A/N: Well I decided to get going on this chapter out of sheer boredom. I
have nothing to do for right now so I decided to start. The pace is going
to start picking up a bit now that I've established everything that I need
to establish. So don't worry, the pace is going to pick up. I'll stop
rambling now and get on with the chapter. ENJOY!!!!!!
Chapter 30
The next week went by completely uneventfully as Harry regained his strength and got everything back to normal. Severus' classes had been cancelled and a rather long essay assigned to all of the classes to keep the students occupied while he helped Harry in the hospital wing. He slowly had to rebuild his strength from being in bed for so long. Harry's muscles were not used to being used and had to have help walking around.
By thursday Harry was doing much better. He could walk around unassisted for the most part but got tired if he had to walk extremely long distances, which meant divination continuation was out of the question for Harry. The look on Harry's face was priceless when Severus told him. Harry was now going to be taking Study of Ancient Runes. Hermione had been coming by during her free time to tutor Harry.
It seemed that Harry had a natural talent for the subject and was quickly learning and translating and writing just as good as Hermione. Ginny was also a frequent visitor and her and Harry grew closer by the day.
Two weeks after Harry had destroyed Voldemort Harry was ready to go back to Gryffindor Tower. Severus and Ginny walked with Harry. They decided to go while the rest of the students were still at dinner so Harry wouldn't have to be around them. Harry was very nervous about going back. He wasn't sure how the rest of the student body was going to act around him. He was even more nervous about how the student body was going to react to finding out that Snape was his real father.
At least he knew that Ron, Hermione, Ginny and the rest of the Weasleys would be all right. As long as he had those guys, nothing else really mattered to Harry.
The common room was obviously empty. Harry had eaten in the hospital wing just before he left. They made their way to Harry's room. Ginny had never been in the prefect's area before so this was a lot of fun for her. Especially since Harry was showing her his room.
Harry, Ginny and Severus stepped inside his room. Clearly a house elf had been in to tidy. Ginny and Severus helped Harry put away the things that he'd brought from the hospital wing which consisted of some books and the make up and homework that he'd completed.
Ginny got the feeling that Severus wanted to talk to Harry so she made her excuses. Severus looked over to Harry who had sat down in his armchair with a look of contentment on his face and said,
"It feels so good to just sit in a chair again and not be in a bed."
Severus snorted and said,
"I can imagine. Now that you're out of the hospital wing and ready to go back to class it's finally time to let our secret out."
Harry nodded and said,
"I know, I'm just nervous about it. That's all."
"Perfectly understandable Harry. I believe that Albus is planning on announcing it at breakfast tomorrow so that way it's done and overwith and we don't have to worry about it anymore. Just remember one thing. If anybody gives you any problems or does anything, just ignore them. Your friends already know and have accepted it and that's what matters."
Harry nodded, sighed and said,
"I know Dad, it's just wierd. I mean the whole school practically shunned me second year because they found out I'm a parselmouth and then last year there was the whole triwizard...." Harry dropped off and couldn't continue which Severus perfectly understood.
"Harry, I know. But it doesn't matter what the school things. You know that the students will turn on anybody and unfortunately because you are who you are, they'll especially do it to you. But at least the school won't think that I'm trying to force you into being a death eater."
Harry smiled and snorted and Severus stood up and said
"You know that you can always come down to my rooms whenever you want to. If you want you can stay down there during the weekends too. We're going to be staying here for Christmas and you can either stay up here in the Tower or down in my rooms."
Harry nodded and said,
"All right Dad. I think I'm just going to read now and go to bed early, I'm kind of tired."
"All right Harry. Harry, do you want me to make a potion for you to take to supress your nightmares?"
"Actually that'd be great Dad. You know how bad they are and the last thing that I need right now is to loose sleep."
"Or to end up back in the hospital wing after you've had an attack from it."
Harry smiled and nodded and said,
"Exactly. I just got out of there, I don't fancy having to go back there again for a while."
Severus hugged Harry, kissed his forehead and ruffled his hair and walked towards the door and said,
"I'll get working on it and as soon as it's done I'll bring it up to you and we'll test it out."
Harry smiled and said,
"All right Dad. Night, I'll see you tomorrow morning."
"Good night Harry."
