Harry Potter, the Forgotten Son
Chapter 9:
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(I Own Nothing)
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(AN: I'm going to go on and say this but I'm no good with writing accents, so please forgive me if you don't like it, same with the twins speaking thing.)
Upon returning to Hogwarts after the end of the ball, Harry made it back to his dorm and crashed into his bed face first without stopping for anything except to remove his mask and give a barely understandable utterance of greeting to his waiting house elf Twilly.
"Good morning to you too Master," the elf hummed while standing at the side of his bed, looking at him with a small frown, "Breakfast starts in... about four hours. It's a good thing that the Headmaster has decided to postpone classes until tomorrow."
"Mmmm"
With a small sigh, Twilly used her house elf magic, causing him to float a few inches off the bed before his clothing started coming off, seemingly on their own while his bed sheets moved out of the way.
Once removed, the clothing folded themselves neatly on his armchair but revealed a shocking amount of angry red scratches down his back with hickeys and bite marks on his neck and shoulders.
"Oh dear! Master are you ok!" she asked, worried about the damage and not really understanding the concept behind how he got them. Despite knowing the mechanics of sex, she didn't know too much about the various branches and styles one could go into.
He hummed into the black pillow case, "I'm fine Twilly..."
"But... but your back!"
The teen chuckled weakly, "Veela are rather... passionate," he yawned, eyes still closed, "Don't worry about it too much, just let me sleep it off."
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Catching her daughter before bed, Apolline gave Fleur a look that said, 'I know what happened,' as she pulled her into the girls room. "Now give me all the details!"
To her credit, Fleur managed to keep a straight face but was unable to hide the deep red blush that adorned her cheeks.
"Oh now don't try to act innocent," the woman chided playfully, "I saw you limping just then, you hid it well during the rest of the ball but you can't hide it from me, not tell me everything, how big was he!"
"Mama!" the girl exclaimed with deep red cheeks. She was silent for a moment and held her hands out, giving the older female a measurement before the Apolline exclaimed that he would be bigger than her husband in time.
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The next few days were a blur of activity, students returning to school with new stuff to show off, the twins giving a 'welcome back' prank to the school which involved Quirrell, a frilly pink tutu, and some angry swans from the lake... they were certainly getting creative in their missions.
Rose and Hermione seemed to be much more busier than normal, researching something as hard as they could. The fact that they hadn't asked him for help yet had hurt a little bit, usually he'd be the first they asked but whatever it was had to have been personal or embarrassing, or at least that's what he figured.
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Sitting in the library with stacks of books weighting the large table down, Hermione and Rose poured over the many tomes and books for any information they could find on a man named Nicolas Flamel. When Hermione had returned, the two had a talk with Hagrid about the man who gave him the dragons egg, finding it to be a strange coincidence that the man had met a complete stranger who'd given one to him, which had been a dream for the man to have for a long time.
When asked, Hagrid revealed that he never saw the man's face but they had talked about Hogwarts and Fluffy, the three headed dog that was guarding the trapdoor. Which he had once again unknowingly revealed, this time to the two first-years. He then tells him that the man had bought him some drinks and that he'd told him about the dogs weakness to music, which put him to sleep.
But once Hagrid realized that he'd told them all that, he sent them on their way but once again opened his big mouth by mentioning at it wasn't none of their business, that was only the Headmaster and Nicolas Flamel's business.
"I don't know why we just don't ask Harry about it," Hermione muttered lowly to the red headed girl next to her, "He probably knows about it already and we'd have an easier time stopping Professor Snape from doing whatever he's planning."
"We can't!" Rose huffed, "Professor Snape's on good terms with Harry and he wouldn't believe us, then the professor would be onto us."
She closed the book and picked up another, "I wish we could ask him though," the youngest Potter remarked sadly into her book, "I feel bad about hiding this from him."
Neither noticed that the boy studying at a nearby table was spying on them, acting as if he'd been reading the whole time.
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Joseph Delacour hummed as he held an old side-by-side double barrel shotgun with ordinate carvings all along the stock and even on parts of the barrel, "I like it... but let me see the other one," he told the owner of a muggle gun shop.
