well thats just stupid
Chapter 10
Well that is just stupid.
The holidays were great. We had the issue with Ron the day after the concert but that was it. We had no other problems. That was until I got an invite form the Weasley matriarch. Apparently they were back from Romania and wanted to meet me since I’m such good friends with… Ron? Yeah it said Ron not the twins. That was weird but I just assumed she's an idiot so thought nothing more of it. The rest was a whole lot of nothing really. Some shit about the importance of family. She invited me and my guardian down for dinner on new years day. I was a bit apprehensive at the thought but I thought Oh the twins will be there, it'll be fine. No, I was so wrong you wouldn't believe.
We got the knights bus. This is the same bus the twins got when they came to ours for the concert. They never told me that it was such an awesome ride. They drove like they were nuts and it was amazing. Sam looked a little green by the end of it but I was in my element. I might forgo Apperation just to ride this crazy train.
Either way we ended up at there house and knock. We get welcomed to the house by Molly who is the twin’ mother. She seems okay I guess. Never having a mother, or someone that I could even call the equivalent, I have no idea if what they did was normal but she seemed really over bearing. Demanding stuff from all of them. Yeah kinda glad I don’t have this. I hope my parents weren’t like that.
It wasn't going to badly. I met Bill who is the twin’s oldest brother. He was hot, not going to lie. With his pony tale and ear ring made from the tooth of something. Percy was there and we had five crack. He's not such a bad guy just boring as all hell. I also met the little sister of the group. Ginny was this cute little red head. She was ridiculously shy, especially towards me. She wouldn't reply when I talked to her. She just looked at me with a scowl and a red face. Like she was pissed off but wouldn't say what it is.
The issues started when I asked her if there was an issue. She goes bright red and I start to think she's going to hit me when I get an explosion of words bring screamed at me. We are in the living room and it catches the attention of everyone. What I did make out from what she was trying to say was.
“You really a gay boy aren't you?” not really liked being called a gay boy I hold back on my initial reply. I go with “Yes. Is that a problem?” then it just went off. Ginny proceeded to call me every homophobic slur she could think and some I’m sure she just made up on the spot. The twins come to my aid and so does Bill but Percy jumps to Ginny’ defence and agrees with her.
I’m over to the side of the room now not wanting to get any more involved in this argument that I already was. Sam comes over and takes my hand and gives it a squeeze. This was a bad idea. The moment Ginny saw this she screamed even more profanities at me and now Sam.
“RON WAS RIGHT!” I turn to the twins who shrug. “He told me that you and him…” making a point to look at Sam. “Were a thing.” I have never seen anything like it she was kicking off to high heaven. Percy and Bill had to take her out of the room. I just told the twins thanks but we gotta go.
As I was getting my shoes on to leave, Sam is trying to tell the twins its okay and not to worry when Mrs Weasley came over to me. She started yammering on about family and how its important, how I don’t know what I’m doing and that Sam is just using me. Considering she doesn’t know anything about me other than what she's been told off her kids I think she's got some fucking nerve. She tells me Dumbledore knows what's best for me and he thinks I should go back with my relatives. This pushes me over the edge. I have done my best up to this point to not allow my magic to show. But the longer this is going on the harder it is to stop the upcoming dam breaker.
I can feel the magic start to envelop me. My hair is standing on end as is Mrs Weasley’. I can feel the power leaking out. With as much venom in my voice as I can muster.
“He, like you knows fuck all about me or my life. I suggest if you like yours you stay the fuck out of mine. SAM, time to go.” I could see the fear in the cunt in front of me. But who the fuck is she to assume anything. I only came round as I’m friends with the twins. I didn’t come here to have my life choices called up for question or my relationships for that matter. I’m having words with DumbleDick. He's been spreading some shit about me to people. What the fuck, man. I’m 11.
I am going to have to get someone to go with me as I don’t trust myself not to hurt the old fuck. Maybe Snape might help me. He has been a lot better with me to the point I might say I trust him. Time shall tell but I am going to need him for this. I know he doesn’t really like DumbleDick but he trusts him so there might be a conflict of interest. I shall ask.
I did have letters from the twins saying how sorry they were and that none of that should have happened. Its fine me and Hermione spent the following day taking the piss out of Ginny Ron and molly. I don’t know what I did to Ginny to garner a reaction like that but fuck her she's a bitch.
So back on the Hogwarts express, waving to Sam as we leave the station. Its been a good holiday all in all. Me and Hermione are chatting away when we get Draco of all people come in. he is on his own and he just takes a seat. Hermione is gob smacked and doesn’t know what to say she just keeps trying to subtly nod her head at him as if saying to me ‘what the hell is he doing here?’ I just smile. I never told anyone about what happened and from what I can gather neither had Draco. “Have a good summer Draco, thank you for the book. I am sorry I didn’t get you something for Christmas. I did however get something for you after.” I go into my backpack and pull out a box and wrapped in muggle paper. He looks stunned for a bit. But he reaches out and grabs it.
