Chapter 44: Snape. Severus Snape.

Harry had another flashback. Him, Ron and Hermione, hiding behind a dark screen in the boathouse, they couldn't be seen and what was on that other side couldn't be seen very well either. When they entered the boathouse, Voldemort and Snape were talking about being extraordinary. Snape was saying Voldemort has done many extraordinary things, but Voldemort was saying he IS extraordinary. Snape then explained to Voldemort that there is no one more powerful than him, and that the night Harry comes to him, the wand will not fail Voldemort.

'It answers to you and you only' Snape said

'Does it?' Voldemort replied

'My lord?' Snape smirked

'The wand… Does it truly answer to me?' Voldemort whispered 'You're a clever man Severus, surely you must know… Where does it's true loyalty lie?'

'With you… Of course my lord' Snape replied

'The elder wand cannot serve me properly because I am not it's true master' Voldemort smiled 'The Elder Wand belongs to the wizard who killed it's last owner'

Voldemort walked closer to Snape with Nagini (his snake) following behind him.

'You killed Dumbledore Severus, while you live the Elder Wand cannot truly be mine…' Voldemort got his wand out 'You have been a good and faithful servant Severus… But only I can live forever…'

'My Lord…' Before Snape could say anything else Voldemort casted a spell and Snape gasped and fell to the floor… Harry was shocked

'Nagini… KILL!' Voldemort said to the snake

Nagini attacked Snape and then started biting hi, noises as the glass window kept banging as the force pushed Snape back and he gasped at every moment, Harry could hear the gasps, the pain and could see the blood on the screen… Voldemort apparated out of the boathouse and once Harry was sure he was gone, Harry opened the door to see Snape.

Harry got closer and closer to Snape, he was slouching there, there was blood around him and the side of his neck was very badly bleeding, Harry knelt down and then tried helping him by covering Snape's wound with his hand… Snape was breathing heavily and trying his best to survive for as long as he could. Harry looked at Snape and Snape looked back at Harry… Harry looked closely and saw tears were coming out of Snape's eyes…

'T-T….Take them! Take them… Please' Snape tried his best to say

Harry turned to Hermione who had her bag 'Get me something! A flask anything!' Harry said hurriedly…

Hermione quickly got her bag out and pulled out a small glass vial which was empty and gave it to Harry, Harry then collected Snape's tears and closed the lid to keep the memories inside…

'Take them to the pensieve…' Snape whispered

Harry looked back at Snape as he saw the memories moving around in the vial and Snape looked at him, he was focusing at his eyes…

'You have your mother's eyes…' Snape sighed and whispered

Harry was confused and had a little thought about how he knew about his mother, after a few seconds, Snape's head turned and he looked away and he closed his eyes… He was dead.

Back to reality, Harry told the story about Snape to everyone…

'How did Snape know about your mum then?' Asked Rhea

'It's a long story and it's really… It made me cry' Harry said

'Well we all want to hear another long story…' Rhea smiled

'I know but this is really hard to explain, I'll have to tell you about other people as well' Sighed Harry

'Well fine just tell us about the people then' Smiled Ash

'Lily Evans was my mum, I named Lily after her, James Potter was my dad-' Harry stopped

'Dad, why am I your dad?' James was being stupid

'No… I named you after him!' Harry sighed

'I knew that' James smiled

'There was also Albus Dumbledore, who was the headmaster of Hogwarts at one point, and then there's Severus Snape who you just heard about… There was also my Godfather, Sirius Black-' Harry stopped again

'Sirius is my middle name!' James smiled

'And my middle name is lol jk' Ash joked

'No seriously it actually is' James said

'I know' Ash said

'As I was saying there was also Remus Lupin, who is the father of Teddy Lupin, there's also Wormtail, also known as Peter Pettigrew' Harry sighed

'Someone at school is Lea Pettigrew?' Rhea said

'Who does she usually hang around with?' Asked Harry

'Well, when she isn't alone she's with Chloe even though their in different houses' Rhea explained

'Peter Pettigrew was in a different house from the Slytherin's and he went off with Voldemort who's real name was Tom Riddle' Harry replied

'CHLOE RIDDLE TOM RIDDLE OH MY GOSH' Ash stood up

'Yes Ash, well done!' Rhea said sarcastically

Everyone started laughing, so Ash sat back down.

'Stay away from both of them, all of you, I'm warning you, this is only for your safety' Sighed James

'Why?' Asked Sid

'Because my parents, they trusted the wrong person, the wrong person in this case is Peter Pettigrew who sold my parents to Voldemort… Voldemort checked the prophecy, it told him someone was going to be born at the end of July who was going to kill him in the future, of course Voldemort didn't want to die, he wanted to live forever, Peter told him that I was the one who was going to kill him, he only wanted to kill me but my parents tried to protect me and he killed both of my parents… But didn't kill me' Harry explained

'Well obviously otherwise you wouldn't be here today!' James smiled

'Everyone knows that James, no need to state the obvious' Rhea said

'Sorry!' James apologised

'So why did this 'Peter' guy want to kill your parents?' Ash asked

'Thank you for showing an interest in this Ash, and I don't know, I don't have the answer to that, if you really wanted to ask someone you had to ask my parents… But their dead' Harry sighed

