It had been five days since Harry and Draco had called a truce. Though Draco had not told Harry why he had changed sides Harry was not going to push him, Harry new Draco could not be lying about being on the light side.
He had received a letter from Hermione and Ron. They were both enjoying there summer. Ron had gone on a holiday with his family and Hermione had gone with hers. They would both be back in a few weeks time.
Now Harry and Draco were sitting in the great hall and eating dinner with the Professors who would be staying in the school for the summer. The two boys were picking at there food, while Snape who was sitting across from the boys could not help but notice. He knew why Draco was not eating as much as he should, but he was still eating more than Potter.
Snape noticing something for the first time asked, "Potter what is that on your hand?" and Harry's head shot up at the sudden question.
"What?" he asked.
"Your hand Potter. What is that on it" Snape said angrily at the boy's stupidity
Harry looked at his hand and the scars that Umbridge had left, Harry instinctively hid his hand under the table. "Nothing sir." Harry noticed that everyone was looking at him; he pushed his plate away, "I'm not very hungry. May I be excused?" Harry asked no one in particular not waiting for an answer as he rose to leave and walked out of the Great Hall before anyone stopped him.
"Severus?" Dumbledore asked.
"There was something etched into the back of his hand" he hissed, he didn't like being lied to especially when he knew it was a lie.
McGonagal looked at Dumbledore "You can't deny that something is going on." she said to him "The boy doesn't eat, or sleep from what the house elves tell me. All he dose is sit in the common room all night"
"He is mourning the loss of Sirius"
"Its more then that" Madam Hooch said "When we told him he could go back to flying…I don't know what it was but I do know it was not the normal Harry Potter." The entire staff agreed that Harry's behaviour was stranger then normal.
None of them had noticed Draco leave and follow Harry. When he finally found him he was sitting in the middle of the Quidditch pitch. Draco sat down next to him "The teachers think there's something wrong with you."
"I know"
"Dumbledore just thinks your mourning Black"
"Figured"
There was a long pause before Draco said "He killed my Mother"
"What?" Harry sat up from his sleeping position.
"That's why I'm here. He killed her in front of me because my father failed him. Snape had already tried to convince me not to join him. This gave me a reason not to"
Harry was silent, "I'm sorry"
"I don't wont your pity Potter" Draco said defensively
"I'm not giving you pity Malfoy, I never had my mum, you should be glad you got to spend so much of your life with her, I got a year that I don't even remember" Harry shot back "and your godfather is still alive. Hell, he's sitting up in that castle right now and mine's dead because of your aunt." Harry shouted before getting up and storming back up to the castle.
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Harry walked into the castle and right past Snape and Hooch. They had been heading out to find the two boys.
"Potter" Snape called but Harry just ignored him and kept walking Snape pulled out his wand but before he could do anything. Harry stopped and started coughing, he fell to his knees and started to dry heave. Both teachers ran to his side "Potter" Madam Hooch said gently, but the boy didn't look at them just continued reaching.
Snape pulled a small vile out of his pocket "Here Potter, drink this" he said handing it over to Harry, but Harry just pushed him away and tried to move away from both adults "Potter don't make this more difficult than it is, just drink the bloody potion"
"No!" Harry said weakly still moving away from them, he backed himself into the wall.
"Potter-" but Snape was cut off when he saw the boy lose consciousness, he sighed heavily and moved over to him.
Again Snape noticed something was different, he raised his wand, mumbled a spell and Harry's appearance changed. "Some type of glimmer" Madam Hooch said from beside him, he nodded slowly looking at Harry, and you could now see that he had not slept in days or eaten, he was thin, very thin.
"We need to take him to Poppy" Snape said picking up the boy, he noticed that he was also very light.
They were up in the hospital wing soon after that. When they entered Madam Hooch called out, "Poppy!"
The nurse came out of her office "What is it Ro" Then she Snape lay Harry on the bed "Goodness what happened, he did not look like this an hour ago"
"No, he had some type of glimmer on" Snape said, then moved over to the fireplace and picked up some floo powder and stepped in "Dumbledore's office" then he disappeared.
Poppy looked at Madam Hooch with a concerned look, Ro just shrugged her shoulders. Poppy went on to examine Harry.
Meanwhile in Dumbledore's office, Snape stepped out of the fire place and not even comprehending the fact that there were other people in the room started speaking "He had some sort of glimmer on." he hissed angrily at Dumbledore, "he looked almost dead when it was gone"
"Who Severus?" Albus asked in his usual calm tone.
"Potter who else?" Snape all but yelled
Albus frowned "That's not possible; one of us would have noticed it by now"
Snape's eyes darkened "Go look for your self then, he's lying unconscious in the hospital wing."
Snape saw someone, out of the corner of his eye, stand and move to the fire place. when he saw it was Remus Lupin he stepped aside, Remus was gone in a second.
When he arrived in the hospital wing Poppy was just pulling a blanket over Harry
"Remus, I hadn't realised you were hear" she said
"Yes Dumbledore wanted to speak to me about something." he said moving to Harry's bed "Is he ok?" he asked quietly
"Yes, he is simply tired and malnourished, but the potions I have given him will help with both" she said "You can stay with him, but he wont wake up for a good few hours"
Remus nodded and sat down next to Harry's bed. He heard Dumbledore and McGonagal talking with Poppy. But he just watched Harry.
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After Severus had told Dumbledore what had happened he and McGonagal left to go to the hospital wing while he himself went to find Draco.
When he found Draco he was in the Slytherin common room, reading something "Draco, what are you doing?"
Malfoy's head shot up "just reading something" he said
Snape frowned "What?" he said moving over to where Draco was sitting and saw what the front cover said;
'The Unknown about Dark Objects'
"Draco where did you get that?" Snape asked quickly.
Draco looked at him "It was in fathers collection of books that I took before we left, figured it might come in handy." He said "I was looking at something the other day, what you said at dinner made me think of it again, you know about Harry's hand." Snape nodded and Draco continued showing his godfather the book "it made me think of this, it's a quill that makes you right in your own blood, it leaves a scar on the back of your hand of what you've been made to right." Severus took the book from Draco.
The book showed a picture of the quill and someone's hand after using it; it looked like Harry's but not as defined. "It said that there are only two left in existence one in the USA and one in the Ministry of Magic here" Snape's head shot up.
"Umbridge" he snarled Malfoy nodded
"Harry did have a lot of detentions with her last year" Snape nodded remembering
"I need to speak with the headmaster about this. It's late now Draco you should get to bed"
"Yes sir, Erm Harry seemed upset when you were all-"
"Potter is in the hospital wing Draco" Snape said "he somehow had a glimmer over him and no one saw how bad he really was"
"How though, he looked fine when we picked him up, and you can't do magic out of here" Draco said.
"That is the question. Now go to bed Draco." Snape said again and watched Draco head to his dorm before heading up to the headmasters office, book in hand and a lot more questions that needed to be answered about the boy who lived.
TBC….