Hogwarts- March 9, 1986
Severus Snape was annoyed. He honestly had no idea why anyone ever thought that it would be a good idea to make him a teacher as punishment for what he did during the last war. No, wait, he knew exactly whose idea it was, Albus bloody Dumbledore.
Sevevrus both loved and hated the man. Albus was clearly biassed against those like him, but at the same time he had saved him from Azkaban, and had attempted to protect the one woman he had ever loved, Lily. even thinking her name Severus felt his heart break a little. He loved her so much.
Last week he had received a letter from Gringotts. That was odd for Severus as he had been informed that his finances would be taken care of by the ministry for the next decade as part of his parole. Figuring it was just some kind of mistake and that a representative of the ministry would meet him there, he hadn't bothered to tell the headmaster. The last thing he needed was more guilt trips from the man, or having Minerva look down her nose at him.
Now it was spring break. Since all of his Slytherins had gone home for the week he was free to go and gather potions ingredients. He had made an appointment for after lunch that day so that he would have the rest of the holidays together.
Dumbledore and Minerva had originally tried to make him stay at the school. He had simply pointed out that either he collected the potions ingredients himself or they would have to pay for them. When they tried to say that they really don't need that much he smirked and said then it was their responsibility to inform Poppy that he would not be able to make the potions she had requested for cold and flu season because they felt that they weren't needed. That had shut them up. He knew that both Dumbledore and Minerva were on better terms with the school matron than he was but even they were afraid to tell her how to run her hospital wing.
Once all his Slytherins were packed and ready, he walked them all down to the train. He may not be overly fond of children but there was no way he was going to let his students behave like the lions. Minerva's house seemed to have no decorum, yet for some reason was seen as perfect.
Diagon Alley, Gringotts
With that done, Severus apperated to Diagon Alley. going into the bank he got in line to speak to one of the tellers. When he reached the front of the line he politely informed the goblin he had a meeting with Chief Ragnock and requested to be shown the way. Severus rarely ever had to deal with any other goblins other than Filius, but he always made sure to be polite, only a fool angered those that managed your money, not that he had much.
Severus was led to an office deep in the bank. Once the goblin on the other side of the desk indicated he took a seat wondering what was going on as there was no one from the ministry there. But before he could ask the goblin spoke
"Greetings Lord Prince, as I am sure you have guessed I am Chief Ragnock. During the course of an investigation we noticed some irregularities with your accounts so I decided to meet with you personally so that we could work this out."
"Chief Ragnock I am confused. I was informed when I was released from Azkaban that I was on probation and that my parole officer would be in charge of my finances. Also, I can't be Lord Prince, my mother and I were disowned."
Ragnock quickly performed the in-depth inheritance test. He made sure to keep it and not hand it over to Severus due to what he saw.
"Wrong on both counts. You are indeed correct that your mother was disowned. She broke a marriage contract with another pureblood family when she ran away with your father. However, your grandfather was very specific in his will. Although he disowned your mother he never disowned you. He left everything he had to you." Stopping for a moment, Ragnovk ordered some tea for them both before continuing.
"According to our records you were here for the reading of your grandfather's will and claimed the Prince lordship that day back in 1978. It is my belief that someone has tampered with your memory and another victim of this has shown evidence of curses and blocks, like the ones that are on you. There is also the fact that you were never placed on parole. According to the records here and at the ministry you were granted a full pardon. Our records here show that about 1 week after you were released a signed release form was brought to the bank, with your authorization, for another to manage your accounts and take over as proxy for the Prince seats that had until then been proxied by the chief of the neutral party, Lord Greengrass.2
"I did sign a release form for my accounts, but only because of the parole information I had been given. I had been unable to attend my own hearing as I had fallen ill while in Azkaban and my healer, Poppy Pomfrey, refused to allow me to attend."
Severus was in shock. He could tell that Ragnock was going out of his way not to name names but he knew who it was that had taken over his accounts. Albus bloody Dumbledore. He said as much when he managed to find his voice under all his rage.
