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A Different Life
Chapter 12 - Moving On
The last time Harry's uncle had laid a finger on him had been around one and a half years ago. Severus had gotten custody of Harry and Harry's uncle was handed over to the muggle police to be dealt with there.
Lucius Malfoy was demoted from his position in the Ministry. Severus had fought for a tougher punishment but Lucius could be very cunning when he wanted to be and the fact that he had friends in high places had helped.
Every once in a while Harry would go around and see Ron or Ron would come to Hogwarts and Harry would show him around. They were always writing letters to each other. Owl enjoyed the trip instead of having nothing to do.
Harry had just turned 8 a week ago and was still marvelling at Severus' and Remus' gift for him. They had both put their money together to buy him two of the latest broomsticks. Both were a Cleansweep Seven. One was for him to use and one for if anything ever happened to the other one, or if Severus or whoever was over wanted to play with him. Harry thought that mostly Ron would use it.
When he was at Hogwarts he now only did a bit of muggle school work set from Severus, since he knew how to read, write, maths and a lot of other things they taught him. He grasped them all really quickly. They didn't really know what else to teach him. Severus had once given him the world map and told him to learn every place on there. Harry of course couldn't remember them all but he remembered quite a few. After a talk with Dumbledore, Harry was aloud to sit in on some lessons if he had permission from both the professor that was teaching and Severus.
Harry tried to sit in with every class that Hogwarts taught, he wanted to learn everything. Though after sitting in on one Divination class he never went back.
Harry liked DADA the best, though Potions was the funniest. Harry found it amusing how scared everyone was of Severus.
Severus would teach Harry Potions whenever he was either bored or Harry had nothing to do, which meant Harry knew the most about Potions. He often helped Severus make them, though Harry could never understand Severus' love for it. Harry could find it rather boring at times. He much preferred learning about different types of creatures and such.
Harry spent a lot of his free time after classes in the library, being the only child in the castle had gotten very lonely for Harry, so he had taken to learning about everything.
Harry was sad that he wasn't going to see Remus' much through the school year anymore. Professor Quirrell was coming back. He was only going to be gone a year but he ended up staying for 2years. But now he was back.
Harry woke up early and quickly got changed and then headed off into the kitchen. Harry always made his own breakfast. It of course had to be done the muggle way since he couldn't do magic, but he had long ago given up waiting for Severus to wake up and magically do it for him, which meant that they had to buy some muggle things, like a toaster and such.
Harry had awoken Severus up one to many times in the morning, causing a very grumpy screaming lecture from Severus, which would be enough for anyone not to ever wake him up again. He had apologised after when he wasn't so grumpy but Harry had not once waked him up without a very good reason after that.
Harry was looking forward to today because Ron was coming over early morning sometime so they could play for the day, he was going back before dinner though. Harry had briefly seen him on his birthday but they had yet to play on the broomsticks. Harry couldn't wait. He hadn't gotten a good chance all week to do much on them since Severus would always be watching him, not letting him go too high or too fast, and after he would lock them away in a cupboard.
Harry had specifically invited Ron over in the early morning because he knew Severus would still be asleep. And he was pretty sure he knew how to do the un-locking spell, so he should be able to un-lock the cupboard using Severus' wand.
Then he and Ron would be able to have fun riding the Cleansweep Sevens and hopefully be able to put them back and re-lock the cupboard, and then place Severus' wand back without him even knowing anything had happened. Hopefully!
Ron arrived shortly after Harry had finished breakfast, Harry had gotten the fireplace ready for him to arrive.
Harry quietly snuck up to Severus' room, leaving Ron downstairs to wait. He walked silently over to where Severus' bed was. Harry knew Severus always kept his wand under his pillow that he was sleeping on.
Slowly Harry moved his arm and squashed his hand in-between the matrass and the pillow, trying to keep his hand flat he began his search. He slowly tired to feel around for it without disturbing the pillow too much.
He soon found it and he tried to pull it out without moving any of the part of the pillow where Severus' head was resting.
Once he finally had it he let out a sigh of relief and quickly exited the room.
He then made his way down to the cupboard and concentrated hard on opening it and then he said the words "Alohomora" which he had seen Severus and Professor Flitwick use often. He heard a click and saw that the cupboard had indeed opened.
