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Chapter 12

After breakfast, Harry went to the Classroom of History of Magic.

And it turns out that the ghost of the teacher doesn't allow children to take their seats before the class.

'I can bet that he does that punctual nonsense thing where he opens the doors at a very specific time…'

And so, the young Peverell had to wait outside the classroom for the class…

Not long after his arrival, other Ravenclaws started to gather.

"Are you ready for Magic History?" One of the claws asked his fellow one.

"I wish, I heard the Professor for this one is a ghost." The other one said with a sigh.

There is not that much hope for this class, most claws are knowledge seekers, so it's a big loss for them if the teacher is some droning ghost who recall stuff he read from a book.

There is a bunch of theories about the ghost, from the conspiracy theory that Purebloods keeping the ghost so that it could affect what Muggleborn learn about the Magical world to the point that they just don't care about this at all…

As more and more Ravenclaws have gathered, not long after the green dressed Slytherin started to appear in large groups, unlike the claws, the snakes gather in groups of four to five.

In other words gang strategy…

Few minutes later a distinctive blonde with two 'bodyguards' approached Harry.

"So, you are Potter, I have heard some interesting things about you, my name is Malfoy...Draco Malfoy." The blonde extended his hand in greeting.

Unlike how the book Harry did, this one took the hand, for the simple reason that he knows how to deal with this kid.

"Harry Potter, I have heard of you too Heir Malfoy, I heard your family has been around since Norman Invasion in Eleven Century."

Harry words instantly took over the theme of conversation as Malfoy quickly inflated and puffed his chest. so, easy...

"So, you know? Good! That means you know some families are better than others! I just want to warn you about that!"

'So in his unique blonde pounce way, he cares with who I am keeping contact with? What a good friend…' Sarcastically Harry thought about this.

"Yes, I know that much, since your family has close to 900 years of magical history you know some rare and incredible spells right?" Harry curiously asked the blonde.

Malfoy quickly stiffed hearing that, he didn't know how to answer that.

"N-Not yet! Father wanted me to learn basics first before he starts to teach me family spells!" The blonde said spoke with slowly returning confidence. The young Malfoy was impressed by his own genius!

"Makes senses, I can understand his reluctance, magic can be quite volatile," Harry said while slowly nodding, he can understand what Draco means, not that he can see through the blond lie, but he is playing along it's quite fun…

"Yes! Since you already know, I don't need to tell you, I will speak to you later Potter." Malfoy turned around and left with his two gorilla bodyguards.

Not long after three another Slytherins have approached him, unlike the previous three these were different, for one, two of them were females…

"You are quite scary Potter…" The girl with glasses and brown curly hair said with some awe in her voice, she was impressed how he has delved with the blonde ponce.

"And you are quite a cute thing, Davis…" He answered with a eyes roll.

Tracey's eyes widened for a second, a blush crept to her cheeks.

"I-I-I… *Sigh* this one is your win…" She said that with realisation.

Potter was messing with her and she fell for it!

The other two Slytherin next to her realised what just happened and started laughing, well the blond just softly giggled, while the Italian looking guy didn't hold back.

Tracey pouted at her friends who 'betrayed' her to a Ravenclaw!

"Nonetheless, the way you handled Malfoy was beautiful to watch, I have never seen him… that out of his element!" The blonde said with quite an amused look.

"Sad to say that it's not difficult to do, Malfoy is proud of his lineage and it's easy to mess with that since there is nothing for him to show of that lineage," Harry said with a casual shrug.

"Malfoys are one of most influential families in Wizarding World." The blonde said with a raised eyebrow, she doesn't understand what Harry meant by his previous words.

"You mean they have gold? How that makes him a powerful wizard? Muggles have money too, they have more gold than the whole wizarding world, it doesn't make them magical though does it?" Harry words hit her like a hammer into a gut.

"Even so, their money give them influence in ministry." The blonde said her point.

And Harry just sighed at her shortsightedness.

He pulled out a paper from somewhere, something which was not missed by the group.

With a casual wave of his hand, the piece of paper turned into a blob of... something.

Then it shrunk in size and turned golden, a moment later it transformed into a piece of gold and took a form of a Snake.

He then handed over to the blonde girl whose eyes were wide like saucers.

"A True Noble Magical family doesn't care about material things because we wield magic, Greengrass, we can bend reality to do our bidding, you should know that better than anyone as you come from old magical family," Harry explained to her and the girl started to understand what he truly means by that.

"What I have seen so far from this Wizarding World is a sad copy of muggle society, we wield magic yet we go our way to copy muggles as much as possible, that's just utterly sad." Harry shook his head in disappointment.

At this moment the three Slytherin understood what Harry meant, they understood his angle and then started to see the patterns in pretty much everything…

After this simple talk, Harry was left alone as the trio of Slytherins were in deep thought.

