A/N: Here's the next chapter of Chamber of Secrets. Hope you enjoy and don't forget to review

Chapter 9: March

The shcool buzzed excitedly as the Hufflepuff vs. Ravenclaw quidditch game dawned on them. Harry and the group wished their friends from both houses good luck before going to the quidditch field. They all cheered Daphne, Cedric, and Theo on. Cheering on the teams. Their group had a banner that flashed the words 'GOOD LUCK! AVOID THE BLUDGERS!" between the two houses' colors. The match was intense, as both sides sought to prove themselves. In the end, Ravenclaw won by only 20 points. Lee, announcer of the games officially, congradulated both teams on a game well played, telling them they should all be proud of themselves. It was only reinforced with their houses and the slytherin house cheering them and repeating what Lee said, heartfully. It was a great way to boost the school's moral. It was a great way to begin the new month.

The school was going into their second week of March and the Slytherins and Gryffindors were going into potions. It was on this particular day that they were working on a girder potion. "Remember, be precise. We don't want any one to blow up their cauldrons." Severus told the class, eyes immediately falling on Liam and Ron. What was the most different was that Liam and Ron were sitting across the aisle from Harry and Blaise, who he was working with that day, since he had worked with Draco the last potions class. Things were going well, until about half-way through class. Harry was helping Blaise with his potion while his own was supposed to simmer. He was in the middle of the explanation with the third clockwise stir when he stalled, ears twitching when he heard the tell-tale sound of something flying through the air. He whipped around in alarm as everyone started to understand that something was up. His eyes widened as a small dragon scale, not even apart of the ingrediants for the potion was about to touch the potion.

'Oh No!' Harry thought, knowing the only reaction that would take place would be, considering it was such an explosive ingrediant. Harry didn't even think before he cried the first spell that came to mind. "Protego!" he cried, voice frantic as he threw his arms out. Everyone gasped at the bright white light that shot out from Harry, protecting all the occupants of the classroom, even Liam and the other Gryffindors. The entire school could hear the explosion, Hogwarts also doing her part to protect the students.

When the light from the explosion died, and Severus quickly vanished the smoke, just as several of the staff, Dumbledore, the Potters, Pomfrey, and Minerva entered, everyone witnessed as the bright light sunk back into Harry before the boy collapsed. "Harry!" several voices cried, rushing to the boy.

The last thing Harry had felt was a familiar magic he recognized to be Tom's from both the scar and diary he kept on him, as well as his, dissipate from his body. He felt extreme exhaustion, and nothing more as blackness cloaked his vision. When he finally came too, it was to voices.

"Severus, you're being too rash." a voice, Lilly Potter, by the sounds of it, insisted.

"It is Prof. Snape, Prof. Potter!" another voice hissed. "And I am not being too rash. Your imbecile of a son threw a well known, volatile ingrediant into my son's cauldron. One that was not on the list! Purposely! So apparently you failed to teach him to read and follow instructions, because I had it written clearly on the board. And you failed epicly about teaching him the value of lives...other than his own. My son has been in a magical coma for three days, because he exhausted his magic casting a high level spell to protect several others. Including your son, the culprit!" Severus snarled.

"You don't know that it was my Liam!" Lily cried.

"There are several witnesses from both Slytherin and Gryffindor that have confirmed it. Or does your thick skull need to see the memories again?" the potions master growled.

"Snivellus-" James Potter began.

"Close your mouth you arrogant trash! Your son has constantly harrassed mine, with no reason except that he got a little attention during their first bloody year because everyone was more surprised to see my son, rather than your precious boy who lived! I am tired of your bloody excuses! Your son is just as bad to mine, as your sister was to you growing up! I will not allow this to go unpunished. Liam Potter is the one at fault here, Potter. I will take this to the DMLE, strait to Madam Bones! Not even Dumbledore will be able to help you in this matter! I swear Potter, if your spawn comes near my son again, I will be forced to move my hand. I will take you to court and I will sue you for everything you have and are, if you don't put a bloody leash on the thing you call a son." Severus snarled.

"Severus my boy-" Dumbledore began.

"NO Headmaster! I have allowed you to get away with a lot of bull that you have pulled against me! But I will not allow you to cover up the harm your BWL has caused against my son, who has done NOTHING to deserve it. Truth of the matter is, the house of Potter, it's Lord, it's Lady, and it's damnable Heir, owe my son a life debt, as do many other families that were in that class." Severus snarled, before continuing in an icy voice, that reminded those in the room just who they were dealing with. A hardened spy who survived. Who would protect the only family he had. "I demand that Liam Potter be removed from my class, he has proven a danger to his fellow students. If you want that thing to learn potions, than have some one else do it. I'm sure that there are many mediocres out there who would love to tutor your...son. It is my right to demand this Albus. I will not take no for an answer. If Liam Potter continues to harrass my son, comes near my son, comes into my class room while I have a class present, I will take this to court, and I can guarentee that you will all be dragged through the mud. Do not test me." Severus seethed. "And Liam will be having a detention split between me, Filch, Pamona, Flitwick, and McGonagall for the rest of the year and until winter break of next year, if he still doesn't believe he has done wrong." Severus said, voice steely.

