A Nice Snake?


'What do you want?' his voice rang out to Malfoy who was standing before him cockily 'Poor little Potter passed out in front of a dementor again, am I hearing the truth Potter?' He Curled his fists as Malfoy and his goons started to mock him as they so often did. Hermione and Ron had gone on a head as he had been held back in Divination because of the Grim in his tea. He didn't really get what the grim was actually about other than a….grim….warning from Hermione and the divination teacher ranting and raving at him madly about how his future looked dark. Harry had hoped that Malfoy would one day get fed up of mocking him but here he was in his 3rd year still mocking him, at this rate he would be getting "Picked" on by Malfoy well into his Seventh year.

Finally deciding to respond he said 'Oh Shut your mouth Malfoy, nobody wants to hear the filth you spill out of it anymore' feeling pretty proud of his fairly calm retaliation when suddenly another blond headed SLytherin passed knocked into his shoulder and he noticed the 4th year Chloe Bourgies turning around to speak to Malfoy before turning to face him and started to laugh at him 'Oh look how pathetic you are Potter, Passing out at the nearest sign or trouble, for the boy-who-lived, you seem like a wuss.' He was ready to storm over to them when another girl in Chloe's year, Alix Kubdel placed a hand on her shoulder, the Hufflepuff standing up to the evil snake bravely saying 'Chloé stop. You're promise' Chloe swiped her ponytail 'oh buzz off Kubdel, my father is the mayor of Paris, you shouldn't even be in 5 feet radius of me' the Pink haired girl sighed giving me a 'sorry Potter, I tried' look before walking away, he didn't blame her, the two in front of them loved flaunting their power.

Suddenly He grabbed his wand and cast 'Experlirramius' fed of the other two and sent the spell towards both of them, before the spell even reached them, chloe had pulled her wand out and cast a shield blocking the spell, Using the chance Chloé had bought them Malfoy brought out his wand and cast 'stupefy' Harry instantly regretted not learning more defensive spells and for not just walking away when he could as the red spell collide with his chest sending him flying back, he was lucky that Malfoy hadn't put much power into the spell otherwise he would have been knocked unconscious by the attack. Malfoy was sneering at him as he slowly stood up, Chloé Bourgies keeping a much more careful glance on him.

He prepared to lift his hand when he felt a warm reassuring hand be placed on his shoulder, he didn't know why but he lowered his wand as the owner of the voice spoke in a warm but chilling voice 'Draco, Chloé, Chloé, souviens-toi que tu me dois. Laissez Potter tranquille.' Finishing what she was saying to Chloé in French. The Blond girl huffed before storming off 'my debt is paid off, Half-Blood. You better watch your back from now on!' Harry twisted his neck around slightly to see Marinette Dupain-Cheng a Slytherin glaring at Malfoy and Chloé, her warm voice then stating 'Malfoy, don't make me contact Professor Snape.' The threat sounded like poison and Malfoy put his hands up, dragged his goons by the ear and left the room.

Turning to face Marinette Dupain-Cheng slight;ly he thanked her briefly before his leg collapsed her him and he fell to the ground, The SLytherin girl helped him up saying 'Mr Potter, I know your defining traits are being heroic and hating "Slimy" Snakes but you were injured fairly bad by Chloé and Draco there. Let me heal your injuries.' He sighed knowing that out of all the slimy snakes in the school she was the least likely to hurt him especially after the events of the Chamber of Secrets where she saved his life from both Tom RIddle and the Basilisk.

He allowed the older student to help him to another classroom and help him sit up on a table. As soon as she put him down she dug into her Bag that she had over her shoulders and pulled out a ladybug designed First aid kit saying 'I'm going to apply some bandages that should help speed up the recovery of the cuts on your legs while I heal the injuries on your arms and legs. He nodded, not really wanting to say much to a Slytherin, even if she was best friends to Alya who was in his house. He gasped in pain as the cold bandages wrapped around what seemed to be extremely deep cuts, in a quiet whisper he said I thought Malfoy just knocked me to the ground with his spell, what the hell happened.' Marinette's eyes widened 'Potter, you were on the ground for over 5 minutes, the only reason I found you was because my friend Adrien noticed what was going on and pointed it out to me.' He had been on the ground for 5 minutes?! Bloody hell it had only felt like seconds to him.

