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His saviour	By : Kruemel Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Snape Views: 16367 -:- Recommendations : 5 -:- Currently Reading : 6
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The circle of life

The following month was horrible. Voldemort was furious and he completely escalated. The death eaters figured out quite early that they were unable to attack people at their homes and the consequences were horrific. Another bridge had been sunk, there were explosions at shopping malls and attacks in other public areas. The most appalling attack had taken place only a week ago. Voldemort had launched three attacks simultaneously at three schools in London. About a hundred and twenty kids had died and there were hundreds of others who were injured varied from light injuries to severe ones. The prime minister had called it one of England darkest years to date but was able to explain everything away with a more or less logical explanation. Harry wondered how long this could go on like this. At some point, people would start to ask questions. Harry was surprised that it hadn´t started already.
Harry had visions almost daily now. His body was aching all the time and at some days he didn´t even get out of bed on time. Voldemort did not even attempt to keep Harry out of his mind. Harry felt like he was trying to keep him there, ones the vision started. Harry felt his satisfaction when he was forced to watch him as he ripped people in half, threw killing curses left and right, and tortured his own followers until they were on the edge of the breaking point. He wanted Harry to know that it was his fault that he did what he did. It was a dark time for all of them but especially for him and Severus. They knew that this was Voldemort´s reaction to Severus´ betrayal.
What made it all worse was that they had been unable to find Rita Skeeter. She wasn´t at the office when they went to arrest her and she wasn´t at home either and yet somehow, she continued to publish her work. It was infuriating and Harry wondered how she did it. Every student in the castle received a copy of her stories, even those who previously hadn´t subscribed for a newspaper. Where did she get all those owls from? Where was she hiding to write these stories and how in the world, was this woman, continuously coming up with different ways to make Harry want to kill her?
Harry figured that she got in touch with Lavender because everything that happened to him, everything he did while at school, and everything he could do somehow made it´s way in the paper. Rita had published a three-page long article about the fact that Harry was a parseltounge. She used that fact alone as evidence that Harry simply had to be in an alliance with the dark lord. Little details in the stories told him that it had to be someone who had spent a great deal of time at Gryffindor tower. Sure, Percy could have come up with some of those but he wouldn´t know about the stuff that happened in fifth and sixth year.
Lavender had been a part of the original DA so she could relay in detail just what Harry was able to do, since it had been him who had taught them all the spells and dualling tactics he knew. Of course, and Harry was very glad that this was the case, Lavender had no idea what he was actually able to do.
Harry´s training progressed quickly now. His rage about all these attacks seemed to have torn down a wall inside him or maybe it was just his attitude that changed but he was mastering difficult spells on the first try and could heal without his wand. He mastered all elemental magic and could use it as he liked.
His wandless magic exceeded everything that Severus had ever seen. He could cast everything that he could cast with his wand without it as well, and he didn´t even have to speak a word. He did it all nonverbal which made his next moves completely unpredictable, even to Ron and Hermione who knew him so well and had trained with him since day one. Only Severus was able to keep up with him because he could just listen to what Harry was thinking. But it was not only that.
After the bonding, Severus felt himself gaining more and more power by the day. He was sure that soon he would reach Harry´s limit if Harry had one. One thing was clear though, he would match Harry´s power level. It was unheard of but maybe their simply hadn´t been soulmates in which one was much more powerful as the other. They had tasked madame Pomfrey with the study of the bond and her first impression was that the bond was building on them being equals at every level.
In her opinion, the bond recognized the strength and weaknesses of each and raised their abilities to match the others. In her opinion, Harry still hadn´t been in full control of his mind, and the consequence was that he hadn´t been able to reach the full potential of the gifts that the founders had given to him. Severus was a master at mind magic so once they were bonded Harry became one as well
Severus seemed to have a much easier time with his emotions. He still got angry but it didn´t escalate any more. He found himself unable to act as he had been in classes. He was interested to see if Harry would be able to brew properly now. Harry on the other hand, couldn´t wait to find out if he could fly as he could. He had insisted that they wait to see until Harry could fly with him. Severus had been more than happy to. He never liked flying but Harry was sure that would change now. He was so sure that he promptly ordered a firebolt for him so that he would be able to keep up with him. Severus thought it was a waste of money but also knew that Draco would be thrilled if he could fly it when he wanted to. Not that Harry didn´t let him borrow his but Draco wanted him to teach him a few of his riskier moves. Severus told him that he could buy his own, that Harry meant it when he said that he was a part of his family in every way. Harry wouldn´t even ask if he took money from the black vault to pay for it but Draco hadn´t been comfortable with that.
He had talked to Harry about it and Harry promptly gave one of his vaults to each Draco and Narcissa. He had filled them with money and threw in some of the things he had found in the black vault. He selected all the potions book from the Black library and ordered Kreacher to make three copies of each book. He then put the original books into Draco´s vault. He knew how much Draco would love to have them. He took one copy of each book and gifted it to Hermione. Another one was now sitting in Severus´ potion lab at their new home and the last copies were added to the Hogwarts library. They opened a special section which would be in only assessable in presence of the potions master of the school, so that he could oversee just what it was the students were looking at. There were very dark potions in these books and if Professor Wilson deemed it too dangerous, he would be able to interfere.
