Longer Summary: Harry has a vision before leaving the graveyard that causes him to make a hard decision: He's not going back to Hogwarts for his fifth year. But, as usual, the decision is taken out of his hands by Dumbledore, and as a (sort of) compromise, he lets Harry attend school as someone else . . . Snape's son. Harry has little choice but to accept. Posing as Snape's son brings on a whole new set of problems though - dealing with Snape being one of them - and only time will tell if he is only making things worse for himself. With dealing with his new classmates, Voldemort still on his tail, Malfoys, Snape, a new family and the ever-present threat of death looming over him, Harry begins to wonder if he sealed his own fate with his decision.

A/N: Hello, everyone! So, this story is cannon-compliant up through to the end of the graveyard scene in the fourth book but most of the cannon histor. we learned through all 7 books will apply to this story. For the most part. It is a Snape mentors/takes care of/sort-of adopts Harry story, but there is more to the plot than that and there will be chunks of the story where it is not a focus. Probaly a few times, but it will come back to them . . . This story will follow both Harry and Snape as they try to navigate through their lives, as they deal with the war, and of course, their trying to get along. It should, at least, go through Harry's seventh year.

There will be a female oc that will show up in parts of a few chapters and stars in one chapter. If you can get past that, you'll find more Harry/Snape drama. I intertwine my plots so she may seem like she's a bigger character than she actually is. If you are looking for a straight forward, Harry and Snape interacting story this might not be for you. Things might seem to stray for a bit but they'll converge eventually. If that's the sort of story you like, read on!

Harry's readied himself, prepared to run at his parent's signal. All he had to do was reach Cedric and the portkey, and he'd be safe.

Without hesitation, he ran, but started to feel sick. At the last second, he tripped, but managed to get a hand on both the portkey and his friend, but . . .

Harry stood in a forest, facing his mom and dad. His mom was beautiful, and he almost couldn't take his eyes off her, but his wish to see where he was overcame him. Sirius and Professor Lupin were also there, but much younger than he remembered seeing them.

"Does it hurt?" he heard himself asking, but his voice sounded strange. Deeper.

"Dying?" Sirus answered, a sad smile on his face . . .

Suddenly, he was in a crowed of people. Harry couldn't remember the portkey trip, but he had made it. He tried to suppress his urge to cry. Through the commotion, Dumbledore was there.

"He's back," Harry whispered, trying not to cry. "Voldemort's back."

Harry woke to voices around him. He could hear McGonagall nearly yelling; he vaguely wondered what had happened that made her sound that angry. From the talk around him, he knew that he they still thought he was asleep. He wished he was. He didn't want to think about any of it. Especially . . .

He didn't tell Dumbledore what he saw. It didn't make sense to him, but the more he thought about it, the more he was sure: He was going to die.

He didn't want to die.

Harry watched as Fudge yelled about the impossibility of Voldemort coming back, dropping the bag of winnings when he saw that Harry was awake and left. He watched as Dumbledore started telling everyone where to go, and Sirus and Snape reluctantly shaking hands, and Sirius leaving with the promise of seeing him again soon.

He felt nothing.

Dumbledore said something to him before leaving with Snape.

"Drink the rest of your potion, Harry," Mrs. Weasley told him. He drank it without question, welcoming the sleep.