"Bloody hell, do you know anything useful about trolls?" Harry said to Angela as they both pulled their wands out.
"They've got thick skin and they're very strong but very stupid." She said as the troll got near. "Stupefy!" She shouted, shooting a stunner at the troll, it didn't knock the troll out like it would a human but did as intended, distracting it for her follow up spell. "Obscuro!" She said and a blindfold shot out of her wand and wrapped around the troll's eyes.
"Nice," Harry said before he aimed his wand at the troll's blindfold. "Incendio!" Harry yelled, a burst of flames shot out and set the blindfold on fire, the troll screamed and began shaking and quickly clawing at the blindfold to remove it.
"Oh, vicious." Angela commented with an approving nod.
"I'm not done." Harry said before he aimed his wand at the ground. "Serpensortia." Harry said, a black mamba snake, shot out of Harry's wand. "Attack the troll!" Harry ordered, the snake nodded before doing as it was told.
"You know how to do 'Serpensortia'?" Angela blinked.
"A spell to summon snakes and you expect me to not learn it?" Harry snorted before casting it again, this time summoning a rattlesnake. Harry gave it the same order as the previous one. Harry then levitated Jet up into the air.
"Incendio." Angela said, hitting the troll in the face with a fire blast once it was able to get the blindfold off. The troll howled in pain, it was distracted long enough for the snakes to bite it. Once that was done she summoned some more snakes to help Harry. Soon several different types of snakes were sinking their fangs into the troll. Harry dropped Jet onto the troll's shoulders and Jet quickly sunk his teeth into the troll's neck.
"Hey, knockback on the club, quickly." Harry said, Angela didn't waste time arguing or asking questions and performed the knockback jinx on the troll who was holding the club in front of his face. The double knockback jinx pushed the club, causing it to smack right into the troll's face. The troll dropped the club, it's nose was broken and it wasn't looking too good. "Retreat!" Harry told the snakes before he levitated Jet off of the troll's shoulders.
The troll's eyes had rolled to the back of its head and it stumbled forwards before falling face first in front of Harry and Angela, fortunately they and the snakes had managed to avoid getting crushed. Harry carefully lowered Jet down into his arms.
"You alright?" Harry asked.
"Better than him." Jet hissed before climbing up onto Harry's shoulders.
"You alright?" Harry asked Angela.
"I'm fine," She said before looking at the troll. "he's not though."
"Is he dead?" Harry asked.
"Knocked out would be my guess, but with the amount of venom coursing through him I would say that if he's not dead now then he'll be dead sooner or later." Angela replied. Any further response was cut off as Professor McGonagall arrived along with Professor Flitwick, Snape and Quirrell.
"What...I..." Professor McGonagall gasped upon seeing the troll and all the snakes.
"Uh Professor, me and Angela summoned these snakes, perhaps we could deal with them first." Harry suggested.
"Filius, Severus, can you two please begin banishing these snakes?" Professor McGonagall asked, the two Professor's nodded and quickly began getting rid of the snakes. "Now while they are dealing with that, you two can begin explaining what exactly has happened here!"
"Professor, me and Mr Potter were practicing spells, once we finished we had begun walking back to the Slytherin common room when we stumbled upon the troll." Angela said as she gestured back to the troll. "I quickly threw a stunner to distract it before I blindfolded it. I was going to decide on my next spell when Harry had quickly hit it in the face with an 'Incendio', on the blindfold."
"On the blindfold?" Professor McGonagall repeated.
"I set the blindfold on fire." Harry answered, causing Professor McGonagall to blink at him. Professor Snape and Flitwick, who had come back after dealing with the snakes, raised an eyebrow each while Professor Quirrell shivered and took a step away from the troll.
"Why would you do that?" She asked.
"It was trying to attack us," Harry reminded her. "anyway the flames from the blindfold were hurting it and kept it distracted. I then used the Serpensortia spell to bring some more snakes. Angela did the same and managed to hit it with another fire blast in-between summoning snakes. The snakes all attacked the troll, then me and her hit its club with a knockback jinx, causing it to slam into the troll's face."
"It's true ma'am," One nearby portrait said. "I saw the whole thing."
"An impressive story," Snape drawled as he looked down at Harry. "but there are still questions that need to be answered, for example why were you not at the Halloween feast with all of the other students?"
"I didn't attend because I wanted to keep Mr Potter company," Angela responded. "and Harry didn't want to come because..."
"Let me guess, too good to attend like the rest of them?" Snape snarked, still looking at Harry.
