TFA: Chapter 15: The Dragon's Wrath Part I

> *"Well, it was a pleasure dancing with you, Potter, but you should have stuck to your station and realized who your betters were."*
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— Draco Malfoy to a bound Harry Potter. Daddy dearest apparently forgot to lecture on the importance of monologuing.

## Summary:

The impetus behind Neville Longbottom's scuffle with Draco Malfoy is revealed, Charlus Potter tries to help Hagrid with his dragon problem, and Harry Potter gets a lot of training done with Professor Hurst and Calypso's group.

## Plot:

**March 21st, 1992:** Charlus Potter insults Draco Malfoy during the Slytherin-Hufflepuff Quidditch match. Draco responds, and things escalate until Malfoy tells Neville Longbottom that he will end up like his parents, after Neville says Harry is the top player of Draco's Year. Neville then starts beating up Malfoy, and this escalates to a three on four conflict.

**March 23rd, 1992:** Neville thanks Harry Potter for his help after Harry compliments Neville's work at the quidditch match.

**March 28th, 1992:** Harry Potter joins Calypso Rosier, Flora and Hestia Carrow, and Cassius Warrington's dueling group in an abandoned classroom. Cassius and Hestia duel first, and Hestia wins. Next, Calypso and Flora duel, at a higher level than the other two, and Calypso wins solidly. Finally, Cassius duels Harry. Harry is able to immediately get some fast hits in, but isn't able to solidly defeat Cassius. He uses a water summoning and freezing combination, but Cassius managed to recover. Finally, Cassius defeats Harry, but Harry puts up a good showing, is complimented by the others for his wand-work, and invited to use the first names of the group members.

**April 5th, 1992:** Hermione Granger figured out what the Philosopher's Stone does, and informs Charlus Potter and Ron Weasley

**April 15th, 1992:** Hermione Granger runs into Rubeus Hagrid in the library and determines he was checking books on dragon breeding.

**April 16th, 1992:** Charlus exhorts Harry to help him, and Harry suggests that to Charlus not to get involved, and refuses to get involved himself. That night, in the Speaker's Den, Harry informs his friends of these new developments, and Harry shares that he has a feeling this is going to go terribly wrong.

**April 24th, 1992:** Harry receives a message from Charlus via Dumbledore's Magical Texting Parchment that the dragon is hatching, and that Malfoy knows about it. Harry suggests that Malfoy will make something of it, and Charlus demonstrates he is, despite common belief, capable of sarcasm.

**April 27th, 1992:** Nevilie and Harry exit the potion's classroom after a successful brewing session, and Goyle bumps into Harry and steals some of his hair to be used in a later frame by Draco Malfoy.

**May 1st, 1992:** Professor Hurst asks how Harry is holding up in his classes, and he informs her that he is doing well in all of them. In response to this, she decides to continue their sessions up to examination time. In this session, she demonstrates the stunning spell and it's counter, and Harry informs her of the dueling group he participates in, and she congratulates him on forging such valuable connections.

**May 7th, 1991:** As Harry is walking back from the library, he feels something pressing against his consciousness from the ring. He investigates, and finds an open door with Malfoy talking about the plan with the dragon. He is bound from behind, and brought into the room. Malfoy is accompanied by Theodore Nott, Daniel Selwyn, and Andrew Macnair. Malfoy explains that he is getting revenge for the frame job he pulled at the Weitts's Samhain Gathering, and when Harry asks Selwyn what he's getting, Selwyn tortures Harry with the Spasm Curse. Draco explains the extent of his plan to Harry. Keep Harry in this room, frame Harry for the dragon smuggling, memory charm Charlus, and get Harry sent to Azkaban and disinherited for the crimes. They then leave Harry in the room to wallow in his despair.