Luna looked around the group saying the names of people as she pointed at them. When she got to Harry, she smiled. "And this is Harrison Potter-Black."
Ginny acted shocked. "Oh, I've always wanted to meet you," she gushed, batting her eyelashes at Harry.
"That's nice."
"You're a hero, how you defeated You-Know-Who," Ginny said, still sending Harry smiles and fluttering her lashes.
"Have you got something in your eye?" Neville blurted out, going red when everybody turned to look at him. Harry had to bite his lip to stop the laughter that threatened to escape.
"What?" Ginny asked.
"You keep blinking," Neville said, making Harry's grip on his laughter fail and resulting in him almost crying.
"What's so funny?!" Ron demanded, affronted when he realised Harry was laughing at his sister. The Slytherins, who had also realised what was happening, were also laughing.
"N-nothing," Harry said, trying to contain his mirth.
Ginny looked just as angry as her brother, her face patchy with red. "I don't have anything in my eyes!" she said angrily.
"Oh," Neville said, clueless as to why Harry and the rest were laughing.
Realising she had lost her current chance, Ginny sent the blond Gryffindor a dark look before forcing an obviously false smile on her face. "Well, I'll catch you later Luna - and I would love to get to know you Harry, perhaps we could even be friends," she said, batting her eyelashes once again, making the Slytherins who had started to calm down start laughing all over again.
Turning with a huff, the two redheads soon vacated the library and Harry regained control. "That was awful," he said, once he finally had his breath back. Neville looked around. "I don't get it."
Susan sighed. "She was obviously flirting with Harry."
Neville looked remembering added, "Oh."
shocked. "Oh." Then, Harry's sexuality, he
"God, Harry, the way she was looking at you. You could be the next Mr. and Mrs. Weasel," Draco said, still laughing.
"Please," Harry said, before tilting his head. "Then again, I have heard the older brothers are quite attractive."
Draco blanched. "Don't even joke about such things, Merlin. Could you image being a part of such a family?"
Harry shook his head. "I actually really like the twins, and I'm sure the older brothers are okay. It's just the youngest that are awful."
"Please, blood traitors the lot of them. They might as well be muggles with how they act," Draco said.
"There's nothing wrong with muggleborns or even muggles. Muggleborns have just as much magic as us, they just need to be better educated about our society. We shouldn't blame them for being ignorant, we should teach them our traditions, holidays, and laws. If we brought them into our society earlier and educated them before Hogwarts then there wouldn't be such a big gap or divide. I mean, that's the main problem. It's not that they don't have our power, it's that they just don't know a lot about our world," Harry said.
"As if. Mudbloods will never be as powerful as us," Pansy sneered.
Harry felt his magic crackle with rage. "My mother was a muggleborn witch," he said, his emerald green eyes piercing into her.
Draco felt the air suddenly condense and gulped when he saw the look in Harry's eyes. The others could all feel it and stared, shocked at the power he radiated. Neville and the girls were shocked the most - they had spent the entire of last year with Harry and had never felt such raw magic coming from him.
Taking a breath, Harry tightened his shields before he spoke, "Never use that word again. There is nothing wrong with being muggleborn or muggle-raised. We all have magic and that is what's important—being witches and wizards, celebrating our holidays, our traditions, our culture. We're not better than the muggles but we are different and that's okay. We all need each other to work together and have a better future."
Harry had read a few books on wizarding customs while he was searching for answers during his first life. He had found that witches and wizards traditionally celebrated the Olde Pagan holidays as magic was more powerful during those times for rituals and spells. It was only in the last 100 or so years that celebrating their holidays had stopped being so public. Instead, places like Hogwarts started to celebrate Christian holidays in order to make their muggleborn students more at ease. Now it was illegal to celebrate some, as certain holidays required blood in their celebration rituals - any form of blood magic was deemed illegal and had to be controlled by the ministry. Harry knew this didn't stop most families from celebrating but now it was done in secret.
That's where the term blood traitor had come from. It was used to shame witches and wizards who turned on their blood and embraced the Christian holidays and muggle world, denouncing their own traditions. To be honest, he couldn't blame people for being angry about this and ostracising families like the Weasleys. Harry hadn't understood last time why Arthur was so looked down on, but now he knew it was because he had abandoned all tradition and culture. However, he knew that Bill had embraced the Olde ways. His wedding had included them and he knew Fleur, as a quarter veela, had be adamant that their daughter would grow up celebrating them. Harry had no idea about the twins or Charlie and Percy, but he knew Ron and Ginny had sneered at the thought of religion. They said that the rituals were all Dark magic and evil and Harry had, at the time, believed them, not knowing any better or being interested enough to care.
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