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Chapter three, Meet the family

The two swirled around, and suddenly it slowed down. Harry opened his eyes slightly to see what was happening, the ride shouldn´t slow down, they shouldn´t stop until they came crashing down in their destination. Suddenly they stepped out from a firepace and in to a study. No soot or dust followed them out. Severus lead Harry over to a armchair and sat him down.

"How come there wasn´t any soot or dust?" Harry wondered.

"The fireplace has been charmed with a cleaning-spell, most wizards and witches have them to prevent soot from ruining their clothes." Severus explained. "And we slowed down because of the wards on the house so no one that shouldn´t come here is able to come in."

The door opened and Sasha and Sarah came in togheter with a girl.

"Uncle Severus!" the girl said and embraced Severus, who returned the gesture.

"Hello Alex, you´ve grown." Severus said holding her at an arms length, she looked sceptically at him, "Since christmas?"Severus shrugged, then he turned to Harry, "Harry, I would like you to meet Alexandra Manson, Sasha´s daughter, Alex, this is Harry Potter." she smiled and held out her hand, Harry shook it. He was glad that she didn´t stare at his scar, but seeing the suprise in her face was more than enough to tell that she knew who he was. Alexandra was about a head shorter then Severus and Sasha, she had bronze colored hair that reached down to mid-back, midnight blue eyes that sparkled with silver, she had a little make-up, mascara and eye-liner and lip-gloss, she wore light blue jeans and a black tank top with an eagle print.

"Nice to meet you Harry." "I have to be in the twilight zone, either that or I´ve died, there is no way that Snape is 'uncle Severus', and there is not a chance on earth that he just said ' you´ve grown', he´s nice, why could it have been so hard to be fair at school. I must stop thinking, I´m getting dizzy."

"Nice to meet you too" The fireplace flared up again and Seleén came out.

"Hi aunt Lee-Lee."

"Hi Alex, everything went alright when we were gone I hope?" Seleén asked while giving her niece a hug.

"Of course, it´s me we´re talking about here." she took out a notepad from her poket and opened it. "Christopher´s with Ari at the stables should be home at five, Jesse and Faith´s with the Martins at the zoo, should be home at four-thirty. Grandmother took Kevin, Jasmin and Hope out for a walk after lunch, so they should be back in an hour or two." she said grinning. Sarah giggled and said "And you took the chance at being home alone?" "As always" Alex answered. They heard dogs barking from outside..

"Oh yeah, I was feeding Zeus and Chance when you guys came, I´ll be right back."Alex said and left the room.

"I´ve set up the corner-room on the second floor for you lad, you can decorate it how you wish." Sasha said and looked over at Harry as the boy slumbered forward. Severus caught him in time.

"What´s happening? Why did he fall asleep?" Severus asked as he leaned the boy, his son, back up in the chair.

"It´s only because he´s still recovering, he´s going to have black-outs for a couple of days now. It´s nothing dangerous unless he´s leaning over a cliff at the time." Sasha answered. Alex came back in and saw Harry asleep.

"What happened?" she asked and walked over to Harry.

"He´s the reason we all were away last night. He had brought the shadow-flu upon himself and we managed to heal him. Now, apparently, he´s going to have black-outs for a couple of days." Severus explained. Alex tilted her head slightly to the left and looked at Harry.

"You have mentioned that shadow-flu before but I have never heard about it elsewhere."

"That´s because it´s a very rare illness. The first time this century someone got it it, Sasha, Sarah and Seleén was there. Only they didn´t make it."

They levitated Harry up to his room, a medium sized room with windows at two of the walls, it was decorated in blues and greens. A large bed, a bedside-table, an armchair and a desk with a chair. There was two doors beside eachother at the right wall, one leading to a closet and the other to a bathroom. Severus laid him down on the bed and covered him with a blanket while Sasha and Alex stayed at the door.

"So for how long is he going to be out?"Alex asked.

"Wouldn´t be more than an hour." Sasha answered and the three left the room. They walked back downstairs went into the kitchen, the house elfs made some tea and bisquits and the three sat down. They were soon joined by Sarah and Seleén also.

"So, what are we going to do about the muggle problem?" Sarah sounded a bit annoyed, which got Alex to look up in suprise.

"What muggle problem?" she looked around and saw grave expressions gracing the adults´ faces.

"We´ll tell you later Alex, it isn´t really our place to tell especially since we don´t have proof." Severus said glaring at Sarah. Sarah crossed her arms and glared back.

