A/N So sorry that it's taken me so long to update this I'm still working with my phones internet. I have to write my story on my laptop so that I can see it and then I save it and connect my phone to my laptop and transfer my document to the phone and update it.
Chapter 4 Mimi's Memories, Rage, and Love
Severus arrived at the address that Mimi had given to him early as he always used to do, just to have more time to speak with her. To his shock she was just finishing up placing black dragon leather harness onto a lovely sorrel horse that had a small blaze down its face and four small white socks on its feet. Mimi didn't notice his arrival as she hummed to herself and smoothed the horse's blonde mane and braided a lavender ribbon into the top of the horse's mane just behind its ears. As he approached the horse pricked its ears and nickered at him nudging Mimi in the arm to get her attention. "Thank you for letting me know that Severus is here, Miss T. I didn't even hear him dissapparate." said Mimi as she finished the braid and gave the mare a pat before turning to smile at Severus.
"You're early as usual, I see. I had hoped that you'd come a bit early so that you could come with me and we could talk a bit longer." said Mimi as she flicked her wand making her lavender and forest green surrey roll behind Miss T. and secure itself to the mare's harness.
"Where are we going in that?" asked Severus as he gave her a quick hug before pointing at the horse and the surrey that was pulling behind it.
"Do you remember the letter that I sent you congratulating you on the birth of your son?" asked Mimi as she climbed up into the surrey and gathered up the reins.
"Um, yes, but I am still confused about that." said Severus as he climbed into the surrey and took a seat beside her.
"Well than, let me clear it up for you. Lilly's son is biologically not a true Potter. He is only a Potter by name only. If I could have changed things sooner, he would have proudly born the name of either Snape, Prince, or Brown." said Mimi as she flicked the reins signaling Miss T. to take off. Severus stifled a scream of fear as large sorrel colored wings sprouted from the horses back and the surrey was jerked off of the ground with such force that his face went as white as a sheet and he grasped onto the seat and the side until his knuckles were red. "Oh, I'm sorry dear, I should have warned you about what Miss Colonel T. truly was and the fact that we'd be flying before I made her take off like that. Don't worry my surrey is enchanted to keep all occupants firmly attached to the seat and floor while it's in the air." she said as she gave Miss T. a signal that made her fly in a loop in midair making Severus's stomach feel as if he had just gone through the spin cycle in a muggle washing machine to prove her point.
"you look a bit green around the edges my dear boy. Here, take this, it will settle your stomach." laughed Mimi as she reached into her bag and handed him an anti-nausea potion
"Thank you Mimi." said Severus as he gulped down the potion gratefully. "Could you not make her do that again?" he asked giving the flying horse and it's mistress a pleading look.
"Of course Sev. I don't want you to get sick all over us now do I?" giggled Mimi with a sparkle in her soft brown eyes. "Anyway, to answer your first question that you asked before we took off, we are going to Pick up My grandson and your son from my infernal step daughter Petunia Dursley and her oaf of a husband. As of right now, I am now Harry's Magical guardian and after I deal with Petunia I will be Harry's legal Guardian, until the day that You Know Who has been taken down." said Mimi with a blank expression on her face.
"You know something about his disappearance?" asked Severus in shock.
"I regrettably know more than I wish that I did about the man and his so called disappearance." growled Mimi as she thought back on everything that she knew.
"Mimi, if this subject is bothering you, then perhaps we can talk about why you supposedly died in Lilly and I's third year at Hogwarts." suggested Severus hoping to change the subject.
"We can talk about that but when we get down to the reason that I didn't return we will just be back on the current subject, so I guess that I should just start from the beginning."" sighed Mimi as the cool night air blew her curls away from her face.
"You see it all started when I was a student at Hogwarts. I met a lonely looking boy named Tom Marvolo Riddle. We became friends instantly and remained friends even though he was sorted into Slytherin and I was sorted into Ravenclaw. Despite the different houses we became quite close if I do say so. We also dated until the day that he let me in on a little secret plan that he had to supposedly make us both live forever without the aid of a philosophers stone or the elixir of life. He told me of this kind of spell that would split your soul and hide away a piece of it to allow you to never be killed. When he told me what needed to be done to cast this spell I realized at once that it was dark magic and that I really didn't want to live forever if it was accomplished by those means."
"I tried and tried to talk him out of what he wanted to do, but considering what happened the night that Harry supposedly defeated him, and the fact that I can still feel the presence of his soul in our world, I'd wager that he succeeded in creating his Horcruxes." she said as she pulled her cloak more firmly about her when a chill ran up her spine on thinking about the whole thing.
