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"Tell me Mr Potter" Flitwick said as they walked "what would have happened if it was a request?"
"I'm not the headmaster's friend" Harry replied "I have no reason to do anything because he asks"
"Hmm" Flitwick let out a small chuckle
"Ah, Mr Potter, thank you Filius, you may leave now" Dumbledore said as Harry entered "please sit, would you like a lemon drop?"
"No and I want to make it clear that the only reason I'm sitting is because I want to" Harry said shortly before sitting down opposite the headmaster "also I want Flitwick to stay here, that way if you also try to read my mind I will have at least one witness, now what do you want?"
"Mr Potter, I do not intend to read your mind" Dumbledore said
"Yeah, but you also said Snape wasn't a death eater, forgive me if I don't exactly have full confidence in you" Harry replied as he crossed his arms and Shadow nodded in agreement
"Very well" Dumbledore sighed "Mr Potter, I will be honest with you, I have asked you here to request that you drop the charges on Professor Snape"
"Albus!" Flitwick exclaimed
"Request, merely request" Dumbledore said to Flitwick before turning back to Harry "Mr Potter, I need Severus with me for multiple reasons."
"Is one of them a lonely bed?" Harry asked innocently
"Very funny" Dumbledore sent Harry a small glare before continuing "firstly Snape is, without argument, an excellent potions master"
"Also a horrible teacher and a first class, grade A, arse" Harry interrupted
"He was also my spy during the last wizarding war with Voldemort" Dumbledore said, ignoring Harry's description, despite how accurate it is.
"And I should care?" Harry asked "Being a spy does not translate into him being a good teacher, nor does it give him permission to invade minds whenever he feels like it. Besides, with someone that has a big as temper and little self control as him, do you really think he was a good spy?"
"Mr Potter, I believe Voldemort will return" Dumbledore admitted, once again ignoring Harry's words
"What?" Flitwick gasped
"I will explain it to you later Flitwick, I promise" Dumbledore said before turning back to Harry "I believe he is alive and when he returns I will need Severus to spy on him"
"And I should care?" Harry looked at Dumbledore unimpressed
"Mr Potter, the information he could bring could save many lives"
"I disagree, mostly because I doubt his competence as a spy" Harry replied "besides, what would it matter to me if Voldemort returns?"
"Mr Potter, he will try and kill you!" Dumbledore exclaimed
"Me and everyone I care about in a Fidelius charm in another country" Harry shrugged "a rather brilliant if oversimplified method of avoiding him, and seeing as I have very little people I care about I don't have much reason to care. Me, Delphi and her mum can easily get out the country. Plus you haven't really given me any reason to believe he is back, what makes you think he is still alive?"
"I have my reasons Mr Potter" Dumbledore said, he did not want to tell Harry about the horcruxes, not yet at least
"In which case I have my reasons for telling you that if they execute Snape, I will not be coming to his funeral" Harry stood up "though if he's sent to Azkaban then I will occasionally send a letter for no other reason than to annoy him, goodbye Professor"
"Harry please, it is important to have Severus released!"
"I will think about it" Harry said as he walked towards the door, he opened it then looked back at Dumbledore "I've just thought about it, my answer is 'no'. Goodbye" Harry said as he walked out of the room.
Harry was walking back to the common room when he heard someone calling him. He turned around to see a bushy haired girl walking towards him, she looked vaguely familiar, and currently she had three books tucked under her left arm and a stern expression on her face.
"Can I help you?" Harry asked
"You're not supposed to have a raven for a pet" She stopped in front of him and pointed at Shadow with her free hand, Shadow looked indignant and screeched at the girl, surprising her.
"He is not my pet, he is a familiar, and those are allowed and if you're competent enough then you'll be able to check the school by-laws and see I'm telling the truth" Harry said
"What's a familiar?" She asked
"Do I look like a teacher? Go ask a prefect or something" Harry said before walking off
"Hey!" The girl said, she quickly rushed forwards until she was in front of Harry, forcing him to stop "Don't walk away from me!"
"Well I lack the effort to run away" Harry said dryly "now, I don't know your name..."
"It's Hermione Granger"
"And I don't care enough to learn it" Harry continued as if she hadn't said anything "I have better things to do, things I'd rather do, than talk to you. Now excuse me"
"You're being awfully rude"
"You're being unbearably irritating. Now move"
"You can't talk to me like that!"
"You mean I shouldn't talk to you like that, either way I'm still going to do it. Now move"
"I'll tell off you"
"I'm shaking in my boots" Harry said sarcastically "Now I will assume that you're hard of hearing, which is why I will repeat myself once more. Now...move"
"You're Harry Potter, all the books said you were supposed to be a hero but you act like a bully and..." Hermione was cut off by a sudden pain in her scalp, she felt her hair being pulled and had no choice but to backwards, she tripped and landed on her bottom. Her books fell to the floor, she looked up to see Shadow fly back to Harry's shoulder and she quickly realised that the raven was the one that pulled her.
"Told you to move" Harry said as he walked forwards "as for those books, they lied, because I am many things but..." Harry kicked her fallen books away, he then pulled out his wand and fired a spell that barely missed Hermione and hit the floor next to her, causing Hermione to jump and a scorch mark to appear "I am no hero. Goodbye" He added before walking off.
"Severus" Dumbledore said as he entered Snape's holding cell
"Albus, my trial is tomorrow" Snape reminded him "they given me a potion to get rid of my mind barriers so they can use veritaserum on me, I will have to spend Merlin knows how long before I get them back to their previous strength, that can't be legal!"
"Unfortunately it is, it is rarely ever used but always in cases involving mind reading, as it is a major crime but there is no proof except to those knowledgeable in the mind arts and..."
"Enough with your lectures! Get me out of here!"
"Alas, I sadly could not convince Mr Potter to drop the charges" Dumbledore said sadly "I apologise Severus but you will have to suffer for what you've done, as I've said previously I can find a way to reduce your sentence and..."
"No! No!" Snape roared "You will get me out of here or so help me Merlin, I will tell everyone about that thrice damned prophecy!"
"Really?" Dumbledore froze
"Yes, free me!" Snape snarled
"Very well" Dumbledore sighed before taking out his wand, Snape smirked, glad to see that Dumbledore was finally freeing him. Or so he thought. Dumbledore quickly hit him with a stunner, causing the man to drop like a sack of potato's "I am truly about this Severus, obliviate!" Dumbledore said as he wiped Snape's mind of Dumbledore stunning him and of the prophecy, he briefly considered wiping his mind of the mind reading incident in class so he wouldn't admit to it under veritaserum but he discarded that idea immediately. There were too many witnesses and it would look suspicious if Snape couldn't remember. "My sincerest apologies Severus, I truly am sorry" Dumbledore waved his wand and made it appear as if it Snape had merely fallen asleep "goodbye old friend"
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