The days passed and finally, it was time to head onto the train and travel to the school once more. Everyone was in a rush long after Harry was fully ready to go. He had his now pure fire red Hair pulled back into a small tail as he watched people double and triple checking that they had everything while he smirked.
It took some time but finally, they made it to the station and onto the platform for the Hogwarts express. Harry waved to his two friends who had to head for the prefect compartment then started to hunt for a compartment he could sit in. Harry sighed finding it very hard to find a compartment where he wouldn't be bothered for one reason or another. In fact, many of the students stared at him in pure shock when they saw him. He wanted to laugh because he knew deep down that the changes in him were not yet finished.
He kept walking down the aisle easily carrying his trunk with him. He remembered struggling with it even the previous year but now it was as easy to carry as a feather. He paused at a few more doors and huffed in irritation not finding one to sit in yet. He paused at the next open door and glanced in it to see a young blond girl with a bottlecap necklace and Neville sitting together.
"Hey Neville, how was your summer?" Harry asked as he placed his trunk up on the rack above the seats. Neville jumped at stared at Harry startled by how he looked and frowned a bit.
"Do I know you?" Neville asked as Luna looked up and watched as Harry sat down next to Neville but across from her.
"It's me, Harry. Yeah I know I have seriously changed over the summer." Harry stated with a shrug. Luna smiled a bit as Harry looked at her and frowned a bit. Something about her seemed so familiar.
"I'm Luna, and it is so nice to see you without the evil eyes this time." Luna stated. Harry stiffened and blinked several times staring at her as her words echoed through him.
"What are you talking about Luna?" Neville asked as Luna gave him a soft smile. Harry shifted and shook his head then shrugged to Neville having no idea.
"It is a pleasure to meet you Luna. Though why the mention of evil eyes?" Harry asked leaning forward as the train began to move. Luna just smiled at Harry and tapped his forehead lightly.
"Because the taint is barely touching you this time around." Luna stated and leaned back a bit into her seat. Harry sighed and shook his head then glanced over at Neville a question in his eyes.
"Luna is considered crazy by a lot of our schoolmates." Neville answered Harry's unasked question. Luna looked again at Harry and nodded a moment with a soft smile. Harry kept glancing at Luna over and over. Something about her seemed off. He frowned and examined her then blinked a few times finally seeing the most out of place thing.
"Luna why are your ears pointed?" Harry asked staring at the ears he had noticed. Luna blinked and lifted her right hand up to brush her hair back over her ears and Harry reached out suddenly grabbing her hand. He gently pulled it towards him tipping her hand so he could clearly see the back of her hand. Just as he started to get a clear look at the back of her hand the door to the compartment slammed open pulling his attention away from Luna.
Standing in the open doorway was Draco and Harry snarled at him as the boy looked around the compartment and stiffened seeing Harry across from Luna. Without thought, Draco suddenly moved between the two and reached over his shoulder with his left hand as though to draw a weapon that was not there. Harry snarled and stood ignoring the shock that ran through him at the sheer size difference between the two of them.
"Malfoy you are not wanted here. I am having a nice conversation with a new friend." Harry said as he moved one hand over to Draco and gently pushed him back out of the compartment before slamming the door in the other boys face. Harry slowly sat back onto the bench he had been on before Draco had entered.
"Luna, may I see your hand?" Harry requested wanting to see if he had seen what he thought before but figured being polite would be better now. Really what had taken him wanting to reach out and just grab Luna's hand like that. He heard Luna start to laugh the sound soft and tinkling like a bell.
"Not yet Harry. It's not time yet." She stated causing him to frown anew his entire face falling into a scowl, as the door slammed open again and Draco spins to face Harry.
"How dare you push me out you brute. I am the Heir of House Malfoy, do you know what that means?" Draco snapped at Harry. Harry looked at Draco as he sat then sighed and rolled his eyes. Harry stood and moved right in front of Draco his face in a pure scowl.
"Mohshirrai Hyliian Voe." Harry snarled as he grabbed Draco by both arms and lifted him till they were eye to eye and stepped out of the compartment with him. He then set Draco down in the Aisle a bit hard causing Draco to wince a bit at the shock running through his legs.
"What in Merlin's name did you call me?" Draco growled at Harry. Harry just stared at Draco his eyes glowing almost gold as he continued to scowl down at Draco. Draco slowly gulped some fear starting to trickle through him as he stared up at Harry.
"Foolish man though boy might fit better." Harry growled before moving back from Draco. "Now run back to your snake house. You are unwanted here."
