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Chapter Two, Glamorie mess-up
10.47 pm, sunday, Harry, Ron, Seamus and Dean was sitting in their dorm helping eachother to finish the potion-assignment that was due tomorrow. Neville´s potion had ruined the dungeon classroom, so they couldn´t have any potion brewing until the end of the week. I the mean time Snape had assigned several essays that he wanted tomorrow, and when they all had handed in the four, three foot, essays, he was going to give them four more so they had something to work with to thursday when they thought that the classroom would be repared.
"So the aconite reacts with the bat-nails and causes the cooling?" Seamus said, looking through their potion texts.
"No, for that cooling effect you have to add ice-daisy petals, if you add aconite it will destoy the potion." Harry said taking some other notes.
"...and probably your face if you stand too close because it will most likely splash everything everywhere." Dean continued.
"There, I´m done." Ron said, the others looked at his parchment and rolled their eyes, of course he had written it large and with very much margin. Harry looked at his own, it was written in normal sized handwriting and an inch margin, he had even went over the three foot with two inches.
"Hey, when did you get so good at potions?" Ron asked Harry accusingly, who only shrugged.
"I desided to accually study this summer, it wasn´t as if I had a lot of things to do, and frankly I´m getting tired of Snape insulting me when I don´t know the answers, I want to see the look on his face when he expects me to answer wrong, and I gladly want to disappoint him." Harry said with a grin that made the other boys laugh.
"Good night guys."
"Night Harry." they chorused as they got ready for bed.
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"ARRGGHH, HARRY I´M GONNA KILL YOU!" Ron yelled as he rushed to the bathroom to change out of his dripping wet and ice cold pyjamas. Harry just laughed at his friend, he should know by know to get up when Harry woke him. Ever since Tonks, a member of the order who he had met this summer at the headquarters, woke Ron and himself up that way during summer, he had wanted to try it, and since Ron rarely got up from bed in the mornings he had already tried it eleven times.
"Hurry up Ron, classes start in forty-five minutes and I want to eat some breakfast first."
"Yeah yeah I´m coming." Ron walked out from the bathroom and they went downstairs to the common room, were they met Ginny, Ron´s younger sister.
"Hi Ginny, breakfast?" Ron said. "Yeah, I sort of overslept a bit, Merlin those other girls can talk." she said shaking her head and yawned.
"What was it this time? Cutest boys? Who´s dating who? Or perhaps the prophecy?" Harry asked as they walked down the stairs towards the Great Hall. They said hi to Sir Nicholas, the Gryffindor ghost when they passed him, he was mumbling once again about the Headless Hunters (a/n, is that what they are called?).
"Yes." was all she answered. Harry and Ron looked at eachother confused.
"Yes what?" Ron asked.
"Just yes." she said again. "All three huh?" Harry then asked, and she nodded.
They joined Hermione and the Weasley twins, Fred and George and their friend Lee Jordan. They started to eat while talking among themselfs.
"I can´t belive this! The prophecy is in the paper." Hermione said. Harry grabbed the paper out of her hands and read the articel, he groaned.
Hermione grabbed the paper back from him, making him blush a little. "Sorry." he said to her.
"When is the next fullmoon?" he then asked. Hermione checked her calendar.
"2nd, that´s on wednesday. Why?" Harry shrugged. "I was only wondering, the prophecy said that 'before the fullmoon raises again, she will be returned to the one, the one that she belongs with'."
"Come on, herbology in five minutes." Hermione said taking her bookbag, they said good-bye to Ginny, Fred, George and Lee and went outside.
"Hey Potty, are you thinking about a career in divination?" Draco Malfoy and his bodyguards, Crabbe and Goyle, walked up behind them.
"Why we have more classes with the Slytherins then with the other houses I can never understand." Harry said under his breath, but kept walking not looking at the little ferret.
"Get lost Malfoy." he threw over his shoulder as they walked into the greenhouse.
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As they headed for the last class of the day, well all they had to do was hand in their potion essays and recieve the new assigments then, suprisingly enough they could leave. When Harry handed in his papers and recieved one with the instructions for the new ones he felt a tingling sensation rush through his body. He knew that feeling.
