A/N: I don't own Harry Potter
This is for the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Auction Day 26 - Nemesis (vengeance/revenge goddess)
Word Count: 390
Warning: death, revenge, dark topics
He had always thought of himself as a god, a vengeful one at that, righting the wrongs of those who had been wronged. He'd already taken care of the betrayer, his betrayer. No one would know what had truly happened to Albus Dumbledore.
All they would know is that the man was not who he'd been pretending to be, that he as a liar, and a traitor to all wizard kind. Dumbledore was dead, now he needed to find a way to live with the fact he'd trusted the man.
He needed something to reconcile his hatred with his loss. That came in the form a child, a little boy he would now protect. He wouldn't do it because he loved the boy, no, he would do it because James would have hated it. He'd do it as revenge for all the times James had laughed at him, had bullied him. James was dead now, part of Dumbledore's betrayal to Severus.
He smiled, looking at the boy. Yes, he would raise him into a proper young wizard. That would piss James off from beyond the grave. He took the bundle, carrying the child to his home. He still lived in Spinner's End, still lived in the same house he'd grown up in. His father was dead. Severus had taken his revenge on him early, soon as he was able to use magic outside of school. He would have done it sooner if he'd known he could get away with it.
"Welcome to your new home, little Harry Potter," he stated, summoning the old crib from the attic. "Your father must be looking down and screaming right now. Me raising you," Severus laughed. "I'm going to make you into everything he wasn't, little Harry. I'm going to make you into a good man, a wonderful student and I'm going to make sure you never have to suffer at the hands of fools again," he vowed, knowing if anyone dared to hurt this child, now his child, he would take his revenge on them, for that's who he was, who he had become, a dark avenger to those who were bullied, who were lied to, to those who couldn't stand up for themselves. He'd finally become the man he had needed as a child, and no one else would suffer his fate.