Harry glanced at the newspaper in the hands of the man who sat before him and sighed heavily. The press learned that All Might started teaching at UA and went crazy. Most likely, there is a crowd of reporters now standing at the entrance to the school, trying to see at least the tip of their favorite hero's hair. He needed to leave home early today...
After a couple of minutes, the teenager was looking at a crowd of reporters who stopped anyone who could enter the school grounds. Harry weighed his options and decided to just fight his way through the stream of people with brute force if need be. He threw the bag over his shoulder and walked confidently through the crowd.
"Hey! Look where you are going!"
"My camera!"
"Can you answer a couple- Ow, who stepped on my foot?!"
The screams of the reporters sounded like a symphony to Harry, he was not embarrassed in the slightest by the evil glances from their side.
"He's off today. You are interrupting our classes, please leave."
The teenager turned and saw Aizawa, who with a typical dead face tried to drive the reporters away. He glanced at Harry pushing the reporters aside and smiled slightly.
"Come on, we just want to ask All Might-"
"No, don't."
In the face of another reporter, the metal gate of the school slammed shut and Harry could enjoy their screams again.
"You definitely like it, don't you?"
"How can you say that, sensei? They're just doing their job!"
The green-eyed teenager said in the most false tone possible.
"Right. Now run to the class, you're already late. Again."
"We're both late..."
"Sensei is never late, he always comes on time."
Harry looked skeptically at his teacher and power walked into the classroom. It's better to come earlier than Aizawa, he does not want to know what punishment the Hero will come up with for those who are late. As soon as the bell rang, Aizawa entered the classroom with a heavy pile of papers.
"I looked at your results after training. Nice work, but I have a couple comments. Bakugo, grow up and stop wasting your talent."
"...Got it." he growled back, but said no more.
"Midoriya, you've broken your arm again. Learn to control your Quirk, your life depends on it. I hate repeating myself, so I'll just say it once. You have potential, you only need hard work."
"Okay!"
"And Potter... I don't know if you waited so long for the right moment to attack or if you just showed pity for the enemy, but next time try to end the battle right away. You could knock out both of your opponents on the ground floor with your Quirk. I've seen what it can do. Stop holding back."
"Right..."
Harry didn't act like Todoroki for one reason, he wanted to give the rest of his classmates some experience. But he won't say it right now.
"Now onto the Homeroom business. Sorry for the sudden announcement, but today..."
'Is he going to give us another test?'
"You'll pick a class President."
"SUCH A USUAL SCHOOL ACTIVITY?!"
Harry didn't even bother to deafen himself. It will be much easier to get used to the noise. Everyone immediately jumped up from their seats and began to ask for the place of the Headman. The green-eyed teenager just put his head in his hands and began to wait for the end of this circus.
"Everyone, be quiet! Leading people is a big responsibility! But ambition cannot be compared with ability!" Ida said seriously.
'Well, at least someone can control an entire class of hormonal teenagers.'
In his musings, Harry missed most of Ida's speech and only heard the end.
"...That our true leader must be chosen by election!"
"This is an ordinary Classroom! Not a Congress!"
"But Ida, we haven't known each other long enough to show any trust."
"Everyone will just vote for themselves."
"Then we will simply forbid voting for ourselves, I see no reason to worry." said Harry.
"Good idea! And that's why we can trust the person who managed to earn several votes in such a short time! They are definitely suitable for the job! Sensei, would you allow us to vote?!"
"Do what you want, but quickly. And preferably quietly."
Aizawa disappeared into his sleeping bag and stopped moving.
---
As a result, Momo Yaoyorozu became the Class Present and Izuku Midoriya became the Vice Present. Harry strongly doubted that Izuku was the right fit for his role, but there was nothing he could do about it. The guy was too shy for his own good.
The whole class went to the cafeteria and Harry sat down next to Tsuyu, Mina and Kirishima. The teenager fell into a chair and sighed heavily.
"What's wrong, dude?"
"My body still hurts after the weekend. What can't you do for a good book..."
"For a good book? Anything interesting?" Mina leaned slightly towards Harry to hear him better.
"You could say that... My book guy found some pretty rare copies for me, so I had to work."
"Working so hard for books? Are they made of solid gold or what?"
"No, but each one is older than the Quirks themselves."
"Wow! Why do you even need such old stuff? And how did they not turn to dust yet?"
"Well-"
Harry interrupted the sound of sirens throughout the school grounds.
"Security level 3 has been broken. All students, please evacuate in an ordinary faction."
Tsuyu covered her ears with her hands at the loud sound and tried to shout down the siren.
"What does this mean, ribbit?!"
"Someone was able to get into the school grounds! This has never happened in all three years of my studies here!!" someone answered.
Harry ignored his panic and used Pride to look around. One of his shadows looked out the window and the teenager sighed heavily. He hated the press. Especially aggressive press. The gates were broken and reporters flooded the school grounds.
'But which one of them has a quirk strong enough to break in? Something is wrong.'
Ida somehow ended up being pushed against the wall above the exit and calmed everyone down. Apparently, Harry was not the only one who noticed the reporters, although at the school for future heroes such a panic looked absurd.
After lunch, Midoriya resigned from his position as Vice President and gave it to Ida. Harry liked this situation much more than the live broccoli running the crowd of teenagers.
