Chapter 5
"He can not be allowed to remain here! He is a menace to the other students!"
"Now now, Minerva, calm down. I do not think he meant to do it. I think it was purely accidental." Dumbledore said, filling up the tea cups in front of him with a flick of his wand.
"Acidental!" she screeched. "He maliciously attacked another student! Did you see him focus his energy on that poor defenseless Ron Weasly?"
Snape snorted. "Weasley is far from defenseless. Besides, he provoced Potter. Has been provocing Potter for at least a month. Your precious Gryfindors won't even allow him back in the tower anymore."
McGonagall rolled her eyes. "Really Snape, I thought that you at least would be able to see that the boy must not be coddled. If he did something to annoy his housemates that much, then he must learn to apologize. His ego has gotten far too large. And all that is beside the point, he attacked another student, who is now in the hospital, and may not recover!" By this point she was standing up, leaning over the Headmaster's desk.
"Minerva! Please!" Dumbledore said harshly. "This was obviously not intended! Now, what are we going to do about this?"
Snape sighed. "Obviously the boy does not fit in among the Gryfindors. The idea of the house system is to harbour good will among the house members. If he feels he can not trust his housemates then he must be giving a chance to be moved to a house where he will feel safe."
Dumbledore stopped Minerva before she began to argue. "I'm sorry Severus, but we can't allow him to be re-sorted in his sixth year. If this had happened his second year, then maybe. It is simply too late now. He will just have to learn to live with this until the end of next year. He hasn't got much longer before it's summer break, and perhaps things will cool down over the summer. Now, if you will excuse me, I believe that a talk with young Mr. Potter is in order. Above all we must teach him how to control his immense powers. I haven't seen a display of magic like that since the man who gave him his scar went to school here."
"If I may make a suggestion Headmaster." Snape interjected, while standing up. "I have a collegue in South America who works with elemental magic like Potter's. I think she would be our best bet for trying to get him to learn how to use it effectivly. We don't want him to just ignore it, or it will build up and explode like today."
Dumbledore stroked his beard, the twinkle in his eye intensifying. "Alright Severus. Arrange a meeting between Harry and this woman. We must try to help him control his magic however we can, and I don't think that any of us have the knowledge of how to do that best, nor do we have the benifit of being an outside source. Now, I must be heading down too the infirmiry. You are both, of course, more than welcome to join me."
"I don't get it, why didn't Pomfrey see my cuts? Surely her wand would have picked up on that!" Harry asked Draco, as they were waiting in the infirmiry for the professors.
"Ah, well, you are not the first cutter I've seen. Pomfrey's kinda caught onto the Slytherins using concealing charms, so she checks for them any time we come in to she her, which is one of the reasons we try to take care of ourselves. But, she must have assumed that because you are Harry Potter after all, that you wouldn't possibly have any reason to have a concealing charm on you, so she didn't even think to check. Made it much easier for me to keep one on you. I must say I'm quite surprised that you didn't already have one on. Normally cutters keep them on at all times to avoid suspicion."
Harry blushed. "Well, to be honest, it just never crossed my mind. I'm used to hiding it from the Dursleys, so when I got here this year, I just kept using the long sleeves routine." Draco laughed.
"Well, if you could put your own on, that would be great. It's a lot less draining to perform one on yourself than it is to perform one on someone else." HArry blushed an even deeper shade of red, and nodded. Draco took his off, and Harry replaced it with his own. Gods, he is cute when he blushes. Draco thought to himself. Wait, whoa, hold on a second. Ok, sure Potter isn't the spoiled little brat that I thought, but really... cute? That's just going to far! Draco shook those thoughts out of his mind, and turned to look at the professors coming into the infirmiry.
"Ah! Hello Draco." Dumbledore said. "Lemon Drop?"
"Uh, no thank you sir." Draco said, looking at Harry. "I'm sure that you want to talk to Harry alone, so I'll just wait out in the hall. If you could let me know when you're done, I have some things I'd like to talk to him about." Draco quickly exited the room. Dumbledore sat in the seat Draco was formerly occupying. Snape sat on the seat on the other side of Harry's bed, and McGonagall excused herself to go check on Ron.
"Now Harry, I'm afraid we haven't given you the kind of tutoring that you require. Today's events simply go to prove once again that you must learn to control your magic. So, I believe that Professor Snape here has a bit of a proposition for you."
Snape cleared his throat and looked at Harry. "I have a collegue in South America. She regularly works with people who have a large amount of what is refered to as "elemental magic". That is the type of magic that you have. It is very hard to keep control of, often being linked with the emotions. She is one of the best people in the world to teach you how to control it. I'm going to get in touch with her today and see when she can come." He stood, and looked Harry in the eyes. "You have a great gift Potter. You must learn how to control it, or it will control you." He then nodded to Dumbledore and strode out of the room, his robes billowing behind him.
Dumbledore looked at Harry. "Now, Harry my boy, I understand that you feel like you don't fit in with the other Gryfindors anymore. And that's ok. People change, and I think that you've been forced to grow up quicker than your friends, and so you can't understand each other any more. That is perfectly natural. However, since you are almost finished with your sixth year, I can not allow you to be re-sorted. If this had happened at the begining of last year or earlier, then there would still have been time, but as it stands it is too late. I ask that you try your best to get along with your housemates, and if you occassionally end up staying in a different house's common room more than your own, I think that could be overlooked as long as you aren't starting trouble. Am I understood?" Harry nodded. "Exellent. Now, I believe that Draco wanted to talk to you some more."
A/N: sorry it took so long to update. My muse kind of ran away. I was going to hold off and publish a longer chapter, but I really didn't want anyone to have to wait. There's gonna be some pretty big plot twists here in the next few chapters. Oh, and I have figured out the ships I'm going to be using (I hinted at them in this chapter.) Next chapter will definatly contain some slash. so stay tuned! and thank you to everyone who reviewed, I'm feeling so loved!