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The Third Time is a Charm	By : ladyedgecombe Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Snape Views: 45346 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I don’t own the HP Universe. I admire. Rowling for entertaining us with her world of make believe. I don’t make any money from writing this story, I just like to have fun and borrow her characters for a while but I promise to put them back

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The Third Time is a Charm

Summary:
Warn-language, child abuse, M/M SS/HP AD/RW/HG bashing
Explicit sex scenes, Severus will be OOC and a host of other characters.

Chapter 4: The Dream

Harry was sitting next to Severus in an unknown room, holding a baby in his arms. The baby looked just like him as a small child. He assumed it was a child for him and Severus but the babe in his arms didn't have any of his mate's features. It was a cute baby and Harry just knew the baby was a boy. He and Severus were both looking at the baby in awe when they were interrupted.

A beautiful young woman entered the room, she had long black hair, was slender and tall, and her eyes reminded Harry of his own. She looked at Harry and said, "Please remember me, the child is in danger and I will come when you need me most. You can trust me and know that I am there to help. Peace be with you, young Harry." Harry didn't exactly know where the child came from as he and Severus had not done anything to create the said child, maybe he was seeing the future. He then drifted into a deeper, peaceful sleep.

Harry woke up the next morning with a feeling that he was forgetting something, something important, and something that had to do with his future. He also had an overwhelming feeling of contentment and love. The type of feeling he had when he was with Severus but with something more. Harry pondered over his feelings as he grabbed his clothes for the day and headed for the showers.

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Severus was getting ready for bed, considered a dreamless sleep potion but then decided against it. He would need a good night's sleep though to help Harry face the next few days as they sorted out the problems of his 'friends' and the conniving headmaster. He really didn't like to think about it either, but Harry was counting on him. How could the headmaster be so cruel to Harry? Dumbledore was always trying to make excuses for the young Gryffindor and let him get away with what ever he wanted. In the past, Severus had often reported that Harry was wondering the corridors at night after curfew. Maybe Dumbledore felt guilty knowing he was stealing from the child. This situation certainly made his spying easier; he would not be telling anybody about what Harry was doing. He would just report to both masters he didn't know anything and didn't see anything. Dumbledore would be easier to fool than the Dark Lord but hopefully this would all be straightened out when he next had to report. Little did he know, there would be no next report.

Severus then started thinking about Harry. He knew they were soul mates but he was so young in years. There was so much he had yet to learn but he had already experienced so much, things that even most grown men could only imagine. He was a strange mixture of young and old. Harry was not even sixteen yet. This was the beginning of June and he would not be sixteen until the end of July. He was so young but had lived a lifetime of misery and suffering. Severus' mind kept going in circles like this for the better part of an hour. He hoped he could get Harry out of that place this summer. As soon as Harry turned sixteen he would be able to obtain emancipation and possibly move in with Severus or at least into one of the Potter properties. A few of the houses may even have house elves to help him settle. Once at the end of a school year, he remembered Potter and Black talking about a summer house with house elves, one that they were hoping to visit again that summer. They would find out what properties Harry owned when they went to Gringotts, maybe they would also have a report on the condition of the estates.

As he drifted off to sleep, he started thinking about all the places they could go see together for the next summer holidays when Harry would no longer be required to stay with those horrid muggles. Even though Harry was young, Severus felt closer to him than anyone else he had ever known. He wanted a life with the younger man and all he could hope for is that they were both alive once this war was over.

He saw Harry and him sitting on a sofa in a strange room. Harry was sitting next to him smiling and holding a baby in his arms. A beautiful young woman walked into the room unannounced and said, "Severus, I will come to help save the child. Your world is in danger. You will need to trust me. I will be sent to help you when you need it most." When Severus started to ask, "What child?" the woman faded out and was not in the room anymore. He faintly heard a "Peace be with you, Severus." and then nothing else. He just had this feeling, of warmth and love, and fell into a deeper sleep.

The next morning, he remembered dreaming about something important but couldn't remember what it was. He had this feeling of overwhelming peace and love and contentment along with one of the best night's sleep in a long time. He wondered how he had such a dream, he had not been clairvoyant before and there was something different about this. It was almost as if it was a message and not a real dream, but if that was so, then how did someone get through his Occlumency shields? He wished he had woken up and put the dream in his journal as he couldn't shake the feeling that it was really important.

Well, it was too late now.

