HOMEWORK AND OCLLUMENCY LESSONS

When Snape gets to the kitchen he looks over his shoulder at the two brats and wonders what they were planning. Potter's never do something without ulterior motive he thought. he sneers at them and say coldly to go sit down while sitting down himself. They both scramble into their respective seats and look at him from under their fringe while eating their sandwiches and chips.

"Sir do we really have to read, And if we do what if I say that I already read both books?" Alizabith asks.

"Yes you both need to read." Snape sneers at her. "And if that really were true I would say that you were ready to start occlumency." He raises his eyebrow at here with a questioning look on his face.

"Then I would tell you that I did not practice occlumency just read what was in though's lovely long books of yours." Alizabith try's to raise one eyebrow but ended up raising both. "And I tell you that reading at two in the morning is the best time to do any reading because it's quite with only one's self thought's for company. Right Harry?" she looks over at Harry, But he just shrugs his shoulders and continues eating.

"And pray tell why you were up at two in the morning." Snape growls at her giving her a glare that would send first years wetting the pants.

"oh you should know. It was your snoring last night that woke me." She looks questioningly at Snape. "and once I get woken up it's a real chore to go back to sleep. So I started to color on the walls but then thought better of it. After I drew the great lake." she looks over at Harry and he was shaking with suppressed giggles. So she looks back over at Snape and he was looking at her with a confused expression on his face. "Then I thought why not run in circles in my room until im really dizzy but I did not want to wake Harry up at that time. So then I started doing hands stands in my room. But after a while I got bored with that." she took a look back at Harry and he was now quietly giggling into his hands. "so I brought out my trusty marker of chaos and was going to go to your room but then thought you would murder me if I drew on your face." she looks at Snape sadly. "So finally I picked up the book you gave me and it was now two fifteen and read both books until four this morning."

Snape looked like he was just itching to strangle her. He takes a deep breath then another and another. Until finally he growls and in a deathly quiet voice. "You colored on the walls. Did your family never teach you it was not proper to color on the walls, or did they allow perfect Potters to do what ever they want."

"well I wish I could say they allowed us to what ever we wanted but I can't, And no they did not tell me not to do it as long as it was in our room they could not care any more, as long as we do our chores." Harry states and looks over at him with a raised eyebrow. He could see what his sister was saying it was better for people to believe their preconceived notions about then the real truth.

"Yeah and it's not like it was a bunch of squiggly lines or anything it is pretty good at least I think so." Alizabith looks questioningly at Snape. He was simply glaring at her. She thought it was a waste of time to talk about the colored on wall. "So Snape I gotsta question I was wondering if we did do this occlumency business would there be a chance I would not be able to talk to Harry through our minds any more cause that would be bad what if he got in trouble and I couldn't save him from it because I didn't know he was in trouble?" She looks over at Harry and he was nodding his head at her question.

"I do not know what you two are talking about no wizard or witch can speak through each others mind. " Snape tells them. He did not know why they keep asking this one question about occlumency but he was going to find out.

"But we been doing it since I could remember but Lizzy has gotten really good at putting up her fences up so I do not hear her every thought that passes through her mind." Harry looks questioningly at Snape. He was really glad about it to cause some days it gave him a migraine to listen to every thought that passed through her mind. But he also missed it because it was funny listen to her sarcastic answers that she chose not to say.

"and if that were true you would be able to grasp the concept of occlumency that much quicker." Snape growls at them.

"but sir you're not answering my question. Because I read that occlumency is different then what me and Harry have done for years plus it would be more difficult to learn to beat of an attack of the mind then simply closing off one part of the mind." Alizabith tells him with her own glare. Why can't he just tell us yes or no. she thought to her self.

"I am answering your bloody question if and I said if you could talk through the mind then it most likely will cut it off you would learn to go without listening to each others every waking thought." Snape answers.

"but that sucks troll bogies why do I have to learn occlumency if its Harry that has the visions of moldy farts." Alizabith asks him. She had finally given up on trying to tell him that it is possible.

"Albus thinks it's a good idea to have you both studying occlumency." Snape simply tells her.

Alizabith snorts and gets up from the table "well I would love to sit and chat more to your lovely Highness but I have homework to do." she walks out of the kitchen and up the stairs.

"but why does he want her to learn occlumency. Is it because she can see the visions through my mind as well or for a toltal different reason all together." Harry asks.

"I try not to understand the workings of Albus's mind." Snape glares at him and rises from the table.

