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Chapter: 4141 forbidden forest and tests
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Third's pov
The detention Marcus got was a detention worthy for the boy who lived, otherwise, why would professor McGonagall would give A couple of first years detention in the forbidden forest to find a unicorn killer? Why would Hagrid split them to two groups and leave Marcus and Malfoy with only Fang?
Anyhow... Marcus was prepared to find the killer, and the shaking his hand is experiencing? It is from excitement, not fear.
After a while of searching, the excitement, fear and wonder of the forest disappeared, and in its place came boredom, so when they saw a horse shaped creature running it shouldn't come as a surprise to you that they ran after it. What should come as a surprise is that they actually caught up to it, but as they where in a sight distance, they understood why they managed to come close to it. The unicorn was caught by a human shaped shadow and it was bleeding. Malfoy screamed and started running in the opposite direction while Marcus was frozen in fear. Malfoy's scream shifted the shadow creature's attention from the unicorn to Marcus, but, just as the shadow was about to jump a Centaur charged forward scaring the creature away. The Centaur went to the unicorn, saw it was dead and bowed to it. That was the point Marcus came back to his senses and started running in the direction Malfoy ran, after all, he didn't want to die.
In the weeks to come, while studying for the exams, Marcus also convinced Hermione to read about the magical properties of unicorns and understood one thing, some one was going to steal the stone soon!
Harry's pov
Tests were near and like all students, Harry was in a study frenzy, the only differences are that Harry wasn't studying for the tests and that Harry always was in a study frenzy, which was why this time of year's only affects was the use of the History of Magic class to do the extra homework with the help of the notice me not charm, and as he finished his second year chemistry' master degree he was only annoyed by the wast of time and not outright angry.
He was in the second half of the seventh year's charm book and was planing on finishing it by the end the year, his forging was going well, and he was becoming better and better at creating swords, his control over his magic was becoming better, his magical energy grew stronger and even his physical strength and endurance grew.
The only thing that didn't improve by much was his transfigurations, he stoped at the peak of the second year and he didn't manage to do any of the third year's transfiguration correctly, as while in first year's curriculum it was an inanimate to inanimate (dead is also inanimate) things that looked similar and the same size with not much details and in second year's curriculum it is again inanimate to inanimate just with more details or bigger sizes with extra points for both. As for third year's curriculum, the first half is inanimate to animate and the second half is animate to inanimate and while Harry managed to change things like a pot to a tortoise, it was a dead tortoise as he didn't manage to transfigure an inanimate to a live creature and after thinking about it he started using the wand waving method and cutting the animals he transfigured while simultaneously doing the same wandlessly and trying to figure out the differences in the end result and was planing to learn next for his biology's master degree and maybe also biochemistry as next year the DADA class was going to be useless.
Marcus's pov
The exams were complete and Marcus felt he did the best he could, or at least during the tests, but studying serously were for Hermione and Ravenclaw, he lost the invisibility cloak, Gryffindor hated him and his friends for losing 150 points in one night which throw them from first place to last in the house cup competition and he couldn't really calm down with the knowledge that someone (likely Snape) was going to try to steal the sorceress stone and that he didn't know when so that he would be able to save the stone like the Hero he is and so Gryffindor would love him again. But after the last test was done and hearing Hermione recounting the History exam for the forth time, he decided to do the noble thing and tell Dumbledore so that he would be prepared.
Searching for a professor was easier then you would think as just as he looked for one Professor McGonagall came from behind the corner, carrying a large pile of books.
"Professor, we want to see Professor Dumbledore" Marcus said
"See Professor Dumbledore?" Professor McGonagall repeated, as though this was a very fishy thing to want to do. "Why?"
"It's sort of secret," he said, wanting to get credit from the headmaster himself, but he wished at once he hadn't said it, because Professor McGonagall's nostrils flared.
"Professor Dumbledore left ten minutes ago," she said coldly. "He received an urgent owl from the Ministry of Magic and flew off for London at once."
"He's gone ?" said Marcus thinking the best time to steal the stone is when Dumbledore is out of school.
"Professor Dumbledore is a very great wizard, Potter, he has many demands on his time--"
"But this is important."
"Something you have to say is more important than the Ministry of Magic, Potter?"
"Look," said Marcus, throwing the chance for credit away, "Professor -- it's about the Sorcerer's Stone--"
Whatever Professor McGonagall had expected, it wasn't that. The books she was carrying tumbled out of her arms, but she didn't pick them up.
"How do you know -- ?" she spluttered.
"Professor, I think -- I know -- that Sn -- that someone's going to try and steal the Stone. I've got to talk to Professor Dumbledore."
She eyed him with a mixture of shock and suspicion.
"Professor Dumbledore will be back tomorrow," she said finally. I don't know how you found out about the Stone, but rest assured, no one can possibly steal it, it's too well protected."
"But Professor--"
"Potter, I know what I'm talking about," she said shortly. She bent down and gathered up the fallen books. I suggest you all go back outside and enjoy the sunshine."
But they didn't.
"It's tonight," said Marcus, once he was sure Professor McGonagall was out of earshot. "Snape's going through the trapdoor tonight. He's found out everything he needs, and now he's got Dumbledore out of the way. He sent that note, I bet the Ministry of Magic will get a real shock when Dumbledore turns up."
"We're going out of here tonight and we're going to try and get to the Stone first. It is like the Troll, we have to do it!"
"Lets do it," Neville said after a moment of hesitation with determination in his eyes "my father and mother would have been proud to hear I am doing the right thing."
