Leaving Behind

Chapter 5

Disclaimer: Don’t own any not getting paid. Just for fun.

Pairing: Harry/Severus

Rating: Strong R/NC-17

Beta: Thanks to my lovely beta Spike. You are greatest!!!!!!!

Spoilers: All Books if you have not read all of the books don’t read
this... well all but HBP

Warning: Cussing, Slight Beatings, SLASH! Lemon later on.

Summary: Harry goes back to the Dursleys after 5th year. He learns some
new things and runs away from the Dursleys. When Harry goes back to school
only to push the only friends he has ever known away. Can Severus bring
back the Harry they all once knew or is he lost forever.

\"Talking\"

‘Thinking’

:Parseltongue:

A/N: This chapter will switch around a bit between Harry and Severus.
When you see (---) you will know that the scene has changed.

Last Chapter:
Harry set Hedwig off with the letter along with the letters to Ron, Hermione, and Remus. That would give him three days before they knew he was gone. After doing that he put all his gifts into his trunk and shrunk it, putting it in his pocket, before opening his door and walking down the stairs. Walking into the living room he could hear everyone in the kitchen eating breakfast. Walking into the room the room’s occupants looked at him, he took out his wand and muttered \"…Obliviate…\" All of their eyes went glassy. \"…you don’t know who Harry Potter is… never heard his name… he never came to live with you… You don’t know who I am or that we ever met…\" And with that Harry turned around and walked out. But before he walked out of the house he flicked his hand towards the door under the stairs and it became solid wall.
Once outside of the door he felt a gentle breeze flow through him and with that he placed the anti-tracking spell on him and apprated away.
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At Hogwarts the most brooding Professor stocked around his rooms. With
a glass of Fire Whiskey in one hand and a Potions book in the other. He
was muttering to himself, looking down at the book periodically, and
taking in a mouth full of the fiery liquid.

\"Ok, so if I change the base of the Potion maybe that would have effect… no that won’t work. It would just lead to more problems later and not have any effect…\" she stopped his rambling on to let the owl in that was taping at the window.

A snowy owl flew into the window. ‘That’s Potters Owl… Yes I have seen
it before. Beautiful bird to bad it belongs to an idiot. What does the
bloody boy want? Writing to me to make fun of what he saw in my pensive
no doubt. Stupid brat…’ Snape fixed a scowl on his face towards the
owl that was on his desk with its leg out. He walked over and took the
parchment off. Unrolled it and read…

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Harry quickly walked through The Leaky Caldron to the entrance to
Diagon Alley. He headed straight to Gringotts Bank. Keeping his head down so
as not to be seen as easy. He had let his hair grow over the summer,
it was now down to just above his chin so it covered his scar. Walking
up to the closest available goblin.

\"Hello. I was told by Greink that my other accounts where open to me.\"
For the first time since Harry walked in he looked up.

\"Ah yes…\" He said looking down at the book in front of him and running
a long finger down the page. \"Mr. Potter we have been expecting you. I
will go get the papers, would you come with me please.\" He started
walking towards an office looking part of the building. There was a big
office to one side a smaller cubicles to the other. He walked him to
one of the cubicles. \"Please wait in here. It is so when you go through
the papers you can have privacy.\"

\"Thank you.\" Harry walked into the room. There was a small desk to one
side with a desk lamp and a chair. Quills, ink, parchment, colored wax
and, for some reason, a kind of bell was on the small stand to the left
of the desk. Other than that the room was pretty much bear. A short time later the door opened and in walked a goblin whose name was Klaus, followed by three floating boxes behind him.

\"This is most of the paper work we have on all the accounts you have.
There is also the Potter family seal in this box.\" He floated one of the boxes over next to Harry. He also conjured another table to put the
other boxes on. \"Will you need any help going through them?\"

\"That would be great. I am not sure what all I have to do.\"

\"Then I will stay and help.\" Klaus conjured another chair and sat down. They went through the first box.

