-1Chapter 5: The Potters

The week past quickly. Two days before the new terms was scheduled to begin the rest of the staff arrived. Harry was introduced to the Defense against the Dark Arts, Wizards customs and cultures, Herbology, Arithmancy, soundless magic, Care of Magical Creatures, and Ancient Runes professors. The Transfiguration and Charms professors still had not shown up. The lively group sat down to their meal talking and either getting to know each other, or getting reacquainted. All of the female professors were cooing over the beautiful baby girl, with her black hair, porcelain skin and green eyes, so much like her fathers. The Defense against the Dark Arts professor made an offhanded comment that Harry looked just like the Transfiguration professor, but with the Charms professors eyes. Harry stopped dead, fork halfway to his mouth then looked over at Severus who had stopped eating as well.

"What are these professors names, and where are they?" Severus asked translating for Harry.

"Oh the Potters, they are always late. Since they have the same last name, the students call them by their first, James and Lily." Severus translated this for Harry.

Clunk

Harry's fork hit his plate. He stared unseeing for a second before Severus reached over and plucked Lyneah from his arms. When he felt the wait of the baby leave him he stood up and exited the great hall very quickly. He pushed past two people in the doorway and continued on out of the castle.

Severus saw Harry push past two people in the doorway. Behind them was a small girl no older than eleven years old, and one that looked to be about sixteen with auburn hair and sapphire blue eyes.

"What the bloody hell was that?" The man asked looking confused. All color drained from Severus' face as he looked at the man.

"Oh dear Merlin." He said and looked down at the baby. Severus stood up.

"That, dear friend was your son." Severus said finally looking into the face of James Potter. James gasped.

"Severus, what are you doing here?" He asked, then looked down at the baby with an inquisitive look on his face.

"I am here for two reasons. One, I am in hiding, and two the Potions position was open, so I am the new potions master." Severus said.

"Back to our original conversations, the person who has just flown past you like a bat out of hell was your son." He answered scowling at them.

"Severus, Harry is dead, you know that." Lily said tears coming to her eyes. Severus sneered at her.

"I assure you Lily, that was Harry. He is alive, and is also in hiding along with Draco Malfoy over there. Now come. We must seek out your son, and get some answers." He said firmly, and swept from the hall James, Lily, and the small girl followed close behind.

"Severus, is this your daughter?" James asked looking from Severus to the baby to the young teenage girl.

"No, she is not my daughter. She is my goddaughter." He said smiling at the though of what a shock it would be for them when they found out the truth. They found Harry sitting out by the lake under a weeping willow tree. Severus held out a hand to stop James and Lily, and proceeded on his own. Slowly he sat down next to Harry and laid a hand on his shoulder. Harry looked over at him tears streaming down his face.

Why didn't they want me? Wasn't I good enough for them? He said brokenly

Harry, I have brought them out here with me. Why don't we listen to them, I think there is more to the story than meets the eye. He said quietly. Harry nodded and took Lyneah from his arms while Severus motioned with his other hand for James and Lily to come over. They came over and sat down opposite on the ground. The little girl sat next to Lily on the older girls lap.

Why? Why did you leave me? Harry asked brokenly Severus translated for him. Lily and James looked at him for a moment before comprehension dawned on their faced. Lily had tears running down her cheeks.

"We never wanted to leave you Harry. You were our world." James said.

So if I was so special to you why did you leave?

"During the attack your mother and I were both injured very badly. Both of us were in a coma for months. When we were both awake Dumbledore came and told us you had been killed in the attack, but that in killing you, Voldemort's powers had been broken. After hearing that there was no reason for us to stay in England, so we severed all ties and left. We left the wizarding world for a few years even. We traveled around for a while then we moved to Italy, and started a vineyard, but eventually we decided to reenter, and took up positions here at the school. Had we known you were still alive Harry we would have come for you. But how bad was it living with Sirius anyways?" James asked. Harry looked at him with pained eyes.

I never lived with Sirius. I didn't even know him until my third year. He signed. Severus reluctantly translated, knowing this wasn't going to be pretty.

"Who did you live with then?" Lily asked.

