Standing Against Bullying

"Yeah well that can not be true," Harry said as he sat against a tree near the lake, Tracy and Daphne sat near him as all three were doing their homework. "I mean there is no way that Malfoy could have sex without at least some money being transferred."

"Parkinson would disagree with you," Daphne frowned. "all of the school have seen her fawn over Malfoy."

"Urgh, do not remind me." Harry said as he tried not to picture the over the top way Pansy Parkinson would hang off of Draco Malfoy's side. "That is one case where I would have more respect for a girl if she was a gold digger."

"Hmm," Tracy gave an amused snort. "well either way Draco was going on and on about how he and Pansy had 'done the deed'. She just sat there giggling like she had been voted prettiest witch by Witch Weekly or something."

"I am glad that I refused the hat in first year." Harry snorted, thinking about how he would have likely gone insane being stuck in school for so many years with Draco, at least in Gryffindor he got some time away from the prat. Actually now that he thought about it Harry had to admit that he was not exactly the picture perfect model of sanity.

"What do you mean?" Daphne frowned.

"Oh, when I was in first year the hat had offered me the opportunity to go into Slytherin." Harry replied.

"What?! You mean we could have been house mates?" Tracy asked with disbelief.

"Yep, could have been if I did not refuse." Harry responded.

"Why did you refuse?" Daphne asked.

"For a few different reasons, though I will tell you the three main ones. The first being that at that point I had befriended Ronald Weasley and he told me that all Slytherins were bad, at the time I was an ignorant eleven year old with no idea how the magical world worked so when somebody who seemed to be more experienced and knowledgeable about it says that only bad witches and wizards go to Slytherin..." Harry trailed off and left them to fill in the blanks.

"That arrogant prick!" Daphne snarled before her expression mellowed slightly. "Though...to be fair it does attract a lot of bad witches and wizards...but to say that all of them are in Slytherin or come from Slytherin is ridiculous!"

"That brings me to my second reason, image." Harry said before Daphne could start going into what would look like a long and lengthy rant. "Now I don't much care what other people think of me yet I am smart enough to recognise what effect an image can have, say what you want about Weasley but he was right in the dark wizards and witches do come from Slytherin. I am not saying they all do but the more famous ones do. By the very limited time I had spent in the wizarding world I was able to quickly tell that Slytherin had a bad reputation and that I, as the boy-who-lived, would have been expected to go to Gryffindor and would receive some very bad backlash if I went to Slytherin instead." Harry stopped talking, he looked at the girls and both looked thoughtful.

"What is your third reason?" Tracy asked eventually.

"I had met Draco Malfoy and unlike you two I was smart enough to decide I did not want to be in the same house as that prat and I went to a different one." Harry smirked. The girls were quiet for several seconds before their faces shifted into grins and they began laughing.

"You just might be the most Slytherin one here Potter." Tracy chuckled.

"Harry." Harry heard a voice call as he sat in the library, he looked up form his book to see Astoria.

"Oh hi." Harry smiled. "You might want to keep quiet thought, the librarian does not appreciate loud noises." Astoria was about to respond but took his hint and quietly sat down next to him. "So what is up? You alright."

"Yeah, I've actually made some friends. Everyone was impressed that I was allowed to ride you, everyone looked really jealous, the older girls especially." Astoria frowned, wondering why those girls looked more jealous than the others.

"Really?" Harry asked as he tried and failed to keep the smirk off of his face. "Well I am glad you are making friends, how is class?"

"Oh it is great, I like charms the best so far!" Astoria said enthusiastically. "We did the lumos charm and mine was brighter than everyone else's!" Astoria said proudly.

"That's nice." Harry smiled. "Do you know that you can get the light to change colour?"

"Really?"

"Yeah and you can get it to move off of your wand and float around as well." Harry nodded.

"Wow that is so cool. Do you think you can teach me?"

"Sure but once I have finished my homework, what about you? Do you have homework to do?"

"Well yeah but not too much, I am nearly done. Oh that actually reminds me why I came to talk to you. Do you know this girl named Luna? Luna Lovegood?"

"Doesn't sound familiar to me." Harry shrugged. "Why do you ask?"

"She's this Ravenclaw in her fourth year, I think it's her fourth year, anyway the other Ravenclaws are bullying her." Astoria said.

"Bullying how?" Harry raised an eyebrow.

"They keep taking and hiding all of her stuff and they are calling her names." Astoria explained, looking very unhappy with the situation, she pulled out a silver necklace and dropped it on the table in front of Harry. "I saw Luna wearing that and I found it today under a bush. They shouldn't do that, Luna's been nice to me, they are just being mean to her because she's weird."

"Weird?" Harry repeated.

"Oh she thinks that things that don't exist are actually real, or at least that's what I heard, oh and she dresses a bit weird but that's it. They shouldn't be mean to her."

"You know something, it is a good thing that you are not in Slytherin."

"Why?"

"You are far too nice to be in Slytherin," Harry joked. "but seriously, what exactly do you want me to do about Luna?"

"I don't know, can you just help her please?" Astoria asked looking a little tired. "Pleeease?" She asked, unnecessarily stretching out the word.

"Look, I really do not...what are you doing?" Harry asked when her face developed a pout.

"Please Harry." She asked, her eyes looking slightly wider and almost puppy like.

"Stop." Harry sighed as he covered her face with his hand. "If you stop that, I will think about it." He removed his hand only to find her grinning at him. "Stop that or I will put my hand back." Harry warned. "And I said I would think about it, I did not say that I would do anything."

"Thank you Harry." Astoria said before she kissed him on the cheek and happily walked away.

"I do not know if I should be angry or not," Harry whispered to himself under his breath. "great now I am talking to myself. Fuck it, I always knew I was crazy anyway."

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