A/N hello everyone I'm so sorry that it took me so long to get this updated but it's been kind of emotional for me to even think about this story since it was written and inspired by my grandmother I'm not exactly over it yet but I also had a case of writer's block so that's why I was working on another story which as you know is now completed and being updated once a day . I hope that you enjoy this latest chapter of the love of many brown
Chapter 5 Of Little Boy's and Horcruxes
Later that night as everyone slept in their own beds little Harry was once again having the same nightmare that never failed to wake him with shock waves of fear and overwhelming sadness. This time, however his dream was very different.
A beautiful lady with long red hair and gentle green eyes had carried him into what looked like a nursery before placing him down into a crib. "Don't cry Harry, mama loves you very much! Dada loves you very much! You are so loved, Harry never forget that, my sweet baby boy!" she said in a soft soothing voice. Then there was a bright green flash of light and darkness. The next thing that he could hear was the strangled sobs of someone who had just entered the room that he was in. He rolled over in his crib and saw a dark haired man with black eyes holding his mum while he rocked on the floor with her motionless body clasped close to his chest. Harry wanted to be held too, so he stood up in the crib and gazed at the man before a single word came from his little lips. "Dada!" he called out to the man as he held out his little arms with his hands opening and closing pleadingly wishing to be held by the man. The man then laid his mum onto the floor and tenderly reached into the crib and lifted harry into his strong arms. Harry felt safe in this man's arms and cuddled into his chest sucking his thumb as he muttered the word once more. He couldn't understand what the man had said, but he felt so warm and safe that it didn't matter.
Harry awoke for the first time not in fear over the dream. He wanted to be in that man's arms again, and now knew that this man would be very easy for him to get to and that he wouldn't lock him away in the dark, or tell him mean things. He was as Mimi called him his Papa, or daddy, and that made it alright to go to him the way that he had heard and seen his cousin Dudley do so many times to his Uncle Vernon. He slid to the edge of his low child's bed, and quietly walked out into the hallway. There were three other doors that were in the hallway besides the one that he had just came from. One was sitting wide open with the light on and he saw that Mimi had indeed left a small set of steps in front of the toilet so that he could use it without trouble.
Harry suddenly felt the need to use the toilet upon seeing it sitting there so invitingly. After he had used the bathroom and had stood on a stool to wash his hands like Mimi had showed him to do, he went in search of his Papa. The room at the end of the hallway was partially open and he could see that Mimi had fallen into a restless sleep in the center of her large bed. His head began to hurt really badly as he considered simply climbing up into her bed, and he decided to leave the room as it had almost made him scream out in pain. That had never happened before, he thought as he left the bedroom feeling the headache lessen instantly as he softly shut the door behind him.
He walked back down the hall toward his room and finally found the room across from his where his papa was fast asleep with a book on his chest snoring softly. He entered the room quietly and gently crawled up into the bed to cuddle up beside his sleeping father. Severus had heard the child up moving around from the time that his little feet had hit the floor within his own room a few minutes ago. He listened carefully to the child's movements as he had used the loo, and washed his hands. , and then went on down the hall into Mimi's room, where he had supposed that the boy would sleep for the rest of the night.
You could imagine his shock and surprise to wake up in the middle of the night to check on the child, only to find that the little boy had made his way into his bedroom and had climbed into his bed with him. Instead of the book that he had been reading laying upon his chest the child had managed to knock the book to the floor during the night and was now sprawled across Severus's chest like he was a rag doll that someone had just carelessly thrown there. He tried to move only for Harry to cling to him and whimper in his sleep. Sighing Severus gave in to the child, and pulled the blankets back over the two of them.
Meanwhile Mary tossed in her sleep, as what seemed like a horrifying dream version of Tom the way that he was the last time that she'd seen him chased after her.