"sir one more question why did you agree for me and Lizzy to stay here for the summer I understand that you were appointed to teach us occlumency but you could have us learning from gimmauld place as well as here?" Harry looks questioningly at him. It had been bugging him since he had found out that he would be staying at Snape's. Snape glares at him and walks out of the kitchen and towards his potion lab.

Harry gets up from his chair and goes to his and Lizzy's room to see her actually doing her homework so he starts on his DADA. He looks over at his sister after a while to see she is plowing through her homework it looked like she was already half way through the work she started on earlier. Lizzy was really smart in his opinion but liked to play to dumb. It was something that never left her from the Dursleys home. They had to be worse than Dudley to get any peace. otherwise Dudley would wine and cry until they both Lizzy and him got into trouble.

"Lizzy what are you working on?" Harry asks her. She looks over and gives a short reply "potions" and goes back to back to work her quill flying across her parchment. He goes back to his DADA parchment . Soon all you could hear is the scratching of quill on parchment and turning of pages. By the time Harry had finished one summer assignment Alizabith had finished potions, history of magic, and herbology, when Harry looked outside the sky was dusted with a light pink with the last rays of sunshine. "well looks like it's a good place to stop. Want to go to the kitchen to grab a snack." he gets off his bed and stretching his aching back.

"sure I could go for a break my fingers are really cramped." she tells him while getting off her own bed and going to the door. She looks over her shoulder and asks "come on jerk face monkey weasel let's go." harry follows her out of the bedroom down the stairs and into the kitchen to see Snape over some parchment marking it with a quill. "sir what's ya doin?" she asks him

Snape looks over at them and looks back down to write some more. "its none of your concern." he tells them. He writes some more than signs his name with a flourish and rolls the parchment up and puts it in his pocket. "How many assignments did you finish?" he asks them

"well I finished DADA. I think Lizzy finished potions, herbology, and history of magic." harry answers while looking over at Alizabith to see her nodding her head.

Snape raises his eyebrow and looks over at them. And motions them to sit down. "when we are done eating I would like to see it." Snape asks

"well I guess you could see it but I think you might have to fight the homework monster for it. I read my homework to it and the monster liked it so much It said that he was going to use my homework as a blanket." Alizabith tells him. Snape raised his eyebrow and said nothing. The food made its appearance known by the lovely smell. Dinner was a silent affair. Once dinner dishes were gone Snape tells them to bring their summer assignments so he can check them over.

When they came back to the kitchen with their assignments they sit down. Harry turns to Lizzy and whispers "Why do you think he wants to check our work?"

"Well he needs to check if it really is good enough for the homework monster to make a blanket out of it." she says while looking at Snape when he accioed his red ink. "or he decided to that we were such good children that he was going to bring us to candy land after he grades our homework." Snape snorts and finishes his marking of Harry's assignment.

Harry looks over at her frowning "if he was taking us anywhere it would be to the dungeon to cut us up into little itty bitty pieces and to use as potion ingredients."

Alizabith giggled then got a serious look on her face "well I would rather go to candy land where I can eat so much sugar substances that I get an overly done sugar high." she looks back at Snape while he gives Harry back his assignment the page didn't have too much red ink and the small amount that did was easily fixable with a few references to support his findings. "that could have been worse it could be the whole entire page which Is looking to be mine at the moment."

Harry looks over and indeed her assignment was going through more red ink then he thought it should coming from her. "well if you actually tried and not do it half way you would more than likely not have to rewrite anything." Alizabith glares at Harry and shakes her head at him vigorously. Snape hands her herbology homework it was riddled with red ink sarcastic remarks about her intelligence.

"Sir if you think that my work is that horrible why did you not just throw it away it would have been better than waste your red ink that way" She inquiringly at him.

Snape looks up from her next assignment "if I would do that you would give me an even worse paper than you just gave me." he tells her simply he goes back to reading and marking her essay. Soon this one was done with the same red marking as the first. He gives it back to Alizabith and she sighs wondering if she could get away with not doing the assignment at all if she had to deal with her intelligence being questioned.

Snape looks up at Alizabith and asks "if you could get this high level of work in my potion essay why did you not with though's."

"well sir I was not planning on showing you all my assignment's just the potion one so what did you think on it do I get a O, or since I am just a Griffindor I gets an A?" she asks him

"the work was well done and put together. Now I want to know is why did you not do it for all your assignments." he glares just daring for her to lie to him.

