Thank you very much to everyone who read this story and to everyone who took that extra minute to post. Thank you zeynel, killinguwithumbrellas, marie, matt2256 and Harriverse

I know that I am updating slowly compared to my other fics, but I have planned to re-do the years; they must be similar and yet different; that is taking time. Please bear with me…

Harry Potter and the Trip to the Past

-----------------------------------------------

Chapter – 13

-----------------

The next week went along very slowly. Malfoy and all the Slytherins had written their fathers' and many owls were exchanged in the course of the week on this subject. The topic spread like wildfire to all the students and soon there were discussions about the place of muggleborns in Wizarding society. There was no mudblood it seemed and everyone was either a pure-blood or a half-blood.

It went to the teachers courtesy of Snape, who had by the simple means of calling Malfoy to his office had learnt of the latest craze by questioning him. Snape became very thoughtful when he heard how Harry had seen the advertisement and had read out the article and that he would be approaching Snape for help in brewing the potions.

Malfoy had also told him that his father would be very interested in the results if Snape were to brew the potions for Harry and Hermione and indeed the other muggleborns.

Dumbledore was once again shocked and totally puzzled by Harry. He had taken a small article and created something very big from it. Dumbledore himself subscribed to that magazine and he had read the article, but the expense and the labour involved in the making of the necessary potion made him disinterested.

This wizard had bought those two pages in the magazine every year and had published it so that the prejudices would go away, Dumbledore himself had sponsored the expense once or twice, but so far nothing had come out of it, because of the sheer cost and the lack of potion masters who could do this, but Harry had used the same article and turned Hogwarts on her head.

Snape had told him with an ugly scowl on his face that the blasted boy would be coming to him that week-end for help. "Does he have no idea about the cost and labour involved I wonder? Stupid brat." Snape had grumbled when he had come to Dumbledore with information about the latest craze in Hogwarts.

"I am sure you will manage Severus." Dumbledore had smiled sweetly and had left it at that.

The whole week went by in seemingly endless discussions about the potions, their costs and the time to brew them. It would take at least six months to brew the potion and the brewing was a very laborious process, not to mention the cost. Still at the end of the week only the potions and the place of the muggleborns in wizarding society were discussed and most of them now realized if this would prove correct, then there were only pure-bloods and half-bloods now. No muggleborns.

Saturday dawned chilly and dark. Clouds had gathered everywhere and it looked as if it was going to pour. The weather was bitterly cold and Harry and the other boys snuggled deeper into their warm beds, not wanting to get up.

It was very late, almost at the end of breakfast when Harry and Neville along with Ron, Dean and Seamus dragged themselves down to the common room. Almost all the first and second years were there and a good number of the upper years who did not wish to venture out in what looked like a definite downpour with the weather being so cold as well.

Harry and the others met Hermione who was patiently waiting for them and all of them went out and immediately tightened their thick coats and pulled down their woollen hats and placing their hands into their coats, they set off at almost a run and soon entered the Great Hall that was thankfully warm.

Harry had sent a School owl to Snape asking him to meet him by the statue of the one-eyed witch after breakfast and while they ate, Harry told the rest that he would brave his way to Snape and ask him about the potion.

"All of you wait for me in our common room. No sense in waiting anywhere else with the weather as it is now. What do you guys say?" Harry asked them, sipping hot tea.

They nodded at once, the idea of waiting in empty classrooms and loitering in the hallways was not very welcome. It was too cold for that. Harry smiled and chatted as they had breakfast and after finishing, walked back with the others to their common room and there he found Fred and George pouring over the Marauder's Map. Harry stopped for a moment in shock. This would not do and he realized how dangerous it could be if they saw him with Snape or even worse, when he lied to the others to go away on his own.

He had to get the Map from them and change it so that it would never show his name and Snape's name would always appear over his office or potions classrooms. But for that he needed the Map for a few days to work in the charms on to it. And now he just could not risk leaving until he took the Map away from them.

"Harry what are you staring at?"

"That Map and I was wondering if I could compare that with my map and see if they are exactly the same." Harry said easily. "Hey! Fred and George! Can I borrow your map for a few days? I want to check and see if the original is the same with mine."

"Sure Harry. But I think your map will have more places marked than this." Fred told him carefully folding the map and giving it to Harry who took it just as carefully.

"If there is, may I add those places. I will write Sirius and ask him as well." Harry looked questioningly at the twins who beamed in response.

"Sure." They said together and went back to plotting with Lee.