"Um, guys I think I´ll just go and write to Snuffles, I´ll see you later ok?" they split up and Harry ran towards the Gryffindor tower, entered after shouting the password and hurried up to the bathroom in their dormitory. He saw in the mirror how his face changed and how two bumps started to grow under his shirt. "No, it isn´t suppose to fade already! I have two months before I should have to re-new it. What´s happening?" Harry thought as his round boyish face turned into a more mature-looking, female face, high cheekbones, rounded lips, thin, elegant eyebrows. "Wow, is this how I look nowadays?" Harry thought, he hadn´t seen this side of himself since spring term in third year. "Well, can´t keep it like this so, here we go." He took his wand and pointed it to himself.
"Feminus Glamorie." (a/n,pardon my latin) he said, but when nothing happened he frowned. He tried it again.
"Feminus Glamorie!" nothing, he tried it four more times and started to feel really nervous, what if it didn´t work?" "I need to get to the library, perhaps I could find that book again." he hurried out from the bathroom making sure no one was there but when he reached the door he turned back and removed his Gryffindor badge, now no one could tell wich house he was in.
She(a/n, well, Harry is a girl right now so I´ll call him a her for now.) ran to the library, cautious when she passed corners, it wouldn´t be the best time to get detention for running in the halls.
The library was almost empty, some seventh years sat by the first shelfs, she walked past them towards the back. She started to search the shelf for one of the glamorie books she read one and a half years ago.
"Where is it, come on. Where is it?" she looked through the rows of book, never seeing the one she was looking for. She started to get exremly frustrated. She grabbed a book, "Feature altering." and flipped through the pages. No that wasn´t right.
"Potter, what are...,"Harry almost gave herself whiplash when she turned to face the potion master." my mistake, I thought you were that imbecil Potter." He turned around to leave. " I knew he had it in for me, he was going to deduct points or give me detention but when he didn´t see mr Potter he didn´t bother. What a git.!"
Snape then turned back and looked at her. Then he quickly strided towards her and grabbbed her arm. "You are no student of Hogwarts, who are you and what are you doing here!" he hissed at her. She glared at him.
"Non of your buisness, sir. I swear I´m no treath to Hogwarts or it´s inhabitants." his grip thightned which made her flinch. "You wouldn´t believe me if I told you, so I won´t." she said forcing herself to not let her anger show.
"Then lets go to the headmaster." he sneered and dragged her by her arm out the library and up to the headmaster´s office.
"Lemon lollipop." Snape said through gritted teeth. He pulled Harry roughly closer to him so that they could walk the staircase. They entered the office and Dumbledore sat behind his desk, looking not surprised at all at their visit. He did however watch the girl that professor Snape brought with him, with curiousity. Harry avoided his eyes and sat down in the chair that Snape had practicallly thrown her on.
"I found this girl in the library searching among the glamorie-charms books. She is not a student at this school and she refuses to tell me who she is." Snape said smoothly.
"My, my, it isn´t everyday we get a visitor, and a young one at that, to this school without myself knowing aboout it. Lemon drop?" he offered.
"Ehh, no thank you sir." Harry answered. Dumbledore plopped one into his mouth after Snape also declined the offer. "So I hope that you are no treath to this school, I would hate to have to call aurors here to investigate." Harry gulped, then his secret that he had worked so hard keeping would definitely be revealed to the whole wizarding world.
"No, I swear that I´m not a death eater or someone who is out to hurt anybody at this school." "Well perhaps Malfoy, but no."
"You will have to tell us who you are, or we can´t let you go." Dumbledore said looking straight at her, recognision flashed through his eyes.
"Severus, explain to me the side effects of the polyjuice-potion if it is not made correctly." Dumbledore pierced his gaze at Harry who looked at her feet getting really nervous.
Snape who saw were this was heading said."Yes, if it isn´t made correctly, the side effects could be everything from plainly not working to change into the opposite sex of the one that you wanted to transform into." He glared at Harry.
"No wait I swear, it´s not a polyjuice. I swear I´m Harry Potter. Please you have to believe me, you can´t tell anyone, please I´m begging you to keep this secret." Harry worked herself up to near hysteric. Dumbledore and Snape didn´t look convinced. And on top of that her hair had starting to grow, the glamorie had kept it short for her since third year, wich meant that she hadn´t had a haircut in one and a half years.
