Chapter Two

When I was done with the shower I realized that none of my old clothes would fit, not that they did in the first place but still why have a new good looking figure if I was still wearing clothing that looked like they came out of the trash bin. Taking out an advanced transfiguration book from the library I looked up clothes changing spells and practiced on a few socks until I was sure I had it down. Once I was sure I was ready I started transfiguring my clothes to look brand new and fit my new figure, I then changed the clothes to my favorite colors. So now half my shirts were black and the other half were red, there were some sleeveless and V-neck shirts with a few band shirts thrown in. I now had a multitude or shirts from my favorite bands like Megadeth and As I Lay Dying along with an Avenged Sevenfold and August Burns Red hoodie. Even though two of those bands were Christian and Dave Mustaine of Megadeth was Christian I didn't let that affect who I listened to. Then I changed all my pants to the color black with the pants being a little snug but not too tight. Now I had a new body, a new attitude and new clothes.

Now that I was done with my makeover I knew I had to have the answers I sought out even though I feared I already knew them. But before I could even call the one person I knew I could trust irrevocably there was a shout of "HARRY" coming from Myrtle. I sighed and threw on a sleeveless Megadeth shirt and a pair of blank pants held up by a bullet belt and then I put on a Trivium beanie and headed up the stairs knowing it was better to placate the surly ghost even though she couldn't really do anything to me. I knew with my clothing, tats, and earrings that I looked like a stereotypical kid in the screamo scene but I liked the look and didn't care what other people thought of me.

"Yes, Myrtle, I asked?"

I saw Myrtle look at me and blush obviously liking my new body. Not that I cared of course, I knew now that nobody would ever like me for me, all they wanted was the boy-who-lived and I wasn't going to give that to them.

"Your presence was detected yesterday when you were outside the chamber and they're coming to search for you so I thought warning you before they got here would be a good thing so you could hide."

"Me hide… yeah right; anyway this falls right into my plans, thank you I think I'll head there now."

"See you Harry," she giggled as I walked away and rolled my eyes.

As I walked into the great hall I saw some students were staying at Hogwarts, so much for it being illegal; that was just one more reason for me to be pissed off at Dumbledore for. Everyone was giving me stunned looks, the girls were giving me flirtatious gazes, the guys were looking at me jealously and the teachers were looking at me in horror except for Snape who was looking at me in anger.

"POTTER, WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO YOU, WHY THE HELL ARE YOU HERE AND WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU WEARING?" he screamed, spittle flying in to my face.

I wiped off the spit and then answered him. "Well I was about to tell you before you spat your DNA all over my face. That's beside the point however. The reason I'm here is because I've grown tired of my relatives and this was the only place I could think to go, that being said I won't be here tomorrow. Now as to the reason I now look like the best thing since sliced bread (I felt like being cheeky) is because of magical puberty. It only happens to the top five percent of witches and wizards in magical power and I'm one of those lucky few, I guess I'm more powerful than I thought. Of course I would have to be if Voldemort (gasp) is going to try to kill me.

When magical puberty happens, the person gets an increase in magical power, and is healed of all injuries and mistreatment that way the person can better control their magic," I said totally bull shitting, although there was such a thing in truth, I mean I did have to come up with a believable lie with Dumblefuck right there. "Furthermore, because of this I am now allowed to use magic whenever I want. The tattoos I got done this summer and I just spelled my earrings into my ear"

"Potter even you can't go walking around like you own the place, there must me punishment for this transgression."

"Go ahead and see if I care Snivellus I might just give a damn."

Snape who was unsure of what to make of my new self-assured confident attitude tried to act like he was still in charge. "NOW SEE HERE YOU ARROGANT BOY, YOU LIVE AT HOGWARTS WHERE I AM A PROFESSOR AND YOU WILL RESPECT ME AND DO WHAT I TELL YOU TO DO."

