My Potion Tutor

“I am sure it has something to do with the binding spell, as i have not seen snape here”. James stared at his empty plate until all left the hall, he then rushed with moony and pads to headmaster’s office “LEMON DROP!” They spoke the password and the door opened showing the headmaster in his nightgown, red with yellow checks, just like gryffindor uniform, he asked “what are you doing here my boys?” Sir.. umm… i.. We.. wanted to ask something stuttered James, what is it? the man with a long beard asked. James asked “soooo, professor, is it possible if one doesn't eat the other will feel it, if they are binded?” uh huh he said in affirmative, starving is the main feeling after pain, you can also feel emotional pain too. Umm.. one more question professor mooney asked “so, if pr- James eats, severus’s tummy would be full?” umm no. dumbledore paused, “i’ve done a half binding, so if you hurt james nothing will happen to urr..mr. Prince” James’s nervous expression turned blank, he couldn’t believe that, how could the headmaster betray him? He was supposed to take his side rather than that slime ball’s.

Sirius Bursted out, “ Headmaster, how can you do this with James? He is a promising student and why does he have to starve if that snivellus doesn’t eat, Hogwarts provides students with a good and nourishing diet free of cost, it's his problem to starve not James,YOU SHOULD END HIS CURSE!” he raised his voice against the headmaster, finally, he always wanted to beat some sense in that old man, he huffed, Dumbledore chuckled at the teen’s newly gained energy, Remus held his hand to calm him down. The oldest didn’t lose his temper, he continued calmly, well mister sirius have you ever been to a wizard marriage? He asked “Of course! I’ve been, even herbology is more interesting than those” as he felt the question to be quite obvious, Dumbledore smiled he replied “well if you have noticed, the couple is binded fully in a marriage, so do you ask me to bind james and that slytherin boy and make them have vows of marriage? And the question to remove it, it can’t be undone, it will wear off with time, as said by the end of the holidays”

Sirius could not make eye contact with the headmaster, he had a valid point, he can’t argue more, he felt bad for his friend but, what was his friend feeling right now? He looked quite, like someone had dumped the charming prince. They just bid a farewell to the headmaster and went to their common room.

James Pov-
I could not believe that headmaster would betray us, i mean how can he take that poisonous snake’s side, he is deadly, he is annoying and most important, he is a slytherin, which makes him dangerous, all slytherin are born evil, they do no good but harm to the wizarding society, they are tormentors, they bully kids, they have no kindness in them, all born with cruelty. I wanted to ask the headmaster but pads asked “Headmaster, how can you do this with James?-", I could not listen to them argue, my head hurts bad, and this unlimited hunger makes it worse, seems like I have caught a cold or is it that snivellus.. “YOU SHOULD END HIS CURSE!” Padfoot was shouting which caught my attention, so he finally did that, hehehe, i mentally laughed, i could not believe he argued with the headmaster and yes he got a point, he should end this, i had enough of this, snivellus being my potion tutor is not less than a nightmare. I kept listening to them. Well, the headmaster sure is wise, but till the end of these holidays, scram, this is going to be my worst Christmas ever. I was lost in these thoughts, when I suddenly felt full in my tummy, it seemed like someone’s lazy ass came out of slumber to eat.

All I could think about was to get a good night’s sleep. I walked a few steps and we were in front of the fat lady who asked us for the password. I gave the password and went in with my friends. I sat on my bed, slouching, when pads asked me if I was okay, I replied with just a nod and went to sleep without changing, I was just very tired, I slept.
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I was running, in a very dark place, my feet were numb, i looked back to see what is behind me, a fat man, with shabby clothes running behind me, i’ve never saw such a funny man in my life, crooked nose, small eyes, grayish yellow skin i would rather say sallow, holding a broken glass bottle, he was running behind me, he was angry, i could not stop running, why am i even running? I tripped, legs, i saw, wait those are my shoes, i saw me, i never saw myself in my dreams, dream right? This is a dream no need to run away, i can control them i said to myself. I tried to get up, but someone held my leg, I turned back, pads!? He had the most sinister smile, strange he had power to drag me behind, he stepped on me, i tried to get him off, but couldn’t, he laughed, i saw me laughing at me, he called me “ey! Snivellus, where are you going?” ohh! So that’s Snivellus’s dreams, so i can even experience his dreams, that’s nice to see me keeping him on check, i dominate him, i felt good. But that’s not nice when I kick my guts out, ouch that hurts! I exclaimed but no one listened to me and I kept hitting myself and soon Sirius joined us, he pulled me by my hair, he spitted on me, ew i thought, well we are not that bad are we? Sirius was insulting me by calling me a slimy git, relax prongs, they are just snivellus’s dreams, enjoy, see he fears us so much. I tried to relax but couldn’t, I wanted to throw up but couldn’t, I wanted to wake up, but I couldn't, this was the worst nightmare I ever had.

