Harry Potter The Long Lost Malfoy

"Your father is very displeased with Minister Fudge."

Harry had to smile a little as he sat down across from Healer Letham on a grey couch in a room on the sixth floor. Apparently, Mr. Malfoy's bribery had included a way to get and decorate a room in the castle. Harry would have worried about the security and whether someone was listening in, but Healer Letham had spent their first ten minutes today casting a series of privacy charms. The air in the room still bristled and sparkled.

"Yes, Mother said." Harry licked his lips. "You don't disapprove of the way that Father bribes him? Or the way that he bribed people so we could meet?"

"My judgments about your family wouldn't be helpful to you. At least right now." Healer Letham shrugged and curled one foot under one leg, letting the other dangle down towards the floor. The room really had become almost a replica of the one where they'd met for the summer in Malfoy Manor, although the walls were stone instead of hidden behind paneling. "If the day ever comes when they are, you can be sure I'll tell you."

"All right." Harry hesitated. "Does it have to be about my family? Can I talk to you about my professors?"

"Yes, you can. Are you having problems with them?"

"Not all of them. They had half a year to get used to calling me Henry Malfoy. But two of them are acting kind of strange…"

"Do tell me."

Harry nodded slowly and sat up. He felt better when he was honest with Healer Letham and allowed her to help him. It was an odd sensation, since in the past, the thought of talking to someone like this would have made him choke. But he supposed that his name and appearance weren't the only things that had changed a lot in the past year.

"One of them's Professor Snape," Harry said. "He was kind of devastated last year when it turned out that I wasn't who he thought I was. I think because he hated my father, except my father turned out not to be my father. I mean, not James Potter."

"And how is he expressing that?"

"Staring at me a lot, and looking away from me when I look back at him. And he used to get after me in Potions, and he never does that now." Harry licked his lips. "And he said something last year about making a Vow to protect me because he thought I was Lily Potter's son."

Healer Letham sat up. "Vows are serious business, Harry. Did he never say anything else about this?"

"No," Harry admitted. "And I've tried to talk to him about it, but he ignores me if I come up to him before or after class, and I can't ask it in class with everyone else listening. I've tried to follow him a bit when he goes back to his office or something, but he always manages to slip away from me. I think he knows a lot of the secret passages in the castle."

Healer Letham was frowning deeply. "This is something I will look into for you, Harry," she said. "I don't know why he would make that Vow, and it sounds like he's determined not to talk to you about it. But he'll talk to me."

"But he'd have to know that you're my Mind-Healer."

"Yes." She studied him thoughtfully. "Are you that ashamed to have other people know about me, then?"

"Ashamed of needing Mind-Healing," Harry snapped. "I'm not broken."

"No more you are," Healer Letham said. "Do you still regard Professor Snape as an enemy? You think he might use this knowledge against you?"

"I don't know," Harry said. He shrugged uncomfortably, but Healer Letham was still waiting in that way she had, so he sighed and went on. "If he made that Vow to protect me, maybe he really can't. But maybe he could, because the Vow is about Lily Potter's son, and he doesn't exist."

"I will ask him," Healer Letham said. "And if necessary, ask him to make another one. Who's the other professor who's been acting strangely?"

"Professor Lupin, the new Defense teacher." Harry was just as glad to move away from the subject of Snape and his weirdness. "He was one of Sirius Black and James Potter's best friends, you know, and a werewolf." He hesitated, but Healer Letham only nodded calmly. Probably she had done the reading Harry had, and knew that most werewolves were only dangerous on the actual full moon. "He asked me what I wanted to be called on the train, and he seemed disappointed that I told him Malfoy. And he keeps asking me if I want to learn the Patronus Charm. And I want to tell him that Sirius Black is innocent—"

"Of the crime people thought he committed."

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