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This story is being made as a challenge to my self to see how fast I can pump out chapters if I don't care about plot, canon, relevance, length, spelling, grammar, or continuity (Since those things are where most of my time go).
It started because someone asked just how fast can I write a story when I try. So at the end of ever chapter I will put down the number of hours, minutes and seconds the chapter took to write.
But the rule is that I have to put out one chapter every day and can't start on the next chapter until the next day.
This will not be my best work, but it will hopefully be entertaining.
Lets see how long I can last.
Chapter Six
With Classes
Next morning in the Great hall for breakfast all the students where gathering to eat and get their schedules. By now most of the school had heard about what Danny let slip to his roommates about growing up with witch hunters. Everyone wandered how much bigger the story about him could get. Everyone was trying to figure out his past, but none of the ghosts would talk to them, Peeves was even scared about the subject. When one of the students suggested that he might be a fake or a criminal in front of the Gray Lady she exploded at them saying, "How dare you insult the Great One." Leading to even more confusion and Danny laughing is butt off.
Danny had been eating breakfast with Ginny, Fred, Gorge, and Lee when Snape walked up to them causing sparks to jump between Danny's fingers and the fork he was holding. He turned around before Snape even started to talk. "Mr. Clockwork, students are expected to sit with their houses during meals." Silence swiped over the hall.
"I understand, and will except any punishment you give me as a result of continuing to eat with my friends." Danny said rather solemnly.
"You will what?" Snape was not use to is kind of action in his students.
"In America we call it Civil Disobedience or something like that. It is where you disagree with a rule or costume that is in place, so you do not do it, but you understand that it is breaking the rules so you accept the consequences." Snape was shock to say the least by this turn of events.
"My office after classes today then. And here is your schedule, you will take your Fourth year classes Monday, Wednesday and Friday, while your Third year classes will be taken on Tuesdays and Thursdays meaning you will not always be taking your Third year classes with other Slytherins"
"Yes sir Professor and thank you." Danny said before turning bad to his friends and placing the smile back on his face. Snape trudged off thinking whether he hated this Potter more or less then the last one. "So it looks like I will be taking my Monday classes with the fourth year Gryffindor and Slytherins for Double Potions and Care of Magical Creatures."
"Wait those are the classes you are ahead in?" Fred asked, Danny just nodded.
"I feel sorry for you then, Snape is the Potions Master here and is really mean to anyone that is not a Slytherin and hates Potters." Gorge continued.
"But I am in Slytherin," Danny said with his goofy smile, "it will be fun to see what he wants more, to keep his houses points or to punish me."
"Maybe but you will have to take Care of Magical Creatures with Malfoy, and he is always trying to mess Hagrid up." Fred continued.
"That just means I have to mess with Mr. Sour Pose's as he tries to mess with Professor Hagrid. And for your question earlier about the Tournament, they have you put your name in a magic cup and the cup decides who the champions are. They are going to put an age checking spell around it. I already have my way through planned out, but you need to get your own. Joining is half the test after all. Now I need to go and place some of this traps you gave me. See you at lunch" Danny said, getting up and leaving to get ready for class and place some of the traps that he had got from the twins.
"I love that boy." Lee was literally crying.
"Too true." Fred and Gorge said together.
Danny took a stack of shock mats that the twins and gave him and used his ghost powers to fuse them into the floorboards and make them invisible in front of every door in the Slytherin house, though he left the first years room clear and placed five times as many around his own door. To throw off suspicion he would have to fall for them himself not that he minded, Danny was pretty use to being shocked in ghost fights, it was the one thing that was more common then laser eyes, 'seriously even I have laser eyes,' Danny thought to himself as he worked. He found he had to fly up the girls' stair case in order to place the mats there. Finally he fused the last of the mats to Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle's beds. Then he grabbed his books that when out of the common room to class, making sure to step on the mat on his way out leaving his hair sticking out everywhere. People giggled at what they thought was a successful prank on the new guy. They would probably not find it as funny later.
Danny got to his Potions class with minutes to spare. He looked around and smiled, happy to see that all of the seats on the Slytherin side were full. The only seat open was one on the Gryffindor side, which Danny took. The boy seemed surprised that anyone would sit next to him. "Hi, I am Danny you mind if I sit here?" The entire class was staring. The Slytherins laughed because they knew that the boy was Neville Longbottom and he couldn't make a potion to save his life or the life of his toad and that most of his potions explode and sent people to the Hospital Wing.
"Not at all. But I should warn you I am really bad at making potions. I am Neville by the way, Neville Longbottom." Neville said, making room for Danny to sit.
