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To Gain a great friend

Everything had been going great for the first near month of the new school year, Harry had been going to lessons with Remus until lunch time then would come back and stay with Regulus until Severus or Lucius had finished their last lesson. As of yet Harry had still not stuck to the side of any of the pupils, something that was rather disheartening to Lucius and Severus. However he was still waving to Kingsley every time he saw him however he had made no move to approach the boy. He had also started waving to a second year Hufflepuff who went by the name Tonks and strangely enough the two oldest Weasley boys William and Charlie who had come and apologised for the way their Little Brother, Sister and mother had acted when they were around him and his Brother.

It turned out the Potters had encouraged their guests to ignore Harry altogether and most of them did so wanting to be friends with the famous family Molly Weasley had been no different. She had openly encouraged her children to become friends with Volker and to bully little Harry because he was not liked by his brother. The youngest two had done as she said and Ronald had soon risen to Best Friend status with Volker while Molly and Lily had spent hours tittering about how Volker and Ginny would one day marry. The elder Weasley's and Arthur had found the behaviour of their family members deplorable and after Molly had tried to lock the twins in their room for trying to Speak to Harry at Volker's third birthday Arthur had put his foot down and said that the children did not have to go to the parties if they did not want to. All of the children except Ron and Ginny had stopped attending the Parties. When Bill and Charlie explained this Harry once more showed his ability to forgive by nodding his head and giving them both a quick hug, however he had still not become close to them.

This week things were a little bit different because it was Friday and two days before the Full moon meaning Remus could not take Harry for his usual lessons because he was ill and Regulus was looking after him meaning he could not look after Harry. Albus was away at an overseas meeting between different schools headmasters and Headmistresses, Minerva had gone with him as his Deputy and all of the other teachers were busy. Luckily Lucius had chosen to assign most of his classes that day a Quiz on what they had learned in the first month, the last lesson however was third year Gryffindor's and Slytherin's and he had told them that they would be dealing with Boggart so he did not want to Have Harry in the class while that was going on so Severus would take him for the last hour which he had second year Hufflepuff's and Ravenclaw's.

The day had gone fine so far Harry had sat in the chair by his Papa's desk and worked on the simple spellings and sums that his Uncle Remus had given him, then once he was finished he started to read one of the books that his Grandpa Albus had given him and when he got bored with that Lucius had given him a Magical colouring book where the pictures moved when they had been coloured in. Half way through the first lesson after lunch –mixed seventh years- Harry climbed in Lucius's lap and began to dose. It was only when the bell rang that Lucius stood up waking Harry in the process and carried him down to Severus's class room.

Severus watched his class with keen eyes knowing that wile Swelling Solution was not an extremely volatile potions accidents could still happen and he did not want them Happening while Harry is in the room, Harry himself was sitting on Severus's desk playing with his junior potion makes kit. There was nothing dangerous in it and he was in fact making a sweet fruit punch. He had just turned round to assist a Hufflepuff who was having problems with the Puffer fish eyes, so he did not see a Ravenclaw try and better his potion by adding three pepper corns instead of just one. Severus only looked round when he heard Harry call out 'Daddy' it was then he noticed cauldron before Angus Thompson bubbling and shaking dangerously, he was quick enough to cast a shielding charm so no one got hurt but he had not thought about the noise that the explosion caused, which in turn caused the students to start screaming, while Severus was trying to calm them down he never noticed Harry slip out of the door.

Harry ran down the hall trying to get away from the noise in the potions classroom, he only go to just before the Slytherin common room before he collapsed onto the floor and started to cry in fear and anguish. The screaming reminded him of all the time Lily and James would come into his tiny room next the kitchen and Yell at him if he had not done all of his chores. Harry didn't know how long he sat there and cried but eventually he felt a hand on his arm and looked up only to be shocked because rather than his Daddy or Papa it was the tall boy who he waved to when he saw him.

"Hello Harry. What is wrong? Where are Professor Snape and Professor Malfoy?" Kingsley asked but rather than a response Harry bolted up then flung his arms around Kingsley's neck. The boy sat there shocked for a moment before wrapping his arms around the child and picking him up, it was just as well Harry was small and light for his age because he doubted that he would have been able to carry Harry around had he not been. Rather than go to the common room like he planned he went straight to the Great hall hoping that prof. Snape or Malfoy would be in the Hall. He was disappointed to see nether of them but rather than leave he sat down at the Slytherin table and tried to calm the child in his arms. After fifteen minutes of being talked to softly Harry relaxed against him and loosed his strangle hold but curled his fist into Kingsley's robes. Only minutes later a shadow fell over Kingsley he turned around hoping to see his head of house but scowled when he saw Connor Burke the bane of his existence.

"What do you want Burke" Kingsley sighed.

"I thought I had made it clear no one is to help that thing because Snape and Malfoy are traitors. Now go and put it back where you found it" Burke demanded staring hard at Kingsley while Kingsley just looked unimpressed.

"And I told you that I do not take orders from the likes of you. Now if you would not mind I would like to have my dinner" Kingsley said turning back around while rubbing Harry's back who had stiffened when Burke started to talk he relaxed again within a few seconds. He jumped the ducked when Harry shouted

"Look out" out of the corner his eye he saw a blue spell go over his head and hit the opposite wall causing a black burn mark to appear. Before Burke curse him again a very angry voice rang through the Hall

"Connor Burke put that wand away, 100 points from Slytherin for attacking a fellow house mate and the child of a professor, also two weeks detention with Mr Filch. Never in all my life have I been so disappointed in my own house." The voice belonged to Severus Snape who was fuming as he stood behind the boy. Connor turned pale but still muttered 'I will get you back for this Shacklebolt' before fleeing the hall.

Severus looked down at the boy and his son to see two worried looking pairs of eyes looking up at him, he softened a smiled slightly.

"Twenty points to Slytherin for looking out for Harry and defending him against a someone who wished him harm." He then turned to Harry "Harry would you like to stay with Mr Shacklebolt or come with me to the head table for dinner" an almost inaudible 'Stay here' Severus nodded his head and walked up to the head table to keep an eye on his child and the boy he had attached himself to.

Kingsley got Harry to eat almost everything off the small plate that the House Elf's provided, before leaving the hall and walking towards the dungeon, Professor Snape had left before him and had told him to bring Harry to the Portrait of Salazar Slytherin who guarded his and Professor Malfoy's quarters. Once he got there he knocked on the door and was let in by Professor Snape. Once inside he was ushered towards the sofa and told to have a seat.

"Mr. Shacklebolt thank you for finding and looking after Harry this afternoon, he was spooked by the loud noise that followed the explosion of a cauldron in my classroom" Professor Snape said rather stiffly.

"You are welcome sir. Harry seemed so sad I couldn't not help him" Kingsley replied.

"Mr. Shacklebolt on Monday what do you have the two periods before Lunch" Lucius asked.

"Nothing sir I have two free periods because Professor Sprout is at a Herbology conferences so she assigned homework instead"

"Oh good, do you think you could look after Harry for us, we both have classes then but the rest of the day one of us is free for the rest of the day" Lucius said allowing a slight warmth to colour his voice.

"Yes Sir, I would love to look after Harry for you" Kingsley told them while looking down and smiling at the child in his arms who was beginning to nod off. Kingsley spent another ten minutes with his professors before giving Harry to Severus and leaving to go back to the Slytherin common room.

Lucius and Severus spent the evening discussing what they were going to do about Connor Burke, by the time they went to bed they were no closer to the answer however they did not one thing for sure, Burke was going to be trouble.

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