Severus left the quarters. Harry decided that since it was still pretty early that he was going to take a bath in the prefects bathroom. Getting out of his robes and putting on his bathrobe he made his way through the silent and empty halls to the prefects bathroom.
He stepped inside the familiar room and walked over to the swimming pool sized bathtub and turned on a few of the taps and the tub quickly filled with bubbles and scented foam. Harry grabbed a towel and put it on the side of the pool and put his bathrobe on a nearby chair. He slipped into the bathwater, relishing in the feeling of being able to do that again.
Harry finished his bath and feeling blisfully and deliciously clean he put his hair up into a towel turban and put his bathrobe on and made his way back to his room. He entered the common room and quickly realized that dinner had obviously ended and students were scattered around the room. Harry slipped over to the the tapestry. He was almost there when he heard his name being shouted,
"Harry! Harry! Over here." Harry turned around and saw his fellow 5th year boys waving him over. Harry waved and said,
"Let me change and I'll be out."
"Okay." Seamus said
Harry went to his room and got dressed in a pair of blue and green plaid flannel pants and a long sleeved blue cotton shirt, braided his hair and headed back out into the common room. He made his way over to the group of his fellow 5th years. He took a seat in an armchair as Dean said,
"Did you just get back tonight Harry?"
Harry nodded and said,
"Yeah, I came while everybody was still at dinner."
"I heard that Snape was up in the Hospital Wing with you Harry. Why was he there?" Seamus quipped
Harry took a deep breath and said looking Seamus, Dean and Neville in the eye,
"Now we're friends right?"
The 3 boys nodded and Neville said,
"We've shared a dormitory for the past 4 years Harry. I'd definitely say we're friends."
"Good, because what I'm going to tell you is going to be pretty hard to grasp but please don't freak out."
The 3 boys nodded and said,
"The reason that Snape was up in the Hospital Wing with me is because he was staying and helping me. Snape is actually my father, that's why he had permission to be in there when most people were kept out."
The 3 boys sat in stunned silence and Dean finally said,
"Woa Harry, that's pretty huge."
"Yeah, when'd you find out Harry?" Seamus piped up
"Beginning of term but Snape and I had to keep it a secret in case his cover was blown. He was a spy inside Voldemort's inner circle. So he had to pretend that he hated all Gryffindors, especially me and completely favor the Slytherins because most of their parents were Death Eaters and would tell Voldemort and get him killed if he didn't favor them."
Neville finally found his voice and said,
"So that's why Snape took care of you after you had that accident in potions?"
"Yes, that is most of it."
"Then why was there no class for the last week that you were still a kid?" Seamus asked
"Because I was in hospital for an asthma attack until tuesday afternoon and he refused to leave without me. The day after we got back here I had to have my memory restored because I remembered nothing from before the accident and then he helped me finish my homework."
"Oh, I didn't know you were asthmatic Harry." Dean said
"I didn't get it until this summer but that's why I was in the hospital wing for so long after the battle. I kept having problems but everything's fine now. Perfectly normal." Harry said with a smile
The rest of the boys smiled and Neville said,
"Harry it is a bit wierd that Snape's your dad but in all honesty it doesn't change who you are as a person. Just that you have a parent now when you thought you didn't have any."
"Yeah Harry, it doesn't matter who your parents are. You're still the same person that has been in Gryffindor for the past 5 years, broken school rules that I never knew existed and been the youngest seeker on a hogwarts house team in a century." Dean added
"Well, it doesn't matter to me, I think it's kind of cool. I mean maybe he'll go a little bit easier on you in class now." Seamus added
Harry smiled, shrugged and said,
"Thanks guys. I was a bit nervous as to how people were going to react to this. Oh and actually everybody's going to get a bit of a shock in class. You see now that Voldemort is gone and the remaining Death Eaters are in Azkaban Snape doesn't have to pretend anymore. He's like a completely different person. He's not the evil git that everybody thinks he is. That was all an act so there's going to be a lot of changes in a very short amount of time."
"Well I guess that's a good thing then." Neville said
The conversation quickly shifted to quidditch. The boys were all anxious to hear about Harry's plans for the team this year. Ron came into the common room a little after 8:30 and joined in the talks. By 9 o'clock Harry was getting very tired. He stood up, stretched and said,
"All right guys, I'm off to bed. I'm really tired so I'll see you all tomorrow in class.
