A/N: Hey guys, I've edited chapter one a little bit if you haven't seen. Thanks to Calebros for pointing out my mistake in the chapter. The edit is of the most minor concern. Harry knows who the Peverell brothers are and to an extent, their family. I'll also be answering reviews starting with the next chapter so if you have any questions or revisions, feel free to leave them in the reviews or PM me! For those who would prefer to skip, I'm going to try and bold anything before and after the main story so you can skip it. Anyways hope you enjoy this chapter and I'll try and get the next one out in the next week or two.

Chapter 2:

Hadrian worked from home vigorously, he had attempted to gauge the average magical experience, power, and ability for years 4-7 which proved to be rather difficult due to the copious amounts of papers he had to comb through to make sure he got it as close as possible. Those papers ranged from McGonagall's transfiguration class to Lily's charm class and from the quidditch pitch to Snape's potions class.

As such, he didn't have much free time on his hands, and the free time he did have, was spent on thinking about what to do with Lily.

"You know, she isn't really your mother Mr. Potter. She is just a woman who doesn't know who you are, whether she finds out is up to you, but she is still not your mother." Death told him in his head.

"Kindly fuck off." Hadrian said aloud.

There was a chuckle in his head, but nothing more was said. Hadrian sighed, massaging his temples before waving his wand, neatly organizing all of his papers. The school year would be starting in a couple of days and he needed to be at Hogwarts soon.

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"Hadrian!" Lily said excitedly, upon seeing the new professor.

"Hey Lily! Oof!" Hadrian said upon being wrapped in what could only be described as a bear hug. Said hug had caused some unwanted things to occur. Hey, Hadrian couldn't help it, Lily's body against his, her large breasts and curvy body would make any man hard.

"Excuse me, but who are you? Hogwarts doesn't start until a couple of days and us teachers have a lot of work to do and need some peace and quiet." A voice behind them said.

Immediately Hadrian recognized it. The silkyness and drawl of his voice. "Severus, Hadrian is the new dueling instructor at Hogwarts, be kind. Hadrian, this is Severus Snape, Severus, Hadrian Peverell."

Hadrian nodded, holding out his hand for Snape to shake, but the man just sniffed and walked away, his robes billowing behind him.

"Sorry about Severus, he can be a bit grumpy sometimes." Lily joked.

"You sure? Cause I could've sworn I saw jealousy in his eyes. And I'm sorry if it's not my place, but have you two every been with each other?" Hadrian asked.

"What? Me and Severus? Absolutely not. I mean, at one point he asked if I wanted to be with him, but I said no." Lily quickly said.

"Oh, I see, and did you say no because you're not looking to date anyone?" Hadrian asked.

"Actually no, I just don't think of Sev that way. I'm sorry there's just a lot of history there that I would prefer not to talk about." Lily said, looking down.

Hadrian of course knew what it was that she was uncomfortable talking about after being told in his past world.

"Of course, sorry for asking Lily."

"No, it's perfectly fine. So, what about you? Are you seeing anyone? And if not, why?"

"Well um, I was seeing someone, and well, I was married to her, but she cheated on me a couple months ago and left me so, you know. Ever since then I haven't really been looking for any relationship." Hadrian explained, a little glumly.

"Oh I'm sorry." Lily said, putting her hand on his shoulder. However, Lily wasn't that sad, it opened up a possibility of them.

They continued walking around Hogwarts in awkward silence until they reached Lily's classroom.

"Well, here I am." Lily said, giving him one last opportunity to ask her out.

"Um, yeah I guess um I'll see you around." He replied.

"Yeah, I guess." She looked down a little in disappointment before closing the door.

"Wow that hot piece of ass gave you the perfect opportunity to ask her out and you just pussyed out." Death was seriously getting on Hadrian's nerves.

"Listen ok, it's not as simple as you think it is…" Hadrian didn't have a chance to finish as Death cut him off.

"No Mr. Potter, it really is. How can you tell me you think of her as a mother when she wasn't there during the entirety of your childhood? The only times you saw and talked to Lily Potter or Evans was when she was released from Voldemort's wand and before you went off to face him. Besides that, you never saw her. So realistically, she can't really be seen as a mother figure."

"Ok ok, I get it, but it's just hard. It'll probably go away in a couple of days and then I can ask her." Death murmured something undecipherable, but let it go.

Hadrian continued walking for a couple more minutes until he got to his own classroom.

"Wow, where was this room in my universe?" Hadrian asked. He was amazed at the space he had been given.

It was very large and spacious with several dueling platforms in the middle, multiple training areas with dummies and a whole assortment of equipment. It would've been perfect if the Room of Requirements wasn't there.

"I had thought you weren't from here." Came a voice behind him.

Hadrian quickly turned around to see Dumbledore standing there. "Professor! That's not what I meant, I was just saying that, you know, cause where I'm from it's nothing like this." Dumbledore chuckled at Hadrian's flimsy excuse.

"It's quite alright Mr. Peverell. I'm sure it's something personal and you will share it with everyone when the time is right. Now, I have a meeting to attend to, which will unfortunately take up all my time until the year begins so until next time Mr. Peverell." Hadrian nodded as Dumbledore walked out.

'Thank Merlin, I'm lucky it was Dumbledore walking by.' Hadrian thought. Quickly shaking his head, he got to work on preparing the classroom as he wanted it. It would be a lot of work with all the dusty equipment and Hadrian wasn't too keen on starting his job by having his students go to Madam Pomfrey for getting too much dust in their eyes or lungs.

