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All characters belong to JK Rowling.
Chapter 9 A Super Surprise
Harry and Hermione ran down to the dungeons at top speed. They were late for Snape's class and Hermione was yelling herself hoarse as she huffed running after Harry.
"Hermione stop! Alright I didn't know that it was that late! I do need sleep once in a while, but its not like we have to be in class every single bloody day!"
"Harry James Potter, you bloody well know that if Snape finds out you're skipping his class he will kick you out! You need this class!"
"I know that, but I'm wishing I didn't tell McGonagall that I wanted to be a Auror. I really don't want to be in Snape's class. He always finds faults in my potions even if they are perfect. I can't stand that git and I am quitting that class as soon as I can."
"You better not or I am never going to forgive you! Harry you need to start taking responsibility for your life. How are you ever going to get through it if you do not take matters into your own hands."
"I've been doing that for years Hermione. You of all people should know that."
"I know Harry, but I just can't let you quit. You have Voldemort after you and you need to train yourself. Those extra training classes Dumbledore set up are helping and you can't say that they aren't because I can see the difference in you."
"Hmpf." Was all that Harry said.
They reached Snape's classroom and quickly took their seats. Snape was berating a Slytherin, saying how Slytherin's are supposed to be smart and that the boy was nothing off it. Harry briefly wondered if the boy was muggle-born. He had never really spoken to the boy even if he had been in the same class with him for the last five years.
"McCloud, I have no idea how you managed to get in my Advanced Potions. I am not surprised since Potter and Longbottom both made it. But Potter did not get in by skill." Snape sneered and turned to Harry who was seething with anger.
"Good morning, Potter," Snape's eyes slipped to Hermione," and Granger. Did you not think that I would not notice your absence?"
Harry and Hermione stayed silent. Though Harry was /barely/ managing to stay silent.
"So two Gryffindor idiots have finally decided to join us. Does anyone have a guess at how many points I will take off for their tardiness?"
"Twenty?" Lavander asked hopefully.
"Thirty?" A Millicent Bullstrode said gleefully.
"100, no more." Harry stared at Draco Malfoy who had volunteerd.
"Ah, correct Mr. Malfoy. 100 points from Gryffindor. Fifty points each."
"Harry, calm down." Harry turned to Hermione who had fear etched on her face. Harry looked down at himself to notice his blue aura surrounding him again. He took a deep breath and tried to control the turmoil of emotions inside him.
"Mr. Potter you will tell me now what the Drought of the Liv-ssss." Snaped broke off and hissed in the middle of his sentence. Harry automatically knew what was wrong. Snape's Dark Mark had burned.
Harry watched his Potion's master regain his composure and quickly told the students that class was over.
Harry packed his stuff up and walked out with Hermione.
"Wonder what that was about."
"I'd say Voldy needed a talk." Harry said absently. He did not tell Hermione that his own miniature Dark Mark was starting to sting along with his scar.
"Want to go to the Great Hall or to the Common Room?" Harry asked.
"Actually Harry, I wanted to go to the Library to check out some of the books on your powers you've been developing, and why it was happening so fast." Hermione smiled at Harry's horrified look. She knew he had simply tried to avoid the mention of Library.
"Harry, Hermione! I've been trying to find you guys for the last thirty minutes!" Ron huffed, clutching his stomach, his face as red as his hair.
"What's wrong Ron?" Hermione asked worried.
"There's something going on. I just saw Snape come back and he looked pretty beaten up."
"What?" Harry asked standing and picking his stuff up.
"He's in the hospital wing now, Madame Pompfrey was not happy. You should have seen hte look on Snapy's face!" Ron said, he was making a face of a apologetic puppy when he's done something wrong. Ron laughed but Harry didn't and was halfway across the Library before the other two noticed that he was gone.
"Harry where you going?" Ron asked.
"I'm going to see Snape."
"What?! Harry did you hit your head on something?" Ron turned to Hermione, surprise was on his face, " you fried his brain with all the books!"
"Shut up Ron, I did no such thing." Hermione retorted.
"Then why is he going to see the Potion's master?"
"Because I want to know whats going on! Now shut up!" Harry hissed angrily at them.
"Sorry."
"I still don't get this."
