Canis Lupus: Redux

Disclaimer: Harry Potter does not belong to me but the wonderful J.K. Rowling and last I checked that wasn't the name on my driver's license. So I'm making no money, all I have are student loans, and an ornery cat who thinks driving me bonkers is his lot in life.



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Warnings: Action Adventure, Angst, First Time, Romance, Slash Timeline: Set after Book Five: Order of the Phoenix. Canon until then.

Italics – thoughts.

. . . italics – flashback

. . . Bold italics – dream/fantasy sequence

Bold Text - Journal or Paragraph entry.

Summary – Harry has been working on becoming an animagus to spend the full moons with Remus now that Sirius is gone. Unfortunately he becomes stuck in his animal form and no one knows what has become of the young wizard. Fortunately, one Severus Snape comes across Harry and decides to adopt the stray. Harry sees a completely new side of his most hated Potions Master.



Author's Note: Okay I'm a stupid idiot sometimes and this appears to be one of them. AS you can see there was a LOST chapter, the epilogue that I just happened to find while digging in my hard drive. I'm SOOO sorry for making everyone wait for the end of it. *hides under a rock* Please review if you are so inclned. I will make brownies!



- The Dark Synful Legend





 

<u><h2>Epilogue - Swift Justice</u></h2>

Two days later, Severus and Harry emerged from the dungeons to take in breakfast in the Great Hall. The teachers were all talking at the Head Table, copies of the Daily Prophet being passed around like the platter of bacon at the Gryffindor table. "Good morning, Harry, Severus." Remus said nodding his head towards the duo.

"Hi Remus." Harry responded as he took a seat that had appeared next to the one where Severus normally sat.

"Lupin." Severus spoke. Even though he used Remus' surname it was spoken with no disdain or animosity. "Harry, tuck in and eat." He ordered and Harry stuck his tongue out at him but did as he was asked and started piling food on his plate. Severus sat at his usual space, as Hedwig swooped into the Great Hall with a rolled up newspaper in her talons. She dropped it at Harry's plate then sat on the back of his chair, nibbling at his hair as though grooming it.

"Thanks, Hedwig." Harry responded but ignored the paper for the moment intent on eating his breakfast, but the title slashed across the paper caught his attention seconds later. Picking it up he flipped it open and started to read the article. Harry was quiet as he read the fate that had awaited the Headmaster of the school. They kept his name out of it but the wizard had been given a life sentence to Azkaban Prison for neglect and abuse. As he read about the charges, Harry learned that Albus had confessed under veritaserum that he had known about the abuse of the Boy-Who-Lived, and done nothing about it. Disappointed in the man he had looked up to ever since he had come to Hogwarts, he sighed softly but the question in his mind made him ask it. "Professor McGonagall? If the Headmaster won't be back, who is going to take his position here?"

"I am." Minerva said with a smile and there was a suspicious twinkle in her eye.

~*~

Later that day, Harry was curled in Severus' arms in bed after another vigorous round of lovemaking his dark head resting on the older man's shoulder, "Hey, Severus?"

"hm?" drawled the man in a haze induced response.

"I'm happy."

"As am I. Is there a reason we are having this conversation?"

"No, I just wanted for so long to be happy and now I am."

"I am too, but one thing Harry?"

"yeah?"

"How soon can I get you back in that collar?" Severus inquired, a smirk on his face.

~*~

The End