Chapter 1
Harry Brown nee Potter now knew why Professor Snape was bullied by the marauders, ignored by his Slytherin house mates, belittled and ignored by other Hogwarts students and the house elves with the professors and Hogwarts staff silently condoning the bullying and treatment of Severus Snape. Severus Snape at eleven had been like Neville Longbottom in his original timeline, his magical ability had been little more than a squib. In fact his only saving grace had been his ability at potions, Severus literally eclipsed everybody including their head of house one Horace Slughorn, and even then Harry had noticed that his mother was happy to take the credit for Severus brilliance at potions. So instead of Severus starting a new life way from the abuse of his parents at Hogwarts, he had walked into another nightmare, that in the end would lead him down the path to darkness and Lord Voldemort.
Everything Severus did magically he had to work very hard for, Harry had been in their numerous classes with Severus when he realised from their first lessons that McGonagall made fun of Severus in her classes. Flitwick comments towards Severus were scathing and a lot worse than Neville Longbottom had ever endured under Professor Snape. Every evening found Severus either in the library or the Snake’s common room studying and trying to remain abreast of their course work. Harry in his old time line had never respected professor Snape, Harry with most of his peers had thought that Snape had everything he wanted and that his use and control of his magic had been easy. Now Harry knew better, Snape had nothing when starting Hogwarts, he was a poor half-blood child and every bit of magic he used he had to train and study hard for. Neville with Ron Weasley, Harry now realised winged about unfair their lives were, and how hard learning magic was, but Snape had never complained like his supposed friends and even him he realised. He had taken the comments that the professors directed at him and had worked and studied even harder to obtain control of his magical core. Add to that the condoned bullying buy the marauders, and Harry realised that Severus had had it a lot harder than Neville in his old timeline.
Nearly every day saw the marauders and others following them torment Severus and now him unmercifully, and because Severus was considered a cracker ( a derogatory term for a wizard or witch) and he had befriended his fellow snake the Hogwarts staff turned a blind eye to their suffering, the only person who was steadfastly on his side was Flitch the caretaker was a squib after all and himself. Harry had managed to befriend Severus and tried protect him from the bullying, and when they had been both caught retaliating on in some cases defending themselves from the marauders, he had taken most of the blame and punishment that the Hogwarts staff meted out to them both. Harry was glad that he had befriended Severus, he was able to share his books and belongings with Severus.
Harry had been shocked when he realised that there housemates and even the house elves thought that Severus was wasting his time attending Hogwarts. Harry silently agreed with them, Severus would have been far more happier and better attending a normal mundane secondary school and having extra magical lessons with the specialist evening schools that some of his peers back home got. Severus because of his treatment had started to close himself off from his peers except for him mother and Flitch. And to Harry’s dismay and shame he knew his mother was just using Severus, She used his theoretical knowledge to make her academic life easier. Oh Hermione Granger was a using traitorous piece of scum but at least she had completed her own work!
Harry and Severus shared a room luckily and that at least stopped Severus life becoming worse because of his OCD, Severus had a routine that he never faulted from in the morning and during the day. Severus rose at the same time and wore the same clothes day in and out. Severus came from a poor family that was true, but he had more than one set of clothes than he wore. In the end Harry had managed to have the house elves wash Severus newer clothes until he apparently became comfortable wearing them. Severus would have a shower twice a day, but never washed his hair. Even when Harry tried to persuade him to, Severus would comment that “He hated anybody touching his head and especially his hair”
Harry had also noticed that Severus had trouble walking any distance, and had a terrible sense of balance especially when they had been taught to fly. It never helped that his father and his friends the marauders tried to ensure that Severus had the most unflyable broom there was at Hogwarts!
Harry’s head hurt when he remembered his first life as the boy who lived or to put it in the correct context the boy who was the golden cash cow. He was raised by the light side headed by Albus Dumbledore to take down and kill Voldemort by dying and then his wealth and power would be shared out amongst his supposed friends the order of the phoenix.