"In fourth year, when Harry came and visit me when he later found out about Neville Longbottom´s parents and Karkaroff´s trial, what did he hear outside the office?"
Harry blushed. "Ehh, I heard Fudge and the fake Moody and you sir talking about Couch sr, when Viktor Krum later had been found stunned, Fudge was accusing Madam Maxime for the attack." He looked down at his shoes again. Dumbledore nodded but looked that he couldn´t quite believe it possible for this to be Harry. Her hair had now reached her shoulders.
"Why don´t you tell us about how you came to be a female?" Harry glared at Snape. "I don´t want to tell him." he said. "I´m afraid you have little choice in the matter." Dumbledore said. Glaring at Snape, who was smirking, he began his story.
"On my sixth birthday I woke up like this. My dark brown hair was replaced by black, my blue-ish eyes were replaced by green and the greatest shock of them all was that my...male member,"he blushed. "was replaced by the female gender." he took a deep breath before he continued.
"I was six years old and didn´t know about magic, so I thought that I somehow becomeone of those menthat changes themselfs into women. My uncle and aunt always went on about how freaky they were and that they should all be locked up. I got scared that they would lock me up so I pretended to be a boy, and that´s the way I have been until third year, when I found a glamorie."
Snape interupted him."Are you telling me that you have been a girl since the age of six and your relatives still don´t know about it?" Harry answered that yes, that was correct. "How is it possible that neither of your relatives ever saw you without clothes, a six year old needs partly help with getting dressed and supervised when they takes a bath." Snape sneered. "And you said that your hair and eye color changed, how come they didn´t notice that?"
"Well, I had to take care of myself because no one would help me, and I was never allowed baths I always had to shower. And I would have to dye my hair bright pink and wear a bloody tutu for them to see that something had changed." Harry snapped at him, she hadn´t meant to reveal that much but it had slipped. Snape almost, almost, looked shocked at that because he saw in the girl´s eyes that she was being honest.
"As I said, the letter that I had recieved was addressed to a mr Harry Potter and when Hagrid came he also thought me a boy so I didn´t say anything because perhaps I could go to this magic school anyway, and explain to someone there that I was a girl and not boy. I didn´t want to risk saying anything before I came to the school so that I could at lest get away from aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon and Dudley for a while anyway. But then I got friends, I met Ron and then Hermione and as time past it got harder and harder to tell anyone the truth. I had always been Harry Potter, so why couldn´t I continue being him? I am Harry Potter, but I´m not mr Potter."
She took a breath."During third year I saw girls around me changing and soon I saw changes in myself too, so I searched for something to conseal my secret. I found a glamorie I had to focus on what I wanted to look like so I just chose to look a bit more boy-ish, the same messy black hair, green eyes and being short. I used the pictures that Hagrid gave me in first year. I became a boy, for show anyway. I figured it would be really idiotic if I looked like I did before I changed. The spell lasts for four moths but I re-new every two months to be safe, now it canceled just like that and it won´t come back on." she said raising her voice a little at the last part."And my hair is growing because the glamorie have kept it short since I started using it, now when it´s gone I haven´t had a haircut in one and a half years."
Snape and Dumbledore watched the girl then eachother. Could it be? He had only seen baby Harry twice, the first time a week after he was born, black hair and blue eyes, but many babys had blue eyes and black hair when they where born, and the second time was when he left Harry at Privet Drive, it had been dark so it is possible that his hair had been brown, and Harry had been sleeping so he hadn´t seen his eyes.
"Harry?" she looked at the headmaster. She looked so tired but determined to convince them about who she was, and then for them to keep it secret.
"It could still be a trick, I want proof that it is Potter." Snape said to Dumbledore.
"Verita-serum is illegal." Harry said immediately looking back and forth betwean the headmaster and professor Snape. Dumbledore chuckled.
"Yes it is, but there is other ways. A lie-detector spell, you could answer from your free will but we will see if you´re lying or not. And then a simple affinity-potion to see your claimed heiritage." she nodded slowly, and Snape went to the fireplace and stepped through to get the affinity-potion.
