Poppy Pomphrey couldn't believe what she had just heard. That boy…was Snape's son. She watched a tear escape from the Potion's Master's eye, roll down his cheek before falling onto the boy's forehead. She reeled back and gasped, catching the attention of the Professor who looked at her pointedly.
"Harry!" She gasped in realisation.
"Yes" Snape whispered looking back down at the boy. "I was shocked also"
"But how?" She asked.
"Undetectable glamour charm" Snape answered. "Still has her eyes though"
"He'll be ok Severus" Poppy told the Professor.
"I hope" Snape whispered.
"What's his true identity then?" She asked curiously.
"Hydrus Severus Orion Snape," He told her, a rare but small smile playing on his lips. "My son"
"I promise you Severus" The Medi-witch smiled warmly. "Give it a few hours and he'll be up and running again"
"Thank you Poppy" Snape said to the retreating healer.
He didn't wake up in a few hours, or days for that matter. It had been five days since the incident and Harry was still unconscious on the infirmary crib next to Draco's. Draco himself had waken up the day after the incident, he was still under watch and wasn't aloud to leave the infirmary. Every day the Potions Master came to the infirmary to check on both boys before and after lessons but neither Professor or student felt the same while the other boy still remained unconscious.
"Draco what happened?" Professor Snape finally asked after casting a silencing charm.
"My f-father" Draco whispered. "He managed to get into the school"
"How?" Snape hissed.
"I don't know, he wouldn't say." Draco croaked, staring out the window ahead from him. "He was demanding to know what happened to Harry in Potions and kept on beating me until I told him"
"Did you tell him?" Snape asked in a dangerously quiet voice.
"I l-lied to him, I told him that Harry never showed up" Draco dropped to a whisper again wiping his tears away.
"Why did you lie for him?" The Professor asked raising is voice in shock. "You could've been killed"
"He almost did kill me" Draco whispered. "I wanted to protect him, okay! I don't want my father to get him, to take him to the Dark Lord! I don't want to see him get hurt, much help that did"
"Lucius almost killed you?" Snape questioned.
"Yes, almost but their was a twig snap and he fled, I'm guessing the person who snapped the twig was Harry" Draco whispered.
"What time did he show up Draco?" Snape asked. "And where?"
"Two thirty five, between fourth and fifth lesson in the forbidden forest" Draco told him. "Is Harry going to be ok?"
"His name's not Harry anymore, it's Hydrus… and I really hope so Draco" Snape said before leaving the infirmary.
Walking from the infirmary, the Potions Professor walked down to his quarters in the dungeons and up to his study. Sitting at his desk and rifling through his draws and shelves he finally pulled out an old dusty book and slammed in down in front of him, flicking through the pages until landing on the correct one.
"Travel tempore" He smiled to himself. "Travel tempore ei cantah….ugh twelve years since I cast this spell"
He hadn't realised he had not finished casting the spell before speaking his thoughts quietly. His wand sent out a beam of purple light that began to surround him, he hadn't realised until he was engulfed and thrown back and landing in his chair again. He panicked and started darting his eyes around the room to take in his surroundings.
"What have I done?" He gasped realising his mistake.
"Severus?" a voice came from the fire.
Severus spun around to see a slightly younger Dumbledore fire calling him through the fireplace. He quickly straightened his robes out and walked to the fireplace.
"Yes Albus?" He asked.
"It is your responsibility to check on Harry for me if you will, I am out of the country and I need you to do it" Dumbledore said hopefully, expecting the Potions Master to refuse.
"Of course" Snape smiled.
"Thank you Severus" Dumbledore said bewilderedly, ending the firecall.
Exiting the room, Snape changed into a fresh set of clothes before apparating to Privet Drive, Surrey. Scanning the area, he began walking down the road, scoffing silently at the duplicated houses until he finally reached a house with the number four on the front. He stalked up the pathway and rapped violently on the door until a large, fat chubby man with a bristled moustache appeared scowling, who he then recognised as Vernon Dursley.
"What do you want?" The man snarled.
"If I were you Dursley, thankful that I aren't, I would let me in" Snape snapped pushing past the guy.
"Who do you think you are!" A female shrieked.
Snape slowly turned around to see a tall thin woman clutching an obese child who was almost the image of Vernon Dursley, he could only recognise them as Petunia and Dudley Durley.
"Snape?" Petunia gasped.
"Good to see you remember me, Tuney" Snape spat.
"What do you think you're doing here! I thought I'd seen the last of you as I had Lily!" Petunia screamed.
"I always knew you hated Lily but I never realised just how much until now" Snape said dangerously calm.
"Get out of my house" She snipped, tight-lipped.
"Not with out my son" The Potions Master growled. "Where's Harry?"
"In his room" Vernon smirked.
Snape went to go up the stairs but felt a tug on his robes, he looked down to see Dudley Dursley there shaking his head and pointing to the cupboard under the stairs. Shooting a confused and threatening glare at the pair he followed the five year old to the cupboard and unlocked the door. As he opened it a crack he was met by a heartbreaking cry.
"No! Uncle Vernon!" A young voice sobbed. "I'm sorry! I wont do it again just please don't hurt me!"
Snape flung the door open and ducked his head inside. Inside there was a camping bed with barely a mattress, a blanket and not even a pillow, propped up on the bed was a four year old Harry. The boy held his hand over his eye but Snape wasn't worried about that at the moment, all he could register was the amount of wounds he had obtained on his body, the cuts and bruises scarring his skin, the happy green eyes he usually saw were filled with fear and pain.
"Y-you're not U-Uncle Vernon" Harry stammered, almost in relief.
"No Harry, I'm not" Snape answered, smiling at the boy.
"Who are you then?" The young boy asked.
"I'm your dad" The man smiled warmly.
Without warning, Harry flung himself and the Potions Master and hugged him. His small, thin arms wound their way round his neck and clinged onto his robes tight, before pressing his small face against Snape's shoulder. Snape slowly wrapped his arms around the boy and kissed his forehead, whispering the simple spell the take off the glamour charm, letting the boys glasses fall onto the bed he lifted the boy up and carried him out of the cupboard and towards the front door where Petunia and Vernon were standing there horror-stricken. He shoved past them both, purposely elbowing Vernon in his overly too large beer belly and out towards the front gate where he turned to face them with a sinister grim.
"You're gonna pay" He whispered threateningly before apparating with a crack to Dumbledore's study.
Chapter five! Sorry its a bit short but I'm watching all the Harry Potter films before friday (when i'm seeing Harry Potter 5 minutes after school [takes me 15 minutes to walk to the bloody movies!])
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