Okay. I loved my cliffy! Ok. Here's the next chappie.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I have done a little re-furnishing on some chapters, but forgot which ones. I've just added a little bit, nothing major. I've added more detail in at least the last seven chapters. Thanks for reading!
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Harry heard barking in the distance and felt something tearing his skin to shreds. He screamed in pain. This was worse than any beating from the Dursely's that was for sure. He felt Nanigi loosen his hold on his neck and slither away, but that feeling was soon replaced by pain again.
He heard something howl in pain. Harry wasn't sure if it was him or something else, but he didn't feel anything tearing at his skin anymore. Harry suddenly felt dizzy and he blacked out in exasperation.
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Something was talking to him. Its voice was so soothing. Beeping was heard in the distance, and something was wrapped all over his body. His head was throbbing and nothing would move.
"Ha.y..Harry. pup. come on. wake up please." A deep voice pleaded.
He groaned. Harry. was that his name?
"Sirius. he's finally awake!" a female voice exclaimed. Something was capturing his hand.
"Lily, I think we know." Another deep voice laughed. It wasn't as deep as the other, but was close.
"Let's just hope he will remember who we are." Yet another voice said, deeper than all the other voices. He knew that voice. It had helped him before.
"Dad." he asked.
"Harry?" the voices all asked at once. It made him dizzy from the loudness of all of their voices, but he pushed the dizziness away and concentrated on his voice and tried to make it speak.
"Dad." he asked again. He tried to open his eyes and realized that they opened easily. A bright light blinded him and he closed them immediately.
"Dim the lights, Remus please." The female voice ordered. "Okay, Harry. You can open your eyes again."
He tried to open his eyes and found the light was dimmed a lot and he could see five faces staring at him. He recognized them all at once.
"Uncle Paddy, Uncle Moony. Mum. Hali. Dad." He smiled.
"Yep, Harry. Don't sit up." His dad said, seeing Harry was going to sit up.
Harry screamed in pain once he noticed that everything in his body hurt when he moved. Memories suddenly flooded into his mind when he remembered what happened. The Vanigu had attacked him when he went into the woods, and his wounds must not have healed.
"Nanigi." Harry asked.
Severus looked down at the floor, and everyone flinched.
"Nanigi. wasn't found. Hali kept calling for him but we just couldn't find him. All we found were a bunch of scales at the edge of the woods next to a Vanigu." Remus said.
Harry's eyes widened in disbelief. Nanigi. died? His best friend and his pet had died? It couldn't be true. No, Remus and Sirius and everyone else must be kidding or joking around with him.
Harry looked around to see where he was. It was a room with green walls and there were two beds in the room, Harry's and another next to him was empty. There was a piece of parchment over his bed and one at the foot of his bed. There were Quidditch Players zooming around on the walls and there were two pictures in the room. One had a man that looked a little like him and his dad and a woman that Harry had never seen before. He turned back to look at the people in his room.
"No." Harry stated. "It can't be true. Nanigi was *my* snake. He can't die."
Lily sat beside him on Harry's bed and pulled him into a hug. Harry yelled and flinched, and Lily automatically pulled back. "Sorry." she said.
His dad looked at him in pity. "We're sorry, Harry. We just couldn't find him and you were so hurt that we couldn't leave you alone long because we didn't want you to wake up alone."
Harry stared at Hali and his dad blankly. "No."
"We're sorry, cub. We can get you another snake." Severus said. Hali held up her arms and Severus picked her up and she put her arms around his neck and laid her head on his shoulder, looking at Harry.
"Yeah, pup. We'll get you another pet as soon as you're better." Sirius said smiling. He sat on the bed next to Harry's and Remus sat beside him. Severus sat on the end of Harry's bed with Hali in his lap.
"No. I want Nanigi!" Harry said loudly.
"Hawwy. Mamigi is just hiding." Hali said.
"Yeah, he's just hiding looking out for more Vanigu." Harry said. "He'll come back." Harry tried to move his arm to get a cup of water and screamed in pain again.
"Harry!" Lily said. She waved her wand at the door and gave Harry a sip of water.
A nurse came in and Severus glared at her. "Why is he still in pain?" He bellowed.
Harry turned his neck slightly and looked at the nurse. She had purple hair to her waist, slightly tanned skin, and was fairly thin. She wore a white cloak with a pink dress underneath. The dress looked like it would twirl like a ballerina's if she spun fast enough.
