Author's Note: My mom and brother are out now, so I think I'll try to see
what I come up with here. Thank you to all my reviewers and all my readers!
Author's Question: What's "WIP"? I see that a lot.
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Last Time Sirius had changed dramatically. Sirius was not as pale as he was yesterday, his hair was washed and cut to his shoulders (He refused to let it get any shorter) and he was much healthy-looking now. He looked as if he had gotten a good night's sleep and a good meal or two.
Now:
"Okay, Sirius, what did Poppy do to get you to read!?" Remus exclaimed.
"Nothing. Did you see what he was reading?" Lily asked. Harry slowly walked over to the side of the bed where his head just reached the top of the bed. Hali followed.
Remus looked at the cover of the book and sighed. *Pranks for the Quidditch Players* "Typical" he said, under his breath.
"Just got back and you're already criticizing me, people!" Sirius said, his voice scratchy.
"Sirius!" Lily screamed. She hugged the man tightly. "You should have never gone after that rat, we missed you so much."
"We.?" Sirius said when they broke apart.
"Yes, 'We' you prat!" Severus said.
"Lily, Severus, Harry, Hali, Me, Albus, everyone!" Remus said. He picked up Hali and sat beside Sirius on the big bed.
"Hali?" Sirius asked. He was beginning to get confused.
"Hali Jade Snape." Hali said smiling.
"When. was she born? I didn't hear anything about her. But she is beautiful." Sirius said, smiling sadly.
"She was born a few months after I went to the United States." Lily said. Severus picked up Harry, who had been tugging at his father's robes, and placed him next to Sirius.
"Papa Padfoot?" Harry asked skeptically in a whisper.
"Yes, Harry, I'm Papa Padfoot." Sirius said. He hugged Harry, who began to tense up and flinch at the contact. Sirius noticed and pulled back immediately.
"What's wrong, Harry?" he asked.
Harry looked down in shame and shook his head. Remus whispered something in Sirius ear and the man turned red in anger.
"THEY DID WHAT!?" Sirius yelled. Harry screamed and put his arms over his head as he pulled his knees closer to his chest and whimpered a little.
Severus picked up Harry and whispered to him as Remus filled Sirius in on what happened. Hali listened closely and watched everyone. Lily was listening to Remus and Sirius, calming both down while sitting on the edge of the bed, inserting her comments every now and then. Severus managed to calm Harry down by the time Remus and Lily filled Sirius in.
"They will pay, you know that?" Sirius asked, eerily calm.
"Yes." The adults agreed.
Hali climbed over everyone to Harry. "Doe's (those) people were bad, huh?" she asked. Harry nodded.
A house elf, Lika, came into the hospital wing with three big trays of food. She gave one to Fudge, who had been listening in and reading the Daily Prophet, and gave the other to the others. "Master Dumbledore said that Master Snape and friends would like Breakfast." She said, putting the tray on the bed next to them all and left when Severus and everyone said thank-you.
Lily and Severus picked up plates and passed them around and sat on another bed with Hali and Harry. There were only four plates, but two, the ones Lily and Severus had, were filled with more food than one would eat. Hali sat in between Harry and Lily and Severus sat to the right of Harry. Both children took the food their parents offered and ate it slowly, listening in on the adults' conversation.
"Fudge said he'll pardon you. He has no choice because he's *seen* Pettigrew!" Lily was saying, handing Harry a piece of bacon.
"Well, Lily was the one that saw him first." Remus said, picking up a piece of pancake and putting it in his mouth.
"Who caught him?" Sirius asked softly. He had been eating very slowly, making sure he understood everything clearly.
"Moony and I." Severus said. He handed Hali his goblet, allowing her to drink the orange juice inside, making sure she didn't spill it.
"He was in the Gryffindor Common Room. It was disgustingly filthy, too. Old plates, wrappers, it had the works and was worse than us when we were in school." Moony said. He transfigured a slice of sausage into a chocolate bar and tried to float it over to the kids discreetly, but Lily confiscated it.
