Chapter 5
Harry heard a scream. He got up and raced out of the room the minute he realised Regulus wasn't there anymore. When he got downstairs he saw Snape and got really mad.
"Crucio!" said Harry madly with tears leaking out of his eyes.
Snape just smirked. "You'll never be able to cast an unforgivable by just being mad, Potter," Snape said with a sneer.
Harry just stood in front of Regulus. "Ex-" Harry's sentence got cut off.
"How pathetic, Potter. You'll never be able to defeat me without casting spells verbally."
Harry just looked at him questioningly.
"That is you have to be able to cast spells in your mind without speaking them aloud," Snape drawled, wand arm still pointing at him.
Harry just growled and ran blindly toward him, trying to punch every section he could reach, forgetting that Snape was stronger than him, but obviously he couldn't really care less.
Snape started getting bored and quite fed up. He punched Harry really hard and he went sprawling across the floor. The potions master then hauled Potter up by the scruff of his robes, grabbing his throat and squeezing the life out of him.
Harry's vision was starting to become really blurry; he could see lots of stars in front of his eyes. He tried to get Snape's hands away from his neck; yet his arms were starting to feel weak and fell limply at his sides.
What no one knew was that Harry's owl, Hedwig, was watching from the sidelines, and she saw that her master was in trouble. Hedwig had a mad glint in her eye and flew from her perch, heading right for Snape's eyes, meaning to blind him. She started to fly, heading right behind him, her claws starting to show. She clawed Snape at the side of his neck.
Snape tried to swipe at whatever the hell it was, dropping Harry in the process, growling, because he couldn't reach it.
Hedwig clawed at his eyes, almost blinding him as desired.
Snape went running in search of Dumbledore, trying to get him to fix his eyesight. Dumbledore quickly called on Madam Pomfrey, who came and tended to Snape's eyes.
Hedwig flew down toward her fallen master and was trying to get him to wake up.
Harry blurrily opened his eyes, getting up onto shaky legs. He staggered over to where Regulus was and saw a huge change in him. Instead of him being an adult he now looked to be around his age, or a bit older. Harry knelt down toward him and gently touched his face, moving stray pieces of hair out of his face.
Regulus looked to be really handsome and realising this, Harry's face started to grow really hot. Trying not to focus on it, Harry gripped both of his hands, trying with all his might to drag Regulus someplace safe and away from Dumbledore.
But once again Harry's eyes started to become really blurry; the after effects of what Snape had done to him were beginning to show.