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Summary: A girl from Harry's past is now Snape's newfound daughter. Later a Snape adopts Harry story! Also, Harry will have a whole new family. HPGW RWHG DMOC SSOC! Plz. give the story a try. May or not later be a HD spoiler! You have been warned!
A/N: Thanks a lot for the reviews! I appreciate it! The meeting between Harry and April will be around Ch. 10.
Selena/April will be April from Sev's. P.O.V.
This chapter contains DH spoilers!!! Even though very little.
Chapter 6: The Attack and Surprises!
"So, will it be alright if I come to live with you. And I would love to come to Hogwarts. I mean it's not everyday one finds out that they're magical. Or have a father for that matter."
Severus watched Selena with raised eyebrows as she babbled on. "Uh Huh." He said.
Selena must have realized that she was rambling because she stopped and blushed and muttered a soft apology.
"Well, I had the Manor cleaned out and there is a room all set out for you. Now it's just the matter for good-byes and your things. I am just waiting for you to be all ready." Severus said.
After meeting with Eveline two days ago, he had gone to Prince Manor, since no one knew if it existed and had his and a couple borrowed from Hogwarts' house elves clean out the entire house and had already prepared a room for April herself.
Eveline chose that moment to step in the room.
"So, Selena are you ready to go." She said.
Selena stood up. "I'll just grab my things." With that she went upstairs to her room.
"I am so glad that you haven't bailed on us." Eveline said as she sat down across from Severus.
"There was no way I was going to let her or you down. I am very happy to finally get to know and meet her."
Eveline smiled. Severus would make a good father even if he didn't know it yet.
"Oh I forgot to tell you. I have been given the position of becoming the professor of the Defense Against the Dark Arts. So as you know, my old position is still empty and when I told Albus about Savvy and April and you and of having a child, well the first thing he said was that you were very good at Potions. So, I wouldn't be surprised if he contacted you for that position. Just warning you."
"Really!" Eveline said, "that's great, I am sure that I'll just love it! But don't tell Selena, I want it to be a surprise."
"Sure, why not but just giving you an advice, the children are complete dunderheads and wouldn't be able to create even a single potion even if their life dependent on it." Severus said and Eveline started to laugh.
"If you both are done talking I'd like to go please." Selena said as she entered the room holding two bags and a couple more suitcases were lying on the ground.
"How much stuff are ya taking there? Don't forget, you still live here." Eveline said as she eyed Selena's things.
"I know, mum, don't worry this barely has all of my things." She replied grinning and Eveline sighed.
Severus went to the luggage, took out his wand and muttered something, making the things disappear.
"I have sent the things to the Prince Manor and they'll be set in your room when we get there. So, let's go whenever you're ready."
Selena asked. "Mum, would it be ok if I tell Kitty of magic."
Eveline and Severus looked at each other and then Eveline said, "That's fine, Len."
"Good, please give this letter to her. And tell her that I'll be in touch."
Eveline took the offered letter and hugged her daughter.
"Take care and be good. Listen to your father and if there is any problem, owl me, alright."
Selena said, "I'll be good. You just take care of yourself and don't worry I promise to owl you everyday. Well, maybe twice a week."
Eveline kissed Selena on the cheek and bowed slightly to Severus, who returned it.
"Take care of my daughter, Severus."
"I will take care of our daughter" Severus said stiffly and took Selena's hand as he got out a small magazine from his robes. "This is our portkey."
Selena grasped it and she watched her mother until everything swirled around her and a moment later she was standing in an old abandoned road with Severus, her house and mother gone.
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The next day Harry's aunt and uncle had left for Aunt Marge's as they had said, leaving Dudley behind. He hoped that they'd be gone for a long time.
Now it was just Dudley and him. Surprisingly, Dudley hadn't done anything to Harry besides ignoring him, for the most part.
