Hey! Sorry for the short delay, I am having a case of writer's block (horrible thing isn't it?). I hope you like this chapter……..I like it but I'm not sure of what kind of feedback I'll get for it.
Well on with the chapter and please read the A/N at the end of the chapter.
Chapter nine- Accidental Magic
"That did not go well....." Albus said quietly as he stared at the still opened door of the Hospital Wing.
"Well I should say so!" Remus exclaimed and stood up. "Why didn't you tell Sirius or I about Harry's abuse if you knew of it so much!" he snapped. "I know you what you told Severus! You told him all about what Harry's family did to him! And how, exactly did you know all of it!"
Dumbledore sighed, "I did not know anything about Harry's abuse until you told me at the Welcoming Feast........ I needed to know about some of his injuries, so I used a useful magic known as Occlumency to find out..."
"But, why!!!" Remus all but yelled. "Why did you invade Harry's privacy like that?! How could you betray his trust!"
"I did not betray his trust..." Dumbledore said calmly. "It was mandatory that I knew some of the abuse he has suffered in order to do a trial..... Trust me, Remus, I do not know of the full extent of Harry's injuries.....I have suspicions but I was not as selfish as to try to uncover his most hidden memories of his abuse..."
"So, you showed some ministry idiot some of his memories?! Do you want it to be all over the Daily Prophet!! What's wrong with you!" Remus roared furiously. '
"No, I did not show anyone Harry's memories. I was merely questioned under veritaserum and I needed to actually see the abuse in order to report it...." Dumbledore said though it was obvious that he was looking quite guilty. "I did not mean for it to go like this..... I needed to do something and I will NOT see Harry go back to those..........people!" Dumbledore spat the last word like a swear word and Remus had to gawk at the absolute fury in the old man's voice.
"He is going to be furious at you when he finds out...." Remus's voice was quiet now, Harry was starting to stir. The boy slowly sat up and yawned.
"Finds out what?" Harry asked as he looked at them through sleepy eyes. "What would I be furious about?"
Remus glared at Dumbledore for a moment.
Dumbledore sighed and sat down beside Harry, taking the boy's hand. "Harry, I want you to know that I did what I did for your own good..."
Harry blinked in confusion and turned to Remus, "What is he talking about?"
The werewolf sighed and said quietly, "Albus used Occlumency to see the abuse from your family himself so he could report it..."
Harry's eyes widened, "What?!" he exclaimed, glancing at Dumbledore, who had the grace to look quite ashamed.
"He informed Severus about it just a couple minutes ago..."
"You WHAT!!!" Harry yelled at the old man. "You told....you told HIM!! Why!!! I trusted you!!!! I trusted you, how could you do this to me!!!"
"Harry, he is your father, he has a right to know....."
"Like hell he does! He has a right to know if I want him to know!!! It was MY fucking choice to tell him, not yours!" Harry screamed. "You always take control of my life!! I thought you would have stopped after what happened last year!!"
"Harry..."
"Don't talk to me!!! Don't even look at me! I hate you!!! I HATE YOU!!!" Harry screamed at the top of his lungs and the lights began to flicker.
"Harry you need to calm down!" Dumbledore told him sternly. Harry sent him a glare worthy of the Snape name and the bottle that held a healing potion exploded, shards of glass flying every which way.
"Harry!" it was Remus who spoke this time, "Calm down! You need to calm down and take a couple of deep breaths....." He put a hand on Harry's shoulder.
"Leave me alone!" Harry yelled, his emerald eyes were now amber as the room began to quiver violently. Madame Pomfrey shrieked and covered her head as several potions began to explode from one of the shelves.
"Harry!" Dumbledore yelled, "Calm down! You'll destroy the school!"
Harry either hadn't heard him or was ignoring him as he didn't make any attempt to keep his sensitive temper under control.
He had tried so hard to prevent anyone from knowing about his beatings, especially from Snape but the old man just had to go and tell the bastard, everything he had worked for had been for nothing, Snape knew anyway......
He had put glamour on himself a long time ago and had been trying to suppress a wince of pain whenever someone would touch him so they wouldn't suspect. When Remus, Hermione, and Ron had found out, he had completely freaked out, especially when Madame Pomfrey and Dumbledore were added to the list of people that knew about the secret he had been trying so hard to protect.
But he had felt the least bit of comfort when he had thought that they wouldn't tell anyone, and would keep it a secret. But of course nothing ever goes right for him, the headmaster had alerted the authorities and he was now sentenced to a trial.
Of course, even then he had still felt the least bit of comfort that perhaps his secret would still remain safe, since it was to be a private trial. Harry knew that when Dumbledore had broken the glamour charms that his mother had put on him, that the charms that Harry had put on himself to hide the abuse would be broken too.
Which was why he had been so glad to have on long sleeves and pants. He had tried desperately to hide the bruise on his cheek by curtaining his face with his hair, much like Snape did. Luckily, no one had noticed and once again, Harry felt as if his secret was safe.
