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Chapter 14

"Here you go. I finished just on time." Harry said that with a yawn as he placed a blue laptop with a glass-like surface on the table next to the plates of food.

His words slightly confused the girl in question who looked at the table.

For a few moments, she tried to process what just happened.

"...Thanks? You… finished this overnight!?"

The black-haired girl thanked him first before realising what this means!

Harry spend the whole night working on the laptop!

"WAIT a second! You finished this overnight!?" For a moment she almost screamed but then controlled herself and instead, the girl just hissed at him angrily.

"Yeah? What the problem?" He lazily took the seat next to her. Completely ignored the fact that some people make some space for him.

He didn't even notice that they existed…

"Problem!? You didn't sleep at all! You look dead tired!" She said that now while inspecting him from different angles.

Harry realised that he is approaching his limit and he needs to take a power nap soon.

"Yeah, I am planning to nap after finishing my breakfast. Instead, check out the laptop. I am quite proud of the design I went for it." The Peverell diverted the attention from himself, towards the laptop he build.

"..."

Cho nodded at him and her eyes went the laptop her fingers slightly brushed the surface. She marvelled at the glass-like surface of this laptop it looked exquisite.

Her eyes more specifically stuck on the eagle insignia. The colour scheme was that of their house.

"Beautiful. Regardless, you won't go distract me with this!" She said with slightly narrowed eyes.

Harry just groaned for a second before starting to put the breakfast on his plate.

'Females… so annoying…'

~~~

"Alicia?"

"What?"

"What did that sausage do to you?" Katie asked curiously as she looked at how her friend was ruthlessly stabbing a sausage with her fork.

"Hmm? Oh… nothing." The blonde with a shrug stopped tormenting her food. Instead, she returned to look towards the Ravenclaw table.

"You know… if we just stay here and do nothing that claw girl will get him around her finger." Angelica said with a thoughtful look as she watched the same thing as Alicia did.

"So you suggesting we should go on the offensive?" The blond girl of the group stopped looking at the Ravenclaw table and instead looked at her friend.

"Exactly. Unless you had a change of mind?" The black-haired girl asked with a smug look. Challenging her.

*Snort*

"Don't be ridiculous. I would be a sad excuse of Gryffindor if am to back down so early." The blonde accepted the challenge.

"So what's the plan?" Katie asked with a slightly serious look. She just like her two friends doesn't like that this black-haired girl already started sinking her claws into her crush.

"We going to make our presence known. Besides, it's a good time to ask for those magic pods."

The pair nodded to Alicia's words! They want those music players!

~~~

"So what was in that letter that made you this dazed?" Tracey Davis asked her best friend who was swirling a small golden snake made from pure gold. This was the very same golden snake given to Daphne by Harry.

"Nothing much. It was simple instructions from my father to make friends with Potter."

The brown-haired girl nodded hearing that. Her eyes then went to the Ravenclaws table where more claws and members from different houses wanted to see what the Chinese girl got from Harry Potter.

It was another artefact created by him. Truth to be told, Tracey wanted to check it herself. The girl's family runs an antique shop and she knows first-hand about artefacts and how rare artificers are.

As someone who will inherit the shop and will be selling artefacts of many different backgrounds, she wants to inspect his creations and of course, become friends with him.

While Tracey was thinking about getting her hands on his stuff. Daphne on other hand was thinking about what her father sent to her.

She didn't mention to her friend that her father barely if never uses the word 'friend'. To her knowledge, he asked of her to make 'acquaintances' with Tracey and Malfoy before. But never make 'friends'.

This is why she was in a daze. Her brain is trying to conclude what this truly means to her.

'Is he thinking of coming with a betrothal contract!?'

Eventually, she realised what this could mean however, she quickly shook her head internally this was too early… however, she thought what if…

A chill went down her spine. Potter is a savant in artefact creation! as someone who first-hand saw what he can do and what is inside of those artefacts she knows that he is a beast on a level of his own.

If someone like him will become her husband then Daphne feels that she will be crushed by what he can do.

That's not even mentioning his already existing fame and other magic capacities as she heard that he single-handedly put Ravenclaws in the lead in the house cup race.

"Do you think we can get close to him? You already spend some time with him!" Tracey asked with barely hidden giddiness. The excited people who were gathering around the Ravenclaw table started affecting the brown-haired Slytherin.

Daphne could only sigh from nervousness for now she should just think about becoming friends with him.

"Oh, look! even upper-class Gryffindor are coming over!"

Tracey's words snapped Daphne as she looked back at the Ravenclaw table.

For a second the blonde had a bad feeling about this…

'Those three Gryffindor… they know him?'

