Disclaimer: Unfortunately I still don't own Harry Potter. All I own is my OC Cara and the ideas in my head.


As Professor Snape opened the door to his office, Harry felt his palms sweating as he was ushered in by a scowling Snape.

Giving Harry a ugly grin Snape began "Not even the first day and you're getting in trouble Potter. I think this calls for disciplinary measures, best to stamp out this, ah, Errant behaviour early. violence in the halls calls for three night's detention I think ."

"But-" Harry began before he was cut off.

"Protesting detentions? How very like your father." Snape said "He thought he was above punishment too. Another night's detention Mr Potter."

Gritting his teeth Harry accepted his punishment and quelled the urge to protest more, knowing that Snape would just punish him more the more he protested.

"Is that all?" Harry asked, managing to keep his annoyance out of his voice.

"You may leave Mr. Potter. Your detentions will be served after dinner every day." Snape said as he turned to the papers on his desk.

Turning to leave, against his better judgement Harry called out and asked "If you knew my father, did you know my mother?"

Pausing for a second before answering Snape replied "Yes Mr. Potter. I knew her." Putting his head down to his desk as he marked papers, Harry took this as a dismissal and left the classroom.


As Harry left the room Severus Snape sighed to himself.

He had originally had prepared to see James Potter's son but never expected to see so much of Lily in him. To say he had been surprised when Harry had been sorted into his house was an understatement and it was somewhat even more surprising to see him have Lily's emerald eyes. The eyes he had fallen in love with so many years ago.

Severus buried his heads in his hands as he took some deep breaths and counted to ten.

Lily.

Lily's son.

Lily's son who looked so much like James Potter that every time he glanced at him he felt a surge of anger and hatred.

But the green eyes of Lily.

Shaking his head Snape stood and walked over to a cupboard and pulled out a bottle of firewhiskey. Unscrewing the top he poured out a fairly substantial amount of it into a cup before putting the bottle back where it belonged. Drinking the whole cup in one go, Snape decided to call it a night and turned to walk into his bedroom.


As Harry walked back into the room he recounted what Augusta had said about Snape

"He's an ex-death eater, according to Albus he has shown remorse for his crimes and that's why he's allowed to work at a school." Pursing her lips Augusta continued "The governors can't do anything about it unfortunately because the majorty of them are in Lucius Malfoy's pocket and Severus is an old family friend of his."

"But what has that got to do with the money taken by Dumbledore?" Harry asked raising an eyebrow.

"Severus' mother was called Eileen Prince and as such Severus has inherited her vault. One that I believe Dumbledore has given money too. What's reprehensible is that unlike the Weasleys who have little to no money of their own, Severus is-how shall I put it-well off due to his teachers salary."

Sighing as he got back to his dorm room he wondered what he was going to do about the money taken. It was likely that he didn't know about where the money was coming from and as he couldn't retrieve the money he wondered if it was really worth it to bother about.

"Merlin Harry! You took ages, did you hear? Malfoy got decked by someone!" Blaise excitedly spat out.

Theo on the other hand just looked amused and said "I assume you didn't find the toilets or showers then Potter?"
Smiling back at him Harry replied "No I didn't but I guess you did?"

"Indeed, It's down the hall and to the right of Malfoy's room."

"Ah, okay that makes sense. I went left back towards the common room." Harry said scratching his head, "Alright I'm pretty tired so I'm going to hit the hay. Goodnight guys."

Half hearing his roommates goodnights, Harry quickly changed into his pyjamas and wondered about the memories and journal that his mother had asked him to give to 'Sev'. Harry guessed that it was Professor Snape that she was talking about because honestly, how many people in the country are called 'Severus' and would have know his mother? Deciding that he'd give the memories and journal to Snape in his detention Harry turned over and fell asleep almost immediately.


Harry's eyes opened as he felt someone shaking his right arm quickly.

"Harry. Harry. HARRY!"

Quick as a flash, Harry jumped out of bed and pinned the person to the floor-Only to loosen his grip and stand up when he saw it was a very startled Zabini.

"What was that about Harry! You almost killed me!" Blaise exclaimed dusting off his robes.

"Sorry." Harry apologized "It was instinct."

"what the hell sorta sleep have you had?" Blaise asked before shaking his head. "Never mind, I don't even want to know. We're gonna be late for breakfast." Blaise said.

