"Glamour" (HP): Harry Elliot

Glamour starts off as it means to go on. In Potions class, Harry reluctantly reveals that he has been using an Auror-level glamour spell, because "when there’s a need, there’s a way." He needs to hide the numerous scars and tattoos that cover his body, you see.

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Harry complied, and took the potion, people gasped as Harry’s skin
became a mix of scabs and bruises. The word murderer was carved into
his upper back, and many more cuts seemed to be carved everywhere.

Snape looked horrified, “Potter who did this?”

“Oh now you’re concerned. Now that you see my scars! Well there was a
reason that I had such a strong glamour on, and you haven’t even seen
my chest!”

Snape quickly preformed the transparency charm on the rest of his
shirt, and nearly fell down. Abnormal, freak, failure, and other such
words were carved into his chest. There was a burn that went full
circle around his neck, and bruises shaped like hand prints could bee
seen, “Who Potter?”

These are, of course, relics from his childhood; Dumbledore has always known of the horrific abuse, but still left Harry there. Then Snape demands Harry drop the rest of the glamour so they can see his tattoos.

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Harry did so. On his back, a silver and black dragon appeared. The
scars had been incorporated into the tattoo. Two black and green snakes
appeared wrapped around his wrists, and trailing up his forearm. A
matching one was in the center of his chest.

“I have the same ones,” Draco whispered, “but my snakes are silver, and my dragon is green.”

“I know,” Harry replied, and Draco just stared at him in confusion, wondering how he could know such a detail.

Harry has long since decided that Draco isn't that bad, and he found this tattoo design in "the blonde's journal". He's actually in love with him, and it's somewhat nice to see a fic where Harry sort of tries to get Draco into him instead of Slap Slap Kissage. Harry goes back to his room and chants a mantra about fear from Dune, then slips into a flashback. (I shall quote from my past mocking so that I don't need to reread the chapter.)

FLASHBACK
Setting: The DURSLEYS. YOUNG HARRY is eight. DUDLEY has just kicked him in the leg so that HARRY broke a cup.)


Vernon: Now I'm going to beat you, boy! (VERNON begins
with paddles, then whips YOUNG HARRY. VERNON has numerous and myriad devices of torture that he likes to use on YOUNG HARRY. VERNON proceeds
to perform diverse acts of torture on YOUNG HARRY, such as carving
"Whore" into his chest and putting nipple clamps on him.) Raping you now! (Everything
VERNON does sounds like a bad BDSM fic, such as telling YOUNG HARRY to
beg for it, calling YOUNG HARRY a slut, and telling YOUNG HARRY that
YOUNG HARRY likes it. In a very disturbing line, YOUNG HARRY begins to
cry because he feels some pleasure in the rape.)


Harry goes out for a walk to calm down and runs into Draco, which allows for another flashback, this one about Vernon burning Harry's feet with a poker to teach him not to track mud into the house. Draco wants to talk to Harry about his feelings, but pulling him down the corridor results in Harry going into a catatonic state. Oops! Third flashback; in this one, Vernon forces Harry to give him a blow job. When Harry wakes back up, Draco knocks him out and drags him to Snape.

Once Harry wakes up again, he astounds Draco and Snape with his cunning and logic. They want him to stay in Snape's rooms for a week, and then to come back once a week for his mental health, but Harry knocks himself out in order to give us ... another flashback!

YOUNG HARRY is positioned against the wall, spread eagled. DUDLEY
and PETUNIA have gone out, leaving YOUNG HARRY with VERNON. VERNON is
giving YOUNG HARRY his "brithday present". YOUNG HARRY remembers past,
horrific birthdays where he was strappadoed, trapped in a sensory
deprivation tank, or given a whip or ballet lessons in order that he might dance
for VERNON, &c.)


(VERNON enters with some strange MEN. He proceeds to tell them about
YOUNG HARRY'S dancing and about how good sex is with him. Just as the
MEN are arranged around YOUNG HARRY, we are once again in SNAPE'S
rooms, where SNAPE and DRACO are watching HARRY in the flashback. The
MEN rape YOUNG HARRY, then are going to cut their names into YOUNG
HARRY'S thigh as he is forced to tell them how much he liked them.)


Snape and Draco rightly believe that Harry's an "emotional wreck", which annoys him.

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“All I know is that I’m apparently stuck in these rooms with you for a
week, and I want to dance!” though it was true, he knew that the
dancing thing would throw them off. Even if dancing was tainted by his
uncle, it was still one of the mechanisms he used to calm down and get
his feelings in order. At that moment he wanted nothing more than to
literally dance his fears away.

Both men raised their eyebrows in an identical fashion, “that was
possibly the strangest thing that has ever come out of your mouth
potter. As if you could really dance. You’re a total klutz on the
ground.”

This makes him even more annoyed, so he demands that Snape turn a closet into a dance studio.

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He managed to wandlessly transform his clothing into tight jazz pants
and a long-sleeved t-shirt like the ones he usually used. Music keyed
up the second he stepped inside, and Harry began to dance.

Thoughts of his uncle, Snape, and Draco melted away instantly, and all
Harry was aware of was the beat of the music as it flowed around him.
Both Slytherins hadn’t believed him to begin with, but their shock was
magnified many times over when they saw Harry dance. Draco was affected
far more than Snape, and didn’t manage to catch his thoughts in time
before he mentally commented on how good Harry looked in his pants.

I've been here too long. My first thought was "Harry's family spent money for him to take dance lessons?"

My reaction: * 5000.

The angst is just so over-powering, like the stench of a dead basement dweller.

Also, Bleached, I think he just dances, not really trained to do so. He just "knows", like how he let that snake loose.

bleachedblackcat wrote:

I've been here too long. My first thought was "Harry's family spent money for him to take dance lessons?"

*falls off chair laughing* :wooper:

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The quieter he got, the more creative Vernon became.

The large man had an entire closet full of torture devices. He had knives, whips, paddles, chains and shackles, along with numerous other devices. One of his favorites was a rolling pin with small spikes on it. Vernon used it instead of whips upon occasion.

Yep, that sounds like Uncle Vernon, who is extremely conservative.

grmblfjx wrote:

Spoiler:

Okay, I'm now officially a member of Grumbles harem *worships the ground she walks on*

I'm also having quasi-flashbacks to Monty Python and the Holy Grail:

"But father, I want to sing dance!"
"Not in my castle you don't!"