The school needs a new duelling teacher who can help students teach how to duel,because of what happened during the Chambers of secrets the headmaster thinks it will be good if students can duel well and protect themselves along with the DADA classe...
Maahira got ready quickly and so did Severus.Maahira sent her owl to send a message to Harry to meet her in her quarters.
Severus and Maahira were sipping their tea when Harry knocked and then entered inside.
His eyes nearly buldged out of his sockets once he saw Snape sitting with Maahira and having tea.Snape looked relaxed and Harry had never seen that look on the man's face,he was always serious and angry.
"Professor you called me?"he said recovering from the shock.
"Yes....Harry I am not your professor for now...I am just your mother's friend so you can call me Maahira.....same goes for Severus as well"Maahira said.
Harry looked at Snape wide eyed.How can his mother befriend such a cold hearted dungeon bat?
"Stop staring potter it is rude"Severus said in a low voice.
"Sorry....i never knew you were my parent's friend"he said.
"Only Lily's....your father was just an arrogant toerag"Snape said menacingly.
"My father was no such thing"Harry defended his father.
"Boys calm down.....i need you both to co-operate with eachother"Maahira said angrily.
"Harry sit down"Maahira said.
"Harry have you ever visited your parents??"Maahira asked softly.
"No....i never.... nobody told.....were they are?"Harry said at the loss of words and tears threatening to drop down from his eyes.
Nobody bothered to ever let him meet his parents.He never knew were they were.
"Shh.... it's okay sweetheart"Maahira said keeping a hand on his shoulder.
"Do you want to meet them?"she asked.
Harry nodded.
"Are you ready to go know?"She asked.
He again nodded.
Severus for the first time felt bad for the boy,he always saw the boy as his father,but never did he thought that he was just a boy who lost his parents very young and became popular because he survived.Like other's he also thought that Harry would be happy getting fame but he never thought that the boy craved for his parents not fame.
"Fine.....hold onto my hand very tight and do not let go"she said and he nodded.
"I will apparate you and Potter"Snape said.
Maahira nodded.
Severus gave his right hand to Maahira who took it and then gave his left hand to Harry who hesitantly held it.
"Don not let go of my hand potter"Snape said and Harry nodded.
And then they were being sucked into a tube then landed on the gate of a graveyard.
Harry gasped for breathe and felt a bit nauseous.
"Are you alright Harry?It does happens the first time"Maahira said and Harry nodded.
The three walked inside the graveyard and then stood infront of a gravestone.
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Harry kneeled down on the ground and caressed his parents name.He really had burst into tears now.
Maahira and Severus sat down on either of his sides.Maahira hugged him by the side whispering sweet nothing in his ears.
Severus conjured a bouquet of Lily's from his wand and kept it on the gravestone.With a wave of his wand he cleared the dry leaves from the gravestone.
Harry gave Severus a grateful look and Severus just nodded.
They sat down there for a few mins.Severus and Maahira even left him alone so that he could spend some time with his parents.
"I never knew that the boy was so heartbroken and lonely.....i always saw him as his father and assumed he is also the same.....today when I saw him so heartbroken I saw that he is nothing like his father....he is just like lily a soft hearted person....i treated him so cruelly this past years....if his father had tormented me during my school days then i did the same to him"Snape said with a guilty voice as Maahira and Severus sat on a bench away from Harry as he talked to his parents in private.
"Sev you did wrong but it wasn't intentional.....you realised it and I hope you will treat him much better because if you don't do that then you know that lily wouldn't be happy up there.....seeing her best friend treating his only son like shit"Maahira said holding his hand and squeezing it.
"You are right"he said.
"I think we should go to Harry now"She said and he nodded.
Both walked hand in hand to where Harry sat.
"It's time to leave Harry"Maahira said softly.
Harry nodded and stood up.
He went and held Severus's left hand.
Severus apparated them back to Maahira's quarters.
"Tea?"Maahira asked and both of them nodded.
"You both sit i will be right back"she said and left to make some tea for them.
As she left both of them were silent just staring at eachother.
"Ask away"Snape said as he knew Harry had a lot in mind to ask.
"You were my mum's best friend?"Harry asked instantly.
"Yes"Severus replied.
"You didn't liked my dad?"Harry asked.
"Your father hated me for some reasons i still don't know and yeah the feelings were mutual"Snape said a bit angrily when talking about James.
"You went to school with them?"Harry asked.
"Obviously"Snape said in his classic way.
"My mother was a Griffindor right and you were a Slytherin?"Harry said unsure as to how to ask him further.
"Lily and I had been friends since we were 5.....we lived nearby and went to the same muggle school,then we got our Hogwarts letters,she didn't knew about the wizarding world so I explained her all about Hogwarts and magic......we together got our wands and then were sorted in different houses,but it didn't strained our friendship....she met your father in Hogwarts,they were both in the same house....and your father kept pestering her to go out with him but she denied....but they ended up together"He said and Harry was shocked to hear he was a muggleborn.
"You are a muggleborn?"Harry asked.
"No i am a half blood,My mother was a pureblood from the noble house of prince but my father was a muggle"He said speaking bitterly about his father which Harry noticed.
"I think you are getting along well with eachother"said Maahira coming with a tray with tea and some cookies.
She set the tray on the table and everyone took their cups of tea.
"I don't think it is necessary for others to know about this....i hope you understand Potter"Snape said a bit sternly.
"This will remain between us three i promise sir"Harry said and Snape just nodded.
After the tea was over Harry got up to leave to meet his friends.Before going he turned around and hugged Maahira tightly.
"Thank you so much for making me meet my parents.... nobody did that for me ever thank you so much....It means the world to me"Harry whispered while hugging her.
"You don't need to thank me Harry...you deserve to see your parents....if you ever feel like visiting them again ask me or Severus okay???and if you feel like talking to someone you have me okay?"Maahira asked holding his shoulders
Harry nodded and he even thanked Severus and then left.
"He seems close to you"Severus asked.
"He is so much like lily that I couldn't resist myself from talking to him and so we often talk and ride broom together over the past months....he is lovely and pure hearted just like lily"she said.
