While all the wizarding world was busy celebrating the defeat of the Dark Lord, a dark greasy haired wizard hides nearby after having transfigured himself into a black Garbage can with a lid. He has been sitting there for almost 48hours as he'd wanted to make sure he got there before Albus and Minerva. His butt was sore and legs had gone to sleep, his stomach was growling with hunger but he had a vested interest in being there that made everything worth it.

It was midnight before the streets grew quiet and Albus Dumbledore finally appeared on the corner. The familiar looking cat that had appeared a few hours after he and hadn't budged much since finally showed movement. As the long white bearded wizard pulled something kinda similar to a cigarette lighter, and with each click turned out all the street lights.

Only once all the lights turned out did the cat finally transform into the true form of an old greying haired woman with spectacles. The wizard that transfigured into the trashcan paid extra attention to the conversation that followed. The woman Minerva was asking Albus questions about the events that took place, only to be confirmed by the old man.

Severus Snape grew bored as he listened to the conversation, as he sat there his mind drifted back to November 1979 that took place only a short time ago though it felt like forever ago.

There was a small late Halloween party, cause everyone had been busy with their own families and everyone wanted to cheer up the bored young couple since they were in hiding from Voldemort. There was alcohol, candy, pie, dancing and chatter and everyone dressed up nice for the occasion.

At some point that night all the adults passed out on the living room couch or the floor leaving only Lily and himself as the only ones awake.

Not wanting to wake the others with talk, Snape and lily had carried the fire whiskey into her bedroom.

They had chatted about old times, talked about what Lily and James had missed while in their homes, and they continued to drink.

Fully enthralled with the fire whiskey,Lily had leaned forward and kissed him. Snape had kissed back as his own feelings for her couldn't bring itself to deny her.

Next thing Severus knew he was naked and kneeling between her legs, penetrating her..that night he and Lily had heated sex. When it was all over, Lily starts to cry.

"Lily what is it? What's wrong?" He had asked.

Lily had looked at her through a world of mixture of guilt and pain.

" We should never have done that..im so sorry Severus." She had responded.

Severus felt his heart break as he stood and redressed.

"Its okay Lily, how about we just pretend this never happened?" Snape had offered.

"I'd very much prefer that Severus, i don't want James to find out about this."

Severus had with a flash of his robes disappeared and gone home.

He had let Lily have what she wished, let her go on pretending their night never happened. And he watched in growing deep pain as Lily became pregnant. It killed Severus to watch never saying a word as Lily carried and raised what he knew was his own child, had watched as James was made to believe it was his, while he acted as the role of a maternal uncle to the baby.

Now here Severus sat disguised as a trash can, waiting, biding his time. He wasn't quite ready to tell the entire world that the famous Harry Potter was actually really his Child. So now he waited.

The sound of a roar made him jerk to attention, in time to see a large motorbike appear and land nearby.

Sitting astride the bike was the half giant Hagrid the groundskeeper. And in his arms lay a small bundle.

It took every inch of self discipline to not jump out right there and then and grab baby Harry, he logged to hold him, longed to cradle him and know he could finally be what he was..his father.

Finally Albus lays Harry on the doorstep, turns the street lights on and everyone leaves.

Severus waits to make sure nobody comes back before transfiguring back to his greasy dark haired human form.

Walking up the stairs, Severus took Harry into his arms, and cradled him close.

"Hey there Harry, there's no way I'm going to let my own son go to these losers, when I can raise you myself."

Severus disappeared and went back to his house on Spinner's End.

Severus already had a nursery room set up adjoined to his own room, it had originally been used for nights when Lily wanted Severus to babysit for a bit so they could have date nights at home without the baby.

There was a soft wooden floor, with a lion skin rug, a grey mossy oak crib sat against the wall and a changing table sitting right beside it. The walls were soft green to match Harry and Lily's eyes, little lion cubs were painted into the green walls, a beautiful mahogany dresser sat across the room where a lava lamp gave off a cool looking glow.

Severus laid Harry into a crib, and fixed a bottle of milk adding a special potion to the milk that would hide Harry's scar.

"There now that should stop anyone from recognizing who you are, until I can get paperwork together to prove that you are mine." Severus says.

He covers his son with a blanket before turning out the lights. Tomorrow he would take Harry shopping for new baby supplies.

Collapsing into his arm chair in the living room with a cold drink, he turns on the radio and tries to nap, not knowing when Harry would wake and need a feeding or a changing.

He dozed off snoring softly having set an alarm to go off in a few hours in case Harry didn't wake him.