As they were planing how to go tonight, they didn't know near them with an invisibility charm on, Dumbledore stood with his wand up manipulating all of them so they would go tonight to the third floor
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Chapter: 4242 it is not stealing it is borrowing indefinitely
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Harry's pov
You would think stalking the golden group as they embark of their mission would be hard, that they would use an invisibility charm or a notice me not charm (as Harry stole the invisibility cloak) and that Hermione at least, would cast a reviling charm to check for stalkers.
Yet they did none of that, they went to the third floor, and went past the traps like in the books, with the only difference is that Neville was the one who recognized the Devil's Snare, and he stayed with Ron when he became injured due to the chess game.
Even the part in the books where Hermione told Harry how brave and noble he was, was repeated with Marcus, and if it sound suspicious... it shouldn't be, as when Harry was following them with his invisibility cloak (it's his now!), the twins 'flying method (Ascendio, wingardium leviosa on clothes, Arresto Momentum and Depulso), invisibility charm underneath the cloak and the Silencio charm to make sure they didn't hear him scream.
he used one of the times the twins owed him the map for tonight and when he looked where he is at, he found out Dumbledore was also following them.
And Harry was sure that the weird parts in the traps which mad them easy were added by him because if not, why would Fred and George would have trouble going past the traps as they told him?
And yes, of course they went there, it is Fred and George.
Anyhow... after the 'touching moment' Hermione and Marcus had, and Hermione and Dumbledore left (she to search for him and him to appear as the all knowing headmaster), Marcus drank the unknown potion that Hermione told him was anti-flame potion (seriously, he was thinking it was Snape and willingly drank a potion he provided?), and went past the flames.
As there wasn't any potion left and even if there was, Harry was unwilling to drink it, Harry used the bubble-head charm on the fire to make it small enough, and sailed above it.
When he came inside the first villain monologue was finished and Marcus was getting the stone from the mirror. Then the second monologue began where Voldemort showed his face and started talking about how Marcus should join him and that he didn't need to die like Peter Pettigrew 'Peter Pettigrew is dead?' Harry thought 'Then is Scabbers a real rat?' A quick look in the map showed him that Scabbers was Peter. 'So it means Sirius might be innocent and in jail even though the Potters are alive. Something to check later.'
As he thought about it, Quirrell was jumping onto Marcus in an attempt to get the stone and started to burn. while they were fighting and after Harry swore he would make it so he understand how Marcus touch burned Quirrell, Harry quickly used accio to summon the stone and used transfiguration to change a regular red stone he had to look exactly like the philosophers stone, he than used depulso to put the transfigured stone near Marcus.
As he got almost everything he wanted from this place, Harry hid behind the mirror and looked as the fight ended with Quirrell's death and Marcus losing conscious.
A few minutes passed when the black flames were putout an Dumbledore marched in, put the fake stone in his pocket and then used some spells to take Marcus out of the room.
Harry, seeing he was alone and checking with the map to make sure quickly took out his wand and used the geminio curse to replicate the mirror.
He then shrank the real mirror put it in his pocket.
'As I don't know if tracking charms were put on it.' Harry thought while getting out of the third-floor corridor
'I guess it would be perfect next to my vanishing cabinet in the ROR Hiding room with the Stone in side of it with only me being able to take it out.' While thinking it, Harry's smile grew to an almost maniacal size.
'After all, this is a school and he is a Professor, I'm supposed to learn from him.'
Three day's latter
Dumbledore's pov
Dumbledore's plan went perfectly, his chosen one's friends showed him self sacrifice, honor and made him believe in himself.
Marcus drank the flaming curse potion that made him protected from flames and made any cursed person that touched him for the next hour to burn and die with the expanse of two years worth of life force.
And the all year casting of confundus made Quirrell forget using spells when trying to kill Marcus so he touched him and died.
And he made sure Marcus believed his powers came from love.
He even managed to convince his mentor he destroyed the stone even if he had to use confundus with the elder wand to do it.
So how is it possible that now when he looked at the stone he saw it was a fake??? Who took it? It couldn't be Voldemort as he wouldn't leave a transfigured stone, and he arrived 4 minutes tops after the battle was over! Who can it be?
Harry's pov
He got his grades today:
(AN: O - 90-100, EE - 70-89, A - 56-69, P - 50-56, D - 25-49, T- 0-25)
History of magic: theoretical:O
Astronomy: practical: O theoretical:O
Potions: practical: O theoretical:O
Herbology: practical: O theoretical:O
DADA:practical: EE theoretical:O
Charms: practical: EE theoretical:O
Transfigurations: practical: EE theoretical:O
Flying: practical: A
All of them was as he wanted, an excellent theoretical student with an average practical results in wands subjects
This decision was planed so he wouldn't be seen as a threat to Dumbledore while giving him the chance to get the most broken artifact in this world- the time turner.
Daphne's pov
As they were sitting in the end of the year feast after the Headmaster made sure everyone in Slytherin hate him for his bias, as even though they didn't care about the house cup they cared about the blant way he favored Gryffindor as 60 points for bravery? She didn't see him give 60 points for loyalty to a Hufflepuff or even 10 points for ambition to a Slytherin. Daphne was thinking about this year and the next.
While everyone on the research group was satisfied with this year, she wasn't, as while she got O in all the practicals and theoretical, EE in theoretical transfigurations and A in history, they didn't make one step forward in the way to save her sister. Hell, they didn't even have direction, and she was truly scared she would fail. Which was why she decided that next year she would ask for more people to join their group and she would start with Harry Peverell, as professor Snape told her some weird things about him
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Snape's last office hour of the year
Daphne's pov
"Professor, may I come in?"
