Chapter 7

I woke up the next day, and went through my usual morning routine. I went down to breakfast, and bid my friends farewell as they walked down to the dungeons, and I walked up to Ravenclaw tower.

I decided to stock up my potions stock, so I made a cauldron of polyjuice, some luck potion, extra truth and healing potions, invisibility potion, speed increasing potions, and a lot more. By the time I finished all of my needed potions, I still had 15 minutes left before the period ended. And I still had 2 periods after that to kill! So I worked on our computer.

I finished the keyboard using activating runes and painted over the runes a, b, c, etcetera, in the regular "qwerty" keyboard format, as well as added buttons for punctuation. I ordered a rune connecter from a store in Diagon Ally, to connect the keyboard and the computer. We were still a long ways from completing the computer. We had lots of programs to make to even have the computer remotely usable.

For the rest of the time I had before lunch I went to the library, looking up ideas for spells, and such. I found some very interesting things in the restricted section. That's when Dumbledore cam around the corner. "Great", I thought, preparing myself for the inevitable confrontation.

"Ah, Harry my boy, here you are! I have been looking for you all morning! Do you think it would be possible for you to meet me in my office during your free period today? Great I'll see you then!", Dumbledore said. "He didn't even wait for an answer! How rude", I thought before going down to lunch.

I met Neville and Susan at lunch and told them about my progress on our project and the confrontation with Dumbledore. We had some idle chit-chat before heading to defense against the dark arts, which was, yet again boring. All that was going to be on the exam was the notes we took for homework so I spent the time in class brainstorming spell ideas. One particularly good one was making the floor beneath the victim turn to quicksand. On my way out I tested it on Quirrell on my way out, but canceled it after a couple seconds making him sunk to the ground up to his ankles.

Our next period, which was for working on our project, we just programmed more and more crystals. We had it down to a system. Neville and Susan would rune the crystals and I would power them up. Once they ran out of ideas, I would give them more. We figured we would have it done by Christmas break if we just did it 2 periods a day. I was hoping to have it done by mid-late November.

Next we went to herbology, and presented our homework to the class. Granger did it with an air of importance, and Sprout gave her 3 points for her rare plants. Susan, Neville, and I were given 5 each for our "I don't even know how you heard of those" plants. Granger was ticked off. Life was good.

Or at least, it would be until now. I was standing outside the headmaster's office. He had, however, not told me the password to get into his office, which was protected by an animated gargoyle. Sighing, after trying many different knocks I went over to the window, opened it, climbing up the side of the wall by using my magic to stick myself to the wall, and jumped through the window by magically rearranging my atoms. At least, that was the theory. All I had to do was think "get me through this wall", and I would go into the room behind the wall as if it weren't there. I reappeared behind his desk, and was about to greet him, when I got the surprise of my life.

There at the desk, was Dumbledore. In front of him, he had a potion simmering. That is when I saw Nick's fake Sorcerer's Stone. Dumbledore was trying to recreate the elixir of life! "It's a good thing Nick didn't trust him with the real Stone", I thought.

I walked silently behind Dumbledore, who was so focused on the stone that he wouldn't have noticed me if I made a mini-explosion to show my presence.

I grabbed the stone slyly from his grasp and he gasped in shock. "I'll take that off your hands Dumbledore. Wouldn't want to hurt your fragile mortal mind wrapping your brain around the concept of something as complicated as that stone."

"Give me that", Dumbledore shouted, "I need it! It is mine!" I smiled at his incompetence. I had spent the last year with Nicolas and he expected me not to know. What an idiot!

"It's Nicolas Flamel's! And I intend to return it to him!" I said forcefully. Nicolas and I had become close over the last year. He was like the father I never had.

"Not if I can help it", Dumbledore said and he took out his wand and sent a spell flying at me. I didn't matter. I had sensed him drawing up his magic and easily reflected it back towards him before drawing my staff. And so the fight began.

He sent a cutting curse at me which I reflected back at him, quickly followed by an "invisible fist", which knocked him-right through his window. "oops", I thought, before jumping out after him.

I willed the air to keep me from falling and directed myself towards Dumbledore who was using wingardium leviosa. A very slow levitation charm, but it was better than saying hello to Mr. Ground with a splat.

