Chapter 27
Warning: Everyone listen up know that I am not happy with this chapter when it gets to the end. If you decide to read then that is on you, however I Strongly advise you all to avoid part of what happens at the end. Remember this is Rated M. Not something for kids. You all been warned.
When November rolled up many of the students started gossiping about what happened to Filch's cat, Mrs. Norris. Evidently, rumors spread fast throughout the entire castle; most of the time people could be heard muttering that Hadrian Potter was the one to do harm the cat. While many of the students did not have any feeling for Filch as he had a bad reputation with them, many were glad that Harry beat the shit out of him as they felt that he deserved it. The caretaker should have known better than to put his hands on a child. Many of the past students looked ready to curse the fool whenever he walked by but refrained from doing so.
A few days after the meeting with the professors Harry was being hounded by the others for information about what was going on, but he ignored them and continued his OWL syllabus. He chose to spend most of his time in the room of requirement researching the different spells, potions, etc. If he weren't in the room or the classrooms with the others, he would be on the grounds meditating by the lake. Harry still spent time with his friends, but for the most part he was either in the company of Byakko, Daphne, or his father whenever he went to his quarters.
The quidditch game between Gryffindor and Slytherin was scheduled for Saturday; Hadrian being the early riser he was did his usual morning workout with Blaise, Daphne, and Tracey. The latter was the newest to join them and was the most out of shape, so they took it easy on her. When they were done Harry went to the locker room to meet with the others to discuss their strategy for the game today. Oliver explained that even though the slytherins had the advantage with their new brooms, they had a better chance of winning because they trained harder and Harry had the same broom as the slytherins.
"You got your work cut out for you Harry" Fred said. "No pressure mate." He gave an encouraging smile and a wink.
Harry gave him a curt nod and with that they mounted their brooms and went to the pitch, in the air they were met by the slytherins. Oliver Wood and Marcus Flint remained on the ground waiting for Madam Hooch to give her usual speech. When it was done, she had them shake hands and both captains had anger written on their faces, letting go of each other hand they mounted their brooms and rose to the air. Madam Hooch blew her whistle; released the snitch, the two bludgers and the quaffle signaling that the game had begun.
Two hours into the game Slytherin were leading 60-0, their new brooms were clearly doing their jobs and was presenting a challenge for the gryffindor team. Fred and George kept the Bludger off their team and away from Harry who was actively searching for the snitch. Sense he had the same broom as the slytherins he was able to keep up with their movement.
So, far everything was running smoothly, that was until one of the Bludgers decided to take an interest in targeting him. The damn thing was following him around like moths to a flame. As he continued flying away from it, George knocked it away with his beater bat and went back to joining the game.
Harry hovered above in the air trying to spot the snitch to end the game, that was after Draco decided to fly up near him. "Just so you know that snitch is mine Potter."
Harry would have retorted but he saw the snitch flying a few meters behind his head and the infamous Bludger that was tailing him come from behind. "Draco get down" he yelled while pointing to the bludger that was approaching.
"What are you" he turned his head and saw the bludger aiming for his head and dived down.
Hadrian flew in the opposite direction to avoid the rogue bludger. As he continued putting the broom through its paces, he spotted the snitch out of the corner of his right eye and headed for it. While he was flying toward it the bludger was hot on his tail and so was Draco; sense they had the same broom they were neck in neck. Harry used his enhanced hearing to indicate how far the bludger was from him and could tell that it was almost upon him. Just as the bludger got near him, he did something unexpected. Jumping on his broom he performed a spinning kick that hit the bludger knocking it away. If anyone else attempted that they would have had a broken leg, but Harry added some magic to strengthen his kick, so he didn't feel anything break.
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"Do my eyes deceive me" Jordan yelled out in astonishment. "Harry Potter just kicked the bludger to make it avoid impact. That takes some guts!" he said in a booming voice that made the gryffindors cheer. The adults were silently shocked as this was something unheard of before, no one had ever kicked a high speed bludger before.
Over in the slytherin section Daphne was staring with wide-eyed astonishment. Harry hit the bludger with a spinning kick while flying. Boy did he have a lot of nerve to do that. Then again, he did live in Japan before he came back to Britain, maybe he learned it from them. She remembered that Blaise said that the Japanese quidditch players train in extreme conditions, but that didn't mean that she wasn't concerned for him as he could probably have a broken foot.
Her eyes were glued to the field more notably to him and Draco as they were racing to the snitch.
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Harry and Draco were locked in a deadlock as they both raced to the snitch. Harry being taller than his cousin and the length advantage as he extended his left arm to try and grab it.
At that moment, the little winged ball did a dive and headed toward the ground, with both boys following along. The speed they were going indicated that they would soon be hitting the ground soon if the snitch didn't pull up. As they kept on diving the snitch leveled out and they followed suit, hearing a familiar sound from the distance he saw the bludger that had been chasing him was coming from his left. It speed seemed to have increased from before and was quickly approaching him. Spying it he saw that there was someone else's magic that was coming from it.
Whoever jinxed it was playing a risky game as the rogue bludger could do a lot of damage if it hit someone. The snitch turned left and was heading in the same direction as the incoming bludger, turning a hard left Harry gave chase with Draco following close behind. Then an idea formed in his head; slowly standing up on his broom like he did last year as the bludger drew near him he narrowed his eyes as he had to time this just right.
As the two closed in on each other Harry narrowed his eyes as the damn thing was clearly aiming for his stomach. At the last moment he used his broom as a springboard and performed a high front flip to avoid being hit. The same couldn't be said for Draco as he didn't have any time to get out of the way, which ended with him getting hit straight in the face knocking him off his broom. Regaining his composure Harry snatched the snitch out of the air and landed on the ground with both broom and snitch in hand.
Jordan announced that he caught the snitch and said that gryffindor won 150-60 points, the entire team erupted in applause and so did the audience. That would have been the end of it but the bludger was still active and going rogue. It raced off to Harry who had about enough and clenched the fist that held the snitch adding some magic to it he punched the incoming projectile and destroyed it, while he managed to destroy the bludger he also managed to destroy the bones in his hand.
Using his only remaining hand he held the other as the audience came to the pitch. The first to arrive was Lockhart who said that he would have his hand fixed in a jiffy. Harry immediately got away from the man and hauled arse to go see Madam Pomfrey who was levitating a now unconscious Draco to the hospital wing. Dropping the snitch, he followed the matron to the wing where she told Flint that Mr. Malfoy would only be out for a week and that he was just unconscious.
When she was done with him, she immediately moved to her next patient who was being crowded by the members of his house and a few of his slytherin ones. Pushing past them she took her wand out and examined his hand. "Mr. Potter what were you thinking?" she glared at him. "Your entire hand is destroyed."
"Wow really I couldn't tell" he feigned ignorance. "I guess the fact that my hand hurts and that I couldn't feel anything was a giveaway." That was met by a slap in the back of the head courtesy of Daphne who glared at him for his cheek.
