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A/N - I would really really like to thank Er Monkey, burner of cookies for being my beta reader and just to annoy you guys I'll say that alot. . jk dont worry I'm done. But ok this chapter may have taken a little longer to update and for that I'm sorry but some people take longer so don't complain so here it is. Hey what are you doing reading this thing go to the story you can all just skip over the disclaimer and stuff thats not important its just so I dont get sued, not important. And what are you still doing reading this go read the story
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Disclaimer I don't own any of this Rowling does so you no sue got it?
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Summary Good lord if you're still looking here for the summary there must really be something wrong with you.
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Rating PG – 13 for bad words and well I guess the violence is bad as well
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Okay here we goCHAPTER 4
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Albus Dumbledore, Severus Snape, Sirius Black, and Remus Lupin were all walking, albeit rather quickly, through the halls of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
They each wondered what exactly would be greeting them when they, at long last, reached the infirmary. And one, whom had already seen what they were wondering about, wondered exactly what their shared reactions would be.
The footsteps of the companions echoed dominantly off the walls of the ancient hallways forming an erratic beat. As they neared the hospital wing, each of their paces seemed to quicken just a little bit.
Dumbledore, the better of them all, had a surprising look on his face that showed the utmost calmness, even through the trying hour. Where as every one else around him each wore expressions that came to be similar to the next. Anger and worry, these emotions shown on the faces of each of the other three.
Finally reaching their destination, they slowly walked in, each quieter then the one before, each not wanting to bring down the wrath of Madam Pomfrey who would surely kick them out for any simple task such as breathing to loudly.
Severus walked in first, followed by Black and Lupin, and then finally Dumbledore, who softly shut the infirmary door behind them.
As they walked in, Poppy came out from her office to greet the headmaster and his companions.
"Poppy, has he improved at all? Since I brought in the potions, that is?" Severus' voice was just a tad bit strained as he asked the question.
She looked up at Severus, from where she had previously been looking at the small bed which held his son.
"Well, I believe most of the minor cuts and bruises will have healed by now, and the more severe ones will have healed by the end of tomorrow. The fractured bones may take a few days because he is young, and bones are not made to be healed with magic really quickly at his age. The ankle that was shattered was an old wound and won't be fully healed for a week after he wakes up, and he will have to try and stay off of it."
She paused to pick up a small note pad which most likely held the medical condition of the boy on the bed, and flipped through a few pages till she found what she was looking for.
"What I am mainly concerned about is the internal damage. When several of the ribs were fractured, it caused damage to several organs, mainly the lungs. They are badly bruised and he will have to stay here for a few days so that I can monitor their condition. Then, after he leaves, he will have to take a potion once a day to insure healing. Breathing may be a little hard for him for a while."
Pausing, she sighed slightly, then looked up at Severus and stared him in the eye when she said the next part.
"We should really be glad that you got him out of there when you did, a few more years of that, and well, who knows how bad it could have gotten. What you all should worry about is his mental condition, being submitted to that cannot have been good for him, who knows how he will react to us..."
She let this hang in the air, letting each of them figure out what she meant on their own.
Dumbledore sat on an old plush chair looking indifferent as ever, however this time his eyes showed his true ideals.
Severus, Remus, and Sirius each looked slightly murderous exactly as they did back when they attended school here. Remus though still looked, even though angry, the more sensible one.
Poppy looked at the three, taking them in one by one; each hated the other in school and she had seen that look many times fluctuating against one another. She held pity, through her own anger that is, at whom ever had hurt the poor raven child sitting on the bed before her.
"Can we see Harry now?"
Sirius' question, though innocent, held sadness. He was motioning to the closed curtains around the bed and Poppy forgot that she had never opened them. Looking at the utterly helpless look on his face she couldn't say no. She nodded, then strolled the few feet over to the covered bed and motioned, showing that that was the right bed.
"It may not be the best to see him like this but you may. I'll let you be alone."
With that she slowly walked back towards her office; each of the men in the wing nodding their thanks to her.
She suddenly looked back with a fierce look on her face, "And if you disturb him in any way I'll kick you out with out a second thought. You hear me? Family and Headmaster or not I will not have you disturbing 'my' patient, so hush up and be quick."
They all smiled slightly at her possessiveness.
Snape stood away from the others whom had not seen the child in years and him just a few hours ago, also he was a little wary about seeing his son once again.
Remus stepped forward in front of the rest and drew the fine satin white curtains back. Their responses were much like Severus had pictured each a little angry and surprised all though they had been expecting it.