Ron was behind him looking at him in awe.
"How'd you do that?" Ron asked, but was soon distracted by seeing the brooms to care about Harry's answer.
"Wow! Look at em! Come on, let's get as much flying done before Snape wakes up!" Ron said, now looking excided at the thought of flying, and also scared at the thought of Snape waking up.
Harry smiled and handed Ron a broom, then he took the remaining one and they both made their way outside.
Harry had never had so much fun. He and Ron just flew around, Harry loved to dive, he almost gave Ron a heart attack with the first dive he did.
After what only seemed like a short time they decided to take a break. But when they went back inside they realised that it had actually been quite a long time that they were out there.
Harry quickly put both brooms away and locked the cupboard using the wand that they had left lying around.
Harry quietly ran up the stairs and peeked through Severus' room to see him still asleep in his bed. Harry knew he would be waking up soon, but he didn't know if he should just sneak his wand back there later on and risk Severus noticing it was gone, or risk trying to put it back now.
Harry quickly chose to put it back now, knowing that Severus always used his wand in the morning and would be sure to notice it was missing before Harry would have a chance to place it back.
Harry quietly sneaked back over to Severus bed and peaked a look at him, his eyes were shut and he looked reasonably peaceful, indicating that he was asleep.
Harry carefully started to slide the wand under Severus' pillow when a voice made him jump.
"Harry, what are you doing with my wand?" Severus said, not having moved at all and his eyes still shut.
"Severus, you're awake." Harry said nervously.
"Yes, now what is your reason that explains why you have my wand in your hand?" Severus asked, finally opening his eyes and looking at Harry, but he remained lying down.
"I was... Eh... cleaning it" Harry said, not being able to think of anything else on the spot.
"I don't think cleaning it involves unlocking a cupboard and you and Mr. Weasley flying your broomsticks without permission or supervision." Severus replied dryly. He sat up on his bed, pulling the covers back.
"Really... well I'll keep that mind." Harry said, and made to leave when he heard Severus' threatening voice speak again.
"Harry, as soon as Ron leaves we are both going to have a talk." Severus said, indicating that Harry was in big trouble.
Harry gulped and nodded.
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Harry and Ron spent most of the day in Harry's room, avoiding Severus.
When it came time for Ron to leave, he practically ran past Severus to get to the fireplace to go back home.
As soon as he was gone Severus rounded on Harry, who was just sitting down in a chair waiting for Severus to lecture him.
"You took my wand, and then used magic with it, which by the way could have easily backfired, and flying on your brooms without any supervision! You could have broken your necks! Molly entrusts me with Ron when he comes over, what would have happened if he had injured himself! You have broken so many rules that I don't think I can even trust you to be alone for 5 minutes anymore!" Severus said in a low threatening voice, slowly getting louder as he went.
Harry looked down at his feet, feeling as though he had failed Severus.
"I'm really sorry Severus..." Harry whispered, still not looking Severus in the eye.
"SORRY! Oh you will be sorry when I'm through with you! You have got detention-" Severus started but was cut off by Harry.
As soon as the word 'detention' was said had shot up from his chair and responded. "What? I'm not one of your students, you can't just give me detention."
"I can and I will! You will be spending every night after dinner with me in my dungeon for four hours until the rest of the holidays are over! First you'll be cleaning and scrubbing it. We will go from there. Do I make myself clear Mr. Potter?" Severus looked livid.
Harry was outraged. But he knew well enough to not talk back to him, it would only be worse. Harry just replied with "Yes Professor Snape." He got a glimpse of why everyone at Hogwarts didn't seem to like him.
As Harry got into his room he heard Severus say one last thing, which Harry's only reply was to slam his door shut.
Severus had said "You are not allowed to see Mr Weasley for the rest of the holidays either, so you can forget about asking to stay over his house to get out of this detention."
Harry didn't come down for dinner, but spent the rest of the time pacing around his room. He had written to Ron telling him what happened. Severus hadn't said that he couldn't keep talking to Ron, he had just said he couldn't see Ron.
