/Harry's thoughts/
Chapter 2
The twins, Harry and Severus took hold of the new portkey and felt the jerk in their navels before their feet firmly touched the ground in Severus' quarters, which - unsurprisingly for Harry - were in the dungeons. Harry looked at Severus.
"Professor, who are these children really and why do I look like you?" he would have waited a bit, but he really wanted/needed to know. If Severus was his father then it meant that his mum betrayed his dad, and he really didn't want to think badly of Lily Evans-Potter.
"They are my children. I don't know why Dumbledore didn't send you to live with them as their mother Rose was Lily's sister. Twin in fact. I didn't get to see them often, but I went as frequently as I could. You however I don't know about. I never slept with Lily - or at least I never did to my knowledge. Rose and Lily were identical twins and I mean totally identical. Normally I could tell them apart because Lily, Rose and I were good friends. Well anyway, I had either just been to a trying death eater meeting or I was just really unperceptive that day. That or you are actually Rose's child given to Lily. I'll go and find the genealogy potion now."
With that Severus strode out the room, not realising that he had just rambled for the first time in 17 years. Harry stood staring at the spot his professor had just vacated. /Did he just ramble/ Harry shrugged and unfolded the letter that had been delivered to him earlier that day.
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Dear Mr Potter
Here are the grades for the OWL's you have taken this past school year. The grades are commendable and we are honoured to inform you that you've beaten the record set by four students in the class of '77 in the Defence against the Dark Arts exam.
Astronomy-
Written: E
Practical: A
Overall: E
Care of Magical creatures-
Written: EE
Practical: EE
Overall: EE
Charms-
Written: EE
Practical: EE
Overall: O
Defence Against the Dark Arts-
Written: O
Practical: O
Overall: O²
Divination-
Written: A
Practical: T
Overall: P
Herbology-
Written: O
Practical: P
Overall: EE
History of magic –
Written: P
Practical: N/A
Overall: P
Potions-
Written: O
Practical: O
Overall: O
Transfiguration-
Written: O
Practical: EE
Overall: EE
Your History of magic grade was placed at P seeing as you passed out during the test.
Yours truly,
Griselda Marchbanks
Head of the Wizarding Examinations Authority
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Harry stared at the paper. At that moment Harry wasn't sure what was more shocking – that Snape could be his father or that he had just achieved 17 OWL's. Severus returned to where Harry was standing, realising that he ought to show Harry to the room he would be staying in. Harry waved the paper at him when he asked why the boy was standing in the middle of the room, gaping like a fish. Snape read the list of results and half smiled. "Congratulations. I knew you could do it." Harry looked at him in disbelief.
"How? You always told me I was abysmal at potions."
"Yes, but that was when I was in the room breathing down your neck. I knew that if you could make even half a decent potion in my class, then you could brew a superb one out of it. Less pressure if you see what I mean. That does not however mean I will let Longbottom into my class if he somehow got an O. He is a hazard to himself and others, though I admit the explosions he makes are quite inventive. I'm honestly clueless as to how he explodes certain potions with only the harmless supplies I give him." Harry burst out laughing.
"I think potions might be like brooms and horses sir - they can tell when you're scared." Even Severus had to laugh at that.
"Harry, I have the potion. All it needs is a drop of your blood. I have already added mine. If it turns green then I am your father, if purple I am your uncle, orange if I am your brother and if red then we are of no relation. Harry allowed Severus to make a small cut in his index finger and Severus made sure two drops of blood made it into the vial. The mixture went from a milky white, to swirly and then to….
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