Chapter 4
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A few weeks had passed since Severus had watch Harry run away from him in tears. After which Severus had started to keep a closer eye on the young wizard. He had watched was the boy continually got worse. Harry was skinnier than ever, and there were dark circles under his eyes.
The younger wizard had also started to pull away from his friends. Not that they really noticed seeing as they were so into each other. Suddenly Harry stood up leaving his plate untouched and walked out of the great hall. Feeling very unnerved Severus stood as well following closely keeping to the shadows.
Harry walked up to the Astronomy Tower a place where knew anybody rarely came to anymore because this had been the place that the Headmaster had died. He pulled his bag off before sitting down against the cold wall. Once he was comfortable Harry pulled his bag into his lap and rummaged around as though looking for something. Then his hand stopped, and he pulled out a potion bottle.
Severus narrowed his eyes at the vile trying to figure out what was in that bottle. When he realized what it was he was he almost blow his cover, but he quickly shifted into his Animagus and let out a loud bark startling the boy into dropping the vile and Severus watched in satisfaction as it went crashing to the floor.
Harry looked over in a panic to see a rather large black dog standing there. It was even bigger than Sirius was causing Harry to cower but when nothing further happened he looked over to see the dog had laid down.
Severus let out a soft whine trying to appear less threatening. Which seemed to have work as the boy slowly crawled over to him. Once Harry was close enough he let out another whine tiling his head to one side. Harry slowly stretched out his hand to pet the dog and sighed when the dog leaned into his hand instead of biting him.
Harry smiled as he grew bolder in petting the dog when Harry spoke for the first time out loud it was a question that Severus could not answer yet at least not until the boy was ready.
"I wonder who you belong to." Severus let out a soft whine making the boy giggle before the boy pulled back his hand and sighed looking over at his broken vile making Severus growl to get the boy's attention away from the broken glass. When that was not successful Severus stood on his four legs grabbing the boy the boy's shirt and tugging.
Harry turned to look at the dog who was doing a sufficient job at glaring at him. It was as though dog knew what he was thinking. Harry shook his head feeling stupid but then again this was the wizarding world so just maybe the dog did understand.
"Do understand me?" Harry asked deciding to test and see if this dog really knew what was going on.
Severus nodded adding a soft bark to further confirm his answer.
"How? Why? This can't be happening." Harry cried thinking he was just going crazy. Severus' eye narrowed before bumping his head against the boy's arm to get his attention again.
Once Harry was looking at him again Severus woofed moving his head indicating that he wanted the young wizard to follow him. Harry just stared at him for a minute before he stood grabbing his bag and waiting for the dog to move. Satisfied Severus turned and walked out of the tower only looking back every so often to make sure the boy was following him.
Once they were down in the dungeons Severus walked into the potion's classroom taking a seat by his desk. Severus didn't want Harry to know who he was yet but maybe he could get the young wizard to believe he belonged to himself.
Harry looked around frowning. "Why are we here?" The dog barked, and he watched as he placed a paw against Snape's desk. "Are you say that Professor Snape is your owner?" He asked when the dog nodded Harry sighed in relief this was why the dog was so smart and why it knew what he had tried to do. "But if you belong to Snape why would you stop me from…" But Harry couldn't bring himself to finish that sentence and the dog whined moving over to him to offer support since Severus wasn't able to talk. Then Severus had an idea he had written a journal a long time ago when he had also thought of doing what Harry had tried to do tonight.
Severus went back over to his desk opening the bottom drawer and pulling out the small book gently he presented it to the young wizard.
"What is this?" Severus just barked nudging the boy to just open the book and read. "You want me to read this?" Severus nodded and watched as Harry slowly opened the book to read.
TBC
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