A/N: Whoo Hoo finally it's over, hey guys and girls I am finally done with my course so I have a lot of free time on my hands now and I am already starting to apply for jobs wish me luck hehe. Anyway here's the next chapter, figured that since I had some time I would write it after catching up on all that lost sleep.

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Chapter 9

A bewitching visit

The entire Great Hall sat in stunned silence as Draco Malfoy started to thrash around on the floor of the conjured duelling platform, from the students and teachers point of view Harry had moved at speeds that their eyes couldn't keep up with, one minute he was standing at his end of the platform with a rather unnerving expression on his face and then the next he had simply vanished without a sound only to appear in front of Malfoy and strike him with glowing purple hands and Malfoy collapsed to the floor like a puppet that had its strings cut.

The Harry had leaned over and whispers something in his ear and then he started to scream loudly as if he was in intense pain and started to thrash around, his eyes wide and fearful, spittle dripping from his mouth only it seemed that none of his limbs were working as he only succeeded in doing a rather accurate impression of a fish out of water, and the whole time Harry had just stood above him with a cruel and satisfied smirk on his face.

For his two friends in Ravenclaw the sight of that smirk unsettled them, he looked like a totally different person standing up there, to the Slytherin Trio however the display only reinforced their assumptions about the Potter Heir, that he wasn't to be messed with and they would be better off allying with him instead of against him, Draco might be a vain braggart with a stick up his ass but he was no slouch on the duelling platform for him to not only be completely destroyed but humiliated like this by a person his own age and who had freely admitted that his wand would be useless as he had no experience in using it yet.

It was very clear that Harry had hidden depths to him that no one had seen yet, the fact that he looked bored the whole time only served to make the message clearer. Don't. Fuck. With. Him or else.

Draco's screams had reduced to mere whimpers and that served to snap Professor McGonagall out of her stupor and get her head back in the game so to speak, "Mr Potter what exactly have you done to Mr Malfoy?" Harry wipes the satisfied smirk off of his face and looks directly at McGonagall his eyes as cold as ice, his voice barely a whisper and yet it seemed to carry over the entire Great Hall. "Simple I just put him in a rather simple illusion that makes him experience his worst nightmares as if they are actually happening to him, the reason that he can't move is that I struck several nerve clusters that rendered his limbs useless, as it is Mr Malfoy has lost this duel."

McGonagall feels an ice cold shiver run up her spine from the ice cold tone and the uncaring way he just described what he had done, a sinking feeling fills her gut as he mind turns to the worst possible outcome that the small and adorable baby boy that she had bounced on her lap years ago had turned into something similar to the monster that stole his parents away from him, internally she vows to keep a closer eye on him and make sure that he doesn't harm any of the other students.

Grandson in all but blood he may be but it would be a cold day in hell before she let any harm come to any of the students at Hogwarts, she straightens up and barks out in her sternest tone, "Fine the winner of this duel is Harry Potter-"

A cough from the head table interrupts her, twisting around she sees Albus looking at her and in a rare occasion his eyes weren't twinkling at all, a serious sign indeed. She nods head and lets him say what he wants, "Actually Professor McGonagall I do believe that Mr Malfoy should be declared the victor in this duel as official duelling regulations prohibit the usage of Dark Magic to harm an opponent."

Harry cocks an eyebrow at the old man and is fully aware of the mumbling and whispering going on at the tables, to his irritation most of the whispers were anything but flattering, most along the lines of "if Dumbledore say's that he used Dark Magic then it must be true" and so on, Harry quickly realises that he has to rectify the situation and fast, the last thing he needs is more attention on him especially negative attention so he does the only thing viable in the situation.

Clearing his voice he brings everyone's attention back to himself and stares straight into Dumbledore's eyes, "I have no idea what you mean by Dark Magic, the only magic that I used was the illusion and the defensive dome other than that all I did was disable him in a rather harmless way using my medical knowledge of the human body." Everyone in the hall was stunned stupid not only had Harry stood up to "the most powerful wizard in the world" but he had done it without blinking and calmly and even revealed a little bit more about himself, Dumbledore himself was a little stunned although he hid it extremely well.

