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Chapter six- The plan and Padfoot returns!
"HOW COULD YOU!!! HOW DARE YOU!!! I WILL NOT ALLOW THIS, ALBUS YOU HAVE NO CONTROL OVER IT!!!"
Harry winced as his hands shot up to cover his ears. He groggily sat up, noting the sunlight that was now pouring through the window. He had fallen asleep shortly after his talk with Dumbledore and Snape, and was just now getting up.
"Now Severus, be reasonable, it's the only choice we have...." He heard Dumbledore saying soothingly from the bed beside him.
Harry looked at the two to see Snape looking more furious then he had when Sirius had gotten away in his third year and Dumbledore looking quite calm.
"I absolutely refuse to! You cannot make me!" Snape spat to Dumbledore, who sighed wearily.
"I know I cannot make you, Severus, but think about it.... Lily would have wanted you two to be family and Harry needs you and we had already agreed that he was going to go under cover as your son before..." Dumbledore tried to reason.
"No, you agreed to that bloody plan, I wanted nothing to do with it! I want nothing to do with him!"
"Severus please.....he is you and Lily's son! You've always wanted a son, you and Lily were planning on starting a family after the war was over...." Dumbledore said gently.
Snape growled, folding his arms and glaring at Harry. "Eavesdropping again, Potter?" he snapped coldly and Harry flinched slightly. Snape arched an eyebrow at his reaction briefly before dismissing it and turning back to Dumbledore.
"You are not really giving me a choice, are you?" he said, his voice oddly calm now.
Dumbledore looked saddened, "Severus, you know that it has to be done.....there is no way to replace the charms placed on Harry....it could endanger both yours and Harry's life if you were to reveal this secret...."
Snape once again glared heatedly at Harry, "Fine!" he snapped finally before adding spitefully to Harry, "But if you didn't happen to be the prophesized one to defeat the Dark Lord then I wouldn't bother, mark my words!"
Harry glared right back and said to Dumbledore miserably, "I still am the prophesized one, aren't I?"
"I'm afraid so, Harry...." Dumbledore said sadly. "You were born to Lily and James, they both loved you so much....."
Harry nodded, feeling his hopes crumble before adding quietly, "I suppose it is a good thing......I wouldn't want Neville to have to beat him.....he's been through enough with his parents...."
Dumbledore stared at him, "So have you, Harry. You don't deserve this either."
Harry shrugged in response, "So what are we doing anyway?" he grinned sheepishly.
Snape growled and snapped, "If you had been paying attention then you would have heard!"
"Severus...." Dumbledore murmured tiredly, "Please....." He turned his attention back to Harry, "We have a plan. No one knows your condition from being bitten on Saturday except Remus, who hasn't told anyone under my orders."
Dumbledore paused to collect his thoughts before continuing, "We are going to say that you were killed...."
"What?!" Harry all but shouted.
Dumbledore shushed him.
"Calm down, Harry its going to be okay..."
"How is it going to be okay when you are telling everyone that I died?!" Harry exclaimed.
"We are going to reintroduce you as Severus' son and we need to....well.....get rid of....Harry Potter....." Dumbledore looked at his wrinkled hands.
Harry gawked at him, "You do realize that your talking about me don't you? It sounds like you want to kill me!"
"Harry....." Dumbledore said gently. "It would be to suspicious for you to just disappear and for Severus' son to just appear...."
Harry looked at his own hands frowning, it did make sense but.....that would mean that he would never be himself again.......that he'd have to start all over....
"Harry, it's the only way to protect you and Severus...."
"Of course..." Harry snapped suddenly, "Protect me! Always to protect me! Merlin, I'm sick and tired of being so bloody overprotected!" The anger wasn't directed at Dumbledore but still, the room began to tremor slightly, the lights flickering madly.
"Harry!" Dumbledore took hold of either of his shoulder blades. "Harry, calm down, relax and breathe!"
"Calm yourself, Potter!" he heard Snape's voice call to him distantly.
Harry obeyed, taking in deep breaths and trying to clear his head. Gradually the room settled down, the lights brightening once again.
