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Harry Potter hated wand-magic. He hated how it felt simple, he hated how wand-magic was but a pale fake when compared to the magic Kallari had taught Harry how to use. Harry hated wand-magic for the simple fact that he couldn't do it a first year levitation spell.
"Wingardium Leviosa!"
Harry's wand, Theodore's wand, once again flowed into the correct movements of the levitation charm, Harry watch and felt as his magic poured into the wand's wood and core before being directed onto the same book which had gave him this information for the spell in the first place, the book shook before it went shooting upward hitting the roof of Harry's share train compartment.
"Again Nott not so much force and less magic."
The voice was young and belong to a dark-skinned boy called Blaise Zabini, the boy was feminine looking which only heighten his growing looks. Harry did not like Blaise and the way the young boy thought they were equals. It royally piss of Harry each and every time Blaise open his big mouth. Blaise had taken it upon himself to help Harry rather 'Nott the pureblood' out with his struggle with wand-magic.
Harry again open his mouth, a few nasty choice words for Blaise on the tip of his tongue but which mental ease what come forth was not his wanted response but Nott's.
"I am trying Zabini, I just need more practice."
Harry's voice was low and confident, but really Harry was finding it hard to care for wand-magic and it must of showed on his face because Blaise shot him a look of amusement, obviously the boy was finding Harry's overpowered spells funny.
"My father is always telling me magic is all about intent and strength of will rather than always power."
A new voice had spoken, coming from a blond haired boy with bright gray eyes. Draco Malfoy was just another fool who pissed off Harry. Talking about father this or father that with almost every spoken word.
'Your father can go fuck a crab!'
Both of these young children had made Nott's acquaintance in time's past and with all three of them starting Hogwarts at the same time, they wanted to start a power group right of the back something Harry had no problems helping with even if Harry would just rather vaporize both Draco and Blaise on the spot.
Hiding a sigh, Harry could only wish he was back in the states again and away from all of these bloody annoyances. To think Harry hadn't even made it to Hogwarts yet and he was wishing he could just order the colonies to wage open war with Dumbledore. Kallari would beyond pissed but she always had a soft spot for him.
'Maybe... just maybe.'
Despite Malfoy and Zabini's desire to make a first year power group both soon ran into problems. With Malfoy's need to pick on the Longbottom kid and Zabini's utter laziness Harry was left to blissfully fade into the background and continue his goal of investigating Dumbledore. Sadly a Slytherin could not just go up to the headmaster and ask for his life story. No Harry was going to have to take this slow and build a network of information from the ground up.
Currently Harry was in potions waiting for his new partner, after the first couple of potion classes Snape Severus decided it was finally time to issue potion partners leaving friends to hope they were still paired together.
"Nott?"
Lovely blond hair and cold bright blue eyes greeted Harry, at his nod the girl set down besides a hand reach out and with mannerism not his own Harry took it and raised it to his lips, planting a light kiss atop her knuckles.
"Lovely to meet you-?"
The blond girl took back her hand and started taking out her classroom necessities only after that was done did she reply.
"Daphne Greengrass."
From then on Harry had a slight fascination with Daphne Greengrass despite the girl wanting nothing to do with 'Theodore Nott'. The eleven year old girl was beyond talented in both potions and wand-based magic something Harry could appreciate and with Blaise constant 'help' which was doing nothing to improve his control with his wand Harry decided to make Daphne his crown jewel in his Hogwarts campaign.
As the school year slowly passed Harry learned all that he could about Hogwarts, Dumbledore, and Daphne. Hogwarts was probably the easiest to learn about, with the school's library offering knowledge about all thing Hogwarts pass Harry learned about Hogwarts many hidden rooms and lore. Learning about Dumbledore was another matter altogether but learn he did. From Dumbledore's favorite candy to his usually walk patterns all the way to Dumbledore's most use dress code. Harry learned of Dumbledore's mannerisms to the man's taste in the same sex. Even with all of this gained Harry was still not satisfied with his progress. Harry learned of the man on the surface but not the depth of Dumbledore. Kallari was always telling him 'you can befriend a man on the surface but you can only truly break him in his depth'.
Daphne was much easier than Dumbledore all Harry had to was bring up his interest of the Greengrass girl to Blaise and the boy started on a rant about all things female. From Blaise Harry learned of Daphne's family and how she had lost her mother soon after the end of the war with Voldemort. From there Daphne's father, Lord Greengrass taught her all about magic much earlier than required. At the end of Blaise's information rant he relayed something to Harry which he found most displeasing.
