Well here is another update for another fic today. I hope you all like this chapter. Oh and the answer to the little puzzle is 'there is no E in the whole paragraph. E is one of the most used letters in the english language.' good aint it.
Affair of the Heart
Chapter ThreeHarry sat on his bed, waiting for a reply from Severus Snape. It had been almost two hours since he had sent the owl and his eyes were beginning to droop. To fight of sleep he picked up Hermione's present and began to read. He was halfway through the first chapter when he heard a tapping on his bedroom window.
He looked up from his page and saw Hedwig waiting patently outside of the window. He put his book on his small bedside table and got up to open the window. The snowy white owl swooped in and landed gracefully on her perch. She held out her leg for him to take the letter from her.
"Good girl Hedwig, why don't you rest now," Harry suggested fondly as he went over to his trunk and pulled some owl treats out of a jar. "Here you go, enjoy them Hedwig."
He turned the letter over and noticed the Snape family crest imprinted into the wax. He broke the seal and opened the letter pulling out the parchment that lay inside.
Dear Mr. Potter,
Or should that be Potter-Snape. I am somewhat unsure now.
Harry blinked as he reread the first line, was the professor trying to joke with him. He shook his head and carried on reading.
The letter was correct in saying that I was with your father for a while, though I would notcallthree years a little while. We were very serious about each other. Unfortunately circumstances forced us to part. I am unsure whether you are my son, but I know James would not lie about something so serious. There is a spell we can do that can find out the truth. I have contacted Dumbledore and told him that you will be spending the rest of your holiday with me at Snape Cottage. Make sure you have everything packed by 8 am. I will come and get you then; we can talk more when you arrive here.
Severus Snape
Harry put down the letter and looked at the alarm clock resting on his side table next to his new book. It was almost half past three in the morning. He looked around his room and saw most of his summer homework scattered about his desk, half finished. He quickly started to gather his things up and just plonked them into his trunk. He wanted some sleep before he got up and did the breakfast for the Dursleys.
Ten minutes later his things were all in his trunk. He closed the lid, having a little trouble closing the lid as his things were not ordered in his trunk properly. He sat on the lid and finally got it closed. He went over to his bed and got in, covering himself with a thin sheet because of the hot and stuffy weather. It didn't take long for sleep to claim the young wizard.
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Sunlight streamed in through the net curtains. Harry turned over to avoid the bright light. Half hour later the alarm clock gave a shrill ring, continuing until Harry banged the snooze button, giving him another five minutes in bed. Harry had just begun to drift to sleep again when the alarm gave yet another shrill ring.
Harry banged it sharply turning the alarm off. He threw the sheet off and got up out of bed. He grabbed a towel and some clean clothes. He went and had his morning shower. It was a quarter past seven when he had finished, and the Dursleys would be up in fifteen minutes. Vernon had work at nine.
Harry smiled to himself thinking, 'They are not related to me. Thank Merlin this may be the last time I will be in this house.'
He walked down the stairs quietly, avoiding one of the steps that creaked when trodden on. He went into the kitchen and started to cook the breakfast. He made himself some jam on toast to eat as he cooked. He was just starting to put the breakfast out when he heard movement upstairs. It wasn't long until the Dursleys were spilling into the kitchen to eat.
Vernon sat down and began to eat his fry up. "You boy will be doing the garden today, and then you will paint the fence, any arguments and no dinner for you tonight," He said menacingly as he chewed on some bacon.
"No, sorry Vernon you are going to have to do it yourself, I will be going in…," he stopped halfway through and looked at the Muggle watch Hermione had gotten for him at Christmas. "10 minutes," He said smugly as he watched him go red from anger.
"So the mad house is finally coming to get you." he sneered, Harry was unaffected. He had been sneered at by the best, Severus Snape. "I don't know why we took you in; your aunt is a saint for talking me into it."
"She is not my aunt, you're not my uncle and that," he said, pointing to Dudley who had become even larger. "Thank Merlin, is not my fat lard of a cousin."
"What did you say?" Vernon thundered as he slammed down his knife and fork.
"You freak, what did you call my darling duddy-kins?" Petunia shrieked her high-pitched voice grating on Harry's nerves.
"I said fat lard; my God do you not know how to listen to people. You, Petunia, are a horse faced cow who would rather spend time dishing out disgusting rumours saying they are facts, when really all you are doing is showing people how truly pathetic you are. Oh lets not forget about lard face's dad, lard face the first, overgrown bastard. You imprison me in my room, force me to do chores because you are too lazy to get off your own fat backside and do them yourself," Harry shouted at them, anger from the years of neglect and bad treatment he had suffered at the hands of the Dursleys coming to boil. Then he turned to Dudley who had stopped eating and was watching his parents and Harry. "Oh and you, the little shit that decided Harry hunting was a good sport, well guess what pay backs a bitch, and I'm just tapping into my inner bitch. So be warned precious little duddy-kins," he simpered, mimicking the sickening tone Petunia took when saying Dudley's nickname. "I will get you back for all the bruises, cuts, getting me into trouble and pain that you caused me."
"How dare you!" yelled Vernon. "We took you in when we did not have to. We give you food, clothes a roof over your head. I should have sent you to an orphanage!"
"You gave me food, ha, only when there were some scraps left, and that was never much. Then when I got my Hogwarts letter you only gave me a meal when I did a list of chores for you both. For clothes you gave me oversized, worn out hand me downs from fat ass over there," He said, pointing to Dudley. "And the roof over my head was me being thrown into a cupboard until I got my letter then; you were so scared that you gave me the second bedroom, everything you have done has been to save your own fucking skins. Not to keep me well. I have had to take care of myself since I was able to. It would have been better to send me to an orphanage. At least there I may have had a chance with a family that cared about me."
At that moment the doorbell began to ring. Harry gave a quick glance at his watch. It was 8 o'clock. He smiled slightly at those that had housed him since Lily and James died. He went to the door and opened it to find Severus Snape standing there in black Muggle jeans and shirt. He let the professor in and went back into the kitchen.
"I suppose I should say thank you," he said snidely, just as Snape would. "But you know what you don't deserve to be thanked for neglect and maltreatment." He smirked.
He walked out of the kitchen to leave the Dursleys to blow up and went into the living room where Snape watched the scene. "I just have to get my trunk from my room upstairs," He said, smiling.
"Show me and I will shrink it for the journey." Severus said. Harry took him up to the bare room that he had lived in for the last few years and Severus shrunk his trunk and placed it into his pocket.
"Thank you."
"Is there anything else you would like me to shrink?" Severus asked as Harry went and put Hedwig into her cage and gave the perch to Snape to shrink.
"Just that. Then we are ready to go," Harry said. "Erm, how are we travelling anyway?" he asked.
"Port key, since you do not have your apparition licence just yet," He said as he shrunk the perch and placed that with the trunk in his pocket.
Severus then pulled out a small quartz crystal, Harry placed his hand on it and Severus tapped it and said the incantation. There was a sharp pull at the navel and he was hurled out of number 4 Privet Drive.
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