chap 14

Drake returned to the Great Hall and saw Peeves throwing things at the students that passed through the door.

"Hey, Peeves any news about that?" asked Drake as he knew that Peeves probably knows more something about Snape and the dung bomb incident.

"Hey, Drake…hmm…it seems you spent all your fortune today…they know it was you but don't have any proofs…but you fucked up your house today…I think you made a lot of good friends…" said Peeves with a sarcastic tone while he left laughing.

"Oh…shit…well let's see now," thought Drake as he entered in the Great Hall.

When he entered there, the noisy Great hall just turned into a silent one, with all the students there looking at him. He looked everywhere in searching for his friends until he spots them in a fare corner of one of the tables belonging to Ravenclaw. Everyone started to whisper to each other while looking at him, inclusively the few Gryffindor students that were there looking at him in nasty away.

"Damm!" cursed Drake in a low voice before he went to sit with Scarlett, Katie, and Cho.

"You took your time in the dorms and they say we are the ones who take so long in it," said Katie in a teasing tone when he arrived at the table.

"Hehehehe…it seems you are famous already…congrats!" followed Scarlett in a teasing tone too.

"Well…I don't know why?!" answered Drake to them which Cho replied to him.

"Look at the leader board…"

Drake looked and saw the points of each team and his team.

"Oh…damm…well…shit happens?!" said Drake after he saw the negative score of Gryffindor house.

"Shit happens…is that what you only have to say?!" replied Katie followed by a nod of Cho.

The Gryffindor students that were there started to curse him more lauder that Drake could hear them.

"What could I say?! Say I'm sorry?! Would that give the points back to our house or should I say sorry to a so call teacher which his the most impartial and only punish us for stupid things?! Did they even have proof that it was me who did it?! Just because the same teacher went to cry to the headmaster office?! Well, I don't care about what the others think about me, most of them they don't have the right to talk about it only the students who won points to our house have the right to speak about it…" said Drake as he glared at the people all around him, mainly the Gryffindor students.

"Well, even so, I think you should be more careful, after all, we are not Hufflepuff who they will always be loyal or Ravenclaw who don't give a shit about anything unless studying or Slytherin. You may be shunned by the other students of our house, for what I have observed and learned" replied Katie which was followed by a node once more by Cho and Scarlett.

"I don't care, I'm used to living alone and only the friends I have or had before came here are my beasts and the uncles and aunties. And I played and learned by myself or with my Dad and my house-elves, now maybe we can consider being friends, right?!" replied Drake to them.

"Yes, we can but it's sad to hear that…" started Cho with Scarlett and Katie nodded but before she could finish. Drake left them saying in a very calm and gentle tone that he wasn't hungry anymore and that he was tired and needed to feed his beasts.

After Drake left Scarlett looked at Katie and Cho.

"Well, should we go after him? He seemed to me that he was upset about our talking" said Katie to them.

"I don't think so, I think by tomorrow he would be good again and do some pranks again…but is sad that he didn't have friends of our age…" continued Cho.

"You need to stop with that talk! He doesn't like that, the away you spoke before it seems like you pitied him…he doesn't need it. You two don't know, but he is probably the smartest student, not only from the first years but I would say to the seconds and third too. I'm not from Britain but what I saw from the classes and my housemates…I think muggles born, half-bloods and purebloods are all the same…. they don't know how to cast basic spells… and only know how to judge people…" said Scarlett has she was talking to the two first but then the last part she said in a normal voice for all student to hear. She couldn't understand how the ones who came from a family of wizards…knew so little.

After what she said, some student got annoyed and others looked ashamed. They talked a little more until they finished eating and parted way, which each of them going to their respective dorms.

When Drake left, he was walking to the dorms before he was stopped by Mr Filch.

"You! Stinky brat…hahahahah! You are screwed…now come with me to the headmaster office."

"Okay, Mr Fish" replied Drake with a mocking tone.

"tsk…you stinky brat!"

They walked in silence until the Golden Gargoyle. When they arrived, Professor McGonagall was there waiting for them. She thanked Mr Filch which the latter nodded at her and left with a smirk on his face.

Drake looked at her and saw the disappointed look on her face.

"Let's go, the headmaster wants to talk to you, by the away I took 70 points to Gryffindor because of the stunt you pulled on Professor Snape."

"But…" before he could finish, she interrupted him.

"Don't give any excuse or lie, I know it was you who did it…I don't want to know why you did it…you need to grow up and learned that life won't be always the away you want and you will meet with worst people that will treat you even worst. You need to learn how to let go and ignore them and then when maybe you are stronger or more respected you can do what you want under the limits of the law. I think I had enough of your pranks Drake, I'm just too tired of warning you from now on, its not you who gonna be punished, but your house. I don't care if we lose or not the house cup we don't win for a while so 1 year or two years more won't do any difference. You need to start growing up."

After she finished saying what she had to say, Professor McGonagall said the password and the Gargoyle started to move. Drake just listened and didn't say anything more, he already knew the look she gave him, no matter what he said she wouldn't change her opinion.

They walked in silence until they arrived at the office, where she said to Drake to enter and she walked away. Before he could Knock, Drake hears a voice from inside.

"You can come in."

He entered the office and went in front of the secretary. He saw the sorting hat on the shelf and most of the paintings were looking at him without any expression on their faces or just doing their own thing.

Dumbledore sighed before he started to talk.

"And here we are again…first two days in a row, I had to call you in…I think it's a first. So, did you do it or not?"

