Chapter two: secrets reveled and punishments handed out

Sirus woke up after a short nap. Something had woken him up. He looked behind him and saw Hedwig. "You had to wake me up for what reason?" The bird gave him a look that said "you have forgotten; some godfather you are." Sirus thought for a minute then remembered Harry's sixteenth birthday. He took the note that Harry sent him. "That was quick." he read the note and sighed. "He didn't do anything. If he did then he will be in trouble when the order goes to get him. I'll get Remus to talk to him away from the others." he told himself. It was only afternoon so Remus was awake downstairs.

He opened his door and called "REMUS! can you please come up here to my room!"

"I'll be right up Sirus." Remus called back. Remus came into Sirus' room a few minutes later. "What's up Sirus?" he asked as he walked into his room.

"I need you to talk to Harry away from everyone else when you go to pick him up tomorrow."

"Why?" Sirus showed him the letter, he read through it quickly. " He did something then?"

" I don't know but the whole order doesn't have to know what so let's just keep this between us."

"Ok Sirus."

"Thanks Moony."

"No problem Padfoot." Remus went back downstairs and Sirus told Hedwig that he would give Harry his gift when he sees him then went back to his nap. --------------------------------------------------------------------

When Harry woke the next morning he saw Hedwig in her cage with a letter. He looked at it and said "Well it is better then nothing." he would usually look in his mirror and get dressed even if he was in his room all day but the letter got the better of him and he wanted to open it. He went over and untied it from his owl and looked it over. It looked to be about at lest 15 years old. 'What is this?' he asked himself. He opened the letter and read:

My dearest Harry, Happy 16th birthday, my son. I hope you never read this but if you are then it means that I am dead. I am hoping to tell you this by myself but I might not be able to do so. That is why I am writing this letter to give to professor Dumbledore if needed. You will get this on your 16th birthday. You are maybe wondering what I need to tell you so I'll tell you. I don't know how to put this so I am just going to say it. James is not your father. "What, that can't be right, I look just like him." Harry said then went back to his letter. Yes I know that you look just like him that is because I put a charm on you to look like him for 16 years. The charm comes off on your 16th birthday. I want you to know who your father is if I am not there to put the charm on you again. Your father is a nice man that I really cared about. His name is Severus Snape. Hopefully you had the great pleasure of meeting him. He is really a nice person to get to know. What ever you might hear he is NOT a Death Eater. He is a spy for the light side. I am also going to write a letter for him. You will both know about this at the same time. While I am writing this you are playing on the floor in front of me. I love you Harry and hopefully you will never read this. Get to know Severus, Harry, he is a really great person to know. Lots of love, Lily Potter aka mom P.S. James doesn't know that I cheated on him. I feel guilty about this. Again, Happy Birthday my son.

Harry reread through the letter again hoping that it didn't say what he thought it said. "Great my father is alive but he hates me." he said out loud. "That's not true, he hates your stepfather and you remind him of James." a voice said in the back of his head.

"True, but I probably look like Snape now" Harry said. Harry walked over to his mirror to get dressed. When he got there and looked at it he saw someone that looked like Severus but had had Lily's eyes and the scar that was Voldemort's fault "My aunt and uncle aren't going to like this at all if they come in here. They are going to think that I did more magic and then I'll be in more trouble with them and with the order. How can I prove that I didn't do magic? they aren't going to believe the letter they are going to think that I wrote it to get out of trouble and to play a sick joke." he thought for a minute "I'll think of something if they come in here."

his uncle paid a little visit to Harry's room later that day. Harry was just lying there looking at the wall when his uncle came in. He took one look at the boy and without saying anything started beating him with anything he could get; which was his belt, a stick and a piece of wood that was in Harry's room. By the time he thought he was done for now Harry was unconscious. His uncle then left the room.

Snape had just finished reading his own letter from Lily. It had answered all of his questions. "That god-damn-spoiled-rotten-brat can't be my son." he thought to himself. But then it was plain as it could be from the last person who would ever lie to him. "Well seeing that I have a son I should at least go and talk to the boy. Dumbledore will make me anyways and I really don't need him on my case to do this." Severus rose to his feet from the chair he was sitting in, disapparated and apparated in front of number four Privet Drive.

