TSS: Chapter 6: Emotions and Enigmas

> *"But of course, Charlus Potter is just one-half of a set! Why, his brother too has been making headlines as of late for his incredible achievements! I think it only fair that both Potters get the shine they deserve, even if one of them isn't quite as notorious as the other."*
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--Gilderoy Lockhart, enter stage right.

## Summary:

Mundungus Fletcher gets a lucrative job from an unusual source. Harry Potter find out he's in the paper before his Occlumency Lessons with Grace Weitts. Draco Malfoy is offered a deal by his father. The Weitts go to Diagon Alley for school shopping. Charlus Potter continues his instruction with Mister Bellona.

## Plot:

**August 1st, 1992:** Mundungus Fletcher awakes in Knockturn Alley where he has been sleeping. There are two mysterious, cloaked, tall, and muscular figures that offer him a job. He initially turns it down, but then accepts it after hearing the payment.

Harry Potter is having breakfast in Weitts Manor when Grace Weitts shows him that he made it into the paper for his academic duel with Charlus Potter. Grace explains that Charlus doing literally anything qualifies as news, and then she takes Harry to practice his Active Occlumency with her. She explains to him a good bit about Occlumency, and then begins probing his mind. He is able to detect her after five minutes, which she says is good. When he asks her how fast her first time was, she says it was only three minutes, but that the Weitts has some sort of affinity for it.

**August 5th, 1992:** Draco Malfoy is told by his father that he has been spoiled, and that he will only get a new broom if he makes the Slytherin Quidditch Team. He says that there is a 'new era' on the horizon, and that the Malfoys must be ready.

**August 12th, 1992:** Harry Potter gets his Hogwarts book list, and Charlotte Weitts gets her Hogwarts Acceptance Letter, which she is very excited for. They discuss Gilderoy Lockhart and the fact that his books are required for all the DADA students regardless of year.

**August 19th, 1992:** The Weitts, The Greengrasses, Harry Potter, and Tracey Davis meet at the Summer Isles Restaurant in Diagon Alley, a very classy and expensive place. 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.

**August 21st, 1991:** In Charlus' training session with Mister Bellona, he continually fails to properly cast the Laceration Curse. to remedy this issue, Mister Bellona tells him to use hate as a crutch, that since he cannot properly shape his intent, he needs to hate the target to get the curse to work. Charlus thinks of an image that would accomplish this, and uses the image of Harry endorsing Lucius Malfoy's beliefs. His spell is finally successful, and Charlus ruminates on how he has lost his brother to the darkness.

## Characters Introduced:

Mundungus Fletcher.

Gilderoy Lockhart.