The Return

Well the votes for the siblings are in and everyone wanted at least two of Sev’s siblings to get along with him. Well keep the reviews coming. On with the story.

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When Harry next woke he found is husband sitting by the bed reading a potions journal.

“Did the Weasleys leave?” He asked.

“I am sorry they did. They said they would try to come visit next weekend though. I don’t think there will be a week where Molly doesn’t come to check on how her son and grandchild are doing.”

“Speaking of the baby, did you want to tell anyone in your family about it?”

“As much as I wish there was someone left speaking to me to tell that is not possible. You know about how my parents disowned me. Well at the time the twins were seven and the youngest was five. My parents lived in Italy, still do in fact, and decided that Hogwarts as a whole turned me to the Dark Lord. They forbid me to even speak to my siblings. They also decided it would be best if they sent them to a school closer to home.”

“Do they know about you being a spy?”

“I know my parents do. They sent a letter congratulating me on my narrow escape from Azkaban and asked how I managed to trick Dumbledore into vouching for me. Even went so far as to say that I had him under imperious. They told me that they told my siblings that I left them because I didn’t care about them. They also told them that I had gone missing in the second war and have hidden my existence quite well from them. They don’t even know I married as we were somehow able to keep it out of the paper.”

Harry got up and walked over, took the journal out of his husbands hands, and sat in his lap and draped his arms around his neck, “promise me we won’t be our parents, the biological ones, not adopted ones.”

“Oh, we will be our parents, we will just be the ones we adopted. We will not abandon our child for sake of a better life, or disown it because they made one very large mistake. That I can promise you.”

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Later that night the two were sitting at the head table waiting for the students to arrive. They sat, as the always did, with Sirius and Remus, talking about how the rest of their day went, and what they had planned for the term. Harry chanced a look at the Potters and noticed that the parents looked like they wanted to be anywhere but where they were. He could feel the guilt rolling off them when he reached out with his empathy powers and remembered Sev told him that Molly and Arthur had told them about his past with the Dursley’s. He had never been so thankful to the two in his life and knew if he had told them he might of forgiven them after seeing their initial reactions to the news, but now he hoped they would back off a bit and give him some space to adjust to things.

He had talked it over with Sirius and while the two were not ready to forgive they wanted to start the process soon as it was not good for the soul to harbor these kinds of feeling of hate. He also told Sirius it might make him feel better to just hit James, it worked for him. Remus and Severus decided they would do what ever made their spouses happy and in time would also forgive the Potters, but only when Harry and Sirius did.

Harry also decided that while he would forgive his once parents, he didn't think he would ever be able to call them mum and dad. Arthur and Molly were his mum and dad, Lily and James gave up that right when they decided he wasn't as important as whatever it was they left for.

Just then the students started entering the hall some looked up at the head table and waved to their favorite professors, who would wave back. It was decided this year that since Minerva was gone Remus would take to post as head of Griffindor and Deputy Headmaster, so he was the one to lead the students in. However before he could call the first name the headmaster stood up and called for everyone’s attention.

“As you can all see there are some teachers up here who you all thought to be dead. It has been discovered that they did not die, but moved to another country. They are back and brought their three children with them, which will be sorted with the first years. Mitch will be joining us as a first year, Alex as a fourth year, and Cody as a seventh year. Now let the sorting begin.”

With that the first student was sorted into Ravenclaw. A Linda Meyers was sorted into Slytherin and Harry just stared at her a moment. She resembled Sev a little. Had his same color of hair, high cheekbones, and black eyes. He thought that was a little strange, but snapped out of those thought when he heard, “Potter, Alex” he listened as the students whispered to each other about how this one was related to Harry, he was well liked among the students for distracting Severus when he was about to catch them out when they weren’t supposed to, as long as it wasn’t dangerous, usually setting up a prank. He snapped out of his thought when he heard the hat shout “Ravenclaw!” Then came Cody’s turn to be sorted and soon the hat yelled “Hufflepuff!” and then came Mitch who put the hat on and his sorting almost made Harry fall out of his chair and did make a couple of teachers spit out the water the had just drank, Severus included, for the hat shouted, “Slytherin!” Mitch got up and ran over to the Slytherin table and sat next to Linda.

Harry looked down at the adult Potters to get their reaction and while they looked surprised they looked like they were ok with the placement of their three children. Just then Sirius leaned over and whispered how odd it was that the four of James’s children ended up one in each house, and Harry had to agree with him it was kind of strange.