But now Snape knew, along with Sirius. This wouldn't have bothered Harry as much as it did if it hadn't been for the fact that Dumbledore had told Snape some details of his abuse.....
He was snapped out of his mental ranting by Remus, who yelled, "We need to stun him! It's the only way, he's out of control!"
Harry blinked and took in his surroundings, feeling slightly confused about all the broken glass that littered the floor. He glanced around to see Albus Dumbledore, laying stunned on the floor.
'Did I do that?' he asked himself. He could feel power surging through him. Power that he had never felt before in his whole life. It felt so........warm and strong as if it were a part of him. He was about to try and get it under control when he heard two voices (a male and a female) shout faintly, "Stupefy!" before everything went black.
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Hermione glanced anxiously at Ron, who was sitting next to her, looking into the fire with a pensive look on his face..........a rather rare sight....
"I just don't know where he could be, Hermione......." the boy whispered quietly. "I haven't seen him since he went to meet Dumbledore on Saturday...."
The girl sniffed and stared into the flames almost hypnotically, she suddenly stood up.
"I am going to find him!" she declared and marched toward the portrait.
"Wait a minute, Hermione, you don't even know where to start!" Ron began but Hermione cut him off. "What is the one place that he is always in if we can never find him?"
The redhead blinked awkwardly, "Either Dumbledore's office or the Hospital Wing....Hey wait for me!"
He jumped up after the bushy headed girl and hurried after her.
"Let's check in the Hospital Wing first...it's closer..." Hermione said as they hurried up the many flights of stairs.
The two teenagers started slightly when a sharp quiver rumbled through the entire castle, shaking the walls.
Hermione grabbed onto the railing and held on as the stairs shook slightly along with the rest of the castle. "What was that?" she whispered to Ron, who was also gripping the railing tightly.
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Severus sat slumped on a cushioned chair, his head in his hands as he thought about Potter........his son.......
He shivered at the thought.
He had always hated the boy and yet he felt a slight protectiveness come over him whenever he thought about someone hurting him. He always had felt protective over his most hated student for some odd reason.
Well maybe it was because the boy was Lily's son and he had loved Lily more then anything in the world when she had been alive.
He had always hated seeing the boy, not only because he looked so much like James Potter but also because of those haunting, green eyes.....Lily's eyes.....the one's that had stared up at him blankly, with no life at all when he had seen her at her and Potter's funeral.
When he had first laid eyes on the boy he had thought nothing of him, except hatred that is. But when he had first actually looked at the boy during the first potion lesson, he had been reduced to a blank upon seeing those same green eyes filled with life once again.
Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if those green eyes hadn't been the same ones that Severus had looked into with love so much when he had been in school, the same one's that was always filled with happiness and love whenever they were directed at him.
The same one's that he would simply sit there and get lost in them for what seemed like hours.
But those days were gone....it was different, so much different. The eyes, though the same color as his late beloved's eyes, were so much different. For one thing, they reflected hatred and disgust whenever directed at him and Severus had been reduced to a blank once again when he had first seen those green eyes filled with absolute loathing at him. He had felt panic and slight fear when he had seen the loathing within those eyes. And what had he done? He had reacted negatively, almost defensively and treated Potter as if he were a piece of rat's dung....
But those eyes didn't belong to her....didn't belong Lily Evans.....who he had loved. Lily Evans.....who had loved him. Lily Evans....who had been the most compassionate and kindest person in the world. Lily Evans......who had always been there for him.....
No, those eyes belonged to Harry Potter.......who he hated. Harry Potter.....who hated him. Harry Potter......who was a spoiled, pampered brat from day one. Harry Potter........who was.....abused..... Harry Potter.......who he had misjudged severely. Harry Potter.......who was his son....
His son.
Not James Potter's son.
His son.......his and Lily's son....
Severus thought about what he had just witnessed a couple moments ago. Harry Potter...laying in the Hospital Wing......weazing and trembling in pain......beaten.....abused........broken........
Potter had been abused all this time, and Severus had never even recognized the symptoms....
'I'm a bloody fool.......' he thought to himself. 'I should have recognized them instantly.....'
He thought back on the last five years the boy had been at Hogwarts. He was always quiet, he hated attention, and he really wasn't one for expressing his emotions....
Why didn't Severus recognize that the boy was being abused? Why! It was his job, damn it!
No.
He had been to busy insulting and humiliating the Boy-Who-Lived, James Potter's son, the Gryffindor Golden Boy, the star seeker, Albus's favorite student.....
Severus scowled irritably as he poured himself a drink and downed the alcohol in one gulp before pouring another.
Why hadn't he ever referred to the boy as 'Harry'? Now that he actually thought about it, he always thought of the boy as 'Potter' or 'James Potter's son' or 'Boy-Who-Lived', the Golden Boy, Albus Dumbledore's favorite student!
Not once in the whole time Severus had known the boy had he ever thought of him as 'Harry'........
Severus made to down the second glass when the castle suddenly shook with such force that he dropped the glass, which shattered on the floor.
"What the...." he began before realization dawned on him.
