And here we go again.
Reflection
Chapter Two, A father?
Severus walked as quickly as he could towards the carrige, he felt that Harry woke up due to the apparation, the boy looked tiredly over to the carrige and saw that the once empty place in front of the carrige, was now occupied by a black skelleton- looking horse with bright white eyes and wings. Harry did a sharp intake of breath as he saw it and whispered, since his voice were no longer holding.
"What´s that?" Harry wasn´t exactly afraid, the horse was beautiful in it´s own morbid way. Severus looked down to see what Harry was looking at, ah the theastral. He was about to answer but once it registred what he was acually seeing, he cursed and shouted at the theastral to take them to Hogwarts fast.
Harry, who got completely confused when the professor cursed and ran the last bit to the carriage and ordered the horse-thingy to hurry.
Severus climbed in the carrige and sat down with Harry´s head and back on his lap. He actually felt scared for the boy, when he had been about to answer Harry´s question, he saw Harry´s eyes, instead of just glassed as they had been ten minutes ago, they had a dark silvery mist.
"Potter, do you see any worse than usuall?" he asked as he removed the boy´s glasses and looked into his eyes. Harry felt uncomfortable with Snape looking at him.
"No, I see about the same as usual when I don´t have my glasses on." he said trying to sound annoyed but he was to tired for that. Severus studied him for a minute, then said " That was a theastral, you should cover them this year in Care of magical creatures." Harry nodded.
An uncomfortable silence came over the two, and Harry started to realize that he was laying on his most hated teacher´s lap. But as soon as the realization hit him, the carrige stopped and Snape reached to pick him up again, and this time the man did not walk fast, he ran towards the hospital wing. He even kicked the door open wich got Harry wondering even more what the potion master had inhaled while making a potion or something. Severus laid Harry down on a bed and went to see if Poppy had already left for summer, she had.
"Potter, Poppy isn´t here so I will take care of you, please do as I say when I say it, that way you´ll get better much faster, understood?" he said in a hurried voice, while he searched the shelfs for a fever-reducer and a sleep-potion. He looked over at the boy to see if he was only nodding his answer, but Harry had his eyes closed, and his breath was ragged. Severus hurried over and shook his shoulder, no response.
"Potter I need you to drink this. Open your mouth." he said softly as he uncorked the fever-reducer. He slipped a hand under the boy´s neck, lifting it slightly and put the vial to his lips. He poured one third of the bottle into Harry´s mouth, and made sure he swallowed it. When he was about to cast a few diagnostic-spells to find out what the boy was suffering from, Harry started to spasm, Severus reached out to wake him when Harry shot out and would have fallen off the bed head first if it hadn´t been for Severus cathing him, he continued to shake, he vomited on himself and Severus.
"Damn Harry, when was the last time you ate?" Severus realized that when Harry only trew up the potion and not any real food. He banished the vomit from Harry and himself and then continued with trying to heal Harry.
"Naná." Severus called, and a house elf appeared, she had a light blue bow around her left bat-like ear, big blue eyes and she was wearing a clean white towel as a toga.
"Yes master Severus? What ca.." she started but as soon as she saw the young boy on the bed, she immideatly hurried over and held her hands over him as she searched for the sorce of the child´s illness. Severus just shook his head and went over to the bed, Naná was now in charge and he would do what she told him to do. Naná was one of the few elfs who had healing abilities, and could tell what to do about Harry better then Severus could at the moment.
"Master Severus, the child has got the Shadow-flu, he is underweight, has not eaten, has had a fever for five days and he has been in the sun with no protection. " she looked worriedly at Harry.
"The shadow-flu!" he thought calming down slightly, but then remembering what the shadow-flu really was.
"The Shadow-flu!" Severus was beyond worried now.
"Missy! " another house elf appeared, she looked like Naná but had purple bow instead of a blue.
"Yes what can I do for master?"
"Missy, go to the clinic in Diagon Alley and get Seleén, Sarah and Sasha, tell them that I need their help now, a child has the shadow-flu and tell them that they have to keep it quiet. Go hurry." Missy was gone with a quiet crack. Severus turned to Naná and helped her with putting a cold cloth on Harry´s forehead.
