Lord of Fate
Illustrious Sorrow
Disclaimer: Hmm, i haven't done one of these in a while, so I thought I might as well. I don't own Harry Potter and I don't
own his second sight, which comes from the Lost Years of Merlin series.
IMPORTENT AUTHOR'S NOTES: Earlier in the story, I said that Harry can remember anything after he had read it once. I want to
change my mind. Let's say that it takes a few times reading it to memorize it and that he can do simple spells after only one
try but it takes longer for more complicated spells.
Chapter 9: End of Summer and More Suprises
Harry woke up to hearing his name called, "Harry, Harry, please wake up!" It was his father. "Dad?" Harry asked sleepily.
"Harry! You're up!" "Yeah so? I need to test my potion dad, that means you can't inturupt my experiment." "Do you have any
idea how long you've been sleeping?" "No."
"Three days!" "Oh. I guess I should use only one drop." "Guess so, now get up." "Who took care of Lily and Raven?" "I did.
They're fine, don't worry." "Alright alright." Harry pulled himself out of bed. "Harry, if the potion still hadn't worn off
then how did you wake up?" "Oh, I set it so that when my name was called I would wake up."
This caused Severus to gape in suprise. That was an incredably difficult thing to do. "Well, are you going to get out so I
can change or not?" "Oh! Yeah, of course. Hurry up."
Within minutes Harry was out of bed and in the great hall with his father and daughters. "Hello girls, did you miss me?" He
asked, chuckling slightly. They both grugled at him and he fed them their mashed goop. They were starting to eat solid foods
now, but they did still eat the goop.
Soon they were done and Harry took them outside to play in the sun. His father joined them soon and they had a fun filled
day outside. (a/n aurrgh! This did not sound so cheesy in my head.) The days slipped by and soon it was time for school to
start.
About a half an hour befor the students would arrive, Harry was sitting in the Great Hall alone at the Gryffindor table. In
order to prevent the students from discovering his blindness, Harry had put an illusion over his eyes to make them look
normal. Few of the professors were there yet, but Harry decided that he wanted to read a bit before the students came
in. It was a book on child care. A book from the magical world, not the muggle one. Harry wanted to see what diffrences there
were in child care between the two worlds.
The book was extremly interesting, but then, Harry had been finding that all his text books and similar books had gained an
odd appeal for him. He wanted as much information as he could get. He looked up in surprise as he heard the mass of children
running into the hall. He continued his book and could feel the surprise of the students as they saw him sitting at the table.
Harry knew how he looked to the waiting students. He was a large man, with long black, red, and white hair pulled back in a
ponytail. He was reading a book on Magical Child Care and had he feet propped up on the chair across from him. He was looked
just like Professor Snape, and yet was sitting at the Gryffindor table. From the wrinkles around his eyes, he looked around
forty, despite the fact that he was only chronologically fifteen.
With a sigh, Harry marked the pages in the book and looked up at the other students. "Can I help you?" He asked the crowd that
had gathered at the end of the table. Then, from the back of the crowd, people heard Hermione shouting, "Harry! How are you?"
As she and Ron pushed their way through the crowd.
"Hermione! Ron! Good to see you." Harry stood up to welcome his friends and heard most of the student body gasp as they saw
the extent of his 7' height. "What have you been doing since I saw you last?" He asked as they sat down. "Well, I stayed at
Hermione's house for a while, have you seen all the things those Muggles can do?" "Yes Ron, I have." "Oh. Right. I knew that."
It was then that Hermione noticed all the people around them. "Is there a problem?" She asked, her voice icy. Most of the
students standing around were shocked by the tone of her voice and hurried to their own tables. All that was left was Draco
Malfoy, looking sadly lacking next to Harry.
"Did you want something Malfoy?" "So you finally lost that scared little boy look, Potter. Just in time for the dark lord to
kill you." With that, he left to go to his own table, just slowly enough that he wasn't running. Ron and Hermione laughed at
his hasty retreat, but Harry looked thoughtful. There was something diffrent about Malfoy this year. Something...
"Harry? Harry you there?" Ron was waving his hand in front of Harry's face, when Harry suddenly snapped to. In an instent, his
staff was up and at Ron's throat. When Harry saw that it was Ron, he grinned sheepishly and put it back on the floor. Luckily
for him, nobody noticed.
The feast went well, there were nine new Gryffindors, the food was just as excelent as ever but just as the desserts appeared
a tremendous cry echoed through the great hall. Two babies were heard, screaming. Harry jumped up from the table and ran out
the great doors. In a flash, he appearated to the room where his daughters were sleeping.
"Lily, Raven, calm down." He cooed gently at them. In took a about fifteen minutes before the two babies would stop crying.
Harry sighed, he had just found that spell in the magical baby care book. It was the equivalent of a muggle baby moniter. He
just hadn't expected it to be so loud.
"I thought you girls were taking a nap? Why coudln't you just stay asleep for another twently minutes, huh?" Harry gently
cradled the girls on his lap and began to feed Lily. When the bottle was done, he fed Raven. About a half an hour later, they
were fed and happy.
Harry sighed wearily, and placed them in the slings on his stomache and back. With that done, Harry trudged down to the Great
Hall, where he suspected Albus would be waiting for him. "So, how are they Harry?" "Fine Albus, they just woke up and were
hungry. I did the moniter spell and forgot to adjust the volume. What did you tell the school?" "I said that they were my
great grandchildren and that you were looking after them for me." "Thank you. Have they all gone to the dormitory's?" "Yes,
why don't you join them?" "Alright, I think I will."