He still remembered when Death had sort him out at 12 Grimmauld Place where he had gone to hide after finding out how badly he was hated and betrayed by his supposed friends and the light side. He had just lost his Godfather in the ministry through the veil when he had overheard the Weasley’s including the twins, Granger, Neville discussing how they couldn’t wait for his demise after he had dealt the killing blow to Voldemort of course! After all they wanted Voldemort dead and gone but never wanted to really dirty their hands if possible. Well Harry had quickly made it back to his dormitory, packed his meagre belongings and high tailed it Grimmauld Place and banish all access to it from everybody else bar him. Of course old Dumblecoot had tried numerous times to gain access for him and the precious order to Grimmauld place, but Harry had kept refusing him. It had gotten so bad that the cowardly Remus his unofficial Godfather and werewolf with Molly and Arthur Weasley had tried to make him relent at his stupid and childish behaviour! Harry had spent the next few weeks alone with just Kreacher trying to think about what he was going to do now when Death appeared with a proposal from the three Lords of the universe and his bosses, namely Lord Time, Fortune and Magic. The deal was that he was to go back in time to the time of this parents and by doing this, the timeline would be straightened out and Earths future would pan out like it should. Of course Harry had jumped at the chance, who wouldn’t! after all he had read a few of the Dr Who books and fan fiction stories on the internet, there was one based on a series of mundane books about an abused magical wizarding child who at the age of fifteen had been sent back to his parents time, became the heir of the Flamels and Prince of France etc. but of course he had forgotten the concept of time travel that a back to the future fan could have recounted in their sleep, and that was if Harry’s parents never made out and conceived him then he would never be born, which was a real bitch. So what had the three lords done to get around this very paradox, they had him born to an elderly couple, and then on his eleventh birthday McGonagall had appeared to tell him and his parents about magic etc.
So he had been sent very reluctantly to Hogwarts by his parents, they had wanted him to attend the very good academic mundane school they had chosen for him. It was after he was sorted into the house of the Snakes the Slytherin that he had come to realise what just how bad the house of the back stabbing, money grabbing treasonous individuals, also brave and chivalrous not eg Gryffindor, were to other students not in their house. And anybody considered slightly different or weaker was easy pickings for them, Harry had started the new name for the Lions house amongst the Snake house, they called the Lions the vultures. It was when his memories of his previous life were restored to him that first night in his dormitory, that he also realised just how bad life was in the Vulture Wake.
So it was now the beginning of the summer holidays and his birthday bash was coming up in two weeks’ time, and he had sent Severus an invitation, there had been no reply to the invitation or his subsequent letters to Severus and Harry was becoming increasingly worried about his best friend. Harry had started just dropping few hints about Severus home life to his mother’s friends, who he knew would relay the information he wanted straight back to his parents and he had hoped that would do the trick. But it seemed that his parents had not taken the hint, so Harry was hastily trying to come up with a plan B that would help Severus and quickly. Well today he was going to Blackpool with the rest of the family, staying in one of the big hotel resorts for a family weekend with family friends included in the invitation. His parents were nowhere to be seen, apparently they had a minor incident on the way home from a model train exhibition they had attended with one of his father’s layouts last weekend, and his uncle Conrad had just stated that his parents would be meeting them at the resort. He had heard his Uncle Conrad had muttering to his Aunt Rosemary that hopefully his parents would still make it to the family weekend party, after all his father’s appearance before the Cokeworth magistrates had been yesterday, so after a night stay at the local Premier Inn hotel they would leaving to join them at the hotel in Blackpool this afternoon.
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It was the Friday morning a week after Harry’s parents had called into to see their sons friends who Harry had told Muriel’s friend about. The Browns were an elderly couple, who although loved their son unconditionally knew that Harry hopefully had been wrong about the abuse he thought his friend was suffering from his family. Harry was after all a very sensitive child that saw too much into a situation, so they had agreed to just pop into see Harry’s friend and personally deliver the invitation to their son’s Birthday party. They were even going to offer to allow Severus to stay with them for a couple of weeks over the summer holidays. But to their horror when they stepped through the open front door at Spinners end, they had seen a sight that they never wanted to see again. Oh their Harry had got his information wrong, the abuse worse and a lot worse than he thought, it was only because they needed to get the comatose child to the local hospital, that her husband had merely knocked out Severus father and not killed him. Then to their horror it appeared that the local police, neighbours and social services had been trying to get the child removed, but the child apparently came under the authority of the magical government! A stupid officious magical ministry employee called Dumbledore had tried to stop the boy from being taken into the local authorities care, thank god it was Dave that was there and made the idiot see the error of his ways. Muriel knew if it had been her then Dumbledore would have been dead, the only place Muriel thought a child abuser should be was in a grave, and she would have gladly put Dumbledore there for even thinking that the boy should be returned to the scum that were his parents!