"Really, is that how you see it? Well the way I see it is that without my parents sacrificing themselves for me and leading to Voldemort's demise you would be in jail with the rest of Voldemort's merry band of butt buddies. So the way I see it is that I have the upper hand, I could go right now to the ministry and have you in jail by the end of the day for something as simple as pointing a butter knife at me. Remember your place Snivellus, you are a teacher that practically everyone hates whereas I am the boy-who-lived and while a lot of people might hate me here, my name still means a lot outside of this school. I could have you thrown out on your arse right now and you would be left to the mercy of Voldemort, and I'm pretty sure you aren't on his top five list. Now if you are nice and put a sock in it I may just find a modicum of mercy for you and leave you alone."

All the students stared at me in awe as I dressed down the man while the teachers looked happy that a student had finally stood up for himself except DumbleBEE who looked simply furious.

"Mr. Potter I…"

"You have nothing to say that I want to hear Headmaster," I sneered.

"Really Mr. Potter that is enough, I will not allow you to continue with you blatant breaking of the rules. You have created a scene, first with the clothes you are wearing and then with your disrespect of professor Snape and me. I know you are mad at being forced to return to the Dursleys and suffering from the end of last year but this is not the way to show your disfavor. If you have a problem you are supposed to go to your head of house who will alert me if the problem is too big for her. You making a scene like this will cause the students to believe they can get away with anything and I cannot allow that, starting today you will serve detention until the end of first term with me in my office and you will stay here for the summer."

"Why, we all know what your true motive is sir," I said as if it was a curse word, "the truth is you're just trying to get in my pants but I don't swing that way."

"HOW DARE YOU," Snape yelled.

"Calm down Severus, I'll deal with this, I'm sure this is a just a matter of teenage rebellion coming thru and Mr. Potter will calm down."

"Is that what you call it when someone questions you?" I asked.

"Mr. Potter that is enough, I have tired of this conversation and your insubordination, and you will go back to your seat and stay quiet."

"What if I don't, what are you going to do then? Are you going to expel me, snap my wand and throw me in jail? Go ahead I'll be out in a day and your career will be over. Face it old man I'm untouchable."

"I'll put you in jail if I have to Mr. Potter, I'm Chief Warlock and I can do that if it's my prerogative. My word is law and has to be followed."

"Actually if I understand correctly you don't have final say. You can promote laws and pass them and decide if someone is guilty or innocent but it is the minister's prerogative to pardon them and although I've never met Fudge I'm sure that he wouldn't want to do anything to potentially end his career."

"There are ways that the minster can be pacified and do what I say and I'll see you get put in custody if I have to."

"And now you have sealed your fate you dumbass."

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"You have just admitted that you would bribe a public official to get your way and to place false charges on a minor as well as threatening the head of a prominent pureblood family. That means you have insulted me and I have the right to seek recompense any way I deem necessary. That means I could have you replaced as headmaster, as chief warlock, put you in jail, or challenge you to a duel to the death. Now I know that replacing you as headmaster, chief warlock and putting you in jail would create too many problems and dueling you to the death would be suicide. So here is how you are going to fix your mistake, one you are going to drop all the detentions you issued me, two you are going to place a restraining order on Snape, I'll arrange my own potions teacher and three you will never try placing false charges on me again. Do you understand or do I need to place further restrictions?"

"I don't think this is at all necessary Mr. Potter but I see that I have no choice as you have played me the fool."

"You have made a wise decision Dumbledore; see that you continue doing that and I'm sure we can continue to work together in the future and all this unpleasantness will go away."

"Very well Mr. Potter, I'm sorry."

"I don't really care if you are sorry or not. I'm no longer Dumbledore's man, Gryffindor's golden boy or any other bullshit people are calling me nowadays. I'm my own man and I'll do what I want when I want from now on and no one is going to stop me. I'm sick and tired of people telling me what to do and people still treating me like a child. I'm far from a child; I haven't been a child since I was sent to the Dursleys. And I certainly am no longer a child now. Ever since I came to Hogwarts I have faced death multiple times every year, I've even killed a man with my bare hands. I'm done with it all and I'll do things my way from now on."

