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Chapter: 3131 Wizarding Economics and blacksmithing

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Harry's pov

It was the first Saturday of October, and Harry was on his way to Gringots.

He left through the vanishing pov which he put in the ROR, came out in his apartment in London, cast a notice me not charm on himself and went to Diagon alley.

After getting into Gringots it took less then 5 minutes for a goblin to come in and start their lesson.

"Hello, mr. Peverell, my name is Bogrod and I will be your teacher for the economics class which, an you know, you will have every Saturday until we both feel you are ready.

First thing you have to know about economics in the magical world is that wizards are idiots! Without knowing that point by heart even if you are the best businessman to ever grace this world you are doomed to fail.

Now, you are probably wondering, "why is he saying it?" It's because it is true! Let me explain, Do you know that goblins are treated with contempt in the Wizarding world? That we are treated as magical creatures?

Think about all the goblin's wars we had with you, have you ever won them? No! After all who would give the losers control over the money industry? In fact every single war ended with a peace treaty where the goblin came on top. And if your history books say differently it's because as I said before- 'wizards are idiots'

Second thing you need to learn is always treat a goblin with respect as he control your money, and even if the goblin's honor won't let him steal your money, doing deals to get around it is all they would have to do. Just look at James Potter and learn from him, by the time this year school year is done, I believe 2/10 of his family's money would disappear and he won't even notice it unless he comes counting his coins

The lesson continued like that while Bogrod gave him basic rules for Wizarding economy, and by the end of the lesson Harry felt he learned a lot.

Next day

It was time for blacksmithing lessons and Harry was super excited. After all, he was about to learn to create magical artifacts!

"My name is Ragnok and I will teach you the magical art of blacksmithing.

As you probably know, just like Goblin don't do wand magic, wizards don't do blacksmithing magic. What you probably don't know is that goblin can do wand magic, it's just that it's beneath us, after all how can a wooden wand could ever compare to the creations of magical artifacts? And when I say magical artifacts I don't mean the lame creations of wizards with runes and enchanting charms, I mean real magical artifacts like the sword Gryffindor stole from us, a sword that would never work for anyone except the original creator and Godrick as it was intended.

Now lets begin, before any blacksmithing can be done we must talk about metallurgy and gemstones.

There are many different kinds of metals who could be used in blacksmithing, but only a few which could be used in magical one.

While iron, steel, titanium and all the other muggle used metals and might be stronger than other kinds of metals, the only four kinds of metals which can be used to create magical artifacts are bronze, silver, gold and platinum. In fact the reason the muggles consider those metals as precious is that before the statute of secrecy they could sell it to goblins at a high price, some time even gat a weapon out of it.

The exact same thing is with precious gems, those gems are the best materials for the creation of a deep magical core for the swords."

When the day ended Harry learned all he could about the magical properties of metals and gems and he new it won't be the end but he didn't care, after all, what is a little extra hard work

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Chapter: 3232 expectations and the demonic twins

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Dumbledore pov

Dumbledore was deep in thought.

The last teachers conference made him have a lot on his mind.

First of all, like always since he first heard the prophecy, his thought went to the chosen one, who a year after the prophecy was told became known as Marcus Potter, the boy who lived.

When he first found out from Lily and James that Marcus destroyed Tom, he was thrilled, but after seeing the scar he knew it was just the beginning, which was why he wanted to start teaching Marcus from that moment magic, but as the prophecy said it would be a power the dark lord doesn't know about which would destroy him, and Dumbledore could only think about one thing Tom would never learn is love he decided to make sure Marcus knew love instead of magic.

Yet, remembering his disastrous relationship with his siblings which left him hateful of them for a while, he convinced James and Lily that giving Harry as he was apparently a squib, away would be for the best, something which came to bite him in the a*s. as when Harry came back to the Wizarding world, he had no love for Marcus, Dumbledore thought that when he came to school he would forgive but then he became a Slytherin! Yet not all was lost, as Dumbledore learned from the teachers conference that Harry only friends were Gryffindor and that while he has a lot of Tom's qualities and upbringing, he didn't have his talent with magic and was more similar to Severus with his theoretical and potion talent, now he just needed the right nodge to bring the two brothers together and make him loyal for the light, maybe he would use the little plan he read in Quirinus head about the troll to make it happen, after all, there is no better way to create friendship than by saving someone's life, right?

Fred Weasley's pov

If there was one thing Fred was afraid of more than anything else is becoming a worker in the ministry.

Seriously, when they had a boggart in DADA a few lessons ago this was what it changed into, him working on a desk. Which was why his brother and him were now in the middle of a serious discussion about what they want to do after Hogwarts. And where is a better way to do such a serious discussion than in one of Hogwarts secret passages.

"If thinking about what I love doing, it's pranks and making people laugh."

Fred started

"Well, I actually like more the creation of magical tricks and potions."

George told him

"And of course we should work together, right?"

Fred asked

"Oh, yeah. Brother of mine, we would always be together."

George answered

"I know!"

A lumus was lit in Fred's mind

"We should open a prank store! That way we can both create stuff and make sure we also make people laugh."

"It's a brilliant idea Gred," George exclaimed "if I didn't know better I would say you got the brain out of the two of us!"

