Severus: Where is the author, she has to give the disclaimer.
Harry: Still dancing around. She got even more reviews.
Severus:? still? um, well a guess we will have to do the disclaimer.
Harry: Oh, let me do it please.( gives Severus the puppy dog eyes)
Severus: (mustn't give in to that face. must not) All right... (damn can't resist)
Harry: The author of this story doesn't own Harry Potter, A. K. Rowling does. If you haven't figured it out, this story has rape, violence and yaoi. If you don't like it you should've stop reading one chapter one. Really people.
Chapter 10
The sound of his name awoke Harry. Sunlight streamed through the window by his bed. Harry was positive it was magic considering his current location was underground,
"About time, I was starting to think I was going to have to drench you with cold water just to get you up." Severus smirked from the doorway. Grumbling Harry rolled over closing his eyes again.
Suddenly cold water splashed across his face. Jerking up he gasped as the freezing water dripped down his shirt. Soft chuckles caught his attention and he turned to glare at his professor, who was still standing in the doorway, leaning on the wall twirling his wand in one hand. His eyes glittered with amusement, as he calmly watched Harry.
"You..." Harry sputtered. Severus cocked his head questioningly. "You git. I can't believe you just did that." Harry shouted.
"I apologize," Severus said smoothly, not sounding at all apologetic, "I just thought you needed assistance getting up, it seemed like you were having some difficulties." He smirked at Harry who was gaping at him. At last Harry shook his head sighing.
"Your just evil." he said rolling his eyes.
"Of course, I am after all a Slytherin." Severus pointed out with a sneer. Harry smiled slightly "now I am going to leave, you to get dressed," Severus stated gesturing towards a pile of clothing, another set of transfigured robes. Seeing the started expression on the younger man's face. He raised an eyebrow.
"Surely you haven't forgotten our trip to Diagon Alley?" Severus asked dryly. Harry's eyes widened as Severus words brought back yesterday is events. Shooting up he grabbed the pile of clothes on the chair and dashed past Severus and into the bathroom. Rolling his eyes Severus headed to the kitchen to get some breakfast, his black robes billowing behind him.
When Harry entered the kitchen dressed in a pair of black leather pants and a dark green shirt breakfast was already on the table, the work of house elves no doubt.
"You are just bound and determined to dress me in slytherin colors aren't you?" Harry asked as he caught sight of his professor sitting at the table sipping on a cup of coffee, a newspaper spread out in front of him.
"But that green matches your eyes just perfectly." Severus replied not bothering to hid his amusement. He reached out an snagged a piece of bacon off a small plate set to one side
"You are an extremely twisted person, you know that?" Harry said in exasperation.
"Yes, but that's just part of my charm. " Severus pointed out blandly as Harry sat down across from him.
"Ah, you have charm? " Harry asked dishing some of the scramble eggs onto his plate.
"Of course, it's not my fault your not sophisticated enough to notice. " He sighed dramatically. "Its my life story. Always surrounded by snot nose brats who don't know anything about charm much less class and manners."
Harry snickered. "Well pardon me your Lordship for not noticing, I just thought that you were being a git."
"Well now you know. " Severus nodded sagely, "Perhaps your not complete hopeless."
"I give up." Harry said throwing his hands in surrender, "Your impossible." Severus smirked. Shaking his head Harry dug into his breakfast. The eggs weren't bad, they even had cheese and while he wasn't that fond of bacon, probably due to the fact that Dudley loved the stuff and he had been forced to cook it every morning, he enjoyed the sausage and the orange juice was freshly squeezed. It felt strange to have all this food in front of him. He was still use to hunting for scraps his relatives had missed during the summer.
"Severus?" Harry asked hesitantly, the name sounding strange and uncertain coming from his own mouth. Eyebrows rose questioningly.
"Thank you." Harry said at last. Puzzled eyes met his. "For last night and for today." he elaborated.
"I'm just obeying orders." Severus muttered gruffly, feeling uncomfortable with the sudden show of gratitude. Harry shook his head.
"No, treating me was following orders, not that I'm not grateful for that too, but staying with me last night and taking me to Diagon Alley today was above and beyond what you were suppose to do. And for that I thank you." Harry said firmly. Severus stood abruptly feeling embarrassed.
"If your done with your emotional outburst lets go." Severus commanded. Harry nodded smiling slightly, not bothered by the sudden and rather rude way Severus had ended the conversation. He could tell that he had embarrassed the stern man with his sudden out pouring of emotion. To the tell the truth he had been rather uncomfortable spilling his emotions like that but he had felt a thanks was truly necessary.
