A/N: First off, for those of you whom have read the first 2 chapters I went back and changed Severus' cover name so if you don't remember him being called Simon Edwards it means you need to go back and re-review the last chapter. That being said I apologize for not updating sooner, but there has just been so much going on. I've made more friends this year than I've had since High School and am even part of a club. I've been doing a lot of extra studying for school as well, which is a bit of a pain but if it helps me pass then so be it, I can face the pain. I've also been working on an original comic since about August now that I've been neglecting as well, and part of me neglecting that also involves acting editor for a friends story which he intends to turn into a novel I believe. And most over the comic is prob the biggest of what has made me neglect my fan fic, but oh well here I am updating again. I'd like to thank all whom have reviewed and also thank the reviewers who just managed to yell at me to update at precisely the right time when I actually had no plans of doing anything. So here you are chapter 3 of The Young and the Hopeless.
Randomness of the moraco: FFXI be fun, but server searching needs to kiss my bum.
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The Young and the Hopeless
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Chapter 3
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Harry
turned away as Severus got dressed in the new
Gryffindor robes.
'It's going to be strange
sleeping in Gryffindor Tower,'
Severus said. 'It's
really warm up here.'
Harry turned back to see that Severus, or now Simon, had fully finished dressing. Severus had his back turned to Harry, beginning to put his robe on, and he took a moment to admire the way the standard uniform pants fit on his new dorm mate.
Severus spun around to see Harry gazing toward him seeming a bit lost in his own world. He's weird just like his father. I just hope he's not as much of a bastard though. Severus raised and eye brow and asked quite bluntly, 'What? Is there something on my pants?'
Harry snapped out of his starring. 'No, no, I- um…It's just…weird. I mean, technically, you are my potions master, just younger and wearing Gryffindor colours. It's just weird.'
'It's rather queer you'd find things so weird. I am the one who's just skipped through the past few decades. It's weird for me to be in Gryffindor Tower, of all places, and talking to the son of one of the people I hate most in my existence,' Severus came back.
'I'm not my father! I know he wasn't the nicest of person towards you, but there's nothing I can do about that.'
'I know you're not him. If you were you would have left me by the lake to catch my death. That and-' Severus walked up to Harry, merely inches from him, grabbed Harry's chin, tilting his head up, to meet his own eyes. He starred into each others eyes a moment before Severus spoke again. 'your eyes are different from his. Your beautiful green eyes are one of the things that has stopped me from taking every ounce of hatred I have against him out on you.' Severus absentmindedly ran his thumb across Harry's lip which made the other young man tense up. He then leaned in and whispered into Harry's ear 'Also, there's the fact that you're short.'
Harry quickly pushed Severus away. 'I am not short!'
Severus smiled and chuckled. 'Shorter than me, which means you're shorter than him because he's always been taller than me. Though apparently after seeing my future self I suppose in the next few years I gain a few more inches.'
Suddenly the dormitory door opened and Ron entered, talking as he did so, 'Harry, Hermi-' He stopped speaking as soon as he noticed someone else being in the room. 'Who are you?'
'He's a transfer student,' Harry answered. 'His name's Simon Edwards. He arrived today and Dumbledore said the hat sorted him into Gryffindor and he's our year and is now our new dorm mate.'
Ron extended his arm to Severus, or as he now knew him, Simon, 'Nice to meet you. Hope we don't bug your brains out too quickly. I'm Ron Weasley by the way.'
Severus took and shook Ron's. 'Nice to meet you as well.'
'The rest of the guys should probably be up here or around in the common room in the next hour or so whenever you decide to meet them as well,' Ron told him. He then turned back to Harry who he'd been coming up to find and talk to in the first place. 'As I was saying Hermione and I are about to go down to the library to study charms and she wanted for you to come too, since we do have that quiz two charms classes from now and all.'
'Normally, Ron, you know I wouldn't turn you down just because I know alone she'll either drive you mad bored or the two of you will end up finding a dark corner to go snog in, but I thought I might show Simon here around a bit,' Harry told him. Ha ha, like he needs to be shown around. I really don't want to study tonight. Not when I have the opportunity to get to admire Sev. What am I saying? This is Snape I'm talking about, but … Is it really? He's different. I see some similar qualities, but he's not the same person yet and besides just looking shouldn't mess anything up, should it?
'Okay, Harry, but you know if I fail I'm going to be blaming it on you because we both know Hermione could pass without studying ever,' Ron told him. 'I'll see you later then.' He then looked over to the new bed where Harry then realized Severus had moved to during his and Ron's conversation. 'Nice meeting you Simon. I'll see you later,' Ron said as he walked out the door.
Harry turned to Severus. 'So, I just turned down my best friends invitation to study with you as an excuse. What do you want to do?'
'I think I might take a nap. I'm still trying to let a lot of this sink in a bit,' Severus answered.
'If you take a nap now you'll probably be awake all night,' Harry told him.
Severus sat and didn't say anything for a moment, looking as if he were thinking about what Harry had just said. 'You're probably right. What is there to do around this place now days?'
Harry sat down on the bed beside Severus. 'Now that I think about it, not too much. I mean there's chess, exploding snap, walking around outside and things like that. Other than that though I think reading a book, doing homework, and studying is the only other things we do to pass the time.'
'Not much has changed.' Severus got up and opened up the window where the breeze from out side lightly blew in and through his mid-face length hair.
An owl, carrying a small thin box and letter, landed on the window sill and came inside. Severus picked it up and took the box and letter from the owl. 'Odd,' Harry said. 'Mail's not too common at this time of day, especially not directly to the dormitory. Who's it for?'
Severus looked at the letter that was addressed to Mr. S. Edwards from Prof. S. Snape. 'It's for me.' He opened and read the letter.
Dear Mr. Edwards,
Upon
your arrival I managed to dig this out of storage knowing you would need it and
make better use of it than I
have.
Sincerely
Prof. S. Snape
Severus opened the box to find his wand. When he'd arrived in the future he didn't have it because it had been in the pocket of his outer robe. My future self must have gotten tired of this old thing and bought a new wand.
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A/N: Another chapter tackled and finished. Please excuse me for not writing on this fic as quickly and as much as I've written on others but I've been super busy lately and have neglected many more things aside from fanfic. I'm waaay behind on getting my comic ready because I'd sooo planned to have the fist issue done and ready to figure out how to print a week or two before Christmas but so far I have 2 pages so I don't' quite think I'm gonna make that personal deadline. Good thing I'm not a professional yet. Oh well. I kinda had fun writing this chapter. I really just loved the way Sev grabs his chin and looks into his eyes….It's so pretty in my head. K, k that's all for now. Now remember if you want this updated send messages for me to update and hope you send them at a time when I'm bored off my arse and not doing anything cause that seems to be what gets me off my arse and working.