Harry woke up with a smile on his face, it was finally Halloween! He changed into his sport suit and went to meet with Millie, his relationship with her was still purely kissing at the lake and she had promised to not reveal their deal with anyone else after he confronted her for telling Daphne and been eavesdropped by Tracey and Pansy, he didn't wanted weird rumors spreading around him and it was a bad thing that he hadn't gotten the chance to talk to Hermione about it, he still couldn't figure it out but he felt like her opinion mattered the most to him.
After his morning shower Harry went to his trunk and took out his Halloween costume, he changed inside his bed after closing the curtains so that he could have privacy, not that any of his dorm mates would wake up that early but still one should be careful. He put the dark blue with silver accents pants, the dark blue long sleeved shirt with the red with golden "S" symbol on his chest, the red Wayne Enterprises gliding cape with the golden "S" on the middle of the cape, he looked himself in the reflection of the glass, neatly combed his hair and made a curl on his forehead, he smiled proudly as he placed his knuckles on his hip and puffed his chest.
"What are you wearing?" The groggy voice of Blaise made him turn over. The dark skinned boy had his eyes half way open and the pillow marks combined with the dry drool on his cheek showed that the boy was sound asleep when a noise Harry had made woke him up.
"This? This is my Halloween costume, today I'll be SUPERMAN!" He said almost yelling but he realized that he might have woke up Gregory and Vincent, but apparently the larger boys kept snoring.
"Nice, ok" And at that Blaise's head fell once again on his pillow.
Harry only chuckled at his friend's sleepiness, he grabbed Copper who quickly slithered around his arm and he quietly stepped outside to the common room in which he saw that Daphne and Millie were already on their uniforms, he got confused
"Why aren't you in costume?" Harry asked them
"Why are you in one?" Daphne replied to him
"Because it's Halloween" Harry said while posing as Superman once again.
"Sorry Harry, we don't celebrate Samhain in the same way muggles do" Millie said.
"Oh that's a shame, so that means you don't want any of the candies Hedwig is bringing tonight?" Harry said with a smirk on his lips
"Candies?" Both girls asked
"Yes, candies, my brother and I always bought many different candies and gave them to the classmates, I was planning to doing that today with the four houses, but if the other kids think is a bad idea…" He trailed off his sentence
"No, no, it's alright, I wouldn't mind eating candies on Halloween" Millie said
"Yes, I suppose that it would be nice, though they say that the feast will have many desserts, but I appreciate the treat" Daphne said, for some reason Harry believed that she was excited about Halloween just as much as him.
Harry, Daphne and Millie walked towards the Great Hall in which some students, purebloods mainly, stared at the boy in the blue suit in disbelief but none made a comment, they joined Susan, Neville and Draco who were already eating in the Gryffindor table.
"Hey guys" Harry said to his cousins and his friend.
"Hi Harry, Millie and Daphne" Susan said excited
"What's with the upbeat attitude Bones?" Daphne asked
"Today is the day in which Harry Potter defeated Voldemort, that makes me so happy but at the same time sad because he could've been here, eating with us but now he is lost" Susan happy mood quickly changed as she realized that the Boy-Who-Lived was now the Boy-Who-Is-Lost
"But he has always been lost since that night, why is today's special?" Harry asked
"Because I think he could make an apparition today" She said
"Really? Why?" Harry asked
"I don't know, just a hunch" Susan said
"In what do you base that?" Daphne asked
"Well, in Harry Potter: Trollslayer there's an attacked during the Halloween feast on Harry's first year in Hogwarts, the ghosts get restless and they create mayhem and then Harry Potter steps in and freezes all of the ghosts with a petrificus totalus" Susan said
"But I thought that that spell only could be used on a physical body not on an incorporeal being" Harry asked
"Don't ask those questions or Susan will get into defensive" Draco said whispering into his cousin's ear.
"Duly noted" Harry smirked as he saw his snow white owl fly towards him. "Hey Hedwig, did you have a nice flight?" Harry asked his owl who began munching on the bacon that was on his plate. "At least let me read the news before you steal from me" Harry said only to receive a hoot from the owl.
