Chapter Four
While Petunia and Vernon were sitting not speaking to each other, and Dudley was sleeping, Severus Snape and Harry were brought to the Goblin's healer.
Harry was scanned first to see if there were any problems. When the scan got to the mark on his head, he started crying.
"What's happening? Is Harry hurt more than we can see? Can you fix it?" Severus Snape asked in rapid succession.
The healer turned to him and there were a few problems that needed fixing and asked for Severus's permission to do so. Severus Snape nodded yes, anything to help Harry.
The healer did a much more intensive scan than she had done before. She stayed away from the wound on his head. That would take a specialist. She didn't tell Severus Snape that, though, parents tend to take those things a bit personally.
"OK, Mr. Snape, other than the binding of Harry's magical core, and the wound on his head, he's in extremely good physical shape. The binding of his core is rather troubling.
Do you know if his parents bound his core?
I know that when some children show magic at a very early stage their parents partially bind their magical core until they can grow into it.
"I know that James and Lily were considering doing that. Harry has been doing magic since he was about three months old. I won't use the phrase accidental magic because everything he did was on purpose. He kept summoning the cat to him. Constantly. He really loves that cat. He would summon various toys. When he was about six months old, Lily was giving him a bath and she forgot to bring the shampoo. She mentioned it out loud. The next thing she knew was that the bottle of shampoo was coming towards her. He would summon bottles of milk. Once, when he had a cold, he summoned Lily herself. He wanted to be held. Said Ragnarök.
"Why are you asking this?" Severus Snape asked.
"According to the scan, Harry's magic has been bound for only a few days at the most but it has been bound by 90%. He has only 10% use of is magic."
"He what? Do you have any idea who did this?"
"The magical signature is very clear. It was done by Albus Dumbledore. There is no question of this."
"Can you unbind his magic? Will it hurt him?"
"Since it has been in place for only a few hours, a day at the most, it will be unbound fairly easily, and it won't hurt him. When we are through with this, we need to talk to you about the head wound.
You are going to need to leave the room so that we can unbind his magical core."
Severus just stood there. Had an idea that if he just refused to leave they would leave him alone.
Ragnarök came and put his arm around Severus Snape waist and walked with him to the door. He assured the young man that the healer was very good and that he, Ragnarök, would not leave Severus Snape. When they got to the other side of the door, and it closed, Severus Snape looked lost. Seeing his face, Ragnarök reminded himself that Severus Snape was very young, that he had just lost his best friend in Lily and was now the guardian of their baby. He sighed. It was so much easier to just chop someone's arm off. It was a great way to work off anger and despair.
As the healer got Harry into place, a Phoenix flashed into the room and sat protectively at Harry's head. He trilled gently to Harry. Harry briefly opened his sleepy eyes and saw the bird. He smiled, said "Fwkes" and closed his eyes again. Fawkes proceeded to gently groom Harry's hair.
The healer tried to make Fawkes leave but Fawkes was having none of it, and made it very clear that he had chosen to bond with Harry and that there was nothing the healer could do about it. In the end, the healer gave up and unbound Harry's magical core. There was a brief rise of magic in the room before it settled back down.
The healer was going to bring Severus into the room to get Harry when she noticed that the bird was crying tears into the head wound. Using his wings to protect the baby, Fawkes directed the black smoke coming from the wound, away from the baby. When all the smoke was gone, Fawkes went back to grooming Harry's hair as if nothing strange had happened.
Severus looked up when the door was opened and saw the blank face of the healer, and feared that it meant that Harry had been injured more than they had thought he had.
The healer opened the door, and held it open for Severus Snape and Ragnarök to go through. They both stopped abruptly at the sight of Fawkes sitting on the table next to Harry's head, grooming him.
Harry Potter's secret was out He was a Metamorphmagus and as they looked down there was a mini version of Lily Evan's. Snape asked in concern about he's son whether he had all reproductive organs working correctly too carry on the family line as a man or woman.
"Yes" said the Healer.
Harry was petting Fawkes and was babbling something about "bad man" "mum" "da" "p'foot" "moony" "sleep now". Neither man or Goblin knew if Harry meant that Harry had to sleep now or if Fawkes did, so they took both of them back to their rooms.