"If it is you Harry, why have you not told about this sooner?" Dumbledore asked, everyone of his 153 years showing.
"I didn´t dare. I didn´t want to go back to the Dursley´s after finding out about the magic world. I didn´t want to loose my friends, and sometimes it could go a couple of weeks before I remembered that I accually was a girl, I changed clothes when no one was around, or in the bathroom, it was a habit. Being a boy was like a second nature because I have always been one." Snape came back and nodded to Dumbledore. Dumbledore did the lie-detector spell on Harry.
"Tell a lie." he said, "Umm..my name is Hermione Granger." she glowed red. Dumbledore and Snape looked satisfied.
"Tell us your name." Snape asked.
"Harry James Potter." she glowed green. Dumbledore looked convinced but Snape continued.
"Why are you a girl?"
She glared at him."Well I was probably born as one," green glow. "but I was a boy until I was six." another green glow.
Snape looked thoughtful for a moment, then he smirked. "Did you steal the gillyweed you used in the second task from me?"
"NO!" green glow. Dumbledore quickly ended the spell, since Severus was obviously done."Severus really." he shrugged, but looked a little disappointed that he didn´t catch the boy/girl with stealing from him.
"Are you satisfied now sir?" Harry asked Dumbledore.
"Yes my boy,..um girl. I believe it to be you but only to be on the safe side, I want you to take the affinity-potion anyway, if it is indeed you then it won´t be a problem will it?" she shook her head. Snape handed her a small vial with blue liquid.
"Drink." he ordered. She did as she was told, he wouldn´t dare to posion her with the headmaster in the room. It didn´t taste that bad.
"Give me your hand." Snape ordered. She reluctantly gave him her left hand, he took it and pricked her finger with a quill. The quill absorbed some blood and the white quill turned red. Snape let go of her hand and walked up behind Dumbledore and placed the quill on a sheet of parchment. The quill scribbled something that made the two men look up at Harry in confusion, Harry streched to try and see what was being written, she didn´t see anything. Then the quill started to wright again, she saw it a name, Kathrine...Jada..no,Jayda...Nightingale. Kathrine Jayda Nightingale?
"Who´s Kathrine Nightingale?"she asked frowning, she hadn´t heard that name before. Snape had paled, Dumbledore looked shocked.
"Who is she? Professor Dumbledore?"she tried again, no answer and the quill started to wright again. Snape snarled at her to sit down, which she did because once again she was getting nervous. Snape grabbed the parchment as soon as the quill was done scribbling. He strided over to her and grabbed her shin roughly, looking deep inte her eyes she felt that he could see everything, every memory she had.
"Stop what are you doing! Let go of me!" she tried to get him to loosen his grip, but it didn´t work. It hurt even more when she moved. "Let go it hurts." Snape finally let go and stared at her with something that was to her unbelievable, confusion, helplessness and concern. He handed her the parchment while she rubbed her shin. She took it and looked at it, then she stood up death-glaring at Snape
"What do you think you´re playing at? That potion was either wrong or polluted." she furiously hissed at him, then he ran from the office, leaving the parchment sailing to the floor. It read a girl´s birthdate, but not her name, then it stated her mother´s name, Kathrine Jayda Nightingale, then the girl´s father, Severus Chrisopher Snape.
"It can´t be true, It can´t. I have to get out of here." Harry thought as she ran towards the Entrance Hall, the dinner bell rang through the hallways adn she had to slow down. The Entrance Hall was outside the Great Hall, and since dinner just started then it would mean that all students would be there.
She reached the Hall and walked past all of the students that were heading inside the Great Hall, then she heard...
"Move you dunderheads." Snape shouted at some of the Hufflepuffs, Harry hurried to stand in a shadowed corner perhaps he wouldn´t see her. Someone bumbed into her and she turned around to see blond hair.
"Watch where you´re goi..., oh pardon my rudness, miLady." Harry would have either laughted or gaged under normal cirumstances, but right now she was trying to hide from her "father.", Malfoy bowed his head and smiled in a suck-up-way. He hadn´t seen this girl before, and she was really pretty.
