Fate's Request: A Harry Potter FanFiction

Soon following the Chamber of Secrets opening, the school fell into a furore trying to find out what the Chamber was while pointing the finger at Harry for opening it.

David already knew what it was and didn't care to join in with his fellow students and discuss what it could possibly be.

"I think it's Harry," Anthony Goldstein said, following another conversation about the Chamber and Mrs Norris.

"Oh? Why do you say that?" Sue Li asked in an exasperated tone.

"I mean, he was the first one there!" Anthony said, confidently.

"Right… Great argument you make there, Harry was the first to arrive at the scene so it MUST be him," Sue replied with a rolling of her eyes.

"Really Anthony," Padma chorused, "And didn't you see the reactions from the Slytherins? Some of them were quite excited, that Malfoy even said the muggle-borns were next."

"I don't know, I still think it could be Harry…" Anthony said stubbornly.

"You really are an idiot Goldstein," David said, finally speaking up.

Going red in anger, Anthony turned to David and said, "Oh? And you're so smart are you, David? C'mon then, tell us what the Chamber of Secrets is, Mr Number One Student."

"A hidden room," David began, which Anthony snorted at, but David continued, not paying the fool any attention, "Rumoured to have been created by Salazar Slytherin following a falling out with Godric Gryffindor and the other founders. According to legend, the Chamber is said to be home to a monster, only controllable by Slytherin," David finished.

"Really? A monster? But why?" Padma asked in fear.

"Well, from what we know about Slytherin, he was a blood supremacist. In fact, what he fought with the other founders over was, in fact, being more selective of the students admitted to Hogwarts. So… I guess it would be safe to assume that the 'monster' was left behind to purge the school of muggle-borns," David explained.

"Lu-lucky I'm a pure-blood, eh?" Anthony chuckled nervously.

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"Honestly! It's ridiculous. I mean Harry? More like Malfoy! You heard what he said after everyone saw Mrs Norris!" Hermione ranted after a duelling lesson with Professor Flitwick.

David was spending more and more time duelling the Professor now, as he had long surpassed Hermione's level of skill.

At first, she was de-spirited when this first started becoming a common occurrence and even after putting in the extra time, she just couldn't catch up to David's level of skill.

It was hard for her to accept, for, in every other class, David and she were equals. Both got top marks and an equal amount of points from the Professors. But duelling was different, she just couldn't match him.

This soon brought on the realisation that while she usually studied extremely hard in the Library, David was often reading a book on a different subject. Sometimes on subjects that the Hogwarts curriculum didn't even cover.

However, while her pride was hurt, she put it aside and had to grudgingly accept that David was just smarter than her. She would never admit that to David though.

"I know, a couple of the Ravenclaws I know mentioned their suspicions as well, but nothing like the Hufflepuffs. I guess their loyalty only goes as far as their house," David said, agreeing with Hermione.

Mentions of the Hufflepuffs drew a groan from Hermione, so David switched houses, "What about Gryffindor? Do they think Harry's the heir?"

"Uhh, some of the older students that don't know him, give him weird looks behind his back. But no one's really said anything and are supporting him! Us Gryffindors are close you know?" Hermione said, finishing with a defence of her House.

Realising that nobody said anything around one of Harry's best friends, but not wanting to rain on her parade, David just nodded and kept quiet.

Throughout their chat, David got the feeling Hermione wanted to ask something of him, or let him in on some secret, but she never did. In the end, they went their separate ways, each returning to their common rooms.

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It was a few days after that their duelling lesson that David entered his dorm room late at night, having just returned from a particularly gruelling practice session in the Room of Requirement.

It was there that Greenie gave her report of who had been around the entrance to the Chamber, Hermione, Harry and Ronald.

Sighing sadly at the realisation that Hermione hadn't asked him to participate, David got his toiletries and a spare change of clothes and went to shower.

Following the shower, David was sitting at his desk, wondering why Hermione didn't trust him with her plan of using Polyjuice to find out if Draco Malfoy was the heir.

Fitz, knowing that David was bothered by what his closest friend had kept form him through their bond, decided to help him out, as he hadn't realised what had caused it.