"Are you coming? or do you intend on spending the day here staring blankly into space?" Severus asked sarcastically. Standing Harry made his way over to the other man.
"And how exactly are we going to get there?" Harry asked curiously.
"It had been my intention to apperanate." Severus stated. He frowned at Harry suddenly a thoughtful look replacing the normally stoic features. Harry cocked his head questioningly at the sound change in attitude.
"It has just occurred to me that perhaps it would be wise for me to place a glamour on you before we go. People might think it strange to see you and me together and you tend to attract a lot of attention. Assuming of course you can bare not being the center of attention. " he murmured. Harry blinked at him in surprise. A grin slowly grew on his face and his lit up.
"So nobody will recognize me." Harry asked barely containing his excitement. "That would be wicked."
"Oh?" Severus asked curiously, rather surprised by how excited Harry had become over what should of been a simple precaution. If anything he would have thought that Harry would've been upset over the proposal.
"I hate being stared at. People gawk at me just because of this stupid scar. They act like I'm some kind of hero for something I didn't do. Unless of course they believe the crap that Skeeter woman writes, then I'm some sort of crazy attention seeking child crying wolf." Harry spat bitterly.
"I see." Severus answered drily. Drawing his wand he cast a glamor to hid Harry's scar. A second glamour change the brilliant green eyes to a hazel brown. Another spell l lengthened the dark locks. Satisfied with his work he returned his wand to the black leather holder attacked to the side of his belt.
"Well show we go." Severus asked. Harry nodded and they both approached the door.
As they strolled through the Hogwarts corridors Harry couldn't help but notice how empty the place seemed with out all the students crowding the halls. The sound of their footprints echoed on the stone sounded eerily loud. Harry felt almost relieved when the reached the front gates. Following the path they quickly reached the limit of the wards around school.
"Um, I assume that I'm going to side-long apparenate with you?" Harry asked when they came to a stop a few feet outside the wards.
"Obviously seeing as you don't have your license yet." Severus answered sneering. Harry just rolled his eyes at the other man.
"You do realize that there is no way I can apperanate us if your standing all the way over there." Severus pointed out sarcastically. Harry blushed and stepped closer to the taller man. Strong arms wrapped around his waist pulling him against the other man's chest. Harry relaxed against the warmth.
The strange tingling that always came with apparenating filled him and the surrounding meadows blurred and the distant castle vanished from site.
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The sounds of the bustling crowds reached Harry's ears. Realizing he had shut his eyes he opened them. He was standing in an alley before him was a crowd of people shopping. It was still relatively early in the morning so the place wasn't as busy as he remembered but there were still plenty of wizards and witches strolling around in bright colored robes. Seeing all the people he felt relieved that Severus had hid is identity.
"Just out of curiosity, do you intend hold onto me all day." Severus asked drily cutting thoughts his thoughts. Harry blushed and released the other man, stepping away as he did so.
"Sorry," he said feeling rather embarrassed. Severus nodded once and smiled slightly. Relieved that Severus wasn't angry he turned his attention back toward the stores.
"We shall head to Gringotts first." Severus stated calmly strolling from out of the alley and into the bright sunlit street. Harry followed the other man as he wove through the crowds. He had to suppress a snicker as people backed out of Severus way when he glared at them menacingly. Having been on the receiving end of quite a few of the man's glares he couldn't blame them for hi-tailing it out of the man's way. The man could look just positively evil when he wanted to, especially when he was wearing those billowing black robes.
It wasn't long before the reached the marble steps and passed thoughts the bronze doors of Gringotts. They passed through the security and entered hall. Much to Harry's surprise a goblin immediately approached them.
"Harry Potter," the goblin greeted politely. Harry recognized him as the goblin he had met his first trip here.
"How can you tell its me, Griphook?" he asked Puzzled. The glamours hid his identity. No one had recognized him while they had been walking the streets.
"If I may," Severus said from behind him, causing Harry to turn and look at him, "there are multiple spells cast here to prevent people from stealing. No doubt there are some here that identify those who enter here."
"You are correct sir." Griphook answered politely.
"That makes sense." Harry mumbled throughly. "What did you want to speak to me about?" he asked turning back to face the goblin.
"It is about your inheritance." Griphook stated. Seeing Harry's puzzlement he continued, "You are now Lord Potter, not to mention the fact that you were named the Black heir."
"Oh..." Harry gasped in surprise. "Um exactly does that mean?"