Harry grinned, relieved and started walking towards the staircase to bring his magazine and some parchment and quills for taking down anything that Snape may throw at him. He went into his dorm and taking his bag and opening his trunk, he removed the shrunken box in which he had kept the Stone and the other items that had been horcruxes, and with his invisibility cloak stuffed into his bag as well, Harry was ready.

The common room was very crowded and Harry weaved his way back to Hermione and Neville, and after getting his instructions from Hermione, he set off. Harry walked out of the room and the moment he turned around the corner, he put on his invisibility cloak and changed into a Phoenix. He flashed to the statue of the one-eyed witch and found Snape walking up and down scowling heavily.

Harry landed and changed back and removed the cloak a bit and hissed to Snape. "Psst. Snape, come inside the cloak."

Snape whirled around and scowled and his eyes widened impossibly as he heard Harry calling him to share the cloak.

"Come in fast Snape. If someone sees us there will be trouble." and Harry turned to the one-eyed witch and tapped her. "Dissendium."

And Snape scowled even more when he saw the statue open and show a narrow tunnel ahead. Harry went inside and Snape followed fast and Harry closed the statue. Snape refused to walk inside the cloak and he and Harry quickly came up to the end of the tunnel. He turned to Snape who was standing a dark look on his face no doubt remembering his father and Sirius. Harry spoke quickly.

"This comes out in the cellar of Honeydukes. You must come into this so that we can escape unseen. Don't fuss Snape." Snape in response, took out his wand and flicked it twice in a sweeping motion at Harry and then at himself, changing their features. Then Snape flicked two more times to place a notice-me-not charm both at Harry and himself and he glared at Harry and Harry's cloak.

Harry rolled his eyes and slowly lifted the trap door and soon they were outside. Harry slipped on the invisibility cloak at once and Snape sneered all the way to the floo in the main room, where they put two Knuts each and took a pinch of floo powder and landed in The Leaky Cauldron.

Both of them looked very ordinary and a bit shabby and so no one took any notice of them. They went into Gringotts and asked the first goblin to take them to their vault. The goblin glared at them and then held its hand for the key and took them to the cart. The moment Harry got down, he turned to the goblin. "We will be some time here. Will you wait please or will you come back?"

The goblin looked at Harry. "Ring this bell here and I will come." He said abruptly and turned to leave.

Harry and Snape waited until the goblin left and then swiftly went inside his open vault and Harry turned to Snape who was standing there with his arms folded in his chest. "You go inside and place those items and come. I will stand guard here." He said stiffly, his black eyes glinting in anger.

Harry simply caught hold of his hand and dragged him inside not minding his snarling and closed the doors. "I did not mean anything that day Snape. You know that. You can't stand outside, you know. Just in case we are unlucky and Sirius and Remus come to Gringotts today or even Dumbledore. Sirius's vaults are just a little away from here and we cannot leave the door open." He said and waved his wand and the vault lit up beautifully.

Harry led Snape to where the portraits were and left him standing in front of his mother's portrait and went to the back of the vault and taking out the small shrunken box and enlarged it. Harry opened the box and checked the things inside and called out to Snape.

"Snape I am going to place a blood ward on this. Are you okay with it? This way even if this vault is opened somehow and Sirius or Remus comes here, it will be not be too much of a problem." Harry looked around after a minute because Snape had not said a word.

Snape was standing silently in front of his mother's portrait and simply staring at her. His eyes were dead and his face blank. Harry sighed and turned to his task and completed the wards and made the box secure and looked at Snape. Harry's eyes softened in spite of himself and he went to Snape and dragged him away.

"We have to go." He said softly.

"Why have you not activated Li… her?" Snape asked Harry looking beyond him to the walls of the vault.

"I can't activate her alone. My father will have to be activated too, and the first thing they will ask is how I knew the password and then ask for Sirius, and Snape, you know I can't do this now. I can't explain that I am from the future. She and my dad will have to wait." Harry told him shaking his head at him.

"Wait until when?" Snape asked him.

"Until I am seventeen and get hold of the vaults. That is what I have told the goblins to say. I need this time without the added pressures of my parents. Believe me they can be very tough." Harry told him.

Snape stared at him in disbelief. "You do not wish to meet your mo…parents?"

"No, Snape, I do not wish to meet with my mother or my dear father." Harry rolled his eyes and grinned at Snape's shock. "I have had many years with them Snape. I found them," here Harry's eyes clouded and Snape became more alert but Harry did not say anything, "here on my seventeenth birthday when I took control of my vault and activated them. After the war I spent many years with them and in fact it was mum who scolded me because I was terrible at potions and made me learn from the basics until I was okay according to her. So I am not deeply affected by this."