'Medical knowledge? Illusions and that defensive spell, I have never seen such things so where could he have learned them and who from? I'll need to investigate this as soon as he is back at Privet Drive, this could be the "Power that he knows not"'

Dumbledore takes only a second to process the information and responds quickly, "Ah my mistake my dear boy, it's just that illusion of yours seems to be unnecessarily cruel so I assumed that it was dark in nature, if you don't mind perhaps an explanation would help put everyone at ease."

'Clever old man, very clever not only did he just brush off his accusation as a senior moment and acting like an old man to enhance the effect but he also cornered me into explaining my techniques, if I don't then it would be all too easy for him to turn it around and say that they are dark which will effectively put me at odds with my peers and result in all of the students keeping a close eye on me. Heh well played'

One unique thing about Devils is the fact that they are by their very nature sinful creatures and are more vulnerable to indulging in sinful actions than humans, it is part of the reason why they have such a bad light in scripture of almost all religions, the original devils made by Satan lacked restraint or morals and freely indulged in the greatest of sinful acts possible, raping, pillaging, murder and torturing humans was only the tip of the iceberg back then.

These actions lead to the first war between Heaven and the Underworld, back then there were no Fallen Angels as all the Angels followed God wholeheartedly and although powerful individually the devils of that generation were their own worst enemy, the very sin that they indulged in caused their downfall, their pride was too great to work together, their wrath too great as they struck down not only the Angels but even their own underlings in battle rages, their lust and gluttony too great to care about the war and so on, it ended in a complete victory for Heaven and the monster that was Satan was killed and the Underworld left barren and vacant.

After Lucifer also known as Helel the Moring Star and his followers fell from Heaven they took up residence in the Underworld and he created the next generation of devils to serve him, although he lessened the effects of the sinful nature of the devils he created they were still affected badly by them, after the second war in which both the Biblical God (weakened considerably from sealing Trihexia the Apocalyptic Beast behind the 666 seals) and Lucifer as well as most of his devils were killed a change happened, that was the Evil Pieces and Peerage system created by Adjuka Beelzebub.

The Four Satan's all agreed that if they were to continue begin so heavily influenced by their sinful natures and continue to act on them it wouldn't be too long before another war started civil or otherwise and also had a high chance of alienating the Reincarnated Devils in the Peerages, so they made a decree that each devil were to choose a sin to indulge in and ignore the others completely, this of course lead to both the Rating Games being created and Harems begin seen as commonplace in the Underworld.

Harry however was different, he started out a human, a human with magic but that was beside the point, when he was turned into a devil and his father asked him what sin he was going to indulge in, Harry responded by selecting two sins.

Pride

And

Wrath

This lead to some of Harry's more obvious personality traits, his Pride manifested in two distinct ways, his Pride in his family and his Pride in his magic. His Wrathful nature however well it is quite obvious he takes extreme offense to anyone that insults or tries to harm his family which leads him to respond viciously either with his cutting words or in a more physical manner.

So far to date there have been three incidents were Harry reacted violently, the first was to a comment at a social gathering about his mother that lead him freezing off the offending devils dick, the second was when he was attending a ball that was being held by the Phoenix family and one of Riser's more prideful sons made a snide comment about Justin, Harry reacted first verbally then physically when the young devil took offense to being challenged and struck Harry on the cheek.

Which lead to Harry beating the crap out of the devil and hanging him out a nearby window by his ankle. The third and final incident is the current one with Draco Malfoy.

Dumbledore challenging him to explain his magic in front of the entire school really grates on Harry's pride, he longs to rub the old man's nose in the fact that he probably knows more magic that the old fart has forgotten in his lifetime. The only thing that stopped him was perhaps his greatest virtue, Loyalty in this case his absolute Loyalty to his family and his teachers, and he would rather take a blade to the throat than betray them by spilling family secrets to anyone.

So he swallows his pride as best he can and responds in a monotone voice, "I learned the Medical knowledge from Muggle books and took martial arts lessons before I came here as for the illusion it is rather simple just to create a small bit of magic over a person's eyes that reads their greatest fear and shows it too then and the barrier is something that I made myself." Dumbledore seems content with the knowledge that he had given although the old man almost certainly knew that he hadn't told the whole truth but he couldn't refute him in front of everyone a second time without looking like he was purposefully pressuring a student to reveal personal information.