"Yeah yeah, you´re forgiven but go away now." Harry said shooing with her arms to show him to get lost, while she looked over her shoulder, Snape was getting closer, but he hadn´t spotted her yet.
"My name is Draco Ma.."he began, "Yes Draco Malfoy, could you be so kind to leave?" she looked over her shoulder again, this time Draco noticed it and smirked.
"You´re a Gryffindor? Why are you hiding from Snape?" he asked. "Non of your damned buisness." she hissed at him. But it was too late, Snape saw them and came over. Harry tried to get past some students but Snape was faster and grabbed her arm again."Thanks so bloody much." she said to Malfoy. He leaned close to her face and quietly hissed. "We are going to discuss this, but not here. Do you understand me?" Harry was on for the challenge, she straighted her back and glared at Snape.
"There is nothing to discuss, you´re nothing but a liar." she hissed back furiously. Students around them began to watch the scene. Harry and Snape turned at the same time towards them and snarled, "Mind your own buisness." The fact that the strange new girl reminded them very much of the potion master made many back away.
"You will do as I say, and you know as well as I do that it wasn´t a lie or mistake." he hissed, not really wanting to be overheard, they were already causing a scene, no point in making it worse.
"Why should I listen to you? Tell me why I should do as you say?" Harry challenged. His scowl and glare turned darker, the students had never seen him this angry. That girl was in for it.
"Because I am your father and you will do as I say young lady." Harry stared at him, shell-shocked. Everyone of the students had the same expresion on their faces, a expression that clearly said, 'what-the.'.." I can´t believe you just said that." she said quietly looking him straight in the eye. Suddenly she yanked her arm out of Snape´s grip and backed away before he could grab her again. She took out her wand and pointed it at him.
"Would you just leave me alone? One step more and I´ll fry your feet."she threatned him as he walked towards her. "Don´t you dare threaten me." he continued towards her.
"INCENDIO!" she yelled and it hit right before Snape´s feet, three inches closer and he would have burnt his feet. He stopped and smirked at her while summoning some water to put the fire out. "You missed." he stated. Harry couldn´t believe that he accually seemed amused. "You didn´t think I would accually fry your feet did you? If I wanted to hurt you I would have simply turned your hair pink."she said in the same tone before she hurried outside. She could hear some students chuckle and then they became deadly quiet, dear little daddy must have lost his sense of humour and went back to greasy git mode.
She sat down beside the lake, throwing some stones into the water. "He revealed it to the whole school." she thought, she felt so overwhelmed, so crushed. "He told the whole bloody school about it." she felt her eyes water up, but she quickly blinked the tears away, crying wouldn´t make anything better. She heard footsteps behind her, they weren´t Snape´s, and it was a single person.
"So, you´re professor Snape´s daughter?"it was Malfoy, oh how she would like to strangle him.
"Get lost Malfoy, it´s non of your buisness." she said in an annoyed tone. He didn´t leave, but stood beside her were she was sitting.
"I´m warning you, you have ten seconds to leave before I draw my wand." she said in the same tone. Malfoy was either stupid or deaf.
"I didn´t know..."
"One."
"..that professor..."
"two,"
"...Snape had a..."
"three, Malfoy I could have burned his feet off."
"daughter and a.."
"FOUR FIVE SIX SEVEN EIGHT NINE TEN." she drew her wand and finally Malfoy seemed to realize that he had tickled the sleeping dragon so to speak. "Expelli Draco Malfoy." and he was thrown backwards and ended up fifty feet away, he stood up and wobbled back to the castle. She sighed and put her arms around her knees and buried her face in them.
"'Arry? 'Arry wha' are ye doin' out 'ere by yerself?" Harry looked up to see Hagrid, Hagrid frowned when he looked at female Harry´s face. "Wha 'appened to ye? Ye're a girl?" Harry laughed at Hagrid´s comment, which made Hagrid boom with laughter too. He sat down beside her.
"So wha' 'appened? Charms or a potion?"he asked. suddenly Harry turned sad again. "It´s much to explain, could we perhaps go to your place?" she asked and Hagrid said of course and that Harry could taste his new toffee. Harry was not really in the mood for sweets, even less so sweets that make your teeth stuck togheter like glue.
