Chapter 4 – –Summer

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Summer finally arrived and we were off on our world wind tour of the world...

"Padfoot, who did you think you were fooling? Our world tour is starting and ending here in Japan. We all know we're here to see your little Shika." I was a little peeved as I really did want to see a couple of other countries. I really was hoping to put off returning to my grueling training under Eto Sensei.

When the formal invitation to Daphne's birthday party arrived I was hustled back to England, fitted for a suit and a strangling tie and delivered to Greengrass estate like a Christmas Turkey. At least a Christmas Turkey was dead and didn't have to listen to Padfoot giving me tips on proper kissing techniques and other techniques beyond my age group.

I was only just arriving when Daphne grabbed me and her present..."Harrison just ignore the blowhard, father invited him so Draco's father wouldn't get upset and cause problems."

"I wouldn't ruin your day Daphne. As I avoid him at Hogwarts I can do here, so to the birthday girl I wish you a very Happy Birthday.

I was doing fantastic at the party until I was cornered and had to admit I didn't know how to dance. I then had more than too many girls instructing me on proper dancing steps. The only pleasure I got was thinking how long they would have to soak their feet due to my dancing capabilities. That and how mad Draco became from all the attention I was receiving from the girls. True to my word I avoided Draco but being a true Malfoy Draco got into an argument with some other kid attending the party. It was fun watching Draco's father haul him off by the ear.

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Soon it was almost September 1st and we returned to England to allow me to catch the train to Hogwarts. After boarding the train our group had a quiet trip although it was later learned that Draco had been harassing the Golden Trio and that's where his black eye came from, a Weasley left hook.

As if I was able to avoid trouble. Three days back at school and I got attacked in the third floor corridor. There were six older Slytherin students who didn't talk much but directly attacked me. I was forced to use my skills rather than my Suntetsu (metal spike), Bo-shuriken (throwing darts), throwing knives or my Wakizashi (short sword). I was sure the teachers would become upset if I punched holes in their precious students or loped off a few limbs.

They did get introduced to Banantan (full-contact fighting) as they had run into a Bujin (warrior person) even if I was still learning. Between the "OOFs" and groans some word got said initially, such as "Party", "teach you a lesson" and "what the?" they were soon done. I passed Snape on the stairs as I headed down to the Great Hall. It surprised me that he acted as if he never saw me?

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The school year passed quickly as I already knew all the material because of the training I got from my uncles. The rumor mill had a story about Harry Potter going down into the Chamber of Secrets and slaying a 60 foot snake. The less popular version was the Headmaster had sent his Phoenix down to extract Ron Weasley's little sister from the desirable clutches of Harry Potter in a girls bathroom. All the writing in blood was passed off to the mysterious prankster causing some undetermined mayhem. The day after summer break started we were back in Japan. I wasn't really complaining as I could use the training time with Eto Sensei. So what did I get?

I walked into the training area and was attacked by a dozen older students from the martial arts school. Had they not been dressed in the schools attire I would have bent them a little more. I knew that Sensei would be unhappy with me as I was sure there was something I did not perform to his standards, there always was. Sensei must be 500 years old but he doesn't miss a thing.

"Little Dragon your initial passing counter strike on Jay was sad and your foot work is failing. Contemplation of your errors is advised on your morning run with the recruits."

Sensei must be slipping as his punishment for being sloppy only added 5 miles to my run this morning. I however had made a mistake and mentioned the attack at Hogwarts.

"Tell me more Little Dragon, I can not reply with limited information. Was the attack coordinated, directed or spontaneous?" Sensei asked.

"I do not believe the six older Slytherin students were smart to conduct the attack on their own. The sudden appearance of our Head of House is most suspicious."

"Did they have a purpose? Was the attempt at violence directed mindlessly on your body or was it directed on a change in your mental thinking?"

"That is difficult to say as there are many things happening at that school. Much is centered around the phony Harry Potter." I was thinking that Draco might have urged them on over Daphne's party.

"Remember we are paid assassins and we do not judge right and wrong. If it is not profitable we have no interest. What is our profit in these matters Little Dragon?"

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Summer was winding down and Eto Sensei was trying to teach me how to walk on water. While I wanted to tell him "It's not happening" he was still capable of kicking my butt, SOoo, maintaining my polite respectable attitude I again sank into the lake. Sirius of course was out with Shika. Mooney however was receiving a parchment from Headmaster Albus Dumbledore. Luckily the Headmasters Phoenix had departed with Remus's reply before Sirius had returned; our secrets had not yet been compromised.

