Chapter 80: Power Under Pressure

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[A Few Weeks Later, Gryffindor Common Room]

Blue: What are you reading?

Harry: The Half Blood Prince's notes

Blue: Damn you really are invested in that book, what else does it contain?

Harry: Well it contains some jinxes and hexes invented by the mysterious figure. I had already tried out a few successfully

Hermione: Are you sure it's safe?

Harry:....Maybe?

Harry looks through the notes and finds new one in the margins, a nonverbal spell called “Levicorpus.” Harry’s has had difficult with nonverbal magic, but decides to give it a go.

Cause what can go wrong? Am I right lads?

It works and Ron is hanging upside-down by his ankle, Harry finds the counter jinx quickly and drops him, apologizing while Dean and Seamus laugh hysterically.

Ron: Hah! That was a good one!

Blue: The things we can do with that

Ron: Oh! Can we target Malfoy?

Blue:.....Not yet

Ron: Aww

We go to the Great Hall and Ron talks about what happened at breakfast which upsetted Hermione because she can’t believe Harry would try an unknown spell out of that book.

I mean.....who wouldn't?

Hermione: Harry, I'm starting to think that this Half-Blood Prince might not be a nice character for inventing such a spell

Ron: Oh come on Hermione, it’s more of a Fred-and-George thing to do than a harmful one.

Harry: Wait, now that I think about it. I think I have seen the spell used before

Blue: Really? By who?

Harry: My father in Snape’s worst memory, I wonder if this textbook belonged to him?

Blue: Hah, your father is a Dark Souls boss, no wonder Snape is traumatised

Hermione: Umm Harry, the Death Eaters also used the jinx at the Quidditch World Cup. I don't think you would want to think like that

Blue: Wait does that mean that Harry's father is a Death Eater?

Harry: [Glares] Hey!

Blue: What? My father is one and you don't see me getting angry when someone points it out to me

Harry: Oh really? Well guess what Blue?

Blue: What is it?

Harry: Your father is a Death Eater!

Blue: Mad innit?

Harry: Ha-! Oh wait....what?

Blue: Told you big man

Harry: [Sighs] Dammit. Anyways I don't think that the Prince was a Death Eater if he was boasting about being a half-blood. Wait, my father was a pureblood, so my theory-

Blue: Has been debunked

Hermione: Did you know that most Death Eaters are likely half-bloods

Blue: Really?

Hermione: Yes and they’d probably be happy to have both Harry and Ron  sign up

Ron: Yeah I don't think I'll join them

Harry: Same

Blue: Do you think they will let me join?

Hermione: They will most likely kill you unless your father speaks for you. And besides! I'm not going to let you join!

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