"Thank you, Miss. Greengrass" she had a ghost smile on her face before vanishing it and turning to him. "I do not appreciate, your cheek in my hospital wing young man, kindly reign it in."
"Yes, ma'am" he muttered to avoid another slap in the back of the head.
Pomfrey poured some potion in a cup and handed it to him "I can mend bones in a heartbeat but what you did the nerve" she shook her head. "You're going to be in for a rough night."
Harry took a swig of what she gave him and immediately wanted to spit it out, but swallowed it, nonetheless. "Do I really have to drink this?" he asked her.
She just raised an eyebrow at him.
He immediately withdrew the question "never mind" he proceeded to drink the rest of the cup, even though it was clear that he didn't want to. When it was all gone, he got an hour scolding from Daphne about how reckless he was to do what he did. That was not fun for him as she was not happy with him. No one dared to say anything as they did not want her to direct her anger at them, when she was done, she gave him a hug "I'm, glad you're okay, you idiot" she said in his ear.
Harry couldn't tell if this was a good thing or bad thing. But when she hugged and whispered that into his ear, he felt a warm feeling in his stomach.
The others all asked or said various things about where he learned to do something like that, all he did was casually shrugged his shoulders to avoid the questions.
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Soon it became nightfall, and it was curfew Harry went to sleep under the covers and fast asleep. Hours later while he was sleeping, he was woken up when he felt a presence on top of him. He yelped and flicked his wand out of his remaining hand and banished whoever it was off of him. Once the person was off him, he got out of bed and casted the lighting charm to see who it was.
"Dobby!" he said as he got closer to the elf who got up from where he landed. "What are you doing here?"
With tears in his eyes the elf spoke "Hadrian Potter came back to school" he whispered miserably. "Dobby warned and warned Harry Potter. Ah sir, why didn't you heed Dobby?" he asked ignoring what the wizard asked.
Harry just narrowed his eyes "if you thought that your attempts were enough to keep me from coming here then you've made a grave mistake" he replied. "I had to have the wards around my house modified to keep out anyone who was not welcomed."
"Hadrian Potter must leave and go home" Dobby said ignoring what Harry said. "Dobby thought that his bludger would have-."
"Surprisingly, I had a feeling you had something to do with that with why it came after me" he cut the elf off. "What were you trying to accomplish by nearly killing me?"
The elf's lips trembled "Dobby would never try to kill Hadrian Potter, sir. Only maim if anything to make him leave as it is not safe." The little guy would have said more but head some people approaching, snapped his fingers and vanished.
Harry flicked his wand back in its holster and immediately got back in bed facing away from the door with the covers close to his eyes. This was turning into a real mess he thought to himself. The chamber of secrets had been opened again. If anything, he had an idea of how these attacks were happening Voldemort. Thanks to the memories he got from the bastard he had a good idea what was terrorizing the school. But it didn't make any sense as he reviewed some of the memories and learned that Voldemort would gladly try to kill him, himself. Not use indirect means.
When the chamber fiasco first started Halloween night, he got flashes of a chamber and a large snake. The snake part was obvious to him as Salazar Slytherin was the head of the slytherin house when he was alive. That and the fact that the mark of slytherin house was a snake but it didn't feel right as there was no way that Salazar Slytherin was evil. He bet anything that Voldemort was the one who had opened the chamber back when he was in school.
The next moment Albus Dumbledore barged into the wind with McGonagall in tow. He was levitating a person who was stiff as a statue to one of the beds. Madam Pomfrey soon came up behind them and asked who was attacked. Minerva answered that it was one of her muggleborn first years Colin Creevey. The three discussed what attacked the boy in a hush voice as to not wake the other occupants. When Dumbledore removed the camera from the boy, he opened it to find that the film was destroyed. The smell of burnt plastic reached a still awaken Harry.
"It's melted" Pomfrey whispered to Dumbledore.
"What does this mean, Albus?" Professor McGonagall asked urgently.
"It means, that what I have feared has come to pass" he replied. The chamber of secrets has been opened, again.
Both the matron and professor gasped and held their hands over their mouths.
"But Albus . . . surely . . . who?" Minerva asked.
"The question is not who," said Dumbledore, his eyes on Colin. "The question is, how. . ." He then looked at the sleeping for of Hadrian.
Harry was not happy as he felt Dumbledore looking at him from behind. Asking Minerva for help would have been pointless as the woman would not have listened to him without Dumbledore permission. If it came down to believing anyone then she would automatically choose the goat over him. It also made him uneasy as he had a feeling that Dumbledore already figured out what was going on and decided to do nothing. This was exactly like the troll incident last year. The wards should have alerted him to what was going on. Yet it would appear to be another of the goats blunders added to the list.
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The student body at Hogwarts was in complete chaos. When December rolled up the rumor mill had escalated, and people were saying that Harry was responsible for the attacks that have been happening. The news about Colin Creevey spread like fiendfyre. Whenever, he was in the hallway many of the students turned in the opposite direction as they were afraid of him; according to the rumors he been hearing Dumbledore had suspected that he was responsible. It also didn't help that Ron Weasley kept on saying that he always knew he was a dark wizard. In all honesty he was surprised he couldn't even fathom what was going on in the heads of the students as they evidently forgot about his little speech last year.
His friends stuck by him as they believed that he had nothing to do with the attacks. Many of the members of Ravenclaw and Slytherin did not think it was him either, in the hufflepuff house only Susan and Hannah believed that he was innocent.
December 3rd soon came, and everyone was told to meet in the great hall later that evening. Apparently, there was going to be a dueling club. So that evening everyone was in the great hall discussing who was going to be teaching them. When they first got word of what was going on, they instantly thought that Professor Flitwick would be the one teaching them. Despite his size, he was an International Dueling Champion back in the day. From what they could tell all of the students were present and accounted for. Everyone stood around the stage that was in the center of the room.
"Please let it be someone who is competent" Harry prayed. If they were to be taught, then at least let it be by someone who actually knows what he or she is doing. If they got Lockfart then he had an idea of how he wanted to do deal with the swine. The idiot was constantly trying to get him alone to talk but each time Harry declined saying that he was busy. He noticed the more times he ignored him the more annoyed the fool became.
Nicole heard him praying "you think we get someone who knows anything about dueling?" she asked.
"I wouldn't hold my breath" he replied. "Somehow I'm getting the feeling we are going to get that idiot Lockfart" that sent a chill down her spine.
Her brother Aaron came in "care to make a wager on that" he grinned at him.
"What kind?" Harry asked questioningly.
"I'll bet you ten galleons that we get either Professors Flitwick or McGonagall." Harry thought for a few minutes before responding "deal! If we get either those two, I'll give you ten galleons but if we get the meat bag you will hand them over to me." They shook hands while the other shook their heads.
Susan muttered "boys."
