Chapter 4
A/N:I got inspired to write this chapter in my American Musical Theatre, Scene Study and my Choir rehersal! Go figure! Who knew that this would happen while listening to a lecture about Ziegfeld's Follies, people doing scenes and classical music! But thanks so much for the nice reviews oh and Littletiger I didn't steal your idea for the potion because I had actually never read your story, not to be mean or anything, I'm sure it 's very good. But I know what plagarism is, completely aware of it and I didn't do that, I was not aware that you had done the same thing so forgive me please. But on with the chapter and I hope it doesn't suck too bad!
After Severus and Harry left the Headmaster's office Severus unconsciously followed Harry back to Gryffindor Tower. Once they reached the Fat Lady and Harry was about to give the password when Severus said,
"Harry, if you have any more problems, especially nightmares, I want you to come down and tell me immediately. Whatever you do don't go back to sleep. All right?"
"All right....Dad. Blimey! I never thought I'd ever get the chance to say that." Harry said with a grin. Severus pulled his son into a firm hug and then shoved Harry towards the portrait hole.
"Good night, Harry."
"Night Dad."
With that Harry disappeared through the portrait hole.
Severus made his way down to his dungeon quarters after separating from Harry outside of Gryffindor Tower. He let himself into his rooms and then laboriously walked to his own bedroom. He changed into his pajamas and climbed into bed and fell asleep fairly quickly dreaming about his son and his deceased ex-wife.
Severus was brought out of a particularly pleasant dream when he felt somebody shaking him. He blearily opened his eyes only to be met with Harry's green ones. He sat up and rubbed the remaining sleep out of his eyes and said "Harry, what's wrong? What is it?"
"I had another dream." Harry said none too like a small child
Severus merely nodded and opened up one of his arms and becked the boy into his bed and put an arm around his son's shoulders and said "Feel up to telling me about it?"
Harry stiffened a bit and took a calming breath and started
"I had another dream about Voldemort. He was torturing a family of muggles. There were 6 people in the room. Both parents were there and they had four small children. The oldest didn't look any older than six years old. Then there was a set of what looked like three year old twins and an infant, that didn't look any older than a year old." He paused for a moment, taking a deep and calming breath and continued,
"He forced both parents to watch as he tortured all of their children to death then forced the husband to watch as he killed his wife with Avada Kedavra then they killed him."
That was more than Harry could take and he dissolved into tears. He barely noticed Severus grabbing him into a hug and pulling him onto his lap and holding the boy tight and rubbing his back and muttering soothing words in his ear while slightly rocking.
Before long Harry had cried himself to sleep, too tired and distraught to stay awake.
Severus didn't have the heart to wake Harry and was content to completely lay down without trying to disturb his son's sleep and soon fell back to sleep himself.
The next morning dawned brightly and Severus awoke before Harry at 6:45 am, fifteen minutes before his alarm was due to go off. He broke out a little smile when he realized that Harry was still curled up and clinging to him. He lay like that for a moment then gently shook the boys shoulders and whispered into his ear "Harry, time to get up. Come on Harry, you have to get back to your room."
Harry slowly became more aware of his surroundings and felt himself being shook and recognized his father's deep voice trying to call him awake. He groaned and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and sat up and looked into his father's eyes.
"Good morning, glad you finally decided to grace the living with your presence."
Harry wryly smiled and said "Yes, well I couldn't very well stay asleep if you were shaking me!"
"All right, as much as I love arguing with you, you need to get back to your room before your friends find out that you're not there."
"Good point, I guess I'll see you later tonight then, I guess I'll come down after dinner."
"All right, see you then Harry."
"Bye" With that Harry left to go back to his rooms.
He quietly crept down the hallways and entered the still empty common room. He went over to the tapestry and gave it the password, but as he stepped into the corridor he was met with Lei standing in the doorway of her room still dressed in her pajamas and her arms folded with a look on her face that was a mixture of a lot of emotions that Harry really couldn't identify.
"And where have you been all night? And in your pajamas no less!"
"I had to go to the loo." Harry quickly lied.
"Really? Because I know for a fact that you left this dormitory at 1am and haven't been back since. Come on Harry, you know I'm not stupid. Did you have another nightmare?"
Harry knew that it was stupid to try and fight with Lei and said "Yes I did and I went to go see Professor Snape. He told me to tell him if I had anymore."
Lei looked at him suspiciously and said "Well did you fall asleep down in his rooms or something?" "Yes I did, on accident and just got woken up and came back here to get ready for the day."
