Chapter 3: Severus and Head of house

Severus tried to inch back into the shadows, though it was futile he tried with all his might. He stopped when Harry spoke to him, his voice danced in his ears for it was the sweetest, calmest and softest melody he heard in his life.

"Hello Severus, it's nice to make your acquaintance. Hopefully we can get to know each other better" Harry said smiling slightly. Severus stared at him and lightly blushed at the attention he was receiving from the beautiful male.

"Yes I hope so as well" Severus spoke softly thought it carried through the air. Harry's smile brightened and he was giddy to get to even to get to talk with the younger soon-to-be potions master. He took in how different he was at this age.

Severus was slightly tanner then he was when he was older and his nose was a little small, though still a little hooked and told of his Italian heritage. Dark obsidian black eyes that were like tunnels that held sunlight on the other side of it. His hair was a little longer, wavier and slightly curlier at the end and it was also silky looking as well as thick. Harry imagined his hands tangled in that mass of darkness and also just running through it, wondering how it felt in his hands.

Severus was doing the same with Harry. The tanned skin that glowed golden in the light showed years of being outside and soaking up the sunlight. His eyes were brightly shining and barring his soul and emotions, some that his face didn't show the others, but if you just looked, I mean really looked, into his eyes...you'd see everything he was feeling. His hands that were laying on the table were soft looking, but also told a story of hard work and attention they've given.

Shoulder length unruly hair swept in every direction giving it a look of having "just been shagged" and "soaring through the wind". To simply put it in Severus' idiot term, Harry looked like a fallen sun god.

The others went back to whatever they had been doing before and didn't see small short glances that Harry and Severus were giving each other throughout dinner, both never caught each other's eyes again.

-After Dinner-

The time-traveling trio walked behind a fifth year perfect to the Slytherin commons room. Harry, not having been down to the snake's pit since his second year, was looking at the architecture and statues that littered and lined the halls. He had tuned out the explanations of class rooms and passageways, he knew the place like his scar because of his escapades and the marauders map.

"...and so here is the commons room for you to come to since Professor Dumbledore gave you your own rooms you need to know where to come since we have a weekly meeting down here" the perfect, who Harry recognized as Andromeda Black, Tonks in his time period and Nymphadora's mom. The trio nodded and waited for her to say the password to enter the commons room.

"Slag stone" she said quietly and the painting of the Bloody Barron, why he also had a painting was anyones guess, opened for them to enter.

The room was large and stony, Green rugs danced over the floor and stairs that led up to the main part of the commons room while light silvery and toxic green fabric, known as blankets really, laid over seats. The room was warm and gaining heat as the fireplace was roaring a magnificent golden red fire. The Slytherin snake hung from the ceiling in the corner, coiled and giving a glare to show that if it was messed with it would strike.

Harry, Draco and Blaise stood in the corner as the head of house came in to have the newest snakes introduced. The head of house was a man of 6' 2½" tall, thin stature, thin, but muscular if his arms had anything to say about that, and a rust coloured hair. Dark blue eyes were shining from his bangs that hung like a small patch of long grass covering a hill. A scar ran from his eyebrow to his chin, crossing over his eye, which was slightly a milky colour, showing that the eye was partly blind. He was handsome and, if the ring on his finger meant anything, he was married.

"Evening. To the new snakes that don't know me, I am Nicolai Fargon, the head of Slytherin house and current potions master of Hogwarts" Nicolai said. His voice ran over them like water, it was deep and slightly gravelly almost like water flowing over sand.

"I welcome you to the house of cunning and ambitious. Slytherin has been given a bad name from biased ignorant Neanderthals of the ages since the founders had passed and gave us this school. I must tell you that we must work harder than any other house to prove ourselves, don't think of this house as dark nor think of the students as evil. Neither are what they are said to be. Everyone here is part of your family, respect and protect them. Never betray them or leave them behind" Nicolai spoke passionately. Harry smiled at this as he knew that the snakes he knew in his time period were just that, protective of their own.

