"Thank you" Harry continued "now I just want to say a few things before I sit down, the first is welcome first years. Your lives are now interesting, congratulations. The second is that I want all of you to start learning some defence, the basics at the very least. I may be out there hunting death eaters but I can't protect you all, I'm not telling any of you to join me, in fact don't join me. I can get away with it but none of you lot can, but back to my original point, learn to defend yourself.
A few of the students are holding a defence club called the DA, I will temporarily be in charge of the club but my lovely wife will be the one responsible for the day to day teaching. Don't worry, she's probably the strongest witch here and she knows more than enough to get you guys to a good enough level to defend yourself. Trust me, I have trained her and she is more than capable of handling any of you who wish to join. For those who were in the DA last year, we won't be using the same place as last time as I'd like to still keep that a secret. I will send notices to the common rooms once a new location has been decided. I should let you know that me and Ginny plan to take our exams early and leave school this year" The crowd were stunned into silence, many of them hating the idea of school without Harry and Ginny.
"Once we do then Neville will take over the club, trust me he's qualified enough for it. The reason me and Ginny want to leave early is because death eaters don't hunt themselves, or at least, that's what we're led to believe. Once that's done we might come back, if you all miss us enough that is.
While I'm here, some of you may remember the Weasley twins. Well, those jokers have only gone up and built a joke shop, they do owl delivery and make good quality products for those of you who are interested in buying.
Now that is all from me, I hope you guys have a good time and let's just skip the headmasters yearly speech because I'm pretty sure we're all hungry. I'll give you all a brief overview, don't go to the forbidden forest, don't use magic in the corridors which is pointless in saying because you're going to use it anyway and a few random words. Mine are marmalade, snow and trifle. Now, let's tuck in"
Harry clapped his hands and the food appeared on the table, Harry walked back and sat next to Ginny, leaving a stunned Dumbledore and a few teachers who were laughing y on the inside whilst using every bit of effort to keep a shocked or neutral expression.
As Harry and Ginny were still prefects, it was their job to lead the first years to the dormitories, the first years were all really shy. Harry briefly wondered if it was because they were led by a famous, vigilante responsible for beating the headmaster and Voldemort. 'Probably not' he thought.
Later when all the first years had gone up, the rest of the common room came in. Harry was greeted with cheering, hugs and praise from his fellow students. Neville especially, Harry had to assume that it was due to what he did to Bellatrix Lestrange.
"Are you two really leaving?" Neville asked
"Yeah, I contacted the ministry" Harry replied "I arranged a few things and Ginny took her owl exams over the summer, we're both going to take our newt exams in a month or two. Then we're gone"
"Good riddance" Came an all too familiar voice, Ron walked in with Hermione behind him "the sooner you're gone the better, can't believe I have to stay in the castle with a murderer"
"Careful Ron" Harry smiled evilly "this murderer could kill you right here and now and get away with it. Should I hang your body in the great hall? or would you prefer right here in the common room? Perhaps I could throw you to the giant colony of giant spiders in the forbidden forest? According to Hagrid, the head acromantula is the size of an elephant" Ron stepped back a bit and in a rare moment of intelligence decided to shut up. Hermione, however, didn't share that moment.
"Harry, you can't threaten him"
"Yes he can" Ginny supportively held Harrys arm "according to those rules you love so much, Harry can officially do whatever he wants. He can skip class, disturb whoever he wants and even leave the school whenever he wants."
"Harry, listen to me" Hermione ignored Ginny "you need to stop this, I know you think that you're doing a good thing but you need to stop all of this mindless killing" The entire common room looked like they were about to say something but they all decided, almost telepathically, that Harry could handle it.
"The people I kill are killed for a reason" Harry replied "rapist, murderers and people who ruin lives just because they can. I do it because those people need to be stopped"
"I think you're wrong Harry" Hermione stubbornly responded "maybe this isn't just about justice, maybe this is about you having an excuse to do what you want. An excuse to hurt and kill people, maybe you just can't stop yourself"
"I don't want to stop. I really don't, yes, I like killing death eaters but I promised myself that I would never kill anyone innocent."
"What happens when the death eaters are gone then?" Hermione argued "when you no longer have death eaters to kill then what are you going to do?"
"I'm going to sleep" Harry answered "I'm going to sleep, eat, wake up, go to work and maybe watch a few quidditch matches. When they're all gone, I'll finally get to have a nice and peaceful life"
"Harry, you know that this killing is wrong. Why can't you just stun them and hand them to the ministry?"
"Because Hermione" Harry was starting to get annoyed "if that had worked then we would have won the last war easily, if that had worked then Voldemort would never had gotten as strong as he is now or had as many followers, if that had worked then I wouldn't be an orphan right now.
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