Title: Lost Memories

Rating: K

Summary: Harry Potter suffers permanent memory loss and the Harry that takes his place is different. Most find it hard to believe that their Harry is gone and some don't believe him. Except Snape, the Slytherin's, and Minerva.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of Rowling's characters and I'm making no money.

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To Everyone: Thanks for your reviews, loved them.

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Chapter 3: Discovery

Snape decided to take Potter back to the Gryffindor common room when he noticed that Potter wasn't wearing Gryffindor robes but Slytherin ones. He didn't like this, not one bit. If Potter thought that he could pretend to be a snake just so that he wouldn't have to be around his friends then he was sadly mistaken. He decided to take Potter to the Headmaster.

"Sir, why am I going back to Dumbledore's office," Potter asked him.

"Because you're in Gryffindor not Slytherin," Snape answered.

"Sir, I was resorted," Potter told him.

Snape felt like snorting at that, likely story. The hat didn't resort.

When they arrived in Dumbledore's office the Headmaster looked surprised to see him. He asked, "What's wrong now, Severus, your student get into a fight with a Hufflepuff or something."

Snape almost gaped at him but he said, "My student, Potter isn't my student."

"I'm afraid that he is," Dumbledore told him, "Harry has asked to be resorted and the hat told me that he was almost placed in Slytherin. So naturally once Harry said that he wished to be resorted the hat placed him in Slytherin at once."

Snape felt like an idiot.

After Potter had left, with a real apology from Snape, he sat down and looked at the Headmaster. Things weren't going the way that they should and he wondered what Dumbledore thought about his golden boy ending up in the den of snakes, even if it was two years later then expected. Dumbledore didn't say anything for about ten minutes until, "I'm not happy with Harry being in Slytherin, however I understand that the hat decided that it would be the best place for him. I once thought that it might be because of the fragment inside him but now I'm thinking there might be something else."

"If your thinking what I think that you're thinking then you're wrong."

"No, I was actually thinking that maybe it was the Dursley treatment of Harry that caused him to be fit for Slytherin," Dumbledore told him, "What do you think that I was talking about?"

"Nothing," Snape said, feeling like an idiot again.

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"Focus on your own inner thoughts," the boy said to Harry.

They were in the Slytherin dorm and Harry was trying to focus his mind on finding his element. The boy, one of the exchange students from Japan, was helping him. It was harder than the boy had let on but Harry was determined to master this. He said that it would help him out with his Dementor problem and another girl had offered to teach him the Patronus Charm, with the approval of Professors Lupin and Snape.

"Once you've focused on your own inner thoughts seek out the spark that's your core and travel with it."

Harry found the spark and latched onto it. He suddenly felt himself being pulled down, down, lost in the feeling of himself being connected to everything. Suddenly something alerted him that someone had entered, the charm that had been placed on him pulling him out. He opened his eyes and the boy turning to the direction of the doorway. Harry turned to see Snape standing there.

"Hello, Sensei," the boy said.

"Hello, Mr. Wong," Snape answered back, "I do hope that Mr. Potter has all his homework done."

"Yes, sir," Harry answered.

"Then I'll let him continue," Snape told them, "Oh I'm also here to ask for the forms that your parent or guardians signed."

"I don't have mine, sir," Harry answered, "Apparently my Aunt and Uncle didn't sign it though I don't remember why."

"Stupid muggles," Snape snapped, "Mr. Wong, do you have yours?"

"Yes, sir," Wong said and he handed his over.

Snape then left.

"It's alright," Wong told him, "I'll make sure that I pick you up some sweets."

"I'm not upset that I'm not going," Harry told him, "At least the idiots will be gone and I can have some peace."

"Well I'll still bring you some sweets," Wong told him, "So let's start again."

The next time that Harry had to even look at anyone from Gryffindor House, besides Granger in The Study of Ancient Runes and Arthmancy, was during Potions. Harry once again sat where he sat, far away from Granger and Weasley, and took out his things. Wong wasn't in this class, as he was a first year, but Malfoy was willing to be his partner…again.

"So how are you doing with Wong," Malfoy asked Harry.

"It's going great," Harry answered, "I'm finding my element."

"Elemental magic is very hard to master," Malfoy said, almost whistling, "If you can manage it then you won't need your wand to defeat your enemy."

"That's what Wong said," Harry told him, "He said that he and the other Professors are going to help me cast a Patronus."

Malfoy looked shocked and Harry grinned.

"Well, well, looks like Potter has some new friends," said Weasley and Harry knew that he was only doing this because he refuse to hang out with him. "So are your new friends going to help you when your Uncle beats on you? Personally I hope he kills you."

Harry saw red. For some unknown reason his words made Harry angry.

