-1Harry Potter and the Revelation of Manipulation
Prologue (Character Descriptions)
Nick Thompson: 6' 1" Black hair and dark eyes. Muscular build
Hannah Tomlin: 5' 9" Shoulder length black curly hair and brown eyes. Has a body that most girls envy and most guys want to touch.
Nina McDonald: 5' 7" Shoulder length straight brown hair. Curvy form
James "St. Jimmy" Poe: 5' 10" Black long hair and brown eyes. Skinny and pale, brown eyes.
Pairings: Nick/Hannah Harry/Hermione Neville/Luna Remus/Tonks
Use these descriptions for the whole story, I will not describe them in this chapter, but I may have this "key" at the beginning. I based the girls off of girls I know. I really hope none of them read this and I doubt they will, even if they do I doubt they could trace it to me. With this my good readers, we begin my tale.
Chapter 1: Meet the Americans
Nick Thompson, Hannah Tomlin. Nina Wilkes, and James "St. Jimmy" Poe were all seated in a compartment on the Hogwarts express. They were not regular students though; they were American transfers from the Hornblende School of Sorcery sent to see what Hogwarts was like. They were to go there for the remainder of their education and report back after each year. They were all close friends and were talking about how their summers went when a knocking at the compartment door interrupted them. The door opened and on the other side stood three people, a boy with unruly black hair and startling green eyes, a girl with bushy brown hair, and a tall redhead, all of who looked their age.
"May we sit here, everywhere else is full?" asked the girl politely.
"Sure there's plenty of room," said Nick. (In my version, the compartments hold 15. Seven Americans plus three English people equals ten.)
They came in and put their luggage on the rack.
"I'm Harry Potter; this is Hermione Granger; and this is Ron Weasley. Nice to meet you," said the boy with black hair.
"Nice to meet you too, I would introduce us all, but since there's seven of us, I'll just introduce myself, I'm Nick Thompson," said Nick.
"I'm James Poe, call me St. Jimmy or just Jimmy whichever you prefer," said James. The rest of the introductions went on, and eventually the groups came to like each other.
"That's a rather large bird, Nick," said Harry.
"It's a Red Tail Hawk, his name is Ares, its how I get my mail sent delivered," explained Nick.
"How did you get that scar, I like its shape," said Nick.
"Oh, the usual, a Killing Curse bounced off of me and made an evil Dark Lord into a spirit," said Harry.
"I see, I may just have to go find a Dark Lord and get one myself," said Nick.
"So how do you all know each other?" asked Hermione.
"Well, Hannah is my girlfriend and we're all from the same year at Hornblende, the school we go to in America, we were the only people that got in that year so we became good friends," explained Nick.
"Only five of you? That's a really small class," said Hermione in shock.
"We're a small and selective school only an average of ten get in each year, makes for a better learning experience," said Hannah. Hermione had a feeling that she and Hannah would become good friends.
The rest of the trip passed smoothly with only one odd occurrence, Nick noticed Ron kept giving Harry hateful glares and envious looks. Nick was a naturally gifted Occlumens and used his skill at Legilimency to look into Ron's thoughts. He filtered through all of the memories and ended up with all of the emotions. The most obvious ones were the hate and jealousy towards Harry. 'I've got to warn Harry about this guy,' thought Nick. He had looked into Harry's mind earlier and found many things too disturbing to mention, most of them dealing with abuse from his relatives and from the loss of his parents. Nick knew his pain, his family had been killed by a muggle when he was twelve, in fact, Jimmy knew that pain as well, Nick lived with the Potions Master at Hornblende who was his uncle. James lived with no one, he'd had his own apartment since he was 15.
Also, he found that when he was Harry's mind the memories were fake, most of them were about Rona and the Headmaster, the Headmaster made himself look good to Harry even though he didn't do much of anything that Harry believed he did.
'Yet another thing I've gotta tell him,' thought Nick.
Eventually, the boys left to change and let the girls change into their robes in the compartment. By the time they were all ready, the train had pulled into Hogsmeade Station and the students got out and into a carriages. When they reached the Entrance Hall, Hermione asked, "Don't you have to go be sorted with the First years?"
"The Sorting Hat has something special planned and said that we weren't allowed to tell anyone what it is," said Nina.
"So what year will you all be in?" asked Ron.
"We'll all be in our Sixth Year," said Nina.
"That's good, I'll introduce you two to some Fifth Years I know," said Harry, thinking of Luna and Ginny.
They entered the Great Hall and sat at the Gryffindor table since the three of them that were already sorted were in that house. McGonagall soon came in carrying the stool and Sorting Hat. It opened it's brim and said," I will be resorting you all into where you truly belong to promote House unity. Do I have any volunteers?"
Harry stood up and went over to the Hat, he placed it on his head and heard the Hat say, "I believe you will like this Mr. Potter."
"GRYFFERIN!"
He heard a lot of muttering about what house Gryfferin was and explained, "It's a mix of the two main houses I belong in, in my first year the Hat told me I could do great things in Slytherin. Come on, everybody, come up and try it." (To save Time I'll just tell you the main characters houses:
Nick: Gryffinclaw
Hannah: Ravendor
Nina: Gryfflepuff
Jimmy: Slytherdor
Hermione: Gryffinclaw
Ron: Slytherpuff)
After everyone had been resorted, the Hat said," Now that you know your true houses, you will be able to go into either dorm or common room you please, but have where you want to be so that we can use them for your schedules, please mark your choice on the parchment and quill provided and tap them with your wands when you are done."
The new group of friends all chose Gryffindor except for Ron who had to choose between Hufflepuff and Slytherin, he chose Hufflepuff. He quickly became surly and switched over to the Hufflepuff table with the other students switching over. Harry looked down his table and saw that Neville was the only one of his old dorm mates that had stayed. He called him over and asked if he'd like to sit with them, Neville said yes and introduced himself to everyone.