At that moment, the worst professor in the school came: Gilderoy Lockhart was walking onto the stage, resplendent in robes of deep plum and accompanied by none other than Snape, wearing his usual black. Lockhart waved an arm for silence and called, "Gather round, gather round! Can everyone see me? Can you all hear me? Excellent!"
Harry nudged the boy and held out his hand. Aaron grudgingly took ten galleons out of his pocket and handed it to him. The younger boy just smirked at him while pocketing the money.
"Now, Professor Dumbledore has granted me permission to start this little dueling club, to train you all in case you ever need to de-fend yourselves as I myself have done on countless occasions for full details, see my published works. "Let me introduce my assistant, Professor Snape," said Lockhart, flashing a wide smile.
"Snape looks pissed" Blaise whispered to the others.
Tracey was the one to respond, "doesn't he always look pissed." The others agreed with her.
"He tells me he knows a tiny little bit about dueling himself and has sportingly agreed to help me with a short demonstration before we begin. Now, I don't want any of you youngsters to worry you'll still have your Potions master when I'm through with him, never fear!"
The expression on Severus face was unreadable but his eyes said that he was angry and did not want to be here.
"Ok, now he's mad" Adrian said looking at his black eyes as they indicated fire.
The two professors faced one another bowed and walked a few paces away from each other. They both got into dueling stances; it didn't take a novice to see that Severus had the superior stance as it indicated both offensive and defensive, Lockhart's was a basic attack stance.
"On the count of three we will begin dueling" Lockhart said.
"1"
"2"
"3"
Severus stepped forward and said "expelliarmus" the red spell shot out of his wand and hit Lockhart right in the chest knocking him on his back wandless.
Adrian, Aaron, and the other snickered as the fool got beat with only one spell. One spell! Talk about amateurish.
Lockhart was getting unsteadily to his feet. His hat had fallen off and his wavy hair was standing on end.
"Well, there you have it!" he said, tottering back onto the plat-form. "That was a Disarming Charm as you see, I've lost my wand ah, thank you, Miss Brown yes, an excellent idea to show them that, Professor Snape, but if you don't mind my saying so, it was very obvious what you were about to do. If I had wanted to stop you it would have been only too easy however, I felt it would be instructive to let them see . . ." Snape was looking murderous.
"Perhaps it would be best to stomp with this sideshow and let the students duel one another so, they can see what a real mock duel looks like" Severus suggested while looking at the fool.
Lockhart smile fell for a moment but soon got it back up "an excellent idea Professor Snape" he turned to the students "who here would like to come up and begin?"
Before anyone could speak Severus cut in "how about we have Mr. Zabini and Mr. Finnegan start us off" he suggested looking at his snake. Gilderoy immediately agreed "Mr. Finnegan and Mr. Zabini please come up."
Harry elbowed him before he went up to the stage "show them your stuff" he said. Blaise gave him a nod and they fist bumped each other.
Blaise walked up to the podium and faced Seamus. The Irish boy was an idiot but not as much as Weasley, they bowed and walked a few paces away from each other, before getting into dueling stances. Harry and the others already new the results as it was obvious.
Lockhart told them disarming spells only and started counting when he said three, Seamus yelled "expelliarmus" and sent the spell. Blaise just sidestepped out of the way. Seamus tried again "expelliarmus" he yelled, again Blaise just moved out of the way. The Irish boy started sending whatever spell he knew hoping that they would hit, all the while Blaise just dodged them.
Seamus was red in the face, from all of the shouting he did and just when he was about to fire another spell Blaise said "expelliarmus" his spell was faster than what Seamus had expected the next moment he was on his back with wand flying to Blaise who caught it in his other hand.
Severus spoke, "Mr. Zabini wins" he announced. The slytherins jeered "that will be 10 points from gryffindor for failing to follow basic instructions Finnegan."
The Irish boy just glared at him as he walked to his opponent to get his wand back. Blaise handed him his wand and left the podium to go back near his friends.
"Next we will have Miss. Greengrass against Miss. Granger" he announced. The two girls made it up to the stage bowed and walked to their stations and assumed their stances. "This time we will be doing things…differently" his lips curled up. "The both of you are allowed to use whatever they have in their arsenals against one another. Any spells that can be used to cause permanent damage is off limits. Is this understood?"
"Yes sir."
"Yes professor."
With that Severus started counting. When he got to three Granger immediately fired the disarming charm, Daphne just sidestepped. She had learned proper dueling techniques from Harry and her skills have only gotten better and more refined. Hermione tried again with other spells but Daphne either dodged or used the shielding charm, much to the bushy haired girls annoyance as she didn't even know how to do the shielding charm yet.
Daphne was paying exceptionally close to the girls movements and it was clear that she was just throwing spells at her. Deciding that she entertained the girl enough she sent langlock, expelliarmus, and stunning spell in the form of a triangle all non verbally. Hermione dodged the first two spells but failed to get out of the way of the stunner, the spell knocked her to the ground and put her out.
"Excellent work Miss. Greengrass, ten points to slytherin for your use of silent casting and ability to conjure a shield" Severus praised as Granger was being revived by a member of her house.
Before she could go into one of her rants about how Greengrass beat her she was pulled off the stage by the twins.
The students paired off as there were jets of different spells being shot around, the whole went on for 45 minutes until Lockhart got to the podium "has anyone here not gone?" he asked looking around.
The youngest Weasley yelled "Potter hasn't dueled yet." Ron stepped up to the stage "I be willing to duel him" he said smugly.
Lockhart flashed a smile "a very good idea. Mr. Potter would you come up here."
"No thanks" Harry replied.
"What's the matter Potter you scared?" Ron attempted to taunt him.
Harry kept his expressionless mask on "no, I just want someone who is competent and has some skills. Sadly, that is not you. And facing you would barely be a warmup."
Many of the students laughed at what he said the most of it came from the House of slytherin. Ron face was as red as his hair. "Shut it Potter, I can beat you any time anywhere!"
"You keep telling yourself that" he rolled his eyes at him. "If you want to duel me that badly, then I will give you a sporting chance. You can pick three more students to help you defeat me."
Gilderoy stepped in "come now Harry, that is over selling it a bit. After all you are only twelve" he stated.
Severus spoke up "actually what Mr. Potter said is quite ingenious and accurate Weasley struggles with the basic of spells" he replied many of the slytherin and other members from other houses laughed. "He is not only an International Dueling Champion, but he attended Mahoutokoro, before coming here. The reputation of that school alone should tell more about what they teach." The students could be heard debating about what the Japanese school is all about, many of them explained that it was a combat school and that could only mean one thing. Things would be difficult for Weasley.
Lockhart pretended to know something about the school and placed a smile on his face "ah yes of course," he said turning to the fuming redhead "Mr. Weasley choose three more students, while Professor Snape widens the stage." Severus did not like being ordered around but complied very reluctantly, waving his wand he made the field wider.