"We have enough proof that he´s being mistreated. You don´t get shadow-flu easely Severus, fever? Sunburns? Depression? His relatives should have done something to help him. Not letting him suffer through it." Alex looked from one to the other, then at her father and aunt Seleén. They were really upset about something, and she had a feeling that this something had to do with Harry and the way he got that rare decease. She excused herself but the adults barely noticed, her father and Seleen gave her a nod and a smile before she left the kitchen. When she had closed the doors to the kitchen she noticed that their voices could be heard from outside too, so she cast a small silencing-spell on the door so that they would be able to hear if someone came but their voices won´t be heard from outside.

"It´s great to be seventeen." she thought with a grin.

She went upstairs to her room. "So much for dancing around the house with loud music." she shrugged and went into her room.

" 'Hello, hi, #whistle# Hello, hi' " Alex smiled and walked over to her parrot, Apple. She had green and blue feathers with yellow around her eyes. Apple bopped her head up and down and whistled again.

"Hi Apple." Alex gave her little friend a pat on the head. "Want some nuts?"

" 'nuts, #whistle# nuts. Apple want pear.' "

"Alright, pear it is then." She walked over to a bowl of fruit and berries and nuts, and took a pear. She sliced it and gave Apple a few. She did a time-spell, 1.45pm.

"So what am I going to do now?" she said to herself and sat down on her bed. She turned on the cd-player and picked up some magazines and laid down.

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Harry woke up in a warm and soft bed, he stretched and snuggled closer into the pillows. "Wait a minute...? This is to comfortable to be my bed. What the...?" he opened his eyes and looked around in the room, a room he didn´t recognize. He got up and walked out the door, hearing some music.

'There´s gotta be more to life then this, there´s gotta be more to everything I thought exists..' Harry walked towards a slightly open door and peeked inside. He saw a girl laying on her stomach on the bed, reading some magazine. Didn´t he know her? "Oh right, Alex, Snape´s niece or something." He thought, then he remembered why he knew that piece of information. "No of course, it would have been too simple if it had only been a dream, everything just has to be soooo very difficult doesn´t it?" he thought sarcastic. Suddenly a loud bird shriek took him out of his train of thoughts and down on the floor. Poor Harry had lost his balance when he jumped out of his skin so he ended up (or down) on the floor. Alex came out and leaned on the doorway, her arms crossed over her chest and grinning like mad.

"I´m sorry, I didn´t mean to..um.." Harry said, his cheeks blushing red. Alex only laughed and helped him up.

"Don´t worry about it. So how are you?" she asked inviting him into her room she sat down on her bed indicating for Harry to take a seat as well.

"Umm, I´m fine I suppose. Do you know what happened? I mean first I´m arriving here, at least I think it´s the same place," Alex nodded. "and then I wake up in a bed."

"Well, dad said you would be having those black-outs for a couple of days, since you´re recovering from that strange flu." Apple flew over from her perch and landed between Harry and Alex.

" 'Hello, hi, #whistle#, hello, hi' " Apple said, nibbling on Harry´s fingers. He petted the bird on it´s head.

"Hi there, and who are you?" Harry asked the bird.

" ' Apple, Apple.' "

"Does it want an apple?" Harry asked Alex, earning a small bite from the parrot. "Ouch! What was that for?" he glared at the bird, and Alex could hardly keep herself from laughing out loud.

"Her name is Apple, and she got annoyed when you called her an it." said parrot started to walk in circles repeating ' s'that for, s'that for '.

Harry stuck his finger in his mouth and frowned. Then he smiled, which turned to laughter, which made Alex join in.

"I guess that she isn´t someone you can stay mad at huh?" He said then. "I have an owl, Hedwig, who´s almost the same, but when she gets annoyed at me, it´s often justified."

"So, how come you ended up here? I mean it´s not everyday that you see Severus worried for someone outside the housing of Sunday manor, and even with us he rarely show himself worried. Also he doesn´t blend his personal life with his professional life, and since you´re a student at Hogwarts, you´re part of his professional life."Alex said. Harry blushed again, how was he going to explain this? Is he allowed to tell it? Does he really want to tell?

"I´m not really sure if I can tell you, don´t really know if I want to tell anyone." he said the last part in a murmur.

"You don´t have to you know, I was only curious" Alex said. Just then her stomach growled. She glanced at her watch, 2.13pm. "Obviously I need to eat something, come on lets go down to the kitchen and see what we can find." she said jumping down from her bed, holding out her hand so that Apple could climb on. Harry followed suit and they walked down the stairs. Alex took out her wand and for a second, Harry thought that she was going to hex him, but she turned to the kitchen door and cast an finite incantatem on the door and raised voices was heard.