Aunt Petunia an-

"WHAT? YOU HAD TO LIVE WITH HER, AND THAT MAGIC HATING BAFOON SHE CALLS A HUSBAND? OH, IF I EVER SEE DUMBLEDORE AGAIN I'LL KILL HIM, I HAVE HALF A MIND TO GO TO ENGLAND RIGHT NOW AND DISEMBOWL HIM!" Lily shrieked. Then turning soft eyes on her son she said.

"Why did you look as if you had seen a ghost when you saw us?"

All my life I was told you were dead. Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon said it was a car crash, then everyone in the wizarding world told me that you died trying to save me, that you sacrificed your life to save mine, and gave me protection. But if you didn't die, then how was I protected? Harry asked suddenly and looked over at Severus.

"You did it Harry, it was your power that protected you. I wonder." He said and pulled out his wand.

Hand Lyneah to your mother. He said. Harry handed the sleeping baby over to his mother then looked at Severus. Severus pointed his wand at Harry and muttered an incantation. White light enveloped Harry. There was a small dark spot over his scar.

"Just as I thought. A jam." He said. He said another incantation, and focused all his energy on the dark spot. Slowly it began to dissolve. Suddenly the was a flash of blinding white light and then it was gone.

"Well, it appears you are as powerful as your daughter now." Severus said with a smirk.

"His-" Lily said looking at the baby in her arms. Suddenly the baby woke up, and looked into Lily's green eyes with her own astonishing green ones. Lily gasped. Harry reached over and took the baby from her.

My daughter Lyneah Rose. Harry said smiling at the infant. James spluttered.

"You're sixteen! You're not old enough to be a father." He cried indignantly.

I may be sixteen, but I am no child. I never was one. I have a daughter, so you can just accept it, and me for what it is, or forget it. Harry said looking challengingly into his fathers eyes.

"What do you mean you have never been a child?"

Just that, I had to grow up fast living at the Dursleys, Severus, could you explain it to them, I am not up for it, and I need to put her down, and I need to get started reading my books. Harry said and stood up quickly leaving the group. He went back to the castle and joined up with Draco who was just leaving the great hall.

"Where you headed?" Draco asked. Harry shrugged.

"Do you want to come see my room?" He asked. Harry shook his head.

Later, I need to get her down, and I have a lot on my mind. He answered and walked up to his room.

James and Lily looked at Severus.

"What did he mean by he was never a child?" James asked sternly. Severus stared at them.

"The Dursley's were abusive to him. He was beaten, starved, and raped, all before he reached Hogwarts. He has faced down the dark Lord now six times including Halloween all those years ago. This past summer he and his daughter defeated him together, though no one knows about his daughter. Everyone thinks he did it on his own. He has never been a child as he said." Severus informed them. Lily looked stricken, while James looked ready to kill.

"Who raped my son?" He asked trying to reign in his fury. Severus shrugged.

"He wouldn't say, only that it wasn't family."

"Dumbledore is going to have a lot to answer too." James spat. The little girl sitting next to Lily tugged on her arm.

"Mamma, what is going on?" She asked. Severus looked at her for the first time. She was a pretty girl with long red hair and Hazel eyes. Severus snorted with laughter when he saw her. She was the spitting image of Lily, only with James eyes, the exact opposite of Harry.

"You two sure do know how to produce carbon copies with opposite eyes." He said.

"Oh, yeah, this is our daughter Briea. She will be turning eleven tomorrow. And Severus, this is your Hannah. We found her in a orphanage in Spain, we kept her because Dumbledore said you had been killed." James said cautiously. Severus stared at the teenaged girl.

"Hannah, my Hannah?" He asked quietly.

"Papa?" She said then threw herself at Severus.

"Oh Papa, you're alive, you're here, where's mum?" She asked looking around,

"She's gone Hannah, the night you were taken, she was murdered." Severus said quietly.

"Papa, who was that boy you were talking too?" Briea asked.

"You brother."

"That wasn't Samuel." She said.

"No, it was your brother Harry, your oldest brother, the one we thought died." James said standing up.

"Might I suggest you go talk to Harry now that the baby is down." Severus suggested. James nodded and helped Lily to her feet. The small family went back to the castle.

"Do you know what room he is in?" Lily asked Severus who was headed to his office to become reacquainted with his daughter.

"South wing, 205" He said then left them. Lily, James, and Briea began to make their way up the stairs towards Harry's rooms.

