Ok GUYS HERE'S THE DEAL I'VE CHANGED USERNAMES IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW. IM SORRY ITS TAKEN ME TWO YEARS TO REALIZE I FORGOT TO TELL YA! IM SO SO SO SO SO SORRY BUT YEAH IT HAPPENED. HERE'S THIS CHAPTER AND REVIEWS AND MY NEW NAME IS halijadesnape

I have the rest of this 'book' and bout 8 chapters of the next book. I am seriously sorry. Here you go!

WARNING, THIS CHAPTER IS RATED PG 13 FOR VIOLENCE!

Ok. I'm home from school. Good. Now I need to write. People, PLEASE review! I'm updating as much as possible! Please? Pouty face here's my RR's

Jordan: Yes she was. (grin) Glad you found it out!

Headncloud: I know I know. But hey, I like cliffies, don't you?

Princessorez: Welcome to my little mind! Thank you! You'll see. This is the punishment chapter.

Wintersong: Thank you. I love it when the Durselys get punished for hurting poor little Harry, and they will be getting it.

Desert Fox: I don't mind short reviews, but I do favor long ones! I don't mind, I just love reviews! Thank you. I may have them have more kids, but I think Sev would absolutely die of stress! All right then, here's your new chappie!

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Mikee: thank you, you get a special thank you because you've been here the whole time! They will get their just award for hurting Harry… (Evil cackle) Yes, it is the sorting hat. Yes, they will also have a discussion… about some things…

If I ever forget anyone, please tell me, and I will immediately correct it! Thank you everyone! Here is the chappie!

LAST TIME

"Okay, now we're just going to get to the gates, apparate to Privet Drive, and then let the Durselys pay for hurting Harry." Severus said.

"Yes… and painfully." Sirius said with his teeth clenched.

They walked to the gates silently and apperated to Privet Drive and walked up to Number Four.

NOW

Harry continued to walk up to the hat and picked it up and placed it on his head. He heard a voice, and he jumped a mile in the air.

Dumbledore looked up from where he was giving Hali some toys and chuckled lightly. He knew that the sorting hat would never hurt the young boy, and might teach Harry a thing or two.

'Hey! I'm not a toy, young one. Is it the sorting already? I haven't finished my song.' It said.

Harry gasped. This hat… it could talk!

'I'm sorry…' Harry thought before sounding it out with his voice.

'It's no trouble at all, young Snape.' The hat said. 'And you don't have to say what you want to say to me. Just think it and I will know what you are saying.'

'You know my name!' Harry thought. He sat down on a chair, knowing that this hat wasn't out to take control of his mind.

'Who doesn't?' the hat asked.

'Do I have to answer that? I don't know the answer.' Harry thought tentatively.

'No, my dear boy, you don't have to. What did you put me on for? Do you have a question?' the hat asked. Harry was beginning to like this hat. It was silly.

'What were you made for? I'm not trying to be rude, but you were made specially, weren't you?'

'Yes, I was made to sort the students of Hogwarts into four houses.'

'Houses…'

'Yes, Gryffindor, Huffelpuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Would you like me to tell you the story on how Hogwarts came to be?' the hat asked.

Before Harry could answer, the headmaster interrupted. "Harry, what are you doing with the Sorting Hat?"

Harry looked stunned and then tore off the hat, putting it back on its stool.

"I'm sorry…" he muttered, sitting back on the sofa.

"It's no problem, Harry, in fact, I am happy you have found out about the hat already. You can continue to talk and listen with it if you wish." Dumbledore laughed lightly.

Hali tugged on the man's beard and firmly insisted "Derby!"

The headmasters' attention diverted once more, Harry nodded and walked back over to the hat and put it back on.

'Back again?' the hat wondered. 'May I finish my story'

'Yes, please.' Harry thought. He sat on the couch, immersed in the story the hat began to tell.

'Once upon a time, long, long ago, there lived two witches and two wizards, more powerful than anything. They lived in very different places, lived very different lives as they grew. One was very cunning, Salazar Slytherin, and never let anything get in his way as he strive for more and more power.

