Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, JK Rowling Does. I also do not own Sonic, Saga Does.

Authors Note: Sorry for not updating sooner, I've had one problem after another and when I found the time to write I couldn't find the book. The one time I found the book and tried writing it before it went to the log in screen when I pressed save. Well, here the next chapter.

Harry Potter and Merlin's Ring

Summary: Dying Merlin stores all his magical power and knowledge in a ring. Young Harry Potter finds the ring and puts it on and lives a different life.

Time-line: Merlin's Time - End of Harry's First Year.

Main pairing is Harry/Ginny

Ive rated this M because I am not sure what I will include in this book.

Previously: The Sorting And First Lessons.

Underlined: Spells

Italic: Thoughts

(Contains Reference's To Sonic)

Harry heard his alarm go off and he waved his hand causing it to turn off, he got up and waved his hand again making his school uniform appear on him. He then stepped out of his part of the room and shut his curtains before putting a charm on to stop anyone from opening them before he turned and walked down the staircase deep in thought.

Harry had been finding himself more and more annoyed with Malfoy, he was worse than Dudley was before he cast the compulsion charms on him. Luckily the Gryffindor's only had potions with the Slytherin's and even that was better now that Snape was under a shadow imperius curse, with the curse active Snape couldn't say or do a bad thing against and was forced to take and give points and detentions fairly so everyone was beginning to do better at potions, even other years that had been behind were catching up now that he was fair.

But back to Malfoy, he could put up with the 'Boy-Spends-More-Time-On-His-Hair-Than-Most-Girls' if it was only for that one lesson but now they had flying lessons with him as well, he had not bothered with flying on a broom before because he didn't need one. As an air elemental he could simply make the air pick him up and make him fly without using a broom or carpet.

He sighed as he checked the notice again, flying lessons were with the Slytherins and starting on Thursday. Harry grumbled before spinning on his heel and walking out the painting door, he walked into an empty hallway and used the school wards to check around him and the great hall. After being assured that nobody was in either place he stepped into a shadow and stepped out into the Great Hall without a sound.

He waved his hand and summoned his wand into his hand, he then pointed it upwards and focused. Seconds later a white ball of energy began to form on the tip, he opened the Great Hall doors and walked into the corridor. He drew a rune in the air from the fire poked the ball of energy into it, the rune and a quarter of the energy shot into a corner of the wall and began to glow, he repeated the same with the other three corners and then created another ball which he poked into the middle, he then connected each of the four corners to each other and the centre before waving his wand and activated it.

The walls glowed and white barrier appeared before disappearing, he waited and seconds later he felt a presence in his mind. He now would know if somebody stepped past the ward and who it was, he calmly walked back into the hall and shut the door. He then put his wand in his pocket and closed his eyes, he focused on his hand and tried to change it into a Phoenix's wing. He kept trying and a few minutes later he felt it shift into a wing, he opened his eyes and looked at it while focusing on keeping the change.

Instead of the normal fiery red and gold it was a dazzling white that was so bright he had to squint to look at it, he released the transformation and watched as the wing changed back into his arm. He smiled and tried the other arm, he got that quickly and so he tried both at the same time. He found that when he changed one the other changed back and so he began to practice, a few minutes later he felt the headmaster walk past the ward and so he stepped into a shadow and into his dorm. He created a bubble around him and fast forwarded time to a normal time to be getting up.

He then removed the bubble and removed the charm on his curtains before stepping out and making his way to the Great Hall, as he approached the doors he checked his ward. It was still working and he knew he would need practice so he connected it into the castles core. Like with Merlin's ring the founders had placed their magic in an object before death but instead of giving it to an heir like Merlin did they stored the power inside the castle and connected it into the wards giving the castle a protection that was similar to his wards, they however had tied the wards into their bloodlines but added an part that denied access to any heir that wished harm to the students.

He walked into the hall and sat down at an empty space at the table before grabbing food and heard Ron Weasley arguing with somebody about Quidditch, it was what everybody was arguing about, that or flying. It was quite irritating having to listen to Ron's talk about who was the better Quidditch team and his stories on flying or Hermione's lectures on how to fly, both didn't know when it was time to just be quiet and let others think for theirselves, the arguments between Ron and Dean about football didn't help much either.

