I Don't Own Harry Potter
It hads been a while later and I had ended up with a decent score from the first task, Dumbledore was highly amused by my show and gave me ten points, the two other heads of the schools weren't all that impressed but still gave me a seven and a four. Crouch gave me an unimpressive look but still gave me a six and Bagman gave me a easy seven, which was a bit more than I figured he would have given me considering that he wasn't much a fan of me apparently, from what I gathered from his color commentary.
So with that I got a total of thirty-four, third place tied with Fleur actually, but I didn't really care all that much, the points don't really matter much to me, and anyone would was watching from a judgement of skill and not action would have seen that I was very impressive when it come to transfiguration so that's something to take into consideration as well of course.
Still, on a side note, Blaise was making a big deal out of how I dealt with the dragon. I think he thinks I'm more mad than he thought because I decided that I didn't want to fight the fucking thing in the first place. Still, doesn't change the fact that he's been bragging about it, even the brokers were much more than I think reasonably happy at my success in the first task but then again I didn't see why they were happy to be honest.
When I explained that it's not like dragons have been the worse thing I've fought, they all just ignored me, like my opinion on the matter didn't count any when in actuality my opinion is the only one that should matter. Though they also were making a big deal from the golden egg and it's clue as well, but I already knew it so I just gave it to them saying I wondered if they could figure it out as well.
I don't think they were expecting that but still took the challenge much more fervently than I thought they would have. I think they've been spending more time on that egg than I have myself. Presonally, I think the brokers are bored, usually the three of them have to be running around and taking in favors or carrying out favors or lodging and focusing on our stock of items.
But because everything was in place already, and because my system is so well known now, the work load is a lot less nowadays. They've even started complaining about how this must be how I feel all the time, which is fair boredom horrible. So with a task in hand, and something that made them all feel a bit more important, as it was a part of the tournament itself, they jumped into looking into it, and will probably go deaf in a week at this rate.
On a side note, I've learned mermish, it wasn't that hard to convince a merfolk to give me some blood and a few rituals later I can make a piercing screeching sounding words what actually mean something so that's neat. I've made it a hobby actually to go around and collect languages recently, I don't really know why but I've always really enjoyed the idea of learning another language but could never really get it down.
I know good couple dozen phrases and words in more than a few languages before I came to this universe but I never really was able to get it down well enough to even be considered conversational at best. So being able to speak and read almost a dozen languages is pretty fun to be honest. On a side note, after a couple long conversations and a lot of bribing, I convinced a student from both Drumstrang and Beauxbaton to give me some blood, so I can now speak both French and Bulgarian now, which is neat.
I was in the kitchen at the moment and Hermione was also there as well for some reason while practically dragging Ron and Harry with her. Looking up at the three while taking a bite out of the sandwich I had just been given by Nitwin. He seemed to have taken a shine to me since first year, I have very own Dobby just not as insane, isn't that neat.
"Hello, I wasn't expecting anyone to be here" I really wasn't, I was only here because I had missed dinner because I was busy looking into and finishing the runic design for my curse locator item, I was going to use a ring as the base but all that was besides the point as Hermione looked at me like something had just crossed her mind.
"Kyu! You're a muggleborn as well right?" I blinked for a long second wondering what that had to do with anything. After a moment I figured I was to tired to figure it out with my foreknowledge and instead just answered simply with.
"Yeah, born and raised...probably, I never actually checked" The reminder of my status as an orphan seemed to go over everyone's head while I thought about it wondering where I would have to go to get a DNA test, or at least the magical version of one, it was probably not worth it, as I highly doubt I have any magical family out there, nor did I particularly care.
"Then you must understand why the treatment of house-elves is wrong!" Oh, this is that whole thing with SPEW, I nearly forgot about that. Anyway, from the look she was giving me, I think she thinks she'll find support in me, which is interesting as last year she's spent the most time with me out of the three lions I stay in touch with and as such, she most certainly has warmed up to me a good bit, but has also learned that I am in fact no where near a good person.
"I don't really care actually, they seem happy and I'm happy when they bring me stuff so win-win in my opinion" I noted that Ron had elbowed Harry and muttered something while Hermione looked annoyed at me, I just tilted my head at her like I wasn't understanding where she was coming from and after a moment she continued on.
"But how can you say that! They're only happy because they don't know any better! Are you really fine with abusing that just to make yourself happier?!" I thought about it and then decided that giving my honest answer wouldn't be a good idea in this situation so instead I just deflected and said.