"Yeah I am pretty sure Daphne has a crush on me."
It was not that hard to imagine either, Blaise was quite easy on the eyes. Being of exoitc skin and appearance the boy was gathering a lot of intention even among the other houses younger years and it rubbed Harry the wrong way. Harry didn't care for the other younger years only for Daphne and despite Daphne never showing any interest in anything beside social interactions and school life and magic just thinking that Daphne had any interest in Blaise almost caused Harry to electrocute the poor boy.
'It seems a new approach is required for Daphne.'
Raven hair and poisonous eyes with a face shrouded in darkness was Daphne ideal version of her prince charming… well it use to be nothing but a simple fool's dream, something she would never fool herself into having. Now she had one and Daphne couldn't keep the damn dream out of her head. It almost seemed like it was occurring every night.
A beautiful castle with her trapped within it, a mighty dragon to keep her chained to the tallest tower and knights upon knights all trying to save her and win her hand but none succeeding. Daphne thought she would be forever trapped within this blasted dream and never awaken again every time it occurred.
Soon the knights stop trying to save her and her castle fell into disarray, the knights which had come before came alive again, undead and angry at their failings they decided to help keep Daphne chained down. The dragon only grew stronger as time passed and soon it encircled the entire castle. It's flames become black and it wings block out the sky.
As Daphne feared the worst she heard the telltale sounds of battle she rushed to the her large window to see what was happening. A figure tore across the ruins of her castle, slaying fallen knight after knight. Weathering the blacken flames the dragon rained down on him.
Someone was trying and succeeding to save her!
With a mighty crack of his wand lightning rained down on the colossal dragon, destroying it's wings and grounding it.
And he was a wizard!
With a grasp Daphne watched as the dragon took a deep breath and bathed the entire castle in flames, engulfing the wizard as well. The wizard emerged unharmed but he was exhausted and was on one knee. 'He's not gonna make it!' thought Daphne and with a flick of her wand destroyed the window which had been her only way at seeing the outside world.
"...!"
Daphne shouted the wizard's name grabbing his attention and forcing the wizard to raise his head to look at her.
"I believe in you …!"
Daphne really did, the wizard was her last hope to escape her castle and she was putting the rest of her eggs in one basket that fact that also Daphne was now plummeting to her certain death had nothing to do with it really.
It's not Daphne could die in a dream right?
The wizard seeing Daphne falling pushed himself into rising and stood again. The wizard must now defeat both the dragon and save Daphne at the same time. With a twirl of his wand Daphne watch as a large black lightning bolt shot forward piecing the dragon's chest and ending the dragon's life.
At the same time however the wizard's wand was in motion and Daphne pick out the motions of a first year levitation charm.
"Wingardium Leviosa!"
And it was that simple soon Daphne felt her body slowly stop its rapid descent and Daphne found herself within the arms of her savior. The prince had styled raven hair and horrible poisonous green eyes. His face however was covered in darkness but Daphne could just imagine the confident smile on his handsome face.
The wizard was leaning in for a kiss after all the world was right now, the sun was rising on a new day and Daphne was saved. It was the beginning of a very fruitful relationship.
A loud slap echoed out and silence ruled over the ruins of the castle which once caged Daphne. Raising a hand to the red welt on his Shadowed covered face Harry was at a loss for what to do.
Harry had crafted this dream after taking and putting most of Daphne's insecurities and fears into one ideal. The dragon was her uncertain future and all of her dreams and fears for it, the fallen knights were her many suitors or would be suitors all trying to become part of the Greengrass name, the castle was her inescapable life and its grievances and her large window was her developing views on her world.
Finally Harry had been her liberation, Daphne's hero wizard who could only help her with her uncertain future yet he was denied. Daphne had just denied her hope.
"Don't think just because you saved me you are going to get a free one."
What? Harry watch as Daphne freed herself from Harry's arms and stood on her own two feet. With a hand on her hip Daphne continued.
"I expect a date and evidence about why I should even bother with you."
What did Harry just get himself into?
When Daphne had woken up that morning she realized that she might need a mental evaluation that or maybe just a cold shower. Daphne would have that dream every other day and it seen that it would never really end but now it had and Daphne didn't know what to make of it.
Unwilling Raven hair and poisonous green eyes came to the forefront of her mind. Why oh why did she have to have a crush it just didn't make any sense. After her mother had died leaving only her and her sister and father behind Daphne's father become much more willing to not see His daughters go into the big dark world without any knowledge or use of magic. As such it seemed that all Daphne knew was magic apparently Daphne knew attraction as well.
