Harry sighed in relief as he saw uncle Vernon's car pull out of the driveway and drive far away.

Harry was just chatting to Draco Malfoy, his supposed arch-enemy. At first, when Draco had just registered there, (and he was one of the first) both of them had been anonymous. Slowly they became friends and when Hermione offered that the Admins gave their identities so that anyone can contact them by owl.

When Harry said, who he was SlythDragon had logged off straight away, but in a few days he returned. He had been rather quiet and Harry, not knowing who he was, tried his best to cheer him up.

Then Draco told him who he was and Harry had been rather annoyed until Hermione pointed out how well they had done, before they knew each other's identities.

The uncomfortable silence and the insults soon turned into teasing and laughter.

Writing a quick "Be back soon. Getting some water." he went to the kitchen.

As he headed upstairs to his 'room' he saw someone already there.

Dudley Dursley stood, mouth agape, in front of Harry's computer. Harry's eyes slid from Dudley's fat back to the screen, where the chat was still open and by the look of quick sentences appearing Hermione and Draco were arguing.

"Dudley? What are you doing here?" asked Harry.

"What's that?" Dudley asked, pointing at the screen.

"That's a computer," said Harry with raised eyebrows.

Dudley quickly went red, just like Vernon did at such times.

"I meant the chat!"

"Well, there you go. You knew all along what it was."

Dudley let out a frustrated groan. Then he quieted, looking confused, as if forgotten about what was he so frustrated about.

"Your lot has internet?"

"Didn't have before, now it does."

With a weird look, Dudley left, slamming the door closed. Harry jumped a bit, but then went and sat down.

Admin Emerald is back.

SlythDragon: Shut up you!

SlythDragon: Oh hey, Emy.

Emerald: Hat is going on here?

Emerald: What*

Emerald: Don't call me Emy!

SlythDragon: :P

Mioneclaw: Nothing really, Emerald, just a small disagreement.

Emerald: A small disagreement...

Mioneclaw: Of course...just tiny...

SlythDragon: Certainly. You know how much I love Mione, don't you Em?

Emerald: Finally you two see the love you have for each other!

There was a small pause and no one was writing. Then at the same time:

Mioneclaw: ADMINISTRATOR EMERALD HOW DARE YOU!

SlythDragon: WHAT?! I AM GONNA KILL YOU! That was a joke!

Emerald is about to die out of laughter.

Harry really barely managed to write out the last sentence as he was truly laughing so hard that he was almost on the floor.

Suddenly the door opened and Dudley peeked in.

"What's so funny?"

Harry still laughing, pointed at the screen. Dudley raised his eyebrows.

"So? What's so funny?" he repeated as Harry was beginning to calm down.

"It's just," Harry wiped a tear from his eye. "That these two are actually enemies and used to hate each other."

Dudley obviously not understanding, left the room, looking at Harry as if he was a noseless donkey in a neon green shirt or something. (A/N Please don't try to imagine it. It gave me bad mental images and a headache. And I feel sick.)

Mioneclaw: Honestly Emerald that was not funny! I almost got a heart attack you silly git!

SlythDragon is looking forward for Hogwarts so he can get revenge on Admin Emerald.

Soon Harry knew that that Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia would be back and he'd better start dinner. After getting two 'Good lukcs' from the other two, he put his status to 'Away' and went downstairs.

It would soon be time to leave for Hogwarts. It was exactly what Harry was thinking about, during cooking.

What would happen? Maybe there would be a chance of getting internet to Hogwarts? Would they have to keep up appearances? Or maybe they could be free? No. Probably not with Dumbledore there.

Dumbledore. Harry felt surges of hatred for the man. As some dishes began to rattle, Harry calmed himself. No need to think about Dumbledore.

Yet his thoughts turned to the man anyway. He had said that the Death Eater marks were unremovable, but that was far from the truth. All it needed was a specific rune, a potion and a blood crystal.