Professor Dumbledore just shook his head and then asked "is that all or is there something else?"

"Yes, I believe I'm done here."

As I started walking to my solitary abode to get ready to leave I saw that all the teachers were now angry at me for how I talked to the headmaster but I didn't really care because it wasn't like they can do anything. I also saw all the students looking at me in fear and awe because they could see that if they messed with me I could have all of them put away.

"You now I'm not going to eat you people or anything," I said, "save that for Marilyn Manson, I know most of you hate me or only like me because I'm the boy-who-lived but I don't care what people think of me anymore, I've grown above it and you can't hurt me anymore. You can continue to hate me but it won't accomplish anything as I'll just continue to grow stronger. All of you do this to me every year; you all love me one second and hate me the next and I don't care anymore. Oh and Snivellus," I said as I handed him some shampoo and tanning lotion, "you might be able to get a girl if you left the dungeons every once in a while."

"HOW DARE YOU, I'LL KILL YOU, YOU BASTARD," Snape screamed.

"You're free to try, in fact I Harry James Potter challenge you Severus Snape to a wizards duel, all spells are acceptable and the loser will leave Hogwarts forever."

"You've got a duel you arrogant brat," and Snape pulled out his wand and shot a cutting spell directly at my neck.

I hastily raised a protego shield as I dropped to the ground and then placed a shield around the area so no one could interfere that I learned from the books in my library. Once that was done I donned my invisibility cloak while Snape's back was turned lauding it up with the Slytherins. Sneaking up to the smug bastard I calmly placed my wand on his back and said stupefy and he fell down on the floor while I pulled off my cloak. That was a very, very bad move Snivellus," I said as I woke him up. "I was willing to let all the pain and suffering you caused me pass without incident when I beat you but now you must pay," I said, totally enraged that not only did he try to kill me but he was playing it up. Pointing my wand at him and summoning all my anger at the injustice of my life I said "crucio," and Snape screamed in absolute pain. I kept the curse on him for five minutes and just before his mind was completely fried I stopped it.

"Now you have paid the price Snape but I am not done with you," pointing the wand at his left leg I sent a severing spell and then did the same to the rest of his limbs and then I cauterized the wounds with a hot poker. When that was done I surveyed the scene and saw that blood was splattered all across the room. "I didn't relish having to do that Snivellus, I don't like causing people pain but in this case it was necessary."

"I'll kill you, you motherfucker. You're nothing but an arrogant brat and a filthy mudblood who couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag. Your mother was a common whore and your father was an arrogant, self-serving wanker. When the dark lord comes back he'll come right for you and I hope he makes you suffer and makes all the filthy mudbloods suffer as well and then when he's done with you I'll have my fair share, I'll make you wish you were never born. Then I'll rape the girl you like so much she dies and I'll continue raping her dead body and then I'll rape your dead body."

"My god you are a really disturbing man," I said in a bored tone and looked at the room. I spotted multiple students looking in disgust at Snape and fear of me while the teachers looked at me in horror. Summoning all of my power I pointed my wand at the mass of students and teachers and said "obliviate," erasing all the memories they had of me casting the crucio and the succeeding minutes. It would serve my purposes more if Dumbledore never realized I was at Hogwarts, I wanted him to keep thinking I was at the Dursley's.

A couple minutes later I sat calmly at my table in the chamber by myself eating. After I finished eating I left for my room and started casting multiple spells so nothing illegal could be detected. Then I sat on my bed tired out, remembering what I meant to do before breakfast distracted me I called Dobby to me and with a small pop the excitable elf was standing in front of me.

"Harry Potter sir has called Dobby, what can Dobby do for the great Harry Potter?"

"Hello Dobby, yes I did call you. I know you worked at Hogwarts as an elf and because of that you hear things. Recently I've been thinking over my life and some things don't add up so I was wondering if I can ask you some questions about what is going on at Hogwarts and if you can answer them honestly?"