The whispering kicked up again but this time Harry just rolls his eyes and marches leans down to the whimpering Malfoy and deactivates the illusion that he had put him under, the minute the illusion fades from Malfoy's vision and he sees Harry's face in front of him grinning he screams in fear and tries to back away from him, Harry smirks, "I take it this means you forfeit, not like you can still fight anyway seeing as you can't move at all right now."

Malfoy in his fear latches onto the chance to get away from this monster, family honour be dammed, stammers out, "I-I-I forfeit just get him a-a-away from me!" Not for the first time the entire Great Hall was silent yet again, Malfoy didn't just sound scared but downright terrified, whatever Harry had forced him to see had affected him badly if this was the result, McGonagall declares the victor in her loudest voice but there is no cheering or applause in the room just stony silence and Malfoy continues in vain to crawl away from Harry.

Harry's eyebrow twitches and he moves right up to Malfoy, who starts to panic in fear, before any of the Professors can even say a word, Harry strikes Malfoy close to the pulse point at the side of his throat, Malfoy's eyes roll in his head and falls back, Harry grabs the back of his head before it can collide with the hard platform beneath him with a rather kind look on his face.

McGonagall flares her nostrils, "Mind explaining why you did that Mr Potter before I deduct points?" Harry looks over and raises an eyebrow at her and gestures at the knocked out Malfoy, "Simple in his current state he will be easier to move and treat, the absolutely worst thing for a doctor or medic to deal with is a panicking patient not only can they hurt themselves but they are also a danger to others in that kind of state so I took the quickest course of action and knocked him out."

At the staff table Madam Pomfrey nods her head rapidly and smiles widely, it was true even if Harry hadn't done that she would have had to stun Malfoy in order to move and treat him, although Harry had said he had learned his medical knowledge from books the look in his eyes, the way he moved and his mannerisms spoke of his experience, to Poppy Pomfrey he looked like an experienced Healer at work.

Poppy decides to act on her instincts and to end the charade before any more questions could be asked of Harry, nobody else had noticed but when he was being questioned by Dumbledore his left eye twitched only slightly, it seems that Mr Potter had inherited more than just his looks from his father but also might have inherited some of his quirks as well, Poppy had dealt with James Potter enough times to know his mannerisms and quirks like the back of her hand and that particular one was signalling annoyance which was usually quickly followed by shear mayhem.

Clearing her throat she looks down on Harry, "Since you seem to have a good understanding off the Healing arts Mr Potter and you seemed to have down half my job for me, then would you be so kind as to help me bring Mr Malfoy down to the Hospital Wing?" Harry's eyes seem to almost glow and he smiles widely and happily, he nods quickly and retrieves his wand from Professor McGonagall and casts the levitation charm on Malfoy and follows Poppy quickly from the Great Hall leaving everyone slightly stunned and lost for words.

The only sound that came from the corridors that they were walking down was the sounds of their shoes hitting the cold floor, neither had spoken a word since leaving the hall and yet the silence didn't contain that awkward feeling instead the air around them felt warm, comforting and neither one of them wanted to be the one that broke it, until they reached the Hospital Wing and Harry gently lowered Draco Malfoy onto a cot, avoiding putting him down to roughly and waking him up.

Madam Pomfrey immediately checked over him with a basic diagnostic spell that would tell her about the body's condition both inside and outside his body, only to frown in confusion. According to the spell several ligaments in his arms and legs had been cleanly severed as if by a scalpel and yet there was no wounds on his body to be found. Harry seeing her confusion decides to bite the bullet and trust her.

"I may have told a small white lie to the Headmaster about what I have done to Mr Malfoy, I did hit certain points on his body to disable him but they weren't nerve clusters, I specifically targeted his ligaments in order to take him out of the fight and I also targeted his nervous system so that if by some miracle his magic healed him then he wouldn't be able to control his body, if you will let me Madam Pomfrey I can heal the damage done right away."

