I do not own Harry Potter, this is a fan fiction only.
Harry was waiting on the platform reading his latest letter from Fleur. She was actually asking if she could have him come over during his Christmas break. It seems the time for the traditional torture and interrogation time had come at long last. His future mother in law wanted to get to know him, and set a few boundaries on their relationship.
Ophelia looked as bored as he was before he started reading the letter. 'Honestly Harry there is not much to read on that letter, why don't you finish and rub feathers, sitting here is making me feel stiff as is, I don' t like the weather much either. '
He placed his letter in his pocket and did as his familiar requested. He scratched just the right place to make her relax. ' Oh, right there, right there.. I feel so much better. Thanks Harry. ' He saw her enter the mark and was much more relaxed.
The first person who came through the barrier was none other than Malfoy and his mother Narcissa. "Morning Malfoy, a bit early aren' t we?" Draco saw him by his trunk. "Not really if you want to get a nice seat Harry. Have you met my mother?" this was his cue to greet her. "Greeting Narcissa I do hope you are feeling well. This weather is simply awful."
She smiled at him and nodded in agreement. "Indeed it is awful but where is your bodyguard? I don't see him anywhere. Someone might try to kill you when you are so vulnerable like this..." Harry smiled and looked quite amused. "Appearances can be deceptive. I assure you I am more than capable of dealing with any fools who wish to attack me."
Narcissa was told what had happened between him and her husband but she found it hard to believe that a boy who supposedly was going to his first year at Hogwarts that could actually pull off an illusion of that caliber. She almost wanted to test him out, and prove her husband to have imagined the entire thing.
She did not need to in the end, because one of the hit wizards indeed tried to kill him while he was looking down the rail to try and figure out how long till the train arrived. Harry did not look at all scared he simply swatted the spell away like it was an annoying fly and sent five cutters while looking rather bored doing it.
The hit wizard did not see that he aimed not for the hit wizard but his surroundings. The first four cutters boxed him in and the last it cut a high voltage line and it fell on the hit wizard. The man died screaming in agony. He then walked over and with more wandless magic he restored everything like nothing happened. He incinerated the corpse and the ashes were blown away I the wind.
"Harry you just killed a human being? Doesn't it trouble you at all? " Draco asked expecting to see him sweating or looking bothered by what he did. Instead he saw Harry looking bored."Draco why would I feel anything other than disappointed for his lack of talent. I could kill a thousand of them and it still would not be a challenge. If you are questioning my morals? He attacked first with the intent to kill, what I did is self defense. "
" But honestly Draco I sure hope I can fight someone better this year. I am a very busy person I simply can not waste time like this dealing with these unskilled wannabe killers. I had a more enjoyable time doing my taxes. "
Narcissa could hardly believe the casual manner Harry talked about ending someone's life. It sounds like he really would have no trouble killing someone if he set his mind to it. The attitude he was displaying would have made Voldemort feel proud if he was one of his death eaters, but she knew that would never happen.
As the rest of the students showed up she saw several with flaming red hair, she hated Moly and her husband as she considered her even worse than a muggle born witch to her she was a filthy blood traitor. She was tempted to try a simply tripping hex and causing her to fall on the tracks and being crushed by the train. She did however knew better as she saw some of the other parents were Aurors, and such she would be found out and Moly rescued.
"Excuse me are you Harry Potter? " a young red haired girl asked just to hide behind her mother's skirt. " Yes, I am. I am attending Hogwarts this year, what can I do for you?" Feed and George knew of the immense crush their little sister had on him, she read everything that was ever printed about the boy after all.
"Excuse her Harry she has something of a crush on you, I am her mother the name is Moly Weasley, a pleasure to meet you. " Harry looked at her and smiled. " Likewise, but I am sorry to say that I am already engaged to marry. Old families like ours do have their traditions and my folks had a marriage contract for me as soon as I was born. I do hope that your little lady can understand."
This took everyone in the platform by surprise. Harry Potter the boy who lived, great hero of magical England was engaged and he was not against the pairing if his face and body language said anything about it. "So you are looking forward to meeting your future wife?" Arthur came next to his wife and asked.
"Already did, the weather in France was truly wonderful that time of the year. If you actually want, I could ask her to include your family as guests for our wedding. I know it is happening in three years, but it simply not enough time to prepare and schedule everything for a proper wedding."
Arthur smiled and looked down at his daughter looking rather sad at what she was hearing. "Don't you be sad pumpkin, you will find a wonderful guy to marry. I am sure you will be as happy as Harry will be in his marriage." Harry on the other hand looked quite calm as he boarded the train and places his baggage inside. He simply wanted to find a good seat and relax. There would be enough drama when he reached the school.
Things always happen when you least expect, specially things that were unpleasant. Ronald Weasley had spent the next three hours talking almost none stop about the virtues of quidditch and the wonderful dream he had about winning the World Cup and retiring to a fabulous mansion with his beautiful wife and his one child.
Harry on the other hand was doing two separate things, listening to the longest monologue he had ever heard in his life and wondering if somehow he accidently kicked and tripped him, would he actually remember the rest of the speech when he got up from the floor of his compartment.
He would soon find out he indeed could and that he did not even have to bother moving at all. Just as they were nearing a tunnel a boy opened the compartment and gave Ron a fright that caused him to fall down and Harry smiled at the boy who managed to do that. "Excuse me but have you seen a toad around? I am missing mine you see."
Harry looked around and with his hand straight out he did a wandless summoning charm. "You mean this toad? I hope you can keep an eye on him, there are plenty of animals in this train that would love to have him for dinner."