Severus Snape had finally been released into the care of Harry’s parents that morning, with a list of medication and outpatient appointments they he needed to attend at their local hospital. Mr David Brown had been very lucky that he wasn’t charged with GBH or attempted murder against the British chief Warlock Dumbledore, when he had taken a claw hammer to him. The police who had attended the incident at Spinners end had quickly listed the options for Albus Dumbledore regarding the alleged incident between him and Severus new parents. Dumbledore could press charges through the muggle courts against Severus new father and lose everything when regretfully the information regarding Dumbledore’s apparent protection of children abusers was released to the magical press by a unknown person. Or everybody could forget everything had happened and Severus could leave Cokeworth hospital with his new parents. Dumbledore had wisely chosen the latter option, and even if had pressed charges the police knew that the magistrates would have ensured that David Brown was punished by just a slap to the wrist. After all it was a common occurrence to be called to the run down area of Cokeworth Spinners end, but it wasn’t every day that saw a barely breathing comatose abused child being loaded into an ambulance and blue lighted to the nearest NHS Children’s hospital, where he had just survived, and only because he apparently had magical blood.
It was the issue that Severus was technically a magical child, that had allowed the Warlock Dumbledore to try to stop the Browns from adopting the poor little sod. Now it was well known amongst normal society that the British mundane government had control over all mundane born children, including children born of two mundane parents. The magical government had control and authority over magical children and this included children who were the product of one magical parent. Unfortunately Severus because he had witch for a mother (or bitch as a Black mundane woman neighbour had commented to the police) couldn’t be rescued by the mundane authorities.
Severus birth parents had abused the poor child physically, verbally, emotionally and psychologically his crime was twofold. His father abused him because he was wizard and had limited magical ability, his mother had condoned and even abused the child herself because he according to her a Cracker in the magical world and a disgrace to his magical family and heritage.
Well when the Browns had stopped to see why Severus hadn’t answered their sons letters this summer, and when they had seen the state of the poor child and witnessing Tobias Snape kicking a unconscious Severus in the head, they had done no more and called an ambulance. The Browns at the hospital had quickly agreed to take in the child, after all they told the social worker and NSPCC liaison officer their son and Severus were best friends. The social worker and the NSPCC officer had then escorted David back to Spinners end to collect Severus belongings when the chief warlock Albus Dumbledore had arrived the house after being called by the boy’s mother and had stated that he would never give authority for Severus to be taken from his loving family. The police officers were about to try to reason with the naassic psychopath when Mr Brown had left the house and was returning with a claw hammer from his car when a neighbour joined him and walked into the house with a shotgun (his wife was still sitting with the child at the hospital with another WPC officer) David walked into the hovel and before he could start to say his piece over Dumbledore’s boring righteous speech the neighbour shot a few into the hovels ceiling then aimed the gun at Warlock and threatened to kill the him starting with his family jewels.
It had all ended quite amicably down the Cokeworth police station, which had led to the emergency meeting with Cokeworth social workers and Gringotts Goblins where the child was officially put into the permanent custody of the Browns. While this was happening the Stations police commander again was just spelling out to Dumbledore his apparent options. Dumbledore had not pressed charges and left the police station very unhappy, and the police and mundane authorities sent Severus case notes and outcomes to the ministry of health so more ammunition could be secured about the abuse of magical children!
The neighbour had luckily just melted back into the background of Spinners End, and the police (who for once were not trying to hard) just couldn’t find the neighbour.
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Severus had been in the Cokeworth children’s ward for four days and Muriel Brown had only left his side reluctantly to sign the Gringotts adoption papers for Severus, and to retire back to the Premier inn they had stayed in that week, when Dave took over sitting with their new son in hospital. When she heard what her husband of thirty years had done her only words had been along the lines of her husband had been too lenient in his dealing with the British Warlock! But now the day of the families weekend holiday and where their other son Harry would be told about them gaining custody of Severus. Severus had been released into their care that morning, Grandpa Rob as he was known had dropped off his father’s wheelchair for Severus to use this weekend, after all Great granddad Brian would be using his mobility scooter and walking frame this weekend. Luckily for them her husband’s layout had been packed into its trailer at the end of the show by her husband’s fellow club modellers and somebody had towed the layout and the stock home, allowing them to concentrate on Severus. Now they were traveling from Cokeworth to the Blackpool hotel, where the whole family would get to meet Severus later on this afternoon. While the rest of the family were playing in the end of year county bash of a sport they all played for Hertfordshire, Muriel and her adopted sister would be shopping for Severus in Blackpool this weekend for new clothes etc. Muriel was falling asleep in the front of the car, and Severus was fast asleep on the back seat of their comfortable car, covered in blankets to keep him warm and feeling safe.
