Looking back now, I couldn't help but smile to myself when I remembered how I surprisingly found out that he was my father. And now as I sat on a green sofa within his living room in Spinner's End with little Severus Albus cradling in my arms, I had to laugh. The years that had lapsed by from the time you had last heard from me to now would be calculated to be exactly within five years. I was now married to the love of my life, Ginny Weasley and we had two sons already.

Snape was smiling down at the baby in my arms whilst James Jr. continued to tug at the hem of his black robe. 'Is he really named after that old crook and I at the same time?' he asked and I nodded.

'I just had to do it', I said shifting Severus Jr. about on my lap. He only gurgled with a finger in his mouth as his piercing green eyes gazed back at me. 'Will you come to his baby shower?'

'Of course', he said bending down and he scooped James up into his arms, my son giggling uncontrollably as he was lifted into the air. 'But you need a daughter now. I'll have to inform Ginny that she needs to give you a beautiful daughter. I am certain that her eyes will be green as well.'

'And then you'll be reminded of my mother whenever you see her', I said to him as he sat down next to me. James Jr. continued to tackle his way around my father's arms as Snape tried to tickle him. 'How are things between you and Katey going?'

He shrugged then reached up to brush a few strands of jet black hair behind his right ear. 'Well Harry, whilst you and Ginny were away in France with Hermione and Ron, I proposed to her.'

'And?' I asked becoming fully alert now, my eyes wide.

'And she said yes.'

'Yes!' I said pumping a fist in the air and I laughed out loud. 'Yes, yes, yes!'

My father only stared back at me, a small smile playing on his lips. 'Dear God, must I remind you that you have a tiny baby in your arms?'

'She said yes!' I said getting up and I whirled round and round with my son in my arms. 'My father is going to get married!'

'Thanks for being so happy for me, Harry', he said after a pause. 'Finally I have someone again in my life that is willing to love me forever and ever. Me and my arrogant, cold self.'

I sat down beside him and watched as James got up on his small pudgy legs to work his fingers into his grandfather's hair. 'We all love you, dad', I said patting him on his shoulder affectionately. 'Dad, just remember that I'm always here for you and...You have two grandsons now! Just think of it!'

'I know', he said smiling widely. 'I am a grandfather. That's so fantastic.'

'Grand dada', James blurted out and we both turned to stare at him wide eyed.

'Did he...?'

'He just called me...?'

'Grand dada', and James began to laugh as he hopped about on his feet, his fingers holding unto Snape's shirt.

'Oh my God, dad! Those are his first words! Ever!'

'That's –' and James threw himself unto Snape, laughing as he went. I watched the two of them fight, their laughter rising and falling. 'Harry I swear that if this was James Potter Senior, I would have whipped out my wand...' James continued to fight with him. '...I would not have tolerated such childish antics!'

Later that evening, I finally got him to hold the baby in his arms. At first he was a bit hesitant but when I threatened to tell Katey that he was eager to have a son of his own, he gave in. I watched as he took the baby with his name into his arms and when I wasn't expecting it, my father lifted Severus Jr. up and kissed him gently on his forehead.

Would you believe if I told you that Severus Jr. as he got older, Ginny and I were astounded by the way his hair grew? On his fifth birthday, his jet black hair had grown up to his shoulders and the tendrils were as straight as his grandfather's! And my son refused to have a scissors come within a foot of his hair. He favoured his grandfather and my father absolutely adored him.

As for James Jr. he grew to resemble me to a T. His hair became just as dishevelled as mine and his green eyes just served as a reminder to everyone of that little green eyed boy who was always targeted by Voldemort. James was a sweet boy. He got into Hogwarts as I expected.

Severus Jr. to his grandfather's delight got into Slytherin. He excelled in Potions and Transfiguration and guess what his Patronus was? A silvery doe.

On the fifteenth of June two years after Severus Jr. first got his letter to attend Hogwarts, Ginny and I became proud parents to a lovely baby girl. And her eyes appeared to be as green as mine but her hair grew red to Snape's delight. We named her Lily. It was only fair to both my parents that I named my children after them. But the fun all came in due time when they grew old enough for me to explain their family history to them.

James found out where he got his name from and he was a bit angered by it all. But when I told him of how the man I believed to be my father was also a brave man, and his grandfather assured him that all was well between him and James, he cooled down.

Lily became so delighted when she heard that she was named after her grandmother. Everywhere she went, she wore her red hair down, dancing behind her as she smiled. And Snape would occasionally point out something about her that was so like my mother. Her laugh and the way she smiled. And then there was her love and kindness. My daughter never ceased in being generous. And she simply adored her grandfather: both of them actually.

And Severus, he couldn't stop boasting about his grandfathers especially Snape. He'd always exaggerate on the bits when Snape was a Death Eater and how he saved my life.

So we lived happy, Snape became part of my family and so he also became part of the Weasley family as well.

Oh and the wedding! That was absolutely memorable to me. I can still remember my father's face when his eyes met with his future wife, Katey. They seemed so happily in love with each other that Ginny as well as Hermione couldn't help but shed a few tears when the newlyweds kissed. And they never chose to get any children but chose to shower their grandchildren with all the love and security that they could offer.

'I've always wanted a family, Harry', Snape said to me as we sat side by side on a bench facing the ocean. We were in Australia for a family vacation and I just savoured the moments I could spend with my dad. When it was just him and me talking, laughing and smiling together, it was all that I wanted sometimes. I never had a father but he had come into my life and changed it.

'And I'm proud to be the one to have given you something, dad.' And I wrapped an arm around him, pulling him into a hug.

'Don't make me grow emotional, my son', he said as tears moistened his eyes. 'I will always be here for you.'

'And so will all of us...for you', I said and we looked on as the sun set before us.

THE END