*Whistle*
As soon as the sound came, Madam Hooch threw the ball in the air. Not too surprisingly, against Magnus, Emma had come forward as her team captain.
"Are you ready to lose, Dragon boy?" She taunted.
Magnus snorted, "Huh, too much confidence will be the reason for your downfall."
The quaffle was immediately taken by Magnus. But, just as he did that, the bludger on the female side was thrown towards him. It was not just once, the three beaters had surrounded him and were throwing bludger towards him again and again.
Magnus understood their technique, they only saw him as a threat and were focused on stopping him, while Emma was free to take care of the rest. They now just needed him to lose the quaffle.
But he smirked. They were underestimating his team. He had instructed Ragnar, Darrien and Dug to hit the brooms with their bludger and not the player. He gave them a quick class on the centre of gravity and taught them how the centre of gravity of a person on a broom is on their chest. So, if they were to move the broom too much, their centre of gravity would destabilise and they would fall easily.
"Hehe..." The three beaters of the boy's team chuckled.
They then put the opponent beaters in their line of sight and threw the bludger.
*BAM*
Ragnar threw it first. "YESSS... IT WORKED."
He cheered up as a girl fell down on the grass below. Magnus found the opportunity and went ahead to the goal. Emma had not expected this so she tried to chase him.
"Haha... this Dragon boy is fast, Emma." Magnus taunted her.
*TING*
Magnus smiled widely at Emma as he made a goal.
"You were saying something, Ms Emma?"
She huffed at him and went to her teammates. Magnus was enjoying the match. In fact, Magnus had read the book of rules related to quidditch.
He knew all 700 fouls that could be committed. Shockingly, in the finals of the 1473s World Cup, all 700 fouls were committed. These included.
Transfiguring of a Chaser into a polecat, attempted decapitation of a keeper with a broadsword, the release of one hundred blood-sucking vampire bats from under the Transylvanian Captain's robes during the game, setting fire to an opponent's broom tail. Attacking an opponent's broom with a club, attacking an opponent with an axe.
The old times were crazy times, that was for sure.
Magnus continued the game and slowly, both sides scored. He had a pretty strong team, but Magnus' decision to force Snape to be goalkeeper had come to bite him on the ass. Snape was so bad at it.
He was unable to guess where the quaffle was going to hit as he was bad at recognising the faints that Emma and other chasers were making before throwing the quaffle. His control over his broom was also not very good.
Slowly, the game reached the last stretch and it was time for the final play. Emma had possession of the quaffle. She was zooming towards the boy's side. Dodging the bludgers was easy for her.
In the end, Magnus was her final opponent. Both of them sped up towards each other at full speed.
~Heh, is he mad? We would get so injured if we collided like this.~ Emma thought.
But she saw that Magnus was not slowing down at all. ~IS HE CRAZY?~
*Wooosh*
She saw a big smile on Magnus' face. ~He's going to stop at the right moment, right?~
10 metres... 5 metres.
~WHY? HE'S CRAZY.~
She immediately stopped herself and went upward. This was what Magnus wanted. He went just to her side, a little distance behind her and punched the quaffle out of her arms, then made a roll and caught it.
"YOU... how could you do this to a girl? What if we had bumped into each other." She complained girlishly, which she was obviously faking.
Magnus laughed, "I believe in gender equality, Ms Emma."
With that, nobody could stop him and he scored a good easy goal on the girl's side.
*Whistle*
There was no reward for winning except the right to gloat over the win and shove it to the girl's faces whenever they argued with them.
The match ended with the class ending at the same time. They had sweated a lot so Magnus and his friends headed back to the dorms after that. They had no classes for the day now.
"Guys, I need some books. I'm going to the library." Ragnar said and left. He needed books for some new potions he was going to try. He was already past the point of learning from books and was now secretly trying to experiment to make new potions.
Although he had told Magnus that he was rich and had a lot of money, he did not. Initially, he did, but in the past few years, he had used it up in his potion-making. Now, he needed to invent a new potion to make some money from it. He could have asked Magnus for money but he did not want to do this as his first act in the Round Table.
Magnus and Snape returned to their room. While passing by Snape's study table, he saw a book that interested him.
"Legilimency?" Magnus muttered.
Snape picked the book and gave it to him, "Read this. I believe that if we truly want to make an impenetrable secret group then we need to have the ability to shield our minds from being read.
"Legilimency is the art of magically navigating through the many layers of a person's mind and correctly interpreting one's findings. Occlumency is the opposite of it and shields your mind." Snape explained.
"So it's like mind reading on a whole other level. I can see how it will benefit all of us. Okay, from today, we three shall practice this every day." Magnus decided. He appreciated Snape taking a step forward in their group.
This meant that he now really considered a part of the group wholeheartedly.
...
Hogwarts Library,
Ragnar was looking for some books that were not found in the stores. There were very old and discontinued books in the library as they had existed since the creation of Hogwarts.
