Chapter 5:

Previously:

After searching the area they came across a flat cliff face that was reeking of magic. The vampire from earlier (who he found out name was Kai) said the only way was to open it by force. He then proceeded to try to pull it open with his, admittedly feeble, magical ability. All of the student took it in turn to try it. Harry was last and when it was his turn Kai shouted out "It's not even worth trying human. If we couldn't do it the how can you?" Harry looked coldly at Kai and then said in a voice that carried easily through the group. "Like this."

Harry then threw a little bit of his power at the wall. A small cascade of black and red sparks and a voice shouted out "That was pathetic human!" Harry then decided, just to shut them up, to send his full power at the wall. Black, red, gold, grey, green, blue, white, silver sparks cascaded down upon the wall as a terrific crack echoed through the cliff face and a hallway filled with food and, now silent, students and teaching gawking at them and in particular Harry, who was now reigning in his powers and sweating only to hear a voice whistle "Damn."

He looked up to see the smiling face of Tonks. He then proceeded to faint into her arms.

AN: Tonks was the only one nice to him. The headmistress looks about 28 with long dark red hair and radiant green eyes (you read between the lines.) You will meet her soon.

When Harry woke up he was lying in a soft bed in what looked like an infirmary when, for a second time that day, everything came rushing back at him and he was left wondering if this would have any lasting effects on his mental health. As he sat up he saw the matron come in proceed to lie him back up and check on him. Following an awkward pause he asked her what he was supposed to do. She then told him to go to their Dining Hall (and directions to do so) to join in their Welcoming Feast.

As he reached the doors after getting lost, admittedly, a few times, he heard a few mumbles of conversation and Kai trying to get credit for what he did ("I must have weakened it for a pathetic human to do that!) Except no one was listening to him having seen the vast amount of power that Harry had used.

When he stepped into the great hall everybody was staring at him. When Tonks waved him over to sit next to her he asked her "Why is everyone staring at me?" Those who were close by looked away, faces bashful, others either didn't hear him or just didn't care.

Tonks just chuckled. "You weren't supposed to be able to open the wall, much less break it!"

"Well then why was it there?"

Again Tonks chuckled. "It's for the teachers to see how they would react to solving it. I think that it's for their amusement too!"

This time Harry chuckled too. "Yes, I can imagine that." He said looking intently at a few of the teachers who blushed and quickly removed their listening charms. The headmistress, Rafaela Akrownski, just laughed, a wonderful tinkling sound, removed the listening charm with a wave of her hand and promptly placed a new one on Harry himself, who took out his wand and promptly removed it. The headmistress laughed again and placed a new one on him with more power, Harry got rid of it, only to have a new one placed on him. This cycle continued for a few minutes, getting faster and faster until it was just a blur for both of them. At some point Harry had ceased to use his wand and as he quickly got it out he saw the headmistress smirk at his previously empty hand and used legilimency on him. Harry tightened his barriers to max only to find fiery letters in an elegant, feminine script. 'My office, 10:00.'

To the students all it seemed was a friendly spar with not much magic being used. What they did not know was that the amount of magic used by both Harry and Rafaela was equivalent to a quarter of the schools warding. Which is a lot. Especially just for placing and removing listening charms.

The rest of the feast passed smoothly with Harry eating very little due to the constant stares he was still receiving.

The announcements basically stated that they were here and were stuck here, the only way to get out is to die. He also said that some of them would not go home by the end of the year. Harry, and everyone else, pointedly stared at Kai. Apparently he wasn't the only person to hate Kai everyone did. Apparently he had pissed off quite a few people during dinner, proclaiming his might and trying to become leader of the vampires in his years, which he failed in… miserably, he now had a black eye and shrank back from the glares he was receiving, apparently he knew the punishment of pissing of the wrong people especially multiple powerful people, or a whole school made up of powerful people.

It was announced that every new student has their own dorm, to help slow down the death rate of kids who had their heart stabbed in the middle of the night. Of course if you didn't know about wards than that knowledge was useless.

