Chapter thirteen

'Minerva is right; she would know it was someone that cares about Harry that has turned into Lily. We could just go with your idea Harry, but using me naturally, not some other boy.'

'Severus, you're very reserved, I would hate for you to feel uncomfortable doing that.'

'What are you talking about, doing what?' Hermione asked.

'Harry thought he might be able to ask a gay student to kiss him in the great hall.'

'But I couldn't kiss someone I had no feelings for, so I decided not to go through with it.'

'Oh, so professor Snape said he would, on blimey,' Ron blushed as he looked away, 'That would shock Hogwarts to the very foundations.'

'I believe you are right Mr. Weasley,' Severus glanced down at Harry, 'But I am willing to do this. It also lets all the boys that might be interested in you know you are no longer available.'

Harry smiled, 'You as well, I've heard things other students have said about you, mostly girls as the students do not know you're gay. You have dreamy eyes, your voice is seductive and you can render most girls into a quivering mess with one look.'

'Ah, Harry,' Ron grimaced, 'Fine you like him but he's still our teacher.'

'Yes Harry, please refrain from saying that in front of others. But you need your potion, I will be right back,' Severus waited until Harry nodded to let him know he was fine staying with his friends and part of that was Hermione looked like Lily, it gave Harry a bit of time to see how his mother talked and moved.

Minerva had just finished explaining to Kingsley about the potion and about Harry's charm. He was interested in testing it to see if he, an auror who was trained in uncovering memories, could do this. Minerva spoke with a house elf, asking them to make sure all Harry's belongings were in his trunk then to take it down to professor Snape's quarters, Minerva and Kingsley headed down there as well.

Severus opened the door to allow Minerva and the minister inside and into his bedroom, something he might have to get used to if Harry was going to share his quarters.

'You're right Ron, it would need to be Lily potter who charged Ginny with impersonating her, even Harry could not bring charges against her. Hi Harry, how are you?' Kingsley sat in the chair beside the bed.

'You know,' Harry shrugged.

'Yes, but I will find out who planned this. Now Minerva mentioned your charm, can I see it please?'

Harry handed Kingsley his notebooks, 'I've used it a few times. When I moved into my parent's house I found a pensieve in my father's study. I was able to bring memories forward from as far back as the day I was born.'

'What's this about Harry?' Hermione asked glancing at the book in Kingsley's hand.

'I made up a charm to recover suppressed memories,' Harry shrugged, 'I wanted to see my parents since I have no memory of them.'

'You…' Ron's mouth fell open, 'blimey mate, how did you do that?'

'When you two were in Australia I spent a lot of time working on it. I would come here to Hogwarts every morning but your sister wouldn't leave me alone. So using my cloak I would sneak away and work on that charm, after watching Severus for an hour first,' Harry smiled up at Severus.

'You would watch me?'

'Yeah, I would slip the cloak on then just stand and watch you as you worked on the repairs,' Harry blushed making Severus smile because he realised if Harry did that then he really did have feelings for him.

'Damn, this is good Harry, the words, the wand movements and yes, it would need to be someone powerful to pull this off.'

'Do you think you could Kingsley?' Harry asked.

'I would need to test it. Let me ask you something,' Kingsley closed the book, 'If I couldn't, if Severus and Minerva couldn't, would you be able to do it? It would mean facing those three.'

'I know they didn't want to, but I'm not sure.'

'Why don't we start with going up into the school in a couple of weeks? If you can look over at them then that will let you know if you can,' Severus suggested.

'Are you going to snog?' Ron asked blushing brightly.

'I still believe we should, but I will leave that up to Harry to decide.'

'Let me see how I am when I've healed. Ron,' Harry sighed, 'If we get proof you know what this means. But she went too far, I can't let this go, I can't let her get away with doing this to me. It was bad enough her changing into my mother to torment Severus.'

'I know what it means. As I said before, I still want to be an auror; I can't let it go just because she's my sister. If I did that then I should not be an auror.'

'No, you can't allow personal feelings or family come into doing your duty. That is one thing that is drummed into you during training,' Kingsley said.

'You have to Harry, she has to realise that what she did is wrong. I know mum and dad will be upset, but part of this is mum's fault, she was on Ginny's side about you. It didn't matter what Charlie or dad said, it didn't matter what you said, they didn't listen. Even when you and Neville were talking about shagging some bloke, she still didn't believe it.'

'I know, it's just your family has always been there for me, I hate hurting them like this.'

'I know mate, you have to.'

'Now because she's young it does not mean a life sentence. The wizengamot might take her age into this so she would do a minimum of twenty years unless they give her life. Using an unforgivable does normally give the user a life sentence. But they also have to take into consideration what she made those three young men do, forcing them to hurt Harry like that is another crime. So going on experience I would say she will get life,' Kingsley said.

'Yeah, but apart from what happened to me, she made those three do this and one wasn't gay. I could just imagine how all three feels but him,' Harry sighed, 'It needs to be done. So see if you can Kingsley, if not, I will do it, just not yet.'

'I'll take a copy of this back with me and speak with Gawain. He knows I'm investigating a crime at Hogwarts and he knows it's a friend, but he does not know it's you. I will have to tell him when she gets charged because it will need to be an official auror that will have to arrest her. I might still be an auror but my job description is minister, not auror, so I can't.'

'I know it will get out, I just wanted some time before hand,' Harry opened his note book and made a copy of his charm, handing it to Kingsley, 'See what you can do.'

'I will, you rest and get well. But first, tell me what Ron meant about snogging?'

'I suggested that I snog Harry in the great hall, it might make her realise that Harry is gay. A straight man would never allow another man to kiss him.'

'Fred kissed Harry once, he was too shocked to move, but it was just Fred's way,' Ron shrugged.

'Then tell your brothers, all of them that Harry is now mine.'

Everyone heard the threat behind the word mine, Harry grinned up at Severus while Ron rolled his eyes, Hermione smiled, Kingsley thought it was time to leave and Minerva followed him. But Minerva knew if Severus did what he suggested and kissed Harry in front of everyone in the great hall that it would shock not just the students of Hogwarts, but the staff and maybe even the ghosts. She knew she had to be in the great hall to see that, just to witness everyone's reaction to Severus Snape, a normally closed off and reserved man, kissing Harry Potter. It would be a sight that no one had ever seen before, or will again.