MEETING WITH DUMBLEDORE
It was now around dinner time and Alizabith and Harry kept out of Snape's way so they wouldn't get in more trouble then they were already going to get into. They kept themselves busy by teaching headwig new tricks.
"Harry do you think Snape is still mad about all the charming we did around his house. Or do you think he's lying in wait for the perfect moment to strike." Alizabith asks. Harry just shrugs his shoulders and told headwig to do another swoop around the room.
"He's more then likely still mad and holding a grudge against us." harry clears his throat and starts a bad impression of professor Snape. "Your just like your farther Potter. Always sneaking around. Just as arrogant strutting around thinking you own everything. If it weren't for me you would bring half the castle down." Harry finishes while bowing with his right arm to the side and the other around his waist. Alizabith applauds him loudly.
"Well enough of that why don't we go see what Snape's up to." Alizabith says while getting up off the floor. They exit the room and look at the tap dancing vase on the small table across their room. "I didn't think it would still be dancing."
"I guess Snape just hasn't seen it yet. Lets move on though." Harry states while walking down the stairs and trying to miss all the creaking steps. As soon as they make it to the ground floor they hear slightly raised voices coming from the door to the left of them.
"Wonder what got's Snape's panties in a twist." Alizabith says. they slowly walk over to the door and try to listen through the crack in the bottom of the door.
Snape was sitting in his favorite chair in his study after watching both Potter's go up the stairs he could tell it was going to be a long day and he still had a meeting with Dumbledore in an hour. he calls his elf tiny and ask him to bring him extra strong coffee to help with the migraine. Once he gets his coffee he gets up out of his chair and looks out the window their were a few children out across the street playing. Next door to the children Their was an older man watering his lawn. He did not know how long he was staring out the window for the next thing he heard was his floo activating and out came Albus from the old fire place.
"Severus is that a new look or you had a potions accident and this is the result?" Albus asks while his eyes were twinkling like mad. for Snape was still very colorful.
"This." he gestures to himself. "is the result of the Potter's." Snape growls at him. "why can you not teach the brats occlumency." Snape asks him.
"Well my dear boy I do not have the time to do it myself, With the order and ministry. You should try calling them by their first name they might open up more to you." Albus answers
"And I deal with the dark lords and order meetings. on top of all that, brewing the hospital wings potions for the year to come." Snape growls at him, ignoring the second half of the headmasters sentence altogether. Albus walks to the high backed chair behind Snape's desk and sits down like he owns it.
"its only for a few months that your going to be around them constantly. try to cheer up my boy"
"Cheer up! how can I cheer up when they keep running around charming anything and everything they see! They are just like their father always up to something arrogant and rude beyond measure" Snape sneers
"They both have their bad and good qualities but their more like you when you were a boy." Albus states
"They are nothing like me!" Snape snarls.
"We will just have to agree to disagree I suppose. Now down to business I want you teach Harry and Alizabith more then just occlumency Severus." Albus tells him. Snape looks over to the door and saw shadows under the door and knew the Potters were eaves dropping.
"What did you have in mind." Snape asks. While causally waving his wand at the door. Once he put a silencing spell on the door he puts his wand away, And looks back at Albus.
"I need them to learn Defense and other subjects as well." Albus answers.
"And why pray tell why I have to teach them other subjects as well" Snape sneers at him
"to help with the war who better to learn from then the one who's an exdeatheater." Albus tells him.
Albus gets out of his chair and walks back to the fireplace. "well. I must be off don't want to be late for the ministry. Good day Severus and try not to lose your temper." Albus told him, while throwing floo powder in to the fire place and shouting the ministry. Once Albus was gone Snape turns to the door and waves his wand at it. The door flew open and Alizabith and Harry slowly get up from their knelling position on the floor trying and failing to look innocent.
"What did Dumbledore want Snapie." Alizabith asks.
"Professor Dumbledore. And its none of your concern what he wanted." Snape answers. he starts walking down the hall to the kitchen. The table already had food on it. It had roast beef, potatoes, and dinner rolls. There were three places set at the table. One at the head and two on ether side of the table
"um. Sir do you have another room we can eat at or did you fix the table and chairs already." Harry asks thinking about the musical chairs from that evening.
