Harry Potter

## Harry Potter (AoC)

Harry Potter is a Slytherin student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He started attending Hogwarts in September 1991. He is the older twin brother of Charlus Potter, The-Boy-Who-Lived. He is also the Heir to the Ancient and Most Noble House of Potter.

## **Early Life:**

After his birth in July of 1980, Harry spent the first year of his life living in peace with his parents and twin brother. On October 31st of 1981, Lady Voldemort attacked the Potters and though she initially targeted Harry, it is unanimously accepted that Charlus Potter took the curse for his brother.

After that night, Harry was sent to live with his muggle relatives since his father, James Potter, did not think that he could handle the stress of raising two children on his own with one of them being world famous. Peter Pettigrew recommended Harry be sent to live with Lily’s family, a motion that was seconded by Albus Dumbledore, who delivered Harry there himself.

Harry grew up neglected by his relatives and was forced to live in the cupboard under the stairs. When he was not yet three, Harry was scolded by his uncle for correcting the pronunciation of the man hired to perform magic tricks at Dudley’s birthday. He told the man that his *Abra Kedabra* was wrong as from a very young age, Harry vividly remembered the words “Avada Kedavra.”

As he grew older, Harry began to show signs of accidental magic and the more frequent these occurrences became, the harder and harder his life was at Privet Drive. It is directly implied that he was physically punished more than once, but to what extent is unknown.

At some point, Harry, unaware of magic, started experimenting, trying to control the occurrence of miraculous things that kept on happening around him. Thus, he ended up developing some skill in performing worldless and wandless magic. He was able to permanently change his hair appearance by flattening it — he also became quite apt at other feats such as worldless and wandless object summoning. Around that time he discovered that he was able to talk to snakes, even though at that age he deemed it as his general ability to talk to animals.

## **1991:**

### A Hogwart's Beginning:

> *"Do you mean to tell me," growled Hagrid, his voice shaking with barely contained fury as Dudley whimpered from the corner of the room, "that all this time, you've told the boy NOTHING?!" This last word escaped in a bellow. This time, even Vernon shrank back from the man's fury. [...]*
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— Hagrid, having a cordial conversation with the Dursleys, Harry Potter and the Forsaken's Ascension: Chapter 1: Beginnings and Truths, July 2nd 1991

On June 30th 1991, one week after the fiasco at the London Zoo on Dudley’s 11th birthday, Harry is let out of his cupboard and told to fetch the mail. When he does, he receives his Hogwarts letter, to which he writes a concise and thorough reply hours later from the relative comfort of his cupboard.

Three days later, on July 2nd, Hagrid appears at Privet Drive and takes Harry to Diagon Alley, revealing to him the secrets of the Magical World and the unpleasant truth that his relatives had lied to him all along about his family. When Harry finds out that his father was not only alive but had willingly abandoned him, he becomes distraught and quickly leaves Hagrid behind as he goes to explore the alley on his own with the money that his father had provided Hagrid to give to Harry.

Later that day, after meeting Draco Malfoy in Madam Malkin’s and doing the rest of his Hogwarts shopping, Harry takes a stroll down Knockturn Alley. There, he meets a man who is implied to be a vampire, who, for a hefty sum, performs a ritual using Harry’s blood and some unicorn hair to fix Harry’s eyesight, rendering glasses unnecessary.

From there, Harry proceeds into Hephestus’s Custom Wandshop where he meets not only the wand maker, Hephestentine Gregorovich, better known as Hephaestus, but Charlotte Weitts and her mother Adriana Weitts as well. During this encounter, Harry and Charlotte briefly engage in a sort of battle with wandless Legilimency, though at the time, Harry barely knows what he was doing. Both children’s interest in the other is piqued but before much can happen, the wand maker interrupts. Once Charlotte is fitted with her wand, Harry is as well. He is made a custom wand comprised of Ebony that is 11 inches long. It’s core is that of a phoenix feather and it is implied to be a brother wand to one of the two most powerful dark sorcerers of the past century.

Harry returns to Privet Drive later on that night, there, he spends the rest of his summer holiday learning everything he is able to about magic. On September 1st he travels to King's Crossing, from where he boards the Hogwarts Express from Platform 9¾. On the platform he encounters Charlotte Weitts once more, this time the wandless Legilimency battle that ensues between the two ends much quicker. Once Harry boards the train he finds an empty compartment. Shortly after he is joined by two girls, whom he would soon find out are Tracey Davis and Daphne Greengrass. Harry is unwilling to reveal his name during that interaction but that fails in the end when Charlus Potter and Ron Weasley barge into the train compartment looking for Harry. A heated conversation ensues between the Potter siblings and in an attempt at some privacy, the two, followed by Ron, leave the compartment and settle to finish they discussion in an empty one. Their strive for privacy does not last long as they are soon ambushed first by Draco Malfoy and, later on, after he leaves at Harry's behest to avoid making a scene, by Hermione Granger that barges into the compartment trying to help Neville Longbottom find his missing toad. Hermione's behaviour annoys Harry and shortly after he decides to go to the loo in order to reflect on the day's events.

Once the train arrives, Harry is the first of the first years to make it onto the platform. On the boat ride from the platform to Hogwarts that ensues, Harry ends up sharing a boat with Millicent Bulstrode, Theodore Nott and Blaise Zabini. At Hogwarts they are greeted by Professor McGonagall that directs the student sorting ceremony. Harry, after an interesting conversation with the Sorting Hat, ends up being placed in Slytherin, with the Hat noting that Slytherin and Ravenclaw would have been the only two viable options for him. His sorting shocks the Great Hall into silence. Throughout dinner Harry sits with the other first year Slytherins, there Draco Malfoy tries, and fails, to goat Harry into a verbal argument. At the end of the feast Andrew Macnair tries to intimidate Harry, unfortunately for him his plans are twatted when Grace Weitts intervenes. She then decides to take Harry via a different route then the other Slytherin first years to their Common Room — during their walk she engages Harry in a conversation about the inner workings of the house of the cunning. In the Common Room Harry listens as Severus Snape, their head of house, gives them a speech that lays out his expectations towards the new students.

The next morning Harry is the first to reach the Common Room, so he chooses a place near the fire place to read and wait for his new housemates to wake up. Remembering the interactions among the older students from the previous night Harry decides not to sit on the lounge situated in from of the fire place, as he correctly assumes that it is reserved for the most influential students of their house. Soon after, he is joined by Grace, that takes her seat on the lounge, indirectly confirming Harry's suspicion about the internal house hierarchy and engages with him in a conversation about house politics that leaves Grace tentatively impressed with Harry. At breakfast that morning their head of house hands them their schedules with Harry having to force himself to eat something, as years of starving under the Dursleys had made him eat frugally and sparingly.

> *“Two Potters,” he drawled, “I dare say Hogwarts has never seen such dark times as are undoubtedly on the horizon.”*
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— Severus Snape showing his complete confidence in the new generation of Hogwarts students during the first first-year Gryffindor-Slytherin Potions class of the year, Harry Potter and the Forsaken's Ascension: Chapter 3: The Building of Foundations, September 2nd 1991

Harry's first class is Potions, that is shared with his fellow first year Slytherins and Gryffindors. He is the first to arrive to the classroom and he takes a sit in the back, with his brother Charlus and Ronald Weasley being the last to arrive for class, and late for that as it is. As soon as Charlus spots Harry he engages into an argument with him, an argument that is eventually broken by Snape's arrival. Professor Snape then decides to test the two Potters — as a result of the test, Harry is proven competent while Charlus ends up receiving two days of detention and the promise of a talk with the Headmaster in regards to his rude and disrespectful behaviour. Harry ends up teaming up for the class potion with Blaise Zabini and together they manage to be the second group to finish their work, Though after a considerable amount of time to Daphne Greengrass and Tracey Davis who had finished before them. Harry's second class for the day is Charms, in which he is able to answer the teacher's question in regards to Magical Theory. To his dismay, they are assigned no magic to perform during the class. The last class for the day is Defense Against the Dark Arts, in which Harry becomes enraptured with the passionate speech of Professor Hurst. Later on, she continues that class with a demonstration about the importance of a good defense as well as Aegis Vocar, the weakest of the the magical shield charms. Harry acts as a volunteer for said demonstration. After the demonstration, the class is tasked with learning the aforemention shield charm with Harry managing to slightly impress the professor with the speed with which he is able to perform the spell.

After classes, Harry goes to the library and tries to find any silencing spells that would allow him to mask his nightmares from his dorm mates. At some point, he is forced to take a break and go to dinner, where he ends up sitting with Daphne Greengrass, Tracey Davis and Pansy Parkinson — there, among another topics, Harry ends up deflecting questions in regards to his study habits and the overall quality of his memory. After dinner he returns to the library where he tries, and fails, to find a silencing spell. Near closing time, Professor Hurst overhears his swearing and following a perfunctory reprimand and a compliment, she offers to help him. Harry is quite surprised that an adult is interested in helping him, and so, he decides to trust her enough to explain what spell he was looking for. In turn Amelia Hurst teaches Harry Muffliato — an Anti-Eavesdropping charm.

He returns to a tense Common Room as Marcus Flint and Terrence Higgs were in the middle of a power play by sitting on the lounge reserved for Grace Weitts and her entourage. While waiting for her return, and for the inevitable confrontation that would ensue, Harry has a quick non-verbal conversation throughout gestures with Blaise Zabini in which they both confirm that the other understands what is about to occur. The arrival of Grace marks the beginning of the power struggle which results in the utter defeat of the two contenders.

The next morning, the Slytherin first-years have their first Herbology class together with their Ravenclaw counterparts. During that lecture Professor Sprout explains to them the relevance of Magical Plants with Harry managing to earn Slytherin five points for correctly pointing out Devil's Snare as a plant capable of killing a witch or a wizard. The following class is History of Magic, a class that that ends up completely disappointing Harry who starts to contemplate not attending it at all, a thought he shares at lunch with Daphne and Tracey. After lunch, the Slytherin first-years have their first class of Transfiguration, there Harry asks Professor McGonagall for additional information about the sub-branches of her field, an action that impresses the stern professor. Later on, Harry proves his prodigious abilities in the field by performing the task of the day — transfiguring a matchstick into a needle — in record time, and then moving on to more advanced alterations of the same task. Professor McGonagall is left baffled after the class, viewing Harry as the most prodigious student that she had ever taught.

On the fourth day of his Hogwarts schooling, Harry receives an owl from his estranged father, James Potter, in which the aforementioned expresses his desire to connect with him. Harry decides that accepting a meeting with his genitor was the smart thing to do as a cordial relationship with the patriarch of House Potter would be beneficial to him in the long run — a part of his decision is also helped by his deeply buried desire to have a father. The next morning, during their Potions class Harry is invited by Daphne to pair up with her. Even though confused Harry is too curious about the possible Potions skills that he could learn by brewing with Daphne to question the offer out loud. He ends up learning a lot about the art of brewing from her during the lesson and a tentative friendship starts to blossom between the two, at the end of class the two decide to address one another on a first-name basis.

The morning of September 7th finds Harry writing a reply to his genitor, James Potter, in which he agrees to a future meeting in Hogsmeade. As he heads towards the Owlery, he runs into Grace Weitts. A conversation ensues between the two with Grace remarking upon his Slytherin traits, which, whilst unusual, are unmistakable for those that know what to look for. After delivering the mail to his owl, Nemesis, he sets out to find an abandoned room to use as his own private study room. In his search he ends up delving deeper into the dungeons eventually stumbling upon a Black Mamba Painting with which he converses in Parseltongue. The painting directs Harry to a room fit for private study while advising him to search for his brother Custos around the Slytherin Common Room. Harry ends up spending the whole day in that room mastering the Charms and Transfiguration content up until the Easter Break and perfecting his Aegis Vocar. At dinner that evening, Daphne and Tracey express their worry and dissatisfaction as they have looked in vain for him the whole day. They manage to extract an apology from him and the promise of future help when it comes to their wand-work, with that night reserved for helping them with their Transfiguration and figuring out Aegis Vocar. He also reveals to them that he as a nearly Eidetic memory. The next morning, Harry is accosted in the Slytherin Common Room by Daphne who woke up early specifically to talk to him. To ensure the privacy of their conversation Harry leads her towards his private study room. On the way, Harry explains, much to his reticence, some of his past before his return to the Magical World. Daphne ends up comforting him, being, as far as Harry can remember, the first person his age that has ever done that. Harry tells Daphne that one of the things that drive him now is the desire to show the world that they have chosen the wrong person to abandon and mistreat.

