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Chapter 3 : Ah Ye Old days of Norm

"Hey, did you went to the Falcon - Cannons match? The Falcons trounced the Cannons"

"I went on a hunting trip with my pops and his friend Old McDuffy"

"Check out that Hufflepuff, damn she's hot"

"Did Michael Stauch just check me out? I am going to curse the shit out of him"

Harry was currently sitting close to the middle of the Ravenclaw table from the end that is nearer to the Great Hall doors and he was regretting every moment of it. Everyone was catching up with those around them, with a mix of the usual teenage drama and other assorted dramas carried across the great hall.

'Get it over with, where's the firsties? Damn I hate crowds' Harry silently cursed in his mind as he sat like a stone statue, solitary in a field of animated teenagers.

"Excuse me", a polite but dreamy voice said next to Harry as someone sat down near him. With a sideways glance, Harry recognized the identity of the person who the odd voice belonged to.

"Xenophilius Lovegood, Pardon but I don't recognize you?"

Shaking the offered hand, Harry replied, "Aron Runic. Transfer student. I am in fifth year", in short clipped tone.

"Xeno who's the new block?", before Xenophilius could give a reply to Harry another voice cut in as three more Ravenclaws took the seat opposite Harry.

"Maggie Flintlock, Fay Moon, Stacey Debonair meet Aron Runic, new transfer student and he is in our year"

"Oh a new student. I didn't know you could join Hogwarts other than through receiving the letter when you were an eleven year old, as a firstie", the one introduced as Maggie Flintlock, who asked Xenophilius earlier cutting into their conversation, replied with a smile and a nod in greeting towards Harry.

Harry carefully observed the teens as he gave a polite nod towards each of them in return. Maggie had dirty blonde shoulder length hair, a nearly five foot six inch height, baby blue eyes, sharp nose and plump lips. Fay Moon was on the lithe side with brown shoulder length hair, slightly smaller in height than Maggie, brown eyes, small nose and smiley lips. Stacey Debonair can be called a reserved beauty as she had long straight black hair that reached her waist, same height as Maggie, amber colored eyes, button nose and a full lips and one could see the near hourglass figure under her robes. And lastly, Xenophilius had the same pale blond hair as his daughter Luna, with wide silver eyes and a lean build.

"Nice to meet you Aron, as you can see including you there are only five Ravens in the fifth year. The other houses have more students in the same year though. So, ah, where did you go to before coming to Hogwarts?" Maggie fired away as soon as she settled down in her seat. Harry could guess that she is very outgoing from just this interaction alone.

"I didn't go to any of the other magical schools. I was home-tutored, since I was travelling with my grandfather most of the time."

"Look the firsties are here", Fay pointed out to the incoming first year students, for which Harry was grateful as it got him out of that particular conversation.

'Finally' Harry thought with a grumble as he looked at the first year students being led into the hall for their sorting. Harry could see that there are more students for sorting than there were during his time, it was a visible reminder for Harry about the effects of war. Students settled down as the sorting was being done, Professor McGonagall called out the names of the students to be sorted after the customary opening song from the Sorting Hat. Dumbledore soon stood up, introducing the new DADA professor Dirck Cornwall, a retired Auror and then the feast commenced and students as well as teachers filled their bellies. After conducting some small talks with his year mates, Harry along with the rest of the students found their way to bed as everyone was tired from the journey. Harry embraced the blissful sleep that called to him just as soon as his head hit the pillow, and decided to worry about his plans for later, after the coming week was over.

While Harry was sound asleep, some were eagerly having a discussion about the new addition to their Hogwarts year.

Three ravens were having an animated conversation in Stacey Debonair's room.

"Finally a hot treat just for us, the gods have answered my pleas", said Maggie dramatically.

"He is a person you know, not some piece of food" stated Stacey calmly.

"Oh please, I saw you checking out his bum as we were walking back to the tower", pointed out Fay making Stacey blush.

"Ha ha... can't blame her", laughed Maggie and licking her lips exaggeratedly, she continued, "And what a bum it was."

A pillow hit Maggie's face and further conversation was cut off as the discussion turned into a pillow fight.

In the dungeons of Hogwarts, a sheen of light could be seen coming from the small cracks under the door of a Slytherin girl's dormitory.

"So...the new guy is a Raven", Bellatrix, a black haired, five foot six inches tall, grey eyed girl who is in fifth year said, piquing the interest of both her sisters as they got ready to sleep.

