The pairing off continued until each member of the class had someone to work with. Mortlake handed them all their first list of spells they needed to research and then dismissed them, much to Harry's relief. After the class had been dismissed, he immediately left with the intent of heading to the room of requirement to release his anger.
He had barely gotten half way down the corridor when an angry voice cut him off.
"Where the fuck do you think you're going Potter" Rudolphus shouted breathily, clearly having run to catch him up.
Harry growled, flicked his wand into his hand and turned to face the boy with a gleeful grin.
Rudolphus clearly did not realise that Harry was already furious and continued to goad him.
"I told you I was going to kill you, you bastard" he roared as he drew his own wand.
The instant Harry saw him reach for his wand he fired a banishing charm towards the other boy with a simple flick of his own.
Before Rudolphus could even raise his wand he was sent careening down the corridor, past the classroom he had just exited and impacted against the wall heavily, leaving him in a heap on the ground.
Harry furiously stalked towards him intent on teaching the boy a lesson but was grabbed by James as he walked past the door of the classroom where the students had clearly been exiting as Rudolphus flew past them.
"Come on Harry, let's get you some air" James suggested gesturing for the rest of the group to help get him away from Rudolphus.
Harry swallowed deeply and nodded though all he wanted to do was rip the moron limb from limb.
The rest of the Slytherin's looked on in shock as Rudolphus had been banished down the hall so casually and had caught a glimpse of the look of fury Harry had adorned, some even swearing they could see his eyes glowing slightly. The Marauders led Harry up to the Gryffindor common room and sat him in one of their usual seats to calm him down.
"What was that about?" James asked, knowing it was much more than it appeared to be.
"Later" Harry mumbled.
James nodded.
"Bellatrix said you have to meet her at the disused classroom on the third floor after dinner tomorrow" Peter piped up.
Harry nodded and again had to swallow deeply. He had no idea how he would do this without actually killing her.
The group sat in silence for some time, simply digesting the lessons of the day until Remus coughed nervously to break the quiet.
"Harry" he whispered quietly. "That potion you mentioned, what does it do?" he asked. Harry put his thoughts of Bellatrix to the back of his mind for the sake of the werewolf, knowing that this was very important to him.
"It allows you to keep your mind during the transformations" he explained quietly. "You will still change but you will still be you up" he added tapping his head with a finger.
Remus nodded and headed up the staircase towards their dormitory, clearly deep in thought about the potion.
"That's given him some hope that they will find a cure eventually" Sirius spoke sincerely after a moment. "It means the world to him knowing that there are some still working on it" he concluded with a sad shake of his head.
"That reminds me, it's full moon the week after next" James whispered. "Do you have a form?" he asked Harry curiously.
Harry nodded, having been working on it since Croaker had told him he would be coming here. "I can change everything apart from my head" he sighed exasperatedly.
"What's your form?" Sirius questioned curiously.
"You'll have to wait and see" Harry answered coyly.
"Is it bigger than me?" James cut in.
Harry nodded.
"Ok, Peter will help you with the head" Sirius decided. "His was the hardest to get but he did it before all of us so he's probably best" he shrugged.
Peter nodded his agreement.
"OK" Harry agreed reluctantly.
"Come on, let's get Remus and head to dinner" James suggested.
It was several hours later that found Harry in bed, not being able to sleep as his thoughts were on two people he had vowed to kill if given the chance.
Peter was much more different than he had expected and he may have even started to like the boy if he wasn't continuously reminded of what he had done to Harry throughout his life and now Harry would be having help from the traitor completing his animagus form.
Harry shook his head at the irony of the situation.
And of course there was now the fact that he had been paired with Bellatrix to complete school work, something that he had not been prepared to face at all and someone he thought he would be able to avoid for the foreseeable future. As far as he was concerned Bellatrix was one of those irredeemable people that the sorting hat had mentioned and he had no desire to be around her in any way, not at all confident that he could stop himself from killing her. He sighed and decided that he would simply have to do his best for the time being and deal with it if it became a real problem, though he was a tiny bit curious to see how the girl was as a teenager before she became the completely insane lunatic he had become accustomed to seeing.
He sighed and punched his pillow into a more comfortable shape.
Whatever tomorrow would bring, he would just have to handle as best as he could. He would get the work done as soon as possible so that he could spend a minimal amount of time in her company.
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