Severus looked up to see the three teenagers starring wide eyed at him. After a minute of uncomfortable silence the explosion came.

"I'm half werewolf!"

"Malfloy is a spy?!"

"I don't have a mum?! "

"What was the name of the potion you gave Malfloy?"

"Oh trust Granger to think of learning about potions right now!

"Shut it Malfloy."

"Or what?

"Or I'll-"

"Both of you knock it this minute. I expected better of you two, stop acting like a child unless you would like to be treated like one. Now Harry, are you okay?" Everyone turned to face Harry who through out the entire explanation and questioning had been quite.

Harry sat there with a thoughtful expression on his face for a few minutes without saying anything. He had a million things running through his mind. So he had a father. Remus is Malfloy's father. Hermione is my sister. Ron is my Uncle. Sirius is my cousin. Sirius and Da- James. Sirius and James were lovers. At least that answered my questions about them being okay with my sexual preferences. And mom must be okay with it, I mean being best friends with them all. Petunia was being beaten then. I bet she still is now. You know for a guy who likes normality he sure is crazy. I mean who beats and rapes wife and nephew that is not a nut case? I should tell someone in case he is still beating her. I mean now that I am gone he has probably moved back to her right? Maybe he didn't even move onto her? What if he has been hitting her this whole time and just kept it such a well kept secret? I mean I wouldn't even know because I have not come out of Dudley's second bedroom this entire summer. I did hear some muffled screams coming from their bedroom the other day. Should I tell them? But Vernon said he would kill me if I ever told anyone. I will probably die before I ever go there again anyway though. And if not, I can come live here now right, I mean, this is my world. With my dad her, but what if for some reason I am not able to and I go back to Vernon's? Gods! I am Harry Fucking Potter and I am afraid of a muggle!

"They never stopped."

"What? What do you mean," Severus asked. Harry looked scared. He never meant to say it out loud. He had thought a lot about telling someone. Telling Remus in his letters to the order. Writing to Hermione, Ron anyone. Telling them how awful he has been treated this summer. Telling them about the beatings he gets everyday. All the rapes, and all the other ways of abuse that Vernon has thought of. He never actually meant to say anything. If Vernon ever found out. He would be dead for sure. Ha! There would be something for Rita Skeeter, Boy Who Lives Killed by Crazed Uncle. There would be no need for Voldemort then.

"What never stopped?" Severus looked at his son puzzled. Harry lifted up his shirt. All along his torso were new scars that the nurse had healed. After putting his shirt back down he answered, because he was sure that Vernon was beating his Aunt. She may not be his favorite person in the world but no one deserved what Harry got. Besides he felt safe with these people for some reason. He was sure they were not going to take him back to Vernon. He trusted them.

"The rapes and beatings. At least that is what I am betting. I heard a bunch of muffled screaming coming from Vernon's room this summer and I am guessing that he was beating her. That would explain why she has been coming in and cleaning my wounds everyday and comfort me after ....she knows what's going on and what I was going through ..........." Harry couldn't look anyone one in the face so he studied his hands in his lap.

If he had looked up he would have three faces turn from horror to sadness to anger to fury. "That is who did that to you? Vernon Dursley? I knew! I told her to leave him! We all did! The Gods be damned! She can be just as stubborn as Lily herself! Draco, get half a dozen of your top men. Tell them to meet me in the War Room in 15 minutes. Make sure no one else knows about it! Not even my mother and father got it?! I want to tell them everything myself, after all they are going to judge the trial so they will have to know sometime."

"Yes Sir" and with that Draco got up and left the room.

"What are you talking about? Why is Draco rounding up people? " Hermione was very curious. It almost sounded as if it was an order coming from an officer in the Military. Her adoptive mother has a brother and the few times he had been able to visit he sounded like he was giving orders to one of his cadets every time he talked.

"Not just people. Draco is our top warrior. He is only under the Royal Family themselves. Draco went to go get some of our most trusted and best warriors if anyone knew who they were it would be Draco. We are using secrecy because I do not think Harry or Petunia would really like to have their business gossiped about all over the Kingdom. We are going to pay Vernon a visit. He is going to be tried in the Elvin Courts. It is a High Crime to do the things Vernon is, I have no doubt, doing. To do these things to an Elf is a huge matter. Yet he does not do this to just any Elf, he has done this to a prince and future King. I do not envy Dursley right now." Severus looked almost joyful to be able to put Vernon though the Courts and whatever the Courts decided his punishment was to be.

"No, no! You can not do anything to him! Just get Aunt Petunia and Dudley out of there. If you do anything else he will know I told you. He will kill me for it. Please don't do anything. Please!" Harry had begun panicking again. His eyes started to fill with tears. Severus shifted out of his chair and in between Hermione and Harry. He lifted the light weight teen into his lap and the down poor came. Harry's tears started to fall, Hermione held his hand while Severus tried to comfort him.

