章 120: Harry's Support
"Hey Luna," Harry said as he walked into Luna. "are you alright?" He asked as he looked at her. He could not help but think that there was something off about Luna, her face still had the same dreamy look but her cheeks were slightly more red than normal and her smile seemed a bit more enforced.
"Oh, I am fine." She said in her usual dreamy look, that was not what Harry found odd, the fact that she had her hands behind her back was what Harry found odd.
"Alright," Harry sighed. "show me." He said.
"What?" Luna blinked.
"Show me whatever you are hiding." Harry replied.
"I...am...not hiding...anything." Luna said in what Harry saw as the worst attempt at a lie ever. Harry was tempted to stop and teach the girl how to actually tell a convincing lie but decided to train her in the art of deceit at a later date.
"Luna you are about as successful at lying as a giraffe would be successful at sneaking into a polar bears only nightclub while wearing nothing but a pair of glasses." Harry said as he rolled his eyes. "Now I think you should know that I have spent the majority of my life pretending to be somebody else for the benefit of others so I am all too familiar with acting and lying, so you would be wasting your efforts even if you were good at lying. Now let's try this again, show me what ever you are hiding." Luna reluctantly pulled her hands from behind her back and showed Harry the back of her left hand, Harry looked at it and saw 'I must not tell lies' etched into her hand. "What the fuck?"
"Professor Umbridge was not appreciative of my father's words in the quibbler," Luna began explaining. "she did not like the fact that he was supportive of Dumbledore."
"Damn," Harry sighed. "is this recent?" Harry asked.
"About ten minutes ago." Luna answered.
"Come on," Harry said as he pulled her into an empty classroom. "Dobby," Harry called and the excitable house elf arrived. "get some essence of murtlap." He ordered. Dobby nodded and quickly popped away before popping back a few moment later and handing Harry the essence of murtlap. "Thank you Dobby, that is all for now." Harry said, Dobby nodded before popping away.
"This really isn't necessary Harry." Luna protested.
"Yes it is." Harry replied.
"I don't want to be a bother." Luna admitted in a shy voice.
"You are bothering me more by not helping me, if you do not want to be a bother then you will sit there and soak your hand in this and tell me what she did to you, is this the result of a spell?"
"No," Luna shook her head. "Professor Umbridge is using a blood quill."
"A blood quill?" Harry asked, not entirely sure if he heard right. "What the hell is a blood quill?"
"It is a quill that writes using the users blood." Luna answered. There was a long silence in the room, that was eventually broken by Harry.
"Tell me everything."
A few days later Harry was walking through the halls of Hogwarts, deep in thought as he wondered what he should do about Umbridge. On the one hand Umbridge was still useful for him as he was still able to play her like a fiddle, but on the other hand she was becoming a bit of a problem, okay a major problem. Her educational decrees were getting ridiculous and making the school seem more like a prison. Plus the thing that bothered Harry the most was her liberal use of blood quills.
If she was so willing to torture students then it was likely only going to be a matter of time before he did something to piss her off or vice versa. While Harry was not the biggest fan of the majority of Hogwarts students he did not really wish a blood quill to be used on all of them, okay perhaps a select few, but not all of them, especially not first years. Thankfully the Gryffindor chasers had so far avoided any detentions as Harry suspected that he would not likely remain calm if any of the three chasers were harmed.
Harry was brought out of his thoughts by the sound of sobbing, he paused and looked into an empty classroom where he saw three familiar figures. Harry opened the door and entered the classroom to find Astoria, Scott and Jean whimpering as tears slid down their faces as they sat against a wall. They hadn't yet appeared to have noticed Harry so he cast some privacy charms around the room before he slowly walked forward and stopped right in front of the three and sat down.
He waited a moment and when they appeared to have still not noticed his presence he let out a small cough, the heads of the three Ravenclaws snapped up as they all realised that he was in the room.
"Harry?!" Astoria blurted out as she wiped her tears with her sleeve. "What are you doing here?!"
"Oh it's a really funny story. Here I was, minding my own businesess, walking around, deep in thought when I hear you three crying." Harry replied. "So what has happened?" Harry asked.
"It's nothing." Jean, who was sitting in the middle with Scott on her right and Astoria on her left, murmured.
"Did Umbitch use blood quills on you three?" Harry asked, deciding not to waste time.
"How do you know?!" Scott blurted out in surprise.
"Because she used a blood quill on Luna." Harry replied.
"Luna?" Astoria gasped. "Is she okay?"
"She is fine," Harry responded. "but she is not who we are talking about. Show me your hands."
"It's nothing." Astoria said, hiding her hand away from him along with Scott and Jean.
"Tori," Harry said, purposefully using her nickname. "I am not your father, nor am I your mother and I am definitely not your sister. I have done some crazy shit, I have suffered through some crazy shit, I have been bitten by venomous snakes, hated by an entire school and attacked by soul sucking dementors. If you are in pain then trust me when I say that I will not judge, I know pain, it does not make you weak and you will not be weak if you tell me what happened.
If you are worried about rules or some crap like that then I should let you know that I have broken my fair share of them. You can stay quiet and lose more blood in the future or you can tell me now so I can see if I can fix it." Harry said in a soft voice.
"Me and Scott," Jean said since Astoria looked like she was unsure if she should speak. "we are muggleborns."
"Umbridge hates us," Scott scowled. "she hates all muggleborns. She gave us both detention without a good reason, apparently we were 'disrespectful'. Bloody cow, all we did was ask why we weren't learning spells."
"That explains you both," Harry said before he looked at Astoria. "what about you?"
"I...I argued with her about giving Scott and Jean a detention." Astoria sniffed.
"Show me your hand." Harry said.
"It's not important."
"It is to me, now hand." Harry said as he held his own out. Astoria slowly gave Harry her hand, Harry took it gently and looked at it for several seconds before he sighed and moved so he sat down next to Astoria, he leaned his back against the wall as he wrapped an arm around her shoulders and pulled her in for a one sided hug. Astoria leaned her head against his chest. "Let it out, you will feel better." Harry whispered.
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