After a couple hours of Harry baiting which involved him trying to get to Harry in vain, Dudley had taken more liking to playing his games and watching whatever he could on the telly 'without being bossed by dad' his exact words.
Almost three days had passed since his uncle and aunt had left. Dudley was being an annoying prat.
"Hey Potter," Dudley stuck his head in Harry's room.
"What do you want, Dud." Harry replied.
"You wanna hang out with me and Piers." Dudley said
"What!" Harry was startled. Clearly Dudley was drunk.
"You heard me." His cousin replied.
"Are you alright! I mean did you hit your head." Harry said even though he knew that this was no fun chat.
"If that's the way you want but you will still hang out with us. If not now." With his nose in the air, Dudley went out of the room.
He left Harry confused. What in the world was that? Dudley hadn't been kind just strange. But if there was one thing Harry knew it was to be very cautious when his cousin acts peculiar like right now.
So the rest of the day passed as Harry studied and his cousin did whatever he does.
By nightfall, Harry was very tired and very hungry. Dudley's brain worked as much as he did, which was none. He had remembered to give harry breakfast (which included bread, beans and a glass of water and milk) and had become way too busy to even think of Harry later.
Harry sighed and stood up. Going to the door, he yanked at the knob only to find it locked. Ugh! The Dursley's were driving him nuts. He knew that his uncle has given Dudley the key just to spite Harry.
So, he went and lay on his bed. Sleep wouldn't come easily, he knew. Most nights he was up because of Sirius and other night because of Voldemort. Surprisingly, after about an hour, Harry was able to fall asleep.
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The fat boy waited. He waited for hours to make sure that his freaky cousin was asleep. Then he would give him the surprise of his life.
He put his ear to the door. Potter was muttering something. A good sign since he was always mumbling in his sleep. Dudley slowly unlocked the first lock.
He motioned his friends to be quiet, behind him. It would do no good, if his cousin woke up. Cautiously, the second lock was done. Usually, Dudley wouldn't care to be quiet but he knew that his cousin kept his wand in his bedside table. It would do no good to have his cousin reach the wand before Dudley got it. He had seen where Potter kept his wand before, a couple nights ago.
Dudley had no light, since he didn't want his friends to see all his cousin's freaky things. After he unbolted the last and seventh lock he waited calmly and opened the door. He had oiled it this morning and so it opened like a charm. On the left-hand side, the owl cage lay empty.
Dudley tiptoed towards his cousin's bed, which was two steps away. Harry was curled up, facing the other side.
He smiled and reached out his gloved hand and almost afraid, picked up the wand. Nothing happened. It felt just like a stick and Dudley had the sudden urge to break this wand in half. It was all because of this wand and its magic that they had to deal with Potter. He fought the urge to break it and tucked the wand in a bag, in his pocket.
He pointed his finger to his cousin. Piers and Thomas quietly came and woke Potter with a jerk.
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Selena looked around as she landed in a daze. She would have fallen down if Severus hadn't reached out and steadied her.
Without another word, he turned and she followed him as he walked away. For a while, she kept quiet, but as she was about to speak, he spoke first.
"I would like to call you April, instead of Selena." Severus said without looking back.
"That's fine. I was practicing being called by that name," Selena/April replied, "it's different but I'll get used to it. How come your house is so far away?"
"We are only taking the further route so that no one can spot us and we are walking so that no one can detect our presence instead of apparating or portkeying. However, after we get inside the wards, you will be free to do anything you want."
And so they walked again in silence. After about half and hour, Severus stopped and took out his wand. He cast his patronus. It was a doe. The young female doe went through ahead of them and just as she stepped in a clearing about 50 yards ahead of them, a large castle appeared.
Selena stopped in her tracks, the music from her mini-player, ignored.
"Wow! This is amazing! You must be filthy rich." After she composed herself she blushed, "I didn't mean it in a weird way, just amazed."
But Severus had stopped listening. He seemed to be in deep thought.
He turned back and gaped at April.