"Harry? Are you alright?" Dumbledore's concerned voice asked him softly.
Harry nodded and dropped his head in his hands feeling slightly ashamed by his lose of temper. "I'm sorry...." He muttered and Dumbledore patted him on the back gently.
"No harm done Harry!" Dumbledore sounded cheery and Harry stared at the man.
He suddenly went on, "So that's basically the plan.... Say that 'Harry Potter' died and reintroduce you as Severus' son."
Harry looked around from Dumbledore's serious expression to Snape's furious one and slowly nodded, "Okay......if you think that'll work...." He sounded miserable, and he was. He would never get to be 'Harry Potter' again, he would never have fun little adventures with Ron and Hermione, he'd never play Gryffindor Seeker on the Quidditch team....but, in a way it was kind of a relief, he would finally have a chance to be normal.....or as normal as being your most hated professor's son could be...
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#SATURDAY NIGHT#
Sirius shifted slightly, pain shooting through his body as he sat up, slowly coming to.
He rubbed his eyes and looked around. He was in the Death Chamber, right beside the veil, which was fluttering slightly.
He looked around once again, thankful that the room was empty before he realized what had just happened.
He had just came back to life.....he was alive....
"I'm back...." He whispered to himself, his face breaking out into a small smile.
"I'm Back!" he said again, his voice stronger this time.
Sirius suddenly jumped up and flexed his legs before throwing his head back and laughing wildly.
"I'M BACK!!!" he yelled, laughing hysterically.
He would get to see Harry again, he could only imagine the look on the boy's face when he suddenly popped up.
At the thought of Harry, Sirius suddenly let out a loud whoop of joy as he raced up the arena stairs to where the door was.
He calmed himself down and peered through the slightly opened door to make sure that no one was around.
It was empty and Sirius noticed as he strained his ears slightly, that there was absolutely no noise in the Department of Mysteries it was completely quiet.
He cautiously walked into the room with the many doors and glanced at each door uncertainly. "The exit....?" He asked unsurely.
One of the doors flew open, to reveal a hallway and what looked like a lift. Sirius pressed the 'up' button and waited as the lift clattered up to the Atrium, he stepped out cautiously to see only a security guard, who was currently asleep, at the desk where they weighed your wand.
Sirius scowled and transformed into the great, black dog known as Padfoot. He crept pass the snoring guard silently.
'Must be late at night or early in the morning......' he thought to himself briefly before padding silently to the telephone booth.
As soon as he stepped in, it lifted and he waited impatiently until it reached it's destination before bounding out of it and out into a deserted street, one thing intent on his mind.
Get to Hogwarts.........to Harry.
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#PRESENT TIME#
"Don't you think it'll be quite weird if I just pop out of nowhere?" Harry asked Dumbledore and Snape quietly.
Snape sneered and opened his mouth to say something quite rude when Dumbledore cut him off, "We have a background story prepared, Harry, don't worry."
Harry shrugged, sipping on his pumpkin juice from his lunch. "What is it?"
Dumbledore smiled slightly and glanced at Snape, who growled and turned away from the twinkling gaze.
"Simply that Severus had a brief affair with a muggle-born woman and when she left, she was unknowingly pregnant and never told Severus. Simple as that...." Dumbledore explained matter-of-factly.
Harry arched an eyebrow in a scary resemblance of his potion's professor. There was nothing simple about that! What about the woman, his supposed mother, how were they going to explain her existence?
As if reading his mind, Dumbledore said, "I have made a fake identity of a woman named, 'Sara Smith', a quite common name. She lived in an orphanage known as St. Kolvies Childcare Orphanage until she was eleven where she was accepted at a private witchcraft and wizardry school in China, she died giving birth to you a year after graduating and you were sent to live in St. Kolvies orphanage until you were eleven when you attended the same school as your mother until it was shut down this past summer." He explained quickly, as if he had rehearsed it several times.
Harry once again stared at him, "But.....when someone looks into the records at that orphanage and the school, wont they know that neither 'Sara Smith' or I attended?"
