Harry potter : Forgotten Lord

Most of the exam questions were basic theory about individual spells, about the wand movements involved, or the charm's effects. So, all-in-all, pretty basic stuff. Upon leaving the great hall he quoted Darth Vader, "All too easy," he said, much to the ignorance of his year mates.

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The history exam was simply boring, after all who really cared about goblin rebellions from 400 years ago? There were far more interesting things to study, like the history of the two most recent dark lords.

That being said, he still put forth his best effort on the exam, despite thinking the whole time that wizard history was ridiculously biased, more often than not coloured with dismissive discrimination of those of the 'wrong' race and blood status.

Despite this, he still answered the questions in the exact manner the examiners wanted to hear, even if it was not necessarily the truth. After all, sometimes you just had to pay lip service to the entrenched system to get the top spots, even if you didn't believe in it yourself.

Both his Charms, DADA, and Transfiguration practical exams he aced with flying colours, first with his ability to cast the spells silently, which caused quite a stir amongst his examiners and supervising professors, then he went a step further by showing off during the transfiguration exam.

Throughout his transfiguration exam he displayed his advanced ability by giving all of his transfigured objects complex, but beautifully elegant designs, turning simple needles into pieces of art that looked like they had been crafted by famous artists. Then he went a step further and transfigured the needle into a working pocket watch, much to the surprise of his examiner and transfiguration professor who were both watching in awe.

During his 'showing off' he explained the magical theory behind it, whilst giving his own minor insights into the spell's inner workings, before going further and discussing the relevant second year magical theory and the reasons why gold was almost impossible to transfigure. Yes, he was showing off, but he wanted to show just how far along he was in his magical studies, since he had always been forced to hold back his academic prowess at his relatives for fear of a beating. The simple truth was that he wanted recognition for his hard earned skill.

The only exam he had problems with was the potions exam practical, not because of the actual brewing, but because of the malicious meddling of the professor. The unjust professor had given him inappropriate ingredients for the requested potion, even then the ingredients were half rotten and entirely unsuited for brewing, which he pointed out to the examiner.

Of course this only resulted in him losing 100 house points for making a 'disruption,' with Snape singling him out during the exam for making an unnecessary fuss... It was truly amazing what the man could get away with yet still keep his job.

Of course he was going to make a fuss! Bad ingredients not only meant a bad potion but radically increased the chance of an explosion. There was no way he was he going to lose the chance of getting high Os across the board so that he could shove it in Snape's twisted face.

To make his exam efforts even more difficult, he also had to deal with the shady potion master hovering over him, trying to distract and unnerve him, presumably so that he'd make some critical mistake due to nerves. He got the house points back in the end, after marching straight out of the great hall and bursting into the deputy headmistress' ongoing lesson, demanding immediate action and justice for the blatant attempt to sabotage his examination.

It was kind of funny now when he thought back on it, how he had stormed into the professor's classroom demanding action, whilst she was teaching a 5th year class. His anger and ranting had completely caught the experienced professor off guard, at the disappearance of the normally well mannered first year with a student raging out of control and filled with righteous indignation.

This recent 'incident' had finally been the tipping point, the final straw. Afterwards he immediately got a hold of a copy of the Hogwarts rules and regulations governing teacher's conduct. Of course getting a copy was harder said than done; there were no copies accessible to students in the library so he eventually just stole a copy from the Deputy Headmistress' office one night after noticing it just sitting on her shelf.

He quickly learnt that one option available to him was that he could get the potion master removed as his professor and get an independent one paid by the school to tutor him personally. He could also choose self study. Both of these options though required that he could show the abuse of power and position was consistent and over an extended period of time.

The first step in this process was to send an official letter of complaint, expressing in detail his complaints and grievances, signed by his parents or guardians. This was an issue considering the headmaster was his official guardian. In addition, he also had to document every incident with a date and estimated time, as well any witnesses to the incident, which was easily doable given that he had a classroom full of them for each one of the incidents.

But a classroom full of kids was hardly reliable and could be potentially dismissed. This had been confirmed by Madam Bones' own advice on gathering evidence to support his claims of illegal legilimency use by the professor. His two goals were mutually connected, proving one would help prove the other and thus strengthen both individual cases.

Considering his original plan for a moment, he decided to hand in his letter of complaint at the end of term for several reasons; first, it would give him additional time to gather indisputable evidence and reliable eyewitnesses.

Second, it would allow him to be away from Hogwarts when the complaint was lodged, thus preventing the ever spiteful Snape from attempting to make his life miserable in retaliation. And finally, he wanted to cause the potion master a last minute headache, and thus ruin the man's own summer holiday plans if possible. It was a small bit of revenge, but one he thought well worth it.

Of course he would sign the complaint with his Potter heir ring, in order to make it as official as possible, so it couldn't simply be otherwise ignored, like he privately expected so many other complaints of this type had been in the past.

After all, he was the sole heir to one of the oldest magical families in Great Britain; they couldn't afford to ignore him. Well, he hoped that they couldn't afford to ignore him. Furthermore, he planned to send another copy of the complaint to Madam Bones, as well as the Daily Prophet, hoping the magical newspaper would be interested in the story and add the scrutiny of public opinion to the Hogwarts staff.

He could already see the headline.

"Potion Master Uses Forbidden Dark Arts to Steal his Students' Secrets" or "Potion Master Mind Rapes Students," or "Potion Master Sabotages Students' Education."

Or something along those lines, with big damning pictures of Professor Snape on the front page. This would surely cause a stir amongst the wider populace, making the professor's transgressions and well known abuses of power far harder to overlook and ignore by the headmaster. And even if the Headmaster could get it overlooked, the price in political capital would be inordinately high.

He was pretty sure that the other old families would also protest against the man's continued employment at the school, not out of concern for him, of course, but out of self-interest and fear that their own family's dirty secrets could be easily lifted from their children's unprotected minds by the unsavoury professor, rather than his terrible teaching and unprofessional conduct.

He predicted that he had a fairly good chance at actually being successful with his plan as it stood now, since his plan did cover most avenues of attack. It all hinged on whether he could gain enough evidence to support his claims, as well as the needed political support to make sure the charges were very difficult to ignore.

Like with everything else in his life, he understood that it would take time and careful planning to succeed.

It had taken him both time and good fortune to finally escape his hateful, abusive relatives, but he had done it in the end, so he understood the need for patience and to seize opportunities as they came available. Nevertheless, if everything went according to plan he hoped that by the end of the summer holidays he would finally get Snape off his back, or even better, the professor locked up in a jail cell for the next decade.

He didn't care which, as long as he was shot of the man for good.

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