"What?" April/ Selena said, the music still blaring in her ears from the earphones.
"Your music player is electronic, am I correct."
April nodded.
"Then how is it that it is working in my home." Severus said as he plucked the player from his daughter.
"I don't understand." April says.
"The wards around this place don't allow anything electronic to work. How is it that this music system is working here?"
Just as the music player was off April and in Severus' hands it stopped playing. Startled Severus took it and touched it to April and it started working again, when he removed it from her it stopped.
"Wow!" April said, "How is it doing that? How can I make it work like that?"
"I don't know but I'll look into it and maybe ask Albus."
Severus entered the dark wooden oak doors leading off of the pathway. The garden around the area was beautifully tended and everything looked perfect from outside. April couldn't wait to get in or see her room.
They stepped inside the main circular entrance room. There were dark blue couches circling the area with a small round deep red table in the middle. The floor was covered with deep blue rugs and red throw rugs and the walls was painted a light cream color. Overall the sitting room was very beautifully designed with different flowers and lamps at every corner tables.
"This is beautiful." April said.
Severus frowned a bit. "Not my decorations," He said and added slowly, "or my type."
Right behind the dining room was a great staircase leading to a second story. On the either sides of the staircase were two doors. Severus led April through one of them and April stopped in shock. There was a HUGE oval table lined with about twenty chairs.
Suddenly the air vibrated around them. "What was that?" April asked but Severus ignored her.
"I'll show you the other rooms later, for now, however, Milli, Mona, Ruby, Tony, Pressi." Severus called out and five elves popped in front of them. "These are my very loyal and trustworthy elves. I want you to pick one who will be helping you around the house and anything else you might need."
The elves beamed at Severus and April. Severus had taken the liberty to tell them about April.
April looked around at the elves. All of them looked very similar to each other except one. Ruby. Her skin was slightly darker and she looked younger.
"Will it be ok if I pick Ruby?" April said and all the other elves gave her a good bye and popped out again. Severus nodded.
Ruby beamed at her mistress. "Ruby is happy to serve young Miss Snape."
Uncomfortable April said, "Please call me April."
"Yes mistress."
"Ruby, I want you to show April to her room and get her settled in." Severus looked at April. "I have to go meet someone and I'll be back in a couple hours. There is a small pond outside you can go swimming in, garden in the back and there are horses in the back. If there is anything else you require feel free to ask Ruby. Ruby, April is allowed to go anywhere she likes except the doors that are locked, so take care of her. I have to go."
Severus went towards the fireplace.
"Oh and one more thing. There is a white line around this property. DO NOT go outside it, understand." He waited until April nodded before clasping her hand and kissing it lightly.
"Take care and be good. I'll see you soon."
April smiled at him and he disappeared with a flash of green flame.
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Severus flooed to his lab at Snape Manor. He stepped out of his office and went to the sitting room, where he two familiar people sitting there.
"Narcissa, Draco" Severus drawled putting on a smirk, "To what do I owe this pleasure."
Narcissa Malfoy stood up not a hair out of place, and was imitated a heartbeat later by Draco.
"Oh, Severus," Narcissa said going close and giving him her hand to kiss, "Can't I come see my son's godfather."
"Of course, you can, Narcissa, but who I am sure you're not here by any casual means." Severus raised an eyebrow.
"Never Sev dear, I was here because I have a favor to ask of you. I want you to take care of Draco, here, for me. As you know, Malfoy Manor is always visited by our…friends, so I want you to take him and keep him safe. I fear that after Lucius' mistake last year, our Lord would want to punish my dear Draco." Narcissa said.
"It will be my pleasure to safeguard my godson, Narcissa." Severus inclined his head as a bow.
"I am so glad you agreed, Severus, I had a feeling you might." Narcissa Malfoy said and turned to her son. "Darling Draco, I want you to obey Severus since you shall be staying with him for the rest of your holidays. At Christmas, try and stay at Hogwarts, if you are unable to then I will be expecting to see you then."