The first box contained Wills and things Harry had inherited. There where some in this box of people who had died and had given him all that they had and they were not even related to him or had met him simply because he was the boy-who-lived. He took them out and set them to the side. He then took his family seal, which once you were done with it transfigured into a ring to wear. He put it on his left hand. He also had the Black family seal which were all of Sirius’ things. After the Black Family seal transfigured as well, he put it next to the other one on his left hand.

\"Is it possible to give away some of this? I mean I don’t need any of
it there are plenty of people out there who could use it and get more
use out of it then I will. There might be some things I would like to
keep like I want to keep any and all the books. Unless I have the copy
already.\"

\"Yes, if that’s what you want to do? We could set up a charity and put it all in there.\"

\"That would be great like an after the battle war recovery fund or
something.\"

\"That would work very well. Just write the things you wish to keep and
we will be glad to set it all aside for you in another vault.

The next box they went to was filled with properties. He had the deeds to and owned by his family and the Black’s. He had the deed to Godric Hallow, Twelve Grimmauld Place, and a lot of other places he had never been to or heard of around the world. There was ones in America, other here in London, Scotland, Ireland, Paris, and even one in Japan. He decided to keep his ancestral home even if he was never going to use them. He would give them to his children. Finally scrolling down the last few properties on the list he came to one. Twelve Grimmauld Place… he knew what to do with that one.

\"I would like to give Twelve Grimmauld Place to Remus Lupin along with
the Black Bank accounts. Please don’t give me that \"I can’t\" because he
is a werewolf because frankly I don’t give a damn if he is. He was
Sirius friend longer then I ever knew him and he should have this. Please see that he gets it all I don’t care. I hate to use my fame for anything, but in this I will. Oh, and is it possible to get all the books out of there as well? There are some books there that will be very helpful.\"

\"I will do everything that I can to get it done. And yes I will send over someone to retrieve them soon.\" He snapped his fingers a quill, ink and parchment where in his hands and he was writing on it quickly of all the things he had to get done.

The last box where his parents’ papers and other documents that belonged to his family. Klaus left the room to start on his list, which gave Harry some time to go through the box that was just his parents’ things. \"When you need me ring the bell.\" With that he left and Harry started going through the box. Their wedding papers where in there. Along with his birth certificate.

There was also the Potter family tree, and surprisingly the Evens
family tree. It seemed that there were wizards in his mother’s family before, but everyone after that for generations were squibs and the magic was forgotten over time. The Potter Family Tree went back to the times of the founders. There were even founder’s whose children had married into the Potter family. Griffindor’s daughter had marred into the family. So he was a direct descendent of that line. It was also the same in the Evens’ line just with Ravenclaw’s daughter so he was also a descendent from there.

Then after moving a few more items there was something else. Located at the bottom of the pile was a letter addressed to him, sealed with the
Potter seal, that he now wore on his hand.

‘Dearest Harry,

If you are reading this we are no longer here. We are sure you have grown into a wonderful young man. We love you no matter what.

By now I am sure you know about being the heir of two of the founders
of Hogwarts. Soon if not already you will start to show more characteristics of them. I always loved to study and learn as much as I could; my powers grew as long as I kept learning. Your father was true to his as well brave and would have done anything to keep his friend’s and family safe. His power grew as well. You might be asking ‘when will this happen?’ The growth in power is over your next year in school, but by the end of that you will be at your full potential or should be. It took a year for both your father and my self to reach our own full potential. I don’t know the outcome when two of the founder’s heirs mix… it might take longer or it might just come faster then it did for us.

Keep learning and be brave my son. We love you so much.

Love always,

Your Parents’

He finished the letter with tears in his eyes. It was what he needed to
hear right now. Shacking his head to get his mind on track he rang the
bell. Klaus came into the room seconds later.

