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Chapter 4

After reading the letter to Ginny over again. Harry decided to write to Ron and Hermione.

Dear Ron,

Hey mate! Things are going great here. The muggles are treating me well. I am not sure if i want to come over in 3 weeks got lots to do here like catch up on my work. And Aunt Petunia is actually really nice now. I know it sounds funny but its true. I would love for your family to meet the woman she is now. shes telling me all I want to know about my mom and my dad. so I really don't know about coming over in 3 weeks but I am positive I will see you 3 weeks before school like always. really sorry.

Your mate,

Harry.

Harry hoped that the letter wouldn't make Ron mad it wasn't like he said that he wasn't gonna see him at all this summer. Harry decided that it was time to write to Hermione.

Dear Hermione,

How are things going? I hope things are going well for you. I found out a lot of stuff this past week that its hard to get my mind around. But I am trying. I am starting on my summer homework now. And the muggles are treating me great. I am really liking my summer here. Aunt Petunia is telling me all i want to know about mom and dad. I cant believe how much she has changed but I like it finally i can say one of my moms family actually like me. Dudley and me are getting along great too a lot has changed and I don't know if I have said to much yet or not maybe I will stop here just in case. There's things you need to know but I cant say it in a letter hopefully I will see you soon so i can explain.

Love your friend,

Harry

Harry decided that the letter didn't give away to much. And hoped that Hermione wouldn't mind coming to see him so he could explain. Harry left his study to see if Dudley was ready to send off his letter to Hermione so they could send there letters together.

Harry knocked on the door waiting for a reply. when none came he got worried and knocked again a little harder.

"Come in." Dudley said.

"Hey Dud. You ready to send your letter to Hermione yet? I was thinking if you were then we could send them together that way Hedwig only has to make 1 trip instead of 2." Harry said while entering into Dudley's study.

"Yea that sounds fine. We don't need Hedwig mad at us for tiring her out" Dudley said with a laugh.

Harry snorted and said " Maybe when we are done sending off the letters Aunt Petunia will have some lunch ready."

"Yea she might lets go then." Dudley replied.

Harry led the way up to his room to send off the letters with Hedwig. As they got back down stairs Aunt Petunia met them by the kitchen door and said " Lunch is ready."

Harry and Dudley went in to have there eating they talked about what they were gonna do afterword. Harry and Dudley decided they wanted to see what was behind the door that was in there study. Aunt Petunia said she was going to write a letter to Porter and Porter Inc. and see who they would recommend for her to hire as a tutor.

Harry and Dudley helped with the clean up of lunch. Harry decided to run up to his room and get the rings that his mom told him about in her letter. He couldn't believe how he forgot about them. When he got upstairs he seen Hedwig and an odd owl waiting on his bed.

"Hey girl what are u doing back so soon?" Harry asked.

He took the letter off the new owl first. He looked at the writing he only seen it on his homework when it was being graded. He hoped that this wasn't a bad letter seeing as he never got around to write to him first.

Harry opened the letter and decided that it couldn't be that bad.

Mr. Potter,

Dumbledore told me your Aunt told you everything and I am glad she did. I for one am happy you will be out of the Head Masters clutches this summer. I know your Most likely mad at me for treating you the way I did the past few years but there is a good reason behind it. If the Head Master found out that I knew that you were my son then he would have fired me and sent me to the Dark Lord stund with a letter attached to me saying that I was the spy in his inner circle. I am vary sorry and hope that some day soon you can find it in your heart to forgive me. There are things that I want to say but cant right now. We need to talk face to face. Ask your aunt if i can floo over and if so send your floo address in your letter. Please send it back with the black owl that way the Head Master will think its from Draco and not intercept it and come and try to get you.

Hope you are well.

Your Father,

Severus Snape.

He sit down on the bed not able to believe what he had read. Snape wanted to come see him right away he must have a lot to say.

