A Chance at Normal

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the recognizable characters even though
they may seem to be really out of character






Disclaimer: I
don't own any of the recognizable characters even though they may seem to be
really out of character. All from the

wonderful mind of JK Rowling.

A/N: I will not be able to post my chapters for probably the next month because
our Internet was disconnected and because I am

not making any money from writing these wonderfully entertaining stories that I
like to write it will probably be off until I can come

up with the money. Oh well hope that I am not out of commission too long. On
with the story.

Chapter 5:

Harry strained to hear who was talking. ~That voice sounds so familiar~ Harry
said to himself. He listened in the darkness

desperately wanting to hear another person talking.

Severus for the first time in his life started talking without any inhibitions.
He wasn't quiet sure of what to say at first but that

annoying little voice seemed to give him the kick he needed.

" Well, I am not really sure where to start. I don't even know if you can
hear me. Poppy fixed you up just like always. ink ink that

she has treated you more than any other person. Well, except for me. You
probably know that I have gone back to being a spy for

Dumbledore. I guess that you are wondering why your greasy git of a professor
is taking the time to talk to you. The only thing that

I can say is that there has been sort of a revelation that concerns you and me.
Before I try and tell you what that is there are some

things that you need to know." He stopped there to decide where he should
start.

Harry had heard every thing that Professor Snape had said and to say the least
he was very confused. ~What kind of revelation was

it and why did it involve me? ~He asked himself. The darkness around him seemed
to get colder and he could feel himself slipping

away from where ever he was. ~No, I can't leave yet I want to hear what Snape
has to say. ~ I wonder why he is talking to me now

he thought to himself. ~Probably thinks that I can't hear him. ~ What ever was
trying to pull him away had stopped and he could

hear Snape starting to talk again.

" I guess that the only way that you could possible understand is if I
started from where is all began." He said as he started talking

t tht the past and slowly slipping onto his memories.

"It all began on my fitraitrain ride to Hogwarts at the start of my first
year. When I had gotten on the train I sat down in the last

compartment where I could be alone. About half way to Hogwarts the door slid
open and a small girl with long wild red hair and the

most intense emerald green eyes ran in and slammed the door shut.

******** Flash Back******

Severus looked up from his potions book to see a girl run into his compartment.
"What are you doing in here?" he asked sneering at

the girl.

The girl turned around and looked him straight in the eyes "I needed to
get away from some pompous idiot who thinks that I should

jump off the train because I don't deserve to go to Hogwarts." She huffed
indignantly, seeing the indifferent look on his face she

stood up and went and sat next to him. "Are you like him too? Do you think
that I shouldn't be aloud to come to school just

because my parents are muggles?" She asked him her eyes shinning with pent
up anger.

Severus sat there not really knowing what to say. Growing up he was always told
that Muggleborns were not worthy and were

below them. He never asked why this was he just accepted it. And now there was
a fiery redhead that was making him question what

he was taught. " I don't know you so how could I judge you." And for
the first time in hife hfe he realized something. " I think that

if you can do magic then you have the right to go to school to learn more about
it. It doesn't matter who your parents are." Severus

knew that if his father ever found out what he just said he would probably
disown him and then kill him. He just hoped that never

happened.

The girl sat there watching him intently, " Well I am glad that you think
for yourself." She held out her hand to him. " My name is

Lily Evans, it is nice to meet you."
veruverus cracked a small grin and shook her hand, " Severus Snape."

***End Flashback***

" That was the first time that I met your mom. She made me realize that
what my parents had ingrained in my head was not right and

that moment changed my life." Severus sighed he wondered if Harry could
hear him. He remembered what Poppy had said about

his injuries and he hoped with every grain in his body that Harry came out of
the coma all right. He still had his whole life ahead of

him and if he could help it, it would be a whole hell of a lot better. He
wondered how long the abuse had been going on. The more

that he thought about it the more instances that he remembered that occurred
through the years that pointed to Harry's relatives

abusing him. As the saying goes 'hindsight is 20/20'. " What a lot of
people didn't realize was that your mom and I stayed friends

all through Hogwarts, and we dated our last two years. I loved your mom more
than anything and the week after graduation I asked

her to marry me. She said yes and we started making plans. We had to keep
everything quiet so that my father wouldn't find out. He

was in Voldemort's Inner circle of Deatheaters. My mother on the other hand was
just the opposite. She hated what my father

had become but there was nothing that she could do to stop him, she knew of our
engagement and was so happy that I had found

someone. But our happiness did not last long. My father found out about Lily
and threatened me. He told me that if I married her

then he would personally had her over to Voldemort for his own personal
entertainment. The only way that I could save Lily was to

renounce everything that I believed in and follow in his footsteps as
Deatheater. The night after I was marked Lily had came over to

talk, I told her that I couldn't marry her and she grabbed my arm and saw the
dark mark. She looked at me with tears in her eyes

and turned and walked out the door. I let her go. I thought that I was doing
the right thing; I thought that I was protecting her. She

married James two weeks later. Seven months later you were born and I figured
that she had cheated on me with James. That was

why it seemed like I hated you when you came to school. You were the proof of
her betrayal. I should have trusted her. I never

found out what she had come to talk about that night. But I know what it was
now. She was coming to tell me that we were going to

have a baby. You were that baby. I didn't know until last night when the
Headmaster came down last night and wanted me to make

a potion for him. He had asked me to make the Paternity Potion. After I saw the
results I was shocked, after all these years I found

out that I had a son. I promise as soon as you are better I will make it up to
you for everything that I have put you through. I hope

that we can try and be a family.

Harry was really glad that he was already unconscious because if he were awake
he was sure that he would have fainted. He had no

idea how to feel about this. Everything in his life that he had ever been told
was a lie. Ever since he could remember he wished that

he had some family somewhere that would come and take him away from the
Dursley's and now he finds out that after all these

years he finds out that he has a father. And then it hit at what Snape had
said. He wanted to be a family; he wanted to be a father

toward him. That was when he realized that he was being given a chance at
normal. He wished that he would wake up. Something

was bugging him though.

If he was Snape's son then why did he look like James Potter?