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Innovator; Chapter 6: Hogsmeade
🕑 Added 2023-09-03 14:22:52 +0000 UTCAuthor’s Note: Hello my dear patron family. Just as promised, Here’s chapter six of Innovator. Hope you like it! Do tell how it was in the comments. Also, Chapters 1-5 are on my fanfiction and ao3 profile.
Author Out!
“I am talking.”
‘I am Thinking’
Spells
“French.”
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Revenge is best served cold.
~Eugene Sue
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Innovator
-Dev Sagittarius Black
~~Chapter 6: Hogsmeade~~
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“Hey look, it’s Harry!”
“Where is he going though? He seems to be in a hurry to go somewhere.”
“Who knows? I wouldn’t want him to come after me with that look on his face.”
Harry ignored all of these murmurs that were going on around him as he followed his brother’s bond through the heir ring. He didn't know what was going on but one thing was sure, his brother was fatally wounded because the pings were getting stronger and out of control.
Running out of the giant wooden doors of Hogwarts, Harry rushed out towards the black lake and was actually surprised when the ‘pull’ took him in front of the whomping willow.
“The Shrieking Shack.” Harry says as he starts walking towards the magical tree, pulling his wand out, the innovator pushes his magic through the wooden knot on the tree’s trunk which stops the movement of its black leafless branches.
Harry then looks at the roots of the tree and thinks about all the situations that his brother might have ended up in to be able to get to the Shrieking shack of all places. He still remembered the first time Sirius had taken him and Alandale and told him how to access, enter and exit the shrieking shack and the history behind its name.
Both Harry and Alan had decided that day itself to never enter the Shack unless actually important. ‘And since you are here Alandale, this means that shit is really serious’ Harry takes a deep breath before lighting his wand with a small Lumos and sliding down the rock and soil pathway so that he could enter the Shack’s secret room that was built for his dead uncle.
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“I am sorry Alandale, but your life is something that only my master can take. I am here only for your blood.”
Brown eyes gleamed in the dim light of the setting sun rays that were entering the room through the broken window and a silver blade shone before it sunk in the smooth flesh of the aforementioned Potter boy’s upper arm and fresh warm dark red blood oozed out from the newly created wound.
Peter Pettigrew smiled in satisfaction at the clean cut that he had made on his target’s arm. He was proud of the fact that his master had chosen him for this mission and not the dumb witch who was currently pampering him.
Although he was pretty sure that he was chosen because that dumb witch might’ve killed the boy rather than just take a vial of blood as was ordered by their master. Peter was still proud of the fact that he was about to finish the mission so easily, he was sure his master would grant him promotion in his ranks.
‘WHAAAAM!’
Pettigrew’s eyes widened as he looked at the now broken door that was dangling from its hinges. Peter wasn’t scared of the door, he was scared of the person who had broken that door.
Harry Potter was standing there, holding his wand and glaring at the form of Peter Pettigrew who was holding a small glass vial and a dagger, going to get some blood from the rather large wound on Alandale Potter’s upper arm.
“Ha-Haarryy .. Ho-How … aa-aree y-you?” Pettigrew stuttered as his memory supplied the incident that had happened three years ago in this same shrieking shack. The moment when Harry and Sirius had held him at their mercy.
That was the first time Wormtail had witnessed the terrifying powers which the boy held, he had fought two of the most feared death eaters alone while Sirius had fought a transformed Remus Lupin; it was a miracle that he had been able to escape and survive all these years on his own.
But seeing the same boy in the same place… it brought back the nightmares, the horrific moment in his life when Wormtail had lost all hope to live and was sure that it was his last day on earth.
“I don’t care how you escaped last time, but miracles don’t happen twice. You’ll die this time!!” Harry glared at the quivering rat before turning to his side “Expecto Patronum.”
The boy watched as thick silvery-white vapour rapidly poured out from the end of his wand and started forming a shape, the long tail formed first followed closely by the limbs and the rosette filed body which took a feline shape. The last to form was the head and the patronus’ fierce white eyes with dark pupils.
