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Tom groaned as he moved. He shouldn't have drunk that last drink. He wasn't sure what the drink was called as it had been a strange combination of alcohol that was left. He had been drinking White Russians and shots all night. He moved to get up and found something warm was next to him. He closed his eyes and opened them. He slowly looked over his shoulder. Severus sleeping next to him. He used to sleep with Severus. This was the first time in almost 15 years since he just got his new body. He felt the burn and knew they picked up their relationship. He was very happy about it. "Sev." He touched him, caressing Severus' hair.
"Tom?" Severus was slowly waking. "Tom?" Tom could tell his hangover was worse than his. He touched Severus' face again. He had missed him so much.
"I hope you have some Hangover Potions, love." Tom watched Severus felt under his pillow and tried not to laugh as he watched the man fumble looking for his wand.
Severus raised his wand finally and muttered, "Accio pouch". Tom caught the pouch as it flew toward them. He opened it and dug around, finding the correct potions, and gave one to Severus as he took one. "I am taking it we renewed our relationship last night?"
"I believe so. I think Bellatrix might have spiked my drinks again."
"She tried. I stopped her, six times, she never gives up. Did you have to use Harry?"
"I don't understand why you are so protective of that boy. Yes, I did. It is the only way I could have come back and hopefully get rid of the boy later."
"You know why."
"Not this again Sev. Please, until I know the whole prophecy, I am going to act to protect myself."
"I have been telling you something's off about the whole setup for that night."
"Please Sev, let's not debate this now. Could we just enjoy our time together before the old coot wants you back?"
Severus touched Tom's face and exhaled deeply. "You shouldn't have used Harry. The stuff he has done to that boy. He is abused just like we were."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I ran some scans. The list was long, Tom. I did it after his name was pulled out. Dumbledore didn't even try to get the boy removed from the tournament. I wanted to find out what was going on so I ran a health scan. It was worse than either of us ever experienced. I don't know what to do."
"There is nothing we can do. You know that he has that boy believing different kinds of things about our side."
"It didn't help with you using that ritual. At least you're saner than before." Severus gave him a kiss. "Bellatrix was trying to get into your pants again."
"I know. You are also right, I shouldn't have used him. I was insane I can see it. I was insane when I went after the Potters. Sev, I am sorry." Tom did feel remorse for what he did. He was going to have to work on making it up to Severus and hopefully someday to Harry. How was he going to do it? He wasn't exactly sure.
Severus pulled Tom into his arms. "You are going to be the death of me. I will work on fixing Harry. I just don't know how." He felt Tom nod his head. "I don't want you going after that boy. I don't know what that old coot wants with him or why he is forcing this. It's not something any child should be involved in. You wouldn't believe the tests he has the boy endure."
Tom looked up at him, "test?" Severus began the tale of Harry's first four years. "Sev, there is something wrong, very wrong." Tom knew the old man was crazy but to endanger all of the students.
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For the past few weeks every morning Tom rushed to the bathroom. Severus watched him and passed him some potions. "Tom, I think you need to have Cissy check you over and make sure that ritual didn't do anything."
"I'm fine." Tom waved him off which caused a book to be burnt to a crisp.
"Yes. You are truly fine." Severus eyed Tom's body. "However, you just set a book on fire. Last night you burned your own robes before we went to bed. You almost killed Barty when he tried to tell you that dinner wasn't ready last night. Do I need to remind you of the other events over the last week alone?" Severus walked over to his desk and picked up some parchment. "Tom, if you don't have Cissy check you out, I will tell Nagini."
"You wouldn't dare." Tom looked around for his overprotective familiar.
"She is out hunting for her breakfast. You know I will. Do you want to listen to her lecture you about your health? I believe last time it was a very long lecture that took most of the day. Your choices are Cissy or Nagini. Cissy will give you a quick painless scan."
"That's blackmail."
"No, it's called being a Slytherin." Severus grinned over his shoulder.
Tom glared at him and finally caved in. Severus was correct. "I will have her check me later."
"Today."
"Sev, I have a lot of things I need to get done."
"You have paperwork and that can wait."
"Fine." Tom huffed at him. "You know if you were anyone else."
"Yes, I know but I am not. I am your husband and we know who is in charge in the bedroom."
