"Corvus… would you mind telling us, who the other father is and why you left?" George asked him. Corvus sighed. "Well, let's start with the easy part first, shall we." Corvus knew everybody thought he was going to start with telling them who the father was, but as Sirius and Hermione knew, the other part was far more easier than telling them about Severus. He sighed and started his story.
"I realized, not long after Cho Chang's death that Dumbledore was manipulating me."
It was a month after Cho's death and Harry woke up trembling from another nightmare. He had relived once again his visions about Cho's death. He recalled how Dumbledore had tried manipulating him into going after the girl, but Snape had convinced the Order to refuse to let him go. Harry had been furious about that, but then Snape had told him about the trap Voldemort had set up and Harry realized the Headmaster had been wrong and not the Order.
He recalled other times he had been manipulated too. For example the Triwizard Tournament. Hermione had discovered a few months after Cedric's death that Harry could have refused to join the Tournament, based upon the rule for one Champion par school.
They had also discovered that the Blood Wards placed on the Dursley's house were fake. That the Dursley's had to care for him, for them to work. And that the same wards would've worked if he had lived with the Weasly's or the Diggory's for they were both related to his father. Harry had refused to see the headmaster for a month after that.
Or when they had discovered that Dumbledore easily could've warranted a fair trial for Sirius. Harry still blamed Dumbledore for his Godfather's death. (Sirius had come back from the veil in order to protect Harry from the greater Evil. Or so he said.)
Or other numerous betrayals and lies by the Headmaster had set him off, and he couldn't trust the old man anymore.
After that Harry had decided to start training and to run away after the Final Battle. Severus, Lucius, Sirius, Remus, Tonks and Moody had all started to teach him all kind of spells, curses, charms, and fighting and dueling techniques.
Meanwhile he designed a plan together with Sirius, Hermione, Ron and Luna to escape from the Headmaster. They sought out a place to live, they created glamours for themselves.
But the glamour they had created on Harry wouldn't stick. It would stay on for about half an hour and then it would come off.
They had tried everything and Hermione started searching all information she could about the glamours. After a few weeks she found something: apparently if someone already wore a glamour, another couldn't be placed on the same person. Everyone thought this was strange, but they casted a spell to see if he was wearing any glamours anyway.
Apparently he did. They took the glamour off. He had a different nose, he was taller, his hair was a little less messy, his jaw was more pronounced, but the strangest difference were his eyes. They weren't green anymore, and neither did he need his glasses. No he had gorgeous silver eyes, with a blue shine in it. He had the exact same eyes as Draco Malfoy, who surprisingly had formed a truce with them. Harry even had to admit he started liking Draco, although just as a brother. He was gay, but it just felt wrong somehow to look at Draco that way.
Corvus hesitated. He didn't know how to tell the rest of the story. So he just continued to tell with how he had started going to the dungeons to talk to Severus about the manipulations of Dumbledore, and how he had realized he was falling in love with the older man. How he had went to Lucius' chambers for the spell on the Dark Mark and how he had went to Severus' rooms. At this point he hesitated again and searched for Hermione's eyes.
Hermione understood why Corvus couldn't tell it. It still was too much, even after five years. Suddenly Hermione's eyes grew wide. "Sweet Merlin! Corvus!"
Corvus came to the same realization as Hermione on the same time. "Merlin!" and then he looked to his parents. "Severus knew everything, didn't he?" he asked. Both his parents nodded. "What does this have to do with your story?" Draco asked, curious why his brother was suddenly panicking.
"Shit! Mione! What have I done?" Hermione looked at him with the same panic in her eyes, but suddenly she started smiling widely. "Corvus, do you know what this means?" Corvus frowned, not understanding what Hermione was talking about.
"He does love you!" once again Corvus' eyes grew wide. "He does! Or at least he did then." Sirius catched on too. "You have to tell him now, Corvus, no excuses this time!" Corvus panicked again. "No! What will he think!"
The others were bewildered. About who were they talking? And what did Corvus have to tell that person? "You have to! Corvus, this changes everything!" Hermione said too. "I can't! He will hate me… First I tell him I love him, then I disappear the next day, and now after five years I'd show up with our daughter. I can't tell him!"
"He will understand if you explain." Sirius said too. "And we will understand if you explain what exactly you are talking about." Draco said, frustrated with not knowing what they were talking about.
"I slept with Severus. He's the father." Corvus said, looking sad. Everyone in the room that didn't know gasped. That was surely an unexpected exclamation. It was silent for a few moments, everyone digesting the news.
"Then why did you run. You were in love with him, weren't you?" James asked and Corvus nodded, not explaining why he did run.
"Corvus told Severus he loved him before they slept together and Severus never answered that until after they had slept together. And then he said that he loved CORVUS too. But Corvus was still called Harry back then." Hermione explained. "Corvus had went to Severus' rooms not only for the spell on the Dark Mark, but also for telling Severus he loved him and to ask if Severus wanted to come with us the next day. But he never got to that point."
Everyone was angered with Severus because he had said Corvus, while Corvus was still called Harry back then, and thereby had hurt Corvus. But Corvus defended Severus by saying that Severus had thought he was asleep when he said it. The anger became less for everyone, but they still were pissed off with the Potions Master.
Corvus knew he had to go see the Potion's Master, but he didn't want too. Not yet anyway, and he convinced the others he would firstly let Severus know he was back and he wouldn't tell anything about their daughter yet.
The others weren't really convinced about that, but Corvus refused to even meet Severus if he didn't have the time to explain first.