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Chapter 3

Danger Pay

"Potter! You're late!" Severus Snape hissed in annoyance as Harry just walked in to his classroom without even knocking.

However Harry was now green eyed again, and causally looked to his wristwatch around his right wrist before back to his teacher. "Is that some kind of natural response or something because I'm two minutes early?" Harry replied while looking mildly bored and uninterested, but there was some kind of spark in his eyes, and Severus wondered what the boy was up to.

Severus looked to his pocket watch and shrugged as he pulled it from his pocket. "They're never normally on time," he answered as he placed his watch away before he gestured for Harry to sit at a desk up front with a black quill and parchment waiting for him.

"I've always wondered why we don't just have paper notebooks rather than a scroll of animal skin," Harry commented as he looked at it without taking a seat. "It seems rather – silly if you were to ask me, so someday I think I'll have to fix that."

Severus looked up at Harry in surprise for a moment before he shrugged. "It would be more convenient," he surprisingly agreed with him. "But then the world we live in is full of too many morons," he added in a more Snape like way.

Harry shrugged, as that was actually typical of Snape before he gestured the parchment. "So what's the stupid thing that is most certainly not true that I'm being forced to write?" he asked as he had been curious about that for the past few hours.

"I will not belittle and brutally attack my betters while their backs are turned," Snape answered actually rolling his eyes.

"I see. Just as well I didn't then," Harry replied shrugging. "But they really are that delusional. In a regular muggle school I could sue for slander."

"This isn't a regular muggle school, and if it was they would have likely gotten social services involved with your family and you and your younger siblings would likely be in the care system by now," Severus retorted looking a little amused now, but Harry wasn't surprised that Snape was more clued in than so many muggle-born's as Snape was a half-blood who lived in the muggle world as a kid with his parents, and he still lived there while not at school. Harry did do his research too. "Though, the three Slytherin's you protected are grateful," he said with a small nod of gratitude himself.

"It does not matter what house they were in," Harry replied shrugging. "I saw some scared kids being tormented and I did what any decent human being should have and stood up for them against the school bullies."

Severus just nodded at that before gesturing to the parchment. "They want you in here until ten," he spoke in annoyance.

"And how may I do these lines?" Harry asked raising an eyebrow.

"However you want, I don't care!" he retorted but was startled as Harry had pulled out his wand from its holster, and flicked it at the parchment, and it unfurled, and the quill started writing the lines in what the teacher could tell was actually his hand writing, which actually impressed him further.

"It seems like a waste of parchment and ink," Harry said offhandedly as he slid his wand away. "Also, what's wrong with a pen…?"

"Nothing," Severus retorted. "But you are to do it by hand…" he trailed off as Harry smiled while shaking his head.

"Nope; you've already told me I can do it how I want," he replied laughingly while the teacher scowled. "Here, maybe this will make you feel better… you can do something fucked up with it before I put it back."

Severus was shocked as he was handed a lifeless golden snitch. "Dad snogs that thing before every quidditch game my brother's in," Harry explained, amused. "It was the last snitch of his career before he went and married mum. I think he loves that thing more than her, so it would be a shame if something were to happen to it while he was suckling on it, and maybe something would happen to him too," he said shrugging nonchalant.

"You know what Potter, I don't think you're as bad as your parents' say you are," Severus said with his eyes hungrily taking in the sight of his enemies' greatest love, which was quite stupid when the jerk had someone as hot as Lily.

"Oh, and don't think about my mother like that in front of me, it's creepy," Harry was quick to say startling the teacher and causing his eyes to widen. "No I can't read your mind, but I do know a lot about the people in this castle, and I can read you like a book, unfortunately. I don't need to use any mind magic to decipher a person if I study them long enough. A little twitch, the tilt of a head there, the movement of the eyes – with the context of conversation can say just as much if not more than the surface of a memory."

Severus just shrugged and turned away taking the seat behind his desk, as Harry was smarter than he gave him credit because that was some psychological mentalist bullshit. "Dumbledore plans on watching you more closely than he ever did," Snape spoke crisply. "And believe me when I tell you he watches your family remarkably close, but I suppose telling you would be moot. Though, I am surprised you have managed to hide so much from him.

"Your younger sister had befriended a girl who went into Slytherin on the train. Dumbledore convinced her to break it off by making sure your parents were quickly made aware. That is how much control he holds, and not to mention the power he holds in the government – I wouldn't be surprised to see your sister mostly alone throughout school. He will never leave anyone alone if he's set his eyes on them. He will never let you tear down the veils between might and magic – or what, give the muggles magic? That's why he's forcing four hours of detention a night, to keep you preoccupied. He's afraid you'll either succeed or completely fall into the dark and slaughter off the wizards."

