Fred'S POV
As they were waiting in the grand hall for the firsties to come and get sorted, Fred's mind kept going back to the summer and their store.
The store was everything they had ever wished for.
It was successful, innovative and made people have fun, yet Fred couldn't help but feel hurt about their family, except their father, nor coming once to visit.
Sure, all of them sent letters, with Bill and Charlie congratulating them and explaining they will come when they return to Britain in a month or so, Ron and Ginny explained they were staying in an undisclosed location for protection against the 'dark side' and that their mother doesn't allow them to go out, and even Percy sending them a letter telling them how proud he is with them, something that might have warmed their heart more then all the others, as Percy was never proud about them, before reading the rest of the letter and understanding he is proud they left the family and not supporting Dumbledore in his statement about the return of 'You know who', which made them burn the letter.
Their mother, of course, sent many letters demanding their return, all of which but the first was ignored, with the first asking their mother to accept the situation and come see how great Wonder Alley is.
The entry of the new students snapped Fred out of his thoughts, and then the hat started singing.
Here I go!
Unh, ooh, woo!
Back up! Uh-oh! Watch out! Unh!
You done wound me up!
Boutta show you what I'm workin' with, unh!
Well, you managed to reach Hogwarts,
It means you have magic in you
But, before, you learn any spell a sorting I must do
You got a hat in your head now
One that will look deep in you
You got ambition, courage, loyalty, or mind?
All you gotta do is put the hat
And then I'll say
"Mr. - Man, what's your name? Whatever -
What will your house be?
Let me choose for you, you won't regret"
You ain't never seen a hat like me
This choice will be life changing
A decision for 7 years
Come, whisper to me whatever it is you want
You ain't never seen a hat like me...
Fred held his laughter, looking at his twin who has apparently also recognized the song as 'a friend like me' from one of the movies they watched with Harry and Luna- Aladdin.
The thought of Harry and Luna brought a frown to Fred's face.
It was clear as day that Luna is head over heels for Harry, and that Harry also has feelings toward her, but each of them seem to wait for the other person to do the first move. Up until now, the twins decided to stay out of it, believing that they will eventually be together, but last night it changed.
They were at Harry's apartment, when he came back with an Asian woman in toe.
He introduced her as Nagini, telling them about her unfortunate circ. and her need for a place tonight.
Now, Fred did feel sorry for her, being stuck for years as a snake must have been a nightmare, and of course he felt proud his honorably little brother was willing to let her sleep in his place, especially after letting the two of them stay for the summer, but that doesn't mean he liked what he saw when he looked at Nagini's eyes as she looked at Harry.
He saw more then just affection one should have as a friend, and more then just thankfulness, he saw something he recognized because he saw it in his baby sister's eyes whenever she looked at Marcus Potter- Hero worship.
It wasn't in the same intensity his baby sister seem to have, one that grew with their mother telling her bed time stories about him, and from the chamber of secrets fiasco, but it had the same glint both Fred and George spent the last two years trying and failing to destroy in their sister.
If that wasn't enough, when Fred and George found Luna at the train and talked to her about everything Harry told them, she looked like she guessed it already.
Afterward, Fred and George had a talk that ended in a decision that the pranking they promised Harry last year be about trying to pull the two of them together.
The sorting was finally over, and the food appeared.
As they ate and talked with their friends about the summer and Wonder Alley, Fred finally pushed his plans for the future away as he enjoyed the meal with everyone.
HARRY'S POV
Just like last year, Harry decided against going to school with the train, instead using the vanishing cabinet in his house, though this time it was because it wasn't practical to go in the train as he not only had an extra person with him as they found out after the night, in which Nagini slept on the couch, that a side affect of the ritual and his magic being permanently in her, was her discomfort in being away from him, so it was decided that until they find a solution she will stay human whenever they were alone or with only people that know, and the rest of the time she would stay in snake form.
Yet, because he knew about the Hogwarts wards identifying people when they walk through the castle gates, going through the vanishing cabinet was a way to avoid as such.
The other reason he decided to come early, was to enact his plan.
Walking through Hogwarts with GAI in his ear, he quickly found the office where Umbridge is, coming in quickly, Harry casted an 'Imperio' before the woman had a chance at noticing him even if he was disillusioned.
"Open your mind, relax, let the peacefulness and happiness take you." He ordered. With the difficulty in resisting the curse being difficult when unprepared, the feelings it being being addictive, the need to listen to the caster is already hard enough when he asks you to do something You done want to do, telling you to do something you want, like keep being in that state and not resist is much harder.
But Harry had no intention keeping the woman in this state for long, as it takes too much energy, nor make her like Remus as he doesn't have the time nor need to manage someone as problematic as her, and unless he plans to delete everything about her that makes her herself, it is impossible to delete the things that make the woman that much problematic.
Instead he planed to keep her under the spell enough to go through her mind and do some changes, not a lot, but enough for the woman to actually cause damage to Dumbledore's reputation instead of helping him.
It took an hour for the changes to be complete.
The most important changes was in her way of thinking, where instead of just focusing on harming the headmaster's reputation, she now also focus on the children's education.
Another one big change was inserting the knowledge about the magical phones and make her think it is a ministry approved product.
The rest of the changes were about giving her the necessary knowledge to actually teach the students.
"Now Dolores," he said. "Open your floo network and take me to the minister."
He now needs to do some changes to Fudge.
Arriving to his office together with Umbridge, he quickly had the man under the same spell before doing almost the same as he did to Umbridge only making him think more positively about Wonder Alley.
Coming back to Umbridge's office, he canceled the spell before leaving it, preparing for the meal.
"Well, now that we are all digesting another magnificent feast, I beg a few moments of your attention for the usual start-of-term notices," said Dumbledore, launching his yearly speech about the forest and Mr Flich, before telling about the new teachers.
"We have had two changes in staffing this year. We are very pleased to welcome back Professor Grubbly-Plank, who will be taking Care of Magical Creatures lessons; we are also delighted to introduce Professor Umbridge, our new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher."
He was trying to continue when, now Professor, Umbridge cleared her throat.
"Thank you, Headmaster," Professor Umbridge said, "for those kind words of welcome."
"Well, it is lovely to be back at Hogwarts, I must say!" She smiled, revealing very pointed teeth.
"I am very much looking forward to getting to know you all and I'm sure we'll have so much fun exploring the wonders of magic together."
Harry could see people looking interested in her words, which is better then her intended speech about friendship.
"The Ministry of Magic has always considered the education of young witches and wizards to be of vital importance. The rare gifts with which you were born may come to nothing if not nurtured and honed by careful instruction. The ancient skills unique to the wizarding community must be passed down the generations lest we lose them for ever. The treasure trove of magical knowledge amassed by our ancestors must be guarded, replenished and polished by those who have been called to the noble profession of teaching, something that in recent years seemed to be to be done incorrectly."