He had gathered all Black heirlooms and had let Draco and Narcissa pick whatever they wanted. Narcissa had now three or four sets of very fine jewellery and Draco had a beautiful watch and one of the Black family rings. It was not the lordship ring. Only Harry was allowed to wear that, but it was very nice. It was silver with a black and a green stone. It fitted him perfectly and Harry was glad that he had found something he liked so much. He wore it every day and even used some of the money in his vault to buy one just like it for Ginny. He made one change though. In her ring, he changed the silver to gold. He claimed it was only because gold suited her better, but Harry knew that he did it to represent Ginny´s Gryffindor site. He would never admit to it, but he loved Ginny´s lion nature. He had the ring custom made and gave it to her as a promise ring. Ginny and Hermione had been giddy for days. In these dark times, it was good to see that they could still have some nice moments.
But besides all that was going wrong, they were also able to make progress as well. Harry had been right; they were able to break Theodore Nott and they didn´t even need to say much. Severus´ speech in the hall seemed to have made a lasting impression on him. Severus needed one week of constant work to make him strong enough to occlude the dark lord. He was able to keep the important stuff hidden while the dark lord searched his mind without any evidence that he was occluding at all.
He had done well. He went to see the Riddle exactly a week after it all happened. He fell to his knees and begged the dark lord for forgiveness that he wasn´t able to report sooner. Voldemort believed him when he told him that he hadn´t arrived at the hall before all hell broke loose. He relayed that he couldn´t get through the doors when he finally arrived for breakfast and hid himself to find out what was going on. When the aurors escorted his companions out, he managed to slip in the hall to find out what happened. They were able to stage the important parts and Voldemort was satisfied after he searched his mind. He had told him that everyone at school was watched closely and that he only managed to sneak out today. Voldemort threw a crutiatus curse at him but only held it for a few seconds. His task now, was to spy on Severus and Harry.
Nott warned Harry about Lavender as well. Harry was surprised to see that apparently; Lavender hated his guts. He wondered what he could possibly have done to her, but nothing came to mind. Theo told him that Lavender was vicious and warned him not to underestimate her. Harry wouldn´t.
During easter holidays, they had performed the sharing ritual. Harry was worried that it could harm the babies, but Hermione pointed out that it was his magic. His magic could never harm the babies. So, he finally agreed. They performed it down in the chamber. Victor came by on easter and they snuck him in under the invisibility cloak. They knew that Dumbledore wasn´t a threat anymore but, and even though they had removed the death eaters from campus, they could never be sure that they were safe. Not anymore.
The ritual went perfectly. All but Harry were knocked from their feet when he finally stopped his chant and his magic erupted. Severus had predicted it and they had charmed huge pillows all around them. In the following days, all of them described that there was a quite noticeable change to their magic but it wasn´t like with Severus. They consistently stayed stronger, but it didn´t keep growing. To everyone’s surprise, Harry passed his parseltounge on to one of them. No one would have predicted it, but it was Ginny who was able to speak and understand the snake language now.
To Harry, it made perfect sense. Riddle possessed her for almost an entire year. In that time, she was able to speak it, so it made sense that she would be able to speak it now. In the end, Tom Riddle involuntarily shared his gift… twice, Harry took great pleasure in that. He also had the feeling that he passed it on to the kids. Every time he spoke parseltounge, both twins started kicking like crazy. Maybe Ginny and Draco´s kids would get it as well. Then the ones rare language would, well… still be rare, but the numbers would go from two to more then a handful. Who knew how many kids they were going to have? And how many kids these kids would have some day. In Ginny´s family, she was the odd one out. Harry knew that all the others wanted big families like they had grown up in. Ginny was different, but she was still a Weasley, Harry was sure that at least one of her kids would have a bunch of children like the rest of the Weasley clan.
Harry always got really happy when he let his mind wonder to the future, but at some point, he got back to reality and the sobering fact that there was still a war between them and the picture in his head, hit him hard every time. His emotions were all over the place these days. He was devastated by all the life lost, he was scared for all of his friends and family, and he was also happier than ever. Severus wasn´t a spy anymore. It was like a weight had been lifted from Harry´s heart. He didn´t realise how much it had been weighing on him until it was gone.
Severus seemed to be much more at ease as well. He was still stressed out, but they all were. Ron was training hart, Hermione still trained with Harry a lot, but she also did so much research that Harry honestly questioned how she did it all. She was helping Narcissa, working on her won project and she went through all the wizarding law books she could find to find out which laws they needed to change first. She was appalled by what she found and many evenings over dinner, she ranted to her friends. She started to build a solid plan for their first steps after the war. She also made a list of things that couldn´t wait until then and planned to visit with Scrimgeour soon to discuss it all. Harry decided to let her do whatever she wanted. If something managed to upset Hermione this much, then there were serious problems indeed. Hermione´s moral compass was even stronger than Harry´s. She couldn´t stand to see inequality in any from and didn´t shy away from fighting in what she believed in. Harry just knew that she would be the first female, muggle born mistress of magic someday.
