"She already has four weeks of detention from Professor McGonagall" Ginny informed him
"Does she?" Snape looked undeniably amused "in which case you can add mine to the four you already have, I shall inform the professor you have detention with me this week. You can do the rest of her detentions with after you complete mine" Hermione ran off crying, Snape was about to leave as well when Harry beckoned him to come closer
"Sir" he whispered into his ear "I feel like you should, I looked into her mind earlier and saw that she and Ron had accidentally ended up in the third floor corridor, they saw the dog and worked out it's guarding something" Snape looked like he wanted to say something about mind reading but decided to leave it because he was many things but a hypocrite was not one of them
"Thank you for bringing that to my attention" He whispered back "anything else I should know"
"Today at the Halloween feast, don't drink the pumpkin juice" Harry whispered, Snape raised an eyebrow "nothing harmful, I assure you it's just a bit of fun and it'll wear off within an hour" Snape walked off quickly before Potter could see the smile that forced itself on his face.
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At the feast Harry and Ginny sat with the twins, all four of them had decided that they would drink the pumpkin Juice just to maintain appearances. Anyone who would drink the juice would have something Halloween related change their appearance. Harry and Ginny grew fangs, Ron and Neville's ears were replaced with bat ears, Fred and George ended up with grey mad scientist hair whilst Malfoy ended up with a giant bogey that would hang from his nose no matter how much he tried to wipe it away. Dumbledore began sprouting hair everywhere that didn't already have hair, what made it worse was when his hair turned pink.
Snape had warned the head of houses about this prank, all four of them were trying their best not to laugh, Flitwick and Sprout failed. If they didn't love Potter before then they certainly did now, eventually the prank wore off and people returned to normal. Which for Ginny was a shame because she rather liked Harry with fangs, the feast continued until Professor Quirrell burst in screaming about a troll in the dungeons.
"Silence!" Dumbledore screamed to the panicking crowd "prefects will lead the students to their common room"
"Excuse me Professor" Harry stood up, the whole hall looked towards him "but isn't the Slytherin dormitory in the dungeons?" Those who weren't surprised by Harry's concern were considering how the Headmaster basically told them to go to the troll
"Ah, yes it is" The Professor sheepishly admitted
"And not to be a bother sir" Harry continued "but Miss Granger is not here; from what I've overheard she's in the toilet. Someone may want to get her in case she runs into the troll, unless of course, you want me to do it. Until you get the troll I'd recommend we all stay here, safety in numbers and all that" The teachers were hiding their amusement along with many other students, the rest were wondering how a first year seems capable of ordering the school about better than the headmaster.
"What he said" Dumbledore quickly spoke and walked out followed by the professors
'Sir' Harry spoke directly to Professor Snapes mind 'you might have noticed how captain stutter is not here anymore' Snape looked at Harry, gave him a nod and a rare smile before walking out. Harry sat back down, it took everyone a while to get over the shock of what Harry had done. Fred and George took less time, Harry dropping jaws is a daily activity he takes part in.
"You're awesome" George spoke once everyone had stopped looking
"You're who we want to be when we grow up" Fred joked
"First you get Gryffindor an unbelievable amount of points"
"Then you get Snape of all people to start liking us"
"You show people up daily"
"Take Dumbledore's Phoenix"
"Get miss goody-goody in trouble twice in a row"
"You prank the entire school and get away with it"
"and now you're ordering the headmaster about"
"What can I say? It's a gift" Harry could do many things but not look smug was not one of them
"Plus you look awesome when you take charge" Ginny added, before blushing once she realized what she said.
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The next day at breakfast the event of last night were still being discussed, the teachers defeated the troll and saved Hermione. Snape barley managed to avoid getting killed by the dog, but got away with a cut leg. The rumors of what happened however were nowhere near accurate, Ron spread one saying he stopped the troll from killing Snape and Hermione. But that was quickly shot down once Neville reminded everyone that Ron was in the hall.
Harry was looking particularly forward to today as it was the day of his first quidditch match, today would be the day where he cements his title of youngest seeker in a century. After catching Neville's remembrall in his first class, McGonagall put him on the house team, she'd even brought him the new Nimbus two thousand. He told her this was unnecessary as he could have brought one with his own money but she insisted.
The team captain was overjoyed with how well Harry was doing in the practices, Fred and George were also glad he was on the team as that meant they had someone to joke with. The female chasers were nice to him as well, each treating him like a little brother, the feeling was similar to how he felt about Fred and George but slightly different. He was rather glad that he had found people he didn't mind being around, once the match began the other players took the quaffle and rushed towards the hoops. But no sooner than they got halfway towards them the match had ended, they turned and realized Harry was no longer there. They looked around for him and found Harry walking back to the changing rooms with the snitch held high above his head.
"Ladies and gentlemen I can't believe it" Lee Jordan, the commentator for the match could barley talk "Potter, the youngest seeker in a century has broken the world record for the fastest catch of a snitch in a match ever" The Slytherin's were so surprised that they forgot to boo.
"Not my best" Harry commented as he entered the changing room "but then again not my worse".
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