Chapter 30 -
"I can't believe that Dumbledore let Potter back into school!" Ron hissed as he sat with Hermione and Neville in the Gryffindor common room.
"He didn't get sentenced to any crime so Dumbledore pretty much can't do anything unless Harry breaks a rule" Hemione pointed out.
"I don't think he'd do it even if he could" Neville said.
"What do you mean?" Ron asked.
"I mean that everyone knows that Harry never wanted to come here and everyone knows that he wants to leave and plans to leave the second he completes his fifth year. I think Dumbledore wants Harry here for some reason"
"What reason?" Hermione asked.
"I don't know" Neville shrugged "maybe to keep an eye on him, maybe he needs Harry for something. Either way, we need to work on avoiding Harry, especially you two. You two are the biggest problems here"
"What is that supposed to mean?!" Hermione demanded.
"You both have tempers" Neville raised his hand to interrupt them both "don't argue, you both know it's true. You two have confronted Harry a few times in the past, I know I did a few times but you two have done it far more times than me. Ron, I don't care how angry you get, whenever you get angry remember that Harry is an assassin who could quite easily kill you. And Hermione, stay away from him. It's well known about the one-sided rivalry between the two of you"
"What do you mean?" Hermione asked, not entirely sure what Neville was talking about.
"You're kidding right?" Neville looked at Hermione with disbelief.
"No, I'm not, what are you talking about?"
"Hermione it's well known that you've been constantly trying to do better in class than him for the longest time, it's also well known that he doesn't really care about this little rivalry thing you have going on."
"What do you mean?!"
"Hermione you've been trying to beat the guy in classes for years, it's obvious to everyone with a brain. But the whole thing got rather stale around the end of first year, everyone knows that you're trying to do better while he's trying just to ignore you."
"Oh...well I...hold on...what do you mean everyone knows?!"
"Hermione that's not important, what is important is that Harry is dangerous" Neville gave the stubborn girl the best serious look he could muster "you've seen him. He shoots flames out of his hands and feet and mouth and you saw him kill those 'Libra' guys. Hermione, he didn't even pause, he made sure they were dead then walked off. Is that the kind of guy you want to piss off?"
"No" Hermione shook her head "but Professor Dumbledore could protect us and so can the other teachers"
"And what do you think they can do if Harry sends a cutting curse at your neck when they're not around?" Neville argued "Hermione, this isn't some bully that the teachers can tell off. This is an ex-assassin! Anything they can do won't be enough, especially if they do it after Harry kills you and we all know it won't take him more than a few seconds to do that"
"F...fine" Hermione sighed as she lowered her head "I'll stay away from him"
"Good" Neville nodded "Ron?" He turned to the redhead.
"Fine" Ron nodded "but...I still can't believe he's an assassin, my parents wanted to adopt him! I could've had an assassin living in my house!"
"My gran wanted to adopt him too" Neville reminded Ron "you should've seen the look on my grans face after she found out."
Harry was sat in defence class, Delphi was next to him while Daphne and Tracy were sat behind him. This would be his first class with Alastor Moody, the rumours all said that the man was crazy but brilliant. So Harry was rather curious about how the lesson would go. When Moody entered the class everyone could tell that this was a man who demanded respect and was not afraid to beat it into people. He took the register and paused at Harry's name.
"Ah, Potter" Both of Moody's eyes locked on to him "defeater of dark lords and now you're also a famous assassin, you may need a different learning schedule to the others. We'll see" He continued with the register and a few moments later the class had begun.
"So right to it" Moody said as his magical eye scanned the room "who here can tell me about the unforgivable curses?" A couple of hands were raised.
"Potter" Moody pointed to Harry who had his hand raised.
"The unforgivables are three curses that are banned by the British ministry due to them being dark and deadly curses" Harry answered "some people have argued that the unforgivables could be used in ways to help people, but they forget that the unforgivables require emotion and intent to work. If I fired a killing curse at someone to give them a painless death it wouldn't work because I would be thinking about ending their pain, if I fired a killing curse at my friends then it wouldn't work, if I fired it at someone who was firing the same curse at me then that will work because I would want to kill him."