Harry looked at the representation of his soul and the majestic member of the feline family, the black panther glared back at its master before dipping its head in respect and standing alert for his orders.
While this was happening, Wormtail knew that his time was close. Last time he had been lucky to have Greyback and Dolohov with him along with a transformed Lupin who hadn’t taken his potion. This time he was all alone and he was sure that he would not survive the Potter’s wrath.
So, the rat focused on escaping the shack as soon as he finished his job, he pressed the wound on the unconscious boy-who-lived’s arm and watched as blood started pouring in the vial. He pressed it tighter so that the vial could be filled with as much blood as possible, time was of essence here.
After giving the order, Harry watched as his patronus ran outside the shack and towards the person it was meant to go for.
The green eyed mage then turned towards the snivelling man who was putting the stopper on a glass vial that contained a dark red fluid ‘Alandale’s blood’ Harry thought angrily as he looked at his fallen sibling who was still unconscious and was bleeding profusely.
“WORMTAIL Expulso!” Harry screamed and saw his spell impact the rat animagus who was thrown back into the wall behind him.
“Ha-agh .... Harry, please try-try to liste-”
“CONFRINGO! REDUCTO!!” Harry wasn’t listening to anything anymore, last time he had made that mistake and ended up losing Remus Lupin to this rat’s and his friend’s hands, this time? No chance.
Peter dodged the upcoming curse and shrank to his animagus form, he knew that he was no match for the boy more than that he had no idea exactly who Harry had called with his Panther patronus ‘Hopefully not him’ he thought as he dodged the organ expelling curse and ran under one of the broken benches.
Harry’s eyes were glowing with pure unadulterated power as he searched for the rat’s presence. His body was glowing at specific points through his white shirt and Hogwarts robes, he knew that removing his clothes would give him more room and easier movement along with easy access to all those runes he had made on his body but this was most certainly not the time for that.
He spotted the rat running towards the bench and screamed another blasting hex. Harry knew the rat was still alive. How? Because there wasn’t any dead body or splattered blood. And Harry won’t rest till he has seen the rat’s dead body.
Wormtail ran through the old thrown piano and towards the broken window, if only he could run through the window, he’d finally be able to escape the monster that was after him.
“Ha-Harr … Harrryy?”
Harry looked down at Alandale’s groaning form, his brother was slowly coming back to consciousness, Harry had no idea how Wormtail had managed to grab hold of his brother and bring him all the way from Hogwarts to the Shrieking Shack, but he wasn’t going to interrogate the rat right now.
Right now, he knew that if his brother woke up then all he would do was become a hindrance and Wormtail might be able to run away again, and that…was not an option “Stupefy.” Harry stunned his brother again and started looking for the rat again.
“Accio rat!” Harry called out only for three random rats to come screaming at him, he cancelled the spell and watched them scurry away.
“Come out you damn coward! Come out like the time you killed Remus! Come out like the time you killed my parents!” Harry screamed out “COME OUT AND TAKE YOUR DEATH!” The boy fired a random Bombarda at one of the cupboards and was surprised when he heard a surprised squeak from beneath the rumble.
But before he could do anything, one of the closed windows was smashed open and a mangy black mutt which looked more like a grimm came inside the room through the broken window.
“Sirius, the rat is still inside this room.” Harry told him and saw the dog look at his stunned brother who was still bleeding, then look back at Harry and bark.
“Wormtail did that, he has Alandale’s blood. I just stunned him for obvious reasons.” Harry shrugged when he saw Sirius morph back and move towards Alandale to heal him. The innovator then turned back at the pile that was once a cupboard, though he knew that the rat might’ve escaped by now.
Wormtail was shocked as he saw one of his former friends jump in through the broken window ‘Damnit, there are two of them now, I need to escape soon now’ the rat knew that Harry would never let him run away from the doorway as he was the one standing guard, there was only one way now….Wormtail looked at the broken window and knew that he’ll have to take the risk or die today.
