Heart\'s Journal

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Chapter 15: The Family Bond
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Three sets of blushes arose at those words as Hermione stole a glance Draco\'s direction, Harry in the direction of Sirius and Lissa.
\"So when is lunch?\" Ron asked.

Lissa squirmed her way off of Severus\'s lap making sure to make it as difficult on him as possible. She so enjoyed teasing him this way. It was exhilarating to know she could affect him like that.

Sirius caught Harry\'s look and wondered. Could he want another lesson maybe?

Harry licked his lips a little nervously with the tip of his tongue before excusing himself to the bathroom. Surely fighting deatheaters was easier than handling his wild teenage hormones!

Sirius watched Harry leave and waited a few minutes and followed him. Knocking on the bathroom door her called quietly, \"Harry are you ok?\"

Harry opened the door allowing Sirius in. \"Yeah...I\'m fine. It\'s just really hard seeing those two together. You know?\'

\"Who Snape and Lissa? Why? Does it remind you too much of what you saw?\" Sirius asked.

\"She... They\'re so intense together. The passion between them...you can almost touch it. Then she... we\'re linked now... she and I. Like we\'re family or something. It\'s weird. And then there is you... I-I want you.\"

Sirius smiled. He raised a hand to cup Harry\'s cheek, leaned forward and kissed him softly.

\"Maybe it is time to talk to her about it. Tell her how you feel.\" Sirius said. \"I want you as well.\"

Harry whimpered softly and kissed him back with a bit more passion and making a sound of protest when he ended it.

\"Talked to her about what? The link??\"

\"That and what you saw. She cares for you now.\" Sirius kissed Harry\'s neck, sucking softly on his pulse point. His hands fell to Harry\'s belt.

\"Why should I tell her?\" Harry managed to get out. Sirius was playing havoc with his senses and enjoying the fact, Harry knew. Oh Merlin! What would they do if they were caught? *Nothing. * Answered a small voice from the back of his mind. *You are of age and both are consenting adults! Nothing \'to\' say! *

In a moment Harryelt elt was unbuckled. \"She could also give you some advice for this struggle of yours. I think that she feels the same way as you.\" Sirius went to his knees finally opening Harry\'s pants and taking his marvelous cock out began to devour it.

Harry bit back a groan as Sirius took him in his mouth. His wonderful godfather! Perhaps he would speak with Lissa but certainly not now! His fingers entwined themselves into Sirius\'s long hair and too soon his need carried him over the edge and spilling down Sirius\'s throat.

Sirius smiled and licked his lips after kissing Harry quickly he smiled roguishly, \"I hope you are feeling a little... relieved. You should probably get back to the others now. I\'ll be along shortly.

Harry opened his eyes looking at his beloved godfather. \"Let me do the same for you, please... I\'d like to do this with you more often if you want to...\" Harry unconsciously held his breath for the answer hoping to hear something good.

Sirius smiled. \"I was hoping you felt that way.\"

Harry smiled at Sirius and kissed him passionately. \"Allow me and then we\'ll make plans for later. Ok?\" Harry slid his hands down to Sirius\'s pants and before long had his cock in his hot mouth sliding his godfather in and out with all the love and passion he had to offer.

Sirius watched as his cock disappeared into Harry\'s talented mouth over and over again. When he couldn\'t take it anymore his eyes closed and his hands fisted in Harry\'s permanently disheveled hair. \"God\'s yes, Harry!\" He said struggling to keep his voice down.

Harry smiled inwardly and gripped Sirius\'s back cheeks and squeezed as he sped up his motions in time with Sirius\'s need.

Lissa felt the passion released by the two lovers and stifled a moan of her own. She hadn\'t thought when she made the link with him about this aspect of things!

He felt his testicles tighten and pulled back letting sticsticky white cum coat Harry\'s lips and cheeks. Looking down he used his cock to spread it around a bit. \"You are such a slut.\" Sirius smiled then muttered a cleaning charm erasing all signs of the nasty mess he had made of Harry\'s face. Raising Harry to his feet Sirius caught him in a passionate kiss.

Harry returned his kiss with fervor wishing they had time for more but he knew that his link with Lissa had already told her what he woingoing if not with whom. He really needed to explain to her what was going on before there were problems.

\"Come to my room tonight Harry. I want more of you already.\" Sirius smiled and hoped he would get an answer to the affirmative.

Harry nodded. \"I will and I want more of you as well but you were right. I need to talk to Lissa... she knows what we were doing. I don\'t think she knows with whom though. It won\'t take her long to find out though.\"

\"Ok, love go. \" Sirius said, kissing Harry one last time.

\"Sorry.\" He returned the kiss a moment then slipped out the door to seek Lissa.

