Chapter 8: Chapter 8: The Troll
[The house of Knowledge...haha. If that's what you want, better be.."RAVENCLAW."] The hat shouted the last word out loud.
Syrme took the hat off and went to the table with blue flags. After a while, Sebas appeared next to him.
"You sure know how to make an entrance."
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The rest of the dinner passed quickly. There were a lot of knowing looks and whispering around Syrme. He sighed and admitted that if he didn't want to go crazy here, he needed to get used to the looks and gossips about him. The food was delicious, and it wasn't poisoned, so it was a plus.
Sebas made a friend called Padma Patil, and he introduced her to Syrme. She was a very tranquil person, so she was at the moment in his good books. When they finished the meal, the prefects led the firsties to their dorms. To enter the common room of Ravenclaw, you had to climb several staircases. When you arrived, the knocker gave you a riddle, if you didn't know the answer you couldn't enter. As simple as that.
The beds in the dorms were comfortable, and the ambient of the house was excellent and pacific. The head of the house is half-human and half-goblin, he is very enthusiastic, but overall he is a nice person. Very excited about me being in his class and house. Syrme guessed it was because he was the son of one of his favourites students, Lily Evans.
The next day he and Sebas started with Transfiguration. Handy magic, and a very deadly one too. Syrme was also very interested in which animal would he be if he decided to become an animagus.
Potions class was... a peculiar class. The professor spent the hour looking at Syrme like he was looking at a ghost. The treatment he got from Severus was very different from the books.
The rest of the classes were excellent. Very educational. But, also very slow-paced. In the first week, Sebas and Syrme were advancing classes to an almost scary speed.
The mail came in the form of a large package. It was from Japan, so he decided to open it in private. It was a sword, to be more precise, it was a green-coloured katana very similar to the one from the anime Owari no Seraph, whose owner was Yūichirō Hyakuya. It was perfect for his kenjutsu style.
He went to Japan somewhere between February and asked the owner of a very famous blacksmith store to make him a sword. The owner already knew from the way he looked at him that he was going to use it, but he chose to say nothing and started making the sword.
Syrme had a though and complex personality. If anyone needed help, his first action would be helping that person. But, if said action causes some harm or puts in danger those close to him, then he may choose to do nothing. Some people will see this type of conduct of a selfish person.
He didn't care. He got his second life, and he isn't going to waste it in recoiling about what other people think. Syrme is just a human, and he just wanted to do what he thought was right to feel good about himself.
At one point before Halloween, he decided to confront the head of the Griffindor house and asked her why did she look at him that way in the Sorting.
She really thought he was dead and some random boy decided to be funny. She explained that after finding out he was disappeared, she and Dumbledore agreed not to say anything to the magical world yet and when the sorting came she would clarify that Harry Potter was going to go to Hogwarts in the future. Dumbledore was sure he was still alive, but when she and Severus came to the Dursleys and Harry wasn't there. She tried to think about where to look next when she went to Severus for advice.
That was when she noticed the gaze of Severus.
She was almost certain. Harry Potter was dead.
Severus was a very good legillimens so when Severus came a little earlier than Minerva into the Dursleys household and didn't find the son of Lily he became so enraged with the bigoted family that he drilled into their heads for information. And he came into a dead Harry Potter after a beating.
But Dumbledore was still very sure he was alive. She wanted to believe that, but she still remembered the look of Severus that day.
When a good looking boy with green eyes and no scar whatsoever responded to the call of a supposed disappeared boy, she didn't know what to do.
She didn't explain the legilimens part, she said that Severus was angry when he found out, but Syrme just connected the dots of the story.
Halloween came.
In dinner, someone was missing.
Someone with very large tooth and curly wild hair.
Just like in the books.
When Quirrel came barging into the hall screaming his guts out, Syrme let out a sigh.
"What a drag." He complained. He looked around for Sebastian.
"Sebas, come help me bring someone, please." He commented to him.
"Someone? It has to do with what that professor was screaming, isn't it?" Sebas asked.
"Yes, now please, we don't want to waste more time. When you find that person, you take her away from the fight. I take care of the troll. Trolls have a high resistance to magic, but they are slow, so you can dodge easily if he targets you." Syrme said quickly while running.
"Roger." Sebas said with a military salute.
Syrme reinforced his legs and took a sprint to the incoming sound of grunting to the left.
"She is in the girl's bathroom. The troll just got in, and we are 14 seconds away. Turn right, then left and the bathroom is straight ahead. Move smoothly. We don't want anyone to get hurt. Take the girl, leave. Easy." Syrme said listening to the dragging club of the troll thanks to his enhanced ears.
"I'm ready." Sebas said seriously.
'I happen to have a new katana to test. Little guinea pig.'
"AHH!!" The girl screaming was close to them.
'Here I dream, here I learn.' Though quickly.
When the troll came to Syrme's sight zone, he took out the katana from the inventory and jumped straight at him. He tried tilting his body to the right, making his body stand almost outside down while he was still in the air and slashed the two times in the direction of the arms of the troll.
He landed with his two feet and didn't wait for the pained scream of the beast.
'Mana Burst (Lightning)!' He passed between the legs of the troll in a blink of an eye and slashed his heels. The troll couldn't support himself, so he fell facedown to the floor.
The troll was utterly knocked out thanks to the force of the fall.
To the side, the girl and Sebas were missing.
'No casualties. Mission complete.'
'The bathroom is a little destroyed but compared to the amount of damage he could have caused if I wasn't here.'
'Which reminds me...'
'I... wasn't here.'
He disappeared into the corridors of the castle.
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Syrme reunited with Sebas in the common room of Ravenclaw.
"Isn't she supposed to be in her common room?" Syrme said amused to the boy looking like a deer caught in the headlights.
"I don't know what to do! She doesn't let go! So I just brought her here!" He said, almost comically.
"Thank you..." She said in a small voice.
"You can stay with us, and tomorrow we take care of making up some excuse for the teachers." Syrme said soothingly.
"Good job, Sebas." Syrme said, smiling.
"I didn't do much..." Sebas rebutted, scratching his back head with his hand.
"I took care of the problem. But you had a more important job, to took care of the innocent in danger." Syrme said proudly. Sebas just blushed and said nothing.
The troll was probably also innocent in all of this. But, something caused him to get mad to a point where he was trashing wherever he was going. The only reasonable solution was knocking him out. If there were more complications or more innocents in line, Syrme would just kill him on the spot.
Little sobs were heard that night. But, an inaudible promise of friendship was heard from the girl that night too.
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