He was looking around the whole library's potions section to find some inspiration or an old book with the knowledge he did not have. He was also happy that he had already been invited to the Slug Club by Professor Slughorn. Magnus and Snape were invited too. Though he guessed that Magnus was invited because of his influence rather than his talent in potions, still, he understood that Professor Slughorn does this to ensure an easy future for himself because he knows that all these bright students will hold high offices or will be super-rich in the future.
But when he was busy with his work, he heard some voices.
"Well, well, what do we have here? A blood traitor." All of a sudden, Mulciber, Gasper Avery and Evan Rosier appeared. They surrounded him.
Ragnar scoffed, "If being one of you means bullying young kids then I'd rather be a blood traitor."
"You talk too much. We thought you were a meek little type." Mulciber crazedly said. He was already one of the crazy types with no control over his mouth and actions.
Ragnar chuckled, "I didn't ask you to describe your manhood."
"Too much pride, boy. You're going to face the consequences for what your friend did. Do you know, because of him, my father is going to Azkaban?" Avery spoke. He was the eldest of three.
"Too late, I must say. Avery, such a great name of a great house. Destroyed by hypocrites and racists. Your ancestors must be rolling in their graves with pride." Ragnar talked back with no reservations. He had a deep hatred for all of them.
Avery took out his wand, his eyes turned redder in rage. "YOU... you think you're some big shot? Nobody's coming here to save you. That Merlin's bastard is in his room. Now, which finger should I take?"
"The one between your own legs, using it would just spawn more abominations anyway," Ragnar insulted him.
"Tsk... CRUCI..."
Before Avery could complete his words, Ragnar had taken out a small test tube from his pocket. It had a cork on it. His face turned cold and calculative.
"The second I take the lid off, the poisonous gas will leak. It will kill each of you, except me, because it knows my magic. So, do you want to see if there is heaven or hell after death?" Ragnar domineeringly spoke.
The three boys started taking steps back in fright. The expression on Ragnar's face was fully serious. They were warned by Lucius that Ragnar was a very capable potioneer.
Ragnar started to loosen the top of the test tube. Suddenly a strong sweet aroma hit their noses. The change in atmosphere frightened them.
"Ah, isn't this the best poison? Such calming smell, yet murderous, a way to happy death I must say. This is because this poison was made from natural herbs, from a group of very rare plants. Just one millilitre of it can kill most people." He announced.
"P-PUT IT BACK. W-WE'RE LEAVING..." The three pleaded and ran away as quickly as they came.
When they had gone, Ragnar smiled and calmly opened the lid of the test tube and smelled it delightfully.
~Hmph, what a bunch of cowards. This is just a rose essence for deodorising my little self.~
[A/N: I got my wisdom tooth pulled out. Thankfully, I don't feel much pain at the moment, even though there are stitches and I can't eat anything. I was able to write today so here it goes. If everything goes well, I will continue two chaps a day.
Thank you for reading.]
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Ragnar returned to the Slytherin common room. He saw the three attackers in the dorm too, standing in front of Lucius and getting yelled at. He gave them a smirk to put some salt on their burnt ego and went to his room.
But just as he entered, he was treated with total chaos. Magnus and Snape were jumping all around. There was also fire on their beds and Snape was extinguishing them with water charms.
"WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING?" Ragnar loudly asked.
Magnus was so tired as he laid on his bed and had his arms folded. "Duck learned how to fly, and breath fire. Chad, that dumb cat brought catnip from somewhere and Duck ate it."
"Where is Duck?" Ragnar inquired.
Magnus opened his arms and showed Duck happily sleeping on his chest. "I pity my parents if they had to go through this when I was small."
Ragnar chuckled, "Well, I just came to tell you that something happened in the library. 3 of Lucius' gang members attacked me. They wanted to take revenge on you but know they can't touch you. They wanted to cut one of my fingers, but I managed to scare them with one of my potions."
Hearing that, Magnus got up with full seriousness. He put Duck on the side gently. Snape was also done with extinguishing the fire and repairing everything. He too got serious.
Snape spoke first, "So they will come after me too then."
Magnus shook his head, "No, I don't think so. Chances are, they will try to recruit you. Your potion-making talents are exceptional. They would have tried to recruit Ragnar if he did not have a bad history with their cult."
"That is even worse than trying to bully me," Snape muttered.
Ragnar chuckled, "Well, we just gotta be more careful now. Lucius and Avery are both in their 7th year. They are the brain and muscle of their group. They will graduate soon. So, we just gotta tolerate till then."
Magnus agreed, "Yes, as soon as they are gone, we will seize the Slytherin House. We will have everything under control and bring the house back to its past glory when it was not just about blood purity and racism."
Merlin in the portrait happily shouted, "BOOOYEAHHHH!... that's what I was dying to see."
"You are already dead." Arthur boredly replied.
Only Magnus could hear or see them even now.
...
That night, the three sat down and started reading and practising occlumency and legilimency. But, for them to really practice it, they needed someone who could use Legilimency so they could test it.
Magnus was the best at comprehending new things, so he was given the task of studying Legilimency while Ragnar and Snape focused on Occlumency. Magnus had help, he had the old man Merlin sitting just a few metres away from him. He was instructing him on how to go about learning this ability.
