A/N - Aaaannnnnd it's time for another update. I hope you enjoy this week's chapter. As I write these words Part 1 has just passed a quarter of a million views while this part is at 60,000+ views itself so far. That's mind blowing to me. I'm happy people are reading this story and (hopefully) enjoying it. Thank you all.
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"Telepathy"
32) GOING INSIDE
On the last Monday of March 1995, which was the 27th, Dumbledore informed Professor Xavier that all of Professor Snape's physical injuries had been healed and it was now time to see if Xavier's telepathy could bring Snape out of his catatonic insanity. Dumbledore sent Xavier a portkey and the professor told the headmaster that he would arrive the next day.
At 2 PM British time the next day Professor Xavier portkeyed into Dumbledore's office along with Marvel Girl and Lightning.
"Thank you for coming Charles" said Dumbledore, "I see you've brought Jean and Harry with you. Are they going to help you?"
"Jean is" said Xavier, "Harry will mainly stand guard so no one disturbs us."
"All right" said Dumbledore, "let me glamour you first to protect your identity." He raised his wand and cast a glamour on Xavier who now looked like he had a full head of brown hair streaked with gray and a full beard and mustache.
"You look even more distinguished than usual professor" said Marvel Girl.
"Thank you Jean" said Xavier, "now before we go see Professor Snape let me tell you what's going to happen. I'm going to go into his mind to attempt to bring him out of it. I've successfully done this before but never on a wizard or a witch. Jean, you and I will link minds and you will act as an anchor for me so in case I am stopped by magical defenses I can find my way back to my own body by following you."
Marvel Girl nodded. Xavier turned to Lightning.
"Harry you will stand guard" he said, "what I'll be doing is delicate work. Any interruptions could risk harm to Snape, Jean, and myself. It will be your job to stop anyone from interfering once I begin the procedure."
"Okay" said Lightning.
"Good" said Xavier, "Let's go."
Dumbledore led them out of his office and through the halls of Hogwarts to the hospital wing. Fortunately classes were in session at that moment so they didn't run into any of the students. When they got to the hospital wing they found Madame Pomfrey waiting for them. Dumbledore had explained to her why he was calling in Professor X to try to help Snape. She was uncertain about it but allowed him to go ahead because there were no magical ways to help Snape that they knew of. If this didn't work he presumably wouldn't be any worse off than he already was.
"I'd still feel better if I could watch" she said.
"I know Poppy" said Dumbledore, "but someone needs to be available out here in case a student comes in needing help. Once Professor X starts his work we can't allow for any disturbances."
Madame Pomfrey sighed but nodded her acceptance of Dumbledore said. With a wave of her hand she indicated the private room off to one side where she had put Professor Snape.
Professor Snape was lying on the bed with his eyes open staring at the ceiling in a vacant manner. There was no one else in the room.
"All right" said the Professor, "Lightning please step outside and close the door behind you. Then make sure that no one comes in until we're finished."
"Got it professor" said Lightning. As he moved to the door he heard the professor ask Dumbledore to stay so that there would be a familiar face in the room for when Snape woke up. Lightning pulled the door shut behind him and looked around. He grabbed a nearby chair with his telekinesis, brought it over to in front of the door and sat down in it.
"Are you guarding the room?" asked Madame Pomfrey looking at him with a touch of amusement.
"Yes" Lightning said.
"I see. Have a good vigil. If you need anything either let me know or call for a house elf." With that she went back into her office and left Lightning alone to wait.
When Lightning spoke to Madame Pomfrey he switched to what he called his "superhero voice" which he pitched lower than his real voice so as to hopefully make it less likely for people who knew Harry Potter to recognize him as Lightning. He'd gotten the idea from watching episodes of Batman: The Animated Series where the lead actor did separate voices for Batman and Bruce Wayne. It hadn't been an issue the previous April when the X-Men came to Hogwarts because his voice was changing then and no one at Hogwarts (except Dumbledore) knew what his changing voice sounded like. Now that he had been at Hogwarts several times for the Triwizard Tournament, however, it potentially could be an issue. Harry was a little paranoid about it even though Professor Xavier had assured him that if his cover was blown by people who shouldn't know either Dumbledore would obliviate them of the knowledge or he would telepathically remove it from their minds.
