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Crimson Ink	By : Blackkitten23 Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male Views: 61620 -:- Recommendations : 7 -:- Currently Reading : 18
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(I’m thinking)
“I’m speaking”
Pairing: Yaoi M/M, Harem – top Harry x bottom de-aged Severus / Tom / Lucius
Last Time:
“I’m starved!” Ron yelled as Harry put some food on his own plate at a much slower pace. Harry ignored the slob in favor of slipping Vesta some chicken and wondering if the hat was trying to tell him something … something horcrux related …
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“this is the greenhouse … and we’re in luck because they just started blooming” Quirinus exclaimed cheerily as he lead Severus, Tom and Lucius into his family’s greenhouse behind their muggle home “here it is. You need to wait for the pollen to fall before harvesting so lets just wait here for a moment”
Tom conjured some chairs to sit on “how was Harry when you dropped him off? He wasn’t disturbed by Alecto’s appearance was he?”
“not in the slightest. It seems we forgot how bad Harry’s eyes were and were worried for nothing. Alecto said in her floo call after dropping him off at King’s Cross that he apparently didn’t even recognize Petunia and he got on the train alright” Lucius said rather amused by the odd development.
“never thought I’d find poor eyesight useful” Severus said with a light chuckle, but frowned as he watched the orange ornament flower with hanging with its red sticky stamen dangling out of it “he’ll be on the train now. I hope this goes quickly. I don’t want him alone for one second at Hogwarts”
“why can’t we do something to piss off Dumbledore and make this go faster? We could burn down the Whomping Willow or make Harry disappear for a while” Bellatrix said as she came into the greenhouse and kissed Quirinus. It clear she’s been spending a lot of time with her intended and taking his shirts too if the baggy sweater was any indication.
Severus sighed “he’s a dangerous manipulative bastard that’s over a century and a half years old. He already successfully masterminded an entire war, siphoned out the existence of basic information of everything from nature sprites to the deaging or male pregnancy potions by secretly obliviating people just to give him an edge and who knows what else” he said with irritation lacing his tone.
They found out how the knowledge of such important things vanished. First was removing the books by using his ministry connections. Then when people went to complain he’d speak with them tone at a time only tom remove the information he needed. They aren’t sure but it’s possible he started removing memories before the books and then removed the memories from those few who complained. Either way it’s clear why the general public had no clue that there was a deaging potion or would recognize what Vesta was.
“there may be ways to make things tricky for him, but you’re right Severus. A man like that won’t fly off the handle or slip up easily. Burning the Whomping Willow won’t help at all obviously since he would just drain his dead magic into the ground and make another. Remember the dead magic creates the Whomping Willows and then acts like a trash bin not the Whomping Willow drains the magic. He wont bat an eyelash if it’s destroyed since he can make more easily and making Harry vanish will make us look like kidnappers if even one of us is spotted because Dumbledore will point the finger at any rumored to be Death Eater. No, Dumbledore needs to remain in the dark and think everything is going his way or at least has no reason to think his horcruxes are anything but safe” Tom said wishing that everything was that simple, but it wasn’t.
Lucius smirked “I do have one way to shake things up. Narcissa and I finalized our divorce. With that done that makes Narcissa a Black again and that brings the one smart thing Sirius Black did right to the forefront. When Sirius became Harry’s godfather he made Harry the Black heir, but Harry is underage and needs a guide. It just so happens the only real Black, meaning not disowned or imprisoned or on the run, is Narcissa”
“she could take custody of him and Dumbledore can’t do anything about it” Tom commented with a devious smirk “it’s too late to bring this up before school, but this could distract him even more with the school year going too”
“it’s falling!” Severus exclaimed and carefully trimmed the flower that started dripping large fluffy white puffs of pollen “I’ll be happy once this potion is done”
“why Sevvy? So you can be the same age as Harry?” Bellatrix said with a suggestive wink.
“I should think it has more to do with the strain a potion like that does to the brewer” said an old woman who walked in the greenhouse to tend to some of the other flowers “there was a reason that potion was well known, but rarely made. Brewing for a straight year to complete the base and having to time it with the blooming of this pin in the butt flower that blooms once every 10 years because nothing can be preserved or the potion will fail will drain any potion master”
Severus gave an exhausted sigh “indeed and I have you to thank Mary. If not for your meticulous notes on the blooming schedule of your plants I wouldn’t have known when to start brewing ”
“you’re friends of my dear little sister Myrtle. It’s an honor to help especially if it brings that fool Dumbledore down … not just for Myrtle, but for my parents. I remember the day they heard of Myrtle’s death. They were furious and stormed into the school, but they seemed to forget everything upon their return. I received an invite from Dumbledore asking me to come and talk. He was offering guidance in my time of need, but I knew I’d end up like my parents and ran away into muggle world only sneaking in to find ways to get into Hogwarts to see my sister. No one really came after me … I guess Dumbledore didn’t think much of a barely 18 year old witch on her own” Mary scoffed, but looked at Tom with a sad smile “I tried to get you too you know”
Mary was the one who suggested that Dumbledore may have been slowly removing memories from the public. That lead the former Death Eaters to investigate and conclude it was quite possible because the very people who wrote the old textbooks didn’t even recall doing so. it must’ve taken a long time to do so, but then Dumbledore has been around a long time and sadly overseas as well. Mary simply never really explained why she expected that to be the case before. Like her sister she is full of surprises.
