Sorry for the long wait. I actually had finished this chapter before Christmas, but was hesitant to publish it because it is a little OOC. Tell me if you like it or not. Feedback is very much appreciated.

Disclaimer: I don't own HP, J.K Rowling does.

Harry

The brightness blinded my eyes. I blinked a few times; confused. I looked around at my surroundings. I was in a white room with chairs. It looked an awful lot like a hospital room. I groaned in exasperation. I can't even go a month without landing myself in the hospital. The events of the night came flooding back to me. Ginny had been put at wand point. 'Eye Patch' and I had quickly disarmed the man that had been behind Ginny and then we had stupified Sebastian again. But the third man that had been unconscious had snuck up on me. I think he had knocked me out with some kind of hex.

Ginny, who had been nodding off, looked at me.

"Thank God." She breathed when she saw that I was awake.

"How long have I been out?" I asked.

"Only half an hour. One of the Death Eaters threw a curse at you. I didn't hear what he said, but it mustn't have been anything serious. The nurse said everything looked fine." She took a deep breath.

"I was so scared though, Harry. For a second I thought you were dead. The hex made you spin in the air and crash into the table. It split in half. The mediwitch healed you all up, thank Merlin." I nodded and gave her a tiny smile. I pushed myself up so I could sit and saw a calendar behind her of Hogwarts. I groaned.

"Ginny, I'm so stupid!" I yelled out. Ginny looked at me in surprise.

"What?" She asked in confusion.

"I know where the children are. Albus wanted to go to Hogwarts with me yesterday but I needed to be alone. I think they're gone to Hogwarts to see Snape's portrait." I told her. I felt absolutely ridiculous. All these things to get our kidnapped children back and they weren't even kidnapped!

"They are grounded until they are thirty!" Ginny yelled out, teeth clenched and eyes narrowed.

"Come on." She said, pulling me out of the bed.

"The floo in the nurses' station is connected to the Hogwarts infirmary." She said, pulling me with her.

I grabbed my jacket, which was draped on one of the chairs and followed Gin to the nurses' station.

Albus

"Ah, I see; Potter's children. I know exactly why the three of you are here." He said; his voice low and dangerous.

"You do?" James exclaimed.

"Of course." Snape said with an air of indifference. My eyes narrowed and my heart pounded. The bastard, he knew all along!

"You've come to mock me of my past failures. Your father never had the guts to say it in my face. Now that I'm a portrait it is so much easier to mock me, now that here is nothing I can do about your insults. Isn't that right?" He said darkly with narrowed eyes.

"Did Potter tell you about my pensieved memories, hmm? Oh of course he did. And, what about Albus?" The potions master looked me in the eyes. "Did he tell you that I killed him? Or maybe..."

"Wait, what?" I said, confused now. I knew he was talking about Albus Dumbledore now, but I thought we had been talking about the same thing.

"Oh, he didn't tell you?" He purred. My skin crawled at the way his tone changed. From dangerous to deranged.

"This was a bad idea." I said to James. James gave me a small nod. Lily looked scared.

"Don't leave on my account. Please, do tell why you are here, disturbing my peacefulness. I believe your parents aren't aware of you being here. I'd suggest you tell me." His eyes held a hint of amusement. His intention had been to scare us and now, poor Lily looked like she might piss herself. Severus Snape was a Slytherin through and through.

"Of course." I said. "I'd like to start with names of course." I said slyly. An eyebrow lifted. He looked annoyed.

"This is my older brother; James Sirius."

Snape snorted. "Of course." He said with an eye roll. I pointed to my right.

"My little sister; Lily Luna." Something, an unidentifiable emotion crossed his face.

"Predictable." He said with a bored tone. Lily looked insulted and crossed her arms over her chest, her earlier fears forgotten.

"And I'm Albus Severus." The expression on his face was perfect. My name had the effect that I had wanted.

"What?" He spluttered. I could've laughed in his face at that moment, but that would've been quite rude.

"My father named me after two great headmasters, he told me. He said you were the bravest man he ever knew." He looked shocked and he was speechless. He looked like a fish out of water. But then his mouth shut with a loud click and his mask was back.

"Well? I'm still waiting for an explanation." He said quite impatiently.

"Rude." Lily muttered under her breath. Might as well be blunt, no point in going through the details.

"You're our grand-father." Again, this news had the desired effect. He was stunned speechless.

"What?" Lily's voice came from beside me. Her eyes were narrowed and she looked confused.

