Chapter 112 - 112- productive two weeks

Two weeks later

Marcus' POV

The monster cards duel become the number one thing people talk about, whether it's about their duels, someone else's duel, or even just about their cards, it was all everybody could speak about, even the second break-in of Sirius Black didn't cause much noise, with the exception with Ron, who used the fact he was attacked to gain the pity of his brothers and gained his unique Chudley Cannons deck, that was instantly regarded as the worst deck ever by having him lose all the points he had left in less then four turns a game.

Marcus on the other hand wasn't doing so bad till today, as he got some rare cards from his mother who said she didn't want to play, and managed to get 12 points.

yet all of it changed, when Malfoy came and asked to bet his 11 points on a game.

Marcus agreed, why shouldn't he? He saw Malfoy's Duels, and knew he could defeat him, which is why he was surprised when the duel started and all of the blond boy's cards changed.

"I summon a bogart to stage!" Malfoy yelled "while the Boggart has no real attack power he has a special ability- as long as my opponent have only one monster on the field, he can frighten his monster back to his hand - now boggart, scare his Whomping Willow back to his hand."

"How does you get this rare card? I thought only Professor Lupin had it!"

"He did, before I payed the twins to create this deck that will destroy you! Now I use accio to summon a card from my deck, and then I activate this card- Ekrizdis' abomination, if I sacrifice my boggart, I can special summon, the immortal, the unique, the greatest terror the world has - the Dementor! Not only this monster can't be destroys by ordinary means as long as my magic card Ekrizdis' abomination is in place, once a turn I can make it suck the soul of one of my monster cards in hand and deal the damage directly at you!"

As you can guess, he lost, making him pissed.

"Why on earth would you let Malfoy get his hands on a Dementor card?" If he wasn't as angry as he was he probably wouldn't have yelled at the twins, as everybody know that it's something that you would regret, yet right now Marcus didn't care.

"Don't you have any house pride? Why let Slytherin win?"

"First of all, you know better then to yell at us." The twin on the right, which was probably Fred said. "And secondly, of course we have house pride, we don't want any Slytherin to win, but what can you do? He paid us to create a Dementor deck for him, said it was just for you."

"I have an idea, how about give everyone in Gryffindor a deck full of the greatest cards?" Marcus said, lowering his tone as he didn't want to truly anger the demon twins.

"We can't," said the twins on the left, probably George. "we made an agreement with Professor Flitwick, so he would sponsor our game, that we won't give anyone free cards except on the first day of the game, but..." he stoped to think.

"But what?" Marcus asked in a hurry

"If you want Gryffindor to have a costumed deck, we could do it, as long as you payed the price- one galleon a card."

"Are you crazy?! Just to make myself a deck I would need to pay 40 to 60 galleons!"

"What can I tell you? That's what Malfoy did."

In the end he created a deck for himself by asking wis father for money and managed to defeat Malfoy, who just went to create another deck, in the end, after the two of them created fire decks each to counter the other, it was only when their dads both denied them the money that they started once again acc.u.mulate points by kicking the other students' ass, only for both of them to be defeated by Susan Bones and her semi-Legendary card- Professor Binns, who while has zero attack points, can make the opponent duelist fall asleep therefore concede the duel.

When asked, the twins said it was the hardest card to make till this day, as they not only needed to research the right words for the professor to say, but also keep awake at history class.

From that day onwards, there was an unwritten rule for the game- never play against Susan unless you have exorcism magic card or Silencio in your deck.

Harry's POV

The last two weeks were the ones with most progress Harry has ever seen.

With the help of Gai (golemed artificial intelligent), every project Harry has been working about moved forward.

He has managed to fully isolate the gene stand that is blood cursed, the curse- which was known as Blood malediction had no known cure, nor exact symptoms as they changed based on the person.

Yet, after having Gai compare all the strands of DNA Harry had, whether it's human or an animal, and then he compares two different strands of DNA he had of the girl, he found that Astoria's DNA was in a constant shift, little by little her body change to that of an animal, an arctic fox, to be exact, which is why her hair color is also shifting, and why her DNA is similar in some way to that of the twins, as they used a potion to gain the ability to change to a specific animal added to their DNA, the problem that probably got her sick, that probably got all the carriers of this born ability instead of gaining it by hard work, is that they only got half of it, instead of being born with the ability to change to an animal and back, she could only change forward, therefore making their magic instinctively fight their natural ability till it kills them, the only way it doesn't kill them is if they stop fighting, therefore forever being stuck in that form.

Harry has two ideas to cure the illness, both of them are to his advantage.

1) continue his research and find a way to specifically change a single stand of DNA, making her truly cured, yet losing the ability to shapeshifter forever, as for him, he would gain the road to make his body perfect

2) work on animagus and Metamorphmagus DNA stands, find a way to combine them therefore let her gain the ability to change back, and gain the advantage of both of them and the ability to change to any creature of his desire.

It would only be at Christmas, as in five days, that he would show the results of his research to Daphne's father and decide together with him which path to focus on.

No matter what, he would research both.

In transfiguration he finally finished fifth year and started the sixth, in which he straight away moved to the second part of the year which was about subtle changing of a living animal, as the first part, just like charms, was about silent casting the spells of year 1-5, as it works on sharpening your control, something he already did, and had a higher level in then all wand users.

Speaking of control, as he started using the Tesla coils as a beacon to the magical energy students give to the disks, he started to work on creating a higher level of controlling instruments, by controlling the sound of violin, viola, and cello by magic alone.

In his muggle studies, Quantum mechanics, as it was theoretical sub-subject of physics, something a already studied, he managed to completely finish the books.

As for his electrical engineering, the progress is the slowest he has ever had on a subject, as even though he was halfway throughthrough to finish reading the books, most of the work is supposed to be by working with the material, and while he managed, with the help of the time turner, to create a time of four hours a week in which he can come to the university to work on those stuff, it would take him far too much time to finish this degree.

All in all, this was productive two weeks