Chapter 12:

Harry and his friends were busy in Astronomy tower to study Astronomy. They earlier had an eventful evening together. They secretly identified an empty classroom that was hidden behind the portrait. They all agreed it would be another wonderful place for them to spend some time together and hide something.

They were now watching the movement of stars. Those stars always fascinated Harry. He knew many of those stars are already dead and only now their light had reached to the earth because of their huge distance from earth. Sometimes Harry thought that, why the world wizard community did not take any interest in space travel and knowing the outer space.

Muggles had much limitation, as they did not know magic. However, they had a desire to know unknown and they had Harry's respect for that. It made him sad that, even the liberals and muggle born witches and wizards are not interested in space science. They were not interested to apply their magical gift in space science like moderate and conservative wizards.

Harry believed being wizards gave them a significant advantage in inventing and developing many sophisticated and advanced instrument that could be used in monitoring the space. They could build it at very lower cost. Harry wanted to know the mystery of black hole. His curious mind always wondered if the mystery of parallel world was linked with the black hole.

Harry also thought how it would be cheaper for wizards to make a space ship. Harry was shocked to know that, until no wizards or witches travel to the moon. Harry knew that, with their advanced magical ability along with some research they could very possibly build a wizard colony in the moon.

Harry already realized that, the wizarding Britain needed a purpose and an identity, which would make wizards of all blood status and all political leaning again proud of being a British wizard or witch. In Harry's opinion, Mother Nature chose wizards and witches for a purpose and that was contributing in human civilization with their wizarding gift. Wizards and witches could prove being a wizard or witch was so special for them by opening a new chapter of human brilliance instead of destroying muggle world or trying to make that wizarding world a copy of muggle world.

Harry decided along with studying in different segments of magic and spell work he would also try to apply his knowledge in advancement of space science. For now, he would try to build advanced portable telescopes for that world. It would be his one of the pet project for that year.

He was also thinking about the love potion saga that occurred earlier in the great wall. This incident reminded him how much cruel the pureblood political battle was. He also realized that, his uncle and aunt of that new world were very good for him. They were giving him the love and support that Harry never got from his own world's uncle and aunt.

When he learned from Daphne that how much worried his aunt was for him. It touched him in his heart. It made him realized that for the first time he had a family that cared for him. Harry vowed that he would always protect his uncle, aunt, Daphne and Astoria with his everything.

He also thought that, he would formally recognize his uncle and cousins as a part of Sayre family. His grandfather of that world was a jerk for avoiding fulfilling his house duty for some sibling rivalry. He would do it in few days when they would celebrate Aunt Athena's birthday. It would be wonderful birthday gift for his aunt.

His thought shifted to the morning duel between him and Quirrell. He was very competitive in nature and that was the reason he tried to beat his DADA teacher. It was a strategic mistake from him. He was sure that, he would now draw more unnecessary attention from teaching staff especially from old Albus. He had to be careful around that old fox.

However, he found pleasure in dueling with his professor. Quirrell was a talented wizard and a mysterious character. He was not wearing the turban like Harry's home universe but Harry was sure that new universe's Quirrell also had some type of connection with Tom and Harry was determined to find it.

"Sayre, are you here?" A new female voice asked Harry.

"Yes, I was thinking about something and hello to you also Turpin." Harry flashed his charismatic smile at her.

"Thanks, I am wondering if you can help me with this chart." Turpin asked Hadrian for help.

Harry was surprised after hearing that, it seemed he was slowly getting acceptance outside of his house and it was a good thing for him.

"Sure, but first you have to address me as Hadrian." Harry told her.

"I will but in return you also have to call me as Lisa." Lisa replied.

"I think we have a deal in that case. Now see if you look here in the chart you can see that the movement pattern of this star has changed recently." Harry continued to help Lisa for some minutes.

"Thank you Hadrian, I hope we will meet again." Lisa told him.

"Sure." Harry replied.