Sirius, Bill and Remus had been able to convince a whole pack of werewolves to accept their help. One day, they arrived at headquarters in company of a group of nine. Harry was horrified when they heard their stories. There were two little kids who were abandoned by their families after they were bitten. One wasn´t even able to properly talk yet. One of the men in the group had taken responsibility for them and Harry had one of his properties enlarged so that they could all live there together. They gave them enough wolfsbane potion to last them for two month and started to make another large supply for the months to come. Remus and the others left a few days later, and this time, James went with them as well.
Lily continued her work with Dudley, and he too seemed to be more at ease these days. He still hadn´t met with his mother but he started to open to the idea. Lily suggested that they take Petunia to a mind healer someday, and Harry told her that she should do as she felt best. Petunia was her sister and Harry caught himself hoping she was indeed sick. That there was an explanation for her terrible behaviour towards him. He wanted it even more for Dudley. His father was gone, and good riddance, but losing his mum must have stung deeply. Harry doubted it, but maybe there was a way to get her back to normal.

Today was May the second. Harry and Severus had decided to take a walk around the lake. Severus hid under the invisibility cloak, so it seemed it was Harry alone. He just finished describing the nursery which he finally finished. He decided on fairy theme. A picture of a stunning forest clearing grazed one of the long walls. The other walls showed trees everywhere. On the clearing, animated fairies were flying around, sprinkling fairy dust. There were wildflowers and little bunnies hopping around. Harry loved it. The beautiful wooden crib, Severus had given Harry for Christmas, stood in the middle of the room. White, light green and blue see-through curtains fell down on three sited of it, and they had a pink and purple sparkle to it. The sealing had the same spell as the great hall and would show the beautiful night sky in the evenings. There was a changing table, a shelve with stuffed animals and other toys, A little sitting area where you could cuddle the babies until they fell asleep and so on. Severus smiled under the cloak.
“It sounds lovely, I can´t wait to see it. I think everything else is done as well. The last shipping arrived last week, and I had enough time to put everything in place. Dobby also got everything we need ones the girls arrive. We have diapers, formula, baby clothes. He told me that he washed it all and put it in the closet. I spend some time and I created a skin friendly shampoo and soap for them. The skin will faintly absorb the smell. Wait until you smell it, it´s lovely. I primarily used lilies because they are a great base for stuff like this, but I also used some rose petals and vanilla extract. It´s not overbearing and all the ingredients are safe for children.”
“That´s great. Should have expected it. You are a potions master through and through.”
“Indeed.” Severus said smiling again.
“So, we´re all set. We still have over two months to go.” Harry said and carefully went to his knees before he sat down.
“I´m happy we´re done.” Severus said and sat down next to him he pulled on of Harry´s hands under the cloak and linked it with is own.
“Yeah, me too. One thing less to worry about.” Harry took a deep breath enjoying the fresh air. He sank deep into his thoughts and Severus just watched him for a while. He knew how hard Harry took all that was happening. He had become quieter. He was more focused then ever but then there were moments like this, where he completely lost himself.
“I hate this.” Harry said after a while.
“I hate that I can´t do anything. I still don´t understand. Albus said that the horcrux in me could be gone. We know that it´s not, but why? How did your mark vanish but his soul is still inside me?”
“I have a theory.” Severus said.
“I think the intent and the circumstances are making the difference. When Riddle marked me, he intended to create a somewhat one-sided connection between me and him. His intent was to make it everlasting, but he lied and manipulated me into it. His intent was dishonest, that is the only explanation I could come up with. But when he marked you, his intent was quite clear. He wanted to use your death, his most important murder, to make another horcrux. Sure, he didn´t plan on you being the horcrux, I´m sure he had something else in mind but there were no lies or deception, he had not a doubt in his mind on what he came there to do. Because of this, your connection is much deeper and much more difficult to break.”
“That´s disturbing, I don´t know if I wanted to know that. Now that I know what needs to be done to create a horcrux… Will a purifying draught work then? If the connection is so deep?”
“I am currently brewing the most powerful one I know of. Once I have brewed it correctly and know the process intimately, I can see if it can be even more improved. I could try to come up with a new one, but that could take years. We must try it. We see what we do if it shouldn´t work. I am confident though. We have the basilisk venom. We know that it can destroy horcruxes, now I must find a way to implement it in the draught. I need to get it stable, and I have to find a counter ingredient that won´t kill the effect of the venom.”
“Phoenix tears?” Harry asked.
“No, they are too potent. But so far, they´re the only counter I know of.”
“You could ask Neville. Maybe there is a plant that can help. He knows about flowers and weeds I never even heard about.”
“Good Idea, he is truly gifted in herbology. He will know.”
