Family Matters
Chapter Seven- a Gash & Garbled thoughts
Notes: I'M BACK!!!! Thanks to all who have reviewed. I am very sorry that I did not get a chance to update this story over the summer. but I was working at a summer camp, which kind of limited my access to the Internet. Also I moved into an apartment and I just managed to get my computer set back up and the Internet connected this week. I think I might have decided how I am going to "skip" to Harry's Hogwarts years, however if you still have an opinion on the shift, please review and let me know. Constructive Criticism is ultra welcome. Should have the next chapter up soon; since my calendar is pretty clear for the next week. Also, I will try to make the chapters a bit longer if I can, as a few people have mentioned that they would like more to read at a shot.
PS- Gryphnwng, there is a few reasons why I did not allow a year to pass although some of which I have not revealed all about yet. First, I wanted Harry to be a baby, not a toddler. I have little experience with toddlers and I just don't feel comfortable writing them yet. Second, an 'unknown' "something" which has not yet been revealed in any of the posted chapters. And Third, I think Voldemort was after the Potters because of Harry's powers, if that were true. why would he wait a whole year and three months before attacking. They were not under the fidelius alone for that Whole time, they would have gone crazy. At least. I would. "Hee hee. Crazy? I was crazy once. they locked me in the red room.."
OK back now. and on with the story.
+Front Yard (Potter Summer Home -Godric's Hollow-)++
October 31st 1980
With a 'pop' Albus Dumbledore and Rubeus Hagrid appeared on the lawn of the Potter's safe house in Godric's Hollow. Something had happened to James, Lily, or little Harry; and the charm around the hollow had fallen, and set off the alarms in his office back at Hogwarts. The house looked fine, if a little dark, but the front door was wide open. Albus approached the house, with his wand out and Hagrid behind him. As he stepped cautiously onto the stoop, he saw a pair of white-socked feet. Entering the house, he saw that it was James, dead on the floor, his eyes still open in shock. Hagrid gasped and sobbed behind him, at the loss of his young friend. Albus crouched and gently shut James' frigid eyelids and pocketed his past student's wand. Scanning the first floor he saw nothing amiss or out of place. He told Hagrid to go to London and tell the ministry of the attack, and told him he would meet him at Hogwarts after he checked upstairs.
He quickly found Lily and Harry on the floor in the nursery, Lily on her back, just like James (wand still in hand), although she had her 'free' hand holding Harry to her chest. He sadly had taken her wand from her hand and was shutting her eyes when the tiny dark-haired head on her chest turned, and looked up at him sadly. Harry was alive! Albus gently pried Harry from Lily's chilled grasp, and picked him up and checked him over, finding nothing wrong with him except for a bloody gash on the baby's forehead. Knowing that there was nothing else for him to do here since the Aurors would be arriving soon, he wrapped the cold baby in a thick fuzzy blanket from his crib, and carried him downstairs.Harry's lip began to tremble as Albus took them out on the lawn and apparated to his office's private un-warded closet, where he could take his short passage to the hospital wing to get Harry's forehead tended to.
+Mid-level Holding Cells (Ministry of Magic Suspect Interrogation Branch -Azkaban-)++
November 9th 1980
Albus Dumbledore walked down the halls of Azkaban with a heavier step that usual, not because of the loss of James and Lily Potter, and the orphaning of their young son; but because he had been unable to plead Severus' case till yesterday. The goodhearted Slytherin whom had volunteered his life at age 11 to join the Deatheaters and spy for the light, loosing his wife and unborn son in the process, had been imprisoned in Azkaban for 8 days. Only he, Lily, and Samantha knew of Severus' horrid childhood. Samantha and their son had been the only thing holding him together for the longest time. He feared Severus' condition; it was quite possible that Severus might have given up after 8 days of intense interrogation and close vicinity to dementors.
Rounding the last bend, he made himself lift his chin-up and act stronger than he felt for Severus' sake, but even Albus Dumbledore, the defeater of Grindewald, could not keep up the act when he saw Severus. The guard unlocked the cell and handed him the bag of Severus' personal effects. Albus set the bag on the floor and knelt next to Severus. He sighed, looking all his many years old, as he snagged the bag and gathered the broken young man in his arms. He carried Severus all the way to his quarters in the dungeons of Hogwarts, where he spent the most of four months nursing his 'child' back to health both physically and emotionally. Although he knew Severus would never be exactly the same again.