Another was very much opposite, Helga Huffelpuff, helping others out despite her own wish to become what her destiny made for her. Yet another one of the four was neither quiet nor cunning, Godric Gryffindor, but very much loud and brave. He was the one that never stood for evil and strives to overcome it and show his true bravery. The last was a very smart witch, Rowena Ravenclaw, and she always wished to learn more about her abilities.

'One day they all met each other and formed a plan to build a school for others like themselves. Godric, Rowena, Salazar, and Helga pooled their power, knowledge, and overall magic and built this school to help others learn.

While they built it, they had many arguments. Salazar Slytherin insisted to let only those with pure magical blood enter the school, but the others insisted that any child that was gifted in magic should be able to learn how to control it. They all had their own 'house' in the school to help the children learn faster. To help them sort the children out, Godric took me off his head and charmed me to sort. This is what he told me:

Gryffindor accepts any child with bravery as their strongest asset.

Huffelpuff takes the most loyal of them all

Ravenclaw will welcome any with the strong yearning of knowledge

Slytherin wants only the most cunning and pure of blood

'Soon after a fight with the other founders, Salazar left the school, but only after making a secret chamber somewhere in the school for his heir only to open. They say it's going to wipe out any dirty blooded children, but that is merely a myth, some say. I wouldn't know, for I am but a thinking cap.'

Harry's head was whirling with this knowledge, but ten minutes later, he managed to file that all away.

MEANWHILE

Severus stalked to the door and pounded on the door. He stepped back to allow Lily to speak with whomever had the misfortune to open the door first. A moment later, a horse-faced woman opened the door.

"Lily!" the woman exclaimed, stepping back in shock.

"Petunia, dear, how horrible it is to see you. My friends and I wish to have a little… chat… with you." Lily said, stepping through the door uninvited. Sirius, Remus, and Severus followed.

Petunia managed to get her senses back and yelled, "Vernon!"

Lily and the others sat themselves down in the livingroom. Lily took it up as her duty to stand by the door to the parlor and glare at her sister and her husband as they walked into the room.

"I demand you leave this instance! Your little freak left months ago, we don't know nor care where he went, so you can just leave." Vernon bellowed.

"Harry is well and at Hogwarts. What we want, Vernon," Sirius spat 'Vernon' out as if it burnt his tongue, "is revenge for what you did to Harry."

"You know he was almost dead when we found him?" Remus added.

"And he didn't even like for me to hug him when I saw him?" Lily said. She slapped her sister across the face as hard as she could after she said this. Petunia fell to the ground from the force and Vernon helped her up.

"He deserved every bit of it!" Vernon argued. After he said this, he felt pain going through his body as if knives and hot irons were stabbing every centimeter of his being. He screamed out in pain as he fell to the ground, his fingernails penetrating his body as he tried to get rid of the invisible force.

Severus' eyes flashed in anger as he continued to point his wand at the filthy excuse of a human being that hurt his son.

Petunia was staring at Vernon in shock as he yelled out in pain and diverted her gaze to the man that was putting this torture upon her husband.

"You-" Petunia cursed so badly that it would send her ancestors in shock "- Stop!"

Remus and Sirius were on their feet in an instant with their wands trained on Petunia. Lily merely continued to stare at Petunia.

"You know what you did to my son, Petunia? You and your filthy husband had his mind into mush. He didn't want any human contact for weeks, and he was scared to death from anyone except Severus! Do you want to know why? Because Severus was the one to save him! You and Vernon need to be taught a lesson about life. Here it is: For every hand you lay on any of our children, you get a thousand times worse!" Lily yelled.

Remus and Sirius's eyes were both flashing in anger. "Do you want to take care of her?" Sirius asked.

"No. Don't do anything to her. It's not right. Vernon was the one hurting Harry. She just watched. I don't care what you say, just don't do anything to her but yell." Lily said with a sigh. She walked over to Severus.

"How you doing with him?" Lily asked. Sirius and Remus had started to yell and scream at Petunia for not stopping the abuse that had befallen Harry.

