The Truth Behind The Past

Title: The Truth Behind The Past
Author: angel
Summary: This is a father and son story involving Severus, and the romance between Harry and Draco.
Rating: NC-17
Pairing(s): H/D
Beta: Vittani
Author’s notes: If you do not like this story, please do not continue to read it. This story will be mpreg later in the story.
*Disclaimer: I do not own HP, and I am not making any money off of this story. I write this story for my enjoyment.

NOTE: THIS STORY IS NOW BETA’D BY Vittani. If you do not like how it is written, do not continue reading this story.
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CHAPTER 1: RETURN TO HELL

It was the end of the school year. And as always one journey ended while another began. Harry always dreaded going back to his aunt and uncle’s home for the summer. He knew that this summer was going to be hell. The abuse had been getting worse each year, why would this year be any different? He was afraid to tell his friends what happened to him every year, they were family to him but he didn‘t need them watching him every minute of every day. Harry was forced out of his thoughts when the car stopped at the house. Vernon was seething for he’d had to pick Harry up, again!

He yelled, “Boy, get inside the house NOW!”

Harry ran into the house as fast as he could, after collecting his school things and Hedwig from the back seat. He went to drop off his things and then went back downstairs, he knew Vernon would be waiting for him. His face purple with pure rage, Vernon punched Harry in the stomach and he landed heavily on the floor. Then his uncle began to strike/beat (choose which) him with anything that was in arms reach. Eventually due to all of the abuse Vernon had done, Harry passed out for at least ten minutes. He took Harry’s school things and threw them into Harry’s old bedroom under the stairs. With his thoughts occupied, Vernon forgot about a certain animal. Hedwig, her smart self, had some how gotten free from her cage and was able to get out of the house. She was upset that her master and friend was getting hurt by that large fiendish man.
Vernon picked Harry up, threw him into his bedroom, took one last look, and left. It was time for dinner and Vernon, Dudley, and his wife were eating Petunia‘s cooking distastefully for the train came to the station late which meant that Harry was unable to cook for them. Vernon was trying to think up a ruthless plan for his freak of a nephew. Then it hit him, he was going to make the freak feel weak and afraid; it showed in his face
Is this bit meant to be showing in Vernon’s face or Harrys? If Harry’s I’d say write something like ‘until it showed in the boys face whenever he looked at him.’ If Vernon I’d put a comment about his face after the then it hit him comment. Like ‘then it hit him, there was a cruel gleam in his eyes as he thought about making the freak feel weak and afraid.’

After dinner he said to his wife and son that they should take a nice relaxing trip because the weather seemed to be wonderful. They began thinking of where to go. There were two places that they had in mind, either the States or the South of France. .

They also decided to ask if Marge and her dog Ripper would also like to come along. Vernon called Marge to ask her if she wanted to go. She then asked Vernon if that prat I’d emphasize this would be going and he replied ‘no’, which made her happy. His job had rewarded him with some much needed holiday time for all his hard work over the past few years. He was ready to pack and go on holiday when his boss called saying he was needed at work for a couple of days, (give a reason) an important client had rescheduled a meeting and this was the only time he could make it. With a frown he called the airline to cancel one of their tickets. They had decided to go to the States for a couple of weeks and they were thinking to go on a cruise from Florida to Hawaii, then to another destination such as Cancun, Mexico. Staying at home would also give him time to follow through with his plans.

He makes a good point about the cruise, A company called Archers does a cruise around the Hawaiian islands, Fly to Honolulu, then ship to Oahu and so on, Hilo, Hawaii, Kahului, Maui, Nawiliwili, Kauai, Kona and then back to Hawaii. Or they do another one that starts in San Diego, then Mexico, Costa Rica and then Colombia. Using the Hawaiian islands one might be best

Vernon took his family to the airport and said as he was seeing them off that he would see them in a couple of days and that he would call them when he got home from work. That night he came home smelling of alcohol (he had been at the bar getting drunk, work had been especially hard today). He went upstairs into Harry’s bedroom with an object in his hand. With fury he started hitting Harry, who couldn’t help crying out in pain. He then tied Harry to the bed and removed all of Harry’s clothes and proceeded to rape the boy. Harry screamed for help, but no one heard him apart from his owl Hedwig. She had no clue where to go. Should she go to Ron’s or Hermione’s or Hogwarts’?

She knew Hogwarts would be the best place to go as one of the teachers or the Headmaster would be there to help her beloved Master. It was a long way there, but she knew she was at the Headmaster’s window, so she was making noise to be let in. The Headmaster heard the noise, once he had let her in he knew something was wrong. He called the only person he could count on. Professor Snape came to his office with a dark scowl on his face because he was in the middle of a potion which took 3 days to make and now he had to do it all over again.

