Okay, so this little story has been smothering my muse so that I couldn't get the next chapter of Through The Veil written till this one is at least started. Please tell me what you think!

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The Spell is Broken: Memories Return

Chapter One

Summer Depression and... The Truth?

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"The Truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." ~ Winston Churchill

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#4 Privet Drive

July 30th

11:45 PM

'So much for leaving by my birthday,' Harry Potter thought sadly as he watched the old, broken clock tick down till midnight for his 17th birthday. 'Dumbledore promised that I would have been picked up a week ago so I could spend time with Sirius and Remus before school.'

At the end of his previous year at Hogwarts, Dumbledore had promised that he need not spend the whole summer, or even half of it, at his Aunts and Uncles. With Sirius having gotten a proper trial then married to Remus, Harry was legally supposed to be with them, but Dumbledore had pulled the blood wards card and said he needed to return to Privet Drive. Sirius, Remus and Harry had all protested but they had lost the battle when McGonagall and Molly stepped in and enforced it.

Now, Harry wasn't abused at his relatives' home, but he wasn't cared for either. After the fiasco with the Dementors Harry was given a bit more freedom in the house. He wasn't forced to do chores and he was no longer punished if any magic happened. He had to keep his room clean, do his own laundry and cooking, but not the whole families. It was a bit of a peace treaty between the four.

Harry knew that once the clock struck midnight he would receive an inheritance and be a legal magical adult. He believed that it would be a simple magical boost. Little did he know how wrong he was…

When the clock struck midnight and Harry was suddenly very tired and passed out asleep never seeing the soft glow his skin took as his magic changed his body or the owls waiting at the window.

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Spinners End

July 31st

12:03 AM

Potions Master and Hogwarts Professor Severus Snape was sitting in his living room staring morosely at his empty wine glass when a tapping was heard at his window. Obsidian eyes snapped to the noise and he glowered at the owl that dared come at that ungodly hour. Severus stood and let the owl in. Once the owl had been released of its burden it flew from the house not even waiting for a reply.

Severus was surprised at how heavy the letter was and flipped it to reveal the Gringotts seal. Quickly and carefully the Potions Master peeled open the envelope and removed the contents. He was again surprised to find letter from the goblins but also another sealed envelope with vaguely familiar handwriting. Unfolding the letter from the Goblins, Severus began to read;

Greetings Lord Severus Tobias Lucilius Snape-Prince, of the Ancient and Honored House of Prince;

This letter is in regards to a request made by Lord James Charulus Prince-Potter. He came to the Diagon Alley branch of Gringotts, a month before he went into hiding with the muggleborn Lily Evans, and requested a time delayed letter. When questioned about using this old and forgotten tradition he merely stated that he had things that needed explaining and he knew that he would not be able to do so in person. He gave this letter to send to you upon the seventeenth birthday of Heir Harald Severus James Potter-Prince. We also extended to you the title of Goblin Friend. If you accept the offer then after Lord Potter's letter is read and all things included are taken care of we would like to invite you to a meeting at Gringotts with your accounts manager, bank manager and a Goblin Healer for our own sake of minds that everything is the way it should be, with not only your accounts but with your health as well. A similar letter is being sent to Heir Potter-Prince with a time delayed letter as well as a similar invitation.

May your Potions be potent and your will never waver,

Gringotts Junior Manager Bloodclaw

Severus had to reread the letter several times in order to completely understand what he was reading. 'Potter-Prince?' was the only thing that was able to go through his mind as he absentmindedly pulled James's letter from its envelope.