\"Yes Mr. Potter?\"

\"Can you send Owls from here? I would like to send an Owl to the house
elves in Scotland, to tell them that I will be going there once I get everything I need here.\"

\"Oh yes there is. Do you have the letter?\"

\"Yes here it is.\" Harry handed Klaus the letter where Klaus waved his hand at it and it was gone. \"Thanks\" Harry said.

Klaus nodded, \"We have gotten all the books out of every account you have asked for and from twelve Grimmauld Place. Would you like us to go into your other accounts and move the books in those as well?\"

\"Yes that would be great. I am going to go out now to get what I was
planning on buying today. A bottomless wallet. Can I get one here?\"

\"I think you have one in one of your vaults. Would you like to go get
it and fill it?\"

\"Yes that would be fine.\" He followed Klaus out of the room and to the
carts. They got in, sped down the tracks [right-left-left-right-right]
over a bridge with water under it, up a hill down the other side,
[right-left-right-left] and [stop]. They were at the biggest vault door that Harry had ever seen. Klaus told Harry to stand back. He put both hands on the door and spoke in a language that Harry had never heard, the door melted away. Harry gasped at what he saw that lay beyond the door. Gold galleons piled in giant mountains, sliver sickles in heaps, and kunts in piles. There where other things scattered around as well, and to the side in a dim lamp light was a desk. AS Harry was about to enter he asked, \"Whose vault was this?\"

\"Griffindor’s. I believe the item you are looking for is on the desk.\"
Harry walked over laying there on the desk was the bottomless wallet. He picked it up and walked over to the piles, putting hand full after hand full of each. Once he thought he had enough he turned back to leave, following Klaus out of the vault. They road the cart back up the track where Harry said his thanks and told him he would be back later for all the books.

As Harry walked out of the bank he gave a great sigh. He had a lot of
work a little time to do it all. Right now Harry headed for ‘Brasses’
Magical Trunks’ he walked through the door. A bell rang and echoed off
the trunks stacked everywhere the eye could see. They were like walls
in a mask he would he would have gotten lost in if he did not have to wait long when an older wizard about 60 come walking his way.

\"May I help you young man.\"

\"Yes I need to buy a trunk. The kind I want has eight locks on it and a
different compartment for each lock. But I need seven of those
compartments to be room size. I need one to be a library, an office,
and closet, a personal bank when I can’t get to Gringotts, a training room, a weapon room, and a potions lab and the eight will be used to keep odds and ends in.\" The mans eyes went wide.

\"That will cost a lot to do.\"

\"I have the money. Does it have to be made or do you have one?\"

\"I would have to make it.\"

\"How long would it take to make that way? I have a lot of other places
to go I could give you the money now and if you make it as fast as you
could I would pay even more.\" Harry thought for a minute, \"Oh yea, the Library part would have to very big. I have a lot of book all of which I need to get in there and a chair so I can sit a read them, and a desk to do homework and paper work on.\" Harry said as he took out his bottomless wallet.

\"Well I can call in my other workers too and we can all work on your
trunk if you like. Then there would be 4 of us working on it so more
like two rooms each. It could be done in about two hours. Then all you
have to do is fill the rooms with what you like.\"

\"That would be great. I will also need it to be warded so no one but me
can get into it. Also that to anyone who does not know that it has
eight compartments they won’t know that they are there. In the room for potions I need it to be fire proof, have some way that the fumes from the potions can get out with out being seen by others. Explosion proof, cooled so that it will be able to keep the potions ingredients fresh, with lots of counter space and a place just for the fire and to caldron to go. Also with shelves to hold the ingredients and other potions making things I need.. I will set my own wards for anything else. How much will it cost me? You can have it now, I will be back in two hours to pick up the trunk.\" Harry sighed and brushed his hair out of his face. Mr. Brasse in front of him caught the sight of his scar on his forehead. Again the mans eyes went wide.

