With realizations of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world." – The Dalai Lama
Harry woke up the next day, walked down to breakfast, and there he met Calvin and Desi. Desi was holding a rather large cat in her arms that caused Harry's eyes to bug out. Calvin and Desi started laughing, "This is my cat Rupert. He is half cat half kneazle you like?"
"Actually now that you mentioned it my familiar is due to hatch tonight." Harry said off-handedly.
"Familiar?" Both of them asked.
Calvin then continued, "Harry what do you mean by hatch?"
"What do you think I mean by hatch?"
Desi had a thoughtful look on her face and then commented, "Only reptiles hatch or chickens or birds. I highly doubt you brought a chicken. Hmm maybe a bird?"
Harry laughed, "No I already have an eagle, and it's a snake that is hatching tonight."
Calvin's eyes widened, "You have an eagle."
"Yes his name is Phantom." Harry said simply.
"Why the hell haven't I seen him in the dorm?"
Harry laughed, "He's invisible."
Calvin went red, "So you are just fucking with me Potter!"
Desi began to laugh along with Harry who even laughed harder, "God no, I'm being serious. My eagle has the ability to be invisible. The store manager thinks he's a crossbreed with a magical creature."
Calvin eyed his friend, "You are one strange, strange little man."
Desi ignored Calvin, "So you said your snake is hatching tonight?"
"Yah I put the egg on the fire 2 days ago so he should be hatching tonight." Harry told them , "Anyone want to watch her hatch tonight?"
"Fire!" Calvin exclaimed, "How the hell are you hiding fire in our dorm?"
"I cast a notice-me-not charm on the fire. Didn't you notice part of the room is warm than the rest." Harry smirked and then commented, "Well actually you wouldn't have. It is called a notice me not charm"
Calvin's mouth open and closed a few times and then stayed shut.
Desi smirked, "What kind of snake?"
"It 's a mix between an Ashwinder and a Fierce Snake. I'd call it a Fierce Ashwinder." Harry explained, "It's fire resistant and extremely poisonous."
Calvin's mouth opened again, "You are hatching a poisonous, fire resistant snake in our room?"
"It's going to be my familiar and I'll tell it not to bite."
Even Desi looked a little shocked at that response, "And what do you speak parseltounge or something?" She responded sarcastically.
Harry smirked, "As a matter-of-fact I am Lord Slytherin. "
Desi and Calvin started laughing, "Now we know you are fucking with us."
Harry rolled his eyes and began walking off. Before he left he said one thing, "If you want to know the truth be there tonight at 9 for the hatching. See you in class." He walked away from the breakfast table and left his two friends in shock.
Desi and Calvin exchanged looks, "Do you think he might actually be Lord Slytherin?" Desi asked.
"Well Harry has been full of surprises since I met him." Calvin said.
Desi raised an eyebrow, "Like what?"
"Did you know Harry is the head of an entire department at one of the most powerful law firms in the world and is paid two million dollars a month?" Calvin asked her.
"No shit?" She asked.
"No shit." Calvin responded.
That morning Harry walked to charms class alone and avoided Calvin during class. Harry sat away from Calvin and 'listened' to Professor Falhoun.
Professor Falhoun had decided to teach the class about using charms in everyday life. Harry was far from interested in learning about house cleaning charms or how to cook with magic. However the whole time that he was 'intently listening' to the Professor he was actually looking through a master book from Wolfram and Hart. The book he currently had linked as an advanced charms book. Harry stumbled upon a very hard, powerful charm called the fidelius charm. He quietly asked the book for a book on the charm in particular. The book slowly got thinner and became a 100 page guide to the fidelius.
Harry became immersed in the book until class ended. When the professor dismissed the class Harry did not rise from his seat.
"Potter I'd like to get to lunch can you finish whatever childish rubbish you are reading somewhere else." Falhoun said rather gruffly.
"Professor I'm reading a book dedicated to using the fidelius charm." Harry informed him in a matter-of-fact tone.
Falhoun's face changed quickly from confusion, to impressed, and then to worry, "You aren't considering doing that alone are you?"
"Well I am hoping to use it in the you-know-what."
Falhoun looked geniuinely confused, "No I don't know what Mr. Potter."
"The war is starting in battle magic class soon and I was hoping to utilize this spell." Harry informed him.
"No one your age can do that spell it requires extraordinary power." Falhoun told him.
Harry rolled his eyes and cast a silencing spell on the class room, "Swear an oath to not reveal what I'm about to tell you please."
Falhoun raised a brow, "Very well. I, Levi Falhoun, swear on my magic to not reveal any information Harry Potter tells whilst we are in this room today." Falhoun said and his wand glowed blue.