"You're saying that Albus bloody Dumbledore has taken control of my accounts by lying to me."
"I'm afraid so yes. Now I am going to suggest that you follow me to the healing ward for a full purge. Your test shows a number of potions and spells that I think we should completely remove before you see your test."
It was a quick walk from Ragnock's office. Severus was naturally very curious as to what his test showed but knew that it must be bad if, after everything he had already learned, the goblin didn't want to tell him until after.
In the ward severus could see 4 areas were already sectioned off, most likely for goblins that had been injured in some sort of mining accident. There was also a small goblin healer working in her office, coming out she gave them a serious look.
"Now, what seems to be your trouble young wizard?"
Severus answered before Ragnock with a rather vicious snarl. "Albus bloody Dumbledore."
Ragnock found himself impressed by the growl and sneer that that name seemed to evoke from the young wizard, it would make a goblin jealous.
"It would seem that we are in need of another purge and memory block removal." Ragnock said as a more understandable answer to the healer's question, although he was beginning to think that that wizard's name was beginning to be enough of an answer to that question.
Ragnock watched as young Severus Prince-potter underwent his purge. The man was screaming and writhing something fierce. Having everything that had been placed on that man removed was guaranteed to be agony.
He was grateful that the healers had been able to put young Hadran into a magical induced coma before puring him. What that youngling would have had to go through if he had been conscious probably would have resulted in his death. Actually there was no doubt that the youngling would have died. There were three of their curse breakers in beds in the ward that had almost lost their lives in the battle to free the boy.
The removal of the horcrux had become rather bloody. All three curse breakers were lucky to be alive and they knew it. The only reason they survived was that at Cora's insistence they had brought in a secondary team as backup. Although they were all annoyed that they were now trapped in the ward for at least a week according to their healers they had enjoyed the battle. It had been a long time since any of them had been able to have a decent fight against an enemy.
He watched as they finished up with the man and moved him to the bed next to his he woke up he would probably want to see the youngling that had been stolen from him years before.
Ragnock watched as Severus woke up rather violently. This wizard just kept impressing him. His natural instinct to grab for a weapon showed this young man's past as a warrior. His wife stood next to him waiting expectantly. She had become rather fond of the youngling in the next bed and wanted to make sure that this wizard was worthy of being his father.
Severus was confused. He knew that he was in the bank and had just undergone a purge but his mind was a mess. He practised occlumens so he was not used to the jumble in his head. There was only one thing that he could see clearly. It was a memory of holding a newborn baby in his arms, as he looked down into the dark green eyes of his son.
"Hadrian," Severus croaked, looking at the goblins. "Where is my son? What have those bastards done with him? I will kill them slowly."
Cora gave a smile. That was exactly the response she had been hoping for. Yes, this wizard was a worthy father for a youngling. Stepping forward she moved the curtains between the beds back so that Severus could get a view of his unconscious son.
Jumping to his feet Severus made his way over to his son's bed before dropping down in the chair next to it. He was grateful for the chair as he felt like his entire body was on fire. As he looked down at his son's face he started to cry.
"Please be ok. What did they do to you? Please wake up my son." Severus tried to wake Hadrian up but nothing worked. Then he looked at the goblins. "Why won't he wake up? What's wrong?"
Ragnock decided then and there that he actually liked this wizard. He was strong yet vicious but still willing to cry for his youngling. With the importance of younglings in their society, if a youngling was gravely injured the entire clan would grieve as one. Not many wizards were willing to show such weakness in front of a goblin but all this wizard cared about was his son, and that was something he respected. Leaving a copy of Lord Prince's test on the table next to him Ragnock left. He had another meeting to get to.
Cora stepped forward to stop Severus from trying to wake the boy. "He is fine. He had even more issues than you did. It was decided to induce a coma so that he would not have to endure the pain of the purge. All of his issues have been fixed. He is perfectly healthy, we simply decided to keep him in the coma so that his body could rest and recover from all the strain it's been under. We are planning to let him rest until at least the middle of next month before we wake him up."