As Harry looked around the room, he asked "Where's Theo?"

"Already gone before I woke up." Blaise answered looking none to sad about it.

Pulling off his sleeping clothes, Harry grabbed his robes and threw them on while Blaise looked in the other direction. Looking at his trunk, Harry quickly decided that it would be be best if he took it with him and cast reditum, safely attaching the watch to his wrist.

After Harry put on his robes he and Blaise grabbed their bookbags and walked down the corridor to the common room bumping into Daphne and Tracey on the way.

"Morning guys!" Tracey chirped in greeting while Daphne smiled at her friends jubilant behaviour.

Harry smiled and replied "Morning Tracey"

"Morning Tracey, what did you think of the dorms? Pretty cool right!" Blaise asked.

"Yeah! Ours has an on-suite and everything!" Tracy said as they exited from the common room and started the walk to the great hall.

"What have you heard about the lessons?" Harry asked Daphne curiously.

Daphne turned to Harry and looked at him for a moment before answering. "Well," She began "I heard Charms is one of the best subjects, the head of Ravenclaw, Flitwick teaches it. The head of Gryffindor, McGonagall, teaches Transfiguration and is apparently strict but very fair. Professor Sprout teaches Herbology and is apparently quite the good teacher. Binns is apparently a joke. He uses the same lecture every year and you can but the transcript off some of the Upper year Ravenclaws." Daphne took a moment to take a breath as they rounded the corner to the Great Hall.

"What about Defence?" Harry asked Daphne, wondering why she left it out.

"No one knows what that'll be like!" Tracy blurted out cheerily.

"How come?" Harry questioned. "It's not a new subject is it?"

Biting her lip, Daphne said "No. It's not. It's just that ever since about forty or so years ago, no defence teacher has ever stayed for more than a year."

"There's rumours of a curse on the position." Blaise interrupted in a conspirational tone, dragging Daphne, Tracy and Harry closer as he said "My mum claims that it was a curse by Voldemort to stop Aurors from having adequate training so he would be able to take over easier."

"Puh-lease!" Tracy said dismissively, "That's about as likely as the stuff the Rita Skeeter comes out with."

"Do you have a better reason that the teachers leave every year?" Blaise argued.

"No but..."

"But nothing." Blaise said as they walked through the doorway into the Great Hall.

Taking a seat at the Slytherin table next to Theo, everyone said their morning greetings to their housemates.

"Sorry I didn't stay this morning." Theo said to Harry who dismissed it with a wave.

"It's fine." Harry replied with a a smile as he grabbed a piece of toast.

Looking across the table Blaise asked "Why did you leave so early this morning Theo?"

"Well Blaise" Theo began as he grabbed a few pieces of bacon "I needed to speak to Professor Snape about something before breakfast and after we talked I headed down here. Not much use me waiting alone in the common room while there's food down here."

Grabbing the tray of bacon and piling most of it onto her plate, Tracy asked "What did you need to talk to Professor Snape about?"

Suddenly a drawling voice said "Nothing that you need to know Miss Davis." as Snape stopped by the fivesome, "I have here your timetables for the year. Davis, Greengrass, Nott, Potter, Zabini." He said as he took each timetable out of the bundle in his hands "It goes without saying that you should be on time for all lessons." Snape said before walking down the table handing out the remaining timetables.

Looking at the timetable Harry quickly noted the timings of the day and how long each period was.

7-8:45 am- Breakfast

9:00-9:55-P1

10:00-10:55-P2

11:00-11:55-P3

12:00-12:55-Lunch

1:00-1:55-P4

2:00-2:55-P5

3:00-4:00-P6

4-6:00-Free Period

6:00-8:00 Dinner

8:00-10:00-Free Period-Curfew

(11:12:00- Astronomy)

Harry noted that today he had, Charms first with Ravenclaw, double potions with the Gryffindor, lunch, double defence also with Gryffindor and finally Transfiguration with Hufflepuff. A fairly spread out day, looking further however he saw that Tuesday and Friday he had astronomy up in the astronomy tower with Hufflepuff and flying lessons with the Gryffindors as well.

