Secrets, Lies, & Betrayal
By: darkhairveelaharry
disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter.
I would like to thank ditzy1978 for being my beta.
"talking"
'thoughts'
talking to animals
parsletongue
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Harry sits on the bed in shock. He can't believe what he's seen. Hedwig flies into the room and lands on the bed. She waddles over to Harry and nuzzles his hand. They sit there for three days, her trying to comfort him and him just absently stroking her.
He suddenly wakes from his stupor and walks to the desk in the living room, Hedwig following close behind. He writes a letter and Hedwig puts her leg out.
"I need you to take this letter to Professor Snape, but make sure he is alone. Be careful." Harry whispers as he ties the letter to her leg.
Hedwig hoots softly and nips his fingers affectionately. She soars from the room and out the window. Harry goes to shower.
Severus is just sitting down to read his new potions journal when Hedwig flies in. She lands in front of him and hoots. He looks at her and says,"Aren't you Potter's owl?"
She hoots again and holds her leg out for him. He unties the letter and motions towards the treats and water by the window. She hoots and gets a drink of water before she flies out the window. He unrolls the letter and gasps as he reads it.
Professor Snape,
I have something you need to see. I'm not sure if I should tell you here so please come to my room it's about your son.
Harry
The letter falls from his numb fingers and he leaves his apartment. He rushes to Harry's room and quickly enters.
Harry is sitting and staring at the fire when Severus rushes into the room.
"What are you talking about I've never had a son?" Severus snarls. Harry sighs and motions for Severus to sit.
"Professor Dumbledore let me borrow a pensive and it has a few memories in it. Before I let you see it I think you should contact Voldemort, Lucius, and Lucifer, they may want to also see what is in the pensive."
"How do you know about Lucifer?" Severus asks.
Harry shakes his head. "We need to set up a meeting between the five of us. When will be the best time?"
"I'm supposed to take you to Snape Manor tomorrow while they work on the wards here, so I'll contact the others when I leave here."
Harry nods and Severus leaves to contact the others. He rushes to his rooms and throws powder into the fire and yells ,"Malfoy Manor." He steps into the flame onto to come out in the den of Malfoy Manor. He turns surprised to see two of the people he needed to see.
"Severus, what brings you here?" Asks Lucifer Malfoy. He and Lucius both raise an elagant blond brow.
"Where is Master?" Severus asks hurriedly.
"I'm right here." A voice says from the doorway. All three men bow and sit. Voldemort has finally regained his looks and looks just as Harry say him during his second year. Voldemort sits and motions for Severus to speak.
"Potter wishes to meet with you three and show you something in a pensive he borrowed from Dumbledore. I'm supposed to take him to Snape Manor but I'll bring him here instead. He said something about my son."
"I didn't know you had a son." Lucius says.
"I don't." Replies Severus.
The three men look at him perplexed, until Lucifer breaks the silence. "How does he know about me?"
"I don't know. He didn't tell me when I asked. I may have to take him to Snape Manor to keep the Headmaster off my trail, but I'll bring him by here tomorrow." Snape replies.
The others nod and Severus leaves for Hogwarts. He walks to Harry's room and knocks on the painting. Harry opens the painting and smiles softly up at him. He gestures for Severus to enter and motions him to sit.
"I don't have time to sit, I just wanted to let you know that tomorrow we will be going to Malfoy Manor after we stop at Snape Manor. We'll be leaving right after breakfast. Goodnight." With that said Severus storms from the rooms and into his own.
That night all five men sleep fitfully. Four wondering why the youngest wanted to meet them and the youngest wondering if he'll be refected again.
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Harry wakes the next morning anxious and nervous.
'I wonder what their reactions will be to what they see?' Harry quickly gathers his items and tells Hedwig to find him in a few days. She hoots and leaves for the Owlery. He shrinks his trunks with a wave of his hand and meets Severus in the Great Hall.
"How will you be leaving for Snape Manor, Severus?" Dumbledore asks.
"I will be double apparating with, Mr Potter." He says with a snarl. He can't wait to get away from the twinkling eyes of the meddling old man. They leave a few minutes later and disappear with a pop, only to reappear a few minutes later in a warm and inviting study.
Suddenly Harry's scar is assaulted with pain and he falls to his knees. Four hands grab his arms and pull him up and start to speak but the pain is to much for him to process what is being said.
"BOY!" is shouted.