Snape did not know what to say. "Did Li…Lily talk to me?"

Harry was stumped for a second and Snape's face shrivelled with guilt and pain. His black eyes looked haunted, with self – disgust written all over his face. Harry suddenly felt incredibly sad and he smiled softly. "She did and very affectionately too. She seemed to have forgotten the fallout of the past. And I will not say a word more."

Harry turned his face away to walk towards the door, unable to face the gratitude in Snape's face at his remarks. His thin face had bloomed and he had looked at Harry his eyes and face shining with gratitude and so many emotions flashed through them, in that brief moment before Snape himself turned away. Snape did not say a word more either and he went to the corner to inspect the shrunken box, he had noticed Harry placing them there apparently and then came back and stood silently with Harry.

Harry checked their glamour and stepped out of the vault swiftly extinguishing the lights and closed it securely the moment Snape was out. Then he went to the railing and rang the small bell there. They were soon out of the wizarding Bank and they apparated to Hogsmeade. Once they got there, they walked swiftly towards Honeydukes and crept into the trapdoor without a problem. They walked swiftly through the tunnel and reaching the one-eyed witch, Harry carefully checked his map and finding it safe, removed their glamour, and walked out of the one-eyes witch and went straight to the dungeons.

Snape went around, to sit in his chair and Harry threw himself on the other chair and grinned at Snape, when he scowled at Harry's familiarity. Harry took out the old map and laid it out on the desk and told Snape about the problem he had.

"I was so scared Snape when I saw them today. If they had seen us together and going down the tunnel together, it would have created so many complications." Harry told him.

"And since when did you think you could just treat my office like yours? You will not sit down until I ask you to. Give me that map." Snape told him and glared at Harry who did not even seem to register anything other than 'give me the map' and scowled before he started asking Harry about the spells that went into the map.

They spent the next two hours going through the map and came up with a few spells that could be tried on it that would mask Harry's position and Snape's position in the school.

"But the best thing to do would be to manipulate it properly every time instead of it not functioning in regards to my name or yours. I would like to tell the map where I am and would like the map to make the adjustments automatically. That would be the best. Can we do something like that?" Harry asked Snape who was frowning over some calculations and nodded absently.

"I think we can. Can you leave this with me?" Snape asked him finally looking up at Harry from where he had been frowning over the map and making many notes on a parchment.

"I don't dare to. What if either twin asks me? I would make them suspicious and that I wish to avoid at any cost." Harry shook his head. Snape nodded reluctantly and made some more notes in his parchment and then pushed the map to Harry.

"I will go through a few spells and we will change it then. Now about the potion. Do you have any idea about the expense or the labour involved in this?" Snape's black eyes pierced Harry who rolled his eyes.

"I have the money Snape and I want you to do this for me. In fact I will come and help you every day." At Snape's raised eyebrows, Harry laughed. "Yes, I do know about this potion and how it has to be monitored and how the ingredients have to be added everyday. In my other life I had this made by the Ministry and checked out every muggleborn and proved them to be descendents of squibs and sometimes even descended from prominent families. I want to do this now and make these blood purists think. Hopefully they would even stop targeting the muggleborns. Voldemort would have to play a different card when he resurrects. And this way I can meet you legitimately and talk to you or warn you." Harry pointed out.

"Get out of my office and tell the others I questioned you at length and I have asked you to come prepared in more detail about the potions and discuss it with me next Saturday. I will tell Dumbledore this as well."

"Thanks Snape and bye. Hopefully we can start this by next year, so that we have the whole year to brew it." Harry said cheekily and laughed when Snape said, "Ten points from Gryffindor for rudeness to a professor." in a perfectly serious manner, and still smiling Harry walked out, after carefully placing the map inside.

Harry went out into the corridor and felt the bitter cold at once. He walked swiftly to the Gryffindor common room and was greeted by Hermione and Neville enthusiastically. Almost all the first and second years were there they spent the week end happily. In fact the rest of the month and the next month also seemed to go without incident.

Harry was meeting Snape every week-end, mostly on Saturdays to work both, on the potion and also the map. They completed the changes on the map by blood binding the map with Harry and Snape, and adding obedience charms, a tad illegal but almost unnoticeable and pretty accurate.

Harry told Snape that he should never catch the twins if they came at night because that would make them suspicious of the map and they would then start taking it apart at the seams. It took some time for Snape to agree to that, but eventually he gave in, very unhappily, though.

"But I will take points from Gryffindor every time I see them where they should not be." He warned Harry, who grinned at Snape.

