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Chapter four: Teacher's favourite

Harry was on his way to the headmasters office, he had just been with Ginny, Fred, and George, who he approved of, as the twins weren't bad.

"Ahh, young Harry, I would like to ask you why you took control over the school at the trolls attack last night," Dumbledore said in his usual grandfatherly voice.

"Well, I clearly needed to, as the whole school was safer after following my instructions," Harry said, "and have you ever bonded with fawkes properly? Because it doesn't look like it." Harry walked over to Fawkess, and bonded with him, and then explained to Dumbledore that he could not do anything about it because you can't legally own a phoenix, and then he flamed away to Gryffindor tower.

"I can't believe you really stole fawkes Harry!" Fred yelled out laughing, to which Hermione came over glaring.

"You stole his phoenix? You will be expelled finally, and I will be the best at Hogwarts!" she said.

"Firstly, Ginny has better grades then you, secondly, you can't own a phoenix as they are as smart as humans. Shyrrif!" Harry said, and shyrrif popped in to take Fawkes to the Potter mansion.

"You have a house elf! Free him now I bet he hates working for you! I WILL FORCE HIM TO BE FREE!" Hermione yelled, and the elf started crying and hid behind Harry's legs, the whole common room glared at her. The elf, after calming down, went back home and looked after the animals there.

"What's your problem!" Ginny yelled at her.

"My problem is he's a slave!"

"A slave is someone who's forced to work, did he look forced to you? He's happy and Harry's treating him nicely so what's your problem? You saw that Harry was willing to pay him but he didn't want it."

"It's still not right!" Hermione shouted.

"So Hermione," Fred said, raising to his feet.

"You're saying," George said, doing the same.

"That his happiness"

"Doesn't matter"

"Because it's not the same"

"As your definition"

"OF RIGHT!" they yelled the last part, which shocked the whole common room to see them angry.

"THEY'RE BRAINWASHED!" Hermione yelled.

"So the obvious thing to do is tell them that they are living life wrong and terrify them when they disagree," Harry retorted as he also stood up. 2You don't care about them, you just aren't happy they don't agree with your every opinion. GROW UP! The world isn't as simple as your books tell you." And with that, the four walked out of the common room leaving a confused Ron and an enraged Hermione.

"Professor, Harry stole headmaster Dumbledore's phoenix, and he also has fifty house elves he should be punished," Hermione said in a matter-of-fact tone.

"I do have the elves, but they like work and Hermione scared one of them to the point they started crying, she tried to force it to be free. And to the phoenix, Dumbledore never actually bonded with it, and you can't legally own a phoenix. I explained all this to her last night, ask any Gryffindor."

"Is this true? Meet me in my office after class for detention."

The heads of houses were all in the headmasters office waiting for him to arrive for the staff meeting about first years, they eventually decided to start without him.

"Well, let's start of with the worst students," Mcgonagall started, "For me that would be Ronald, Hermione, and Draco."

"Agreed, they never pay attention in class," Flitwick said.

"Yes, and miss Granger spends every lesson trying to outdo Harry," Sprout added.

"And Ronald and Draco don't seem to study a day in their life," Snape finished.

"Perhaps we should talk about the good students?" Dumbledore said, coing in.

"For me, that would be Harry, Ginny, and Neville," Mcgonagall said.

"Agreed, they are always the first to finish the work," Sprout said.

"And Neville is good, just needs encouragement every now and again," Flitwick chimed in.

"If anyone attacks or upsets Potter, they'll have me to deal with," Snape growled, all the professors agreed. Dumbledore was not having a good week, he had found out that Ron and Hermione had failed to make Harry a servant of the light.

It was christmas, and after being convinced by Ginny and the twins, Harry took of the tracking charms on the jumper Molly got him, and put it on. The four then met up with Neville, and Harry remembered about the cloak the founders gave him and took them to see it. Every time Harry wanted it on, he had to pretend to pull a hood onto his head and then he could disguise himself however he wanted, or he could turn invisible.

The five of them opened their presents, Ron had gotten each of them chocolate frogs, and was annoyed when they hadn't thought to give him anything. Harry had gotten another invisibility cloak than belonged to his father, which he let Ginny have as he already have one. Fred and George gave harry a t-shirt that said 'Little Prongslet' on it, as he had told them about his relation to the marauders, and they got Ginny a diary that changes to whatever colour she desires. She then changed it to green, and went out of her way to tell them it had nothing to do with Harry's eyes.