icy blue eyes walked to the stool. Her hands were similarly bandaged and scars ran down the right side of her face, running through her eyelid, but without damaging her eye. Her gaze, though somber, held mischief.

"GRYFFINDOR!" The hat called and the girl joined her brother at the Gryffindor table. As soon as she was settled the hall broke out in whispers. Glares and sneers met the first years, and an older girl smiled sadly at them. By the look of it they were related, the older girl having amber eyes like the boy, and a straight pointed nose like the girl. She also had scars; hers ran diagonally through her left cheek.

"Blake, Susan!" McGonagal announced over the chatter of the hall.

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Creevy, Colin!"

"GRYFFINDOR!"

"Dottkins, Erma!"

"HUFFLEPUFF"

"Dyllworth, Barker!"

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Feldman, Roland!"

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Fischer, Jacob!"

"GRYFFINDOR!"

"Garvis, Eloise!"

"SLYTHERIN!"

"Greengrass, Astoria!"

"SLYTHERIN!"

"James, Ethan!"

"SLYTHERIN!"

"Kyler, Matilda!"

"SLYTHERIN!"

"Lovegood, Luna!"

"RAVENCLAW!"

"McKenzie, Hope!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

"Moore, Erwin!"

"GRYFFINDOR!"

"Normand, Nora!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

"O'Brian, Connor!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

"O'Myers, Niahm!"

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Ollivander, Jacques!"

"RAVENCLAW!"

"Ollivander, Oscar!"

"SLYTHERIN!"

"Parkinson, Rose!"

"SLYTHERIN!"

"Parsons, Jonah!"

"GRYFFINDOR!"

"Potter, Dorea!" A lithe girl with straight chocolate hair walked up to the stool. She had pale skin and piercing onyx eyes. As the sorting hat was placed on her head, her dark mischievous eyes scanned the great hall.

"SLYTHERIN!" The girl smirked. She then turned to look at the pleased look on the potion master's face and giggled.

She hopped off the stool and ran to the Slytherin table. She sat down next to Draco Malfoy and immediately hugged the Parkinson sisters and Astoria Greengrass. She then turned to look straight at the sorting hat waiting for the next name to be called.

"Potter, Eileen!" A girl identical to Dorea skipped up to the sorting hat and sat down waiting to be placed with her sister.

"GRYFFINDOR!" The hat announced and both girls' eyes widened. Eileen turned back to look at Professor Snape, just as her sister did. Snape shook his head with a smile and nodded 'go sit with your brother' he mouthed to her, she nodded and smiled before hopping off the stool, waving to her twin, and running to sit next to Harry Potter.

As the small brunette first year bound her way to sit with the golden trio, Harry Potter's mind was reeling in shock. He had living relatives? Relatives besides the Dursley's? How was this possible? Had his father had siblings? Did he have wizarding family? If so, why was he placed with the Dursley's? Why didn't his father's family take him in?

His mind was whirling, he didn't notice that the girl, Eileen, had sat down next to him on one side while her twin was bouncing next to Malfoy biting her lip and squirming. Malfoy rolled his eyes, sighed, and took the firstie's hand and walked her to the Gryffindor table, eyes following them from across the hall.

"Potter," his voice drawled as he came to a stop behind Hermione and Ron, "I believe your sister wishes to join in on the family reunion, please refrain from infecting her with your Gryffindorkishness," he said as all Gryffindor's in sight (and the Slytherin next to him) glared at him. If he noticed, he didn't show it, dropping the Slytherin girl's hand and walking back to the Slytherin table. With little haste the Slytherin climbed up onto the bench on the other side of Harry.

Harry sat in shock, "sister?" He asked himself looking at the two girls on either of his sides, "sisters," he corrected himself.

"I didn't know you had sisters!" Ron blurted out.

"Neither did I,"

-x-

"Draconis, little brother," Alhena began, "why do you have to be such a little twat? We all know you like the Potter boy; leave him alone, he might like you if you're not being such a prat!" Alhena chided, causing the surrounding Slytherins to break out in giggles (Pansy, Rose, Millicent, Astoria and Daphne), howls (Crabbe and Goyle), and snickers (Blaise and Theo).

Draco's normally pale face turned bright pink.

"I-I do not!"

"Yes you do, stop denying it,"

"Do not! Now shush! I want to watch the rest of the sorting!"

The fifth year smirked but stayed quiet for the continuation of the Sorting ceremony.

"Rollins, Tessa!"

"SLYTHERIN!"

"Ryker, Terrence!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

"Samson, Lilith!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

"Torban, Alexander!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

"Vane, Romilda!"

"GRYFFINDOR!"

"Volossi, Colette!"

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

"Weasley, Ginevra!"

"GRYFFINDOR!"

And with that McGonagal's scroll rolled up and she took her seat as Headmaster Dumbledore stood.