"They aren't being mistreated, at least the ones here, besides they just started giving me stuff to be honest, I think Blaise had something to do with it but considering Nitwin, that one over there, often tells me I'm his 'favorite number' I just think they like this just fine" I could see the confusion on all of them at that last part and so when Harry asked about it I just answered simply.
"My name... Kyu in Japanese is the number nine, a bit fucked isn't it, I think it's because I was the ninth kid to be kick to the curb in a week without a name and the matron couldn't be bothered to be clever so she named me after a number" Honestly I have no idea how the elves even know that themselves but I just decided to not put to much thought into it. Though I noted they all seemed a bit uncertain about what to do with that false information, well semi false, that is what my name means but the story was complete bullshit, so I just continued on for them and said.
"By the way Harry. Have you figured out your egg yet?" Hermione looked like she wanted to say something to the fact that I was helping Harry out when I wasn't suppose to but Harry cut her off before she could as he stepped forwards and said.
"No, not yet" I just nodded and put on a look like I was thinking for a moment before shrugging and said.
"Dunk it in some water" He seemed to not understand what that meant but nodded nonetheless while Hermione both looked confused at my advice and interested in what that means. Still, with that, I picked up my sandwich up once more and told the three of them while making my way past the trio to the door.
"Well, I have stuff to finish doing so I'll talk to you lot later then" I got some goodbyes and with that I left with some food in hand while I headed back towards my common room.
I idly twisted the ring on my right ring finger, not yet use to the weight of it on my hand, but still more than glad that this project was finally done. It was a simple ring made of sliver with some minor adjustments, like across the middle of the sliver band was a golden ring that had a large amount of tiny inscribed runes carved into the surface. The sliver of the band itself also had some light runic carvings as well though not near as many, sliver isn't as conductive as gold, at least when it comes to magical property interestingly enough.
After some light testing with me cursing a couple items and comparing the rings reaction to them and some none cursed item, I knew it worked well enough though this is probably be the last of the testing so I really hope I made this right, otherwise death is probably intimate and I won't get a second chance to fix my mistakes. The reason why thoughts were on that was because at the moment I was looking down at the book on soul magic.
Twisting the ring once more, this time in a particular way, pushing the golden ring up. I watched as the golden part seemed to glow as the dozens of runes and enchantments on the ring worked as I reached out with the palm of my ringed hand over the cover. After a couple long moments the sliver on the ring seemed to start to glow as well as the runes flared a dark red color, which from my self made color coding system which was the same as a stoplight meant that there was even more curses on it.
That was quite annoying, the first curse took a long while to work out and even then I still knew what curse it was so I knew what I would have to learn to cleanse it, but that one ritual only worked for the one curse and didn't do anything for the rest of them. I thought about glaring down at the book but decided that it wasn't worth the effort as instead I just sighed and put it down while picking up a book on unusual ritual components.
After all, I now have to figure out what is needed for me to make another ritual to identify what curse or curses are still placed on the book. I really wished this could have been a lot easier. Still, since when has my life been any at all easy since I got here. So with that, I stopped complaining to myself and got to work as I reread through the book to see what would most likely be needed, I already had a few things in mind.
Though of course that all depends on the reactive property of some curses iron I'll have to use to guide the ritual for it to know what to find for me. After all, I have to make sure that the ritual doesn't attack that curse instead of the ones on the book, that would just be counterproductive.
I looked at Snape, who was looking back at me, both of us had the same expression on our faces, annoyance at the other was at an all time high at the moment as I continued on.
"I would rather jump off a bridge then go to a ball with a date, muchless dance with them" I said the last bit like the idea was so disgusting that I really would rather jump off a bridge, because I really did think that. Dancing isn't something I'm all that good with, especially with a partner, all that touching, it's horrible. Not to mention the idea of having to take a under aged teen on a date, well, that might even be worse to be honest. Still Snape was having none of it.
"You have to attend Malo, it's a tradition, if you do not you will be disqualified and the magical contract will be enforced" I glared at the man as he played that card and watched with pleasure as he had to smooth out his face to not show any reaction to my anger, which was a reaction all the same. Still, after a long moment I just sighed and said.
"I'm not dancing, end of story" He glared at me now but I didn't even bother to react to it, instead I just held m ground and waited for him to say something clever to try and convince me, instead of doing that he just said.
"And why not?" I thought about it and then promptly shook my head at the image in my head, all of it was quite disturbing, well for me at least, I'm sure most would find it all most normal actually.