Poppy slowly nods her head, her inner Healer and her curiosity getting the better of her wanting to see how this strange boy both dealt the injuries and how he intended to heal them, her eyes widen when his hands start to glow a gentle flowing green and he hovers them over the targeted areas.

"Where did you learn this and to do it wordlessly as well?" Harry dips his head and snorts before raising his head and regaining his focus on his patient, without even looking at her he answers in a happy yet even tone, "Honestly this is practically a requirement back home, you wouldn't believe the amount of stupid injuries that happen whether it's from accidents during sparring or one of my Uncles pranks going wrong or my mother dishing out divine punishment, everyone has a basic knowledge of first aid if only to treat their own wounds to avoid any embarrassment."

Harry smiles gently as he continues to heal Malfoy and Poppy can see that it is entirely genuine, a happy smile that every child should always on their faces, "Me, well I guess that I liked the feeling of helping people ever since I first healed my dad from the first time I injured him in a spar, just that moment when he thanked me and patted me on the back for healing him, his happy smile it made me feel happy as well so I wanted to learn more, at first it was just a childish desire to help and be praised more but when I started to read medical texts and books I just got hooked on them, it was just simply fascinating to me and from there I just couldn't help myself, I read ever medical book I could get my hands on and started to heal more and more at home."

Harry frowns a little but he still smiles as if remembering a rather humorous memory, "Heh I did it often enough that one of my Uncles decided to nickname me "The Little Medic" heh as soon as I heard that I chased him all around the house trying to beat the crap out of him for it, caught him too and gave him a piece of my mind. Heh after I was done with him there wasn't a patch of skin on his body that didn't have a bruise on it, after I vented I just knelt down and started to heal him out of habit and even though he is my most annoying of Uncles I still felt happy to be healing him, after that my Dad sat me down in his study and ask me if I wanted him to teach me everything he knew about healing and he promised that after I had learned everything that he could teach me he would find me a master to learn from if I was still serious about healing."

Poppy can't help but smile warmly throughout his little story, honestly Harry was more like his mother than his father, kind, generous and very caring although Lily never did get into the healing arts she was more focused on Muggle Studies and Arithmancy wanting to make new useful spells or failing that she had wanted to apply for the Muggle Studies position as in her words it was, terribly outdated and almost completely useless as it was. Honestly though Poppy could see a lot of herself in Harry the same drive, the caring that he had for patients, even if she acted annoyed with the students most of the time it was in an effort to get them to avoid doing anything stupid that ended up with them in the Hospital Wing, fact was that she loved kids very much and cared for nearly every student that came through her doors even the annoying ones.

She could see the genuine happiness that Harry had when he was healing Mr Malfoy in fact it was probably the happiest that she seen the boy since he came to Hogwarts even if it had only be been barely a week she could tell that he wasn't the happiest, he seemed to have some kind of burden on his shoulders and his smiles and laughs barely reached his eyes so it was with that in mind that she made an offer.

"Normally Mr Potter I wouldn't even consider letting any student or staff member do any healing in my Hospital Wing but you, you are a happy exception, I see a lot of myself in you I really do so I am going to offer you something that hasn't happened since my old master offered me the same thing years ago in my Sixth Year, whenever you have free time out of classes and you don't have any tests coming up my doors are open for you, you can work here part time as my assistant and if you do well enough then I will consider offering you a formal apprenticeship, is that something that you might be interested in Mr Potter?"

Harry was caught completely off guard, he had never seen this coming, his arms drop to his sides and you literally hear the gears in his mind turning as he processed what she had just said. After his brain rebooted and he finally understood just what she had said, all semblance I remaining calm fled as he wraps his arms round Poppy's waist in a tight hug with a joyful smile on his face and a few tears of joy dripping down his cheeks. Poppy takes a minute to react and hugs him back gently.

Harry pulls away and wipes away his tears still smiling widely, "Thank you Pomfrey-sensei thank you so much." Poppy quirks an eyebrow at the foreign word attached to her name but the tone he used was one of deep respect and gratitude so she decided to ignore it for now, despite herself she finds herself smiling at the boy in front of her, his smile and happiness seemed to be infectious and her heart swelled at seeing him happy. Poppy chuckles a little before adopting her stern look.