“And if he doesn´t you can also ask Fred and George. There still pretty busy with the new stuff for the shop, but they always come up with the most creative solutions. I think they could help as well.”
“Thank you, I will get in touch with them all. Maybe we can come together and brainstorm some ideas.”
“Do it soon. I would be happy to know that we are good to go when we need to be. Imagine Voldemort attacking when it´s not ready.”
“If you killed him now, he could come back, but it would work for the time being wouldn´t it?”
“I think so, it would delay him until he would come into another body but why risking him coming back at all? I know you are doing you best, but I would be relieved to know that we have it.”
“The potion takes a week and a half to make. I´m almost done with the fist one. I have to figure out how to alter it but then I´m ready to start and finish the second one. If it can be done… There is the risk that it is as good as it can get, then we would have to hope that it´s good enough. I see no other way to destroy it.”
“We both know that there is another way. He would have to kill me, and I must be willing to die. It´s risky because we don´t know what will happen after. We don´t know if I can come back.”
“Then it´s not an option.” Severus said and Harry could hear the hardness in his voice. He looked to the right to where he knew Severus was sitting. He couldn´t see him but he could feel the pain Severus felt at the thought of Harry dying. He hated it but Severus deserved to know the truth. He reached out and pulled the cloak from his lover. Severus looked up.
“What if someone see´s us?”
“So what? Everyone knows that we´re bonded. We don´t have to hide anymore.”
“You know why we hide.”
“Yes, I know, we can’t be too careful, but I need to see you for what I have to say next.” Severus shook his head.
“I don´t want to hear it.”
“That doesn´t matter, you need to.” Harry grabbed his face and forced him to look him in the eyes.
“You deserve to know what I will do. Sev… if the draught doesn´t work, you have to let me go face him. We will destroy the other horcruxes and I will go meet him. I am ready to die if I have to. And I am ready to stay dead if that means that the world is forever rid of that monster. I would very much prefer another way. I pray for the draught to be a success but, I will sacrifice myself if I have to, and you have to let me. Not only for our girls, but for the rest of the world.” Severus shook his head again.
“I can´t… I won´t… You say do it for the girls but I will ruin them without you there to keep me in check!” He shot back and to his feet. He started pacing in front of him. Harry looked up.
“You will do no such thing. I know you better than that. We both know that there is a chance that I won´t make it out of this war. Hell, maybe we both die and there will be two more kids who will grow up without their parents. Or maybe against all odds we manage to come out alive and well. There is no way of knowing. But… I have to do everything I can to make it happen. He made me into a horcrux. It sucks that I might have to die but one way or another, it needs to be destroyed.” Severus had stopped pacing and watched him seriously.
“The draught will work. It has to work. I will make it work.” He promised and strode over to pull him from the ground. Harry buried himself in his arms.
*I will not lose you. I am finally happy, finally complete. I will hold on to you until I die. I love you too much to ever let you go* Harry heard in his head. Mind talking had become their way to communicate their affection. It felt so much more intimate this way. Their truly heartfelt words of love had become silent, for only them to hear.
*And I will do all I can to stay with you, but I have a destiny. All the love I bear for you doesn´t change that fate has chosen me for this task. I cannot abandon it because I don´t want to leave you*
*A man can have more than one destiny love; you were also destined to be mine. We just found one another. We are just starting our life together. As silly as that sounds, it gives me hope that there will indeed be an us when all this is over*
*Well, I can´t reason with that kind of logic. Let us hold on to that and hope that fate decides to be kind for ones. Merlin knows, we deserve it*
*Harry I…* Severus was interrupted by a siren that went of in Harry´s head. Hogwarts was trying to get his attention. Harry focused his eyes on the castle and asked what the alarm had been for. He saw a green light flying towards someone he couldn´t identify and his heart sank. Was the castle really telling him that someone just used the killing curse inside the wards.
“Shit!” Harry called and tried to run towards the castle. Running wasn´t a real option though. You couldn´t even call it jogging.
“Harry what is going on?” Severus asked, easily walking beside him. Harry had to look down so Severus wouldn´t see his glare. It wasn´t his fault that Harry was unable to move. Well… maybe it was just a little bit. Harry quickly explained and Severus raised his wand. He cast a Patronus and sent it to Hermione, telling her to meet them in the entrance as soon as possible. While he did, Harry asked the castle where the spell was cast. The blood in his veins run cold when an image of the headmaster’s office appeared in his mind.
“No, no, no, no, no…” Harry chanted. That couldn´t be.
“What is it?”
“It happened in the headmaster´s office.” Harry explained.
“Ask the castle to build us a door to his office in the entry hall. It will do so for you.” Harry nodded and stated his request. He was forced to slow down ones they reached the stairs and carefully took them one by one. He wouldn´t risk getting injured because he didn´t pay mind to his feet.
Hermione already waited for them but not alone. Ron, Draco and Ginny were standing next to her. All four of them seemed to be out of breath as if they had run for their life to get here.
“Harry! What happened?”
“Not sure yet.” Harry said and walked to the door. He turned to look at them before he opened the door.