"New Guy, Bella? he took care of Rudolphous and his cronies like it was nothing. More so when you consider he did it silently and left the scene under disillusionment, which is a sixth year spell for your information, doing it in the same way - Silently. New guy doesn't just do him justice", countered Andromeda, the twin of Bellatrix, who had brown hair and caramel colored eyes and same height as her twin, in a passionate voice.

"He is hot to boot too Andy", giggled Narcissa, the fourth year and youngest of the siblings, she had blonde hair that cascaded like waterfall and bright blue eyes, standing at five foot five.

"That too", smiled Bella mischievously before all three fell into a fit of giggles and laughter.

"Well we can consider he is at least in fourth year or above if not in our year as he sat with the fifth year ravens.", said Bella regaining her control of her laughter.

"How sure are you?" asked Narcissa turning towards Bella, but it was Andy who replied, "Well Cissy, considering his rather familiarity with magic usage he wouldn't be anything below third year and judging by his appearance he should be at least a fourth year or above. He wouldn't be a seventh year student though."

"And why is that?", this time Bella answered to Cissy's question, "Because if he was a seventh year student, he wouldn't have joined Hogwarts now, considering he would have already learned everything up to what he needs for taking NEWTS. If someone is joining in regards to preparing for NEWTS, they will naturally be in sixth year instead of seventh year as otherwise it would be a waste of time. We know he just joined since we have not seen him before all these years, especially considering how good he is in magic. If he wanted to do the NEWTS, he would join in the sixth year as opposed to the seventh if taking NEWTS is indeed his goal. I think he is here most probably to get ready to take the exams, either OWLS or NEWTS or both."

"Good point"

"Alright it's getting late, let's get to bed we have classes tomorrow", prompted Andromeda.

Harry woke up at 5.30 and made his way to the Room of Requirement, which he had found out in his third year of Hogwarts, in his old world, with the help of Dobby, the house-elf, it has become his sanctuary ever since its discovery. Reaching the RoR, Harry changed it into a track field, soon he started with his normal exercises for the day. After finishing up his morning exercise routines, Harry was back in his dorm by 6.45, where he greeted an awake Xenophilius, who was getting ready himself for the day. Making his way to the great hall, after taking a shower, Harry realized that the Ravens of this world and time where just as much of a morning people like how it was in his own world. Even those who didn't like getting up early, joined their housemates in this morning practice. The similar atmosphere to his old world, relaxed Harry as he sat along with his housemates enjoying breakfast, while he waited for his diminutive Head of House, Professor Flitwick, to come by and hand over their schedules. Flitwick soon came by with the schedules and got a promise from Harry to meet and get to know each other during the weekend. Harry's schedule contained the normal courses plus his chosen electives Ancient Runes and Arithmancy. Xenophilius or Xeno, as he insisted on calling him by the short form, has Care of Magical Creatures instead of Arithmancy, while the girls had the same schedule as him. Harry was planning to learn Care of Magical Creatures from professor Kettleburn, who is the CoMC professor, by making a deal with him to work with the teacher on selected weekends so as to not have a clash with his normal schedule. Harry already had made some foray into the world of Divination and he intended to continue his studies on his own as was his norm. Muggle Studies was a subject he didn't care for since he knew he was far ahead of anyone at this point in time.

The first class of the day was with his head of house, professor Flitwick, where they started on summoning charms, 'accio', and later moving on to, 'aguamenti', the water summoning charm. The class was shared with Hufflepuff house. While Harry knew both spells and was proficient at it, he still listened to the lecture and only tried to learn more about the said spells after showing his said proficiency to the professor. Harry knew that every spell has its own unique knowledge and depth, that far surpasses just being able to do it, just like the 'lumos' charm that he has experimented with. 'A lifetime to learn a spell', a quote from Archibald Gothete, the famous charm master of the sixteenth century, was the main driving factor behind Harry's determination in doing so. The book gave detailed notes on how a spell varies according to the power used, variations in incantations, wand movements etc. along with that, it also discussed the ways in which one can alter the spell results, as well as how a spell can be used in two extremely opposite scenarios. Although the examples in the book were limited, the book has shaped Harry's approach to magic heavily. Since reading the book, Harry has experimented with each and every spell he has learned, trying to find out as much as he can about them as well as their variations and various uses. So as is his norm, Harry used the rest of the class time to break down the spells being taught with the help of Arithmancy and work out as much as he can about them.

