Chapter 3

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Harry had made his own way to the train station because his uncle wouldn't take him, he then struggled to find Platform 9 ¾, the Professor had after all not told him where to find it.

He heared a loud family of red heads calling out the platform for which he was looking for, he wondered for a moment why would a family call out the platform number if they have older children going to Hogwarts. He shrugged his shoulders and went through the  Barrier.

Professor Snape saw the boy walk into the Malfoy family by mistake. He apologized and he wanted to move forward before Lucius stopped him. He greeted Harry friendly introduced himself and his family. Harry hadn't said a word he gave them a smile and then walked onto the train where he was struggling to put away his luggage, but two red headed twins appeared. They  helped him after introducing themselves as Fred and George Weasley, they then left him alone.

The train left and nobody joined him, Harry was glad about that after all he wouldn't have to hide away his injuries. They arrived at Hogwarts where he joined Draco Malfoy and two of His friends on a boat and sailed to the entrance of Hogwarts.

Hagrid led them to the Entrance of Hogwarts, he knocked on the door and it opened to show a Strict Professor dressed all in green from the top of her head to the bottom of her feet. She introduced herself as Professor McGonagall, the Head of the house Gryffindor. She led the first year students into the Great Hall where they would be sorted into the Four Different houses. Harry waited patiently for his turn to come. The Old Hat - Alistair, looked through his memories, he winched after seeing the memories, he really wanted to put Harry in Slytherin but he couldn't because Dumbledore made him put Harry in Gryffindor. Alistair was angry for he was sorting students into houses they didn't belong in.

Harry joined Gryffindor and after a few more first years was sorted, Professor Dumbledore mumbled words no one could understand and suddenly all the tables were filled up with different sorts of food. Harry took the bare minimum of food as he was not used to eat at all.

 After the welcoming Feast the prefects took their different houses to their dorms. The prefects, that were decked in Gold and Red led the Gryffindor first years to the Gryffindor Tower, where the prefects gave the password to the portrait of the Fat Lady and she let them enter. The prefects gave them a warm welcoming and then led the boys and girls separately to their rooms. They changed into their pajamas and climbed into their beds.

 He didn't sleep much because he had nightmares and it was his first time sleeping in a real bed and not the cupboard. He didn't know how the other people couldn't see his bruises or how he flinched away nor how much he ate at the feast, but he was glad about that cause he didn't want anyone to know. Luckily his uncle had not beaten him any place visible or his magic had covered it up, like always.

Because he had slept fitfully he woke up late the next morning and he rushed to put on his robes and he decided to wake up the red headed boy that was in the next bed as well.

Harry and the red headed boy rushed off to their first class which was  Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class, where they were late and Ronald thought she wasn't there, but Harry looked at the cat that was on the desk, she was watching them with stern eyes, the cat turned out to be Professor McGonagall.

Severus Snape saw himself in the next part of the memory, the way he swept into his classroom intemadating his students, his black robes billowing out behind him. He also saw the way  he kept asking Potter questions and ignored Granger's hand and he also now knew why the boy couldn't answer his question. It was because his uncle had taken away his things until Hogwarts began and he couldn't study things he didn't or couldn't have even if he wanted to. Harry and Weasley was partners that day and  blew up a cauldron and lost 50 points for Gryffindor. And he saw himself give his famous sneer and scowl to them.

Snape saw how Neville Longbottom rose into the sky on his broom out of nervousness and how he fell off of the broom and he broke his wrist. Then Crabbe picked up the Remberball and taunted the Gryffindors with it. Harry rose into the air to get it back but Crabbe threw it to Goyle and Goyle let it fall on purpose. Harry took a dive and just before the glass object broke into thousands pieces Harry caught it inches from the ground.

Professor McGonagall saw everything that happened and made Potter the youngest seeker in history. Woods trained him even if he himself had doubts about the young boy.

He saw Potter at Charms where Professor Flitwick taught the Whingardium Leviosa charm. Professor Flitwick was a small man and many said he had some Goblin blood in him. Where Potter was the first one to lift the feather, but nobody noticed it and how Granger was the second one to lift his feather and how Potter lifted his feather higher than Granger's.