Harry was sitting at the table and watching as other peoples owls flew around and gave people letters and packages, he didn't expect any and if he didn't need anything anyway as he could simply create it with ease if he needed but it still made him wonder about his parents, he was still trying to find a way to create body's for them that didn't involve sacrifice or cutting off his own hand which would severely disfigure them anyway.

Harry saw an owl fly other to Neville and drop a package at the table for him. Neville reached over and opened the package, inside was a glass ball that Harry could see had some kind of mind reading charm on it. He had studies how to read peoples minds with legilimency and how to know when people were attacking his mind in the years of his disappearance, he knew the Headmaster and Snape had tried to read his, well Snape couldn't anymore as he had commanded the man to never read peoples minds ever again but he had before then. Also Professor Quirrel had tried as well which was something had would have to keep an eye on.

He shook his head to clear his thoughts before turning back to Neville, 'It's a Remembrall' Neville explained, 'Gran knows I forget things - this tells you if there's something you've forgotten to do. Look, you hold it tight like this and if it turns red - oh...' Neville's face fell as the Remembrall glowed deep red, '... you've forgotten something'

Neville closed his eyes and tried to remember what he had forgotten and Harry spotted Malfoy and his monkeys walking over with a smirk on his face, he quickly scanned his mind and found he was about to take Neville's Remembrall. He smirked and cast a anti-stealing charm on the Remembrall and linked it to Neville meaning that anybody who tried to steal it would get a thirty volt shock. Harry watched as Malfoy grabbed the glass ball and screamed as small bolts of lightning arc'd around him, he quickly let go and he fell to the floor while the bolts slowly dissipated.

Malfoy got to his feet shakily and said, 'When my father...' Professor McGonagall walked over and said, 'What is the problem here?' before anybody else could speak Malfoy said, 'Longbottom used some curse on me, Professor' Harry turned to McGonagall and said, 'That wasn't a curse, that was a anti-theft charm' McGonagall turned to Malfoy while saying, 'Is this true Mr. Malfoy?' and Harry cast a compulsion charm to make him tell the truth. Malfoy looked at McGonagall and said, 'Yes' McGonagall frowned and said, 'Twenty Points from Slytherin and a detention for attempted theft Mr. Malfoy, come with me' she then turned on her heel and walked out of the room, Malfoy had to run to keep up which left him panting.

At three-thirty that afternoon Harry shadow walked to a secluded spot in the Hogwarts grounds, he made sure he wasn't seen before beginning walk over to where the flying lesson would be taking place. The weather was clear and there was a small breeze which Harry was quite glad about, it wouldn't be good if on the day of the flying lessons it was dark and pouring with rain or too windy.

As he approached he could see the Forbidden Forests trees swinging ominously, when he arrived Ron and Hermione came walking over from the school, he saw that the Slytherins had already arrived. There was twenty brooms all in a line, they looked very old and he remembered Fred and George Weasley often complaining about them.

A few seconds later Madam Hooch arrived, Madam Hooch was the Hogwarts flying teacher, she had grey hair and yellow eyes which were watching them closely. She walked over and said, 'Well, what are you waiting for? Everybody by a broomstick, come on hurry up' she huffed and waited, Harry walked over to a broom and looked at it, it was an old broom which brought up questions on why the school didn't buy new ones, surely they could afford them with the fifty galleon entrance fee, you could get a basic broom for seven galleons.

When everybody was next to a broomstick Madam Hooch called, 'Place your right hand over your broom and say, "Up"'

'UP' said everybody together, Harry's came to his hand as soon as the word left his mouth and he looked round to see if anybody had done the same, a few people had managed but not many. Hermione's had rolled over and Nevilles was still lying there like a twig, Harry shrugged and turned back to Madame Hooch. She showed the people who hadn't managed to bring there broom to their hands how to call their brooms and then showed them how to mount them.

Harry climbed on and used his air powers to calm all the air around him, Madam Hooch was walking around and correcting their grips of the broomsticks. Harry snickered quietly when she told Malfoy that he had been flying his broom wrong for all his life. When everybody was on their brooms and had the correct grip Madam Hooch walked to the centre of the class.

