A/N: Well I'm definitely glad that you guys like this new story and you had
better believe that there'll be some Sevvie with dirty nappie action ;-)
Now for the rest of you guys and your questions you'll just have to read to
find out what happens. Sorry for being evil like that but that's my right
as the author ;-) :-P So thanks so much for all of your nice comments and
I'm so sorry for the delay but my laptop has been having issues and
problems for the past week and now I've finally figured it out and gotten
it up and running semi-normally so here's the next chapter. ENJOY!!!!!!
Chapter 2
Lily was released a couple of days later with Harry. Even though the boy was born full term it was blatantly obvious that he had inherited his mother's petiteness. Lily as a 21 year old was only 5'3" and about 100 pounds now that her pregnancy was over. Severus on the other hand was quite tall at 6' even and weighed about 150 pounds (a/n: for you brits and people who go by stones that's about 7 and a quarter and a little over 10 stones even respectively)
Harry was positively tiny at only 17" and only a little over 6 pounds (a/n: little less than half a stone.) You would think that Harry was premature because he was so small. But he wasn't by any means. In fact he was a week late.
Severus and Lily arrived at the manor, opting to take a muggle taxi since it was not practical to apparate or travel by floo. Thankfully Lily being the muggleborn that she was, had a driver's license and a car so at least they'd be able to get around easily while Harry was still a baby. In fact Lily had promised Severus that she would teach him to drive after Harry was born.
Upon arrival at the manor Severus and Lily made their way up to the nursery. Harry was dead asleep in his mother's arms. They walked into the nursery decorated in blue, green, red and yellow. They walked past the crib and over to the bassinette that was tucked over in the corner and gently set the tiny infant in it and covered him up with a fuzzy light blue blanket.
The two young adults stood at the foot of the bassinette watching their baby sleep. Severus put his arm around Lily's waist and said,
"Merlin look at him. I can't believe he's actually here. He looks like his mother."
Lily chuckled a little, smiled and said,
"He looks like his father as well."
Severus smirked and said, "Yes he does, doesn't he?"
Severus leaned down and captured his wife's lips in a sweet little kiss and they crept from the room. They still had to owl their friends and family to tell them that they were home with Harry. Soon they knew their manor was going to be overrun with people and they had to get ready for it.
Two weeks later Snape Manor was playing host to Sirius, Remus and James. Also Lily's year mates Caroline and Marina were there. The manor was bustling and the many house elves were kept very busy catering to the many guests.
Harry didn't know what to make of all the attention he was getting, he just knew that there were a lot of people and he didn't like the attention. He quickly demonstrated just how healthy a set of lungs he had when everybody constantly crowded around him. After he let loose the first mighty wail the others got the picture.
The week long visit after that consisted of quietly sitting around and whenever Harry was actually awake being passed around the group. Definitely not crowding the tiny, temperamental infant.
Lily and Severus had decided to name James Harry's godfather. The end of the visit was supposed to be Harry's christening. Lily had been raised in a very religious home and had a very deep and firm belief in God. She had convinced Severus to do the muggle tradition of christening Harry. They would also to do the official ceremony of the oath and bonding of Godparents. Lily and Severus had agreed that Caroline would be Harry's Godmother. This was because Caroline was Lily's closest friend while in Hogwarts. Practically like sisters those two were. Severus had had a good scowl when he found out what Harry was to wear for the christening though. His exact words were,
"I will not have my son wearing a dress and looking like a girl.
Lily promtly shot back with,
"Really? Because I know for a fact that my nephew wore the same thing at his christening and my cousins for that matter. It's almost like a robe."
"But Lily it has LACE on it! Couldn't we find something laceless?!"
Lily let out a frustrated sigh and said with puppy dog eyes,
"If you really want but my grandmother made this and I don't want to hurt her feelings by not using it. It would mean a lot to her if her great grandson wore this."
Under that gaze Severus completely caved and said,
"That look will be the death of me. All right, for your grandmother."
Lily squealed and jumped up to peck Severus on the cheek and said,
"Thank you Love."
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The day of the christening came along with the arrival of Lily's grandparents. (a/n: sorry but I don't know anything about christening ceremonies or anything like that so I'm just going to skim over it. Sorry) The ceremony was beautiful and afterwards of course a small gathering was held at Snape Manor. The day after the christening the manor was empty of all guests. Little Harry couldn't have been happier to just have his parents and not all those annoying people around. It was very tiring for a baby.