Harry spent the next several days in 'detention' with Severus. Even the headmaster tried to get Severus to let up on his stringent rules, having gotten 'reports' from his spies on Harry's time. Severus told him he was teaching Harry Occlumency again so the old coot decided to leave them alone. Harry continued to feel unsafe in the Gryffindor tower and tried to spend as much time as he could in his soul mate's rooms. He wasn't just practicing Occlumency but they were also planning on what to do at Gringotts and what they needed to do this summer. They went over strategies on how to get him away from his relatives as soon as possible and where they would go so that Dumbledore and Voldemort could not find him.

It was the last day of school and the leaving feast was in progress. Harry was on his way down to the Great Hall when a stunner went past his ear, barely missing him. He ducked and pulled his wand out of its holster and quickly threw up a Protego against the next few curses that came whizzing his way. He knew the spell came from somewhere down the stairs and so he carefully crouched down and stayed close to the wall as he descended. He could not see anyone, but knew they must be there. Another stunner came his way and he just caught sight of the flash of light coming from the armor in the alcove at the turn of the spiral staircase. He threw a quick Petrify at that direction, not knowing who was behind it, then carefully continued down the staircase to see if anyone else was around. Harry was so tempted to go investigate this himself, and it was certainly what he would have done before his relationship with Severus started. The young man had never had an adult he could go to or count on, until the Potions Professor. He knew however that if he did not get help without delay then Severus would have something to say about it later and it would not be pleasant. When he got into the Great Hall, he immediately noticed Severus sitting next to Professor McGonagall, so he went to tell her what happened. Since Severus was sitting next to her, he was able to let his soul mate know about the incident without raising suspicion.

"Professor McGonagall," Harry said in a hushed but hurried voice so the other students could not hear him, "Someone was throwing spells at me in the stairwell by Gryffindor tower and I have petrified them. The person was behind the armor but I didn't check to see who it was, in case there were other people trying to do the same thing." He glanced at Severus briefly then continued with his head of house. "I was not trying to hurt them, just stop them from stunning me while on the stairs before I fell." Severus blanched at this. Those stairs were steep and it could be deadly if someone fell down them.

Both professors got up and quickly strode out of the Great Hall, robes billowing behind them, to check things out. Harry followed them to see who was trying to attack him. When they reached the armor, Professor Snape levitated it to see who was behind it. There was Ginny, frozen.

With a quick flick of the professor's wand, the girl was mobilized again and standing there as if nothing happened, trying to look innocent to the teachers in front of her. Severus looked into her eyes and with a silent and wandless legilimens, got a glimpse of a meeting with the headmaster and the other two thirds of the Golden Trio. In the meeting, they discussed taking Harry somewhere in the castle to keep him 'safe' and separated from the remainder of the student body until it was time to leave. He didn't see anything else as it would take a stronger effort in Legilimency to ferret out the details. It was enough to let him know that once again Harry was in some sort of danger from the headmaster and his 'friends'.

Severus quickly turned to see if Harry had followed them and saw him standing a little away from the scene. Obviously not wanting to be noticed so he could find out what was going on. Severus thought he was going to have to congratulate him on his new Slytherin qualities. This was not the first time he had noticed that Harry was becoming more subtle in his dealings with people and not charging in like a Gryffindor.

"What is the meaning of this, Miss Weasley?" Professor McGonagall asked in her sternest voice.

"I don't know what you mean, professor. We were just having some fun." Ginny tried to look innocent but completely failed. She knew that she could get away with it with her head of house but not with Professor Snape. All the students knew he could read minds.

Severus, though, was going to let Minerva handle this if he could. He didn't want to bring more attention to Harry and him if he could help it. Just one more day, he kept telling himself, just one more day and the school session would be over.

As it turned out, Ginny received a week's worth of detentions from Professor McGonagall and it was to be served at the start of the new term. When she performed a Priori Incantatem, it showed several Stunners, a Leg Locker curse and a Petrificus used all within the last few minutes. Since she was standing by the stairs, it was deduced that she was using magic irresponsibly and so lost fifty points for Gryffindor and had detention. There was a reason students were not allowed to use magic in the hallways. She also had to apologize to Harry.

Professor McGonagall was still standing in the hallway with her and watched as Ginny turned to face Harry.

A smirk firmly planted on her face, "I am sorry Harry, I wasn't thinking properly. I was just having fun." To be honest, she didn't look very apologetic.

Harry had a pensive look on his face as he spoke back. "I accept your apology, but I would like to know what you meant when you said earlier, 'We were just having fun'? I didn't see anyone else; did you do this because of a dare or something?" He actually thought that he didn't have a choice but to accept her apology with McGonagall standing there.

