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Chapter 8: Awkward Moments

It was not very long at all that Severus Snape had in relative peace and quiet on the ward after Poppy left, as she was shortly back letting Harry Potter into the secure ward.

"Hello Professor," the young man greeted his former teacher feeling awkward. This prickly man would not like it that Harry had seen all those memories and he was still here on the planet and about to get quizzed by the son of the love of his life.

"Spit it out Potter," snapped Snape assertively after a particularly long pause.

"Thank you for all you have done for us and all you have had to endure. I am proud to know you and I hope that we can learn to be friends in the future. Can we start again with each other? Hello I am Harry Potter", the young man said while putting his hand out for Severus Snape to shake.

The dark orbs of the Headmaster looked closely at the boy no young man and then reached out to shake his hand. "Please to meet you I am Severus Snape".

"So Harry what are you planning to do now you have knocked off Mouldyshorts and become the Saviour of the world?" asked the pithy schoolmaster.

"I have been offered a position as a trainee Auror and you know as well I do that my education has been sorely lacking in some areas so I can not afford to give up the opportunity. The Ministry has offered us the so-called golden trio honorary NEWTs but I don't want to just accept them. I want to do night school or some type of Senior College option so I can pick up the bits I missed and take on learning more about the subjects I would like to study.

While I have always wanted to be an Auror and we will need Aurors to round up the rogues who are still out there I am not sure that I want to do the job when I am 100. It is not really an older wizard's job. I also want to help clean up the Ministry cause things that happened to me should not happen to minors. So I think if I learnt more about the world and get a better understanding of my options I would like to train in a second career that would enable me to help orphaned children.

Our Mia here will want to come back and do her seventh year although she could take the exams today and pass with flying colours. Do you know when we were on the run she basically taught Ron and I all our NEWT subjects and then some? Her parents will want her to graduate and they will expect her to work for her grades," advised Potter not knowing that his friend's parents were no longer alive.

Why did she keep that a secret that was something Severus would have to ask when the girl awoke? "Do you know if she has any extended family that the Ministry could contact so they we could find her parents in Australia?" he asked her friend.

"No I understand from Mia that it was just the three of them. Grandparents died years ago and there was no close cousins or anything like that so we are going to have to wait until she wakes to find out the details of her parents." Harry sighed as he thought of his friend and her sending of her parents away. It had been particularly hard on Hermione as she was really close to her parents as an only child.

Severus Snape thought it was time to change the subject. "So what do you want to do in evening class besides your NEWT subjects?"

"Well I want to do some fun things but practical things like cooking, household maintenance, budgeting and sewing. I can only cook so much before I am repeating the same meals again and again. Other things like understanding stuff about the wizarding community which pureblood families all know about and I still don't have a clue.

Subjects like law and psychology, as it would help my career according to Hermione. I want to get back in touch with my Muggle side as well. I want to be able to cope in that society as well such as being able to use the Internet like Hermione. There are probably many ideas we can learn from the Muggles but we have been too isolated for too long that we now have such division based on parentage. But first thing first as an extra project I want to get my NEWTs under my own effort," stated Harry. The young wizard had thought about it many times while they were on the run. What he wanted and how he would like to live his life after the demise of Voldemort.

Harry Potter had never like publicity he had in the magical world. With greater education and more logical thinking in society he could possibly live a normal life. The young wizard had realised that he had missed learning about many things thanks to the overhanging threat of Voldemort and the war. If he could catch up with his peers maybe he could be seen as normal wizard and live his life like an average magical person who could easily cope in Muggle and magical society.

"So you feel that there were gaps in the curriculum?" Severus drolly stated thinking instantly of the pink fluff better known as Doris Umbridge.

"Of course when you get an all theory DADA course for OWLs. Whoever put Umbridge here to teach was off their sodding rocker!" exclaimed Potter. It seemed his DADA teacher every year tried to kill him for the six years of his schooling but the UmBitch was the worse one of the lot.

"Right Mr Saviour of the world you are going to sit on that cot over there and you are going to write up your ideas. Put it in bullet points. You are also to explain what and why you feel that your existing education has not met your needs. I need this from you and if you can get anyone else you know who feels the same to write it up for me as well. We are reviewing everything and taking the opportunity to make some changes," advised Severus Snape before he snapped his fingers and called for Tinky.

"Yes Snapey?" the elf asked when she arrived.

"Mr Potter needs a quill, ink and parchment to write up a couple of reports for me. Can you bring one of the hospital bed tables for him so he can sit on the cot over there and do it for me today? Can you also pack up the extra cot you made up last night? I am going to have a number of visitors today so I will need Slinky to come up and set her desk up in here. We have so much work to do in the next couple of months as I want the school to reopen in September".

Tinky was most pleased to see the life in her Snapey's eyes. The last year had been hard on him and his eyes had often looked dull, cold and lifeless. After completing the first task she set off to get the mini office set up for the Headmaster.

"For starters" sniped the boy wonder "we can modernize with paper and pens, the quill went out 100 odd years ago in the rest of the world".