Harry's Story

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( 3rd person )

Snape was in shock, never would he think in a million years that he would find the golden boy alone and distressed in a bathroom stall.

He wasn't equipped to deal with crying children, as he usually left that to his prefects. So instead his natural reaction was to get the boy angry, atleast if he was angry he wasn't crying and could go find a different professor that would be more help than the dungeon bat.

This planned seemed to backfire more than he thought it would, as now the boy was crying more with a look in his eyes that snape never wanted directed to him again, aswell as a wound on the back of his head that he wouldn't let the potions professor check.

The situation seemed to just get increasingly worse as when he took a tentive step forward the child seemed to fold into himself and cram into the smallest corner. He had his head covered with his hands as if he was protecting himself against an invisible force.

As harry was crying he was quickly getting more worked up and overwhelmed, snape seeing this decided he would lower himself to the ground to not be looming over him and put a hopefully calming hand on Harry's shoulder as something that would ground the boy.

It seemed to work slightly as harry looked around qnd locked his eyes onto snape. Although the crying wasn't stopping, atleast it wasn't getting worse.

Snape slowing started making small motions with his thumb, hoping this would calm harry down further. It seemed to be working and snape began moving closer to harry in small intervals, waiting each time to see if he would protest.

Eventually, he was sat right beside the boy and hearing his small stuttering breaths made his heart clench. Slowly, very slowly he bought harry into a hug, with harry's face resting on snape's chest.

The boy seemed to be in shock for a moment before latching onto the man's robes, shoving his face into his chest and sobbing.

"It's ok harry, shh shh" snape was gently rubbing circles on harrys back and stroking the boys hair, trying to calm him down.

Moving harry onto his lap, he began rocking side to side still rubbing circles on his back.

"Shh shh, you're ok, you're ok" snape whispered.

Harry ot seemed was gradually calming down, though now he was fighting sleep.

"There you go, calm down" snape soothed.

Not long after, harry was asleep and snape carefully started to inspect the back of the child's head.

The wound had appeared to have stopped breading and was only an shallow cut, snape pulled out some balms from his robes and unscrewed the lid. He scraped a small amount out with his fingers and started to apply it to Harry's head.

The child's face scrunched up a bit and he let out a low whine.

Snape gently bounced harry on his lap and begun shushing him once more, the boy was back qsleep in no time and snape leaned against the wall wondering where to go from there.

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