Severus took the curse off of Vernon and watched the man try to get up. "Fairly well. I think I just got done with the first week of Harry's beatings." Severus said silkily.

Sirius came over and threw himself at Vernon. He began to pound at every inch of the man that he could, expressing his anger and frustration out on him.

Despite the seriousness of the situation, Severus smiled. The bastard was getting what he deserved for hurting his son for three plus years.

Remus continued to lay guilt on Petunia Dursely. Blood was pooling around Vernon Dursely, and no one in the room felt anything but happiness at this except the victim and the victim's wife.

"Durselys, if you ever touch a hair on Hali, Harry, or any of my children, the result will be much worse than what you have felt today!" Lily vowed.

"If you like your heads where they are, you will stay away from them for the rest of eternity." Remus said sollemly.

"I will kill you if you hurt any of my friends or family. That is a promise." Sirius snarled.

"You will be worse than dead if you or any of your friends or family hurt, touch, or even look at any of my family or friends at all for the rest of your pathetic excuse of a life." Severus said. He stared Vernon in the eyes, chilling the other man to the bone with his intense gaze.

Vernon couldn't do anything but gurgle from the blood coming out of his mouth. He hurt intensely everywhere in his body, and even places he never knew he had were in pain. He nodded feebly, but stopped once he noticed a throbbing twinge in his skull. He surmised that it could be fractured and mentally noted to get that checked out.

"Lily… please… stop…" Petunia tried again to make her sister stop this torture. "That's hurting him."

"HURTING I HIM /I WHAT ABOUT HARRY? WHAT ABOUT WHEN HE HURT MY SON? DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT IT HAS DONE TO HIM? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT PIECE OF FILTH DID TO MY BABY BOY? Petunia, the boy has been malnourished, beaten, broken. The baby boy that once was happy is just now learning what love is. He is terrified of anyone that resembles that piece of filth! He is to young to know true pain, and you made sure he did!

"I swear, Petunia, that the husband you have right now will never be able to have children ever again! I feel sorry for whatever children you have now, but I am making sure today that he will never make a child ever again!" Lily pointed her wand at Vernon Durselys face and said a spell that would make even the most powerful wizard in the world scream in agony.

Vernon Dursely that night, felt the most pain he would ever feel in his life.

"Let's go, Lily." Severus said, twenty minutes later. Vernon had passed out five minutes earlier and they were still in that room. Lily was glaring at anything and everything except her companions. Remus and Sirius had had their fun by putting the oddest curses, hexes, spells, and overall enchantments on various things in the house, mostly things they knew Vernon used.

"Severus…" Lily said. Severus put his arms around her and she leaned into the embrace, allowing him to lead her out the door.

Remus and Sirius followed, talking about Quidditch as if they hadn't just changed the lives of three people forever.

They apparated out of Privet Drive for the last time in their lives.

Harry smiled as he played on the floor with a mound of blocks and watched Hali draw on various pages of a muggle coloring book.

"What's that?" Harry asked. He saw another coloring book, but was more interested in the pictures on the front.

"That, my dear boy, is Merlin." The headmaster said, sitting on a chair behind where Harry was located.

Hali and Harry immediately climbed up into their elder's lap and listened intently.

Dumbledore started to tell Harry and Hali all about Merlin and his great adventures throughout many years.

"Really?" Harry asked, when Dumbledore told them that Merlin had killed a dragon.

"Of course, Harry." Dumbledore said with that air of someone that had been insulted.

Just then the doors opened, and Lily, Severus, Sirius, and Remus walked in, obviously very pleased with themselves.

"Welcome back. I was just telling the little ones about Merlin and all of his adventures." Albus said with a warm smile.

"Thank you so much, Professor, for watching these little ones. We really needed to get this done." Lily said. She picked up Harry, but the boy was taken by Sirius and Severus picked up Hali.

"Can I have a word with you, Headmaster?" Remus asked as the others walked out of the room. "It's about the next school year."

Yay! Chappie nineteen is out! Thank you all, I am so happy I am getting this out and that people actually read it!

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