17 How to deal with pests

Harry looked at the Basilisk venom he had managed to procure and took a deep breath. Talking with the Besalla (yes, that's the name that Salazar gave her) had been an… experience.

Thankfully being 1000 years old had given her enough patience to listen to him without first trying to eat him and the cows he gave her went a long way toward putting him in her good books.

Add to the fact that he was one of the few people who were ever able to talk with her and he faced no problems in making the Besalla his friend. And after that, taking some of her venom was an easy and simple thing.

Harry looked at the silver mirror had was oozing a dark aura and had been completely tainted by the Broken soul of Voldemort and removed the cork from the vial before dropping a few drops of venom on top of the silver mirror which instantly reacted with the new surface and melted right through the mirror.

A shrill filled with terror came from the mirror and echoed throughout the entire room as it started melting under the basilisk venom and it wasn't long before a ghostly figure rose from the melted remains of the silver mirror and dispersed into thin air.

"Is it done?" Selena asked with a bit of tremor in her voice as she showed her face from under his clothes where she had hidden while he was dealing with the horcrux.

Since she could see and feel auras far more clearly than him, the dark magic inside the horcrux affected her far worse than it did him so he made sure to keep her safe from it.

"Yes Selena. It's done. Now just 6 more to go along with the original essence of Voldemort and then I would be free from the prophesy, if it ever applied to me in the first place." With that thought, he collected the melted remains of silver mirror and put them inside a wooden box before throwing it along with the other broken and damaged furniture in the Room of Hidden Things before he left the room.

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"Seriously Harry. Why don't you ever read the course book? If you did then you would be able to answer some of the questions that our Professors ask." He heard her voice and raised up head in time to see her sit in front of him with a huff before she threw down a bunch of large books in front of her.

Then he went back to reading the book on Human Transfiguration that was published some 400 years ago. A pity that the subject was currently illegal to perform according to the Ministry.

He found the book lying in The Room of Hidden things and felt rather interested in the subject which was why he was reading the ot right now.

Of course, he had charmed the cover to look like an Advanced Transfiguration book just like how he charmed the Diadem to remain invisible to anyone else.

Just because he was unafraid of the ministry didn't meant that he would needlessly antagonize them.

Milenda Servathel, the author of the book had written about all the things that could go wrong when performing human transfiguration and had warned to never make the transfigurations permanent no matter what in case something goes wrong.

He had learned more about transfiguration after reading this one book than he had after reading all the other course books provided by Hogwarts in that subject. Which just goes to show how far the level of Hogwarts has fallen.

Or maybe the Headmasters in Hogwarts just wanted to keep the children safe.

He felt that he should not be judging the ministry and the Hogwarts staff without the appropriate facts. Maybe Human transfiguration was just a very dangerous subject and was discontinued and then restricted in order to keep the kids safe but he had a feeling that there was more to it than that.

He went through pages and pages of text in rapid succession, remembering and understanding everything about human transfiguration before he heard someone coming toward him and kept the book down in order to greet the unwelcome guests.

"Potter." Malfoy drawled with no small amount of venom in his words and Harry felt the urge to roll his eyes and the childish delinquent in front of him.

"So this is where you have been hiding all this time. Along with your flithy mudblood pet." He said and the three goons behind him laughed like it the funniest joke in the world while Harry looked at him with disinterest.

"You're being a bother Draco." He said and sat down on his seat. "Leave, before I make you wear another princess dress."

Draco's face contorted at once as those words left Harry's mouth and he took a step forward toward him. "So you admit that it was you. It really was you wasn't it. You think you were so clever with that little trick of yours. Wait until I tell my…"

"What do you want Draco?" Hermione asked as she gave an annoyed look to the four Slytherins.

"Nothing with you, you filthy mudblood." He said and turned to Harry who had now closed his eyes in annoyance and was pinching his nose in irritation.

"You know Draco" Harry said and stood up from his seat to face the ponce "You're like an annoying pest that is bent on making a nuisance out of itself. Do you know what we with pests like those?" he asked quietly and Draco must have seen something in his eyes for he suddenly took a step back and looked more scared than anything else.

"Pott…" before Draco could say anything else Harry changed the back of his hand into iron and backhanded Draco who threw up blood and a few teeth before falling to the ground, unconscious.

Draco's fall had brought attention to their table and now everybody was looking at the unconscious Malfoy scion with no small amount of shock.

His three goons, Crabbe, Goyle and someone else looked at the scene with some confusion, not being able to understand what happened before they came back to their senses and moved toward him but they fell to the ground as three silent stunners hit them before they could even take their first step.

"Harry. What have you done?" Hermione almost shrieked at the scene and Harry grimaced at her high pitched tone but he didn't have to answer her as he heard footsteps coming toward him soon enough.

Four students who had watched this scene belonged to Slytherin and had decided to intervene on behalf of Malfoy.

"Potter. What have you done?" A tall guy, whom Harry remembered from the movie as Markus Flint came forward with a snarl and Harry quickly realized that there was no way this situation was going to be solved with Diplomacy now. But then again, he was never really that good at Diplomacy either.

"You will not get away with this Potter." Another boy said and took out his wand along with the other and that was when Harry decided that he would rather deal with the consequences then be hexed by these morons and lashed out with a powerful banishing charm that struck the four Slytherins who flew back a few meters and collided with a bookshelf, taking the books and the shelf with them to the ground and creating enough noise to wake up the dead.

"Oh my god Harry. What have you done?" Hermione asked fearfully from behind him and he sighed once again at the destruction in front of him.

There was no way Madam Pince was going to allow him entry to the Library after this. Which meant that he would have to use his Shroud of Concealment whenever he came here.

Such a bother.

"Sit down." He said to Hermione with an authoritative voice which had the instant effect of calming her as she sat down on her chair and looked at him to tell her what to do.

"You've done nothing wrong and you were not involved in this confrontation either." He said and saw Madam Pince coming toward him with a few older students. "Go back to your studies and let me handle this." He said and kept the 'Human Transfiguration' book inside his limitless purse and turned to face Madam Pince with a bored expression.

This was going to be a long day.