Chapter Twelve; Battle At The Magic Castle
Harry's parents rushed into his room after he woke up screaming. "Voldemort's back and he's trying to kill me!" he shrieked.
"Shh,.. Harry darling, you need to be quiet because you don't want to wake up Sirius and the rest of the people in this hotel." His mother whispered softly while she sat down at his bedside and gently stroked his cheek with the back of her hand. Then she looked back up at her husband with a worried look on her face. "He's burning up." She told him. "What are we going to do Severus?" she asked him anxiously.
"Something that I should have done a long time ago." Snape told her before he walked over to her and bent down placing a hand upon her cheek and gazed deeply inside her eyes. "I love you." He began. "And if for some reason I don't make it back you have to promise me that you'll take care of the boys for me, and make sure that Harry gets all his schoolwork done." He told her.
"Where are you going Daddy?" Harry asked him but Snape simply just ignored him.
"I promise Severus." Lily told him as she blinked away her tears and looked down at the floor. Then Snape brushed some of her hair back and put it around her ear, before grabbing ahold of her chin and tilting it back up to look at him before he pulled her in for a kiss. Then he slowly pulled away and looked down at Harry with a sad expression on his face.
"No matter what anyone else tells you, you will always be my son." He told him before he stood up again and hurried out the door.
"Daddy wait! Come back!" Harry cried as he leapt out of bed but this time Lily was able to catch him.
"No Harry, you need to stay here." She told him.
"But I don't want him to leave!" he cried before he quickly ducked down and raced under her legs and out the door.
"Harry! Harry come back!" Lily called as she raced after him.
Meanwhile Snape had finally managed to make it outside the hotel. He withdrew his wand and lit the tip of it before he heard a familiar voice calling his name.
"Daddy! Daddy wait don't go!" he quickly whirled around to see Harry standing before him completely out of breath.
"Harry." Snape realized. "Harry get back inside with your mother and Sirius." He told him.
"No! Not until I find out why you're leaving me!" he yelled.
"I'm not leaving you, it's just very difficult to explain." Snape said.
"I'm almost six years old in case you haven't forgotten, and I can already tie my shoes and set the table all by himself. I think I can understand if you just give me a chance." Harry told him as Snape took a deep breath and sighed heavily before squatting down in front of him.
"You had another vision about Voldemort being here right?" he questioned as Harry nodded. "Well, I'm going to make him show himself. My guess is that he's still going to be very angry at me for deserting him, and I don't want you and your mother getting in the way of that." He explained.
"But what am I supposed to do!? Just let you die!? I need you, and so does Mummy, and Tobey!" Harry yelled when all of a sudden tears started rolling down his cheeks.
"Please Harry, keep your voice down. If something happened to you I wouldn't forgive myself." Snape pleaded.
"Neither would I!" Harry cried when there came a great loud noise like a cannon, being shot out of a cannonball. Harry gasped and hid inside his father's chest. "What was that?" he asked him frantically.
"I don't know." Snape began wrapping his arms around him. "But now that you're here stay close to me." He told him before hoisting him up inside his arms and embracing him tightly. Snape looked up to see a bright red and orange colors in the sky that resembled a fiery dragon's head. He gasped and gaped his mouth wide open at it because that's exactly what it was, and it was falling, lunging down from out of the sky at them.
Snape started to run as fast as he could, still holding Harry tightly inside his arms, when all of a sudden he accidentally tripped over one of his shoelaces and fell over onto the ground dropping Harry in the process of it. Harry quickly got to his knees, but never managed to make it to his feet. For he felt himself being swooped up inside somebody else's arms.
"Thank you Severus, I'll take that." Another snakelike man with short brown hair and dark brown eyes hissed with an evil snare down at Snape before shooting up into the sky on his broomstick. "You're going to be a nice heartwarming welcome back gift for the dark lord." He told Harry as Snape thought he felt his heart stop while he watched them soar away.
"HARRY!" he hollered on the top of his lungs as he suddenly felt more frightened than he had ever been in his life. As he got back up to his feet he continued watching them while his bottom began to quiver and shake with fright.
