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Chapter: 6161 Christmas gifts

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Harry's POV

It was Christmas, and the entire castle was filled with joy, except of Harry who was hoping to have a Christmas with his friend who went home for the break.

So after opening the gift he got from Luna, a transfigured tiara that looked like Ravenclaw's tiara in the books (they agreed to only gift each other gifts they used magic to create) he had no-one to spend the holidays with, and no spacial plan for the time but, instead of being depressed, Harry did what he did best, what he did when the thoughts about the future overwhelmed him, when the memory of his parents corpse flashed in his mind, when his ex-friends left him - throw himself into his studies.

Yes, it might not be the most healthy way to deal with things by avoiding thinking about them, but it is one of the better ways to deal.

So instead of laying in his own misery like cannon Harry would have, Harry used the holiday to buy learn c language books he bought before and start programming.

He also used the time of winter break to work on the four gifts he gave this year.

It was his first masterpiece - 'Explanation for idiotic wizards witches, biology, Chemistry and other basic muggle subjects that even dumb magical people should know part 1'

By Harry Peverel

A book that mend basic misinformation all magical people seem to have, a book he only wrote once and used the Gemini curse to make it have copies for a few days as although he wanted everyone to read it, he was also afraid of what would happen if it falls into the wrong hands.

In addition, he finally managed to do forth year's transfigurations which was harder yet easier then third year.

The control is harder as animated to animated transfigurations is more of a partial transformation then a total one, where the parts of the body change shape but not itself, and while it sound easier, for it to be considered successful it need to be in one spell.

Yet, it is easier as you don't need to put as many orders, as it already has basic instincts.

If he had say the order of difficulty is:

Plant to plant

Small creature to small creature

Big creature to big creature

Small creature to big creature

Big creature to small creature

And plant to animal and animal to plant,

The last one is difficult as it is a living thing that works vary differently.

So as you can see, he didn't thought about Luna at all... not at all.

Luna's POV

Luna woke up to and ran as fast as she can to the living room, while yelling to her father to wake up! It is Christmas! She was super excited as this year was the first time she would get present from a friend.

As she came down, she sat near the tree as her father came.

"Hey, Moon pie. Let's open the presents.

Open mine first."

After opening the present from her father (a lucky charm with silver wrackspurts) the yearly pudding gift from Mrs. Weasley (which she ate in 10 seconds... mmmm pudding) and her dad opening presents from her (a bracelet made of Unicorn hair she got from Hagrid) and from other people, she finally opened Harry's gift.

It was a book Harry sometimes joked about creating 'Explanation for idiotic wizards witches, biology, Chemistry and other basic muggle subjects that even dumb magical people should know part 1'

By Harry Peverel

With a note to go to page 42

When she opened the page it was about a guy named Neil Armstrong as she read about the guy who went to the moon, she turned the page and saw a card.

Inside of it was written:

'Muggle believe magic is fairy tale, magical believe traveling to the moon is fiction.

Both are real, who to say moon frogs aren't?

Never stop believing in the impossible.

Love

Harry

P.s the book would disappear after two days.

As she finished reading the note, Luna understood for the first time what she feels whenever she was with Harry, Love.

Daphne's POV

It was Daphne's first time staying in Hogwarts for the holidays. Which also meant, it was Daphne's first time celebrating Christmas, as at home they were celebrating Yule like all the proper pure-bloods.

So, while she kind of missed the winter ritual for health, and didn't understand why would wizards celebrate the birth of a crazy wizard who thought he heard the voice of god and that muggle believe to be god, especially as his religion is the reason witch hunting became so popular, she was excited for one thing- presents.

So it wasn't surprising that she, Tracy and Blasé, the only ones of her group who stayed in school, were wake in the common room and ready to open gifts at 7:00 am, together with Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle who also stayed in school. What did surprise her was seeing Harry at 7:15, coming from outside sweaty and in short muggle clothes.

Wondering what did he do outside, she was about to ask when Tracy by her side did it.

"What were you doing outside in summer sport's clothes?"

"Exercising." He said with a little bit of a smirk.

"I know that." Tracy said with an eye roll. "I meant why are you wearing that? It is freezing outside."

"Well, thank goodness I'm a wizard and know heating charm. Now, if you excuse me, I would go take a shower as running does make me sweaty."

After that he left to take a shower and they brought each other the presents they got.

Not noticing Harry didn't have his wand on him

A few hours later

After opening the gifts, they talked, joked and played till lunch.

After which she went back to her room to sleep only to find another gift with a card on her bed.

On the card was written:

'Sometimes the hardest things in life, are the things most worth doing. It's because we haven't figuered them out yet, doesn't mean we wont.

P.S. go to page 14'

As she opened the gift she saw a book called

'Explanation for idiotic wizards and witches, biology, Chemistry and other basic muggle subjects that even dumb magical people should know part 1'

By Harry Peverel

Not knowing if she should be upset or laugh, she went to page 14 where she saw basic explanation about DNA and how it works.

P.S.S the book would disappear after two days

'He might be a jerk.' She thought while reading. 'But he is a nice Jerk.'

The Weasley twins POV

If there was one holiday the twins loved it was April first, with everyone pranking each other, but second place they would definitely choose Halloween, with candies and everyone scaring everyone, not to mention the costumes, and third place would be new year, with fire works.

After that there is Purim, again costumes and the noise you do when someone say "Haman", Easter, with chocolate and egg searching,

Hanukkah - how can you not love donuts???

So yes, they don't love Christmas.

They don't hate it, it just wasn't their favorite or even close.

If you want to find the reason why, you would have to understand their parents take everything about muggles literally, so when their family started celebrating muggle holidays, and their mother heard about the fact that naughty kids get coal and let's just say, they where never calm, and disciplined children, and for a 6th years old children to get coal when every other sibling get presents... well it was a little traumatic.

So, while they don't hate Christmas, they absolutely don't love it and they don't exchange gifts with any of their friends (to all of which they explained it), which was why, when they woke up and saw two gifts except from their mother gift they were surprised.

Opening the first, they saw weird objects and a card that said 'if you opened me first, close it and open the second gift'

The second gift was a book called:

'Explanation for idiotic wizards and witches, biology, Chemistry and other basic muggle subjects that even dumb magical people should know part 1'

By Harry Peverel

With a card that said- 'Necessity is the mother of invention, which is why wizards don't have much of an inventors.

You have a need to laugh which is why I hope this would help you grow bigger then you could ever need'

P.S.open page 69

P.S.S the book would disappear after two days

After laughing about the page number they opened the book and saw it was talking about technology, one line especially caught their eyes.

"'Technology can't work in a place with magic' is the biggest bullshit pure-bloods has ever said loud enough and long enough to confuse everyone. And the worst thing is that they believe it themselves. If magic and Technology can't coexist, how is it possible that Diagon Ally is in the middle of muggle London? And that near all the technology of the train station there is the 9 3/4 station?"

