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Trial by Fire	By : sazsazzel Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Snape Views: 37684 -:- Recommendations : 4 -:- Currently Reading : 4
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any of the characters associated with the books/movies and I never have and never will make any money from the writing of this story

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AN: I'm back again. That's right, two chapters in one day. This is the longest chapter written so far and it does jump about a bit so I hope you can keep with it and still enjoy it. Once again any and all reviews are welcome.

Chapter 13 – The students return

September the 1^st had come around and Harry couldn’t be more excited. He was practically bubbling with anxiety. What would his friends say to his new appearance? He hadn’t heard from them at all this summer. That was partially his fault because he had been so busy and so much had happened but friendships were meant to go both ways and he hadn’t even heard off them during the first part of the summer when they knew he couldn’t contact them. He guessed that he would have to wait and see; as the saying goes, only time would tell. Despite this he couldn’t wait for everyone to get here. He sneaked a look at Severus who was talking to Minerva and drinking a cup of black coffee. Severus was hiding something from him. It wasn’t bad because if Severus really wanted to hide something from him he wouldn’t have a clue something was being hidden. He’d asked him about it on several occasions but was always told the same thing, ‘You’ll just have to wait and see’. He scowled playfully at his mate, he hated secrets. As if he could feel Harry watching him Severus looked over and smirked at his mate before going back to his discussion with Minerva.

Harry growled before resuming nibbling on his toast. He knew whatever Sev was hiding had something to do with the opening feast. This he knew because he’d managed to get that much from his head of house. She didn’t know what was going on; only that he had something big planned for the opening feast. Harry had also walking in Severus communing with Hogwarts several times and whenever he’d finished whatever he was doing he always looked smug. ‘Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to find out with everyone else. And here I was thinking there would be perks to sleeping with the Headmaster’ he thought.

Severus spluttered and started coughing after hearing Harry’s thought. This caused his green eyed beauty to snigger and Minerva to give them both exasperated looks.

Harry couldn’t wait to try out his new talent. He’d learnt to search out for his own kind, for people who had even faint traces of phoenix in them. He could even awaken this side of them if it was strong enough. Of course he wouldn’t do this without there consent but it would be nice to have some more of his kind out there in the world. Harry went back to quietly anticipating the arrival of the Hogwarts express despite it being only 8am and that the train hadn’t even left the station yet and wouldn’t arrive for several hours.

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‘Twas the 1^st of September, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse… only a rat. He scurried through the deathly quiet halls as if the hounds of hell were on his heels. He skidded to a stop outside a grand pair of doors adorned with silver snakes. The rat squeaked and transformed into a podgy balding man. He was hunched over and still twitching his nose as if he’d spent too much time in his animagus form. He hesitated for a second before knocking quickly and entering the room without waiting to be granted entrance. This turned out to be a mistake.

Voldermort was asleep in his bed dreaming of running and dancing through a field of daisies. He loved this dream, it always made him smile. What didn’t make him smile though were the wards of his room going off, alerting him to an intruder. He bolted straight up in bed, his wand already in hand. In a split second several things happening in quick succession. The silk sheet on the bed slipped revealing his naked chest as well as his feet. I mention his feet because on his feet were purple bunny slippers. This caused him great alarm because no-one was allowed to see his bunny slippers! It would ruin his image. This caused him to curse whoever had dared enter the room before he’d seen who it was, not that it would matter. In turn this found the rat man writhing on the floor under the Cruciatus curse. Voldermort lifted the curse just before the man released his bowels over his bedroom floor, he didn’t want that, the smell would linger for hours. He quickly readjusted the sheet to cover his slippers before addressing the snivelling man on the floor.

“What do you think you’re doing Wormtail?” he hissed.

“M-master! Forgive me! I would not have disturbed you i-if it wasn’t urgent. You have a visitor!” Wormtail stuttered.

“You don’t think they should wait for me to rise? You think that someone who turns up unannounced should be granted an audience with me instantly?! Do you?! They should wait! Leave me!” he bellowed.

Wormtail crawled on his hands and knees across to his master, “But Master! He’s in the hall. It’s the old fool! It’s Dumbledore!”

“WHAT?!” Voldermort shouted, “You’ve left him in the hall ALONE?!”

Wormtail cowered on the floor expecting another curse.

Voldermort jumped out of bed forgetting about his slippers in his haste. He was quickly reminded of them when Wormtail squeaked.

“Damn it!” He pointed his wand a Wormtail, “Obliviate!” While Voldermort waited for the fog to clear from Wormtail’s eyes he quickly took off his slippers and pushed them under the bed. “Sssstop sssnivelling Wormtail! Go and keep an eye on the old fool!” he hissed.

Wormtail didn’t need to be told twice and he scurried from the room.

‘What on earth does that old fool want? He must be totally off his rocker to come here… wait a minute! How did he find me?! Damn it!’ he thought. With a flick of his wand he was fully clothed in black robes that were open at the front revealing his bare chest. He marched from the room and headed for the grand hall prepared to skin the old fool alive.

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From the Astronomy Tower Severus could see the Hogwarts express pulling into Hogsmeade Station. This was definitelygoing to be an interesting year and he was sure all hell was going to break loose at the welcoming feast. He smiled to himself; he couldn’t wait to see what Harry would think. With that thought he apperated to his office to put the finishing touches to his plan.