With that, Harry got up and walked out of the Great Hall. During the walk to the Dorms, Harry greeted the portraits as he
walked by, somtimes stopping for a short conversation. When he finally reached the Fat Lady's portrait, he nervously said the
password and walked in. When the house caught sight of him, there was a dead silence.
"Er, Hello?" Harry said, not sure what he was supposed to do. "Harry, were did you disapear to?" Hermione asked, frowning in
worry. "Oh, I went to my room. I had to feed Lily and Raven." Hermione nodded, "So you aren't going to stay in the house dorms?"
"Well, kinda. My room in attached to the commen room by that portait on the wall. He pointed to the portrait of two babies.
"It is also a sign of when people can come in. When the babies are sleeping, if means that Lily and Raven are sleeping and
nobody should come in. When the babies are crying...well, you get the point." Harry looked around the commen room, "So, how
was the train ride?"
"Oh, you know, the normal, Malfoy came in and threatened us again, asked where you were, laughed, and left. Other then that,
nothing happened." Harry nodded. "Good. There's something...off about Malfoy this year. I need to find out what it is."
"Something wrong with that git? Who cares?" "Ron, shut up." Ron gave Harry a hurt look and trudged off to talk with some younger
Gryffindor girl.
"Harry, what's wrong?" "Nothing Hermione, I'm fine." The monotone reply was instentanious. Hermione just gave him a look that
said she didn't believe him. "Really?" Her tone was sceptical. "Yes, really." "I don't believe you." Harry gave her a long
look. "Come to my room in about a half an hour. The password is 'family', I'll tell you then. Bring Ron with you." With that
Harry left to return to his room.
He quietly snuck into the room his daughters were sleeping in and made sure that they were alright. When he looked in, he
saw that Evensong (a/n his phoenix familiar) was settled on the table between the two cribs. "Thank you EvenSong." He sang
quietly in Phoenixi (phoenix lang.).
"Of course young Harry." Knowing that the twins were safe, Harry left the room to read while he waited for Ron and Hermione.
About twenty minutes later, Harry heard a knock on his portriat and stood up as Ron and Hermione entered his rooms. "Wow,
nice rooms mate!" "Thanks Ron." Hermione however, wanted to cut right to the chase. "What's wrong Harry?" Harry sighed, "You
really don't want to be distracted do you?" "No."
"Oh alright." He was silent. "Well?" "About a week before school started, I was invited to join the Order of the Phoenix."
"What's that?" Asked Ron. "A group of people who try and fight the dark lord." "Oh." "Anyway, we all had to be tested to see
who were the five heads of the order." "Was Dumbledore the leader?" "No, everyone thought he would be, but Albus was the fifth."
"Then who...oh." "What? I don't get it." "I am the leader. The lord phoenix for this time. I out-rank Albus Dumbledore and my
father. On top of that, a mysterious voice, the origanal Lady Phoenix, decided to grant me the ablity to understand everything
in the world, so that I can better lead the order." Hermione looked horrified but Ron still looked clueless.
"What's so bad about that?" "Ron, if a normal person, say, you or I, could understand everything in the universe, we would go
insane." "Oh. Is that why your hair is part white?" "Yes. I'll probably dye it later." "Don't, I like it." Hermione said,
blushing slightly. (a/n ahhhh) Harry looked at her and then shrugged, "Whatever. Luckily for me, my mother taught me a
technique to lock the knowledge in the back of my brain so that I only use it when I need to."
Hermione nodded and remained quiet while Ron explored the rooms. They talked until late at night and Ron left first, yawning,
saying he wanted to go to sleep. Hermione made to follow Ron, but Harry stopped her. "I would like to talk with you Hermione."
She nodded and returned to the chair across from him with a puzzled expression.
"Hermione, I have felt a strange pulling in my heart whenever I'm around you. It's not somthing I've ever felt before. Painful
but sweet. I think...I think...Well, I was wondering if you would consiter being my girlfriend?" Hermione's eyes widend in
shock. "Harry..." "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned it." "No, it's alright. I would love to go out with you." "Really?"
Harry's eyes lite up and he crossed the room to her. He pulled her into his arms and softly kissing her lips. "Goodnight
Hermione. I'll see you in the morning." "Good night Harry." Hermione exited the room and stumbled into the girls dorms.
The next morning, Harry and Hermione told Ron about their new relationship. "Really?" "Yes...you don't mind do you Ron?" "No,
of course not. Why would I? I'm really very happy for you." However his voice was distant and Harry could hear the taint of
jealousy in his voice. (a/n don't worry, Ron isn't going to be a jealous freak in this fic.)
Harry returned to his room to retrieve his daughters and the trio walked into the great hall. About halfway through breakfast,
the scheduals were passed out. "Oh man...potions first. Oh! Sorry Harry." Ron shot a guilty look at his friend, noticing the
stormy look on his face. "Don't worry Ron, I suspect potions will be...diffrent this year." Harry smiled wickedly at the
Slytherin table. "I think they are in for an unpleasent surprise this year."
Harry and Hermione were walking to potions early to talk with Harry's dad. Ron had said he would go later, he had somthing
else to do. "Harry, are you alright?" Hermione asked as they walked. "yes, yes of course I'm fine." He wrapped his arm around
her. She smiled up at him and the continued the walk.
"May I hold one of them?" She asked suddenly, surprising Harry. He looked down at her and second and then handed Raven to her.
"Did you want the carrier?" "No, I want to hold her." Harry nodded and continued walking. When they reached the potions room,
they were the only ones there. Severus walked, followed by a familiar house elf. "Hello Harry." "Father." "Hello Hermione."
