Disclaimer: Err, I guess I don't own the adorable little munchkin but then again J.K brought him to us at 11…he's four now…#rubs chin thinking before grabbing him# MINE! MINE! MINE! Muahahahahahha!

Rejected Runespoor

Chapter 11

Harry shivered violently as he came back to wakefulness and sat up suddenly.

"Mr. Potter if you get worked up again that spell will reactivate. Just stay calm." The woman from before had returned with a small vial of something that looked noxious in her hand. "This is a restorative potion. Just to flush you of anything you might have picked up in that wild place and make sure you get your nutrients."

Harry turned his head away as she tried to put it to his lips. "I want my snake." He said quietly.

"You can have it when you leave the hospital wing. Right now you must take this potion."

"How do I know it's what you say it is." Harry looked up indifferently and sniffed lightly, turning his head away.

The woman seemed to become exasperated. "You don't. Now are you going to take the potion or not Mr. Potter?"

Harry sneered at her and was about to reply negatively when the Headmaster entered. "Harry take the potion. The sooner you cooperate…the sooner you get your snake."

The bigger part of him wanted to rebel but he opened his mouth reluctantly and grimaced as the foul stuff slid down his throat.

"Good boy." The woman smiled at him.

Now Harry, since you're not really injured and you've been checked up to a point to make sure you're well, you are free to leave the Hospital wing. I think I can show you around the school. And then I'll take you to Hagrid to get your runespoor."

Harry blinked at Dumbledore blankly.

"Okay then. Let's just be going."

Harry didn't say a word as he was walked around and shown the school, from the highest level of the dungeons, as Dumbledore didn't want to take him down too deeply, to the Astronomy tower. Harry absorbed what he thought were the important places, planning even in his head. If he couldn't leave here then by bloody hell, he'd learn! And one day they wouldn't be able to stop him from leaving.

"Well those are the sights. Off to Hagrid's now."

Harry walked along beside the Professor determined not to drop behind like some lackey or to look like he was some follower. He didn't trust this man, don't mind he didn't trust anybody, and really wanted to get out of here as soon as he possibly could. But he had to get his snake first.

Harry stepped up next to Dumbledre in front of the door of the hut and waited while the man knocked and footsteps stomped to the door.

"Professor Dumbledore?" Hagrid asked in his rolling voice. Harry was surprised on the inside. Outside he blinked up at the man.

"'arry?" He asked almost quietly and the boy took a diplomatic step back.

"Yes Sir. I'm here for my snake." Harry replied clipped.

Hagrid stared at his coldness before stepping aside from the doorway. "Oh. Come in. Come in."

Professor Dumbledore had left soon after showing Harry in and answering a few question from them both. Harry now knew Hagrid was the groundskeeper not a professor at the school and had known him as a baby hence the asking if it was 'him'. And Dumbledore had told Hagrid that it was indeed 'baby harry' but that much had happened and then left Harry to explain it to him! Hence why they were now, over the rough table that took up most of the hut besides the man's cot, staring at each other, Harry blinklessly and unerring while Hagrid shifted in his seat and began to look uncomfortable.

"So err, the professor says you've been through a lot?"

Harry picked then to blink once. "I grew up in a forest after I was left there by my muggle relatives whom I'm to infer you knew. They dumped me there at four." Harry stressed. "I lived with my snake doing quite fine on my own until your…Headmaster," Harry sneered lightly. "Decided he now needed me and uprooted me from the only place I've know. Also, seeing fit to separate me from my snake." Harry finished quietly, the disgust in his voice conveying all the anger he didn't.

"Eh." Hagrid cleared his throat. "Well Hogwarts is a mighty fine place 'arry. And…it's better 'en livin' in a forest a'nit?"

Harry paused. "I would rather live, in the forest, with all the wild animals, without my den, without my food, without my SNAKE…than be here. Speaking of which…" He couldn't get any plainer than that.

"Right. I'll just go, err, get 'er for you."

AN: I'm surprised no one's said anything about the chapters being too short yet butI guess considering I update everyday...I mean think about it. This is chapter 11? I've written over 10 000 wrds in about two weeks. Wow...that really suggests Nella should be updated by now.LOL.