Over breakfast on September 9th Harry gets a letter from James about their upcoming meeting is Hogsmeade. The content of the letter is marginally discussed by Harry, Daphne and Tracey before Daphne changes the subject. The group ends up bickering about their respective competencies in various classes. Later on in the day, during Defense Against the Dark Arts, Harry is enraptured once again by Professor Hurst's lecture, this time on the nature of the Dark Arts. After class she holds Harry back and grants him a full, unrestricted access slip to the Restricted Section of the library with the recommendation of him reading further on intent and its role in spellcasting — thus urging him to study *Intent is Power* by Emeric Emalaus, which happens to be the full name of the Dark Wizard Emeric The Evil.

Three days later, the Slytherins share their first flying lesson with the Gryffindors. Harry is one of the few that manages both to call his broom on his first try and has a correct grip on it. When Neville Longbottom ends up flying out of control, loosing his grip on the broom and falling to the ground thus breaking his arm and getting evacuated by Madam Hoot, the flying instructor, to the Hospital Wing, a verbal spar ensues between Draco Malfoy and Charlus Potter over the Remembrall that was lost by Longbottom during the commotion. Harry ends up distracting the two and wandlessly summoning the Remembrall. Later in the day he goes to the Hospital Wing and returns it to Longbottom whilst planting the seeds of doubt in the boys head in regards to whom his real friends are.

At dinner he finds out from Pansy Parkinson that Charlus was rewarded with the position of Gryffindor Seeker for his rule breaking that ensued during his confrontation with Malfoy for the Remembrall. While leaving the Great Hall, he ends up listening to the argument between Malfoy and his twin, an argument that devolves into a Wizarding Duel later that night in the Trophy Room with Harry as Malfoy's second and Ron Weasley as his brother's counterpart. After dinner, Harry tips off Severus Snape via an anonymous letter about a duel that will take place later that evening. The duel is cut short by the arrival of Severus Snape that only manages to catch Draco Malfoy and Ron Weasley in the act, with Harry long gone from the scene and fully responsible for the capture of Ron Weasley as he managed to tag him with a Full-Body-Bind shot from behind.

The next day, Harry finds out that Tracey got blamed and punished for the duel in the Trophy Room that happened the previous night. That leaves him furious for most of the day. In Defense Against the Dark Arts, they practice defending against curses with the Aegis Vocar shield. Professor Hurst pairs Harry with Theodore Nott. Harry is so angry about what happened with Tracey that he lets his emotions influence the spell he casts at Theodore, and the Pimple Jinx sent at him rips through his shield and causes his entire body to break out in boils. Professor Hurst uses the General Counterspell to stop the boils from continuing, sends Theodore to the hospital wing, and dismisses the class save for Harry. When only Harry remains, she magically locks the room and then curses him. Harry is able to block the spell and a some-ten minute fight ensues, the fight ends when Harry drops to the floor, completely exhausted. She lectures him a bit on magical theory, and berates him for not yet having read *Intent is Power*. As punishment for what he did, she assigns him an essay on the first chapter of the book.

Hence, the next day, Harry finally goes to the Restricted Section and retrieves the book in question — he then takes advantage of the unrestricted book permit and also takes *On the Offensive: A Guide in The Basics of Striking First and Last, 50 Non Lethal, Must Know Curses To Win A Duel,* and *Most Potent Potions.* He returns to the Slytherin dorms and locks the books in his trunk. On his way towards the Great Hall he figures that the decoy entrance to the Slytherin Common Room is actually the entrance to a Parseltongue-controlled pathway that leads straight to the Grande Staircase. At breakfast that morning he ends up receiving an invitation from Sigmund Weitts to the Weitts Samhain Event.

### A Most Trollish Samhain:

> *"I believe you would like to know how to fight. There is a distinct and important difference between the two." She seemed to watch him for a reaction once more. "Dueling has rules, fighting does not."*
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— Amelia Hurst on teaching Harry how to duel, Harry Potter and the Forsaken's Ascension: Chapter 10: Samhain Part II, October 31th 1991

Eventually Harry ends up reading *Intent is Power* from cover to cover, and he finds himself in agreement with the magical philosophy portrayed in the book. Some days later, on October 11th he goes to Hogsmeade to meet with his genitor via the secret passage mentioned in James' letter. At the start of the passage he is greeted by Peter Pettigrew who was sent there to escort Harry to Hogsmeade in the eventually that he decided to use the proposed passage as opposed to taking the carriages with the rest of the students. Harry tentatively likes Peter even though he leaves his presence with an uncertain feeling about the man. When they arrive at the Three Broomsticks tavern, Peter leaves Harry to meet with James alone in a private room. Once there James apologizes for abandoning Harry all those years ago and explains his reasoning for doing so. His apology is tentatively accepted, even though Harry states that his actions are not forgiven and that may never be, on the condition that he will never have to go back to the Dursleys ever again — James readily agrees. They end up talking about Harry's mother, and, at the end of the meeting Harry is able to manipulate James into allowing him to attend the Weitt's Family Samhain Gathering.

On Samhain, Harry decides to further explore the castle while the other students are at the feast as he has no intention of celebrating the night his life was ruined. In his wanderings, he runs into a troll, and, as he cannot run away from it, he tries to fight it. That does no go so well for him but he is able to stop one of the trolls attacks with the help of a Protego — thus marking the first time that Harry was able to perform that 5th year spell. Before the troll could hit him again, it is slain by Professor Hurst via the Killing Curse.

After Amelia Hurst kills the troll, she checks **Harry Potter** over for injuries. She asks him not to tell anyone else what she did, and he agrees. She then makes it appear as if the troll was killed by Harry using a levitation charm on it's club. When the rest of the staff arrive, she explains what has happened, although Headmaster Dumbledore had some suspicions as to what had occurred, and appears to be disappointed in Harry for not going to search for the troll.

When Professor Hurst shows Harry back to the Slytherin Common room, she takes a secret passage back with him. Along the way, he asks her to teach him how to duel, and she reprimands him, suggesting he would rather learn how to fight. Then, she agrees, and he informs her of the room he uses for practice.

When he returns to the Common Room, he does his best to deflect the questions about him running into the troll from the denizens of Slytherin. While preparing to depart via Floo to the Weitts's, Professor Snape informs him that the stunt with the troll was idiotic of him, and that the next time something like that happens, he would lose many points and get many detentions.

When he arrives at the gala, he looks at the strange family motto written in what appears to be a dialect of ancient Greek: φαρμακεία υπάρχω ισχύς. He is greeted by the Weitts Family, and is escorted into the ballroom by Charlotte Weitts, and sat at the Weitts Table. At the table, Charlotte and Harry discuss their meeting in Knockturn Alley, and Harry intimates he is unaccustomed to the environment. Charlotte asks Harry to call her by her first name. She then demonstrates that she has been learning magic before Hogwarts, for which she got her wand, and they discuss the Trace, and how it doesn't affect them.

They then legilimize one another, and Charlotte realizes Harry has absolutely no idea what he's doing, and is instead a natural legilimens. Charlotte demonstrates by pushing a memory to the front of her mind so that Harry could see it. She then explains the difference, and Harry relates that he is not exactly startled by it, but that instead he is interested in said skill. Here Harry finds outs about the mind arts, more specifically about Legilimency and Occlumency.

At some point during the celebration, after Harry has been introduced to multiple people, he excuses himself to the bathroom. There he summons a black mamba and instructs it to knock someone over, to not harm anybody, and then to slither over to Draco Malfoy. This goes poorly as the mamba is startled and ends up biting Rufus Scrimgeour while he is in the ballroom, before coiling itself around Malfoy's arm.

Right before Harry's return to Hogwarts the Weitts family are informed of the lockdown of Hogwarts due to the death of a student. Charlotte ends up manipulating her parents into offering Harry a room for the night, which ends up extending for the week. She then takes Harry to a guess bedroom via a secret passage, in a calculated ploy to determine whether Harry has ever actually been to his family manor or not. They discuss Harry's family relations for a moment before going to bed. The next morning Harry takes breakfast with the Weitts family, there he is vaguely informed by Adriana Weitts of the scale of Albus Dumbledore's political power. They discuss their plans for the day and Harry is invited by the Weitts to use their library, there Harry is gifted, by Grace, *The Subtleties of Deception, Detection, and Defense.* The conversation the ensues implies that Grace is at least marginally aware that he was behind the Draco Malfoy ploy from the previous evening and that she at least is somewhat approving of it.

Harry returns to Hogwarts when the lockdown ends, on November 7th. Later on that day, while exploring the halls, he is attacked by four Gryffindors fourth-years led by Tobias Prichard. He is rescued by Calypso Rosier, Hestia Carrow, Flora Carrow, and Cassius Warrington Jr. Calypso heals Harry's cheek injury, and teaches Harry the Episkey healing spell. They offer for Harry to come sit with them at some point.

The next day Harry meets with Professor Hurst in his practice room in the dungeons for his first private fighting tutoring session. The room in which Harry enters is a much improved version of the one in which he was usually learning. Professor Hurst makes him a deal, if he can keep up his rate of progression, she will further furnish the room making it a more fit study place. She drills him on the importance of not projecting one's next spell, tight and precise spell-casting, and focusing on accuracy.

At breakfast the following morning Harry, Daphne and Tracey end up sitting with Calypso's group right before the Gryffindor-Slytherin quidditch match. They end up discussing the state of both Quidditch teams and the problems that the Slytherins are facing due to the unexpected death of their seeker — Terrence Higgs.

On November 9th, after relaying to his friends what he has observed on the Quidditch pitch, Harry, Tracey and Daphne discuss whom could be responsible for the cursing of Charlus' broom. Tracey is inclined to believe that Snape is responsible while Daphne considers that there are other machinations at work. Harry decides to abandon the conversation and goes in search for Pansy Parkinson. He ends up striking a deal with her for information on what happened to Terrence Higgs in exchange for neutrality in any future Harry/Draco conflicts, a standing invitation to Harry's group, and an unspecified favor at a later date. Right before Christmas break she is able to inform him about Higg's death at the paws of the Cerberus.

The fourth private fighting tutoring session with Amelia Hurst occurs on November 29th. There she teaches him Impedimenta and Impulsus. At the end of the session she ends up complimenting him for his progress — fact that makes Harry very happy.

### A Somewhat Slytherin Yule:

> *That one definitely wasn’t legal, yet it drew the widest smile yet from Harry. he didn’t care that Cassius and the Carrows were watching him. He didn’t care that it was a test, either, for he knew that his reaction had already earned him a passing grade.*
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— Harry Potter on seeing the Christmas gift from Calypso Rosier: The Forsaken Magic: An Introduction to the Dark Arts, Harry Potter and the Forsaken's Ascension: Chapter 12: Developments & Destiny, December 25th 1991.

On Christmas day Harry opens his presents in the Slytherin Common Room together with his friends Cassius and the Carrow Twins. He receives multiple books, some more illegal then others, a traditional Lord-to-Heir watch from his father, a lock-slicer from Peter Pettigrew, a magical texting parchment connected to his brother that was enchanted by Albus Dumbledore, and a custom made ring from a secret admirer that allows to disillusion himself while he holds his breath, sense the presence of other Humans, and has powerful eavesdropping abilities. He also receives some other presents of lesser note.

Harry spends the day enjoying for the first time in his life, the Christmas celebrations. Later on in the night, he decides to take the Disillusionment Ring for a test run by exploring the Slytherin Dorms, thus, he ends up finding Custos, the Guardian of the Speaker's Den, who grants him access to the Den. The next day is spent in the Speaker's Den with him studying the Occlumency & Legilimency book that he had received from Charlotte for Christmas.

Two days later, on the night on December 28th, as he has trouble sleeping, he goes exploring the castle. There, in an abandoned classroom, he sees Charlus staring into the Mirror of Erised. A conversation ensues in which Harry advices Charlus to stop looking into the Mirror. Immediately after that, Professor Dumbledore enters the room, and instead of punishing them for breaking curfew, he ends up instead discussing with them the dangers and the nature of the Mirror of Erised. Sometime after that whole ordeal, Charlus and Harry start meeting on a weekly basis in the library to study together.

Near the end of the year, on December 30th, Harry visits his personal study room in the dungeons. To his delight it had been refurbished thus marking Amelia Hurst's satisfaction with his progress.

## **1992:**

### A Tightening of Plots:

> *“I, Harry James Potter, rising member of Salazar’s noble house hereby call upon my newly forged connection with the greatest of the Hogwarts four and the legacy which he has left behind. In doing so, I hereby invoke Salazar’s Sanction upon The Speaker’s Den. As magic is my witness.”*
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— Harry Potter invoking Salazar's Sanction in the Speaker's Den before revealing the Philosopher's Stone debacle to his friends, Harry Potter and the Forsaken's Ascension: Chapter 14: Salazar's Sanction, February 22nd 1992.