The boy introduced himself as Neville Longbottom, Harry did the same and mentioned the guy on the floor was Ronald Weasley. "Come on Neville why don't you help Ron off the floor and sit with us here. I am sure you have something to contribute to Ron's discussion on the wonders of quidditch."
"Actually my grandma won't let me near a broom. So I don't know much of the sport besides the rules and history behind it. I don't think you would find anything I say that interesting since I never even flown on a broom before . " Both Harry and Ron decided that indeed they would like to listen to what he had to say. It would bring a fresh perspective view of his favorite sport explained Ron.
The three and the frog spent a much more fun time talking about the different positions and scoring guidelines, Neville got in a comment here and there about things that Ron said his brothers did to him while playing, and he mentioned that many of them would be considered fouls.
As the trip continued they saw a young brown haired young lady crying outside the corridor. Harry walked outside and asked what was the matter? "The other girls in the compartment were making fun of my family and my teeth. I was then thrown out of the compartment because they could not stand the fact they had to share it with a filthy mudblood."
Harry got up with a very angry look in his face and walked towards the compartment where he saw some girls laughing at what they had done. "Is this the compartment that just threw a fellow student out because her parent's were muggls?"
The one blonde girl looked at him with a conceited look on her face."What if it is? It's not like you can do anything about it. You are not a prefect or the head boy you are just another student and you can't do anything about it. You tell on us and we will deny it and that will make you out to be a liar. "
Harry looked at her with an ice glare and while making a fist he opened it and he had a ball of fire. " You are right they would never believe me, however I could burn you three to ash and no one would be able to believe a first year boy did it, and if they scanned my wand it would show no use at all.. So here is what I can do, you apologize to the young lady crying out in the corridor, or I will use this spell on the three of you and be turned to three little piles of ash."
The girl looked at him and knew he was not kidding she was pushed aside by the other two who ran towards the girl they had thrown out and apologized to her for being so rude to her. The last apologized as the person she instigated the insults reentered the compartment.
"If they give you any more grief be sure to come and fine me, and I will deal with them. I am Harry Potter and I hate it when people use such a racist slur. " The girl smiled at him and thanked him for doing what he did."I am Hermione Granger and I will do that if they start misbehaving, thank you."
Harry walked back to his compartment and that was when Ron and Neville gave him a confused look." Why so serious? " Ron was trying to form his answer but Neville was first to say it." You just threatened to kill a few people and you did not even looked bothered by it. How are you able to do that? "
Ron asked his question next," And you did it because you saw a perfect stranger crying because she could not handle being picked on, are you going to ask her to be your girlfriend next? I heard of weird pickup lines but this is beyond weird. " Harry walked over to his seat and sat down looking rather serious.
" First off I did not threaten anyone it was a warning. Second I am already spoken for so no you can go ahead and ask her out yourself but by the looks of it she is an intellectual type,so good luck and be looking forward to doing a lot of classwork and studying if you plan to date her. " Neville was amazed that he could be so serious about two different topics.
" So wait if you are spoken for? Why did you go out of your way to do that? " Harry simply said he hated bullies and that was when both boys relaxed and began to laugh." Guess it would be nice to have you around then.. I can already tell that I am going to be bullied six ways to hell. "
"Why would you be bullied Neville?" Ron just had to ask. "Well let's look at it from my point of view, I am fat, forgetful and I got a weird pet. I mean who has ever heard of a wizard with a pet toad?" Harry decided to call his familiar so he could rub her. "This is my good friend and constant companion Ophelia, these boys will attend the same year I will Ronald and Neville. Say hello Ophelia."
She nodded her head and Harry began to rub her back and she was definitely liking it. "As having a weird pet, who was ever heard of having a familiar and a raven like her and I am only a first year student. I can pretty much tell you weird such not be your concern when we are going to a place to learn to do magic."
Ophelia gave him a nip on his ear and went inside the familiar mark. "See there really is no excuse for them bullying you Neville. You just need to be more confident in yourself we all have our strengths and weaknesses. I am not perfect and I don't think anyone is."
As the boys sat down and looked at him making a book appear out of nowhere and he began going through it with a look that said he was really into what he was reading. Neville asked him what he was reading. "Oh, this is just my any book. It is a magical book that let's me access any book in my personal library. I am just reading a rather interesting book on alchemy. It is a nice book to read to relax."
Ron looked like he grew a second head, "You read textbooks for fun?" Harry looked at him and smiled. "Of course I do, I want to get the most out of this education after all. " Neville asked how far ahead was he in his reading of their year in regards to their textbook reading. "I got done with that about a week ago. It really is light reading if you set aside some time."
The train reached their destination and it was then they saw the very large man waving at them. "Ok, First years with me don't worry about your things they will be taken to your dorm room after the sorting." Ron tried to scare him by telling him they would have to fight a troll to be sorted.
"I hope not, I don't know any magic yet. " Neville said as he sat next to Harry in the boat." I actually hope so, I could use a decent fight, but I don't think they would do that since we are all first years, and the chances of a first year of defeating a troll are significantly low.. " Hagrid had to tell them that Harry was right, the old rumor about having to fight a troll was first started by Fred or George Weasley.
" Honest with those two being twins I can hardly tell them apart. And here we have the first look at your new home away from home, She is magnificent isn't she. I would like to be the first to welcome you first years to Hogwarts school of magic and witchcraft. " as the boats landed and they got on firm ground. Harry began to wave at the lake, the others thought that he was insane but that was until they saw a giant tentacle wave back.
" What I am just thanking the giant squid for keeping an eye on us, he was doing us a favor keeping us safe you should thank him too you know. " Harry told him and that was when Draco asked him how he knew about the squid?" It's in Hogwarts a magical history. You should really read ahead Draco, it would make your life a whole lot easier. "
