Popping into existence, the small family appeared in the crowd surrounding the Hogwarts Express.

"Wow! Daddy! Papa! Look at the train! It's so cool!" Lilleva squealed excitedly, bouncing around happily.

"I know, I thought so too when I first saw it." Harry answered his daughter, smiling at her joy. Turning toward his son he bent down so he was eye level with him. "So, you know what to do. Be nice to the big man Hagrid when he takes you to the castle. He was really nice to me when I was little so I want to make sure you're kind to him, even if you don't know each other yet. And stay in the boats, don't fight on the train, and be prepared for some odd questions about us when they find out you're a Snape ok. I know you already know this and that I'll be there with you later but I'm still worried about my trooper." Harry kissed his son's forehead and gave him a hug.

"Do you have any questions?" Severus asked his son.

"What house do you want me to be in?" Soren asked almost in a whisper.

Both Harry and Severus bent down to look at their son at his level. "It doesn't matter to us. You're our son and we love you no matter what and we'll always be proud of you no matter what you do. We want to make sure you know that."

Soren nodded and gave both his parents a hug. As the family stood Severus gave Soren's shoulder a squeeze.

"It'll all be ok, and we will be there with you."

"Now make sure to try and make friends, ok." Harry told his son.

"Have fun Ren" Lilleva said as she hugged as much of her brother as she could, which was just his legs.

"We'll see you during the feast and afterwards, now get on the train and have fun kiddo." Harry said, hugging his son again and kissing the top of his head.

"See you later, bye Dad, Papa, Lils." Soren said, and then he turned and boarded the train. As they watched their son get on board Severus put his arm around Harry and kissed his head.

"Don't worry, he'll be fine. And we'll see him again in a couple of hours." Severus reasoned.

"I know, but our baby's growing up so fast. I swear he was Lilleva's age just yesterday." Harry sniffled.

"I know honey, but it will all be ok. Every parent feels this way when this happens. However we have the advantage because we get to go to Hogwarts with our son while other parents are stuck home. So we are lucky." Severus stated matter-of-factly.

"You're right." Harry sighed.

"Of course I'm right, I'm a potions master. You have to be smart to get to be one of those." Severus said with an air of mock snootiness. "Now if you're quite done moping, I think it's time we best be going." Harry chuckled and nodded.

"Come on Lils, we're going home." Harry said, reaching out to take the little girl's hand. Right before he grasped though she pulled away.

"Look at that cat! It looks like a pig!" Lilleva cried excitedly, speeding off in the direction of the pig-like cat.

"No! Lilleva get back here right now!" Harry shouted after his daughter, trying to navigate the crowd to get to her.

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Meanwhile Lilleva was very excited. She loved animals, especially strange ones. And this one was definitely strange. She had never seen a pig-like cat before, never even seen a picture of one. She caught sight of it's orange fur and she ran even faster towards it, weaving in and out of people's legs to get there quicker. As she popped out on the other side of the mass of people she found herself standing in front of a small group of people. Most of which had hair as orange as the pig-cat she was chasing. Speaking of which, she spotted her target resting in the arms of a tall woman with a brown bush on her head that Lilleva figured was supposed to be hair of some sort. She boldly walked up to the bush lady. taking a deep breath she cleared her throat the way her papa did when he wanted attention. The bush lady didn't notice her so she tried again. The second attempt brought the result that she desired. The bush lady looked down at her, her eyes seemed to widen a bit as she took in her appearance. Gathering her courage, Lilleva opened her mouth and asked the bush lady her question.

"Excuse me, I'm sorry to bother you, but your cat looks like a pig. And I've never seen one like it before. So I was wondering if you would allow me to pet your intriguing pig-cat." After she was done, Lilleva looked up at the bush lady in a pleading sort of way that always worked on her daddy. The bush lady looked at her for a minute before she bent down to Lilleva's level.

"Of course I don't mind. Crookeshanks is an old lazy thing so he won't mind either." The bush lady smiled at her and held out the pig-cat. Lilleva squealed happily and started petting the odd animal. Content with her achievement, Lilleva finished and stepped back.

"Thank you very much, I appreciate you allowing me to pet your animal." Lilleva smiled at the bush lady and promptly turned around and started to head in the direction she came. She got all of 2 feet before her parents came out of the crowd and ambushed her with hugs and kisses. Then seeming to remember that they weren't pleased they backed up.

"We were so worried about you young lady. Don't ever go off like that again. What if you'd been snatched! Or worse! I don't know what I'd do with myself!" Daddy had turned into a raving mess, she thought. It was when she looked up at her papa that she realized she was in trouble.

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"Lilleva Eileen Snape, you are in serious trouble young lady! You worried your poor daddy nearly to death and you worried me just as much. You could have been in serious danger." Severus was more scared than angry, but she just had to know that this could never happen again. "If something happened to you we wouldn't know what to do. We were so scared when you ran off. You can't ever do that again do you understand?"

Lilleva nodded, teary eyed. She didn't want her daddy and papa to be scared or worried.

"I'm sorry papa, I won't again, I promise. I just saw this pig-cat thing and it was orange and so I had to pet it! I understand that it was wrong. But papa there was a bush lady who had the orange pig thing. She let me pet it! I got to pet a pig-cat!" Lilleva gushed, her sadness quickly forgotten in light of the cat-pig adventure.

"We understand sweetheart, just please don't ever run off again, k Lils?" Harry asked his little girl, smiling slightly at how excited she was.

"K daddy. Love you." Lilleva said, hugging him.

"Love you too sweet." Harry kissed her head and picked her up as he got up himself. "Now that the drama's over, perhaps we should thank the nice lady who let you pet her cat."

"Papa, daddy she's over there." Lilleva pointed toward where the lady was. Severus wrapped an arm around Harry's waist, stopping them before they walked over toward where their daughter was pointing.

"It's ok, she fine." Severus whispered in his husbands ear.

"I know Sev, I just got really scared. I'm ok now though." Harry whispered back, reassured by his lover's presence and arm around him. Turning around, the party started moving toward the woman. As soon as Severus and Harry got a good look at the "bush lady" they stopped in their tracks. "Crap, crap, crap ,crap! Oh God am I going to get a verbal beating. This sucks so bad." Harry cursed under his breath while all the blood drained out of his face.

Severus was just thinking about how much deep shit they had stepped in. The Hogwarts staff they could handle. But this girl ,now woman, was the equivalent of Mrs. Weasley. They were so screwed.

"Harry James Potter! Is that you? You better hope not. Because if it is you then you have a crap ton of explaining to do!"

"Hi, Hermione."