When I tell you I'm super disappointed I mean it. Two years ago my parents gave me the choice of moving to Massachussets and Ireland. Where in Massachusetts? Harvard, with a population of 6000 people. I just found out the whole 2 stores that were in the town were taken up by the new Emma Watson movie set... The people I met when I was there all said that they helped the cast set up. The coincidence is too much for Emma Watson crush to handle, anyways I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Harry had just woken up Monday morning, Hera was already awake and ushered him to get ready for his first class at Hogwarts. Harry was nearly late for the first potion class with Snape.
Harry rushed down into the common room where he found Hermione waiting for him and looking a bit annoyed that he was as late as he was.
"Harry! It's the first day, couldn't you at least be early to this class? You missed breakfast though. So I brought you a chicken roll." she handed him the roll and she hurried him out of the common room to go to potions.
"So our resident celebrity might actually know the answers to Snape's questions this time?"
"I'm not sure he will ask them this time. I think he had a real attitude change when I talked to him about Hera. Not to mention I will be showing her to the school this class, well it depends how it goes but Hera I promise I'll show you soon" Harry felt Hera coil around his neck a bit tighter to show she was okay with his plans."
"Sure, we can wait and see how the class goes. If Snape antagonises you like he did last time then we can just wait a while and show her another way. We need to remember that we are playing the long game."
Harry and Hermione entered the potions class a few minutes ahead of the bell, they chose the desks near the center and waited for class to start. Everyone seemed to be in class already, Hermione noticed that Ron seemed to have made friends with Seamus already. She pitied his results now that she wasn't there to constantly tell him to study. She was also reminded that she wouldn't have to constantly stress over report cards this time around.
As Hermione was thinking of how to spend her now near empty schedule Snape came into the room exactly as he did last time.
"There will be no foolish wand-waving or silly incantations in this class. As such, I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science of the potion making. However, for those of you who possess the predisposition, I can teach you how to bewitch the mind and ensnare the sense; I can tell you how to brew glory, bottle fame, and even put a stopper in death. Then again some of you have come to Hogwarts in possession of abilities so formidable that you feel comfortable enough to not pay attention… Mr Weasley, if you utter one more word in my class, I will personally pack your bag and kick you out of Hogwarts. You've not been in my class 5 minutes and I can already you failing first year."
"I see our resident celebrity has made it to my class." Snape directed to Harry.
" I hope you will be as good as your mother was, or else I don't see much point in being the celebrity. I expect top performance in my class after you pestered me into letting you have the snake as your familiar."
Before Harry could say anything polite in response, Hera uncoiled from around his neck and slithered onto the table where she kept increasing her size.
She looked at Harry
"Ssshould I ssshow them my largessst sssize?Ssscare them out of their sssilly ssstereotypes" Hera asked sarcastically gesturing towards the rest of the class.
Harry glanced around to see the whole class nearly falling over each other so they can get to the furthest point away for them. Even Hermione was backing away in order to blend in with the rest of the class. Snape looked on astonished at how large Hera was growing, it seemed to be indefinite, he could only imagine how easily Hera could overpower nangini. He wasn't even sure what kind of species it was. He knew one thing for certain, there was no way that the snake was in fact real.
Snape took his wand out and before anyone could react he cast the Evanesco charm, he watched in horror as the spell was attracted to the gem in Heras head and then imply absorbed the spell.
Harry realising the disaster this could turn out to be, quickly spoke to Hera in parseltongue
"Hera dear, pleassse ssshrink again, youre ssscaring all of our ssschoolmatesss."
Hera seemed to notice everyones reactions to her size and began to shrink again. If the class was disturbed when Hera enlarged, it was in uproar when Harry spoke parseltongue.
The amount of kids shouting he was the dark lord shocked Harry. Snape cast a silencing charm on the room and gave the kids a murderous glare
"I expect you all to stop being complete idiots. No harm will come to you from Harry Potter or his familiar. Now sit down before I take house points from you all."
Some of the Slytherin students sat down, and all of the Gryffindor students took their seats again.
Snape noticed that some of the Slytherins were still standing so he decided to take some decisive action to assert his dominance over the class once again.
"5 points from Slytherin for each student standing." The whole class was shocked but Harry and Hermione were absolutely stunned.
"Another 5 points for continuing to stand"
The Slytherin students immediately took their seats knowing that Snape must be furious to take points away from Slytherin voluntarily.
Once all the students were in their seats Snape acted like nothing had occurred and the rest of the class sat in fear of both Harry and Snape. As class continued like normal, Hermione gently put her hand on Harry's thigh and tried to reassure him that everything was alright. The only person who didn't seem to still be frightened was Neville Longbottom, as when he sat down again he sat down next to Harry. Harry could tell that he was still a bit nervous but appreciated that Neville stood by.
The class continued on as it did last time, although much more tense. Harry was actually relieved that everyone seemed to now be paying attention to the lesson and not giving sideways glances at him. He hoped that this would be a success and that he wouldn't be ostracised from the school yet again. It helped that Snape didn't seem to be insulting Harry, well he couldn't after the incident earlier in class.
The class almost seemed to be looking up to Harry and his "superior", as snape called it, stirring form. Harry was even enjoying the end of potions class as he realised time was nearing.
When class ended Harry and Hermione did not know what to expect from the other students, like Lavender, Parvati, Seamus, Crabbe, and Goyle left immediately, while others stayed outside the room to see what Harry said.
