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Chapter Three, Before the fullmoon.

'Harry ran as fast as she could through the castle, something was chasing her. When she passed a corner she suddenly didn´t know where she was, she had never seen this corridor before. Was this even Hogwarts? She heard something from behind her, paws sprinting on the stone floor. She turned around and saw to her relief the grim-like dog that she knew as her godfather Sirius Black.

"Sirius? I´m so glad to see you. I´ve missed you."she said and hugged the dog around his neck. The dog growled and sunk his razor-sharp teeth into her right arm. Harry cried out in pain and tried to pry the dog off of her.

"Sirius what are you doing? It´s me. It´s Harry. Sirius let go." the dog gave one last jerk on her arm before he let go. Her arm was badly slashed and ripped and was bleeding furiously. He backed up a bit before turning to face her again. He bared his teeth and growled menacing. He attacked again and opened his mouth wide as he leaped at her. Harry closed her eyes thightly and protected her face and head with her arms. The bite never came. She opened her eyes again and looked around. It was a large room with a throne-like chair standing in the middle. A door opened and Harry tried to find a place to hide but she couldn´t move from the floor. She gasped as she saw who it was that entered, Lord Voldemort. He stood in black robes, walking past her as if he didn´t see her and sat down in the throne.

"Enter my Death Eaters." he hissed. Through the door entered a few black-clad people with white masks. They stood in a circle around him,(and herself.) and they kneeled, (sp?).

"I have called you here for a special mission. Lucius, I want you to chose four of the death eaters now present, to accompany you to Devonshire, there I want you to visit the Smiths, the elder mrs Smith have a certain bracelet that I want. I will not tolerate failure from you Lucius, remember that." he hissed in his snake-like voice.

"I will not dissapoint you my lord." one of the black-clad men with white hair falling before his mask said taking a step forward. "Will Avery, Nott, Crabbe and Goyle be to your satisfaction, my Lord." Voldemort smirked, but didn´t answer immediaty since his pet-snake Nagini slithered into the room and up into her masters lap.

"Avery isn´t among the present Lucius, Wormtail will accompany you instead." Lucius winced at his obvious mistake. Voldemort got a malicious gleam in his eye, but just as he raised his wand to punish Malfoy sr, he stopped. He tilted his head slightly, and then he glared at his followers and ordered them to leave and he told Lucius that he better succed with his mission. When there was only Voldemort and Harry left in the room, Voldemort closed his eyes, and then he got up from the chair, but to Harry´s horror she saw that Voldemort was still seated on the throne, the dublicate stood before her and looked her right in the eye. Her breathing got shallow and uneven.

"Who are you, my little serpent?" he asked in an odd mild voice that Harry hadn´t ever imagine possible to cross the cruel creacher´s lips.

She couldn´t do anything but to stare in bewilderment at him, her fear clear on her face, but also with a defiant look in her eyes. She couldn´t do anything, not move, not speak, not protect herself from the evil man who had made her an orphan.

"Can you not speak?" still in the same voice as before. Harry would never have thought that this was Voldemort if she didn´t know it was him. Voldemort crouched down and touched her cheek with the palm of his hand. Harry felt as if she could gag. "Ew, repulsive, repulsive, repulsive, repulsive." she ranted in her head.

"Why are you afraid?" he said, talking his other hand and placing it on her other cheek. He tilted Harry´s head up slightly so that he could see straight into her mind. Her scar exploded with pain and she screamed.'

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Severus sat in his armchair by the fire waiting for Albus to return, he was certain to 97.4 that his theory was correct, but he needed to know the details. How could that proud prick have done something like that? George Nightingale, Kathrine´s father, was a very proud man, he cared more about what society thought of him than his own family. His own grandchild, Severus' child, how could he have done something like that?

Severus sighed, he leaned back in his chair and took another sip of his tea when his fireplace flared up and the headmaster came through.

"Well?"

"You were right Severus, he kidnapped Harry Potter and left his granddaughter in his place with an glamorie on her." Severus clenched his fist and closed his eyes. "Since a young child don´t use much magic, the glamorie worked for five years. Unfortunally, " Dumbledore paused." Kathrine and Harry Potter, under the disguise of Kathrine's daughter, died several years ago. Young mr Potter died of a disease that couldn´t be treated, and Kathrine died a short time afterwards from a broken heart." Dumbledore looked grave.

"I knew that she had died, I received a letter from her friend, Angela, some years ago, telling me that she had died. I didn´t know about a child though." Severus stated, the same emotionless voice as usual. Suddenly his left arm flinched.

"Do you have to go?" Dumbledore asked worriedly. Snape shook his head no.

