AN: As promised a new chapter, with more development between Snape and Harry, I hope I can really get into their relationship and Harry's problems more deeply after this chapter, because I had the feeling I had to fight through this chapter.

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Surely the next morning Snape was Waiting in Poppy's office at exactly 7.30am. Before he arrived in her office he had quickly checked up on Harry, but as expected he was still asleep.
Snape took a seat across from Poppy and put the three nourishment potions that he had made that morning on her desk. The potion itself was quite simple to make, so he was able to brew them this morning before breakfast.
"Ah Severus, good to see you've brought the potions with you." Madame Pomphrey said, looking up from her paperwork "I would like to discuss a few things with you about bringing Mr. Potter back to full health. Of course only time can show us how his health will develop and how he'll react to the treatment, but a few things are already clear. Mr. Potter is severely malnourished and will have to take 2 doses of nourishment potion per day for the first week. You know I'm not a great fan of these potions, but in the case of Mr. Potter it's really needed. "
Severus found himself agreeing, he wasn't a great fan of nourishment potions either, and wanted Harry to regain full strength, mainly by eating more, but he knew it was better for him to at least gain a little strength again.
"Besides these potions, he will have to slowly build up his portion size. He will have to eat 3 main meals per day, and at least 2 healthy snacks." Poppy advised "You have to understand, that in the beginning he won't be able to eat much, but with time he should slowly eat more. You should also encourage him to eat a little more than he wants to, otherwise his appetite will never increase"
"Okay that seems reasonable, I will make sure the boy gets ample nutrition." Severus replied "What about the damage done to his bones?"
"That's the next thing I wanted to bring up," Poppy said, adjusting her seat, "I have been able to repair most of the damage done, but I will have finish healing him in about a week's time. To do it now would be too risky, since it takes quite a lot of energy from him, and I don't believe he'll be up to it until then. Another thing I discovered is that Mr. Potter has a lot of bruises and swollen strains, particularly on his back. These need to be carefully tended to and he will need a salve to be applied on his back daily. I would recommend doing it in the evening, before bed, as it's known to make the patient quite drowsy. "
"Okay Poppy, I can do that. Is there anything else about his physical health that I need to know for now?" Severus asked.
"For now, that's it." Poppy replied "Severus I really need to emphasize that you need to give Mr. Potter time to adjust. He is probably not used to proper care and won't know what to expect"
"Alright Poppy" Snape sighed, although he had never raised a child himself, he had been teacher and head of house for several years and surely knew how to take care of a child, even if that child had some problems. "I will make sure to take proper care of him, when will Mr. Potter wake up?"
"Quite soon, I expect. I will give you some time together, and after I have done a last check-up you can take him to your quarters"
"Thank you Poppy" Severus replied, gratefully.
With that Snape stood up, brushing invisible dust from his robes and walked out of the door transfiguring a chair so he could sit next to the boy.
While he was deep in thought about how he could approach the child, Harry began to stir.
"Ah Mr. Potter, I see you decided to join us"
Who is that? Where am I? Harry slowly opened his eyes and saw a man in black robes sitting next to him. He started to remember what had happened and immediately sat up and looked around for an escape.
Severus, knowing why the boy was scared, tried to calm Harry down. "It's okay Mr Potter, I am Professor Snape, a teacher at Hogwarts. You collapsed yesterday after we apparated here and I took you here, to the Hospital wing. Madame Pomfrey did a diagnostic spell, and saw things that needed to be healed, so she started last night. Most of it is okay now, but we still need to take care of some things, but we don't need to worry about that now. As I said I am a teacher at Hogwarts as well as your new guardian".
He saw Harry start to move around in his bed at that statement, but continued explaining thinking he just had to adjust to hearing all this.
