Chapter XVII: The real beginning

October 31 of 1991, Great Hall 8:00 pm

Harry Potter's POV

It was dinner time in the great hall, the decoration was amusing, a thousand live bats fluttered from the walls and ceiling while a thousand more swooped over the tables in low black clouds, making the candles in the pumpkins stutter. The feast suddenly appeared on the golden plates, all of it seemed enticing to the eyes and usually, I would be excited about this but after what happened today, I lost much of my appetite.

After what happened after Charms class, neither Hermione nor Yozora showed up for class and weren't seen all afternoon. I asked one of the few friends that Yozora had in Slytherin about his whereabouts, but he didn't know either where he was and soon enough, I heard that he was outside of the girl's bathroom trying to console a crying Hermione that wanted to be left alone and he just waited in the outside.

A part of me wanted to run in this very instant to console my first female friend ever, but I feel quite hesitant since I didn't know how to help her and another part of me felt guilty that I didn't stop Ron before he said that about her. I knew that Ron wasn't fond of Hermione that has quite a bossy personality or Yozora just because he is from Slytherin. Both have contradictory personalities, yet they have quite hanged along pretty well, maybe because both are smart, the smartest in the year if I am not wrong.

I looked at Ron who still has an uncomfortable expression on his face. Honestly, I feel complicated about this since with me Ron is a very good friend, and share some interests in common, but he acts like an idiot sometimes especially when Yozora is around. I once asked Yozora for a piece of advice since I wanted to be friends with both and make Ron see that Yozora is not a bad person but Yozora well he…

"Huh? You know that just because we are friends doesn't mean Ron and I must be friends. He doesn't like me and that's fine, you can't be liked by everyone even if that one is the great me hahaha" Or so he said… honestly sometimes I wonder how someone as smart as him acts like a fool most of the time.

As I was eating when Professor Quirrell came running into the hall with terror shown pretty clearly on his face. Everyone stared as he reached Professor Dumbledore's chair, slumped against the table, and yelled. "Troll… in the dungeons… thought you ought to know." After that, the Professor fell to the floor in a dead faint.

Everyone started to scream in fear. It took some purple firecrackers exploding from the end of Professor Dumbledor's wand to bring silence. "Prefects, Lead your houses back to the dormitories immediately." The professor instructed.

Percy the prefect and Ron's brother order everyone to stick together and follow him.

"How could a troll get in? This doesn't make sense they are very stupid." I didn't understand how it was possible and something feels fishy about the situation.

And as I was climbing the stairs, I realized something. "Hermione and Yozora don't know about the troll." And as I tried to leave the crown someone grabbed my arm.

"What are you doing," Ron asked me.

"Hermione and Yozora weren't in the hall so they don't know about the troll," I said as I freed my arm from Ron's grip.

Ron bit his lip. "All right, I'll go with you."

I raised my eyebrow at his words. "Thought that you didn't like the."

"I don't, but I don't want them dead," Ron said with some guilt in his voice.

I just nodded at Ron's words and we started to mix up with the Hufflepuffs going the other way without them noticing it, after a little, we deserted to the side and hurried towards the girl's toilet. But we hide as we heard some footsteps behind us.

"Percy" hissed Ron.

We were looking around but instead of finding Percy there was Professor Snape instead of going to the dungeon was taking the stairs and heading to the third floor. 'Why is he going there' I thought to myself, but I decided to ignore it since I didn't have time for that.

We ran as fast as we could and as soon as we reached the passage where the toilets have located a smell invaded our noses, a metallic smell that I was very familiar with after Uncle Vernon 'taught' me a lesson when about not being a 'freak'.

"Oh no," Ron muttered as pale as the Bloody Baron.

"Hurry up" I yelled in a panic thinking of the worst possible outcome.

"Hermione! Yozora!" Both of us said together as we ran as fast as we could.

Once we entered, we saw something that I possibly won't forget in my entire life.

The entire room was a mess with splitters of wood all around the place, and some porcelain fragments around. Hermione was sobbing in the corner and besides some dust on her gown and dirt on her face, she was perfectly fine without a scratch on her body. But on the other side of the room, there was a troll over a puddle of what seemed his own blood with multiple wounds around its body, and beside it was Yozora standing with bloodied hands looking at the troll with a bored expression on his face.

"The bloody hell happened here," Ron screamed with some fear in his voice.

That made Yozora realize that we were present in the room, and he looked at us and his facial expression changed suddenly giving a wry smile. "Would you believe me if I said that the troll fell on his own?"

After hearing that my eyes twitched a little bit. 'Yeah, he is fine.'

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A few moments earlier.

Yozora's POV

It took me a lot to convince Hermione to come out of the toilet cubicle, but after some pep talks and bad jokes, I was successful.