"oh can we eat outside?" Alizabith asks with a wistful look on her face. She was also thinking about the musical chairs
"No we will eat in here like civilized people. And yes I fixed the table earlier Potter." Snape says while giving them a glare. Alizabith starts to pout that he fixed the chairs.
"don't look at us that way. We didn't do it it was Bill Joe. I swear people these days." Harry says shaking his head. Alizabith starts to giggle until Snape gives her a glare that if glares could kill she would be dead ten times over by now.
"Just sit at the table potter I do not have all day." Snape snaps. He goes over to the head of the table and sits down Alizabith and Harry slowly goes over to the table and sits down timidly. Once the food was eaten and the dishes taken away Snape looks over to the Potters and scowls "follow me we have much to learn today." they get up from the table and follow Snape back into his study.
"What are we going to be doing Sir." Harry asks. Snape ignores him completely and goes to his desk and beckons them over to the chairs in front. The chairs were winged back and look very uncomfortable.
"Snapers why do we gotsta learn occlumency. Oh is it because if we don't moldy shorts will give up and you will take his place, but with a different cause. like students who are dunderheads and inept at potions that they should be used as potions ingredients." she says all in one breath. She clears her throat and says in her best Snape voice which is not even close to Snape's for it was still to high. "All dunderheads this way so I can cut you up and use you as potion ingredients." she switches back to her normal tone of voice and says "and I will be like." she gets out of her chair and puts her hands on her hips "Stop their Snape they are just children. for shame." she starts shaking her head.
"Do you just talk to hear your own voice Ms. Potter." Snape sneers at her.
"No. not really why?" she asks while sitting back into her chair. She looks over at Harry and he just shrugs his shoulders.
"Now if your quite finish we have business to attend to." Snape gets out of his chair and walks over to the book shelf on the right wall.
"You sure have a lot of books around here are you a collector of books. or are they porno magazines disguised as books?" Alizabith asks as she leans forward in her chair to look and see what Snape has on his desk. There wasn't much on his desk but spare parchment an ink well, and a quill. She grabs the quill. and pulls the parchment and ink well closer to her. Harry leans forward also, to look at what she was doing. Alizabith slowly takes the topper off the ink well and dips the quill into it. Once that was done she looks over at Snape to see him still looking for some book, she looks back at the parchment and started to make lines to play tic-tact-toe she puts an X in the top corner square and gave the parchment and quill to harry. Harry looks over at Snape making sure he still was not looking and put's a O in the middle box. Under the tic-tact-toe, Harry drawls a smiley face and hands it back to Alizabith. Alizabith takes the quill and parchment, she dips the quill in the ink and puts an X in the top middle square. She puts under Harry's happy face, a face with its tongue hanging out the side of its mouth. She noticed that Snape was turning around so she hurriedly put everything back to where she found it even the spare parchment that had their game.
"Now I want you to to read the first few chapters." Snape says. He hands them the books and points to the big red book and Alizabith hands "that one is to help you learn to clear your mind and that one." he points to dark green book in Harry's hands. "Will explain what occlumency is."
"oh great more reading. When will my reading adventure ever be over." Alizabith says dramatically. She glares at the offending book in her hands and gets up out of her chair. "well Snapers if that is all I have some unfinished business to attend to." she nods her head at Snape and Harry. then walks out the door.
"Sometimes I wonder about her." Harry states and gets up out of his chair and chases after her. "Lizzy wait up." he calls after her. Alizabith slows down and looks at him with an expectant expression.
"Well? Do you want to go outside." Alizabith asks. Harry nods his head and they both put their books down on the small table across their room and go to the front door an open it and walk out. They see three boys across the street playing with a baseball bat and a tennis ball. They walk over to the fence to watch them play. The boy with the bat had sandy blond hair and deep blue eyes. He was tall and lanky he was wearing a tan visor a green t-shirt and blue jeans. The boy behind him had the same color hair and a lighter shade of blue eyes he was probably just as tall but with a bit more build. he was wearing a red t-shirt and black baggie pants. The boy that was throwing the tennis ball had dark brown hair and baby blue eyes he was shorter than the other two but not by much maybe an inch or two. He was wearing a black t-shirt that showed off his wide shoulders, and tan shorts that just barely passed his knees.
