Sorry it took so long but I was out of town for a few weeks.

Chapter 41: Aftermath

Poppy Pomfry ended up staying a week and a half before Harry was completely healed. Gone were all the weak, once broken bones replaced by strong, new ones. His lank hair with the bald patches where replaced by a shiny, thick new hair. His muscle damage was healed as well as any internal scars and damage. He even had a small growth spurt that made him two inches taller; admittedly, he wasn't back to his old glamour height but it was a much improvement. Pomfry told both Harry and Snape encouragingly that he would have another one, one that wasn't potion induced, when he was around fifteen or sixteen like any normal teenage boy. Harry didn't say anything but pulled up the blankets to hide his head.

Harry had refused to talk or acknowledge either Poppy or Snape, when they tried to talk to him, even when they wanted to tell him what was happening outside of Snape's bedroom he merely looked away and curled up into a fetal position. In fact, Harry refused to talk at all. After three days of this, Snape decided not to talk to him at all until after his physical healing was complete. He felt that they would deal with one problem at a time and that physical healing would be draining enough without dealing with the emotional issues. On the other hand, Poppy didn't agree and continued trying to get the boy to talk, telling Snape it would be easier now then it would be later.

Harry wouldn't eat and had to be forced to drink the medical potions. He had to be held down and the drinks forced down his throat. After swallowing, Harry would pull away as if their touch burned him. He often had a far away look on his face. During the night, he curled as far away room Snape as possible but once asleep he would move towards him and curl around him like a vine climbing a post. Sometimes he talked in his sleep but almost every night he cried.

Outside of Snape's bedroom, there were some interesting things happening. Lucius Malfoy had replied to his letter reassuring Snape that being Potter's master was a good thing, that he could not actually teach Harry useful things plus gain the boy's trust and use it against him. It went on to mention ideas and plans on how to use Harry leaving Snape wondering how Harry made such an enemy as Lucius Malfoy. Then he remembered how Harry had freed his personal house-elf leaving Snape to smile and sigh.

Professor McGonagal tried her best to stay out of Snape's way and was overly sweet to him, which annoyed him and caused the other teachers to ask him what he had over her. Moody threatened him to remove whatever spell he had over her much to his amusement. Moody also continued to demand that he free his apprentice and tell him what he knew, which Snape ignored because he couldn't curse him to bits. On the other hand, Dumbledore looked guilty and was oddly quiet as if thinking.

The only thing that Snape thought was a pleasant thing was the good behavior that Granger was showing and forcing Weasley's good behavior as well. They would answer his questions graciously even though Weasley was grinding his teeth. Their homework was exemplary and even when Snape gave them the lowest grade in the class, they both were polite but he could tell Granger looked ready to faint. No matter how rude he was to the two, they just accepted his cruelty; Snape figured this was caused by the fact he was Harry's master and they feared Harry would be punished for their behavior. On the other hand, Draco Malfoy was ecstatic; after all, some of favorite enemies were constantly being punished for nothing at all.

On a gorgeously bright, sunny day, Snape decided to get his revenge against the two. When it was time for potions class with the Gryffindors and Slytherins, he calmly waited in the shadows for them to walk to his door. By the time Weasley and Granger had arrived, most of the class was quietly waiting for Snape's door to be opened and both of them headed towards the other Gryffindors to chat. As they moved closer to the rest of the class, Snape did a few whirls of his wand and a softly murmured spell. Granger fell forward and her robes flew upwards over her head, revealing her underwear. Though this was embarrassing but it was worse for one of the spells Snape had placed was a transfiguring spell that changed her panties into a green, leather thong complete with studs. The perfect garment for a domineering slut.

At first, the group of students was shocked and couldn't get a word out but then it did sink in. Hermione Granger, the top student in every class, had fallen down and her knickers were showing. Slutty, leather panties were showing. They howled in laughter. Draco Malfoy fell over, landed with a thud on his ass with tears sloshing down his face. His face turned scarlet because he couldn't breathe because he couldn't stop chuckling.

It ended in a moment; red-faced Granger lowered her robes and ran out of the corridor as fast as possible. Weasley looked around confused and then narrowed his eyes on Malfoy, then with no warning he pounced on him, punching and whacking him ferociously. Snape pushed through the crowd and pulled him of the smaller boy. He tried to pull away to continue his attack. He shook the boy and said, "If you continue your attack, you will be expelled."

He looked at Snape angrily but then lowered his eyes and calmed. Snape looked at his class who had now stopped laughing and looked fearful. Malfoy had a bloody nose and his eye looked swollen. He told them, "Crabbe, help Mr. Malfoy to the hospital wing. As for the rest of you, class dismissed."

Then he smiled dangerously at Weasley, "Come, Mr. Weasley. I believe the headmaster is going to want to have a little chat with you."

The little chat turned out longer than even Snape thought it would be. After three hours, even he was bored. Weasley continued to accuse of Malfoy of hexing Granger but Snape kindly pointed out he didn't have his wand out. By the end of it, McGonagal couldn't even defend him considering the entire class and himself had witnessed his launching on the other boy. He lost Gryffindor one hundred pints and earned himself a month of detentions. Snape wanted to demand that Granger be punished too for leaving as it started but refrained himself knowing that the headmaster would do no such thing to the poor, traumatized girl. He wondered personally if the headmaster had forgotten that Potter and Black were never punished for hanging him upside down with his underwear was showing.

All and all, at the end of the day, he couldn't fight the huge grin invading his face.