Harry Potter The Serpent’s Turn

"Alright how many conversations did I have with him outside of quidditch or had nothing to do with quidditch?" Harry asked, waiting for her answer. Her frown increased before she slumped her shoulders and sighed.

"Okay, fair point." Angelina replied. "But still, they should have believed you when you said no. Plus the twins are not in our good books at the moment."

"Yeah," Katie nodded. "a joke and all is good but this is really not the time for them to be joking around. I mean you're in a tournament for seventh years, hated by most of the school, in potential danger and all they're doing is laughing at it."

"Never send a baby to do a grown man's job and never expect people to be anything less than they are." Harry responded. "The twins are jokers, they joke and that's pretty much all they do besides playing beaters. I've spent years trying to see the best in people, like I said before, I am tired of it."

"Mr Potter," A voice said, the four turned to see Professor McGonagall walking up to them, her thin lips in a frown as she gave Harry a disapproving look. "here you are." She said as she stopped in front of him.

"Here I am," Harry smiled. "how are you professor?" He said innocently, knowing exactly why she was upset with him.

"You were not seen in school all day yesterday. Where were you?"

"Earth, somewhere around Scotland." Harry answered with a thoughtful face, causing the chasers to smirk.

"Mr Potter, I am not in the mood for jokes." McGonagall said, glaring at him.

"I can see that, your face make it rather clear Professor, tell me do you practise that look or does it just come natural?" Harry grinned.

"Mr Potter that is ten points from Gryffindor and..."

"Only ten?" Harry interrupted with a disbelieving expression. "You total lightweight? Come on we can do better than ten, bring it, I can take it." Harry said enthusiastically.

"Mr Potter, that will be detention!"

"Hmm, no it won't." Harry shook his head.

"What did you say?!" She demanded, furious that he dared talk to her like that. "Mr Potter I am not accustomed to such disrespect!"

"You'd better get used to it then bitch," Harry said as he stood up, he was tempted to laugh at the gasps that came from everyone, he turned to her and looked at her with a straight face. "you see I've checked the rules. Tri-wizard champions do not have to attend detentions and they don't have to attend lessons either, so for this year at least I am free to do whatever the fuck I want. You want to take points, go ahead, it's your house that loses. I'm finding it hard to care if Gryffindor wins the house cup or not, so take as many points as your heart desires, it doesn't matter to me."

"Mr Potter! How dare you speak to me like this?! Even your father, for all of the trouble he caused, would never dare speak to me with such disrespect. I do not care what you think but you shall..."

"Excuse me," Harry said as he cut her off, he took her hat off her head. "just need to borrow this for a sec."

"Mr Potter! Enough of this! You will stop this horrible behaviour now!" She ordered.

"Just a sec," Harry said before he turned the hat upside down, he grabbed his goblet and poured all the juice in it, ignoring the gasp of surprise and disbelieving faces around him. "here ya go." Harry said before he placed the hat back on McGonagall's head, the juice poured out of her hat and down her hair, face and neck. "no I don't think I will stop my behaviour professor, it's rather enjoyable. In fact, it's only getting better from here on out." He grinned before turning to the open jawed chasers. "For your information, this is the 'new Harry Potter'." Harry said before he walked out the hall, his grin never leaving his face.

When Harry arrived back in the chamber he found Dobby sitting on the floor and reading a book like his life depended on it.

"Dobby," Harry called, causing the elf to realise he was here and jump to his feet. "What the fuck are you doing?"

"N...nothing Master Harry Potter." Dobby said before he tried to hide the book behind his back, this didn't really work as Harry had already seen the book and it was still visible due to being wider than the elf.

"Dobby, give us the book now." Harry ordered, he held his hand out and Dobby reluctantly opened it. "What the hell is this about anyway?" He said as he looked at the book which had a picture of a basilisk on the cover.

"Dobby doesn't know," Dobby admitted. "Dobby tried to read it but he could not understand it."

"Must be in parsletounge." Harry guessed before he opened it. "I can understand it just fine, it's information about basilisks, written by Salazar Slytherin himself. Nice, let's see," Harry said as he began flipping through pages. "it shows how long they can grow...I don't fucking need to be told that. Talks about their venom... I don't need to be told about that either. Their eyes, oh shit." Harry said as he caught one particularly interesting line.

"Master?" Dobby asked, a little worried about his master.

"I have actually learnt something, in normal schools that's probably not as exciting. But here it says that Basilisks have an eye lid to block their gaze, so you can have a basilisk and not worry twenty-four/seven about it killing you. Plus it says they don't even develop their death stare till they're a year old. Nice, makes me sort of wish I had a baby basilisk."

"Ah..." Dobby wringed his hands.

"Dobby," Harry frowned as he looked at him. "Why were you trying to read this?" Harry gestured to a book.

"Dobby...found...something." Dobby admitted, pulling on his ears.

"Show me." Harry ordered. Dobby looked reluctant but obeyed and guided Harry into his bedroom where Harry found a nest made of pillows on his bed with an egg in the middle.

"Dobby found this when cleaning Mr Potter's room." Dobby said, looking ready to punish himself. Harry was too busy to even think about that as he was more focused on the fact that the egg was cracked.

"Dobby, did you happen to drop it?" He asked.

"No master." Dobby shook his head as more cracks appeared on the egg.

"Dobby, get behind me." Harry said as he stepped forward, a few more cracks appeared and a few moments later something came out.

It was indeed a basilisk, a baby one but still a basilisk. It had the yellow eyes like the one Harry had fought before and Harry was glad to see that the book was right and that he was not dead from it's gaze. It was a dark green, it's teeth were more like toothpicks than the swords of it's bigger version. It pushed itself out of the shell, Dobby had immediately hid behind Harry's leg. The basilisk slithered out, it looked up at Harry.

Harry walked closer and stopped in front of it, he slowly and gingerly extended his hand out. The basilisk slithered towards his hand, Harry resisted the urge to snap his hand back and keep his distance. The basilisk looked hesitant, but eventually it climbed up his hand, it slithered up his arm before it's head reached Harry's shoulder. At it's current size it was the same length between Harry's shoulder and elbow. It stopped on his shoulder before it nudged his face with it's head.

Harry slowly brought his other hand up and close towards it, he carefully touched the head of the basilisk and petted it. The basilisk leaned into his touch.

"Sweet Merlin," Harry couldn't help but let out a short laugh. "oh god this is brilliant."