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Snape returns to Hogwarts running on exhaustion and a single priority: keeping Harry stable long enough to heal. Harry is safe for the moment, sleeping off potions in a house that still feels too unfamiliar to trust. But back at school, Harry’s friends are a powder keg, and they corner Snape with the one question that matters: is Harry alive, and are they going to see him?

Snape tries to contain the chaos with rules, boundaries, and a plan that feels almost reasonable. Letters first. Permission second. A single supervised visit, if everyone behaves. It should be simple.

It isn’t.

Because the truth underneath the logistics is brutal: Harry disappeared believing he’d been abandoned, and Snape can’t stop replaying what that kind of loneliness does to a kid who’s already been pushed too far. When Snape finally returns to Spinner’s End with a stack of letters in hand, he finds Harry awake, cornered, and armed with habit instead of trust. And in that moment, Snape realizes the next battle is not against Dumbledore, or rumors, or the school.

It’s against the reflex that tells Harry that safety never lasts.

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Harry’s escape ends in the last place anyone expects: Severus Snape’s childhood home.

Sick, wheezing, and running on fumes, Harry arrives with his house-elf at his side and a paranoid instinct that keeps counting exits. Snape doesn’t mock him for it. He keys Harry into wards, feeds him, doses him with potions, and offers something that feels more dangerous than any threat: a safe place with no price tag attached.

But safety comes with consequences. The outside world is circling, the Ministry is asking questions, and Harry’s missing magic is no longer just “stress.” As Snape digs in, he uncovers a brutal mistake Harry has been making to survive, one that’s slowly crushing his mind and locking him out of his own power.

To fix it, Harry has to do the one thing he hates most. He has to let the walls come down.

And for the first time, he admits the truth out loud: he can’t do it alone.

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Dumbledore makes his move, and it’s brutal: Harry Potter is expelled, disarmed, and sent back to the very home that has already broken him. Snape storms into the Headmaster’s office expecting answers, and instead finds betrayal, cold logic, and a Headmaster who has decided Harry is the threat, not the victim.

With Hogwarts in uproar and the Daily Prophet circling like vultures, Snape begins a desperate search that turns into obsession. Days pass with no trace, only silence, guilt, and the sick certainty that the world will not forgive Snape if he finds the boy too late.

When the tracking spell finally hits, it leads Snape to a filthy London alley… and to Harry under an invisibility cloak, gaunt, sick, furious, and running on pure survival instinct. What follows is not a neat rescue. It’s a confrontation. Harry spits out everything he’s endured since being thrown out, and Snape is forced to face the full cost of leaving a child to fend for himself in a world that preys on the helpless.

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