"Harry" Daphne nudged him "we're here"
"Oh, sorry" Harry apologised "was daydreaming a little bit"
"What about?" Astoria asked
"Nice asses, stealing, crime lords, mayonnaise and asswipes" Harry answered with a straight face
"Fine" Astoria sighed "don't tell me"
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Once they got out of the train a small but fat first year ran up to Harry.
"Are you Harry Potter?" The boy demanded
"Yes?" Harry raised an eyebrow
"Do the roar" The boy ordered him
"Not really in the mood kid" Harry replied
"Do the roar"
"No"
"Do the roar"
"Look kid, I…"
"Do the roar"
"Roar" Harry said half-heartedly
"I don't like it"
"Bully for you, let's go Daph"
"I said do the roar!" The kid shouted, Harry who had had enough turned his skin green and sharpened his teeth.
His head snapped towards the kid and let out a deathly roar that attracted a lot of attention, pretty much from everyone around them. Harry returned his face back to normal and took a step back.
"Happy kid?" He asked, what he didn't expect was for the kid to run and start crying "What?! You wanted the roar?! I gave you the roar!"
"That's ten points from Slytherin" Hermione Granger walked up to them
"You can't take points from me" Harry replied
"Or me" Daphne added
"Yes we can" Ron said as he proudly walked up with a prefect badge "me and Hermione are prefects"
"Yeah, well so are we" Harry and Daphne each pulled out their prefect badges
"Just because we don't flaunt it, doesn't mean we aren't prefects" Daphne said
"Honestly I don't really know what you two were expecting" Harry said "of course Snape would make us prefects, I'm a bit surprised you two are prefects. Surely there are better in the Gryffindor common rooms"
"Fine but you shouldn't be terrifying the other students" Hermione told them off
"Oh please Granger, you saw what happened" Daphne snapped "you didn't intervene when that kid was demanding that Harry roar for him like a caged animal but you do intervene when you have the chance to get Harry in trouble."
"Let's go Daph" Harry pulled her away before either him or Daphne ended up killing the Ron or Hermione. Rose and Astoria followed, and the four sat in an empty carriage when they rode to Hogwarts.
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It was hard not to notice all the eyes that were on Harry as soon as he entered Hogwarts, it appeared that the whole of Hogwarts was in-between fear and awe of Harry. After all, it was not every day that learn that one of your fellow students defeated Voldemort, hunted muggles, can transform into some snake-man creature and is the real boy-who-lived.
Harry saw Adrian sitting next to Rachel, Adrian shrugged his shoulders and gave him a small smile which Harry returned. Harry sat with Daphne, Rose and Astoria at the Slytherin table.
"All right guys?" Tracy asked as she sat down next to the trio
"Hi Tracy" Harry greeted "where's Blaise?"
"He's in Italy at the moment but he should be back by tomorrow. As for you guys, we haven't spent much time together recently"
"Probably because you're a minor character" Harry shrugged
"What?"
"We are sorry for not spending time with you" Harry said "we've just been busy for a while. Besides, it's not like you haven't had company"
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means that you're missing Blaise more than the rest of us" Daphne grinned as she saw Tracy blush a little
"I hate you" Tracy said
"Nah, you don't" Harry and Daphne said at the same time
"Absolutely hate you both" Tracy sighed "so Harry, were you ever planning on telling me that you were a snake monster?"
"No and I'm not a snake monster"
"What are you then?"
"Not quite sure" Harry admitted "it's a little complicated"
"Greetings" Dumbledore began his opening speech "welcome to another year at Hogwarts. I'd like to start off by welcoming Professor Grubby-Plank who will be replacing Professor Hagrid for the start of the year. As always there is no magic in the corridors, a list of banned products will be available in Mr Filch's office. Also…"
"Huh hem" A voice coughed, everyone looked to see Professor Umbridge, a woman who looked like a toad and dressed entirely in pink. She stood up and walked around "thank you for those kind words headmaster" She walked in front of him, as if she was taking the spotlight from him.
"I can tell I'm going to hate her" Daphne whispered to Harry
"I'd think less of you if you didn't" Harry whispered back.
"It's good to see you all smiling at me, I can tell we're going to be the best of friends" Umbridge smiled sweetly
"Unlikely" The twins said to each other, something that everyone else would have agreed with if they had heard it.
"I wonder how bad I'll need to hurt her" Harry mused
Umbridge glared in Harry's direction for a second, not because she heard him, more just because she didn't like him. In her eyes, Harry was causing problems for the ministry and the minister, and by extension, herself.
Then there was the fact that the boy was not only a half-blood, but also some disgusting snake abomination. It was unnatural and in her eyes, the boy was nothing better than a filthy half-breed.
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