A/N: Thanks for the reviews guys, I appreciate it. Well here's the next
chapter and this is NOT going to turn into a Lei and Severus fic. I firmly
believe in not having relationships between students and teachers. Oh and
Lei will not find out about Dumbledore being her father yet, I established
in the last fic that she won't find out until she turns 18 and that won't
be for another year and it certainly won't be happening in this fic. This
fic's primary focus is Sev and Harry and I'm going to try and keep it that
way. I already said that if Harry hooks up with somebody it's going to be
Ginny but I'm not a romance writer and I doubt that it'll come to that but
we'll see. Anyways, here's the next chapter so ENJOY!!!!!
Chapter 23
Before leaving Harry's room Severus left a bottle of the potion for Harry on his desk with a note attached with instructions on how and when to take it. Severus made hisway down to his dungeons and stood just inside the door noting how quiet it sounded and empty it felt without Harry being there.
Harry sat on his bed feeling fairly alone. He had grown accustomed to being around his father all of the time in the past couple of weeks. Harry mentally smacked himself and said,
"Get a hold of yourself. You're 15 and a Gryffindor at that! Stop acting like a little kid!"
Harry went over to his bookshelf and pulled off a book on his shelf and sat on his bed and started to write out some new strategies for the team to practice after tryouts.
Severus took a long and hot shower and got into his pajamas and grabbed the book he had been reading the night before in Harry's room, climbed into bed and read until he fell asleep.
After writing out 5 new plays Harry saw the time and got into his pajamas and getting a goblet full of potion and set it on his bedside table. He climbed into bed and snuggled under the sheets and laid down. Seizing the goblet Harry drank it down and no sooner than he set the cup down on the bedside table than he was fast asleep.
Just after midnight Severus woke up to searing pain in his left arm from his dark mark. Severus immediately jumped out of bed and threw on his death eater robes and grabbed his mask and headed out the door.
Once he got past the anti-apparition wards he apparated into a large room. Sitting in a throne in front of him was Lord Voldemort. Severus dropped to his knees and kissed the hem of Voldemort's robe and said,
"You summoned my Lord."
"Yes I did Severus, now get up."
Severus stood and waited as Voldemort rose from his throne and started to circle around him. Finally Voldemort Spoke.
"I heard that you recently had to care for Harry Potter for 2 weeks while he was transformed into a small child."
"Yes my Lord, that was correct. Loathe as I am to admit it."
"And why did you not bring him to me? Or at least send word to me."
"Dumbledore was constantly watching me and I couldn't slip off with him."
"Yes Severus, I do suppose you're right. Is the boy back to normal yet?"
"YEs my Lord, just yesterday."
"I see. Severus I am starting to plan my invasion and subsequent take over of Hogwarts."
Severus internally paled but kept his neutral facial expression and said,
"Do you know when it will happen my Lord?"
Voldemort and took out his wand and cast 'crucio' on Severus. After taking the curse off and Severus had scrambled to his feet Voldemort said,
"All in due time my dear boy, and you should know better not to question me. You will know when I deem it necessary to tell you."
"Yes my Lord, forgive me my Lord."
"Severus my boy. Just make sure that it never happens again."
"Yes my Lord."
"I thought it would be a nice surprise for our dear Mr. Potter to have the attack happen on Halloween. A little remembrance and reminder of what happened 14 years ago."
"An excellent idea my Lord."
"Crucio."
Voldemort held the curse for a minute, released it and said,
"I don't recall asking for your approval Severus."
"Yes my Lord, I apologize."
"Never let it happen again Severus, for you know the consequences."
Severus stayed silent and Voldemort said,
"Make sure that you never forget to send any information to me. Especially regarding Mr. Potter."
"Yes my Lord." Severus replied and turned to leave.
"Oh and Severus."
Snape turned from his retreat from the chamber and said,
"Yes my Lord."
"Crucio."
After 30 seconds Voldemort took the curse off and said,
"Never leave before I dismiss you. Now get out of my sight."
Severus bowed and left the chamber and apparated back to Hogwarts. He barely made it down to his dungeons, drank a potion to help with the aftereffects and collapsed onto his bed still in his Death Eater robes and fell asleep.
Harry jolted awake very early the next morning, remembering in painful clarity the vision from the night. He jumped out of bed and hurriedly got dressed and wrote notes to Ron and Hermione telling them not to wait for him and grabbed his stuff for class and ran out the door. He ran all the way to the Headmaster's office then realized that he didn't know the password. After several tries the door finally opened for fizzing whizbees. Harry dashed up the stairs then knocked on Dumbledore's door. After hearing a 'come in' Harry walked into the familiar office and said in a rush,
"Professor, Dad was summoned last night. Voldemort tortured him a bit and then said that he was planning an attack on Hogwarts on Halloween as a reminder to me of what happened at my parents house." Harry sucked in a breath as Dumbledore said,
"Thank you for the information Harry. Now why don't we go down and check on your father."