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Voldermort threw open the doors to the grand hall as he burst into the room. He was greeted with the site of Dumbledore sitting on his throne with a leg hanging over the arm quite casually. He appeared to be drinking from a silver flask and if he could tell he would say he seemed tipsy if not drunk. Voldermort smirked and quickly fired off several cursed at the old man. Despite his inebriated state he managed to either dodge or deflect them and even send back a few curses of his own.

“Is that any way to treat a guest Tom?” Dumbledore asked with a smile, his eyes twinkling.

Voldermort hissed, “Don’t call me that you old goat!” and then sent another curse at him. “What are you doing here? How dare you come here? Do you have a death wish?”

Dumbledore sighed, “You always did ask SO many questions, even when you were little Tom. Always blah, blah, blah!” he said while gesturing wildly with his hands.

Voldermort screamed before aiming at the floor by Dumbledore’s feet and blasting a hole hoping to trap the old fool but unfortunately he managed to dodge it. He signed, “What do you want?”

The old fool beamed at him before saying, “To form an alliance my dear boy!” he clapped his hands together in glee with his twinkle going full force. “We both have a common enemy! Potter and Severus! We are both powerful in our own right but imagine what we could do if we combine our efforts? We would be unstoppable! We could RULE THE WORLD!!!” He then dissolved into a mad cackle.

Voldermort just started and him thinking, ‘He has quite clearly gone off his rocker! I don’t need him’

“An alliance old man? I don’t need you. I can deal with them on my own!” He clicked his fingers and his own personal elf Simba popped to his side. “Simba, escort the old fool out immediately” He then turned and started to exit the room. He could hear Dumbledore’s indignant cries.

“You’re the fool TOM! You can’t do this alone! You’ll fail! Just you wait! You’ll come crawling back to me for help and I’ll make you beg Tom!” the last bit of his rant faded out as he was dragged out by Simba. He was glad that his followers were purebloods because they wouldn’t know where his elf’s name came from. He went back to his room chuckling to himself.

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Harry was sitting in his usual spot at the end of the Gryffindor table watching as the students started to pour into the hall. He was waiting for his friends to come in. He smiled as he heard his two best friends bickering as the entered.

“Oh Ronald! Harry wasn’t on the train! Something must be wrong!”

“Moine, he’s fine, probable thinks he’s too good to sit with us on the train anymore. Lets just get something to eat.”

“Ronald Weasley! How could you say that about Harry? You’re meant to be his best friend and all you can think about is getting to the feast to stuff you’re face!”

“Stop moaning woman!”

“Excuse me?! What did you just say? Why I ought to…” but whatever she was going to say was cut of when she caught sight of Harry.

“HARRY!” she screamed before running over and hugging him.

Harry hugged her back fiercely; he had missed her so much. However he only gave Ron a cold stare, he wasn’t going to forget what he had just overheard. To give Ron credit he could tell that he had been overheard and didn’t try to deny it. He simply walked away from the pair and sat at the other end of the table. Harry was brought back to the present when he felt fingers carding through his hair. He turned to Hermione and batted at her hands, “Oi! I’m not a cat! Stop it!”

She just giggled at him before hugging him again, “I was so worried when you weren’t on the train. But you said you weren’t a cat, so what creature are you as it obvious you came into a creature inheritance over the summer”

Harry beamed at her and leaned in to whisper in her ear. “A phoenix and I’ve already found and bonded with my mate” he smirked at her as she squealed causing several students who weren’t already staring at him to look over.

“Oh Harry, that wonderful. Who is it? Do I know them?” she asked.

“Our new esteemed Headmaster” he said before throwing her a wink.

“WOW!” she gasped.

Silence had fallen over the hall which caused Harry to look around. Unnoticed the pair all the students had filled into the hall and were already sitting at their respective tables and were looking up at Severus as he prepared to make a speech. Harry whispered to his best friend, “Did we miss the sorting? Isn’t the speech afterwards?” In response she just shrugged before turning her attention back to the Headmaster.

Severus’s voice rang loud and clear throughout the hall, “Welcome back students to another year at Hogwarts. As you have most likely heard I’m the new Headmaster, if you have any issues with this you can come to me and we will discuss it” He levelled a stare at the students and several of them shifted uncomfortably under his gaze. Harry just beamed at him. He continued, “Things are going to change this year. Since becoming Headmaster I have learnt several interesting things the most important being that there should be 5 school houses not 4.”

This caused whispers to break out in the hall. Severus paused only for a minute before carrying on, “As such, EVERYONE will be resorted. This obviously cannot happen tonight so come tomorrow morning all students will need to be in the Hall by 9am to be resorted. Until then please enjoy the feast” He clapped his hands and all hell broke loose as there was uproar amongst the students.

Hermione and Harry looked at each other and both uttered one word, “Bugger”

To be continued…

AN: Now I'm asking for help people. I need help with naming the new house. It was mentioned briefly in a previous chapters. Its the fire house and will have the symbol of the phoenix. The person who gives me the winning name will have the next chapter dedicated to them. REALLY need your help people! I suck at making up names! Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee! Can't wait for all you talented people to come up with names! :)

Thanks,

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