Potions problems

Disclaimer: I don’t own Harry Potter.


Chapter 2.

Harry looked at Draco hoping that he would be able to figure out what to do and say but his friend looked as lost as he felt. Luckily they were saved by the person they were supposed to be helping.

“Alright what is going on here?” Snape asked or rather demanded.

“Well you see.” Harry started.

“There was a bit of a problem in the potions class and now you’re like you are.” Draco cut in. “So what do you last remember?”

“Graduating.” Snape said. “Who are you two?”

“Fair question.” Harry said. “I’m Harry Potter and this is Draco Malfoy.”

Snape didn’t seem to believe him and he couldn’t blame him really. As far as he knew Harry and Draco weren’t even being contemplated. Well maybe Draco had been since he was the child of an arranged marriage.

“Potter and Malfoy. That’s impossible. The only Malfoy and Potter are Lucius and James.” Snape said spitting the last name.

“Well they are our parents. You see as I said before there was a problem in the potions class. A class, which you teach. Now you have been de-aged from the age of 40 to 18.” Draco summarized.

“Oh.” Was all Snape was able to say.

The next few hours were spent getting Snape acquainted with the life and times of present day Hogwarts. Eventually Dumbledor came to set up living arrangements for Severus.

“Why don’t you stay with Harry.” Draco smirked. Harry held himself back from attacking his friend. Draco knew about Harry’s crush on Snape and had been trying to get Harry to admit it to the older man who was now the younger man.

“In Gryffindor tower.” Snape sounded disgusted at the mere thought.

“No I have my own rooms. You see when the war was still going I used to have really bad dreams that normally woke up my whole dorm. So I was given my own quarters.” Harry explained.

“Why didn’t you move back to the tower after the war?”

“Well I had a bit of a problem with the people who used to be my friends.” Harry shrugged.

“Well then it’s settled then.” Dumbledor twinkled at them. All Harry could do was groan. He was going to be having a young Snape in close proximity to him at all times. This was not good.


Harry grumbled as he walked to his rooms with Draco.

“Why did you do that?” Harry asked his friend.

“Well he needs a place to stay and I think it would be good for you.” Draco shrugged.

“How could this be good for me?” Harry demanded.

“Well maybe it will release some of your tension and you’ll realise that I am doing this for your own good.” Draco said as he collapsed into a chair.

“How is having Snape close to me at all times going to release tension?” Harry practically screamed. All the blonde did was shrug. “I hate you.”

“No you don’t.” Draco drawled confidently. Harry was about to make a nasty remark to that when there was a knock at his door. Opening he found Dumbledor and a rather disgruntled looking young Snape.

“Professor what are you doing here?” Harry asked as he motioned them in.

“Well I was just escorting Severus here since this is where he will be living. Now that that’s done I will take my leave.” And so the headmaster left.

“Well I think you two need to get better acquainted since you will be living together.” Draco winked at Harry.

“Have I told you I hate you.” Harry growled.

“Oh Harry you know you love me.” Draco laughed as he left. Once the door closed behind the blonde an awkward silence fell over the room.

“So do you want to see where you’ll be staying?” Harry suggested after a while. He couldn’t take the suppressing silence any longer. All the young Severus Snape did was shrug.

The tour was short owing to the fact that the rooms consisted of two bedrooms and a bathroom. At the end Harry was once again at a loss of what to say.

“How is it that you being a Potter are friends with a Malfoy? I am sure your father is most unhappy about this.” Severus said as he moved to sit on the couch.

“It’s a long story.” Harry mumbled as he moved to sit next to his former professor.

“Does it look like I have some pressing engagement?” Snape retorted.

“True.” Harry conceded. “Well first I guess I should tell you that my father doesn’t know about Draco and I since he is dead and all. You see Voldermort killed him and my mum when I was one. It all had to do with this prophesy thing that lead to my eventual defeating of him. Okay so that sounds like it was easy but it wasn’t really. So that’s kinda the reason why my dad can’t possibly be unhappy about my relationship with Draco.”

“And how did you two become friends?” Severus prompted when Harry stopped.

“Well in fourth year when I had been entered into the triwizard tournament my ex-best friend Ron Weasley was being really mean and all because he thought that I had put my name in the goblet for the tournament, which by the way I didn’t. So one day I was sitting in the astronomy tower moping and being generally upset when Draco came in. He saw me there and I expected him to make some retort about me sitting there being all sad but it was strange. He just sat next to me and asked if I wanted to talk about it. Well you can imagine that I was really surprised when that happened and also a little suspicious. Eventually I did talk to him about it and it felt better to have spoken to someone even if it had been a Malfoy.

A few days later I was there again because Ron had made another stupid remark and Hermione, my other friend, had agreed with him making me out to be some attention seeker. Draco was there again and comforted me when those I thought were my friends abandoned me.

We kept meeting even when Ron and I reconciled. We learnt that we weren’t really that different and he helped me in many things from schoolwork to other problems. I like to think that I helped him as well but I’m not really sure.”

“Alright so why aren’t you friends with this Ron and Hermione?” Snape asked looking at Harry curiously.

“You know that you ask a lot of questions.” Harry sighed.

“Well I have seemed to miss 18 years of my life.” Snape retorted.

“Sure but you’re asking about my life not yours. So how is this helping you?”

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