Hey Shiori here with another story……I will try and make this more than a one shot for once and hopefully it will be at least semi good. I've been reading a lot of these kinds of stories lately and decided to try my shot at my own. So here goes nothing!
Disclaimer- (sung to the tune of I Wish I Were An Oscar Meyer Weiner) Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I wish I owned Harry Potter books….but sadly I do not own a thiiiiiiing But If I owned all of the Harry Potter booksss Then Draco and Harry would be busyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
-bows- thank you
Bright. It was too bright.
The colors…..it didn't make sense….
The gasping sounds ….. something HAD to be wrong to produce those sounds from the professor as well….
Professor Severus Snape; potions master extradonaire, third scariest man to have walked the halls of Hogwarts was now staring in complete shock at the empty space where The-Boy-Who-Lived once stood. Now there was nothing but his robes with the Gryffindor emblem on it. Glancing around the room of sixth year students he saw that they pretty much had the look of shock on their faces. Except, of course, Neville Longbottom. He had utter horror etched across his features. 'As well it should be since it was most likely his accident that caused this mess.' Snape thought darkly. He then braced himself for the onslaught of panic that was SURE to follow.
Panic ensued. (Of course)
"OH………MY………..GOD!" Hermoine of course was the first to speak up. "I am pretty sure that THAT was NOT supposed to happen!"
Severus took a breath and tried to make a statement but was drowned out by none other than the gossip of Slytherin herself, Pansy Parkinson. "Damn. Wow Longbottom did the one thing the Dark Lord has been trying to do since Potter was born." Blaise leaned over from his cauldron and whispered loudly, "You think Longbottom is gonna get it? I mean…it was HIS job."
The professor once again tried to intervene but was cut off by Ron's enormously huge mouth. "DON'T YOU DARE TEASE NEVILLE LIKE THAT! AND HARRY ISN'T DEAD!"
Blaise looked over and Pansy then at Crabbe and Goyle and they all proceeded to laugh their asses off. "If that's not dead then I would like to know what is." Pansy gasped out between her laughter.
That of course made Ron even more furious and he tried to do a bomb dive over his cauldron to get at Crabble and Goyle who were doing a really well impersonation of Harry disappearing into thin air.
Suddenly Snape's loud voice rang out throughout the dungeons. "FOR THE LIFE OF YOU MISERABLE ROTTON CHILDREN! WILL YOU SHUT UP AND LET ME TALK!"
Silence and tension so thick you could trip over it and run into it by walking. Ron froze in mid jump and fell to the floor soundlessly. Hermoine gaped at the potions master as did most of the class. The Slytherins looked shocked and outraged that their head of house would ever have the audacity to yell at them.
He flicked a stray piece of hair from his face and took a deep breath. 'Finally.'
"Now..as I've been trying to say for the past 5 minutes. This is indeed a rather….peculiar situation we're in." His eyes snapped over to Neville and the glare he was famous for was now directed at the poor sad soul sitting in front of the turned over cauldron with the remnants of the potion leaking onto the floor in a puddle. "Longbottom! What did you put in that potion?"
Neville started to speak up but was cut off by the sound of sniffing. Which was bordering on the edge of outright crying. Everyone's heads in class looked around at where the sound was coming from. Malfoy who had been sitting off to the side silent for some time had his eyes on Potter's robes. Then he spoke up. "Professor." Snape looked over at his most prized student and godson and raised a curious eyebrow.
"Yes Malfoy?"
Draco raised his eyes from the spot then soundlessly got up from his spot and walked over to the lump of robes in the middle of the classroom floor. Kneeling down by them he began moving them out of the way and the class around made strangling sounds when they realized what was there.
There was Harry Potter. Considerably smaller and by the doe eyed look in his watering eyes, frightened beyond compare. Draco glanced up at his stunned potions professor and smirked. "Is this what you were going to ask the Longbottom idiot over there? Whether or not did he put in the rarely prized silver unicorn's hair or some of that pixie dust you made us gather? Because any idiot knows that with the potion we were making if you put in the unicorn's hair it would turn the potion into a de-aging potion. And of course Longbottom the clumsiest boy to have ever enter Hogwarts knocked it over on Potter."
