Bab 14: The Chamber's Reflections
Harry was sitting in the chamber of secrets, one hand was stroking Selena who leaned into his touch while the other hand held up the book that Moody had given him. Moody had given him two books, one on spells and the other on occlumency and legilimency which were both mind magics. The first defended your mind against the second while the second was invading somebody else's mind.
Harry had no doubt that Snape and Dumbledore knew this due to the fact that in most of their conversations the two always tried to look him in the eye, something that was important when reading minds. Plus there was the fact that they both always seemed to know what was going on.
Harry could easily believe Snape would read minds just to discover cheating or find a reason to punish people or even just because he wanted to. He could imagine the smug prick feeling proud and superior because he could read minds without people knowing.
As for Dumbledore, well at one point Harry would never have suspected the headmaster of it, but now things were different. When Harry first arrived in Hogwarts Dumbledore was looked at like Merlin himself. But Harry's opinion of the man changed over the years.
In his first year Dumbledore had tried to bait the dark lord by holding the philosopher's stone in the school, to Harry it was clear that the man did not prioritise the children of the school like he should.
Because in Harry's opinion the stone should never have been brought into the school nor should Dumbledore be trying to use it to bait dark lords in a building full of children. Heck even his first trap, Fluffy the giant three headed dog, was dangerous and could have killed someone if it escaped.
However all the traps weren't enough to stop three first years, Harry knew that Dumbledore had earned his reputation as a great wizard and that told Harry that the man clearly didn't put as much effort into his traps as he could have. Harry wasn't sure but he couldn't help think that the traps were a test for himself, after all he was the boy-who-lived and Dumbledore clearly had a personal interest in him. The traps could all be countered by things that Harry had learnt throughout the year, apart from the chess set but everyone knew that Ron loved chess and he was Harry's friend at the time. Heck there was even a trap that could be dealt with by flying on a broom, something he as the youngest seeker in a century could easily do.
Then there was the mirror, the mirror that Dumbledore knew Harry had used before. After defeating Quirrell and waking up in the hospital wing Dumbledore had told Harry how his mothers protection defeated Quirrell, Harry had no idea how Dumbledore knew that but had accepted it, he was tempted to think that Dumbledore was lying but Quirrell did burn so perhaps the old man was right about it. Dumbledore had told him that the stone was destroyed and that the Flamels were fine with it.
Were they? Maybe they had a second stone, maybe the one they gave Dumbledore was a fake.
Harry didn't know and at this point they were probably dead or doing whatever it was they've doing for the last few hundred years so there was no point in caring. Harry had also asked Dumbledore why Voldemort was after him, Harry figured that as the boy who beat him twice and was going to be hunted by him in the future it made sense for him to know. Apparently Dumbledore disagreed and straight up refused to tell him.
After that was the monumental cock-up that was Harry's second year, Dumbledore hired Gilderoy Lockhart and that was just bloody unforgivable in Harry's opinion.
Harry could understand letting the man try out as a teacher but after the first week of being in his presence anyone with a brain and wasn't affected by his looks and fame would realise that the man was an idiot who shouldn't be near kids. Then again Snape was allowed near kids so it was probably a bit much to hope for Dumbledore to do something about Lockhart.
That was also the year when the school turned on him for the first time, it was also hopeful thinking at the time that had Harry believe that the teachers would do something. Maybe it was just the fact that he expected them to be professional or maybe even at least stand up for him after he had stopped Voldemort a total of twice and had spent his previous time in Hogwarts doing his best to behave.
Honestly if he had control of that basilisk then he would have killed Malfoy and Snape by first year. He supposed he could do that now, but no, that wouldn't be as fun. He wanted them to suffer.
Speaking of the basilisk, once again Harry was the who dealt with the big threat at the end of the year. He had no problem with saving Ginny as the girl, while incredibly shy around him, had never intentionally done something harmful to him.
But with that being said Harry was more than happy to avoid fighting a giant basilisk if he could. Harry also struggled to believe that Hermione could work out it was a basilisk when Dumbledore couldn't.
Yes Hermione was book smart but the girl was a bit thick in other areas, for example her firm belief that Lockhart was not an idiot and she kept to that belief no matter how much evidenced proved her wrong. Of course she gave it up after hearing about what happened in the chamber but Harry was still never going to let her forget about it.
Besides Harry had already looked through all the creature books in the library and never found a single mention of a basilisk. Then when talking with Lucius Malfoy Dumbledore made it very clear that he knew that Malfoy was responsible yet he didn't do anything about it and let the blonde prat walk free.
Then in the third year of his life at Hogwarts he had the misfortune of dealing with dementors. Dumbledore said he couldn't do anything about them but in Harry's opinion Dumbledore was the loved defeater of dark lords and also happens to hold two high up government positions and is the headmaster of the bloody school so he probably could have if he tried hard enough. Then at the end of the year Dumbledore had hinted to them to use the time turner to help Sirius.
That was wrong for Harry on so many levels. Not only did Dumbledore know that a thirteen year old girl was using the incredibly dangerous power of time, of all things, just so she could attend extra lessons but he also wanted Harry to do something about it that was probably illegal instead of using those government positions to demand Sirius a trial, something he should have got in the first place.
Harry still couldn't believe that they let Hermione Granger have access to time itself just to attend extra lessons, which included muggle studies which was useless as it was outdated and she was a muggleborn, yet the same people who used and gave her that time turner were the ones that called Harry irresponsible and reckless.
And now there was the bloody tournament which Dumbledore failed to keep Harry out of. But that was far from Harry's only problem with Dumbledore. Not only did the man not get Sirius a trial, he also allowed Snape and Malfoy free reign.
If those two fuckers could do whatever they wanted then it should be fair for others to have the same option. But no, Snape was free to torment and Malfoy was free to be a little shit. Then there was also the fact that Dumbledore kept sending Harry back to the Dursleys and for that Harry truly hated Dumbledore.
In his first year Harry had read up on one law that said that students could stay at Hogwarts over the summer with the permission of the headmaster and Harry had definitely asked, in fact he asked every year but still the old man forced him to go back.
Some would say that he likely didn't know what went on at that house, Harry would say bullshit because if the man was half as smart as believed then he would be able to work it out. Heck Harry could spot abused children from a few glances and he wasn't the trained, experienced wizard that Dumbledore was.
Long story short Harry did not trust anyone with his mind, especially after his latest developments, so he was definitely going to get to work on his occlumency, the fact that it also made learning easier while making you smarter and giving you a better memory and more emotional control was an incredibly welcomed bonus.
"Can I have a spider daddy?" Selena hissed.
"You can have two." Harry smiled before he called Dobby who brought two spiders for Selena.
"Thank you daddy!"
"I spoil you." Harry smiled and shook his head.
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