After that The book talked and showed pictures of some technologies which amazed the twins like the telephones and some that horrified them like Nuclear weapons.

In the end of the chapter about technology there was this sentence:

'Just like how all magic can be used for good and evil, technology is the same.

You don't blame the knife if it stubs you, but the person who did it'

With another note at the end

'The other gift is some muggle pranks like the box of candies, go wild with those pranks and the knowledge in the book but remember: Even if you create innocent things- you have to think about the bad things they could be used for'

After reading that, the twins looked at each other and said at the same time: "best Christmas ever" and began planing to make Ronnikin their rat lab for the pranks

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Chapter: 6262 A bit of revenge part 1

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Harry's POV

It was four PM, and Christmas was mostly over when Harry suddenly had a childish idea at how to get the golden group in trouble. Why get them in trouble?

Well, Hermione and Neville abandoned him, that's enough reason to get them in trouble.

Yes, it is petty, but apparently Harry was a petty man.

Marcus's family killed his parents, he doesn't need a reason to hate him

And he detested Ron just based on the books, but meating him made h Harry hate the boy.

Ron was a brown nose boot licker who acted highly just because he was a Gryffindor.

So, because of those reasons, and because it didn't mess with his foreknowledge he was willing to do it.

Which was why Harry found himself in front of Professor snape's office.

Severus's POV

Severus really hated this year,

Last year was bad enough, having a troll in school, his leg being almost ripped off and being next to the dark lord every meal for an entire year.

But this year is even worse, with two children, a cat and a ghost being petrified and his expensive potion ingredients being stolen, and he didn't know who did it.

While lamenting about all of that, a knock on the door woke him from his thoughts.

"Come in."

"Hey professor, marry Christmas."

When he saw the Slytherin in front of him, Severus has mixed feelings.

On one hand, this student was one of the the best he ever taught potions to, and was the only student whose questions were not only always the right kind but even helpful to him in his brewing,

but on the other hand, the boy gave him so many headaches with his refusal to teach the Potter brat and his mysterious muggle studies (he still couldn't find the school in which he did his middle school muggle tests.)

"Marry Christmas mr. Peverel, what do you need?"

"Well Professor, I walked just a couple of minutes ago at the second floor and saw Marcus Potter and his friends go into the haunted girls restroom, embarrassingly, as I was a little intrigued as to what they were doing there, I waited for them for them to come out only for Crabb, Goyle and Zabini to go instead, as I was hiding they didn't see me and after they went away, I went into the bathroom."

The boy's face became a little red

"I know I shouldn't have done it, but I remembered you telling the class about the theft of ingredients a couple of ago, and in one of the books I read, the ingredients matched to the recipe of the polyjuice potion."

"And where, mr. Peverel, did you find the book? As if I recall correctly, and believe me, I do, this potion is only in the 'Most Potente potions' book which is at the restricted portion of the library."

"I bought it this summer, sir."

Severus was amused and angry.

Amused, as the boy figured out the easiest way to read the books in the restricted section before his second year, when most students have to be told about the fact that most of the restricted books can be bought.

And angry, as by that point of the story he understood where it was going for.

"Potter and his gang stole the ingredients and made polyjuice potion?"

"Yes sir."

"Follow me."

After that, they went to the haunted restroom at the second floor.

As they walked in, Severus's sensitive nose, for almost every potion master had one, smelled the polyjuice potion in one of the stalls.

Opening the door, he saw that the polyjuice was made inside the toilet and that the amount left made it seems like four doses were drank.

Remembering mr. Peverel saying only three students came out, he quickly opened the other stalls doors. Finding one that was locked, he knocked and a high pitched voice was heard: "go away!" Knowing who it was, he looked to his side, seeing his little Slytherin smirking.

"Come outside this second, Ms. Granger!"

A shrike was heard instantly, and after a few moments the door was opened.

A quick look was all he needed to see why the girl hasn't gone with her friends.

She had a bushy, cat-like tail and extra cat ears on top of her hair.

As he looked to the side, he saw the smirk on his, from now on, favorite student growing, he had to use his Occlumency shields to stop an equally big smirk from emerging on his face.

"Ms. Granger! Explain this instant what happened! And know this, if you lie even a little bit, I would make sure you are not only kicked out of school, but also put in trial!"

The threat broke her, so she told him every thing as she cried.

How they wanted to prove Draco was behind the petrifications, how they convinced Lockhart to give them the slip to the restricted section, the stealing of ingredients, the making of the polyjuice and the kidnapping of the three Slytherin students.

When she got to the point of her changing to a cat-person, mr. Peverel was laughing and even Severus had a small smirk on his face.

"Idiotic child, it was a heir of the girl's cat!"

As he was about to take her to the hospital wing, her three friends returned from their little adventure, paling when they saw Severus.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here? Another three criminals who stole from their school and kidnapped their schoolmates."

If Severus could see his face, even he would have to admit the smirk on it looked evil.

"As I promised, because you confessed I won't press charges against you, I will just make sure you are expelled!"

As he saw their alarmed faces, his smirk became even bigger.

Even though he knew the headmaster wouldn't expel his chosen one, he decided to have some fun and to get maximum benefits from this, for him and his student.

After all, he had to make sure the kid had a good example for resourcefulness from his head of house

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Chapter: 6363 bit of revenge part 2

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Hermione's POV

Hermione didn't know how it came to this.

It was supposed to be just like last year, doing research, finding the chamber of secrets, who is the heir, and what is Slytherin's monster.

Instead, according to what Neville told her when they were in the way to the headmaster's office, they only found out that Malfoy isn't the heir, and she became a cat-woman!

And if being a catwoman wasn't bad enough, she was going to be expelled!

The last two things made her unable to stop crying as Professor Snape told the professor Dumbledore about everything, especially as he demanded they be expelled.

And it didn't help that her ex-friend, who was her first one, was the one who told on them.

For the first time, Hermione understood the need to follow the phrase that made her an outcast and bullied in her old school.

'Snitches get stitches'.

Neville's POV

If Neville wasn't small, pudgy and terrified of Snape, he would have punched Harry in the face! 'No! It is Peverel now, as we aren't friends.'

He told on them to the professor!

How could he do it to them?

His two ex-friends, ex-brother and the ex-brother's best friend!

'OK. I can see how. But why?'

It wasn't as if they did anything wrong!

But as he heard Snape tell professor Dumbledore all they did, how they stole ingredients, created a potion which not only need a ministry approval to use, but is also extremely explosive in a toilet where all the girls could walk in and do their 'needs' and could be killed, kidnapped three classmates and drank the seventh year potion that they created, he could suddenly understand why, they went too far. Way too far.

'What would my parents have said? What will my grandma say?'

A shiver went down Nevilles back.

Ron's POV

His mother is going to kill him!