"So Hermione doesn't feel bad about someone who doesn't like you, you can have good grace with everyone especially now, that kids think that being smart is dumb but at the end of the day when you become a successful person you will see that it was worth it."

"You don't understand Yozora, is not just Ron." Said Hermione quieting down. "Almost everyone avoids me as if I was a pest, different from you not everyone likes me."

I know that this is serious talk, but I couldn't help but crackle at her words. "Hahaha, good one Hermione. But for your information, I am the most hated person in my house. From first-year to senior-year students, almost everyone hates me."

Hermione's eyes widened at my words. "Why are you laughing as if that was not important."

"Cause is not," I said to the girl. "Look, you must learn to not care about what everyone thinks about you. I mean while is important to have good PR, if you try to please everyone at the end of the day you will restrict yourself from a lot of things and there will be people that would not like you either way, so it's better to do what you want."

Hermione nodded at my words. "I understand I will try to follow your advice." The girl said with a small smile "By the way, is that the reason why you always act like a fool?" She asked with a small smirk on her face.

I chuckled at her question "Nah, I am just a weirdo but since you are a lot better let's go to have some dinner, or else Ron will eat everything."

Both of us laughed at that but it didn't last long as suddenly I started to hear heavy steps outside the bathroom and soon a creature over 3 meters tall with greyish skin, with a fat-looking body but if you inspect it a little bit more you can see that behind all the fat there is a lot of muscle and his legs were full with spikes that looked like horns, his head was tiny very unproportionate respectively with his whole body and with one of his hands was holding a huge wooden club was in front of the bathroom entrance.

'Shit I thought that I had more time.' I cursed to myself.

"Oooo!" The troll growled as he swung his club toward our direction.

"Aaaaa" Hermione screamed in fear while crouching down while protecting her head with her hands.

I could easily avoid this, but Hermione may not, so I grabbed her and used Sonido to move to the other side of the room. Hermione looked confused about how we moved so fast but I didn't have time for explanations. "Hermione, I will take care of the troll, just wait here."

"Are you mental!?" She yelled with anger. "You the troll will kill you.!"

I decided to ignore her for the moment since different from 3rd rate villains of a xianxia novel, the troll would not wait till we end our monologue.

I used Sonido once more and stood on the left side of the troll and kicked on the ankle in a part that wasn't covered by the horn-like protuberance. His skin was hard but compared with punching metal it was nothing.

"Arrrg!" The troll screamed in pain as his ankle cracked and in his agony, he swung his club once more in all directions breaking a lot of the furniture in the room.

Using simple footwork to evade the aleatory movements was too easy, but once the troll regained some of his composure he gazed at me with eyes full of hatred and with all his strength swung his club trying to squash me.

A simple vertical swing nothing noteworthy so just moved slightly to the right to evade the club and once it made contact with the floor the strength behind that broke many tiles. Once his momentum I brought my back foot down first before slamming my front-most foot down punching the troll in his wrist with strength that would seem impossible for someone of my complexion.

The only sound that could be heard was the sound of the bones of the troll being broken and once again the troll screamed in pain dropping the club on the floor. I didn't want to give rest to the troll and took two black keys out of Armiger and moved behind the panting troll and severed its tendons.

The troll tried to stand but soon enough his legs gave up falling backward on the floor and destroying some of the washbasins. I threw the black keys into the troll's shadow, he tried to free himself but his struggles were futile as his magic resistance wasn't high enough.

I looked at the troll and noticed that his wounds were healing at a fast rate so just to be safe… I punched the troll's ugly face to knock him out but doing that made some of the blood sprain into my robes. I could have easily killed him, but I didn't want to show a gory scene to an eleven-year-old girl.

'This was my first "real" fight with something of this world and it was disappointing, to say the least, but it was somewhat expected, after all, this creature was defeated by an eleven-years-old boy that barely knew how to use magic in the original work, I hope seasoned wizards become a better challenge.' I thought to myself but my inner monologue was interrupted by a boy screaming.

"What the bloody hell, happened here?" Ron screamed at the top of his lungs.

I smiled wryly at them. "Would you believe me if I said that the troll fell on his own?" I said trying to make the ambient less awkward, but I failed miserably.

"Yozora be serious for once! Tell us how did this happen!? Harry shouted with some annoyance in his voice.

I smiled wryly at that. 'Looking at him, it's obvious that he ran as fast as he could and me joking in this kind of situation made him snap. Maybe I should treat him more seriously from now on.' "Sorry Harry, I will tell you about it later, first I need to check how Hermione is." After I said that Harry nodded at my words as he also was worried about her.

I turned around to look for Hermione but suddenly I felt punching me on the side.