Merlin told him about it, "I learned this ability directly from Salazar Slytherin. I was in the first batch of students of Hogwarts and in those days, all four founders were in harmony and Salazar wasn't the crazed blood supremacist, or else he wouldn't have taken me as his personal student.
"The art of legilimency depends on one's understanding of the human mind. You need to understand how the memories flow, the better you understand it the better you will be at it.
"A master Legilimense can look inside your head, read your whole life and you wouldn't even know it happened. I do not think anyone is at this level anymore because with time this art was also given less importance. Salazar was the best I had ever come in contact with. That old man once found out about the girl I like even before I knew I liked her.
"But, I went further than him and found the ability to read multiple minds at once. Huh, they don't call me the Greatest Wizard of all time for nothing." Merlin gloated.
"So what, do I have to read brain scans of people? Should I go to my mom's hospital?" Magnus asked.
"Haha, no-no. We had no such thing in our times. Just basic scientific knowledge of how a brain works would be enough. Not many had that in the past, but you do. Surprisingly because you studied muggle subjects. You have to take me out to see the muggle world once. I want to see what all this talk is about." Merlin requested him.
Magnus agreed easily, "Sure, I will do it. Now, how do I start with Legilimency?"
"Close your eyes, imagine you are standing in a void. There is nothing around you. Make your mind go empty, the last thing you want is your own thought to clash with the memories entering your mind. Now, try to keep that same feeling with open eyes. Then you look into someone's eyes and cast the spell. A connection will be created, a channel through which you can read the memories.
"But beware, if the other person is stronger than you, then he can also reverse the situation and read your mind instead." Merlin gave him a demo.
Magnus nodded. "What about Occlumency? Help them too."
"Hmm, it is just the opposite of it. The best and fastest way to teach them what they need to protect themselves from is to give them a short demo. Don't dig too deep into their memories as I am sure you don't want to make your friends upset." Merlin advised him.
Magnus agreed and turned back to Ragnar and Snape. The two were looking at him as he talked with the great wizard.
"Okay, guys. I will try Legilimency on you two. You remember how it feels and then try to shield your mind from such things." He instructed.
Magnus tried it on Snape first. He emptied his mind and looked him in the eyes. He muttered the spell and immediately felt as if he was travelling in a narrow tube with a lot of changing pictures around him.
All of it was too fast to make the head or tail. Then, it slowed down a little.
"YOU... what is this monstrosity? Magic? Why was I not told about this?"
It was a manly voice, possibly the earliest memory of Snape. There was also a woman, crying on the floor while holding her cheek. She was most likely slapped.
"Mummy, don't cry. DAD STOP..." soon, little hands appeared in the view and they were trying to help the woman.
"YOU ARE JUST LIKE HER... A DEMONSPAWN..."
Magnus immediately stopped himself and took his consciousness back. He had invaded his privacy enough already. He was also not going to talk about this to anyone.
Snape was breathing heavily. Amature Legilimency was not a one-way thing. Both sides see the memories that were being spied on. So, Snape was aware of what Magnus saw.
"That... that was w..."
Magnus patted his shoulder and stopped him, "You don't have to explain or justify anything to me, Sev."
Then he looked at Ragnar. "Are you ready?"
"YUP..." Ragnar looked straight into Magnus' eyes.
Magnus quickly looked away, "Stop looking at me so intensely. It feels weird, mate."
"What? I'm just looking at your ugly face. It's so hard to focus." Ragnar replied harshly.
Magnus coughed, "Really? Okay, look at me now."
Ragnar kept his eyes normal. This time, Magnus was used to this feeling so he did not feel very weirded out. Soon, a memory became visible to him.
"Sweetie, don't hurt the animals. They also have feelings and feel pain." A kind, motherly voice came.
"Mummy, I just wanted to play with doggy. I promise I won't hurt him. Will he be my friend again?" Ragnar asked in a childish voice.
The woman caressed Ragnar's head and smiled at him, "Of course he will. Dogs are very loyal and loving creatures, you give them love and they will never forget you."
"Really? Yay... I will go and play with mister Snuffles." he ran away.
Magnus came out of the memory. He looked at Ragnar to make sure he was okay. Ragnar was smiling at the moment.
"Mr Snuffles was an old senior dog. He was so friendly to everyone and also smart. That night, he tried to fight them off but was killed." Ragnar revealed.
Magnus patted his shoulder, "Another reason to hunt them and give them a painful ending. By the way, you two. I must warn you, learning Occlumency is very hard. Because it will make your mind much sharper and increase the ability to retain memories, also you will remember the past memories in great details. Ragnar, you know what that means. So, when you start organising your memories, I want you to be near me. Or it might affect your well being."
Ragnar nodded. But, he actually didn't need to worry as he still remembered everything like it happened yesterday. He refused to forget it, not until he sees himself skinning the criminals with his hands.
"Okay, enough for today. Let's go to sleep. We have the astronomy class in the morning tomorrow." Magnus reminded them.
"Ah, I don't like Astronomy," Snape commented.
Magnus chuckled, "Believe me, you will say thanks to learning this in the future."
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