'Potter....!' he thought to himself before hurrying out of the dungeons and back up to the Hospital Wing.
'Why am I doing this again?' he asked himself as he headed up the many flights of stairs. 'Because he's your son and he needs you...' a small voice inside his head told him. Severus assumed it to be the 'angel version of himself'. Either that or it was his conscience.
Severus mentally sneered at whatever the hell it was before assuring himself that he was only going up to the Hospital Wing to see if Albus needed his help.
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Hermione, Ron, and Snape tried to open the door to the Hospital Wing at the precise same time.
Snape sneered, "Five points from Gryffindor for being rude to a professor, Weasley!" he snapped to Ron, who flushed angrily.
"We just wanted to see Harry, Professor..." Hermione began but was cut of by Snape.
"Five points from Gryffindor for interrupting a professor, Granger now move!" Snape growled as he opened the door to the Hosptial Wing.
"That greasy git!" Ron hissed to Hermione as Snape marched in. "We just wanted to see Harry!"
"And that'll be twenty for insulting a professor, Weasley..." they heard Snape call from the other room.
Ron growled and hurried in along with Hermione.
They entered to see Professor Dumbledore and Snape already having a rather heated discussion in the corner of the room. Remus was in a chair by an occupied bed, glaring at the two with utmost fury.
Hermione noticed a great black dog in a chair by Remus's. She gasped and elbowed Ron before gesturing wildly at the dog.
"Snuffles?" Hermione whispered questioningly as she stared at the dog.
Remus nodded to her and said quietly, "Correct again, Miss Granger...."
Ron and Hermione gasped.
"But I thought you were-" Ron began but was cut off as Hermione elbowed him sharply in the ribs.
"We were just wondering where Harry was, sir…" Hermione said quietly to Remus.
The werewolf looked immediately saddened. "I'm afraid there was an accident last night…." He muttered quietly.
Hermione and Ron exchanged concerned looks before Hermione spoke up, "Is he okay?"
"What happened?" Ron asked.
"Harry wondered off into the Forbidden Forest on Saturday night……Professor Snape had apparently said something that upset him and he had gone out to clear his mind and think…." Remus began mournfully.
Hermione gasped again, "But….Saturday was the full moon…..did he…I mean…did you…"
Remus mentally praised Hermione for her brilliance but outwardly, he shook his head, "No, I was in the Shrieking Shack…but he went out into the Forbidden Forest…"
Remus broke off and looked at his hands for good effect.
"What happened?" Hermione whispered fearfully. Ron gulped.
Remus sniffed and said quietly, "We found his body yesterday…..he was attacked by something…a beast of some sort….Dumbledore thinks it was a panther…"
"W-What do you mean you found his body?!" Hermione exclaimed and Remus put a hand on her shoulder.
"Calm down, Hermione……he is in a better place…" Remus whispered brokenly.
"W-What!!!!" Hermione screeched and Ron paled. "What do you mean! What are you talking about! He can't be dead, he just CAN'T!!!" Hermione screamed as she sank to the ground, sobbing.
Ron was as white as a sheet as he also sank to the floor, putting his arms around Hermione almost absently. "No…." he whispered. "Not Harry……he..he always survives…..he survives everything!!! He's survived You-Know-Who and he dies because a bloody panther attacked him?!" Ron yelled. "Well I won't believe it!! There's no way that Harry could die! No way! I don't believe you!" the furious redhead roared before he got up and flew out of the Hospital Wing.
Hermione was left trembling on the ground alone. She looked up at Remus, who was looking very pale. "It…it's not true is it??" she whispered, tears coursing down her cheeks.
"I'm afraid so, Miss Granger…" Remus said quietly. Hermione gasped audibly before looking at the occupied bed suspiciously.
"Then who is that, professor?" she asked quietly as she stared at the only visible part of the person in the bed, which was his raven black hair.
"He is a transfer student from a school in China…" Remus told her. "His school closed down and the orphanage he was staying at closed down also, so his father thought he could stay here with us until he graduates."
Hermione still looked suspicious. She wiped away her tears stubbornly and stared at the boy in the bed, "If he has a father then why was he in an orphanage?"
Remus shifted, "Because his father just now found out about his existence….he never knew his father until now…"
Hermione narrowed her eyes, all traces of sadness completely gone as she looked at the boy in the bed with renewed hope.
"And who might his father be, exactly?" she asked.
"Take a look for yourself and see if you can recognize him, Hermione…" Remus sounded almost cheerful now as he took the blankets off the sleeping boy.
Hermione gasped as she immediately recognized the sharp features and slanted eyes. The boy looked almost exactly like her Potion's Professor. But wait a minute…. Hermione's brain seemed to kick into gear as she stared at the boy. Snape doesn't have a son! Why is Remus so cheerful?
Remus watched as the girl thought and could almost hear the gears turning in her head.
Hermione's head shot up. Snape does have a son!! Harry! Harry is Snape's son, he told her and Ron that a couple days ago.
So that means…..
"Is this Harry?!" she whispered, her voice laced with barely contained excitement.
