Previously on HPIP:
Harry didn't know what happened next. He wore the necklace and blacked out. Then, he woke up not in his dorm; instead, he woke up in a hall somewhere. That somewhere he didn't know. He stood up slowly, a sudden headache coming to him'Unghhh. Damn. Talk about bad awakenings.'He thought sarcastically
"Ah. You must be Harry Potter" a voice from behind Harry called out "It's good to finally have someone to speak to."
Harry turned around and saw an old man with white mustache wearing white gloves, a black jacket, white shirt, and black boots.
"My name Harry is Xehanort."
"Err...hi?" Harry managed to say
Harry eyed to old man. He appeared to be in his eighty's. Tall, about 6'2, he had yellow eyes and looked very powerful.
The man suddenly chuckled loudly "I like the 'very powerful' part of your thoughts."
Harry raised a brow in confusion. 'How'd he read my mind? I couldn't feel that pull behind my head. That could only mean that he's not using Legillimency.'
The old man smiled mischievously "Right you are Harry. That was not Legillimency."
Harry's confusion only grew.
"Don't worry Harry, I'll explain things later. Follow me."
Harry, not trusting the man, stood still and readied his wand instead
"I won't follow you. For all I know, you could be a Death Eater!"
The man turned around and smiled "Ahh, I see that Moody's words have finally bore into your head Harry. Constant vigilance indeed. Hehe, tell me Harry, Death Eaters have the Dark Mark, no?"
Harry nodded
"Then tell me, do I have one?" He asked. The man raised his sleeve to reveal no Dark Mark there.
Harry lowered his wand a bit. The man did indeed have no Dark Mark. But that doesn't take away the fact that he could be an unmarked Death Eater."
The man's smile only grew wider "Just follow me Harry."
Harry followed obediently. There was something in the man's voice that made Harry trust him, he didn't know what, but there was something.
Harry followed the old man. He led him to a hallway that had two double oak doors at the end of the hallway. The doors sort of reminded him of Hogwarts. As they drew closer, the doors slowly opened to let them pass.
They entered a dark room. It was illuminated by two orbs in the centre of the room. One was red, while the one on the right was blue. Harry stared at the orbs. Something about them pulled his attention to them. The doors behind Harry close slowly with a soft thud.
"Are you wondering what these orbs are?" said Xehanort, appearing behind the orbs
Harry shook his head
Harry saw Xehanort smile at him
"These two orbs are a representation of physical and mental power. The red represents Physical power, the blue, Knowledge. Only those deemed worthy of these two are granted with unimaginable power. You Harry, are worthy. You have been, since the very day you were born."
Harry only stared at the orbs. He slowly walked towards it, and could indeed feel the Physical and Mental power. He felt stronger and smarter.
"Take the orbs Harry. No talk for now, we will see each other again. Your questions will be answered then."
Harry nodded, not taking his eyes away from the orbs. He pocketed his wand and put both of his hands on the two orbs. Harry felt pain. Pain worse than the cruciatus curse. Thousands of painful ripples shot through his body. Harry fell to his knees, he couldn't remove his hands from the orbs, something, somewhere, was stopping him from doing so. Harry tried his best not to scream and cry from the pain. He couldn't believe that he fell for a Death Eater trap. Harry's vision suddenly blurred. He had a hard time of seeing. Harry suddenly fell unconscious.
"Harry...Harry...HARRY!"
Harry's eyes suddenly flew open. He woke up panting and sweating and was looking at Neville, Dean, and Seamus. Harry looked around the room and noticed Ron was snoring away peacefully.
"A'right there Harry?" Asked Seamus
Harry scratched the back of his neck. Slowly remembering the previous events. 'I guess the stupid necklace doesn't work.'
Harry smiled at Seamus "Yeah, I'm alright. Just a bad dream."
"Is it, is it..you know, another one. Like the one with Mr. Weasley?" asked Neville
"No no. Nothing like that. I'm alright really. Go back to sleep. I'll just go down to the Common Room for a bit." Harry said
The three Gryffindors nodded and went back to bed.
Harry sighed and went down to the Common Room. Harry sat down at the couch in front of the fireplace. 'I can't believe that stupid necklace didn't work. Has power my arse!' Harry thought angrily. He really believed that the necklace really could help him with Voldemort and Dumbles. Harry mumbled under his breath until he heard a small cough on the chair adjacent form him. Harry tuned to look at who took his attention and found Katie Bell sitting there with a smile on her face.
"Alright there Harry?" she asked
"Err...yeah, yeah. I'm alright. Just some...problems." Harry answered
"You sure? You were mumbling things like 'unfair' and 'arse.' You sure you're alright?" she asked with an amused smile on her face
Harry nodded curtly and rubbed the back of his neck
"Say Harry, can you help me with something? I just need your opinion." Katie handed him some parchment that looked like a potions essay. Harry was about to retort but noticed a few things wrong with the essay.
"Uhmm, well, you can't mix earwax with beeskin to get Lorkix. You'd end up with Esthra if you did that. Oh and you need to mix 80 times, clockwise, to get a Phoenix Down, oh and you need to let it simmer for 8 days." Harry said as he handed back the parchment to Katie.
Katie stared at Harry a raised brow. "Okaay...I only needed an opinion but- Oh hey! You're right! I do need to let it simmer for 8 days. Harry! How did you know that! This is Seventh Year material!" she asked
Harry opened his mouth to say something but closed it suddenly. How did he answer that? Did the event with the necklace really happen? Harry suddenly stood up and ran into the boys dormitories, completely forgetting about Katie. When he arrived, Harry put a hand over his chest and noticed that the necklace wasn't there. Harry's eyes widened and he started to rummage through his trunk silently. Harry found the Gringotts statement, the letter from Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Hupplepuff, but Harry saw no sight of the 4 necklaces.