This beating session continued until that fat man from before appeared again, this time he looked drunk, he looked as if he would throw up right now, his voice was quite deep and frightening, after so much beatings which I hardly ever had in real life, i knew it for sure, he is going to beat me up too. I closed my eyes, I felt his kick in my guts-aaahhhhh! I shouted
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Haah! Haah! I panted, I woke up finally. I turned around, padfoots, moony and wormtail were looking at me, I was drenched in my own sweat, I tried to sit, I felt like throwing up my intestines, I rushed to the bathroom.
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Remus and Sirius rushed to the bathroom seeing his friend throwing up all he ate, moony rubbed his back while padfoots got the napkins, they both helped him to sit on his bed after he threw up his meat. “Well prongs we told ya to not eat so much, you threw up all the meat what a waste”, he joked to lighten up the mood, Moony hit on his back and gestured to not make jokes, james was looking sick, pale. Moony sat beside him, he asked “Prongs, you ok? Did you have a nightmare? Tell me about it, hmm..?” James hugged moony, didn’t said anything for a good 10 minutes, moony also waited, he knew dealing with nightmares is not that easy.

James responded to the previous question by lying down on the bed, moony and sirius held his hands, James looked at them and sighed, he then told them the whole thing he could remember.

Sirius was agitated on hearing the exaggerated version of him in snivellus’s dreams, he spoke in an angry tone “how dare that snivellus dreamt of something that absurd when he knew that prongs would be suffering, that snivellus really needs some beatings'' he stood up cupped his fist to rub his knuckles. Moony held his hand, he was smiling, he said “how can one control their dreams, padfoots? Look at James, he is suffering, just think about it, how bad the condition of Snape would be.” Padfoots could only look down, he can’t deny the fact of him treating Snape badly. Moony looked at the time, he then turned to James, he said “look prongs, it’s already 5:30 that means the curfew is over, how about we take a round of the castle?” James nodded, the three friends went to take a round of the castle.

During the walk-
The three Marauders walked till the library. They were looking for a book which would remove the binding, they split in three to look for it, until when James heard small sobs from the empty potions sections. He approached there, he could not bear people crying, he was a born hero, that was what he always thought. He saw someone crouching on the floor crying, he tapped their back, the person turned in a hurry hiding his tears, severus! He exclaimed. Severus, didn’t knew who was that until someone tapped on his back, now he knew James-Fucking-potter his enemy, who maybe first time in his lifetime called him by his first name.

Severus was dumbfounded when james gave him his hand to stand, stood without the help, brushing his clothes, about to walk away and James held his left hand, pulled him a little, the pull was quite hard that he spun around a half and lost a bit of balance and landed straight in James’s hands, like how lovers stop each other in a cliche romance novel, they both were almost hugging each other. Severus broke free, glared at him with half sleepy, and puffy eyes, he then noticed that James had similar conditions, eyes swollen from crying all night and tiredness from not being able to sleep. Severus spoke angrily, “Potter! Don’t come near me!” he hissed, James held his hands up in surrender, then spoke calmly “Listen snape, i am not here to prank you or disturb you, its just i wanted to talk to you and i promise my friends are not involved ok?”Snape relaxed a bit, but didn’t let his guard down, he couldn't believe Potter's words. They both sat down, when James started the conversation “Look snape, let me get straight, Why don’t you eat ?” Sev scoffed sarcastically, he then spoke “what is it to you? Are you my nanny?” James rolled his eyes then continued in a bore tone “seems like you forgot the binding which headmaster gave us, if you won’t eat i will also be not able to fill my tummy and also you should eat too, why are you trying to starve when there is a lot of food provided in the campus?” Sev averted his gaze and didn't answer the question, but James stared at him, he held his hands, Sev jolted with this bold action of his enemy, he tried to pull away his hands but James held them tight as if his life depended on them. Sev sighed, he finally spoke “Look potter, if I answer you, then you would leave me alone, ok?” James nodded, Severus sighed then answered but looking down, not making eye contact “Ok, so the reason i don’t eat is because i don’t have an appetite, now good? Leave me alone” he was about to leave when James held his hand again and said “i don’t want to hear lies” Severus looked at him in defeat, he then sat down again and sighed, made eye contact then looked at his lap, he sighed again, he finally spoke in a low voice “I-I don’t want to be bothered there, i don’t want to talk to anyone, i don’t want rumors about me, i don’t want to in a place where you and your friends are near me, i hate you all, you make my life miserable even after i did nothing to you.” His tears started to form in his eyes, soon they fell, Severus ran, hiding his tears. This time James didn’t stop him. He didn’t want to feel the agony in his heart again which he felt when Severus was talking to him.

