Summary: Dumbledore organizes extra courses over the summer break so that his students can better protect themselves from the on coming war. Six weeks before his sixth year starts, Harry's back at school and angry because he's sharing dorms with...Draco? A fic full of laughs, angsty glory, love and maybe a few morals here and there...:shrugs:
Main Pairings: HarryxDraco, SiriusxRemus, FredxHermonie & BlaisexRon
Side Pairings: SnapexHarry (one sided), PansyxSeamus, Ginnyxwhoeveryoutellmetopairherupwithfromtheremainingcharacters
Warnings: SLASH! That should have been evident, gore, immense violence, torture and extreme stupidity. And some life scarring thoughts/mental images.
Author's Note: Zokay, my darling readers. I'm about to rant here and I know no one wants to read the Author rant because c'mon all we do when we find a good fic is go ahead and read the fic, screw the author as long as she or he keeps writing. Am I or am I right? Zanywho, I'm about to rant anyway, and the rant will explain some of the story and such. Alright.
::Begin Rant:: For the last week...I think, I have spent my life going throug exams, and instead of studying like some crazy smart girl I slacked off and read Harry Potter fanfic, of course it was DM/HP slash, what kind of a STUPID question is that?! Yes, so I slacked off and now I have some uncontrolable urge to write my own DM/HP slash. Like that wasn't going to happen...:shakes her head: So, here it is, my first Harry Potter slash fic and you know I'm quite proud of it because I've got an AWESOME story line set for it. For one thing, there are a HELL of a lot of pairings just because I like to pair people off. IT'S FUN! Yeah but the main focus is of course, Draco and Harry, with a little Snape jealousy. xDD Yes, so I'm sure you'll get the jist of the story once you've read this chapter. It's set after the Order of the Phoneix BUT, Sirius didn't die because I love him TOO much to kill him off and Snape isn't some Death-Eater bastard, he's just a bastard, who I love very much so. That's all I think you need to know to make sense of the story. Oh yeah, the pairings, tell me who you want with Ginny, 'cause I have no idea, and George needs someone, the poor dear. ::End Rant::Disclaimer: I'm quite sure it's safe to say that when JK Rowling goes through these crazy fangirl fics she thinks to herself what her creations did, to be treated so by crazy hormonal girls. That should totally have explained if I owned HP or not. Oh, you punks better not try and steal my plot or I'll come after you with an axe. And believe you me when I say, I'm a tad on the crazy side. :D
A Slip of the Tongue
Hogwarts: Open for the Summer?
The sun was shining, the wind was blowing softly and the air smelled of summer but Severus didn't give two shits. The only thing on his mind at the present moment was how he was going to survive a summer with those brats from Hogwarts.
It was certain that the Dark Lord was back and so Dumbledore had organized a summer camp at Hogwarts for extra training. Severus would have been all fine and dandy with that, but Dumbledore had insisted that he come to help.
He watched the direction from which the students would come, his nose scrunching up to allow him the look of disdain he was so famous for.
"Professor?" Severus heard his name being called and he turned around to see just who it was. There stood Minerva McGonagall, Head of the Gryffindors and Dumbledore's faithful lackey. Sometimes he wondered if they had a thing going on…but then he would always shiver in disgust at the images he would see. Ugh!
"What is it?" he snapped at the old but quite intelligent lady, he was in no mood to be nice,.
"Dumbledore asks that you take all students who have come for the extra course to the Great Hall upon their arrival." She replied, in a strict voice.
Severus controlled his urge to sigh- that would ruin his disdainful look- and mumbled at the Transfiguration Professor again. "Yeah, yeah. I'll bring 'um over." My life sucks. He heard McGonagall leave and turned the entirety of his attention back to the horizon. That's when he saw it. The Hogwarts Express had pulled in, and if Severus squinted and tilted his head to the side he could just make out the group of people coming out of the first few compartments of the train. Severus almost smiled with joy. Maybe there wouldn't be too many gits, so he would have no worries.
That's when the rest of the compartments started to pour out. His eyes widened as he watched maybe a hundred or so more students pour out and join the hundred that were already out. Two hundred kids? Fuck.
All of his hopes went falling off a cliff as he watched the idiots get into carriages to be brought to him. Severus groaned.
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It took them a while but the newest nuisances he had to worry about were here. They had all gotten out of their carriages and stood before him, watching him intently.
As his own two orbs of black scanned the faces of the crowd they caught quickly those of a Harry Potter…and that carrot-top friend of his…what was his name…? Ricardo…no, no! That sounds too Italian and the boy has freckles. Last he checked Italians didn't have freckles. Randy, maybe. No too girly. Oh! It was Ramón! Severus's head told him to stop now before he actually called out the boys name as, Ramón.
