CHAPTER 22: Snape and Draco
January 10, 2005
Snape looked at the young toddler sleeping with her head on his shoulder. He had almost had a heart attack, when his Slytherin, (son of Lucius Malfoy, Voldemor'ts second hand) Draco, sat at the house most Slytherin's hated the most, (Especially Draco), right next to his worst enemy. Something his father would kill him for, literally, if he found out. After weeks, of watching Draco spend most of his free time with the Gryffindor parents, it finally dawned on him. Dumbledore had said that Draco had been around, and had all the symptoms, of being pregnant. This was something he could not let get out. Draco was father to one of the babies. Things started to make sense after that and somehow Snape found he had a little more respect for the Potter boy, who he knew was taking care of Draco's child along with his own. It didn't take a genius to figure out which one was Draco's. The white streaks in her hair was a dead give-away. Snape had found himself watching Potter closer, he was quite surprised to see him take care of Lily, exactly like he did his other child. This did not make Snape like the boy, but now there was at least a very deep respect for him. With that in mind, Snape grabbed Lily, before anyone else could. Snape walked into the Slytherin house, and into the common room, where his students were walking around trying to get ready for the day. Draco noticed his favourite teacher looking at him, and quickly walked over to him, noticing Lily in his arms. Draco's eyes widen, as he practically ran over to the little girl, who smiled at seeing him. Snape motioned for him to walk out, which he did. They walked to Snape's office where Snape handed Draco the child once the door was shut behind them.
"Why do you have Lily, sir? What's wrong with Potter? Are the others okay?" Draco set the child on his knee, and bounced her up and down, much to the child's delight.
"Mr. Potter, Mrs. Granger, and both of the younger Weasley's were attacked last night. They will be out for a while. Some of the teachers have accepted to take care of the babies for them until they are well enough to do it themselves. Now, I have figured out, that Lily is your child?" Snape asked. Draco gulped, and nodded slightly. "That is why I took Lily. It will give you a chance to spend a little more time with your daughter. I will not tell your secret, rest assured. Now, take her to the Great Hall while I go over to the Gryffindor house and get the rest of her things. You would know better then I do about what she eats. Do not let her out of your sight no matter what! Do you understand?" Draco nodded and stood up. Putting the child against his chest he walked over to the door.
"Thank you, sir." Snape nodded and motioned the boy out. Draco left, shutting the door behind him. Snape sat back and sighed. He then got up, and went to see McGonagall, to get the child's things.
When he walked in to the Great Hall Snape found Draco sitting at the end of the Slytherin table with Lily in his lap eating their food. Lily was still learning how to eat without making a mess, so the food, needless to say, was covering everything. The Slytherin students were having fun playing with Lily when she threw food at them. Snape saw Dumbledore, helping John eat, and watching Draco closely, a twinkle in his eye, as he smiled and nodded at Snape. Snape nodded back, and pulled the high-chair over to Draco, where he set it up. Draco looked thankful, and placed Lily into it. When Draco had first walked in with a baby of one of the Gryffindors, it had been enough for the room to go quiet, and stare. Draco smiled, and yelled, "What? You've never seen a baby-sitter before?" Everyone just shrugged, and went on with their conversations. Draco smiled at Lily and sat down at his normal spot at his table. His friends around him started their questioning right away. Draco quickly told them that the parents were sick and that Snape had somehow been put in charge of taking care of Lily. Since he was taking care of Lily a lot anyways, Snape asked him to baby-sit for a while. He also made cracks about how at least one of the babies should experience good old Slytherin. This got cheers, and everything was right with the world.
"Can you handle this from here, while I go eat?" Draco nodded, making faces at Lily, who was giggling, loudly. "Good, I will take her after breakfast. She will stay with Dumbledore along with John and Julie, while classes are going on."