Remus smiled, "Fifteen points to Gryffindor, Miss Granger…..and to answer your quiestion…..well…" he paused and winked at her. "Let's just say his name is Darian now…. Darian Snape!"
Hermione glowed as she said excitedly, "Also known as Harry Potter, huh?" She gave a squeal and threw her arms around the sleeping boy.
"Calm down, Miss Granger, you'll wake him…" Remus said and the girl recoiled, blushing.
"So…..why did you tell Ron and I that Harry was dead? Why!" she said, her tone was slightly angry.
Remus sighed, "Hermione, the charm that was cast on Harry to hide his appearance is wearing off…..so-"
"So what you just told me is a cover up story for him! And Darian Snape is his new name!" Hermione finished in an awed voice.
"Yes….but you cannot tell anyone about Darian's true identity Hermione…" Remus said urgently. "He and Severus could be in grave danger if anyone were to know that Harry Potter is the son of a supposed Death Eater…"
Hermione nodded, "I won't but why didn't you just tell Ron and I? Harry already told us who his true father is so you know that we'd have figured it out…"
"Because when Dumbledore announces Harry's death tomorrow, your reactions need to be realistic..." Remus told her. "We were going to tell you after Harry's death was announced so it would seem more realistic…."
"So you are going to tell everyone that Harry was killed by a panther on Saturday?" Hermione's eyes widened. "But that would cause a worldwide panic!"
Remus nodded, looking slightly troubled.
"But won't it seem suspicious if Darian Snape were to show up as soon as Harry Potter dies? And what about his body at his funeral? What are you going to do about that?" Hermione asked all in one breath.
"We are going to be announcing Darian Snape tonight after dinner and he is going to be sorted in front of everyone…" Remus paused. "And about Harry's body….what we are going to do is we are going to feed one of Hagrid's flobberworms some Polyjuice Potion with one of Harry's hairs in it so it will look like Harry and it will have his DNA…"
"But what about when the potion wears off?" Hermione asked, looking very interested in the plan.
"Did Harry ever tell you that when he dies he wants his body to be cremated?" Remus asked her. Hermione shrugged, "He may have mentioned it once or twice…."
"Yes, well he wants to be cremated and then he wants his ashes to be released into the ocean…" Remus trailed off.
"So that is what you are going to do?" Hermione asked. "You are going to cremate his supposed body and throw the ashes into the ocean?"
Remus nodded, "That way, no one will ever find them and if anyone does manager to find them, then it will have his DNA in the ashes due to the Polyjuice Potion…"
Hermione's eyes widened again, "Brilliant…." She breathed. "How does Dumbledore come up with these things?!" she sounded totally awed.
A chuckle was heard from the other end of the room and Hermione turned to see Dumbledore chuckled at her most recent question.
"Oh, Miss Granger, I am nothing special!" Dumbledore told her, his blue eyes twinkling.
"What is wrong with Harry, sir? Why is he unconcious?" Hermione asked as she looked at the unfamiliar face in concern.
"He simply had a rather strong bout of accidental magic, Miss Granger, nothing to worry about…" Dumbledore assured her.
Remus nodded, "Yes and he accidentally hit the headmaster with the 'Stupefy' spell……."
He grimaced, "Albus just woke up before you, Ron, and Severus came in…"
Hermione's hands flew up to her mouth, "Are you okay, sir?" she asked Dumbledore, who smiled.
"Quite alright, Miss Granger, even the most powerful of wizards can loose control of their magic at times…" Dumbledore said pleasantly.
"As much as I hate to break this conversation up but shouldn't we wake Potter up if he is to be announced at dinner?" Snape asked quietly, his black eyes glued to Harry's pale form.
Dumbledore nodded, "And you need to get back to the common room, Miss Granger, I daresay Mr. Weasley would also like to know about Harry's new identity….but you mustn't forget, you and Mr. Weasley need to act as though Harry is really dead when it is announced tomorrow…"
Hermione nodded before glancing at Harry's sleeping form. "Please tell him Ron and I stopped by…."
"Will do, Hermione…" Remus told her and the girl nodded.
Hermione walked over to the door before stopping and glancing at her teachers curiously.
"I thought we told you to leave, Miss Granger…" Snape said curtly.
Hermione nodded before saying quietly, "I was just wondering if you could tell me why Harry did accidental magic…..usually it only happens when he's really mad about something…"
"Now that is none of your business Miss Granger so leave before I take away half of Gryffindor's House Points!" Snape snapped to her but she didn't move. She was instead looking at Dumbledore and Remus.
"It is not our story to tell Miss Granger…." Dumbledore said, looking saddened. Remus glared at him.
Hermione hesitated before nodding and hurrying out of the Hospital Wing to tell Ron the news about their best friend…..
() Okay, hope you liked it…..
How would you guys think of HG/HP? My other story is HP/GW and RW/HG so I'd like to make this one a HG/HP. It will not be a big thing and Ron will be paired up with someone to if you'd like.
I really hope no one would be to awfully disappointed because like I said, it will not be a real big, huge thing.