Harry nodded and followed Dumbledore out of his office and down to his father's dungeon quarters. The two arrived in the quarters and walked back into Severus' bedchambers. Severus had not moved from his position on the bed during the night and was still in his death eater robes. He had a knot on his forehead, probably from hitting the floor, and a few other bruises here and there from thrashing and convulsing.
Harry walked around to the side of the bed and put his hand on his father's shoulder. Severus woke up and looked into Harry's worried emerald eyes, cracked a smile and said in a raw voice,
"How did I know you'd be down here the moment you woke up."
"Probably because you might be more of a seer than Trelawney is." Harry joked
Severus snorted and said,
"Yes but that doesn't take much."
Albus smiled at the scene before him and cleared his throat and said,
"Harry's already given me a full report of everything that happened from his vision. How are you feeling Severus?"
"Like I've been trampled by a heard of rampaging hippogriffs." Severus replied
Albus smiled and said,
"As to be expected. I'll take the liberty of cancelling your classes for today."
Severus sat up and said,
"No Albus, that is not necessary. The students have had too much time off as it is. I'll be up to breakfast soon."
Dumbledore knew not to argue with Severus because once he got his mind set on something you would never change it.
"Very well Severus, I will see you up in the Great Hall then." Albus said then took his leave.
Harry looked at his father and gave him a hug as if to solidify that he was actually there and fine. Severus hugged Harry back then said,
"I see you remembered to take the potion last night. I'm sorry you had to see that though."
"I see stuff like that every night, you know that Dad. At least it wasn't as bad last night as it was when they're going out."
"You're right Harry. Now I'm sure that Weasley and Granger are looking for you so go and eat breakfast, I'll see you up in the Great Hall and if I don't see you there for some reason I'll see you in class." Severus said with a mock glare.
Harry smiled and left the room and quarters and made his way up to the Great Hall. Since it was barely past 7 o'clock the hall was fairly empty. Harry sat down at the Gryffindor table and opened up his potions textbook to make sure he was absolutely prepared for that day's lesson.
An hour later Harry was still slowly eating his breakfast and reading over his make-up work, when Ron and Hermione joined him. Hermione said,
"Where'd you go so early this morning Harry? I bumped into Lei and said that she saw you dashing out of the quarters before 7 o'clock."
"I had another vision last night and I had to go tell Dumbledore, it was really important."
Ron and Hermione just nodded knowing not to ask Harry what went on in his dreams and visions because he would never tell them. Harry looked up and saw his father enter the hall through the door behind the head table. Severus met Harry's eyes and gave a look that said 'did you really think that I wouldn't show up?' Harry just snorted and returned to his meal and converstation.
The trio arrived at Snape's dungeons, ready for another potions lesson. Snape swept into the room and his eyes met with Harry's, sneered and said,
"Well well well, it seems that Mr. Potter has finally decided to grace us with his presence again."
The Slytherins snickered and Draco shot Harry a nasty look as Snape turned his back to write the instructions for that lesson on the board. After writing out the ingredients and instructions he said,
"Get to work now! Oh and Potter you have some work to hand in."
Harry sighed and rose from his seat grabbing the 2 essays that he had already done that he knew was perfect, or pretty close to it, and walked up to Snape's desk. Setting the essays on the desk, Harry walked back to his seat where he started to arrange the ingredients for the numbness potion that they were to make that day.
The rest of the class passed by for the most part uneventfully. Except for Malfoy's glares, sneers and extra ingredient tossing in Harry's general direction. Harry mentally shook his head and thought to himself 'some people never change, or grow up for that matter.'
Snape swept around the room in his usual manner, praising the Slytherins and subtracting points from the Gryffindors. While bending over Harry's cauldron Snape gave Harry a note saying to come to his rooms after dinner that night. Snape swept away and told the class to bottle their potions, label and turn them in and to clean up their messes. The bell rang, signalling the end of class and the class very quickly left the dungeon classroom and made their way to their next classes.
A/N: I hope that chapter was okay, I've been incredibly busy lately unfortunately. I just got done with the dance concert rehersal and performances that I had to do with my choir and the work is just piling up on me at this stage in the semester. I'm going home in 2 weeks for Thanksgiving though for a 5 day weekend so I'll hopefully be getting out a couple of chapters then but we're going to my grandparents house in West Virginia and I think they have a computer but it might be my uncle's so I might not be able to post them but I'll at least be able to handwrite them because I'm going to bring my notebook with me! So as soon as I get to a computer then I'll have more chapters coming out. Hopefully I'll be able to update more before then but if not I'll make up for it during that break. Neways, push that little button down there on the left and leave me a review and tell me if you think that this chapter totally sucked or that you liked it!