The entire school seemed to gasp.
It is one thing to imply the headmaster does bad job in the school and another to outright say it.
The DADA Professor didn't seem to notice that as she continued.
"According to a research our ministry conducted, the last 40 years of OWLs and NEWT grades has reached an all times low!"
Hearing that, whispers started spread around the students.
The Professor waited until they calmed down before continuing.
"Of course, when the minister found that out he decided to send me here to not only check what is the reason and to teach you all, but to also have this year's student body become the first ever to use the new wands our ministry has worked on for the past five years." She took out a magical phone.
"We call this thing a 'casting assisting devices' or CADs, those devices work just like wands, except instead of wand moment you put numbers inside, making mistakes made by the trembling of hand eliminated." She looked at the shock of the students with a smile before continuing.
"In addition, after casting a spell once, it is 'saved' on the device, making it so that by calling out loud the name of the magic, having the right intent, and putting inside the necessary magical energy will be enough to cast it." The shock was even more pronounced in the students, but Harry saw it is even more so in the teachers.
Each Professor seemed to have a different feelings about it.
Dumbeledore's face seemed to change from its original interested look to a pale horror as he seemed to realize the meaning that carried.
Professor Snape was looking toward him with a knowing look.
Professor McGonagle seemed to complement the meaning of it.
Yet the one that made him smile the most was the excited expression his charm Professor seemed to have, as he seemed to understand a new era of magic is about to start.
"So once more," Professor Umbridge said "let's explore the limits of magic!"
This time the entire castle except a few cheered.
ALBUS' POV
DUMBLEDORE LEADS SCHOOL TO RUIN.
By Rita Skeeter
With a new school year came a new DADA Professor, this time in the form of madam Umbridge, who, as she said in her opening speech, has a goal in coming to school.
"According to a research our ministry conducted, the last 40 years of OWLs and NEWT grades has reached an all times low!" She said, shocking everyone that listened to the speech, this reporter included.
While it is obvious from my past articles that I have no lost love to the school's headmaster and am dissatisfied with his work as the chief Warlock and Supreme Mugwump, even I never said anything bad about his job as headmaster which I thought to be impeccable.
Dumbledore is well known as one of the most beloved headmaster of the school, but could it be that even as beloved as he is, he is also incompetent?
Could it be that the three jobs he has made it so he can't do his best in even one of them?
Turn to page 6 to find more
A NEW GENERATION OF SPELL CASTING
By Arnold Rollerblitsky
For the last 2000 years wands have been the best way of spell casting, and have seemingly been perfected, yet yesterday, Madam Umbridge, the new Professor of DADA in Hogwarts and the minister announced that it is no more so.
A new magic conduct by the name of Casting Assisting Device or CAD have been in production by an undisclosed person who the minister sponsored for the past ten years.
When asked why create a new kind of wand, the minister answered.
"Just like how wands, brooms and other essential every day objects that were created to make the magical people's life easier, CADs are also for the betterment of the magical people."
To read more about CADs, the way they works and where can we buy them turn to page 14.
As he was reading the paper, Albus only had one question on his mind.
'Where did it all went wrong.'
The plan was simple.
1) Get Tom a new body, so that people would have a common enemy.
2) Make sure the ministry doesn't believe it, and try to convince the entire country with it being false.
3) Have the ministry do their best to tarnish his name, yet only create dislike for them in the people.
4) Show the world that Tom is alive and that he is the only one that can lead them in this dark time.
5) Have Marcus defeat Voldemort with his help, even better if Marcus actually die during it, making the people faith in him reach the peak.
6) Become a god
The first two parts worked as planed, it was the third that seemed to drift away.
The minister does as expected, sending a ministry worker to teach in Hogwarts while having the Daily Prophet tell lies about him, and even as his power weakened, he knew it is only a matter of time before it grew to the size it was just after his fight with his lover, yet it only took one speech he wasn't prepared for to throw his plans to chaos.
It started as he expected it.
He knew Dolores would make a speech about the loneliness of being back to school to look like she is a nice teacher while insulting him thinly, what he didn't expect is for her to throw all pretense.
Telling the students about things he want aware the ministry noticed, like the grades being lower and lower, how did they know?
Of course he knew, it was his original plan after all, putting a boring man and then boring ghost as the history Professor, have the potion Professor teach poorly, even the curse on the DADA position was all him.
You can't look like an all knowing, all powerful being if every one can do what you can.
Taking away the importance of history was the easiest, with it being the only non-magical subject in school, and with an expert on the Goblin wars as a teacher, it slowly lost the importance it had, making it easy to look all knowing when other people only knew about the wars.
The next was the DADA position, by making sure non of the teachers stay for more then a year, and with even those teachers were almost always incompetent, he managed to create instability in the knowledge people had on the dark arts and the defenses against them, thus creating generations of people that don't know enough about the subject.
Divination was another project He did, by adding it to the school curriculum with a person who only had the bloodline and not the knowledge, he made sure people didn't know about the subject.
Having Hagrid teach COMC was another one he did, as his inability to understand appropriate animals based of age made it so students were unwilling to study the subject more then necessary.
Even potions, by convincing Severus to teach the bare minimum of the theory behind potions, created a situation that people can't do much of it on their own.
And now he felt his house of cards begin falling apart.
He already figured the ministry would try to kick some teachers out, but he thought it would only be those loyal to him, now it seemed like they are about to transform the entire school.
And the thing that made all of this even worse were the CADs.
If those things worked as they are supposed to, then classes that were dedicated to wand movements would change to focus on theory, hours of practicing a spell would be become a single time of casting something before saving it and just saying the spell when needed, all of this would lead for the last thing he wanted, change.
If it continues like that, he would need to speed his plans to reveal Tom's return.
HARRY'S POV
The next day's morning classes passed by with Harry listening to books about quantum mechanics while the professors each talked about the importance of this year before giving an assignment for the class and homework, something ever since he built created GAI he had the AI do.
And during the times he used the time turned for, he was in the ROR working on the project he worked on for the past year- the Fidelius charm.
His progress with the charm seemed to grow ever since he learned about the differences between personal spiritual realm and the world's spiritual realm.
In fact, his understanding on how the charm worked finally reached completion.
The charm uses the keeper's spiritual realm as a trap for the knowledge in hides while using the caster's magic to collect the knowledge in first place.
The reason it didn't affect Luna is because of the ritual her mother did, making her eyes capable of seeing into the spiritual realm without the use of outside magic, by doing so, it made her capable of seeing the general magical energy that collect the information and resist it, which is also why when he pointed it out and made the magical energy attack Luna specifically, it hurt her when she resisted, because the power of the charm was able to overwhelm her resistance.