“Thank Potter but that was unnecessary. It was the right thing to do.”
“Agreed that's why I just had to get you that.” he opens it up bring delicate with it and I counted hold the laugh in. “Just rip it off will ya this is painful.” he gives me a little scowl but I just give him s big shit eating grin. He follows instructions and he's greeted by a Walkman. I knew how much he liked mine so I got him one of his own along with some tapes to play. His eyes are enormous when he realises. Then slowly he smiles
“Thanks Potter.”
“You can call me Harry in private if you like.”
“Yeah… thanks Harry.” we talk about our holiday and I give a run down of Mrs Weasley. I understand why the Malfoy’ and the Weasley’ didn't get on. The Malfoy's saw them as a waste of Pureblood magic while the Weasley's just didn’t go for the whole Pureblood premous. That and the behaviour is just not becoming of Pureblood society. Even the twins, as awesome as they are would be considered tactless. Which I would agree but that's what makes them so great.
We heard by Nevill that both the younger Weasley's were in another part of the train giving it large about how devious I am. Well I had to get front row seats to this. So the three of us walk down the train. I see Fred and George coming towards us giving us a big smile but they seemed to look at Malfoy questioningly. “He’s cool guys he's with me.” they don’t say anything just shrug and start to talk about the concert. Draco seemed to be intrigued by their story. He was asking them questions and everything.
They ask us where we are going and of coarse I tell them. They seem pissed off and tell me that both Ron and Ginny have been giving me no end of shit when me and Sam left. Their mother was under the impression I was being controlled by Sam. Fucking stupid. The fact was the twins and Percy were told to stay away from ‘Ron's friend’, just made me confused. I never actually talked to Ron the entire time I was at their house. But for some reason she wants me, Ron and Ginny to be best of friends. Its a massive joke considering they both find my preference of partner to be particularly egregious.
We got to the compartment that the young Weasley siblings were in. they has a few gryffs there. I don’t say anything to them. My focus is nipping this bull shit in the bud now so I don’t have to put with it for the rest of school. Conversation comes to a stop when I enter. I did manage to hear the final things being said before I entered. They were having a good old time calling me shit. Awesome that means its guilt free sadistic fun. I am not pulling punches like I did before.
“Hey there guys.” the tone is not friendly. “You have a lot to say don’t you.” I take a seat next to Ginny. She viably shudders and tries to get away form me but there isn't much room in this compartment. I pay her no heed. Its Ron I’m after. “well you not going to continue the conversation, where were you. Oh, yes I remember. I’m a big old puffy gay boy or something along that line am I right. Well I’m right here if you want to get anything off your chest.” I see them look at the twins. “Don't worry about them, there just here to pull me off if I decide I want to stick my dick in you.” I look at the boys with a predatory look in my eyes. I might not be a top but they don’t have to know that.
Their eyes bulging out of their sockets are beautiful. I cant help but be a little smug. “Lets get one thing straight. Ha-ha get it cause I’m not. I don’t care what you guys say about me. Really, I don’t give a shit. But if you start with my boyfriend or anyone of my other friends. I wont fuck about. I am not the twins, my revenge will not be funny. I will not show mercy. You will regret the day your mother pushed you out like the giant shits you are. Do I make myself clear?” I get a residing nod from the rest of the people in the compartment. “Great, now that's all cleared up, Hermione, Fred and George I think its time to OD on sugar, shall we?”
“Now your talking.” both twins spoke simultaneously.
Walking back down the train Hermione taps me on the shoulder. “How did you do that?” I look at her and give her a ‘ I have no idea what your on about’. “don’t give me that look, you know what I mean.” at this point though I have no idea what she talking about. I just went into to shut them up I didn’t know I did anything else. But the twins joined in.
“Yeah Harry, how did you do that. It was a bit scary but so awesome.” I still have no idea.
“Harry your eyes were glowing and everyone could feel the power coming off you.” now I and so confused. Hermione just looks at me.
“Really?” they all nod. “Em sorry to burst your bubble guys I have no idea. I was just a bit pissed off. I do have to keep a tab on my magic as sometimes it can get away with me.” there was this one time where my magic did get away from me but its not something I really want to talk about. It was bad lets leave it at that.”
“Merlin Harry, your a scary little thing when you want to be.” Fred was looking at me funny. I couldn’t read it.