"I'm sorry Mr. Snape, but we can't cure attacks by Vanigu. They are poisonous and will kill him if we try to give him the potions to make the cuts and bruises heal. They'll have to heal by themselves and we can only take out the poison. Again, the cuts have to heal by themselves even without the poison in them." The nurse said. She walked over and took a look at a piece of parchment above Harry's bed, tapped it once, and nodded in affirmation.
"Can we take Harry home?" Lily asked.
"I'm sorry, Mrs. Snape. The healers have to make sure everything heals right. I know, school starts back up in two days. but maybe we can have Madam Pomfrey take him in her care so you can be near him. I'll make the calls now to see." The nurse said before she walked out.
Harry had closed his eyes and looked like he was asleep. He really did try to but everyone was talking and he couldn't fall asleep when people were talking.
"He's bandaged like a mummy." Remus said.
"Almost, you mean. His face is still uncovered, though I almost wish it were. I almost threw up my lunch when I saw him on the floor of the woods. All bloody and broken," Sirius said. "It was horrible."
"Sirius, we thank you so much for going out and getting him. How on Earth did you know he was out there?" Lily said.
"Probably knew exactly where he would go when he was that age. He still is!" Severus said, putting a sleeping Hali on the bed beside Harry's.
"I resent that! I still act as if I'm twelve, not four!" Sirius laughed.
"Ooh. big difference!" Lily said sarcastically. She then sobered when she looked at her four-year-old child.
"He's so helpless. I can't believe he gets all of this drama in his life." Sirius said.
Remus, Lily, and Severus nodded. "I hope it stops soon." Remus said.
"Yeah, he may let it catch on for his siblings, and I can't imagine what we'd do with all of them in trouble at all hours of the day." Severus laughed. "I'd go bald before they're three."
"You'll go bald in two days worrying about them." Sirius said.
Remus put a hand over his heart and mimicked what he thought Severus would act like.
"Is her diaper clean? Is she warm enough? Is he safe from the heat? Is he hungry? Can I be any more overprotective?" he mimicked in a high-pitched voice.
"Okay, you two have had enough fun." Lily said, putting her hands on their arms to make them be quiet.
"We have to make sure he heals okay. School starts in two days and we have to have him relatively okay by then so we don't have to get out of classes every two days." Remus said. "Are we going to teach Harry and Hali to count and spell?"
"Moony, we're in a hospital and you are talking about teaching them to count and spell already?" Sirius whined.
"Yes." Remus said indigently.
"I know how to count and spell." Harry said.
"You're awake again! Did we wake you?" Lily asked.
Harry shook his head. "I didn't really fall asleep. I just closed my eyes and tried to. I really do know how to count and kind of already know how to spell."
"Where did you learn?" Sirius asked.
"The Dursely's sometimes made me do things like cook from a cookbook or count things out." Harry said, looking at his blanket.
"Oh." everyone chorused. There was a moment of uncomfortable silence and then everyone jumped when someone knocked on the door.
A redheaded man came in with two children following him. The little boy and girl Harry saw in Diagon Alley, to be exact.
"Hello, Arthur. Who are these two cuties?" Lily asked, kneeling down beside the two kids.
"Hello Lily. Hello Remus, Sirius and Severus," Arthur said. "This is Ron and Ginny."
Hali stirred in her sleep but kept on sleeping. Ginny saw Hali and ran up to the bed and climbed up on it. She smiled evilly and started to jump up and down on the bed, saying "Wake up Hali! Wake up Hali!"
Lily stood up and pulled Ginny off of the bed, and helped Hali to get off of the bed as well.
Severus just glared at Ginny and turned back to Arthur and Ron, who was still looking around the room. "What brings you here, Weasely?"
Arthur looked at Harry. "I just heard Harry was attacked by a Vanigu, so I came to see how he was."
"He's fine, Arthur. Well, he's going to be fine." Remus said. He kneeled beside Ron. "Do you want to meet Harry?"
Ron nodded. He had red hair like the rest of his family and freckles all over his face, arms, and legs. He had brown eyes and was smiling to show straight, white teeth.
Remus smiled and led him over to Harry's bed. "Harry, this is Ron Weasely. Ron, this is Harry Snape."
Ron's eyes widened. "Hello." He said. He looked scared of Harry, though Harry had no clue why.
Sirius laughed. "Arthur, is one of your children in Hogwarts?"
Arthur nodded. "Bill. Charlie is starting this year."
Sirius nodded. "I think Bill told young Ron about Severus here and Ron's scared of Harry."
Harry looked confused and asked Remus, "Why would anyone be scared of Dad?"
The adults minus Severus started to laugh. The kids, though, looked baffled.