"Oh. Okay. When?" Sirius asked. He took a sip of apple juice and set the goblet back on the side table.
"We don't know for sure. But we're going over to my place to make it more hospitable and we'll all live there if you want. Just the six of us." Severus offered.
"At Snape Manor?" Sirius asked, surprised.
#Dad's house then.# Harry thought.
"Maybe we'll change the name. Probably to 'The Zoo' considering we've got cats and dogs in there." Severus laughed.
"No, how about we name it 'The Pound'?" Lily asked.
"That's good." Sirius commented. "Don't they put Cats *and* Dogs in the muggle Pounds?"
"Last I heard." Lily said. She put some pancakes on her fork and let Hali take a bite of them and ate the rest after the little girl shook her head.
"Well it's settled. Sirius will stay here until Madam Pomfrey says he can go, and the rest of us will go get the Pound ready." Severus said. They heard taping against glass and looked towards the medicine cabinet.
"Peter." Lily said.
#Peter's a bad man, I guess. # Harry thought, munching on the bacon he'd gotten
"Traitor, yes. Now, Sirius, you will get out much earlier if you stay in bed and rest. We'll come back later and tell you how we're getting along." Remus said, poking Sirius in the arm to get his friend's attention back to the real world.
Severus picked up the jar. "We don't need you killing him so you can go back. I'll put this somewhere else until the trial." Severus said something as he tapped it with his wand and it disappeared.
"Of course. Come on Harry, Hali." Lily said. She helped both children off the bed.
Harry ran ahead and took his father's hand and stopped walking for a moment. Hali ran foreword and held onto Lily and Harry's hands. They all said "Bye" to Sirius and walked out with Remus chuckling and following behind.
"Mum? Where are we going?" Hali asked.
"To our new home." Lily said. She smiled at what she said and looked to Severus who was grinning widely.
#Home? # Harry wondered. # We're going home. I have a family other than the Dursely's. A little Sister, a Mum, and a Dad. I have a Papa Albus, Papa Moony, and a Papa Padfoot. Cool, we're going *home*! #
Harry started to smile. #I don't have to act like I did at the Dursely's either! Yes! # he thought. Hali looked over to her brother.
#He's looking much happierer than he was yesterdays .. # she thought. She smiled, too and swung Harry's and Lily's arms while she walked.
They went down corridors, stairs, hallways, through a few tapestries, and finally ended up outside.
"Wow." Harry said. He hadn't seen too much of outside at the Dursely's and when he was brought here he was unconscious, so this was his very first view of outside at Hogwarts. The sun was shining brightly, the lake was rippling in the soft wind, trees were surrounding the lake about ten yards apart, the Forest was dark, gloomy, and scary, and all kinds of birds were singing. The grass was green and cut, flowers were all over the place. It was a beautiful sight to see.
Hali whispered, "Yeah. wow."
Lily and Severus laughed lightly. Severus picked up Harry and Lily picked up Hali. It was sort of an unspoken agreement. Severus would baby Harry and Lily would baby Hali because they understood the child more. Severus grew up in a home like the Dursely's, and Lily had grown up like a Muggle like Hali had, just she didn't know anything about magic as Hali knew a little.
"Come on, we're going home." Severus said.
#Home. sounds nice! # Harry thought.
"Dad?" Harry queried.
"Yes, cub?" Sev answered.
"What's home like?" Harry asked.
This startled Severus. Home? What is *home*? Thankfully, Remus answered.
"Home. is where your family lives, where your family loves you and where you are safe from everything. Your home needs to be cleaned and fixed up a little, so that's what we're doing."
Lily scowled and smacked Remus on the arm. "You should say *OUR* home, Remus Lupin. You're staying with us. We have a place for you when the moon's out, do not worry. But you are staying with us and not in your cottage."
"Right." Remus said sheepishly. "It's just that you just found your family again and I don't want to get in the way here."
"You're not getting in the way! You're just as much family to us as each other!" Severus said as Lily nodded. They had started to walk towards the gates and Hali caught Harry's eye and rolled her eyes. Harry laughed and nodded.
