By the time he had reached the pair his secret mission was complete, and he was able to divert all of his attention to scolding the two students, earning snickers from Slytherin and embarrassment from the preteens themselves. The class ended shortly thereafter, with the students packing up their supplies and leaving in their normal disorderly fashion. One, however, paused at the doorway and glanced back at the man seated behind his desk at the front of the room.
"Professor"
"Mr. Potter?"
"If you wanted to see my notes so badly all you had to do was ask, no need to be secretive about it." and like that he left, leaving a dumbfounded, and slightly frightened, spy behind.
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"My Lord did you hear the news!?"
"I don't know, what is the news?"
"I made seeker! You are looking at the new Slytherin House seeker for Quidditch!"
Pansy gave a gleeful cheer, before hugging the blonde boy with a slight blush. Several others of their year also gave congratulatory nods or pats on the back as well. Harry himself merely smiled and gave a nod.
"D-does this mean you will come my Lord? To our games I mean?"
The previous year Harry had, usually, avoided the Quidditch fields. They held no interest for him and the game itself seemed rather 'simplified' for what it could have entailed using magic. Still Draco had dragged him to one or two games, which Slytherin naturally won, and he had not protested.
"I suppose so, I can't exactly ignore my chief adviser now can I?" The blonde beamed in excitement at the acknowledgment of his 'role'.
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"So is there anything else we need to go over?" Dumbledore intoned with his normal 'grandfatherly' voice. He did so enjoy these weekly staff meetings, and if they weren't so busy he would have insisted on having them more often. It was far too difficult to keep up with all of the activities and students that Hogwarts held while keeping his other positions sustained at the same time.
"Actually Headmaster I do." Snape replied, earning a nod from the older man while the Potion Master pulled out a piece of parchment. "It has come to my attention that a certain student has been working on a new 'project' in his spare time. Something that reeks of advanced magic and darkness. After retrieving his notes it is obvious to me that this is something we need to put a stop to."
"Oh? And who is this student Severus?" Albus gently asked, silently praying that it wasn't who he suspected.
"Harry Potter"
The groans were far from silent from the other staff members, even from Lockhart. It went unnoticed by none that the Slytherin Head of House had an issue with the young boy, whom everyone else saw as a near perfect student and role model.
"Severus my boy we have talked about…"
"JUST TAKE IT!"
Letting out another deep sigh the elder Wizard did as was demanded of him, and glanced over the notes inscribed in the young boy's handwriting. "Hmmm, I suppose I will have to agree with you Severus."
It looked as though the man had just won the lottery based upon the way his face lit up.
"It certainly is advanced theory. If I had not been exposed to examples of his work due to everything you have brought to me I would have thought this was done by a far older Wizard such as yourself."
"Wh-what!? No! Headmaster please look closer at the…"
"Filius, would you please take a look, there is some rather advanced Charms work that I could use your consultation on."
The diminutive professor nodded, before taking the paper and looking it over himself. "Interesting…"
"Not interesting ! Dark! Headmaster surely you see the implications of this!"
"I see an advanced piece of work, although the true goal has not been made clear by this."
" Perhaps " Minerva growled out, sending a glare at the greasy-haired man, "we could simply call the boy in to ask him rather than making blind guesses? Unless of course Severus doubts his ability to tell whether a twelve year old is lying to him or not."
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"Ah Harry my boy, thank you for joining us."
"Of course Headmaster, Headmistress, Professor Sprout, Professor Flitwick, Professor McGonagall, Professor Snape." The boy greeted each in kind with a slight boy, the other professors having left some time beforehand.
"We do not want to take too much of your time Mr. Potter, but there are some things we would like to clear up." The Charms professor replied happily after finding the boy's respect more than a little refreshing.
"Of course sir, anything I can do to help."
"It has come to our attention that you are working on a bit of a side project, one involving quite a few areas of magic at the same time."
Turning to McGonagall Harry gave a smile and a nod of confirmation. "I have, I hope that I did not offend anyone during class. I was trying to focus on it only during my free time but I have become rather… excited by it."
"Mr. Potter, your grades are the highest we have seen since even before Albus went to school. There is no reason to apologize for taking on work that keeps you interested during class. I am only sorry to say that we are not challenging you enough."
The boy gave a helpless shrug, "I just find everything to be a bit easy. Plus reading the books before school started certainly helps."
"I am sure that it does my boy. But back to this project of yours. Would you mind explaining it to us?"
Nodding to the eldest Wizard the boy took on a slight thinking pose. "I bought a book about Runes over the summer for some light reading," here several of the professors gaped slightly. Runes were a fairly advanced subject that were difficult to simply read about and understand. Usually a student required verbal instruction, examples, and written text in combination to get the full picture. "What I found inside was the idea that most important areas have wards placed over them. Usually these are done by Runes to create the physical dimensions of the magic and to give it lasting effect. Considering this I began to speculate that if Charms could be incorporated with Runes then other fields of magic could as well. With this in mind I have begun small experiments to see if Potion effects could be expanded, and how they could be combined at the same time."
"Your studies mention Leylines. Why are you messing with those Potter?"
"Oh I haven't even approached that yet. It was merely speculation that if these channels could be used like Muggle waterways, if so we could potentially use them to create larger area of Runic or spell influence."
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