Tom walked up to him, Severus embraced him, as Tom gave him a kiss. "Want to show me again?"
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"Pregnant? I am pregnant." Tom looked like he is in shock.
Narcissa had a huge grin on her face. "Based on how far along you are, I would say it happened the night of your return when we had the party. Do you know who the father is?" She tried not to flinch in fear.
"Yes, it's my husband Cissy. As if I would sleep around. Severus would also kill me if I did." Tom gave her one of his, I am annoyed but won't kill you looks. His annoyance caused two chairs to float up into the air.
"My Lord?" She pointed to the chairs. "I had to ask, Bellatrix was trying to give you so many different potions."
"Yes, Severus kept them from making their way into my system. Are you sure we can't give her a potion or something?"
Narcissa smiled. "No." She loved Severus like a brother. Both men were stubborn as mules yet they made a good couple. "How do you think he will take it?"
"He is going to love it. You know him, despite his demeanor with kids, he does love them." Tom could wait to see Severus' face when he told him the news.
"True. I remember how he was with Draco." They started to talk about getting baby items and what the new baby would need.
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Severus and Tom were sitting in their account manager's office, waiting for him to arrive. "What do you want to call him?" Severus had told Dumbledore he was going for potion ingredients.
"How can you be sure it will be a boy?"
Severus looked at Tom. "You didn't ask Cissy?"
"She can tell us?" They hadn't wanted to find out the first time so they had never asked. Tom never studied the healing arts as Severus did for his Masters in Potions. Tom used the healing arts for healing quickly or hurting someone. Tom enjoyed making his enemies hurt and relied on his followers to keep his enemies alive.
"Yes, we can talk to her during the next exam."
Tom wanted to ask more but Ironclaw entered his office. "May your gold flow and the head of your enemies be laid at your feet." Tom greeted him.
"May your name bring more fear." Ironclaw enjoyed this couple. They honored the old ways and respected the goblins, not many wizards did. "How may I help you?"
"We need to name our baby heir."
"What happened to your original heir?" Ironclaw asked confused.
"Original heir?" They were confused. Their child was deceased.
"Yes. The one you were carrying almost 16 years ago. I believe he will be 15 at the end of July." Ironclaw was wondering exactly what was happening.
"The only children who that would match is Harry Potter or Neville Longbottom. I know it's not Longbottom because he was never out of his grandmother's sight after that night." Severus was wondering what happened if their child was Harry Potter.
"Mr. Potter?" Ironclaw thought for a few minutes. "Give me a few minutes please." He left the office.
"Severus what is going on?" Tom didn't want to think about what might have happened and hoped Severus would tell him differently.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Severus remembered Tom giving birth to their son but the child was stillborn. It nearly destroyed him and didn't aid Tom with his sanity at the time. It was at the end of July but the Potters were also in the hospital. Lily was giving birth to her son on the same day. No, he didn't. Please, Merlin, I hope that old fart didn't do what he was thinking he did. He wasn't going to voice this out loud. Tom would kill anyone who got in his way if he found out their son was alive.
Thirty minutes later, Ironclaw came in, followed by two other goblins. "I fear we have a problem." One of the new goblins stepped forward. "I am Ragnak, I am the King's brother. This is Hanak, our other brother, he is the account manager for the Potters."
Severus paled. "He didn't?"
The three goblins nodded their heads. Tom looked as if he was ready to explode. "Where is my son?" Office furniture began to float and some windows broke. Severus pulled out a Calming Draught and gave it to Tom "Drink." He took his own advice and drank one as Tom did. The office furniture landed as Tom calmed down.
"He is at what we believe are his muggle relatives." Ragnak ignored what he just saw happen. After all, he would most likely kill someone if he was being told this. "We have several issues."
"Could you get him here or do I have to go and get him?" Tom was barely hanging onto his temper. He was going to kill the old fart as soon as he could in the most painful way possible.
"Tom, relax, please, relax. We will get our son back." Severus was fuming but knew he had to keep calm for Tom for the baby and their son. "I promise you."
"We have two of our people getting him now. We found there are guards watching the house or he would be here now. We are trying to get him without alerting Dumbledore." As Ragnak was speaking there was a knock on the door and two goblins entered the office.
