Hi there

There will hopefully be another story of this but from Severus and Harmony's POV, This is all the parentals perspective

This was supposed to be very short but turned in to a 14500 word monster. just a few brief notes about this universe. you don't have to read this but it may help you with my au's timeline.

first point Harry's a girl and the dates have been moved forward about a decade. other than Severus all other child characters are in their correct slots just a decade later.

James and Lily are not dead and have never been dead. They didn't have a child in 1980 and as such the prophecy was never made.

Voldemort and all his horcruxs were destroyed in the late eighties by the order.

Dumbledore is still dead but this is age related not curse or murder

Eileen prince is James and Lily's age in this and friends with Lily.

Severus Tobias Snape is still a half blood with a nasty muggle father but Eileen left him in the early 90's not long before Severus and Harmony first meet as very young children.

Severus was born on 9th January 1989
Harmony was born 31st July 1990
he is a 6th year, she is a 5th
James and Sirius still don't like Snape but for different reasons.

Lily looked up from inspecting her fingernails and watched her husband pace.

"Honestly James, at this rate you'll have worn a hole through your shoes and I do want a dance tonight you know, I wouldn't have worn this otherwise". Lily gestured to her deep blue dress.

James sent a scowl the red heads way, "How can you be thinking of dancing at a time like this"

Lily raised an eyebrow at him, "A time like what, pray tell?".

James scowl deepened, "How can you say at a time like what, you know bloody well What!".

"James", Lily said sharply, eyeing the mass of students standing behind where James was pacing at the bottom of the vaulted stair case. A few had turned to look at the transfiguration professors loud exclamation; but most were to caught up in the excitement of the Yule ball to care much about their slightly eccentric professor at the moment.

The red head crossed her arms over her chest and glared at her husband. "You need to calm down, you'll end up making a scene at this rate and that won't do any one any good. So help me James Potter if you ruin this night for Harmony you're in the spare room for the rest of the year".

The man abruptly stopped pacing, and instead stepped toward his wife and tried to encase her in his arms; an impish grin, replacing the scowl on his face, "Well, since it's already Christmas eve love, I think I'll take my chances".

Lily rolled her eyes at her husbands antics and pushed him away with a gentle shove to the shoulder. "Be that as it may, I mean it James Potter. You ruin this night for Harmony and you'll not just be in the spare room, you'll be lucky to see in the new year at all".

James pouted, "You can't mean to say that you'd curse your own husband, do you?"

Lily laughed, "I won't curse you, No".

"See, I knew I was right", James gave his wife a peck on the cheek and started to pace again.

"I won't need to, Harmony will do it for me". James stopped and looked at his wife in disbelief. "My precious fawn wouldn't hurt her old man", Lily just gave him an exasperated look.

"Trust me James she will, if you ruin her first proper date with Severus. She's been talking of nothing else since he asked her to the ball three weeks ago; the way she's been walking around you'd think her shoes were suddenly made of air".

The scowl came back to James face with a vengeance, he sent a glare his wife's way; while she looked right back at him completely unfazed by his attitude.

"That's just the problem though isn't it; of all the boys she had to go to the ball with she had to pick that lousy snake. In fact, I don't know why she had to go with a boy at all!; she's to young to be going out with boys".

Lily scoffed, but before she could form a retort Sirius appeared; wading his way through the throngs of students and waving at them. Bizarrely, (considering he would be attending the ball with them) the man hadn't changed out of his auror robes.

"Hiya Prongs, hiya Lil's". Once Sirius was a little closer to James he let out a low whistle. "What's wrong with you, you look like some ones given you a dung flavoured jelly bean, again".

James huffed at his friend. "What is it with you people. Don't you understand that my precious baby fawn is about to be taken away by a nasty bloody snake".

A solemn look of understanding passed over Sirius's face. "Yeah mate, I know, but don't you worry about it Prongs our plan will work". Sirius got a wicked gleam in his eye "our little prongslet isn't getting taken away from us by no snake's tonight; she's to young to be around boys any way"

James sent a look at his wife saying; see there's nothing wrong with how I'm acting.

James saw Lily roll her eyes so hard he's surprised they hadn't come out of their sockets with the action. "Honestly you two are impossible, Harmony is fifteen, for merlin's sake; surely you remember what you were like at fifteen?. You two had most of the Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws quidditch teams on your arms from one week to the next. On the other hand Harmony has never so much a dated anybody, let alone kissed someone; and your coming the heavy with her, talk about being a hypocrite".

James put his hands on Lily's shoulders and looked at her a little condescendingly "Lily, dear sweet naive Lily, you just don't understand precisely what me and Sirius got up to with those girls an..". Sirius suddenly let out an exclamation, "Oi, and the boys I'll have you know".