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Hermione had gone exploring again and found Draco sitting at a window seat looking out the window at the passers by... what few there were. She came up behind him and placed a hand on his shoulder. \"You ok?\"

Draco was surprised she approached him. \"What do you care?\" He said his voice devoid of his usual acid retort. He didn\'t turn to look at her just continued to stare out the window resting his chin on his knees.

She bit her bottom lip a bit. Maybe this had been a mistake. \"I care Draco. We\'re friends. Or so I\'d thought.\"

\"Is that what you and I are? Friends?\" He turned his head slightly and looked at her from underneath his hooded eyes.

She began to tremble a bit. She wanted him but she was afraid of messing things up and his mood was such that she wasn\'t sure what to do or say. \"I...Are we? We had that one night and not once since have you said anything. I thought you simply wanted to forget.\"

\"Forget?\" Draco laughed mirthlessly. \"I\'ve wanted you every day since. You haunt me Hermione.\" Draco wondered if it had been the same for her. \"I couldn’t say anything around Potter or Weasley they would have pounded me into the ground and if they find out what we did that night they still might.\"

Hermione sat down beside him and pulled the heavy velvet drapes closed effecly sly shutting them away from the rest of the house. She pushed him back against the wall pinning him there with a hand on each shoulder. She looked him in the eyes for a moment then captured his lips; she kissed him as he had coached her that one night. She didn\'t want him to think she\'d forgotten after all. She remembered all her lessons and his had been among the best she had, ever.

Draco was stunned just for a moment. He got his wits about him again and grasped her wrists. He pulled her wrists behind her and held them in the small of her back with one hand while the other roamed her body as it wished. He found the hem of her skirt and slipped underneath and cupped her damp satin clad pussy. He raked his nails over the warm soft flesh. When she shivered from his touch he broke the kiss. \"Wet for me already?\"

Her breath was so hard to catch! He was doing exactly as she had hoped by taking the aggressive role away from her! She could answanswer him so she merely nodded and pushed against his questing fingers.

\"Who knew that the know-it-all was so hot?\" Draco whispered to her, he had found out that she liked being talked to, and he was all too happy to oblige. Sweeping over the top of her panties his fingers found the little nub of tightly bound nerves and began to slowly rub in a lazy circle. \"Tell me what you want, Mya.\"

\"Oh gods Draco! Y-you know what I like! I\'t \'t want control! I want to be like she was...tied and at y-your mercy! I...I just wish we d-didn\'t have to be s-so quiet!\" She arched against him in her mute plea for his approval.

He paused in his ministrations, \"Do you trust me?\"

\"With my life Draco.\"

\"Follow me.\" Draco got up and walked away. Knowing she would follow he walked up to the room that Sirius Black had shown him earlier and ushered his Mya inside. He locked the door and silenced the room. In a moment he had her spread-eagled on the bed bound with invisible ropes. \"Now you can scream for me, Mya.\" He said as he pushed her skirt up bunching it around her waist. He ripped the thin panties from her body. He drank in the sight of her spread lewdly wide for him, waiting for him to plunder her. He entered her pussy with a single finger and began to slowly fuck her.

\"Do you know why I call you Mya?\" Draco asked the quivering girl.

Hermione moaned as he finger fucked her wanting more. \"N-no Draco.\"

He slid another finger inside her feeling her muscles adjust to him. \"You are \"My angel\", Mya. You are so beautiful when you are getting fucked.\" He lowered his mouth and began to lick at her clit, long and lazy soon gave way to quick fleeting flicks as a third long finger entered her.

Her limbs strained against the unseen bonds that held her in place as he licked her moaning her pleasure. She knew that now was not the time to ponder such things but, still she wondered if she were falling in love with him. Draco Malfoy...who would have thought? If she were...was it him or his techniques she fell for? His continued ministrations drove further thought from her mind. She whimpered feeling herself getting so very close to release.

Draco raised his head as she bucked under him. She was so close. He released his straining cock from his pants and buried himself in her cunt, hard and fast. She exploded around him as he began to fuck her mercilessly. “Mya. I want you to cum for me again. I want your tight little cunt to squeeze me dry.” His dark passion filled eyes locked with hers.

Hermione nearly screamed when he entered her instead she gave a strangled cry and pulled on the cords binding her. His words washed over her as she was starting to come down from one climax and she began to feel a second building. Did he know what he did to her? Doubtless he did which is why he did this.

\"Oooohhhh Draco...yesss! H-harder...p-please?\"

He grinned, and obliged, slamming into her over and over. He grabbed his wand, waved it mringring an incantation. Her bonds changed, suddenly she was on her knees and he was fucking he from behind. He reached up and fisted his hand in the hair at the back of her neck pulling her head up. He bit her shoulder. “Now Mya, cum now.\" He ground out between clenched teeth.