The next few months passed by with relative ease. Harry was a very mild mannered baby, definitely taking after his mother in that. Though on occassion he did show that he had inherited his father's temper. There was darkness that reigned over the happy family. Voldemort was starting to become suspicious of Severus and Severus knew it. Voldemort had gotten wind that Harry had been born and he was not pleased that Severus kept that little tidbit of information from his 'Lord.' The torture session for that night was one of the worst that ever happened and Severus had to spend 2 days in the hospital wing at Hogwarts. As soon as Albus had informed her, Lily and Harry were instantly there.
Harry had a very close relationship with his father. He couldn't bear to be far away from the man when he knew that he was supposed to be there. Even though Harry was still very young he had a set routine and schedule that he knew very well. He knew when his mommy and daddy were supposed to be there. He even knew his house elf very well. Since Lily had gone back to work Harry had a house elf that was assigned specifically to take care of Harry. It was like having a nanny for some muggle families. Harry got along very well with all of the house elves. He had a very even temperament and for the most part was a very happy baby and easily entertained.
More time passed and it was time for Christmas. Severus and Lily had opted to have a nice quiet Christmas at home with no visitors or traveling anywhere. Severus and Lily both had family traditions, which actually turned out to be the same. Christmas Eve found Severus, Lily and not quite 5 month old Harry sitting in the private lounge tucked back into one of the far recesses of the massive mansion.
Severus and Lily were both playing with Harry on the floor with several toys. Harry was thoroughly enjoying the attention from his parents. He was cooing and gurgling away happily. Harry had just finished his supper and now it was time for him to open his one present (or have a present opened for him) and go to bed.
Harry started making grabbing motions from his mother's lap at the brightly wrapped box that his daddy was bringing towards him. It was wrapped in red paper and a bright silver bow to top it off. Severus couldn't help but smile and chuckle at his son's antics and sat down next to his wife and said,
"So you wanna see what's inside Harry?"
An indignant screech was the response Severus got. Severus snorted and said as he unwrapped the present,
"All right Harry, I heard you. Don't get your nappies in a twist."
Severus opened the box to reveal a large (at least from harry's point of view), plush, green snake. It seemed that Harry had been satisfied withthe silver bow that he was now happily chewing on. Severus grinned and plucked the bow from his son's grasp and promptly traded it for the stuffed animal that Harry seemed even more satisfied with. Harry did a couple of experimental squeezes and pets then promptly put the end of the snake in his mouth which was his signal that he liked it. Severus and Lily smiled and took the happily chewing Harry upstairs to the nursery and settled him into his crib. Exhausted from the day Harry fell right asleep with his new toy clutched close to himself.
Severus and Lily smiled and crept from the room and went back downstairs to eat their dinner and enjoy their Christmas Eve. Severus had given Lily a beautiful gold and emerald bracelet to open that night. Lily had given Severus a handsome silver pocket watch with a picture of Lily and Harry on the opposite flap. On the back of the watch it had engraved in it 'To my dearest Severus on our first Christmas as a family.'
After they were done downstairs Severus and Lily retreated to their room. The Lord must have been on their side that night because Harry only woke up twice that night. Once needing a bottle and the other needing his diaper changed. Severus and Lily were woken up the next morning by the sound of their son squealing, gurgling and cooing through the baby monitor that Lily had insisted they get even though it was completely muggle.
They went into Harry's room and got the little boy, changed his nappy and went downstairs to get Harry's bottle. Harry was fed his bottle and bowl of mush that Lily swore was rice cereal while Severus worked on passing out the vast amount of presents that were under the tree, most of which were for Harry of course. Severus and Lily had both resolved that even though they were wealthy that Harry would not be spoiled rotten and given everything he wanted.
The gift opening commenced after Harry had eaten. Mostly Harry got stuffed animals, toys and clothes. Severus had gotten Lily some things that she had been wanting, which was mostly clothes, pictures in frames, artwork and jewelry that he would know that she would love. Lily had gotten Severus things sort of along the same lines. Severus had one last surprise for Lily though. After all of the gifts had been opened and Harry had dropped off for a morning nap in his muggle swinging chair Severus said,
"Sweetheart I have one last surprise for you. I was talking to Albus after the last time I was summoned and he mentioned to me that our old potions professor is retiring after this term and offered me the job for next September."