If Harry wanted to be immune to the charm, he either need to disconnect his spiritual realm from the world, or become powerful enough while gaining the ability to see magic to resist it.
For now he works on the blocking, as he needs it to cure Lycanthropy.
It was during the afternoon classes that the class he waited for took place - DADA.
"Well, good afternoon!" Professor Umbridge said, when finally the whole class had sat down.
A few people mumbled 'good afternoon' in reply.
"Tut, tut," said Professor Umbridge. "That won't do, now, will it? You should have energy, we are about to be a group that changes history! I want every one to replay with energy 'Good afternoon, Professor Umbridge.' One more time, please. Good afternoon, class!"
"Good afternoon, Professor Umbridge," they chanted back at her.
"There, now,'" said Professor Umbridge sweetly. "That wasn't too difficult, was it? Wands away and quills out, please."
Many of the class exchanged gloomy looks, the order 'wands away' had never yet been followed by a lesson they had found interesting.
"Don't give me that look," Professor Umbridge said "as I said in the welcoming feast, your education on the subject till now was full with idiots, half-breeds and Death Eaters teaching you, I have to assume your knowledge is basically wrong and start from the beginning, which means this year will be divided to two- the first half would be theoretical and the second practical." The look of horror on many of the students faces made her chuckle. "Don't worry, if I see the progress is better then thought, I will pull forward practical lessons."
Professor Umbridge opened her handbag, extracted her own CAD and pushed the number one while aiming it to the the blackboard, words appeared on the board at once:
Defence Against the Dark Arts
A Return to Basic Principles.
"Now, as I said, your teaching in this subject has been rather disrupted and fragmented, hasn't it? The constant changing of teachers, many of whom do not seem to have followed any Ministry-approved curriculum, has unfortunately resulted in your being far below the standard we would expect to see in your OWL year."
The students seemed still down with their knowledge about not using magic in class.
"Has everybody got a copy of Defensive Magical Theory by Wilbert Slinkhard?"
There was a dull murmur of assent throughout the class.
"Great, those books are about what should you do when you are in situations which aren't life or death. It is the book in which the ministry believes first years should learn, reading the first 5 chapters will be what you would do and to do a paper on them will be your work for today's class."
Everyone groaned but started to read with the exception of Granger who raised her hand.
"Do you not have a book dear?" Professor Umbridge said.
"No I have the book," said Granger.
"Well, we're reading just now," said Professor Umbridge, showing her small pointed teeth. "If you have other queries we can deal with them at the end of class."
"I've got a query about your course aims," said Granger.
Professor Umbridge raised her eyebrows.
"And your name is?"
"Hermione Granger," said Hermione.
"Well, Miss Granger, the course aim is to make sure you excel your OWLs, I thought it was obvious."
"Well, it's not, your course seemed to focus on the theoretical while ignoring the practical side of magic."
"No," Professor umbrage sounded annoyed by the accusation, "it focus on the theoretical until I know you have enough knowledge to be able to use jinxes without killing someone."
"Well," Granger said "What about using defensive spells?"
"Using defensive spells?" Professor umbrage said "Protego was supposed to be taught to you last year, which means I will hopefully teach it to you before the end of the year if you keep interrupt the class."
"But what if we need it sooner?"
"Why would you need to use it?"
"Surely the whole point of Defence Against the Dark Arts is to practise defensive spells?"
"Yes, and if you had any competent teachers before me I would have been able to focus on this year's material before moving into interesting things like teaching you how to use the CADs."
"But if we're going to be attacked, we can't not know-" Marcus started talking
"Mr Potter, in my class you raise a hand!"
Marcus raised his hand but the Professor seemed to ignore him while allowing another to talk.
"And your name is?"
"Dean Thomas."
"Well, Mr Thomas?"
"Well, it's like Marcus said, isn't it?" said Dean Thomas. "If we're going to be attacked, it won't be risk free."
"Which is why you need to know the basics, but even if you didn't, I can promise you there is no reason to be afraid, unlike what your past incompetent, idiotic and half-breed teachers might have made you feel you, there is no danger."
"If you mean Professor Lupin,' piped up Dean Thomas angrily, 'he was the best we ever -"
"Hand, Mr Thomas! But, as you said, Rumus Lupin was the best teacher you had, something that should make you all understand how deeply wrong the situation is."
When she saw the students didn't seem to agree she said.
"Let's talk about your past teachers.
In your first year you had a mumbling idiot who brought a troll into school and then fainted in the grand hall after lying where it was, your second year's teacher was an idiotic liar who stole other people's achievements and someone I'm sure most of you knew he was fake by the end of your first class, your third year you had a werewolf who couldn't remember to take his potion and didn't teach you about werewolves so non of you will find his secret, and your last year's teacher caused greater damage then all the previous ones by casting an unforgivable on you, now, can you tell me why should I believe any of them taught you properly? Why should I teach any of your magic that can harm anyone? Not to mention my job isn't to make you know how to defend yourself, but pass the exam successfully, that's what school is about, and for that we need theoretical knowledge! And your name is?" she added, turning to Parvati Patil, whose hand had just shot up
"Parvati Patil, and isn't there a practical bit in our Defence Against the Dark Arts OWL? Aren't we supposed to show that we can actually do the counter-curses and things?"
Professor Umbridge rubbed her forehead and sighed.
"Is it something about Gryffindors? I don't remember asking stupid questions as a Hufflepuff, nor do I see any Slytherin do the same." Parvati Patil seemed to shrink in spot.
"As I said, the faster we move on the theoretical lessons, the faster we arrive to the practicals."
"And what good's theory going to be in the real world?" Mucus asked.
"5 points from Gryffindor for talking without permission Mr Potter, as for your question, as stupid as it is, a lot. How do you expect to get a job in anything without sufficient knowledge?"
"So we're not supposed to be prepared for what's waiting for us out there?"
"That's what we do mr Potter, we prepare you to get a job. and 10 points from Gryffindor for not raising your hand."
"But what about preparing for attacks?"
"Who do you imagine wants to attack children like yourselves? And 15 points for never raising your hand."
"Hmm, let's think . . ." said Marcus in a mock thoughtful voice. "Maybe . . . Lord Voldemort?"
The entire class seemed to gasp together, with a few screaming in fear.
"Detention, mr Potter, for creating chaos in my class."
The classroom was silent and still. Everyone was staring at either Umbridge or Marcus.
"Now, let me make a few things quite clear."
Professor Umbridge stood up and leaned towards them, her stubby-fingered hands splayed on her desk.
"In my class, your political agendas has no place, whether you want to lie about the return of a dead wizard, or-"
"He wasn't dead," said Marcus angrily, "but yeah, he's returned!"
