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The Mirror of Etamluos
"Luosruoy Fo Flahreht oehtnah treht ono it celferon wohsi"
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Chapter Fourteen: Christmas Break
The weeks flew by and so did the next Quidditch match. Aubrey caught the snitch well before he Hufflepuff Seeker even had a chance to see it and won the match a mere 250 points to 100 points. The day before Christmas Break was possibly one of the worst of Harry's life. He missed all of his classes and even the potions didn't help with his morning sickness. Harry's stomach now had a small, but definite bulge that showed he was either gaining weight or pregnant but well hidden by the robes he wore.
Severus had given Harry every potion he knew of that he thought safe for Harry to take to help but it seemed nothing would help. Madam Pomfrey came down to their rooms to check on Harry but refused to move him to the hospital wing, surprising both Harry and Severus in doing so. She insisted when asked, "He's comfortable, and he's in rooms that have become his home over the past few months. That's more comfort than I can offer when the Potions aren't working anyway."
Severus had gone to class that day through the floo network at school, leaving Harry with Sirius to help him through out the day. The entire castle seemed to sense something was wrong with Harry, as no one had ever seen Severus in such a bad mood. Severus gave four third year Hufflepuffs detentions, bellowed at his first year Ravenclaw/Hufflepuff class for the entire period, and given his entire Slytherin/Gryffindor fifth year class detentions, with points being taken off from both houses.
At lunch Severus locked the classroom and flooed back to their rooms only to find Harry asleep, with Sirius sitting next to him with a cool washrag that he was gently applying to Harry's forehead. Severus breathed a slight sigh of relief and asked Sirius, "Is he feeling any better at all?"
Sirius shook his head, "He passed out from all this. It's been non-stop since you left Severus. Before he passed out he was swearing he'd cut off your balls for putting him through today."
Severus smiled and said, "Yes, well I think he'll have to get in line behind the rest of the school."
Sirius snorted, "How many detentions have you given out today?"
Severus's grin became somewhat disturbing as he explained that he'd just given Harry's entire Potions class detention. Sirius found it helplessly hilarious, and only stopped laughing when someone knocked on the Portrait to Harry and Severus's rooms. Severus frowned, "If that's a Student they're getting detention. Yell if he wakes up will you?"
Sirius just nodded as Severus left to answer the door, what greeted him being far worse then a Student, or even a Death Eater. Standing there was Cornelius Fudge flanked by four Aurors, Albus and Minerva standing beside him glaring at Fudge and the Aurors. Severus growled, "You had better have a good reason to be here, my husband is ill and trying to recover in the next room."
One of the Aurors sneered right back, "And just what have you done to the poor boy Snape?"
Albus cut off any response Severus might have said with, "Severus has done nothing to Harry that both parties weren't consenting of. As his Great- Grandparents, Minerva and I personally agreed to the marriage and bonding, and Harry entered both willingly."
Cornelius shifted slightly under the weight of Albus's gaze and said, "Be that as it may Dumbledore, we still need to question the boy regarding the matter. Now Severus I'm sure you don't mind kindly moving aside so that we can talk with Harry ourselves?"
Severus mentally called out to Harry in a shout, 'HARRY! GET YOUR GODFATHER OUT OF OUR ROOMS! FUDGE IS HERE WITH AURORS!'
Severus glared at Cornelius trying to give Harry a small bit of time and said, "You can come in, and sit here in the sitting room and wait until Harry's good and ready to talk to you. If you so much as upset him while you're here I'll throw you out of our home faster then you can get your wands out."
Severus moved aside to let them in, Albus and Minerva both glancing at him apologetically. The Minister and the Aurors sat down in front of the fire while Albus conjured and offered everyone tea. Severus heard Harry mentally saying to him, 'What do you mean Fudge is here? Sirius flooed to his and Remus's rooms, but I'm not talking to that idiot today. I'll likely tell him exactly what I think of him.'
Severus tried not to grin as he closed the entrance to their rooms and walked into their room to help Harry make himself presentable and responded mentally, 'I think Albus, Minerva and myself would find that highly entertaining, Mon amour.'
Harry smiled up at Severus when he came in and said, "You'll have to help me into some other clo..."
Severus cut him off, "If they're invading our personal space you have a right to look any way you damn well please Harry. They want to talk to you about the marriage and bonding."