That was Ron's only thought between the time Snape caught them after their adventure till they where in front the Dumbledore's office.

But the second they walked in and he saw Dumbledore smiling toward Marcus he calmed down.

His best friend is the boy who lived, they won't be expelled, the most they would be given would be detention and losing points.

So, instead of becoming more and more nervous as Snape told Dumbledore all they did, Ron listened to it as if he was listening to his mother reading to him and Ginny one of the boy who lived books - the second book in his adventure, and he's got to admit, Snape knew how to tell a tale.

Albus's POV

Albus didn't like what he heard.

No, he didn't care about Marcus and his friend's adventure at all.

In fact, he helped them, otherwise, how could a second year create this potion?

He switched between the failed creation of the girl with his own stash of the potion last night.

No, the thing that Albus disliked was that they were caught, and by Marcus's twin no less.

Severus's expoltion threats were also unpleasant, but what made him even more unhappy was that after he heard it was Harry who told on the golden group, he used basic legilimency to look into the boy's mind only to see the corpses of his adoptive parents and the feelings they brought flashing on the surface of the boy's mind.

Only his years of occluding prevented his expression from changing.

While it is possible the boy was thinking about his parents at this time, the intensity of the emotions he felt was almost impossible to still be there after more then a year since they died, which meant one of two things:

1) he was still grieving, which meant this was the best time to give him the loyalty potions Albus was planing on giving as while it would take time to sink in with his great emotions, once it did, it would be harder to detect as it would be gradual.

But now it would be useless, as Marcus and his friends would hate the boy no matter what.

2) the boy know his kind of Occlumency and he suspected Albus had something to do with his parents death.

His Occlumency, which he only taught to Severus, as he needed it for his spying, was the only kind of Occlumency he knew of that can generate emotions and bring specific memories to the surface.

And if he had Occlumency, mind altering potions would be noticed and wouldn't work as much as he hoped.

As Severus finished his accusations, Albus could only hope it was the first option, because if it the second, his life would be much harder.

Harry's POV

As Harry listened to professor Snape was telling his story, he felt someone almost fall to the trap he put in the front of his mind, and as Dumbledore was just looking at him, he knew who it was.

While suppressing a smile about a well executed trap, Harry's eyes couldn't help but wonder to the only girl in the room, his ex-friend, the crying catwoman, Hermione.

Not because she was crying, he didn't care about that.

No, the only reason he looked at her was her ears and tail, as those things didn't disappear by the end of the hour, he wondered about how polyjuice work.

He was sure polyjuice work on the DNA, but does it changes it?

How was it possible that by the end of the hour the DNA returns to it's original form?

Why did Hermione only got ears and tail?

And why didn't she change back? After all the DNA of animals and Humans is only different in it's way of placement not the actual building materials.

As all those questions and more rushed through his mind, Professor Snape finally finished telling the story, and Dumbledore starting a speech Harry knew would somehow end with the Gryffindors getting out of this with only point lose and maybe detention.

"...the only thing left to do is expel them!"

"First of all, I am very disappointed in all of you."

The golden group's heads were down, yet he could see a hint of a smile on the only redhead boy in the room.

"Any one of the things your potion professor told me is a reason for expulsion!"

Harry saw that Neville also started crying.

"But, as you are only children, and you had good intentions, I wouldn't expel any of you.

Instead, in addition to paying for everything you stole, I would take 70 points from each of you and you would get detention for a month."

"That's it?!" Professor Snape sounded outrageous. "I think that if you don't expel them, they should at least have to make a public apology and explanation of their actions at the feast when all the students return."

Dumbledore looked like he ate sour lemon instead of his sherbet lemon.

"Acceptable."

"And we should take away their chances at being perfects and head students in fifth and seventh year respectively as they showed inability to be responsible."

"Let's not get a head of ourself, Severus. They are young and made a mistake, you should let us see how they change in the next few years."

"So you are saying if there was responsibility in third year you would deny them the option of getting it?"

Harry immediately understood the professor was talking about the time turner and could see Dumbledore understood it too.

"Yes," he sighed "they wouldn't get it"

Harry was almost screaming in joy as he really didn't want this sort of power in any of the golden group hand's

"As for you Harry," Dumbledore said his eyes filled with mirth, which, as he was Occlumency master, Harry couldn't know if it was real or not. "take 20 points for telling a professor, but minus 10 for going into the girls toilets. Now, all of you, please, take miss Granger to the hospital wing, as me and Professor Snape have something to discuss."

Harry was the last one to get out of the office, and didn't expect what came to him as he went out of the gargoyle

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Chapter: 6464 one move fight and confrontation

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Harry's POV

As Harry went past the gargoyle he saw a lousy fist coming toward his face, and with reflexes worthy of his purple belt, and shamelessness worthy of a Malfoy, he ducked and punched him back with half his strength, only in a lower and more painful zone.

As he looked up and saw the redhead with tears in his eyes, he almost felt pity toward the prick, almost.

"W, what the bloody hell?! You hit me! In the nuts!"

His hard breathing, squeaky voice, and look of pain made it impossible to maintain an angry look on his face and not to laugh without using occlumency.

"And you tried hitting me in the face!"

"Well, even if he did, you deserve in Harryl!" Hermione screamed. "Ratting on us to Professor Snape just so we wouldn't find out who is the heir of Slytherin. Why did you do it? Is it becouse Slytherin brainwashed you to hate Gryffindor, muggles and muggleborns? Maybe you are the heir?"

Harry was truly upset, telling him he hate muggles is really dishonoring his parents.

"Me? Does being Gryffindor really kill brain cells, just like everyone says? Or did I not notice were you always that dumb?"

"Don't call her names you filthy slimy snake!"

"Shut the F.u.c.k up you red headed nazi! As for you Miss Hermione Allways-The-Victim Granger, as some one who lived in the non magical world, and shouldn't have the bigotry of the wizarding world you sure have embraced the idiocy of this world. Tell me, as someone who told me at the beginning of first year about how, before knowing about magic, you were planing on being a doctor, when is the last time you learned any non magical subject?"

After a few seconds of silence, he went for the kill.

"Not only you abandoned the non-magical world, you are dumb enough to take everything you learn here from people who believe they are much more superior than the muggles, while having no idea about it as the holy truth."

Taking a moment, Harry shifted his gaze toward Ron.

"As for you, if you start a fight and the other person hit you back it is called self defense, you bloody idiot."

Saying what he had to say, the two who talked to him with tears, Hermione because she felt insulted, and Ron because of the punch to the balls. he turned to the left, trying to walk away, when another fist was about to meet his face, this time he ducked to the side and used his full strength to kick the attacker in the ribs, making him smash into the wall, and by the sound of it, cracking them.

This time it wasn't only tears and squeaky voice that came out of the boy, but full on crying.

Which was when he realized the attacker wasn't the redhead but his best friend.

