DR chapter 3
Harry and Delphi entered the transfigurations class room and nearly all eyes fell upon them both, though more likely Harry. A lot of people had taken to either stealing glances or looking straight at him. Partially because he was the boy-who-lived and also because he looked nothing like they were expecting, seeing as they didn't expect him to have burn or scratch marks.
In fact, many had begun theorising how he ended up looking like this. Some guessed an attack by magical creatures like dragons, others thought it was an accident during training, some thought that Harry got the look after battling a dark wizard. Some guessed that it was from you-know-who when he attacked the Potters.
"Be honest" Harry said to the class "do you think I'm attractive?"
"What? Why are you asking that?" One Hufflepuff asked
"Because with the way that you're all looking at me, I would hope that it is because you think I'm attractive. If not, then please stop, it goes from amusing to creepy really quickly" Harry replied, he was glad to see that many of them had become suitably uncomfortable and turned away from him. "And that's why you lot aren't Gryffindor's" Harry added as he sat down, with Delphi next to him, not noticing the reactions to his last statement.
A few minutes later, the cat that was sitting on the front desk jumped and transformed into Professor McGonagall, she observed as most of the class looked impressed and some stared at her with awe. She noticed that the Riddle girl who sat next to Harry, she looked amused by the transformation. She then looked at Harry Potter, the son of two of her favourite students.
Bored. That's what she would describe his reaction as. He didn't look at all interested, he looked at her as if she was some dramatic woman performing tricks. That shocked her a little, she remembered his parents reactions, James and Lily had both stared at her with awe and excitement. It seemed that Harry was different.
He made it clear to her that he hadn't come to this school willingly, she had hoped that after the first day or so he would change his mind but it looks like he hadn't. Before sending out his letter she had spent a great many days expecting Harry to come to Hogwarts. She wondered what he would be like, would he be like Lily? Would he look like James? Would he have James's charms and skills? Would he have Lily's kindness and brilliance?
As he was a boy, she would lean towards him looking like James but because of his face she wasn't sure as most of it was burnt and scratched, he had James's hair at least. He also had Lily's eyes, though none of their warmth. She hadn't spent much time with the boy but she figured that he might not take after either of them in personality. He might possess their brains and stubbornness but they would never talk to her the way he had talked to her when she and the headmaster had visited him at the orphanage. Even James, a notorious prankster, would never talk to her like that.
"Welcome class" She said and the lesson started.
Harry and Delphi listened as McGonagall talked, she explained transfigurations, the danger behind it and what they would be doing. After a little while she had them try turning matches into needles, she placed a match in front of each student and began walking around the class room. Instructing and helping the students. Eventually she stopped near Harry's table, she looked at the two and saw that Harry hadn't even attempted the spell. Just as she was about to tell him off for being lazy, he spoke.
"Try it again" Harry said to Delphi "this time try to put more power into it and this time try to imagine it properly"
"Fine" She sighed before taking a breath, she tried again and after two tries she got it "cool" She grinned at Harry "you try it"
"If I must" Harry sighed, he visualised the results he wanted then performed the spell, a few seconds later he was holding a perfect needle
"Well done Mr Potter and Miss Riddle" McGonagall said, making her presence known to the two students, Delphi jumped slightly but Harry showed no outward reaction "five points for Ravenclaw, each"
"Thank you Professor" Delphi said, though Harry remained quite
"You're welcome" McGonagall said, then moved on, slightly disappointed by Harry's lack of reaction.
impressive said McGonagall
james was proud of his son from that world.
Harry, Delphi, the rest of the Ravenclaws and the Hufflepuff's soon found themselves in the potions class, which for some reason was in the dungeons. The two had opted to sit near the back.
"It's cold" Delphi shivered slightly
"Is it?" Harry asked
"Oh right, you don't get cold" Delphi rolled her eyes
"That's hardly my fault" Harry responded.
Any further response was cut off by the door slamming open, announcing the arrival of the Hogwarts potions professor, Severus Snape. He stormed in, his cape billowing as he did so, dressed entirely in black. His hair was greasy and shoulder length, his nose was long and hooked. His eyes were black with no warmth at all. He began taking the role call and stopped at Harry's name.