“Someone was attacked in the headmaster’s office. Hogwarts showed me a flash of green light. We have no idea what happened. Wands out and be careful.” A hand stopped him before he could step through the door.
“We will enter in front of you.” Severus hissed.
“But…”
“No, but Harry. Severus is right. The pregnant man is the last one through the door. Do you understand?” Hermione said and Ron nodded, a grim expression on his face.
“Fine, go on then, hurry.” Ron and Draco went in first, followed by Severus and Hermione. Ginny went before him and covered him with her body. She stopped right after they closed the door and remained standing there until they got the all clear. From where they were standing, the office looked to be empty. Harry started to hope that there had been a mistake but then he heard Hermione crying. That was enough for him. He pushed past Ginny and walked to were his friends were staying.
“What happened?” He asked but he didn´t need an answer. Albus Dumbledore was laying on the floor behind his desk. His wand was nowhere to be seen and he had a stunned expression on his face. Harry shook his head and took a few steps back. It wasn´t true. It couldn´t be. If it was, then they had gotten Dumbledore out of prison, just for him to be killed.
“What happened here?” He asked and turned to the paintings of the previous headmasters. He felt numb. This had to be a dream. Headmaster Dipped was the one to answer him.
“It was a rat. An Animagus. None of us saw him come in. Then suddenly there was a man standing in front of the desk. He raised his wand and cursed him. Albus fell to the floor and the man kicked him in the ribs before he transformed back. Then we saw him leave.”
“Pettigrew!” Harry called out and the others looked at him in shock.
“Is he still in the castle?!” He yelled facing the empty part of the room.
“Harry?” Severus asked.
“Shut up!” Harry screamed, then he cringed.
“I´m sorry, but…”
“Don´t worry… go on, I think you asked a question.” Harry nodded and gave him a little smile. Severus walked up to him and took his hand.
*Thank you*
*Stop it! Just find out if that rat is still here*
Harry nodded and asked the castle again. This time silent, in his head, and a lot nicer. Hogwarts showed him the rat running through one of the corridors.
“Trap him.” He said out loud so that the other´s would know what was up. The castle showed him the rat in a space without a door and he thanked it for the help.
“We got him.” He said and Severus pulled him towards the couch. Harry was thankful. His legs felt like giving in.
Hermione levitated Dumbledore to his bed chambers and lay him on the bed. Then she came back and sat down as well.
“What now?” Harry asked. His mind refused to work. No one really knew what to say. Severus decided that they should call Minerva. He called Dobby to give her the message and they waited until the office door opened.
“What´s going on?” Minerva asked. The look on their faces didn´t bode well. Harry explained what happened. Minerva sank into a chair by the fire.
“But… we just got him back!” She said, her voice was shaking. Harry nodded.
“I want to kill that rat. How? How on earth did that sniffling idiot manage to kill one of the most powerful wizards in the world?”
“Harry! You can´t kill him.” Hermione said.
“Don´t you think I know that? Want to and actually doing so are two different things. He will stand trial for all the crimes he ever committed. Well, at least the ones we know about. We will bury him in prison for the rest of his miserable life.”
“We should demand that the prison will stay anonymous. This way no one will be able to break him out.” Ron said.
“Good idea, we should send him to one in America or someplace else far away. Voldemort won´t spend months looking for him.” Hermione offered.
“Do you think he landed behind the veil?” Ginny asked. Harry shrugged.
“I don´t know, maybe he did, we can check on that, but does anyone have a close enough relationship with him to pull him out?”
“I´m sure his brother could. I´m not sure if he would but it´s worth a try.” Minerva said.
“This is crazy!” Harry exclaimed.
“Is this for real? Did this actually just happen? Albus Dumbledore is dead! The real one. What are we supposed to do with Grindelwald now? If Dumbledore is dead than there is no way that we can EVER get him back to his body.” Harry wasn´t feeling well. He felt nautilus and he felt a light pain in his stomach. He ignored it.
“Dumbledore still is the beacon of light for so many. When he says something, people actually listen! He is respected within the ministry, within the wizengamot and the board of the school. We need him later on. Now what?” He asked and took a few deep breaths. Severus looked at him worriedly. Something wasn´t right.
“Harry, are you ok?” Hermione asked.
“Sure… I´m great, fabulous actually. What do you think?! No, I´m not okay, are you? Don´t you get what just happened?” Harry couldn´t stop himself from lashing out. The pain was getting worse by the second. He kept going.
“This is a disaster! We need a plan right now. How are we going to play this? Who do we tell? What do we say? Who needs to know…”
“Harry, you need to calm down.” Hermione said.
“No, we need to get going. I should go tell Scrimgeour right away. We need to get Tonks and Kingsley here as well. We need to notify the school board so that they can put Minerva in charge.” Harry stood and tried to walk to the door, but Hermione stopped him.
“No Harry, you need to sit back down. You are in shock and right now you are stressing yourself out. You look like shit. You need to take a break. Stress isn´t good for you. And it´s not good for the babies.”
