Ok I'm back again! I know Harry and Sev might have been a little OOC but I
tried. Also I was trying to make it seem like neither Sev or Harry were
very happy about this ordeal but I think I gave the wrong
impression......*sigh* well please excuse me I'm pretty new at this.....
OK for starters thanks to all my reviewers once again ^_^
I do hope this makes up for the last kind of short chapter.
Chapter seven- Enter Dumbledore
Severus Snape was NOT a happy man. For one thing, he was stuck with a spoiled little big headed brat who he had just found out recently, was his son.
Okay, ya he had always wanted a son when he had been younger, before he had retreated into his hard cold shell isolated away from everyone else but this was just...just.....WRONG! He imagined Dumbledore would be having a good laugh about this unfortunate irony. Yes, the old man would probably be smiling at the two of them with twinkling eyes, offering them a lemon drop.......oh how he hated Albus Dumbledore at times!
He had received the headmaster's response only a couple minutes ago, which had been about an hour after breakfast and the Professor's response had been anything but apologetic to him (which is what he had wanted/expected it to be). Instead it had been rather....cheery the old man had been practically congratulating the both of them, though Severus couldn't say that he saw one good thing that could come out of this misfortune, and he was positive that the boy felt the same way.
When he had first found out about Potter being his son, him being shocked was an understatement, he had actually considered to accept Potter as his son for Merlin's sake!! He really must have been historical! One good thing that had come out of the aftershock was that he had actually managed to carry on a civil conversation with the boy; well Severus hadn't said anything to cause lasting damage at least....
Damn Dumbledore! Damn Malfoy! If it hadn't of been for the Dark Lord's favorite boot-licker then this whole predicament wouldn't have even happened! Thus Potter wouldn't have even been born! At least it would have solved a dozen of his problems (which most of them revolved around the brat).
Damn Harry bloody Potter! He most definitely would more satisfied by spending his time doing what he, Severus, wanted then babysitting some sniveling little brat that he found out was his son. Harry Potter, the Gryffindor Golden-boy, the boy who lived...his son! Severus sneered, how bloody disappointing! And him being a Gryffindor...Ugh!! The Snape line was ruined! Severus mentally chuckled, the Snape line ruined? Oh how his father would be furious if he were still alive!
Albus was going to meet him and the boy sometime today to discuss the matter at hand. Severus headed to the boy's room to inform him of the headmaster's upcoming arrival......
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Harry scowled to himself as he thought about Snape. The nerve of the man! He thought Ron and Hermione wasn't important to him! He still couldn't believe that the git hadn't even asked him if he wanted to pose as his son before deciding!
Of course, Snape had completely ignored him during breakfast, though when Harry had first arrived at breakfast, he had seen Snape's eyes widen when he first saw him (he was donned head to toe in black making him look like a Snape replica, much to his and his father's disgust).
Harry had smiled smugly in seeing Snape shocked for the first time (of course the man had covered it up with a sneer).
Though Harry hated to admit it, he was positive that Professor Dumbledore would agree with Snape and make him pose as the potion master's son.....he wouldn't even to be able to tell his two best friends....he'd have to start over again....befriend the two of them once again and get them to trust him....which of course would be much harder since he was a Snape...but no, nothing would be the same....he could never get them to trust 'Harry Snape' as they did 'Harry Potter,' they had been threw to much together, so they'd never look at him the same, or trust him or confide in him as they did now.....before, even if he did somehow befriend them again, nothing would be the same....
Heh. Harry Snape...it probably wasn't even going to be his name
And what about Ginny? Ever since the end of last year the two of them had grown closer, especially over the summer. They had been sending letters back and forth to each other. Harry certainly knew that she wasn't the shy, blushing, little girl she used to be, instead she had transformed into a beautiful young woman whom he could look to for comfort if he needed it, when the others wouldn't understand what it was like to feel like you were being controlled by Voldemort, she was the only one who knew....the only one he could turn to with something like that..... But now he would loose her to.....or she would probably dislike him too.