They sat down and Hagrid made some tea, Harry told everything he had told Dumbledore and Snape and also what had happened in the Entrance Hall and with Malfoy.
"I thought I saw somethin' flew by me window, I thought it was a theastral but.." he shrugged. "So ye were a girl when I picked ye up?" Harry nodded. "I was afraid to tell anyone, and they would then send me back to the Dursley´s." Harry took a bite of the fudge and her teeth got stuck immediatly. Once she got it out from her mouth she desided that Hagrid could handle the bitter truth. "Hagrid have you ever tasted this yourself?" she asked carefully. Hagrig gave bark-laugh.
"Course I have, don' like them though, too hard an' sticky for me taste." Harry just blinked.
"But why do you make them?" she asked.
"Why, because ye and yer friends like them o' course." Harry could have smashed her head against the table.
"I´m sorry Hagrid, but we..kind of...sorta...um, don´t." Hagrid saw Harry´s red face and laughed even louder.
"But why didn't ye tell me?" "We didn´t want to hurt your feelings, I´m sorry."
"Don´t worry 'bout it, to think that ye have eat' them when ye´re here. Heheh I´ll say."
They sat in silence for a while, Harry just sat there enjoying Hagrid´s company.
"What do you think I should do?" she asked finally. Hagrid told her, sounding very serious that Severus Snape was someone he trusted with his life, even thought Hagrid thought that Severus could cut down a bit on the insults.
"If he reacted the way ye told me then I would say go fer it, but expect detention for that incendio ye threw." he blinked at her which made her smile.
"I just don´t want to feel like a burden like the Dursley´s made me feel, remember I told you about what I saw in the mirror of erised? That´s the way I would like to feel."
"Thank you for being such a great friend Hagrid." she said and closed her eyes to relax, suddenly she heard voices.
"She said that? Is it true?" Snape´s voice was quiet but had egde to it. "She would na lie abou' it Sev'rus, an' I have met those prunes, it would na suprise me one bit I tell ya" Hagrid´s voice wasn´t as quiet as Snape´s but he still whispered.
"Who´s a prune?" Harry said opening her eyes that felt very sleepy. the two men looked over to were she laid on one of Hagrid' s huge armchairs with a blanket wrapped around her. She must have fallen asleep, she blushed a bit.
"Yer relatives, tha's who." Hagrid said. Snape sat there for a while debating with himself if he should ask her how she felt or not. Harry looked at her watch. 9.39pm! Four hours!
"How are you feeling?" he then asked. Harry looked a bit shocked at the question but answered anyway.
"Better then before thanks to Hagrid." Now it was Hagrid´s turn to blush. "I´m sorry about, you know the incendio." she looked down at her feet, when did they become so interesting? She had been watching them all afternoon.
"Apology accepted, and forgive me for being so harsh on you, I should have left you alone for a while instead of making that scene in the Entrance Hall." Snape said with his usual emotionless voice. Harry only nodded.
"But how? How did this happen? If I´m not a Potter then how did I end up with them? And why make me look like a boy when I was a girl?"
"I have a theory, that I will tell you when Albus firecalls and verify if my theory is correct or not. Do you think you could stand to accompany me to my office?" he asked politely, "What´s with him!"
"Sure, I guess." She stood up and her stomach grumbled. And once again she blushed.
"I´ll get you something to eat when we get back to the castle." Snape said and Harry felt a small smile tug her lips.
"Bye Hagrid." Harry said and got a bear hug from him. "Hagrid, "she wheezed." I sort of need those ribs." he let her go and laughed together with her.
"Hagrid." Severus nodded to him, and left right behind Harry. He hesistated before putting a hand on her shoulder, and when he did she flinched, it was very small but it was there, then she relaxed a little but not fully.
"Why did you flinch?" Snape asked. He had arrived at Hagrid´s cabin just ten minutes after Harry had fell asleep, then he and Hagrid had talked about what Harry had said to him(Hagrid) about how she didn´t want to be a burden, she didn´t want to feel abandonned. Her relatives didn´t sound like the pampering perfect couple that he(Snape) had imagined the great Harry Potter lived with. They had even sounded abusive comming from Hagrid who didn´t seem to think that far.
