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Dominance Hierarchies
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 was breakfast time on Friday morning.
 Harry took another huge bite out of his toast and then tried to remind
 his brain that scarfing his breakfast wouldn't actually get him into the
 dungeons any faster.
 Anyway they had a full hour of study time between breakfast and the start
 of Potions.
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But dungeons! In Hogwarts! Harry's imagination was already sketching the
 chasms, narrow bridges, torchlit sconces, and patches of glowing moss.
 Would there be rats? Would there be 
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“Harry Potter,” said a quiet voice from behind him.
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Harry looked over his shoulder and found himself beholding Ernie Macmillan,
 smartly dressed in yellow-trimmed robes and looking a little worried.
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“Neville thought I should warn you,” Ernie said in a low voice.
 “I think he's right.
 Be careful of the Potions Master in our session today.
 The older Hufflepuffs told us that Professor Snape can be really nasty
 to people he doesn't like, and he doesn't like most people who aren't Slytherin
s.
 If you say anything smart to him it… it could be really bad for you, from
 what I've heard.
 Just keep your head down and don't give him any reason to notice you.”
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There was a pause as Harry processed this, and then he lifted his eyebrows.
 (Harry wished he could raise just one eyebrow, like Spock, but he'd never
 been able to manage.) “Thanks,” Harry said.
 “You might've just saved me a lot of trouble.”
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Ernie nodded, and turned to go back to the Hufflepuff table.
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Harry resumed eating his toast.
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It was around four bites afterward that someone said “Pardon me,” and Harry
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Some time later, Harry was finishing up his third plate of rashers.
 (He'd learned to eat heavily at breakfast.
 He could always eat lightly at lunch if he didn't end up using the Time-Turner.)
 And there was yet another voice from behind him saying “Harry?”
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“Yes,” Harry said wearily, “I'll try not to draw Professor Snape's attention
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”
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“Oh, that's hopeless,” said Fred.
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“Completely hopeless,” said George.
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“So we had the house elves bake you a cake,” said Fred.
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“We're going to put one candle on it for every point you lose for Ravenclaw,”
 said George.
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“And have a party for you at the Gryffindor table during lunch,” said Fred.
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“We hope that'll cheer you up afterward,” finished George.
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Harry swallowed his last bite of rasher and turned around.
 “All right,” said Harry.
 “I wasn't going to ask this after Professor Binns, I really wasn't, but
 if Professor Snape is 
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 awful why hasn't he been fired?”
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“Fired?” said Fred.
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“You mean, let go?” said George.
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“Yes,” Harry said.
 “It's what you do to bad teachers.
 You fire them.
 Then you hire a better teacher instead.
 You don't have unions or tenure here, right?”
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Fred and George were frowning in much the same way that hunter-gatherer
 tribal elders might frown if you tried to tell them about calculus.
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“I don't know,” said Fred after a while.
 “I never thought about that.”
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“Me neither,” said George.
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“Yeah,” said Harry, “I get that a lot.
 See you at lunch, guys, and don't blame me if there aren't any candles
 on that cake.”
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Fred and George both laughed, as if Harry had said something funny, and
 bowed to him and headed back toward Gryffindor.
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Harry turned back to the breakfast table and grabbed a cupcake.
 His stomach already felt full, but he had a feeling this morning might
 use a lot of calories.
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As he ate his cupcake, Harry thought of the worst teacher he'd met so far,
 Professor Binns of History.
 Professor Binns was a ghost.
 From what Hermione had said about ghosts, it didn't seem likely that they
 were fully self-aware.
 There were no famous discoveries made by ghosts, or much of any original
 work, no matter who they'd been in life.
 Ghosts tended to have trouble remembering the current century.
 Hermione had said they were like accidental portraits, impressed into the
 surrounding matter by a burst of psychic energy accompanying a wizard's
 sudden death.
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Harry had run into some stupid teachers during his abortive forays into
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 his father had been a lot pickier when it came to selecting grad students
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 but History class was the first time he'd encountered a teacher who literally
 wasn't sentient.
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And it showed, too.
 Harry had given up after five minutes and started reading a textbook.
 When it became clear that “Professor Binns” wasn't going to object, Harry
 had also reached into his pouch and gotten earplugs.
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Did ghosts not require a salary? Was that it? Or was it literally impossible
 to fire anyone in Hogwarts 
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even if they died?
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Now it seemed that Professor Snape was going about being absolutely awful
 to everyone who wasn't a Slytherin and it hadn't even 
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 to anyone to terminate his contract.
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And the Headmaster had set fire to a chicken.
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“Excuse me,” came a worried voice from behind him.
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“I swear,” Harry said without turning around, “this place is almost eight
 and a half percent as bad as what Dad says about Oxford.”
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Harry stamped down the stone corridors, looking affronted, annoyed, and
 infuriated all at once.
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“Dungeons!” Harry hissed.
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 These are not dungeons! This is a basement! A 
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Some of the Ravenclaw girls gave him odd looks.
 The boys were all used to him by now.
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It seemed that the level in which the Potions classroom was located was
 called the “dungeons” for no better reason than that it was below ground
 and slightly colder than the main castle.
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In 
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 In 
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Hogwarts!
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 Harry had been waiting his whole life and now he was 
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 that had decent dungeons it ought to be Hogwarts! Was Harry going to have
 to build his own castle if he wanted to see one little bottomless abyss?
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A short time later they got to the actual Potions classroom and Harry cheered
 up considerably.
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The Potions classroom had strange preserved creatures floating in huge jars
 on shelves that covered every centimeter of wall space between the closets.