"When they left the passage they could feel a notice me not charm make them turn their heads but as pranksters you have to learn to ignore magic like that so you wouldn't get caught by teachers and other wise you would get trapped by your own prank. So while they felt the need to go left they went right, when needing to go down went up and continued going in the opposite direction till they arrived in front a door on the seventh floor, the weird thing that as the owners of the Marauders's map they knew the entire school yet there wasn't supposed to be a room in this place, they even checked the map again to be sure, that meant a new secret room never seen before by them. Right now it didn't matter who was in there they just had to explore.

They opened the door only to see a first year standing in front of a lightning shooting pole and the only word that came from their mouth was "wow

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Chapter: 3333 a deal with the twins

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Harry's pov

"Wow"

Harry heard some voices behind him forcing him to stop his training and look.

When he saw the that it was the two identical redheads he had only one thing to say "f*ck"

"Ickly little Slytherin should not say words like that." Said the one on the right

"What an ickly little Slytherin should say when he sees us is hey"

The one the left said

"Or Ahhhhhh, but that's only if you are evil" twin A (on the right) said

"Or boring" twin b continued "but right now you shouldn't be worried as we are interested."

"So tell us," twin A said "what are you doing in this room?"

At this point Harry really regretted not learning the obliviate charm and decided that it would be the next one he learned. Yet right now he needed a believable explanation which would convince the twins about this room and make them not like it.

"It's a room to learn transfiguration." He said knowing the twins were more about enchantments and potions in the books. "You see, I don't have good control over magic so the professor gave me this room to learn control as with my knowledge I should be able do the first exercise of magic."

"You shouldn't lie to us, we are the best pranksters this school has seen since the Marauders," said twin A

"No," said twin B "he isn't lying entirely, Fred. You could see him being truthful about the first part but not the other, which means it is a secret magic control room!"

Harry decided that after obliviate he should learn how to lie best to people that read lies with expressions and not legilimency. "Yes, it's a room I found to improve my magic control, okey?

Now, can you leave? Cause if what I heard about you is right you should be uninterested with improving and would prefer to prank someone." Harry said, hoping they would leave so he can go and change the room quick enough to learn obliviate today.

"One more question, could you teach us how to use those things, as we really want to learn being animagus and we have to have excellent magical control so we would come when you are not here to use it." George said

"You don't mind to learn from a Slytherin?"

"Hell, no. All the house hatred that is in this school is dumb as a*s, after all, to be a good prankster you need cunningness for ideas, brain to make ideas a plan, hard work to make the plan realty and balls to actually do it. The only reason we are Gryffindor is our hair Color. So how do we use it?"

"I will tell you... for a price." Harry told them

"First of all this is my workroom, so no-one other then us should know about it."

"Reasonable request," Fred said

"Second of all, unless you target all of Slytherin you will not target me."

"So they won't suspect you" George said "smart"

"And thirdly, I won't tell you how but I know you have a special map of the school. You will let me borrow it three times at my request and when you leave school I would get it."

"If we do this you would have to tell us everything you know about this room and take an oath." Fred shot

"Only if you take one" Harry shot back.

After all three of them taking oath Harry explained everything about the ROR, by the end of it they all shook hands and said "this is the start of a beautiful friendship

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Chapter: 3434 Halloween

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Harry's pov

After the twins found the ROR, He had a much more interesting yet chaotic month.

He managed to keep his routine,

Regular weekday (except in a astronomy class day)

Waking up

Workout

Shower

Breakfast

Lesson

Lesson

Lunch

Lesson

charm experimenting at the ROR

Studying potions ingredients at the library with Hermione and Neville (they weren't studying the same thing just next to each other)

Homework at his private room at Slytherin

Back to the ROR for magic control

Shower

Sleeping

He continued learning chemistry in History of Magic and started using his unimportant memories to build the maze in his head.

On of the things that was explained in the books is the fact that most people don't retain all their memories and when building the maze the more memories you have the bigger and better your maze is, so as someone who remembers everything Harry had enough memories for a 25 years old man not an 11 years old child, it also meant he had a lot of work.

During the weekends he went to his economic class and blacksmithing class.

While in blacksmithing he only managed to be halfway through the theoretical part of the class, it was in the economic class or the 'why wizards are stupid class' as he started to call it, in which his biggest profit came. In class where the teacher has been talking about different ways to make money out of muggles was when he found his big cash cow, by using every thing he was taught about the stock market by the goblin, his brain and several FanFiction he remembered from his past life, Harry bought stocks in several future successful businesses.

In the end he left himself 60,000p for bills and happily made his way toward school leaving his money to make him money.

October 31 1991

At the Halloween feast

Harry's pov

With Hermione having friends Ron's comment about having no friends had zero affect on her, which was why Hermione was in the feast.

In fact, out of the entire school, the only one who wasn't at the feast was Harry Peverell, as he already saw Hermione being safe and had no intention to lose a night of studies when he would only get to eat a little and then sent away to the dungeons because of the troll. Which was why he was alone at the library with only madam Pince, of whom he quickly became one of the favorite students as even as a child he is always polite, quite and ask for highly theoretical books instead of the regular requests for books to help with homework or funny spells books.