"Idiot, you could have gotten yourself killed!" Hermione yelled at me as he punched me again "If you are that fast, why didn't you run instead of foolishly fighting the troll." The girl said between sobs.

I looked at the girl who was still in shock after what happened here, for me this was at best a warmup as my daily spars with Gramps, someone that can destroy a building with one of his punches in comparison to a troll is not a big deal. "Sorry, but at that moment I thought that it was the best choice. But believe me when I say that I was never in danger." I said as I patted the girl's head making her calm down a little bit.

"Is the troll dead?" Ron asked interrupting the awkward situation, and for the first time, I thanked him internally.

"No, he is just knocked out I didn't want to…" But as I tried to explain to Ron loud footsteps changed our attention to the entrance of the room. A moment later, Professor McGonagall had come bursting into the room, followed by Professor Snape, Quirrellmort following behind still making his stupid act, and… Dumbledore?

Professor Snape bent over to inspect the troll, Dumbledore was looking around but stared quite a lot at the severed part of the troll, and Professor McGonagall was looking at us with an infuriated expression on her face. "What on Merlin's name were you thinking off?" said Professor McGonagall with cold fury in her voice. "You're lucky you weren't killed. Why aren't you in your dormitory?"

Snape gave a piercing look at Harry and me. "It seems that arrogance is deep-rooted in your family Potter." Professor Snape said with a sneer. "And to think that one of my students would be as foolish to follow you. Such a disappointment."

Harry stared at the Professor with clear irritation at his words but before he could say anything Dumbledore intervened. "Don't berate the students so soon Severus, let's hear them maybe they have a reasonable explanation of why they are here." Said Dumbledore with his usual grandfatherly tone.

"For starters, can somebody explain to me why a troll was inside the castle? And why are all berating all of us?" I asked even if I knew the whole situation, after all, it would be suspicious if nobody explain things.

Dumbledore nodded at my words and started to explain. "How the troll entered the walls of the castle is still to be discovered, Professor Quirrell spotted him in the dungeons and warned all of us about it in the great hall. So, I instructed all the students to return to their dormitories. But you would know that if you were present in the feast."

"It true that neither Hermione nor I were present in today's feast but I would rather not tell you the reason behind that without her consent," I said as I look at Ron and Hermione. "So, Harry and Ron came here to warn us about the troll, but unlucky for Hermione and I the troll came here, so I had to handle the troll by myself," I explained vaguely as I didn't want to explain too much.

All the present Professors looked at me with disbelief expressions on their faces, since from their perspective first-year students can't handle a troll, but the evidence was in front of them as they looked at the troll in a dire state.

This time Professor Snape was the first one to talk. "And how exactly were you able of making this exploit?" He asked while staring at the troll "By the look of some of the remaining wounds of this creature, there are bone fractures on the right hand and left ankle, as well as deep cuts on the leg tendons. So, enlighten us Mr. Hoshimura, how someone of your age was capable of producing such kind of wounds to a troll."

Everyone's gaze was on me, well except for Hermione that was present when everything happened. Everyone wanted to know how things happened especially Dumbledore since he wanted to get more information about me. The fool thinks that I wouldn't realize that he has been stalking me.

"Sorry is a family secret," I said bluntly but it didn't have a positive reaction from the rest of the people in the room.

"Mr. Hoshimura, usually I would bypass your eccentricities since they are for the most time unharmful, but this is a serious matter!" Said Professor McGonagall in vexation with my answer.

I looked her directly in the eyes and started to explain myself. "I am being serious Professor McGonagall how I did things is a family secret and I don't want to, nor am I allowed to say anything. After all the problem has been resolved so there is no need for me to expose it." I gave a half-ass reason since I really don't want them to give explanations of my abilities.

Everyone frowned at my reply, but I didn't care about it, but weirdly enough Dumbledore wasn't annoyed at all, he even wasn't looking at me his gaze was directed to Hermione but after a few seconds his expression suddenly changed, and looked at me with bewilderment and as soon his eyes met mine, I realized what he did.

An uncomfortable feeling started to peer in my head as if someone was pocking my brain, but soon enough the ring of the Lucii started to work and the feeling disappeared in an instant. But with that feeling gone, Dumbledore frowned and some slight of pain could be seen on his face.

'This son of a bitch! I knew that in he would try something like this eventually but not this soon. I was naive thinking that unless something big happened he wouldn't try to pry on my mind, but what I didn't take into consideration was that he would try to read someone else's mind first that was a nob mistake. But I have to endure this for the sake of the mission… Wait I moment, I don't have to do a shit! Fuga doesn't give a fuck about the plot with the exception of Voldemort's death, he wants me to create mayhem. For my convenience, I can't dispose of Dumbledore right now for various reasons, but it doesn't mean that I can't retaliate against him'

"Professor Snape I need to contact the ministry in this very instant," I spoke in a cold tone surprising everyone in the room as I never had talked like that in their presence and confusing almost everyone except for Dumbledore.