"Now to the new snakes, we have a system that differs than from the others. For every aspect of something, whether it be good test scores, doing good in class or simply helping the younger years with homework, you get a snake for the good deeds. For anything that is the opposite you get a demaerates, after five demaerates you get a detention with me, ten demaerates you get grounded, fifteen or more you stay with me in my quarters until you earn the right to take away the demaerates. As for snakes depending on How many you have you van do certain things like stay out of bed later, visit your family or go to hogsmeade if you're a younger year of don't have a sighed permission slip" Nicolai explained his system to get them to behave.

"Before I let you go I want everyone eating, no skipping meals unless working on a assignment. Be at breakfast at 6:35, lunch at 11:45, and dinner at 7:10 unless a professor keeps you. Be in your rooms at 9:00 and in bed by 10:30, 11:45 on weekends. One there is one more thing that I've added since last year that I didn't mention in our first meeting as I wanted you to get settled. Every week I want to meet with a certain person at a certain day and time, I'll give you a card that tells you when to come. If I'm busy just tell the portrait why your there and it'll let you in, wait until I get there if I'm not in. If I'm giving you a card later in the school year it's from me watching how you interact around the school, I'll be here to talk to if you need someone so don't hide your problems from me because you think it's stupid or it makes you weak, nothing is stupid and you're not weak. Now have a good night and I'll see you at breakfast" Nicolai concluded and took his leave, his dark green cape swirled behind him. The seventh year perfect, which happened to be Rodolphus, stood up and cleared his throat.

"What us perfects enforce to the younger years is that you have study groups, usually with a group of four or five, and you do your homework in those groups. Also since we didn't get around to it when Professor Fargon was here, let's welcome our new house mates Blaise, Draco and Harry" Rodolphus said before everyone welcomed them.

"Introduce yourself and say something you like" Rabastan said as soon as everyone calmed down, Balise went first.

"I'm Blaise Dravinon and I like the season autumn" he said simply.

"I'm Draco Andromidon and I like Shakespeare" Draco said while putting his hand on Harry's shoulder so he wouldn't back away from the crowd. He glared at the White haired man and sighed.

"I'm Harry Palimous and I like children" he said while blushing as some of the girls cooed at the given information. After that they left the commons room to return to their own rooms near the great hall. When they arrived they saw a card with Harry's name on it, the other two went in and left Harry in the hall to read the card. On the inside the note said 'Mondays and Thursdays at 8:50, don't miss or I'll track you down Palimous -Prof. Fargon'.

He sighed as it was Tuesday and they had classes tomorrow he went in to find his room to try and sleep before breakfast in the morning. Hopefully he'd get some sleep before the day officially began, if not he'd be running on the adrenaline that he's been running on since he saw Severus.

-Severus-

Sitting on his bed, Severus waited until the others went to sleep before he slipped out of the room, careful of the spells that Professor Fargon had set up for the first years. He climbed out to the hallways of the dungeons, which was chilly in the evening, but Severus had long since grew accustom to the chill, he made his way up to the first floor, missing the light of Professor Flintwick then Professor Fargon himself. Severus hid behind a suit of armor and waited twenty minutes for Filch and Mrs. Noris to pass by this section of the school, by then Severus knew that he only had eight minutes to get to the astronomy tower without getting caught by Mcgonagall, the head boy Arthur Weasley or head girl Amelia Bones.

He shrank into the shadows and soon find himself at the astronomy tower, the only place that he could go and feel free to think without people breathing down his neck. He sighed and slumped next to the open window. He then proceeded to look out of for the rest of the night, watching the moon fall beyond the hills and being replaced with a purplish red sunrise.

Me: Yes Nicolai is an OC and mine, he will be important to this story so DON'T think of him as a Gary Stu, he's just taking over Severus' position in this time period and this is where Severus gets his ways, in my opinion. Tell me what you think!