--Diagon Alley--
"Take a spoonful of this Dittany-serum every night before you go to bed and that rash will be gone in a week, good bye mrs Darcy."
"Good bye dear, and thank you." Seleén Royce, went to her office to file out the paperwork, her lunchbreak was in fifteen minutes. She leaned back and streched. A small crack got her to her feet in a second wand out, but put it back in her sleeve when she saw that it was Missy, her cousin´s elf.
"Mrs Seleén Royce must hurry to Hogwarts with mrs Sarah Winter and Mr Sasha Manson, master Severus asks for assistance, a child is at Hogwarts and has the Shadow-flu, you must hurry and be quiet about it." Missy hurried to say and at the mention of shadow-flu she ran to find her brother and sister.
"Sarah, Sasha we must go, hurry" she called for her siblings, and at the urgent note in her voice they hurried to finish with their current patients. They apparated to hogsmeade were a carrige was already waiting for them they hurried inside and as soon as they closed the door the theastral took off flying since that was faster.
"What is it? Is Severus hurt?" Sarah asked, clearly worried for their cousin as they were heading for hogwarts during the sommer holidays, no student would be there.
"No it´s not Severus, he has brought a child there who has the shadow-flu." her siblings looked in horror at their sister. The shadow-flu was ten times worse than the original flu, it starts with the normal flu, add lack of food and sleep you get the forrest-flu and add to that depression and sun, you get the shadow-flu. Two people has had it in this century, it was a couple who constantly dared eachother with the most stupid things, the siblings was there to figure out how to cure them, but the couple had died and the siblings did research on it, and with their potion master for cousin to help, they got plenty the theory, but will it be enough?
The carrige stopped and they rushed out, and ran for the hospital wing, they sprinted through the door and what they saw almost broke their hearts. Severus was sitting on a bed with a raven haired boy sitting on his lap who was shaking violently, he held one arm across the boy´s cheast and upper arms and his with his free hand he pressed the side of the boy´s head to his own cheast, murmuring in the boy´s hair, stroking Harry´s cheek with his tumb. Severus looked devastated, it clearly showed in his eyes that he didn´t know what to do.
"Severus..?" His eyes shoot up to see his cousins and relief washed over him, he knew that the cure that they had only worked in theory, they hadn´t had anyone to try it on, but he mentally crossed his fingers.
"Thank Merlin you are here." he whispered, they came over to him and the boy, Sarah and Sasha started to examine the boy, as Seleén started up a working area so Severus could brew the potion without leaving. Severus told them exactly what Naná had told him. Sarah felt his forehead,
"Ooh my, he´s burning up." she took the cold cloth from Severus and wiped the boy´s forehead, she caught sight of the scar, she gasped.
"It´s Harry Potter! Doesen´t this kid ever get a break." she said angerly, with all that has happened to him over the years, including her cousin to that, he had to catch one of the rarest illnesses, and one that no one had survived in over a hundred years.
"Sev, hand him to me, Seleén and you must begin on the serum now." Sasha said, holding out his arms, to take the boy. Severus handed Harry over a bit relucantly but he had to begin, if they were going to give Harry a fair chance. Sasha put him on his lap and began to rub the child´s tembles, while Sarah closed the curtains around the windows, sunlight would only make Harry worse.
Hours went by, the foursome worked non-stop trying to save Harry, Sarah was the only one to leave the hospital wing during the critical part when Harry still spasmed, and that was only for ten minutes so she could send messages to the siblings familys about were they where and that they would not be home for at least a day, but that they could come here if something happened, or if they just wanted to say hi.
Severus leaned over the cauldron, dripping two drops of kneezle-blood into the clear blue potion, making it turn a creamy color, then Seleén added five triangle-cut pieces of living-willow, (whomping-willow)-root, and it turned milk-white. it was done, now it would boil for five minutes, then the fluid would be a deep green color.
Seleén watched the potion as Severus went over to sit beside Sasha and Harry. Sasha saw his cousin look at Harry with confusion.
"You care for him" Sasha stated. Severus looked at him then back at Harry, he knew that already, but he tried to understand why he had been so horrible to the boy in the first place. He usually wasn´t one to lay blame on a child for what their parents had done, but he had done that to Harry, why?. He looked at Sasha then he looked over at Sarah who was making them something light to eat, then over at Seleén who watched the potion with hawk-eyes. He could tell them about it, he knew that, and he would as soon as they settled down after giving Harry the serum, the could do nothing more after that then to keep him comfortable.