Almost instantly, Ron picked his partners "I choose my three brother Percy, Fred, and George" he said triumphantly. The three went up to the podium to stand next to their brother. However, Percy did not look happy with the way he was called out.
Hadrian's expressionless mask was still in place. "Four Weasley for the price of one, this should be amusing" he commented.
They all bowed and assumed a dueling stance. Harry instantly began reading their magic levels and determined that Percy was the bigger threat out of the four. Turns out the youngest was all talk not enough action. When they got the green light, the twins were the first to send spells at him. Harry didn't even bother raising a shield just moved out of the way. Next came Percy then Ron all Harry did was move out of the way. If anything, he was bored after the first 15 minutes "what to do! what to do!" he pretended to yawn.
The four Weasley's kept on firing spells after spells at him all of which he dodged. "Is this really the best you four could do? I'm bored at least try to make me use my wand" Harry said looking bored.
Ron was furious at what Potter said. He would teach the prat his place. The more his spells missed the more he got angry. Harry was now officially bored and decided to end things when Percy fired the aqua eructo at him. Harry used the freezing charm freezing the water and transfigured them into shurikens and sent them to the boys.
Percy being the smartest and the more skilled of the four used the fire spell to melt the incoming projectiles. Harry began firing spells at them, but they were mostly weak and easy to overcome, however he was deliberately provoking them. This was one of the dueling tactics his father had taught him. A person who is frustrated will make mistakes and rush their techniques making them vulnerable. Watching carefully, he saw that they were faltering in their techniques, that was until they each sent a spell at him. They were shocked when they saw that he deflected all four back at them. To dodge they hit the floor. Harry took the chance as they were getting to their feet and fire a ball of black smoke that stopped just before it got near them.
They let out a breath as they thought it was a dud but the next moment it exploded covering the area in black smoke. This was one of the spells he practiced with Miwa when he was in Japan. The smoke would make them turn against each other. While he let them fire different spells at each other he conjured the red and blue dart into the air and added an array of runes to make them rotate in a circle above him.
Feeling that the Weasley brothers had enough of the smoke he slashed his wand and vanished the smoke, only to reveal that they were now sporting different looks now. Ron had a piggy nose, pimples on his face, started changing into different colors, and a wedgie indicated by the way his underwear hung off his head, and some bad gas. Fred and George had a set antlers, red noses, and silver hairs. Percy got the worst of it as he not only had pimples on his face but elf ears, rashes on his arms that made him scratch them, and was sneezing.
The entire student body was laughing at them, especially the slytherins who looked as if Christmas had come early. For as long as the Weasley twins had been at school they've had to endure the constant pranks they pulled on them; they were ecstatic to see that the shoe was now on the other foot. Even Severus was having a hard time containing his smile.
All the Weasley were now glaring at Harry who was idly twirling his wand, the next thing they saw was point his wand at the darts circling over his head and had them rain down upon them. They all moved away allowing the darts to hit the floor.
"You missed Potter" Ron yelled.
"Wasn't aiming at y'all" he said with a smirk. They looked at each other for a moment wondering what he was thinking and were about to start firing a new barrage of spells, but they were instantly enveloped in purple smoke that came from the dart. Neither of them knew the bubble head charm and were out cold on the stage. With a wave of his wand, he vanished the smoke.
"Congratulations! Mr. Potter wins" Lockhart said
"What was that" one of the students shouted. Professor Snape got up to the podium just Harry jumped off the stage. "That was theatricality and deception, along with distraction and misdirection. Just so you know Mr. Smith" he explained while glaring at the hufflepuff boy. The slytherin were all muttering about how those were some of the rules written on the walls of their common room. They briefly wondered how Potter knew about them, until they remembered that he attended school in Japan as they had a feeling, they taught him. All they could do was stare at him in amazement.
Some of the muggleborn muttered about whether Potter was a ninja. He certainly fought like one. A few minutes later the four Weasley boys woke up wondering what was going on, that was until they remembered what had happened and sent glares at Hadrian who was talking with his friends.
Severus was not done yet as he hatched an idea "now who can tell me what these four did wrong" he gestured to the Weasley boys.
Daphne raised her hand, Severus nodded to her. "They were overconfident and thought they would win because they outnumbered him."
"Correct" he said "Overconfidence is dangerous, especially in dueling. Just because someone appears to be unskilled does not mean that they are. Judging someone by their appearance is a mistake that could cost you dearly. As for being outnumbered, it's not always about numbers. But about the level of experience, you have that will determine the outcome of a duel" he explained.
"10 points to slytherin" he said making the snakes smirk. "And 15 points from gryffindor for underestimating your opponents" he said making some of the lions glare at him. "Be glad that this is being overseen by instructors because were this a real duel then there would be the chance of you getting killed or severely injured." Everyone was captivated by what he had just said, no one dared to even speak.
Note: Part 1 of how I'm going to ruin Lockhart. Regrettably, I won't have Harry go overboard, but the meat bag is going to look a lot less pretty not that he ever was. However, Lockhart is going to be losing a few of things. Warning there is going to be blood and a lot of pain. If you are easily squeamish or don't like anything to do with blood, then avoid this part. You've been warned.
Gilderoy started clapping and made his way to the center of the podium "very well said Professor Snape. I hope you all take what he said to heart as they will be able to keep you alive when facing dark wizards and witches. Now I believe we have time for maybe one or two more duels." He looked around until his eyes landed on Potter "Mr. Potter how would you like to have the opportunity to duel against someone who would be a challenge" he smiled at him.
Harry raised an eyebrow "is Professor Flitwick coming? He was after all an International Dueling Champion before he became a teacher."
Lockhart just chuckled "no dear boy, I was talking about me" he puffed out his chest.
Hadrian pretended to look surprised "why would you want to duel me?"
"Seeing as how you had no problems with facing your last opponents, I feel as if you would benefit to having someone who knows a thing or two."
"Then why isn't Professor Flitwick here" he asked. "No offense sir but you lost to a single spell. That is pretty sad all things considered. We wouldn't you to lose what reputation you have left now would we" he pretended to sound sincere.
His friends were silently laughing, some of the students followed in suit and other were glaring at him. Hermione was especially sending daggers his way as he was mocking a professor.
A wave of anger washed over the blonde peacock face before he straightened it back. "Come now I promise I won't harm you to badly" he promised. "I will even allow you to name the terms of the duel."
'Gotcha' he mentally said. He pretended to think for a moment before looking at the man "then I accept" he replied. That brought a smile to Lockhart's face. When he wasn't looking, he elbowed Blaise and gave him a nod. Blaise immediately knew what to do, opening his bag he pulled out a contract, a quill, and some ink and handed it to him.
Harry took the items and walked back up the podium to his the fool. Flicking his wand out of its holster he casted the levitation charm on them "before we start, your going to need to sign these."
