Chapter 5

Harry was outside, doing one of his many chores for the day, the pig

helping him pick up the food after smelling it. As he did pick them up,

he noticed how dirty he really was, looking over at the river, Harry nodded

his head and made his way in. Swimming happily, getting the dirt off the

best he could, before he started floating blissfully, appreciating moments

like this, for he never got them very often.

"It looks like rain!" said Albus Dumbledore who was better known as Da

Vinci as he was a bastard child, yet he was very famous.

Harry opened his eyes and screamed, causing the old man to fall over

from where he was standing with small boats on his feet.

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"Dumbledore are you alright?" asked Severus running down; Severus was

one of the few who were allowed to use the name.

"I should leave walking on water for the son of god" replied Dumbledore

with a smile.

"Unfortunately I tripped over an angel" said Dumbledore.

"Harry!" said Severus looking delighted to have met the boy once more.

"Your highness! Oh!" said Harry falling into the water as he was

preparing to show his respects to the man.

"Be careful it's slippery right there" said Harry concerned for the man

he had just met.

"Here, please. Allow me" said Severus placing his cloak around the young

man.

"Oh! Thank you" said Harry as he walked onto the land and they got themselves dry.

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"Where are your attendants?" he asked curiously.

"I've decided to give them the day off" said Severus.

"Day off?" asked Harry laughing softly.

"Don't you tire of people waiting on you hand and foot all the time"

Asked Harry curiously.

"Yes but…they're servants. Its what they do" said Severus softly.

"I wish I could dismiss mine as easily as you do yours" said Harry

referring to the Dursley's in a completely different manner. He felt

awful for lying to the man, but shrugged it off; the man probably would

not see him again after today.

He dreaded to think what would happen if the Prince ever found out he

was a servant, he would probably be killed or worse shipped off to the

America's.

He didn't think too much on it, if it happened it happened there was

nothing he could do. Plus it meant getting away from the Dursley's

perhaps it would not be so bad.

"I must be going" said Harry; he didn't want to lie to the man any more

than he already had. The thought of going to prison made him get the

courage to leave, he liked Severus for he was the first person to treat him

nice and properly the way his parents had before they died.

"You're angry with me" said Severus as observant as always.

"No" said Harry still moving away, wanting to be away from the man as

possible.

"Admit it" said Severus.

"Well, yes, if you must know" said Harry getting worked up now.

"Why?" asked Severus curiously.

"Because you are trying to bait me with your snobbery" said Harry,

calming himself down.

"I'm afraid, sir, you are a walking contradiction… and I find that

rather fascinating" said Severus.

"Me?" asked a shocked Harry, he could hardly believe what the Prince had

said to him.

"Yes, you" said Severus nearly smiling.

"You sprout the ideas of a Utopian society, yet you live the life of a

gentleman" said Severus.

"You own all the land there is, yet you take no pride in working it, is

that not also a contradiction?" asked Harry nearly smirking himself,

take that your highness he thought.

"First I'm arrogant, now I have no pride. However do I manage that?"

asked Severus his eyes alight with humour.

"You have everything and still the world holds no joy. Yet you have made

fun of those who would see it for its possibilities" said Harry seriously.

"How do you do that?" asked Severus frowning.

"Do what?" asked Harry once again confused; Severus was such a mystery to him.

"Live each day with this kind of passion? Don't you find it exhausting?"

asked Severus.

"Only when I'm around you" said Harry it was a double meaning. He lived

each day, his thoughts kept just thoughts. Around Severus he let them

loose, because he could not hold his tongue.

"Why do you like to irritate me so?" asked Harry getting irritated.

"Why do you rise to the occasion?" replied Severus smoothly, thinking

'You look beautiful when you are angry, your cheeks going a beautiful red colour.'

Harry could not help it, he laughed heartily. Severus joined in not long

after, Severus thought Harry was amazing, he was curious to know Harry

more, and possibly wanted him by his side.

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Poppy looked around the woods, the basket of food in her hand

"HARRY!" she called out in a concerned voice.

"Er…forgive me, your highness, I've lost track of the hour," said Harry

giving back the cloak to its rightful owner. He just imagined the fit

the Dursley's would have if he came back with the Prince's cloak in his hand.

"But the wind!" said Dumbledore, the wind had finally sped up and the

kite would now be able to fly.

"I'm sorry I really must go" said Harry regretfully, thinking 'I will

remember this afternoon always'.

"I'm playing tennis tomorrow! Will you come?" shouted Severus at Harry's

retreating back.

Harry heard of course, but didn't make any indication he had heard, he

knew the Dursley's were going. He would never be able to go, not even if

the Dursley's didn't go, he had chores. If he didn't finish them, he knew

what would happen, a whipping and he didn't want that.

"Why does he keep running of like that?" asked Severus confused, if it

was a woman doing it then perhaps he would have understood. But a man?

There was a reason he liked his own gender because he understood them.

However, it was turning out not to be the case, because he didn't understand Harry at all.