The Other Potter

War

Life at Hogwarts becomes easy as time goes on. It gets hard, not seeing Harry as often as I used to, but we have lunch together every Wednesday and Saturday. Harry and I are walking around the Black Lake one Saturday and he's complaining about the amount of homework we have. I look at him with a raised eyebrow.

"You are aware we're only going to get more right? And it's not even that much. If you do it the day it's assigned then the only thing you have to worry about is leaving it in your dorm when it's due."

"You've finished?"

"You haven't?" I challenge. He blushes. I huff and give him pointed looks.

"To the library?"

"March." I confirm. "No brother of mine will be getting shitty grades, no sir."

"Miles, such language!"

"Shut it, Harley!" I snap, using his nickname.

While Harry does his homework I begin researching for a project Talia, Brooks, Jacob, and I had been thinking about.

"What is all this? I thought you finished." Harry asks, seeing all the books I have around me.

"I had."

"Then what is all this?"

"A surprise."

"Which is..."

"If I told you it wouldn't be a surprise, would it?" I say with a smirk. Harry narrows his eyes.

"You've changed some."

"So have you."

"You're not so..."

"Reserved?" I supply and he nods. "I don't know if you noticed, but we are literally beat into submission at home. There's no Dursley here and it's a bit freeing."

"Now I'm really scared of what you're planning." He says, eyeing the books. I just smirk as I continue. I look at my brother once I finish my sentence.

"Harley, we can be ourselves. Finally."

"What if I don't know who I am?"

"Where better to find out than somewhere you don't have to pretend to be someone you're not?"

"You mean you're not getting stalked because we destroyed Voldemort?"

"Not by Hufflepuffs, no."

"The Hufflepuffs aren't curious?"

"Now that's not what I said. I said they weren't stalking me. They don't stalk me because there's this thing called a curfew in which we are all locked in one common room together with no escape. They bid their time." I say. Harry looks at me in shock. "What?"

"It's just, I've heard that Hufflepuffs are so passive. That they wouldn't hurt anyone."

"That's cute." I say with a laugh.

Three days later only Talia, Brooks, Jacob, and Harry are aware of how every Ravenclaw suddenly became a dodo bird at dinner. Not a single one of them say anything and I let the Weasley twins take the fall for something they couldn't prove was me no matter how hard they try.

The next day all the Ravenclaws are humans again and every Hufflepuff is disappointed in this fact.

"The Gryffindors and Slytherins hate each other with a deep burning passion and make it well known. The Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw rivalry is much, much worse and the only reason Madame Pomphrey knows about it is because of everyone who ends up in the Hospital Wing." Jacob says as he tests out his shoulder that I had to pop back into place to skip a trip to the Hospital Wing.