With the fortune currently at his disposal Nick could totally afford to have some of the venom imported from the few people crazy enough to rear the beast for profit. 'Whatever , I'll deal with this whole issue later.' he thought as he walked towards the quidditch pitch calmly. It was a brisk and chilly day but Nick didn't mind the cold as his winter clothes were fairly thick. This game was the first of the season and was played between Gryffindor and Slytherin. As a result however Nick , Ron and Hermione were on an entirely different stand then Tracy and Daphne who came to cheer for their own team.-
"Bloody hell Nick how are you not freezing?" Ron complained while shivering despite his own set of winter clothes. Nick rolled his eyes and pointed his wand at Ron. "SOLES CALOR!" he said and Ron sighed in relief as the warming charm took effect on him. Hermione meanwhile was holding a closed glass jar with a bright blue flame in it. "Blue bell flames , not usable for crafting due to their low temperature but perfect for staying warm." Nick said off handedly while nodding his head at the girl politely which she seemed to appreciate.-
"What about your spell? I didn't find any like it in the library." she asked curiously. Nick grinned "It's a modification on a little known warming charm meant to stick to someone rather than simply hit them with some hot air temporarily." he said with a chuckle at her pout. The girl may not being constantly trying to compare herself with him but it didn't mean she didn't still have a competitive streak that showed whenever she was shown up. Nick's spell was clearly the superior one between the two of them as it didn't require a jar like her's did.-
Still Hermione wasn't stubborn enough to insist on using her own spell when there was a better option. "It's like this..." Nick saw her about to ask about the spell so he shared it with her without any problem so it came as no surprise that she grasped it immediately. It wasn't an overly complicated or even impressive spell as there was nearly a hundred different warming charms that had been made over the years. This one wasn't anything special so Nick didn't mind passing it out which he ended up having to do anyways since the rest of his housemates got jealous.-
Soon enough though the Match officially began and there was a tense stare down between the Slytherin team and Gryffindor team while Madam Hooch stood between the two teams and dictated the terms of the match. It was simple stuff really like wanting a nice clean game and for the two teams to try and keep the injuries to a minimum. Unlike what one would expect the balls weren't released at the same time but rather it was first the bludgers , magical self propellent cannon balls that served as a deterrent during the game.-
Next up was the ball that really set the game off , the quaffle. This ball had three large dents placed along the sides to allow easy grasping of it and wasn't magical at all save for the ability to float at a certain height and return to the field after being tossed through the goals. The game started off with a rough bit of scrimmage over the possession of this ball between the chasers. Oliver Wood was the keeper and as a result was already waiting at the Gryffindor set of goals while the Slytherin keeper was at theirs.-
Harry flew high above the rest of the field , likely to stay safe until he could find the snitch that hadn't been released yet. Lee Jordan was commentating the match with Mcgonagall keeping him neutral though he was clearly biased towards his own house of Gryffindor. The first goal of the game went to Gryffindor giving them a nice head start in points before the quaffle was taken by Slytherin and the Snitch was finally released. Nick's eyes had caught the little golden ball with wings the moment it had shot out of a small hole under the stands.-
He didn't say anything about it however as that would be tantamount to saying he was a better seeker than Harry and he didn't want to risk the old man putting him on the team as well to try and earn some favor from Nick. The man had already proven to have a problem with trying to earn favor and merely making a mess instead , though his original objective had been accomplished to a degree. Nick certainly wasn't afraid of him any more and now was only trying to stay away from the problematic old goat.
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Nick watched as the snitch flitted past Adrien Pucey causing the boy to lose the quaffle from the surprise and both Harry and the Slytherin seeker hurtle towards the flying golden golfball from their respective positions in the sky. Harry was a bit faster however and got a firm lead on chasing the snitch when Marcus flint slammed into him to cut him off earning a foul on Slytherin and giving Gryffindor a free shot. Once the game restarted Nick narrowed his eyes at Quirelmort as he saw Harry's broom start to act up.-
Hagrid who had joined them in the stands by this point also noticed this and mentioned how something was wrong. Hermione being the ever reliable person she was pointed out how Snape was staring at Harry from the adult stands and muttering something before wanting to rush off to do something only to be stopped by Nick. He raised his wand and pointed across the pitch at Quirrell before an invisible pulse flew from it straight at the possessed man. Immediately Quirelmort recoiled as an invisible legilimency attack struck him breaking both his concentration and spell freeing Harry's broom.-
Nick quickly hid his wand before anyone noticed what happened and earned weird looks from both Ron and Hermione but he simply shook his head and focused back on the game. Quirelmort looked positively livid at the moment as his face had turned red and veins had popped out on his neck while he ground his teeth. He scanned the crowds to try and find whoever dares to attack his mind but all he saw was people focusing on the game leaving him frustrated and without a place to vent his anger. The man stormed off from the stands angrily but everyone was too busy watching the match to care.-
Harry meanwhile looked like he was about to throw up but instead spat out the snitch that he had somehow caught in his mouth. "Ive got the snitch!" He exclaimed while holding it high and the crowds went wild as the game was over. All in all it was a pretty fast match barely taking thirty minutes to finish when it could have taken much longer. There was actually a world record of a game taking eight whole days to finish since the seekers kept getting stopped and nobody was scoring.-
Hagrid was making tea for the group of friends after the whole match was over and Hermione and Ron started to argue about Snape's involvement in the attempt on Harry's life earlier with Hagrid. Nick wisely kept himself out of it even when Hagrid accidentally spoke of the Cerberus in the castle that Harry had apparently overheard Snape talking to himself about earlier in the week after getting bit. So the idea came into existence amongst the golden trio that Snape was trying to steal the philosophers stone and they needed to do something about it despite being a bunch of first years.-
Nick chose not to interfere as even in the books nothing of note happened for a month and a half after this match. Instead he simply went back to his preparations in the workshop and todays work was especially important. Nick sat against the wall of the workshop with his eyes closed as he entered his mindscape once again. 'I'll first get a center point set up to serve as the hub for my mind.' he thought before starting to move the floating stones around towards each other and having massive vines form between them to sort of anchor them together.-
This created the scenic look of a floating mountain range and with the lighting and fire water going through and under the range was quite beautiful. Next he levitated into the air by his will alongside the item facets and landed on the largest floating rock that was in the center of the mountain range. With but a though it's top was flattened and smoothed out and Nick started the real work by forcefully moving the center of his mindscape to this exact point. The whole mindscape shuddered as the change took hold but remained stable and strong in the end.-
'Now for my defenses.' Nick thought seriously before a dense fog began to billow out from his mental self and reach the very edges of his mindscape before taking the form of many hexagonal lattices interwoven like a net around the whole thing. The trick to occlumency shields was that they were very much dependent on the owners perception of them. In this case Nick chose what he remembered as the strongest natural shape as the outside layer of his shields. Occlumency shields didn't need to be only single layer but rather could be as complicated or simple as the user liked.
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