She came hard screaming his name and feeling a wicked flower bloom inside her heart. She knew another chain had been added to bind her to Draco but she felt one or tall all in her mind. She didn\'t care...this was all that mattered right now. Her orgasm seemed to go on and on till she was whimpering with no breath left for screaming.

The sound of his name on her lips threw him over the edge and he slammed inside of. He. Her cunt stroked him and he spilled inside of her as one word dragged from his lips, \"Mya.\"

He fell over her back his chest heaving, too soon his cock slipped from her wet heat. He rolled to the side and lay on his back. Snatching up his wand he banished the bonds and gathered her to him and held her stroking her breasts lightly.

He wanted to tell her how he felt about her right at that moment but he couldn\'t get his mouth to form the words.

\"Draco? Please...I need you to do something for me and I can\'t think of an easier or more tactful way to ask.” She paused hoping to find the words. Failing, she opted for the blunt approach. Merlin help her! “Draco...either stay away from me or be my lover from here on out. I cannot go this long or longer till the next time and I have no doubt you\'re going to gloat and tease me but.... I...I...I\'m afraid I\'m falling for you and if you tease me about that....\" She left the threat hang. She was more concerned about his reaction. Would he run? Would he make fun of her? Would he place his arms about her and hold her? That was the one she was hoping for. She didn\'t expect a declaration of love. It was far to early for that. Wasn\'t it? But...it\'s that just what she\'d done? Mentally she kicked herself.

Draco sat up and stared at Hermione. She wanted him? Did he really hear her say that? He searched her eyes for a long moment. Then gathered her to his chest and held her there. Kissing her forehead he looked into her eyes, \"Hermione... Mya, I want to keep you with me forever. I don\'t know if I love you and I won\'t give you false declarations but now at this moment I want no one else but you.” Kissing her again he rose from the bed gloriously naked knowing that she was watching him. He went to the dresser opened a drawer and removed a long velvet box. He returned to her on the bed and knelt beside her handing it to her. He\'d bought it in hopes of giving it to her earlier but, now seemed the best time.

Inside on a bed of pristine white velvet was a simple necklace of gold and hanging from it was a small charm, a golden Dragon with glittering diamond eyes and shimmering ruby and emerald wings. He removed it from the box and clasped it round her neck, the dragon settling between her breasts. \"The dragon is enchanted, when you touch it will flutter its wings.\"

She gasped at the delicate beauty of the thing. What had possessed him to buy such a thing? She turned into his arms and kissed him feather light on his gorgeous lips. \"Thank you Draco. It\'s beautiful! Marking me as yours already?\" Hermione smirked as she teased him gently.

He smiled and ran a finger over the light purple bruise on her shoulder, \"I already have, Mya.\"

She smiled mischievously. \"Ready to mark me again? I\'m not done with you by a long shot!\" She began raking her nails lightly down his back and over his buttocks.

\"You are going to be the death of me, but I’ll die a very happy man.\" Draco said as he shuddered and goose bumps rose on his flesh. He pulled her to him again and kissed her again.


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Lissa felt first one encounter then the other. She envied them because they could get away and she could not at the moment. She gave up ideas of propriety when Hermione and Draco began. She looked for the mind of ones involved and found Hermione\'s very open mind and whom she was with. Ah! That explained a bit. Good for them! She turned her mind away from theirs wondering where Hermione had gotten her desires. She just didn’t seem the type. Then again.... neither did she really. So...whom had Harry been with?

Harry entered the conservatory where Lissa looked like she was deep in thought. He cleared his throat not wanting to startle her. \"Lissa?\" He said quietly.

\"Harry! What’s up young\'un?\" Lissa turned as she said this and opening her arms to hug him.

He slid in to her arms loving the way it felt, just that simple hug, his attention starved heart drinking in the love in the gesture. \"What happened earlier? The link didn\'t vanish like before. I feel like I have a little piece of you inside of me.\" Harry said simply not moving from her embrace.

\"You do kiddo. I\'m your sister now. So learn to deal.” Lissa chuckled as she hugged him to her. “I never did well with my own blood family. Maybe I can do better with an adopted family. Do you mind, Harry? Hellava time to ask I know but.... do you?\"

\"My sister? No! I don\'t mind. You know what my family is like, we should probably both do better together.\" Harry smiled.

\"Ok.... but our dad is now Moody and Severus is your brother-in-law. Can you still deal?\"

\"I suppose I’ll have to but can Snape deal with me?” Harry asked mischievously.