 Harry had gotten far enough along in his reading now that he could actually
 identify some of the creatures, like the Zabriskan Fontema.
 Albeit the fifty-centimeter spider 
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 one.
 He'd tried asking Hermione, but she hadn't seemed very interested in looking
 anywhere near where he was pointing.
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Harry was looking at a large dust ball with eyes and feet when the assassin
 swept into the room.
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That was the first thought that crossed Harry's mind when he saw Professor
 Severus Snape.
 There was something quiet and deadly about the way the man stalked between
 the children's desks.
 His robes were unkempt, his hair spotted and greasy.
 There was something about him that seemed reminiscent of Lucius, although
 the two of them looked nothing remotely alike, and you got the impression
 that where Lucius would kill you with flawless elegance, this man would
 simply kill you.
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“Sit down,” said Professor Severus Snape.
 “Now.”
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Harry and a few other children who had been standing around talking to each
 other scrambled for desks.
 Harry had planned on ending up next to Her\SpecialChar \-
mione but somehow he found himself
 sitting down in the nearest empty desk next to Justin Finch-Fletchley (it
 was a Doubles session, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff) which put him two desks
 to the left of Hermione.
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Severus seated himself behind the teacher's desk, and without the slightest
 transition or introduction, said, “Hannah Abbott.”
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“Here,” said Hannah in a somewhat trembling voice.
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“Susan Bones.”
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“Present.”
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And so it went, no one daring to say a word in edgewise, until:
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“Ah, yes.
 Harry Potter.
 Our new… 
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celebrity.
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“The celebrity is present, 
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Half the class flinched, and some of the smarter ones suddenly looked like
 they wanted to run out the door while the classroom was still there.
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Severus smiled in an anticipatory sort of way and called the next name on
 his list.
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Harry gave a mental sigh.
 That had happened way too fast for him to do anything about it.
 Oh well.
 Clearly this man already didn't like him, for whatever reason.
 And when Harry thought about it, better by far that this Potions professor
 should pick on 
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 rather than, say, Neville or Hermione.
 Harry was a lot better able to defend himself.
 Yep, probably all for the best.
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When full attendance had been taken, Severus swept his gaze over the full
 class.
 His eyes were as empty as a night sky without stars.
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“You are here,” Severus said in a quiet voice which the students at back
 strained to hear, “to learn the subtle science and exact art of potionmaking.
 As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly believe
 this is magic.
 I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering
 cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that
 creep through human veins,” this in a rather caressing, gloating tone,
 “bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses,” this was just getting creepier
 and creepier.
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 if you aren't as great a pack of fools as I usually have to teach.”
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Severus somehow seemed to notice the look of skepticism on Harry's face,
 or at least his eyes suddenly jumped to where Harry was sitting.
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“Potter!” snapped the Potions professor.
 “What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of
 wormwood?”
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Harry blinked.
 “Was that in 
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Magical Drafts and Potions
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?” he said.
 “I just finished reading it, and I don't remember anything which used wormwood
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Hermione's hand went up and Harry shot her a glare which caused her to raise
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“Tut, tut,” Severus said silkily.
 “Fame clearly isn't everything.”
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“Really?” Harry said.
 “But you just told us you'd teach us how to bottle fame.
 Say, how 
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 that work, exactly? You drink it and turn into a celebrity?”
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Three-quarters of the class flinched.
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Hermione's hand was dropping slowly back down.
 Well, that wasn't surprising.
 She might be his rival, but she wasn't the sort of girl who would play
 along after it became clear that the professor was deliberately trying
 to humiliate him.
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Harry was trying hard to keep control of his temper.
 The first rejoinder that had crossed his mind was `Abracadabra'.
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“Let's try again,” said Severus.
 “Potter, where would you look if I told you to find me a bezoar?”
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“That's not in the textbook either,” Harry said, “but in one Muggle book
 I read that a trichinobezoar is a mass of solidified hair found in a human
 stomach, and Muggles used to believe it would cure any poison 
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“Wrong,” Severus said.
 “A bezoar is found in the stomach of a goat, it is not made of hair, and
 it will cure most poisons but not all.”
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“No one here is interested in your 
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 Muggle books.
 Final try.
 What is the difference, Potter, between monksblood and wolfsbane?”
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That did it.
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“You know,” Harry said icily, “in one of my quite 
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fascinating
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 Muggle books, they describe a study in which people managed to make themselves
 look very smart by asking questions about random facts that only they knew.
 Apparently the onlookers only noticed that the askers knew and the answerers
 didn't, and failed to adjust for the unfairness of the underlying game.
 So, Professor, can you tell me how many electrons are in the outermost
 orbital of a carbon atom?”
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Severus's smile widened.
 “Four,” he said.
 “It is a useless fact which no one should bother writing down, however.
 And for your information, Potter, asphodel and wormwood make a sleeping
 potion so powerful it is known as the Draught of Living Death.
 As for monkshood and wolfsbane, they are the same plant, which also goes
 by the name of aconite, as you would know if you had read 
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One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi.

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 Thought you didn't need to open the book before coming, eh, Potter? All
 the rest of you should be copying that down so that you will not be as
 ignorant as him.” Severus paused, looking quite pleased with himself.
 “And that will be… five points? No, let us make it an even ten points from
 Ravenclaw for backchat.”
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Hermione gasped, along with a number of others.
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“Professor Severus Snape,” Harry bit out.
 “I know of nothing which I have done to earn your enmity.
 If there is some problem you have with me which I do not know about, I
 suggest we 
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“Shut up, Potter.
 Ten more points from Ravenclaw.
