Harry was working with Hermione as the class dealt with some strange stick-like creatures called Bowtruckles. He was carefully feeding and keeping one distracted while Hermione sketched and wrote about how the creature moved and acted. Harry glanced around the class and noticed Draco staring towards the edge of the Forbidden Forest.
Frowning Harry looked in that direction and blinked a few times. Standing in the brush near the edge of the forest was a strange looking creature. It had a leaf on its head that kinda looked like a face and otherwise its tiny body looked to be made of wood. Harry shook his head seeing the creature then glanced at Draco again seeing he was staring at the critter.
"Hermione, do you see anything odd near the edge of the forest?" Harry asked Hermione glanced up from her work and glanced towards the edge of the forest. She frowned then looked at Harry again.
"You okay there Harry? I don't see anything odd and we need to concentrate on the assignment." Harry nodded and went back to work though keeping half an eye on what Draco was doing as he moved closer to the other creature.
"Me. Malfoy what are you doing and where do you think you are going?" The professor asked causing Malfoy to pause and look at the teacher wide-eyed for a moment.
"Doesn't anyone else see the strange creature watching us by the edge of the forest?" Draco asked causing the creature to actually jump up in surprise and seem to center on Draco. Many of the other students including the teacher look towards the edge of the forest then at Draco again. Harry just shook his head glad for once it's not him.
"There is nothing there Mr. Malfoy now I suggest you stop making a scene and get back to work." the professor growled. Draco glared at the teacher before slowly turning back to his school work. Draco was obviously annoyed at being stopped but did not fight with the teacher. Harry frowned and leaned back interested in the fact the Malfoy had been able to see the critter same as him but no one else. He wondered what it was that allowed only him and Draco within the whole class capable of seeing the creature.
"Harry attention back on the class. We have lots yet to do." Hermione called making Harry shake his head before returning to what he was doing.
"Okay Hermione I am sorry for letting my attention drift, but you have to admit that these Bowtruckles are not hard to deal with." Harry pointed out softly. Hermione glared at Harry causing him to throw his arms up a bit in a form of submission. Hermione huffed before finishing the last bits of her sketch and grabbing the food from Harry to feed the Bowtruckle.
"Sometimes I really worry about you, Harry. So many things happen to you." Hermione murmured then glanced seeing Ron practically asleep on the grass and moved to kick him lightly.
"Ron stop lazing about." Hermione growled as Harry chuckled and watched as the two began to argue quietly. Harry stood and slipped from his friends as he moved towards the strange creature himself. He knew the class was almost over and really wanted to get a closer look at it himself. He didn't notice as Draco followed him towards the creature that seemed to be dancing.
"What is it?" Draco asked as they got within 10 feet of it. The creature stopped and looked right up at Draco in surprise.
"You can see me?" It asked surprising both boys with it's ability to speak. Slowly they both nodded with dropped jaws.
"It's been so long since we could be seen! Oh, happy happy! I need to let the others know!" It leapt up and ran into the forest leaving a stunned Harry and Draco standing there. Harry slowly turned and faced Draco only to pause a moment. Draco's hair was not slicked back and it was something he hadn't noticed before. It was also darkening a bit though still obviously blonde.
"Potter get away from me. I want nothing to do with you giant ass self." Draco drawled causing Harry to chuckle as he looked down at the other boy. Draco kept staring at Harry his silver-blue eyes narrowed at Harry. Harry placed one hand lightly on Draco's shoulder then shoved him causing the other boy to stumble away.
"Don't even try it Malfoy. You do not have the power to make me submit to you." Harry growled as he stepped closer to Malfoy again. Malfoy gulped but didn't back down causing a bit of surprise to thrill through Harry.
"Shut up Potter you know nothing of me or what I am capable of." Draco growled at Harry and moved into a stance that echoed a sword fighter's stance. Harry looked Malfoy over slowly then slowly chuckled.
"Malfoy if you want to wield a sword maybe you should find one." Harry stated and smirked as Draco's stance changed and he pulled his wand preparing to cast at Harry. Harry grabbed onto Draco's wrist quickly and shook his head slowly.
"Potter let me go now or you will start to lose you house points." Malfoy snarled and threatened. Harry just laughed as he used his grip to cause Malfoy to stumble away from him and walked towards the castle.
"Malfoy don't face me till you are truly able to show some courage and not rely on petty little threats." Harry growled completely unimpressed with Malfoy's threat of points being removed. Draco glared as Harry kept walking but said nothing more. History of Magic was next and he knew he would probably fall asleep during the class with how boring it was.
He smiled as Hermione and Ron catch up with him. Hermione smacked the back of Harry's head as best as she could and glared a bit and Ron groaned seeing her irritation.
"Harry you are so lucky the teacher decided not to go after you and Draco." Hermione growled. Harry just rolled his eyes at this and smiled a bit. He pulled Hermione into his side as he walked with a slight smirk then pushed Ron forward.
