Saving Harry
The next stop we made was Azkaban. Severus wasn't happy about this and getting in proved nearly impossible. If it were not for me being military in the US, we would have never gotten in. They led us to Sirius's cell and let me and Remus in. Severus didn't want to go in, so he stood outside the cell. Azkaban had taken its toll on Sirius. No longer did I see the young boy so full of life, but a man, who looked lifeless.
"Padfoot." I said, using a simple cleaning charm on him. His head shot up.
"Shadow, Moony, I swear, I didn't do it." His voice was broken.
"I know. I want to hear what happened from you. I've already heard what the world thinks." I said and I finally saw some light in his eyes.
"You believe I didn't do it?"
"I know you didn't, now tell me what happened. I can't help you until I know all the details."
"I thought it was such a great idea. I didn't know. How could I know." He mumbled.
"Padfoot, tell us about the idea." Remus said, taking a seat next to him on the floor. I sat on his other side.
"I told James to make him secret keeper. No one would ever suspect him of being their secret keeper. James and Lily agreed. I thought I was keeping them safe but I pretty much handed them to Voldemort. He handed them over to Voldemort on the same day."
"What happened on your last encounter with him?" I asked.
"As soon as I went and saw the damage for myself, I went after him. I planned to kill him. I chased him to a muggle village, he called out that I betrayed Lily and James and cut off his finger and blew the street up. He transformed to a rat and ran down the sewer. I laughed. I laughed at the coward. That's how the Aurors found me."
I hugged Sirius. "If he's out there I will find him. I'll find him and get you out of here. Please give me time."
"I'll get him. I promise we will get you out of here Padfoot." Remus said, tears running down his face.
"Moony, please forgive me. I should have known the spy wasn't you."
"I forgive you, forgive me for believing you guilty until Shadow came back."
"You're forgiven." They embraced each other. I smiled at them.
"Amy, how are you going to find a rat? There are millions of rats in the world." Severus asked.
"I'll find him Severus. I don't know how or when, but I'll find him."
"How's Harry?" Sirius asked.
"I honestly don't know. Dumbledore won't tell me where he is." Remus said.
"He's living with Patunia." Severus said looking disgusted.
"She hates magic!" Sirius yelled his temper rising.
"I've already tried getting to him, Dumbledore has blocked all magical beans from going there. I have seen him though, he doesn't look good. His cousin seems to rule that house." Severus said, I could see the sadness in his eyes.
"I'll kill them." Sirius said.
"Stand in line. I'll be heading there next." I said, not happy with what I just heard.
"I've sent him care packages to school. We can go there and find out if he's been getting them." Severus said.
"Shadow, hug that man for me. I never thought I'd see a day when I wanted to hug Severus Snape." Sirius said with a chuckle. I smiled.
"You're not doing a very good job of making me believe you're a bad man." This made Remus laugh and Severus smile.
"Severus, come in here. I'm going to use my time turner. That way Sirius can see him to."
"Please give him a change of clothes first. I'm not going out with him looking like that." Severus said. I made a duplicate of Sirius and made him transform. Severus and Remus hid us while this was going on. Sirius transformed to a big black, shaggy dog. I used a disillusionment charm on him and we all left. I took us all to my house and made Sirius take a shower and change. I also cooked and we all ate.
After, we all went to the school Harry attended and I used my time turner to move us forward a day. We walked down the halls until I saw him, being bullied by a gang of boys being lead by a very, overly large boy. Remus had to hold Sirius back. Lucky for me, Severus was with me as we marched up to them. I punched the big one in the face. The reaction was priceless, the other boys looked scared and ran off. The very large one ran away crying, holding his nose. Harry just looked at us, scared.
My anger was not improving in the least. He was under fed and dressed in clothes way to big for him. I mumbled a spell to fix his glasses under my breath, causing his eyes to grow wide. Then, I did the only thing I could think of, I pulled him in to a hug and told him I was so sorry. Sirius and Remus soon joined me in hugging Harry.
"You three are scaring the boy. Maybe you should try introducing yourself." Severus drawled out in a seemingly bored voice. "Allow me to show you the popper way to introduce yourself. Hello Harry, I am Professor Severus Snape. We would like to have a word with you."
Sirius, Remus and I backed off a terrified Harry. I looked at Severus and laughed, "I knew that sense of humor would show up."
