Severus and Lucius ran to the window looking out, their eyes following Harry as he flew away on his broom. The soft sounds of the invisibility cloak hitting the floor drew them both back to the present moment.

"The Ministry people are here!" Cried a death eater. Hearing that Severus apparated to the outskirts of the forbidden Forest and practically ran to the darkness of his dungeon.

In the safety of his dungeons, Severus set about to try and locate the headmaster to contact him about what happened. After repeated attempts to call him by Floo Severus put the pieces together realized that the headmaster must have gone to the Weasley's house and was now trapped.

After taking several different healing potions with him Severus ran back out the apparition point and apparating away to the Burrow.

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At the burrow Percy was busy pacing his room in a considerable amount of distress. The Dark Lord was supposed to send him a signal notifying him when the Potter boy had been killed. It had already been three hours since the capture of Potter's relatives and still no notices.

Knowing that his family would soon wake and rise to start the new day, he wanted to finish off the assassination that he was supposed to do; off his parents and then capture the remainder of his family and then bring them to the Dark lord to bring down the wards of Hogwarts. But still no signal was sent.

Severus soon arrived at the burrow and entered the house through a secret passage that Percy set up to enter and leave the house for any death eater meetings.

Moving up the stairs, quickly and silently knocked on Percy's bedroom door.

The door slowly opened to reveal Percy huffing and puffing like a dragon would when it was mad.

After noticing Snape at the door, Percy spat out, "What do you want Snape?" Saying Severus's name like it was venom.

"Our lord told me to inform you that the Potter boy got away and that we will get our revenge when he comes to visit your family towards the end of the summer." Snape replied with his usual sneer in place.

"So? We have the headmaster and Remus Lupin downstairs. Why can't we just kill them now?" Percy asked feeling a little mad because he could not kill his mudblood loving parents.

"Because it is as our lord's wishes." Snape spat back at him wondering how such an idiot could become a death eater, but then he thought about Crabbe and Goyle and mentally shook his head.

Percy sighed knowing that he was defeated. He muttered a counter curse and shut the lid on a small box that had a black crystal shinning in the first rays of sunlight.

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Harry was flying faster than he had ever done before not even knowing that he could fly this fast. All the joy and freedom that he usually felt when he was flying was gone. It was replaced by a driving fear of death and determination that Voldemort had instilled in him. He was flying off in some southwest direction away from everything that he knew. He was changed from the-boy-who-lived, to the-boy-that-ran.

Noticing that the sun was beating down on his back, even though he was numb with fear and the constant wind whipping at his thin clothing, he began his descent into a near by ring of stones.

The ring of stones that he was at was colossal in size. No muggle could ever build something this big in size and shape.

Seeing that there were no muggles about because it was early in the morning, he landed in the middle of the ring of stones and entered a magical field of power. The power that was surrounding Harry was something not to be toyed with.

Harry trying to stay awake incase something happened, soon lapsed into unconsciousness.

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Back at the burrow, both Percy and Severus made their way down the stairs to where Albus, Remus, and Molly were all waiting. The plan that Percy came up with was that Severus would try to stun Albus while Percy tried to take out his mother and Remus. The only problem was that Percy did not know that Severus was a spy for the light.

As Severus got down stairs he greeted Albus, "Good morning it seems that the sun is as red as blood." By saying that coded message, Albus knew that it meant I have a traitor with me and you should take him out.

Albus just stared at Severus and then slowly replied, "Ah so it has. Good morning Percy," Albus calmly said. "Stupefy."

Percy tried to put up a shield but was too slow. Before he knew it he was stunned and on the ground on his back.

"What in the orders name do you think your doing Albus?" Molly practically shouted at the headmaster.

"Severus, would you care to explain?" Albus asked kindly.

"Well, seeing that you cannot put the facts together MOLLY... I will explain to you." Severus sneered at the Weasley whose face was growing redder and redder with anger.

"Enough!" Albus thundered; with a glance at Severus that plainly said tell us nicely.

Remus just stared, and Molly had her mouth so open that a dungbomb could easily fit in her mouth.

"Well at the death eater meeting, the Dark lord announced that we had a new person welcomed into our fold and that person was Percy Weasley." He paused for a moment to letting that new piece of information sink into everyone's mind, especially Molly's. He slowly took a deep breath and then continued.

"Since he was not actually at the meeting, I knew that there was going to be an attack that night. The Dark lord said that he had found a way to capture and kill Mr. Potter, he said that since his relatives have now been captured, that they would be painfully tortured until they gave in giving away the location of his home. They killed the boy, and then Nagini ate the husband of Petunia and then she was left. She was given the choice to willingly tell us where the house was or die. She chose death. Soon after we killed her, the wards fell around the house, thus allowing us to attack the house. Potter must have done some magic to get his things out because soon after I chased him out the window, Ministry officials started showing up."

There was silence in the living room, no one moved or said anything. Percy was still stunned and lying on the ground, when Remus decided to speak.

"Albus, I told you that we had to send Harry help. How could we do such a thing to him?"