"No, I´m not summoned to this meeting, which means that he is going to send someone out for a mission, and since I´m not availible to leave my current position, then I don´t have to attend." Snape answered. Dumbledore nodded.

"What are you going to do now Severus?" he asked, a small twinkle appeared in his eyes. Severus frowned at him. "Albus, if you´re going to twinkle then you can leave. I do not plan to abandon the child, she is mine by blood and so she´s my responsibility. I will deal with this,.."

"..and also help her deal with it I hope?" Dumbledore said as he walked back to the fireplace. Severus didn´t say anything, but bid the headmaster a good night, and thanking him for his help. The headmaster left and Severus decided to keep his promise to the girl and wake her and tell her about it. He stood up and walked over to the room. He knocked carefully and recieveing no answer he assumed that she was asleep. He opened the door and walked in and saw that she wasn´t laying in her bed, but on the floor. Severus quickly walked over to her so that he could wake her but before he could wake her she screamed in pain and grabbed her forehead.

"AHH, GET OUT OF MY HEAD, GET OUT, GET OUT, GET OUT!." she yelled. Snape grabbed her hands, understanding what it was that was happening. He got her hands away from her face.

"Po...girl? Girl listen to me, open your eyes." he said loudly, she quietned down but didn´t do as he said. "Open your eyes Potter!" he said in a more ordering voice. Her eyelids moved as if she was trying to open her eyes but wasn´t able to. Snape pryed her eyes open with his thumbs and used occlumency to force Voldemort out from her mind and at the same time trying to avoid getting noticed by the dark lord. Harry began to calm down, she hissed trying to catch her breath. Snape felt The dark lord retreat from the girl's mind and he let her close her eyes again.

"What was that? What did you do?" she wheezed removing Snape's hands from her head and placed her own on it instead.

"Let´s move of the floor first, then I´ll tell you." Harry removed one hand from her head and felt beneath her, he was right, they were on the floor. Snape took hold of her upper arms and gently pulled her up in standing position before leading her over to the bed and sat her down.

"What happened?" he asked.

"A vision. Now what was it you did?" she didn´t want to talk about the vision, she knew that she had to tell Dumbledore but she didn´t want to think about it yet.

"It´s called legilimency, I entered your mind in order to build up a shield around it so the dark lord couldn´t reach you."

"You entered my mind? Is that what you did in Dumbledore´s office earlier today! You went into my mind!" she said angerly. Snape gave her a small glare.

"Yes, I shouldn´t have done it without permission from you, but I wanted to be sure that it wasn´t a trick."

Harry glared back at him. "After that lie-detector spell and the affinity-potion, you still needed proof that I was telling the truth?"At his nod she continued."You searched through my memories? What did you see? Tell me what you saw!" she yelled at him.

"I saw some disturbing images. I saw a fat man hitting you and locking you in a small dark place. I saw a skinny woman slapping you and refusing to give you food. A whale of a boy chasing you, and gloating when he got something and you didn´t." he stated without emotion even though inside he was quite angry.

Harry only stared at him, he had seen all that and the only reaction it receives is an emotionless statement? She shook her head and turned away from him.

"I came in here to tell you that theory of mine, the headmaster was here before and verified it." no reaction.

"Your grandfather, your mother´s father, George Nightingale, was a person who cared more about pure-blooded pride and social status then he did about his own family. Kathrine, his only child, and I met when we were twenty years old, we went out together for a while. When she found out about my dark mark, and me being a spy she broke up with me, she didn´t want to be dragged into those dark circles so she left. Her father had disapproved of us going out from the beginning, he had tried to arrange a marrige between his daughter and James Potter, but that didn´t work of course since James Potter was in love with Lily Evans and the two of them later married eachother. Then about a year later, they had a son, Harry Potter. What I didn´t know about was that Kathrine also gave birth to a child, a little girl, around the same time. During the first year of the child´s life, George Nightingale planned to plant his blood into the Potter-line anyhow. When you were about a year old he placed a glamorie on you to make you look like Harry Potter, and then he kidnapped James' and Lily's son and left you in his place. A few months later the attack on Godric´s Hollow took place and you were left with the Dursley´s. The Potter's son had the opposite glamorie cast on him, making him look like Kathrine´s child. However, the child died several years ago because of a illness that couldn´t be cured, and Kathrine died not long after that, probably due to a broken heart." Harry hadn´t moved during his story, but now she let her head lean on her hands, she didn´t say anything.

"Do you wish me to leave?" Snape asked.

"Do you want to?" her muffled voice was heard behind her hands. Snape placed a hand on her shoulder. She accually turned to face him.

"No, I want to stay here and...help you. If there is something I could do, then I would like it if you let me know what it is." a small, a very small glimpse of honesty showed in his eyes.