The next class of the day was Transfiguration, taught by the stern yet kind professor McGonagall. The class, shared with Slytherin house, was centered on theory of the spells that they will be focusing on this year, which is the inanimate to animate transfiguration. The transfiguration itself is a tricky one as it not only include the size consideration, power ratio required, but also demands the knowledge of the animate which the inanimate object is to be transformed into, mainly about how it should behave, its muscle movements etc. Those who master the spell can transfigure up a panther made up of marble, while it still acts and breaths just like any living panther. While it may sound like partial transfiguration, it is vastly different from the partial transfiguration that students make when they start learning the spell. Harry has trained a lot with it and he still isn't to that level yet. The main difference between the partially transfigured ones and the master level work can be seen from its execution, the partial transfigured ones are restricted in their movement and coordination because they still have the same base and properties as the material from which it was transfigured, like a cat made out of wood or marble, depending on the inanimate material, making it almost similar to animation charm rather than transfiguration. Again it is not similar in any way to animation charm as one is simple animation while the other, the partial transfiguration, creates a wooden or other material animate but with the base inanimate properties from which it was transfigured. The master work on the other hand makes a creature that is made up of said material without any of the drawbacks as seen in the animated works or partial transfiguration, as it contains a level of detail that is simply extraordinary. The spell when done correctly produces a living breathing animal, but a master transfiguration can produce an animal made of marble or other material that is living and breathing, where the muscle tissues are made up of said materials. This type may seem inferior as said material is either more heavier or lighter than the original body thus making it uncoordinated. But that's where magic and the skill of a master shines through, removing such drawbacks. This is very handy spell to know especially in battles where you need crowd control, or provide a distraction, more so if it is the superior transfiguration as it makes it more durable to attacks. While already knowing the spell and its uses, the class did help Harry in figuring out some clues as in how to perfect it further. While Harry concentrated on the class, he didn't realize two pair of eyes sneaking glances at him from the Slytherin side all throughout the session. The class was followed by lunch break and Harry had one more class before the day ended.

"So, his name is Aron Runic and he is in our year", Bella started the conversation.

"I haven't heard of any Runics, do you?", asked Andy as they went to the great hall to have lunch.

"No I have not. We should send a mail to grandpa Arcturus and ask him if he know of anyone" Bella said twirling her wand in her hand as she walked along with Andy.

"Might as well, since he asked us to send him one if anything out of the norm happened at Hogwarts and this could be counted as one", Bella nodded hearing Andy's reply.

Arithmancy class of professor Goodshow was much similar to his future (or is it the past?) class of Professor Vector. Both quickly went through the previous course work and moved straight to the new one. Arithmancy was a play with numbers in Harry's humble opinion. In the last two years of his Arithmancy class, Harry learned mainly the properties of the numbers from 1 to 9, how it is associated with names, finding both soul number and face number of said names and later how it is involved in the various incantations of the spells used from first year up wards. This time the play with numbers was about how it relates to the various wand movements. The professor started out with the simplest spell, similar to how it was done by professor Vector in his last year, 'lumos'. The 'lumos' spell can be considered the most basic of spell, as it only have one point in the arithmancy chart. One only has to point the wand and say the spell for gaining result, thus making it have a single wand movement or none as is the usual argument. In a nutshell the class was about counting of how many points you make during the wand movement of a spell, any count that goes above 9 is summed up to a single digit between 1 and 9, and is then associated with the properties listed out for each number. Almost similar to how it was with names and incantation but tricky in cases where the wand movement starts and ends at the same place, if so it is considered as one instead of two wand movements. Like last year, this time also the students have to work their way up from their first year spells to their current year spells. Harry knew this was prelude to how they will be modifying and creating their own spells for the NEWTs year. It can also be of help in creating chain spells, which Harry intends to do so in the coming days.

The classes for the day ended on that note, with copious amount of workload given out like free candies on the first day itself. Harry had to listen to the constant complaints doled out by Maggie throughout the dinner and the way back to the tower, about the course load. Thankfully he was able to excuse himself to escape to the sanctuary of his room. The next day Harry had Ancient Runes, Herbology and Potions.