"Severus!" Lily cried before he quickly turned around and looked at her. "What happened? Where's Harry?" she asked him worriedly.
"Crouch's son just took him, and I've got to get him back before they kill him!" Snape yelled tilting his head back again and looking at all of the death eaters now flying around on their broomsticks every which way in the starry sky. Along with a group of dementors that hung over the magic castle and smoke bombs dropping onto the ground every once and a while and causing the ground beneath them to burst into flames.
Snape placed two of his fingers in-between his teeth and whistled loudly before a broomstick arrived in front of him and he quickly mounted it before shooting up into the air. He had to get Harry back. He had to save his son before it was too late. Meanwhile Crouch landed on top of the magic castle after he had flown in through the window.
"I got him my lord. The little Potter brat!" he spat while continuing to restrain Harry inside his arms and held his hand over the top of his mouth. Harry bit his finger and Crouch dropped him. "Come back here you little bastard!" Crouch shouted but that's when suddenly Harry felt himself slowly being raised into the air again by his collar.
"That will be quite enough of that Bartemius." Voldemort hissed as Harry saw those demonic red eyes glaring down at him. "So you're Harry Potter, the famous boy who lived." He began. "Or from the way I hear it you're Harry Snape now. Why Severus would want to adopt a misfit like yourself is beyond me. And you're supposed to be the boy who will someday beat me in battle? That seems less believable to me than a mermaid falling in love with me. However, I can't afford to take any chances, so I'm afraid that I'll have to kill you anyway.
And now that I've got the same innocent, precious, and protected blood as you and your mother there is absolutely no chance in the world that I won't succeed now. What a foolish little boy you've been, giving up your life for your family. For when you willingly gave your blood to my most trusted servant it was like giving yourself your own death sentence." He said with a shake of his head and a few clicks of his tongue.
Poor Harry Potter, dead before he even entered Hogwarts. Never growing up to be a hero for the wizarding world, and not a soul around to remember him." He said.
"Think again Riddle." Voldemort quickly whirled around and saw Snape standing behind him.
"Daddy!" Harry cried. "Daddy help me!" he shouted as tears started pouring down his cheeks.
"Put. The. Boy. Down." Snape spoke slowly before withdrawing his wand as Voldemort nodded.
"Oh believe me Severus, it is my every intention to do what you say." He said with an evil grin before he grabbed ahold of Harry's ribs and hung him over the side of the building. That's when Snape could no longer control himself. He lunged at Voldemort and shoved him onto the ground. Harry hit it as well and broke free while Snape leapt on top of Voldemort and wrestled him to the ground.
"Nobody threatens my son like that, nobody!" he yelled as he pointed his wand at his face. "Now if this is about you and me then fine, do whatever you want to me! But leave my son alone, because he never did anything to hurt you! It's not his fault that he was born with a great prophecy about him!" he hollered.
"You fight awfully hard for a boy who was the son of the wizard that almost cost you your life." Voldemort told him before he grabbed ahold of him by the scruff his neck and lifted him up into the air. "Now tell me Severus, was he really worth your own?" he inquired before he felt a rock hit the back of his head.
"Hey!" Harry yelled before Voldemort started rubbing the back of his injured head and quickly snapping it around to look at him. "Leave my father alone!" he screamed when all of a sudden Snape caught a glimpse of Voldemort's wand. Harry had distracted him, it was now or never. Snape quickly grabbed the wand out of his hand and snapped it in half.
"NO!" Voldemort shrieked as he tilted his head back and dropped Snape on top of the ground. Snape quickly leapt up onto his feet and ran over to Harry and hugged him tightly. Harry screamed while his father shielded him and protected him as Voldemort lunged at them. Then, all of a sudden there was a loud vicious bark and a great big black dog grabbed the hem of his robe and pulled it back with his teeth.
"Come on Harry let's go!" Snape exclaimed as he carried him away while Harry watched over his shoulder.
"But what about serious?" he asked.
"He'll be alright, we have to hurry." Snape told him before they both mounted his broomstick and flew away.