"Wait a minute, Harry was attacked by You Know Who, not by a man named Tom Marvolo Riddle." said Severus giving Mimi a puzzled look.
"Tom Marvolo Riddle is the name that he was born with. If you rearrange the letters in all three of his names you will find that it's an anagram that spells out,' I Am Lord Voldemort!" She said Making Severus's jaw drop. "I used to love him, and to a point still do, but that's only because we are Soulmates." said Mimi frowning.
"You are soulmates with the most evil wizard to walk the earth since Grindalwald?" asked Severus in shock over the revelation.
"Unfortunately, yes dear. We can't choose who will be chosen by the universe and our magic to be our soulmate. I wish that it was anyone but him, but I can't change that. That is part of the reason that I didn't return home to my family. I was afraid that Tom would get jealous and would kill my husband, and Lilly. At first I had to leave because I had fallen Ill with a nasty case of Dragon pox and didn't want for you or Lilly to get it, and then when I was on the mend in Saint Mongos Tom actually found me there and was quite put out that I had been, as he put it avoiding him when he wanted to be with me. Actually he wanted more than to be with me, he wanted me to marry him, but I have always been able to read people's auras, and I can tell you that his was downright terrifying. It filled the room and made it hard to breath it was so dark."
"He continued to pursue my hand and even went so far as to use the imperious curse on my father to force him to allow me to marry him and to give him his blessing as the head of our family. He never expected for me to vanish on the day of our wedding. I saw the future of not only my life with him but life in the wizarding world whenever I looked into his eyes and just couldn't let that happen, so I'm spent most of the time up until his downfall in my animagus form. My home is hidden under the fadellious charm and various other protective charms for that very reason. Miss Colonel T. is the secret keeper so unless she speaks to me and tells me to give the address to someone, nobody will ever find my home." she said feeling a bit happier now that she had gotten such a load off of her chest.
"I always knew that you were a seer, but I had no idea that you could see people's Aura's and speak to animals." said Severus in wonder.
"I don't speak to all animals, only Miss T., because she is my familiar and we communicate through telepathy. I can hear her voice in my head as clearly as if she were human and sitting right next to me. It doesn't matter how far we are from one another when a magical animal has chosen to become your familiar." she said laughing softly as something that just popped into her head.
"What's so funny?" asked Severus not getting the joke.
"Oh nothing, Miss T. was just informing me that we are approaching our destination and was asking if I minded if she ate up Petunia's garden while we were inside." smirked Mimi as the Surry began to make its decent to the ground before landing with a soft bounce and rolling down the street with a clop, clipity, clop of Miss T's shod hooves as her wings vanished from sight to make her look like a normal horse.
Mimi happily drove the surrey up onto Petunia's nicely mowed lawn that she had seen so many times poor little harry crawling around on his hands and knees on with a pair of kitchen scissors cutting by hand since the child was three years old, and smiled with mirth at the tracks that the surrey had left behind. She telepathically told Miss Colonel T. to have fun and to eat everything while she and Severus attended to business inside of the house, before flicking her wand and changing both her and Severus's robes to look more like nice muggle suits and stepping up onto the porch and ringing the doorbell. The mail flap opened and a set of blue eyes peered out at them before a child's voice was heard screaming at the top of his little lungs. "Mummy, Daddy there's two strangers on the porch and a horsey is eating the flowers in our yard!" screamed Dudley as he ran into the kitchen where Petunia was just about to serve the family their dinner.
Vernon got up from his seat at the table and followed Petunia to the door to see what exactly his son was raving about. He expected such lies from the brat that Petunia insisted on keeping for some reason instead of allowing him to take the little retch to an orphanage where freaks like him belonged, but not from his precious little boy. The instant that Petunia opened the door and stared in shock at the two people on the porch, Vernon screamed with rage and pushed passed his stunned wife and the two unwelcome guests and attempted to pull the horse out of his yard only to slip in a very fresh pile of horse manure and fall flat on his backside with a grunt and a squish. "How dare you bring that beast into my yard and ruin my lawn and flowers! I insist that you remove that beast before I call the police!" he raged as he got up into Severus's face since he was closest to him.
"Sorry, but it's not my horse. You'd be better off taking it up with the horse's owner. The horse was already here when I got here." smirked Severus.
"Oh, yes, you can take it up with me, but I'm not telling her to move off of the lawn. Why should I when it's quite obvious that she's enjoying your lawn very much." said Mimi calmly giving Vernon a peaceful smile.
