"Look at the bloody idiot," Harry hissed under his breath as he, Hermione and Ron stared at Malfoy who was currently at the Slytherin table with one of his arms in a thin cast and sling, he was dramatically telling everyone how he had barely survived a vicious attack from Buckbeak, Pansy Parkinson was hanging onto his other hand with an awed look on her face as if she truly believed every word he said even though she had been in the class with him. "he's really laying it on thick. I saw his arm, he had barely gotten scratched!"
"It's just typical, innit?" Ron shook his head. "Anything happens to Malfoy and he goes crying to
'Daddy' or Snape."
"Or both." Harry snorted.
"Hagrid's going to be in really big trouble." Hermione fretted.
"It's not even Hagrid's fault, though!" Harry protested.
"I know that, but do you think everyone will care when Draco starts crying about being attacked?" Hermione asked, tutting her teeth. "I think that'll just be the beginning of..." Hermione trailed off as she looked at a newspaper that somebody had left on the table. "…..um...Harry, you should see this." She gulped before handing him the newspaper.
Harry frowned but did as she said and saw that the newspaper was reporting on a sighting of Sirius Black, he had apparently been seen in a village that was not that far from here. Which likely meant that he was heading to Hogwarts, coming for him.
'It doesn't matter,' Venom's soothing voice whispered in Harry's head. 'if he finds us, then we'll stop him. Remember, Harry, you have me by your side. You have me.'
Harry only half-listened to Ron and Hermione talking, occasionally responding when they asked him a question, his mind was more focused on how relaxed he had become after hearing Venom's words. It wasn't like he wasn't worried at all, no, Sirius Black was still a very skilled and dangerous wizard. But with that being said he undoubtedly felt a lot safer knowing that he had Venom watching his back.
"Good morning, ladies and gentlemen," Professor Dumbledore said the next morning at breakfast.
"I'm sorry to disturb you all as you are enjoying breakfast, but I have a quick announcement to make. As you are all aware, the ministry has chosen to place dementors around the school grounds in the hopes of catching Sirius Black. However, it has also been decided to add extra protection to Hogwarts, so for the remainder of the year or at least until Sirius Black is caught, Hogwarts will be patroled by aurors." Dumbledore gestured to the side of the hall where there were several aurors standing.
Harry, along with the rest of the students present in the hall, stared at the aurors present. Though Harry's attention was drawn to a certain auror, one with shoulder-length pink hair.
"Tonks!" Harry grinned just as Tonks spotted him. Tonks sent him a smirk and a wink before she went back to trying to look professional.
"These kind aurors will be patroling Hogwarts day and night," Dumbledore continued. "if anyone sees anything important, please do not hesitate to contact them or any of the teachers. Thank you."
Dumbledore nodded to the students before he sat down at his table.
"I'm glad that Tonks is here, it's nice to have someone on our side." Said Harry to his friends before a thoughtful look came on his face.
"What's up with you?" Ron asked.
"An idea." Harry grinned as he stared at the Slytherin table where Malfoy had his arm in a sling and was dramatically telling tales of how he 'nearly died at the hands of that massive beast'
"Hey Tonks," Harry smiled as he and his friends spotted the pink-haired auror when they exited the great hall, "great to see you."
"Nice to see you too, Harry," Tonks smiled. "hey Ron, Hermione." She added to the other two.
"Hello, Miss Tonks." Hermione greeted politely as Ron gave her a small wave.
"Urgh, please, call me Tonks." Tonks frowned. "When I hear 'Miss Tonks' I feel like I'm in trouble." Harry chuckled at that before speaking again. "How come you're here though? No offence, it's just that I thought that you were just a trainee.
"I am until I get at least two months more experience," Tonks sighed. "still, they don't really expect Black to get past the dementors. We're just here as an added precaution."
"Nice," Harry nodded before taking a look around. "I was wondering if you could help us with a problem.'
"What sort of problem?" Tonks asked, narrowing her eyes.
"Not a crime or anything, at least... well...actually it might be...look, we basically need your help with dealing with Malfoy."
"Malfoy?" Tonks blinked.
"Yes, well, you know how you're like this master auror with excellent shapeshifting abilities?" Harry smiled brightly at her.
"Yeah, what about it, flatterer?" Tonks gave him an amused smile.
"Well, yesterday we had our first ever care of magical creatures class with Hagrid," Harry began explaining.
"Oh, I'm glad that Hagrid's teaching, he was always nice to me." Tonks smiled. "Though, fair
warning. don't ever try to eat his rock cakes "
"You're warning is far too late, but appreciated." Ron rubbed his jaw.
