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A/N: This is the first time that I'm seeing you in the year 2005! Having a nice year? I hope you are. Sorry about any mistakes, but this chapter didn't go through my Beta (she's had a copy of this chapter for two weeks now). So sorry!
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By the next day Snape had gotten answers from both Sirius and Dumbledore.
Snape, I don't know why you were being so nice to me, but I don't even care. I just want you to promise to take extremely good care of Harry because I can't. I owled Dumbledore and asked if I should come and get Harry, but he told me that Harry's better off there. He isn't, but I don't want to put Harry in danger so he can stay if you treat him nicely. I'll have Harry owl me everyday to make sure that he's ok. Got it? If I hear that he's unhappy, I'll come there and kill you! –S.B.
In his letter, Dumbledore had only told Snape to keep Harry at his manor and go on with his business normally.
… Two weeks later …
"Severus," said an evil cold voice. "Has the plan worked so far?"
"It's worked perfectly."
"No one suspects anything?"
"No, Master. They don't suspect anything."
"Ah, this is most perfect, Severus. That old fool believes anything you tell him."
"Well I did save his life. "Snape smirked evilly.
It had been Voldemort and Snape's master plan many years ago. The aim had been for Snape to gain Dumbledore's trust before Voldemort's downfall. They had pretended that Snape saved Dumbledore from Voldemort at a great personal risk, but in truth it had just been the plan and Voldemort had let Snape get away.
"Yes, and he still hasn't repaid the favor. Now he will though, and he will pay a huge price. He'll have to pay his Golden Boy."
…
Harry woke with a start at Snape manor. He was breathing heavily and sweating. What had the dream been about? What plan were they talking about? And… Snape had saved Dumbledore's life? When had that happened? Well, that might be why Dumbledore trusts Snape so much.
The thing Harry was really interested in was how Snape had reacted to the last part. He didn't have a chance to see Snape's face before he woke up, but was sure that the man was horrified (or at least scared).
The two had grown pretty close over the past two weeks and they both had realized that the other was in fact a very nice person. Snape, or Sev as Harry now called him, had even played a game of Quidditch in Sev's backyard (Harry had won of course, but they still had fun).
Harry stood up from his bed and traveled to his window. He looked out into the black of the night and saw a white blob coming for him from the sky.
Harry smiled as Hedwig landed on his windowsill, "Hey girl. Did you bring another letter back from Sirius?" Hedwig hooted in reply and Harry took the latter that was attacked to her leg.
Dear Harry,
Is everything all right there? Is Snape still treating you well? I know you told me to stop asking you everyday, but I don't trust Snape and you know it. Send me the answer as soon as you get this, even if it's just a: 'I'm doing ok' or 'I don't like Snape, come get me away from here so that I can live with you'. –Sirius
Harry shook his head at Sirius' letter. This was the fiftieth time that Sirius had asked Harry to come and live with him. At first it had been funny, but now it was just plain annoying!
Harry set the letter onto his beside table and curled back under the covers of his warm, king-size bed.
…
In the morning Harry woke up to the sound of people talking and, wandering whom Snape was talking to, he got out of bed. He stood up stretching and grabbed new clothes from his wardrobe. Harry went to his own bathroom, which was connected to his room, for a nice long shower.
Once Harry came out he noticed that Snape was still talking to the person downstairs. That totally dismissed the possibility of the person being Sirius because: 1. They weren't shouting and 2. They couldn't hold a conversation for that long.
Harry decided to go down to see who the visitor was, for all he knew it could be Dumbledore. He strode to the door and was about to open it, but it wouldn't budge. He tried again, still nothing. Harry kicked the door in frustration and was about to repeat the futile motion, but then he noticed a note taped to the door.
Harry, so not attempt to open the door because I've locked it with magic. I have a DE with me and he can't see you. Keep quiet and wait patiently until I finish talking with him. –Sev
Woops, Harry had already broken one of Snape's requirements: keep quiet. Harry wondered how long he would have to stay in the room; he was starting to get hungry.
The very second Harry thought that a house elf appeared in his room with a breakfast tray.
"Here you go, Harry Potter, sir." The small house elf squeaked.
"Thanks." Harry smiled at her and she curtsied and disappeared from the room as suddenly as she had come.
Harry pocked at his breakfast of scrambled eggs, French toast, orange juice and fruits as he tried to listen for sounds of the visitor leaving.
On a normal day Harry would've stayed in his room, but somehow it was very frustrating to stay there, knowing that he couldn't get out of the room if he wanted to. He himself didn't get the logic of it, but he thought that it might me an instinct thing. He had been kept locked up at the Dursley's for a long time and then being beat up. It just was against Harry's nature to stay locked up…
…
The house elf had come back to pick up Harry's tray a long time ago, when Harry had finally finished eating his breakfast.
After about an hour of sitting in his room practicing spells, Harry heard two chairs scrape the floor and talking that sounded like a 'See you later'-type of thing.
Five minutes later Snape came up and unlocked Harry's door.
"Sorry about that. It was Malfoy and he wanted to know if I'd heard any news of you from Dumbledore."
"That's ok, Sev. I just don't like being stuck in a room, it brings back bad memories."
Snape looked at Harry sympathetically and apologized.
"It's ok, like I said. I know you did what you had to."
"would you come down to the living room with me? I need to talk to you about something important…"
"Sure."
The two set of towards the living room and half way there, Harry's scar started to hurt. He told Snape about this and asked if Malfoy could've come back.
"Not very likely. Malfoy would knock. I think that your scar hurts because Malfoy was here a while ago. He could've left some sort of death eater presence that made your scar hurt… But I don't know. All I know is that there are no death eaters here." Snape thought for a while, "Apart from me."
"Ah, you're not really a death eater."
They entered the living room and Harry's scar prickled more.
"And why not, Potter?"
"That's Mr. Potter to you." Harry teased and Snape smirked. "You're not cruel enough to be a death eater. And they're sneaky and have dirty tricks always outnumbering you one to twenty." Harry concluded and then looked at an evilly smirking Snape.
"What?" Harry asked.
"You don't know how right you are, Potter."
Harry whipped his head around and saw Lucius Malfoy standing in the doorway that led to the kitchen. He had a bunch of death eaters behind him, all with their wands ready.
Harry turned around and saw Snape.
"I'll help you battle then off, but you have to alert Dumbledore before that."
"No one is alerting anyone." Snape suddenly had his old, cold appearance back and drew out his wand. Harry did the same and turned towards the death eaters.
Snape was first to fire, "Stupefy!"
Suddenly Harry's world went black.
…
A minute later Hedwig flew in with Sirius' letter.
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A/N: Well, what do you think? Very short, I know, but otherwise? How'd you like the end? Personally, I loved it! As promised here are the review responses:
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telchen: Yeah, but he was trying to be nice so that Sirius wouldn't convince Dumbledore to let Sirius get Harry away…
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