Of course with his luck, it would be that moment that the gargoyle moved again and the voice of the headmaster was heard.

"Marcus? What happened? Who did it?"

'Just my luck.' Harry thought when the other three Gryffindors pointed their fingers at him.

Severus's POV

As the students were leaving the headmaster's office, Severus was thinking about his little Slytherin.

The boy managed to keep an innocent and naive look on his face but he Severus knew it in his bones that the story the boy told wasn't 100% true.

There is no way he just happen to be in the right place in the right time to catch the group of Gryffindors is impossible, especially with the fact he looked into Ms. Granger's mind while she was confessing, and he hasn't seen any shadow of mr. Peverel in her memory of the day.

But as much as he would like knowing the true story of the boy, the boy knows basic Occlumency and would know if someone got into his mind, something he knew was the reason why Dumbledore didn't ask him to escort the cat-girl to the hospital wing.

And there was no way he would be the one to start talking about that subject.

"I can't believe you wouldn't kick them out of school! They stole ingredients worth hundreds of galleons!"

"You know I can't do it, Severus. Marcus is our only hope against Voldemort and he can't do it alone, he needs his friends."

He sneered at that, prophecy had ways to fulfill itself without outside help.

"Well, I won't allow them to get back into my potions class!"

"Yes, you would!" Dumbledore raised his voice, and for a second he could see something he only saw a few times.

He could see the man behind the mask of a loving grandfather and behind the mask of a mercifull yet firm war leader.

He could see the man who told a young man who was sent by his bullies to die by the hand of a werewolf only to be saved by them that "it was a joke", a man who condone making a man to get tortured just to make sure his cover as a spy isn't reviled, a man who tell others he believe in second chances and in love but when someone comes to him, begging to save his loved one and him, he laugh in his face, a man who truly believe in the greater good and is ready to make others do whatever it take to accomplish it- as long as his hands are clean.

But like the other times, this gleam of personality, which made him detest the headmaster, disappeared and the wise look returned.

"Yes, you would." this time he said it quietly.

"They need to learn it and you need to have a way to interact with Marcus when Voldemort returns."

Knowing this was his chance to get another thing from the headmaster, after a few seconds Severus said "fine, but the private lessons stop! He doesn't deserve them and I don't trust him in the lab."

When he saw the man sigh, he knew he got his wishes.

"Acceptable. Now, there was another thing I wanted to discuss with you about, Harry Peverel."

He really hoped the old man forgot about it.

"What about him?"

"I looked into his mind while we were here, and what I saw was deeply disturbing."

"Really?" 'Could he have gotten better in Occlumency without outside help?'

"What did you see"

"His memory of his adoptive parent's corpses."

"His parants died?"

"No, his adoptive one did. James and Lily are very much alive."

"You know what I mean, when did that happen?" 'Are those the people I saw Dead in his mind on Halloween?'

"Half a month before his first year."

"And why wasn't I told about that?" Severus was truly enraged.

"I didn't see how was it relevant, they weren't his real parents and I told you about James and Lily cutting ties with him."

It was this kind of idiocy Snape hated the most in wizards. The kind that he tried to be part of when he joined the death eaters and the kind he tried to get away from when joining Dumbledore's order.

The magical world has the idiotic idea that blood matters the most.

The blood purists believe only those who has magical blood in them matter and only those who are pure bloods are truly important, while the 'light' side has the absurd notion those from dark families will have to be dark, unless of course they sort into Gryffindor or marry a muggleborn.

But Snape knew the truth since the first time his father hit him and his mother didn't say anything. He knew it since the time a young redheaded girl became his first friend, he knew it since he saw his pure blood so called friends killing family members for not following the dark lord, and he knew it since his first friend became the person she is today, a person he dispise - Blood doesn't matter, family are the people you love and that love you, which means the boy lost his parents and had no one to talk to about that.

"How did they die?"

"They were killed."

"Wait, so where does he lives now?"

There was an awkward pause for 10 seconds.

"I'm not sure, as his letters go to the post office in Diagon ally in the summer.

I was planning to put this year a tracking charm on his clothes to find out."

'This is just getting better and better.'

Severus couldn't talk with Dumbledore about this right now, he needed time to think how to approach the boy, as it has been over a year since their death.

"So this is what you wanted to tell me? That it affects him more then you expected?"

"No, I wanted to ask if you taught the boy Occlumency, as this memory was the only one on the surface while you were telling about Ms. Granger's cattish situation and he was smiling."

This made Severus go through a couple of stages in his feelings.

First, he was proud, as it meant Mr. Peverel managed to perfectly conceal his emotions, then he was worried as it meant the boy was probably kept thinking about the deaths of his parants, which quickly turned into astonishment as what Dumbledore said sinked in and he understood the boy didn't only detect the invasion into his mind, but pulled out a memory that would make Dumbledore get out quickly enough for the man to be unable to see anything else.

'While he hasn't reached the point of creating false memories, and he should have pulled a memory which won't give away his Occlumency, he did progressed extremely well on his own.'

As Severus didn't have any good excuse about how the boy knows Occlumency, and he knew that telling the truth would only get him in some shit he didn't want to be in, Severus was about to deny any knowledge about the boy's Occlumency.

But just as he opened his mouth, the gargoyle in the office's door shook and a cry was heard from outside of it, sounding a lot like the Potter brat.

A quick look between them, and the headmaster ran down the stairs, the potion's professor just behind him, a little astonished at the speed the old man ran at.

"Marcus? What happened? Who did it?"

Severus heard Dumbledore says just as he arrived to the end of the stairs and saw three of the Gryffindors, out of which only one looked fine, as the girl had cat ears, tail and tears, and the redhead was holding his ballads with one hand and also had tears in his face, even though Severus believed it was for a different reason than his bushy haired friend.

All three of them was pointing their finger at his now even more of a favorite Slytherin, as he didn't only saved him from giving an answer before he had time to think about the right answer, he also kicked the 'boy who didn't have enough decency to die's ass.

'I really need to think about a way to thank the boy for today.' He thought as he helped Dumbledore take three out of four of the Gryffindors to get help from Poppy

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Harry was waiting in the headmaster's office while the professors were taking the 'golden group' to the hospital wing, and he was bored.

Harry hasn't been bored outside of class (where he knows the subject, yet pretend he doesn't), he hasn't let himself being bored, since the time before Hogwarts, the time before the murder, and he wasn't going to start now.

Which is why, less then 5 minutes since his unjustly imprisonments, he was going to the thing he was interested the most about in the room- the Phoenix.

Fawkes was a beautiful bird, but Harry's interest in it was far more deep then it looks.

You see, most magical creatures made sense, unicorn's magic was so pure it had healing properties, just like how pure magic keep strengthening Harry. Thestrals look creepy, and were hunted because of that, so their magic made them invisible, yet as they can also fly, it was unable to make them completely invisible, so those who has seen death are able to see them, even basilisks made sort of sense, as they were created with the strongest venom, which destroys everything it touch in seconds, so to be able to eat, as it was unable to use it's venom to catch pry as it would destroy it, the creature's magic made it's gaze deadly.