'Hmph' thought Lightning to himself after Madame Pomfrey left him alone, 'it doesn't seem to matter if I'm injured or not. Sooner or later I always end up in the Hogwarts hospital wing! If I hadn't gone to Ilvermorny I wonder if there would be a bed here with my name on it? It's probably a good thing I'll never know.'
It was a boring vigil at first. Lightning didn't have anything to do except sit and wait and he couldn't hear anything coming from inside Snape's room. For a little while he amused himself by levitating himself and practicing his telekinesis on other, smaller objects in the room while he floated above his chair.
By and by the main doors to the hospital wing opened and Professor Flitwick entered. His eyebrows went up when he saw Lightning there and what he was doing but otherwise he showed no surprise at seeing the X-Man.
"Hello Lightning" said Flitwick coming over to him.
"Hello Professor Flitwick" said Lightning, "what brings you here today?"
"I could ask you the same thing" said the professor with a smile.
"Oh I'm just standing – well floating guard I guess I should say" said Lightning returning his smile before lowering himself back onto his chair, "to make sure that no one tries to interfere with our team mentor as he tries to help Professor Snape."
"Ah, so I can't go in there right now?"
"Not until Professor X says it's okay."
"You call your mentor Professor X?" asked Flitwick.
"That's what he calls himself" said Lightning, "he doesn't always go into the field with the team but he's actually the most powerful one of us."
"What is he doing to Professor Snape?" asked Flitwick.
"I don't really know" was the reply, "Professor X is a very strong telepath so hopefully he can help Snape with that."
"Do you mind if I wait here too?" asked Professor Flitwick, "I don't have any more classes today and I was just coming to see how my colleague was."
"Not at all" said Lightning, "I wouldn't mind the company. Let me get you a chair." Lightning grabbed another chair with his telekinesis and brought it over to Professor Flitwick who sat down in it.
For a few moments neither of them spoke as they each were lost in their own thoughts.
"So tell me" said Flitwick finally and Lightning looked at him, "do you enjoy being one of the X-Men Mr. Potter?"
There was complete silence in the room. Lightning stared at Flitwick with wide eyes and his jaw fell open.
"I know it's you" said Flitwick before Lightning could say anything, "you don't need to deny it."
"How do you know?" asked Lightning in a small voice.
"I've been a teacher for many years Mr. Potter – "
"Professor Flitwick" Lightning interrupted him with a raised hand, "when I'm like this – " he gestured to himself indicating his uniform, "– please don't use my real name. You never know who might be listening."
"My apologies Lightning" said Flitwick, "as to how I know who you really are? As I was saying I've been a teacher for many years and I was an international dueling champion several times over in my younger days. In both professions being very good at observing other people is an excellent skill to have. Not that many people have it. I learned it during my early days and it's also served me well as a professor. I didn't recognize you because of your voice. I recognized your body language and behavior – the way you walk, the way you hold yourself, the signals you give off, that sort of thing.
"Also when I thought about it what you are doing as Lightning is not too different from your adventures here at Hogwarts when you fought You-Know-Who in your first year and the basilisk in your second year, or even when you and Mr. Weasley rushed off to rescue Miss Granger from a troll during your first Halloween here.
"I didn't recognize you last April. Lightning was very different from the Harry Potter I remembered from his two years here and I had no reason to suspect that the X-Men had anything do with you even if Albus did know the team. But then you returned for the Triwizard Tournament. That first day you came back when you made your big entrance, and afterwards the way you handled both Professor Snape and Mr. Malfoy reminded me of something. It took a couple more of your visits before I finally made the connection that Harry's behavior was too much like Lightning's for it to be a coincidence. I spoke to Albus about it and, after he made me swear a magical oath not to reveal the information to anyone who didn't already know it, he confirmed that I was right."
"Wow, that's impressive" said Lightning looking at Professor Flitwick with increased respect. He'd always respected the professor but now he respected him even more.
"Well I am the head of Ravenclaw House for a reason" Flitwick quipped with a bit of a shrug.
"Do any of the other professors know?" asked Lightning.
"If they do they haven't mentioned it to me" said Flitwick, "nor would I mention it to them even without the oath Albus had me swear."
"That's good, I guess" said Lightning.
"So" said Professor Flitwick, "getting back to my original question, do you enjoy being an X-Man?"