Letting out a loud cry, a burst of flame and a ruffle of his feathers, Fitz sent two thoughts through the bond he and David shared. Hermione and jealous.

Immediately David turned to his familiar and asked, "What do you mean she's jealous?"

Trilling at that question, in his way of rolling his eyes, Fitz flashed a brilliant blue and gold and left David alone in his room, as Nala was out exploring and catching mice, regardless of the danger of the basilisk.

I took a moment for David to realise what had caused Hermione to hide the potion form him, but he soon realised that it was the duelling lessons with Professor Flitwick, that she was falling behind in, that probably caused her to develop jealousy regarding David and develop a d.e.s.i.r.e to prove her self with brewing the NEWT level potion herself.

Not knowing how he felt about that, David distracted himself by tinkering away with an artefact he was creating. The artefact he was making was in the shape of a medallion, that held a small opening, where multiple people could leave a drop of blood, allowing them to zero in on its location at a later date.

This artefact would prove quite useful to David for when he went back into the Chamber of Secrets following the death of the Basilisk. It would allow Mel or Fitz to teleport him into the warded chamber with ease.

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The very next day, was Gryffindor versus Slytherin and per usual, David didn't attend with the rest of the school but watched Harry being taken to the infirmary thanks to Dobby breaking his arm.

He wondered if he would have to stay overnight this time, as Lockhart wouldn't be there to remove the bones from his arm.

Suddenly, David started laughing at himself for that thought, for who was he kidding, Poppy would most certainly keep Harry overnight.

And as such, following Harry's trip to the infirmary, and some studying, David watched the Map in annoyance late at night.

Ginny Weasley was opening the Chamber again, and soon the basilisk would petrify Colin Creevy.

Annoyed that he couldn't just change things and make everything safer at Hogwarts, David turned off his Map and went to bed after downing a sleeping draught. For without the potion, David would have a restless nights sleep.

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While time seemed to move incredibly slowly for most students following the petrification of Colin, David was hard at work, studying, training, brewing potions and tutoring his small group of friends. Not to mention waiting impatiently for Dawlish's next report, to find out if the rumour he had mentioned in his recent report of Astoria Greengrass, the younger sister of Daphne, being afflicted with Malediction was true.

With his schedule hectic, December crept up on David and news that a duelling club was starting broke him from his long reverie.

It seemed this duelling lesson was going to be held by Professor Lupin, who was becoming a favourite of many students, including David. He truly knew the subject he was teaching.

Alongside him was Professor Snape, who had a greater sneer than usual. This made David wonder why it wasn't Professor Flitwick who was in charge of the club, who was probably the best duellist here apart from the headmaster.

Disillusioned and watching from the side, was David, who had no intention of participating in a duel with his fellow students. As such, he contently watched as Professor Lupin and Snape demonstrated the correct use of Disarming Charm to the gathering of students.

It seemed Professor Snape was able to hold himself back from attacking Professor Lupin outright, probably thanks to the fact he didn't hate the werewolf as much as Harry's father or godfather.

Eventually, the students were paired off and David took a quick glance at Hermione while he drew his wand silently. She had already demolished Millicent Bulstrode, who she was forced to stun following her win, as the chunky girl tried rugby tackling her to the ground.

Smiling, David watched as Draco and Harry were soon brought up to the main duelling platform at the behest of Professor Snape.

Not really wanting to be here for long, David sent a Compulsion Charm to Draco to use the spell Serpensortia and a Compulsion Charm for Harry to speak to the snake, rather than allow Professor Lupin or Snape to despatch it expertly.

Watching the events exactly as canon, David eventually left the Great Hall before the other students could and decided to go flying on his broom to distract himself.

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Harry's use of Parseltongue spread through the school like wild-fire, ostracising him even further from his fellow students. The petrification of Justin Finch-Fletchley only exasperated Harry's isolation as his friends from Hufflepuff spread the rumour that Harry had learned Justin was a muggle-born, strengthening the image of Harry as the heir.

Knowing that Justin and Nearly Headless-Nick were petrified, David knew this would encourage Hermione to speed up their plan of interrogating Draco, and Hermione's subsequent partial transformation into a cat.

