Children of Fate
By: Illustrious Sorrow
Chapter 7- Secrets Unveiled
( WARNING!, this chapter has some detailed child abuse in the beginnning. Rate the chapter R to be careful.)
/Exhaused, Harry leaned on his new staff. He would have taken time to rest but he felt his spell that connected him
to his duaghters going off. His daughters were in danger. Hogwarts was under attack!/
Without a second thought Harry cast an energy spell that would allow him to do one major spell before he was barly able to
light a candle magically, it would figure there would be an attack the one time he was practically helpless. Using his
knowlegde of the Ways, Harry jumped through a portal and landed in the Hogwarts Great Hall.
It would appear that the professors had been eating lunch. Severus was down at the table, trying to protect his granddaughters
from a painful death. When Harry appeared a green avada kedava curse was speeding its way toward his father and children. Harry
had hoped this would not happen because now he had to use a spell to save his family and would have to fight the muggle way
with no magic other then his elemental abilities which would be weak because of his exhaustion. The only one he would be
able to use was water, the easiest.
Still, it was not even a choice about what he was going to do. A golden sheild appeared around his family and stopped the
curse. It would last until Harry took it down. If he died it would take a week to fall. That was it. His magic was gone.
He straitened to his full seven foot hight and began to fight using only his staff and hands and feet.
Within five minutes, half of the death eaters were unconious or dead. Wormtail (Peter Petrigrew) saw that the battle was being
lost and motioned to the four other death eaters who would cast the spell with him. The spell Albus Dumbledore himself had
told the enemy about.
Harry was looking for his next opponet when he was suddenly surrounded. He swung his staff around, but it was too late. He
knew the spell they were using, it was an ancient one, one that he had hoped nobody in this time would know about. He tried
to get out of the way, but the spell shot from five wands and hit him, hard.
"Revelar tu pasado... tu derrotar recuerdo!" Harry's world faded black so he didn't see the death eaters run out of the school,
abandoning the fallen death eaters. The teachers all surrounded Harry, not knowing what spell had hit him, they couldn't
heal him. The only one who had managed to hear him was Albus, and he looked very grave.
"Back up everybody, we are going to see his worst memory, probebly at his relatives home." The teachers didn't understand
what was happening, but obeyed Albus' command. Suddenly a beam of light shock out of Harry's head and a hologram formed. There
was a beefy man standing in the vision of the prone child.
(a/n warning, this is going to be diffrent then the scene earlier because it will be in more detail in some parts and less
in others, but it will still basically be the same story.)
"Boy!" The man yelled, "How dare you use that unnaturealness in my home! I'll beat it out of you if it's the last thing I do!"
He brought his hands out from behind his back and everybody watching the scene gasped, it was a poker, red-hot, the tip was
glowing.
"No! Uncle Vernon, please!" "You think you're going to get off that easily? You wish!" The big man hit the boy over the head
with the poker and the teachers all felt a mild pain ride through their head. Harry, on the floor, sobbed with agony as he
felt all of the pain he had origanaly felt and a bruise blossomed on his forehead.
Snape went over and tried to comfort his son, but his touch only brought a flich, Harry was to caught up in the vision. Now
the vision was from the floor as Harry had been when this origanally happend. The professors could see the large man, this
boy's uncle apparently, coming up with the poker.
He then brought the poker over his head and dug the point into the childs face, just to the right of his right eye and
dragged it all the way down his face till it burned down to the corner of his mouth. The then proceded to do the same to the
other eye. The teachers were in alot of pain, they could only imagine what Harry was feeling. Even as they watched, the
illusion on his face fell, reveiling even more scars then there had ordinarily been and two identical scars running down the
sides of his face.
The sunglasses were still on so they had no idea he was blind...yet. The scars split open, and became burns and deep cuts.
Gasping, the teachers turned their eyes back to the vision, where the evil man lifted the poker again and drove it into the
boy's left eye and then into his right. The vision went dark but the pain continued. For about five minutes Vernon hit the
boy, Falrone, with the poker while the real Harry had cuts and welts and brusies blossoming on his body. Finally it all
stopped and Madame Pomfery began to heal the boy.
"How could his eyes have survived that? How could /he/ have survived that?" "I don't know how he survived it, I suppose he
survived it the way he survived everything else, his eyes...his eyes didn't survive it." "What do you mean Severus?" Minerva
asked, her normaly stern voice wobbling. "My son is blind."
He would have said more, but just then Harry groaned and woke up, "Raven? Lily?" He called out, and stood up to search for
them. Passing the stunned teachers, some of whom were on their knees from the pain they had felt in their eyes, he walked
strait to his daughters, his wounds beginning to heal even as the teachers watched. The only thing that didn't heal were his
face marks.
Harry gently picked his daughters up and cheacked to ensure that they had not been harmed by the spell. Fianlly, he turned
back to the teachers. "So now you know. Did you really want to know that much Professor Dumbledore? Do you see what you left
me with for 14 years? This was the first year it got to physical abuse, but the verbal abuse was just as bad.
"Do you blame me for not wanting to talk about it? No? What would you have done in the same postion? I could have just died
you know, but i didn't. I have to protect the world, be the savior. Besides, I promised my daughters I would never leave them,
how many of you would go through all that and live just so that you can fulfill a promise?"
Harry stood silent after this, letting his father help him to a seat and letting the nurse try to heal his face marks. Finally
Minerva McGonagall spoke up. "Who are you really? I reconized the voice in the vision, I can't think of where from though. You
can't be Severus' son, he doesn't have a brother named Vernon."
"You don't reconize me Professor? Well, that's a first, normally people know more about me then I do. I suppose you might as
well know now anyway, I'm Harry Potter, though I am in fact, Severus' son." "Not possible." Professor Flitwick spoke up, "You
look nothing like him, you don't have his scar."
"Oh, that. I forgot." He traced a line on his forehead and his scar appered." "I suppose this is the scar you are refering to?
I have so many it's hard to tell." When the illusion on his scar disappeared so did the ones on his tatoo's. "Harry, where did
you get that tatoo?" "When I made my staff I got the mark of a magus, the Keeper of the Ways, and the Keeper of Ancient lore."
