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Word Count 2000
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Comes out of the entrance. The lord's room entrance was on the same floor as the Ravenclaw entrance. On the fifth floor.To get to the Ravenclaw entrance you need to go from the fifth floor to the Ravenclaw tower. up the spiral flight of stairs was the door to the Ravenclaw common room. Everybody in Hogwarts knew where the entrance was.
Compared to the other founders Rowena didn't see a point to having a secret entrance. If you were smart you could go into the Ravenclaw common room and enjoy a book.
Yet for over a thousand years. Rarely did the other students go to Ravenclaw tower. So in fact that was a very good way of keeping students out of it. If they are less curious, students would be less interested.
The Library was located just off the Central Hall down a set of stairs. So Harry slowly made his way down the moving stairway.
'I never understood why they bothered to make these. I get that it has the Magical vibe, but these things are quite bothersome, waiting for the stairs to change. Fine lets do it this way' Harry gripped the railing and jumped off the stairs.
He took a free fall 5 floors down, as soon as he got to the first floor, Harry casted Arresto Momentum on himself, slowing down his momentum as he lightly landed on the floor.
'There much better, saved myself quite a bit of time' Harry smirked on the inside completely ignoring the early rising students as they looked at him with their jaw's dropped.
~ Harry goes to the Library.
Harry entered the library. Immediately he was hit with the smell of old books, the smell of old paper and ink. This made Harry frown.
' Why does it smell like this? Don't they have a permanent stasis charm on the library? Stopping time is impossible for wizards. But they can slow it down. If they linked the stasis charm to the Layline, they might as well slow it down so much that it won't even matter. My manor has this, the Potter family made sure their collection and the collection of Belmont will survive through the ages. '
Harry goes to a nearby bookshelf the Librarian madam Pince looked at him like a hawk. He touched the bookshelf and used magic to examine it. It does have a stasis charm. But its weak... or rather weaker. I can tell that it was even more powerful than my manor. But over the last 50 years, the power from the layline has been diverted from the Library. But why?'
Harry went back to the History he knows. 'What important event happened 50 years ago? Riddle was still in school, but he doesn't have the skill or the Authority to do this. Wait.. Authority. After Riddle left school, Dippet stepped down as Headmaster and Dumbledore took that position.
Dumbledore did it. He diverted the power from the Layline.'
Harry frowned and clicked his tongue.
'This.. might be troublesome. If he truly has linked himself to the Layline, then he is far beyond Mid-Class. Most likely High Class, as long as he is in Hogwarts. But then why did he lose to Voldemort?
Yasaka in Kyoto is the leader of the West Yokai Faction. Its pretty well known that she is linked to the Laylines under Kyoto. And by taking power from them she can increase her strength to the level that she can fight Gods. But she is a Yokai, she can take the burden that it places on her body. Dumbledore is still just human.
Human.. huh, that's probably it. Dumbledore is old. I might have overestimated him, he can't handle the burden of the Layline that well, so at most he would be Peak Mid-Class. He might have been High Class a few decades ago. But that time is behind him. And he put on the ring in the Original Timeline, cursing himself. Doesn't matter how strong you are if you are stupid enough to 'willingly' put on a cursed object. Well that solves one mystery.'
Harry left the bookshelf and made his way to the restricted section. Madam Pince sees this and stands up quickly making her way to the gate and standing in front of Harry.
"What are you doing young man! The restricted Section is forbidden to the students unless they have a pass from a Teacher" She crossed her arms and looked down at Harry with a stern face.
Harry looks at her with a calm face.
"Move out of my way, your Headmaster agreed to give me unlimited Access to the Restricted section. It was one of my conditions for coming to Hogwarts."
"No pass, no entry" Madam Pince says resolutely
Harry pulls his fake wand. "Stupefy"
THUD.
The librarian falls down to the ground face first.
"Stupid bitch" Harry grumbled, he wasted time for no reason. Harry looked at the locked entrance for the Restricted Section. It had multiple wards to alert if someone tampered with it or passed without approval.
Harry didn't want to waste anymore time
BOOOM
He blew apart the steel door. Setting off the ward scheme.
"Not my fault they didn't grant me entrance. They can come and fix this" He simply strolled into the library and started looking at the book titles. When he saw a tittle he didn't have recorded into his memory he took the book and started to read.
~ Teachers come.
5 minutes later the staff quickly arrives in front of the Library. The first were Sprout and McGonagall.
"Pomona have you heard any news"
"No, but who would do such a thing. School hasn't even started yet. Not to mention why the library. Didn't we increase the defences in the third floor? That's where the Stone is. Why attack the library?"
