A Father A New Life Start Book 5

4. Spending Time With Those You Love

This is going to be part of a four piece chapter where Harry spends time with his family one at a time now Severus

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Severus was looking through some photo albums of him and Lilly growing up and he smiled at each one and when they got to the end of their fifth year.... well that was the hardest summer he ever had to deal with he had lost his mother and then due to James... the prat that he was bullied him and him saying that filthy word at his best friend was the worst he could ever do, he was so young and didn't know what he could of done no matter how hard he tried

He wanted out but being underage he was left to rot in a hell hole that was living with his drunk ass of a father that got fired from the coal factories and because of that he drunk and him and is mother got beaten so badly and it only got worse when he found out that both were magical...

He hated growing up like that but no matter how much his mother tried to get some work so then she could feed the family his father would always drink it away but he did have a few selected memories which were good and one that he was going to bring Harry on so then he could see where Severus and his mother grew up and where they met and go to...

They were going to go to Wicksteed Park in Kettering he had only been once and that was because his mother had saved up to celebrated his and Lilly's tenth birthday it was the first and last time they ever went.

He was brought out of his memories as Harry sat down next to him leaning on him

"What's the matter dad you seem lost in the past"

"I was thinking about my past to be honest and the place that me and your mother went to when we were younger"

"You knew my mum?!"

"Yes a matter of fact we lived near each other growing up, I was the one to tell her that she was a witch and that I was a wizard, your mother was a muggleborn but it turns out that she and your aunt come from a Squib line that had died or thought of died out, so they had magic right from the start.

Your mother's was strong and she could do wonderful, strange and scary things when angry and I did get hurt a few times because of that, you are a lot like her in so many way son, the stubbornness is 100% hers but doesn't help that I also blood adopted you and I'm also stubborn as well.

You still look so much like her, her colour of eyes, your nose and lips are all her the rest was James but now you are a wonderful mix of all three of us, never forget that we all love you" and he hugged him

"I love you as well dad and are you sure I'm like her I was told I was more of James"

"No you are more Lilly, you're kind, gentle, stubborn, powerful, amazing and much much more, come on I want to show you the one place I truly loved... well two to be honest the lake that I told her she was a witch and an Park I went to once" he got up taking Harry with him and they Apparated out of the cottage.

"I hate that type of travelso much" said Harry looking around and all he could see was rows upon rows of houses in a fog infested street

"This is so dank dad"

"This is the town me and your mother grew up in Cokeworth, such a bad town but.. everyone knew everyone and was always in someone's business but I id call this place home once upon a time"

 He showed Harry the house he grew up in, he owned it still but was finally thinking of selling it as they had the manors from the Prince, Gaunt, Potter as well as everything from the Founder lines so they could live anywhere.

"This son is the house I grew up in" he opened the door and Harry could smell the mould in it and almost gagged but went in it was covered from floor to ceiling of all sorts of books.

"Wow"

"Come on I don't really want to spend much time here I want to get to the lake"

Harry looked around quickly and headed back downstairs and into his fathers waiting arms they soon disappeared only to land by a lake.

"This is the lake that I spent most of my time away from my father" he spat out the word like it was acid on his tongue "..he was very much like your uncle and I had to spend so much time with him and his alcoholic drunken ways while my mother tried to work and protect me but it never worked, the man killed my mother... you called call her your grandmother if you want, I don't want you calling that man grandfather, he was never a husband or a father" 

He showed him the lake

"I told your mother she was a witch her she was running away from your aunt as she was upset that your mother could do something that she could plus your grandparents doted on her more than Petunia, or Tunie as me and your mother called her.

It was a friendship I regret breaking when I was fifteen I'll admit I was upset when your father kept picking on me and then I called her a mudblood and she never forgave me for it... I regret it after all these years... come enough of the past the thing I want to show you is Wicksteed Park my mother took us too when we were only ten, it was the first and last gift she would ever afford for me.

 They landed in Wicksteed Park and paid to go in and had a look around Severus remembering bits and pieces and telling Harry what he and Lilly had seen when they were children,  they had stopped off to get some lunch after bouncing around the UK for the morning and then afterwards looked around Wicksteed Park.

They walked around the park looking at everything that had changed as well as everything that was new to them Severus telling Harry bits and pieces he could remember from what over 20 years ago somethings never changed the lake was still the same, the paths old and some that were new and they ended up getting lost but it was all in good fun.

Harry begged to go onto some of the rides and so Severus relented and bought the tickets sighing his son was almost seventeen but acting slightly younger he curse Dursley and Dumbles for that but he didn't mind if he got to see his son happy.

They went on the Railway, the Swing Rides Severus didn't like it he was never one for flying if you asked him, went through Meerkat Manor Harry asking for one as a pet which was turned down right away, got soaked on the Water Chute making Harry laugh as that was the second time so far that Severus getting soaked.

"Haha very funny Hadrian"

Harry tried to get Severus onto the Rocky River Falls but Severus moved him away from all the water rides he didn't want to get more drenched then he already was.

They went to the Aviary where the birds flew to Harry like he was a magnet making him laugh he pulled out some owl treats and fed each one, the staff were amazed at what Harry could do and asked him.

"Oh I have a pet owl at home called Hedwig and dad has a pet raven called Tyki"

Severus wanted to see about the cars and how much they had changed since he was a child and they had spent hours in there and Harry had to drag the man out and onto the lake again for the Lake Rides where he learnt how to row a boat and then lastly it was onto the tree top walks before they had dinner at Peacock Cafe which sat by the lake, they ended up going home quite late