Assassins in the Wizarding World.
Chapter Four: Bonding and Weighing of Wands.
(In the Gryffindor Common Room)
Harry, Ron and Hermione were in the common room, discussing about the new students. "Don't you find it weird that the people that came from the Goblet of Fire hadn't done magic, except our new professor?" Hermione asked, she had never seen wandless magic before and their new professor did it with ease! How can anyone do that?
"Maybe, but when I was in the room with our new professor, the night when my name came out of the Goblet of Fire, I felt cold, much colder than a Dementor." Harry said as he shivered. He did not want to remember the Dementors, they're such foul creatures.
"True, but the way those two girls beat up Malfoy, it's bloody brilliant!" Ron exclaimed as his face became dreamy as he thought of the beating that Malfoy deserved. "Do you think that Professor Esdeath will teach us that during Physical Education?" He asked, he wanted to learn those stuff so he can beat up Malfoy for all the times he said about his family.
Harry and Hermione stifled a chuckle, it was true that Malfoy did deserved it, but they wondered what will happened to the girls. Malfoy's father can make their lives terrible to them, though it would be wrong because the black-hair girl was carrying her sword and it seemed very dangerous.
Harry still shivered when he heard that Professor Esdeath is going to be teaching them at Hogwarts. It also didn't help that he still remembered the cold blue eyes when she looked at him. It was like a Dementor was there, but this cold was very much worse. He did not want to earn the woman's bad side.
The rumor of Malfoy getting beaten up spread and the students were shocked, confused, but also happy. The teachers were also shocked, but the angriest of all was Snape. He was a very foul mood that he tried to get the girls in trouble by talking Professor Esdeath, but she did not care, just said that Malfoy was a weakling and he got what he deserved by talking about her friends and her boyfriend.
Harry got confused by that. Why did Professor Esdeath called him a weakling? Was it because she was looking for strong and experience Wizards? That had to be it, he had asked Hermione about it and she said that she did not know.
"You know, I think we should talk to them and become friends with them." Harry confessed and Ron and Hermione looked at him in surprised. "I mean, I noticed a sad look in their eyes and I think that they had friends in the world they came from." He explained.
Ron and Hermione thought about it and said they should meet with them in the library tomorrow.
(The Next Day with Akame, Leone and Tatsumi)
Akame, Leone and Tatsumi were in the library, looking at books. They were trying to find something to make them go back to their home. But so far, there was no books helping them, much to Akmae's frustration. Tatsumi, on the hand, was starting to panic a little. If they can not find a way to go home, did he had to win the tournament?
He was snapped out of his thoughts when he sensed three people coming towards him and Akame. He looked up to see two boys and one girl. The first boy he recognized was Harry Potter, but he didn't know about the other two.
"Can I help you with something?" Tatsumi asked as they walked up to them.
"Hello," Harry said as he, Ron and Hermione stopped in front of them, Ron was trying not to look at Leone, much to her amusement. "I was wondering if you want to be friends." Tatsumi, Leone and Akame looked surprised when he said that. They looked at him and he explained, "The other day when lessons started, I noticed that you had a sad look in your eyes and since you're from another world, you probably missed your friends."
Tatsumi, Leone and Akame looked at each other and had separate thoughts. 'It would be nice to make more friends, and since they know much about this world, maybe they can help us.' Tatsumi thought, he and Harry were both champions, they worked together to win. Cedric is a nice person to talk to, but he wanted to avoid Fleur Delacour.
'Yay! More friends for me to tease!' Leone thought as she said, "Yay! But before you become our friends, try to get your friend under control. My chest belongs to one person, and it's Tatsumi." Harry and Hermione blush at that, though they did slap Ron on the head.
'I think I can trust them, but I'll talk to the others to make sure we don't tell them what we are.' Akame thought as she smiled and said, "Alright, we can be your friends if you help us learn much about this world."
Harry, Ron and Hermione were happy to hear that, and for an hour, they told them much about the Wizarding World. Akame, Leone and Tatsumi learned that there were three types of bloods, Pureblood, Halfblood, and Muggleborn. They also learned about the adventures Harry, Ron and Hermione had from their First to Third Year.
If Mine was in the Wizarding World, she would be pissed as hell to learn about the blood laws.
Akame, Leone and Tatsumi were shocked that a person called Voldemort tried to take over the Wizarding World, but amazed that Harry stopped him when he was a baby, though it cost him his parents. Akame felt pity for him since she and Kurome never seen their parents again after they sold them to the Empire.
Harry, Ron and Hermione told them how they became friends from stopping a troll, including this Quirrell from stealing a stone that allows a person to become immortal, but the most shocking thing is when Harry killed a Basilisk.