Severus snorted, "What he means is that the Potter vaults and estates are now yours." Harry stared at him. Vaults, estates what was he talking about. Seeing Harry's confusion he elaborated. "You were given a vault for school supplies. That was no doubt only a very small portion of the Potter fortune. You're from an old family and were no doubt left a large sum of money and several estates."
Harry turned to look at Griphook questioningly. "Is this true?" He asked feeling rather stunned. Griphook nodded and pulled a scroll out of a pocket.
"You were left 4 vaults and 9 estates, Mr. Potter." He said, handing Harry the scroll. Harry gasped at the list of contents. All together there was over a billion in gold contained in the four vaults.
"All this is mine?" Harry asked sounding rather dazed. Suddenly he started laughing. Severus shot him a strange look. "It just that my relatives use to complain about how much a burden I was and how much I cost them and they never received a dime and all this time I had a fortune sitting here." He snickered. Seeing the irony Severus smirked. It was kind of funny in a rather twisted kind of way.
"Mr. Potter," Harry returned his attention to Griphook. The goblin was scowling. "I also wish to inform you that your guardian has made several large withdrawal."
Harry frowned "Guardian? Withdrawals? How much?" he asked confused. Griphook couldn't mean the Durselys they didn't even know about Gringotts.
"Yes your guardian, Albus Dumbledore. I take it you didn't know about the withdrawals?" Griphook asked staring at Harry.
"No! I didn't even know that Dumbledore was my guardian." Harry exclaimed angrily. "Is there any way I can find out what he did with it." Harry asked. He could feel Severus tense.
"You didn't okay these withdrawal?" Griphook asked. Harry shook his head Puzzled. "We can do better then that. If you'd like we can have the money taken from the headmaster's accounts and anywhere else he had it sent."
"I don't understand." Harry said.
"Your guardian only has the right to withdraw money from your account with your approval." Griphook explained. "We were told that he had that. However it is apparent that it isn't the case. Since it its our fault that this has occurred we will return your money." Harry nodded.
"And where exactly was this money sent?" Harry asked at last torn between anger and confusion.
"According to my information. Most of the money was split between three accounts.
That of a Mrs. Granger, the Weasley vault and to a group called the Order of the Phoenix. There are also several purchase mostly of rare items and weapons that were taken directly out of your account." Griphook informed him.
"He's been funding the order with your accounts." Severus said softly. He turned his head to look at the other man. The onyx eyes burned with fury. "He has no right." the man hissed.
"But why is he sending money to Hermione and the Weasleys?" Harry asked quietly, a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. His shoulders sagged. They couldn't be apart of Dumbledore's manipulations could they?
"Harry," Severus sighed "There is no way to be sure of the reason." He placed a hand on Harry's shoulder trying to offer him some comfort, trying to control his temper. Harry needed his support.
"That bastard. How dare he. He manipulates me and leaves me with abusive relatives and now I find out that the bastard has been fucking stealing from me and that my Friends are some how apart of it" Harry shouted, his eyes flashing in anger.
Severus watched the other man fume, he felt that he should say something to reassure him but he couldn't find anything to say. After all he nothing he had said was incorrect. He himself had reached a similar conclusion. The evidence was pretty damning.
Hesitantly he pulled the younger man into his arms, hugging him. Harry turned into his chest and held on tight. Severus could feel his body shaking, though he was unsure wether it was anger or sorrow that caused the tremors.
"Harry," Severus whispered softly, "it's going to be okay. I'm here for you." He tighten his grip bring Harry closer. He rubbed his hand up and down his back tangling his fingers thoughts Harry's hair.
At last Harry pulled away, gratitude shining in his eyes. Severus gave the other man a small smile.
"You never know, it might be order related and they could have no clue where it came from." Severus pointed out. Harry nodded but it was clear that the young man didn't truly believe it.
"Excuse me." Griphook interrupted politely, "but there is still the matter of the Black will and the family rings." he stated calmly. Harry nodded.
"Sirius Black named you his heir and left you most of his holdings except for what was given to a Remus Lupin." Griphook explained. He handed Harry another scroll this one listing everything he had been left.
"Now if you would come this way so that you can claim your rings." Griphook said, motioning for them to follow them. He lead them down a carpeted hallway toward a mahogany door. Griphook opened the door revealing a desk on which a golden bowl sat, along with a gleaming dagger with a elegant ivory hilt. Before the desk sat three deep blue chairs. As they approached the desk Harry could see that there was some sort of simmering rainbow liquid. Griphook swiftly stepped behind the desk. Severus moved to stand before it and Harry followed uncertainly.
