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This story is a continuation of the Great Snape Escape and takes place about twenty years after the start of The Great Snape Escape (Harry is about thirty-one) Don’t worry I will be continuing with the other story but this was nagging to be written so here is the first chapter of “The Great Snape Escape Twenty Years Later”

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How Harry Met Sarah

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“Grandpa!” came the chorus of small voices as they ran into the Polar where their Grandfather sat on a large black leather couch his long nose hidden behind the Daily Prophet.

He counted little heads, one, two, three, Mummy and Daddy where each carrying a baby and a toddler respectively, that made five. The older man shook his head, long black hair (to his own surprise yet to go gray, only Merlin knew how he pulled that off) falling into his face, obsidian eyes scanning around the room like a hawk before he rose from the couch, there where two missing, and the most dangerous two of the entire bunch, the twins!

Sweeping past the others he made his way through the Polar and to the front room where he spotted two identical raven heads huddled together whispering.

“James Severus Potter, William Harold Potter one dung bomb goes off in these chambers and you two wont sit for a week!” He warned them in his low oily voice, the one that scared the children far more then when he yelled.

Both boys jumped and spun around to look at their Grandfather, had they really been that obvious? It seemed to the poor children at times that their Grandpa could read minds!

“Y-yes Grandpa.” They stuttered in unison.

These two if possible where worse at the young age of seven then the Weasley twins had ever been, but then again they had an advantage the Weasley twins had not, the actual Weasley twins as tutors!

He grabbed an ear of each boy and lead them back into the polar where the others were just getting settled, a playpen had been erected and the two youngest deposited inside amidst mounds of toys leaving Mummy and Daddy free to deal with the older monsters.

“Oh, I’m so sorry those two are forever slipping away!” Sarah said apologetically taking each boy by the hand and sitting them down on the couch as they pouted and rubbed their ears.

“I’m Sorry Dad, Sarah I was the one that was supposed to keep an eye on them.” Harry admitted sheepishly.

“Indeed.” Was the only response, it did not surprise the older wizard that it had been Harry’s fault, in his experience trouble usually was!

“You to had better not be up to anything or you can forget going to Uncle Fred and Uncle George’s joke shop this weekend.” Harry warned them. He knew for a fact that if the kids acted up HE would hear about it from his adopted father.

“How was your trip?” The older Wizard asked as he took a seat in one of the black armchairs as his couch was now littered with children.

Harry took a seat on the other matching armchair and pulled Sarah down into his lap.

“It went very well Mr. Snape.” Sarah said and Severus cringed.

He had never really been Mr. Snape and he hated that title, he was Severus, Professor Snape, Sir, and even Git but never Mr. Snape, Mr. Snape had been his father and he did not want to share a moniker with that man.

“You have been married to my son for nearly ten years Sarah and I have told you numerous times call me Severus and even dad if you must but not Mr. Snape, I am not Mr. Snape that was my father.” He told the girl not unkindly. She blushed furiously, though the red was hidden rather well by her olive tone complexion, indeed she had been told that very thing many times by the dower man.

“Sorry,” She mumbled.

Sarah was an American Immigrant to England; Harry had met her while searching for himself when the war ended.

After Voldamort’s downfall Harry was unsure what to do with himself, he had not planed on surviving the experience, and after traveling a few years totally lost and confused he signed up for some classes at a local London university where Sarah was an exchange student studying for the year at the same university.

Though Harry did not know it at the time, Sarah was a witch from a long line of very powerful magical folk. Her great, great grandfather was Aberforth Dumbledore who had immigrated with his goat to America after the fall of Grindalwald, while being very proud of his older brothers defeat of the dark wizard he was un willing to live the remainder of his life in his Albus’ shadow.

In America he located the very small magical community and settled down falling in love with and marrying an American witch Hannah Bennett with whom he had five children, four sons and one daughter. As there where no magical schools in America he and Hannah trained their children on their own both in the use of a wand magic, and the wand less magic of the American magical community.

They also sent them to muggle school to get a regular education as well as American witches and wizards lived with the muggles they had great need to blend in with them there for while his children learned magic they where raised in every other way as the muggles they lived among.

His daughter Norma married a Jewish muggle man by the name of Abe Stein and together they had three children whom Aberforth and Hannah also trained to use magic. Abe had little trouble excepting the teaching of magic to his children as long as they where also brought up Jewish.

