Tricks and Dumbledore (Part 1).

"So all of you decided to be very smart and good at your first year at school." - McGonagall looked at the whole class barely staying awake with fierce gaze. Than her eyes ran through Alan and were surprised. He didn't have any signs of fatigue. But that was expected, at least by Alan himself.

"Take out your wands and let's start the lesson." - than she again looked over and noticed something outrageous. - "Mister Salvatore. Do you have troubles with hearing?"

"Sorry, can I first give you a letter?" - Alan felt trouble coming. The old woman is strict to the point of headache. He never understood pedantic people. Too much trouble to his taste.

"We are at class, mister Salvatore, you tell me, can you give me a letter?" - McGonagall was relentless and unforgiving. A tough nail to crack indeed.

'Why first lesson has to be her?'

Alan was in need of devising a plan, but suddenly it clicked. There is a choice to make. First – reveal what he can do or try to somehow plead further about the letter, insisting on it. He pondered a bit and decided for the former.

'Why should I hide? It is not like what I will do is unheard of. And it is not like I'm some Harry Potter or have a need to hide myself. I can't see what trouble it can cause that I can't coupe with. If anything I need to meet Dumbledore as soon as possible and I believe that is a clear ticket to his humble abode.'

"Professor, if I'm able to show you a very skillful transfiguration, can you permit me to give you a letter?" - he finally came to decision after a brief deliberation. He naturally won't reveal Tenebris, as it is really unheard of. He even tried several times to change it's appearance, like hiding wings and making dragon legs be adorned with fur to make it look like everyday wolf, but it was futile. Thus there was no way in hell he will show it here, as the knowledge of it were blocked in France. But non Isu spells are fine, not like he was able to develop at least one. He hoped to do it here with all learning time Hogwarts will give and teachers to ask.

Selena was a great teacher, but only in certain areas. And huge chunk of what she taught him were all about mind arts and his Vibe trait. The later took the most time actually.

"Be my guest and if it is truly skillful, I will award Hufflepuff with fifty points, but if you are bluffing, there will be deduction of a hundred." - she said in even tone. The good thing about McGonagall is her dedication to teaching and impartiality. She will right the wrong and punish the unjust.

At this point class started to get noisy. But for most of Hufflepuff students they surprisingly didn't care about points that much and just waited to see the result.

"Good luck." - came a soft voice from the side. Alan was siting with a girl from Ravenclaw. Her name was Sheron Williams. She was a rather easy going person with beautiful countenance. Alan was sure she will be a stunner in later years with her unique crimson hair and eyes deep like a sea of emerald water.

"Thanks." - he smiled at her and noticed that she just waved her fist encouragingly. She indeed was cute like a kitten trying to act tough.

Next he pretended to make some gestures with a finger that were similar to wand moves and made a thought spell. All empty chairs in the class were turned to dogs. They barked as if alive and ran to the pathway between desks, lining up in orderly fashion like a loyal army.

"Well..." - McGonagall was lost for words for some time. She never saw a student of first year capable of such things. Actually, she herself can do it, but with difficulty. - "Fifty points to Hufflepuff." - cheers broke out and even Sheron was no exception. She looked at Alan with wonder and burning curiosity. - "Perfect application of transfiguration, and wandless non-verbal spell at that. This is already a level at which you don't need my course. So, young man, give me a letter."

He passed an Ollivander letter to her. At first McGonagall was reading just because she ought to, but after first sentences her eyes grew completely round, even her hands started to shake from time to time.

"Okay..." - she read it all only after giving a class some tasks to do and walked up to a wonder boy she never thought can exist. Ollivander was... well, Ollivander. He very colorfully explained his utmost bewilderment in existence of 'wand breaker monster', 'disrespectful brat', 'unambitious block of wood who don't care about my craft' and so on and so forth, and expressed absolute certainty that he will create a wand the boy can wield and he will wield it even if he doesn't want to or, a quote 'he will get his ass spanked until he shit's all over the place'.

Finally she cleared her throat clearly thinking of taking a bath after the assault of such intense writing style. But in all truthfulness she wanted to find Ollivander and crack open his head to see how much of a brain tissue is still there.

"I think we need to go see Headmaster. That matter is not something I can judge or decide upon." - she finally said returning to her professional calm self.

Alan just nodded, it was expected and he already prepared for it, creating a set of false memories. He felt confident in three things the most – occlumency, legilimency and transfiguration only because for all of them needed powerful mind and memory as a primary thing.

Something he trained to a very high level under Selena, plus art of combat.

But it all can be a joke for Dumbledore and his company of monster teachers, so he asked Amalgal to help him out.

However the later waived it off, saying that Eternal Mind is not something they can even start understanding or overcoming. After that, as a shield, they created a set of false memories. Technically they changed several things – first removed Soul Extinguisher and Amalgal from his memories, making his captivity basically a training prison with some extreme conditions.

Second, added a couple of conversations among Death Eaters that were never there originally and all of that to give a hint about Nagini and return of Voldemort. Naturally Alan knew that the former is yet to become his horcrux, so he just added a word or two of description about the Tom Riddle diary – the first one Harry Potter destroyed. Like a story of the voice coming from it and some possession things and dark magic. All of that with Dumbledore mind should ring a bell at least once.

But what he wanted to do the most is to give Sirius Black a chance, however it will be too much to give out information about Peter Pettigrew so he opted to do it another way and that is – making friends with either Percy Weasley who is currently attending second year in Griffindor or go for Fred and George, the troublemaker twins. Both ways are plausible, however Percy is a hard nut to crack with his personality. He is pedantic and on top of that rather weak in spirit with tendencies to get jealous.

Either way will end in attempt to go on vacation to their house to confront that rat of a man the sooner the better. Actually it is quite easy to do if taken care of properly. It is not like Scabbers is his Tenebris to take.

But Alan opted to do it with Fred and George. One thing – he was more comfortable becoming friends with them, after all no matter what he plans Alan actually is not a scheming person at heart and won't do many things even if they can prove beneficial for him. And another point is that twins are jinx. They will dare do things if it is right on their books, and that trait of character Alan appreciated very much, let alone actually needed.

Still all of it is based on the films and books. How it is in reality he has no way to figure out.

Adding another layer of memories as such is a risky move, but all that is the truth to begin with and just might help better prepare to the upcoming devastating war.

Another part is him being an animage. He is yet to register it and to explain the existence of Tenebris aniform he needs authoritative figure like Dumbledore. He chose him partly because he wasn't a bad person. He was too soft for his own good and too trusting in prophesies, but a person who is willing to pay ultimate prise for a future of his students can never be a bad man. And another reason is his smarts and influence.

So there is another part of forged memory – a spell to cope with obscurus to convert it into aniform. During three years he spend quite a lot of time to convert Isu magical mind image that he remembered into a spell of current era with much help from Amalgal and Selena, but the later was involved without even knowing it. She just answered some weird to her taste questions. He will put this very spell as a reason for becoming animage.

"We are here. Be respectful." - Alan breathed out. Here goes nothing. In McGonagall point of view being nervous is completely natural in such situation, but outwardly she can't see anything on the face of Alan, only collected eyes and cold face.

They entered a cabinet – split copy of it form a movie. Even memory pool is there.

Alan raised his head and looked at the old man seated by the table. Outwardly he was just an average person with no power, but ever since he came in his mind was ringing in feeling of tremendous danger.

'Truly a mage of fourth Permission. I can't even estimate his real power level.'