Harry Potter's Real Dad

"How about this?" Severus wrote next to the name before showing it to Harry again. Harry stared at it before shrugging. Severus had written on the parchment: Harry is a good boy. After a moment, Severus wrote a few more words down in a random order.

"Do you know any of these words?"

"Harry." Harry pointed at his first name again.

"That is your first name, yes. Do you know the other words?"

Harry stared at the parchment.

"School," he pointed out. "Hello."

"Good. Any others?"

"That one looks like . . ." Harry trailed off, his finger pointing at the word he was staring at.

"What's it look like?" Severus encouraged. "Can you sound it out? The first letter is a d."

"Daddy?" Harry tried.

"It is. Good job. Any others?"

Harry stared at the words on the parchment for a few long seconds before shrugging.

"Are you sure?" Severus looked down at the parchment. He had written: Harry James Potter, mummy, daddy, aunt, uncle, Petunia Dursley, hello, goodbye, school, chimney, garden, cook, dog, cat, and house. What really saddened him was Harry did not recognize his full name.

"No." Harry decided. He shuffled his feet. "Is that all you want to talk about?"

"Don't take off on me yet." Severus put everything aside, then gave all his attention to Harry. "One thing we need to talk about is magic."

"What about it?"

"You know that magic is real, correct?"

Harry nodded.

"But some people do not, and those people do not have magic. They are called muggles, and we cannot tell muggles about magic or that it exists."

"Why?"

"Well . . ." Severus paused, wondering how he could explain this in the simplest terms. With Iris growing up around it and in its secrecy, it was easy for her to accept that magic was something not to be talked abut with other people unless she was at Hogwarts. "For most muggles, it is a scary idea that we could have magic and they do not. They do not understand it, and it makes them . . . afraid of us. And then they don't want to be near us. Do you understand?"

Harry nodded. "So I can't tell anyone?"

"Not unless you have my permission," Severus said. "But those will be rare times. Otherwise, if I'm not around to ask, assume the answer is no."

"Like with Mr. Wallace?" Harry asked.

"Yes. Like with Mr. Wallace."

"But not the doctor."

"Doctor Villin is a wizard, so he knows about magic and uses it all the time just like we do."

"I don't use it."

"That's because you're a kid with an underdeveloped core. When you turn eleven, you will attend a magic school that will teach you how to control your magic."

"Really?"

"Yes. And it's a school I happen to teach at."

"You'll be my daddy and my teacher?"

"I'll be everything you need me to be," Severus said, pulling his son into a quick hug, giving him a kiss on his temple. Severus had wanted to also bring up the trial and how he would go up on stand to talk about how he lived at his relatives, but right now, he just didn't feel up to that conversation. Maybe it would be best to not mention Petunia or Vernon right now, not that he heard Harry talk much about his uncle.

Severus sighed into Harry's hair. He would have to bring it up sooner rather than later. Especially with the trial just ten days away, and Harry's visit with Petunia lingering in the upcoming week. He dreaded how it would turn out. Whether she disowned him or not, either way, Harry would be an emotional wreck.

"Daddy," Harry said.

"What is it, honey?"

"You're crushing me," Harry said.

Severus chuckled and released his son.

"Go find your shoes and put them on. We'll go to the park for an hour or two."

When both kids were ready to head to the park, Severus drove them down toward the city and to the schoolgrounds, where a public park also existed. He freed his kids from their car seats, but before they ran off, he reminded them of the rules he had at the park: to stay within his sight, no talking to strangers, and of course, no leaving the park. The two kids chased each other to the playground.

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