Harry shook his head and said, "I suppose people have been telling the Minister that I've been cursed or had some sort of Dark Magic put on me to agree to it. I'll talk to the idiot but only for five minutes and then I'm lying back down. I refuse to be ill in front of that many people, family is one thing, people who could sell the story to the Daily Prophet is another."
Severus chuckled and helped Harry to stand, gently kissing him and asking, "Do you feel any better at all?"
Harry smiled a bit and said, "I was until you mentioned the words 'Fudge' and 'here' in the same sentence. Let's get this over with though, shall we Caro?"
Severus smiled and wrapped an arm around Harry who wrapped one arm around Severus and gently placed one hand on his stomach that was making it somewhat obvious that Harry was pregnant. They slowly made their way out to the room with everyone else, Minerva immediately getting up to help Severus support Harry. Harry just blushed and said, "Really I don't need you two helping me walk, I'm just a little under the weather, that's all."
Minerva bristled, "A little! Why I never-I'll have you know Harry James Dumbledore-Evans-Potter-Snape, a little does not mean that none of your own husbands potions work to make you feel better!"
The Minister suddenly looked interested and concerned at the same time and said, "None of the potions work? What are you taking potions for my dear boy? Are you going to be alright?"
Harry gave Fudge the same stare he had given Hermione the day of his and Severus's marriage and bonding ceremony that would have put any basilisk to shame and sneered, "Only if you have a cure for pregnancy, Minister and I'll have you know I was feeling much better until Severus mentioned your name and the words 'here to speak to you' in the same sentence."
A few of the Aurors looked at one another as if what Harry just said confirmed something they suspected as Fudge blinked and squeaked out a barely audible, "Pregnancy?"
Harry nodded and looked as though he would love nothing more then to mutter the killing curse in the Minister's direction before responding, "Yes, Severus and I are expecting twins sometime in late May."
Severus mentally asked Harry, 'Are you alright love?'
Harry would have smiled at the concern if he hadn't been so utterly pissed off at every person in the room save Severus for letting the Minister within the same building as he was before responding, 'Yes, Caro.'
Minerva and Severus helped Harry to sit down in one of the couches, settling him next to the Headmaster as Severus sat down on the other side of him and Minerva sat on the other side of Albus. Harry glared at the other occupants of the room before saying, "Well? Get on with it, I want to be back in bed resting within ten minutes if you don't mind."
One of the Aurors said, "Now see here Mr. Potter, we're here..."
Harry cut him off, "My name is Mr. Potter-Snape thank you kindly. Say it correctly or get the hell out of my home and stop insulting me."
The Auror looked thoroughly pissed off before continuing venom dripping from his voice, "Mr. Potter-Snape, we're here because we've received several anonymous tips that there's been Dark Magic involved in coercing you to marry and bond to Snape here. Considering that he was in league..."
Harry cut him off here, "With the light side spying for Professor Dumbledore himself. If you finish that sentence any other way I'll hex you into oblivion for insulting my husband within our home and assuming that he's automatically a Wizard of an evil nature because he did what few people had the balls to do and that was to penetrate Voldemort's group from the inside just as we have another spy doing for us now."
Fudge was officially out of control at that remark and stood yelling at Harry, "NOW SEE HERE! THERE HAS BEEN NO RE-BIRTH OF YOU-KNOW-WHO! THE FOUR OF YOU ARE JUST TRYING TO STIR THINGS UP! MAKE SURE THAT NO ONE IS HAPPY! YOU SIMPLY WANT THE PUBLICITY! MAKE YOU A BIGGER..."
Harry stood up rather suddenly eyes flashing dangerously before anyone could say anything and pulled up his sleeve to reveal the hook marked scar showing where his blood had been taking and yelled right back, "AND JUST HOW IN THE BLOODY HELL DID I GET THIS SCAR MINISTER? LET ME TELL YOU, YOU COMPLETE AND UDDER IDIOT! PETER PETTIGREW CUT MY ARM HIMSELF, DRAINED BLOOD FROM THE CUT TO USE IN A DARK POTION TO REVIVE VOLDEMORT FROM SPIRIT FORM TO A BODY, TOGETHER THEY CALLED A CIRCLE OF DEATH EATERS, A LIST OF WHICH I GAVE YOU THE LAST TIME YOU WERE HERE, MALFOY, NOTT, CRABBE, GOYLE, AVERY AND PETTIGREW! BUT YOU WON'T EVEN LISTEN TO MY OWN GODFATHER'S INNOCENCE! YOU WON'T EVEN OFFER A TRUTH SERUM TO FIND OUT WHETHER OR NOT HE'S TRULY GUILTY! YOU'RE MORE CONCERNED WITH SAVING YOUR OWN POLITICAL ASS THAN SEEING THE TRUTH THAT'S RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR OWN FACE! EVERY MURDER THAT HAPPENS UNTIL YOU ADMIT THE TRUTH IS ON YOUR HEAD FUDGE! NOW GET THE HELL OUT OF MY ROOMS!"