"You have no right to tell me what to do." Draco growled back actually taking a step towards Harry. Harry narrowed his eyes at Draco and seemed to grow in size. Draco tried to match Harry's stare but after a while, he let out a whimper and ran. Harry took a few deep breaths before leaning against the wall of the aisle.
Harry continued to take several deep breaths his eyes closed as he struggled to gain control over his emotional state once more. He was unsure what about Draco was setting him off more than normal but whatever it was it caused him a lot of irritation. Slowly he moved back into the compartment he had been in with Neville and Luna. He collapsed into his seat with a groan not willing to look up and see how the others would react.
"There was really no reason to go all King of Evil on the poor sleeping chosen of Farore." Luna said softly. Harry snorted at Luna's words and looked up at her. He shook his head slowly before looking towards the ceiling.
"I am no King of Evil. I am not a king at all. Just a student at this school who is expected to do more than they should." Harry murmured his voice rumbling with a set of strange confused emotions.
"No you are no longer touched by that darkness, but you still can channel much of that appearance, and you are as much a King as I am a princess." Luna stated causing Harry to look closer at Luna then laughed and shook his head.
"You are truly an odd one Luna." Harry said as once more the compartment door opened causing Harry to groan and turn ready to tear Draco's head off only for his preparation to vanish as soon as he saw Ron and Hermione poking their heads in.
"Hey Hary, Neville, it's good to see you again Luna." Ron said nodding to the last one before moving to sit in one open spot Hermione finding her way in.
"Harry I hear you might have been fighting in the aisle you know you can get into a lot of trouble for that." Hermione stated. Harry groaned and rolled his eyes a moment before crossing his arms across his chest and glowered at the floor.
"I only intimidated the ferret a little." Harry stated refusing to feel sorry about what he had done to Draco. Really if he had wanted to make Draco turn his pants brown from fear. Especially when he kept trying to challenge Harry. No one had the right to challenge his power. Slowly he lifted his vision to Hermione as she kept frowning at him.
"Hermione now isn't the time. Din's chosen is still waking up and until the process is complete there will be many incidents like this. Especially with the sleeping Farore's chosen. They never could get along." Luna said laughing once more. Hermione spun to face Luna as she mentioned names Harry had previously mentioned.
"Luna where do you know those names from?" Hermione asked not even realizing Luna had known her name without them being introduced. Harry narrowed his eyes at Luna again as she mentioned those names and rubbed at the back of his right hand.
"The nargles told me they were important." Luna stated as Harry kept staring at her. She turned her head and winked at Harry with a bright smile as she turned back to Hermione who was frowning.
"What are Nargles? I've never heard of them." Hermione asked getting distracted from the mention of the names earlier. Harry smirked slowly recognizing Luna's distraction for what it was. He leaned back again and then frowned and stood bringing Ron's attention to him.
"What's up mate?" Ron asked. Harry turned and smiled a bit looking at Ron and shrugged.
"We need something to do and I figured I was gonna look at that old book at least one more time." Harry admitted. Ron groaned and covered his face.
"Merlin's balls mate when it comes to that one book you are as terrible as Hermione!" Ron cried out. Hermione meanwhile reached over and smacked the back of Ron's head.
"Ron shush you would be smart to start studying more yourself." Hermione started to lecture as Harry pulled out the book and placed it on the seat before pulling out a deck of cards as well. Luna's eyes locked on the book and silently gasped her eyes going wide seeing it. She looked at Harry then that book and then Harry again.
"Harry can I look at that book?" Luna asked. Harry glanced at Luna and grabbed onto the book giving Luna a narrowed eyed look. He growled at her feeling very possessive over it. Luna rolled her eyes at Harry's reaction and sighed.
"I just wanted to look I will not take it away from the room. Please, Harry, I am really good with ancient languages." Luna stated looking Harry in the eyes her blue ones shining with joy and curiosity. Harry frowned looking at Luna as Neville looked up.
"She isn't lying Harry, plus she's a Ravenclaw. Knowledge of all types is something she wants." Neville stated causing Luna to laugh again as Ron centered on the deck of cards.
"Let her and we can play a few hands of exploding snap." Ron stated. Harry sighed at this and grumbled before slowly holding the book out to Luna. Luna gently took it and looked over the cover shaking her head.
"Gerudo…. I can't believe something this old survived." She murmured. Harry's eyes locked onto Luna as she said the word and she smiled at Harry and waved him away.
"You'll figure it out don't worry Harry." Luna said before Harry slowly sat down with Neville and Ron to play a few hands of exploding snap and Hermione settled to go over her summer homework one last time. Harry kept looking back at Luna as she kept going through the book slowly treating it with great reverence which was getting Harry to relax a bit more. Luna smiled watching for a moment before going back over and into the book quickly scanning through it as the sound of explosions started to sound through the compartment. Harry started to laugh as Luna nodded and placed the book back on Harry's seat.