The other creatures make sense in their own way, except for the Phoenix, who has way too much diversity in it's abilities.

First of all and biggest issue he had with the bird is it's nature.

This animal is connected to the fire element more then anything else in this world, yet it doesn't follow any rule of energy in it's use of fire.

Magic, as Harry noticed, follows the rules of Science, for the most part. And for the rules it doesn't follow? It is just that we haven't reached the right rules yet.

And one of the most basic physic laws that magic follows is the first law of thermodynamics, also known as Law of Conservation of Energy, states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed; energy can only be transferred or changed from one form to another.

If you want to create fire, you have to use at least the same amount of magical energy to create it.

This is the reason why transfigurations take finer control, as using more energy would make bigger affects.

It is also why charms take more energy, as you have to keep pouring magic in to the charm to keep it affective.

It is also why most wizards are in greater shape then muggles, as while they eat much more then most of them and by the standard of Hogwarts food, not healthy at all, wizards also spend the energy doing magic, the only fats in this world are those who don't use enough magic in their daily life.

Yet, the Phoenix can burn itself and raise from the ashes, not only that but it is also immortal, while fire can be put down.

Secondly, it's being repeatedly told that Phoenixes are immortal, yet somehow they are almost extinct, though this can be thought about as if they are hiding.

Lastly, it's healing abilities.

It's healing ability make sense some what as fire is known to close wounds, but the only cure for basilisk venom? Not to mention it couldn't save Dumbledore's life.

Those are just the abilities that didn't make sense to Harry about the Phoenix, he didn't mention the super strength the bird possessed, as fire is energy, nor it's Phoenix Lament, as fire is one of the things that can touch a person's soul.

All of those things made Harry extremely interested in the majestic bird.

"You are such a pretty bird."

Harry said as if he was talking to a baby, not wanting the bird to feel threatened as he walked closer to the fire incarnation.

"I wonder what is your name?" He said, never giving out the fact he already knew it, as he didn't know how much the Phoenix could tell the headmaster.

"His name is Fawkes."

The voice made him jump, as he didn't know where it comes from, till he saw the paintings of past headmasters hanged on the wall.

" hello, past headmasters."

It is never bad to be polite

"Hello, young student, what did you do to make you come here only a couple of minutes after you left?"

The one who talked to him was a painting of a woman who had a pointy look on her face and a tag name on the bottom of her painting said her name was 'Heliotrope Wilkins'

"Well headmistress Wilkins, you probably heard what the other four students who were here did."

"Yes, we did." said another painting, this time of a man with sharp look and a name tag that says 'Brian Gagwilde'.

"Idiotic children, you did good by telling a professor about that, in my time I would have kicked them out!"

"Yes, well, the four didn't agree with you, and just as I went out of the office, I was greeted with a fist to the face."

Gaping was heard from several headmasters.

"I avoided the fist and punched in retaliation, as my combat instructor told me to never start a fight but always finish it."

"I don't think there are a lot of combat instructors those days."

The last headmaster's painting, with the name tag of 'Armando Dippet' said.

"No, there aren't as much as there used to be, especially with unarmed fighting, but I took those lessons sense I was very young, so I would never be defenseless."

"Good job, I always thought a wizard need more then just a winter m want to defend himself!" 'Basil Fronsac' as his name tag indicated said

"After which, the group insulted my house by stating that I'm an evil person just because I'm in Slytherin, and insulted my dead parents, to which I returned in the same way by telling the girl who said it that she either was born with no intellect, or that being a Gryffindor took most of it."

At that point most of the headmasters laughed, a few looked indigent, and a couple grumbled about the shame the kids today bring to their house.

"After making her cry, I turned around to walk away, only for another fist to greet me, so I dodged and kicked the boy.

And now I wait for the current headmaster and my head of house to come back from the hospital wing to give me punishment from defending myself."

"Defending yourself usually doesn't make a person have his ribs shattered, Harry."

Turning around, he saw professor Dumbledore looking at him gravely.

"oops.

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"Oops? That's what you say after putting your twin brother in the hospital with shattered ribs?" Dumbledore looked really upset, something that would make most kids scared, hell, it would make most magical a.d.u.l.ts scared, luckily, Harry was neither.

"He's not my twin brother."

"This is the answer you give me?!"

"I won't give you anything else until my head of house is here, something I have right to have, as stated by the official rulebook."

Dumbledore looked even more upset, and Harry could feel him trying once more to get into his head, only to stop before the trap, then he did a quick Patronus, which told Harry he was faking it, and told it to call the potion professor back to the office.

After a couple of seconds of silence, Harry decided to use the time he had with the headmaster alone to try to understand what kind of Dumbledore was he dealing with.

Is it the senile one, who try to do good, but keeps failing.

The greater good one- who has a plan to the future, and would do everything to accomplish it.

Or maybe just a real dark lord in disguise, whose plan to make himself the ruler of the world.

After recalling all the FanFiction he could, if there was one person Harry was terrified of, it was Dumbledore.

"So, Professor, While we are waiting for my head of house, would you mind if I ask you a couple of questions?"

His eyes twinkled like crazy

"Well Harry, Let's make a deal, we each ask the other person two questions, how about it?"

It took Harry a second to understand what Dumbledore's angle in this, he made it a game of truths and lies and as a politician and educator he is great in catching people who lie to him.

"Deal. You ask the first question."

"Fair enough." Dumbledore chackeled. "Where did you learn Occlumency?"

'So that's what he wanted to know'

"In school, sir."

Harry did his best not to laugh when he saw the man's eyes lose their sparkle as he lost the other question

"I meant who taught you."

"So ask that as your next question, sir. But now it is my turn."

Sparkles went back on in full force

"Ask away"

Harry was going to ask the question that would help him unearth if the man was just senile.

"When you gave Gryffindor the points in last year's ending feast, did you do it as a way to endear yourself to the golden group, or as a way to make Slytherin hate you and Marcus?"

If Harry wasn't paying attention, he wouldn't have noticed the sparkle in the headmaster's eyes grew a little bit.

"Non of the above, dear boy. I was just giving the students the points they deserved."

'So not senile, if he was, he would understand his mistake and his eyes wouldn't sparkle when he is confronted with his mistake.

"So, who taught you Occlumency?"

Harry didn't plan on lying on this question.

"Daphne Greengrass."

As he didn't care about wether the old man was a dark lord or not, knowing ether way he is an enemy, he decided to use this opportunity to ask the one question about Phoenixes that can help him to study them.

"How did you get yourself a Phoenix?"

It looked like this question surprised him, but it could be because he used his Occlumency to look surprised.

