A/N: Thank you soooo much for all the reviews!!! And sorry for the wait. I
went on vacation for two weeks and forgot to tell you guys. From now on it
will be longer between updates with school starting and I'm going to try to
plan out everything before continuing. And I'm not in a rush to finish it
in the first place, as I have until J.K. Rowling decides to finish the nest
book anyway.
P.S. Devony Rose. thank you, thank you, thank you for your reviews I luv your stories too!
Chapter 5
Once Harry had finally gained control of his body again, he looked towards Hermione to find her glaring at everyone who was watching the scene and muttering angrily to herself. Then with a jolt Harry finally realised what Ron, his supposed best friend, had just yelled at him. Harry stiffly stood up and stalked out of the Great Hall scowling fiercely.
Hermione who had looked up worriedly when Harry stood, watched him leave anxiously, realising that after all Harry had been through recently that and the training he had just received, that Ron would now have to face Harry's temper. Something no sane person ever wanted to do, especially when Harry didn't have quidditch to take his mind of things. "Oh dear" she said to herself.
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After Harry had left the great hall he stomped up to the Gryffindor common room to collect the books he needed for class that morning. As he stormed into the sixth year dormitory he found Ron sitting on his bed looking at his shoes worriedly. When Harry walked in he looked up apprehensively as Harry walked by ignoring him completely. "Harry, look I'm sorry for what I said earlier, y'know I didn't mean-"
"Shut up Ron I don't want to hear it." Harry interrupted.
"I don't care, I have to apologi-"
"Ron, I don't give a damn what you want to say, you said it all at breakfast. And after all I am Harry Potter, so I don't have to listen to you if I don't want to, do I?" Harry shot back scathingly.
"Fine, if you want to be that way!" Ron said.
"I do thank you very much. Actually I'm surprised it took this long to happen after all, you probably just acted like my friend to get a piece of the limelight right? I was your way of standing out from your brothers all along wasn't I?" Harry said, before storming out of the dormitories and heading towards his first class. "Ugh.Advanced Potions, can this day get any worse." Harry muttered to himself before resignedly heading towards the dungeons.
When Harry arrived in class he looked around at the class most of which were Slytherins though there were even few of them, he and Hermione were the only Gryffindors in the room. He quickly made his way over to her, slammed his cauldron on the desk angrily before sitting down. The class went surprisingly well, Snape was slightly less nasty towards Harry then before though he still yelled and unjustly took points away from him, Harry could see the respect in his eyes. 'At least the Order training did some good. Hopefully Snape will stay this way.' Harry thought sullenly to himself as he and Hermione made there way out of the class, both silently fuming. Soon Ron would get what he deserved.
The end of the week found Harry sitting at the edge of the lake absorbed in his thoughts, absently throwing random rocks in. Classes had gone surprising well; it seemed the teachers were giving them a same break, due to the stress of their O.W.L.s (well, excluding Snape). It was a relief for Harry that unlike his Order lessons, the teachers had stopped acting like doomsday was upon them, as they were before their exams. Harry heard someone sit beside him with a sigh, and turned to face Remus.er..Professor Lupin.
"What's wrong Harry you seem rather preoccupied lately?" He said
"You mean besides the fact that I just lost my best friend of five years, my godfather, the closest thing I had to a father was recently murdered, that I have a mad murder ass after my blood, have no choice whatsoever in my own life, and that I'm sixteen years old and I have yet to live a day of my life how I'd like to. Nothing, nothing at all." Harry said sarcastically.
"Harry you know we can't help the cards fate dealt us. We can only make the best of them." Remus sighed.
"Yes, but if I am not allowed to make any choices how can I make the best out of the situation."
"Have you talked to Dumbledore about this?"
"No, why would Dumbledore care, I'm probably just a tool for him to defeat Voldemort with. He doesn't give a damn." Harry replied curtly.
"Harry! That's not true and you know it. He really does care for you, your practically a grandson in his eyes, I swear that man would do anything to make you happy if he could." Remus answered. "Harry, we all have our own ways of dealing with stress, Hermione loves to disappear into a world of knowledge through books, Albus listens chamber music, you like your father seem to enjoy pranks. You need something besides your studies to concentrate on, something you enjoy. It'll help, if you ever need anything just tell me 'kay? And don't forget to talk with Albus.
