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CHAPTER 1:

He was taking a risk, he knew this, but he could not stop himself from helping this man, this man who had served others all his life, deserved to have control of his own mind. Since his grandfather was no longer living off his power, Harry had started to see magic, at first he could only sense it, now if he concentrated enough he could see the strands of magic that were woven into spells, and feel the nature of them. When he had first seen his professor he could feel the amount of spells that had been woven into his mind, his nature, he had always been drawn to him, now he knew why. In potions this year he had done his utmost to get a detention, and now here he was, after studying the magic for the last 3 hours he decided he should make his move.

"what are you doing Potter!"

"Just a moment sir"

"where did you learn those wards! Potter!"

" may I speak freely without interruption sir? "

Severus eyed his student through critical eyes, he had learned long ago that he could not think properly about 'Harry Potter' lest his thoughts turned to how arrogant and conceited he was, just like his father, and so he separated his thoughts of Harry Potter from the observations he had made over the years of 'Lily's son' which revealed quite a different character with a strong mask, what that mask hid he had not yet determined, but this might just be his chance to do exactly that.

"You may, as many of those wards you just placed will prevent me from revealing anything that is said without your permission and vice versa I shall try and do the same, regardless of orders from Albus or the Dark Lord"

A slight nod of the head was Harry's answer, as he decided how much he should reveal to his potions master.

"You are aware sir of the connection between the Dark Lord and I? You sir I think are also aware that I am not all I am, I know that you at least know I enjoy making potions in the abandoned lab on the 3rd floor?"

"I know only of my observations, anything else I have not been able to determine, for many reasons"

"Well the connection it seems meant that as a spirit he was using some of my magic to sustain himself, since he has been reborn, and gathering strength. I presume that is the reason I have developed the ability to feel the emotions of others just recently, I can also feel strands of magic, if I concentrate hard enough I can see them."

"How is that relevant and why tell me, not Dumbledore?

"Because, there are a lot of spells placed on you, from what I have determined there are many memory suppresors as well as loyalty enchantments."

"Is it possible to suppress memories? Why not just remove them?"

"Removing memories with a memory charms means the person will be as if the event/memory didn't ever occur, however, if you were to suppress the memory, everything that changed about the person was left in their character, but they would not be able to remember it, does that make sense? That is my theory anyway"

"Yes, I believe that may be correct" Severus said slowly. "However, I didn't know that such a charm existed however"

"Neither did I, that is why it took so long to figure out the magic"

Harry gave Proffesor Snape a chance to recover from these revelations, for Harry knew that despite the cold mask his professor wore, he must be going through quite a bit of turmoil. He could feel confusion, hurt, anger, and slight uncomfortableness in the air around his professor.

"Can you tell who, who did this to me?" a part of severus did not want to know, but he knew that he would like to be prepared if he was to face this person again.

At this question Harry shifted slightly, he had a fair idea who it was, but he could not tell his professor if he was to retain the little trust he had gained, and he could not actually tell from the magic, so he decided to tell his professor that much of the truth and let him draw his own conclusions.

"I did not want to "see" that deep into the strands for fear of disrupting them and causing irreversible damage to your mind"

Severus narrowed his eyes, the slight squirming of Harry had not gone unnoticed by the professor and he was a little leery of what he was leaving out.

"But you have your suspicions as to who?"

Harry inclined his head towards his professor "I will not lie to you, but I will not tell you of my suspicions, I do not trust you that much professor. I may however be able help with you removing the blocks on your memories and investigating further into the design of the loyalty compulsions. "

"How?"

"My Grandfather"
"You don't have any living grandparents Potter" Snape spat out, glad to have an excuse to move back into a role he was comfortable with with Harry bloody Potter, lilys son, he corrected himself.

"That would be correct" Snapes sneer strengthened at this statement "if my mother wasn't adopted"

"What! I would know if she was adopted!"

"Even if she didn't know herself? Why would a 'muggleborn' ever have the need to brew a lineage potion or anything similar?"

"So why did you Potter?"

"Having studied some magical theory, and gifts such as parsletongue, Dumbledore's explanation on my own parsletongue ability didn't add up" stated Harry, "that and he was hinting at me being the heir of Gryffindor" he sneered.

"And?"

"Her parents were both magical, and I am the descendent from a family who has been known to produce parslemouths, if rarely."

Suddenly Professor Snapes face paled.

"The wards." Snape breathed. (AN: blood wards 'protecting' Harry at 4 pritvate drive)

"Professor?"

"Never mind, your grandfather?" Severus decided to investigate them at his first opportunity.

"Right, well we will have to go to him, how do you normally leave when you are called by the Dark Lord?"

"Send a note with a house elf, floo to the hogs head, then apparate from Hogsmeade why?"

"We need a cover, we have say 5 hours left of detention sir?"

"Right."

"Can you trust me sir?"

"Why not go to Dumbledore?"

"Because it may not be for Dumbledore's greater good for your memories to be released?"

This sentenced mirrored Snape's earlier thoughts on his relationship to the headmaster so perfectly that he grudgingly agreed.

"If I die then I will be sure to haunt you"
"sir, I value your brilliance as a potions master too much to see you die so young, not to mention seeing Weasley and Granger pulled down a peg or to with that sharp wit" the second bit of the sentence was barely above a whisper, and if it weren't for Severus's potion simmering trained ears he wouldn't have heard at all, that was a sentence to be filled away and analyzed later against his other observations of 'Lily's son'.

And that is how Severus Snape found himself with Harry Potters arms wrapped around him as they were spat out of the floo network.

When they arrived at their destination Harry was greeted with a hug and a smile from his grandfather, they were obviously expected yet Snape couldn't for the life of him figure out how, he sent a questioning look at Potter but all he got was a cheeky grin and a non-answer, "family secret" apparently. Knowing many pureblood family "secrets" he decided not to pry further.

They settled in the drawing room and the procedure was explained to Severus. Grandpapa would enter his mind because he was a mind master and guide him to his blocked memories, this both comforted him and raised a fear in his heart for the secrets in his very protected mind, but looking at Harry and his grandpa talking he saw a glimpse of the carefree trust in his words and actions that so reminded him of Lily and he realized that he had not yet seen this in her son and he found the reassurance he was after. Perhaps if he knew the identity of 'grandpapa' he may not have been so reassured. After this was done, Harry would, as the better at seeing magic and wards would dismantle the loyalty enchantments placed upon him.

It took 4 hours to guide Severus through his memories and release the blocks. At this point Harry had to leave and return to Gryffindor tower, he would return at the earliest opportunity after Severus had awakened.

Severus was in a coma for 2 days and wakes up to find Potter of all people beside his bed

"Potter" This was said with only the mildest of distaste, a fact that surprised both occupents of the room.

"Harry"

"what?"

"Harry, you were my mothers friend, if things were different…. well who knows"

"Harry then, but you are still my student"

"Yes, but we are not in school Severus"

"Cheeky brat" Severus found he did not want to argue the point when a nice thrill went up his spine at hearing his name come out of Harry's mouth, lily's son Severus, her son!.

Harry then proceeded to undo the loyalty spells that were already crumbling at the release of memories. Loyalties spells only truly work when the subject already has a sense of loyalty towards the one they were spelled towards. Originally these were a means of ensuring information could not be revealed accidently or magically, the ones on Severus however were warped so that the person had lost their individuality. With the memories that were revealed the spells would no doubt crumble, but it would be a lot easier for Severus to decifer between his feelings and the spells, as well as assimilate the lost memories into those already there.

This time Severus was in a coma for a week.