If anyone has an idea of who Ron should be with then please tell……..
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Well on with the chapter and please read the A/N at the end of the chapter.
Chapter nine- Accidental Magic
"That did not go well....." Albus said quietly as he stared at the still opened door of the Hospital Wing.
"Well I should say so!" Remus exclaimed and stood up. "Why didn't you tell Sirius or I about Harry's abuse if you knew of it so much!" he snapped. "I know you what you told Severus! You told him all about what Harry's family did to him! And how, exactly did you know all of it!"
Dumbledore sighed, "I did not know anything about Harry's abuse until you told me at the Welcoming Feast........ I needed to know about some of his injuries, so I used a useful magic known as Occlumency to find out..."
"But, why!!!" Remus all but yelled. "Why did you invade Harry's privacy like that?! How could you betray his trust!"
"I did not betray his trust..." Dumbledore said calmly. "It was mandatory that I knew some of the abuse he has suffered in order to do a trial..... Trust me, Remus, I do not know of the full extent of Harry's injuries.....I have suspicions but I was not as selfish as to try to uncover his most hidden memories of his abuse..."
"So, you showed some ministry idiot some of his memories?! Do you want it to be all over the Daily Prophet!! What's wrong with you!" Remus roared furiously. '
"No, I did not show anyone Harry's memories. I was merely questioned under veritaserum and I needed to actually see the abuse in order to report it...." Dumbledore said though it was obvious that he was looking quite guilty. "I did not mean for it to go like this..... I needed to do something and I will NOT see Harry go back to those..........people!" Dumbledore spat the last word like a swear word and Remus had to gawk at the absolute fury in the old man's voice.
"He is going to be furious at you when he finds out...." Remus's voice was quiet now, Harry was starting to stir. The boy slowly sat up and yawned.
"Finds out what?" Harry asked as he looked at them through sleepy eyes. "What would I be furious about?"
Remus glared at Dumbledore for a moment.
Dumbledore sighed and sat down beside Harry, taking the boy's hand. "Harry, I want you to know that I did what I did for your own good..."
Harry blinked in confusion and turned to Remus, "What is he talking about?"
The werewolf sighed and said quietly, "Albus used Occlumency to see the abuse from your family himself so he could report it..."
Harry's eyes widened, "What?!" he exclaimed, glancing at Dumbledore, who had the grace to look quite ashamed.
"He informed Severus about it just a couple minutes ago..."
"You WHAT!!!" Harry yelled at the old man. "You told....you told HIM!! Why!!! I trusted you!!!! I trusted you, how could you do this to me!!!"
"Harry, he is your father, he has a right to know....."
"Like hell he does! He has a right to know if I want him to know!!! It was MY fucking choice to tell him, not yours!" Harry screamed. "You always take control of my life!! I thought you would have stopped after what happened last year!!"
"Harry..."
"Don't talk to me!!! Don't even look at me! I hate you!!! I HATE YOU!!!" Harry screamed at the top of his lungs and the lights began to flicker.
"Harry you need to calm down!" Dumbledore told him sternly. Harry sent him a glare worthy of the Snape name and the bottle that held a healing potion exploded, shards of glass flying every which way.
"Harry!" it was Remus who spoke this time, "Calm down! You need to calm down and take a couple of deep breaths....." He put a hand on Harry's shoulder.
"Leave me alone!" Harry yelled, his emerald eyes were now amber as the room began to quiver violently. Madame Pomfrey shrieked and covered her head as several potions began to explode from one of the shelves.
"Harry!" Dumbledore yelled, "Calm down! You'll destroy the school!"
Harry either hadn't heard him or was ignoring him as he didn't make any attempt to keep his sensitive temper under control.
He had tried so hard to prevent anyone from knowing about his beatings, especially from Snape but the old man just had to go and tell the bastard, everything he had worked for had been for nothing, Snape knew anyway......
He had put glamour on himself a long time ago and had been trying to suppress a wince of pain whenever someone would touch him so they wouldn't suspect. When Remus, Hermione, and Ron had found out, he had completely freaked out, especially when Madame Pomfrey and Dumbledore were added to the list of people that knew about the secret he had been trying so hard to protect.
But he had felt the least bit of comfort when he had thought that they wouldn't tell anyone, and would keep it a secret. But of course nothing ever goes right for him, the headmaster had alerted the authorities and he was now sentenced to a trial.
Of course, even then he had still felt the least bit of comfort that perhaps his secret would still remain safe, since it was to be a private trial. Harry knew that when Dumbledore had broken the glamour charms that his mother had put on him, that the charms that Harry had put on himself to hide the abuse would be broken too.
Which was why he had been so glad to have on long sleeves and pants. He had tried desperately to hide the bruise on his cheek by curtaining his face with his hair, much like Snape did. Luckily, no one had noticed and once again, Harry felt as if his secret was safe.
But now Snape knew, along with Sirius. This wouldn't have bothered Harry as much as it did if it hadn't been for the fact that Dumbledore had told Snape some details of his abuse.....
