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 . . . (A Dark Harry fic)

Chapter 13

"Good afternoon class" Lupin greeted the 6th years as they all sat down

"Good afternoon professor" they replied

'Great DADA, and he's been all happy and acting as if nothings wrong.'

"Today we are going to be studying"

'No you're gonna tall us one thing and expect us to know whether it's all the information'

"A device that can detect two things. It is called a penetratal disk."

'Penetratal disk my foot! I cant believe Remus never told me'

"Can anyone tell me what it can detect?"

'What a stupid question, Hermione is in this class, of course she'll know'

True enough as soon as Remus had finished asking the question Hermione' s hand shot into the air.

"Hermione?" He asked her, giving her permission to speak

"The penetratal disk can detect both when someone is lying and whether or not the person has used or has had any connection to the Dark Arts within the last two weeks."

"Correct. 20 points to Gryffindor"

Hermione beamed with pride

"Now can anybody tell me the single fault it has?"

Once again Hermione' s hand shot into the air, but so did Draco's, surprised Remus called upon him

"Draco?"

Draco' s I-am-superior-to-you-no-matter-what sneer came into place and he answered in a bored tone that made it seem as if he already knew everything they were going over in today's class, which being him, he properly did.

"The PD can not detect all of the Dark Arts or lies, for example if a person has trained his mind properly they would be able to fool it."

Draco said the last part with his eyes locked with Harry's and Harry just stared right back. 'Occlumency!' his mind screamed.

'That's right Tanathos, Draco knows that you studied Occlumency last year, and failed it.'

'How did he find out?' Harry asked back through the connection. It was very hard to talk to someone but not look at them, Harry decided.

'Lucius figured it out; he along with your father and Dumbledore is an expert at Occlumency.'

'Ah . . . that makes sense. Oh well I need to talk to sna- my father about re-starting those lessons.'

'We can do that after class if you like'

'Okay.'

"HARRY!" Lupin' s voice broke him out of his mental conversation with Blaise

"Huh? What?"

Behind him he could hear Malfoy sniggering. Harry looked and glared at him, he then looked over at Blaise who smirked and motioned with his head ever so slightly for Harry to look back at Lupin.

"Harry I asked you to come up here." Lupin repeated, annoyed

Harry stood, "Why?"

"Because of your connection to Voldemort" Half the class flinched, the Slytherin 's all paled slightly, both Harry and Remus ignored them.

"You shall properly set the PD off, if I am correct them a sharp whistle shall be emitted. Come forward Harry."

'Occlumency. Clear your mind remember'

Harry stopped thinking and his mind was blank. Slowly he moved towards the disk, most of the class had their hands over their ears as if set to cover them quickly.

The PD was lying flat on the table and as Harry neared it, it started to hum gently.

The class it seemed were holding its breath as he took a few more steps forward. Now at only a foot away the PD was still humming but it wasn't screeching as Lupin had said it would. Happy to have proved him wrong he began to move away.

'Well done'

Came Blaise's voice again

'Thanks' he replied losing his grip on the Occlumency. The PD suddenly started spinning and whistling loudly, as one the class covered their ears.

'Empty your mind Tanathos!'

Blaise's mind was screaming at him

'Okay! Okay! Don't shout!'

Harry then once again thought of nothing, and the Occlumency was back in place, the PD slowly stopped screeching and spinning and the room was quiet again.

Harry sighed and went back to his seat.

"Well there you go class. It seems that Mr Potter has some margin of control over his own mind. Well-done 5 points to Gryffindor. Now homework is to research the PD and write an essay about its history and how it has been used in the past. I want 30 inches written up and handed in to me in 4 lessons time. Now class dismissed."

The class noted down the homework, packed everything away into their bags and they began to leave just as the bell went. Harry was about to walk out of the door when Remus called him back

"Harry, stay back a while."

'I'll be out in a while. Wait for me.'

'Okay Tanathos.'

Harry walked back towards the desk and stood in front of it.

Remus was watching him.

"Harry whats going on?" he asked

"What do you mean professor?"

"Harry no ones here now call me Remus."

"Sorry. What do you mean Remus?"

"I mean what's happening to you. First you run off in to Knockturn alley -"

Harry cut him off, his temper rising

"Not you too! First of all I didn't 'run off' as you so eloquently out it! I purposely walked into Knockturn alley, that morning because I wanted too! And if you are gonna go on and on with the whole 'I should of told you where I was going thing' then you are a bloody hypocrite! I mean yeah I didn't tell you I was meeting the others back in august but so that's nothing compared to what you've kept from me!"

Harry watched the colour in Remus' face drain out as he said this.

"I . . . I'm Sorry -"

He began but again Harry cut him off

"Yeah well sorry doesn't cut it! You never told me that I had a father! NEVER! You all told me that I was the spitting image of James, which I was just like my father! Well James was an asshole and I'm glad he's not my father!"

"You would rather have a death eater as a father, a murderer?"

"I'm a murderer too Remus, remember."

"I remember. But still you've never killed another human being before."

"No but I have killed a snake, an elf, spiders -"

"All creatures, no humans"

"You're a creature too, you know. If I killed you would that be me killing a person or a worthless werewolf?"

Remus was stunned and didn't answer so Harry took advantage of his silence to continue, his temper was almost at boiling point.

"And you say that I have never killed a person, didn't I, at one year old, basically kill the Dark Lord? Well didn't I? Answer me Remus!"

Again he stayed quiet, so Harry left him sitting at his desk, stunned. He opened the door and just as he stepped out Blaise spoke to him

"That's some temper you've got there Tanathos."

Harry smirked

"That's what happens when you're connected to the Dark Lord" he said then switched to mental

'And with Snape as a father. Come on lets go to the library, we have some research to do.'

Blaise smirked and the two walked to the library in silence.

~S~

AN: there's the second confrontation, next chapter: library research and more wandless magics.

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LS