Part 7
"Oh my, gosh did you see Harry? He totally gobsmacked the Potions teacher, I'm surprised that he made him paler than he originally was"
"I heard he made the teacher faint"
Harry was crossed between being angry at them and keeping his head down while avoiding them.
"Oh cheer up Harry, all though I have to admit your lucky you're in Slytherin and that Snape favours us, otherwise we would have lost 100 points instead of gaining them, but hey, did you see that girls face when you answered the Wolfs bane one? She looked like she was constipated" Draco snickered.
It was lunch time and Harry was feeling like he just wanted to bury himself alive, it hadn't been a full day and already everyone was lucking at him in fascination and there had been a few loathing looks and those ones always got to him as they were the looks his relatives usually gave him when they were disappointed in him or didn't do his work properly, one time his Aunt said "oh dear sweet boy why couldn't you have been more like our duddykins"
"How can you say that Draco I was practically saying I knew potions better than the teacher himself, that and 'look at me I know high level potions at the age of eleven" Harry sighed and picked at his food.
Draco patted his arm in a comforting way "like I said, at least he favours us rather than treating us like anyone else"
"Is it because of you-know-who or because of us being in abusive families?"
It was Draco's turn to be puzzled "you have a point there, but I think it's mostly both of them"
When Harry thought he could relax a little he was sadly mistaken as the Great Hall doors were open to reveal Professor Snape, who was gliding his way up the aisle of tables to his place on the Teachers table where he sat down and began filling his plate with food and proceeded to dig in.
"See, you have nothing to worry about" Draco continued as if nothing had happened.
Harry however, was not feeling any better, in fact he looked worse than before, but when he catches a glimpse of Dumbledore looking at him with a satisfied look on his face Harry forgot everything that had just happened and turned away from Dumbledore so he wouldn't see the look of betrayal and anger showing on his face, he quickly looked at his timetable and saw that he had Defence Against The Dark Arts (DADA) with Professor Quirrell, for some reason, instead of this making him feel relieved it made him scared, for whatever the reason was, he did not know but when he first saw Quirrell his eye began to sting, and his scar tingled. The weird thing was, was that there was nothing on his eye, so why it was hurting along with his scar he did not know.
After a few nibbles of his food he quickly picked his bag up and quickly left the Great Hall before Draco could blink and proceeded his way to his DADA lesson.
"N-now, c-class we are g-going to l-learn about g-gytrashes and g-ghosts and how t-t-to remove them or s-scare them aw-way"
During the entire lesson Harry's eye was stinging like mad; it felt like he was having a migraine, every time the teacher turned away from the class Harry would rub his eye hoping to relieve some of the pain. Draco who was sitting next to Harry looked at him from the corner of his eye, was worried about Harry so he agreed to himself that he was going to talk to his godfather after school lessons had finished.
"How can that guy even teach us stuff when he keeps sputtering, I mean no offense but I can understand that he went into some sort of shock on his journeys but he really should be in some hospital, or a therapist if this is how he is going to keep going" Harry said out loud to Draco.
Before Draco could say anything a voice echoing all around Hogwarts said "THERE IS AN IMPORTANT ASSEMBLEY AFTER THE LESSONS, ALSO COULD HARRY POTTER PLEASE COME TO THE HEADMASTERS OFFICE...THAT IS ALL"
Everybody who was in the corridor who was with Harry looked at him and began whispering, this grated on Harry's nerves and almost broke the windows, thankfully Draco saw this and punched him on the arm just to knock some sense into him.
"I suppose I should go to the Headmasters office then" Harry wondered out loud.
"Do you want me to come with you? Because I don't mind missing a few minutes of a lesson to help you" Draco assured Harry.
"You mean that?"
"Sure, what are friends for?"
Finally having some courage to stand up to Dumbledore once again both Harry and Draco both set off for the Headmasters office.
"Ah, there you are Harry, and Mr. Malfoy" Dumbledore's eyes lost their twinkle when he noticed Draco coming behind Harry, this was not what he was expecting "shouldn't your friend here go back to his lesson?"
Harry turned round and said "it's ok Draco, I appreciate you following me here" hoping that Draco would get the message; Draco looked at him and nodded and left the room and closed the door behind him.
When Harry turned round he shrieked when he saw his potions teacher come out of nowhere and was leaning against the walls near Dumbledore's desk.
"Are you a vampire or something because it must your absolute pleasure to sneak up on students?" Harry asked before he could help himself.
Snape however just raised an eyebrow "and is it normal for a young wizard like you to freak out when something appears behind you?"
"Reflex I guess" Harry looked down again so he wouldn't look at his Professor in the eye.
Dumbledore cleared his throat so he had their attention "anyway Harry, I came to tell you that I think it would be bad if you continued to be in Slytherin"
"Why?" Harry pretended to be concerned.
"Because they may try and hurt or kill you" Dumbledore acted grandfatherly.
"Well sir, as far as I know, no one has tried to take advantage of me, so if that's all you need then I really must get back to my lesson"
"Very well then Harry my boy" he nodded as if he understood "you may go"
Harry tried to hide the concentration he had on his face, that was almost too easy, and that audio he did was part of it, pretending to shrug it off he quickly left the office and went off to his lesson.
Dumbledore though, sighed heavily and told Severus that he may go, he actually wanted Severus here to watch him turn into the house he despised.
Severus just glared at the man and quickly left the same way Harry went.