(a/n by the way I need to mention that the tatoos are not on his head, they are on his arms. The teachers were able to see
them because his robe had ripped. Just thought you should know.)
By now the nurse had done all she could for the cuts/burns. They had scabbed over. "I'm sorry Harry, that's all I can do." "I
know Madame Pomfery. I'll heal myself once I get some rest. I had just finished my staff when Hogwarts was attacked and should
not have done that last spell. I'll sleep for a few days and get my abilities back. Don't worry. Father, watch my daughters."
With that Harry slumped over in a faint.
Albus quickly muttered a spell, "Mobilcorpus!" (a/n spelling?) and bore Harry away to the hospital room, leaving Snape to
deal with all the questions. "How is he your son. You never liked Lily or James!" "He will have to tell you that himself, all
I can tell you is that Lily Potter is not his mother." The people present gasped, who could the mother be? How could it not
be Lily?"
"If you'll excuse me, I need to go and sit with my son." Severus stood up and walked out of the room and into the hospital
wing, following the path of his injured son. When he finally reached the hospital ward he burst in, suprising the familiars
that were scattered around the room.
"Is he alright?" Severus asked aniouxly. "He should be fine. Though I cannot heal him anymore then I already have. His body
is resistent to spells. Which reminds me, why did that particular spell work while most others didn't?" "Because that is an
ancient spell and because five people cast it."
"Why did he try to fight? It was obvious that he was near to collapsing when he arrived." "He knew his family was in danger
and he promised he would never leave you and the babies." Severus nodded, he knew how determined Harry could be, especially
it it meant protecting someone he cared about.
"How did he cast that sheild if he was so tired?" "I think it was a engery spell, enabling him to cast one more great spell.
He had probebly intended to use it to get rid of the death eaters entirly but had to make a choice when he saw you being
attacked. He chose to defend his family."
"So if I had been smart and hidden myself and the babies Harry wouldn't have had to re-live that...time... at all?" "Perhaps,
but then he might have tried to find you himself and therefore gotten put under the spell...or worse, he could have been
killed."
"How long will he be out?" "He has to sleep and regain his energy, probebly a few days to a week. You too should get out and
take care of those babies. I'm sure the staff will have some questions as well." With that Madame Pomfery bustled Severus
and Albus out of the hospital wing and into the grasp of the waiting staff.
One day later
Severus was sitting in the hospital wing with Raven and Lily sitting on his lap. Harry hadn't moved since he was brought in
and Severus was worried. The only thing that stopped him from panicing was that Lily and Raven seemed fine. He had a feeling
that if their father was dying they would be balistic. These two babies were unusually intellegent for their age, only about
six months old they had an intelligence in their eyes. These were children that would grow up fast.
Five days later
"Poppy, I thought you said it would only be afew days until he woke up." "Well, I was really only gussing. You see for people
with the average amount of power, it would take only two-three days to wake up, but Harry, Harry has more power then anyone
has ever seen. If he's used up all his power then it could take weeks for him to wake up.
One week later
"Albus, we don't have all that much time until school starts. Only two weeks! His friends are worrying about him and if he
doesn't show up in Diagon Ally in a week they'll panic! We can't have the wizarding world panicing!" "Severus, I think you
are the only one panicing. Remember, he used alot of power two weeks ago, he's just regaining it."
"But Albus!" "Relax Severus. He'll wake up soon."
Two days later
Severus was in his normal post of sitting next to his son when Harry groaned. "Harry? Harry is that you?" "D-dad?" "Yes, it's
me Harry. Come on, wake up." Harry's eyes fluttered open and took in the face of his concerned father, the hospital wing, and
the absense of his daughters.
"Where are Lily and Raven?" Severus laughed, "Harry, you have a single track mind. Relax, their with Albus. He wanted to do
something and this was all he could think of." "How long have I been asleep?" "Two weeks and a day." Harry groaned again,
"Why me?" "Because Fate isn't on your side." Severus spoke with out thinking and corrected himself upon seeing Harry's
skepical face, "Well, she is but...you know what I mean."
Harry chuckled, "I do." He looked around, "Geez, they really ought to give me my own room in here. I'm here often enough. I
suspect that you'll have gray hair by the end of the year." A thought seemed to strike Harry. "Oh crap. Have Ron and Hermione
been Owling me?" "Yes as a matter of fact they have."
Severus produced a large stack of letters. "I think their worried." Harry nodded in agreement as he opened the most recent
letter. "Yup. Listen to this:
Harry,
Where are you? Hermione and I are really worried mate. Are you going to come to diagon Ally with us or not? If you're not we
can only assume that Voldemort has taken you and start a whole-scale panic.
Write soon-
Ron
The older made made a face at the letter Harry was holding, "How on earth can that boy sound so panicked and then be calm the
next second? Honestly." "Ron is just worried, he's always like that. When are they going to Diagon Alley and can I go?" "Yes
you can go and their going in two days." Harry nodded, "And that will give me time to think about what I'm going to say to
them."
"Uhm, Harry, don't you think you should finish healing yourself? I mean, the scratches are healing nicely but...you know."
Harry nodded again, his face clouding over as he remembered what had happened. "I suppose Professor Dumbledore wants to talk
to me?" "He does." A voice said from the door.
"Oh! Professor. I didn't see you there. Come in...I guess." "Thank you, I think I will." Albus walked in and smiled slightly.
"I think your daughters missed you." He handed the two babies to their father and they cooed with happiness and snuggled
against their father, who smiled fondly down at them.
"Raven, Lily. You're safe." He kissed the top of their heads slilently and turned back to his Father and Professor. "Alright,
what do you want me to say?" "Well, you can start by calling me Albus, but only when there are no other students around of
course, wouldn't want them to think you were getting special treatment or some nonsense of the sort right Severus?"
"Err, right Albus." "Then you can tell me what happened over the summer from the time you left Kings Cross." "Very well."
Harry then proceded to tell them what had happend durning his stay at the Dursley's. By the time he was done both Severus
and Albus were white from the shock of what the boy had gone through and the fact that he was still living.