Well what did it matter what the freckle-faced git's name was. It was Harry Bloody Potter that mattered. Oh how the boy sent his heart racing, his emerald eyes, midnight black hair and freakish resemblance to one special man…James…you were so beautiful but then Lily came along. Snape sneered at Harry from the reminder of who his mother was.
That's when his attention caught onto a certain pale, golden blonde haired and molten silver eyed boy. My Godson? As Severus stared at the boy, he couldn't quite believe his eyes. He had thought his father never would have allowed him to come to Hogwarts during the summer. Then again, his father was in Azkaban. Severus's thoughts towards his previous friend, if you call the man that, were slowly giving way to mere pity. For all his loyalty to the Dark Lord, what did he get? A lifetime in a shithole. That's exactly where I want to spend my summer vacation.
His thoughts went to his current situation and he mumbled something that sounded awfully like, "Like I'm in any better a state."
Finally Severus spoke, "You are all to follow me to the Great Hall where you will be served dinner and given instructions as to how you will all be spending your summer. It was your parents choice to send you here," he paused to mutter something under his breath.
"Fucking prats."
And continued, "Thus you are all aware as to why you have been sent back to Hogwarts a month and a half early." He glanced over the crowd again, staring at Potter. His very site made Severus happy to be at Hogwarts. Potter…his mind purred.
Severus snapped out of his own daze and twirled around – that's right he had twirled – to walk to the castle. His black robes seemed to whip in the non-existent wind as he walked, head high, and chest puffed out. Severus Snape didn't just walk; he strutted.
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Severus walked straight into the Great Hall and kept walking until he was at the Professor's table where he strode to his seat. He sat down with the grace of a cat and the pride of snake. All-in-all, it was a damn good performance, even if he did so himself.
The students piled into their respective House tables, and he scanned the Hall. To his amazement, the room consisted mostly of Slytherins and Gryffindors. Hardly any Ravenclaws or Hufflepuffs had shown but that was to be expected. The two houses didn't exactly have the same blind faith that the Gryffindor's had in Dumbledore.
What really intrigued the Head of a certain House was the turn-out of Slytherins. He had expected none to show up, yet there sat a table full of his little pricks. Severus wondered why such a thing would occur, but his thoughts were broken as Dumbledore, the saint, stood up.
"May I have your attention, my dear students." Severus rolled his eyes, at the 'dear students' bit but went back to listening to the old man. The room had hardly had any conversation in it to begin with and so it fell to silence faster than Severus had ever heard.
"Thank-you. Firstly I'd like to say, welcome back. It is to my great surprise that so many have turned out for these extra courses. I ensure you that you will safe here and that if any harm were to befall you, I will personally take all blame." Severus wanted to smack the old git across the back of his head. Did he have to draw everything out so much?
The wiser of the two men continued, not knowing what went on his Potions Professor's head. "As you may found from your parents, these extra six weeks of school have been arranged so that you all can get further training in defending yourself from dark magic and so you can learn spells, potions and much more, that will not be taught through the courses provided at the school during regular school hours for they dwell too much into the Dark Arts and not all parents are comfortable with their child knowing more than they need to about the Dark Arts." He paused now to let everyone take what he had said in. Severus once again wanted to smack him.
"There are a few rules I would like to go over before I explain to you how you will be living at Hogwarts in the next few weeks. The first rule, one that I repeat every year, the Forbidden Forests is off limits to all students. As suggested by it's name, it is Forbidden." He smiled then, that accursed twinkle in his eyes. "The second rule, please do not make messes for Caretaker Flich, he is a very hard working man and deserves a break like the rest of us. And the last rule, if you own any of the trinkets from Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, kindly give them to Professor McGonagall or Professor Snape. They will hold on to your belongings until Christmas arrives, when they will be returned to you only if you are leaving for break. If you do not give your belongings now they will be confiscated throughout the year and never returned." There was a groan through the Great Hall and Severus was smirking from ear to ear. Confiscating always made him happy, especially when it was from a Gryffindor.
"Now, onto the arrangements on how you will all be staying until the school's term actually begins. Initially, you would all gone to stay in your representing houses but due to the restrictions of what you will be learning that has changed. All of the boys present will be staying in the Gryffindor tower whereas the girls will by in the Slytherin dungeons."
Severus felt the scowl form on his face. He had fought with the odious man for hours on the matter but hadn't been able to change his mind. To think, Gryffindors in his dungeons. Severus's scowl deepened. There was a large amount of protest from both the Gryffindor table and the Slytherin table, which was to be expected.
"Calm down everyone." Dumbledore's voice was lost in the uproar created by the students. That's when McGonagall had to go ruin his fun.
"Silence!" She commanded over the Hall; it fell silence almost immediately.
"Thank you Professor," Dumbledore smiled. She nodded in appreciation and sat back down in her own seat. "I understand that you do not wish to be with some of the people in the other houses, but if we are to win the oncoming war, we must unite with the people we think we dislike." He had stressed the 'think' in his sentence, which made Severus's brow rise in the implications it sent out.