"GOD OF WAR STOPPED" By Lois Lane
"What a lazy title, come on auntie Lois, you're better than this" Harry thought to himself as he saw that Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter and Hawkgirl were on top of the defeated god
"Way to go Justice League" Harry smirked as he continued to read the article and how the God of War tried to bring an army of the undead into making a siege on the White House in Washington D.C.
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Lord Sirius Black walked through the many aisles and halls of the Hogwarts Castle, his goal was clear, he greeted Mr. Filch who mumbled something he didn't understood but he still walked towards the entrance of the office guarded by a Griffin. He had hoped to see Harry or his nephew or niece but they must have been in classes so he wasn't going to interrupt them.
"Hey man do you remember me?" He said to the stone Griffin "It's just like the old days right? Would you please open up for me? What was the password? Oh right! Licorice wand" Sirius said and the stone moved to reveal the stairs to the Headmaster's office
Sirius quietly walked upstairs, he didn't wanted to be there but he had to hear his version of the story and perhaps get an apology, ten years later but an apology nonetheless.
He knocked on the door and after a few seconds the door opened by itself, he saw the many bookshelves, trinkets and paintings on display. He saw Fawkes, the phoenix sat on its perch.
"Hey buddy, remember me?" He said to the bird only to be met with a peck in his hand "I guess that's a yes" Sirius said sucking on his bleeding finger.
"I apologize for Fawkes he has been irritated at this stage of his age, give him a few weeks and he'll be alright" Professor Dumbledore said
"Albus" Sirius said, his tone and posture completely changed.
"Sirius, please take a seat, chocolate kiss?" Albus offered.
"Yes please, I'm surprised you changed candies, you almost all the time had lemon drops" Sirius said while unwrapping the aluminum foil of the chocolate
"That was only because your friends and you almost all the time got into trouble, I needed to teach you a lesson somehow, that's why I placed those sour candies for you, though with the years I got used to the taste, thanks to a young American boy I changed them" Dumbledore said
"Of course Harry would make you change, I enjoy these candies as well" Sirius said
"I've never asked you, how do you know this American family?" Albus asked very intrigued.
"The boy's father is a distant cousin on part of a squib of the Black family, my mother never wanted me to have any connection to that side of the family, but when the war started I reached out to him for his support, then when James and Lily went into hiding I told them to go with my cousin in America, no Death Eater would try to look in the muggle world less in another continent, they would be in good hands since my cousin had already a big family and a young toddler of Harry's age, but then tragedy struck and we lost Lily and James and Harry went M.I.A." Sirius said feigning hurt at Harry's "disappearance"
"But the people who helped you in the trial they said that they had taken the boy with a friend of them, they didn't tell you who had it?" Dumbledore asked
"No, I honestly don't know where Harry Potter is" Sirius said
"Very well, that's all about that topic, now, I wanted to apologize for not believing you all those years ago" Dumbledore said
"So after ten years I'll finally get my apology, great because I've been waiting to hear why you betrayed me, why you were so keen in leaving me imprisoned in Azkaban?" Sirius yelled
"Sirius, I did not betrayed you, I did what I thought was right" Dumbledore calmly said
"You thought it was right to leave me to rot?" Sirius asked offended
"No, that's not what I meant" Dumbledore said
"Then what?! I thought we were on the same side Albus!" Sirius exclaimed
"Yes, but when Bagnold issued your arrest, way before you had even committed the crime I knew it was a matter of time that they sent you to Azkaban and they placed Harry into the hands of one of the many pureblooded families that supported Voldemort, I wanted to take Harry away to protect him, to nurture him and train him" Dumbledore said
"And just for a second you didn't think that if you had used your political power I could have been exonerated, I could have been a free man and I could have raised Harry, he would've been just fine living with me" Sirius said.
"But Sirius, I don't think you would have been a good father figure for Harry" Dumbledore blurted out which made Sirius look hurt
"I'm leaving" Sirius said standing from his seat
"Sirius, please" Dumbledore pleaded
"I'm leaving, I made a promise to my children that I would take them to trick or treat tonight, good day Albus" He almost spat the last line, this conversation wasn't exactly what he was hoping for and now he felt even worse than during his trial in which the man he trusted almost left him to rot in jail alongside his crazy cousin. Why was it so hard for Dumbledore to trust him with important matters?
