Chapter 4 -
"By the way Harry, no messing with other people's memories either." Narcissa said as Harry escorted her to charms class.
"Understood." Harry nodded. "Are there any other rules my lady?"
"Not at the moment," Narcissa shook her head. "but I'll be sure to tell you if I think of anymore."
"Yes my lady." Harry nodded as they arrived at charms class.
"Hey Cissy," Sirius said as he and the other marauders walked up to Harry and Narcisa, fortunately for them nobody else had arrived yet. "how are you doing?"
"You're early to class," Narcissa said with a raised eyebrow. "are you sick?"
"Nah, we just wanted to meet my 'cousin'." James said as the marauders stopped to look at Harry. "Nice to meet you, but I've got to ask...you didn't exist before so how come my parents think you're my cousin?" Harry glanced at Narcissa, seeking permission to speak, she gave him a small nod so he turned back to James.
"Your parents memories were modified." Harry said, his voice without a single ounce of emotion, but the words caused James to drop his jaw.
"You modified my parents memories?!" James blurted out in shock and a little bit of anger.
"They were not harmed in anyway but yes." Harry nodded.
"Why did you do that?!" Sirius demanded. Harry once again glanced at Narcissa for permission and she once again nodded.
"My lady said that it would be easier for her if I was attending school, therefore I needed an identity. Potter was the easiest identity to assume."
"You did it just to make things easier for Narcissa?" Remus blurted out with disbelief.
"My priority is my lady's desires." Harry replied.
"Harry is...rather...single-minded." Narcissa said. "He's not evil or anything, he just seems to not understand what's acceptable by other people's standards. It's just that since I've met him he has only really been interested in one thing...whatever I am interested in."
"Oh...have you two..." Sirius trailed off and gestured between the two.
"No!" Narcissa blushed.
"Shall I kill him?" Harry offered while gesturing to Sirius.
"No, not yet but I'll tell you if I change my mind." She said before turning to Sirius. "As for you, no...we have not done that."
"Oh brilliant..." Peter whispered, before realising that he had spoke a bit too loud. "I mean why?" He asked.
"Because I don't sleep with any and every boy that I find attractive." Narcissa said, ignoring the bit the Peter clearly didn't mean for her to hear. "As for Harry, he basically doesn't care about anything besides obeying anything he may perceive as an order from me."
"So you find him attractive?" Sirius grinned at her, picking up on what she had said, causing Narcissa to blush more. While Peter sent a jealous glare at Harry.
"Harry, just hurt him a little, nothing that will last more than five minutes." Narcissa ordered.
"Understood." Harry said before slapping Sirius on the back of the head.
"Ow! What was that for?!" Sirius demanded.
"I'd like to know as well," Lily Evans said as she and her friend Alice arrived. "not that I'm against hitting Sirius but what was that particular one for?"
"He was being an idiot." Narcissa answered.
"Good enough reason if ever I heard one," Lily said before extending her hand to Harry. "nice to meet you, this is my friend Alice Brown and I'm Lily Evans."
"Harry Potter." Harry said as he shook her hand.
"Firm grip," Lily said as Harry shook her hand. "so I suppose I should offer my condolences," She said once Harry let her go. "being related to Potter over there, not a fate I would wish on anyone."
"Yes, it is quite unfortunate." Narcissa agreed.
"Thanks a lot." James rolled his eyes.
"His eyes look a lot like yours Lily." Alice, Lily's best friend said. "Bit brighter than yours though." She added after looking closer.
"Hmm," Lily said before looking at Harry's eyes. "oh yeah, suppose you're right."
"Lily." A voice called. The marauders and Alice groaned and rolled their eyes while Lily simply scowled and turned to the boy who had called.
"What do you want Snape?" She said in a cold voice as the boy approached. Severus Snape was a boy in the same year with shoulder length black, greasy hair along with yellow teeth and a face with a long hook nosed and a small mouth, his face usually settled between glaring or sneering. Though at the moment it was settled on a small smile, though a rather creepy one. The boy was the enemy of the marauders, though it was more like they just really didn't like him, and he used to be Lily's friend, at least until he called her a mudblood last year after a small fit of rage.