"Sorry. Harry. but your dad. is a git. away.from home." Sirius said between laughs.
"Yes, I am the bloody git Potions Master of Hogwarts. Fear me." Severus said sarcastically. Everyone was still laughing, but it stopped a few moments later.
"Git?" Hali asked. "What's that?"
Lily smiled. "A git is a mean person, Hali. It's a British thing but you'll learn it soon."
Remus grinned evilly and looked at Sirius, who grinned as well. Severus paled when he saw the looks and looked at Lily who then put on a stern look.
"What are you two planning to do?" she asked.
"Hey Arthur." Sirius started in a sing-song voice.
"We have something to tell you." Remus continued.
"Well, actually, I think *Lily and Severus* have something to tell you." Sirius said mock-seriously.
"Well, you're going to be competing for the 'Most Children Award' soon." Remus said.
Lily took out her wand, said some words, and Sirius and Remus were replaced by skunks a moment later.
"Now why did you have to go and do that for?" Lily asked.
"Now why did *you* have to go and do *that* for? That's vital information!" Arthur said, laughing.
"Okay, enough picking on me and Severus, I think we should let Harry have a little rest." Lily said.
"Yes, Madam Pomfrey." Sirius said after Lily took the spell off of him and Remus.
"I have had enough of that woman to last a lifetime." Severus groaned.
"And you'll probably see more of her when we get back to the school. He's going to be a Maurader." Sirius said with an evil grin.
"Oh no he isn't." Lily said.
"Aww Lils." Remus whined.
"Why not?" Severus asked.
"Yeah, why not? Sev here was a Maurader and look at how he turned out!" Sirius said, putting on the puppy-dog-eye look.
Lily looked at the men for a moment, and then to Harry and Ron who were having a conversation about something and to Hali and Ginny who were also talking about something. She then looked over to Arthur who was laughing silently at the group.
"No." she said, shaking her head. "No way am I going to have my kid growing up without fun. He can be trained, but you hurt him and you will not see him for three weeks." Lily said.
Remus, Sirius, and Severus gave each other high-fives and hugged Lily in a dog pile.
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Author's Note:
Okay, since my internet is not working due to a flippin Typhoon (Don't know what it is look it up in a dictionary) I wrote another chapter for you (This one) Happy? Good. Okay. I have homework. Skeeyaz!
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I have done a little re-furnishing on some chapters, but forgot which ones. I've just added a little bit, nothing major. I've added more detail in at least the last seven chapters. Thanks for reading!
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Harry heard barking in the distance and felt something tearing his skin to shreds. He screamed in pain. This was worse than any beating from the Dursely's that was for sure. He felt Nanigi loosen his hold on his neck and slither away, but that feeling was soon replaced by pain again.
He heard something howl in pain. Harry wasn't sure if it was him or something else, but he didn't feel anything tearing at his skin anymore. Harry suddenly felt dizzy and he blacked out in exasperation.
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Something was talking to him. Its voice was so soothing. Beeping was heard in the distance, and something was wrapped all over his body. His head was throbbing and nothing would move.
"Ha.y..Harry. pup. come on. wake up please." A deep voice pleaded.
He groaned. Harry. was that his name?
"Sirius. he's finally awake!" a female voice exclaimed. Something was capturing his hand.
"Lily, I think we know." Another deep voice laughed. It wasn't as deep as the other, but was close.
"Let's just hope he will remember who we are." Yet another voice said, deeper than all the other voices. He knew that voice. It had helped him before.
"Dad." he asked.
"Harry?" the voices all asked at once. It made him dizzy from the loudness of all of their voices, but he pushed the dizziness away and concentrated on his voice and tried to make it speak.
"Dad." he asked again. He tried to open his eyes and realized that they opened easily. A bright light blinded him and he closed them immediately.
"Dim the lights, Remus please." The female voice ordered. "Okay, Harry. You can open your eyes again."
He tried to open his eyes and found the light was dimmed a lot and he could see five faces staring at him. He recognized them all at once.
"Uncle Paddy, Uncle Moony. Mum. Hali. Dad." He smiled.
"Yep, Harry. Don't sit up." His dad said, seeing Harry was going to sit up.
Harry screamed in pain once he noticed that everything in his body hurt when he moved. Memories suddenly flooded into his mind when he remembered what happened. The Vanigu had attacked him when he went into the woods, and his wounds must not have healed.
"Nanigi." Harry asked.
Severus looked down at the floor, and everyone flinched.
"Nanigi. wasn't found. Hali kept calling for him but we just couldn't find him. All we found were a bunch of scales at the edge of the woods next to a Vanigu." Remus said.