\"This is a great honor to be making this for you Mr. Potter. I would do
if for free…\" Harry started to open his mouth. \"…but I know you will not allow it. So I will let you pay. With all that you are asking it should come out to be about a thousand galleons.\" The good thing about this bottomless bag is you just tell it the amount and it only let you take that much. Mr. Brasse smiled at Harry as Harry walked out of the
door. Then turned around to call in his three best employees who today
had the day off, but for this money and who they where making the trunk
for they would come.

Harry walked out of the door and off to the Apothecary to get
everything he needs to start his own potions lab. Walking into the room the smells of the place filled his nose and he about gagged for a moment. Then he walked up to the counter to talk to the owner.

\"Yes? May I be of Help?\"

\"Yes. I starting my own potions lab. I need the basics and some of the
not so basics for it. In large amounts. Along with scales, the best you
have, and files and knives.\"

\"Ok I can have that sent to your house tomorrow. That will be
three-hundred galleons sixteen sickles and nine kunts\" Harry took the
money out of his bag, gave to man the money and his address. Wishing the guy good day and walked out of the store. Then he headed for the cauldron shop, bought a bunch of different sizes of cauldron in Copper, Brass, Pewter, Silver, and Gold. They would also be delivered to his address.

Harry decided he would get another owl for his home use so know one
knew if he had sent out for something. So he went to Eeylop Owl Emporium where he ended buying a brooding pitch black owl he named Sal. He set him free and told him where to go, he hooked at him before spreading his wings and flying off. He went to Magical Menagerie were he asked if they had any snakes. The guy took him in back and showed him the one snake that they had.

\"I have not sold him yet because if anyone tries to do anything he tries to bite them. The Apothecary wanted him for his eggs, they are great for potions.\" Harry nodded.

:Hello: Harry softly hissed.

:Hello there sserpent child:

:I like him he speakss to uss:

:Of coursess he speakss to uss you idiot. He wantss ssomething:

‘oh great a snake you has a head with Moody’s paranoia.’

:I am going to buy you and take you home and feed you. The only thing I
ask in return is that I get you eggs. Other then that you get meals as
many a day you want them. How’s that?:

\"Oh I can see you guys are getting a long great. Take him just get him
out of here.\"

\"Thanks I will. I will need food for him too.\" The man smiled and
handed him the cage with a Runespoor snake in it tree headed snake and. Harry walked out with it. ‘This will help greatly in my Potions making.’

:I am going to have this man owl you to my house a long with your food.
Do not bite anything on your why there or a house elf. When I get home
I will feed you all some nice mice:

\"Please owl them to this address. They wont bite you it you pick the
cage up.\" Harry handed over the cage and hissed his good byes and left.

Next he went to Florish & Blotts where he would be getting even more books. When he came out of the shop he had 40 books being sent to his house and one he had in his hand. He looked down and read the title.

‘Everything a Librarian Needs to Know to Keep a Library‘ By Irma Pince

This would make his Library easier to deal with. He had to knowing
how many books there were it seemed to be more books then at Hogwarts Library. By now his trunk should be done so he walked back to the store. He walked in and their stood Mr. Brasse next to the most beautiful trunk he had ever seen it was cherry wood with brass locks all the way down the front.

\"There is one thing I need to do. Please put your hand on top of the
locks.\" Harry did as he was told the lock glowed a bright blue before
fading and there was a ninth lock on there. Harry looked up at Mr.
Brasse questionly.

\"I put in an extra room for you. In that room you can cast any spell be
it dark or light and it won’t be detected. The way you unlock that one
is by putting you hand right over the lock, it will then open for you
and only you. I would like to take you to your new rooms. First here is the space you asked just for you stuff you had left. You can add a simple expanding charm to it to give it more room if you need to add anything there. Next we go to your closet. Follow me.\" There were steps down. The room was no bigger then a normal walk in closet with a bubble light floating in air above there heads. It had a shoe rack, some chestier drawers and hanging space so he could hang up his school robes or any other robes he would buy. \"Ok next.\" They went to the next one.