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At 8 o'clock Harry made his way down to the dungeon. He was already feeling tired, Harry tended to go to sleep earlier and wake up earlier, though he still normally didn't go to bed at this time anyway, it was usually later, but with all the excitement of today, it had taken a bit out of him, plus he used magic which was a bit exhausting since he wasn't used to it.
Once he was in the dungeon he saw Severus at a desk, writing something down. He spoke to Harry, but remained looking at the parchment in front of him.
"You are to clean the storage room to your left, I want everything clean and in alphabetical order, you will find that all the ingredients are labelled, and there is some cleaning equipment already placed in their for you." Severus then continued to write, not looking at Harry once.
Harry sighed and then set off to work. He walked into the storage room and shut the door and found a whole lot of cleaning products in the centre of the room.
A moment later the door opened to reveal Severus, muttering "I want this door left open." before leaving again.
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All of Harry's arms were hurting from scrubbing the walls and ground and his back wasn't doing much better. It had been three hours and he had only just finished doing half of it. but he was determined to finish it all, even if it took him longer then four hours, he was not going to look like he couldn't handle something Severus gave to him, unfortunately Harry fell asleep 20minutes later, too exhausted to even open his eyes.
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Severus entered the storage rooms once Harry's four hours were up and shook his head at the boy. He was asleep on the floor curled up in a ball, a cloth still in his hand. Severus knew that he had probably been too hard on Harry with his punishment, but he had let himself go a bit over the top and he couldn't back out now. Plus Harry needed to learn his lesson, he had been far too lenient on Harry so far.
Severus scooped down and picked Harry up. He weighed a lot more now then when he had been with the Dursleys, but Severus had the suspicion that the malnutrition he suffered there would cause him to never be his normal weight, at least not while he was a child or probably a teenager. He was still light and still small for his age. Severus still found it reasonably easy to carry him.
He took one more look around at the half cleaned room. He was surprised Harry had gotten through that much, and then left.
He put Harry to bed, changing him into pyjamas, and then went into his own bed and collapsed into it, he too was feeling exhausted, slowly he fell asleep, not bothering to change his clothes.
Sorry I took a while to update!
A Different Life
Chapter 12 - Moving On
The last time Harry's uncle had laid a finger on him had been around one and a half years ago. Severus had gotten custody of Harry and Harry's uncle was handed over to the muggle police to be dealt with there.
Lucius Malfoy was demoted from his position in the Ministry. Severus had fought for a tougher punishment but Lucius could be very cunning when he wanted to be and the fact that he had friends in high places had helped.
Every once in a while Harry would go around and see Ron or Ron would come to Hogwarts and Harry would show him around. They were always writing letters to each other. Owl enjoyed the trip instead of having nothing to do.
Harry had just turned 8 a week ago and was still marvelling at Severus' and Remus' gift for him. They had both put their money together to buy him two of the latest broomsticks. Both were a Cleansweep Seven. One was for him to use and one for if anything ever happened to the other one, or if Severus or whoever was over wanted to play with him. Harry thought that mostly Ron would use it.
When he was at Hogwarts he now only did a bit of muggle school work set from Severus, since he knew how to read, write, maths and a lot of other things they taught him. He grasped them all really quickly. They didn't really know what else to teach him. Severus had once given him the world map and told him to learn every place on there. Harry of course couldn't remember them all but he remembered quite a few. After a talk with Dumbledore, Harry was aloud to sit in on some lessons if he had permission from both the professor that was teaching and Severus.
Harry tried to sit in with every class that Hogwarts taught, he wanted to learn everything. Though after sitting in on one Divination class he never went back.
Harry liked DADA the best, though Potions was the funniest. Harry found it amusing how scared everyone was of Severus.
Severus would teach Harry Potions whenever he was either bored or Harry had nothing to do, which meant Harry knew the most about Potions. He often helped Severus make them, though Harry could never understand Severus' love for it. Harry could find it rather boring at times. He much preferred learning about different types of creatures and such.
Harry spent a lot of his free time after classes in the library, being the only child in the castle had gotten very lonely for Harry, so he had taken to learning about everything.
Harry was sad that he wasn't going to see Remus' much through the school year anymore. Professor Quirrell was coming back. He was only going to be gone a year but he ended up staying for 2years. But now he was back.