"Thanks, it's nice to meet you Neville." Danny said. Seconds later an electric charge running between Danny's fingers announced the arrival of their teacher. And sure enough, Snape came walking though the door.
Looking over the class he spots Danny talking to Neville and walked up to them. "I'm afraid Mr. Clockwork that you will need to move."
"To where, this is the only spot in the class?" Danny asked raising one eyebrow.
"Then you will just have to switch with one of the Gryffindors, I will not have a student from my house forced to partner up with a failure of a student like Mr. Longbottom." Neville visibly shrank away.
Danny frowned before say. "While that good, because I volunteered to work with him. And I remember one of my old teachers saying that there is no such thing as a student has failed to learn; only teachers whom have failed to teach." Snape looked like he had been slapped in the face.
"This is going to be just like your choose of where to eat, isn't it?" Snape asked rubbing the rig of his nose.
"Yes Professor." Danny said voice solemn but a smile showing on the edge of his lips.
"Very well, then my office after classes for the week instead of just today." Snape said walking to the front of the class that was surprised how quickly it had all happened. Danny was a different kind of rebellious student then they were use to. He had been train by Sam in how to make trouble that left the punishers feeling guilty, and how you did that is by accepting the punishment everyday and looking at them in the face.
"Thanks for standing up for me." Neville mumbled.
Danny turned to him and smiled, "Don't worry about it. Me and Snape are bound to clash. The only question is how. I am the one controlling the board right now." Neville looked at Danny, confusion clear on his face. "Alright think of it like this. He doesn't want to take points from his own house right." Neville nodded. "So if I act up in a small way the only thing he can do is give me detentions with him." Neville nodded again still not getting it. "So he knows that I don't really deserve the detentions and the fact that I willingly accept them makes him feel guilty about giving them. Not to mention that I am being respectful towards him will he is give me the punishment and that he will have to watch me during the detentions that I don't deserve."
Neville eyes started to widened. "So while he is punishing you it will feel like a punishment for him." Neville said finally understanding.
"It works well because I have no history with him. So it is probably too late for you to do it." Danny said with a smile. "That and he doesn't have to look at you to take house points."
"I can't tell if you are brilliant or just plan mad." Neville said finding that Danny's smile was contagious.
"I have done this before. It usually takes about three weeks before none of the teachers even want to look at me. But that is when I am doing it in three classes at once. I give it two weeks before Professor Snape stops talking about how I am going against tradition." Danny said. Then Snape started the class so they turned to watch.
Potions class was not that bad. Danny spent years fiddling with Fenton tech and in the Fenton lab, compared to that it was really easy. Danny not only did he do his own potion but helped take Neville though when to prepare what and when he need to concentrate. As long as someone stopped Neville from panicking he could finish his Girding Potion. By the end of the class Danny and Neville had both successfully make the concoction and as they left Danny heard Professor Snape mention something about getting some 'Fire Whiskey'.
"Already talking about drinking. This will be too easy." Danny said, Neville laughed causing every head in the hall to turn, Neville happy after a Potions class was unheard of. Danny walked with Neville to Neville's next class and then they parted ways. Neville went to his history class and Danny went outside. Danny had about an hour to spar before lunch and his Care of Magical Creatures class. So Danny decided to do some training. Walking to the edge of the lake he took off his robes and his shirt and pulled out of his book bag his weapon of choose, long silver chain that had been given to him on his second deathday by a blacksmith in Dora's kingdom. It could hold ecto energy and disperse on contact with objects making it like an extension of his ecto powered punches.
Danny rapped the chains around his arms and started to practice feeding them more or raping them back around his hands will swinging them. Danny didn't like killing, and no matter what you said that is what a blade did. Danny was horrified when someone suggested that he carry a scythe around. It was the visual simple of ending life. Danny wanted nothing to do with that. But a chain didn't kill as easily. Yes it could break some bones, but ghosts recover from broken bones like humans from a bloody nose. The main purpose of the chains is to bind and hold them still until it is safe for them to be released, just like the Fenton Thermos.
Danny started to get into his groove and was speeding up. He didn't notice that some of the other students that didn't have classes (most where sixth and seventh years though so there were no girls squealing about how he looked) where watching him open mouthed. Danny didn't fight ghosts for two years for nothing. He didn't look it with the loose clothes or robes on, but he was built like an ox. He had an easy eight pack and scars on top of his scars. None of the people watching the boy could imagine the kinds of thing someone would have to go through to get a body that looked like that, mostly because he was only thirteen. Then they all remembered the rumor that he was raise by witch hunters until they tried to kill him. All of them felt sorry for the young boy. Then after about twenty minute three of them broke from the crowd and called out to him. "Danny, you done showing off?" Fred called out.
