As Harry had not yet learned how to shield his mind from being read or seen, it was very easy for Professor Severus Snape to enter his mind and see the answers to his questions, Harry’s round glasses did not protect his eyes nor his mind from being invaded. Professor Snape would afterwards regret going into the boys mind for everything he ever thought about the Potter Brat would be proved wrong this very night. The life of Harry Potter, The - Boy - Who - Lived, would remind Severus of the life he had lived on his own as he could tell no one not even his best friend Lily Evans. The memories he forced his way into would reflect even worse pain than his own.

Memories Flashed before Harry's eyes, it stopped and the very first memory he could remember began showing.

##### Memory 1 #####

Part 1 :

The memory began where a little boy with ebony black locks and emerald eyes laid on a ratty mattress , in the Cupboard ( this was his room ever since he had come lived here, or what he could remember ) under the stairs starring at the ceiling of his room where his friends the spiders ( his aunt and uncle didn’t know they were there and it worked perfectly for Freak) where spinning beautiful webs. Suddenly dust and his spider friends fell on him, Freak was sure Dudley was running down the stairs again out of spite because he knew Freak was down there and just to be sure Dudley gave a few stomps( Freak only knew Dudley gave a few stomps because the stairs shook from his heavy weight). Freak knew he didn’t have long before Aunt Petunia were going to call for him and so looked for his broken and cracked glasses.

Suddenly he could hear his aunt Petunia sreaming for him to get up. Freak understood that it was his cousins birthday and that they would invite Dudley's friends to celebrate it at the zoo, but he was supposed to stay at Arrabella Figs house.

While freaked climbed out of his room, Dudley pushed him back into the cupboard where Freak hit his head very hard and it bled a little, he just wiped it off. ( Boy couldn’t blame his cousin because that was how Dudley was raised by his parents and their Aunt.) But Boy knew he couldn’t lie still or he would get beaten again.  Boy or Freak as he was called by his family wondered if he could crawl back into his Safe Haven where he knew his friends waited for him and he was mostly left alone. He
Just knew that wasn’t an option for him and so left it.

‘’ Make breakfast boy and don’t you dare burn anything or you would regret ever being born to those freaks that were your parents!’’ Petunia sreamed at him and he knew that she would keep her word and make his life a living hell.

‘’ Yes, ma’am ( Boy wasn’t allowed to call them by names just titles) , ’’ he said while he began making the breakfast.

All the while Petunia closed Dudley's eyes and showed him, his mountain of birthday presents ans Vernon wished his son a happy birthday.

‘’ Where’s my coffee, boy? Hurry up with the breakfast and coffee, boy.’’ Vernon first asked Freak and then ordered him.

The next thing Freak heard was hoe Dudley demanded to know how many presents he got this year. And then   he threw a tantrum because he got 1 less gift as the previous year. Petunia tried calming their son down but he wouldn't hear anything they said until freak heard Vernon tell his son that they would buy him some more.

When they finished with their breakfast while Freak could only watch how they ate the wonderful meal he made and could only hope that someone would leave scraps so that he could also eat that morning, but he knew that the only one that left food was Petunia and she didn’t eat much so she took a smaller portion.

Boy cleaned up and then learned that he would join them on the trip to the zoo as Mrs Fig had broken her leg. Freak wasn’t to happy about this nor was his family and Vernon showed Freak just how much he hated him, by slamming him into the car door before he could get in the car.

The only thing boy wanted to see was the snakes, they were always nice to him even though he couldn’t always answer them back because Petunia was near and would punish him.

Freak didn’t utter a word or showed any emotions or they would do the opposite of what he wanted to do, but Luck was on his side today because Dudley wanted to see the snakes as well.

Boy looked at the magnificent snake in the glass wall that Dudley was trying to make move and falling because the snake was hissing some mean things and some funny things about the humans especially the Fat Yummy looking ones right in front of her.

Freak didn’t know what he did, but he knew he did it - one moment the snake was inside the cage and the next it was loose while Dudley had taken her place.

** Thank you, hatchling. I will forever be in your debt.** With that soft hiss the snake was gone and hopefully on her way to some place safe.

Vernon grabbed Boy by his ears dragged him to his car and threw him into his trunk, he hit his again and his back ached terrible, he could see tonight he was going to be punished.

XxXxX

After that incident everything got worse for Freak even if he didn’t do anything wrong he would get punished and sent to his cupboard with out food.

Some time later after Dudley's 11th birthday boy was sent out to get the mail, he didn’t look as he knew even if there was mail for him, he wasn’t allowed to get it.

So he handed everything to Petunia and went to his room, when he suddenly heard Petunia shriek about something about Hogwash or something like that. That night he was punished again and this time he didn’t even know why.

The next day while working in the garden he saw owls keep delivering letters and decided to stay where he was - he was sure that it had nothing to do with him and so went on with gardening.

Xxxxx

No matter what the Dursley did the letters didn’t want to stop and just after two days the doorbell rang and boy went to answer.

In front of the door stood a tall man with shoulder length black hair and onyx eyes, it looked as if he could see through him.

{ It was weird for Severus to see himself stand in front of the door as he looked always and not with his complex glamour on - he could almost not believe that Harry Potter saw through it but every one knew that the brat was very strong.}

‘’ Good after noon, sir. May I assist you with anything?’’ Boy’s voice was soft and respectful.

‘’ I am looking for Petunia, may I speak to her.’’The man had a domineering sneer on his face and his words dripped with disdain.

‘’ I will go and call for her, may I please get a name for her to know who is speaking?’’

‘’ Yes, I am Professor Snape.’’

The boy lead Severus to the settee and excused himself politely.

Petunia showed up and the boy went away so that the adults could speak.

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The next event to happen is that Professor asked him to join him so that they could do his school shopping. They went outside where the Professor took his arm lightly, suddenly there was a pop sound and they were somewhere unknown.

The day went by quickly and Freak couldn’t remember much of it just later when he went to the Dursleys home that a magnificent white owl appeared - he named her Hedwig.

Severus Snape could see and hear everything in this memories and what he was seeing was very different from what Dumbledore told him about Harry Potter. He didn’t live like a Prince, nor was he spoiled or selfish, he wasn’t rude. No ! He was abused and treated worse than an house elf.

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I am sorry that It  had taken me so long to update but it has been a rough few months. As you know I am a babysitter and looking after a two year old toddler, I left my boyfriend on our 3 months anniversary, because he insulted my father and said that i wasn’t trustworthy. Then I am studying and that is also a lot of work.I just found out that two of my sisters boys, both have the Corona virus. Like I promised, I posted the vampire book but I am not happy with that book.

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