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New Resolutions II

Chapter 15- Verdict

"NEW YEAR'S PARTY AT HARRY'S" yelled Draco as he walked into the meeting room a couple of days after Christmas.

"Sure...as long as all of you don't mind watching three children and having Leah yelling the whole night," said Harry not even looking up.

"Do you always have to bring my ideas down?" asked Draco pretending to be hurt.

Harry finally looked up at him. Draco was smiling more then normal and had a twinkle in his eye that Harry hadn't seen for a while. "Okay, what happen to you over the break?"

"Nothing," said Draco innocently.

"Now I know something happened."

"Just a bit of...Christmas cheer."

Harry rolled his eyes. "Ginny finally forgave you?"

"How do you..."

"Lucky guess."

Draco just looked at him before smirking and taking his seat beside Harry. Harry glanced at him and shook his head. Draco elbowed him as if they were children.

"Welcome back from break everyone. Now that we are all here," he said glancing at Draco who looked away. "I hope that we will have a more clear head for ideas where this last people are at."

"Did anyone find out anything over the break?" asked Blaise.

No one answered. Harry sighed and shifted through his papers.

"Harry...I have an idea. Its risky but it might work," said Evan.

Harry looked up and leaned back in his chair to show that he was listening.

"I say that we sit them up."

"How?"

"With you."

"Me?"

"Yes, obviously the want you dead."

"How are we going to do that?"

"Make like a big public thing that you, Leah, and the twins will be at."

"What if they don't buy it?" asked Dean.

"And what if they do?" shot Evan.

"Enough!" snapped Harry. "Alright...that is an idea Evan. Like Dean said they could come and then they couldn't. That would mean that we would have set up an event and Leah, Lily, and Jordan would have to go. I am not going to put them in danger I can help it. I'll keep the idea but right now, it is too risky."

Evan nodded and glared at Dean. Harry rolled his eyes and wrote Evan's idea down on a sheet of parchment. Suddenly, though, the door flew open.

Sara, from the Children Adoption Department, was standing there, starring at Harry.

"Sara?" he asked standing up.

"I think you should come with me Harry," she said.

"Why? What's wrong?"

"Just, come with me."

Harry nodded and left the room without even muttering a bye to his Aurors, though he didn't need to. Each one of them followed behind him out of their meeting room. Sara led him down to the courtrooms and into the last one.

"Sar-"

"Did you know that Thomas had an older brother?" she asked just above a whisper.

"WHAT!" hissed Harry.

"That is him on the stands. Harry, I checked in their records, they only have record of one kid. And the brother is fifteen. They would have had to have him when they were about fifteen or sixteen to have him."

"What does the brother have anything to do with them abusing him?"

"They are saying that didn't do it. That is was Zachary, the brother, did it all."

Harry glanced up at the witness. He had the same curly blond hair and big brown eyes that Thomas did but something didn't click. "Can we prove that he isn't his brother?"

"I don't know. You would have to ask the Ministry's attorney on that one."

Harry closed his eyes and breathed in sharply. His eyes flew open as he felt something burn in his pocket. Taking out the Raven feather, knew that something was happening. Draco pocked him in the arm, saying that it was his too.

"Sara, keep me or Leah posted on everything that happens. I have to go."

Sara nodded and all the Aurors left to go to what they would soon found out was another attack.

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"Lily, Jordan, Tommy, keep up please and hurry!" said Leah making her way down the stairs of Hogwarts to the dungeons.

"Mum, what is going on?" asked Lily as she held on to Thomas' hand.

"I don't have time to explain," she said curtly.

Lily didn't ask any more questions as the reached Severus office. She opened the door, with out a care.

"Leah!" asked Severus stopping mid sentence in his lecture.

"Hey, can you watch these three please?" she asked.

"I have classes all afternoon Leah. I don't have time to baby sit," he said looking at her. A/N- I know the students don't come back this soon but I wanted Thomas to get more interaction with kids, so I just made them come back a bit early. So, sorry if you don't like it but it just had to work this way.

"Everyone else is working and I have to go to the hospital."

"Why?"

"There is another attack, hence the feather...at Ginny's preschool," she said.

Severus paled at bit. "At a preschool? What the hell are they doing?"

"I don't know. Ask your son because I would love to know also. So, please watch them."

"Alright, get going," he said.

Leah smiled a thanks and disappeared out of the room. Lily and Jordan dragged Thomas up to the front of the room and took a seat at one of the empty tables. Severus looked at them before continuing is lecture on the different types of truth potions.

"Who is he?" asked Thomas quietly.

"Papa...Daddy's father," whispered Lily.

"How come he looks so mean?"

Jordan snorted a laugh and covered her mouth but not in time.