“I´m not stressing myself out Hermione! Life is stressing me out. Did you read the paper the last month? All these attacks, Arthur´s death, Percy and Lavender being death eaters, running the DA all while being pregnant and scared is stressing me out. If this shows us anything, then that we ran out of time! The war is escalating, and we need to be better!”
“Fine, Severus, please go and inform Scrimgeour on what happened. Tell him to get Kingsley and Tonks here as soon as possible.” Severus stood and pulled Harry in a quick hug.
*I will be back soon. I will handle it. Please listen to her love and try and relax. You really do look worn down* Harry nodded against his chest and Severus left.
“Minerva, would you please inform the board so that they can get the paperwork on the way. The smoother the transition the better. We will also need you to write a press release and inform the teachers. We will hold off on the students until we decide what to do next.” Minerva nodded and excused herself for her own office and left through the floo.
“Happy now?” Hermione asked. Harry glared at her but only weakly. He took a step back towards the couch. Then he almost crumbled to the floor. Shooting pain shot down his legs and he grabbed for Hermione so that he wouldn´t go down, groaning in pain.
“Harry!” Hermione screeched and Ron sprang up and was by his site in a second.
“Harry! What’s wrong?” Harry gasped for breath.
“I don´t know… so much pain.” He managed to press out.
“Ginny, get Poppy here now!” Ron yelled but Ginny was already by the floo. She threw a hand of floo powder into the flames and her head disappeared in the flames. She screamed so lout that they could hear every word.
“Madame Pomfrey! We need you in the headmaster’s office NOW!” She then stepped aside and rushed to the couch. Ron and Hermione managed to get him there and Harry was curling up on his site. The floo flared and Poppy stepped into the office. She hurried to Harry´s site as soon as she saw him lying on the couch.
“What happened?” Ron and Hermione looked at each other and nodded in unison. They decided wordless that they couldn´t tell Poppy about Dumbledore now. She needed a clear head to look after Harry.
“Something happened. We can´t tell you what yet, but it was bad. Harry seemed to be in a kind of shock. He started to freak out a little. We told him to calm down, but he really stressed. Then he almost fell and told us that he´s in a lot of pain. What´s going on?” Draco forced Hermione to sit down.
“Great, now you are panicking. We don´t need this right now. Get a grip Granger.” He said, she nodded and kept quiet as Madame Pomfrey started to perform diagnostic charms. The medi witch gasped and paled.
“What is it? What is going on?” Ron asked.
“We need to get him to the hospital wing this instant. I need you to help him through the floo. Normally I wouldn´t recommend flooing in his condition but we need to get there fast.”
“Why? What condition?” Ron asked again.
“Not now, we need to get going.” She transfigured the couch into a stretcher and Draco and Ron carefully lifted it after Hermione cast a featherlight charm on it and bound Harry to it with soft looking binds. They slowly walked in and out the floo and banished the stretcher after they levitated Harry onto one of the hospital beds. Madame Pomfrey hurried into her office and gathered all the equipment and potions she might need before she hurried back to them.
“Can you please tell us what is going on now?” Ron asked, he was getting impatient.
“We need to deliver the babies now.”
“What!” Ron shrieked.
“What?!” Hermione asked.
“What?” Harry whispered.
“I am sorry Harry. There is a problem with your placenta. We need to get them out and we need to do it now.”
“No, it´s too early. They’re not ready.”
“You are right, there is a risk, but it is small. They should be strong enough to pull through.”
“No, I can hold out a little longer, just a few more days.”
“Harry, I don´t think you understand what is happening. The placenta is vital for a foetus’s survival. If we don´t act now, you WILL lose them. And not only that, the longer we wait, the higher the risk to lose you too.”
“Get them out then.” Hermione said quickly.
“But Severus just left, he won´t be back in time.” Harry said.
“We will send him a message now. He will get here as soon as he can. I will make sure that he knows how serious this is.” Draco assured him.
“I can reach him quicker through the mind link.”
“No, you just concentrate on getting through this. We will handle it.”
“But…”
“Harry James Black you heard her! We need to do this now!” Harry starred up at them in shock but nodded. This was happening. If he was ready for it or not.
“You will need to stay awake, I´m sorry. Draco, Hermione, you both took the healing class with Narcissa right?” They nodded.
“Good I will need your help. Hermione, I need you to rub this numbing cream on his stomach right after Draco disinfected it. I need to go wash and prep for the procedure.”
“Alright, Ginny, sent Severus the message. Sent one to your mum as well and tell her to bring Lily here with her. They can floo right into the headmaster’s office. I think your mum remembers the way.” Ginny nodded.
“We will go meet them. We should contact Remus as well. They won´t want to miss this.” Ginny offered and Harry nodded gratefully. Everyone went on with their tasks and Harry tried to comprehend what was happening.
“How did this happen?” He asked when Poppy came back to the room.
“Stress can cause something like this. It´s mostly known to occur after a huge emotional trauma.”
