Chapter 54 - 54- thoughts about Harry

Daphne's POV

It's been two days since her first time really talking to Peverell, and as much as she wanted it, she couldn't think about a single way to convince him to join her group.

His grades are better then their's, when she proposed she would pay to him, he not only refused but she didn't see any greed for money in his eyes and he has a friend of his own in the form of the blond first year.

Yet, she felt as if there was something she can give him that he wants, and as she couldn't figure it out, it drove her crazy which was why after consulting her best friend, she went to the head of her house to ask for help.

Severus's POV

Severus was having a headache about a son of James Potter, and for once it wasn't Marcus.

Harry Peverell was a mystery that grew as he kept looking into him.

He was the biological son of two (as much as he hate to admit it) above average magic users who have no blood relation and should have created children with above average magical power, yet, while his twin has pretty good scores on the practical side of the tests, he has a barely above an A in his, they are EE, but it was more like he compensated his less then average power with his knowledge.

More then that, after asking the wand teachers about him (except Lockhart, cause not only he only had one class with him, he is also Lockhart) Minerva and Filius agreed that if his practical side of the tests matched his theoretical he should have been at least a third year, but his practical score was worse then Crabbe and Goyle.

So he got the boy for a conversation once more to make a deal with him to help him with practicals in exchange for teaching the brat, yet he refused yet again. Saying he would rather have no help then help Marcus.

Which made even less sense to Severus as last time he went inside the boy's mind the only thing the boy felt toward the brat who lived was indifference, so what changed?

As he continued to mellow in his thoughts thinking about a way to convince the boy that the smart thing to do is to agree to teach his ex-brother the voice of one of his second years reached his ears.

"Hey Professor, I know it isn't your office hours but I am having a problem on my mind for the last couple of days that I can't seem to solve, can you please help me?"

As much as Severus wanted to tell her to go away and come back tomorrow in his office hours, when he looked at her face and saw her expression of need, he suddenly remembered his days in school when he was bullied and when he came for the teachers they did nothing, so instead he said "come in."

Then miss Greengrass told him about her try in recruiting mr. Peverell, And while as she started he wanted to yell at her as he thought she was the reason the boy refused his offer, as she continued her story he understood the boy refused her with almost the same reasons he refused him, just without the politeness and the distaste for his ex-twin.

And as she told him the fact the boy had an idea about how the blood curse works with only hearing about it once when even he, Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel had not a single idea about it when the girl's father approached them, he understood three things:

1) the boy wanted something from her, something that wasn't money as it was already offered and refused.

2) the boy wasn't kidding when he said he had much better things to do with his time as if even working about the blood curse wasn't enough to make him join the group of miss Greengrass, nothing would convince him to teach Marcus Potter.

3) the boy gave both of them a hint for what he desire

"You probably know about the proverb: 'when you have your back against the wall with no way to escape the only way to survive is fight', but what you don't know is that in the Slytherin house there is a continuation to this proverb: 'but if someone hold your family hostage you can only give up.'

Right now he holds the only known idea for your sister's cure hostage and won't let go for money. And as he told you, he doesn't have time cause he studies, as he isn't a Ravenclaw, he probably gave you a hint about his wants in him telling you this, so I think you should offer him what he seems to desire, knowledge."

As he watched the girl thank him and leave the room he thought 'I might be unsuccessful in making a deal with mr. Peverell to teach the brat, but Slytherin always has a plan B, and mine involves making the brat quit with the help of my godson.....'

Daphne's POV

As she left the professor's room, Daphne's thoughts were still on the boy who had a chance to save her sister and she started to analyze him not as how a predator analyze a pray as she did till now, as a lonely boy whose family abandoned him because he wasn't in Gryffindor. But as how a business women analyze her opponents and partners, how her father taught her.

The boy had what she wanted and he knew it, to get it she could only give him what he wanted, and according to Professor Snape it was knowledge. Now, if he was clueless about the Wizarding world as he and his ex-brother seemed to be last year she would have used it, but while Potter still seemed clueless, Peverell had a year to change it and she believed he did.

Knowledge he can get in school was also out as he is smart enough to learn it from the professors, so she needed a knowledge he can't even find books about, and after a minute of thinking she had the perfect thing- Occlumency