Just as Harry was about to finish the book 'potions ingredients and ways of uses for advanced students, He could hear screams. As much as he knew he shouldn't mix with the troll, his Curiosity of who met the troll couldn't be contained. He started running toward the noise till he saw a bunch of Ravenclaw students run away from the troll while three of the more a.d.u.l.t students cast Stupefy, and missing the troll completely.

While using an invisibility, Harry was trying to decide if he should help them or not- on one hand they don't deserve to be killed by a troll and it might prevent him from completing his ambitions for the year, like taking a piece of the philosopher stone. On the other hand it might reveal his talent in magic. Still not sure what to do after 10 seconds of thoughts, his decision was taken from him by four idiotic children came running. It was Marcus, Ron, Hermione and Neville. While most people might have been impressed with their bravery, Harry wanted to slap Hermione and Neville for their stupidity while letting Marcus and Ron die.

But as he didn't want his friends to die, he decided to act.

while watching Marcus trying to use Wingardium Leviosa on the clab of the troll, he instead used the levitation charm on the trolls pants and made the troll fly up the castle and then turned his body and made him fall from seventh floor to the first floor.

By then some of the teachers arrived, Snape, McGonagle, Flitwick and Dumbledore. Harry made sure to hide behind the armor and as he knew Dumbledore can see invisible people he made sure to deactivate his invisibility charm.

"What did you do here? The Ravenclaw students were on there way to their tower but why on earth were four Gryffindor students doing on the other side of where they are supposed to be?" Fessional McGonagle was looking upset.

"Ron and me were going to defeat the troll," Marcus said full of pride "after all I'm the boy who lived, if there is trouble I should always help!"

"N-Neville and me were just trying to convince them to go back to the Gryffindor tower, professor McGonagall." Hermione said "We couldn't just let them go after the troll!"

"50 points off Gryffindor for endangering yourself with no reason and not following instructions. Now who did this?" Professor McGonagall asked while pointing at the troll who looked dead as a doornail. "It was me professor McGonagle," this time Marcus had less pride on his face, Harry wasn't sure if it was because of the loss of points or the death of the troll,"I tried charming his club with the levitation charm but somehow his entire body flout, by the time I managed to cancel the charm he was already pretty high and turned around, then he fell, is he dead?"

Dumbledore than cast a spell on the troll and said "he is hurt yet alive.

Well, I think that for defeating a troll by yourself in first year you deserve 15 points each and for the three Ravenclaw who distracted it, you also get 15 points each. Now, please go to your towers." As the students went to their respective towers, professor Dumbledore called, "mr. Peverell, would you mind coming out from behind the armor and tell us what are you doing here?" The other three professors then looked towards the armor where Harry was hidden.

"I'm sorry professor, I didn't go to the meal as I hate Halloween so instead I spent my time at the library reading and when I heard screaming I ran towards it, so when I saw the creature I froze and hidden quickly behind the armor so he wouldn't see me and when you came I was still too afraid to come out" while Harry was telling the tale he made sure to shake a little and put the picture of the troll laying on the floor in the front of his mind and just behind it the trap of his parents death and look in the eyes of Dumbledore and Snape feeling them looking into his mind.

He than heard professor McGonagall tells him to go with her so she would take him to bed.

When they arrived to his room he thanked the professor went inside and smiled thinking 'the first reading of my mind went better than I could have ever hoped'

Severus pov

Severus was feeling horror about what he had just saw and felt, when he first saw mr. Peverell behind the armor he felt anger at the boy, felt he is just like his father, and if the boy wasn't shaking while telling his side of the story he would probably would have been sure, but as he saw the boy shaking, wanting to know why he was looking so terrified, he used an eye contact the boy initiated to look through his mind, first seeing the troll looking dead yet where the recent memory stoped an older memory was connected. He saw the boy running in a house and coming to the kitchen seeing two people dead on the floor.

That wouldn't have bothered him, after all, he has been on the war on two sides and saw a lot of dead people. No, what made him feel horror is the feelings he felt when he saw them, as when you look through someone's mind the only times you should feel emotions while looking into memories is when the memories are a defining moment for a person, something that should usually be way deep in your mind.

To feel this much emotion just as you get into someone's mind means he is currently thinking about his defining moment, and feeling this much heartbreaking made Severus almost cry and hug the boy, luckily Minerva already took him away.

Severus needed information about what was that memory and time to think how to help his little snake, cause he doesn't let him stay with those feelings inside.

Dumbledore pov

The plan went spectacularly, No one got hurt, Miss Granger helped Marcus and Marcus saved Harry and created a life debt, something which might be useful later. The only thing that was wrong is that when he looked into Harry's mind the only feelings he felt were about his parents death. 'Well, he just needs more time to process the loss, I'm sure that by the end of the year he would feel connection to Marcus more then anything else, otherwise, we can always use loyalty potions

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Chapter: 3535 improvement during fights and quidditch game

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Harry's pov

The next day, the entire castle was full of rumors about the troll incident.