Dumbledore saw me shooting towards him without the aid of a broom or anything and a scared look came over his eyes. He could not perform magic while levitating himself. And we both knew that.

I sent twin bolts of magic at him which he was forced to shield, and so his decent began.

Unfortunately, he remembered to use a cushioning charm to soften his fall. I did not however, stop a nearby tree from plucking him from the ground and smashing him against a wall. How amusing.

I commanded the tree to stop and grabbed Dumbledore's unconscious body from the ground. Willing the air to lift me, Dumbledore and I soared through the air back towards his office.

Once I got to his office, I tied Dumbledore to a chair with magical ropes, which disabled his magic, his body movement, and anyone (besides me) from untying him. I also put up a phoenix ward to stop the man's phoenix from rescuing him. Then I walked over to the fireplace and called, "Flamel Estate, France", and my head went whizzing past countless fireplaces before finally ending up in the main hall of the Flamel home.

"Nick", I called to the large home, "Dumbledore tried to make an elixir of life using the fake stone! He is….er tied up in his office, so to speak." Nicolas came sprinting into the room and jumped into the fireplace as soon as I had left it.

When both Nick and I were in the office I revived Dumbledore and immediately shoved a truth potion down his throat. These are the questions I asked him:

"What is your name?"

"Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore"

"What were you planning to do with the Sorcerer's Stone?"

"I was trying to make the elixir of life to renew my strength and youth. I was also going to make gold for the upcoming war against Voldemort"

"Albus", Nick began, "I have no idea what possessed you to do this, but I don't really care anymore. You just ruined a 100 year friendship as well as an alliance. Never ask for my help again."

I had never seen Nick so angry. Ever. He stormed towards the fireplace after bidding me goodbye.

I left Dumbledore's office without bothering to release him. The bindings would fall in a few hours and he would be fine. Until then, well he would just be very bored.

The rest of the day went on as usual, with DADA, project time, general research and herbology. I had dueling with magic at the end of the day and I was pretty excited. I had a lot of anger to vent and I would be able to.

I walked into the Great hall and found it to be packed with people. Everyone wanted to do dueling. We were shown basic spells like stupefy, protego, and expelliarmus. I had already taught that to Susan and Neville as well as other aggressive spells. The rest of the class was devoted to a dueling tournament. The duel ended when the other person was unconscious. For the final duel a special strip would be used. It was one that was also used in the World Wide Wizarding Cup (a.k.a WWWC). It basically didn't allow anyone to be killed. It stimulated the effects of the curses and the pain, but no one could die. Once they reached the point where they would die they were teleported off the strip. The same would happen if the were unconscious.

I was first paired up with an arrogant Ron Weasley. He walked onto the strip sneering like the Slytherins he so detested. The duel ended with him upside down, hair turned pink, and in a green and silver tutu with a shirt that sported the Slytherin's coat of arms. It insulted both him and the Slytherins. I just killed 2 birds with 1 stone. I don't have anything really against the Slytherins, but a lot of them were just annoying.

I dueled a lot more, easily plowing through the pathetic students. I ended up in the final duel against another Ravenclaw named Ethelbard Mordaunt. He was supposedly the best duelist at Hogwarts. We'll see about that. So far, I had done all my duels wandless, and Ethelbard seemed to be sweating it. I was smiling evilly now that I was aloud to use lethal force. Then the duel began.

Ethel ran forward sending a huge number of destructive curses my way. I put up a shield and cast a tripping jinx at him and he went tumbling down after. Another gesture of my hand and he was sent flying through the air doing flips as he went. I saw him land and reach for his wand, but a bolt of magic sent him flying through the air yet again. The duel ended when he landed on his neck with a sickening crack. Even I winced. I was given a 5 galleon coupon for the three broomsticks. Not that I could use it, or at least, they wouldn't think I would be able to use it. I was not above sneaking off the grounds to Hogsmeade.

I had a good laugh that night. All the 7th years were afraid of me. I found it hilarious when people 6 years my senior would sprint away from me or fall at my feet begging for mercy. Most amusing.

I ended the night with a nice broom ride around the castle. I enjoyed being up high and the wind whipping in my face. And I may or may not have chucked a rock through the headmaster's window. Nope, you can't prove anything.