Harry PotterYou are my Cosmic Connection.

Chapter : 18

Draco's rage was building and he got louder. "The Malfoys are one of the most powerful families in Britain…"

Once more Hermione cut him off, that act enraging Draco even more. "Ah, so it's daddy's money that provides the power, not anything to do with blood. Then again, it was daddy's money that kept him out of Azkaban when Harry destroyed his master. Funny how that powerful pure blood running through his veins was useless against the imperious curse. You still haven't told us what this superior pure blood does that makes you so special?"

Draco was now screaming about mudblood bitches and what would happen to them, he also had his wand out. Hermione was still signalling to Harry she would deal with this. Feeling her wand slide into her hand he was holding, Harry decided to let her.

Malfoy fired the first curse but Hermione's shield sent it right back at him, along with the other two that came their way. The fight, though it barely warranted that description, was soon over as McGonagall screamed for everyone to stop.

Minerva had been waiting for her two lions outside the great hall, wanting a quiet word with them. When she heard Malfoy begin shouting, Minerva headed in that direction as quickly as possible. She arrived just as the spells began to fly, and didn't miss Severus already lurking in a classroom doorway.

"I want to know what's going on here?"

Hermione got in first. "Malfoy and his goons tried to provoke a reaction out of us. We suspect their head of house was lurking nearby to catch us fighting... Oh, hello, Professor Snape."

"Your Gryfindors are the ones who provoked this..." Snape's version of events wasn't being believed by anyone in the corridor.

Holding her wand out to her head of house, Hermione offered a suggestion. "After Professor Snape attacked Harry in that toilet, Professor Dumbledore was able to tell which spell his wand had cast last. You'll find mine cast a shield, it would be interesting to see what their wands cast."

Severus began gathering wands from his Slytherins when Minerva simply took them off him. "Mister Malfoy's detention with you clearly didn't alter his behaviour. This incident will now be investigated by the headmaster and me, and we will be assigning whatever punishments we think appropriate."

Taking Hermione's wand, Minerva demonstrated in front of Snape that it was indeed a shield charm she had cast, before returning it. "Parkinson, Nott and Crabbe, go to my office now. The headmaster and I will be there to interview you shortly. Severus, escort Malfoy and Goyle to the infirmary. Tell Poppy they are not to leave before Albus and I interview them. Potter and Granger, follow me and I'll collect the headmaster from the great hall. Oh, and Severus, my office and the infirmary are in opposite directions. Take these two there now before Mister Malfoy's teeth get any bigger and do him an injury, at least it's keeping him quiet. You really must discourage your house from using that disgusting boil curse."

Draco was whimpering in agony, his new super-sized teeth making it impossible for him to have a louder reaction to his second batch of painful boils. Goyle had been hit in the face with a reflected stinging hex so was in a fair degree of discomfort too.

Minerva walked with her two young lions and told them why she had been looking for them. "Professor Dumbledore is offering to teach all the first year Gryffindors potions, providing you two don't object to that."

This time, Harry signalled through their joined hands that he would take the lead. His answer however shocked his girlfriend nearly as much as their head of house. "I don't think that would be fair, Professor."

"Why ever not?"

"Well the holidays are only five weeks away. When we get home, both Hermione and I will be sitting down with our families to discuss whether we want to return to Hogwarts. If we don't come back, Professor Dumbledore is then left teaching that class. If this is something he wants to do anyway, then of course we have no objections about the others joining."

"What do you mean, not return? You have to return."

"We have to return? Who decided that? Are you saying Hermione and I can't transfer to another school or take our education in a different direction? I thought Hogwarts was a boarding school, are you saying it's a prison?"

"No, of course it's not a prison. Why wouldn't you return?"

"Why? How about being injured so severely that I have no memories of my first two months here. Then I was magically attacked by a senior member of staff on the same night. I might have no idea what went on in that toilet but Hermione misses nothing. Now the same boy has hurled racial abuse and magically attacked me twice, the second time with the backing of a senior member of the Hogwarts staff. Perhaps you could explain to us why we should return, because I really can't come up with any reasons."

"Your parents would have wanted you to come here..."

"I just found out on Halloween how my parents' died, I'd previously been told it was a car crash. Hermione said they were murdered trying to save me. Do you think parents, who gave their lives to save their child, would then want their child in an environment that wasn't in any way, shape or form safe? Like so many things in this castle, that just doesn't make sense."

"What would you do about school?"

"We were leaning toward hiring private tutors, or attending a school in France. Hermione already speaks the language fluently, and has certainly proven to be an excellent teacher, so could work with me on that. These options though will all have to be discussed with our families during the holidays."

"Can I ask you not to do anything hasty, and at least talk to the headmaster first?"

Harry just shrugged his shoulders. "We're here until the twenty third of December anyway, and can't make any decisions without talking it over with our families. That's our timescale but I have to say up front, Hogwarts has not impressed me so far. In the school system Hermione and I are used to, a student repeatedly hurling racial abuse at another student would see them expelled - no matter how much money their father had."

They had now reached the great hall. McGonagall left them to their breakfast and headed straight to Dumbledore, before both of them quickly headed back out.

Hermione was forced to whisper in Harry's ear. She didn't want anyone else to hear but was desperate to understand his reasoning. "What was that all about?"

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