"Ah, Mr Potter. Our new celebrity" He said softly, in a mocking tone, he continued with the roll call. Meanwhile Harry was wondering if Hogwarts would end up with one less teacher at the end of the day, judging by the nervous glances, Delphi was wondering the same thing. After he finished calling out the names, he began talking again "You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion making. As there is little wand waving here, many of you will find it hard to believe that it is magic. I can teach you to bottle fame, brew glory and even put a stopper on death. If you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach. Potter!" Snape snapped suddenly
"Yes sir?" Harry said, his tone somewhere between bored and irritated
"Five points for your tone. You're just as arrogant as your father, thinking that you can get away with everything. Tell me Potter, what would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?"
Snape shouted lily James and Sirius causing him to flich.
Dumdeldore looked disappointed
Wonder how they react to what coming next thought raven
"The draught of living death sir" Harry answered, Snape looked slightly surprised before schooling his face and continuing
"Where would you look if I asked you to find a bezoar?"
"If you mean now then your potions cabinet, if not then a potions store or the stomach of a goat" Harry answered
"Five points for your cheek! What is the difference between monkshood and wolfsbane?!"
"There isn't a difference sir" Harry replied
"Cheating already? There's no way that you would be able to know all these answers!"
"It's called reading sir and if you thought that I wouldn't know the answers then why were you asking them?" Harry asked, keeping the annoyance out of his voice
"Do not talk back to me you brat!" Snape growled and walked over before slammed his hands on Harry's desk, the two locked eyes "You think you're special Potter, with your stupid little scars? You're just an arrogant brat out for attention, much like your father!"
"I think you think that I think I'm special and I think you have issues, as for attention seeking I'm not the one moving around like a Shakespeare actor, now I'd also like it if you kindly back the fuck off" Harry said, his voice as neutral as he could make it but ended with a hint of warning.
the Gryffindors were impressed and some giggled
Harry felt something weird, he shook his head when he realised that Snape was trying to read his mind. Snape himself was a little surprised when he encountered some defenses but he continued, there was no way that James Potter's spawn would be able to keep him out for long. He was so caught up in the moment that he failed to register the fact that Harry knew what he was doing. Harry fought back with his occlumency shields, he was good but he knew he wouldn't be able to keep Snape out for long. The bastard was actually trying to do this in front of everyone! He was trying to read his mind!
"That is it!" Harry snarled, he grabbed the nearest thing he could, which happened to be a beaker and smashed it across Snape's face, causing Snape to fall backwards, most of the class gasped and screamed out in shock. One Hufflepuff moved out of the way so Snape didn't land on her, but then that resulted in Snape leaning back on her desk but Harry wasn't done yet.
Everyone gasp on shock and horror
The Gryffindors cheered harry on.
Harry look at screen in disbelief
Snape mad he wouldn't take that from anyone
He leaped on top of his desk, then he jumped on Snape and began punching the man with as much strength as he could muster. The whole class was too shocked to stop him from doing so, they all stared as the boy-who-lived continued punching Snape as much as he could. Blood poured out of Snape's long nose, eventually he managed to push Harry off, Harry landed on his feet as Snape pulled out his wand. Snape aimed it at Harry, when a screeching sound was heard.
Shadow the Raven flew in through the door and yanked Snape's wand out of his hand, Harry didn't waste time and punched Professor Snape between his legs, causing the man to kneel over. Harry grabbed him by the head, and slammed the man's face on his desk repeatedly. Eventually he stopped when it looked like Snape was near conciousness, an evil glint appeared in Harry's eyes.
"Harry! Stop!" Delphi said, she saw the look in Harry's eyes and realised that he would do something big if she didn't stop him
"This bastard tried to read my mind!" Harry growled and a few people gasped, especially the magically raised children, mind reading was illegal and suddenly Harry's actions seemed to make more sense
"Fine but let's just tell the teachers" She said as a war occurred behind Harry's eyes as his thoughts began battling, trying to decide between listening to Delphi or ruining Snape's face even more. Eventually they settled on a compromise.
