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"Harry! Long time no see." Sirius said as soon as Harry stepped into the door. Severus rolled his eyes at the corny joke. "And my good buddy, Snape." Sirius said with sarcasm.

"Black." Severus greeted stiffly.

Severus followed Black's eyes to Harry's shoulder, where Severus' hand was still on it from the side-along-apperation. He removed his hand at once. Harry walked past the two grown ups, up the stairs, and into Ron's room at headquarter's.

"You keep your hands off my god son, Snape." Sirius warned once Harry was out of earshot.

"Calm down, Black. We had to apperate, and unless you wish for your godson to be splinched, I had to apperate with him." Severus brushed past Sirius to sit down at the table where they were to have the meeting. Mostly everyone was already seated, just waiting for Lupin and Dumbledore to show up.

"Would you like some tea, Professor Snape?" Molly weasley asked politely.

"No, Thank you, Mrs. Weasley." He said politely, well as polite as he got. The older Weasley child was glaring at him, but Severus pretended not to notice. He pretended not to notice almost everyone glaring at him.

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"So what's new here?" Harry asked once they got past all the hello's.

"Not much. Same as last time, I suppose." Hermione said. "Just cleaning for us. Professor Dumbledore stops by every-once in awhile, along with other order members. We still haven't gotten any information."

"What about you? How's training going?" Ron asked, biting into an apple.

"Its been going well. I can do wandless magic now." Harry said.

"Oh Harry! You're so lucky. I bet you could teach defense against the dark arts this year with all the magic you're learning!" Hermione said while Ron rolled his eyes. Harry laughed.

"Maybe we'll have a competent teacher this year, and Dumbledore won't ask me. I want to last more than one more year in Hogwarts." Harry joked.

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A couple hours later, the meeting was over, but Severus decided to let Harry stay and visit for a bit longer, while he browsed the Library in the House of Black.

He could faintly hear the conversation Black, the Weasley's, Granger and Harry was having. Something about the Weasly twins' joke inventions. That's all hogwart's needs. Especially when he wasn't anyone's favorite professor.

Severus had told Harry earlier not to mention the prophecy to his friends. Harry said he wouldn't and Severus hoped he kept his word. After browsing the entire library and finding nothing useful, Severus made his way toward the kitchen.

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"Well, That's my cue to get up and head home." Harry said as soon as Severus was in the kitchen, glaring at everyone in sight. He noticed everyone was giving him strange looks, even Severus . "What?"

"Home?"Sirius asked through a forced calm.

Harry thought back to what he said. He hadn't meant to say home. "I mean't back to Snape's." Harry said quickly, but the damage was done.

"But you said Home, Harry." Sirius said, a bit of anger in his voice. "you're home is not with Snape."

"Then where is it Black?" Severus cut in. "Its not here with you, obviously."

"He's only with you for training. If he didn't need to train, he wouldn't be with you, either." Sirius said, standing up.

"He wouldn't be with you, either, Black. He would be with his muggle relatives." Severus said Cooley.

"Its not his home, he's just staying with you."

"If it feels like home to him, it is his home." Severus said. "It will remain his home as long as he considers it to be so. Even after training."

"He will live with me when all this is over!" Sirius said angrily. "I'm his godfather."

"That's just a title. A title you don't deserve, I might add. You were gone for thirteen years of the boy's life, were you not?" Severus asked raising an eyebrow. The room was quite.

"Only because of your death eater pal-"

"I believe he was your 'pal', Black. Not mine."

Sirius turned away from Severus toward Harry. "You're home isn't with this grease ball, Harry. You can come stay here anytime you want."

"He needs to continue training, Black." Severus said. He didn't know why. A month ago he would have been glad at Black's offer to keep the boy. Now Severus had grown accustomed to Harry's presence in the house. He enjoyed the company.

"Let's leave the choice up to Harry, then." Sirius said, a bit cockiness in his voice. Both mean turned to Harry. everyone in the room turned to Harry.

"I-I.." Harry didn't know what to say. He wanted to go to Severus' house to continue training, but he didn't want to offend Sirius, which was going to happen. He didn't want to offend Severu seither, which he knew would happen, bur Severus wouldn't show it.

"Its ok, Harry. Go with him." Sirius said, the bitterness was hard to miss in his voice.