"First off I'd like to welcome you all to another year at Hogwarts. I'd also like to introduce you to the new Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor, Gildroy Lockheart," a blond man stood and bowed winking to the students, "now I'm not one for long speeches, so I'll cut this short. Let's eat!" Dumbledore finished, and with that the welcoming feast materialized on the four tables, and eating commenced.

-x-

The youngest Weasley sat down next to Ron and after the food appeared the twins introduced themselves.

"Name's Dorea Potter," said the one in Slytherin green, her hand stretched out.

"Eileen Potter," the one in Gryffindor red quipped, hand stuck out in invitation just as her twin.

Hermione looked from Harry to the girls and smiled softly stretching out her hand and softly shaking each of their outstretched palms, "Hermione Granger,"

Ron looked at a loss for words and spluttered a "R-Ron Weasley," and shook their hands as Hermione had.

The two turned their heads to the newest addition to the table and smiled. The redhead smiled back, taking both hands in and shaking them.

"Ginny Weasley, I have a feeling we'll be best friends," she smiled at the twins and they nodded.

"Best friends," they agreed.

They then turned to Harry with giant smiles, eyes sparkling.

"Uhh- I-I'm Harry," Harry said awkwardly rubbing the back of his neck, "uh Harry Potter,"

"Duh," said Eileen.

"We already knew that Harry," Dorea rolled her eyes.

"Uh- sorry? I didn't know I had sisters," Harry said feeling a bit more than overwhelmed.

"Well we knew we had a big brother!" Dorea said crossing her arms.

"Yeah! Papa told us all about you!" Eileen agreed crossing her arms as well.

"Papa?" Harry asked with a raised brow looking at his newly discovered sisters.

"Yeah you know, papa!" Eileen said looking to the head table and pointing to Snape. "See! Papa,"

" Snape!" Harry and Ron gasped incredulously.

" Professor Snape," Hermione corrected, albeit scandalized.

"It's actually Professor Snape-Potter, but just Professor Snape is fine," Dorea corrected buttering her roll.

"Yeah, papa told us daddy was insistent that papa take the Potter name, but papa wanted to keep Snape, they ended up compromising though," Eileen continued, filling her plate.

Harry gulped, "Snape and dad- I mean Snape is my dad, well other dad?"

"Yup!" Dorea said mouth full of her roll.

"Dorea Lily, I thought I raised you better than that, I swear you're almost as bad as your father and the mutt," a familiar voice drawled, you could almost hear the raised eyebrow that no doubt accompanied the voice.

With a scolded frown, much like when Ronald is scolded by Molly Weasley, Dorea turned around to face Snape. She swallowed and sent a apologetic smile.

"Sorry papa,"

Harry and Eileen also turned around and faced Snape.

"It's quite alright Dorea, just don't make a habit of it." He said "Salazar knows how hard I tried to get James and Sirius to stop with that nasty habit. I don't know how Remus stood having to eat with them," he said wistfully.

It was odd to hear such longing in the professor's normally cold voice, the tone and longing smile that accompanied it had the golden trio seeing the Potions Master in a new light.

They were not seeing the fearsome Dungeon Bat, they were seeing the man Severus Snape.

"Uh, hello professor," Harry managed through a tight throat.

"Hello Harry, I believe you've received some startling news to say the least. I also believe you will have some questions you'll want answered, you may come to my chambers, your sisters can help you find your way," professor Snape said with a glance to both of the twins before looking to Harry's two friends, "Mr. Weasley and Ms. Granger may accompany you if you wish,"

"Uh- yes-thank you sir," Harry blurted.

"Yes, very well, I shall see you later," professor Snape nodded before heading back to the head table, stopping only to fondly tussle Corvus Black's hair, hand his twin sister, Lyra, a small black book, and give an older girl a smile. The great hall, with the exception of the first years that didn't have older wizarding siblings, were staring in disbelief.

Snape! Being nice?! Hell has surely frozen over.

-x-

Severus Snape-Potter sat down at the head table with the rest of the staff, eyes straying to his children, and then his godchildren. Noticing the way (almost) all of the children in the great hall were looking at him he laughed and shook his head. He could almost hear James laughing about the priceless faces on the students. With a smile Severus began buttering his roll, sparing a glance at Minerva McGonagal.

"I do wish you luck dealing with not only Harry and Ascella but now Eileen, Corvus, and Lyra, pity you, having to deal with the marauders second coming," he laughed as Minerva's face paled as she realized just how many marauder progeny she had in her house.

"Dear Merlin, save us all," she muttered her face as pale as the Bloody Barren.

Albus Dumbledore smiled with a twinkle in his eye and said, "My, yes, I do believe it will be a fun year," his eyes were full of mirth. "Yes, a very fun year indeed,"