Ch 98 - Know your Place

"Time to split up the duo I believe.." Snape said with a wicked grin, "Weasley, pair off with Finnegan," he turned to Harry, "Potter, you pair with Malfoy. Malfoy, come here, see what you make of the famous Potter."

Then, he turned his gaze to Lucifer, boy defiant of Snape, tried to pair

with Hermione, but he was quick on splitting them up as well, "I don't think so. Miss Granger, you'll pair with Miss Bulstrode. Morningstar, you'll be with Zabini."

Lucifer followed his gaze, there was a tall, black boy with high cheekbones and long, slanting eyes moving towards his direction.

"Blaise Zabini, nice to meet you," he said kindly.

"Yeah...likewise..." Lucifer said, not responding much, his gaze fixed on Hermione's battle as they got into position to try out the Disarming Charm.

They went back and forth, Lucifer casually flicking his wand, with Zabini's breathing so loud, even his opponent could hear them.

All his father's training from past years at manor gone to dust.

"W-what are yo-"

But, Lucifer's eyes were making past him, and saw that plus size girl Millicent Bulstrode with Hermione in a headlock.

Hermione was whimpering and had a hand extended, trying to reach for something.

He squinted and saw the necklace he got for her, being dangled in the air out of her reach.

Lucifer missed when Zabini's spell fired at his body again, only to be met with such a magical barrier, which not only blocked the attack, but sent it flying towards his own.

But, he was too enraged, didn't even notice Zabini's shocked face, when his face got slammed into the cold wall behind.

Hermione was begging with Millicent, "Please... please... g-give it back..." she was in tears from both the pain of being in a headlock and the necklace that was so dear to her was being held out of her reach.

"Poor little Granger, your boyfriend isn't here to sav----uughh hah..I-I" Millicent suddenly began choking and gasping for air.

She let go of Hermione and her necklace, both falling to the floor.

Hermione quickly gathered up her most treasured gift and looked up to see glowing red eyes across the room.

She turned to look back at Millicent, whose feet are now slightly off the ground.

Gasping for air, even face has started to turn a little purple, her eyes rolling into the back.

Snap!

One of her fingers twisted back, Hermione's face also panicked when she noticed Millicent's jaw dislocating at quite insane speed, if this continued girl will likely break her neck!

She quickly put her necklace in her robes pocket and hurried over to Lucifer, "Daddy," she said when she got closer.

"Daddy, it's okay..." she placed a hand on his shoulder, trying to make Lucifer come back.

"Know your damn place...." She saw his eyes turn back to normal.

Millicent could be heard taking in big gasps of air, a few Slytherin's were checking on her.

While Lucifer had his eyes closed, calming himself down, "I'm sorry..."

"Don't apologize... you helped me get this back," she said and pulled out her necklace he got for her.

His eyes opened and looked at the necklace, and then her.

She had tears in her eyes, but why, he didn't know.

Could've been out of happiness, the pain she could still possibly be feeling, or out of almost losing what he got for her birthday, "Want me to tie it back on?"

"Please?" She asked and handed it to him, turning around.

Hermione saw the necklace come from above her and rest on her chest.

Lucifer moved her bushy hair aside, then used his fingers to tie it around her neck once again.

"Stop! Stop!" They both heard Lockhart yelling across.

The chaos that had been going on unknown to Hermione and Lucifer was brought to a halt with that, "Dear, dear..." Lockhart was skittering through the crowd, gazing at the damage done by the incompetent duels.

"Up you go Macmillan... careful there, Miss Fawcett... pinch it hard, it'll stop bleeding in a second, Boot.

"I think I'd better teach you how to block unfriendly spells," he said, standing flustered in the midst of the hall.

He glanced over to Snape, whose black eyes glinted in the candle light, and he looked away very quickly, it caused Ron to chuckle, "Let's have a volunteer pair - Longbottom and Finch-Fletchley, how about you-"

"A bad idea, Professor Lockhart," Snape said, gliding over like a large and malevolent bat, "Longbottom causes devastation with the simplest spells. We'll be sending what's left of Finch-Fletchley up to the Hospital Wing in a matchbox."

Neville's round, pink face managed to become even more pink, "How about Malfoy and Potter?" Snape said with a twisted smile.

"Excellent idea!" Lockhart said without a care in the world.

He motioned both Harry and Draco over to the stage.

He then began to whisper to Harry and brought his wand out in a poor attempt at a Flourish, and dropped his wand.