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In the orbital space surrounding the Earth's atmosphere the three Watchtowers circled the world, in the main one, the teleporting equipment glowed and from the two black circles on the floor appeared Batman with his guest Ace.
"Good morning Batman, Martian Manhunter is waiting for you" One of the many employees in the Watchtower said to the Dark Knight.
"Thank you Julius, come on Ace" He said to the teen girl who was impressed with the scenery and the many technologies on the space station.
"Wow" Was what she could say especially when she looked through the window and saw planet Earth alongside the many starts in the space.
The pair continued walking along, with some of the other heroes intrigued at why was Batman with one of the supervillains that tried to blow up Las Vegas.
Finally they arrived at a room the doors slide open and Ace saw that it was an empty space with three chairs and the green Martian with the dark blue suit and blue cape was sit in one of those chairs.
"Good morning Ace, Batman has told me about you, I'm Martian Manhunter, but you can call me J'onn J'onnzz" The Martian said as he stood up and extended his hand which she, with a little doubt, took and shook it.
"I guess nice to meet you" She said
"Please have a seat" J'onn said and she took the seat in front of him with Batman grabbing the other chair. "Batman has informed me that you have a very strong mind" He began to say
"I KNEW IT, YOU ONLY CARE FOR MAKING A WEAPON OUT OF ME!" She quickly yelled at them but the Martian gently calmed her.
"We don't want to make you a weapon, we know that you childhood was taken by the people in Cadmus, we want you to help you control you powers" J'onn said
"Why? I was your enemy, me and my friends almost destroyed Vegas" She said as she took her seat back
"Yes but Batman and me think that if you continue to stress yourself using your powers you could end up doing a permanent damage to your brain that could result in a vegetative state or worst a brain aneurism" J'onn explained.
"We want to help you Ace" Batman said
"Only if you want our help" J'onn said
Ace hugged her knees "Fine, I accept your help" She replied, after all she had nothing to loose.
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Hogwarts, Charms class…
"Good day class, today we'll be seeing the levitation spell, also known as the Leviosa spell, given that this is a somewhat complicated spell in both intonation and wand movement I asked for two of my best students to help me with this, Hermione Granger and Rachel Roth, they'll be helping those who have doubts or troubles with it, so don't be afraid to ask for their help if you need it" Professor Flitwick said.
The small professor explained quite easily the movements the kids were supposed to follow and the way they had to do it. Harry was sitting between Seamus Flannigan from Gryffindor and his cousin Susan Bones. They had been talking as she explained to him how to do the movement, he was still struggling to send the magic down his wand, it wasn't that his wand didn't accepted him, quite the contrary it felt natural to him to use it, but he was so used to his natural wandless magic that it was something he had to work more.
Susan was the first one to make her feather float followed by Neville who had less complications, then after a few tries Harry managed to make his float.
Seamus saw that Harry had managed and began enchanting but his movements and wording was off, Harry gently stopped the other boy from enchanting.
"Here try relaxing more your wrist, and open your mouth a little more during the leviosa" Harry said explaining to the boy
"Thanks mate" Seamus said and followed his advice. After a few moments Seamus' feather was floating as well, Harry was proud he had helped the Gryffindor boy, then he heard a scolding.
"Stop, stop, stop, you're going to take someone's eye out, besides you're saying it wrong, it's levi-OSA, not levio-SAR" Hermione said with an exasperated tone to Ron Weasley who apparently was having trouble with making his feather float, Harry was impressed as she made Ron's feather float after a single try, his friend was a great charm caster.
The rest of the class passed without much fuss and when the time had come Harry walked with Hermione to her common room, after all the Superman dressed boy wanted to fly down from the Ravenclaw tower to the dungeons, an experiment he hadn't consulted with anybody because they would tell him he was insane for trying that, but he knew that only the brave persevere.
The pair was walking when they heard the yapping of the red haired Weasley
"It's levi-OSA, not levio-SAR, gosh, she's a nightmare, no wonder she doesn't have friends" Harry heard but most importantly Hermione heard as well of Ron's voice making fun of her, Harry got angry but he saw how Hermione swallowed her tears and pride and pushed Ron with her shoulder as she ran away.