"Good morning professor." "Harry, Dumbledore has asked that you hire Winky to help watch his grandchildren." "Well, I'll be
sure to thank him." He turned to Winky.
"Hello Winky, could you come here please? I'd like to introduce you to my daughters." Winky slowly walked foward and looked
at the babies. "They are very pretty, Sir." "Just call me Harry, please. And don't tell anyone these are my daughters. We are
going to be pretending they are Professor Dumbledore's granddaughters, alright?" "Yes Mr.Harry Sir." "Er...Right. What you'll do
is watch them in the back of the room while I'm in class. It's very important that you keep them safe. If they start to cry,
I'll come and take care of them. While you are watching them, you may not leave them. Can you do that?" "Yes Mr Harry sir."
"Thank you Winky. This is my first class, so I'll sit in the back and set you up a place to watch them, here." Harry waved
his staff and a magical playpen appeared in the back corner, about four feet away from the closest table. Harry and Hermione
took that table. Slowly, the classroom filled, Ron taking the table next to Harry and Hermione with Dean Thomas.
"Alright class. Stop talking. Class has begun." The class instantly became silent. "Today we will be making a soothing potion.
It helps to calm down crying babies or children. The directions and ingredients are on the board, when the potion is
finished, it should be a creamy pink color. Begin."
Snape walked back around to his desk and sat down, watching the class. After everybody had begun to make their potions, the
professor got up again and began to walk around. When he passed Malfoy, he snapped, "Don't add that Mr.Malfoy. Your potion
will explode. You've forgotten the unicorn horn. Five points from Slytherin for being careless."
The entire class gapped as Snape corrected one of his /precious/ Slytherins. "Don't you have a potion to make?" growled Snape
icily, making the class jump. There was a general mummer of ascent and then the room faded to quiet as the students began
their potions.
Harry added the last ingredient and smiled in satisfaction as it turned the correct shade of pink. Now he could use this
on Lily and Raven, which would be a releive as they tended to wake up during the night. "Very good Mr.Snape. Perfect." And
with that Professor Snape walked on.
The entire class stared at Harry in shock, who in turn, only smiled and opened another book on magical childcare. As soon as
class was over, Harry was bombarded by his classmates, asking what was going on, and why Professor Snape had called him
Mr.Snape. Finally, Harry couldn't take it anymore. He was pressed against his desk from all sides and he could hear his
daughters crying.
With a brutesque hand motion, Harry created a sheild, pretending to use a fake wand he had gotten. "Everybody QUIET!" He
yelled in a loud voice. "I have class and you're scaring the babies so Shut Up!" Everybody was silent. "I don't care about
your questions right now. Move!" He waved his hands (and the fake wand) and the sea of people parted and Harry was able to
get to his daughters.
"Lily, Raven, are you alright?" "They are fine, Mr Harry sir, Winky takes care of them." "Thank you Winky. I'll meet you in
my next class. Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration in twenty minutes." "Yes sir." Winky dissapeared with a pop. "Harry!
Are you alright?" Asked Hermione as she pushed though the sheild.
When the crowd realized that Hermione could break though the sheild, they tried to as well, but failed and retreated sporting
bruises. Harry sighed and, with Hermione and the twins, pushed through the crowd. When they reached the end of the room, they
run down the hall the the transfiguration room. They got there and found Ron waiting for them. He laughed that their appearance.
"Yeah, when Professor Snape said your name, I knew it would be a good idea to run for my life." "Yeah, good for you." Said
Harry, not looking to happy. He lifed the babies out of the carriers on his back and began to play with them. Soon the room
was echoing with the sound of the babies laughing.
Once the students began to come in, Harry created another playpen and called Winky to watch them. Again, Harry and Hermione
shared the desk closest to the babies. When class started, Professor McGonagall began to call role. "Abigal, Susan." "Here!"
Everything was fairly ordinary, until she reached Harry's name. "Snape, Harry." Harry nearly missed his name, he had been
reading again. So when Hermione elbowed him, there had already been a slight, tension building silence. "Oh, Here!" Harry said
which, imedetly caused the students to go wild with talking, most of them mobbing Harry.
Professor McGonagall was, for once in her life, unable to regain control of her class. Harry got progressivly more and more
angry as people continued to bludgeon him for answers. Finally, he pushed everyone away, in a massive display of magic.
"Everyone Shut UP!" The room was silent. "I'll explain later. Now go back to your seats and listen to Professor McGonagall."
The students complied in a state of shock.
(a/n hmm, that seems to be happening alot doesn't it?)
When everyone was back in their seats, McGonagall began to speak. "Ten points from both of your houses, for disrupting class.
And five points to Gryffindor, for Harry getting the class settled again. Now, today we will begin our human transfiguration
unit. You will be transfiguring animals first, then yourselves. If any of you show particular ability to do so, then I will
continue training to in becoming an animagus. Alright then, everybody get a turtle and return to your desks, today we will
be trying to turn it into a rabbit."
There was a general rush as people got turtles and returned to their seats. As the lesson progessed, only five people were
able to change their turtles into rabbits. Those included Harry, Hermione, Hannah Able, Justin, and surprisingly Neville. Each
of these people were awarded twently points to their houses and were let out early.
That night at dinner, Harry stood up at dinner and walked up to the head table and began to talk to Albus. "Albus, do you mind
if I make an announcement? I'm tried of people asking me about my name." "Of course Harry, go ahead." "Thank you." Harry
walked to the middle of the Great Hall and stopped. "Sonorus." He said, pointed the fake wand at his throat.
