DISCLAIMER: I don't own Harry Potter no matter how much I want to!

LAST TIME:

When they arrived outside, he pulled a portkey from his robes and gave it to Harry. Harry looked at it and immediately started to panic.

''Oh, Potter! Stop that. It's just a portkey.'' Severus said before he remembered why Harry is scared of portkeys.

He put the portkey back into his robes and put his hand at Harry's shoulder. The next minute Severus apparited (spelling?) them and they were gone.

They arrived in the large clearing. Harry looked around strangely. He thought it strange that they arrived in the middle of nowhere. Professor Snape moved his wand in a strange pattern and Harry gasped in wonder. Right in front of him he saw a beautiful mansion.

"Potter, this is my family home. Come along now!" Snape said and marched towards the house.

Harry shrugged his shoulders and quickly run after him. Harry looked at the entrance hall with eyes wide open. It was beautiful.

"Potter, come here. I don't have the time to wait for you forever!" Snape yelled at him from the top of the stairs. Harry hurried after his professor.

"Potter, this will be your room during your stay here!" Snape said while showing him his room.

Harry gapped when he saw how beautiful the room was. It was colored in green and blue but strangely, Harry didn't mind about the green which was a Slytherin color. He suspected that Ron would gag at the site of it but Harry kind of liked it.

"I am not changing anything if it is not up to your taste, boy." Snape snapped.

"It's perfect professor Snape. Thank you." Harry absently said.

Snape looked at him suspiciously and opened his mouth to say something but then he changed his mind and stormed out of the room. Harry stayed alone in his room so he started unpacking his trunk. He had neatly packed everything in Hogwarts because when Snape had gotten him from the Dursleys he had just thrown everything in it. When he finished, he sat on bed and started reading one of his schoolbooks.

A couple of hours later a house elf came to tell him about dinner. The house elf showed him a way there. When Harry arrived in the dinning hall, he found Snape already sitting there.

"Good, you're here. Sit down! I still have to tell you the rules." Snape snapped at him.

Harry quickly did what he was told.

"First, you are not allowed to enter the locked rooms and my lab. Also, make sure you don't break anything because I will put you in a detention until the end of the summer. Same punishment goes for entering my bedroom. Is that clear?" he asked.

"Yes professor Snape!" Harry gulped.

After they finished their discussion, the food popped on the table. Harry served himself and ate the food on his plate but not much because he was not used to eating a lot after the Dursleys. Snape watched him throught dinner and noticed how little he ate.

"Potter, that's not enough for a bird. Eat more!" Professor Snape said.

"I can't Professor; I'm not used to so much food after the summer with Dursleys." Harry quietly told him.

Snape looked at him suspiciously but relented when he saw Harry's pleading look to drop the subject. For the rest of the dinner they sat there quietly.

A/N: I'm SO tired. I hope you are happy with this chapter. I know it is short but I din't know what else to put in it. Next chapter I will skip a few weeks, maybe describe them in a from of flashback. I'm gonna go to bed now, bye! Please R&R

Angela