"You ever use an unforgivable Potter?" Moody asked, his regular eye narrowing, the rest of the class listened with interest, they also appeared to be wondering the same thing.
"Nah" Harry calmly shook his head "too fancy for me" Harry looked straight at Moody, the class then watched as the two engaged in a staring contest for several moments before Moody let out a small laugh and looked away.
"Someone tell me the name of an unforgivable" Moody barked, a few people raised their hands "you" He pointed at Weasley
"W...well..." Weasley stuttered nervously "my dad...told me about one"
"Quit your stuttering and speak boy!" Moody ordered
"Yes sir" Ron nodded then coughed "He told me about the imperius curse"
"Yes, he'd know all about that one" Moody nodded "gave the ministry a lot of grief." Moody walked to his desk, he picked up a box and emptied out a rather ugly looking spider. "The ministry says you're too young to see these curses, I say bollocks to that, you need to know what you're up against. How else will you know what you're dealing with? It's better you learn from me in a class then out there with a dark wizard. Remember, if you want to survive in the real world then you'll need constant vigilance! Imperio!"
Moody fired the curse at the spider, everyone watched with amusement as the spider jumped and danced around the desk, well most people. Neville and Hermione looked very uncomfortable, as did Delphi, Harry looked at the spider with an intense hatred. He hated the imperius curse more than the other unforgivables, pain is bad and so is death, and Harry would take both before allowing himself to become a puppet for anyone.
"Is it funny? Perhaps you'd like it if I did it to you!" Moody snapped and the whole class stopped laughing immediately "Not so funny now is it? Scores of wizards and witches claimed that they did you-know-who's bidding while under the imperius curse, the ministry struggled with trying to work out which ones were faking..." Moody glanced at Malfoy, the implication not missed on anyone "and those who were really under the curse. Complete and total of the victim. Who can name me another one? You boy" He pointed at Neville who had raised his hand.
"The...cruciatus curse sir" Neville answered, his voice a little shaky.
"Ah, a good one" Moody commented, he aimed his wand at the spider and cast the curse. Many in the class winced and felt a bit sick as they watched and listened to the spider shake and scream in pain. Harry wasn't one of them, he was focused on Moody. Harry saw the look in his eyes as he cast the curse, he himself had had that look or at least a similar one a great many times. He had seen it a lot as well, he didn't know much about Moody but at the moment he decided to definitely be cautious around him.
"Stop it!" Hermine shouted "Can't you see you're bothering him?! Stop it!" She screamed, Moody stopped and looked at Neville who was shaking.
"I don't suppose anyone is willing to tell me the next curse?" Moody asked, his voice soft, much different from how he usually spoke. Nobody was willing to answer. "Avada Kedavra!" A green light shot from Moody's wand and hit the spider, it fell on to it's back and died. "The killing curse" He said to the class "instant death, it and the other curses are unlockable, no body has ever survived the killing curse. Well...except one, and he's sitting in this room" Moody looked at Harry, at the same time as the rest of the class. All of a sudden the assassin seemed more terrifying when people remembered that he also survived the killing curse.
Harry sat at the Ravenclaw table with Delphi opposite him, today would be the day that the other two school arrives. Meanwhile he had to deal with people constantly guessing who would be the Hogwarts champion for the tournament, currently most people were betting on either Angelina Johnson from Gryffindor or Cedric Diggory from Hufflepuff. Not that Harry cared either way, as long as the tournament didn't bother him he couldn't care less if Ron Weasley was chosen.
"Bet you can't wait for Fleur to arrive, huh?" Delphi grinned.
"If you think you teasing me about my girlfriend coming here..." Harry started only to get interrupted.
"Hold on, you're girlfriend is coming here?!" Michael Corner blurted out, attracting the attention of the rest of the table.