"I´ll be fine, but could you perhaps get me a piece of parchment and a quill? I need to write down what happened in the vision and give it to Dumbledore." she said sounding tired and uncertain. He handed her the things and she wrote it down, when she finished she put the quill down and hesistated for a moment before she ripped the parchment in half.

"What are you doing?" Snape asked sounding confused. Finally, some emotions." Harry thought.

"The first part was a regular nightmare, no need to show it to him." Harry shrugged. Snape took the parchment and eyed it.

"Would you allow me to read it?"he asked. She shrugged, indicating if-you-want-to. He left and five minutes later he was back with a vial in his hand, which he handed to her.

"Dreamless-sleep." he explained."Before you drink that I want to ask you something. What do you want to do from now on?" he sat down on the bed again.

Harry closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "I don´t know. The glamorie doesn´t work anymore and I´m too,.developed, to go back to just dress and act as a boy. The whole school now knows of your daughter. I don´t know, I just don´t know." she let out a frustrated sigh. Then she turned towards Snape, her father. "Did Hagrid tell you about my erised-mirror experience?" he nodded. "So with that in mind, what do you want to do?" "She asks me? What do I want?"

"It doesn´t matter if I want to do something or not. You are my daughter. My responsibility." anger flashed in her eyes.

"It matters a great deal for your information. I don´t want you to take me in because it is 'your responsibility', or because you see it as a duty. I can take care of myself if it comes to that, but I refuse to settle for an arragment because that you feel that you have too."

"I didn´t mean it like that. It is a responsibility that I would be glad to take. Even though we didn´t get along before, perhaps we could if we got to know eachother? It would also help if my daughter maybe got a little more brains then mr Potter had." he snorted at the last part.

"Wait a minute. What is going to happen to me? Him? Harry Potter I mean."

"Oh, I´m sure the headmaster have already figured it out, he twinkled before he left." he could see that the girl tried to hide a groan, that turned into a yawn.

"Drink that potion and go to sleep, we can talk more tomorrow." She nodded and un-corked the vial.

"By the way, you don´t have a name, so do you have any suggestions?" Severus asked, he couldn´t continue calling her girl, daughter and sertainly not Harry Potter.

"You´re the father, I´m sure you can figure something out."she gulped down the potion and laid down and snuggled deep into the pillows." but if you name me Serpensortia or something I swear I will...mghhm..mmm." the potion master chuckled. He snapped his fingers,"ok, strike Serpensortia from the list then. It isn´t even a name." He turned the lights out and walked out from the room.

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When Harry woke up the next morning, a tray with breakfast stood waiting for her on her bedsidetable. She ate the some of the sweet porrige, and nibbled on a piece of toast. Then Jasper came and gave her some clothes she could change into. Some white undergarments, painties and a bra, (when Harry saw these she blushed furiously, she had never used anything like this.) and a black, female robe and shoes. She pulled a brush through her hair and it became smooth and silkingly, then she made a braid of it. Jasper told her that she should stay in the quarters and perhaps read a book or something. It had been 8.24am when she woke up and the professor had to go to class, but Jasper said that he would come back for lunch.

She sat down in one of the armchairs and settled with a book, she didn´t even notice when her father walked in around noon.

"Interesting book?" he asked. Harry jumped at the sound of his voice and dropped the book to the floor.

"What are you trying to do? Give me a heart failliure?" she said holding a hand over her chest. Snape smirked when she reached down to pick up the book. "How have you been?"

"I´m alright, everything is still very strange. How about you?" Snape raised an eyebrow at her question since he didn´t expect her to ask that.

"What? It´s news to you too you know, I wasn´t the only one finding out about a direct family member."

"I´m fine, don´t worry about that. I wanted to see if perhaps you wanted to join me for lunch in the Great Hall. Or we could sit here, afterwards I thought I could tell you about the headmaster's plan."

"But I couldn´t exactly sit at the Gryffindor table, and I´m not so sure that I want to sit with Malfoy." she said.

"No, you would be sitting at the headtable. You are not a student here yet since you arrived yesterday." she nodded glumly.

"So have you thought on a name?" Harry asked.

"Alexandra Jade Snape." she tried the name, it wasn´t half-bad.

"Hi, I am Alexandra Jade Snape." she said reaching her hand out towards Severus.

"Severus Christopher Snape, pleasure to meet you." he answered her, shaking her hand.

"Shall we go then?" she said standing up. Jasper popped in to give her a cloak. She thanked him and father and dauhghter headed for lunch.

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"..there she is. She´s Snape´s daughter, can you believe that he´s got a kid?" "No, poor her, having that bat as a father."

"She sure didn´t get her looks from Snape, she´s hot."

"I´m sure she´s just like the greasy git, now there´s two of them."

