Walking through the halls of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, there is a 14-year-old boy with messy black hair and emerald-green eyes who is looking not at where he is going but at the cover of a book that he had found several years ago when he was about to leave for Platform 9 and 3/4.

"Oh, Look who it is."

Glancing at the area where the voice came from, the boy sees a large group of students older than him and slowly starting to move so they can surround the boy.

"Hey! Potter, you think you're better than us?"

The boy whose name is Hadrian 'Harry' James Potter sighs at both the comment and over the fact that he couldn't get a moment of peace and that he has to deal with some of his schoolmate's ire for no reason but that someone wants him dead. "No, but I know there is no point in trying to change your mind."

The student who spoke was startled by the very dead tone that the Boy-who-lived used in the response but tried to keep a brave front as he had noticed some of the students from the visiting schools start to arrive and decided to watch the confrontation. "Watch it, Potter. You don't want to cross me."

"And I could care less than what you think, and what does beating me up look like for you as I am two years younger than you." Harry retorted dryly.

Everyone in the area winces at the fact that the Boy-Who-Lived is speaking in a tone that makes it sound like he has given up on life. But something that no one knows is that Harry has been playing the fool to make it seem like he is the person that everyone thought he would be, well except a few people. "Listen can I just head to where I want to be and you can go join in on whatever it is that you do."

"Not a chance I'm not following the demands of some attention-seeking brat." As he finishes saying that he raises his wand and prepares to send a spell at Harry, but then notices something. Harry had pulled his wand out and had moved so that he was pointing his wand at the other student's neck.

"Try it. I've done this several times and not spent long at the hospital wing for my injuries. So try me." Harry threatens.

As Harry says that, many people wince over that fact as there have been a fair few people who have been sent to the hospital wing and kept there for a few days, due to the nurse. Madame Pomfrey is known for keeping students in the hospital wing for more time than necessary.

"You zink that you are better than us Potter." Looking over to where that comment came from Harry sneers at the Durmstrug student mainly over the fact that he can feel the loathing coming from him.

"And my thoughts mean what to you?" Harry asks the Durmstrug student while raising an eyebrow.

"You are nothing but an attention-zeeking brat."

Harry having enough of this conversation decides to move to where there are a group of students that are in front of the hallway that he was about to go through if this whole insult fest started.

As some of the students see Harry walking towards them start to scowl and try to look intimidating but fall short, When Harry gets close enough he starts to hiss in parseltongue scaring everyone as they had forgotten that Harry is a parselmouth.

"Move." he hisses.

As the students start to move and leave Harry, he scowls at everyone there and hisses if they get too close to him. As Harry manages to slip past the whole group he starts to make his way to the 7th floor of Hogwarts Castle. When he reaches an area that is almost devoid of any sort of decorations and paintings.

"That was quite the show, Harry." A voice complements.

Startled Harry turns to face where the voice came from while drawing his wand to see an old-looking man in a suit, "Who the hell are you!?"

Chuckling the man starts to look at Harry making him notice that the man seems to be at complete ease despite having a wand pointed at him.

"My name is Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg, please call me Zelretch." The man introduces himself

"Ok, and what do you want with me?"

Zelretch starts laughing and as he wipes a tear from his eye, he says, "I am here to help you, Hadrian James Potter."

"What?!" Harry exclaims in shock