'We could change this topic then… I mean I don't want to upset you or anything…' Ash sighed

'No, don't worry, I'm fine' Harry smiled

'So can you tell us more about the memories of Snape? If you ever got chance to see them?' Sid asked

'Oh I got to see them, and I could show you, but we would need a pensieve or someone here would know how to do occlumency' Sighed Harry

'Well do you have a pensieve?' Asked Sid

'No, but I only knew 2 people who had one, Snape and Dumbledore, Dumbledore's is probably at Hogwarts, I don't know where Snape's would be' Harry replied

'Well we could find out where Snape's house is and apparate there?' Ash asked

'Maybe, but we would need some way to get into the house' Rhea replied

'Alohomora, I'm sure Snape didn't have time to protect his front door from this spell' Laughed Ash

'True that, but he lived in a muggle neighbourhood, so we'll have to be careful' Harry said

'When can we go?' James asked

'We can all go now, since it's dark outside and we can do spells in the dark without muggles seeing' Harry suggested

'Okay, but does anyone know where Snape lived?' Rhea asked

'I do, well I think I do' Harry replied as he stood up

Everyone nodded and then stood up after Harry and he held his hand out in the middle, James put his hand on Harry's followed by Sid, Ash and then Rhea and then with a whoosh they were gone.

They landed pretty quickly and they were in the centre of the muggle village.

'Follow me' Harry whispered

Everyone agreed and followed Harry quietly, they walked for about 5 minutes until they came to a stop at a house, and Harry pointed at the door…

'Alohomora' Harry said with his wand pointing at the door

The door unlocked and Harry whispered a spell and the tip of his wand lighted up and they walked in. It was very dark, Harry tried a light switch but none of the lights were working, it had been a while so of course they would be dead. The place was really messy, things had fallen and broken and it looked quite horrible. Ash was really worried, she had always been scared of the dark… She held James tightly, and stayed close to him, Rhea was also holding tightly to Sid who didn't seem scared at all, but was keeping Rhea close.

'Through here' Harry said

Everyone agreed again and then walked into another room, Harry closed the door behind them and then Harry pointed at the light bulb…

'Reparo' Harry said and something happened

Harry then told James to flick the switch on, and as soon as he flicked the switch on the light went on, it wasn't the best light bulb but it was giving them light so it was all good.

'What now?' Asked Ash

'Somehow, I can feel the pensieve is somewhere in here but I just don't know where' Harry said

'How does it look like?' James asked

'What?' Harry didn't hear James properly

'Dad, what is that?' James pointed at some kind of floating bowl that was floating with water inside

'That's the pensieve' Harry smiled

Harry moved it into the middle of the room and then he asked everyone if they were ready, everyone said yes, and then he got his wand and then started to take some kind of 'stuff' out of his head, then he placed it carefully into the pensieve…

The water turned black and then there were two girls in the middle, one was ginger and one had brown hair, the ginger one made a flower grow from the middle of her hand…

'Freak!' The girl with brown hair shouted 'Come here!'

The girl with ginger hair kept running.

'I'm going to tell mummy, you're a FREAK!' The girl with brown hair said 'You're a freak Lily! Come here'

Then the girl with ginger hair stopped and then a boy with black hair came from inside a tree and out and the girl with brown hair ran away… Then the boy with black hair picked up a leaf off the floor and then he did something and the leaf made its way to Lily by itself and Lily held it and smiled at the boy, and the boy smiled back.

Then the scene changed and Lily and the boy were lying down under a tree looking up into the sky.

'She's jealous, that she's ordinary and you're special' The boy said

'That's mean Severus' Lily replied

They looked up again and Severus made the leaves fall off the tree, and Lily smiled at this. Lily then started laughing and it started echoing. The scene changed again and it was at Hogwarts, Lily had the sorting hat on her head and her house was being chosen.

'Gryffindor!' The sorting hat shouted

Lily who was very happy about this, got off and looked at Severus, who wasn't very happy, Lily smiled at Severus but he didn't smile back. Severus watched as Lily met someone else.

'Hi I'm James' Said one boy

'Hi I'm Lily' Lily and James shook hands and Severus felt jealousy on the inside

Then the scene changed and then it showed Lily and Severus walking together, and then a voice said something…

'You're just like your father. Lazy. Arrogant!' The voice said

There was a boy who pushed Severus and Lily apart and he smiled as he saw the books fall to the ground, and there was another voice heard, who sounded a lot like Harry.

'Don't say a word against my father!' Another voice replied

Severus handed the books to Lily and helped her and walked away.

Then the scene changed again, it turned to when Lily had grown older, she was in another man's arms, of course it was James, they seemed very happy together.

Then they saw Professor Trelawney, but they couldn't understand what she was saying, but it sounded very scary.

Then a pale man came up, his eyes had opened and he had no hair, he looked surreal.

'Severus…' There was a whisper and a white light

Then you could see there was a man with black hair who was kneeling on the floor.

'No don't kill me!' He said

Then you could see that he was kneeling on the floor in front of an old man with a long beard.

