Chapter - 86 : The Birth of Weasley's Wizard Wheezes

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"Curses, hexes, a few jinxes - anything goes really. Though you're right, a levitation charm has nothing to do with the Black affinity. Draco's just making that up," Harry said with a smile.

"At least your talent sounds more useful than the Nott affinity for Warding," Nott said. "We don't study wards - either crafting or breaking them - here at Hogwarts, so it doesn't do me any good at all when it comes to school work. In fact it's more of a hindrance than a help."

"I imagine it'll come in handy once you've left Hogwarts, though," Harry said.

"I'm sure," Draco agreed. "Wards cast by a member of the Nott family are said to be almost impenetrable. Although of course the Malfoy magical affinity is far superior to either of yours." He looked down his nose at both Harry and Nott. "The Mind Arts are complex and intricate and…"

"And illegal," Nott interrupted.

"No they're not," Draco contradicted him. "They're merely frowned upon by imbeciles who're too stupid to be able to master either Occlumency or Legilimency."

Harry was sure the Malfoy family had made absolutely certain that their particular magical talent was never banned; they certainly had enough money to bribe the Wizengamot into seeing things their way. He was surprised by what he'd heard, though. If asked he would have guessed the Malfoys had an affinity for Dark Magic - they certainly used it often enough. Although the truth did explain how Draco had managed to block Snape from his thoughts at the tender age of sixteen - a feat Harry wasn't certain he himself would be capable of even now.

"What are you three talking about?" Hermione wrinkled her forehead in confusion. "What are Mind Arts? What do you mean by an affinity?"

Harry did his best to explain. "The Mind Arts are basically what they sound like. Legilimency is sort of like mind-reading and Occlumency is a way to defend against it."

"That's a drastic oversimplification," Draco said.

Harry shrugged. He'd been lectured by Snape on the topic many times, but had never been interested enough to memorise the exact definitions.

"You mean someone could see what I'm thinking?" Hermione was aghast. She turned to Draco with an expression of horror. "Could you?"

Draco sneered at her. "Why would I want to know what goes through your pathetic muggle mind?"

"No he can't read your thoughts," Harry reassured Hermione with a glare in Draco's direction. "You have to be older to learn that sort of magic."

"Oh thank goodness." Hermione looked incredibly relieved, making Harry decide not to mention that both Snape and Dumbledore had learnt Legilimency long ago.

"As for affinities…" Harry searched for a way to explain. "Most pureblood families have a certain branch of magic they're particularly skilled in - Transfiguration or Charms for instance, or more obscure magic such as the Mind Arts or Animagus ability or whatever. Affinities are passed down through the blood from one generation to the next. "

"Which is why a muggleborn like you is never going to have one," Draco told Hermione, looking extremely pleased with himself.

Hermione frowned, clearly unhappy at the idea but unwilling to let Draco have the upper hand. "Well I don't need some special affinity in order to cast spells properly, as proven by the fact that I managed to levitate my feather before you did."

"Shut up, Granger," was Draco's eloquent response.

Nott started laughing again while Harry winked at Hermione behind Draco's back.

Later that afternoon Harry lay out on the grass beside the lake, idly throwing stones into the water for the Giant Squid to catch. He'd dodged both Draco's offers to go with him to meet Ernie and Hermione's instructions for him to study, and had instead escaped outside to get some peace and quiet away from the hordes of schoolchildren he was surrounded by daily. Almost all the other students stayed inside the castle due to the rather dismal weather, though Harry could hear the distant sounds of the Hufflepuff Team practicing over on the Quidditch pitch. He enjoyed his restful solitude, but was eventually interrupted by Hedwig winging her way towards him, a letter clutched in her beak.

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Dear Orion,

Congratulations! I have it on good authority that you might very soon be betrothed to the lovely Daphne Greengrass. I'm sure you'll both be very happy and have lots of charming pureblood children together. I am so looking forward to being a granddad, let me tell you.

If you just so happen to already be getting cold feet at the idea, I am of course prepared to plead your case to Grandmother Melania - I'm just generous and kind-hearted that way. Maybe your gratitude for my help could prompt you to tell her that no, you don't need a mother, and yes, your dad is a handsome bachelor at the prime of his life who doesn't deserve to be shackled to some witch. Do we have a deal?

Aside from Melania's nagging, things are going pretty well on the family front. Not only have I been invited to several delicious dinners by Andy and Ted, I've also told Arcturus all about Voldemort's obsession with anagrams as a teenager. He was suitably affronted and is planning on sharing the information with all his equally snobbish friends. I hope the gamble will pay off.

While I really wish we knew what Voldemort is up to, there's not much we can actively do to stop him right now, so in the meantime I've decided to focus on other things. I don't know what the Werewolf situation was like in your old world, but here it's really messed up. I mean, I had to evict a man from his house simply because he'd been unlucky enough to be bitten by a werewolf. I'm sure I don't have to tell you how deeply wrong that is.

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