"Miss Greengrass, I didn't expect you to be the Slytherin to come see me today," he said while gesturing to sit on the chair. "What can I help you today?"
Daphne sat in the chair before saying: "as you probably already know, I created a study group with the idea to research magic, and as you probably guessed, the magic researching doesn't go so well, I was wandering if you have an advice about the way to go."
"While a great ambition, you should abandon it for now. As researching magic can't be done without at least a fifth year's magical knowledge which is why only in sixth year we start giving research projects. You should instead focus on your studies and try getting more knowledge, just like mr. Peverell who while having average talent with wand subjects, can already pass the theoretical part of potions in the OWLs. In fact he remind me of my self when I was a first year..."
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She has to get the potions Genius to join her group!
Severus Snape's pov
Looking inside a persons mind when they remembered something about him was always a creepy experience, as looking into someone's mind wasn't like seeing a movie or a memory in a pensieve, an emotionless recounting of something, but seeing how someone's mind changed their look in the world and of people. In fact the only thing worse than seeing how a person saw you is seeing how a person saw someone he was in love with.
Yet, even though he really hated looking at those kind of memories he enjoyed looking into miss Greengrass's mind this time as it let him see his scheme was working, miss Greengrass would make mr. Peverell join her group to help save her sister.
Mr. Peverell would gain friends which would let him not fall to the same pits Severus fell because he didn't have any.
And most importantly, this would push not only their year group but at least the next 6 years of Slytherin to succeed in school more which will destroy the image Dumbledore and Voldemort are trying to make Slytherin look like: 'the evil, lazy and stupid group who would betray anyone for power.'
Yes, this is Severus's chance to destroy the stupid chess game before it even began
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Chapter: 4343 train ride and depression
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Harry's pov
While most children use the train ride home to be with their friends before the summer begins and use magic just a little bit more before having an entire summer without. Well, Harry wasn't like most children. His only two friends in school were in Gryffindor, which meant, as he was in Slytherin, that he was unable to be with them even if they didn't have other friends to be with. As for doing magic... the trace was on wands so as long as there is magic done with them or in a close area to them with no other magical close it would show as if you have done it, which was why Harry left his wand in the mirror of Erised with the sorcerer's stone to make sure no magic would be detected when he does it and transfigured a wood to make it look like his wand. So, no. It won't be a magic-less summer for him. but it also meant he had nothing to do in the train except finishing his summer homework as even to him with perfect memory, advanced theoretical knowledge and the ability to do all of it at the same time would have to work for a few hours to finish it all.
At the same time
In another wagon
Third's pov
As much as they were happy that they managed winning the house cup, all the golden group were disappointed with the result of the end of the school year.
Hermione found out that while she was first place in their year's scores, she wasn't first place in the theoretical test nor was she in the practicals.
The theory first place was her ex-friend Harry Peverell who got perfect scores in everything, while even she had a few mistakes in astronomy, herbology and history.
And in the practical tests in wand subjects students from Slytherin defeat her in different subjects (even Malfoy in DADA) and in subjects without wand her ex-friend once again beat her.
'I might by first place on the overall, but I am more like a third place.' Thinking that, Hermione rose her head with fire in her eyes telling her self that next year would be different.
Marcus's problem was also his grades, as while he didn't fail in any of the subjects, his only O was in flying, he got EE in charms and transfiguration and all his other subjects were A.
'Well, it's not my fault, history and astronomy are useless, herbiology is boring, potions are with Snape and how am I supposed to focus with Voldemort in DADA!' After saying that to him self a few times Marcus started believing it himself and his depression left.
Neville's sadness was related to a different matter all together.
When he first heard about the philosopher's stone he had an idea that it could be used to cure his parents and when they went to save it his idea grew bigger and bigger until it turned into hope that hope blew up in his face when Marcus told him that Dumbledore destroyed the stone.
It would take weeks until he moves past the sadness this false hope caused him.
As for Ron? Ron was hangry and was sad that because he didn't pack his things the day before, he lost the chance to eat more. 'I wonder what mum is cooking' and just like that his happiness returned
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Chapter: 4444 summer vacation part 1
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Harry's pov
The next month was heretic, it was filled with tests, practical chemistry training and more tests with only quick visits to the ROR to work on his magical control and emptying his magical reserves but with the help of a lot of money from James Potter's oath for study and a little bit of magic to smooth the edges and Harry got his first master degree as a 12 years old birthday gift.
And it was a pretty good birthday gift, considering his only other gift was the yearly 100 Galleons from the Potters.
Yet, as it still was unsatisfying for a birthday and as he couldn't help remembering his last birthday with his parents he decided to go visiting Borgin and Burkes and see if there was anything interesting to buy.
Daniel Burkes's pov
Daniel's day couldn't have been worse. Ney, this summer couldn't be worse and it wasn't because he was once again struck in the store alone while Borgin went on his crazy treasure finding adventures and quests, as he liked not being in constant danger and instead read some books or tweet with some artifacts.
It wasn't because nobody bought anything for the last two weeks (even though it certainly didn't help), as it was like that all the time. This store usually wasn't a come and buy store, although they did have those sales.
It was more of a high class lost and found where what you lost isn't what you found.
The reason that it was such a bad summer was because for the last month, every day, one Lucius Malfoy came to the store and tried convincing him to buy a diary from him.
