Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter. Harry Potter belongs to JK Rowling and I don't intend to earn any profit out of this story.

Author's Note: Hi everyone. This is my new story. Hope everyone likes it. It starts during Harry's 6th year, after Harry cursed Malfoy using sectumsempra. The story is AU and has an abrupt beginning but more facts will be explained as the story progresses. It features a rebellious, belligerent, disobedient, independent Harry who won't take any shit from anyone.

"No" said Harry.

"What did you say Potter?" whispered Snape dangerously.

"I said that I will not do detentions with you every Saturday. It was Malfoy's fault. He started cursing me first. He even tried to use the cruciatus on me. Why is he not being punished for it? Well, I am not really surprised. After all, you have never been fair to me for nearly 5 years" said Harry simply.

"Potter, you impudent, attention seeking brat. You are as arrogant as your father. That will be an extra 50 points from Gryffindor. If you refuse to do detentions with me, I will take up the matter with the headmaster. Hopefully, he will finally realize what a determined rule-breaker you are and expel you" snarled Snape.

Harry simply laughed at Snape making him grow redder in the face due to anger.

"Feel free to whine to Dumbledore Snivellus. You can take a 1000 points from Gryffindor if you wish, but I will not attend detentions with a biased, good for nothing deatheater like you. My father was a much much better human being than you will ever be. As far as expelling me is concerned, I have broken at least 100 Hogwarts rules over the past 5 years. Still, I haven't been expelled yet. So, what makes you think that Dumbledore will expel me this time?" taunted Harry.

Snape's blood boiled. Without caring for the consequences, he raised his wand at Harry.

"Why you little shit…" started Snape, but he was interrupted from behind.

"Severus, lower your wand" warned Dumbledore, in a thunderous voice.

Snape lowered his wand, but he was not finished yet.

"Headmaster, but this impudent boy is refusing to do detentions with me" snarled Snape.

Dumbledore looked at Harry searchingly with a penetrating gaze.

"Is this true Harry?" asked Dumbledore quietly.

"Yes, Snape is correct Professor. I refuse to do detentions with such a biased, lousy, good –for- nothing- but- sarcasm deatheater who insults and belittles me at every turn just because he had a petty grudge against my father. This man has harassed me, mind-raped me in the guise of occlumency, tried to get my late innocent godfather kissed by the dementors, called my mom a mudblood and done so many cruel things when he was a deatheater. He kisses the hem of that pathetic, half-blooded dork lord and you expect me to sit quietly and attend his detention. No way!" exclaimed Harry.

Snape snarled and was about to curse Harry when Dumbledore stopped him. Dumbledore looked at Harry with a thunderous expression on his face and his blue eyes glowed with an unrestrained energy that would have made any ordinary person cower. But Harry, who was not even remotely afraid of facing a basilisk, looked back defiantly at Dumbledore straight in the eye without blinking.

"Harry, Severus has my full trust and he is no more a deatheater than I am. He takes great personal risks to spy for the order and brings us very valuable information. I will not tolerate you insulting him like that. Also, he is your professor and deserves your respect. If he tells you to do detentions with him, then you have to do it" thundered Dumbledore fiercely.

Harry snorted. "Oh please, a professor is someone who patiently teaches and explains a topic well, who motivates the students to perform exceedingly well, who doesn't show any sort of partiality towards a select group of students and who has an outstanding sense of empathy towards those who are unable to succeed & is willing to share responsibility for the students failure. But this greasy bastard fulfills none of the above mentioned criteria. Therefore, he deserves absolutely no respect from me, because respect is something which is earned, not demanded.

While he may be a good spy and does a lot of hardwork in bringing valuable information for the order, that doesn't give him the excuse to needlessly harass the students, especially me. It was entirely his fault that he joined Voldemort in the first place. Nobody forced him to join that dark wanker. Had he not joined that murdering psychopathic maniac, he wouldn't have had to work as a double agent now.