Draco nodded slightly. "Of course mother. I will try and keep away from other Death Eaters and their children."
Narcissa nodded stiffly at her son and patted his hair down with one hand, the only loving gesture she had made. Then she surprised Severus by coming forward and kissing him lightly on his cheek.
"I fully expect that you will take good care of my son," She moved forward and whispered softly, "if I will be unable to." She went towards her son and kissed him on the head and with a flash of powder, she was gone.
"Mr. Malfoy," Severus said as he turned towards his godson, "Are you ready to follow me and behave as is expected out of you."
"Professor," Draco snipped back, "More than ever."
Severus raised an eyebrow, "Since when am I your professor during the summer holidays?"
"Since when do you call me Mr. Malfoy during the summer hols?"
Severus smiled (A/N: A shocker I know!), "Always up to something aren't you Draco."
Draco smiled back and hugged his god father, albeit stiffly.
"Uncle Sev, you are going to give me up to anyone, right?" Draco looked up at Severus.
"Since when have you started doubting me, Draco?"
"That's not true," Draco protested biting his lip, "I am just worried. About mum and I and you know it."
"Don't worry, Dragon" Severus used Draco's nickname, "I won't let anyone near you. Now I am going to take you to the Prince Manor. So stay close."
Severus pulled Draco through the fireplace and they flooed to the Prince Manor.
As they stepped out of the floo, Severus let Draco go.
"Do anything you want until dinner, but don't be late. I'll see you later." With that Draco swept out of the room to his.
Severus called Ruby and she popped in an instant.
"What can Ruby do for Master Snape?"
"Where is April?" He asked.
"Mistress is in the pond in the backyard, swimming."
"Hmm, tell me when it is time for dinner and also get Draco and April. I will be in my workroom."
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April had loved her room. It was a soft aqua color. The bed sheets were light silver and the window overlooked the garden and the pool. Which was when she decided to go swimming. It was an urge she just couldn't stop. So, before paying attention to anything else, she found her swim-suit and asked Ruby to take her to the pool.
As dusk fell around the place the rocks glowed from under the water and in the side of it. Soon night fell and April was so lost in swimming, she didn't notice a pale boy who was standing near the hedges watching her.
Draco had been watching the girl for about half an hour. He didn't know who she was but she was gorgeous. Of course she was no Pansy but seemed less flirtatious and lusty than Pansy.
She had closed her eyes and was lying in the grass, her towel covering her.
"Who are you?" A voice said startling April. She shrieked and bundled the towel towards her. (A/N: April has her bathing suit on, for all you gutter minds there!)
"Who the hell are you?" April said as she glared at the boy in front of her.
"That was my question. And for your information the Head of the Manor is my godfather." Draco said.
Suddenly an idea came in April's mind.
"Really," she said pretending to be lost, "I had no idea. I must have been lost. Would it be ok if I meet the Head of House? You see I just love this little pond here."
Draco frowned. "I suppose so."
April got up and followed Draco up the same way she had come to the pool. When they got to the Dining Room, they found Severus sitting there waiting for him.
"Umm, Uncle Sev," Draco said indicating to April, "I found her in our pond. She said she was lost."
Severus opened his mouth to correct him when April winked at him from behind Draco's back.
"So, I am Draco and this is Severus, owner of the Manor. And you are?" Draco stuck his hand out.
But before April could speak, Severus cut in.
"Oh, Draco this is my daughter."
"WHAT!"
And so, Severus and April spent the next two hours eating dinner and filling Draco up on everything that had happened. However, Severus skipped some parts like not telling Draco that it was Narcissa who had killed Savvy's twin.
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Two days had passed since April met Draco and now they were getting splendidly. Draco told April all about Hogwarts, Quidditch and the four houses. And to April's amusement, he had said that Slytherin was the only house worth going in, from his point of view.