Harry was looking around the room, hoping to hear even a simple creak that would alert him of the rat’s presence, he knew that the rat can't use his portkey at the moment because he was in his animagus form and would need to revert back to his human self to be able to use the portkey ‘As if I would let him do that’
Wormtail knew that he couldn't take Alandale hostage like he did last time, as Sirius was with the weaker Potter right now, and Harry wasn’t going to listen to him anymore, hell the rat was pretty damn sure that the younger monster would shoot him first then ask things later.
So, first the rat tried to sneak closer to the broken window as much as he could, he was about one meter away from the window and knew that since he was too small and the mirror was too high for him, he’d need to morph back to be able to jump out of the broken window.
Harry knew that the rat would try to escape from one of the smaller openings, that’s why he was swiftly conjuring bricks in all of the small openings, that’s when something unexpected happened.
The closet, closest to the broken window, fell forward, Harry stepped back to avoid it and was surprised to see Wormtail standing there, fear clearly etched on his ugly face. Before Harry could comprehend, the rat threw a surprisingly strong stunner at him and jumped out of the window.
Well, more like ‘tried’ to jump out of the window really, because while Harry had dodged the stunner, he fired an Organ expelling curse and Sirius had fired a expulsion hex at the rat animagus.
The rat was lucky enough to dodge the organ expelling curse but the bombarding hex hit him straight in his back, literally throwing the Pettigrew seven to eight metres in the air before he landed with a crunch and rolled a few more.
The hole in the shack was big enough for a grown man to pass through easily which both Harry and Sirius did.
The duo started moving out towards the prone form of Wormtail who was taking shallow breaths, there were glass pieces that were embedded in his skin and his clothes as well as his face was ripped due to the broken window, Harry was sure that the rat might’ve also broken a few bones.
Wormtail took hold of his bearings as he coughed out some blood and looked at his approaching demise that was walking towards him in the form of Harry Potter and Sirius Black. He knew he would die here today, still he tried one last attempt at morphing again because his job was still not accomplished.
Harry saw the balding dirty man morph back into his rat form and run towards the forest. Both of them started running towards the rat and firing hexes and curses at him who was doing an expert job of running in a zig-zag manner to avoid being hit with their spells.
“Sirius, hit a blasting hex at the ground just next to the rat, I'll hit him with the cutting curse after that.” Harry said and prepared the cutting hex as Sirius nodded his head and took aim to blast the ground near the rat.
The rat was now going down the slope and was near the forest line when Sirius’ blasting curse struck the ground, unfortunately instead of going to the rat’s side as they had planned, it struck just behind him launching the rat meters above the ground and towards the forbidden forest.
Wormtail hit a thorny bush before the momentum propelled him to be thrown on a stone and tumble down the ground before hitting the thick roots of a big tree. His vision was darkening and he knew that he wouldn't live any longer, he also knew that he can’t run or survive the portkey either, therefore he did the only thing he could do.
Wormtail groaned a bit as he slowly removed his outer coat that was torn and bloodied, he placed the vial containing Alandale Potter’s blood in one of its pockets, he was thankful that the mad witch had already charmed the vial to be unbreakable cause he knew that he wouldn’t have been able to charm the vial now and it wouldn’t have survived this journey.
Wormtail heard the crunch of twigs and leaves from behind the tree, he knew that his time was coming to an end, so he pulled out the small piece of wood that was the portkey to Riddle manor and placed it inside the overcoat before activating it. The coat swirled in itself and vanished with a small ‘pop’ sound.
Peter knew that the sound was enough for both Harry and Sirius to reach him, he knew he was going to die now but he was satisfied. He knew that what he did was wrong, hell he knew that he had been doing wrong since the time he had joined the dark side but there was no turning back now, this was his path, the path he had chosen and he was ready to face the consequences.
“Pettigrew.”
Wormtail looked up and saw two wands pointed right in his face as both Harry and Sirius looked down at him with nothing but cold fury, their eyes were emotionless but he knew, he knew that they were angry, really angry…almost livid. And there was nothing more they wanted to do than to kill him.
“Can’t kill me can you?” Wormtail choked a laugh “You don’t have what it takes to kill someone while looking in their eyes. You don’t have the guts to do it, I feel pity for Remus and James, to think that their friends can’t even take their so-called revenge….sad really.” He chuckled.