Daphne observed the whole incidents and for some reasons she was not liking it. Daphne scolded herself for that type of behavior. She knew that, Harry would have more friends in future but a small voice in her head told her that, she would be always his closest friend.

"Harry it seems like you get yourself a new friend in the form of a cute claw." Tracy commented.

"Tracy, it is nothing like that and Lisa Turpin is still not my friend. However, it just means she is now considering me as her classmate." Harry tried to correct his friend's misconception.

"May be not now, but she can be easily become a friend of yours in the future and I am thinking it is a good news, we will also need allies from other houses." Blaise remarked.

"Nevertheless, we can't be seen too much friendly with other houses in our first years. Majority of Slytherin simply just dislike the other three houses." Daphne remarked.

"You are right Daphne; however I don't think we will get a chance to become too much friendly towards other houses as they also have a strong dislike for our house." Harry assured his cousin.

"Now, stop the serious talking. Do you know that Terry Boot and Hermione Granger had a serious fight over what should be ideal length of charm homework? Tracy asked her friends.

"Really, it seems like a rivalry is growing between them." Blaise commented.

"Yes, it is such a silly matter." Daphne remarked.

Harry was little sad that, Hermione was behaving that way. However, he quickly reminded himself it was not his best friend from his own universe. The new Hermione was a different person. She was bossier and had a jealous bone in her. She was also only interested in memorizing textbooks not in truly understanding it.

"If I am guessing right, both Terry Boot and Hermione are engaging in a battle for third place in our class." Harry told them.

"Both of them realized that, Harry and Daphne are beyond their reach so they are both trying to get the next spot. Blaise told his opinion.

"I think both you and Tracy can easily challenge them. You two are already doing better than them in practical." Daphne remarked.

"We regularly get help from both of you and they are still doing better in theory." Tracy sounded little sad.

"Of course we will help you. You two are our friends. I can also see both of you to suppress them. You two are talented people and unlike them, you both have a desire to understand the theory behind a spell. If we can continue our practice in RoR and study in library then I am sure you both will be ahead of them."

"Thanks Harry." Tracy thanked him. Both she and Blaise truly touch by Harry's assurance and soon they engaged in a group hug.

Soon it was dinnertime and four best friends completed their meal together. All of them observed Draco Malfoy was sitting alone in the table it seemed like his friends were still not fully recovered from the effect of love potion. Harry and his friends were also hearing some reports that how their rival Draco Malfoy confined himself in his dormitory.

The majority of upper year of Slytherin became irritated after observing that kind of behavior. It was clear to Harry and his friends that, their rivals were slowly losing their influence in the house.

Mid night in Slytherin boy's dormitory:

Harry was not sleeping even though he was sure that all of his housemate was sleeping now. Harry was thinking about the whole day and about his immediate plan. He was waiting for that period to go into the chamber of secrets. Harry left Slytherin common room silently and went to the chamber of secrets.

"It is midnight now, Hadrian you should be in your dormitory not here." Portrait of Tom remarked.

"Hello Tom, you should know I don't follow normal rules." Harry replied in a clam voice.

"So, what you will do now?" Tom asked.

"I will make some potion and I will also spend some of my time in talking with you." Harry told him.

"I will be honored." Tom remarked in a sarcastic voice.

After that, Harry became busy in making of Polyjuice potion. Harry became proficient in potion making but still it took some time to complete that potion. Harry was pleased with himself as he made a fine quality potion.

"It will be fun when I will use this potion." Harry thought.

"It seems like your potion making task is now complete." Tom was curious when he said those words.

"Yes, I have made good amount of Polyjuice potion." Harry informed him.

"Mr. Sayre I think you will be a good potion master in your future. It is very much impressive for a 11 years boy to make Polyjuice potion of such good quality." Appreciation for Harry's talent was clear in Tom's voice.

"I may be good in potion but, DADA will always be my favorite subject." Harry told Tom in a friendly voice as he was very much enjoying his conversation with Tom.

