Harry Potter One Shots

Snape raising a young Harry

I sent my therapist go to therapy by Alec Benjiman. Harry is around four or five.

Severus Snape was not a nice man, he never claimed to be, in fact if you asked him, he was a despicable man. All of this was due to Severus's father, Tobias Snape was a drunk, a very mean and very abusive drunk who had hit Severus and his mother Eileen Snape. Over the years with his father's abuse, the loss of his mother, and then the war he had become an emotionless man, a heartless man to some and to others he was a fiercely loyal and protective man. When Severus had become the head of Slytherin house he used his position to help all of the students who had told him and even those he suspected were being abused, he never wanted a child to go through what he had. "Professor Snape?" A third year Hufflepuff was standing in front of his desk holding a small book. "Yes Rose." She smiled at him and held out the book. "Thank you for helping me with this." It was a warn book from his personal library, a small potions book that his mother had made herself, all the modifications to potions had been made by Eileen Snape. "Of course, don't forget the precautionary spells before you make these." He warned and she smiled brightly and hugged him, shocking the older man, he wasn't used to hugs or any affection. "Severus, can I speak with you?" Minerva McGonagall stood in the doorway wringing her hands, there were tears in her eyes and she looked like she was about to break down something she never did in front of students. "Of course. Rose, walk please don't run in the dungeons." He warned the energetic child who walked past McGonagall with a small hug to the stern-faced teacher. "Thank you dear." She smiled before Severus closed the door and Minerva broke down in Severus's arms. "It was awful Severus." He moved her to his office and to the couch there. "What happened? Where were you?" He summoned tissues and tea for the woman who was like a mother to him. "I went to see Harry Potter, the muggles we had sent him to they are the worst sort. I went to see him and when I asked who the little boy was, he told me his name was freak." She started to sob again, and Severus felt his anger rise, Albus had told him that the boy was treated like a king. "Why was he living with muggles?" His voice was clipped and harsh but the only muggle he could even think about was Lily's magic hating sister. "Petunia and Vernon Dursley, they have a child a month older than Harry. The little boy was too small for his age, he is skin and bone, there were marks on his skin and Severus that woman she shoved him onto the house and then hit him with a frying pan." Minerva was holding Severus's shirt to make him look at her. "You need to get him out of there. I wanted to but I am too old and have no idea what to do with an abused child. Please Severus, if left to Albus young Harry would remain there and he might not live to come to Hogwarts at the rate they abuse him. His magic might not be strong enough to save him." She pleaded with him, and Severus groaned internally, he knew that Minerva wouldn't let this go. "Alright, I will see Amelia and see if she can help with this." He promised the witch who sniffled and then straightened. "I have to go and tell Albus about my 'visit' with Arabella Figg, she is a squib who lives near those awful muggles." Minerva spat out the word muggle like it was a curse it sounded almost the same way that Lucius Malfoy said mudblood. "Go, if that little boy has to spend one more night with those monsters, I will go to Azkaban for throwing unforgivables at them." Minerva swore while leaving his office before she turned into her cat form to be faster, since most students would carry a cat upstairs when they see one. "Amelia Bones, Ministry Department of Magical Law Enforcment." Severus said as the floo took him to the woman's office, while said woman was starting to leave her office. "Amelia, could I speak to you for a minute?" She looked surprised to see him but smiled warmly at him. "Of course. Amy, could you watch Susan while I talk with an old friend?" Amy, Amelia's secretary smiled and nodded and took little Susan's hand. "I didn't know you had Susan today." Amelia shook her head. "Yeah, my brother and sister in-law needed a break with all of the accidental magic she is doing." Severus just nodded, he hadn't been many kids except for his godson Draco. "I know you didn't come for a social call Severus. So, what do you need?" One of the things Severus loved about Amelia was that she was straight to the point. "Minerva went to check on Harry Potter with his muggle relatives and what she saw. They abuse the boy, and she wanted me to get you to look into it, but it is in the best interest of the boy if Albus doesn't know about it." Severus and Amelia talked more about the situation and soon Severus and her left for number 4 Privet Drive to see the condition in which Harry Potter lived. "Severus stay behind me, I don't want to look too strange to muggles." Amelia was used to checking on the muggle born, and muggle raised children in the wizarding world but when she knocked on the door, she had no idea what she was about to see. "What do you want." The whale of a man demanded, it was too early in the afternoon for him to be drinking but he reeked of alcohol, Severus wanted to throw up when he remembered the distinct stench of strawberry vodka. "Hi am Amelia Bones and this is Severus Snape we are here to see Harry Potter." She had forced a welcoming smile on her face and Severus was fighting to the urge to run. Vodka had been Tobias Snape's favorite and Severus remembered it well. "We don't have anyone named Harry Potter here, now leave." The whale tried to shut the door, but Severus shoved his foot in the way. "We know he is here, so don't even try lying. We are here to see how you treat your nephew." Severus's voice was practically a growl. "We don't have a nephew now leave my property." Too bad for the muggles Severus shoved through the door and held his wand in his hand loosely. "I told you not to lie to me and you did." Amelia was nervous and she saw the mask slightly slip from Severus's face. The adults turned when they heard the sound of a plate crashing to the floor and a little whimper of pain, and they saw a little boy, the size of a toddler looking at the floor in horror at the shards of plate and remains of cookies that now were all over the floor. The little boy's bright green eyes filled with tears, and he was frozen looking at the whale of a muggle in fear. "Boy!" He roared and Severus moved in front of the boy he knew to be Harry. "Me not mean to! Not hur me!" The little boy cried out and put his arms over his head to protect himself. "Step away from the child." Amelia commanded with her wand pointed at the