“Sounds about right…” Draco mumbled and Harry had to agree.
“Alright, are we ready?” She asked.
“Almost, Harry just needs to take the pain potion. The salve also needs another minute to reach full potential.” Poppy nodded and Draco handed Harry the pain potion.
“I would suggest looking anywhere else Harry. Maybe close your eyes entirely.”
“Thanks for the tip.” Harry said and lay a hand over his eyes.
“Alright, let´s get started.”

Severus hurried to Scrimgeour’s office. He still couldn´t believe what just happened. The minister was surprised when he rushed through the door.
“Professor Snape, to what do I owe this pleasure?” He said and signalled him to sit down.
“Not a visit for pleasure I assure you. Peter Pettigrew was captured at Hogwarts after he broke in and killed Dumbledore.” Scrimgeour starred at him. Severus counted down in his mind. Three, two, one.
“What?!?! Surely that´s not… What?!”
“I´m afraid it´s true.” Severus said and cringed. His stomach hurt. The minister just kept starring. After a few minutes, Severus sighed.
“We need Tonks and Kingsley to come and cease both the body and Pettigrew.”
“Of… of course. I will notify them as soon as we are done here.” Severus nodded and frowned, now his legs hurt. What was going on? Was this Harry? Was he hurt?
“Thank you, but you should do so now. Harry wants to see you at school.” Scrimgeour nodded and picked up his quill. He wrote two memos which flew out the door and disappeared down the hall.
“They will meet us at school. I need to finish this letter but then we can leave. Do you have a few minutes?” Severus nodded and waited. After a few minutes he felt his galleon heat up and pulled it out of his robe. He starred at the message in front of him. He read it five times before he came back to himself and sprang to his feet.
“Is everything alright?”
“No, I´m afraid the meeting will have to wait. I need to leave now!”
“Sure, you can use the floo.” Scrimgeour said but Severus was already out the door. His mind went wild. The babies needed to be delivered now. Something was wrong and he wasn´t there. He was so distracted that he didn´t even think about his portkey. He apparated to the front gates and ran up to the castle. He hurried up the stairs and didn´t stop when a few students stopped and looked after him. He threw open the doors to the hospital wing and hurried towards a bed that was surrounded by curtains. He could hear voices from the other site.
“He lost consciousness. We need to hurry. He´s bleeding badly. Draco get another blood replenisher in him.”
“I´m always done, just another cut here and yes, this will be enough. We can get them out and start to repair the damage.” Severus grabbed the curtain and pulled it to the site. There on the bed lay Harry. He was pale and he was bleeding from his stomach.
“Severus, thank God you´re back. Come, you can cut the curt and help Draco to clean and rap the little ones up.”
“You mean…”
“Yes you´re about to meet your daughters. Which one is the older one?”
“Emma.” Severus said dumbfounded and stepped closer. This was real, he was about to meet his baby girls.
“Well Severus, let´s get Emma into this world.” She put her hands inside of Harry. It looked like she was looking for something but then, when she carefully lifted her hands, she was holding, in Severus´s opinion, the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. He felt tears run down his face. And his hand was shaking when he picked up his wand and carefully cut the curt. A few seconds later, the room was filled by precious screams and Severus´s heart melted. Poppy handed the baby to Draco who took her and carefully lay her down into a little crib next to the bed. He cast a cleaning charm and put a nappy on her. Severus hadn´t the time to keep watching wondrously because Poppy told him that it was time to get out her sister. Another perfect little angel was born a minute later, and Severus watched as Hermione took care of Elea. He wanted to look at them forever, but he needed to know that Harry would be fine first. Poppy quickly went to work and twenty minutes later, Harry was all patched up and clean again. He was still out but Poppy promised him that he would be fine.
Only now was Severus allowing himself to step up to the crib. The second he lay eyes on his girls; he knew he was lost forever. Nothing but his family seemed to matter anymore.
“Do you want to hold them?” Poppy asked and Severus nodded. Poppy enlarged Harry´s bed to more than double its size and ordered Severus to take of his robe and shirt. He obliged and took a seat next to Harry.
“Get these shoes off when you are in bed.” Poppy scolded and Severus rolled his eyes but grinned while he took them of. Poppy picked up on of the babies and placed it gently against his chest. Hermione brought the other one over and Severus noticed that both girls hand a bracelet on their left wrists. One was red and one was green. Hermione placed the other babe in his arm.
“Which one is which?” Severus asked.
“Emma has the red bracelet. I´m sure you figure out something better but for now it will do.”
“Thanks.” He whispered and looked down at his daughters.
“We will give you a moment. Molly and Lily should be here by now. We will tell them that everyone’s alright and that you will call as soon as you´re ready. We will wait in the trunk. Just sent Dobby for us.”
“I will, thank you.”
“You’re welcome.” Hermione said and pressed a kiss to his cheek.
“They are absolutely precious Sev.” She told him and looked down at them lovingly.
“They are perfect aren´t they?”