He and Ginny had sent more letters to each other more then even Ron and Hermione had sent to him over the summer. His two friends had sent him only two other letters besides his birthday card to him over the summer. Mainly because of the DE activity, and because of danger of letter interception.
Ron and Hermione had finally seemed to realize their feelings for one another, according to Ginny. The Weasley's and Hermione had once again spent their summer in the Order's HQ, researching ways to unstuck Mrs. Black's portrait.
Harry had only received a letter from Ginny since he had been at the Snape Manor. In it she told him that she would give him his birthday present when they saw each other.
Fat chance...
She would probably not see him for a couple years, knowingly that is.
Harry sighed, he wished he could at least see Ginny, he missed her....
Harry was startled out of his thoughts as he heard a hesitant knock on the door...
"Come in," sighed Harry, knowing who it was.
Severus opened the door and walked in the room for the second time in two days. He looked around the room and sneered at the untidiness of it.
Indeed, Harry had somehow managed to completely trash it since the night before. He had specifically restricted all house elves from cleaning his room, he liked it messy no matter how strange that sounded.
"How you managed to make this room comparable to a hippogriff's stall in such a short amount of time I will never know....." Severus said coolly.
Harry sighed, "What? Do you need something?"
Severus' sneer deepened, "Manners, Potter manners" he said softly as he strode around the room to the chair, noticeably stepping over Harry's things that littered the floor.
"Professor Dumbledore will be arriving soon, I expect you to make yourself look at least half-way decent, though you may find it almost impossible for a feat such as that to be accomplished....." Snape said eyeing Harry with disgust.
Harry flushed slightly, "If I may sir, are you or are you not aware of how identical we now look?"
Harry smirked victoriously as he saw a light blush cross his father's face. Severus quickly covered it with a sneer and said, "I was merely speaking of those horrid clothes you are wearing, tell me Potter, were they previously owned by some breed of elephant or is that the new look teenagers are now sporting?"
Harry flushed deeper and opened his mouth to let out a rather nasty comment when an old, slightly amused voice suddenly called out, "Am I interrupting something?"
Both Harry and his father looked to see the headmaster standing at the doorway, an amused smile playing on his lips.
"Professor Dumbledore! How are you?" Harry exclaimed happily. The wizened man smiled gently at him, his blue eyes twinkling with delight. "Just fine my boy! I take it you two haven't been able to work anything out now have you?" he replied cheerfully.
The two of them responded with identical scowls toward the headmaster, who chuckled at the two. "You two may be more similar then you think" he said, his eyes twinkling even more. Severus scowled.
"As amusing as this is to you, headmaster, shouldn't we be discussing what to do about this bedlam!" he snapped.
Dumbledore smiled. "Of course Severus. Harry you do know that you will have to pose as Severus' son right?" he asked Harry softly. Harry nodded, his eyes firmly fixed on the floor, "He also said that I couldn't tell Ron or Hermione, is that right headmaster?" he murmured dully.
The headmaster nodded, a sad smile now on his wrinkled face. "I'm afraid so my boy, I'm sorry but it is for your and your father's safety..." Harry sighed, it was always for his safety......he never got to do anything because he 'always needed to be safe' it drove him crazy.
Severus shifted slightly at the title.
"So, we need to make a new name for you and a cover up story as to where you've been all this time!" Dumbledore said almost in an excited tone. "You know Severus, this will be a great chance for you to really open up to someone....."
"Headmaster!" Severus snapped in a slightly appalled voice, "If you honestly think that just because the brat's my........son that I'm going to suddenly change my whole demeanor then you are sorely mistaken...."
Dumbledore sighed and rubbed his eyes warily, "You could at least try Severus" he said softly. Severus merely sneered in response.
Harry, who had been watching this whole ordeal silently, couldn't help but feel a slight pang in his heart by what his father had said, but as soon as it came it was gone. Harry gave himself a mental shake, he really didn't care if the man still hated him did he? It wasn't as if Harry was going to suddenly play the nice respectable son to a greasy git who just happened to have the same DNA as him....James Potter was always going to be his real father, no matter what.....