"I think she heard you" Said Dean ashamed on his friend behavior.
"Yes, we heard you, maybe if you took your head out of your ass Ronald Weasley, and if you tried to learn something instead of just insulting someone who tried to help you, then you'd be a better person, instead of a freaking nagging one, maybe with the venom in your voice you could have been sorted in Slytherin" Harry said thinking it was enough for the red haired jerk to understood, he didn't knew where this anger had come from, he wasn't as hotheaded like Jason but still Hermione had been a great friend since the beginning, she didn't deserved to be insulted, and this jerk had stepped way out of line, Harry saw by his peripheral vision that Ron was trying to reach his wand.
"I'll show you a real snake you venomous viper!" Ron said but before he could do whatever spell he had in mind Harry's fist connected with Ron's nose making him bleed. "What the…?" Ron said before receiving another fist on his stomach. Finnegan and Thomas were amazed but didn't interfered in the fight.
"Apologize to Hermione and to me" Harry spat kneeling over the red haired boy.
"No" Ron said. Harry raised his fist but then a shout coming from the castle stop him.
"Mr. Wayne! Mr. Weasley! Stop at this instant!" Professor McGonagall said as she hurried towards the pair of first years. "You should be ashamed of your actions, fighting in public grounds, I'm disappointed in you!" Professor McGonagall said all the way to her office with the boys on toll.
When they arrived the kids just stood there and Minerva McGonagall massaged the temples of her forehead.
"Well, what happened?" The professor asked
"HE ATTACKED ME WITHOUT A REASON, HE'S AN EVIL SNAKE!" Ron accused immediately
"He LIES!" Harry yelled back
"I saw you hit first, Mr. Wayne, so I suppose you have a very good reason or else you could face expulsion" Professor McGonagall said with a severity in her voice, she knew her boy, he never attacked unless he had a reason so she was giving him the benefit of the doubt for that.
"He made Hermione cry" Harry said, his green and blue eyes looked directly onto the professor's eyes, she could see that the boy was speaking honestly.
"Care to explain?" She asked to both boys hoping and wanting to know more about the reason of the struggle
"Hermione helped Professor Flitwick since one, he is her head house, two she's pretty advance on her studies and three the Ravenclaws had class just an hour prior so he asked her to stay and help, Hermione was doing that during the wingardium leviosa spell when she reached Mr. Weasley who didn't appreciate her help and then, he mocked her and made her cry, I got angry because it's not the first time he has said something against her" Harry said, it was obvious that for his stature and built he could easily beat anyone who dare to insult her, but he kind of had to contain his martial training, after all his father taught him better.
Professor McGonagall thinned her lips before proceeding, over the course of the year she had seen Mr. Weasley being lazy and obnoxious so she wasn't surprised that he had lashed out to someone who tried to teach him something.
"Fifteen points from Gryffindor for making a fellow student cry and twenty points from Slytherin for physical violence towards a fellow student, you'll serve detention for a week as well with me, now leave" Professor McGonagall said but added "Mr. Wayne, can I have a word with you?" She asked changing her tone of voice but still being in her Professor mode.
"Harry I know you were doing what you felt was right, but it was brash and very stupid, it reminded me of how your father behave when he came to this school, I see where your loyalties are, and you're as much of a son of James as a son of Bruce, Harry, but next time try to not to resort into violence" Professor McGonagall said
"I will Grandma Minnie" He said hugging the elderly woman.
"Now go" She said to the boy who smiled at her.
After Harry had left Minerva had to think what were the actions about both boys, she'll had to send an owl to Arthur and Molly Weasley about the fight and she would have to call Bruce about that.
Harry walked alone through the halls, the feast was about to begin and that kid Ron practically sprinted towards the Great Hall, Harry was worried about Hermione, she was a sensitive girl and his friend so he needed to console her on her time of distress.
He asked Marietta Edgecomb, who was walking through the halls, the second year Ravenclaw girl blushed since she thought the boy was handsome, she often did that with other kids in the school.
"Yes, she was crying and I saw her left for the bathrooms" Marietta told him in a shrug. She didn't care enough to ask what was wrong.
