A few months into the year had Severus noticing that Harry was a bit different from other students. Not only did he not know about the wizarding world, but lacked some basic understanding of society and life. Had those blundering morons of muggles teach him nothing. The Slytherin in him wanted to hunt them down and ask why Harry didn't know how to be around people. It took many hours for Dumbledore to calm him down.
After he calmed down, in his chambers, did he start to think? He unconsciously started to pace in front of his fireplace. Harry wasn't the only neglected child to come to Hogwarts, and the sallow-faced man knew it, for he had been one of them. Some of Harry's mannerisms and behaviors indicated that perhaps that he was…...Severus stopped his pacing. He would have to get Minerva and Poppy to agree to test the boy. He only hoped that his hunch wasn't right, or he would have to be more vigilant.
The Next Day:
"Come on Minerva, Surely you have noticed that the boy was a bit different," Dumbledore said. He was sitting behind his desk as he watched the deputy headmistress paced around his office with the potions master and school nurse watching her. Severus had asked for this meeting to be set up between the four of them to discuss Mr. Potter. He had heard what the Slytherin head of house had to say, and Poppy and himself could see where He was coming from.
After all, all of the staff who interacted with the boy and the school health administrator had had time to observe the boy and couldn't deny the signs. But if the headmaster knew his deputy headmistress and longtime friend as well as he did, he knew she would take it hard. Not everyone knew what Dumbledore knew about the woman. She had been the secret mother to Lily Potter and was fiercely protective of that secret. What had gotten her so agitated to pace was the fact that Severus Snape, the man she had taken in as her own once it was discovered he had been abused and neglected by his family, was saying her grandson was Autistic.
"I have noticed, but I was just hoping it was just nervousness and not knowing about the wizarding world." She looked at the other three people in the room with palpable anxiety surrounding her. "Mother," Severus started. "Please calm down. You knew he would be special. Look at Lily, She was one of the most gifted witches to ever have lived in recent years. Please, can we please let one of the Saint Mungo Mind Healers come and test and observe him?" McGonagall looked at her adoptive son, He must be serious for he rarely called her mother. "Alright, but we are taking him there. I will not have him being stared or made fun of that a mind healer and he were seen together."