That single act cost him his friendship with the girl that he loved, shame that she didn't love him.
"Can we please just talk?" He asked with a pleading voice.
"No, we can't." Lily glared at him.
"Oh come on Lily," Snape whined. "I told you I'm sorry."
"Sorry is not good enough." Her glare increased. "Now leave me alone Snape."
"So you can what? Hang around with Potter?!" Snape demanded. "He's an arrogant toe rag!"
"At least I wash." James replied.
"Or maybe you want to hang around with the other Potter?!" Snape ignored James for the time being and gestured to Harry. "He's a bully! He attacked some Slytherin's on his first day of school."
"Don't lie Snape!" Narcissa said, jumping to Harry's defence. "They attacked him first, he was merely defending himself."
"It doesn't matter, look at him, he looks like he hardly has anything going on in that brain of his." Snape sneered at Harry.
"Hey, don't start insulting him!" Alice said.
"Well look at him, he barely says anything!"
"You should take some notes." Sirius commented.
"Harry hasn't said anything to you so you have no reason to insult him!" Lily said, as Lily spoke Narcissa suddenly had an idea, one that would let her learn a bit more about Harry.
"Harry, why don't you tell us your opinion on Severus?" Narcissa said, wanting to see what Harry would say. She leaned in close so her mouth was near, "Insult him, make it entertaining." She whispered to him so only he could hear. Harry nodded at her before looking at Snape, he quickly scanned Snape's mind, easily getting past Snape's shields without Snape realising, and learning all he could about Snape. Deciding that he himself wasn't sufficiently entertaining Harry brought up an old presence and channelled the old Harry Potter.
"Well? Go on then dunderhead." Snape sneered at him. "What do you think of me?" After a short pause Harry answered in his usual emotionless voice.
"You're an ugly, belligerent, pedantic, pontificating, pretentious bastard with a brain the size of a baby chipmunks little chipmunk and you have a collective worth of a sickle as your body is so unappealing that even a starving cannibal would not eat it. You smell like a pile of cow dung has been left out to dry in the summer while being in the middle of a mating ground of trolls. Judging by your face I will assume that one of the trolls was your mother or perhaps your father, or perhaps both. It is hard to tell.
Your nose is longer than your life span, your clothes leave me under the impression that a five your old made them after accidently getting drunk after drinking his father's alcohol because he thought it was water. You look like a bat yet are not as scary or cool as a bat. You'd be accepted in the muggle world out of a desire to make everyone feel accepted no matter how horrible, you wouldn't be accepted because you are actually liked seeing as nobody likes you, you'd be accepted in the wizarding world if you are perhaps smart or magically powerful. But as of the moment I would assume that your brain and magical power is as low as your sperm count.
You couldn't get a prostitute off and you also wouldn't be able to get a prostitute no matter how well you'd pay her, though judging by the way you look I would assume that the prostitute was a male and I would assume you don't have the ability to pay well nor do you seem like the type of person who would give a tip. You had one friend and were idiotic enough to push her away after achieving a miracle by making her give you a pity friendship. I do not like you, I do not think anyone will ever like you, if on the chance you manage to trick someone into doing so then I hope that this man manages to flush the love potions out of his system fast enough to escape before you two get bonded together in unholy matrimony.
You are a nerd, not a cool or likeable one either, you have no redeeming qualities as even your limited intelligence is ruined by your desire to show off and prove yourself better than others. You are about as attractive as a gorillas left butt cheek and as wanted as the shit that came out of that butt. For the greater good of human kind you should seal yourself away inside of a cave so you do not contaminate anybody with any of the numerous diseases you likely have and so you do not sap the will to live out of the few strong enough to tolerate your presence. Also...you are a bitchy idiot." Harry finished before turning to Narcissa. "Was that sufficiently entertaining?" He asked, his voice still without any emotion.
