14 14. Emo boy, Snape

Days in Hogwarts were bland. Not many interesting things happened. The troll incident still happened and to make big news he heroically saved the little girl(Hermione) by disintegrating the troll with his spell.

It must be noted that killing a forest troll is very hard, even for witches as powerful as Professor McGonagall. Alexander made sure to record the whole thing and sent it to the Daily Prophet. From there it would be reported in the next day's newspaper, but the video media didn't need to wait. Rita quickly used the clip in a news segment.

Unknown to them, the troll was not killed but just transported to the forest. If he had left it there alive then it would have been captured and later killed by the dumb ass ministry Aurors.

Inside the Gryffindor common room. Students sat around the wall with a large 52-inch Uni T.V. Alexander had donated these Uni T.V.s to each house to be put in the common room. Students grew to respect him even more since then. As it was pretty boring to stay in the common room. The Uni T.V.s were sometimes used for partying with its newly launched music channel. There was no profession of musician in the wizard world so he just played muggle songs, and surprisingly, the songs were liked by everyone. Many people even started downloading it on to their Uniphones.

Back to the Gryffindor common room. Students were watching the news. Rita was currently reporting on the troll incident.

[On T.V]

Rita: We have breaking news for everyone. We just received a video from Hogwarts about some troll incident that happened. Apparently, the Hogwarts security has become so bad that a troll easily infiltrated the castle and was able to reach the female bathroom on the third floor.

Can someone please explain how a seemingly dumb creature was able to accomplish this feat. There is clearly someone behind this but it is up to the minister of magic, Mr. Fudge, and Hogwarts headmaster, to find out.

But the good news is that no one was harmed. Truly, once a hero, always a hero. The new D.A.D.A professor, professor Universe was able to not just defeat the troll but also disintegrate it into nothingness. A big magical achievement in itself. Let me remind you. Forest trolls are magical creatures with many natural defenses against magic attacks. To achieve this kind of result. You would need to have an extreme amount of magical powers.

Let's watch the video now and you can decide for yourself.

[T.V scene ends]

"Poor troll, not even in his wildest dreams he could have guessed to meet the professor," Ron exclaimed with his eyes stuck to T.V.

Fred and George also nodded.

"He could have just, you know make it faint. *Sniff* He did not have to kill it," Hermione weakly said while sobbing.

"Oh come on, he just saved you. You should be thankful to him for saving your life. You have no idea what that troll could have done to you," Ron refuted.

"But..." She wanted to say something but realized that everyone was looking at her with irritated and scornful eyes. She shut her mouth and meekly went to bed. Well, call her unreasonable or dumb, she was still an 11-year-old girl who came from the Muggle world which was far more secure than the magical world. The death of a forest troll was possible the first death she had seen. Plus the mental trauma she received from the attack.

She spent most of the remaining night crying and finally falling asleep. She was an honest and hardworking person, plus smart. Her only weakness was that she wanted to be accepted by other people and for that, she tried to change herself many times. Not realizing that you cannot fit a square in a triangle. She was supposed to go to Ravenclaw claw, where she could have met people like her.

But she unknowingly chose Gryffindor after seeing Harry being sorted in it.

...

Next day.

In the dining hall, Alexander noticed two of 3 people that were sad with the past evening's incident.

Dumbledore silently ate his fill with a slight discomfort. He received a letter from Cornelius Fudge. As obvious, he felt his position threatened as soon as his name came in newspaper and T.V news. He hurriedly sent an anger-filled letter to Dumbledore to get his things straight. This would be the beginning of the formation of the crack between their relations.

Hermione was sad due to obvious reasons.

The third person who was sad was the half-giant Hagrid. He was friends with the troll and knew him. Hagrid being a soft and warm-hearted person, loved everyone. He was shocked by the death of his friend.

Alexander only felt bad for Hagrid and Hermione and thought of showing them the very much alive troll later. On the other hand, he decided to distance himself from Dumbledore as the incident of forest troll proved that he had decided to use the kid(Harry Potter) and trust the prophecy.