The potion was done and Severus filled a goblet with the serum and went over to Harry.
"Open up child, you need to drink this." he spoke softly, and Harry acually opened his mouth, which surprised the four adults, since he should be quite knocked out. Severus made sure he drank everything, then the shaking disappeared and Harry fell limb against Sasha, they laid him on the bed and tucked him in. Then they went to eat the breakfast Sarah had prepared, bacon, eggs, panncakes and muffins, tea and coffe. They sat in silence as they ate, glancing over to Harry once in a while. When they transfigured a couple of beds to comfortable armchairs and settled down with a cup of tea, Severus cleared his throat and looked at his cousins.
"I want to tell you something, but I will only tell you in the strictest confidence that you will keep it secret." they swore the Manson oath of honour, one that they had invented when they were kids.
"Yesterday early morning, I recieved a time-spelled message from Lily Potter, " he saw the sadness in their eyes, she had been one of them, in all but blood. " the pendant that I gave her for christmas years before she died, was spelled to appeare before me fifteen years after she sent it, within it was one of my memories that we had desided I could not risk to have, as well as two of Lily´s memories. " he took a deep breath, " Harry is not the son of James and Lily Potter, he is Sebastian, Joyce´s and my son." Seleén came over and sat in his lap and hugged him tightly. Sarah aslo came to him and took his hand and gave him a kiss on the cheek, and Sasha laid his hand on Severus shoulder pressing lightly to give him support.
"We should try and get some sleep, we´ll put an alarm-spell over Harry so if he wakes up we´ll wake up. We can´t do anymore for him right now." Sasha transfigured his armchair into a sofa, Sarah did her into a divan, which made the others roll their eyes, Severus settled with making the back of the armchair lean backwards as well as conjuring a footstool, Seleén laid down on one of the hospital wings beds.
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Harry started to stir about two hours after that. Seleén went over to him since she woke up thanks to the alarm-spell, she hadn´t put it on the others since they were more tired then her. Harry suddenly sat up, he looked around, and then over at Seleén.
"Why am I in the hospital?" Seleén could tell that Harry was still technically asleep.
"You have been ill dear."she answered, obsserving him.
"So it was all a dream? Cedric isn´t dead?" hope glowed in his eyes.
"No I´m sorry dear, that was a month ago, Cedric is dead." the hope died, then he looked frightned.
"Does the Dursley´s know I´m here? They will be really mad if they don´t, they will hate me even more, and I had been a good boy, I have done everything they say, they will never love me now.." Harry looked close to tears, Seleén thought that he was talking like a five year old, he must be stuck in a dream or memory. She went over to wake Severus when Harry started to speak again.
"I´m not going to let Voldemort win, he´s not going to kill more of my friends, " his tone of voice had changed into a serious one, he sounded like a grown man. " I will prove myself worthy of their friendship and trust and expectations. They won´t be disappointed, I wont give them a reason to be, never again." Harry laid down again and fell to sleep once more. Seleén only stared at him, "So much guilt and insecurity, it´s a wonder he hasn´t broken yet." His relatives has definatley abused him some way, perhaps not beaten him, but no doubt about mental abuse. She went to sleep again and made a mental note to talk to Severus about Harry waking up and saying all those things.
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Three hours later, at 10.47pm, Harry woke up feeling better then he had for days, he was dead tired still but he didn´t seem to have any fever.
"Ah, you´re up. What a relief." Harry looked to his left and saw a woman in her early thirties, she had short spiky chocolate hair that were all over the place, warm creamy-colored eyes and she had a light grey working robe on. "How are you feeling?" she asked comming over and sitting at the egde of his bed.
How he was feeling? That´s a good question, how did he feel?
"Umm, I´m not sure.."Harry answered, then looked around and saw that he was in the hospital wing.
"How did I get here?"
"Severus brought you here, and when he realized that you had the shadow-flu, he called me and my brother and sister. We have worked on you for the last twenty-four hours." She said.