Harry went outside the room to see Hermione and some others waiting.
Immediately Harry noticed that Ron was also standing there with some others.
"Blimey Harry! Your snake coulda' killed me. I can't believe you got sorted into Gryffindor! You're as Dark as You-Know-Who. How didn't you get sorted into Slytherin!" said Ron, and the remaining Gryffindors who left.
Neville stayed, apologised about how they were treating him, and then left in a different direction to all of his housemates.
"What species of snake is that anyways? Dads never spoken about any snake looking like that" said Draco Malfoy curiously.
"Draco, how can you not see that it's a magical snake" answered Daphne Greengrass.
"I think I've read about these before, Horned Serpent right? They're really rare from what I read." answered Hermione acting like she was just as surprised as the others.
"It's a shame your housemates from Gryffindor don't seem to like her, if you're having problems at lunch, you can always sit with me. I think Draco would accompany us as well. I wouldn't worry about any Slytherins bothering you when word gets out that you speak parseltongue."
"That's okay, I think i'll just be sitting with Hermione" Harry answered politely.
Draco was about to say something, which Harry expected to be an insult against Hermione, when Percy came around the corner with Ron by his side.
Only Draco and Hermione could see Percy and Ron turn around the corner. Percy was holding his wand furiously when Hermione palmed her secondary wand, she had no idea that Draco palmed his wand alaso. When Percy neared the group Harry noticed where Hermione was looking and also palmed his original wand.
"How dare you bring that creature to school with you! That pet is not allowed on these premises and I will have to take you to McGonagall immediately."
Percy raised his wand and began to mutter a spell which Harry couldn't hear. Harry immediately reacted by shouting 'Protego'. As the shield deflected the red curse into the wall. Harry immediately stopped the shield charm and muttered 'Stupefy'.
While Percy was still falling Harry levelled his wand to Ron, who was also about to raise his wand. Harry was almost curious as to what Ron would cast against him when Hermione shouted "stupefy" and Ron dropped to the floor.
Draco and Daphne had their wands raised but were stunned as they could not believe the level with which Harry and Hermione had cast their spells.
"Oh we learned those spells while reading ahead in the textbook. Have you and Draco not read ahead?" Hermione asked innocently, trying to downplay their knowledge of dueling.
"No Granger we haven't" answered Draco in a mildly annoyed tone, although much better than Hermione had come to expect from Draco.
"That was amazing spellwork Hermione and Harry!", Daphne exclaimed.
"You guys will easily be the most talented in our year. Draco, drop that face. You know there are exceptions to every rule, even your fathers..".
Although Daphne did not expect Harry and Hermione to get the reference of blood purity, they did. They were also secretly ecstatic when Draco actually apologised.
While Draco was finishing his apology, Professor Flitwick and McGonagall ran around the corner of the hallway.
"What has happened here? Who did this?" McGonagall practically shouted.
"I'm so sorry professors, but when I saw the prefect level his wand and mutter a curse. I reacted the way the textbooks said I should. I casted my strongest proteo, which I read about in the defense textbook, then cast stupefy, which the textbook said would stop the aggressor." Harry explained, in the most shameful tone he could muster.
"It is my fault too professors… After Harry protected himself against our Prefect, I saw Ron look furious and point is wand at Harry. I was so scared that he might hurt Harry because he knows more spells than us, you know? After growing up with magic for his whole life I thought he might cast something that would hurt us. I did my best to replicate the spell that Harry cast and it worked against Ron as well."
"Ms. Granger, Mr. Potter, do you really think that Percy, the Gryffindor Prefect, would really have hurt you?" asked Professor Flitwick, shocked by the accusations the kids were making.
While they were explaining that he shot a red spell at them, McGonagall was reviving both Ron and Percy. The second she revived Percy, both Weasleys immediately started raising their voices at Harry and Hermione.
"You dare cast against us unprovoked! Now that Professors McGonagall and Flitwick are here, you will be rightfully punished. I think that you will deserve it when the Ministry snaps your wands"
"There will be no wand-snapping here Mr. Weasely. Now tell me why exactly you were here in the first place."
"I heard from my brother, Ron, that Harry Potter had nearly killed him when he spoke parseltongue to an enormous snake during potions. I immediately set out to stun the dangerous beast, and Harry Potters snake to bring to you" answered Percy cockily.
McGonagall turned to Flitwick and the other students, and answered in a sullen tone "Im very sorry that you were already attacked by an upperclassmen, prefect, and for some of you, a member of your own house. I only see it right to reward all of you 5 points, and an extra 10 points for well done wandwork. You may head to your next classes while I deal with my rogue student and prefect."
As they were leaving they heard Flitwick call out to them "Thirty points to Ms. Granger and Mr. Potter for reading ahead"
Harry and Hermione said goodbye to Draco and Daphne, then headed to their next class.
"So Harry, you saw that Draco was more polite this time round right?"
"How could I miss him not insulting you this time? I just couldn't believe that Percy really tried to hex us."
"Yeah, I mean I remember him being a bit, annoying, but there was never anything like this."
They arrived to the great hall for lunch and were surprised to see some of the Gryffindors had saved them seats. They noticed that Neville had saved them seats across from Fred and George, who were joking around with Neville.
The second they saw Harry they jumped out of our seats.
"It's nice to" George piped
"Meet you finally" Fred piped
"The only ones who"
"Could get our annoying brother"
"Sacked from his prefect duties"
"We would also like to see your snake… it sounds cool" George said