\"This is you office space. You can see what all you have to do is buy
the things to go in here.”
“Ok next… This is your personal bank. As you can see it has a vault just put your hand to the door and you are in.\" Harry put his hand to the door. This vault was about the size of his school vault. \"You can break it in half if you like muggle money on one side and wizarding on the other. Next…\"

\"…this is you training room. Follow me.\" The room was huge. There were
two doors on the other side of the room still. \"This first door is a
bathroom shower and all. This door leads to the pool.\" Harry could not
believe what he was hearing. They walked through the doors the pool was
Olympic size pool filled and everything. \"There is a no spill spell on
it so if the trunk is to fall over this would be fine. Well all the
rooms would be fine nothing would happen to any of them except for the
first lock. Next…\"

\"…this is your weapon room. There is room here enough to spar and
practice with your weapons; there are brackets in the walls and when you get the weapons you want they will pop out so you can put them up. Next…\"

\"…this is the potions lab. Here are the shelves you asked to keep extra
stuff on. Over here is the ingredients cabinet.\" The room looked kind of like the dungeons of Hogwarts but a bit brighter stone walls. Long
counter island with a set place for fires at different highest. \"The
wash basin to wash the cauldrons in the work space and then over behind
that door is where you would keep the finished potions. There is an
unbreakable spell on the whole room so if something is dropped it will
just hit the ground and be fine. Next.\"

They stepped out of the trunk. \"this is my favorite room you have so
far… this is the library.\" They walked down a spiral staircase to the first landing. Harry gasped. The room was two stories, all the walls were covered in floor to ceiling book shelves the first landing went all the way around the out side of the room. There was another spiral staircase to get to the bottom floor. The room had a two sliding ladder one on the top part and one on the bottom. The floors were covered in, I think, cream carpet that Harry longed to take his shoes off curl up in a chair or even on the floor and read. The same floating bubble lighting was in here as well. \"In the middle,\" continued Mr. Brasse, \"here you can have some chairs and a table and a couch if you want. There is also room to grow if you fill all of this. Up on the first landing there is space to put more book shelves lined down the center of the carpet like a normal library. There should fit about 20 on each side so you have a lot of room to grow.\" Finishing the tour he ended, \"That is it.\" They walked out of the trunk.

\"There is a charm on this to make it weight very small. You can shrink
it and put it in your pocket and everything will still be fine. It was
great doing business with you. I give that a life of lasting. If you
have any problems with it at all please bring it in and I will fix it
for free. Have a great day.\" Then Mr. Brasse walked back through the
mask of trunks and out of sight. Harry shrunk the trunk and put it in his pocket. Before heading back to Gringotts, he made a side trip before he went into Gringotts. He stopped off at Madam Malkin’s Robes for All
Occasions.

He walked in and Madam Malkin’s was standing right in front of him
looking down at him. \"I need new ropes for school.\" She nodded her head
and pointed towards the stool that was in the middle of the room. He
got up and stood as she started pinning and measuring. \"I will also need some dress robes. I thing four should be about right. I need also
battle robes, five sets of them, and a pair I can practice in. A winter cloak and summer. Please.\" When they are done can you send them to this address.\" He handed her a piece of parchment with his address on it.

\"All that will be seventy-five galleons twelve sickles and 5 kunts.\" He
handed her the money for everything. \"Do you have a color you would
like your dress robes in?\"

\"One black with silver trim, one jade green with silver trim, one dark
blue with silver trim, and one crimson blood red, again with silver trim.\" She nodded and he walked out of the door and headed back to the bank.

