What do we do now

Chapter Fifteen: Around the Castle

It wasn’t until around Daylan’s birthday that it finally came to Minister

Fudge’s attention that Harry Potter had been removed from his Muggle

relative’s home. He had come to Hogwarts and demanded that Dumbledore

tell him where the boy was. Severus and Albus had come up with a simple

solution for this moment. They simply would say that they had no idea what

Cornelius was talking about and tell him that it was up to the Minister to find

the Potter boy. Fudge managed to keep the news that Harry Potter was

missing out of the papers for two days before someone had leaked to the

press. He finally admitted that he had no idea where the boy was but he

assured the public that he would find the little lost boy. That had been close

to three months ago. The news had died down and soon it would be

something that people would loose interest in at least that was what they

hoped would happen.

Over the next few months Hogwarts had started back up and the students

had returned. Daylan would eat with his father in the Great Hall and would

occasionally be found sitting behind his father’s desk on a blanket coloring

or playing with some toys during the afternoon potions classes. Not much

was known about Daylan, although it was widely believed and accepted that

he was the Head of Slytherin’s son. Jocelyn and the rest of the staff

continued tutoring Daylan and had been amazed at how quickly he was

catching up. He was now where he should be for his age. The staff found out

the hard way that juscauscause Daylan couldn’t speak that didn’t stop him

from performing magic.

Filius Flitwick had been tutoring the boy in Math one morning when a

towering stack of charms books started to topple over. Daylan not wanting

the books to fall onto the small teacher raised his hand up as if to catch the

books but insta waa wave of magic left his hand and steadied the stack of

books.

Filius being so surprised at the amount of power that the child had used

toppled off of his chair in shock. Daylan thinking that he had done

something wrong immediately shifted into a wolf pup and curled up into a

ball anticipating a violent reaction. Filius had realized what had happened

immediately. Severus had talked to all of the staff that would be teaching

Daylan and had told them of his unusual defense mechanism. Even though

he had been told of Daylan’s animagus ability seeing it was an entirely

different matter. Filius had tried to hold in his excitement as he walked

slowly up to Daylan so as not to startle him. He then had gently picked the

trembling ball of fur up and held him tight to his chest. He had started

petting his head slowly and soothingly as he had walked out of the room and

headed toward Severus’s office.

It had taken close to seven hours to get Daylan to transform back into a

child. Severus had shifted himself into his wolf animagus form and had

curled up around his son. The whole time trying to reassure Daylan that

nothing was going to happen to him and that he had done nothing wrong.

After that incident Daylan had stayed extremely close to Severus as all

times, only leaving his side when he had to go to his own tutoring sessions.

All in all the staff felt that Daylan was finally starting to heal after his life of

abuse and neglect.

At the present time Severus had been pacing his quarters for the past hour

and a half. He had taken Jocelyn’s advice and had contacted the muggle

specialist she had told him about. He and Jocelyn had taken Daylan the

month before to see the specialist and he was now waiting for a reply on

what his son’s chances where that he would benefit from the procedure. He

had gotten a call from the office earlier from the receptionist telling him to

expect a call from the doctor around five. He looked back down at the

offending object that was such a staple in the Muggle world. The telephone.

He had a hell of a time convincing the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts office

that his having a telephone in his quarters did not breach the statute of

secrecy. It took him too long getting the blasted thing in here, he’d be

damned if some bureaucratic idiot told him he wasn’t allowed to use it.

He was just about ready to continue his mental ranting when the phone rang.

He glanced up at the clock. It was five sharp.

He picked up the receiver cautiously and held it to his ear, “Hello?”

“Hello, this is Doctor Morrison. I was calling to speak with Severus Snape

about his son’s appointment last month.” Dr. Morrison said.

Severus took in a deep breath, “This is he.” He said anxiously.

“Good, I was just calling you to tell you that the results have come back

from your sons tests and we believe that he will benefit wonderfully from

the cochlear implants. If you would like I could set you up with an

appointment to get this underway.” The doctor said from the other end of the

line.

Severus let out the breath he had been holding and tried to keep from

shouting with happiness. “That would be great. The sooner the better.”

“Great, how about next week on Thursday afternoon at around 1:00”

Severus jotted the time and day down and after telling doc doctor that it was

fine he hung up and then dropped unceremoniously into his chair. He needed

to go and let Albus know that he needed to find someone to take over his

classes for the next week and a half. He stood up abruptly and walked out

the door headed toward Albus’s office to tell him to good news, but first he

stopped and picked up Harry from Jocelyn’s office. After telling her the

good news she said that she would walk up to Albus’s office with the two of

them.