"Well Harry, it is a hard piece of magic that I found in Egypt, you take..."

What ever he was about to say stoped as the door opened and Professor Snape walked in.

"We would have to stop here, and go back to the reason we are in the office.

Mr. Peverel, please tell us why did you hit two of your schoolmates?"

"As I told the previous headmasters, they threw the first punch, it was self defense."

"Were you also hit?"

"No, I dodged."

"So why attack them? And why so harshly?"

"To make sure it didn't escalate, you see, if I only dodged they would have kept attacking."

It was at this point that the potion's master intervened.

"There you go, headmaster. It was self defense, they should be punished for throwing the first punch while being four on one, not mr. Peverel, we should give them another two months detention."

"Are you seriously suggesting, Severus, that the two who were beat up so badly that they need to spend the rest of the vacation in the hospital wing would be punished? Not to mention the other four children who were present told he started it." Dumbledore sounded outrageous and as Harry had better things to do in his time then listen to them arguing and going to detentions, he quickly said "don't you have a way to see memories without going into my head? As I am not going to put down the barriers Daphne taught me."

Snape's eyes got a bit of their hardness removed.

"Yes there is, but it isn't safe for young children."

"How about a magical oath?"

"Sure."

"I, Harry DJ Peverel, swear on my magic that I didn't threw the first punch today outside the headmaster's office. So Mote It Be.

Lumus"

When a bright light came out of the wand, the headmaster Just sigh and said "You can't be punished about the self defense, but we can punish you about the harshness you dealt with them by taking the privilege to go to Hogsmeade next year."

Putting a sad and angry face he said "what about them? They attacked first!"

"As they are in the hospital wing, I believe it is enough of a punishment."

Walking out side of the office, Harry felt the day couldn't get any better.

He made the golden group be in trouble, got on professor Snape's good side and even crucked Marcus ribs and smashed Ron's testicles. Now, if he could just get a way to secure blood from Hermione while she still half a cat, it would truly be perfect

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Harry knew he didn't have much time before Hermione's body returns to it's original condition, as while in the books it took Pomfrey weeks to reverse her transformation, the Matron didn't know about the polyjuice.

Now that she knows the cause, Harry's time to get the blood got shortened to three days tops, and probably less.

It took him half an hour to decide the best course of actions

Which was why, four hours after his second visit to the headmaster's office, he returned from the Royal London Hospital with blood taking equipment.

Putting a notice me not charm around himself, he went toward the hospital wing.

Upon arrival, he dropped the notice me not charm on him self, but not on his equipment, and cast the invisibility charm, for safety measures. (AN: While the invisibility Charm is better for sneaking around with noticeable stuff, it has a chance to make people hit you. While the notice me not charm make people avoid you)

As he walked in, he wanted to curse, not only were the six patients awake and fighting, as the Gryffindor patients did knock the three Slytherin patients out and threw them into a closet and then locked the closet, the matron was still there, so he decided to wait.

It took two hours!

Not only for all six patients to fall asleep, but for Pomfrey to leave.

After which, Harry casted a huge notice me not charm on the room, took out his wand, and cast six quick Stupefys, just to make sure non of them woke up, then took a litter of blood from the cat-girl, and left as quickly as possible, stoping only to cancel the notice me not charm on his way out.

After a quick trip to his house where he had a refrigerator he bought specifically to store blood, and back to hogwarts, Harry felt he had a pretty productive day.

January 4th 1993

Blaise POV

Blaise wasn't happy.

As a gift for the first Christmas he celebrated with his friends, the golden group of Gryffindor decided to take over his identity by knocking him out and stuffing him in a locked closet, and if that wasn't enough, they put him in a locked closet with Crabbe and Goyle!

No, Blaise wasn't happy, he was furious.

Now, if they were getting expelled he might have calmed down, but with only detention, point loss and public apology? No freaking way!

Which was why, he sat with his newspaper on breakfast with the smuggest expression on his face, after all, what better revenge there is against the boy who lived than destroying his reputation?

The wizarding world savior? Or a start of a new dark lord?

By Rita Skeeter

Not a lot is known about Marcus Potter, the boy who lived, as his parents didn't let him out much as a child, telling everyone it is to keep our savior safe.

and even as he started Hogwarts, not much was reviled, which is why, when a Hogwarts student wanted to give me details, this journalist, seeker of truth, jumped on the offer.

R.S (Rita Skeeter)- "Hello, Mr. Zabini.

B.Z (Blaise Zabini) - "Please, call me Blaise."

As a sharp eyed and tongue journalist it took me less then a minute to get to the chase

R.S- "So, Blaise, what can you tell us about Marcus Potter?

B.Z- "I could tell you a lot. I could tell you he is an average student, a trouble seeker, a student the teachers favor so much that not only did they let him be a seeker on the first year without a trial, they gave him points for breaking rules in school that could lead to physical harm.

But that isn't the important stuff"

R.S- "That isn't the important stuff?"

Truth be told, I was shocked.

Our savior is an average student? The teachers favor him so much that when he break rules they reward him? Even those things are signs for alarm, as you wouldn't want the boy who lived to think he can get success without effort. And if those aren't the important stuff, what is?

B.Z- "No, the biggest things happened this year. First of all, as I know you know, by the articles you did about it, the Chamber of Secrets was opened. What you probably didn't know is that Marcus Potter is a parselmouth, something we all know was Salazar Slytherin's ability and that passed to his descendants, and also something that is considered dark."

At this point my shock was so strong I almost didn't noticed the little panic that started in my heart. Maybe the reason no one knows how the boy survived the death curse is that no one ever dwelled into the dark arts as deep as needed to find what is he?

But I quickly dismissed the thought, as we all know the boy is light.

B.Z- "some whispers started about him being the heir of Slytherin, but I didn't take it seriously, it was more of a joke.

Until this winter break happened.

It was about 3:30 PM and I was walking in Hogwarts alone when I felt extremely sleepy and the next thing I know, I am locked in a closet with two other Slytherin. It took 45 minutes until Professor Snape rescued us and told us what happened.

Apparently, Potter and his friends wanted to get into the Slytherin common-room, so they decided to dose all three of us in sleep potion and take our hair and use it in polyjuice potion."

For those who don't know, using polyjuice potion without ministry approval is worth 6 months in Azkaban.

B.z- "And get that, they didn't get to go on trial, or even got expelled, in fact, except detention and point lose, the only punishment they get is to publicly apologize to the three of us!"

As a truth seeker, I couldn't just believe what he said without proof

R.S - "do you have any proof"

B.S- " I can give you the memory of the apology."

After which he brought out of his bag a silver memory which confirmed everything he said.

My question to our readers is: "should we be afraid? Is our savior need to be in lock up? And why does Dumbledore give him a free hand?

As Blaise read the article, a cold smile went on his lips as he thought 'a vanom of a snake can kill even lions

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Their public apology was quick enough, but the next couple of months were an absolute nightmare for the golden group, and Marcus especially.