 The rest of you, open your books to page 3.”
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There was only a slight, only a very faint burning sensation in the back
 of Harry's throat, and no moisture at all in his eyes.
 If crying was not an effective strategy for destroying this Potions professor
 then there was no point in crying.
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Slowly, Harry sat up very straight.
 All his blood seemed to have been drained away and replaced with liquid
 nitrogen.
 He knew he'd been trying to keep his temper but he couldn't seem to remember
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“Harry,” whispered Hermione frantically from two desks over, “stop, please,
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“So,” said a voice colder than zero Kelvin, “how does one go about filing
 a formal complaint against an abusive professor? Does one talk to the Deputy
 Headmistress, write a letter to the Board of Governors… would you care
 to explain how it works?”
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The class was utterly frozen.
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“Detention for one month, Potter,” Severus said, smiling even more broadly.
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“I decline to recognize your authority as a teacher and I will not serve
 any detention you give.”
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People stopped breathing.
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Severus's smile vanished.
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“Expelled, were you about to say?” Harry, on the other hand, was now smiling
 thinly.
 “But then you seemed to doubt your ability to carry out the threat, or
 fear the consequences if you did.
 I, on the other hand, neither doubt nor fear the prospect of finding a
 school with less abusive professors.
 Or perhaps I should hire private tutors, as is my accustomed practice,
 and be taught at my full learning speed.
 I have enough money in my vault.
 Something about bounties on a Dark Lord I defeated.
 But there 
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 teachers at Hogwarts who I rather like, so I think it will be easier if
 I find some way to get rid of you instead.”
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“Get rid of me?” Severus said, now also smiling thinly.
 “What an amusing conceit.
 How do you suppose you will do that, Potter?”
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“I understand there have been a number of complaints about you from students
 and their parents,” a guess but a safe one, “which leaves only the question
 of why you're not already gone.
 Is Hogwarts too financially strapped to afford a real Potions professor?
 I could chip in, if so.
 I'm sure they could find a better class of teacher if they offered double
 your current salary.”
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Two poles of ice radiated freezing winter across the classroom.
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“You will find,” Severus said softly, “that the Board of Governers is not
 the slightest bit sympathetic to your offer.”
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“Lucius…” Harry said.
 “
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 why you're still here.
 Perhaps I should chat with Lucius about that.
 I believe he desires to meet with me.
 I wonder if I have anything he wants?”
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Hermione frantically shook her head.
 Harry noticed out of the corner of his eye, but his attention was all on
 Severus.
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“You are a very foolish boy,” Severus said.
 He wasn't smiling at all, now.
 “You have nothing that Lucius values more than my friendship.
 And if you did, I have other allies.” His voice grew hard.
 “And I find it increasingly unlikely that you were not Sorted into Slytherin.
 How was it that you managed to stay out of my House? Ah, yes, because the
 Sorting Hat claimed it was 
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.
 For the first time in recorded history.
 What were you really 
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 about with the Sorting Hat, Potter? Did you have something that it wanted?”
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 Harry dropped his gaze to Severus's desk.
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“You seem oddly reluctant to look me in the eyes, Potter!”
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 “So it was 
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 the Sorting Hat was warning me about!”
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“What?” said Severus's voice, sounding genuinely surprised, though of course
 Harry didn't look at his face.
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Harry got up out of his desk.
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“Sit down, Potter,” said an angry voice from somewhere he wasn't looking.
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Harry ignored it, and looked around the classroom.
 “I have no intention of letting one unprofessional teacher ruin my time
 at Hogwarts,” Harry said with deadly calm.
 “I think I'll take my leave of this class, and either hire a tutor to teach
 me Potions while I'm here, or if the Board is really that locked up, learn
 over the summer.
 If any of you decide that you don't care to be bullied by this man, my
 sessions will be open to you.”
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Harry strode across the room and grasped the doorknob.
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Harry slowly turned around, and caught a glimpse of Severus smiling nastily
 before he remembered to look away.
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“Open this door.”
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“No,” said Severus.
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“You are making me feel threatened,” said a voice so icy it didn't sound
 like Harry's at all, “and that is a mistake.”
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Severus's voice laughed.
 “What do you intend to do about it, little boy?”
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Harry took six long strides forward away from the door, until he was standing
 near the back row of desks.
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Then Harry drew himself upright and raised his right hand in one terrible
 motion, fingers poised to snap.
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Neville screamed and dived under his desk.
 Other children shrank back or instinctively raised their arms to shield
 themselves.
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“
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Harry don't!
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” shrieked Hermione.
 “Whatever you were going to do to him, don't do it!”
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“Have you all gone 
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Slowly, Harry lowered his hand.
 “I wasn't going to hurt him, Hermione,” Harry said, his voice a little
 lower.
 “I was just going to blow up the door.”
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Though now that Harry remembered it, you weren't supposed to Transfigure
 things that were to be burned, which meant that going back in time afterward
 and getting Fred or George to Transfigure some carefully measured amount
 of explosives might not actually have been such a good idea…
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Silencio,
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Harry tried to say “What?” and found that no sound was coming out.
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“This has become ridiculous.
 I think you've been allowed to get yourself in enough trouble for one day,
 Potter.
 You are the most disruptive and unruly student I have ever seen, and I
 don't recall how many points Ravenclaw has right now, but I'm sure I can
 manage to wipe them all out.
 Ten points from Ravenclaw.
 Ten points from Ravenclaw.
 Ten points from Ravenclaw! Fifty points from Ravenclaw! Now sit down and
 watch the rest of the class take their lesson!”