"Ron can't you wait for a while? I'm trying to find information out. I want to know what's going on. I haven't had any Voldemort sessions yet."
"Voldemort sessions?" Hermione asked.
"The dreams that I've had before, I know he can force his way through my shields, and I've been dropping them on purpose so I could see what Voldemort's up to but I haven't gotten anything. Dumbledore doesn't think its a good idea, but I think thats the only way we can know what's going on is if I can see it."
"What about Snape? He's a Death Eater." Ron said.
"Snape's a spy, and left Voldemort once. Do you really think that Voldemort could trust him? Voldemort knows Snape's a spy, I just don't know why he didn't kill him yet."
"I think Voldemort has some use for Snape, like the potions he makes. He is one of the best Potion's master England has ever had." Hermione said.
"I thought that was it too, but no, Voldemort seems to have other Potions Masters." Harry said, "And I don't think Wormtail is as dumb as he looks."
"What? You think he's acting stupid?" Ron asked.
"Yes. I've seen him act around Voldemort, talking like a real person, but when other Death Eaters are around he acts stupid and clumsy. To tell you the truth he's nothing of that. I think he's Voldemort's most trusted Potions Master." Harry said.
"What?! How could a rat like him become a Potion's master? He's so dumb he doesn't know his head from his toes." Ron's shocked voice said.
"That's what you think. Not a while after I got the mark, Voldemort let me see some of his plans. Wormtail was not acting the way he usually acts, he was smarter and knew exactly what he was doing. How else do you think he made that potion to bring Voldemort back?"
"You're right Harry. There was something off even when we saw him in the Shrieking Shack. He was acting scared then. We can't forget, he was friends with the best pranksters Hogwarts had, he'd know how to act scared. He is a prankster." Hermione said.
"Yeah and when I catch that prankster, the next prank he pulls on me will be his last!" Harry said angrily.
"Shh, we're here." Hermione said suddenly.
The boys quickly came to her side and peered into the door. The white beds in the hospital wing were all empty except the one on the far end that had its curtain closed. The trio figured that's where Snape was laying.
"Should we go in?"
"No! We don't know if he's alone, Madame Pompfrey can always come back and see us." Hermione said.
"Ron, you got any of those Extandable Ears?" Harry asked. Ron stared at him then nodded.
Harry took the ears and pointed them into the direction of the bed, the ears seemed to have understood and slithered across the room to the closed to the world bed.
"Harry are you sure we want to do this?" Hermione asked.
"Yes, I have to know what happened."
Harry took the other end of the ears and stuck it close to his ears and the ears copied themselves so the other two could share.
"Is this new?" Harry asked at the other two sets of ears.
"Yeah, Fred and George decided it would be easier for all to listen then switching and missing some of the conversation."
"Severus are you sure?" The trio heard Dumbledore ask.
"Albus, I think I'd know." Snape's voice was crisp and angry.
"But it can't be true. Are you sure?"
"You asked that already! YES I'm sure!"
"But how? We all saw it. It can't be." Dumbeldore said shaking his head.
"Albus, I am not blind! I know what I saw and if you are trying to deny it then that is your own fault!"
"So he is back?"
"He never left. I saw him in Voldemort's dungeons. He was bloodied, but pretty much alive."
"Well what shall we tell Harry and his friends?" Dumbledore asked.
"Not my concern. You tell the boy. I do not want to see him again until the next class. Oh and did you know that the boy has a Dark Mark engraved on his arm?"
In the room Dumbledore looked uncomfortable.
"Yes."
"Then why was I not informed?" Snape asked.
"Because I knew that you would have found out anyway."
"How did it happen? I thought the boy knew Occlumency now."
"Who told you that?" Dumbledore asked.
"Please Albus, I think I'd know. I've been trying to enter the boy's mind, but its guarded these days."
"Hmm, well Tom got through his shields and somehow planted the Dark Mark on Harry. I do not yet know why, but that is what he told me."
"Alright, well I have to get back in two hours..." Snape trailed off a look of disgust on his pale face.
"Be careful Severus. And if he is alive, please try to bring him back to us."
"I will try, I don't know how I'm going to be able to get him out but I'll try."
"Thank you Severus. I still can't believe Sirius Black is alive."
The trio on the other side gaped, "Sirius is alive!" They whispered to themselves.