Their oldest son Ronald married a young witch, Susan who he had been set up with on a blind date by his mother, and subsequently fallen in love with. They in turn had five children two sons and three daughters their middle child being Sarah, one of the very few Jewish witches known in existence as Israelite magical folk had died down a great deal in the crusades, leaving very few Jewish witches and wizards.

Again the children where taught magic in the home while attending muggle schools (However Sarah’s was the last generation to be taught by Aberforth and Hannah as Aberforth moved back to Europe after Hannah’s death in the mid nineteen nineties, where he became a bar keep, bitter and old he also became rather estranged from his family, leaving the remainder of the magical education of his great, great grandchildren to his children and grandchildren. He died right after the end of the last war with Voldamort when Sarah was just seventeen), which brings us back to where Harry met Sarah.

Sarah was studying to be a psychologist, or a teacher, she had not made up her mind and decided to take fall semester of her Sophomore year abroad, Harry who had no direction other then Severus would not let him wallow in his feeling of uselessness at the age of twenty, was only taking classes to pass the time. They met in an abnormal psychology class (where Harry found himself analyzing Voldamort and wondering if things would have turned out differently if the man had been given some Paxil.)

They started to date and Harry was surprised that when introducing her to Severus he had accepted her, despite his feelings on muggles.

Three months into dating Sarah decided to introduce Harry to the only relative she had living in the area. Thinking Harry was also a muggle she had her Great, Great Uncle come visit them in the small flat she rented just outside the University. If she had known Harry was who Harry was (And she had no way of knowing because Harry had registered at the school under the name Harry Snape because at the time he just did not want to be Harry Potter anymore) she would just as soon as had dinner at Hogwarts but seeing as she did not she did not think that was an option.

Imagine Harry’s surprise when upon entering her flat that night he saw Albus Dumbledore sitting in a the recliner wearing muggle clothing (Blue jeans and a brightly colored patchwork sweater)

For the first time ever Harry saw what looked like complete and utter surprise on Albus Dumbledore’s face as he seemed as prepared to see Harry as Harry had been to see him.

“Harry, how good to see you again.” Dumbledore said as he collected himself, Harry had not been the muggle boyfriend he had been prepared to meet when Sarah had invited him to dinner. He rose from his seat and pulled Harry who was still in shock, into a hug.

“P-Professor Dumbledore, nice, nice to see you.” He stammered out.

“You, You know each other…” It was now Sarah’s turn to be shocked.

“Harry, you’re a Wizard!” She exclaimed as she put the peaces together.

Harry just nodded his jaw still hanging open.

“Y-You’re a witch?” he asked and now Sarah nodded.

Dumbledore chuckled his eyes twinkling madly as he lead both shocked people over to the couch and sat them down, neither of them seemed to be blinking or even breathing.

“It seems what we have here is a failure to communicate or investigate, you met at a muggle school and there for thought you where dating a muggle, very interesting turn of events if you ask me.” Dumbledore said, threading his fingers in his long white beard.

“I… I have to tell dad!” Harry said suddenly.

“Mmm Yes I believe Severus will be very please with these turn of events, it is a funny thing, he told me you had been dating a muggle Harry, he seemed happy you where happy even if he would not have picked a muggle out for you as a girl friend, he never told me her name and for once in my life I did not pry, that will teach my not to change my ways!” Dumbledore said an amused smile playing on his lips, yes, he decided this was proof he definitely wasn’t meddling enough.

“Shall we fire call Severus then, I believe he should be in his private chambers at Hogwarts?” Dumbledore asked.

“Your father works at Hogwarts?” Sarah asked as she realized there was very much she did not know about Harry.

They did then fire call Severus and the four of them sat down together for a nice meal where Harry explained who he was and how he was adopted and Sarah explained how she was related to Dumbledore. In fact that night they talked about everything and by the end of the night they had learned more about each other then they had in the entire three months they had been dating.

Harry proposed to Sarah less then a month later and they where married that coming summer.

Less then a year later they had their first child a son, Robert Albus Potter, now nine years old and the spitting image of James Potter himself with not even different eyes to tell one from the other, if the man had been alive the resemblance would have even shocked him.

Two years after that came the twins, now seven who looked so much like Harry it was scary and it sometimes made Severus wonder what he would have done if Harry had been a twin, he doubted he would have made it, at least not with his sanity! Their bright green eyes sparkled with mischief at all times and their black hair was as wild and unruly as them.

