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The rest of the school year passed by relatively quickly in Harry's opinion. Flitwick and Slughorn remained the only tutors that Harry liked, he was rather neutral on the others, except for a few. One of which was Binns but that was mostly because he nearly caused Harry to fall asleep and ruin his sleeping pattern.
But he got over it for the most part when he realised that he could just read whatever he wanted in class and Binns wouldn't care. So every History lesson he just ignored Binns and either read a history book or a book on another subject.
McGonagall appeared to be trying to avoid Harry as she would rarely ever look at him and would occasionally see him and walk in the opposite direction when they walked in the same hallway. In one class she straight up refused to look at him and a couple of times when he raised his hand to answer questions but then she would let Hermione Granger answer and that pissed Harry off for a couple of reasons.
First of all, if she didn't want Harry to answer the question then she should've said instead of having him waste his time, second of all he and Hermione Granger put their hands up for every question so he knew that it wasn't a one off and third of all he was tired of seeing Granger's smug face smirking at him every time she answered a question instead of him.
Harry, unlike Granger didn't see the whole thing as some sort of competition but he was rather pissed off because now Granger would think she's better than him and he could tell that this was going to cause more headaches for him.
"Bitch" Harry covered his mouth and coughed as McGonagall walked past him
"Did you say something Mr Potter?" She turned to him
"I coughed Professor" Harry said as he coughed again
"Of course" She said with a look that said she clearly didn't believe him
"He did cough Professor" Delphi said from next to him. McGonagall stared at the two for several seconds before walking off.
Later after the class finished Harry and Delphi walked out only to be followed by Hermione Granger.
"So" Hermione said with a smug voice "I couldn't help but notice that I answered all the questions and you answered none of them"
"Only because McGonagall was avoiding Harry" Delphi pointed out "probably because you called her a bitch" She added to Harry
"If she can't handle a few swears then she is not someone who should work in a school" Harry replied
"You shouldn't swear, especially at teachers!" Hermione said
"You shouldn't be talking to me, yet here you are" Harry countered
"I don't know why you have to be so rude, you're the boy-who-lived, you should be better behaved than this!"
"Tell me Granger, have people ever willingly hanged out with you or did your parents need to pay them to spend time with you?" Harry asked
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Hermione demanded
"It means that nobody wants to be your friend, I would've thought that somebody like you would be able to work it out." Harry said with a fake smile
"I can get friends if I want"
"Imaginary or animals that you'll trap in a cage so they can't run away from you?"
"I'll tell McGonagall!" Hermione threatened
"Oh and what is she going to do?" Harry asked, not the slightest bit scared "Is she going to take points that I don't care about? Put me in a detention that I won't go to? Suspend or expel me from a school that I don't want to attend? How scary...wait...not. Seriously Granger, back off my case, bad enough that you I have to be in close proximity to you, I don't want to hear you either"
"What? Is that because I'm a muggleborn?!"
"My mother was a muggleborn you bushy haired idiot, I don't want to listen to you because if find your very presence irritating. And when I'm irritated I fall into a habit of burning things, tell me do you value your hair more or your books?"
"You wouldn't!" Hermione's eyes widened as she took a step back and clutched her books protectively to her chest
"Don't tempt me Granger" Harry warned "the last time you bothered me I shot a warning spell and then I got called into Dumbledore's office where I made McGonagall miss class for a week. Try me Granger, I dare you, see if you spend the day in your Gryffindor bed or one of the ones in the hospital wing."
"Come on Harry" Delphi grabbed him by his sleeve "let's get you out of here before you do anything"
"Hey Delphi, Harry" Fay's voice called as the two walked back to the common room "what are you guys up to?"
"Harry had just delivered a letter to Fleur" Delphi grinned "ow"
"Harry also just slapped Delphi for being an idiot" Harry smirked "what's up with you?"
"Oh, I just had a meeting with Granger" Fay sighed
"You poor soul" Harry said sympathetically "what happened?"
"Well, it went like this" Fay started
Fay was sitting in the common room, currently she was talking with Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil while the first year Gryffindor boys were either playing chess or reading. The older years were all gone so the first years had the pleasure of having the common room to themselves.
