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Sorry for taking so long in updating, but real life has got in the way and I am now busy with NaNo since I am ML this year.

Thanks to Belladonna LeMorte for the beta work, hugs sweetie.

Chapter Twenty-Five

Severus picked Harry up and rushed him to the Hospital Wing bursting through the doors. Seeing that both Fleur and Jasmine were busy, he laid his precious burden onto one of the few remaining empty beds and called to them both, telling them to come over and that Harry had collapsed.

"What happened?" Fleur asked, as she was the first to be free enough to come and see her Uncle.

"I don't know, he did it though, he killed Voldemort. It is over, and we are all free." Severus said, his voice still holding a tinge of disbelief.

No one noticed as Poppy made her way into the Hospital Wing, little Dedric in her arms, sleeping quietly. She conjured a bassinet next to Harry's bed as she walked over and placed her small bundle into it, letting his sleep as much as he could with all the noise around him.

"Fleur, go on and care for the others. I will take care of Harry," she told her granddaughter.

Fleur nodded and said, "all right." She then bustled off to another part of the hospital wing to take care of someone else, while her grandmother took care of her uncle.

Poppy scanned the young man and said to Severus, who was sitting by the bed, "he is exhausted Severus, he needs rest, but I think you all do." She reassured her adopted son's fiancé.

Severus looked up and smiled tiredly, "Thank you Poppy, thank you. Is Dedric alright?" He then asked.

"He is fine, he wanted a bottle while we were in there, but he is fast asleep now," she told him as she then left the two alone and went to help some of the other patients.

Severus stood up and went over to the bassinet. He looked down into the face of his sleeping son and smiled. Gently, so he did not disturb him, he picked him up and walked back over to the bed and sat down. He did not have much chance to hold his child before the battle started, so while things were quiet he would take the chance to hold the little baby in his arms. He smiled as he watched the baby struggle to take his arm out of the blanket he was wrapped in, and within seconds Dedric was sucking his thumb.

He looked down over to his fiancé and smiled, "thank you Harry, for this little miracle," he said softly in thanks.

"You're welcome," came Harry's soft voice.

"Harry?" Severus asked, a little startled, as he thought that Harry would sleep a while longer yet.

"Yeah, is he okay?" Harry mumbled, still half asleep.

"He is fine, you should go back to sleep, you need the rest." Severus smiled, as he held his son in one arm and held onto Harry's hand with the other.

Harry yawned and then said, "Good, is it over now?"

Severus chuckled a little, "yes, it is over, he is gone for good now."

Harry was about to say something when the doors to the Hospital Wing burst open. The two men expected to see someone else that was injured be brought in, not the Minister of Magic, Cornelius Fudge with two Auror's following him. They watched as Fudge looked around the room, spotted them and then arrogantly strode over to them.

"Hand over the child," he said pompously.

Harry sat up and held out his arms as Severus handed the child to Harry. "You are not coming near my child," he said as he held the child protectively against his chest.

"Leave Fudge," Severus sneered at the small man before him.

"The child is that of the Dark Lords, therefore it must be destroyed." He said a cruel smirk on his face.

"You will leave my child and my fiancé alone," Severus said once again as he stood up and brought out his wand, in case he needed to defend himself and his family.

"I don't believe that rubbish, you a father, I don't think it's possible. We both know that Harry was kidnapped by the Dark Lord." Fudge sneered.

"Minister Fudge, I thought you were told not to come in here and bother the patients until you were told it was fine," Jasmine said as she and her mother came over to see what the trouble was.

"I am here to see the child, and last remnant of the Dark Lord destroyed," he said pompously.

"You have already been told that the child is that of Severus Snape and Harry Potter." Poppy said as she came to stand between the bed and the Minister.

"Prove it," he said a nasty smirk on his face.

"Very well," Poppy smirked at him. She turned and face Harry, "hold out little Dedric," she instructed Harry as she aimed her wand at the baby and said, "Ostendo Sum Parentes (1)"

The pale blue light surrounded the sleeping child and moments later two faces formed above him, one Harry Potter and the other Severus Snape, proving to the minister that little Dedric's parents were Harry and Severus.

"Now, you have your proof, now go, and leave my patients in peace." Poppy said as she turned her wand onto Fudge and the two Auror's behind him.

Fudge looked as though he had just eaten a bag of lemons. He turned on his heel and marched out of the Hospital Wing, not saying another word, whilst the two Auror's behind him winked at them both and chuckled as they followed the idiot of a Minister.

"Well, that's sorted. Harry give Dedric to Severus and get some sleep, you need it, you are exhausted young man." Poppy said.

Harry and Severus laughed as they did as she told them. Soon Harry had drifted off to sleep giving Severus the time to spend with his newborn son.

1- Show child's Parents, or something similar.

Well, this would have been the last chapter, but I have finally got an Epilogue for you all. So that will come before November starts.

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