“I need you to do me a favor.” Albus said the moment the Potion’s Master was through the door.

Snape had a sinking feeling that it had to do with Harry Potter. Instantly he said ‘No!’ to Albus, but it was a lost cause because Albus did the guilt trip thing and said that he, Snape was the only one who could do this task. After a few moments in which the Professor tried to resist, he eventually agreed and went to his office and threw out the potion he had been making for Voldemort. He then went to his room to change into muggle clothing, how he hated muggle clothing but he needed to don it so that he could go to Little Whinging to check up on the damn Potter brat. By that time, at least 95% of Harry’s body was bruised and he had blood running from between his legs that his Uncle had then spread over the rest of him with his hands.

There was also a liquid mixed with the blood that was also spreading down his legs and onto the bed. Harry didn’t dare move because his whole body was aching and pain bloomed in certain places whenever he did, not that he could moe much anyway as he was still tied to the bed.

Ron and Hermione were at the Burrow with Ron’s family. They had sent a letter to Harry but had gotten no response. They began to think something had happened to Harry. The letter they had sent returned unopened. So they decided to write to the headmaster instead.


The Headmaster had received their letter and was even more worried he began to think that Harry was in real danger. He hoped that Severus got there quickly. The headmaster went to the Weasley’s home to tell Ron and Hermione that he had sent someone to check on Harry and for them not to worry.


Vernon was getting ready to call the airline to get a new ticket to Florida where his family was. The next plane wasn’t until 11pm. Before he left he decided to indulge himself a little more, he got great satisfaction from inflicting welts and cuts all over his freak of a nephew’s body and stabbing the boy in the back near to his spine with a ten inch butcher’s knife gave him an obscene amount of pleasure. Vernon really hoped that the freak would die from it. With that, he went to clean himself up, after all he couldn’t go walking about in blood stained clothes even if the freak deserved it, and then he left about 10:05PM to go to the airport. Twenty-five minutes later, Severus arrived at the house. He had taken the train to get to Harry’s relative’s home and Severus saw that no lights were on. .

He rang the bell and there was no answer. Severus used his wand to unlock the door, walked in, and looked around to see if there was anybody there. He saw the bloody butcher knife in the drain, but saw no one home. So he went upstairs and saw a door with tons of locks on it, so he thought it was a storage area. He walked past it to begin searching room to room for Potter.

The first room was filled with toys. Two rooms were left. One looked like a guest room from the look of it. The other room was Potter’s aunt and uncle's room with pictures on the table of Potter’s aunt, uncle, and cousin but there were no pictures of Potter anywhere.
Severus walked out of the room and headed back down the hall and then he caught a scent on the air, a smell so revolting he almost gagged. The smell was coming from the locked door. He unlocked the door and the smell became overpowering and he knew with certainty, having used it in many potions that it was blood. He turned on the lights and there was Potter, laid naked on his bed with blood everywhere. A lot of blood was coming from the boy, most of it seemed to be coming from his back. Snape ran to him. He was blindfolded and tied to the bed. Severus untied him and undid the blindfold. Severus was calling Harry’s name, not realizing he was calling out ‘Harry’ and not ‘Potter’ but he got no answer anyway. Severus looked for all of Harry’s stuff and found it under the stairs; the door was not locked. Severus communicated to Albus through the fireplace, he told him that Harry had lost a lot of blood and they would be at the hospital wing in a moment. He then used floo powder to get to Hogwarts to have Poppy check over Harry.

Chapter 2

When Severus and Harry arrived in Albus’s office, there waiting for them were Poppy and the Headmaster. Poppy checked Harry over and found he had lost a large amount of blood. Due to an infection and blood loss, Harry fell into a coma with a fever of 103.5F. The abuse and the rape that Harry’s Uncle had inflicted upon him would leave him with many a mental scar. The cuts wouldn’t leave a physical scar if Poppy could do anything about it. Poppy examined Harry even more and found large amounts of damage were done by the hands of his uncle which left the healer in fury.


Vernon arrived eight hours later at the airport in Hawaii from England. He arrived at the hotel around seven AM and found the room he shared with his wife. He slipped in to bed having no idea what was going on, on the other side.

If people looked through the hospital door they would see an old grandfather sadly looking at his grandson lying there motionless. Minerva, still unknowing of the event, walked to Albus’s office to have their usual tea together. She and albus had been married for almost 50 years, they had had many experiences together, of both sadness and happiness. She came into his office and found no one there. portrait told her he hurried off to the hospital wing.