"What's funny, Harry?" Remus asked, hurriedly getting the attention diverted.
"Nothing." Harry said quickly.
"Sure. Now, we need to firstly figure out what needs fixing, cleaning, clearing, and we need to get some house-elves." Lily said. She stopped walking and looked at Severus pointedly as Remus and Severus stopped walking as well.
Severus nodded and brought out his wand. He held Harry on his side and muttered "Breverent Trio"
Not thirty seconds later, three house-elves popped up with a *crack*. "What would Master Snape like today's?" one asked. It was Lika.
"I would like for you three to accompany myself and my family to Snape Manor to help us with Harry and Hali and cleaning." Severus said kindly.
"Yes sir!" the house-elves chorused. They began to follow them silently as the humans walked outside the gates.
"Will you three meet us at Snape Manor?" Lily asked.
"Yes ma'am." Lika said. The three vanished with a *crack*.
"Hali, Harry, we will Disapparate with you. You will not feel anything, but please try not to move. You will be in a place with a lot of colors flashing around you for a few seconds, but Severus and I will be holding onto you, okay?" Lily said to her kids.
Hali and Harry both nodded and shut their eyes. A few seconds later they opened them to find themselves in front of a huge white house. Well, it was more like a manor. It was about five stories high and about twice as wide. The window panes were black and the double doors were black wood as well. There was a long walkway with overgrown weeds covering almost every inch of it, but Harry could see it was supposed to be some sort of white concrete with green paint on it at some points.
The yard was overgrown with weeds, and there were vines running up the walls of the manor. There was a black fence around the yard, and it too was black, but this time it was black metal. The bars were round and there were arrows at the tips of the bars. Snakes wound around the bars and vines covered them a lot. Severus sighed and began to walk up the walkway, seeing Lika and her fellow house elves waiting at the doorway. Lily and Remus walked behind him silently.
"Dad?" Hali asked from Lily's arms.
"Yes, princess?" Severus asked.
"Is this home?" Hali asked. Harry wondered that himself. Was this huge place 'home'? Was it where he was to grow up?
"Yes, Hali. This is your new home." Severus said.
"Lika, will you please make sure there are no boggarts around Hali and Harry at any time? You should know if there is a boggart." Remus asked Lika. Lika nodded and looked around.
"Now, Nora. Will you please start to clean the house? Just get the filth and let us get the magical creatures. Jessa, will you help Nora?" Severus asked.
Both house elves nodded and ran off to do their duties.
"Lika, I will need you to make sure Hali and Harry do not get in any trouble at all. Do not let them get hurt, and make sure they are safe. I will leave them in your care as Lily, Remus, and I do some work around the house." Severus said, stooping to Lika's eye level.
"Yes sir. Lika will do as you say." Lika said truthfully.
"Okay, that's settled. We need to put up the wards and get the creatures out." Remus said.
"Lily can do the gardens, I can do the wards, and Remus can do the creatures." Severus said.
"Done." Lily answered, standing up and walking out saying 'Bye' to Hali and Harry.
Remus said 'Bye' to Sev, Lily, Hali and Harry, and walked up the stairs on the right.
"Lika, you know what to do, and I hope you do it correctly. I'll see you in a little bit. Bye." He said before walking out the doors.
Hali and Harry took a look around where they were.
All right, I wanted to end it there again because I am running out of ideas. I will not be posting every 2-4 days again but once a week due to my school starting again! Bye bye!
Hali/Katzy/CJ/Chelsee
Author's Question: What's "WIP"? I see that a lot.
Review Responses:
Jordan: Okay, here ya goes. :P
Kazaa: (You know you can be put in jail for using Kazaa?) Thank you! I may use some or all of your ideas, thanks!
The desert fox: Yes, I know. I'll see for some extra names for if AthenaKitty doesn't want to give names. Henrietta? No thanks. Lol. Maybe Hanna Joyce and Heather Jewel, Haben Jamile and Halden Jeffery.