Half of the students said It was Dumbledore who defeated it and he gives credit to Marcus, while others said Marcus defeated the troll with the same unique magic he used to defeat you know who, the craziest theory were that Marcus summoned the troll and then summoned Merlin himself to combat the troll while he watched the fight with some snacks.

Yet everyone agreed that there was a troll, three Ravenclaw seventh years and four Gryffindor first years.

So when everyone saw the four Gryffindors being friends suddenly, they started to call the four the golden group, as apparently, students at Hogwarts weren't the most imaginative.

As for Harry, after yelling at Hermione and Neville for putting themselves in danger with no good reason, they were in a fight as apparently helping friends was a good reason in their mind even when Harry told them that before the troll incident they weren't friends with Marcus and Ron, he should have known better, as J.K. Rolling one wrote "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them."

So while Harry wasn't talking with Hermione and Neville he managed to improve even more in everything.

His chemistry studies were almost in second year as he used the time he sat with Hermione and Neville in meals to study more of it.

He finished first year transfiguration and started second year, his charm work was already in fourth year and in potions he finished reading everything the school had about ingredients and ways to prepare them so he moved to DADA books as he was behind in this subject compered to different classes.

The only classes he didn't have impressive improvements in school were Herbology, HoM and Astronomy.

Two of them he only needed more hands on experience and one that for him right now he didn't have time for.

In weekends he kept going to Snape and Flitwick in their office hours for conversation about theory and while with Flitwick it stayed the same, the meetings with Snape were a little different.

"Hey, professor. Are you available for a few questions?" "Sure, mr. Peverell, come on in." After a few questions the professor made sure he stopped.

Mr. Peverell, you are one of the better students I have had the pleasure to teach, while most students don't seem to understand until at least four year that potions is more than just following instructions like cooking, you seem to look into the way to make your potions better by looking into each instruction. You remind me of myself when I was your age, which is why I will give to you one of the most overlooked thing in potions making which will help you move your potions making to the next level.

While simple potions can be made using only the instructions, for the complicated potions you will learn in your seventh year will have more to do with the intent behind the creation of your potions than just the ingredients," seeing Harry was a little confused, professor Snape continued "lets take love potions for instance, while most love potions are about infatuation and attraction, the most powerful love potion known to men - Amortentia can in fact make you love a person you used to hate."

That surprised Harry as based on what he read and remembered from the books Amortentia doesn't create actual love as it's impossible to manufacture or imitate love. The person under the effect of the potion will only hold an obsession for the person who administered it.

"You don't actually create love, the potion just changes every kind of love you ever felt for a person to only loving the person who gave you the potion. But because the potion's affects are so delicate, to actually create it with those actual affect is almost impossible, as your intent while making it needs to be those of love, and feel all the love you have in you to make it, and it take three months to make, so, even though a lot of people can make that potion even with it's complicated instructions.

Making the potion right is something almost no-one can do.

It's like that with every potion, even if most are not to this degree. If your intent doesn't match the potion while making it, the affect could verify between working averagely like most potions People make, have weird side affects or even literally killing you.

Which is why every potion master needs to learn a branch of magic called occlumency, which I am offering to teach you every Saturday at 19:00-22:00.

After that, as Harry couldn't tell Snape he already knew occlumency he was 'taught' by Snape in the art every Saturday and surprised Snape by his 'natural talent' in it.

Dumbledore's pov

It was the first game of the year and Slytherin were against Gryffindor, just as the world was meant to be.

As the game went, Dumbledore couldn't wait till Marcus caught the snitch and becomes Gryffindor's hero, after all that's the reason he confunded Minerva to put Marcus on the team.

So when Marcus's broom started moving uncontrollably, the only one who was more scared than Marcus was Dumbledore. As how could Marcus be Gryffindor's hero if he fell off the broom?

So while seeing Miss Granger moving in Secerus's direction he made sure to use a tripping jinx to make her fall on Quirinus and activated his charm on the snitch so it would move next to Marcus, he then saw Marcus move toward the snitch and just when he was about to fall from his broom Dumbledore made sure that the snitch would get into Marcus's mouth.

Yes, it would be a game to remember

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Chapter: 3636 The start of winter break

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Harry's pov

While November past December came not much changed in Harry's life. He continued to study every waking second he had with the exception of his workout time.

While they apologized, Hermione and Neville didn't mean it and neither did Harry, so even though they weren't fighting they stopped learning and eating meals together. Instead of Hermione and Neville started hanging out with Marcus in the library when ever they could searching something.

After moments of thinking about it Harry understood they heard about Nicholas Flamel from Hagrid which made them search for the person's name in books.

Harry started to hang a little with the twins in the ROR where they showed him how to take a simple spell and change it to something nefarious like summoning someone's underwear from them while in battle.

In exchange Harry made sure to write everything Snape taught him about occlumency and gave it to them so they would become better potion creators and pranksters. (But not everything he knew from his occlumency book)

While doing so slowed his charm learning, he learned how to use every charm he knew to his maximum advantage.

In transfigurations he his progress kept accelerating as the more objects he transfigure the easier it became, yet he was sure that when he reaches third year's subject and the turn of live things to objects was when his first wall is gonna be.