"Yes" Harry sighed "she is coming here, she goes to Beuaxbaton and should be arriving today"
"Well maybe now we can see if she's as good looking as Delphi says" Terry Boot said to the rest of the Ravenclaws.
"Ah, and here are our students from Beuaxbaton." Dumbledore said, announcing the arrival of the French school. The first to enter was a very large woman, even bigger than Hagrid. Behind her were the Beuaxbaton students, mostly girls with a few boys. The man boys of the hall stared shamelessly at them while the girls glared at the females if they weren't swooning at the boys. Soon the large woman, Madam Maxime, greeted Dumbledore and the students were instructed to sit at the Ravenclaw table. Harry stood up when he saw Fleur.
"Arry!" She smiled and rushed over to him, she wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him into a passionate kiss just as his hands grabbed her waist. This shocked a great many people for a great many reasons.
The Hogwarts boy's glared at Harry when they weren't staring at Fleur with undisguised lust. Many of them couldn't believe how Harry Potter, the assassin with a permanently damaged face, had managed to get the best looking of all the French girls. The Hogwarts's girls breathed a sigh of relief when they realised that Fleur wouldn't be attempting to steal their boyfriends as she had her own, though some felt like they should stay cautious in case she decides to cheat on Harry.
The Beuaxbaton boys and girls had different reactions. The girls were rather surprised as many had thought that Fleur was simply lying about her association with Potter, at least they did until they heard what happened the summer, but nowhere in the French report was it mentioned that Harry was Fleur's girlfriend so many dismissed it as a lie. The boys on the other hand were furious, many of them had been going after Fleur's attention for years, but now they all lost to an English boy with a burnt face.
Hermione looked disapproving at the inappropriate display of public affection, when she first saw the girls she alternated between glaring at them and Ron who went wide and glassy eyed as soon as he saw them. She watched as Ron stopped looking so glassy eyed as he realised that the girl was kissing Harry potter of all people. Though she supposed that Harry's relationship with the girl had likely increased after he injured himself killing a forest full of assassins for her.
McGonagall was also disapproving at the public display of affection, she was rather tempted to punish Harry but she knew better than to do that. The last thing she needed was for Potter to ignore her and disrespect her authority in front of everyone, or do something even worse like insult her in front of everyone. If Harry Potter went off on her in the middle of the hall with one of his infamous verbal beat downs in while both Hogwarts and foreign schools were present then she doubted she could stay in this school and still maintain the same level of respect that she had worked so hard to maintain.
Albus Dumbledore was calculative as he looked at Harry and his girlfriend. The rumours of Harry having a girlfriend had reached his ears before but he could never find the girl, and the only two people who knew about it as far as he knew was Harry himself and Delphi Riddle and he couldn't ask either of them about it. Though he did discover who the girl was during Harry's trial, it appeared that Harry was in a relationship with the daughter of the French minister of magic.
He had been so worried about getting Harry over to the light side, but now it seems like a perfect opportunity had fallen into his lap. It would've been easier if the girl was a Hogwarts student, but he could still work with this. In fact, being the daughter of the French minister of magic meant that he might be able to get the French to support him. This was a golden opportunity, if he played it right then he could gain more support against Voldemort and get Harry to work with him.
"So I take it you missed me?" Harry asked once he and Fleur had finished.
"So much!" Fleur smiled and the took a seat with Fleur's hands wrapped around Harry's arms "oh, hello Delphi" She smiled at Delphi.
"Hey Fleur" Delphi smiled back before turning to the rest of the Ravenclaw table "told you she was good looking" She said with a smirk.
"And now, I am delighted to introduce Drumstrang" Dumbledore gestured to the great hall doors opened and the Drumstrang students walked in with fur coats, they were lead by the headmaster who was supporting a goatee and thought he looked very stylish. Harry thought that he looked like a twat but had no reason to annoy him yet so he kept his opinion to himself.
Harry noticed that many of the Drumstrang teachers glanced in his direction, none of them gave him friendly looks. One of them was Victor Krum, the quidditch star who still attended school, he was glaring at Harry as he walked by. Harry wasn't surprised by it at all.