"We need someone to work the wards so it will take a little bit longer. Our warders are out on jobs so we are waiting for one. We need to overlay a set of wards to keep those wards from crashing and setting off alarms. The wards that are up there are a mess so we need the warders to do it." The goblin wasn't thrilled with delivering the news. This was an important job.
Tom stood up. "Take me there now."
Severus knew that tone. It's was not something he could stop so he joined him. "Take us."
The goblins pulled out a port key and they are taken to Privet Dr. "Severus, I see two Order members, one by the blue lorry and another by the house across the street behind a tree." Severus was doing his own scanning of the area around them.
The goblins grinned. "We will take care of them. They have been watching the boy being abused and haven't done a thing about it." The goblins went and retrieved the Order members. The rest of the goblins followed Tom and Severus.
Severus and Tom's magic had flared up as they stalk toward #4. They stopped just as the wards begin. "Severus, get one of the goblins here to see these wards before I rip them down. I am hoping that the old fool tries something." This was Lord Voldemort, not his Tom.
A goblin, who specialized in wards, arrived and began to take notes, he worked quickly and effectively. "Done."
Tom ripped into the wards like they were butter. Severus knew alarms would be going off in the Ministry and the old coot's office. "We won't have much time."
Tom didn't respond but headed up the walkway. Tom blasted the door to pieces and walked into the house. They could hear some crying from upstairs. A loud smack was heard. Tom literally flew up the stairs. "I haven't seen him do that in a while." Severus loved how powerful his husband was. The goblins followed him up the stairs. "Get the muggle, I will work on making sure Tom doesn't kill them."
"Wouldn't be a waste if he did." One of the goblins muttered.
"I agree. We don't need the press making it out like he did the killing for no reason." Severus entered the bedroom and saw Tom holding a bloody and almost dead Harry Potter. "Get that filth out of here." The goblins took hold of the whale of a man that was passed out on the floor. Severus hoped the muggle was just unconscious and not dead.
Severus moved to Harry and Tom. He could tell Harry wasn't aware of what was happening but before they could apparate or use a port key Severus needed to get Harry stabilized. "Harry, I am going to give you a Pain Potion and a Blood-Replenishing Potion." He spelled them directly into his son. "We are going to port you to the Bank." He touched the dazed boy as the potions started to work. "Tom, hold on to him."
"I won't be letting him go." The goblins pulled out the port key and they felt the pull the port key as the sounds of wizards arriving by apparition went off.
They were in a healers' room. Severus and the healer were casting diagnostic scans as his assistants obeyed orders. "He has a lot of potions in him, Tom, we will have to get him purged."
"Spells too." The Healer almost growling the words out. "Nasty ones, very unnecessary ones."
"May we get a list of them as evidence?" Severus touched Harry's hair and Harry opened his eyes and saw exactly who was helping him. Harry started to struggle. "Harry relax, please. We aren't going to hurt you. You are at Gringotts. We are going to heal you as best as we can." He kept touching Harry as Tom buried his face in Harry's neck.
"Sh, Harry, I promise we aren't going to hurt you." Tom whispered to him. "You will learn the truth as soon as the Healer and Severus are finished." He didn't loosen his hold on his son.
Harry fell asleep as Severus spelled a sleep potion into him. "It will only make him sleep for about two hours."
"It will give us time to heal him. Could you get your husband to release him?" The healer pointed to the rune etched bench in the room.
"Tom, they need to have Harry lay down on their rune bench to help him heal." Severus quietly explained to him. "You can hold his hand while they do it. I will be with each of you." He understood that Tom didn't want to let his son go. He understood it exactly because he wanted to take hold of Harry and never release him either.
Tom looked lost for a few seconds but he stood up and carried Harry to the bench and laid him down, gently. "Severus, he is so small and light." His voice laced with worry.
"I know, love. We can help him get better." Severus started to think of ways to make Harry Potter die and their son live. The goblins would help. They held one of Harry's hands as they watched bones being broken and reset, tendons and muscles being healed, nerve potions spelled directly into his body.
"He will need daily Strengthening Solution and Star Grass Salve until the wounds are closed up. He might remain scarred even if you use the scarring paste you invented. He will need daily vitamins and nutrients potions for at least the next six months."
"I can brew them." Severus watched Tom picked up Harry and cuddle him close. Harry in his sleep cuddled in closer and he saw Tom wrap his robes around Harry. "We need to go and see Ragnak now."