Harry's eyes widened in disbelief. Nanigi. died? His best friend and his pet had died? It couldn't be true. No, Remus and Sirius and everyone else must be kidding or joking around with him.
Harry looked around to see where he was. It was a room with green walls and there were two beds in the room, Harry's and another next to him was empty. There was a piece of parchment over his bed and one at the foot of his bed. There were Quidditch Players zooming around on the walls and there were two pictures in the room. One had a man that looked a little like him and his dad and a woman that Harry had never seen before. He turned back to look at the people in his room.
"No." Harry stated. "It can't be true. Nanigi was *my* snake. He can't die."
Lily sat beside him on Harry's bed and pulled him into a hug. Harry yelled and flinched, and Lily automatically pulled back. "Sorry." she said.
His dad looked at him in pity. "We're sorry, Harry. We just couldn't find him and you were so hurt that we couldn't leave you alone long because we didn't want you to wake up alone."
Harry stared at Hali and his dad blankly. "No."
"We're sorry, cub. We can get you another snake." Severus said. Hali held up her arms and Severus picked her up and she put her arms around his neck and laid her head on his shoulder, looking at Harry.
"Yeah, pup. We'll get you another pet as soon as you're better." Sirius said smiling. He sat on the bed next to Harry's and Remus sat beside him. Severus sat on the end of Harry's bed with Hali in his lap.
"No. I want Nanigi!" Harry said loudly.
"Hawwy. Mamigi is just hiding." Hali said.
"Yeah, he's just hiding looking out for more Vanigu." Harry said. "He'll come back." Harry tried to move his arm to get a cup of water and screamed in pain again.
"Harry!" Lily said. She waved her wand at the door and gave Harry a sip of water.
A nurse came in and Severus glared at her. "Why is he still in pain?" He bellowed.
Harry turned his neck slightly and looked at the nurse. She had purple hair to her waist, slightly tanned skin, and was fairly thin. She wore a white cloak with a pink dress underneath. The dress looked like it would twirl like a ballerina's if she spun fast enough.
"I'm sorry Mr. Snape, but we can't cure attacks by Vanigu. They are poisonous and will kill him if we try to give him the potions to make the cuts and bruises heal. They'll have to heal by themselves and we can only take out the poison. Again, the cuts have to heal by themselves even without the poison in them." The nurse said. She walked over and took a look at a piece of parchment above Harry's bed, tapped it once, and nodded in affirmation.
"Can we take Harry home?" Lily asked.
"I'm sorry, Mrs. Snape. The healers have to make sure everything heals right. I know, school starts back up in two days. but maybe we can have Madam Pomfrey take him in her care so you can be near him. I'll make the calls now to see." The nurse said before she walked out.
Harry had closed his eyes and looked like he was asleep. He really did try to but everyone was talking and he couldn't fall asleep when people were talking.
"He's bandaged like a mummy." Remus said.
"Almost, you mean. His face is still uncovered, though I almost wish it were. I almost threw up my lunch when I saw him on the floor of the woods. All bloody and broken," Sirius said. "It was horrible."
"Sirius, we thank you so much for going out and getting him. How on Earth did you know he was out there?" Lily said.
"Probably knew exactly where he would go when he was that age. He still is!" Severus said, putting a sleeping Hali on the bed beside Harry's.
"I resent that! I still act as if I'm twelve, not four!" Sirius laughed.
"Ooh. big difference!" Lily said sarcastically. She then sobered when she looked at her four-year-old child.
"He's so helpless. I can't believe he gets all of this drama in his life." Sirius said.
Remus, Lily, and Severus nodded. "I hope it stops soon." Remus said.
"Yeah, he may let it catch on for his siblings, and I can't imagine what we'd do with all of them in trouble at all hours of the day." Severus laughed. "I'd go bald before they're three."
"You'll go bald in two days worrying about them." Sirius said.
Remus put a hand over his heart and mimicked what he thought Severus would act like.
"Is her diaper clean? Is she warm enough? Is he safe from the heat? Is he hungry? Can I be any more overprotective?" he mimicked in a high-pitched voice.
"Okay, you two have had enough fun." Lily said, putting her hands on their arms to make them be quiet.
"We have to make sure he heals okay. School starts in two days and we have to have him relatively okay by then so we don't have to get out of classes every two days." Remus said. "Are we going to teach Harry and Hali to count and spell?"
"Moony, we're in a hospital and you are talking about teaching them to count and spell already?" Sirius whined.
