Harry Potter the Power Unknown By Priya Ashok

Chapter 4

Snape slept like the dead, waking up the next morning, bright and early. His mind kicked into overdrive as the thought of the responsibility he had sworn to accept jumped into his mind. What was that Lily had said? The guardian of Harry Potter and the protector of our world. He truly was that, he thought as he mechanically went through his morning ablutions.

He ordered for tea and breakfast in his room, thinking of all that happened once he had accepted Lily's request. The information the vaults contained not to mention, the valuable books and artifacts. He drooled as he thought of them and the kind of knowledge he would be able to access to.

But he would not abuse the powers he had been given yesterday, he vowed to himself. Too many people had done it to the Potters, too many people had tried to run their lives for then and too much had been sacrificed by them just because they were Potters.

No, wait! They were not Potters, they were Slytherins! What a joke! He was bemused and was totally unable to fit James Potter as a Slytherin. That was his ultimate punishment he thought, as memories of how much he had suffered at the hands of the four friends, of which one had turned around to kill one friend and place the other in prison.

He ate slowly his mind needing the time to familiarize with the startling, shocking and totally unexpected information that had been bombarded at it. When he walked into Gringotts, never in his widest dreams, had he imagined he would be privy to something like this.

Severus took a deep breath. His life from that moment onwards had taken a new turn, had been filled with a new purpose. He now had a way to use the life he had often thought of as useless to do an enormous amount of good to his world. And by Merlin's staff, do it he will or die trying in the process.

He was filled with a new energy, a new hope and a feeling he was born again. He smiled and finishing his breakfast went to work. He placed wards all over the room, including the mirror and made sure there were no vases in the middle and a portrait of a beautiful landscape that hung on the wall was covered.

He had learnt many things yesterday and one of the first lessons was the fact that you could never be too careful, even if you were paranoid.

He then carefully, reverentially took out the diaries that were indicative not only of the brilliance of Lily Potter but also her hard work. He also took out the money pouch that was keyed in directly to the main vaults. He could not enter the vaults alone for the first time without Harry, but he could access money from it due to a complicated ritual that the goblins had performed on the advice of Lily Potter who had already set the ground work for it.

How had she convinced James, he wondered? It was he who had to affix his signature to all the relevant documents. Well Lily had done a brilliant job. He now had access to more money than he would ever need, not that he would touch it for himself, mind you.

The goblins had told him to treat it as his own as when he signed the papers, as he had not only become guardian to Harry Potter but had also bonded by blood. She had effectively made him a Potter or was it a Slytherin, he wondered?

Well he would use it and put the unlimited financial resources to good use. He was a very simple man of modest tastes and had no big aspirations or secret fantasies for himself. But he did want to do big research on potions and the dark arts. He could use the money that he had not had available for all this time, for research, once he had Harry's permission of course.