Lair of Serpents
By The Night Is My Friend
Summery- The five Potter children. All the same year of age. Three girls, two boys. Boys identical and two girls identical. The third girl was thought to be the prophesized. The others were sent away. One prophesized, or was it four?
Disclaimer- I own nothing except Kelsey, Faith, Fay and Harlan and maybe some others no one has ever heard of.
Chapter 1- The Prophecy
A woman with flowing red hair and beautiful, vibrant green eyes stood next to a man with messy black hair and glasses over hazel eyes. In front of them was an old man with pure white hair and beard. His blue eyes were slightly sad behind half moon glasses.
"Why did you call us Albus?" Asked the young man. The old man called Albus Dumbledore sighed.
"James, Lilly. I regret to inform you of a prophecy that may rip your family apart." The man called James Potter looked at Dumbledore questionably. The woman, Lilly Evans-Potter looked fearful. James and Lilly had five children, three girls and two boys, all at the age of two. Fay and Faith were twins in date and appearance. They had ebony hair with natural, dark red streaks in it. Their eyes were a piercing black. The other girl was called Kelsey and she had golden red hair and hazel eyes. The boys were Harry and Harlan and they were replicas of Fay and Faith in all but gender. The twins (A/N- What do you call four people who had the same birthday and look alike?) all had rough features and seemed more mature than Kelsey although Kelsey was born two months older. Kelsey had soft features and was very childish.
Kelsey had been born on June 31 and the others on Halloween.
Dumbledore went on,
"The prophecy basically says that Kelsey was born with the power to kill Voldemort, she will have a power that the Dark Lord does not know." Lilly and James smiled in relief before frowning,
"That's wonderful but I fail to see how this pulls us apart." Lilly said, confused. Dumbledore sighed again.
"I have put ultimate wards on a place for you to stay, Voldemort could never penetrate them. But there's one problem. The ward can only hold three and as Kelsey will need you…" Dumbledore let it hang. Lilly had paled and was leaning on James for support and James was gaping in astonishment and anger as he answered,
"You can't truly expect us to abandon four children!" He spluttered.
"I shall find them somewhere to live." A man with greasy black hair and onyx eyes and a smirk stepped out of the shadows.
"As fascinating as this conversation may seem I fail to see why you made me sit in on it Headmaster." The man called Severus Snape glared at his worst enemy, James.
Albus Dumbledore was the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. (A/N- I can't be bothered to explain so everyone else in Harry Potter will not be described unless they are new.)
James glared as he and Lilly had comprehension dawn in their minds
"You're giving our children to Snivellus!" James exclaimed in anger but Lilly stopped him,
"James, I trust Severus with my life, he can do it." Severus sneered,
"You assume I will take the brats of a Potter?" Lilly rose beautiful pleading eyes to Snape and her voice was soft and pleading,
"Please Sev, don't take them for James, take them for me." And Snape coldly agreed to take them. Dumbledore and Snape went with the Potters to pick up the four.
Lilly admitted that those four going was better since, she hurriedly added, they were always so close to each other but not as much with Kelsey. After she said that James also agreed.
The four children were through the floo and they unconsciously grouped together after their parents left. They were confused and it showed clearly. Why had their parents left them? Harry stuttered,
"W-Who you? Where mum and da?" The children were only two and their speech wasn't great. The others nodded and the four crossed their arms.
"I am Albus Dumbledore, this is Severus Snape. Your parents had to take Kelsey and leave. Severus is now your father." The four looked at Snape then grinned at him and Dumbledore. Faith started a sentence,
"So we," Harry continued,
"Are now," The line was picked up by Fay,
"Snape children," Harlan started the next sentence,
"We are not," Faith was next,
"Potters we are," Harry and Fay finished
"Snapes?" They all laughed and Harlan said the first word,
"What" and Faith the second,
"Are" Then Harry
"Our" Next Fay,
"New" Then Harlan and Fay,
"First" Next Faith and Harry,
"Names?" Snape and Dumbledore raised their eyebrows. Snape looked pale and dreading having to listen to this for the next few years and Dumbledore looked like he was trying hard not to laugh. (A/N- I just can't do the kids not excepting it for a while, it's like, impossible and besides, they're naïve two year olds!)