"Ok enough of this, be off with you, your first lesson should be starting soon." To her bewilderment his smile doesn't fade and he bows low to her then runs out of the room leaving her a little confused.

The first lesson of the day was Defence against the Dark Arts with Professor Quirrel, at the end of the first lesson Harry was gritting his teeth, from the moment he had entered the classroom all of his fellows started to whisper and point at him, as if that wasn't annoying enough the Professor was a complete dimwit, if by some miracle that you could actually understand just what the hell he was talking about thanks to the fact that the man stuttered just about every word out of his mouth then you would realise that everything that he was saying was complete garbage.

The man spent more time telling tales of his "adventures" to impress the students and yet when anyone questioned how he had done anything he would clam up and start reading straight from the textbook and the smell coming from him was in a word disgusting, Harry had heard some students saying that the Professor had run afoul a vampire coven and it was the reason for his stutter and the smell from his turban as they believed that he stuffed it with garlic to ward off vampires.

What utter garbage for one thing the man was obviously incompetent, if he had pissed off an entire vampire coven then he wouldn't even be here and Harry had been around enough dead bodies to recognise the smell of decay right away. That fact actually generated a feeling of pity from Harry the only reason that smell would be coming from a living being would be if they were slowly dying and their body was beginning to break down so that was probably why he covered his head with a turban to hide the evidence that he was dying but still that wasn't an excuse to purposefully suck at teaching especially in such an important subject.

What was only adding to his irritation however, was the attitude of his friends, since this morning Hermione and Sue Li hadn't kept avoiding him, even when he tried to catch their attention they just shifted their heads, unwilling to even look him in the eye. It was frustrating for him but as much as he could understand why they were acting like that it still hurt him a little inside despite only knowing them for a little more than a week he had begun to trust them both and enjoyed their company.

So to see them avoiding him was hurtful as well as annoying so he decided to give them some space, confronting them right now would only end badly for everyone, they needed time to think and he would give it to them, meanwhile that left him with the uncomfortable reality that he was pretty much on his own during classes until they came around own their own or he knocked some sense into them, whichever came first. The reason for this was that most of the classes that he had were shared by either Gryffindor or Slytherin and almost all of the classes were divided by the Houses unless you willingly partnered up with someone from another house and the only people that he could do that with her Daphne, Tracy, Blaise and Neville.

However he couldn't partner up with any of them as his position was extremely uncomfortable, Harry could guess right away what would happen if he tried to partner up with them until the rumours and whispers faded, if he tried to partner with Neville then two things would happen, either he would be accused of trying to corrupt a lion which would put Neville in a very uncomfortable position as well or it would be assumed that Dumbledore had succeeded in turning him to the "Light".

Neither of those outcomes were favourable at all and the reaction if he partnered up with Daphne or her friends was laughably predictable, it would only cement the "fact" that he was "Dark" so he was effectively left without any friends to count on in classes instead he had to pair with random strangers in his own house, while not a bad thing exactly their stares, whispered curiosity and questions really did nothing to make his mood any better.

Lunch time had come about and his mood had went from extremely good thanks to his new sensei and then it took a nose dive off a cliff, if he had thought the school rumour mill as annoying before now it was downright irritating, he could even walk down the hall without someone pointing at him or whispering behind his back, the only thing that kept him going was the thought of food, he just needed to get something to eat and hopefully some of his good mood would return.

Of course that left him with a dilemma, at Lunch he always sat at the Ravenclaw table with Hermione and Sue Li, he couldn't very do that know and as much as he could tolerate his house mates during lessons there was no way in hell he was sitting at a table with the whole house acting like they had been in class it would drive him mental.

Of course that left the problem with sitting at the Slytherin table, he could only get away with doing that at breakfast because barely any of the teachers or students ever came down to the Great Hall for breakfast at the time he and his friends did, at lunch and dinner however it was a full house so did he dare to sit at the Slytherin table.

Harry mumbles under his breath while standing at the Great Hall doors, "Fuck it" and steps in and head immediately to the Slytherin table, fuck the whispers and fuck the rumours he was not sitting through lunch being uncomfortable.