"I'm half demon." Harry said, "Is that enough power?"
Falhoun smirked, "Yes Mr. Potter I do believe it may be." He looked thoughtful and then asked, "Have you practiced the wand movement and incantation?"
"Yes Professor I have practiced I just haven't actually tried it. Plus I have to alter the words depending on what I'm hiding correct?" Harry said.
The professor nodded, "Smart of you lad, let us try it on a desk,"
Harry turned to an empty desk and took a deep breath. He quickly changed the phrase to work for a desk. He then took out his wand and began doing the motions. Swish, circular motion, flick, counter-clockwise circular motion, gouge, whip, clockwise circular motion, flick, swish, gouge. Harry told himself in his head while out loud he said, "Velieris is desk , planto is a specialis held me quod tantum mihi. Fidelitas"
Harry almost fell over from exhaustion. The spell had worked and the desk was no longer in the professors sight. Only Harry could see it.
The professor grabbed him quickly, "Well done for a first try. It will get easier with practice. Plus with practice you can move to bigger and better objects." The professor then added, "Although if you are going to fidelius your entire camp you should use some runes to build a circle first. The circle will encompass the entire camp and give you something to focus the spell on."
Harry smiled, "So how long until I can do the whole camp?"
"Well you do have a lot of raw power, most people your age would be in hospital for a week after trying that. Um, two questions 1: do you know how to tell someone where the desk is? 2: can you reverse the spell?" The Professor inquired.
Harry nodded, "I know how." He grabbed a pen and pencil and wrote down, The secret desk resides in the 3rd row of the 4th colum of Professor Falhoun's student desks. Then he handed Falhoun the paper. Falhoun smiled because the desk was now there.
"Now release the secret." The Professor told him.
Harry cleared his throat and said, "Ostendo sum meus specialis pro totus video vidi visum" He then laughed, "Too bad we don't know if it worked."
"What do you mean?" Falhoun asked.
"Well even if it didn't work both of us would see it. I guess if people start asking why there is an empty space in the middle of the class room we will know we have a problem." Harry smiled, "Thanks professor."
"No problem Mr. Potter. This was… enjoyable. I never get to teach students with the kind of power and intelligence you wield. If you decide you wish to practice anymore advanced charms just let me know. Now lunch time wouldn't you agree?" He laughed.
Harry left feeling tired but confident he could fidelius the base camp eventually. On his way to lunch he stopped by Lt. Sheppard's classroom.
The Lieutenant was in, "You forgot to stop by my room." He told Harry disapprovingly, "You forgot to tell me your one request and I had to post the list despite you not putting your request in."
Harry looked horrified and the Lieutenant started laughing, "The only list I posted was with the names of the generals on them. I haven't gotten any requests yet General. I'm simply teasing."
Relief flooded every inch of Harry's body, "My request is."
"Calvin Marx?" Lt. Sheppard asked and cut him off.
"Yes." Harry nodded.
The Lieutenant had a knowing look about him, "You know I have a good feeling about this war. Out of every first year war I've seen I think this one will be the most creative."
"I guarantee it will be creative." Harry said.
Lt. Sheppard nodded, "I'm expecting a lot from you General Potter. Don't disappoint. By the way would you like to see who you are competing against?"
Harry nodded eagerly and was handed a list with three names on it.
First Year Generals
Darrel, Daisy
Jamison, Kyle
Potter, Harry
"Thank you sir," Harry said.
"Good luck General Potter. By the way you may want to ask around about your competition. They aren't exactly uneducated." Lt. Sheppard informed him.
Harry left to eat lunch quickly and quietly. He was still avoiding Desi and Calvin. Next up was Dark Arts with Professor Golem *cough* Darrow.
"Welcome back to dark arts. Today we will be practicing how to time a curse." Professor Darrow began, "First of all when I say time I mean make it so that a curse will only begin working at a specific time."
He pointed at a rat in a cage, "Imagine this was a human man or an opponent. Now I know this opponent is not very important to me. They aren't particularly powerful. However I do know that when it leaves the battle field it will be returning to a group of other rats. So If I perform a curse and set a specific time I can perhaps get the curse to start when it reaches the other group of rats. Does anybody think they know why that may be a positive thing?"
Harry raised his hand, "If one casts a spell of insanity on its opponent and makes it only activate in say 5 hours when it will probably be at home then it will go insane on its family." Harry said. He secretly had a question just itching in the back of his head for Professor Darrow.
Harry waited until all the students were practicing timing a spell to ask Professor Darrow his question. "Hey professor I was wondering if there is a way to test if someone has a timed curse on them."
