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A/N: I am sorry for not writing for so long. The end of the last year was straining and full of tests at school and I had this chapter almost finished, but there was a part missing. Well, I hope you enjoy it!

HAPPY NEW 2005!!!

Chapter 05 – The tale of the lost son…

"What?" shrieked Harry. "What happened between my Mum and him?"

"Harry…" began Remus but the teen wouldn't listen to him.

"What have you done, bastard?" he screamed.

Snape only flinched slightly, his face perfectly blank.

Remus walked towards Harry and tried to calm the boy. His eyes were flickering nervously, now and then he fixed his vision on one of the teachers. "Leave me alone, Lupin! Go, leave me… go!"

Remus sadly looked at him. Why couldn't he just accept it?

"How… what should I have told him? That I married her? That 'Potter' wasn't her true name? That she was a married Snape? That he was the product of a escapade of his mother?" Severus snorted. "Dear Harry, I hate you because your father was the worst traitor I ever knew! You thought Pettigrew was bad, have look at Potter's CV…"

Remus grew angry. "YOU BIGOTS! Why can't you just understand and accept it? Everybody can, just the two of you are constantly running against the wall of ignorance!"

"WHAT WOULD YOU KNOW ABOUT IT?" screamed Snape in sudden rage, his face a horrible grimace of pain and despair.

"She told my, Severus. Three weeks after the marriage she told me she was pregnant. She cried and asked me to bring you back," whispered Lupin.

Snape's face turned unreadable.

"Why would she want me at her side? She had married Potter. Damn him. He stole her from my very hands." Severus clenched his fists as if he could catch hold of Lily now. "She had married him, she had loved him. The only thing was left for me was her scoff and scorn. It almost died when I heard about the boy being born and – I knew she had betrayed me and it killed me then. Do you know how deep and dark this abyss I was falling in was?"

The teacher sat down on a chair and hid his face in his hands.

"But I don't blame her as much as I blame James and as I blame Dumbledore and you! James stole her, Dumbledore send me so far away and you didn't do anything to prevent any of both. You are a god-awful best friend, werewolf! You fucked up utterly."

Snape blocked everything around him, except from Lupin, out.

"I'm sorry, Severus. But you don't know the whole truth!"

"I'm perfectly right!" bellowed Snape, "Once I hoped and prayed and pleaded that the child was mine – once I believed in the purity of her vow. But then I saw the picture of them. His arms laid around Lily, my love, my life - god damn it, his arms laid around my wife! And the child in her arms just looked like him. There were no traits of me in his face. The only thing I recognized were Lily's eyes. Her eyes on his son." Snape's voice was weak and it sounded like he had relinquished everything a long time ago.

"What the hell is going on here?" screamed Harry. "Would you care to tell me what you are talking about? I don't understand anything!"

"Harry, you have to know that your mother did not marry James Potter, not really."

Remus caught Severus eyes.

"She married me. At least I believed that she married me, then."

Harry shook his head at his teachers' bewildering statements.

"Harry, we had to pretend that Lily married James. You have to know that in wizarding world not the marriage contract is important but the magical bond between the bride and the groom. When Voldemort began to have really serious powers we thought it might best to shed the rumours about Lily and a certain Death Eater. Severus broke up with Lily and called her horrible names but Lily certainly wasn't inferior. Everyone believed it and Voldemort was extremely adulterated when he was informed that Severus had pledged his allegiance to the Dark Lord in front of the 'mudblood' and told her that he was looking forward to be her executioner once it was her turn to be judged by the one and only rightful heirs to the title of being wizards."

Harry glared at the potions master. "You filthy bastard!"

Severus snorted. "Listen before you judge my words."

"Yes, because he never meant them, Harry. Lily pretended to turn towards James," said Lupin.

"The glorious Auror to be!" interjected Snape in a voice full of pain.

"Actually she never did," explained Lupin, glancing at Severus. "But after two months of an intense 'love affair' they announced that they would marry soon. As I said before, it's not the signature on a parchment that seals the lawful marriage between a wizard and a witch but the magic bond that is established during the highly magic ceremony.

"And so it happened that it wasn't James who attended the marriage as bride groom, but Severus in the appearance of James. It was very easy for him to brew a good Polyjuice potion. After the ceremony he changed places with James and waited for his wife in the little cottage where Lily and her new husband would spend their honeymoon. James would stay with them to conceal everything."

Remus sighed heavily.

"I was summoned by Dumbledore after only two days and just after I was back at her side the Dark Lord 'asked' for my company. I think she already turned to him then."

"She didn't, Severus. She never did."

"And how does it come that she gave birth to his child?" asked a furious potions master. "You don't believe in virginally conception, do you?"

"You thumb and utter idiot! She never gave birth to James' child!" roared Lupin annoyed with the bigotry his once best friend was cursed with. "He is your child, moron!"

Harry's lips twitched with a smile and then he laughed out loud. "Damn good, damn good, Lupin! This was such a good explanation that one might actually believe it!"

"I wasn't kidding, Harry," answered Remus with a serious voice.

"Oh, come on! What's coming next? I'm Voldie's long lost brother?"

Remus expression didn't change and he remained as silent as Snape.

"You have to be kidding, Lupin, you HAVE TO!" Harry began to feel uneasy. "TELL ME YOU WERE KIDDING!" screamed Harry with tears in his eyes.

"Remus, that's nothing to crack jokes about!" demanded Snape. He had risen from his chair but sunk back and hid his face with his hands once again. "Oh god, that changes everything!"

"No, it doesn't!" shrieked Harry in a high-pitched voice.

"Oh god – I have to reconsider everything."

"You don't have to reconsider everything, sir, because nothing changed!" demanded Harry mournfully.

"I'm not excited about all this, Mr. Potter, not at all. And even though it's none of your business I daresay that I would have appreciated it if this all had been a joke. But I believe Remus words and it changes the way we have to look at a certain prediction. Not the one you made, but one that clearly is referring to you is now to be seen in a completely different context!"

"Severus, I do think this affects Harry as well!"

Harry began to shiver.

"The lost son," Snape whispered.

And Harry ran…

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I think it was stupid to let Snape being ill. There is no purpse in Snape being ill, not yet and perhaps never!
Perhaps I'm going to let it being the reason for a shorter attention span but we will see!

What happens in the next chapters: Memories of the past and Harry running...