"Because you are starting to draw a crowd my friend." Gorge said.
Looking up Danny finally saw about thirty students all staring at him. Danny flushed and quickly grabbed his shirt and put it back on. "How long have they been there?" Danny asked.
"Don't know we got here about five minute ago. You got good form by the way." Lee said as they reached Danny. "So you going to tell us about the scars or do we have to ask?"
"I would rather not talk about them." Danny said a little embarrassed.
"That's the Danny we already know." Fred said putting a hand on one of Danny's shoulders.
"Loves to be an enigma." Gorge finish putting his hand of the other shoulder.
"I like having my bag of tricks nice and plump." Danny said with a smile. "It always looks bigger when no one has looked inside it yet. Why do you think magicians never revel their secrets."
Fred and Gorge started to laugh uncontrollably, so Lee took it upon himself to ask the next question. "So how did the shock mats go." He whispered so that only Danny and the twins could hear.
"Don't know, I have seen some other snakes with weird hair today but I haven't really been looking around." Danny whispered back.
"Do you think someone picked them all up already." Fred said a little disappointed.
"Not a chance. It will that them weeks to get rid of the things the way I set them up." Danny said with a smile. "Fused them into the floors and turned them invisible. They will not be easy to remove."
"You can do that?" Gorge said with is eyebrows disappearing into his red hair.
"I can do a lot of things with spirit weaving." Danny said. "Fields of energy, create ice, conjure petty spirits and summon empty and lesser spirits or any that I have a contract with. And best for pranks, give myself or other people or objects qualities of a ghost; floating, invisibility and intangibility."
"I have said it once and I will say it again." Lee started. "I love this boy. It is too bad that Ginny already claimed him."
"What?" Danny said with a confused look on his face.
"Don't worry about it." The twins said together.
It was almost time for lunch so they each headed to the Great Hall again. Danny sat down with his friends again, this time Neville joining the group. Harry and his friends soon arrived and Hermione asked Danny what he thought about Hogwarts.
"I have only had one class," Danny said, "it seems a little early to make decisions about the school after only one class."
"And Snape has already given you a week detentions; tough luck." Harry said.
"Danny says it is the other way around." Neville laughed causing Harry, Hermione and Ron to give him strange looks. "He says it is some kind of muggle psychology thing. If he has to watch Danny humbly accept all of the punishments that he don't deserve then he will feel guilty and stop punishing him and treat him better than other students later on."
"I have done it before. He is already talking about drinking. That usually doesn't happen until the second week. I give Professor Snape two weeks tops before he stops punishing me." Danny said.
"You studied psychology?" Hermione asked.
"No, but my sister did." Danny replied with a softer smile than usual, he didn't see the jealously in Harry's eyes. "Though our mom and dad tried to kill me more than once and would have stuck a blade through my chest if it wasn't for Clockwork, my time with them are still good memories."
All that jealously turned to concern. "THEY WHAT?" Harry shouted causing some nearby people to jump for the hundredth time that week.
"Well, they hated anything supernatural, they hunted me as soon as they realized I wasn't normal." Danny said sadly. "Clockwork saved me from being cut open and examined in the family basement. My sister Jazz knew that I was a wizard and helped me hide my secret from our parents. After I had to run away she called the police and accused our parents of murdering me to slow them down. She never believed that they would start shouting that I needed to die and ended up getting themselves locked away for life imprisonment. I hate that it had to happen to them. Even after everything they said, they still were great parents."
There was silence at the table after what Danny had said, until Lee broke it. "Is that how you got all of those scars?"
"What scars?" Harry let the fear show in his voice.
"No, I got those scars from other things that I have had to do in my life in order to survive." Danny pulled on his shirt showing some of the scars on him chest. "I haven't had the easiest life."
"I am so sorry." Harry said, the others looked like they agreed.
"For what?" Danny asked real confusion on his face. "I don't regret the life I have lived. If Clockwork never picked me up after mine and Harry's parents died, then I would have missed out on a lot of things in life." Danny tightened his grip on his staff. "I would not have the strength to fight for what I believe in."
"That don't change the fact that you have seen things that no child should ever have to see." It was Nearly Headless Nick. "If even half of the stories they say about you are true that is."
"Sir Nicholas it is good to see you." Danny said forcing the smile back onto his face but it just slide off. "Sir Nicholas can I ask you something personal?"