"Yeah but I think he's totally a better player" Fay said to the girls as they discussed quidditch
"Yeah but he's not as hot though" Lavender argued
"True" Parvati giggled
"Girls" Fay rolled her eyes in all too familiar feeling of amusement
"What's going on?" Hermione Granger asked as she sat down next to the group
"Apparently being better looking is more important than being skilled when we're talking about quidditch" Fay said as she looked at Lavender and Parvati who didn't seem the least bothered by her comment
"Quidditch? I don't understand what you girls see in that barbaric game" Hermione shook her head
"It's fun to play, fun to watch as well" Fay said, defending her beloved sport
"It's a complete and utter waste of time" Hermione replied, making her opinion on the subject clear
"Yeah, well we like it" Parvati rolled her eyes before turning her attention back to Fay "anyway, in the last match he played in he got the snitch before the other seeker"
"Yeah but to if we're being fair then we got to remember that the seeker was injured" Fay pointed out "though to be fair he shouldn't have tried the wronksi feint for the very first time right during the match"
"Yeah well..." Lavender started only to be interrupted
"Have you girls done your homework?" Hermione asked
"We've done all of ours apart from charms but that's due in for five days from now so we're fine" Lavender sighed
"So why don't you do it now?" Hermione asked in what was a clear attempt to tell them to do their homework
"Because we don't want to" An irritated Parvati replied "we just finished our transfigurations homework, we'll do charms later"
"Yeah but..."
"Fay have you done yours?" Lavender asked, Fay glared at Lavender for putting Hermione's attention on herself
"Yes I have actually" Fay said "finished my charms homework half an hour ago"
"Well, let me see it" Hermione said
"What for?" Fay asked
"Well, I am the best at charms" Hermione started
"No you're not" Fay cut her off "Harry's the best. I've seen him, I remember him using fourth year spells."
"I'm still the best here" Hermione responded, upset at the mention of Harry and the very idea of someone being better than her "so show me your work"
"Why?" Fay asked again
"So I can see what you did wrong and correct it" Hermione said as if it was obvious
"How do you know I did something wrong?" Fay frowned
"Come on Fay" Hermione scoffed "I know you're not dumb or anything but it's obvious that I'm much smarter than you."
"Alright first of all, I'm not dumb" Fay glared at Hermione
"I just said that" Hermione pointed out in an irritated voice
"Second of all" Fay continued, ignoring Hermione "just because you're smarter than me does not give you the right to look at my work. I need to do it all on my own, if I can't do it then I'll consider asking for your help."
"But don't you want to get the highest marks?!"
"Not if it means you doing all my work"
"Yeah but..."
"Hermione" Fay interrupted "I don't want you changing my work"
"Fine" Hermione huffed "don't come whining and complaining to me later when you need help"
"Don't worry, I won't" Fay glared at her
"Good, I'm tired of helping you all" Hermione said as she picked up her books, clearly about to leave
"Nobody asked you to Granger!" Lavender snapped
"There's no need to be so rude" Hermione replied
"Rude?!" Parvati looked at her with disbelief "You're the one who constantly demands that we let you see our work and now you're acting like we come to you with everything"
"But you do!" Hermione argued
"No we don't" Fay shook her head "I mean, at the start we asked for a bit of help on a few questions but then you just started taking our homework from us without asking and then you make us do it your way. Not like Harry and Delphi"
"What about them?!"
"When I do homework with Harry and Delphi, me and Delphi help each other and Harry only ever helps us out if we can't figure something out" Fay said calmly "seems a much better way to do homework in my opinion. Plus you learn a lot when you learn from someone as smart as Harry" Fay was glad to see the last comment had greatly angered Hermione
"He's not that smart" Hermione replied
"Please" Parvati snorted "he's a genius. My sister in Ravenclaw told me that a few of the higher years are jealous of him and it's pretty much common knowledge that Flitwick gives him advanced work."
"That's only because he's the boy-who-lived" Hermione argued "just because people treat him differently..."
"Hermione, he's a genius" Fay cut her off "he does advanced learning and any spell he starts learning he masters quickly. To be fair, if he was better behaved then he'd probably be the best student in the year, maybe the school"
"Unlikely" Hermione said disbelievingly before walking off
"And that's it" Fay said as she ended her tale
"Are we sure I am not allowed to hurt her?" Harry asked
"No, you're not" Delphi sighed
"Because I could do it, what if I start light and give her a black eye?"