"Harry, I'm so sorry. I never should have left you with those people, Minerva warned me but I was so proud, I could never do
anything wrong, I was right in this. I let my pride destroy your life." "Pro-er-Albus. It is not your fault at all. You could
have never known that the Dursley's would prove to be so cruel. I don't blame you."
As Harry forgave Albus, the man seemed to be listening to what he was saying and feel the guilt slide from him. "Thank you
Harry, I needed to hear that." Severus remained quiet, he was certain Harry knew what he felt and what he would say so he
kept quiet, until he remembered somthing he had been thinking about for the past few weeks. "Harry. I have something I'd like
to ask you."
He was very nervous, what if Harry laughed at him and rejected him? He had begun to really love the boy and his children.
"What's that father?" That one word, Father, increased Severus' faith in what he was going to ask. "Well, biologically you
are my son. Legally you are James Potter's son. I would like to adopt you." Harry went quiet thinking about what Severus
preposed. "I would like that Severus."
Severus couldn't believe his ears, yes! His son had said yes! "A-alright then. I have the forms right here. I need three
witness'. Albus could you get Poppy and Aura in here please? I want to do this as soon as possible!" "One second Severus,
just let me call them."
The old man went to the fireplace, "Aura, could you come down to the hospital wing please?" The women's voice could be heard
at the other end, "Is something wrong with Harry Albus?" She sounded terrified the answer would be yes. "No my dear, quite
the opposite." "Alright, stand back, I'll come through."
Albus quickly stepped back and Aura Fade stepped through the fireplace. "Harry! You're up!" She ran over to the bed and hugged
him tightly, "Don't you every do that to me again! Do you understand me young man?" Harry nodded, smiling. He had never really
had anyone to mother him before and he was enjoying it.
Within moments Poppy was in the room and Albus explained what was going on. "Do you have the papers Severus?" "Right here."
Soon the papers were signed and congradulations were given amist tears and laughs and the three men were left alone with the
babies.
"Well, now that that's settled, I need to hear what I am going to do when I go to meet Ron and Hermione." And so
the group of men talked for the rest of the day on what to do with Ron and Hermione, combining Albus' wisdom, Severus' cunning
and Harry's power and imagination.
At Diagon Ally
"You remember what we're going to do?" Severus asked, grinning maliously. "Got it." Harry wishpered back, grinning the same
way. "You know, you carrying two babies kinda ruines the effect." "So what? I'm not leaving Raven and Lily alone in the castle
with only Trelawny to watch them." "Albus could have-" "Albus has a meeting. Come on, I ready." "Good. Lets go."
Ron and Hermione
"Where is Harry?" "I don't know Ron. I'm sure he'll be here soon." Ron and Hermione were standing in front of Gringotts
waiting for Harry to arrive when suddenly Snape and a boy who looked to be his son appered. The boy was strange looking. He
had scars all over what was visible of his body. On his face there were many minor scars along with two bad ones that went
from the corner of each eye to the corner of the same side of his mouth. On top of that he was over seven feet tall and wearing
sunglasses. "Ah, Mr.Weasley, Ms.Granger. Lost with out Mr.Potter to lead you?"
"No. In fact we're oof-!" Hermione had elbowed Ron in the stomache. "No Professor Snape of course not. We were just waiting
for him. I know he was staying at Hogwarts, have you seen him?" "Don't you think I have better things to do then babysit
Potter?" "I'm sure you do but all the same-." "I haven't seen Mr./Potter/ in several days." He turned to his son.
"I will leave you here then. I don't suppose you'll let me take the children?" "No father. I don't want to chance loosing
them." "Very well. Watch your back." With that he swept away. The boy turned to Ron and Hermione who he could see where
watching him with intrest.
"Did you want something?" He snapped, though he was laughing inside. "Yeah um, have you been at Hogwarts." "Yes." "Well, do
know where Harry is?" "I've seen him around." "Well where then?" Hermione cried looking exasperated. "In the mirror." The
boy replied, the laughter now apparent in his voice.
"What on earth are you talking about? Where is Harry?" "Hermione calm down. It's me." The boy's form shimmered and became the
Harry Potter they knew from last year. "Harry? Is that really you?" "Yes-of-course it is." Harry stuttered out between laughs.
"You scared us for a moment there mate. Imagine /Snape/ having a son!"
Upon hearing this Harry straitened, "Oh, but he does." "Have you met him?" "Yes." "Well?" "Well what?" Harry asked. "Well,
what is he like?" Harry sighed, "Come on, I need to talk to you two. Let's go and get a parlor in the leaky cauldren." When
he turned around to head that way, Ron and Hermoine got a view of the babies hanging off his back as well as the snake around
his neck, and the fox with the babies.
"Harry where on ear-" "I'll explain in a moment." He led them to the Leaky Caldron and got a parlor where they could talk
privatly. "Alright Harry, what's going on? Why were you disgused as Snapes son, why do you have two babies, and why were you
at Hogwarts over the summer, and why are you wearing sunglasses?"
"Whoa Hermione, one question at a time. Alright, I need to tell you right now that whatever I tell you must remain a secret
until I choose to divulge it. Do you agree to keep it a secret?" Ron and Hermione instently agreed. "Good. I was hoping
you'd say that." With a wave of his hand a big blue bubble appeared around them and the entire room.
"Harry what's that?" "That Hermione is a spell that blocks anything from hearing, seeing, or recording what goes on in this
room until I take it down." "How did you do it?" "I'll get to that later." Harry paused for a moment. "I need you two to
not inturrup me at all once I get started this is very hard for me and I have no idea how you'll re-act. Alright?" They both
nodded. "Alright."
"I hope that what I tell you won't change our friendship but if you feel that you can nolonger be my friends I will understand."
He looked at Hermione who looked like she was going to explode trying to comfort him, "Now Hermione, listen to what I'm going
to say before you disagree with me. Now, over the summer I was abused by the Dursleys. Viciously. I nearly died. After my
birthday I owled a professor at Hogwarts who came and took me from there. There was nothing either of you could do by the
way so don't blame yourselves.
