'When Severus Snape entered The Leaky Cauldron he saw the boy that supposed to be Harry Potter, according to the description of the Headmaster clad in a dark green robe sitting at the bench in front of the fireplace while reading trough his potions textbook. The expression on his face was one of hunger to learn.
When the Potions master approached the boy he looked up imeadiatly. 'And you must be Professor snape if i'm not mistaken,' the boy drawled.
'that is indeed correct' The potions professor replied in an almost chilling whisper.
The boy stood up, extending his right hand.while drawling 'As I suppose you already knew, I am Harry Potter, It is pleasure to meet you'.
The potion professor eyed the boy, then shook his hand. 'I was aware of that indeed, and the pleasure is mine also.' He whispered.
'Do you happen to know any quit place where we can talk?' he continued.
'The only silent place I know are the surroundings of my temprary room here at The Leaky Cauldron.' The boy drawled.
'That will be adequate' Severus said.
'Then follow me. I hope you do not mind the presence of my pets?' The boy asked.
'That depends,' answered the potions professor, knowing to what Hagrids refered as being pets.
'At that very moment a snake slytheres out of the robe of the boy.
'Meet Sliphis, my familiar' introduced the boy, 'And If i'm correct my Owl is at my room, but she'd obvious is asleep' the boy said.
'I see,' Severus said, 'And what are you going to do with your familiar upon entering Hogwarts? I remember that snakes are not onn the pet list?'
'The Headmaster agreed with me keeping my snake, since else I would not have agreed with attending the school at all' was Harry's steady response.
'Very Slytherin. Who coudn't guess the boy would not be sorted into Gryffindor' the potions professor thought while Harry was unlocking the door of his room.
When they went inside the room, the boy drawed his wand and seemed to cast a certain spell obvious in parseltongue. After that he'd hovered his desk and pisitioned it to the center of the room. Then he hovered a chare to one side of the desk and another to the other side. 'Sir, sit down please' he commented.
The potions master sat down at one end of the table and seeted at the other side. Severus was quite astonished about the spellcasting of the boy. It'd gone wich such an ease, it looked totaly natural.
'May I ask what spell you did cast before the hovering charms?' the professor asked.
'The first spell was meant to throw up a privacy ward Sir' the boy answered steadily.
'A privacy ward?' Snape thought 'but that is very advanced magic for a nearly first year'.
'May I check the strenght of the ward?' Severus asked.
'Well of course sir' was the boys reply.
Severus took out his wand and checked on the word. It seemed to be quite strong, he must admit.
'That is very advanced magic' he said, 'and very well cast, I daresay'
'I think It would be stronger after some more practise' the boy said causually 'I'd only learnt the spell yesterday, and this was my first attempt.'
'First attempt?' Severus thought, 'and this strong, well, the boy must be very powerful'
'Whom learnt you the incantation? I don't remember it to be in your charm book' Severus said.
'Well, sir, I don't know if it is wise to say, but I leart it from a certain blond pure blood wizard' Harry drawled.
'I see,' Severus muttered. Knowing exactly to which person the boy refered. 'Now have you any idea In what house you would be sorted during your first day at Hogwarts?'
'According to Sir Dubledores description, I think it would be Slytherin. The others simply doesn't match my range of interest. Harry responded.
'Thats what I thought too' Severus answered.
'Both blond pure blood wizards told me I act according to Slytherin habbits,' the boy mentioned.
'Severus nodded and brought the conversation to another topic. 'Now, you have been roaming Diagon Alley for over a day, Do you have any particular questions about things you have seen?'
'Well, I've got too many, but some of them I do considder to be more interesting to know.'
'Ask then.'
'What does it means when someone say that a pure blooded wizard polutes his blood if he marries a halfblood, muggleborn wizard or perhaps a muggle?' The boy asked.
Severus thought for a while, then answered, 'That is a very political question. Where it, for non pure blood wizards do not matter if one marries a halfblood, muggleborn or muggle, pure blood wizards often believe they are better then wizards with muggle blood in their veins. They do at a certain manner believe that they are more magical than others, and do understand magical habbits better because they have been born and grown up in a wizarding family. See, you just entered the Wizarding world, and you didn't know of anything magic related before entering our world. If you had been born and grown up in a wizarding family you shouldn't had felt the need to ask this question. Anyway, if a pure blooded wizard, - according to pure blood beliefs, - mixed his blood with a non pureblooded wizard or a muggle, the result, the child would have less wizarding blood runging through his veins. If that child marry a muggle, their child would have more less wizarding blood. Pure Blood believe, that if people keep mixing up with non-wizards or halfbloods or muggleborns, the endresult would be, fully muggle. I know this is not easy to understand, however, if you'd like to really understand, I suggest you to buy the book entitled Wizarding Heritage'.
Harry nodded his head trying to understand, he decided he would go to the bookshop and buy mentioned book, he really wanted to know the who's and whats of the wizardingn world.
I heard that after going to Hogwarts for a year one would not be able to use magic during the holidays. Why is that?' he asked.
'Our leading institute, called the Ministry of magic have made laws for that. In fact, if your in life danger you are alowed to use magic, but only to defend yourself. The Ministry do not want muggles to see any magic happen for so far as possible. And since children most likely want to test newlearned spells on their siblings, the ministry found it to be to dangerous to allow it.
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And so the hours went by. Harry asking questions, and The potion master answering them. Harry seemed to enjoy the companionship of the potions master, and so the Potions master liked discussing with the young intellegent boy. After 5 hours of talking he'd finaly left, saying that he would be back next week at the same time to answer more of Harry's questions.
The rest of the day spent harry with reading his schoolbooks and playing with his wand. Boy was he lucky he could use magic in the private space of his room without having to be scared at the ministy.
When he'd enough fun casting spells he discussed his plans for the next day with his familiar and went to sleep.