Gilderoy didn't bother with reading them as he took the quill put some ink and signed the papers, when he was done Harry levitated it back to Blaise who was snickering. Lockhart had no idea what he was in for.
"Now, professor" Harry began "you said that I could determine how we duel" Gilderoy nodded. "Then we will duel with swords, the duel will only end when one of us declares that they wish to end the duel and it is accepted by both parties. Loss of limb is allowed."
His friends instantly knew where this was going. Lockhart wholeheartedly agreed to the terms as he didn't see the harm in dueling a twelve year old. Harry conjured two swords one for him and one for the fool, then flicked his wand back in its holster.
The two gave a nod to Severus indicating that they were ready.
"I wish I had some popcorn" Blaise commented "this is going to be entertaining."
Daphne chuckled "Harry is going to destroy him" she said, and the others agreed. Lockhart was going to know the meaning of the word pain.
Severus began the count.
"1"
"2"
"3"
Lockhart immediately rushed forward and tried an overhead strike. Harry lazily blocked it with his sword. The older man tried again with a different strike, again Harry blocked it. Lockhart just kept trying to attack him but he either blocked or dodged it, he kept up his attack until he tried a vertical attack. Harry intercepted with his sword and thrust the blade up against Lockhart's cheek leaving a cut on his face.
When Lockhart backed up, he placed a hand where the boy had cut him and saw that blood was on his hand. He was so consumed with himself that he didn't even see Harry dash toward him and delivered three more cuts. One on his left torso, another on his right shoulder, the last one was to his right leg. He managed to block the next strike coming his way, but Harry expected that swung his blade faster and delivered a cut to his other cheek along with stabbing the fools right foot, making him scream in pain.
Harry quickly kicked delivered a kick to his face knocking him down while holding his now blood dripping nose.
"Is this really the limit of your abilities" he smirked. "Maybe you're not as good as you wanted everyone to think you are" he mocked.
Lockhart was now angry as he angrily got on his feet and started attacking the boy again all of which he blocked with minimum effort and delivered a few more slashes to the fraud's body. Little did Lockhart know but Harry was holding back a lot. The longer they continued the more cuts and gashes Lockhart received. At the moment he had a variety of different cuts and gashes on his body, not to mention the three different places where Harry stabbed him.
It took a few minutes for him to realize this but there was no way he was going to beat Potter. "I believe that is enough Mr. Potter" he said hoping the boy would stop attacking him.
Snape looked at Hadrian "Professor Lockhart has conceded the match, do you agree with him?" he may have asked, but he already knew the answer.
"I do not" Harry shook his head. "I expected a challenge, not a tea party and I am far from done with him."
"The duel will continue" Severus announced much to everyone's surprised, some were now afraid as they heard how ruthless Potter could be when it came to dueling. Ron and Hermione were scared of where this duel was going as Potter was cutting Lockhart to pieces. The former along with a few other either pissed or shit themselves as they were now afraid. Even Lockhart was afraid of the boy and looked moments away from shitting himself.
Reluctantly he got up, raised his sword and tried to attack Potter. Five minutes later the blonde professor now had a whole new set of gashes on his body, the front and back of his body was littered with bloodstains. Harry put a few X's on him, he made sure not to kill the fool as he just wanted him to be scared. And boy was Lockhart scared as he not only browned his trousers but had pee running down his legs.
The boy didn't stop as he kept attacking, that eventually brought Lockhart to one knee as he desperately tried to protect himself it was like the boy was trying to kill him.
Harry was far more skilled in swords as he spent a great deal of time in training in Mahoutokoro learning to fight the way they did. Against someone like Lockhart was like a play date in his opinion. The moron had no technique whatsoever. He just kept bashing at him, until Lockhart made the mistake of trying to attack, but Harry batted it away and slashed the fools hand clean off.
Gilderoy screamed in pain mourning the loss of his right hand.
"Hadrian Potter wins" Severus announced but was shocked.
Part 1 of Lockhart's torment has ended. This is only mildly compared to what the fool will receive, as I am not done with him just yet.
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Everyone stared at Potter with looks of fear, except his friends and Severus who were shocked by what just happened. Harry ignored them and stood his ground "someone go get madam Pomfrey this fool is going to need help" he drawled.
Severus regained his composure conjured his jaguar patronus with a message for Poppy to get to the great hall quickly and sent it away. The jaguar immediately went to go get the matron.
"How could you do that Harry" Hermione exclaimed. Everyone looked at her, "you did not have to hurt him that badly" she yelled, many agreed with her.
Harry rolled his eyes at her "Granger he consented to the duel and signed the contract. Besides, I was going easy on him all things considered."
"You call that easy" she said aghast by his stoic demeanor "you cut his hand off and you call that easy. You're going to be in so much trouble with the Wizengamot for what you did to him. And what do you mean he signed a contract?" she yelled.
Madam Pomfrey burst through the doors and when she saw the state Gilderoy was in she immediately took him to the hospital wing for treatment, along with his severed hand.
"Actually, I do Granger" he replied "if I had wanted to do worse than he would not be moving and have a lot more missing limbs. As to being in trouble with the Wizengamot my actions were legal, since the fool signed the contract" he pointed to Blaise who levitated the contract to him. "Professor Snape would you please confirm what I say is true?"
He handed the papers to him. Severus grabbed it and skimmed over the entire thing. "Mr. Potter is correct!" he said loud enough for everyone to hear. "By signing this Gilderoy agreed to the duel, the loss of his hand while tragic did not violate the contract. If he should lose any parts of his body, then he is forbidden from pressing charges or taking the matter to the Wizengamot. Also, three-fourth of his entire wealth will be split between Mr. Potter and Lord Malfoy. If Lockhart wishes to press charges and have Potter arrested, then all of his assets will be seized, and he be forced to leave the country."
While many were shocked other were looking at Draco Malfoy. The boy looked at Potter as if he was his new favorite hero. "Hey Draco" Harry said bringing the boy out of his thoughts "tell your old man I said Merry Christmas for me will you."
Draco was now bouncing on his feet looking a kid who ate too much sugar. "Thank you, Hadrian. My father will be so pleased. However, can I ask you something?"
"By all means go ahead."
"Why would you give my family half of it?" Everyone looked at Harry waiting for his response.
"I have my reasons" he explained loosely. "But I will tell you only one of them so, listen up because I will not repeat myself. I can't stand that incompetent sack of dragons dung; the fool is completely useless as a teacher and the way he looks at some of the students is criminal. If anyone is going to get his wealth it would have to be someone who is competent."
He followed up with "one more thing. Don't make me regret, this Draco" he narrowed his eyes at him. There were other reasons, but he didn't want to say anything else, taking the papers from Snape he went to go exit the hall and head back to the room to go relax before dinner started.
Severus spoke "you are all dismissed head back to your common rooms and get ready for dinner." Everyone immediately left the great hall discussing what just happened.