"Severus will be deciding that. You must never tell anyone who you are, Lilly, James and Kelsey are going to fake their deaths and you are going to be supposedly dead too. That won't be a problem as most people only know Lilly and James and you look nothing like them." The two year olds nodded. Snape got the four grinning brats to follow him to his room which Albus had given him. Albus had said that the brats would temporarily be in four rooms by Severus'. However, Albus had said, Severus would have to get them their own items.
This would be a problem as, since the Potters had been announced dead four of the 'dead' children could hardly go into their vaults. The Snape vault stored, contrary to belief, almost nothing; barely enough to support Severus and Sev had no job so there was the problem of supporting him and the Pot- his new children.
Then he had to name them! Perhaps he should leave it to them to choose names but he would cut in if they got too ridiculous.
On the way to Sev's new quarters (A/N- If you haven't noticed he isn't a teacher yet) Severus spoke to them,
"Now, you will need new names, you can pick them to a certain extent. I expect you to behave around me and not bother me when I work or (He glared at them intensely) when I am asleep." The four exchanged mischievous grins. The five arrived in Sev's room and the four went into one other room to choose names.
Room off Sev's
"I want to be Silian Salazar Snape!" Harry grinned
"I want to be Darian Salazar Snape!" Harlan smirked
"I want to be Salas Salazar Snape!" Faith grinned
"I want to be Dalas Salazar Snape!" Fay smirked. They all grinned then had an idea.
At times they seemed to have the exact same time. They rose silently and snuck out the door to see Sev working intently in a cauldron on a potion and they snuck out the door out into the hallways of Hogwarts.
They ventured onto a moving stairway and Silian said,
"Out!" In a commanding voice and the staircase moved outside! Then once they got off it vanished.
"Where do," Salas started,
"We go," Dalas continued,
"Now?" Silian and Darian finished. Then the four remembered seeing a forest out of Dummy door's window. They pictured vividly in their heads the edge of the forest and suddenly they were there! Silian and Salas lead the way to a huge tree on the edge and, being the curious, playful children they were they pictured a thick branch each and all appeared on their branch.
The four climbed about in the tree until they knew it completely. All of the branches were humongous and wide.
Next they all chose a high branch each. Leaves completely surrounded the branches they picked making a thick, canopy that nobody could see through and nobody other than those four would even consider that there was anything but leaves there.
This is amazing! Whispered Salas in amazement.
No one would even know the canopies hid anything! Cried Silian
Fascinating! Muttered Dalas
We could like, live here! Darian yelped. Everyone had gathered in a hollow in the amazingly thick trunk of the tree that was as big as a small room. They suddenly realized that they hadn't actually uttered a word!
WOW! Are we like, ya know, telapathetic! Thought Darian in amazement, he was the worst with language.
Yes, we must be. It's telepathic Darian, telepathic. Salas corrected.
We really must teach him grammar. Exclaimed Dalas in frustration.
HEY! I know grammar but if you pretend you don't for too long then you get use to it! Darian was affronted. The four children had always hidden their learning abilities, not wanting attention. They had known how to talk since their first birthdays.
He has a point you know. Silian defended his twin.
I know. Is it just me or is this telepathic thing not really surprising, I mean, we've always been able to sense each others' sentences and things and we get the same plans at the same time and things like that. Salas said slowly.
Actually, now you mention it I don't find it that surprising either…Silian replied and the others mind-nodded.
"Well, we better get back, Snape might have noticed that we have gone by now." Salas said aloud and all nodded and teleported back into the room just as Snape walked into it.
"Decided on names yet?" Severus sneered.
Lets give em up. Silian thought.
"Yes" They chorused.
"I am," Salas began, taken over by Silian,
"Salas Salazar Snape."
"I am," Dalas began, taken over by Darian
"Dalas Salazar Snape."
"I am," Silian began, taken over by Salas,
"Silian Salazar Snape."
"I am," Darian began, taken over by Dalas,
"Darian Salazar Snape." Severus stared at them then,
"How exactly am I to tell you apart?" And the almost identical four smirked mischievously.
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