The Prince of Shadows

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Chapter 6:

Harry woke up the next day feeling very chuffed with himself, after last night's surprise Harry had followed his prefects to the Slytherin common room which was in the dungeon. Here Harry was told to got to his dormitory. Once in the dorms Harry found he was with Blaise, Adalhard and a brown haired boy called Theodore Nott. Harry was tired and didn't join the party with his friends  instead going straight to bed. Harry fell into a blissful sleep where he imagined he was flying in his Thunderbird state. In the morning Harry woke up at 6am and went down to the common room and started to read his Mum's diary. At 6:30 Tracey came down from her dorm and was surprised to see Harry up so early. However she groaned as she saw what he was doing, 'No wander Daph can't shut up about you, you're just a bookworm like her.' At this Harry looked up and Tracey felt a shiver move down her spine, she had forgotten how, empty his left eye was. And if what Daphne said was true then he was lucky to get away with blindness in 1 eye and a crippled leg. A life leech curse is no joke.

Harry and Tracey sat and talked for another 30mins where they were joined by the other members of the friendship group together they made their way down to the Great Hall. Once they sat down Harry told them to follow him after they finished as he had something to show them. Once he finished his meal Harry stood up and, to the surprise to most people in the hall, walked to the Gryffindor table and sat down in front of a timid looking Neville Longbottom. 'Hey Neville, I was wondering if you wanted to hang out with me and my friends after breakfast.' Neville looked mortified as his brain processed what was happening. When he saw Harry walk over he thought he would get bullied by the boy who already head the fierce nick name 'The One Eyed Prince of Shadows' in Gryffindor, 'I-I-I-I'm honoured Heir Nyx-Potter and I would be happy to join you and your friends.' In truth Neville hated it at Gryffindor all that happened was people fawned over Cecilia and ignored everyone else, not that he was any different. In fact over the last day Neville had gained a crush on Harry's little sister but he was never gonna tell her that. 'You can call me Harry and I am glad that you could join us.' After this Harry walked back to his group of friends to find Blaise and Tracey chuckling with each other and Daphne and Adalhard both staring at Harry like he'd just just slapped Dumbledore. 'You just don't care do you,' Daphne stated as Harry sat back down with his friends, 'About what Daph?' Harry asked much to the annoyance of Daphne, Adalhard stepped in here to try to keep Harry from aggravating Daphne to much, 'Mate, the rivalry between Slytherin and Gryffindor dates back to the Dark Ages and yet you waltz over there and ask one of them to hang out with us.' Here Daphne cut in, 'Which we didn't even get asked if we wanted it to happen, by the way.' Harry looked at his friends in fake anger and stated with nose upturned that if he wasn't wanted here he would go and join the Draco fan club, this sent the whole groups into hoots of laughter gaining glares from Malfoy and his group. This laughing stopped when Snape walked towards them, 'Potter, Greengrass, Caranthor, Davis and Zabini here are your timetables, I expect you to be on time to every lesson or have a very good reason for being late. We at Slytherin prefer punctuality over tardiness, that will be all.' With that the teacher swivelled and walked away cape billowing behind him. Once Snape had gone the group got up and were joined by Neville as they exited the great hall.

