He pulled a golden box out of his bookshelf. It was the box containing the chocolate phoenixes, which Albus had given to him in the past. He decided to send his friends three phoenixes each for Easter as a kind of apology for his not giving Christmas presents to anyone except Ginny three months ago. He took many chocolate phoenixes out of the self-refilling box and wrapped them as little packages consisting of three phoenixes each. When he finished the wrapping, he called Dobby and asked him to take the packages to each member of his family and friends on Easter Sunday.

When Dobby had popped away with the presents, Harry noticed that one phoenix was still left out of the box and opened it absentmindedly. He had a look at the card and saw that it was one of his own and that his name had automatically adjusted to Harry Snape-Dumbledore. Even the text had adjusted itself and named him ‘Assistant teacher of Transfiguration’. Wow – that was really cool, he thought and put the phoenix into his mouth.

Harry enjoyed the holidays very much. Every second day he had to teach the animagus class, but on each other day, his parents took Harry and his sisters to interesting places within the wizzarding or the muggle world. They went to Diagon alley, apparated to a beach in Wales, and even visited the zoo in London. Fortunately, his memory visions had decreased to about two or three each day, so that he could really take pleasure in the activities.

From their visit to the beach, he developed the idea to spend the night of the full moon at the beach, and a fire-call to James and Sirius and a little talk to Remus confirmed that this was a splendid idea. Harry had to flash twice each way to bring everyone to their destination, but the six friends enjoyed playing on the beach in their animagus forms. Of course, Lily had asked Dobby to prepare a picnic, which they enjoyed on the beach. And finally, they even took a nightly bath in the sea. Harry could not recall to have ever experienced so much fun during his holidays; it was just great.

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The animagus classes were a lot of fun too. The most promising students, who had made the greatest progress so far, had all stayed for the holidays to attend the class, and a few of the others joined them. By the end of the holidays, three students had managed the complete transformation into a toad, a ferret and a raven, and about ten other students could transform several parts of their bodies. With the rest, Harry was about sure that they would not manage to become an animagus during their remaining time at Hogwarts. The ten students who already managed a great deal were devastated, when the last lesson arrived.

“Professor Snape-Dumbledore, can’t you think of a possibility to teach us some more, until we manage to transform completely?” one of the most promising students asked at the beginning of the last lesson. Harry frowned. He would like to teach them, of course, but…

“Can you wait for a moment? I will ask Professor McGonagall for help. Maybe we can do something.” The students promised to wait without practising just by themselves, and Harry knocked at the door of his grandmother’s office. Fortunately, they had their lesson in the Transfigurations classroom, because it was raining outside. ‘Very convenient,’ Harry thought and opened the door, after he was called in.

“Hi Granny; I would like to ask you something,” he started uncertainly. Minerva motioned him to sit down and go on, and Harry explained that he would like to give the students some more animagus lessons, and that he thought, his memories had become rare enough for him to try to teach in the evenings. He told her however, that he was still a little unsure about the memories and asked, if it would it be possible for her to supervise the lessons. Minerva frowned and asked sternly,

“Harry, do your parents know about this? Have you talked to them?” Harry shook his head.

“No, Granny, but I think my parents will be alright with it, when you are with me, and the students are devastated, because they managed a lot, but they need some more lessons. Maybe you could accompany me to the classroom and have a look?” His grandmother nodded and said,

“Of course, Harry, I would love to see their progress. And about the lessons, we can talk while they practise. Let’s go.”

Professor McGonagall was impressed with the progress of the students. “I have never had so many students in one year who were able to manage the animagus transformation. Normally it was one student a year, if there was even one,” she said to Harry admiringly. “We can arrange an animagus class together in the evening once a week if you want to, Harry, and if you are ill or are confronted with a memory during class, I will take over. Normally I will only watch. How is that?”

Harry smiled grateful at his grandmother and said, “Oh, Granny, that’s great – thank you very much. When would it be convenient for you, Granny? As you know, I don’t have anything else in the evening, so any day will be fine with me.” Minerva thought for a while and answered,

“How about Friday night? For the students it might be the best, because they aren’t as busy with homework as on the other weekdays.” Harry nodded his consent and told the students,

“Could you listen for a moment please? Professor McGonagall has agreed to help me; therefore, we are able to hold an animagus lesson every week, which will take place on Friday evening after dinner here in the Transfiguration classroom. The first lesson will be on Friday next week.” The students cheered and applauded by this announcement.