"Another Detention. As I was saying before being rudely interrupted, this isn't a place for political maneuvers, this is a class to study, and study we shall! No more questions! Do your reading until chapter 3 instead of 5."
With that everyone returned to their book.
With the exception of Harry, who used the time to write the essay on the 5 chapters and now listen one more to quantum mechanics under a notice me not charm.
HARRY'S POV
After the afternoon classes were done Harry went back to the ROR just in time to meet with Luna, something he has been impatient for, as he needed to talk about the affects of the ritual.
"So...what didn't you want to say near the Greengrass about the side affects of the ritual?" He asked, Nagini sitting near, listening as well.
"Well..." Luna said, looking as Nagini as if she doesn't want to say anything near her to which Harry quickly reassured her.
"Don't worry, we had made an unbreakable oath yesterday that she can't use anything she learns from us against us nor can she tell anyone."
Hearing that, Luna seemed relieved.
"Well, Nagini's aura seems to gain your colors."
"What exactly do you mean?" Harry asked. "She gained some purple? Yellow? Blue?"
"No, so you remember how I told you your aura, when Occlumency shields aren't present, is constantly changing?" He nodded at that understanding filled his eyes. "Her aura's colors reflect on yours."
"What could it mean?" Nagini asked, not mentioning anything about the all aura seeing thing, though he was sure she will have questions later.
"I don't know!" Luna said "Auras usually show people's deep emotions, with Harry being the exception as it shows all his emotions. It shouldn't be possible to be shared between people, at least I have never saw two people share them."
"Not even the twins?" Harry asked, to which she shook her head.
"No, the twin's bond is more like primitive version of our magic earrings, they can send thoughts and emotions through them, but only on the short distance."
"While in this situation it is only emotions." Harry said in thoughts before turning to Nagini. "Do you know what I feel right now?" Nagini shook her head at that.
"So it's not empathy, at least not conscious one. How do you feel right now?"
"I'm still happy to have my human body again, though I fear what could the consequences be." Nagini answered truthfully.
"So not subconscious empathy either." Luna hummed in thought, clearly seeing the colors of Harry's aura in whatever color curiosity is.
Harry tried to think what kind of magic he read about that connect two people together, whether it's in the books of this world or the fanfictions of the other.
It was clearly a type of magic that affected her spiritual world, or as many call it, her soul.
It's current known side affects are Nagini's need to be close to him and her aura mirroring his.
Could it be a magical soul bond?
He knew those things are real, if only because after understanding how people's belief affects the spiritual world, but those things take time to be created, as the relationship You are in makes you create them by unconsciously tapping into your magic.
It is the reason why most magical people have only one serious relationship.
But those type of bonds create an affect on both sides of the relationship, not to mention Luna said she never saw this kind of affect in another human being.
'Another human being!'
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"Luna! You said you never saw this thing on another person, did you see it on animals?" His eccentric friend thought for a little bit before saying with her dreamy eyes gone as she understood "Yes, I saw it in people's pets."
"Did you just called me a pet?" Nagini asked enraged.
"Calm down!" Harry said, and he could see his words affecting her. "She didn't mean it like that, she meant familiar."
Those words do nothing to calm Nagini, though it did seem harder for her to get angry.
"I'm a human being." She hissed "I can't be a familiar!"
"That is interesting." Harry said "You were born to a human parents, and you do have the mind of a human, but your original body is snake, and you spent years in that form with even your spiritual body taking that shape, with all of that, can you honestly tell me you aren't a snake at all?"
Nagini said nothing, instead she gave glares to Harry and Luna, with the glares at Harry being somewhat weaker.
"The problem is that this familiar bond, with lack of better terms, is related to your animagus form, and if I were to make any ritual to extract my magical energy from you it can unravel your human form at best, and at worst your mind, isn't that correct Luna?"
Luna gave a grave nod.
"Yes, the colors don't look like a 'familiar bond' at the start of it, but more like in the middle when they are inseparable, if I remember correctly from a book I read, it is when the bond reaches its advanced stage when the familiar starts to be able to predict its owner's needs."
"I don't have an owner!" Nagini said venomously.
"I didn't say you did." Luna said with hands up in surrender. "Only explained what happens in a familiar bond according to the books I read."
"Well, this ain't it! I just got my humanity back, I'm not becoming a familiar to anyone."
"You don't seem to have a choice in it!"
While they argued, Harry had GAI read him quickly everything they had about the 'familiar bond', and found a way to father validate their hypothesis- in the beginning stage of the bond you need to keep your familiar close to you as to let the bond deepen, yet in the middle stage of the bond the familiar seems to cling onto you as much as possible, it is only in the late stages that the need to be close lessens, though it will never disappear.
"Well, whether it's familiar bond or something else, right now we need to decide what's going to happen to you Nagini." He said.
"What do you mean? We agreed I will stay with you." Nagini said.
"Yes, but with the exception of meeting for experiments and check ups, I don't seem to see a need for you to be here all the time instead of letting you have your fun in the world."
"But I can't leave you for longer then a few hours, we tried that!" Nagini said, clearly distressed.
"We can try letting you little by little grow used to more and more time without me." Harry said.
"No! I can't!" She said shaking her head "I will spend my time here as a human and outside as a snake next to you!."
"But don't you want your freedom?" Harry asked, now almost certain the ritual created a familiar bond.
"Freedom is to decide things on my own, and I am not willing to leave your side and suffer the discomfort it brings, as for the owner and familiar shit? I don't believe that's the thing that happen here."
Harry could see Luna frown at that, looking displeased with the outcome, but unwilling to say something about it.
"Well then, until we have a way to undo the discomfort, the only thing we can do is continue with our life."
At the two nods he changed the subject.
"So Luna, does you finish homework?"
HARRY'S POV
It's interesting to see how messing with someone's mind affect their behavior.
Even with the changes Harry put in Umbridge's mind, making her a competent teacher, and someone who doesn't bring political opinions into the classroom, it didn't change anything outside of it.
In fact, the same evening, when Marcus got to Detention, she was waiting for him with the blood quill, yet there were changes when she had him write 'I shall know my betters' instead of 'I shall tell no lies'.
Of course, the second Marcus left the room Harry made sure by confuding the woman that she won't use it on any other student, but it was interesting to see how the quill was enchanted with not only the cutting properties but also with making the person who use it unwilling to tell anyone about it.
If that wasn't enough, the next week a new law came out making the DADA Professor the 'High Inquisitor at Hogwarts', something he actually has been waiting for since his first year, and the very day the law came out Harry made sure to direct her to the people that needed to be changed the most- Binns, Lily Potter and Trelawney.
And the next month was spent with Umbridge in various classes.
Meanwhile that happened, Harry was busy on his own.