Sirius looked vaguely offended that his sexual prowess wasn't being proclaimed to the hilt.

"Yes alright Sirius, and the boys in Sirius's case. Either way, it's what me and Sirius got up to with those people; is exactly the reason why I don't want my precious fawn around boys; they'll corrupt her".

Lily closed her eyes and pinched the bridge of her nose before looking at James again. "James, if any boy, tried any advances that she didn't want they'd end up hexed to within an inch of their life; or flat on their back. Also you seem to be forgetting something major in this instance; Severus and Harmony have been in each others pockets since she was still in nappies. This really is just a natural progression you know".

Sirius piped up from where he was lounging aristocratically against the stairs. "You got one thing right Lily; that girls got a mean right hook, knocked me flat when I was training with her last week".

Lily gave him an appraising look, "When you asked me for that bruise salve last week; in the middle of me teaching a class I might add, you said you'd got that black eye from walking in to a cupboard door!".

Sirius had the good grace to look sheepish and rubbed the back of his neck, "Yeah well, I could hardly say I'd been knocked on my arse by my fifteen year old goddaughter, could I. Especially not in front of your charms students. Wouldn't make me look like much an Auror, ya know".

Lily gave Sirius a look saying he was being particularly thick, while her voice was laced with sarcasm, "What, and being bested by a cupboard does?".

James huffed in irritation at the turn the conversation had taken, and started tapping his foot on the stone floor. "If we could get back to the point please".

Lily sniffed and eyed her husband. "What point would that be exactly; the one where you don't think she can look after her self or the one where you're trying to stop her from dating a boy she's known since she was two?"

"The point where I don't want her dating any boy at all; I don't care how long they've known each other. And I don't for one minute think she can't protect herself from any unwelcome advances; it's the welcomed one's that I have a problem with".

Lily glared at her husband. "For heavens sake James; she's not going to be getting hot and heavy in the bushes with Severus tonight, she's not you. This is their first date and as I mentioned Harmony's never even kissed a boy. The most they'll end up doing tonight is sharing a snog and even if she wanted to go further Severus is to much of a gentleman to do more".

She glanced down at her nails nonchalantly before looking up under her lashes and adding, "that and he knows Eileen would kill him if he gives her grandchildren early, no matter how much she loves Harmony".

Lily had to fight hard to hold back her smile, as James turned near purple at this blasé statement while Sirius looked like he might be sick at the thought of his goddaughter having sex.

"She'll not even be snogging him if I have my say about it, much less getting up to se.. se.. that". James declared in a dark tone.

Lily threw her arms up in exasperation. "I've had enough of this, I'm going to go and see what's keeping Harmony". She picked up the skirts of her long blue dress and made for the stairs. As she stepped on the first step however she pivoted to face her husband and his best friend; there was fire in her eyes.

"I've already given you a warning James but now I'm telling you both; if you ruin this for her what I did to you both in fifth year will seem like a walk in the park compared to what I have planned so leave Harmony and Severus alone".

With a final narrow eyed look at the pair she was off up the stairs.

Sirius gulped, while James stared adoringly after his fiery wife. "I gotta say mate, your wife is one scary lady sometimes".

James turned his goofy look on Sirius, "I know, she's great isn't she". Sirius shook his head fondly at James, he'd never change. "Whatever you say mate, but what are we supposed to do? the ball's opening soon and with that warning I ain't going anywhere near the Snape kid. Mooney won't thank me if his favourite equipment gets snapped off by you loving wife".

James grimaced at Sirius. "Too much information Padfoot, I really don't need to think about what you get up to with each other".

Sirius let loose a bark of laughter, "Mate, we've been married for six years, what do you think we do in bed, knit?".

"Well you don't, but I do occasionally". The pair turned to see Remus coming to a stop just behind them.

Sirius beamed at the voice and planted a warm kiss on his partners cheek once he was close enough, "Hiya love, you done corralling the students then?".

Looking over at the swelling mass of students Remus nodded "For the moment, they're going to have to open the ball soon, there'll be no more room in the entrance hall at his rate. Not that they can open it until all the champions are here; do you know where's Harmony got to?. it's her that's holding everything up. Minerva's doing her nut".

"I'm sure it's not deliberate Mooney. You know she doesn't like the attention at the best of times. After all, she's only in the bloody tournament to begin with because those Weasley twins dared her to put her name in. She never thought she'd be picked after all, no idea why she thought that, but she did".

James remembered that incident with perfect clarity; he didn't think he'd ever felt so scared as when Harmony's name came out of Minerva's mouth; he and Lily had both sat there horrified as most of the hall erupted in cheers and applause around them.

