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Chapter 1: Privet Drive

July 24, 1991

Severus Snape angrily walked down the street of a muggle neighborhood. If he could describe it in one word, it would be 'Atrocious'.

All the houses look exactly the same. The muggles matched where they lived, as the were all boring and plain as well. The weather was just a depressing at the area: cold, dreary and bland.

He hated that he was forced to do this. He wanted to spend his day working on a new potion, not picking up and taking a spoiled brat to Diagon Alley.

Sadly, it was out of his meticulous hands, all because of McGonagall's decision.

-flashback-

Yesterday

Severus Snape was not in a good mood. Far from it actually.

He had been asked to come to Minerva's office. It seemed that she needed to talk to him.

What could be more important than one of his experiments?

He had been working on a temperamental potion that could fix incorrectly reset bones without the need for Skelegrow. It was very dangerous, due to all the ingredients used in it were very unstable when improperly put together.

In the middle of the most important part, he had received a letter to see the Deputy Headmistress.

He of course sneered at the polite letter and had been forced to place the potion on hold via stasis spell. He hated when he had to put his work on hold because of something less important.

So here he was, walking quite briskly to his coworker's office, robes billowing angrily behind him. He refused to waste time when it could be used for something better.

Finally reaching the door, he was almost tempted to just open the door, but held back and knocked out of politeness. Albeit quite rigidly.

"Come in." Called out a Scottish accented female voice from behind the door.

Severus pushed open the door and walked into the office with dissatisfaction on his face. Seeing McGonagall sitting at her desk, he decided to ask and just get to the point before his stasis spell weakened.

"Minerva, I was working on an extremely volatile potion. What is so important that you had to disturb me in my time of focus?" He growled out.

Minerva ignored Severus's bad attitude, knowing that he was usually in a bad mood, well more than usual, if he was interrupted while creating new potions.

"Severus, I was looking over some of the incoming students and noticed something. While there are a few left on the list that need to be introduced to the wizarding world, one in particular caught my eye. Most students get sent several letters if the first is not answered after a few days, but this child had received over two hundred letters and has still not replied."

Severus was listening but didn't care in the slightest about one student. He didn't understand where she was going with this. "So one brat doesn't want to go to Hogwarts. What does this have to do with me Minerva? Get to the point."

Minerva huffed at his attitude, but continued. "It was quite strange so I looked more into it and found that Albus had been doing this. I also found that he wanted Hagrid to see this child next week and introduce him to our world. I do not want a Hogwarts dropout student to show around our future generations, so I need someone to go tomorrow and take care of this problem.

Severus' eyes widened at the Deputy's implication. His already cold look transformed into an angry snarl, directed at McGonagall "Absolutely not! I refuse to go and give a mindless presentation to a muggleborn about Hogwarts."

Minerva wasn't having it though, judging by the cold glare that was directed to the Potions professor.

"Severus, I am not asking. Pomona and myself are already scheduled to see some other students and introduce them. Filius attracts too much attention from muggles due to his stature, and while he is not a bad person, Hagrid is not a good representative for Hogwarts. You are the only other teacher that can show this child."

Severus sneered and internally cursed at his predicament. Minerva was technically in charge of him because of her position as Deputy Headmistress. Then again, he would not get fired due to Dumbledore needing him.

But Minerva would find a way to punish him, she always did.

After a good long internal battle about it, Severus resigned in his fate.

"Fine." Snape barked out. "Who is this child that I am forced to see."

Minerva looked at him with a straight face and said the words that he dreaded the most.

"Harry Potter"

And with that, Severus's bad mood turned sour.

-flashback end-

While he managed to complete the Bone-Fix potion late last night, Snape was still not happy with what he was forced to do today.

He didn't even have time to test his new great achievement yet, all because of Harry Potter.

Severus wondered how spoiled the child would be. It was the offspring of James Potter after all.

The boy was most likely being waited on hand and foot by his family. He would be fat and lazy, and unlikely be able to do anything on his own.

Harry Potter, the boy-who-is-spoiled. In Severus's mind, it fit quite well.

He walked down the street until he found himself in front of a boring house that looked just as boring as the neighboring one. Plain shutters on glass windows, walls painted the same as every other house, and a design that was created from a muggle cookie cutter.

'Privet Drive 4, the home of a rotten child and his disgusting muggle family.' Thought Severus grossly.

He took a deep breath and knew the longer he waited, the longer he had to wait to work on potions.

He knocked on the door and waited for a moment, wondering if there was anyone home.

" Get the door!" Yelled out a gruff voice from inside. There was his answer.

"Yes Uncle Vernon." Called out a quiet voice.

There was a slight pause before the door was slowly opened, allowing Severus Snape to see the inside the house.

It was just was boring inside as the outside. All the seeable furniture was covered in plastic, the tables were spotless, and the floors shined. In Severus's opinion, it looked like a house you would buy out of a 1950s catalog.

But those were not the biggest details that Severus caught. In the very middle of the doorway was a small child. Severus couldn't determine if the child was a boy or girl based on its looks.

The adolescent wore clothing that would look better on a whale. It was dirty and skinny, and from the way the child's exposed collarbone bone looked, malnourished. But there were features that stabbed at Snape's cold heart.