" Shhh, come on Harry its okay. Nothing is going to happen to you. I will protect you. I promise Vernon will never hurt you again. You don't have to see him ever again after this okay? Shhh it'll okay. We will get your Aunt and cousin out of there and you never have to see him again. I will take care of you now. Nothing like that is ever going to happen again. I'm so sorry Harry. You should have stayed here from the beginning. It's all right now. You are here and you don't have to go back there ever again. It'll be okay..." After a few more minutes, Harry had stopped crying and was just sniffing every few seconds.

"I really never have to go back there?"

"Not while an elf under my or your grandmothers command still breaths. I swear to you Harry and I am so sorry you ever had to go through that. I will never forgive myself for sending you to your Uncles."

"Thank you." Harry was wiping the tears from his eyes and crawling out of Severus lap looking more than a little embarrassed. "Sorry though, I didn't mean to start crying all over you. Both of you though, thanks."

"You don't need to thank me Harry. It's what I am still here for. Now do you two want to stay here or do you want to come to the meeting with me?"

"I want to go. You guys could probably use some information on the house and probably some of the wards too. What about you Mione? Are you coming?"

"Yes, can I talk to Harry alone for a minute though?" Hermione had an anxious look on her face. Severus guessed what they were going to talk about so with a nod of his head he got up and waited outside the door so the two could have a little bit of privacy.

Neither said anything for a moment. Hermione was not quite sure what to say or how to ask without upsetting Harry and Harry was preparing himself for the rain of questions he was sure he was about to be asked.

"You're wondering why I never told anyone before now right." With a slight nod he proceeded to tell her. "Like I said, he swore he would kill me if I told anyone anything. It's not really that I was afraid or unprepared to die, hell; I have been waiting to die since I was eleven. It was more I think my pride. You know how I get some times. I was too stubborn to tell anyone. I didn't want everyone to pity me. I am pitied enough as it is. I do not need to. I don't want the extra attention it would bring. Plus I was kind of hoping that if no one knew that I guess one day I would wake up and it would all be just a bad dream. I thought a lot about telling someone. I mostly thought about telling you. Your probably one of the people I trust the most. I hold you over Dumbledore and if I was going to tell anyone it would have been you first. I knew you would tell someone and get me out of the Dursley's. "

"Then why didn't you Harry?! Jesus! Why did you let him keep doing that to you? What in the seven hells were you thinking? Did you think it was some kind of repayment for letting Sirius and Credic die? I am going to tell you again. Their deaths were in NO way your fault. It is all Voldemort. No matter what you may think now Harry some way I will get it through your bloody thick skull that you did in no way kill anyone! Or did you not tell me for another reason? Help me with this because for the first time in a while I am really clue less. "At the beginning of her speech Hermione was yelling louder then a banshee some where though she had quieted down and her voice was now no louder then a soft whisper on the breeze.

"Honestly Mione....I don't know why I didn't really tell anyone. Every time I went to write you a letter about it I always found a reason not to. For the life of me, I really can not think of those reasons....a little funny huh..... I promise though Mione, if something like this ever happens again I will tell you."

"You won't tell me beca-"

"Yes I will! I promise! Why don't you believe me? I said I would." Harry had a desperate plea look on his face and just by listening to him you could tell he was lying.

"Oh yes that sounds very convincing. You have always been a bad liar Harry, especially when you lie to me. What I was that you won't tell me because I am never going to let it happen. From now on you are with me. I am not letting you out of sight. Unless you are with Profes-, Sever...unless you are with Dad, or Draco." After stumbling over her words Hermione was glad she finally found something to call him. He thinks he may not have earned it but after everything he has done for them in the last few days, let alone over the past, apparently sixteen, years, she was sure he had earned the right to be called her father. Looking up at Harry she saw the stunned look on his face. "What?"

"I can't believe you just called him dad. I mean, so yeah he is and that is what I will call him and everything but....Gods! He really is our dad....."Sitting there for a moment Harry stewed over the idea of having a father.

"Out of everything I have just told you, you are stunned that I called him dad?"

Coming out of his daze Harry answered "For the moment yes. I have not processed everything else yet but I will blow up about it later. Come in!"

"What? What do you mean come in?" Just then Severus opened the door to the Hospital wing room Harry and Hermione were talking in.

"If you two are going to come to the meeting we have to go now. We are already late okay?"

"Yeah okay but Harry how did you know someone was at the door. He didn't knock or anything." Hermione was very curious about this. What was going on?

"I heard him walk up to the door."

"You heard him?"