Snape always tried to talk Harry into revealing something about the future, mainly about Dumbledore and himself, but Harry so far had avoided his questions and had played around then carefully.

Quirrell was still stuttering along and Harry was carefully watching him and Hagrid. He was waiting for Hagrid to get that egg and this time he had told Snape about it and had asked Snape to take care for him.

"Hagrid will meet a disguised Quirrell and in exchange for a dragon egg, Hagrid will tell him how to get past Fluffy. The moment he does that, Quirrell will wait for a day until Dumbledore is away from the School and go for it. That is the day we have to watch for and hope our spells will take care of Quirrell and his pretty Master." Harry told him.

"Don't talk of the Dark Lord like that Potter." Snape admonished him and continued to place spells on the parchment a job, which he was currently employed in.

"Will you keep watch?" Harry asked him and was satisfied when Snape nodded.

The days slipped into weeks and Harry & Co. were breezing through them. Harry in particular was very happy. This was so different in contrast to his other life that Harry could almost believe he was living a Voldemort free life already. He had given the map back to the twins and had added a few new passages to it and they had been thrilled.

Harry started knowing so many others in Gryffindor this time around. Last time he hadn't known anyone apart from his dorm mates and year mates from the other Houses, and that too mostly only by name. Apart from Colin Creevy and very few others Harry had hardly known anybody. This time Harry went out of his way to meet other students and generally have a good time. Quidditch matches came and went and with both Dumbledore present for every Quidditch match and Snape as the referee every time Gryffindor played, Harry had no trouble from Quirrell at all and he caught the snitch every time he played.

He made sure to spend a lot of time with Malfoy and the others Slytherins who by now were very comfortable with Hermione, Neville and Harry. Neville had already changed beyond recognition and Harry was thrilled for him. Ron remained the same and he and Malfoy provoked each other as if they were magically bound to do so and they suffered for it.

Ron when confronted usually responded by snarling at Harry that all Slytherins were evil and Harry would be better off not talking to the slimy snakes. Malfoy was not much better and after a while Harry simply washed his hands off Ron, for the time being. Ron would come around a bit later, he knew and Harry was willing to wait. The twins on the other hand had not minded meeting with the Slytherins occasionally and they never started anything on their own and so they were also more or less left alone by the Slytherins as well.

Quirrell gave the egg to Hagrid ten days before Easter and Snape was keeping a close watch over it. The day it hatched, Snape gate crashed into Hagrid's hut, telling Hagrid he needed some acromatula venom and would Hagrid be able to provide for it. Seeing the dragon brought Snape to his sarcastic best, but, unfortunately for him, almost all of it went over Hagrid's head. Then Snape convinced Hagrid to gift the dragon to the dragon preserve at Romania. Hagrid was in tears about it, but agreed and with full knowledge of Dumbledore, sent it off to Charley Weasley.

Harry went to Grimmauld Place for a boisterous Easter and had a great week with Sirius and Remus. They did all kinds of silly things and once again Harry invited Hermione, Neville, Ron and the twins to spend a day with each other.

That day, needless to say was spent almost completely pranking each other and generally having fun. Ron was much gratified when Sirius loudly proclaimed all Slytherins as evil incarnate and he and Ron spent a good hour Slytherin bashing while the others rolled their eyes and made sarcastic remarks.

Getting back to School, Harry studied and played hard and had a happy time as the weeks sped past without incident. He wrote the end of the year exams extremely well. There was less than a week left for close of School, when Dumbledore left the School one morning after breakfast. Snape had told him by the simple method of looking at Dumbledore and looking straight at Harry and sneering. Harry had smiled widely at Snape and Snape had scowled but had reluctantly nodded once and turned his head away.

Harry and his friends went around the School lazily. Exams had finished the day before and Harry was very relaxed and he was currently engaged in playing with his map. Actually he was looking for Quirrell. He saw Quirrell go into the forbidden third floor corridor and shouted, "Hey look professor Quirrell is going to the forbidden third floor corridor. Come on, let us go there and see what exactly there is in there."

Harry jumped up and looked excitedly at the others. Neville stood up at once, a visible testimony to the change in his character and Hermione got up a little slowly. Malfoy and Pansy who were lazing along with them also stood up at once and looked eager to go.

All of them walked back inside the School and climbed up to the third floor. They stood there pouring over Harry's map. Malfoy grabbed it from him and exclaimed, "Look Potter¸ Quirrell is moving deeper and he is stopping and moving again and wow there is something called Fluffy and a troll there Potter." Malfoy was almost screaming excitedly and at that time, Snape came, his black robed billowing behind him and seeing so many students in the forbidden corridor, he stopped abruptly.