As Remus walked away Harry thought about what he said for a few moments before grinning evilly. "Pranks eh? Not a bad idea." Harry then walked back to the school smiling with a mischievous glint in his eyes. On the way Harry ran straight into Hermione.
"Oh Harry, I was just looking for you! I hope your not still moping over what Ron said; he's really not worth it. Why are you smiling." Hermione said finally glancing up at his face. "Wait a second, I know that grin. You're planning something!" Harry smiled and nodded in agreement. "What is it? Can I help? Does it have something to do with Ron?" She said in a rush.
"Are you sure Hermione, I mean you are a prefect after all." Harry said
"Oh who cares! Your father was Headboy and he was a marauder for goodness sake! Please Harry let me help!" Hermione begged.
"Alright Hermione, let's go I'll go tell you what I have planned so far then you can help me with the rest and set it up, we gotta make sure we have lots of pictures of this." Harry said grinning.
Hermione smiled, this was the first time she'd seen Harry truly happy lately and with all the things that had happened to him who could blame him for not jumping with joy. She and Harry made their way to a deserted classroom and spent the time talking and planing animatedly before going to set everything up for dinner that night.
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For the first half of dinner everything went on as usual; people were chatting with their friends while stuffing their faces with the food. Then it suddenly went dark as all the candles went out, the teachers and a few students nervously took out their wands. Then with a bang that made everyone including Dumbledore jump in surprise a score of multicoloured fireworks went off forming the words 'We our proud to present for your entertainment, Ron Weasleys Secret Ambition' in sparkling letters. Then a pink swirling mist formed blocking Ron from view, and when it cleared The hall burst into laughter and Ron squealed, even some of the teachers were having trouble keeping straight faces. There stood Ron in a pink ballerina tutu that clashed horribly with his hair and brilliant red face posing while several flashes around the room went off from hidden cameras. Then music began to play and Ron spent the next seven minutes dancing clumsily for the crowd, who roared with laughter. Then in a flash of light Ron was dressed in a grass skirt and coconut bra with flowers around his hair and neck. And as the music changed, Ron hula danced out the hall. The laughter rang through the Hall for at least ten minutes Ron's spectacular departure. As everyone calmed down, Albus stood, his eyes twinkling merrily and praised the pranksters for their wonderful entertainment and creative use of advanced charms. When no one was looking Remus gave Harry and Hermione who were grinning proudly a Thumbs up, and Harry grinned cheekily and winked back while Hermione blushed slightly. Then as everyone was standing up to leave Albus stopped them once again saying, while looking directly at Harry, "Oh, and before I forget, I wonder if we could get some copies of those pictures taken for the yearbook?" Everyone left the Hall still chuckling.
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Over the next week the pranks continued with Ron turning into a bunny hopping around the hall singing about the oh-so-wonderful Easter Bunny, and him loudly proclaiming his love for Snape and various other Slytherins for a whole day, and many other embarrassing situations for Ron. Three days after the first prank a school owl had come into the hall presenting a small package to Professor Dumbledore which when opened proved to be the copies of the pictures taken including one of a shocked Albus Dumbledore. A very rare sight indeed. Along with this came a note saying.
To the Barmy Old Codger,
How'd you like our fun the other day? Hopefully you enjoyed it as much as we did. Well, here are the pictures you asked for; we'll make sure to supply you with more throughout the week.
Tata for now!
Your loveable pranksters.
P.S. I especially like the one of you. it has been an ambition of mine to shock you for years now; looks like I finally succeeded.
As he finished reading the picture mentioned expanded so the all the hall could see and Dumbledore stood amongst the laughter and congratulated the people responsible for their success.
By now most people had guessed Harry and Hermione were responsible for the pranks and were stopping in the corridors to thank them for the wonderful entertainment. Ron too had come to the same conclusion and had tried to retaliate but soon found that each attempt backfired horribly and it was safer not to try to prank a marauders son and his friends. Both Neville and Luna had asked to join them in their fun and were happily accepted in their band of merry pranksters.