"Oh good! I was wondering when you two were going to start getting your powers back and transforming." Severus looked very pleased at Harry and Hermione just looked even more curious and a little confused.

"Come with me the War Room and I will start to explain." Getting up and walking out into the hall the two teen looked at their father waiting for him to explain. "First off you two need to change your clothes." Grabbing his wand out of a holder on his right arm Severus transfigured Hermione's tank top and jeans into a forest green and black long flowing dress and Harry's hospital gown, which he just realized he was wearing when Severus said something, into an Elvin style sky blue tunic with brown cloth boots that went up half way up his calf and brown pants that tucked into them. "There, okay now -"

"I'm really sorry, I don't mean to be rude or anything but, do I have to wear a dress? I mean not that is not a lovely dress but I really don't like dresses and I feel awkward in them.

Holding up his hand Severus stopped Hermione from saying anymore. With a smile playing on his lips he answered "Its fine. Your mother was the same way. She hated dresses as well." Without another word he waved his wand at her again and Hermione's dress turned into a more feminine version of Harry's clothes, her shirt was still the same forest green as the dress but she had brown pants that like Harry tucked into her forest green boots that went up just blow her knee.

"Thank you."

Waving it off he started walking in the direction the two could only assume was the War Room. "So why is Harry able to hear things I couldn't?"

"Well its part of one of the questions Harry asked. Why don't you two look like me and why do you look like the parents you know. I can only explain part now but I will talk to you about it later. When Lily, myself and the other four made that plan on what would happen in our future I found a potion that would alter the looks and cover up any Elvin abilities until you were told who you really were. Now for elves have hearing about three hundred times better then any other magical creature. The potion is now giving back your looks and abilities. It takes about three days for it to take affect; it's been about 2 and half days since you were both told. Your bodies are about to go through some major changes so when you go two bed tonight I am going to give you a potion to keep you asleep for sixteen hours, an hour for each year you have been under the potion. It will help the potion go along and will also take away the pain. You will probably be sore when you wake up be considering how much your bodies change in that amount of time I wouldn't be surprised. I will tell you the rest later. We are here." Walking down the rest of a hallway the turned into Severus opened a door and walked through confidently.

A little more timidly Hermione and Harry also walked though the door. They were amazed at what they saw. The room was a little more than half of the Great Hall at Hogwarts. On the back wall was a ceiling to floor shelf filled with maps. To the right was table that had what looked like earth covering the top about an inch or so thick. To the left was a round stone table that could easily fit about one hundred elves. In a corner of the room was a little pool a bit bigger then a bird bath. What was most interesting was all the wood in the room looked to be living tree. There were holes in the walls where the tree branches came into the room. The tree made up the shelf holding the map with a slot for every map. It made up the chairs for the table with inter woven branches and it made up the stand that help up the bowl of water in the corner. Then there was branches out like it would be if you built a building tree. Just sticking out normally. It was incredible.

"Hello you two. Still with us?" Snapping out of their daze the closed their mouths and looked over at Severus who had a smirk on his face.

"How did you...this is....Gods ...can I...Wow."

Severus chuckled a bit at Harry's sentence, if you can call it that. "I will tell you later all about it, yes I know it is amazing it is, no I am not a God, yes you will learn how to do this and yes, I agree." Some laughing from behind their father brought Hermione and Harry to their senses.

Letting the two teens get their composure Severus started the meeting. Draco had already informed everyone why they were there so he decided to figure out what they were going to do about it. "Draco get me the map of Privet Drive please. Now Draco briefed you on why you are all here. This is my son and daughter, you will follow their orders as if the were my own understood?" After a few 'Yes Sir's' Severus after being handed the map started to look over the lay out of Privet Drive.

"Now this is the lay out around the house. I need you to all put concealment charms on your looks. You need to look like muggles except for three of you. Mera, Shar, and Zay I need you set up in trees around the house. Remember this is just a mortal so you don't need to bring all your weapons but you need to keep on your guard. I don't know what he has up his sleeve. Alright now the rest of you are to come with me. We are going to go in. If Vernon is there we are going to bring him in to wait trial, other wise we will come back to get him. Our main goal is to Petunia and Dudley out of there. Now do you know what they look like?" Seeing everyone nod he figured Draco must have got a photo from his album and continued.

"There are wards all around this block and more importantly the house. I know all wards and can get through them easily; Dumbledore gave me access to that area. Getting us all in their on the other hand is going to be a little difficult. He has probably found out that Harry is missing. Knowing him put up a few dozen more wards and has a few more Order of the Phinoex members on watch duty at all times. Now I believe you are all wondering why we can't just use are magic to appear in one of the rooms?" Pausing, he looked up to get a conformation after receiving it he went on.