"The way I look now is a disguse. I will not lift it just yet because I have some things to say before I do. On my birthday
I discoverd that Lily Potter is not my mother. A women that few people know. Mortals who know her call her by her birth name,
which is Beryl. She currently is Fate.
I know that sounds crazy but it's true. Later on, about two days after my birthday, I learned the identity of my father. His
name is.....Severus Snape." At this Ron gave a startled exclimation but was quieted by Hermione. "But I get ahead of myself.
Before I came to Hogwarts, just when I got off the train and came to the Dursly's for the summer I found out that my Aunt
Petunia had had triplets. One boy who was exactly like Petunia and two girls who looked nothing like her or Vernon.
These two girls are not really Petunia and Vernon's. They are mine. My mother gave them life magically and I gave them my
blood with a spell. They are legally and biologically my daughters. These are them." He lifted Raven and Lily onto his lap.
"Meet Lily Dove Snape and Raven Rose Snape. I am Harry James Snape.
"Any way, continueing, I found out that I am the Lord of Fate. I have many titles including Keeper of the Ways, Magus, Mage,
(a/n Yes in my mind they are diffrent. A Magus know ancient spells as well as a very powerful wizard and a Mage is an
extremly powerful wizard with natrual abilites, animal speak, shapeshitfing, ect.) Lord of Fate, Keeper of Ancient Lore,
and more. I am very powerful and have learned all the ancient forms of magic.
"I have inherited my powers from Merlin, Godric Gryffindor, and Fate. Now I am going to drop the illusion on my body. Is that
alright with you?" Hermione and Ron nodded dumbly, they were shocked by the things they had learned. "Alright, this is the
real me. I have had an illusion over me for all my life." With that, Harry dropped the illusion.
Both of his friends gasped in shock. Before them sat the Snapes son. Scars, height and all. "Now I am going to change my
voice back to it's correct sound." He did but didn't say anything so Hermione and Ron couldn't hear what it had changed to.
"Harry, what happened to your face?" "Vernon attacked me with a hot poker. Now I am going to take off the sunglasses and I
ask you not to pity me. I am fine." His voice was deep and musical, a beautiful sound.
But with that the glasses were off and they saw that Harry Snape was blind. Hermione burst into tears and Ron looked like he
would like to cry as well. After a while Hermione asked, "Did it hurt Harry?" "Yes, alot. I now have what is known as the
second sight. Just like my ansestor did before me."
"Why do you have a Crooked Fang and a Winged Fox?" "Ah, I was wondering if you had seen them. They are my familiars. The snake
was a present from my father. His name is Osiris. The Fox found me and we bonded. Her name is StarBorn. I also have a moon
phoenix for my familiar. Her name is EvenSong. You can meet her later. She opted not to come."
"Just how powerful are you?" This was from Ron. Harry sighed, he hoped that Ron would not become jealous. Contrary to what
he had said, Harry would be crushed if Ron and Hermione hated him after this. "I don't know. Powerful enough that I could
make a staff." "Can we see it?" "Yes." With a wave of his hand Harry summounded his staff.
It was beautiful. The wood was a redish gold and it had black runes carved into it. On the top was what appeared to be the
claw of a phoenix made out of wood holding a smoky gold globe. "Harry, this is the most powerful kind of staff to ever
exist!" Hermione gasped, she couldn't believe Harry was this powerful. "I know Hermione. It was strenghtened by my bond with
the three animals who donated the cores."
Ron looked alittle confused at the turn in the conversation but caught up quickly. "Does this mean you're going to be able to
defete Voldemort?" "No. I have to wait until my daughters are grown. And I will have to place a secrecy spell on the both of
you. This will prevail over even the vertiserum. It is an ancient spell that Merlin invented but never told anyone about."
"I understand." Hermione said quietly. "Good." "I don't envy you at all Harry, I wouldn't be in your place for all the gold
in the world. I am truely sorry about last year. I don't know what came over me." "I understand. Do you two still want to
hang around me then? The son of the greasy potions master?"
"Of course Harry!" Hermione flung her arms around him and began to sob into his shoulders. "Why didn't you tell me? I could
have helped, I could have-" Her voice broke with sobs. "It's alright Hermione, it's alright." He shot a bewildered look at
Ron who could only shrug back at him in response. Who could understand girls?" (a/n I am a girl by the way. Just in case you
were curious...)
Finally Harry managed to pry Hermione off him and announced that he had to feed his daughters, who had been playing in a
magical playpen while Harry talked to his friends. "So Harry, what's it like to be a dad at such a young age?" "Well, it's
pretty weird." Said Harry as he began to feed Raven, she being the hungrier of the two. "I love them so much though and I
will never leave them like I was left."
Hermione looked down at the babies and at Harry. He seemed to happy with his children. She wished that she could become part
of that family. She loved Harry with all her heart. It was painful to see him every day and not be with him. Unfortunetly
she couldn't do anything about it, she couldn't risk ruining their friendship.
"May I hold one?" "Sure, why don't you feed Lily? I've kinda got my hands full. There is a bottle in the carrier, here." He
summounded the bottle for her. "It is very helpful to be able to do wandless magic at times like these." "Thank you."
Hermione said briskly, hiding her true feelings from Harry.
Ron just watched with intrest. He didn't know how to take care of a baby. When Ginny was born he was only one or two years
old and so he hadn't ever really had to mess with a baby. Just as well. He thought to himself. He'd probebly screw it up
anyway. Besides, there were more interesting things to do."
After many hours with Ron and Hermione, talking and getting their school supplies, Harry was exhausted. He had only gotten
out of the hospital yesterday and had no intention of going back so soon. "I gotta go and met my father you guys." Ron and
Hermione both noticed the trill in his voice as he said the word father. "Alright Harry. We'll see you at the sorting then."
"Bye!" "Bye!" "See ya!" With that they separated, all heading home a diffrent way.
TO BE CONTINUED...
There. Whew. Long chapter. Longest yet in fact. A whole... ten pages! A record for me...I think. I guess I'm not really
sure. Well, Review!
