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About two hours later, Albus paused and looked at his work. He had coaxed the castle into adding another room onto his apartments, that connected to both the sitting room, and his own. The colors were much like that of the domitories in the Gryffindor tower, deep red and golden accents. In a chest at the end of the crib was where all the toys Harry kept at Hogwarts, along with some others that Albus transfigured.
He had gotten a nice polished chest of drawers from a back room in the castle, and placed all of young Harry's clothing in them, along with a few other items. The carpet was plush, so as Harry would crawl and walk around, he couldn't hurt himself from falling.
Taking one last look around the room, Albus decided it was time he collected Harry from Minerva's chambers.
While Albus was working on the room, Minerva was keeping Harry quite occupied in her rooms.
"Min-kitty!" Harry squealed again. Minerva had to smile, Harry had always enjoyed playing with her in her animagus form, ever since he made the connection she was the cat that curled up with him some of the nights he spent in the castle.
"Do you want me to become a cat again, Harry?" Minerva asked kindly.
"Yes!"
"Yes what Harry?"
Harry thought a moment before he said , "Yes, pwease."
"Very good Harry," she replied as she turned back into a cat and ran circles around Harry.
Albus gave the password to Minerva's chambers and came face to face with a tabby cat running around a child sitting on the floor.
"Papa!"
Albus took a moment to shake off the shock of Harry calling him Papa, as he bent down and scooped the boy into his arms. Minerva took this oppertunity to change back into her normal state.
"Did he just call you what I think he did Albus?" she asked.
"I believe so Minerva. Now Harry, you know I'm Uncle Albus, not Papa."
But Harry wasn't having any of this 'Uncle Albus' business, " Papa," he stated more determindly.
"Albus, I believe he's going to insist on calling you Papa," said Minerva.
"It appears that you are right. Alright Harry, how about we go and pay the house elves a visit in the kitchens?"
Harry's face broke into a smile as Albus walked out of the door, followed by Minerva.
"Minerva I cannot thank you enough for watching Harry."
"Albus, " began Minerva. " You know I enjoy watching him, after all he's such a bright child."
"That is true --"
"Headmaster!"
Albus turned towards where the shout had come from to see Snape dragging a young Ravenclaw student up the corridor.
"Headmaster, this student had the notion to start a no heat firework in my classroom. I do not want him in my class!"
"Severus, calm yourself. Now Mr. Rhimes is it? Ah yes, you will be serving a week of detention with Filch, along with cleaning the Potions classroom. You will be remaining in Professor Snape's class, but don't allow me to hear about any more fireworks."
"Y-yes Sir."
"Good, now head off to your next class."
As the boy headed down the corridor, Harry noticed the Slytherin emblem on Snape's robes. Making a distrusting face in Snape's direction he buried his head in Dumbledore's chest.
The look he had given didn't go unnoticed by the headmaster, as he moved Harry so he was looking at him.
"Harry, child, why did you look a Severus like that?"
"Cwause he's a Slyverin," he replied simply as if it explained everything.
"What did you say Potter?" Snape spat out.
"Cwause you is a Slyverin!"
Minerva had to turn her head at this to keep Albus and Severus from seeing her hold in her laughter. Severus noticed and just glared before he stormed back to his dungon, black robes billowing behind him.
"Minerva, you might want to head to your class, seeing as you have 'Slyverins' next," said Albus with a chuckle in his voice.
Minerva did not trust herself to speak, for fear she would start laughing and not be able to stop, as she headed towards her classroom.
"As for you my child, would you like to see your new room?"
Seeing the nodding of Harry's head, he started off towards his own chambers.
a/n: Here is the next chapter of this story, i know it's short, and yes i have reasons for disappearing as long as i did, but i am not going to put them, seeing as that doesnt really matter and its just a wheelbarrow load of problems. Anyways hope you enjoyed this chapter, and until next time.
Wulfric
-oh, and those of you also reading 'like a grandson'.. i dunno when chapter 37 will be up.. having some writers block with that one..