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Deserving (Final Chapter)	By : tana97 Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Snape Views: 97732 -:- Recommendations : 3 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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Chapter 50

Neville was attempting to control the wizards and witches in his cave that were anxious to see their children get their magic. Neville had explained that all the children had their magic. They had simply been given muggle medicine to stifle their magic. He explained that Madam Pomfrey had been giving out this same exact antidote for decades. But this did not change the fact that the witches and wizards in the cave were shoving and trying to get into the curtained rooms where Severus and Poppy were administrating the antidote.

Harry decided it would go quicker if there were two curtained rooms. So he took out his wand and made a second one appear. Severus was quite peeved when his husband insisted he came out for a second and it wasn’t until he saw the second room that he understood Harry’s insistence on him stopping what he was doing.

Severus lowered his head and raised his eyes as if looking over some invisible glasses.

“Forgive me; I just want this all over with. I am grateful for your quick thinking. This will help speed up the process.”

Harry looked at him and understood. His husband had driven himself to the blinks of madness trying to give the children back magic that they had never lost in the first place. It all made sense now. This is why Single wanted to outlaw the children of the Marked Ones from going to Hogwarts. He knew that even when their magic was not apparent the Castle would not be fooled. He had not counted on the fact that the Castel had a mind of its own. Harry smirked.

“This won’t go any quicker if you don’t get in there,” he said pulling back the curtains for his husband to walk in.

***

When they got home Sly, Millicent and baby… that is Matthew were waiting for them.

“Is it really that easy?” asked Sly in haste.

Severus nodded as he closed his eyes in a feeling that resembled shame. He knew it was foolish but he could not help it. Why didn’t he check for the most obvious reasons for the children not to have magic? But how was he to know that St. Mungos would be using Muggle medicine. That was unheard of. He walked to his lab and was soon up with the antidote for Matthew. Sly and Millicent looked at each other and smiled.

“What happens now?” asked Sly turning to Harry.

“I get everything ready for Serena’s second birthday. You are coming; right? It is next Sunday.”

“Harry, the elections are next Tuesday. There is a lot riding on them. Single is going to go for the kill. This is his only chance. He has to get someone elected that will back up his and the Lang’s agenda,” admonished Sly.

“Look, my family has done everything it can possibly do to help the cause, but I’ll be damned if I let all this political mumbo jumbo mar my daughter’s birthday. And I will take no excuses. You must come,” said Harry with a menacing tone.

“Harry, I don’t know if that’s a good idea. You saw what happen at King’s party. They had picture. What will happen if they take a picture of Milly and Mat? Harry, I can’t expose them to that danger.”

“NO ONE is going to penetrate my security charms,” said Harry trying not to lose his temper. “Look, when Hermione, Ron and I were after to Horcruxes we learned some very good concealment charms.”

Sly and Millicent still did not looked convinced.

“Would I put you guy’s life in danger?” he said approaching Millicent for her support.

She looked at him and then looked at Severus. Severus and her eyes locked. Harry felt that they were having a private conversation but to the best of his knowledge neither of them was capable of this feat.

“Que sera; sera,” she said looking into her professor’s eyes.

Severus closed his eyes knowing that she was right: What will be, will be.

***

“Forgive me, Sir, but I do not understand why we have to delay my third pregnancy,” said Severus from the bench in front of the mirror in their bedroom. It was the morning of Serena’s second birthday. Severus was combing his long hair and Harry was feeling proud and possessive at the same time. Severus had not cut his hair after all these years. He knew that Harry liked the long silky black threads. Harry could see that it was no easy task to untangle the long locks every morning, but Severus never complained. Harry was brought back from this thought.

“Sir? Harry? Are you paying any attention to my words?” Severus looked at Harry through the mirror and could see Harry’s eyes claiming stake on Severus. He loved the feeling.

“I am sorry Severus, but I tend to tune out when you question my judgment,” said Harry walking to the armoire.

“Sir, I do not wish to be a nuisance, but you did promise I would carry three offspring in my womb.”

“Have I ever gone back on my word?”

Severus knew that it was a mute point. “Will you be plugging me, sir?” he asked through the mirror.

Harry shook his head as he walked towards Severus. He helped his husband up and into his arms. He kissed Severus’ nose and smile. “No, I have something better in mind. Something that I hope will satisfy your need,” he said as he sat Severus on the bed.

Severus had no idea what Harry was up to, but it always made him uncomfortable to know that his husband had bothered to do something for him. That was after all Severus’ job. He was pulled from his thought when he saw Harry pull out a little jewelry box from his pocket. He immediately felt his body go rigid. What was Harry up to?

