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Chapter 9

"Father, Mother what are you doing here?" Perkinson stammered guiltily as he looked from his mothers' weeping face to his fathers' stern one. It was bad enough seeing his Severus sitting with Potter and the headmaster all three staring at him, but to see his parents oh this was bad, this was very bad.

"Mr. Perkinson if you would take a seat we have some questions for you' Dumbledore gestured to a chair, his voice cold and not a single twinkle in his eye.

As he sank into a chair, he caught the cold look Potter was giving him and a shiver went up his spine, 'he knows!'

"Mr. Perkinson it has been brought to my attention that you purchased a "Love Potion" from a Mr. Dunott in Hogsmeade sometime this week. You received your purchase by owl this evening. You planned to use said potion on a Professor of this school. Do you have anything to say in your defence?"

'No proof, he has no proof, keep your head and you can walk out of this, you are a Ravenclaw use it.' Perkinson sat up straight, "Sir I do not know a Mr. Dunott, and if you remember I never went to Hogsmeade this week. I was attending the classes in Apparation given by Professor McGonagall all week." He smirked in triumph at Potter as if to say, "See I have an alibi" but upon returning his gaze to the headmaster, he wilted under the stern gaze he was giving him.

"Mr. Perkinson you fail to understand the question. I am fully aware of where you were all week as I am also aware of the fact that you placed the order by owl post on Tuesday. Mr. Dunott has already been questioned and dealt with for selling a forbidden potion to a student. What I want to know is what possible excuse you could have to attack a teacher in this manner?"

Harry noticed that Perkinson looked shocked at the accusation, leaning over to Snape he spoke in an undertone, "you get the feeling he doesn't think he did anything wrong?"

Snape leaned over, "he is a typical spoiled self centred child, he thinks the world revolves around him," here he paused then with an evil little smirk, "with this behaviour he should have been a Gryffindor."

Harry lowered his head trying to hide his smile, "shame on you Sev, I was thinking more of a Slytherin."

"Please," Snape shuddered in disgust, "if he were a Slytherin we would not be sitting through this melodrama."

Harry snickered and returned his attention to what was happening in front of him. He watched as the young man continued to bluster and babble trying to weasel out of the consequences of his actions. He had agreed to not press charges provided the fool was kicked out the school, he did not care if he was expelled or just transferred but he wanted him out. He looked at the parents, as soon as he met them he was sure the problem lay with the mother. She rather reminded him of Professor Trelawney. The father on the other hand was furious, probably more to do with the perceived attack on two of the heroes-of-the-war vs. the fact that his son used an illegal substance. Well now that they were an open couple, it should prevent any future problems. He wished Albus would hurry things up he was tired and wanted to rest in their bed in their room and to hell with everybody else. His attention was brought back to the subject at hand when there was a sudden crash as the father stood up throwing his chair back.

"Enough of this nonsense," he bellowed shocking his son into silence, "you will tell the headmaster where the potion is so he can dispose of it, you will apologize to Professors Potter and Snape, then you will go back and pack your trunks. It is only due to the kindness of Professor Potter that you are not being charged and expelled, I am instead transferring you to Beauxbatons and if you put one more foot wrong you will be cut off completely. Do you understand me?" Seeing his son looking towards his mother he moved closer to the white-faced teen, "Your mother will not interfere, it is time you learned to stand on your own and take the consequences for your stupidity. Now I will repeat myself, DID YOU UNDERSTAND ME?" By the end of his speech, he was shouting into his son's face, the mother buried her face in a handkerchief but said nothing.

Perkinson turned to the headmaster and in a sullen voice, "I don't have it anymore, I poured it into the tea on Professor Snape's desk."

Harry turned to Snape, "it should still be there since you said you did not drink anything unless the house elves cleaned up." At the look on Sev's face he asked, "What?"

"Lupin took over the detention for me and when I left I offered him the tea." Snape said in a bemused tone. 'Wonderful' he thought, 'now they would have an amorous werewolf wandering the castle. Turning to Dumbledore he spoke, "You should be aware that in the case of a werewolf the potion will lower his inhibitions allowing the wolf to come forward, an aroused wolf at that" here, he put up a hand for silence when Harry started to interrupt, "but he will not wish to be with any other but his chosen mate. Think of it as natures safeguard. He has never indicated that he has sensed his mate in the student population, therefore, the students will be safe, but he will be hell to live with until the potion is out of his system."

The three men looked at each other in consternation then Harry moved quickly over to the floo, throwing in the powder he shouted, "Potions classroom". Everyone stayed silent waiting for an answer. Harry turned to Perkinson who was ignoring them, a sullen look on his face, "Did anybody go into the room when you were leaving?"

"No"

"We need to find him he could be anywhere?" Harry was trying not to panic.

Severus Snape had taught for twenty years and was used to reading students. With a snort for the too trusting younger teacher he glared at the teen, "Who came into the room while you were still in there?"