It was filled with disgust from Hufflepuffs, who couldn't believe someone can do something so cruel as to knockout three students and put in a locked closet.

Snickering from Ravenclaw, who apparently couldn't believe someone was dumb enough to believe Malfoy was the heir of Slytherin.

And anger from Gryffindor and Slytherin, Gryffindor, for the point lost, as they lost on Christmas's day almost 300 points, and Slytherin, as they kidnapped three of them and got into their common room.

All of that led to than being hated by the entire school, and in magical school being hated? Makes everyday full of jinxes and haxes.

If that was all, Marcus could have dealt with it, as he wasn't the only one.

But Marcus has to deal with two more things

1) some people still thought he was the heir, and that he went after Malfoy to get the suspicions off him.

2) the article that Rita Skeeter published made all her readers Hunt for blood, which meant he got howlers everyday from people he didn't know just to shame him.

After being told he is Merlin's gift to the wizarding world since he could remember, it was hard to be hated by so many people, which was why his conviction got stronger.

He would find the chamber of secrets and he would be beloved by all again.

Harry's POV

Harry really wanted to go to the press at the moment he heard the first howler, he wanted to tell the entire world how James and Lily Potter abandoned him, and how, a month after they met him again they disinherited him based on his house, but he didn't.

He knew that by the end of the year Marcus would once again be a hero, and that all would be forgotten.

He also didn't want them wary of him, as his plans before destroying them politically was destroying them financially, a thing that was underway, as with his lessons in blacksmithing and multiple degrees, he planed till the end of the school year on taking more than 2/5 of their money, and with the money he already took, they would have less then half of what they used to have in their vaults.

Those too reasons was why he left his wish to revile everything.

So instead, Harry spent the next few months enjoying the misfortune of the golden group and studying.

His transfigurations were stuck at the start of fifth year, as although vanishing came easy to him, with the need to just make the atoms separate from each other with a burst of magic, a thing that needed control of a first year Charm but more energy, something he had in spare, but he didn't have the needed control for conjunctions, which needs to make the atoms in the air gather and change quickly.

His arithmancy was enough for a master, which wasn't hard, as it was as hard as finishing high school and he planed when he has time work on using harder mathematical equations that he learned in the university.

His charms benefited from his arithmancy studies and he made progress with the Fidelius Charm, he didn't master it, as it would need someone he completely trusted, but he finally understood the soul it was talking about.

He wasn't sure if it is the same soul they were talking about in creating a Horcrux, but in this case the soul is the magic a person has.

You see, as magic work on intent, by using the charm to put the secret in your magic and then give it away which makes you permanently weaker if it works, if you trust the person completely, the magic unite with the person and he not only becomes the secret keeper, but also more powerful as this part of your magic become part of him but if you don't trust him completely, the magic, after some time, is rejecting the person and it fails.

His potions are another thing that benefited from arithmancy, as he could finally understand the need to stir in exact numbers and do things clockwise and counterclockwise.

The number of times you stir determines the amount of magic you put in, just like the way you move your wand determine the control in your magic, and the way you stir strengthens the intent you put inside, just like words do it in wand subjects, but becouse of the materials you use in the potion the intent can't change beyond the abilities the items had, which is who you need knowledge of the items.

All of this meant to Harry that instead of putting his magic unconsciously as he is being taught, he should use his wandless abilities to do those things without the need to stir, which meant that while his grades in class went down, as he needed to experiment on the amount of control, his understanding of potions grew bigger and bigger.

One thing that didn't benefitted as much as he wanted was his work on DNA, which didn't progress beyond creating a spell that make a hologram of the DNA of the person you hit with the spell, and even that he managed to do only after Hermione got petrified, which to him meant the start of the end of the second year.

His study of runes made him understand that he only need to memories their meanings, write them correctly and put magic into them when they are complete, which was why he started by memorizing all the runes that are known, and he was still in the middle of it.

His blacksmithing lessons continued nicely, with him finally reaching to the creation of jewelry, and he was expecting to start goblin enchanting in his third year.

He finally started uniting his four Occlumency methods, with his Death Star Occlumency as the core, fake memories as a diversion outside of it, ice Occlumency (Greengrass) around the fake memories, and traps and maze in front of his mind.

He had two reasons to do it that way.

1) Both Dumbledore and Snape knew he has Occlumency, and he figured out that if the one they knew about was his fake memories Occlumency (Snape because he taught him that and Dumbledore because he looked into his mind and saw the first trap thinking it was a enhanced fake memory) so putting the fake memories in front would be useless as they wouldn't believe them.

so instead, he put the traps and maze on the front of his mind, knowing that even if they won't believe those memories, thinking they are fake, the biggest problem with the traps, which is the pain, wouldn't be possible to ignore.

And even if someone manage to pass the first layer of Occlumency with enough power to blast the second layer, he would believe the memories he sees there are the true ones, not knowing it is fake, something that would take time to determine, exhausting the attacker.

While everyone of his Occlumency layers are great, his greatest work Is the Death Star layer, in which he started using it as experimentation's field, where every night, before sleep, everything he learns, magical or not, real or not, is used to make it a fortress.

He felt sorry for the poor man who manage to reach the Star after being emotionally magical and physically exhausted.

Lastly his coding.

After learning basic coding and practicing it, Harry noticed how the golems he creat in transfigurations work similarly to coding, so he started trying to put the way he put a mind patterns in transfigurations into his coding.

While it is hard work, he hoped he could creat the first artificial intelligence.

Harry continued to think about his accomplishments in this year, as the word open got out of his mouth, even though if someone heard him it would have sounded like a whisper of a snake.

As the slide opened up, Harry made a jump to his first visit of the chamber of secrets

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To tell the truth, Harry was terrified about going to the chamber, and with every step he took toward it his fear intensified.

After all, who wouldn't be scared about potentially meeting a gigantic snake with deadly poison and killing eyes?

But he kept walking, knowing this was his only chance at seeing the chamber before it is ruined by the golden boys.

As Harry reached the entrance to the main place, he looked to the statue of the snake he should open again and said with a hiss "library".

Yes, Harry has no wish to go into a place the basilisk could be, instead he wanted to see if he can go into the place where Salazar kept his things.

When nothing happened he started calling different places which can't mean grand hall or nest of snakes.

After 8 minutes of saying different rooms, he changed his approach by saying different subjects.

He started with potions and continued with the others, saying all the classes they were teaching in Hogwarts except for COMC (can care of magical creatures) for fear of opening the grand hall.

Just as he was saying "Divinations", a door was opened to the side of him.

Surprised, as it was a subject everyone in this world thought worthless, he walked in to the room cautiously, not knowing what was inside, when he saw the room was almost completely empty, with only one table in the middle of it.

Surprised, and a little sad, he walked toward the table, where he saw a stone tablet.