By: Illustrious Sorrow
Chapter 7- Secrets Unveiled
( WARNING!, this chapter has some detailed child abuse in the beginnning. Rate the chapter R to be careful.)
/Exhaused, Harry leaned on his new staff. He would have taken time to rest but he felt his spell that connected him
to his duaghters going off. His daughters were in danger. Hogwarts was under attack!/
Without a second thought Harry cast an energy spell that would allow him to do one major spell before he was barly able to
light a candle magically, it would figure there would be an attack the one time he was practically helpless. Using his
knowlegde of the Ways, Harry jumped through a portal and landed in the Hogwarts Great Hall.
It would appear that the professors had been eating lunch. Severus was down at the table, trying to protect his granddaughters
from a painful death. When Harry appeared a green avada kedava curse was speeding its way toward his father and children. Harry
had hoped this would not happen because now he had to use a spell to save his family and would have to fight the muggle way
with no magic other then his elemental abilities which would be weak because of his exhaustion. The only one he would be
able to use was water, the easiest.
Still, it was not even a choice about what he was going to do. A golden sheild appeared around his family and stopped the
curse. It would last until Harry took it down. If he died it would take a week to fall. That was it. His magic was gone.
He straitened to his full seven foot hight and began to fight using only his staff and hands and feet.
Within five minutes, half of the death eaters were unconious or dead. Wormtail (Peter Petrigrew) saw that the battle was being
lost and motioned to the four other death eaters who would cast the spell with him. The spell Albus Dumbledore himself had
told the enemy about.
Harry was looking for his next opponet when he was suddenly surrounded. He swung his staff around, but it was too late. He
knew the spell they were using, it was an ancient one, one that he had hoped nobody in this time would know about. He tried
to get out of the way, but the spell shot from five wands and hit him, hard.
"Revelar tu pasado... tu derrotar recuerdo!" Harry's world faded black so he didn't see the death eaters run out of the school,
abandoning the fallen death eaters. The teachers all surrounded Harry, not knowing what spell had hit him, they couldn't
heal him. The only one who had managed to hear him was Albus, and he looked very grave.
"Back up everybody, we are going to see his worst memory, probebly at his relatives home." The teachers didn't understand
what was happening, but obeyed Albus' command. Suddenly a beam of light shock out of Harry's head and a hologram formed. There
was a beefy man standing in the vision of the prone child.
(a/n warning, this is going to be diffrent then the scene earlier because it will be in more detail in some parts and less
in others, but it will still basically be the same story.)
"Boy!" The man yelled, "How dare you use that unnaturealness in my home! I'll beat it out of you if it's the last thing I do!"
He brought his hands out from behind his back and everybody watching the scene gasped, it was a poker, red-hot, the tip was
glowing.
"No! Uncle Vernon, please!" "You think you're going to get off that easily? You wish!" The big man hit the boy over the head
with the poker and the teachers all felt a mild pain ride through their head. Harry, on the floor, sobbed with agony as he
felt all of the pain he had origanaly felt and a bruise blossomed on his forehead.
Snape went over and tried to comfort his son, but his touch only brought a flich, Harry was to caught up in the vision. Now
the vision was from the floor as Harry had been when this origanally happend. The professors could see the large man, this
boy's uncle apparently, coming up with the poker.
He then brought the poker over his head and dug the point into the childs face, just to the right of his right eye and
dragged it all the way down his face till it burned down to the corner of his mouth. The then proceded to do the same to the
other eye. The teachers were in alot of pain, they could only imagine what Harry was feeling. Even as they watched, the
illusion on his face fell, reveiling even more scars then there had ordinarily been and two identical scars running down the
sides of his face.
The sunglasses were still on so they had no idea he was blind...yet. The scars split open, and became burns and deep cuts.
Gasping, the teachers turned their eyes back to the vision, where the evil man lifted the poker again and drove it into the
boy's left eye and then into his right. The vision went dark but the pain continued. For about five minutes Vernon hit the
boy, Falrone, with the poker while the real Harry had cuts and welts and brusies blossoming on his body. Finally it all
stopped and Madame Pomfery began to heal the boy.
"How could his eyes have survived that? How could /he/ have survived that?" "I don't know how he survived it, I suppose he
survived it the way he survived everything else, his eyes...his eyes didn't survive it." "What do you mean Severus?" Minerva
asked, her normaly stern voice wobbling. "My son is blind."
He would have said more, but just then Harry groaned and woke up, "Raven? Lily?" He called out, and stood up to search for
them. Passing the stunned teachers, some of whom were on their knees from the pain they had felt in their eyes, he walked
strait to his daughters, his wounds beginning to heal even as the teachers watched. The only thing that didn't heal were his
face marks.
Harry gently picked his daughters up and cheacked to ensure that they had not been harmed by the spell. Fianlly, he turned
back to the teachers. "So now you know. Did you really want to know that much Professor Dumbledore? Do you see what you left
me with for 14 years? This was the first year it got to physical abuse, but the verbal abuse was just as bad.
"Do you blame me for not wanting to talk about it? No? What would you have done in the same postion? I could have just died
you know, but i didn't. I have to protect the world, be the savior. Besides, I promised my daughters I would never leave them,
how many of you would go through all that and live just so that you can fulfill a promise?"
Harry stood silent after this, letting his father help him to a seat and letting the nurse try to heal his face marks. Finally
Minerva McGonagall spoke up. "Who are you really? I reconized the voice in the vision, I can't think of where from though. You
can't be Severus' son, he doesn't have a brother named Vernon."
"You don't reconize me Professor? Well, that's a first, normally people know more about me then I do. I suppose you might as
well know now anyway, I'm Harry Potter, though I am in fact, Severus' son." "Not possible." Professor Flitwick spoke up, "You
look nothing like him, you don't have his scar."
"Oh, that. I forgot." He traced a line on his forehead and his scar appered." "I suppose this is the scar you are refering to?
I have so many it's hard to tell." When the illusion on his scar disappeared so did the ones on his tatoo's. "Harry, where did
you get that tatoo?" "When I made my staff I got the mark of a magus, the Keeper of the Ways, and the Keeper of Ancient lore."