Harry looked at the blonde haired boy who was speaking and sniffed loudly, wiping his eyes on the now huge sleeve hanging from his wrist. Looking around at all the faces he tried not to shiver. The stares and looks of horror/shock was creeping him out. He looked back at the blonde hair boy who was busy glaring at the big dark haired scary man and tugged on his sleeve. Somehow he knew him…..
"Dwaco….." He tugged a bit harder. "DWACO!"
The almost man realized he was being called on by the minisize Potter and felt his mouth drop open. Seeing the tears welling up in his eyes he shook himself out of it and reached for him, picking him up gently and cradling him softly. Draco then stood up and ignored the looks from the students.
Snape closed his mouth tightly and forced out between clenched teeth, "It would seem that our lovely savior is a mere child."
The child in question snuggled into his 'Dwaco's' arms and tried to ignore the heat from all the stares he was getting. Draco noticed that Potter was getting nervous and snapped his gaze to the rest of the class. "You will kindly stop staring at him and you will do it NOW!" With that he walked out of the room with Potter gripped firmly but gently in his arms. He had to get to Dumbledore. Had to try and figure out what was going to happen to Potter. …..Not that he cared or anything…..
Back in the classroom most of the class hadn't gotten out of their shock yet. Crabbe and Goyle looked like gaping fish. Blaise had a hand over his chest as if in the theroes of death, Shakespeare Style. And Pansy……dear Merlin, Pansy looked as if her heart had been shattered into millions of tiny pieces.
Hermoine and Ron on the other hand were shocked that their best friend had been turned into a child. Neville looked heart broken he had done that to one of his dearest and only friends. Dean and Seamus had dumbfounded looks on their faces much like the rest of the class.
Severus Snape, man of very few words and even less facial expressions stalked over towards the door. When he reached it he turned around and glared at the class. "I want an essay on the uses of dragon's blood and how to use them properly in potions by the time I get back. No less than 12 ft of parchement." He had moved one bloody foot out into the hall when he heard one of his Slytherin's mutter very loudly that they had already done this in second year and shouldn't have to do it again. Snapping his head back with the force of a catergory 5 hurricane he did his extra special 'you-will-die-by-my-hands' glare. "Slytherins have to write about the uses of Unicorn's blood as well." He practically seethed. With that he stepped out of his classroom and slammed the door shut behind him then gracefully stalked off like a dementor out of Azkaban towards the Headmaster's office.
Draco stood next to the ridicously huge gargoyle that graced the entrance to Dumbledore's office. It had taken him all of 5 seconds to realize that on the way to his office, he had no idea of the password. So now he was leaning against the wall next to it with a sleepy bitesize version of Harry Potter leaning against his legs and using his robes as leverage so he didn't fall, waiting for someone to come out of the damn thing so he could get in. And as such he was also having an argument with his inner self.
'Damnit. I shouldn't have looked so damn protective of the Potter brat. I mean how does that look a Malfoy to do something as stupid as that.'
It looked like you were a man in love with someone and extremely worried is all.
'What the hell? Who the fuck are you?'
Jeez try and do the guy a favor…..I'm your inner self….child…whatever you wanna call me. But that's beside the point. The point here is that nothing is wrong with showing emotion. IT's what we humans do. You know…as a being and all.
'Are you out of your mind! I'm a Malfoy and we don't just SHOW our emotions. And it's POTTER OF ALL PEOPLE!'
Ah jeez I can't be out of my mind…I'm YOUR mind. And cut the bullcrap of that 'I Am The Heir Of Malfoy' speech. Heard it enough times. And who cares if it's Harry. I mean you have loved him since fourth year ya know…
'Oh god I'm not listening to you. I have not loved Potter and I never will. And don't call him Harry. I do not refer to him by his first name.'
You just did….
'Ignoring you.'
