Harry was looking forward to going back to school but not because he liked school but because he was head over heels in love with one of his Professors. It had been a hard summer. His uncle was having trouble at work and decided to take it out on Harry. Harry had come home to find out that his bedroom window had been sided over. He'd been glad that he'd made Hedwig stay at Hogwarts. He was forced roughly up to his room. It was empty. As in there was no longer anything in it. He was shoved inside and stripped. His uncle took all his clothes and his glasses. He didn't really need them and had planned to quit wearing them. He noted a new door was on his room and it had no cat flap. His uncle turned on his light and shut the door. Harry had a bad feeling. He got a beating then his uncle left taking the light bulb with him. He heard locks outside his door clicking locked. He counted 13 of them.

He lay there bleeding. He didn't look like he did when he went to school. No he removed his glamour as soon as they were inside the house. His uncle had been happy about that piece of magic and that Harry could do it with out a wand because it meant no one would find out what he did to Harry . Harry's head had patches where hair was growing but most of his head was bald because his hair had been pulled out while his uncle drug him around by his hair. His body was so skinny that you could see every bone. His whole body was covered in new and very old scars. Bruises were already beginning to form. His left eye was glossed over he couldn't see out of it but he had perfect vision in his right eye. He had no scar on his forehead. His fingers were all broken and his hands always shook. He had a few old burns here and there on his body.

He lay there and could tell his uncle had broken at least one rib and hoped it didn't puncture his lung like last time. It had been a hard time repairing that on his own. He'd had to put up with it for two weeks his second year because he couldn't find a healing book finally he'd found it and had fixed the damage. He couldn't hear that well these days. He'd had ear infections a lot as a child and they never got treated so his hearing had gone little by little he also had trouble with his breathing . He guessed that was do to the ear infections getting deeper in his ear and the fact he was always getting sick and his ribs puncturing his lungs all the time when they broke.

Harry blinked in the endless darkness and thanked his lucky stars that he'd seen something like coming and charmed his trunk against people getting in. He'd also Charmed it so it couldn't be destroyed. That being said he'd emptied his hiding place under the loose floor board and locked it in his trunk. So if his uncle had been looking for anything he wouldn't have found it. It also meant Harry was in for one hell of a beating when his uncle found out that he couldn't destroy his things because Harry had no doubt that he was going to try it at one point.

Harry now stayed curled up in the corner of his room. He had no idea how long he'd been in here but it felt like eternity. He coughed up blood again as his door opened. He felt himself blush as the light came on. His Professor was standing there. the one he was in love with. Severus Snape.

"Mr. Potter?" Severus walked toward the pitiful thing in the corner. "Potter is that you?" he knelt next to the boy. "What happened to you? Did those damn Muggles do this to you?" He noted Harry wouldn't meet his eyes. "Potter can you answer me?"

Harry looked up into the man's eyes. He felt so weak maybe he was hallucinating from the fever he had. Then this wouldn't matter because he felt like death was close.

"I love you, Severus Snape." he forced out. Merlin, that hurt but he had more to say as the man tried to heal him. " I have for a long time. Since I first saw you at the Head Table. You're the reason I was sorted in to Slytherin. See, Hagrid and Weasley tried their hardest to turn me against Slytherin and it worked..." he tried to take a breath only to fall into a coughing fit when it was over he continued. " Until I saw you... I fell hard... and I fell even more in love with you when you didn't treat me like everyone else outside our House..." he drew another breath blood running out of his mouth as he did. The coughing fit had really hurt. " I want to thank you for everything even if you aren't really here and I'm seeing things do to my fever. "

As soon as Harry passed out Severus took his cloak off and wrapped it around him. He glared at the people in the door way as he picked the boy up. He quickly stunned them and used a Port Key to take them all five to Hogwarts Hospital Wing.

"POPPY!" He bellowed then saw all the teachers already there. They all had to get medical checkups before school began. "Potter." he said laying the boy on the bed. "Help him."

"That's not Potter, Severus." Minerva said. "Who is he?"

"He's Harry." They looked to see Dudley Dursley shaking his head and looking around his parents looked scared. "That's what he really looks like before he changes to go to your freak school."

"Glamours."Poppy gasped, she was already waving her wand and muttering over him. A parchment appeared at her side and got longer and longer as she kept muttering. "Oh, Merlin!"

Severus walked over to the fire place and threw floo powder in .

"Wolves' Den!"

"Severus?" Remus Lupin looked shocked but quickly composed himself. "Is something wrong?"

"Grab your damn mutt and get over here." Severus demanded, "Potter is hurt."