Remus started pacing, a weird thoughtful look on his face, and every once and a while he turned to look at the boy who was like a child to him, only to quickly look away as if in some kind of pain.
Sirius had angry tears in his eyes laying his head down on top of one of Harry's hands not being able to stand and look at the face.
Dumbledore just sat back and had a look similar to Remus' on his face, though his also held some kind of guilt and disappointment on his features. Every once and a while Severus caught him muttering nonsense words, some like; 'fool', 'should have listened to Minerva', and 'all my fault'.
But Severus really did not dwell on this but put this information in the back of his mind for later.
Taking a few steps forwards he took in the boy now that he was healed up some, he was still dreadfully thin, also now that he was able to see his face, he saw that he was dreadfully pale.
Also, to his surprise, the boy looked a little like a Snape. He had slightly pointed features and dark raven hair, though mostly he looked like Lily, which he was glad for. Most features wouldn't become prominent until an older age.
He was personally glad that the boy's eyes weren't open, just looking at them brought a painful round of remembrance and he didn't think that he could take another go.
Walking next to the bed he sat down in an old wicket chair saved for visitors and collapsed in it. Putting his face in his hand he just sat there.
He thought about how the mutt had been right, back up in the office. How it was entirely his fault and he could have stopped all of this. His thoughts were broken as he felt a hand on his shoulder.
Barely sparing the owner of the hand a look, he saw it was Remus, all he said was,
"Ready?"
All this did was confuse him, he looked at the werewolf in a questioning way, but instead he was answered by the mutt.
"Well he's your son isn't he? We were planning to go and well.... collect Harry's belongings, get a cup of tea, murder his relatives, and converse about the weather. You know, a round about job."
Severus looked at Sirius, perplexed, taking in his chipper voice that held venom, and his slightly trembling physique.
He stood up slowly, so as not to create a dizzy spell, and began to follow the two marauders, understanding how angry they were. Looking back over his shoulder, he saw Dumbledore looking at them with that annoying twinkle in his eye, and continued on. They made quite a team; two former marauders and a once been Death Eater, one can only feel sorry for what they could and would bring to the Dursley household.
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Severus felt slightly out of place walking with the two men. Sure he wanted revenge more then any thing, but the look on the two men's face scared him.
They were looking like they were going to a baseball game, excited but bored all the same; Severus wondered whether they had done this before.
All too soon they reached number four, Private Drive under Severus' jurisdiction of course.
Sirius didn't even bother to knock; he just said the unlocking charm and kicked the door open. Severus glanced at Remus but he just shrugged like this happened every day and walked in after Black.
Severus walked in; suddenly there was a huge clunking on the stairs. Each of them looked at the gigantic man, who looked like a huge whale; he was a very interesting shade of purple. The former Death Eater-turned-spy stepped forward, twirling his wand between his fingers.
"Why hello, my name's Severus Snape, Harry's father. You must be his uncle. I never did get to thank you for taking him in." Severus' voice was almost as greasy as his hair and dripping with sarcasm.
Vernon Dursley turned pale and started stuttering, "The freak deserved it. We took him in. The brat deserved whatever he got."
Whatever else he was going to say was cut off when Severus punched him, and Sirius spoke up, "Don't talk about Harry like that." Then he turned to Severus, "Remus and I will go take care of the others, you can have this big lug," he motioned at the elephant sized man.
'This will be fun.' Severus thought to himself.
Setting his wand out in front of him he gave Vernon an evil look.
"Remesroen." (totally made it up) He said quietly and a dark blue light erupted from the end of his willow wand.
Vernon started howling in pain.
"Do you like that, Muggle? It lets you relive the pain that you inflicted on others, call it your just deserts."
Severus chuckled lightly then looked at Sirius and Remus who were now walking down the stairs with happy looks on their each of their faces.
In each of their hand was a mini animal; in Sirius' was a tiny pink horse that looked kind of deformed with a long neck and huge mouth.
Severus assumed that it was Harry's aunt. In Remus' hand was an abnormally fat yellow pig.
"Um, Remus did you have to make his cousin so fat? I mean sure he did wrong but no one should be that fat." Sirius looked a little worried that Remus may have over-hurt the boy.
"No, I can't get him thinner he's already that fat," Remus looked slightly disgusted at the fact.
Sirius chuckled and started poking the little pig that squealed and tried to run away out of the hand.
Both Sirius and Remus magically created some jars that they could put the little animals in.
