According to other HP writers these characters belong to J K Rowling and a few other assorted companies. However I'm not Ms Rowling nor have I got anything to do with the assorted companies, and so I don't own these characters. Sad but unfortunately true.

9 July 1998

Severus Snape woke up feeling more rested than he could ever remember feeling. For a few seconds he was very appreciative of this. However after a few seconds it occurred to him that he actually shouldn't be waking up at all.

His thought processes at first led him to believe that this must be some sort of after life, which he really didn't want when he had chosen to end things he had really wanted to end them. He hadn't wanted to simply exist somewhere else.

He then realised that if he simply opened his eyes that it would give him a better clue as to where he was. To his surprise he found that he in his room in Hogwarts. This was his biggest nightmare of all, he was now stuck at Hogwarts for all eternity as a Hogwarts ghost, forced to miss Harry forever. He would probably end up like Professor Binns but instead of teaching history he would be teaching potions.

Professor Snape however was not an unintelligent person. He actually was extremely intelligent person. So it did not take him long to work out that he was not floating, and that he could feel the sheets on top of him. Which meant one of two things he was either a poltergeist which was unlikely as poltergeists had never actually lived a mortal existence, and their reason for existence is to create chaos. Severus however was extremely disciplined so that option was practically impossible.

The other option while being incredibly unlikely, was more probable than the other option. He was more than likely still alive. Though he had no idea how this was possible. It was not as if he had been suicidal for a long time, that Dumbledore had seen the signs and had been able to get the antidote to him before the potion he had made could have taken full effect. Even if he had noticed something the day before at dinner, which was unlikely, as the thought to commit suicide had not fully formed, and it would take 24 hours to create the antidote to the potion he took.

He also could not have known what potion that he had taken anyway. So the only other option was that he had made the potion wrong. He knew that that wasn't the case though. Severus simply didn't make mistakes with potions. This was a potion that NEWT students learn in their sixth year, however he had this potion perfected by the time he was a second year. Not because as Sirius would suggest that he knew all the dark arts potions at a really young age. He knew this potion because by the time be had began his third year he knew all of the potions that he would learn while at Hogwarts. For Severus the poison that he created the day before was as easy for him to create as levitating a feather.

Aside from this being an extremely easy potion for him, he knew that making mistakes in potions was dangerous. While he did want to die, he didn't want his death to be painful, he had lived though a lot of pain he felt that he had earned a pain free death.

Harry woke up feeling more optimistic that he had in a long time. He was almost positive that the plan that he, Dumbledore, Hermione and Draco had come up with would have worked. He couldn't see a reason why it shouldn't have.

Instead of laying in bed for an extra twenty minutes as he tended to when he didn't have to be up early, he got up straight away. A few things were instantly noticeable. The other boys had already packed their things. Normally most of them left a few things behind as they knew that they would be back at most in a couple of months time. However they had packed everything as they were leaving Hogwarts for the last time as students.

But the thing that was most noticeable was that Severus' desk was missing. Harry took this as a good sign if Severus had died the night before the desk would still be in his dorm as Severus left the desk to him. Now that the two time periods had met up with each other there should now only be one desk and so, one would have to disappear.

Harry dressed as fast as he could and went to go to Severus' rooms. He only managed to get to the common room before Hermione stopped him. "Are you going to Professor Snape's rooms? I'm sure he is ok I managed to make the antidote perfectly. I don't normally take as much care over potions as I did this one. I'm sure that every thing worked just fine." Hermione said all in one breath.

While normally when Hermione did this he got a little bit wound up by it. He realised that she was doing it because she was nervous for him and for Severus and that is how she acted when she was nervous. "Yeah I'm just going down to talk to him now. I think he is okay though, the desk isn't there any more which makes me think that he is ok."

"That is a really good sign Harry. I think that he is definitely ok. Oh I'm holding you up and I'm sure that you don't want to be here talking to me. Go on go."

Harry smiled at Hermione and ran off to Severus' rooms.

Sorry I know I promised to get this finished by today but I still have one more chapter left. I tried to get it all into this one but it just wasn't flowing. I really intend to get this finished in the next week.