None of the students said a word, but he could feel the dread and anger towards spending time with people they heavily disliked. More like hated with a passion that the Dark Lord himself possessed towards my delightful Potter.
"Thank you," Dumbledore said to his students. "There is but one last thing I must inform you of. Due to popular demand from many of your parents, and do not worry I worked this out with the Ministry, Remus Lupin is back at Hogwarts to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts." There was a loud cheer from all tables except of course Slytherins'. They all clapped, not quite caring who their Professors were. "He will be assisted by Sirius Black, who I'm sure you all know is innocent of all charges against him. The matter was handled after he was found in the Ministry Headquarters at the end of your last year at Hogwarts. He was found innocent and thus is permitted to teach at Hogwarts when Professor Lupin is unable. The two predecessors will be joining us by tomorrow morning. Now, let the feats begin." With that he sat down and the plates in the Great Hall filled with food.
Severus muttered darkly to himself. He had never liked Black or Lupin, they both irritated him to no end but Dumbledore wasn't about to change his mind about hiring them and he knew it. While he muttered there was a roar of approval from the Gryffindor table and barely anything from the other three. It seemed that Black would have to will his self into the hearts of the others.
Severus sneered and looked down at his plate. He had no urge to eat and he did not feel the slightest bit hungry. So instead he got up from his seat and walked over to his Houses' table. What he wanted was information on why so many Slytherins were at Hogwarts when there was need for them to be there.
He walked past most of his students, nodding in appreciation at the ones who acknowledged him. He stopped at a certain blonde and his group of cronies. Well, technically it was only Crabbe and Goyle who were his cronies but he really didn't care.
"Draco." Severus said to the boy, who looked up at him and nodded.
"Professor Snape."
"I am curious as to why you happen to be at Hogwarts six weeks before the need be." He had always had a way with words, one that he used much too often to inflict fear. Severus mentally smirked.
"Well," his voice dropped to a whisper, "Everyone's parents wanted them to come so we could gather any information on Dumbledore and the Gryffindors. That and they said that if we came we would look less suspicious under the Ministry's eyes."
Severus snorted. So the Dark Lord had resorted to having under-age wizards spy for him. But he only hummed in thought of what Draco had told him. "A slightly pathetic plot."
"We think so too." It was Pansy who spoke, her lush black eyes almost hidden amongst her ebony black hair.
"You do?" Severus smirked in mock-surprise.
"Yeah, they're all a bloody bunch of prats following a psychotic mass-murderer. It's fluffy and all but I don't think I would fit in." Severus looked at Blaise Zabini, smirking. The boy was quite the looker, with his chestnut coloured skin and long flowing black hair that rested just above his broad shoulders. The most captivating were his dazzling, almost purple eyes.
"Hmm, maybe there's hope for you yet." Severus mused to himself.
Draco then started to speak again, "We're not too sure about the whole Death-Eater thing, so when our parents told us to go off to Hogwarts to spy for them, we gladly accepted the offer of getting away from them. Besides now I don't have to visit that bastard of a father I have." Severus knew exactly why Draco hated his father but it was a thought for another time.
"I'm glad you're thinking about where your loyalties lie. If you need anyone to talk to, you know where I am." He consoled them, for he knew they had all gone through what Draco had.
"Thank-you sir." They all said together.
"No, thank-you." Severus smirked as he walked away. He may have hated Dumbledore because he was too strange for his own good, but he had helped save him from a life of worthless slaving for a madman. He now intended to save the students he knew were also questioning whether or not they should follow suit of their parents.
Dumbledore was eating but he sensed that Severus needed a word. Severus himself was quite sure Dumbledore was wondering why they had such a huge Slytherin turn-out, and now he intended to extinguish that flame of curiosity. In the next few moments he had explained his findings to the old but powerful wizard who smiled at Severus, making him feel like he really was worth something, which was all he needed to keep living.
He needed to be worthy of forgiveness. He needed to know that what he was doing was right.
But most of all he needed to feel what love was again.
A/N: Well, I have a few more words to add. I know as if my rant wasn't long ENOUGH, I have to go add more crap! xDD Well, just wanted to say thank-you for reading and please review to make me smile and write this baby faster. And I hope you enjoyed it. AND, do not worry, the fic is not written in Severus's point of view through the entire thing, actually this may be the only chapter that has one person's view through the entire thing. I plan to change perspectives throughout the fic, but they'll mostly stay on Harry and Draco. I chose to do this one in Severus's POV, because, like I said earlier, I love the man. And hope to no end that JK Rowling won't make him out to be some evil guy but rather a misunderstood one. I really love Severus Snape and was crying when Dumbledore died partially because it was he who killed him and well, Dumbledore had just died.
That ends my second rant. I know, you're all so happy.