The previous years an age restriction of seventeen or older had been in place. But this year, under pressure from the other two schools; the ministry had relaxed the age to fifteen to allow for a greater pool of candidates.

James had gone ballistic at Harmony and even more so at the twins for daring their friend to do such a stupid thing. They still flinched if he or Snape got too close to them. He could honestly say, that him helping put the fear of god in to those two had been the first time he'd liked the Snape boy; not that it lasted beyond that of course.

Watching as Mooney and Padfoot had a quiet discussion about something or other a light bulb went off in James head and sly grin spread across his face; Lily had said that he and Sirius couldn't do anything to the Snape boy. She didn't say anything about Mooney though. James had to resist the urge to cackle. He didn't want to sound like Sirius's cousin Bella after all.

Quickly James pulled a spare piece of parchment and one of Lily's pens from his robes and started to scribble. Once he was done he cleared his throat to gain the couple's attention; they sounded like they were discussing something about dog hairs in the sheets; Jame's shuddered, eww definitely too much information.

The couple stopped talking and looked at James expectantly, while James adopted a butter wouldn't melt look.

"Say Mooney, can you do me a really big favour and go and say this to the Snape boy for me?"

James held out a note to the werewolf, while Remus scrunched his eyebrows with suspicion. "Why?, why can't you just say it to him yourself?".

James huffed out a breath and looked at Remus as if he was being quite thick, it was a look he'd learned from his wife; it was usually directed a himself by her. "Because, Lily said I had to leave him alone. She'll have my head if she finds out I've been threa- er talking to him".

Remus held his hands up and shook his head, before starting to back away from his old friend, you'd think he'd asked him to hold a bomb.

"Oh no, no, your not drawing me in to this. If she's told you to stay away already, there's absolutely no way I'm going to do it for you. Besides you've known Severus most of his life. I know you and Sirius don't like him on principle. Mostly because he holds most of Harmony's attention so frequently; but you really need to let it go. Severus treats Harmony like she hung the moon and she treats him like he hung the stars, they care so much about each other; what more could you want for your daughter?".

"Remus!", Remus looked over to where the shout had come from and saw Minerva looking flustered and gesturing at the crowd; the tinsel around her hat was starting to come loose.

"Well once more in to the fray I suppose, I'll see you both later. A quick word of advice James; just let Harmony have her ball, without interference from the two of you. she'll remember this night for the rest of her life; let it be for the right reasons".

With those sage words and a kiss for Sirius, Remus walked away and was once again swallowed by the surging tide of students.

Sirius gave James a conciliatory look and patted him on the back. "I think we're going to have to give up on outright scare tactics Prongs, there's to many people against us. We're just going to have to keep a close eye on them and hope for the best".

James slumped defeated on to the stone steps behind him and ran a hand through his perpetually messy hair. "I just don't want my little girl going off with boys Sirius, what if she gets hurt or what if she decides she doesn't need me anymore. she's growing up so fast".

A small pale hand landed on James shoulder and he looked up in to the bright green eyes of his little fawn.

"Don't worry so much dad, I'm always going to need you, you know; and I won't get hurt, not by Severus anyway".

James got up from the step he was sat on to take in the sight of his daughter, her eyes were free of her glasses, (he knew her and Lily had been trialling muggle contact lens for a few weeks now). While her thick, wild, dark hair (which looked worse than his most days) was tamed and smoothed and pulled in to a cascade of glossy curls on the top of her head.

The curls were being held in place by small band of diamonds, on closer inspection he could see it was his late mothers favourite tiara. She had a matching pair of cascading diamond earrings in her ears the had a small emerald stud at the top where the post went through, these had also been his mothers.

While around her throat was a thin emerald and diamond chocker; this was something he hadn't seen before and guessed Lily may have bought it for her; specifically for the ball if he had to guess.

He was displeased to see, that she still had on the silver locket the Snape boy gave her for her last birthday. She had attached it to the chocker somehow and the chain wasn't currently visible.

All he could see off her dress though was some dark green material near the floor; she was wearing her school robe over the top of it for some reason.

That boy is going to take you away from me, he's been trying for thirteen years and he's nearly succeeded; but he doesn't deserve you. No one does.

James felt like bursting in to tears, instead he pulled his little girl in for a tight hug; perhaps hoping it would stop her from leaving with the boy. He could see his wife standing behind Harmony on the stairs, watching them both with a fond look.

He pulled back from Harmony and looked down in to her face; she was so much shorter than the others her age, it was almost laughable really. Though he'd never tell her that; he didn't have a death wish.