The two men looked at each other before looking at the rat animagus and sighing “We aren’t afraid or hesitating Wormtail, we were just deciding something, which your statements helped us decide.”
“What?” The ever clueless rat animagus asked Harry whose eyes got a manac glint in them.
“How much should we torture you before we killing your pitiful existence.”
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“You think we were a bit too harsh with him?” Sirius asked Harry as they were walking back towards the Shrieking Shack.
Harry looked behind him at Wormtail’s body…or whatever was left of the rat as the Thestrals were busy tearing into his flesh “No, he got what he deserved.”
Sirius shrugged and flicked his wand to clean both his and Harry's clothes “What now? What about Alandale?”
“My dear morally ‘good’ brother won’t be able to stomach the fact that we killed someone even if he deserved it more than anything. So, we just tell him that Wormtail escaped like last time and leave it at that, the rat has been dead for the general population for more than a decade so no one would care anyways.” Harry said as they climbed the slope.
Sirius thought about this for a moment before shrugging his shoulders, “Works for me.” Then the Lord of House Black stopped walking and turned towards the point where he knew Wormtail had been killed before he looked at the sky.
“I hope you three were watching this and are happy with our decision, I know I shouldn’t have let Harry kill but we know it’s not his first time and he deserved to take the revenge too. So, I hope you won’t be too angry with us. Oh and you better torture that rat if you ever meet him up there.”
“I am sure they will Padfoot.” Harry said as he looked at the sky and whispered “I am sure they will.”
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“Witty.”
“No.”
“Intelligence.”
“No”
“Invention?”
“Not correct, it’s clear you don’t know the password Miss Greengrass.”
Daphne growled in frustration and stomped her right foot as she glared at the portrait with her bright blue eyes. Here she was wearing her best outfit for her date…well not date date but yeah, the date that she somehow got out of Harry as his punishment for making her wait in the library and this guardian portrait wasn’t even opening.
“I am telling you, I was in there with him and he didn’t curse me even once! That means he permits my entry right? That has to mean something!” Daphne said as she tried her puppy dog eyes again.
“I am sure Mr Potter allowed that, but for future entries you should’ve at least asked him the password. Also, I am a portrait Miss Greengrass, those don’t work on me.” the portrait of Marcus the Manipulator smiled in a condescending manner at the young heiress who muttered something about ‘eyes working on portraits’ and ‘not being cute enough anymore’
“But how many do you think have been in there and came out completely safe and sound?” Daphne said and saw the portrait thinking a bit.
“You’re right, there haven’t been any student visitors except Mr Zabini but-ah well, you don’t have to wait anymore, Miss Greengrass because-” The portrait started opening “-Mr Potter is here.”
Daphne took a step back and looked at the newly arrived Potter heir from his tips to his toes before scrunching her face “Eww…yuck.”
Harry frowned at the reaction and her presence on his door “What?”
“You’re going to wear this to our first da-I mean our first outing?” Daphne asked him, pointing at what Harry was wearing.
Harry checked himself: a shirt, jeans, sneakers and his sweater which he usually wore. He couldn’t see anything wrong with his current outfit, “This is what I wear everyday.”
“Exactly! That’s my point!” Daphne said as she grabbed Harry’s shoulder and forcefully turned him around “These are your everyday clothes and we are going out today, I mean for work purposes of course, still you need to think about your public image. Yes, your public image will obviously be ruined if you wear this.”
“I don’t care about my public image and I don’t think people will think anything less or more if I start dressing up. This is a work trip to help you with your side project, clothes don’t matter.” Harry said and was about to move towards the great hall when Daphne grabbed his wrist and stopped him.
“Of course it does!” She said and started pulling him back into his suite “We need you to be perfect to look the part.”
“Stop manhandling me, woman! And what part?” Harry cried as Daphne pulled him back into his suite.
“Woman?! From which side do I look like a woman to you?!! I am a girl, thank you very much.” The Greengrass heiress said out loud, carefully ignoring his question regarding his ‘part’ in looking like they were on a date. She wasn’t dumb enough to say that out loud.