"All that touching, which you know I'm highly appose to" He looked at me like I was being a baby so I just decided to say fuck it and gave him a reason that I knew he would support instead.
"Ok then, how about this, are you sure you want a barely stable sociopath, that has extreme touch aversion, with a long streak of violent tendencies to be in close contact with a large amount of children when he is dancing with someone" That got Snape's attention as he looked at me and I looked right back with a look of contempt at him. After a long moment he just glared before saying in a haughty voice.
"Fine...I'll raise your...'point' with the headmaster, but you will be attending correct?" Of course he focuses on the part that he managed to score, bastard, still I just nodded and with that he sweeped out of the common room. I watched as he left for a moment before sighing to myself as I thought about it for a long moment when Blaise dropped down into his seat next to me with a lot of high amusement on his face as he asked.
"So who are you going to ask then?" I looked at him for a long moment before dropping my head back against the head rest of my seat and got my emotions under control, honestly I knew this was going to happen, and I really should have expected that I wouldn't be able to get out of it completely, but at least I on't have to dance which is something.
"Well, I'm most comfortable with you out of everyone I knew, but you aren't gay and will more than likely be asking Daphne so that's out of the question" I mostly said it to enjoy the sputter he let out at my blunt answer, it made me feel a bit better to watch his reaction to my teasing but that doesn't mean my choice was any easier for me, in fact that just made it more difficult. After a long moment he seemed to get control of himself to try and make a scathing remark back.
"Wow, I never knew, I'm flattered, really" If it wasn't for the fact that he's glaring was interrupting his sarcasm it would have worked better, I just huffed out a laughed at that and said.
"Oh don't be, it's not like I'm one for crushes or love itself really, unlike some people I know. Speaking of which, how are you planning on asking Daphne to the ball?" I put that last part in there because Blaise had looked at me with something akin to pity at my statement, reminding him that in his eyes I can't even feel love. I mostly did it because I really hate pity, it annoys me also as much as boredom.
"I don't actually know. I would ask for advice but I have a feeling you wouldn't be all that helpful" I put a hand up to my chest like I was offended at that but didn't even both to look it, to which Blaise just laughed at that. Good, we are now off the subject now, though while I'm actually not interested in the slightest about Blaise's love affairs I did feel the need to say.
"Well, good luck with that, I will be wondering how to blackmail someone into going with me" Blaise gave me a look at that, I just watched it, not really knowing what it was about, really I had said that to try to get another laugh out of him but it would seem that he was taking it seriously, I wonder why.
"Really? Why do you think you'd have to blackmail someone? If anything girls would be lining up" I just raised an eyebrow at him and he seemed to understand that his word choice didn't exactly work for me but before he could course correct I just said.
"I would assume that the fact that about a quarter of the school population is terrified, and another is under my command and as such probably also terrified of me is reason enough, champion or not be damned" He seemed to blink to himself before humming like he didn't think of that for a brief moment before shrugging to himself and said.
"Eh, it still shouldn't be to much of a problem, just ask someone from the two other schools that don't know you're a horrifying taskmaster that controls most of the school's population" Huh, that's not actually a bad idea, of course I'd still rather not have to do this in general but if push comes to shove I should be able to get someone to go with me, though I should probably make it clear I'll be a bad date, it would be annoying if some teenager nags at me for a full night for not paying them any attention.
"I guess I'll have to do that then, well I guess I'll find out sooner or later if your words are true" Blaise just hummed, I, in turn, just held back a yawn, I've noticed I've been yawning to often recently, it's a show that I'm not sleeping near as much as I should which is just normal for me but it's beginning to annoy me at this point so I've taken to break the habit. Though that might not be healthy as yawning actually is important to keeping the body's oxygen levels up, at least I think that's what it's for, I remember reading something on it a while ago.
And with that the conversation seemed to slip away from the two of us as we continued on working on our personal works. Blaise seemed to be writing about the effect differences that come from using the same plant in the same potion but was called by a different name the second time around. I didn't find the subject all that interesting but he did so good for him.
I on the other hand was spending my time not writing anything down but was instead just thinking and brainstorming over some ideas that wouldn't leave me alone. I was spending most of my time nowadays testing reactivity rituals to work out how to counter curse the book. I swear by the end of this I'm going to have the same level of skill as a proper curse-breaker and if not I call bullshit because this has been a bigger task than that artifact trial run from last year.