"Yes sir." Draco smiled. With that, Snape walked over to the teacher's table, and began to eat himself, keeping a careful eye at Lily, Draco, and their surroundings. Breakfast was almost over when suddenly all five babies around the Great Hall started screaming at the top of their lungs. Draco, pulled Lily out of her chair, quickly, and held her close, as he walked quickly to Snape. "Sir, something's not right...something's here." Draco whispered. Snape grabbed, Lily and walked over to Dumbledore and McGonagall, who were also trying to get their charges to calm down. Snape repeated what Draco had said to him, causing them both to look up sharply and look around. They did not see anything, and got up and walked into the door behind the teacher's table, where the babies quit crying right away. This confirmed it. They quickly walked back into the Great Hall. The babies started screaming again. No one saw the beetle, fly out of the room, a minute after the teachers walked back into room, the babies stopped crying.
***
Rita Skeeter flew to Hogsmead, where she apperated to the death eater camp.
"Mrs. Skeeter, any news for you to share?" Lucius Malfoy asked.
"Ah, Mr. Malfoy, some very interesting news, indeed. It seems, the nanny failed, when the teens hexed her, but not before she got the potions into them. However that horrible man, they have as Potions master, gave them the antidote before they were killed. All the babies have been split up, and are being taken care of by different teachers. John Weasley by Dumbledore, Julie Granger by McGonagall, I have not found out who has Soroush Granger, or Daniel Potter. However, here is where it gets really interesting, especially for you." This got Lucius to raise an eyebrow and smile in anticipation. "It seems, Snape has Lily Potter, and has your son Draco baby-sitting her."
"What?!?" Lucius burst out "Why would he...unless, he has plans to kidnap the child for our cause. It's perfect! My son is a genius, tell me does anyone suspect?"
"No."
"Good. I will write to my son right away, get back to the school, find out everything you can." Rita nodded, and apperated back to Hogsmead.
***
After much discussion, it was decided that classes should go on as usual. Dumbledore set up the playpen. Snape, and McGonagall, walked in, and placed the kids into the pen, thanking Dumbledore as they walked out.
That lunch, and after a very long morning, Snape pulled out the high-chair and placed Lily into it, making sure she was locked in, before sitting down himself, and looked at the food on the table, in confusion. 'Now what am I supposed to feed her?" Snape thought to himself. 'I new there was a reason why I never had children.' He growled, causing Lily to start to cry. Draco suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Sir, you're going to want to cut pieces, so that she won't choke, and place it onto her plate. Here is her sip cup she loves juice. Umm, also, she is really messy, watch out for flying food. She can pretty much eat on her own, the only thing you really have to do is give her the food and make sure she doesn't choke, oh and you might want to put her bib on." Draco grabbed the bib and placed it around Lily's neck winking at the dumbfounded Snape, before heading back to his table. Snape shook his head, and began to follow Draco's directions.
'Okay, well this is easy.' He thought, as he finished cutting the food up and placing it on Lily's plate, before starting to eat his own food. He was about to take a bite when some gooey food found its mark on his face, from Lily's spoon. Snape slowly placed his spoon down and wiped his face off, before turning to glare at Lily, who was laughing. "Don't do that..." He stopped mid-sentence when Lily suddenly stopped laughing; a look of panic went across her face. Her face got really red, then purple, before Snape finally figured out what was happening. "She's choking!" He yelled. Draco was there in an instant, with his wand out.
"Tod-Aspereto!" He yelled, while pointing his wand at Lily. The food flew out of her mouth, and she began to scream and cry while trying to take in big breaths. Draco pulled her out of her chair and sat down in Snape's seat, while rocking the baby back and forth. If you looked carefully, you could see him shaking, and a tear run down his cheek. He slowly got up, with the baby. "I-I-I'll take her to the hospital wing, to-to make sure she's okay." With that Draco walked out of the silent great hall, with Snape and Dumbledore closely behind him. They made it to the hospital wing in record time, where Draco ran over to Madam Pomfrey.
"What happened?" Pomfrey asked, taking the crying baby from Draco.
"She-she choked. I did the Tod-aspereto, like you taught us." Draco whispered loudly.
"Well you did a good job, let's give this little one a check up, shall we?"
Twenty minutes later, McGonagall walked in with Julie, a very worried look on her face.
"How's Lily?" She asked.
"Ah, she will be fine. I would like to keep her here for observation for a little while, however." Pomfrey smiled. All the teachers seemed relived. Draco sat beside Lily, and started rocking the cradle Lily was in ever so gently.
"Professor Dumbledore, may I stay with her?" Draco asked looking up.
