When they got outside of the mansion it was a slightly overcast. It was only about nine in the morning and Harry just followed Snape not asking any questions.
'Snape's is my uncle, I'm a prince, and James was a prince. . . Wait, I thought Lily's parents were muggles? Ah, this is so confusing.' these were only some thoughts going through Harry's mind. He finally got enough courage to ask Snape a question.
"Er, Professor, can I, uh, ask you a question?" Harry stuttered stupidly.
"You just did, but continue." Snape said nonchalantly. Harry nodded.
"Well, I always thought that Lily's parents, uh, your parents were . . . muggles?" Harry glanced at Snape for his reaction.
"You are correct Potter, they were muggles, and well our stepfather and the rest of our family were at least. Our real father was a wizard, and a noble. So, obviously Lily and I would be nobles. Dukes and dutches, if you will. Black is also but he renounced his title because he liked a muggleborn but that doesn't matter now" Snape stated.
"Wait, why are there even princess and prince crap. What do they do, just sit around and pretend to run things?"
"Until about fifty years ago, around Voldermorts birth, they decieded that the wizarding wourld should be run in a slightly more American fashion. Never knew the real reason for that though." Snape finished bluntly as they walked up to the door of a large, brick, and three-story house.
Snape did not even knock he just walked right in and Harry followed.
"Lupin!! Black!!" Snape yelled out into the empty house. 'Where were they?' Harry wondered.
Suddenly a huge black dog jumped out of nowhere and landed on Harry, knocking him to the floor. Then the dog started to drag him down a hallway. "What the hell." Snape mumbled under his breath.
When they reached a door the black dog stopped. The door swung open and the dog dragged Harry inside and Snape was yanked into the room by another person.
Outside the door they heard banging and shouting. Snape turned around to see Lupin standing there and with a small pop Black was there too.
"Very sorry about that Harry, we had to get you two back here before the DeathEaters showed up." Sirius said. Lupin nodded.
"And why, per say, are Death Eaters here?" Snape said in a low, almost growling type of voice as he stressed the words Death Eaters. Remus and Sirius glanced at each other. (Ok, just so you all know, THERE WILL NOT BE SLASH IN THIS FANFIC, thank you very much.)
"Well, you see, um . . .," Sirius started awkwardly. Remus finished. "They intercepted one of the letters from Dumbledore about Harry coming here."
"So they know were I'm staying?" Harry finally found his voice. He was getting bad memories at hearing the DeathEaters bang around the house.
"No. Luckily it just said you would come here this morning." Sirius said. The noise outside the room had stopped and it followed about a dozen tiny pops. Sirius changed into his dog form and slipped through the door barking quietly to the others that it was safe.
