Worthy Of Magic

Part 25 - Monster

Later at night Harry made his way to the entrance hall secret passage when he felt like he was being watched again. He continued to walk with nonchalance and navigated his way back to the common room. He couldn't see the haze but he was sure he was being watched.

Harry felt the frustration well up in him. He was going to slaughter his watcher when he found them!

He entered the common room through the hidden door opened with an inconspicuous eagle door knob curiously hidden beside a statue of Godric Gryffindor.

He made his way through the warm common room, through one of the two split corridors leading to the back and stopped before the door that said third year dormitory.

He walked in and noted the presence of his roommates sitting in the beds with their bed curtains drawn close.

They all had light shining their curtains showing they were either studying or wanking. Harry had seen something he wished the Void could erase when Anthony Goldstein had forgotten to lock the shower door and since then his awareness about others had sort of spiked, where before he would ignore, now he was observing both colours and faces. Human behaviour was beginning to interest Harry enough for him to observe when he wasn't buried in rune theory.

The window was open and facing the forest. Harry had thought about going out that way but considering the risks he hadn't done it yet. Today however, he was frustrated and angry. He was feeling murderous. So without thinking about consequences and having second thoughts, Harry took two big strides and jumped out of the window.

Outside the Ravenclaw common room undercover agent for the order of the phoenix; Tonks, frowned.

She released her cloaking spell and stared pensively at the eagle door knob. She wondered if she should enter and have a last check up on Harry. Today it was clear he wanted to go somewhere but somehow detected her. Again. It was incredible how he could sense her. The cloaking spell was an Auror level disillusionment spell and was capable of fooling most wards. How Harry could sense her she didn't know, but she had learnt to maintain her distance just like Dumbledore had warned.

There was a feeling she had about him she couldn't shake. As a metamorphmagus she was skilled at reading people. And when she saw Harry, all she saw was a mask. A well-made human mask that seemed to be hiding so much more than what was shown.

A moment later she decided against going in. She couldn't risk getting into close proximity with Harry. Instead she decided to go the Slytherin common room and surprise Daphne. Getting close to Daphne was part two of her mission and in the short time that she had known the girl, she had grown to like her. Daphne was a girl who knew how to dish it out.

Tonks walked towards the dungeons and smiled. She was beginning to enjoy spending time with the spunky blonde.

Outside the castle walls. A boy jumped from four stories above and halfway down he suddenly began to slow down until he gently touched the ground.

Harry laughed in exhilaration. He didn't care if anyone heard him. That had been amazing! The feeling of weightlessness. The risk of being splatter against the ground if his rune of ascension didn't work. The thrill of facing death and winning. Harry suddenly felt like he was rediscovering what it meant to be alive.

Pulse still racing, Harry turned towards the forest and set off with a fast pace. He wanted to try out his new rune structure and he needed live bait. The adrenaline of flying ebbed out of him and the magic of the forbidden forest took hold of him.

Harry felt his heart beat slow and his pupils dilate as his senses grow sharp.

The magic of the forest felt his purpose and sent a message of warning. It was the same magic Harry had felt when he had first entered the forest. Magic that warned him to get away. Now the forest was warning other creatures away from him.