The first thing that kept Harry occupied was Nagini's constant need to be close, something that seem to calm and energize him.
It was only when Luna told him how his and Nagini's auras seem to combine sometimes that he understood the affect of the familiar bond seem to go both ways, making both of them desire the other person's company.
It should have bothered him.
The way magic seem to affect his mind.
But he could feel the changes it had on him were positive.
It not only had him think clearer, a little bit like when he had the Occlumency suppressing his emotions but instead of suppressing them he just had an outlet for them, it had also let him connect better to the spiritual realm, strengthening the spiritual side of his magic.
It didn't grew his magical energies, but just like studying, it lowered the requirements of needed magical energy to preform magic and improved his ability in blacksmithing, making him only a step away from the third stage.
It was for that reasons, that instead of trying to learn of a way to untangle his magic from Nagini's mind, Harry decided to focus more on other things, and he had many projects to work on.
His work on the Fidelius charm finally reached a point where Harry needed to start working on creating a space that repels the world's spiritual realm, something that was difficult, but he started making ways by using Occlumency as blueprint for the product.
With his knowledge of four ways of Occlumency, it took him a while to decide which he should use, but in the end he chose the Greangrass', as it was the only one that combined spiritual and physical magic.
The thing is, only Occlumency filled object wasn't enough, if it was He would have finished it already.
He also needed the object to be able to expand and most importantly, contain the meaning of the Fidelius charm.
The main problem with using those three together was was that the expansion magic seemed to interfere with the object's ability to keep the Occlumency shield up.
Another thing he did was opening a few self-sustained magical gardens in wonder alley to create his own supplies for the future potions store.
And, of course, he also practiced music with his friends, and tonight will be the performance.
"Hello everyone!" Tom said in the middle of dinner.
"I hope you missed us, cause we missed you all!" The applause was deafening.
"What a crazy year have we had! The tournament, the apparent return of the dark lord, the realization the headmaster is a lunatic, wonder alley, CADs, and of course, Umbridge.
I'm sure not only I am confused by all of this, which is why, our band decided to use this year's songs to explain things to you- and this year's first song will be to explain, if the headmaster is correct and way is upon us, who is the dark lord, who is the headmaster, and who are the Death Eaters, we hope you enjoy." With a bow, the music began.
(TOM)
Voldemort is here
My daddy told me when I was younger,
"You are just a big mistake."
He left me stranded in an orphanage
To hurt my friends and talk to snakes
(Taking his nose off, eyes red, and his skin becomes white he continue to sing)
There's nothing wrong with loving who you are
So I accepted evil in my veins
I split my soul up into seven parts
To put the mudbloods all in chains
You'd better kneel down and pray
'Cause Voldy's seizing the day
I've made a comeback, baby, and I'm born to slay
All of you muggles are swine
I've got no nose but I'm fine
I am the dark lord, baby, and I'm born to slay
Welcome to the darker day
Neville, Ron, Hermione
Marcus I was born to slay
I will make that Potter pay
Voldemort is here to stay
I am the dark lord baby and I'm born to slay
Then the singer changed to Bella with Tom in his Voldemort form taking the drums as the music changes
(BELLA)
I started as a black and married to Lastrange
In Slytherin, i was sorted, everybody called me strange
But now I'm running Death eaters 'cause I'm monstrous
I curse all the good guys asking
"Why so serious?"
Can't read my, can't read my
No they can't read my troubled mind
'Cause I'm a psychopathic killer
Can't read my, can't read my
No they can't read my troubled mind
I will even kill my own husband
Bella taking Severus's spot and he start singing as once more the music changes.
(SEVERUS)
Lily evens and Patunia, I'm wearing black robes
I'm wearing black robes
My name is Snape and I'll spy on you all,
I'm a teach and I wear black robes
I am the potion master and I'll never be loved
I'm his spy and I wear black robes
Lily Evens
I'm wearing black robes
Yeah
Once more the music changes as Lucius start singing
(LUCIUS)
The muggle hunter's here
Yeah, I'm smelling the fear
Some may call me cruel but it was taught it in this school
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Now I'm not a real bad man
You're dead unless you don't annoy me
'Cause I'm a, I'm a Malfoy
Now I'm a master mind, I won't stop until those muggles have died
I'm the dark lord's man
I killed a girl named Anne
Can't stop me
'Cause I'm a, I'm a Malfoy.
The music changes again as Lucius disappear and in his place Dumbledore appears.
(DUMBLEDORE)
Yo
I got a thing for forgiving guys
I'm too distracted by their cries
I could have prevented war but I'm sticking to the plan
I'm staying light and looking good
'Cause I got big plans, gonna be okay
Big big plan plans
Got big plans don't get in my way
I got big plans
Got big plans I'll blow you away
Big big plan plans
Got big plans
Got-got-got some plans
(EVERYBODY)
This is the our Villain Medley
Harry saw that since the beginning of the song the headmaster was trying to prevent it from happening but he couldn't as Harry made sure the power GAI sent into the illusions was way stronger then the headmaster.
He kind of felt bad for Snape, but he had to admit, this entire thing was one of their best songs.
LUNA'S POV
While the twins had gone to do paperwork and meet their brothers, Luna and Harry went to the bookstore.
As one of the newest additions to Wonder Alley, the bookstore 'Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Book' worked differently then Flourish and Blotts.
Instead of selling new books they bought used books after making sure they aren't ruined in any form and gave store credits for every book you brought in, with the rate the book, the more stoor points earned.
Even in this store everything is automatic, with a place that take used books and check if they can be cleansed with every interference and if so does it, the books are being sent to their appropriate location in the store, which once more can be bought by sending store credits from the new 'credit card' Harry created.
This 'credit card' can actually be used in every store in Wonder Alley as long as you charge it with money in one of the stores.
What most people don't know is that every book is scanned and if it has something the virtual library Harry has don't have which it is being added, with notes inside being sent to checking.
Harry gave her a mirror book already and she used it all the time, but for readings that aren't interactive but for fun she prefers a hard-cover, paper-filled, old-fashion book, which is why they came here.
It was fun hanging with Harry alone, something she couldn't do since Nagini joined them as Nagini was whenever possible near Harry.
But today it was just her and Harry, walking around shops and having fun, like a date, maybe she will even gather the courage to kiss him.
"Have you read this?" Luna asked, showing Harry a story book by the name 'the first wizard's rule'.
"No, what's this about?"
"I don't know, it seem to be a muggle story book about magic."
"Oh, if it's good tell me, I need a good story."
"Sure!" Luna said happily as they moved toward the exit.
After paying they went to the free card dual field for a few games before the twins told them that they need to go back to meet a few people and asked if they would like to join them.