Professor Bonnavive taught the Ancient Runes class and like its name the professor looked just as ancient. Her silvery grey hair done in a bun as well as her old fashioned robes made professor Bonnavive look as if she was from the victorian era. Harry quickly learned not to underestimate her old age, as she was crisp, precise and energetic throughout the class. After reviewing the various runes studied so far, Gaelic, Egyptian, Celtic, this year students will start to create small ward schemes containing three or five set of runes in a scheme set as well as some runic belts that can be used for specific purposes, for example a belt that have calming property or something similar. Most of the class though was spent making sure everyone understood the dangers of meddling with runes and how they are not to do any rune work without supervision. Harry had to agree with the professor, as he had hands on experience on blotching up the work, as he once did burn through an entire pelt trying to create a cloak with warming properties. Lucky for him he didn't blow it up.

Herbology with professor Sprout was much more relaxed than any other classes, as usual Harry would say, even though they were going to be working on particularly dangerous plants from fifth year onwards. The class was shared with Hufflepuffs once again, Harry being the odd one was able to work on his own during the class as everyone else worked with their usual partners. This appealed to Harry and as a result had a very calm session. Afterwards lunch commenced and as is his norm, Harry ate less as the class after lunch was Potions.

Entering the potion class, Harry had to take a moment to shake off his surprise at the entirely new world he had stumbled upon. Snape's Potions class can be described as the picture perfect example of cold dreary dungeon. Now though standing in professor Slughorn's class it was like walking into a store, lilac curtains and green carpets, adorned the classroom with a lingering pleasant smell, Harry had to double check to make sure that he was indeed in the Potions classroom. The professor himself was a stark contrast to Snape, as Slughorn was jovial and overly so with those he seems to favor but helpful towards all students nonetheless. The class which was on brewing the calming draught, started with the professor explaining its uses, the properties of various ingredients used in the potion making process, how it interacted with other ingredients and elements as well as showing an example of how the potion should look like after it was done brewing. For Harry it was the best potion class ever without even having to think about comparing Snape and Slughorn in the slightest.

The next day, Harry had double DADA in the morning and History after lunch. Professor Dirck Cornwall had a strict, disciplined, no-nonsense attitude throughout the entire class. The class was intermixed with both theoretical and practical sessions. Professor first went through the spells that everyone was supposed to know up to their year, making sure that everyone knows the spells via a simple casting session, where students were paired up, with one using shields or counter while the other casted at their pair and switching once the set of spells was complete. Thankfully, Ravenclaw had the class with Hufflepuffs, making the entire spell casting session strictly professional without any brawls that should be common in the Gryffindor and Slytherin classes, as it would be no matter the time period. After the first spell set, the professor dived into the two main spell of the year 'Stupefy', the stunning spell and 'Protego', the shield spell. Once again the students were paired to practice the spells after the professor covered the theory and a demonstration. Harry was impressed by the class, considering he had stuttering Quirell, Flopfart Lockhart, one good class with Remus Lupin and one mad class with Mad-Eye Moody (although it was Barty Jr. impersonating Mad-eye as Harry later found out). Harry went with the motions as he show cased just an above average spell casting while taking note of one Amelia Bones, who performed well in the class, who was head and shoulders above her peers.

The class conducted by Professor Binns or his ghost, was as usual used for self study by Harry, catching up on sleep and other activities by the rest of the student body. All throughout the class, Harry was coming up with plans for improving his combat abilities and picking apart the fight he had with the death eaters and its consequences. While he was able to come up with ideas for improvement, Harry wasn't able to do much in the area of solving his short comings and relegated the task for later when he went for training in the RoR.

The weekend soon arrived and Harry was able to meet up with professor Kettleburn about getting lessons from him in Care of Magical Creatures during the Saturdays or whenever it was possible, in turn for Harry helping out the professor with his work. The professor readily agreed to Harry's request and started on their classes right away as they moved to care for the thestral herd, with Hagrid joining them.