So, my final word is that I won't do the detention. You can deduct as many points from me as you want, twinkle your bloody eyes hundreds of times or give me your patented disappointed grandpa look in trying to guilt trip me. My stance won't change" said Harry stubbornly.

Snape was fuming with froth in his mouth, literally. The arrogant brat was openly insulting him and that too in front of the headmaster, and he was unable to do anything about it. One day, he would make the brat dearly pay for this.

"Harry, if you don't apologize to Severus now and do double the number of detentions assigned to you, I am afraid I have to expel you and have your wand snapped. Are you willing to take that risk Harry?" asked Dumbledore sternly.

Instead of being afraid, Harry openly smirked challengingly at Dumbledore and replied.

"Oh my dear Albus, you are quite free to expel me. But just think about this. Who will fulfill the prophecy when I am sent away with my wand snapped? Whom will you find that has the power which the dark lord knows not? And what will the wizarding Britain say when they find out that the boy who lived left Hogwarts all because the ex-deatheater Severus Snape tortured the boy endlessly with the permission of the esteemed Albus Dumbledore? And, please don't think that if you expel me, I will stay quietly at Private drive. I will leave private drive making the blood protections fail. That will leave my so-called relatives at the mercy of the deatheaters and Voldemort. Are you sure this is what you prefer Headmaster?" asked Harry, staring challengingly at Dumbledore with his emerald green eyes glowing with power.

Dumbledore paled on hearing Harry's implied threats. He was truly in a fix now. Harry had the upper hand over him. There was nothing that he could do to stop the boy. This was not something that he had expected from Harry. He had been training Harry to be a martyr who listened submissively to him and who was willing to sacrifice himself to bring down Voldemort. But now the boy was totally dead set against him. How could this happen?

Harry smiled at both his professors.

"So, from seeing your slacked jaws, I am sure that you won't even think of expelling me from Hogwarts. See Snape, even Dumbledore won't simply expel me just like that. He knows that I am too valuable for him just as you are. So, see you professors. Have a great day" said Harry and darted towards the Gryffindor common room in high spirits, leaving behind two slack-jawed professors who didn't know what to do.

While he was walking along the corridors, he was suddenly pulled into a nearby broom closet, and somebody shouted "BOOM" near his eyes, making him wince with pain. Thinking that somebody was trying to abduct him, he raised his wand and looked up only to see the smiling face of a violet-eyed, blond beauty in a Slytherin uniform.

"Damn it Daph, you nearly scared me to death" said Harry irritably, but with a hint of a smile on his face.

She laughed without reservation. Her laughter made his insides squirm with pleasure.

"Oh Potter, you look pretty sweet when you pout like that. That expression is just priceless" said Daphne Greengrass smiling at him.

Slowly, a reluctant grin crept up in Harry's face and he too started laughing along with her.

When both of them sobered up after some time, Daphne's expression suddenly became serious and she asked him, "How did the meeting with Snape go Harry?"

"Well, it started as usual with Snape badmouthing my dad and demanding that I serve detention with him for cursing Draco. I naturally refused which made him angry. He deducted points from me as if I cared, took the matter to Dumbledore but it made no difference to my stance. I even got the pleasure of blackmailing Dumbledore" said Harry smirking.

"Wow Harry, I am just so impressed. Resorting to Blackmailing Potter? I never expected this from the Gryffindor golden boy" said Daphne smirking.

"And I never expected the Slytherin's famous Ice Queen to smile and laugh. But you have been doing both these for quite some I have no complaints. You look really gorgeous when you laugh" said Harry smirking back.

A small blush appeared on Daphne's face before she schooled her features back to normal.

"Flirting won't get you anywhere Potter" said Daphne menancingly, but without any real malice. "Now, just be a man and get ready to face your curious housemates" said Daphne.

"Aww, so you aren't going to miss me Daph. I am soo hurt. At least, give me a flying kiss" said Harry, to which Daphne swatted him.