"I have an announcement. My name is Harry James Snape, previously Harry Potter. I have been re-united with my birth father,
Professor Snape. Lily and James Potter were my adopted parents. I would appreciate it if you would all refrain from asking
questions. Thank you." With that, Harry removed the charm and sat down.
The Hall was silent for a moment, and then flooded with chatter again, most about Harry and his parentage. Harry sighed as
he sat down and began to feed his daughters. "Well, that went well." Ron and Hermione stared at Harry breifly before begining
their own dinners.
When everybody was done, Harry and Hermione left for the library, Ron had begged off, saying he had something to do. Harry
suspected that Ron had someone to see rather then something to do, but if his friend wanted to keep it a secret, so be it.
That evening Harry and Hermione studied and talked before going to bed. For the next two weeks, everything was good. Harry
pretended to have a hard time in his classes, his relationship with Hermione grew closer, and the school became used to the
idea that Snape was Harry's father got used to seeing him caring for the two babies they thought were Dumbledor's grandchildren.
Then, September 16, that all changed.
As the clock struck midnight and the date changed from the 15th to the 16th, a horible screaming shook the Gryffindor dorms.
Harry was instantly in Hermione's room, his daughters hidden in a sheild in his rooms. He had a dagger in his hand and his
staff pointed in the direction of the screams. When he saw that there was no attacker in the room, he ran up to Hermione's
bed where his girlfriend was withering in unimaginable pain.
Harry wasn't sure what was going on, but he had an idea. As he watched, Hermione began to change. Her body lengthened and she
grew more muscular. Her hair straighted and grew until it reached the middle of her back and with one last heart-wrenching
scream, Hermione fell silent. Harry gathered Hermione into his arms and apparated into his rooms, which were protected against
magical damage.
After several hours, Hermione woke up. She opened her eyes slowly, and Harry could see that her eyes now contained the same
golden flecks his own did. "Harry." She whispered softly. "How do you feel Hermione?" "I'm fine. I've come into my powers."
"I know. You are exactly equal to me. We are each other's other half. We complete each other." "Soul Mates." Suddenly, a loud
phoenix song blasted through the room, speaking the prophacy.
"A child will be born,
Into a world full of hate and scorn,
Son of Fate and mortal man,
Delivered in a human woman,
He will banish the evil lord,
So he can grow up, though for years he will be abhorred,
At eleven joy will come,
A giant man will be the one to take him from,
The place were only outside evil could not reach.
The boy will come to a place were great ones teach,
And find love was never beyond his reach,
His friends be true, his actions great,
To protect them will always be his fate.
At fifteen he will find,
His mother was always at his side,
That he comes from Merlin and a founder great,
More will happen on this happy date,
His looks will begin the change,
Friends will think that he looks strange.
A savior he'll be,
Strong and True though longing to be free,
A fighting lord through and through,
Two daughters he'll have,
They'll help to fight the worlds worst evil,
He must meet and accept his father,
Bond with his familiars,
And come to know his other half,
Only then will the dark be truly defeted,
Only if all is done, will this come to pass."
Harry and Hermione laughed. It was true, they were like one. Lily and Raven had woken up when the song began and were giggling
in their crib. "Hermione, your babies. You must do the same ritual Harry did, and make them your own." Harry and Hermione
whirled around and found Fate staring at them. "Daughter, Son, your babies."
Harry smiled and brought Lily and Raven to his Soul Mate. "All you have to do is except them as your own and cut along their
old scars. Then make the same cut on each of your palms. Grasp their hands and mingle the blood. They will become your daughters
in every way."
Slowly, Hermione did the ritual and the babies had both a mother and a father. As the two parents held their children and each
other close, Fate spoke up again. "There are more rituals you must complete. Tomorrow you will tell Severus and Albus that you
will be leaving for a while. Tell them you will be safe but you don't know when you'll be back. It could be as little as a
day to as much as years. Then come to me. We have much to speak about."
Beryl (a/n remember, that's fate mortal name) smilied fondly at her new daughter and her son, and dissapeared in a flash of
golden light.
TO BE CONTINUED...
IMPORTANT
Authors Note: Ok, Many things to say. 1. I realize this chapter was confusing, the next chapter will hopefully clear
everything up. 2. I've been told that my format is confusing. Next chapter I'll be trying a diffrent format and I'll need
you to tell me what you think of it. 3. I'm really sorry about the delay with this chapter. I had finals and my teachers
decided that the last month of school would be a great time to heap the homework on. Now that I'm on break, the updates should
be quicker. 4. If you read the story, please review. I don't know what happened to everybody who used to read this story,
but the seem to have disapeared. It doesn't take much time to review, so I'd really appreciate it. Thanks for reading my
story.
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athenakitty- As you see, the potion did work, alittle too well in fact... There'll be more about Harry and Hermione's power
in the next chapter. Yes, I did enlist Winky, hope you liked that!
LoMaRiBa- The last chapter was probably more polished because it went through my beta readers, this one didn't by the way,
so there are tons of mistakes. Sorry you don't like my authors notes, I'll try to cut them down, but I am
going to continue to put them in the story. A number system is to confusing, I think.
Sorry about the color system in the last chapter. I hadn't thought it was very confusing when I wrote it, but
I guess it was. I don't beleive I ever said that Harry glowed blue. In fact, I just checked, I didn't. Maybe
you read it wrong?
I don't understand what your question is about the blue not indicating that Albus was the leader. He is not
the leader. The color Blue was for the fifth position in the order. If you are still confused, please feel
free to ask me again. I'm sorry if I didn't explain it well.