Lissa giggled. \"He\'ll learn to deal. So...Who were you with earlier, if I may be so bold?\"

\"Um the bathroom, I ahhh... had to go...\" Harry stammered. *Damn she\'s direct, * he thought to himself. He had hoped to ease into this discussion. “Who? No one.\"

\"Look Harry...I\'m not an idiot. I know why people go the restroom. I also know what I felt from you and I nearly creamed my jeans from it. I\'m not judgmental. Ok? If you don\'t want to tell me that\'s cool but.... don’t lie to me. Please?\"

Harry blushed a deep bright red. \"I\'m sorry, Lissa. It\'s just... I don\'t know how you are going to react... You just made me your brother, I don\'t want you to hate me.\"

\"It would take something really serious for me to hate you kiddo. Killing Severus would do it....so most anything else I can deal with.\"

Harry sighed. \"IwaswithSirius.\" He as quickly a cou could and squeezed his eyes shut and waited.

Lissa\'s mind to moment to process and slow what he\'d said to something understandable. \"Sirius. Sirius? Oh my God! Ah man! No... Oh ma.... Ah jeez! Fuck! Harry...do you realize that man is now *my* godfather too?? Oh jeez!\"

If it was possible he turned even redder. He watched her pace back and forth. \"Just wait till you hear what got us together.\" Harry slapped his hand over his mouth and mentally kicked himself for saying anything.

She looked over to him. \"Come on kiddo. Spill it. You\'re in this far...might as well go all the way.\"

\"Well a few weeks ago I happened to be in the supply cupboard in the potions classroom, when you ran in, followed by the professor. And I kind of... saw you and him... and... \" Harry didn\'t know how to go on.

\"Me and him.... what?\"

Harry blushed again and ducked his head mumbling into his chest.

“Harry... shall this turn into another lesson in Occlumency?\"

Harry\'s head snapped up. \"I saw him bind you to one of the work tables and dominate you.” He stood up and walked over to the windows and looked out. \"I wasn\'t trying to spy, really.\"

\"Ah.” She said gently. “So...what did you think? Did it scare you? Or turn you on? What\'s going on in your mind kiddo?\"

\"It td med me on but scared me too. At first I thought it was something left over from Voldemort. Sirius showed me otherwise.\"

\"Voldemort? In what way and did you want to talk about it? I\'ll help anyway I can you know.\" She came back over and put an arm around his shoulders and drew him close to her again in a comforting embrace.

He looked into her gray eyes and felt better. She didn\'t hate him. \"I wanted both, I wanted someone under my touch leaping at the feeling I provoked in them but then I also wanted the one that was bound… being taken. I thought at first that maybe Voldemort was responsible for the way I felt. That it was part of his evilness. It scared me.\"

\"Oh sweetie.... I’m sorry about that! Sev and I are just really well suited to each other. I...it\'s ok. There\'s nothing evil about it unless you use it for that. Just about anything can be perverted but...what you felt and feel.... is not wrong. You should really have talked to me sooner and I\'m really sorry for the fright and doubt.\"

\"It didn\'t last long. Sirius took me in hand so to speak,” Harry said a little sheepishly.

\"Do you enjoy what you two do together? If so, then it’s all right. If not then it stops. From what I could tell though...you seem to like.” Lissa grinned. “Promise me one thing though. Promise that you won\'t decide on homosexuality till you\'ve bedded at least one female. Ok? That\'s all I ask in that respect.\"

\"I promise. I love what he does to me. That first time he kept asking over and over if it was what I really wanted. I finally had to tell him to shut up and fuck me. I guess that was a little more than you needed to know huh?\" Harry said blushing. He really wished he would stop that. He had blushed more today than any other time in his life. \"Speaking of that day Hermione was supposed to have been waiting for me in the hall. I wonder what happened to her. She was gone when I finally came out.\"

\"She was otherwise occupied I am guessing I am also guessing that you were not the only one watching that night. She seems to have.... gotten a few ideas of her own and is.... currently testing a few.\" She really was trying for tactful. \"And Harry.... you can tell me anything you want. In fact I will likely be asking you about the experience. I\'m curious. Sorry.”

\"That\'s ok. It feels good to talk about it. I have never experienced anything so freeing in all my life. Like I don\'t have to be the strong hero always saving the world.\" Harry thought for a moment, it finally dawned on him what Lissa had said about Hermione. \"Hermione... is testing a few? With whom? Not Ron he would have told me if he had finally gotten the courage to tell her how he felt.\"

\"Let\'s just leave it at not Ron. If she chooses ell ell you then that is her business. I may be nosy but...I\'m not telling. Harry...you have a wonderful support network here of friends and family who love you and want to see you happy. You are not in this alone. You never were.\"

\"I know that. Sometimes though I can’t help but to feel alone. That prophecy and all. I am the only one who can defeat Voldemort. har hard to share that kind of burden.\" Harry said, quietly.

