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A Godfather\'s duty	By : KusanoSaku Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Snape/Remus Views: 26565 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 4
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Title: A Godfather's duty

Pairing: Eventual SeverusxRemus?, parental snarry

Fandom: Harry Potter

Summary: Lily's dead. Harry's missing. Severus' Magical bond to Harry as a godfather is screaming at him to protect him. Severus is in mourning. How does Severus mourn Lily and follow her wishes when everything is against him? He contemplates what to do with the rest of his life when fate takes a hand. Good Malfoys, Good Snape. Dumbles-bashing.

Warning: This chapter is dark and there are references to child abuse. I do not support Abuse in in form I merely show the affect it has on persons. So please don't scream at me because of this chapter.

Chapter 7

Remus was woken by a house elf shaking him.

It was Lolly and cradled in her arms was Cora, who was dressed, she smelled fresh so she must have been bathed.

In one of Cora’s hands was Lolly’s ear and the other was a bottle she drank lustily.

“Master Remus Lolly be telling there be a guest at the floo for you.”

Remus nodded, “Tell them I’ll be right down.”

“Should Lolly leave Missy Cora?”

Remus went to say yes and then shook his head, “I’ll be quick about it.”

“Breakfast be served soon.” Lolly said before turning to leave.

“Wait!” Remus said quickly, “Did Severus sleep well?”

“No. Master Severus sleep ill. He wake several times a night. Lolly have to make Master take Dreamless sleep. He should wake in a few hours. Lolly worry for her Masters. Lolly try harder to find Master Harry…”

“I’ll be along presently. Please ask my guest to wait.”

“Lolly will.”

Remus cast a refresher charm on himself as the door closed. He dug out jeans and a worn t-shirt. He put on worn trainers before making his way from the nursery wing to the Receiving Room where he had arrived.

In the hearth was Corey’s head.

Remus sat in front of the flames, “What is it? Any news?”

Corey nodded, “Ian and Jayme volunteered. They visited Petunia. She claims that her husband was instructed to take Harry to an orphanage.”

Remus growled.

“I’ll be asking a few more of our lesser known members to try slipping out to search the area directories. Ian and Jayme swore to check out each orphanage for Harry’s signature and scent. We’ll find him Remus. You let Cora’s uncle know we’re looking for him. I don’t know how many orphanages there are but we’ll search them all if we have to.”

Remus inclined his head, “Thank you Corey. Tell Ian and Jayme that we are most grateful.”

“Will do. Take care of yourself Remy.”

The flames died down and Corey’s head disappeared from the hearth.

Remus clenched his fist.

An orphanage? Cora’s little brother was in that sort of a ghastly place? No wonder Severus looked so bad.

The floo flared up again and a tall imperious blonde stepped through.

Remus’ wand was up in a defensive gesture.

Lucius Malfoy blinked at him, “You’re here. Of course you are. Severus said you were moving to the Manor. Now I’m not here to cause trouble. I came to talk to Severus. Is he up?”

Remus shook his head, “He needed a potion to sleep.”

Lucius smirked, “That’s what you get for teaching a house elf how to brew. I suspect Lolly dosed him herself. Now, I want you to tell Severus, Sanctus has won a stay. The Potter wills are not going to be sealed unopened. Sirius has not been tossed in Azkaban without trial. Aurora has written a temporary order of custody for Severus in regards to Harry. Any news?”

“My pack mates visited Petunia. She claims Harry is in an orphanage.”

Lucius gripped his snake-headed care tighter; “I’ll pass that along to my informants. Muggle most likely, we’ll find him.” He glared at Remus, “You care of Severus. He was adopted into the family. His brothers and I are quite protective of him.”

“Brothers?”

“He’s been blood adopted so he’s Xenos and Sanctus’ half-brother. Thus he is my cousin and under my protection.”

There was a hint of malice under that warning tone. ‘The Severus Snape I knew from school didn’t need protecting.” Remus shrugged.

“Didn’t he? After all Sirius and James Potter went out of their way torment him or have you forgotten?” Lucius sneered, “Then there was Bellatrix who hated him for being the Halfblood son of a Bloodtraitor and being sorted into our House. Do you have any idea just what his home life was like?”

Remus frowned, “No. It was never mentioned.”