"Severus sure has changed. Who would have thought that that man would ever where muggle clothing, and actually look almost sexy." James said with a chuckle.

"I know a certain DADA teacher who is single." Lily said with a twinkle in her eye. Briea just shook her head.

Harry had put Lyneah down in her crib and was sitting on his couch reading his DADA book. He was surprised at the level of the book. Finally he thought A decent DADA class. Though I know most of these curses and hexes, this at least seems to be on par with the age level. The lights started to flash

"Come in" Harry called. The door opened and James and Lily came in followed closely by Briea.

"Harry we came to talk." James started. Harry nodded.

"We want to be your parents Harry, not just in name, but in reality." James began. Harry nodded.

"I would like that, however, I don't want to be coddled over, and babied, I want to be treated like an adult, not a child. I have faced Voldemort more times than either of you, and been through more than either of you, and I am a father myself." Harry said. They both nodded.

"How can you understand us? I thought you couldn't hear?" James asked.

"Lip reading, it's not easy, but it's doable, I'll teach you sign language if you like, you'll need it, cause 'Neah's deaf also, it's also easier for me to communicate that way, I never know if I am talking out loud or not." Harry said smiling. James and Lily smiled and nodded.

"This is your sister by the way, her name is Briea, you also have a brother Samuel he'll be in fourth year this year, and another sister Callie who will be in third year, Briea here is starting first year." Lily said smiling at her daughter.

"Hello Briea." Harry said smiling at the young girl with red hair.

"When do I get to meet the other two?" Harry asked.

"Samuel is with friends, and will arrive for the feast, Callie should be here by dinner. She was at Quidditch camp. She plays for one of the teams here, chaser." James said proudly. Harry smiled.

"I played Quidditch for Gryffindor, youngest seeker in a century." Harry said smiling. James' eyes lit up.

"Really, what kind of broom do you have? Callie has a Nimbus 2000, and I have a Nimbus 2001." Harry smiled and stood up and went into the bedroom and returned with his firebolt. He handed it to his father who practically salivated over it.

"Sirius bought it for me third year after my Nimbus 2000 was destroyed by the whomping willow."

"Destroyed by the whomping willow? Do I even want to ask?"

"Probably not, lets just say it was almost a 200 foot fall." Harry said

"What! 200 feet, how are you not dead?" Lily cried.

"I couldn't die, until Voldemort was killed. Well, I could die, but only he could kill me, since I managed to kill him first I have now become completely mortal."

"So you said you were the youngest quidditch player in a century, how old were you when you made the team?" James asked. Harry smirked.

"It was two weeks after I started at Hogwarts, six weeks after being introduced to the magical world. Draco, he's here, you'll meet him, he and I used to really hate each other, at our first flying lesson, a fellow Gryffindor Neville Longbottom-"

"Oh, we knew the Longbottoms, how are they?" Lily asked.

"They have a life sentence in St. Mungo's closed ward. Anyways, Neville was given a rememberall by his Gran, he dropped it when he fell off his broom and broke his wrist, Draco picked it up and flew away, I naturally wanting to defend my friend followed. He threw it, I went after it, caught it after a fifty foot dive, first time on a broom. McGonagall looked so mad I thought I was going to be expelled for sure, instead of punishing me, she made me seeker. We've only lost one game with me as seeker, course I wasn't seeker all of last year, during the time I was seeker though we lost one game, the one where I fell off my broom, passed out while on it really, then fell. I don't remember the fall." Harry said looking pensive. His parents stared at him mouths agape.

"Ok, maybe we should start with first year, and work out way through the years, what was your life like?" James asked. Harry looked down at his hands gathering his thoughts, then looked up at his parents.

"When my Hogwarts letters arrived Uncle Vernon wouldn't give them too me. They eventually got so many that he forced us to leave the house, and we stayed in a hut out at sea, he was crazy, Hagrid came and took me from there, took me to Diagon Alley where we got my school supplies. A month later I went to Hogwarts. The sorting hat wanted to put me in Slytherin, but I talked him out of it, and was placed in Gryffindor-"

"You talk the hat out of placing you in Slytherin? I thought that was impossible. Does anyone know about that?" Lily asked.