The only subject he was stuck in was DADA, as a class which work mostly as charms, somehow he hadn't managed to use any of the jinxes wandlessly, so after a few weeks of not even one success he went to Flitwick in one of his office hours.

"Hey professor,"

"Young Harry! Come in, what interesting questions do you have for me today?"

"Well, professor. Today I want to ask about the differences between regular charms and DADA charms.

You see, while I managed to improve in charms enough to be average in class spell casting wise, I can't manage to succeed in jinxes. So I wanted to ask, what is the difference between charms and jinxes?"

"Well, Harry, there is a lot of differences. Actually, if we look at the start of creation of the charms and jinxes you would find them as two different periods.

While charms were created for the first time at about 5,000 BC, the creation of jinx didn't start until 500 Bc, a hundred years after the first wand came to existence. In fact, those spells were created by wizards who weren't powerful enough to use magic without a wand as at the time no-one except children and magicaly weak people would use wands, but as we forgotten how to do magic with no conductors and the more people learned wand magic, jinxes, curses and Haxes improved Beyond anyone's imagination, in fact, while charms are the inheritance that was left behind from the wizards of the past, and people all around the world use them. all the attack spells you learn at DADA until mastery are the only magic that only a wand wizard is capable of doing." Flitwick finished with passion.

After that Flitwick continued explaining the differences between the two kinds of spells but as much as it was interesting Harry got what he desired. While knowing that some magic could only be done with a wand he couldn't help but thinking about the magical which are only possible with other conductors and how can he learn them.

By the time Christmas was near the entire castle was in a festive move, everyone except Harry, as it would be his first Christmas without his parents since they took him in. So while everyone were ready for a break, Harry went deeper into his studies, as there were no classes he spent most of his day in the ROR and when the twins needed the room in the Hogwarts library.

He was halfway through his economic class and in his blacksmithing class he started moving into creating regular knives, as until he prefects every kind of weapon, armor and jewelry creation he wouldn't touch or learn any of the others.

In chemistry he was in the beginning of second year material and he was hoping that by Easter he would finish everything in this master's degree.

Anyway, Harry was swamped with stuff to do so he wouldn't think about his parents, at all.

Daphne's pov

Daphne was going back home for Christmas and she was so excited.

She hasn't seen her sister in 3 months and she missed her terribly.

While thinking about the last 3 months she was disappointed that she didn't find a cure yet knew she shouldn't be, after all, if finding a cure for the blood curse was that easy it would have been found years ago by one of her ancestors, and she was just a first year, but she decided, if by the end of the year she doesn't find even a lead to the cure she's gonna start roping Ravenclaws to her study group.

Hermione's pov

As they were driving back home, Hermione finished telling her parents about the troll incident and her fight with Harry.

"_can you believe it???? He yelled at me for not abandoning my friends while in trouble!"

"You are right, I can't believe it." Hermione's dad said in a quite voicewhich she knew was the beginning of a shout with him. "How dare you doing something that dangerous??? Why the heck didn't you listen to the professors? If you really felt the need to help your friends you should have told a teacher or an older student! And when a real friends comes worrying about you, you stop being friends with them? Is that what I taught you?"

As her dad continued to yell at her she just thought 'I would never tell my parents about anything dangerous again

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Chapter: 3737 Christmas

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Neville's pov

Neville couldn't say he was excited, after all being with his grandmother Christmas was kind of a nightmare.

It all started when he got down from the train.

You would think that is a grandmother who hasn't seen her her grandchild she would hug him and be interested in him.

But no, as a pure blooded lady she had standards, you couldn't expect her to care! You should expect her to be rigid and cool.

So instead, she made sure as soon as they reached home by flu she started yelling at him for not doing as good as she expected of him in school. Something that was ridiculous as he was one of the top 10 in theory in his year as he was Hermione's best friend, it's for practical he really didn't know why he had such a hard time to succeed. But he would figure it out, After all he had the smartest which of their generation as his best friend.

Marcus's pov

Marcus was really happy to come home, he could finally talk with his parents about his year, and all the adventures he had.

The flying lesson debacle, The Midnight duel, The three headed dog, The Halloween troll and The Quidditch incident.

His father was proud of him, feeling as if he and his friends were the next generation of the marauders, while his mother was less excited about the dangers he had to face in school, he really couldn't understand why though, after all, isn't he the hero of the Wizarding world?

Then his mother asked the question he have been waiting for arrived. "What about Harry? Do you know where he's celebrating Christmas?"

"No mom, I would never be friends with a slimy snake, especially one who is so hated that he has no friends even in Slytherin, even Hermione and Neville stoped being friends with him when they saw his real face."

"Ok," dad said "lets stop talking about depressing subjects. I have something to give you, I know it's not Christmas yet, but I have a traditional gift to give you, something every father gave his oldest son in the Potter family for centuries in his first Christmas in school." He pulled a wrapped box and gave it to Marcus. "The Potter family's invisibility cloak, a cloak that make you become invisible to any one and that no one can find you or it unless he is of the Potter blood."

As anyone would be, the invisibility cloak really exited Marcus.

"That's awesome, is this the cloak you used with your friends to sneak and prank people? This is the best gift ever!"

After that the Potter family continued having a great Christmas.