To Harry's surprise, Dumbledore smiled, "That wont be a problem. As I said, the school was closed down this summer and the orphanage was destroyed in a fire a couple months ago, so there wouldn't be any records of you or Sara Smith living there."
"There's one thing I don't get......" Harry muttered. "How did 'my father' supposedly find me after all this time?"
"Quite simple." Dumbledore said breezily. "You had no where to go so you were forced to seek out your father, by means of a simple paternal potion."
"You really thought about this didn't you?" Harry muttered, feeling overwhelmed. Dumbledore smiled, his eyes twinkling, "It was actually quite fun!"
Snape snorted and glared at Dumbledore, "You think its fun to walk around the school, offering random students lemon drops, Albus..." he sneered.
"Well then, the only thing that I need is what his name is going to be, Severus...." Dumbledore looked at Snape expectantly.
Snape's face twisted in fury, "See!" he declared suddenly, standing up, "I KNEW you weren't going to give me a choice, Albus! You already had everything worked out because you were going to go along with this bloody plan even without my approval!"
"Calm yourself, Severus, we had to act quickly and I needed to have a background story for Harry if you did happen to agree...." Dumbledore said quietly.
"Bullocks!" Snape hissed, pointing an accusing finger at Dumbledore. "You tricked me again! I'm tired of being your bloody pawn, Albus! I'm tired of it!" he yelled.
Dumbledore sighed and rubbed his eyes tiredly, "Severus.....you are not a pawn nor will you ever be a pawn to me and you know it....you're like a son to me Severus and I would never make you do anything that you didn't want to do...."
Snape didn't seem to have a retort for that as he fell silent, still glaring at Dumbledore though it wasn't as heated as before.
"Now......what do you wish to name your son, Severus?" Dumbledore asked him in a careful voice, as to not irritate the Potion's Master even more.
Snape opened his mouth to say something but a yell echoed from Madame Pomfrey's office shrilly.
Dumbledore immediately hurried into the office, Snape trailing behind and Harry sat up in bed curiously.
Dumbledore walked over to the lit fireplace in Poppy Pomfrey's office and nodded to the face in it.
"Ahhh, Poppy, how can I help you?" he asked to Poppy's floating head.
"For one thing, Albus, you can unlock the Hospital Wing! I have three injured Ravenclaws who have performed the 'Stupefy' spell wrong and need immediate attention!" she snapped furiously.
"Why didn't you just knock?" Dumbledore asked innocently.
"I have been!" Poppy looked highly agitated. "But you apparently put up a silencing charm and couldn't hear us!"
"Oh did I? I had forgotten!" Dumbledore chuckled slightly in amusement but stopped with the medi-witch gave him a withering glare.
"I apologize, Poppy, my mistake...."
"Well you best not forget next time!" she shrieked before disappearing with a loud 'pop'.
Snape snickered, "Problems, headmaster?" he smirked.
Dumbledore shot him a look before walking back into the Hospital Wing. He looked at Harry, "We cannot allow anyone to see you, Harry...." He told the boy and waved his wand at him, "I'm going to put an invisibility charm on you until we can get up to my office. Poppy knows about the situation, I have told her not to talk to anyone about it."
Harry nodded and stepped out of bed, "But if I'm supposed to be dead then what about my body?"
Dumbledore nodded, "A simple illusion will due...." At this he waved his wand and murmured a spell that Harry didn't hear.
Harry gasped as an exact replica of him appeared on the bed. "How?" he said faintly as he reached out to touch the body only to have his hand go through it.
"It is merely an illusion, Harry....it's not real..."
"But wont people know?" Harry asked uncertainly.
"We will take care of it, don't worry..." Dumbledore told him soothingly. "Now you need to stay silent..." he reached out and pulled the curtains around the illusion-Harry's bed before heading to the door.
He quickly took off the locking and silencing charms that he had placed on the door.
It immediately burst open and Poppy, along with three young looking boys hurried in, the boys sporting some rather nasty welts.
Harry felt a touch of amusement as he remembered all the spells that he'd messed up on.
