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style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Well... let’s keep it on: lang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>“SLYTHERIN” The hat yelled out and
Harry smiled. He had had an irk about getting into that house, and well it
would bring him closer to Severus, so he could find what the deal with James
was about.

He walked
swiftly to the Slytherin table and sat down next to the headboy. “Hello,
Severus Snape it was, if I recall correctly?” Severus just raised an eyebrow
and went on with eating his breakfast.

Harry
smirked at the way he was being ignored, he had expected nothing less that this
behaviour of his former Headmaster. So he relaxed in his seat and looked over
to the Gryffindor table, where Lily and the Marauders were discussing him. He couldn’t
see Remus’ or Lily’s expressions, but by the looks of it, those two where
defending him against Sirius, while James where just staring at him with a
contemplative look in his eyes.

Harry
smirked and raised an eyebrow at his father, who turned his head when he was
caught staring. James turned to Sirius, said a few words and Sirius sighed in
defeat. It made Harry certainly wonder what his father had said to his
Godfather. Maybe he could get close to them, if three of their group accepted
him.

Turning his
attention back to the Headboy next to him, he saw that said Headboy had disappeared
without him noticing it. It had always annoyed Harry when Severus pulled that
off in his time, and was even more annoyed that he could pull it off in this
time too.  

Harry
grumbled in annoyance and then proceeded to load his plate with eggs and
breakfast and silently ate it, until Lily came towards him.

“Hello,
Liam.” She said, and then flushed. “Or do you prefer your last name, since you
hadn’t told us your name before.” Lily was nervously biting her bottom lip
while he was silent.

Then he
chuckled and Lily’s relieve was evident on her face.

“Bastard,
making me nervous for nothing. Anyway, Liam,
I’m going to show you the Slytherin dorms, since Severus ran off again.” Lily
looked a bit put out with that, and Harry could have sworn she mumbled git or
something like that under her breath. Harry smirked at that and followed his
mother out of the Great hall.

Later that
night, Harry was searching his trunk for what Severus (Headmaster Severus) had
packed for him. He hadn’t had time to do it himself, whit visiting his friends,
parents’ and family’s graves. He had said goodbye to the few people he had
left, and Severus had offered to pack for him. Molly Weasly had thrown him a
leaving party with the few that where left of them: Severus had been there,
Remus, Bill and George Weasly, professor McGonagall, Nymphadora Tonks and her
mother Andromeda, Seamus Finnigan, Blaise Zabini, and Ginny Weasly. There were
not many of them left, but Harry had come back to the past to change that
little fact.

Harry whooped
in delight when he saw that Severus had packed some leftovers from the party,
and he propped one of the famous pastry pies from Molly into his mouth. He
pulled the leftovers out and stored them under his bed, placing a cooling charm
on them, so they stayed fresh. He looked further into his trunk and discovered
his favourite sleeping shirt. A shirt that had belonged to Sirius and that
Harry had stolen out of his Godfathers closet a few days before the man had
been killed. It was a muggle band shirt (Guns N’ Roses), and had been Sirius’
absolute favourite. He could always be found singing ‘Sweet child of mine’ when
Harry was around.

He started
humming the song and leaned even further into the trunk. The next thing he came
up with was his dad’s invisibility cloak and Harry smiled. He should have known
Severus would pack the thing. After that, he found his Firebolt and was
thrilled with the idea of getting to fly that broomstick, instead of the
horribly slow broomsticks they would surely have in this time. Although he
would only be using it when nobody else was around.

Harry was
almost in tears when he sat back holding the next item in his hands. He was
Severus utterly grateful for packing this. It was his photo book. It was the
same one Hagrid had given him in his first year, but Harry had extended the
book with photographs from his school years. He opened the book and slowly
examined every picture before turning to the next page. He smiled when he saw
Ron, Hermione and himself waving at him. He caressed a picture where Sirius had
him in a headlock on the couch. His frowned when he turned the page to find a
picture of his mum and dad on their wedding day. He was really curious what the
story behind that picture was, now that he had seen his dad kissing Severus. He
shrugged and turned the page again. This time it was a picture of the Marauders
when they had last been together. Remus had given him that picture at the
leaving party, saying that Harry would need to recognize them when he met their
younger selves. Harry slammed the book shut, and lay it on his bedside table. He
would look through it when he had more time.

He dove
back into the trunk and this time he came up with the Marauder map. Harry
grinned. That artefact would prove to be useful. Harry put the map aside and
looked into the trunk one last time. He found a thick envelope with his name on
it. When he turned the envelope, it simply said:

style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Open this on your Graduation day. Good luck
Harry.

It was in
Severus’ neat handwriting and Harry was quite curious for the contents of the
envelope, but he would settle his curiosity for now and follow Severus’
guideline. He placed the envelope in between the photo book and sat down on his
bed, grabbing the map once more.

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For anyone
who hadn’t noticed: Liam Jackson was chosen because of LIam
and JAclass=SpellE>cksonlang=EN-GB style='mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>: in other words LIly
and JAmes. I thought it would be a change from Harry
Evans, or James Evans or whatever...

Curious
about the envelope? Well, you’re not the only one ;)