As Harry led them up to the 7th floor the group introduced each other to Neville and tried to make the boy feel comfortable around them. Harry stopped them in front of a painting of Barnabas the Barmy and he walked back and forth 3 times. The group were about to ask Harry what he was doing when, on the 3rd walk past, a door appeared opposite the painting. The group gasped in amazement as Harry opened to doors to reveal a circular room with training dummies and 3 corridors branching off. 'The corridor on the right leads to a greenhouse and a potions lab, the corridor straight ahead has dormitories that can be personalised, and the corridor to the right is a mix of the Slytherin, the Black and the Potter library except certain books that contain family magic. And in the centre this is where I will teach how to use your family magic. So before we start I will have a vow from each of you that you will not knowingly reveal what happens in these rooms.' After each member of the group swore to the oath, including Harry. He started explaining to them what his heritage from Greece meant and how his powers worked. He then took each member of the group aside one at a time- except from Adalhard and Daphne who already knew what Harry was going to tell them due to prior conversations- to tell them how he knew about their Families magic and how useful it would be in his fight against Voldemort. Once these talks where finished Harry exclaimed that it was approaching curfew and they had best get going. Opening 2 different rifts Harry sent Neville through one that sent him outside the fat lady painting that was the access point to the Gryffindor common room, while the other sent the group of Slytherin's back to Harry's, Blaise's and Adalhard's dorm. As the group made there way into the common room the group was greeted by the unsavoury sight of Malfoy and his goon squad, 'Potter, I challenge you to a duel for House honour.' Malfoy stated in his highly irritating voice. 'I accept your challenge to a duel and just to make it a little more interesting lets add some risk and reward into it. The winner has to get the loser to do something for them, it can not be illegal nor can it break any school rule. Do you accept my terms, Heir Malfoy.' 'I accept them Heir Nyx-Potter-Black.' With that a crowd parted and a prefect drew a duelling circle with his wand. Snape, who had heard the commotion came out of his office and looked at Malfoy and Potter and the duelling circle around them, with a heavy sigh he watched as the two boys bow and walk to their sides of the circle. 'You know no-one would blame you for backing down Malfoy, oh other than precious Daddy of course.' With this the blonde went red faced as the prefect counted down '3...2...1 GO' Draco had his wand out and aimed at Harry before the word had even left the Prefect's mouth, STUPEFY Draco cried as a red beam of light flew across the circle but Harry twirled his staff and the spell was absorbed by the staff. Now it was Harry's turn to start his assault, but rather than cast spells Harry focused all his magic to his left eye and smirked as Draco visibly paled, 'you know something Draco, I think its to bright in here' with this Harry clicked his fingers and all the candles in the room went out, some 1st and 2nd years screamed as many students cast lumos and held there wands up. Once people looked back at the circle they saw only Draco with no Harry in sight, 'COWARD,' Draco shouted trying to find the boy that he needed to put in his place, 'Ooooohhh Draacooo,' Harry said in a high pitched voice obviously scaring the boy, 'lets see if you have that brain you were boasting about. Only one colour, but not one size.Stuck at the bottom, yet I easily fly.Present in sun, but not in rain.Doing no harm, and feeling no pain.Where am I?' Daphne like a few people in the crowd cracked it and looked at Draco's shadow what she saw was something almost Ethereal. A singular green eye stared up expectantly at Draco, 'Draco your shadow,' Pansy screeched. With this Draco looked down to see Harry's body materialise from the shadow and a red beam shot from his staff and hit Draco square in the face. With that Harry exited the circle and was declared the winner. After a few pats on the backs from his friends Harry got punched in the arm by Daphne for apparently hurting her feelings. Harry gave the girl an incredulous look as she departed for bed. Harry decided he would as well.

The next morning Harry woke up at 6:30 and got dressed, after shaking all the boys in his dorm awake, Harry headed down to the common room and rested his staff on the sofa while he removed his Father's journal from the shadows and started reading it. From what he had gathered his grandfather was a feared fighter and was on PAR with Dumbledore and Grindewald when they were all in there prime and was awarded the title of a Baron after killing 20 giants singlehandedly, although to Harry's dad . His journal also informed Harry about how the Potter house had bannerman scattered all around the world. These Bannerman/women would answer the call should ever Lord/Lady Potter need it. Harry's friends started arriving in the common room and they set off for breakfast at 7:00 exactly, their first lesson was quidditch with Gryffindor and Harry had special permission from Dumbledore to not participate due to his leg. This mean Harry was able to sit just out of view of the lesson and keep his eye out for trouble. And, as suspected, trouble come knocking at Harry's door.