"Of course, you did a outstanding job today, fifty points to Slytherin." Before Dumbledore could say anything else a black owl flew in, and dropped a letter into Draco's lap, then flew away again. Draco opened the letter and gasped.
"No! I won't!" Draco threw the letter to the ground as if it was poison, grabbed Lily, and backed away to the corner of the room, shaking. Snape snatched up the letter and began to read out loud.
"Dear Son,
It has come to my attention that you have one of the Potter babies. Good job my son, bring it to your master, and you and me will be royally awarded.
Lucius Malfoy"
"I wont do it! I refuse to join him or his stupid group of death eaters! Oh God, he's going to kill me." Draco held Lily tighter, but not so tight that it would hurt her. Snape handed the letter to Dumbledore, and walked over to Draco, putting his hands on Draco's shoulders.
"He will not kill you, we will protect you." Snape told him, straightforward.
"I-I can't stay here at Hogwarts for the rest of my life."
"You won't have to, you can stay with us, if you would like." Harry croaked out turning his head to look at Draco.
"You-you really mean that?" Draco asked, walking over to Harry's bed.
"Yeah, we have plenty of room at the Manor."
"Okay, thank you." Draco smiled, a look of pure relief crossing his face.
"What happened to Lily?"
"She couldn't stand to eat with out you there, so she choked. But it's okay she's fine now."
"You saved her?" Draco smiled. "Good, thanks for watching her."
"Hey, what are friends for?" There was a shocked silence for a split second.
"Yeah, we're friends...good." With that Harry fell back into his deep healing sleep.
"Well I'll be, there has never been anyone in recorded history to wake up this early after ingesting the potion they took." Madam Pomfrey stated, as she checked Harry over.
Draco placed Lily back in her cradle, then pulled out a parchment and quill from one of the bedside tables, and began to write. Speaking aloud what he wrote.
"Dear Dad,
I hadn't planned to tell you this until after graduation, I refuse to serve Voldemort, and I will not be sending you Lily Potter. I have reviewed the good and bad of both the good side and the evil side, and I like what I see in on the good side. Maybe someday, you will understand.
Your Son,
Draco"
January 10, 2005
Snape looked at the young toddler sleeping with her head on his shoulder. He had almost had a heart attack, when his Slytherin, (son of Lucius Malfoy, Voldemor'ts second hand) Draco, sat at the house most Slytherin's hated the most, (Especially Draco), right next to his worst enemy. Something his father would kill him for, literally, if he found out. After weeks, of watching Draco spend most of his free time with the Gryffindor parents, it finally dawned on him. Dumbledore had said that Draco had been around, and had all the symptoms, of being pregnant. This was something he could not let get out. Draco was father to one of the babies. Things started to make sense after that and somehow Snape found he had a little more respect for the Potter boy, who he knew was taking care of Draco's child along with his own. It didn't take a genius to figure out which one was Draco's. The white streaks in her hair was a dead give-away. Snape had found himself watching Potter closer, he was quite surprised to see him take care of Lily, exactly like he did his other child. This did not make Snape like the boy, but now there was at least a very deep respect for him. With that in mind, Snape grabbed Lily, before anyone else could. Snape walked into the Slytherin house, and into the common room, where his students were walking around trying to get ready for the day. Draco noticed his favourite teacher looking at him, and quickly walked over to him, noticing Lily in his arms. Draco's eyes widen, as he practically ran over to the little girl, who smiled at seeing him. Snape motioned for him to walk out, which he did. They walked to Snape's office where Snape handed Draco the child once the door was shut behind them.
"Why do you have Lily, sir? What's wrong with Potter? Are the others okay?" Draco set the child on his knee, and bounced her up and down, much to the child's delight.
"Mr. Potter, Mrs. Granger, and both of the younger Weasley's were attacked last night. They will be out for a while. Some of the teachers have accepted to take care of the babies for them until they are well enough to do it themselves. Now, I have figured out, that Lily is your child?" Snape asked. Draco gulped, and nodded slightly. "That is why I took Lily. It will give you a chance to spend a little more time with your daughter. I will not tell your secret, rest assured. Now, take her to the Great Hall while I go over to the Gryffindor house and get the rest of her things. You would know better then I do about what she eats. Do not let her out of your sight no matter what! Do you understand?" Draco nodded and stood up. Putting the child against his chest he walked over to the door.