Lucius scowled, “Of course not. Merlin forbid he show weakness to the Marauders. I found out quite on accident about his home life. Lily Evans had secrets she kept from her precious James. I don’t know why Severus even tried to get on with Potter. The things that you turned your back on and didn’t stop I wish I could hate you. However you are family because you are the blood father of Severus’ niece. If I even think you are taking advantage of Severus or indulging Marauder pastimes I will take pleasure in using some nasty curses I learned amoung the Death Eaters.”

Remus stiffened, “I’m here because he asked me to be. He wants Harry and Cora to grow up together as siblings.”

“Because that’s something he and Lily didn’t get to do; they were raised apart by different parents. They never really knew or acknowledged the relationship.” Lucius sneered.

“I see. I want Cora to have things she deserves. I can’t give her much but I do love her. I would have even if I hadn’t been made to blood adopt her.”

“I never would have thought you of all people would have a child. I wouldn’t have wished one on Sirius Black or on James Potter. They were two of the most childish and irresponsible persons I ever had the misfortune to know.” Lucius said shaking his head.

Remus seethed, “You don’t know anything! I might not have agreed with everything James and Sirius did. I also wasn’t fool enough to tell them off. Why? Because I was too cowardly! I was afraid that I’d be cast out of their circle and be alone. Or worse end up the next most likely subject for their pranks like the ones they used on Severus. That’s why I kept my greatest secret to myself. After Sirius’ betrayal in Fifth Year, I realized he wasn’t as trustworthy as I wanted to believe he was. If he knew, he would assume the worse: curses, mental magic, potions, anything but the trust.”

“What would be the truth Lupin?” Lucius said dryly.

“I’m not giving you that. I won’t give you anything to hold over my head. I learned my lesson the hard way. Secrets are meant to stay that way. Otherwise they are wielded as weapons against you causing great harm.”

Lucius chuckled, “Oh well this is an interesting development. I shall have to tell Cissa. She will have a good giggle. I can just see her writing one of her sharp-tongued missives. She will insist strongly that you be brought to the Manor, Cora and all for dinner one of these nights. When she gets a look at you, maybe she’ll stop threatening to find Severus a woman. Merlin knows he certainly has no need for them. A pity, his line shouldn’t die out in the Male line because he is too cowardly to face himself. Two emotional cowards fighting the same demon and living in the same house. How is that for irony?”

Remus had no clue what Lucius was going on about. “Do you actually have a point? Since when does Narcissa actually have an opinion and follow through?”

“Since she was Bonded to me. She wasn’t under her father or Bellatrix’s thumb anymore so she was free to be herself. She is quite happy to be the Chatelaine of the Manor. She’s even ordered me out of the nursery. Something about spies and nappies don’t mix.” Lucius chuckled, “She is quite fiery and determined for a Slytherin.”

“I still can’t imagine that mouse of a woman telling Severus off.”

“Oh but she does. They bicker like siblings and it can be quite amusing. “ Lucius smirked. “She actually brought Andromeda into the Manor after I warded it against non-family members. Narcissa bonded to the Manor in ways I’ve never seen, much less heard of a spouse of a Malfoy do prior. She is no longer a Black: Cissa is a Malfoy. Some persons when joining blood and magic with the family they bind themselves to fail to leave their previous loyalties behind and cleave to their new family. Not Cissa, she looked upon the Malfoy Family as a new start. She courted my father’s attentions. He worshiped the ground she walked on. She disliked him immensely but did her best to comfort him when he suffered under the Dragon Pox.”

“I am glad for you that you have such formidable spouse. I am surprised that Narcissa had it in her. No offence but she seemed too Hufflepuff to be up to your weight.” Remus said stiffly.

“Actually, I feel that guarding her true strength to be very Slytherin of her. I have come to appreciate her.” He frowned, “I only wish that Severus would stop being such a stubborn imbecile. He would do well to have a strong partner, someone who stands by him in public yet has the gumption to tell him off.” Lucius said pointedly, Merlin save him from stubborn, blind idiotic Gryffindors!

“I hope he finds someone like that but given his temperament I don’t see him finding someone.” Remus said through clenched teeth.

The madding Slytherin smirked at him as if he knew something that Remus didn’t. “Oh that isn’t likely. He has it in his head that he isn’t worth it. He could live in the same house with someone he would willing give himself to and shut himself in his potions lab rather than comfort the fact that he has feelings for them. He sees his affection as a sort of weakness. He doesn’t want to have feelings for them; he believes that that he likes them is wrong. No matter how much I have tried to convince him otherwise.”

