TSS: Chapter 19: Dangerous Duels and Deadly Drama Part 1

> *"Though her family motto did not centre at all around paranoia, it was certainly a quality that they lived by. Her mother had justified the practice easily enough. If a person was masked, disillusioned or disguised in any such way when they spoke, she would know their identity, so long as whichever method of disguise they employed didn’t change their voice as well."*
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— Charlotte, pondering on the values instilled by her family to their young scions.

## Summary:

Charlotte is rescued by Harry. Peter revels to James some of the horrors that Harry was subjected to during his childhood. In the Hospital Wing, Charlotte confides in Harry. Harry and Grace talk about the attack on Charlotte. Draco is ordered not to antagonize Potter any further by Ares. Fred and George become the newest victims of the Heir of Slytherin.

## Plot:

**November 13th, 1992:** Charlotte is held captive in an abandoned classroom by Mulciber and Jugson. The former cuts her forearm with a cursed dagger, but, before he is able to carve her face with it, he stopped by the sudden appearance of Harry Potter who had realized that the message that Charlotte received earlier in the day was in fact a set-up and not an actual summoning from her Head of House. Harry quickly deals with the boys by imobilizing Alex Jugson and by having Mulciber flee. As Charlotte is heavily bleeding, he is unable to chase the boy, instead, he stays to ensure that Charlotte is going to be fine.

At Potter Manor, Peter Pettigrew, pretending to be dreading the meeting that he is about to have, meets with James Potter to inform him of the results of his investigation about Harry's childhood. The two talk, with James consuming ludicrous amounts of Firewhiskey, and Peter revealing the horrors that Harry had to experience at the hands of his muggle relatives. By the end of conversation James begins to realize that Harry may never thrust him again given his recent broken promise at the end of his Heir's first year of schooling.

Back at Hogwarts, Charlotte wakes up in the Hospital Wing. There, under previously set up privacy spells, cast by Harry who had sneaked in, she has a conversation with Harry who has come to check on her. She finds out that Madam Pomfrey was unable to remove the scar on her forearm, and she asks Harry not to present the potion that her attackers planned to use to Dumbledore. The two talk, with Charlotte opening up and Harry sympathizing with her struggles. Harry agrees not to interfere with Charlotte's plan as long as it does not backfire. Their conversation ends with Charlotte offering Harry Legilimency lessons in exchange for fighting ones.

Meanwhile, back at Potter Manor, after the departure of Peter, a drunk James Potter goes to his Study. There, using a password, he opens a secret passageway to a vault-like room that holds a symbol linking the Potters to a hidden lineage, that of the Peverells.

**November 15th, 1992:** Later in the day, in their 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 himselfs 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 Duelling Club is being restarted, with its first session scheduled for December 17th.

**November 18th, 1992:** Draco is dragged into an abandoned classroom by Ares. There, Draco is basically ordered by his cousin to end his confrontations with Harry Potter as he would surely lose. Eventually, he relents, after revealing that his father has been more stern in his order to avoid conflict with Potter after his Samhain defeat.

**November 22nd, 1992:** In the morning, 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.

**December 12th, 1992:** Fred and George Weasley are wondering the halls of Hogwarts in search of a mysterious dot on the Marauder's Map labelled 'Emily Riddle'. Eventually they lose track of that dot, but, long before they are able to do anything of note about it, they are ambushed, petrified and dragged into the Chamber of Secrets by the very person that they were pursuing.