Disclaimer:
I do not own the characters of Harry Potter, these belong to that wonderful author JK Rowling and the various publishing companies used to publish her works. I am however borrowing them, no not to make money but for fun and fun only.
Summary:
Severus Snape has to go get Harry Potter from the Dursley's both must learn to work together and realize that they really don't know a thing about the other. No slash, mentor-fic.
Now this is not one where Harry gets beat to a pulp and Severus rescues him. Now it's different, Harry snaps and well, lets just show you shall we? I do get tired of all the Harry gets beat to a pulp stories and never does a thing about it, as a teen boy. Let's say he does what any teen who is abused badly and finally snaps and for him it ends up, well lets get on with the story shall we?
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Rescue By Potions Master:
Juvenile Detention Center, Surrey England July 1994:
Harry Potter smiled and sat back on the sorry excuse of a cot in the local juvenile hall. He looked a right mess, he had a black eye, swollen busted lip and a broken left arm but Vernon and Dudley looked far, far worse and if he was charged he could care less, they would never bother him again. He had new round glasses as his old ones had been smashed, his green eyes were bright and his black hair extremely messy, even in drab prison clothes his spirits could not be dampened. He had learned a few things last summer before he came back to the Dursley's home this summer, in those two weeks in Diagon Alley. His relations had, for years been getting money to take care of him. This made him angry, very angry, he thought back to his "lovely" childhood, one of starvation and beatings and hard work. All the time he was told he was a burden and was worked like a slave his relations were paid to take care of him.
He had planned to keep things to himself, to not say a thing until he turned eighteen then he was going to sue the Dursleys for everything they had and more. That is until he had learned he had a godfather and for a very brief time believed he would get to live with him. That had not happened and after being carted off back to the Dursleys by the headmaster of Hogwarts Harry had been planning on laying low. Yet one more insult about his parents got him to see red. Yes his uncle started to beat him but he refused to take that, and fought back, sure he was beat badly but he had got a hold of a cricket bat and used it to thrash his uncle back. His cousin had broke his arm and so he put Dudley in a coma, all without magic. Sure Harry had a broken arm and a few cracked ribs but he had (hopefully) crushed Vernon's manhood with that last stomp and Vernon had at least a broken jaw.
He had gone quietly with the police, he was polite with them and did as he was told. When the scars were found on his back he told the truth, about that and about finding out his relations were paid to take care of him. He stated he was not sorry about what he did and would gladly go to prison for taking out rubbish as he saw his uncle and cousin. Only reason he did not beat his aunt is that she stayed out of it and called the police. He was put in the detention center and when word got around as to what he did and why he gained some respect and was promised by some tough looking boys that they would properly teach him to fight. Harry was looking forward to that, once his arm healed (he was not thinking anyone would come from the magical world, after all they knew what he went through already right?). He was surprised then when he was told he was being released and was brought up to where the last person he wanted to see was waiting for him. He glared hatefully up at Severus Snape, an ugly man (in Harry's opinion) who had long greasy black hair, soul-less black eyes, a huge hooked nose and thin lips in a sallow face.
"What are you doing here?" Harry snapped.
"I am here to take you with me, seems a mistake was made to leave you with your aunt and uncle" Severus replied.
"You think?" Harry snapped, "if it is all the same I would rather stay here than go with you."
"You haven't a choice, you will come with me."
Harry then told him to go do something that is not very nice to put in print at all.
"I would watch your tongue young man, yes I am aware you had a hard life and I am sorry for that but you cannot speak to me like that!"
"I could kill you." Harry said meaning it, "I hate you."
"I am not your enemy, I may find you irritating but I will make sure you are well cared for, I will not coddle you, but I will not beat, nor harm you in anyway."
"Sod off."
"You know would you like to talk to the headmaster?" Severus said an evil glint in his eyes, he after all was responsible for how Harry was raised, "he put you with the Dursleys and never checked on you, imagine my shock and horror that he had not and the son of one of the greatest witches ever was treated as badly as a house elf in a dark family?"
"Why do you care?" Harry said narrowing his eyes and clenching a fist. "You hate me, say I am just like my father, who I never met because he was murdered by Voldemort!"
"I do not hate you, I dislike your addittude but can see by how you acted you are just like your mother in that respect."
"Fine, but why come and get me?" Harry snapped, "I really can take care of myself very well."
"Because it is my job to protect the abused, though you Gryffindors make it so hard, your house is the hardest to find the abused, all like you. Think you have to hide it far more than other houses."
"Fine, yea, they did abuse me, for years yes they did." Harry said looking a bit sad, but then he puffed up in pride, "but I got them back good, Vernon was crying like a little bitch when I was done with him. I hope Dudley is dead, serves the little cunt right if he is. Oh as for my aunt, I hope she gets raped in prison."
What Harry said was horrible it is true but he was beyond his breaking point. If his aunt and uncle had raised him with at least some decency he would not hate them so. But they had abused him since he was four and showed him nothing but hatred and loathing all the while spending his money. This summer was the straw that broke the camels back as it were. So yes Harry's words were shocking and horrible but he had very few good role models to go off of and so he said what he felt and did not feel guilty about it at all. It was perfectly understandable he would say such things and though Severus was stunned but understood where the boy was coming from, he did have a right to be upset after all. So he was not going to punish the teen for what he said about his so called relations.
"Come then Potter, let's go." Severus said.
"Where are we going?"