I'm happy that you like that Albus isn't the leader and I hope you'll continue to read my story, even if it's
confusing. Hope you liked the chapter.
Illustrious Sorrow
Disclaimer: Hmm, i haven't done one of these in a while, so I thought I might as well. I don't own Harry Potter and I don't
own his second sight, which comes from the Lost Years of Merlin series.
IMPORTENT AUTHOR'S NOTES: Earlier in the story, I said that Harry can remember anything after he had read it once. I want to
change my mind. Let's say that it takes a few times reading it to memorize it and that he can do simple spells after only one
try but it takes longer for more complicated spells.
Chapter 9: End of Summer and More Suprises
Harry woke up to hearing his name called, "Harry, Harry, please wake up!" It was his father. "Dad?" Harry asked sleepily.
"Harry! You're up!" "Yeah so? I need to test my potion dad, that means you can't inturupt my experiment." "Do you have any
idea how long you've been sleeping?" "No."
"Three days!" "Oh. I guess I should use only one drop." "Guess so, now get up." "Who took care of Lily and Raven?" "I did.
They're fine, don't worry." "Alright alright." Harry pulled himself out of bed. "Harry, if the potion still hadn't worn off
then how did you wake up?" "Oh, I set it so that when my name was called I would wake up."
This caused Severus to gape in suprise. That was an incredably difficult thing to do. "Well, are you going to get out so I
can change or not?" "Oh! Yeah, of course. Hurry up."
Within minutes Harry was out of bed and in the great hall with his father and daughters. "Hello girls, did you miss me?" He
asked, chuckling slightly. They both grugled at him and he fed them their mashed goop. They were starting to eat solid foods
now, but they did still eat the goop.
Soon they were done and Harry took them outside to play in the sun. His father joined them soon and they had a fun filled
day outside. (a/n aurrgh! This did not sound so cheesy in my head.) The days slipped by and soon it was time for school to
start.
About a half an hour befor the students would arrive, Harry was sitting in the Great Hall alone at the Gryffindor table. In
order to prevent the students from discovering his blindness, Harry had put an illusion over his eyes to make them look
normal. Few of the professors were there yet, but Harry decided that he wanted to read a bit before the students came
in. It was a book on child care. A book from the magical world, not the muggle one. Harry wanted to see what diffrences there
were in child care between the two worlds.
The book was extremly interesting, but then, Harry had been finding that all his text books and similar books had gained an
odd appeal for him. He wanted as much information as he could get. He looked up in surprise as he heard the mass of children
running into the hall. He continued his book and could feel the surprise of the students as they saw him sitting at the table.
Harry knew how he looked to the waiting students. He was a large man, with long black, red, and white hair pulled back in a
ponytail. He was reading a book on Magical Child Care and had he feet propped up on the chair across from him. He was looked
just like Professor Snape, and yet was sitting at the Gryffindor table. From the wrinkles around his eyes, he looked around
forty, despite the fact that he was only chronologically fifteen.
With a sigh, Harry marked the pages in the book and looked up at the other students. "Can I help you?" He asked the crowd that
had gathered at the end of the table. Then, from the back of the crowd, people heard Hermione shouting, "Harry! How are you?"
As she and Ron pushed their way through the crowd.
"Hermione! Ron! Good to see you." Harry stood up to welcome his friends and heard most of the student body gasp as they saw
the extent of his 7' height. "What have you been doing since I saw you last?" He asked as they sat down. "Well, I stayed at
Hermione's house for a while, have you seen all the things those Muggles can do?" "Yes Ron, I have." "Oh. Right. I knew that."
It was then that Hermione noticed all the people around them. "Is there a problem?" She asked, her voice icy. Most of the
students standing around were shocked by the tone of her voice and hurried to their own tables. All that was left was Draco
Malfoy, looking sadly lacking next to Harry.
"Did you want something Malfoy?" "So you finally lost that scared little boy look, Potter. Just in time for the dark lord to
kill you." With that, he left to go to his own table, just slowly enough that he wasn't running. Ron and Hermione laughed at
his hasty retreat, but Harry looked thoughtful. There was something diffrent about Malfoy this year. Something...
"Harry? Harry you there?" Ron was waving his hand in front of Harry's face, when Harry suddenly snapped to. In an instent, his
staff was up and at Ron's throat. When Harry saw that it was Ron, he grinned sheepishly and put it back on the floor. Luckily
for him, nobody noticed.
The feast went well, there were nine new Gryffindors, the food was just as excelent as ever but just as the desserts appeared
a tremendous cry echoed through the great hall. Two babies were heard, screaming. Harry jumped up from the table and ran out
the great doors. In a flash, he appearated to the room where his daughters were sleeping.
"Lily, Raven, calm down." He cooed gently at them. In took a about fifteen minutes before the two babies would stop crying.
Harry sighed, he had just found that spell in the magical baby care book. It was the equivalent of a muggle baby moniter. He
just hadn't expected it to be so loud.
"I thought you girls were taking a nap? Why coudln't you just stay asleep for another twently minutes, huh?" Harry gently
cradled the girls on his lap and began to feed Lily. When the bottle was done, he fed Raven. About a half an hour later, they
were fed and happy.
Harry sighed wearily, and placed them in the slings on his stomache and back. With that done, Harry trudged down to the Great
Hall, where he suspected Albus would be waiting for him. "So, how are they Harry?" "Fine Albus, they just woke up and were
hungry. I did the moniter spell and forgot to adjust the volume. What did you tell the school?" "I said that they were my
great grandchildren and that you were looking after them for me." "Thank you. Have they all gone to the dormitory's?" "Yes,
why don't you join them?" "Alright, I think I will."