On the evening before the beginning of the new term, on January 5th, Harry greets Daphne and Tracey return to Hogwarts in the Common Room. Their reunion is cut short by the appearance of Draco Malfoy, whom has decided to finally return to school after his prolong absence caused by the black mamba debacle from the Weitts' Family Samhain Gala. During that night, due to Draco's rude comments in regards to Tracey, Harry decides to spill into Draco's bed linens a vial of the botched boils potion that he gathered from Longbottom during the first Potions class — that ends up sending Draco to the Hospital Wing the next morning.

On January 6th, Blaise and Harry end up on a first-name basis with the former eventually becoming a friend and fixture in the latter's group of friends. While returning from the library, on February 8th, the two of them end up hiding and listening to the conversation among the Weasley Twins, Lee Jordan and Ron Weasley, in which the first two tell the others about the Cerberus and the trap door that it was guarding. Harry and Blaise come independently to the conclusion that Albus Dumbledore is hiding something in the school. They then commiserate over Dumbledore's insanity.

After the Gryffindor-Hufflepuff Quidditch match that was refereed by Severus Snape, that took place on February 22nd, Harry ends up following him into the Forbidden Forest. There, he listens in to a private conversation between Professor Snape and Headmaster Dumbledore about the Philosopher's Stone and Sinistra's placement under the Imperius curse. Following the departure of the two professors, the Potter Twins discuss the third floor corridor. Charlus informs Harry about his sneaking into the staff room during the meeting on Halloween, what he knows about, and that in the room is The Philosopher's Stone, property of Nicholas Flamel. Charlus exhorts Harry to help him and Harry suggested that he leave this to people who aren't first years. He also informs Charlus that Professor Sinistra was also muttering at his broom, so it could have been either of them.

That evening, Harry invites Daphne Greengrass, Tracey Davis, and Blaise Zabini into The Speaker's Den where he informs them of what he had learnt in regards to the Philosopher's Stone after invoking Salazar's Sanction, a binding contract that makes anything discussed under it unable to be shared with anyone not in on it. He also reveals to them that he has been raised by muggles.

Some days later, on March 6th, during their private practice session Professor Hurst and Harry have their first rounds of mock duels. At the end of them she reveals to Harry how proud she is of his progress. Harry inquires about the spell battering technique and she explains the concept to him.

Two days later while studying in the library, Harry sees Neville Longbottom hopping in, bound by a Leg-Locker Jinx. Harry goes and asks what happened. Neville is initially reticent, but Harry assures him he doesn't mean him any harm. Neville explains that he had been jinxed by Draco Malfoy. Harry teaches Neville how to undo the curse, and invites him to study with his group. The next day during the Potions class, Harry invites Neville to work with him in potions, and they produce a high-quality headache cure.

The morning before the Slytherin-Hufflepuff Quidditch match, on March 21st, Harry's group sits with Calypso Rosier, Flora Carrow and Hestia Carrow for breakfast. Calypso invites Harry to dueling practice with her friend group, and Harry decides to go. Two days later, on March 23rd, Harry thanks Neville after Potions class for showing him loyalty when dealing with Malfoy during the Quidditch game.

On March 28th, Harry meets with Calypso's group in the abandoned classroom used by them for dueling. After watching some duels, he fights Cassius. Even though in the end he loses, he performs extremely well for someone his age. The group is impressed and the Carrow twins invite him to go on a first-name basis with them.

### A Draconic Debacle:

> *“Because you’re going to let me come tomorrow night, and you’re going to do this my way!”*
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— Harry Potter preparing to explain to Charlus how he is going to snatch victory from the claws of defeat, Harry Potter and the Forsaken's Ascension: Chapter 16: The Dragon’s Wrath Part II (It Gets Worse), May 7th 1992.

During his weekly study meeting with Charlus, on April 16th, Harry finds out that Hagrid is preparing to hatch a dragon in his wooden hat — an act that is illegal in Magical Britain and risks a five year sentence in Azkaban. Harry urges Charlus not to get involved. Some days later, on April 24th, he receives a message via the Magical Texting Parchment that the dragon has hatched but unfortunately Draco Malfoy is aware of it.

A while later, on April 27th, at the end of the Potions class, Gregory Goyle ends up bumping into Harry. In the altercation he pulls some of Harry's hair. That hair is part of an intricate framing job in the works by Draco Malfoy, plan that will eventually fail.

On May 1st during a private tutoring session with Professor Hurst she inquires about his academic progress. After ensuring that he is comfortable enough with both private tutoring and exam preparation she readily agrees to maintain the duel sessions going. She teaches him the stunning spell — Stupefy. That eventually leads Harry to tell her about Calypso's dueling club, Amelia Hurst congratulates him on making such relevant connections end encourages him to cultivate them further in the future.

While returning from the library, on the evening of May 7th, Harry overhears Malfoy planning to capture his brother for dragon smuggling. He ends up captured by Malfoy and his collaborators — Theodore Nott, Andrew Macnair and Daniel Selwyn — and gets dragged into the room where Malfoy was plotting. There Malfoy gloats about his plan of framing him for the illegal dragon smuggling with the help of the hair stolen some days ago by Goyle. They leave him tied up in the room to pick him up later and deliver him to Professor Snape for his punishment.

Harry, now alone in the room, panics at the machinations that Malfoy has just informed him about. He remembers that he has managed to pull out feats of magic under stress, and uses his Occlumency exercises to clear his mind. He succeeds after a while, despite never having done it before. Using his clear mind, he considers his options for escape. He comes up with the idea of using his proficiency with wandless magic. Unfortunately, there is nothing he can do to cut or remove the bindings directly, so he summons his wand and dispels them with a Finite Incantatem. He then contacts Charlus Potter using the Magical Texting Parchment, and tells him to meet him at the edge of the Forbidden Forest.

He meets his brother there and briefly explains what had just transpired, then he tasks Charlus with a new and improved plan. Harry springs Malfoy's trap with a decoy crate, and Charlus flies the dragon up to the Astronomy Tower. His interlocutors would get in trouble for falsely accusing the heir of an Ancient and Most Noble House.

On the evening of May 8th, Harry Potter approached the castle, and is caught by Draco and his posse with a crate. They take him to Professor Snape with the crate, and Professor Snape then contacts the Aurors and Lucius Malfoy. James Potter, Kingsley Shacklebolt, and John Dawlish arrive, and see the situation. Dawlish suggests they have enough evidence without having to open the box, but James refuses to do anything until they do. Lucius Malfoy arrives, and they open the crate, only to find it empty.

On May 26th, Harry Potter, having received detention for being out after curfew during the Dragon Escapade, meets Filch with Malfoy, Nott, Macnair, and Selwyn to serve a detention in the forbidden forest with Hagrid. They are searching for a unicorn that has been injured, and break into groups to search. Harry calmly informs Theodore that if he tries to curse Harry, he would end up at the feet of whatever is killing unicorns. They find the injured unicorn, and a strange robed figure nearby. Malfoy runs away, and Nott shoves Harry into it's path. Harry's scar explodes in pain, before a centaur approached. The centaur explained that Mars and Mercury were bright that night, and offers Harry a ride out of the forest. The centaur explains the properties of a Unicorn's blood, how it can heal anything but will curse whatever drinks it to live a half life. He then implies that Lady Voldemort might very well be desperate enough to drink it.

At the end of term, Harry Potter breezes through his exams. For Transfiguration, he conjured water, causing Professor McGonagall to gape at him, and in Charms he used a cheering charm. In defense, he demonstrates the incredibly difficult tactic of Spell Deflection for Professor Hurst, and she then informs him that he got the grade he desired. After the exam, she gave him a notebook that sorts ideas and provides infinite pages.

### A Misfortunate Time:

> *“Join me, Harry. Keep what happens down here a secret, allow me to strike from the shadows and I will teach you the truth of all magics. With my tutelage, you will master all of its branches and intricacies. Together, we can topple Dumbledore and tear this polluted world down brick by brick only to build it anew. Stronger, greater, better in every way the brain can conceive.” she met his gaze hungrily. “Tell me you do not want that, Harry? I can grant you anything.”*
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— Harry Potter receiving the offer of a lifetime, if only a couple of days too soon, Harry Potter and the Forsaken's Ascension: Chapter 17: For The Greater Good, June 4th 1992.

On the evening of June 4th he receives a note from Neville Longbottom on the Magical Texting Parchment informing him that Charlus Potter is going after Lady Voldemort and the Philosopher's Stone. He ends up waking Blaise Zabini and telling him to get Tracey and Daphne, then go and contact Professor Hurst. He then rushes to the third floor corridor in a bid to stop his brother from reaching the stone. Harry finds the Cerberus dead, he investigates the trapdoor, and decides to jump down and learns Arresto Momentum as he falls, in a similar manner to how he learned the Protego Shield and the first stages of Occlumency. He succeeds, and lands in the Devil's Snare, dispelling it with fire. He finds the room with the keys, and hops on one of the brooms to fly and get the key. In the next room, he finds Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. When Hermione sees him, she attempts to pull her wand, but Harry disarms her before she can. He asks her about what is going on, and when she isn't forthcoming with that information, uses Legilimency on her to find out. He subverted the chessboard by flying over it, and drinks the proper potion he learned from Hermione's mind.
In the mirror room, he sneaks in with the Disillusionment Ring, and used a cutting curse on the neck of the figure in the room. Because he said it aloud, Professor Hurst was more than able to block Harry's spell. She then proceeds to critique his technique, and explain to him how he could have been more successful in his attempts to kill her. From this, Harry determines she was the one to send him the Disillusionment Ring. Harry is shocked that she could be in cohorts with Lady Voldemort, and she explains that she has been covertly preaching her philosophy to him. She reveals that Amelia Hurst was Lady Voldemort the whole time. Lady Voldemort explained that she intended to kill him as a baby, but was unable to, for reasons unknown, and how she had fled to Albania as a spirit. She recounted how she had slain an American witch and used her body as her own. After bemoaning the limitations to her body, she explains that she needed the stone to get a proper body. She also explains that she just wanted to kill Charlus, not Harry, and that she had nothing to do with the troll nor the death of Terrence Higgs. She then explains to Harry that it was a prophecy that had her pursue Harry and Charlus to kill them when they were babies.

She then offers for Harry to join her, and together rebuild the world anew. Harry considers this, but ultimately decides against it. He tells her he wanted to, but that he wouldn't, then he frees Charlus. Voldemort tells him that she understands, that she would have made a similar choice at the age of eleven, and that they will continue this conversation at a later date. When Harry tries to curse her she ends up incapacitating him. She is about to kill Charlus with a killing curse when he puts his hands around her, that starts burning her body through nebulous, unknown means. Due to this, her body is burned up and dies, her spirit escaping.

Some days later, on June 8th, Harry awakes in the hospital wing, where Charlus coolly explains everything that has happened, and gets angry at him for hesitating when Voldemort asked him to join her. While they argue about that, Albus Dumbledore and James Potter enter and Dumbledore takes Harry to his office, where he can have a discussion about it. Dumbledore confirms to Harry that Charlus was indeed the Boy-Who-Lived, not Harry, and that it was because Lily Potter sacrificed herself for her children. He also explains that Voldemort wasn't gone and that Dumbledore will only tell him why Voldemort wanted to kill him and Charlus when he is older. After this, Dumbledore explains to Harry that he needs to return to Privet Drive to power the blood wards there, and that James agreed to the plan, that it is for the greater good, and that Dumbledore will know if he tries to escape. James agreeing for Harry's return to the Dursleys is done by breaking a very categorical promise that he had made to Harry during their first meeting at Hogsmeade.

Harry is depressed for the weeks following Dumbledore's proclamation, and frustrated at the blatant favoritism to Gryffindor House. On the train to London, he gets his marks, and finds out that he got O's in all of his classes, and O+'s in Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Transfiguration, thus tying with Emily Riddle for the most O+'s received in first year. Some hours after his return to Privet Drive, he finds out that the diary Voldemort gave him was glowing blue and had a message from an Emily that was willing to talk and answer his questions about magic.

### A Return to the Mundane:

> *"It would be my absolute pleasure to help you along the road, if you would like? I imagine, if you have progressed so far in so little a time, that you have rather sound resources, but I promise you, I know of perfectly safe means that will greatly expedite the process of improving one’s Occlumency."*
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— Emily being an absolute sweetheart and once more taking care of Harry even after his very recent childish rejection, Harry Potter and the Sacrificial Slytherin: Chapter 2: Morbid Thoughts, June 24th, 1992.