"No Harry, mum won't like it"
"Fine" Harry sighed
"By the way, can I ask a question?" Fay asked
"You just did but go on" Harry said
"Why doesn't your mum adopt him?" Fay asked Delphi as she gestured to Harry "I mean you both seem close and all"
"Simple really" Delphi shrugged "mum doesn't have any job or much documents in the muggle world so she won't be able to get him on that side. As for the magical side, could you imagine what would happen if my mother or anyone for that matter tried to adopt the boy-who-lived? It'd be a bidding war. Everyone would want him for some reason or the other, especially when most people think that my mother is a crazed death eater"
"Oh, sorry" Fay said sympathetically
"It's not too bad" Harry shrugged "the orphanage let's me stay at their house most the time anyway. And I just need to stay there until I take up my lordship, then I can pretty much do what I want."
"Harry" A voice called out and he saw Ron Weasley walk up to him "hey mate, do you want to play some chess?" The boy had been tailing Harry since the start of the year and he had worn down the little patience that Harry possessed
"Look Weasley" Harry sighed "I am tired of your rather obvious attempts to become friends with the boy-who-lived so I'm going to say this once, leave me alone or I will hurt you"
"But...but I..."
"I'm sure, goodbye" Harry said before walking off, the girls following him.
"Hey" Ron ran after him and grabbed him by the shoulder and spun him around "you can't..." Ron started, only to be interrupted when Harry pushed him with one hand and Ron went flying back about five meters before skidding on his bum
"Stay away from me" Harry glared at him before walking off, Delphi also glared at Ron before walking off after Harry. Fay didn't glare but she did follow after him, leaving a scowling Ronald Weasley.
At the end of the year, Dumbledore sat in his office and massaged his temples. He had just confronted Quirrell after the man tried to steal the philosopher's stone, the two had duelled and when Quirrell seemed to be losing a wraith flew out of him, Dumbledore recognised it as Lord Voldemort. The stone was saved but Quirrell was dead and Voldemort escaped, this was not how he planned this to go.
He had hoped to stage a confrontation between Harry and Voldemort, that way he can properly check how powerful the boy was and see if his mother's protection still worked. It was also a good way to see if Harry was willing to fight against Voldemort but that didn't go to plan.
Dumbledore had left a few hints for Harry and he hoped that he would take them, but he didn't. In fact he didn't seem remotely interested in the third floor corridor. At one point he had the stairs shift and direct Harry to the corridor but instead of going inside, Harry just took out a book and stayed on the stairs until they moved back and allowed him to leave. Apparently Hagrid had sent the boy a letter to invite him for tea as well, but the boy declined and said he was too busy.
Poor Hagrid felt bad after that, but Dumbledore managed to cheer him up and point out that Harry really was busy as he was taking advanced lessons from Flitwick and researching ahead. This brought tears to Hagrid's eyes as he marvelled at how smart Harry was and how he was very much like his mother. In truth Dumbledore was rather surprised at Harry's intelligence, skills and talents. He was actually rather happy about it as it meant that Harry would be stronger and more likely to pose a threat to Voldemort.
But the problem came with the boy's way of dealing with the Slytherin's, he had brutalised and terrified them. His power was impressive, that Dumbledore admitted, but he should have turned the other cheek or tried to make peace with the Slytherin's instead of hurting them. Dumbledore intended for Harry Potter to be his heir and the next great light wizard, he couldn't have him become a dark lord. He could be much worse than Tom Riddle or Voldemort as he is known.
Harry had the power and fame to make a real impact, bigger than even Dumbledore could make. From what he heard from the portraits, he learnt that Ronald Weasley was constantly trying to befriend him. He had no problems with this as it meant that Harry would be friends with a nice and light family, the Weasley's never went dark, they could be good role models for him. But it appeared that Harry wasn't interested in making many friends, he seemed more than content with Delphi Riddle and he occasionally would allow Fay Dunbar to hang out with him.
Fay's family, from what he remembered, was rather neutral when it came to the light and dark war. He would've preferred Harry to befriend a light family but neutral was fine. But from what he understood it seemed like Fay was more Delphi's friend, that means she may not be that important in the long run.
Plus now Harry would be spending another summer going between an orphanage and Bellatrix Lestrange, he had no idea what would happen to Harry. He needed to do better for next year
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