"So they´re still at it, whatever it is. My guess would be you." she said to Harry. "Great, talk about me why don´t you? Why should I need to be involved?"he frowned.

"I know, it´s irritating isn´t it? But somehow they always reach some kind of 'what is best for you' agreement." she said, "And the worst part is, it usually is what is best for you." she rolled her eyes, and opened the door loudly so they would hear her coming in. They turned towards them and became silent.

"Nice to see you awake again Harry, don´t worry those black-outs will stop in three or four days. Are you two hungry?" Sarah smiled but she had flushed cheeks, come to think about it, so did Severus and Seleen.

"Yes I thought that we could perhaps have a little snack, then we could just sit outside for a while and play with Zeus and Chance."

"I´ll make you some popcorn, how about that?" the two teenagers nodded and thanked her. Severus watched Harry, he wanted to talk with him about his "relatives", but that wasn´t going to be easy. The boy hardly trust him as it is, and to ask him about something that he apparently haven´t told anyone, including his friends? How was he going to get those answers? He knows as well as Sarah does that Harry was being mistreated at the hands of those muggles, but they haven´t had it confirmed, for all they know Harry could have done it all to himself, even though they didn´t believe it for a second.

"Mr Potter? A word please?" Severus said to Harry who only nodded and frowned slightly. They walked out from the kitchen and into a study, a large desk stood facing the entrance, in front of it stood two comfortable looking chairs and to the right of the chairs was a fireplace. Harry sat down in one of the chairs and to his surprise, Snape sat down in the other and not behind the desk as he had expected.

"Why do you still call me mr Potter?" Severus felt startled by that question, but didn´t show it.

"Because I simply don´t know what else to call you. This is still very new relavations, and you have not accepted that I´m your biological father, so I can´t call you Sebastian, nor have you allowed me to call you Harry." Severus stated, looking straight at Harry. " If you so wish, you may call me Severus. What I now wanted to ask you, is that if I could tell Alex and the other children of this house about this. I don´t want to keep something like this secret, but I will if you don´t feel comfortable about it."

Harry thought about it, Alex seemed pretty nice, and Snape´s cousins already know because, well, he had shouted it at Snape. But if someone of them let it slip and Voldemort or the ministry found out everyone would soon know about it. No, Snape wouldn´t tell anyone if he didn´t trust them, he´s a spy and he is smart, (he´s still a greasy bat, but he is smart).

"Do you trust them not to tell about it?" he asked Snape.

Severus studied him and nodded. "Yes I do, but of course it would go under the fidelius-charm, do you know about it? Good, the fidelius will need a secret-keeper and I will be taking that position myself. If you agree that is?" Severus allowed his mask to slip a bit to let Harry see that he was being honest and that he could trust him.

"Will they be okay about it? I mean...um" he didn´t want them to dislike him for it or something. He had to stay there for a while after all. Severus saw his discomfort and assured him that they are going to be ok with it.

"Of course there will be some teasing but don´t worry it is all good-hearted and they don´t mean anything by it, but if it bothers you just tell them and they will stop. I´ll introduce you to all of them whe they get back from...well everywhere." Harry nodded, he had heard Alex´s list of where everyone was.

"If you want to tell them it´s fine with me." he said finally. "I´d like to be able to tell my friends too, I understand that it is too risky to send a letter, and frankly I don´t want to tell them that way. I was only wondering if, maybe I could see them later in the summer so I can tell them?" he avoided Severus' eyes, still expecting a sarcastic respons and an insult.

"I cannot promise that, things might happen things like the dak lord might be behind. I will promise to try though." he had seen the boy´s face fall, and then at his promise he looked a bit happier.

"Thanks." Severus smiled and stood up and Harry followed. They walked out to the kitchen were Alex and Sarah stood talking and holding a bowl of popcorn and two glasses respectivaly. Sarah walked over to Harry and handed him the glasses.

"Enjoy green-eyes, vanilla choclate-chip milkshake." she gave him a smile and then walked past Severus and out from the kitchen.

"Come on and I´ll introduce you to the mongrels." Alex said and walked through a kitchen door. Harry followed, but turned around to face his supposed father.

"Thank you...for saving me and being..you know...nice about things. I´ll see you later...Severus."and with that he hurried out. Severus stood there for a moment, then he smiled and walked the other way out from the kitchen.

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