Chapter 1

Through the Pensive

Harry awoke the next morning by Ron shaking him.

"Harry! You better get up or you're going to miss breakfast!" Harry jumped out of bed. He was supposed to be at Snape's office for occlumency practice before breakfast was over! Harry pulled on his robes and rushed to the dining hall. As Harry walked into the dining hall, no one was staring at him like they usually did. They were all invested in their conversations about Fred and George's getaway. Harry found a seat in between Ginny and Hermionie at the Gryffindor table.

"Harry, you better eat quickly! You don't want to keep Snape waiting!" Hermionie said as Harry grabbed a piece of toast and stuffed it into his mouth. He finished the piece of toast by drinking some pumpkin juice.

Harry headed through the corridors, and towards the dungeons. He hated occlumency with Snape and had an extra lesson because the last one was interrupted from when Umbridge sacked Professor Trelawney. Harry hated how Snape sneered whenever he found out something personal about Harry. It was almost like Snape wanted to know so he could use the information against him.

Harry felt hot with anger against Snape as he reached his office. Harry knocked on the door.

"Come in," Snape said. Harry entered the office. Snape was standing by a pensive and was removing a memory. Harry watched Snape pull out a blue, sparkling, string from his head with his wand. He put it into a small jar, closed the lid, and put it on a shelf.

"You're late," Snape stated.

"I slept-"

"Were you to great to show up on time to my lessons Potter?" Snape interrupted.

"No, I-"

"Well your here now, so let's get started."

Snape drew out his wand, but before Snape could penetrate Harry's mind, there was a knock at the door.

"Come in," Snape said.

Draco opened the door but didn't come into the office.

"Professor Snape, Sir, Professor Umbridge needs you," Draco said as he stared at Harry.

"Fine. Wait here, Potter," Snape said as he stepped through the doorway.

"Extra help with Potions Potter? Tsk." Then Draco raced after Snape.

Harry looked around Snape's office. There were many things Harry hadn't noticed before, such as jars of gilly weed and rat tails. Harry wandered over to the shelf that Snape had put the jar containing his memories in. He looked at the other jars, some read potion recipes, and others had people's names on them. Harry was looking at the bottom shelf when his eyes glanced at his name. He quickly looked back at the jar, and sure enough, it read the words "Harry Potter" along the side. What was his name doing on one of Snape's memories? Surely Snape would want to forget about Harry. He picked up the jar, it was dusty compared to the other ones. He looked over at Snape's desk. The pensive was sitting there with no memories in it. Harry looked down at the jar, he wanted to know why Snape had a memory of him, but Snape would be back soon. But as Harry was debating on watching the memory or not, he was pouring the memory into the pensive.

Harry felt as though the pensive sucked him in, and suddenly he was standing in a small living room. The room was crowded with old books and there was a large fireplace in front of him. Harry did not recognize where he was. Harry turned around and saw three people: a woman with long red hair and bright green eyes sitting next to a man with messy black hair and round glasses, sitting on a couch. It was his mother and father, but what were they doing in Snape's memories? Across the room was an old armchair, and sure enough, Snape was sitting in it. He had long greasy black hair and wore a scowl on his younger face.

"Thank you for coming, Severus!" Lily said.

"I still don't know why this is necessary," James said, he was slouched on the couch and had his arms crossed.

"Be quiet James, you agreed to this, and it's the only way!"

"Why am I here?" Snape finally said, avoiding eye contact with James.

"You see Severus, you are an old friend of mine, and I trust you. James and I have been trying for a child of our own, but it's not working. I was just wondering if we could borrow your seed?"

"No! I'm not going to be the father of James Potter's child!"

"I thought you might say that, but I have an idea. we can put a masking charm on him or her once they are born. The charm should last around fifteen years or so. This way you can just give us your seed, and you don't even have to talk to them."

Snape sat there for a moment. He looked as if he was thinking about doing it.

"But Lily, he is a death eater!" James cried.

"I don't care! I trust him."

"I'll do it, but not for James, but you Lily."

"Oh, thank you so much!"

They all stood up.

"Are you ready Sev?"

"Yes."

Lily and Snape linked arms, and James pulled out his wand. He waved it in a few circles and swished it around Snape and Lily's heads. Blue sparkles washed down their heads and met at their hands, that were linked, and disappeared.

"Thank you so much, Severus! I owe you one!"

Snape put on his cloak and walked over to the door to leave.

"Obliviate!" James yelled from the other side of the room. The charm hit Snape right on his head, and he was knocked out.

"James! What the Hell!" Lily cried.

"I was doing it for us, Lily! Now they will be our child, and not Snivellus's!"

"Oh for god's sake James! They were already going to be our child because of the masking charm!"

Lily ran over to Snape. He was lying in front of the door, with his hair falling over his face.

"Wingardium leviosa," Lily said, and Snape started hovering above the ground.

"Wait here, James."

"Wait, where are you going?"

"I'm taking him to dumbledore!" Lily walked towards the fireplace with Snape trailing behind her. She stepped into the fireplace and grabbed a handful of floo powder.

"Dumbledore's office at Hogwarts!" she yelled.

Images were swirling around Harry, and suddenly He was in Dumbledore's office at Hogwarts.

Lily came out of the fireplace, in Dumbledore's office, with Snape still hovering behind her.

"Oh, my Merlin! What happened?" Dumbledore asked as Lily placed Snape on the floor.

"Well you see, James and I were having trouble conceiving a child, so we asked Severus for help. Sev agreed after I told him that we would put a masking charm on the child after it was born so that they would look like James, not Severus. I guess that wasn't enough for James. He didn't want Sev to remember that he has a child, so he obliviated him!"

"I see," Dumbledore said as he looked down on Snape. "I will be able to restore his memories, but not his most recent ones. He won't remember that he has a child, but I can extract those memories now so that he can view them later."

"Yes! Thank you, Dumbledore!" Lily left through the floo. Dumbledore grabbed a jar from one of his desk drawers. Slowly the name "Harry Potter" appeared on the side of the jar. Dumbledore knelt next to Snape's head and pulled out his wand.

Images were swirling around Harry again. His head flew out of the pensive and Harry landed on the floor. He was back in Snape's office. Harry scrambled to his feet. His mind was swirling, but he knew he had to find Dumbledore.