"Fine!" Harry said before slamming Snape's head on the desk once more, he then let the man go. Snape dropped to the ground as Harry wiped his hands off his robes. Shadow flew to Harry and presented the wand to him "Thanks" Harry said before he took the wand and snapped it, causing even more surprise amongst the students as snapping a wand was the ultimate insult. Delphi had written a note and handed it to Shadow "go deliver that to Flitwick" Harry instructed his faithful bird, Shadow nodded and flew off
"You okay Harry?" Delphi asked
"I'm fine" Harry nodded, he looked around to see everyone staring at him "what are you all looking at? Never seen a person beat up a teacher before?" He asked in the driest voice he could possibly use.
"H...Harry" Susan Bones spoke up "D...did he really t...try to read your mind?"
"No I beat him up because his long nose offended me" Harry said sarcastically
many laugh at his big nose joke
lily looks at Snape mad
While James is restraining himself from doing the same as Raven harry
Dumdeldore Wonder how this will play out.
It's...it's just that my aunt is the head of the DMLE" She said "I...I could send a letter to her about it if you want"
"Hmm, write your letter now" Harry said "when Shadow comes back you can send it off straight away...thank you" He added, the words feeling a bit weird on his tongue
"Uh...sure" Susan blinked before sitting down and writing a letter. Once she had finished, Flitwick and Shadow arrived, followed by McGonagall and Dumbledore. Apparently Flitwick was near the two when he got the letter, either that or he told them as well. Shadow immediately flew over to Susan and plucked the letter out of her hands before flying off, leaving Susan to blink at the smart bird, she looked at Harry and just saw him hide a smirk of amusment.
"Mr Potter, I got your letter" Flitwick said but was interrupted by Dumbledore
"Mr Potter, what happened?" The old man asked
"Your pet death eater tried to mind rape me!" Harry growled
"What?" McGonagall gasped
"I'm sorry, are you deaf?" Harry said mockingly "I'll repeat, that scumbag" He pointed at Snape "tried to mind rape me! He tried to force his way into my mind!"
"It's true Professors" Terry Boot, a Ravenclaw said
"Yes" Hannah Abbot, a Hufflepuff agreed "he came in the class, he started insulting Harry then the two locked eyes for a few seconds then the next thing we knew, Harry was attacking him"
"You attacked him?" Dumbledore blurted out as he looked to Harry
"If it was up to me he'd be a lot worse, I'm sure he can handle it" Harry said before kicking Snape in the sides, causing the potions master to groan "tell me headmaster, are you in a habit of hiring death eaters who enjoy reading peoples minds?"
the Gryffindors looked happy at seeing Snape get his karma
Snape felt embarrassed
"Mr Potter, Professor Snape is no more a death eater than I am" Dumbledore said
"Oh, do you also read minds or do you also have a dark mark?" Harry said as he rolled up Snape's sleeve, showing everyone his dark mark
"Mr Potter, I fear we are getting off topic, you cannot attack a teacher"
"Oh, so it's alright for teachers to mind rape us then?" Delphi countered, the other students nodding in agreement with her words
"Miss Riddle, that is not what I am implying" Dumbledore sighed "I am merely stating that Mr Potter went overboard and..."
"Overboard?" Harry snorted "No, I defended myself. I couldn't keep him out so I attacked him, I fought him physically because he'd beat me magically. I have never performed a stunning spell nor would I be stupid enough to try it for the very first time against a trained death eater"
"Mr Potter, he is not a death eater" Dumbledore sighed
"Since entering this class room he has done nothing over than growling and glaring at everyone, insulting Harry and his father who is a well known light wizard that died when he tried to protect his son and then trying to rape the mind of the boy-who-lived. Sounds like a death eater to me" Delphi crossed her arms and even more students agreed with her.
"Albus, I think it would be prudent if we get Snape to the hospital wing" McGonagall said
"Agreed" Flitwick added whilst glaring at Dumbledore "you can waste time arguing with Mr Potter later"
"Very well" Dumbledore looked disappointedly at Harry before helping the other teachers take Snape away, Flitwick gave Harry a slight nod before walking out.