As soon as he got his dorm number he went up there and cast a modified Fidelus charm that allowed him to be the secret keeper (created when he was nine) and cast numerous other wards: one to keep the magic from being sensed and thus his Fidelus nulled, one to seriously injure and incapacitate anyone who come here without being keyed into the wards, one to make wands vanish into a box that is hidden in a place NO-ONE would think to look. Even he didn't know where it was because he sold the box a long time ago but he still had a powerful rune there so if your wand gets lost the only way to get it back was Harry to focus and call the wand back, another, smaller, ward that will kill anyone who crosses it without being keyed in, and finally an alarm ward just before the death ward but after the other because, frankly, if you got past those complicated wards you would be looking for a complex wards, not a simple ward that happens to not be detected by most complex ward scans. Once done he worked on his occlumency a bit.

His mind was organized in a rare way, the building was made out of 'Hard Light', a feat he was somewhat close to replicating in the real world, The light showed all of the colours in the spectrum, and a few others besides, the sky was permanently dark and when the Hard Light didn't have a colour flashing through it, it was transparent. It was a building looking a bit like a nightclub except there was something ethereal about it that made your senses scream at you to GET OUT! NOW! The building was layered in wards for intruders, dragons, acromantulas, basilisks and dementors wandered the grounds. On the very slim chance they did get into the building. It was smothered in booby traps, animated tools. And finally even if you made it through them alive. It was a fake building. Do anything and the places blows up, the intruders mind with it, while harry mind was safely protected 1,500 mile down in the earth protected by more wards than the other building and more dangerous creatures then have ever featured in Doctor Who.

Overall, pretty secure.

After reviewing his mind, and removing the fiery letters, he found out it was almost 10. "Shit" He cursed. He did not want to be late for his meeting.

After running there he made it just in time. Before he could know he heard that beautiful voice again.

"Come in."

AN: I would end it here… but I'm too nice for that.

Harry walked into the headmistresses' office only to gaze in wonder at how it was decorated. The desk was simple glass. The walls caught his eye, they were glass, but that's not what made it probably the best walls in the history of all offices. There was a huge aquarium in walls only ¾ feet long. Inside the aquarium that was in the wall there were: several sharks, a few grindylows, and lots of jellyfish ranging from the Persian man of war to the stomolophus nomurai. There were even a few turtles in there! When Harry managed to tear his eyes away from the aquarium he examined the rest of the room. Everything was elegant with a hint of danger from the black wood from the dementor fruit tree that made up most of the interior with the highlights being done with the purple wood from the African tree of marteling. The wood was matte and the black seemed to absorb the light while the marteling tree seemed to glow in the darkness of the office. He made a mental note to make a wand out of those types of wood. When he regained his senses he heard the headmistresses laughing slightly. When she composed herself she said "Of all of the people who have seen this office your reaction is the only one which truly appreciates this room's beauty."

"It is an amazingly beautiful office. Dementor fruit and marteling wood?" Harry questioned waving his hand and the wood.

"Ah! You are the first person to have guessed correctly. Lovely effect don't you think? The dementor fruit seems to absorb it while the marteling seems to radiate it."

"It is a wonderful effect and especially with… that" He said gesturing weakly at the aquarium.

She laughed at that, again, and sat down in her office chair. Harry followed her and sat down in the chair opposite to the desk. "And I am sure that you are wondering why you are here?" She questioned. "When so few others have even seen this office?"

"I would be lying if I said that I wasn't curious headmistress."

"While we're in this room please call me Rafaela."

"Thank you Headmis… Rafaela. Please call me Harry."

Rafaela slouched down in her chair and said "Thank god the pleasantries are over!" With a groan.

Harry chuckled and said "Not a fan for formalities are you?"

She looked at him dryly stating "You think?" Then she stated. "Anyway where were we?"

"I was wondering why I was here."

"Okay, that. Well I noticed that you have a wandless magic affinity."

Outwardly nothing seemed to happen. But inside he was preparing for a fight that he would probably lose. Somehow Rafaela noticed and said "Nothing to worry about Harry, I merely wish to teach you how to use it."

Harry calmed down slightly but was still cautious. "You can use it?" he stated calmly, when suddenly he started floating with bubbles surrounding him. He used his own abilities to make him float back down and send the bubbles back to Rafaela who send them back at him. He groaned and hissed at the bubbles causing the bubbles to pop.

"Oh yeah. Did I tell you that I am a parselmouth?"

"Nope."

AN: It is finally over and my poor fingers can rest. This is definitely the longest chapter I have ever written at 2k. By the way I haven't got any plans for any ships so feel free to suggest ships or anything you want to happen. I havn't had any replies so I have decided to just screw it all and post when I feel like it. anyway the next chapter will be up sometime... soon?