"They are waiting." The healer looked at the parchments. "I will be sending copies to Ragnak, the King, and to your vaults."
"Thank you." Severus inclined his head. The Healer inclined her head in acceptance as Severus moved to Tom. "Let's go and fix the rest of this."
"I want his head, Sev." Tom stood up.
"So do I."
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Everyone was gathered in Ragnak's office. It was a bit crowded as there were numerous goblins involved. "We have done a lot of digging and it appears that the original Harry Potter was killed three days after his birth, which was July 28. They were in the hospital on the 31st because Harry had fallen off of the changing table when James Potter was trying to change him."
"We can't say for sure who did the switch. No one seems to have noticed. We have no idea why the babies were switched."
"To make the prophecy come true. Anyone who knows Neville Longbottom knows he barely is above a squib on magic. His family thought he was for a long time. I wonder why the original Harry's magic didn't save him? I would have thought accidental magic would have prevented him from something like that." Severus began to wonder who and why this happened. His husband was already planning punishment for those involved.
"It doesn't always work that way, sadly." Ragnak informed them.
"This prophecy, we have looked for it. It doesn't exist, we have been wondering what one you mean?" A Seer asked.
"It was given in February of 1981, the exact date I am I can't provide. It was around the middle of the month." Severus answered them. "I wonder why I can't remember?" He had his right hand resting on Harry's leg
"Yes and we have found nothing. We went to the Ministry. There is one there and we looked at it. We picked it up. By being able to pick it up, it made us wonder what exactly was happening. No one should be able to touch prophecy but the ones it is about never mind read it." The Seer informed them.
"It's a fake. He set up the Potters and Longbottoms. Why?" Severus asked.
"It's not just those families that have been targeted. We have seen a clear pattern. Anyone who has power, like the Potter, Bones, or Longbottom family, that when they have had a child, the parents and rest of the family have been killed. Dumbledore somehow becomes the magical guardian. He seemed very upset when that didn't happen with the Longbottom and Bones child. He has also done it with families that have opposed him, those not in the Dark Lord's following."
"He wants our power. He wanted to do a ritual with me and Neville, we refused." Harry mumbled.
"What happened, Harry?" Severus asked.
"Last year before Sirius was discovered, he pulled Neville and me into this room behind his office, there were some runes on the floor. Neville and I refused. He kept trying to make us do it. McGonagall showed up, he panicked, tossed out two quick Obliviates, and let us finally leave. It worked on Neville but he missed me ducking." Harry was looking at Severus but was still cuddled into Tom.
"He also has been using the proxies and helping himself to the vaults of the anyone he has been named has their magical guardian." One of the account managers told them.
"Could we get the funds back from him regarding Harry's account? See if we can find a way to get anyone else back too?" Tom realized that having his son in his arms was the only thing keeping him from going after Dumbledore.
"We need an inheritance test. I believe we also need a purge. We will work on finding some loophole to get the others out of his control and their money back. I believe that is why Henda is here. She is going to be researching the family trees to find the correct guardians." Ragnak told them.
"You are correct. I am wondering if I can't find a guardian if you will be able to help us find appropriate ones for the children. We can make a line of ascension if we have to." Henda stepped forward.
Severus looked at Tom. "I believe we can provide assistance with that. I am sure we have people that would love to have children. Narcissa would be able to provide you with a list of families." Tom knew many of his followers wanted more than one child. He wanted more than one child.
"What does a purge do?" Harry was tired and wanted to go back to sleep.
"It will get rid of the blood glamours that you have on. As our child, you shouldn't look like the Potters. In order for that to have happened, they had to use a blood glamour and or a blood adoption." Tom thought of more ways to torture Dumbledore as he explained.
"We also need the test to see exactly what we can do regarding Mr. Potter's status. It will provide us with proof that he is your son." Ragnak pulled out what was needed as the rest of the goblins were speaking, in gobbledygook, behind him about what they needed to start working on.
Severus caressed Harry's hand, rubbing small circles with his fingers, on the back of Harry's hand. "We need the purge as the healer and I discovered he has some compulsions and spells on him. I know we only found a few of them as I believe there are more in his system." He paused "I might have an idea on how to protect Harry from Dumbledore."