Lily's eyes widened in surprise and happiness and launched herself at her husband and kissed him fully and passionately on the lips. After they broke it off she said,
"Oh Sev I am so proud and happy for you. You have been working for years trying to get this position and now it's happening. So I'm to assume that you'll be at Hogwarts except for Christmas and Summer Holidays while Harry and I stay here?"
Severus looked slightly uneasy and said,
"That's only partially true. Albus offered me the job because he wants me close to him. We have reason to believe that Voldemort knows that I'm married to you. He never knew who Harry's mother was, just that he was born."
Lily got a slightly confused look in her eyes and said,
"What are you getting at Sev?"
"I'm saying that you know how the Dark Lord feels about muggle borns. Especially how he feels about a muggle born marrying a pureblood. Albus and I have been formulating a plan to make it look like we had been married but you left me over discovering my mark and took Harry with you. We think that you'd be best going into hiding with James since he's already planning on it. Make it look like you two had gotten married and James had adopted Harry as his son."
Severus paused for a moment and continued as he saw the shocked expression on Lily's face.
"Of course none of this will happen, we'll just make it look like it. I only want you and Harry to be safe. I'll be perfectly safe while I'm at Hogwarts and you would be perfectly safe with James. Albus and I have already spoken to him and he has agreed to it. You know he thinks of you practically as a little sister. Besides he's Harry's Godfather and Harry already knows him. Now none of this would really happen for a while but I wanted to talk about it with you now."
Lily stayed silent for a few minutes and said as she put her arm around her husbands shoulders,
"You're absolutely right Love. This war is getting nasty and I have known for a while now that the Dark Lord would probably kill us all if he found out I was married to you. It's already clear that you and Albus have got this worked out so I have no problem, as long as I know you're safe then that's all that matters."
Severus cracked a weak smile and put a small, sweet kiss on Lily's lips and said,
"I love you more than anything in this world and beyond."
Lily smiled and said, "And I the same."
Just then Harry woke up with a little squeal and the rest of the day was whiled away with playing with Harry and his new toys, eating, and napping.
A/N: Well I decided to stop it there because I'm plum fresh out of ideas for now and have been working on this sucker off and on for a little over a day now and decided that seemed like a good stopping space. Now you all should know the drill by now when it comes to pushing that little 'go' button and leaving me a NICE review (NO FLAMES) and telling me what you think and encouraging me to write more and faster. Hopefully my laptop won't give me any more problems and I'll be able to get the next chapter out sooner than this one. It all depends on my schedule and my laptop though. So REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!! TTFN all!
Chapter 2
Lily was released a couple of days later with Harry. Even though the boy was born full term it was blatantly obvious that he had inherited his mother's petiteness. Lily as a 21 year old was only 5'3" and about 100 pounds now that her pregnancy was over. Severus on the other hand was quite tall at 6' even and weighed about 150 pounds (a/n: for you brits and people who go by stones that's about 7 and a quarter and a little over 10 stones even respectively)
Harry was positively tiny at only 17" and only a little over 6 pounds (a/n: little less than half a stone.) You would think that Harry was premature because he was so small. But he wasn't by any means. In fact he was a week late.
Severus and Lily arrived at the manor, opting to take a muggle taxi since it was not practical to apparate or travel by floo. Thankfully Lily being the muggleborn that she was, had a driver's license and a car so at least they'd be able to get around easily while Harry was still a baby. In fact Lily had promised Severus that she would teach him to drive after Harry was born.
Upon arrival at the manor Severus and Lily made their way up to the nursery. Harry was dead asleep in his mother's arms. They walked into the nursery decorated in blue, green, red and yellow. They walked past the crib and over to the bassinette that was tucked over in the corner and gently set the tiny infant in it and covered him up with a fuzzy light blue blanket.
The two young adults stood at the foot of the bassinette watching their baby sleep. Severus put his arm around Lily's waist and said,
"Merlin look at him. I can't believe he's actually here. He looks like his mother."
Lily chuckled a little, smiled and said,
"He looks like his father as well."
Severus smirked and said, "Yes he does, doesn't he?"
Severus leaned down and captured his wife's lips in a sweet little kiss and they crept from the room. They still had to owl their friends and family to tell them that they were home with Harry. Soon they knew their manor was going to be overrun with people and they had to get ready for it.
Two weeks later Snape Manor was playing host to Sirius, Remus and James. Also Lily's year mates Caroline and Marina were there. The manor was bustling and the many house elves were kept very busy catering to the many guests.