"No, I'm sorry papa, I'll be good, no more pain for Harry. Harry be good boy, no cupboard. I promise I be good. I'm sorry Uncle Vernon, no more belt, no more pain. Sorry." Harry jerks from the hands holding him and falls into a fetal position and keeps repeating those same words each time getting a little louder. The four men look at each other in horror.
Each man thinking the same thoughts. 'Who is he calling papa and why would he be talking about no more cupboard and belt. I know that he has been pampered.'
Narcissa and Draco storm into the room and find the four men staring at a hysterical Harry Potter. Narcissa rushes forward and pulls the boy into an embrace; he tries to get away, but when he realizes the arms aren't going to hurt him he realizes he isn't going to get hurt and he calms down and falls asleep. Her and Draco carry him to a couch then turn on the four men.
"Would someone like to explain to me why Harry Potter is in the study and why he was hysterical?" Narcissa snarls quietly. Draco nods his head.
Severus tells her everything starting with his disappearance to what they walked in on. She gasps.
"Everyone knows that when he gets near the Dark Lord his scar hurts, that's why he fell to his knees. My guess would be that he's been weakened by his loss and the Dark Lord has gained some power." Narcissa says aloud but more to herself. Draco and Narcissa can look at each man and tell what they were thinking about what he was when they walked in. Draco snorts.
"I'm guessing that you each thought Potter was pampered and worshipped at home." At the nods from the four men, he continues. "That is the farthest thing from the truth. Did you never ask as to why Harry was with the Weasleys' the summer before second year. They had to break him from the muggles home, they had bars on his windows and the door locked from the outside."
The adults gasp, but Draco isn't finished. "Why don't you make his shirt invisible and see what a few of us have seen?"
Lucius waves his wand and the adults gasp when they see Harry's chest. His ribs are prominent. They levitate him and gasp again when they see his back. It's covered in scars and the word Freak has been burnt onto it.
"How did you know about this, I thought you two are enemies?" Asks Severus.
"I only fight with him because he chose the Weasel over me. I saw the scars during our third and fourth years, some when he runs in the mornings. He wears a tank top and forgets to cover them with a glamour. I also walked in on him in the bathroom on the train. He hadn't put his glamour on and his face was almost completely black and blue."
A soft moan sounds from the couch and they all gather around. Harry cracks his eyes open and groans when he realizes it wasn't a bad dream. The others laugh. He sits up and notices that his scar isn't hurting. He looks puzzled.
"I've put a protective barrier around your mind to keep the pain at bay." Severus says to Harry's unanswered question. He pulls his trunk from his pocket and sets it on the ground. He waves his hand and the trunks resizes to its normal size. Everyone gasps, did they see correctly and Harry Potter just did wandless magic effortlessly. He smirks when he sees their faces.
"I've been able to do wandless magic for a year know. I can do everything I've learned wandless." He laughs at their gob smacked expressions and pulls the pensive from his trunk. They quickly sober and all but Harry enter the pensive. They return twenty minutes later and Voldemort and Severus fall to the ground clutching their heads in pain.
inside the pensive --------------------
The group land in the familiar looking Diagon Alley. They watch to see what happens. They all gasp when they see a beautiful,very pregnant red haired woman with four strawberry blond boys. The woman and boys are Lucifer's sons and wife. They are shopping since the oldest son is getting ready to leave for Hogwarts.
Suddenly a spell is shot at the woman and children and they are immobilized and a quick invisible spell placed upon them.
The memory changes and the woman and boys are sitting in a room with the Headmaster.
"I will never betray my husband. I love Lucifer." The woman says as she spits on the headmaster. He pulls his wand and knocks her and the boys unconscious. A man and his two young sons walk into the room. The two boys are laid down on a cot in the room, since the youngest is only a little more than a year old. Albus waves his wand over the woman and her four sons and says a long incantation. The five people glow bright white for a few seconds.
"Do you think it worked?" Asks the man.
"Only one way to find out." Albus replies. He waves their wand and their clothes are changed and the boys hair darkened. He wakes the boys then the mother. They all five look around groggily.
"Oh, what happened? Are the boys okay? Where is my baby? Where is Ron?" The woman says frantically. The two men motion to the cot and she rushes over and cradles him to her.
"Why are we here? What happened?" The woman asks as she checks the children.
"There was an accident in Diagon Alley as you were picking up young William's school supplies." Albus tells her with a sad smile.
"Let's go home, love and you can put the boys to bed." Replies a very happy Arthur Weasley.