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That Saturday Harry made his way to the library to research the importance of bat wings in pain reducing potions. He had already finished two of the three-foot essay, but found he needed more information to finish the last foot. Harry found a book on importance of different ingredients in potions and set to work on his essay. As Harry finished he realised it was only ten minutes until curfew, and hurriedly packed up his work and placed the book back in it's place on the shelf before walking quickly towards the exit. As he was opening the door he noticed something catch the light and turned to see what it was, as he examined the bookshelves contents he found a small silver book. Harry picked it up, looking at it curiously, as he stood book still in hand he remembered the time and shoved the mysterious book in his bag and raced out the library and down the corridors. He arrived at the portrait of the Fat Lady breathing hard with one minute to spare, which he spent catching enough breath to say the password.
Harry slowly stumbled up to his dormitories not long after and with a tired sigh fell back onto his bed. Just as he was drifting off he remembered the curious book from library was still in his bag, and decided to see what it was about before going to sleep. He soon realised that the outside of the book had strange symbols on it, nothing like any of the ancient runes he had ever seen. Harry ran his finger over the writing as he tried to make sense of it. Why would an ancient runes book be in the Defense section of the library when they were at opposite sides. Then slowly the symbols started to make sense.
Parselmagic
'Parselmagic, what in Merlin's name is that?' Harry thought to himself. 'I guess I might as well read it.' Harry blew the dust off the pages as they crackled apart and started to read.
A guide to Parselmagic:
If you are reading these pages then you have the rare and fascinating gift of being a parselmouth, the ability to talk to snakes. As you are a parselmouth there is a chance you will be able to perform parselmagic, though it is not guaranteed, parselmagic is not an easy branch of magic to learn; however if you are able to it opens a whole new world of possibilities to you. Parselmagic neither dark nor light though the ability to speak parseltongue, the language of the snakes is considered to be evil. It is an ancient and powerful form of magic and while most spells work best in duelling, whether offensive or defensive, there are still other spells that can be used for survival skills (example: conjuring food and water) and other more peaceful reasons.
'Hmmm.this could be the edge I need over ol' Voldie. I'm sure that if he knew about this he would have used it long ago. With this and the order training both muggle and magical, may be I'll actually have a chance of surviving. And with this encouraging thought Harry fell asleep, deciding he would master this form of magic if at all possible.
P.S. Devony Rose. thank you, thank you, thank you for your reviews I luv your stories too!
Chapter 5
Once Harry had finally gained control of his body again, he looked towards Hermione to find her glaring at everyone who was watching the scene and muttering angrily to herself. Then with a jolt Harry finally realised what Ron, his supposed best friend, had just yelled at him. Harry stiffly stood up and stalked out of the Great Hall scowling fiercely.
Hermione who had looked up worriedly when Harry stood, watched him leave anxiously, realising that after all Harry had been through recently that and the training he had just received, that Ron would now have to face Harry's temper. Something no sane person ever wanted to do, especially when Harry didn't have quidditch to take his mind of things. "Oh dear" she said to herself.
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After Harry had left the great hall he stomped up to the Gryffindor common room to collect the books he needed for class that morning. As he stormed into the sixth year dormitory he found Ron sitting on his bed looking at his shoes worriedly. When Harry walked in he looked up apprehensively as Harry walked by ignoring him completely. "Harry, look I'm sorry for what I said earlier, y'know I didn't mean-"
"Shut up Ron I don't want to hear it." Harry interrupted.
"I don't care, I have to apologi-"
"Ron, I don't give a damn what you want to say, you said it all at breakfast. And after all I am Harry Potter, so I don't have to listen to you if I don't want to, do I?" Harry shot back scathingly.
"Fine, if you want to be that way!" Ron said.
"I do thank you very much. Actually I'm surprised it took this long to happen after all, you probably just acted like my friend to get a piece of the limelight right? I was your way of standing out from your brothers all along wasn't I?" Harry said, before storming out of the dormitories and heading towards his first class. "Ugh.Advanced Potions, can this day get any worse." Harry muttered to himself before resignedly heading towards the dungeons.