Before any of them could reply, they heard a weak voice come from the bed. "D-dad." Harry called hesitantly. Severus was by his side in an instant.

"I'm here son. How are you feeling?" Severus immediately asked, Poppy coming over to him aswell, to check on the young boy who was still learning healing spells from her.

"I'm tired, and sore. And my magic feels a little...light." he admitted.

"You used alot of magic, protecting everyone. Even with my self and Hogwarts providing protection aswell, the explosion was massive, and it drained alot of magic from the three of us, you especially, since you were the closest source of magic." Severus explained. Harry nodded.

"It was Liam behind the sabotage?" Harry asked, remembering the words his father said. 'Witnesses from both Slytherin and Gryffindor.' Severus nodded once more. "Dad, I don't want any Potter near me again. They have all tried to make my life miserable, and I am sick of Liam harrassing me all the time. It's gotten to where he is purposely seeking me out now, and I am sick of my friends almost getting hurt because of his petty jealousness, and need for attention." Harry said to his father.

"It's being delt with. If the reasonable demands aren't met, we will take it to Amelia and to court." Severus assured his son. "Your friends and house mates, as well as most of the school are worried about you, and the parents of many of the children in the class room would like to meet with you to thank you for saving their children's lives, as the damage would be irreversable, and would most have likely ended in death for many of the students, especially Messers Weasley, Potter, Zambini, and yourself- as you four were closest to the cauldron." Harry nodded.

"I'd like to leave the infirmary if you could allow it Madam Pomfrey." Harry told the medi-witch who had been casting diagnostic spells.

"Very well, Mr. Snape." Poppy said. "I want you to take this pepper up potion and than a level five magic healing potion." Poppy said, surprising eveyone in the room. Level Five potions were only meant for extreme cases.

"Are you sure Poppy?" Severus asked in alarm. He was expecting a level 3 potion. Level 5 would have been for cases like Tom or Dumbledore.

"Yes, Severus. Your son has an extremely large magical core that hasn't even reached full maturity yet. He pulled magic from Hogwarts herself to help keep the barrier strong during the explosion, and to keep the castle from collapsing on everyone as well. That took up most of his magic." Poppy explained. Severus relunctantly nodded as Harry took the potions. "You're going to be right as rain in a day or so Mr. Snape. Now lunch is being held if you would like me and Severus to lead you down."

"And we will spend the evening tonight to talk with the parents and the children you helped to save." Severus added. Harry nodded before groaning. "What is it?" Severus asked in concern.

"Everyone's probably worried, and I'll never have any privacy gain! AND I missed three days of school! My schedule has been completly thrown out of wack! I'm probably super behind in my school work! Oh Merlin, I missed the test in charms and history too! I was looking forward to it. And all of the study time gone!" Harry cried, hyperventalating. Atleast last year it was after finals that he was in the infarmary for three days. This was still the middle of the year!

"Are you sure your son shouldn't have been in Ravenclaw Sev?" Poppy asked, forcing a calming drought down Harry's throat. She only had to do this with last year Ravenclaws and Slytherins during finals, never a second year during the middle of the year.

"The hat said I could have done well in Ravenclaw as well." Harry answered for his dad, calmed down now. "Can we go now? I have a lot of catching up to do, with both school work and my friends. And Nagi's probably freaked out along with Myrtle." Harry said.

"Yes son, we can go down to lunch now." Severus said, turning Harry's hosptial gown back into a clean uniform. Severus looked back at Albus and the Potters when they reached the door. "Remember my demands, I expect them to be met." he growled, before following his son and the medic witch out of the infirmary.

When the trio entered the Great Hall, students started whispering. Before they could get too far into the hall, the gryffindor second year students, save Liam and Ron, walked over to the trio before looking at Harry. It was a surprise that Dean came forward. "Harry, thank you for saving me and my fellow Gryffindors in that potions class three days ago. Even when it put you in so much danger. IF we can do any thing, we will try out best to do so." he told the boy.

Harry nodded. "You're welcome. I was just doing what came naturally." Harry replied, letting them know he accepted their thanks. It lasted for a while as the Fred, George, and Percy also came over to them.

"Harry, you're okay!" the trio said in relief.

"Thank you, for saving our idiot of a brother." Percy told Harry, the others surprised that Percy, of all of them, would be the first to call his baby brother an idiot.

"It's not a problem, really. It was just instinct." he assured them. He let out a surprised eep as the three Weasleys hugged him.

"HARRY!" several voices called out. It wass his friends. The Weasley trio left Harry to his friends. Harry was never going to have any privacy ever again. The group dragged him over to the Slytherin table where he was applauded by his house and the others. Harry blushed under all of the student body's praise.