"Remus, we did all that we could have done for Harry, Fudge still refuses to believe even though he declared it to the public. The ministry is doing nothing." Albus replied very solemnly.

"Even if you were somehow able to help him, you would die if you even set foot outside this house." Severus said suddenly looking very tired. It seemed that the Meeting and attack had sapped him of all of his energy.

Molly stared at her son in shock, walked up to him slowly, and lifted the left sleeve of Percy's robe past his forearm to reveal the Dark mark branded onto his skin. She gasped and dropped the arm as if it burned her own skin. Remus slowly walked over to her and placed a comforting arm around her drawing the distressed woman into his embrace while she cried.

Severus turned his eyes away from the scene he could not bear to look at the site before him. It brought up old memories of when he had first gotten his own mark.

Flashback

Severus Snape sat on the edge of the lake looking out at its clear surface. So many things were flying about in his head. One was the fact that James Potter and Sirius Black were always following him around pulling their pranks on him. It was even worse during potions class where Severus was in his element. Severus had always loved to cook, but since his parents were pureblood wizards they didn't want their son associating with the muggle way of doing things, so he found his new love in potions.

It was the way that the subtle simmering of potions calmed him; no one not even the Potter gang could disturb him while he brewed. Except one day, when Severus was late for his class because of an accident with some of the unforgivable curses, that his fellow Slytherins were practicing. Of course they did it wrong thus causing him a lot of pain.

So when he came in late for potions, it gave Black the opportunity to trip him while entering the classroom. Severus knocked over an entire workbench and landed on his already hurt face, making his nose bleed. He got up, with all the sixth year Gryffindor's laughing at him.

Professor Youngblood looked up at Severus with sympathetic eyes but said nothing about Sirius's prank. "Mr. Snape, would you please take your seat," she said rather calmly.

Severus sat down and took out his ingredients for the Mude potion. It was a simple pain-killing potion that would only take about half the double period to make.

While stirring the potion in its final stages of preparation, a dungbomb landed in his potion and exploded, send an extreme amount of the potion to all corners of the room covering everything and everyone. Holes were soon being burned into everything that the potion had touched. Severus's perfect potion was ruined.

Soon he was supposed to be marked. Even though his mother did not want him to take the mark, Severus's father had beaten him over and over again until he gave in.

A few months later a distressed Severus was sitting in his room at the Snape Manor. He had just gotten the mark and was waiting for the familiar sensation of being eaten alive to start whenever the Dark lord called his followers together. He was devastated.

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"Severus?" Albus asked him gently placing a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"Severus?" he asked again.

Severus looked up at the headmaster. Black onyx eyes met blue ones. "Severus, I think you should go back to Hogwarts and get some sleep," the headmaster said with concern written all over his face.

Severus just sighed in defeat, knowing that nothing that he could do, would convince the headmaster otherwise. He reached into an inner pocket in his black robes and took out the healing potions and gave them to Albus. Then with the swishing of his black robes Severus made his way outside the Burrow, gathering all of his concentration, focused, and then apparated to the edge of the school grounds.

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Harry Potter slowly regained consciousness, and woke up to find himself in front of a grand castle. Marveling in awe, he stood up gathering his few belongings and walked towards the entrance doors.

The castle was pure white marble, with gold and silver trimmings around the many turrets and towers. It also had many windows so that sunlight could pour into the castles interior.

Pushing open the big double doors, which were made of mahogany, Harry entered the biggest entrance hall that he had seen. It was even bigger than the entrance hall at Hogwarts. Seeing that there were scarlet hangings everywhere it reminded him of his home at Hogwarts.

Just then a young man came walking into the room only dressed in plain white robes that had silver edges. The man approached him and opened his mouth to speak.

"Good day Harry," the man said slightly bowing his head out of respect. "Let me welcome you to the castle, Trillium."

Harry looked at the man who had just spoken, opening his mouth to apologize for his intrusion for being here but the man spoke cutting Harry off.

"I understand that you have many questions, but they will all be answered in time," the man said looking into Harry's emerald eyes, he could see pools of innocence thrown away from spending his years and much of his time trying to live from one day to the next.

"Please come now and rest. You'll need it."

Harry just listened as the man spoke, following him at a safe distance to a door, which had just come into view. The man opened the door and led Harry into a large bedchamber that had blue and gold wall hangings and curtains that adorned the bed in the center of the room

"I will come back for you tomorrow, now rest," the man said and then walked away.

Looking around the room, Harry was stunned by its beauty and magnitude. Harry then sat down on the bed, vowing to be more careful in the future about what he did because anything could be a trap with Voldemort after him. But then he reminded himself that he was away from the Dursley's and anything was better than that place, even if they died because of him.

With a sigh, Harry took off his glasses placed them on the bedside table, and soon was fast asleep curled up within the soft covers of the massive bed.

AN: Another chapter done!!! A note about this story, I did have this posted before but i took it off FF so that i could work on it a bit more before i decided to post it again.

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