'The prophecy did not refer to a woman, it spoke of a boy born at the end of July' The old man said

'Yes but he thinks its HER son' The other man replied 'He intends to hunt them down and to kill them… Hide them. Hide them all. I beg of you'

'What will you give me in exchange Severus?' The older man replied

'Anything' The other man kneeling replied

Then the scene changed, it was of a woman, who had ginger hair and was sitting kneeling beside a cot, she was talking to her baby.

'Harry… Harry you're so loved. So loved…' The woman whispered 'Harry, mamma loves you… Dadda loves you… Harry be safe, be strong'

Without anything else there was this loud 'Avada Kedavra' And a loud scream off a woman.

It then showed that man who was pale, after him was another man who looked a lot like a mouse, and then again, it was the man who was pale. The scene changed once more and it was the same old man with the same man with black hair again.

'You said you would keep her safe!' The man with black hair shouted

'Lily and James but their faith in the wrong person Severus!' The old man replied 'Rather like you'

The other man was starting to cry and tears were coming out of his eyes.

'But the boy survives' The old man added

'But he doesn't need protection, the dark lord is GONE' The man with black hair replied

'The dark lord WILL return' Replied the old man 'And when he does, the boy will be in TERRIBLE danger'

The other man with black hair looked down and seemed to not care.

'He has her eyes you know' The old man said 'If you truly loved her…'

'No one… Can know!' The other man with black hair demanded

'I should have never revealed the best of you Severus' The old man said as the scene changed and the man with black hair was standing in front of a house

'Will you risk your life everyday to protect the boy?' The old man added

'The boy possesses no measurable talent, he's an arrogant rivals even that of his father' The man with black hair said as there was a flashback of Harry with the sorting hat on his head and of the same man with black hair looking at him with a grin

'Don't say a word against my father!' It was Harry again

There was then a flashback of Harry and that same man going down the potions stairs.

'James Potter?' The man with black hair said 'Lazy. Arrogant!'

'My father was a great man!' Harry replied

'Your father was a SWINE!' The man with black hair pushed Harry into a corner

There was then some kind of ring which was swirling around, and then the scene turned back to the old man and the man with the man with black hair again. The man with black hair was saying some kind of spells and was looking at some black hand.

'It will contain the curse to your hand for the time being… It will spread Albus' The man with black hair said as the old man had some fire whisky

'How long?' The old man asked

'Could be a year…' The other man replied and then stood up and went away quickly

'Don't ignore me Severus' The old man stopped the man with black hair

There was then a whisper of some kind of spell 'Harmonia Nectere Passus'

'We both know Lord Voldemort had order the Malfoy boy to murder me' Sighed the old man

There was then some kind of flashback and a boy with light blonde hair was doing something with a large cupboard in some secluded place.

'But should he fail…' The old man stopped 'And should presume the Dark Lord would turn to you…'

The man with black hair was looking very worried.

'You must be the one to kill me Severus' The old man said very straightforward 'It is the only way, only then would the Dark Lord be able to trust you completely'

There was then another more quieter 'Avada Kedavra' And it showed the man with black hair killing the other old man and he fell from the highest tower, it also showed the man with black hair telling Harry to keep this secret, just by one lip on his lips.

'There will come a time where Harry Potter must be told something…' The old man stopped and the flashback turned to the old man and the man with black hair again 'But you must wait until Voldemort is at his most vunerable'

'Must be told what?' The man with the black hair asked

'On the night Lord Voldemort went to Godrics Hollow to kill Harry' The old man continued to say as the scene changed to when the man with black hair was inside a house and was looking around 'And Lily Potter cast herself between them, the curse rebounded'

There was an echo and then the pale man was shown again and then there was a woman screaming who was shown again… Then it was back to the man with black hair and the old man.

'And then happened, a part of Voldemort's soul put itself under the only living thing it could find… Harry himself' The old man explained

Then baby Harry was shown, with a deep scar on his head, shaped like a lightning bolt, who was crying seeing his mother's dead body on the floor.

'That's the reason Harry can speak with snakes, there's a reason he can look into Lord Voldemort's mind. A part of Voldemort LIVES inside him' Sighed the old man

'So when the time comes… The boy must die?' The man with black hair asked

'Yes… Yes, he must die' The old man turned away

There was a flashback and there on the floor… It was Lily, she was dead with bricks and all sorts surrounding her, baby Harry was in the cot, and with the sight of Lily dead, Severus couldn't hold himself up… Tears started rolling down his eyes as he saw her dead body, the only thing he dreaded to see all his life.

'You've kept him alive, so he can die at the proper moment...' Severus said 'You've been raising him like a pig for slaughter'

'Don't tell me now, that you've grown to care for the boy…?' The old man said

The man with black hair paused for a moment and thought and then he whispered 'Expecto Patronum' There was a doe which floated around the room and the old man watched it and recognised it…

'Lily!' The old man said

'After all this time?' Asked the old man

'Always…' Severus whispered

Then there was a flashback, of Harry, he seemed lost and then he saw a doe in the distance…

'So when the time is right the boy must die?' Asked Severus

'Yes… He must die, Voldemort must do it himself' The old man said…