Harry could tell that Lei knew that he was leaving something major out but decided not to persue it and said "All right. Harry you know you can talk to me about anything, right?"
"Yes I do Lei but I really needed to talk to Professor Snape about this."
"All right Harry, have a good day. I'll see you around."
"All right Lei. See you around."
Harry walked down the rest of the hallway and lingered outside of Ron and Hermione's rooms and noted that there were no sounds coming from inside which meant that they were both asleep. Hermione was usually an early riser but was never up this early, and Ron was never a morning person and so he liked to sleep as late as he possibly could with just enough time to get ready for breakfast. Harry walked past their rooms and gave the password to his room and entered. He went over to his wardrobe and took out a clean robe, shirt, slacks and sweater and laid them out on the bed. Then he went to take a quick shower and got dressed rather quickly. He pulled his wet hair back into a ponytail as usual and gathered up all of his books for the days classes and pulled a book off of his shelf and went out into the empty common room to wait for Ron and Hermione. About 30 minutes later Hermione emerged and Ron about 10 minutes after Hermione and they made their way to the Great Hall for breakfast in silence. Only after Harry had started to tuck into a bowl of porridge did Hermione speak up
"Harry what did Snape want last night?" Oh he just wanted to make sure everything was all right after what happened in class yesterday. That was it."
"Then why did you come back so late last night? Surely it didn't take that long just to talk about that one little thing." Harry inwardly groaned 'leave it to Hermione to keep prying!' He thought to himself "Well we just ended up talking about other things, that's all."
Hermione got the feeling that Harry wasn't being entirely honest and that he was leaving something out but decided to not push it. Harry then turned his attention to Ron and said "So Ron, you going to try out for the Quidditch team this year? We have a couple of openings." "I was thinking about trying out, but I'm not sure Harry. I don't have a good broom and I'd probably make a fool out of my self."
"Ron I've seen you fly, even on your old broom you're good. Just go for it, I know you probably have a chance."
Ron flashed Harry a smile and said "Yeah, I guess I will try out, just let me know when they are."
"Sure thing mate." Harry checked his watch and said "We'd better go Ron, or we'll be late to Divination. Want to bet that it'll take Trelawny less than 15 minutes into class to predict my death?" "You're on mate." The two boys shook on it and Hermione followed them out of the hall to make her way to her Arithmancy class.
A/N:I got inspired to write this chapter in my American Musical Theatre, Scene Study and my Choir rehersal! Go figure! Who knew that this would happen while listening to a lecture about Ziegfeld's Follies, people doing scenes and classical music! But thanks so much for the nice reviews oh and Littletiger I didn't steal your idea for the potion because I had actually never read your story, not to be mean or anything, I'm sure it 's very good. But I know what plagarism is, completely aware of it and I didn't do that, I was not aware that you had done the same thing so forgive me please. But on with the chapter and I hope it doesn't suck too bad!
After Severus and Harry left the Headmaster's office Severus unconsciously followed Harry back to Gryffindor Tower. Once they reached the Fat Lady and Harry was about to give the password when Severus said,
"Harry, if you have any more problems, especially nightmares, I want you to come down and tell me immediately. Whatever you do don't go back to sleep. All right?"
"All right....Dad. Blimey! I never thought I'd ever get the chance to say that." Harry said with a grin. Severus pulled his son into a firm hug and then shoved Harry towards the portrait hole.
"Good night, Harry."
"Night Dad."
With that Harry disappeared through the portrait hole.
Severus made his way down to his dungeon quarters after separating from Harry outside of Gryffindor Tower. He let himself into his rooms and then laboriously walked to his own bedroom. He changed into his pajamas and climbed into bed and fell asleep fairly quickly dreaming about his son and his deceased ex-wife.
Severus was brought out of a particularly pleasant dream when he felt somebody shaking him. He blearily opened his eyes only to be met with Harry's green ones. He sat up and rubbed the remaining sleep out of his eyes and said "Harry, what's wrong? What is it?"
"I had another dream." Harry said none too like a small child
Severus merely nodded and opened up one of his arms and becked the boy into his bed and put an arm around his son's shoulders and said "Feel up to telling me about it?"
Harry stiffened a bit and took a calming breath and started
"I had another dream about Voldemort. He was torturing a family of muggles. There were 6 people in the room. Both parents were there and they had four small children. The oldest didn't look any older than six years old. Then there was a set of what looked like three year old twins and an infant, that didn't look any older than a year old." He paused for a moment, taking a deep and calming breath and continued,
"He forced both parents to watch as he tortured all of their children to death then forced the husband to watch as he killed his wife with Avada Kedavra then they killed him."