While Harry was wondering around the castle one day, trying to avoid Mrs Norris, the castle's care taker's cat, Mrs Norris belonged to Filch. Harry accidentally wandered into the forbidden room on the third floor where he found a three headed Cerberus. He could see that the dog was guarding a door but he didn't much care for it was none of his business.

 It was the end of October and everything was decorated for Halloween, the day Lord Voldemort was defeated and the Potters died. The day Professor Snape lost his only friend.

All the students and professors were busy eating, when suddenly the doors burst open and Professor Quirrel rushed in. Professor Quirrel was the DADA Professor, he was a man that was always stuttering and you never found the man with out his turban around his head. "A Troll in the dungeons, thought you ought to know." And then the stuttering Professor fainted. 

The students panicked  and tried to rush out of the Great Hall, before Dumbledore got order and ordered the prefects to lead the students to their dorms. But Dumbledore  forgot that the Slytherins dorms was in the Dungeons so what where they going to do, sneak past a troll?  Snape didn't think so, he made them stay in the Great Hall with the Prefects.

All the while Harry looked around and saw Hermione Granger was not at the table, he asked everyone if they had seen her. A Gryffindor girl told him that she was crying in the girl's bathroom on the second floor. He slipped away on his own, away from their prefect to go look for the Granger girl. While the Weasley boy followed him.

The troll was already in the girl's bathroom when he found the bathroom. Where Hermione was hiding. As Harry was fighting the troll, distracting it, suddenly Ronald Weasley came in and used Wingardium Leviosa and got the troll's club and whacked the troll over its head with his own club unconscious. Then Snape saw himself and the other Professors arriving.

Snape saw how the Granger girl lied about why she was in the bathroom, protecting Potter, shame was evident on her face. He saw how Potter noticed the bleeding bite on his leg. He rembered how Professor McGonagall took 5 points from the Granger girl and give 5 points to each of the boys,  earning them 5 points, because Hermione lost them 5 points.

At breakfast the next morning the 2 Gryffindors suspected Professor Snape of trying to steal whatever that was hidden on the third floor beneath the trapdoor that the Cerberus was protecting, because he was hurt on his leg and was limping a bit even if he had tried to hide it. Hermione and Ron Weasley had decided because Harry had helped them they would be his friends. He didn't want to be their friend nor did he want them to think bad about the Professor.

Their first Quidditch match for the season was against Slytherin. The Gryffindors won because Potter caught the Golden Snitch, but while the game was going on, someone was cursing the Potter boy's broom, he was hanging onto the broom for his life. Granger saw Professor Snape had his wand out and was muttering something. She decided it was him trying to harm Harry and put his robes on fire. While Professor Snape tried putting out the fire he bumped into The old fumbling fool and everything went back to normal.

It was nearing Christmas when Potter and his 2 'supposed or self named' friends found out that the Cerberus was named Fluffy and it was Hagrid's pet. He had raised the three headed Cerberus since it was a pup and Hagrid slipped up and mentioned Nicholas Flamel.

Then Snape saw the boy's eyes brighten on Christmas day, when he got his first presents which he never had gotten from the Dursleys before.

A white, snowy owl landed by his plate on Christmas morning with a letter that said happy Christmas. This is a present for you. It was unmarked, he wondered who could have given him this magnificent owl?

He got a large unmarked package which contained his father's invisibility cloak with a note telling him to use it well, he got a knitted sweater from Mrs Weasley and home made Fudge.

The boy had been in the Restricted area of the Library looking for information on Nicholas Flamel and anything else to do with him, when Mrs Norris found him and he dropped his lamp , it broke and Professor Flitwick found it. While he was hiding from Professor Flitwick, he found Professor Quirrel arguing with Profeessor Snape in the halls under his invisibility cloak. Where he almost caught the Potter boy.

Snape narrowed his eyes when the boy went into the next room and found a Mirror. He had read the words on the mirror's edges and then he looked into the mirror.

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