The Switch
The Switch
DES: What if something went wrong during Snapes Occlumency Lessons?
HARRY POTTER BELONGS TO JK ROWLING
Chapter: 2- Rude Awakening
It last for 3 seconds, maximum. Both saw his own self (as if there was a mirror there) standing in front of them. Then with another rushing sound (not as loud as the first time), everything retuned to normal with them standing at their original sides of the room.
"What…" began Harry.
"I don't know Potter" said Snape, looking baffled.
They stood there, silent, staring at each other. Snape finally broke the silence.
"You will speak of this to no-one Potter" he said.
"No sir" said Harry.
And with that, he left his mind racing. 'Why did he faint, not long after casting his shield charm? Why did he see himself, standing in front of him, and then look to see Snape again, looking as confused as he felt? Was this the end of his Occlumency Lessons?' Un-answerable questions and thoughts poured into Harry mind.
"Password? Harry?! HELLO!!"shouted The Fat Lady.
This took Harry out of his trance.
"Oh right…" he said, slightly dazed. He told her the password and found the common room empty. Making his way, half heartedly, to bed, Harry continued to obsess over the nights events.
" I could never survive being Snape for any period of time, ever." He said, half jokingly half bracingly out loud to himself.
"Who could?…" mumbled an obviously half asleep Ron.
Severus watched the boy leave. ' What had just happened? Whatever did was obviously the boy's fault.' 'I mean,' he thought 'who would even thing of using "Protego" against "Legilimens "?'
"Well it worked…" said a faint Dumbledore–ish voice inside his head.
Severus rolled his eyes. 'Yes it had, it had managed to momentarily put his soul in Potter body.' He shivered, wondering if those couple of seconds could be one of the worst moments of his life. He made his way to bed, thinking of how bad it would be to experience that again. He would speak about it to the dear Headmaster in the morning.
Little did he know, the worst was yet to come…
Harry awoke, shivering. 'Honestly, did the house elves even look at the fires?' he thought, then mentally kicked himself, not wanting to know what Hermione would say if she could hear his thoughts.
He groped around for his glasses. "What the…" he said. His glasses weren't there. He opened his eyes to find himself looking at (with perfect vision) a medium sized bed-side table, designed with silver serpents and encrusted with green jewels.
Harry's confusion only increased when he looked around the rest of the room. To skip the details, this room was very Slytherin-esc. Thinking this was one of Fred and George's Hallucination Charms, Harry made his way to the snake-framed mirror. Sure enough when he reached it, he found none-other then Severus Snape staring back at him. Harry sighed (noticing how much deeper his voice was), and made himself over to the wardrobe. He smirked when he saw that it was filled with nothing but black teaching robes.
Severus awoke, noticing how warm his room was. 'Had those stupid elves decided to tend to his room properly for once?'
He opened his eyes, and found that his vision was blurry, it was slightly unnerving… Upon looking around, he noticed instantly that this was NOT, in fact, his room. 'Had one of those foul Gryffindors placed a Hallucination Charm on him in his sleep? How did they get into his room?' He thought angrily of the Weasley twins.
He snatched up the glasses on the bedside table and noticed all the other beds around him. There were children sleeping there…they looked like they could be in fifth year…
"Oh god…"he said in a familiar, but not his own, voice.
He rushed off to the mirror, and when he reached it he saw the Harry Potter staring back at him. Realization dawned on him. He was in the Gryffindor dormitory, he was physically "The-Boy-Who-Lived" for, he didn't know how long, and he had to endure taunting thoughts about what the Potter brat was doing to his room ... 'and what was he doing to himself?' He decided that he would go down to where the Heads bedroom was hidden, and only realized then, that he was only wearing pajamas. He looked inside the wardrobe. He would just skip his shower for today…
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