"Enough!" Snape screamed and Harry was thrown from his mind as he watched his professor try and control his anger.

"Your lessons are at an end. Get out!" Professor Snape instructed angrily and Harry protested, "I..." Harry started.

"Get out!" Professor Snape screamed as he shoved Harry from him.

"Professor, please, I didn't know..." Harry tried again and Professor Snape punched him square in the jaw. Harry fell down and stared up at the professor as his glasses fell off his face and Snape looked in horror at having struck Harry.

"I didn't know that he treated you like that; I didn't know he was a bully and I'm sorry." Harry apologized refusing to show that he was in pain.

"You're...you're just like him...arrogant...always fighting with Draco..."Professor Snape tried to reason and Harry started chuckling in spite of the pain.

"Draco started first year insulting Ron; I'm nothing like my Dad as a teenager...I wouldn't bully any one...not after everything that has happened...no." Harry stated passionately and Professor Snape stared in shock at the boy and watched in horror as a bruise started to form on his face.

"Let me...get some salve for your bruise." Professor Snape murmured and he turned quickly before Harry realized there was a tremor in his voice and tears in his eyes.

"Sir...are you ok?" Harry questioned; he couldn't bring himself to be angry with the man after he finally understood everything that had happened. Even though he had taken it out on him, Harry understand that he only saw a miniature of his tormentor.

"I'm fine..." Professor Snape murmured, but he felt his defenses falling and the tears coming.

"Sir, I won't tell anyone what happened, not the memories or you hitting me." Harry assured and that was the breaking point for Severus; he turned around and thrust the jar of healing balm at Harry before falling to his knees and breaking down.

"It's not that...you can tell whoever you like...I deserve it." Professor Snape sobbed and Harry felt his conscious pulling at him.

"Sir...no one deserves any of what you've been through...I'm sorry for what my Dad did when you were young..."Harry apologized crouching down beside the heartbroken professor.

"I've become Tobias...I'm so sorry...I'm so so sorry." Professor Snape sobbed and Harry didn't know what else to do so he gently pulled the professor into his arms.

"Easy sir, easy; I get it now. It must have been hard seeing a miniature of your tormentor day after day." Harry reasoned and Professor Snape sobbed harder realizing what he had done all these years. He had pushed away the only child that he could have loved as his own.

"Harry...I'm so sorry." Professor Snape apologized and couldn't finish his sentence as he continued to sob.

"Sir, I would have had a hard time getting along with Draco's child as well." Harry admitted trying to get the professor to see he understood and wasn't angry with him.

"It doesn't matter...you were only a child...a child! I was horrible...I'm so so sorry." Professor Snape apologized and then started to feel sick from all the crying and tried to push away from the boy before he threw up all over him. Harry realized what was wrong with the professor and summoned a waste basket to his side and allowed the professor to throw up as he kept him up right. In a matter of moments Professor Snape was done sicking up and Harry scourgified the waste basket and lowered the professor back against the wall.

"Sir, maybe we can start over." Harry offered and Professor Snape slowly opened his eyes to see if Harry was pulling his leg or not.

"I have the dark mark, Harry. If Riddle finds out...he'll use you to get to me." Professor Snape croaked and Harry could hear the pain that was underlying his voice.

"Don't worry about Riddle; he's not as smart as he thinks. Plus if things had turned out different maybe things would have changed and I would have grown up knowing you; maybe as a second Godfather or something." Harry acknowledged and Professor Snape swallowed painfully before speaking.

"I was the one who told Riddle the prophecy; that's what he's trying to get. It's a prophecy about the both of you or rather he picked you and Longbottom out as the children it meant. I didn't know it was you, but I admit at the time I only cared about protecting Lily." Professor Snape admitted and wasn't surprised when Harry let him go and closed his eyes looking away from the professor.

After a moment though Harry realized that being mad at Snape for something he didn't mean to do and had more than made up for by protecting him through the years was pointless. In fact it was the same as being mad at Sirius for switching secret keepers with Pettigrew not knowing that it would cause Riddle to find out.

"If you liked my Mum, sir, why didn't you ever say anything about her?" Harry questioned truly curious and watched as the professor's face once again twisted in pain.

"In that scene you saw...Lily came up and tried to take up for me...I was embarrassed and called her a...mudblood...I regretted it instantly, but she would never talk to me again after that...I was truly sorry though...your Mum was my first and pretty much only friend...and my only love. That's why I was so angry with your Dad among other things, but I shouldn't have taken it out on you and I'm sorry yet again for what I've done and all the pain I've caused you, Harry." Professor Snape apologized and braced himself for the onslaught of insults and anger he figured would now come his way.

"I can understand that, Professor; I've gotten angry at Hermione and Ron before and said things I would have never said otherwise. I can't blame you for telling Riddle because I truly believe that you loved my Mum and would never have put her in danger; blaming you would be like blaming Sirius because he thought it was a good idea to switch secret keepers to Pettigrew. Regardless of what anyone else did, Riddle was the one with the choice and he chose to kill my parents and try to kill me. I think it's time you quit carrying around all of this guilt with you, sir." Harry concluded and laid a hand on the professor's shoulder in comfort.

Professor Snape broke down at that and started crying harder than he had the first time. Harry simply wrapped his arms around the professor's shoulders and rubbed his back until the sobs quietened and the professor's breathing started to return to normal.

"Thank-you, Harry; I think we should definitely start over as friends and allow me to try again in teaching you not only Occulmency but also potions." Professor Snape offered hopefully and Harry's smile brightened immediately and he nodded his head.

"I think I'd like that Professor." Harry agreed and was shocked when Professor Snape pulled him into his arms and hugged him tightly.

"I promise I will stand beside you when you go to fight Riddle." Professor Snape murmured and Harry smiled...now he just had to make Sirius understand that he could care about both him and Professor Snape...after all Snape might have really been one of his Godfathers had things turned out different.