"James Potter is our grand-father, not him." She said, glaring at the still speechless man. Then like a storm came out of nowhere, the man was yelling at us.

"Out! Get out of here! Before I murder you all. This was a very cruel prank, even below your father and grand-father. Out!"

He looked murderous. Okay, so that wasn't the type of reaction I was expecting. The portrait started to shake and Lily let out a little squeal. Severus Snape looked murderous, even a little mental. We started running towards the headmasters' office. All the portraits started shaking and a few fell to the ground. I could see Snape stalking from one portrait to another, he was following us. I felt a sudden fear towards this man and now I understood why my father and uncles seemed intimidated by him, even scared. Uncle Ron had told me that he had almost burst into tears when he had them almost expelled for flying the Ford Anglia to school. Portraits fell all around us and one almost hit James on the head. This man was powerful, even after his death.

"Stop!" I yelled out in desperation. We weren't going to make it to the headmasters' office without one of us being knocked out.

"Don't you see the resemblance?" I yelled out as a last resort.

"I look just like you did and James has black eyes!" The portraits started to shake even more. I took Lily's hand in mine and ran faster. The staircase started to move and for a few moments we were safe from the falling portraits. The people in the portraits were protesting loudly and Snape just kept walking, his cloak billowing behind him. He reminded me of a deranged version of Batman or of an overgrown bat. I'm pretty sure that if he were still alive, we would be dead. Maybe I should've eased into telling him. It probably would have been better to tell him about the diary and shown him the picture I had tucked into my pocket. Then he could've seen the resemblance. I felt defeated; I messed up our chance to get to know our grand-father, even if he was only just a portrait.

Harry

We flooed to the Headmaster's office. Everything was quiet except for a few soft snores coming from the portraits. They were still sleeping. If felt odd being back here again. Other then my last year at Hogwarts and meeting with the Headmistress a handful of times, I hadn't been up here. Everything was as Albus had left it except for a few knick knacks that Minerva had added. (She insists that I call her by her given name). I snapped my head towards the door when I heard a loud bang, followed by more bangs. It sounded like there was a battle going on. Ginny and I started running down the steps and out of the office. We headed towards the sound. It sounded like it was coming through the great hall. I hoped it was just Peeves fooling around. But when we got to a hallway there were portraits falling everywhere. Albus and Lily ran into me and almost knocked me over. I was relieved they were here, but I was also quite angry. But now was not the time for anger; I realised that James wasn't with them.

"Where's James?" I asked Albus. He looked puzzled and looked behind himself.

"He was just behind me." He exclaimed. Ginny looked up and around us and started running up the stairs. The portraits stopped falling and there was an abrupt silence. Ginny stopped in her tracks but then started running again.

"What happened?" I asked my two frightened children. They both started speaking at once and all I caught was Albus saying:

"...and then he went ballistics!"

"Who?" I asked.

"Snivellus Snape." He said and I flinched. I'd only told him of that name when talking about the Marauders' rivalry with Snape.

"What did I say about that name? He deserves more respect than that." I told him sternly. He scowled and harrumphed.

"Well he almost killed us with the damned portraits!" He exclaimed.

"He did this?" I asked surprised. Portraits, as far as I knew, couldn't make any physical objects move. They could sing and almost blast your ear drums, but not move anything in the material world. Albus and Lily nodded frantically.

"Harry!" I heard my wife's frantic voice call out. My heart started pounding at her tone and I ran to where I had seen her go. James was lying face down on the ground, portrait splinters all around him. I ran to my son's side and turned him over. He groaned. I let out a breath I didn't know I had been holding.

"It's alright." I soothed.

"What happened?" He asked, looking around himself.

"A portrait must've fallen on you. We'll get you to Saint-Mungo's. It's alright."

"My head hurts." He groaned. I picked him up into my arms. He was still so small.

"And my arm." He paused and looked up at me. "And my back." Another pause. "My nose hurts an awful lot too." He added. His nose did look like it had been broken. He went to reach out for it.

"Don't touch it." I said quickly and he pulled his hand quickly away. He gave me a puzzled look.

"It looks like it may be broken." I carried him to the headmaster's office and then handed him to Ginny. She gave me a puzzled look.

"I need to have a talk with somebody." I said angrily. And then I turned to the kids.

"All of you are grounded until you are ninety." I said angrily. Albus and Lily groaned. James looked like he was going to pass out.

"Stay awake, James." Ginny shook him a little and his eyes flew open. I waited until they were all gone before I went in search of Snape.

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