A Family Found

"How do I have a family Houndstooth?", ground out Severus.

"It was an old spell Severus called familia oblivioni traditae; which translates to family forgotten in English. Pureblood families used to use it years ago to steal an heir, when a family could not have children for some reason. I believe it was due to the start of slight inbreeding in pureblood lines many years ago. The start of 3rd cousins marrying their distant family led to what we see happening to pureblood families today. As new generations are being born, if no new blood is integrated into the line then the children will be born with less and less magic, or at least less powerful magic then their forefathers. It is also the reason why many pureblood families are related in some way."

"The spell was originally combined with a mind-altering potion, or spell, or a combination of both a spell and potion which is what we found and cleansed from you. It hasn't been used in years because around 100 years ago it was found illegal by Wizarding Law. Your memories should have start come back since we did the cleansing ritual on you at the start of the Triwizard Tournament. Normally spells today would not take so long for the memories to come back after the magic was cleansed out of the being's system, but this magic is old and powerful."

"Have you started to have fragments of memory come back Severus?", asked Houndstooth.

"Yes, but most of the memories come back in fragments, and they resurface mostly in my dreams instead of during the day. I have had a few flashbacks in the day, but normally they come back to me when I sleep. I hate to admit it, but even with my occlumency skill it is hard to tell at times what is a dream and what is a memory resurfacing." Severus exclaimed this with a grimace.

"That is normal Severus, in the next few days the memories should come back. Would you like a minute to absorb this information, or do you want to know who your family is and for me to tell you my plans of contacting them, as I presume you wish me to do either way?", said Houndstooth.

"Thank you Houndstooth, but I believe I am fine continuing", bit out Severus. "I must learn who my family is and try to piece back my memories that have already started to come back."

Houndstooth nodded and gave Severus back the memories by getting out a vial that only could hold the thin tendrils of memories from a drawer in his cherry wood desk. Then he poured the contents into a pensive that went mostly unnoticed by guests next to his desk. Houndstooth then waved a hand in front of the pensive and said, "After you Severus."

Severus was in prince manor in his and Lily's master suite holding Lily's hand and Narcissa was at the end of the bed helping with the birth. They both trusted Narcissa since she had graduated with a healing mastery, around the time when Severus finished his potions mastery. With her mastery, she had also gotten a special certification as a midwife. With a shout from Lily, Narcissa was cleaning and holding a small baby, and a small wail hit the air.

"It's a son", crooned Narcissa, "he's beautiful congratulations!"

After cleaning the babe off, Narcissa wrapped the child into a diaper and placed the baby on Lily's chest for skin-to-skin contact. Narcissa then loosely draped a mint green baby blanket around the child and Lily to keep the chill away.

The babe was looking at his mother with huge green eyes, that resembled emeralds, and Narcissa showed Lily how to get the little one to latch on to her bosom. Soon enough the babe was drinking from his mother while staring with his green eyes up at his mother and Severus. Severus had one arm over his wife and one hand with his fingers brushing up against the babe's soft cheek.

Bellatrix, Lucius, and Regulus were at the end of the bed around Narcissa, some were standing, and some were sitting in front of the fire on chairs that were in the suite's sitting area. Tom was standing by the window; the moon was just starting to show up in the night sky.

"Congratulations" said Tom softly.

"Congratulations", said Bellatrix, "what will you name the wee lad?"

Not many knew it, but Bellatrix had a Scottish accent from living with her mother's side of the family during the summer months as a child and long into her time at Hogwarts. It only showed when she was emotional, or around those she loved, trusted, and considered family, even if they were not blood family.

Lily looked at her son and looked at Severus and said, "Hadrian Polaris Prince."

Lily and Severus had talked about names previously and this was one of the full names at the top of their list.

"My little Hadrian," said Severus, "you are loved my son. He is beautiful Lily, great job my darling."

Snape then took Hadrian from Lily's arms, since he had finished nursing and was squirming in lily's arms, who was falling asleep while still sitting up. Even thought the birth went smoothly and was only a few hours, birthing takes a lot out of a person.

Severus with Narcissa's help, since he had the babe in his arms, eased Lily onto her back and Narcissa finished cleaning Lily up and made her more comfortable. Narcissa had already helped Lily pass the placenta and cleaned her up right after she passed Hadrian to Lily to nurse. Although, Narcissa was now wiping her brow with a cool cloth which helped move her sweaty hair away from her face and would make her more comfortable, even in sleep.

Severus while patting Hadrian's back to get the gas out of his tummy, moved his way over to stand next to Tom. Once he heard a wet burp come out of his son and wiped away the dribble, he started humming an old pureblood lullaby that he remembered Lucius singing to Draco, who was only a few months older than Hadrian. While humming he was swaying side to side and was enjoying the time with his new son, while being near his closest friends, who were considered as family to him and Lily. The friends, who considered Lily and Severus as family right back.

As Severus came out of the pensive, he had tears running down his face. Houndstooth was giving Severus a few minutes to compose himself and during this time Severus was thinking.

"Potter was not a Potter at all, and he was his son. He treated his son horribly for years, for something he could not control. Would Hadrian even forgive him? Would Hadrian understand that he and Lily took away his memory to protect his son, but it did the exact opposite. Where even is Hadrian living right now, and where has he been staying these years after Lily's death?", thought Severus.

After a few more minutes Griphook cleared his throat and said, "Now Severus I know at the top of our list is finding your son, but first I need to tell you who your family is, so I can contact them as soon as possible. Is that amenable?"

"Yes", said Severus.

Houndstooth searched through Severus's cleansing results, which included his updated and accurate bloodline results and read aloud, "You are from a powerful line of purebloods and half-bloods named the Rusu's who are from Moldova. That is where you were born, since we were able to get in contact with our branch there and get your original birth certificate. It is apparent that you were stolen from your family around the age of 4, and your family has never stopped looking for you. Your mother is named Ruslana Rusu and her maiden name was Ruslana Lungu. Lungu is a powerful half-blood in Moldova. Your father's name is Allan Rusu, and you have 2 older siblings. A brother named Efim Rusu and a sister named Bria Rusu."

"I already had a few draft letter's written to send to your families account manager in Moldova so their manager can share the letter and let them know you are safe and with us. We already had to contact their account manager so we could get a copy of your original birth certificate, but they heeded our request and have not yet contacted your family. I told them that we were not trying to hide the fact that you were alive, but I just told the account manager that if the information of you being found was given to your family, they might come over here and then it could draw attention to those who took you from them in the first place, and we have not yet gotten your son back yet.", said Houndstooth.

Severus looked over and talked with Houndstooth about which letter they would send and then Severus added his own note along, with the goblin nation of Britain's letter to the Rusu's account manager, which basically explained to the manager and the Rusu family that Severus was alive and well and that as soon as they were able, they needed to come to the British Branch. They also mentioned how Severus could not come to them because his son had not been found yet and they were worried about the person who took Severus finding out that his blocks were gone. Alas, they asked and explained in the letter if the Rusu's could come to Britain to see their son and help him find his own son. Their lodgings would be provided for and paid for by the goblin nation. It did not go into detail in the letter as to why, just that Severus was a Goblin friend.

The letter was sent off with Houndstooth's personal owl, a brown wood owl named Bjorn, and then Severus and Houndstooth got to planning and plotting on how to find and safely retrieve Hadrian, formerly known to Severus as Harry James Potter.