He stepped back into the bank and Klaus was right there by his side.
\"Will you need help getting the books?\"

\"Yes that would be nice Klaus if you don’t have anything else to do.\"

\"No I am not busy right now. I will take you down to the vault.\"
Again they got into the cart and sped down the track. The trip was not
as long as last time they got out and Klaus opened the door. Harry
gasped at the amount of books he now had. Harry took out the trunk for
his pocket enlarged it. Looking at a pile of books they began to float them down the stairs behind him. He had read a small amount of that book he bought and it says to never shrink books, ever. So he would just have to levitate them all down the stairs. Klaus did the same.

\"Just put them in the center of the room, there, and I will move them later when I figure out how to put them in order.\" Klaus nodded, and went back for more books. Three hours later they were down to the last stack of books that was still outside the trunk. All too soon they were floated down the stairs with the others. \"I think I will have to get more book shelves.\" Harry said with a laugh. His book collection was by far bigger then Hogwarts own library. Books covered the ground. There was a small path between the piles of books; they reached the ceiling, it was hard to see the other side of the room. From the first landing if you tried to look across. The bubble lights had all moved so they were now between the books in the path ways over head. \"Well that is done. I need some more money. I need to put it in the vault I have here.\"

\"I will take you to one of them then.\" After Harry shrunk his trunk they left, got back in the cart and sped off yet again.

\"You know I am getting used to being in these things. They are kind of
fun.\" Harry said as they took a sharp turn left. Then they stopped, got
out and Klaus opened a different vault then he had before. \"Whose vault
is this one?\"

\"This one is your parents vault.\" Klaus nodded with his head. In this vault there was not as much money as the other ones, but it still held a lot.
Harry opened his trunk to the vault. \"I’ll move the money if you don’t
mind I can do it faster then you will be able too.\" Harry nodded and
headed down into the trunk and opened the vault there. It took three
trips, Klaus walking down the steps with enough money Harry would need
there, placing it on one side of the vault. Harry then pushed some of each pile into his money bag.

\"I need some money converted into muggle money as well, enough to fill
the other side.\" Harry took out a piece of parchment that he had in his
pocket and tore it into four pieces and transfigured them into buckets.
\"There for change.\" Klaus nodded and told him they had to do that up
stairs. Harry found another bottomless bag in his parents vault and
took it to keep the muggle money in. Again after closing everything down, they got back into the cart and headed back out to get the muggle money Harry needed. By the end of the day Harry had one million dollars in muggle money and change. He thanked Klaus for all his help before he left. He made a quick stop to talk to Ollivander about getting a wrist guard where he could keep his wand when he was not using it and that would allow him easy access to get his wand when he needed it. Ollivander said he could make him one the would put the wand on the under side of his fore arm. Ollivander told Harry that all he had to do was just think about using it and it would pop out, and it was invisible unless you knew it was there. Harry had finished his shopping for the day and apprated to his new house.

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Severus put down the letter. He had read it over about ten times and
still could not figure why. He did think he needed to write back to
Potter. But what would he write? He had to think. He sat down in his
chair and summoned a bottle of fire whisky.

‘So the boy feels sorry for what he did. Ok, but to apologize for how
his father and friends were is another thing. Then there is the whole doing Occlumency again. I don’t know about that though. If it happens again he will need to buckle down. I am not going to do this if he does not try. There will be serious consequences if he does not master Occlumency… mostly my life. Which I put on the line for that boy more often then anything. He is going to be the death of me.’ Severus sighed and got up from his chair with his glass of whisky and walked towards the desk. Grabbed a quill and roll of parchment and started writing.

‘Mr. Potter,

I am surprised that you would ever apologize for anything. I can
clearly see that you are not your father. For he never apologized for anything he did in his life or his friends. Yes, Lupin has for almost getting me killed but I don’t really care.

If you want to do Occlumency again you will study and practice
everyday. Now that the Dark Lord is back if he were to see me in your mind teaching you this I would surly be dead. You will do everything I tell you to. If you don’t I will stop all lessons and no amount of apologizing will make them start up again.

You will be in the dungeons at eight o’clock sharp. The Monday after
school begins and I will tell you when the rest of your lessons are
they will be twice this year.