There was no car in the driveway. "They probably went out." he thought to himself. He went in to check out the house anyways. "Alohomora." he unlocked the door and walked in. He walked into a hallway with a set of stairs. He walked upstairs to check out Harry's room. When he got to the top, the first thing he noticed was a door with all kinds of locks on it. 'They wouldn't put the boy in there, would they!' he thought to himself. He checked all the other rooms and there was no sign that a wizard lived there. Actually, there was no sign of him anywhere in the house to tell you the truth.

He went to the door with all the locks and unlocked them with his wand. There was a desk, closet, shelves full of broken toys and untouched books, and a bed with something dead laying there not moving or anything. 'This can't be potter' Severus thought. He brightened the room with his wand and saw a skinny, younger version of himself. Harry began to move. He opened his eyes and began to move. He looked scared. He had wide green eyes, and turned even more white then what his body already was.

"Don't come near me. Please no more. I am sorry. Please no more." he said as he started to cry. He had his hands over his head and was curled up into a ball. He kept saying the same thing over and over again. Severus was getting angry but it wasn't at Harry, it was at who ever made his son like this. He may hate the boy but he would never ever lay a hand on him to hurt him. He had enough of that from his father and didn't want his own kid to go through that. As he thought about that, the front door opened and someone started coming up the stairs. Harry was still shaking and pleading Severus not to hit him. Someone came in to the room.

"Who the bloody hell are you?" a large man in a mustache asked.

"I am Professor Severus Snape from Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. I am also Harry James Potter's potion master and father." said Severus.

"You stay away from my family." the man said.

"Who are you and what have you done to my son?" Severus asked.

"I am Vernon Dursley, the boy's uncle." Vernon said nervously. "he got what he deserved, the FREAK" he said.

"How about I give you what you deserve and then hand you over to the dementors to give you a nice kiss for laying a hand on a wizard even though there won't be much left after I am done with you. I trust you know a little bit about the wizard world."

"no why would the dementy-thingy's kiss me? Is that a good thing?" Vernon asked. "Yes, if you think being soulless is a good thing. Then you are worse then dead, you can't think, remember, or have any emotions. But if I have my way you and your family would be given to the Dark Lord aka Lord Voldemort. He would put you and you son through a slow and painful death for the fun of it and have your wife raped by all the Death Eaters a few times then put her through the same death just because your are muggles." Severus said with a smile. He could see Vernon turning whiter then Harry was.

Harry still didn't know what was going on, he though that Vernon was beating him. "I suggest that you leave unless you want the Dark Lord to have some fun because if you do I'll be more then happy to take you to him."

Vernon then turned around and left the room. He went downstairs and told his family not to go up stairs for a while.

Severus smiled at what he did and started going through Harry's things to find something that fit a bit better. All he found were clothes from that whale of a cousin of his. The only thing that fit him the right way were his robes. Severus dressed him in those since his other ones were way to big for him and had blood all over them. He left all of the muggle clothes that weren't his and got everything that was Harry's.

He toke the picture of Hedwig down and used his wand to get everything else. Most of it came from under his bed. Severus put it all in his trunk. He knew he couldn't take everything at once so he went downstairs to pay them another visit. When he walked into the kitchen Vernon was still white asked "wwwwhat dddddo yyyyyyyyou wwwwwant?"

"Just to tell you that I will be back to get the boy, I just can't take everything with me at once and I swear to Merlin if that boy is touched I will go through with my threat and I will know if any muggle went upstairs." with that he left the kitchen to get the trunk and Hedwig out of there.

He apparated to the Snape manor to put the stuff in a room that will be Harry's. He called to a house elf to unpack everything and get the room ready for a young Gryffindor that isn't well and telling him he can use any magic to get it done with in the next 5 minutes. The elf nodded and got to work. Severus was about to apparate back when the alarm he put on the boy's room went off.