"Of course." Nick replied with his warmest smile.
"Do you ever regret what you have become? I mean, do you ever regret becoming a ghost?" Danny asked.
"We all have to live with regrets, but whenever I help one student find their way, or give them a new perspective on life." Nick looked off into the distance before saying, "It makes it all feel worth it."
The smile returned to Danny's face. "Thank you, Sir Nicholas. I need to hear that." Danny returned to his meal.
"Any time Sir Phantom." Nick said before turn and floating away.
"Sir Phantom?" Ginny asked.
"It was a title given to me by a ghost princess for fighting off a dragon." Danny said will raising his fork to his mouth.
"You have fought a dragon and were knighted by a princess for it." Ginny sounded just a little shocked, but after the scars.
"I have fought two different dragons on different occasions." Danny replied.
"So you're a real knight, Blood hell mate what kind of life have you had?" Ron asked.
"The kind where you have no choose but to fight." Danny said. "Can we please change topics?"
"Ok, you said your old parents were imprisoned. What happened to your sister?" Hermione asked.
"Well the first thing you have to understand is that Clockwork is a powerful seer. He knew all of this would happen so he set up on account in her name over ten years ago and after some careful investments she has enough money to get a conferrable apartment and to get into a good college." Danny smiled again, everyone was just now realizing that his smiles never reached his eyes. "I am happy for her, she deserves to have a good life after everything that has happened. I am just glad she doesn't hate me for everything that has happened, and that she still wants to call me her little brother." Danny looked at the clock in the hall and said. "We need to hurry up and finish eating if we are going to get to our next class." They finished their lunch in more or less quiet other then the twins and Lee throwing around ideas for good pranks or how to get past an age ward. Hermione was wanted to know how Danny knew so much about the Tournament, but all Danny would say is that Clockwork told him. Fred and Gorge wanted to know what else there was going to be in the tournament.
"Clockwork sees pretty much everything. But he only tells you enough to get by. So after entering the tournament I am as blind as the rest of you." Danny said surging.
"What is your plain for getting past the age ward once they put it up?" Ron asked.
"Now Ron, becoming a Champion is the first challenge. Especially for us under aged wizards." Danny smiled. "Why are you going to try your hand?"
"I'll try, but it isn't like the cup would choose me anyways." Ron said. "What about you Harry? Now that you know that it is possible to enter if you're clever about it."
"I don't want to risk my life for something like that." Harry said and then looked right at Danny. "I don't think that Danny should either. It is too dangerous."
This seemed to have Danny taken aback; no one had said it is too dangerous to him since the Pariahs incident. "I don't care if it is dangerous. Clockwork asked me to do it, so I will."
"Is that how you got all those scars huh, Clockwork sending you off on pointless suicide missions? Can't you see he is just using you?" Harry voice was starting to rise but he couldn't help it. The brother he never knew about was putting himself in danger and need to be stopped.
"Shut up." The venom in Danny's voice at that moment shocked Harry into silence. "Clockwork saved my life so many times and has always looked out for me. When I was left in the arms of our dead father and forgotten after Voldemort killed them," Danny ignored the flinch from the use of the name, "no one went back into that house for the next week after you were taken out. If Clockwork didn't come and pick me up I would have died then and there, but he did. He placed me in the care of a loving and overprotective family. Yes, thing happened that made it so I couldn't stay with them any longer but those were still happy times for me. When my friends and family were going to die in a fire explosion and I was too weak to save them; Clockwork saved them." Danny looked up and the sky projected on the ceiling of the Great Hall. "When my friends were sick and there was no cure; Clockwork helped me find one. And when the people I called mom and dad my entire life tried to kill me; Clockwork stopped them. So don't you dare insult him. He would never ask me to risk my life without reason. He just can't tell me what the reason is yet. I owe him a debt of gratitude; I don't expect you to understand." Grabbing his staff he made it glow green, before turning himself invisible and flying off.
"You did go too far mate." Fred said.
Harry turned on him. "What would have said if it was Ron?" Harry said angrily, he didn't understand how to be a brother and it seemed he was failing at every turn.
"You know you got a point," Gorge started, "Ron we don't want you hanging out with Harry anymore because every year he drags you into a situation where you have to risk your life."
"They got a point Harry. If it's about being safe then you're not exactly the best role model." Ginny said earning herself a glare.
"The only real different I can see is that this Clockwork bloke seems to have train Danny for war. You should have seen it Ginny. He was practicing down by the lake with his shirt off." Lee started. "I swear the boy is built like a Hippogriff with all those muscles." Ginny went red thinking about it earning some laughs from Fred and Gorge.
