pov snape
Severus Snape glares at the potter spawn as he meanders to the Gryffindor table. without even speaking with the boy he can tell potter is a simple minded dunderhead, no one with more than three working brain cells would be accepted into the house of bullies. as far as snape is concerned if you wear red and gold you are a cruel heartless bully that needs to be taught a lesson. except longbottom who is one of the few who is not tainted with cruelty in his heart. having known the boy his whole life as he tries to find a way to help longbottoms parents, snape knows that while he is a clumsy and shy boy longbottom would do anything if it would help snape wake his parents up.
snape feels the chain on his neck start to heat up as the charm he placed on it tells him he has two more hours before he has to get back to his privet lab and work on his potion. after the rest of the sorting was done and food was placed snape locked eyes with the potter brat. snape using the brief eye contact to hurl a mental probe at the brat so he will know what slytherin the brat wants to torment. snape almost flinches as he hits a mental wall on the brats mind. with the little time he has snape looks at it and finds only pieces of the br-. . .boys mind is even functional, the rest is all locked up in whatever that wall is. after the eye contact is broken snape hides his shock as best as he can and leaves stating he needs to use the loo.
after leaving the room he heads to his lab and passes himself in the hall. he enters his privet lab and takes over stirring as the snape who he took over from takes a timeturner and turns it twelve times. normally it would be agenst the rules to see yourself but needing ten years of "constantly" working on this one potion on top of teaching classes and sleeping all at the same time he was given a test and was proven to be mentally capable to handle the stress and was handed the timeturners needed for this task. the task of brewing a highly volatile, highly expensive, and highly sensitive potion that has a small chance to awaken the comatose longbottoms. it had taken two years to find mention of the potion in a Aztec temple and then one to piece together everything needed to make it. "now two cups of Hungarian horntail snot. slowly stir clockwise four hundred times then quickly stir counter clockwise ninety seven. . . my arms are going to fall off soon... three more years of this and then i hopefully can take a shower." snape without stopping brushes his greasy hair out of his eyes. almost seven years of cleaning charms and freshening charms had shown that they dont work on ones hair.
harry pov
harry sits on nothing as he watches a diagram of his body slowly change from bone white to a metallic color. at the rate it was going he guessed a little before Halloween before his bones are at the first metal stage. titanium. they had planed to just jump to goblin steel or mythril but found it would be better to have it start as a lesser metal so they know how to do the change properly. plus metal to metal changes took less magic and time. harry tunes into his dumber double as it just makes it to his first class. . . "it started with a T... oh right, transfiguration." harry ignores his magics mental snort at him forgetting the name of his class inside his mind as he listens to his teacher explain the rules of the class. "this feels like what im doing with my mind... huh at least i'll be great at transfiguration once im out." harry smiles as he just realized he had unknowingly had been learning a step in how to cast magic and one of the key things for transfiguration. picturing what you want with your mind and will it to happen. after listening in for the task given harry just blinks as a match appears in his hand and he starts the practice as well.
time skip
harry and his magic both "blink slowly" as they stare at the large brute that is about to hit his body. "my bets are on backhand" "i say club" both say almost casually. why? simple. harrys body at the moment is 99% titanium and the last 1% is laced with solid mythril. *THUD. CLANG. CRUNCH. MULTIPLE CRASHES* "huh he kicked me. also im so not paying for the...one. two...six walls i just crashed through as that was the trolls fault." harry watches as his double gets back up and punches the in screaming troll in the face. it went out like a light but what would you expect when a metal fist hits someone in the face...other then said face turning to mulch. troll skulls thankfully are thick enough that it just was going to get a headache. its foot on the other hand is most likely broken beyond recognition
harry snickers at the faces of the teachers when his double said he had got lost on the way to the common room and then punched a fully grown troll hard enough to knock it out. the best part is it was completely true! his double has no sense of direction and like no attention span so after two minutes of staying with the group heading to the dorms he had just took a left and wandered until he met the troll. "well at least we got dinner and a show"
a shorter chapter buy it was more for geting the last player on the field and allowing me to skip to when the action happens. i was told i have a jumpy way of writing and apologize if that bugged you i had only ment to get what i counted as important stuff out then getting to the longer chapters that will have more actual speaking and interaction. next chapter holds the end of first year as it is important then a jump to fourth year. the jump will make sense and SHOULD flow properly if i do it right.