"Yes I have the papers for his birth certificate right here....." Dumbledore said as he pulled out a pile of papers. "I've filled out everything already except his name."
Severus grimaced, "What about his mother's name?"
Dumbledore nodded, "All taken care of....lets see.." he sifted through the papers. "Born, August 12th 1980 to a Mr. Severus Snape and a Ms. Lindsey Doyle...." Severus stared, "Who in the hell is Lindsey Doyle?" Dumbledore gave him a reassuring nod. "A muggle, she died of a freak accident on August 1st, 1996.....she had one son but other then him, she had no living family...."
"Never heard of her" Harry murmured. The old man smiled, "Of course you haven't, I made her up, now your mother, Lindsey Doyle, kept you from your father because they weren't wed and didn't love each other, Severus found out about you when she died on August 1st and you attended a private wizarding school in America up till now...."
"Now, surely headmaster, if someone looked into that information they would find that this Doyle girl didn't even exist!" "Not to worry, Severus its all taken care of...." Dumbledore said reassuringly. "I swear, muggle profiles are so easy to get into...Well now that that's all explained, we need a name!"
"But headmaster, what if someone looks into the records at my (supposedly) old school, they'll find out I never attended." The headmaster gave them a knowing smile once again, "St. James Academy closed down over the summer, so there wouldn't be a record of your stay there...."
"Well you certainly have this sorted out....." Severus breathed.
Albus nodded, "It was quite simple actually....Now a name! Severus, you're his father, what do you wish to name him?"
Harry chanced a glance over at his father, the man looked slightly sickened but said solemnly, "I suppose I should name him after someone in my family.....though I don't think there's one person who deserves being named after....nevertheless I suppose I'll have to make do, it is a tradition after all...."
Dumbledore smiled, though it was slightly saddened. "Well Severus the sooner we get his name, the sooner this thing will be out of your hair......for now at least..."
Severus nodded slowly, "Okay then I wish to name him.........."
(@) Okay how as that? Good? Bad? I hope the cover up story isn't to complicated, basically they're making up Harry's supposed mom......
Okay please review!
Till next time!
OK for starters thanks to all my reviewers once again ^_^
I do hope this makes up for the last kind of short chapter.
Chapter seven- Enter Dumbledore
Severus Snape was NOT a happy man. For one thing, he was stuck with a spoiled little big headed brat who he had just found out recently, was his son.
Okay, ya he had always wanted a son when he had been younger, before he had retreated into his hard cold shell isolated away from everyone else but this was just...just.....WRONG! He imagined Dumbledore would be having a good laugh about this unfortunate irony. Yes, the old man would probably be smiling at the two of them with twinkling eyes, offering them a lemon drop.......oh how he hated Albus Dumbledore at times!
He had received the headmaster's response only a couple minutes ago, which had been about an hour after breakfast and the Professor's response had been anything but apologetic to him (which is what he had wanted/expected it to be). Instead it had been rather....cheery the old man had been practically congratulating the both of them, though Severus couldn't say that he saw one good thing that could come out of this misfortune, and he was positive that the boy felt the same way.
When he had first found out about Potter being his son, him being shocked was an understatement, he had actually considered to accept Potter as his son for Merlin's sake!! He really must have been historical! One good thing that had come out of the aftershock was that he had actually managed to carry on a civil conversation with the boy; well Severus hadn't said anything to cause lasting damage at least....
Damn Dumbledore! Damn Malfoy! If it hadn't of been for the Dark Lord's favorite boot-licker then this whole predicament wouldn't have even happened! Thus Potter wouldn't have even been born! At least it would have solved a dozen of his problems (which most of them revolved around the brat).
Damn Harry bloody Potter! He most definitely would more satisfied by spending his time doing what he, Severus, wanted then babysitting some sniveling little brat that he found out was his son. Harry Potter, the Gryffindor Golden-boy, the boy who lived...his son! Severus sneered, how bloody disappointing! And him being a Gryffindor...Ugh!! The Snape line was ruined! Severus mentally chuckled, the Snape line ruined? Oh how his father would be furious if he were still alive!