Soon after the breakfast started, the three friends went to the great hall, they all sat in their usual places, Remus and Sirius started to munch on their breakfast while James could not find his appetite to eat his favorite treacle tart, he knew it, Severus was the cause. He got up quickly saying “to piss” making his friends believe his lie. He got out of the hall, took out his invisibility cloak and marauder’s map. He looked for Severus's whereabouts on the map, found it! He exclaimed under his breath. He went straight to the slytherin dorms, he knew the password, he got his ways, well kissing a slytherin girl was not that bad deal. He muttered the password, the painting of a serpent flung open he went in without any difficulty, the more he walked in, the colder the environment got. Maybe that’s the reason he felt cold all morning. He finally reached his final destination. He opened the door with a simple alohomora spell. He saw Severus reading a book, he was so immersed that he didn’t even notice that the door had been unlocked. He went near his neck and foo.. He blew cold air on his neck. Severus got goosebumps, he jolted, he looked around to see who did this, but no one was there. He went to read again, as he turned around, he felt someone standing in front of him, he turned to look eeeek! He shrieked “POTTER! How did you enter?” he asked shocked, he could not believe that how come a lion entered a snake’s nest. James just nonchalantly sat on his bed. Took out an apple from his bag and threw it towards Severus who caught it perfectly. Eat, he said as he took out a DADA book from his sling bag. Severus was dumbfounded by this action, James looked at the severus who was staring at him without eating the apple, “i didn’t poisoned it, i can’t kill myself this early right?” He said that as he again went rummaging in his bag, Severus ate that apple without any question, he knew potter would not harm himself, he could blindly trust him for now.

Severus finished with his apple as James sat there reading the DADA book, he looked at Severus who was throwing the eaten apple in the bin, he took out a large sandwich, and handed over to Severus, he asked “you came here just to make me eat didn’t you?” James smiled and answered “well yes, you are half right, first eat this one then i would give you another one.” Severus rolled his eyes, James snickered and said “keep rolling them until they go behind” Severus was annoyed hella annoyed with his presence and on top of that he is using him to eat his breakfast, very annoying, he never knew potter could be this annoying. But the sandwich was tasty, he ate that whole, James took out a bottle of pumpkin juice and handed it over to sev, which he drank peacefully. After this short annoying breakfast, Severus pushed James from his bed, but he didn’t budge. James laughed and said “are you swatting a fly?” He then closed his book and stood from there. James held Severus's hand and placed his DADA book which he was reading before, in a small voice he said “sorry, i damaged your book” and then went away.

Severus kept looking at that book until Narcissa’s firm voice woke him up. Sev jumped a little, Narcissa took the book from sev’s hands, DADA, she spoke while looking at the cover page, she asked “you bought a new one?” Sev didn’t replied but packed his bag for his first class
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First class- Charms (Gryffindors and Hufflepuff)
Marauders never bothered to pay attention to this class, I mean who might? Not even bookworm moony seemed interested in this subject. Remus and Sirius chatted with each other while Peter just listened to them and added a few comments or top ups, Jmaes on the other hand was lost in his own world. He finally apologized to Severus and replaced his damaged book with a new one. Soon the bell rang and he headed to the next class, Herbology, his another favorite subject after charms shared with those witty Ravenclaws. The class went like a boring biology class about plant kingdom. 2 hours of his life wasted, He was heading for potions with Slytherins.

James slept the whole class, hiding behind Moony and Padfoots on the last bench. The class was good for James, he completed his 1 hour power nap enough to recharge him for 15 minutes. They all headed to their dorms to pick another set of books for the class half an hour later. While walking back, he felt a sudden sharp pain in his lower abdomen, the same on his cheek and a second later he felt like his hair was pulled. He knew whom to rescue.

He ran straight to the pavilion near the black lake. He saw a group of 6th graders hitting Severus, one picked him up by his collar. And the other slapped him hard which he felt on his right cheek.

He ran to them and held that thick hand which was about to slap his severus again.