"Prat, find a way to get rid of Malfoy and I will kiss you. I promise. Now just go away before your housemates start searching for you" said Daphne.

"Fine Daph. Bye" said Harry.

"Bye Harry" said Daphne smiling back.

Both of them started walking back to their respective common rooms without looking back.

Harry soon reached the Gryffindor common room and was immediately assaulted by questions from Ron and Hermione.

"Harry, we heard that you badly cursed Malfoy and ended up in detention with Snape. Is it true?" asked Hermione.

"It is true that I cursed Malfoy badly using the Sectumsempra curse but I did not end up in detention with Snape" said Harry.

"Wow Harry, you're so lucky" said Ron, with a slight hint of jealousy on his face.

"Thank you Ron" said Harry smiling at his friend before turning to Hermione.

"Harry, how could you simply curse Malfoy like that? I know that he is a git, but you can't simply start cursing him just because you have some ridiculous notion that he is a deatheater now. You should have been given detention for attacking a student. You used one of those nasty spells from that stupid prince book, right?" asked Hermione accusingly in her annoying bossy voice.

Harry's expression grew grim as he looked at Hermione.

"Yes, I used one of the spells from that prince book Hermione. I admit that it was wrong of me to simply try out a spell meant for enemies just like that. But that book is not stupid, just because I performed better than you in potions with its help. Malfoy is most probably a deatheater, whether you believe it or not and I am going to get to the bottom of it. Even if we assume that he isn't a deatheater, he is still a bully who harasses anone who is not a pureblood.

And for your information, he started attacking me first and even tried using the cruciatus . So, I don't feel any regret in cursing him back. After all, he was responsible for the near deaths of Katie Bell and Ron Weasley" said Harry staring back at Hermione determinedly.

Ron tried to diffuse the situation at that moment.

"Come one Hermione, it is Malfoy. You know how much he has harassed us over the past 5 years. While I don't believe Harry's claims of him being a deatheater, there is no doubt that he is still a bully. And, don't you remember punching him in our 3rd year when he insulted Hagrid. So, now Harry just punched him magically, that's it" said Ron, while chewing on a piece of treacle tart.

"I know that Malfoy is a bully Ron, but what Harry did is also not correct. Harry, please listen to me. Whoever wrote that prince book is definitely a dodgy person. I know that you won't admit it, but you have been cheating in potions throughout this year. Otherwise, how could you score better than me? Just surrender that book to a teacher and start following the official instructions as you should" said Hermione.

"I am sorry, but I won't do that Hermione. Following a different set of instructions does not constitute cheating, it is called improvisation. It is only due to improvisation that so many new potions were invented in the past, including the wolfsbane. That book has helped me so much and I am not just going to give that away.

And, I don't understand what your problem is. Is it because you can't stand scoring lesser than me? I am quite disappointed Hermione. I never expected you to be that jealous of me. I offered to share the book with both of you, but it is not my fault that you refused my offer. I am going to say this only once. Please don't nag me about the half blood prince book ever again. Or else, I will stop speaking to you" said Harry with determination.

Hermione looked on the verge of tears after hearing Harry's sppech but finally nodded her head at Harry and walked away.

After Hermione walked away, Ron turned to Harry.

"Mate, you were too harsh on mione. She definitely deserve that long lecture from you" said Ron a bit angrily.

Harry sighed tiredly, guilt bubbling in his stomach.

"Ron, I know that I was too harsh on Hermione. She has helped me so much and I love her like a sister. But she needs to respect my individuality and understand that she can't control me. I needed to say these things Ron for her good. Hopefully she would understand the reasoning behind my words soon" said Harry tiredly.

Ron nodded at him. He didn't like what Harry said but understood Harry's intentions. At least, Harry considered Hermione as a sister and not as a potential girl friend. That single fact relieved him more than anything else

They then proceeded to play chess for some time where Ron defeated him quite mercilessly, before Harry went to take a nap.

Author's Note: That's all for now folks. Hope everyone liked it.