He was snapped out of his mental ranting by Remus, who yelled, "We need to stun him! It's the only way, he's out of control!"
Harry blinked and took in his surroundings, feeling slightly confused about all the broken glass that littered the floor. He glanced around to see Albus Dumbledore, laying stunned on the floor.
'Did I do that?' he asked himself. He could feel power surging through him. Power that he had never felt before in his whole life. It felt so........warm and strong as if it were a part of him. He was about to try and get it under control when he heard two voices (a male and a female) shout faintly, "Stupefy!" before everything went black.
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Hermione glanced anxiously at Ron, who was sitting next to her, looking into the fire with a pensive look on his face..........a rather rare sight....
"I just don't know where he could be, Hermione......." the boy whispered quietly. "I haven't seen him since he went to meet Dumbledore on Saturday...."
The girl sniffed and stared into the flames almost hypnotically, she suddenly stood up.
"I am going to find him!" she declared and marched toward the portrait.
"Wait a minute, Hermione, you don't even know where to start!" Ron began but Hermione cut him off. "What is the one place that he is always in if we can never find him?"
The redhead blinked awkwardly, "Either Dumbledore's office or the Hospital Wing....Hey wait for me!"
He jumped up after the bushy headed girl and hurried after her.
"Let's check in the Hospital Wing first...it's closer..." Hermione said as they hurried up the many flights of stairs.
The two teenagers started slightly when a sharp quiver rumbled through the entire castle, shaking the walls.
Hermione grabbed onto the railing and held on as the stairs shook slightly along with the rest of the castle. "What was that?" she whispered to Ron, who was also gripping the railing tightly.
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Severus sat slumped on a cushioned chair, his head in his hands as he thought about Potter........his son.......
He shivered at the thought.
He had always hated the boy and yet he felt a slight protectiveness come over him whenever he thought about someone hurting him. He always had felt protective over his most hated student for some odd reason.
Well maybe it was because the boy was Lily's son and he had loved Lily more then anything in the world when she had been alive.
He had always hated seeing the boy, not only because he looked so much like James Potter but also because of those haunting, green eyes.....Lily's eyes.....the one's that had stared up at him blankly, with no life at all when he had seen her at her and Potter's funeral.
When he had first laid eyes on the boy he had thought nothing of him, except hatred that is. But when he had first actually looked at the boy during the first potion lesson, he had been reduced to a blank upon seeing those same green eyes filled with life once again.
Maybe it wouldn't be so bad if those green eyes hadn't been the same ones that Severus had looked into with love so much when he had been in school, the same one's that was always filled with happiness and love whenever they were directed at him.
The same one's that he would simply sit there and get lost in them for what seemed like hours.
But those days were gone....it was different, so much different. The eyes, though the same color as his late beloved's eyes, were so much different. For one thing, they reflected hatred and disgust whenever directed at him and Severus had been reduced to a blank once again when he had first seen those green eyes filled with absolute loathing at him. He had felt panic and slight fear when he had seen the loathing within those eyes. And what had he done? He had reacted negatively, almost defensively and treated Potter as if he were a piece of rat's dung....
But those eyes didn't belong to her....didn't belong Lily Evans.....who he had loved. Lily Evans.....who had loved him. Lily Evans....who had been the most compassionate and kindest person in the world. Lily Evans......who had always been there for him.....
No, those eyes belonged to Harry Potter.......who he hated. Harry Potter.....who hated him. Harry Potter......who was a spoiled, pampered brat from day one. Harry Potter........who was.....abused..... Harry Potter.......who he had misjudged severely. Harry Potter.......who was his son....
His son.
Not James Potter's son.
His son.......his and Lily's son....
Severus thought about what he had just witnessed a couple moments ago. Harry Potter...laying in the Hospital Wing......weazing and trembling in pain......beaten.....abused........broken........
Potter had been abused all this time, and Severus had never even recognized the symptoms....
'I'm a bloody fool.......' he thought to himself. 'I should have recognized them instantly.....'
He thought back on the last five years the boy had been at Hogwarts. He was always quiet, he hated attention, and he really wasn't one for expressing his emotions....
Why didn't Severus recognize that the boy was being abused? Why! It was his job, damn it!
No.
He had been to busy insulting and humiliating the Boy-Who-Lived, James Potter's son, the Gryffindor Golden Boy, the star seeker, Albus's favorite student.....
Severus scowled irritably as he poured himself a drink and downed the alcohol in one gulp before pouring another.
Why hadn't he ever referred to the boy as 'Harry'? Now that he actually thought about it, he always thought of the boy as 'Potter' or 'James Potter's son' or 'Boy-Who-Lived', the Golden Boy, Albus Dumbledore's favorite student!
Not once in the whole time Severus had known the boy had he ever thought of him as 'Harry'........
Severus made to down the second glass when the castle suddenly shook with such force that he dropped the glass, which shattered on the floor.
"What the...." he began before realization dawned on him.
'Potter....!' he thought to himself before hurrying out of the dungeons and back up to the Hospital Wing.