"Yes Mr. Potter or should I call you General Potter now?" The professor asked knowingly, "There is a way. I can't provide you with the answer; however, I've heard you have a magic book. You may want to ask that book for information on timed curses."
Harry nodded and understood the hint, "Thank you professor."
"And Mr. Potter before you do anything stupid like trying a dark curse on your own. Seek help." Professor Darrow told him, "Now I know you've mastered the curse timing. So I give you permission to leave the classroom. Good day Mr. Potter."
Harry looked at Professor Darrow in disbelief but simply nodded and walked out of the classroom. Harry walked to his dorm and called out, "Phantom!" The eagle appeared, "I have a letter I need you to take to Sarah. Understood?"
The eagle nodded.
"Good it is urgent and I'd prefer you weren't seen leaving. Make sure you stay there until you receive a reply from Sarah." The eagle cawed and stuck out his foot.
Harry quickly wrote down his letter and sent it with Phantom. Afterwards Harry headed down to his next class which was Defense Against the Dark Arts.
During DADA Harry and his class were taught about the difference between shield magic and permanent protection shields. Harry realized that the biggest problem with permanent spell work was that it required a larger supply of magic to work. Wizards didn't have that large of a supply until they were adults. Demons however were born with an extraordinarily large supply of magic. Like with wizards demonic magic supplies grew with the demon. So the older Harry got the more powerful he would get. Even now he would be capable of performing permanent magic. After DADA Harry had an hour of free time before dinner which he used for research.
Harry quickly discovered that Demonic Wizards were actually very rare. Demons and Wizards both had their own separate hidden worlds. The two worlds almost never crashed and therefore they never had half-demon half-wizard children. Harry was one of a hundred recorded demon wizards. Most demon wizards were hunted and killed from birth. He had a double core. Oh merlin! Harry thought to himself. My wand is a double core double wood wand to represent that my magic has a double core.
Harry's mind was filled with realizations of the power he held as he walked to dinner. He ate quickly at dinner and then headed upstairs to wait for his friends.
At exactly 9 o'clock that evening Desi and Calvin walked into the room. Harry took the notice-me-not charm off of the fire and it revealed to Desi and Calvin. Harry then cast a spell so no one could hear what they said from the outside. He then turned to his friends and raised his wand, "I, Harry James Potter, swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth until 10 o'clock tonight." His wand glowed black and then dimmed.
"Now I request," Harry started, "That you take oaths to not reveal what I tell you."
Both of them nodded and took their oaths.
Harry then said, "I am the head of Slytherin, Black, Potter, Fay, and Maeve."
Both of his friends eyes bulged. "That's amazing." Desi added.
"Yes I know… we aren't entirely sure how it happened. But I know the Maeve line comes from my demon blood."
"Demon blood?" They both exclaimed.
Harry blushed, "I suppose I should have said that earlier. I am descended from the Kaen demons. I'm one of the few half-wizards half-demons in the world."
Calvin asked, "So do you actually have an invisible eagle?"
"Yes but I sent Phantom to deliver a letter before DADA. " Harry told them.
The conversation continued like this for hours. Harry told them everything he thought they should know including the prophecy that he must kill Voldemort. However Harry left out the part of killing Dumbledore. He didn't think they would necessarily approve.
A quarter till 10 a crack could be heard and all of their heads snapped towards the fire with the red egg.
A red and black scaled head popped out of the egg. It's shell shattered within seconds and the 2 inch snake slithered out of the fire. It hissed, "Where iss my mother?"
Harry responded, "I am your master. Your mother gave me your egg. My name is Harry."
"Harry." The snake hissed, "Who am I?"
"You are Melinda, my dark serpent." Harry responded, "Or Mel for short."
Calvin and Desi looked at the exchange with a mix of curiosity and fear. On one hand their friend seemed to be communicating with it on the other hand it was an extremely poisonous snake.
Harry offered his hand to the snake, "Will you be my familiar?"
"Of courssse, Massster." Melinda responded and touched the end of her tail to his hand. A dark red glow appeared.
"She has accepted herself as my familiar." Harry informed them, "She is now my snake."
His friends looked relieved and Desi finally spoke, "I think I should head to my dorms to sleep."
Calvin raised a brow at Harry questioningly, "Will she bite me?"
Harry turned to Melinda, "Do not bite either of them. Understand?"
"Of courssse massster." The snake responded
"She will not bite you." Harry told him, "Let us go to sleep..." Harry trailed off muttering about the fidelius spell and being tired.
Melinda wrapped around Harry's arm and they went to bed.
A/N: What do you guys like so far? What do you hate? Anybody think they know how Harry will act in the war?
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