The third evening, April was in the Sitting Room and she was rapidly listening as Draco told her about the Ministry of Magic. Severus was sitting in his incliner, single person couch glaring balefully at the two teens as their voices started to become louder, interrupting him from reading the latest Saving Potions for Life.
Suddenly a loud crack was heard through the room and Draco and April stopped talking as a fiery-golden bird appeared in the room.
Severus put his book down and extended his arm in the direction of the bird, and she dropped a slip on his hand and disappeared with another crack.
Draco softly whispered in April's ear, "The bird was Dumbledore's phoenix. I wonder what it's doing here."
Severus unrolled the parchment and slowly read its contents. With a growl he stood up, unexpectedly, his book falling from his lap.
He stalked across the room and stuck his head in the fireplace after throwing the floo in.
"ALBUS," he roared loudly, "I am not going to be a guard for the bloody boy-who-lived."
Severus was quiet for a minute and then pulled his head back from the fireplace, sighing.
"Draco, I have to go for some business," Severus said as he looked at his wards. "Stay here and take care of April. If there is some emergency, I want you to tell Milli and floo directly to Hogwarts, my dungeons. I'll meet you there as soon as possible."
"Severus," April said hesitantly, "is something wrong."
"No, I just have to do a favor for Albus. I'll be back by mid-morning."
Draco and April nodded.
"We'll be fine."
"Good" and with that Severus took his cloak and swept of the porch into the dark night.
"Will he be ok?" April asked Draco.
He nodded. "Yeah, it's just that he has to take guard for Potter."
April nodded but there was a confused recognition in her eyes, but it passed quickly before she could put her hand on it.
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Harry gasped sleepily as two hands grabbed his arms and pulled him upright.
What the hell was happening? He thought sleep still muddling his mind. Was it the Death Eater?
However, sleep suddenly evaded him as he saw himself look straight at his cousin.
"Dudley, what in the world are you doing?" Harry found himself say.
"Shut up, Potter." Dudley said, as he stepped forward, "this is payment time."
Dudley pulled out Harry's wand.
"Give it back, Dudley. It's doesn't belong to you." Harry struggled to get out of the iron fists that were holding him.
Dudley glared at him. Dudley pulled out a blind fold and put it on Harry's eyes, then he pocketed Harry's wand and glasses, took from the side table.
"Come on." Dudley's friends followed him, with Harry in between.
Harry had no idea where they were going. But he knew that they were outside on the streets since he heard the door closed. They walked for ten minutes and Harry heard someone open another door with the softest noise.
He was pushed inside and he hit his knee in the table or something of that sort. Then he heard another door open and he again felt the breeze, which made him realize that they again were outside.
"Alright Potter," he heard Dudley say close to him and then Dudley yelled. "SURPRISE."
Harry felt himself being pushed and he fell forward and finally hit the surface of water. And he sank and sank. The force of the fall ripped the blindfold off his face and he quickly swam upward when he saw dark figures around him. They grabbed him and pulled him downward, away from the surface.
Harry struggled hard. He couldn't breathe. He saw dark black spots in front of his eyes and then the dark figures let him go. Harry pulled himself up to the surface, and started to gasp. Air, sweet air filled him as he gasped and heaved. He looked up and saw no one. Suddenly a scary feeling filled him. He went and pulled himself off of the ladder and onto the ground. He was still heaving.
But a bad thought filled him. Where was Dudley? He looked inside the pool. He could see figures still in the water. Struggling with an invisible force. What the hell?
And Harry realized. When he was struggling under water, he must have unleashed some kind of a defensive power.
Harry tried to calm down, hoping that the magic will come off.
A few heartbeats later he saw the figures stop struggling as they started to come up. Harry looked down and made sure that no one was hurt and everyone was breathing.
(A/N: This is what really happened because I wrote it a bit confusing: Dudley and friends take Harry to another person's house and try to drown him in their pool but Harry does accidental magic and traps Dudley and gang. So now he's trying to save them and make sure that they didn't drown.)