Harry didn't know what to make of all the attention he was getting, he just knew that there were a lot of people and he didn't like the attention. He quickly demonstrated just how healthy a set of lungs he had when everybody constantly crowded around him. After he let loose the first mighty wail the others got the picture.
The week long visit after that consisted of quietly sitting around and whenever Harry was actually awake being passed around the group. Definitely not crowding the tiny, temperamental infant.
Lily and Severus had decided to name James Harry's godfather. The end of the visit was supposed to be Harry's christening. Lily had been raised in a very religious home and had a very deep and firm belief in God. She had convinced Severus to do the muggle tradition of christening Harry. They would also to do the official ceremony of the oath and bonding of Godparents. Lily and Severus had agreed that Caroline would be Harry's Godmother. This was because Caroline was Lily's closest friend while in Hogwarts. Practically like sisters those two were. Severus had had a good scowl when he found out what Harry was to wear for the christening though. His exact words were,
"I will not have my son wearing a dress and looking like a girl.
Lily promtly shot back with,
"Really? Because I know for a fact that my nephew wore the same thing at his christening and my cousins for that matter. It's almost like a robe."
"But Lily it has LACE on it! Couldn't we find something laceless?!"
Lily let out a frustrated sigh and said with puppy dog eyes,
"If you really want but my grandmother made this and I don't want to hurt her feelings by not using it. It would mean a lot to her if her great grandson wore this."
Under that gaze Severus completely caved and said,
"That look will be the death of me. All right, for your grandmother."
Lily squealed and jumped up to peck Severus on the cheek and said,
"Thank you Love."
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The day of the christening came along with the arrival of Lily's grandparents. (a/n: sorry but I don't know anything about christening ceremonies or anything like that so I'm just going to skim over it. Sorry) The ceremony was beautiful and afterwards of course a small gathering was held at Snape Manor. The day after the christening the manor was empty of all guests. Little Harry couldn't have been happier to just have his parents and not all those annoying people around. It was very tiring for a baby.
The next few months passed by with relative ease. Harry was a very mild mannered baby, definitely taking after his mother in that. Though on occassion he did show that he had inherited his father's temper. There was darkness that reigned over the happy family. Voldemort was starting to become suspicious of Severus and Severus knew it. Voldemort had gotten wind that Harry had been born and he was not pleased that Severus kept that little tidbit of information from his 'Lord.' The torture session for that night was one of the worst that ever happened and Severus had to spend 2 days in the hospital wing at Hogwarts. As soon as Albus had informed her, Lily and Harry were instantly there.
Harry had a very close relationship with his father. He couldn't bear to be far away from the man when he knew that he was supposed to be there. Even though Harry was still very young he had a set routine and schedule that he knew very well. He knew when his mommy and daddy were supposed to be there. He even knew his house elf very well. Since Lily had gone back to work Harry had a house elf that was assigned specifically to take care of Harry. It was like having a nanny for some muggle families. Harry got along very well with all of the house elves. He had a very even temperament and for the most part was a very happy baby and easily entertained.
More time passed and it was time for Christmas. Severus and Lily had opted to have a nice quiet Christmas at home with no visitors or traveling anywhere. Severus and Lily both had family traditions, which actually turned out to be the same. Christmas Eve found Severus, Lily and not quite 5 month old Harry sitting in the private lounge tucked back into one of the far recesses of the massive mansion.
Severus and Lily were both playing with Harry on the floor with several toys. Harry was thoroughly enjoying the attention from his parents. He was cooing and gurgling away happily. Harry had just finished his supper and now it was time for him to open his one present (or have a present opened for him) and go to bed.
Harry started making grabbing motions from his mother's lap at the brightly wrapped box that his daddy was bringing towards him. It was wrapped in red paper and a bright silver bow to top it off. Severus couldn't help but smile and chuckle at his son's antics and sat down next to his wife and said,
"So you wanna see what's inside Harry?"
An indignant screech was the response Severus got. Severus snorted and said as he unwrapped the present,
"All right Harry, I heard you. Don't get your nappies in a twist."
Severus opened the box to reveal a large (at least from harry's point of view), plush, green snake. It seemed that Harry had been satisfied withthe silver bow that he was now happily chewing on. Severus grinned and plucked the bow from his son's grasp and promptly traded it for the stuffed animal that Harry seemed even more satisfied with. Harry did a couple of experimental squeezes and pets then promptly put the end of the snake in his mouth which was his signal that he liked it. Severus and Lily smiled and took the happily chewing Harry upstairs to the nursery and settled him into his crib. Exhausted from the day Harry fell right asleep with his new toy clutched close to himself.