Before Luna could say that she would rather hang out with Harry alone Harry looked at his watch and said "Actually I have a meeting in a muggle university in an hour, so I can't, but maybe Luna want to." The understanding that Harry wouldn't spend the day with her caused a sinking feeling to happen in her gut, something that apparently was being seen on her face as Harry asked. "Luna? Are you okey? Is something wrong?"
She could have yelled, tell him it feels like he never think about her! That this was supposed to be their day! She could have, but instead she smiled and said "I would love to come with you to your meeting."
She could see the story didn't disappear from Harry's face so she added "I'm fine, just hungry." A slow nod from Harry and a few goodbyes later and they left, apparating to Hogsmeade.
HARRY'S POV
Harry felt something wasn't right with Luna's expression as the twins and her left but he couldn't give up his plans for the day.
With his research for the cure of lycanthropy underway and the main problem of its 'impossible to heal' status being finished two days ago and out of the way, the curing came to the experimenting state- is it possible to completely cure someone from this? Give people control of the beast? Making it not infectious? Or even give them the ability to change not under a full moon?
The blood curse was easy to cure as it was unknown to most people and those that knew about it didn't believe in anything about it as they didn't have enough information. Werwolves, on the other hand, are based on so many believes that he wasn't even sure how much of their abilities are based solely on the belief and how much is their own physical and spiritual abilities.
The problem is that he only had one werewolf to study till this point, but that has changed last night, when 'Voldemort' charged his Death Eaters to raid the werewolves colonies around Britain and make all of them prisoners.
It may not be ethical, but this will change the world, and he won't hurt the innocents, most of the extreme experimentations will be done in criminals like Grayback.
Of course, the SWOR - Spiritual World Offing Room (He wanted to call it SWORD but had no need for D) a cube that cane enlarge itself to the size of a medium size room is only at its prototype stage, so even that will need experimentations, and that's what Harry is going to do today, use evil werwolves to check how safe is the SWOR.
"Dobby" he called and Dobby appeared. "Take me to the dungeons of the Malfoy mansion." And with a POP they disappeared.
LUCIUS'S POV
Having the Dark Lord back was a lot less headache inducing then Lucius thought it would be.
Sure, he once again had to fear for his son's life and had to bow for the monster who destroyed the pureblood of Britain more then anyone else, making it impossible for his great grandchildren to marry a pureblood who isn't a third degree relative.
And yes, having him in his home made not only him but his wife a nervous wrack, who can't say something without shaking.
But the Dark Lord hasn't tortured anyone without a reason yet, he hasn't killed any of his 'loyal servants' yet, and he didn't have any outrageous requests yet.
If you don't include telling them to get the prophecy about him and Potter, something that wasn't as outrageous as go and blow the ministry or kill Dumbledore, the only request he had until now was to gather all the werewolves in Britain.
No, the Dark Lord didn't ask the impossible yet, and that hasn't made Lucius' heart to calm down for one reason, the Dark Lord was insane.
It was obvious, the laugh, the nonsense plans, the crazily powerful wizard was... crazy, and that's what made Lucius follow him from the beginning.
He knew the man would fall, Dark Lords never won in wars, but if you stay on their side they wouldn't kill you, and the other side doesn't kill anyone.
Yes, choosing the side of a crazy person until he fall and then tell everyone he was forced was the right way to survive the war.
Something that didn't work if the crazy person didn't make stupid plans.
Lucius didn't want the Dark Lord to win, and seeing that the Dark Lord changed made him terrified, because the Dark Lord was still crazy, he just became smarter.
Which was why Lucius was about to change sides.
Not to Dumbledore's side, the man sacrificed his believers quicker then the Dark Lord.
No, Lucius is going to change sides to the third side, the one that seemed to work in secret, who messed with the Fudge's mind, who created the CADs, and who seemed to have a hand with helping the sons of Arthur Weasley succeed, as there is no way they did it on their own.
This side was improving Britain, was playing with all sides, and seemed to not exist, but Lucius knew its real, he is going to find him and join him.
Because this side will win.
Because this side will survive.
FRED'S POV
"You should really just tell him what you want." Fred said to Luna after apparating back to Hogsmeade with George and her. "You know he is clueless about those sort of things."
Luna sighed, something she doesn't do much, which could show you how she much she were existed from the situation.
"I know, it's just... he is a brilliant wizard, why is he so oblivious about this."
"Nobody's perfect." His twin said. "Some people are stupid, some have no sense of humor and some are lazy. We help those without Hummer laugh, teachers help idiots learn and you need to help Harry with understanding human feelings."
"I know," Luna said rubbing her forehead "I just need to find the right time."
"Well, you have until Christmas, otherwise we take things to our own hands." Fred said with a maniacal smile and hands moving like a villain from a spy movie they saw with Harry.
Luna giggled at that.
"Yes sir."
"Now that we finished talking about Luna's love life we really need to go," George said "we are about to be late."
As they walked toward 'Hog's Head' Luna asked "What is this meeting even about?"
"We are not entirely sure." George said with a shrug "We were only time that it's about the state of the DADA lessons and that people from all houses will be there."
"Oh." Luna said as they reached 'Hog's Head'.
Getting in, they saw there were indeed many students.
He saw over 20 Gryffindor students, 18 Hufflepuff, 12 Ravenclaws, and if he counted correctly, not including Luna there were exactly 0 Slytherin.
Luna apparently noticed it as well as she said "People from all of the houses, ah?"
Both George and him rubbed their head embarrassed, they really didn't take in to consideration their little brother's hatred toward Slytherin.
"Oh, never mind that, we both know you don't care about houses." George said as Fred went to the bartender and said "could we have . . . twenty-five Butterbeers, please?"
The barman glared at him for a moment, then, throwing down his rag irritably as though he had been interrupted in something very important, he started passing up dusty Butterbeers from under the bar.
'Couldn't they do the meeting anywhere else?' Fred thought as he passed along the Butterbeers 'how many will get food poisoning from this drink?'
Getting a spot next to George, Luna and Lee, who also came to the meeting, they were about to talk to Luna more about her live life when Ron came.
"What is she doing here?" He demanded to know and Fred could see Luna falling back to her 'Dreamy Look' state which he knew meant she is defensive.
"What do you mean little brother? You told us it is a meeting for all houses to talk about the Defense classes, and Luna here wanted to talk about it too." Fred hoped Ron would back off, but knew he wouldn't.
"It is, but she's a Slytherin!" He said venomously.
"Wait" Luna said in her dreamy voice "You don't want me here because of me being in a house a magical talking hat chose fire me when I was 11 years old? Are you racist?" The twins couldn't help it, they laughed at the faces Hermione and the rest of the muggle-raised (muggleborns and half-bloods) twisted to shock as they processed that having an opinion on 1/4 of school is racist, Ron, on the other hand, didn't know the meaning of the word and continued "What is that? Another one of your make-belief creatures Loony? Not only are you evil but also crazy?"