These were only a few comments they heard when they walked together to the Great Hall. In which Gryffindor lost 55 points, Ravenclaw lost 30 points, Hufflepuff lost 15 and even Slytherin lost 10 points for a stray cat-call.

"Well that was a nice walk." Alex, (Harry is from now on Alex.) said sarcastic. She sat down to the right of her father, next to the DADA teacher, professor Benjamin.

"So you´re Snape´s daughter aye?" he asked. The man had dark brown hair that reached down below his ears, light brown eyes, he was in his late twenties and kind of good-looking.

"Yes, I am. Alexandra Snape."she said extending her hand to him. He took it, he had a hard grip she noticed. "And I am professor Carl Benjamin, the defence against the dark arts teacher."

"Nice to meet you."

"So am I going to have the pleasure in seeing you in class? Or are you only here visiting your father?" what was she going to answer to that? She looked at her father, but he was busy conversing with the headmaster. So she turned back to Benjamin.

"It hasn´t been deceided yet, if I am going to stay or not. We´ll have to see." she said.

"Snape!" he called over her to her father. Snape turned to face him, a sneer on his face. "Yes, Benjamin?"

"Is your daughter going to stay here, or is she attending another school?" Alex worked hard trying to keep her annoyance from her face at being talked about like that.

"Well, what did Alexandra tell you?" he sneered at him. "That it hadn´t been deceided yet, but..." Benjamin started.

"And exactly what in that explaination did you not understand? It hasn´t been deceided yet for a reason." with a glance at his daughter, who sent him a grateful smile, he turned back to the headmaster.

"Cranky old man isn´t he?" Benjamin whispered to her, obviously expecting her to agree.

"Pardon?" she asked in a slightly colder voice, one which Benjamin heared and hurried to say "nothing."

The meal went by uneventful after that, Benjamin asked her all kinds of questions on DADA, which she was able to answer, all but one about something from the seventh year coarse. Then when Benjamin finally took a sip from his glas, Snape could get a word in.

"If you want, I could help you with some more advanced potions and dueling." Alex looked up at that, really? That could be fun, and perhaps she could even brew that animagus potion by herself, by the looks of it, she won´t be able to ask Hermione for help.

"I´d love that, thank you for offering. Do you really think I would understand the 'subtle science' of potion brewing?"she smirked as his eyebrows raised a bit.

"Don´t get cheeky with me you imp." he said without malice. She returned to her meal smiling.

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"Hemione, I just can´t believe it. Harry wouldn´t leave like that, at least not without saying good-bye. Dumbledore´s up to something." Ron ranted between the bites.

"Oh, Ron, I know you´re upset that Harry had to leave, but Dumbledore said that he didn´t give him much time. All he had time to do was pack his things. You wouldn´t want Harry to risk his life just so he could say good-bye do you." Hermione said, feeling the same way as Ron, but her sense caught up with her.

"Hermione, that´s not what I ment, it´s just this whole deal. My bestest friend isn´t here anymore, and even though you´re my best friend too, it´s just isn´t the same without Harry." Ron accually pushed his plate aside before glansing up at the head table.

"Urgh, Can you believe that the school now has two Snapes? The whole world is against me, no Harry and two Snapes." he looked at the new girl again.

"At least she isn´t as ugly as the bat." he sighed, then he looked up again. He looked confused, as if he was trying to figure something out.

"What´s the matter?" Hermione asked. "Nothing, it´s just...doesn´t she remind you of someone?" Ron asked. Hermione looked too and frowned.

"Well, she looks like professor Snape, how come? Have you seen her before?" Ron shook his head no. "Well perhaps you´ve seen her mother somewhere?" Ron shrugged but didn´t get it out of his head.

"Come on let´s get to charms." Ron said.

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"I have two classes left for the day, then after those we could deside how to move next." Severus said, walking into his quarters.

"You make it sound like a game of chess." Alex sulked. "Can´t I go to class with you? You have what? Second year Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws?"

"No I would prefer that you didn´t, those students have trouble concentrating as it is. They don´t need futher distraction." Snape said. "Come on." they walked into the door closest to the entrance, it was another bedroom, like the one she had sleept in but this was more Slytherin-colored, it was nice but too green for her taste. Snape walked over to the wardrobe and opened the door.

"I´m sure you can find something to amuse yourself with in here. If you feel like playing chess, use that set and I can have my own in the classroom." Severus said, before leaving.

"Thank you." Alex called after him. "Cool now let's see what there is in here."

Snape entered his classroom and told the students to brew the potion on page 135. He placed the chess-set on his desk and began to supervise the students. It didn´t take to long before a white glow came from the chess-set and a white pawn took two steps forward.

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