Harry's pov

It was Christmas Day and Harry didn't get a single gift. While he didn't expect much from anyone, he thought at least Hermione and Neville would bring him something, after all, he got them gifts- he sent Hermione a 2 galleon's ticket for Flourish and Blotts which can get her about 13 books and Neville got a ticket for a new wand at Ollivanders, which costs 7 galleons but apparently they weren't friends anymore, no biggie. So instead of being depressed, Harry did what he always did, he fully focused on his task- learning everything he can. Something which wasn't that hard, as there were no students in the library.

Right now he took a break from studying curses, something that became super boring as instead of intent it worked on wand movements and actively saying a nonsense word and was studying rituals of Yule, as after thinking much about that he realized that he might miss an important date for a ritual that can bring him a lot of benefits but after searching the ROR and library he couldn't find a single mention about rituals which meant someone removed the books in the library as there was no way otherwise that no books were made about rituals. But if there was one thing Harry wasn't is a quitter, so he took a book from one of the history shelfs and started looking for references about rituals and holidays

Three hours later

Harry was disappointed yet exited, on one hand he found lots of references about rituals and holidays but not one reference had both of them. On the other he found something very interesting about a certain magical artifact. 'In 673 BC, the sorceress Diana Marcelo created a multipurpose devise and became one of the most renowned magical artifact's creators known to the magical kind and the creator of the first mind defense magical art, something which would be refined later to the magical art known as occlumency. And while there are plenty of dangerous magical artifacts, non is more deadly yet useful then her creation the mirror of Erised, as an artifact used to better her mind defenses was also used to trap the mind and soul of the creator's enemies, as the enemies didn't have mind defenses, the mirror enthralled her enemies by showing them the thing they want most and planting the obsession to keep looking. In fact, the mirror can also be used to hide things inside that only specific person could bring out as the mirror can confirm your thoughts to make sure you are truly him."

This made Harry realize Dumbledore's plan, by making sure only Marcus can bring out the philosopher's stone and bullshiting the hell when asked how it was possible he makes sure Marcus is always sure in himself, his friends believe in him and that Marcus trust Dumbledore even more. All of the above were fine by Harry, as long as he gets to study the philosopher's stone - an alchemical masterpiece, which meant getting the stone before Dumbledore can destroy it and make sure if it's the real one, as even though the books said it's real Harry found it hard to believe, why would a wizard who created a masterpiece like that and lived for centuries need help with guarding his most famous creation, (not best as he lived for centuries!! he must have done something in that time.) to creat a safe guard when he could just have his wife create a fidelius charm around a place and make him the secret keeper thus having a foolproof defense for his possession. No it is ether a fake stone or Dumbledore managed to steal the stone/kill his mentor, and Harry wasn't willing to take chances about whether it's real or not, which meant either coming up with a plan to steal it before Quirrell managed to get past the dog or waiting there and stealing the stone after Voldemort leaves, yet before Dumbledore comes, and after reading about the mirror, he was leaning more for the second option

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Chapter: 3838 on the subject of casting

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Harry's pov

After figuring out his plan for the year, Harry went back to study curses, yet after another few hours of reading more and more advance curses he realized one thing- as long as he has to use fancy wand waving he would never use any of those spells which meant ether he find another way by researching wand movement or he ask a teacher, and he has enough work.

Filius's pov

Filius loves the holidays, as while teaching the students brought him joy, after many years of teaching he felt somewhat bored by the never changing curriculum. After all, even though the students changed they mostly stayed the same.

There were 4 kinds of students.

1) the talented who wanted recognition whose questions would mostly be to make sure everyone knew he is the best. Usually it would be a Ravenclaw or a Slytherin, though this year's most notable was Miss Granger.

2) the hard worker who truly liked the subject whose questions would be about the subject in class to truly understand the material. Usually a Hufflepuff or a Slytherin.

3) the lazy ones whose homework is just coping another student's work or the book while only asking questions like - "can I go to the bathroom?" They come from all houses yet the most notable ones are from Gryffindor.

4) the unpredictables who ask you questions unrelated to class that actually gives you surprises and ideas.

You can never know where they come from and when, as those students might not show up at all in a school year while in another they will appear as a group. While teachers shouldn't have favorites those students were his.

Just thinking about the revolutions each student of the fourth group created in society and his mind Filius was content with staying a teacher and not changing his occupation to a more exciting careers like curse breaking.

A few notable ones were:

Severus Snape who created his own jinxes by the age of 14 by asking about the difference between levitation and summoning and combined them to make his Levicorpus jinx.

Fred and George Weasley who although are only third years can use charms way higher level in their pranks and use basic charms brilliantly, such as Ascendio, Arresto Momentum and Depulso to make them sort of fly last year when Minerva said they can avoid detention when they learn to fly without brooms.

And of course, Harry Peverell, who while not the best in class, asks the most interesting questions which made him study again the theoretical studies so he would be able to have the answers mr. Peverell needs.

So, although he was enjoying the peace and quite the holidays brought him, when he saw mr. Peverell standing at the door he started getting exited and told him to come in.

"Hey, professor. I know it's Christmas, but I am stuck on a problem."

"Mr. Peverell, my door is always open to students with interesting topics of discussions and love for charm."