"Sirius-I really need to train to defeat Voldemort. The sooner he is defeated, the sooner we can all go back to our normal lives. The sooner you get cleared." Harry tried to explain, but he knew Sirius wouldn't listen to reason.

"Come along, Potter. Its time to go home." Severus emphasized the word home, and Sirius threw him a glare.

"Harry, he wouldn't want you there if he had the choice."

"I know." Harry said. "But neither of us have a choice."

Harry walked out behind Severus , and as soon as they stepped out of the house, Severus grabbed his arm and apperated.

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"Harry, what is bothering you?" Severus asked. The boy hadn't been the same since coming back from headquarters two days ago. His magic was just as good, but Severus knew something was still bothering him.

"Nothing, why?" Harry asked, looking up from his book he was 'reading.' Truth was, he hadn't read word since picking up the book and flipping to a random page.

"Don't lie to me. You think living with you for two months hasn't taught me to know when something is bothering you?"

Harry hesitated. "I should learn to hide stuff better." Harry said grumpily.

"Yes." Severus agreed. "However, you might want to start with turning your book upside right." Severus watched as the boy looked down at his book and flipped it around, his face flushed. "Now, are you going to tell me?"

Harry thought about what to say for a moment. "When we we're at headquarter's, You said some things..."

"If you're wondering if I meant what I said, Harry, I did. Rarely do I say things that aren't the truth." Severus said. He did mean it. Something had changed in the time Harry was there with him. The boy wasn't arrogant, like he had thought. Not even around his friends. At headquarter's he was the same Harry he was at Severus' own house.

"Oh." There were a couple moments of silence. "If I didn't want to go back to the Dursley's next year, and I couldn't go to Sirius', I could come here?" Harry asked hesitantly.

"If you feel like this is really you're home, you may come back." Severus answered him right away. "Do you feel like this is home?"

"Well, the Dursley's let me know how their home wasn't my home. I just lived there. The Weasley's are great, but it's not my home. This is the first place I feel I belong. Besides Hogwarts, I mean."

"If it is your wish to return, you have my permission." Severus said. He was surprised at himself. Never would he have thought he would let someone move into his house, let alone Harry Potter.

"Thanks." Harry said. "For everything. Training me, and letting me stay here."

"Don't get sentimental Harry. You forget I had orders to do so." Harry's response was to throw a small pillow at Severus and grin.

"I was just saying thanks." Harry Said. "Sirius seemed pretty mad today when I said I had to go home. Wonder what he would have done if I called you Severus in front of him."

The corners of Severus' mouth twitched. "He would have been even more surprised had I called you Harry." Severus said. "Perhaps on our next trip to headquarters." Harry just laughed.

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"Severus , I was thinking. We have to get that prophecy. I need to know what it says." Harry said the next day at breakfast. "Ron was telling me one of the people in the department of mysteries had a poor imperious performed on him. What if it was someone trying to get him to get the prophecy?"

"Harry, I have told you. No one is going to get that prophecy." Severus said sternly.

"And I told you, I'm going to get it. Your help would make it easier." Harry said, just as sternly. "I think I have a plan."

"You think you have a plan?" Severus parroted. "You need to know you have a plan before anything else, Harry."

"Yes, well I find Life rarely goes along with my plans, so I'm not going to stick too close to any plan."

"Your plan should include what should happen if something should go wrong." Severus said, not taking his eyes off the paper he was reading.

"I'll wing it like I always do."

"Harry-"

"I'm going to do it."

"You're under my watch until school starts." Severussaid. "And after, you can't leave the school."

"I'll go sometime, Severus . Sometime soon." Harry said. "this is very important to me. He can't get it, and the longer it sits on the shelf, the longer he has to get it."

"I understand, that. We have people that are making sure no one is able to get into the Hall of Prophecies."

"At night. Even then, if Voldemort wanted to go there and get it, one person blocking the door isn't going to stop him." Harry said. "I can do this, and with your help, i'm sure I can do it better."

"I'm not going to help you, and you aren't going to do it. End of discussion." Severus said.

"But-"

"End of discussion."

Harry stabbed his eggs with his fork in protest. He would get that prophecy.

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"Severus , can we stop?" Harry said, out of breath on the floor. Severus decided to teach Harry Legilemency. It was exhausting to learn, more exhausting than Occlumency.

"No. Get up and try again." Severus said. Harry was almost there, if they stopped now, it would be a major set back in progress.

"I can't."