Now, usually he wouldn't mind buying an object from a patron of his, but this book gave him really bad vibes and in his choice of work, where dried magical hand which lights up in the dark is an everyday object he puts next to his window shop, when an artifact gives you bad vibes you not only not touching it, you are making sure it doesn't come near any of your things.
Which was what made this a bad summer, as everyday Lucius came and kept trying to convince him to take the book, which he kept refusing and today he finally snapped and told Lucius he is banned from coming to the store for the next year and if next time he came with the book he wouldn't be welcomed at all.
Which was what made him so grumpy today, as he knew Lucius Malfoy was one of his best and most spending customers and that he would be facing hard time financially now.
Which was why when he saw a boy coming in alone, even if he looked familiar, he just let him look through things.
After a few minutes of searching the boy came to him.
"Excuse me sir," the boy said politely. "I am looking for something that prevents potions from taking affect, as after reading about potions I figured it is one of the most dangerous things the magical world has. Do you have something like that?"
"Don't we all. Sorry kid, if I had something like that I would have kept it for my self."
"Oh, I guess it makes sense."
"Maybe something else, you seem like a smart kid, how about a rare book?"
"That's exactly what you said on this very day last year, when I was here with my parents."
It was then Daniel figured out who the boy was
"You are the boy who bought the vanishing cabinet, how are your parents?"
"They died a few weeks after our visit here, which was the last full day I had with them."
And now he wanted to make his leg bones disappear so he could put his foot in his mouth
"I'm sorry."
He never knew what to say in situations like those
"Never mind that, lets talk about books. Do you have any books on the subject of the world? As apparently all the other stores in the magical world of Britain and even Hogwarts library believes only Europe and ancient Egypt exist as there are no mention of any other country in the books I saw everywhere except a little bit about USA in the form of explaining how it should be part of magical Britain and its help during the Great War and even then in a small pass before telling about Scamander and the legendary duel between Dumbledore and Grindelwald."
Daniel went to the back room and came back a few moments later
"Actually I don't have anything about any of them but I do have an interesting book that was written by a Salem witch's academy about the different methods of animagi training which are done by the Native American tribes which are totally different from ours, but although it is interesting read it wouldn't help much as it is for wizards who use different kind of conducts to do magic." Hook, line and...
"I will take it!" Sinker
Pleasure doing business with you.
As the boy left with his new book Daniel had smile on his face again.
'I might have lost one of my best clients, but as long as this world is filled with an easy to fool people I would manage just fine
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Chapter: 4545 summer vacation part two
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Lucius Malfoy POV
Lucius had a terrible month.
His son did averagely in school except in DADA and potions.
A new muggle protection law is about to pass in the ministry that would let every magical law worker able to come to people's house whenever he wants and take away anything that doesn't feels light and with all his Slytherin cunningness he didn't managed to think of one thing that would help him repeal the law.
Which brought the thing that destroyed his month, the diary.
Now, he was never a real supporter of the dark lord. He didn't believe in torture or murder. In fact, he was pacifist, as why should you do barbaric things like those when with bribe and a little bit of blackmail you can achieve the same and make people happy about it.
Yet, in the end, he was also realistic, which was why when he was kidnapped to a secret location by one of his so called friends he made sure he sounds as genuine and fanatic as the rest of them while using his Occlumency to the maximum, and as he always did, he bribed his way to the top to make himself invaluable to kill and he managed to survive the war and even use it to his advantage as he once again used money to make himself invaluable just to the minister this time.
Anyway... with the new law being prepared and not many options, Lucius opened the diary for the second time since he got it and asked for advice.
The first time Lucius opened the diary was Halloween 1981 when the dark mark faded, as the dark lord told him that if it were to ever happen he should write in the diary and ask for instructions.
As he has yet to know the dark lord died, he did as told and when in wrote back with Red colored ink saying 'hey, I'm Tom riddle, he immediately cast several detection charms and figured out what this object was - a horcrux! Something which two things, the dark lord isn't dead and as he was told it this situation to write in the book, he was in a almost death situation and was planing on using Lucius's life to get better.
So Lucius used his last option and turned himself to the ministry saying he was cursed with imperio and the rest is history.
The second time he opened the book he made sure his Occlumency shields are as tight as possible before asking for advice as say whatever you will, the dark lord did almost win the war, and was from the line of Slytherin, he had to have some cunningness in his bones and maybe a different look on life is what Lucius needed to find a way to make sure the law doesn't pass.
But as he wrote in the diary he couldn't help but realize that the dark lord is insane.
He kept talking about killing all the muggles and muggle-borns as the solution of Lucius problems and when Lucius said mudbloods to Draco one day, he understood the book started to affect him.
So he wished to get rid of it but no one was willing to buy it from him and he was really scared to throw it away or destroy it as if the dark lord was ever to find out he was sure to die where in a store he can also buy it back and as long as he has a tracker charm on the book he would always know where it is. But apparently, no one wanted to take a book that every fifth year can who trained a little bit with the dark arts can tell you smelled like death.
And that brought him here, to Flourish and Blotts. The only official book store in the magical parts of Britain, in the busiest day of the year, as both Gilderoy Lockhart and Marcus Potter were signing books in addition to celebrating the 'boy who lived''s birthday. With the plan to slip the book to one of the shelfs he walked inside the store so of course it was at that point that his son had to destroy his plans by acting like a Gryffindor who try acting like a Slytherin.
