Disclaimer : I AM NOT JK ROWLING AND DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE HARRY POTTER CHARACTERS!! just so I've got that straight...

'Who have we here? I've never seen you before…'

'Harry Threston.'.

'Oh…New meat… I guess we ought to be paying you a bit of attention then…'

TOUNDERSTAND

Chapter 7: Blasting Ego's.

'What's wrong?'

'Let's just go!'

'What the hell has gotten into to you?'

'Threston move!'

'Get off my arm Severus!'

'What have we got here?' growled a familiar voice and I turned to see Sirius and my Dad looking at us both with wide grins on their faces.

So that's really my Dad? That's really the man that died to save my mum and me…Fought Voldemort straight in the face; his back straight and head held high…He looks exactly how I used to look apart from the eyes and lack of scar… And there's Sirius… Right by his side like he always said he was, Potter and Black…The team that should never have been broken… I looked at Snape's expression and understood that these two 17 year old boys were exactly why he'd wanted me to move.

'I do believe it's a Snivellus.' spat James, looking at Snape with pure loathing.

'And who's this?' asked Sirius loudly, looking me up and down. 'Jesus Christ you surely haven't managed to make a friend have you Snivellus?'

Snape tensed beside me and I put a hand on his arm

'Calm down…'I whispered. No wonder Snape always hated my dad so much…

'Or maybe he's actually made a friend!' said James laughing 'With one of his 'do it yourself' potion kits!'

'Well that's probably the only way to get someone to like him! Is that what you did then Snape? Did you program an experiment to follow you around?'

They started laughing and Snape whipped his wand out, a whole crowd now starting to gather around us.

'Come on then Snape!' jeered Sirius as he took out his own wand. 'Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!'

'They're not worth it.' I hissed in Snape's ear as he tried to get his wand high enough to curse them.

'Let me go Threston' he spat, struggling to get free 'I'm going to kill them!'

Well that would not be good for me...

'Let him go!' shouted James to me as he and Sirius laughed 'Let him go if he wants to! Or is he just a coward like last year?'

He started to struggle even more and I could tell that soon I'd have to let go or use magic.

'DON'T CALL ME COWARD!!' he exploded and suddenly I couldn't hold on. He sprinted forward and Sirius shouted a curse causing Snape to fly backwards onto the floor. The hall burst out laughing now chanting 'FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!' and James and Sirius advanced. As Snape struggled to get up I stood between him and the 2 laughing Marauders.

A sudden anger was flaring through me. I don't care if it's Sirius! I don't care if it's my Dad! They were bullying Snape for no reason and they needed to be taught a lesson… This is just like 2 years ago when they were bullying Snape before… but this time I can do something about it…

'Get out the way.' shouted Sirius impatiently but I didn't move.

'Move it Slytherin!' said James and he shot a spell towards me. I deflected it non-verbally and a hush went round the room.

'If you want to fight Severus then you'll have to fight me first.' I said calmly and they both looked as though they couldn't believe their ears.

'You're sticking up for this piece of slime?' said James disbelievingly.

'Yep.' I answered, not quite believing it myself and I spread my legs wider to get a better stance.

'Fine.' said Sirius 'I'll take you first.'

He stepped forward and before he'd had a chance to move I'd shot a curse right towards him. He flew across the entrance hall just like Snape had landing straight on his arse and a wave of hushed mutterings ran through the watching crowd.

'How the hell…?' said James softly and I walked towards him quickly, deflecting each curse he sent at me with just a flick of my wand. I guess the training Remus gave me must have paid off…

'Impedimenta!'

'Expelliarmus!'

'Fununculus!'

'Imobulus!'

'Incarcerous!'

'Incendio!' He shouted as each one bounce off my shield.

The crowds were gasping now but it wasn't a fair fight. He wasn't using non-verbal and I had that split second advantage.

'Who are you?' he asked furiously as I stood only a meter from him.

'A friend of Severus Snape.' I spat before blasting him to join Sirius and watching him land flat on his backside. A cheer rose from the back of the hall and I saw that the rest of the Slytherins had joined the crowds. They all started jeering and cat-calling as James and Sirius shot me venomous looks before standing up painfully.

'This doesn't end here!' shouted Sirius, trying to regain some pride and I lifted my wand up again.

'Well if you care to have another go Sirius Black, then come and try again…. If you think you're hard enough!'

Laughter exploded from behind me as the insults got louder and James grabbed a fuming Sirius, dragging him away. I looked after them, glaring at their backs until they filtered out of sight. I caught Ginny's eye in the crowd and she just bit her lip before following her newly acquired friends after the Marauders.