He was also angered by the fact that Dumbledore kept the philosopher's stone in Hogwarts for safekeeping. Seriously, the safest place for it was to keep the small stone in his own pocket. He was probably the strongest known living wizard in the world and Voldemort would surely not attack him for it. He guessed that it must be related to that damn prophecy too as there was no other reasonable explanation for Dumbledore to act so dumb.

...

At the end of the first year's class. Hermione stayed behind and came to ask him something in his chambers. There were no Avengers figurines now.

"What can I do for you, Miss Granger." He politely asked.

"Sorry for asking this professor, but why did you kill that troll. You were surely powerful enough to normally handle him." She hesitatingly asked.

"Haha... Who said I killed it? That forest troll is alive and kicking in the forest. I actually transported him to a faraway jungle where his kind lives. Here, look at this." he showed a video on his Uniphone.

Hermione looked at the video in shock.

"Sir, then why did you...?"

"Some things should be left unanswered, little Hermione. Tell me what the ministry would have done if they had caught the troll alive. You must have gotten some idea about the condition of the magical society since your arrival here" he said, giving her time to think.

Delighted by the news that she didn't cause the trolls death, she answered after thinking for a moment.

"Yes, I know... And I don't understand why it's like this. Pureblood theory is so unreasonable. It makes no sense to discriminate like that." She sadly answered.

"Yes, it is unreasonable indeed and I want to change that. Would you like to join me on this mission?" he proposed. He knew that Hermione was a bright student and if she was given a good push, she might even perform beyond expectations. In the books, Hogwarts did nothing to help bright students like her. McGonagall did foolishly gave her the Time-Turner but it only gave her more stress and deteriorated her health. But in this world, he'd teach her himself.

"But I am just an ordinary 1st year, sir. What can I do to help you" she murmured confusion.

"No, you are one of the smartest students of Hogwarts in years and you can see that I am very old. I want to teach you so that you can do good in the future, when I am no longer in this world. That's all I want from you," he answered.

By then, Hermione had started to feel very excited and also sad. Sad because she knew that a nice person like Alexander would eventually die. Excited because she was going to be taught by such a great person.

"Thank you, professor. I would love to become your student. I will make you proud, I promise" she shyly answered.

Alexander laughed a little, seeing the little Hermione's cheerful smiling face.

"Haha... I expect nothing less than that and be sure not to share our talks with anyone else. Not even your friends because even walls have ears. Quite literally in the magical world" Alexander finished his little chat with a slight warning.

...

Days went on as usual. The magical folks had started to see muggles in a different light now. That was mainly because of their music and movies. Alexander had also decided to introduce many beauty products with a mixture of magic and muggle elements.

Again, he knew why things were going smoothly. It was because Voldemort hadn't announced his arrival yet.

But that was going to change soon. The year was about to end and Harry would soon confront Quirrell/Voldemort, however, this time Harry would not be alone.

In the past 9 months, he taught Hermione a lot of things. By now, she was as good as a 5th year in terms of knowledge but because her body was still of a kid she wasn't equivalent to a 5th year in terms of power.

To let her practice higher level spells, he created a small ring for her which could hold magic as reserves. The current Hermione was pretty OP. She didn't act like 'miss know it all' as she had accepted the fact that most people around her were dumb.

He had chosen her for the position of minister of magic after him. She was calm, smart, strong and level-headed. All these qualities were needed to better the magical world.

Currently, he was headed to the potions classroom. He was going to give a well-deserved beating to the emo boy snape.

~Seriously, how dumb you have to be to bully a little boy just because his mother didn't choose you. But again, his love for her was on a whole another level and he even became a death eater just to impress her. Why you may ask? Well, his dumb ass thought that Lily potter liked bullies, so he tried to become the ultimate bully. He was also interested in dark magic but let's ignore that. But there's another problem. He was partially responsible for the death of Lily and still dares to play victim.~ he mumbled to himself.

[Knock knock]

Snape opened the door. He looked as emo as always. Black pants, black shirt, and black robes.

~he probably wears black underwear too~ Alexander thought to himself.

"Professor Universe, what do I owe the pleasure," he asked in a mocking tone.

"I came here to talk to you about something, emo... Professor Snape"