She then turned to them and said, 'Now, when I blow my whistle, you kick off from the ground, hard' Harry raised an eyebrow, pushing off hard was a guarantee that somebody would lose control of their broomstick. Madam Hooch continued, 'Keep your broomstick steady, rise a few feet then come straight back down by leaning forwards slightly. On my whistle - three - two -'

Before she even had time to finish her sentence Neville shot into the air, he was completely out of control of his broom and was flying higher and higher. Harry waited to see if Madam Hooch would do anything before holding out his hand and whispering, 'Aresto Momentum' Neville slowed down and landed carefully on his feet, everyone was gaping at him and that gave Harry the chance he needed, 'Obliviate' he thought, everyone now thought Neville fell off his broom. Madam Hooch warned them and took him to hospital wing.

Malfoy started laughing and said, 'Did you see his face, the great lump?' the other Slytherins started laughing as well.

'Shut up, Malfoy' snapped Parvati Patil, Pansy Parkinson, a very ugly girl, if you could call her that, (she looked more like a cross between a dog and a human) smirked and said, 'Ooh, sticking up for Longbottom? Never thought you'd like fat little cry babies, Parvati'

Suddenly Malfoy jumped forwards and grabbed something from the ground, 'Look' he said, 'It's that stupid thing Longbottom's gran sent him' Harry frowned as he saw the Remembrall in Malfoy's hand, he shouldn't have been able to steal it, then he realised something Malfoy hadn't stolen the Remembrall he had just picked it up.

Harry sighed and said, 'Give that here, Malfoy', as soon as he spoke everybody went silent and watched to see what would happen, Malfoy gave a nasty smile and said, 'I think I'll leave it somewhere for Longbottom to collect, how about up a tree?'

Harry groaned and shouted, 'Give it here!' Malfoy just ignored him and took off, Malfoy could fly well but he had already been flying without a broom for three years and was used to ignoring things like aeroplanes and birds. Malfoy flew up to a tree and yelled, 'Come and get it, Potter!'

Harry smirked and took a step back, 'No!' shouted Hermione, 'Madam Hooch told us not move, you'll get us all into trouble' he raised an eyebrow and said, 'If one person moving is going to get everybody into trouble then Malfoy has already done that' and so before Hermione could say anything he jumped onto his broom and flew into the air and towards Malfoy, he slowed down and floated in front of him and said, 'Nobody to help you here Malfoy, I doubt Crabbe or Goyle could even fly without the broom snapping'

Malfoy looked around in panic before shouting, 'Catch it if you can, then!' before throwing the ball into the air, Harry dived at it while commanding the air to throw Malfoy off his broom. He flew at the ball and watched as it flew at the castle, he got closer and closer and just as it was about to smash into the castle wall he snatched it out of the air and did a quick spin before flying back to the others with a grin.

He spotted Malfoy lying on the floor, the bone of one of his arms was bent backwards while the wrist of his other was twisted all the way round, he was rolling around and crying in pain. 'HARRY POTTER! DRACO MALFOY!' a voice suddenly rang out, Harry readied himself with a compulsion charm already at his fingertips, 'Never, in all my time at Hogwarts...' Professor McGonagall said, '...How dare you, might have broken your neck...'

'It wasn't his fault, Professor...'

'Be quiet, Miss Patil'

'But Malfoy...'

'That's enough, Mr Weasley. Potter, follow me, now' said Professor McGonagall before she petrified Malfoy and used a charm to make him float after them. Crabbe and Goyle looked at each other stupidly before shrugging and walking off to eat.

Harry walked after McGonagall with the charm still bouncing between his fingers like a lightning bolt just itching to get out. She strode into the castle and walked down some corridors until they reached the Hospital Wing, she levitated Malfoy onto the bed and sent a patronus message to Madame Pomfrey, through doors, passages and up winding stairs until they reached the charms classroom, she knocked on the door before opening it and stepping in, 'Excuse me, Professor Flitwick, could I borrow Wood for a moment?' Harry tried to think what "Wood" was and the castle wards reacted, suddenly information flooded him about a fifth year student called Oliver Wood, he was the Gryffindor Quidditch Captain' Harry though about that for a second before he saw Wood step out of the room

Professor McGonagall turned around and said, 'Follow me, you two' she then led them to an unused classroom, she opened the door and they stepped in. The room was empty except for Peeves who was writing rude words on the blackboard, Harry rolled his eyes and stepped behind the other two and drew his wand, he put it where Peeves could clearly see it and allowed the symbol of the Deathly Hallows to appear and Death Magic to fill the gem, Peeves being a ghost recognised the symbol and significance of the magic and so when Professor McGonagall said, 'Out, Peeves' he took his chance and left the room faster than anyone had ever seen a ghost move.

