Chapter Three: The Power He Holds
The silence between the three wizards lasted until they reached the relative safety of the Slytherin common room. Not even bothering to check if they were alone Harry rounded on his cousin eyes blazing.
Dudley sensed the wizard's rage and did the only thing he could think of to do with his puny little brain. He tried to punch Harry squarely in the jaw, only to be thwarted. For the first time in either boy's memory Harry had defended himself.
He had caught his cousin's wrist as it speed towards his face. Now, Dudley may have been fat but he had boxing lessons in the muggle world he knew how to punch hard and fast. The only reason Harry had managed to stop the punch with a single hand was the fact his whole arm and hand were glowing green his magic was strengthening his arm enough to achieve the needed outcome.
"You can't do that stuff to me! That old freak up there told me magic couldn't be used against me!" He said so smugly what little control Harry had been keeping on his anger was now completely gone.
Dudley found himself slammed against the hard stone wall of the common room by his magically enhanced cousin. He was now so far beyond his normal realm of thinking he reverted to pre-human, almost animalistic, responses to the situation. He howled in rage and struggled to get free throwing kicks and punches until he tired himself out, with his girth it didn't take long at all.
Harry chose that point in time to speak his first words to his cousin in a setting that he didn't have to worry about his heavily obese uncle beating the pulp out of him. "You really are pathetic aren't you? When are you going to wake up Dudley? Mummy and daddy aren't here to save you anymore. Who do you think killed them Dudley? Those freaks as they dearly loved to call them killed them with just a stick of wood and a few garbled words," at this point in time Harry drew his wand for affect, "This kind of stick as a matter of fact." Here Harry placed the wand at Dudley's throat pressing deeply into the overly fleshy area just to the side of the trachea.
Here he leaned closer to his cousin and practically hissed, he was a parselmouth he couldn't tell if he was actually hissing or not, the next few words directly into his ear. "I know those words Dudley. I have cast them myself, never on a human just yet, but do not make the mistake of underestimating me or we will find out just how easily I can do it. Never forget cousin you are on my playground now, I call the shots, and I am the one that will make your life hell."
"But that old freak said…" Dudley's sentence was broken off by Harry's wand pressing deeper into his neck causing the beginnings of panic.
"When are you going to figure out I do not follow that manipulative bastard anymore? He lost the right to tell me what to do about anything the night he placed me with relatives who hated and feared me. I can and have done things that would make the headmaster speechless. What makes you think I would blink an eye at killing you, one of the people who made my life hell growing up? Hmm, I always knew you were stupid but I never expected this level of idiocy." Harry spit out icily. His fiery temper had been curbed by the Slytherin's careful assistance into something resembling a glacier. Very slow to move but once it formed it destroyed anything in its path.
"You're a freak and everyone knows normal people are better then freaks. I never have to listen to you, in fact you have to listen to me." Dudley demanded sounding a bit like a five year old but Harry wasn't about to call him on it after all it would just be an insult to the five year olds.
"Oh, but Dudley you're forgetting one thing, you are in a school surrounded by those you call freaks. If anything you are the freak here. Plus one word from me and I can have you hauled off to prison. Even here we have laws against abuse. It's too bad Vernon was killed, I would have loved to see him screaming in Azkaban. I hate to see death, but I do enjoy a good bit of torture." Harry said being deadly serious that was just another oddity of his. He was being honest he didn't like to see death but he wasn't above torture.
"You're Evil," Dudley yelled at him, yet another of Vernon's nicknames for him.
"No, wrong again cousin, I am not evil only Dark. If you want true evil look in the mirror, or wait around for Voldemort to show up. I am not a nice person Dudley, your precious family did that to me. I will not bat an eyelash at killing you. Unlike you and Vernon I will wait until you screw up. Mess up just one time and I will practice my magic on you and most of it could send me to Azkaban." It was funny how much Harry was telling his cousin that he had never shared with anyone save Severus.
"But those ward thingies that freak put on me, they are to protect me!" Dudley was incredibly stupid now wasn't he?
"They have no power over me! My magic is stronger then that old man, and he won't know about it until I am ready for him to know. This entire common room has secrecy spells placed around it. As I understand it an unfortunate incident involving a few Gryffindors and some Polyjuice potion made the change necessary." Harry explained with a smirk. So that explained why he was saying so much.
"Harry you have classes tomorrow, time to stop playing with your toy and try to go back to sleep." Severus informed him.
"Aww, but I was just starting to have fun." Harry answered back.
"You can have your fun later, but if you fall asleep in my class tomorrow I will skin you alive." Severus said with no change in tone or emphasis.
"No you won't, I happen to know you prefer your lovers with skin." Harry shot back.
"And how would you know that?" Severus said with slight amusement.
"I have my ways." Harry replied with a wink.
Apparently this light hearted banter was too much for Dudley. "You're, you're, you're, a fagot! I always knew you were a freak this is just the proof dad and I needed. That can't be normal." Dudley nearly shrieked as high as his now deceased mother.
"Petrifius Totalus!" Harry shouted and when the spell hit Dudley the muggle fell to the stone floor very painfully by the look of things.
" Dudley for starters the correct term is homosexual or gay, and yes I am and proud of it. Second I don't see where you have room to talk, I doubt any female has looked at you let alone touch you. I had to come out to my school to get the girls away from me.
Here Dudley interjected again. "I do so have girlfriends. I have more then you do!" He said in his arrogant voice he must have learned from Vernon because Dudley couldn't have learned that on his own.
"Who did you threaten to beat up to achieve that? Their ten year old little brothers! I have only been in one relationship and will always be in one relationship. I found the person I love and I'm not letting go. You couldn't spell the word love let alone know the feeling." Harry said in a voice filled with scorn. He really couldn't believe how this pathetic lump of flesh shared blood with himself. Faced with his cousin he could almost see why Voldemort was hell bent on killing all muggles.
"We have a truly evil wizard here named Lord Voldemort, he was the same man that killed my parents. Do you want to know what his goal in life is? To kill everyone without magic. You call me a freak and you hate my world, but if we weren't here every non magical person would be dead!" Harry drove his point home to his cousin. "Now I am going to listen to my lover and go to bed, I am going to release the spell on you so you can do the same. Remember what I said about screwing up." Harry warned.
He did release his cousin and start to lead him to the dorms, but not before giving Severus a deep searing kiss. Heading to the dorm with his cousin at wand point he wondered how he was going to make it through classes without hexing Dudley. He really didn't want that manipulative bastard of a Headmaster to know the wards didn't protect Dudley from him, it might make him pull his head out of his ass and do something about it. Harry didn't want to take that chance, too much of a hassle. He was in school and if he wanted to keep his title of the top student in the school he needed to concentrate on more then idiotic wizards.