Badassgothicgirl: Ah, I see. Originality is something I like but didn't have in the beginning. Thank You!
Whitney: Thank you! If you want to see this a lot, then you can put it in the Favorites. I am REALLY bad at telling you when I update. Thank you!
Evominique: Ah, sorry! Thank you!
LovesBeach2: (Sorry for misspelling your name, but I don't like that word, but you know what I mean, right?) Thank you! Here's more!
Lilinfields: Aw, thanks! I promise, everyone is going to be (relatively) fine!
DragonFaerie: Thanks, it is going O.K. Here's More!
Last Time Sirius had changed dramatically. Sirius was not as pale as he was yesterday, his hair was washed and cut to his shoulders (He refused to let it get any shorter) and he was much healthy-looking now. He looked as if he had gotten a good night's sleep and a good meal or two.
Now:
"Okay, Sirius, what did Poppy do to get you to read!?" Remus exclaimed.
"Nothing. Did you see what he was reading?" Lily asked. Harry slowly walked over to the side of the bed where his head just reached the top of the bed. Hali followed.
Remus looked at the cover of the book and sighed. *Pranks for the Quidditch Players* "Typical" he said, under his breath.
"Just got back and you're already criticizing me, people!" Sirius said, his voice scratchy.
"Sirius!" Lily screamed. She hugged the man tightly. "You should have never gone after that rat, we missed you so much."
"We.?" Sirius said when they broke apart.
"Yes, 'We' you prat!" Severus said.
"Lily, Severus, Harry, Hali, Me, Albus, everyone!" Remus said. He picked up Hali and sat beside Sirius on the big bed.
"Hali?" Sirius asked. He was beginning to get confused.
"Hali Jade Snape." Hali said smiling.
"When. was she born? I didn't hear anything about her. But she is beautiful." Sirius said, smiling sadly.
"She was born a few months after I went to the United States." Lily said. Severus picked up Harry, who had been tugging at his father's robes, and placed him next to Sirius.
"Papa Padfoot?" Harry asked skeptically in a whisper.
"Yes, Harry, I'm Papa Padfoot." Sirius said. He hugged Harry, who began to tense up and flinch at the contact. Sirius noticed and pulled back immediately.
"What's wrong, Harry?" he asked.
Harry looked down in shame and shook his head. Remus whispered something in Sirius ear and the man turned red in anger.
"THEY DID WHAT!?" Sirius yelled. Harry screamed and put his arms over his head as he pulled his knees closer to his chest and whimpered a little.
Severus picked up Harry and whispered to him as Remus filled Sirius in on what happened. Hali listened closely and watched everyone. Lily was listening to Remus and Sirius, calming both down while sitting on the edge of the bed, inserting her comments every now and then. Severus managed to calm Harry down by the time Remus and Lily filled Sirius in.
"They will pay, you know that?" Sirius asked, eerily calm.
"Yes." The adults agreed.
Hali climbed over everyone to Harry. "Doe's (those) people were bad, huh?" she asked. Harry nodded.
A house elf, Lika, came into the hospital wing with three big trays of food. She gave one to Fudge, who had been listening in and reading the Daily Prophet, and gave the other to the others. "Master Dumbledore said that Master Snape and friends would like Breakfast." She said, putting the tray on the bed next to them all and left when Severus and everyone said thank-you.
Lily and Severus picked up plates and passed them around and sat on another bed with Hali and Harry. There were only four plates, but two, the ones Lily and Severus had, were filled with more food than one would eat. Hali sat in between Harry and Lily and Severus sat to the right of Harry. Both children took the food their parents offered and ate it slowly, listening in on the adults' conversation.
"Fudge said he'll pardon you. He has no choice because he's *seen* Pettigrew!" Lily was saying, handing Harry a piece of bacon.
"Well, Lily was the one that saw him first." Remus said, picking up a piece of pancake and putting it in his mouth.
"Who caught him?" Sirius asked softly. He had been eating very slowly, making sure he understood everything clearly.