Tom raised an eyebrow “you did?”
“yes a month after her death. I feared you’d be a target too … I got as far as the Slytherin dorm before Myrtle stopped me. She learned about what you did to your soul and didn’t think it was wise for me to speak to you though at the same time she never told me why she thought that. It didn’t surprise me to hear that she found the horcrux back then, but she always held hope you’d pull yourself together. Enough of this old woman’s chattering. You three need to discuss quickly about how many years you want to lose before Severus is done adding the petals” Mary said before going back into the house.
“I’m assuming we all want to be about the same age as Harry so I’ll need to measure carefully, but what about you Tom? You’re already closer to Harry’s age what with your horcrux absorbing bringing you back to 15 making you only physical nine years older than him” Severus asked as he opened his bag and pulled a large jar of bubbling black goo, three squares of bread, a mortar and pestle and an eyedropper.
Tom smiled “I would like to lose those few extra years”
“but how are we going to hide the change? Runes like Harry’s scar?” Lucius asked as Severus used the mortar and pestle to grind up the petals of the flower.
“yes that would be the best. I tried a few ways to see through the runes like the ones Lucius used and nothing worked” Quirinus confirmed confident that all the basic spells to reveal things will not work.
Severus sighed as he poured the petal paste into the jar of bubbling black sludge “runes it is then … it’s ready” he announced as the black goo turned a rich amber color. With the help of the eyedropper he carefully dropped several drops on two of the squares of bread and less drops on the third “this potion calls for bread to be used for more accurate results because there’s no chance of missing even a fraction of the drops needed as it slides down a vial … here, we only have 10 minutes before it goes bad. After taking it you need to take a nutrition potion”
“no need to wait” Lucius said as he ate the bread with the most drops. Tom eagerly ate the one that has far less drops and the affect was slowly showing. Finally Severus took his square after he pulled out three nutrition potions.
Of course Tom was the first to feel the prickling effect of the potion wear off and he quickly took a nutrition potion before conjuring a mirror. He looked like a child, but that was the point after all. To make sure the other two recovered he moved closer to them. Apparently the more years you want to lose the mores painful it was. Severus and Lucius were both wincing in pain every few seconds and it lasted long after the age reversing potion seemed to curdle indicating that it went bad.
“damn that was rather uncomfortable. Severus is the pregnancy potion anything like this?” Lucius asked as he tried to lean over in his seat to get a nutrition potion, but was too dizzy to grab it. Tom had to hand him the potion and a snickering Quirinus handed Severus his potion as Bellatrix could be heard snickering at the sight of the ‘cute wittle wizards’.
“Merlin no. From what I read this is the worst of it. The pregnancy potion has no pain save for the expected symptoms of pregnancy-would you stop laughing!” Severus yelled at Bellatrix and Quirinus, but they just laughed harder at the adorable child wizards glaring at them and to make matters worse they heard a squeaky laugh too. They turned to see Peter in his rat form rolling on the floor laughing “we aren’t very intimidating like this” Severus growled and grabbed Lucius by the collar “fix this already!”
“if you let me go I will” Lucius huffed and was quickly released so he could create the runes needed to hide their new age. Severus was the one Lucius started with since he had to get to Hogwarts soon and with a few runes on the wrists, ankles and neck the potion master looked as he did before the potion.
“move it” Severus glared at the rat who squeaked sheepishly and jumped into the potion bag “are you coming Quirinus?” he asked harshly as if checking to see if he was intimidating again.
Quirinus chuckled unaffected by the glare “I’ll get my turban and robes. You go ahead”
Severus put his things away, picked up the bag and spelled away the now useless potion before flooing to his living quarters in Hogwarts “alright get out. I need to clean these things and go meet Dumbledore for a meeting”
The rat nodded and leapt out of the bag so Severus could do his work. With everything cleaned Severus opened the door unleashing Peter onto the unsuspecting people in the school and went all the way up to Dumbledore’s office. All the other staff members were there including Quirinus so the meeting should start any moment.
“another start to a new school year! Everyone have a good summer?” Dumbledore asked cheerily as he flounced into the room though Severus found it rather amusing that the old fool made sure to avoid Quirinus. Dumbledore never fully got over that spicy ‘accident’ from years ago.