(a/n by the way I need to mention that the tatoos are not on his head, they are on his arms. The teachers were able to see
them because his robe had ripped. Just thought you should know.)
By now the nurse had done all she could for the cuts/burns. They had scabbed over. "I'm sorry Harry, that's all I can do." "I
know Madame Pomfery. I'll heal myself once I get some rest. I had just finished my staff when Hogwarts was attacked and should
not have done that last spell. I'll sleep for a few days and get my abilities back. Don't worry. Father, watch my daughters."
With that Harry slumped over in a faint.
Albus quickly muttered a spell, "Mobilcorpus!" (a/n spelling?) and bore Harry away to the hospital room, leaving Snape to
deal with all the questions. "How is he your son. You never liked Lily or James!" "He will have to tell you that himself, all
I can tell you is that Lily Potter is not his mother." The people present gasped, who could the mother be? How could it not
be Lily?"
"If you'll excuse me, I need to go and sit with my son." Severus stood up and walked out of the room and into the hospital
wing, following the path of his injured son. When he finally reached the hospital ward he burst in, suprising the familiars
that were scattered around the room.
"Is he alright?" Severus asked aniouxly. "He should be fine. Though I cannot heal him anymore then I already have. His body
is resistent to spells. Which reminds me, why did that particular spell work while most others didn't?" "Because that is an
ancient spell and because five people cast it."
"Why did he try to fight? It was obvious that he was near to collapsing when he arrived." "He knew his family was in danger
and he promised he would never leave you and the babies." Severus nodded, he knew how determined Harry could be, especially
it it meant protecting someone he cared about.
"How did he cast that sheild if he was so tired?" "I think it was a engery spell, enabling him to cast one more great spell.
He had probebly intended to use it to get rid of the death eaters entirly but had to make a choice when he saw you being
attacked. He chose to defend his family."
"So if I had been smart and hidden myself and the babies Harry wouldn't have had to re-live that...time... at all?" "Perhaps,
but then he might have tried to find you himself and therefore gotten put under the spell...or worse, he could have been
killed."
"How long will he be out?" "He has to sleep and regain his energy, probebly a few days to a week. You too should get out and
take care of those babies. I'm sure the staff will have some questions as well." With that Madame Pomfery bustled Severus
and Albus out of the hospital wing and into the grasp of the waiting staff.
One day later
Severus was sitting in the hospital wing with Raven and Lily sitting on his lap. Harry hadn't moved since he was brought in
and Severus was worried. The only thing that stopped him from panicing was that Lily and Raven seemed fine. He had a feeling
that if their father was dying they would be balistic. These two babies were unusually intellegent for their age, only about
six months old they had an intelligence in their eyes. These were children that would grow up fast.
Five days later
"Poppy, I thought you said it would only be afew days until he woke up." "Well, I was really only gussing. You see for people
with the average amount of power, it would take only two-three days to wake up, but Harry, Harry has more power then anyone
has ever seen. If he's used up all his power then it could take weeks for him to wake up.
One week later
"Albus, we don't have all that much time until school starts. Only two weeks! His friends are worrying about him and if he
doesn't show up in Diagon Ally in a week they'll panic! We can't have the wizarding world panicing!" "Severus, I think you
are the only one panicing. Remember, he used alot of power two weeks ago, he's just regaining it."
"But Albus!" "Relax Severus. He'll wake up soon."
Two days later
Severus was in his normal post of sitting next to his son when Harry groaned. "Harry? Harry is that you?" "D-dad?" "Yes, it's
me Harry. Come on, wake up." Harry's eyes fluttered open and took in the face of his concerned father, the hospital wing, and
the absense of his daughters.
"Where are Lily and Raven?" Severus laughed, "Harry, you have a single track mind. Relax, their with Albus. He wanted to do
something and this was all he could think of." "How long have I been asleep?" "Two weeks and a day." Harry groaned again,
"Why me?" "Because Fate isn't on your side." Severus spoke with out thinking and corrected himself upon seeing Harry's
skepical face, "Well, she is but...you know what I mean."
Harry chuckled, "I do." He looked around, "Geez, they really ought to give me my own room in here. I'm here often enough. I
suspect that you'll have gray hair by the end of the year." A thought seemed to strike Harry. "Oh crap. Have Ron and Hermione
been Owling me?" "Yes as a matter of fact they have."
Severus produced a large stack of letters. "I think their worried." Harry nodded in agreement as he opened the most recent
letter. "Yup. Listen to this:
Harry,
Where are you? Hermione and I are really worried mate. Are you going to come to diagon Ally with us or not? If you're not we
can only assume that Voldemort has taken you and start a whole-scale panic.
Write soon-
Ron
The older made made a face at the letter Harry was holding, "How on earth can that boy sound so panicked and then be calm the
next second? Honestly." "Ron is just worried, he's always like that. When are they going to Diagon Alley and can I go?" "Yes
you can go and their going in two days." Harry nodded, "And that will give me time to think about what I'm going to say to
them."
"Uhm, Harry, don't you think you should finish healing yourself? I mean, the scratches are healing nicely but...you know."
Harry nodded again, his face clouding over as he remembered what had happened. "I suppose Professor Dumbledore wants to talk
to me?" "He does." A voice said from the door.
"Oh! Professor. I didn't see you there. Come in...I guess." "Thank you, I think I will." Albus walked in and smiled slightly.
"I think your daughters missed you." He handed the two babies to their father and they cooed with happiness and snuggled
against their father, who smiled fondly down at them.
"Raven, Lily. You're safe." He kissed the top of their heads slilently and turned back to his Father and Professor. "Alright,
what do you want me to say?" "Well, you can start by calling me Albus, but only when there are no other students around of
course, wouldn't want them to think you were getting special treatment or some nonsense of the sort right Severus?"
"Err, right Albus." "Then you can tell me what happened over the summer from the time you left Kings Cross." "Very well."
Harry then proceded to tell them what had happend durning his stay at the Dursley's. By the time he was done both Severus
and Albus were white from the shock of what the boy had gone through and the fact that he was still living.