"Yeah yeah I always am, besides it's time to go see Binns." Harry said with a slight smirk as Ron groaned immediately. Harry smirked as they entered the castle and turned towards the History classroom.
"I'm surprised you actually remembered that this class was next Harry." Hermione stated softly as Harry chuckled at her reactions and helped Hermione drag Ron to the class as he grumbled.
"Hermione please let me borrow your notes after class?" Ron pleaded with Hermione as they entered the classroom. Harry found a set of seats and sat as the other two joined him. He pulled out the ancient book and opened it trying to look through it again before glancing up when Hermione coughed at him.
"Yes, Hermione what can I do for you?" Harry asked with a very dry tone as he looked at her calmly. Hermione glowered at Harry with that and growled a bit.
"Shouldn't you be getting out your books for class?" Hermione asked with slight irritation in her voice. Harry sighed and looked at Hermione with irritation. Before shaking his head.
"Hermione Binns will go on and on about the same things he always does. I will be better off reading through the book over the weekend and I want to go through this book more. I mean I was able to fully do one of the early spells in here with no issue." Harry stated pulling Ron's attention to him and Hermione to gasp.
"What was it?" Ron asked quickly leaning towards Harry. Harry grinned and clenched his fist then threw it up into the air causing a small ball of light to form above him. Hermione and Ron both gasped as Harry lifted one hand up and snuffed the ball out with a simple clenching of his fist over it.
"That came from the book?" Ron asked in surprise at how simple it had been for Harry to cause a sphere of light without the use of his wand. Hermione, on the other hand, grabbed his hand and pulled at it to examine it. Harry let her tug his arm over willingly letting her look while rolling his eyes then nodded to Ron.
"Yup, it was. The name of it isn't nice but the spell itself is definitely not dark." Harry stated as he heard Hermione huff and let go of his hand. Harry glanced at her as she looked at him.
"What was it called?" Hermione asked. Harry sighed and rubbed the back of his head and glanced between the two of them.
"Raider's Sight would be what it translates to." Harry admitted softly. Hermione frowned as Ron slowly nodded as though understanding where the source of the name might have come from.
"Why raiders sight for the name of a light spell?" Hermione asked as Harry sighed shaking his head a bit and Ron started to laugh a bit.
"Hermione think about it. It was probably made to light up tombs that the person was breaking into or raiding." Ron pointed out causing Harry to nod a bit and sigh a bit before leaning back.
"The race this book belonged to were considered thieves due to how they got supplies from outside their desert home." Harry murmured his voice sounding almost sad.
"Harry, what's wrong?" Hermione asked as the rest of the class joined in and Harry shook his head. He wasn't sure how to explain his feeling of loss about the desert tribe mentioned in the book, let alone the feeling of it being his fault that they are gone.
"Just a strange feeling Hermione." Harry admitted as Binns began to drone and the class started. Harry watched as Ron soon passed out and many of the other students within the class began to doze off. Harry flipped pages of the book he was holding and listened as Hermione started to write notes next to him. He leaned back a bit and frowned a bit then glanced down at the book.
The class continued and Harry began to randomly form the little ball of light and snuff it out. He sighed then looked towards Binns and tilted his head as his eyes began to glow gold. He glanced at the light spell and then again at the professor. He made a tossing motion towards the professor and frowned when the ball of light only made it halfway to the professor.
"Harry at least try not to interfere with my education." Hermione hissed at Harry who looked at her and smirked a bit with a laugh.
"Hermione you have everything this ghost teaches memorized already." Harry murmured then threw another ball of glowing light at the professor this time it stopped directly inside the ghost. Shortly after the light started to glow from inside the ghost. Binns began to laugh and quiver where he was. His laughter began to awaken most of the students as the looked about in confusion.
The ghost professor kept laughing and his form seemed to curl up around the ball of light glowing softly inside of him. Harry stood as everyone was staring at the professor except Hermione who was glaring at Harry as he paused next to the ghost's form. He shuddered then frowned as while reaching into the ghost he didn't get the chills that he had previously felt when passing through a ghost.
Harry snuffed the magical light and right away Binns stopped laughing. The chill returned and Harry quickly pulled away and raced back to his seat. Binns looked around and frowned deeply before coughing.
"Whatever that was I would request you not do it during class." Binns said in his monotone voice causing Harry to roll his eyes as several of the students whispered about what they had seen. Harry shifted before looking back into the book as Binns once more droned on about some goblin war or another.
Hearing mention of the goblins made Harry frown and lean back thinking of the last time he had entered Gringotts. He rubbed at the back of his hand as he thought of the goblin showing actual fear. He wondered why it would show fear the way it did, in fact, none of the goblins seemed to be comfortable around him anymore.
Harry looked down at the book once more wishing it had more information he could fully understand in it. Somehow he truly believed it would explain what was going on in some way. He sighed and packed the book away as the end of class was quickly approaching. He smiled seeing Hermione starting to also back up. Harry leaned over and lightly smacked Ron making sure he was awake for the end of class.