"Wait, what is a Basilisk?" Tatsumi asked as he tried to get the shock off his face from all the information he just heard. Akame managed it and looked at Harry with amazement in her eyes. She can see that Harry has potential to become a great Wizard, he just needed to train. Same for Hermione, though she doubted that Ron can do it because he was a slacker and just love food, chess and Quidditch- a sport played by brooms that can fly.
Leone whistled and said, "Damn, Harry. You're a lucky bastard doing all those stuff, no wonder Esdeath said that you have potential, you need training." If Harry can impressed Esdeath like Tatsumi, then he is special.
"A Basilisk is a snake, known as the King of Serpents. If anyone looks at it in the eye, they die. But if anyone looks at it in a reflection, they get petrified." Hermione explained. Tatsumi and Akame looked at each other and thought one thing, 'I don't want to face that snake.'
"I'll explain about it another time, right now, we have Double Potions." Harry said as they pack up their stuff and headed to the dungeons. On their way, Tatsumi, Leone and Akame told them about their world, though they chose their words carefully because they didn't want Harry, Ron and Hermione to know they are assassins.
They arrived at the dungeons, and before they can head in, Harry warned them about Snape. Akame, Leone and Tatsumi frowned when Harry said, "Snape doesn't like Gryffindors, and he favors his own house. He also hates me because I look like my father. Also, the Slytherins will be there."
They entered the dungeon and the Empire group sat with the Golden Trio. The Slytherins were there and was glaring at them. Leone looked at them and snapped, "What are you dumbasses looking at?!" The Slytherins turned away quickly, Malfoy was going to say something, but Akame and Tatsumi glared darkly at him, and he shut his mouth.
Snape entered the dungeon and strode to the front of the room. When he got there, he said in a oily voice, "As you know, we have three new people in the room." He gestured to the Empire group. "While they are not students, that doesn't mean we will stop and asked questions about their…world." The Empire people glared at him, and Snape got a chill down his spine from those glares.
He will never admit it, not even to Dumbledore, but he was scared of Esdeath, the woman talks exactly like Bellatrix. She was sadistic and cruel.
"Now," Snape drawled. "you should've prepared your antidotes. I want you to brew them carefully, and then, we'll be selecting someone to test it." He finished as he looked at Harry, who glared at him. Of course Snape wanted to poison him. he wasn't surprised to do this, the relationship between him and Snape was rock bottom. Snape hated his father when he was at school and hates Harry for looking like him.
Before they can start, there was a knock on the door. "Enter." Snape said, and the class turned around to see Professor Esdeath entered the room. This was unusual, shouldn't she be teaching a class right now?
"I hope I'm not interrupting, but I need Harry Potter and Tatsumi to come with me." Esdeath said, making the class turned to Harry and Tatsumi, who both were staring at her in surprised. Why does Esdeath want with them?
Snape's face turned foul and he said, "Potter and Tatsumi have an hour and a half to complete Potions, they'll come with you when they are done." The class wouldn't believe it, but they could've sworn that Snape is trying to get Esdeath to leave the dungeon.
Esdeath shook her head and said, "No, now. They have to do the Weighing of Wands, it's tradition that all champions have to be there. And they must bring their stuff with them, it will take a whole hour and a half to finished."
"Fine!" Snape snapped, "Potter, Tatsumi, grab your stuff and get out of my sight!" Tatsumi and Harry were very glad to do that because they packed their stuff up and quickly left the room with Esdeath following them.
"What is the Weighing of Wands, Professor?" Harry asked, making Esdeath looked at him. "The Weighing of Wands is a ceremony that allows a wand maker to check your wands to see if it's still working." Esdeath explained, and Harry nodded.
They reached the room where the ceremony would start, and before they can head in, Esdeath warned, "Now, before we head in, there is a reporter named Rita Skeeter who works at a place called the Daily Prophet. She writes horrible stories, so she might want to know where me and Tatsumi came from. Harry, since you got in the tournament, she might try to make your life terrible. Let me do the talking and I want you both to swear that you will not be with that woman." She spat the name out like it was disgusting.
Tatsumi and Harry nodded and they went in the room. The room was a classroom that was small so the desks were pushed away. There were multiple people Harry and Tatsumi recognized: Cedric Diggory, Viktor Krum, Fleur Delacour, Mr. Couch and Ludo Bagman. There were two people in the room as well, a cameraman and a woman, this had to be Rita Skeeter.
Bagman spotted them and exclaimed, "Ah, here they are! Champion four and five! Come in, come in. We are just waiting for Dumbledore to finished talking with the person for the ceremony." He turned to looked at Rita and introduced, "This is Rita Skeeter, writer of the Daily Prophet. She is here to write about the tournament."