I just hope that it finally has worked it’s self into your thick head
that you are messing with lives if you didn’t get it yet.


Severus Snape


Potions Master at Hogwarts’

The short letter took five different times to write and a lot of
re-reading the letter the boy had sent him. By the time it was done he
looked up, Hedwig had falling asleep on the back of the chair across the room. He watched her for a moment and then poked her with a finger. She gave out a soft hoot from under her wing and moved her head to the
other wing and turned around on the chair facing away from him.

\"Silly owl. I am done with this letter. Are you going to take it back
today or are you going to stay here and nap all day?\" She hooted softly
in response and again settled back down on the chair. \"Fine I am going
to tie this reply to you leg and leave whenever your nap is done.\"
Severus said and walked out of the room.

Hedwig a couple hours later woke and looked around, she was alone in the room. She lapped off the chair and took flight seeing a door open she flew over to it and looked into it. Severus was lying on his bed
asleep. She hooked softly. Severus turned over and sighed out \"Harry\" before he was snoring softly again. She tilted her head at that, she
thought he hated Harry. She then took flight once more and left to go
hunting before she went off to find her master. She had stayed there
late into the evening.

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Harry sat in his new house after meeting all of his new house elves.
They were happy to finally have someone living there to serve. He was
sitting in the den reading the librarian book he had. He had found some
very useful spells that helped with arranging books by name and
subject. He was going to try with his old school books before trying them with all of his other books. He did the spell four times just to get how to do it down. Then he walked over to his trunk and climbed down the stairs. He watched as the books started to fly everywhere from the bottom of piles and then fly over to the book case that they would go in. All he did was point his wand at the books and the book case he wanted them in with the subject he called out and they flew over there. It was great soon everything was put away. He had to transfigure the other bookcases around the room. Mr. Brasse was right twenty bookcases fit around the landing. He now had room to grow. That is what he planned to do once he read most or all of these books. He could read about four to six books a day. Depending on the subject matter and how many of the spells he would use out of them. With everything put away that means that he can go get everything he need for the rooms tomorrow. There was a knock on the trunk, Harry climbed back up the stairs and stepped out of the trunk. He looked around the room and there was Hedwig sitting on the back of a chair, looking at him she hooted at him.

\"Hey Hedwig.\" He walked over to here and took the letter from her. \"I
have some one for you to meet.\" Harry whistled and in flew Sal. \"This
is Sal.\" Hedwig looked mad thinking she had been replaced. \"No, you have not been replaced but everyone knows you and if I send you out for
things someone could follow you back or they could hex you or something
much worse.\" Harry walked over to Hedwig. \"No one knows that I have him, so if I need more potions ingredients then I can send him and I won’t have any trouble. I put the same spells over him as I have you too so he can’t be tracked. Now you have someone to keep you company in this new home.\" Hedwig just stared at him. Then she looked over at the black owl staring at her from the other side of the room. She gave out a hoot witch he returned before going back to looking bored. Harry looked back and forth between his two owls, Ying and Yang, black and white. Hedwig was most of the time a very happy owl. Sal was more on the darker brooding type. They were both very proud owls.

He was going to have one hell of a year with them around. Harry planned to keep them in the house with him. He took a small piece of parchment and transfigured it into a perch for the two owls to sit on. He put it down on the table across the room. They both flew over to it. Once they were settled both hooted their thanks. Harry stroked their fathers with his hands as they fell asleep sitting together. Harry smiled he thought they made a very fetching couple.

He sighed and walked out of the room to get ready for bed; walking towards the room he had picked for his own. He still had the letter in his hand. He laid down on his bed, unrolled the parchment and read it. He laughed to himself, leave it to the Potion Master to not directly forgive him. When Harry was done reading the letter put the letter on the bedside table with his glasses. Brushing the hair from his eyes he thought of what to do next. \"Nothing for now,\" he said turning the light off he fell to sleep.