"I have a question." Hermione said. "How on earth did he just disappear into thin air like that? You can't apperate on school grounds and it is too strong to be a disillusionment charm not to mention he is too young to pull either of those off."
"Well Ms. Know It All." Gorge started.
"Danny just used his spirit weaving." Fred continued.
"He can give himself."
"Or other people and object."
"Properties of ghosts." Gorge finished.
Hermione frowned that the mention of spirit weaving. "That is something I don't get." She started. "I did a little looking into spirit weaving magic. Though it was hard, no one has used it in over three hundred years. But from what I could gather it is a lot like alchemy were you can't get anything without consuming something of similar properties."
"What are you getting on about now?" Ron asked.
"Well, 'Spirit Weaving' is a magic that consumes the spirit particles, or ectoplasm, in the air to form a spirit or use a spirit like power. The problem is that there is so little ectoplasm in the air, that you cannot make anything, so 'Spirit Weaving' was never much more the a theory." Hermione said.
"But then how is Danny doing it?" Harry asked.
"While I hope I am wrong about this, but there was a document about destroying lesser spirits and using them as full for the magic. It is the only thing that makes sense, but…" Hermione looked away, "to do such a horrible thing… to destroy a soul… I can't even imagine."
"Danny would never do something like that!" Ginny almost yelled. "There are always exceptions, like with the Philosopher's Stone. Maybe Danny's staff holds some kind of fuel for it."
"If that was the cause, then that would mean that would mean that Danny's staff had as much ectoplasm and could regenerate it faster than a greater spirit. I don't even know if that is possible." Hermione said.
"But Danny isn't the killing type. Everything he has done so far is standing up for what he believes in." Neville commented. "I don't know why he is not in Gryffindor. He desires to be here a lot more than I do."
"Don't say that Neville, we have all seen you act brave at times." Ginny reassured him.
None of them wanted to talk after that so they all got up and when to their next classes. Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville to find Danny playing around with Hagrid's big dog Fang on the front porch will talking to the man himself. "No, I don't care how big Fluffy was there is no way in the Five Realms that he could be more trouble than my little Cujo."
"I really don't think that any dog ya 'ave can match my Fluffy." Hagrid said.
"We'll see then will we." Danny raise his staff over his head in one hand and it started to glow green, "I am going to call Cujo here. HERE CUJO, HERE BOY." Danny shouted, a small green spot started to appear in the air, then out of nowhere an enormous green dog shot out of it like a rocket. It may not have been the same thirty foot monstrosity that Fluffy had been, but at sixteen feet tall he was still as big as Hagrid. Spotting Danny he lunged pinning him to the ground. Everyone in the area pulled out the wand, but before a spell you be cast they were stopped by the sound of laughter. Looking closer they saw that the monster was just licking Danny and that Danny was just playfully pushing him back. "Alright I missed you to Cujo, but your tickling me." Danny finally got the dog off of him and was still laughing. "It is a good thing my hair was already a mess." Looking around the same could be said for over half the Slytherins out there. "NOW CUJO HEEL!" The dog went right up next to Danny. "AND SIT!" The dog sat down and then to everyone's amazement the massive dog shrank down to the size of a puppy.
"What a cute little doggie 'e is. Where did ya get 'im?" Hagrid asked.
"He came to me one day. Made a terrible mess and then decided that I would be his master." Danny said before bending down to Cujo and started talking to him in a babying voice will petting him. "You got me in a lot of trouble, yes you did, uh yes you did. Who's a monstrous beast, you are, you are."
"Please tell that is not the class lesson." Malfoy looked like he was about to wet his pants.
"Be careful Mr. Sour Pose, he can smell fear." Danny said which was a lie of course but it didn't help Malfoy that Cujo decided to sniff the air after Danny said that.
"I was planning on a lesson about Blast Ended Skrewts, but this little guy would make a good lesson if you would like to tell us about him Danny." Hagrid said while scratching his long beard.
"Ok I guess. This is Cujo, he is a ghost puppy, when every he feels excited, threat, or agitated, he grows to sixteen feet in height and could easily drag twelve tons." Some students backed up. "Combine that with his near endless amount of energy and his abilities to both fly and pass through solid objects at will makes him more or less unstoppable and he'll take any threat to himself or his master and take them away and bury them, leave nothing but their heads above ground." All the students took another setback. "The only thing that could stop him will he is on a rampage is a multi fluxuating post modular electromagnetic containment field that is in sync with his ectoplasmic signature, a high level 'Spirit Weaving' spell, or if you don't have one of those you could always play fetch with is chew toy." Danny said this last part and then pulled out a toy and threw it off in some direction. The whole class watched the little dog chase after the ball. "So any questions?"