"You see sir that the homework monster was bugging me during the whole process and I could not get anything done that way so I wrote some crappy papers to get the monster to leave me alone after that I just continued that way." She looks over at Snape and sees that he looking like he was about to interrupt so she hurried on. "I guess the homework monster sucks at checking my work because he thought it was really good but I'll rewrite the papers to meet your impossible standards." She huffed at him. She looks over at Harry and could tell he was not happy with her for something, and she knew what that something was she just chose to ignore it.

"Potter stop with your rambling he it is growing tiresome." Snape tells her pinching the bridge of his elongated nose. "Mr. and Ms. Potter follow me to the study were going to go put what you read in occlumency in to some practice. He gets up from the table and walks to his study without looking back he hear the quite shuffle of their feet and knew they were following him. He knew there was something in her explanation that rang with truth but just was not sure on what he knew it by the way she answered him, when the youngest Potter brat told you something that was false she had a hard time not fidgeting around.

When they got to his study looks over at them and really looks. He always known they were small for their age, but did they really have to wear clothes that looked to fit a small whale that were so riddled with holes that the youngest had to wear a tank-top underneath to not show anything off. He knew if he said something about it he would get a long-winded story about something or other. He also noticed the way they stood close together to the point of almost touching. While Alizabith was just a bit behind Harry their eyes told a story that they went through things that people five times their age couldn't handle they had eyes of the elderly, but still ready to take on the world to do what's right. He could see their unease posture on decided to take pity on them and get started.

He walks behind his desk and sits down, "Today I am going to try to explain how to clear ones mind and different techniques one uses." He looks back over at them and noticed they look intrigued, he noticed that both their eyes sparkled when they were interested in something. "one way to clear ones mind is through meditating, as you should have read." he glares at them.

"I read that and know that would take to long if we were experiencing a real attack of ligamecy, I wouldn't have enough time to say hold on let me meditate real quick than you can mind attack me." Alizabith says excitedly missing Snape's frown.

"yes but It would be the easiest to start with. There is also breathing techniques that would help to clear ones mind." he tell her.

"how does breathing clears your mind?" harry asks he looks over at Lizzy and noticed she was looking questioningly at Snape as well.

"i will explain that later." He glares at them he was getting tired of them interrupting him. "another technique is to use imagery which we will not be using." he finishes, he looks back over at them and sees that Alizabith was pouting and though he knew not to say anything his curiosity got the better of him. "what are you pouting about?" he asks Alizabith

"Sir what if I wanted to use imagery to do occlumency." She asks while still pouting

Snape looks questioningly at Harry and sees him shrug his shoulders. "it does not matter want, in this instance for it is beyond you to clear your mind that way." He growls "now if were done interrupting I would like to finish and send you on your way." they both nod and he goes on "to clear your mind with meditation would be best to start with is to get you calm. I want both of you to meditate before bed." he gets up from his chair and starts to pace behind his desk.

Alizabith looks over at Harry and points at Snape who was still pacing. Harry shrugs his shoulders again. "Do you think he's going mental on us?" Alizabith thought to Harry.

Harry shakes his head and thinks "No. I think he's planning our demise I wonder if its going to be gruesome." they both start to chuckle.

Alizabith looks over at Harry and starts to giggle. "Would you expect anything less from old Snapie over there he probably can kill us fifty different ways and bring us back each time for more, for days before he get's bored and tire of it." she thought to Harry

"i don't know he probably would though for all the trouble we put him through."Harry starts have a full on laughing fit with Alizabith.

"Pray tell what is so funny that keeps you ?" Snape sneers at them. He been trying to get their attention for the past five minutes with no such luck.

"You see sir the bubbling bat wigs are have taken over our minds and they started to use mine and Harry's physic connection to commerce with each other." Alizabith answers with a slight giggle.

"Yeah and they were talking about different ways to sew the carpet back up after we burn a hole into it." Harry tells him while Alizabith nods her head looking like she was on a sugar high.

"And why would my carpet have burn holes" Snape growls at them.

"I didn't mean to the grumbling bumbles butts made me they told me there would be buried treasure underneath the carpet and I just had to prove them wrong so I burned a few hole's into your carpet." Alizabith looks at him sadly, while on the inside she was grinning like a loon.