Suddenly Harry had an idea. He cleared his throat, and everyone was looking expectantly at him. “I will have to ask the headmaster, but I think we should have an animagus party during the last week of school before the summer holidays, when your NEWTs are over. Not only the animagi of this class, but all animagi of the whole school could get together for an animagus party in the Great Hall – how is that?” The tumult was yet bigger than before, and even Minerva smiled and whispered to Harry,

“Where do you always get your good ideas, Harry?” Harry smirked and dismissed the students.

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When he entered their quarters, his parents and sisters were sitting around the fireplace watching him expectantly. Harry frowned and asked,

“Is something wrong?” Everyone laughed, and Severus said,

“No Harry, but we have a surprise for you.” When Harry glanced at him enquiringly, he continued, “You wanted to know your other Granny, my mother, didn’t you?” Harry interrupted him excitedly,

“Yes, of course. Can we meet her, Daddy?” Severus laughed and replied,

“Yes. We thought about going to Snape Manor, where she is living, this afternoon in order to stay until Sunday. Do you think you will be well enough for this trip?” By this question, Harry got very self-conscious and replied,

“Dad, frankly speaking, I am not sure. I know that I am asking a lot, but could you stay with me during the nights?” Severus and Lily exchanged a glance, and Severus said,

“Of course, Harry. As Albus has already excused us for the weekend, I would suggest that you pack your bag with everything you will need until Sunday and then we can leave. Don’t worry about your potions; I have already packed them into our luggage.” Harry threw his parents a grateful smile and happily went into his room to pack a few things. Ten minutes later, he was back and ready to leave. Marina was jumping around the room excitedly. When she saw Harry, she asked,

“Harry, do you have your swimming trunks? Can you teach me swimming please? I want to learn it this weekend!” Harry looked questioningly at his parents and asked,

“Do you think we will go swimming?” Lily glanced at Severus and said hesitantly,

“Harry, we can go for a swim, but PLEASE listen; you are only allowed to swim if Daddy or I are with you. Do you understand me?” Harry frowned and replied in a small voice,

“Yes, Mom, I can understand that, and I promise that I will only go swimming with you or Dad.” He quickly returned to his room to fetch his trunks. A few minutes later, they stood around the fireplace. Severus went first and shouted,

“Snape Manor.” The others followed quickly, and they arrived in the room Harry had seen in the memory a few weeks before.

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Eileen Prince AKA Harry’s other Grandmother, greeted them happily. “Harry, Julia, Marina – you are so big! How are you all?” She busily gave everyone a big hug and ushered them into the kitchen, where a huge cake was waiting for them. When a house elf arrived, whom Harry remembered from a memory vision as Mandy, Marina went over to him and pulled him into a hug shouting,

“Mandy, I have missed you so. Where is Sandy?” Mandy bowed his head and replied,

“Sandy is making tea, Mistress Marina, she will be serving tea in a minute.” Harry laughed at the attics of his little sister – she really could be cute.

After they had cake and tea – Harry would never have believed that they would be able to manage this huge cake –, Severus ordered the children to go into their rooms and unpack the luggage, which the house elves had already put into their rooms. Harry looked helplessly at his father. He did not remember where his room was. Severus sighed inwardly and smiled encouragingly at his son.

“Harry, I will accompany you. I have to bring some of my things to your room anyway.” Harry threw him a thankful glance and followed Severus up the stairs into a room, which was decorated in white, dark blue and green – Harry liked it immediately. Severus laughed at Harry and asked,

“Do you like it?” Harry smiled back and nodded eagerly. Severus smirked and said, “I believe that. I mean, a very talented artist has decorated this room.” Inwardly laughing about Harry’s confused look, he added, “His name is Harry Snape-Dumbledore. Anyway, unpack your bag, and I will get whatever I need here, and then let’s head downstairs again. We can spend the afternoon outside in the park.” Twenty minutes later, everyone had come down, and they were just on their way into the garden, when their grandmother came over and asked,

“Harry, would you mind going into town to get some groceries for me? I went shopping this morning, but I forgot a few things.” Marina interrupted her asking,

“Harry, may I come with you? I want to go into town.”