"Moony and I." Severus said. He handed Hali his goblet, allowing her to drink the orange juice inside, making sure she didn't spill it.
"He was in the Gryffindor Common Room. It was disgustingly filthy, too. Old plates, wrappers, it had the works and was worse than us when we were in school." Moony said. He transfigured a slice of sausage into a chocolate bar and tried to float it over to the kids discreetly, but Lily confiscated it.
"Oh. Okay. When?" Sirius asked. He took a sip of apple juice and set the goblet back on the side table.
"We don't know for sure. But we're going over to my place to make it more hospitable and we'll all live there if you want. Just the six of us." Severus offered.
"At Snape Manor?" Sirius asked, surprised.
#Dad's house then.# Harry thought.
"Maybe we'll change the name. Probably to 'The Zoo' considering we've got cats and dogs in there." Severus laughed.
"No, how about we name it 'The Pound'?" Lily asked.
"That's good." Sirius commented. "Don't they put Cats *and* Dogs in the muggle Pounds?"
"Last I heard." Lily said. She put some pancakes on her fork and let Hali take a bite of them and ate the rest after the little girl shook her head.
"Well it's settled. Sirius will stay here until Madam Pomfrey says he can go, and the rest of us will go get the Pound ready." Severus said. They heard taping against glass and looked towards the medicine cabinet.
"Peter." Lily said.
#Peter's a bad man, I guess. # Harry thought, munching on the bacon he'd gotten
"Traitor, yes. Now, Sirius, you will get out much earlier if you stay in bed and rest. We'll come back later and tell you how we're getting along." Remus said, poking Sirius in the arm to get his friend's attention back to the real world.
Severus picked up the jar. "We don't need you killing him so you can go back. I'll put this somewhere else until the trial." Severus said something as he tapped it with his wand and it disappeared.
"Of course. Come on Harry, Hali." Lily said. She helped both children off the bed.
Harry ran ahead and took his father's hand and stopped walking for a moment. Hali ran foreword and held onto Lily and Harry's hands. They all said "Bye" to Sirius and walked out with Remus chuckling and following behind.
"Mum? Where are we going?" Hali asked.
"To our new home." Lily said. She smiled at what she said and looked to Severus who was grinning widely.
#Home? # Harry wondered. # We're going home. I have a family other than the Dursely's. A little Sister, a Mum, and a Dad. I have a Papa Albus, Papa Moony, and a Papa Padfoot. Cool, we're going *home*! #
Harry started to smile. #I don't have to act like I did at the Dursely's either! Yes! # he thought. Hali looked over to her brother.
#He's looking much happierer than he was yesterdays .. # she thought. She smiled, too and swung Harry's and Lily's arms while she walked.
They went down corridors, stairs, hallways, through a few tapestries, and finally ended up outside.
"Wow." Harry said. He hadn't seen too much of outside at the Dursely's and when he was brought here he was unconscious, so this was his very first view of outside at Hogwarts. The sun was shining brightly, the lake was rippling in the soft wind, trees were surrounding the lake about ten yards apart, the Forest was dark, gloomy, and scary, and all kinds of birds were singing. The grass was green and cut, flowers were all over the place. It was a beautiful sight to see.
Hali whispered, "Yeah. wow."
Lily and Severus laughed lightly. Severus picked up Harry and Lily picked up Hali. It was sort of an unspoken agreement. Severus would baby Harry and Lily would baby Hali because they understood the child more. Severus grew up in a home like the Dursely's, and Lily had grown up like a Muggle like Hali had, just she didn't know anything about magic as Hali knew a little.
"Come on, we're going home." Severus said.
#Home. sounds nice! # Harry thought.
"Dad?" Harry queried.
"Yes, cub?" Sev answered.
"What's home like?" Harry asked.
This startled Severus. Home? What is *home*? Thankfully, Remus answered.
"Home. is where your family lives, where your family loves you and where you are safe from everything. Your home needs to be cleaned and fixed up a little, so that's what we're doing."