Hello Severus,

You must be so confused and angry right now my love but please, I beg of you, read this letter till the end, if only to satisfy your insatiable curiosity. I am so sorry for what has happened, I wish I had just floo'd to the house that night. I was walking home from the Ministry like always, and because it was a habit, it was my downfall for capture. You, Moony, Padfoot, and Wormtail were at a meeting with Tom, I had missed the beginning because I was late getting off work, so I decided to head home and wait for you. I was ambushed by Dumbledore and his little club. They stunned me and took me to Hogwarts where they tried, and failed, to put a memory charm on me. What they didn't know was that when a submissive elf is carrying their body can resist almost all types of harmful magics. Yes, I was pregnant. That was another reason I didn't go to the meeting, I was going to tell you that night and I wished for it to be special. They found out after I had arrived at Hogwarts, they are going to try and use our child to end Tom. They had a half assed "prophecy" from that blind, delirious, old bat Trelawney. I do not know the contents, all I know is that talks of a child born at the end of July. That idiot muggleborn Evans had gotten herself knocked up and they think it's either hers or ours. In order to protect our child I had to act as if the memory charm had worked. They made it seem like I had married Evans and the child she carried was mine, not some muggle's she met in a bar. They made it seem like our child was from a drunken night during a "marriage spat". I was forced to hide the pregnancy. On July 29 she gave birth to a daughter who died a few hours later. She died because, during the pregnancy, Evans had kept drinking and smoking. The girl was born very small and had so many problems that the healers said that they couldn't save her. Evans rejected the poor child, never really having loved or wanted her. I was the only one that held the girl and named her so she wouldn't die nameless. Her name was Astra Madaline Potter. Even being such a sickly child she was beautiful, she had her mother's brilliant red hair and even being a newborn her eyes were the color of amethyst. She would have grown to be stunning. When she died I was the only one that cried and I gave her a burial in Godrics Hollow with my ancestors, for even though she was not my blood or yours, I was the only one that had claimed her as family. Two days later I went into labor and our son was born. I had kicked everyone out of the room. Being an elf, only others of our kind would have been allowed to stay. I wrote two birth certificates, one was the official one that now resides in the main Potter Vault, the other had the proper information but was under a charm that will break when our son is claimed by you in Gringotts. His name is Harald Severus James Potter-Prince, but you would know him as Harry James Potter. They placed him under a glamour to merge his features from yours and mine, to mine and Evans'. The magic of his inheritance will break the glamour on his seventeenth birthday. You probably wonder why you don't remember our relationship. You probably do not even remember that you are a full-blooded Dark Elf. Two days after I was captured you, Tom and his followers stormed the castle having finally tracked me through our bond. I was held at wand point, you and the others were forced to submit. Your elf was locked away, your memories of our school years and after were altered. The spell that altered your memories was very old and was declared forbidden by Merlin himself, how Dumbledore found it remains a mystery to me, but everyone who ever shared those memories with you and were unaware of the spell he was casting had theirs altered as well. Anyone with creature inheritance had them locked away. Several were taken from their mates like you and I. Sirius' Incubus was locked away and Remus werewolf is being poisoned to keep it feral, they were allowed it keep their relationship. Peter was forced to become a 'traitor'. Lucius was separated from Rabastan and forced to marry that gold digging shrew Narcissa Black. He was pregnant with Draco, whose inheritance will break all enchantments just like Harald's. Tom was driven insane and Rodolphus was forced to marry Bellatrix Black. Gideon and Fabian were captured, I don't know their fates. Arthur was forced to marry the twin's younger sister Molly/Mary, whatever her name is. The children from Arthur and the twins had their memories altered as well, but when they reach majority they will receive an inheritance and a letter from me stating they must hide and wait till our son's majority so that they could be a united front against the true dark lord. I wrote this letter and have given it to Gringotts because all Elfs possess the ability of foresight, but only when the fates allow it. In a dream last week I saw what is to happen on All Hallows Eve and in the years following, I did not see anything past Harald's Majority so I cannot give you warning. Though I can say this, look where everyone has been but no-one thought to look. Allow the Goblins to help you. The spell that alters memories only needs one person to start, but afterward everyone involved must have it removed individually. Get our son from the Dursley's, he has no business there, they share no blood. Love him, Protect him, Guide him, Please! Remember that I have always and will always love you Severus.

Forever yours,

James Charulus Prince-Potter

Severus all but collapsed into his armchair. He did not question the letter's validity because it was signed in blood, meaning that it was willingly written and that everything was the truth. Severus had known that there was something wrong with his mind and body, but whenever he thought too hard about it he seemed to remember something else that needed to be done. Shaking his head to try and clear his muddled thoughts he stood and made his way towards his bedroom. 'First thing in the morning I will go to Privet Drive and collect Harald, then we will head to Gringotts and get this sorted out', Severus thought as he set an alarm for 5:00 am and drifted into a troubled sleep.

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