"Severus!" Professor McGonagall admonished. Harry didn't immediately respond, he instead took several deep breaths.
"Well, Professor Snape," Harry said as he looked at Snape, Jet was on his shoulders and hissing warningly at Snape. "I didn't feel like celebrating the anniversary of my parents death by eating sweets and partying in the great hall." Harry said in a voice that could best be described as 'forcibly polite'. Snape blinked for a second, an odd look came over his face before he took a step away from Harry and his usual sneer was in place.
"Well," Professor McGonagall began. "if you were at the feast then you would have heard the warning about the troll, however despite that you will not be in trouble as it was not mandatory to attend. Ten points to each of you, not many students can claim to have fought a fully grown mountain troll and live to tell the tail."
"I would like to award an additional ten to Miss Zabini, and fifteen to Mr Potter for the advanced spells they used," Professor Flitwick added. "a stunning spell for a third year is impressive, a fire making spell and a snake summoning is also very impressive for a first year."
"Indeed," Professor McGonagall nodded. "you two may go back to your common rooms. Professor Quirrell will escort you both there."
"Thank you Professor." Harry and Angela said before they followed Professor Quirrell to the Slytherin common room.
"A...a...an impressive victory..." Professor Quirrell spoke in his usual stutter as they walked towards the common room. "E...especially for two s...students so y...young."
"Thank you Professor." Angela nodded.
"Yeah, thank you." Harry nodded.
"You...you are both welcome." Professor Quirrell nodded, the rest of the journey to the common room was done in complete but very awkward silence. "Good...goodbye." Professor Quirrell said once they had reached the common room.
"What are we going to tell the others?" Harry asked Angela as they stood outside the entrance.
"The truth," Angela shrugged. "the smarter ones will just ask the teachers and portraits anyway." Angela said before turning to the entrance. "Pit viper." She said, giving the entrance password. The entrance opened and the two walked in, only to see all of the Slytherin's looking at them.
"Oh for fuck sakes." Harry said under his breath
"When you tell them about how you killed your uncle, remember to mention how I bit his neck." Jet whispered.
"You do realize that wasn't really Uncle Vernon?" Harry whispered bac.
"Was it not?!" Jet asked, sounding very surprised.
"No, Uncle Vernon's much more uglier." Harry reminded him.
"Well, how would I know?" Jet replied. "They both had big bellies and they smelled awful, might as well have been twins. Most humans look the same anyway."
"Yes, yes I know, you don't care much for people." Harry said while rolling his eyes.
"Yes I do," Jet replied in an offended voice. "I care for you, my pet and all of my non-you and non-pets equally."
The next day Harry calmly sat at breakfast with the other Slytherin's, he was sat in-between Daphne and Tracy and was casually ignoring the not so subtle glances from the others. The story of how Angela and Harry fought off a troll had circled the school already, and looked like it was going to do so again if the way people were talking about it was any indication.
"At least you weren't injured," Draco commented. "Flint would throw a fit if you became chaser only to get injured before the match."
"Is quidditch all you care about?!" Tracy hissed. "He could have died!"
"Tracy, relax." Harry said just as Draco raised his hands in surrender. "I was fine, I had Angela with me, besides even without her I like to think that I could have lasted long enough to make enough snakes to kill it."
"Harry," Daphne spoke. "troll's aren't easy to kill, that's why the rumor mill is filled with people talking about it. To knock out a troll is an impressive feat but to actually kill one, especially as a first year with only a third year for back up, is incredibly impressive."
"Harry 'The Incredibly Impressive' Potter." Harry hummed. "I rather like that."
"You would," Blaise snorted. "I know Angela is going to send a letter home to Mum, she'll be furious."
"What would your muggles say if they got sent a letter about what happened?" Theo asked in a curious voice.
"Most likely something along the lines of 'we don't care or want to know and why didn't you die?'." Harry shrugged.
"You should hex them to the ends of the Earth and back." Daphne scowled.
"I'm tempted." Harry admitted. "Though I'd just leave them at the ends of the Earth, I don't really want to have them back."
"Most muggles aren't like your muggles, are they?" Tracy asked.
"No," Harry shook his head. "you see my muggles are obsessed with appearing 'normal', so when other muggles come around they'll shove me out of the way and act like normal people. However if the other muggles could see them act the way they usually do then they'd be disgusted and likely arrest them for child abuse. I can't wait until I'm out of there." Harry said as he lifted his goblet to his mouth.
