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"Harry, I've noticed you're having trouble aiming some of your spells, I think you need an eye-test," Tonks noted as she watched the friends shoot water at each other in a mock duel.

Harry quickly agreed, and a few days later was the proud owner of a new pair of glasses, and with some upgrades. If he touched the left leg once they turned into a pair of mirror lensed aviator style shades, the girls all agreed they were very cool.

Over the Summer what had started as bored Aurors on guard duty at the Bones' home teaching the friends some dueling and fighting techniques, had rapidly descended into a competition to see who could outdo the others in what they could teach. The upshot was one Auror teaching the group basic Occlumency, enough for them to know when someone was attacking them.

On the 31st August Dumbledore drew his Potion Master aside. "Severus, my dear boy," he said in his most grandfatherly tone, "Mr. Potter has been outside my control all Summer, he doesn't trust me, can you see if you can find out what he's been up to?"

Snape grimaced at being called 'dear boy' by the man he knew to have been Grindlewald's lover and then grinned, he'd been given permission to use Legilimency on the Potter B... Brat.

It was the first Gryffindor Potions Lesson of the year that presented him with the opportunity, Potter had refused to rise to Malfoy's baiting, and had this had meant that he'd had no chance of putting him in detention.

As he called the roll and took the time to insult Potter he finally had the chance to make eye-contact, and then fell to the floor, shaking like someone having a grand mal seizure.

Dean Thomas had a younger cousin who had epilepsy, so like all his family members had been taught what to do, he rapidly cleared any items that might injure the Greasy Git, and after the convulsions had stopped, got some of the others to help him put Snape into the recovery position.

Harry sat in his place shocked into immobility, he'd felt the aggressive probing from Snape and as his head began to ache had subconsciously touched the left leg of his glasses, the probing immediately stopped.

Later that day, Serverus Snape took up residency alongside the Longbottoms in St. Mungos, the Healers never managed to work out what had caused his mind to collapse.

Inside Snape's head all the times he'd betrayed his precious Lily played over and over in a never ending loop, in trying to get Potter's worst memories, he'd ended up accessing his own, and discovering why you didn't practice Legilimency in front of a mirror.

Odd Ideas, Chapter 129