Blood Feud
I OWN NOWT. I really wish i did
The premise of this story is that Harry is sorted into Slytherin first year and has just returned to start his 6th year after losing his Godfather Sirius the summer before. He attended the Will reading of Sirius and became Lord Black which helped him become Lord Potter
This isn't a God-like Harry story but he will have trained for the last 3 years in the room of requirement without anyone knowing due to taking Dobby as his house-elf and finding out from the other elves about the room.
Slytherin Common Room
"You better watch yourself this year Potter" Malfoy said as Harry entered the common room. "things are gonna change around here now the Dark Lord is back. I'm sure he'll happily reward the person who does you in"
"Oh, and I suppose you are going to make those changes eh Malfoy?" Harry replied "You who's hid behind Daddy the entirety of your Hogwarts life? You've done nothing but whinge and whine about how unfair your life has been for the last 5 years and done absolutely nothing to change anything about it. Face it Malfoy, without daddy you're a nobody. And now that your daddy has been exposed for the Death Eating scumbag he is you'll always be a nobody"
With that Harry turned round and walked to his room not looking back to see Malfoy flush with anger and pull his wand out
"Reducto" Malfoy screamed pointing his wand at Harry. Without even looking, turning around or halting his steps to the rooms a blue shield wandlessly sprang around Harry
"Try harder next time Ferret" Harry said
2 weeks later
"We're doing this tonight. I will not sleep in the same room as that filthy Half-Blood any longer" an angry voice said
"Are you sure you can do it?" a voice asked
"Yes" the reply came. "Tonight, you all know your roles so get to it. Remember, no magic. The mudblood doesn't deserve that honour"
No one noticed a disillusionment charm fail in the dark passageway listening into the conversation as they all walked off
"Interesting" the voice muttered to itself
The next morning at breakfast
The doors to the great hall opened and the entire hall turned around to see Harry floating a body with a knife through its head. Whispers broke out around the hall as Harry dumped it on the front table in front of Dumbledore with a loud crash
Snape screamed "Potter! What the hell do you think you're doing? Detention every night for the next month!"
Harry asked ignoring Snape "well Dumbledore? What are you going to do about this?"
"I'll need some context here Harry. what is this?" Dumbledore answered
"I happened to overhear a conversation yesterday that concerned me. It involved all 5 of my dorm-mates conspiring to kill someone, someone they described as "that filthy half-blood" namely me" Harry replied "so I decided to leave a golem in my bed for the night to see what happened. I knew that Malfoy was too much of a coward to take me on to my face and lo and behold I walk into the room this morning and found this golem with a knife through its head. So, are you going to call the DMLE or not?"
"Do you have any proof it was them, Harry?" Dumbledore asked
"I can provide a pensieve memory or the Aurors can administer Veritaserum to them to get a confession" Harry said
"Pensieve memories can be faked Potter and as their Head of House I'm declining the use of Veritaserum" Snape supplied sneering at Harry
"There's nothing I can do Harry" Dumbledore said "They're all minors and Severus has the right to deny access to them"
"Very well. Just know then that you and Snape brought this on yourself." Harry said turning away and striding to the Slytherin table
"Heir Nott, Heir Malfoy, Heir Crabbe, Heir Goyle and Heir Zabini" Harry said authoritatively looking at his watch "it is now 8:30 am. You 5 have exactly 24 hours to write a confession to the DMLE for the attempted murder of myself. Failure to do so will result in severe repercussions"
Malfoy sneered "you heard Snape, Potter, you can prove nothing. you can do nothing to us"
"You seem to forget who I am Malfoy" Harry said turning around to the head table. "And so do you two Snape and Dumbledore. If this isn't sorted by tomorrow, I'll make sure no one ever forgets again and you two will know that you could have prevented what's going to happen"
Harry turned round and strode from the hall
Later that day
"Can he do anything to us Malfoy? This was all your plan after all!" a worried Zabini asked "he's been gone all day and you know he always gets his way with things"
"What can that filthy half-blood do? You heard Snape, he denied veritaserum so no one can prove we did anything" Malfoy replied "if we all just keep our mouths shut nothing can be done to us"
"I hope you're right Malfoy" Nott added. "The plan to off him didn't go so well did it"
"It would have done if he hadn't overheard us. He needs to learn his place. But for now we keep our heads down" Malfoy said
"But Draco, he must have a plan, Potter always has a plan" Parkinson interjected from the seat across "you've been around him for 5 years now to know that things always turn out well for him"
"Nothing but pure luck and help from others!" Malfoy exclaimed angrily "he's always had someone bail him out. But this time it's different. You heard Dumbledore say he can't do anything to help and he's usually the one who bails saint Potter out of the situations he puts himself into. Without Dumbledore he's nothing. Now, this conversation never happened"
Dumbledores office at the same time
"Albus I'm worried about Harry" McGonagall said "you saw that golem this morning! Someone tried to kill him and you're doing nothing about it!"