Once the sorting and feast were finished Albus stood up and of course introduced the new teachers, but then began another announcement, “The prank war between teachers and students will continue like always, however as we found out earlier today Harry is expecting a child and I ask if you even think the prank may harm him or the baby you warn him ahead of time.” The prank war had started as a way to create unity between houses and continued when every one including the teacher decided it was a great way to relieve stress.

The students were excited to hear Harry was pregnant, after he and the potions master were married Snape mellowed out a lot and they soon found themselves liking the new him. He was still strict in class, but actually took the time to explain that it was to keep them on their toes and paying attention so there would be less dangerous accidents, outside class he could actually be seen laughing and pulling pranks with his husband and the DADA professors and acting almost human. Though students always prayed they weren’t on the receiving end of those four’s pranks. They were glad the potions master and his spouse were going to have a child, those two deserve the most happiness after all they gave up to protect them during the war.

Soon the headmaster said it was time for bed and the students all obeyed and went to their dormitories for a good night sleep and some prank planning.

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It had been a week since school started and Harry was sitting in the great hall eating toast with Remus. Their husbands were planning a prank to get the whole school, teachers included, in the dungeons, and Severus refused to let Harry help plan until the baby was fed, so Remus offered to keep him company, the two would work out the kinks in their husbands plans when they were finished.

They were enjoying a quiet conversation when suddenly the doors flew open and three people walked in looking really pissed. The only male was the first to speak, “Where is Severus Snape.”

Albus knowing they couldn’t get past the wards and saw the resemblance between them and his potions master, and the fact that the potions master’s husband had left the room decided to answer them truthfully, “he is in his classroom in the Dungeons.” That said he went back to eating as if nothing happened while the three stormed off toward the dungeons.

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Harry and Remus had just burst through the door and had only enough time to tell Severus about the strangers when the door was thrown open and the three stormed into the room in true Snape fashion.

Severus stood and placed himself between his husband and the strangers, then got a good look at them. They were all tall, had black hair and high cheekbones, one of the women had black eyes like his own and looked remarkably like Linda Meyers, who along with her best friend Mitch Potter had followed the strangers into the room.

Mitch had apologized to Harry and Harry forgave him one day when he came to the hospital wing with a split lip and broken wrist, which Harry healed, courtesy of his older brothers who thought he had betrayed the family. The prank they dished out in retaliation was the only one they let James and Lily participate in. They also got three week of detentions with their parents. Harry was relieved to see that his once parents were ok with Mitch being a Slytherin. Though he wanted to hit them for making Slytherin out to be a bad house. Cody and Alex had to get their dislike for Slytherin somewhere and Harry would put his money on that it was from James.

Mitch also liked to spend time with is his oldest brother and his brothers husband. Severus let him and Linda brew potions with him and told funny stories about Harry when he tried to brew potions, he was pretty good at it, but his brother sucked at it. He also thought it was funny how Harry would sit on the counter and watch them, they all used stools, but Harry just hopped onto the counter. Deciding it would probably be safer over with his brother and brother-in-law, he grabbed Linda’s hand and made to drag her over there when he hear her ask, “mum what are you uncle Seth, and aunt Stephanie doing here?”

That made everyone in the room look at them and Selina Meyers answered her daughter’s question. “Well dear when I got your letter about your teacher Severus Snape, and asking us if he was related to us. I decided to round up your aunt and uncle and we were going to have a chat with our older brother.”

Linda wrote home and told her parents about how her friend had gotten beaten up by his brothers for being in Slytherin and about how she took him to the hospital wing and met his oldest and coolest brother and how the potions master would let them help brew potions outside class time. She didn’t tell them the potions master and Harry were married as she didn’t know her self at the time. She just found that out yesterday and couldn’t wait to write home and tell her parents, those two were her favorite adults in the school followed closely by the DADA teacher. And now she found out they were her uncles, this just kept getting better and better.

“Why don’t we take this into my private quarters, Linda, you and Mitch may come if you like. Remus will you take my classes and inform the children’s teacher that they will miss their classes today?” Said Severus.

He led them to his and Harry’s quarters and into the living room where his siblings sat on the couch and he and Harry sat in the two chairs, Linda sat in her uncle Seth’s lap and Mitch looked a little lost. Then he notice a smile cross Mitch’s face as he saw Harry pat his knee inviting Mitch to sit in his lap, which he was more than happy to do. Once everyone was settled comfortably Severus asked, “What is it you want to know?”

