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OBLIVION
Chapter 12
Harry looked up at Hermione and Ron's shocked gasp and laughed, choked, wiping his eyes under his glasses.
"See! You're…really…really shocked…never thought it could happen to ME huh?" He laughed hysterically.
"Bloody hell…" Ron whispered quietly.
"Harry! Oh my God, Harry! When? What happened?" Hermione moved further onto the bed, starting to cry as Harry flinched away from her.
"It doesn't matter! It doesn't! It just proves what I said…I can't save you! I can't save anybody! I can't even save myself!" Harry cried hoarsely.
"Harry it does matter. Who…who did it? You…you have to tell someone…Professor Dumbledore! He…"
"Knows." Harry said quietly with a hiccup. "I just came from him 'member?"
Ron stood suddenly. "He knows you were raped? He knows who did it? It wasn't…a Slytherin was it?"
"I…I'd rather not talk about it. I wasn't hurt! H-They…didn't hurt me. I kept trying to tell Professor Dumbledore that! It wasn't their fault. H…HE," Harry sniffed and wiped his nose in the pause. "Didn't mean to do it, he was under the influence of a potion. It happened a couple of weeks ago. If I'd been hurt I'd have gone to Madam Pomfrey! If not for the fact I wasn't…exactly ready then and he hadn't been drugged up, it would have been sort of nice." He finished softly.
Ron absorbed that quietly while Hermione looked at him sadly, tears running down her face. "Harry it's not your fault! I hope you don't think it's your fault. And you don't have to make excuses for whoever it is! What they did was wrong…"
"He'll be punished for a terrible mistake. I know…r-rape, is…bad." Harry picked at his bed sheet. "But it was a mistake and he's sorry. But he's going to be punished…horribly, when other people do worse and get away with it."
"Harry. It doesn't matter whether it was a mistake or not! They should be punished! They raped you!" Ron's face was turning red.
Harry swallowed the shout that had bubbled up in his throat, paling. 'I won't tell them about him too.' "It's just not fair."
"Harry you've got to be kidding! Next you'll say you feel for the guy!" Ron blew up, throwing his arms in the air. Harry looked at him reproachfully.
"Ron, his life is about to become next to trash when the whole wizarding world finds out what he did to the great Harry Potter. You do realize…he might be put in Azakaban or Kissed." Harry replied forcefully.
"Harry it probably won't be that bad. He'll just be expelled and have to pay a fine or something if he's not a Seventh year. A Seventh year would be considered adult and he might go to Azkaban but he won't be Kissed. With a child younger than that, at worst his parents will have to home-school him and pay some huge fine to 'reimburse your pain'. That's about it. So you shouldn't have to feel for him." Hermione assured him softly.
"Who is he Harry?" Ron asked dangerously.
"I can't tell you." Harry looked away from them and out through the window.
"Harry, you can't protect this person! You told Professor Dumbledore who did it right?" Hermione pleaded.
"Don't mind Hermione we'll find out tomorrow. Whoever is missing at breakfast. It can't be a First or Second year. I think we can count out Third too. So it's either a Fourth Fifth Sixth or Seventh year male. We'll find out."
Harry made a soft sound. "Go ahead and play detective. Don't care about what I want."
Ron blew. "That is it Harry." He dragged him off the bed by his robes staring into Harry's shocked eyes. "We are trying to do what's best FOR YOU! We are your FRIENDS! We want to PROTECT you! And you aren't bloody helping us!"
"HE'LL BE TOSSED IN AZKABAN! HE'LL BE KISSED! He doesn't deserve that! Lock…" Harry swallowed convulsively.
"What Harry! What!" Ron shook him gently.
"T-to be locked…up." Harry finished quietly looking away from Ron's eyes. "Put me down please."
Hermione frowned up at Ron who put Harry down the few inches he'd been off the ground. "Why do you think he'll be tossed in Azkaban Harry? Is he seventeen?"
"I don't want to talk anymore. Are you guys going to leave me alone or do I have to go?" Harry said indifferently.
Professor McGonagall picked then to open the door to the dormitory. "The Headmaster would like you again Potter."
"Albus all I ask for is the chance to undo the hurt I've caused." Severus hissed desperately, knowing Potter was soon toreturn to the room.
"If what you say is true…you might be the only one able to get it out of Harry as he doesn't blame you for your…mistake," Albus said sharply. "If it turns out to be true I will keep you on until the matter is resolved. But apart from meetings with Mr. Potter, which will be advised by another teacher, the only contact I want the two of you to have with each other is classes. If I find you've been anywhere near him outside of them…"
"I would never, in my right mind, hurt him. No matter how much I disliked his father." Severus replied shortly. "But I must ask you not to push him. Working with him will be delicate…"
"I will not. I have much to make up for if in fact…"
There was a knock on the door before it opened a crack and a mop of black hair stuck in. "Profess…" He paused and swallowed stepping into the doorway. "You're still here Sir."
"Yes Harry. Professor Snape has…expressed his apologies and wishes to try to relieve the pain he's caused you. He thinks together you can get past the pain he caused with his actions." Albus said diplomatically while keeping the disbelief out of his voice.
"Oh. Err," Harry stepped forward and into the other chair across from the Headmaster. "You'll…be staying then?"
"Yes Mister Potter." Severus said neutrally.
"The…the school governers won't find out? Or the Ministry or the Prophet?" Harry asked almost eagerly.
"They won't find out…for now." Albus conceded, looking over Harry worriedly. "Are you sure…"
"Yes! I want this! Professor Snape…" Harry turned to the man, gaze somewhere around his shoulder. "You, don't deserve what could happen if people found out." Harry looked back to the Headmaster. "He made a mistake. A big one. But can you really send him away from…his life, to go to Azkaban? Or…to be killed? Kissed?"
Albus' face softened. "It's admirable that even after what he did to you, you think of him too Harry, but some things are…unforgivable."
Harry shook his head and looked at Albus firmly. "Not this. Some things are unforgivable but not this!"
AN: Now is the time to strike! NOW is the time to launch my final operation...#farts#...I have killed the fart. May the fart stay with you!#runs off sniggering#