Suddenly Marinette said 'YOu know Potter, you're too easy to rile up, and Draco knows that. Why do you think he constantly attacks you, it's because he knows you bark back at him providing him with a challenge, you need to learn some patience.' he rolled his eyes and said 'That's easy for you to say, you're not the one who had to deal with life and threat situation every year and deal with him on top of that.' She rolled her eyes, her black pigtails knocking against her back 'I live in Paris, which is attacked basically every single day, I know what life and death situations feel like.' he went silent remembering what his uncle had told him about the attacks in Paris which were worse during the summer.

The older girl finished with the bandages and started to remove his upper robe so she could reach his shoulders. 'So Potter, why did you end up taking Divintion, you do know it's a waste of a class right?' he was starting to wonder that himself and winced as she ran her hand over his upper right arm, healing the bruises on them 'Honestly it because I thought it would be a skive, especially because Ron and Hermione were taking it.' she chuckled warmly 'I heard from my friend Alya that the Weasley Twins took it for a week a couple years ago and dropped it to take up Runes. They apparently called it the most useless class in the history of classes.' The Weasley twins took Runes? Speaking up as she healed his shoulder he said 'But by learning the future you can change it to now you want it to go.' she gave a meh face before replying 'Can you though? WHat if the future really is fixed in place and unable to change, what's the point of knowing the future then. If I was you I would go to Professor Mcgonagal and ask to change classes, you're still in third year so it wouldn't be too late if you tried to study.' He went to shrug his shoulders and felt a sharp pain in his shoulder which made Marinette shuckle 'Careful, your injuries aren't fully healed yet; continuing to run her hand over the skin making the bruises and swellings go down.

There was then a loud knock on the door and a mop of blond hair entered followed by green eyes and the whole body of Adrien Agreste who asked 'Mari, just checking to see how you're doing, do you want me to let Professor Sinistra know that you will be late Milady?' Arinette smiled a light blush on her face and replied 'Yes please kitty, tell her I will be along as soon as I finish healing Mr Potters injuries, so in about 10 minutes time' The Blond nodded, a blush appearing on his face as she called him kitty and he left the room, a far cry from the brave hero he had been during the chamber of secrets dep[ite his dad dabbling in the dark arts.

Marinette finished healing the last of his injuries a couple of minutes later and said 'There that should be you all healed up, make sure you don't strain your muscles though and when you remove the bandages on your legs tonight or tomorrow, give the cuts a quick clean and they should finish healing over.' Nodding he said with his lips feeling slightly dry 'Thank you Marinette.' She smiled and said 'Think about what I said about Runes, if you need any help understanding them I could put some time away to help you with them.' smiling back at the one nice Slytherin.


2 Months later

'So this rune means Destruction?' he asked Marinette who nodded 'Correct, now what RUne do you need to use in partnership with the Destruction Rune?' He looked through the drawings of Runes they had around them before picking up a Rune that reminded him of a ladybug and said 'This Rune...the Rune of Luck?' She shook her head 'Close, it's the correct rune but the rune is the rune of creation, luck is a big part of creation but it is not the same. Now the reason you need the two of them together is that one without the other can put magic out of balance which can be dangerous.' Harry nodded scribbling down that face down for the hundredth time, by this time next week he would have it.'

She stretched before taking over her green and silver tie and saying 'Right I think we should leave it here for the night. You've improved massively Harry. Actually I just wanted to mention that Tracey Davies from your year might start joining us next year, she feels like she falling behind in class and wants to improve' he nodded keeping his opinions in check, he knew Davis was a Slytherin but after doing 7 lessons with Marinette he quickly realised that the idea that all Snakes were evil was just wrong.

The Two of them were walking down from the Runes classroom when Marinette suddenly pushed her face to the window and said 'What the Kwami is going on down there?!' HArry moved to the window next to her and saw Ron, Hermione, Adrien and what looked to be the two of them down there. Marinette smiled as Harry asked 'How can we be down there?' She pulled an old hand sand timer out of her bag which only she could open and said 'By going back to the past that's how' spinning the device making the entire world spin. He was so confused.