"Mary, don't be a fool! You know that we're meant to be together. If I can't have you than no one will! I've done it, I've made my first Horcrux! Aren't you happy for me? I'll live forever and nothing will kill me! Join me Mary, and we'll rule the wizarding world together!" cooed Tom silkily in her ears as she shook in his arms with sobs.
"Why are you doing this? I don't want to live forever if you have to kill people to accomplish it. Myrtle was my friend, Tom! Why did you kill her?" cried Mary.
"It's for the greater good, my love! You don't understand, but soon, my love, I promise that you will." laughed Tom in an evil tone making Mary wake shaking .
She blinked as she put her spectacles back on, and looked around her room. She had sworn that she had left her bedroom door open so that she'd hear Harry if he need her during the night. How did it get closed, she thought as she got up to go and check on her grandchild. He turned out to not be in his room. She was about to panic and start searching the closets and cupboards when she peered into Severus's room and saw Harry draped over Severus's chest with the blankets over both of them, and one of Harry's little feet dangerously close to Severus's nose, while the rest of his body was hanging off of the side of the bed. Severus also was hanging part way off of the bed, with one arm wrapped protectively around Harry's waste to prevent him from falling onto the floor. She flicked her wand and levitated them both into the center of the bed so that neither would hit the floor when they woke up, and then retired backto her own bed feeling more at ease.
The next morning when he awoke the first thing that Severus saw was little Harry's green eyes, his mother's eyes staring at him nose to nose while laying upon his chest. He blinked before smiling slightly at the boy before attempting to sit up and prepare for the day. "Harry, you do know that it's very hard to move when you are this close to my face, don't you son?" asked Severus as he attempted to focus his eyes on the boy.
"Daddy, I'm sorry, I just wanted to look at you, but your face is too blurry for me to see it clearly." said Harry as he rolled off of his dad's chest to sprawl on the bed beside him.
"Hum, Harry, how many fingers am I holding up?" asked Severus as he held up two fingers about two feet from the boy's face.
Harry squinted making a face as he strained to see where his dad's hand was, before he answered "You are holding up four fingers, Daddy, aren't you?" asked Harry in a puzzled tone as he tried to make sense of the blur in front of him.
Severus sighed and moved his hand a foot closer to the boy's face. Try again son, how many do you see now?" asked Severus
"Um, Oh, I can see two fingers now, but they're still blurry and hard to make out." admitted Harry hoping that he wouldn't be in trouble. "Is that a bad thing Daddy? Am I in trouble? You are too quiet." said Harry as he considered moving away from the man before he struck.
Suddenly he felt his Dad's strong arms around him and his hands carting through his hair gently. "No, Harry, it isn't really a good thing, but it is fixable. We'll have it fixed up when we visit your Gran's healer after breakfast. If your sight is that bad, why haven't you said anything about it when you saw Mimi before now?" asked Severus curiously.
"I never said anything because the Dursleys would punish me I I complained about anything telling me that I was ungrateful. I didn't want to get into trouble or to seem like I was ungrateful." admitted Harry with a tear rolling down his face.
"You aren't being ungrateful if you are telling someone that you are unable to see properly. For now on when you are sick in any way, when you have any pain, or if you can't see, don't hide it from me, or Mimi, otherwise we can't help you. Is that understood?" asked Severus as he gazed into Harry's eyes and waited for an answer.
"Yes sir." smiled Harry.
"Are the two of you going to stay in bed all day, or would you rather get dressed and come down for breakfast?" asked Mimi from the door
"Sorry about that Mimi, we were just having a little father and son time. When two get to the healer's office after breakfast we need to have him do something about Harry's eyes. He can't see properly." said Severus as he handed Harry's hand off to Mimi so that he could get dressed for the day.
"I know, but there was nothing that I could do until now. It will be the first thing that we fix,." smile Mimi as she led Harry from the room and helped him dress in a set of dark blue child's robes.
"Why do I have to wear a dress?" asked Harry.
