Chapter One; A New Prophecy
Harry, Ginny, Luna, Neville, Teddy, and Heather returned to Hogwarts so that they could see Eve play her final Qudditch match of the year. Eve was so happy to see Harry again that she threw her arms around his neck and tightly embraced him. Harry smiled brightly as he hugged her back.
"My turn." Hermione said after they broke apart and she stepped forward to give her friend a welcoming hug. "How have you been?" she asked him as she stepped back a few moments later.
"Great." He replied while he continued to smile at her.
"I'm sorry I couldn't make it to Teddy and Heather's charm school for their Mother's Day event. Ron and I have been pretty busy preparing for the end of the year exams now that it's almost summertime." She told him.
"That's alright. I went instead." Harry told her.
"Well anyway, you should know that Tobey and Eve are doing really well." She said.
"Really? Well that's good news." Harry said.
"Oh and one more thing, I think that there's somebody else who would like to say hullo to you." She told him while she stepped aside and smiled up at Snape.
"Dad." Harry realized excitedly as his father grinned at him and chuckled before giving him a tight embrace.
"Daddy!" Heather cried with a squeal of excitement as the two of them broke apart a few moments later and Snape bent down to pick up his other two children.
"Hullo sweetheart." He began as he placed a kiss upon her cheek. "I missed all three of you so much." He said.
"And what are we? Chopped liver?" Ginny questioned teasingly as Snape rolled his eyes at her.
"It's good to see you too Ms. Weasley. I do believe your brother is already outside so you can go and say hullo to him if you want to. Harry, come with me. There's something that I want to show you." He told him before he handed Hermione the twins.
"Alright." Harry agreed before his father led him away.
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Harry and his father gathered around the pensive that he had had inside his office. "I take it that you remember what this is." Snape began as Harry nodded. "Well, I wanted to show you something that I recently discovered." He said as he removed a small vile off the shelf. "This is a memory belonging to Albus Dumbledore." He told him taking Harry completely off guard since he hadn't heard that name in years.
"Anyway, I think it will interest you to see it." He said while he unscrewed the lid and dumped it inside of the pensive before Harry stuck his face inside of it. At first everything was black but then he found himself inside Dumbledore's office. Dumbledore was sitting at his desk before Lily entered the room. Harry nearly almost cried being able to see his mother's face again.
"You sent for me Albus?" Lily questioned him.
"Indeed I did. I apologize if this is a bad time for you, I sure hope that Harry is doing alright." He said.
"Well he's doing as well as can be expected with an aunt who has very little patience for two year olds watching him." She told him. "And for a boy who doesn't even have a clue that he's a very famous wizard." She added.
"Well I'm glad to hear that he's doing alright under the unfortunate circumstances." Dumbledore told her. "Anyway, the reason that I brought you here has nothing whatsoever to do with Harry. Well I suppose it does, but it has to do more with Voldemort." He said as Lily shuddered a little bit but then quickly apologized and asked him to proceed. "You already know that the prophecy says that neither one shall live while the other survives and Voldemort's horcruxes I take it." He said as Lily nodded.
"Yes but I don't want Harry to know all of that until he's ready. He's not even toilet trained yet and he already has so much that he has to deal with." She said.
"I know that and I'm afraid Lily that you misunderstood me. Harry Potter is much safer where he is for the time being and you have my word that none of this knowledge will go to him until he's much, much older. I just wanted to let you know because I wanted to prepare you for what will happen if your son does manage to destroy him. Which I have great faith that he will. See Tom Riddle (he said his real name so that he wouldn't upset her again) has had a recent affair with a young witch.
It is my personal belief that he is using this girl so that he will be prepared with an heir if Harry Potter does in fact destroy him." He told her.
"Well yes, I already figured that much." She said.
"Yes but what you do not know is that there is a place for evil wizards beyond death. A place worse than Hell itself. It's a place where the soul is banished to be stuck for all of eternity. Not quite being in the state of death but not at all close to being alive. Just a state of darkness, coldness, and emptiness. It is a place called the shadowlands and there is only one way to escape that permanent fate. If a blood relative says the resurrection spell. And since Tom Riddle has no more blood relatives seeing as he murdered all of them himself,.." he began.
"Then it would only seem natural for him to have a child." Lily finished.
"Exactly." Dumbledore said. "Listen to me Lily, this is the part of the prophecy that was never spoken of. If Tom has somebody to say that spell for him he'll come back. He might not be himself anymore, for it is physically impossible to truly resurrect someone except for Christ Himself, but he'll come back just the same." He told her when suddenly Harry pulled his head out of his pensive.
"Hermione and I were right weren't we? Voldemort has produced an heir." He said as his father looked at him with a serious and solemn expression.
"To be honest Harry I'm not really sure. I just wanted you to be prepared because just in case he does come after you, I didn't want to take that chance that I might lose you again." He told him as Harry nodded before his father placed comforting hands upon his shoulders and rested them there. "Anyway, I don't think that you should worry about all of that right now. After all, you've got a lot on your plate to deal with already. So, with all that being said,.. we've got a Qudditch game to go to." He told him as they both exchanged grins.