"Now Severus, what are you going to do with the other lovely Dursley? I mean we had fun with these two, especially choosing their 'new', um, look." They all looked back down to the oldest Dursley who had passed out from the pain and was now twitching slightly, each looked at him with disgust and anger.
"What should I do with this fatso, I mean I didn't have nearly as much fun as I wanted he passed out with in the first few minutes. Pathetic. I want to revive him, but we've probably used enough magic to alert the ministry and well, we should probably leave." Severus kicked the big body a few times.
"Don't worry Snape, there is still the trial. I mean, there are lots of laws against child abuse and they don't look too kindly on it, especially when it's on the Boy-Who-Lived."
Sirius smiled at Severus who just glared at the smiling Sirius who called his son that most ridiculous name, and then pointed his wand back at Vernon.
First he turned him in to a rat and picked him up by his tail.
"Let's go, Harry should be up by now." They walked out and apparated to Hogsmeade, fully intent to hand over the Dursleys to Dumbledore for their trial.
They walked the rest of the way up to Hogwarts and headed to Dumbledore's office.
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Okay here's the poem for this chapter it doesn't really go but it's the only one I had on me and it's a good one so here it goes - - -
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I look around at all the death and destruction.
Hating the person who caused the corruption.
Nothing in this world seems right anymore.
As if the earth was burned black deep down to the core.
Every one around kneels down to him now.
But I'm letting him know that I refuse to bow.
The white flag of surrender waves around like a sin.
But not once did I say that I too would give in.
I look at my comrades bowing on the ground below.
The hatred I held seemed just to grow.
From all around I'm the last one still standing.
Doesn't it seem that life's too demanding?
But I'll never give up and I'll never give in.
Why should I bow and let my enemy win?
I'd rather be captured then admit to defeat.
Because I refuse to quit and until this war is complete.
I'm not the best fighter the worlds ever seen.
I'm not even close I'm still just a teen.
Nor am I the best warrior the worlds ever known.
I'm just one small person holding his own.
I will not drop down less the battle is done.
I'd rather be dead then admit that they won.
While those on the ground have chosen their place.
I stand tall and confront the problems I face.
I think about this as I'm dragged away.
Never to fight another day.
Fighting in a war I never did belong.
But I'd never give up It just seems so wrong.
But I battle in this war with all of my might.
And then standing tall I will win the fight.
And I will keep fighting what ever comes through.
Because you are my demon and I'll defeat you.
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Review Responses
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Athenakitty – yeah don't worry the Dursleys got whets coming to them though not as much as I would have liked but they have to be in one piece for the trial. Yeah I'm going to get Harry back to normal but when he's young I want to get him sent do the hospital a lot, I mean come on he knows Padfoot so that's bound to get him in trouble.
Quacjen – thanks for the review
Connie Eressea – thanks for the review I'm going to try to put a chapter at the end of each chapter if I can.
Charlie Quill – thanks for the Beta reader info and for emailing it to me, I finally got one, so thanks for your help on the whole matter.
ER Monkey, burner of cookies – yeah you've got one of the most interesting names yet I like it. . you I should probably thank the most so thank you for being my beta reader.
Leggylover03 – you must really like revenge so I hope in this chapter was enough if not just give me some ideas for what will happen at the trial and then maybe you can get your revenge. Yeah I like fluffy Snape too he's really cute.
Pure Black – I've always had a soft spot for Remus and I don't just want to let Sirius and Snape suddenly become best friends so I'll let them fight every once and a while and I want to have Sirius play some pranks on Severus and maybe I'll have Severus play some pranks.
Kokaina – don't worry your English is fine, I'm not gonna keep Snape so well fluffy he's a little surprised at how Harry is and he will have a soft spot for him but he'll still be a greasy git at times, and he'll be evil towards Sirius and maybe Remus so don't worry. I won't say what house he'll be in yet but don't worry he won't be foolishly brave and such since well he's living with Severus. But he wont be all slytheriny because he's got the marauders so well I hope that helped a bit.
Misao-werewolf – yeah I'm not the only one who likes Remus n e ways thanks for the review.
Beckeh – thanks for the review and I'm glad that you enjoy reading it, it makes me feel good .
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A/N – For the whole torchure on the Dursleys I'm sorry that I didn't use the Cruciaus curse on them but that's illegal and stuff so I don't want him to go to jail that's why. And just in case your wondering Harry always looked like Snape so he didn't have any charms on him. I think in this chapter some of them were a little bit out of character so I'm sorry for that,
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