\"I kind of figured.... I mean, we can only imagine what it\'s like but we will never really know. Still, we also can share with you and that usually makes everyone\'s burdens easier. Gods! I sound like a commercial for Hallmark or something! Not at all like a Snape.\" She giggled.

Harry smiled. “It is nice to have a sister.\" Harry said hugging Lissa. \"Ok now give. Who is Hermione with?\"

\"Sorry kiddo. Not telling. That is up to her. Now...how about some more lessons?\"

Harry groaned, \"Oh All right. I\'ll just have to go bother Hermione later. What did you want to do?\"

\"Try to keep me out kiddo. You\'re doing tremendously better but you still need work.\"

\"All right.\" Harry cleared his mind of everything he could.

Lissa paused. \"Harry, do you know how to meditate?\"

\"What to you mean like mantras, sitting in uncomfortable positions and stuff? No, I don\'t, why?\"

\"No... Not like that. Do you have a favorite tea?\"

\"Not really. Tea is tea isn\'t it?\" Harry said.

She laughed. \"There\'s peppermint tea, chamomile, clover, lemon, cranberry, raspberry, etc. There is quite a difference.

\"Uh, I don\'t know then.\" Harry said a little confused. \"What does tea have to do with meditation?\"

\"Patience. Tell me.... If you had everything you needed to make a cup of tea. What would you do? Describe how you would make the tea.\"

\"I would boil some water, put the tea leaves in a pot then pour the boiling water over them let them steep. Then pour the tea through a strainer into a cup. Add sugar and lemon. And I would have a cuppa\' tea.\"

\"Ok... now close your eyes. Picture in your mind a teapot floating in front of you. The water is in it already and there is also a fire on which to boil the water. Reach out with your hands right now and imagine every little detail, the feel of the kettle, and the warmth of the fire. Imagine and visualize the smell of the steeping tea. Pour the tea in a cup. Can you feel the warmth of the tea? Can you smell it? Add your sugar and lemon. Take a drink. Can you taste it?\"

Harry tried to do what she said, but after a moment he opened his eyes \"I feel silly.\" He said

\"Harry...do you trust me?\"

\"Yes, I trust you. You know I do.\" Harry said.

Lissa touched his mind bringing him into hers and taking him through the process. Through her he felt the kettle, smelled the tea and eventually he tasted it. They were going through all the motions together.

\"Wow.\" He said softly.

\"This will allow you to visualize much more clearly with practice, it also helps to calm and focus your thoughts.\"

\"That makes a lot more sense then telling me \'clear your mind, Harry\'.\" Harry smiled again.

\"He teaches the best way he knows how. Sometimes it simply requires another method. I\'m glad it helped. I got this from reading \"Shogun\", its called drinking tea from an empty cup. Try it on your own now. Don\'t proceed till you can smell, taste and touch each step. Ok?\"

\"Ok.\" Harry closed his eyes again. Now that he knew what to do it was easier. It still took a while but finally he could taste the tea in his mouth feel the heat of the cup and smell the sharp tang of the lemon.

\"Excellent! Now... with that in mind...\" She began to slip into his mind looking about.

Harry felt her slip into his mind. He kept his focus on the tea and nothing else.

After a few minutes, Lissa slipped back out. This time he had successfully kept her at bay! \"Excellent Harry! Now...feel like facing my husband?\" She gave him a peck on the cheek and stood.

\"Ok, yeah.\" Harry said. He was ready to push the limits. \"Might as well try. I have never been able to keep him out very long before.\"

**Severus? Want to test Harry a bit? He managed to keep me out and wants to see how he\'d fair against the master. **

Severus chuckled. **I would love to play around in the boy\'s mind. ** Severus walked into the conservatory and found his wife and Potter sitting close together.

Lissa smiled a welcome to him. \"Be on your guard Harry.\"

\"Ok Potter, show me what you can do.\" Severus pointed is wand at the so called dark haired savior of the wizarding world and called out the spell, \"Legilimens.\"

Severus found Potter sipping tea. He went around and around inside the boy\'s mind but at every turn all he found was damned Harry Potter sipping tea. He put a little more effort into breaking the vision. Severus would not give up. Too soon though Severus began to grow tired, but he was happy to see that the vision of Potter quietly drinking tea was beginning to waver as well.

\"Very good Potter. I suppose my darling wife taught you that?\"

Severus began to think of the possibilities of this. \"Darling, could the focus become misinformation or false memories?\" Severus said turning to Lissa.
“After he learns and masters the theory what he does with it is up to him Love.\"

\"This would be useful for Draco as well. Come to think of it, where has that boy gotten himself?\" Severus said only mildly worried.