"Thanks" Harry said continuing his way to see if Hermione was alright.
He almost arrived at the girls' bathrooms when he heard a voice yelling "Stop crying, you're better than this!" The voice sounded familiar but due to the echo in the bathroom he couldn't be too sure, he stood in the door frame and saw the least person he expected to be consoling Hermione, he decided to pass unnoticed by the girls and hide on a cubicle, this was their moment, he wouldn't interrupt it, besides Pansy was scary sometimes and if he interrupted during this moment she would hate him and yelled at him and probably curse him, so he would only step in to give them tissues when the situation demand it.
"You're the smartest and most talented witch in our year, are you seriously crying because a lazy red-haired bloke insulted you?! Be smarter Granger, I've seen you over two months and you have friends, you have Wayne and Draco and Greengrass and Bones and the Patils and Chang and Roth and Bulstrode and Abbott and Brown and Li and Longbottom, so why are you making a big deal of it?" Pansy scolded at Hermione.
"It's just, it's just that, it made me remember that… that before I came to this school, before… before I met Harry who introduced me to all of you… I had nobody" Hermione said between sobs "I was the bucked teethed bushy haired know-it all girl who nobody wanted to play with nor befriend nor share a meal, nobody wanted me, they mocked me, called me names…" She began sobbing strongly to the point in which her words were cut off.
Pansy was conflicted, she wasn't supposed to like people like her but there she was a girl her age crying and searching for comfort, so she did what she did best, sent the pureblood traditions down the toilet and she hugged the girl as she let her cry in her shoulder.
"Screw Weasley! And screw all those muggles who insulted you! You might be a muggleborn witch, but you have the smarts of a pureblood, don't let people like them drag you down" Pansy said to Hermione
Hermione was impressed, she had always thought that Pansy was the type of pureblood girl who looked down at muggles and muggleborns like her, yet here she was trying to comfort her and giving a shoulder to cry on, she felt connected to the Slytherin girl and for a moment, a simple moment she let her worries wash away.
But then it came the thunders, the lightning and worst of all the Troll.
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The girls screamed in complete fear as a ten foot tall Troll was looking at them, according to the Monstrous Book of Monsters the Trolls were violent towards humans, their thick skin made them invulnerable to most of the magical attacks but most importantly their brute force was almost unmatched.
Harry saw how the Troll walked menacingly towards the girls, his friends
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Harry was scared, no, he was terrified, he had only seen pictures of Killer Croc and Bane in the newspapers but those two were small compared to the Mountain troll that was in front of him. The greyish beast was smashing the bathroom stalls with his club, swinging it around like a drunk baseball player trying to hit the girls who were cornered in the bathroom.
Harry wanted to help but at the same time he wanted to flee but seeing Hermione and Pansy in danger made Harry remember that his father always thought him that will was everything, the will to act.
"The will to act is everything" Harry felt full of determination and willpower as he rush to distract the Troll, the red cape flowing behind him, he began to throw rocks and parts of the doors the Troll had destroyed.
"Hermione, Pansy, RUN! I'LL DISTRACT HIM!" Harry said to the girls who moved from their position to another one, when he finally got the Troll's attention he began his assault, he began throwing lighting and flames to the troll, he knew they wouldn't be of use against the beast but it was just phase one of his three phase plan, phase two was taking his grappling gun from his utility belt and shoot it to the Troll's legs wrapping them but the Troll only tumbled a little, and finally step three was when Harry with his right hand holding the grappling hook and his left hand freezing the floor in front of the Troll who had stopped walking to the boy. Harry then began to pull the line towards him so that the Troll could properly fall.
There he was the American Muggleborn Slytherin completely dressed as Superman on a strength contest against a Mountain Troll, his arms were growing tired but his will wasn't decreasing
"Hera give me strength!" Harry screamed at the top of his lungs as a last resort, he remembered seeing Wonder Woman invoking the power of the Goddess many times during the Justice League battles and as if the Goddess herself had listen to his prayers Harry felt a surge of strength and was able to make the Troll slip on the ice and fall onto his back. Before the Troll could rose to his feet Harry threw a gas pellet onto the Troll's face knocking him out. Harry ran towards Hermione and Pansy who were curled up on a corner hugging each other. Harry gently placed his arms around them hugging them tightly.