They left the class heading for lunch once more. Harry was staying distracted with his thoughts as Ron again tried to convince Hermione to let him look at her notes. Harry sighed and lightly rapped the back of Ron's head.
"Ron shut up. I don't want to hear you complain and whine right now." Harry growled having been pulled out of his thoughts by Ron. Ron blinked and backed away from Harry nervously as Hermione frowned a moment.
"Harry, what's wrong?" Hermione asked as they entered the Great Hall and sat at the table gathering lunch once more. Harry rubbed at his face a moment and sighed.
"Trying to figure things out. Mainly during class, I remembered the reaction some Goblins had to me and started to wonder about it again. They talked about an age returning and was wondering who might know." Harry stated causing Hermione to frown a bit in confusion.
"Really well how old is the Goblin society? It isn't really written about. Actually, most of the non-human societies are not written about for how long they have been around." Hermione frowned realizing that.
"Why would that matter?" Ron asked absolutely confused by Hermione's confusion and Harry's frown. Harry looked at Hermione before sighing and shutting his eyes a moment in disappointment.
"Just like the foolish Hyliian's completely blind to others." Harry muttered only to feel a glare at his back. He turned slowly to see Luna glaring at him for once. Harry tilted his head and frowned. "Prove me wrong. You were the exception usually.." He growled then frowned in confusion as Luna laughed.
"Harry, what are you talking about?" Hermione asked as Harry groaned again. He looked at his food then grabbing a sandwich stalked away. Hermione moved to follow after him only for Ron to stop her and shake his head.
"Hermione whatever is happening let Harry deal with it." He stated causing her to frown then look at Luna who kept giggling in her spot. Harry meanwhile stalked out of the castle glowering at anybody that got too close to him as he moved to the edge of the forbidden forest. He sat against one of the trees with a groan as he ate the sandwich he had grabbed.
"Mr. Potter I'm surprised you are so close to the forest considering how often it has brought trouble to you." A familiar voice said from within the forest making Harry leap to his feet and spin to face the voice a ball of energy forming in his right hand. Slowly he calmed and the energy faded away.
"Firenze, I haven't seen you in ages. I hope the help you gave me did not cause too many issues with your herd." Harry murmured and bowed to the centaur before looking up at him again.
"It is fine though the changes in you are surprisingly interesting. We truly felt the cycle was complete but the stars are saying differently and now I see you." Firenze said shaking his head a bit with a bit of a smile.
"You are the second to mention a cycle repeating that was believed finished to me." Harry said as Firenze chuckled looking at Harry.
"How much do you remember of the last time you existed?" Firenze asked causing Harry to shift a bit and shake his head.
"I don't understand what you are talking about." Harry said causing Firenze to chuckle again before smirking and looking towards the castle.
"So interesting that this time around you are not the first awake and working. Then again the demon is no longer using you." Firenze stated before turning to wander back into the forest.
"What do you mean Firenze? Please…" Harry cried out causing Firenze to pause and look back at Harry.
"Dragmire learn some patience." Firenze said with a surprisingly deep growl before he galloped away. Harry stood frozen in spot with what Firenze had called him. The name echoing in his head. He stood there staring into the forest for quite a while staying stunned and confused. Slowly he moved back to the castle's entrance still troubled with what Firenze had called him.
"Harry you have a class to get to. Though things will not go fully smoothly. I just suggest you gain a bit of wisdom before the power within you corrupts." Luna said causing Harry to jump and look at her.
"Luna, will you answer me one question?" Harry asked causing Luna to frown in thought. She slowly nodded a moment.
"You may ask but if I deem it the wrong time to answer the question I will not answer it." Luna stated. Harry nodded accepting her decision then thought.
"In a general term what is happening to me?" Harry asked. Luna frowned then tilted her head in thought. She obviously was unsure on how much she could answer.
"Your friend Hermione came across a name for it. Reincarnation. Though truthfully us three should have no longer been in this situation. Someone has disrupted what ended the cycle causing us to come back again." Luna murmured. Harry frowned and then slowly nodded.
"Thus we are returning to the physical forms we had before." Harry murmured and Luna smiled then walked away. Harry frowned as Ron and Hermione found him and paused looking at his face.
"Harry. Are you okay?" Hermione asked causing Harry to smile and nod.
"Yeah, I will be fine. Just had a strange run in and well a suggestion on what is happening." Harry replied as he looked at the other two.
"Oh, what was the suggestion?" Hermione asked as she tugged on Harry's arm to get him moving towards the class they had.
"That this is connected to reincarnation." Harry stated as he moved with his friends. He listened to Ron snort at that then slowly shrugged.
"This is all madness but if there is no other explanation I guess it's understandable." Ron said. Harry lightly pushed Ron as they climbed the stairs and stopped at the door to the DADA classroom.
"Well, we can discuss this later. We have a new teacher to learn about." Hermione said and entered the class finding a set of seats to sit and prepare for the class.