"Hoshimura, don't be childish" Professor Snape replied. "If it's for the incident with the troll, the institute will make a deep investigation. But if this is about your so-called secrets, I think that the ministry has better things to do than, hearing a child complaining."

I snorted at the professor's words. "Is that so? Well for starters while I am quite displeased that a troll could enter the so-called 'safest place on the earth'" Said the last part with derision. "Or my secrets. But the reason I WILL talk with the ministry is that a professor had the audacity of using Legilimency with not one but two students! So tell me professor Snape is that reason enough to talk with the ministry?"

Everyone had different reactions to my words, Quirrellmort on the outside looked like a bundle of nerves but on the inside, he was amused that I realized what Dumbledore did, Professor McGonagall had an incredulous look on her face as she couldn't believe that a professor would do something like that, Professor Snape was somewhat curious as he knew whom I was referring but he was surprised that someone of my 'age' knows about that dark art and Dumbledore…

"Yozora my boy I can assure you that this is all a misunderstanding is not necessary to escalate things out of the confines of Hogwarts," Dumbledore said since he didn't want outside interference.

"Albus! How could you do that to our students!" Said professor McGonagall with cold fury behind her words. "Even if you are the headmaster, this is inexcusable!"

"Huh? A misunderstanding you say?" I said interrupting the professor. "So, you accidentally pried on a student's mind by accident?" I said with disdain in my voice. "Forgive me if I don't believe you, Professor Dumbledore."

"Mr. Hoshimura, I understand that you might be upset about what Professor Dumbledore did, but I am sure we can reach some sort of agreement." Said Professor McGonagall trying to de-escalate the situation.

"Minerva is right Yozora, I swear that I didn't have any ill intention towards you or the other students involved. But you must understand that in this situation I didn't have any other choice. It was all for everyone's well-being."

"Road to hell is paved with good intentions, Professor Dumbledore." I sneered at him "So no matter what you say you won't change my mind."

As pitiful as I sound there is a meaning behind my actions besides the fact that I don't like him. First, it seems that he already knows of the background that Fuga gave me, and even if he doesn't know the full story, I know that he at least knows what happened with the heir before me, so I am either on his blacklist or his "for the greater good list" which one is worse? I don't know, but from the very start our relationship was meant to be a hostile one, so I might use this chance to stand my ground against him and second this is a very good opportunity to complete one of the objectives on the mission list.

Dumbledore just sighed helplessly since he realized that I wouldn't back down, no that he cares since his position in the wizard community and the ministry, at best from his perspective is just a minor annoyance. Fool if only he knew.

"Very well Mr. Hoshimura." Said Dumbledore with fake disappointment in his voice. "Severus, please take him to your office so he can make the official complaint."

"Understood." Said Professor Snape with his usual tone, but I could see that he somehow was delighted at the situation. It seems that they are not on the best terms. "Follow me Hoshimura."

I nodded at him and turned around to look at Harry and Hermione who were silent all the time. "Well, it seems that my explanation will have to wait, see you, tomorrow guys."

"See ya." Said Harry who was uncomfortable with the situation.

"Thank you for today Yozora and be careful." Said Hermione that had quite complicated feelings about this situation but chose to not said anything in front of everyone.

"Any time, Hermione," I said to the girl with a small smile. And when I was about the red-headed boy talked to me.

"Wait! Before you leave if it means anything… Sorry." The boy said with some shame in his voice.

"You are apologizing to the wrong person, but apology accepted, it seems that I was not wrong with you," I said giving him a genuine smile. "And thanks for coming by the way."

"Hoshimura don't waste my time." Professor Snape interrupted our talk. Well, I forgot for a moment about him.

"Yes, sorry Professor," I said with a wry smile. "Please lead the way."

'Just wait Dumbledore, this will be my first step to make all your plans crumble and show the world how pathetic you really are.'

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Hello, niece and nephew is uncle Author and I hope you enjoyed the chapter.

So Yozora doesn't give a fuck about the plot anymore, I mean why would he? Following the plot is for weak people hahaha. But jokes aside there is a meaning behind this from his perspective. Also, I found it kind of boring following the plot at 100%, so from now on the story will start to diverge from the canon. I will not say that all the events will be different but there will be major changes so wait for them. Also, I wanted to thank everyone since we reached over 200,000 reads! Hahaha, it made me happy to realize that a lot of people well at least from my perspective are reading this.

And with nothing else to say, thanks for reading this chapter and if you like this ff, please leave a review it would help me a lot so more people start reading it. Also, leave a comment with your thought and maybe a stone or two hahaha.

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