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In the RoR Harry placed a call to King Ragnok and Arcturus Black asking them to come over as there had been a development. One by one they entered the room where Harry handed them the contract Lockhart signed and explained what was happened. At first Arcturus was mad and demanded to know why the boy would give Malfoy half of his winnings. Harry explained that this way he would be able to learn a lot more information from Lucius through his son Draco. The boy had no tact and couldn't keep his mouth shut what better way to learn more about what Lucius was planning than through his son. That and a few other things that he could hang over his head.
At that moment, his dad and three of his slytherin friends came in. Severus was the first to ask about the stunt Harry pulled. He explained the reasons as to why he did what he did, and everyone stared in amazement. Harry had just pulled a move that Salazar Slytherin himself would have approved of. Ragnok went back to the bank to go finalize the papers and promised to send him a copy of the contract.
Arcturus looked at his nephew approvingly "you really will make a formidable Lord one day" he said with a smile.
Harry reveled at what he said. "What can I say, I had a good teacher" he casually said.
The old man barked out laughing "your right I do deserve most of the credit" Harry and Severus rolled their eyes at him "but not all of it" he smiled at the boy. After a few more minutes of talking Arcturus returned back home.
Hadrian took a seat on the couch next to Daphne scratched Byakko's head. Severus had to go back to the great hall for dinner, the others chose to stay in the room and eat their for the night. Before he left Severus told Hadrian to expect another summons to the headmaster's office, then left.
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The next nine day was complete hell a ton of problems arose starting with the rumor mill, after the duel with Lockhart, the entire student body save for the ones he was close with and studied with stayed the hell away from Hadrian. As they didn't want to lose any parts of their body the way Lockhart did. Dumbledore had indeed summoned him to his office again to discuss his actions toward Gilderoy, but Harry was prepared as he called Arcturus and brought the contract the fool signed. Needless, to say there was nothing poor Albus could do as the paperwork had been filed and legalized.
Something that did not make him happy as Harry not only outmaneuvered him but swindled Lockhart out of most of his money. What really set him off was that he gave Lucius Malfoy half of it and refused to tell him the reasons as to why he did what he did. That left him with more questions as he ended up consuming more of Old Ogden's Finest and eventually passed out drunk.
Lockhart was sent to St. Mungo's for treatment as he was incapable of doing his classes for a few days. Not only that he wanted to press charges against Harry for not only taking his hand but for taking most of his money but found out he couldn't as the contract he signed stipulated that everything he boy did to him was well within his rights to do as he pleased. If he violated the contract, then he would be forced to leave, and it didn't hurt that Arcturus also had words with him that made him pale as a ghost and piss himself again.
When he returned to school, he now had a wooden right hand to compensate the one he lost. His attitude toward Harry changed drastically as he wanted to give the boy detention for as long as he could but the cold looks, he received from him and the talk he had with Lord Black made him rethink as he wanted to be as far away from his as possible.
The people he studied with thanked him for what he did as Lockhart was now being wary of them because of the ties they had with him. Nicole was the most excited as she hugged and thanked him profusely for what he did to that pig.
Another problem was that the Daily prophet got wind of the matter and reported that he was dangerous and called him a loose cannon among other things. They even speculated that he was the one who was behind the attacks at Hogwarts. It was being covered by Rita Skeeter who wrote about how he was a troubled child who desperately missed his parents and was attacking the students to vent his frustration. According to Sirius and the Stevenson's Dumbledore apparently playing up to the press on trying to make it seem that Harry was getting out of control.
The next issue was the fact that a gang of Hufflepuffs decided to corner him in a deserted hallway and attack him as they thought that he was the cause of the attacks. From what he could tell the group consisted of Zacharias Smith, Beatrice Hayword, and two fifth years from their house. Apparently, they didn't take what Snape said to heart as they though that they could beat him. They were dead wrong as Hadrian was able to take them all on. Smith made the poor choice was casting Serpensortia, summoning a black serpent. In a moment without thinking Harry talked to the snake in Parseltongue that made them all turn ghostly pale.
Harry made short work of them by binding them in rope, leaving them there. He told the snake that he would take it outside and surprisingly it didn't try to attack him. Instead, it slithered up his arm and hung itself around his neck. After that things went from bad to worse as people were now calling him a dark wizard, he had a feeling that it was being backed by Ron Weasley and Dumbledore.
Professor Sprout turned cold to him just like that after what he did to some of her badgers. Only Susan, Hannah, and surprisingly Cedric Diggory believed him to be innocent, something that he was grateful for. Diggory in his opinion was the epitome of hufflepuffs in his opinion, having played against each other on quidditch they gained each other's respect. Cedric also paid close attention to what Harry said last year when he gave his speech and agreed with him as he too wanted change in the castle.
One evening Severus, Harry, Daphne, Blaise and Tracey were in the room of requirement trying to find everything they could about a basilisk. Harry told them how he thought that it was a basilisk that was the monster in the chamber of secrets. Severus was in full dad mode when he heard what his son said about the monster could be a basilisk.
"There's nothing here" Tracey said as she plopped on the couch, they had been looking for hours about the location to the Chamber of Secrets. Books were everywhere even the memories Harry got have proven useless as whenever he was in that monster mind it always made him sick when and disgusted with what he saw. "One would think that someone would have put the location to the chamber in library" she ranted.
"Are we actually sure that, it can be a basilisk and not something else?" Blaise asked hopefully. "Maybe, it's another creature that is capable of causing people to be petrified."
Severus eye twitched.
Harry saw that his dad was annoyed responded "even if it were some other kind of creature the list would be extremely short. The only creatures that are capable of petrifying people are gorgons, manticores, cockatrice, and basilisk" he explained. "Between the four I say that the more likely suspect will be a basilisk."
"Why do you say that?" he asked.
"Think Blaise" Daphne replied "the chamber of secrets was rumored to have been created by Salazar Slytherin himself, not only that the house we are in a snake. Not only that how would you explain the fact that Hadrian is the only one who could hear and understand it."
Blaise conceded to that point. Though some other questions formed in his head "so say that it is a basilisk how is it possible that it could have survived for over a thousand years? And would it be able to get around without being detected?"
"You're not wrong Mr. Zabini" Severus replied not happy "the more you all look into this the more questions there are" he grumbled.
Tracey decided to ask the next question "I was thinking why haven't the wards alerted Dumbledore of what is really happening? Shouldn't he know where the entrance is, I mean he has been in the school for more than a hundred years. Wouldn't he know? He may be senile and manipulative, but he should still alert the ICW."
"Those are some interesting questions Miss. Davis" Severus commented "but sadly not even Albus knows every detail of this castle or he claims that he doesn't know. As for the wards around the castle myself and some of the other staff members have constantly told him to update the wards, but he said that they were fine the way they are."
Tracey just groaned.
Blaise decided to change the topic of conversation "I don't know about you guys but I'm hungry, let's get some food" he suggested.