Severus, Albus and Minerva were now standing by Harry's side, Severus with an arm wrapped around Harry and all three of them glaring daggers at every other occupant of the room. Fudge was about to say something else when Albus spoke in a deadly tone that Harry had never heard before but felt the shivers it sent up his spine. "Minister, if you cause my great-grandson anymore undue stress while he's in a highly emotional and hormonal pregnancy and that undue stress causes him to lose my great-great- grandchildren, not even Merlin himself will be able to keep you in your office when I talk to the press myself."
Minerva cast a look of disgust at Fudge and added on in just as deadly a voice, "I highly suggest you take your pathetic group of idiots and get the hell out of this room, Minister."
Fudge gritted his teeth stood, motioning for his Aurors to follow him out of the room and said, "Fine, we're leaving, but we'll be back."
Minerva followed them and slammed the door nearly catching the last idiot's foot as he walked out. Albus looked at Severus and said, "Will you be able to teach the rest of the day?"
Severus shook his head and Albus nodded, "I'll cancel classes then. Minerva, shall we go have a chat with a few reporters? Oh and Severus, Harry, would you mind terribly if I announced the pregnancy?"
Severus, realizing that Albus was about to make good on his threat to Fudge grinned and said, "Feel free to, but if you could merely arrange that for tomorrow so that I might have a chance to let Draco inform Voldemort first. I'd rather he be able to be viewed as a faithful servant and that is rather important news that he'll have been expected to find out before the papers and public do."
Albus grinned, "Well that'll work out well. Harry do let us know if we can help with anything and get some rest both of you. I'll send Dobby down here with some dinner for you both."
Albus and Minerva both left then, looking more pissed off than the rest of Hogwarts had ever seen. Severus just helped Harry back into their bedroom, where they laid on the bed until shortly after dinner when Remus, Sirius, Albus and Minerva came in. Severus sent an owl shortly after Albus and Minerva left earlier that day to Draco telling him to write his Father and Voldemort immediately with the news of the pregnancy as it would be in the papers soon.
The small group spent all night discussing what they would tell Rita the following morning, who had been delighted to know that she would be announcing something to the Wizarding World exclusively and that no other reporter would know before she did. After a while Severus decided he would owl his family regarding the pregnancy so that they would know before the papers as well.
When the article did run, two days later, Severus and Harry read it in bed relishing in the chance to just be alone with one another and not have to run off to go to classes or deal with anyone other then one another. Remus and Sirius came by shortly later reading the article themselves and loving every word of it. Albus and Minerva were literally glowing they were so ecstatic with the article, and both bought Rita Skeeter a rather large expensive thank you present that was disguised as a Christmas gift.
Harry Potter-Snape, Pregnant!
Written by: Rita Skeeter
This reporter is bringing you first hand news that no other reporter has access to. Harry Potter-Snape and his husband Severus Snape have been married since the 7th of September of this year are pregnant for the first time, due in early June of this upcoming year. The couple is expecting twins, both are thrilled and happily awaiting the birth of their first children.
When Harry and I were speaking he was practically radiating the sheer joy of expecting two children. When I asked him how he felt about the pregnancy he responded, "I couldn't be happier than I am now, while pregnancy means that I do have to sit out during Quidditch matches for the rest of the year, I'm thrilled to know that I'll have a family with Severus in a few short months."
Harry is the Gryffindor Quidditch Team Captain, and regular Seeker. However at the last game, third-year Aubrey Keifer filled in for Harry as he was unable to due to the pregnancy. Keifer will continue to fill in for the rest of the year under Harry's strict coaching, and take over the post once Harry graduates from Hogwarts. Harry is however still leading the practices and helping the team coordinate for matches.