Severus could only nod as he looked down at his son, now much more the recommendation he grabbed his test to look it over now that he was fully purged. Looking at the parchment so many memories came back to him.
Name: Severus Tobias Prince-Potter
Father: Tobias Snape
Mother: Eileen Snape (nee Prince)
Husband (sub): James Prince-Potter
Son: Hadran Jameson Charlus Prince-Potter
Titles:
Prince: Lord
Ravenclaw: Heir (Eligible to claim lordship)
Potter: Consort
Vaults
Potter:
487: 7,685,00 Galleons, 104,083 Sickles, 195,795 Knuts
488: (Valuables Vault): Portraits, Jewels, Antiques, Heirlooms, Family Grimoire
Prince:
697: 11,378,061 Galleons, 52,627 Sickles, 227,258 Knuts
698: (Valuables Vault): Portraits, Jewels, Antiques, Heirlooms, Family Grimoire, Potion Ingredients
Ravenclaw:
047-049: 78,000,000 Galleons, 100,000 Sickles, 100,000 Knuts
050-058: (Valuables Vault): Portraits, Jewels, Antiques, Heirlooms, Family Grimoire, Ravenclaw Library
Abilities:
Natural Legilimence (50% blocked( 35% broken)- Albus Dumbledore
Natural Occlumence (75% blocked(68% broken)- Albus Dumbledore(50%), Tom Riddle(25%)
Blocks/Curses/Potions
Core Blocks/Leech:
15%- Date Unknown (Albus Dumbledore)
10%- Dark March Leech- Date Unknown (Tom Riddle)
20%- November 27, 1981 (Albus Dumbledore)
IQ Block: 35% (Albus Dumbledore)
Photographic Memory: 10% (Albus Dumbledore)
Compulsion Spells:
Demean children in all houses except Slytherin (Albus Dumbledore)
Be cruel to non-pureblood children (Albus Dumbledore)
Feeling overwhelming love for Lily Evans *Trigger word: Lily (Albus Dumbledore)
Loyalty Potion; focused towards Albus Dumbledore, Minerva Mcgonagall, Poppy Pomfrey, Lily Evans, Hogwarts, the 'Light'
Hatred Potion: Focused towards James Prince-Potter, Sirius Lupin-Black, Remus Lupin-Black, Tom Riddle, Hadrian Prince-Potter, Self, Children, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Gryffindor
Love Potion: Focused on Lily Evans
Severus was furious that he had been manipulated like that. How dare they do that to him and his son. Wondering what had been on Hadrians he asked Cora for a copy of his results. After he finished reading he wanted to go and gut Dumbledore, the only thing that kept him where he was was that he didn't want to leave Hadrian yet.
Looking back at his test and his eyes locked on the line that said husband. He had spent the last few years hating the man but now when he thought of him he felt nothing but love and longing. He now could remember the first time he had with James
*Flashback Start*
It was the first week of his sixth year and Severus was on his way to the come and go room on the seventh floor. He had discovered it during one of his attempts at hiding from that aggravating Potter and his little band of 'Marauders'. It had been the only place he had successfully been able to hide from them.
As he walked down the hall he saw Potter turn the corner and head in his direction. All he could think was 'great, here it comes' but Potter hadn't seemed to notice him yet. But it didn't take long until he did.
"Well if it isn't my favourite snake." Potter said in a deep mocking tone
"Bugger off Potter." Severus didn't even bother to look at him as he passed him. Severus had decided that he wasn't even going to pay any attention to him or the marauder's this year, no matter what they did. They had already cost him his friendship with Lily, though it wasn't like the girl was exactly a good friend anyways.
"What's the matter? Don't think I'm worth your time. Oh, now you've gone and hurt my feelings. I think you should get down on your knees and beg for my forgiveness."
Severus just ignored him until he came to the spot where the door could be called. Resting against the wall he decided to wait until Potter was gone, no point in letting him know his best hiding spot.