Not willing to just let her sit in the infirmary, for one, he wouldn't do that to a close friend if he had the power to change it and secondly, he didn't want her asking questions about his weekly visits to the infirmary, for Hermione would be stuck there for a month following her mishap. David decided to do some reading regarding the Polyjuice Potion.

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"I heard rumours you were in here," David said, taking a seat next to Hermione, much to her embarrassment.

"Nice to see you, David," Hermione replied, partly glad she had so much fur on her face, hiding her blush.

"Mmm, yeah, nice to see you too, Hermione," David replied.

Following the small talk, David asked a real question, "So, what did you do to yourself, Hermione?"

Gulping, loudly, Hermione responded, "Uhh… just a spell mishap, Madam Pomfrey will set me right."

"A spell mishap huh?" David questioned, knowing she was lying.

"Y-yeah, the twins were messing around and uhh, I got hit by the rebounding of their spells," she said nervously.

"You know… I'm not the Professors or Madam Pomfrey, who you need to lie to, to avoid detention," David said, holding in his disappointment.

"W-what ever d-do you, m-mean David?" Hermione stuttered.

Slightly hurt that she wouldn't tell him, David decided he would come back another time and got up to leave.

As he was about to close the privacy curtain around her, Hermione suddenly said, "W-wait! David! Come back, I-I'll tell you what really happened."

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"I see…" David said after hearing Hermione's truthful apology and explanation of how she ended up part cat.

Looking down in shame, for she felt that David wouldn't have made a mistake like she had, which he wouldn't have. Regardless of his prior knowledge. David started expressionlessly at Hermione for a good while, making her uncomfortable.

"Well, you most definitely can't tell the Professors it was Polyjuice, they would get you on stealing from a Professor, and breaking into the restricted section… Not to mention brewing a heavily regulated potion… Which means you're probably going to be here a while, as Madam Pomfrey has no idea what she's treating, and has to go by trial and error," David explained, causing Hermione to be mortified that she would be stuck here unable to attend lessons.

"Oh no…" Hermione m.o.a.n.e.d into her hands.

"But I know what the issue is, so I can brew you the correct potion. If you trust me too. Do you?" David asked, hoping she trusted him to brew a NEWT level potion to undo the effects of the Polyjuice mishap.

Immediately she nodded, vigorously, "Yes David, I do. Please help me, I need to get out of here!"

Smiling he got up and said, "Well, I better get to it, need to do a little research, but I think the potion will be done in about two days, I'll see you then."

"Bye David," Hermione said quietly as he left.

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"Master, who's the potion for?" Mel asked as she watched David bottle the extremely expensive and difficult to make potion.

"Hermione, she used Polyjuice potion, but added cat hair instead of human, she can't tell the Professors what's really wrong, so it's going to take them a while to cure her. Since I know exactly what went wrong, I can brew the correct potion," David explained to Mel.

"I see. Oh! Dawlish is contacting me," Mel said, looking at a ring she pulled from her pocket that was glowing.

"Oh, but he's not due for another report yet, right?" David asked, not sure why the Auror would be contacting them early.

"Yes… I'll take Greenie with me, she can stay hidden while I meet with him. Just in case Master," Mel said, not knowing why the Dawlish requested a meeting this early.

"Good idea, feel free to call for Fitz if something truly goes wrong," David added while corking the bottle.

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"So… this is it?" Hermione asked, looking at the brown potion.

"Yup, Polyjuice reversal potion, adjusted for cat hair," David explained.

"Okay," Hermione said a little nervously as she slowly uncorked the potion David gave her.

Taking a small whiff, and grimacing, she downed the potion in one go. Almost immediately, the excess fur started disappearing and her eyes returned to normal.

"Oh, thank Merlin," Hermione exclaimed.

"Merlin? It was me that brewed the potion, Merlin had nothing to do with it," David teased.

"Oh, thank you, David!" Hermione managed to get out as she engulfed David in a hug.

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AN: Regarding the artefact, he's making, he plans on going into the Chamber after them, regardless of whether they invite him (as he plans to stop Hermione from being petrified) or he has to follow while disillusioned.