Minerva saw Albus and called out his name. He saw her face full of worry and walked over to hug her. She asked him if he was ok, almost in tears. He replied that he was not hurt. She saw no blood on him but she still wanted to know why there were blood spots in his office. He then stepped to the side to show her Harry lying on the bed. Harry’s body was covered in bruises and cuts. Seeing this Minerva went into a towering rage demanding to know what happened. So Albus told her what seemed to have happened. They can only guess what happened. Minerva burst into tears upon seeing Harry who was like her grandson lying there so pale and helpless. Albus held her close to him he knew what she was thinking. Her thoughts were on the daughter they had lost years ago.

Minerva remembered what Ann looked like: her beautiful red hair and the greenest eyes, just like Harry’s. It made her even sadder. Minerva wished she could go back in time to save her daughter. It was during the war between good and evil, May 17, 1963. It was the day after Ann's 3rd birthday, and it would always stay in her mind.
That was the day Ann died. Minerva and Albus had left her with the house elf until they could return. The deatheaters attacked many houses and some of them went to Albus and Minerva’s home. Upon their arrival back home, Albus and Minerva saw it destroyed. They ran inside to find Ann, but the house had been burned to the ground, only a shell remained. They didn’t find the bodies of Ann or of the house elf. A few hours later, Aurors found the house elf’s body near Ann's room, but found no Ann. Albus and Minerva cried for their loss. Things were too much to take and Minerva fainted, Albus catching her before she could hit the floor. On that same day, a muggle woman found a little girl. The little girl was dirty and small cuts were found on her body, so the lady brought her to the hospital to be checked out. The doctor checked her out and said she was relatively unharmed. She was put into an orphanage soon after. Years later, she was adopted into the Evans family and became Lily Ann Evans. Eight years later, her Hogwarts letter arrived saying she was invited to attend Hogwarts in September 1, 1973. Remembering the death of her daughter made Minerva cry even more, but it also showed how much they loved Harry. Harry had been in the coma for three weeks, and now it was July 31st when two letters came. One came for Albus and the other came for Severus Snape. Albus read his letter from Lily. What he read would shock and confound him. Severus Snape was Harry’s father not James Potter. At the end of the letter Lily asked Albus if he would give Severus the letter after he read his.

Chapter 3 Lily Letter
After Albus read his letter from Lily, he walked to Severus’s room to give him Lily’s other letter. He knocked on the door. Severus snapped out of thought of the past, the time when he and Lily were together. When he heard the knock Severus told whoever it was to come in. Albus told him that he had gotten a letter from Lily. She’d told him to give Severus the letter after he’d read his own. Severus opened the letter and read:

My Dearest Severus,
If you are reading this, it means that James and I are dead. This may be a shock to you, but you must know the truth. Harry is not James’s son. You are Harry’s father. Please take care of him. I am very sorry I did not tell you. The day I went into your lab to tell you I was pregnant, things went wrong. I asked what you were doing, you yelled at me and then I saw the mark. I ran into James and I told him he was the only one I could trust. He said to me that he would help me and we got married. I had fallen in love with James by that time. He thought I still loved you and I did still love you as well. And I always will.

Love Always,
Lily Potter

Severus was stunned that the student he hated was his own son. Severus felt so bad for all those years that Harry was at Hogwarts and he tried to make his life miserable because he wanted to keep the boy from letting his head get big. He looked at the letter and started to cry. After composing himself, he went to the hospital wing to Harry, his son, he thought amazed. Minerva was in the hospital wing still with Harry thinking how much she loved him and wishing that she didn’t have to see him this way. Severus looked at Minerva, before sitting down himself, they both continued to watch over Harry. It was 6:30PM that same day, and Madame Pomfrey was checking on Harry’s temperature which had risen to 104.7F. Harry was now in critical condition. If Harry’s temperature went up any more he would die from the heat. Poppy asked Severus if he had any more fever reducing potions. Severus frowned, he was out so he had to brew some more, he was upset that he had to leave Harry but he knew how necessary the potions were. He asked Minerva if she would watch Harry and she replied yes. She looked at Harry thinking he looked so angelic just like his mother. Minerva was saddened to think that someone so innocent had lived with so many problems.

At the Burrow, Hermoine and the Weasleys were full of worry for Harry. They had not heard from the headmaster since the man had left earlier. Molly said to everyone that if they did not hear from the headmaster they would call through the fireplace in the morning. It was dinner time at the Burrow, but no one could eat much, they were too worried. Bit by bit, it got darker, they stayed up for hours waiting to hear about Harry. They finally went to bed after midnight. Molly told herself she would call in the morning.

chapters 1-3 was beta 7-10-07 sorry for the delay