Walking over the where Daphne, Tracy and Blaise were sitting he eyes the free seat across from Tracy, "Is that the seat free?" The entire Great Hall descended into silence, everyone watching stunned as The-Boy-Who-Lived was asking to sit at the snakes table to their surprise Tracy Davis smiles warmly and shakes nods her head, Harry nods in thanks and sits down his back to the other three tables.

The silence was deafening as the food appeared yet nobody reached for any of it that was when Dumbledore stood up at the Head table.

Every instinct in him was commanding him to question the boy, why was he sitting at the Slytherin table and talking to them as if they were old friends, where did he learn that magic that he had shown off earlier this morning, Albus Dumbledore was a man that was used to knowing everything, nobody kept secrets from him for very long, if he couldn't question the boy in public without losing face then he would have to use more subtle means to do so. For a second he thought about using Legilimency to invade the boys mind and get the answers that way but thought better of it, doing so would make him not better than Tom.

So with that in mind Albus decides to ignore the latest scene from the young Potter and began the feast, although the regular noise filled the room, everyone couldn't help but glance at Harry's direction from time to time.

At the Head table, Dumbledore never looked away from him, his normally twinkling eyes looking like reflective pools as he stared at Harry as if trying to solve a great mystery. McGonagall looked halfway between confused and concerned after every bite of food she would constantly look up at Harry as if to make sure that he was still there. Snape looked like he had been forced to eat the world's largest lemon as he glared daggers at the Potterspawn that dared to sit with his snakes. Quirrel had an odd look of contemplation on his face for once he didn't look like his usual nervous self instead his gaze was as keen as a blade and directed at Harry.

Hermione was constantly looking over Sue Li's shoulder with a worried expression on her face, "Do you think he is alright over there?" Sue Li looks at her mutual friend although the two of them got along well enough it didn't stop her from getting annoyed by the other girl's quirks, her bossy and I-know-everything attitude really got on her nerves at times but she put up with it because she was also friends with Harry and she was simply too shy to tell one her only friends off.

Although she had been shocked by Harry's performance this morning against Malfoy the idea that Harry was "Dark" was laughable, you only had to look at how he acted at the end of the duel to see that and even though he only opened up to her a little she knew that he was "The next coming of Voldemort" as half the population of the school seemed to be spreading around, problem was that she was just too damn shy to say anything.

Hermione on the other hand fully believed Dumbledore's words from this morning that Harry had used Dark magic, she didn't like the fact that one of only friends in the world was using that kind of magic and even though he had explained it away she was still cautious and wary of him. If a great and powerful wizard like Dumbledore called a person out on using Dark magic then it must be true but on the other hand it was Harry that he was talking about her first ever friend, the kind, caring and annoying as well as sarcastic friend so Hermione had decided on a "wait and see" approach and convinced her other friend Sue Li to do the same.

She realised that it was probably a good thing that she had as the entire school seemed to have followed her line of thinking except they acted on it spreading rumours and giving Harry a wide berth in the corridors was about the whole of it but she hadn't missed the hurt look that flashed across his face when she and Sue Li refused to look at him and now he was sitting with the Slytherins.

A thousand possibilities were bouncing around in her head and yet there was absolutely nothing that she could do at the moment, interacting with Harry in the current climate meant being out casted the same as he was at the moment and she refused to go back to the days of Primary school with nothing but books to keep her company she wouldn't be able to cope with that kind of existence now that she knew what having real friends was like.

Harry was doing his best to ignore the glances, stares and sideways looks directed at him and concentrated on his food, honestly he couldn't give two shits what people thought of him right now, his mood had past irritated to stone cold apathetic and withdrawn, heck even the food wasn't enough to bring him out of his slump, his father was upstairs in his room sleeping again, Hebi was out hunting in the Forbidden Forest and Karasu still had yet to return from home yet.

His friends at the table could read his mood quite well, it was obvious that he wasn't in the mood for casual conversations or questions right now so they left him to his food mostly, talking amongst themselves about several different topics like homework and classes, occasionally they would attempt to include him in the conversations and he would smile a little and offer short answers.