September 1st arrived and I again was with my friends in a compartment while Mooney found a different compartment so no one would think we knew each other. Mooney had dragged out some old robes for his upcommng days as DADA instructor. The Headmaster and of course the professors would be expecting a poor downtrodden person who's keeping a secret of being a werewolf. Sirius was disguised as Padfoot and got to play Mooney's playful doggie.

"Harrison how long you think it will be before we get to Hogwarts?" Tracey asked

"It's got to be a while yet I think we are only about halfway there."

"As I was saying Draco made himself complete fool at the Christmas ball..." Daphne was cut off by Zabini's question.

"I'm sorry to interrupt but is it getting cold or is it my imagination?"

"No, I feel it, this is weird!" Daphne shivered.

The cold was strange but as I looked out into the corridor I saw several black shrouded eerie looking things. I waste no time in flipping out my 8 inch wand, I yelled 'Colloportus' which locked the door. A wizard with a wand could open the door but I hoped that those things didn't have a wand. The things hovered outside our compartment door while the compartment felt like it was turning into a block of ice. The next thing we saw was a silver wolf chasing the things followed by Remus apparently controlling the silver wolf.

By the time we arrived at Hogwarts everybody had pretty well settled down and were looking forward to the welcoming feast. While I was waiting for the Headmaster to finish his monolog Remus and his dog entered the Great Hall. Dumbledore had just restarted his introductions to include Mooney when a scream of pain erupted from the Gryffindor table. Confusion and panic erupted at their table.

When I looked toward the Gryffindor table I saw Ron Weasley bleeding face as a rat jump off his head onto the table and was fleeing down its length. Students were throwing themselves away from the rat as it was scampering down the table. I saw Padfoot race to and leap onto the table in pursuit of the rat. At the same time Remus is firing stunners at the rat causing more panic and screams. The rat was knocking over goblets full of pumpkin juice, Padfoot flying feet's and Remus stunners was sending silverware, plates and students flying. Just as it looks like the rat was going to make good its escape one of Remus's stunners hits it full in the rear. Remus immediately charges toward the rat as Padfoot hovered over the rat looking like he is going to shred it with his teeth. Remus sudden charging at the table let him evade three stunners that were fired from the head table. Those stunners hit some students further down the Hall while Remus is now screaming, "Don't anybody let that rat get away, that rat is Peter Pettigrew!"

Before Dumbledore could send us all back to our house common rooms he had to get his Professors to 'Rennervate' his stunned students and restore order amongst the panicked students. Order was just starting when a persons screaming broke out, "That's my rat Scabbers, don't hurt my rat, what are you doing to my rat!" His panic was halted by a stunner from Madam Pomphrey's who had been trying to treat his bleeding face.

As Dumbledore rushed to where Remus stood over the rat and was likely to ask what the hell was going on, he arrived just in time to see Remus performed a spell. More yelps and screams broke out as the rat morphed into a squat balding man that the adults recognized as Peter Pettigrew.

Meanwhile I shadowed walked into some shadows where I could maintain my not in sight status. Most people do not observe what is not on their mind and I wanted to make sure that no harm came to Padfoot or Mooney. Dumbledore finally got enough order established to hustled the students back to their common rooms. Madam Pomphrey levitated Ron Weasley out to the hospital wing. That's when the Aurors rushed in followed by Minister Fudge.

"What is his foolishness, this can't be Pettigrew, this man is obviously an imposter." The Minister huffed. "Free him immediately!"

"He looked like Pettigrew animagus form, he smelled like Pettigrew and this trader is Peter Pettigrew." Mooney yelled into the Ministers face.

"Wouldn't it be advisable to take this person into custody and administer three drops of 'Veritaserum'? We should then have all of our questions answered." Dumbledore advised.

The Great Hall had emptied out a while ago and I was walking back to the common room. It was well after curfew and I was not looking forward to Professor Snape's nasty appearance. Unfortunately it was not to be a quiet evening because as I entered the common room...

"Where have you been, causing trouble again Black?" Draco demanded as if he was in charge of Slytherin House.

"What I do and where I go is none of your business Draco."

"While I'm making it my business, I run this house and you best not forget it."

"Or what, you're going to go and whine to daddy?"

Draco drew his wand yelling, "Get him!" Draco then yelled 'Sectumsempra'.

Of the many things that I had been taught some are extremely important when fighting an opponent. Stopping the opponent from doing harm is what you strive for but it is also important to remove from your opponent anything that he can use to hurt you. After removing myself from the path of the curse I removed Crab from the fight and Draco's wand from his broken arm before laying Goyle out on the green stone floor next to Crab. Draco soon followed his goons to the cold stone floor. The remaining would be attackers or gawkers fled to their rooms. I glanced over at the couch that Draco's curse had hit and found it to be a shredded mess. Making a note never to be hit with that curse I then started my long trudge up to the hospital wing to get Madam Pomphrey.