That night at No. 4 Privet Drive, Harry ends up having an initial conversation with his “new pen pal”. As a result of that, he is quite confident that the Emily with whom he is speaking is in fact the prodigy known as Emily Riddle. The next morning, on June 21th, Harry wakes up to find that while he was sleeping the Dursleys took all his belongings with the exception of his wand and the diary linked to Emily Riddle and locked him in his room. He realizes that using wanded magic to get out of his situation would simply land him in trouble with the Ministry of Magic, thus, he tries to prevent himself from having a panic attack.

Harry ends up spending the next days locked in his room, with bars place on his windows, while being fed once or twice a day. On June 24th he stews in hatred for Albus Dumbledore and James Potter for putting him into that horrid situation. While he hopes that someone will come for him, he doesn't think it is likely. He contemplates the process for losing his heirship and the possible subsequent disinheritance, and that while it is difficult, if he leaves Privet Drive, it would help build a case against him and if anyone were to shelter him, they could get their homes searched on pretense of kidnapping. He contemplates the hurdles of being disinherited and cast out of the family, thus becoming a 'no-name'. In such an unfortunate eventuality, one could expect to be systematically discriminated against as nobody would want to associated with them.

He is finally bored enough to start corresponding via the linked diary with Emily Riddle, thus deciding to see what he could learn from her that does not require the use of a wand. She responds, and suggests that he learns Occlumency claiming that the Ministry will be unable to pick on such studies. She offers to teach him using her advanced methods.

On July 17th, while the Dursley's host an important client and their family, Harry is visited by Dobby, the house elf. They try to convince Harry not to return to Hogwarts in the upcoming year as terrible plots are about to unfold. Dobby doesn't get a promise from Harry that he won't return to Hogwarts, and so, the elf runs away to trigger the Trace with a hovering pudding. Vernon Dursley, upon seeing the ruined pudding, and Harry in the kitchen — who had ran after Dobby to stop them — attacks Harry by trying to strange him. He is torn off of him by his guests, those being Daphne Greengrass and her family. Then he is subsequently threatened with a most horrendous death by Daphne if he ever touches Harry again. The Greengrasses then proceed to spirit Harry away to Greengrass Manor. There Daphne and Harry talk and Daphne informs Harry that he will be moved to Weitts Manor as Dumbledore would not be able to reach him there. The next morning, Harry is visited by Blaise and Tracey. After a while, Tracey and Harry are left alone and the girl tells Harry the story of her early years and how her father killed her mother.

### A Summer of Foundations:

> *"There was a long, tense pause that filled the room before Grace spoke very slowly. “For what I’m about to propose, you better be the most dedicated student in all of Hogwarts, since I will not waste my time and I honestly cannot believe I am doing this at all. We will meet two days a week. The days will depend on each of our schedules but on one of those days, I will do my best to teach you Occlumency. On the other, I’ll teach you combat magic.” Harry could not stop the feral grin from spreading across his face and Grace sighed. “And yes, I am well aware that you essentially just played me to get more out of this arrangement. Don’t think you’ve got one over on me for any other reason than the fact that I let you. But honestly, you have a point. If I want you to protect my sister, I can’t help you directly, at least, not unless things get far more serious than I think likely, but I can at least make sure that you do the best job possible.” With a sigh, she extended a hand. “We have a deal then?” she asked, wanting to make sure of the fact."*
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— Harry slithering his way into private tutoring sessions with Grace Weitts, Harry Potter and the Sacrificial Slytherin: Chapter 4: Proposals and Changes of Plan, July 20th, 1992.

At midday, on July 18th, Harry goes to Weitts Manor where he is greeted by Grace Weitts. She invites him to settle in and use her first name, and informs him that she has a proposal for him to consider that she will present in a couple of days.

While practicing his Occlumency, Harry is interrupted by Charlotte Weitts, who talks with him about many things, including Daphne Greengrass and magic. She then suggests that when James Potter come running to him asking for forgiveness to milk him for whatever he is worth.

At dinner, Adriana Weitts invites Harry to use all of their first names, and they discuss the trial of Malfoy, Nott, Selwyn, and Macnair. Sigmund Weitts suggests that it isn't going to be very interesting, because of how clear cut the case is. Harry shares a very simple version of the story of how they ended up in their situation. Adriana informs him that he may use magic as much as he like, and that, in fact, she encourages him to do so, as she always did her daughters.

Some days later, on July 20th, Harry receives at breakfast a letter from James Potter in which he berates him for leaving the Dursleys and expressing his disappointment. He then invites Harry to Charlus Potter's Birthday Gala, saying that he would present Harry with the Heir ring there. The Weitts suggest he go, and his composure while reading the letter clues Grace into his Occlumency Practice. When she asks him how he is doing with it, she is shocked by his progress, and tests his claim, informing him that he shouldn't be where he was before September given the time frame he had worked with. She then offers to teach him Active Occlumency in exchange for him looking after Charlotte, and he manages to convince her to teach him combat magic as well.

On July 20th, Harry Potter visits Greengrass Manor where he spends some time with Daphne Greengrass, Tracey Davis, and Blaise Zabini. When he returns to Weitts Manor, he ends up spending several hours in the library. Eventually he talks with Emily Riddle via the linked diary. He reveals that he has found someone willing to train him in Active Occlumency and in turn Emily regales him with an introductory explanation about the levels of proficiency in the Mind Arts.

Some days later, on July 25th, he receives the contract that James Potter sent him concerning the Charlus Potter Birthday Gala. He is provided a solicitor by Sigmund Weitts to go over the contract. The next day the goes flying on the Weitt's broom, he end up loving it and doing some Quidditch drills.

The Weitts and his friends surprise him on July 30th with a surprise birthday celebration. He gets a bunch of gifts and they hang out around the manor. This marks the first time in Harry's memory when his birthday gets celebrated, even though a day early.

Harry Goes to Potter Manor for the Charlus Potter Birthday Gala, on July 31st. Throughout the whole event he notices that Charlus is dissatisfied and angry with him. He sits at the main dinning table at the Gala, with guests including Peter Pettigrew, Amelia Bones, Susan Bones, Neville Longbottom, Augusta Longbottom, Albus Dumbledore, and Barty Crouch Senior. There is some polite conversation at the table, but Harry mostly stays quiet. At one point after lunch, they run into Griselda Marchbanks, the Head of the Ministry's Board of Education, who asks Harry to confirm the rumour that he received three O+ Grades for his end of year exams. He says that he did, and reluctantly gives a showcase of what he did, while hiding the extent of it because of Dumbledore's presence. After a guest asks him to transfigure a match into a needle, Charlus loses his temper, and starts to show off unwilling to allow the spotlight not to be on him for a while. Harry goes all out in his display of transfiguration, making more and more elaborate needles, before Harry pulls of a *coup dé grace* by transfiguring the matchstick into a flock of birds, at which point James Potter finally decides to shut the competition down.

Right before his departure, Peter Pettigrew gifts Harry a suspicious package, and suggests he waits until he is somewhere safe before opening it. Peter had given him two books on the Dark Arts. During their short conversation he apologizes for not being able to stop James from sending him back to the Dursleys at the end of his first academic year.

On the morning of August 1st, after an interesting breakfast in which Grace explains to Harry that he made the morning's paper headline due to his academic duel with his brother — who's any action can be considered as news — they go to help Harry practice his Active Occlumency. They discuss a little bit about the Mind Arts, with Grace remarking on the quality of his sources, and then they proceed with her probing his mind. Harry is able to detect her after some five minutes, which is deemed as good by Grace.

The Hogwarts book list arrives on August 12th. Harry is somewhat surprised that all of Gilderoy Lockhart's books are required for DADA, regardless of the student's year. He and Grace end up having a short conversation about Lockhart as a result. During that conversation Harry suspects that Grace knows more then she is letting on in regards to Lockhart.

Harry, alongside The Weitts, The Greengrasses and Tracey Davis meet at the Summer Isles Restaurant in Diagon Alley, a very classy and expensive place, on August 19th, to dine, before proceeding to get their Hogwarts' supplies. Charlotte legilimizes most of them on accident because she cannot yet control her wandless Legilimency, and they discuss their respective guesses on where she will be sorted. Cassius Warrington, Calypso Rosier, and Flora and Hestia Carrow meet up with them outside of Flourish and Blott's. They discuss their respective summers. When they encounter the line to the bookstore, Calypso uses the fact that her family is the majority stakeholder in the business to get themselves into the shop.

In the shop, Gilderoy Lockhart calls Harry and Charlus up to get their picture taken with him. Charlus is still very angry with Harry being tempted by Voldemort's offer in the catacombs. Lockhart give them his collected works, and while Harry is thinking about how Lockhart is either highly self centered or has faked everything, Charlotte legilimizes Harry and tells him there is more to him than meets the eye.

Lucius Malfoy engages in a verbal confrontation with Arthur Weasley and James Potter about the Muggle Protection act and how they are a disgrace to wizardkind. He asks Harry about his opinions on the Muggle Protection Act, and Harry tries to walk a neutral line on the policy, but explains that he thinks it might be best if wizards look into muggles before passing legislation, to the hate of Ron Weasley and Charlus, and to the horror of James.

On the evening of August 21st he asks Emily, via the linked diary, about Natural Legilimentes. He ends up being regaled with an explanation on the words origins from Latin, the nature of Legilimency and, more particularly, information pertaining to Natural Legilimens. Early next morning, while heading for breakfast he stumbles upon Grace Weitts, who was up surprisingly early. She explains that she is going to take an apparition test, but Harry is skeptical of this, so he calls her on it. She explains she has some business she is attending to that she doesn't want her mother or father to find out about. Harry agrees to keep quiet.

### A New Bed of Snakes:

> *"Harry felt a torrent of emotions crashing against his mind as he neared the room in which he was set to meet Grace in a matter of moments. The last time he had entered this room, it had been for a meeting with the first adult figure whom Harry had ever truly trusted. Then, days later, that same adult figure had turned out to be the furthest thing from trustworthy. To Harry, this room symbolized hours of hard work and steady progression under a marvelous teacher who had taken him forward by leaps and bounds. Regrettably, it also served as a symbol for what had happened the last time he trusted someone new so fully."*
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— Harry reminiscences about the past as he prepares for his first private tutoring session of the year, Harry Potter and the Sacrificial Slytherin: Chapter 9: Regretful Reminiscence, September 4th, 1992.

On the Hogwarts Express, Harry meets up with Blaise Zabini and introduces him to Charlotte Weitts. Blaise comments on Harry's propensity to make the paper, and Harry declares Gilderoy Lockhart to be incompetent. Charlotte intimates that he has well-developed Occlumency shields and that there is more to him than meets the eye. At some point during the journey, Calypso Rosier, Cassius Warrington, and Flora and Hestia Carrow drop by Harry's compartment. Harry thinks back to the last train ride when he gets a message from James Potter via the Magical Texting Parchment that Charlus missed the train and decided to take the Ford Anglia to school.

After the sorting feast, he departs with his friends to the Common Room using some of the secret shortcuts. On they way they discuss the possible complications that will stem from Charlotte's power play. Once in the Common Room, he is subtly asked by Grace to sit in on Snape's address to the Slytherin First Years. Snape lectures them on the importance and meaning behind Slytherin House, and asks Harry a question on what success is. After the rest of the students leave for their dorms, Grace Weitts introduces Harry Potter to Rhea Pax, and she discusses both their lessons and what Harry's impression on the First Years is, with the implication that she is grooming him for greater things. During this conversation, Harry realizes that she knows about The Speaker's Den based on the way she phrased a question about a private room.

The next morning Harry leaves the Common Room early and goes flying as he needs to clear his mind. While he is doing this, Cassius Warrington discovers him flying and suggests that he tries out for the Slytherin Quidditch team, stating that he was 'Better than me'. He keeps working on Harry as they go to breakfast. The day after that, on September 3rd, Harry has his first Defense class of the year, there he finds out that Gilderoy Lockhart's flamboyant behavior is an act. After an initial written test the students are forced to deal with a host of Cornish Pixies. Harry herds them into a corner using a water conjuration, but is unable to fully subdue them, and so Lockhart intervenes with a sleeping charm that had the Horribilis modifier added to it.

The next day, on September 4th, Harry meets with Grace in the room he trained in with Amelia Hurst. He finds out from her that the room is heavily warded and the he is already keyed into the wards. He reminisces a little bit about the perceived betrayal of Amelia Hurst, whom he deems to be the first adult to ever care for him. There, Grace assesses Harry's skill in dueling by fighting him. Harry loses because he can't counter conjured snakes without revealing that he is able to speak Parseltongue — an ability that he wants to keep secret for the time being. Back in the Common Room, Harry is introduced by Charlotte to Laine Slater. He is later informed by Blaise and Daphne about the changes in the structure of the Slytherin Quidditch team as Flint had just resigned from the team leaving it without a Captain.