Harry got up and wrung out his clothes and since they were too big for him. He saw Dudley's sweatshirt and went over to pick it up. From inside the pockets, he took out his wand and glasses.
Ahhh, he thought, clarity. As he slipped his glasses on. He could make out Piers and Thomas getting out of the pool and pulling Dudley with them.
Oh uh!
"Potter, I will kill you!!!" Dudley got up quickly and slipped on the tiles. Others started coming out of the pool.
Harry saw everyone come towards him and he ran. He ran through the back door of the deserted house and after crashing into the table, again, he ran out the front gate and into the street.
He could hear Dudley shouting after him, but his cousin was pretty slow. Harry ran hard and fast into the forest where he had taken refuge before from his cousin. Harry finally slowed with a stitch in his side and made sure that he had lost Dudley.
His breaths came in huge gasps. Suddenly he heard something behind him. A soft rustle. Harry turned around. Was it Dudley and his gang?
Harry took a last gulp of breath and started running again. He heard someone curse behind him but he wasn't about to give the person the satisfaction of doubt. Harry ran fast and the trees flew by him.
Harry was running so fast that he didn't see it until it was too late and he tripped and fell into the hole, hitting his arm on the rock that stopped his fall.
"Ahh!" A low groan escaped Harry's lips as his left arm hit the rock with a loud, sickening thump.
He lay there for a couple seconds and he saw a pair of boots step right up, next to his head and someone grabbed the front of Harry's shirt and pulled him up.
Harry gasped as his hand fell limply across his side. He looked up and pulled out his wand from his pocket with his uninjured hand without letting the Death Eater in front of him notice.
"Potter," the man with the black hood said gleefully. "Just what I was looking for."
Harry had his wand out in a second, "STUPFEY"
The Death Eater fell backwards unconscious.
"MRUTGEY" A voice yelled and a heartbeat later Harry saw five Death Eater come and surround him.
The unconscious Death Eater lay at Harry's feet.
Suddenly a familiar voice cackled pulling out the anger in Harry.
"OHHHH! We got the jackpot. Why it's the little itsi bitsi Potter."
"You!" Harry's voice thundered in his ears.
"Ohhh! Are you gonna try and kill the nice lady." Bellatrix Lestrange taunted him.
"Arggghh! EXPELLIARMUS." Harry growled angrily.
Bellatrix quickly 'PROTEGO'ed it.
Harry quickly sent an 'AVIS' towards her and a flock of birds attacked her, biting her on the face and arms.
Harry saw another curse come at him from the third Death Eater, but he was too late to stop it and Harry felt the cutting curse and his side started to bleed. Harry knew that this will be a defeat and he produced a shield and backed away. But a quick FLAGRATE stopped him as he found himself surrounded by a ring of fire.
Harry turned, swaying a bit from the blood loss, to face all the six Death Eaters (Bella had blasted the curse away and the man Harry had stupfied, was revived again.)
But before Harry could say a curse, a string of curses came at his attackers and attacked them from everywhere.
All but two produced a shield and the unfortunate two were as if by an invisible force tied up and pulled from their feet and they hung from the tree.
Harry was as surprised by the mystery attack as the remaining Death Eaters were.
Bellatrix quickly moved towards Harry and without thinking he shouted EXPELLIARMUS and she hit the closest tree and fell unconscious. The other Death Eaters shot curses at Harry and another mysterious string of curses hit the Death Eaters and they all became tied from the trees, their wands falling on the grassy floor. Bellatrix jumped up and hit Harry with three curses, before she too was dangling from the tree. Harry blocked the first two and fell forward when he felt the third hit him from behind.
Harry vision swam and he saw someone lean over him and pick him up. Harry gasped as his broken left arm dangled in the air and felt someone adjust it as everything became black.
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Severus cast a disillusionment charm on himself and disapparated to Magnolia Street and walked over Privet Dr.