"I shall be going, Poppy...." Dumbledore told the nurse in a solemn voice.
Poppy frowned, "What's wrong? Is it Potter?"
He nodded sadly and gestured toward the curtained bed, "He has......passed on." The old wizard said in a mournful voice.
If he hadn't known it was an act, Harry would have believed the man. He was quite a good actor.
Poppy gasped, her hands flew up to her mouth as tears gathered in her eyes and Harry smiled, knowing that the secret was safe when it came to Dumbledore and Madame Pomfrey.
The three boys had paled and one of them spoke up, "H-Harry Potter is.....dead?" he whispered, fear evident in his voice.
"I'm afraid so..." Dumbledore told them. Harry didn't get to see the look on either of the boys' faces as Snape ran into him roughly, obviously meaning for him to get out of the Hospital Wing. Harry scowled, knowing that the professor couldn't see it, but headed out anyway.
"I shall be informing the school tomorrow morning...." He heard Dumbledore's poignant voice say quietly before they headed off toward the headmaster's office.
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"Can I tell Ron and Hermione?" was Harry's first question as soon as they entered the office, after Dumbledore had lifted the invisibility charm.
"They do know about you being Severus' son don't they?" Dumbledore asked and Harry nodded, scowling.
Snape sneered, "And why, might I ask, did you tell them?"
"I don't know, because they're my friends!" Harry spat sardonically to the man.
"Well Harry..." Dumbledore said loudly, "They will put two and two together anyway, so I suppose you may tell them.....but you cannot tell them about you being a werewolf."
"Why not?!" Harry exclaimed, not caring if it sounded disrespectful.
Dumbledore sighed, "The fewer people who know, the better...."
"But-"
"Oh do shut up, Potter!" Snape snapped. "You are giving me a bloody headache with your constant bickering and complaining, just shut up!"
"Severus...." Dumbledore warned quietly.
Harry huffed in anger and folded his arms. "So what do we to now?" he sounded highly irritated.
"Well, first we shall figure out a name for you, and then we will take the charm off of you. You shall be introduced tonight at dinner...."
"That soon?!" Harry exclaimed.
Dumbledore nodded.
For some reason, Harry glanced over at Snape to see what his expression was.
The man looked highly pissed, to put it bluntly. He turned to meet Harry's gaze and for a moment, the two had a staring contest before it was interrupted by a loud 'thump' on the door.
Dumbledore and Snape exchanged glances before Dumbledore stood up and carefully made his way to the door and opened it.
A large black 'thing' flew in the room at an alarming speed and ran into Harry, who fell out of his chair.
Snape had his wand out and was pointing it at the black form almost immediately.
"Get off him!" he growled to the creature.
Harry gasped, his breath was knocked out of him as the black form stood on his chest. He squeezed his eyes tightly shut as the 'thing' arched back before lunging at him......
.....and he felt a long, pink tongue lick him continuously. Harry choked, his face suddenly soaked as the creature continued to lick him.
Harry finally looked at the creature to realize that it was a dog, a large black dog, that looked very familiar.
"S-Sirius?"
He croaked hoarsely, daring to believe it. The dog gave a 'whoof' before jumping off him and transforming.
"SIRIUS??!!!" Harry screamed at the top of his lungs as he practically tackled the man. "YOU'RE ALIVE! YOU'RE ACTUALLY ALIVE!" he shouted as he hugged the man as if he were sand, threatening to fall through his fingers.
"It's alright, Harry...." Sirius told him gently as he held the now sobbing boy to him. "I'm okay, I'm alive...."
If anyone looked into Dumbledore's eyes then they might have gone blind by the intense twinkle that was currently residing there.
Snape's face was emotionless as he stared at both Sirius and Harry his eyes betraying the indifference as an emotion that could have been described as jealousy burned intensely in them.
() Okay, I had a hard time with this chapter and I'm not sure if I made any mistakes or not.
Please tell me if it was to confusing or if anything is wrong (I need a beta reader).
I hope that Harry wasn't OOC when he saw Sirius because I kind of thought that his reaction would be similar to that if it was to ever happen.
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