Hearing footsteps approaching Draco sighed with relief and laid a hand on Harry's shoulder. Harry felt the touch in his half dazed state and leaned into it murmuring softly. Draco smiled before realizing what he was doing and scowling instead. Looking up he saw that it was none other than his Potions Professor, Head of His House, and his godfather Severus.
"Oh thank Merlin. I need someone to open this door. I rushed out of the class so fast I forgot that I didn't know it myself."
Snape walked right up to his young godson and looked down at him. "And what of your little outburst that seemed to be directed at me?"
Draco blinked and stared then looked down at the floor like a child scolded for wanting a toy he knew he couldn't get. Like that would ever happen to a Malfoy but I'm getting off topic. "I'm sorry Severus. I just was feeling angry at the idiot for doing this and needed to vent. You know I didn't mean it."
Severus continued to stare down at the young man before nodding and looking at the gargoyle in question. "Jolly Ranchers" he murmured quietly to the statue before it began to move out of the way revealing a spiral staircase. Shaking his head in utter annoyance Snape started walking the steps up to Dumbledore's office. Draco leaned down and picked up Harry, settling him into the crook of his arm and following after Severus.
"Jolly Ranchers?" he questioned. "What in Merlin are those?"
Snape just shrugged his shoulders. "Some type of muggle candy I would believe….that man is odd I tell you…"
Draco just nodded his head and looked down at the now half sleeping Harry in his arms. He looked so cute just resting there, not worrying about anything that wasn't mandatory. His usually unruly black hair was now kinda tamable and laid out over Harry's face. His glasses had shrunk with his size and were perched on the tip of his nose almost sliding off. All he had on was his huge white dress shirt that all boys were supposed to wear under their class robes. It hanged off his small frame and the sleeves were almost to the ground when he stood on his own. He had nothing on his feet but greatly drooping socks. Draco chuckled at the sight and unconsciously hugged him closer.
When they neared the door Snape knocked on it and waited for an answer. Soon the door parted and they walked inside. There in all his oddness was Dumbledore himself. Fawkes was nowhere to be seen at the moment. Snape cleared his throat when it looked like Dumbledore didn't hear them enter. He raised his eyes and looked up at the two Slytherins. "Yes? Is something wrong?"
Snape looked at Draco who nodded and walked forward, shaking his arms lightly to try and rouse the tousled haired boy in his arms from his sleep. Harry jolted awake and looked up sleepily at Draco. "Me sweepy Dwaco. I's wanna go back to seep." He tried snuggling back into Draco's arms who was more than happy to let the boy go back to sleep when Snape shook his head and plucked the little boy out of his arms.
"You can't go back to sleep Mr. Potter. We have someone who wants to see you."
Harry stiffened in the man's arms. He glanced warily at the black haired man and sniffed. Snape saw the beginnings of a crying fest and hurriedly tried to stop it. He held the child gently and rocked him, shushing him softly. Draco looked on in surprise. He didn't think his godfather knew anything about caring for toddlers. Hell he didn't know HE knew anything about caring for them.
Dumbledore had first looked shock at the young Harry Potter in Snape's arms but soon got over that initial response. His eyes got the twinkle back and he leaned forward in his chair, resting his elbows on the table. 'Well now this can prove to be useful….'
"I see that this is our Harry Potter is it not?" Dumbledore's voice rang out quietly but forcefully into the silent office. Draco who was looking at Harry lovingly for a split second snapped his attention back on the old man in front of him. Snape who had been whispering calm words to Harry froze in shock as if realizing what he was doing. His eyes slid over to Dumbledore's twinkling eyes and he cursed himself internally. Knowing this old fool he was about to suggest something that would get him killed or worse…drive him mad.
Snape spoke up after a moment of silence passed. "It was an accident in our potions class. Longbottom put in some of the Forbidden Forests' Silver Unicorn hair, we had to gather a few weeks earlier, into the potion we were making. It turned into a de-aging potion on contact and then Longbottom tripped over the cauldron and it spilled onto Harry."
Draco continued where he left off. " At first we thought Potter had disappeared but then we heard a sniffing sound. I saw no one getting up to move and found out it was coming from the spot where Potter was standing. So I went over and found him there tangled in his robes. After that I came here to see if there was anything you could do."