Outside No. 4, Privet Dr., Severus peered around the house. He looked at the neatly cut grass and shrubs. In the backyard he found a garage and again found the neatly cut grass.
He went back at the front and leaned against the tree right across from No. 4 Privet Dr.
Severus stayed there for half an hour, when he noticed a lamp light switch on in the room upstairs. Severus saw some figures move and the lamp was switched back off. A minute or two later he saw five boys hanging between them Potter. Potter's eyes were blindfolded and Severus decided to follow them.
A few minutes later, Severus saw the fat boy, Potter's cousin, from the memories he had seen last year, open the door quietly. The other boys and Potter were rushed inside.
Instead of following them, Severus went to the side, near the fence that surrounded the backyard. He heard the doors open and assumed that Potter was with them.
Seconds later he heard someone yell, "SURPRISE," and instead of going to see what was going on, Severus ignored them.
So, Severus thought disgustedly, they were throwing Potter a surprise party. How sweet!
Severus turned away revolted by these muggles and went back to his post outside the house where he could hear no one surely doting on Potter. The last thing he needed was a bigheaded Potter, not that his head could get any bigger with all that arrogance.
Severus had to wait five minutes maximum before he saw a running Potter. He was fully wet and running.
Oh great, Severus thought and started to follow his charge. Potter was fast for a boy his age, and size. Severus heard Potter's cousin bellow a threat as he tried to run after him.
Severus tried to keep Potter in his line of sight. By the time he reached Potter, they were both in the depths of the forest. He pulled his cloak out of a twig that it had gotten stuck on. It came off swiftly, but he saw Potter stiffen and had no doubt that the boy had heard this as he started running.
Snape cursed softly and saw the boy run faster. This was going to be long.
He ran, quickly and tried to find Potter. How was it that in one second, the boy had disappeared and probably managed to find himself in trouble?
Severus cursed again and put up a silencing charm, so that he wouldn't make any noise whatsoever.
Then he walked forward and saw a trail of water droplets. Potter had been wet. It took Snape about two minutes and then he stopped because he saw a rock covered in moisture. Potter must have fallen, Severus presumed, also there was a small hole anyone could have tripped on. Then suddenly he saw the fire start right in front of him.
Severus realized that Potter must have been in trouble and so he muttered a quick charm and slipped through the fire unharmed. What he saw made him stop. Potter, bleeding was surrounded by six Death Eaters. Severus muttered a series of charm and ended it with a curse so that his charms would seem to look like they were coming from all directions. However, his curse only stopped two.
It tied Avery and Crabbe up in a tree as Severus had anticipated his curse to. He saw Potter EXPELLIARMUS Bellatrix Lestrange and render her unconscious. The other three turned towards Potter again and Severus again repeated his charms.
All five were hanging now, but Severus had let one mistake slip because he saw Lestrange point her wand at Potter and he fell forward. A second later she too was hanging from the tree.
Severus quickly STUPFIED the Death Eaters and OBLIVIATED them, so that they would have no memory of what had occurred tonight. Even if they, by any chance, were able to reverse the curse, they still wouldn't have known who or what had hit them.
In a moment he was next to Potter.
Should he awaken the boy to see if he could move or simply carry him? Severus decided on the latter. He reached across and picked Potter up, who seemed to be semi-conscious. However, the second he had Potter in his arms, the boy cried out and Severus chided himself in forgetting the boy's injured arm.
After slowly readjusting it, he saw that Potter had fallen unconscious. Disgusted with the boy to cause so much trouble, Severus Snape disapparated from Privet Dr. to Prince Manor.
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A/N: Finally I am done. I hope everyone enjoys this chapter.
CLARIFY: Lucius is in Azkaban. Sirius is dead. Harry and April/Selena will meet in the next chapter!
So enjoy and wait for the next chapter. I will try to post it soon!!!
Bye for now!