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Ch. 3 Turn my life to a soft murmur

Harry was standing before the Fat Lady's portrait, he didn't know the password, he wasn't a prefect and he hadn't asked neither Ron nor Hermione what it was since he left the Great Hall in such a hurry.

"Sorry dear I can't let you in without the password" the Fat Lady said regarding Harry with a sad look. Just then, Ron walked out "Harry mate! Where were you? I was worried, Hermione is having a fit she ordered me to look for you"

"I've been standing here for quite a while, I don't know the password"

"Oh that, it's 'Per crucem ad lucem'."

Harry looked at Ron as if he had grown two heads.

"Hey don't look at me, Hermione made it up" Ron gestured wildly with his hands while he said this.

"Figures…thanks Ron anyway let's get in there now before Hermione has kittens"

They went in and once in the Common Room they were greeted by a nearly hysteric Hermione. "Harry Potter! Just what were you thinking? Where were you? Have you gone mental? Storming out of the Great Hall like the devil's after you!" her voice raising several decibels with each passing word.

"I wasn't, around, I don't think I have, and I'm sorry I didn't mean to scare you I just needed to get out" Harry answered rather calmly to each one of her questions.

"Oh Harry! It's ok, just remember that next time you feel the need to pull a stunt like that at least let one of us know"

Harry nodded once, "Well you guys, I'm off to bed, I feel rather tired and I want to be on time for breakfast tomorrow; good night"

"Night mate"

"Good night Harry"

Taking two steps at a time, Harry ascended all the way up to the 6th year dormitories, once there he quickly changed his clothes, got to bed and tightly shut the curtains.

Meanwhile, Snape was in his quarters, sitting in front of the fireplace in a very comfortable couch with a firewhiskey glass in his hand. He was thinking about Potter…Merlin what a joy! Not that he actually cared about him, he was just curious.

Potter sure looked strange, definitely not like the arrogant spoiled brat he was last term; Snape first thought the brat was behaving like his usual pompous self, but he did notice a small flicker of magic and a weird change in Potter's appearance if only for a second.

Bruises and cuts, but for Merlin's sake they were probably product of his own stupidity, he must have gotten into some sort of muggle fight while impersonating his brave Gryffindor self, nevertheless whatever it was, he was going to find out and detentions were the perfect excuse. Just thinking about the torturing he could make 'Hogwarts celebrity' undergo made him so happy.

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Morning broke a bit to quickly for Harry's liking, and as if that wasn't enough he was the first one up, he surveyed the room as a precaution, since his glamour could have well fallen during the night; he was in pain, walking around with broken bones, bruises and cuts was not his cup of tea but he was definitely not going to go over to the Infirmary and let everyone know about his condition.

Harry was terrified of his uncle since he had actually hurt him in as many ways possible and he was sure that, if the opportunity showed up, he would not hesitate when it came to killing him, his burden of a nephew.

He took a quick shower letting his glamour fall so that he could clean his wounds since he didn't want them to get infected, then, he dressed and descended the stairs to wait for his friends in the Common Room; an hour later he was still lost in his own little world when a hand touched his shoulder bringing him back to reality.

"Hey mate! Ready for breakfast?" Ron asked while shaking Harry a bit.
"Yeah, I got up early and decided to wait for you"
"Well hurry up you two, we'll be getting our schedules and I want to see what classes we are having, I did so well in my OWLS I just can't wait!" Hermione said excitedly.
"Oh yes! It's bloody fantastic!" Ron said with mock happiness and doing some weird sort of happy up and down dance which earned him a punch from Hermione.

"Well just because you failed some of your OWLS and have some sort of strange revulsion to studying doesn't mean we are all like you"

"Harry by the way what about yours? You haven't told us anything about them!" Hermione said while facing Harry, a huge smile plastered on her face.

"Well I flunked Divination and Astrology, I actually managed an O in Potions, I don't know how but I did, I guess it's strictly connected to the fact that Snape wasn't breathing down on me waiting for a chance to humiliate me"

"Tell me about it mate! I mean it took me over a week to get over the fact that I actually managed to pass Potions, too bad since I really didn't want to spend another two years with the greasy git" Ron said while making a sort of traumatized face.

"Oh Ronald please grow up"

"What?"

Hermione rolled her eyes this made Harry laugh, the three of them then headed towards the Great Hall.

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Breakfast was a rather uncomfortable time for Harry, he was still sore from his dreaded summer with the Dursleys and sitting still bothered him a lot, but other than that he wasn't unhappy, schedules were handed out and he saw that he didn't have potions until Thursday and Friday which meant Snape- free days, a smile made his way towards his lips until he remembered about his detentions with the overgrown bat… ok that was not a happy thought, but he resolved that if he just came and went and ignored Snape as much as possible then it wouldn't be that bad.

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A/N: I know short chapter but expect another one tomorrow!
If my latin is a bit good I'd say 'Per crucem ad lucem' means something like 'By torment find light'