Daphne's father had started to raise both Daphne and her sister with magic included into their daily lives shortly after her mother's passing. Daphne's sister Astora showed much talent towards magic but it was nothing compared to Daphne.
Daphne was well into her magic schooling when her Hogwarts letter came. At first Daphne was not going to go. She had been homeschooled for as long as she could remember and it was only on the insurance of her father that Hogwarts would offer something more than books and tomes ever could.
So Daphne decided to go and with a promise to her father and sister to try her best Daphne was off to Hogwarts.
Sitting in her transfiguration class well into her first year of hogwarts Daphne wondered if her father had been going senile when he had said Hogwarts was better than homeschooling. Daphne set at the top of her year in all classes matched only by a few in any subject and she was bored. At her home she only had her father and sister to compare herself to and with her father being miles ahead of her in magic and herself being miles ahead of Astora it was a nice little system.
At Hogwarts Daphne realized just what a genius she was. Only a first year and she could do fourth year spells and the size of her magic was well past any sixth years. Daphne also was probably the only student, third year and down to even know what occlumency was not to mention legilimency.
With both branches of the mental arts being something Daphne excelled at using.
Looking around her classroom Daphne watched as her classmates tried to compete their mid year assessment which was turning a matchstick into a pin needle. Daphne had completed the task in seconds and was now waiting for the rest of her class to finish.
Looking over at her new friend Tracy Davis. She was a half-blood and a totally Slytherin. Daphne had on a whim took Tracy of her dream but just the bar amount to incite interest into helping her. Tracy had taken it upon herself to find her crush but she had no success.
The Slytherins were once again sharing their classes with the Gryffindors something Daphne was beginning to understand was a bad idea. The two houses were worlds apart in differences.
The Gryffindors were fun to watch however. They were loud and obnoxious both things Daphne disliked but nevertheless they were pretty amusing to look at. Then they were the three. Daphne like to refer to them as the shy, the fool and the know it all. In other words Neville Longbottom, Ronald Weasley, and Hermione Granger the three had been inseparable after halloween's troll incident. The three were fun to watch every now and again as they tumbled about.
After them Daphne spotted Theodore Nott. The Nott's had been trying to form some type of relation with the Greengrasses for years and for years the Greengrasses had turned them down time and time again because they were an 'dangerous dark family'. The Greengrasses had been a neutral family for generations and did business with all types of family but the Notts had cross them in the past and a Greengrass never forgets.
Daphne let a small smile break over features as she spotted Nott's failure at trying to transform his matchstick. If Nott was anybody else Daphne might have considered his determination to try and try again cute. Nott seem to be on his last straw and if Daphne was any other girl she might of giggled at Nott's mounting frustration. Instead Daphne merely watch as he waved and waved his wand about doing nothing but overloading his spell or undercasting it and with Nott's failure came his change in personality again.
By 'again' Daphne meant the random bouts of personality changes Nott seems to go through. They were all far in between and if Daphne did not keep an eye on all the influential members of her year and up then Daphne would have missed it. Sometimes it would just be Nott's walk, usually Nott walked with his head slightly down that would change however sometimes into this arrogant stride. Nott's small smile would turn into this overbearing grin and his entire being would just change.
Daphne could not understand why this would happen. It was like another person just took over Nott's body.
This change was the biggest to date, usually the changes only affected Nott's mannerisms but as Daphne watched Nott last attempt amount to nothing but failure he set back in a huff his magic flaring around him and his eyes turned into this poisonous green.
Daphne felt shock run through her body but never let it surface nor show on her face. Looking around Daphne noticed nobody else had saw this change? How had it happen? This change was beyond just a bout of accidental magic and what about the changes in Nott's mannerisms?
'Polyjuice?'
It could be? Now Daphne had a choice to wait and tell her head of house or maybe even wait till the headmaster returns from his summonings at the wizengamot or Daphne could take it upon herself to find how what was going on with 'Theodore Nott'.
AN- Harry is extremely arrogant both in his magic and himself. In this story expect to see a really greedy Harry Potter like nothing you've ever see! Or at least that's the plan. Harry was taught to take and take by that evil vampire lady and not give anything back. This means Harry is beyond selfish and if something catches his interest except for him to try and take it no matter the consequences.
Also right now Daphne Greengrass has Harry's interest. Dah! Dah! DAH!