"Oh yeah" said Lightning, "I guess when you look at it like you did my adventures as Lightning are similar to what happened at Hogwarts with one big difference. As an X-Man I've been trained to fight. When I was here I was just bumbling along most of the time. It was mainly luck that got me through those adventure, not skill. Discovering I was a mutant as well as a wizard and becoming an X-Man are two of the best things that ever happened to me. They turned my whole life around."
"I'm glad to hear it" said Professor Flitwick, "and I must say that you and your teammates have made quite an impact on the British Wizarding World."
"Is that good or bad?" asked Lightning.
"I think it's good" said Flitwick, "first you defended Hogwarts, then you fought Death Eaters at the Quidditch World Cup, and now I hear that Senior Auror Moody has been studying your training techniques."
"That's true" said Lightning, "Moody has been a pretty frequent visitor at our headquarters. He and Professor X get along quite well."
"As for myself" said Flitwick, "I spent last summer at the International Dueling Academy in Berlin where I taught a course on dueling multiple opponents. That came about as direct result of the battle here at Hogwarts last year. A picture of me dueling two of the Brotherhood at once was in the Daily Prophet and that led to me being invited to the academy. I'm going back there this coming summer too."
"That sounds fitting" said Lightning, "I remember seeing you during the fight here. You looked like you were enjoying yourself."
"To some degree I was" said Flitwick, "the seriousness of the situation during our battle notwithstanding it was refreshing to be able to go into combat again."
"Is dueling more than one opponent something that happens a lot?" asked Lightning.
"On the dueling circuits? Not all that much" said Flitwick, "it's a specialized skill as you may well imagine but in real battles it's a good skill to have as the rules of dueling don't apply there. Do you ever read manga?"
"Huh?" said Lightning, thrown by the subject change, "not really. I've seen the occasional anime on TV but that's about it."
"While I was in Berlin a colleague of mine drew my attention to one that had just started publishing last April" said Flitwick, "it's called Rurouni Kenshin and the central character is a former assassin in Japan in the late 1870s. The reason I mention it is because he uses a style of sword fighting that allows him to fight multiple opponents at once. So it's not something that's unknown."
Lightning nodded and opened his mouth to respond when the front doors of the hospital wing opened again and in walked one of the last people Lightning wanted to see: Draco Malfoy. Naturally Malfoy spotted Lightning at once and stopped dead where he was for a moment before recovering himself and approaching Lightning looking angry.
"You!" he said, "what are you doing here?" Lightning looked up at him with an unimpressed expression.
"I could ask you the same thing Mr. – " Lightning paused for a moment as if trying to remember something "– what was your name again? Mallard? No, Malman? No, ah yes! Malfoy, that was it. And in answer to your question I'm having a nice chat with Professor Flitwick – at least I was until you arrived."
"Why you – " began Malfoy as he pulled out his wand – which immediately went flying out of his hand over to Lightning who caught it.
"Malfoy, Malfoy, Malfoy" the young X-Man said, "haven't you learned by now not to pull your wand on a telekinetic? Considering what happened the last time we met I would have thought you would know better." Lightning twirled Malfoy's wand in his hand.
"Give me back my wand" demanded Malfoy.
"No, I don't think I will at the moment" Lightning said, "only an idiot knowingly gives an enemy a weapon they could use against him – although I don't know why we have to be enemies. What did I ever do to you? If you're thinking of those duels we had you challenged me after you tried to attack me in the Hogwarts Front Hall. And that was after you pulled your wand on me not far from the headmaster's office. The only thing I can think of that I did to you that wasn't in reaction to something you were doing to me was to pull you out of danger after you so foolishly challenged Magneto. And what thanks did I get for that? Oh right, you offered to let me be your servant as a reward. What on Earth were you thinking? I mean, come on!
"What were you going to do just now? Challenge me again? Malfoy, I'm a trained fighter. I've faced much scarier things than you and lived to tell about it. Believe me, you have nothing on people like Magneto and his Brotherhood, and you have even less on Juggernaut." Lightning gave a small shiver as he remembered his encounter with Juggernaut earlier that month.
"Who's Juggernaut?" asked Professor Flitwick with interest.
"Trust me" said Lightning to Flitwick, "you don't want to know."
"Really?" asked Flitwick.
"Let's just say" said Lightning,"that if he and Voldemort were to get into a fight Juggernaut would probably win."