"It's not a dress, it's robes like your dad wears. You're a wizard Harry, and wizards wear robes over their regular clothes. Trust me it's normal." smiled Mimi as she kissed the top of his head before leading him down to breakfast
After they had all finished eating their breakfast, They flooed directly to the office of Mimi's personal healer, to address Harry's sight problem. The healer was very nice to Harry and after preforming a diagnostic charm on Harry he frowned before showing the results to Mimi. "He's need to take nutrition and growth potions three times a day with his meals to make up for the damage that was done to him by his other relatives, Marry. You have a good start with what you fed him for dinner and breakfast. Since you are also a licensed healer and potions mistress, you need not bring the boy back to me unless you feel the need to do so. The eyes are more than likely an effect of being locked in a dark place for long periods of time. They will get better, but until they do, I will suggest that he wears spectacles so that he can see properly. " said the healer as he stood a chart of letters across the room for Harry to look at.
"Alright, young man, Can you see that chart across the room?" he asked as he stepped to the boys side and pointed his wan at the chart.
"Yes sir." answered Harry .
"I'd like you to read everything that you can see clearly on the chart, please." said the healer in a pleasant tone.
"Okay, E, A, B, C, E, um that's all I can see before it gets fuzzy" said Harry gloomily.
"That's okay, lad, I'm going to help you with that problem. " said the healer as he lowered a strange contraption down so that it was level with Harry's eyes.
"Okay, lad, look through the holes in this mask and Tellme when it gets better." said the healer as he started to tap the mask with his wand until Harry's jaw dropped over how much he could see on the chart. "Now please read everything that you can see on the chart from top to bottom.' said the Healer as he place a hand on Harry's shoulder.
"Okay, E, F, P, L, P,E,D,P,E,C,F,D, E,D,F,C,Z,P, F,E,L,O,P,Z,D,D,E,F,P,O,T,E,C." said Harry as he read thee chart out loud.
"Very good, now I have here some spectacles frames here for you to choose from. , which ones do you like?" asked the healer as he held out a tray of frames for Harry to look at.
"I like these round ones, do you have these in silver like my Gran's ?" asked Harry hopefully.
The healer waved his wand and changed the frames to silver so that they looked like the spectacles that marry wore, and then handed the frames and the lenses prescription over to his assistant who bustled from the room to have the spectacles made to the healer's orders. "The spectacles will be finished by the time that we are done looking after your grandson, Marry. The removal of the scar worries me. There's something dark about it. I can't explain it, but it's like there's someone else inside of the boy." said the healer . On hearing those words Mimi knew exactly what had to be done to heal Harry's scar, and frowned. She had sensed the darkness every time that she was close to Harry, and now she knew why it had bothered her so badly.
Five minutes later found Harry happily walking through a robes shop seeing everything clearly for the first time in a long time. He was bought several new robes and other clothing that a little boy would need as well as a chocolate ice-cream before they went home for the day. They had visited the Goblins of gringots and Now with their help Harry now was no longer known as Harry James Potter. Harry was smiling as he walked along with his little hand in Severus's while Mimi climbed into her buggy with a frown on her face. When they had visited Gringots she had been informed that Dumbledore had been paying the Dursleys to take care of Harry and that he had been using Harry's money to fud his preasus order of the phoenix. Harry sat happily between his Mimi and his dad, watching every beautiful detail as they flew through the sky toward the house that he now called home and didn't notice Mimi's silence. Severus, however noticed and intended on speaking to her about it once they had put Harry to bed for the night.
He waited until Harry was sleeping soundly and then went in search of Mimi. He found her in the stables muttering to herself as she brushed Misty for the seventh time that day. "Not saying that she doesn't look as if she's enjoying the attention, but are you attempting to brush her skin off?" smirked Severus as he entered the stable. Mimi threw the brush across the stable in anger making Misty snort in adjetation before she vanished and reappeared inside of her stall where she barred her nose in her hay. Mimi sagged as she plopped herself down onto a bale of hay and covered her face with her hands as she broke down.