"You guys go on I'm going to do some research; I'll probably eat in here" Harry said.
Tracey and Blaise looked at each other. "You sure man?" the latter asked.
"Don't worry I'll stay with him" Daphne said. The two walked out of the room, leaving only Severus behind.
"I want you to be careful Hadrian we don't know how the basilisk is getting around" Severus said to him. "Daphne, Byakko please look after" the two nodded. "And Hadrian if you actively go after that basilisk, I will make you suffer the full weight of my displeasure. Am I clear?"
"Yes, dad" Harry replied. Severus eyed him critically for a few minutes before sweeping out of the room with his robes billowing.
Harry reclined back in the couch pinching the bridges of his nose.
Daphne looked at him and noticed his distress "why don't you try and relax for a little while" she suggested. "You got to be wiped out, from the amount of research and studying for the OWL's."
Harry wanted to argue that he was fine but had a feeling that she was right. He was pretty exhausted; if he were exhausted then he could only imagine how Miwa would be feeling at the moment.
"Perhaps a brief rest would do me some good" he breathed a sigh of relief.
"Do you want to eat in here?" he asked her.
"Can we" she asked. "I don't know if the elves would agree to it!"
"Can't hurt to ask" he replied. "Can some of the Hogwarts house elves come here please?"
When he finished three elves popped in front of them. They recognized that some were from the kitchen and that the head elf was with them. Hadrian asked if it would be possible if they could bring some food for them in the room. The elves nodded and vanished for a few minutes, only to reappear with some food and drinks for them; Byakko got some well-done meat. When they were served, they thanked the elves and told them that they would call them when they were done and then they popped away.
The three ate dinner and engaged in a discussion.
"How long are your exams going to take you?"
Harry took a bite of his mash potatoes and swallowed it "five days at most" he replied. "I have to go to the main ICW building to take them."
"Try not to burn yourself out while you're doing them" she may have said it, but her voice held a bit of concern in it.
He gave a light chuckle "it's me you know" he smiled at her. "Don't worry so much" he assured her.
She wasn't entirely convinced "still be careful try not to work so hard."
Harry gave a two finger salute "yes ma'am", that was met with a playful slap to the shoulder. "Prat" she muttered, though there was a small smile on her face.
"So what subjects are you going to test in?"
"I'll be testing in Arithmancy, DADA, Charms, Herbology, Astronomy, Potions, Transfiguration, Care of Magical Creatures, Alchemy, Rituals, History of Magic, and Dueling, Healing, Ancient Runes, and Magical languages" he answered.
Daphne was shocked at what he said "that's fifteen subjects" she looked at him as if he grew a second head. "Can you even do that much?"
"We'll see" he casually said, taking a bite of his roast beef. "Before you say anything, yes I know it's a lot, but I have to prove myself to the examiners" he groaned. "Somehow I'm getting the feeling that I am going to be out cold for a few days."
"That's putting it mildly" she replied.
"Anyway, enough about me" he looked at her. "Don't think I haven't been noticing that you been working hard as well" he decided to reverse the trend.
Her eyes opened wide "how long have you known?" she asked as he had been apparently watching her.
"Since the first week of October" he replied shrugging his shoulders. "I didn't want to say anything because it wasn't my place to. Also, you might need to watch your back from now on. Granger is getting more annoyed that you are doing things she can't. Self-imported girl" he muttered the last part.
Daphne let out an annoyed breath. Granger was really getting on her nerves as much as she would like to freeze her. She knew that she would just go run to the headmaster and he summon her to his office and probably read her mind. The last thing she wanted was for that old man to be anywhere near her mind.
"Her parents should have taught her that not everything is a competition" she spoke. "If anything, they need to teach her not to meddle in matters that don't concern her."
"You will get no argument from me" he took a swig of is pumpkin juice. "Granger aside, somehow I get the feeling that the worse is yet to come" he shuddered involuntarily.
That didn't go unnoticed by Daphne nor Byakko. The former put a hand on his shoulder while, the latter rubbed against his legs. "What's the matter Hadrian" Daphne carefully asked.
"This basilisk has had many times chances to kill people" he began "so far everyone has been lucky with just being petrified."
"What are you getting at?"
Harry turned his head slightly, "out of the two people that were attacked they've all had something in common. They see its reflection. A single stare from a basilisk is enough to kill most people."
Daphne caught on to what he was saying "your saying that they have been amazingly lucky as of late and that we need to start carrying mirrors with us."
"The first one I'm unsure about, but the second yes" Harry replied.
She looked a bit confused "what do you mean by unsure?" Harry sucked in a breath "I don't know but something doesn't add up" he said deep in thought.
Daphne suddenly got an idea "I just thought of something" he looked at her "why not have Byakko try to find where the snake is and deal with him" she suggested.
This time it was Byakko turn to respond. "If it were only that easy" he said gravely. "When I came to the mortal world to forge the pact with Hadrian, part of my abilities were sealed off" he then later explained that should he break the seal it could put a heavy strain on Harry. "I am unwilling to put my cub in danger" he said defiantly.
Daphne saw that he was determined to protect Hadrian no matter what the cost. So, she decided to change the conversation to something else. They continued to talk for the rest of dinner, when they were done Byakko called the elves to let them know that they were done. Thanking them for a good meal as they gathered the plates.
"I also, have detention with Lockhart tomorrow" Daphne said, Harry turned his head to her so fast that would have made it crack.
"How did you get detention with that idiot?"
"For refusing to participate in his class and calling him a fraud" she replied, "not just me either Nicole and Tracey refused to participate to and got detention with me."
Harry could tell by her facial expression that she was dreading having to go. "Might be best for you to keep your communicator on" he suggested. "I don't trust that peacock any more than I can throw him. Plus, the way he's been acting his setting me on edge."
Daphne readily agreed. "I know the feeling" she like Nicole often felt Lockhart looking at her like she was a piece of meat. It would often send a shiver down her spine whenever she got near him.
Harry grabbed her hand and flashed her a smile. The look on his face made her feel at ease as she began to feel warm inside. They sat like that for a while longer until it was curfew. Harry offered to let her sleep here for the night. Something she accepted and went to a bedroom the room provided for her.
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Warning: This upcoming part is something that I am not happy about and it pisses me off. Attempted rape of minors. Do not! And I repeat Do not read if you are uncomfortable with this sort of thing. Also, part 2 of Lockhart's beating and this will be brutal. You all have been warned.
Daphne, Tracey, and Nicole made their way to the Defense classroom for their detentions with Lockhart and they were instantly dreading it. The last thing they wanted to do was spend more time with the idiot as he had proven to be incompetent.
Nicole mostly wished that they could serve detention with someone else, at least this way they could feel somewhat at ease.
"I still can't believe we have detention for refusing to be vampires" Tracey said for what seem like the hundredth time.