By the way, it did in fact explode over the summer, the casing I put it in was originally shaped in a square, and it was now a circle, but it did hold and that's good enough for me. It would be a shame if I destroyed the Chamber of Secrets with a handbag, anyway, back onto topic, the person who cursed the book I swear must have been a Dark Lord at some point to manage the shit they crammed into the book.
It's been a few weeks and so far I've gotten past four more fucking curses, each all leading to a very painful or very slow death, usually both, and my ring still glowed bright enough that I'm sure it would have burned my finger if it wasn't for the fact that it turned cold instead of hot when a curse is being scanned. But at the very least I am making progress which is better than nothing, but I swear I'm going to be an expert at this shit before the year is out I just know it.
"So have you figured out who you're going to take then Kyu?" I looked up at Theo, who was sitting across from me at my table in the library, he had showed up a while ago and every now and again asked for some advice on his Transfiguration spell work, though even after I had answered his questions he seemed to have stuck around at any rate and I didn't really care enough to say anything. In fact I thought it was nice to spend some time with one of my brokers as I haven't seen them as much since the start of the year, since the three of them seemed to be obsessed with the egg.
"Nope, Blaise seems to think I should ask someone from the other schools as they probably are scared of me yet" Theo snorted at that, clearly amused at the statement before responding.
"Well give it some time, I'm sure they come around to see how terrifying you are" Theo's always like to poke fun at the fact that I'm me, his words not mine. I didn't really mind, in fact I thought they were pretty funny usually, so I just huffed and continued on.
"I'm sure, I have a reputation to up hold after all" He nodded like this made great sense, though after a moment the conversation tuned back down some more, though I noted that he was fidgety at the moment, so I just looked up and away from the runic pentagram I was making as a overkill on the homework assignment I had gotten yesterday and asked him.
"Any reason why you're curious about my love life?" He looked up to meet my eyes and I noted that he seemed a bit embarrassed about something, which I thought was a little weird as he's usually to easy going to be embarrassed.
"I kind of can't find anyone to go with me. I thought about asking Tracey but she's going with some bloke from Beauxbatons so that's out. And I know that the likelihood of you going with someone you actually like is practically zero, sorry to say mate but I doubt love is your thing, so I figured I thought we could go together as friends" I blinked as I very clearly hadn't expected this as I looked at him for a long moment before shrugging and said.
"Sure, makes my life easier, though you should know that it's going to make some eyebrows raise I'm sure" It actually was pretty convenient to be honest, doesn't change the fact that I wasn't expecting this to be his point of conversation. He just nodded like he was more glad I hadn't made some scathing remark than that problem as he just said instead.
"Good, thanks mate, I didn't really want to go with anyone but I have to have a 'date' if I'm staying here this year and I knew you wouldn't get any mixed signals. As for the eyebrows, well I don't really care, you're the one in the spotlight, are you fine with letting say the Daily Prophet make some statements about you going with a guy?" He genuinely looked like such a thing was that big of a deal so I just snorted and replied.
"Well they wouldn't be wrong at any rate, might as well get any of that out of the way now before when all the focus is mostly on Harry" He looked at me like that was the last thing he was expecting me to say. Well I guess that's fair, my sexuality is hardly something that comes up in daily conversation, really the only reason why Blaise is aware of it is because his mother is relentless on teasing him and I thought it was funny enough to join in.
"Huh, I kind of always assumed that you were asexual" I blinked at that, as the table and been turned sort of as that wasn't really what I had been expecting him to say either. Though I guess it does make some sense, 'sociopath' with a hate of being touched would leave one to assume as much. The only reason why that wasn't actually true was because I'm not a sociopath.
"Just because I'm not interested in relationships doesn't mean I'm incapable of one" He seemed to want to say something to that but instead just laughed like I had made a funny joke before going back to his book, this time not fidgeting near as much or at any in fact. Though after a moment he did break the silence again, this time with something else on his mind.
"So what's the fifth magical property of animal transfiguration again?"
Neat chapter I guess, personally I found it pretty fun to annoy Kyu to hell with his forced participation for the Yule Ball, even though I know I would have the exact same reaction in his shoes. And that's because, and I'm sure this is going to be a shock, I'm a bit sadistic. I don't particularly enjoy causing pain but I do find it highly amusing to fuck with people and do find it pretty satisfying on a bad day to punch someone in the face. Anyway, I don't think I really have anything else to add here so. See ya.