Looking at the disapproving faces around him, he answered hesitantly "Professor Malfoy"

Harry dropped his face into his hands with a groan, Snape spoke in a lone tone trying to control his anger, "and you did not think to warn Professor Malfoy that you had slipped a potion in the tea and that Professor Lupin had probably had a good dose of it. You just walked off and let them figure it out for themselves; while you strolled off not caring you had assaulted two teachers."

"I didn't assault anybody stop saying that, I wasn't going to hurt you, I love you. Besides, it is only a potion. I don't see what the big deal is since I didn't get a chance to use it anyway."

Dumbledore broke in at this point, "What about Professors Lupin and Malfoy, do you think they deserved you attacking them."

Perkinson was on his feet, his face flushed with anger and embarrassment, "I told you to stop saying that, I didn't assault anybody, they are adults they can handle themselves. There is nothing in that potion that would hurt anybody, I love him I wasn't going to hurt him."

Harry had had enough of this foolish, egocentric child, stalking forward while Perkinson hurriedly moved back; he followed until there was no place for him to run. "Love? You think this is about love, listen up you idiot. You tried to slip a potion that would make someone lose control of his inhibitions to your Professor. You deliberately and with malice forethought tried to rob another person of his right to chose. You ignored the fact that this is your Professor and you are his student. You also ignored the fact that this man is in a committed relationship, he has never given you a hint that he might be interested in you. What exactly did you think would happen when the potion wore off? Do you rate your skills in bed so high that you thought he would be under your spell forever? What about what Severus would feel knowing that he had sex with his student. That he had lost control of himself to that extent. You did not care that he would feel shame or guilt for his actions while under the influence of this potion. What you did is considered assault because you tried to enforce your will on an innocent victim. You did not care for his wants or needs all you wanted was power over him."

The others in the room watched the drama unfolding and some of them hoped that the boy took this to heart, the next time he would not come out so lucky. Harry continued speaking, his face thrust close to Perkinson, his green eyes cold as emeralds, his voice almost hissing, "then to top off your stupidity when you saw that your imbecilic plan was not going to work you allowed an innocent bystander to drink that foul concoction and left him under the influence with a second innocent bystander. You did not even have to reveal your stupidity you could have disposed of the tea in some manner, you could have said it was a prank you had agreed to do for other students, you could have said something instead you let it happen and just walked away. You are a disgrace to your house and to this school if I ever see you again I will hex you so bad you will be in St. Mungos for a year. Now get out of this school, you are no longer welcome here."

Harry turned to door and as Snape moved to leave with them said over his shoulder, "I will check on the two them Albus and let you know what is happening. I don't want to see that Deatheater want-a-be when I return." With a flourish worthy of his lover he swept from the room, Snape followed with a nod for Dumbledore reassuring him that he would calm Harry down. Pausing he looked back at the white-faced teen, "I would take points from Ravenclaw but that would be admitting that you ever belonged in that house" with a final sneer he swept out of the room.

Harry waited at the end of the stairs for his love wonder what they were going to find. He was not as blind as some people seemed to think and had seen the glances the two had been swapping lately even though neither of them had noticed the other looking. With Snape at his side, they strode off to the potions classroom. "You think their okay?"

"Well since we have heard nothing of the wolf running free around the castle I am assuming one of three things happened. First, that Lupin did not in fact drink the tea and they went their separate ways after Perkinson was summoned. Second, Draco was intelligent enough to spot that Lupin was under the influence of something, find the source, and is brewing at this moment a counter-potion. Third, Lupin realized something was wrong and left the castle to ensure the safety of others until he could contact us or Dumbledore" Snape replied ticking the points off one by one.

Harry nodded as they approached Lupin's room and having the portrait inform him that there was no inside after knocking he headed straight for Draco's rooms. This was further in the dungeon near the classroom; the portraits occupant was missing so Harry knocked several times louder each time. Finally, there was a shout of "hold on" from inside and they waited impatiently for Draco to open the door. When he did, Harry and Snape just stood their in frozen shock not believing the sight in front of them.

"I am very busy right now so go away," he started to close the door then stopped and spoke again, "by the way don't drink the tea on your desk and Remus is with me now go away," with that he closed the door with a bang.

Harry turned to Snape, "did you see what I just saw?"

Snape nodded and the two men quietly walked down the hallway processing the sight of Draco Malfoy. Standing in the doorway with only a pair of pants hanging low on his hips obviously having just put them on and nothing else, his hair mussed and red bite marks down his throat and in several spots on his chest and down his side to the edge of the covering.

"Guess there was a fourth option we forgot about, who would have guessed that Draco was Remus's mate," Harry said quietly as they entered the potions classroom. Making their way to the office in back to dispose of the tea, suddenly he started snickering, at Snape's surprised look he said, "oh paybacks gonna be a bitch!"

Snape started laughing as well as they entered the office only to stop in shock at the sight of Ron, Fred and George Weasley sitting next to the fireplace, each with a black eye.