"I believe that Albus has put a muggle device in each of the rooms of the house call a motion detector. He has modified it a bit to show on a piece of parchment he and a few other people have, which has suddenly appeared. He has been working on it for about a year now and with my help. It is practically flawless, except for one thing. People walking in through the front door don't get detected. How it does not pick those people up, neither of us were sure. That is where we need to come in through though. "

"Everyone with me so far? Okay good. Now I can take most of the wards down from a tree. Some of them though I am going to have to be in the street if all of you can look out for the Order members I can take care of the rest. When we are in I want those of you that are coming in to check the house first. Then if Vernon is not there you will start to pack Petunia and Dudley's things. Petunia's room is here." Angling the map so everyone could see it he pointed to a room on the map. "Dudley's room is here." Pointing to another room he started to end his plan. "We will then exit the house through the door, I will put the wards back up while the rest of you come back here and take Petunia and Dudley to the hospital and I will meet you back there. Anyone have any questions."

There was a moment of silence and Severus was about to end the meeting but then Hermione spoke up. "Where are Harry and I going to be though out this entire plan?"

Before anyone else could answer Draco spoke up. "You are stay here during this. It is our job, my job to protect you and Harry and there is no way in the seven hells you are going over to that house even if the Gods themselves escorted you. You are going to wait in that hospital room until one of us come and tell you your Aunt and cousin are here. I have enough to worry about with worrying about you two while I am at it."

"Why Malfloy I didn't know you cared, I'm flattered." When Harry said this he and Hermione began to dissolve in a fit of laughter. This for Harry quickly turned into a coughing fit. He was not as healed as he had first thought himself to be. Of course this was Harry and to him, he is always fine.

"It is my job to worry about your safety you stupid prat." When the other Elves heard this the all gasped and immediately stepped back. Their leader had just insulted a member of the Royal Family. Not knowing about the history between their commanding warrior and their Prince they started to worry about what would happen to their leader and friend, they did not know the new prince and anything could happen.

They let out a sigh of relief when the prince started chuckling though. "That's rich Malfloy. After everything you have done, not that I am completely innocent," Harry said this last part with an evil smirk on his face. "Still though, it does not really matter that you would worry about me while I was there or not. There are several wards around the house that I have personally put there this summer. Only I can take them down so I will have to go, and if Hermione wants to go I could always use the magical and personal support when taking them down."

Looking at Hermione Severus and Draco he noticed three identical looks of disbelief. Inside his head he was do a victory dance. He had always wanted to get the best of these three, as they always had him, but he had never imagined he could all at the same time. "What? You might want to close your mouths by the way; especially you Malfloy, the fish out of water look does not suit you." Harry leaned back in his chair and looked very bored, but in his mind he was laughing his arse off.

"Harry, number one, how did you do the wards without getting caught and number two, how in the BLOODY HELL did you put up any wards at all?! You are only sixteen! Do know how powerful you have to be to put up a proper ward? Do you know that you could have hurt yourself or even killed yourself putting up a ward by yourself for the first time? I mean Gods! It could have back fired and attracted what ever you were keeping away! What in the name of the Gods were you thinking?" Hermione had gotten up and starting pacing through her lecture. Severus was now looking in between Hermione and Harry with a smirk on his face, and Draco, well he was a little harder to read. He tried to put up a mask of indifference but his eyes gave away the curiosity, awe and what might have been respect he was giving Harry. The other elves in the room though looked a little curious and confused. They had no idea what was really going on having not grown up in the Wizarding World.

"Yes I know all the risks Hermione. I have read almost every book on wards during the summer. I also read up on wandless magic. That is how I was able to create the wards. Before you can go on about the wandless magic, it is practically untraceable. The Ministry deals with it so little that they do not look for under age children or even adults using it. I had been working on wandless magic from the day I walked into the Dursley's home this summer so I had everything under control. Besides its all done with and nothing has happened so you don't need to get your knickers in a twist," Harry finished with a little sigh.

Hermione was out raged. "Ah! But- uh you- that." She stuttered for another minute before she finally got something out, "Dad! Tell him he can't do that!" Before Severus could open his mouth Hermione had decided to take things into his own hands. "Harry it does not matter that everything went well! You still did it! It was illegal and you knew you could have gotten expelled, sent to Azkaban maybe worse yet you still did! "

"Hermione, its okay calm down. I can take care of it sit down before you wear a hole in the floor."Malfloy look as if he was about to explode with laughter from Harry and Hermione's banner.

"No Harry. You really could have gotten in a huge amount of trouble!" Hermione had a very troubled look on her face, as if a Ministry official would pop of the wall to arrest Harry.

"Hermione just drop it okay, its already been done. Okay? Can we just get my Aunt and cousin out my that house please lets just do this then you can berate me all you want. Lets just do this......."

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