"Hey Weasley, came here with the hope of getting some money for answering questions about the life of the number one follower of Scarface?"
The youngest Weasley boy's face went as red as His sister hair. He dropped his books into the cauldron, and started toward Draco, but His father grabbed him at the back of his jacket.
"Ron!" said The boy's father, Arthur Weasley struggling to keep him from jumping Draco. "What are you doing?"
It was at that point that Lucius had a new idea to stop the new law from passing, by making the family of the person that pushed it the most a pariah in all the Wizarding Britain and not just with the high class and dark families.
"Well, well, well—Arthur Weasley."
"Lucius," said Weasley, nodding coldly.
"Busy time at the Ministry, I hear," said Mr. Malfoy. "All those sessions trying to pass this law and the planing for raids... I hope they're paying you overtime?"
He reached into The Weasley girl's cauldron and extracted, from amid the glossy Lockhart books, a very old, very battered copy of A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration.
'This is the best book to hide another book inside.'
"Obviously not," He said, trying to get a rase of anger from them to mask him slipping the diary inside. "Dear me, what's the use of being a disgrace to the name of wizard if they don't even pay you well for it?"
Weasley flushed darker than either His youngest son's or Daughter.
"We have a very different idea of what disgraces the name of wizard, Malfoy," he said.
"Clearly," Lucius said and looked around him to get something more upsetting, his pale eyes straying to Mr. and Mrs. Granger, who were watching apprehensively. "The company you keep, Weasley… and I thought your family could sink no lower—"
Weasley had thrown himself at Lucius, knocking him backward into a bookshelf. Dozens of heavy spellbooks came thundering down on all their heads; there was a yell of, "Get him, Dad!" from One of Weasley's kids, While the wife was shrieking, "No, Arthur, no!", the crowd stampeded backward, knocking more shelves over; "Gentlemen, please—please!" cried the assistant, and then, louder than all—
"Break it up, there, gents, break it up—"
The Hogwarts groundkeeper was wading toward them through the sea of books. In an instant he had pulled Weasley and him apart. Weasley had a cut lip that Lucius was really proud of and he had been hit in the eye by an Encyclopedia of Toadstools. He was still holding the Weasley girl's old Transfiguration book. He thrust it at her, his eyes glittering with malice.
"Here, girl—take your book—it's the best your father can give you—" Pulling himself out of Hagrid's grip he beckoned to Draco and swept from the shop.
As he was walking outside the shop he thought 'a good start of a fine plan'
Harry's POV
As Harry seen the fight inside the book store he smiled and thought 'at least the canon is still useful
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Chapter: 4646 summer vacation part 3
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September 1st 1992
9:00 am
Harry's POV
As Harry was waiting for the train to start, he remembering his last month
This month was spent by exercising, studying, managing his finances and working on his control.
As he wasn't doing much magic he started pumping more of it into his body, while using his better control to make the magic go into every fiber muscle on its own ,making himself faster and stronger yet with also better endurance.
As his body's muscle is a 70% fast fibers and 30% slow fibers he should theoretically have more strength then endurance yet it was the opposite, which he believed was because of his third wish, and as he didn't want it to go to wast he kept pumping the magical energy with 2:1 ratio while knowing that when he become better at transfigurations he would just change the muscle fibers themself to what he needs them to be during rvery specific situation.
Which brought him to start studying for his biology and medicine, as with his chemistry master degree, and biology bachelors degree, the number of books he had to study went down significantly, with his biology having only 1.5 year's worth of books and medicine having 3 years worth of books not including his biology books which was the reason that after a month of unrelenting studies he almost finished a year's worth of biology.
The only other thing he studied in this summer was blacksmithing and when his sword creation became good enough to not shame Ragnok by calling me his student (Ragnok words not his), he almost cried in joy.
His financial was getting al steady improvements as all the companies he invested in based of foreknowledge succeeded, and as he didn't have time to work on it, he hired a company to do it for him.
And finally his magical control, as his improvement slowed down by a lot and he could control the coils to emit electric charge of whatever frequency he wanted, he couldn't see how he could improve until two days ago, when he was doing his evening workout and passed a bar and heard a band play there. The band had a bass player and he couldn't help but compare the bass to the coils in sounds, and then his mind created a new way of magical control. If he had to do music with the coils the difficulty would be much higher as it needed instant changes with the frequency, which was why he was right now in a wagon of the train, waiting for it to start while he was learning his new bass guitar with a picture book.
After an unknown amount of time passed while doing basic bass finger placements and learning the chords a knock on the door told Harry that people start to come in and that even though he put a notice me not charm on the door someone noticed which meant it was someone who trained himself to notice the unnoticeable like the twins taught him.
"Come in." Harry called
The first thing he noticed about the person was that it was a she, with her blond, almost white hair and her extremely delicate face.
The second that she was short, unfamiliar and had no colors on her robe- which meant she was a first year.
The third thing was that she wore a robe which meant she was from a Wizarding family and came with magical was as otherwise she would have wore muggle clothes.
The forth and last thing he noticed was the magazine with the name of the Quibbler in her hand.
Even an idiot could have connected the dots and Harry was no idiot.
This was Luna Lovegood
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Chapter: 4747 seeing in a blind world
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Luna's POV
As much as Luna loved and missed her mother, some days she hated her, as she left her alone with an unstable father, today was such a day.
Don't get her wrong, she loved her father with all her heart but getting ready to the first day at Hogwarts was hard enough for an eleven years old without the need to make sure your dad remembered to wear his day robe and not night robe or robejama as he calls it.