"Harry, I'm so sorry. I never should have left you with those people, Minerva warned me but I was so proud, I could never do
anything wrong, I was right in this. I let my pride destroy your life." "Pro-er-Albus. It is not your fault at all. You could
have never known that the Dursley's would prove to be so cruel. I don't blame you."
As Harry forgave Albus, the man seemed to be listening to what he was saying and feel the guilt slide from him. "Thank you
Harry, I needed to hear that." Severus remained quiet, he was certain Harry knew what he felt and what he would say so he
kept quiet, until he remembered somthing he had been thinking about for the past few weeks. "Harry. I have something I'd like
to ask you."
He was very nervous, what if Harry laughed at him and rejected him? He had begun to really love the boy and his children.
"What's that father?" That one word, Father, increased Severus' faith in what he was going to ask. "Well, biologically you
are my son. Legally you are James Potter's son. I would like to adopt you." Harry went quiet thinking about what Severus
preposed. "I would like that Severus."
Severus couldn't believe his ears, yes! His son had said yes! "A-alright then. I have the forms right here. I need three
witness'. Albus could you get Poppy and Aura in here please? I want to do this as soon as possible!" "One second Severus,
just let me call them."
The old man went to the fireplace, "Aura, could you come down to the hospital wing please?" The women's voice could be heard
at the other end, "Is something wrong with Harry Albus?" She sounded terrified the answer would be yes. "No my dear, quite
the opposite." "Alright, stand back, I'll come through."
Albus quickly stepped back and Aura Fade stepped through the fireplace. "Harry! You're up!" She ran over to the bed and hugged
him tightly, "Don't you every do that to me again! Do you understand me young man?" Harry nodded, smiling. He had never really
had anyone to mother him before and he was enjoying it.
Within moments Poppy was in the room and Albus explained what was going on. "Do you have the papers Severus?" "Right here."
Soon the papers were signed and congradulations were given amist tears and laughs and the three men were left alone with the
babies.
"Well, now that that's settled, I need to hear what I am going to do when I go to meet Ron and Hermione." And so
the group of men talked for the rest of the day on what to do with Ron and Hermione, combining Albus' wisdom, Severus' cunning
and Harry's power and imagination.
At Diagon Ally
"You remember what we're going to do?" Severus asked, grinning maliously. "Got it." Harry wishpered back, grinning the same
way. "You know, you carrying two babies kinda ruines the effect." "So what? I'm not leaving Raven and Lily alone in the castle
with only Trelawny to watch them." "Albus could have-" "Albus has a meeting. Come on, I ready." "Good. Lets go."
Ron and Hermione
"Where is Harry?" "I don't know Ron. I'm sure he'll be here soon." Ron and Hermione were standing in front of Gringotts
waiting for Harry to arrive when suddenly Snape and a boy who looked to be his son appered. The boy was strange looking. He
had scars all over what was visible of his body. On his face there were many minor scars along with two bad ones that went
from the corner of each eye to the corner of the same side of his mouth. On top of that he was over seven feet tall and wearing
sunglasses. "Ah, Mr.Weasley, Ms.Granger. Lost with out Mr.Potter to lead you?"
"No. In fact we're oof-!" Hermione had elbowed Ron in the stomache. "No Professor Snape of course not. We were just waiting
for him. I know he was staying at Hogwarts, have you seen him?" "Don't you think I have better things to do then babysit
Potter?" "I'm sure you do but all the same-." "I haven't seen Mr./Potter/ in several days." He turned to his son.
"I will leave you here then. I don't suppose you'll let me take the children?" "No father. I don't want to chance loosing
them." "Very well. Watch your back." With that he swept away. The boy turned to Ron and Hermione who he could see where
watching him with intrest.
"Did you want something?" He snapped, though he was laughing inside. "Yeah um, have you been at Hogwarts." "Yes." "Well, do
know where Harry is?" "I've seen him around." "Well where then?" Hermione cried looking exasperated. "In the mirror." The
boy replied, the laughter now apparent in his voice.
"What on earth are you talking about? Where is Harry?" "Hermione calm down. It's me." The boy's form shimmered and became the
Harry Potter they knew from last year. "Harry? Is that really you?" "Yes-of-course it is." Harry stuttered out between laughs.
"You scared us for a moment there mate. Imagine /Snape/ having a son!"
Upon hearing this Harry straitened, "Oh, but he does." "Have you met him?" "Yes." "Well?" "Well what?" Harry asked. "Well,
what is he like?" Harry sighed, "Come on, I need to talk to you two. Let's go and get a parlor in the leaky cauldren." When
he turned around to head that way, Ron and Hermoine got a view of the babies hanging off his back as well as the snake around
his neck, and the fox with the babies.
"Harry where on ear-" "I'll explain in a moment." He led them to the Leaky Caldron and got a parlor where they could talk
privatly. "Alright Harry, what's going on? Why were you disgused as Snapes son, why do you have two babies, and why were you
at Hogwarts over the summer, and why are you wearing sunglasses?"
"Whoa Hermione, one question at a time. Alright, I need to tell you right now that whatever I tell you must remain a secret
until I choose to divulge it. Do you agree to keep it a secret?" Ron and Hermione instently agreed. "Good. I was hoping
you'd say that." With a wave of his hand a big blue bubble appeared around them and the entire room.
"Harry what's that?" "That Hermione is a spell that blocks anything from hearing, seeing, or recording what goes on in this
room until I take it down." "How did you do it?" "I'll get to that later." Harry paused for a moment. "I need you two to
not inturrup me at all once I get started this is very hard for me and I have no idea how you'll re-act. Alright?" They both
nodded. "Alright."
"I hope that what I tell you won't change our friendship but if you feel that you can nolonger be my friends I will understand."
He looked at Hermione who looked like she was going to explode trying to comfort him, "Now Hermione, listen to what I'm going
to say before you disagree with me. Now, over the summer I was abused by the Dursleys. Viciously. I nearly died. After my
birthday I owled a professor at Hogwarts who came and took me from there. There was nothing either of you could do by the
way so don't blame yourselves.