Picking it back up with the grace of an armless monkey, everyone laughed at his ridiculous antics, "Whoops - my wand is a little excited."

Lucifer scrunched up his face at the poor taste of his word choice.

Snape moved closer to Malfoy and began whispering, which caused him to smirk.

Hermione could only imagine what Snape had said to him.

"Scared, Potter?"

"You wish!"

Harry and Draco got ready and Lockhart began speaking, "Three - Two - One - Go!"

Malfoy raised his wand quickly and bellowed, "Serpensortia!" A snake flew from the tip of his wand and fell heavily to the floor.

It began hissing at Harry, but he remained unmoved, like he was paralyzed to the spot.

The snake raised its head, like it was preparing to strike, and most students let out screams and backed away.

"Don't move Potter," Hermione heard Snape say lazily, like it was a serious inconvenience for him, "I'll get rid of it-"

"Allow me!" Lockhart shouted. He brandished his wand and pointed it right at the snake. There was a loud bang and the snake flew up into the air.

Lucifer's eyes followed the snake into the air and back down to the floor of the stage.

It was obviously angered by this and lashed out at the closest student, which happened to be Justin Finch-Fletchley.

It's fangs were exposed and it was poised to strike.

Lucifer was broken from his trance when he heard a hissing to his right.

He looked at Harry and couldn't believe his ears.

He was the one hissing at the Snake.

Lucifer looked back at the reptile and it was backing off from Justin, but something unexpected happened.

When it caught sight of him, it didn't hesitate as it lunged straight for him.

Hermione suddenly saw the Snake burst into flames midair, the ashes flying off with the wind that was caused by a few opened windows.

"Just what are you getting at, Potter?!" She heard Justin ask him.

"What about Morningstar? His eyes just glowed red and the snake burst into flames!" An older Ravenclaw makes others notice the huge surprise.

Justin stormed out of the hall, whole loud murmurs could be heard.

Hermione clutched on Lucifer's arm tightly and dragged him away from there, Ron doing the same with Harry.

The four of them were soon in an empty classroom, Ron threw Harry into a chair, "You're a Parselmouth, why didn't you tell us?!"

"I'm a what?" Harry asked, obviously confused.

"I'm sure if he knew, Weasely, he'd have told us," Lucifer said, diverting his attention to Harry, "A Parselmouth is someone who can talk to snakes fluently. They both didn't understand you because of not being able to speak Snake's language...."

"Lucifer is right, all I heard was a hissing coming from you, Harry!"

Hermione said this, while giving the boy whose arm she was holding onto a curious look, noticing his strange wordings.

"Well, I knew I could talk to snakes, sort of," Harry tried to be a little humble, "that was the second time I've done it, though. The first time I set a boa constrictor on my cousin Dudley at the Zoo. It was telling me it had never seen Brazil and wanted to go...."

"Then the glass magically disappeared and the snake left after thanking me, but this was before I knew I was a Wizard," Harry then shrugged, "I don't see the big deal, I bet loads of people can do it."

"No, Harry, it's not a common gift..." Ron said, "Oh this is bad..."

"Why?" Harry enquired before saying something else, "Why are you freaking out? If I hadn't said anything to that Snake, it would have attacked Justin."

"You told it to stop?" Ron asked with a surprised look, "It sounded like you were egging it on, or something..."

"No it didn't. Parseltongue sounds like that anyway, but if you looked at the Snake, it was obviously backing off from Fletchley, but no one seemed to notice that, did they?" Lucifer asked them, with a sceptical expression on his face.

"Well...." Hermione said, getting their attention, "I know Harry wouldn't have had it attack anyone, especially Lucifer, so why do you think it suddenly went rogue?"

"That, my dear Hermione, is a very good question," Lucifer said, looking right back at her.

"I still don't see why it's bad that I can speak Parseltongue," Harry huffed, annoyed.

"Because..." Hermione was uneasy, but opened her mouth anyway, "Salazar Slytherin was a Parselmouth and he was famous for it. Remember what Binns told us? Salazar Slytherin's true heir will open the Chamber of Secrets..."

"But I can't be his heir!" Harry was now really going to be angry.

"You'll find that very hard to prove, mate," Ron said.

"Slytherin lived over a thousand years ago....." Lucifer started.

"Yeah, for all we know, you could be!"

And, Hermione finished with a loud yell, even pretending to be scared of this green-eyed boy, named Harry.

"• •" Harry, now really stared at his so-called best friends, who are determined to make him a criminal, who likes to petrify Filch's cat, Mrs. Norris.

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