All characters belong to JK Rowling.
Chapter 9 A Super Surprise
Harry and Hermione ran down to the dungeons at top speed. They were late for Snape's class and Hermione was yelling herself hoarse as she huffed running after Harry.
"Hermione stop! Alright I didn't know that it was that late! I do need sleep once in a while, but its not like we have to be in class every single bloody day!"
"Harry James Potter, you bloody well know that if Snape finds out you're skipping his class he will kick you out! You need this class!"
"I know that, but I'm wishing I didn't tell McGonagall that I wanted to be a Auror. I really don't want to be in Snape's class. He always finds faults in my potions even if they are perfect. I can't stand that git and I am quitting that class as soon as I can."
"You better not or I am never going to forgive you! Harry you need to start taking responsibility for your life. How are you ever going to get through it if you do not take matters into your own hands."
"I've been doing that for years Hermione. You of all people should know that."
"I know Harry, but I just can't let you quit. You have Voldemort after you and you need to train yourself. Those extra training classes Dumbledore set up are helping and you can't say that they aren't because I can see the difference in you."
"Hmpf." Was all that Harry said.
They reached Snape's classroom and quickly took their seats. Snape was berating a Slytherin, saying how Slytherin's are supposed to be smart and that the boy was nothing off it. Harry briefly wondered if the boy was muggle-born. He had never really spoken to the boy even if he had been in the same class with him for the last five years.
"McCloud, I have no idea how you managed to get in my Advanced Potions. I am not surprised since Potter and Longbottom both made it. But Potter did not get in by skill." Snape sneered and turned to Harry who was seething with anger.
"Good morning, Potter," Snape's eyes slipped to Hermione," and Granger. Did you not think that I would not notice your absence?"
Harry and Hermione stayed silent. Though Harry was /barely/ managing to stay silent.
"So two Gryffindor idiots have finally decided to join us. Does anyone have a guess at how many points I will take off for their tardiness?"
"Twenty?" Lavander asked hopefully.
"Thirty?" A Millicent Bullstrode said gleefully.
"100, no more." Harry stared at Draco Malfoy who had volunteerd.
"Ah, correct Mr. Malfoy. 100 points from Gryffindor. Fifty points each."
"Harry, calm down." Harry turned to Hermione who had fear etched on her face. Harry looked down at himself to notice his blue aura surrounding him again. He took a deep breath and tried to control the turmoil of emotions inside him.
"Mr. Potter you will tell me now what the Drought of the Liv-ssss." Snaped broke off and hissed in the middle of his sentence. Harry automatically knew what was wrong. Snape's Dark Mark had burned.
Harry watched his Potion's master regain his composure and quickly told the students that class was over.
Harry packed his stuff up and walked out with Hermione.
"Wonder what that was about."
"I'd say Voldy needed a talk." Harry said absently. He did not tell Hermione that his own miniature Dark Mark was starting to sting along with his scar.
"Want to go to the Great Hall or to the Common Room?" Harry asked.
"Actually Harry, I wanted to go to the Library to check out some of the books on your powers you've been developing, and why it was happening so fast." Hermione smiled at Harry's horrified look. She knew he had simply tried to avoid the mention of Library.
"Harry, Hermione! I've been trying to find you guys for the last thirty minutes!" Ron huffed, clutching his stomach, his face as red as his hair.
"What's wrong Ron?" Hermione asked worried.
"There's something going on. I just saw Snape come back and he looked pretty beaten up."
"What?" Harry asked standing and picking his stuff up.
"He's in the hospital wing now, Madame Pompfrey was not happy. You should have seen hte look on Snapy's face!" Ron said, he was making a face of a apologetic puppy when he's done something wrong. Ron laughed but Harry didn't and was halfway across the Library before the other two noticed that he was gone.
"Harry where you going?" Ron asked.
"I'm going to see Snape."
"What?! Harry did you hit your head on something?" Ron turned to Hermione, surprise was on his face, " you fried his brain with all the books!"
"Shut up Ron, I did no such thing." Hermione retorted.
"Then why is he going to see the Potion's master?"
"Because I want to know whats going on! Now shut up!" Harry hissed angrily at them.
"Sorry."
"I still don't get this."