Tom of that new universe always fascinated him. Tom of that of new universe in his earlier year was not a bigot. He was somewhat conservative about wizarding culture and tradition but he also understood the need of muggle born assimilation in mainstream of wizarding society. Tom also faced prejudice from conservative purebloods. Harry wanted to know what happened that changed Tom's worldview. If he wanted to defeat Tom in that universe then, it was necessary from him to know the mystery.

"What was your favorite subject?" Harry asked him.

"DADA, but I was also interested in Charms." Tom replied.

"Today was my first DADA class." Harry informed him.

"I suppose it went smoothly as DADA is your favorite subject." Curiosity was clear in his voice when he made that assumption about Harry.

"I actually defeat my DADA professor in the duel." Harry smirked.

As expected, it shocked Tom.

"You are not joking right; you really beat your professor in a duel." Disbelieve was clear in his voice.

"I was lucky, the DADA professor underestimated me and he was also unaware about some muggle technology and my timing for spell casting was also right and as a result I was able to surprise him." Harry calmly told Tom.

"You should not be modest here Hadrian, of course you need some assistance from the luck to beat a DADA professor, when you are just an 11 years old student. However, it does not discount the magnitude of your achievement." Tom praised Harry.

Harry was pleased to hear the praise from Tom. He also told him about his rest of the day especially the love potion saga with his rivals.

"You are a worthy Slytherin. I like the way you turned the table on them. I am also surprised by your deal making ability with house elf. I have no doubt that you will rule the Slytherins one day." Tom was laughing when he uttered those words.

"It is nice to have your vote of confidence." Harry told him.

"You deserve it. You showed wisdom that is beyond your age. Now tell me do you have any friends outside of your house?" Tom asked him.

"I don't have any non Slytherin friend yet. Though, I have become an acquaintance with a Ravenclaw girl of my class." Harry informed him.

"Heir Sayre you are already charming the girls at such young age , you are really very mature compare to your age." Tom teased Harry.

"I will take your comment about me as a compliment." Harry said to Tom.

Harry after that applied glamour charm on himself; Harry was not worried about Tom's presence as Harry knew that, he was the only person who came chamber of secrets in last 40 years.

"Hadrian, are you really an 11 year old student because you applied glamour charm on yourself which is OWL level charm." Tom's voice was full of suspicion.

"I can only confirm that, I am biologically an 11 year old boy." Harry replied.

"Ok, I understand that. It seems like you have some personal secrets. By the way you are looking really different after applying glamour charm on yourself." Tom commented.

Hadrian Sayre nee Harry Potter was really looking different in his new avatar. Harry was now having messy black hair instead of golden blonde hair that was associated with Hadrian Sayre. In summary, Harry was looking like old Harry Potter of his home universe.

"Thanks, I have to say good bye now." Harry departed from chamber after thanking Tom.

Harry got himself lost in thought. In that new universe, he had a different face compare to his home universe. Harry was comfortable with his new face as he accepted his new reality. Besides that, his new face was more handsome than his previous one according to fate, however, sometimes when he looked at the mirror; he missed his old face and his messy black hair. Actually, he missed being Harry Potter as it was his original identity.

Now, after applying the charm, he once again was having his old look. Even though it would only last for few hours, Harry was feeling different kind of comfort with his old look.

"Harry Potter, you have a job to do." Harry told himself.

When Harry was talking with Tom, Albus Dumbledore was thinking about him. Harry was able to catch his attention by defeating the new DADA professor. Dumbledore was fascinated by hearing that. He understood that Harry got lucky and it was some somewhat upset but still the headmaster was very much impressed by that boy.

Dumbledore also heard that, Hadrian Sayre was super prodigy in every class. That boy was talented in every subject and way ahead of his classmates. The headmaster recognized that, Hadrian Sayre was the most talented student in Hogwarts history in at least last 250 years. Dumbledore also had no doubt that, one day that boy would cross him in terms of magical ability.