"Harry, meet your Godfather, Sirius Black, your uncle, Remus Lupin, and your aunt, Amy Links." Severus said, rolling his eyes and me and the remaining Marauders.
"M...my aunt and uncle?" Harry asked, shock showing on his face.
"Hey! Don't forget your godfather! I'm the most important one!" Sirius said, mocking hurt.
"Pff, most important my ass. I'm way more awesome then you Padfoot. That automatically makes me the most important one here." I said, sticking my tongue out at Sirius.
"You wish Shadow! I bought him his first broom! You should have seen him on it. That makes me the most important one."
"Moony help me out here." I said and Remus laughed.
"I happen to think I'm way more important then both of you." Remus said making Severus roll his eyes again and groan I frustration.
"Harry Potter, we do have a lot to discuss. What do you say we skip the first day back? I'll take you to my house and we will explain ourselves better." I said, I couldn't help but smile at the boy.
"You know Harry, you look just like your father." Sirius said, also smiling at him.
"Except your eyes. You have Lilys eyes." I said, brushing his hair out of his face.
His eyes lit up, "Really? Do you have a picture? Did you know them? If you're my relatives, where have you been all my life?" Then he stopped talking all at once and muttered "Sorry."
This caused all of us to get angry again. "You apologize for nothing. Come, let us take you home. Are you hungry? I have food at the house if so."
I took Harry's had and the others surrounded us. I walked him out of the school and down a ally. I pulled out my hairbrush and made it a portkey to my home. "Harry, do you believe in magic?"
"I'm not allowed to even say the word magic." Harry said, looking down, confused and sad.
"Magic is real Harry. We are all, including you, going to hold on to this brush. Do not let go of it. It's going to take us to my house, okay?" I asked.
Harry nodded looking unsure. I activated the hairbrush, we landed right in front of my house. Harry's eyes grew wide in excitement. "Can I do that?"
"You'll learn one day, but for now, no. Come on, let's get you some food."
I walked inside, the others following. Harry was amazed my house was bigger on the inside. I smiled at his excitement. I led them to the kitchen were I poured the adults something strong and Harry some milk to go with his bacon and eggs. He thanked me and started eating.
"He's grown up so much." Sirius mumbled.
"That's what people do Sirius, they grow." I said.
"Yeah except you. You look exactly like you did the day you left fourth year."
"Wow, wonder why that is."
"Seeing as how these idiots have yet to really explain anything to you, I will. Potter....I mean Harry, Amy hasn't been around because she's a time traveler. She just recently returned from our fourth year, same year as your parents. Sirius has been in Azkaban, a wizarding prison, for a crime he didn't do, and Remus had no idea where you were."
"Why didn't you come visit him?" Sirius asked Severus.
"I didn't think I'd be welcome."
"Severus, you didn't know." I said and Remus nodded his head in agreement.
"Severus is the Deatheater that told Voldemort the prophecy?" Sirius asked and we all nodded.
"I didn't know it meant Lily and James." Severus said, his eyes showed nothing but sadness.
"Then it's not your fault." Sirius said, making us all, except Harry, look at him in shock. Sirius was not so forgiving. "Don't look at me like that. I know Severus doesn't like us, yet here he is, helping us. He's been respectful and used our first names. If he can do that, so can I."
I smiled at my boys. I was so proud of them. I looked at Harry. "Before you ask, no I can not save your parents while I'm in the past. It's something that can not be changed. Changing something so drastic in the past will result in worse things happening. For example, let's say I am there the night they die, I save their life, sometimes later on, they will die anyway, along with pretty much everyone here."
"I understand. Can I come live with one of you now?"
"No. I'm to young legally to adopt you, as far as anyone besides us know, Sirius is in Azkaban, Remus has a tiny problem we won't discuss now that prevents him from being able to adopt and Severus, well Professor Snape for you, must remain under cover, something I will explain next year when you go to Hogwarts."
"What's Hogwarts?"
"A school for magic. You are a wizard Harry. You get your Hogwarts letter when you turn 11. It's a school to teach you to learn and control your magic." Severus answered.
"I don't think I'm a wizard sir. You saw for yourself how my cousin treats me. My aunt and uncle encurage it."
"You're a wizard Harry. Has anything strange ever happened to you?" Sirius asked.
"Well, a few things. My aunt shaved all my hair off once and it grew back over night. Then there was that time I was running from Dudley and I jumped and ended up on the roof."