Those silver eyes darkened to a stormy grey, “That disgusting Muggle git! If Eileen hadn’t beaten me to it I would have killed him. The torment Severus lived him most of his life I can’t imagine. Not that living under Abraxus’ thumb wasn’t disconcerting; It was, he was a hard, cruel man who would disown his own blood because they bonded to the wrong pureblood heiress. The first thing I did after he died was reinstate my cousin as a Malfoy and swear fealty to the Houses of Lovegood and Greengrass. Severus is loyal to all three Houses remember that. It is Lovegood and Greengrass, his cousins by marriage who have kept him out of legal trouble for that Mark and got him custody of Harry.” Lucius growled, “That is if and when we find the poor kid. The bond is deteriorating Severus’ mental balance. I have never seen him like this. He is a natural Legimens and Occlumens, he taught me. Together we spied on the Dark Lord, without Cissa and Severus I don’t think I could have stayed sane amoung persons like Bellatrix…”

Remus swallowed, “Why are you telling me this?”

Lucius snapped, at the end of his patience with idiotic Gryffindors. “You were a Prefect! You have the best marks tied with Severus and Evans. Do not insult both of our intelligence by feigning a lack of intelligence. I do not suffer fools gladly, a trait Severus shares. You share this Manor with him. You will see his moods, the effect of the bond on him more than I will. His control is slipping. He isn’t thinking rationally. Devious Morganna do I have spell it out for you?”

The man was clearly unhinged. Remus was certain of that. Why would Lucius Malfoy or all persons confide in him? “I am here because of Cora…”

“Then you are selfish and stubborn.” Lucius said sadly, “I hope Severus stays true to his stubborn ways. If he does not have support, affection or assistance, I doubt he will find a way to strengthen the bond on his side. There are other ways to find Harry besides my spies or your pack Lupin. Until he is in complete control of himself, he will never realize them. I can only help so much. If you cannot or will not find a way to help him; it is not only me whose wand you’ll have to dodge it will be Cissa’s.” Lucius warned.

Remus stared at him, raising his wand. “What do you want?”

“If you cannot figure that out then there is no hope. Harry will be lost to some ghastly orphanage. Severus’ mind will unravel and you will find the might of the Malfoy family against you.” Lucius glared before disappearing into the floo.

Remus collapsed in a chair and put his head in his hands. Slytherins were so confusing…

XoooooX

[Squimish people should skip this part.]

Severus in a nightmare…

Or at least he hoped it was one…

It was cold…so cold…

He shivered in dirty clothes…his arse burned. He’d been left to sit in his own soil. How disgusting. The bedding was ratty and tattered…

He sat up at looked around.

The room was made of stone; there was a door at the far end of the room. There were three other cribs in the room. There was a sickly sweet smell of rot as well as damp and mould. The air had the faint smell of the sea.

From beyond the door were the sounds of whimpers…

The sound of maniac laughter chilled him.

“You will behave. Kneel. You know your place.”

The words were cruel…

Kneel? Knowing your place? Now that was so foreboding…

A woman entered the room, she sneered at the crib he was in.

“If it isn’t the newest edition. It helps to start you brats young. Then you don’t get any fancy ideas. You’re here because you got no one. No one in the world who gives a damn if you live or die. You belong to us, until we find someone you wants you. You won’t be going to some nice family with a mum and dad. No life of privilege for you.”

Severus shook with fury, Harry? Alone? Without family? He was a Potter and what was more he was half Prince! He would live a life of privilege if Severus brought him home.

“You will learn to be quite. You will learn to speak when spoken to. You will learn to be grateful for whatever crumbs you are give. You little brat will learn to obey every order given.”

Severus felt sick…

“Are you going to try any nasty tricks? You glare at me or shock me and I will leave you here. You be good, I will change you and give you something to eat.”

Harry screamed in his head.

‘Sevvie! Mama! Dadi! Siri! Harry hungry! Want numnum!’

Severus’ heart twisted. Who were these people? What did they think they were doing to his nephew? Rage burned like a bonfire.

The woman’s skirt caught on fire.

“Fine. If that’s the way you want to be. You can stay in here. I would think you would want to leave this room. If you like dead babies for company you can stay here.”

Severus turned to regard the source of the smell, dead baby? Why was Harry in a room with that? These people were monsters…even if Tobias had locked him up for days on end he hadn’t been locked up with a corpse.

The forlorn body curled up and sobbed quietly.

[End of creepy bit.]

Severus woke with a start breaking the control of the sleeping potion Lolly forced him to take early this morning or late last night depending on one’s opinion.