"You are admitting defeat? You are weak, Potter." He called him Potter when he was training, so Harry would know he was serious.

"I'm not weak. I'm tired." Harry clarified.

"Get up or I'll hit you with the cruciatus."

"You wouldn't dare." Harry said.

"Crucio." He said the words, but didn't point his wand. It still got Harry up off the floor. "Good. Now try again."

"Legilimens!" Harry shouted. Harry saw flashes of Snape's memories. Why is this harder than going into Voldemort's thoughts?

Snape forced him out of his mind. "Again. Go."

"Legilimens!" Harry shouted. Again, Severus' memories flashed through his own mind, but some were too blurry to see. The emotions too vague.

"You're getting better." Severus said when he blocked Harry again. "Now I need you to look for a specific memory, One where we're both there."

"Legilimens!" Harry searched for the memory of Harry's sorting. He felt Snape's immediate hate of him. He felt the animosity, he felt the jolt in his heart when Severussaw Harry's eyes. This time, Harry pulled out.

"That was surprisingly easy for you." Severus said. "The pulling out is usually painful, and difficult the first time." Harry stayed silent. "only someone who has done it before, could do it. The first time, is very painful for the recipient, the second time isn't. Who's mind have you been in, Potter?" He asked dangerously.

"No one's." Harry lied. If it was painful for the first time, would Voldemort have felt it? They weren't eye to eye, would the results still be the same?

"Potter. Tell me the truth." Severus was walking toward Harry. Harry backed into the wall. "Your mind is weak and exhausted from many hours of legilimency." Severus said, stopping and looking Harry in the eyes. For the life of him, Harry couldn't look away. Like a deer in headlights, only these headlights were black. "You would not be able to block your mind very well."

"I'm not lying." Harry said, though not very convincingly.

"Legilimens" Severus said calmy. Harry tried to block Severus , but his mind was too weak. Severus was right. Harry saw himself sitting on his bed, reaching out to Voldemort's mind. Harry tried to push him out, but it was no use. Severus saw him get the information on the prophecy. Severus pulled out of Harry's mind and Harry didn't need to see his face to know how angry he was.

"I had to know." Harry said, looking down at the floor.

"You did not have to know anything, Potter! Do have any idea how painful pulling out of one's mind his? If he realized you were there, he realized how strong the connection is! Do you realize how stupid that was, Potter!?!"

"No. I didn't know it would be painful for him. Maybe it wasn't. I pulled out very slowly." Harry said.

"I'm going to him right now. Hopefully I won't find out about your stupidity from him." Severus said harshly and left the room.

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"Severuss, to what do I owe the pleasure?" Voldemort asked as Severus bent low to kiss his robes.

"My Lord, I have news of Potter's where abouts." Severus got back up and stood in front of the chair.

"Very good. Where is he Severus ?"

"He is back at Headquarters of the order." Severus lied. "He was in New Zealand, my Lord."

"He is protected at headquarters, I presume, Severus ?"

"Yes, my Lord. Dumbledore's protection, plus the protection of the house itself." Severussaid.

"Tell me, Severus , what did Harry do in New Zealand?"

"I asked Dumbledore, and he told me Potter was visiting foreign wizards. He was training for quidditch." Severus said with disgust.

"and do you believe Dumbledore?"

"I heard Potter bragging to his friends about the players on the team, the moves he performed and so on."

The dark Lord got up and wandered to the empty fireplace. "Has he been training, Severus ?"

"Not that I know of, my Lord. He just went there for the quidditch." Severus said. Stupid Potter. He knows of the connection!

"Is Potter particularly good at magic?" Voldemort asked, turning around to face Severus .

"No. He is mediocre. He barely passes potions, his other classes he gets a boost in grades because the teachers favor him, and even then, he is not on top of his classes." Severus told the Daek Lord.

"Very well. That is all Severus ." Voldemort dismissed him.

"Yes, My Lord." Severus kissed his hems one more time, then swept from the room.

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Severus entered his house, went up to Harry's room to the secret compartment, and went inside to find it empty. "Damn." Severus got out of the compartment and looked through the whole house, only to circle back to Harry's room and look through his things. Just as he thought, the boy's invisibility cloak was gone. He had left to get the prophecy.

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oh and can anyone tell me what self and stuff the prophecy was on. You see here's what happened. I'm at my aunts and she also has two copies of he books. i can fing every copy, except the the OOP copy.