Chapter 27 – Picking a fight! Part-1

    {Great Hall, Hogwarts}

    {1st Sep 1991}

    "Welcome," Dumbledore began. "Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we

    begin our banquet, I want to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit!

    Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"

    The golden plates in front of Rigel were filled with food at those seemingly nonsense words. Although most people didn''t notice, Rigel''s mana sense pinged several times as hundreds of tiny house elves popped into the great hall for a brief moment, they snapped their fingers twice and then vanished.

    It was a neat trick and a lot of people shook their heads at the mad genius that Dumbledore was. Although it was a cheap trick, Rigel was aware that Dumbledore could easily repeat this feat if the spell that covered the entire black lake was done by him.

    Aside from him, there were 9 other Slytherins in his year. Daphne and Tracy were two of them, Millicent Bulstrode and Pansy Parkinson made the number of girls in Slytherin in his year to be 4. Then there was Draco and his two cronies, another black-haired boy named Theodore Nott and Blaize Zabini brought up the numbers to an even 10. He didn''t count the other houses but most of the students get sorted into Ravenclaw. This was surprising because Rigel expected that to happen to Hufflepuff.

    ''I guess it makes sense, 18-year-olds are more mature than 11. So the students are more focused on learning magic rather than having an adventure.''

    "So Black, heard you were raised in a muggle orphanage?" Malfoy suddenly asked, the conversation around the table quietened slightly as everyone leaned over slightly to listen in.

    Rigel stared at the blond and the sneer on his face for a second before he spoke, "Does it matter, my name is still Black?"

    ''I guess he wasn''t expecting a rational comeback after I was violent before...'' Rigel thought as the Malfoy just gaped at him.

    Rigel ignored the blond and focused on a prettier one, "So do you think we get our own room or what? Because I''m not sharing a dorm with the dumb and dumber over there..."

    "Of course, we get our own private room, why would we share? Did you have to share your bed with other Muggles growing up?" Malfoy interrupted their conversation again.

    While the jokes and laughs were good, the smile slipped off of Rigel''s face as he looked at the second person in the Great Hall with another mana signature attached to him.

    ...

    [Quirinus Quirrell/Tom Riddle Lv ??]

    ...

    Even without the messed up name, Rigel would have been able to guess that something was wrong. He was surprisingly stronger but at the same time, his body had two different kinds of mana flowing through it. Unlike Harry where the two mana sources were almost indistinguishable, it was clearly very different in the case of Quirrell.

    Though he didn''t really have to guess what level the combined body of Voldemort and Quirinus Quirrell was at.

    ...

    [Albus Dumbledore Lv 93]

    ...

    ''If we consider that Dumbledore was able to manage just a draw against Voldemort, and the fact that he was around level 90. Then how the fuck did Harry Potter manage to kill him in canon.'' Rigel grumbled as he thought about the stupid forced plot. If Harry can''t deal with Voldemort by dumb luck he would be dragged into the stupid war as well.

    ''I might need to start gathering the Horcruxes soon,'' Rigel thought. His mind wandered to the Basilisk that was residing deep underneath Hogwarts. He was still debating on how to take care of the giant snake as well.

    ''At least I have a year to take care of that...''

    AN - Was the fight with Malfoy too childish? I''ll explain the reasoning soon!

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