"No, I haven't told anyone, anyways, first year, on Halloween Ron my best friend and I knocked out a mountain Troll that was trying to kill Hermione my other best friend, that's how we all became friends. I made the quidditch team, during our first game Ron, Hermione, and I thought Snape was trying to kill me, my broom went out of control. Dumbledore was hiding something in the school during the year, and we thought Snape was trying to steal it, so we decided to try to figure out what it was, it was a sorcerers stone. At the end of my first year we found out someone had gone after the stone, and went after them, first we encountered fluffy, Hagrid's three-headed dog, played it to sleep with a flute, then we encountered Devil's Snare, and Hermione temporarily forgot she was a witch and could cast fire without wood, then she remembered, then we chased winged keys, being the youngest seeker in a century had it's benefits, after the keys, we played chess with a live chessboard, Ron almost got killed by the queen, after the chess game we had to figure out a riddle so we wouldn't poison ourselves, then I went through the black flames. However, it wasn't Snape trying to steal the stone, it was our defense against the dark arts professor Quirrell. He was being possessed by Voldemort. I got the sorcerers stone from the mirror of Erised, we fought for it, I accidentally killed him. Became he was being possessed by Voldemort, he couldn't touch me without being burned, I burned him to death. Second year I met Dobby, and insane house elf. He got me in trouble with the ministry of magic for levitating a pudding and splashing in on the floor of the kitchen. He closed the gate to platform 9 ¾ thus, Ron and I drove a flying car to school, and crashed it into the whomping willow, not a nice tree. Anyways, that year the chamber of secrets was opened, by the way, I am a parslemouth, I found out that year, I was hearing voices. Anyways, Dobby tried to save me all year. I got my arm broken in a quidditch game by a rouge bludger, charmed by Dobby, and our wonderful DADA prof that year was Gilderoy Lockheart-"

"Oh, I just love Lockheart, he is so wonderful, he's done so many things-" Lily was cut off abruptly.

"He's a fraud. He removed all the bones in my arm after the game trying to mend them. Anyways, the attacks kept happening, everyone thought I was the Heir of Slytherin because I could talk to snakes, we found out that Hagrid had been involved with the last opening, so we went to talk to him, he told us to follow the spiders, we did, and had a lovely chat with an acromantula, then we were almost eaten, but we were saved by the flying ford Angila we had driven to school in. Later in the year Ginny Weasley Ron's sister was taken down into the chamber, we figured out where it was, took Lockheart with us, and went down. He confessed that he was a fraud, and was only good at memory charms, and tried to Obliviate me, however, he used Ron's wand which was broken, therefore he Obliviate himself instead, he's still in St. Mungo's closed ward. The cave closed in, I was trapped, so I went after Ginny by myself, turned out that Voldemort was possessing Ginny, trying to become human again. I battled a basilisk, and won, but got stabbed by one of the fangs in the arm, Fawks saved me. Third year Sirius escaped from Azkaban-"

"WHAT? Sirius was in Azkaban?" James Bellowed.

"Yes, he escaped, and everyone thought he was out to get me. I was still at Aunt Petunia's house when he escaped, and Aunt Marge was over, I accidentally blew her up like a balloon, she made me mad. Anyways, I ran away that night, encountered Sirius, in his animagus form, and almost got hit by the knights bus which I accidentally flagged down by tripping over my trunk, I returned to school which was being guarded by dementors that year, and Remus Lupin was our DADA prof. The dementors affected me really badly, passed out whenever they were around, heard the night we were attacked, so he taught me to produce a patronus. You'll be surprised when you see it's shape. Anyways, Sirius tried to break into the tower, and slashed the fat lady, then he managed to get into the dorm and slashed Ron's curtains on his bed, but then fled because we all woke up-"

"But Sirius-"

