TFA: Chapter 10: Samhain Part II

> *"I believe you would like to know how to fight. There is a distinct and important difference between the two. Dueling has rules, fighting does not."*
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— Amelia Hurst on teaching Harry to duel.

## Summary:

Harry Potter recovers from seeing the troll killed and then goes to the Weitts' Family Samhain Gathering.

## Plot:

**October 31st, 1991:** 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 agreed. 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 occured, and appeared 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 is best to deflect the question about him running into the troll among 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 it happens, he would lose many points and get many detentions.

When he arrives at the gala, he looks at a strange family motto in an undecipherable language, believed to be a long dead, obscure, bizarre dialect of ancient Greek: φαρμακεία υπάρχω ισχύς. The meaning is, as of yet, unknown. 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 demonstrate by pushing a memory so that Harry can see it. She then explains the difference, and Harry relates that he is not exactly startled by it, even if he is interested.

Daphne Greengrass arrives at this point, and gets hugged by Charlotte. She and Harry lightly spar verbally, before they talk about Hogwarts. Daphne expresses her dissatisfaction with the Potions curriculum at Hogwarts. They then discuss Charlus Potter, and how he has no tact, especially in when it comes to Severus Snape. At this point, the rest of the guests arrive at the table, including the Malfoy's, the Fudge's, the Greengrasses, and the Crouches.

Lady Greengrass compliments Harry on his prodigious skill in wanded magic, and Harry answers neutrally. They all try to pry some information about Harry's life when he was unknown by the Magical Community, and he answers as politely and gives a little information as he can to his family situation.

They then adjourn to the dance floor, with Charlotte ascertaining that he doesn't really like James Potter. He then has a short discussion with Bellatrix Black and Barty Crouch Junior. Harry then dances with Adriana Weitts, and she bemoans the atrocity that his father has committed by not properly training Harry. She then compliments him on his wandwork, and says he has a certain air about him. He then leaves to use the bathroom.

In the bathroom, he summons a Black Mamba, basing it on the Dungeon Black Mamba Painting. He orders the black mamba to knock someone over, to not harm anyone, and then to slither over to Draco Malfoy. This goes poorly, as the Mamba bites Rufus Scrimgeour while it is in the ballroom, and then coils around Malfoy's Arm.

Rufus is sent to St. Mungos, and then the Weitts House Elf informs them that someone has been found dead at Hogwarts and thus Hogwarts was in lock-down for the night.

## Characters Introduced:

Cyrus Greengrass.

Celia Greengrass.

Astoria Greengrass.

Cornelius Fudge.

Narcissa Malfoy.

Bellatrix Black.

Barty Crouch Junior.

Ares Black.

Rufus Scrimgeour.

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