\"Harry needs practice dear.\" **Draco is with Hermione. **

Severus’s head swung around, \"He\'s with whom?\" He said out loud unable to mask his surprise.

Harry looked confusedly from one adult to the other.

**Did I stutter? Now...calm yourself before Harry manages to piece things together. Ok? It is up to Draco and Hermione to tell, not us. **

Severus tried to recover himself and screw his bac back into its unreadable state. **Are they still together? **

**Yes. Seems we will have to be more careful in the future when we play our little games. Why did you want to know if they were still together? **

**He should be here learning this. Initiation is only a few days away. **

**Give them an hour or so. There will be time enough. **

**What do you mean more careful? We were seen? **

**Oh yeah.... by both Harry and Hermione if I am correct. Harry told me. I am guessing about Hermione. Seems our games were intense enough to awaken some interesting desires within them. Don\'t say a word to Harry about it! Ok? **

**Are you sure? **Severus had to turn away from the boy. **He wasn\'t making it up? **

**He was telling me about when we ran into the potion\'s room, you stalked me and tied me to the worktable. **

**Bloody hell... What was he doing there? **

**Damned if I know. The point now is moot. **

Severus sighed. He whipped around again calling the incantation that would allow him to see in to the boy\'s mind. \"Legilimens\"

Harry was surprised for a moment but quickly began to focus on his lessons. Severus saw the entire process for making tea, the smell, the warmth, and the taste. Harry focused on that with all his might.

Severus watched the process unfold then began working to force his own thoughts in. He made the tea cold, the sweetness salty, and the smell rotten, instead of herbal and fresh.

Harry fought him off but he was still too new to the technique to fend him off forever and his focus began to falter.

Severus smiled as he felt the focus finally break and was treated to the sight of Sirius Black\'s cock disappearing into Potter\'s eager and willing mouth. Severus retreated instantly and left Harry\'s mind.

\"What I just saw had better be totally consensual or you will lose that godfather of s ons once and for all.\" Severus said quickly.

Harry\'s face burned with humiliation and his eyes began to tear. \"It was! I swear it was.\" He was so angry and hated this man afresh. He looked to Lissa and shook his head.

Lissa held Harry to her and bent her head to whisper in his ear. \"It\'s ok. You knew you would need practice. You should also know by now that Severus really does care about you. I wish you\'d see that.\"

\"Good. You need to practice for the unexpected because I truly do not want to see that image again.\" Severus sat down on the other side of Potter. \"Pott... Harry...\" Severus began. \"Do you know why I am so hard on you and your friends?\"

\"Because you hate my father, Ron is a Weasley and Hermione is muggleborn?\"

\"No, Harry. You should know after seven years that has nothing to do with it.\" Severus looked into the startling green eyes of the boy, \"I want you to succeed. I push you so you will push your self to prove to your self that what I say about you is wrong that you are better, faster, stronger, smarter than I say you are.\"

Harry was silent. He wasn\'t sure about what Snape was saying but he *did* know the Snape had never lied to him.

\"Haven\'t you noticed that I don\'t push the Slytherins, besides Draco? Do you really believe that they are on the same level as you?\"

\"I don\'t know sir. I never thought about it. I just knew you hated me.\"

\"It\'s true that your father did some horrible things to me and it does make an excellent cover for my treatment of you and your friends but it is in the past does it really pay to punish the son for sins of the father? You are Lily\'s son as well.”

\"You loved my mother. Didn\'t you?\" How would this affect Lissa, Harry wondered.

\"In my way, I did but she loved James. I wasn\'t about to try to get her away from the man she loved so much. He loved her as well. I wish I could have saved your parents Harry.

Harry looked down mumbling \"thanks\". Right now he wanted to go and think about things a while but, neither had he and Snape ever talked like this.
“Your parents were good people Harry. They would be so proud of you. I hope you know that.\" Severus said quietly.

Harry tried to stop but ended up turning into Lissa\'s arms crying. She held and rocked him a bit. **Severus...I think we could both use your strong arms about us Please? **

Severus turned to her unsure. He put his arms around the boy and his wife. Was this what it was going to be like to have children of his own? Right now he was deathly afraid of the prospect but those thoughts flew from his mind as the door of the room crashed open and an angry Sirius Black strode into the room. He had his wand out in a moment and pointed it at Severus. \"Snape get the hell away from my godson!\"

Severus looked up at the man and raised an eyebrow, \"Which one, there are two of us you know.\"

\"Piss off Sirius! He\'s trying to comfort him as am I!\" Lissa snapped. \"You\'ve called both of us Snape.\"

Harry raised his tear stained face from Lissa\'s shoulder. \"It\'s ok Sirius. They weren\'t doing anything wrong or to hurt me. It\'s ok. She\'s my sister now, you know.\"

Sirius lowered his wand at Harry\'s voice. \"Are you sure? I can still hex them if you want.\"

\"No Sirius. Professor Snape was trying to comfort me and as Lissa pointed out earlier... your her godfather now too.\" Harry smirked at Sirius, his eyes twinkling.