"Ron can't you wait for a while? I'm trying to find information out. I want to know what's going on. I haven't had any Voldemort sessions yet."
"Voldemort sessions?" Hermione asked.
"The dreams that I've had before, I know he can force his way through my shields, and I've been dropping them on purpose so I could see what Voldemort's up to but I haven't gotten anything. Dumbledore doesn't think its a good idea, but I think thats the only way we can know what's going on is if I can see it."
"What about Snape? He's a Death Eater." Ron said.
"Snape's a spy, and left Voldemort once. Do you really think that Voldemort could trust him? Voldemort knows Snape's a spy, I just don't know why he didn't kill him yet."
"I think Voldemort has some use for Snape, like the potions he makes. He is one of the best Potion's master England has ever had." Hermione said.
"I thought that was it too, but no, Voldemort seems to have other Potions Masters." Harry said, "And I don't think Wormtail is as dumb as he looks."
"What? You think he's acting stupid?" Ron asked.
"Yes. I've seen him act around Voldemort, talking like a real person, but when other Death Eaters are around he acts stupid and clumsy. To tell you the truth he's nothing of that. I think he's Voldemort's most trusted Potions Master." Harry said.
"What?! How could a rat like him become a Potion's master? He's so dumb he doesn't know his head from his toes." Ron's shocked voice said.
"That's what you think. Not a while after I got the mark, Voldemort let me see some of his plans. Wormtail was not acting the way he usually acts, he was smarter and knew exactly what he was doing. How else do you think he made that potion to bring Voldemort back?"
"You're right Harry. There was something off even when we saw him in the Shrieking Shack. He was acting scared then. We can't forget, he was friends with the best pranksters Hogwarts had, he'd know how to act scared. He is a prankster." Hermione said.
"Yeah and when I catch that prankster, the next prank he pulls on me will be his last!" Harry said angrily.
"Shh, we're here." Hermione said suddenly.
The boys quickly came to her side and peered into the door. The white beds in the hospital wing were all empty except the one on the far end that had its curtain closed. The trio figured that's where Snape was laying.
"Should we go in?"
"No! We don't know if he's alone, Madame Pompfrey can always come back and see us." Hermione said.
"Ron, you got any of those Extandable Ears?" Harry asked. Ron stared at him then nodded.
Harry took the ears and pointed them into the direction of the bed, the ears seemed to have understood and slithered across the room to the closed to the world bed.
"Harry are you sure we want to do this?" Hermione asked.
"Yes, I have to know what happened."
Harry took the other end of the ears and stuck it close to his ears and the ears copied themselves so the other two could share.
"Is this new?" Harry asked at the other two sets of ears.
"Yeah, Fred and George decided it would be easier for all to listen then switching and missing some of the conversation."
"Severus are you sure?" The trio heard Dumbledore ask.
"Albus, I think I'd know." Snape's voice was crisp and angry.
"But it can't be true. Are you sure?"
"You asked that already! YES I'm sure!"
"But how? We all saw it. It can't be." Dumbeldore said shaking his head.
"Albus, I am not blind! I know what I saw and if you are trying to deny it then that is your own fault!"
"So he is back?"
"He never left. I saw him in Voldemort's dungeons. He was bloodied, but pretty much alive."
"Well what shall we tell Harry and his friends?" Dumbledore asked.
"Not my concern. You tell the boy. I do not want to see him again until the next class. Oh and did you know that the boy has a Dark Mark engraved on his arm?"
In the room Dumbledore looked uncomfortable.
"Yes."
"Then why was I not informed?" Snape asked.
"Because I knew that you would have found out anyway."
"How did it happen? I thought the boy knew Occlumency now."
"Who told you that?" Dumbledore asked.
"Please Albus, I think I'd know. I've been trying to enter the boy's mind, but its guarded these days."
"Hmm, well Tom got through his shields and somehow planted the Dark Mark on Harry. I do not yet know why, but that is what he told me."
"Alright, well I have to get back in two hours..." Snape trailed off a look of disgust on his pale face.
"Be careful Severus. And if he is alive, please try to bring him back to us."
"I will try, I don't know how I'm going to be able to get him out but I'll try."
"Thank you Severus. I still can't believe Sirius Black is alive."
The trio on the other side gaped, "Sirius is alive!" They whispered to themselves.