Chapter 35 - 35- improvement during fights and quidditch game

Harry's pov

The next day, the entire castle was full of rumors about the troll incident.

Half of the students said It was Dumbledore who defeated it and he gives credit to Marcus, while others said Marcus defeated the troll with the same unique magic he used to defeat you know who, the craziest theory were that Marcus summoned the troll and then summoned Merlin himself to combat the troll while he watched the fight with some snacks.

Yet everyone agreed that there was a troll, three Ravenclaw seventh years and four Gryffindor first years.

So when everyone saw the four Gryffindors being friends suddenly, they started to call the four the golden group, as apparently, students at Hogwarts weren't the most imaginative.

As for Harry, after yelling at Hermione and Neville for putting themselves in danger with no good reason, they were in a fight as apparently helping friends was a good reason in their mind even when Harry told them that before the troll incident they weren't friends with Marcus and Ron, he should have known better, as J.K. Rolling one wrote "There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them."

So while Harry wasn't talking with Hermione and Neville he managed to improve even more in everything.

His chemistry studies were almost in second year as he used the time he sat with Hermione and Neville in meals to study more of it.

He finished first year transfiguration and started second year, his charm work was already in fourth year and in potions he finished reading everything the school had about ingredients and ways to prepare them so he moved to DADA books as he was behind in this subject compered to different classes.

The only classes he didn't have impressive improvements in school were Herbology, HoM and Astronomy.

Two of them he only needed more hands on experience and one that for him right now he didn't have time for.

In weekends he kept going to Snape and Flitwick in their office hours for conversation about theory and while with Flitwick it stayed the same, the meetings with Snape were a little different.

"Hey, professor. Are you available for a few questions?" "Sure, mr. Peverell, come on in." After a few questions the professor made sure he stopped.

Mr. Peverell, you are one of the better students I have had the pleasure to teach, while most students don't seem to understand until at least four year that potions is more than just following instructions like cooking, you seem to look into the way to make your potions better by looking into each instruction. You remind me of myself when I was your age, which is why I will give to you one of the most overlooked thing in potions making which will help you move your potions making to the next level.

While simple potions can be made using only the instructions, for the complicated potions you will learn in your seventh year will have more to do with the intent behind the creation of your potions than just the ingredients," seeing Harry was a little confused, professor Snape continued "lets take love potions for instance, while most love potions are about infatuation and attraction, the most powerful love potion known to men - Amortentia can in fact make you love a person you used to hate."

That surprised Harry as based on what he read and remembered from the books Amortentia doesn't create actual love as it's impossible to manufacture or imitate love. The person under the effect of the potion will only hold an obsession for the person who administered it.

"You don't actually create love, the potion just changes every kind of love you ever felt for a person to only loving the person who gave you the potion. But because the potion's affects are so delicate, to actually create it with those actual affect is almost impossible, as your intent while making it needs to be those of love, and feel all the love you have in you to make it, and it take three months to make, so, even though a lot of people can make that potion even with it's complicated instructions.

Making the potion right is something almost no-one can do.

It's like that with every potion, even if most are not to this degree. If your intent doesn't match the potion while making it, the affect could verify between working averagely like most potions People make, have weird side affects or even literally killing you.

Which is why every potion master needs to learn a branch of magic called occlumency, which I am offering to teach you every Saturday at 19:00-22:00.

After that, as Harry couldn't tell Snape he already knew occlumency he was 'taught' by Snape in the art every Saturday and surprised Snape by his 'natural talent' in it.

Dumbledore's pov

It was the first game of the year and Slytherin were against Gryffindor, just as the world was meant to be.

As the game went, Dumbledore couldn't wait till Marcus caught the snitch and becomes Gryffindor's hero, after all that's the reason he confunded Minerva to put Marcus on the team.

So when Marcus's broom started moving uncontrollably, the only one who was more scared than Marcus was Dumbledore. As how could Marcus be Gryffindor's hero if he fell off the broom?

So while seeing Miss Granger moving in Secerus's direction he made sure to use a tripping jinx to make her fall on Quirinus and activated his charm on the snitch so it would move next to Marcus, he then saw Marcus move toward the snitch and just when he was about to fall from his broom Dumbledore made sure that the snitch would get into Marcus's mouth.

Yes, it would be a game to remember.