Severus Snape nervously stood in front of the hospital in Forks. He did not know what to expect and he did not like that one bit. Not knowing could get you killed when you were a spy. Not that he needed to be that anymore. Now that the war finally was over there was not need for that anymore. He was more than thankful for that. He was deep in Harry's debt and he would do everything he could to repay the boy, even if he knew he would never be able to do so.

He could only hope that this would go well. But now he had to get going or else he would never go. He took a deep breath and entered the hospital.

On a plate on the wall were the names of the doctors and their room numbers were noted down and where the room of the head nurse was. Severus found Carlisle's room number without trouble and made his way upstairs. Only a few minutes later he found the door that had 'Dr. Carlisle Cullen' written on it. He knocked.

"Enter!" Carlisle called out and Severus opened the door.

"Only a mo--" Carlisle started to say but then he smelled who it was and looked up sharply. "Severus? What are you doing here? I haven't seen you in over a decade."

Severus paled. He had not expected that. He had been visiting Carlisle and his family regularly since long before he had brought Harry to them and long before the end of the first war. Only in the last three year while the second war had been going he had not had time to come over. But now it seemed that Carlisle didn't remember his coming for the last ten years. That made the things all the more complicated.

"I came to talk to you," Severus begun carefully.

Carlisle looked at him inquisitively. "Then why didn't you come later and over to our house? One would think that you know where were live when you even know where I work. But first of all, please, take a seat."

"I came here because I wanted to talk to you alone first," Severus began while sitting down, "since the matter I am coming in is dire. One of my students came to me only an hour ago. He claims that he has erased your memories about three years ago."

Carlisle looked at him frowning. He did not remember meeting any wizards in the last ten years, the last being Severus at his last visit. Furthermore there was another thing that did not fit with what he knew about the wizarding world.

"A wizard erasing the memories of a vampire? I thought that was impossible or at least improbable," Carlisle said. "Furthermore shouldn't have Edward noticed it when someone had tampered with my memories."

"I think I did not make myself clear; he erased the memories of your whole coven. And by what you said at the beginning of our conversation he seems to have erased anything that has to do with magic for the last seven years. At least then it have been seven years. It is already three years ago after all."

"What do you mean?" Carlisle asked, frowning. His old friend was speaking in riddles. He couldn't make anything from it.

"My last visit was on the 25th of June 1995," Severus sighed and the vampire's eyes widened comically.

"Beg your pardon, could you repeat that please?"

"The last time I came over from the UK to visit you and your family was in June 1995. So only a bit over three years ago and not ten. Before that I have been at least two times a year to the States to see your coven and if it was only for a few hours." 'Every time when I brought Harry home from school,' he mentally added.

Carlisle looked at him dumbfounded. He had not expected that in the least. They had lost events from over seven years without noticing? How was that possible?

"Who was it?" he demanded. "Who did this to us and why? Why would someone want to make us forget that we met you several times a year?" It just did not make any sense.

"I don't think he intended to erase me. I think he just wanted to make sure that your coven had no ties to anyone in the wizarding world as just a few months earlier Voldemort had been resurrected."

If a vampire could pale, Carlisle would have at that very moment.

"Voldemort is back?" he asked, his voice shaking. That monster had been the cause his coven had left Europe for good and had sworn to never come back. Even though the man had not actively targeted them they had suffered the discrimination that came with being a vampire since many of their brothers and sisters had joined the madman. It had nearly cost his coven its life.

"Was back," Severus corrected. "He is gone for good now. But back to the matter at hand. Do you know one of those boys?" Severus asked after a brief silence and slid a photo of Harry and Draco standing close together with one of Draco's arms wrapped protectively around his brother.

Carlisle pointed to the one on the left side, Harry.

"I have seen him before now that you show me a picture. He was suddenly in our living room about three years ago, so around the time you think someone messed with our memories. Jasper attacked him because he thought he was a threat to our family with his sudden appearance and all. I'll never forget the hurt in his face when Jasper tried to jump him and Edward fought his brother not to.

"Jasper then collapsed under the weight of the boy's hurt and betrayal when I asked him what he did there.

"The boy then ran out of the house and we never saw him again. Jasper refused to talk to anyone for the next week because it was so hard to cope with the emotions and the intensity of them.

"Edward was similar since he did not understand his emotions towards the boy. He had felt the urge to protect him and he did not know why. We have never been able to figure it out since we never saw him again. But I don't think he has thought abut that in the last year since he found his mate," Carlisle explained, not noticing how Severus tensed at the last statement, and then asked, "who is he?"

"His name is Harry Potter," the potions master said, opting to take the name the wizarding world knew him under and not his adopted name that they had kept secret for the years until now as to keep the Cullen coven and Harry safe. "Do you know this name?"

"You told me about him, when he destroyed Voldemort and ended the first war," Carlisle answered and then frowned as if trying to remember something but not being able to do so. "But I have the feeling that I should know him from somewhere else. Even more now than at the short encounter we had. Somehow it feels like he is a member of my coven but I have no memories to base this feeling on. What is he to us?"

Severus felt somehow relieved that Carlisle at least unconsciously seemed to know that Harry was a member of their coven.

"I don't think I should tell you without talking to him first. He doesn't even know I'm here. I wanted to know what his spell did before talking to him again. This is why I came here. Would you allow me to look into your mind to determine what happened to the memories that vanished from your mind?" Severus asked hoping that the vampire would answer with 'yes'.

"You think that this might help me to remember why he seems important to me?" Carlisle asked, hope in his voice.

"Maybe the intrusion is all that is needed," Severus nodded. "But I won't promise anything because even though I am a master of the mind arts I have never heard of anything like this before."

The older nodded. "What do I have to do?"

"Just relax. Don't fight me. I'll do the rest," Severus said as he leaned forwards and put his fingertips against Carlisle's temples. He then entered the vampire sire's mind.

This was the fifth chapter. Next one is Severus in Carlisle's mind and what he finds there for sure and maybe Severus telling the vampire his findings or part of them and him leaving.

I'm going now to watch Dreamcatcher. Until the next chapter. And remember. Reviews are appreciated. Bye athena