Author: I do not ow-
Mad-Eye Moody: Constant Vigilance!
SMTT: What the hell are you doing here? You are not coming in this chapter! And I have no time for your crap!
Mad-Eye Moody: There is ALWAYS time for Constant Vigi-
Author : *Fires Tommy Gun in Moody's face* As I was saying before I was interrupted, I do Not own Harry Potter. Please enjoy this story
The Magic community was celebrating the fall of Voldemort but Severus Snape, ex-Death Eater and spy was mourning. It had been a week since the Dark Lord had fallen. It had been a week since the Potters had been attacked. It had been a week since the love of his life had died.
When he had joined the Dark-Lord, he had been blinded by his false opinion that he could win her back. He had been faithful the dark lord, torturing, killing and spying for him. He had thought that he had been on the 'right' side. He had thought that the truth had been with Voldemort. The Dark Lord had promised the Death Eaters that once he would rule, they could have any woman they wished. This was the fact that had assured his blind devotion to the Dark Lord.
However, that had been an illusion. He himself had given the Dark Lord the reason to attack the Potters and to kill his love. Once the Dark Lord had decided to attack them, Snape had run to Dumbledore, begging for him to save his flower. Begging for him to save the reason he lived for. Dumbledore had tried but he had failed and Lily had been murdered by the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord had then, due to what Dumbledore had described as blood wards, been destroyed when he tried to kill Potter's brat.
The boy, Harry Potter, was before him, sleeping in a cot in the centre of the infirmary. The boy had green eyes. The same shade as that of the killing curse and as that of his mother's eyes. Snape knew that it was the child of Potter and that he should hate him but, as Dumbledore had said, was Harry not also the child of Lily? Lily whom he had loved and who he would continue to love.
Looking at the one who had defeated the Dark Lord, Snape made his decision. In his mind, safe behind his Occlumency walls, he swore upon his magic and his life that he would always help this boy and that he would always do what was in his best interests.
Snape rose from his position and headed towards the office of the headmaster. He knew he could not keep the boy. Dumbledore had told him about how the Dark Lord had found a way to be immortal. If he raised the boy, he would not be able to spy on the Dark Lord when he came back. Moreover, the blood wards would be active and thus be able to protect Harry only if someone blood related to Lily lived with the boy. He knew that Dumbledore would try to put Harry in the hands of Petunia, Lily's magic hating sister. But he had a more viable alternative and he would propose it to Dumbledore.
When he arrived at the steps leading to the Headmaster's office, he saw that the doors were still open. He walked up the stairs. Snippets of a heated argument between Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall reached his ears.
"By Merlin! Albus, you have gone mad. Petunia hates anything magic and her husband even more. They would mistreat the child. You cannot possibly leave him there."
"The blood wars are the only way to protect the child. Minerva, this has to be done for the Greater Good!"
When he reached the room, he saw Dumbledore in his regal chair arguing with his deputy, both at school and at the Order. A young Fawkes was sitting on his perch. He had, a week before the fall of the Dark Lord, again saved Dumbledore from a killing curse by swallowing it.
"Albus what do you mean for the Greater Good? Keeping a chi-"
"If I may?" said Severus after using a sound magnifying charm on his throat, interrupting Minerva McGonagall's ranting.
The witch and the wizard turned to look at him. Seeing he had their attention, he cancelled the charm and continued.
"Albus, you know about Petunia but do you know Rose, Lily's other sister?"
"Other sister?" asked Dumbledore. When he had come to give Lily her letter, no one had mentioned about the Evans having another daughter.
"When Lily was eight, her eldest sister Rose aged 16 eloped to France. She knew about Lily's magic and was never against it. Lily even wrote to her about once a week. Perhaps she may suit the requirements of both of you?"
-000oOo00-
A week later, two wizards dressed in identical green robes apparated before a manor in France. They saw a woman who appeared to be in her early thirties tending to a rose bush.