"I was that ill?" she nodded. "If Severus hadn´t brought you here, you wouldn´t have made it I´m afraid, but as it is you´ll be fine, you got the potion on time."
"I was near death!" This shocked Harry a bit, then he thought of something else, " Severus? As in Severus Snape?" she nodded again. " But..but he hates me, why would he have sav..?" "Yeah, why would he save me? He´s done it before, why wouldn´t he? groan That man, he acts like a git but when someone´s life is in danger he saves them..." "Never mind." Harry said.
"Because you needed help that´s why" Harry turned around and saw his potion professor sitting in a armchair beside his bed looking at him, his usual sneer was not there but more of a neutral expression gracing his face.
"Professor Snape?" Severus handed Harry his glasses.
"Yes." he paused. " Mr Potter, I would like to know how you became ill." he locked Harry´s eyes with his own.
"That´s my buisness, sir." Harry said breaking the eye-contact, finding his hands very interessting. Severus opened his mouth to try again, but was interupted by Seleén.
"Harry, if you are uncomfortable in confiding in your professor, you could tell myself, or one of my siblings. We want to help you, but if you don´t tell anyone, you could be sent back to your relatives. We all know that they have, in one way or the other, mistreated you, you had some nasty sunburns on your shoulders and back, you were very underweight, you still are, and you went five days being ill without anyone doing anything to make you better."
"But I..." the door to the hospital wing opened and a woman and a man walked in. The man had fluffy, shin-lenght hair and the woman had shoulder-lenght up in a pony-tail, the hair color and eye color the same as Seleén.
"Oh goody, he´s awake. Are you hungry green-eyes?" the Sarah said, sounding very cheerful. Sasha and Severus glared at her, and rolled their eyes.
"She´s jealous of your eyes, I believe that she just named you, she will continue calling you that every now and then." Seleén whispered to Harry smirking, and Harry giggled at that.
"I don´t feel hungry, am I still ill?" Harry said to answer the question Sarah had asked. "I haven´t eaten anything proper in three weeks, I should be starving."
"You´re not ill but you´re still recovering from the shadow-flu, as well as starvation, " she took a green vial from a shelf and handed it to Harry, " drink this and then try to eat as much as you can, ok?" Harry nodded and swallowed the potion, grimazing.
"Yuck, taste the same as the smell of the twins sneakers." Sarah and Sasha snickered at that. Harry started to eat the porrige that had been served when he remebered.
"Umm, not to be rude or anything, but..who are you?" Harry said looking at Seleén, Sarah and Sasha. The siblings looked at him confused for a second.
"Oh dear, where are our manners, we haven´t introduced ourselfs, I´m Seleén Royce," said the short-haired woman, " this is my sister Sarah Winter and our brother Sasha Manson, " she said indicating to the others.
"I couldn´t take the risk in bringing you to St, Mungos, so I called for my cousins, they work at a clinic in Diagon Alley and they had helped in the last case of shadow-flu, and developed a cure for it." Severus said, taking a cup of tea. He pulled out Lily´s letter and handed it to Harry who took it.
"It´s safe then?" Harry asked.
"It is safe, but you might want to prepare for a great chock when you read it. We will be right outside when you feel like you can handle company again, I will try and answer your questions as well as I can." Severus said, and a glimmer of nerviosity flashed in his eyes before they returned to emotionless. Severus, Sarah, Seleén and Sasha went to the other room.
Harry felt very confused by all this, why did Snape know what was in this letter? He opened it and gasped when he read the first line.
Dear Harry, my son in all but blood.
Hi honey, I hope you grew up well, because if you recieve this letter, then James and I aren´t alive anymore to see you grow. I hope that Sirius took his responsibility seriously and didn´t let you get away with everything or eat chocolate to breakfast, ( I know that he still does that now when I´m writing this letter to you.) since he is your godfather, you should have been given to him when we died, but at war everything is so unpredictable, he could have died for all I know. It´s so hard writing this letter, when you sit next to me, playing with your stuffed stag.
Harry saw tear stains on the letter.