Harry sat on his bed wide eyed. Had he really received that necklace? Did he really inherit anything from the founders? Of course he did, he had the letters to prove that. But, if that were real, where did the necklace go? Harry shook his head and lied down on his bed and closed his eyes. He'd ponder over this tomorrow.
Harry opened his eyes slowly. He slept in his glasses again. He wiped his mouth and looked around. It was already morning. Harry looked at the alarm clock on the desk beside his bed. 7:10. Harry sighed and sat up. Memories of last night slowly flooded back into his mind. Harry felt a migraine as he pondered over the thoughts of last night. With a groan, Harry stood up and took a quick shower. He got dressed and headed downstairs for breakfast.
After breakfast, Harry headed to the Room of Requirement and entered a training room. He concluded during breakfast that maybe, just maybe, the events with the necklace was real. Since he did know things that even seventh year students can't know. Harry looked around the room he was in. He acknowledged the training dummy standing in the middle of the room. 'Something simple would do. I think.'
Harry pointed his wand at the dummy and cast a stunner. The results were rather...explosive. The dummy exploded and threw pieces of wood around the room. Harry had to cover his face to block the barrage of wood hitting his face. When it was over, Harry looked at the dummy to assess damage, only to see that an empty space stood in front of him. Harry looked at his wand and the empty space and smiled. 'Wicked.'
After two weeks of brutally fun practises, Harry had managed to discover many new things. He discovered that he could not only cast spells nonverbally, but also was a master at wandless magic. He could also answer every single test or question thrown at him, which made Hermione happy, much to Harry's annoyance. She actually believes that he had new study habits! Harry didn't think that this was a bad thing, study habits actually made him look normal. Although sometimes, he would get very lazy and not study at all. Not that he needed to. Harry also discovered that he could smell any potion, which was great help, because Ginny slipped a love potion into his Pumpkin juice.
Harry's life was suddenly great. He had new friends to hang out with, better grades(enough to beat Hermione), and he was very very powerful. Harry decided that it was time to initiate his plan.
On the 16th of December, Harry ate lunch quietly in the Great Hall when Hermione, Ron, and Ginny sat down. Ron and Hermione on his side, and Ginny in front of him.
"Hey Harry, Mom wants to invite you over to the Burrow for the Holidays. Should I tell her that you have somewhere else to go?" Ginny said in an attempt of a joke.
Harry quietly stood up and grabbed his things. "Nope. Don't want to go. Not spending time with you lot. I don't want any of you to get anything from my vaults again! See you backstabbers!" Harry screamed over his shoulder. He left in such a hurry that he never noticed that all eyes were directed at Hermione, and the two Weasleys.
Harry laughed all the way to his first class; Potions. When Harry entered, it was still empty, so he sat down at one of the tables in the front and readied his things. He was about to open his new book, the new book he replaced for the Half-blood Prince's book, when his classmates entered the room. He saw Ron and Hermione making their way through the crowd towards Harry. Hermione, who looked like she had been crying, and Ron, who looked furious and scared at the same time. Harry was about to change seats when Neville suddenly sat beside him.
"Hey Harry. Is it really true? What you said about Ron and Hermione I mean?" Neville asked
"Yep. Every word Nev." Harry answered
"Blimey, I-" But Harry was rudely cut off by Ron
"Harry! I, err- ah, err."
But Hermione beat him to it. "Harry! I can explain! Really! I can! I-"
"SHUT UP!" Harry screamed. The whole room suddenly grew silent. "I don't care about any of your explanations! I wouldn't forgive you even if you were on the floor bleeding! By the way, congratulations on the get together you two! Have you shagged yet? No? That's sad. I thought that you'd lose both of your virginity by now. I would, but I have more important things to do like managing my depleted vault,so, I can't. Tell me Hermione, why'd you have to backstab the first, very real friend you ever had? Was it for Head Girl? Or was it for shelves upon shelves of books. Imagine all that knowledge. Right?" Harry said loudly so that everyone could hear. All eyes in the room were wide with the revelation Harry made. Even Professor Slughorn stopped trying to stop the fight and just looked at the group with wide eyes.
Malfoy didn't know whether to laugh or to insult Weasley then and there. He was in shock after the revelation Harry made.
Hermione felt like crying. Harry had found out and had made a point in front of the entire school. He was right of course. He was her first real friend, and she had betrayed him. She ran from the room. Not knowing where to go. She just wanted to go somewhere and cry.
Ron had his mouth open. How had Harry found out? Dumbledore promised them that he wouldn't find out. Ron followed Hermione out of the room angrily.
Neville sat beside Harry wide eyed and open mouthed. He had heard Harry's revelation in the Great Hall, along with Dean and Seamus. He concluded that Harry was joking, but, he guessed that Harry wasn't. He had that fiery gleam in his eyes and, weirdly, a sarcastic tone in his voice.
Oh how things have turned now.
"I ah...Harry..ah, I think it's best if we, we don't have class for now." said Professor Slughorn.
Harry smiled wide 'Time for phase two.'
As the students piled out of the classroom, each of them engaged in a heated conversation about the previous revelation, Harry made his way through the crowd, promising Neville that he'd talk to him later, and tried to find Malfoy. He saw him walking away into another corridor, probably to get back in the Slytherin Common Room.
"Malfoy!"
Draco turned around to see who was calling him. He found Potter walking towards him.
"What do you want Potter? Regretting your decision in making friends with the Weasel and Mudblood? I told you Potter, I-"
"Shut up. I know I made a mistake, but they we're the first to treat me nicely. Can we, say, talk somewhere private?" said Harry
Draco wanted to just walk away. But, he was suddenly pulled by Harry into an empty classroom.
"I want to make a deal with you."