When I asked Severus how he feels about his husband's pregnancy, I was graced to see that marriage seems to be doing something to the Hogwarts Potions Professor. He smiled and responded, "I'm eagerly awaiting the birth of the twins, and sharing a family with my husband."
The Headmaster and Deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts, Harry's great- grandparents both expressed their joy over Harry's pregnancy and the impending arrival of twins at Hogwarts. Until Severus mentioned the recent stop in his involvement in spying for the Headmaster in you-know-who's ranks, due to the marriage and the pregnancy. I watched, stunned as Headmaster Albus Dumbledore looked angrier than I have ever seen him in my lifetime. Harry apologized for his great-grandfather and husband stating, "They're still upset by a recent visit from the Minister who was here just yesterday to question myself regarding my marriage and bonding to Severus."
Before being able to even ask what he was referring to, Albus Dumbledore himself informed me of my un-asked question. He simply stated, "Harry, be honest with the reporter, the Minister came here with the intention of upsetting my great-grandson with no regard at all towards Harry's state. When we told the Minister AND his Aurors that Harry was pregnant they headed no caution and managed to put him in a worse state then he was already in!"
When I inquired further on the matter, Minerva McGonagall informed me, "The Minister refuses to accept that you-know-who has returned, regardless of how many times Harry offers to take the truth serums to prove that he is not lying about the seriousness of the issue. He has accused all four of us of trying to start a panic, when all we want is for the Minister to open his eyes and see what's right in front of him. At the very least the man could well enough conduct an investigation instead of ignoring a very serious problem. If he's allowed to continue in this manner he'll get all of us killed for turning a blind eye!"
Harry however had a much different take on the situation at hand, and informed me that he has not only given the Minister a list of Death Eaters he saw return to you-know-who that night, but is continually referred to by the Minister himself as mentally deranged, becoming a Dark Wizard himself or having hallucinations. None of which, according to the Hogwarts Hospital Matron is true.
Harry also said, "It's like what someone once told me, 'It's not the wand that makes the Wizard Dark, it's the Wizard himself that's Dark.' When the students at Hogwarts found out that I'm a Parselmouth the entire school turned on me, proclaiming me the Heir of Slytherin, which mind you is impossible as Voldemort is the last Heir and I'm not related to the bastard. Now the Minister, like the ignorant students at Hogwarts holding childish ideas of me suddenly becoming a Dark Wizard, becoming the very thing that stole my parents and a happy childhood from me, just because I have opened my eyes to see the war that is starting as we speak that the Minister refuses to see."
It was at this point in the interview that Severus had to take Harry back to their rooms at Hogwarts to calm down. Albus and Minerva went on to explain that the day before when the Minister and the four Aurors came to Hogwarts Harry had been ill all morning and unable to attend classes due to the pregnancy, and when they finally got to Harry they managed to upset Harry to the point of almost needing to go to St. Mungo's for assistance so as not to lose the twins Harry is pregnant with.
I of course asked to speak with the Hogwarts Medi-Witch Poppy Pomfrey regarding Harry's condition only to find that she was near hysterically livid with as she said, "The utterly incompetent Minister of Magic and his bloody Aurors that can't see when they're endangering a pregnancy! For a moment I thought Harry was going to lose the babies! Can you imagine? The poor dear has lost so much already, his parents, almost all of his extended family, family friends, and now nearly losing his children! I have never been so disgusted in all my life with the Ministry of Magic for allowing and inflicting more pain and suffering on a boy that we've all looked at as a hero with no regard whatsoever to the losses that he has suffered as a price of that fame. Took me two hours to get the poor boy calm enough to be able to help him at all! He wouldn't stop rattling on about the Minister and the Aurors and not wanting to see the truth. I haven't seen the boy so distraught in all my life, and I personally checked him before he was sent to his Aunt and Uncles after that Halloween night those years ago. If the Minister had still been here when I was helping Harry I would have hexed him myself for upsetting the boy like that!"
I have a strong feeling she would have gone on had a Quidditch practice accident not taken her attention elsewhere. I, for one, cannot believe that our Minister of Magic would willingly and knowingly inflict torment on a boy who has already been through so much. I only hope that the Minister leaves Harry and Severus alone throughout the rest of the pregnancy, if for nothing else than for the safety of their unborn children. I wish Harry, Severus and their happily awaited children the best of luck in surviving the ignorance of the Minister of Magic, and in their new lives.