"Stop!" Jet suddenly hissed, Harry paused and lowered the goblet down.
"What?" Harry asked.
"There's something in the goblet, tell your friends to stop as well." Jet hissed.
"Guys," Harry said. "don't drink from your goblets."
"Why not?" Draco frowned.
"Jet said that there is something in them, give me a sec." Harry took a deep breath. "Flipsy." Harry called, a second later Flipsy popped into existence.
"Is that your house elf?" Pansy asked.
"No, one of the Hogwarts ones." Harry answered.
"Great Harry Potter be remembering Flipsy?" Flipsy spoke in an awed voice.
"It's the 'Incredibly Impressive Harry Potter' now." Blaise informed the elf.
"Oh!" Flipsy gasped. "I's be sorry 'Incredibly Impressive Harry Potter'." Flipsy apologized.
"Just call me Harry, it'll keep this conversation shorter if nothing else." Harry replied after giving Blaise a small glare. "Who was responsible for serving the drinks for the Slytherin table?" Harry asked.
"Is there a problem Mr Potter?" A voice drawled from behind Harry, Harry closed his eyes and took a deep breath, he opened his eyes before responding.
"Actually, yes. Yes, there is a problem Professor Snape." Harry said without turning around. "We were simply enjoying our breakfast when my familiar warned me that there was something in our goblets. I had called this house elf merely to question him about it."
"Hmm," Snape turned to the elf. "elf, what do you know?"
"Oh, two boys comes into kitchen yesterday." Flipsy replied. "They's be saying that Slytherin's want special potion's in their drinks."
"What special drink?" Snape asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Flipsy is not be knowing." Flipsy said in an apologetic idea.
"Um sir, I think I might have a clue." Harry said as he gestured up the table to a fifth year, Snape looked at the Slytherin and saw that his skin had turned green.
"Who...were...the...boys?" Snape said through gritted teeth once he turned back to Flipsy.
"They's be both having red hairs and...oh...that's be them." Flipsy said as he pointed to two redheaded twins at the Gryffindor table, Harry recognized them as Ron's older brothers.
"All Slytherin's do not touch your drinks." Snape ordered before he stormed over towards the Gryffindor table, a few seconds later Professor McGonagall came over to question Snape on what was happening.
"Flipsy," Harry said to the elf. "those two lied to you and the other elves, what they actually did was try and prank us Slytherin's through you."
"Oh no!" Flipsy gasped in a horrified voice. "I's be telling the other elves, would yous be liking if we punish ourselves?"
"No, just keep an eye out in the future." Harry replied.
"Flipsy be doing that." Flipsy nodded before popping out of sight.
"Getting friendly with house elves now?" Pansy sneered.
"Please stop Parkinson, you look much prettier when you're not sneering." Harry said calmly as he returned to his food.
"Are you blushing, Pansy?" Draco asked in an amused voice.
"Shut up." Pansy said before swatting him on the arm.
Harry, dressed in green Slytherin quidditch uniform along with the other members of the quidditch team, walked onto the pitch. Harry had the number '7' on his green robes, in his hand he had a nimbus two thousand, which was currently the fastest broom in the world. It was expensive but Harry had enough money to buy it. Flint had looked like he was going to pass out from excitement when he saw that Harry had the fastest broom on the market.
Harry was very much looking forward to play, he knew all the rules and positions thanks to his friends. The seeker would chase after a golden ball called the snitch, catching it would mean the end of the game plus a hundred and fifty to the team of whoever catches it. The keeper would simply defend the hoops while the beaters would defend their own team from bludgers while also batting those bludgers towards the opposite team, meanwhile the chasers would simply focus on throwing the quaffle through one of the three hoop of the opposing team. As soon as they got on the pitch he and the other Slytherin's took to the air, they flew around the pitch in a 'V' formation before stopping at their end of the pitch.
"Welcome to the first match of the school quidditch tournament!" Lee Jordan, the quidditch announcer, spoke through a magical microphone as he was sat in the commentator's stand with Professor McGonagall and a few other teachers. "Today's match is between the brave lions of Gryffindor, and the cowardly snakes of Slytherin."
"Jordon!" Professor McGonagall, who was sat next to him, shouted while the Gryffindors in the stands cheered at his comment just as the Slytherin's booed.