"Oh my" said Flitwick while Malfoy's mouth dropped open in disbelief, "and you beat him?"
"I wouldn't say that" said Lightning, "I think a better way of putting it is that we survived him."
"Well" said Flitwick, "that certainly lends extra credence to you facing scarier things than young Mr. Malfoy here."
"Thank you" said Lightning who looked at Malfoy with a raised eyebrow.
"I don't believe you" said Malfoy, "no one can beat the Dark Lord."
"If you really think that" said Lightning leaning forward in his chair, "then you are very naive. There's much more to existence than magical Britain you know. There are people and beings out there who make your Dark Lord look like a mundane stage magician."
"Impossible" sputtered Malfoy.
"Like who?" asked Flitwick before Lightning could respond. The young X-Man leaned back again.
"Well" he said, "there's Thor for one. He's a friend of mine. Since he's real so is Odin his father and the whole Norse Pantheon from what I hear, including Loki whom I met once. There's Dr. Strange the Sorcerer Supreme and his mentor the Ancient One."
"Ah" said Flitwick with a nod, "I met the Ancient One once. He is indeed more powerful than You-Know-Who."
"Who else?" said Lightning, "there are beings from other places who sometimes invade Earth. Beings like Mephisto, the Dread Dormammu and his sister Umar, Chthon, and Shuma Gorath to name a few. These are threats that Dr. Strange fights against in his job as Sorcerer Supreme. I've never met any of them and I'm glad about that. Hopefully I never will."
"I agree" said Flitwick, "I've seen references to some of those beings in my researches over the years and I don't want to meet them either."
"Oh?" sneered Malfoy, "are you afraid?"
"Of beings like them?" said Lightning, "why wouldn't I be? It's only sensible to be cautious of beings who are more powerful than you are. That's a lesson you need to learn Malfoy. If you had understood that last year you would have been a lot more cautious about trying to attack Magneto. Or me for that matter."
"I'm not afraid of you" Malfoy said to Lightning.
"I'm not asking you to be" replied Lightning, "I'm just telling you to pick your battles wisely."
Malfoy didn't say anything to that. After he was suspended from Hogwarts his father had given him a long telling off that he would never forget. He was positive that his ears were still burning from it. He was grounded for the rest of Spring and for the Summer which meant that, among other things, he couldn't fly his broom at all, he wasn't allowed to have friends over or visit them at their houses, and he wasn't allowed to attended the Quidditch World Cup. All in all it hadn't been a good summer for him. When he'd come back to Hogwarts he found that his star had fallen a lot. The people who were his age had all moved on to fourth year and he couldn't try to rule them as he had in the past. Even Crabbe and Goyle had gone on to fourth year and drifted away from him. In fact they seemed to be doing much better without him to boss them around. Their grades were up and it was becoming clear that they weren't as stupid as they'd appeared to be in the past.
The third years that Malfoy was now sharing classes with didn't think much of him either. In a way that was only to be expected. They'd spent their first two years at Hogwarts with him lording it over the years under him. Now he was in their year because of his own stupid actions and none of them had much respect for him. This had only been made worse at the beginning of the year when he'd tried to "establish his authority" over them. None of them took that well and Malfoy had discovered the basic truth of the saying "there's safety in numbers." This time the numbers were against him. Needless to say he hadn't been having a very good year.
"Fine" Malfoy finally said, "your comments are noted. Now would you please get out from in front of the door? I'm here to visit Professor Snape."
"I'm sorry but I can't do that" said Lightning, "I was told not to let anyone into Snape's room right now."
"That's quite correct Mr. Malfoy" said Professor Flitwick, "otherwise I would already be in there.
"But he's my Godfather" said Malfoy and Lightning heard a slight note of pleading in Malfoy's voice that he'd never heard before, "I've visited him almost every day since he came back. I have to see him."
"And you will" said Lightning, "just as soon as Professor X is finished with his work."
"Professor X?" asked Malfoy, confused.
"Why don't you tell him what you told me?" said Flitwick. Lightning nodded and told Malfoy the same things he'd told Flitwick earlier.
"If anyone can help Snape now" Lightning finished, "it's Professor X but he made it clear that he couldn't be interrupted while he was working or it might be bad. So I'm afraid you'll just have to wait."