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The Mirror of Etamluos
"Luosruoy Fo Flahreht oehtnah treht ono it celferon wohsi"
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Chapter Fourteen: Christmas Break
The weeks flew by and so did the next Quidditch match. Aubrey caught the snitch well before he Hufflepuff Seeker even had a chance to see it and won the match a mere 250 points to 100 points. The day before Christmas Break was possibly one of the worst of Harry's life. He missed all of his classes and even the potions didn't help with his morning sickness. Harry's stomach now had a small, but definite bulge that showed he was either gaining weight or pregnant but well hidden by the robes he wore.
Severus had given Harry every potion he knew of that he thought safe for Harry to take to help but it seemed nothing would help. Madam Pomfrey came down to their rooms to check on Harry but refused to move him to the hospital wing, surprising both Harry and Severus in doing so. She insisted when asked, "He's comfortable, and he's in rooms that have become his home over the past few months. That's more comfort than I can offer when the Potions aren't working anyway."
Severus had gone to class that day through the floo network at school, leaving Harry with Sirius to help him through out the day. The entire castle seemed to sense something was wrong with Harry, as no one had ever seen Severus in such a bad mood. Severus gave four third year Hufflepuffs detentions, bellowed at his first year Ravenclaw/Hufflepuff class for the entire period, and given his entire Slytherin/Gryffindor fifth year class detentions, with points being taken off from both houses.
At lunch Severus locked the classroom and flooed back to their rooms only to find Harry asleep, with Sirius sitting next to him with a cool washrag that he was gently applying to Harry's forehead. Severus breathed a slight sigh of relief and asked Sirius, "Is he feeling any better at all?"
Sirius shook his head, "He passed out from all this. It's been non-stop since you left Severus. Before he passed out he was swearing he'd cut off your balls for putting him through today."
Severus smiled and said, "Yes, well I think he'll have to get in line behind the rest of the school."
Sirius snorted, "How many detentions have you given out today?"
Severus's grin became somewhat disturbing as he explained that he'd just given Harry's entire Potions class detention. Sirius found it helplessly hilarious, and only stopped laughing when someone knocked on the Portrait to Harry and Severus's rooms. Severus frowned, "If that's a Student they're getting detention. Yell if he wakes up will you?"
Sirius just nodded as Severus left to answer the door, what greeted him being far worse then a Student, or even a Death Eater. Standing there was Cornelius Fudge flanked by four Aurors, Albus and Minerva standing beside him glaring at Fudge and the Aurors. Severus growled, "You had better have a good reason to be here, my husband is ill and trying to recover in the next room."
One of the Aurors sneered right back, "And just what have you done to the poor boy Snape?"
Albus cut off any response Severus might have said with, "Severus has done nothing to Harry that both parties weren't consenting of. As his Great- Grandparents, Minerva and I personally agreed to the marriage and bonding, and Harry entered both willingly."
Cornelius shifted slightly under the weight of Albus's gaze and said, "Be that as it may Dumbledore, we still need to question the boy regarding the matter. Now Severus I'm sure you don't mind kindly moving aside so that we can talk with Harry ourselves?"
Severus mentally called out to Harry in a shout, 'HARRY! GET YOUR GODFATHER OUT OF OUR ROOMS! FUDGE IS HERE WITH AURORS!'
Severus glared at Cornelius trying to give Harry a small bit of time and said, "You can come in, and sit here in the sitting room and wait until Harry's good and ready to talk to you. If you so much as upset him while you're here I'll throw you out of our home faster then you can get your wands out."
Severus moved aside to let them in, Albus and Minerva both glancing at him apologetically. The Minister and the Aurors sat down in front of the fire while Albus conjured and offered everyone tea. Severus heard Harry mentally saying to him, 'What do you mean Fudge is here? Sirius flooed to his and Remus's rooms, but I'm not talking to that idiot today. I'll likely tell him exactly what I think of him.'
Severus tried not to grin as he closed the entrance to their rooms and walked into their room to help Harry make himself presentable and responded mentally, 'I think Albus, Minerva and myself would find that highly entertaining, Mon amour.'
Harry smiled up at Severus when he came in and said, "You'll have to help me into some other clo..."
Severus cut him off, "If they're invading our personal space you have a right to look any way you damn well please Harry. They want to talk to you about the marriage and bonding."