Chapter 23
Before leaving Harry's room Severus left a bottle of the potion for Harry on his desk with a note attached with instructions on how and when to take it. Severus made hisway down to his dungeons and stood just inside the door noting how quiet it sounded and empty it felt without Harry being there.
Harry sat on his bed feeling fairly alone. He had grown accustomed to being around his father all of the time in the past couple of weeks. Harry mentally smacked himself and said,
"Get a hold of yourself. You're 15 and a Gryffindor at that! Stop acting like a little kid!"
Harry went over to his bookshelf and pulled off a book on his shelf and sat on his bed and started to write out some new strategies for the team to practice after tryouts.
Severus took a long and hot shower and got into his pajamas and grabbed the book he had been reading the night before in Harry's room, climbed into bed and read until he fell asleep.
After writing out 5 new plays Harry saw the time and got into his pajamas and getting a goblet full of potion and set it on his bedside table. He climbed into bed and snuggled under the sheets and laid down. Seizing the goblet Harry drank it down and no sooner than he set the cup down on the bedside table than he was fast asleep.
Just after midnight Severus woke up to searing pain in his left arm from his dark mark. Severus immediately jumped out of bed and threw on his death eater robes and grabbed his mask and headed out the door.
Once he got past the anti-apparition wards he apparated into a large room. Sitting in a throne in front of him was Lord Voldemort. Severus dropped to his knees and kissed the hem of Voldemort's robe and said,
"You summoned my Lord."
"Yes I did Severus, now get up."
Severus stood and waited as Voldemort rose from his throne and started to circle around him. Finally Voldemort Spoke.
"I heard that you recently had to care for Harry Potter for 2 weeks while he was transformed into a small child."
"Yes my Lord, that was correct. Loathe as I am to admit it."
"And why did you not bring him to me? Or at least send word to me."
"Dumbledore was constantly watching me and I couldn't slip off with him."
"Yes Severus, I do suppose you're right. Is the boy back to normal yet?"
"YEs my Lord, just yesterday."
"I see. Severus I am starting to plan my invasion and subsequent take over of Hogwarts."
Severus internally paled but kept his neutral facial expression and said,
"Do you know when it will happen my Lord?"
Voldemort and took out his wand and cast 'crucio' on Severus. After taking the curse off and Severus had scrambled to his feet Voldemort said,
"All in due time my dear boy, and you should know better not to question me. You will know when I deem it necessary to tell you."
"Yes my Lord, forgive me my Lord."
"Severus my boy. Just make sure that it never happens again."
"Yes my Lord."
"I thought it would be a nice surprise for our dear Mr. Potter to have the attack happen on Halloween. A little remembrance and reminder of what happened 14 years ago."
"An excellent idea my Lord."
"Crucio."
Voldemort held the curse for a minute, released it and said,
"I don't recall asking for your approval Severus."
"Yes my Lord, I apologize."
"Never let it happen again Severus, for you know the consequences."
Severus stayed silent and Voldemort said,
"Make sure that you never forget to send any information to me. Especially regarding Mr. Potter."
"Yes my Lord." Severus replied and turned to leave.
"Oh and Severus."
Snape turned from his retreat from the chamber and said,
"Yes my Lord."
"Crucio."
After 30 seconds Voldemort took the curse off and said,
"Never leave before I dismiss you. Now get out of my sight."
Severus bowed and left the chamber and apparated back to Hogwarts. He barely made it down to his dungeons, drank a potion to help with the aftereffects and collapsed onto his bed still in his Death Eater robes and fell asleep.
Harry jolted awake very early the next morning, remembering in painful clarity the vision from the night. He jumped out of bed and hurriedly got dressed and wrote notes to Ron and Hermione telling them not to wait for him and grabbed his stuff for class and ran out the door. He ran all the way to the Headmaster's office then realized that he didn't know the password. After several tries the door finally opened for fizzing whizbees. Harry dashed up the stairs then knocked on Dumbledore's door. After hearing a 'come in' Harry walked into the familiar office and said in a rush,
"Professor, Dad was summoned last night. Voldemort tortured him a bit and then said that he was planning an attack on Hogwarts on Halloween as a reminder to me of what happened at my parents house." Harry sucked in a breath as Dumbledore said,
"Thank you for the information Harry. Now why don't we go down and check on your father."