"Alright Hade, you've missed multiple meals, so you need to fill your plate and eat all of it." Draco ordered.

"You can be allowed to take your test this afternoon, since you're free, Harry." Hermione said.

"Let's go over everything while we're at it." Theo added, taking out books. Harry smiled at his friends and got to work on eating, studying, listening to thanks from the older siblings of second years, and answering all the questions sent his way about his health. It was a hell of an end of a week. Especially after meeting with adults who were giving him thanks. He got to see Uncle Lucius and Aunt Narcissa, so it was okay.

As the month continued, Harry wound up having a friend with him at all times. Despite the magic replenisher potion, he was still easily tired and his magic wasn't fully to par quite yet. The Potters were staying away from Harry as Severus demanded. Their reputation couldn't afford a law suit against them. Albus was also staying away from Severus and his son, but he was growing suspicious of Harry, once more. 'How strong is this boy? Who were his birth parents? Severus adopted him, which was a surprise, so it's not through him, though if he did a blood adoption, that could explain some things.' Albus thought one night as he sat in his office, Fawkes had made it a habit to be around the man, so he could make sure nothing bad was going to be directed at Harry Snape. And Fawkes wasn't a fan of the direction this line of thought was going. 'I'll keep a closer eye on him. After last year, and now the events of this year, I wonder if I'm missing something important.' he mused, sucking on another lemon drop.

It was late as Harry finally, and tiredly made his way into Myrtle's bathroom with Nagi where he would meet up with the ghost and Bast. Hogwart was providing him a short passage that lead directly to the bathroom.

"Are you okay Harry?" Bast asked, having been un-able to get to the boy sooner.

"Yah. I'm still tired and my magic's still a bit weak, but I'm fine. Promise." he assured them. "So, what do we know about what's going on here?" He asked, changing the subject.

"There's a first year Slytherin going around at night. Inside and outside the castle." Myrtle answered first.

"Who?"

"It's Ichiro Jermi. The one who was there the night the other boy in Slytherin got petrified." she answered.

"That makes since. According to Aaragog, a great evil in the form of a student is wondering in the forest, killing his young if they get too close." Bast answered.

"So we need to keep an eye on this boy." Nagi agreed, Harry translating for Myrtle. It was agreed on, and the spirit and baskilisk sent Harry to bed, Nagi staying attatched to his wrist as he had been since the dueling club. Once in bed, Harry took out the diary.

/You there Tom?/ Harry wrote.

\Of course, what happened? You were losing magic quickly.\ Tom's neat script replied. Harry slapped himself in the face. He had forgotten to inform the Horcrux. Quickly, Harry wrote down the events of the past week or so. Tom was pissed off in the end. \He dared to attack you?! He will feel my wrath so help me Merlin!\ Tom seethed, normally neat script sloppy in his anger and rage.

/Tom I'm fine! Really. I'm okay and he's not allowed to come near me or dad's taking him to court with the DMLE. With Amelia Bones, who is the fairest of the judges./ Harry wrote back, successful in calming the raging soul piece down.

\Very well, though if you could find that spell for me soon, I might be able to mysteriously injure the boy who lived. I could probably get Bast to petrify the boy since he's being framed any ways.\ Tom wrote. Harry gave a soft laugh before replying.

/We'll find the spell, Tom. And we can't because that would insure that he be killed./ Harry replied.

\Fine.\ was Tom's only reply, and Harry could feel the petulence in the soul's writing. He snickered.

/Night Tom./

\Night Harry. Be careful.\

/Of course./ It was towards the end of the month, during a joint study session, that Harry found the spell they needed, He couldn't wait to let Tom and the others know. That night, he was able to cast the spell. They learned that the spell could work for three hours at a time, and took at least six hours to re-charge. And with some tweaking between Myrtle, Harry, and Tom, only those present could see the soul piece. They would get more done now.

It was on the last day of March, the last full school study session of the month. Harry sat with Lee and the twins, heads together in a secluded corner, as they worked on the final touches for their prank for school tomorrow. It was going to be epic. Harry couldn't help but feel sorry for the teachers tomorrow. It was only when the twins got called away by Oliver for some quidditch practice-overseen by Hooch- that Harry and Lee got to work on their plans for the twins' birthday tomorrow. The twins themselves forgot about their birthday every year, due to their love for it's holiday. Lee and Harry wouldn't forget, and were rather surprised when Percy joined them for their plans. To Percy, his twin brothers were jokesters, but none of the family, except maybe Ron and Ginny, would forget the importance of the day they came into their world, filling it with frustration and laughter. Tomorrow was going to be amazing.

A/N: Corrections have been made, thanks to S! Also, April is mostly done. Just doing some tweaks before sending it to S to check over. Should be up either this weekend or next. Until next time!