"Thank you, sir." Snape nodded and motioned the boy out. Draco left, shutting the door behind him. Snape sat back and sighed. He then got up, and went to see McGonagall, to get the child's things.
When he walked in to the Great Hall Snape found Draco sitting at the end of the Slytherin table with Lily in his lap eating their food. Lily was still learning how to eat without making a mess, so the food, needless to say, was covering everything. The Slytherin students were having fun playing with Lily when she threw food at them. Snape saw Dumbledore, helping John eat, and watching Draco closely, a twinkle in his eye, as he smiled and nodded at Snape. Snape nodded back, and pulled the high-chair over to Draco, where he set it up. Draco looked thankful, and placed Lily into it. When Draco had first walked in with a baby of one of the Gryffindors, it had been enough for the room to go quiet, and stare. Draco smiled, and yelled, "What? You've never seen a baby-sitter before?" Everyone just shrugged, and went on with their conversations. Draco smiled at Lily and sat down at his normal spot at his table. His friends around him started their questioning right away. Draco quickly told them that the parents were sick and that Snape had somehow been put in charge of taking care of Lily. Since he was taking care of Lily a lot anyways, Snape asked him to baby-sit for a while. He also made cracks about how at least one of the babies should experience good old Slytherin. This got cheers, and everything was right with the world.
"Can you handle this from here, while I go eat?" Draco nodded, making faces at Lily, who was giggling, loudly. "Good, I will take her after breakfast. She will stay with Dumbledore along with John and Julie, while classes are going on."
"Yes sir." Draco smiled. With that, Snape walked over to the teacher's table, and began to eat himself, keeping a careful eye at Lily, Draco, and their surroundings. Breakfast was almost over when suddenly all five babies around the Great Hall started screaming at the top of their lungs. Draco, pulled Lily out of her chair, quickly, and held her close, as he walked quickly to Snape. "Sir, something's not right...something's here." Draco whispered. Snape grabbed, Lily and walked over to Dumbledore and McGonagall, who were also trying to get their charges to calm down. Snape repeated what Draco had said to him, causing them both to look up sharply and look around. They did not see anything, and got up and walked into the door behind the teacher's table, where the babies quit crying right away. This confirmed it. They quickly walked back into the Great Hall. The babies started screaming again. No one saw the beetle, fly out of the room, a minute after the teachers walked back into room, the babies stopped crying.
***
Rita Skeeter flew to Hogsmead, where she apperated to the death eater camp.
"Mrs. Skeeter, any news for you to share?" Lucius Malfoy asked.
"Ah, Mr. Malfoy, some very interesting news, indeed. It seems, the nanny failed, when the teens hexed her, but not before she got the potions into them. However that horrible man, they have as Potions master, gave them the antidote before they were killed. All the babies have been split up, and are being taken care of by different teachers. John Weasley by Dumbledore, Julie Granger by McGonagall, I have not found out who has Soroush Granger, or Daniel Potter. However, here is where it gets really interesting, especially for you." This got Lucius to raise an eyebrow and smile in anticipation. "It seems, Snape has Lily Potter, and has your son Draco baby-sitting her."
"What?!?" Lucius burst out "Why would he...unless, he has plans to kidnap the child for our cause. It's perfect! My son is a genius, tell me does anyone suspect?"
"No."
"Good. I will write to my son right away, get back to the school, find out everything you can." Rita nodded, and apperated back to Hogsmead.
***
After much discussion, it was decided that classes should go on as usual. Dumbledore set up the playpen. Snape, and McGonagall, walked in, and placed the kids into the pen, thanking Dumbledore as they walked out.
That lunch, and after a very long morning, Snape pulled out the high-chair and placed Lily into it, making sure she was locked in, before sitting down himself, and looked at the food on the table, in confusion. 'Now what am I supposed to feed her?" Snape thought to himself. 'I new there was a reason why I never had children.' He growled, causing Lily to start to cry. Draco suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Sir, you're going to want to cut pieces, so that she won't choke, and place it onto her plate. Here is her sip cup she loves juice. Umm, also, she is really messy, watch out for flying food. She can pretty much eat on her own, the only thing you really have to do is give her the food and make sure she doesn't choke, oh and you might want to put her bib on." Draco grabbed the bib and placed it around Lily's neck winking at the dumbfounded Snape, before heading back to his table. Snape shook his head, and began to follow Draco's directions.
