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Yet Another Universe

Chapter 25

Three days later on Halloween, Harry grinned to see his prank on the Headmaster was still going strong. He'd been up to the headmaster's office twice to spike his supply of lemon sherbets under the pretense of reporting his progress. It helped so much that the Headmaster offered the sweets to all who entered his office.

Harry had spent many nights only sleeping a few hours because coming up with a consequence that would only affect those Ravenclaws with the propensity to be a bully was taking a while. He knew he was close, and if things went according to plan starting next week the bullies in Ravenclaw would be easy to pick out. Harry was kind of surprised at how much he was learning this year. He'd always been confused about how his dad had been Head Boy when he was such a consummate prankster. Some of it was no doubt due to Dumbdork's obsession with Gryffindors, the rest was probably due to his father's actions of saving Snape despite their enmity. Harry had to admit though that handcrafting pranks was definitely a challenge and was testing his mettle.

Harry spent his days studying and his evenings practicing his dueling skills, both Flitwick and Severus worked with him. Harry compensated both of them for their time by grading first and second year papers. Severus was pleased to see that some of Lex's remarks were as caustic as his own.

The day of the first quidditch match dawned, Harry was nervous but not overly so. They got to the pitch. As expected the other houses were united against Slytherin with one exception Luna sat with the Slytherins her robes standing out amid the sea of green.

Madam Hooch said "I want a clean game."

Harry wondered why she wasted her breath. He was right. It was probably one of the dirtiest matches ever played at Hogwarts in either universe. Harry was pleased to note that Ron was keeper and calmer than he had been in Harry's universe. Harry wondered if that was because he had grown up without the Boy-Who-Lived overshadowing him. Fred and George were being absolutely vicious with their beater bats and kept him and the Slytherin chasers busy dodging. Harry loosely kept track of the score. Despite the dirty game, the new brooms the Gryffindors rode began to show which team was more technically proficient. When the lions were 130 points in the lead Harry decided he needed to end this before his team was humiliated. Ten points later he spotted the snitch. A few seconds later he successfully captured the snitch. But not before Gryffindor had scored another goal, the stadium was silent as the game ended in a tie. Harry just shrugged as far as he was concerned it was the best possible outcome.

Harry found himself getting up a half an hour early the next morning, so he could throw up from nerves. He planned to start the defense practical that day. He guessed somethings never changed, nerves in front of a crowd was one of them. In one sense he wasn't worried but in another he was. Five minutes early he headed to the defense class room once there he did a breathing exercise to try and relax. At six to his surprise large groups of students filed in . He was surprised to see most of the eligible Gryffindors in addition the the other three houses. He took a deep breath.

"I'm impressed. You all care enough about your grades and your lives to roll out of bed early on a weekend. Congratulations. That said, when you cross that threshold your houses, your families, disappear. I'm teaching this practical because I want you all to live. Outside that door is a hostile world. There are people out there that tell you: believe this, this person is your enemy. Warrington what color is your blood?"

Giving his team mate a puzzled look he answered."Red."

"Hannah Abbot?"

"Red."

"Fred Weasley?"

"Red. What's your point?"

"We're all people, we all get hungry, tired, sad and happy. Wound us, we bleed and contrary to rumor everyone bleeds the same color.

"I want you all to think about something, is it easy or hard to hate someone you regard as being different, inferior, less than human? Maybe instead of listening to others about how differences divide us, we should be listening to each other and finding ways we're the same." Harry watched as thoughtful looks washed over some of the faces of the students. "Unthinking hate is how the magical world got into it's current state. I challenge all of you to think.

"I want to start with expelliarmis, now before a bunch of you protest thats a baby defense spell, I will tell you it is one of the most useful defense spells out there. If your opponent doesn't have his or her wand they'll be hard pressed to throw a spell at you. Besides I want to see if any of you can hit the broadside of a barn with it. Pair off."

"Why should we?" Dale Armitage, Ravenclaw and the Head Boy challenged.

Harry pinched his nose. "Fine. How many of you feel that way?Those that do step forward the rest of you step back to the walls." Harry was pleased it seemed only fifteen students felt the need to challenge his authority. None of them were Slytherins, apparently he had indeed established his bonafides in the snake pit. Then he saw Ron step forward, the git. "All right what I propose is this you sixteen against me using stuptefy, protego, expelliarmus, incarcerous, petrificus totalis, stinging hexes and rictumsempra. May the best man win. Hold on a moment so I can cast some wards." After he finished he looked to Susan. "Susan would you be a dear and start us."

"On three, one, two, three, GO!"

Harry cast a shield then wasting no time he cast expelliarmus and managed to capture three wands at once. He then followed with another expelliarmus and got two more wands. At that point he shifted tactics and started petrifying people. He shook his head because about half the students that were left were trying to fire stunners and most of them were so slow that by the time their spell got off he'd already moved out of the way. The rest... well they would learn their error. Five minutes later he stood alone every other one of his challengers lay on the floor. He paused caught his breath then cancelled the wards. He then did a mass finite. And the sixteen people on the floor got up, and avoided each others eyes. "Okay now that that is over I want to know what you watchers noticed."

Luna raised a hand.

"Yes Luna."

"You only used three spells expelliarmus, petrificus totalis, and protego. You only used the last one once at the beginning the rest of the time you just moved out of the way of the spell. "

"Good. So you sixteen got taken down by first and second year spells. It's not the level of the spell, it's how you use it and if are you accurate. I noticed some of you were trying for humiliation rather than a win. Some of you were throwing and connecting with stinging hexes, stupidity people. Defense is about protecting yourself and taking down your enemy. Come get your wand you sixteen, and all of you pair up."

Harry spent most of the next thirty five minutes going from pair to pair making corrections on grips, motions, and answering questions. Early on Harry noticed that Luna had paired with Hermione and was pleased they were performing well together. He noticed there were only a few minutes left before he intended to dismiss, when he heard the sound of an argument on the other side of the room.

"Granger you are so pathetic go mind your own business."

"Ron, I was just trying to help you."

"Go away Granger, I don't need your help. You're such a poor unfortunate soul alone with no one else to turn to, but a snake."

Harry decided that he would make an example out of Ron. "Mr. Weasley, thank you for volunteering to be my demonstration partner next lesson. I will say this again inside this room everyone is equal. I don't like bullies, and henceforth anyone found bullying anyone else in this class has volunteered to be my partner. Clear?"

The students all seemed to be looking at the floor or the ceiling anywhere but him.

Harry deliberately softened his voice. "I asked are we clear?"

The second time and he got nods.

"Alright. Homework make a list of every spell you know then make a list of every way you can think of that it can be used offensively and defensively. Go clean up and get some breakfast."

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That evening at dinner, a third of the Ravenclaws turned yellow and had vivid red pustules breakout across their foreheads. The next day the pustules had seemingly settled into the word Bully on their foreheads. Madame Pomprey was at a loss to explain the phenomenon, and was unable to break the enchantment.