Asylum

A special thanks to my beta, Saeadame.

Asylum

Chapter 6

Harry rolled his green eyes. "Right, I'm a wizard. And let me guess, the big guy over there is a giant, and he is a vampire." He said pointing to Hagrid then Snape. "What are you going to tell me next? Hmmm… maybe that you're the great-great grandson of the Loch Ness monster and that my mother was from Mars."

Only the twins and Sirius laughed at this.

Albus's twinkle dimmed a bit. "That is not funny Harry. I am being serious. And yes, Hagrid is a half giant, and Severus is a quarter vampire."

Harry's eyes narrowed. "Look, I don't like people making fun of me. Just because I went to the nut house does not mean that I am gullible or stupid."

Dumbledore put his hands up in a placating gesture. "I swear that I am not making fun of you, Harry. Here, let me show you."

Albus drew out his wand and floated one of the sandwich plates up in the air. The plate then proceeded to float in midair and remain motionless floating in front of Harry.

Harry's eyes widened in astonishment before he waved a hand both above and under the plate, obviously looking for some type of string or device that could make the plate float.

The plate then slowly lowered itself down back onto the table.

Harry then looked under the table to see if someone or something was under there causing the unusual phenomenon. He then looked towards the ceiling. Nothing. The only thing that could explain this was magic.

Harry looked at the old man at the head of the table and blinked at him stupidly. He then smiled sheepishly. "Well, that explains a lot."

Here everyone looked at him questioningly.

Harry blushed at the attention. "Well, I could always do things no one else could. I remember when one of the nurses tried to make me take a bath, I didn't want to, so when she made a grab to drag me to the washing room she flew back into the opposite wall. She didn't remember what happened. Then another time when one a visitor of one of my old roommates was making fun of me, her hair sort of all fell out." Blushing even redder at the last part.

Sirius grinned from ear to ear. "A true marauder." He crowed.

Severus just pinched his nose and groaned. This was not looking good for him. Just what he needed, James Jr.

"So you believe us?" Dumbledore asked, just to clarify.

Harry nodded.

"Now, I believe it is time to tell you about your parents…" Dumbledore then proceeded to tell Harry about the night his parents died and who exactly Voldemort was.

"And now this man, Voldemort," here half the order shuddered, "is back. He was resurrected, somehow, 5 years ago through Arthur's youngest child." Harry asked.

Arthur and the rest of the Weasleys nodded.

"Wow." Was about all Harry could say. "And I am to go to this school, Hogwarts?"

Everyone nodded again.

"What year will I even be in? I don't know any magic, surely I will be behind everyone?"

Dumbledore nodded a bit sadly. "You will be unfortunately. But we have come up with a solution to that. You will be Professor Snape's apprentice, as he could use the most help stocking ingredients and such. Plus, you only need to follow directions in a book to get a potion right since you don't need to memorize them like other students. You will be learning some of the basic spells and potions this summer and then we set up a schedule when you are at Hogwarts with different teachers after the other students are done that day. You will have a room in Professor Snape's quarters as is customary for an apprentice."

Sirius decided to put in his opinion on the matter. "Wait a minute. I didn't consent to that! I'm his guardian; you can't just make these decisions for Harry. Why can't he be apprenticed with Moony? He needs someone to teach the class a few days a month anyway."

"Sirius, regardless of muggle laws, Harry is an adult in the wizarding world. That means I do not have to ask for your permission regarding Harry. Secondly, Harry does not even know any spells yet, certainly not enough to teach a class a few days a month. Severus will take good care of Harry, Sirius." The headmaster stated.

Sirius looked over to Snape. "If I find out you've done one thing to him Snape, I will kill you."

Snape snorted. "Please, you can't even come up with an original insult, what makes you think I will believe you."

"Gentlemen, enough." Albus then looked to Harry. "Are you okay, you're looking a bit pale."

Harry nodded. "It's just a lot to take in."

Albus nodded kindly. "Ronald, he will be sharing a room with you. Why don't you show Harry the way? I'm sure he would like to take a lie down and rest a bit before dinner."

"Yes, Sir." Ron said. Although many in the house would have been cautious to letting someone who killed his family stay in their room, Ron hadn't been there for that order meeting as he wasn't a member yet, which made him a bit more trustworthy of the smaller man.

Ron led Harry up to his room. "Your bed is on the left."

Ron then plopped down on his bed watching the smaller man arrange a few things and put his clothes swiftly away. The black haired male then went over to a full-length mirror on the closet door and stuck his finger in his eye.

"Aahh, what do you think your doing?" Ron asked hysterically. What kind of person play's with their eyeball?

Harry nearly poked himself in the eye when he heard the other nearly scream at him.

"Sheesh, don't freak out or anything. I'm just taking out my contacts." Harry said quickly removing the transparent things from his eyes.

Ron stepped over to him. "What's a contact?" He'd never seen them in the wizarding world.

"Do you know what glasses are?" The other boy nodded. "These are just like them, except they are inserted into the eye. I just don't sleep with mine in, they make my eyes all itchy."

"Then why don't you just wear glasses?" Ron asked. Wouldn't that be easier than sticking your finger in your eye?

"Oh, I used to have them, but the doctors took them away. They said they didn't want me using the glass in them as a weapon." Harry said before lying down and closing his eyes, ready to sleep after the past few hours being so stressful.

Ron was confused. What was a doctor and why did they think the smaller boy would use them as a weapon? He'd have to speak to his mother later.

Ron closed the door and headed out for some answers leaving the smaller boy to his rest.


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A/N: It’s too short for even my liking, but I wanted to at least get something out. My mom is in the hospital again, she is having surgery again. It’s not her foot this time, but her hand. They think it may be blood clots but they are not sure.

Okay, I have another rant for today. The subject is reviews…now this isn’t about reviewers in my story, but complaints the writers have in others. You see, whenever I get a review (or at least not a flame) I get siked over one, so it really bothers me when they put rules on how they want their reviews. I can understand the no flame rule, I get that one, but complaining about the length? Some people get so mad when people leave a simple “Great chapter!” or “Update soon!” They say that anything under a sentence is crap. Doesn’t that kind of make you NOT want to review. Then on sites like ff.net, you have people on alert and they say, “I don’t see why this story has 100 people on alert and only 25 are reviewing.” These are the people that appreciate your story!!! Why are hounding them like that, you know. It just gets me miffed that they complain about getting reviews. A review is a review. Okay, done now.

Thanks to all my reviewers!!!

Oh, and stephanie sizemore, no Ginny was not in the other chapters. I think you maybe thinking of Hermione. The only time she was mentioned was when I glossed over Voldemort’s rebirth.

Please review! I promise not to comment on the lack of length unlike some other authors!!! Hehe…