Harry held out the small velvet box and began to explain: “You know how you would like something that told the world that you are mine and that I am proud to have you as my own?”

Severus looked blankly at him.

“And well the whole plug thing doesn’t work because unlike Amador no one can tell when you have it in.”

Harry waited for a reaction but none came.

“And I already explained why I can’t do the collar thing like Draco and Kings.”

Harry looked into Severus’ eyes but he could not read his expression. He could only hope he was not muddling up things.

“So… I thought this would be the perfect thing. People will know that it means that you belong to me and this is something that won’t hurt either of us. At least I don’t think it will,” said Harry a bit unsure of himself as he opened the little box.

Severus lowered his gaze from Harry’s eyes to the little open box. He could not believe what he was seeing. How could Harry think this was appropriate? This was something only decent good magical people wore. He looked back into Harry’ eyes searching for answers.

Harry thought it was as plain as daylight. He didn’t understand why Severus looked so confused.

“It’s a wedding band,” he said stating the obvious.

“Yes, sir, I can see that, but my question is why?”

Harry shrugged. “I never gave you one.”

“No and there is a perfect reason why you did not do so. This is a symbol for people like the Weasleys not for someone like me.”

Harry looked up at him and let a puff of air rumble his bangs. “You know, sometimes I think we have made so much progress then you go and say a stupid thing like this and I feel we are back to square one. So what does it take Severus Snape? What does it take to make you a worthy person? Because obviously saving all your little snakes. Giving them back their magic. Saving them from sure death. None of it seems to be good enough reasons for you. So PLEASE tell me, what does it take?” standing up and walking towards the mirror in frustration. He picked up the brush that Severus had been using. “You are your worst judge. I know of no one that deserves a symbol of decency more than you do.”

“Forgive me, Sir, I did not mean to make little of your gesture. I am simply not used to being treated this way.”

Harry turned to look at him with a shocked expression on his face. Severus could not believe he had just said that.

“Forgive me, yet again, Sir. I did not mean it that way. You have indeed been most generous with me.”

Harry looked at his shoes and then up at the ceiling. “All right then, no one said this would be easy and I decided a long time ago that I would not give up. So next on the agenda: getting Severus used to being treated with decency.” He looked up quizzically and said “Yep, I think that will do it.”

Severus understood the magnitude of his words. Harry had been treating him with great amount of respect and Severus had just annulled the effort. He went to his husband and tenderly kissed him and then embraced him placing their ears together. “You once said that we were a “pair of screw ups” I believe were the words you used. It was at that moment that I realized that as dysfunctional as we might be we are in this endeavor together.”

Harry disengaged from his husband and looked him in the eyes. He smiled and goofy childish smile and said: “yeah, we do make a dysfunctional couple, but somehow I don’t think it would have worked out any other way.”

Severus looked at Harry and after analyzing his husband’s words he said: “Indeed.”

Serena came in with a great big smile on her face and ran to Dada’s arms.

“No ready?” she asked seeing that her Dada was still in his pajamas.

“Ready? Ready for what?” asked Harry teasing his daughter.

“Papa! You no say to Dada?” she said in a reproachable tone.

“What exactly am I to tell Dada?” asked Severus playing along.

Serena wiggle herself out of Harry’s arms and walking towards the door began to call her big brother Richard. Richard was sure to know what was going on.

Harry and Severus heard as Richard reassured his sister that their parents did know that it was her birthday and that they had loads of surprises installed for her. When he noticed his dads looking at them he decided to make sure: “Right?”

Severus and Harry smiled and picked up the birthday girl parading her all the way down to the birthday breakfast. Serena got to sit at the head of the table and open her gifts from her dads, Richard and Kreacher. Harry had gotten her a baby doll that cried when you laid her down. Serena didn’t like the fact that her baby doll was crying and decided to remedy the situation. The doll never cried again. Harry did not understand what had happened and wanted to take the doll back and get her a working one.

“Serena, did you make the doll stop crying?” asked Severus.

“No cry,” she said with glee.

Harry gave her back her no crying doll.

Severus gave her a window box and explained that he would help her plant the seeds in the morning and that they would both take care of it and watch it grow.

“Now, Papa, now,” she said.

“Yes, Papa, let’s not make the birthday girl wait,” interjected Harry with a smirk.

So they all worked on getting the soil into the box and then allowed Serena to make little holes with a little spade and drop the seeds in. Then she used her little watering can and said: “Grow”

“No, the tiny seeds need time to grow. We will place the box in the kitchen window and watch it grow.”