Notes: I'M BACK!!!! Thanks to all who have reviewed. I am very sorry that I did not get a chance to update this story over the summer. but I was working at a summer camp, which kind of limited my access to the Internet. Also I moved into an apartment and I just managed to get my computer set back up and the Internet connected this week. I think I might have decided how I am going to "skip" to Harry's Hogwarts years, however if you still have an opinion on the shift, please review and let me know. Constructive Criticism is ultra welcome. Should have the next chapter up soon; since my calendar is pretty clear for the next week. Also, I will try to make the chapters a bit longer if I can, as a few people have mentioned that they would like more to read at a shot.
PS- Gryphnwng, there is a few reasons why I did not allow a year to pass although some of which I have not revealed all about yet. First, I wanted Harry to be a baby, not a toddler. I have little experience with toddlers and I just don't feel comfortable writing them yet. Second, an 'unknown' "something" which has not yet been revealed in any of the posted chapters. And Third, I think Voldemort was after the Potters because of Harry's powers, if that were true. why would he wait a whole year and three months before attacking. They were not under the fidelius alone for that Whole time, they would have gone crazy. At least. I would. "Hee hee. Crazy? I was crazy once. they locked me in the red room.."
OK back now. and on with the story.
+Front Yard (Potter Summer Home -Godric's Hollow-)++
October 31st 1980
With a 'pop' Albus Dumbledore and Rubeus Hagrid appeared on the lawn of the Potter's safe house in Godric's Hollow. Something had happened to James, Lily, or little Harry; and the charm around the hollow had fallen, and set off the alarms in his office back at Hogwarts. The house looked fine, if a little dark, but the front door was wide open. Albus approached the house, with his wand out and Hagrid behind him. As he stepped cautiously onto the stoop, he saw a pair of white-socked feet. Entering the house, he saw that it was James, dead on the floor, his eyes still open in shock. Hagrid gasped and sobbed behind him, at the loss of his young friend. Albus crouched and gently shut James' frigid eyelids and pocketed his past student's wand. Scanning the first floor he saw nothing amiss or out of place. He told Hagrid to go to London and tell the ministry of the attack, and told him he would meet him at Hogwarts after he checked upstairs.
He quickly found Lily and Harry on the floor in the nursery, Lily on her back, just like James (wand still in hand), although she had her 'free' hand holding Harry to her chest. He sadly had taken her wand from her hand and was shutting her eyes when the tiny dark-haired head on her chest turned, and looked up at him sadly. Harry was alive! Albus gently pried Harry from Lily's chilled grasp, and picked him up and checked him over, finding nothing wrong with him except for a bloody gash on the baby's forehead. Knowing that there was nothing else for him to do here since the Aurors would be arriving soon, he wrapped the cold baby in a thick fuzzy blanket from his crib, and carried him downstairs.Harry's lip began to tremble as Albus took them out on the lawn and apparated to his office's private un-warded closet, where he could take his short passage to the hospital wing to get Harry's forehead tended to.
+Mid-level Holding Cells (Ministry of Magic Suspect Interrogation Branch -Azkaban-)++
November 9th 1980
Albus Dumbledore walked down the halls of Azkaban with a heavier step that usual, not because of the loss of James and Lily Potter, and the orphaning of their young son; but because he had been unable to plead Severus' case till yesterday. The goodhearted Slytherin whom had volunteered his life at age 11 to join the Deatheaters and spy for the light, loosing his wife and unborn son in the process, had been imprisoned in Azkaban for 8 days. Only he, Lily, and Samantha knew of Severus' horrid childhood. Samantha and their son had been the only thing holding him together for the longest time. He feared Severus' condition; it was quite possible that Severus might have given up after 8 days of intense interrogation and close vicinity to dementors.
Rounding the last bend, he made himself lift his chin-up and act stronger than he felt for Severus' sake, but even Albus Dumbledore, the defeater of Grindewald, could not keep up the act when he saw Severus. The guard unlocked the cell and handed him the bag of Severus' personal effects. Albus set the bag on the floor and knelt next to Severus. He sighed, looking all his many years old, as he snagged the bag and gathered the broken young man in his arms. He carried Severus all the way to his quarters in the dungeons of Hogwarts, where he spent the most of four months nursing his 'child' back to health both physically and emotionally. Although he knew Severus would never be exactly the same again.