A day later, on the morning of September 5th, Harry intervenes in a confrontation instigated by Ron Weasley, in which he prevents his sister Ginny Weasley from entering the Great Hall in order to belittle her about her sorting. Ron loses his already shaky composure and punches Harry in the face. The confrontation ends with the arrival of Snape that takes Ron to Professor McGonagall after Charlotte pulls a frightened-little-girl act to direct the conversation on the wound inflicted upon Harry by Ron. Harry heals his face and resolves not to escalate the confrontation as it is not worth the hassle.

September 6th finds Harry meeting with Grace to determine if he is ready to proceed onto the second level of Occlumency. Later at night, Harry relays to Emily via the diary that Grace deems him ready to proceed further with his Occlumency studies. A conversation ensues in which Emily lectures Harry on the different manners of learning the mind arts, with an emphasis on Occlumency.

The next morning Harry and his friends go to breakfast and sit with Calypso and her group. At some point they are joined by Charlotte and Laine who arrive uninvited hence violating the internal rules of Slytherin House. On their way to class, Calypso slips Harry a note that asks him to join her and Cassius in their classroom used for practice at eight that evening. In the same note he is also informed that their informal dueling club is due to resume next Saturday night.

Before heading to his meeting with Calypso, Harry decides to make a quick detour to have a conversation with Charlotte about her attics of stomping over the house hierarchy rules. Charlotte reveals that she is completely aware of the norms that she is breaking and that all her actions are part of a plan, but that she promises that in the future she will be more careful.

Afterwards Harry meets with Calypso and Cassius. The pair attempt to convince Harry to try for the position of Seeker in the Slytherin Quidditch team. Harry is initially skeptical of the idea but Calypso ends up laying out a convincing case by pointing out Harry's increase in House standing and his partial protection from the older students shenanigans due to the Slytherin general desire to win. In the end, Harry agrees to participate in the tryouts in return for a favour from Calypso and her help with any spell work that he might require. Cassius then arranges for his father to send a lightly used broom for Harry to use during tryouts.

Some days later, on September 11th, Harry has his first lesson isn second level Occlumency with Grace. She explains how the second level revolves around clearing ones mind in order to prevent an invader from having anything to latch onto. Then she proceeds in pointing out some of the things that a competent Legilimens would be able to accomplish.

### A Slytherin Seeker:

> *“Does the hypocrisy leave an aftertaste?” Harry asked, borrowing one of his favorite quips frequently used by Daphne. “I’ll remind you, Malfoy, that it was you who had to ambush me with the help of older students. You have no bodyguards in the air, Malfoy. No gorillas, no older students. It’s just you and your talent against me and mine. May the best wizard win.”*
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— Harry Potter to Draco Malfoy during the Slytherin Qudditch tryouts, Harry Potter and the Sacrificial Slytherin: Chapter 11: Consequences of Confrontations, September 12th, 1992.

On September 12th, Harry Potter alongside other Seeker wannabes, including the last year replacement Seeker David Makehey and Draco Malfoy, are on the Quidditch pitch for the tryouts. As a result of the tryouts, Harry Potter makes the team as the new Slytherin Seeker. Some days later after dinner, on September 17th, the Slytherin Quidditch team gathers into Snape's office where they receive their new brooms. Snape instructs them to keep their new brooms secret so that they have a strategic advantage against their first opponent. He then dismisses everyone from his office with the exception of Harry and Draco whom he reminds that the team comes before their petty conflicts.

Two days later, on the morning of September 19th, the Slytherin Quidditch team arrive early in the morning to the pitch for their first practice, unfortunately it is already occupied by the Gryffindors. They rapidly decide to use the brooms as an intimidation tactic, believing that leaving the pitch would be the worst move. The teams then have a verbal confrontation, with a lot of sniping back and forth, as well as the Slytherin team flexing their brooms on the Gryffindors. At some point, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley arrive to the pitch to butt in on the confrontation. This escalates when Malfoy calls Hermione a mudblood and Ron ends up hexing himself by trying to cast a spell with his spell-o-taped wand. After practice Harry threatens Malfoy to never say that word ever again in his presence whilst informing him that this is the last time when a warning was issued.

September 23rd marks the end of Harry's third Quidditch practice. He is heading towards the showers whilst thinking of how much he had enjoyed his time practicing for the game. He enters the showers and immediately is the subject of a prank, as the shower water contained a potion which makes the Quidditch players grow scales, rather painfully. He wakes up in the Hospital Wing on September 25th. Cassius and Calypso are there and help him into a sitting position. Harry casts the privacy spell Muffliato and Calypso inquires how he had learnt it. Harry in turns asks where she had heard about it and Calypso confesses that she is not at liberty to say. They discuss what had happened in the Slytherin Changing Room and Harry finds out that he and the rest of the team were the subject of a prank that went off. They suspect the Twin Terrors — George and Fred — but they have no evidence for it. Harry promises himself that he is going to look into the twins.

The dueling session with Calypso's group on September 26th marks the first time in which Harry is able to wound Hestia Carrow. After their duel Harry ends up discussing with the dueling group the prank played on the Quidditch team with Harry stating his desire for revenge — on the perceived perpetrators, the Weasley Twins. Eventually he is dissuaded from doing so by Calypso and Cassius, with the latter stating that they would pay them back on the Quidditch pitch.

Some days later, on September 29th, Harry, as instructed by Snape during his previous Potions class, is present in the evening, outside Snape's classroom. Upon entering he stumbles upon Pansy who was waiting for him. He quickly realizes that she is trying to cash in her favour from last year and join his group. A conversation ensues in which Harry tries to gauge her intentions. Eventually, Harry lets her join, on the condition that she would try to treat everyone fairly regardless of blood status.

After another Occlumency session with Grace, on October 4th, Harry is made aware that if he maintains his progression rate then he should be able to advance past the second level of Occlumency towards the end of the year. He is also inform that he is at a point in his training where he can safely start looking into subskills pertaining to the second level. Later in the evening, in his dorm, Harry has a conversation with Emily via the diary where he reveals his progress in Occlumency. He discloses that he had taken a peak on the subskills for the second level of Occlumency, but that he has not focused on them as he has been more preoccupied with Ancient Runes and Arithmancy. Hearing that, Emily expresses her willingness to answer any of Harry's future questions in regards to any of these branches of magic, or any magic for that matter. Their conversation continues with Harry asking for a rundown on the level two Occlumency subskills and Emily regaling him with her answers.

The evening of October 7th finds Harry in the Slytherin Common Room alongside his friends. At some point they are joint by Charlotte, Laine and Ginny, with the first inquiring about Millicent Bulstrode's position among the second-years. They conversation is cut short by the arrival of Malfoy and his group. A verbal confrontation ensues between Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter when Draco finds out that Pansy has jumped ship and joined Harry's group. Eventually, Draco is intimidated and decides to leave.

On the morning of October 17th, while having breakfast with his friends, Harry receives his invitation for the Weitts' Samhain Gala. That leads them to discuss the events that transpired during the previous one. When the conversation turns to politics, Harry ends up thinking about the article published on October 13th by The Daily Prophet that basically slandered The Muggle Protection Act — thus marking a complete change in tune by the newspaper.

After breakfast, the friends split up, with Harry wishing to speak in private to Charlotte. He leaves the breakfast table alone and uses a secret passage that lead near the Slytherin Common Room. To gain Charlotte's attention, he starts 'thinking loudly' — his method works and soon Charlotte separates from Ginny and Laine and heads out towards him. Harry brings her to his private training room where they end up talking a little bit about the Mind Arts. Eventually, they get to the real reason behind Harry's desire for a talk — the reason behind Charlotte's question about Millicent Bulstrode a couple of days back. Charlotte ends up confiding in Harry by explaining to him the whole situation and the two of them try to figure out the reason behind the attack. The main working theory presented by Charlotte is that the attackers are egged on by an older student, most likely one with a grudge against her sister.

At dinner on October 19th, has Harry noticing the absence of Pansy and of Draco's group. Suspecting that something was afoot, he leaves the Great Hall, with Charlotte hot on his heels to provide backup. They arrive at the abandoned classroom where Pansy is held. There, Harry tells Draco to stop harassing Pansy and bails her our of the situation she had found herself in.

Some days later, on October 24th, find Harry practicing dueling with Calypso and her group. The end of the duels leads Harry to learn the counter to the blinding spell from Calypso. A conversation ensues between Harry and Calypso on the nature of magic, more specifically if there is any merit to the Ministry's classification on magic as 'dark'.

Back in the Slytherin Dorms, Harry has a conversation with Emily via the enchanted diary. There, he finds out, that in truth, 'dark' magic is not addictive, but, instead, powerful magic is addictive, and a lot of 'dark' spells require powerful magic to cast. The problem with some casters stemming from the fact that when using 'dark' magic they base it on emotions rather then intent, thus plunging themselves in a state of negative emotions.

After showering in the Slytherin Changing Room at the conclusion of a Quidditch practice, on the evening of October 28th, Harry is greeted by Charlus who wants to talk to him. Harry agrees and they end up having a private conversation in the castle, with Charlus apologizing for acting like a git, Harry explaining to Charlus that he does not believe in blood purity and that his problem with muggles is completely unrelated. Harry warns Charlus in the end that at the moment he does not consider him a friend, due to Charlus previous behavior, but, that he is willing to try to rebuild their relationship.

### A Samhain Challenge to the Gods of Irony:

> *"Had always known that he should have left the gods of irony unchallenged."*
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— Harry realizing his strategic mistake in challenging the Gods of Irony, Harry Potter and the Sacrificial Slytherin: Chapter 15: The Gods of Irony, October 31st, 1992.

After Harry's friends leave for the 'Halloween' feast on October 31st, Harry decides to challenge the Gods of Irony by thinking that nothing worse than last year's Samhain troll encounter could happen. He then decides to wonder the castle. Some hours later, Harry proceeds to return to the Slytherin Common Room from his wanderings in order to prepare for the Weitts' Samhain Gala. On his way back he hears a raspy voice that scares him, he decides to flee from it and stumbles in front of the second-floor girls bathroom where Mrs. Norris is hanged and petrified before a wall covered in writing that acclaims the opening of the Chamber of Secrets. Before he could leave the scene of the crime, is is caught in that position by The Golden Trio. While Harry is distracted by the situation, Hermione decides to take matters into her own hands, decides that Harry is guilty and disarms and body-binds him.

The Headmaster and Professors McGonagall, Flitwick, Snape and Lockhart arrive at the scene of the crime and after dealing with the gathered crowd take Harry to Gilderoy Lockhart office to discuss his potential involvement. The conversation ends with all the professors with the exception of Lockhart of the opinion that Harry is not the guilty party. The Golden Trio, who also assist in the conversation, have varying degrees of mistrust towards Harry. He is eventually led back to the Slytherin Common Room by Professor Snape.

Once there is joins his group of friends and tells them a censored version of what happened to hide that fact that he had hear a voice throughout the walls. The return of Draco Malfoy to the Common Room make Harry enact an ad-hoc plan to stop the boy from using the 'mudblood' slur. He discreetly trips Draco over Grace Weitts, and then minutely smirks at the point to highlight the fact that he was responsible for his blunder. Malfoy engages him in a fight that he utterly loses. Before he can do more damage to Draco he is taken away by Calypso Rosier to an empty classroom. There, Harry explains his reasoning for reacting poorly to the 'mudblood' slur.

The next morning Harry wakes up early planning to finally read the book on the Dark Arts gifted to him by Calypso. Once in the Common Room, he is greeted by Daphne who was waiting for him. The two of them go on a walk in the dungeons and have a talk. Harry confesses that he is good at acting and at pretending to fit in while in reality he still does not feel at home with the politics and the luxuries of the Wizarding World. He tells her that he has not been raised with morals, and so, he lacks a moral compass. Daphne expresses her confidence that eventually he will find his, but in the meanwhile her and his friends are willing to act as his. She professes to Harry that while the group will always be friends, Harry will always be their leader as he is the thing that holds them together.

Later in the day, after his dueling practice with Calypso's group, he goes to the abandoned classroom to practice Occlumency with Grace. He is initially hesitant to enter recalling how the previous night he dragged Grace into his drama with Draco Malfoy. Eventually he enters, and, to his shock, Grace is not mad at him for his actions. Still, she asks him that in the future to excuse her and her friends from those kind of plots. They have a short conversation about the happenings of last night in the Common Room and they then proceed with Harry's Occlumency lessons. These do not go as planned as on of Grace's probes ends up latching onto a memory and Grace is so shocked by what she sees — parts of Harry's 'childhood' — that she forgets to pull back, as was agreed upon by the two. Harry eventually manages to push her back, and he promptly storms out of the room ignoring her repeated calls.