"It seems like that Drumstrang students do not like you" Fleur noted with a frown.
"They wouldn't" Harry said with a small shake of his head "it's common knowledge now that I joined Libra, Libra while not known in certain parts of the world is widely known in other parts. Over the last few hundred years they assassinated a few very important people in Bulgaria, some good and some bad. That's why the country in general is not very fond of them, so they're not fond of me."
"I am sorry Arry" Fleur said, her head lowered a little "this wouldn't have been revealed if you didn't have to save me"
"It's fine, though I suppose that things aren't too great for you, having an ex-assassin for a boyfriend and all"
"I don't care" Fleur said, as she kissed his head "I love you, no matter how bad your past is"
"You're one of a kind Fleur" Harry smiled, at that moment Shadow chose to enter the room and landed on Harry's shoulder.
"Ah Shadow!" Fleur said happily "How are you?" She asked, Shadow let out a small trill and jumped to her shoulder before giving her a small nudge with his head.
"That means 'good' in case you didn't know" Harry translated.
"That's good" Fleur smiled as she took a small piece of her food and gave it to Shadow who very much appreciated it. Shadow looked at Harry and let out a few more trills before hopping to his shoulder. "What did he say?"
"That's between us" Harry said "though I promise it was good"
"Ladies and gentlemen" Dumbledore said after everyone had finished eating "allow me to introduce our judge for the tri-wizard tournament" Dumbledore gestured to the massive goblet that was brought in and now stood at the front of the hall. "This is the goblet of fire, to enter merely put your name in. However, to any that are wishing to enter this tournament, I must remind you that this isn't a decision to be made lightly. Once your name is chosen, you will have no choice but to compete and see the tournament thought to the end. The placing of your name constitutes a binding, magical contract. There can be no changing your mind once you are made champion. Now I think it's time for bed, goodnight to you all."
"I shall see you tomorrow Arry" Fleur promised.
"You had better, it's nice to finally have an intelligent person to talk with" Harry said and Fleur blushed.
"Hey! What about me?!" Delphi demanded, Harry looked at her for several seconds then turned back to Fleur.
"It's nice to have an intelligent person to talk to" He said, she stood up and placed a small kiss on his lips before she left with the other French students.
"Bye Arry" She called as she left.
"Bye Fleur" Harry called back.
"Okay" Michael Corner said slowly once the French students had left "I'll admit it...she's hot"
"Damn right" Harry said with a smug grin which quickly faded when he saw where they were looking "also the next person who looks at my girlfriends ass will find me burning out their eyes" Those who were looking quickly averted their eyes, they didn't know how serious he was but they thought it was better to not risk pissing off the assassin.
A.N: Hey guys, hope you enjoyed the chapter. Just wanted to say a couple of things. First of all, a few people have been asking about Libra, and I promise that I will be revealing more about them as the story goes on and I will be doing it bit by bit. I mean, it's not like JK Rowling revealed everything at once, in her books she never wrote 'Harry met Quirrel, though he didn't know that Quirrell had Voldemort resting in the back of his head' nor did she write anything along the lines of 'Harry saw a big black dog, though he didn't know that it was actually his innocent godfather who had escaped to find the real betrayer of his parents'.
I don't want to seem like I'm ranting or angry with you guys, a lot of people have been asking and that's fine, brilliant in fact as it makes it sound like you're really interested and I thank you for it. Though I have had a couple of people being a bit rude and demanding with their need to know (holy fuck, has Hermione made an account on here?). They're going have to wait like everyone else. I plan to reveal the information bit by bit. So please just be patient.
Also I just want to thank all the people on this site who have supported me, it doesn't matter if you merely follow the story or give me a review every chapter, I'm just thankful for the support. When i first started fanfic i expected a lot of people to just write reviews telling me I'm shit and telling me to quit but this has now become one of my favourite things. So thank you all of you who are reading, both new and old. And if you don't like my stories then I understand, just don't hate on me and I won't hate on you.
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