Caught in a Trap
Severus Snape potions master and Hogwarts Professor of Potions, followed a big burly black man down a corridor that was lined with wooden panelling. He was scared to his stomach of course, fearful of what he was going to see in the office that was at the end of this corridor in this housing complex. It was a testament of his desperation that he was agreeable for him and his adopted son to be brought to this complex somewhere in the world.
He had been approached in small Parisan Cafe in France when he was buying supplies of food for himself and Harry. He was about to start producing potions for the under belly of the French magical society, and had started to put out feelers. When a young presumably French woman in front of him, brought his shopping for that morning. Don’t get him wrong he was grateful, every penny he could save he was able to feed Harry for another day! As he went to thank the woman, two male customers behind him waited supposedly for the transaction to be completed.
The proprietor of the small Parisian Café, walked out from behind the counter and closed, and locked the café door.
“Mr Snape!” the woman smiled “I am so glad to finally meet you in person, do you know how long my organisation has been trying to find you and the young Harry Potter?”
Severus shook his head no! he didn’t know and suddenly didn’t care if these peoples organisation had been trying to find him and Harry a week ago or even six months ago when they had both started to run and hide from the magical and to some extent the muggle society as well.
The woman continued to smile as the café owner put in front of Severus on the café table a proper French Continental breakfast. Severus was not just hungry, but ravenous! He had always ensured that Harry had at the least two meals a day, but there had been days when his diet had consisted of the scraps from Harry’s plate and water from the tap of where they were living at the time.
“You do not understand! I have a young blind child to go to, he is danger from..” Severus started to beg the woman, she smiled as she responded as she replied “We know! And one of organisation members have rescued Harry, and he is now upstairs asleep after having his breakfast. After all the child is just a six years old and blind! We were able to fool him long enough, to get him safely in this café………Madame Gauthier, was able to persuade young Harry to come here….where believe me, NOBODY WILL BE ABLE TO FIND OR HURT EITHER ONE OF YOU Mr Snape” The woman nodded to the Café’s owner, she then turned around and continued to speak “Please eat the Breakfast provided, and then follow my friend upstairs to sleep in the bedroom as young Harry! After all now you are both safe with us, there is plenty of time to discuss both your future plans with our organisation” Severus just nodded, and followed the woman’s instruction’s. He and Harry although safe at present, were also prisoners of this group as well!
A short time later, as Severus was falling asleep in the bed next to Harry he suddenly realised that he had stupidly been ambushed by a group of four people, where was his supposed Death Eater skills or more importantly his spy skills. Both had he would admit aided him surviving the apparent greatest Wizarding War between Lord Voldemort and the Great Albus Dumbledore. He realised that the consistent running and hiding from his apparent old Death Eater friends and members of the Order of the Pheonix had dampened his instants. He was so tired, hungry and so desperate to just have one night of good sleep he realised. He just wanted to settle with Harry. Harry Potter the six year son of his best friend James Potter! The boy who he thought was living in the lap of luxury, living with the last of his fathers extended family. But no the Harleton of the Light, the Wizengamot leader and leader and Lord of the Light the Great Albus Dumbledore had placed baby Harry with James shrew of a wife, sister Petunia!
Six years later and Harry had been finally rescued by the muggle authorities, when the enchantments that Albus Dumbledore had put around the Dursley home, to keep the extensive abuse and placement of Harry had finally fell when Petunia and her family were burned alive. Harry had survived in his cupboard, but the injuries he suffered had been extensive and horrific. But the worst (and they were all bad in Severus view), was that Harry was now totally 100% blind!
There were therapies, medicine both muggle and mundane that could ease Harry’s long term injuries and improve his health. But even magic couldn’t make Harry see again, once someone was blind, they were blind for life. When Severus had found out the extent of Harry’s injuries he had managed to claim Harry as a close and rich but eccentric old male relative. He had to prove to the muggle authorities of course that he had never had any knowledge of part of the abuse that Harry suffered. Luckily for them both, the authorities had believed Severus, and Harry was given to Severus, for Severus to care for Harry in the immediate moment. While investigations and extensive plans were made for Harry’s future
Severus had done no more that night when he took Harry to his home in Spinners Lane Manchester. To lay a false trail for Albus Dumbledore to follow, he had lied to his ex-employer and supposed mentor about the situation regarding Harry and the Dursleys. What had made it so much sweeter was that the muggle authorities had arrested Dumbledore’s oldest friend and main participant in the Order of the Pheonix the wizard Elphias Doge for child kidnapping. It had been a bitter sweet moment for Severus when he saw in the local magical paper that Elphias had been arrested on child kidnapping charges! It was in Severus opinion no more than he and the rest of the good and noble remainder Pheonix Order members deserved. But he now knew that Dumbledore and the now prominent leader of the de facto Death Eater Organisation were hunting them both down. The apparent Lord of the Light to put Harry back into a abusive situation for whatever reason the evil Bastard had. And Lucuis Malfoy wanted Harry Potter dead and burned to ashes! It was apparently the only way to ensure that his old once loved Dark Lord remained dead.
Severus knew that he and Harry had to keep moving, never putting down roots. He had to protect his best friend’s son at any cost! His life he knew was forfeit, had been when he stupidly became a Slytherin Student at the Public Magical School Hogwarts, and it been made very apparent to him that he was and never could even bellowed the crumbs of the table magical society. James had befriended Severus after an incident in their fifth year! He had stopped the bullying and sexual assault of Severus at the end of their OWLs exams by James supposedly best friend Sirius Black and Frank Longbottom. James had been shocked at the behaviour of Lilly Evans towards Severus that afternoon, and the criminal negligence of the Hogwarts Professors.
James had assisted Severus, to reach his goal of becoming a potions master. He had also persuaded his Papa and Mama to blood adopt Severus as well, James had to Severus annoyance been also blood adopted by Severus parents. James unfortunately had to bond with Severus ex-friend and shrew Lilly Evans, James had been forced to bond with Lilly because her Paternal family were actual cast out Squibs from the Dumbledore line! And there had been a bonding contract from the fifteenth century between the Potter and Dumbledore family. The first magical born which from the Dumbledore line (no matter the woman’s magical status or history) was to bond with the a Potter wizard. The problem was that James was his parents only natural child. So James had to bond with Lilly, Severus volunteered to bond with Lilly, but James shook his head and said no. After all, he just needed one child to be his heir (preferably a son, but a daughter would do at a pinch), and then he could ignore Lilly and leave her to fornicate with his ex-best friend Sirius Black. O(f course to people outside the immediate families, Dumbledore advertised the bonding as two school sweet hearts that had naturally bonded after falling in love (cough, cough)
Harry had been born to the two estranged parents, and James had fallen in love with the boy the first minute he saw him. Although there had been whispering that Sirius Black was Harry’s real father, this had been dropped by the wizarding community when James claimed him as his son and Harry just kept becoming the splitting image of James throughout the years.
With James permission, his father had managed over a time to transfer the Potter fortune in the Goblin Bank into long term investments in the muggle world. The assets and investments would be looked after in the muggle world, until Harry was eighteen. The power that Dumbledore thought he had by having the authority of the Potter seat (and being Harry’s Great, Great, Great Grand Uncle wasn’t much at all in the Grand Scheme of things. The Lordship although old had no real power in the Wizengamot itself. Dumbledore power and use of the Lordship seat had been granted by the Wizengamot because of his apparent close familial bond with the Potter Lord’s only son, and the fact that he had been sure to be seen as James’s father figure.