“I want to go too,” Julia added. While Harry unsuccessfully tried to hide his shock, Lily laughed and with a glance at her son and Severus said,

“Why don’t we go all together? I like this small town, it’s so different from Hogsmeade, and you know that we normally don’t get to see anywhere else. We still have enough time to go swimming tomorrow and on Sunday.” Fortunately, Severus had promised to himself to stay close to Harry all the time – on their way back, Harry was overcome by a memory vision, and Severus who was just beside him noticed him swaying and was able to steady and hold him a few minutes, until the memory was over. Marina had been walking hand in hand with Harry, but Lily quickly pulled Marina’s hand out of her brother’s, and Harry gratefully leaned into his father’s arms, when he slowly drifted back into reality. Severus made him drink a potion he had brought with him in any case, and asked worriedly,

“Harry, can you walk back? Or do you want to flash?” Harry shook his head and replied,

“No, can’t flash now, but I can walk back; it’s alright, I’m fine.” Severus snorted.

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They were just back in time for dinner, and Lily instructed everyone to go to their rooms to wash their hands and come back immediately. Dinner reminded Harry of dinner at Potter manor, which in the past always had reminded him of dinner at the Weasleys. He still felt a little unsure about his Grandmother as he hardly hadn’t any memories about her, but dinner was a funny affair anyway. When dinner was finished, Marina asked excitedly,

“Harry, Julia, shall we go to the Playroom?” Harry threw an unsure glance at his parents, while Julia agreed immediately. Harry accompanied his sisters to the Playroom and was fascinated – the room contained of several electronic devices, games, a television and even a DVD player. They played a game for a few minutes, but when his sisters sat in front of the TV to watch a DVD, Harry excused himself and went to bed early. During the night, he was confronted with several memories, all of them memories of his grandmother or Snape Manor and its surroundings.

They spent the entire next day out in the garden. The Manor had a huge garden, nearly as big as the park, which belonged to Potter Manor. At lunchtime, Mandy and Sandy brought them a huge picnic basket with everything they could have imagined to eat. Severus and Harry took Marina for her swimming lessons several times, and after the third time she tiredly fell asleep in the middle of the afternoon. Lily was reading a book, which Severus had got her for Christmas and that she had wanted to read ever since then, and Julia was lying on her stomach reading on for her next potions lesson. Severus had gone looking for certain herbs he wanted as potions ingredients, and Harry had joined his father.

For dinner the house elves had prepared a barbeque outside on the terrace, which everyone enjoyed very much – especially Marina, who was excitedly running around all the time. The rest of the evening passed relatively uneventful – they enjoyed sitting in the park talking to each other without noticing that it had gotten dark a long while ago. Marina was fast asleep on Harry’s lap when they finally moved inside.

Unfortunately, Harry had to struggle through many memories and drifted in and out consciousness during the night, but finally consciousness overweighed. He groaned, but before he could say anything, Severus handed him several potions and after Harry had drank each of them asked, “How do you feel, Harry?” Harry sighed and mumbled,

“I have been better, but it’s alright; your potions helped a lot.” Severus raised an eyebrow; this straight answer was very unlike Harry and did not sound too good. He glanced at his watch – it was nearly time for breakfast.

“Harry, do you feel up to go to breakfast and spend the day in the garden, or would you prefer to return to Hogwarts? Or do you just want to stay in bed here?” Harry apparently had to think about it but finally said,

“I would like to spend the day in the garden; I also want to talk to Grandma.” Severus eyed him curiously and asked,

“Did you see many memories about Grandma and Snape Manor?” Harry gave him a slight nod.

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After breakfast they went into the garden and enjoyed a nice, sunny day near the lake – it was actually so warm, that one could forget that it was still April. By lunchtime, Severus and Harry had managed to teach Marina how to swim, and she was bouncing with joy. After lunch, Severus suddenly asked,

“Julia and Harry, I need to pick up some more herbs and other potions ingredients from the greenhouses; do you care to accompany me?” Both of them shouted,

“Yes, Dad!” They spent a few hours in the huge greenhouses and enjoyed a lesson about several kinds of herbs, which were often used as potion ingredients.

“This,” Severus explained holding a small herb in his hand, “is the main ingredient of the Vabana potion. Do you know what the Vabana potion is, Julia?” Julia shook her head, and Harry said,

“I’m sorry, Dad, but I don’t know either.” Severus frowned at his son.

“You got an O in your Potions NEWTs, didn’t you?” he sneered, and Harry blushed.

“Dad, I have taken the NEWTs eighteen years ago. And in this time line with you as Potions teacher, I have only taken five years of Potions classes, you know. In the past we didn’t learn about this potion, not even in your Potions tutoring.” Severus grinned and explained patiently,

“The Vabana potion is a relaxing draught – something between the calming draught and a cheering charm.”

