Harry Potter: He Who Shall Not Be Remembered

Chapter 2: Adapting

Harry over some days after the welcoming feast had attained prominence was now referred to as the Ice Prince, probably because anyone who tried to talk to him would feel their body temperature slowly drop to the point they start shivering and his cold expressionless face he always maintains.

During charm class.

Hermione and Ron weren't as close as they usually supposed to be since it was Harry that brought them together, instead, they were barely friends, Hermione was busy focusing on Harry while Ron had formed groups against him, but somehow he was always in between the two of them in every class it seems fate wanted them to be related.

Professor Flitwick spoke about the levitation spell and commented on how mastery of it could vary from using it on a feather to a comrade and even on themselves "Alright now all of you go for a try."

Harry stayed motionless with his arms folded and paid attention to the scene around him this was the part he loved the most, Ron tried the spell "Wingardium leviosa" he chanted but nothing happened, Hermione couldn't stop her hubris and she corrected him saying "It's Wingardium Leviooossa, not Leviosa, here I'll show you."

Hermione chanted the same thing and the feather in front of her started floating, her being the first to get the chant and on her first try no less she immediately gained Professor Flitwick's praise "Ah, Miss Granger already succeeded in performing the chant, Mr Potter you haven't even attempted it" Harry was busy magnifying the negative emotions Ron felt after Hermione correct him, It was dark magic but since he did it wandlessly nobody would notice by the time he finished he started floating to the ceiling.

Professor Flitwick was impressed and thought it was his doing " Wow Mr Potter you are gifted" but Harry's cold voice corrected her "This is not my doing" When he reached the ceiling he started falling face-first into one of the racks with unknown charms and potions.

Before Professor Flitwick could get her wand to cast a levitation spell on Harry stopped falling and instead started dropping as if he were a feather, the students were shocked and Hermione was the one pointing her wand at him stopping him from falling, his hands still folded.

"Professor Flitwick, you wanted to see me do this chant? I'll forget the fact someone just tried to kill me, Wingardium Leviosa"

Harry's voice held a single emotion and it was hate, chanting his voice seemed to echo as every other sound stopped every single person started levitating including Professor Flitwick, Hermione appeared in front of him as she was the only one who wasn't levitating so the glare he gave her as she starred up to him made her heart beat faster, for what felt like an eternity staring into Harry's slitted eyes but wasn't up to 10 seconds everyone started dropping still Harry was the same height with her, then he returned to his seat.

Professor Flitwick was speechless "That was the best usage of wandless magic I have ever seen, and the disruption of space you did to make Hermione appear close to you it's simply astonishing 10 points for Gryffindor." She said before she hurriedly left class probably to report to Dumbledore.

After that, the entirety of the class started at Harry with surprised expressions, while Hermione had a different expression showing how confused she was.

Time skip

Ron was telling jokes to his group consisting of some Slytherin and Gryffindor students they seemed to be walking back to their dorms "And then she said it was Wingardium Leviooossa, not Wingardium Leviosa that prideful imbecile thinks she knows everything forgetting she is merely a stupid muggle blood" Ron mocked Hermione with hatred filled in his sentence, at this time Harry was already in front of Cerebus the three-headed dog barked at him as his eyes glowed goldenly and he roared, Cerebus quickly humbled itself as it let out a few whines, "Nice to know who the alpha is" Harry who had become a bit hairy said, He had a watch on Hermione and he noticed this was the time Hermione watched in Ron insult her yet this time she didn't cry and run off like she originally did instead she walked away muttering "He's not important, There's nothing special about the pureblooded Weasley, just Potter." To the surprise of Harry who grinned at the new turn of events, "This realm is different" With a deeper voice he concentrated on getting past the dog.

It was easy to get past it all since he had done it before but when it reached the Mirror of Erised, he had to break the spell Dumbledore placed on it, which took him several hours, he wasn't as naive as he once was, he had a use for the stone and it wasn't good.

Some hours later

Harry now held the stone in his small hands, he could be immortal at this moment, but he didn't want to be forever remembered as a scrawny 11-year-old, so with a simple motion the stone was gone and soon he vanished along with it, he left a similar stone in the mirror just so Dumbledore wouldn't become suspicious but it was clear this time Harry too would be playing a part in the mind games.

Elsewhere

Harry appeared just before the evening dinner started as usual Harry stayed in the far back as usual, and like every other time,
Hermione approached him from the back He quickly dismissed her but she didn't listen to him and sat by his side either way.

"What are you doing?" Harry finally looked up and saw her she dyed her hair black and had black eyeliners finding the sight amusing he eyed her from head to bottom "Better question what are you wearing?" His tone held mockery that was barely hidden.

Hermione played the goth girl and said " A little makeover." Using as few words as possible.

"Well well well, I needed the laugh thank you" Harry didn't say much after that as now he zoned out subconsciously meditating, probably the reason he had almost infinite mana in his past, he was either always reading, practising magic or mediating which was the only things needed to expand mana capacity, something which surprisingly Hermione joined him on, a few moments later Quirrell ran into the hall and yelled,

"Troll there's a troll in the school then" he fainted, the students started panicking as the school heads tried to calm down the crowd.

"Everyone should return to their respective dormitory,"

Dumbledore said before he left along with a select few teachers leaving the prefects to control the students.

"Harry let's go find the Troll" Hermione suggested with a mischievous grin on her face, Harry's static expression changed to one of ridicule "And you think I would do that with you why? You're weak if we were to go find the Troll the biggest threat would be you."

Harry grinned before he added "But in respect for your current state, let's go" He said before he faded into the crowd Hermione followed behind him in pursuit.

'Last time I bothered to remember the troll was in the girl's toilet' Harry remembered the scenes and how they played out.

Girl's toilet

Hermione's Point View

Harry stood in front of me while the Troll tried to destroy him with its massive club, yet Harry had a fearless expression on his face, he might even be enjoying it, but the smile on his face wasn't normal.

Harry dashed till he was in close range of the troll, I felt so useless since the only thing I could do was stare, the troll tried to hit Harry with its club but Harry was faster and stronger too, Harry ran up the hands of the troll reaching its head in seconds, Harry then said "Gravity x10" right after the room dulled in colour and I found it incredibly hard to move, heck I couldn't even stare at Harry properly all I could do was lay on the floor, while the troll fell on its knees then I blacked out.

Narrated point of view.

Now that the troll had heavy movement restrictions, Harry walked over to the club using magic to physically enhance his strength he picked it up with his two hands, His body wasn't experienced with using this type of magic so his muscles started aching instantly, ignoring the pain he smashed the head of the troll using its club blood splattered on the walls since the force he used was more than enough to open its skull.

Dropping the club he noticed Hermione fainted he released his hold on gravity and erased his presence flashing out just before Professor McGonagall led the teachers to the room seeing the gruesome sight they stood in silence before she rushed out of the room.