Harry looked over at Hedwig and decided to take the letters down to Dudley before reading his. Harry got down stairs just in time to see Dudley making his way to his study.

"Hey Dud, there's letters here i think ones for you." Harry said. Dudley looked behind him and stopped so Harry could catch up.

" Oh cool. hopefully Hermione isn't mad at me for my letter. I didn't really know what to say." Dudley said.

" I am sure it will be fine. Hermione is vary understanding and she wont judge you on just one letter. I am sure she will be happy to know that u wrote first not knowing who she is and all. Trust me there's a good reason shes my best friend." Harry said trying to make Dudley feel a bit better.

" Yeah I am sure your right." Dudley said taking the letter and entering his study to read it.

Harry figured he would go to his aunt and see if it was ok for Snape to floo over so they could talk. He knocked on the door.

"Come in." His aunt said.

" Aunt Petunia I have something i need to ask you." Harry said.

"Sure Harry what is it?" His aunt asked.

"Well you see I got this letter form Snape and he wants to floo over to talk to me about somethings and well he needs to floo address and i don't know it. I was wondering is there different addresses for our study's or are they the same as the one to the house?" Harry asked.

"Well Harry I am not quit sure. I did find a slip of parchment with a floo address in here so I would think so. But if I was you I would give him the address to get into the house we don't need him to get lost now do we?" Aunt Petunia asked with a smile on her face.

" No that wouldn't be good. It most likely just make him mad. What is the floo address to get into the house tho? I haven't seen anything with a floo address on it." Harry asked.

" The floo address is Evens Manor. Now Harry I don't want you to tell any of your friends just yet what the floo address is we don't know who is looking at your mail. Maybe Severus will teach you how to send letters in secret so that way Dumbledore don't intercept them." Petunia said.

" That would be a great idea. I will ask him when he gets here. I am going to go and read my letters I just got and then send him the floo address. Thanks Aunt Petunia." Harry said.

" No problem dear." Petunia said.

Harry left and went back to his study to read what his friends wrote back to him. he noticed there was a letter from Ginny and decided to read her letter last. So he opened the one from Ron first.

Dear Harry,

Hey mate glad to hear that your getting along great with your Aunt. We are looking forward to seeing you 3 weeks before school. Mom was a little mad that you would want to stay with your aunt but I told her that if she was telling you about your mom and dad then maybe she isn't all that bad. even dad said the same thing. Dumbledore was here today hes been trying to get us to tell him what you say in your letters. Mom thinks he wants to know what you are doing, but I don't think that's it Mate I think your in some danger please don't tell to much in your letters maybe we can find another way to write where he wont see what we are saying. Hope to hear from you soon.

Your Best Mate,

Ron.

Harry was a little shocked at the letter. He never thought Ron could actually write something that didn't tell him much but enough to tell him not to write about his aunt or anything he found out this summer until they could find a different way to write where they wouldn't get intercepted. He decided he had to tell Dudley and his Aunt before sending out there letters later that day.

He decided to move on to Hermione's letter.

Dear Harry,

I am really glad your getting along well with your Aunt and Dudley. I hope you know everything about him. I cant say to much but maybe we can get together soon so we can talk. Dumbledore was here earlier trying to get my letters from me but mom and dad told him that if he had proof that someone was treating you badly then he should show them or else he wasn't getting my letters. To make a long story short he never got the letters because his proof wasn't good enough for mom and dad. Harry we really need to talk either by letter where Dumbledore cant see or face to face. I am on holiday with mom and dad right now. But hopefully we can see each other for your birthday or even before.

Love your friend,

Hermione.

Harry was getting madder by the minute first Dumbledore goes and try's to get the letters from Ron and Ginny and now Hermione. Harry decided he would read Ginny's letter before writing to Snape and giving him the floo address.

Dearest Harry,

YOU DON'T NEED TO BE SORRY FOR THE MINISTRY IT WASN'T YOUR FAULT!