The woman nods and the couple leave with the children.
The memory changes and now they are watching as the same woman gives birth to a beautiful blonde baby girl.
"Push Molly." Encourages Madame Pomphrey. Molly gives a mighty push and suddenly a beautiful blonde baby girl lands in Poppy's arms, just as she finishes cleaning the baby and wrapping her in a blanket and puts her into a bassinet, Albus walks into the Hospital Wing. He points his wand at Poppy's back and she drops to the floor unconscious. He sees that Molly is half asleep and takes the time to charm the baby's hair a fiery red and her eyes to the Weasley brown.
He turns to Molly and cast a couple of complex spells to make her appear fat. He then turns his attention to Poppy he points his wand and says,"Obliviate." He replaces the memories of a thin Molly with one of the dumpy woman and the blonde grey-eyed baby with one of a fiery red and brown eyes.
The scene changes to Lily, James, and Albus sitting in his office. Lily is holding a blue bundle in her arms.
"Are you sure?" Asks James.
"I'm positive, the boys parents were killed right after he was born in a Death Eater attack tonight. I know that you two have been trying to have a child. If you two do the blood adoption then he will be a Potter and be your heir." Albus replies.
James and Lily look at each other and smile. They nod. The headmaster clears of his desk and they place the baby on the desk. He grabs a piece of parchment and a small knife. The baby is unwrapped and the people watching the memory can see that the baby has blackish brown unruly hair and emerald green eyes. They realize that the baby is Harry Potter.
They watch as the blood adoption is done and finalized. They happy couple take the baby and floo home. Dumbledore smiles for a minute and leaves the room. The memory starts to fade.
The scene starts to change and a very pregnant Severus Snape is being attended to by Poppy when Dumbledore walks in.
"I want to know who the father of your baby is Death Eater." Snarls Dumbledore.
Severus pulls against the restraints holding him to the bed in the cold gray room. "I'll never tell and you can't make me. I've already taken precautions to keep from telling. Nothing can make me tell you, not even the truth serum." Severus screams as a pain ripples through his stomach. Poppy tells him to push and a beautiful blond haired, blue eyed baby appears in her arms. She cleans the baby and puts him in a floating bassinet to take up to the hospital wing.
Dumbledore yells, "Stupefy" and Poppys falls to the floor. He says, "Obliviate" and erases all memories of hers of Severus and the baby. He levitates her and leaves the room only to reappear a few minutes later. He turns to the baby and says a long incantation, the baby glows for a few minutes, they notice the baby looks exactly as Harry did when he was given to the Potters in the last memory. He leaves with the baby to the shouts of death threats from Severus.
He returns twenty minutes later.
"What did you do to my baby? Where is my son?" Snarls Severus.
"Why he's in my office, and you've not got a son!" Dumbledore says with a smirk.
He points his wand at Severus and starts an incantation. Severus starts to glow blue.
What once a memory will be forgotten
What I say will be remembered
Memories lost will only be gained
When shown what once was
Severus is released fromteh restraints and clothed. He wakes up to look at the Headmaster groggily.
"What happened?" He asks with a slight slur.
"Voldemort sent you on a mission that went awry. I'm so glad you decided to spy against him, my boy." Dumbledore replies with a twinkle.
"I would have been down sooner to see you but I was helping the Potters' adopt a beautiful little boy. They decided to go with the blood adoption and make him their heir."
Severus groans. 'Oh, great now another Potter to torment me.'
Suddenly they can feel themselves being thrown from the pensive. Voldemort and Severus clucth their heads and scream in pain.
back from pensive --------------------
The men stand and look to see Harry crying in Draco's arms and being comforted by him and Narcissa. Severus rushes forward and grabs the sobbing boy and cradles him in his arms.
Harry just clings to the older man crying and muttering. "They won't want me. Nobody can love me." He keeps repeating this over and over.
Severus growl and clutches Harry even closer and starts rubbing circles onto the young man's back. Severus looks up and looks to each of the other men. His eyes connect with another's, telling him how much he is loved and sorry. He finally looks down to see that Harry is starting to calm down.
"Harry, would you like to know who your father is?"
Harry nods his head slighty, never releasing Severus from his grip. Severus smiles.
"No one but I and your father know who he is. Let me introduce you to your father...
Tom Riddle A.K.A. Lord Voldemort."
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I'm sorry it took so long to update. I've just been swamped with everything. I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
