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Chapter 2
Mr. Potter
Your presence is requested in my office at eight o'clock tonight.
S. Snape
Severus looked at the formal note wishing that he didn't have to be so cold and unfeeling to Harry. "If only - no, I can't obsess over should have beens. I need to find a way to let Harry know the truth." He murmured before looking down at the book on his desk, and could almost imagine the lit light bulb from cartoons on the television as a child. "Perfect."
"Now Potter, you will cast the spell on me so that you can see the differences between a shielded and a non-shielded mind." Severus said after having Harry work on pronouncing and doing the correct wand movements for five minutes. Severus had the teen sit in an armchair before following suit. "We will start off with a shielded mind first. Whenever you are ready."
"Legimens." Severus focused on the brink wall and the never-ending empty maze behind it so that his pupil could actually see it. After a few minutes, Harry slumped back in his seat.
"Your goal in occlumency is to create a shield at least that effective. There is a glass of water for you on my desk. Collect yourself and when your ready I'll show you a non-shielded mind." Harry got up and downed the glass of water while Severus continued to speak.
"As you should know, if you read the chapters I assigned, legimency lets you experience another's memories as if they were yours. Unlike a pensieve where you experience the memory as if you are a ghost by the person's side. Now, do not think that you will completely understand what is going on because you will not know what that person was thinking just what they saw and heard."
Harry sat down in his armchair and got ready. Severus nodded for him to go ahead. "Legimens." Severus pulled back his shield and reveled a hallway with identical doors along side. He made sure that all memories of him with baby Harold were unlocked. He felt Harry open one of the doors and waited to see which memory he picked.
He was standing in a hospital waiting-room with a black-haired man pacing back and forth in front of him. A few minutes later a mediwitch came down the hall with a little bundle in her arms. The man stopped pacing and turned toward the woman. "How is my wife? What happened?"
"Sir, I am so sorry to have to tell you that your wife died during the birth. We tried everything we could to save her. We were lucky enough to save your son." He watched with tear-filled eyes as the bundle was put in the man's arms. "We will look into what happened and let you you know as soon as possible." She left as he walked up the man and put a hand on his shoulder.
"I'm going to keep the promise I made to your mother. Severus, meet your little brother Harold." He looked down at the bundle and saw a tiny blacked-haired baby with bright green eyes. "At least he has your mother's eyes."
Severus blinked as he felt Harry leave his mind. He held up a hand to stop the words about to leave the teens mouth. "That will be all for tonight go straight to your dormitory. Tell anyone what happened here and you will still be in detention when your great-grandchildren go to school. Night Potter."
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