Now that's out of the way my ankle is fine. Mom is really mad at me and Ron for not talking you out of going but we said that there wasn't anything we could do to make you change your mind. I am sorry about Sirius but I know he wouldn't want you to be saying its your fault. If its anyone's fault its Beltrix and Voldemort. Yes I am not scared to say his name. On a better note we have a few things that need to be fixed. One I do still have feelings for you they never went away. I just knew you didn't want me and moved on. And Second mom and dad did tell me that I was to be betrothed to someone when I turned 16 or when the contract was accepted by my betrothed. I got to say I am really glad its you and not someone I don't know or someone that's mean. I would really like to get to know you this summer as well. But I am not sure how that is going to work now with Dumbbell coming around all the time wanting to see our letters or see if we know where you are. Moms getting really mad with him because of all this. He even said that he needed to see our letters because he thinks your going dark. Harry I really think your in some danger with him around you. We are doing our best to keep these letters from him but maybe you shouldn't write back until you have some secret way to get it to us so we can talk with out him finding out. Oh and maybe we can get it so that when we are done writing it wont show what is said to anyone else but us. Sorry Harry but I got to go get this off before Dumbbell gets here and wants to see what we wrote to you. Be safe.

Love your Betrothed (Ha ha sorry couldn't help myself),

Ginny.

Harry had tears of laughter running down his face form what Ginny was calling Dumbledore he was really happy that she already knew. he decided to write to Snape and hope for once there would be some way for him to write to his friends without Dumbledore finding out.

Dear ?

Sorry don't know what I am suppose to call you when we are not in school. My floo address is Evens Manor. Aunt Petunia says you are welcome at anytime. hope to see you soon.

Harry.

Harry ran up stairs to send off his letter. He decided to grab the ring case and get back down into the kitchen before Snape could show up and get mad at him for not being there.

As Harry got into the kitchen he seen the flames turn green and knew it was Snape.

"Hello Sir." Harry said as Snape cleaned off his robes.

"Hello Mr. Potter. Lets go find your Aunt and her son so that we can all talk together." Snape said.

Harry led him to his aunt and Dudley's study and asked them if they wouldn't mind talking with him and Snape for a few minutes in the sitting room.

As they entered the sitting room Petunia went and got refreshments for them.

When she came back in she sit the try down on the table and waited to see what was going to be said first.

" Well Harry. I know you have a lot on your mind but please let me finish before you get mad. ok?" Snape asked.

" Yea ok." Harry said.

"Well first off me and your mother were great friends first year through 4 year. And we got together at the end of 4th year. Now i know that what Lilly told everyone was different but I am not really sure what it was.

" I joined the Dark Lord as a spy for Dumbledore. I found out that the Dark Lord isn't the one we need to worry about its Dumbledore. See the Dark Lord is just like you and me he wants Muggle born's to be treated like everyone else you see wizards and witches know what they are at a young age and the Dark Lord wants Muggle born's to find out at a young age as well and wants them to go to a wizarding daycare of sorts so that they can interact with other magical children and then for them to go to an elementary school so that they can learn at a early age about the customs of our world.

"Now Dumbledore does not want that he wants things to stay the way it is so that Pure bloods are looked at like they are a higher race when really the Pure blood race is dieing off due to having to marry other Pure bloods that could be related. But if you mix Pure blood with New blood (Muggle born's) then there will be better chances of magical children and less chances for squbs." Snape said.

Harry was flabber gassed he never thought of it that way before. He knew that Dumbledore was a little shady but he never knew that he would want for things to stay the way they were and for muggle born's to be treated like they were dirty. Maybe the Profacy was wrong.

"So your saying that the Dark Lord wants for everyone to be treated as equals and Dumbledore wants everyone to stay the way they are so that way he has more control over everyone?" Aunt Petunia asked.

"Yes that is what i am saying. Can you say that when you were place into Slytherin that Dumbledore was happy over that? The reason most of the kids didn't talk to you was because they thought they would get into trouble with our head of house because he was friend with Dumbledore." Snape said.