The most affected by this was Daphne Greengrass who is Heiress of Most Ancient and Noble House of Greengrass.

With her family history going all the before Roman Empire even took over Britain.

A very old family, and yet she has nothing to show of it…

Yes her Ancestral family house has one of the most powerful wards in Britain but that doesn't make the family knowledgeable in magic.

The girl definitely will be contacting her family after this, she needs answers! Otherwise, she will feel lost!

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Few minutes later everyone was able to enter the class, just as Harry has thought the ghost Professor did allow everyone to enter at a specific time.

The classroom was utterly a mess, with a bunch of seats and tables already transfigured into beds or some comfortable looking seats.

Bunch of Ravenclaws and Slytherin who saw this for the first time looked utterly shocked by what they saw.

This is a classroom? It looked more like a nap room!

More serious first years went over and took their seats at proper looking tables while others… like Malfoy he took the proper looking bed.

Soon enough, the ghost did some simple introduction and started to drone something about Goblin rebellions…

Some kids complained that it's not the first-year coursebook!

Not that it mattered as Ghost ignored their complaints and simply told that Goblin rebellion is more important as they hold everyone money…

By this point, Harry realised that the ghost doesn't give a flying fuck about anything else he just continues to monologue.

He waited for another ten minutes and pulled out his laptop…

"Potter what are you doing?" The blonde sitting next to him asked with raised eyebrow, she was even somewhat scandalised by his actions!

"Some work Greengrass, I am not wasting my time on something which is not even in this year's curriculum." He said with an eye roll while pulling out his technomancy kit and his Magic Pod.

"What if the ghost complains? Or report you to Deputy Headmistress?" The girl asked with a serious voice.

"Yes… I will be in big problem while half of class does even worse thing which is sleeping?" He asked that with a deadpan voice.

Greengrass mouth instantly shut as she looked around and saw half of the class already asleep.

*Sigh*

"Point taken, this is just ridiculous…" She said that with disbelief and disappointment at all of this.

Isn't Hogwarts suppose to be the premier magical school in the world?

"I know… and I am not complaining…" Harry said that to her as he opened his Technomancy kit and took several tools out of it.

He then quickly opened the Magic Pod case and took the pieces out one by one, spreading out the content on the table of his side.

By this point, the blonde sitting next to him forgot about the boring class and focused on what Harry is doing.

She never saw such a thing in her life, the girl has heard about 'machinery' and how it's made by multiple pieces of something put together to make it work.

But, she never expected it was possible on something small like this!

What Harry was doing attracted other attention, and some of his classmates wanted to get closer to him and see what he was doing but then, the ghost reacted to that and ordered the kid to return to his seat.

So, instead, they had to look at it from distance…

While all this happened the person in question didn't bother to even look, instead he checked the pieces to see if anything has happened to them.

Fortunately, the overflow of magic did not affect the pieces too much, apart from influx into the Magic Pod pieces nothing else has happened.

To fix this quickly as possible Harry started to inscribe runic letters on the outer case, building up an anti-magical 'wall' for his music 'artefact'...

Less than twenty minutes later he was done with inscribing.

Then he quickly put the whole thing back together and connected to his laptop.

A quick check later he found out that it was working without any faults and his new way of protecting his things does work properly.

While the girl next to him was in awe seeing him doing his thing, she didn't understand what he did but it was amazing to watch, she knows that there are very few people in the wizarding world who could do such a thing.

She already heard that Harry Potter is an Artificer from all the rumour mill going around in the school, Tracey loves that stuff, and the blonde girl heard about it from her.

Artificers are a rare profession as it's quite volatile work, even more so than Alchemy. Because of that Wizarding Britain has not had one for several generations now.

Her Slytherin mind already started to cook up some plans which will make her standing in society go up if she is to make friends with him maybe Harry will need some assistance in Wizengamot in future?

After all her family is quite involved with Ministry...

Still, first she needs to find out some things from her family about what the artificer next to her said before the class.

"Here, put this in your ear."

The blond girl was snapped out of her thoughts by Harry.

"What is this?" The girl took metallic looking thing from his hand.

"It allows you to hear music directly in your ear, I want you to tell me what you think about the music quality you hear." He said that to her as he motioned to put it into her ear.

The girl curiously did so, a few moments later she started to hear music, she nearly jumped out of her chair, as she was not expected it to be that good!

Not only that but it blocks out other sounds!

"This is incredible! Do you know how much money you could make with this!?" She said the very first thing which came to her mind.

Harry just chuckled at her.

The blonde girl realised what she just said and what he said before the class…

"Even so… you could revolutionise the wizarding world with such artefacts!"

He shrugged at her.

"More importantly tell me about the music quality…" Harry asked a much more important thing.