"Of course Mr. Potter, Dobby will answer to the best of his ability. There has been bad stuff going on regarding you but I could say nothing as I worked at Hogwarts but after the last plot I left."

"Indeed Dobby, well I'll just ask my questions then. Was my whole first year a set up by Dumbledore to test me?"

"Yes it was. I couldn't tell you anything even after I became a free elf because anything that happened while I was an elf for the Malfoy's was erased from my mind. The reason I know it was a set up was because an elf at the kitchens who knew of the plot told me, and once he told me the rest of my memory came back. Yes your whole first year was a setup, all the tasks you had to go through to get the stone were tasks any first year could get through and were all set up to certain attributes in you, Mr. Weasley and Ms. Granger."

"Okay next question, my second year, did Dumbledore know what was happening the entire time and refuse to do anything to test me again?"

"Yes, you see it wasn't my former master that had that diary. It was Dumbledore that had it, don't ask me why or how because I do not know. Shortly after your first year Dumbledore gave it to my former master, told him what it did, told him to give the diary to Ginny Weasley, and then memory charmed him to make him think he always had the diary and that it was his own idea. The whole plot was conceived by Dumbledore; that was what I was trying to warn you of."

"Wait, wait, wait," I said, "how is it that you are speaking perfect English?" I know that question was totally out of the blue after what I was just told but I was just too curious to let this pass.

"By having a master that beat me, it caused brain damage and limited my brain capacity. But now that I'm free of that situation my magic has healed me and I can now speak properly."

"That's great Dobby, I'm happy for you."

"Thank you Harry Potter."

"You're welcome. Alright next question, do you know of what Dumbledore has planned this year?"

"Yes sir I do, Dumbledore left a book of his plans for this year on his desk when I was cleaning and I took it."

"So what does he have planned?"

"Dumbledore plans to hire a Mr. Lupin as his new defense teacher this year. Mr. Lupin was your father's best friend and Dumbledore plans to have Mr. Lupin try to influence you even more to his side. He thinks Mr. Lupin is firmly entrenched on his side and by allowing you to get close to him he thinks you will be even more susceptible to what he wants. What he doesn't know is that Mr. Lupin has grown suspicious of him and is no longer loyal to Dumbledore."

"Okay does he have anything besides that?"

"No sir, he only had a book on this year, I know nothing else."

"That's okay Dobby, for now we'll just have to act like nothing is amiss and see what happens but I would like it if you could do a little more spying for me."

"Yes of course Harry Potter sir, it would be my pleasure."

"Thank you Dobby and you certainly cleared up some things, so just one finally question, out of all the people I know is there anybody that I can actually trust and how have others betrayed me."

"There are only four people I know of that you can fully trust at all and those people are Fred and George Weasley, Ginny Weasley, and Neville Longbottom. I would be careful what I tell the Weasley twins however, not because they would betray you but because they are pranksters and they may think you're joking at times.

Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger have betrayed you as they have been spying on you and the rest of the Weasley's have been paid to treat you like family while also spying on you. Also Mr. Weasley and Ms. Granger were never your friends in the first place as Dumbledore paid them to gain your confidence and then relay to him any information they learned.

You can trust Ms. Weasley because she has flat out refused to betray you and wants to be your friend. I know you're thinking that she still has that stupid crush on you but it isn't the crush she used to have of you. She likes you for you and knows that you hate your fame. You can trust Mr. Longbottom because he says you are the only one that has never made fun of him and you've always been his friend."

"Alright Dobby, you have been a faithful elf and friend and I would like to reward you. If you could have anything in this world what would it be?"

"I want to be your elf sir."

"Very well Dobby, but first there are rules. One you cannot punish yourself, two you will wear a suit with the Potter family crest on it, three you will be paid two galleons a month, and fourth you will have a weekend off every month, and fifth you are to call me Harry not master, are those conditions acceptable?"

