Chapter 25 - 25. second day of school (1/2)
Awoke once again by his lovely alarm clock and doing his daily ritual of exercise shower prepare. he also had a talk with Luna about what happened yesterday, he is freely able to discuss these things with her because she has natural occulmency shields from either being a born seer or some other odd thing in her mind basically if someone tries to pry in her head all you get is a massive migraine her head is like pure chaos there's no order or direction she doesn't even need to train life is truly unfair. But besides that some of the older families of wizards, purebloods if you must train their children from the young age in occulmency. It helps to keep emotions in check and probes out of the kids minds. anyway after a bit of pouting from her about me not taking her and me explaining why, she relented I didn't want to take the chance with one of those nasty suckers being anywhere near her. my mental age may be in the 40s now but I think when I was reborn god messed with my brain and wisdom a bit we all know often times it's harder for a full grown adult to learn new things and a child picks them up rather quickly not going to go into full blown brain doctor mode cause I have no idea but I'm 100% sure puberty is going to suck. I mean I haven't really been doing many adult things unless you count working 5 jobs with my shadows adult like and trying to slowly prepare for the future. I want to have fun in all these world's and not Saitama my way through world's I want to relax take my time when the shit hits the fan I can expect myself to be right there on the front lines dodging spellfire or arrows or kunai with the Mc in any world. But for now breakfast. My attention span seems to be shot also.
breakfast goes just like yesterday except I get a letter from mom asking about how it's going and send hedwig off with a reply I continue to tease Daphne its fun to watch her icy persona crumble and poke fun at Harry about personally starting a fan club for him. He looks terrified but little does he know it comes next year. He got a letter from Hagrid apparently and invited us down to his house and asked if we would like to go I gladly accept Hagrid is a good man and often finds rare items in the forest he also loves huge monsters the more dangerous the more cute to him I've been waiting to meet the gentle giant and I want to see the infamous rock cakes I'm wondering if I could use it for some type of epic smashing weapon. Today we have double potions with the slytherins I know exactly what's going to happen and I look at Harry in pity he just looks confused. After that we have history of magic then lunch the double study time dinner followed buy astronomy I don't even know what that's a required course probably something to do with old rituals based on celestial bodies from back in they day they don't really do anymore.
now then about potions I'm actually quite interested in learning you can make huge profits off being a potion master and I have a plan to make a new friend in class and have my shadow stealthily steal a certain potions book and maybe a few others for my collection. Liu Kang my shadow number 1 has been teaching my combat gnomes in the trunk. shadow number 2 my personal assassin stays hidden in my shadow now for just incase emergencies and my other 4 shadows are prowling the forbidden forest doing whatever be it mapping out territories trying to melee acromantulas and failing or just collecting random plants that look interesting. all my shadows have my basic stats so it's pretty common I can't go on a slaughter spree with 11 year old strengths I mean I could have them just blast through with magic but then I'd have no new monster training partners besides ones in the lake and a grindylow grind sounds awful. anyway after getting my books and my potions kit Potions lessons took place down in one of the dungeons. It was colder here than up in the main castle, and would have been quite creepy enough without the pickled animals floating in glass jars all around the walls. we make our way down the to cold dank dungeons and head into class I sit down next to the one person who is probably more dangerous than Neville in the class one Nymphadora dont-call-me-that Tonks. A Metamorphmagus is a witch or wizard who has the ability to change their appearance at will, without the need for a wand, spell, or potion. which is a skill that's absolutely fascinating in my opinion. In most books she's often taken advantage of due to her ability and doesn't show her true appearance because she's ashamed she looks like her insane aunt Bellatrix Lestrange previously Black her mother's biological sister. I'll work with her on that honestly Bellatrix was always kinda hot in that super crazy way and I could always use a slightly insane maid for my castle but let's just avoid that dangerous thinking for now.
”Ryan Diggory pleasure to meet you” I said as I place down my things and give my most charming smile and offer my hand.
”Tonks just Tonks” she shakes my hand blushing slightly with her pink hair it's quite cute. I must say with my dazzling good looks even with my slight baby fat on my cheeks still I do well. after we introduce ourselves Snape, like Flitwick, started the class by taking the roll call, and like Flitwick, he paused at Harry's name Ah, Yes,” he said softly, ”Harry Potter. Our new -- celebrity.”Snape finished calling the names and looked up at the class. His eyes were black, . They were cold and empty and made you think of dark tunnels.”You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potionmaking,” he began. He spoke in barely more than a whisper, but they caught every word -- like Professor McGonagall, Snape had the gift of keeping a class silent without effort. ”As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly believe this is magic. I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses... I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death -- if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach.”
More silence followed this little speech. Hermione was on the edge of her seat and looked desperate to start proving that she wasn't a dunderhead. I waited for the upcoming catastrophe that is Harry and Hermione I'll have to fix that hand raising habit of hers. ”Potter!” said Snape suddenly. ”What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?”I don't know, sir,” said Harry. ”Let's try again. Potter, where would you look if I told you to find me a bezoar?”
Hermione stretched her hand as high into the air as it would go without her leaving her seat, Ryan just facepalmed at this teachers pet doomed to fail and Harry didn't have the faintest idea what a bezoar was.
Snape's lips curled into a sneer.
”Tut, tut -- fame clearly isn't everything.”
He ignored Hermione's hand.
”I don't know, sir.”
”Thought you wouldn't open a book before coming, eh, Potter?”
Snape was still ignoring Hermione's quivering hand.