Soon Harry was able to settle into a rhythm of school days as he breezed through the classes. Harry was able to go ahead with his plans for improving himself two weeks after the class year started. The first thing Harry did was to create a room called 'Harry's workshop' which included a study room, workshop, living room, workout area and a combat area inside the RoR, making it easier for him to access what he wants any time he comes to the RoR just like he did in his old world. Harry procured a pensive with the help of RoR, in order to go through the battle he had with death eaters, marking out the mistakes he made, improvements he could have done in the battle and so on. The first thing Harry realised was his lack of any battle oriented spells in his repertoire, blasting hexes doesn't count much when you are in a pitched battle especially if there are allies around. Harry also couldn't come up with an answer to how much brutal he should be in a battle, should he go for the kill? or a semi-aggressive maneuver in order to catch some people as he sorely lacked in information department. He really have no clue on how to go about improving his battle prowess other than learning more spells and gaining dueling and battling experience through RoR simulations, but Harry knew it was a very limited option since real battle will be riddled with variables. Again lack of information stood out as the most glaring problem. Harry was lucky in catching wind of the death eater attack since it was near his current residence otherwise he wouldn't have had a clue on any such attack happening. Harry was sure that they have already done some raids on small muggle residence as part of training at the very least if not for their sick pleasure as he heard in rumors from his old world. Harry has gone through the newspapers before coming to this world, regardless of how different this world could turn out to be, since knowledge was power, but he was sorely disappointed at how little if any information he could glean from them. Harry needed an information network of his own, in order to know when and where Voldy's lackeys would strike, what their plans are and other such things. Brainstorming for a while, Harry wasn't able to come up with any viable solution and decided to keep working on it whenever he had time and moved on to selecting some battle oriented spells to learn and practice them with the battle dummies in the ROR.

It was during one of his habitual pursuing of looking for new books, which are outside of any curriculum related ones, that he come upon an interesting find. 'A World of Magical Automatons', was a book detailing the creation of magic powered artificial puppets used for defense of magical castles, residence etc.. The book was a copy of the original work of a late fifth century wizard named Issac Asimov. From the book, Harry learned that the wizard come up with the creation of magical automatons after witnessing a battle between the guardian terracotta puppets of Hogwarts against some Celtic invaders. Harry was very excited by the book as he thought this could be the solution to many of his problems. Many interesting and out of the world ideas began to flew through his mind as his natural curiosity and learning desire come to the forefront. Few minutes into the Automaton Wonderland, Harry came back to his senses as he was met with a glaring problem; Energy Source. The construction of the automaton is not very complicated as one can either manually construct the automaton shell or use equivalent magic spells and runes for the construction of the shells. After that, one can add the necessary rune scheme and energy source to complete the magical automaton creation. Now coming up with the necessary rune schemes is very hard as it requires meticulous designing and testing before it can be inscribed onto an Automaton shell. The automaton shell creation on the other hand is very liberal in the sense that any material can be used that produces varying results according to the varying degrees of toughness, magical conductivity etc.. Also one can come up with any shape and size for the automaton shell according to what the creator need and his required functionality and specification. Two of the three main parts of automaton creation while being time consuming, was very much possible for Harry to undertake and complete on his own. The third one, the energy source was what had stumped Harry. In the book, Asimov has come up with the idea of automaton creation after seeing the Hogwarts Terracotta puppets, meaning the automaton energy source was taken from the building ward stone, called Hearthstone, by tying them to the wards, where the hearthstone in turn was powered via the magical ley lines. All the various examples of Asimov's creations, centered around providing defense to a particular magical household or castle. For Harry, the magical Automaton simply wasn't a castle decoration until it was needed for defense, for him, they were the key to solving his lack of man power and an information network. Imagine a company or troop of Terracotta Puppet Knights with magical resistance properties marching through the death eater menace, providing cover for Harry as he laid down destruction, or a massacre of Automaton Crows with image/video and sound recording capabilities camping out at enemy bases. The wealth of information he could acquire is beyond any magical means that was available, which are none as far as he knows. Harry had heard about CCTV surveillance systems from Hermione and a magical means similar to it with better capabilities was a very tempting idea. As is usual, everything has a catch and for magical automaton it is the dependence on Energy source. An automaton requires a constant energy source for its working. For places like Hogwarts with a strong magical power source, it can power more than a hundred automaton, the demerit is, the automaton has to be inside the Hogwarts wards as they are linked to the energy source via the ward and once you cut them off from that, they become piles of scrap. Harry has never come across material or devices that can store magical energy, though he does know of rune schemes that can actively absorb ambient magic for powering devices. But for it to work, the place would need a lot of ambient magic, considering the scope of Harry's ideas. A quick cross checking over all that he know, Harry finalized that he has no means or information about magical energy storage devices. Instead of searching for it, Harry first decided to create a small information net of his own inside Hogwarts as the castle was brimming with ambient magic and thus he doesn't need an energy source nor does he need tying the automaton to the wards if he can effectively utilize the energy absorbing rune scheme. As Harry thought up possible automaton shapes, he remembered his second year spider encounter and no one seemed to particularly care about the small spiders that run out through the windows back then much less ones on the ceilings. With excitement and purpose filling him, Harry started working on the creation of his first magical automaton, the Spider Spy Automaton or SSA.