"You will remain here young man until I return is that perfectly clear?"

"Yes ma'am." I replied.

Several minutes later Madam Pomphrey reentered her hospital wing with the three unconscious Slytherin nincompoops. They were floating behind her on stretchers. "I have never in my life, what spell did you use on these students?"

As I was about to answer when the doors to the hospital crashed open and Severus Snape charged in like a mad bull. "I'll teach you to attack my godson!" He continued his charge and I was quite clear that he planned to do physical damage to me with his bare hands. Being an adult he was twice as tall as I am so there was no jumping up and punching him in the nose so before he reached for my neck...

Severus Snape found himself grasping at empty air. The next sensation was hearing a snapping noise followed by excruciating pain in his left leg and then his stomach erupted in pain as he slipped into darkness on his trip to the floor.

If there's a time you wish you had a camera, no a motion picture camera, to record the entire time, this would be that time. There was Madam Pomphrey with three stretchers floating behind her pointing at Snape, Snape being in a fetal position on the white hospital tiles, while Madam Pomphrey's mouth was opening and closing with no sound coming out. As if on cue the Headmaster came strolling in through the doors as if to impress the world with his presence only to come to a sudden stop as he saw the scene.

"Madam Pomphrey could you please explain what I'm seeing here?" Dumbledore getting no answer turned to me, "possibly you have an answer?"

While I did not give a blow-by-blow description I did explain that I was attacked in the Slytherin common room by Draco and his two thugs and after getting Madam Pomphrey Snape attacked me here in the hospital wing and in both cases I done nothing more than defend myself. By this time Madam Pomphrey had regained her powers of speech, I was sent back to the common room, as she railed on about teachers attacking students.

I have no idea what was done or told to Snape but it was obvious he was under Dumbledore's constraints. What was also obvious was that I had not made a lifetime friend with Severus Snape. Nonetheless the year ended next month and we would all be back in Japan with me trying to learn how to walk on water.

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About this time I am 14 years of age and I'm beginning to notice girls. While I'm growing taller I am still not the Hulk of Hogwarts. Then again the girls are either older then I am or are acting like Daphne and pretending to be the ice Queen of Slytherin. Tracy of course is Daphne's back watcher, besides I'm dumb, blind and afraid to be more than friends with girls. So one day in the library...

"Hi, would you mind if I sat here?" Asked a girl in Gryffindor robes.

"Sure, help yourself."

"I know you're in Slytherin and I am in Gryffindor but I noticed that you are really good in DADA class and I was wondering if you could help me with my shielding charm." Well she seemed friendly as she chatted along while at the same time letting her robes fall open. Even though she had the standard Hogwarts shirt and tie underneath she had boobs and she was smiling at me.

"I… Err… Sure."

"Let us find a nice quiet deserted classroom to practice." She purred and I had just been snared by the female of the species. Being a dumb male I was looking forward to something I know nothing about but trailed along like a little puppy dog.

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"Oh, this is just a perfect place to practice. Just let me get rid of these robes and this stupid school tie." She of course wore clothing that accented her figure and before I knew it got me answering all kinds of questions about people in Slytherin house. I mean how could I refuse when she had her back to my chest so I could director her arm in the correct wand movements. Girls are so soft! Many of her housemates would not be so nice.

We practiced in private every week but Lavender Brown turned out to be the biggest gossip in Hogwarts. Everything she got from me soon made it onto the rumor and gossip mill within Hogwarts. Most of it was stupid things like which Slytherin was dating which Ravenclaw. I of course was completely oblivious to what gossip was going on in the school. My attention was on the nice soft body that got rubbed against me from time to time in our training.

A few weeks later while we were practicing in our hidden classroom room the door was blasted open and in charged Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnigan, Cormac McLaggen and of course Harry Potter.

"What are you doing to her you slimy Slytherin, get your hands off of her." Ron had his wand out but was pointed at everything except me. The others had yet to draw their wands.

Granger grabs hold of Lavenders arm and dragged her off to the far wall while a crowd of boys spread out on either side of Weasley, "Were going to teach you, you dirty slimy Slytherin to stay way from our Gryffindor girls."

There followed a number of, "Yeas", "You tell them Ron", "Your going to get yours". That's when Ron made his next mistake and yelled, "Expelliarmus". This got the other boys fumbling for their wands and throwing an assortment of hexes and jinxes at where I once stood motionless.

To state that I was a bit upset and down right miffed over what was now becoming clear in my stupid brain. I didn't cool off until Professor Flitwick had dragged me into the Headmaster's office. To say my emotions were running high was an understatement.