Albus tilted his head as if silently contemplating everything they just told him. He looked at Harry in Snape's arms and smiled as Harry kept trying to reach for the ends of Snape's hair and giggling quietly to himself whenever Snape would yank his head out of the way just narrowly missing the toddler's grasp. "Well hello Harry. How are you feeling right now?" Albus asked the young boy. Harry stopped giggling and reaching for Snape's hair when he heard the voice and looked across the large desk slowly. Glancing at Draco who nodded his head in encouragement he nodded his head and whispered, "I am fine sir." Albus was shocked at how polite the boy was speaking. Judging by appearance he didn't look a day over 3 years of age. Draco looked shocked as well. When he had heard the boy speak it wasn't polite English, more like gibberish. Who knew?
Albus nodded and pushed a tray filled with little candies forward slightly. "Would you like some Jolly Ranchers?"
Harry's eyes gleamed in recognition at the name of the muggle candy. He began nodding his head then stopped and looked up at Snape. He nodded and Harry smiled brightly making everyone in the room smile back. Snape let him down and he rushed over to the desk and reached into the bowl for a Grape flavored one. Unwrapping it with difficulty he finally managed and popped the candy into his mouth. He smiled again then started sucking on it while wandering around the room, looking up in awe at all the things that were in there.
After Draco realized that the candy was not going to spring to life he looked back at the headmaster. "Uh..sir if I may ask…What are we going to do about this little problem? He can't very well go back to Gryffindor towers looking as he is."
"Yes I agree. I need to know his living arrangements so I can get started on brewing the potion that will turn Potter back into his rightful age."
Albus was staring at Harry who had found a rather large book on the floor about the magical creatures in the Forbidden Forest and was now immensely enjoying himself with flipping through the pages. Nodding his head in confirmation he looked back over to the potions master and Head Boy. "It would seem that he doesn't need a potion to return to his rightful age. He will grow into it naturally. How long that will take….that is something I don't know."
Severus had just had the wind knocked out of him. He didn't need a potion to make him his rightful age of 16 again? Just how powerful was the wizard he had tormented most of his life?
Draco was in shock yet again.
That's gonna cause some brain damage pretty soon….
He ignored that little part of his brain and shut his gaping mouth. If he didn't need a potion brewed by a potions master to turn back into his age then how powerful was this young wizard?
Well duh he is the savior of the wizarding world. It's Harry Potter here not some squib.
'You shut it.' He thought darkly then took a deep breath. This was just too much in one day….
"How long will it take for him to grow into his true age? And where will he live until then?"
Albus looked thoughtful for a moment then chuckled at Snape's dumb look. "Close your mouth my boy. It's not that shocking. Hmmm according to my estimates he looks like he will age a year every month but I will have Poppy confirm this for me. And as for where he will live…"
All the heads turned to a happy Harry who was giggling at the pictures that were coming alive in the book he was looking at. Clearing his throat to get his attention Albus's eyes seemed to take on a whole new twinkle at the possibilities opening up. "Harry my boy?"
At the sound of his name Harry looked up at the old wizard and hopped up as if he had done something wrong. He clenched his hands together and looked sad almost immediately. "I'm sorry…I won't touch your book again. It was just really pretty and the pictures were-"
Albus raised his hand and Harry quieted. Draco turned questioning eyes towards Snape who shrugged his shoulders in confusion. They both looked back at the boy and their hearts almost broke when they saw the look of sadness and hurt on his face. "Harry I am not angry with you. I just wanted to ask a question. Do you think you could answer it for me?"
Harry nodded slowly and walked over to the headmaster's desk slowly.
"Harry do you know someone named Hermoine Granger? Or a Ronald Weasley?" Harry shook his head at the names. He didn't know anyone by those names at all. "Well tell me who you know can you do that for me?" Harry nodded his head and began talking.