After some chatting about their summers, which know bothered asking Severus anything since no one believed he had much of a social life, the meeting began. It was the basic meeting. Was everything ready? Was there any safety measure not met? And the list went on until the horn for the Hogwarts express sounded in the distance …
“it seems the students are about to arrive. Lets all go to welcome them!” Dumbledore said and just as everyone began to leave he gestured for Severus to stay behind “I know you may have a bit of bad blood with James Potter, but I do hope you’d give the boy a chance … but I’d like you to be firmer with him as well. He needs to stay grounded”
“you’re worried his fame will go to his head. Yes I suppose you’re right considering he is no doubt spoiled already” Severus stated seemingly indifferently. Truthfully he hated the idea of being sharp with Harry and once Narcissa took custody he will not continue, but until then he had to play by Dumbledore’s rules. Besides detention can be useful and fun although he was sure Harry would end up cleaning anyway just to help. That’s a habit that never went away.
“I’m glad you see what I mean” Dumbledore said cheerily and walked out with Severus while glancing at the potion master’s left arm. The headmaster believed the dark mark was still there and has spent years trying to hunt down the slightest trace of Voldemort, but has had no luck. Instead of getting frustrated he decided to try making it look like Voldemort was around and the best way to do that was make it look like someone was after Harry Potter. It will no doubt be tricky, but if people believe Voldemort is around it could flush him out.
“I do, but lets hope he doesn’t try to annoy me or the ‘Boy Who Lived’ will live the rest of his life in detention” Severus grumbled expertly hiding the fact that he was very eager to see Harry again and sure enough only a short time later Harry walked in with the first years. Something however caught Severus’s eye for a moment and Qiuirinus saw it too. Harry looked surprised for the briefest second as if the hat said something odd to him beyond the usual sorting babble, but what?
The meal went by almost too slowly for Severus’s liking, but then it was curfew and he and Quirinus patrolled the halls. As always they started in different spots, but casually met up around the Room of Requirement to talk. Of course Quirinus was there with a certain rat and after a moment Harry appeared out from under Vesta’s illusion.
“what’s wrong Harry? You seemed startled during your sorting” Severus asked clearly concerned.
Harry frowned “first Hermione Granger offered me her owl so there’s that and … the hat knows something about horcruxes” he whispered getting shocked reactions from all those around.
“ok … what were its exact words?” Quirinus asked feeling excited for breakthrough.
“it said ‘I am built for secrets young wizard … I’m able to keep them safe. Students’ secrets and one of the headmaster’s as well. All of them are safe inside me … I can resort you another time if need be. For now you and you brother are where you need to be’ that’s everything” Harry said.
Quirinus frowned “curious … Dumbledore didn’t start making horcuxes until long after school so how it know when it hasn’t been placed on Dumbledore’s head since then?”
“it said specifically that one secret was inside it … perhaps it’s trying to tell us where one is. It could actually have a horcrux inside it” Severus theorized.
Peter shifted into his human form, which looked like the part rat part man form since he has been in his rat form too long “we did think the horcruxes were in plain sight and you can’t get much more in pain sight than that. I’ll go check that, but why did it mention Draco?”
“maybe it has one, but knows of another and that it has to do with Slytherin” Quirinus pondered out loud.
Severus sighed “this put things into a little more perspective. We need to find the most annoying spots-”
“symbolic” Harry corrected.
“symbolic? How do you mean?” Severus asked not caring that Harry interrupted him. harry was the only person who could safely get away with that.
“the secret finding hat that decides where you go has been on the head of every child over the last few decades including all of you. If it has a horcrux it’s … the same as Dumbledore saying I know your secrets and can place you wherever I want. That’s just how it seems” Harry said pointedly.
“that’s insanely creepy, but I think you have a point … we need to think of the places that have the most impact” Quirinus said feeling a little ill at the thought of Dumbledore’s hands creeping into their minds and the minds of so many children.
“right, but no more tonight for you Harry. You should sleep” Severus said and Harry disappeared under his fox’s illusion.
It was time for most of hem to part ways and turn in for the night, but Peter wasn’t done yet. He shifted into his rat form and scurried all the way to the headmaster’s office and slipped inside where he spotted the hat snoring on its shelf. After shifting into his semi human form he carefully levitated the hat so it wouldn’t wake up and reached inside. At first he thought he thought it was a dead end and that the hat itself was a horcux, but then he felt something metal and pulled it out. His eyes widened in shock as he found the Gryffindor sword in his hand.
Once Peter hid the sword in a bottomless bag and scurried out as a rat the hat’s snoring stopped and its eyes opened “about time someone grabbed that thing. Now hopefully they can find the others before Albus gets anymore foolish ideas”
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