The body of the spider was easily created using iron, which he melted out of accessories found in the RoR's room of lost things. The spider automaton was 7 cm in length, from the top leg tip to the bottom leg tip, with a 4 cm body. Painted black with hairy patterns, the SSA was as inconspicuous as possible and at a height, no one would easily notice it. Harry activated the newly created spider spy automaton, the SSA gave a little shudder as it moved its spindly legs while making 'click' 'click' sound as it moved across the work bench. Each SSA is inscribed with voice acquisition rune scheme along with disillusioning, aversion, self sticking, mild shield and of course the ambient magic absorbing rune schemes. The disillusioning and aversion added an extra layer of camouflage to the SSA unit. Linking a dictation quill or dicta quill as it is called in short to the SSA, along with the sound capturing rune scheme, any conversation being carried out in its vicinity, which is spherical area produced by a 50 meter diameter, will be recorded for Harry to pursue at his leisure. The link between SSA and dicta quill can be extended as far as possible, if there is constant ambient magic existing or present between the two points. The capturing of voice can be affected or obstructed by the presence of silencing wards, sound proof rooms etc. For that Harry hasn't found a viable solution yet, nonetheless, he was very happy with what he has created. The entire creation of the first SSA took a month as Harry had to design and test the required rune schemes. Along with that, having no prior experience in creating models, the SSA shell creation also took some trial and error. With the creation of the first, the rest of SSA creation took less time and Harry was able to deploy them in various locations in and around Hogwarts with deliberate use of his invisibility cloak before mid November.

The start of November raised the curtains on house quidditch competition with two matches before the Yule break, Gryffindor verses Slytherin and Ravenclaw verses Hufflepuff. Both matches were very good, with Gryffs vs Snakes being more brutal. Harry got to see his father or rather a version of his father play quidditch as the Gryffindor's Captain and its star Chaser. Harry had to admit, his father had amazing talent as a chaser and a captain. Naturally the Gryffs won though it was by a small margin as one Regulus Black, seeker of Slytherin house, caught the snitch before the Gryffindors could pull further away. The Ravenclaw vs Hufflepuff match went to the Hufflepuffs as Ravenclaw lacked a good seeker as the previous one graduated recently. Along with their captain graduating last year, the Ravens were on the phase of a team rebuilding from the ground up. Harry enjoyed flying, in fact it was one of the most exhilarating thing for him. But playing quidditch never appealed to him, as such he never played, though he enjoyed watching it and the various strategies and counter strategies used by the teams. Being with Xeno and the girls in his year was an entirely new experience for Harry especially with Maggie Flintlock as company. Both Harry and Hermione were reserved, Ravenclaw house as a whole can be considered reserved, yet Maggie makes one think whether she should have been in Gryffindor for all her boisterous yelling and jeering throughout the matches. Considering the whole thing, Harry thought it was rather fun and relaxing as he didn't need to look out for hidden plots, enemies or anything. For once he was able to enjoy just being part of the crowd rather than sticking out like a sour thumb.

In between classes, his ongoing projects, self study/improvement, Harry came across the drama between the version of his mother and father of this world and according to the girls of his year, everyone and yes it truly meant EVERYONE knew of their lover's quarrel? as they put it, in fact there was an ongoing betting pool among gossipers, ahem... interested parties regarding when they will eventually get together. Harry happened across them during one of his usual trek to the Ravenclaw tower. Harry was walking back to the Ravenclaw tower when he heard a commotion behind him, as usual he ignored this and continued his trek only for him to abruptly stop as he heard the argument getting louder.

"Come on Lily flower, it was just a harmless prank", said a young voice pleadingly.

"You are a twat and an utter bully JAMES POTTER and stop calling me that", retorted an angry female voice.

"Leave it Prongsy, you are never going to win her over", a lazy and somewhat arrogant voice chimed in between the argument.