A little while later Harry sat in the great hall, the news of potions class had travelled fast and now all of Hogwarts knew what had happened and resulted in some very mixed reactions. Some teachers were in disbelief but others were not surprised as they had heard students complain about Snape for years but still didn't expect him to go so far.
The students were slightly different, a few were worried about Harry but the majority of Hufflepuff's were on Harry's side, thanks to the Hufflepuff's in Harry's class they had learnt what had happened. They thought it was appalling for a teacher to read a students mind, they then felt a bit sick about the idea of Snape reading their mind or one of the other Hufflepuff's, they felt quite thankful for the fact that Harry stopped him and were hoping that Snape would be fired. None of the Hufflepuff's liked him anyway.
The Gryffindor's, while a bit disappointed that Harry wasn't one of them, were thrilled by the news. It was no secret that they hated Snape and his rather obvious biasedness against Gryffindor and for Slytherin. The only Gryffindor's who didn't hate him were far and few between and they never really lasted throughout seven years of Hogwarts without changing their minds. Their hatred increased tenfold when they realised that the bastard was reading people's minds. The Weasley's, apart from Percy who was struck between disliking attacking a teacher and disliking Snape, began calling Harry a hero for potentially getting rid of Snape.
the Weasley thought he was a hero but Molly and Percy
Snape think that dumdeldore will get him out of this.
Fay Dunbar was surprised, she had hanged out with Harry and Delphi on the train, and apart from being quiet and untalkative, she never really saw anything that would indicate Harry would be the type of person to attack a teacher. Scratch that, he was wearing a mask, and with that she wasn't quite as shocked as before. But to be fair, Snape is a git and Harry did give off a 'want to be left alone' vibe so she doubted it was him that started it, so Snape probably did try to read Harry's mind.
The only Gryffindor who wasn't as happy about the news was Hermione Granger, yes she felt that Snape was a bit grouchy but he was a teacher! Yes, maybe he read someone's mind but he probably had a good reason for it, he was a professor. She couldn't believe that Harry Potter, the boy-who-lived of all people, would attack a teacher. She especially couldn't believe that many people were starting to praise him for it! Didn't they see that what he did was wrong?!
The Slytherins were divided as well, some hated Potter for getting for attacking Snape who favoured them a lot, while others who didn't really like Snape, despite his favouritism were glad to see he was gone. The latter because Snape only caused them to become more hated and ruin Slytherin's reputation. Draco Malfoy was firmly in the former, Potter had attacked his godfather and now the whole school was calling him a criminal. With Snape around, Draco would've been free to do whatever he wanted without consequence and punishment from others, but now Potter had ruined that. Hopefully his father would stop Snape from getting fired.,
you would let him do whatever he wanted and you would have harry a hard time if he did the same said James coldy
Of course you would kiss his ass said Ron sarcastically
Ron shriek Molly
different world said Snape
that is true we can't be mad at him for action of another world Said harry.
Everyone looked at him shock
What it's true
The Ravenclaws were calling for Snape's head, one of their own was attacked and they did not like that at all. As people who valued knowledge, and the fact that most of them were raised in the magical world, they realised that what Snape did was a major crime. Only one or two Ravenclaws thought that Harry went too far, most of the house wanted Professor Snape's blood so united in a show of loyalty that would've definitely impressed the Hufflepuff's.
"Albus Dumbledore" Amelia Bones, the head of the DMLE (Department of Magical Law Enforcement) walked into the hall, followed by a group of aurors
"Amelia" Dumbledore stood up "may I just.."
"Can it, where is Professor Snape?" Amelia Bones interrupted
"He is in the hospital wing" Flitwick said before Dumbledore could reply "would you like me to walk you there?"
"No thank you, I remember the way" Amelia nodded to him before walking off, leaving behind a sweating Dumbledore.
"Damn it Severus" Dumbledore whispered to himself
damn it thought dumdeldore like his counterpart
Snape a little nervous for now counterpart.
Everyone was just shocked
Ok dinner then sleep and we will see see more tomorrow said Lady magic