"Damn, the press is completely crazy! Breaking down the school to get to All Might! He's not even here today!"
Denki was apparently quite annoyed.
"You haven't seen anything yet. Imagine how much horror a reporter who can transform into some kind of beetle could bring."
A chill ran down Harry's spine when he heard Jiro's voice.
"That was far too specific for my taste..."
---
After such a busy hour, Harry decided to hide in one of the few quiet places in the UA. In the library. The teenager took his favorite place in the corner of the hall and took out 'Ouroboros, the serpent that devoured the world.' But after a couple of minutes, a voice interrupted his reading.
"Is this seat taken?"
Harry looked up and saw an unfamiliar girl in front of him. She had shoulder-length silver hair and wide silver eyes, her face was kind, but there was steel in her gaze. She was about a head shorter than Harry and, according to the teenager, could compete in beauty even with Momo.
"No, it's not."
The girl nodded and sat down at the chair opposite, she silently took her own book out of her bag and began to read. The name was in Arabic and Harry couldn't read it.
"Potter Harry, Hero Course."
"Gin Hagane, Support Course."
Both teenagers fell silent again and returned to their books.
'One of the earliest known ouroboros motifs is found in the Enigmatic Book of the Netherworld, an ancient Egyptian funerary text in KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun, in the 14th century BC. The text concerns the actions of the god Ra and his union with Osiris in the underworld...'
'In Gnosticism, a serpent biting its tail symbolized eternity and the soul of the world. The Gnostic Pistis Sophia (c. 400 AD) describes the ouroboros as a twelve-part dragon surrounding the world with its tail in its mouth...'
'In Norse mythology, the ouroboros appears as the serpent Jörmungandr, one of the three children of Loki and Angrboda, which grew so large that it could encircle the world and grasp its tail in its teeth. In the legends of Ragnar Lodbrok, the Geatish king Herraud gives a small lindworm as a gift to his daughter Þóra Town-Hart after which it grows into a large serpent which encircles the girl's bower and bites itself in the tail. The serpent is slain by Ragnar Lodbrok who marries Þóra. Ragnar later has a son with another woman named Kráka and this son is born with the image of a white snake in one eye. This snake encircled the iris and bit itself in the tail, and the son was named Sigurd Snake-in-the-Eye.'
Harry pondered all the historical references to Ouroboros. Why does he have such a close connection with snakes all his life? Is he still able to talk to snakes, or did he lose this ability after being reborn? And why had he never thought about it before?
"I need to find a snake..." Harry muttered and got up from his chair. "It was nice meeting you, Gin-san."
"Likewise, Potter-san."
The teenager took all his belongings and went to the nearest pet store. Previously, he avoided them like the plague, the memories of Hedwig were too painful. But now he had a mission, he had to talk to a serpent. Harry looked at the clean building, with various animals sitting in front of everyone. He sighed and went inside the store.
"Welcome, how can I help you today?"
He immediately heard the cheerful voice of the seller.
"Hello, I'm looking for snakes, do you have them for sale?"
"Snakes, huh? Well, a rare choice, but we have a couple. You need to go over there."
The man pointed to the left of the store.
"Thank you."
From the glass terrariums, two long pythons gazed at him lazily. Harry just looked at them silently for a couple of minutes, sighed heavily and concentrated.
§Can you underssstand me?§
The snakes immediately twitched and got up. The bigger Python raised his head a little and looked at the teenager with interest.
§Ssspeaker? My ancessstors whissspered about your exissstence, but I have never ssseen your kin.§
§I am the lassst of my kin, ssserpent...$ well, he still can talk to snakes $Would you like to come with me?§
Python just shook his head.
§We're too old for a young one. My kind ssspoke of the Sserpent King who accompanied your ssspeciesss. Raissse the new King, he will help you greatly.§
Harry nodded and thought deeply. He can still speak Parseltongue and the python told him to raise him the 'Serpent King'... Now he just needs to raise a fucking Basilisk. Great.
"A toad and a live chicken egg, right...? But how do I get the toad to hatch an egg?"
As a result, the teenager left the pet store with a small terrarium with two toads and a couple of chicken eggs. Harry never knew the exact process of creating the Basilisk, so he was going to improvise.
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"Harry, what are those?" Izumi couldn't hide her surprise when he returned to the Orphanage "You should have asked Azumi's permission before getting a pet, you know."
"Hehe... sorry about that, they just looked at me with these eyes, and-"
"Frogs!"
Harry glanced to his left and saw the burning eyes of Karin, whose face was already stuck to the terrarium.
"Careful, you can scare them."
The girl's gray eyes did not leave the two small animals for a second.
"What are their names?"
"I have not decided yet..."
"Then this one will be called Guy, and this one Von!" first she pointed to the yellow toad, and then to the green one "Cool, right?"
"Hmm, I couldn't think of anything better, great job!"
Harry took the terrarium with Pride and stroked the girl's head with his now free hand. Izumi just sighed heavily and decided to leave everything as it is. Toads are much easier to care for than dogs or cats, so there shouldn't be any problems.
Harry went up to his room and set the terrarium in one of the darkest corners of the room. He took out of the bag a lot of things for small animals and built two sleeping places for them. Exactly in the middle of which he put one egg at a time, only after he put toads on them.
"Well, now we just have to wait... what am I doing in my life?"