Severus and Lily smiled and crept from the room and went back downstairs to eat their dinner and enjoy their Christmas Eve. Severus had given Lily a beautiful gold and emerald bracelet to open that night. Lily had given Severus a handsome silver pocket watch with a picture of Lily and Harry on the opposite flap. On the back of the watch it had engraved in it 'To my dearest Severus on our first Christmas as a family.'
After they were done downstairs Severus and Lily retreated to their room. The Lord must have been on their side that night because Harry only woke up twice that night. Once needing a bottle and the other needing his diaper changed. Severus and Lily were woken up the next morning by the sound of their son squealing, gurgling and cooing through the baby monitor that Lily had insisted they get even though it was completely muggle.
They went into Harry's room and got the little boy, changed his nappy and went downstairs to get Harry's bottle. Harry was fed his bottle and bowl of mush that Lily swore was rice cereal while Severus worked on passing out the vast amount of presents that were under the tree, most of which were for Harry of course. Severus and Lily had both resolved that even though they were wealthy that Harry would not be spoiled rotten and given everything he wanted.
The gift opening commenced after Harry had eaten. Mostly Harry got stuffed animals, toys and clothes. Severus had gotten Lily some things that she had been wanting, which was mostly clothes, pictures in frames, artwork and jewelry that he would know that she would love. Lily had gotten Severus things sort of along the same lines. Severus had one last surprise for Lily though. After all of the gifts had been opened and Harry had dropped off for a morning nap in his muggle swinging chair Severus said,
"Sweetheart I have one last surprise for you. I was talking to Albus after the last time I was summoned and he mentioned to me that our old potions professor is retiring after this term and offered me the job for next September."
Lily's eyes widened in surprise and happiness and launched herself at her husband and kissed him fully and passionately on the lips. After they broke it off she said,
"Oh Sev I am so proud and happy for you. You have been working for years trying to get this position and now it's happening. So I'm to assume that you'll be at Hogwarts except for Christmas and Summer Holidays while Harry and I stay here?"
Severus looked slightly uneasy and said,
"That's only partially true. Albus offered me the job because he wants me close to him. We have reason to believe that Voldemort knows that I'm married to you. He never knew who Harry's mother was, just that he was born."
Lily got a slightly confused look in her eyes and said,
"What are you getting at Sev?"
"I'm saying that you know how the Dark Lord feels about muggle borns. Especially how he feels about a muggle born marrying a pureblood. Albus and I have been formulating a plan to make it look like we had been married but you left me over discovering my mark and took Harry with you. We think that you'd be best going into hiding with James since he's already planning on it. Make it look like you two had gotten married and James had adopted Harry as his son."
Severus paused for a moment and continued as he saw the shocked expression on Lily's face.
"Of course none of this will happen, we'll just make it look like it. I only want you and Harry to be safe. I'll be perfectly safe while I'm at Hogwarts and you would be perfectly safe with James. Albus and I have already spoken to him and he has agreed to it. You know he thinks of you practically as a little sister. Besides he's Harry's Godfather and Harry already knows him. Now none of this would really happen for a while but I wanted to talk about it with you now."
Lily stayed silent for a few minutes and said as she put her arm around her husbands shoulders,
"You're absolutely right Love. This war is getting nasty and I have known for a while now that the Dark Lord would probably kill us all if he found out I was married to you. It's already clear that you and Albus have got this worked out so I have no problem, as long as I know you're safe then that's all that matters."
Severus cracked a weak smile and put a small, sweet kiss on Lily's lips and said,
"I love you more than anything in this world and beyond."
Lily smiled and said, "And I the same."
Just then Harry woke up with a little squeal and the rest of the day was whiled away with playing with Harry and his new toys, eating, and napping.
A/N: Well I decided to stop it there because I'm plum fresh out of ideas for now and have been working on this sucker off and on for a little over a day now and decided that seemed like a good stopping space. Now you all should know the drill by now when it comes to pushing that little 'go' button and leaving me a NICE review (NO FLAMES) and telling me what you think and encouraging me to write more and faster. Hopefully my laptop won't give me any more problems and I'll be able to get the next chapter out sooner than this one. It all depends on my schedule and my laptop though. So REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!! TTFN all!