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Harry enters the courtyard and starts moving towards Blaise who was standing with Fleur Delacour, Cho Chang and Marietta Edgecombe near one of the thestral drawn carriages. The innovator looks at Daphne and notices that she was not her usual self now, instead she had her usual ‘public’ self now, even her perfect stoic ‘ice-queen’ mask.
Daphne on the other hand was searching for her best friend who was going to accompany Astoria and her friends because Daphne was finally going on a ‘date’, she spotted the girl right away.
It wasn’t difficult either considering that Tracey was looking straight at her and once she noticed that she had Daphne’s attention, the auburn haired girl gave not-so-subtle wink and a thumbs-up making Daphne blush a bit, which she hid with a small cough.
Though Daphne had also noticed her little sister Astoria looking at her and glaring at Harry, the ice queen sighed knowing full well that she’ll soon be facing the ‘wrath’ of Astoria ‘Tori’ Greengrass for not being with her when it was her first ‘official’ Hogsmeade trip.
“Wow Harry, I didn’t know you had these in your closet, you look really handsome, many girls will look out for you today.” Cho said as she looked at Harry completely missing the way Daphne’s eyes flashed at that before noticing her “And you look beautiful too Dahne, I can call you Daphne right?”
Daphne agreed and they greeted others that were present there before they sat in the thestral drawn carriages and started moving towards the magical village. The seating arrangement was such that Harry was sandwiched between Daphne and Fleur.
“I must say though, you did something which no one has been able to do to date.” Blaise said looking at Daphne who raised her right eyebrow at the Italian boy’s statement.
“This is the first time that Harry has left his hell hole and is going to Hogsmeade. I applaud you for doing something that no one, not even I have been able to do.” Blaise said and grinned when Daphne acknowledged this with a single nod before looking at Harry.
“You haven’t visited Hogsmeade even once?” She asked the stoic boy who was looking at his Blaise..well more like glaring at the boy, still he shook his head in denial.
“Which means this is your first visit to Hogsmeade right?” Daphne again asked him and saw the boy nod his head in agreement and this…made her grin mischievously. Something that scared Harry for some reason.
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Stepping down the carriage, the group looked around the village once before deciding the shops that they wanted to visit. They were about to move when they heard an unwelcome voice greet them.
“So the veela did get someone, huh? What a shame she’s into girls, she’d have made a good concubine someday.” Draco Malfoy drawled as he moved towards Harry’s group with Pansy hanging on his arm and his two lackeys behind him along with Millicent Bulstrode.
“What do you want, Malfoy?” Blaise asked the blonde ponce who sneered in his direction.
“Learn when to speak Zabini, it’s a shame that someone who betrayed family tradition like you is allowed to breathe the same air as us Malfoys.” Draco drawled before eying Fleur again, “The offer still stands Delacour, you can leave that pathetic group you call friends and join a real man like me.”
Before Fleur could retort, Cho came to her friend’s defence “A real man who can’t even pee without his bodyguards, some real man you are Malfoy, now piss off and don’t disturb us anymore.”
Draco glared at Cho “Looks like last week’s victory and your new friend circle has gone to your head Chang, it seems we need to show you your reality again. I think all of that falling head first during snitch chasing has finally roughed up your brain too much.”
Pansy started laughing out loud along with others near her, she was about to throw her own two cents when she noticed something….or someone.
Daphne Greengrass was standing at the back of the group, she didn't know that the ice-queen was with them. They had noticed the group only when they were about to leave so they had assumed that Greengrass was here to ask something from Harry Potter regarding the new side project he was helping her with. But it seems they were wrong.
Daphne Greengrass was here and unfortunately for Pansy, the ice queen was glaring daggers at her and her boyfriend, which meant that Daphne was getting pissed. And a pissed off Daphne is not something that Pansy would ever like to know again. Not again. Never again.
So Pansy did the only logical thing that she could do and tightened her hold on Draco’s arm who was still laughing at his lame joke “I think we should go Draco, I don’t want them to waste our entire day like this.” She said out loud before leaning in.