“I don’t want to be. I just want to stop so I don’t have to deal with that all the time.” Draco leaves but seems to agree with Fred. I don’t mind a little fear from the fucks I don't like but not from my friends. I’m pretty quiet for the rest of the trip. The twins leave and I’m left with just me, Hermione and Nevill. They are talking about something but I don’t care. Did I got to far? Is the only thing I can think of as we go back to school.
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Time is moving on as it always does and its getting a bit mundane. Its just the usual routine. Me and Professor Snape have managed to get a bit further with out potion. Unfortunately it didn’t work. The moment it touched the control boards the whole thing set on fire. So kinds back to the drawing board on that one. The good news is this has narrowed down something in Snape’s head. He has an idea. But the man is a crafty one.
“Potter, you do realise I want 50% of whatever you make from all this.” He left no room for doubt that he was serious. I cant help it I just laugh in his face a bit and just nod.
“I think 50 is a bit rich but I get it.”
“if you want me to work on this potion then I believe I would need sufficient compensation.”
“Well, obviously! But 50? jeeze.”
“That is my price for my assistance.”
“Fine! Its not like I’m doing this for the money anyway.” he smiles, what a prick, 50%!
Either way we were on our way. He was able to identify the issue but I’m a bit at a loss, its far beyond my capabilities. He's going to change the potion now he knows its reaction and make it so it does our purpous. Its got some promise but time will tell. He told me that one of the other stipulations was he shows me what he's doing. That I don’t mind, I could use the extra knowledge. I just wish he didn’t say he would tell anyone that asked that it was remedial potions I was doing. Again what a prick. I think its just his way of having fun with me because he hasn't actually said that to anyone yet. He seems happy with my progress so I will take it as a win.
I have been using my new tool of mischief to cause mischief as you would have guessed. I managed to prank the twins. I gotten good let me tell you. They got me with a fig roll that turns you orange for a day. I left it and added a fake I love Essex tattoo on my arm along with a slag tag I just had to show them. I told them that if they do something they do it properly. What they didn’t expect was, for me to sneak into their dorm hit them both with a stunner, levitate them to the Astronomy tower and left them there with a warming charm that wore off at about 4am. Leaving them two muppets freezing cold as they waited for the room to unlock. Did I mention that I may have taken their wands and locked the door with a relatively weak locking charm. It lasted till about the beginning of breakfast. Long enough for people to see them walking back in nothing but thin blankets. Its not my fault they wear nothing for bed.
One day though I was thinking as everything had got a bit dull. The twins were off doing their own thing and with me doing a lot of extra time with Snape we haven't spent much time together. I have still found time to fit Alice into my busy work schedule. We have lunch and dinner together often. We seem to have garnered of headway when it comes to the houses. People have been sitting where they please more and more. I have noticed the Slytherins have been very hesitant to try it. I want to go break the barrier down a little and sit with Draco. While not known to most we have actually become quite chummy. He's funny when he's not being a ponce but hey, I ain't perfect at all. Even with this I think I would probably have to talk to him about it first. I know there is a huge difference in the politics of each house. With them being from the stupid Pureblood mentality, they will have the most resistance. I shall ask.
Either way I have been bored so I though that I would take a look around the castle under the protection of this magnificent piece of magic. I never though that being inviable could be so handy. Don’t get me wrong I knew it, its just different when you actually get to do it. I walked right past Filtch and he never suspected a thing. Work this in with my budding new aerobatics and agility skills its making moving around this castle undeterred so easy.
I got into one room though and this is where shit hits the fan a bit. I never did have that word with our most noblest of headmasters. I just left it not wanting to make waves. In this room there was a mirror. Not to interesting on its own I admit but even as far away as I was when I entered the room, I knew it had power.
Walking up slowly, taking off the cloak as I do. It hits the ground with barely a noise. I don’t hear it, even if I wanted to. As I got closer to the mirror I saw something that put me on edge. There was a reflection. I caught it out of the corner of my eye. It was then I felt that I wasn't alone. “Peeves! If that's you then trust me, you don’t want to fuck with me right now.” after a few run ins with peeves I made it a point to work on some magic that can hurt the little fucker. And I did. It got rid of him very swiftly last time. It has been a while and I’m on my own so he could think he might be able to capitalise.
Stopping my breath I listen. I don’t hear anything. Had it been him he would have shown himself by now. Nothing is moving. So that means that I either didn’t see anything and I’m paranoid or they are still here. I cant see anyone but considering I came in with an invisibility cloak then its not to far fetched to think that someone can do the same. That's unnerving. I never considered it the other way around. People could be anywhere. That's something to put down on the to do list.
Shaking off the thought that someone was in here with me I wondered up to the mirror. Let them come to me. I nearly shat myself when I looked and saw what was reflecting back at me. It me and Sam but there are two other people here. People I didn’t know. Looking at them it isn't hard to see the similarities between these people and what people say my parents looked like. Turning around to see if they were really behind me I fine they aren't. Looking back into the mirror I see they are still there.