A chorus of 'night Harry' followed him to the prefects area. Harry went into his room and walked over to his bookshelf and grabbed a book. He settled down into his bed and started to read and was very soon fast asleep.
During the time that Harry was bathing and talking with the boys Severus was down in his dungeons doing research again. He knew that this potion would be easier to develop and very quickly had devised the process and ingredients for the potion.
Severus quickly made it and put it in a vial. He looked at the clock on the mantle and it read 11:45. Severus grabbed a goblet and made the way to Gryffindor Tower. He reached the Tower and made his way to his son's room.
He entered the room to see Harry shifting around uncomfortably, moaning and mumbling. Severus quickly walked over to Harry and grasped the boy's shoulders and tried to shake him awake. When that didn't work Severus repeated his action from earlier in the week and grasped the sides of his son's thrashing head and spoke softly to the boy. This time it worked and Harry's eyes popped open and met his father's onyx
"Dad?" Harry said in a shaky voice
"Don't worry Harry. I came up here to try out the potion I just made. I just happened to arrive while you were having it. Now come on, you need to take this."
Severus reached over to the bedside table where he had set the goblet and filled it. He handed the goblet to Harry who had sat up a bit. As he handed the goblet to Harry he said,
"Now I did the same thing with this potion and put a sleeping agent in it."
Harry took the goblet, nodded and said,
"Okay, thanks Dad."
"You're welcome Harry, now drink up."
Harry downed the potion and almost dropped the goblet and fell backwards but Severus had grabbed both. He held onto Harry and set the goblet on the bedside table, lowered Harry back down onto the bed, covered him up and brushed the boy's bangs back and quietly slipped from the room and made his way back to his quarters.
A/N: All right I think that's a good enough stopping place and given the fact that it's 2:45am means that it's just a bit past my bedtime. I'll have the next chapter out by wednesday hopefully, but that depends on my schedule and everything else that's going on but it'll be out latest on thursday. I hope everybody's happy now that Harry's out of the hospital wing and back in Gryffindor. Next comes the announcement and the quidditch match probably. Now that the battle is done the pace is really going to pick up which I know I definitely want. Now push that little button to leave me a review and tell me what you think of this chapter but don't forget, flames will be used to roast marshmallows for s'mores!! TTFN!
Chapter 30
The next week went by completely uneventfully as Harry regained his strength and got everything back to normal. Severus' classes had been cancelled and a rather long essay assigned to all of the classes to keep the students occupied while he helped Harry in the hospital wing. He slowly had to rebuild his strength from being in bed for so long. Harry's muscles were not used to being used and had to have help walking around.
By thursday Harry was doing much better. He could walk around unassisted for the most part but got tired if he had to walk extremely long distances, which meant divination continuation was out of the question for Harry. The look on Harry's face was priceless when Severus told him. Harry was now going to be taking Study of Ancient Runes. Hermione had been coming by during her free time to tutor Harry.
It seemed that Harry had a natural talent for the subject and was quickly learning and translating and writing just as good as Hermione. Ginny was also a frequent visitor and her and Harry grew closer by the day.
Two weeks after Harry had destroyed Voldemort Harry was ready to go back to Gryffindor Tower. Severus and Ginny walked with Harry. They decided to go while the rest of the students were still at dinner so Harry wouldn't have to be around them. Harry was very nervous about going back. He wasn't sure how the rest of the student body was going to act around him. He was even more nervous about how the student body was going to react to finding out that Snape was his real father.
At least he knew that Ron, Hermione, Ginny and the rest of the Weasleys would be all right. As long as he had those guys, nothing else really mattered to Harry.
The common room was obviously empty. Harry had eaten in the hospital wing just before he left. They made their way to Harry's room. Ginny had never been in the prefect's area before so this was a lot of fun for her. Especially since Harry was showing her his room.
Harry, Ginny and Severus stepped inside his room. Clearly a house elf had been in to tidy. Ginny and Severus helped Harry put away the things that he'd brought from the hospital wing which consisted of some books and the make up and homework that he'd completed.
Ginny got the feeling that Severus wanted to talk to Harry so she made her excuses. Severus looked over to Harry who had sat down in his armchair with a look of contentment on his face and said,
"It feels so good to just sit in a chair again and not be in a bed."