Rita was still looking at them, and Harry and Tatsumi were getting a bit peeved by it. Luckily, Esdeath noticed, went over to her and lean down to whispered in her ear, "I may be new to this world, but I know much about you and your stories. If I find out you wrote about us that are lies, I will give you hell and punished you myself." Rita paled and nodded her head rapidly, not wanting to earn the wrath of this woman.
Rita was planning to find out the Empire people, but after that warning she got, she would not dare try to do that. She loves her life.
Soon, Dumbledore entered with the judges and with them was an old man that seemed to be the wand maker. Dumbledore cleared his throat and said, "May I introduced, our wand maker for the Weighing of Wands, Mr. Ollivander." The old man nodded and sat down on the judges table, waiting for the champions wands.
"Miss Delacour, can I please have your wand?" Mr. Ollivander asked, and Fleur got up from her chair, walked over to him and handed him her wand. "Nine and a half inches, rosewood for the wood and the hair core is…dear me." Mr. Ollivander said as he examine the wand.
"The hair is from the head of a Veela." Fleur said proudly in a French accent. "One of my grandmothers." She added. Tatsumi made a mental note to asked Hermione what a Veela was.
"Ah, from your grandmothers, then the wand is a perfect match for you." Mr. Ollivander said and he conjure a spell that made flowers came out of the wand and handed to her, along with the flowers.
"Mr. Diggory, your wand please." Mr. Ollivander said, and Cedric stood up, went over to him and handed him his wand. "Ah, this is my creation. Twelve and one quarter inches, ash wood, containing a unicorn hair, one that nearly plucked me with its horn." He chuckled to himself before producing a bunch of smoke rings that went out the window and handed back to Cedric, saying that it was still good to used.
Next was Krum, who got up, went over to Mr. Ollivander, and thrust his wand out while scowling. Mr. Ollivander said, while examining it, "Hmmm, this wand is made from Gregorovitch, right?" Krum nodded. "Ten and a quarter inches, hornbeam wood, and dragon heartstring for the core." He then conjure a couple of birds that went out the window, and handed to Krum, who took it and sat back down.
Next was Harry, who got up, walked to Mr. Ollivander, and handed him his wand. "Ahh, curious, very curious." Mr. Ollivander said, while smiling. "I remember I sold you this wand, Mr. Potter." Harry remembered it too and smiled. It was the day when he was eleven, when he went inside Ollivanders shop to buy a wand. He tried many kinds of wands, but couldn't found the one until he was given that one.
The wand Harry is using is eleven inch, holly wood, with a single feather from a phoenix. The feather core was same as the one who gave him the lightning scar on his forehead, Lord Voldemort. Harry never shared this information with anyone because he feared that someone (a Death Eater) would want to break it.
Mr. Ollivander spend much time looking at Harry's wand than anyone else. However, he made a fountain of water shoot and freeze it, before handing back to Harry, announcing its still good to use.
"Now, Mr. Tatsumi, will you hand me your wand?" Mr. Ollivander said, and Tatsumi got nervous about that. He looked at Esdeath for help and she said, "My champion doesn't use a wand, does the rules state that he can use anything, like the sword he is carrying?"
Dumbledore looked thoughtfully before answering, "I will have to look in the rulebook again, but rest assured, Tatsumi. If you don't want to use a wand, you can use your sword, but does it do anything?" Tatsumi nodded, but he said, "If I'm doing it, I want to do it somewhere else, I don't trust that lady." Gesturing to Rita, whose face turned red.
Dumbledore nodded and said, "Very well, if you would come to my office tonight, all the judges will be there to see your sword's ability. Now, I believe that we have to do photos." Harry inwardly groaned at that. He did not want to do that. Same for Tatsumi because Esdeath wrapped her arms around Tatsumi and pushed his head against her chest, earning weird looks from everyone in the room. Esdeath glared at them that made everyone turned away.
The photographs took a long time, but in the end, they took separate shots and they left. Harry went to the Great Hall for dinner, while Tatsumi went Dumbledore's office for all the judges to see his ability.
'So far, things are going well in this world. I just hope that Esdeath can find something about the First Task. If not, I'll handle it, I'd face worst things before.' Tatsumi thought a bit grimly as he walk to the Headmasters office.
The Weighing of Wands is over, and the next chapter will shocked the judges. The First Task is getting closer, will Harry and Tatsumi handle it, or will they meet their ends?
I'm sorry, but since I'm new to write Harry Potter stories, I will not write all the spells yet, but I will learn more about them.
Next Chapter: Esdeath's Lesson and Dragons.