"You'd better move that animal or I'll have you arrested and have that animal destroyed." snarled Vernon turning and getting into Mimi's face instead.
"Oh, yes, you can call the police, but they won't believe you when they come out here and find that nothing is there. I'd also suggest that you change your trousers as you have a large dark stain on your rear end. Honestly Petunia, I should think that you'd at least have married a man who wouldn't make you clean up after him once he's soiled himself in such an undignified fashion." said Mimi turning to Petunia making her blink in confusion. Vernon turned around to look at the horse that was destroying his yard only to find that the horse and it's surrey had vanished completely.
"Excuse me, but how do you know my name, and exactly what can we do for you at this late hour?" asked Petunia finally finding her voice as Vernon stomped passed her and lumbered up the stairs to change into some clean clothes.
"Come now Tuny, don't you remember your dear sweet Mimi?" asked Mimi in a sugary voice that sent chills down Severus's spine and made his feel like grinding his teeth together.
"My step-mother Mimi is dead! She died years ago when I was sixteen years old. I want you to leave my home and take your freaky pet with you" demanded Petunia as she saw the horse and cart reappear on the lawn right where it had been before.
"I'm afraid that I can't do that Petunia. You see you regrettably have something that belongs to me and the man who by all rights should have been my son-in-law, and we want it before we agree to leave." smiled Mary as she pulled out her wand and pointed it at Petunia.
"I don't have anything that belongs to you two freaks, so leave now!" she snarled as she tried to slam the door in their faces. Severus quickly placed his foot into the doorway to stop petunia from slamming the door in their faces and pushed passed her and led Mary into the house.
"Wrong answer, Petunia! According to these documents, you currently have custody of my son, who just happens to be her grandchild. If you think that I'm going to put up with her once she's lost her temper because of your big mouth and refusal to give us what we came here for, than you have another thing coming." said Severus as he looked around for the child in question.
"Where is Harry, Petunia? If I find that you still have him locked up in that darned cupboard, I can promise that I'll stuff you and your entire family in there and lock you in so you can feel how it feels to be so cruelly confined." snarled Mimi as she walked over to the cupboard under the stairs and eyed the lock with rage.
She could feel Harry's timid and frightened aura from behind the door and made the lock unlock itself and fly from the door only to hit Vernon in the face with it just as he came back down stairs, and then slowly opened the door so as not to frighten little Harry any more than he already was. As the door opened Harry blinked in shock and disbelief when he saw who was standing outside of the cupboard. He got up off of his mattress on the floor and rushed into her open arms when she knelt and waited for him to come to her. "Mimi Brown, my birthday wish finally came true! You came to take me away from here!" he whispered into her chest as she hugged him close and got to her feet with him held tightly in her arms.
"Yes, Harry, you are coming home with me right now, and I am going to take care of you until your papa here is able to take care of you. Would you like that sweetie?" asked Mary with a warm smile on her face as she carried Harry over to where Severus stood unsure of what to do.
"What's a Papa? Is it like a daddy?" asked Harry giving Severus a timid look.
"Yes Harry, it is exactly like a daddy because that's just another word for daddy. This is your real Daddy, what do you think, would you like to see your daddy do a neat magic trick?" asked Mary giving Severus a look that told him exactly what she wanted him to do.
"There's no such thing as magic, Mimi! Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon told me so." said Harry giving the two adults that had come for him puzzled looks.
Even though he hadn't truly been a father long, that comment from his son's little mouth enraged Severus and just as Dudley poked his head out from behind his mother's skirt he smirked and aimed his wand at the fat little boy instantly transforming him into a fat pink little piglet, making Petunia shriek in shock and then faint and Vernon's eyes widen in fear. "Magic is very real, Harry. Would you like me to show you another nice trick?" asked Severus when he heard Harry giggle at the pink little Dudley piglet that had just ran squealing from the room in terror.
"Yes please sir." nodded Harry eager to see more magic. With those words Severus waved his wand three times in a quick sweeping motion sending Petunia, Vernon, and the little piglet Dudley flying into the tiny cupboard under the stairs before changing Dudley back into a boy leaving the curly pigs tail and a pair of pink pigs ears and a flat piggy snout in place of his ears and nose before making the cupboard door slam and the lock sent flying back onto the latch and clicking into place.
"Don't worry, Tuny, unlike you and your family, I have a heart. Perhaps once my sweet little grandchild has been examined by my family healer, and has settled in at his new comfy home, I will consider sending someone to let you all out of there and fix your fat little heathen of a son back to the way that he was before Harry's father got ahold of you all." said Mary as she walked from the house leaving the front door wide open. Mary walked out onto the lawn and watched Harry's little eyes light up with joy when he saw the horse eating in the yard. She allowed Harry to stroke Miss T's velvety nose and had placed him into her lap on the seat of the surrey when Arabella Figg came rushing out of her house and came up to them just as they heard smashing sounds from within the house.