“We made a mistake Draco, Greengrass is with this group and so is Harry Potter, I think we should move away.” Pansy whispered in Draco’s ear as subtly as she could.
Malfoy didn’t care one bit about Greengrass, after all he was a Malfoy and they were on par with the Greengrasses almost everywhere whether it be Wizengamot or wealth. He was sure he and his father could take down Cygnus Greengrass any day and live to tell the tale.
But Harry Potter was another matter altogether. The boy had influence, power, and almost infinite wealth that was growing as he breathed.
The boy was the heir to the Potter and Peverell fortune and future Lord of Houses Potter and Peverell, but all of it paled in comparison to the magical prowess and power that he held. Draco had only seen ‘it’ once, and had been at the receiving end of the boy’s ire, but he had stayed clear of the boy’s after that one encounter in his third year.
And he prayed to whichever deity that was listening, to help him stay far away from anything involving the eldest Potter. Even his father, Lord Lucius Malfoy, stayed clear of the boy’s field of wrath and had always instructed Draco to do the same.
Draco Malfoy still remembered his father’s words when he had summoned him in his study and told him that in this entire world, there were two people whom he should never challenge in any way, one was their Dark Lord and the other was Harry James Potter. His father never considered Albus Dumbledore to be a threat but Harry Potter? Most definitely.
Draco didn’t like it though, not one bit. He knew that Potter wasn’t that special and he knew that he could fight the boy if push came to shove. So for now, the young Malfoy was just waiting for an opportunity to push the Potter heir and show his father that the innovator was not as dangerous as he had made it sound.
“Yes you're right, Pans, we shouldn’t waste our time here any more.” Malfoy said as he sneered one last time in Cho’s direction before turning towards the village and swaggering away, leaving his group to follow behind him.
Pansy looked at Daphne and bowed her head “I am sorry Daphne, I didn’t know you were with Chang and Delacour. I am really sorry, please forgive me and..” Pansy looked up, fear clearly etched on her pug face “Please don’t bring us in front of ‘The Council' tonight.” She said before scurrying off.
The group looked at the running form of Pansy Parkinson as they replayed what the pug face Slytherin had said again and again before coming to the same conclusion and laughing out loud.
“So it was you who scared the Slytherins, eh Daphne?” Cho said as she put an arm around the Slytherin girl’s neck.
“I must say, eet was indeed quite funny, it seems like we’ll get along quite well Mees Greengrass.” Fleur said and grabbed Daphne’s arm.
“This deserves a treat! All hail Daphne Greengrass, the one who protects us from Malfoy!” Blaise proclaimed loudly and the girls laughed as they agreed, pulling Daphne along in the direction of the three Broomsticks.
Harry looked at this whole show from behind the group before he shrugged his shoulders and followed them, it wasn’t like he had anywhere else he could go right now either.
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The group entered the Three Broomsticks chatting happily about anything and everything. They chose one of the many booths to sit around but just as they had settled, Daphne stood up confusing all others including Harry.
“Thank you for your company, I really want to extend our stay with you but Harry and I came here for a specific reason, right Harry?” She asked the boy who nodded his head, because as far as he knew they were here so he could help her buy a few things for her project.
But his agreement wasn’t seen like that by others. Blaise, Cho and Marrietta’s eyes widened and Fleur smiled happily that one of the few men she considered her friend was finally venturing into the next phase of his life and coming out of his previous gloomy one.
“So, since Harry can only give me three hours due to his busy schedule, I would like to utilise every minute that I could. Hope you understand?” Daphne asked the three pasting a fake smile on her face which she usually used to look innocent and friendly.
“Yes yes, we understand Daphne. Go Harry, spend your time with her and finish up what you ‘came here to do’. I wish you all the very best.” Cho said as she smiled brightly at the confused Potter heir.
“And don’t forget to tell me the details later Harry!” Blaise grinned before he got a bonk on the back of his head by a pissed off Fleur who was muttering something involving words ‘men’, ‘pig’ and ‘dumb’.