Ron was on the floor after a second with a bleeding nose as George punched him.
"What the bloody Hell?" Marcus yelled "He is your brother!"
"Yes, and right now he is on the same level as the Death Eaters with how he talks." George yelled back and Fred had to agree with him.
"That's not true." Luna said with the same Dreamy voice "Death Eaters only hate peoplle for their blood status, that's racist. Your brother here hate me not only for my house, but for my beliefs, he is worse, he is Nazi."
Fred could see how that word affected everyone in the meeting.
Muggle raised knew about the horrors the Nazis caused, Wizard raised had their friends explain to them what Nazis are and paled when they heard about the number of deaths they caused outside of war.
But the one who seemed to have been affected the most was one of the Ravenclaws from Ron's year, Goldstein was his name if Fred was not mistaken.
The boy's face became pale as white before becoming red, getting to Ron and picking him up.
"If you ever act as if she is evil because of her believes or house..." he took a big breath as he continued "I will beat you up till you are half dead!"
Almost everyone took a step back at those words as Goldstein continued "but don't worry, I would do the same for any Death Eater, racist sc. !"
"Everyone calm down!" Hermione shouted, and then waited for everyone to shut up. "Now, I'm sure Ronald is sorry for acting like a jerk, and we would love for Lovegood to join us at our meeting. Now, can we begin?"
With a few nods she gave the floor to Marcus who started talking.
AN HOUR LATER
"Remind me why we decided to join this 'Dumbledore Army'?" Luna asked as they went back to the castle.
"Because learning to defend yourself better is always an advantage." Fred said
"But Harry could teach us the same." Luna insisted.
"Not really," George said "he taught us the basics of wandless magic and to create a patronus, but he isn't really a fighter."
"He was in the tournament last year too." Luna insisted.
"Yes, but he used his mind to beat the tasks, not his fighting, we are doing it to learn how to fight." Fred said.
"But if he wasn't forced to give up the competition he would have probably won!"
"Yes, once more it isn't the point, we need to learn how to fight! With our Wand!" George said "Not to mention it would do you good some time without him."
"I guess you are right." Luna said "plus, what's the worse that could happen?"
HARRY'S POV
With the dungeons at the Malfoy Menor being full with werewolves, Harry had Voldemort tell one of his Death Eaters knock Grayback out and bring him to his room before leaving.
With Grayback being a known cannibal, Harry felt no guilt with experimenting on him.
It took five minutes for the werewolf to be brought in and then Harry shot him with his knockout gun and make sure he is tied down with iron before activating his SWOR box.
The box opened itself more and more, spreading around the room before closing around them like a cocoon with a door for needed exit.
When it finished Harry could feel the disconnection from the world's spiritual realm.
No matter how many times he has been within, he didn't think he would ever get used to this feeling.
It felt similar how he imagined being is space would be like.
While gravity still worked, it was like an invisible pressure he lived gross life in disappeared.
His magic seemed to travel in his body fasted, and he seemed to be able to cast curses without a wand.
Yet not all was great.
Without the spiritual realm of the world many kinds of spells didn't work in this place, or didn't work as good as they worked on the outside.
There was no use of a rune system other then the one he invented, as he was the one that powered it.
Transfiguration spells had to be based completely on the knowledge of the thing they needed to make, and you couldn't transfigure inanimate things to animated, as they didn't have the world to guide their behavior.
The only thing that wasn't really affected was charms, as they seemed to really only be powered by your own belief.
Looking at Grayback, Harry saw he was shifting constantly between his wolf form and human form as if his body couldn't Decided what he is.
Knowing that time was sensitive, Harry took out a few robots he created and let them write down the ritual he prepared.
The ritual was created by using the part of the ancient animagus ritual that made it possible to pass along the ability to transform by changing the disease from a contagious one to inherited one.
It would make it so the DNA and spiritual realm of the werewolf isn't always in an unstable condition as it is now by completely changing it to one of a magical wolf.
While this won't actually cure the werewolves of the original problem of being one, and make a new problem that not only them, but their descendants will become a wolf forever, it will solve the disease from spreading and make the change painless as the transformation won't be of one's DNA, but of one's body.
Of course, with him already having a cure for the Blood malediction, it will mean he only need to solve the problem of having to create a spiritual bond between himself and the patients and the Lycanthropy would be a thing of the past.
Seeing that the preparations are complete, Harry pushed his magic into the ritual, activating it.
The affects were imminent, but not what Harry wanted.
Instead of changing into a magical wolf, Grayback's body seemed to change into a silver color and became smoke-like,
With only after that shifting into a wolf.
"What the bloody hell?!" Harry shouted
It took a second for him to recognize what Grayback changed into, and only because it should be impossible- Grayback changed into a patronus!
Feeling anxious, Harry left the SWOR as quickly as possible before taking it in its cocoon state and putting it into his expended bag.
With the SWOR ability to defend against the spiritual realm it has the ability to prevent anyone who doesn't have understanding of Goblin Forging from coming out without Harry's permission.
"What on earth happened?" Harry questioned himself. "Why did the ritual did this? How did the ritual did this? It shouldn't be the runes, with my creation of them there could be no mistake in my understanding of them. Could it be the disease fighting back? But it doesn't have Conscience, nor does it explain why it changed into a patronus instead of just exploding the body. Was it the arithmency? I had GAI double check it after my own checks, it should have not been problematic..." suddenly a metaphorical light bulb lit inside his mind. "Of course! The arithmency I learned was from other magical people, which was influenced by the world's spiritual realm, which was influenced by the people, if ancient wizard or witch convinced people that a wrong thing is right, the world will make it right! The magical math I learned until this moment is based on mistakes which work fine in the sphere of influence of the world's spiritual realm, but once it is outside of it, it is worthless.
I need to restudy Arithmancy, no, I need to restudy magic! And right from the beginning!"
With a new conviction, Harry called Dobby and returned to the Hogwarts castle, he had to create another SWOR before he was ready to start.
LUNA'S POV
The morning after Hogsmeade there was a new 'High inquisitor' educational decree which gave Umbridge the power to review all extracurricular activities and, presumably, the power to disband them, something that made people talk all day about them, especially those who already hated her.
Until now, most of the educational decrees were making sense.
The decree that said the ministry can choose a Professor if the headmaster can't was a logical choice as they can't allow the students to not have a teacher.
The decree that made her High Inquisitor and gave her the power to review teachers made it so maybe History class would have a new Professor.
The decree about only allowing certain candies was to stop the prank candies of Fred and George that make people sick.
Even the one about no music in study hours was done to let people study in quiet.