When Harry arrived in class he looked around at the class most of which were Slytherins though there were even few of them, he and Hermione were the only Gryffindors in the room. He quickly made his way over to her, slammed his cauldron on the desk angrily before sitting down. The class went surprisingly well, Snape was slightly less nasty towards Harry then before though he still yelled and unjustly took points away from him, Harry could see the respect in his eyes. 'At least the Order training did some good. Hopefully Snape will stay this way.' Harry thought sullenly to himself as he and Hermione made there way out of the class, both silently fuming. Soon Ron would get what he deserved.
The end of the week found Harry sitting at the edge of the lake absorbed in his thoughts, absently throwing random rocks in. Classes had gone surprising well; it seemed the teachers were giving them a same break, due to the stress of their O.W.L.s (well, excluding Snape). It was a relief for Harry that unlike his Order lessons, the teachers had stopped acting like doomsday was upon them, as they were before their exams. Harry heard someone sit beside him with a sigh, and turned to face Remus.er..Professor Lupin.
"What's wrong Harry you seem rather preoccupied lately?" He said
"You mean besides the fact that I just lost my best friend of five years, my godfather, the closest thing I had to a father was recently murdered, that I have a mad murder ass after my blood, have no choice whatsoever in my own life, and that I'm sixteen years old and I have yet to live a day of my life how I'd like to. Nothing, nothing at all." Harry said sarcastically.
"Harry you know we can't help the cards fate dealt us. We can only make the best of them." Remus sighed.
"Yes, but if I am not allowed to make any choices how can I make the best out of the situation."
"Have you talked to Dumbledore about this?"
"No, why would Dumbledore care, I'm probably just a tool for him to defeat Voldemort with. He doesn't give a damn." Harry replied curtly.
"Harry! That's not true and you know it. He really does care for you, your practically a grandson in his eyes, I swear that man would do anything to make you happy if he could." Remus answered. "Harry, we all have our own ways of dealing with stress, Hermione loves to disappear into a world of knowledge through books, Albus listens chamber music, you like your father seem to enjoy pranks. You need something besides your studies to concentrate on, something you enjoy. It'll help, if you ever need anything just tell me 'kay? And don't forget to talk with Albus.
As Remus walked away Harry thought about what he said for a few moments before grinning evilly. "Pranks eh? Not a bad idea." Harry then walked back to the school smiling with a mischievous glint in his eyes. On the way Harry ran straight into Hermione.
"Oh Harry, I was just looking for you! I hope your not still moping over what Ron said; he's really not worth it. Why are you smiling." Hermione said finally glancing up at his face. "Wait a second, I know that grin. You're planning something!" Harry smiled and nodded in agreement. "What is it? Can I help? Does it have something to do with Ron?" She said in a rush.
"Are you sure Hermione, I mean you are a prefect after all." Harry said
"Oh who cares! Your father was Headboy and he was a marauder for goodness sake! Please Harry let me help!" Hermione begged.
"Alright Hermione, let's go I'll go tell you what I have planned so far then you can help me with the rest and set it up, we gotta make sure we have lots of pictures of this." Harry said grinning.
Hermione smiled, this was the first time she'd seen Harry truly happy lately and with all the things that had happened to him who could blame him for not jumping with joy. She and Harry made their way to a deserted classroom and spent the time talking and planing animatedly before going to set everything up for dinner that night.
)()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()(
For the first half of dinner everything went on as usual; people were chatting with their friends while stuffing their faces with the food. Then it suddenly went dark as all the candles went out, the teachers and a few students nervously took out their wands. Then with a bang that made everyone including Dumbledore jump in surprise a score of multicoloured fireworks went off forming the words 'We our proud to present for your entertainment, Ron Weasleys Secret Ambition' in sparkling letters. Then a pink swirling mist formed blocking Ron from view, and when it cleared The hall burst into laughter and Ron squealed, even some of the teachers were having trouble keeping straight faces. There stood Ron in a pink ballerina tutu that clashed horribly with his hair and brilliant red face posing while several flashes around the room went off from hidden cameras. Then music began to play and Ron spent the next seven minutes dancing clumsily for the crowd, who roared with laughter. Then in a flash of light Ron was dressed in a grass skirt and coconut bra with flowers around his hair and neck. And as the music changed, Ron hula danced out the hall. The laughter rang through the Hall for at least ten minutes Ron's spectacular departure. As everyone calmed down, Albus stood, his eyes twinkling merrily and praised the pranksters for their wonderful entertainment and creative use of advanced charms. When no one was looking Remus gave Harry and Hermione who were grinning proudly a Thumbs up, and Harry grinned cheekily and winked back while Hermione blushed slightly. Then as everyone was standing up to leave Albus stopped them once again saying, while looking directly at Harry, "Oh, and before I forget, I wonder if we could get some copies of those pictures taken for the yearbook?" Everyone left the Hall still chuckling.