McGonagall frowned " I don't know"
POP
Dumbledore apparated in front of them " I'm sorry I am late. I had other things to take care of"
"Headmaster. Do you know what set off the wards?" Snape arrived with his robes dramatically '??? (billowing) behind him. Flitwick was right next to him.
"No I'm afraid I do not" Dumbledore answered truthfully
"What can we expect" Flitwick said in a serious tone
"Prepare for the worst. We might have to face Voldemort in the Library." Dumbledore said in a grave tone 'Damn it, who would attack the library. Now I have to divert some of the Power back into the Library to protect the books from damage.'
The group comes in and see Madam Pince laying on the ground. Snape quickly casts a spell to check her condition. "She is still alive. A 'Stupify' has been cast on her. I guess we can rule out the Dark Lord. He would not spare her like this"
They make their way to the Restricted Section and see the 'gate' blown open
"Well at least we know why the ward scheme was set off" Snape says in a dry tone
"Serverus. Please focus" McGonagall sniped at her colleague
"But how strange. He doesn't appear to be hiding at all" Flitwick casted a spell to detected other people and found one intruder near the tables.
Once they entered they saw Harry Potter sitting on a very comfortable chair that definitely wasn't in the restricted section before. There were many books scattered around him as well.
"MR. POTTER!" McGonagall yelled out. Pomona and Flitwick relaxed, while Snape just sneered. Dumbledore just frowned
"Good Morning" Harry said offhandedly as he continued to read "And before you ask, yes I did stun the Librarian. She wouldn't let me enter the Restricted Section"
"I see." Dumbledore spoke in a slow tone "It seems that she wasn't informed. You could have just come and asked one of us for the pass"
Harry scowled "I dislike wasting time. It was your job to inform her about my conditions. You didn't. The fault lies with you. Time is something that is difficult to obtain. Especially to someone like me. I have many thing to do and not enough time to do them. I will not tolerate any attempts of wasting more of the little free time I have."
Snape raised an eyebrow 'I can strangely relate to that. Ugh, I feel sick for even having anything in common with the Potter brat. '
"Mr. Potter. You attacked a staff member. That is a serious offence" McGonagall said in a stern tone, making Harry chuckle.
Harry looked at the staff with a smile on his face. Surprising Flitwick and Pomona since normally students cower or feel shame in front of the infamous Deputy. Dumbledore and Snape on the other hand withheld a wince. This was going to be a loss for them.
"Then feel free to expel me"
There it was. They knew exactly what Potters position in the school was. Harry Potter was needed at Hogwarts. They have already payed a lot of money to keep him here, when he didn't even want to be here in the first place. In other words. Harry Potter was nearly untouchable.
He did mention he wanted to see if he can find Rowena's Secret Library. But he obviously just wants to sate his curiosity. Otherwise he would have pushed for more conditions in the negotiations. He would have brought in a team of skilled wizards to sweep the castle top to bottom if the Secret Library was his real goal.
Minerva was flabbergasted, so were her colleagues. This was the first time a student was this nonchalant in front of them. He really didn't acknowledge their authority at all. No he was dismissing their presence altogether.
Dumbledore coughed in his hand "Very well, i will inform Madam Pince not to stop you next time. If you have any question about the books in the Restricted Section be sure to ask the professors or me."
"I won't.. have any questions I mean. Now if that will be all I'd like to get back to my reading" Harry smiled at them before leaning back in his chair. One that he obviously conjured for himself. A snake came out of Harry's coat. And stared at the teachers. Daring them to make a move against Harry.
Dumbledore was the first one to leave and the others followed
"Albus, surely we won't let this end like this. The boy attacked a teacher" McGonagall said in a low tone. "This is quite troubling. Mr. Potter is even more rebellious than expected. For now let him do what he wants. We will continue this conversation in the staff room."
And with that the matter was over.
Harry glanced upwards as they left his sight. He felt the magic in the bookshelves return to the level they were when he first analyzed them. During their conversation he accurately felt the flow of magic go towards Dumbledore since the man was so close to him.
'So i was right. He is using the magic of the laylines to empower himself. All while hiding his mana levels from everybody. Most likely hoping to use it as a trump card. I will need to reconsider my plans on how to deal with him in the future. But for now. I have a lot of books to go through'
Harry regained his focus and started to scroll through the books. Literally making a snap shot of the page and saving it in his Memory Palace as a part of the 'book' he was currently compiling. Later when he returns home. He will go take this 'book' and conjure the whole thing. Making it a real book.
Then he will either make it permanent through enchantments. Or will use other methods to make a more durable copy using real materials. He planned to do this for all the books he was still missing in his libraries at home.
'A lot of books and lot of work' Harry sighed and went back to reading. The things he does for more knowledge.