"Well, I read a book on the topic of spell words and the need of them for intent, and while it is said silent casting is possible and that most advance studies and duels are done that way, it made me think about wand movements, while I understand it's about the math the way you move your wand and that it's an option of study in third year, I don't understand the need for them. After all, I am sure in duels or life and death situations, if you want to use a basic transfiguration, you can't have 10 seconds to change a rock to a dog by following the needed wand movements, or if you see someone fall of a tower, do you really need the swish and flick to use a quick levitation charm?"

That was the reason Filius loved the unpredictable group of students, while hearing this question before, most of the students who ask them were in the six and seventh years with dangerous career choices in the future.

If he ask this question now, what would he ask next year?

"It is quite simple actually, there are two ways of casting without wand movements, the first one is called point cast, it is hard to do and mostly impossible to do with most transfigurations and advance charms, actually the easiest subject to study point cast in is DADA as most dark charms have less wand movements.

What you basically do with wand movements is by-pass the Arithmancy requirements to use a spell and instead use a pre-made formula of a spell someone already created. In point casting you have to do your own Arithmancy to cast, something much harder as you need to memorize the spell formula or create it on the spot- which is why even the most powerful wizards only have a few charms they memorize. Actually, the reason the headmaster is so appreciated in our world is that all his point casts are transfigurations which are the hardest.

The second way is resonance casting, by repeating the same spell a lot in dangerous situations the spell is so ingrained in your body, magic and wand that you can actually use the charm just by saying the name of it, this way has a lot of problems as even if it is easier to achieve, the charms intentions are changing your mind.

So, for example, if you use cheering charm in a dangerous situation you would like making people laugh, yet a torture curse would drive you to sadism.

In fact, in the war, becouse so many used the expeliamus spell, it created a generation of aurors who are unwilling to do damage to their opponents which made the war much more difficult."

After that, Filius continued having a magnificent conversation with mr. Peverell

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Chapter: 3939 the rest of the vacation

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Neville's pov

Neville was pissed. Apparently, Harry thought he wasn't good enough for his father's wand. He bought him a gift card for a new wand and wrote in a letter how he didn't think he fit the wand- what a jerk! Luckily, Neville managed to hide the letter from his grandmother who already told him that he didn't deserve his father's wand and that they should buy a new one in the summer- he would prove everyone he is worthy of his father legacy! And as for Harry? They weren't friends anymore, he is worse then Malfoy!

Hermione's pov

Hermione was so happy! She got gifts for the first time from people that weren't her family.

She got chocolate frogs from Ron, colored ink from Marcus and a wand cleaner from Neville. She made sure to gift them a study calendar that would help them studying for tests, yet there was another person who got her a present for whom she didn't get anything, Harry Peverell.

He got her a gift card for 13 books and she didn't even got him anything. She felt horrible. Even more so, when she remembered that Neville didn't mention anything about any gift he prepared for Harry which meant he probably didn't send him one ether.

Hermione wasn't sure what to do except accepting his apology for his rude behavior when she get back to school and becoming friends with him again, after all, he isn't in Slytherin for a long time yet, maybe there is still a way to save his soul.

George Weasley's pov

They stayed in Hogwarts this year, all the Weasley brothers who are still in school, and Fred and him couldn't have asked for a better Christmas miracle.

Don't get him wrong, he loved his family, his house and the even though he wouldn't admit it, his mother. But if there was something Fred and George hated was a Weasley's Christmas.

It was full of screaming from their mothers about their latest prank, stories about how amazing Percy is in school and now with the addition of Ron's friendship with Marcus, nagging from their sister about joining her worship cult of the 'boy who lived to ask for help in scratching his own butt'. No, they preferred to be in Hogwarts with the amazing meals, the Christmas pranks and snow fights. Not to mention, their transfigurations training they were taught by Harry was going so good that they managed to do McGonagle's table to pig trick two years before it is taught, which meant that after all the students return, Fred and George were going to create untraceable pranks who cannot be blamed on them. Yes, this Christmas is great.

Harry's pov

It was the last day of the winter break and all students were disappointed. Most of them just didn't want the vacation to end and going back to studying didn't sound good to them, but there was at least one student whose reason was different. Harry's reason for not wanting the break to end was the unwilling to slow his studies again.

You see, while having no teacher in a subject like potion did slow him as Snape was an incredible potion master and helped him avoid mistakes and Flitwick answered most of the questions he couldn't find answers for in books, most subjects in this school were better for him to study independently and the school year only slowed his studies by a large margin. In fact while in vacation he managed to finish fifth year's charm's book, improved his magical control to the middle of second year's transfigurations, and read in the ROR all the seven DADA books from the year of 1900 as it was before Dumbledore taught defense and couldn't screw the curriculum andhis magical power grew by 2% more in this three weeks break then before the break.

He even managed to complete almost half of his chemistry master studies curriculum and was planing on using his summer break to complete his practical part and tests. Overall, Harry much preferred to continue his self studying style then return to the school year

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Chapter: 4040 a late night stroll and a chance at a hollow

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Hermione pov

Hermione was crying, she couldn't believe Harry not only didn't meant the gift as an apology, he also gave such a cruel 'gift' to Neville and was unwilling to apologize, so Neville ripped the gift card in front of Harry and she told him that they aren't friends anymore and that he lost his soul. Even though she knew she was right, she couldn't help but cry, after all he was her first friend.