Harry nodded and followed Dumbledore out of his office and down to his father's dungeon quarters. The two arrived in the quarters and walked back into Severus' bedchambers. Severus had not moved from his position on the bed during the night and was still in his death eater robes. He had a knot on his forehead, probably from hitting the floor, and a few other bruises here and there from thrashing and convulsing.
Harry walked around to the side of the bed and put his hand on his father's shoulder. Severus woke up and looked into Harry's worried emerald eyes, cracked a smile and said in a raw voice,
"How did I know you'd be down here the moment you woke up."
"Probably because you might be more of a seer than Trelawney is." Harry joked
Severus snorted and said,
"Yes but that doesn't take much."
Albus smiled at the scene before him and cleared his throat and said,
"Harry's already given me a full report of everything that happened from his vision. How are you feeling Severus?"
"Like I've been trampled by a heard of rampaging hippogriffs." Severus replied
Albus smiled and said,
"As to be expected. I'll take the liberty of cancelling your classes for today."
Severus sat up and said,
"No Albus, that is not necessary. The students have had too much time off as it is. I'll be up to breakfast soon."
Dumbledore knew not to argue with Severus because once he got his mind set on something you would never change it.
"Very well Severus, I will see you up in the Great Hall then." Albus said then took his leave.
Harry looked at his father and gave him a hug as if to solidify that he was actually there and fine. Severus hugged Harry back then said,
"I see you remembered to take the potion last night. I'm sorry you had to see that though."
"I see stuff like that every night, you know that Dad. At least it wasn't as bad last night as it was when they're going out."
"You're right Harry. Now I'm sure that Weasley and Granger are looking for you so go and eat breakfast, I'll see you up in the Great Hall and if I don't see you there for some reason I'll see you in class." Severus said with a mock glare.
Harry smiled and left the room and quarters and made his way up to the Great Hall. Since it was barely past 7 o'clock the hall was fairly empty. Harry sat down at the Gryffindor table and opened up his potions textbook to make sure he was absolutely prepared for that day's lesson.
An hour later Harry was still slowly eating his breakfast and reading over his make-up work, when Ron and Hermione joined him. Hermione said,
"Where'd you go so early this morning Harry? I bumped into Lei and said that she saw you dashing out of the quarters before 7 o'clock."
"I had another vision last night and I had to go tell Dumbledore, it was really important."
Ron and Hermione just nodded knowing not to ask Harry what went on in his dreams and visions because he would never tell them. Harry looked up and saw his father enter the hall through the door behind the head table. Severus met Harry's eyes and gave a look that said 'did you really think that I wouldn't show up?' Harry just snorted and returned to his meal and converstation.
The trio arrived at Snape's dungeons, ready for another potions lesson. Snape swept into the room and his eyes met with Harry's, sneered and said,
"Well well well, it seems that Mr. Potter has finally decided to grace us with his presence again."
The Slytherins snickered and Draco shot Harry a nasty look as Snape turned his back to write the instructions for that lesson on the board. After writing out the ingredients and instructions he said,
"Get to work now! Oh and Potter you have some work to hand in."
Harry sighed and rose from his seat grabbing the 2 essays that he had already done that he knew was perfect, or pretty close to it, and walked up to Snape's desk. Setting the essays on the desk, Harry walked back to his seat where he started to arrange the ingredients for the numbness potion that they were to make that day.
The rest of the class passed by for the most part uneventfully. Except for Malfoy's glares, sneers and extra ingredient tossing in Harry's general direction. Harry mentally shook his head and thought to himself 'some people never change, or grow up for that matter.'
Snape swept around the room in his usual manner, praising the Slytherins and subtracting points from the Gryffindors. While bending over Harry's cauldron Snape gave Harry a note saying to come to his rooms after dinner that night. Snape swept away and told the class to bottle their potions, label and turn them in and to clean up their messes. The bell rang, signalling the end of class and the class very quickly left the dungeon classroom and made their way to their next classes.
A/N: I hope that chapter was okay, I've been incredibly busy lately unfortunately. I just got done with the dance concert rehersal and performances that I had to do with my choir and the work is just piling up on me at this stage in the semester. I'm going home in 2 weeks for Thanksgiving though for a 5 day weekend so I'll hopefully be getting out a couple of chapters then but we're going to my grandparents house in West Virginia and I think they have a computer but it might be my uncle's so I might not be able to post them but I'll at least be able to handwrite them because I'm going to bring my notebook with me! So as soon as I get to a computer then I'll have more chapters coming out. Hopefully I'll be able to update more before then but if not I'll make up for it during that break. Neways, push that little button down there on the left and leave me a review and tell me if you think that this chapter totally sucked or that you liked it!