Prologue
�Please Severus! Please can we adopt your son? Both Lily and I can�t have children and your son will be away from the Death Eaters this way!�
�No! You are NOT taking my only son away from me and my family!�
It was July 20th of 1980 and James Potter and Severus Snape were at the Potter Manor discussing who would raise Severus�s son for the good of the world. It was common knowledge that Snape was a Death Eater but was starting to turn spy for the Order of the Phoenix. James was worried, for the fact both he and Lily are infertile and he didn�t want an innocent life to be killed just for his father�s betrayal to the Dark Lord. Right now, he was pretty much just making up excuses to raise his life long rivals son.
�You would kill the boy with the lack of love you show and who-knows-what-else goes on in your house!�
�James Alexander Potter! How dare you say that about my family! I don�t even know why I am here! I�m leaving and you are never ever going to get your hands on my son! And with that, Severus stood up, grabbed his cloak, and strode out of the house fuming.
�That man! Why does he want my son?� When Severus arrived at home, he took his son in his arms, hugged his wife, Solace, and said, �That bastard wanted our baby Septimus.�
�He� WHAT?! Why?� asked Solace and she started to cry.
�I don�t know. I really don�t know.�
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It was ten to eleven pm on July 30, 11 almost 12 days after Severus�s meeting with James and a man was sneaking up to Snape Mansion. Hooded and cloaked in black, he started to scale the building. Suddenly, he stopped when he reached the third floor window. Quietly he opened it and went inside. In the room was a small mahogany crib, with creamy white walls. The colors were a nice contrast.
In the crib was a small baby boy, just over 2 weeks old. The man gently picked the boy up and wrapped him tightly, but comfortably, inside his cloak, grabbed his broomstick that he and brought with him, mounted it, and almost flattened himself to it as he went through the opened window and they were off into the night.
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It was just after midnight the same morning and Solace had work up. �Sev, Sev, something doesn�t feel right. It feels like something�s missing.�
�Alright hun. Let�s go check it out. I also want to check on Sept.� They quietly got up and went down the hall to check on the supposedly sleeping baby boy.
As they went inside the baby�s room, they saw that the mahogany crib was empty. Solace hugged the brown teddy bear the boy had loved while Severus had grabbed her in a hug and let her cry into his shoulder whispering, �Why?� all the while.
Severus sobbed quietly trying to comfort his wife all the while. Then something dawned on his face and he roared, �JAMES!�
Over 2000 miles away, James and Lily Potter were putting a baby boy, who looked remarkably like James, into a muggle crib and Lily said, �Welcome home, Harry James Potter.