"What are all of you doing here?" he hissed in anger. "Potter!" he barked. "All this is your fault. Ten points from Gryffindor."

"Sir, I saw professor Quirrell coming here and he was looking very suspicious Sir. So all of us came to check but we did not know how to open the door." Malfoy said smoothly, holding the map behind him. Snape had already seen it but did not say anything.

"Get out of here all of you, get out!" Snape said his black eyes flashing at Harry, asking him what in the world he was doing.

Harry was doing what Snape had come to do. Make sure Quirrell never escaped. All the first years stood there uncertainly for a minute when suddenly, Harry cried out grasping his forehead. "Ahhhhhh!" he screamed, as he fell and all of them saw a horrible sprit come out of the closed door. It had red eyes and looked extremely malevolent and swirled around the screaming boy who was now on his knees and clutching his forehead that was beginning to bleed, and swirling around all of them who were transfixed to their places in sheer terror, abruptly entered Harry.

Snape was shaking with fear when he saw the sprit and recognized it as his Master. He did not dare to approach Harry when the sprit was swirling around Harry and he almost fainted when it went into Harry. So the protections did not hold, and Snape felt like crying. He removed his wand and was about to cast an exorcism spell, when Harry stopped screaming and opened his eyes.

Snape's wand fell to the ground. Harry's eyes were red. All of them stood there shaking in sheer terror. Snape could not move for a second, but he looked at Hermione, "Go and get the Headmaster and any other professor you find here at once." He said still shaking badly and summoning his wand he was about to stun Harry/ Voldemort when Harry spoke, "Don't Sir. Don't curse." Then he screamed again and shut his eyes, his hands clawing at the scar. Then Harry opened his eyes and looked viciously at Snape. His eyes were red and terrible.

"Severus." said the voice, Snape had hoped he would never ever hear in his life, and watched with terror as that sprit in Harry's body waved Harry's hand and stunned all the terrified first years before telling Snape, "Kill this boy at once."

The voice was cold, high and inhuman and Snape dropped his wand again, this time deliberately. He slowly bent down praying for someone to come and interfere and picked up his wand. No one came and Snape slowly lifted his hand and spoke, his voice shaking with fear, "Master," Snape bowed deeply buying as much time as he could, "I will do as you command."

He desperately looked around as if checking; still no one had come to help and Snape was about to cast the exorcism spell and reveal himself to be a traitor to the Dark Lord, but, before he could cast the spell, there was a loud scream from Harry in Voldemort's voice and the sprit came barrelling out of Harry screaming in agony and moved away still screaming with pain.

Snape waited only until the sprit vanished from the corridor before he enervated all the others and bent down and lifted Harry into his arms and ran as if demented towards the infirmary. Draco and Neville paused only for a second before they too ran ahead of him screaming at anyone who was in the way in the corridors and with Pansy running behind them, they reached they reached he infirmary in record time and Snape gently put Harry down on the nearest bed and placing a silencing ward around the unconscious boy who looked pale, with his scar still bleeding for a second before he screamed. "Pomfrey!"

Madam Pomfrey came running out of her office and she gasped when she saw Harry lying down as if dead, his scar bleeding. Snape was already running diagnostic tests on him and he stopped when Pomfrey came swiftly to Harry and started running her wand over him

"He is quite alright Severus. He seems to be only magically exhausted. Two days here with a lot of replenishing potions should make him fit and fine. What happened to him?" Pomfrey asked, but Snape did not answer, instead he simply nodded once and placed special wards around Harry, including sprit repelling wards and then flicking his wand and making a cut on his palm, he placed a blood ward on him as well.

"I will have to be here whenever you wish to feed him with food or potions Poppy. I am sorry but I will get confirmation from the Headmaster in a short while. Do you need to feed him any potions now?"

Pomfrey was livid, but Snape did not budge and finally she had to agree, snapping, "I will be talking to Albus about this, you may be sure." She administered the potions to Harry, and Snape closed the ward, checking for Harry's wand and carefully placing it within the ward. Then he turned around and billowed away as fast as he could to the office of Dumbledore, not caring about the first years still standing there in sheer horror.

Meanwhile Hermione had found McGonagall and both of them had run to the third floor corridor and not finding anyone there, McGonagall used the point me charm and tracked Harry to the infirmary. Snape had already left by then and after McGonagall got everything she could from the terrified first years, she asked all of them to follow her; straight to the Headmaster's office.

End of Chapter – 13

--------------------------