As she walked outside to see the view of her house for the last time before going to Hogwarts, she could see the entire village, as her house was on a hill, but her eyes couldn't help but wander to the house where yells of excitement, shouts of forgetfulness and bits of screams of annoyance smeared with laughter where a person who used to be her best friend before the incident.
As she looked at this somewhat magical house where so many good memories happened and signed as she turn away and thought 'I hope I would find a new friend without Wrackspurts in their ear.
10:30 AM
It took her more time then she expected but she finally made it, she finally arrived to the train and it was marvelous. The train had an aura of similar to a broom yet also similar to the extended room where her father made his newspaper.
Just thinking about her father made her tight her hold over the Quibbler he gave her before she left. It was those kind of gestures and the fact she can see the intent behind them that made her love him so much and also made her thank her mother, as even though she wasn't with her anymore, her last gift helped her everyday.
Flashback
April 25th 1990
Luna always loved seeing her mother work, as while her father always told her about magical and mystical animals, her mother showed her magical and mystical spells and artifacts, and as much as she loved animals and stories, in the end she was a child, and children loves visuals.
So it wasn't a surprise that when she heard her mother telling her father that her latest research is done and that she was ready to start experimenting yesterday eve, Luna made sure to come home early to day from her play date with Ginny and peeped through the cracks in the door of her mother's study room.
She watched her mother crave runes that were, if she remembered correctly, Egyptian and Nordic and in the middle of all of them she could see two large runes shaped like eyes that looked distinctly different from each other and then her mother stood in the middle, just on top of the eyes, pulled her wand and used some spell without Luna couldn't hear and than a bright light and nothing.
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When Luna woke up a week and a half latter she was in the St Mungo's hospital, her mom was dead and she was suffering from some known and some unknown side affects.
Her hair and eyes color changed to match her mother's and she could see much more then before, it was as if she used to be colors blind and now one eye of hers could see colors.
Her right eye could see the magic in everything and everyone with the use of colors and different kinds of shimmering, while the other eye could see the emotions, intentions, character and sometimes even thoughts of people with those things taking the shape of the mystical animals her father kept telling her about.
While an amazing ability, it was not only undoc.u.mented but also deemed out right impossible, and as a kid who read enough of her father's conspiracy theories she knew better than tell anyone about her new abilities. But as she sometimes slipped, everyone started to call her Loony instead of Luna, even her ex-best friend Ginny.
Which was why they weren't friends anymore and why she hoped to find a true friend in Hogwarts. After all, her mother used to tell her that Hogwarts friends are friends forever.
A few minutes later
Luna spent the last few minutes searching for a place to sit. Every time she opened a door the place was ether full or had children who are full with Wrackspurts- which meant they were either stupid, full of dreams without the will to chase them or full of lies they keep telling themselves and believe it.
Just as her frustration reached a whole new level she saw a door that was shimmering with a weird spell, while it felt looked similar to the spell her house was enchanted with to make it unnoticeable, it had a much purer color in it. Almost like red being purer then pink as pink has both red and white in it.
She knocked on the door and when a boy's voice made her come in she walked in to see a boy holding some sort of sound producing artifact and she held her breath, while his magic was powerful, almost as much as the professor Snapes's when she saw him one time in Diagon alley buying potion equipment that wast what made her hold her breath.
Neither was the control she saw his magic moves with, although it was amazing.
No, the thing that made her hold her breath was the fact there was not one mystical animal around him and as she walked closer the animals that were around her left, something that only happened at her mother's funeral and in the cemetery.
It was as if he was dead
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Chapter: 4848 a train ride full of conversation
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Harry's POV
Harry was a lot of things.
he was a genius that finished four Bachelor degrees and a master degree by the age of 12.
He was a person who worked hard to become the best he can.
He had a master level Occlumency and was apparently the first person in a long time to use true wandless magic.
He was a man on a mission to make his parents murderer pay.
He was the chosen one and the true yet false boy who lived
And more then all, he was a person who had foreknowledge about tens of thousands of different kinds of worlds so similar to this one that in some you wouldn't even see the difference without a closer look.
But if there was one thing he was more then all, something that was craved into his soul was that he is a scientist, and that meant that if something in the world doesn't fit the way you see this world, it means the problem is with you.
Which was why, even after his meeting with the being who took his memories of last life, and gave him this life, even after learning magic and even after knowing the Potters are alive his world was never shakened.
So what is about Luna that after one train ride with her shook him so much?
A few hours before
"Hey, May I sit with you?" The girl who can only be Luna Lovegood asked
"Sure, just answer me this one question as a compensation for not making you go to the first year's lounge" He answered in return, truly curious if she used a diffrent method than the twins 'awareness of what there is and what isn't'
"Oh, let's play truth or bean as a way to get to know each other, it's like truth or dare but every time don't want to answer you have to eat one of the every flavor beans I have, and if you do, you can't be asked the same question again."
As Harry agreed doing it she said she would go first.
"What is your name?"
"Harry Peverell," and deciding to be polite asked in return "what's yours?"