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Over the next week the pranks continued with Ron turning into a bunny hopping around the hall singing about the oh-so-wonderful Easter Bunny, and him loudly proclaiming his love for Snape and various other Slytherins for a whole day, and many other embarrassing situations for Ron. Three days after the first prank a school owl had come into the hall presenting a small package to Professor Dumbledore which when opened proved to be the copies of the pictures taken including one of a shocked Albus Dumbledore. A very rare sight indeed. Along with this came a note saying.
To the Barmy Old Codger,
How'd you like our fun the other day? Hopefully you enjoyed it as much as we did. Well, here are the pictures you asked for; we'll make sure to supply you with more throughout the week.
Tata for now!
Your loveable pranksters.
P.S. I especially like the one of you. it has been an ambition of mine to shock you for years now; looks like I finally succeeded.
As he finished reading the picture mentioned expanded so the all the hall could see and Dumbledore stood amongst the laughter and congratulated the people responsible for their success.
By now most people had guessed Harry and Hermione were responsible for the pranks and were stopping in the corridors to thank them for the wonderful entertainment. Ron too had come to the same conclusion and had tried to retaliate but soon found that each attempt backfired horribly and it was safer not to try to prank a marauders son and his friends. Both Neville and Luna had asked to join them in their fun and were happily accepted in their band of merry pranksters.
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
That Saturday Harry made his way to the library to research the importance of bat wings in pain reducing potions. He had already finished two of the three-foot essay, but found he needed more information to finish the last foot. Harry found a book on importance of different ingredients in potions and set to work on his essay. As Harry finished he realised it was only ten minutes until curfew, and hurriedly packed up his work and placed the book back in it's place on the shelf before walking quickly towards the exit. As he was opening the door he noticed something catch the light and turned to see what it was, as he examined the bookshelves contents he found a small silver book. Harry picked it up, looking at it curiously, as he stood book still in hand he remembered the time and shoved the mysterious book in his bag and raced out the library and down the corridors. He arrived at the portrait of the Fat Lady breathing hard with one minute to spare, which he spent catching enough breath to say the password.
Harry slowly stumbled up to his dormitories not long after and with a tired sigh fell back onto his bed. Just as he was drifting off he remembered the curious book from library was still in his bag, and decided to see what it was about before going to sleep. He soon realised that the outside of the book had strange symbols on it, nothing like any of the ancient runes he had ever seen. Harry ran his finger over the writing as he tried to make sense of it. Why would an ancient runes book be in the Defense section of the library when they were at opposite sides. Then slowly the symbols started to make sense.
Parselmagic
'Parselmagic, what in Merlin's name is that?' Harry thought to himself. 'I guess I might as well read it.' Harry blew the dust off the pages as they crackled apart and started to read.
A guide to Parselmagic:
If you are reading these pages then you have the rare and fascinating gift of being a parselmouth, the ability to talk to snakes. As you are a parselmouth there is a chance you will be able to perform parselmagic, though it is not guaranteed, parselmagic is not an easy branch of magic to learn; however if you are able to it opens a whole new world of possibilities to you. Parselmagic neither dark nor light though the ability to speak parseltongue, the language of the snakes is considered to be evil. It is an ancient and powerful form of magic and while most spells work best in duelling, whether offensive or defensive, there are still other spells that can be used for survival skills (example: conjuring food and water) and other more peaceful reasons.
'Hmmm.this could be the edge I need over ol' Voldie. I'm sure that if he knew about this he would have used it long ago. With this and the order training both muggle and magical, may be I'll actually have a chance of surviving. And with this encouraging thought Harry fell asleep, deciding he would master this form of magic if at all possible.