Chapter 10
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Snape's Plot
Harry could not understand what's going on with Ron, he and Hermione got along with Tracey and Daphne pretty well lately, but Ron tried to avoid them.
He recited the words that Ron said to him during his first time on Hogwarts Express.
But imagine if they put me in Slytherin.
Harry couldn't blame him for saying that, since Snape's favoring attitude towards Slytherin students, and his biased attitude towards other houses.
But how can it be now? Snape is not in school anymore, and the new Head of Slytherin would have done better.
He hoped to try and talk to Tracey and Daphne later.
As he was thinking, he was cornered by Ron.
"What's on your mind?" he asked Harry.
"What are you talking about?" asked Harry.
"You seemed to be thinking of something," said Ron.
"Now you've mentioned it, why were you shunning Tracey and Daphne?" asked Harry.
"They are from Slytherin," said Ron simply.
"Did they even ask you to get away from other people?" asked Harry.
Ron shook his head.
"I just don't understand, why did you choose to stay away from my family?" he asked.
"I want a quiet life," said Harry.
"I didn't say that you have to go back to the Dursleys," said Ron.
"Well, what's wrong with staying with a Muggle Born witch?" asked Harry. "Do you think I like being famous for surviving a Killing Curse, that Tom Riddle cannot kill me?"
"Who is Tom Riddle?" asked Ron. "Do you mean You-Know-Who?"
Harry nodded.
Ron said nothing, and he turned away.
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Meanwhile, the Dursleys were hearing a lot of people knocking their front door, but when Vernon reached the door to open it, he found no one waiting.
It happened constantly from day to day, until one month later.
Petunia felt bad.
She didn't understand why this have happened, although she was aware of the fact that such things have happened during the previous year.
After everything is settled, I shall settle too. She thought.
Nevertheless, the incidents that have happened before happened again.
One day, when Vernon, Petunia and Dudley went back home from the supermarket, they saw a lot of rubbish around their house, and when Petunia opened the front door, a cat entered the house, and refused to get out no matter how she commanded it to. It ran and jumped everywhere without stopping, until it get exhausted, Petunia got it out.
While Vernon is cooking, a bunch of naughty kids started to throw rocks everywhere around the house, some of the rocks hit the bedroom window, and the glass that was hit was cracked.
At night, when the Dursleys were about to sleep, they heard a lot of audible noises.
A noise that sounded like an alarm clock started to beep continuously at twelve o'clock in the morning.
"What noise is that?" asked Petunia.
"I don't know," said Vernon. "I did not set up any alarm clock."
Little did they know that it was James and Lily's plan.
/Scene Break/
Severus Snape, meanwhile, has got himself a position in a Dark Magic school as the Dark Arts teacher. He joined with the Dark side, plotting to fight Hogwarts one day.
"The plan would be simple," he said to one of his staff members. "If the Dark Lord does not return within the next two years, we will attack Hogwarts ourselves."
"Well, as far as it goes," said Professor Eli Bursnell, the Deputy Headmaster. "I don't think anyone at Hogwarts would stand a chance if we are going to attack it."
"We may still be able to try before the Dark Lord comes back," said Professor Kane Gaspar, the Headmaster.
"When are we going to attack Hogwarts?" asked Professor Bursnell.
"Not this year at least," said Snape.
"Next year?" asked Professor Gaspar.
"Maybe the year after next year," said Snape. "It all depends."
"We don't have to wait until the Dark Lord comes back," said Professor Gaspar.
"But the Dark Lord only wants Harry Potter," said Snape. "If any of us kills Harry Potter, he may not be pleased with us if he returns. I have already tolerated Hogwarts students long enough, and the Dark Lord will not be pleased with this if he knows I left Hogwarts."
"Why did you leave Hogwarts?" asked Professor Bursnell.
"I hate the majority of the students in Hogwarts," said Snape.
"Why do you hate them?" asked Professor Bursnell.
"I have had a very unhappy childhood," said Snape. "My father disliked me, and he often fought with my mother. I was neglected by them. When I went to Hogwarts, no one really liked me. Only Lily was my equal. Apart from her, I've got most of the Slytherins on my side."
"So that's why you want to join the Dark side?" asked Professor Bursnell.
"Yes," said Snape. "That's also leads to the reason that I disliked every student at Hogwarts except for the Slytherins. I have been pretending to act like a spy for the Dark Lord, but I was actually a spy for Dumbledore. Not this time, though."
"Similar things have happened in my childhood, actually," said Professor Bursnell. "I was also raised like that. My father was very cruel to me, and my mother died when I was only five years old. I was attending Dumstrang, and I had almost no friends."
"I see," said Snape. "That's the reason you joined this school."
Professor Bursnell nodded.
"I also had a very bad childhood," said Professor Gaspar. "My father was acting like a gangster, and he got killed. My mother was a witch, and she taught me Dark magic."
"Really?" asked Snape.
"I was attending Drumstrang as well," said Professor Gaspar. "I was friend with Eli when he came to school, he is two years younger than me."
"We can set up a plan to attack Hogwarts," said Professor Bursnell. "The earlier the better."
"Right," said Snape.
/Scene Break/
Soon, Christmas holiday started. The Weasley's family was going back home, this cheered Harry up a bit, since he and Hermione were both staying at school.
Dumbledore has seen Harry and Hermione being together for a long time, he felt something wrong.
He had previously set up the plan of keeping Harry under his control by letting the Weasleys take care of him, and making excuses that Harry should be living with a wizarding family, but seeing Harry's emotion, he frowned.