Sirius and Remus smiled, "You're a wizard Harry." They both said.
I reached into my bag and pulled out a few pictures that was taken in fourth year. I handed them to Harry. "These are pictures of your parents and their friends. I'll let these two explain who's who. Come Severus, I have something I need help with."
Severus and I stood up and I led him to my bedroom. My room was large, it contained a king size bed, with a blue bedspread that had a wolf on it. There was a small dresser on both sides my bed with lamps on it. In front of my bed was a large dresser with a TV I had charmed to run off magic on it. I had a picture of Severus on my wall that I'd gotten out of Potions Weekly. I also had pictures of Chris, Sherry, Jessie and I throughout the years.
I walked in and pulled a bag that looked similar to my bag, out of the top drawer of my beside dresser. I then walked into the bathroom that was connected to the other side of my TV and pulled out a nice blanket and pillows out of the closet. I stuffed them into the bag. I looked in the bottom drawer of my beside dresser and pulled out five pairs of boxers. I held them up, "Do you think these will fit him?"
"Yes, where did you aquire these?" Severus asked with one eyebrow raised.
"I like wearing boxers under my night shirts." I said, stuffing the boxers in the bag. I the walked to a door on the wall as you walked in my room, Severus followed and gasped. I smiled, the room was my library. I had shelves on every wall, and loads in the middle, from top to bottom. It looked like an actual library. "Like it? Help me find books on the wizarding world for him please"
Severus and I made a nice pile of books for Harry to read this year. Books that would help him learn all about the wizarding world, plus books that would give him a head start on school. Severus even pulled a few books out for him to read. "Is his bag like yours?"
"No, mines connected to this house as well as extendable. His is just extendable. He's going to have to hide all this from his muggle relatives. This should be easy to fit under his bed. Come on, he's going to need nutrition potions and food." I walked out of the Library and out of my room and down the hall to another room which was my potions lab. Severus once again gasped at my collection.
"I should have plenty of healing and nutrition potions already made up in the storage room. Feel free to get anything else you may want." I said, pointing to a side door. I followed him and we started piling the bag with needed potions. I kept one healing potion and one nutrition potion out and we made our way back to the kitchen.
"And then James filled the whole comments room in foam!" Sirius was saying excitedly. I laughed.
"I still have two weeks detention to do when I return to that time."
"She doesn't make us do the detention. Professor Dumbledore liked that all the houses were together at the party." Remus said.
"Damn, I'll have to try harder." I said as I handed Harry the nutrition potion. "This is a nutrition potion. You need to take one a day for two months. You're far to underweight." I pulled out the next potion as he gulped that one down and made a face. "Yeah, potions are not known for their great taste. This one here is a healing potion. It will help heal small wounds. Use it when needed. This bag is magic. There's plenty of potions for you to take for two months and healing potions should last the year. I also supplied you with boxers and a new pillow and blanket. I'm going to place a mini fridge and food inside this bag. Be sure to keep everything hidden from your relatives."
"Thank you so much Amy." Harry said, looking touched that we cared so much about him. I went to the walk in closet in the kitchen and pulled out a new mini fridge, I charmed it to make it work off magic and filled it with water and a few sodas.
"Amy, pull out your mini fridge. I'm going to charm them to connect so you can place more food in there when you need." Severus said and I did so. After the charms were placed I put my mini fridge in my bag and Harry's in his. I handed him the bag and charmed it to look like his school bag.
"Take your things out of your school bag and place them in your new bag. That way it's easily hidden. The way this bag works, whatever you are thinking of when you reach inside, will appear in your hand."
"We also added some books on the wizarding world and some one the school subjects you will learn." Severus added.
"How can I ever repay you for this?"
"You owe us nothing pup. It's us that owe you." Sirius said, looking sad.
"Remus, I want you to find a house close to Private Drive. You and Sirius will live there and I'll be moving in during the summers. That way we are close if he needs us. Remus, randomly walk Padfoot and make sure to pass by his house every day." I said and handed Remus English muggle money to get everything done.
"We need to get him back to school. Amy use your time turner so he doesn't actually miss today." Severus said.
Harry became teary eyed, "I don't want to go back."