Harry shook his head and said, "I suppose people have been telling the Minister that I've been cursed or had some sort of Dark Magic put on me to agree to it. I'll talk to the idiot but only for five minutes and then I'm lying back down. I refuse to be ill in front of that many people, family is one thing, people who could sell the story to the Daily Prophet is another."
Severus chuckled and helped Harry to stand, gently kissing him and asking, "Do you feel any better at all?"
Harry smiled a bit and said, "I was until you mentioned the words 'Fudge' and 'here' in the same sentence. Let's get this over with though, shall we Caro?"
Severus smiled and wrapped an arm around Harry who wrapped one arm around Severus and gently placed one hand on his stomach that was making it somewhat obvious that Harry was pregnant. They slowly made their way out to the room with everyone else, Minerva immediately getting up to help Severus support Harry. Harry just blushed and said, "Really I don't need you two helping me walk, I'm just a little under the weather, that's all."
Minerva bristled, "A little! Why I never-I'll have you know Harry James Dumbledore-Evans-Potter-Snape, a little does not mean that none of your own husbands potions work to make you feel better!"
The Minister suddenly looked interested and concerned at the same time and said, "None of the potions work? What are you taking potions for my dear boy? Are you going to be alright?"
Harry gave Fudge the same stare he had given Hermione the day of his and Severus's marriage and bonding ceremony that would have put any basilisk to shame and sneered, "Only if you have a cure for pregnancy, Minister and I'll have you know I was feeling much better until Severus mentioned your name and the words 'here to speak to you' in the same sentence."
A few of the Aurors looked at one another as if what Harry just said confirmed something they suspected as Fudge blinked and squeaked out a barely audible, "Pregnancy?"
Harry nodded and looked as though he would love nothing more then to mutter the killing curse in the Minister's direction before responding, "Yes, Severus and I are expecting twins sometime in late May."
Severus mentally asked Harry, 'Are you alright love?'
Harry would have smiled at the concern if he hadn't been so utterly pissed off at every person in the room save Severus for letting the Minister within the same building as he was before responding, 'Yes, Caro.'
Minerva and Severus helped Harry to sit down in one of the couches, settling him next to the Headmaster as Severus sat down on the other side of him and Minerva sat on the other side of Albus. Harry glared at the other occupants of the room before saying, "Well? Get on with it, I want to be back in bed resting within ten minutes if you don't mind."
One of the Aurors said, "Now see here Mr. Potter, we're here..."
Harry cut him off, "My name is Mr. Potter-Snape thank you kindly. Say it correctly or get the hell out of my home and stop insulting me."
The Auror looked thoroughly pissed off before continuing venom dripping from his voice, "Mr. Potter-Snape, we're here because we've received several anonymous tips that there's been Dark Magic involved in coercing you to marry and bond to Snape here. Considering that he was in league..."
Harry cut him off here, "With the light side spying for Professor Dumbledore himself. If you finish that sentence any other way I'll hex you into oblivion for insulting my husband within our home and assuming that he's automatically a Wizard of an evil nature because he did what few people had the balls to do and that was to penetrate Voldemort's group from the inside just as we have another spy doing for us now."
Fudge was officially out of control at that remark and stood yelling at Harry, "NOW SEE HERE! THERE HAS BEEN NO RE-BIRTH OF YOU-KNOW-WHO! THE FOUR OF YOU ARE JUST TRYING TO STIR THINGS UP! MAKE SURE THAT NO ONE IS HAPPY! YOU SIMPLY WANT THE PUBLICITY! MAKE YOU A BIGGER..."
Harry stood up rather suddenly eyes flashing dangerously before anyone could say anything and pulled up his sleeve to reveal the hook marked scar showing where his blood had been taking and yelled right back, "AND JUST HOW IN THE BLOODY HELL DID I GET THIS SCAR MINISTER? LET ME TELL YOU, YOU COMPLETE AND UDDER IDIOT! PETER PETTIGREW CUT MY ARM HIMSELF, DRAINED BLOOD FROM THE CUT TO USE IN A DARK POTION TO REVIVE VOLDEMORT FROM SPIRIT FORM TO A BODY, TOGETHER THEY CALLED A CIRCLE OF DEATH EATERS, A LIST OF WHICH I GAVE YOU THE LAST TIME YOU WERE HERE, MALFOY, NOTT, CRABBE, GOYLE, AVERY AND PETTIGREW! BUT YOU WON'T EVEN LISTEN TO MY OWN GODFATHER'S INNOCENCE! YOU WON'T EVEN OFFER A TRUTH SERUM TO FIND OUT WHETHER OR NOT HE'S TRULY GUILTY! YOU'RE MORE CONCERNED WITH SAVING YOUR OWN POLITICAL ASS THAN SEEING THE TRUTH THAT'S RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOUR OWN FACE! EVERY MURDER THAT HAPPENS UNTIL YOU ADMIT THE TRUTH IS ON YOUR HEAD FUDGE! NOW GET THE HELL OUT OF MY ROOMS!"