Nicole spoke but was irritated "let's just get this over with the faster we get this detention over with the better."
"Not to mention that we have other assignments to do" Daphne irritably said.
They arrived at the office door, knocked on it and entered the room. When they walked in no one was present then everything went black as they were immediately unconscious. Out of the shadows a blonde idiot came out holding a lecherous smile.
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Daphne groaned as she started to awaken. Her vision was still a bit bleary but soon registered where she was next to her was Tracey and Nicole. All three of them were naked and had their arms and legs were tied with ropes. The other two started to wake up and took in their surroundings as they were currently on a large bed. They were wondering what had happened, until they remembered that they had detention tonight with Lockhart.
It didn't take long for them to realize that they were in the man quarters and it terrified them as they had a feeling about what was going to happen. All three desperately tried to get free but found that they were unable to get loose. What could they do?
As they were trying to get loose Gilderoy walked into the room with a smile that made them sick and filled with fear. Taking his wand out of his pocket he waved it to force them to sit up straight. The look of fear and disgust on their faces was present and it only made him smile more. "Well, well, well what entertainment do I have today? Daphne Greengrass, Tracey Davis, and Nicole Vaisey; the three most beautiful girls in their year" he said as he got closer to them.
Daphne and Nicole were trying to get free but couldn't "oh no, no, no you three will find that it is impossible to get out of the binds I put you in" he purred as he ran a hand across Daphne developing breast. "My oh my Miss. Greengrass you certainly are a beautiful thirteen year old girl, I can only imagine what you will look like when you are older" purred.
Lockhart continued to trace his hands across her body until his hand nearly reached her waist, then to her legs. All the while ignoring the tears coming out of her eyes. The only thing he could think about is how much fun he was going to have tonight.
"Harry please" she said weakly. Gilderoy expression darkened at the mention of Potter name. That brat took his hand and most of his money. In a quick motion he slapped her across her face.
"Never say that brat's name again" a dark expression was clear on his face. "Just so you know after I get done having fun with you three, I'll be sure to go play with your little boyfriend." He continued stroking her body for a few minutes then began to unbuckle his belt.
"Harry please" Daphne cried out.
Lockhart was about to hit her again, but the door blew off its hinges and he was hit by a smoke bomb then blasted across the room where he hit the wall hard. The girls looked to the right and saw a pissed off harry who looked ready to kill someone. His green eyes were shining with so much fire that would possibly make a dementor run for the hills. His anger was so abundant that he was releasing magic that could possibly destroy the entire room.
As Gilderoy struggle to get up, Harry immediately blasted him again where he hit the wall again. He dashed toward the pedophile and started pummeling the shit out of him. Having been trained in different styles of muggle combat and infusing his magic with every strike made it all the more painful for Lockhart. Already he had lost most of his teeth and had a broken nose and jaw. However, Harry was not done with him not by a long shot.
With supreme effort he picked the fool up by his shirt and tossed him to where the door used to be. Gilderoy tried to fire a spell at him but Harry deflected it and raced toward him before he could fire another spell. Delivering more strikes this time they were much more painful as he kept striking him in various part of his body, within the next few minutes Lockhart now had broken arms, legs, five broken ribs, and a cracked sternum.
"You dare lay a hand on them" he shouted. Lockhart was pleading for mercy but got none as Harry kept on beating him. "I knew you were low, but I didn't think you could sink much further but by laying your hands and on innocents you hit rock bottom. You will pay! You will pay!" he shouted with so much force that made Gilderoy shit himself.
Harry took his wand and fired the castration curse at the broken bastard. Gilderoy screamed at the loss of his most valued part of his body. Harry followed up by sending the cutting curse at his only original hand, cutting it completely off. This time Lockhart was in tears; tired of the fools he put him in a full body bind and some rope but not before bringing his foot on his head.
Part 2 ends: Know this everyone I am indeed very sorry about this part. I'm going to have nightmares from this I can already tell.
Turning back to the others he rushed toward them and removed their binding with a wave of his wand. Daphne clung onto him for dear life. Using his free hand, he held onto her in a protective hug, his free hand that his wand he summoned their clothes. Allowing them to get dressed.
As soon as they were dressed, Harry held all three of the crying girls close.
"I'm glad you guys are okay" he tried to soothe them while trying to reign in his anger.
Daphne looked up at him with tears still streaming down her eyes. "How did you know we were in trouble?"
"Your communicator was on, Merlin I'm glad me and my sister designed them" he said in relief, making a mental note to go buy her something nice for Christmas.
Daphne suddenly remembered that she was wearing her watch, looking at her right wrist it materialized and indicated that it was turned to him. She all but forgotten that it was on and invisible.
"I have to call the aurors and your guardians" he said to them. Turning his watch a few clicks to the left "Uncle Arcturus are you there?"
He waited for a reply "I'm here" he heard the voice of his uncle. "I need you to get Amelia, along with Lords Greengrass and Davis and Xavier Vaisey. Tell them that their kids were almost raped by Gilderoy Lockhart go!"
"WHAT" Arcturus bellowed.
"Just do as I say and tell them to be quick about it" he cut off the communications between the two.
He then pointed his wand to his throat casting sonorous to amplify his voice "all heads of houses report to Gilderoy Lockhart's quarters at once this is not a drill. Repeat this is not a drill! Move your arses. Quietus" he deactivated the charm returning his voice to normal.
"They will be here soon" he said to them.
A/N: I promised a dueling club and I delivered. As many of you could see the Weasley males were punished, many of you can't deny that they have had this coming. Hadrian's duel with Lockhart was meant to happen as not only did the meat bag lose his hand but most of his money. Self-imported Asshole needs to pay more attention to what he signs. Like I said that was only part 1 of his torment. Harry's attack on him was to show that anyone who was bold or foolish would be wishing that they were elsewhere. As for Malfoy getting half the money. Think about it Lucius Malfoy is a power hungry bastard who wants as much money and power as possible. By doing this I'm making sure that Harry has a reluctant alliance with the swine. The more Lucius believes that Harry is on his side the more likely he will never suspect that he is being played for a chump.
It always bugged me how a basilisk was able to get around the castle undetected. I mean come on here, that's a sixty five foot long snake how was it possible that the wards were not able to pinpoint its location? Pipes is one thing, but people should have noticed the smell. Also, just because Harry is a Parseltongue everyone turns against him since when is being able to speak a magical language a crime?
As for the last part know that I am very unhappy about this, were if I had a children that were in this predicament then you can be sure that there will be hell to pay. And know this Lockhart is not going to get away with this as you the readers will decide his punishment:
Life in Azkaban
Dementors Kiss
Pushed through the Veil of Death
You have 5 days to decide his fate!
What should I have Harry give Daphne to help her recover:
Hellhound
Crup
Or regular dog. If #3 then choose which dog, you would like her to have.
Next chapter: The girls will be sent to mind healers and the world will see what kind of man Lockhart really is.