Suicide Solution.

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Summary: A Severitus challenge, [Snape is Harry's father] Story begins at 11.59pm on July 30th. It's the summer before Harry's 6th year, and Harry's changing . . .

Chapter 10


Harry made his way down to the dungeons quickly, and when he reached Snape's office he took of the invisibility cloak and flung it over his shoulder, holding it by the hood with his left hand. He knocked on the door and heard Snape's voice permit him entrance.

Snape was sitting at his desk with a quill in his hand and a lot of parchment in front of him

"Hello father."

Harry greeted him, Snape looked up immediately,

"What the? Potter what do you want?"

Harry walked into the office and stood before Snape in front of the desk.

"I had quidditch practice today,"

"Potter I don't care for your timetable."

"I was walking back from practice, but I got side tracked."

"You think I care about what happens in your life?"

"I heard two people arguing, I recognised the voices so I went to find out what they were arguing about."

"Typical Gryffindor, you still seem to think that I care."

"Turns out, that I was the reason for the argument."

Snape paled slightly

"Yes, funny really. Seeing as normally when someone argues about me I know basically what it's about."

"Does this conversation have a point? Or are you just wasting my time?"

"Patience, father patience."

"Do not call me that! It has no meaning here!"

Harry looked at Snape, he was sitting at his desk, and eyes fixed on Harry's with both hands flat on the desk.

"Oh no, I assure you that it does. You see the two arguing earlier were in fact two professors."

Snape paled even more so

"Do you know what they were arguing about? About whether or not to tell me that my father lives. For him to tell me who he was."

"Why have you come to me? Shouldn't you be talking to your beloved head of house? I'm sure Professor Mcgonagall would much prefer listening to you blabber on and on about something of little importance."

Harry' s anger flared again

"Little importance! Father you may be a self hating idiot death eater, but that does not mean to say that, you can just turn your back on your own son! Even if you do have it stuck in your head that he is an arrogant self promoting twat!"

Snape looked murderous, and Harry's looked matched it. They glared at each other for sometime, then harry spoke again

"Did you know that you son isn't so innocent as you make out?"

Snape looked up at him

"What?"

Harry smirked

"Oh yes, he's committed murder too. Though it was only a measly house-elf, nothing big like a person, like his father has done countless times."

Snape was looking at him in wonder

"I assure you that the number is not countless, though it is not known, it is around 500 or so."

A long low whistle caught the attention of both harry and Snape

"500? That's impressive, so many more than my father, I think his number is around 300 roughly."

Blaise Zabini was standing in the doorway looking at Harry and Snape

"Don't worry yourself Potter, I wont tell anyone. But wait it's not Potter is it? It's Snape."

He was smirking. Snape, Harry noticed was drawing his wand

"Come on in Zabini." He said, both Snape and Blaise looked at harry.

Zabini walked forward slowly, after shutting the door behind him.

"Potter what are you planning?" Snape asked

Harry looked at his father "He's heard it all already, besides it will be nice to have a friend."

Blaise looked at Harry quizzically

"What makes you think I'll be your friend?"

"Your lonely, besides Tanathos will need some help in the library."

Snape snapped his gaze back to harry, "Tanathos? Who is he?"

"He's me, well sorta, he will be me, once I get a grip on my life and lead it myself not follow the route Dumbledore has planned for it."

Blaise spoke next and he addressed Snape

"Do you think he'll be different enough to come to the all hallows eve party?"

"Not all hallows no, and possibly Christmas, but definitely okay for the Easter one."

Snape looked thoughtful "We will of course have to make sure that no one recognises him."

"Well by Easter he shouldn't look much like harry potter."

"Why's that?" harry asked

"Your bodies changing, of course the others here at Hogwarts will recognise him, unless we do something about concealing it while he is here."

"Yes," Snape said nodding "There is a potion that does that, it will have to be taken daily of course."

Harry was getting annoyed, they were completely ignoring him, 'what can I do to get their attention? Oh I know'

"Wingardium Leviosa" Harry hissed and at his command everything on Snape's desk lifted itself off of it and hovered about 2 foot above it. Snape and Blaise immediately cut off their conversation and turned to look at harry.

"You can do wandless magic?" Snape asked indignantly

Harry nodded "Yep, but Campaspe said to keep it quiet, and you two were ignoring me so I thought I'd have a bit of fun"

"Campaspe? Lady Campaspe Domina?" Snape asked

"Yep that's her, I got here with me now if you wanted to talk to her." Harry reached into his right pocket and pulled out the wooden frame, he opened it and said

"Milady, I have a friend who wants to speak with you."

"Hello Tanathos dear, who is it? Tanathos and I were making a complicated potion"

"I am sorry to interrupt you milady but he seemed eager to see you."

"Well okay then."

Harry handed the picture over to Snape, who greeted her in a way Harry would never have thought

"Hello professor"

"My, my, my you have grown haven't you Severus."

"Father what do you mean, professor?"

"Professor Black was my old potions teacher, she left though at the end of my first year, another reason why I hated Sirius."

"I didn't know you taught at Hogwarts, Campaspe?"

She laughed lightly "Who is your friend Severus, neither you nor Tanathos have told me yet."

"Blaise Zabini ma'am. Pleasure." Blaise greeted her formally.

"Zabini. Duscha, my sister married into your family. Now Severus why did you interrupt my potion making? You know very well that I never did like interruptions."

"I apologise professor, but I need to ask you a favour." Harry looked up at his father. "I need you to tutor po - Tanathos in the arts. To be ready for a Christmas party."

"The Christmas one? Why not the All Hallows one, Tanathos tells me that it's September now, he will be ready by All Hallows."

"In the arts yes, but not in appearances, I don't think."

"Hm, I see, yes of course I will tutor him to be ready by Easter. You could use the Appagale potion if you wanted to change his appearance permanently."

Snape smirked "Not a permanent change just a cover up."

"Then use Veilskurn that's not permanent."

"Brilliant as always professor, good night."

"Good night Severus, Zabini. Tanathos?"

"Yes Campaspe?"

"I will talk to you tomorrow about your tutoring. Good night Lord Tanathos."

"Good night Lady Campaspe."

Harry put the frame back in his pocket and yawned. Blaise laughed at him quietly.

"You will both report to my office tomorrow after dinner. Do I make myself clear!"

"Yes sir" replied Blaise

"Yes father" Harry hissed back, now that his exhaustion had crept up on him he was extremely grouchy. He put the invisibility cloak back on and made his way out of the dungeons and back to Gryffindor dormitories.

Once reaching them he quickly changed into his pyjamas and collapsed into his bed, falling asleep immediately.

~S~

AN:

Duscha is Russian and means soul.