I shouldn't have done that. I just beat up my own dead Father and Godfather! I humiliated them in front of almost the whole school…and for what? To stick up for Severus Snape? How low have I sunk? Well… that's just about destroyed any chance I had of meeting my father and getting to know him…Unless we have a nice chat while he's trying to curse me…

A hand found its way slowly across my shoulders and I turned to see a 17 year old Bellatrix Black smirking darkly... She was beautiful... She'll grow up to murder Sirius and drive Neville's parents insane but she is still beautiful. Her long black hair was shiny and sleek as it hung round her porcelain face. Her heavy lidded eyes covering orbs that actually looked purple in light though were probably black from a far, all things of beauty that Azkaban would eventually rob from her. She carried herself as though she was royalty, and arrogance and self-importance leaked out of her every pore. I could tell that she thought I was being granted the greatest honour simply because I was being touched by her…

'Who have we here?' she smiled silkily. 'I've never seen you before…'

'Harry Threston.' I said confidently.

'Oh…New meat…'

'Bellatrix who are you with?' spat a haughty looking Lucius Malfoy, his blonde hair already long enough to be tied behind his back.

'Down Lucius...' She said as though speaking to a dog. 'This is Harry Threston and I do believe he's new...'

'Since when do you bother with new people Bella?' he said, looking at me as though I was something he'd just stepped in.

'Since this new person just blasted Potter and my dear cousin across the entrance hall.' She smiled, looking me up and down again. 'That's when…'

'You, blasted Potter and Black across the entrance hall?' he asked with his eyebrows raised.

'Yes.' I said casually as though it was a perfectly normal and trivial thing to do.

'My, my, my…' he said smirking, 'I guess we ought to be paying you a bit of attention then…'

I held his gaze as he bored into mine until eventually he looked away. What kind of attention…?

'We'll be seeing you later then Threston…' He said silkily before walking back up the stairs with Bellatrix who was looking at me with a very interested eye and I didn't like it.

'You ready to go to class?' I asked Snape as he walked past me but didn't respond. 'Hey Severus-!'

'Don't talk to me!' he spat viciously and carried on walking.

'What's up with you-?'

'You are 'what's up' with me!' he said turning fully around to me and I felt wrong footed.

'I just stuck up for you-!'

'Well I didn't ask you too!'

'I thought you needed help!'

'You humiliated me!'

'What-?'

'You had Bellatrix and Lucius fawning all over you!' he said and jealousy was written all over his face.

'I thought you didn't like them!' I said, getting frustrated.

He turned back around and began to storm up the stairs as I followed angrily.

'I just don't understand you Snape!' I said loudly. 'I thought I was your friend!'

'Well friends don't try and humiliate their friends!' said Snape, still not looking at me.

'I DIDN'T HUMILIATE YOU!' I exploded; it was like trying to reason with a bloody brick wall!

'Yes you did-!'

'No I didn't, because in case you haven't noticed, all I did was protect your back! I stuck up for you and got in a fight for you! I didn't want to cause a scene like that! I didn't want to have Bellatrix or Lucius sliming all over me, they're not my friends you are! And I hope we still are but with the way that you're treating me now…That is not how friends treat their friends…'

He fell silent and I watched him intently as he hid behind his hair

'Friends?' I said holding out my hand and he shook it grudgingly 'Well I'm glad that's over…'

'You think it's over?' he asked with his eyebrows raised. 'Think again Threston! The Marauders are like a dog with a bone! They're as likely to let this go as join the Deatheaters…'

'Ah.'

'You've started something and for the first time the Slytherins are 1 up and if Lucius and Bellatrix are interested then the rest of the house will follow…and with the added persuasion of everyone being covered with toast this morning…' He was smiling now. 'I think we may just be able to win this little feud…'

'What, hasn't anyone joined in before?'

'No.'

'Oh…but why do we have to involve the whole house? I think we could take them with just the two of us now…'

'You forget that they have the whole of Gryffindor behind them, they worship them Threston! The mighty Marauders! Just because Potter is the Captain of Quidditch…'

Well that makes sense. To be honest I can't wait till I get to see my Dad play! …Even if it is from the wrong side of the stands…

'So what do you want to do?' I laughed 'Break his broomstick in half?'

'Everyone inside please!' snapped the Scottish tones of McGonagall before he could answer and we all filed inside…

I spent most of the lesson doodling on a corner of my parchment as Ginny was right and the things she was teaching us were the same as what I'd just learnt in 6th year.

'Mr Threston!' she barked for the 18th time this lesson.

'Transfigure Mr Snape's eyebrows to the colour green please.'