"Ron, stop it," Granger said.

"Oh shut up, Hermione," Weasley said, "Potter has lost all my sympathy when he chose to be resorted and into snake land."

"And why don't you shut up," Harry snapped, "Just because you have a loving family doesn't mean that you need to remind me of what I'm never going to have."

"Oh well sorry that my loving family upsets you, Potter," Weasley said, "Of course you would most likely be staying with them even if your parents had lived."

"And why's that," Harry asked.

"Because you're such a freak," Weasley answered and Harry went for his wand. "Only freaks would end up in Slytherin."

"Why can't you leave him alone," a round face boy asked him.

"Longbottom, he's a traitor," Weasley answered, "He doesn't get any of our sympathy. So what are you going to do when your Uncle beats on you? Cry out for us to help you? Oh I forgot; we won't be helping you."

The door suddenly opened and Snape walked in. However Harry didn't see him as he was so angry.

"HOW DARE YOU MAKE FUN OF MY HOMELIFE, WEASLEY, JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE A LOVING FAMILY DOESN'T GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO REMIND ME THAT MINE TREAT ME LIKE A PIECE OF SHIT. YOU DON'T HAVE A UNCLE THAT RAPES YOU THREE TIMES A WEEK, SO SHOVE OFF AND LEAVE ME ALONE."

And he stormed out of Potions.

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"I hope that you gave Weasley detention for being a git," McGonagall said.

"Oh I gave him detention alright, three months worth," Snape answered, "And he won't be going to Hogsmead."

"I can't believe that Harry's Uncle does that," Lupin said, shuttering.

"Rotten muggles, his balloon of an Uncle getting his jolly's off raping Harry."

"Or getting his thing off raping any child," Snape corrected. "It's clear that Potter has mental issues that I think we need to help him with."

"I'm all for that," Lupin said.

"Good, because Mr. Wong is helping Harry out," Snape said, "I'm going to talk with his mother about coming to England. She's a mind healer and can help."

He saw McGonagall giving him a look but Dumbledore said, "Now I see that Harry is the perfect fit for Slytherin."

Later that night Potter entered his office and sat down. It was clear that the boy had been crying and he offered Potter something to calm him, which he took.

"Care to explain what happened in Potions and your not in trouble," Snape told him.

"Ron just got me so mad that it came out," Potter said, "I have no idea where it came from."

"I think that it's a repressed memory," Snape told him, "Harry, look, what happened to you with your Uncle isn't your fault. I'm having Mr. Wong's mother come to England to help you. She's a mind healer and can help you get through it."

"Thanks," Potter said.

"Now I understand that you want to learn how to cast a Patronus," Snape went on, "I and Lupin have agreed, as I'm sure that Mr. Wong has told you, to let you try."

"Yes," Potter said.

"Good," Snape said, "Now I believe that your friends are waiting on you."

Potter thanked him and then left.

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"What you did was sick and wrong," McGonagall told Weasley.

"And why are you defending Potter," Weasley asked.

McGonagall's eyes turned cold, her lips turned thin, and then she said, "I'm defending him because of what happened and also because you forced him to reveal something that his mind wasn't ready to reveal. What you did was sick and sadistic. I never thought that someone in my own house would be a sadist."

"I'm not that," Weasley said.

"I think that your mother would disagree," McGonagall said, "Now I'm taking fifty points from Gryffindor for what you did."

"Fifty!"

"Yes, I believe that you heard me right, fifty," McGonagall said, "Now get out of my sight before I suspend you."

Weasley stormed out. A few minutes later McGonagall left, heading for the dungeons.

She caught up with Snape as he was doing his patrols, looking for people that he could take points from, and took a deep breath. He knew the man wasn't going to like what she was about to say but it was important that he knew.

"Severus, can I have a word with you," she asked him.

Snape looked at him and then answered, "What is it?"

"Severus, I know why Harry is acting like he is and doesn't want to play Quidditch?"

"And why's that," Snape asked.

"Well first of all I want you to know that I do believe that accident played a very key part in this but beneath it all there's another reason," she said.

She saw him getting angry and knew that she would have to tell him right now.

"Please, I hope that you don't get-."

"SPIT IT OUT WOMAN!" Snape bellowed.

"Fine, Harry's your son," McGonagall said and then she left, leaving a stunned Snape behind.

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Note: Not how, I'm sure, that Snape wanted to find out. Oh if anyone wants to know, I made no mistake on Mr. Wong. He might be a first year at Hogwarts but where he comes from he's a third year. Sorry if I confused anyone. Next up: Snape comes to grips with having a son, the students go to Hogsmead, and Black attacks Gryffindor Tower.