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Professor Snape led Tobias through the castle to his private quarters in the dungon. He mumbled the password and grabbed the door as it swung open, motioning for Tobias to enter. As he stepped in he looked around, the floors were stone and had green rugs lying in various places. There were walls of books that to anyone else would seem intimidating but to him they were standard reading. The only source of light came from the almost burt out fire place and the small window close to the ceiling. There were only a few chairs sitting in the room the rest of the space was taken up by potions tables, four to be exact.
"Dull, cold, uninviting, dark, this room is the perfect description of you." Tobias said, smirking at his comment, that is until something hit him on the back of the head. He rubbed his scalp turning around to look at professor Snape. "Ow what was that for you prat!"
"Ten points from Slytherin for talking back to your professor." Was all he said in return.
"Why are you being such a git to me? I'm you in case you've forgotten" Tobias stated.
"I hadn't," The professor said with no sympathy in his voice. "I refuse to treat you better than any other student of mine."
"Why do you hate me?" Tobias asked.
"I don't hate you, I do however find your presence an inconvenience, I don't think I could hate you even if I wanted to, I feel too bad for you." Severus explained walking into his bedroom and grabbing a blanket from the open trunk at the foot of his bed.
"Here," He handed him the blanket. "I'll be in my room, if a problem were to arise then you may enter, otherwise you stay out."
"The only bathroom is in there," Tobias pointed out. "I need a shower, and a change of clothes."
"Fine you have ten minutes to take a shower, there will be two sets of clothes in the bathroom one for tonight and the other for tomorrow I trust you can decipher between the two." Severus waited for him to nod before he went on. "I've taken the day off tomorrow so we can go to Diagon Alley and get the supplies you need for the rest of the school year."
Tobias headed toward the bathroom while Severus sat down in one of the few chairs, picking up a book and beginning to read.
"Um...Severus," Tobias turned around as he said this. "What's today's date?"
Severus looked up and then paused for a second, trying to remember the day. "January twenty eighth." He finally said. "You're not behind on any work if that's what you're worried about."
"Oh yeah, because it was a week before holiday break." Tobias remembered absentmindedly as he walked into the bathroom. He hurried in the shower afraid that if he exceeded his ten minutes Severus would rip the shower curtain down and throw him out or something. The air was cold when he stepped out and he dressed before he was entirely dry, leaving the pajamas clinging to him in some places and pooling around him in others. He must have gained weight over the years, not very much but enough to go up a size in clothes. It was probably more muscle then fat because older Severus definitely wasn't fat.
He stepped out of the bathroom and into the living room, taking the blanket Severus gave him and wrapping it around himself. Severus looked up from his book to see Tobias sitting in the chair across from him. He stood closing the pages of his potions book and heading into his bedroom. With his wand he lowered the light in the fire place so it wouldn't be in Tobias's eyes.
"Goodnight Tobias." Severus said before resigning to his room.
Hermione walked back to Gryffondor tower slowly, trying to think of an excuse for not being at dinner. She mumbled the password and the portrait swung open reveling the common room. She stepped in and her eyes landed on the couch in front of the fire place where Harry and Ron were sitting. They both had their potions books out and were trying hard to write their essays that were due the next day. Harry's eyes shot up and landed on Hermione as the portrait swung shut.
"I snuck up some potatoes and a roll since you weren't at dinner." He told her motioning to the plate of food sitting on the floor beside him.
"I'm sorry Harry, I lost track of time and when I realized it the dinner was already over." Hermione explained, walking over and lifting the plate from the ground.
"I know, I just wish you wouldn't focus so much on school, you weren't in the dinning hall at all today." Hermione wanted to explain to him that it wasn't her fault that she'd missed dinner, but she knew it probably wasn't a good idea to talk about Snape Jr. to anyone.
She thanked Harry for the food and headed to the girls dormitory, collapsing onto her bed and falling asleep right away.
The next morning Tobias woke up choking on water, he sat up franticly looking around the room, momentarily forgetting where he was. When he saw the older version of himself standing in front of him, arms crossed and scowl prominent on his face he calmed down a bit.
"I don't think that was necessary." He spat sitting up and trying to stretch his back, sleeping in a chair was not the best thing for your body.
"I've been trying to wake you up for twenty minutes, you're lucky that was all you got." Severus said. "Go get dressed we leave at ten and it's already nine forty five."
Tobias raced into the bathroom and got dressed, realizing again that the robes Severus lent him were a size to big. He walked out of the bathroom and followed Severus out of his quarters. He stayed behind him as they left the grounds. Once they were far enough away from the castle Severus grabbed Tobias' arm and apperated to Diagon Alley. They were in the middle of a tiny shop that sold knick-knacks and looked worn down.
Severus looked at Tobias with annoyance prominent on his face. "Stick close to me and try not to be a pain." And with that he exited the shop, leaving Tobias to run after him, cursing silently as he did so.
Classes were fairly easy for Hermione, what with professor Snape not being there to make her tense. However she was still worried about teen-Snape, she felt that since she was the only person in on everything besides Dumbledore, that she should be in the loop with what was going on.
Hermione could feel the excitement around her as she sat in the great hall for dinner. Everyone was talking about the apparent new student that had been spotted leaving the castle that morning and coming back right before dinner with school supplies and Slytherin robes in hand.