They now had two sons, when they had really never wanted even one child. Harry had been a spectacular mistake that they would never regret. The child had always seem so mature, with family and close friends stating that he had always was had an adults mind in a child’s body. But they now had Severus who would need a lot of care and love, they had both stated privately to each other that they hoped Harry was mature enough to cope with not only an extra sibling but a sibling that would need most of their attention for some time in the future! The hospital had stated that the MRI and CT scans they had completed on Severus had shown hot only physical damage to his body, but had shown that Severus had severe brain damage as well, more disturbingly was the fact that the damage the Scans showed had been there for a time, and they couldn’t say how the damage would affect him at present. But one thing Muriel and Dave were in agreement of was that Severus couldn’t attend Hogwarts with his current injuries at present or perhaps ever.
They arrived at the hotel in Blackpool, the hotel was situated at the top part of the town and just outside a tram stop. After registering into the hotel and finding their room, the Browns decided to take Severus for his first ride on a tram and make a start on acquiring new clothes for him. For lunch they stopped at a McDonalds, they wheeled a sleepy Severus into the restaurant and assisted him to eat and drink, Dave had muttered something about thank god for McDonalds just this once. They got Severus a chocolate milk shake and a child’s happy meal, Severus stomach was so shrunk through the starvation that he had suffered since the beginning of the school holidays that he couldn’t even finish the small meal. Severus looked at the toy that had come with the meal, it was a crass miniature figure from a Disney movie that was being promoted at the moment. But Severus grasped the figure so tightly in his hand, hiding his hand in one of his trouser pockets as if they would take the toy away from him. Both Dave and Muriel looked at each other and they silently agreed that the most important thing for Severus to have today was his own plushies. So they found a small toy shop and brought him both the plushies that he picked out, one was a panther and the other was a snake as well as a few other toys.
They managed as well to get Severus a couple of outfits and underwear to tide him over till the next day, when Muriel and her sister could go shopping for the rest of the clothes. Muriel had never felt so glad she had accepted early retirement for her job at the local hospital, she had planned on completing maybe two shifts a week for the hospital temporary staffing agency. But she had released earlier in the week that most of her time for the considerable future would be taken up with looking after Severus. She was never so glad that Dave and herself had the help and assistance of not only her younger brother, but her sister in law family as well. Her sister in law family had adopted the Browns after both sets of parents had died, and then there was the families friends as well who would insist on giving a helping hand when needed.
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British Chief Warlock Albus Dumbledore, light lord and leader of the order of the Phoenix, headmaster of Hogwarts of witchcraft and wizardry was sitting in his office furious. His future plans had been badly compromised with the adoption of the Cracker Severus Snape by a mundane couple.
He had known when he first heard about the Snape boy and seen him at the sorting feast that he would be the perfect pawn for him to use. Of course the child needed to be put in his place in the wizarding world, and that had started so well last year after all. Severus parents had done a perfect job in raising their child to be a hurt and angry young wizard, it helped that the family was dirt poor. He had ensured the child had been sorted into the dark and evil house of Slytherin, the only house to produce dark and evil wizards of course. It had taken Albus Dumbledore years to ensure that the snake house had the reputation he wanted, unknown to most people (who were really like sheep) he sat down just before the start of the September term and ensured that a few of the incoming students were sorted into the houses that he required. Students from influential magical light families were of course sorted into Gryffindor, there were very few mud blood or mundane students sorted into the Lion’s den. He also ensured that a few children that he needed to be converted to the light side were also sorted into the Lions house. The snake house housed all the dark magical aligned children, he usually also ensured that mud bloods or poorer students were sorted into the badger house where their housemates would look after them. Then for the rest of the incoming population the hat randomly sorted the children into the three other houses, that was why Slytherin house always had the smallest intake of students.
It had been relatively easy to ensure that the poor cracker boy Severus Snape had been marginalised and ostracised from the Hogwarts population. Then he allowed the marauders to bully the cracker, with the pranks, hexing and bullying slowly getting worse. With Severus in Sluggy House Albus knew the young lad would have nobody fighting for him in his corner. As far Sluggy was concerned Severus was a poor half breed cracker, who came from a disgraced and disinherited magical witch. The rest of the professors would only see Severus as that cracker snake who caused trouble with other students. How such a poor specimen of wizardry could be seen as such by his subordinates was laughable really, even Flitwick usually the most fair minded of the professors had fallen under the impression and spell that Dumbledore had created regarding Severus.