" Well if I would have known that I never would have dropped out of school. And Dudley here would have known about everything along with Harry as well. This is really all my fault." Aunt Petunia said with a sob.

"Mom its not your fault. Things happened that way for a reason." Dudley said hugging his mom.

"Aunt Petunia its not your fault its Dumbbells fault. If you want to blame anyone of taking a chance for Dudley getting to know his father and for me to at least know my own then blame it on Dumbbell I know I blame it on him. I have for a long time." Harry said.

"Are you saying you already knew that Potter wasn't your father?" Snape asked with a shocked look on his face.

"Yeah. I kind of knew in 3ed year when Remus let it slip that James wasn't my dad but when I asked about it he told me to talk to you or Aunt Petunia. I wasn't going to ask the 2 people that hated me the most or well thought hated me the most who my real father was." Harry said.

" Harry if you would have come to me when you found out I would have told you right away. I was told not to tell you until you either asked me or until you were going to come into your inheritance." Aunt Petunia said.

"Oh well if I would have knew that things would have been different but its ok. I like it better knowing now then back then if I would have found out back then I would have gone crazy." Harry said.

"Well on a better note Dudley lets leave Harry and his Dad along to talk. Severus your more then welcome to stay for supper." Aunt Petunia said.

" That would be wonderful Petunia." Snape said.

After Petunia and Dudley left Harry looked and Snape and took a deep breath.

" I really don't know what to say. I mean I had a while to get use to the fact that your my dad but it wont feel like that until this weekend when the glamor wears off. Will you be here for that?" Harry asked.

"If you want me to Harry I will stay as long as you like. But if you want me to stay the summer with you it will have to wait until your birthday this way I can leave with out the headmaster thinking anything of it." Snape said.

"What do you mean? Do you always leave on my birthday?" Harry asked.

" Yes I do. Dumbledore don't ask because he thinks the children I had died when they were born." Snape said.

"Dumbbell didn't know about you and mom?" Harry asked.

" No he never he thought that I was married to a young woman by then name of Holly Mersey and that we had a son and daughter that died along with her during birth. And before your ask she was a made up name and so was her kids it was something that me and your mother and the Dark Lord put together. Yes Harry your mom was vary good friends with him." Severus said.

" Wow I am starting to think everything isn't what it seems anymore. So if the Dark Lord is so good then does that mean the Profacy is a false?" Harry asked.

"Yes Harry it is. I know its a big weight lifted off your shoulders but you got to know that you are marked as the Dark Lords equal and that he did kill James but no he never killed your mom.

"You see it was suppose to be that he was to find your mom and James and make it look like he killed her and you but in reality he was going to bring you and your mom back to me after making you his equal in everything.

"But when he got there James had already killed your mother. I don't know why but the Dark Lord got mad and killed him and then made you his equal but just as he was going to leave with you Dumbledore shows up and he hit the Dark Lord with a curse that knocked him out of his body for 14 years.

"The reason he need your blood was because as his equal your blood had the power that he needed to come back. I have no idea why he looked like a snake for a few years but it did wear off." Severus said.

" Well I think I know why he looked like a snake for a while its because I have snake venom in my blood when forks healed me his tears never took the venom out but made it part of me for some odd reason." Harry said.

" Well that is saying a lot. The Dark Lord found it quit funny that your blood made him look like a snake." Severus said.

" So what do I call you. I mean I don't know if you want me to call you dad or father or by your name?" Harry asked.

"If you like Harry you can call me Dad i would like that." Snape said.

" Ok dad it is then. Lets go get something to eat I am starving." Harry said.

Authors Note:

I am going to leave it here for now. Sorry it took so long to update but I lost my password and had a bit of writers block. Please read and review. I am in need of a Beta reader for this. My spelling and what not isnt the best. Oh and if you have any ideas about Harry and Dudley's inheritance please let me know.

Thanks For Reading,

Humming Bird 171