"Miss Snape, while you are in my classroom-"

"I'll be treated like any other student which means shut it. Got it Papa, I mean Professor," she said with a smirk.

The Slytherins all smirked and muttered something about a "Slytherin for sure," before Severus continued on with is lecture.

"It is just a mask he has. He isn't mean. Papa is just like Dad pretty much. Just a bit stricter when it comes to us," said Jordan still smirking.

Thomas nodded and listened to Severus speak for a couple of minutes before getting into Lily and Jordan's conversation.

"I think that they are trying to hurt people Harry are close to," he said.

"But why now? I mean, Damien and Aunt Gin are there but they have been there," said Lily.

"A trap, maybe," said Jordan.

"They would try to get him alone for a trap. All of Daddy's Aurors are the best. They wouldn't try to do anything and if they did, they would help each other," said Lily.

"Maybe they want all of them," said Thomas.

Jordan and Lily shrugged as they heard the bell ring. Some of the Slytherins and Gryffindors came up to them and talked a little before Severus tossed them out, saying they had classes to get to.

"You three been good?" he asked erasing the board with his charm.

"But of course," said Jordan.

He nodded and then looked at Thomas, who was just staring at him. "Yes, Thomas?" he asked.

"I saw you at the house but I didn't know you were Harry's dad," he said truthfully.

Severus just looked at him before he smiled a little. "That is right. We were never properly introduced were we? Well, I am Severus Snape, Harry's father and these two trouble makers Papa," he said.

Thomas smiled at him while looking him up and down. "Is black your favorite color? You had it on at the house too."

Lily and Jordan both giggled at that and even Severus had to smile. "Yeah, it is. And what is your favorite color?"

"Green or red though blue is good too."

"Good colors," said Severus as the door opened to his classroom.

"Lils! Jorie!" said Bryan as soon as he saw them.

"BRYAN!" the yelled running over to him and giving them a hug.

"Hey girls. How was your Christmas?" he asked bending down on his knees.

"Great! I got a new telescope!" said Lily.

"And more Quidditch stuff you would love to see!" said Jordan.

"You will have to bring it next time you come. I would love to see them," he said.

The girls smiled at him but Bryan looked past them at Thomas. Lily followed his glaze and smiled. "That is Thomas. Mum and Daddy is his guardian while his parents are on trial for abusing him. He is gonna be our brother hopefully," she whispered in his ear.

Bryan nodded at her and made his way over to him, with a girl in each arm. He sat them down on the table and sat down beside Thomas.

"Hi Thomas!" he said cheerfully. Thomas slid back a little in his chair away from him. "I'm Bryan."

Thomas looked at Lily and Jordan for their approval. It as weird because it seemed that he trusted their judgment before anyone else. They nodded excitedly at him. Then, surprising Severus, he looked at him.

"I sure you can trust Mister Hollow, Tommy."

"Of course you can. Being Head Boy and all here, and not to mention Gryffindor Quidditch Caption but I like to brag," said Bryan smiling.

All three children giggled as Severus rolled his eyes. "Take you seat Hollow. Lils, Jorie, and Tommy, why don't you help me?"

"Okay," all three said.

For the rest of that class, Thomas went around passing out papers. That was great to watch because he had to keep asking Bryan who everyone. He even talked to some of the students, mostly girls who thought he was the most adorable thing they had seen.

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"Why do I always end up here?"

"Because you are accident prone, Dray."

"Thanks Leah."

Draco was once again back in St. Mango's after the attack. This time with a broken leg and rib bone.

"Lay still so I can heal your rib. It will hurt a bit so try not to breath so your lungs won't make it worse," she said.

Draco obeyed and laid still. Harry was sitting in the chair next to the bed half falling asleep as was almost all the Aurors and Healers as it was almost eight in the morning.

"You are going to make me stay, aren't you?" asked Draco.

"Yes."

Before Draco could protest, Leah handed him potions. "Go to sleep and shut up. I'll see you tomorrow okay?"

"Yeah..." he said barely able to keep his eyes open.

Leah walked over to Harry, gently shaking him awake. "What? I wasn't asleep," he said jerking awake.

"Lets get the kids and go home and sleep," she said.

"You did tell Dad that the kids were going to there all night right?"

"Yes. I fire called him last night around eleven when I knew I wouldn't be able to get them last night."

They walked out the door to Draco's room but didn't make it every far when Sara came out of the elevator.

"Harry, Leah!"

"What?"

"I've been trying to reach you all morning. The judge has made a verdict with Thomas' parents."

"What? Already?" asked Leah.

"Yes... I think you should get to the Ministry."

"Why? Please tell us for something good," said Harry.

"I wish but that isn't the case. I am to take Thomas back to his parents. The judge found them not guilty."

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