Chapter 189 : Manor's Unexpected Reunion

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"Ah, I should probably set the record straight on that, but first let me ask; whatever made you think that I'm not having fun with Sev?" He asked causing every single person in the living room to startle.

"Sev?" James asked.

"Fun?" Sirius added.

"Yes. Well, you haven't been hanging around a lot during the summer." Harry reminded them shrugging.

"Since when are you calling Snape, Sev?" Ron asked shocked.

"Since I was… five?" Harry pretended to think back. "Just not in school."

"But how can you have fun with…" Sirius question was cut short by the sound of flames and someone stepping in the house through the floo network.

"Sorry I'm late, kid. I got held… up." Severus walked into the living room, taking the sight of the assorted crowd in. Harry simply shrugged and Severus simply decided to go with it. "Goblins' gold! People!" He exclaimed, making Harry chuckle.

"Just what I said!" Severus rolled his eyes and walked towards the disbelieving stares he was receiving. He was dressed in dark blue jeans, a white button-up shirt, open at the collar and a charcoal grey pinstriped vest; he hadn't shaved, his hair was tussled and he looked altogether far too attractive, toned and healthy to be the Severus Snape they all remembered and some abhorred.

"Happy birthday, Harry!" Severus stated and hugged Harry smiling all the while.

"First one to wish me actually." Harry stated looking at his seemingly frozen family and friends.

"And what were they doing?" The potions master asked smirking.

"I really don't know." Harry admitted.

"Snape?" Sirius asked looking at the stranger in front of him; he had the same voice as Severus Snape, his eyes the same colour and shape as Severus Snape's and he even had the same bloody smirk as Severus Snape but that was about it.

"Do you know many people called Severus Snape?" The potions master asked, causing Harry to break into laughter once more.

"That's more or less what I said!" The teen exclaimed once again.

"Severus. Is that really you?" Lily asked, her eyes wide, her face flushed.

"Come on Lils, not you too!" The potions master exclaimed, feigning desperation.

"So." Harry stated looking at the potions master carefully, a smirk forming in his face. "Isn't that half the attire you wore at the gala last night?" The shirt and the vest were definitely the same and Severus's widening gaze confirmed his statement. "Ten galleons you woke up in the wrong bed. Again." Severus narrowed his eyes at the teen; he couldn't even bother to pretend feeling affronted with the faces everyone -especially James and Sirius- was pulling. He just sighed and waved his hand dismissively.

"Be proud of me kid; I asked about abstinence oaths this time." Severus stated looking at the ceiling.

"Asked if the woman was married?" Harry inquired, his eyes narrowing.

"Yes." Severus answered sulkily.

"Then what happened?"

"It went like this." The potions master tried to explain, gesturing with his hands. "I forgot to ask if she was engaged, she forgot her fiancé was returning home today. Woops." Harry's only response was a sigh and an eye roll; he should never allow Severus to go to such events unaccompanied.

"It just keeps happening." The teen muttered.

"Who are you people?" Sirius exclaimed, looking at the two wizards in front of him terrified.

"Has he gotten worse since the last time I saw him?" Severus asked concerned.

"He looks the same." Harry observed. "Guess what?"

"What?" Severus asked, completely ignoring the shocked people in the room. He was enjoying himself too much to stop.

"Since it's my birthday, Rosie made…"

"Chocolate cake?" Severus asked smiling wide. He politely ignored the gasp from Hermione who couldn't bring herself to believe that Hogwarts's potion master's face was capable of an expression other than smirking. Harry smiled back.

"You guessed it."

"Whatever are we still waiting here for?" The potions master wondered out loud, walking straight towards the kitchen.

"Hey, I want some of that cake too!" Harry called following him. "It's my birthday!"

"You shouldn't have told me then!" The voice of one Severus Snape sounded in the halls of Potter manor. The rest of the Potters looked at the youngest member of their family disappear around the corner as they stood unresponsive.

"What just happened?" James asked softly, looking around him lost. There was no answer for a while, until Lily spoke.

"Was that really Severus?" The confused looks continued.

"He looked a little like him." Hermione spoke for the first time. "And Harry has… grown." Lily nodded, turning her gaze towards the corner where the two men in question had disappeared.

"It was them." Remus assured them, his face completely blank. He was already wondering what in the world had they missed, what could have happened right under their noses. "They just seem… different."

"Different?" Sirius asked sounding deranged. "Different, Remus?" He looked around frantically. "Harry's almost as tall as you and suddenly has the body of an athlete? Sword fighting? When did that happen?" He stopped as if he was waiting for an answer that never came. "And Snape? He looks…"

"Good. Bloody good." Lily finished his sentence for him. James looked at his wife perturbed. Hermione nodded.

"I was going to say happy." Sirius proclaimed. "He was smiling and he went on and hugged Harry! Since when does Severus Snape go around hugging people?" The fire flared up again and a wide eyed Minerva McGonagall stepped out; her frantic eyes fell immediately to the people gathered in the middle of the room. She walked at them briskly, her glasses sliding a little to the left and clutching what appeared to be a newspaper.

"You already know then!" She stated, waving the newspaper back and forth. "Bless my soul, I almost had a heart attack! Albus is coming too." As if he was expecting to be announced, the Headmaster of Hogwarts stepped out of the fireplace, looking just as surprised as Minerva.

"Have they heard yet?" He asked the transfiguration professor.

"From their looks, I assume they have."

"Heard what?" James asked. "How much Harry and Snape have bloody changed over the summer? We just saw them!"

"You haven't heard." Albus stated softly, sharing an uneasy look with the Transfiguration Professor.

"Haven't heard what?" Lily demanded. "I'm not in the mood for riddles, Albus!"

"You'd better take a look at this." The Headmaster stated, passing them the copy of the day's Daily Prophet.

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