I need to stop beating around the bush so to speak, so I will be blunt about it, James and I aren´t your biological parents, but we loved you like our son both James and I did, never doubt that my baby. Your father was/still are a spy for the light side, when your mother told him that she was pregnant with you, he was so happy, he had looked forward to the day he became a father, he loved your mother so. The problem was that she was a half-blood, Voldemort would either kill you or make you one of his servants, your father didn´t want this so he told your mother to obliviate him of the memory of her being pregnant, and that she should go in hiding. But as it is, being on the run with an infant is impossible so short after her last talk to Severus, she came to me and James and asked for help.
We charmed me so I would look pregnant to the day you was delivered, then James and I would tell everyone that we were expecting a baby, on the day you were born, Jocelyn, your mother, gave you to us, pleading us to protect you,( as if we needed to be precuded) and after she recovered, she left.
Dear Harry, in this envelope you´ll find two birth-certificates, one with Harry Potter and one with Sebastian Williams, your mother and father weren´t married at the time, so you got your mother´s maiden name.
If they are still alive, you really should try to find them, Severus, your father, will recieve his lost memory togheter with some of mine the same time you recieve this letter.
We love you Harry no matter what, never doubt it. Your real parents do too. Take care.
Love Lily Potter, (mum)
P.s. Tell Sirius that I´ll haunt him if he allows you to eat chocolate for breakfast.
Harry just stared at the letter. They weren´t his parents. He hurried to take out the birth-certificates.
Name: Harry James Potter
D.o.b: July 31th, 00.07a.m
Mother: Lily Michaela Potter-Evans
Father: James Rufus Potter
Godmother: Jocelyn Jade Williams
Godfather: Sirius Orion Black
Then he looked at the other
Name: Sebastian Severus Williams
D.o.b: July 31th, 00.07a.m
Mother: Jocelyn Jade Williams
Father: Severus Christopher Snape
"WHAT!" "This can´t be, Snape can´t be my father. Nononononono..." Harry was furious, how dare that greasy git..., he´s lying, he wrote this letter, he must have.
The others heard Harry scream, and went into the room, Harry was standing up beside his bed, holding on since he still was a bit light-headed.
"Harry, lad sit down again, you aren´t well enough yet." Sasha said taking Harry´s arm to lead him back to bed, but Harry pulled his arm out of Sahsa´s grip and fell backwards colliding with Severus who caught him before he fell to the floor.
"LET GO OF ME YOU GIT! IT´S A LIE! YOU ARE NOT MY FATHER, YOU CAN´T BE." Harry tried to break free from Severus but he was to weak.
"Calm down, let me explain." Severus had an urgent note in his voice that made Harry stop shouting, but not trying to get away from the man. Sarah put a hand on Severus shoulder and Seleén took Harry´s and lead him back to the bed.
"Harry, listen to me, I know that this come as a shock for you, but you and Severus need to talk about this, whether you like it or not. If you feel it to hard, you could always have a calming-draught." Seleén said as Sarah handed him a small blue vial.
"I´m not going to talk about it, there is nothing to talk about. I learned a long time ago that blood doesn´t mean family." Harry said. The Dursley´s had never cared for him, no matter how hard he tried, if he was better then Dudley at anything he was a freak who had used his "freakiness" to make Dudley look bad, and if he let Dudley do better than him he was a good-for-nothing whelp. But...they apperantly weren´t his relatives, he had been dumped on their doorstep because of a blood-protection Dumbledore had told him about, he had lived with them for nothing!
Harry took the vial and swallowed it in two big gulps, then he layed down, arms crossed over his cheast as the potion started working. He felt calm even if his anger still were there. The siblings left the room once agian but Severus took a seat beside Harry. There was a long uncomfortable silence, then Severus decided to start.
"I want to apologize for the way I´ve treated you these past years. I couldn´t have been nice to you or anyone else not in Slytherin, but I could have been more neutral."
"That´s understandable, but that doesn´t change the fact that you never gave any of us a chance to prove ourselfs. Hermione almost always get everything right, and the very few times she doesn´t get it right, it´s in the potion-brewing and even then it´s still useable but a tint to watery or thick."
"Yes well, miss Granger do it correct but, in potions at least I don´t know about the other subjects, she doesn´t do anything but copy the textbook, she remembers and is able to put two and two togheter, but she has no conscept what so ever about the glory in potion-brewing."