Before Malfoy could respond Lightning grabbed another chair with his telekinesis and pulled it over to behind Malfoy. He bumped the back of Malfoy's legs with the chair causing Malfoy to fall into it with a 'whump.'
"Have a seat Malfoy" said Lightning, "and make yourself comfortable. I don't know how much longer it's going to be."
Malfoy scowled but didn't say anything as he leaned back in the chair and prepared to wait.
Now that Malfoy was silent Lightning took a good look at him in as dispassionate a manner as he could. No, Malfoy didn't look his best. Lightning assumed that might be a result of how his year was going but there was something else in Malfoy's manner. It was like he was wound up tight by something and not in a good way.
'He's afraid of something' Lightning realized all at once, 'I wonder what it is?'
Not long after that the door to Snape's room opened and the three people waiting outside looked in.
Once the door to Snape's room was closed Professor Xavier began his work.
"Jean" he said to Marvel Girl, "I'm going to connect our minds now. I may ask you to follow me into Professor Snape's mind but only if I really need extra power. For the most part I'll need you to serve as a back up for me and a beacon to light the way for us when we come out."
"Of course professor" said Marvel Girl.
"Is there anything I can do?" Dumbledore asked.
"Not at the moment" said Xavier, "your part will come when Professor Snape wakes up. It would best if you would sit in the chair next to his bed. That way when he wakes up the first face he'll see will be one he knows. In my experience that's much better than waking up in a room with only strangers around you."
Dumbledore nodded and sat down in the chair by Snape. Xavier turned to Marvel Girl and reached out to her with his mind. She reached back and the two made contact. It didn't take long for Xavier to forge the link.
"Good" he said after a short time, "I'm ready. Jean, stand by."
"I will professor" she said, "good luck."
Professor Xavier focused his mind and sent it out of his body and into Professor Snape's. Once inside Snape's mindscape he stopped and looked around. Behind him was an open doorway through which he could see outside to his own body. Then he turned and looked deeper into Snape's mindscape.
'Oh dear' thought Xavier as he surveyed his surroundings, 'this isn't good.'
It was a complete disaster. It looked like several tornadoes had torn through the place and wrecked everything that was there. In every direction that he looked all he saw was indiscriminate destruction. If this mind had any defenses in the past – and Dumbledore had said that Snape was an excellent occlumens – all of them were gone now. Could it be that there was nothing left of Snape's mind?
No. Xavier could sense a consciousness. It was very faint but it was there. At the speed of thought he followed the trail the consciousness left and traveled through the wasteland that was Professor Snape's mind. It seemed like he traveled a long way but no matter where he went it was all devastation.
Eventually he spotted something in the distance that looked like a gray box. As he got closer to it the box grew in size until it looked to be as big as a one story house. From the outside it seemed to have no windows and no doors anywhere in the walls. The professor thought himself up onto the roof of the box and saw no entrances there either. He had no doubt that whatever was left of Snape's mind was inside the box as this was where the trail had led him but how was he to reach it? He tried simply going through a wall but he couldn't. Whatever power was left in Snape's mind was keeping him out.
'If he can do that' Xavier thought, 'then there's still a mind in there that can be saved. He'll have to be convinced that it's safe to come out though. I'll need to contact him to do that.'
He thought himself back to the base of the box and circled around it testing it with his mind. Yes, he did have the power to break it open if necessary but he would prefer for the person inside to come out willingly rather than be suddenly exposed.
Xavier decided to start with something simple. Picking a spot on one of the walls at random he made a fist and knocked sharply on the wall.
At first there was no sign that whoever was in the box had heard him so he knocked again. This time he got a reaction.
"Go away!" he heard a high pitched voice coming from the other side of the wall. The voice sounded more like a child's voice than a man's voice.
"Severus Snape?" Xavier called back.
"Leave me in peace" the voice replied.
"It's all right" the professor said, "I'm not here to hurt you."
"They all say that" said the voice now sounding fearful and petulant, "and they all lie!"
"I'm not lying" Xavier said, "Albus asked me to come."
A hitherto invisible panel suddenly appeared in the wall and slid open. The person looking out appeared to be a boy not yet in his teens with a wild look on his face.
"The headmaster sent you?" he demanded.
"He did" said Xavier, "won't you come out?"
"Who are you?"
"A friend" said Xavier, "you can call me Professor X. I'm the mentor and teacher of the X-Men. I believe you've met them?"