Lissa winced. Right now they needed to see about getting along and not hexing each other into next week.

\"What?!\" Sirius said his eyes widening. \"Her godfather? No, it can\'t be? Please, Harry tell me it\'s a joke.\"

Harry snickered. \"Nope. \'Fraid not. When we did that little demonstration earlier she did something that made us family. Not sure what it was but...it\'s really nice to have a sister.\"

Sirius sank into a chair. \"Are you telling me that we are going to be stuck with the Snapes forever?\"

Lissa laughed aloud and looked to Severus.

\"Well Black, Lissa has done exactly half of what is necessary. Once they share blood it will be permanent. Which might not be a bad idea considering what Harry must accomplish.\" Severus smiled knowing how this would grate on Black\'s mind.

**What exactly needs to be done love? **

**It would be similar to our marriage bond. I think the blood drinking could be left out. ** Severus smiled. **I believe that it would be vows of Family. **

Using her link with Harry she touched his mind tentatively. **Harry? Would you like to make this permanent? **

He was a little surprised at her voice but answered. **Yes! I don\'t think that Sirius is going to like it though. **

Sirius looked between the three. \"Shit.\"

**You don\'t often get to choose your family Harry and if I understand things correctly.... you might not have to go back to the Dursley\'s ever again. **

Harry\'s eyes widened. \"You mean it? When can we do it?\"

\"What precisely are you going to do Harry?\" Sirius asked eyes narrowing.

Severus smiled, he was enjoying this more than any thing he ever had.

\"I\'m going to get a sister and a proper family! You\'re great Sirius. Don\'t get me wrong...I just...I want a family.\"

**Stop gloating you evil man! ** Lissa teased.

**Who me? ** Severus said innocently. \"Harry are you sure you want this? You are not just getting a sister but a surly, greasy git brother-in-law-as well.\"

**Yes you! ** Her mental laughter echoed in his mind.

“Snape is right, if you are stuck with her you will be stuck with him as well.\' Sirius said. \'I\'ll be stuck with him too.\" Sirius mumbled.

\"I want her as a sister. I want a family. Besides... I have a niece or nephew on the way and a brother-in-law. It\'ll be hard on him as well having family in Gryffindor and Moody will be an adopted father. What could be better Sirius?\"

Sirius sighed. \"If it is what you want Harry. I won\'t stand in your way; one thought though won\'t Voldemort find out? How will you explain that?\"
\"He won\'t if we\'re careful.\" Lissa said quietly, praying she was correct.

\"I shouldn\'t be involved for now. It is better that I am not. Sirius you know what they need to do, being this close to Initiation that powerful of magic will leave a residue that I can\'t afford right now. Voldemort has a sixth sense about these things.\" Severus said

\"Perhaps we should wait a bit then?\" She was concerned, having no desire to endanger his life.

\"No forge the link.\" Severus said, \"I think the sooner the better.\"

**What is wrong love? **

**Nothing, I just feel it will be better to have the full link before we need it. **

She nuzzled his neck. \"Alright. Let\'s go find Albus and make sure this done right.\"

\"I am going to find my protégé and the other two thirds of the Trio I am sure they will want to be involved.\"

\"Do you really think that Draco should be involved in this Severus? As you pointed out...the initiation is soon.\"

\"That is not what I meant I was talking about Ms. Granger and Mr. Weasley. Draco and I think will pay Diagon Alley a visit.\"

\"My apologies love.\"

\"None necessary darling, See you in a couple of hours then.\" Severus said kissing her breathless and sweeping from the room. He went upstairs to Draco\'s room and immediately felt the ward and the silencing charm on the Door. Breaking the charm just enough for the occupants inside to hear, he knocked on the door. It opened to reveal a very disheveled Draco Malfoy.

\"Um.... yes professor?\" He was trying to block most of the viewing space, hoping that Hermione wouldn\'t be seen.

\"You and I must make a trip to Diagon Alley and please inform Ms. Granger that Harry and Lissa require her presence in the conservatory. Meet me in the sitting room won\'t you. Ten minutes. Wonderful.\" Severus said all of this to a very surprised Draco Malfoy. Severus turned and walked away in search of Mr. Weasley.