The next couple days passed by in a blur, with having to clean up the room and setting it up to what he wanted perfectly and hanging out with Lily, there wasn't much time to rest. Especially with the pointless flirting he had done with the red head, it was very hard to concentrate on much else. Hell if he didn't ask her out in the next couple of weeks, no days, she would probably think he was gay. Which he was not, he was a perfectly straight male.

However, it soon became time for the students of Hogwarts to file through the doors beginning with returning students. Many students pointed to him and started whispering, many of whom were girls which caused Lily to tease him nonstop, much to Snape's chagrin.

As he looked out, he never really noticed just how spaced the Great Hall really was when everyone wasn't bustling around to find a seat. Nor did he realize how loud it was. It was practically deafening.

However, the first years soon came and got sorted before Dumbledore stepped up to the podium. "Welcome new students and welcome back those who have already been with us!" He began. "Now before I begin with the new announcements, I must remind everyone, that the Forbidden Forest is forbidden and that no one is allowed entry." He emphasized the point by giving a panoramic stare at everyone before moving along.

"Now, we have two new professors to add to our staff this year. The first is an accomplished dueler, even being able to beat Ms. Evans herself, which many of you know is a tremendous feat, and will become the new dueling teacher for years 4-7. Now, please welcome Mr. Hadrian Peverell." Dumbledore than turned, one arm extended proceeded by an outbreak of applause.

Hadrian rose and gave a wave, noticing some stares from the Slytherin table who obviously had heard of his new surname. Hadrian soon took his seat as the applause died down before Professor Dumbledore resumed his welcomes.

"Our next professor joins us from the Ministry and is the Senior Under-Secretary to Cornelius Fudge. She will be the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Miss Dolores Umbridge." Applause again rang out, albeit a tad bit quieter as she stood.

Hadrian had forgotten that the toad bitch had come this year and thus looked upon her with shock and anger before regaining his composure and clapping along with everyone else.

Before Dumbledore could start, the human pixie cleared her throat. "Ahem," she started. Dumbledore was startled, but waved her on.

"I'm pleased to join Hogwarts' staff with this established group. However, the Ministry understands that Hogwarts is in a precarious situation. As such, we will be watching over very carefully to try and return Hogwarts to it's former glory. Feel free if you have any questions… to ask me whether it's about my position here or enquiries about the ministry. I'm only here to help."

She retook her seat as people started contemplating what she had said. Some brushed it off while other hyper-analyzed. Hadrian though, glared at her before returning to gaze upon the children.

"Thank you Dolores, now, I shall not stop you from sating your endless hungers." Applause broke out for the last time that night as students began devouring the food that appeared in front of them while interacting with their classmates after a long summer.

The Great Hall wasn't as loud as Hadrian remembered, but chalked it up to Dolores' speech. Kids were no doubt whispering about the appointment of the newly appointed DADA teacher.

Speaking of kids whispering about her. "So flower, what do you think of Dolores?" Hadrian asked the redhead next to him.

Lily immediately blushed a red that made her face match her hair. "Flower?" She asked, hiding her face within her long tresses.

"Yeah, thought I would give you a special nickname since you're my best friend here." Hadrian said. Internally, he was flooding with relief. He was glad that Lily didn't react badly at the name, and actually seemed to like it based on her actions.

"Oh, well I'll guess I'll have to find one for you." Lily gave a thoughtful look before huffing in frustration as Hadrian laughed.

"Good luck Lils." He said, taunting her with another nickname he thought of. However, at hearing this one, Lily paused.

"Lily are you ok? I'm sorry did I say something wrong?" He asked quickly and nervously. He wrapped an arm around her and rubbed her back soothingly as she looked back at him with a soft smile.

"No it's ok, it's just, that's what my ex-husband used to call me." Hadrian quickly apologized and said he would refrain from calling her that again which she thanked gratefully.

The main reason Lily didn't want him calling her that was because she knew James would inevitably show his face here and threaten Hadrian. The little suitors that had piqued Lily's interest were quickly scared off by James who expressed his desire to get back with her, which, by the way, wasn't shared with his former partner.

Those men had run away in fear at what the Auror captain and the Potter patriarch, not to mention the father of the Boy-Who-Lived could do. Lily had spent nights crying because of that. Many other suitors had begun backing off due to that. However, luckily for her, Hadrian had just came here and hadn't heard about James Potter's anger issues, which gave her some hope. Not only was Hadrian strong, but she hoped that he liked her and it would hopefully be soon enough that she had the pleasure of calling him her boyfriend and lover.

However, she knew if the Potter Lord heard his Peverell counter part calling Lily the nickname he had originally made there would be no hope.

Hopefully, Hadrian would ask her on a date soon, after all, it had been a while since Lily had been able to use her charms. At the thought of seeing his face of hunger after she used her 'charms', she shivered. Hopefully, he knew a thing or two in bed, and with that body and charisma, she had little doubt that he didn't.

She was shaken out of her thoughts as Hadrian tapped her shoulder repeatedly like a curious child to his mother.

"You alright?" Lily just smiled and nodded as she and Hadrian continued to chat and eat.

Unknown to the two of them, two pairs of eyes watched them intently. One was cold and hard, coming from a fellow professor clad in black robes. The other from a green eyed boy sat at the Gryffindor table with anger.

'That bastard better get off my mother. Just wait until I tell dad, then that dick head will be out of here.' Were the thoughts of the latter observer.