It seemed to Harry that whoever did the timetable really wanted Slytherin and Gryffindor to be together as they shared most of the classes. It was a shame that he wouldn't share many classes with Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff, he would have liked to see what they could do magically. But still, this was great news as he would be able to see Neville a lot more than usual! However it would also mean he would see that Granger girl too. Ah well. Grindelwald always told him there was no such thing as fairness. Flipping the timetable over, Harry noted there was a map of the school on the back telling them where they were and where the classrooms would

Scooping more bacon onto his plate, Harry felt a warm sensation around his left wrist directly where the watch covered. Remembering how the watch warms up when someone tries Legilamncy on the user, Harry looking up at the staff table hoping to see if anyone tried to read his mind. He saw Dumbledore deep in conversation with McGonagall and Snape drinking out of a goblet, staring at the two red headed twins in Gryffindor with an expression akin to annoyance. No one else was looking his way except for the Defence Professor who was looking over everyone in an unsettlingly way.

Harry almost jumped when all the dishes disappeared from the table and a loud bell was heard signifying the end of breakfast. Around the hall, Harry noticed that some other first years were surprised at the loud bell and instant disappearance of the plates.

The sound of benches scraping the stone floor filled the air as the upper years stood up and began to leave the hall in groups.

"We should get going now" Theo said as he watched everyone else start to leave, "Anyone need to head back to the dorms for anything?" Theo asked as everyone stood.

Nodding, they left the great hall and walked towards the Charms classrooms.


Charms was interesting.

The Professor, a small half goblin by the name of Flitwick, seemed truly passionate about his subject and had almost fallen off his seat when he reached Harry's name in the register. The man soon afterwards explained their syllabus in Charms and exactly what they would be doing for the next few years. He would teach them a spell in class and the following Monday he would expect a footlong essay to be written on the history, functions and wand movements the charm has.

It was an interesting first lesson and had Harry rearing to go for more. He was one of the first in the class to master the Lumos Spell. Never mind that Harry had known it since the age of nine. By the end of the class Flitwick had been giddy with excitement over how fast Harry had progressed in the lesson. The only other person who came close to casting it was Daphne and even then she only managed a small ball of light for a second before it fizzled out.

Blaise, Theo and Tracy had all been unsuccessful casting even a flicker of light although Tracy insisted she had managed it for a moment, something which nobody believed.

Turning his mind back to Flitwick, Harry thought about what he knew about the man.

He knew that Flitwick was nothing less than a duelling prodigy, having decimated the duelling circuit from the age of twenty four to forty five with his fast manoeuvres and even quicker wandwork. If Harry could get Flitwick to teach him even a little duelling then Harry knew that it would be worth every second of it. After all a duelling master wasn't a common teacher especially not a champion one.

As they left the classroom and headed to the dungeons Daphne pulled Harry to the side and stated "You've practised that spell before."

As Harry was about to open his mouth to deny it Daphne sharply cut him off "You banished Malfoy and his goons outside the train compartment wandlessly- Don't deny it we both know your wand wasn't used until today, and then you outperform everyone in charms."

Looking annoyed Harry asked "What's your point here Daphne?"

"My point Potter, is how long have you been practising?"

Looking at his watch, Harry replied "If I get to know you better then I may tell you, until then we may want to head to potions."
Checking her own watch, Daphne scowled, turned and said "This isn't over Potter."
"Never said it would be Greengrass" Harry yelled at her as he walked after her.

"Welcome to Potions" Snape began as he stalked the classroom

"You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potionmaking. As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly believe this is magic. I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses... I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death - if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach." Pausing to look around the room for a moment Snape stared at Harry and asked "Potter. What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?"

At the corner of his eye Harry could see Granger waving her hand in the air in an effort to get picked while Snape deliberately looked in the other direction.

"I think sir, it makes the Draught of Living Death. A potion that makes the drinker go into a heavy sleep that is only reversible by another potion whose names escapes me." Harry answered with a shrug. Despite not being a great potioneer himself, Harry and Cara had both grown up learning different potion and poison recipes and how to counter them as part of their education.

"That was... Adequate Potter. Let's try again to make sure it wasn't a fluke. Where would you look if I told you to find me a bezoar?"

Answering with a smirk, Harry said "Apart from your cupboard, I'd look for a bezoar in the stomach of a goat or a potions shop."

"Enough with your cheek Potter but you are right nonetheless. What is the difference between monkshood and wolfsbane?"