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Harry put his hand into his pouch and tried to say `marker' but of course
 no words came out.
 For one brief moment that stopped him; and then it occurred to Harry to
 spell out M-A-R-K-E-R using finger motions, which worked.
 P-A-D and he had a pad of paper.
 Harry strode over to an empty desk, not the one he'd originally sat down
 in, and scrawled a brief message.
 He tore off that sheet of paper, put away the marker and pad in a pocket
 of his robes for quicker access, and held up his message, not to Snape,
 but to the rest of the class.
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I'M LEAVING
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DOES ANYONE ELSE
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NEED TO GET OUT?
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“You're insane, Potter,” Severus said with cold contempt.
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Aside from that, no one spoke.
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Harry swept an ironic bow to the teacher's desk, walked over to the wall,
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 the door shut behind him.
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There was the muffled sound of someone snapping his fingers, and then nothing.
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In the classroom, students looked at each other in puzzlement and fear.
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The Potions Master's face was now completely enraged.
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The closet was empty.
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One hour earlier, Harry listened from inside the closed closet.
 There was no sound from outside, and no point in taking risks either.
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C-L-O-A-K, his fingers spelled out.
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Once he was invisible, he very carefully and slowly cracked open the closet
 door and peeked out.
 No one seemed to be in the classroom.
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The door wasn't locked.
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It was when Harry was outside the dangerous place and inside the hallway,
 safely invisible, that some of the anger drained away and he realized what
 he'd just done.
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What he'd just done.
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Harry's invisible face was frozen in absolute horror.
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He'd antagonized a teacher three orders of magnitude beyond anything he'd
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 He'd threatened to walk out of Hogwarts and might have to follow through
 on it.
 He'd lost all the points Ravenclaw had and then he'd used the Time-Turner…
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His imagination showed him his parents yelling at him after he was expelled,
 Professor McGonagall disappointed in him, and it was just too painful and
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The thought that Harry allowed himself to think was that if getting angry
 had gotten him into all this trouble, then maybe when he was angry he'd
 think of a way out, things seemed clearer somehow when he was angry.
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And the thought that Harry didn't let himself think was that he just couldn't
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Tut, tut.
 Fame clearly isn't everything.
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Ten points from Ravenclaw for backchat.
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The calming cold washed back through his veins like a wave reflected and
 returning from some breaker, and Harry let out his breath.
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Okay.
 Back to being sane now.
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He was actually feeling a bit disappointed in his non-angry self for collapsing
 like that and wanting only to get out of trouble.
 Professor Severus Snape was 
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 Normal-Harry had forgotten that and wished for a way to protect 
\emph on
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So this is my dark side, is it?
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Bit of a prejudiced term that, my light side seems more selfish and cowardly,
 not to mention confused and panicky.
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And now that he was thinking clearly, it was equally clear what to do next.
 He'd already given himself an extra hour to prepare, and could get up to
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Minerva McGonagall waited in the Headmaster's office.
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Dumbledore sat in his padded throne behind his desk, dressed in four layers
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 Minerva sat in a chair before him, opposite Severus in another chair.
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They were waiting for Harry Potter.
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Harry,
\emph default
 Minerva thought despairingly, 
\emph on
you promised you wouldn't bite any teachers!
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And in her mind she could see very clearly the reply, Harry's angry face
 and his outraged response: 
\emph on
I said I wouldn't bite anyone who didn't bite me first!
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There was a knock at the door.
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“Come in!” Dumbledore called.
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The door swept open, and Harry Potter entered.
 Minerva almost gasped out loud.
 The boy looked cool, collected, and utterly in control of himself.
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“Good mor-” Harry's voice suddenly cut off.
 His jaw dropped.
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Minerva tracked Harry's gaze, and she saw that Harry was staring at Fawkes
 where the phoenix sat on its golden perch.
 Fawkes fluttered his bright red-golden wings like the flickering of a flame,
 and dipped his head in a measured nod to the boy.
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Harry turned to stare at Dumbledore.
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Dumbledore winked at him.
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Minerva felt she was missing something.
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Sudden uncertainty crossed Harry's face.
 His coolness wavered.
 Fear showed in his eyes, then anger, and then the boy was calm again.
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A chill went down Minerva's spine.
 Something was not right here.
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“Please sit down,” said Dumbledore.
 His face was now serious once more.
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Harry sat.
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“So, Harry,” said Dumbledore.
 “I've heard one report of this day from Professor Snape.
 Would you care to tell me what happened in your own words?”
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Harry's gaze flicked dismissively to Severus.
 “It's not complicated,” said the boy, smiling thinly.
 “He tried bullying me the way he's been bullying every non-Slytherin in
 the school since the day Lucius foisted him off on you.
 As for the other details, I request a private conversation with you concerning
 them.
 A student who is reporting abusive behavior from a professor can hardly
 be expected to speak frankly in front of that same professor, after all.”
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This time Minerva couldn't stop herself from gasping out loud.
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Severus simply laughed.
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Potter,” the Headmaster said, “one does not speak of a Hogwarts professor
 in such terms.
 I fear that you labor under a terrible misapprehension.
 Professor Severus Snape has my fullest confidence, and serves Hogwarts
 at my own behest, not Lucius Malfoy's.”
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There was silence for a few moments.
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When the boy spoke again his voice was icy.
 “Am I missing something here?”
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Potter,” said the Headmaster.
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“This man has terrorized your school for years.
 I spoke to students and collected stories to make sure there would be enough
 for a newspaper campaign to rally the parents against him.
 Some of the younger students cried while they told me.
 I almost cried when I heard them! 