"I see that you finally came for your grandson. I'm glad that the little dear will finally get all of the love that he deserves and more. I've brought him a homecoming present." said Arabella as she sat a basket with a lid on it in the seat next to Mary so that Harry could see what was inside of it before they left. Mary allowed Harry to stand on the floorboards of the surrey and open the basket with eagerness and joy over getting the second present he had ever received in his little life since the loss of his mother when he was one. Harry opened the basket to find a small kitten that at first looked like a snow white cat with black ears, and tail as well as four boot looking markings on its tiny paws and black around its nose and mouth. Harry cooed at the kitten and gently reached into the basket and picked it up to cuddle it gently.
The Kitten started to purr loudly and cuddled into the little boy's arms before its white fur changed to a bright pink with black markings. Harry's eyes widened in amazement when the now pink kitten changed to a bluish green color, and looked up at Mrs. Figg with wonder in his little eyes. "How does my kitten do that?" he asked as he saw Severus striding from the house with a satisfied expression on his face and placed the kitten back into its basket watching it turn white with black markings once again.
"She's a special and rare crossbreed of a Siamese cat and rainbow kneesle that I've been working on for years. It cost me a lot of hard earned money just to get one breeding from your kitten's father. The kitten changes color according to your mood and feelings. If you take really good care of her she will learn to pick up your feelings even when you are not touching her or even in the room with her. When she is white it means that she is not feeling your emotions and feelings. When she changes pink like she did when you picked her up it means that you are very happy, and that bluish green color that she turned meant that you were feeling pleased to have her." explained Arabella as she handed Mary a roll of parchment with more information about the kitten including its feeding and care instructions and a color chart that explained what each color meant before bidding them all good-bye and returning back to her home.
Severus climbed into the surrey and opened the lid of the basket to look at the kitten with interest, and smiled, "What a nice kitten, I know who owns his father. Perhaps once you and your new little friend here have gotten settled in, we can see about inviting them both over for a visit. What are you going to name your little kitten Harry?" asked Severus as he closed the lid and allowed Harry to climb up into his lap for the ride back to Mimi's home.
"Rainbow!" smiled Harry as he cuddled into Severus's arms and smiled up into the dark black eyes of his father for what was the first time in years.
"That's a perfect name. We're done here Mimi, where are we going next from here?" asked Severus as Harry yawned sleepily in his arms.
"Home for now, I think. I think that we all need something nice to eat, and then it's a warm bath for Harry and straight off to bed with us all." said Mimi as she urged Miss T into a trot before allowing her to take off into flight for the second time that night.
After they had all eaten Mimi showed Severus to a room where he could sleep before leading Harry into his very own bedroom that was filled with all sorts of childrens books and toys, and grabbed a pair of pijama's and some underwere for the boy to ware after he had had a nice warm bath. "Mimi, who does all of this stuff belong to? Won't they mind that you have me in thiere room?" asked Harry looking around nervously expecting for someone to shoo him out of the nice room and into a cupboard.
"This is your room Harry. All of this belongs to you. Come now little one, you need a nice warm bath to help you sleep." she said as she took him by the hand and led him into the bathroom.
"Is it really all for me?" asked Harry not believing his luck.
"Yes dear, now into the bath with you, child. Here play with these toys while I wash your hair." said Mimi as she handed him a few boats and a rubber giant squid that was enchanted to swim around the tub when it was placed into the water.
From his place in his bedroom Severus could hear the little boy who he now knew was his and Lilly's son, laughing with joy as he splashed around in the water. Then later when he passed by the child's open bedroom door, he smiled at the child's reaction while Mimi read him a story from The Tails of Beatle the Bard. Mimi was a wonderful reader of bed time stories, because she spoke in a different voice for each character. Harry seemed to like this very much. He stood against the door frame and smiled as Mimi had just gotten so into the story herself, that she didn't even notice that little Harry had fallen fast asleep with his kitten Rainbow curled up on the pillow against his head purring in her sleep while her fur remained a bright pink, to show that Harry was extreamly happy. Once Mimi had reached the end of the story, she got up and pulled the covers up to Harry's chin before placing a soft kiss on his forehead and giving the kitten a gentle scratch behind the ear.
A/N Thanks for reading I will try to have the next chapter up faster.