'Why am I doing this again?' he asked himself as he headed up the many flights of stairs. 'Because he's your son and he needs you...' a small voice inside his head told him. Severus assumed it to be the 'angel version of himself'. Either that or it was his conscience.
Severus mentally sneered at whatever the hell it was before assuring himself that he was only going up to the Hospital Wing to see if Albus needed his help.
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Hermione, Ron, and Snape tried to open the door to the Hospital Wing at the precise same time.
Snape sneered, "Five points from Gryffindor for being rude to a professor, Weasley!" he snapped to Ron, who flushed angrily.
"We just wanted to see Harry, Professor..." Hermione began but was cut of by Snape.
"Five points from Gryffindor for interrupting a professor, Granger now move!" Snape growled as he opened the door to the Hosptial Wing.
"That greasy git!" Ron hissed to Hermione as Snape marched in. "We just wanted to see Harry!"
"And that'll be twenty for insulting a professor, Weasley..." they heard Snape call from the other room.
Ron growled and hurried in along with Hermione.
They entered to see Professor Dumbledore and Snape already having a rather heated discussion in the corner of the room. Remus was in a chair by an occupied bed, glaring at the two with utmost fury.
Hermione noticed a great black dog in a chair by Remus's. She gasped and elbowed Ron before gesturing wildly at the dog.
"Snuffles?" Hermione whispered questioningly as she stared at the dog.
Remus nodded to her and said quietly, "Correct again, Miss Granger...."
Ron and Hermione gasped.
"But I thought you were-" Ron began but was cut off as Hermione elbowed him sharply in the ribs.
"We were just wondering where Harry was, sir…" Hermione said quietly to Remus.
The werewolf looked immediately saddened. "I'm afraid there was an accident last night…." He muttered quietly.
Hermione and Ron exchanged concerned looks before Hermione spoke up, "Is he okay?"
"What happened?" Ron asked.
"Harry wondered off into the Forbidden Forest on Saturday night……Professor Snape had apparently said something that upset him and he had gone out to clear his mind and think…." Remus began mournfully.
Hermione gasped again, "But….Saturday was the full moon…..did he…I mean…did you…"
Remus mentally praised Hermione for her brilliance but outwardly, he shook his head, "No, I was in the Shrieking Shack…but he went out into the Forbidden Forest…"
Remus broke off and looked at his hands for good effect.
"What happened?" Hermione whispered fearfully. Ron gulped.
Remus sniffed and said quietly, "We found his body yesterday…..he was attacked by something…a beast of some sort….Dumbledore thinks it was a panther…"
"W-What do you mean you found his body?!" Hermione exclaimed and Remus put a hand on her shoulder.
"Calm down, Hermione……he is in a better place…" Remus whispered brokenly.
"W-What!!!!" Hermione screeched and Ron paled. "What do you mean! What are you talking about! He can't be dead, he just CAN'T!!!" Hermione screamed as she sank to the ground, sobbing.
Ron was as white as a sheet as he also sank to the floor, putting his arms around Hermione almost absently. "No…." he whispered. "Not Harry……he..he always survives…..he survives everything!!! He's survived You-Know-Who and he dies because a bloody panther attacked him?!" Ron yelled. "Well I won't believe it!! There's no way that Harry could die! No way! I don't believe you!" the furious redhead roared before he got up and flew out of the Hospital Wing.
Hermione was left trembling on the ground alone. She looked up at Remus, who was looking very pale. "It…it's not true is it??" she whispered, tears coursing down her cheeks.
"I'm afraid so, Miss Granger…" Remus said quietly. Hermione gasped audibly before looking at the occupied bed suspiciously.
"Then who is that, professor?" she asked quietly as she stared at the only visible part of the person in the bed, which was his raven black hair.
"He is a transfer student from a school in China…" Remus told her. "His school closed down and the orphanage he was staying at closed down also, so his father thought he could stay here with us until he graduates."
Hermione still looked suspicious. She wiped away her tears stubbornly and stared at the boy in the bed, "If he has a father then why was he in an orphanage?"
Remus shifted, "Because his father just now found out about his existence….he never knew his father until now…"
Hermione narrowed her eyes, all traces of sadness completely gone as she looked at the boy in the bed with renewed hope.
"And who might his father be, exactly?" she asked.
"Take a look for yourself and see if you can recognize him, Hermione…" Remus sounded almost cheerful now as he took the blankets off the sleeping boy.
Hermione gasped as she immediately recognized the sharp features and slanted eyes. The boy looked almost exactly like her Potion's Professor. But wait a minute…. Hermione's brain seemed to kick into gear as she stared at the boy. Snape doesn't have a son! Why is Remus so cheerful?
Remus watched as the girl thought and could almost hear the gears turning in her head.
Hermione's head shot up. Snape does have a son!! Harry! Harry is Snape's son, he told her and Ron that a couple days ago.
So that means…..
"Is this Harry?!" she whispered, her voice laced with barely contained excitement.