"Luna Lovegood"
they continued asking basic questions about the other person like 'what house is Harry' and 'what house does Luna want to be' for a long time, totally forgetting about the beans as they answered truthfully. Luna telling him about her love for animals while glossing over the animals he knew there wasn't any proof exists which she believed in, and him telling her about his muggle studies at the university level which made her so interested and asked him why was he in Slytherin and not Ravenclaw, to which he answered "I have no idea, at the beginning I wanted to be a Ravenclaw, but after being for a time in Slytherin I am happy to be there. As I see it, the idea of the houses is either an idiotic way to control the students in school by splitting the school to four houses, telling people when they are 11 years old what are they when they themself's don't know, that they are something specific like loyal and hard worker, or brave and just or smart and competitive or ambitious and cunning, you make sure you control the population when they are just children, make sure that they grow exactly as you want them to be and make them act like sheep when they grow up. Or a way to give someone his best shot at success, as by putting someone who is lazy but smart in a house that values hard work would make him better and putting someone with great ambitions in a house that values it and teaches how to make them come true would help him grow." Harry smiled sheepishly
"Sorry I didn't answer the question, but while I value all the four houses the same with maybe a little more preference to the house of the loyal and a little less to the house of the brave, I really don't know why I am a Slytherin.
Why do you want to be a Ravenclaw?"
"Well, after a rant like that," she smiled teasingly. "I would have to think hard what kind of state of mind I want to grow into, as my reasons for wishing to be a Ravenclaw are somewhat childish. I wanted to be a Ravenclaw for two reasons, my parents were in this house and they used to tell me about their time in Hogwarts as a bed time story until my mum died, so it was always a dream of mine to be in that place. As for the second reason, well, it is a way to be closer to my mum..."
"I get it, my parants also died..."
After that there was an awkward silence for a few minutes which Luna broke by telling him about the mythological creatures and conspiracy theories her dad publish and the way to see past the basic reading of the Quibbler and read about the real news the ministry was trying to suppress.
"... when the article said fudge was trying to pass laws that allow the use of imperio on citizens by every law wizard and ministry worker, it actually reference to the article the daily prophet published two weeks ago about the muggle protection law that while has nice ring to it, allows the ministry to raid any house they want when ever they want and take everything they deem dark, with no defenition about what is dark. This is just an example to why while everyone has a subscribe to the daily prophet, all the politicians and smart people has also a subscribe to the Quibbler while making everyone believe they don't.
When there was only one hour left to the ride, Harry asked the original question he wanted to ask.
"What method did you use to see past the notice me not spell?"
Luna turned to her bag, took out a white colored bean with black spots which Harry would have bet was something spicy and ate it. "Mmmm, chocolate chip vanilla." Luna smiled another on of her dreamy smiles with a little bit of sharpness to it as if saying 'don't ask' and asked her question. "How many friends do you have?" She asked, trying to keep the subject light and as they only just met, as much as he was curious Harry swallowed his wish to ask again as he didn't wish to lose his new friend
"Three including you." He said and Luna's eyes lost a bit of the dreamy look they always had moisturizing.
"Do you mean it? Are we really friends?"
"Of course, I don't use so much time in conversations except if they are my friends!"
As Harry said it he thought that she truly was someone he want to be friends with, as she was probably one of the most interesting, and unpredictable people he will ever meet. And when you are in the Wizarding world, where almost everyone are predictable and boring with their Narrow mind and idiotic life style, every bit of those qualities are worth keeping
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Chapter: 4949 another song and sorting
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Harry's POV
The ride was over and Harry said goodbye to Luna who traveled in the boats.
He then found one of the thestral carriages with Blasé Zabini and Tracey Davis and took it to Hogwarts while thinking if he can see the thestrals because his rebirth, his Patronus or his seeing of Quirrell death. 'Well, one of the mysteries I would never solve.'
As he sat waiting for the sorting he used the time to study biology as he was planing to study in the train but instead spent it acquiring a new friend, not that its bad, just that he fell a little bit back in his study plan and was already thinking about changing it for times to be with Luna.
When the doors opened and first years walked in he waved to Luna who smiled back to him and all his year mates in Slytherin looked at him strange as they couldn't remember seeing him friendly with someone more then as a basic courtesy since his 'brake up' with Nevill and Hermione.
And then was a moment Harry has been waiting for, a chance to hear a song from the hat he didn't know from before
"Gather ye round
And I'll tell you a tale
Of four strong mages
Who drank lots of ale
There was joy and there was glory
More then you can think
Yes, this is what happened to them when They drank
They built Hogwarts, Hogwarts
They built Hogwarts
They decided it would be fun to teach kids with snots
They said, later, that it is noble
But I can tell you they were drank from ale...
And as the years went past and they continued to drink
Lots of ideas started to click
They had one drink at the first day of the school for good luck
And with a handsome talking hat they were stuck
Godric said then
Let's sort the kids, the kids,
Let's sort the kids
I take the brave ones
course I thought of it first
Poor Rowena still was super drunk
So she chose all the kids who didnt need to be spankedddd
While Salazar had time to choose
He wanted kids who will make better booze
Helga just wanted another friend
Who she can make wish he was dead
So loyalty and hard work she chose
And then took another ale's dose
So let's start the sorting, what kind of person you would be
When on your head there is me"
The entire school was in a quite shock, till the twins started laughing and yelled " Salazar is my hero!" Which woke everyone of their shock and they started Laughing and discussing about the song until pofessor McGonagall yelled "quiet!!!"
And started calling names and the sorting began.
Sorting Hat's POV
'This years song was great!' The hat thought as Minerva put him on a child's mind who he sorted to Ravenclaw. 'I should totally do more songs like those.' "Hufflepuff!" As the sorting continued he only experienced a few problematic children till he sat on the head of Luna Lovegood.