The boy nodded.
"Then you know that I won't hurt you" said Xavier.
"I can't go out there" said the boy, "it's dangerous. HE hurt me so much, so much, I just want to stay here where it's safe."
"Is this how you wish to spend the rest of your life?" asked Xavier knowing exactly whom the boy meant by HE, "stuck in here? Never going out? Never seeing anyone else again?"
"Why would I want to see anyone else?" snapped the boy, "it's not like anyone cares about me!"
"Albus cares" said the professor, "he wouldn't have come to me if he didn't. The mere fact that I'm here should show you that I care too. And there are others."
"How did you even get here anyway?" the boy asked, "no legilimens can reach so far into a mind."
"I'm a telepath" was the reply, "not a legilimens. You're looking at a projection of my mind that I sent into yours."
"But HE'S out there" said the boy in a trembling voice, "he hurt me a lot. His followers did too. If I go out there he'll get me again. He can't reach me here."
"He won't get you" Xavier assured him, "I don't know where you were before but you're back at Hogwarts now and Albus can protect you."
"Really?" asked the boy with some doubt.
"Really" was the reply.
"But, but, the headmaster let me go to HIM" said the boy, "he couldn't protect me then."
"Could Albus have stopped you from going?" asked Xavier. There was a long silence as the boy thought this over.
"No" he finally said, "probably not."
"But now you know that he cares about you" said Xavier, "since he sent for me. He could have just left you here." The boy looked at Xavier for a minute.
"What should I do?" he finally asked.
"Come back with me and rejoin the world" Xavier said, "after what you went through I can't promise that you'll have a quick recovery or that you'll always be safe after this but at least you'll be in control of yourself again."
The boy pondered this before closing the panel. After a moment a door appeared in the wall and opened. The boy stepped out of the box.
"I'll come with you" he said.
"Thank you" said Xavier, "follow me and I'll take you back the way I came."
They began to travel. As they did the boy looked around his mindscape.
"What an awful mess" he said, "it'll take forever to clean up."
"Not necessarily" said Xavier, "remember that this is your mind we're in. You're in control here. You can do whatever you want. It may take you some time to fully realize that again but it's true. Why don't you try something now?"
The boy looked unsure but he looked around, closed his eyes and concentrated. Slowly the wreckage began to fade away to be replaced by an empty green field that stretched in every direction. When the boy opened his eyes he looked tired but also amazed at what he had done.
"You see?" asked Xavier, "you'll be fine. Now let's go."
They resumed moving back in the direction Xavier had come from. Xavier knew it was the right direction because he could sense his link to Marvel Girl which was leading him back. As they progressed an odd thing began to happen to the boy. The farther they traveled from the box the older he got. He aged from being a pre-teen to a teenager, then to young man of around 20 or so, until finally he reached his actual age and was once again recognizable as Professor Snape.
When they finally reached the doorway Xavier turned to Snape.
"I see you're back to your regular self" he said, "now all you need to do to wake up is to will yourself awake. The easiest way to do that is step through that doorway. If you take my hand we can go through together. I'll wake up in my body and you'll wake up in yours."
Xavier held out his hand but Snape hesitated.
"I – " he seemed to not know what to say, "thank you professor" he finally said and took Xavier's hand. The two of them stepped through the doorway and were surrounded by a bright light.
Professor Xavier came awake in his chair.
"Professor?" asked Marvel Girl, "are you all right?"
"I'm fine" said Xavier, "how is Professor Snape?" He, Marvel Girl, and Dumbledore all looked at Snape. At first there seemed to be no change in him but as they watched they saw the light of awareness returning to his face. Eventually he blinked and looked around.
"Welcome back Severus" said Dumbledore with a smile.
(To Be Continued)
A/N - That's all for this week. Yeah, I think if any of the Hogwarts staff was going to figure out Lightning's true identity Professor Flitwick would be the most likely person to do it. Also, as you can probably tell from Harry watching episodes of Batman: The Animated Series, in this story the DC universe is entirely fictional.
TEASER: Next week a new mutant appears at Hogwarts. No, it's not Toad but it is someone whom Harry knows. Feel free to guess who it might be. I'd be interested to see what H.P. character people think is the most likely person to manifest as a mutant at Hogwarts. You'll find out next week if you're right.
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