Remus smiled, "Fifteen points to Gryffindor, Miss Granger…..and to answer your quiestion…..well…" he paused and winked at her. "Let's just say his name is Darian now…. Darian Snape!"
Hermione glowed as she said excitedly, "Also known as Harry Potter, huh?" She gave a squeal and threw her arms around the sleeping boy.
"Calm down, Miss Granger, you'll wake him…" Remus said and the girl recoiled, blushing.
"So…..why did you tell Ron and I that Harry was dead? Why!" she said, her tone was slightly angry.
Remus sighed, "Hermione, the charm that was cast on Harry to hide his appearance is wearing off…..so-"
"So what you just told me is a cover up story for him! And Darian Snape is his new name!" Hermione finished in an awed voice.
"Yes….but you cannot tell anyone about Darian's true identity Hermione…" Remus said urgently. "He and Severus could be in grave danger if anyone were to know that Harry Potter is the son of a supposed Death Eater…"
Hermione nodded, "I won't but why didn't you just tell Ron and I? Harry already told us who his true father is so you know that we'd have figured it out…"
"Because when Dumbledore announces Harry's death tomorrow, your reactions need to be realistic..." Remus told her. "We were going to tell you after Harry's death was announced so it would seem more realistic…."
"So you are going to tell everyone that Harry was killed by a panther on Saturday?" Hermione's eyes widened. "But that would cause a worldwide panic!"
Remus nodded, looking slightly troubled.
"But won't it seem suspicious if Darian Snape were to show up as soon as Harry Potter dies? And what about his body at his funeral? What are you going to do about that?" Hermione asked all in one breath.
"We are going to be announcing Darian Snape tonight after dinner and he is going to be sorted in front of everyone…" Remus paused. "And about Harry's body….what we are going to do is we are going to feed one of Hagrid's flobberworms some Polyjuice Potion with one of Harry's hairs in it so it will look like Harry and it will have his DNA…"
"But what about when the potion wears off?" Hermione asked, looking very interested in the plan.
"Did Harry ever tell you that when he dies he wants his body to be cremated?" Remus asked her. Hermione shrugged, "He may have mentioned it once or twice…."
"Yes, well he wants to be cremated and then he wants his ashes to be released into the ocean…" Remus trailed off.
"So that is what you are going to do?" Hermione asked. "You are going to cremate his supposed body and throw the ashes into the ocean?"
Remus nodded, "That way, no one will ever find them and if anyone does manager to find them, then it will have his DNA in the ashes due to the Polyjuice Potion…"
Hermione's eyes widened again, "Brilliant…." She breathed. "How does Dumbledore come up with these things?!" she sounded totally awed.
A chuckle was heard from the other end of the room and Hermione turned to see Dumbledore chuckled at her most recent question.
"Oh, Miss Granger, I am nothing special!" Dumbledore told her, his blue eyes twinkling.
"What is wrong with Harry, sir? Why is he unconcious?" Hermione asked as she looked at the unfamiliar face in concern.
"He simply had a rather strong bout of accidental magic, Miss Granger, nothing to worry about…" Dumbledore assured her.
Remus nodded, "Yes and he accidentally hit the headmaster with the 'Stupefy' spell……."
He grimaced, "Albus just woke up before you, Ron, and Severus came in…"
Hermione's hands flew up to her mouth, "Are you okay, sir?" she asked Dumbledore, who smiled.
"Quite alright, Miss Granger, even the most powerful of wizards can loose control of their magic at times…" Dumbledore said pleasantly.
"As much as I hate to break this conversation up but shouldn't we wake Potter up if he is to be announced at dinner?" Snape asked quietly, his black eyes glued to Harry's pale form.
Dumbledore nodded, "And you need to get back to the common room, Miss Granger, I daresay Mr. Weasley would also like to know about Harry's new identity….but you mustn't forget, you and Mr. Weasley need to act as though Harry is really dead when it is announced tomorrow…"
Hermione nodded before glancing at Harry's sleeping form. "Please tell him Ron and I stopped by…."
"Will do, Hermione…" Remus told her and the girl nodded.
Hermione walked over to the door before stopping and glancing at her teachers curiously.
"I thought we told you to leave, Miss Granger…" Snape said curtly.
Hermione nodded before saying quietly, "I was just wondering if you could tell me why Harry did accidental magic…..usually it only happens when he's really mad about something…"
"Now that is none of your business Miss Granger so leave before I take away half of Gryffindor's House Points!" Snape snapped to her but she didn't move. She was instead looking at Dumbledore and Remus.
"It is not our story to tell Miss Granger…." Dumbledore said, looking saddened. Remus glared at him.
Hermione hesitated before nodding and hurrying out of the Hospital Wing to tell Ron the news about their best friend…..
() Okay, hope you liked it…..
How would you guys think of HG/HP? My other story is HP/GW and RW/HG so I'd like to make this one a HG/HP. It will not be a big thing and Ron will be paired up with someone to if you'd like.
I really hope no one would be to awfully disappointed because like I said, it will not be a real big, huge thing.
If anyone has an idea of who Ron should be with then please tell……..
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