As he watched Potter stormed towards him and pushed him hard against the wall. "Think you're too good to pay attention to me. Just who do you think you are?"Potter demanded as he invaded Severus's personal space.
As Severus looked down at the shorter boy he saw something he had always missed, the last thing he had ever expected to see, desire. Then it all made sense. All those times that Potter had targeted him was when he had been ignoring him. Potter had been pulling pigtails all this time.
Like a silly little boy trying to get the attention of his crush in class he had been doing whatever it took. It would seem that bad attention was better than no attention in Potter's mind. And in spite of himself, Severus couldn't seem to get angry.
If he was being honest, Potter was hot. Big eyes, full lips and a fit body. No, the more he thought about it the less of a problem he had with the idea of bedding Potter
As he had been thinking James had become angry. "Speak up snake. Let's hear what you have to say."
Severus cocked his head to the side and smirked down at James, yes, he was James now. "Speak… something tells me that's not all you want me to do is it James. No, I think you want a lot more than that."
As Severus had spoken,in a deep sultry voice, he had watched as James's eyes became clouded with lust, his cheeks flushed, his breathing increased, and Severus could feel his body tighten up a little bit. Not giving James a chance to respond he continued.
"Now what is it that makes me think you want yes, i know what it is." in a flash Severus had flipped their positions. Now James was backed up against the wall and Severus was the one who had him pinned. Reaching down he palmed James's growing crotch. "Well would you look at that. Someone seems to want more than just my voice. What now James, are you going to speak up or should i walk away and let you deal with this on your own"
While he had been talking Severus had been massaging James's now rock hard cock. "P..Please… Sev… Don't stop." James managed to stammer out and instantly Severus was as hard as he was.
Pulling back slightly Severus summoned the room. The entire time he had kept rubbing James's crotch and James kept pleading with him not to stop.
In quick succession Severus pulled James away from the wall that was now a door, quickly moved them inside , spun them around so that James was pinned against the door once more, and slammed his mouth down on James's full lips.
They both kissed each other like thor lives depended on it. Severus loved the soft mewling noises coming from James.
Normally Severus would take his time, draw it out more, especially with someone that was a submissive as James clearly was, but he just couldn't do it, maybe next time. Whoa, where did that thought come from, no this was definitely a one time thing or maybe a two time thing if James kept up that whimpering
Moving away from the door James started pleading with him not to stop again, as if he would. Moving them over to the large, soft bed that the room had created for him, Severus gently pushed James down.
Straddling him, Severus returned his lips to James's as his hands reached down and started to undo James's pants. As he worked he felt James's hands come up to undo his. He quickly smacked James's hands, wrapping his hands around James's wrist he forced his hands above his head and wrapped his fingers around the metal headboard.
"If you remove your hands I will be very upset, and will stop." Severus said as he stared down into James's eyes. Once he was sure that James wasn't going to move his hands he went back to work.
With practised ease he quickly stripped them both before leaning back to enjoy the view. There was no denying James was gorgeous. All that golden tan skin stretched over hard muscle.
Reaching down he palmed James's cock once again, this time without any barriers. Using the pre-cum that was already dribbling out of James's cock he started to work his hands up and down the length for a few seconds, once he felt james start to tighten up he stopped. James once again started to whimper and beg perfectly.
Grabbing his wand Seversu wordlessly cast some protection spells and lubrication charm on both of them. With all of his attention on James he watched as he started to open up the other boy. He started with one finger, but with the lubrication charm he was quickly able to add a second and then a third. Once he was sure that James was stretched enough that there wouldn't be any damage or much pain, but still tight enough that he would feel the brn as Severus went in, Severus pulled his fingers out.
By this point the proud James Potter was begging and pleading for him to fuck him. Who was Severus to deny such a request?
Looking up, Severus saw that James was still holding on to the headboard. Good, at least he knew the boy could follow simple commands, though it would be fun to train him. James's eyes were clenched tightly shut and he had started to bite his lips.