Lily scowled and smacked Remus on the arm. "You should say *OUR* home, Remus Lupin. You're staying with us. We have a place for you when the moon's out, do not worry. But you are staying with us and not in your cottage."
"Right." Remus said sheepishly. "It's just that you just found your family again and I don't want to get in the way here."
"You're not getting in the way! You're just as much family to us as each other!" Severus said as Lily nodded. They had started to walk towards the gates and Hali caught Harry's eye and rolled her eyes. Harry laughed and nodded.
"What's funny, Harry?" Remus asked, hurriedly getting the attention diverted.
"Nothing." Harry said quickly.
"Sure. Now, we need to firstly figure out what needs fixing, cleaning, clearing, and we need to get some house-elves." Lily said. She stopped walking and looked at Severus pointedly as Remus and Severus stopped walking as well.
Severus nodded and brought out his wand. He held Harry on his side and muttered "Breverent Trio"
Not thirty seconds later, three house-elves popped up with a *crack*. "What would Master Snape like today's?" one asked. It was Lika.
"I would like for you three to accompany myself and my family to Snape Manor to help us with Harry and Hali and cleaning." Severus said kindly.
"Yes sir!" the house-elves chorused. They began to follow them silently as the humans walked outside the gates.
"Will you three meet us at Snape Manor?" Lily asked.
"Yes ma'am." Lika said. The three vanished with a *crack*.
"Hali, Harry, we will Disapparate with you. You will not feel anything, but please try not to move. You will be in a place with a lot of colors flashing around you for a few seconds, but Severus and I will be holding onto you, okay?" Lily said to her kids.
Hali and Harry both nodded and shut their eyes. A few seconds later they opened them to find themselves in front of a huge white house. Well, it was more like a manor. It was about five stories high and about twice as wide. The window panes were black and the double doors were black wood as well. There was a long walkway with overgrown weeds covering almost every inch of it, but Harry could see it was supposed to be some sort of white concrete with green paint on it at some points.
The yard was overgrown with weeds, and there were vines running up the walls of the manor. There was a black fence around the yard, and it too was black, but this time it was black metal. The bars were round and there were arrows at the tips of the bars. Snakes wound around the bars and vines covered them a lot. Severus sighed and began to walk up the walkway, seeing Lika and her fellow house elves waiting at the doorway. Lily and Remus walked behind him silently.
"Dad?" Hali asked from Lily's arms.
"Yes, princess?" Severus asked.
"Is this home?" Hali asked. Harry wondered that himself. Was this huge place 'home'? Was it where he was to grow up?
"Yes, Hali. This is your new home." Severus said.
"Lika, will you please make sure there are no boggarts around Hali and Harry at any time? You should know if there is a boggart." Remus asked Lika. Lika nodded and looked around.
"Now, Nora. Will you please start to clean the house? Just get the filth and let us get the magical creatures. Jessa, will you help Nora?" Severus asked.
Both house elves nodded and ran off to do their duties.
"Lika, I will need you to make sure Hali and Harry do not get in any trouble at all. Do not let them get hurt, and make sure they are safe. I will leave them in your care as Lily, Remus, and I do some work around the house." Severus said, stooping to Lika's eye level.
"Yes sir. Lika will do as you say." Lika said truthfully.
"Okay, that's settled. We need to put up the wards and get the creatures out." Remus said.
"Lily can do the gardens, I can do the wards, and Remus can do the creatures." Severus said.
"Done." Lily answered, standing up and walking out saying 'Bye' to Hali and Harry.
Remus said 'Bye' to Sev, Lily, Hali and Harry, and walked up the stairs on the right.
"Lika, you know what to do, and I hope you do it correctly. I'll see you in a little bit. Bye." He said before walking out the doors.
Hali and Harry took a look around where they were.
All right, I wanted to end it there again because I am running out of ideas. I will not be posting every 2-4 days again but once a week due to my school starting again! Bye bye!
Hali/Katzy/CJ/Chelsee