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Hey guys, so I'm actually pretty proud of this chapter.
To ITwasUP(guest): Take a deep breathe friend, thank you for the politeness, and relax, this goes out to everyone but especially you, please note that they are not golden, but trio. And that Ed will crush all who oppose him, and this trio has opposed him.
The trio followed the professor to the teachers lounge where they saw Elric spread across a couch snoring lightly with papers all over him which surprised the trio because he hadn't given homework or class work in the month that they had him.
"Professor Elric." boomed Mcgonagall.
"Yeah?" He woke with a start and somehow managed to keep all of his papers balanced on him.
"What is the meaning of this?" She asked him
"Meaning of what?" He picked up his papers and made to turn around, "Look I know it looks messy, but I know what i'm doing with- Ah, you mean them." He sighed. "My office or yours?"
"Mine if you please" So the quintet trudged to Mcgonagall's office. And once they got there Mcgonagall sat in her chair, the trio sat on a couch, and another chair was waved into existence for Edward, but when gestured to sit, he said that he preferred to stand.
"So, what's your beef with me?" asked Edward getting straight to the point.
"These three say they were kicked out the class is that true?"
"Not so much kicked out as they didn't make the cut." he muttered.
"Which was a riddle."
"Yeah."
"Why a riddle?"
Edward sighed, "When I was going through my training, My teacher told me to solve the riddle or not study with her, she gave me a month, the same as I gave the children."
"But I bet you had resources! And you told us to not help each other!" cut in Hermione
"I also didn't leave you on an abandoned island did I?" He snarled back thoroughly done with the girl.
"Professor Elric explain yourself" demanded Mcgonagall astonished at what he said.
"Tch, fine," He didn't want to seem too willing to talk about what happened, but he also knew women were terrifying, "My teacher dropped me off on an island with the same riddle and told me if i could survive a month on the island without Alchemy or Magic, and solve the riddle, then and only then would she take me on as her apprentice" He thought it wise not to talk about him not knowing magic or about Alphonse, let them think he was the only brother who knew Alchemy, he knew they might approach his younger brother eventually, so let them think he was harmless, and let them be surprised. As Edward was wrapped up in thinking how his little brother could totally beat up some wizards if the situation called for it, Minerva struggled to process how this man who was a teacher, had survived on an island for a month, why she didn't think one of her N.E.W.T students would be able to do that. Suddenly she remembered her talk with him in the lounge, 'I was self-taught, but then got a teacher' was this the teacher he had spoken about? What kind of woman does that?
"How old were you Edward?" Please let this be recent, in his teens at least.
"Uh ten?" Oh Merlin so young. She felt herself gasp and heard the gasps of the trio beside her. Edward cringed, he had to watch what he said, dammit he was letting too much slip! He cleared his throat.
"This has nothing to do with the current subject!" He proclaimed, "They won't take the class and that is final."
"But why?" whined Hermione
"Because you do not understand the riddle!"
"Why is the riddle so important?" asked Minerva, it was just a riddle.
"Alchemy" he paused, should he say this? Yes, so that they knew what they were dealing with, "Alchemy is a science, it is also very dangerous and if the wrong people study it, so much can go wrong."
"Yes but surely these three won't do anything too bad."
"Are you sure?" His words sliced through the air. "Do you know their souls?"
'I-" Minerva was again shocked, truly he didn't think these three would cause harm?
"There was a man" Edward said his blood boiling, 'Who would kill people just to see them die. Do you know how he killed them? Do you?! He would use their bodies as explosives. And they'd go boom." he clenched his fists. "Another who searched for knowledge, and by doing so killed millions. All it takes, is the wrong person taught, and a little girl gets killed. Do you honestly think I would even consider being the one to commit that mistake!" Edward walked towards the door and had it opened when Harry cried out.
"But I need to defeat Voldemort!" Three people in the room flinched but Edward's resolve only grew.
"Then get the hell up and wake up, I only see a boy when I look at you, use your goddamned legs!" and he stormed out of Minerva's office, Harry dashed after him filled with indignation at being looked down upon.
"Don't call me a boy! You don't know what I've been through!"
"Does your past give you an excuse for the present?" Edward whirled around to face him, and Harry felt as if he were being pinned, x-rayed and stabbed with the intensity of the professor's gaze.
"I have a right to be angry! You don't know what it's like!"
"What is it like then? Go on tell me!"
"One of my friends died last year!"
"What does that have to do with it?"
"My friend died!" Did this man not know sympathy?
"Yeah I got that now ask yourself, do you think they would be proud of the way you're acting now?"
"My parents are dead!"
"Would they be proud?" Elric shot back, clearly this boy wanted pity, his plight was no different from countless others, so many others.
"There's a dark wizard after my head!" Harry was losing steam quickly, he barely registered Mcgonagall and his friend running up to them.
"He's after everyone's head, your point?"
"Everyone expects me to save them."
"When you can't even save yourself?" With that Harry said no more and settled on glaring at the retreating professor's back.
Hey guys, guess who felt slightly angsty. I sorta wanted to insert this later, but it sorta flowed in my opinion. Tell me what you think. As always, favorite, follow and review!