Even if no one could see his reaction, Severus was proud of Harry for picking up on the unintentional slip in the girl's answer earlier and then asking that question. It was one he wanted to ask but this was a matter between Gryffindors and he needed to let them settle it themselves.

McGonagall looked at the Weasley chit with a sharp piercing stare and waited for her to answer. "It was just a slip of the tongue; no one else was helping me. I was on my own, really!" The older witch nodded her head and said, "You will report to my office now, Miss Weasley. Your parents will be notified and they will be very disappointed." The triumphant glint in the redheaded girl stated otherwise, "This could have been a serious matter, using spells like this around the stairs. Even a stray hex could have permanently damaged a student. You should know better."

Though their telepathic link from the soul bond was not working yet, Severus and Harry were both thinking the same thing. Harry was not safe in Gryffindor tower.

As the Weasley and her head of house left the area to go to the office, Severus put a scowl on his face while putting up a privacy shield around them, mindful of the other students standing around trying to find out what happened. He then muttered under his breath with as little mouth movement as possible but still being understood.

"You, Mister Potter, will go pack all your things, shrink your trunk and come to the dungeons for the remainder of the evening. Make sure you have your invisibility cloak on and avoid being seen."

Harry, also with a scowl on his face, just nodded and headed up the stairs to the tower to pack his clothes. There were a few people in the common room but with the thunderous look on Harry's face, everyone wisely decided to leave him alone. He looked to be in a foul mood and no one wanted to be on the receiving end of his temper. Usually when this happened, they would just leave him alone as they assumed that he would talk about whatever was bothering him when he was ready.

Harry ran into the dorms, hoping no one else was there and no one would follow him. He knew he wouldn't have much time before someone burst into the room, so he warded the door and quickly packed all of his things, leaving only his cloak and wand out, and then shrunk his trunk the way Severus taught him to. He placed his trunk in his pocket, threw the cloak around him, warded his bed as if he were sleeping and left the dorm to go to the dungeons. Carefully, he pressed himself closely against the wall and started down the stairs. It wouldn't do to bump into someone if they were coming up while he was going down. As he entered the common room, he saw Ron and Hermione talking in hushed tones in a corner of the room. He decided to eavesdrop to see if he could find out more on why Ginny decided to hex him. Harry carefully and silently made his way to the corner of the room; the two Gryffindors were having, what looked to be, a serious conversation.

Hermione was almost hissing at Ron, saying, "You know Ginny should not have gotten caught trying to hex Harry. It was stupid to do that on the stairs, he hasn't defeated You-Know-Who yet. She wasn't supposed to kill him; the instructions were simply just to keep him detained for a while and try to feed him that potion." The girl rolled her eyes and continued, "Really Ronald, what is the point of giving Harry a love potion if the boy is dead?"

Ron replied, just as quietly, "She probably wasn't thinking about that. Really, it has been hard to pin him down with the detentions he has been serving and his hiding. Sometimes I don't see him, except in classes, for three or four days except when he is sleeping and then he wards his bed. She probably just saw him and decided to take the opportunity."

"Honestly Ronald, to start a new term with detentions. This has got to be a new record. I don't even think the twins have managed that." The bushy haired girl stood with her hands, closed into fists, planted firmly on her hips. Really, she thought, how stupid could one family get?

"Actually they have, their first year. They thought if the prank was not too bad, and at the last minute, they would get off. They had to serve a detention when they came back for their second year. They told me they learned not to get caught."

Hermione huffed at that with an exasperated sigh, "Come on, Ron, I think Harry is in your dorm room. Let's go see if we can find him. Professor Dumbledore said to keep an eye on him."

"Yeah right, I feel like some kind of babysitter!" Ron whined but took Hermione's hand and started up the stairs.

Harry turned and dashed for the common room door as soon as Hermione said she wanted to find him to keep an eye on him. He stealthily progressed down the stairs, staying close to the walls in case anyone detected him and made his way to the dungeons with a silencing charm on his shoes. He was getting good at this skulking bit. Covert operations, Harry stifled a snigger, he felt like a spy in one of those movies Dudley liked to watch. Severus would be proud of him; how Slytherin.

As Harry made his way to the hallway leading to the dungeons, he passed Ginny. He held his breath and stood absolutely still keeping out of her pathway. She looked furious and he was glad she couldn't see him.

She was grumbling under her breath as she passed him by, but Harry couldn't understand what she was saying. Actually, the more he thought about it, the more demented she really appeared with her hair a little wild and her mumbling down the hallway.

When she had passed and was out of sight, Harry continued to go towards the hallway to the dungeons. He passed a few Slytherins but, for the most part, was unhindered for the rest of his journey.
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