"do you guys wanna play?" the one with tennis ball asks.
"Joesph if they didn't want to play they would have never come over. I'm Cameron, and that one over there with the bat is Steve my brother. the one holding the ball is Joseph he's my cousin." Cameron tells them.
"Hello im Harry and this is Alizabith my sister." he tells him while gesturing to Alizabith and himself. "What are you playing by the way?" he asks them.
"Were just hitting the ball around so do you guys want to join." Joseph asks while coming over to Harry and Alizabith.
"Sure." Alizabith says for the both of them. They get into there yard. After they were explained the rules they were put to fetching the balls for Joseph while Steve bats. After about ten balls and harry not missing a single ball they started to switch positions.
"Dude do you play baseball or something." Steve asks harry
"Whats baseball and whats a dude." Alizabith asks back
"Its an American sport with a bat and ball its kind of like cricket but not. were just visiting our grandfather. Were from America. Oh and dude is a slang term for somebody." Steve Answers. harry noticed he was a chatter box. "are you guys from around here?" he asks
"Yes and No. this country yes this town no. how long are you staying here in Britain for?" harry asks
"Until the end of the month." Cameron answers while winking at Alizabith.
"can we play now or are we going to wait for me to die of old age." Joseph asks. They all went and played until their grandfather called them in because it was getting really late.
"bye." Joesph and Steve call over their shoulders.
"Yeah hope to see you tomorrow." Cameron calls after them. Alizabith and harry slowly go back to Snape's hoping they do not get into trouble for going out instead of not reading the books like they were suppose to. When they walk into the house it was really quite so quite that you could hear a pin droop on the other side of the room. they hoped they could make it up to their room without Snape seeing them. While walking up the stairs the random objects that they charmed earlier were still dancing singing or what ever they charmed them to do they saw this as a good sign that Snape hadn't gone up here yet to check on them. They hurriedly go up the stairs to their room and picked up the books that they put onto the small table that was in the hall way. Once they got to their room they sat on Harry's bed and opened the books that they had in their hands. Not even ten minutes go by when Snape comes into their room sneering down at them.
"how far have you gotten on those books." Snape demands.
Harry and Alizabith look at each other with wide eyes."Oh Snape. The great and powerful Snape. Please spare us." Alizabith states while making her eyes go super wide at him.
"We are only children that can only do so much." Harry goes along. Snape starts glaring at them but they just got off the bed. Got on to their knees, and clasped their hands together with a pleading look on their faces.
"You may punish us dunderheads for we can do nothing but plead for mercy oh great Snape." Alizabith crawls over and grabs Snape's leg while looking at him.
"Are you quite finished. Unhand me Ms. Potter." Snape says in a voice like ice. They both shiver involuntary.
"Yes sir. And no sir we did not finish what we were suppose to read we went out to play with the boys across the street." Alizabith says while her and Harry got off the floor.
"so you deliberately disobeyed me by not reading what I asked you to." Snape sneers at them.
"No you told us to read it. You did not tell us it had to be done by a certain time. so technically speaking we did not deliberately disobey you." Harry points out. Snape just raises his eyebrow at him.
"If were going to be technical. I asked how far have you and your sister gotten on the books not have you finished the assignment I gave you." Snape glares at Harry.
"Oh well just the first word of this entirely boring book." Alizabith states while trying to cover up a yawn. Harry glares at his sister but she just shrugs and gives him an innocent look.
"go to bed and do not come out of this room until morning I will not have you sneaking around here going through my things." Snape snaps at them.
"Why would we go through your things its more fun doing practical homework on your things then going through them?" Alizabith asks while going over to her bed and sliding into the covers. Harry just shakes his head and lays down.
"I do not know why you two meddle in things that should not be meddled in." Snape answers her.
"we don't meddle. That is Dumbledore's area of expertise. We just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time more often then not." Harry tells him covering up his own yawn. "besides we don't always meddle if we did we would have the answer if you slept in a coffin or not. Or why your such a grumpy pants in the morning, and how to change that." Harry says while closing his eyes.
"or about the dirty magazines in disguise in your study. But we don't so we are not meddlers." Alizabith says. While closing her eyes.
"good night sir." they both say together.
"good night." Snape says while walking out of the room and closing the door behind him