Some minutes later Harry is in the Speaker's Den preparing to write to Emily in the enchanted diary. He realizes right before that how much he has come to rely on her assistance, even though he still would not feel comfortable sharing sensitive information with her. Harry ends up asking her of an expedited way of learning to suppress one's emotions. This leads to him revealing his near-eidetic memory, as that was the prerequisite for being able to learn via Emily's shortcut. They talk and Harry explains the reason behind his urgency and Emily explains how the shortcut works. She then confides that future subskills will not be as facile to learn as emotion suppression.

The next morning, he arrives a little late to the Great Hall for breakfast as he had stayed up late late the previous night in the Speaker's Den. Once among his friends, he presented with the Daily Prophet which has an article from Rita Skeeter on the front page that depicts the events from Samhain night and paints him in a negative light. After Harry reads the article they briefly comment on the sudden change in tune that does not seem characteristic to Skeeter.

Two mornings later, on November 4th he goes to breakfast after a successful Quidditch practice. There he is greeted by Charlotte who hands him an invitation to a co-hosted Gala to be held by the Greengrasses and the Weitts on December 31st.

The Quidditch match between the Slytherins and the Gryffindors takes place in the morning. At some point during the game the bludgers start focusing only on the Potter Twins. The game ends when Harry manages to catch the Golden Snitch thus winning the game for Slytherin.

Following the Quidditch match Harry ends up basking in his victory, and after a long day, he eventually goes to sleep. At some point he is woken up by the arrival of Dobby. A conversation ensues between the two that allows Harry to find out that Dobby was responsible for the rogue bludgers incident. What's more, he also ascertains that Dobby's family does not know about the elf's machinations, that they would most likely not want him hurt and that the Chamber of Secrets has been opened in the past. After Dobby's departure, Harry finds a letter from Grace on his nightstand urging him to come talk to her the following day in their usual place.

The next day finds Harry studying in the Library with his friends, with himself reading an introductory book on Arithmancy. At some point Pansy arrives and informs the group that Colin Creevey, a first year Gryffindor, has gone missing during the night. Later at night Harry meets with Grace in their practice room. She apologizes for not pulling back right away and explains her difficulties in doing so. Harry tentatively accepts her apology and they proceed with Grace giving Harry an introductory lesson in Legilimency.

A day later, after the DADA class, Lockhart holds Harry back to have a word with him. When they are alone he ends up accusing Harry, again, of being the Heir of Slytherin. He also informs him that he is being watched very carefully and that he is going to get caught in the act. After that wonderful conversation, Harry heads to lunch, and afterwards, the Library. There he mentally informs Charlotte that he desires to talk to her. The two meet and they head to a secluded classroom where Harry asks her about Lockhart. He reveals that Lockhart suspects him to be the Heir of Slytherin. On her side, Charlotte confesses that she cannot tell Harry much about Lockhart as she is magically forbidden from doing so, she also does not know if he is a Legilimens or not, but the odds are in favour of such a thing. Later that night, in the Slytherin Dorms, **Harry** has a conversation via the diary with Emily. There he ends up revealing that he might be a Natural Legilimens, and with her help, he is able to confirm it.

Some days later, on November 13th, Harry and Neville finish their brewing in their Potions class. The latter revels that he does not believe Harry to be the Heir of Slytherin and then informs him that Hermione Granger asked Binns during the History class about the Chamber of Secrets. He tells Harry what Binns told them and then the two head their separate directions with Harry rejoining his friends. They talk, with Harry stressing his disinterest in getting himself tangled into the whole mess, and Pansy informing them that she is going to write their parents for more information.

Later in the day he realizes that Charlotte is being ambushed so he rushes to her rescue. He ends up saving her from the plot of Mulciber and Jugson and takes her to the Hospital Wing. A couple of hours later, he is present there when she wakes up. The two talk, with Charlotte confiding in Harry and the boy agreeing not to interfere with her plan as long as it does not backfire. Their meeting ends with Charlotte offering to teach Harry Legilimency in exchange for fighting training.

Two days later, on November 15th, in his private training room in the dungeons, Harry finishes another Occlumency session with Grace. After their session, the two discuss the attack that happened to Charlotte a couple of days priors. Harry reveals that he is not going to involve himself directly, but, that he is going to ensure that Charlotte proceeds with an appropriate plan. Soon after, Harry returns to the Slytherin Common Room, there, he finds out that a reformed Dueling Club is being restarted, with its first session scheduled for December 17th.

On the morning of November 22nd, Harry receives a letter from Lucius Malfoy inviting him to a meeting during the first week of the Yule Break, potentially on December 22nd, to mend the relationship between their two houses. Harry decides that a response would require some careful thinking from his part and concludes that he is going to talk to his solicitor about it, among other pressing matters.

Harry wakes up early, as usual, on the morning of December 12th, and goes to the Library to study for a while. He ends up lamenting on the fact that his pass for the Restricted Section from last year is no longer valid, and how it would benefit him right now. Eventually he decides to return to the Slytherin Common Room. There he engages in a conversation with Blaise Zabini about their Yule break plans, as both have decided to stay at Hogwarts over the break. They start to head out for breakfast but they are stopped by the arrival of a frantic Pansy Parkinson that reveals that the Weasley Twins have disappeared the previous night. In light of these revelations, Harry decides not to go to breakfast but instead retreat into the privacy of the Speaker's Den. He ends up spending the whole day there, eventually changing the password into a Parseltongue one. Eventually he starts checking the books left in the Den and he stumbles upon Emily Riddle's journal containing her teachings of the Mind Arts, immediately he starts reading it.

On the night of December 16th, Harry, in the privacy of the Slytherin dorms, has a conversation with Emily via the enchanted diary. He reveals that he has managed to learn emotional suppression and manipulation. When asked about the origin of his breakthrough, Harry decides not the reveal the finding of her journal, instead deciding to claim that everything just clicked. Emily does not poke on his weak explanation and instead decides to explain to him the dangers linked to his newly learnt Occlumency subskill.

### A Chaotic Dueling Club:

> *"For what must be the hundredth time by now, you never need my permission to ask a question. When have I ever denied you information? Of course, I will answer your questions. Firstly though, I would like to know what has you so wound up."*
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— Emily Riddle being eternally patient and supportive of Harry's pursuit of knowledge, Harry Potter and the Sacrificial Slytherin: Chapter 21: Dangerous Duels and Deadly Drama Part III, December 17th, 1992.

Before heading to the first meeting of the reformed Dueling Club, on the evening of December 17th, Harry has a private conversation with Charlotte where he managed to dissuade her from trying to humiliate Mulciber and Jugson directly. Instead, he convinces her to devise a plan that would actually make them not dare to try to take their revenge on her ever again.

At the Dueling Club, after the initial exhibition duel, Harry is eventually paired to duel with a third-year Slytherin girl, Isabelle Caneiro, whom he easily defeats. Eventually, the Potter Twins are set to duel one another, Harry wins the first round pretty quickly, so, in the second round, Charlus decides to start casting Dark Spells at his brother. At some point during their fight their spells collide, that resulting in a Magical Dome surrounding the two, A Dome that is destroyed by the intervention of Severus Snape. The Magic from the newly destroyed Dome does not dissipate but instead it starts to congregate into a cyclone. The magic is destroyed by the intervention of Albus Dumbledore who disperses it with the help of Fiendfyre. Deciding that if Charlus wants to play dirty so can he, Harry sends a cobra towards Charlus, with the latter shocking everybody by telling the attacking snake to stop via Parseltongue.

Following the revelation that his brother is a Parseltongue as well, Harry starts to think about the whole Heir of Slytherin debacle and how Charlus's newly revealed ability will be perceived by the school. Among other things he comes to the conclusion that the monster lurking in the Chamber of Secrets is most likely a snake of some sort. The previously summoned snake is ready to attack Harry, and as he does not want to reveal that he is a Parselmouth as well, he prepares for the inevitable strike. This does not come to past as the snake is swiftly dealt with by Grace who the proceeds to remove Harry from the Great Hall — shortly after the hurried departure of the Golden Trio.

He is lead to an abandoned classroom by Grace, Rhea, and Calypso and her group. Grace proceeds by healing Harry's wound and ensuring the privacy of their upcoming conversation. The group talks with Harry. He confirms that he is not the Heir of Slytherin, and then he lies to them by claiming that he cannot speak Parseltongue — even though he is of the impression that Grace did not buy into his lie. After arrangements are made to ensure Harry's safely from potential student harassment in light of the recent revelations, the group disperses with the exception of Grace and Harry. The girl confronts Harry in regards to his newly acquired Occlumency skills, and eventually relents in her questioning when Harry confides his trust in the information used, and his certainty that he is not being influenced or manipulated when it comes to the mind arts. Their conversation ends with Grace warning Harry in regards to the potential of Dumbledore trying to legilimize him to try and figure out what was going on.

That night, in the confines of the Speaker's Den, Harry talks to Emily via the linked diary. There he ends up telling her what happened during the Dueling Club earlier in the evening. Emily points out the dangers of learning the Dark Arts the wrong way, by explaining that Charlus most likely ended up learning it that way, thus explaining his weird behavior during their duel. She then proceeds and tells Harry about Chaos Magic, and the many dangers that its learning poses, both from the Ministry and from the endeavor in itself. In the end she urges him not to go looking into Chaos Magic.

During breakfast the next morning, in the revelation of the latest article from Rita Skeeter that depicts the happening of last night, Harry ponders on magical means of communication. He finds from Daphne that two-way communication books fall under a legally grey area, with their possession being legal but the selling-of illegal, and the charm to make them as such supposedly very difficult to cast.

Later in the day, Harry is escorted by his Head of House into the Headmaster's Office. There, Dumbledore reveals that Charlus has accused him of meeting with him several times during the summer to teach him the Dark Arts — that after he made Harry reveal that it would not be in his best interest to disclose his living arrangements from the previous summer. The verbal confrontation between the two continues to escalate with the Headmaster preparing to request permission from James Potter to search his belongings, search that would have resulted in his expulsion as Harry had a copy of the book that Charlus claimed to have used to learn Dark Magic. Before things could continue, their conversation is interrupted by the sudden arrival of James Potter that proceeds to lie to Dumbledore by claiming that he gave Charlus in fact that book and ordered him to lie if he was ever caught with it.

While in the Library, on December 19th, Pansy reveals to Harry that she has discovered a plot from the Golden Trio to infiltrate the Slytherin Common Room with the help of Polyjuice, brewed using the information from a book from the Restricted Section, obtained with a note signed by Binns. Harry learns that he does not actually need to plan that much for their future confrontation as the Trio simply talked about their plan without realizing that they were being overheard by the ghost of Myrtle.

On December 22nd, Harry is summoned to the Headmaster's Office for the second time during the same week. He is greeted by Dumbledore and the two admit their distrust in one another. Their conversation concludes with Dumbledore warning Harry to stop the attacks in the eventuality that he is in fact the Heir of Slytherin and Harry informing him that he is going to exercise his right as an Heir and leave the castle for the afternoon.

Later that day, Harry leaves the castle in secret, as he does not trust Dumbledore not to have him followed. He arrives in Diagon Alley at the law firm of his solicitor, Veronica Tate, with whom he has scheduled an appointment. The two discuss with Harry asking about the legality of getting the cursed dagger from Mulciber during their scuffle. He finds out that he is in the clear and then asks for it to be evaluated so that he might have an idea of what it's worth, thus allowing him to sell it. Following that their discussion turns to the main reason for which Harry made the appointment — he is looking to build a case against James Potter to ensure that he is stripped of his magical guardianship and thus unable to dictate his living conditions.

After his meeting, Harry travels via Portkey to Malfoy Manor for his scheduled meeting with Lucius Malfoy. Upon arrival, he is greeted by their house-elf, Dobby, thus figuring out his family, and led into the Lord's study. There his conversation with Lucius begins with the lord expressing his interest in mending the relationship between their two houses. The two of them talk.

The morning of December 23rd finds Harry being summoned for the third time during the same week into the Headmaster's Office. On his way there he is pondering the reasoning behind the latest call as he somewhat doubts that Dumbledore would simply be petty enough to call him just to irk him. Once in the office he is informed by the Headmaster of the death of his uncle, Vernon. Harry, as he has decided some time ago not to care about those relatives, simply does not care. This fact makes Albus reveal that this sort of behavior reminds him of Voldemort from back when she was a student, among other things that he does not want to mention.