Harry woke up early and quickly got changed and then headed off into the kitchen. Harry always made his own breakfast. It of course had to be done the muggle way since he couldn't do magic, but he had long ago given up waiting for Severus to wake up and magically do it for him, which meant that they had to buy some muggle things, like a toaster and such.
Harry had awoken Severus up one to many times in the morning, causing a very grumpy screaming lecture from Severus, which would be enough for anyone not to ever wake him up again. He had apologised after when he wasn't so grumpy but Harry had not once waked him up without a very good reason after that.
Harry was looking forward to today because Ron was coming over early morning sometime so they could play for the day, he was going back before dinner though. Harry had briefly seen him on his birthday but they had yet to play on the broomsticks. Harry couldn't wait. He hadn't gotten a good chance all week to do much on them since Severus would always be watching him, not letting him go too high or too fast, and after he would lock them away in a cupboard.
Harry had specifically invited Ron over in the early morning because he knew Severus would still be asleep. And he was pretty sure he knew how to do the un-locking spell, so he should be able to un-lock the cupboard using Severus' wand.
Then he and Ron would be able to have fun riding the Cleansweep Sevens and hopefully be able to put them back and re-lock the cupboard, and then place Severus' wand back without him even knowing anything had happened. Hopefully!
Ron arrived shortly after Harry had finished breakfast, Harry had gotten the fireplace ready for him to arrive.
Harry quietly snuck up to Severus' room, leaving Ron downstairs to wait. He walked silently over to where Severus' bed was. Harry knew Severus always kept his wand under his pillow that he was sleeping on.
Slowly Harry moved his arm and squashed his hand in-between the matrass and the pillow, trying to keep his hand flat he began his search. He slowly tired to feel around for it without disturbing the pillow too much.
He soon found it and he tried to pull it out without moving any of the part of the pillow where Severus' head was resting.
Once he finally had it he let out a sigh of relief and quickly exited the room.
He then made his way down to the cupboard and concentrated hard on opening it and then he said the words "Alohomora" which he had seen Severus and Professor Flitwick use often. He heard a click and saw that the cupboard had indeed opened.
Ron was behind him looking at him in awe.
"How'd you do that?" Ron asked, but was soon distracted by seeing the brooms to care about Harry's answer.
"Wow! Look at em! Come on, let's get as much flying done before Snape wakes up!" Ron said, now looking excided at the thought of flying, and also scared at the thought of Snape waking up.
Harry smiled and handed Ron a broom, then he took the remaining one and they both made their way outside.
Harry had never had so much fun. He and Ron just flew around, Harry loved to dive, he almost gave Ron a heart attack with the first dive he did.
After what only seemed like a short time they decided to take a break. But when they went back inside they realised that it had actually been quite a long time that they were out there.
Harry quickly put both brooms away and locked the cupboard using the wand that they had left lying around.
Harry quietly ran up the stairs and peeked through Severus' room to see him still asleep in his bed. Harry knew he would be waking up soon, but he didn't know if he should just sneak his wand back there later on and risk Severus noticing it was gone, or risk trying to put it back now.
Harry quickly chose to put it back now, knowing that Severus always used his wand in the morning and would be sure to notice it was missing before Harry would have a chance to place it back.
Harry quietly sneaked back over to Severus bed and peaked a look at him, his eyes were shut and he looked reasonably peaceful, indicating that he was asleep.
Harry carefully started to slide the wand under Severus' pillow when a voice made him jump.
"Harry, what are you doing with my wand?" Severus said, not having moved at all and his eyes still shut.
"Severus, you're awake." Harry said nervously.
"Yes, now what is your reason that explains why you have my wand in your hand?" Severus asked, finally opening his eyes and looking at Harry, but he remained lying down.
"I was... Eh... cleaning it" Harry said, not being able to think of anything else on the spot.
"I don't think cleaning it involves unlocking a cupboard and you and Mr. Weasley flying your broomsticks without permission or supervision." Severus replied dryly. He sat up on his bed, pulling the covers back.
"Really... well I'll keep that mind." Harry said, and made to leave when he heard Severus' threatening voice speak again.