"You said he was a Ghost, but aren't ghosts all intangible?" One of the four year Gryffindor girls asked.
"No, only the empty spirits. 'Ghosts' is a term for any being that is composed of Spiritual particles, or ectoplasm. They are divided into subcategories; Wizards that bind themselves to the human plan after they die have next to no ectoplasm and don't produce much if any, so they are called empty or hollow spirit. Then there are the petty spirits like what I made in the Great Hall, they contain enough ectoplasm to become solid and entire act with the world, but they are either unstable, or have no minds of their own, usually both. Then there are lesser spirits, still pretty weak, but they can produce their own ectoplasm but they lack intelligences. Common spirits are lesser spirits that have gain thoughts of their own and mastery of their ectoplasm. Then if they gain focus and specialization they become greater spirits. After that if they continue to grow, they become what is call a Grand Spirit, or if they are evil, Dark Gods. Cujo is a high level common spirit of the Guardian class that would become a greater spirit if his core became more developed through focusing all that energy of his. He will probably be one in a year or two." Danny gave them a general idea of the ranking of ghosts.
"How do you know all this?" Hermione asked.
"It was my job, no further comment as that does not give you an understanding of ghosts." Danny replied.
"What about the magnet-thing-a-nabob that you mentioned?" Ron asked. "What is that?"
"A multi fluxuating post modular electromagnetic containment field is a device that muggles made to capture and contain ghosts that haunt them." Danny said with one of his smiles. "To my knowledge wizards lack the tools or spells to deal with anything stronger then a lesser spirit." Cujo had gotten back with his ball. "You hear that Cujo, you could probably take down the whole Ministry by yourself, yes you could." Danny ignored the looks on his classmate's faces as he petted the ghost dog.
"You're lying, there is no way muggles could stop that thing if magic can't." Malfoy said.
"I never said that magic can't stop him, just that wizards can't. Anyways, I would call him a him instead of a thing." Danny said looking at Malfoy. "Because unlike the hippogriff there is nothing that can stop him if he gets angry."
Malfoy started to back away. "Get that thing out of here now!" he shouted.
Cujo started to growl. "I wouldn't make him upset, he can understand you after all." Danny said softly will petting Cujo back into a more calm state. "Don't be such a sour pose. Cujo will behave himself as long as I am here." Danny handed the toy to Hagrid who started to throw it for Cujo.
Danny spent the next thirty minutes answering or waving off questions on spirits, near the end of the class some of the brave students came up to pet Cujo. Danny handed Cujo a letter for Pandora and Cujo left just like he came.
"What was that?" One of the Slytherin girls asked.
"Just a letter," Danny replied, "I don't have an owl, so Cujo takes my mail."
"What was it about?" Another student asked.
"That is none of your business." Danny replied, in truth Danny was asking for Pandora to tell his daughter, Dani, to get a Fenton Phone from Tucker so that they could keep in touch. Originally they called each other cousins but as time went by and Danny took bigger and bigger steps to insure her future things started to change. Then one day when Danny was reminding Dani not to let people see her using her power she responded with "Yes, dad." and they had been father and daughter ever since.
Dani was staying with Pandora who was opening a portal for her to go to school every day. The six year old Dani had started kindergarten under the name Danielle Phantom, though no one believed that she was related to the great Danny Phantom, and because there were no ghost attacks she never had to transform. Danny was glad that Dani was getting a subnormal life. Though if anything her life was more normal than his.
With that Danny went back to the castle and went towards the dungeons for is detention with Snape. Leaving Harry, Ron, Neville, and Hermione to talk about the new developments in the great story of Danny (Potter) Clockwork. "He knows more about spirits then any of our books in the Library, and he said that it was his job. What on earth can a kid his age be doing that requires you to know how to fight spirits."
"Well he did say he had to take down a Dark God, maybe that was his job." Neville said. "I don't know what the big deal is. It isn't like he's hurting anybody."
"But he clearly is getting hurt himself." Harry said. "I think it is Clockwork putting him up to this. We should look into just who Clockwork is. But Danny won't tell us. But the ghosts know. Maybe we should start by looking up everything we can about ghosts since the ghosts won't tell us anything either."