"As my ward you will live in my quarters. School will start in 2 weeks' time in which time the other children will come to school as well. Since I am a teacher here, I will be busy during the day. As you know you're too young to attend Hogwarts, so we still have to figure out what you will do during the day when I'm teaching, though I'm sure we can come up with a solution." He saw the child becoming red. Surely he wasn't going to complain that Severus had to go back to teaching? However a quick glance at Harry identified the problem. 'Of course, how stupid had he been, the child had been asleep for 12 hours, of course had to go to the toilet. But why can he not just ask'
"Ah Mr Potter that's not a problem, I should have known that you had to go. Next time you can just tell me, so we don't have this little problem. I will just go to Madame Pomprey's office and grab some clean sheets". Snape quickly walked to Poppy's office to get the new sheets, but when he came back to Harry's bed the child was gone. He saw movement at the end of the ward and had quite an idea where Harry had gone.
'Already having the tendency to run away, just another James' he thought, annoyed.
He quickly strode to where the boy had gone and in a few steps he was standing behind Harry.
Harry felt someone grabbing his shoulder and flinched, but did not dare to turn around.
"I am sorry, Sir, I will clean it all myself, just please don't h- hit me" Harry said while curling in on himself in an effort to make himself as small as possible.
The boy thought I would go and hit him, just because he wetted himself? Those Dursleys were going to have a hard time when he could get his hands on them..
"Mr. Potter, I know you will have a hard time believing this, but what your relatives did to you is not normal. A child should never have to endure abusive behaviour from anyone, especially not from the people that are designed to take care of you. Now please come back to the Hospital Wing, so I can continue to tell you about what to expect from now on."
Without even a glance at the professor Harry walked back to his bed. Sure, Harry knew how he was treated by his relatives wasn't normal, but then again he wasn't normal either; he was nothing more than a dumb freak.
"Now Mr. Potter I will show you how much more easily this could have been fixed if you had just stayed here and waited for me to retrieve fresh sheets."
Snape grabbed his want and with a flick of his wrist the clean sheets were on the bed and the dirty sheets were flying towards the laundry basket.
All this was carefully followed by the eyes of Harry. What was this? What this like a kind of magic trick, like these ones that Dudley always tried to pull off, but failed at?
Harry's curiosity won over from his fear "What is this, Sir?" Immediately after he said this he put his hands over his mouth and looked terrifyingly at the stern professor. He should not have asked this, at home he wasn't allowed to ask questions either, so why would he be allowed to ask them now?
Snape had already seen the confused look in the boy's eyes, but couldn't figure out why he was looking that way.
At Harry's question Snape had to think, Could this child possibly not know about his magical inherence? And what is it with that scared look? "Just a simple levitation and switch charm, Harry, and please do not be afraid to ask questions." Snape attempted to calm the child with his voice. "I am not like your relatives. I am actually quite happy if children ask questions, that means they are trying to understand something" mentally emphasising the word trying, since most children were dunderheads, who were distracted by something else half way his explanation.
Again Harry's curiosity won over from his fear, "A charm, Sir?" This time his hand didn't go to his mouth, but he still wasn't sure the Professor wouldn't hit him for this and still looked up at Severus with scared eyes. .
"Yes Mr. Potter, a charm, you know the thing that happens when you make a movement with your wand and say the correct words?" Snape queried.
When Snape saw that Harry only looked more confused he drew the conclusion that the boy obviously didn't know about the magical world at all.
"Can I assume that you don't know that you are a wizard Mr Potter?"
Harry nodded his head and Snape sighed, now he did not only have to support the boy, he also had to introduce Harry to the magical world.
"Okay Mr. Potter, can you please climb on the bed, this is going to be a lot of information, but I do need your full attention.
Harry climbed in the hospital bed and curiously looked at the professor. Had he just said wizard? That's only something in books wasn't it?
And so Snape explained the most important things of the magical world to Harry: how Hogwarts worked and how James and Lilly Potter had died.

Review would be appreciated again, anything is welcome, comments about how you dislike it or comment that you do to like it. The next chapter will probably be up tomorrow or the day after tomorrow and will go further into exploring the relationship between Snape and Harry and Harry's problems.