Covering James, Severus lined his lubricated cock up with his pulsing hole. Looking down he smiled. "James, I want you to open your eyes and you can't look away."
James's eyes instantly snapped open and stared up at him. Once he had James undivided attention he moved forward. It only took a few short thrusts before he bottomed out.
Both of them were panting now and a thin sheen of sweat. Severus smirked down and James's lust filled, dazed face. "I'm going to give you a choice now James.i can ever take you slow and sweet or hard and fast. Which do you want?"
"Please… please fuck me." James begged. "Hard and fast please fuck me now… Please."
That was all that Severus needed to hear before he started slamming in and out of James's delectable body. It only took him a few minutes to reach his edge. Reaching between their bodies he started to stroke James's cock.
As he felt James's tense and his balls draw up he leaned forward and whispered in his ear. "Cum for me James."
Once he felt James start to cum he allowed himself to follow with a few more quick thrusts. As he came he bent down and bit down where James's shoulder met his neck. He wanted to make sure he left his mark.
James seemed to like the little flare of pain if the moan was anything to go by. Reaching up Severus removed James's hands from the headboard and brought them back down to his sides.
By this time Severus was exhausted and decided to skip the studying he had been going to do and just decided to go to sleep. He didn't care what James did, but he couldn't stop a small smile from forming on his face as James curled up next to him, and using his chest as a pillow, went to sleep.
*Flashback End*
The next morning they had both sworn it was a one time thing. That was until 2 days later when they sought each other again. And then it happened the next week, and the week after that.
They ended up sleeping, wrapped in each other's arms, in the come and go room at least once a week for the rest of the year; although it wasn't until they started their seventh year that either of them admitted that it was more than casual sex and agreed to start dating.
They had decided to keep it all a secret because of the political climate, both inside and outside of school, only Remus and Sirius had known.
Their wedding had been a quiet, low key affair. Only the minister, Remus and Sirius attended, and the minister was vowed to silence.
Now Severus sat next to his son in a hospital bed and wept for everything that had been stolen from them, and swore that he would find his James and bring him home to their son.
While Severus had been going over his test results Remus Lupin was cautiously entering the bank. He honestly had no idea why he was here. It wasn't like he had any money.
Thanks to all the restrictions on Werewolves it was almost impossible for him to get a job.
Once he was able to speak to a teller he was led to Ragnock's office. Just like last time Ragnock got them some tea and explained who he was and that an investigation had led to some questions about his account. Like Severus before him, Remus was confused and said so.
"I'm sorry mister Ragnock. There has clearly been some kind of mistake. The only money I have in your bank is 3 Galleons, 14 Sickles, and 38 Knuts. There is no way stealing from me would be worth it."
Ragnock once again performed the inheritance test before handing it over to the werewolf so he could read it.
Name: Remus John Lupin-Black
Father: John Lupin
Mother: Marie Lupin (nee Grace)
Husband (sub): Sirius Lupin-Black
Son (by Blood Adoption) : Hadrian Jameson Charlus Prince-Potter
Remus only managed to finish the family section before he set the parchment down with trembling hands and pushed it away from him. "I don't understand. What's going on? I don't remember any of this."
"I figured as much although from the way your eyes keep flashing i think your wolf does." Ragnock watched as Remus visibly flinched at the mention of his wolf.
Taking the inheritance sheet he read over it and understood a great deal. Remus was under dozens of spells and potions to make him hate himself and his husband.
"Mr Lupin-Black, we currently have 2 others in our healing ward that have come in in connection with this case. They were both covered in potions and spells and had had their memories altered. Now just by looking at your test it is clear that, like them, you have been layered with potions and spells. I would also bet my entire year's salary that you have had your memories altered. Now, I need you to stay calm and understand most of what you are feeling right now isn't you, it's the spells. Please follow me and I will take you to our healers and they will fix you right up."