“Well, for one why did you leave?” asked Seth

“What did our parents tell you was the reason?”

“That you thought yourself better than the family and didn’t want to be with us any more. That you didn’t care about any of us, and would rather not know any of us.” Said the youngest, Stephanie, with tears rolling down her cheeks. She had really missed her oldest brother, when she was little and her parents told her she was to little to ride a broom or horse he would sneak her out of the house and take her for a ride with him. He was the one who taught her how to fly and ride a horse when her parents would rather be at parties. He had raised them all until he left, their parents preferred to be away from them most the time and when he left they were left with nannies that didn’t care about them.

“I made a huge mistake at the end of my sixth year and took the dark mark of lord Voldemort.” Sev began and watched as his sibling’s and the children’s faces filled with horror. “I realized my mistake too late and went to Dumbledore and offered to spy for him in the war. He accepted and I went home for the summer. Well unfortunately mum saw the mark a week into the break and told dad. I couldn’t just tell them I was a spy, if any one found out my life and the lives of many others would be forfeit. They disowned me and told me if I ever came near any of you again they would kill me themselves, that I was nothing but a deatheater and didn’t deserve to live. I left and went to Albus and he took me into his house for the summer and started to train me incase I ever needed to fight my way out of any situation if I was ever discovered. When Harry defeated Voldemort as a baby Albus knew I had gotten my masters in potions and asked me to teach here at the school. I was still teaching here when Voldemort rose a second time and even helped Harry defeat him. I tried to contact mum and dad after he was defeated for good, but they told me that I was evil and had no right to contact them and renewed their threats if I ever contacted any of you. So I decided the best thing to do would be to get on with my life now that I didn’t have to spy any more and that was what I did.”

When he finished his story he looked at his siblings and saw they were all crying, but Stephanie was crying the hardest. Ever the big brother he got up and went to comfort her as Linda went to sit in Harry’s lap with Mitch. When she was finally settled he looked at the other two and saw they looked like they could use some comfort too. He had forgotten what it was like to be a parent to them. he was ten when the twins were born and twelve when Stephanie was born. Soon the four were all hugging each other and the three younger ones were whispering how sorry they were their brother had to go through that.

Finally once the tears had stopped Selina noticed her daughter was no longer there and looked over at the chair Harry occupied with the two children. Seeing her daughter was ok she sat back on the couch with the other two and Severus sat back in his chair. Linda stayed in Harry’s lap, but Mitch went and sat in Severus’s. Selina wanting to know about her brother asked, “so what have you been doing all this time, a spouse, any children?”

Before Severus could answer Linda answered for him, she realized that if Severus was her uncle so was Harry and she couldn’t wait to see her mum’s, uncle Seth’s, and aunt Stephanie’s faces when they learned their older brother shared a soul bond with Harry Potter. “He is married to Mitch’s brother, Harry, and they are expecting their first child!” She exclaimed.

Seth looked over at Harry and liked what he saw, the young man seemed quiet with a calm temperament, but seemed to have a mischievous glint in his eyes and was good looking. Perfect for his older brother and could see his sisters agreed, they noticed there was quite an age gap but didn’t care, it was obvious he loved their brother and their brother loved him.

“So are you from a pureblood family?” asked Selina, the three siblings hadn’t caught onto who we was yet and Mitch, Linda, and Severus couldn’t hold back their laughter. It wasn’t everyday someone didn’t recognize Harry and there were three people in the room who didn’t.

“Well, we are both from a pureblood family, but are half bloods as our mum was a muggleborn.” Said Mitch through his laughter.

“Well, what is your sur name?” asked Stephanie wondering what everyone found so funny, Harry looked familiar, but she couldn’t remember where she had seen him.

“His last name was Potter and now it is Potter-Snape.” Said Severus and started laughing again as he saw all three of his siblings, as one, look at the scar on Harry’s forehead. And laughed even harder when he heard Harry sigh, and say, “why do they always look at the scar first?”

That got every one in the room laughing and soon they were all talking about the past and what each had missed out on, while the house elves brought them their meals. They never realized how late it got until they noticed Mitch and Linda were asleep. The three younger sibling stood and Seth took Linda and laid her on one end of the couch while Severus laid Mitch on the other and Harry got a couple of blankets to cover them with as Severus walked his brother and sisters out with promised to write and visit them soon.