"Yeah yeah, that´s what you said our first lesson ever." Severus raised an eyebrow.
"You remember that? I recall you didn´t listen when I had my introduction of potions."
"Hmmpf, shows what you know, I was taking notes on what you said." Harry mumbled, making Severus smirk. "Taking notes was he?Who would have thought?"
"What are you smirking about?" Harry said feeling the anger rise up again but a cooling sensastion rushed over his body and he felt calm again.
Severus shook his head. Before they could fall in yet another uncomfortable silence, Harry decided that he might ask some questions anyway.
"Is my mother still alive?" Severus gave him a sad look before shaking his head.
"Joyce died about a month before the first downfall of the Dark Lord. We never knew why she died, aurors found her dead at a graveyard, laying on the grave of her parents."
"Did you love her?" Harry didn´t know why exactly but he wanted to know things about his biological parents, and the calming-draught didn´t help, it only seemed to encrease his curiosoty. Severus almost snapped at him because it was a really sensitive subject, as well as he didn´t talk about such things as feelings. But he thought better of it, this was their son after all, he deserved to know if he wanted to know.
"Yes I did, still do." Severus decided to only answer Harry´s questions instead of making inquiries about Dursley´s and how they treated him, he could always ask later.
"What was she like?"
"She was always joyfull, always smiling, which by the way used to annoy Sahsa and myself to no end, she even managed to annoy Sarah at one point, and that woman is almost as joyfull as Joyce was. But if you thought that she would take anything without losing her temper you were in for a surprise, I believe that Black and James Potter felt her rage more then once, I have as well been at her wands tip." Severus let out a small shudder.
"He´s acually telling me, what´s gotten in to him? Why should me being his son (by blood only mind you) change anything? Maybe he really is trying to set things straight? Why would he, I´m still the same person. Urgh, this is so frustrating." Harry thought.
"What did she look like?" "Damn this curiosity, I swore that I wouldn´t be so curious, I managed with the letter, why can´t I manage with it now? Because there isn´t any direct danger involved in asking questions about your mother, that´s why you dimwit." Harry felt a little betrayed by his evil voice of sense, why would his own mind call him a dimwit? Harry almost pouted. This wasn´t missed by Severus.
"Wonder what he´s thinking about to almost make him pout."
"She had long, auburn hair that reached down to her middle-back, and it was usually tied back in a loose braid. She was a head shorter than me, she was fit and slim, not thin as a stick, she had curves in all the right places, she used to get a few freckles over her nose and upper-cheeks when she was in the sun, and her eyes was something extraordninary, they were the clearest dark purple, I believe you got her eyes..."
"Huh? Wait, my eyes are green if you haven´t noticed, and when we´re talking about looks, how come I look so much like James Potter?"
"It´s a complicated glamorie-spell,.."
"Glamorie?" Severus glared at him for interupting.
"I believe those should have been mentioned during fourth year mr Pot..um, well." "They did? Oh, I must have missed plenty during classes this past year, damnit, why did I have to be in that stupid contest in the first place."
"Yeah, well, I had a lot to think about this year." he muttred. Severus nodded in understanding.
"A glamorie is a spell that allows the one that it is cast on, look different. You know the Weasley-twins rainbow-drops?" Harry nodded, they chanced the hair and eye-color on the one that eats them. " that is one sort of glamorie, one of the more simple."
"Oh so it´s like the polyjuice-potion? "My, had the boy really been listening in class? " But seeing the boy blush made him think that Harry had found out about that potion another way.
"Not exactly, the polyjuice gives you someone else´s apperance, a glamorie alters your own, or in your case mix two people´s apperences into one." Severus explained.
"Okej, I get it, but... can you remove it? I mean, is it pemanent?" "Not that I want it removed or anything,.."
"It should start to wear off naturally by the time you reach twenty, but you can remove it before then if you want to." Severus watched as his son avoided his eyes, and felt a pang of hurt rush through his cheast, but he quickly pushed that feeling away.
"Why should he look hurt? It´s not llike he accually cares." Harry though, but then something else entered his mind.
"Wait a minute! Purple! I have purple eyes? Why couldn´t I have blue or brown eyes?" Harry did a dramatic groan and hid his face in his hands. Severus almost chuckled.