"But… but.. I don't understand.'' Remus looked down in shame and fidgeted with the torn cuff of his old robe. "I can't pay for something like that and most healers refuse to treat a werewolf. The only healer that had been willing to see me since I was a child was Poppy Pomfrey at Hogwarts, and I don't like going there as my wolf doesn't seem to like her for some reason."
"Money is not an issue Mr. Lupin-Black. The gentleman that brought the issue to our attention was kind enough to offer to pay for the purges of the victims of this plot, and goblins don't have the same prejudice towards wolves. Now please, follow me and we will deal with the issues in your test.
Ragnock was grateful that everything on the werewolf seemed to be focused on keeping him weak and docile. He didn't want to have to be the one that got between a wolf and his cub, which Hadrian clearly was.
Like Severus the purge was excruciatingly painful. Remus was then moved to the bed on the other side of Hadrian. They didn't bother to put up the curtain this time as Remus's clear wolf senses would not allow anything between him and Hadrian so soon after being denied contact with him for so long.
Remus felt both worse and better than he had ever felt after any full moon. His body ached in ways even he wasn't aware that it could but his mind was sharper than it had been in years. Taking a deep breath he froze.
Moony howled with joy as his cub's scent hit his nose. REmus was up and next to Hadrian before Severus had even noticed he was awake.
"Cub.. oh my sweet little cub, what has happened to you? Severus what's wrong? I don't spell any illness." Remus demanded without ever taking his now bright amber eyes off the small boy in the bed.
Severus, Ragnock and Cora quickly informed him about Hadrian's condition. Remus was still unhappy but he did relax a little.
During the week between when Hadrian appeared in his office until now Ragnock had been studying everything in the trunk that had been given to him. Ragnock knew that he was the one who had packed it which only made him realise just how important it all was.
There were documents detailing all goblin account managers that were dishonouring the bank by exploiting their positions. There was information on plots and evidence of theft. By the time Ragnock had finished going through all the paperwork he had been ready to declare war, but he had held back.
A plan had been made and that was what they were going to follow. Looking at Remus and Severus he knew that he was going to need their help.
"Gentlemen, if I could have your attention, there are things that we need to discuss."
Ragnock knew that he would not be able to move the two men so he summoned a table and the trunk from his office and started to lay everything he had out before starting the explanation.
"Now, there is no better way to say this, so I will just say it. Over 20 years in the future Hadrian performed a ritual to send his mind back in time until this point. Although this was not his intended destination, he was intending to go back to when he was 10 but seems to have overshot by a few years. This actually works in our favour."
Both Remus and Severus looked at Ragnock as if he had grown a second head. Ragnock quickly summoned a bottle of fire whisky and some tumblers. Once they all had drinks in their hands he continued as the others didn't seem to be able to form words, Remus was actually opening and closing his mouth like a fish.
"Given that he is so young, from what I have been told, he will not remember most of his past life, but will regain those memories in time. As it stands right now, it seems to be up to us to begin his plan."
Severus downed his drink and became the first to find his voice. "So… ok… what can you tell us about this plan?"
Ragnock grinned at him. "Most of the information that I have is focused more on the financial side of things. But from what I've managed to piece together the original plan was to come back to just before he started his first year. He was going to come to me. He would then contact both of you through me and have all three of you purged, so actually he is right on track, just a little earlier than he expected."
They all smirked at that before he continued. "He knows where his other father is being held, although I wasn't able to find the location in the information I was given, I assume it's in the packages that were set up for one of you two. Now, once James was freed, we at Gringotts were to provide him with a false name, background and glamours, and then he was to take up the Peverell lordship. Once he is Lord Peverell he is to bring up Lord Black's lack of trial. I have already retrieved the documentation that proves Peter Pettigrew is still alive."
"Wait…" Remus interrupted him. "Are you telling me that my husband is in the worst prison in the wizarding world while innocent and they never even bothered to give him a trial."
Remus was furious. How dare they, how dare they do that to his Siri. he swallowed what remained of his drink before pouring himself another, he then swallowed that one too.