So it was not surprising that in the evening the Professor decided to explain her Decree.
"Ahem ahem." Professor Umbridge said in her annoying, condescending voice she used every time she had some sort of announcement.
"I would like to explain the most recent degree I made." She said "Some students seem to whisper that I did it because I want my previous house to win the quidditch championship by preventing the other houses form participating, some apparently think it's because I think Dumbledore creates a secret army and want to prevent you from learning magic, and some say it's because I'm evil, non of the above is farther from the truth.
You might not know, but this school's number one and two causes of injury iis students trying magic on their own and quidditch, to combat that, from now on every group activity involving magic would need a supervision.
I had each Professor bring me their list of students they think is responsible enough to supervise and from them I chose those that I agree with them about.
Each study group would have to have a student two years above them at least supervising them before submitting that request to me.
Sixth and seventh years study groups would have to be supervised by the teacher of the subject they study or if not possible them then madam Pomfrey.
Quidditch teams must have a teacher in the area while practicing on brooms.
Failure from complying with this rule would be taking away perfect and captain privileges, forbidding any person who was in the group from being in any activity and, if not found to join another group, detentions for the rest of the year.
Magic, while fun, isn't a subject you can study without supervision, which is why our school was founded. You can go back to eating."
The Professor sat down and noise filled the tables as everyone talked about the subject.
Luna had to admit it was logical explanation for everything, but the timing of the Decree being a day after the meeting of the DA meant it's one big pile of bullshit.
Luna wanted to talk about it with Harry, but ever since his return yesterday to the castle he has been holing up in the ROR which was changed to a Forging room and not coming out.
When asked what he was doing he only said 'He was testing the rules of magic.' And that 'He can't talk right now.' Seriously, sometimes she had to wonder why she had to fall in love with insensitive, studying obsessive person.
Huffing, Luna decided to go talk to the twins about what is going to happen to the DA.
HERMIONE'S POV
It's been 30 hours since Luna Lovegood has called Ron a Nazi because of his opinion about her and Slytherin in general and it hasn't stopped pounding her head.
She wasn't oblivious to the comparison between Ron's behavior toward Luna and her behavior toward Harry Peverell, in fact, she knew she was worse.
Harry was her first friend, someone who lived in the muggle world before the Hogwarts letter showed up, and was sorted to the house of ambition and cunningness, not a bad traits to have, yet she pushed him away because of that.
She didn't even have the excuse of growing up in the magical world and hear stories about the evilness of Slytherin, she only did it based on the books she read and her friends telling her he was evil.
If being honest, the main reason she abandoned him was him telling her she did something stupid when running towards the troll, something which, as she looked at the small first years now she could only agree.
She, Hermione Granger, freedom fighter for House Elves and magical creatures, characterized a person into evil like how people said all House Elves like being slaves.
She had to make it right!
Finally reaching a decision, Hermione turned her sight to her best friend, who was busy talking with Marcus and Ron about something.
"What should we do now?" Neville asked
"We have to continue!" Marcus said firmly. "Don't believe her nonsense about worrying for the students safety, you saw what she did to me!"
"Yeah!" Ron said "we have to learn how to defend ourself! Think about what could happen if we don't do it and You-Know-Who attacks! People can get hurt."
"What are you talking about?" Hermione asked confusion.
"Umbridge explained why any group needs her approval to happen, which seem to make most people fine with the new rule." Neville explained as he knew she was out of focus today
"What did she say?" Hermione asked and they quickly explained to her.
"Well, it does make sense if you don't know about our group and it's name." She said afterward.
"I know right? 'some apparently think it's because I think Dumbledore creates a secret army and want to prevent you from learning magic.' Dumbledore's army? She practically tells us it's the reason!" Ron said.
"Yeah, I will need to find a secret location for the group, a way to tell everyone about the time of the meetings, and a way to make everyone keep quiet." Hermione said and heard Ron mumble "Especially that Loony Slytherin." But decided to ignore him in favor to turning toward Neville. "I need to talk to you, alone." She said before dragging him away from the Grand Hall toward one of the empty classrooms not faraway.
"Why do you need?" Neville asked when she finally let go of his arm.
"How do I apologize to Harry?" That question seemed to make Neville's eyebrows disappear in his hairline as they rose in shock.
"You, Hermione 'Harry Peverell is evil' Granger, want to apologize to him?"
A growl came out of her mouth involuntarily.
"Yes, I do." She said before sighing "Don't think I didn't see the similarities between how Ron acted toward Luna and how I acted toward Harry, I never thought I would act like how Malfoy act toward muggleborns, but that's exactly how I acted toward Harry." A sad smile appeared on Neville's face as tears appeared on hers. "I just want to fix it, like you did."
"I didn't fix it." Neville said sadly "I apologize, but it was too late. We aren't friends anymore, just classmates who used to be ones."
"That's better then nothing." Hermione said "Help me do this." She begged "Please."
"Of course I will, you are my best friend."
With both of them smiling sadly, they started preparing her apology.
HARRY'S POV
In between his time blacksmithing Harry thought about his plans to restudy magic from the beginning and corrected them.
When he saw what happened to Grayback he freaked out, making a much bigger deal out of it then he should have.
Most of the magic done today was charms, transfigurations or potions, of which charms work the same in SWOR and outside as it is, at it's core, the ability to change the outside world and spiritual realm with your spiritual realm and energy, the only difference is that it take less effort and energy to use it in SWOR as there is no outside spiritual realm, potions is based on taking the properties of other living things and with the help of the energy of your magic unite them toward a purpose, with the more advance ones needing to be affected by your own spiritual realm to be made correctly while fighting the world's spiritual realm.
If he used a wand to cast and swirling to make his potions he might have needed to restart everything, but with his own magical control there is no need to.
The only subject of those three he would have to restudy was transfigurations, which work with the help of the world to give semi-life to inanimate objects by completely changing them into Golems and even in that, the pathway is already there as he only needs to change the way he makes them into Golems from transfigurations to animation - a subject in charms which let you give a specific order to an object and make it seem like it came to life.
Of course, to make a pineapple dance is easier then make a rock-turned-bird learn how to fly, and what he want to recreate is even harder as it should have all the defining properties of the said living animal.
As for runes, the only ones that will work in SWOR are his own as when making them part of the world's spiritual realm he also made them part of his own spiritual realm.
Arithmency, on the other hand, is trickier, yet easier to work about.
This subject, in the end, is based on regular mathematics, something that has no need to restudy from the beginning, the only problem is that the core part of arithmency- the magical properties of the numbers and their interaction with other properties of different numbers are wrong.
Which means the thing he needs to study those properties.
In the end, he still has much to study, but he doesn't need to demolish every single thing magical society created.