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PRESENT HARRY: All the other Gryffindors hated me. I lost loads of house points... I sometimes woke everyone up screaming in the middle of the night, without knowing why.
We see an illustration of that event. Past Harry is sitting up in a four-poster bed with all the outlines glaring a bright color to represent zir emotional state. Ron Weasley and two other students are awake, with a mix of groggyness and anger directed at Harry. Harry is fat in this moment.
PAST HARRY: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
PRESENT HARRY: Hufflepuff won the House Cup that year. We were in last place by more than a hundred points, even with your last-minute heroics.
We see an image of Granger being celebrated. Four hands reach out of the surrounding darkness to shoot off magical fireworks around zem. Ze is pointing zir own wand in the air and shooting off some magic to go along with the fireworks. Nearby, two Slytherin students, Blaise Zabini and Draco Malfoy, are watching. The Slytherins speak in a curvy but fairly formal style.
ZABINI: It's that same Mudblood who got on the front page of the Prophet { the Daily Prophet, a newspaper } last fall for getting lucky and beating a troll. Someone should teach her a lesson.
DRACO: Zabini, that's Hermione Granger! You can't fight her – she'll turn us all into chinchillas and report us straight to the Headmaster!
PRESENT HARRY: It was almost a relief to go back to the Dursleys for the summer.
We see Harry – fat and messy, here, with wild hair – grinning savagely as zir adoptive family, the Dursleys, face in the other direction. Vernon Dursley and Petunia Dursley are wearing stiff business suits and ties; Dudley Dursley, their child, is in a wheelchair. All of them are looking down and have grim expressions. Vernon and Dudley have relatively light skin and hair, while Petunia is slightly darker, like Harry (after all, Petunia is Harry's closest genetic relation in the family).
PRESENT HARRY: They knew there were rules against me using magic, but they knew I didn't follow rules very much when I was angry. It was the first time other people were afraid of me. It felt good.
We see an illustration of that event. Past Harry is sitting up in a four-poster bed with all the outlines glaring a bright color to represent zir emotional state. Ron Weasley and two other students are awake, with a mix of groggyness and anger directed at Harry. Harry is fat in this moment.
PAST HARRY: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
PRESENT HARRY: Hufflepuff won the House Cup that year. We were in last place by more than a hundred points, even with your last-minute heroics.
We see an image of Granger being celebrated. Four hands reach out of the surrounding darkness to shoot off magical fireworks around zem. Ze is pointing zir own wand in the air and shooting off some magic to go along with the fireworks. Nearby, two Slytherin students, Blaise Zabini and Draco Malfoy, are watching. The Slytherins speak in a curvy but fairly formal style.
ZABINI: It's that same Mudblood who got on the front page of the Prophet { the Daily Prophet, a newspaper } last fall for getting lucky and beating a troll. Someone should teach her a lesson.
DRACO: Zabini, that's Hermione Granger! You can't fight her – she'll turn us all into chinchillas and report us straight to the Headmaster!
PRESENT HARRY: It was almost a relief to go back to the Dursleys for the summer.
We see Harry – fat and messy, here, with wild hair – grinning savagely as zir adoptive family, the Dursleys, face in the other direction. Vernon Dursley and Petunia Dursley are wearing stiff business suits and ties; Dudley Dursley, their child, is in a wheelchair. All of them are looking down and have grim expressions. Vernon and Dudley have relatively light skin and hair, while Petunia is slightly darker, like Harry (after all, Petunia is Harry's closest genetic relation in the family).
PRESENT HARRY: They knew there were rules against me using magic, but they knew I didn't follow rules very much when I was angry. It was the first time other people were afraid of me. It felt good.
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You will see more of Blaise Zabini. Ze's not a main character, but ze will be important.
In canon, Zabini's gender wasn't revealed until the sixth book, so fan-fiction versions of zem have a variety of genders. In this story, I'm going to ignore zir belated canon gender and simply choose not to reveal zir gender at all. (Technically speaking, I haven't revealed the genders of any of my characters, but with Zabini, I'm not even going to reveal what gender other characters think ze is.) I'm constructing a fairly gender-egalitarian world here, so it won't cause any trouble for understanding the plot – and I really dislike picking genders for characters in the role Zabini's going to play. (My meaning will become more clear later on.)
On another note, I'd originally been planning to make the Slytherins' lettering (Zabini is in Slytherin, for those who don't remember all the minor characters) use a small-caps style with lots of serifs like the one McGonagall uses, but decided against it because that style is both tiring to write and hard to read, and I needed to put a bunch of text in a small area on this page. I'm pretty happy with the style I settled on; to me at least, it's very readable, and it still has a certain amount of formality and elegance to it, without taking lots of extra effort to draw.