\emph on
You allowed this abuser to run free? You did this to your students? Why?
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Potter,” said the Headmaster, his voice now stern, “this meeting is not
 about Professor Snape.
 It is about you and your disregard for school discipline.
 Professor Snape has suggested, and I have agreed, that three full months
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“Declined,” Harry said icily.
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Potter,” the Headmaster said.
 The full, entire force of the wizard's gaze was turned on the boy.
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“You will explain to me why you allowed this man to hurt the children placed
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Minerva's body swayed with the force of that blow, with the sheer raw 
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Even Severus looked shocked.
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“That, Harry, would be most extremely unwise,” Dumbledore said slowly.
 “I am the primary piece opposing Lucius on the gameboard.
 For you to do such a thing would strengthen him greatly, and I did not
 think that was your chosen side.”
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The boy was still for a long moment.
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“This conversation grows private,” Harry said.
 His hand flicked in Severus's direction.
 “Send him away.”
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Dumbledore shook his head.
 “Harry, did I not tell you that Severus Snape has my fullest confidence?”
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The boy's face showed the shock of it.
 “This man's bullying makes you vulnerable! I am not the only one who could
 start a newspaper campaign against you! This is insane! Why are you doing
 this?”
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Dumbledore sighed.
 “I'm sorry, Harry.
 It has to do with things that you are not, at this time, ready to hear.”
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The boy stared at Dumbledore.
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“It 
\emph on
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\emph default
 insanity,” the boy said slowly.
 “You haven't reined him in because you think he's 
\emph on
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.
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 just as it needs a ghost to teach History.”
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“That does sound like the sort of thing I would do, doesn't it?” said Dumbledore
, smiling.
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“Unacceptable,” Harry said flatly.
 His gaze was now cold and dark.
 “I will not tolerate bullying or abuse.
 I had considered many possible ways of dealing with this problem, but I
 will make it simple.
 Either this man goes, or I do.”
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Minerva gasped again.
 Something strange flickered in Severus's eyes.
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Now Dumbledore's gaze was also growing cold.
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Potter, is the final threat which may be used against a student.
 It is not customarily used as a threat by students against the Headmaster.
 This is the best magical school in the entire world, and an education here
 is not an opportunity given to everyone.
 Are you under the impression that Hogwarts cannot get along without you?”
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And Harry sat there, smiling thinly.
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“You forget,” Harry said, “that you're not the only one who can see patterns.
 
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” Harry flicked a hand at Severus again, and then stopped in mid-sentence
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Minerva could see it on Harry's face, the moment when he remembered.
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She'd told him, after all.
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Potter,” said the Headmaster, “once again, Severus Snape has my fullest
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“You told him,” whispered the boy.
 “You utter fool.”
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Dumbledore didn't react to the insult.
 “Told him what?”
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“That the Dark Lord is alive.”
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“
\emph on
What in Merlin's name are you on about, Potter?
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” cried Severus in tones of sheer astonishment and outrage.
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Harry glanced briefly at him, smiling grimly.
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\emph on
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\emph default
 a Slytherin, then,” Harry said.
 “I was starting to wonder.”
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And then there was silence.
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 “Harry, what 
\emph on
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\emph default
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“I'm sorry, Albus,” Minerva whispered.
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Severus and Dumbledore turned to look at her.
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“Professor McGonagall didn't tell me,” said Harry's voice, swiftly and less
 calm than it had been.
 “I guessed.
 I told you, I can see the patterns too.
 I guessed, and she controlled her reaction just as Severus did.
 But her control fell a shade short of perfection, and I could tell it was
 control, not genuine.”
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“And I told him,” said Minerva, her voice trembling a little, “that you,
 and I, and Severus were the only ones who knew.”
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“Which she did as a concession to prevent me from simply going around asking
 questions, as I threatened to do if she didn't talk,” Harry said.
 The boy chuckled briefly.
 “I really should have gotten one of you alone and told you that she told
 me everything, to see if you let anything slip.
 Probably wouldn't have worked, but would have been worth a shot.” The boy
 smiled again.
 “Threat's still on the table and I do expect to be briefed 
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\emph default
 at some point.”
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Severus was giving her a look of utter contempt.
 Minerva raised her chin and bore it.
 She knew it was deserved.
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Dumbledore leaned back in his padded throne.
 His eyes were as cold as anything Minerva had seen from him since the day
 his brother died.
 “And you threaten to abandon us to Voldemort if we do not comply with your
 wishes.”
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Harry's voice was razor-sharp.
 “I regret to inform you that you are not the center of the universe.
 I'm not threatening to walk out on magical Britain.
 I'm threatening to walk out on 
\emph on
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.
 I am not a meek little Frodo.
 This is 
\emph on
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\emph default
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Dumbledore's face was still cold.
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Potter.”
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Harry's return gaze was equally icy.
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\emph on
Dumbledore
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.
 Boromir was at least a plausible mistake.
 What is this 
\emph on
Nazgul
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 doing in my Fellowship?”
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Minerva was completely lost.
 She looked at Severus, to see if he was following this, and she saw that
 Severus had turned his face away from Harry's field of vision and was smiling.
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“I suppose,” Dumbledore said slowly, “that from your perspective it is a
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 So, Mr.
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Potter, if Professor Snape is to leave you alone henceforth, will that be
 the last time this issue arises, or will I find you here every week with
 a new demand?”
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“Leave 
\emph on
me
\emph default
 alone?” Harry's voice was outraged.
 “I am not his only victim and certainly not the most vulnerable! 
\emph on
Have you forgotten how defenseless children are? How much they hurt?
