Harry potter : Forgotten Lord

'Good thing their magic forces them to obey the current head of the school, otherwise they'd be shouting their heads off,' he mentally admitted.

It was all for the greater good, it wouldn't do for another dark lord to rise on his watch, one was bad enough, Magical Britain would never survive two dark lords back-to-back in such a short span of time. He instructed Ronald in the wording of the Vow.

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Ron carefully repeated what the Headmaster said; it was a simple vow, but its only goal was to stop the boy from talking about these meetings, it wouldn't do for Neville to find out, simply due to the boy losing his temper or becoming jealous over something pointless and endangering his plans. That was one of the major flaws with Weasleys, their temper; they were awfully hot-headed at times.

"Now I believe that is all, I need to get back to my work, I wish you a good weekend Ron," dismissing the boy.

Watching as the boy took a few more lemon drops before leaving, 'the cheek of the boy taking more of my sweets,' he thought, a little annoyed that he would have to order more of his favourite sweets, while still smiling at the lad, keeping the act up that he had mastered decades ago.

"I won't fail you headmaster," Ron stated confidently.

Mentally patting himself on the back, "I know you won't dear boy," he answered back confidently, as the first year left his office, leaving him alone with his thoughts.

Making his way over to the window to look over the school grounds, he spotted Hagrid walking into the forest, as he thought over the meeting.

It had been surprisingly easy to recruit Ron to his side; in years to come the boy would be as loyal as his mother was and an ideal candidate for the Order. The boy may be a bit lazy from what he'd seen, but he hoped it was just a phase that he was going through. After all, most kids these days just wanted to have fun, and it often wasn't until their later teen years that they started to focus on a single goal.

Considering Ron's future role in his plans, he thought of the advantages and disadvantages of recruiting the rest of Neville's friends in the near future to his cause, in order to better protect the boy and to keep him away from undesirables.

It would also allow him to surround the boy with a court of followers under his control, allowing him to better influence the boy. Also, considering the fact that another wizard war was brewing in the distance, surrounding the boy with loyal friends and followers would help keep him safe and provide him with support in the future.

Hopefully his plan wouldn't fail and he could capture Tom's spirit this year, giving them longer to prepare, longer for him to train the boy and recruit him as his apprentice.

He may not be personally destined to defeat Tom, but the least he could do was arrange the 'playing cards' in his and Neville's favour. He sighed as dark memories resurfaced from the last war.

Shaking his head, steadfastly trying to forget all the terrors of war he had seen over his long life, he poured himself a cup of strong tea.

Hopefully an all out war could be avoided, but it was his responsibility as Chief Warlock to plan for the worst and hope for the best, simply due to no one else being capable of seeing the bigger picture, no one else being capable of handling the burdens he carried. He continued to sip his herbal tea, its calming effects silencing his unvoiced doubts.

Letting his thoughts drift back to his youth, before he sadly made his way back over to his desk, to see more papers that he had to sign, sighing in despair at the thought of even more paperwork; he really needed another personal assistant or three.

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Making his way back to the Ravenclaw common room, Harry was still lost in his own thoughts whilst thinking over how to get the potion tested. However, his thoughts were interrupted as he saw the 'fool' making his way out of the headmaster's office.

Wondering what the headmaster could have wanted with the boy, obviously it wasn't to tell the boy off, since he boy looked far too happy and upbeat, even a bit hyper for that matter... Shaking his head, it really wasn't his business anyway, deciding to hang back, rather than risk possible unwanted conversation with the boy, who he just wanted to curse anyways for being a continuous annoyance.

Deciding to indulge himself with that particular idea, he carefully took aim, which was made even easier since the boy was walking in a straight line, before he silently sent a shoelace tying jinx at the fool, before quickly taking the text turn in the hallway. Seconds later, he heard cursing, proving his aim to be true.

It suddenly dawned on him that he would have to practice his aiming more; after all, his aim had been fine when casting at something as big as a mountain troll, at almost point blank range it was nearly impossible to miss. He would have to practice if he wanted to impress Flitwick enough to get the former champion duellist to train him. He sighed, so many things to do, so little time.

He was half-tempted to try and recruit a 6th year or something, just to help guide and direct his development. He could just aim at self-made targets, even moving ones, with an animation charm or two, but it was not the same, after all, it was predictable and they did not have minds of their own. It's one thing aiming at a target, another aiming at person who was fighting back and could adapt as needed.

He could always ask Penny to help, but he didn't want to involve her; she already had quite enough on her plate with it being her OWL year. Plus, it wouldn't be fair to ask more of her; she had her own future to think about. That was the exact same reason why he dismissed the idea of asking a 7th year as well, since they were handling their NEWTS.

So, ideally, he needed a 6th year, a person skilled enough to teach him, but at the same time act as a target, who he wouldn't have to worry about hurting and who would know most of the OWL material to the necessary skill level.

That certainly limited his options, he doubted he would be able to find a raven to help, since most of Ravenclaw house dropped DADA after OWLs, on the grounds that the teaching was unreliable and it was better to focus on another subject rather than waste time spending extra effort making up for incompetent teachers.

Plus, DADA got more physically demanding in the final years and ravens where naturally inclined to be scholars rather than fighters. Who preferred to be debating theories rather than duelling; simply put DADA was primarily taken by lions in the final years, whilst ravens went for more academically challenging subjects like runes and arithmancy.

Thinking over everything he knew, DADA was the principal requirement for anyone who wished to become an Auror or Hit-Wizard like his father, before concluding that it was in his best interests to go and see his head of house. Since charms was another necessary subject required at NEWT level for that profession and career path, the charms master would surely know of a capable student in DADA.

Changing direction he headed towards his head of house's office; hopefully he would know of a student who would be suitable to approach. Of course, he would have to find something to offer in exchange, since he doubted any student would do it for free.

Hopefully, he could offer some money to solve the issue, and effectively buy the additional lessons.

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