"What´s wrong with purple eyes?"
"It´s nothing wrong with purple eyes, it´s just that, purple is a color that look good on girls, not guys." Severus raised an eyebrow.
"I believe many young women would disagree with you on that." Harry glared in a your-not-helping sort of way. Harry sighed.
"So what happens now?" He accually found the courage to look into his teacher´s (and father´s) eyes.
"What do you mean?" Severus knew precisly what he ment, he only wasn´t sure how to answer it.
"I mean, do we annonse that Harry Potter is Sebastian? Am I going to live with you now? Do we keep it a secret? Or do we ignore it and prentend that nothing happened?"
"I will do no such thing as to ignore it." Severus snapped, then continued in a more neutral tone. "Since I spy on the dark lord for the light side, we can´t really annonse that the bane of Voldemort´s life is my son, as well as it won´t go well with the ministry of magic."
"What has the ministry to do with that?" Harry frowned, after have witnessed Fudge´s denial a month ago he didn´t really have much faith in the ministry at all.
"You´re the boy-who-lived like it or not,.."
"I rather not." mumbled Harry.
"..and the ministry wouldn´t hand you over to an ex-death eater," Severus said, glaring a little at Harry for interupting him. "So the option is that we keep it a secret,.."
"Or have Harry Potter go into hiding, and have Sebastian Williams come to Hogwarts." Harry said without thinking.
"When are you going to stop interupting me all the time?" Severus said experated.
"When I wake up from this nightmare I call life" Harry looked away. "Why does everything be so complicated."
"Life is hard, there is no point for me to deny it to you, and you probably had it harder then many. But remember that there is still many who has it worse." Severus said. "Now what do you want to do about all this? Do you want to become Sebastian, or do you want to keep it secret? You will spend the rest of the summer with me anyhow, I´m not sending you back to those muggles." Severus said.
"I don´t know, could I get back to you about that later in the summer perhaps?" Harry had really no idea what to do, if he went back to school as Sebastian he could be realatively normal, well at least not the boy-who-lived, but then, how about his friends? He had to talk to them first.
Severus nodded. "Alright, we should be able to get to the manor later today, lets see what the healers have to say. " He looked at the door, then back at Harry puting his index-finger to his lips, showing Harry to be quiet. Then he pointed with his wand at the door, "Alohomora" he whispered and the door flew open, and the three siblings fell out.
"Eavesdropping are we?" Severus sneered.
"I was only..."said Sarah.
"I needed a.."said Seleén.
"..only to tell them to..." said Sahsa. Harry started to laugh, the picure of the feared potion master standing over three adults who looked like frightned first-years was hillarious. The three glared at him, then looked at eachother then back at Harry, and suddenly..
"ATTACK!" they sprung up from the floor and started to tickle Harry, this only made Harry laugh harder, and soon he had tears in his eyes.
"Stop it...HAHA..I´m sor..hahaha...oorry..hahaaha.. don´t..haha.. just stand..hehee..there. Help me...hahahahaa." he said to Severus who just stood beside and watched with amusment.
"Alright that´s enough, he´s still recovering you know."They backed away and sat down on Harry´s bed, Sasha ruffled his hair. That had been fun, he never had a tickle war before.
"We could go back to the manor now if you´d like." Said Sarah, not even pretending that she hadn´t eavesdropped. "We´ll take the floo, but Harry should floo togheter with one of us, just in case."
"He has to floo with one of us since he needs to be keyed in to the wards."Sasha pointed out.
"I´ll go and tell everyone that we´re comming home." Sasha took a pinch of floo-powder and went over to the fireplace. "Sunday Manor, coming through Sasha."
Sarah went after him and said the same thing, but she said coming through Sarah. Severus carried Harry over to the fireplace before putting him down, with his arm around Harry´s waist and Harry´s arm over his shoulders.
"I´ll check everything before I go. I´ll be there in ten minutes." Seleén said. Severus nodded and trew the powder.
"Sunday Manor, coming through Severus." and they were off.
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In next chapter, Harry will meet Sarah´s, Seleén´s and Sasha´s kids, and Severus mother.
QUESTION: What will the kids think about Harry? (They´re 6-17 years old.) Severus mother? Let me know please.