"I think you guys should just layoff. He can clearly take care of himself." Neville said before stumping off, why did it always have to always be that way with Harry and his friends. They are the dangerous ones always sticking their noses were they don't belong. In the end they would probably do something stupid like go after the Philosopher's Stone without any knowledge or back up, or fighting a basilisk completely unarmed with nothing but a fake professor to help them. At least Danny sounded like he knows what was going on. He had tools, research, help, and experience. Harry just had a scar and a track record of landing himself in the hospital.
Neville felt bad about comparing Harry to his new brother, but Harry was just not think clearly. You can't come back into someone's life after almost thirteen years and expect them to conform to your ideas. If Danny was fighting, then he was fighting for something he believed in and they didn't have the right to stop him that much Neville was sure of.
Danny arrived outside of Professor Snape's potions class and felt the electric charge that told him that Snape was in there. He knocked and then entered. Snape had been teaching a third year class to the Gryffindors and Ravenclaws. Danny spotted Ginny and Luna working together and gave them a nod. "What are you doing here Mr. Clockwork?" Snape asked.
"You told me I would serve detention with you after class, sir." Danny said respectfully.
"So I did, but I meant after all the classes for the day are over, not just yours." He then let out a deep breath and continued, "but since you are already here you minus well start." He pointed to a corner of the room were what looked like all of the caldrons that had been used that day were laying. "I want you to clean all of those caldrons out by hand, without magic."
"Yes Professor, will I need a distilling agent for this?" Danny asked.
"Third shelf on the left, 'essence of sea tears' two drops per caldron and let it sit for five seconds after appalling." Snape replied impressed that the boy new safety procedures for such things.
"Yes Professor." Danny said before going to work, making sure to stay in sight of Snape the whole time and keeping a smile on his face. Snape glanced at him periodically throughout the class. Danny know that he was winning.
After four hours and two more classes Danny had finished the grueling and smelly task. Danny was careful not to show any discomfort or signs of fatigue. Danny was putting away the cleaning tools and putting the last of the caldrons way when Snape spoke. "Why do you willingly go through this instead of simply doing what is expected of you. Are these people you have only known for maybe a day that important to you?"
Danny smile and Professor Snape and said. "I guess it is just the way I am. Sorry for unconvincing you Professor, I will see you tomorrow then." Danny bowed before heading out for dinner.
'Why is it that even though Harry is the one that has her eyes.' Snape thought to himself. 'Danny is the child that reminds me the most of you, Lily.' Snape whipped a tear from his eye. 'He shows the same bravery you did when standing up for me. And the same forgiving nature that allowed you to forgive me after all the terrible things I had said and done.' Snape decided that he would be eating by himself that night.
Danny had met back up with Fred, Gorge, Ginny, Neville and Lee back at the Gryffindor table. "So how did the detention with Snape go?" Neville asked.
"It went pretty well, I got a good number of guilty looks out of him and he seems to not be coming to dinner in order to think about things. He also asked me if it was worth it to stand up for my friends. That is a third week into the process question, and only on the first day. I give him the end of the week tops." Danny said confidently.
"It really seemed to be distracting him." Ginny said with an excited smile. "He didn't even mock anyone that messed up, and didn't take away points once the whole class."
Fred and Gorge's eyes widened, "Really?" they asked.
"Now that I think about it, he didn't take mock me or take away points for needing help like he usually does." Neville said.
"Maybe we will all live to see the day there is a nice Snape." Lee said with a laugh.
"Anything is possible." Danny thought to the alternate future were Vlad was a weak old man that regretted all of his villainous actions. Danny looked up after an electric charge ran through his fingers again, but this time instead of Snape it was Moody. Danny still got a bad feeling about him but didn't want to jump to any conclusions. He knew what jumping to the wrong conclusion could mean after all of his miss adventures. "On the topic of new leafs, what is up with Professor Moody's class. You three have had it right?" Danny directed his question to the three sixth years.
"It is a lot different than any other Professor that is for sure." Lee said.
"He has got a lot of field experience and teaches based on what a field agent would have to go through and see." Gorge say, his eyes glassing over with the memory.
"You just have to experience it." Fred followed.
"So I guess he has your seal of approval." Danny was a little reassured by his friends statements but still wanted to see for himself.
"You still are getting a bad feeling from him, huh?" Ginny asked.
"Can't help it." Danny said sheepishly before perking up. "But I'm sure taking one of his classes will put my mind at ease."
Danny and Neville spent the rest of dinner telling the others about Cujo, and Danny answered some of the twins questions on spirits and what kind of prank value they had. Danny loved that about the twins, everything was about having fun and they didn't get out of control or hurt anyone for their own enjoyment.