Lolly appeared wringing her hands, “Master be awake? Lolly brew that potion right. Master shouldn’t be awake for hours.”

Severus snarled at her, “You try staying asleep after being in Harry’s mind. He’s being starved! Forced to sit in his own waste and sharing a room with a dead infant! “

Lolly’s eyes widened and filled with tears, “Lolly is being sorry. Lolly be looking harder. Lolly will keep searching…”

Severus grabbed his wand, casting a refreshing charm on himself.

“Master not be wanting a bath?” Lolly asked timidly.

Severus snarled, “No!”

‘Breakfast?” the elf squeaked.

“I have no desire to eat. It will merely make me more ill.”

“Master be needing a potion? Lolly happy to get Master any potion he be wanting.” The elf swallowed.

“An anti-nausea potion and a calming draught.”

Lolly was gone and back in a snap.

Severus snatched the potions and drained the vials before shoving them back at her. “Remus?”

“Master’s guest is being in the Receiving Room. He had a floo call this morning from the werewolves. Then Lord Lucius be here. Lord Lucius be just leaving.”

Severus paled, “Lucius talked to Remus. Merlin….” He dressed and stalked off.

It didn’t take him long to reach the Receiving Room.

“What did Lucius have to say?” he snapped.

Remus blinked up at him, “I am not sure. Most of what he said was buried in innuendo and warning. I will have to sort it out. I had no idea the Malfoy family blood adopted you.”

“Didn’t seem important.” Severus said through clenched teeth. His anger at his godson’s treatment was giving him greater control of himself. “Did Lucius have anything useful to say?”

“Something about Sanctus getting a stay so that James and Lily’s wills wouldn’t be sealed unread. And that Aurora had managed to give you a temporary order of custody.”

“That will prove beneficial when we find him.”

Remus stared at him, “Are you quite alright? You seem different from yesterday.”

“I am not alright.” Severus hissed, “The bond tugged me into Harry’s mind while I was sleeping. I knew he was unhappy but I didn’t realize they were torturing him.”

Remus growled, “What are they doing to Cora’s brother?”

“Starving him. Making him sit in his own waste. The room is cold. The blanket is too worn out to keep him warm and the nasty Muggles had a dead baby in the same room!” Severus said in a sharp whisper, every word cutting the air like a knife.

“Anything else you remember?” Remus asked softly.

“Salt…the air smelt of salt and it was damp…” Severus glared.

Remus dove to the floo tossed in powder, calling Corey back. The floo connected but he couldn’t see either of them. He gave Severus a reassuring attempt at a smile. “I’ve got to tell Corey. He’ll pass it on the to pack.”

No sooner had Remus left then Severus heard the sound of soft whimpering.

Lolly entered trying to calm Coraline. “Hush Missy Cora. Lolly got you…”

The girl kept looking around, “Da? Da?”

“Why is she calling Remus?”

“Lolly wash her, fed her and dress her. Missy Cora be used to Master Remus taking care of her. Lolly new. Missy Cora not know what to make of Lolly.” The elf replied. “Master want Missy Cora?

Severus swallowed, “I don’t know much about babies. Lily and Narcissa preferred to take care of them, themselves.”

“Missy Lily let Master James help.”

“I am not James.” Severus retorted.

“Lolly show. Missy Cora good baby. She just missing Master Remus.” Lolly said gently.

“What do I do?” Severus asked a bit worried.

Lolly cradled Cora in one careful arm and arranged Severus’ arms with her free hand. “Neck not strong. Must support.” She tapped his elbow, “Always place baby’s head here. Most support. Cup bottom with hand. Be gentle, Babies are like flowers, easily bruised and broken. One never shakes a baby. They need to be fed, changes, bathed and dressed often. Babies can’t take care of themselves. House elses are good with babies. Many parents don’t bother with babies. Old Master left Missy Lena and Missy Lynn to us. We care for them. When they big, they have nurse who teach them. After nurse was a governess. Then school came. Governess kept them observed until they grown up. Governess fired when Missy Lena run away. Old Master think she bad witch. Missy Lynn cry.”

Severus listened attentively and let the house elf show him. Before he realized it, Cora had been placed in his arms.

She stopped muttering and just looked up at him, her eyes were so much like Remus’. They were the decided shade of amber and her hair was honey coloured with red highlights. It was a colour he had once heard described as strawberry blonde.