"This is a Franchi SPAS-12 made in Italy," the man told him as he handed it over, "It's a newer model but I personally like the Winchester Model 21 better,"
The man nodded, "Indeed, this one doesn't feel right, I'll take the first one,"
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Snape grumbled to himself as he went over today's assignment, as usual nearly each class were nothing but complete dunderheads when it came to brewing potions with the exception of a few. But unlike most teachers, he didn't have a hundred papers to grade, he made most of his assignments practical meaning that he had only a handful of papers and mainly had to look at vials of potions, grading them with charms and by the look.
He was halfway through when he heard a knock on his door, making him raise an eyebrow as he checked the time, 10:31 way past curfew.
Unlocking the door, he was shocked to see Harry stroll in. He knew the boy would sometimes go out after curfew but had never been caught. He didn't care about rule breaking as much as McGonagall did and the way he saw it was that if you broke the rules and didn't get caught, did you break them in the first place.
"Potter, what are you doing out after curfew,"
Harry didn't bat an eyelash, "Getting a detention for tonight."
Snape blinked, "Excuse me?"
"I said sir, that I wish to have detention tonight, eleven O'clock with Hagrid."
The professor seemed to be doing a rather good impression of a confused owl at the moment as he stared at the boy before croaking out 'why'.
"I've recently learned that my sister and her friend have been given detention by Professor McGonagall for being out after curfew, not only that but your godson and that fool Ron Weasley also have it with the same person,"
"Hagrid I presume."
Harry nodded, "Indeed, and guess what they're doing."
"Knowing Hagrid it's most likely something stupid like hunting down some wild animal in the Forbidden Forest..."
"..."
At the teens silence, Snape, who was being sarcastic at the time, groaned, "Harry, you've got detention with Hagrid tonight in thirty minutes, don't be late,"
"Of course sir."
Watching the teen walk out, Severus couldn't help but curse the half giant, there was a reason the Forbidden Forest was off limits due to the large number of dangerous creatures that inhabited it. What was that oaf thinking? But he couldn't do anything about it, seeing as a student could be allowed in with a professor. Sprout sometimes took older students into the forest to look for wild plants and sometimes even brought him some potions ingredients.
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"Harry!" Rose gasped in shock at the sight of her brother as he met them outside of Hagrids small stone shack, "What are you doing here?"
Harry hummed, "The same as you apparently," he mused before informing the half-giant that he was here for detention as well.
The man accepted it and informed him that they were going out to look for a wounded unicorn, to help it before any thing happened to it while it was unable to fully look after itself. Armed with a lantern and a large crossbow, the group headed out into the forest until they had to split up with Hagrid taking Ron and Malfoy while Harry took his sister and Hermione.
Once they were far enough from the other three, Harry stopped and crossed his arms as he looked at the two girls, "Rose... Hermione, care to explain to me as to why you two are in detention?"
The two looked to each other, "Well... your in detention to... why are you here?"
Raising en eyebrow, he gave them a look, "I'm here because your here, I heard that you two were in trouble and would be out with Hagrid in the Forbidden forest, I refused to let you endanger yourselves without someone to look out for you. Now why were you out after curfew this time?"
"We were studying and just lost track of time," Rose told him with a gut wrenching pain stabbing at her heart for lying to him.
"I see..." he trailed off before turning away, making her feel even worse, "Lets get back to finding that Unicorn."
Watching as he started walking, Rose and Hermione shared a look of remorse before trailing after him.
They searched the forest together for a few minutes.
"There's nothing here," Hermione muttered with a creeped out look on her face, "Just a bunch of- mmm"
Harry silenced her by covering her mouth with his hand.
"Shh," He told the girl while using his free hand to put a finger up to his lips.
Now creeped out from the dark forest and scared as the teen silently pulled out his wand, the two girls watched as he stepped over to a where some trees and bushes made a natural fence and looked over them. Following, they began to hear slurping sounds and peeked around a tree trunk next to him before they gasped at the sight of a young unicorn laying on it's side, twitching and making weak little sounds of pain as a cloaked figure knelt over it and drank it's silver blood.
