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Chapter 4: Miranda and Severus

Severus was startled by the bellow of James Potter, and replied with equal fervor.

"How the hell should I know!?!" Severus then turned to Lily, his surrogate sister and tried to explain.

"Lily, this is the first time I met your youngest. I have no idea what's happening. Do you?"

Lily Potter was bewildered and staring at her surrogate brother, and just replied to Severus with a blank stare.
She was about to tell him that she also had no....when the door to the room opened suddenly.

The room opened and closed and with it entered a brunette woman around the same age as the Potter parents and Severus.
The woman had piercing blue eyes, but was still very pretty. The woman's name was Miranda, the throat specialist and best friend of Lily Potter. She was also (ahem) the love interest of one Potion Master named Severus Snape.

Contrary to popular belief, Severus did find himself a girlfriend and got married. That was actually one of the reasons he quit Hogwarts, he wanted to spend more time with his wife.

Currently the wife Miranda was now looking at the the happenings around the Potter family. She heard the bellows of one James Potter and her husband that she hurried her steps in approaching the Potter room. She was just thinking of intervening assuming that the boys were having their usual squabbles, but she saw something unexpected and surprising of her Severus who had sworn off brats and having anything to do with them besides his two "lovely" sons. Severus's twin sons were more than enough for him, thank you very much. They were the two most scheming cunning children he had the fortune to ever know and be related to. The Snape twins were always planning some diabolical plan to create chaos.

Back to Miranda, "Hi Sev, I didn't know you were that close with Harry. I thought this was your first meeting."

Miranda then proceeded to approach Harry, who was still squeezing Severus and sniffling. Sniffling....

"Severus Snape, what did I tell you about scaring little children?"

Miranda then miraculously separated Harry and Severus; and gave the little child a hug.

"What's the matter, dear? Don't let mean old Severus scare you. He's all bark but no bite."

The now separated Severus was indignant.

"Mira! I didn't do anything. He was the one who instigated the whole event, and he was hugging me. For all we know, he cried because of some 'mean old' Potter here."

While Mira was hugging Harry, Harry was snapped out of his memories by the foreign person hugging him. Harry then backed out of the hug, sniffled, turned to the dozing Snuffles and hugged him instead like a giant teddy bear that's bigger than him. Harry's wet face was now pressed against the comforting shaggy fur of Snuffles. His arms were clutching the furs down the sides of the dog he could reach, because Harry was too small to actually encircle the dog and touch the dog's tummy.

Miranda let Harry loose, then took out her wand.

"Oh Sev, let's do this later. For now, I have to take care of Harry here. Let's see the problem, shall we?"

Miranda then proceeded to wave her wand, producing another blue colored spell that specifically surrounded Harry's throat. Miranda then closed her eyes, inspecting Harry's throat with the spell she did. The spell made it possible for her to see the problem on Harry's throat.

After that, Miranda opened her eyes and muttered another spell. Now a green light surrounded Harry's throat.

Harry felt the magic on his throat and squeezed Snuffles more for comfort. The dog snuffles hardly felt the squeeze due to his master's small stature and respective body strength, and proceeded to doze off on the bed.

After Miranda was done, she turned to Lily. "Hey Lils, everything's going to be fine. I repaired Harry's vocal chords, but I put a stasis spell on his throat that will last for 1 week. The stasis spell is there to make sure that Harry won't be doing any more damage to his throat while it's still fairly weak. After the week is up, everything will be right as rain and you'll have you're regular little chatterbox Harry. So in the mean time, Harry can't talk for a week. Just give him a notebook so he can communicate. I know you've enrolled him in a muggle school, so just inform his teacher that his throat was damaged and he can't talk for a week. Oh I know!" Mira waved her wand at Harry again, and a white bandage proceeded to wrap around Harry's whole neck.

"See, the bandage will make it more believable to the muggles. Harry's teacher and other muggle kids will always be aware. Don't worry, the bandage is also water proof and provides protection for him against other sharp objects that could get near his neck. It will also conveniently disappear after a week."

Lily replied with a grateful smile and said. "Thanks Mira! Can we step outside for awhile, I just have to consult you with something."

"Of course Lily! Sev!" Miranda turned to her husband and said, "You also come along with us, so we can tell you what potions Harry will be requiring. And there won't be anymore childish fights here." Mira was eyeing both her husband and James while saying this.

"Oh alright Mira! But just to clear this up, I didn't start anything."

Severus, Miranda and Lily then went outside the room, leaving only the five Potter males.

After the three medical professionals left, Samuel the second to the youngest Potter child approached Harry. Sam saw that his little brother Harry was asleep. The littlest Potter just cried himself to sleep. Sam felt a pang towards his brother and wiped the tear tracks on Harry's perfect little face with a soft handkerchief he always carried around. Sam then spoke quietly.

"I'll stay here for now, you three go outside so Harry could rest. Don't worry Dad, I'll take care of Harry for today. You three can go home." Sam softly stated.

"Okay Sam, take care of the little dude for us." John the other Potter twin replied in a whisper.

James kissed Harry goodbye on the forehead and tucked him in with the a white fluffy blanket. He smoothed the blanket, and brushed Harry's wavy red hair out of his closed eyes.

The three oldest Potters namely James and his two twin sons left the room, leaving Sam to seat in a chair that he carried near the bed. Sam looked at Little Harry and muttered a soft "Goodnight."

Everyone didn't know that the Littlest Potter was still awake and was faking sleep plotting his escape away from the horrid white white room.

End of chapter 4

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