“A little on the small site but that is to be expected. Poppy said they are fine though. She ran a few quick tests, and everything looks good. She will do a few more tests later but their doesn´t seem to be any problems.”
“That´s good. Thank you again.”
“See you later uncle Sev. Congratulations. Hermione is right, they are beautiful.”
“Thank you, Draco.” Then they left and Severus was unable to stop watching his daughters faces. They both had dark hair, quite a bit actually. It was thin and very short, but it was there. They looked just alike. Thin eyebrows, beautiful noses and small but full lips. Their skin wasn´t as light as his but it also wasn´t Harry´s colouring. It was sort of cream coloured and Severus ran the tip of his nose against each of their cheeks. The skin was so soft and the smell of them was intoxicating. Severus thought they smelled just like Harry. He pressed a kiss to Elea´s head and tears ran down his cheeks. His heart was filled with a love so powerful, he felt like he was about to burst. He registered a small movement next to him and just managed to turn his head in time to see Harry open his eyes.

Harry slowly came to himself. He lay on something soft and knew that it must have been a bed. He tried to remember what happened and slowly, his memories began to make sense. Dumbledore had been killed. Killed by the rat that had betrayed his parents. There was something else that tried to push to the for front of his mind, but he wallowed in the sorrow and guilt that started to overwhelm him. After a minute or two, another memory finally broke through and Harry almost forgot to breath. He was in the infirmary. Poppy told him he had to deliver and at some point, doing the procedure, he had lost consciousness. Now he tried with all his might to open his eyes. He was glad when he registered that he was only hurting a little and he managed to move slightly. When he finally opened his eyes, he was met by the most beautiful picture in the world. Severus was smiling down at him. He was practically beaming. Tears were rolling down his face and he cradled something close to his bare chest.
“Sev…” Harry croaked.
“They are fine love. They are perfect.”
*I want to see them* He said through their link. Talking was too much right now. Severus shifted his weight and crunched down. He turned a little so that Harry could see Elea´s face. Harry´s eyes filled with tears. He tried to lift himself from the mattress so that he could sit up but he didn´t manage it and winced in pain.
“Don´t, I will get Poppy to help you. You need to be very careful. The skin is closed but your insides are still not healed completely. If you aren´t careful you could start to bleed internally.” Harry nodded.
“Poppy!” Severus called and the woman came in.
“Harry, you´re awake. How are you feeling?”
*Tell her I´m great. I want to sit up. I want to hold one of my babies*
*If you´re fine, tell her yourself*
*Severus* Harry cried trough the link and Severus grinned.
“He´s fine. He wants to sit up.”
“I didn´t ask you.”
“I know, that´s what I told him.”
“Stubborn boy!” Poppy huffed but came over and pulled Harry carefully up until he was leaning against the headboard. Then she took the baby Severus held in his arms and placed it into Harry´s. The second Harry´s skin touched the child, his heart exploded with joy.
*Which one do I have?* He asked through the link.
*You are holding Elea Molly Black. And this little one is Emma Jean* He pressed a kiss to Emma´s head and Harry did the same.
“Elea.” He whispered and Poppy left them alone again.
*I can´t believe they are here* Harry said.
*I know, I am so proud of you love. They are perfect. Thank you so much* Harry leaned over and pressed his lips against Severus´. He leaned back and looked down at his daughter. She was beautiful. After ten minutes, he looked up at Severus.
*Can we switch?* He asked. Severus nodded and lay Emma into his arms before he picked up Elea and lay here just where her sister had lain before.
*They look just alike* Harry said.
*I know, this will be hard*
*We just pick a colour of clothing for each until we figure out how to tell them apart. We got this*
*Harry… we need to leave the castle, at least for a while*
*I know, we will need time to get used to all the changes*
*Ron and Hermione can hold down the fort here. I´m sure they will come to see us every day. We will still need to go to the DA meetings, but the girls will be safest at home*
*I agree. As soon as we leave, McGonagall will announce Dumbledore´s death and that we have been taken to a safe house because of it. It would be even more convincing if Ron and Hermione left with us though. Everyone knows that they are huge targets*
*Then the others will manage to keep things going here. Draco, Ginny, and Neville are more than capable to run things for a while*
*Alright, we will tell them to pack their stuff when they come to see us*
“That reminds me, Molly and Lily are here. Ginny sent a message to Remus as well so maybe your father and Black are here now too.” Severus said aloud.
“That´s great. Where are they?”
“The others thought we would want some time alone with the girls. We can send Dobby to get them.”
“Let´s do it. We should leave as soon as possible.” Severus gave Harry another kiss before he called for the elf. Harry was right, the sooner they got the girls home the better. He still couldn´t believe that he was a father now. Everything had happened so fast. First the shock this morning and now this. It wasn´t even lunch time yet. He looked down at Elea and then at Harry and Emma. This was his family. His soulmate and their two baby girls. He would do anything to protect them. He would lie and fight and kill if necessary. He would do anything to keep them safe. He would rather die than see them hurt. His family, his life, his everything. Unbeknownst to him, Harry was thinking the exact same thing.
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