If Dumbledore wasn't removing the mark from Snape, then did it mean that Snape was a true Death Eater? But then why did Dumbledore trust him so much then?

And there was Snape, the man of mystery. Harry was sure that there was something more than anyone was letting on and Hermione agreed, which had to mean something.

Come to think of it, Salazar and Snape had similar ways of behaving.

But Salazar had said that he lived on Spinners End. Snape living in a muggle neighbourhood? Yeah...and he, Harry, was a rainbow-colored (coloured) winged unicorn.

Harry snorted at the thought.

Now that he was thinking about people and the UH, his thoughts wandered to Ron. The other boy was behaving truly strangely. As if he was another person. Harry shook his head to clear it. He would leave that for another time, he thought as he flipped the pancakes over.

When Harry was finally released to go to his room it was already very late. During his evening chores Harry had gotten a strange idea.

Tired, but determined he opened the book Hermione had given him for Christmas on runes.

With a smirk he began to compose a letter.

"Go on, Hedwig," he said gently to his beloved owl. "I'll be fine. Just get the letter to Mione. I promise that if anything happens I will write in the computer or send Galaxy with a message."

Galaxy was a raven Harry had found on the streets, injured. For the 4 long weeks, the raven grew close and didn't want to leave Harry, so Harry kept him.

The name was just a temporary one. Harry wanted some times to make sure that the raven would stay and he needed a good name (A/N Please offer any?).

Deciding to throw a quick look at UH before he went to sleep. He logged on, but he expected it to be empty.

Admin Emerald had joined the chat.

Salazar: Good evening, Emerald.

Emerald: Hello Salazar. You are not asleep?

Salazar: No. I see that you aren't either.

Harry looked over his shoulder as the raven landed on his bedpost and sat completely still, except for his head that moved and followed the fly that was zooming lazily around the room. The raven never sat on Harry's hand nor shoulder. He preferred to be a bit further from contact.

Looking back he saw that Salazar had written.

Salazar: May I ask why are you not asleep yet?

Emerald: I just got my chores done, plus I am rather excited.

Suddenly there was a rather loud crash and Harry looked back, only to see the raven having crashed into a lamp, that when falling over spilled some books. Shaking his head Harry wrote 'Be right back' and went to "Galaxy's" rescue.

Emerald: Sorry Salazar, there was a small accident here.

Salazar: I see. What are you excited about?

Emerald: I got permission from my aunt to go outside tomorrow. I was thinking of visiting the park.

Salazar: What about Dumbledore?

Emerald: What about him?

Salazar: You had said that he had forbidden you to leave the house.

Emerald: ...

Emerald: Really, no offence to the Headmaster, but seriously

Emerald: He can lose himself in a forest.

Salazar: ...

Salazar: Well, well the Golden Boy not bowing down to the Hogwarts' Headmaster? My, my...

Emerald: I told you not to call me that!

Salazar: Actually you asked me not to call you the Boy-Who-Lived or Harry Potter, but you said nothing about the Golden Boy.

Emerald: –.–

Emerald: Fair point. *sigh*

By that time, Harry was positive that Salazar was Snape. Harry looked at the time. He should be turning in. He had a long day tomorrow...

Salazar: Goodnight, Harry.

Emerald: Goodnight, Salazar.

Harry did a double-take. Snape would have never called him by his first name, so all of his suspicions immediately disappeared.

Oh just how wrong he was, since not far away, Severus Snape sat and was trying to realise why had he called the boy by his first name.

A/N

Well, just like said before, any ideas how to name the raven? He will be rather important later in the story.

What do you think? How will Harry find out about Severus? Will he?

Remind that all of this is after Harry's 4th year! So beware fellow readers! Dolores Umbridge/ Umbug/ Unbrain/ Professor HemHem or whatever she is called nowdays, will come soon!

I hope you enjoyed!

Liliana

NEXT CHAPTER

Harry grinned as his favourite park came into view. He felt that something was wrong, but shrugged it off.