But again just as they were about to move out, Daphne gave a mischievous grin that only Harry saw before she cleared her throat and gave a bright smile to others in the group “Thank you so much for helping me with this and understanding. Though I am sure that since Harry has already visited Hogsmeade, he can agree to another outing, this time a friend-outing. Right?”
The girls were confused for only a few seconds but everything came clear when Daphne gave a small wink. That was all the signal they needed to start pestering for another trip, this time with them as a group. Harry was trying his best to deny them but one boy against three girls? Definitely more difficult than it seemed.
In the end Daphne bent down to Harry’s ear and whispered that her ‘three hours’ time starts only when they are the only ones together, which means the time that he was wasting here will never be counted in those three hours.
After that, Harry had no choice left but to agree to another Hogsmeade outing, just so they would leave him and he could finish up his ‘three hour punishment’ as soon as possible.
The duo left their friends and Harry started moving towards one of the small empty booths that was in the corner of the populated pub with Daphne in tow. Unfortunately, before they could have reached their destination, someone bumped into Harry.
“Ah hello Harry…I am quite surprised to see you here, I was of the opinion that you never visited this village?” Angelique Beaufort said as she scanned Harry, her friends behind her doing the same as they mde doe eyes at the Innovator.
“Yes, I don’t. This time is the only exception.” Harry said as he took a step back and made way for Angelique to pass through, he frowned when the French beauty didn’t even move.
Angelique raised one of her eyebrows as she came a bit closer to Harry who was openly frowning at the foreign diva “Oh really? Then you should join me Harry. I am quite new here, you can show me around this village.”
Daphne glared at the French cow who was hogging up her ‘Harry time’ as well as blatantly flirting with her beloved. That was not allowed, only she had the permission to do that with her Harry.
“I am new to this village myself Beaufort, therefore I am sure that I'm not the person you want as your tour guide.” Harry said and was about to go to the booth when Angelique placed her hand on his chest, stopping him.
“Oh? Then you should definitely join us, Harry.” She purred as she invaded his personal space making Daphne livid “I am sure we would have quite the fun time exploring the village.” Harry made a face at that and grabbed her hand before removing it and glaring at the Beaufort girl.
“I am quite a busy person, Beaufort, I am sure there are more than a handful people who might be interested in that. Unfortunately, I am not one of them, now if you'll excuse me.” Harry scoffed and surprisingly enough grabbed Daphne’s hand as he pushed past the shocked French beauty.
Daphne was definitely surprised by the fact that Harry held her hand and pulled her along with him, she knew that the boy didn’t do this and this might be something that he did impulsively, still she was delighted with how thin had turned out. They ordered fish and chips as well as two glasses of butterbeer and settled comfortably into the small booth.
Daphne was about to start a general topic to divert Harry’s attention away from the incident when she watched something that made her narrow her eyes.
Angelique Beaufort stood up from her table and left for the washroom. Daphne still remembered how that girl had invaded Harry's personal space and tried to take him away from their first date. Usually, Daphne didn’t bother doing things this way, but this time she was not going to simply sit by and let it happen, this time she’ll fight for her right.
“Please excuse me Harry, I have to go to the washroom.” Daphne told him and without waiting for his response, left the booth clenching her fists as she pictured the ways she’ll teach the pompous girl some good lessons.
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Daphne joined Harry after some time, she had already healed her hands and was definitely satisfied with her punishment. She was sure that Angelique would retaliate, but that was fine with her. She can take that brat any day.
But for now, Daphne knew that Angelique had understood the lesson quite well. Which was good enough in her books ‘Ah..what a good day’ she thought and was about to sit when another delicious idea formed in her mind and she decided to plop down quite close to Harry.
Harry frowned at Daphne’s new position but before he could tell her to shift away, the girl opened her purse and pulled out a small notepad with a pen and started writing while speaking about her plans. Completely ignoring the minimal distance between them.
So Harry decides to shift a bit away from her, just so he could make some room between them, but it was as if Daphne was waiting for him to do this, shifts towards him and ends up sitting really close to the innovator, their legs practically touching. All the while telling him about using some rune to make an activation password.