But things had come to a head when Eileen Prince had called him and informed him that the mundane authorities were taking Severus into their care, and already had a mundane couple to look after the child. No way could Albus allow such a major pawn to be rescued and taken from his grasp, Severus was one of the essential lynch pins in his plan. Severus had to be raised to follow the Dark Lord and other Slytherin students, and then come over to the light side. So Albus had quickly fled to the mundane hovel of Cokeworth to stop the mundane authorities from taking Severus into their care. Then to his surprise and outrage the idiots had wrong footed him, he had to let the boy go into the mundane’s care, he knew then he had lost the Cracker boy for good.
Not only was it terrible that his pawn had escaped his fingers, but the precedent of the mundane authorities rescuing half breeds had been set. He knew that as the mundanes said this was the tip of the ice burg, today a cracker, tomorrow the mundanes would rescue more half breeds and then when they had that power wrested from the magical authorities the bastards would start to interfere into the pure blood families and the raising of their children. The mundane authorities would think nothing of stopping families like the Malfoys from abusing their children with magical and physical punishments.
Oh the mundane government always came up with the excuse that they were sticking their nose into the cases of abused half breed children. But Dumbledore knew better, the mundane government end game was the integration of the two societies and then his power would be non-existent. That is why it was imperative that there was at least two major British wizarding wars in the next thirty years, by ensuring that the magical community and families were at each other throats, then the mundane government would not be able to integrate the two societies. By ensuring that the dark fraction was seen as being closely aligned to the new evil dark lord, then their power base would be eroded and the light side power would increase. But now he had to find another student, the best outcome would be another second year student to take over the cracker boys role in his plan! He had just had a letter from the crackers new guardians stating that the idiot would not be attending Hogwarts again in the near future if at all. The problem was that there were no other Snakes that came close to matching the crackers boys credentials for being his pawn, he knew that even the muggle born child Harry Brown would never be a pawn in his plans. It was still a mystery how the lad had not only been sorted into the snake pit but had been excepted by the other snake there. So he would have use a student from either the Ravens or Badgers house, but who to use and meld into his pawn. There was Bones perhaps or even better Barty Crouch Jr, the lad he knew would never live up to his father’s expectations, and all he had to do was ensure that the muggle born shrew Lilly Evans became best friends with him. Which would be relatively easy seeing as the girl was just about average in her academic school work. So with the right incentives the girl would ensure that Barty fell under her thumb, and then at the right moment she would finish their friendship and he would follow the Dark Lord until he was persuaded to come back to the light, and become his pawn and spy.
People especially children would so easily malleable to your will, if you knew their weaknesses etc. Yes his plans for the future were now back on track. Articus Brandon would marry Mary Prewitt after she spiked his drink a compulsion and love potion, they would have to get bonded when the silly chit became pregnant. Articus would be disinherited from his family the Brandon’s and forced to take the headship of the now little known dead family the Weasley’s for breaking the pre- bonding agreement between him and Yelizaveta Malfoy, putting in place for all time a family blood feud between the Weasley’s and the Malfoys. The Weasley’s had once upon a time been a very wealthy and whose daughters had bonded out leaving no one to carry on the family head, until now. Articus could become Arthur Weasley because his mother was one of the youngest Weasley’s girls and could pass on the title to him legitimately. Dumbledore would ensure that the Weasley’s were always kept poor, and therefore would become very useful followers in his order of the Phoenix.
After all until the Potter orphan started Hogwarts at eleven, nearly twenty years into the future after all! Dumbledore would ensure that the Weasley’s would be carried further into the filth and muck of his shady dealings. Rather like most of the Phoenix members, including of course the aurors and most of the employees of the ministry of magic and the elected officers. Dumbledore never had to mark his followers like Tom Riddle, no his branding was a lot more personal and lifelong for the order members and their families. Dumbledore always ensured he helped his followers, but like a great leader ensured that they would never be able to leave or turn on him in the future. That is why he had fought, planned and ensured he became Headmaster of Hogwarts school, what better way to ensure the enslavement of the future members of the light fraction then to teach and guide them during their formative years at school, and then be remembered as a slightly favourite senile old Grandfather, ever the snakes never caught on to the fact that he was sane, careful and very cleaver. The sorting hat had been quite correct the year it sorted Dumbledore into the all boys house of Slytherin all those years ago, the house had ensured that he was given and provided the means to full fill his life’s aims and objectives.