muggle who looked shocked to see a witch in his house. A horse looking woman walked in from the living room wondering what had happened and she saw her husband against the wall with a wand at his throat and the plate with cookies smashed on the floor. "What do you think you are doing! We don't need you freaks in our house!" She was red in the face and had a baby whale on her hip. "Hello Tunny, it's been long time." Severus sneered and the woman's face went pale. "Severus Snape?" She looked as though she had seen a ghost and that made Severus smile to himself. "Well, I for one have seen enough. Severus, please see that Harry isn't hurt." Amelia sounded calm, too calm; she was like this whenever she was in the courtroom. "Tunny, get Harry's things." Severus was loving the fear in the woman's eyes, she was terrified of him after she had seen him lose his temper on a boy who had only tripped Lily when they were little. "He doesn't have things. He is freak and I won't waste money on it." Vernon sounded pleased and Petunia nodded with a smug smile making it onto her face. "He is not a freak; he is a wizard." Severus growled before he heard Harry's cries again, the boy had tried to pick up glass, slipped on a broken cookie and had a shard of plate in his little foot. "Oh, sweet boy." Severus tried to use the voice that Narcissa did with Draco. Moving on instinct he knelt in front of the boy and hated when he flinched away from him, and he was shaking. "I won't hurt you, sweet boy. My name is Severus, I want to help you." Harry lifted his eyes and Severus saw himself in the eyes, the eyes that were a perfect replica of Lily's. "No hur me?" He looked distrustful of Severus, and he didn't blame the boy. "No, I won't hurt you, I promise." Severus held his hands palm up to the boy, he wanted to pick him up and hide him from the world. "I am just going to pick you up so I can get help you. Is that okay with you Harry?" The little boy cocked his head to the side, like he didn't know if Severus was talking to him. "Me no Hawy, me Fweak." Severus wanted to kill the muggles now. "Your name isn't freak, it is Harry. You are Harry James Potter." He saw the little boy shake his head. " I is a fweak, I no have name." He stated like a fact and Severus really hated the muggles but liked that the kid was able to stand up to him. "You are not a freak because you have a name, and that name is Harry." He said while picking up the child and waving his wand over the boy's foot, making the glass disappear and the wound close up. "Wha dat?" Harry looked in awe at his foot. "That Harry was magic. I am a wizard and can perform magic, so can you." He didn't like the fear in the eyes. "Magi bad, no say it!" He placed his tiny hands over Severus's mouth and looked around in fear. "Magic isn't bad Harry. You and I are wizards, we can perform magic." Harry looked like he didn't fully believe Severus, but he nodded and held his hands on his lap. "Severus take him with you. I want you to fix as much of this as possible and bring him to my office in the morning. I have to call the Aurors to handle these things." She said while trying not to offend the young ears in the room and Severus nodded and held Harry close as he stood. "Okay, Harry, I want you to hold on tight until I tell you to stop okay." The little boy nodded and Snape apparated with the little boy, they went to Spinners End. "Okay you can let go." Little Harry looked around and noticed they weren't in the muggle's house anymore. "How do dat?" He sounded confused and Severus smiled at him. "I used magic to get us to my house. Welcome to Spinners End." He waved his arm around the dimly lit house and Harry then screamed when he saw his house elf. "Willow, this is Harry. Harry this is Willow, she is a house elf." The little boy clung to Severus in a death grip. "She won't hurt you." Severus promised and the boy looked at him, his eyes were so much like Lily's that it hurt him to see them so broken. "Pwamise?" "Yes, Harry, I promise she won't hurt you." To the house elf's credit, she didn't rush to the boy like she did with Severus as she knew this was a delicate situation. "I's be making food for little master Harry." The house elf left, and Harry was brought to a smaller room. "This is your room, Harry. We can go to Diagon Ally tomorrow after our trip to Amelia." Harry looked at him with those big green eyes and nodded solemnly. "We can get you toys, clothes, and maybe we can get ice cream for lunch." Harry's eyes got wide, and he smiled for the first time and hugged Severus tightly. "I am going to call a friend and his wife to see if they can bring their son over. Would you like that, Harry?" The boy got down and was starting to go to the kitchen and Severus stopped him. "Where do you think you're going young man?" He tried to keep his voice neutral, so he didn't scare him. "I make food." The little boy said, and Severus pulled him close. "You don't make food. You are going to play with my godson Draco when he gets here. That is all you will do. You are a child, and I won't treat you the way those people did." Severus had to force himself to say people instead of monsters because the little boy had no idea what it was like to have friends. After a little while Harry was eating a snack from Willow while the house elf tried to make the boy laugh and he did warm up to the elf who hugged the boy. Soon Lucius, Narcissa, and Draco came through the floo and Harry noticed them. "Hello, I am Narcissa." The pureblood woman knelt in front of Harry and gave him a small smile to which the boy nodded. "I am Draco." The little boy threw his arms around Harry and then pulled the other boy to the toys the Severus kept for his godson. "He won't have an easy road Severus, but the good thing he is young." Lucius said with a hand on his friend's shoulder. "Where are the muggles? I want a turn with them." Narcissa stated looking at the too small boy. "They are being delt with. I would let you kill them if I could." Severus held himself back from killing them, they didn't deserve to live after hurting the sweet boy. "Well at least the boys get along. So, he will have a friend and I will personally kidnap him if it keeps him away from Dumbledore." Lucius stated looking at his son and Harry playing. "You can't kidnap Harry Potter Luc." Severus chuckled at his friend who grumbled under his breath. 

The muggles were sent to a high security wing of Azkaban where they were met with a grimm, and a very insane family of purebloods. They didn't even last one night alive in that prison. Their son was sent to live with his aunt in the countryside. Harry was adopted by Severus Snape who changed his name to Hadrian Potter-Snape, and the boy was in Slytherin. Draco and Harry became best friends and they helped Voldemort take over the wizarding world.