"Mimi, you've been unusually quiet ever since this morning. What's bothering you?" he asked as he wandlessly summoned the brush and returned it to the grooming box, before taking a seat on the hay beside her.
"It's Harry, he's connected to the Dark Lord through his scar. The Dark Lord was doing something dark that he calmed would make him live forever, Severus. He was making Horcruxes by killing other people and spilling their blood. He then sealed off a piece of his soul into different objects in an attempt to prolong his life. He vanished the night that Lilly lost her life because Lilly loved her son so much that she stepped between the Dark Lord and Harry. If I could guess I'd say that the reason that he disappeared was because part of his soul latched onto Harry. That's the dark presence that the healer spoke of," explained Mimi tiredly as she gazed into Severus's shocked face.
"So let me get this straight, Mimi. Are you telling me that there is as piece of the Dark Lords Soul inside of my son," asked Severus in shock? Mimi nodded grimly. "Is there any way to get the Dark Lord's soul out of him without harming him," asked Severus attempting to remain calm?
"Yes, but it takes three months to brew the potion, and it will be risky to get at least one of the ingredients," Mimi said with a shiver as she thought of facing the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets. She hadn't been down there since the day that Tom had introduced her to the massive serpent as his mate, and prayed that the Basilisk would be reasonable and not attempt to kill her.
"What's in the potion, I might have what's needed," Severus asked eagerly?
"Phoenix tears, freely given, Unicorn blood, freely given for reasons that stem from love of the one who is to use the potion, and Basilisk Venom, freely given with trust for the taker and compassion for the user," Mimi answered resignedly.
"Hum, I see now why you'd say that one of the ingredients could be problematic. Because of Miss T, your familiar, freely given unicorn blood given with love, should not be a problem for you to obtain. As for the freely given phoenix tears, as it happens I have a phial from Dumbledore's familiar Faux that we can use. The only problem with it, is that depending upon how much of the tears you use, Dumbledore may lose the loyalty of the phoenix, who will sense who his tears given freely were used upon and how they were used. He may attach himself to Harry," Severus said as he paced in deep thought over exactly how to obtain the final ingredient that could cost whoever went after it their life.
"I'd ask how you got Faux's tears, but knowing what I know about you, and whom you served, I don't want to know how you got them. Keep them safe until I've acquired the other ingredients," Mimi said as she got to her feet and dusted the hay from her robes feeling a bit calmer about what had to be done.
"Mimi, how are you going to get the Basilisk venom? You'd be killed the instant that you've crossed it's line of sight if you ever managed to find one. Besides it's well known that there aren't any living in Great Brittan, and you'd have to travel to God knows what country to find one still living. Are you certain that this is the only way to rid Harry of the piece of the Dark Lord's soul," Severus asked frowning at the look in Mimi's eyes and the thought of losing her again?
"There is another way, but it's not one that I'll even think on using as it would mean bringing Tom back to full power, and then allowing him to kill Harry," Mimi said cringing at the thought of potentially losing the last part of Lilly that she had left in the world.
"I agree with you, on that Mimi, there's no way in Hell, that I'd ever allow the Dark Lord anywhere near my son again if I could help it. Since the potion seems to be the less risky option, what's our next move," Severus asked as they walked together back into the house?
"IT's simple, Severus Since I know what all of his Horcruxes are made from barring one or two that I wasn't present when he made, I must retrieve the Horcruxes that I know of, and place them in a safe place until the potion has been created. The potion will destroy them, and then we will be free to live our lives. I only hope that he hasn't made as many as he was talking of when we were in school, because if he did and we do not find and destroy all of them there is a chance that he will still return and we will have to deal with him. That is not something that I am ready to deal with," Mimi said as she hung her outer robe upon a hook by the door and moved quietly up the stairs to look in upon Harry who was sleeping with Rainbow curled up with her head poking out of his blanket just below his chin, the color of calm sky blue.