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The rest of the afternoon was spent near the lake. Harry told Severus he would be looking for his grandmother and went into the house to find her in the drawing room. He cleared his throat and hesitantly asked,

“Hello Grandma. I was wondering if you would like to sit near the lake with us, so that we could talk for a while.” His grandmother smiled fondly at him and said,

“Hello Harry. I am very glad to see you. Lily told me you didn’t feel well because you were getting many memories back. Are you alright now?” Harry sighed and replied,

“Yes. Last night I have seen many memories, mostly about us being here at Snape manor. Until then, I couldn’t even remember you; I had only seen one single memory about you before, but now I remember a lot about our holidays here with you, and I am very glad about having these happy memories.”

“How long does Madam Pomfrey think it will take you to get all your memories back?” his grandmother asked thoughtfully, and Harry answered truthfully,

“She said probably about a year. But I am afraid – you know I haven’t told anyone – but I am really afraid, that it will take longer and that I will get memory visions when I am teaching a class, as I will be a full teacher after the summer holidays.” He told her everything about the memory suppressing potions and of his problems with the memory visions, and she asked worriedly,

“Harry, please excuse me for asking this, but do you regret your travel into the past? And do you regret that you changed the time line?” Harry shook his head immediately.

“No, Grandma. I changed the time line in order to save my parents’ lives, and I managed not only to save their lives but to get a father I like much more, two sisters who didn’t even exist before, two grandmothers, one grandfather and one pair of great grandparents. In my old time line, I was raised by my mom’s sister and her family, who hated and abused me, and now, in this time line, I have a very lovable, caring family. That is more than I ever wanted to have – the only thing I ever wanted to have was one caring parent, and now I have so much more. I am very, very happy, Grandma.” Harry hadn’t even noticed that his grandmother had walked over to him, but suddenly he was pulled into a bear’s hug, which somehow felt familiar.

“Alright, Harry, shall we join the rest of the family outside?” she suggested, and Harry moved out of the room but was thrown into a memory vision. He just managed in time to sit down on the floor in order not to fall down.

Two-year-old Harry was running around the garden at Snape manor. His parents, his grandmother and his great grandparents Albus and Minerva were sitting at a table on the terrace and were watching him laughing about his fast small steps.

“Harry, come here and eat your breakfast,” Severus called him, but Harry answered,

“Oh, Daddy, Hawwy not hungwy, Hawwy wants his pwesents now.” He gave Severus a puppy look and run around the table where they were sitting, until he stumbled over the leg of a chair and fell down. Everyone was watching him expectantly thinking ‘Is he going to cry or not?’, but Harry got up, climbed on his grandmother’s lap and when he saw that everyone was watching him, announced,

“Is okay, I’m fine. Hawwy is two and a big boy, not a baby anymowe, and big boys don’t cwy.” With that, Albus could not help laughing loud and handed Harry a birthday present.

Holding his head Harry stumbled off the floor, when his grandmother suddenly gripped his arm. “Harry, are you alright?” she asked worriedly. Harry sighed and mumbled,

“Yes, I’m fine. That was a memory of my second birthday here at Snape manor. Let’s go and join the others.”

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They went over to the lake and sat down in the shadow next to Harry’s parents and sisters. Harry decided to lie down in the grass for a moment, which did not go unnoticed by his grandmother, who got up and quietly told her son about the memory vision Harry just had experienced. Severus sighed and sat next to Harry.

“Harry, is everything alright? Do you need a potion?” he whispered and felt his forehead. Harry leaned in the cool touch but didn’t show any other reaction. Severus shrugged and went back to sit on his spot beside Lily. Suddenly Marina woke up from her nap and noticed that her grandmother had joined them.

“Oh, Grandma, can you tell us a story please?” she begged, until her grandmother began to tell her an interesting story about magical animals in lakes. Too soon, it was time for dinner and everyone headed inside the manor.

“Julia, Marina, Harry!” Lily said, “Please go into your rooms and pack your bags; don’t forget your swimming trunks. Mandy and Sandy will take your bags downstairs while we are eating dinner. After dinner we have to return to Hogwarts.” They were just eating dinner, when suddenly Fawkes arrived and held a piece of parchment in front of Severus, who very astonished took the paper off Fawkes foot and frowned after he had read what was written on it.