It was near the end of lunch when the mail arrived, the hustle and bustle started up as people were fussing over the letters from home when the entire hall went silent yet again. A beautiful singing rang out throughout the hall as a huge bird flies into the hall, pure ruby red in colour with golden tips on the wings and an orange crest on its head, the majestic phoenix lands in front of Harry singing in happiness.

Harry closes his eyes and shudders revealing the in familiar song his grim mood lifted, he smiles happily and strokes the side of the birds head, "Hello Celeste got a letter for me girl?" The female phoenix trills happily and lifts her leg to show the letter attached, Harry takes the letter from her and throws a small piece of bacon up in the air for her to catch and eat, the phoenix runs her head against Harry's a deep sign of affection and then takes flight leaving Harry to happily open his letter from home.

Dear Harry

Everyone here sends you their love and hope that you are fitting in well at your new school, it is perfectly understandable that you might have been too busy but don't make it a habit, your mother worries for you even if she tries to hide it.

As for the things that you mentioned in your letter, well once we actually read about your "Potions Professor" Naruto, Sasuke, Anko and your other teachers had to be restrained from going to your school to teach your professor a lesson. Let us know if the situation persists and we will see if we can help in anyway.

The house has become rather quiet since you left and you presence is dearly missed, Naruto and Sasuke in particular have really missed you, without you to occupy their time they spend most of their days competing against each other in spars. Akeno sends you here love and requests that you send her along any useful spells that you think she would like. Yosuke asked me to tell you to try to keep a cool head and remember his teachings (stupid bossy snowman) your Aunt Seria asked me to pass along a reminder that if you need to speak to her then to talk to your little friend, I assume you know what she means.

As for why Karasu hasn't returned with this letter, your mother is currently using him for several important tasks and he can't be spared at the moment, rest assured though that he will come back to you after he is finished, in the meantime your favourite Aunt is currently training that snowy owl that your mother bought for you as I understand it she is blessing it with more intelligence than any bird should really have and last time I checked she was teaching the damn thing Shakespeare of all things.

I passed along your request to Le Fay and she is actually on the way there, she expects to be at the castle sometime around 9pm and she wants to meet you near the forest you talked about, do try to keep her out of trouble Harry you know what she is like and if anything happened to her I shudder to think of what Arthur would do, also she asked if it were possible for her to meet some of your new friends, I'll leave that decision up to you.

Anyway Anko and Vanessa thank you for remembering them and ask that you send along any interesting finds that you come across honestly they seem to be quite bored and that bears ill for the rest of us so do your Uncle a favour and send something interesting that will keep them both occupied for a while for all our sakes please!

Lastly we all hope that you have a good time at school, relax a bit Harry and have some fun, maybe get a girlfriend haha anyway we eagerly await your next letter.

All our love

Uncle Jeàn and Family

Family Above All

Harry puts down the letter and smiles warmly, the letter was exactly what he needed even if everyone in the entire school turned against him, he wouldn't care so long as he still had his family's love and support.

On the matter of Le Fay she was a troublesome girl, bubbly and full of energy as well as an inquisitive nature that got her into trouble more than once, there was also an attraction to her that you just couldn't ignore it was nothing romantic she just drew people in and made friends with them easily even Harry.

He had first met her through her brother Arthur, that had been when Kiba had decided to add more of a challenge to their regular spars as Harry had quickly learned all of Kiba's strengths and weaknesses leading to no improvement with his swordsmanship so Kiba had called in Arthur to spar with, safe to say Harry got his ass handed to him on a silver platter there was no way he could even make Arthur take him seriously and at the end of it he was covered head to toe in bruises and welts.

It had been Le Fay that patched him up after without magic as a way of learning a lesson of never getting to cocky in your skills, after he had been patched up they both started talking and Le Fay with her forward attitude and bubbly personality smash though all his walls in an instant quickly asserting herself as his best friend in the world, from then on he would spend as much time as he could with the young Magician.

This would be the first time that he had seen her in months as she had returned to the Magicians Association a few months before to turn in her research that she had done from the time that she had been a part of Vali's team when he had been a part of the Khaos Brigade and then later on when she became his Uncle Issei's Contact Magician, it was only a formality to her former master at the Association that she inform him of her status as a Contacted Magician so that he could proclaim her apprenticeship completed making her a Master Magician and thus allowing her onto the Magicians Council if she wanted to attend.