By now Harry had noticed that Hermione's hand was stretched all the way up and almost shaking in an effort to be recognized by the Professor. Biting his cheek to prevent him laughing out loud, Harry composed himself and said "Nothing sir. They're exactly the same plant that also goes by the name of Aconite."

"Adequate Potter. It seems that you haven't allowed fame to get to your head." Turning to the rest of the class, Snape snapped "Why aren't the rest of you taking notes?"

As the class continued Snape wrote instructions on the board for the cure for boils and had them mix them. Harry was paired with Blaise who was apparently some sort of prodigy as he was able to talk and chop the ingredients at the same time, something which Snape heavily criticized although he Snape did admit the cutting was adequate.

For some reason the only student Snape didn't criticize was Malfoy and was getting the class to look at the way Malfoy had mixed his potion when a cloud of smoke and a loud hiss came from behind Harry.

It had seemed that Neville had managed to melt Seamus' cauldron and the potion spilt across the floor and began to burn the rubber of peoples shoes. As a matter of safety the whole class decided to jump up onto their stools.

Somewhat thankfully the only casualty was Neville who, in the process of melting the cauldron, had spilt some of the potion on himself causing angry red boils to spring up all over his arms, legs and face.

"Idiot boy!" snarled Snape as he removed any trace of the potion from the dungeon, along with everyone else's potion.

"I suppose you added the porcupine quills before taking the cauldron off the fire?"

Neville just made a whimpering noise as the boils covered his mouth

"Take him up to the hospital wing," Snape spat at Seamus who almost grabbed Neville and ran out of the dungeons.

Muttering something that sounded suspiciously like 'dunderheads' Snape stalked his way to the front of the classroom and ordered everyone out of the dungeons for lunch.


Just after he had finished his lunch, Harry quickly left the Slytherin table and headed up to the Hospital Wing to see how Neville was doing after the potions lesson.

As he entered he saw Neville eating lunch and being watched by a stern looking witch in a nurses uniform.

"Now Mr. Longbottom, I don't want you to be doing any exercise for the next few days as the boils on your feet heal or Merlin help me, you will be back here!" The nurse ordered Neville as Harry walked closer.

"Good Afternoon young man, I assume you're here too see Neville?" The nurse stated. Seeing Harry's nod she said "Well, I won't keep you, Neville if you need anything I'll be in my office." As the woman left, Harry felt an involuntary shake of fear run through him.

Shaking the irrational fear off, Harry asked "Are you okay Neville? That was one helluva potions lesson."

"Hey Harry. I'm good, Madam Pomfrey fixed me up within minutes, she just kept me here for observation in case of allergic reactions or something. We have Defence next right?"

Smiling at the fact that his friend was alright, Harry replied "Yeah we have Defence next. it's brilliant to hear that you're not injured."

As they walked down the hall and towards the Defence classroom, Harry heard a stern voice call out to him "Mr Potter. A moment of your time please."
Turning around to see who it was, Harry and Neville were faced with a stern faced Professor McGonagall.

Looking at both Harry and Neville she said "Mr Potter, the headmaster has requested you see him straight after dinner with Professor Snape. I think it should go without saying what will happen if you are late to the meeting."

"Yes Ma'am" Harry nodded in reply, "I'll make sure to be early."
"Make sure you have something to eat first." The Professor said. Looking at both boys, Professor McGonagall smiled and as she turned to walk the other way said "and five points to Slytherin and Gryffindor for inter-house cooperation. Merlin knows we could use more of that."

Looking at each other in disbelief, Harry and Neville quickly checked the school map and ran towards the defence classroom.


AN: I'm back and with a shiny new update for you awesome people!

Sorry for the extremely delayed update. I've had a ridiculously busy month travelling to and from London almost every weekend XD

Between Minecon, a Paper Towns Q&A with John Green and the McQueen Play which Dianna Agron was in and I met, I'm surprised I got this chapter done at all! Slight off topic here but I urge anyone in London to go see the play when it comes back in August if only for Stephen Wright's Alexander McQueen performance!
Funnily enough during the delayed update I went to a creative writing course and got told that my 'teenage girl voice' is better than my 'teenage boy voice' as far as writing goes. Pretty sure I enjoy writing female dialogue more than male dialogue anyway but I'm getting seriously off topic here.

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