Severus, Albus and Minerva were now standing by Harry's side, Severus with an arm wrapped around Harry and all three of them glaring daggers at every other occupant of the room. Fudge was about to say something else when Albus spoke in a deadly tone that Harry had never heard before but felt the shivers it sent up his spine. "Minister, if you cause my great-grandson anymore undue stress while he's in a highly emotional and hormonal pregnancy and that undue stress causes him to lose my great-great- grandchildren, not even Merlin himself will be able to keep you in your office when I talk to the press myself."
Minerva cast a look of disgust at Fudge and added on in just as deadly a voice, "I highly suggest you take your pathetic group of idiots and get the hell out of this room, Minister."
Fudge gritted his teeth stood, motioning for his Aurors to follow him out of the room and said, "Fine, we're leaving, but we'll be back."
Minerva followed them and slammed the door nearly catching the last idiot's foot as he walked out. Albus looked at Severus and said, "Will you be able to teach the rest of the day?"
Severus shook his head and Albus nodded, "I'll cancel classes then. Minerva, shall we go have a chat with a few reporters? Oh and Severus, Harry, would you mind terribly if I announced the pregnancy?"
Severus, realizing that Albus was about to make good on his threat to Fudge grinned and said, "Feel free to, but if you could merely arrange that for tomorrow so that I might have a chance to let Draco inform Voldemort first. I'd rather he be able to be viewed as a faithful servant and that is rather important news that he'll have been expected to find out before the papers and public do."
Albus grinned, "Well that'll work out well. Harry do let us know if we can help with anything and get some rest both of you. I'll send Dobby down here with some dinner for you both."
Albus and Minerva both left then, looking more pissed off than the rest of Hogwarts had ever seen. Severus just helped Harry back into their bedroom, where they laid on the bed until shortly after dinner when Remus, Sirius, Albus and Minerva came in. Severus sent an owl shortly after Albus and Minerva left earlier that day to Draco telling him to write his Father and Voldemort immediately with the news of the pregnancy as it would be in the papers soon.
The small group spent all night discussing what they would tell Rita the following morning, who had been delighted to know that she would be announcing something to the Wizarding World exclusively and that no other reporter would know before she did. After a while Severus decided he would owl his family regarding the pregnancy so that they would know before the papers as well.
When the article did run, two days later, Severus and Harry read it in bed relishing in the chance to just be alone with one another and not have to run off to go to classes or deal with anyone other then one another. Remus and Sirius came by shortly later reading the article themselves and loving every word of it. Albus and Minerva were literally glowing they were so ecstatic with the article, and both bought Rita Skeeter a rather large expensive thank you present that was disguised as a Christmas gift.
Harry Potter-Snape, Pregnant!
Written by: Rita Skeeter
This reporter is bringing you first hand news that no other reporter has access to. Harry Potter-Snape and his husband Severus Snape have been married since the 7th of September of this year are pregnant for the first time, due in early June of this upcoming year. The couple is expecting twins, both are thrilled and happily awaiting the birth of their first children.
When Harry and I were speaking he was practically radiating the sheer joy of expecting two children. When I asked him how he felt about the pregnancy he responded, "I couldn't be happier than I am now, while pregnancy means that I do have to sit out during Quidditch matches for the rest of the year, I'm thrilled to know that I'll have a family with Severus in a few short months."
Harry is the Gryffindor Quidditch Team Captain, and regular Seeker. However at the last game, third-year Aubrey Keifer filled in for Harry as he was unable to due to the pregnancy. Keifer will continue to fill in for the rest of the year under Harry's strict coaching, and take over the post once Harry graduates from Hogwarts. Harry is however still leading the practices and helping the team coordinate for matches.