Harry was really looking forward to seeing his long-time friend and the smile on his face said it all, as for her wanting to meet his friends well he had already decided on who to bring, although they had a bit of rocky start and he had to act like cunning bastard to get their respect Blaise, Tracy and Daphne had very quickly become some of his most important friends in the castle so it would only be fair for them to meet Le Fay.

Harry leans over and whispers into Daphne's ear, "Are you and your friends busy tonight?" Daphne looks at him with those cold blue eyes and a slight mischievous smile on her face.

"Oh is the goody goody Ravenclaw asking us out at night? How naughty of you." Harrys face turns bright red as he blushes from the intent behind that little statement and as he was about to vehemently deny that he was intending something like that Daphne surprised him once again by laughing softly.

Her laugh was soft and yet held a musical quality to it that left him stunned, he had never heard that before it was a new experience for him, all the laughter back home was hearty, booming even a little perverted at times, there was nothing like this. It was nice before he realised that he had just been pranked by her, he frowns at her but that only makes her laughter turn to uncontrolled giggling.

Her giggles were infectious because he couldn't hold the frown that he had on his face, he started to laugh as well unreserved and not caring if anyone was looking at them funny. Tracy and Blaise had turned away to laugh as they had been warned that Daphne was going to do that as revenge for something that Harry had done to embarrass her the first time that they had meet and they had to admit his stunned and blushing face was rather humorous. When Daphne started to giggle however they turned round sharply, Daphne never giggled, she laughed coldly without humour in the common room and laughed her usual musical laugh in private with them from time to time but she never giggled.

It took a while for Harry and Daphne to calm down and when they did Harry smiled at her, "Well played Greengrass but I do hope you realise that this means war right?" Daphne grins and her eyes light up with a challenge in them, "Bring it on Potter."

That in turn made Harry grin back at her, he leans in and whispers to her, "Meet me outside the Great Hall tonight at around nine, there is someone I want you to meet, bring Blaise and Tracy if they want to as well." Daphne nods her head still grinning as they return to their food and start to converse between each other and this time Harry joins in every chance he has he thinks, 'Maybe this day isn't so bad after all.'

Later that night outside the Great Hall

"You made it." Harry smiles at his three friends dressed still in fashionable mundane clothes, the smile and nod in greeting, "So who are we meeting this late at night Potter?"

Harry smirks, "You'll see, now follow me they are meeting us close to the Forbidden Forest." The three trust him and follow him out of the castle toward the forest, he leads them to a small opening near the wooden hut, Harry looks up seeing the clear night sky with stars shining brightly and then sees something moving closer to them from above. Harry smiles, "She's here."

"Harrryyyyy-samaaaaaa!" A diving comet of yellow and blue smashes into Harry's gut knocking the wind out of him and sending him sprawling onto the ground much to his friends shock, when the dust clears a petite girl with blonde curly hair and clear blue eyes wearing light blue cape and a female school uniform underneath with a big blue witch hat on her head is hugging Harry's chest and has the biggest smile on her face.

Harry coughs, "Dammit Le Fay how many times have I told you not to do that every time you see me." Le Fay giggles and pouts cutely, "Aww how mean Harry-sama I was just so excited to see to you I couldn't help myself hehe." Harry rolls his eyes.

"Yeah you always say that though." Le Fay gets up and sticks her tongue out at him making him chuckle a little, turning around to see his friends stunned faces Harry laughs, "Ah right I haven't introduced you yet."

Wrapping his arms round Le Fay and rubbing his fist in her hair, "This little spitfire is my best friend Le Fay Pendragon, Le Fay these are my friends Daphne Greengrass, Tracy Davis and Blaise Zambini." Le Fay knocked Harry's hand away from her and fixes her messed up hair while glaring at him before bowing to the three and with a cheeky smile on her face introduces herself.

"Hi nice to meet you, I'm Harry-sama's best friend Le Fay Pendragon descendant of Morgan Le Fay." The three Slytherins blink three times simultaneously and their mouths hang low in shock.