Severus snorted and said,
"I can imagine. Now that you're out of the hospital wing and ready to go back to class it's finally time to let our secret out."
Harry nodded and said,
"I know, I'm just nervous about it. That's all."
"Perfectly understandable Harry. I believe that Albus is planning on announcing it at breakfast tomorrow so that way it's done and overwith and we don't have to worry about it anymore. Just remember one thing. If anybody gives you any problems or does anything, just ignore them. Your friends already know and have accepted it and that's what matters."
Harry nodded, sighed and said,
"I know Dad, it's just wierd. I mean the whole school practically shunned me second year because they found out I'm a parselmouth and then last year there was the whole triwizard...." Harry dropped off and couldn't continue which Severus perfectly understood.
"Harry, I know. But it doesn't matter what the school things. You know that the students will turn on anybody and unfortunately because you are who you are, they'll especially do it to you. But at least the school won't think that I'm trying to force you into being a death eater."
Harry smiled and snorted and Severus stood up and said
"You know that you can always come down to my rooms whenever you want to. If you want you can stay down there during the weekends too. We're going to be staying here for Christmas and you can either stay up here in the Tower or down in my rooms."
Harry nodded and said,
"All right Dad. I think I'm just going to read now and go to bed early, I'm kind of tired."
"All right Harry. Harry, do you want me to make a potion for you to take to supress your nightmares?"
"Actually that'd be great Dad. You know how bad they are and the last thing that I need right now is to loose sleep."
"Or to end up back in the hospital wing after you've had an attack from it."
Harry smiled and nodded and said,
"Exactly. I just got out of there, I don't fancy having to go back there again for a while."
Severus hugged Harry, kissed his forehead and ruffled his hair and walked towards the door and said,
"I'll get working on it and as soon as it's done I'll bring it up to you and we'll test it out."
Harry smiled and said,
"All right Dad. Night, I'll see you tomorrow morning."
"Good night Harry."
Severus left the quarters. Harry decided that since it was still pretty early that he was going to take a bath in the prefects bathroom. Getting out of his robes and putting on his bathrobe he made his way through the silent and empty halls to the prefects bathroom.
He stepped inside the familiar room and walked over to the swimming pool sized bathtub and turned on a few of the taps and the tub quickly filled with bubbles and scented foam. Harry grabbed a towel and put it on the side of the pool and put his bathrobe on a nearby chair. He slipped into the bathwater, relishing in the feeling of being able to do that again.
Harry finished his bath and feeling blisfully and deliciously clean he put his hair up into a towel turban and put his bathrobe on and made his way back to his room. He entered the common room and quickly realized that dinner had obviously ended and students were scattered around the room. Harry slipped over to the the tapestry. He was almost there when he heard his name being shouted,
"Harry! Harry! Over here." Harry turned around and saw his fellow 5th year boys waving him over. Harry waved and said,
"Let me change and I'll be out."
"Okay." Seamus said
Harry went to his room and got dressed in a pair of blue and green plaid flannel pants and a long sleeved blue cotton shirt, braided his hair and headed back out into the common room. He made his way over to the group of his fellow 5th years. He took a seat in an armchair as Dean said,
"Did you just get back tonight Harry?"
Harry nodded and said,
"Yeah, I came while everybody was still at dinner."
"I heard that Snape was up in the Hospital Wing with you Harry. Why was he there?" Seamus quipped
Harry took a deep breath and said looking Seamus, Dean and Neville in the eye,
"Now we're friends right?"
The 3 boys nodded and Neville said,
"We've shared a dormitory for the past 4 years Harry. I'd definitely say we're friends."
"Good, because what I'm going to tell you is going to be pretty hard to grasp but please don't freak out."
The 3 boys nodded and said,
"The reason that Snape was up in the Hospital Wing with me is because he was staying and helping me. Snape is actually my father, that's why he had permission to be in there when most people were kept out."
The 3 boys sat in stunned silence and Dean finally said,
"Woa Harry, that's pretty huge."
"Yeah, when'd you find out Harry?" Seamus piped up
"Beginning of term but Snape and I had to keep it a secret in case his cover was blown. He was a spy inside Voldemort's inner circle. So he had to pretend that he hated all Gryffindors, especially me and completely favor the Slytherins because most of their parents were Death Eaters and would tell Voldemort and get him killed if he didn't favor them."