Tilting his head, Harry saw a young red head and another brown haired girl storming off the great hall as a group of four boys followed behind them. One athletic boy with a pair of glasses, another lanky boy but with an air of playfulness and charm with curling black hair, a haggard looking boy with a natural calmness and a pudgy boy consisted of the four boys. With a glance Harry was able to recognize Lily Evans, James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew, though he didn't knew who the brown haired girl was. 'Looks like Their love story isn't all sunshine and rainbows and it seems like the girls were right. Hmm wonder what they are like?' Harry thought to himself as he slowly sunk to a melancholic mood. 'Forget it I am not good at emotional stuff' Harry quickly shook himself up from his wool gathering and continued on ahead without further glance at the commotion brewing outside the great hall.

Harry and the rest of the students were having there dinner before the day Yule break starts. Many topics passed across the Hogwarts great hall as excitement and impatience ruled the student body. One such topic, which was discussed in his close proximity, piqued Harry's interest.

"Stranger things have been happening lately", Maggie lead the conversation in a dramatic voice which only she was capable of.

"Stranger ..?", asked Xeno in his usual dreamy demeanor.

"Yeah, you know the guardians of Marrowwood forest, the Grims in the fog, skull mask gang. I would be surprised if we don't see some idiot in a spandex singing coockedoodledoo…"

"You know what spandex is?", asked Harry in surprise.

"Hey, just because I am from a magical community doesn't mean I don't know non-magical things", countered Maggie with an annoyed tone. Harry just shrugged in response.

"I am telling you, there are very weird things going on lately. Though not all are amusing as it sounds. Some disappearances which even has got the Aurors stumbling around with no clues. It's all well strange I say"

"Suddenly it feels as if something dark and dreary has started to bleak into our world", said Stacey in a soft voice. There was a sudden silence around them as each digested the words.

"So what are your plans for the break", cut in Maggie with exuberance and the dark topic was quickly discarded in face of the light one.

Harry though wasn't able to quickly discard it, as he felt the bleakness with what limited magical sense he was able to develop through his battle training. Magical sense development was considered a key element in magical battles much like having a sixth sense improve someone in a melee fight. Harry, used the 'being hexed while blind' training method for improving his magical senses. Now the topic allowed Harry to catch on to the bleakness before it once again slipped out of his senses. Further down the rabbit hole, Harry was once again spiraled down the topic of coming up better in terms of battle prowess. 'Spandex, hmmm. A modified and heavily enchanted battle clothes can come in handy. Especially if it can be worn under regular clothes, and having obscuring and camouflage enchantments. It could be an asset if I ever have to jump into situations quickly without giving away my identity. And if I can make it using dragon hide or better yet the basilisk hide that I have from my own world, it could add another layer of protection for me in a pitched fight.' Harry thought to himself, as he made plans to his already enlarging list of ideas for improving himself. It was late into the night that Harry slipped into the realm of Morpheus, as he was busy working through perfecting the ideas he had thought up during dinner.

"Are you sure that is wise Rudolphus? Do you truly want to go ahead with it?", asked Lucius in his customary drawl.

"That bitch didn't gave me any face", growled Rudolphus as he strode through the corridors with his usual company of his brother Rabastan, his year mates Thadius Nott and Lucius Malfoy. "We are going to teach her a lesson, the Yule holidays is coming up and we know where she will be. Besides the Dark Lord told us to undertake missions on our own in regards to Hogwarts students"

"Let's just hope it doesn't fall apart like last time", said Lucius as they entered their common room.

'Click'

AN

First of all, Wish you guys a wonderful 2019 even though it's very late.

Now, about Harry being pacifist or not killing his enemies, there are various reasons. One he has never done a battle against a group, second Harry is not some cold blooded killer or battle maniac, he is a magic nerd with a very good magic power. Third Harry doesn't truly understand what death eaters represents other than via third hand accounts as such he doesn't have a hate/kill on site mentality. For Harry it always has been Voldemort mainly and Dumbledore secondly. Of course Harry won't stay that way as he slowly realizes the truth of the matter and experience them I suppose. Harry won't suddenly turn into an insane killing maniac either. Well that's the direction I am hoping for, a moderate Harry, nerd with a good head on his shoulders etc.

The chapter hasn't been edited so feel free to point out any and all mistakes thank you.

The next update will again take 3 to 4 and possibly more months.

Next Chapter: A Kidnap?