"Now I need you to drop some of your blood into the bowl." Griphook said, gesturing toward the knife sitting on the desk. Harry spun and looked questioningly at Severus, after all blood could be dangerous if in the wrong hands. Reassure he turned and picked up the slender knife. Placing it against the skin he drew a bright red line across his hand, wincing slightly. He let a couple of drops falling to the bowl. The liquid darkened into a deep red.
"Now reach in a pull out what ever you find." Griphook directed. hesitantly he reached into the bowl. The liquid was cool and it felt more like mist. Something hard and cold brushed his fingers and he grabbed it. Pulling his hand back he found he was holding three rings. The top ring was a ruby engraved with a shield with three stars in the center. The one beneath it was a deep sapphire and it bore a set of crossed swords with a broken circle surrounding the hilts. The last of the rings in his hand was a brilliant emerald with a snake engraved into its surface. It was slightly larger the other two and the gold it was embedded in was darker and somewhat dull like it hadn't be polished in ages.
"Um?" Harry mumbled looking down at the rings. One was no doubt the Potter ring , he recognized the shield and it was likely that the second was the one from the house of black, it had been on the scroll that Griphook had given him but where did the third ring come from.
He felt Severus lean over his shoulder and look at the rings. Much to his surprise the man let out a sharp gasp. Long white fingers pulled the emerald ring out of his hand. Harry turned to face the older man in confusion. The shocked look on Severus's face floored him. He had never seen anything affect the older man so much.
"This is the emblem of the house of Slytherin." Severus whispered, sounding rather awed and confused. Harry felt his jaw drop. Why the hell had he pulled out the ring he wasn't related to Salazar Slytherin. None of this made any sense.
"Ah, Mister Potter it seems that you are now the Lord of the House of Potter, the house of Black and the House of Slytherin." Griphook declared, rather smugly.
"I'm WHAT!" Harry shouted in shock. "Well if this isn't wonderful. I'm the fucking Lord of Slytherin. Another reason for people to gawk at me. It was bad enough when it was rumored that I was heir of slytherin. When people find out I'm the fucking heir they'll treat me like the next Dark Lord. Like I didn't have enough problems." Harry moaned.
The pain in Harry's voice snapped Severus out of his daze. "The only ones who know that you are the Lord of Slytherin are those in this room. Wether or not this gets out is completely up to you." Severus stated trying to gain control of his rampaging emotions.
"Then this won't leave this room?" Harry asked slightly desperate. He looked at the other man hopefully.
"You have my word that I won't speak of this without your permission." Severus swore. Harry nodded relieved. His attention turned toward the goblin on the other side of the desk, his gaze questioning.
"All our clients are guaranteed confidentiality." Griphook replied smoothly. Harry nodded. When he turned back around Severus could tell how weary the young man was .
"I still don't understand how I got into this mess. I'm not the heir of Slytherin, Voldemort is. So, how did I end up with this thing?" he asked, glaring at the emerald ring.
"I don't know." Severus answered quietly, "It is something that needs to be research." Harry sighed pacing before the taller man. At last he stopped. He slide the Potter and Black rings on his left hand. Thinking he conjure a string and slide the ring on it, tying it around his neck, under his shirt. Severus nodded in approval.
"Is that all?" Harry asked tiredly. Griphook nodded. The three of them headed back toward the entrance hall.
"I need to get some money from my vault." Harry pointed out. Severus raised his hand stopping Griphook's reply.
"It would probably be better off if you just got a bank card so you could charge it to your account." Severus said. Griphook nodded and lead them toward a desk. He spoke to the goblin behind the counter in a language Harry didn't understand. A few seconds later he handed harry a card which looked like a muggle credit card and piece of paper that was no doubt a form of some sort.
"Just sign here and you'll be able to use this to pay instead of carrying gold." Griphook explained, handing Harry a pen. Without hesitation Harry signed the form.
"Thank you." Harry said placing the card in the pocket of his pants spelling it so that only he could opened it.
"Now if we are finished here there are still school supplies and clothes to get." Severus sneered. His normal mask once again in place. Harry nodded smiling slightly. Biding Griphook a goodbye they strolled out of the marble hall side-by-side.
Thanks guys for all the reviews. This chapter is quite a bit longer then my last couple. Instead of writing it out before typing it I kind of just started typing. You'll have to let me know if it's okay. Thanks for sticking with me, I know I haven't been updating as often. Luv you all.
Don't forget to review. If you do I'll all let you play with Sevie.
Severus: What! Don't listen to him. I only play with Harry. Right beloved
Harry: ...Well if it is for reviews...
Severus: No, not you too. (runs away crying)
Author: Um, well please review.