Harry tensed up again. "I didn´t expect it that´s all, I got suprised."she said hootly.
They walked down fowards the dungeons when they met Malfoy and Parkinson, fifth year slythering prefects. Harry straighted her back to look elegant and not so tired that she felt.
"Ah, professor Snape, and miss Snape." Draco said smoothly, smiling the same way as before. He looked at Harry and if she didn´t know better, which she hoped she didn´t, Draco Malfoy was checking her out. Pansy and Snape must have noticed it too because Pansy glared at Harry and Snape death-glared at Draco. Harry could feel his hand thighten on her shoulder, she almost smirked, the dreaded potion master didn´t want his favorite student to be interested in his daughter? "Perhaps he cares a bit anyway." she thought.
"Mr Malfoy, miss Parkinson." Snape said cooly, and nodded to each of them. "I believe you should head back to the common room now, your round is over in five minutes."
"Yes of course professor," Draco said with his ingratiating voice. "Perhaps we could escort your daughter there?" he said offering his arm to Harry. Harry raised an eyebrow just like she had seen Snape do countless times.
"That will not be necessary mr Malfoy, my daughter is old enough to manage herself. But as it is she is staying in my quarters." Snape said silkly, and Harry couldn´t tell if it had an insulting edge in it. Malfoy removed his arm just as Pansy reached to take it, she lifted her hand to her head to try and make it look like that was what she had intended to do in the first place.
"Good night." Severus said and turned to leave. Harry suddenly turned.
"Oh and mr Malfoy? I doo hope you that you can forgive my earlier behaviour." she said cooly. Malfoy turned around and smirked, thinking that he had won her over with his charm, Pansy looked absolutely horrified adn Snape looked shocked for a second then hid it again.
"Oh don´t worry about that, I should have listened when you requested to be left alone."
"Indeed, and if you ever ignore my request to be left alone again,"she paused, Malfoy´s grin had faded. "I won´t count to ten." she then turned back to Snape and they walked downstairs. When Snape was certain that they were out of heaing range he looked down at the girl and saw her smirking. She saw him in the corner of her eye.
"If you want to give me detention for that then go ahead because it was worth it."
"No, I was merely wondering when you turned Slytherin." he said, smirking. "He´s accually nice, I can´t believe it."
"Who me? I have always been, I would have been sorted into Slytherin in first year if I hadn´t meet Malfoy first. He reminded my strongly of my cousin and then Hagrid told me that Voldemort," Severus turn to flinch," Sorry, I´m just so used to saying his name. Hagrid told me that he had been in Slytherin and on the train I met Ron who told that there hadn´t been one evil witch or wizard who hadn´t gone to Slytherin. In the end I didn´t want to go there because of that, and I became a Gryffindor."
"Who would have thought?" Snape said stopping in front of a portrait of a pack of wolf in an opening in a forrest. He stroked one of the cubs, a black one.
"Alchemist." he said, and instead of stepping back to allow the portrait to open he turned his back to it and stepped right through the opposite wall, an arm stuck out from the wall indicating for Harry to follow which she did.
The room she stepped into was magnificent, she looked to her left saw a secretaire with an armless and straight-backed chair with black leather padding, on the next wall (the one to her left.) was an elegant fireplace, infront of it stood two large black leather armchairs, behind the armchairs stood a table and behind the table stood a matching sofa. The wall opposite her was full of bookshelfs and a large desk stood facing her direction, with a comfortable looking chair behind it and two more chairs like the one that stood by the secretaire, was in front of the desk, behind the desk to the right was a closed door. The wall to the right had three doors. The room had dark furnitures but it had a very homey feeling to it.
"This is amazing."she whispered more to herself.
"I´m glad it met your high standards." Snape said, getting back to that snidely tone.
"I don´t have high standards." she muttred. Snape smirked again. "Why don´t you take a seat?" he asked indicating to one of the armchairs.
"Because it will swallow me whole and you don´t have to deal with me anymore?" she mumbled sarcastic.
