"Harry, have a seat please," said Professor Dumbledore, gesturing to one of the empty seats located on the opposite side of his desk.
He really did not wish to sit down; in fact he did wish to be here at all, but he sat anyway.
"I assume that you know why you are here?" asked Dumbledore.
Harry was well aware that this question was meant to be rhetorical, but answered anyway "No, I don't."
Of course, he knew perfectly well why he was here, but knew that his answer would throw Dumbledore for a moment.
Dumbledore stared at him for a moment before trying to mask his surprise by asking "You don't know why you are here?"
"Nope." he replied "Professor McGonagall summoned me and ordered me to follow her up here but gave no reason."
Dumbledore fixed him with a look and asked "And you can think of no reason as to why you might have been asked here?"
"Other than the possibility of you wanting to once again go over the specifics of our previous two meetings, then no, I cannot think of a reason."
"So you have no recollection of walking out of Professor Snape's potions lesson earlier?" asked Dumbledore.
"Oh, that!" said Harry in a tone that suggested that only Dumbledore's mentioning of his had brought it to the forefront of his mind "That was a simple situation that is being blown out of proportion."
"Arrogant brat!" snapped Snape "You're just like your father, never able to admit when he was in the wrong-"
At this point Harry stopped listening and tilted his head backwards and closed his eyes, his lips moving slightly as he spoke silently.
"What are you doing, Mr Potter?" asked Professor McGonagall.
Harry opened his eyes to look at her and answered "I am counting backwards from twenty in order to help keep myself calm. It's a well-established method, as is walking away from a situation that irritates you."
He turned back to Dumbledore and said "As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, the situation in the potions classroom has been blown out of proportion. Near the end of the lesson, we were asked to place a sample of our work into a phial and hand it in. I did so, and Snape here decided to knock my work to the floor so as to-"
"Don't lie Potter!" snarled Snape, interrupting him once again.
Harry glared hatefully at the man before closing his eyes and tilting his head back once again. Snape made to say something else, but Dumbledore held up a hand to stop him.
Harry successfully counted down from twenty and then took a deep breath in order to speak again "Snape knocked my potion to the floor. When I collected another sample he smashed-"
"Headmaster, surely you don't believe this nonsense!" ranted Snape.
At this Harry stood and reached into his bag and took out his potions supply kit. From within he took the two phials of soothing solutions that he had made and set them onto Dumbledore's desk.
"This one was tested by Madam Pomfrey" he said, regarding the one of the left "the other has not been touched since coming out of my cauldron."
He reached into his robes and pulled out the piece of parchment that Madam Pomfrey had given him and used his wand to make a copy before tucking the original away again "This is a written review of my potion from Madam Pomfrey. Two other phials are being sent by Professor Umbridge to the offices of the Wizarding Examinations Authority at the Ministry, accompanied by a letter of explanation. This meeting is now over."
And with that he slung his bag over his shoulder and marched towards the doors of the office.
"Harry, please return to your seat," Dumbledore called after him and Snape shouted "Get back here Potter!"
Harry ignored the both of them and wrenched the office door open.
"I believe he just executed his second method of not losing your temper," observed Professor McGonagall.
Dumbledore heaved a great sigh and asked "Minerva, if you would?"
The transfiguration professor nodded and left the office in pursuit of Harry.
Once she was gone, Dumbledore turned in his seat in order to face the potions master "Is any of what Harry said true, Severus?"
Snape's nostrils flared in anger, but he said nothing.
"I have already warned you, Severus," said Dumbledore "in our current position you would do well to not antagonise young Harry so much. You must learn to keep your hatred for his father in check."
Again Snape said nothing. Instead he turned in a swish of his black robes and performed the same move that Harry had now used twice against him – walking away from the situation.
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