Professor McGonagall closed the door with a bang and turned to face them before saying, 'Potter, this is Oliver Wood. Wood, I've found you a Seeker' Wood's face took on a look of delight before he raised an eyebrow and said, 'Are you serious, Proffessor?'

Professor McGonagall nodded and said, 'Absolutely, the boy's a natural. I've never seen anything like it. Was that your first time on a broomstick, Potter' Harry nodded calmly and waited, he wasn't sure what was going on but from what they were saying and the school wards filling him in he supposed he was going to get to be on the Quidditch team. Well at least if they did decide to expel him he could throw them all out of the castle and hire tutors instead.

Professor McGonagall turned back to Wood and said, 'He caught that thing in his hand after a fifty-foot dive and didn't even scratch himself. Charlie Weasley couldn't have done it' When Harry heard the other name the wards quickly filled him in on Ron's brother, he had been Seeker for Gryffindor but left a few years ago.

Wood turned to him, 'Ever seen a game of Quidditch, Potter?' he asked with an extemly overexcited voice. 'Wood's the captain of the Gryffindor team' Professor McGonagall explained when she saw Harry's well faked confused expression. Without waiting for an answer he began to walk around and talk with Professor McGonagall, Harry closed his eyes and commanded the wards to give him everything they had on Quidditch, information poured into him and he quickly sorted it out, he was going to have to build mental shields. With his ability he could throw anybody out of his mind with a thought but it was better to have shields as they helped focus and reduced the affect of the normal imperius curse.

When Wood and McGonagall finished their conversation she turned to him and said, 'I want to hear you're training hard, Potter, or I may change my mind about punishing you' she nodded and smiled before saying, 'Your father would have been proud, he was an excellent Quidditch player himself'

'You're joking' said Ron, they were at dinner and he had just explained what happened when he left, Ron had not put the food in his mouth yet which Harry was extremly grateful for as he didn't want to be covered in half-chewed pie. 'Seeker? But first yers never play, you must be the youngest house player in about...'

'...a century' Harry said, after finishing a piece of pie, even if Ron had none he was still going to keep his manners. 'Wood told me' Ron gaped at Harry and so he continued, 'I start training next week but don't tell anyone, Wood wants to keep it a secret' Ron just nodded dumbly.

The Weasley twins spotted Harry and quickly came over, 'Well done' said George quietly, 'Wood told us. We're on the team too, Beaters' Harry nodded.

'I tell you, we're going to win that Quidditch Cup for sure this year' said Fred, 'We haven't won since Charlie lift, but this year's team is going to be brilliant. You must be good, Harry, Wood was almost skipping when he told us, anyway got to go, Lee Jordan reckons he's found a new secret passageway out of the school'

'Bet it's that one behind the statue of Gregory the Smarmy that we found in our first week. See you' with that Fred and George turned and left, as soon as they were gone Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle appeared. 'Having a last meal, Potter? When are you getting the train back to the muggle's' He looked up and said, 'Finished crying now have you? Bit braver are you with your lackeys to back you up'

Malfoy snarled and said, 'I'd take you on any time on my own. Tonight, if you want. Wizards duel, wands only, no contact' then he snickered and said, 'Never heard of one?' Harry raised the other eyebrow and was about to respond when Ron said, 'Of course he has, I'm his second, who's yours?'

Malfoy looked at Crabbe and Goyle, sizing them up. 'Crabbe' he decided, 'Midnight all right, we'll meet you in the trophy room, its always unlocked' with that Malfoy turned and strutted away.

Harry raised an eyebrow at Ron and said, 'Next time let me answer my own questions, I know a lot about the wizarding world, I've been learning everything I can since I was eight years old' Ron looked taken aback and said, 'I'm sorry, I was told that you lived with muggles' Harry shrugged and said, 'I do live with muggles but they live in the wizarding world' what he didn't say was that they were under compulsion charms so powerful that they had more affect than most imperius curses or that they lived in a replication of their house under his manor. He only kept them there so he could use blood wards but as they demonstrated for the first eight years of his life they didn't need to be comfortable.

'Excuse me' came the voice of the most meddling student he had ever met, well apart from himself. He doubted she could use compulsion charms or that she would, she would probably find it immoral. He quickly shook his head to clear his musings and turned to look at her, Ron sighed and said, 'Can't a person eat in peace in this place?' Hermione looked at Harry and said, 'I couldn't help overhearing what you and Malfoy were saying...' Ron frowned and muttered, 'Bet you could' Harry merely raised and eyebrow.

