Author's Note: Okay here is chapter 2. I know it's taken a while but with fanfiction.net being down and a bunch of real life problems I haven't been able to post anything. Now that school is starting up though I will not be able to post as often as I am going to be taking tons of classes. As always I appreciate any suggestions or criticisms. Thanks for all of the wonderful reviews, I really appreciate it. As for the results of the poll, Harry/Snape won but a close friend said that it would be better to do an original character. At first I wasn't going to listen to her and do Harry/Snape anyway, but she got me thinking and I ended up with an idea that just won't leave me alone. So this is now an OC/Snape story for the foreseeable future (unless anything else happens). If there is enough demand, later I may revisit this story and create an alternate version with Harry/Snape as the pairing. Let me know what you think. Now on to the story!

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters of the Harry Potter universe. The plot and any original characters are mine though. Plagiarizing is a crime! If you plagiarize this story I'll see that you get life without parole. And that's a promise!

Warning: This is a SLASH story. That means m/m relationships and sex in the future. In this case it will be Snape and an OMC. If you don't like this, don't read it!

Hate Transformed

Chapter 2

How could Harry Potter be involved in this? It makes no sense. Then again Severus was rather cryptic about just what Harry's involvement was. Albus thought as he swept down the hallways. He was on his way to Professor Alexander Easton's room, the current Animagus teacher. Since the rise of Voldemort, many wizards and witches had died for lack of a good disguise. In response to that lack, the Ministry of Magic had decided to add a new course to the Hogwarts curriculum, How To Become An Animagus, shortened by the students to just Ani lessons. In Albus' opinion, it was possibly the only good thing that the Ministry had done to combat Voldemort's rising.

This was to be the first year the class was to be held and so far it had turned out to be the most popular class, the major reason being, besides the subject itself, Alexander Easton. Not only was the man good with the students, he also made the classes fun and interesting, not to mention amusing. Alexander, or Alex as he had insisted on being called, was 5'9" with shaggy dirty blond hair and hazel eyes. The most striking feature about him though, was a scar that ran the length of the left side of his face. It was thin and barely noticeable, except when he smiled. Then the scar pulled his left eye and the left side of his mouth up so it looked as if he was winking and smirking at the same time. That expression well described his personality. If he wasn't laughing or trying to get you to laugh, he was without a doubt about to do something extremely embarrassing to you.

At times he reminded Albus of Severus when he was younger. And occasionally, in an unguarded moment, as Severus was now. He had the same hurt vulnerability as Severus had when they believe no one is watching. Albus suspected that Alex had something just as bad in his past as Severus had in his. And while Albus would have thought that because of this similarity they would get along well, it was very close to the exact opposite. Though they did not show any open hostility towards each other, they very carefully avoided each other when possible, and when not, they rarely spoke to each other civilly. In fact Albus had only heard them speak to each other a few times, and on each occasion the insults they exchanged were very thinly disguised as politeness.

In every other way though Alex had been getting along very well with his colleagues and Albus was glad that he had gone with his instinct and hired him, though he still had reservations about his credentials. I have never heard of a Sanswant wizarding school. And I thought I knew them all. I'll have to find the school and take a trip there soon. Ah, here we are! Albus thought as he arrived at the entrance to Alex's classroom. He knocked softly on the door once and opened it. When he entered all eyes were on him, including Professor Easton's. Albus smiled gently at the class, then asked, "Professor, may I borrow Harry Potter for a few minutes?" With a questioning look the Professor replied, "Of course Headmaster." He then looked toward Harry and said, "You may go now, but if you do not make it back by the end of class, your assignment is to write a paper on the ethics of becoming an animagus, which is what we will be discussing today. Do you have any questions?" "No, Professor Easton." Harry replied.

With that Albus motioned for Harry to leave the classroom. When they were out in the hallway, Albus told Harry to follow him to his office where they would talk in private. In his office, he told Harry to take a seat, then told him of the reason he was here. "As you know Harry, three days ago Professor Snape was injured. While I do not know all of the details, I have been led to suspect that the reason you were to report for detention that night may have some bearing on how Professor Snape came to be so grievously injured. So, would you please give me a concise description of the events leading up to you receiving a detention?"

"Of course Headmaster," Harry replied, looking a little green, "I would be happy to. It all started four days ago when I arrived for my potions lesson....."

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Once again please review or email me at born2rumble1st@yahoo.com. I know that I said that I would be getting to the story of how Severus got infected by the potion in this chapter but the chapters sort of split on me. Sorry! So coming up in the next few chapters will be the story of the potion, a little bit of Alex's past, and some flashbacks by Severus on what happened that night with Voldemort. Also please tell me what you think of an alternate version of this story with a Harry/Snape pairing. I have some good ideas, but if no one wants it then I won't write it. If you're curious, the way I would do it is: to have the prologue and chapter 1 the same but instead of this chapter, there would be a completely different one. Most likely the events in this story would not resemble the ones in that story at all. Also because I will be posting infrequently after this the chapters will be getting longer. Though if you prefer I could post more chapters this size more frequently or I could post longer chapters that are posted farther apart. Let me know what you think!:)