"But killing them all would serve no goal. I rather myself the guardian, not the exterminator," Harry replied frowning with a shrug. "Anyway Professor, it seems like I have plenty of time. It is too easy to sneak in and out of this school, and I think you're going to help me."

Severus snorted while rolling his dark eyes. "And what makes you think I'll do that?" he retorted actually amused for once.

"Maybe you will because…" he smirked as he leaned forward on the teacher's desk. "Dumbledore and Voldemort are fucking retards without any real end goal but control – then what? Their desires are both full of order, and that takes everyone's free will, their rights. For Dumbledore cries the Greater Good with capital G's every time, while Voldemort cries let's get rid of the mud bloods and enslave the muggles, like he ever could, and what the fuck does Dumbledore and his groupies actually do…?"

"Hmm…" Severus frowned in thought before shrugging. "I'm not sure to be honest. I see… you've made your point Potter, but I am not going to spy on both of them for you while spying on both of them for each other while secretly taking instruction from you – that was a bit of a mouthful," he muttered with a half-smirk.

"I'll pay you more," Harry retorted smugly.

However, Severus' eyes widened in surprise. "They don't pay me," he said actually not surprising Harry about Voldemort, but Dumbledore had been getting loads of funding from his wealthy followers. Thinking on that, what did he do with the money because Harry has seen no sign of a need for such large funds.

"Then I'll pay you," he replied shrugging his shoulders. "After all, it seems only right that if I'm asking you to do something so dangerous that you be nicely compensated for your troubles."

"Pay me…?" the teacher laughed humourlessly. "What with…? The moment your parents notice…" he trailed off as Harry was smirking. "You've been robbing them for years, haven't you?"

Harry just laughed while rolling his eyes. "I've just been taking my fair share… well my Rosie's and Kalam's too. I placed their money away protecting it from Terry. It looks as if Dad's going to make him head of the family soon, which would leave us with nothing as that greedy bastard would not even give them a Knut. As soon as he's got the main vault, they'll have to survive off their trust vaults that our grandparents set up for us before they died, which is probably enough to last a year or so past Hogwarts for both of them."

"And you took just enough to be your shares?" Severus asked doubtful as he thought about what he could do once the job was over if he was getting paid. He could finally leave Hogwarts, leave the idiots, settle down somewhere, or build an amazing lab and maybe create some new potions – or new potion methods.

"Well, okay," he conceded while shrugging slowly. "I took all of the gems, platinum, books, everything but the gold coins, silver coins, and bronze coins, even the deeds to a shit load of businesses. Dad has never even gone to the vault; mum either, as they just ask for the gold from the Goblins and by the time, they find out it will be too late. If they ever find out, as they might not have ever known there was more than gold, and the Goblins like me."

"So what do I get?" Severus asked now more interested than ever as he had asked Dumbledore for danger pay the old man always laughed it off like he was joking, and he would have likely gotten the torture curse to the face for several minutes if he asked Voldemort.

Harry shrugged in thought before grinning. "You work for me Severus and I'll pay you three times what you get for working at Hogwarts, plus bonuses for well… the more dangerous oporations of an extra two times – and yes, I do know how much the teachers are paid – underpaid if you ask me considering you practically work twenty-four seven at a bloody school."

Severus smirked as he took Harry's hand shaking on it. "After we're through with this I'm retiring to a nice quiet island without any magical community," Severus said while sounding more eager than he thought, as that sounded nice right then.

"Good choice," Harry agreed smirking. "But I fear I'm going to be sealed and banished soon, whether I achieve my goal or fail. However, I'll still need your eyes and ears, as you'll soon learn, plan C through to plan infinite are already running in the background."

Severus frowned. "You seem pretty okay with being sealed. If I thought for a moment I would have fled."

"Indeed," Harry agreed shrugging. "But I have no choice as it is a possibility that is within my alternate plans; I have started preparing for that scenario over the last few years and everything is within my endgame."

"Why have you trusted me with this anyway?" he asked, curious and confused.

"Because, it's easier to trust the cunt that has never sucked Terry's, Dumbledore's, or Voldemort's shit pieces," Harry said nonchalant.

Severus could not help but burst out laughing. It was impossible to stop for a moment before he regained himself. "It seems you really can read me too well. It seems we have an agreement, and we need to do something, especially sorting out Dumbledore. Now you've asked its going to bug me until I find a goal of some kind – other than – maybe he doesn't want anything to ever change?"

Harry just shrugged, smirking. "Find out what Dumbledore is up to, or his fucked-up motive, Professor, and that will be a very nice bonus day indeed. The celebration cake and champagne will be on you," he said and even Severus had to chuckle.

To Be Continued…