Chapter 2

Everybody was gaping at the boy standing in front of them. Harry Potter, The-Boy-Who-Lived, was back. Girls were watching him with lust in their eyes and boys were feeling somewhat awed and jealousy.

Even Headmaster Dumbledore was looking at boy with a different sod of expression, but more than that, he was curious. Where the hell was this boy all the time? He had left him at the doorstep of Dursleys when the boy was one year old but, after four years, he received the news that Dursley family died in an accident.

He searched for the Harry Potter in the whole Britain. But wasn't able to find the boy.

But bodies of Dursleys were never recovered, so he had a hope that maybe boy somehow survived. But it was merely hope. His whole plan had been destroyed due to an accident.

He never wanted any kind of harm to Harry Potter. He was just looking out for him. But he failed miserably. He knew that, but he wasn't the only one who knew that, Harry Potter also knew the same thing. Dumbledore had failed him.

But in 1991, a letter, howler exactly, came up and Dumbledore was both happy and sad after hearing the howler.

1991

In the Great hall of Hogwarts, sorting was taking place. Students were cheering after each student was being sorted. But our very own Headmaster Dumbledore was feeling sad and depressed. He was hoping to find a particular boy – Harry Potter. But out of all the firs-years, no one was Harry Potter.

Then suddenly, a snowy white owl came through the doors of great hall with a letter, a letter sent by none other than Harry James Potter. Whole great hall turned its attention to the owl who was now sitting near Headmaster. Dumbledore took the letter from the owl and opened it. As soon as he opened the letter, he heard a voice

HELLO EVERYBODY….GUESS WHO?...NOBODY!...I'M HURT. SO LET ME INTRODUCE MYSELF…..I'M HARRY JAMES POTTER. OH YEAH! I'M ALIVE AND KICKING. SURPRISED?...WELL, BACK TO THE POINT, I WON'T BE COMING TO HOGWARTS….DON'T BE UPSET GIRLS…YOU ALL WILL HAVE YOUR CHANCE IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN…..NOW, TO OUR HEADMASTER, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT STOP LOOKING FOR ME. YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO FIND ME.

TOODLES

YOUR VERY OWN,

HARRY FUC*** POTTER

AND HEADMASTER, ONE MORE THING

ABRAKADABRA!

And with that, Dumbledore's hair and beard were turned into purple and green color respectively. Everybody was amazed, for some people it was a lot to digest, their savior, The-Boy-Who-Lived was alive and kicking as he said himself and on the top of that, the howler was jinxed.

Some students were simply laughing. Harry Potter pranked Albus Dumbledore. The greatest wizard of his time was pranked by a mere eleven year old boy.

And Albus Dumbledore was simply standing there with purple hairs and green beard. To him, it was like a shock, a howler from Harry Potter. Only thought in his mind was 'He is alive…he is alive…..he is alive.'

Headmaster regained his senses and tried to change the color of his hairs and beard but was unable to. After several attempts, he admitted his defeat and sat at the table with purple hairs and green beard.

It was quite a sight watching Albus Dumbledore with those hairs and beard. After a week, effect of that jinx took off and Headmaster was back to normal.

Present time

That was the first and last time anybody heard from Harry Potter. And now the boy was standing in the middle of the great hall.

Ignoring everyone, he went and sat on the chair where Professor McGonagall put sorting hat on his head with slightly shaking hands.

When sorting hat wasn't able to look into his mind, it asked Harry "Would you mind lowering your occumulancy shields, young one?"

Harry stayed silent for a minute and then asked "I guess everything you will see will not be shared with anyone, right?"

To this hat replied "Of course, young one, anything I see in your mind will be confidential." After hearing this, Harry lowered his shields and to say that hat was amazed after seeing his mind will be an understatement. The hat said "My my my, quite a mind you got there, boy. I haven't seen a student like you in years. Now where shall I put you? You are wise and intelligent-Perfect for Ravenclaw, you are loyal to people-Everything we need for Hufflepuff, cunning…..Oh Merlin!-a great Slytherin and bravery of a Gryffindor. Now where to put you?"

Harry said "Mind sending to Gryffindor?". Actually he didn't had anything against other houses, he respected all the houses but he wanted to go to Gryffindor because it was where his parents were sorted into.

The hat said "GRYFFINDOR, it is."