Some time later on the same day, in the Speaker's Den, Harry and Blaise have a private conversation that eventually leads to Harry strongly suspecting Peter Pettigrew to be the one responsible for Charlus failed frame-job from a couple of days back. Harry states out loud that it might have been in order for him to lose the Potter Heirship while not mentioning a more disconcerting possibility for Pettigrew's alleged actions. To ensure the secrecy of their conversation, Harry invokes Salazar's Sanction upon the Speaker's Den.

On Christmas morning, Harry and his friends are in the Slytherin Common Room. When all of them arrive they proceed to open their Christmas presents. At some point during that day, while Blaise and Hestia were playing chess in the Slytherin Common Room, Harry was hanging out with them, working on Arithmancy, while waiting to see if his intelligence was correct. Soon afterwards, they are joined by Crabbe and Goyle who start to question Harry on the Heir of Slytherin. Harry, aware of the Golden Trio's plot, decides to end the charade, and apprehends Charlus and Ron, that were masquerading as Crabbe and Goyle with the help of the Polyjuice Potion. Harry informs his friends that they will hand over the two Gryffindors to Snape, as anything else will backfire due to Dumbledore's view on him. He then proceeds to use Legilimency to Goyle, who turns out to be Ron Weasley, and thus finds out the Hermione Granger is hiding in the stall of the abandoned bathroom. Harry sends Hestia to gather her and Blaise to fetch Snape.

At breakfast on December 27th, Harry reads the article from the Daily Prophet that reveals Charlus exploits from two days early. Afterwards he focuses his attention on the mail from his solicitor, Veronica Tate, that informs him, among others, that the enchanted knife has been evaluated at roughly six-thousand galleons.

The evening of December 31st finds Harry arriving at Greengrass Manor for the Gala. There he meets Charlotte and she leads him to the head table where he ends up dining with the Weitts and the Greengrasses. Sometime afterwards, proceeding a dance with Grace, he goes outside for some fresh air. There he has a verbal spar with Darren Mulciber who tries to force him into returning his enchanted dagger. The disagreement comes to a halt with the intervention of Bellatrix Black who dismisses Lord Mulciber and takes Harry for a private chat. Their conversation concludes with Bellatrix buying the dagger from Harry for an overpriced twelve-thousands galleons. Later on, Harry engages in a talk with Lord Weitts where the later explains to Harry some things, among which the concept of centennial sorcerer and lord or lady of the light, dark or grey. Giaus asks Harry to read about the ideology of the three factions and decide which resonate more with him — with the promise of a future talk in the summer — and to think about what he actually wants to achieve in his life. Their conversation ends with him promising Harry a more open talk when the boy has done as urged.

Returning to the ball, he is present at the failed attack on Lord Weitts by Draco Malfoy. After the Malfoy's departure, Harry, Daphne, Blaise and Charlotte retreat to a private room. There, Harry makes Daphne reveal how she had managed to make Draco commit such a great political blunder. Thus, she explains her plan — to spike his drink with Draught of Hate keyed to Giaus Weitts — that she has enacted with the help of Charlotte.

## 1993:

### A Plot's Thickening:

> *"If she had been the Heir of Slytherin, why didn’t she encourage him to learn the Dark Arts in the same way that Charlus had? She had even done the opposite. Gently but firmly guiding him away from any potential land mines he might stumble across.*
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> *It confused him greatly and his trust for her was shattered completely. As made clear by the fact he hadn’t written in their shared journal since he’d been made aware of the details pertaining to Hagrid’s expulsion and the jarring revelations that had preceded it.*
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> *But he still trusted her judgement on all things magic."*
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— Harry, and his conflicting emotions when it comes to Emily Riddle, Harry Potter and the Sacrificial Slytherin: Chapter 28: Mounting Tensions, March 13th, 1993.

The first morning of the year finds Harry in the Great Hall eating breakfast. There he reads the latest article from the Daily Prophet that depicts Draco's attack during the Greengrass Gala. After reading the article he is more convinced then ever that Rita Skeeter is now under the influence of Lucius Malfoy. Pondering on the events from the previous evening, Harry decides that, in light of Lucius Malfoy's intellect, he should write a letter to his solicitor so that he may obtain one additional thing from his ongoing negotiation with Lord Malfoy.

The return of the students for the new semester, on January 3rd, finds Harry in the Slytherin Common Room catching-up with his friends. At some point he departs to meet with Grace in the Dungeons to practice Occlumency. On his way there he stops to talk in private with Tracey who has followed-up on him to check that he is fine given the recently revealed deaths of his aunt and uncle.

Two days later, in the room in the Dungeons, Harry is having a mock-duel with Charlotte to assess her dueling prowess. After the duel concludes, he decides to start teaching her some defensive magic as that was one area where she was significantly lagging behind compared to her offensive repertoire. He postpones teaching her spell deflection until a later date.

After another DADA class, on January 7th, Lockhart instructs Harry to stay behind. When the two are alone, Lockhart ends up accusing Harry of teaching Charlus Dark Magic, which the boy refutes. Their conversation comes to an end with Harry accusing Lockhart of acting akin to the Dursleys and denying that he is a Parseltongue.

The next evening finds him once more in the dungeons, with Grace starting to teach him how to cast wordlessly. At the end of their practice the two talk with Harry finally asking her about her views on Dark Magic. She ends up confirming to him that powerful magic is the one addictive, not dark one, and that he is ready to begin learning it if he wants to.

Some days later, on January 10th, whilst heading to the Dungeons for his training session with Grace, Harry is pondering on the letter that he just received from Peter Pettigrew assuring him that he does not think that he is responsible for Charlus foray into the Dark Arts. Eventually, Harry comes to the conclusion that Pettigrew is the one responsible for twisting Charlus' mind.

At breakfast, on the morning of January 11th, Harry comes to the painful realization that Daphne had gone missing. He leads Charlotte, Blaise and Tracey into the Speaker's Den and leaves for some time. Eventually he returns and shortly afterwards he collapses into a panic attack that was enchanted by his suppressed memories. His Occlumency 'shields' end up being rebuilt by Charlotte with the help of Legilimency. After he wakes up, he decides on changing the password to into the Speaker's Den and secludes himself in there pondering on the happenings since Daphne's disappearance. Two days later, he heads on exiting the Speaker's Den, intent on figuring out who the Heir of Slytherin actually is.

Some days later, on January 14th, in the Great Hall, Harry is thinking on what had occurred since Daphne's disappearance — and that Dumbledore has been watching him even more closely every since that moment. At the insistence of Tracey, the two talk about how he feels. At the end of their conversation he comes to the realization that to properly investigate the Heir of Slytherin, Dumbledore would need to be removed from the castle — and, for that to happen, he might need to employ the help of Lucius Malfoy.

The next evening, he has another dueling session with Grace, this one focused on his venting out his mounting frustrations, as Grace fights defensively until Harry gets tired. Afterwards, the two talk with Grace recommending Harry to slowly let his suppressed emotions leak, thus ensuring that they do not accumulate, which would lead to unfortunate situations. Two days later, Harry is dueling Cassius in another meeting with Calypso's group. He eventually manages to win the duel, thus marking his first victory against the older boy.

On the morning of January 25th, Harry has a surprise conversation with Ares Black, where the girl expresses her interest in joining Harry's group claiming loneliness, especially after Draco was pulled out of Hogwarts shortly after the Auror's arrival. To entice him to accept, she offers her aid in his search for determining the identity of the Heir of Slytherin.

Over breakfast, a couple of days later, on February 1st, Harry receives a letter confirming the selling of his enchanted dagger. Sparing a glance at Ares, he gets the confirmation that she is indeed looking into the Heir of Slytherin — who had stuck again the previous night, by abducting Lillian Moon.

The morning of February 14th, finds Harry walking into the Great Hall for breakfast, analyzing with disgust the Valentine Day decorations. Once seated at his table, he receives a letter from his solicitor informing him that his plan might prove successful if executed right. Shortly afterwards, he receives a message from Ares Black informing him that she got hold of a memory about the Heir of Slytherin from some fifty-years back, with the only problem being that of getting him out of the castle and into the House of Black in order to view it.

His lessons in Legilimency continue under Charlotte's supervision, as usual on Saturday evening. On February 20th, at the end of their session Charlotte informs Harry that she will soon execute her plan to deal with Mulciber and Jugson so that they would not dare to act against her in the foreseeable future. Her plan is executed two evenings later and it is a resounding success. Afterwards, she explains her actions to Harry who approves of her idea, and informs her that he will be interested one day to learn the Legilimency skill employed as well.

Using a legal loophole, Harry is able to leave the castle on February 28th. Thus, he goes to the Headquarters of the Daily Prophet. There he has a meeting — that was facilitated by Lucius Malfoy — with Rita Skeeter, to whom he gives an interview. Later that night, he arrives at Black Manor. There Harry is greeted by Bellatrix Black, who informs him that the loophole that he used to leave Hogwarts during times of lock-down is going to be soon voted out. Soon afterwards, Harry views the memory pertaining to the 'capturing' of the Heir of Slytherin some fifty-years in the past. The viewed memory shows him how Hagrid was framed as being the Heir by Emily Riddle. Thus, Harry is able to ascertain that the girl was in fact the Heir. Subsequently, Harry decides to stop writing to her for the time being.

On the evening of March 12th, Harry heads to Hagrid's Hut. On the way there he meets with Lucius Malfoy, as planned. There they meet with Hagrid, Dumbledore, and somewhat surprisingly, Barty Crouch Sr. They end up informing Dumbledore that the Board of Governors has decided to suspend his as Headmaster of the school. The conversation ends with Hagrid being removed from the grounds, but not before giving a cryptic message about one needing to follow the spiders if they were interested in uncovering the truth — most likely directed at Granger and Charlus Potter, who were hiding under the Potter Invisibility Cloak somewhere in the Hut. The three adults, Harry and Hagrid depart the Hut. On the way back to the castle, Harry ponders on the implications of Dumbledore's removal and how it all ties to his efforts — now unshackled — of investigating the actions of the Heir of Slytherin.

The next morning, after breakfast, Harry is followed out of the Great Hall by Ares. Shortly afterwards the two have a private conversation in which Ares emotionally manipulates Harry into allowing her entry into that night's meeting pertaining to the end goal of unmasking the Heir of Slytherin.

Some weeks later, on the evening of March 27th, on Knockturn Alley, Harry — who has managed to sneak out of Hogwarts — goes to acquire some snakes to act as spies for him in the castle. The spy-snakes prove extremely valuable a relatively short while later, on the night of April 9th, when they inform Harry of his twin departure from the castle, thus allowing him to investigate in peace without being followed. Thus, while exploring the castle, Harry stumbles upon the Marauder's Map.

A couple of days later, on the night of April 2nd, Harry is in the Restricted Section of the Library looking throughout the books for questionable and powerful magic, and for some spell that would allow him to learn more about the nature of the Marauder's Map. Since finding the map, he has come to the realization that he did not know as much of the castle as he liked to believe. That feeling only intensified when he ended up noticing a secret passageway leading to the Restricted Section, thus bypassing the wards.

### A Respite in Civility:

> *“I know you sent the snake to frame Malfoy at the gala during your first year. You had a motive and I saw you leave the ballroom not long before it happened. Serpensortia doesn’t work as it did there. I know Malfoy didn’t conjure it, yet the snake was docile to him. That should have been impossible unless the caster was a Parselmouth. You also hesitated earlier this year in a duel when I conjured a snake, and you have access to a mysterious room that even I can’t figure out how to get into. When your brother hissed at the snake during the Dueling Club, it only confirmed my theory.”*
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— Grace informing Harry that now was not the time for him to keep all his secrets that close to his chest, Harry Potter and the Sacrificial Slytherin: Chapter 30: The Falling of Pieces, Part I, April 22nd, 1993.

The evening of April 20th, finds Harry and Charlotte talking after another training session, the subject being that of Harry's emotional breakdown from a while back in the Speaker's Den. Charlotte reveals that Zabini imposed the Sanction on them all, thus stopping her from revealing what she learnt whilst rebuilding his Occlumency 'shields', and that her grandfather, even though Neutral, has reasons for detesting Voldemort. As a closing thought, Charlotte assures Harry that neither her, nor his friends, judge him for holding his secrets.