"Yes." Remus said indigently.
"I know how to count and spell." Harry said.
"You're awake again! Did we wake you?" Lily asked.
Harry shook his head. "I didn't really fall asleep. I just closed my eyes and tried to. I really do know how to count and kind of already know how to spell."
"Where did you learn?" Sirius asked.
"The Dursely's sometimes made me do things like cook from a cookbook or count things out." Harry said, looking at his blanket.
"Oh." everyone chorused. There was a moment of uncomfortable silence and then everyone jumped when someone knocked on the door.
A redheaded man came in with two children following him. The little boy and girl Harry saw in Diagon Alley, to be exact.
"Hello, Arthur. Who are these two cuties?" Lily asked, kneeling down beside the two kids.
"Hello Lily. Hello Remus, Sirius and Severus," Arthur said. "This is Ron and Ginny."
Hali stirred in her sleep but kept on sleeping. Ginny saw Hali and ran up to the bed and climbed up on it. She smiled evilly and started to jump up and down on the bed, saying "Wake up Hali! Wake up Hali!"
Lily stood up and pulled Ginny off of the bed, and helped Hali to get off of the bed as well.
Severus just glared at Ginny and turned back to Arthur and Ron, who was still looking around the room. "What brings you here, Weasely?"
Arthur looked at Harry. "I just heard Harry was attacked by a Vanigu, so I came to see how he was."
"He's fine, Arthur. Well, he's going to be fine." Remus said. He kneeled beside Ron. "Do you want to meet Harry?"
Ron nodded. He had red hair like the rest of his family and freckles all over his face, arms, and legs. He had brown eyes and was smiling to show straight, white teeth.
Remus smiled and led him over to Harry's bed. "Harry, this is Ron Weasely. Ron, this is Harry Snape."
Ron's eyes widened. "Hello." He said. He looked scared of Harry, though Harry had no clue why.
Sirius laughed. "Arthur, is one of your children in Hogwarts?"
Arthur nodded. "Bill. Charlie is starting this year."
Sirius nodded. "I think Bill told young Ron about Severus here and Ron's scared of Harry."
Harry looked confused and asked Remus, "Why would anyone be scared of Dad?"
The adults minus Severus started to laugh. The kids, though, looked baffled.
"Sorry. Harry. but your dad. is a git. away.from home." Sirius said between laughs.
"Yes, I am the bloody git Potions Master of Hogwarts. Fear me." Severus said sarcastically. Everyone was still laughing, but it stopped a few moments later.
"Git?" Hali asked. "What's that?"
Lily smiled. "A git is a mean person, Hali. It's a British thing but you'll learn it soon."
Remus grinned evilly and looked at Sirius, who grinned as well. Severus paled when he saw the looks and looked at Lily who then put on a stern look.
"What are you two planning to do?" she asked.
"Hey Arthur." Sirius started in a sing-song voice.
"We have something to tell you." Remus continued.
"Well, actually, I think *Lily and Severus* have something to tell you." Sirius said mock-seriously.
"Well, you're going to be competing for the 'Most Children Award' soon." Remus said.
Lily took out her wand, said some words, and Sirius and Remus were replaced by skunks a moment later.
"Now why did you have to go and do that for?" Lily asked.
"Now why did *you* have to go and do *that* for? That's vital information!" Arthur said, laughing.
"Okay, enough picking on me and Severus, I think we should let Harry have a little rest." Lily said.
"Yes, Madam Pomfrey." Sirius said after Lily took the spell off of him and Remus.
"I have had enough of that woman to last a lifetime." Severus groaned.
"And you'll probably see more of her when we get back to the school. He's going to be a Maurader." Sirius said with an evil grin.
"Oh no he isn't." Lily said.
"Aww Lils." Remus whined.
"Why not?" Severus asked.
"Yeah, why not? Sev here was a Maurader and look at how he turned out!" Sirius said, putting on the puppy-dog-eye look.
Lily looked at the men for a moment, and then to Harry and Ron who were having a conversation about something and to Hali and Ginny who were also talking about something. She then looked over to Arthur who was laughing silently at the group.
"No." she said, shaking her head. "No way am I going to have my kid growing up without fun. He can be trained, but you hurt him and you will not see him for three weeks." Lily said.
Remus, Sirius, and Severus gave each other high-fives and hugged Lily in a dog pile.
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Author's Note:
Okay, since my internet is not working due to a flippin Typhoon (Don't know what it is look it up in a dictionary) I wrote another chapter for you (This one) Happy? Good. Okay. I have homework. Skeeyaz!