"Anyway, we were learning about hippogriffs." Harry continued.
"Yes, the lesson was going really well until Malfoy decided to be his usual self," Hermione commented. "He ignored what Hagrid said and just walked up to the hippogriff and insulted it to its face."
"Is he mad?!" Tonks blurted out. "That's like the first thing you're not supposed to do!"
"We know," Harry nodded. "Hagrid had told us. But Malfoy ignored what he said and did it anyway, then the hippogriff hit him. He's walking around with a sling on his arm, but I was right there and I saw that the hippogriff had barely hit him, there's no way he's got any damage that Madam Pomfrey couldn't have fixed in a couple of minutes. With the way he's going on and on about his injuries, it's obvious that he's trying to get Hagrid into trouble. We were hoping that you could help us prove that Malfoy's faking, it'd go a long way in helping out Hagrid." He gave her a hopeful look. Tonks stared between Harry, Hermione and Ron for several long moments before she let out a deep sigh.
"How come you guys aren't going to the teachers with this?" Tonks asked.
"They wouldn't believe us," Harry said simply. "we have no proof and if we tried it then Snape would just say we're trying to cause trouble."
"Look, guys, it's not that I don't want to help, I do. It's just that I am here on official business, I really shouldn't.
"Oh, looky here," A voice drawled, the group turned to see Draco walking past them with Crabbe and Goyle. "what's the matter, Potter? Hoping to get a new job? Though given the current standards of aurors," Draco paused and gave Tonks an unimpressed look before and after leering at her. "you just might have a chance." He laughed and walked off with the other two boys dutifully following behind.
"So...that was Malfoy." Harry helpfully let her know. The group watched as indecision appeared on
lonks's tace for a few moments
"Right...fine, let's deal with that git."
'Yes! I knew I liked her.' Venom cheered.
"I bet you think you're so clever, don't you, Malfoy?" Harry said as he approached Malfoy and his two goons, all three of them were lazily leaning against a wall in an empty hallway. Harry stopped with Hermione and Ron walking stopping behind him.
'Ooh,' Venom softly hissed. 'that line was such a Malfoy thing to say.'
'Well, I am trying to act stupid here.' Harry reminded him.
"What do you mean, scar-head?" Malfoy asked with a wide grin.
"Faking that arm injury," Harry glared at him. "I bet it's not even hurt."
"Of course, it isn't," Ron nodded, looking at Malfoy like he was a huge pile of dung. "the hippogriff barely touched him."
"You shouldn't make such accusations," Malfoy said with a mock hurt look on his face. "I'm in such p...pain." He barely managed to get the line out before he was overcome with laughter. Crabbe and Goyle predictably started laughing along with him, Harry honestly wasn't sure if the two found the joke to be funny or if they were just laughing along with Malfoy because that's what they felt like they were supposed to do.
"I don't even know why you're pretending, everybody here knows you're faking," Harry growled.
"Yeah, well maybe I am," Draco smirked before he gave Harry the finger with the hand that was attached to the arm that was apparently injured. "what are you going to do about it?"
"I can go and tell Professor McGonagall," Harry hummed thoughtfully before he quickly reached out and snatched off Malfoy's sling. "or maybe I could just break your arm so you're actually injured."
Harry threatened, feeling Venom grow excited at that possibility.
"You threatening me, Potter? I would be careful, there's nobody else here to save you." Malfoy glared pulling his wand out with the supposedly injured arm, Harry glared back but internally he was smirking.
'I told you, just get the ponce to get angry.' Harry mentally told Venom.
'And I told you we should have just eaten him.' Venom retorted.
'Is that your solution for everything?'
'Yes
"What are you going to do, Malfoy?" Harry snorted, and gave Malfoy an unimpressed look while Crabbe and Goyle pulled their wands out. "Going to drop your wand and run to Snape telling him that the big, bad Harry Potter broke your wrist? No, wait, let's see if you can get 'Daddy' over here as well. Maybe if you're lucky he can bring the Minister with him, after all, that's your style, isn't it?
You run your mouth and annoy everyone else and then hide behind everyone else?"
"I'll show you!" Malfoy hissed as he aimed his wand at Harry along with Crabbe and Goyle. Malfoy began an incantation for his spell when he felt his wand get ripped out of his hand. Malfoy blinked as his wand along with Crabbe and Goyle's flew out of the air and into the open hand of Granger who was pointing her wand at the trio. "What do you think you're doing?! Give me my wand back, you disgusting little mudblood!"