Tom looked at his husband. "Does it involve a painful death for the muggles and Dumbledore?"
"Worse." Severus sent him a look that promised Tom that the muggles would suffer.
"Good." Came from Harry, which surprised them. "Please, I haven't liked that old creep since I first saw him in my first year."
"I do believe we will be talking about your adventures and your penchant for getting into trouble." Severus arched a brow at Harry.
"It wasn't my fault. I ended up doing most of that due to his compulsions and something Granger kept doing."
"What has she been doing?" Tom asked, gently, thinking about yearly events Severus told him about.
"I don't know but when I say no to something I find myself doing it anyway if she said certain words."
"Obedience spell." Tom explained to Harry. Severus was glad the Calming Draught was still working or this office would be destroyed.
"He is going to need a complete purge." Severus told the goblins. They began to sort out which purging ritual they would use. Harry provided the blood for the test to reflect his before and after the purge status. He leaned back against Tom.
All the goblins are watching the parchment just as closely as Severus and Tom were.
Julius Severus Marvolo Prince Gaunt Riddle Snape
Father: Severus Tobias Prince Snape
Father: Tom Marvolo Gaunt Riddle Snape
Blood adoption:
James Potter-Illegal
Lily Potter-Illegal
Sirius Black
Titles:
Potter-inherited
Black-inherited
Gryffindor-inherited
Peverell-inherited
Prince-inherited
Gaunt-heir
Slytherin-heir
"Well, I guess people were right during my second year calling me Baby Dark Lord and the Heir of Slytherin." Harry quipped as the test was slowly being revealed.
Blocks:
Animagi transformation 100%
Metamorphmagi 100% (blood adoption-Sirius Black, James Potter ) (Dorea Black)
Flight 100%--(natural)
Legilimency and Occlumency 100%--(natural)
Magical resistance 60% --(natural)
Transfiguration 25%
Charms 25%
Potions 90% --(natural)
Astronomy 25%
Herbology 25%
Magic 25%
Leach 25%
"I am going to kill that man." Everyone could hear the venom as Tom spoke.
Compulsions:
Obey keyed to Albus Dumbledore, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley
Hate Severus Snape
Hate Tom Riddle
Slack off on homework
Do not try in classes
Never do better than Hermione Granger
"This explains a lot." Harry finished reading the parchment. "I was the top of my school before I came to Hogwarts and I found I couldn't remember things or do as well for some reason." He paused "what does this natural mean by things?"
"Those are gifts you received from your family." Severus explained. "Flight comes from your father. He can fly without a broom and so will you after the purge. The Mind Arts and Potions are from me, my mother, and your father. Magic resistance comes from your father and his mother."
"I can fly without a broom?" Harry still didn't let go of Tom.
"Yes, I will teach you later. It's amazing." Tom hugged his son. He wanted to weep but kept it back, damn hormones. He was so happy to be holding his firstborn child.
"Could we get this purge done? I want to be the real me." Harry was still bouncing in his excitement about flying.
"Yes, it will take a few hours. While it's being done, we will need to find a way to kill off Mr. Potter and allow your son to take his place."
"Use the Peverell line, the Potters, Gaunts, and Princes are from that line. We can use Harry as being the last of the line to be named our heir." Tom explained to them. "It will keep Dumbledore from getting the proxies and money."
"What about the Black Title?" Severus asked. "The Mutt is out and running about."
"Mr. Potter is Lord Black. Sirius Black was removed from the family and was put in Azkaban. Since he did the blood adoption before he was removed, it made Mr. Potter the current Lord Black.
"I say we close down that house they use for headquarters but after Potter officially dies." Harry smirked. When he saw the look on their faces he explained. "He is too far up into Dumbledore. Dumbledore allowed him to be sent to Azkaban. He had to know he was innocent. He also hasn't done a thing to get him free and the Mutt is stupid enough to listen to him." He paused "I don't have to keep being called Harry? I hate everything that goes with that name." He couldn't get rid of his smirk. "You know if the house is sealed up, only I can get in. The Order won't have any way to remove their stuff which means we can look into their files."
"No, no more Harry. We need to find a way to keep the old goat from figuring out you were Harry Potter." Severus looked at his son. "You have been hiding, haven't you?"