In his long career as a Hogwarts professor only few students able to catch his attention until now. 50 years ago, a student named Tom Riddle was able to catch his attention. Tom was a Slytherin student. Tom was a traditional conservative Slytherin student in his earlier student life. However, at the end of his student life Tom Riddle became an anti muggle born activist. The transformation of Tom Riddle was surprising for him. Albus also felt sad when he heard about the premature death of Tom Riddle.

However, Hadrian Sayre was significantly more talented than Tom Riddle was and unlike Tom, he had a loyal group of friend. Hadrian Sayre was also protected from ultra orthodox pureblood Slytherins, as Hadrian Sayre was a pureblood and heir of a Most Ancient House. Albus hoped that, Hadrian Sayre would contribute positively to magical community.

Hadrian Sayre's closest friend and second cousin Daphne Greengrass also caught Dumbledore's attention. This girl was clearly a prodigy. Dumbledore was certain that, that girl could easily suppress Tom Riddle in terms of talent. If Hadrian was not her classmate she would get more spotlight. That girl was skilled in every subject.

As an heir of one of the most prominent wizarding family, she had a significant political influence in her Hogwarts house. She had increased her political significance by joining force with her cousin and close friend Hadrian. Despite being top students of their class, they did not have any rivalry about that and they help each other. Dumbledore could see them together for life in future.

Hadrian and Daphne also included Tracy Davies and Blaise Zabini in their group and made their group stronger. Dumbledore could see a major intra house battle in Slytherin house. Dumbledore decided that, he would try to know more about Harry and his friends from the professors in the upcoming staff meeting.

Harry apparated in front of Gaunt manor. Harry knew that, Gaunt manor had a special place in Tom Riddle's mind and it would be an ideal place for Tom to hide a Horcrux. Harry was expecting significant resistance when he would try to enter inside that manor, as he knew that, Ton would not leave his Horcrux unprotected.

Several large snakes appeared before Harry when he would try to enter the house.

"Leave you pathetic human." One of the snakes hissed angrily.

"I will only leave when my task will be done." Harry hissed in parseltongue defiantly.

"So you are a speaker. I think it will be unfortunate, when we will have to kill you as our master ordered us to kill any outsider who tries to enter this manor." The snake warned him.

"In that case we don't have any choice. I think it will be one of the tragic incidents in my life when I will be forced to kill all of you noble being." Hadrian told the snake.

Soon seven large snakes tried to attack Harry soon; however, Harry was prepared for that type of attack and he casted a strong shield charm that was learned by him from Potter vault. Harry casted an altered version of cutting curse that wise stronger than normal cutting curse. It gave him satisfactory result, as all the snakes became victim of his cutting curse.

After dealing with poisonous snakes, Harry entered into the manor. Harry was impressed by the structure of the manor and soon he went to the room of head of house. There Harry found a secret small room that was protected by parseltongue password. Harry hissed open in parseltongue and the door of the secret room opened. Harry was searching for the deathly hallows ring. However, Harry became disappointed when he did not find it.

Before leaving the room, Harry took 20 books that were written parseltongue and English from that room. He thought those book would be useful for him in the near future.

For the next thirty minute Harry searched every corner of the manor, nevertheless he did not find any trace of the ring. Harry was preparing to leave the manor when he suddenly felt that anti apparition wards were placed in that place. Harry saw three aurors were discussing outside of the manor, the dead bodies of several large snakes got their attention.

Harry could not take any chance of being caught by aurors. Harry decided to use his special port key, which was created by him in his home universe. That port key was made by using parseltongue and it could be only activated by uttering parseltongue.

Harry activated that port key and soon he was in front of Hogwarts gate. Harry felt very dejected as he did not find any Horcrux in the manor and got himself almost caught by aurors. Harry was suddenly feeling unsure about the whole Horcrux hunting mission. Harry thought it was very much possible that, Tom of that world never made that ring a Horcrux. He had to search other places to find out about other Horcrux.

"Who are you?" Harry was shocked to hear the male voice behind of him. He did not expect him there at this period. He easily identified that, that voice belonged to his head of house.