Severus swallowed; she was so little…

Cora had to be smaller that Harry…girls often were. Though Lily had been taller than he was until he was fifteen and finally had a decent growth spurt. Lilly had been just shy of five foot, seven inches when she had Harry while he had been around five foot, eleven inches. Coraline was the elder sibling but was also a witch so she would end up shorter most likely.

Then again she had Black blood, the three Black sisters were all taller than Lily. Andromeda was 5’8”, Bellatrix was 5’9” and Narcissa was between them in height. It was entirely possible that she would be taller than her mother. After all, Lupin was taller than James and she currently had Remus’ blood rather than James Potter. It was hard to tell whose blood was exchanged for Remus’ it could have been Lily’s but it could also be James’. Merlin Blood adoptions were confusing.

His own had replaced his father’s magicless blood; it had been a good thing that Apollus Malfoy had been so obliging to Lucius. Perhaps, it had something to do with Lucius’ returning Xenos to the fold. While Apollus and Abraxus were siblings, they were very different people. So were Xenos and Sanctus, Xenos while not truly mad like Bellatrix was seriously odd. Sanctus was bright, he would have been an excellent Ravenclaw but he was definitely Slytherin. He remembered the man as a fellow schoolboy. Sanctus had been a thorn in Bella’s side. He had been one of the few who refused to join in her Gryffindor/Mudblood hunting sessions. In fact, he had been on rounds with Demeter and caught Rodolphus tormenting poor Mary MacDonald. They had stopped him, since the professors turned a blind eye to such things they had let Rodolphus go but with strict orders to leave MacDonald alone.

Severus had never realized what it truly was like to have siblings…until Lucius gave him Sanctus. While he would never be close to Xenos who was just plain weird, Sanctus had a bright mind and was an engaging conversationalist. He could in time be considered a friend. If of course Severus actually wanted one, Lily had been more of a sister than a friend which made sense since she was truly his sister. James had been a friend out of desperation when Bella made forced him to take the Mark by having him Marked while unconscious. He had been forced do things against his will like torture people and brew poisons but he’d managed in the last six months to break her hold on him completely. He blamed her for his foolish attempt to apply for the Post of Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor. He had no desire to return to that school, much less teach.

He’d overheard the prophecy by accident, his conditioning by Bella’s imperious had brought him straight to her. He’d blurted out the prophecy, been crucioed for lying before Bella determined he was telling the truth. She’d dragged him into the Dark Lord’s presence and demanded he repeat himself.

Now, Lily and James were dead. Harry was missing and Remus was sharing his home with him. If this place lovely as it was could be that. While he did wish to offer Lily’s daughter protection of strong wards, it was sharing a home with her father that terrified him. He had refused to deal with the emotional as well as physical scars his father had left him with. Well if the Tapesty was to be believed then Tobias Snape was probably not his true father, Frederick Nott was. He shivered, he had always detested Nott. Nott was one of the old Guard Death Eaters who followed the Dark Lord like puppies eager for attention. They were about as sickening as Bellatrix…and as deadly. They were fiercely loyal and dangerous…

Severus pushed the maudlin thoughts from his mind as he contemplated Coraline and tried to detirmine if the Tapestry was right and only James’ blood had been replaced. He could feel the smallest hint of James’ magic. Within a few more days the magic would have finished mingling with her magical core.

Magic once it’s host died was lost, unless that person had given a small about of magic to protect an infant. James had done so for Coraline, as had he for Harry and Draco. In James’ case he only sacrficed his magic once and when he died his magic had sought out Coraline. It had followed the beacon of it’s host’s magic and had gifted itself to the container that held that bit of magic it knew. It felt it was coming home probably. His magic would be split to go to Harry and Draco.

Severus held Coraline cradled to his heard and wished to Merlin or whatever diety truly existed and could hear him that Harry would be found soon. He didn’t care if it was he elves, Remus’ pack or Lucius’ informants. He just wanted Harry alive, well and in his arms too. For some reason it felt right that someone like him comforted a worried child…

What do you think? Outstanding? Exceeds Expectations? Acceptable? Poor? Dreadful? Troll?

A/N:

unneeded - Harry is most definitely in an orphanage. There will be some damage. the experiences Harry will have will scar him but even if he can't really remember them like the murder of his mother. He will have support when he is rescued because his frightful experiences will be known by Severus at least.

Kris- You are right, the canon reasons for Harry being called the Boy-Who-Lived haven't been proven true or false. The reason he was called that is because he is the only survivor of an attack by Moldy Voldy himself.

ChaosLady - Don't hate me for the update. The story took a dark turn...
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