Large emerald green eyes that shined with defeat, but also hope, stared up at him. Long wavy red hair that brushed past it's shoulders. It had a heart shaped face that reminded him too much of his lost love. Accompanying it all was tanned, but soft looking skin.

'Dear Merlin, this child looks like Lily!' Severus screamed into his mind.

"Hello sir, can I help you, or would you like to speak to Vernon?" Asked the child professionally. The voice didn't help with identifying if it was a boy or girl, as it sounded too soft to be a boy's, but not high enough to be a girl's.

Severus collected himself and placed a cold look back on his face. "Yes child, I need to speak to the head of the house." He said indifferently, but his eyes lingered on the child when it nodded and turned to the living room. "Uncle Vernon, there is a man here to see you." the child said out quietly.

The was a shuffling from the other room. The child looked up at Severus with curiosity.

Whose child was this? It had to be related by Lily in some way.

Before any words could be exchanged, a whale of a man came from around the corner. "Who are you?" The man asked angrily. Severus could see the grease sliding down the man's chin, as if he was caught in the middle of a fat filled breakfast. Snape could not hold back his disgust.

"I am Severus Snape.." He began with a sour look. "I am a professor at Hogwarts Wi-"

"You're one of those freaks!" The man yelled out. Severus could see the man was not very friendly when it came to his kind, judging by the slur.

The whale charged forward with the intent to either close the door or squash the black clad wizard, neither one was preferable for the Hogwarts professor. Luckily Severus was quick to his wand.

"Flipendo!" Severus called out while flicking his wand at the fat oaf. Said blob of a man flew back, landing on his back with a loud flop. The oaf slid for a few more feet before his head hit the bottom of the wall, ending his consciousness.

The tiny red haired child looked up at Severus with awe, who couldn't help but be a little prideful at his own skills. It was like the first time his did the 'wingardium leviosa' in front of his childhood friend.

"Dad!"

"Vernon! Are you alright!" Called out a shrill voice. Severus didn't have to guess who it was. It was too familiar.

"Did that freak do something again? I'll make sure to-" she caught a glimpse of Snape and her eyes widened in horror. "You!"

"Hello Petunia." Said Severus with disgust. Petunia was always a nasty girl, and her attitude only got worse as she grew up.

It seems her looks didn't improve either.

'So this is who Dumbledore had watch Harry Potter. Well, perhaps she squashed out the arrogance that was past down from his father.' He thought dryly.

Petunia tried to help her husband, who was still out cold, and failed miserably. She looked at Snape and snarled like a dog. "What did you do to Vernon!" She demanded. "I'll make you pay! You freaks better stay away from my normal family, or I'll-"

Severus had had enough her attitude and took a menacing step forward, pointing his wand at Petunia's head.

"Or you'll what?" Petunia flinched back in fear. "Remember who I am Tunie. I am not the same person I used to be." Snape said with a sneer and a wand focused on her.

Severus looked and saw a very chubby child watching the whole scene with fear.

He wondered if that may be Potter. It would fit his mental description of the brat. Perhaps she did spoil him.

Petunia sneered back, obviously not happy with the use of her nickname. "You have not right to call me that you filth! You damned freaks took away my sister. You ruined my perfectly normal life, and it all started when she became a freak like you!"

"Lily was an amazing woman and wizard. You were always jealous of her." Snape countered. It was true, Petunia would often try to copy her younger sister and fail, making her even more angry than before. She then decided to hate her sister's gift because she could not have it herself.

Severus sighed bitterly and looked at the muggle family with a cold glare. "I am not here to bicker with you. I came because I was sent to collect Harry Potter."

He noticed movement from behind the wall and saw the fat child come out a little more. "What do ya want the freak for?" The baby whale child asked. Snape directed a glare at the boy, who went back behind the wall with a pitiful whimper.

'So that's not Harry. That must mean that-' Severus's thought were cut off by a small voice to his side.

"What do you want with me sir?" Severus turned to the voice to see the same child who opened the door. The tiny red haired child looked up at Severus with amazement and fear etched into his face.

'This is Harry Potter?!' Thought Severus in disbelief.

It made no sense to him. He could have sworn that Harry's hair was black back when he saw him as a baby.(1) The day he lost Lily. Now the boy had long red hair that matched his mother's. When did his hair color change?

That, and the boy looked nothing like his despicable father. He could have sworn that Harry would look more like his bully James.

"You're Harry Potter?" He asked coldly. He knew he shouldn't glare at the child so angrily, but he had a reputation as a strict teacher to uphold. Even if the target of the glare was his precious Lily's son.

The more he looked at the child, the more it made sense. This had to be Lily's son. While the boy was quite a bit smaller, he looked much like his mother at this age than James.

"Y-yes sir." The boy squeaked out. Severus could see the tenseness in the boy's shoulders. He was obviously scared of the much bigger black clad man.

'Well, it seems that things are much different than I had originally thought.' though Snape, knowing that today was going to be an adventure in of itself.

(End Chapter 1)

(1) It is not uncommon for a baby's hair color to change when it gets older. It will usually end up with one of its parents hair colors at first then it changes to a color in the family gene pool, such as how Harry had black from James that turned red like Lily's. It can occur at any time between first month and four years old.

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