Why is Harry so happy, and why did he spend so much time with Hermione Granger?
He went back to his office, and he checked his silver instruments, and it showed that the wards had not collapsed, that basically means Harry was still living with the Dursleys.
He has absolutely no idea that James and Lily have set up a plan to counter his, and he has no idea that the wards he have set up has already been faked, the magic that he have never realized, the Metaphysical Magic.
However, he was determined to find out what have happened.
During Christmas Eve, Harry met his parents again in his sleep.
"Harry," said Lily. "You better watch out now, it looks like Dumbledore is trying to find out what have happened to you. Stay on guard."
"Do you have any idea what he is planning?" asked Harry.
"Yes," said James. "I am afraid that this time, he might try and snatch you back to his control, so you better watch out for yourself. Currently he didn't know that you have escaped from the Dursleys, but he realized that you and Hermione were too close to each other, and you were not really getting along with the Weasleys family, plus you are really happy with yourself, this had really caused his plan to become ineffective. The good news remains that he couldn't read your mind at the moment, so this is an advantage for us to continue our plan without disruption."
"What did he expect?" asked Harry.
"He expected to see you not as happy as you are now," said Lily. "He was trying to direct you to get rid of Voldemort, but you will not need his advice when you are facing Voldemort, you need our advice."
"You mean Metaphysical Magic?" asked Harry.
"Yes," said Lily.
"Can I use Metaphysical Magic now?" asked Harry.
"Not now, my son. No ordinary wizards or witches can use this magic, unless if people who lives beyond death has enabled them to," said Lily. "When the time comes, I will enable you to use Metaphysical Magic for some time, enough time for you to face or get rid of Voldemort."
"What would happen if other people question about how I got rid of Voldemort?" asked Harry.
"Well," said Lily. "If you tell them, it would make them feel shocked, because such magic is too liberal, and they might think someone is going to use this magic to attack them one day, although they have no reason to blame or punish you. This magic is not approved by the Ministry. It is not outlawed, at least not yet, but the Ministry may outlaw this magic after they discovered that you used it, and they will still be worried after that since they feared that dead people may still use it to do terrible things in this world, and they cannot do anything to them."
"Are you telling me that it is best not to tell anyone about this magic?" asked Harry.
"That's right," said Lily. "I will also enable Hermione to use this magic when the time comes. However, I can also cause others to not ask you about how you have got rid of Voldemort, so it will not cause impact to the Wizarding world."
/Scene Break/
On Christmas morning, Harry received a hand knitted jumper from Molly Weasley, and he received a book from Hermione which contains a lot of complex spells.
After breakfast, Harry and Hermione bursted into a conversation.
"You met your parents again, Harry?" asked Hermione.
"Yes," said Harry. "Last night."
Then he went on and told Hermione everything that his parents have told him.
"Unbelievable," said Hermione.
/Scene Break/
The Great Hall looked magnificent. A Christmas tree was behind the Gryffindor table, and the table was platefuls of food, and delicious smells were filling their nostrils.
As Harry and Hermione were helping themselves, Lavender sat down beside Harry. A moment later, Dean arrived and sat down next to Lavender.
"Are you all right, Lavender?" he asked.
"I am fine right now," said Lavender. "I need to work a bit harder on my Divination homework."
"Maybe I can help you out," said Dean.
After the Christmas dinner, Harry and Hermione went back to the common room.
"Good night Harry," said Hermione.
"Good night Hermione," said Harry.
/Scene Break/
Meanwhile, at the Dursleys, Dudley was fiddling with the presents under the Christmas tree.
He have hoped that this Christmas will be better than the previous one, since the presents that was there were addressed to his friends.
Just then, the telephone rang.
Petunia went and took the receiver, and said: "Hello, Petunia Dursley speaking."
After that, however, unexpected answer started to shout back.
"You bastard, reckless idiot, filthy, slimy, oily twat, unspeakable scum!"
"What are you saying?" asked Petunia.
"You bloody foul, effing moron, freaky git!"
Petunia put down the telephone, and ran to the room, and Vernon nearly knocked into her.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"I just received a telephone call, and the person who called me started to say bad language," said Petunia.
"I never had such things happening in Christmas before," said Vernon. "Do you know who that is?"
"I have no idea," said Petunia. "Perhaps we should forget about answering the telephone."
"What if there is something important happening?" asked Vernon.
Petunia hesitated for a solid two minutes at the question.
After the guests arrived, there was another telephone call.
Vernon went and picked it up.
"Vernon Dursley speaking."
"You filthy, slimy anus, effing jerk, biggest prat in the whole country!"
"Shut up!" Vernon roared.
"You lardass homodumbshit crap!"
Vernon put the telephone down, he looked both angry, and annoyed.
"What happened?" asked Dudley.
"Some people have just shouted some bad words at me," said Vernon.
However, in the evening, after Christmas dinner, the guests started to fight each other violently for no reason. Their parents have to take them home for that.
Dudley was crying.
"Maybe you should stop being friends with these people, Dudley," said Petunia.
Dudley nodded, as he couldn't find any other solutions.
A/N: In the book of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry had his broomstick broken, in this story, this didn't happen.
A/N2: Sirius sent Harry a Firebolt for Christmas in the books, in this story, he didn't. Also in this story, Harry did not learn the Patronus Charm. There are other methods of driving the Dementors away.
A/N3: There are bad languages involved in this chapter, and there will be more in the future chapters, however, these are part of James and Lily's plan, it will be used on the Dursleys, and sometimes Dudley's friends, maybe.