With that he ended the call and went back to Harry. He began helping Poppy heal the boy. The Floo sounded and Remus Lupin and Sirius Black came through almost tumbling over each other as they rushed toward the bed.

Remus caught a whiff of blood and his eyes went amber as he sniffed his pup he began growling deep in his throat as he spun on Vernon.

"You hurt my pup!" he growled his voice deep and totally his wolf. "You will die."

"Moony!" Sirius grabbed him trying to stop him. "We don' t know what happened."

"Smell the pup, Padfoot." Moony growled, "He smells of this man."

Petunia screamed as Sirius became his Grim form and sniffed Harry's hand he began growling at Vernon too.

Albus Dumbledore wondered how he could have missed this. Harry was being abused and he hadn't known about it at all.

"Where is his scar?" he asked after awhile. Harry was stable and they were all taking turns reassuring themselves and the boy as the boy slept. "His scar is gone!"

"He's never had a scar!" Petunia burst out." Only when he comes to this freak school does he ever have one! I asked him about it once and he told me that it was because everyone expected it of him. What the hell does he mean by that?"

"Why do you care, Tuny?" Severus hissed the woman backed away making a high pitched noise in her throat. "I should kill you for what you've done to your nephew. If the position had been reversed and you and your husband were dead Lily would have taken your fat lard of a son in and raised him like he was her own. You on the other hand are a selfish , jealous bitch, Tuny. Tell me did you ever hit your nephew or did you leave it all to your whale of a husband? "

"S-Sev..." Tuny squeaked, "L-l..."

"Severus." Albus said in a warning voice. " Don't kill her yet. I want to know what happened to Harry."

Tuny was shaking as Severus loomed in front of her. She finally fainted.

"Always was weak." Severus scoffed "Black, Lupin! I need to speak with you about something Potter said when I arrived. In Private."

Sirius and Remus shared a look both had stopped cursing Vernon when Severus had started looming over Petunia and scared her so much. They both shrugged and followed.

After Severus put wards up so they couldn't be over heard he sighed and ran his fingers through his hair.

"Your godson is in love with me." He told them "He said and I quote. "

"I love you, Severus Snape. I have for a long time. Since I first saw you at the Head Table. You're the reason I was sorted in to Slytherin. See, Hagrid and Weasley tried their hardest to turn me against Slytherin and it worked... Until I saw you... I fell hard... and I fell even more in love with you when you didn't treat me like everyone else outside our House...I want to thank you for everything even if you aren't really here and I'm seeing things do to my fever. " end quote. " He ran his fingers through his hair again. " I'll show you the memory if you want to prove I'm not lying."

"I don't think you're lying." Sirius said seriously. They both looked at him. " Well, it's just something I picked up on in the shack when Ron and Hermione attacked you. He looked frantic then he looked pissed like he was going to kill them for it. Also, I don't think that's something that you would make up even as a joke." he seemed to think for a moment." Also , you like you're panicking ."

"What am I supposed to do with a 14 year old who loves me?" Severus asked, " How can he love me? I mean look at me? Why aren't you two freaking out about this?"

"I knew." Remus chuckled both other men glared at him looking rather offended and put out."Harry came to me the end of last year in a right panic over it. We talked for hours about this older guy who seemed to hate him but he loved in the end I managed to get him to confess it was you. I told him to tell you and show everyone the person he hides because he's too busy acting the way everyone expects him to act. Show you he wasn't just a clone of James and maybe you would start to like him and eventually fall in love with him. " he smirked a smirk worthy of the seething Severus. "My advice to you is to go out there and heal him. Then get to know him and treat him fairly. Then decide how you feel about him. I will speak to him about giving you a chance and waiting . Maybe you can help him heal mentally."

"How so?" Severus demanded.

"Offer to teach him Occlumency." Remus suggested. " It could really help him and could really help you two better understand each other . While solving a few problems along the way. " he held his hand up as Severus started to speak. " No, Severus listen. Set a rule after each memory you see you must talk about it or you wont have another lesson. Be firm on this he'll eventually seek you out again for his next lesson. If it's one thing the real Harry likes to do is read."

"You could also offer to let him help you brew Potions for the Hospital Wing." Sirius said, "but make it a rule that he must start getting O's on all his Potion's work. See I gave him a two way mirror and we talk a lot. He loves Potions' and is actually very good at it. If you take an interest in his grades he'll bring them right up."

"Why are you two supporting this?!" Severus wondered exasperatedly. " And stop using me to get what you two want! Do it yourselves!"

"I can't do Legilimency." Remus smirked "Or Occlumency."

"I have no room to talk when it comes to grades." Sirius replied shrugging. "So he wont listen."

Severus sighed, he was involved in this now and he just knew he was going to go straight to hell.