"Two things Potter, call me sir or professor understood?"
"Yes sir, where are we going sir?" Harry said sulkily.
"To see madam Pomfrey." Severus replied, "come along now."
Harry followed Severus still in a bad mood, once far from the detention center Severus grabbed his uninjured arm and with a pop they were gone. They landed and Harry took in a few breaths before turning taking a swing at Severus's head. Severus blocked the blow and glared at Harry, he had spooked the boy but did not want questions. He had spooked the boy and Harry had used fight instead of flight to get back at him. Severus would deal with the boy's temper later, he was still in fight mode and he was going to have the job of teaching him to work through that. Harry looked up at him as Severus just raised an eyebrow and pointed at Hogwarts.
"Sorry sir, you startled me, please don't do that again." Harry said.
"Duly noted, but we are on a schedule, let's go." Severus replied. "And please do not do that again.
"Yes sir." Harry replied surprised he had not been turned into something highly unpleasant at this point.
He followed Severus up into the school and up the stairs to the hospital wing. Once there he saw tall shapely Poppy, clad in long gray gown and crisp white apron come up. She took in Harry and had him on a bed and had him strip down to his underpants and began to wave her wand over him. A paper filled with his recent injuries and she set to work healing his arm and ribs and handing over bruise paste and the like. She took a vial of blood and checked that before she began to give Harry potions to drink. After the last one, a dreamless sleep one she turned to Severus with a murderous look on her face.
"Who did that to him?" Poppy asked, "he was fine when he left four days ago, and now this?"
"His uncle, believe me his uncle and cousin are in far worse shape, both are hospitalized and Vernon well he might never have sex again. Harry, Potter was pushed too far by those monsters."
"His relations did this to him?" Poppy said looking horrified.
"Yes, I had a lovely chat with neighbors and the like, seems most were not surprised Potter went off, thought he should have years ago, they knew he was abused but could never pin anything on the Dursleys. Same with his school, the teachers and the like took as good care of him as the could but could not get him removed." Severus said, "proves not all muggles are bad."
"No they are not, poor child, and we thought he had a happy childhood." Poppy said adding another blanket over Harry when he shivered in his sleep. "I will have words with the headmaster."
"Oh do, he is the one who put him there." Severus said, "you might want to let Minerva know as well."
"Let me know what, oh Merlin what happened to Harry?" McGonagall said walking into the room, "who did this?"
"His loving family," Severus said, "don't worry Harry gave far better than he got, all but Petunia are hospitalized."
"I will kill him, he went to far, I told him, I told him now he will pay!" Minerva hissed very cat-like.
"I will come, Taffy can watch Harry for now." Poppy said.
"Yes, she is such a good elf, I will come with you, I would not miss this for all the potions in the world." Severus said a dangerous look on his face.
"Leave the talking to us Severus." McGonagall said.
"Of course, I would not want you to not have your revenge after all." Severus said, "but do try to not make extra work for me, I have a young teen to help heal, I do not want to have to waste good potions on an old fool."
"Duly noted." Poppy said.
All three left the hospital wing and Taffy the house elf remained by Harry while they did so. All three marched up to the headmaster's office where unfortunately (or fortunately) the headmaster was in. He would wish he was not, when the wards had fallen he had sent Severus to sort things out but now he was going to find out what mistakes he had made leaving Harry with people who did not love him at all. Hours later an amused potions master, two less angry witches left a shell-shocked headmaster all alone. He would realize what he had done to Harry was wrong, he had so thought that the Dursleys would take care of Harry like their own. That they had not made him angry and if Harry had not put Vernon in the hospital he would have. He knew Harry was going to hate him for a long time but he hoped the boy would forgive him as he never meant him harm at all. He knew Severus would be good for him and knew Harry would be cared for now.
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So there is my little Harry ends up being rescued by Severus. Instead of putting up with the beatings and such that Harry seems to do in many fan-fics he fights back. What he says and how he acts is exactly how many abused kids do once they snap. The abused wants to cause as much if not more pain to those who harmed them, and yes Harry was well within his rights to do what he did to his uncle and cousin. They were evil to him and got what they deserved, anyone who abuses a child deserves the same. There is discipline then there is "I am going to teach this child a lesson they will never forget" that involves bruise, broken bones and skin, that is not cool at all.
So Harry taking a swing at Severus's head? Yea he did Apparate with the boy without warning him and Harry is in fight mode now. This is the only time Severus will let him get away with trying to hit him though. And no he will not hit him back, there are ways to control a teen (and kid) who is out of control without hitting, I have seen it done many a time. A kid goes off the handle and a trained adult has to wade in and stop them with out getting hurt or hurting the kid. Severus is just lucky he has magic on his side, those of us in the real world that deal even with normal kids do not have that luxury as even a mild manner kid can go off the deep end.
Severus here is still Severus, I could see him being very caring and he was, I have had teachers like him. Sarcastic but forcing you to prove to them you could live up to their expectations, and he is British, the children are British, they grow up on sarcasm and dark humor from the time they are infants! So how Severus acts in the books is very much cultural, the other professors are the same way and many Americans on this site see Severus in particular as mean. He is not, he is British and my British friends are the same way, just because they speak English does not make them anything like Americans (which is fine as we Americans are the coolest on the planet) aside from the same language.
Anyway, rant over and you can get back to reading another chapter or whatever, and you know, do review, it's how I get paid!