This is my first Fanfic ever, so don't burn me too much in the reviews! R&R

Disclaimer: I do not, will I ever own Harry Potter. I'd be ecstatic if I did, but I do not. I also do not own any bold print in this story (the excerpt from Dr. Seuss's Bartholomew and the OOBLECK)

I Guess He Is

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Snape's POV

I stepped into the double-decker bus.

"132 Godric's Hollow."

"10 knuts please." I handed the man the money and sat down on a cot waiting for my turn to get off. At the first stop an old guy with a cane got of leaning on a cane in ragged clothes. At the second stop I would have slammed into the windshield if I had not caught myself on the handle next to the door. My nose was a half inch away from the glass. Outside it was almost night time. I'd say around 5:00? 5:30?

The next thing I knew a creepy shrunken head adjacent to my head said "Take it away Ernie!" with a Jamaican accent. He put the pedal to the metal and I flew back 6 feet onto the floor. Minutes later I saw a familiar sign up ahead. It read GODRIC'S HOLLOW.

My only thought was "Oh crap!" and I grabbed a pole supporting the top of the bus for stability. The bus lurched to a stop just outside of the small villiage.

I stepped out of the automobile and slammed the door. Up the street I walked towards the Potter's house. Let me explain why I am here. Harry and I have settled our differences, I no longer hate his guts and vice versa. Any who, about a week ago he called me and said that he and his wife were going out on Saturday evening and needed a babysitter. I reluctantly volunteered for two reasons. One is that I want to see what their house looks like, and two is that I want to know if his children are magical or not. I know that is none of my business, but I am curious. The moon was just beginning to rise in the black sky. A few stars were present, and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. I walked briskly to a house at the end of the road, a modest-sized brick house with a black roof. I rung the doorbell and stood there for a minute feeling like an idiot. A few years before and I would have never imagined this in my future.

I heard a familiar man's voice say "I'll get it!" and the door opened to reveal a taller, my height, less scrawny Harry Potter. "Hello Severus." He greeted me, and I walked into a square room. Half of it was a living room and half was a kitchen. There was a small table where they ate in the center of the kitchen where they ate. There was a stove, a microwave, and a fridge. In the living room were a loveseat and a recliner in front of a brick fireplace. The carpet was an ivory color and the walls were a soft yellow. A door was a few feet away that must have led to the bathroom. A stairway led upstairs to the bedrooms. The atmosphere was very warm and friendly. Three children were playing with toys on the floor. One was a boy who reminded me strongly of Harry, he must have been around five. There was also a boy of around seven and a girl of about three. They each had more of their mother's traits; red hair and brown eyes. Only the five year old had Lily's eyes. Ginny came down the stairs in a stunning silver evening gown, scarlet hair straightened, and introduced me to the three children.

"Severus, this is Lily," she pointed to the young boy "Albus," she pointed to the small Harry-ish 5 year old busy with rolling a painted wooden train "and James." The mother gestured to the eldest who waved. Albus stared at me with big green eyes that showed intelligence beyond his years.

"Hello." He said.

"James, Al, Lily, this is Severus Snape. He is going to keep an eye on you till Harry and I come back." James opened his mouth only to shut it again.

"Sev, Sev, Sev!" Lily yelled. I couldn't help but smile. She smiled back with two teeth and giggled. She picked up a crayon and continued scribbling on a paper.

"We'll be back kind of late." Ginny said. Harry came tromping down the stairs in slacks, a white dress shirt, and dress shoes. His hair was sticking up every which way like it used to.

"Are those his old glasses?" I thought. "It's all muggle stuff."

"There are a few things you need to know. We just fed them about ten minutes ago, so they don't need to eat dinner. They need to be in bed around 8:00. Lily is potty trained, but I'd take her in a half an hour to be safe. The bedrooms are upstairs, keep the windows shut at night." Ginny and Harry looked at each other.

"There are some books near James's bed to read to them before bed."Ginny said. There was a short silence.

"Good night." Harry and Ginny said to their three children and gave them all a hug. The next thing I knew they were out the door. The engine of a car thrummed and the tire tracks faded as they rounded the corner.

James and Albus turned and looked at me "Can you tell us about Hogwarts?" James said.

"Well, it's a school for wizards and witches. Your mom and dad went there when they were kids."

"Cool…"they mused. 'What classes are there?

"Let's see, there are potions, which I teach. There's also Astronomy, the study of stars, and charms, defense against the dark arts, herbology, history of magic, transfiguration, ancient runes, arithmancy, care of magical creatures…and other classes too."

"I wish I could go to Hogwarts" Albus said

"Me too… we could play wizards!"

"Great idea Al!" James said, and they went scampering upstairs. I got up to go sit with Lily. She was in the middle of a picture. There was a stick-figure family of five in the front. There was a smiley faced sun in the sky. She scribbled a patch of green grass beneath their thin legs. When she decided the picture was to her liking, she put the finished piece aside and began and began another.

"What an artistic child" I thought. I heard a heavy thump upstairs followed by a yell. Scooping up Lily I ran upstairs.

I walked in on flickering lights and an argument. A vase was on the floor in pieces. The boys were pointing pencils at each other wearing matching capes. James lowered his.

"Albus! Look at the mess! You'll be in so much trouble!"

"Be quiet James, you're the one who knocked it over!"

"Oh yeah, you knocked it over—"

"Both of you be quiet for a minute!" I said in my calm/scary voice that always succeeded in scaring mu pupils. They turned to me with equal glares. Seeing my expression they knew I was not taking their crap, so they shut up.

"I'll fix the lamp if, and only if, you be quiet the rest of the evening. That means no more arguing or playing wizards. It's getting late and you need to settle down. I am going to take lily to the bathroom and fix the lamp. When I get back you had better be in bed and tucked in, do you hear me?"

Five minutes later I got Lily pottied and tucked in her room with her two brothers. Across the hall were their parent's room and the son's two bedrooms for after they come home from their first year of Hogwarts. I sat down and began to read the first story…

Bartholomew and the OOBLECK

They still talk about the kingdom of did as The-year-the-king-got-angry-with-the-sky. And they still talk about the pageboy, Bartholomew Cubbins. If it hadn't been for Bartholomew Cubbins, that King and the sky would have wrecked that little kingdom.

Bartholomew had seen the King get angry many, many times before. But that year when His Majesty started growling at the sky, Bartholomew Cubbins just didn't know what to make of it. Yet all that year, the old King did it. All year long he stared up into the air above his kingdom muttering and sputtering through his royal whiskers, "Humph! The things that come down from my sky!" All spring when the rain came down he growled at that… all summer when the sun shined he growled at that…

"Hey….Snape.."James whispered.

'What?"

"Lily's asleep."

"Can you tell us a real story?" Asked Albus.

"Ok…"

"About Wizards?" James said excitedly.

"Oh alright. It all started when," James and Al snuggled deep into their blankets " I visited the Malfoy manner on Dumbledore's orders…

So, what did you think? Please review and no swearing or anger please. This is my first ever fanfic in my life.

I'm redoing this Fic to make it longer and better, so I hope you like it.