I appear to be along in a spare classroom with a giant mirror that is showing me dead people. Wait, no, that cant be right Sam isn't dead. “What the fuck?” I take a step back. I don’t like nor do I trust this thing. I have no idea why it is showing me this but I don’t care. I may be young but one thing life taught me was, ‘if its to good to be true, it probably is’. I sit on one of the desks slightly further back from the mirror. I spark up a j and try to think about what this thing is. Why it exists and how did it come to be here in a school.
I’m nearly finished my j when I jump suddenly. “A curious creation, is it not?” Dumbledore is standing next to me and I’m thinking I may need new undies. “Its called the Mirror of Erised. Can you think what the Mirror of Erised shows us all?" Harry shook his head.
"Let me explain. The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help." he looks at me with this twinkle in his eye. After all the shit he's been saying about me then I don’t really take to kindly to the whole thing. Condescending Prick!
“So what are you saying? Its shows what we want?”
"Yes and no. It shows us nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts. You, who have never known your family, see them standing around you. Others like your friend Ronald Weasley, who has always been overshadowed by his brothers, sees himself standing alone, the best of all of them. However, this mirror will give us neither knowledge or truth. Men have wasted away before it, entranced by what they have seen, or been driven mad, not knowing if what it shows is real or even possible.”
Okay. So we are doing this then. Gathering my Gryffindor courage I ready myself and start with the basics first. “What's it doing here then, I thought this was a school? Seems a bit stupid. And what the hell has Ron got to do with anything?” He looks at me thoughtful. Like he is considering me for the very first time.”Ron’s a tit.” I see him shocked at that statement. “He’s not my friend! Why are you telling people that. His mum thinks we are BFF’s. I’m friends with the twins, yeah, but not Ron. More importantly what the fuck you telling people about my home life. Lets get one thing straight. My life is just that,” Oh Shit I’m loosing it, “my life, so why does the headmaster of a school think he has the right to tell me where to live and who to be friends with? I don’t see you as concerned with others.”
I’m not pulling punches and I can feel the magic coming up from within. Its tingling my finger tips. I look directly at Dumbledore waiting for his reply. I may be pissed off but I still wanna know what the fuck he was thinking.
“Harry my lad, I only have the best of intentions for you. Your young and vulnerable and you need your family around you. I’m sure if we go and talk to your Aunt and your Uncle then we can sort arrangements for you to go back.” Holy shit, this guy is a retard. I genuinely have nothing to say to and that's a challenge enough as it is.
“Just shows how much you know, doesn’t it?” I’m fuming and the magic isn't helping me at the moment, its begging to be let loose. To show this ass hole that he cant say shit like that without repercussions. Looking him dead in the eye I say with as much conviction as I can muster. “I would rather kill them and do time then go back to them, those fucking… animals. If you had any idea, you would not be saying such things.” I head towards the door, flicking my fag dump to the side of the room. I can see Dumbledore look at me with concern.
“Killing is never the answer Harry. Life is a gift.”
“Fuck you old man, deal with the people I have then tell me that.” I hold his gaze but I feel something. Like someone has just tried to kick me in the head. I flinch and open my eyes to see the visible look of shock on Dumbledore face, that tells me he knows what exactly happened. I have no idea but I know that I was not meant to have felt it. “What did you just do?” He doesn’t reply. The look on his face tells me he isn't a happy bunny. Not one for giving a shit, I leave.
I’m still raging as I get back to the dorms. My talk with the headmaster had frayed my nerves. How the hell does he know so much? Why does he care so much? Something isn't right but I have no idea as to what. This was not what I had in mind for entertainment. I will have to talk to Hermione tomorrow and tell her. She will have an idea, she's good at all the phyco babble bull shit.
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The next day has me in the library with Hermione trying to find out what Dumbledore tried to do but with only a vague description of the effect, and an effect that obviously wasn't meant to happen, we came up with nowt. I would have to try Snape at a later date. Hermione was very keyed in to the fact that what the headmaster was doing was really strange. Then she got it into her head that it was our job to find out what is going on. In reality I see where she is coming from and its got me wondering too. I mean really, there is a fucking giant three headed dog, a weird mirror that shows you what you desire most, and someone letting in trolls from the dungeon. Its all got to be linked somehow my only issue is. I have no fucking idea how or where to start.
I tried to go back with Hermione to show her the mirror but it was gone. I didn’t expect him to keep it around for long after he knew I knew but I was hoping. Hermione was awed by the cloak. Wanna know what her first thoughts were. Yep you guessed it. Restricted section of the library. So that was the price of her silence. Not that I minded me and Hermione have become best friends and its great. She is a little prudish but that wont last long around me.
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