Looking closely, he saw there were runes on it, and even though he couldn't translate all of them, from the parts he did translate he understood the meaning of them was to measure magic and project something.

So he put magic into them, and they started to glow.

As he put more and more magic, the glow grew until it released the light toward the wall in front of him and a projection of a women was showed.

"If you reached here, it means you past all the tests." The women started talking. "You followed the clues I left behind to find the entrance to the chamber- so you must be clever, you have the ability to talk to snakes so you are either my grandfather descendent or a genius in his caliber, as you managed to do the ritual that grand you the ability, you have enough magic to activate this artifact- so you must be close to the limit of the second magical base at the very least, and most importantly, you can't be above the age of 15, otherwise the room wouldn't have opened up to you.

All of that means you are worthy of being my, Anastasia Slytherin's, granddaughter of Salazar Slytherin and Godric Gryffindor, legacy inheritor."

Harry felt his eyebrows raise higher and higher while surprise could be seen in his face as he kept listening to the projection.

"As you know, while basic knowledge can be acquired by all who learn in Hogwarts, but if you want advance knowledge, knowledge that can make you better then the mediocre wizards and witches that are satisfied with the things they learned you have to research for years.

The only other way is to inherent a study, but most of the magical people who researched those stuff had strict requirements to get their life's work.

I, myself has inherited both of my grandfathers's studies.

Salazar had an obsession with the intent behind the spoken part of spells and runes, while Godric explored his gift in seeing the future.

I continued both of their studies on my own, and created this room, in the chamber of my grandfather, so the inheritor I foresaw would come.

Now, you came, learn what you can, take what you need, and remember, the future you see isn't set in stone, you can only see probabilities, the only set in stone future is a prophecy, and it is so vague, it is worthless.

As a creepy old man once told you - "I expect interesting things from you, Harry Peverel"

She winked and disappeared.

Surprised that she knew him, he nearly missed the wall on his right glow.

As the glow disappeared he saw it was filled with writings on it that took him a second to recognize as Latin.

The first sentence was 'divination for dummies-by Anastasia Slytherin'

Harry's last thought before starting to read was 'This is interesting

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It took him three hours to read the book on the wall, and in the end of it, it was explained he needed to use magic to see the future to look on the next wall.

Apparently, inside the room, the use of divination would only let him see the next part of the writing, and as you progress you would be able to see the walls after that and after that.

Harry was fascinated at how it was possible, but he left the question on the side to focus on what he read just now.

Divination, the art of seeing probabilities is an art that can be accomplished in two ways.

1) By having an ancestor who was accomplished in it, as some magical abilities go to your descendents in the DNA, just like being metamorphmagus, it is an ability which once you get it, it has a chance manifesting in them.

The problem in this way, is that the ability would be unstable without the right training, leading for you seeing only pieces of the future all the time, and you also become a conduct to the universe to pass down prophecies.

The only way to avoid this, is to learn the art how it is supposed to be taught, and controlling your abilities.

2) Learn the hard way.

Divination is about knowing to open and close yourself to the universe.

By doing so, you gain the ability to not only sense what is going to happen next, but move yourself out of those predictions, thus making it possible to change them.

It took Harry some time but he managed to find explanation to this part, sort of.

Everything in the universe is made from quarks, and the way they spin and interact dictates how everything works- that to say, those things are also affected by energy, thus, by opening yourself to the magic it the world, and trying to understand the meaning of the way everything moves, you can 'see' the future.

It is right to call it an art, cause everything you sense is up to interpretation and the only way to understand it better is by keep trying.

After Harry understood it, he really wanted to try this amazing art, but was sad, as he understood the only way to be able to open yourself without being passed the gift is by having your magic change it state for the second time (the first was from gas like state to liquid like state) and although Harry felt like he was close to it, he wasn't there yet.

So the only thing he could do right now is leave, continue to practice and come back when he is ready.

With a heavy heart, Harry left the room.

A few weeks later

Marcus's POV

Marcus was pissed, he was so pissed, all of his fears disappeared.

He was pissed at himself, he was pissed at Lockhart, but most of all, he was pissed at Ron.

He knew Ron wasn't in sound mind when he wanted to ask help from Lockhart, but he went with the idea, as he also heard the teachers talking about Lockhart saving them all, (although, now that he think about that, he should have figured out they were sarcastic.) , but the worst part is that he let Lockhart steal his wand, and Lockhart was now planing on wipe's their memories like he did to His previous victims for glory.

Yes Marcus was pissed.

Harry's POV

Harry was just returning from the ROR where he was alone, as Luna was studying for the tests and the twins didn't show up, to the Slytherin common room, which meant he was going from the seventh floor to the Dungeons, and as he passed the second floor he saw Lockhart going toward the girl's bathroom with Marcus and Ron behind him.

It didn't take much to figure out Ginny went to the chamber for the last time, especially, as the end of the year tests were near and Harry knew they would be canceled.

After thinking for a few moments, and making sure his secret weapon was in his pocket Harry decided to follow them, as the chance to see Voldemort's most dangerous Horcrux in action was too tempting to pass.

Casting invisibility charm on himself, he went down the pipe for a second time only to hit Lockhart in his fall, yes, he overlooked the part Lockhart was planing to stunning charms on everyone when they were still shocked about something invisible knocking Lockhart to the ground, Harry started thinking about what was he to do now.

Deciding canon was the easiest solution, he broke Ron's wand, casted a complete obliviate charm on Lockhart, and partial one on Marcus and Ron, with a confusion one to make different memories about what happened.

After that, he moved Marcus deeper, he transfigured the floor in the middle to look like a ceiling and revived all three of them.

After a few moments of talking, Marcus decided to move deeper to look for Ginny while Ron keep trying to figure out a way out.

As Harry followed Marcus he couldn't help but ponder about whether Marcus has the main character aura, otherwise, why is he so lucky?

TMR POV

Tom wasn't sure how, but he knew one of the other Horcruxes his main body created was getting closer.

He knew one of them was hidden at the castle as even before he was created he already knew where he would put one of them, in the other secret room he discovered, the room of hidden things, or the come and go room.

But the other, that was a surprise, he could feel it in the castle, but because it was smaller then him by a lot, because he was still weak, and because of all the other people he couldn't identify it.

He thought the other horcrux would meet him down here as soon as he wrote about the chamber on Halloween, but as it didn't work, he tried it again and again.

This was his last chance to appear, after that he would take the chance with the other horcrux, the one who is closer in size to himself, the one who actually has a chance at beating him in the swallowing fight, where one part of the soul try to assimilate with the other part to become stronger, and he could feel the other soul come closer and closer, so imagine his surprise when he saw the one who comes in is non other then the one who defeated his original body, the one who wrote inside the Journal before, the one he was sure didn't have the memories of the strongest wizards to ever exist, Marcus Potter.

'Well, this is interesting