"I know my Auntie and Uncwle and their son Dudwey. They were supposed to be taking care of me…but their not here." Eyes got scared in a heartbeat and he scrunched up his shirt, twisting it around his hands. "They didn't weave me did they? Was I a bad boy again? Did I do something fweaky again? They told me not to be a fweaky boy but I can't help it. It not my fault."
Albus's eyes lost some of their twinkle at what Harry said. Draco however was in the corner livid enough to cast an Unforgivable. How dare they treat Harry like that? He was only a boy! Snape had a silent cold mask on his face and just continued staring at the headmaster. Albus glanced at Severus then asked lightly, "Who else do you know Harry? Who else can you remember?"
Harry stopped twisting his hands but still had the scared look in his eyes. "I know him." He said pointing to Draco in the corner. "He Dwaco and he my fwiend. And I know him too." Chubby hands found their way to Severus's still frame. "He Sevvie and he really scawy but he still my fwiend too." Sad emerald green eyes looked up at the gray haired man. "Is I in trouble?"
Silver eyes flashed brightly for a moment before Draco rushed over and scooped up the scared little boy. So much for that I-don't-love-Harry thing.
He rocked the boy close and whispered to him that nothing was wrong and he wasn't in trouble. Harry instantly calmed down but not so much as before. Then Snape walked over and leaned down over Harry's face. He did something he never dreamed in a million years he would do.
He kissed Harry on his cheek.
As soon as he did Harry calmed down completely and reached up without a second thought for Severus who in turn took him from Draco's arms and hugged him. He felt small little arms go around his neck and Snape closed his eyes, relishing in the feeling of having Harry Potter's hands on him even if he was 3. Draco was starting to look a little jealous for the most part but he was happy Harry had calmed down. Albus shook his head and stood up from the desk.
"It's decided. He shall stay with the both of you."
Brown and silver eyes flashed in rebellion before a loud shout could be heard through the entire corridor.
"WHAT?"
"WHAT?"
Albus's eyes got the twinkle back full force and he smiled in that mysterious way of his. "Yes you heard me. I have decided he shall stay with the both of you. I mean look, he is obvisously more comfortable around you two and he doesn't seem to recall his friends from Gryffndor. He can't possibly stay in the boys dormitory by himself at this age with no knowledge of where he is or what he was doing. And none of the teachers have time either."
Snape was recovering from a massive brain seizure after hearing the words 'he shall stay with you'. "If you haven't noticed Headmaster I am a teacher as well. I don't have that much time as well. I have potions to brew and snotty nosed bratty children to teach just like the rest of the professors here," Snape growled under his breath.
Harry however overheard him and his bottom lip started quivering. Snape heard the tell tale sign of sniffing and looked down in his arms and regretted instantly what he just said when he saw shinning green eyes looking back up at him. 'Crap. I knew there was a reason I never had children.'
Harry on the other hand was trying his hardest not to cry in front of Sevvie and Dwaco. He knew this had to be to good to be true. I mean who would want a freak like him? He knew he was a bad boy now and he looked at Snape sadly. "Is ok I don't have to stay here wif you. I have to find the way back to my Uncwle's house anyway. I have chores to finish and meals to cook and-"
Draco put an end to that tirade and plucked Chibi Harry from his godfather's arms. Kissing him on the forehead and reigning back his anger at his ignorant Aunt and Uncle he smiled at Harry. "It's perfectly fine ok Harry? You can stay with me in my huuuuge dormitory. Do you like the colors green and silver?" Harry nodded his head to this still not trusting his heart to get to close to him. Snape and Albus chuckled to themselves. Already brainwashing the little Gryffindor.
"Well that's good because my entire room is made up in those colors. And we can get a nice little bed for you to put right next to my own. And don't worry Professor Snape didn't mean what he said Harry ok? He just is right now and is needing a whole lot of sleep."