"Mr Malfoy!" A voice boomed as Professor McGonagall walked down the hallway towards them, though Malfoy couldn't help but notice that walking alongside the deputy headmistress was Hermione Granger. His gaze snapped towards the Granger standing next to Potter.
"Polyjuice?!" He gaped at her.
"Not really," Granger smiled before she suddenly changed back into Tonks. Malfoy's face quickly shifted into a look that could be described as horrified, Tonks sent Harry a wink and a smile.
"That will be twenty-five points from Slytherin and a detention for that horrid word," Professor McGonagall barked as she stopped in front of them along with Hermione. "now, what is going on here?!" She demanded, turning to face Tonks.
Harry couldn't help but grin as Tonks began explaining everything to Professor McGonagall.
'I feel like we should do something nice for Tonks.' Harry thought to Venom.
'Hmm, perhaps we should buy her some chocolate.' Venom suggested.
By the end of the day, Harry was in bed, a smile on his face as he thought about what had happened. Tonks hadn't held back when explaining everything to Professor McGonagall, she told the old professor everything from Malfoy not listening to Hagrid and him faking his injury and drawing his wand on all of them, it really helped that this was an auror that was explaining everything to Professor McGonagall, Harry knew she was far less likely to believe it coming from himself. Professor McGonagall had gone to Hagrid and Madam Pomfrey to confirm that Draco had indeed disobeyed orders and that his arm was perfectly fine. Needless to say, Professor McGonagall was less than pleased.
Malfoy's life would probably get a lot harder given the high amount of points that he had lost, not to mention the full month of detentions that he had to attend. There were the twenty-five points he lost for swearing, he and his goons lost fifteen each for drawing their wands on other students with the intent to harm, he had lost fifty points for disobeying instruction on how to approach a dangerous magical creature, forty points for faking an injury and Professor McGonagall was now petitioning for Malfoy to be removed from the Slytherin quidditch team since his action had caused the other three houses problems since Snape had arranged for the order of matches to be changed around due to Malfoy being 'unable' to compete because of his injury.
All in all, it was a pretty great day if you weren't Malfoy. Harry believed that it was only Draco's father and Snape that had stopped the older Slytherins from giving Draco a well-deserved beating, either way, Slytherin house was not happy about already being in the negatives despite it still being the first week of school.
'Are we going to do something about the rat?' Venom's voice interrupted Harry's thoughts.
'What?' Harry blinked.
'The rat, the one with the stupid name, are we going to do anything about it?' Venom asked. Harry frowned before realising what Venom was talking about.
'Oh, you mean Scabbers?' Harry asked, glancing towards Ron's bed. The redhead was asleep while his rat slept in the cage that Ron kept him in.
'Yes, what are we going to do about it?' Venom asked.
'I don't know, I'm not exactly sure what there is to do about it,' Harry admitted as he closed his eyes. 'all you've told me about it is that it gives you a weird feeling and it has emotions that seem human. What are the chances that it's simply just a smart rat? Like how Hedwig's a smart owl?'
'No, it's different,' Venom insisted.
'Either way, it's not like we can actually do anything until we know,' Harry replied. 'because I'm not going to mess around with my mate's rat unless I definitely know something is wrong.'
'Hmm, fine," Venom said after a short pause.
A.N: Hi guys, hope you liked the chapter.
First of all, I just want to say that I am amazed at how many people are begging/asking for Harry to go full Venom and straight-up eat heads, I honestly don't know how to feel about the majority of my audience wanting me to make a thirteen-year-old boy start to eat heads. I don't know if that says more about my audience or the people in the Harry Potter universe.
Got to be honest though, I'm just loving the fact that you guys are even remotely interested in this.
Now, to disappoint some people, Harry will not instantly go full Venom. In my experience, Venom slowly influences his host's personality over time and gradually makes changes until the person is unrecognisable (unless that person is Eddie Brock), that's what he does with Peter Parker and it's what he's going to do with Harry. I want to write a full-blown venomised Harry just as much as you guys want to read about one, but for me, it doesn't make sense if it happens instantly.
Think about it, canon Harry was far more forgiving than any regular person would be, he tried to save Draco around the end and even forgave Snape. It doesn't make sense for me to have a character that's just as stubborn and pure as Peter Parker not put up a fight against an alien that's trying to change him. So if Venom wants Harry then he's going to have to do his best to convince Harry that his way is the right way.
Anyway, thanks for reading, and chapter 15 of this story is already up on pat-reon, if anybody is interested in joining then just go on the pat-reon website and search JB21, if not then that's fine because you'll still be able to read the same as my patrons, they just get it earlier than everybody else.
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