Albus was going to meet him and the boy sometime today to discuss the matter at hand. Severus headed to the boy's room to inform him of the headmaster's upcoming arrival......
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Harry scowled to himself as he thought about Snape. The nerve of the man! He thought Ron and Hermione wasn't important to him! He still couldn't believe that the git hadn't even asked him if he wanted to pose as his son before deciding!
Of course, Snape had completely ignored him during breakfast, though when Harry had first arrived at breakfast, he had seen Snape's eyes widen when he first saw him (he was donned head to toe in black making him look like a Snape replica, much to his and his father's disgust).
Harry had smiled smugly in seeing Snape shocked for the first time (of course the man had covered it up with a sneer).
Though Harry hated to admit it, he was positive that Professor Dumbledore would agree with Snape and make him pose as the potion master's son.....he wouldn't even to be able to tell his two best friends....he'd have to start over again....befriend the two of them once again and get them to trust him....which of course would be much harder since he was a Snape...but no, nothing would be the same....he could never get them to trust 'Harry Snape' as they did 'Harry Potter,' they had been threw to much together, so they'd never look at him the same, or trust him or confide in him as they did now.....before, even if he did somehow befriend them again, nothing would be the same....
Heh. Harry Snape...it probably wasn't even going to be his name
And what about Ginny? Ever since the end of last year the two of them had grown closer, especially over the summer. They had been sending letters back and forth to each other. Harry certainly knew that she wasn't the shy, blushing, little girl she used to be, instead she had transformed into a beautiful young woman whom he could look to for comfort if he needed it, when the others wouldn't understand what it was like to feel like you were being controlled by Voldemort, she was the only one who knew....the only one he could turn to with something like that..... But now he would loose her to.....or she would probably dislike him too.
He and Ginny had sent more letters to each other more then even Ron and Hermione had sent to him over the summer. His two friends had sent him only two other letters besides his birthday card to him over the summer. Mainly because of the DE activity, and because of danger of letter interception.
Ron and Hermione had finally seemed to realize their feelings for one another, according to Ginny. The Weasley's and Hermione had once again spent their summer in the Order's HQ, researching ways to unstuck Mrs. Black's portrait.
Harry had only received a letter from Ginny since he had been at the Snape Manor. In it she told him that she would give him his birthday present when they saw each other.
Fat chance...
She would probably not see him for a couple years, knowingly that is.
Harry sighed, he wished he could at least see Ginny, he missed her....
Harry was startled out of his thoughts as he heard a hesitant knock on the door...
"Come in," sighed Harry, knowing who it was.
Severus opened the door and walked in the room for the second time in two days. He looked around the room and sneered at the untidiness of it.
Indeed, Harry had somehow managed to completely trash it since the night before. He had specifically restricted all house elves from cleaning his room, he liked it messy no matter how strange that sounded.
"How you managed to make this room comparable to a hippogriff's stall in such a short amount of time I will never know....." Severus said coolly.
Harry sighed, "What? Do you need something?"
Severus' sneer deepened, "Manners, Potter manners" he said softly as he strode around the room to the chair, noticeably stepping over Harry's things that littered the floor.
"Professor Dumbledore will be arriving soon, I expect you to make yourself look at least half-way decent, though you may find it almost impossible for a feat such as that to be accomplished....." Snape said eyeing Harry with disgust.
Harry flushed slightly, "If I may sir, are you or are you not aware of how identical we now look?"
Harry smirked victoriously as he saw a light blush cross his father's face. Severus quickly covered it with a sneer and said, "I was merely speaking of those horrid clothes you are wearing, tell me Potter, were they previously owned by some breed of elephant or is that the new look teenagers are now sporting?"
Harry flushed deeper and opened his mouth to let out a rather nasty comment when an old, slightly amused voice suddenly called out, "Am I interrupting something?"
Both Harry and his father looked to see the headmaster standing at the doorway, an amused smile playing on his lips.