"Oh my god!" Hermione whispered in horror as the defenseless unicorn was being killed, "Who would do this?"
"Alarte Ascendare," they heard the voice of Harry hiss out.
The spell hit the unsuspecting thing that fed on the unicorn and sent it flying up into the air, it's cloak billowing wildly as it flailed around.
Slashing his wand at the figure once more, Harry cast a "Defodio," or Gouging spell which caused the figure to fly back into the foliage with the fabric of the cloak being cut off as some blood flew through the air, splattering on a near by rock.
"Stay close and be on guard," Harry ordered to the two before slashing his arm at the bush and muttering a cutting charm, which opened up a place for them to walk through.
The two girls, shocked at the quickness of the attack, could only nod to him and follow as he jogged over to the injured unicorn where he kneeled down, still taking a moment to look around for the cloaked thing before looking back down to the unicorn.
The two girls slowly made their way up behind him and could only watch as the older teen knelt in a puddle of thick silver blood next to the beautiful yet helpless unicorn and muttered a spell while pointing his wand at the area on the unicorns lower neck that still oozed blood. The spell caused the blood on it's neck to vanish but the wound, which was revealed to be a three inch knife wound, still continued to bleed.
"Harry..." the redhead whispered with tears beginning to well up in her eyes, "Will it be ok?"
Like her friend, Hermione also wanted to know if the unicorn would live, but as she stared into it's innocent eyes, the eyes of a child, she found herself unable to utter a single word. The sight of it's pleading eyes freezing her in place, pleading for help, pleading to live.
"Not now Rose," Harry snapped as he stabbed his wand up in the air, silently sending a flair of bright red sparks into the sky that popped and crackled like fireworks to be a signal that anyone nearby would see or hear. With that done, he pressed a hand over the wound to stem the bleeding while he used what healing spells he knew to help save the unicorn's life as the two first years preyed that he could help.
Within minutes, the sound of Hagrid's dog, Fang barking was heard and the half-giant was upon them in no time, asking what had happened.
"I'm not sure what," Harry told him before the two girls started babbling, now finished with the unicorn, who's neck was now healed but had a fresh scar in place of the wound, "But something attacked it and was feeding on it's blood."
The gentle hearted half giant gasped in horror and covered his mouth, tears nearly pouring down his face, "What monster would hurt such an innocent and defenseless thing?"
To feed on the blood of a unicorn was an amazing, yet terrible thing. It's blood would save the life of whomever drank it, even if they were inches from death and could feel the icy fingers of death gripping their soul. But that extended life came with a terrible price, for you have to have slain something pure and defenseless to save yourself and will have but a half-life, a cursed life.
From the shadowed bushes near the tree line, a large creature jumped into the moonlight of the clearing, revealing itself to be a Centaur with wild brown hair, dark tan skin, and pale hair all over it's muscled chest while gripping a bow in one hand with a quiver over it's back.
It's arrival startled the group only for Hagrid to take a breath and loudly greet the Centaur.
"Firenze, you scared me there," the half-giant called out while lowering his crossbow, "What are you doing here?"
"The stars foretold this event," he told them while making his way over to the healed, yet weak Unicorn, "My herd had taken to protecting the small herd of Unicorn here in the forest and we've been searching for this young one for some time now."
As Firenze stopped next to the unicorn, directly across from the now standing Harry, Rose and Hermione backed off a bit at the intimidating centaur being so close. Mainly because of how he towered over them and that it was basically a stranger that they knew nothing about.
But Harry was unmoved, meeting the larger amber eyes with his emerald.
"Thank you Child of Saturn and Mars, for saving the life of this foal, without your aid, it would've surely died." Firenze stated with a slight nod, "I will take the foal back to the herd, may the stars shine brightly upon you and guide you to safety."
As the centaur easly lifted the young unicorn onto his horse-like back, the half giant waved goodbye and ushered the students back towards the castle, congratulating Harry on saving the unicorns life.
To be continued...
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Sorry about cutting this short but I've been in a funk and couldn't think of a way to continue the chapter any further. Just review it.