With that, Harry got up and walked out of the Great Hall. During the walk to the Dorms, Harry greeted the portraits as he
walked by, somtimes stopping for a short conversation. When he finally reached the Fat Lady's portrait, he nervously said the
password and walked in. When the house caught sight of him, there was a dead silence.
"Er, Hello?" Harry said, not sure what he was supposed to do. "Harry, were did you disapear to?" Hermione asked, frowning in
worry. "Oh, I went to my room. I had to feed Lily and Raven." Hermione nodded, "So you aren't going to stay in the house dorms?"
"Well, kinda. My room in attached to the commen room by that portait on the wall. He pointed to the portrait of two babies.
"It is also a sign of when people can come in. When the babies are sleeping, if means that Lily and Raven are sleeping and
nobody should come in. When the babies are crying...well, you get the point." Harry looked around the commen room, "So, how
was the train ride?"
"Oh, you know, the normal, Malfoy came in and threatened us again, asked where you were, laughed, and left. Other then that,
nothing happened." Harry nodded. "Good. There's something...off about Malfoy this year. I need to find out what it is."
"Something wrong with that git? Who cares?" "Ron, shut up." Ron gave Harry a hurt look and trudged off to talk with some younger
Gryffindor girl.
"Harry, what's wrong?" "Nothing Hermione, I'm fine." The monotone reply was instentanious. Hermione just gave him a look that
said she didn't believe him. "Really?" Her tone was sceptical. "Yes, really." "I don't believe you." Harry gave her a long
look. "Come to my room in about a half an hour. The password is 'family', I'll tell you then. Bring Ron with you." With that
Harry left to return to his room.
He quietly snuck into the room his daughters were sleeping in and made sure that they were alright. When he looked in, he
saw that Evensong (a/n his phoenix familiar) was settled on the table between the two cribs. "Thank you EvenSong." He sang
quietly in Phoenixi (phoenix lang.).
"Of course young Harry." Knowing that the twins were safe, Harry left the room to read while he waited for Ron and Hermione.
About twenty minutes later, Harry heard a knock on his portriat and stood up as Ron and Hermione entered his rooms. "Wow,
nice rooms mate!" "Thanks Ron." Hermione however, wanted to cut right to the chase. "What's wrong Harry?" Harry sighed, "You
really don't want to be distracted do you?" "No."
"Oh alright." He was silent. "Well?" "About a week before school started, I was invited to join the Order of the Phoenix."
"What's that?" Asked Ron. "A group of people who try and fight the dark lord." "Oh." "Anyway, we all had to be tested to see
who were the five heads of the order." "Was Dumbledore the leader?" "No, everyone thought he would be, but Albus was the fifth."
"Then who...oh." "What? I don't get it." "I am the leader. The lord phoenix for this time. I out-rank Albus Dumbledore and my
father. On top of that, a mysterious voice, the origanal Lady Phoenix, decided to grant me the ablity to understand everything
in the world, so that I can better lead the order." Hermione looked horrified but Ron still looked clueless.
"What's so bad about that?" "Ron, if a normal person, say, you or I, could understand everything in the universe, we would go
insane." "Oh. Is that why your hair is part white?" "Yes. I'll probably dye it later." "Don't, I like it." Hermione said,
blushing slightly. (a/n ahhhh) Harry looked at her and then shrugged, "Whatever. Luckily for me, my mother taught me a
technique to lock the knowledge in the back of my brain so that I only use it when I need to."
Hermione nodded and remained quiet while Ron explored the rooms. They talked until late at night and Ron left first, yawning,
saying he wanted to go to sleep. Hermione made to follow Ron, but Harry stopped her. "I would like to talk with you Hermione."
She nodded and returned to the chair across from him with a puzzled expression.
"Hermione, I have felt a strange pulling in my heart whenever I'm around you. It's not somthing I've ever felt before. Painful
but sweet. I think...I think...Well, I was wondering if you would consiter being my girlfriend?" Hermione's eyes widend in
shock. "Harry..." "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned it." "No, it's alright. I would love to go out with you." "Really?"
Harry's eyes lite up and he crossed the room to her. He pulled her into his arms and softly kissing her lips. "Goodnight
Hermione. I'll see you in the morning." "Good night Harry." Hermione exited the room and stumbled into the girls dorms.
The next morning, Harry and Hermione told Ron about their new relationship. "Really?" "Yes...you don't mind do you Ron?" "No,
of course not. Why would I? I'm really very happy for you." However his voice was distant and Harry could hear the taint of
jealousy in his voice. (a/n don't worry, Ron isn't going to be a jealous freak in this fic.)
Harry returned to his room to retrieve his daughters and the trio walked into the great hall. About halfway through breakfast,
the scheduals were passed out. "Oh man...potions first. Oh! Sorry Harry." Ron shot a guilty look at his friend, noticing the
stormy look on his face. "Don't worry Ron, I suspect potions will be...diffrent this year." Harry smiled wickedly at the
Slytherin table. "I think they are in for an unpleasent surprise this year."
Harry and Hermione were walking to potions early to talk with Harry's dad. Ron had said he would go later, he had somthing
else to do. "Harry, are you alright?" Hermione asked as they walked. "yes, yes of course I'm fine." He wrapped his arm around
her. She smiled up at him and the continued the walk.
"May I hold one of them?" She asked suddenly, surprising Harry. He looked down at her and second and then handed Raven to her.
"Did you want the carrier?" "No, I want to hold her." Harry nodded and continued walking. When they reached the potions room,
they were the only ones there. Severus walked, followed by a familiar house elf. "Hello Harry." "Father." "Hello Hermione."