'You mustn't go wandering around the school at night, think of the points you'll lose Gryffindor if you're caught and you're bound to be. It's really very selfish of you' she continued, Harry was quite annoyed, 'Its really none of your buisness' Ron nodded and said, 'Goodbye' and they got up and left.

It wasn't the best day but it was quite good, he got a place in the Quidditch team which was good if completely unexpected, he had an argument with Ron but sorted that out, another argument with Malfoy and then he was told what he couldn't do. How DARE she tell him what he could and couldn't do, he was his own person not some little follower going out of his way to follow the rules and to think that she thought he would get caught, ha.

He stretched got up out of his bed and pulled his robes on before he calmly waved his wand while thinking, 'Somnus' three invisible jets of light shot out and struck, Neville, Dean and Seamus causing them to fall deeper asleep. Harry walked over to Ron and said, 'It's time to go' Ron nodded and they walked down the stairs. At least he could obliviate anyone that caught him if he was desperate.

As they entered the common room a lamp turned on revealing a frowning Hermione Granger, Ron hissed, 'You! Go back to bed!' Hermione frowned and snapped, 'I almost told your brother, Percy, he's a Prefect, he'd put a stop to this' Harry growled, this girl was annoying. He pushed Ron out of the portrait hole and followed.

Hermione ran after them while saying, 'Don't you care about Gryffindor or do you only care about yourselves, I don't want Slytherin to win the House Cup and you'll lose all the points I got from...' Harry growled and hissed, 'Be quiet' she huffed and turned to leave when she realised that the Fat Lady had left her portrait leaving her no way to get back in. 'What am I going to do now?' she wailed. Harry shrugged and led Ron away.

'I'm coming with you' said Hermione as she ran after them, 'You are not' said Ron, Harry rolled his eyes and said, 'You can come but if you two continue to argue I will silence you' both went quiet and so he walked on. Soon they met Neville who was also locked out and they all made their way to the trophy room, they waited and soon Ron said, 'He's late, maybe he chickened out' Harry shook his head and said, 'We need to leave quickly, he set us up' as he finished speaking a voice said, 'Sniff around, my sweet, they might be lurking in a corner'

Harry gestured to them and hurried them out into a corridor while wandlessly silencing the floor, they rushed down a corridor and heard Filch give chase. The corridor was a dead end with a locked door at the end, without missing a beat he waved his wand and muttered, 'Alohomora' the lock glowed gold and opened, they rushed in and Harry whispered, 'Keep quiet and he might think were not in here' suddenly Harry gasped and muttered, 'Stupefy' a huge blast of red light shot out his wand and they all turned to see it strike a Cerberus which glowed and fell down, unconscious.

They quickly made their way back to the Fat Lady and ran over, 'Where on earth have you all been?' she asked, apart from Harry they were all in their dressing gowns. 'Pig snout' said Harry and the portrait opened, he was the only one that was still calm after all that had happened and was quite amused at the terrified expressions on the others faces.

'What do they think their doing, keeping a thing like that locked up in the school?' said Ron, 'If any dog needs exercise, that one does' he continued. Hermione huffed and said, 'You don't use you eyes, any of you, do you? Didn't you see what it was standing on?' Harry nodded and said, 'A trapdoor but there are spells that could simply knock it out with enough power. What he didn't say was that the amount of power needed was around the power of him, the Dark Lord Voldemort and Proffessor Dumbledore.

She glared at him and said, 'I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed, or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed' With that she turned and stormed away. Ron gaped at her and said, 'No, we don't mind, you'd think we dragged her along, wouldn't you'

Harry simply ignored him, too deep in thought to hear, whatever it was guarding was pretty important. With a smile Harry asked the wards, they came back telling him everything about the area and what was inside. There was a few rooms guarding but they wouldn't stop a determined first year let alone an adult witch or wizard and so with that thought he turned and left for bed.

Harry's faveriot spell is the compulsion charm, its not as drastic as the imperius and still leaves the victim control over most of themselves. The compulsion charm is illegal and each use is 1 year in Askaban Prison.

People he's used it on, the Dursleys, Ron and Hermione, Malfoy and others...