Harry was feeling angry with himself; he realized that, he did not drop his glamour charm and he was still in his old look.

"That is none of your business." Harry angrily replied.

"You can't talk like that with me. You should do it with respect. I am the head of Slytherin house. You are an intruder who is hiding his identity. I am calling Hagrid now and you will go with us to the chamber of headmaster to explain yourself." Horace shouted angrily.

Harry was already feeling anger because of his earlier failure. He was also irritated with Slughorn for giving the access of kitchen to the house elf of House Moon in return of gift and now that corrupt professor was creating a new drama in front of him. Harry could not let it continue. He also had no desire to meet his headmaster at this period.

Harry silently and wandlessly casted a strong body binding cure at his professor and then casted mind illusion spell in parseltongue that would mess with Horace mind and made him forget about last few hours. However, that spell also had the ability to put its victim in coma for 2-3 days if they were too old. As Horace was an old man, he soon fell into a coma for 2-3 days and dropped to the ground.

Harry soon departed from here, as he knew that, Hagrid would arrive there soon. Harry had no doubt that, the school would be rocked by the fact that, their head of house suddenly fell into the coma. However, Harry did not care about that, he only wanted to sleep now in his bed.

Daphne woke up early in the morning. She remembered the incidents of previous day. It was an eventful day. The defeat of Their DADA professor in the hand of her cousin Harry was a shock for her. She knew that, her cousin was a super prodigy but still she did not expect him to defeat a professor.

She also liked the fact that, her cousin had helping mentality towards his friends. Harry ready to share his knowledge with his friends and Daphne knew that, it would help them significantly in their near future. His teaching method was very effective. Daphne was determined to master Agumanti and alternated cutting spells.

Daphne thought she would not find any new friends after Tracy. She thought that, she would get allies for political reason. However, she had been proven wrong as she found a true friend in the form of Blaise.

Nevertheless, she was mostly happy to get Hadrian. In Hadrian, she found a relative, a great cousin, and a best friend. She was surprised to see how they had so many similar qualities in them. They understand each other very well and may be that was the reasons behind their special bond.

Daphne would not deny that, she found her cousin very cute and may be that was the reason why she did not think Hadrian as her brother. Daphne felt she was blushing when she thought her cousin was cute. Daphne decided that, she would always support her cousin and friend Hadrian with her everything.

She was surprised when Blaise informed her that, Harry was still sleeping. She became worried about Harry's health when she learnt that.

"Do you think Harry is sick?" Daphne asked Blaise.

"I am not sick Daphne." Harry answered from behind.

"Then tell me why you are late, are not you a early riser." Tracy asked.

"I was thinking about some magical theory regarding cutting spell." Harry replied.

It seemed his answer satisfied his friends. Then they all went to the great hall to have their breakfast.

When they reached into the great hall, they heard the rumor that, their head of house had fallen in coma.

"What happened?" Tracy asked.

"I don't know much. However, I heard that, Hagrid informed Professor Horace Slughorn last night that, he found a rare type of dead big spider in t forbidden forest. That type of spider is considered very important potion ingredients. He was waiting for Hagrid to take him the spot where Hagrid found the dead spider. Nevertheless, when Hagrid came back he found Professor Slughorn was unconscious. After that, Hagrid brought Professor to Madam Pomfrey and then Madam Pomfrey declared that, the Professor had fallen in coma." Blaise told Tracy. He heard about the whole situation from Mark Black who became friendly towards Harry and his friends recently.

"Do they know why Professor is now in coma?" Harry asked curiously.

"No, but they are assuming his falling age may be the reason behind this." Blaise told him.

Harry smirked after getting the answer. The spell he used against Horace was not easy to detect. Harry was feeling that, he might be little harsh towards his professor but he knew that, the professor would be standing on his two feet after two days.

"Students for the reasons of security all the classes for today are cancelled. Prefect please takes the students on their dormitory." Albus declared suddenly.

Harry was shocked along with other students.

Chapter end.

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