"Hmm, good idea, I will try and find such a spell." Snape said lightly. Harry froze in the middle of taking her seat, she stared at him. Snape started to chuckle at the sight of the girl half-sitting, half-standing and staring at him as he just grown a second and third head, which made Harry loose her balance and fall on the floor.
"Ouch." she groaned and stood up from the floor and sat down in the chair.
"What happened? Did you forget how to sit down?" he sneered, but sounded amused so Harry didn´t take it as an insult but more as a taunt.
"Yes, I forget at times when the emotionless dungeon master starts to chuckle and joke around." she replied in the same tone as Snape had used.
"Dungeon master?" Snape asked, he leaned back in his chair.
"Yes, we desided, or rather I did, that we needed to come up with a nickname to you that didn´t sound as insulting and rude as the other names. That´s why I started to call you dungeon master, and since I started to use that name, I have gotten fewer points deducted for disrespect against a teacher. Then the other Gryffindors started to use it too." Snape raised his eyebrows.
"So you insult me often do you?" she blushed a little, even if this was the potion master, she didn´t want to tell him to his face what everybody disliked him. Even though he probably knew it.
"Yes, but only when you have been really horrible in class, and when you insult us, and when we make our potions assigments, and when we don´t have anything to do." her voice got more quiet to the end. "Sorry." she ended. He nodded.
"Jasper" he called out and a houself with a pointy nose and blue eyes appeared, he wore a blue towel as a toga.
"Yes master Severus?" The houseelf had a relative deep voice compared to Dobby and Winky. He didn´t bow as deep as they did either, but he did a elegant bow.
"Please bring our young guest here a light dinner, and myself a cup of tea." Snape said.
"Yes master, right away." he disappeared without the usual crack that Harry had heard from Dobby.
"So are you going to share your theory?" she asked.
"Not until I had it confirmed. I can tell you why your glamorie-spell ceased to work though."
"Which is?" Harry said.
"Do you happen to remember what potion we brewed when Longbottom happened?"
"Yes, the reval..oohh, but I didn´t swallow any of it."Harry said looking confused.
"No, but you inhaled a lot of it, as did the rest of the class, but they didn´t have any glamories on them so it didn´t effect them." Snape explained as Jasper returned with a tray, on it was a bowl of tomato soup, a small plate with sallad, a slightly buttered roll, and a glass of milk. Then he handed Snape his cup of tea.
"Thank you." Harry said to the elf, who only bowed again.
"You´re welcome, miss." and then he disappeared yet again without the crack.
"He isn´t like the other houseelfs, they lack grammar skills and tear down when they recieve a thank you." Harry said and looked into her glas. "Milk?" she took a sip and started to eat the soup, it was delicious.
"I hope it don´t bother you to drink milk?" he said sipping his tea. "No no, not at all, it´s just that we never get milk at Hogwarts so I thought that perhaps wizards didn´t drink it."
"It´s easier to serve pumpkin juice."was all he said. " And no, Jasper isn´t like other houseelfs, many wizards don´t bother to teach their elfs proper english, but I would go mad if I had to listen to them going on and on about everything in incorrect english."
They sat in silence while Harry finished her meal.
"Thank you for the meal sir, it was delicious."
"You´re welcome. If you wish, since it is getting rather late, you can use that guest room and go to sleep. I´ll wake you if the headmaster comes, but he might not be back until tomorrow and there is no point in staying up all night." he said pointing to the second door opposite them. Harry relucantly agreed and went to the bedroom.
"Good night sir."
"Good night girl."
She went inside, it was clean and decorated in blues and greens making it look like it was a sea inspired room. In the far left corner stood a large bed, but it didn´t have drapes as the beds in Gryffindor tower had. To the left stood a desk and a chair, to the right was a sofa, a small table, and two doors, one leading to a walk-in closet and the other to a bathroom.
"Miss, I have brought you a nightgown." Jasper said from her right startling her. "Thank you Jasper." She said and he disappeared again. She unfolded the nightgown and saw that it was an old-fashioned long-sleeved dress-like gown. It was white and reached down to her ankles when she put it on. She braided her now shoulder-lenght hair and laid down in the soft bed, it felt so good, and she fell asleep almost immideatly.
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