'Morphugus' I thought, flicking my wand lazily at Snape's face and watching as his eyebrows turned emerald.

'Good.' She said and I could tell that she was disappointed she hadn't caught me out…though it wasn't for lack of trying…

'How do you find this so easy…' hissed Snape and I tried not to laugh. His face was a bright red from trying to not say the spell verbally. None of the class had managed it yet apart from me…

'Have you any pointers Threston?' asked Bellatrix, turning around in her seat and battering her eyelashes.

'Nope.' I said smiling and she huffed before swivelling back round. Snape nudged me passing a note onto my desk.

'It's from the Gryffindor side of the classroom' he muttered darkly 'so mind it doesn't explode or something…'

I opened it curiously and saw that it was from Ginny:

Do You Have Any Pointers Harry?

Yours Desperately,

Ginny.

I laughed and quickly wrote a reply:

Try mouthing the spell but not saying it out loud.

Yours helpfully

Harry.

I watched as my note was passed across the room and saw Ginny open it eagerly.

'My turn!' she said to Lily who was her partner and she waved her wand with her mouth moving. I watched with satisfaction as Lily's eyebrows turned a light brown and Ginny squealed happily.

'Professor I've done it!' she said as McGonagall checked Lily's eyebrows giving a rare smile.

'10 points to Gryffindor.' She said and Ginny beamed. I sat back in my chair with a satisfied grin and Snape scowled at me.

'Typical…If you transfigure everything within 2 minutes, we don't get a point but if a Gryffindor does it then that's a different story…McGonagall is so biased…'

I smiled across at Ginny when then mouthed Thanks across the room.

'Is that your sister then?' asked Snape staring at Ginny.

'Yeah' I said smiling and he started shaking his head, pointing his wand at me again.

'Stay still Threston, I don't want to burn your eyes out!'

The next lesson I shared with the Gryffindors was 3rd period, double potions…

'Today we'll be making the Draught of Living Death!' said a younger looking Slughorn briskly, 'So please DO NOT ingest any of the potion as the results will not be as…recreational, shall we say, as the last time…'

Everyone turned and looked at Sirius who stuck his middle finger up defiantly.

'If you turn to page 10 of your text books you will find the potion you're looking for in there…'

Snape whipped out his book and flipped it to the right page, his nose inches from the lettering. He was up and running around before I'd even had a chance to light the cauldron. He dumped a loud of ingredients on the desk and barked at me to start chopping the valerian roots. I watched as he twiddled with the heat under cauldron and suddenly threw his head back as a load of blue steam burst out of it. He smiled satisfied as the potion turned a deep purple colour.

'How did you do that Snape?' spat Malfoy peering over to our desk but Snape didn't reply, preferring to just scribble a note down in the margin of his book.

'Chop up that Sopophorus bean.' He barked at me and I smirked

'Surely it would be easier to just crush it with the flat side of a silver dagger…' I said and Snape looked at me weirdly. He grabbed his Dagger and squashed it down on the bean with the flat side of his knife. I watched as the bean released a tidal wave of juice and Snape's face lit up. He scooped it all up and dumped it into the cauldron causing it to turn the perfect shade of lilac before grabbing his potions book quickly, scratching out the instructions to cut the bean and replacing them with my tip on using the dagger…ready for me to find 21 years in the future…

'Well look at this!' said Slughorn loudly, gesturing widely to our cauldron. 'Never have I seen a better attempt! Well done Severus and….'

'Harry Threston, sir.' I said proudly.

'Well, well done to you too boy!' he beamed before ambling off to look at my Dad and Sirius's potion which was spitting orange sparks, causing burn marks on the ceiling…

'Um…Thanks for the tip with the knife...' said Snape gruffly and I raised my eyebrows. 'That was…quite useful.'

I blinked dumbly. DID SNAPE JUST SAY THANK YOU?!? TO ME?!?

'That's alright.' I said happily and Snape started bustlingly around with the fire again.

Maybe I might have a chance of changing Severus Snape after all!

'Pass me that Newt breath.' He snapped

'Please!' I said childishly and he shot me a venom loaded look.

'Not please, NOW!'

'Oh well…' I said under my breath, passing him the jar. Let's just take it one step at a time…

Hey, I hope you liked it as this is my first Fan-Fic and I worked pretty hard on it. However I am always open to Critism but if you do decide to critisise it then please make it constructive! No just saying that it's 'crap' or so on...You must have a specified reason to say if it's crap! Lol. Anyway please review with any comments you may want to post! Thanks for reading.

Cyanide Sonnets.

PS. Thanks CruciareMors for pointing out my previous mistake! You did me a big favour there:)