The blond closely observes what is about to happen. She was like a viper watching, observing…

~~~

"Harry! You made a laptop for her but forgot us!?" Alicia said with a pout as she walked over with her two friends.

Her words make all the kids who were in the first and second year look quite wearily. They didn't expect upperclassmen to come over like this.

They usually keep to themselves… but this was Harry Potter they were talking about. Even older students are interested in him.

"Hmm? Alicia? You want Magic Pods?" Harry who was partially asleep turned his head back a little bit and noticed the blonde.

"Yep! I think those are easier to make than a laptop, right?" She reasoned with him.

"Hmm…yeah."

He agreed with her reasoning but he was tired and sleepy, his brain was already thinking of ways to hit the sack.

"I will make those with two conditions." He lazily lifted his hand and shown to the group two fingers. He wants this to be over with and he wants to nap. His eyes for a second looked at the blonde.

'She could make a great hug pillow…'

"Let's hear them."

"First, you gonna be my hug pillow." He said that with a lazy and quite sleepy tone.

His brain came to a simple conclusion…

Beautiful female with great body = great source of heat and comfortable pillow.

While his brain acted casually, the rest can't be said about the other people.

A bunch of gasps came out from the peanut gallery.

"Harry! What you even asking!?" Cho asked with a red face. Where did this come from!? This was nothing like she knows about her housemate!

"What? I need to hug something when I take my power naps. Besides she is very beautiful." Harry said that with a very simple tone. He was not beating around a bush. His comments made Alicia blush for a bit. But, this was something she has been waiting for!

While Angelica and Katie can't believe this was happening! Did that simple kiss made this possible!? Or is Potter simply half asleep while saying all that!?

"Sure thing. And the other one?" Alicia agreed with a grin! This is progressing faster than she has expected!

"To test my stuff. I need more permanent testers."

"Well that not even a request. I will gladly help with that."

"Yeah! I agree too! I-I even agree with the first one as well!" Katie quickly added herself to the mix as well.

*Sigh*

"Sure. I am in as well." Angelica said with a faked resigned sigh.

"W-What's with you three!" Cho with an embarrassed tone got the attention of three Gryffindor girls.

"What? We meet Harry on the train and became fast friends! It appears he likes me more!" Alicia with a challenging tone said that.

The black-haired girl slighly narrowed her eyes. This blonde…

"Fine! I will help Harry as well! I already part of this regardless." Cho said that with quite a smug tone as she showed the laptop she had.

This made the blonde and her group frown for a bit.

*Yawn*

"Done with food. Let's go. Let me show you three my workshop."

Harry's yawn interrupted the stand-off as he got up from his seat. He then motioned for Alicia's group to follow him.

The blond quickly forgot about the annoying Ravenclaw as she and her pair of friends started to follow the Peverell.

Cho Chang quickly did the same forgetting about the rest of the students.

This kind of behaviour baffled the student body of Hogwarts… Does the Boy-Who-Lived has four females around his finger? What kind of nonsense is this!? Some wizards have a hard time getting even a single witch interested in them! And here is an 11 year old has 4 chasing after him! Who are older than him!!!

"So um… shouldn't we follow and learn where is the mysterious workshop of Potter's?"

"You nuts? Did you see how those two witches were looking at each other!? You want to end up in that crossfire?"

"Nah… I suppose we can wait for the aftermath."

A pair of wizards discussed among themselves. They heard how Potter talked about testing out his artefact. Which sounds cool.

But for now, they gonna stay away from all that.

~~~

"Did you see that! Potter is cuddling that blonde Gryff!" Tracey said with a gobsmacked look.

"Yes… I saw that perfectly…" Daphne said with narrowed eyes. It appears Potter is…forward with his intentions even at this age. And here she thought that females mature faster.

Potter already collecting females when is just 11!!!

"So what are you going to do?"

"Hmm? Nothing. We going to see how this is going to progress."

"Eh? You sure? If he is getting close to Gryffindors then it will be harder for us to become friends with him!" The brown-haired girl pointed out the rivalries between their houses.

"I know. That is why we should approach him when there is no one around him." Daphne reasoned with her friend.

"But… you think they will leave him alone?" Her friend countered with a frown. Not seeing the possibility of him being left alone for long.

"We can always use class time to get something across." The blonde thoughtfully said to her.

"... There are not that many classes we have with Claws…"

"Thankfully, we have one where we can spend time talking," Daphne said as she remembered one peculiar class. She remembers that one quite vividly.

"Right… the one which you sit with him… but I don't think the order of sitting is established in that one," Tracey said as she remembered how her friend talked about sitting with Potter in that one class.

"Maybe, but I feel that he is one of those you like repeating things and doesn't like constant changes."

"... I see…"

Tracey was slightly baffled that her best friend already understand this much about the artificer.

Then their attention got taken away by the Deputy Headmistress and the Dumbledore himself as they just walked into the Great Hall.

From their expressions, one could see that something has happened.

Both Slytherin girls thought about their Head of House. Snape hasn't returned from Hospital Wing.

'What did Potter do to him? Rebound from Legimency usual causes prolonged headache.' Daphne thought to herself as she saw Deputy Headmistress ask about Potter at the Ravenclaw table.

'It appears he has not bad luck to dodge people when he doesn't want to talk with them.' The blonde thought with an amused smirk when she saw the frustrated Head of Gryffindor.