"Harry, as soon as Ron leaves we are both going to have a talk." Severus said, indicating that Harry was in big trouble.
Harry gulped and nodded.
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Harry and Ron spent most of the day in Harry's room, avoiding Severus.
When it came time for Ron to leave, he practically ran past Severus to get to the fireplace to go back home.
As soon as he was gone Severus rounded on Harry, who was just sitting down in a chair waiting for Severus to lecture him.
"You took my wand, and then used magic with it, which by the way could have easily backfired, and flying on your brooms without any supervision! You could have broken your necks! Molly entrusts me with Ron when he comes over, what would have happened if he had injured himself! You have broken so many rules that I don't think I can even trust you to be alone for 5 minutes anymore!" Severus said in a low threatening voice, slowly getting louder as he went.
Harry looked down at his feet, feeling as though he had failed Severus.
"I'm really sorry Severus..." Harry whispered, still not looking Severus in the eye.
"SORRY! Oh you will be sorry when I'm through with you! You have got detention-" Severus started but was cut off by Harry.
As soon as the word 'detention' was said had shot up from his chair and responded. "What? I'm not one of your students, you can't just give me detention."
"I can and I will! You will be spending every night after dinner with me in my dungeon for four hours until the rest of the holidays are over! First you'll be cleaning and scrubbing it. We will go from there. Do I make myself clear Mr. Potter?" Severus looked livid.
Harry was outraged. But he knew well enough to not talk back to him, it would only be worse. Harry just replied with "Yes Professor Snape." He got a glimpse of why everyone at Hogwarts didn't seem to like him.
As Harry got into his room he heard Severus say one last thing, which Harry's only reply was to slam his door shut.
Severus had said "You are not allowed to see Mr Weasley for the rest of the holidays either, so you can forget about asking to stay over his house to get out of this detention."
Harry didn't come down for dinner, but spent the rest of the time pacing around his room. He had written to Ron telling him what happened. Severus hadn't said that he couldn't keep talking to Ron, he had just said he couldn't see Ron.
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At 8 o'clock Harry made his way down to the dungeon. He was already feeling tired, Harry tended to go to sleep earlier and wake up earlier, though he still normally didn't go to bed at this time anyway, it was usually later, but with all the excitement of today, it had taken a bit out of him, plus he used magic which was a bit exhausting since he wasn't used to it.
Once he was in the dungeon he saw Severus at a desk, writing something down. He spoke to Harry, but remained looking at the parchment in front of him.
"You are to clean the storage room to your left, I want everything clean and in alphabetical order, you will find that all the ingredients are labelled, and there is some cleaning equipment already placed in their for you." Severus then continued to write, not looking at Harry once.
Harry sighed and then set off to work. He walked into the storage room and shut the door and found a whole lot of cleaning products in the centre of the room.
A moment later the door opened to reveal Severus, muttering "I want this door left open." before leaving again.
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All of Harry's arms were hurting from scrubbing the walls and ground and his back wasn't doing much better. It had been three hours and he had only just finished doing half of it. but he was determined to finish it all, even if it took him longer then four hours, he was not going to look like he couldn't handle something Severus gave to him, unfortunately Harry fell asleep 20minutes later, too exhausted to even open his eyes.
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Severus entered the storage rooms once Harry's four hours were up and shook his head at the boy. He was asleep on the floor curled up in a ball, a cloth still in his hand. Severus knew that he had probably been too hard on Harry with his punishment, but he had let himself go a bit over the top and he couldn't back out now. Plus Harry needed to learn his lesson, he had been far too lenient on Harry so far.
Severus scooped down and picked Harry up. He weighed a lot more now then when he had been with the Dursleys, but Severus had the suspicion that the malnutrition he suffered there would cause him to never be his normal weight, at least not while he was a child or probably a teenager. He was still light and still small for his age. Severus still found it reasonably easy to carry him.
He took one more look around at the half cleaned room. He was surprised Harry had gotten through that much, and then left.
He put Harry to bed, changing him into pyjamas, and then went into his own bed and collapsed into it, he too was feeling exhausted, slowly he fell asleep, not bothering to change his clothes.