"Sorry Professor," Lee said quickly before he continued speaking. "introducing first, the Slytherin's team captain and chaser Marcus Flint, joining him as chaser is Adrian Pucey. Their beaters are Morris King and Rufus Jackknife. Miles Bletchley takes the position of Keeper and Terence Higgs takes position as Seeker. Joining them is surprise entrant and third chaser, none other than the youngest chaser in a century, Harry Potter."
The Slytherin's all cheered at Harry who happily waved back, he smiled when he saw his friends cheering for him. Though the cheering stopped after Jordan's next comment.
"Yes, first year Harry Potter is on the team, I suppose we'll soon see if he's really earned his spot." Lee said in skeptical voice.
"Jordan!" Professor McGonagall admonished but was drowned out by the large amount of booing from the Slytherin stands.
"Sorry Professor," Jordan said, not sounding very sorry. "I..." Jordan tried to speak but even with his magical microphone he found it hard to speak over the high levels of booing, some of the Slytherin's had even cast sonorous (a sound amplifying charm) on each other just so they could boo louder.
Harry felt quite touched by this show of support against Jordon, it was clear to everyone that Jordon was implying that Harry had used his fame to get his spot. Harry knew why Jordon was rooting against him, besides the fact that Jordan was a Gryffindor, it was because Jordon was in the same year as the Weasley twins and was in fact their best friend. After the failed prank by the twins Snape had tried to have them removed from the quidditch team, the fact that the twins were flying opposite Harry and glaring at him showed that Snape wasn't too successful.
That wasn't to say that the twins weren't punished, they had lost a large amount of points for Gryffindor and if that wasn't bad enough they also gained a weeks worth of detention and the house elves were ordered to no longer allow the twins into the kitchen. Harry looked at the twins and gave them a cheeky wave. Harry didn't feel bad about them getting punished, they were the ones who tried to prank him and if it wasn't for Jet then he would be green skinned right now.
"And now introducing the Gryffindor team!" Lee shouted into his microphone once the booing had finally stopped. "Team captain and Keeper, Oliver Wood along with the beaters Fred and George Weasley! Followed by the three stunningly beautiful chasers Katie Bell, Alicia Spinnet and Angelina Johnson! With them is their new seeker, Cormac McLaggen." It was not lost on everyone that Lee wasn't quite as enthusiastic when introducing McLaggen, though the one person it it was apparently lost on was in fact McLaggen as he happily waved at the Gryffindor stands.
Harry paused and looked at the opposite team, the Weasley twins were tall redheads with freckles on their faces, Harry suspected they'd more than likely be aiming at himself all match, probably just so they could get back at him for getting them in trouble. Oliver Wood was well built and burly, slightly taller than Flint but nearly as big horizontally, Harry couldn't help but compare him to those football enthusiasts that would spend everyday playing football when they weren't doing anything else. It was well known throughout the school that the guy was a quidditch nut. Cormac McLaggen was a large, wire-haired boy, everything about him screamed arrogant.
The chasers were just as advertised, in that they were stunningly beautiful, they all wisely had their hairs in ponytails so they wouldn't get in the way while flying. Katie Bell, the youngest and a year older then Harry was a brunette, Alicia Spinnet and Angelina Johnson were both in the same year as the Weasley twins, Alicia being a pretty blonde and Angelina being a pretty girl with light brown skin and black hair.
"Now, I want a nice clean game, from all of you." Madam Hooch, who was acting as the referee for this match, said before she waved her wand. The trunk next to her opened, the snitch and two bludgers flew out first, the bludgers began flying around while the snitch disappeared. Harry stayed ready, he knew that the game would start once the quaffle was released.
A few seconds later the quaffle shot into the air.
"The quaffle is up and the game begins!" Lee Jordan announced just as the chasers all rushed for the quaffle. Thanks to having the fastest broom, along with the skills to use it properly, Harry was quickly able to grab the quaffle before the others. He ducked under Katie bell as she attempted to grab it from him, he then dodged Alicia Spinnet's attempt to take it before flying off while Adrian Pucey blocked Angelina from getting close to him.
Harry flew straight towards the Gryffindor hoops, he dodged a bludger that was shot at him from one of the Weasley twins. As he got near Harry pulled his arm back to throw the quaffle, Oliver Wood was ready to block or catch it when Harry suddenly tossed it backwards to Marcus Flint who flew to the right, Oliver quickly flew to his left hoop as it looked like Flint was gong to shoot there. But he didn't, Flint threw it back to Harry who span in mid-air and hit the quaffle with the back of his broom stick, sending it to the opposite hoop from the one that Wood was guarding. To Wood's credit he was able to quickly get from his left hoop to the middle hoop but was unable to stop the quaffle as it went into the other hoop.