Serena closed her eyes and scrunched up her face but before she could pull any more magic Severus said: “Why don’t you open Kreacher’s present?”

Serena immediately opened her eyes and looked for the present forgetting her intention with the window box.

***

The guest began to arrive after noon. Sly, Millicent and Mathew were the first to arrive closely followed by the Shacklebolt family. Richard, Matthew and Nicky went straight to the garden shed to get Harry’s old brooms. Harry, Sly and King got to them before they could get off.

“Hold on there,” said Kings grabbing two of the brooms away from the boys as Sly took the other one. “No flying at this birthday party. I am sure there will be plenty other things to do,” he said to the boys intimidating them with his height and voice.

“I will take those,” said Harry taking the brooms back into the shed and spelling it shut.

Serena watch as her brother and friends pouted and as soon as the grownups were distracted she closed her eyes and soon three tiny little brooms were flying out from the crack at the bottom of the garden shed door. They flew right into the boy’s fist. When they felt the tiny object in their hands they were about to lift their hands to see what the foreign object was when the brooms went back to their normal size leaving the kids holding the brooms at arm’s length. It looked as if they had just made them appear but lucky for them Severus was watching the whole thing play out and it only took a raised eyebrow to make Richard collect the brooms and hide them behind the shed.

Soon Hermione and Ron where there with Hugo who decided that if they could not use the broom they should play a game laser tag. He explained that in muggle world you used pretend guns but they could use their play wands. They were running all over the place and Serena just couldn’t keep up with them. She called her big brother who came right away thinking she was in distress.

“Ah, just leave her. She’s a baby. She can’t play with us,” said Hugo running to catch Nicky who was hiding behind the shed.

Richard looked at his little sister. “Serena, you have to go with Papa. You are too little to play with us.”

Serena pauted.

“Please, Serena, go with Papa and Dada and I promise I will play with you all day tomorrow. We can even have a tea party.”

But Serena wanted to play with her brother now and she knew just how to get him. He loved to fly on the brooms so she looked at the shed and closed her eyes.

“No! Papa doesn’t want us to use the brooms. We will get in loads of trouble. Serena, please be reasonable. Go with the grownups. They love making a fuss over you. Go on go,” he said as he ran to catch up with the others. Serena tried to run after him but he was way too fast for her. So she closed her eyes and scrunched up her face and right there and then and before everyone’s eyes she turned into a fawn.

Harry saw Severus turn pale and followed his line of vision to see what had drained the blood out of his husband. He could not believe it. His Serena. His little girl was an animagi!

“Look! Look everyone,” shouted Harry as he ran to Serena’s side that had just at promptly turned back to her child self. He lifted her up in the air and brought her down for a kiss and then zoom her back up into the sky. It took Harry a moment to realize that no one else was celebrating with him.

“Didn’t anyone see it? She turned into a fawn. It was but a couple of seconds but she did it. She is an animagi,” he declared. But still no one was reacting. In fact they all looked as if they had seen something horrid.

“Harry,” said Hermione being the first to break the silence. “Harry, this is not good. This is not good at all.”

“I am afraid Mrs. Weasley is correct, Mr. Potter. This is nothing to celebrate,” said Poppy just as gloomily as Hermione.

“What are you on about? It’s no crime to be an animagi just as long as she gets registered. I will do that first thing Monday morning. You will help me, wont you, Mr. Weasley?”

Mr. Weasley swallowed hard but did not reply.

“Mr. Potter, what you fail to understand is that there are very few wizard that are born animagi,” interjected Minerva.

“But I know for a fact that you are one of those rear cases,” interrupted Harry.

“Yes, Mr. Potter, I am but my abilities did not manifest themselves until I was an adolescent. As those of the other registered borne animagi. Even though my Papa always insisted that I would turn into a kitten in my sleep when I was a baby. But that was just a father bragging. No one else ever saw such a thing,” explained the headmistress.

“But you all saw, didn’t you?” Harry said looking around at the faces that surrounded him.

“Yes, Harry we did,” said Hermione. “But Harry, surely you can see that if the ministry gets a whiff of this they are not going to see it as a positive. They are going to say that it is black magic showing its ugly hand. Or some other nonsense,” said Hermione looking very worried.

Harry caught Severus dropping his head in shame.

“This is all nonsense. So we simply don’t let the Ministry know until she is older,” said Harry wanting to bring the festivities back to what they should be.

“Mate, this is getting out of hand. You are really going to have to keep Serena inside the house. You saw what they did to Kings…”

“NO! I will not hide my daughter or keep her as a prisoner in her own home. I will not do it. Let the Ministry try to come near my family.”
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