When they all sat at their respective house tables Dumbledore stood up and began his ridiculus speech.
"Another year has passed and now the awarding of the house cup follows. In fourth place Griffindor with 312 points. In third place, Hufflepuf with 352 points.
In second place, Ravenclaw with 426 points and in first place, Slytherin with 472 points" Dumbledore said.
Besides him Snape was clapping proudly but Dumbledore wasn't finished.
"Yes, yes, well done Slytherin. Well done, Slytherin. However recent events must be taken into account and I have a few last-minute points to award" Dumbledore droned on and professor snape shot him a suspicious glare.
"To Miss Hermoine Granger for the cool use of her intellect while others were in great danger, I award Gryffindor 50 points. Second to Mister Ronald Weasley for the best played game of chess that Hogwarts has seen this many years, 50 points. Third to Mistef Harry Potter, for pure nerve and outstanding courage, I award Gryffindor house 60 points. And finally, it takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies but an even greater deal to stand up to your friends.I award 10 points to Neville Longbottom. Assuming my calculations are correct I believe a change of decoration is in order" Dumbledore said and clapped.
Honestly Orion didn't care about the house cup but this was utter bullshit.
Before Dumbledore could open his mouth again he stood up and shouted "I object".
Everyone in tbe great hall turned to bim and even Dumbledore paused.
"How ridiculus is this? They get points for beeing smart, reckless and winning a fucking chess match" he went on "I challenge Ron Weasley to a chess match for those undeserved 50 points"
Angered shouts came from the Griffindor table but Dumbledore calmed them down with a gesture of his hand.
"Well I suppose fairness is in order. If you can beat mister Weasley in a chess match fair and square those points are indeed undeserved don't you think so Headmaster?" Snape got the cue and provoked Dumbledore.
"Well... I suppose we could do that if nobody objects" he said and immediately protests came from the Griffindor table but was silenced by the collective cheers of the other houses. They were fourth place after all. They couldn't just take those hard earned points like dirt.
Dumbledore sighed and conjured a chess set "Ron Weasley, do you accept the challenge?"
Ron just smirked confidently "you're on!"
Dumbledore conjured a beautiful chess set on the front of the ravenclaw table and Flitwick projected some kind of hologramm in the air for everyone to see their moves. Ron and Orion took their seats at the chess set.
"Since I am the challenger you get to play as white" Orion said graciously "good luck, you will need it".
"You wish" Ron said and played a typical queen's pawn opening. Needlessly to say, the whole match was a farce. Ron was good alright but nowhere near the level of deserving those 50 points. Besides Orion had practiced Occlumency for a few years now without missing a single day and simply had an advantage in thinking ahead. He structured his brain to work like a computer and he calculated each move in a fraction of a second. While Ron needed to think for some moves for over a few minutes Orion followed with the next move the next second chasing him like a predator with deadly precision.
Soon the match was over "Checkmate" Orion said coldly and turned to the Headmaster "So I deserve those 50 points more right?"
Dumbledore just sighed and clapped his hands again. The decorations changed back to green and all the Slytherin's cheered.
"Bloody awesome" Malfoy said.
"They get what they deserve" Zabini said and he even saw Daphne laughing and Snape had a smile so big it was almost scary.
Needlessly to say the Gryffindors where either sulking or shooting him killing gazes...mostly the later.
Orion just laughed when he saw the sour faces of the Gryffindors especially Ron and Harry. He also spotted Mordred and Neville and shouted "no hard feelings, but I am just awesome".
The two just shook their head and laughed at his silly antics.
Laughing he went down to the station with Neville and Mordred.
"Oh you did Dumbledore dirty, did you see his face haha just hilarious" Mordred laughed.
"Or Ron, that poor sod looked like he ate one of your smelly socks" Neville said and laughed.
Mordred just tried to argue "they don't smell that bad".
"Oh please, the Weasley twins could create a whole new collection of dung-bombs with one of your socks" Orion laughed.
They soon boarded the train and bantered the whole way to Kings Cross station.
"You need to visit, my gran and my parents want to thank you personally for the potion you created. Thanks to you they are back to normal and I can finally get to know them" Neville said.
"Sure we'll visit around the end of summer break. Before that I have some things to do and you should spend some quality time with your parents" Orion said.
"Aren't they your parents?" Mordred asked and pointed at a pair of three people.
"Yes...I...I'm kind of nervous. I mean they never met me...what if I am not like they thought I would be" Neville stuttered nervously.
"Breathe Neville breathe" Orion said "They are your parents. They love you more than you can even imagine.Trust me you mean the world for them.So let's go meet them".
Neville nodded confidently and ran to his family. Orion and Mordred followed to watch this lovley family reunion.
"You know...sometimes like these times I miss mother. Sure she was strict and demanding and a bit crazy but she always cared for us..." Mordred said a bit sadly.
Fortunately Orion was spared of the ankward discussion with his brother as Alice Longbottom mentioned for them to come to them.
Even if Orion had memories about his mother, he transmigrated after the failed ritual so he was completly devoid of affection towards his mother in this life. Althrough he admired her a bit. The grimoires and the research she did was simply amazing.
"Mom, these are my friends, Mordred Pendragon and Orion LeFay" Neville introduced them beaming brighter than the sun.
"Nice to meet you Miss Longbottom" Orion greeted and also nodded to the other adults.
The eyes of the old woman with her horrible fashion sense lit up "oh you are that genius potion master" she said and shook his hand "I can't say how grateful I am that you brought my son and Alice back. If there is anything you need help with in the future just ask".
"Thank you Miss Longbottom I will remember that" Orion said and smiled.
"Oh call me Augusta you two. Neville told me you will come over in the holidays. You are more than welcome" she said and finally let go of his hand.
Frank and Alice also stepped forward and bowed to him "we would also like to thank you, thanks to you we get to see our baby son again" Frank said and looked at Neville lovingly.
"I am not a baby" Neville protested "I am twelve already"
"I am glad my inventions are of such great help to you" Orion said modestly.
"We'll see you at the award ceremony for the order of merlin of this lovley brother of mine. Have fun with your parents Nev" Mordred said and called "Flik!"
The bouse elf of my brother popped up in front of them "now thake me to that awesome castle my brother was bragging about".
Orion turned and winked at the Longbottom family before he was teleported right in front of the gates of Camelot.
"Rose!" Orion called and a female house elf popped up besides them "give him the secret".
"This is the same old forest we..." Mordred started but was interrupted by the house elf.
"Camelot is here" she said and Mordred eyes widened.
"Hahahah this is really awesome"