"Let me finish. During one of the quidditch matches Dementors showed up, that's why I fell, That Christmas Sirius bought me my firebolt. There was a Hippogriff that year on the school grounds that was scheduled to be executed. Well, we went down to Hagrid's to comfort him the day of the execution, Ron's rat had been missing and presumed dead, we found it that day in Hagrid's cabin hiding, after we left Scabbers got away, Ron chased after him, Sirius grabbed Ron and Scabbers and dragged them into the passageway to the shrieking shake. Hermione and I followed, Sirius was there, I tried to kill him, but Remus showed up and stopped me, then Snape showed up, and well he wasn't nice back then, was blathering on about how Ron, Hermione, and I were going to be expelled, and Sirius and Remus were going to Azkaban, well Sirius was going to be kissed, I stunned him, and we found out that Scabbers was actually Pettigrew, and that he had framed Sirius, and Sirius was not in fact trying to kill me, but was trying to get Scabbers away from me. However, when we were going back Remus became a werewolf, Wormtail escaped, and dementors came, Hermione and I followed Sirius and I tried to produce my patronus but there were to many, almost received the kiss when a giant patronus sent over 100 dementors packing, I thought I saw you when it went away dad, but I passed out, woke up later in the Hospital wing. Hermione and I took her time turner, went back in time, rescued buckbeak the hippogriff, and Sirius. Sirius escaped on buckbeak and went into hiding. Fourth year was the triwizard tournament. I got chosen as the fourth champion when I had never even entered. I first battled a dragon for a golden egg, flew on my firebolt to get it, then there was the Yule ball, most bloody traumatic event in my life asking a girl to the ball. The second task we had to retrieve hostages from the lake, gillyweed stolen by Dobby was used, third task was a maze, the center held the triwizard cup, Cedric the other Hogwarts champion and I arrived at the same time we took it together seeing as either way it would be a Hogwarts victory, it was a portkey, took us to Pettigrew and Voldemort. Cedric was murdered, the third casualty of this war, my blood, Wormtail's hand, and Voldemort's father's bone were used to resurrect Voldemort. We then dueled, our wands connected, we have brother wands, and prori incantatum happened, people began to come out of Voldemort's wand, you two appeared, Cedric asked me to take back his body, when the connection was broken I ran grabbed Cedric and port keyed back, was taken by mad eye-moody up to his office, he was our dada prof that year, only it wasn't mad-eye it was Barty Courch Jr. He was a death eater placed in Hogwarts to get me into the tournament, and through it, and to the cup to take me to Voldemort. Fifth year we had a useless DADA prof, Professor Umbridge, school became unbearable because the ministry wouldn't acknowledge Voldemort was back and thought that Dumbledore was trying to overthrow the ministry. We didn't learn anything that year, so my friends and I started the D.A. or Dumbledore's Army, I taught everyone in the group around 25 or so DADA that year, everyone who was in my group got at least an E on the O.W.L.S. or NEWTS, or exams. In November Voldemort attacked the school. He wanted to take over, and make it a school for the Dark Arts. The battle was awful. Several students were killed. Dumbledore's Army fought for three days. In the end I faced off with Voldemort. We dueled, and both of us were severely injured, that duel nearly killed me. I was in a coma for over a week. Anna came and visited me when I woke up. I came home from school found out my girlfriend of the past two years was pregnant and planning on giving my child up for adoption, I wouldn't allow that, and claimed her as sole parent, one day we went to Diagon alley for school supplies, Voldemort showed up, I Avada Kadavrad him, my daughter destroyed his soul when it came at us. Then we went into hiding, and here I am." Harry finished. His parents stared at him mouths hanging wide open.

"So did you ever have a year where someone wasn't trying to kill you?" James asked.

"Only the year Lupin was there, but we did almost get bitten by him, it was unintentional though, he wouldn't have done anything to hurt me." Harry answered.

"So when was your daughter born?" Lily asked.

"We have the same birthday, she was eleven days early, the most wonderful birthday present I could have ever asked for. She's my world now. I wouldn't trade her in for anything." Harry answered with a smile. "So tell me about what my brothers and sisters are like."

"Well, Sam is a lot like your mother, big bookworm, not big on sports, looks just like you, only taller, Callie as I said plays quidditch, but she is also a lot like your mum, bookworm when she's not on the pitch, she looks like Briea. Briea's the prankster, a marauder at heart." James said and ruffled his daughter's hair.

"Dad!" Briea whined. A small cry from Lyneah's bedroom distracted the group. Harry stood up and went into his daughter's room. He leaned over the edge of the crib and smiled down at her. Lyneah looked up at her daddy and giggled waving her tiny fists in the air.

"Hey precious, did you have a nice nap? Do you want to come out and play?" Harry asked lifting his daughter up into his arms. He picked up the bottle on the way out of the room and sat back down on the couch and fed Lyneah.