After apparating back to Hogwarts Snape took Harry to his office, locking the door behind them, put a silencing ward around the room and threw Harry in the chair "are you out of your mind boy, what were you thinking about, the dark lord, you could not find anyone else but the man that killed your parents and many others and said to be the worst dark lord ever in the wizarding world and you were sitting on his lap like it was nothing" Snape snarled but Harry wasn't listening to anything, Snape calling him boy in that tone had him sucked into one of the memories of his uncle beating him "I am sorry uncle, I wouldn't do it again please sir please, please don't beat me sir, I will behave, I will do everything you tell me" Harry said running to the corner making himself into a small ball pulling his hands to his head and started shaking.
Severus was shocked to see such a reaction to his shouting he and everyone has been told that the boy lives like a prince and didn't had any problems in his life but by his reaction it looks like Dumbledore had lied to everyone, he decided to find the truth but first he had to calm him down "Harry, calm down everything is alright no one is going to hurt you" Snape told him hugging him close, he continued to tell him that until he calmed down.
"Sorry professor I didn't mean to freak out on you like this, please don't tell anyone what happened today " Harry said after sometime "it's alright and I won't but if you are fine now can you tell me what was that about because it looked like your uncle has not been treating you very well" Harry scoffed at Snape's use of words "it's not that he didn't treat me well, it's that he had been treating me like his personal punching bag since I can remember and he almost killed me last summer when he found out Sirius was dead, that was actually how I met Tom" Harry said and then he told him everything that had happened in his time at privet drive "but Dumbledore told us that you were living there like a prince back home" Snape asked finally with a frown "Dumbledore is a manipulative old cote who was raising me for slaughter and when I went to tell him what was going on with me I even showed him my injuries and he said I have to go back that it was the safest place for me to be in, the only time he actually intervened was when I tried to run away the summer of my fifth year and that only got me in more troubler when they found out, they broke my leg after that incident and told me to let it heal on it's own" Harry said.
"But why would you go to the dark lord of all the people" Snape asked still not understanding that "I didn't it was actually Nagini who found me in the woods near privet drive where I go after a beating because they usually leave me alone for sometime after that, one night after a really bad beating somehow found me and decided to come everyday after that on her own to give me company, she was insistent that I tell Tom what was going on and said that he would help at that time I obviously didn't believe her thinking he would kill me the moment he saw me so she decided to bring him with her without my permission and at that night the beating was worst then ever and I fainted by the time I got there so Tom took me to his manor and I stayed there until I had to come here and somewhere along the way I started to have feelings for him I don't know what these feelings are or how they are going to develop but I do know that Tom is doing the right thing, for me and the wizarding world, his ideas would seem correct if you have lived the life that muggle born or muggle raised people had to live if there guardians aren't understanding and supportive" Severus having to live with his muggle abusive drunkard father knew exactly what he was saying but still not sure as to what he meant by that " what do you mean by that" Severus asked "I am talking about his real reason to become the dark lord" at Severus's questioning look he elaborated "to build an orphanage, stopping blood superiority and giving the creatures there full right, he says that I am over simplify his goals but to my understanding this is exactly what he is doing" Snape was surprised to hear that "but" he begun only to be cut of by Harry "I know you are thinking about the way he was during the first war but that was because of a very dark spell he was using without knowing it's consequences on his mental health and he did not kill my parents on purpose he was insane at that time because of that spell not to forget about the prophecy, there have to be something you saw in him when you decided to follow him initially just know that he is back to how he was back then" Harry told him, Severus finally understand what he meant so he decided to went along with what Harry was saying "can I talk to you when I need to" he asked "of course sir" comes Harry's reply before he stand up to leave "Harry" comes the potions master voice, he turn around to see him "yes professor" Harry asked "I am sorry for the way I have treated you without knowing what was the actual truth" Snape said looking ashamed on himself "it's alright professor, I don't blame you for the way you treated me specially after what my father did to you but please from now on try to see me for me not my father even if I look like him" Harry said attempting to joke which brought a small smile to the potions master's face shocking Harry "I will try my best and if you need anything or are going to disappear like today ever again please at least tell me before so I can cover up for you" said Snape shocking Harry even more, not knowing what to respond to that he merely nodded and Harry left with a small smile on his face knowing he have earned Snape's trust for Tom's side.