Severus was devastated, he had spent 2 weeks in Azkaban himself after the war, he knew what Sirius would be experiencing. He and Sirius had actually become very good friends during James's pregnancy, that was one of the reasons he and James had insisted that he and Remus blood adopt Hadrian after he had been born. They had known that if anything had happened to them that their son would be loved. There was also the fact that the location of his love could very well be in the trunk sitting innocently next to Ragnock. He wanted to throw himself on the trunk and start digging until he found what he was looking for.
Before he could, however, Ragnock continued. "Once his family was brought back together he seems to have planned to slowly and systematically dismantle Dumbledore's empire. Starting with changing Hogwarts for the better. Dumbledore had almost completely destroyed that once great school with his bigoted ways."
Agreeing that they would all try to follow Hadrian's plan, at least in a broad sense, they would have to refine certain details since it was starting at a different time they got to work. Severus was searching as quickly and thoroughly as he could in an attempt to locate where his James was but wasn't able to get far.
Less than half an hour after they had started working a young goblin came in with a message for Severus. The message was from Dumbledore demanding his return to the school as there was some sort of emergency.
When he saw who it was from, Severus had initially started to panic as Dumbledore had a bad habit of adding tracking charms to everything he sent. His worries were quickly eased when the messenger goblin explained that it was policy to scan all incoming letters and break any enchantments. They had arranged it so that the tracking charm would report that it had been opened at Severus's house at Spinner's End. The goblin also informed him that besides the tracker there was a compulsion placed on the letter to encourage him to return. Severus was furious at the audacity of the man as well as the fact that it had worked for so long.
"How dare he. I will kill him for what he has done to my family." Severus fumed as he headed for the door. Intent on murder.
Just before he left the ward Remus jumped in front of him and grabbed his shoulders. "You will do no such thing Severus."
"Get out of my way Remus. Why are you even defending him? I figured you would want to help."
"Oh trust me, I do." Remus practically snarled as his normally soft green eyes flashed amber. "I want to keep that man awake and alive as I rip him apart. There is no amount of suffering that will ever make up for what he's done to us. But right now we need to keep our focus."
"What do you mean?"
"Hadrian comes above all, even our need for revenge." Remus could see the murderous intent leave his friends eyes as he looked back to where his son slept, so he continued. "Your son has given us everything we need to destroy Dumbledore. It might not be as violent or instantaneous as we would like, but I am willing to bet it will be more satisfying. If he's anything like you he will have made sure that it will be very enjoyable to watch. We need to trust him. We don't want to turn Dumbeldore into some kind of martyr. Not to mention if you kill him now you will most likely end up in Azkaban next to my husband, and Hadrian needs you with him,he deserves that much."
"You just had to be logical. And don't think I don't know that you are manipulating me." Severus sighed softly before returning to his son's side. "So what do I do?"
It was Ragnock that answered this time. "You pretend everything is normal. You go back to the school and pretend everything is fine. There are communication mirrors in the trunk. You will take one with you and we will let you know when we discover Lord Prince-Potter's location. You will just have to leave the school for the weekend to help retrieve him."
"And how am I supposed to get out of the school? Albus and Minerva act like prison wardens."
"Potions. I'm assuming that you were originally planning on gathering potion ingredients." when he saw Severus nod Remus continued. "You haven't even been gone 24 hours. Since they have made it impossible for you to gather the ingredients you are just going to have to leave at nights and on weekends. Just make sure you tell them in front of everyone. That way they can't make you out to be the bad guy. After all you tried to do it on your own time, and for free, but they stopped you."
"That should work." Severus started to like this plan. The only real drawback was having to leave his son so soon.
"Do not worry Lord Prince-Potter, we shall keep a close watch on your son and will let you know if anything changes." Ragnock informed him.
"Please, if we are going to be working together then I must insist you call me Severus."
"And I'm Remus." the wolf added.
After a few last minute things they said goodbye and Severus left.