Next born was Lily Eileen Potter now six and the spitting image of her namesake, long strawberry colored hair and bright green eyes a spattering of very light freckles covered her pale skin. It sometimes physically hurt Severus to look at her.

Then there was Hailey Minerva Potter who just turned four and took much more after her mother with a honey tone complexion and large deep brown eyes curly chestnut hair and dimples she looked the spitting image of a four year old Sarah.

Two years after Hailey came Denise Sarah Potter who was hitting the terrible two’s and hitting them hard. She also favored her mother’s side of the family and looked very much like her older sister Hailey right down to the dimples.

Lastly came little Zachary Brandon potter who is now just eight months old he has a small tuft of auburn hair and soulful brown eyes.

They made an interesting looking group as unlike the Weasleys they did not all look as if they had come from the same two parents.

Sarah herself was five foot five, which puts her about level with Harry’s chest, weighing about one hundred and seventy five pounds she was far from fat but not exactly thin either, however she was in impeccable shape for someone who had spent the better part of the last ten years pregnant. She had large brown eyes and honey tone skin looking very much like her Israeli ancestors. Her hair, some where between dark burnt auburn and chestnut depending on how the light hit it went down to her mid back and was very, very curly, she had a smile that could light up a room and dimples that appeared every time the smile did. She would more likely be described as adorable then anything else, looking far younger then her thirty years.

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“It was nice to see my brothers and sisters and parents not to mention all the nieces and nephews it was really very crowded. David and his wife Kate and their four kids, Jack (fourteen), Andrew (twelve), Samantha (eleven, she just got her Hogwarts letter and will be joining her older brothers this coming semester) and Megan (Seven) Matt and his wife Anne and their three little ones Jeremy (ten), Kelly (seven) and Scott (three), Zoey and her husband Jeff announced that she is pregnant with their first, I know I was only twenty when I got pregnant with Robert and she is twenty-five but I think she is too young! Oh and Jill was their with Mike, he proposed to her the last night of our stay!” Sarah chirped in her normal cheerful way about her two older brothers and two younger sisters and their children (four nephews and three nieces.)

There was not one person in the world more opposite to Severus (except maybe Filius Flitwak) then Sarah, but Severus had learned to deal with her and her incessant chatter.

He had to get used to it as he worked with the women!

Shortly after marrying Harry she graduated from the university with a degree in child and adolescent psychology and Dumbledore had hired her on as school psychologist nearly immediately. It was a position he had wanted to create since the end of the war (with so many effected, so many of his current students and future students having been left orphans he felt it was needed to help re build) and with Sarah’s graduating and needing a job he finally decided to go ahead and do it.

Severus who had finally gotten the job of DADA teacher in Harry’s sixth year decided after the war that he had definitely had enough of the dark arts for one life time and so when Harry decided he too would like a job at Hogwarts Severus only to gratefully conceded his possession to him and went back to teaching potions, he even decided to take on a co-teacher and so Hermione came back to Hogwarts as part of the staff teaching side by side with the great greasy git.

She lives in Hogwarts with Ron and their four children (Sean who is ten, Steven who is eight, Christine who is five and Lauren who is two) in the chambers next to Harry and Sarah’s.

Hogwarts had never had so many children under the age of eleven running around its corridors before, prompting Ginny Weasley (who was now married to Draco Malfoy who worked side by side with Ron who took over the misuse of muggle artifacts department for his father when he was elected minister of magic, Ginny was pregnant with their second child, their first Annie was just four.) along with the help of Neville longbottom (who married Luna Lovegood who works with her father on the paper, they have one daughter Alice who is six.) to start a day school program for magical children out of Hogsmead.

It was now just days before the fall term and the Potters had just gotten back from their visit with Sarah’s family in America (New York), international port key’s where a bitch especially when traveling with small children but Harry was just happy to be back at Hogwarts where he was sitting in his Dad’s chambers with his family, life just could not get better…

BOOM

Something towards the portrait portal of Severus’ chambers exploded in a flash of brilliant blue and pink lights.

Severus’ eyes flashed dangerously at the twins who catching the look quickly shot up off the couch fleeing from their grandfathers chambers, they would go hide in Uncle Albus’ office until him and daddy calmed down!