Chapter 3
Next morning when Harry came to great hall for breakfast, every single head turned towards him. He took his seat on Gryffindor table next to Neville, wishing him good morning.
He looked around once, then towards Neville and said "Hey Neville, Don't they have anything to do other than looking at me with those expressions?"
Neville chuckled and replied "Harry, you are THE-BOY-WHO-LIVED; of course they will be looking at you." Harry lowered his head and said "Yeah, but it becomes annoying at some points. Well, leave it and I have a surprise for all of them."
Neville looked at him for a bit, then around, then at him and asked "What is it?" Harry smirked and replied "You will have to wait, my friend. You will get to see it with everyone else."
Neville nodded and continued his breakfast in between glancing at Harry who was eating silently. When Neville was nearly done with his breakfast, he heard a loud voice, like an explosion. He looked around and frowned.
On the top of staff table, there was a banner with lines:
"GET READY FOR SOME FUN HOGWARTS…..SON OF MARAUDERS IS BACK…..ND ONE MORE THING….ABRAKADABRA"
As soon as he finished reading those lines, he heard some students yelling and in mere two seconds, the whole great hall was in chaos. Students at Slytherin table were sitting in Gryffindor uniforms and Gryffindors were sitting in Slytherin uniforms and same with Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.
Even teachers were looking shocked and curious. At first, they looked at their usual suspects of every prank – Fred and George Weasley, but those two were also in Slytherin uniforms. But then they noticed two students, who were not affected by this prank – Neville Longbottom and Harry Potter. Then it all made sense.
'MARAUDER….BACK…PRANK' they thought.
Professor McGonagall was hiding her laughter, whereas Snape was looking furious and Dumbledore was looking calm as usual.
Dumbledore got up from his seat, silenced the great hall and said "Personally, I'm delighted to see you in these uniforms, but we have some rules, so those students who know the counter jinx, do it and help those who don't know. And the person who did this will be found and punished."
As soon as he finished, Snape got up and said "I think it will best if we punish this student right now for his stupid actions, Headmaster."
"But first we need to find the one who did this, Severus" replied Dumbledore with a calm voice.
"We all know who did this Headmaster. Only two students are not affected by this prank and according to me, Longbottom is not capable of doing such thing. So only person who could have done this is that POTTER." growled Snape.
Everybody looked at Harry with angry, furious and confused expressions. Neville was frozen at his place, he didn't expect this kind of surprise. And there was one more question in their mind 'Who the hell is Marauder?'
"My my my, accusing a student without even any evidence, Professor. I don't think it's fair, definitely not fair." said Harry with a teasing voice.
But before Snape could say anything, Dumbledore answered Harry "Nobody is accusing you, Mr. Potter. Professor Snape was just trying to help."
"Well, it's not like you guys are gonna believe me. So, you can check my wand if you want to, but I can assure you it wasn't me who did this." said Harry with a smirk.
Snape came forward to check Harry's wand. Harry handed him his wand which was 12 inches long, pure black in color. Snape looked at the wand for a bit and then asked "What kind of wand is it?"
"That's none of your business, Professor. You can check it if you want otherwise give it back." replied Harry in a calm voice.
Everybody was taken aback by the way Harry spoke to Professor Snape. But before Snape could say again, Dumbledore interrupted again "Now Mr. Potter, I'm sure Professor Snape didn't mean to offend you. Even I'm curious about your wand. I haven't seen anything like this."
"As I said earlier Professor, it is none of your business that what kind of wand it is. And if you don't want to use Priori Incantatem on my wand, I would like you to give it back." replied Harry with a harsh voice.
Dumbledore didn't said anything and performed the spell on the wand and it revealed last three spells used by the wand: Reducio, Wingardium Leviosa , Scourgify.
"As you can see professor, none of the charms I used can change colors of uniforms. So, I think it is clear that it wasn't me who did all this." said Harry in a mocking tone.
Dumbledore handed him his wand and then checked Neville's wand and apologized to both for all the misunderstanding. Then Professor McGonagall approached him to inform him that none of the counter jinx is working against the charm used in prank.
He called a student and tried to change uniform into its previous color but failed miserably. He tried once again, but nothing happened. He admitted his defeat and told everyone to go to their classes. Head of houses gave timetables to everyone and students went for their classes.
Gryffindor in Slytherin uniform and Slytherin in Gryffindor, Ravenclaw in Hufflepuff uniform and Hufflepuff in Ravenclaw.
For Harry, today were only five classes. Charms, Transfiguration, History of Magic, Herbology and Care of Magical Creatures.