"Professor Dumbledore! How are you?" Harry exclaimed happily. The wizened man smiled gently at him, his blue eyes twinkling with delight. "Just fine my boy! I take it you two haven't been able to work anything out now have you?" he replied cheerfully.
The two of them responded with identical scowls toward the headmaster, who chuckled at the two. "You two may be more similar then you think" he said, his eyes twinkling even more. Severus scowled.
"As amusing as this is to you, headmaster, shouldn't we be discussing what to do about this bedlam!" he snapped.
Dumbledore smiled. "Of course Severus. Harry you do know that you will have to pose as Severus' son right?" he asked Harry softly. Harry nodded, his eyes firmly fixed on the floor, "He also said that I couldn't tell Ron or Hermione, is that right headmaster?" he murmured dully.
The headmaster nodded, a sad smile now on his wrinkled face. "I'm afraid so my boy, I'm sorry but it is for your and your father's safety..." Harry sighed, it was always for his safety......he never got to do anything because he 'always needed to be safe' it drove him crazy.
Severus shifted slightly at the title.
"So, we need to make a new name for you and a cover up story as to where you've been all this time!" Dumbledore said almost in an excited tone. "You know Severus, this will be a great chance for you to really open up to someone....."
"Headmaster!" Severus snapped in a slightly appalled voice, "If you honestly think that just because the brat's my........son that I'm going to suddenly change my whole demeanor then you are sorely mistaken...."
Dumbledore sighed and rubbed his eyes warily, "You could at least try Severus" he said softly. Severus merely sneered in response.
Harry, who had been watching this whole ordeal silently, couldn't help but feel a slight pang in his heart by what his father had said, but as soon as it came it was gone. Harry gave himself a mental shake, he really didn't care if the man still hated him did he? It wasn't as if Harry was going to suddenly play the nice respectable son to a greasy git who just happened to have the same DNA as him....James Potter was always going to be his real father, no matter what.....
"Yes I have the papers for his birth certificate right here....." Dumbledore said as he pulled out a pile of papers. "I've filled out everything already except his name."
Severus grimaced, "What about his mother's name?"
Dumbledore nodded, "All taken care of....lets see.." he sifted through the papers. "Born, August 12th 1980 to a Mr. Severus Snape and a Ms. Lindsey Doyle...." Severus stared, "Who in the hell is Lindsey Doyle?" Dumbledore gave him a reassuring nod. "A muggle, she died of a freak accident on August 1st, 1996.....she had one son but other then him, she had no living family...."
"Never heard of her" Harry murmured. The old man smiled, "Of course you haven't, I made her up, now your mother, Lindsey Doyle, kept you from your father because they weren't wed and didn't love each other, Severus found out about you when she died on August 1st and you attended a private wizarding school in America up till now...."
"Now, surely headmaster, if someone looked into that information they would find that this Doyle girl didn't even exist!" "Not to worry, Severus its all taken care of...." Dumbledore said reassuringly. "I swear, muggle profiles are so easy to get into...Well now that that's all explained, we need a name!"
"But headmaster, what if someone looks into the records at my (supposedly) old school, they'll find out I never attended." The headmaster gave them a knowing smile once again, "St. James Academy closed down over the summer, so there wouldn't be a record of your stay there...."
"Well you certainly have this sorted out....." Severus breathed.
Albus nodded, "It was quite simple actually....Now a name! Severus, you're his father, what do you wish to name him?"
Harry chanced a glance over at his father, the man looked slightly sickened but said solemnly, "I suppose I should name him after someone in my family.....though I don't think there's one person who deserves being named after....nevertheless I suppose I'll have to make do, it is a tradition after all...."
Dumbledore smiled, though it was slightly saddened. "Well Severus the sooner we get his name, the sooner this thing will be out of your hair......for now at least..."
Severus nodded slowly, "Okay then I wish to name him.........."
(@) Okay how as that? Good? Bad? I hope the cover up story isn't to complicated, basically they're making up Harry's supposed mom......
Okay please review!
Till next time!