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 Henceforth Severus will treat 
\emph on
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\emph default
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 will find another Potions Master, or you will find another hero!”
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Dumbledore started laughing.
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Minerva didn't dare move.
 Her eyes flickered and she saw that Severus was equally motionless.
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Harry's visage grew even colder.
 “You mistake me, Headmaster, if you think that this is a joke.
 This is not a request.
 This is your punishment.”
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” Minerva said.
 She didn't even know what she was going to say.
 She simply couldn't let that go by.
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Harry made a shushing gesture at her and continued to speak to Dumbledore.
 “And if that seems impolite to you,” Harry said, his voice now a little
 less hard, “it seemed no less impolite when you said it to me.
 You would not say such a thing to anyone who you considered a real human
 being instead of a subordinate child, and I will treat you with just the
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“Oh, indeed, in very deed, this is my punishment if ever there was one!
 Of 
\emph on
course
\emph default
 you're in here blackmailing me to save your fellow students, not to save
 yourself! I can't imagine why I would have thought otherwise!” Dumbledore
 was now laughing even harder.
 He pounded his fist on the desk three times.
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Harry's gaze grew uncertain.
 His face turned toward her, addressing her for the first time.
 “Excuse me,” Harry said.
 His voice seemed to be wavering.
 “Does he need to take his medication or something?”
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“Ah…” Minerva had no idea what she could possibly say.
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“Well,” said Dumbledore.
 He wiped away tears that had formed in his eyes.
 “Pardon me.
 I'm sorry for the interruption.
 Please continue with the blackmail.”
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Harry opened his mouth, then closed it again.
 He now seemed a little unsteady.
 “Ah… he's also to stop reading students' minds.”
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“Sorting Hat warned me,” said Harry.
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“
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What?
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“Can't say anything else.
 Anyway I think that's it.
 I'm done.”
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Silence.
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“Now what?” Minerva said, when it became apparent that no one else was going
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“Now what?” Dumbledore echoed.
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“Well, he certainly seems to have backed us into a corner,” Dumbledore said,
 smiling happily.
 “But Hogwarts 
\emph on
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\emph default
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 now would it? So how about if Professor Snape is only awful toward students
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“
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What?
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” said all three of them again.
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“If it's the most vulnerable victims about whom you're concerned.
 Maybe you're right, Harry.
 Maybe I 
\emph on
have
\emph default
 forgotten over the decades what it's like to be a child.
 So let's compromise.
 Severus will continue to unfairly award points to Slytherin and impose
 lax discipline on his House, and he will be awful to non-Slytherin students
 in their fifth year and higher.
 To others he will be scary, but not abusive.
 He will promise to only read minds when the safety of a student requires
 it.
 Hogwarts will have its evil Potions Master, and the most vulnerable victims,
 as you put it, will be safe.”
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Minerva McGonagall was as shocked as she'd ever been in her life.
 She glanced uncertainly at Severus, whose face had been left completely
 neutral, as though he couldn't decide what sort of expression he ought
 to be wearing.
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“I suppose that is acceptable,” Harry said.
 His voice sounded a bit odd.
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“You can't be serious,” Severus said, his voice as expressionless as his
 face.
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“I am very much in favor of this,” Minerva said slowly.
 She was so much in favor that her heart was pounding wildly beneath her
 robes.
 “But what could we possibly tell the students? They might not have questioned
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“Harry can tell the other students that he discovered a terrible secret
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 “It's true, after all; he discovered that Severus was reading minds, and
 he certainly did blackmail us.”
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“This is insanity!” exploded Severus.
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“Bwah ha ha!” said Dumbledore.
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“Ah…” said Harry uncertainly.
 “And if anyone asks me why fifth years and above got shafted? I wouldn't
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“Tell them,” said Dumbledore, “that it wasn't you who suggested the compromise,
 that it was all you could get.
 And then refuse to say anything more.
 That, too, is true.
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Harry nodded slowly.
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“They must not be given back.”
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It was Minerva who said it.
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Harry looked at her.
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Potter,” she said.
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Harry shrugged.
 “Acceptable,” he said flatly.
 “But in the future Severus will not strike at my House connections by taking
 points from me, nor will he waste my valuable time with detentions.
 Should he feel that my behavior requires correction, he may communicate
 his concerns to Professor McGonagall.”
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“Harry,” Minerva said, “will you continue to submit to school discipline,
 or are you to be above the law now, as Severus was?”
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Harry looked at her.
 Something warm touched his gaze, briefly before it was quashed.
 “I will continue to be an ordinary student to every member of the staff
 who is not insane or evil, provided that they do not come under pressure
 from others who are.” Harry glanced briefly at Severus, then turned back
 to Dumbledore.
 “Leave Minerva alone, and I'll be a regular Hogwarts student in her presence.
 No special privileges or immunities.”
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“Beautiful,” Dumbledore said sincerely.
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Potter must publicly apologize for his actions of today.”
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Harry gave her another look.
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“The discipline of the school has been gravely injured by your actions,
 Mr.
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Potter,” Minerva said.
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“I think, Professor McGonagall, that you considerably overestimate the importanc
e of what you call school discipline, as compared to having History taught
 by a live teacher or not torturing your students.
 Maintaining the current status hierarchy and enforcing its rules seems
 ever so much more wise and moral and important when you are on the top
 and doing the enforcing than when you are on the bottom, and I can cite
 studies to this effect if required.
 I could go on for several hours about this point, but I will leave it at
 that.”
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Minerva shook her head.
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” She paused.
 That hadn't come out right, and Severus, Dumbledore, and even Harry were
 giving her strange looks.