We all hugged him, including Severus, and I took him back to right after we left the school. It saddened me greatly but I knew i had no choice at that moment in time. I would find a way to adopt him. After we left there we went to find a house. We found one a few blocks down from where Harry lived. It was a four bedroom. I let Sirius and Remus pick out their own furniture for their rooms, and Severus and I picked out for our rooms. We all agreed on decorating the sitting room in Gold and Silver. A mix of the two house colors that wouldn't make the house look decorated for Christmas. We found a beautiful silver couch set and some gold side tables. The curtin was gold with silver lining. I also bought plenty of things for the kitchen.
We bought a simple Queen size bed for Harry's room and a plane bedset until he could pick everything out for himself. Setting up the house took the remainder of the day and a good bit of the night. Sirius was offended when he saw the dog food and dog bowl and leash. I told him we had to make it seem real. He was supposed to be in prison after all. We'd been lucky so far on no one seeing him.
"What's going to happen to my duplicate?" Sirius asked, we had finally finished the house and was sitting in the sitting room drinking tea or coffee.
"In two years time, it will vanish. So we have less then two years to find Peter." I said.
"Think we can do it?" Remus asked.
"We can and we will. I've been thinking, when I go back to do 5th year with yall, I'm going to try and talk Lily in to making me her blood sister. It's a complicated potion but I can get it made, with Severus's help. That will make me Harry's aunt by blood and I have a chance at adopting him in the muggle world at least."
"I like it, will your Slytherin lover help you?"
"Yes I will." Severus said, rolling his eyes. I laughed.
"We need to head to bed. Tomorrow will be a busy day for us all. Remus, make sure to check on Harry. Sirius if you leave the house, make sure you are Padfoot. My first year at Hogwarts starts tomorrow and my boyfriend is my professor. This should be interesting." I said making them all laugh.
"Got to love time travel." Sirius said shaking his head.
Severus and I made our way back to Hogwarts. Professor Dumbledore was waiting for us in our room. "I've connected this room to Severus's personal chambers. You must not let students know you are together."
"Yes sir." We both said then smiled at each other.
"Professor Dumbledore, if by chance you see a rat with one toe running around, catch it for me please." I said earning a curious look from him.
"Why, may I ask, would you want a rat with one toe missing?"
"To prove a man innocent." I said and Severus took my hand and led me to his chambers.
The next morning I woke and kissed Severus. "Good morning my love."
Severus smiled and mumbled in a very sleepy voice, "I've missed this."
I kissed him again, not even wanting to imagine so many years without him. We stayed in bed a while longer before finally getting up and dressing for the day. We ate breakfast and curled up on the couch, both if us reading a book. Around noon we went outside and trained for a while. Severus had become a very good duler in the years without me. We were almost a even match though I still won.
After a nice long shower I let Severus go prepare for the students to arrive and I made my way to Professor McGonagalls office. We had tea and I made sure we were still on for our Wednesday tea, which we were. After a few hours, Severus came and got me asking for a little more alone time before students arrived. While making our way to the entrance, Severus said,
"Amy, I think you should be friends with Fred and George Weasley of this time. You will like them."
"I didn't plan on making friends." I stated.
This made him laugh. "That didn't work so well for you last time. The Weasley Twins are like mini Marauders."
I looked at him, "My dear Severus, that is a title that must be earned. I will have to test them." Severus rolled his eyes and I continued, "Here, wave your wand over this potion and say my first and last name. We will be able to talk through a mental link."
I pulled out a potion for both of us and we activated them. Professor McGonagall came and took a potion and said my name, I added her to my mental link as well."
"You have to direct the thought you want shared to the mental link. You should be able to feel it." I said and both nodded. "Great! Let's do this."
Professor McGonagall and I waited for the students as Severus walked in the Great Hall. I heard him send to me, "Is this the potion you and Chris were using?"
"Yes it is. I created it for war purposes, however, I think this will be our best way of communication while I'm your student."
"It can also show memories. She's showed it to me before." Professor McGonagall sent us.
I showed them both a memory of meeting Harry. Professor McGonagall eyes grew wide. "I'm planning to adopt him soon."
"That may be for the best. You're sure Sirius Black is innocent?"
"Yes" came the reply from both Severus and myself.
The students started pouring in and I quickly spotted the twins Severus was talking about. I let him see through my eyes, another thing the potion did, and he said yes. I smiled and changed ones body to be green, the other silver, the green one had silver hair and the silver one had green hair. They both noticed this and looked horrified.
"Slytherins!" They said together.
Professor McGonagall was scolding me through the mental link and Severus was laughing. This was going to be a interesting year.