Narcissa dumbly nodded, she wasn't quite sure what she was expecting but that was not it. She, along with the Slytherin's that had arrived during Harry's insults, were staring at him with disbelief. Narcisa especially, while she didn't think that Harry was dumb she didn't know how intelligent he was. This was definitely not what she was expecting. She looked around and saw everyone else's reaction.
The Slytherin's were shocked, not that she blamed them. She saw that the marauders were wide eyed with open jaws and looking at Harry like he was their new hero, apart from Pettigrew who was sending Harry a rather jealous glare. She looked towards Lily Evans and her friend Alice, Alice was wide eyed and open mouthed while Lily's Evans looked like her eyebrows had nearly shot off her head as she looked at him with appraising eyes.
Snape, who kept getting more and more shocked and angry as Harry went on, saw Lily looking at Harry and growled before pulling out his wand. He aimed it at Harry and fired a spell in an angry rage, forgetting what Harry was capable of due to his anger. Harry casually tilted his head to the side and the spell went flying past him and hit a wall. Snape was about to go for another spell when Harry grabbed Snape's wrist with just his left hand and twisted it until Snape dropped the wand and fell to his knees in pain.
"What is going on here?!" A voice demanded as Professor Slughorn rushed over.
"Harry, release him." Narcissa whispered. Harry gave her a small nod before releasing Snape, Snape glared at Harry then tried to scramble over to grab his wand but was stopped just before he could grab it by Lily summoning the wand to her hand.
"Lily?!" Snape gasped in shock.
"What is happening here?!" Slughorn said as he arrived.
"Snape attacked Harry sir." Narcissa began explaining. "First he started bothering Miss Evans then he started insulting James Potter before insulting Harry, after Harry responded Snape whipped his wand out and tried to blast him."
"I did not!" Snape shouted.
"Then what about the mark on the wall?" Narcissa said as she gestured to the small mark where Snape's spell had hit. "Harry responded after that by putting Snape into a wrist lock before you arrived sir."
"Is that true?" Slughorn asked the rest of the class.
"Yes sir," Lily said before anybody else could. "it's true. You can check Snape's wand if you don't believe us." Lily said as she tossed Professor Slughorn Snape's wand.
"Let's see here." Slughorn said before he began checking the wand for the last three spells cast, everyone watched as the usually joyful and happy professor changed into an angry and scowling one. "Ah, I see that you're right. A blasting curse! One that could cause severe damage at such a close distance! Everyone inside. As for you Severus, I am severely disappointed in you and that will be thirty points and a months detention! After class finished you shall be accompanying me to the headmaster's office! I shall be keeping your wand for now. Everyone inside now." Slughorn ordered.
The class all walked in with Snape glaring at Harry along with a few other Slytherin's including Lucius Malfoy. Harry ignored them as he didn't really care for them and sat along Narcissa.
"Alright everyone, the instructions are on the board. I will be walking around to assist any who need it. This should take you about an hour, begin." Slughorn said.
"Harry, can you get the ingredients while I set up the equipment?" Narcissa asked.
"Yes my lady." Harry nodded. As everyone else walked to get ingredients Harry simply raised his hand and the necessary ingredients rose into the air and flew towards him before slowly gliding down and landing on the desk, causing everyone to look at him.
"Well...that's certainly a quicker way of getting the ingredients." Slughorn joked. "Come on everybody, get back to work." He said to the students that were still looking at Harry, the students snapped out of it and continued working.
"Would you prefer if I prepare the equipment mistress?" Harry asked.
"No need, I'm nearly done." Narcissa said, five seconds later she was. "Now let's start making the potion."
Harry and Narcissa began making the potion together and Narcissa was very glad that she had chosen to work in Harry. She never needed to ask Harry to do something as he instantly responded before she could ask, if she needed something then he would do it immidietly. Part way through the process she got worried when Harry began doing things different to the instructions. Harry, who had sensed her uneasiness, assured her that the potion would not be ruined but in fact improved. She wasn't sure but decided to trust his judgement and now she ended up finishing the potion half an hour early.