'Okay, well this is easy.' He thought, as he finished cutting the food up and placing it on Lily's plate, before starting to eat his own food. He was about to take a bite when some gooey food found its mark on his face, from Lily's spoon. Snape slowly placed his spoon down and wiped his face off, before turning to glare at Lily, who was laughing. "Don't do that..." He stopped mid-sentence when Lily suddenly stopped laughing; a look of panic went across her face. Her face got really red, then purple, before Snape finally figured out what was happening. "She's choking!" He yelled. Draco was there in an instant, with his wand out.
"Tod-Aspereto!" He yelled, while pointing his wand at Lily. The food flew out of her mouth, and she began to scream and cry while trying to take in big breaths. Draco pulled her out of her chair and sat down in Snape's seat, while rocking the baby back and forth. If you looked carefully, you could see him shaking, and a tear run down his cheek. He slowly got up, with the baby. "I-I-I'll take her to the hospital wing, to-to make sure she's okay." With that Draco walked out of the silent great hall, with Snape and Dumbledore closely behind him. They made it to the hospital wing in record time, where Draco ran over to Madam Pomfrey.
"What happened?" Pomfrey asked, taking the crying baby from Draco.
"She-she choked. I did the Tod-aspereto, like you taught us." Draco whispered loudly.
"Well you did a good job, let's give this little one a check up, shall we?"
Twenty minutes later, McGonagall walked in with Julie, a very worried look on her face.
"How's Lily?" She asked.
"Ah, she will be fine. I would like to keep her here for observation for a little while, however." Pomfrey smiled. All the teachers seemed relived. Draco sat beside Lily, and started rocking the cradle Lily was in ever so gently.
"Professor Dumbledore, may I stay with her?" Draco asked looking up.
"Of course, you did a outstanding job today, fifty points to Slytherin." Before Dumbledore could say anything else a black owl flew in, and dropped a letter into Draco's lap, then flew away again. Draco opened the letter and gasped.
"No! I won't!" Draco threw the letter to the ground as if it was poison, grabbed Lily, and backed away to the corner of the room, shaking. Snape snatched up the letter and began to read out loud.
"Dear Son,
It has come to my attention that you have one of the Potter babies. Good job my son, bring it to your master, and you and me will be royally awarded.
Lucius Malfoy"
"I wont do it! I refuse to join him or his stupid group of death eaters! Oh God, he's going to kill me." Draco held Lily tighter, but not so tight that it would hurt her. Snape handed the letter to Dumbledore, and walked over to Draco, putting his hands on Draco's shoulders.
"He will not kill you, we will protect you." Snape told him, straightforward.
"I-I can't stay here at Hogwarts for the rest of my life."
"You won't have to, you can stay with us, if you would like." Harry croaked out turning his head to look at Draco.
"You-you really mean that?" Draco asked, walking over to Harry's bed.
"Yeah, we have plenty of room at the Manor."
"Okay, thank you." Draco smiled, a look of pure relief crossing his face.
"What happened to Lily?"
"She couldn't stand to eat with out you there, so she choked. But it's okay she's fine now."
"You saved her?" Draco smiled. "Good, thanks for watching her."
"Hey, what are friends for?" There was a shocked silence for a split second.
"Yeah, we're friends...good." With that Harry fell back into his deep healing sleep.
"Well I'll be, there has never been anyone in recorded history to wake up this early after ingesting the potion they took." Madam Pomfrey stated, as she checked Harry over.
Draco placed Lily back in her cradle, then pulled out a parchment and quill from one of the bedside tables, and began to write. Speaking aloud what he wrote.
"Dear Dad,
I hadn't planned to tell you this until after graduation, I refuse to serve Voldemort, and I will not be sending you Lily Potter. I have reviewed the good and bad of both the good side and the evil side, and I like what I see in on the good side. Maybe someday, you will understand.
Your Son,
Draco"