Dark Repercussions

Chapter 07

Checking the map when he landed in the chamber, he changed and left at a run throwing over the invisibility cloak as he went. Falling through the portrait hole 5 minutes to curfew, Harry collapsed in to a chair pretending to pant.

"Where have you been mate?" Ron asked.

"Quidditch -pant- pitch." Ron grinned and Hermione eyes shone, gullible fools Harry thought.

"Well I'm off to bed, me and Harry have potions first thing and it's bound to be a complex potion." Hermione sighed.

"There not that bad Hermione, I mean we did brew polyjuice in second year." Harry said.

"True." She conceded, "Where have you been getting all this talent from Harry, it's amazing, but unexpected."

"Well I finally took your advice Hermione, I studied hard and went over all of the previous books and this years and everything comes easier." Harry gave her a small smile, internally laughing at the lie she gave him, it was obvious they were both jealous.

"Well good, I'm glad you're taking your studies seriously." Hermione's eyes betrayed the truth and Harry had a difficult time not smirking.

"I'm going up as well, you coming Ron?" Harry asked.

"Yeah sure mate be up in a bit." Harry shrugged and climbed the staircase, locking his shrunken Sang Lys box safely in his trunk, he dug out his hidden weapons belt and shrunk it down placing it with his Sang Lys stuff. Climbing in to bed Harry made up his mind; he was talking to Tonks tomorrow.

Potions, Charms and Herbology passed quickly and Harry noticed a lot of difference with Neville, more so than just the better skills, he was darker in a way and it caught his interest. Harry actually liked Neville and if he could truly be sure of the other teens thoughts and ideas then it would be so much better, he would hate to have to go against him and he was going to do everything to make sure Neville switched to the dark.

It didn't even have to be an active role, just sympathise and not fight with the light, that way he could put a tag on him to keep him safe with the DE's, he would watch him some more and they try and speak to him. He had be mentally working on what he was going to do with Tonks and even though he was completely out of ideas and had no clue on how he was going to approach the subject he had decided that he as just going to do what he did best; improvise. This was why he and Tom worked so well together.

The Dark Lord was a planning genius, he could plan everything perfectly down to where people would be stood when the plan was executed and more often than not it would pan out exactly how he planned it to. It was the complete opposite to Harry who couldn't plan anything for the life of him, whenever he tried it just went wrong and in the end he just got frustrated and gave up. He could, on the other hand, think on his feet. Throw him in to a situation and his mind seemed to always think of a way out or a way around the problem, something Tom was not so good at because the man was a complete control freak and when something didn't go how he planned it, it seemed as if his common sense shut down.

It was a match made in heaven. Together they had both sides of the coin, but at the current time Harry was wishing he was a little better in the planning technique, there was so many things that could go wrong, but he wasn't turning back. Finally defence rolled around and today they were mock duelling.

"Right the rules are no lasting damages, no unforgivables, wands only." Tonks told them standing in front of her desk, Harry thought she looked as if she wished to be anywhere but in the classroom at the current time and he had his fingers crossed the Black blood was running strong; Remus had said she was unstable.

"When I call you up, go on to the raised platform. Winners go to the right and the losers go to the left. First we will have Weasley and Abbot." Ron and Hannah's dual didn't last long, he got her with a well-placed disarmer, next was Hermione and Dean with Hermione crushing him and it went on, Harry tuned out until Neville was called to face Parkinson. Their duel lasted the longest so far, both were pretty powerful and they were exchanging spells for a good 10 minutes until Neville shielded then threw a stunner over his shoulder catching the Slytherin of guard.