"Oh my, are you two stuck?" Slughorn asked as he walked up to them upon noticing that the two had stopped working. Snape smirked at thinking the two weren't able to do the potion but that smirk went out the window when Slughorn spoke again. "Oh my, you've finished!" He said with disbelief and a massive smile.
"Indeed we have." Narcissa smiled brightly.
"Give me one moment dear," Slughorn said as he began checking the potion. "my goodness that is perfect. How did the two of you do this?"
"It was Harry sir." Narcissa said, while she was tempted to take the credit and knew that Harry probably wouldn't mind if she did, but she was a big believer in credit where credit was due. "He had made several changes to the potion."
"They must have been brilliant changes for it to be done in half the time! Mr Potter, did you really do this?" He asked with a big smile as he looked at Harry.
"Yes." Harry nodded, feeling no need to add more to that answer.
"Ah, still not a talker." Slughorn chuckled. "My goodness, wait there." Slughorn said before getting some parchment for Harry. "Could you please write down the changes you have made?"
"I assume that the changes will be documented." Narcissa said while giving Harry a gentle nudge that signaled him to start writing so he did.
"Of course Miss Black." Slughorn nodded happily. "I plan to double check this potion then try making the potion myself with the changes, if everything goes good then I'll send it to the British Potions Society." Snape's jealousy went into overdrive upon hearing that this boy, a Potter as well, was able to improve upon such difficult potion and could end up being acknowledged by the British Potions Society.
"In that case I can also assume that Harry will be given credit for what he has done." Narcissa said with a raised eyebrow, she might as well help Harry get something out of this.
"What?" Slughorn looked confused for a second before realising what she was saying. "Oh, yes of course. Credit where credit is due Miss Black, in fact if this works out good then you may end up seeing Mr Potter's name in one of their magazines." Slughorn said, causing many people to look at Harry with awe. "I must say I am impressed Mr Potter, potions genius and wandless magic, simply fantastic."
"Thank you sir." Harry said after having wrote down his changes, he handed it to the professor.
"You're welcome my boy, take fifty points for the potion and an extra twenty for your hard work, effort and politeness." Slughorn smiled. "Now that you and Miss Black are done you can leave early and go off and study or whatever it is you youngsters like to do."
"Come now sir, you're not that old." Narcissa smiled at him.
"Flattery will get you everywhere Miss Black." Slughorn chuckled. "Just clear this desk and equipment then off you go." Slughorn said. Harry did as instructed with a single wave of his hand, once again gaining looks of awe from most of the class along with look of jealousy from others. "That is marvelous, I'm really starting to like you Mr Potter." Slughorn said.
"Goodbye sir." Narcissa said, walking out while Harry gave Slughorn a short nod.
"Nice job Potter." Lily whispered to Harry as he passed her, Harry gave her a nod as well before he walked out and followed Narcissa down the hall.
"That was brilliant!" Narcissa smiled at Harry.
"I am glad you are pleased." Harry replied.
"Harry," Narcissa stopped which caused Harry to stop as well, she turned to him and looked at him for several seconds before she spoke. "could you smile please?" She asked. "I'd like to see you smile." She said. "Just a small one would do." She looked at him, wondering what he would look like if he smiled, she hadn't seen him smile once since she had met him.
She watched as Harry gave her a short nod, the left side of his lips curled upwards slightly before he have her a small smile. In that moment Narcissa realised that she liked a smiling Harry, such a simple action managed to make him look much more handsome while also giving him a roughish and happy look.
"Thank you Harry." She said, Harry took that to mean that he no longer needed to smile. "Harry, I'd like it when you smile."
"Shall I smile permanently?" Harry asked.
"No, just occasionally." Narcissa replied. "Just a few short smiles everyday please, you are also permitted to smile whenever you feel like it."
"Yes..." Harry paused and gave her another smile. "...my lady." Harry said and a shiver went up Narcissa's spine and a blush to appear on her face.
"Yes...well...let's go."