Draco turned back into the room, his mind whirling. What was wrong now? \"Hermione. You\'re needed downstairs. See if you can find out how Snape knew you were with me. Please?\"


Ronald Weasley he found predictably in the kitchen. \"Mr. Weasley, Harry and Lissa require your presence please meet them in the conservatory.evereverus said shortly and then went to the sitting room to pour himself a scotch. It was barely afternoon but he needed the raw tastes of alcohol to bring him back to his senses.


Hermione joined everyone in the kitchen as confused as any. She watched Lissa and Harry talking earnestly with Albus Dumbledore.

\"Albus, can we have a few minutes of your time?\" Lissa approached with a grin.

\"Certainly. What did you require children?\"

\"Lissa is my sister now and we have decided to make it permanent, sir.\" Harry said matter of fact.

There were a number of gasps spread about the room that then began the whispers.

\"Harry? Are you sure about this?\" Asked a very shocked Hermione.

\"Very sure. We have already decided.\" Harry said.

Albus looked from one to the other. \"If you are sure then we may begin at once and let all here be a witness.\" Albus gestured broadly.

Harry was surprised. He was sure that they would have had to explain more to Dumbledore but Harry wasn\'t about to look a gift horse in the mouth.

\"What about Snape and Draco shouldn\'t they be here?\" Asked Ron quietly not really wanting the two there but felt he should at least ask.

\"They have their reasons for not being here Ron. It would be a bit dangerous at this time.\" Answered Lissa quietly.

Ron nodded and sat back.

Albus picked up a handkerchief and transfigured it to a small sharp knife. \"While family is most often those we are born to. There are the rare times when the bonds of family are made outside of blood yet blood cannot be ignored. Harry Potter and Melissa Snape have chosen to form the bonds of family and become brother and sister. Harry if you are sure then cut your hand and speak your heart.\" Albus handed Harry the knife and waited.
Harry looked up into Dumbledore’s bright blue eye then into Lissa’s gray ones. He pulled the knife sharply across his palm and as the blood welled he spoke from his heart, \"All I have ever wanted was a family to love me and care for me. If you will take me as your brother in blood as well as heart I will take you as my sister to love and care for, forever.\"

Lissa took the blade from Harry, thinking in the back of her mind that the probably won\'t be last time something like this was done and her hands were going to be a mess of scars. She drew the blade across her hand as well watching as the blood rose from the cut before pressing her freshly cut hand to his. \"Be my brother Harry Potter. Be blood of my blood and I will love you as my own. I too have always wanted a family to love and accept me. I have such in you. You have my love Harry Potter, my brother.\" Tears stung her eyes. She felt the bond made whole, real and permanent and the beauty of it was almost without comparison. The only one that surpassed it was her marriage bonding.

Tears brimmed in Harry\'s eyes his hand clutched his sister\'s he hugged her with his other. He dimly heard Dumbledore saying over them,

“Not flesh of her flesh
Nor bone of his bone,
But still miraculously
Their own.
Never forget
For a single minute:
They didn\'t grow under one heart,
But in each other’s.\"

Lissa held Harry to her and cried without shame or reservation. Some old scars were beginning to heal within.

Tonks nudged Moody. \"So...when are you going to officially adopt her. Huh?\"

There wasn\'t a dry eye to be seen in the entire room. Even grizzled old Moody could be seen furiously wiping his eyes with his gnarled fist.

Moody gave the impudent Tonks a dark look. \"Mind your own business Nymphadora.\"

Moody strode forward and put a hand on Lissa\'s shoulder, \"How about it girl?\"

\"You honestly want me for a daughter? Honestly?\" Her eyes showed her vulnerability.

\"I seem to be gainin\' fam\'ly by leaps and bounds. Might as well keep \'em.\" Moody said giving her his scary toothy smile.

\"I am more than delighted but I am a bit curious as to how this is going to work. Is it just you and I that need to do this or the three of us now?\"

Albus stepped forward. \"Harry is not the one being adopted in this case. It is Lissa and Moody establishing family now. If Alistor decides to adopt Harry as well then that will be done separately. Harry had a father here and although he is no longer with us... he is established. Lissa has no roots here save those she creates.\"

Moody took the knife from Lissa and ran it against his palm. \"Now I ain\'t one for lotsa’ words but this girl fills an old man\'s heart. If she can stand a grizzly old Auror I can take on a sassy grown daughter.\"

Lissa pressed her injured palm to his. \"I love you so dearly Alistor Moody and can think of none better to be my father. You fill my heart as well and heal many an old wound there. Be blood of my blood.... papa.\" Again a bond made real and permanent. This time the intense magic took it\'s toll on Lissa. She fainted still holding onto Moody\'s hand.