"Oh very much Harry Potter, Harry Potter sir truly is the greatest wizard ever. But there is a problem with one of your rules."

"What is the problem Dobby?"

"Pureblood laws state that if there is only one member left of a prominent pureblood family then that person has to come up with a new crest and motto."

"Oh, okay, here's what I want for the crest, I want a lion stepping on the head of a snake while the snake bites the lion's heel, then I want the motto to be exaro terminus usquequaque pugna malum or till the end always fight evil. I want that put on any official dealing I have."

"Right away Harry and that fixes the problem we had, so I can do this now, I Dobby the house elf bind myself to Harry James Potter, to serve faithfully and forever unless he wishes to end my servitude"

"I Harry James Potter accept. To honor and respect, to never abuse this privilege, I accept Dobby the house elf's servitude. Okay now that all that unpleasantness is over we can do even more business. Now I also need to know can house elves build houses."

"Sorry Harry sir but house elves don't have that much power. However if you want a house built I can get a magical construction group and they will have the house built in a day."

"Alright then I want you to contact the best construction agency, tell them the house site is at my old house at Godrics Hallow, and then I want them to clear the remains and do any landscaping that needs doing, you know a garden, a forest, whatever they think would look best. Once that is done I want the house built to these specifications," I said handing over the blueprints to the new house I wanted, that I had drawn using magic right after he told me who I could trust.

"After that I want them to place every known human security spell on it, then I want them to have the goblins place every known goblin security spell on the house and then I want every known elf security spell on it. Make it where only Ginny, the twins, Neville, you and I can get into it. I also want everything from this chamber that can be moved placed into the new house."

"Right away Harry sir, this should take me at most a day and then you'll be ready to move in," and with that he disappeared.

Now that Dobby was gone I sat down at my desk and thought over what had just happened in a matter of hours. If someone had told me a couple of weeks ago that I would be happy, good looking, and feel better than I ever had I would have sent them to the loony bin. But that being said I wouldn't trade it for the world. I had a loyal house elf and friend and I had a handful of people I could truly trust, people I now knew would do anything for me and vice versa and I hoped I could see all of them tomorrow particularly Ginny. If she truly liked me like Dobby had said then I wanted to take the time to get to know her and see if there was anything there. That was why I was sitting at my desk struggling to find the right words to the letter I was writing.

After a half hour and multiple parchments in the trash bin I finally had the letter I wanted. Hedwig jumped of her perch to deliver the note but I stopped her.

"Sorry Hedwig, you're a great owl and I know you likely wouldn't get intercepted but I just can't take that risk, Dobby will be delivering this letter." Hedwig hooted indignantly at that and turned her back. "But I promise you the next time I go to Diagon Alley I'll be sure to get you a deluxe bag of owl treats." That seemed to mollify her as she nipped my finger affectionately and then perched on my shoulder and went to sleep.

Looking at the clock again I saw that my day hadn't really been that long yet because it was only just after breakfast. Knowing that Dobby would be gone for a couple of more hours, I started writing letters to Fred, George, and Neville. When I was done with that I looked at the clock again and saw that Dobby wouldn't be back for a while so I took out my first year defense book and started reading and practicing the spells. I wanted to be sure to have all the spells from first year to third year down before I learned anything else and that included all the important subjects I was in. Around noon I was just finishing my first year defense book when Dobby arrived with a pop.

"Harry your house is now done, would you like to go see it?"

"Not right now, but I do have another job for you."

"Right away Harry sir, what do you wish me to do?"

I grabbed the letter off my desk and handed it to the house elf. "Dobby this is a letter to Ginny Weasley, I want you to deliver it to her and only her but make sure you're not seen. Make sure she's not in her room and leave it on her pillow, after that come back here as I have more missions for you."

"Right Away Harry" and the elf left.

When he left I started placing time delayed explosion spells around the chamber, powerful wizards can throw off memory charms and I wasn't going to let Dumbledore or anybody else for that matter take control of my sanctuary.