"Who is this new guy anyway?" Ron asked, obviously annoyed with the girls to his right making a great deal about the new boy.
"Nobody knows yet," His younger sister Ginny said, momentarily pausing her conversation with the group of girls to inform her brother. "The girls that have saw him say that he's handsome and mysterious."
"Whoever told you that is off their rocker," He said, with a disgusted look in his eyes. "No one has ever talked to him, how would they know if he was mysterious or not."
"That's what they said, okay." And with that she turned back to the discussion with her friends. Hermione felt bad for teen-Snape, she knew that when people found out who he was, or was pretending to be, they would run as fast as they could the other way. She didn't think it was fair, sure teen-Snape wasn't the nicest person, but he was still a big step up from his older self.
Hermione didn't eat much as she waited for teen-Snape to enter the great hall, finally Dumbledore stood and as he did the whole hall went silent
"Hello students and staff of Hogwarts," Every eye was on him, waiting to hear about the new student that everyone was talking about. "We have some big news tonight but I would like to hand it over to someone better suited to deliver the news. Professor Snape."
every eye turned to the potions professor as he made his way slowly to the podium.
"As most of you have already heard, from the gossip that plagues all of you, we do have a new student. What most of you didn't seem to pick up on even though it was obvious is that this student is my younger brother," Professor Snape paused as gasps filled the great hall. "Yes I know, most of you had no idea that I had any relatives at all, but yes, I have a brother. He is a sixth year and will be assigned a house as of now. So here he is Tobias Snape."
Right on cue the doors to the hall swung open and Tobias stepped in, wearing the plain black robes that he had on that morning. He made his way to the front, ignoring the stares from all of the confused students. A chair was placed beside the podium and Snape motioned for him to sit. As he took a seat in the chair the sorting hat was placed on his head.
*I remember you, Severus Snape.* The hat told him through his mind. *You would've always worked well in Ravenclaw*
*Just put me in Slytherin* Tobias thought.
*Are you sure?* The hat asked.
*Yes.* He answered
"SLYTHERIN!" The hat shouted, the Sytherin table cheered, but it wasn't a big cheer because they knew that he was probably going to end up in their house anyway. Dumbledore made his way to the podium and looked at Tobias.
"Is there anything you'd like to say before you're seated." He asked Tobias.
Tobias stood and made his way to where Dumbledore was standing, as he looked at all the students he decided that he wasn't going to be the kid that got picked on, he was going to be the one everyone liked, the complete opposite of what he used to be.
"All I want to say is I'm nothing like my brother." He flashed a small smile, but it was enough to make everyone else wonder of he was anything like his 'brother'.
Tobias made his way to the Slytherin table and sat down at the very end, where they had gladly made room for him.
"The last order of business regarding is someone to show him around, he won't need to be shown his dormitory because that was done previously, but he will need to be shown his classes. Do we have and volunteers" Almost every girls hand shot up, there were many guys too, probably thinking that if Tobias was cool they wanted to be his best friend. Dumbledore waited a few seconds and then quickly looked at Hermione, who immediately got the hint and raised her hand as well.
"Ahh yes miss Granger thank you for volunteering I'm sure you will do just fine." He said, much to the annoyance of many others. There were many comments about how she wasn't in Slytherin, but they were easily ignored. When the were dismissed to bed she slunk up to her bed a immediately fell asleep, praying that tomorrow wouldn't be as horrible as it seemed.
Tobias followed the rest of the Slytherins to the dungion, as he entered the common room he realized how similar it was to the one in his time. The same green chairs, though worn a bit more, were in their usual place by the fire. The old book shelf that had sat in the common room for ages still stood in the corner, the side pointing out still covered in carvings professing teen love that never lasted or spreading rumors about things and people who didn't matter anymore. The only thing different about the Slytherin common were the Slytherins themselves. They all looked at him with expected looks on their faces, waiting for him to say something.
"Welcome to Slytherin," A boy finally spoke up, he had pale skin and blonde hair that was almost white. Tobias knew right away that he was Lucius's son. "I'm Draco Malfoy."
Tobias shook his hand hesitantly, thinking that if Draco was anything like his father then he would figure out his secret and he didn't want that to happen.
"I suppose you already know who I am." He said trying to flash a grin at him but failing at it. Draco seemed to ignore it as he wet on talking.
"Well if you need anything just let any of the sixth years know." Draco said.
"You're not a sixth year?" Tobias asked, he had assumed Malfoy was in the same year as him.
"No I'm a fifth year." Malfoy answered, seemingly annoyed that Tobias didn't already know that particular bit of information. It was probably for the best that they weren't the same year, it would mean less of a chance for Draco to figure out who he really was. He thanked Malfoy and headed up to the dormitory. He entered the room and examined the bed that was obviously his, it was four poster just like everyone else's, he opened the trunk at the end of the bed and found all the supplies that Severus bought for him that day. He had an interesting day with his older self, they ate breakfast at a small pub before going shopping and entering too many stores to count. When they returned to the castle that evening Tobias didn't feel like Snape hated him anymore.
Tobias's main focus while he was in the future was to get people to like him, he knew it was matterialistic and wouldn't matter in the long run, but he thought that as long as he was being someone he wasn't he could go all out. He wanted to be friends with people in every house, be liked by all of his teachers. That night Tobias fell asleep thinking about how to impress the students of Hogwarts the next day.