First class was charms for Gryffindors and Slytherins. Harry sat at the last bench with Neville. Nobody said a single thing but Malfoy spoke "You will pay for what you have done, Potter. I'm feeling like that squib in this uniform." pointing at Neville.
As soon as finished speaking, whole class started laughing, at Malfoy. He didn't understood what happened until Pansy Parkinson told him to look at his uniform. He looked at himself and frowned.
On the front side of his uniform, 'GRYFFINDOR ROCKS' was written in golden color and on the back side 'NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM' was written like it was a jersey of a football player.
To say that Draco Malfoy was angry would be an understatement. He was feeling disgusted as he was wearing a uniform with fonts 'Gryffindor Rocks'. He tried to change his uniform into its normal self but nothing happened. He looked at Harry with an angry face telling him to undo the charm. But Harry just sat there laughing at the sight in front of him. He was really enjoying his first day at Hogwarts.
Professor Flitwick walked in the class and whole class fell into silence. He told about their OWL's and their importance. After a short speech, he told them to take out their wands and try silencing charm on their partners.
Every student was trying and failing, but Harry did it in his first try. For him, it was a piece of cake. Flitwick was impressed by Harry and awarded him 20 house points. Hermione Granger was glaring at Harry. She was confused how he could do this complicated charm in mere seconds when she was having a hard time learning it. At the end of the class, Flitwick told them to practice this charm as their homework.
The whole day went like this. Harry doing everything right in every class, Hermione giving him looks, Malfoy cursing him under his breath.
After last class, Harry told Neville that he has to take care of some business and left and Neville went to his dormitory.
Daphne Greengrass was sitting near the lake with a book on her lap and her friend Tracey sitting beside her. She enjoyed sitting there in a peaceful environment. They were talking about classes until Tracey told her to look behind. She turned her head and saw Harry Potter coming towards them.
He looked at her and said "Hello, beautiful."
She frowned at her place. She was angry, confused and irritated. This boy introduced who himself as James Bond, kicked Malfoy's arse, maybe pranked whole great hall was talking to her, Ice-queen of Slytherin, in a flirty tone.
She stabilized her emotions and asked in an angry tone "What do you want?"
He looked at her and replied with a smirk "Now is that a way to talk to a friend, Daphne?"
She got angrier with that and said "We are not friends, Potter. And definitely we are not on first name basis."
"Oh come on, we had such a pleasant conversation on the train and I think I will stick with Daphne whether you like it or not but we can change it to sweetheart or sugar if you want to." replied Harry.
Daphne's face was red with anger and Tracey was only enjoying the show. After a second, Daphne said "That wasn't a pleasant conversation at all, Mr. Bond."
Harry chuckled and said "Well, for that I am sorry. I didn't want any more attention during the ride so I lied, sort of. "
This time it was Tracey who spoke "We accept your apology, Harry. You don't mind me calling you Harry, do you?" To this, he just shook his head and she continued "So tell me, was it you who pranked all of us?"
Harry just raised an eyebrow and said mockingly "What if I was?"
"If it was you, then I would like you to undo it, please" replied Tracey.
Harry chuckled and said "I think I like you two this way. By the way, I wanted to talk to Daphne in private."
"Whatever you want to say, you can say it in front of her and choose your words wisely, Potter. They don't call me Ice-queen for nothing." said Daphne.
"Well, I don't have any problem with that but for your own good, I think it would be better if we do this in private." replied Harry.
"Actually, I have some work to do. So, come and find me after all this Daphne. Bye, Harry." said Tracey. And before Daphne could say anything, Tracey ran from there holding her books in her hands.
Daphne silently cursed her friend under her breath for leaving her in a situation like this. She didn't want to stay alone with Harry Potter, so she also started walking towards the castle.
But as soon as she took a step she felt a hand on her wrist. She looked back at Harry with a cold look in her eyes. He left her hand and said "We need to talk."
"Say whatever you want to say because I don't have all day, Potter." replied Daphne still angry at his action.
Harry looked at her and said "Well, I will make it short then." he paused for a bit and continued "A betrothal contract was signed between House of Potter and Greengrass by our great-great grandfathers. Due to that contract, I am betrothed to a certain Ice-queen, Daphne Greengrass and you are betrothed to a guy named Harry Potter. So, that means we are betrothed."
A/N
Hope you guys liked it nd sorry for the delay. I was struck with assignments and all that.
Somebody asked me 'Will this become a harem story?'
The answer is NO. It is simple Harry/Daphne relationship…well, not that simple.
Review for any suggestion.
Next chapter will be updated in a week.
Until then
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