That was more than Harry could take and he dissolved into tears. He barely noticed Severus grabbing him into a hug and pulling him onto his lap and holding the boy tight and rubbing his back and muttering soothing words in his ear while slightly rocking.
Before long Harry had cried himself to sleep, too tired and distraught to stay awake.
Severus didn't have the heart to wake Harry and was content to completely lay down without trying to disturb his son's sleep and soon fell back to sleep himself.
The next morning dawned brightly and Severus awoke before Harry at 6:45 am, fifteen minutes before his alarm was due to go off. He broke out a little smile when he realized that Harry was still curled up and clinging to him. He lay like that for a moment then gently shook the boys shoulders and whispered into his ear "Harry, time to get up. Come on Harry, you have to get back to your room."
Harry slowly became more aware of his surroundings and felt himself being shook and recognized his father's deep voice trying to call him awake. He groaned and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and sat up and looked into his father's eyes.
"Good morning, glad you finally decided to grace the living with your presence."
Harry wryly smiled and said "Yes, well I couldn't very well stay asleep if you were shaking me!"
"All right, as much as I love arguing with you, you need to get back to your room before your friends find out that you're not there."
"Good point, I guess I'll see you later tonight then, I guess I'll come down after dinner."
"All right, see you then Harry."
"Bye" With that Harry left to go back to his rooms.
He quietly crept down the hallways and entered the still empty common room. He went over to the tapestry and gave it the password, but as he stepped into the corridor he was met with Lei standing in the doorway of her room still dressed in her pajamas and her arms folded with a look on her face that was a mixture of a lot of emotions that Harry really couldn't identify.
"And where have you been all night? And in your pajamas no less!"
"I had to go to the loo." Harry quickly lied.
"Really? Because I know for a fact that you left this dormitory at 1am and haven't been back since. Come on Harry, you know I'm not stupid. Did you have another nightmare?"
Harry knew that it was stupid to try and fight with Lei and said "Yes I did and I went to go see Professor Snape. He told me to tell him if I had anymore."
Lei looked at him suspiciously and said "Well did you fall asleep down in his rooms or something?" "Yes I did, on accident and just got woken up and came back here to get ready for the day."
Harry could tell that Lei knew that he was leaving something major out but decided not to persue it and said "All right. Harry you know you can talk to me about anything, right?"
"Yes I do Lei but I really needed to talk to Professor Snape about this."
"All right Harry, have a good day. I'll see you around."
"All right Lei. See you around."
Harry walked down the rest of the hallway and lingered outside of Ron and Hermione's rooms and noted that there were no sounds coming from inside which meant that they were both asleep. Hermione was usually an early riser but was never up this early, and Ron was never a morning person and so he liked to sleep as late as he possibly could with just enough time to get ready for breakfast. Harry walked past their rooms and gave the password to his room and entered. He went over to his wardrobe and took out a clean robe, shirt, slacks and sweater and laid them out on the bed. Then he went to take a quick shower and got dressed rather quickly. He pulled his wet hair back into a ponytail as usual and gathered up all of his books for the days classes and pulled a book off of his shelf and went out into the empty common room to wait for Ron and Hermione. About 30 minutes later Hermione emerged and Ron about 10 minutes after Hermione and they made their way to the Great Hall for breakfast in silence. Only after Harry had started to tuck into a bowl of porridge did Hermione speak up
"Harry what did Snape want last night?" Oh he just wanted to make sure everything was all right after what happened in class yesterday. That was it."
"Then why did you come back so late last night? Surely it didn't take that long just to talk about that one little thing." Harry inwardly groaned 'leave it to Hermione to keep prying!' He thought to himself "Well we just ended up talking about other things, that's all."
Hermione got the feeling that Harry wasn't being entirely honest and that he was leaving something out but decided to not push it. Harry then turned his attention to Ron and said "So Ron, you going to try out for the Quidditch team this year? We have a couple of openings." "I was thinking about trying out, but I'm not sure Harry. I don't have a good broom and I'd probably make a fool out of my self."
"Ron I've seen you fly, even on your old broom you're good. Just go for it, I know you probably have a chance."
Ron flashed Harry a smile and said "Yeah, I guess I will try out, just let me know when they are."
"Sure thing mate." Harry checked his watch and said "We'd better go Ron, or we'll be late to Divination. Want to bet that it'll take Trelawny less than 15 minutes into class to predict my death?" "You're on mate." The two boys shook on it and Hermione followed them out of the hall to make her way to her Arithmancy class.