"So what did you find interesting with that book, it's obvious you understood more of it than any of us." Hermione spoke softly directly to Luna. Luna smiled softly and giggled again.
"Just needed to make sure of something. I don't want to see Din's Chosen become tainted yet again." Luna said with a shrug. Hermione frowned lightly grabbed Luna's shoulder and pulled her out of the room drawing Harry's attention away from the game. Harry started to stand as Neville grabbed at Harry's shoulder and shook his head.
"Whatever it is, if it's important Hermione will tell you. She won't hide anything that could hurt you." Neville stated and shifted blushing at his words. Harry chuckled and patted Neville on the back almost causing the other boy to fall over.
"Yeah, you are right." Harry said and grabbed the book from where Luna had placed it before rejoining the other boys in their game. Harry kept the book on his lap as three more rounds in the game happened then Luna and Hermione come back in. Hermione having a confused but thoughtful look on her face.
"Everything okay there Hermione?" Harry asked looking up at her with a bit of worry. Hermione blinked and looked at Harry her eyes locking onto his eyes as though trying to see behind them.
"Yeah just need to think on what I have been told." Hermione said causing Harry to frown a bit and Ron to look at her then back to Harry.
"Should I be worried about anything?" Harry asked keeping his eyes on Hermione's. Hermione frowned and thought a bit before slowly shaking her head.
"Not yet at least. I will tell you if things start to go bad and you need to know, right now giving you this information will likely cause more issues than help." Hermione said. Harry frowned obviously not happy with this bit of information. He frowned a bit and looked around again before a knock drew everyone's attention to the aisle. Harry slowly stood and opened to door to smile seeing the food cart lady.
"Anything from the cart dears?" The woman asked. Harry smiled and looked over the items and then held out some money.
"3 of everything please, so I can share with my friends." Harry said with a smile. The lady nodded and quickly gathered everything that was requested. He stepped back into the compartment and dropped all the candy down into the room.
"Ooo are we all getting some?" Luna asked with her light voice. Harry nodded and motioned to everyone.
"Grab something you want. But share out meaning take only one of each type of item unless no one else wants it." Harry pointed out as he looked over the candy items. He was very unsure what he wanted but chuckled as soon as Ron grabbed a chocolate frog Neville not far behind him on those. Harry grabbed a blood pop and once he unwrapped it started to suck on it. Luna winced seeing that go into Harry's mouth. Luna sighed before grabbing a sweet for herself and leaned back a bit.
"Luna is what you talked with Hermione about important?" Neville asked. Luna nodded slowly and smiled a bit.
"She could have caused a lot of damage with her curiosity. What is going on with Harry needs to continue at the rate it is going. If someone triggers the wrong thing at the wrong time well. Everything will fall apart." Luna stated as Harry frowned for a moment.
"This has to do with why the Unspeakable said I can not be put under veritaserum doesn't it?" Harry shuddered as he trailed off remembering the strange memory that had caused him to be violently ill while at his godfathers. He looked again at Luna a frown on his lips and some worry. He stood and glanced at the book again.
"Yes it does Harry. Once you are more awake to the situation I will willingly sit down and talk to you about it." Luna stated then stood a moment and glanced back.
"Once you can understand the majority of the book you will be ready for the rest of what I know, but for now we should get ready and get into our robes." Luna stated with a smile. She grabbed stuff from her trunk before slipping from the compartment. Harry blinked and Hermione soon did the same following after Luna.
"This is really getting annoying." Harry muttered then reached for his trunk to gather his uniform from his trunk. He glanced and saw that both Ron and Neville were doing the same things. Harry placed the plain black school robe on. He shifted a few times once it was on and sighed.
"You okay mate?" Ron asked bringing Harry's attention to him. Harry frowned then nodded slowly before glancing at Neville.
"Yeah, I'm fine just making sure the robe is sitting right. It's still weird with how much I have grown in the last month or so." Harry admitted. Neville stared at Harry his mouth dropping open a bit.
"This size change is only in the last month or so?" Neville cried out causing Harry to look at him and blink a few times then shrug.
"Yeah, it has only been in the last month or so." Harry confirmed for a second time. Neville shook his head looking at Harry again.
"That is weird, really really weird," Neville stated as Ron shrugged finishing getting into his uniform himself.
"Yeah it is but since when has Harry ever had a normal year?" Ron pointed out as Harry groaned and covered his face.
"Don't remind me Ron." Harry growled as Luna and Hermione rejoined them and the train began to stop.