Introduction
Harry looked up as he was called forth by Professor Snape. This was not what he was expecting to happen at all. However, he was somewhat grateful that he wouldn’t be facing Ron. Harry had full confidence that Ron would have restricted his spells to only the disarming charm.
Unfortunately, Harry didn’t have the same confidence in Ron’s wand. That being said, he was not looking forward to facing off against Malfoy on the dueling platform. He was in just as much danger dueling Malfoy as he did crossing paths with him in the middle of a corridor at night.
Thankfully, Malfoy would have to restrict his own spells to the less vicious hexes because of the many potential witnesses in the room. This line of thinking helped to give Harry just enough courage to step up onto the platform with his wand at the ready.
Professor (if he could even be called that) Lockhart started to count them down. Harry reflexively tightened his grip on his wand and starred Malfoy down. He was almost certain that Malfoy was going to try something, but he just didn’t have a clue as to what exactly was going to happen.
Professor Lockhart was only one number away from the “duel” starting when Malfoy shouted out “Serpensortia!”.
Malfoy and Snape both expected a small serpent to burst forth from Draco’s wand at the incantation. What no one was expecting was for a snake-person dressed in brown robes with what looked like a torch on their belt to appear instead.
The great hall erupted in shouts of surprise and terror. The only people not shouting were Professor Snape, Luna Lovegood, and Harry Potter. Snape merely raised an eyebrow whilst leveling his wand on the potential threat, Luna smiled as if she was in a dreamlike trance, and Harry was just rolling with it. He had seen so much when it came to magic during his time at Hogwarts; this didn’t surprise him in the slightest.
The snake-person put a hand (though, if they had arms could they truly be considered a snake-person?) on the torch-like object hanging from their belt. This move did not go without notice as Professor Snape slowly moved towards them.
The snake-person then let out a string of foreign syllables in what appeared to be an attempt to communicate. When that failed to get any results, they started rapidly cycling through what appeared to be an impressive number of languages in a short time.
This reminded Harry of the time that he was introduced as the “charity case” that his”kindhearted” and “generous” uncle was looking after to an overseas manager at Grunnings. The manager had to have a translator due to a multitude of language barriers.
Just as the snake-person seemingly ran out of languages they started speaking what appeared to be heavily accented English.
”Well. This is another fine mess that I have gotten myself into. It looks like I will be losing the council betting for this year. And I was so close to making it a year without any incidents.”
Harry was a little surprised at the reactions of his classmates. You could have heard a pin drop given how silent the room became. So Harry did the only thing that he could think of. He politely asked “Um, Excuse me, but what do you mean by incidents?”.
If the room was quiet when the snake-person started speaking english, then it was as silent as a tomb when Harry responded. The snake-person whipped around to face Harry, a grin on their face.
“Now that was unexpected! I was unaware that humans (and human-adjacent species) could speak in my native tongue! Youngling, would you mind explaining what exactly happened that led to my unexpected situation?” The snake-person asked.
Harry shifted on his feet before saying “Unfortunately, I don’t know what just happened. Perhaps Professor Snape might be able to help?”
the snake-person hmmed at that and said “I would appreciate it if you could point out who this ‘Professor Snape’ is, young one. Oh! I just remembered that I never properly introduced myself. I am Jedi Master Oppo Rancisis of the Jedi High Council, currently an acting Jedi General of Republic High Command, at your service”.
Harry blinked once, then twice in an attempt to process this information.
Jedi Master Rancisis completed his proclamation with a respectful bow towards Harry.