HP : The Chronicles

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"That, Harry, is yet another good question." Severus stated, making a mental list of the abilities of each kind of snake he knew. Many could poison, some had magical properties of various types and many -magical or not- could kill. But petrify? "And one I'm afraid I can't answer." The potions master concluded with a sigh. He could already feel a massive headache coming his way.

Harry was fuming; it was true that it wasn't the first time it happened, but he was slowly getting frustrated. Adrian was whispering with Ron and Hermione again, their hushed tones not passing as anything close to the inconspicuous conversation they aimed for. And it wasn't that Harry was opposed to Adrian having his secrets and his own life; he imagined being opposed to something like that would be pretentious at the least, considering the secrets himself kept. But they were twins. And while he kept his secrets, the green eyed boy thought, he did it to protect his brother; if telling wouldn't put his brother in immediate danger, he would have told him everything. But this wasn't a life and death situation; it was some sort of mischief Adrian was going to get involved with along with Ron and Hermione and, once again, he wasn't included in their private circle.

So he just watched them from behind his Charms textbook, talking and plotting, ignorant to him observing them. But then again the rest of the Common Room seemed oblivious to their conspiratorial conversation; his fellow Gryffindors were currently far too absorbed looking at the next grand pyrotechnic display of the Weasley twins to notice, so the golden trio -as the students had taken to calling Adrian, Ron and Hermione- had no reason to believe they were being watched. Harry sighed and tried to concentrate on his textbook again; it was Charms, this time for real, just not of the second year. Though anyone that looked at what he was reading would be none the wiser, he was studying sixth year material.

His attention however, as it usually went when his brother was plotting something that could possibly prove dangerous for his own wellbeing, just wasn't in it. It had been a hectic month since Severus and Harry had realised it was a snake that caused the attacks; what type was still uncertain and Severus was getting on his last nerve, looking down right murderous while reading all the books he could find on the subject. Harry himself was dividing his time between trying to find out what his brother was up to and moving on with his studies; the potions master had urged him to go on, reminding him that falling behind schedule would do nothing but prevent him from dealing with the snake when the time came.

Severus of course, had no intention of letting him deal with Slytherin's monster alone -probably didn't even want him near a ten mile radius of it, Harry realized- but he was doing his best to make sure the green eyed wizard wasn't obsessing over it. Harry, on his part, was trying to fill his free time with anything else but the snake, since he had hit a dead end on his own research; so he read on alchemy, charms, hexes, potions, runes and even his animagus transformation…

"…are you sure we have everything we need?" Ron asked from across the room. And speaking of animagus transformations, the green eyed wizard thought, he really shouldn't have heard Ron from that far away; the redhead was whispering after all. He had noticed occurrences like that before and a bit of careful reading on some old parchments from Nicholas's collection Severus had smuggled in the castle confirmed his suspicions; it seemed that, once an animagus transformation was completed successfully, elements of the human and the animal form leaked to each other. It was usually the stronger or one of the strongest characteristics of each form, so Severus and Harry had been experiencing some improvement in their hearing, one of the strongest assets of a wolf. It also explained, the green eyed boy guessed, why both his and Severus's wolf forms were pitch black, what with their hair and everything. And it definitely gave him some insight on Sirius's character.

"Everything is set; don't worry, Ron." Hermione assured him and then they resumed talking, whispering too softly for even Harry to hear in the crowded Common Room that was still too noisy, despite the firework show was over. Harry knew enough to understand that, when asking if they had everything they needed, Ron was referring to potions ingredients. After a disastrous potions class where a Filibuster firework had magically appeared inside a cauldron filled with Swelling Solution that ended up on various students, a fuming Severus had discovered some ingredients from his personal storage had gone missing.

After Harry had eavesdropped on his brother a bit, they had managed to put two and two together and the green eyed wizard had to restrain Severus from slipping some truth serum in Adrian's cup, reminding him it was slightly illegal to drug students. And though they had no real evidence of the golden trio being behind the theft, the potions master had made the unnerving discovery that the ingredients taken were used primarily for the Polyjuice potion. Harry was still mentally recovering from that one.

"Studying for Charms?" Neville's voice sounded tired as he slumped next to his friend on the couch, his DADA textbook -well, one of them- in his hand and a look of hopelessness on his face.

"Yes." Harry offered simply, smiling sympathetically at his friend's predicament.

"I swear, if I read another line on how amazing Lockhart is, I'm hexing him next chance I get!"

"That's the spirit!" Harry exclaimed, congratulating Neville who was still a bit taken aback from his own proclamation.

"Lockhart's books are messing with my mind, I swear." Well, at least you're not dealing with the voice of an unknown murderous snake, Nev, Harry thought tiredly.

"I think your mind is rebelling against Lockhart's writing, honestly." Harry offered. It was nice to see Neville expressing himself without feeling embarrassed, even if it was just when he was around, the green eyed wizard surmised.

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