The whole Gryffindor table started cheering "We got Potter…..We got Potter." And there was a twinkle in Dumbledore's eye. 'Something got right' he thought. Professor McGonagall was jumping up and down, and our dear Snape was looking at Harry like he was going to kill him.

Harry got up from chair and started walking towards Gryffindor table. He looked at two ladies sitting on the Slytherin table with a smirk.

The girls were not happy at all. The boy played them. Daphne was muttering something under her breath which seemed to be something like 'James Bond my foot'. And Tracey was looking at him in anger. He just smirked at them and sat at the one end of the Gryffindor table near Neville Longbottom.

Neville Longbottom was a shy, quiet and alone fifth year student. He didn't had many friends, most of the Slytherins made fun of him, even some Gryffindors kept their distance from him. Only people who would talk nicely to him were Hermione Granger, Susan Bones, Hannah Abbot and Weasley twins.

Harry looked at Neville, smiled and extending his hand he said "Hi, I'm Harry Potter."

Neville was surprised at boy's actions but he shook boy's hand and replied in a very low tone "Neville Longbottom, ."

Harry chuckled and said "No need to be formal, my friend. Call me Harry."

At hearing word friend, Neville felt nervous, not a lot of people considered him a friend but this boy, who he didn't even know called him his friend, he didn't expected this, he totally didn't expected this.

Shaking thoughts from his mind, he replied "Only if you would call me Neville."

"Neville it is." said Harry.

But there conversation was interrupted by Headmaster who was sitting at his seat, watching Harry and observing his every move until now.

He got up from his seat and said "The very best evenings to all of you! Now to our new students, welcome, to our old students, welcome back! Another year full of magical education awaits you."

He paused for a bit looking around great hall and then continued "It is my painful duty to inform you that the inter-house Quidditch Cup will not take place this year."

As soon as he finished this line, there was chaos in the great hall, voices of 'NOOO', 'WHYYY' and 'BOOOO' were coming from every table. After a few seconds, he casted a Sonorous charm and said "SILENCE."

The whole great hall fell into a deep silence and he continued "This is due to an event that will be starting in October, and continuing throughout the school year, taking up much of the teachers' time and energy – but I am sure you will all enjoy it immensely."

He looked around, paused for a few moments and then gave instruction about school rules as usual which were boring, as usual.

At last he said "Now before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few more words. And here they are – Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! Thank you."

Harry looked at Neville and asked "Hey Neville, Is he mad or something like that…..I mean, Oddment….what the hell does that even mean?"

Neville replied in a serious tone "He is one of the most powerful wizards present at this time but yeah, you are right, he is a bit mad. My gran don't like him much."

Harry looked at Neville, then Dumbledore and said "She is not the only one, buddy."

Neville gave Harry a thoughtful look and then continued with his dinner.

Every single student of great hall was looking at Harry and Neville. They were quite shocked when they saw Harry sitting with Neville, but no one said anything.

After finishing their meals, both got up and Neville said "I think I'm gonna go back to dormitory to sleep now. You coming?"

Harry replied "Na man. I won't be sleeping in dormitory. I am Lord of most ancient and noble house of Potter and I heard they have different suite for Lord's."

At hearing these words, Neville's eyes landed on the Potter ring which was on Harry's left hand. He asked feeling surprised "Oh Merlin! You are a Lord? At this age?"

Harry smirked and said "Yeah. Got Lordship two months ago. Quite a -"

He didn't get to finish his sentence because he was interrupted by a certain red head boy who said "Hey, Harry. I'm Ronald Weasley. By the way I loved what you made Malfoy look like, that slimy snake and why are you sitting with this loner here?"

Neville was used to these kinds of remarks but surely he felt hurt, he didn't liked Ronald Weasley much because he always made fun of him. And now he was going to take away his new friend, a person who talked to him nicely, didn't minded his company and didn't called him things.

But to his surprise, Harry spoke with anger "I think it's my business that whom I am sitting with and I hope for your own good that this would be the first and last time I hear that kind of words towards my friend from you. Now if you would excuse me, I have something to talk to Headmaster. Night, Neville. See you tomorrow."

Neville was only able to say one word "Goodnight."

He was totally dumbstruck with whatever happened now. Harry Potter called him his friend, defended him against Ronald Weasley. A smile found a way on his lips. 'Maybe good things do happen' he thought.

Everybody was shocked at the event happened in front of them. Harry Potter called Neville Longbottom, a boy who was considered a loner, his friend.

Daphne Greengrass was no exception to this case. She was having a very hard time figuring out the boy and these recent events confused her even more.