 “To learn, I mean.
 Not every child can learn in the absence of authority.
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Potter, if they see your example as one to be followed.”
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Harry's lips curved into a twisted smile.
 “The first and last resort is the truth.
 The truth is that I shouldn't have gotten angry, I shouldn't have disrupted
 the class, I shouldn't have done what I did, and I set a bad example for
 everyone.
 The truth is also that Severus Snape behaved in a fashion unbecoming a
 Hogwarts professor, and that from now on he will be more mindful of the
 injured feelings of students in their fourth year and under.
 The two of us could both get up and speak the truth.
 I could live with that.”
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“In your dreams, Potter!” spat Severus.
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“After all,” said Harry, smiling grimly, “if the students see that rules
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There was a brief pause, and then Dumbledore chuckled.
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Harry's gaze jerked away from Dumbledore, down to the floor.
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“Common sense is often mistaken for Legilimency,” said Dumbledore.
 “I shall talk over this matter with Severus, and no apology will be required
 from you unless he apologizes as well.
 And now I declare this matter concluded, at least until lunchtime.” He paused.
 “Although, Harry, I'm afraid that Minerva wished to speak with you about
 an additional matter.
 And that is not the result of any pressure on my part.
 Minerva, if you would?”
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Minerva rose from her chair and almost fell.
 There was too much adrenaline in her blood, her heart was beating too fast.
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“Fawkes,” said Dumbledore, “accompany her, please.”
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” she started to say.
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Dumbledore shot her a look, and she fell silent.
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The phoenix soared across the room like a smooth tongue of flame leaping
 out, and landed on her shoulder.
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Potter,” she said, firmly now, and they left through the door.
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They stood on the rotating stairs, descending in silence.
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Minerva didn't know what to say.
 She didn't know this person who stood beside her.
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And Fawkes began to croon.
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It was tender, and soft, like a fireplace would sound if it had melody,
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 His voice was unstable, wobbling, changing pitch.
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“The song of the phoenix,” said Minerva, not really aware of what she was
 saying, her attention was all on that strange quiet music.
 “It, too, heals.”
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Harry turned his face from her, but she caught a glimpse of something agonized.
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The descent seemed to take a very long time, or maybe it was only that the
 music seemed to take a very long time, and when they stepped out through
 the gap where a gargoyle had been, she was holding Harry's hand firmly
 in hers.
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As the gargoyle stepped back into place, Fawkes left her shoulder, and swooped
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Harry stared at Fawkes like someone hypnotized by the ever-changing light
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“What am I to do, Fawkes?” whispered Harry.
 “I couldn't have protected them if I hadn't been angry.”
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The phoenix's wings continued flapping, it continued hovering in place.
 There was no sound but the beating of the wings.
 Then there was a flash like a fire flaring up and going out, and Fawkes
 was gone.
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Both of them blinked, like waking up from a dream, or maybe like falling
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Minerva looked down.
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Harry Potter's bright young face looked up at her.
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“Are phoenixes people?” said Harry.
 “I mean, are they smart enough to count as people? Could I talk with Fawkes
 if I knew how?”
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Minerva blinked hard.
 Then she blinked again.
 “No,” Minerva said, her voice wavering.
 “Phoenixes are creatures of powerful magic.
 That magic gives their existence a weight of meaning which no simple animal
 could possess.
 They are fire, light, healing, rebirth.
 But in the end, no.”
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“Where can I get one?”
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Minerva leaned down and hugged him.
 She hadn't meant to, but she didn't seem to have much choice in the matter.
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When she stood up she found it hard to speak.
 But she had to ask.
 “What happened today, Harry?”
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“I don't know the answers to any of the important questions either.
 Aside from that I'd really rather not think about it for a while.”
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Minerva took his hand in hers again, and they walked the rest of the way
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It was only a short trip, since naturally the office of the Deputy was close
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Minerva sat behind her desk.
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Harry sat in front of her desk.
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“So,” Minerva whispered.
 She would have given almost anything not to do this, or not to be the one
 who had to do it, or for it to be any time but right now.
 “There is a matter of school discipline.
 From which you are not exempt.”
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“Namely?” said Harry.
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He didn't know.
 He hadn't figured it out yet.
 She felt her throat tighten.
 But there was work to be done and she would not shirk it.
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Potter,” said Professor McGonagall, “I need to see your Time-Turner, please.”
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All the peace of the phoenix vanished from his face in an instant and Minerva
 felt like she had just stabbed him.
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“
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” Harry said.
 His voice was panicked.
 “I need it, I won't be able to attend Hogwarts, I won't be able to sleep!”
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“You'll be able to sleep,” she said.
 “The Ministry has delivered the protective shell for your Time-Turner.
 I will enchant it to open only between the hours of 9pm and midnight.”
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Harry's face twisted.
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Potter, how many times have you used the Time-Turner since Monday? How many
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“I…” Harry said.
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” He glanced down at his watch.
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Minerva felt a rush of sadness.
 She'd thought so.
 “It wasn't just two per day, then.
 I suspect that if I asked your dormmates, I would find that you were struggling
 to stay up long enough to go to sleep at a reasonable time, and waking
 up earlier and earlier every morning.
 Correct?”
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Harry's face said everything she needed to know.
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Potter,” she said gently, “there are students who cannot be entrusted with
 Time-Turners, because they become addicted to them.
 We give them a potion which lengthens their sleep cycle by the necessary
 amount, but they end up using the Time-Turner for more than just attending
 their classes.
 And so we must take them back.
 Mr.
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Potter, you have taken to using the Time-Turner as your solution to everything,
 often very foolishly so.