Neville finally found his voice and said,
"So that's why Snape took care of you after you had that accident in potions?"
"Yes, that is most of it."
"Then why was there no class for the last week that you were still a kid?" Seamus asked
"Because I was in hospital for an asthma attack until tuesday afternoon and he refused to leave without me. The day after we got back here I had to have my memory restored because I remembered nothing from before the accident and then he helped me finish my homework."
"Oh, I didn't know you were asthmatic Harry." Dean said
"I didn't get it until this summer but that's why I was in the hospital wing for so long after the battle. I kept having problems but everything's fine now. Perfectly normal." Harry said with a smile
The rest of the boys smiled and Neville said,
"Harry it is a bit wierd that Snape's your dad but in all honesty it doesn't change who you are as a person. Just that you have a parent now when you thought you didn't have any."
"Yeah Harry, it doesn't matter who your parents are. You're still the same person that has been in Gryffindor for the past 5 years, broken school rules that I never knew existed and been the youngest seeker on a hogwarts house team in a century." Dean added
"Well, it doesn't matter to me, I think it's kind of cool. I mean maybe he'll go a little bit easier on you in class now." Seamus added
Harry smiled, shrugged and said,
"Thanks guys. I was a bit nervous as to how people were going to react to this. Oh and actually everybody's going to get a bit of a shock in class. You see now that Voldemort is gone and the remaining Death Eaters are in Azkaban Snape doesn't have to pretend anymore. He's like a completely different person. He's not the evil git that everybody thinks he is. That was all an act so there's going to be a lot of changes in a very short amount of time."
"Well I guess that's a good thing then." Neville said
The conversation quickly shifted to quidditch. The boys were all anxious to hear about Harry's plans for the team this year. Ron came into the common room a little after 8:30 and joined in the talks. By 9 o'clock Harry was getting very tired. He stood up, stretched and said,
"All right guys, I'm off to bed. I'm really tired so I'll see you all tomorrow in class.
A chorus of 'night Harry' followed him to the prefects area. Harry went into his room and walked over to his bookshelf and grabbed a book. He settled down into his bed and started to read and was very soon fast asleep.
During the time that Harry was bathing and talking with the boys Severus was down in his dungeons doing research again. He knew that this potion would be easier to develop and very quickly had devised the process and ingredients for the potion.
Severus quickly made it and put it in a vial. He looked at the clock on the mantle and it read 11:45. Severus grabbed a goblet and made the way to Gryffindor Tower. He reached the Tower and made his way to his son's room.
He entered the room to see Harry shifting around uncomfortably, moaning and mumbling. Severus quickly walked over to Harry and grasped the boy's shoulders and tried to shake him awake. When that didn't work Severus repeated his action from earlier in the week and grasped the sides of his son's thrashing head and spoke softly to the boy. This time it worked and Harry's eyes popped open and met his father's onyx
"Dad?" Harry said in a shaky voice
"Don't worry Harry. I came up here to try out the potion I just made. I just happened to arrive while you were having it. Now come on, you need to take this."
Severus reached over to the bedside table where he had set the goblet and filled it. He handed the goblet to Harry who had sat up a bit. As he handed the goblet to Harry he said,
"Now I did the same thing with this potion and put a sleeping agent in it."
Harry took the goblet, nodded and said,
"Okay, thanks Dad."
"You're welcome Harry, now drink up."
Harry downed the potion and almost dropped the goblet and fell backwards but Severus had grabbed both. He held onto Harry and set the goblet on the bedside table, lowered Harry back down onto the bed, covered him up and brushed the boy's bangs back and quietly slipped from the room and made his way back to his quarters.
A/N: All right I think that's a good enough stopping place and given the fact that it's 2:45am means that it's just a bit past my bedtime. I'll have the next chapter out by wednesday hopefully, but that depends on my schedule and everything else that's going on but it'll be out latest on thursday. I hope everybody's happy now that Harry's out of the hospital wing and back in Gryffindor. Next comes the announcement and the quidditch match probably. Now that the battle is done the pace is really going to pick up which I know I definitely want. Now push that little button to leave me a review and tell me what you think of this chapter but don't forget, flames will be used to roast marshmallows for s'mores!! TTFN!