"Crap, they just don't know how to listen do they?" he apparated back right into Harry's room and caught Vernon beating the boy and Harry trying to get away. Vernon had a belt in one hand and Harry in the other holding him down. Severus is very quiet at apparating so Vernon didn't hear him. He was quiet for a minute then said "Good to see that you know how to listen. Your wife and child did what they were told so I'm not going to punish them. You on the other hand didn't so I guess the Dark Lord will have fun tonight. Maybe he might have you raped, I don't know what he'll do." vernon jumped at the voice and spun around looking like he did before.

"You wouldn't."

"Try me." Severus said as he tied the man up with a rope and apparated them both to the Dark Lord, leaving Harry there. When they arrived Severus put his hood up and walked into the ballroom of Riddle manor. Voldemort was already there so Severus bowed to him and crawled up to kiss the hems of his robes saying "My Lord I beg you to not be displeased with me but I have found this muggle trying to get into your manor so I brought him to you to deal with."

"Thank you Severus, my faithful servant, you will not be punished for bothering me. Thank you for keeping an eye on my manor when you are around. As your reward you can decided what we do to him." Voldemort hissed.

"My Lord, are you sure? I mean that is a big reward, not that I am questioning your idea."

"I am sure Severus." the man said.

"Ok, if you are sure I think that we should have anyone you think worthy to rape him and then have him go through the slowest, most painful death you know of. The choice is all on you my lord." Severus bowed.

"I like your idea Severus, I will use that. Do you want to be involved? The choice is up to you; I will not force you or be displeased."

"My lord that is a generous offer but no thank you my lord, you save that for someone else I had my reward that was more then necessary." Severus said as he was down on one knee, head low.

"Very well, thank you for your honesty you are dismissed after you show our 'guest' to his room you know which one I mean."

"Very well my lord, I only exists to serve you." Severus said as he kissed his robes again, stood and took Vernon down to the dungeons. When he was done he went back to his son.

When he got back it was like Harry was still being beaten. He went over and started rubbing small circles on his back or at least tried. As soon as Harry was touched he jumped and went as far back against the wall as he could and got as small as he could. Severus sighed and said ' this is going to be hard to bring him back to his old ways.' he began to say things to Harry to calm him down. "I am not going to hurt you. I am going to get you out." Severus said a few times nice and quiet. when Harry didn't reply Severus put himself back into the teacher mode and used a voice that Harry would be used to " Potter I am not going to hurt you, I am getting you out once you get that through your head and let me touch you and carry you we can leave."

"Professor? wwwwhat are you doing here?" Harry asked.

"I am here to take you out of this house if you let me come near you to pick you up." Severus sneered.

"Ok I'll try to let you pick me up sir and don't worry about causing me pain, I am used to it." Harry said. Severus asked Harry if there were anything that he wanted. All Harry said was "the stuff under the loose floorboard." Severus checked there and there was nothing there. "I have already got all that, anything else you are never coming back so make sure that we have everything." Harry looked around and saw that everything was gone but the toys, books and things that didn't belong to him.

"We have everything professor." Harry said.

"Ok I am going to close your wounds and clean the blood off of you. Then we just got to pay a visit to you aunt and cousin downstairs and then we will be gone." Severus told him. Harry nodded and put his arms up like a baby wanting to be picked up. Severus picked him up and felt how light he was. He put Harry over his shoulder like he would a sleeping baby and left the room.

They went downstairs and Severus told petunia "your husband will be killed because he refused to listen to my warning and thought I wouldn't go through with it. If he asked his nephew about my warnings he would have told him I stick to my word as he has found out a few times and your husband just did. I thank you for listening to me, the both of you, and wish you both a nice life. Harry will not be back here ever again." with that he turned and left the room. With a wave of his wand the charm was taken off of the 2nd floor and he left to the Snape manor.

He didn't need the headmaster messing up the healing in order to find out what happened to him. By the time they arrived Harry was unconscious again so Severus took him up to the second floor and put him in the room that he had the house elf get ready. It was across from his own room so he could get to him if needed. He lied him down into Harry's new bed. He put charms on the manor so not even Dumbledore could get in the manor without Severus permission. Then he went down to his potions lab and got some potions needed to help Harry. He went back to the room and gave Harry all the potions he could until he examined him. When he did he found that Harry had a broken rib, right hand, and left arm. He also had a lot of bruises on him. He healed these with magic but left the rest for potions and the time. Then he waited.

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