"Mrs. Jones?" asked the older man, surprising the woman.
The woman quickly drew a revolver from her pocket and pointed it at them. She knew from her sister that while wizards could kill with a flick of their wands, without them, they were defenseless. As such, in this state, she could kill both of them before they drew their wands.
"Who are you? Death eaters?"
"I assure you that we are not." replied the younger man
"The last time I got a letter from Lily, she told me that you were one of them, Severus" said the woman, recognizing the younger man.
"He is or rather, was my spy in the Death eater ranks" said the old man vouching for Severus
"And who might you be?" asked the woman
"Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. I am the Headmaster of Hogwarts."
The woman was not convinced. Her sister had told her of how wizards could use charms and potions to change their physical appearance.
"Swear on your magic that you are who you say."
The men complied. The woman, finally trusting them, lowered her weapon and asked them to enter her house. They went inside. The wizards met with her husband and explained everything to the couple.
-000oOo00-
Three days later, Severus Snape apparated to the front of the house, with a wrapped Harry in his hands.
He knocked at the door and it was opened by Rose Jones.
"Here is Harry James Potter, your nephew" he said, handing the baby to Lily's sister. He had grown accustomed to help Poppy to care for the boy. He had already left some toys he had bought for Harry earlier today and was now delivering the boy.
"You will be coming to visit Harry , right Severus?" asked Rose
"Yes, but I need to go now, got a trial to attend" he replied.
"Good luck for your new job, Professor"
"Thanks and take good care of Harry" replied Snape before apparating away to just outside the wards of Hogwarts.
Seeing the multiple Auror wands bearing down on him, he raised his hands. He knew that Dumbledore had orchestrated his capture and would free him at the trial.
-000oOo00-
Miles away, a woman was moving out of her 'home' with tears in her eyes.
A year ago, her husband had brought her here. He had told her that it was for the safety of herself and their newborn daughter. He had told her that he did not know what could happen in the war and that this was the only place where they would be safe. He had told her that he would come back for her after the war. How foolish she had been to believe his promises!
Three days ago, she had been shocked to the core when she had seen the heading of the wizarding newspaper, The Daily Prophet. She had not believed her eyes. All her hopes for living a peaceful life with her husband and her daughter had been shattered. She had at first thought that they had been mistaken. However, she saw the evidence and read the words spoken by Dumbledore himself, she had been convinced.
Her shock had turned to sorrow for now she knew that the person she had married had been a liar, a betrayer, a murderer. She had loved him but he had obviously only used her as a way to seem to be against the Dark Lord. She was grateful that he had been found out as she knew that if he came back he would kill her and her daughter for she was a muggleborn witch.
She was now returning to her parent's home. She would break all ties with the Magical World. After all, she could not live in such a world of betrayals. She looked at the sleeping form of her daughter who was in a child trolley. She would work in the muggle world and raise her daughter there. She had taken only her wand for all the other objects she owned reminded her too much of him.
A few hours later she reached her parent's house. She had informed them the previous day that she would return there along with her daughter to live with them. She knocked on the door and it was opened by her gleaming mother. The latter welcomed her to the house. Her mother took her daughter in her arms and started fussing on her.
She went to her room after leaving her daughter with her mother. There, she cried out all her tears. Then, she stashed her wand in one of her drawers. As much as she wanted to break it, it could one day help her to defend herself or her family. She had already memorized what she would say when they asked about him. For her, he was dead. She dried her tears using her handkerchief and headed downstairs.
Her father had just returned home. He greeted her with great enthusiasm for he had not seen her for more than a year. Their reunion was interrupted by her child who started to cry. She fed her daughter and then rocked her to sleep. After she had put her baby to sleep, she took her lunch with her parents.
After a while of awkward silence, her father asked the question she had been waiting for.
"Mira, where is your husband?"
"He has been killed," she said in a surprisingly calm voice, "He has been murdered by a dark wizard named Sirius Black"
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