Harry Potter & The Ancient Grimoire
A/N Hello everyone, before I even begin to start my story, I would like to make clear I do not own harry potter, or any property in anyway shape or form relating to harry potter and J.K Rowling. This is my first ever story and there are going to be lots of mistakes and may not be described in the best way. I haven't written since high school so... don't be too harsh on me XD Please leave reviews and comment your thoughts! This is an edited version of the original, I've hopefully corrected most of the mistakes and changed some bad grammar, I also changed it so it's mostly past tense
Harry was sitting by himself near the back of the library, his back facing the restricted section reading a charm's book, trying to calm his nerves and ease his mind from racing 200 miles per hour. Due to the fact he was ostracized by his housemates and the rest of the school since they believed he was the heir of Slytherin and was randomly attacking students, especially muggleborns.
Harry looked around in terror hearing some 6th year Slytherins mention "going on a hunt for heirs" and quickly assumed they were meaning him, filled with adrenaline Harry tried to hide and without any thought, ducked underneath the entrance to the Restriction section and hid behind a shadowed bookcase.
Quietly wiped his brow of sweat and nervously looked around, confused how he entered the restricted section, only accessible to students with a note from a teacher. He remembered reaching into his robe pocket and retrieved a note from Professor Flitwick reading it word by word, and how the charms professor recommended some charm books for their upcoming essay.
He also felt his father's invisibility cloak in his other robe pocket and smiled, pulling it out and wrapping it around himself, feeling a family warmth knowing this was probably the only family heirloom he would ever own, Harry ventured down the mysterious restricted section, gazing down each isle of books wondering what secrets or advanced magic they contained when he felt a pull in his chest. Harry looked around nervously, feeling scared he was detected by a prefect or a professor by being out of bounds.
Harry looked around not noticing anyone, he sighed in relief and cautiously walked to this strange pull he felt, ignoring the multiple rows of books before discovering a bookcase not like the rest on the right side of the walkway, he walked towards the bookcase and when he was near proximity, the now revealed enchanted bookcase pushed out a brown leather covered tome, as it gestured towards Harry to grab and hold it. Harry nervously and cautiously pulled the rest of the book out and let out a groan of pain and discomfort, falling to his knees as his head was bombarded with information, hundreds of years of history, forgotten and lost knowledge now entered itself into Harry's temporal lobe.
After the barrage of knowledge now safely stored into Harry's brain, he fell onto his back and passed out from exhaustion and overall overload of intelligence into his head, a passive mind shield of occlumency to keep any legilimency users out. The ancient tome in his hand glowed a feint white and slowly words started forming on the spine and cover of the tome, the magic of the book covered the unconscious Harry with a white glow, bonding itself to its new owner.
Harry mumbled while in his comatose like state, "My Family Grimoire…"
Harry woke up in alert, getting up from the floor and looked at the weight in his left hand.
"My Family Grimoire..." He mumbled out loud.
He groaned in agony again as he remembered all the information that was thrusted into his brain, his family's history and knowledge of the location of his family's manor, believed to have been destroyed during the war with Grindelwald, but a very intelligent rumor spread by now deceased family members was spread to save their ancestral home. Harry quickly shoved the grimoire into his robe pocket, not noticing it resized itself to its new owners wishes and Harry quietly ran to the entrance of the Restricted section and exited out of it. Harry noticed Hermione sitting alone on one of the benches and quietly slid in across from her, his eye's darted around in nervousness, looking for anyone who may want to harm him and his best friend.
Hermione looked up at him, smiling sadly and whispers "It's so stupid people think you're the attacker Harry, your one of the nicest people I know..." her cheeks turned a soft rose colour.
Harry smiled at her, finally able to relax and quietly responded to her "you won't believe what the hell just happened to me Hermione, its bloody brilliant"
Hermione raised her eyebrow at how uncharacteristic Harry was being right now, curious what happened to him, and he quietly explained briefly what happened and how he discovered his family's grimoire.
"Holy shit Harry… why is your family's grimoire here of all places?" Hermione asked, surprised at what occurred to her best friend.
"I don't know… maybe it somehow found itself here on purpose to find me… I am the only Potter alive, so I suppose I'm technically the head of my house?" Harry asked in a confused way.
"What are you doing here Potter?" Hermione and Harry groaned at the new voice, as they turn to the new person in their vicinity.
"Studying Weasley, you trying to get Hermione to do your homework for you now or something?" Harry said in an exhausted annoyed tone.
The three students hear more footsteps before a new body slid in beside Hermione and said out loud.
"You're more Malfoy than Malfoy is Weasley" Hermione and Harry's new friend Daphne Greengrass said in a particular tone. "To stupid to think of a decent insult without sounding dumber than a troll".
"Screw you, you fucking snake" Ron yelled getting a newly irritated Madam Pince to remove him from the library and Ron ended up getting banned from the library for several months for causing a scene.
Harry, Hermione & Daphne giggled at Ron's emotional control of a toddler, Harry and Hermione then filled in their new third member of the group about what occurred to Harry and Daphne then taught them how important family was in the wizarding world, shocked in what occurred to harry as she never heard of a grimoire doing that.
Daphne's new friends were from the muggle world and were unaware of how society really worked in the magical world, Hermione then pulled out a piece of parchment and a quill and the three friends and began noting down how Harry's new knowledge could be beneficial to them, unaware of how badly Harry had been manipulated already.