The only one that truly knew him
By fillinwhittynameHERE
Harry had just found out his destiny from Dumbledore and knew what he had to do. Quickly he gathered everything he would need and headed down to professor snape's office. He knocked on the door and entered after he heard the "enter" from within. Quickly, without saying a word he placed his wand, point towards him on snape's desk in front of the man.
Snape couldn't believe it he never would have guessed it was potter on the other side of the door after the disastrous occlumency lessons. Also he couldn't believe potter would hand over his wand, which was the greatest act of submission in the wizarding world. He would've thought potter to be messing with him had he not seen his bowed head.
"What do you need Mr. Potter?"
"I just found out it is my destiny to defeat voldemort but before I can I had to give you something."
"Your wand?"
"No something else but first I must tell you a story. Long ago when I was around five a apparition of a woman and a man appeared before me. They told me I was to compile certain objects and bring them to you when the time was right. They said I would know when to bring them to you. This is my last chance seeing as I am over 50% positive I will not return from my confrontation with voldemort. I gave that to you because I knew if I did you would listen to me. Before I give you what I am supposed to give you I must first give you a letter. If after reading the letter you accept then I must meet with you to give you the rest. I know I have never, in all the years I have been your student, given you a reason to trust me but please just this once." With that he walked to the door.
"Wait Mr. Potter your wand."
"Keep it until we meet."
"But what if I don't agree after reading this letter?"
"Then please return my wand. Thank you professor for everything you've done for me both the obvious and the not so obvious."
After harry left Snape sat down and read the letter:
"Dear professor snape,
If your reading this then it means you have put some trust in me for that I must say thank you. First know that everything in this letter is entirely the truth. Next I must apologize for everything I have said or done to or about you. Then I must apologize for the, as I have named it, pensive incident. I realize you have no reason to forgive me and I truthfully do not expect you to nor do I blame you for not forgiving me, I have yet to forgive myself. Know that I have only shared the incident with two other people, Sirius black and Remus lupin. Know that I only did this to gain a reason why they did it and I must say my efforts were futile. They wrote it off as immaturity and the fact that you were and truthfully still are rivals. This is no excuse I am rivals with malfoy but would never do something like this to him. Then again maybe I would've if I had grown up big headed like my father and his friends. I guess I can thank the dursleys for something.
You see the dursleys are afraid of what they can't understand, like many people, but unlike many others they took this fear and converted it to anger. They convinced themselves that if they were to 'beat the freakishness out of me' they would have nothing to worry about. Everyone says I am so much like my father but I think I am more like that ravenclaw whose parents weren't, what's the phrase they used oh right, 'adequate guardians'. I am not telling this to you so you can feel sorry for me no I am telling you this so that you may see the difference between James potter the jerk and harry potter the boy the wizarding world conveniently forgot about. I know that there is no reason for you to help me but I ask that you do. What I'm asking of you will be hard I can assure you that. You must know that once you start you can't stop. I am asking you to take a journey through my life. For you see I know I am going to die and I would like for one person to have known the REAL harry potter not the one that is at Hogwarts now. For I can assure you he is nothing but a mask and you know all about masks. I know you are wondering why I chose you well I figured you were never blinded by the boy-who-lived although you were blinded by James Potter. I think that you will be able to handle my life objectively. I think you will be the only one able to truly know me.
Thank you for reading this,
Harry potter."
Snape didn't know what to think if you had told him this letter would be sent from harry potter a week ago he wouldn't have believed you but after seeing the boy in his office maybe, just maybe, the letter and the boy have some merit. He did know one thing though he was going to talk to potter.
*few days later. Snape's office.*
"I've decided Mr. Potter to do it."
"You mean it professor?"
"Yes Mr. Potter you seem genuinely serious and I will admit that I am curious about your life."
"Well then I wish you the best of luck figuring out who harry potter truly is. Oh and professor I ask that when I'm gone you write something simple that truly reflects me." With that Harry Potter walked out his most hated professor's door. Later it would be discovered that harry potter had disappeared. That he went to go face voldemort but no one knew when or if he would return. Nothing was heard from him, nor was there any news about the war. But for professor snape the only questions on his mind were what is in the package left for him from harry, for he knew he would never be able to call him 'potter' again. The second thing was what harry meant when he said "I ask that when I'm gone you write something simple that truly reflects me." He wouldn't figure out just what harry meant when he said this for a long time.