"The way I look now is a disguse. I will not lift it just yet because I have some things to say before I do. On my birthday
I discoverd that Lily Potter is not my mother. A women that few people know. Mortals who know her call her by her birth name,
which is Beryl. She currently is Fate.
I know that sounds crazy but it's true. Later on, about two days after my birthday, I learned the identity of my father. His
name is.....Severus Snape." At this Ron gave a startled exclimation but was quieted by Hermione. "But I get ahead of myself.
Before I came to Hogwarts, just when I got off the train and came to the Dursly's for the summer I found out that my Aunt
Petunia had had triplets. One boy who was exactly like Petunia and two girls who looked nothing like her or Vernon.
These two girls are not really Petunia and Vernon's. They are mine. My mother gave them life magically and I gave them my
blood with a spell. They are legally and biologically my daughters. These are them." He lifted Raven and Lily onto his lap.
"Meet Lily Dove Snape and Raven Rose Snape. I am Harry James Snape.
"Any way, continueing, I found out that I am the Lord of Fate. I have many titles including Keeper of the Ways, Magus, Mage,
(a/n Yes in my mind they are diffrent. A Magus know ancient spells as well as a very powerful wizard and a Mage is an
extremly powerful wizard with natrual abilites, animal speak, shapeshitfing, ect.) Lord of Fate, Keeper of Ancient Lore,
and more. I am very powerful and have learned all the ancient forms of magic.
"I have inherited my powers from Merlin, Godric Gryffindor, and Fate. Now I am going to drop the illusion on my body. Is that
alright with you?" Hermione and Ron nodded dumbly, they were shocked by the things they had learned. "Alright, this is the
real me. I have had an illusion over me for all my life." With that, Harry dropped the illusion.
Both of his friends gasped in shock. Before them sat the Snapes son. Scars, height and all. "Now I am going to change my
voice back to it's correct sound." He did but didn't say anything so Hermione and Ron couldn't hear what it had changed to.
"Harry, what happened to your face?" "Vernon attacked me with a hot poker. Now I am going to take off the sunglasses and I
ask you not to pity me. I am fine." His voice was deep and musical, a beautiful sound.
But with that the glasses were off and they saw that Harry Snape was blind. Hermione burst into tears and Ron looked like he
would like to cry as well. After a while Hermione asked, "Did it hurt Harry?" "Yes, alot. I now have what is known as the
second sight. Just like my ansestor did before me."
"Why do you have a Crooked Fang and a Winged Fox?" "Ah, I was wondering if you had seen them. They are my familiars. The snake
was a present from my father. His name is Osiris. The Fox found me and we bonded. Her name is StarBorn. I also have a moon
phoenix for my familiar. Her name is EvenSong. You can meet her later. She opted not to come."
"Just how powerful are you?" This was from Ron. Harry sighed, he hoped that Ron would not become jealous. Contrary to what
he had said, Harry would be crushed if Ron and Hermione hated him after this. "I don't know. Powerful enough that I could
make a staff." "Can we see it?" "Yes." With a wave of his hand Harry summounded his staff.
It was beautiful. The wood was a redish gold and it had black runes carved into it. On the top was what appeared to be the
claw of a phoenix made out of wood holding a smoky gold globe. "Harry, this is the most powerful kind of staff to ever
exist!" Hermione gasped, she couldn't believe Harry was this powerful. "I know Hermione. It was strenghtened by my bond with
the three animals who donated the cores."
Ron looked alittle confused at the turn in the conversation but caught up quickly. "Does this mean you're going to be able to
defete Voldemort?" "No. I have to wait until my daughters are grown. And I will have to place a secrecy spell on the both of
you. This will prevail over even the vertiserum. It is an ancient spell that Merlin invented but never told anyone about."
"I understand." Hermione said quietly. "Good." "I don't envy you at all Harry, I wouldn't be in your place for all the gold
in the world. I am truely sorry about last year. I don't know what came over me." "I understand. Do you two still want to
hang around me then? The son of the greasy potions master?"
"Of course Harry!" Hermione flung her arms around him and began to sob into his shoulders. "Why didn't you tell me? I could
have helped, I could have-" Her voice broke with sobs. "It's alright Hermione, it's alright." He shot a bewildered look at
Ron who could only shrug back at him in response. Who could understand girls?" (a/n I am a girl by the way. Just in case you
were curious...)
Finally Harry managed to pry Hermione off him and announced that he had to feed his daughters, who had been playing in a
magical playpen while Harry talked to his friends. "So Harry, what's it like to be a dad at such a young age?" "Well, it's
pretty weird." Said Harry as he began to feed Raven, she being the hungrier of the two. "I love them so much though and I
will never leave them like I was left."
Hermione looked down at the babies and at Harry. He seemed to happy with his children. She wished that she could become part
of that family. She loved Harry with all her heart. It was painful to see him every day and not be with him. Unfortunetly
she couldn't do anything about it, she couldn't risk ruining their friendship.
"May I hold one?" "Sure, why don't you feed Lily? I've kinda got my hands full. There is a bottle in the carrier, here." He
summounded the bottle for her. "It is very helpful to be able to do wandless magic at times like these." "Thank you."
Hermione said briskly, hiding her true feelings from Harry.
Ron just watched with intrest. He didn't know how to take care of a baby. When Ginny was born he was only one or two years
old and so he hadn't ever really had to mess with a baby. Just as well. He thought to himself. He'd probebly screw it up
anyway. Besides, there were more interesting things to do."
After many hours with Ron and Hermione, talking and getting their school supplies, Harry was exhausted. He had only gotten
out of the hospital yesterday and had no intention of going back so soon. "I gotta go and met my father you guys." Ron and
Hermione both noticed the trill in his voice as he said the word father. "Alright Harry. We'll see you at the sorting then."
"Bye!" "Bye!" "See ya!" With that they separated, all heading home a diffrent way.
TO BE CONTINUED...
There. Whew. Long chapter. Longest yet in fact. A whole... ten pages! A record for me...I think. I guess I'm not really
sure. Well, Review!