The Real Harry Potter

Harry was walking down the hallway when suddenly he came across another person he most definitely did not want to talk to, Ron Weasley.

"What do you want?" Harry asked bluntly. Ron had been acting odd for most of the year, whenever he saw Harry his face would go red and he would make an effort to avoid him by moving to a far part of the room. Harry, who wanted nothing to do with Ron, didn't complain or try to fix that. But it looked like today Ron had something to say.

"How did you do it?!" Ron blurted out, his face redder than usual.

"Can you be more specific?" Harry drawled. "How did I do what?"

"Defeat you-know-who! How did you stop him?"

"By defeating him." Harry shrugged.

"Tell me!" Ron demanded.

"Sorry Weasley but it's a secret only known to a few, even the Minister of Magic doesn't know the full story. So you can see why you're not going to get an answer."

"I bet you didn't even do anything!" Ron spat, glaring at Harry. "I bet Dumbledore did all of the work and you just took all the credit!"

"Ha, isn't that a laugh?" Harry softly chuckled. "Someone else doing all of the work and someone else taking all of the credit? Who does that remind you of? Oh yes, me and you!" Harry spoke as if he had suddenly been told an unbelievable idea. "I mean after first year you went around telling people that you had heroically defeated McGonagall's chess set, never mind the fact that Granger and I did all of the rest. Didn't you one time in my first year claim to have taught me all I know about riding on a broom?" Harry smirked at Ron's reddening face, if it went any redder then the sixth son of the Weasley family would likely pop. "What's the matter Ron? Cat got you tongue?"

"It all goes your bloody way doesn't it?!" Ron shouted, pulling his wand out. "Harry Potter gets this! Harry Potter gets that! Harry Potter saved the school! Harry Potter won the tournament! Harry Potter defeated you-know-who!"

"Oh is the ickle wickle redhead jealous?" Harry spoke in a baby voice before shaking his head at Ron. "Grow up Weasley, you were with me for my first few years at Hogwarts and you knew that I never took advantage of my fame. You knew that I worked for those accomplishments, if it wasn't for me then your bushy haired girlfriend would have been paste on the side of a troll's club."

"I'm the one who knocked the troll out!"

"You're also the one who caused Granger to be there in the first place." Harry reminded him. "And it that wasn't enough then how about the fact that in my second year it was me who saved your sister by going up against a basilisk of all things, if you were with me then you'd likely end up getting yourself or both of us killed. There were plenty of more useful people to befriend than you, your best quality was your loyalty. Your unwavering loyalty and even that didn't last."

"You git!" Ron yelled before he aimed his wand at Harry and fired off a high powered flame blast, which if it Harry would have caused substantial damage. Harry didn't show any sign of fear, he instead simply raised his hand and cast a wandless shield which easily blocked the flame blast. Harry's power boost from Dumbledore had made it so wandless magic was almost as easy for him as regular magic with a wand. "What?!" Ron blurted out.

"You always were an idiot." Harry said before he wandlessly cast a stunner that hit Ron square in the chest. Harry took his wand out before casting the patronus spell, Harry's tiger flew off to get Headmistress McGonagall after Harry had given it a message. Harry didn't fully trust Professor McGonagall, she had been Dumbledore's 'yes woman' for so long that it was difficult to not see her as anything but that. However since the knowledge of the fact that Harry defeated Voldemort came out, she had been more respectful towards Harry. Harry didn't really know if it was because she felt guilty for her previous actions or if she simply thought he deserved more respect, but he didn't really care too much since it benefitted him.

"What has happened?!" Headmistress McGonagall asked as soon as she arrived on the scene.

"This git tried to attack me." Harry said as he revived Ron.

"What?" Ron blurted out as he woke up, he shook his head then nearly jumped out of his skin when he saw Professor McGonagall standing in front of him. "Professor?!" He squeaked.

"Mr Weasley, Mr Potter told me that you tried to attack him." Professor McGonagall spoke in a disappointed voice.

"I didn't!" Ron denied.

"The boy is lying," One portrait said, Ron looked around and appeared to have only just remembered that there were portraits on the walls. "I saw the whole thing Headmistress, the boy demanded questions from Mr Potter on how he defeated you-know-who then began making baseless accusations where he accused Mr Potter of being a fraud who took credit for Dumbledore's work, and that was before he began complaining about how everything was going Mr Potter's way.

The redhead attacked him with a dangerous flame spell that would have caused a lot of damage if Mr Potter hadn't blocked it with a wandless shield."

"Wandless magic?" Professor McGonagall gasped.

"He wandlessly stunned him as well." Another portrait informed her.

"I...I...Mr Potter, ten points to Gryffindor for such a mastery of magic, I dare say that you will not have much to worry about when you take your newt exams." Professor McGonagall said to Harry before turning to Ron. "As for you Mr Weasley, this is hardly your first time where it has been reported that you have used violence against other students, you will follow me."

"But I..." Ron began only to be interrupted.

"Now." Professor McGonagall said in a stern voice, Ron looked like he was about to argue but wisely chose not to, he got to his feet and sent Harry one last glare before following Professor McGonagall to her office.

"I'm going to miss you." Astoria admitted as she sat with Harry and the others. They were all outside, sat by the lake with Tracy sitting with Daphne and Scott and Jean while Harry was sat against a tree and Astoria sat next to him, leaning into his side.

"I'll miss you too, squirt." Harry smiled.

"Don't call me that," Astoria rolled her eyes. "I'm growing."

"Really?" Harry asked in a fake surprised voice.

"I don't care how many dark lords you defeat, I will hex you." Astoria said in a warning tone.

"She'll do it Potter." Daphne smirked in amusement.

"Of that, I have no doubt." Harry replied.

"What are you guys going to do when you leave?" Scott asked.

"Daphne and I intend to spend some time at the potions apothecary in Diagon Alley," Tracy replied. "just to earn some money while we both get our potions mastery."

"What about you, Harry?" Jean asked.

"I've been scouted by a few quidditch teams," Harry admitted. "I've got an invitation to try out for Puddlemere United this weekend."

"What?!" Astoria squeaked. "That's my favorite team!" She said in an excited voice.

"And that is naturally why I chose it," Harry joked. "but I plan to play quidditch part time, or if that doesn't work then get another job part time. I want to get my mastery in defense, then I plan to get a job at Hogwarts."

"Really?" Daphne asked.

"Yeah, I'll work at Hogwarts and attend Wizengamot meetings when I can or send a proxy when I can't." Harry shrugged.

"Well, I think you'll be a great teacher." Astoria grinned at Harry.

"Thanks." Harry smiled. "That means a lot."

"I'm just glad that we can get through the rest of our lives without all of that you-know-who crap." Scott commented.

"Aren't we all?" Harry grinned.

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