The food appeared on the table and Dumbledore rose and started to speak, " I'm sorry, but you must eat as you listen to this speech as it is already late into the evening. As always, the Forbidden Forest is out of bounds to everyone. This year for defense Against the Dark Arts, I have hired Professor Nymphadora Tonks, she is an Auror from the Ministry and I assure you that she is who she says she is." Dumbledore continued with the speech, but Nick whispered to Harry, "Do you know that Professor Tonks?"
"Yeah, she's a friend of mine, why?"
"She seems a little odd, just wondering if you knew her," said Nick.
"She is a Metamorphmagus, so she can change her appearance at will, she usually has a very odd arrangement," said Harry with a quiet chuckle.
The real reason Nick wanted to know, was that he had done some long distance Legilimency and found that she did not trust Dumbledore. The only other teachers that didn't were Snape and McGonagall, who was just beginning to distrust him.
'I will have to contact them and ask about that,' thought Nick.
Something in Dumbledore's speech then piqued his interest: "This year, everyone in Hogwarts will be taking a 'field trip' to Egypt. It will start on the first Monday in May and end the following Saturday everyone from every year will be going and we will be exploring many interesting things including tombs and ancient pyramids." At this the whole Hall burst out into excited chatter.
"I can't believe it, a trip to Egypt," said an excited Hannah.
"That's the first time they've ever done anything like this in all of Hogwarts' history," said a shocked Hermione.
"How do you know that?" asked James.
"She has Hogwarts: A History memorized," stated Harry.
That was the end of Dumbledore's speech and Harry, Hermione, Hannah, Nina, Neville, and Jimmy all went to Gryffindor Tower. When they arrived, Jimmy and Neville went up to their dorms while the rest sat in a secluded corner so they could talk. Nick murmured an incantation under his breath and a glittering dome appeared around them for a second and vanished.
"What was that?" asked Hermione.
"The 'Dome of Silence' Ward. As its name suggests, it puts a dome of silence around the immediate area, we won't be overheard," explained Nick.
"This may come as a shock to you, Harry and Hermione, but I think Dumbledore has been manipulating you," said Nick
"WHAT?" they both shouted.
"First , let me say I'm sorry for going into your minds, but with the war going on, I wasn't sure I could trust you. I found a great many false memories planted by Dumbledore in Harry's mind. Most of them had to do with making Dumbledore seem like a hero and Ron look like a nice guy," Nick said.
"What are you talking about? Dumbledore is the greatest wizard in alive," stated Harry.
"Please, let me perform Legilimency on you and take out any memory that has his magical signature on it, if you do, I'm sure you'll understand what I'm talking about," pleaded Nick.
After a few minutes of thought, Harry reluctantly agreed but warned Nick that if he took any other memories out, Harry would create some new violent ones. Nick then entered Harry's mind with a quiet "Legilimens."
When he was in, he quickly filtered out all of the real memories for the ones Dumbledore implanted, he quickly destroyed them and exited Harry's mind.
"Wow, I believe you now. Almost all of my good memories are gone! How could he, I trusted him," said Harry sadly.
"No, you never really trusted him, he made you trust him, it's not your fault," Nick urged.
"You're right, you'll probably need to remove some of Hermione's memories too, though I doubt there will be as many," said Harry.
"Is that alright with you, Hermione?" asked Nick.
"If Harry trusts you, I trust you, go ahead," said Hermione.
Nick then repeated the process with Hermione and she looked as shocked as Harry did.
"That's terrible- all the things he lied about, and Ron, he's really a terrible person, I can't believe I fancied him all this time," said a shocked Hermione.
"I don't think you did, I think Dumbledore promised you to him if he spied on Harry, has he ever given you anything like jewelry or something you use all the time?" asked Nick.
"He gave me this locket in our fourth year… that's when I started to fancy him!" Hermione exclaimed in revelation.
"Let me see it, I have a knack with enchantments," said Hannah.
She gave it to Hannah and Hannah cast a few whispered spells on it. A few moments later, the locket glowed pink.
"That means it's been enchanted to make you love him, I can remove it if you'd like," said Hannah.
"I can't believe the nerve of that old meddler, how dare he tamper with my emotions! Yes, remove that charm, I want to destroy it!" shouted Hermione angrily.
"No, you can't do that! If you suddenly stop wearing it, they might find out we know what they're up to," said Nick urgently before Hermione cursed it into oblivion.
"What do we do then?" asked a betrayed Hermione.
"I can remove the enchantment, I doubt they check for it everyday, so it should be alright," said Hannah.
"Alright, do that, please," said Hermione.
She removed the enchantment and Nick said, "Next, I've gotta tell you who we can trust. I did a variation of Occlumency to see how everyone stood with Dumbledore and only three Professors distrust him, Snape, McGonagall, and Tonks. Snape and Tonks don't trust him at all, but McGonagall is just starting to distrust him. I just need to talk to Tonks and Snape after our class with them to convince them, but, Harry, I'll need you as a witness. McGonagall will take a little more convincing, but we're in her house so we can get to her easily," said Nick.
"That sounds like a good plan, but do we have to get Snape, he hates me," said Harry.
"That's probably due to Dumbledore too," said Nina.
"Very true, but we still need an excuse to se him," said Hermione.
"No problem, I'll drop my books out of my bag at the end of class and Nick can stay to help me," suggested Harry.
"That's another good plan, we should be getting to bed, we have our first day tomorrow," said Nina.
They all said goodnight and when Nick and Hannah shared a rather long goodnight kiss, Hermione acted like she was clearing her throat and the couple broke apart, blushing beet red. They both muttered a "good night" and went to their respected dorms, followed by the others.