"How do you know Potter didn't fake the whole thing?" Snape asked "he's an arrogant child who feels entitled to do as he pleases and struts about this castle as though he owns it! I've said for years that you needed to come down harder on him Dumbledore"
"Ridiculous Severus!" Flitwick replied "you've never been partisan when it comes down to Harry from the very moment you met him. Over the last 5 years he's proven to be the most gifted student I've ever had the pleasure of teaching! He's proven to be the most talented person I've ever taught surpassing even his mother! There is literally only you that refuses to see it"
"That boy is nothing like his mother! Don't you dare ever compare him to her!" snape replied angrily
"Mind who you're speaking to Severus, or I'll happily show you the business end of my wand" Flitwick said "the students might have to put up with your attitude but I certainly don't!"
"Enough!" Dumbledore exclaimed "enough with the bickering. Now Minerva to answer your question we cannot prove that the Slytherin students in his dorm had anything to do with that. As Severus said Harry could have put that golem together as its well documented the lack of affection he has for his dorm mates. As for you Severus you will mind who you're talking to! Harry has proven to be the most gifted student to enter these halls in the last 50 years. He's easily comparable to Tom Riddle and if we're not careful he could be just as destructive as Tom became. Our only saving grace at this moment in time is that while he has no love for anyone but his close friends, and despite his upbringing, he doesn't want to see the world burn. And believe me should that happen Harry will burn the wizarding world to the ground. We need to keep him on the side of the light because should he go dark no one, and I mean no one will be able to save us"
"Surely you Albus" Snape started
"I AM OLD Severus!" Dumbledore interjected "I am 115 years old! My Merlin index number has decreased by 50 in the last 10 years alone and while 670 is still well above average its quickly being surpassed by Harry and it will continue to decrease. My time on this plane is nearly up and my next great adventure is rapidly approaching me. The only reason I kept up with Tom at the ministry was because I am a shade more skilful than he is but make no doubt about it in a full duel I would lose to Tom"
"what's Tom and Harrys numbers?" Flitwick asked "I remember mine stopping when I reached 390"
"Mine is 365" McGonagall supplied
"279" Sprout piped up
"I refuse to disclose mine" Snape angrily exclaimed
"His is 380" Pomphrey said as Snape angrily rounded on her
"Toms is 680 or it was before his rituals. He's likely close to 790 now" Dumbledore said "Harry is at 640" gasps rang round the table
"How is that possible? We can all feel your aura Dumbledore. We can feel your magic" McGonagall asked
"Harry very quickly learned to mask it at a young age" Albus replied "Likely it's from the abuse he suffered at the hands of his muggle family whenever he did accidental magic, but his first recorded piece of magic was at the age of 2 months! He levitated Sirius in his animagus form into his cot so he could cuddle him and fall asleep. Lily, James and I had to put magic suppression charms on him to stop his magic getting out of control whenever he became upset as he destroyed the living room once because Lily took a toy from him for being naughty.
The blood wards I enacted over the Dursleys household suppressed his magic to a point in order to charge them, his excess magic is what charged them but whenever he got mad he could still perform magic that not even I could do at that age. His earliest memory of magic was him apparating onto a school roof at age 6! Harry is incredibly powerful, and his Merlin rating will only stabilise upon reaching his majority next year and will likely top out around 750"
"Does Harry know this?" McGonagall asked
"Yes, he does" Albus replied "I told him myself as I have a few exercises that helped control my magical aura and he needed to know or he'd have levelled the classrooms by the middle of the Tri-wizard tournament with his emotional state being in flux"
"Getting back to the original point though" albus stated after a few minutes of silence "we can do nothing but see what Harry's response tomorrow will be. He's given them 24 hours to admit culpability. All we can hope for is that someone comes forward to do so and then we can get the Aurors involved. How likely is that to happen Severus? Can you not have a word with the 5 students in question?"
"Slim to none Albus" Snape replied "Because of what we said in the hall they're pretty much untouchable and they and Potter knows it. Nothing will happen tomorrow. Now I have a potion in stasis. I shall see you all tomorrow" with that Snape swept from the room
"I suggest we all get some rest then" Albus stated. "Hopefully this all blows over"
With that they all departed
Turning to Fawkes Albus asked "I did do the right thing this morning didn't I old friend? I fear Harry needs guidance more than ever right now, but his lack of trust in me, while deserved is a little concerning. I hope I can help him before our time together is up"