"In Gryffindor and Hufflepuff she cannot be, as it would kill her creativity and uniqueness while both Ravenclaw and Slytherin lead to similar paths who end in different places but both great.
"You are one of the few who gets a true say in where to be, Ravenclaw or Slytherin?"
"I would rather be in the place I can study the best"
"I see
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Chapter: 5050 continuing the sorting and Slytherin s rules
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Sortin Hat POV
"Better be Slytherin!"
He then continued to sort the children, making sure they get into the house that would make sure they not only have the best future possible but that they would also have the best shot at surviving, as after 12 years he once again see flashes of war in the future just like he started to see four years before the last one began.
"Ginevra Weasley" he could hear, and even when he saw the almost certain death she would experience everywhere except Hufflepuff he could only yell "Gruffyndor", knowing her mother would drive her to kill herself several years later with only her words if she was sent anywhere else.
With a heavy heart he finished sorting and was taken by the house elves back to his place. He had a lot to think about and a new song to write, maybe he could convince Albus to give him a drink...
Severus Snape's POV
Severus's Occlumency shields were really put to test today.
Wither it's the hat song or the talk in Dumbledore's office with the headmaster and his school bully and his family - James, Lily and Marcus Potter.
Flashback
"Come in, Severus, come in"
While Severus didn't know why he was summoned, as heard Dumbledore's cheery voice he knew two things.
1) inside the office there was more then just Dumbledore as otherwise he wouldn't speak in such a cheery voice when talking to him.
2) as he was summoned and wasn't aware of the reason, it could only mean he was going to hate the 'request' (read as order) he is about to receive.
After he walked in and saw the Potter family he did his iconic sneer (he was very proud about the effectiveness of his sneer - sawing fear in young student, unworthiness in older students and anger and uneasiness in a.d.u.l.ts), and said "what do you need Albus? I was in the middle of a potion experiment when I got your Patronus to come." He wasn't, but rule number one of Slytherin is that when someone wants something from you, you should seem as busy as possible to maximize profits.
"Sorry, sorry." he didn't seem sorry at all
"It is just that Lily and James has some concerns about the way you apparently treat Marcus in class." He said while his eyes twinkle in a way that made Snape have a need to run away before he is trapped in a way he cannot escape.
"So, do you want to explain yourself?"
Now, if Snape was being honest, he might have been harder on the boy then a regular student, but only with snarking comments not in grades as they try to make it appear as such, and even that was only because the entire faculty agreed to treat him as a regular student and then gave him and his friends 15 points for disobeying them during the emergency with the troll, and with him not even doing anything as Severus found out later when he used legilimency on him, so he decided to take him down a peg.
But the second rule of Slytherin is 'know the situation.' and as much as he wanted to throw the truth onto the headmaster, he knew it wouldn't help him, especially with the way both James and Marcus smirked
So, instead he said "as you told me more times then I remember, the dark lord isn't dead and is trying to return. What do you think would happen if he returns and find out I treat the boy good? Do you think he would give me the chance to become a spy for you?"
Severus really thought his explanation was an almost perfect one, but then James Potter had to open his mouth. "So you are working for you know who!"
No, I am the headmaster's spy."
"But by not teaching him potions you would make him unable to become a auror," James argued "and thus making 'he who must not be named' win when he comes back!"
"I think I have a solution to both our problems." Dumbledore said with a tone full of mirth, and Snape suddenly really regretted not pleading guilty in his trial. "Let's have Severus teach young Marcus once a week in a one on one session to make sure he won't fail nor would Severus risk his placement as one of Voldemort's inner circle."
"What?" It was the first time the Potter brat opened his mouth since Severus came in. "There is no way I am spending more time with this grown bat than I have to!"
Severus tightened his Occlumency shields to prevent him from cursing while Dumbledore, James and even Lily chuckled. 'Why am I even surprised?'
"Now, Marcus, this is your professor and you will treat him with the respect he deserve.
But as I can see you hold no love to each other, how about you let a student teach him in the potions classroom with access to the cauldron? Maybe one of your top students?"
Snape started to understand Dumbledore's plan.
If he didn't agree he would have to spend the next six years tutoring the 'brat who didn't have the curtsy to die', and if he did agree he would let Dumbledore have the Granger girl have access to the lab and thus make her become better at potions, but while Severus didn't mind letting Granger become better, she didn't deserve it, she would get the benefits just because she is a friend of Potter, and that didn't sit right with him.
Yet, Severus wasn't a Slytherin for nothing and rule number three of Slytherin is 'when in a losing position and no chance for attack, agree to surrender and make sure the opponent hate you for it.'
"I agree, I would let my top student teach him every Saturday for an hour." Snape said with an angry look and tone while tightening his Occlumency shields yet again to prevent him from laughing.
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With all of this and the hat's song, Snape felt that if his shields won't crack, his Occlumency would get to the next level.
Dumbledore's POV
Dumbledore had a great day until the hat sang.
Severus agreed to let someone teach young Marcus potions, which meant James and Lily would stop complaining about the unfairness of Snape teaching Marcus. And he saw young Marcus test, Severus was kind of generous by giving him an A. But at least everyone came out of the office satisfied. James and Lily getting Marcus a tutor, Marcus thinking he got miss Granger and Severus messing with the Potters by making their ex-son teach their son. And of course him, as he got a chance to make young Marcus and young Harry become friends.
Severus needs a few more decades until he can tricking this old man.
Now, he just need a way to make everyone forget about this song that portrays everyone of the founders of Hogwarts as human, even Slytherin