"Good morning professor." "Harry, Dumbledore has asked that you hire Winky to help watch his grandchildren." "Well, I'll be
sure to thank him." He turned to Winky.
"Hello Winky, could you come here please? I'd like to introduce you to my daughters." Winky slowly walked foward and looked
at the babies. "They are very pretty, Sir." "Just call me Harry, please. And don't tell anyone these are my daughters. We are
going to be pretending they are Professor Dumbledore's granddaughters, alright?" "Yes Mr.Harry Sir." "Er...Right. What you'll do
is watch them in the back of the room while I'm in class. It's very important that you keep them safe. If they start to cry,
I'll come and take care of them. While you are watching them, you may not leave them. Can you do that?" "Yes Mr Harry sir."
"Thank you Winky. This is my first class, so I'll sit in the back and set you up a place to watch them, here." Harry waved
his staff and a magical playpen appeared in the back corner, about four feet away from the closest table. Harry and Hermione
took that table. Slowly, the classroom filled, Ron taking the table next to Harry and Hermione with Dean Thomas.
"Alright class. Stop talking. Class has begun." The class instantly became silent. "Today we will be making a soothing potion.
It helps to calm down crying babies or children. The directions and ingredients are on the board, when the potion is
finished, it should be a creamy pink color. Begin."
Snape walked back around to his desk and sat down, watching the class. After everybody had begun to make their potions, the
professor got up again and began to walk around. When he passed Malfoy, he snapped, "Don't add that Mr.Malfoy. Your potion
will explode. You've forgotten the unicorn horn. Five points from Slytherin for being careless."
The entire class gapped as Snape corrected one of his /precious/ Slytherins. "Don't you have a potion to make?" growled Snape
icily, making the class jump. There was a general mummer of ascent and then the room faded to quiet as the students began
their potions.
Harry added the last ingredient and smiled in satisfaction as it turned the correct shade of pink. Now he could use this
on Lily and Raven, which would be a releive as they tended to wake up during the night. "Very good Mr.Snape. Perfect." And
with that Professor Snape walked on.
The entire class stared at Harry in shock, who in turn, only smiled and opened another book on magical childcare. As soon as
class was over, Harry was bombarded by his classmates, asking what was going on, and why Professor Snape had called him
Mr.Snape. Finally, Harry couldn't take it anymore. He was pressed against his desk from all sides and he could hear his
daughters crying.
With a brutesque hand motion, Harry created a sheild, pretending to use a fake wand he had gotten. "Everybody QUIET!" He
yelled in a loud voice. "I have class and you're scaring the babies so Shut Up!" Everybody was silent. "I don't care about
your questions right now. Move!" He waved his hands (and the fake wand) and the sea of people parted and Harry was able to
get to his daughters.
"Lily, Raven, are you alright?" "They are fine, Mr Harry sir, Winky takes care of them." "Thank you Winky. I'll meet you in
my next class. Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration in twenty minutes." "Yes sir." Winky dissapeared with a pop. "Harry!
Are you alright?" Asked Hermione as she pushed though the sheild.
When the crowd realized that Hermione could break though the sheild, they tried to as well, but failed and retreated sporting
bruises. Harry sighed and, with Hermione and the twins, pushed through the crowd. When they reached the end of the room, they
run down the hall the the transfiguration room. They got there and found Ron waiting for them. He laughed that their appearance.
"Yeah, when Professor Snape said your name, I knew it would be a good idea to run for my life." "Yeah, good for you." Said
Harry, not looking to happy. He lifed the babies out of the carriers on his back and began to play with them. Soon the room
was echoing with the sound of the babies laughing.
Once the students began to come in, Harry created another playpen and called Winky to watch them. Again, Harry and Hermione
shared the desk closest to the babies. When class started, Professor McGonagall began to call role. "Abigal, Susan." "Here!"
Everything was fairly ordinary, until she reached Harry's name. "Snape, Harry." Harry nearly missed his name, he had been
reading again. So when Hermione elbowed him, there had already been a slight, tension building silence. "Oh, Here!" Harry said
which, imedetly caused the students to go wild with talking, most of them mobbing Harry.
Professor McGonagall was, for once in her life, unable to regain control of her class. Harry got progressivly more and more
angry as people continued to bludgeon him for answers. Finally, he pushed everyone away, in a massive display of magic.
"Everyone Shut UP!" The room was silent. "I'll explain later. Now go back to your seats and listen to Professor McGonagall."
The students complied in a state of shock.
(a/n hmm, that seems to be happening alot doesn't it?)
When everyone was back in their seats, McGonagall began to speak. "Ten points from both of your houses, for disrupting class.
And five points to Gryffindor, for Harry getting the class settled again. Now, today we will begin our human transfiguration
unit. You will be transfiguring animals first, then yourselves. If any of you show particular ability to do so, then I will
continue training to in becoming an animagus. Alright then, everybody get a turtle and return to your desks, today we will
be trying to turn it into a rabbit."
There was a general rush as people got turtles and returned to their seats. As the lesson progessed, only five people were
able to change their turtles into rabbits. Those included Harry, Hermione, Hannah Able, Justin, and surprisingly Neville. Each
of these people were awarded twently points to their houses and were let out early.
That night at dinner, Harry stood up at dinner and walked up to the head table and began to talk to Albus. "Albus, do you mind
if I make an announcement? I'm tried of people asking me about my name." "Of course Harry, go ahead." "Thank you." Harry
walked to the middle of the Great Hall and stopped. "Sonorus." He said, pointed the fake wand at his throat.