"Yes, I did it…" answered Drake, he knew he couldn't lie to his dad.

"Why did you do it?"

"Because of Snive…Professor Snape was asking for it, he never helped the Gryffindor students and if we didn't answer or got a wrong answer, he would discount points and to Slytherin was always helping them and didn't discount any points. And it was the first day only and I can't stand such unfairness treatment."

"Good and that gives you the right to put a dung bomb on his secretary? Imagine if all people were like you, we would live in a world full of smelly poo."

"Hehehehe…but no one is like me, I bet that only you knew how I did the prank and since you didn't contradict auntie Minerva, she knew that it was me who did it." Drake started to laugh together with a few paintings before he started to talk.

"Yup, no one is like you, you are a very special boy and you have the potential to be more than just a simple wizard with an ordinary post in the ministry or worst become a wizard despised by all their wizards and witches. Once you win a reputation, that will stick with you for the rest of your life principally the bad ones. And you wouldn't be the first one nor the last one to have it and once you go that, there is no turning back. I understand pranking your fellow students if they mess with you but everything as limit mainly the disrespect for a teacher and even worst you disrespected him in front of everyone. The world is an unfair place and if you want to change something you need the strength and power to do it."

"But it wasn't in front of everyone…its not my fault that he left his secretary right after the bomb explode and I even set the timer to the lunch period and I know that its an unfair world but..."

"You are right but that doesn't validate what you have done to a teacher, that's crossed the limits. Right now you are only a student who doesn't know much about life and has no power, so you need to lay down your convictions...for now. Also, I need to get this clear! Outside of school, I'm your father, but here I am a headmaster and don't think for a second that if you do something grave, I wouldn't dare to expel you because I would do it. Frankly, I'm starting to think that would be better for you to learn at home as you always did instead of sending you here."

"But all I did was to put a dung bomb on a secretary of a bad teacher, it seems like I killed someone. You know I bet ¾ of the students are rejoicing about smelly Snape…"

"You're wrong about that, only a few are and even the students of your house…most of them are starting to loathe you…you children can be amazing and worst to each other …*sight*... don't cross the limits again. You can still prank and make people laugh and sometimes that's the best thing for people…but everything as a limit, remember this."

"But…okay dad…I will…but I won't apologize to him…I would do it all again. I will only try to not prank so much because you said and because my house was blamed for it…and auntie right now is scarier than a hag. Also, you will see in the future, I will be stronger than anyone and travel all the world and I will fight the unfairness!" thought Drake.

"I know what you are thinking right now, but I agree with you. I wouldn't ask for you to do that and of course, I believe you will do it. It's late again so before you go, son, eat something," said Dumbledore before he clapped his hands and three plates of food appeared from nowhere.

"The world is far crueller and unfair than you think," thought Dumbledore while he watches his son starting to eat.

While they were eating Drake asked a question.

"Dad…can you tell me about who was Bartholomew?"

Dumbledore stopped what he was doing and looked intensively at Drake.

"Why do you want to know?"

"Well…I…I found a potion book with this name on it…and it was a very complex potion book, so assumed it was someone famous…I guess" answered Drake with an excuse has made last night.

Dumbledore looked at him again and this time was longer than the former one before he answered.

"He was a very famous potion teacher and also knew about ancient runes when you have time, I would like to see that book. He was a very accomplished potion master."

"Okay, dad I will but only after I have read it all…it's very interesting." Replied Drake before he finished eating.

After he had eaten the food, he said goodbye to his dad, which in turn warned him one more time about the pranks and said goodnight to him. Dumbledore stayed looking at the back of his son while he left the office. He was thinking about the last years and the fact that there were still some objects of that teacher in school grounds. He would have to take some precautions about it. He didn't want those things to happen again.

While Dumbledore was thinking about what Drake as asked, Drake was heading to Gryffindor tower. He didn't saw any student or teacher until he arrived at the dorms, where the few students who were talking in the common room, started to look at him and whispering in low voices. Drake shrugs his shoulders and went to the boy's dorms. He was climbing the stair when he saw Katie.

"Hey, Drake…I thought that…you were already…in the dorms" said Katie with her head down.

"Oh…I was called to the headmaster office after I left the Great Hall and only got out now…so…good night, see you tomorrow," replied Drake with a hurried tone.

"Wait! did…did something happen to you? Are…you…going to be ex…expelled?" said Katie before he could go.

Drake made a poker face and gave a click in her head.

"Why would I be expelled?! Are you already thick off me on the first day?! That hurts!" said Drake while chuckling.

"You are so stupid…hmm…I won't care about you ever!" said Katie running off to the girl's dorms.

"Well let's go take care of our business," thought Drake while he walked into the boy's dorms. He checked if there was anyone in the dorm and the exact time and got into his suitcase. He went into the room and saw Star and Z running in his direction. After he played with them and took care of Jade and Greenie in their habitats, he went to his desk and started to read the book and study the beaker. He discovered that most of the beaker was decoded already with only a small part of it remaining.

He started to study and before he knew it was too late already, he thought of using the time turner but decided against it. He would sleep first inside the suitcase and then when he wakes up, he would use the time-turner to go back a little further before he entered in the suitcase and would study all night in the bed on the dorms until the time he woke up and use the time-turner. He would spend, tomorrow the time turner use for the rest of the week since he made his own rule of only going back on time once a week…until he or his uncle Flamel find a way of stopping him from ageing when using the time turner.