When I asked Severus how he feels about his husband's pregnancy, I was graced to see that marriage seems to be doing something to the Hogwarts Potions Professor. He smiled and responded, "I'm eagerly awaiting the birth of the twins, and sharing a family with my husband."
The Headmaster and Deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts, Harry's great- grandparents both expressed their joy over Harry's pregnancy and the impending arrival of twins at Hogwarts. Until Severus mentioned the recent stop in his involvement in spying for the Headmaster in you-know-who's ranks, due to the marriage and the pregnancy. I watched, stunned as Headmaster Albus Dumbledore looked angrier than I have ever seen him in my lifetime. Harry apologized for his great-grandfather and husband stating, "They're still upset by a recent visit from the Minister who was here just yesterday to question myself regarding my marriage and bonding to Severus."
Before being able to even ask what he was referring to, Albus Dumbledore himself informed me of my un-asked question. He simply stated, "Harry, be honest with the reporter, the Minister came here with the intention of upsetting my great-grandson with no regard at all towards Harry's state. When we told the Minister AND his Aurors that Harry was pregnant they headed no caution and managed to put him in a worse state then he was already in!"
When I inquired further on the matter, Minerva McGonagall informed me, "The Minister refuses to accept that you-know-who has returned, regardless of how many times Harry offers to take the truth serums to prove that he is not lying about the seriousness of the issue. He has accused all four of us of trying to start a panic, when all we want is for the Minister to open his eyes and see what's right in front of him. At the very least the man could well enough conduct an investigation instead of ignoring a very serious problem. If he's allowed to continue in this manner he'll get all of us killed for turning a blind eye!"
Harry however had a much different take on the situation at hand, and informed me that he has not only given the Minister a list of Death Eaters he saw return to you-know-who that night, but is continually referred to by the Minister himself as mentally deranged, becoming a Dark Wizard himself or having hallucinations. None of which, according to the Hogwarts Hospital Matron is true.
Harry also said, "It's like what someone once told me, 'It's not the wand that makes the Wizard Dark, it's the Wizard himself that's Dark.' When the students at Hogwarts found out that I'm a Parselmouth the entire school turned on me, proclaiming me the Heir of Slytherin, which mind you is impossible as Voldemort is the last Heir and I'm not related to the bastard. Now the Minister, like the ignorant students at Hogwarts holding childish ideas of me suddenly becoming a Dark Wizard, becoming the very thing that stole my parents and a happy childhood from me, just because I have opened my eyes to see the war that is starting as we speak that the Minister refuses to see."
It was at this point in the interview that Severus had to take Harry back to their rooms at Hogwarts to calm down. Albus and Minerva went on to explain that the day before when the Minister and the four Aurors came to Hogwarts Harry had been ill all morning and unable to attend classes due to the pregnancy, and when they finally got to Harry they managed to upset Harry to the point of almost needing to go to St. Mungo's for assistance so as not to lose the twins Harry is pregnant with.
I of course asked to speak with the Hogwarts Medi-Witch Poppy Pomfrey regarding Harry's condition only to find that she was near hysterically livid with as she said, "The utterly incompetent Minister of Magic and his bloody Aurors that can't see when they're endangering a pregnancy! For a moment I thought Harry was going to lose the babies! Can you imagine? The poor dear has lost so much already, his parents, almost all of his extended family, family friends, and now nearly losing his children! I have never been so disgusted in all my life with the Ministry of Magic for allowing and inflicting more pain and suffering on a boy that we've all looked at as a hero with no regard whatsoever to the losses that he has suffered as a price of that fame. Took me two hours to get the poor boy calm enough to be able to help him at all! He wouldn't stop rattling on about the Minister and the Aurors and not wanting to see the truth. I haven't seen the boy so distraught in all my life, and I personally checked him before he was sent to his Aunt and Uncles after that Halloween night those years ago. If the Minister had still been here when I was helping Harry I would have hexed him myself for upsetting the boy like that!"
I have a strong feeling she would have gone on had a Quidditch practice accident not taken her attention elsewhere. I, for one, cannot believe that our Minister of Magic would willingly and knowingly inflict torment on a boy who has already been through so much. I only hope that the Minister leaves Harry and Severus alone throughout the rest of the pregnancy, if for nothing else than for the safety of their unborn children. I wish Harry, Severus and their happily awaited children the best of luck in surviving the ignorance of the Minister of Magic, and in their new lives.
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