 You used it to get back a Remembrall.
 You vanished from a closet in a fashion apparent to other students, instead
 of going back after you were out and getting me or someone else to come
 and open the door.”
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From the look on Harry's face he hadn't thought of that.
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“And more importantly,” she said, “you should have simply sat in Professor
 Snape's class.
 And watched.
 And left at the end of class.
 As you would have done if you had not possessed a Time-Turner.
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Potter.
 You are one of them.
 I am sorry.”
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“But I 
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“Every other student in this castle runs the same risk, and I assure you
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 Mr.
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Potter, you will hand over your Time-Turner and do so now.”
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Harry's face twisted in agony, but he drew out the Time-Turner from under
 his robes and gave it to her.
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From her desk, Minerva drew out one of the protective shells that had been
 sent to Hogwarts.
 She snapped the cover into place around the Time-Turner's turning hourglass,
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“
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This isn't fair!
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” Harry shrieked.
 “I saved half of Hogwarts from Professor Snape today, is it right that
 I be punished for it? I saw the look on your face, you 
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Minerva didn't speak for a few moments.
 She was enchanting.
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When she finished and looked up, she knew that her face was stern.
 Maybe it was the wrong thing to do.
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Potter?” she snapped.
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 Be 
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 if you were not the Boy-Who-Lived even that would not have sufficed!”
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Harry gaped at her.
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She knew that he was seeing the angry face of Professor McGonagall.
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Harry's eyes filled up with tears.
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“I'm, sorry,” he whispered, voice now choked and broken.
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Potter,” she said sternly, and handed him the newly restricted Time-Turner.
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Harry turned and fled from her office, sobbing.
 She heard his feet pattering away down the hall, and then the sound cut
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“I'm sorry too, Harry,” she whispered to the quiet room.
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Fifteen minutes into lunch hour.
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No one was speaking to Harry.
 Some of the Ravenclaws were shooting him looks of anger, others of sympathy,
 a few of the youngest students even had looks of admiration, but no one
 was talking to him.
 Even Hermione hadn't tried to come over.
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Fred and George had gingerly stepped near.
 They hadn't said anything.
 The offer was clear, and its optionality.
 Harry had told them that he would come over when dessert started, no earlier.
 They had nodded and quickly walked away.
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It was probably the utterly expressionless look on Harry's face that was
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The others probably thought he was controlling anger, or dismay.
 They knew, because they'd seen Flitwick come and get him, that he'd been
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Harry was trying not to smile, because if he smiled, he would start laughing,
 and if he started laughing, he wouldn't stop until the nice people in white
 jackets came to haul him away.
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It was too much.
 It was just all too much.
 Harry had almost gone over to the Dark Side, his dark side had done things
 that seemed in retrospect insane, his dark side had won an impossible victory
 that might have been real and might have been a pure whim of a crazy Headmaster
, his dark side had protected his friends.
 He just couldn't handle it any more.
 He needed Fawkes to sing to him again.
 He needed to use the Time-Turner to go off and take a quiet hour to recover
 but that wasn't an option any more and the loss was like a hole in his
 existence but he couldn't think about that because then he might start
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Twenty minutes.
 All the students who were going to eat lunch had arrived, almost none had
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The tapping of a spoon rang through the Great Hall.
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“If I may have your attention please,” Dumbledore said.
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Harry took a deep breath and got up.
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Harry turned and looked out at the four tables.
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It was becoming harder and harder not to smile, but Harry kept his face
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“The truth is sacred,” Harry said tonelessly.
 “One of my most treasured possessions is a button which reads `Speak the
 truth, even if your voice trembles'.
 This, then, is the truth.
 Remember that.
 I am not saying it because I am being forced to say it, I am saying it
 because it is true.
 What I did in Professor Snape's class was foolish, stupid, childish, and
 an inexcusable violation of the rules of Hogwarts.
 I disrupted the classroom and deprived my fellow students of their irreplaceabl
e learning time.
 All because I failed to control my temper.
 I hope that not a single one of you will ever follow my example.
 I certainly intend to try never to follow it again.”
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Many of the students gazing at Harry now had solemn, unhappy looks upon
 their faces, such as one might see at a ceremony marking the loss of a
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Until Harry raised his hand.
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He did not raise it high.
 That might have appeared preemptory.
 He certainly did not raise it toward Severus.
 Harry simply raised his hand to chest level, and softly snapped his fingers,
 a gesture that was seen more than heard.
 It was possible that most of the Head Table wouldn't see it at all.
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This seeming gesture of defiance won sudden smiles from the younger students
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 and worried looks from all others.
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Harry kept his face expressionless.
 “Thank you,” he said.
 “That's all.”
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Potter,” said the Headmaster.
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Severus smoothly stood up from his place at the Head Table.
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There was the sound of many people emitting muffled chokes at the same time.
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Severus continued as if he had not heard.
 “The Potions classroom is a dangerous place, and I still feel that strict
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Potter's detention.
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There was a single clap from the direction of Gryffindor and faster than
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He sat down.
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“Thank you too!” Headmaster Dumbledore said cheerfully.
 “Carry on!”
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And Harry, still expressionless, began to walk back to his seat in Ravenclaw.
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There was an explosion of conversation.
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” The second was “
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Some students were weeping openly.
 So was Professor Sprout.
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At the Gryffindor table, where a cake waited with fifty-one unlit candles,
 Fred whispered, “I think we may be out of our league here, George.”
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And from that day onward, no matter what Hermione tried to tell anyone,
 it would be an accepted legend of Hogwarts that Harry Potter could make
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