Marcus's pov

It was the first night at the castle and Marcus put on his invisibility cloak and went on a secret stroll, after about an hour of roaming the castle he came near a room he felt a strong need to go into.

As he walked in, he found a large, impressive mirror, he removed his cloak and looked into it. There he saw himself as the hero of the Wizarding world a second time, defeating countless dark lords. After an untold amount of time he heard a voice behind him

"So, you, like hundreds before you, have discovered the delights of the Mirror of Erised." It was Dumbledore.

"I didn't see you, sir."

"Strange how nearsighted being invisible can make you," said Dumbledore, and Marcus was relieved to see that he was smiling.

"I expect you've realized by now what it does?"

Marcus thought and said "It shows us what we want... whatever we want..."

"Yes and no," said Dumbledore quietly. "It shows us nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts. So it shows you the life of a man of justice who saves everyone.

However, this mirror will give us neither knowledge or truth. Men have wasted away before it, entranced by what they have seen, or been driven mad, not knowing if what it shows is real or even possible."

"The Mirror will be moved to a new home tomorrow, Marcus, and I ask you not to go looking for it again. If you ever do run across it, you will now be prepared. It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live, remember that. Now, why don't you put that admirable cloak back on and get off to bed?"

Marcus was on his way out of the door when he turned and asked

"What do you see when you look in the mirror?"

"I? I see myself holding a pair of thick, woolen socks."

Marcus stared

"One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books."

It was only when he was back in bed that it struck Marcus that Dumbledore might not have been quite truthful. But then, he thought, as he shoved Scabbers off his pillow, it had been quite a personal question.

Dumbledore's pov

'Everything went perfectly,' Dumbledore thought while putting the stone inside the mirror. 'by using a confudius charm on Marcus he found the mirror and made the mirror have a contact with his mind just enough to put an object in the mirror linked to him so next time he sees it the object would come out and he even managed to establish himself as an eccentric wise guide so when he gives Marcus explanations in their next meeting Marcus would be inclined to believe. Yes, everything is perfect.

Harry's pov

Classes returned and months went by, and it was March already.

Harry while losing Hermione and Neville as friends gain another two friends by becaming good friends with the twins while being in the ROR and continued with steady steps in his studies, well steady steps for him was gigantic steps for others . His charms study came to the second half of the sixth year and the twins and he started playing the game 'who could think of the most horrible way to die by an every day charm.' As a way to think of original ways to use regular charms. Right now the most horrifying way was ripping your enemy's heart by achio with second place an over powered laughing charm that won't stop till you choke.

In transfiguration, finished studying the transfiguration theory books in the library and he could tell you that while the exercises in class were good to see where you are now, the magical theory in transfiguration was shit. It was only about the way you move your wand and the different results with different wand movement and intent, and while intent was right, the ideas about wand movements were wrong as it would mean it is impossible to do transfiguration wandlessly and Harry can.

As for all the laws of the possible and impossibles in transfiguration and conjunction, Harry didn't believe it at all, it sounded like something the ministry uses to make sure there are no frauds in gold (as transfiguration isn't permanent) and that food can't be made in conjunction as conjunction is actually transfiguration of gases and it would go back in the end to it's base form.

his magical control became better and he was nearing the end of second year but he needs to start thinking of new exercises in control as it started to become almost easy to control the frequency of the electricity.

His occlumency became better then ever with his mental maze keeping the unsuspecting Quirrellmort in a loop of first-sixth grade in muggle school and Snape thinking he is a natural in the art as he 'become better' in each privet lesson.

His economic class was finished and he started having double classes in forging where he finished making knifes and started making swords, which were similar in shape but had much higher requirements on the balance.

A nice side affect of the forging lessons was that Harry's phisical strength and endurance started raising again after being stuck on the same level for a long time.

March 24 00:44

He couldn't believe it, the hallow he couldn't get as it was in the hands of the potters is now his! It is in his apartment in London where it would stay unless he has an important mission until he has ether a more secure, easy to access place.

How he got it? Well, it all started a few hours ago

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March 23 9:30

It was really close to bed time whenHarry came inside the Slytherin common room, he was on his way to his room when he heard Malfoy say to Crabbe and Goyle: "I found out scarface and his friends are going to sneak their dragon out side the school and I am going to make sure they are caught, as with the points they would lose they would get no chance at winning the house cap and as the person who made it happen, I would finally get my place as the leader of our Slytherin year!" Harry wanted to laugh as Malfoy apparently forgot Snape telling them the cap is meaningless but as he didn't want to get caught overhearing, he put an invisibility charm over him and went to the astronomy tower where in the books the heros forget the invisiblity cloak.

He waited for the golden group to drop the cloak and give the dragon away when he castes a quick notice me not charm on the cloak and then waited for them to leave before taking the cloak and going to the ROR lost and founds where he left the vanishing cabinet hidden, went to his apartment, left the cloak and returned to his room.

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