Harry walked towards the Headmaster, who was leaving for his office but before Harry can reach him, he heard Professor McGonagall's voice "Mr. Potter."

He turned around and saw head of Gryffindor walking towards him with a smile on her face, her emotions were practically dancing.

She reached him and said "Mr. Potter, welcome to the house of Gryffindor. I'm head of your house."

She paused for a bit and said "And believe me when I say this, it's so good to see you my boy and you have your mother's eyes."

Harry simply shrugged and replied "Yeah. I heard that a lot professor. By the way, I was on my way to Headmaster's office to have a little talk with him."

To which she replied with a small smile on her face "He is expecting you and password is sweet candies and password for Gryffindor common room is Rising Lions."

Harry smirked at her and said "Actually professor, I won't be sleeping in Gryffindor dormitories. I was going to ask Headmaster to shift my belongings to the one of the suites which are reserved for the Lords and Ladies of most ancient and noble houses."

McGonagall looked at him with a shocked expression on her face and asked "How do you even know about those? They haven't been used in last seventy years or so."

Harry just shrugged and said "I know a lot of things that normal people don't know, professor. And on the top of that, I'm son of a Marauder, so, it would be good if you will get used to this, like me knowing little secrets, trouble in girls dormitory etc."

McGonagall looked at him dumbstruck at hearing those words. Clearly she didn't expected him to carry on Marauders legacy. But at hearing those last words, she knew that this boy will be turning this castle upside down in upcoming months.

After clearing her thoughts, she replied "Being Deputy Headmistress, it is actually my duty to assign my housemates their dormitory, in your case, your suite. So, you may go to Headmaster while I get your belongings moved to your room. Have a goodnight, and don't go looking for trouble, your father had a quite a reputation for that. I figured like father, like son."

Harry chuckled and said "I don't go looking for trouble, MINNIE, trouble finds me and goodnight."

He ran from there after saying those words and McGonagall was more than shocked at boys' words. After regaining her senses, she looked at the boy who was running in the corridor and thought 'He is really James's son.'

Harry found Headmaster's office with a prefect's help after wandering for 10 minutes in the castle. He spoke password and door opened.

In the middle of the office, Albus Dumbledore was sitting on his chair looking at some paper on his desk. He glanced up and looked at the boy.

"Harry, my boy, come in and have a seat." said Dumbledore.

Harry sat on the chair and looked at Dumbledore with an expressionless face. He knew how much your expressions can reveal about your state and to guy in front of him, he didn't want to reveal anything.

"Lemon Drop?" Dumbledore asked.

"No, thank you, Headmaster. I have no intention of having some truth serum or calming draught." replied Harry.

It was the first time anybody guessed that. He often gave these to students whenever he wanted some information.

Dumbledore didn't let his face show any surprise and asked in a calm tone "I have no idea what are you implying, my boy?"

Harry rose up from his seat and said "I don't have time to play these silly games, Headmaster. I was here to only inform you that I won't be sleeping in dormitories. As I am Lord of most noble and ancient house of Potter, I will be living in my special suite and it is Mr. Potter for you, Headmaster."

Dumbledore looked at Harry's ring, shocked, dumbstruck, and frozen. This boy was a Lord, how did this happen, why he wasn't informed of this?

Millions of questions were in his mind and only one person had answers, all of the answers.

So before Harry can walk away, Dumbledore said "I just wanted to ask where you were, my boy? I have been looking for you. I just wanted your safety. That's why I left you on -"

But he was cut off by an angry Harry who said "It is none of your concern where I was, what I have been doing. And as I said, it's Mr. Potter for you. And now if you don't mind showing me my suite, I need to get some sleep."

'This is maybe not a good time to ask him anything' with this thought Dumbledore led Harry to his room. After reaching the suite he opened the door, all of Harry's belongings were there.

He looked at the room for a bit and said "You need to set a password for the door so that no one else can open the door but you."

"I will do that tomorrow. Now I would like to get some sleep. Good night, Headmaster." replied Harry closing the door on Dumbledore's face.

He looked around and was surprised to saw the so called suite. He was standing in the common room and there were two bedrooms, a small kitchen and a bathroom with a bathtub.

He was quite happy after looking around the rooms. It was perfect. Everything was perfect, at least for now.

He arranged his belongings, put his parent's photo on the table and after taking a shower, he got ready to sleep in his new home.

A/N

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