Two nights later, after a tutoring session with Grace in Occlumency where she declares him a level three Occlumens, Harry heads towards the Slytherin Common Room. On the way there he gets ambushed by three of Selwyn's stooges, and right before he could make an exit he is hit with a curse and levitated off the ground. Not long afterwards he is rescued by Grace Weitts who quickly deals with his captors. After checking that he is alright, the two hurry towards the Slytherin Common Room to ensure that Selwyn has not hurt Charlotte. Once there, they stumble upon unconscious students and a message left for Grace from Daniel Selwyn informing her of Charlotte whereabouts and captive status. Grace tries to rush to her sister rescue but she is stopped by Harry who points out the importance of formulating a plan. Thus, as the students are beginning to wake up, she leads him to the entrance of the Speaker's Den, demands that he opens the room whilst informing him that she was long aware of him being a Parselmouth. Harry, with resigned reluctance, ascertains to her request and opens the passage to the Speaker's Den.

Some time later, Grace and an invisible Harry, proceed to rescue Charlotte. Grace steps first into the room where her sister is being help captive by Selwyn, Flint, Macnair, Jugson and Rowle, deciding to forgo the ward disabling as it would take too long, and proceeds to attack. Unfortunately for her she is apprehended by a second set of wards tied to the blood of her sister. Before things could get dire she is rescued by Harry. The two manage to deal with Charlotte's capturers and save the girl.

A little bit later, Harry and Charlotte are being treated for their wounds in Grace's suite granted to her as Head Girl. Grace explains to Harry that they have reached a stalemate with Selwyn, Flint, Macnair, Jugson and Rowle as they now know they Harry is a Parselmouth but that they will not tell a soul as that would lead to Harry revealing their use of the Unforgivables during their confrontation. At the time, Grace points out that Charlotte's way of handing the younger Jugson and the Mulciber Heir with the use of Legilimency is not exactly legal. Harry's pondering is interrupted by the arrival of one of his spy-snakes that informs him that Charlus had received a message from the Heir of Slytherin.

Some days later, on April 23rd, in the Speaker's Den, Harry and his friends discuss the latest letter directed to Charlus that they managed to intercept with the help of the Switching Spell. In it, Albus Dumbledore reveals that he is not aware of a monster that scares the spiders away but that he has a lead that he is going to investigate. After further talk, they decide to start investigating in groups of two — as Ares suggests — the area where the caretaker's cat was first petrified.

A couple of weeks later, on May 15th, marks the first time when Harry is able to beat Flora Carrow during one of their duels.

On the breakfast of May 29th, Harry receives a letter from the Heir of Slytherin informing him that Cassius Warrington has been their latest victim and that only one more was to follow. That night, in the Speaker's Den, Harry thinks about the latest disappearance caused by the Heir of Slytherin, and how, most likely, it was a warning shot from the Heir that they have become aware of his meddling. Eventually, he decides to confide in his group of friends and reveal the ring, necklace and Marauder's Map. The group also starts patrolling in pairs some of the suspicious areas from the castle.

The following evening, after another Occlumency session, Grace tells Harry that now he is ready to start learning about thought streams, a third level Occlumency subskill. She describes what they represent whilst pointing that she would be impressed but not surprised to manage it by Halloween. Before parting ways, Grace ensures that Harry will be careful in his pursuit of the Heir of Slytherin.

Later on, he sneaks into a Staff Meeting. There he finds out the the Wizengamot voted in a closed-doors meeting, for Hogwarts not to reopen for the next academic year if the Heir of Slytherin is not apprehended.

### A Sacrificial Slytherin:

> *All others in the room exchanged bashful looks before most of them nodded. Harry rubbed furiously at his temples. The corruption in Magical Britain really was pathetic. All of the horrendous loopholes and contradictions to fit those in power were nauseating, and Harry’s mind was suddenly brought back to his months’ old conversation with Lord Giaus Weitts.*
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— Harry, starting to realize the depth of the corruption in Magical Britain, when he is unable to help Ares, and the beginning of an idea about his potential future life goals, Harry Potter and the Sacrificial Slytherin: Chapter 36: The Shedding of Skin, June 5th, 1993.

A couple of days later, on the evening of June 4th, on the second floor corridor, Harry is looking for clues alongside Ares. At some point, Ares makes her move, revealing herself to be the vessel for the Heir of Slytherin, defeats Harry in a short lived duel and uses Legilimency to simply take control of his bodily functions and render him unconscious.

Eventually, he wakes up, tied up, in what he can only assume to be the Chamber of Secrets. A conversation ensues between himself and Emily Riddle that he recognizes. The two end up talking with Riddle revealing some of her past actions throughout the year, and prodding Harry for information at the same time. Eventually, Harry comes to the realization that there are two Emily Riddles, the one in front of him — that is no quite right, and according to her, just a shade from the 1940s — and the one with whom he had conversed for most of the year via the linked diary. Shortly afterwards, it is revealed that Emily Riddle is the birth name of the one who is to become to the future Lady Voldemort. Emily confides in Harry that for the time being she is bound to a blasted book — pointing at a black diary lying on the floor — but that soon enough she will have her own body and her own volition. Thus, she wants to know what magic was at play on the night of Samhain 1981. As Harry refuses to answer her, she proceeds to use Legilimency on him. Riddle pulls Harry's memories about Lady Voldemort, but she stops her search right before he writes for the very first time in the linked diary. Emily apologizes for the inconvenience, and for the ones that are to follow this evening. Thus, she ends up explaining the compulsion placed on the diary in which Ares wrote the whole year at the behest of her mother, of the compulsion that makes her yearn for a body by any means necessary, and for her plans to gain a new body by taking control of Ares once and for all, resulting in the young girl's death.

Shortly afterwards, Emily Riddle proceeds with her ritual, but in the confrontation in the Chamber of Secrets, caused by the arrival of Charlus Potter, Gilderoy Lockhart, Calypso Rosier and Grace Weitts, he ends up being rescued by Fawkes, and thus not used in the ritual. He joins the fray and manages to save Calypso's life. Meanwhile, the ritual is completed, with Ares taking symbolic place of Harry in the ritual circle. As a result, Emily Riddle gains a solid form, making her alive once more, and leaves her unconscious on the floor. Harry tries to kill her with Lacero but he is disarmed by Lockhart that then proceeds to stall by promising Harry to tell him a bit about the diary, about soul magic, but not before he talks about the Legacy of Katalysator. The professor informs Harry that he will not stop him to kill her if his opinion has not changed after he tells his story.

By the time Lockhart finishes his story, it is already the next day. The professor does not reveal anything about the diary or soul magic as he had promised he would but instead, he tries to convince Harry to spare Emily's life. Harry, battling his conflicting feelings does not have the chance to make a decision as Grace steps in and informs him, over Lockhart's protests that is, of the detrimental consequences on the soul of murdering someone, especially at such a young age. The students agree to let the Aurors deal with Emily, with Lockhart fidgeting and not commenting, and they are transported back to a Hogwarts' corridor with the help of Fawkes who lands himself on Harry's shoulder. There, they are met by the currently stationed three Unspeakables of which Lockhart was aware of and of which he did not inform the group when they agreed to spare Emily's life. The group reconvenes in Lockhart's office to explain what transpired in the Chamber of Secrets.

Some time later, in Lockhart's office, after Harry, Calypso, Grace and Lockhart tell their story, the Unspeakables reveal that the events that transpired in the Chamber of Secrets will need to be kept secret. Harry comes to the difficult conclusion that they cannot do anything to help Ares against Bellatrix Black's machination due to all the protections attributed to nobles especially when it comes to their family members. Thinking of that, Harry recalls his conversation with Giaus Weitts about life goals and an idea of such a goal starts to form.

The group is forced to take a vow of silence by the Unspeakables to not reveal what occurred in the Chamber of Secrets. Given that Charlus would first run to Dumbledore and spill everything to the former Headmaster, at Ares behest, Harry relinquishes the potion that he took from Mulciber and Jugson that obscures a specific person from the memories of an event to the Unspeakables to duplicate it, mix it with Emily's blood and administer it to Charlus.

At dinner, the previously petrified and missing students enter the great hall for dinner. There, at the dinner table, Harry reconnects with Daphne. The girl revels that she worries about her sister, Astoria, who has been under a lot of stress recently, and that has something big coming up that has been on her mind for a long time — thus the Greengrasses are trying to keep her in a good state of mind. Daphne asks Harry to help her learn how to duel so that she may be able to better defend herself. Harry readily agrees informing her that he expects preferential treatment in Potions.

On the evening of June 12th, in the Speaker's Den, under Salazar's Sanction, Harry tells his friends about his past relationship with Professor Hurst, and that she turned out to be Voldemort, about the prophecy, and about the Chamber of Secrets — or as much as he could about that. At the end of his confession, and after a short talk to his friends, he comes to the conclusion that he needed to change and transform his trust into a more scarce commodity. He and his friends depart for the Chamber of Secrets, unfortunately for them, before they can arrive, it's location is placed — unbeknownst to them — by Emily Nigma under the Fidelius Charm.

The next morning, after departing from the Great Hall, Harry and his friend depart from the Great Hall after breakfast, they departure is stopped at some point in the corridor by the arrival of Charlus that tries to apologize for mistreating and suspecting Harry — again, and asks for his forgiveness — again. Thoroughly done with his brothers behavior Harry decides not to forgive him this time and punches him in the face.

### A Declaration of Freedom:

On June 14th, Harry finds himself in the Three Broomsticks, meeting with James Potter and Albus Dumbledore at the behest of the former and somewhat probable the machinations of the latter. There, Harry reveals that James is temporarily not his magical guardian and might not be any more due to the case that he put forward against them. There, he informs the former that he is pressing charges against him for the mishandling and neglect of his heir and that he presses charges against the former Headmaster for criminal negligence as it was his duty to intervene and inform the authorities if he had any indicators that a child is being mistreated due to their parents' actions. At the end of all this, Dumbledore, for some unknown to reasonable rationale, decides to warn Harry of the path that he has decided to walk as it is not one that he would have recommended.

At the end of the school year, on June 17th, on Platform Nine and Three Quarters, while departing for the Weitts, Harry realizes that Emily is in the presence of Bellatrix Black and Barty Crouch Jr.

## Skills/Abilities:

### Parselmouth.

Harry is capable of speaking Parseltongue, and uses this ability to great effect.

### Legilimency.

Harry possess a natural affinity for Legilimency.

### Transfiguration prodigy.

Harry is arguably the greatest first year at transfiguration Minerva McGonagall has ever taught. He gets an O+ in Transfiguration his first year.

### Defense Against the Dark Arts Prodigy.

Harry is a highly capable defense student, receiving private tutoring from Amelia Hurst and getting an O+ in Defense Against the Dark Arts in his first year.

### Charms Prodigy.

Harry receives an O+ in charms his first year.

### Occlumency.

Due to Emily Riddle's Tutelage, Harry has advanced Occlumency skills for how long he has been studying the art, although he is still a novice.

### Wandless Magic.

Harry possesses a limited capability at using magic without a wand, particularly for summoning and repairing objects

### Eidetic Memory.

Harry's Memory is 'near-eidetic', which greatly advantages him in school.

## Academic Results:

Harry scores first among his peers at the end of his first year of studies, while also getting three O+ grades, thus tying him to the historical top records for most O+'s achieved by a first year in the history of the school. Due to the debacle during his second year caused by the re-opening of the Chamber of Secrets, his year's exams are canceled with the students only receiving a Pass/Fail grade.

 History of Magic
 Potions
 Transfigurations | O+ (1st overall)

## Possessions:

He has received many gifts and other stuff from Lady Voldemort .

### Disillusionment Ring.

Harry received a ring from Amelia Hurst which disillusions him while he holds his breath, senses the presence of other Humans, and has powerful eavesdropping abilities.

### Linked Diary of Emily Riddle.

Harry received a diary from Amelia Hurst which has a page linked to the enigmatic Emily Riddle, who possesses great skill in many magical disciplines and is willing and capable of tutoring Harry in magical theory and Occlumency.

### Magical Texting Parchment linked to Charlus Potter.

Harry received the Magical Texting Parchment from Albus Dumbledore which is linked to a similar one possessed by his twin and Dumbledore. At the start of year two Charlus leaves his at home and James uses it.

### Lock-Slicer.

Harry got a knife that can slice through locks from Peter Pettigrew as a Christmas present.

### Silenced Shoes

Harry Potter received a pair of shoes that allow the owner to move completely silently from Blaise Zabini as a birthday present.

### Library

Harry has an expansive library. Harry Potter's Books

### Impenetrable Darkness Necklace

For Christmas 1992, Harry received from Grace Weitts a golden chain, with a silver serpant embroided on the pendent, enchanted with a Weitts family spell — upon using a chosen password the chain will unleash an impenetrable darkness throughout which only the bearer of the chain would be able to see throughout

### Marauders Map

Found on the night of April 9th 1993 while wondering the castle. It shows the names and the location of every single person residing in or around the castle.