"I have an announcement. My name is Harry James Snape, previously Harry Potter. I have been re-united with my birth father,
Professor Snape. Lily and James Potter were my adopted parents. I would appreciate it if you would all refrain from asking
questions. Thank you." With that, Harry removed the charm and sat down.
The Hall was silent for a moment, and then flooded with chatter again, most about Harry and his parentage. Harry sighed as
he sat down and began to feed his daughters. "Well, that went well." Ron and Hermione stared at Harry breifly before begining
their own dinners.
When everybody was done, Harry and Hermione left for the library, Ron had begged off, saying he had something to do. Harry
suspected that Ron had someone to see rather then something to do, but if his friend wanted to keep it a secret, so be it.
That evening Harry and Hermione studied and talked before going to bed. For the next two weeks, everything was good. Harry
pretended to have a hard time in his classes, his relationship with Hermione grew closer, and the school became used to the
idea that Snape was Harry's father got used to seeing him caring for the two babies they thought were Dumbledor's grandchildren.
Then, September 16, that all changed.
As the clock struck midnight and the date changed from the 15th to the 16th, a horible screaming shook the Gryffindor dorms.
Harry was instantly in Hermione's room, his daughters hidden in a sheild in his rooms. He had a dagger in his hand and his
staff pointed in the direction of the screams. When he saw that there was no attacker in the room, he ran up to Hermione's
bed where his girlfriend was withering in unimaginable pain.
Harry wasn't sure what was going on, but he had an idea. As he watched, Hermione began to change. Her body lengthened and she
grew more muscular. Her hair straighted and grew until it reached the middle of her back and with one last heart-wrenching
scream, Hermione fell silent. Harry gathered Hermione into his arms and apparated into his rooms, which were protected against
magical damage.
After several hours, Hermione woke up. She opened her eyes slowly, and Harry could see that her eyes now contained the same
golden flecks his own did. "Harry." She whispered softly. "How do you feel Hermione?" "I'm fine. I've come into my powers."
"I know. You are exactly equal to me. We are each other's other half. We complete each other." "Soul Mates." Suddenly, a loud
phoenix song blasted through the room, speaking the prophacy.
"A child will be born,
Into a world full of hate and scorn,
Son of Fate and mortal man,
Delivered in a human woman,
He will banish the evil lord,
So he can grow up, though for years he will be abhorred,
At eleven joy will come,
A giant man will be the one to take him from,
The place were only outside evil could not reach.
The boy will come to a place were great ones teach,
And find love was never beyond his reach,
His friends be true, his actions great,
To protect them will always be his fate.
At fifteen he will find,
His mother was always at his side,
That he comes from Merlin and a founder great,
More will happen on this happy date,
His looks will begin the change,
Friends will think that he looks strange.
A savior he'll be,
Strong and True though longing to be free,
A fighting lord through and through,
Two daughters he'll have,
They'll help to fight the worlds worst evil,
He must meet and accept his father,
Bond with his familiars,
And come to know his other half,
Only then will the dark be truly defeted,
Only if all is done, will this come to pass."
Harry and Hermione laughed. It was true, they were like one. Lily and Raven had woken up when the song began and were giggling
in their crib. "Hermione, your babies. You must do the same ritual Harry did, and make them your own." Harry and Hermione
whirled around and found Fate staring at them. "Daughter, Son, your babies."
Harry smiled and brought Lily and Raven to his Soul Mate. "All you have to do is except them as your own and cut along their
old scars. Then make the same cut on each of your palms. Grasp their hands and mingle the blood. They will become your daughters
in every way."
Slowly, Hermione did the ritual and the babies had both a mother and a father. As the two parents held their children and each
other close, Fate spoke up again. "There are more rituals you must complete. Tomorrow you will tell Severus and Albus that you
will be leaving for a while. Tell them you will be safe but you don't know when you'll be back. It could be as little as a
day to as much as years. Then come to me. We have much to speak about."
Beryl (a/n remember, that's fate mortal name) smilied fondly at her new daughter and her son, and dissapeared in a flash of
golden light.
TO BE CONTINUED...
IMPORTANT
Authors Note: Ok, Many things to say. 1. I realize this chapter was confusing, the next chapter will hopefully clear
everything up. 2. I've been told that my format is confusing. Next chapter I'll be trying a diffrent format and I'll need
you to tell me what you think of it. 3. I'm really sorry about the delay with this chapter. I had finals and my teachers
decided that the last month of school would be a great time to heap the homework on. Now that I'm on break, the updates should
be quicker. 4. If you read the story, please review. I don't know what happened to everybody who used to read this story,
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athenakitty- As you see, the potion did work, alittle too well in fact... There'll be more about Harry and Hermione's power
in the next chapter. Yes, I did enlist Winky, hope you liked that!
LoMaRiBa- The last chapter was probably more polished because it went through my beta readers, this one didn't by the way,
so there are tons of mistakes. Sorry you don't like my authors notes, I'll try to cut them down, but I am
going to continue to put them in the story. A number system is to confusing, I think.
Sorry about the color system in the last chapter. I hadn't thought it was very confusing when I wrote it, but
I guess it was. I don't beleive I ever said that Harry glowed blue. In fact, I just checked, I didn't. Maybe
you read it wrong?
I don't understand what your question is about the blue not indicating that Albus was the leader. He is not
the leader. The color Blue was for the fifth position in the order. If you are still confused, please feel
free to ask me again. I'm sorry if I didn't explain it well.
I'm happy that you like that Albus isn't the leader and I hope you'll continue to read my story, even if it's
confusing. Hope you liked the chapter.