Harry looked over at Snape, eyes shinning with unshed tears. "Really?" he said not trying to get his hopes up. The last thing he needed was to be broken hearted again. Snape saw him trying so hard not to be excited and nodded his head. "Yes Harry I only need a good night's sleep. I'll be more refreshed in the morning. I swear to you that I didn't mean what I said." Merlin if someone had told him a long time ago that he would be playing 'daddy' to his arch enemy's son he would have hexed them 6 different ways. But here he was and he wasn't even trying to stop himself. Harry nodded his head not quite trusting him and hugged Draco's neck. "Sevvie needs to get some seep like me!" He whispered jovially into his ear. Albus and Draco chuckled as Harry was smiling brightly. Snape looked dumbfounded. Then he chuckled along with them.
"Well now lets go to your rooms now shall we?"
Harry giggled and ran around Draco's room. The green was a dark forest green color and Harry was loving it. He ran to the bed and jumped on it before freezing up and looking over at Draco for permission thinking he was going to get punished. When Draco smiled instead and nodded in encouragement Harry shrieked happily and jumped even harder than before. Albus saw this and smiled nodding to Snape and Draco. "So it's settled. You and Harry will stay here and since he seems to be attached to Snape as well he will move his things in here. Snape will still teach and Draco you still have classes to attend. We will think later on what to do with Harry when the time comes. Right now I think its time for lunch is it not?" Draco nodded and held his hands out to Harry so he could take him down to lunch. Seeing as how the shirt was still draping off his small body he pulled out his wand and transfigured it smaller to fit his frame then got some pants from out of his drawer and held them out. Harry stepped into them and giggled at how they draped off his legs and hugged Draco around the neck happily. Draco smiled and muttered the same spell he did for the shirt to the pants then lifted Harry into his arms. "You hungry?" Harry nodded. "Then lets go eat."
Snape had went back down to his class. Soon as he stepped through the door he was bombarded with questions.
"How is Harry? Is he alright?"
"Do you think he's gonna stay that age forever?"
"What made him turn that age in the first place?"
"Will I get e-e-expelled Sir?"
"Will he stay like that forever?"
"What's going to happen to him?"
"SILENCE!"
Snape looked at the now silent class and sighed. "Mr. Potter is perfectly fine. He got doused in a de—aging potion and is now 3 years old. He will grow a year every month until he reaches his age of 16. No he will not stay that age forever. Unfortunately no you will not get expelled Longbottom but for reminding me 70 points from Gyffindor for not following instructions and putting a fellow student in harm's way. Now it's time for lunch but before you all leave I will require those essays I had you write before I left earlier. Leave them on my desk."
The students tripped over themselves to get out of Snape's classroom without getting further punishment. Even the Slytherins ran out not wanting their Head of House to turn on them in his very irritable mood. Snape looked at his students leaving with a very statisfied smrik on his face. Finally. Now he could try and make sense of what just happened in the last 20 minutes that made his life turn upside down. He should have known by now to never trust that smile Dumbledore wore on his face. Lethal it was.
Snape was sitting down to go over his essays when he saw something pass by his door then was glomped by a small figure. He looked up and saw his godson's smirking face and groaned inaudibly. He felt small fingers grasping onto his robes in an attempt to try and climb up them himself. He reached down and picked up the little boy then spun him around in his arms before sitting him in his lap. Harry giggled happily and snuggled into the comfy lap waving to Draco. Draco waved back and looked to his Potions Master.
"Harry wanted to know if you wanted to eat. So we came down here to see if you wanted to come to lunch with us."
Harry nodded up at Snape when he saw him looking down at him. "Yup I wanna eat with you Sevvie. You and Dwaco. Pwease come to lunch with us?" Then Harry pulled the all famous puppy eyed dog look. Draco snickered at that look and covered his mouth with his hand when it looked like Snape was gonna glare in his direction. Snape took one look at the watering eyes of Harry Potter and sighed. Those green eyes always could get him.
"Yes Harry I'll go to lunch with you." Snape muttered under his breath but Harry still caught it. Harry shrieked with laughter and hugged Snape happily around his neck after standing up on his lap. Snape hugged back as Draco walked to the door of the potions room.
This was going to be interesting…
That be it for this chapter. I will write as soon as I can being my computer is a piece of shit from Satan himself. Thanks for reading and see ya next chapter.