"It's alright girls, it's alright" Harry said. He could hear Hermione and Pansy's sobs.
"I was scared" Hermione replied.
"I was terrified" Pansy said almost immediately, Harry smirked but still he was glad they were safe.
"I know, so did I, but you were in danger and I couldn't let that stop me" Harry said and he placed a kiss at the top of each girl's head before hugging them once again. He would never let anyone hurt his friends, whether be bullies or trolls, he would be there for them. He pull a small box of tissues from one of the many compartments from his utility belt and gave it to them.
"Do you have any bruises or cuts?" Harry asked them, the girls checked and neither had anything hurt.
"No, thank you for coming to our rescue" Hermione said cleaning the tears from her cheeks.
"I was worried about you" Harry said.
"You were?" Hermione asked
"Of course I was, that Weasley is a jerk, I wanted to come after you but I got in trouble" Harry said laughing
"What did you do?" Hermione asked, not entirely scolding him but also with intrigue.
"I punched him and demanded an apology" Harry said.
"HARRY!" She said
"Well done Harry" Pansy said with a smile on her lips, of course she would be glad he hit Weasley, the red hair almost all the time accused them of mischief.
"Thank you for taking my side Pansy, he deserved that" Harry said.
"Yes Hermione, I've been here hearing you cry because of that git, so let Harry punch him again if the situation demands it" Pansy said
"I don't know about that, but I know that I feel like a damsel of a fairy tale with a knight in shining armor defending my honor and saving me, saving us from a beast" Hermione said smiling, hearing what Harry had done, and with what Pansy said earlier she realized that Ron didn't knew her at all because as long as she had Harry as a friend she wouldn't be alone.
"Then let's properly thank this knight" Pansy said as she grabbed Harry and planted a kiss on his lips making Hermione's eye go completely wide. "Now it's your turn Hermione" Pansy said with a smirk
"I-I-I don't know" Hermione said
"It's ok Hermione, you don't have to do it" Harry said
"No, a princess should be thankful, come on Granger, kiss him already" Pansy said but Hermione was still dubious "Oh for Merlin's beard!" She said exasperated as she pushed Hermione towards Harry.
"Fine!" Hermione said and she as well gave a peck on Harry's lips, it had been less than a second but Hermione felt how her cheeks became red in an instant as she had felt Harry's soft lips. She had liked it and wanted to repeat it, but then they heard steps coming to their direction.
"What in the bloody hell is happening here?" Professor McGonagall said as she entered the bathroom followed by Professor Snape, Quirrell and Vector.
"Harry killed a Troll!" Pansy quickly said
"Pansy!" Hermione and Harry said as the trio walked towards the professors
"Is this true, Mr. Wayne?" Professor Snape asked the boy in the blue costume.
"Sort of professor, Pansy and Hermione were in danger, I had to help them, the troll is knocked out, not dead" Harry said looking down, it had been the exact same behavior Grandma Minnie had warned him about and not too long after he had fought a redhead Troll he went and fought a real troll, as he looked down he had managed to get a glimpse of Professor Snape's injury on his leg.
"It was dangerous Mr. Wayne" Professor Snape said
"I know professor, but I had to do something" Harry said
"And w-w-what k-kind of sp-spells d-did y-you us-sed?" Professor Quirrell said which Harry hated because if the man was barely comprehensible on a daily basis his stuttering worsen during stress
"I didn't used any spell, I used some of my natural magic to invoke some fire and lighting to distract the Troll, then I used my grappling gun to tie its feet and with some ice I made him trip, I sent a gas pellet to his face and he was knocked out cold" Harry said
"Impressive" Snape said
"Yes very impressive Mr. Wayne, now go along kids, let's take them to their rooms before the beast wakes up" Professor McGonagall said.
"Very impressive" Snape said again as he saw the type of cable that had been tied on the Troll's feet and the ice that was on the floor.
As they were escorted to their rooms Harry felt proud for today's events, he had accomplished another spell, he had defended a friend, he had stopped a Troll and he had been kissed by Hermione and Pansy, all in all it had been a great day