"Slytherin scores." Lee Jordon said in a disappointed voice, "that's ten points to Slytherin. Come on Gryffindor, get back in the game!"
The game continued for another twenty minutes, Lee would cheer every time Gryffindor got a goal but Slytherin was leading the game with a score of 120 - 40. Harry had scored most of those goals, with Pucey scoring three and Flint also scoring three. The Weasley twins, as Harry predicted, had spent the majority of their focus trying to hit him with a bludger, but Harry was able to dodge all of them, one managed to graze the side of his right arm but none got closer than that. Harry noticed something out of the corner of his eye, he saw Higgs chasing after the snitch, with Cormac chasing behind them.
Harry caught the quaffle after Flint tossed it to him, an idea came in Harry's head. He smirked and and flew towards the Gryffindor hoops, he managed to stick his tongue out at both Weasley twins on the way. One of the twins - Harry had no idea if it was Fred or George - swung at a bludger with full force, the bludger rushed through the air towards Harry. Harry waited and at the last moment he shifted into a sloth roll, leaving himself flying upside down.
The bludger flew past where Harry's body used to be and headed straight towards the two seekers, Cormac was about to reach out for the snitch when the bludger hit his broom, causing him to go out of control and crash into the pitch. That distracted the others long enough for Harry to shift back into a normal flying position and take advantage of the distraction to score once more, a few seconds later the snitch was caught.
"H...Higgs caught the snitch." Lee Jordon said in a pained voice. The Slytherin stands erupted with cheers and clapping, Harry looked at the Weasley twins and winked at them before flying up to the commentator stand where Lee Jordan was sat along with other teachers. The Slytherin's all became quiet when they noticed Harry stop in front of Jordan and start hovering there. "Potter? What are you..." Lee was cut off by Harry casually grabbing the microphone out of his hand.
"Testing, testing." Harry spoke into the microphone. "Can you all here me?" Harry asked, after receiving a confirmation cheer from the Slytherin's, Harry continued speaking. "Well great, I am sorry about interrupting, I just need to say three things. First of all, an excellent job being on being a smart, entertaining and unbiased commentator, Mr Jordon." Harry said sarcastically, Jordon growled as many of the Slytherin's laughed. "Second of all, in regards to my spot on the team, I'd like to think it's earned. What do you lot think?!" The Slytherin's cheered loudly for Harry. "Thank you, thank you!" Harry spoke again, causing the cheering to die down. "Oh and one more thing," Harry turned to Lee and grinned. "I think you may need to pick another profession, because you forgot to mention the most important part. Slytherin wins." Harry said before he tossed the microphone into Jordon's lap.
Harry flew to the middle of the pitch, hovering with the other Slytherin team members. They soaked in the applause they were getting, the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaws were clapping for them, but the Slytherin stand was ear deafening with the amount of noise they were making.
"Go! Go! Slytherin! Go! Go! Slytherin!" They cheered.
As Harry sat on his broom, he couldn't help but think how much better his life had gotten. He was no longer the skinny kid under the stairs. Now, as he sat in the air with the wind blowing through his hair and the crowd cheering for him, he was Harry Potter, proud first year Slytherin, talented wizard and youngest chaser in a century.
A.N: Hi guys, hope you liked the chapter. I had originally intended to finish it and upload it yesterday but for some reason or the other I couldn't get fanfiction to work and then by the time I was able to get it to work I had an hour to actually go to work. Then I was too tired to work when I came back home at night, so I just had a shower and went sleep. Can't complain too much though since I work in a chicken shop (chip/fries shop) and was able to make myself a cheeseburger for my break, I work there for the free food if nothing else and it was pretty tasty if I do say so.
Anyway (sorry about that, you lot aren't here to here about my fantastic burgers that even Gordon Ramsey would enjoy...I think) I'm also glad that people liked the last line of the last chapter, I had honestly spent about two or three minutes deciding if I should leave it or not. I also want to thank everyone for all the nice reviews, it means a lot. I know a few people are wondering who Harry will live with once he leaves Hogwarts for the year. I'm still undecided as I'm thinking about several possibilities such as:
1) The Tonks family.
2) The Zabini family.
3) The Weasley family (just for one summer and only for the pure chaos of what would happen with Harry and Jet staying there)
4) Bathsheda Babbling.
Thanks for reading, feel free to leave a review.