Danny left and decided to walk around the grounds for a little will when he saw Harry and his friends with Malfoy and his. Malfoy had been reading from a new paper and by the look on Ron's face was insulting Ron about it. Some things were said and Malfoy's face flushed as Harry and his friends turned away. Malfoy was pulling out his wand preparing to attack Harry from behind when suddenly before Danny had time to react. Malfoy was turned into a ferret. Danny was now close enough to hear what was being said by Professor Moody who had came out of nowhere and started yelling, "Oh no you don't laddie. I don't like people who attack others when their back is turned". He started levitating the ferret up then dropping it to the ground painfully while everyone laughed.
Danny jumped in and called out one of the spells that he had practiced with Clockwork. "Expelliarmus" A scarlet light came from the top of Danny's staff and hit Professor Moody's wand with perfect aim, this caused Moody's wand to fly into the air and straight into Danny's hand. Danny quick as lightning was under Malfoy the ferret and caught him in his arms. Danny then regained his footing and was again pointing his staff at Professor Moody.
"What are you doing laddie?" Moody shouted.
"I should be asking that question. Someone could have been seriously hurt doing that. What kind of teacher are you?" Danny shouted back.
"The kind that teaches rats like him not to attack from behind." Moody replied.
"Oh yes, because you attacked straight from the front and with warning to." Danny mocked.
"What is going on here?" A new voice entered the shouting contest. It was Professor McGonagall. "Mr. Clockwork, you better have a good reason for pointing your staff at a teacher and where did that ferret come from." Professor McGonagall just now noticed Malfoy in Danny's arms.
"This ferret is Malfoy; Professor Moody decided to teach him a lesson about attacking people from behind by transfiguring him into a ferret and throwing him against the ground again and again. I am sorry for pointing my staff at a teacher, but I think the circumstances required it." Danny lowered his staff and placed the shaking Malfoy on the ground without taking his eyes off of Moody.
"Tell me that you didn't use transfiguration as a form of punishment Professor Moody. Didn't Dumbledore tell you that it is not allowed?" McGonagall was livid with Moody.
"He might have mentioned it." Moody said trying to avoid McGonagall's eyes with his normal one, will his magical eye was trying to find a way of escape, but ended up locking onto his wand in Danny's hand.
McGonagall cast the counter spell on Malfoy who hurriedly ran away shouting something about his father inspiring more shouts from Professor Moody. "You did the right thing Mr. Clockwork, but next time find another Professor instead of acting on your own. Five points for Slytherin."
"Thank you Professor." Danny said handing her Moody's wand. "I hope you'll wait until after he talks to Professor Dumbledore before giving it back to him." And with that he walked away.
'The boy has a strong sense of right and wrong.' McGonagall thought, 'It is no secret that he is not friends with Malfoy, but he still did what was right.' McGonagall shook her head. 'It is too bad he is not in my house.'
Danny had end up going back to his room to find that right underneath his blanket there was a far pile of fan mail from other Slytherins, though none of them gave their names. Danny reads some of them to himself.
'I admire the way you just go out and do what you want a make your own name your own way. Not all of us are from fames houses, and you give me hope that I won't have to always kiss up to people like Malfoy.'
'I hope you know at Slytherins are only trying to work hard to better their own future, but most of us don't indorse hurting others in order to get it.'
Another one said, 'I to have lived a hard life away from my real parents, I hope that one day I will be able to overcome this problems and hold my head high like you do.'
Danny quickly looked around him and transformed and cloned himself four times. He spent the next ten minutes removing all of the shock mates that he had placed out except for the ones in Malfoy and his friends' beds. He then flew through the tower and found the twins rooms, he left the mate out in the open with the fan mail that he got and his own letter to the twins.
'After getting this mail I realized that not all the Slytherins are Malfoys, what we need to do is make a list of the ones that are. We will call it the A-list and everyone on it will be free game. I will give Peeves a copy. By the way Peeves works for me now.
Sincerely yours, Ghost Boy.'
Danny didn't know why he signed off as 'Ghost Boy' but it felt like a good ID for his pranks. He then went to the roof of the school and called up his friends on the Fenton Phones, and talked to them until he fell asleep.
Oh god this just dragged on forever. 5 hours, 21 minutes, 12 seconds.
I couldn't find a good place to stop. I just kept typing paragraph after paragraph without any plans and it just kept going and going. It was horrible. I nearly gave up on the challenge out of despair.
Just in case you were wondering, I'm actually typing out the chapter names before the chapters themselves.
Day six complete, somehow.