Harry is about to move away from her when Daphne leans in and whispers while looking at him with a small smirk on her face “If you ever try to do that again I will forget about both of our public images and sit on your lap.”
Just as Harry is going to refute her, they watch Angelique Beaufort limping out of the washroom door trying to conceal her bruises and move towards the table where her friends were sitting. The group of girls saw her like this and ran to help her while the pub descended into hushed voices.
Harry watches as the entire pub slowly quiets down while the cause of this silence turns to look at him before glaring at his companion. The boy was surprised to see that his companion was glaring just as hard back, if not harder.
When the French gaggle of girls had left the pub and the establishment had resumed its usual hubbub of voices, Harry asked Daphne what that was all about. Daphne simply smiled before shrugging her shoulders and said “Nothing for you to worry about, so where was I? Ah yes..the activation charm that I’ve thought…”
Harry was about to ask the girl more but ultimately decides that it’s better to focus on the thing that he actually came to do than to discuss pointless things with her, so he starts focusing on Daphne’s plans that she was drawing in the notepad.
Daphne on the other hand looked at Harry and gave a soft smile. This is how it should have been from the start. Harry and her against the world and no one to interfere. She gave herself a mental pat on a successfully executed plan that was allowing her to sit this close with Harry without him complaining about it ‘What a good day indeed…’
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“I still can’t believe that these English women would resort to violence like this.”
“Not all, I am sure that she was the only one with such barbaric ideas crawling inside her head.”
“To surprise someone when they are all alone, what a cheap trick. Shame on her!”
“But we can’t just let her get away with this can we? We need to teach her that we aren’t to be messed with, right Angel?”
Angelique was moving back towards her carriage with her friends. They were on the way back and she had told them all that had happened inside that washroom.
“I will crush her. I so want to slap her, way harder than she had slapped me. But there’s just one problem.” Angelique grumbled.
“What?” One of her closest friends asked her.
“Greengrass did it when Harry wasn’t able to see it. But if I do something, I’ll end up ruining my image and by extension my chances with him. Therefore losing him to Petrova or Greengrass, which is completely unacceptable.” She growled, clenching her fists in frustration.
“Then we just need to corner her somehow. When she’ll be all alone and at our mercy.” The same girl replied, forcing Angelique to glare at her “I know that you dumbass, I want to know the ‘how’ part.”
“I can help you with that.”
The entire entourage stopped midway and turned to look in the direction where the voice came from. Angelique narrowed her eyes at the blonde haired boy that was standing a few feet away beneath one of the trees with two big burly boys behind him who looked like the end results of a cross between Gorilla and human. Yuck.
“Malfoi, right? Drakey Malfoi?” The french diva asked him as he swaggered towards her group.
Draco was about to sneer at her but controlled himself, he needed them for his own goals “Malfoy, Draco Malfoy.” He said and forwarded his hand forward before grabbing Angelique’s hand and kissing her knuckles.
“What did you mean by your earlier statement? Why would you help me? Because as far as I know, you are in the same house as that Greengrass girl.” Angelique narrowed her eyes at him “Is this some elaborate ploy of yours to destroy my reputation?”
Draco smirked at her before shaking his head in denial “No, not a ploy. I will help you get your revenge today itself.”
“Why? What do you want from me?” Angelique was still dubious of the Malfoy heir’s true intentions and she wanted to understand things as much as possible before taking any step.
“I have my own reasons to help you and I don’t need anything special from you. But let’s say, I’ll call this a favour and ask something of equal importance in the near or distant future.”
Angelique thought for sometime before telling him to swear on it. After the oaths were done, Angelique asked him “So what’s the plan?”
After a long time, Draco Malfoy was finally smiling, unfortunately, his smile was not friendly, not friendly at all.
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Ending Note: There you have it fellas, chapter six of Innovator. Liked it? Loved it? Needs some changes? Please, do tell.
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Comments
Kim S
Though some of the spelling errors were annoying, other than that however, it was a great chapter.
