Draco face turned beat red. He glared at Damian while Damian just smirked. Because he saw Snape appearing, Damian just erected another shielding charm and blocked the spells while Snape's cold voice sounded," what is happening here? ".
Damian said," Draco is trying to bully me professor. He even got senior students hiding behind the pillars just so he can provoke me into a fight and then gang up on me with them ", Snape's eyes turned to the shadows beneath the pillars and he said," come out now if you don't want to face consequences ".
One by one students appeared. There are more than 20 of them. Snape said," more than 20 senior students ganging up on a first year. A very unbalancing odd don't you agree? Whose idea is this exactly? Who taught you to gang up to bully a first year and disgrace our house reputation? ".
All eyes turned to Malfoy who paled as Snape's gaze turned to him," I'm writing about this to your father. How you chose dishonourable acts and sullied the name of Malfoy. And Mr Malfoy, I presume you know your way to your room ".
" And you Mr Knight. You also provoked him further. I'm just leaving you alone with a warning and three days of detention for now. Don't repeat this. If you want to fight, then come to me and ask for an official and non lethal duel of honour within the conducts of school. Any student found repeating this act, will found themselves punished", Snape said.
Damian blinked,' so even you're biased towards them dean. That makes this one sided for me. Looks like I'm going to introduce some chaos into the boring lives of slytherins ', Damian mind brewed an evil plan when he saw the partiality that Snape showed.
Just then a hand kerchief is thrown into Damian. He looked back to see none other than Gemma Fawley herself glaring at him," I want a duel with him ", Snape said," denied. He is but a first year. He doesn't even know what's the meaning of duel ".
Gemma said," professor, he cast the shielding charm. That is enough to prove that he knew combat spells. I'm challenging him to duel ", Snape said," a sixth year challenging a first year who isn't even in Hogwarts that for a couple of days. I'm sure the other houses will find this very entertaining if other houses knew about this. If you want a duel, that depends on him and the decision of headmaster. As this isn't in my hands anymore now ".
Snape said with an expressionless face as if he didn't care for any of them. " Also Miss Fawley, as a prefect you're so supposed to be responsible for keeping the order among your housemates not join others to bully them. Should I reconsider your prefect position? ".
Gemma gritted her teeth. ' thanks, at least you stopped her in her tracks ', Damian thought. He might be trained under Aberfroth, and he is sure she is very weaker than the old man, but still, these guys use dark magic, he needs to very careful with them and avoid direct confrontations using magic for now.
Damian plans to explore the castle gone to drain as he got three days detention. He walked into the potions classroom, there are several batches of ingredients that needs to be processed for tomorrow's classes and his punishment is to process them. Damian started processing them and felt a probe to his mind.
" It's quite rude to try read someone's mind without their permission professor ", Damian said.
*snort*
" Do you think you're the only one who can recognise if someone is using Occlumency Mr Knight? Your level of mastery can barely detect my probes and prevent your thoughts from being read. A little more strength in the probe and you'll cough up blood due to the overwhelming strength in the probe ", Snape said.
Damian spoke," then can you teach me Occlumency professor? ", Snape said," why should I? ", Damian asked," what do you want in return for the Occlumency training professor? ", Snape said," maybe not being a menace who picks on fellow Slytherins will do ".
Damian rolled his eyes clearly irritated by the remark yet with the Occlumency didn't show it on his face," so you'll never. And for the record, it's them who is trying to provoke and fight with me. I never took the initiative for trouble ".
Snape said," then for now take the initiative to process all the ingredients. I want them to be processed within a couple of hours ".
[ Quest Log : Process the ingredients within 2 hours ]
[ Time Duration : 2 hours ]
[ Reward : +5 favourability from snape, +1 Galleons ]
Damian started the task right anyway. Snape told him how to process the ingredients on the table and then the potions professor started brewing potions. Damian just stared at the potion ingredients. Using the Eyes of truth, he recognised the ingredients one by one and then recalled Snape's instructions.
Processing them one by one he completed the task quickly. Snape said without even taking his eyes from the couldron," go back to your dorm, your detention is over for today ", Damian didn't say anything. He stood there for a few moments before he walked away.
As he returned to the common room. He saw some students still in the common room. With a smirk he asked," what do you want dear seniors? ", then he caught the glimpse of Draco's smug face from the back. Looks like today he is going to hang some seniors to the top.
" Diffindo ".
" Taratullerga ".
" Flippendo ".
All kinds of spells flew towards him, but Damian just cast a shielding charm immediately," protego ", a film of magic enveloped him like a sphere and deflected or blocked. The shielding charm cracked a little. ' looks like I need more training ', Damian thought.
They cast the spells again, but another shieldinh charm stopped them and Damian countered attacked," Glacius ", he froze person before moving to another. " Impedimenta ", Damian then cast the spell," locomotor wibbly ".
One by one he started using the spells in his arsenals all while dodging or blocking the incoming spells. Within a few minutes, he is slightly out of breath while the students are lying on the floor, some frozen, some petrified, some are unconscious.
He then turned to Draco before knocking him out and conjuring ropes," incarcerous ", Draco is tied up and knocked out cold with another spell. Damian then hung him from m the ceiling before returning to his room like nothing happened.