บท 48: Chapter 48: Lust!
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He had made the decision not to attend any more classes - for the moment, at least. If he continued to do things like this to teachers, it would result in him being called up to Dumbledore's office again, and he certainly had no desire to return.
The man might've appeared benevolent to the wizarding world, but Harry sensed that he had an ulterior motive where he was concerned, and there still wasn't any confirmation that he hadn't been the one to put his name in the Goblet of Fire.
In short, the annoyance talking to Dumbledore brought outweighed the fun gained by literally messing with people's heads.
And so, it came time to actually begin preparing for the first task. He and Loki had already decided that they would have to kill their dragon in a suitably dramatic manner, as to impress the wizarding public. The hard part was doing that without dying.
Luckily, he still had the sword from Gringotts. It would make him appear heroic and brave without forcing him to reveal his wand could turn into a spear - something he wanted to save for emergencies.
That said, he didn't actually have any skill at sword fighting, but the dragon probably wouldn't either, so that would be fine. Then again, he couldn't breath fire - no matter how much he wanted to - so that evened things out.
After a while of strategizing how to defeat said beast, Harry decided to go to dinner in the Great Hall. It would be amusing to see what rumours about him the day's events had influenced.
A few minutes later he entered the hall, and soon after that found himself sitting at the Gryffindor table. Once again, he was near Ron, and wasn't exactly surprised when the boy asked, "So?"
It wasn't exactly much of a stretch to guess what he was talking about, but nonetheless, Harry raised an eyebrow and repeated, "So?"
Eager, Ron leaned forward. "So what did you do to Snape?" he whispered loudly.
Harry contemplated what to say. Revealing that Snape was reading the minds of his students would undoubtedly deal a massive blow to his reputation, which was already pretty terrible, what with the large majority of students despising him.
He would probably be fired or forced to quit, but there had to be some reason he had been allowed to keep working here for years - and it most certainly wasn't his teaching ability.
There was only one reason Harry could think of that Snape might still be teaching: Dumbledore.
At the moment, he didn't want to piss Dumbledore off, so he would leave it for now. If Snape decided to tell him, however….
It was certainly annoying that he couldn't tell Ron what had really happened, but it certainly didn't mean he couldn't ruin Snape's reputation in another way.
So, with tremendous vigour, Harry began to regale Ron and those around him with the epic tale of how when Snape had met his eyes, it had caused the man's Dark Mark to flare up as a result of Harry having been the one to kill Voldemort.
His explanation made no sense whatsoever, but that didn't really matter with his current audience. He went on to describe how he had purged Snape of the Dark Lord's power, forgiving him for all misgivings as a result of having accidentally seen the man's memories of his love for Lily Potter.
The effects of this half-arsed plan would hopefully be twofold, making Harry seem benevolent and prompting people to sympathise with Snape.
Harry had no doubt that Snape would hate people being nice to him far more than he would them hating him.
The spreading of the fact that he had been in love with a muggleborn would undoubtedly also damage his reputation among the Slytherins.
And best of all, Dumbledore couldn't possibly be annoyed at him for making Snape look nicer!
As he got to the bit where he mentally battled all of Snape's inner demons - which were, of course, a result of the Dark Lord's power, seeing as Snape had been nice all along - Harry noticed a girl staring at him.
It was not in the way that the majority of girls who stared at him stared at him, with-
'Lustful awe shining in their eyes and their panties at their ankles?' Loki interrupted.
'Something along those lines.' Instead of what Loki had said, the girl appeared to be glaring at him. 'Who the hell is she?'
'I don't know a name. In the classes you attended with her, she appeared to be a rather diligent student, though. Probably a teacher's pet when the opportunity befalls her. No one really talked to her, so with the combined annoying personality and lack of good looks, I would guess that she had no friends - none that will be loyal to her, anyway.'
'Thank you for your analysis, Sherlock. "I don't know," would have done just fine.'
"Something to say?" he asked her, not giving Loki time to formulate a response to him.
For a few seconds the girl looked startled, momentarily stunned into silence, as though her glaring had been stealthy.
"Well," she finally began, her tone growing confident, "it's obvious you're making this up!" Harry agreed, of course, but Snape would be forced to confirm the rumours if he didn't want him to reveal what had really happened.
"Magic doesn't work that way! You can't just magically purge all the dark magic from someone's body like that. It-"
"I'm the Boy-Who-Lived," Harry interrupted in a deadpan. The girl, whoever she was, flushed red, but before she could speak, Harry continued, "You've probably never seen magic outside of a controlled environment. I can tell that Moody's lesson was probably the first time you've ever seen any magic classified as dark. Hell, you've probably never been in a fight, have you?" The girl's growing look of embarrassment was enough of an answer for Harry.
"The nature of magic is volatile and random; it isn't some science to be quantified." Wizarding magic was, at least. "Otherwise, how could a baby have survived a Killing Curse from Lord Voldemort himself?"
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