"You look beautiful my little fawn, but then again you always do to me", James saw a slight sheen forming in her eyes, "Dad", Harmony ducked her head slightly embarrassed by the praise, but pleased none the less.

"Yeah, you scrub up well prongslet, who'd have thought it".

Sniffing and swiping slightly at her cheek; she turned to give Sirius a mock shove, laughing lightly as she did so, before he to pulled her in for a hug, "gee thanks padfoot, in other words the rest of the time I look horrible".

Sirius pulled back and gave her a grin, "Well you know, like your dad said, your always beautiful; this just emphasise what we already know". He made a gesture at her done up face before plucking at the robe she was wearing, "Although you'd look better with out the school robe kiddo".

Harmony let out a breathy laugh, "Oh, I'm not so sure about that; but mum suggested it. so you didn't … I mean so I didn't err" Harmony looked over at her mother, just as Lilly stepped in to rescue her flailing daughter.

"So she didn't catch the lace of her dress on the way down", Harmony smiled a grateful smile at her mum, "yeah, you know how much of a clutz I am when I'm not on a broom".

The group was suddenly over come with giggles and snorting at Harmony's comment. It was well known Harmony could trip over thin air or rip a new shirt on nothing given half the chance; all she had to do was move.

Mcgonagall appeared next to the group, their amusement silenced by the stern look she was wearing.

"Miss Potter we really need to be opening the ball; if you would please come now, your making us late". She glanced over the group and realised that something was missing.

"And where in Merlin's name is your date. I do hope you haven't taken miss Granger up on her suggestion, and come stag in a show of 'feminist rights'; there's a time and place for that sort of thing you know, and it's not in front of visiting schools and ministry officials".

Harmony gave the headmistress an apologetic look. "Sorry headmistress, my dates over with the slytherins I'll just go and retrieve him".

James watched as his daughter headed for a tight knot of slytherin students, and then veered off to the loner at the edge of the group. Although even if he'd been in the group he'd have been easily spottable.

Snape was a good head taller than his peers, (his and Harmony's height differences looked quite ludicrous sometimes, in his opinion). Even then though, James hadn't realised it was the Snape boy for that brief moment just before Harmony approached him.

He was in well tailored robes, (James wondered how Eileen had afforded them), that showed he wasn't as much of a rake as he appeared in his normally baggy clothing and the boy had washed his hair.

James didn't think he'd seen the boy with clean hair since he hit the age of eleven; where the lack of a parent twenty for seven, had stopped the boy from following most basic hygiene rituals on a regular basis.

Or at least that had been the case until Harmony arrived the next year as a firstie, and demanded he shower at least once a day or she wasn't being seen with him.

It'd done the trick (something that Lily said Eileen had been thankful for), although the boy had refused to wash his hair regularly, stating it was a waste of time; as it would be greasy within hours anyway.

After a few arguments Harmony had grudgingly seemed to accept this. What she saw in the greasy boy James would never know. He wasn't good looking and as far as James was concerned his churlish attitude was not the type of thing he wanted his daughter exposed to.

The problem was the boy was far from churlish with his daughter; he'd even seen him smile around her, although even then it was fleeting. When he was in one of his more sour moods around Harmony all it seemed to do was amuse her. She would just keep annoying him until he stopped being so surly, and did something the she deemed a more appropriate use of his time than brooding.

His daughter was talking to Severus now. She glanced over towards them and made a gesture with her hand that was obviously intended for Lily; because she made her way over to their daughter, just as Harmony was slipping the school robe off.

'Ah she must want Lily to look aft….'

James thoughts came to an abrupt stop, as it seemed did those of most of the males that were surrounding his daughter. He didn't know who had sold her that dress but they were going to regret it.

It was such a dark green it was almost black and covered in silver beading; there were two thin straps holding it up, but this wasn't the problem for James.

The problem was that the neck line went so low there was no way Harmony was wearing a bra under that dress and the body was so tight you could see every dip and curve of her figure.

At least her back appeared to be covered from what he could see at the moment. There was an extra layer of wide reaching material that draped from her hip and went around her back; it looked like someone had cut a ball gown in half and sewn it to the much more revealing dress.

James saw the Snape boy close his mouth, before holding out his arm for Harmony to take. As he led her over to the other champions, James finally saw that back of the dress; he nearly had a heart attack. So much for thinking her back was covered.

While the front was tight it did cover most things in material; but when she'd turned and he saw the back of her dress he realised there wasn't a back to speak of.

The straps curved back over her shoulders and reattached to the front of the dress. All James could see was miles of pale skin uninterrupted by clothing before the fabric reappeared and trailed down in to a wide v that ended at the base of her spine.

In fact it dipped so low at the back, the fabric was barley covering her hips and arse. All James could do was gape.