Snape was glaring at them fire was spitting out of his dark cold eyes. "Their better be no holes in my carpet or its detention for both of you now back to what we were discussing." He looks at them again wondering if this was just a waste of time. "now as we said though's three things help clear your mind and each. To really understand to meditate and clear your mind would be best if you did it with someone before hand then you may or may not grasp the concept. Go sit on the floor comfortably crossed legged." they scramble to do what he said and when they were in position they looked at him expectantly. "close your eyes." Snape told them, they close their eyes filling exposed and a bit silly for doing so. "listen to the sounds all around you." he tells them, they do so without any hesitation. They could hear the wind howling outside where a tree branch is hitting a window somewhere around the house, they could hear Snape's footfalls were somewhere to the left of them. Snape could see them visibly relax from their stiff postures so he goes on to the next step "Now clear your mind of all thoughts, worries, and doubts."

Harry had little problems doing this, but for Lizzy every time she went to wipe a thought out of her mind a new one would jump in its place. After awhile she got tired of it, she got up glaring at the floor. Which startled Harry to open his eyes in his serene state. "Is there a different way to clear ones mind with out trying to stop my thoughts?" she asks Snape "I think it would be easier if I didn't have to clear my mind of all thoughts because every time I try a new thought comes in its place."

Snape looks at her closely. "sit back on the ground as you were before, and I will instruct you through the process." he tells her. She does as she was told with a frown on her face. Alizabith watches warily as he sits down on the right of her. Snape tells Alizabith to close her eyes again, she does so with her ever-present frown on her face. "Now listen to my voice and clear your mind." he tells her. When she does she found it easier to clear her mind this way. After awhile of Snape talking her through clearing her mind he looks over at Harry and sees that he was looking at him strangely he motions him to do the same as his sister. He does so without a thought of protest.

After awhile Snape deems the calm enough to move on to the next step. "You can open your eyes and stand up now." Snape tells them. Alizabith and Harry open their eyes and look around while getting up off the floor. He could see that they were still relaxed so he goes on. "When you have someone attacking your mind you should fall their prescience in your mind. It will fell like something that does not belong. Your objective would be to expel this prescience." Snape looks back over at them and sees that they were hanging on his every word. "Now pull out your wands and well start with Harry for this hour." Snape looks at the clock to see that it was seven thirteen he would teach Alizabith occlumency this way in at eight thirteen. He points his wand at Harry. Snape could see Alizabith tense up he looks at her and shakes his head at her. Snape whispers the spell to enter ones mind, when he gets to Harry's mind he could see a wall with big patches in it where one can slip through. Snape slips through a crack in Harry's defenses and immediately he is bombarded with memory's. A six-year-old Harry and his sister drawling in some cupboard. Five year old Harry and Alizabith climbing a tree to get away from a child that looked like a pig in a wig, and his friends. A ten-year old Harry pushing his sister on a swing.

Finally he pulls himself out of Harry's mind and see's that the boy is on his knees breathing heavily. "I specifically told you to push me out of your mind boy." Snape shouts at him.

Harry glared at him "Well I'm sorry sir, for not knowing how to push you out of my mind." he said sarcastically.

"I told you to clear your mind and push me out. What do you understand in that." Snape says bitingly. Harry glares some more and gets off his knees and gets in an attacking position. Snape goes into his mind again and Harry try's to push him out but just could not seem to do it. It felt like when he did push back Snape deviled further into his mind. He was about to push his professor out of his mind with all his might, when all of a sudden Snape pulls out of his mind abruptly hurting him even more in the process. He looks up at Snape and sees him rubbing his wrist, and glaring at something or someone behind him. He look back and sees his sister glaring hard with her wand pointing at Snape, he gulps he knows this is not going to go down pleasantly.

"Potter if you can not control yourself then I will have to make you leave the room." Snape snaps at her

"It got you out of his mind right?" she snaps right back at Snape. Harry was hoping that Lizzy would stop their but she didn't. "Plus you're hurting me as well I don't appreciate someone meddling with our mind." she said coldly.

Snape gave her a confused look. He did not understand her logic, There could be no logical way to break into her mind while in he was in the boy's mind. "what the bloody hell are you talking about Potter I was not in your mind." he asked her, with a frown on his face.

Alizabith lowers her wand. And all but yells at Snape "Like I been telling you sir I have some physic connection with Harry and it works both ways so you go into his mind and go to far you go into mine." she was beyond upset she was trembling with her anger, her cheeks were flushed, eyes flaring. "I'm tired of people telling it's not possible when I know for a bloody fact." Alizabith yells. She helps Harry off the floor then walks out.

"Well that could have gone better, wonder where she's running off to?" harry asks to no one in particular.

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