Harry Potter: The cost of neglect

Chapter 25

No one's POV

Harry was sitting at his house table eating breakfast as he looked around at the somewhat empty room.

Many had gone home to spend time with their families so that left some students along with the teachers.

Harry smiled at the fact that his sister was still there as she had told their parents last minute that she wanted to stay.

"Good morning."

Harry smiled as he turned to see Daphne walking along with Qin Shi Huang who nodded.

He sat down next to him as the two ate in silence.

"Tobi left today." Qin Shi Huang said and Harry nodded as they ate.

"I know."

"This will be an interesting Christmas." He said and Qin Shi Huang nodded.

The two ate breakfast while exchanging conversation as the others joined them as well.

Once breakfast was done Harry stood up and walked to his sister and tapped her shoulder.

"Yes Harry?" She asked as she turned to him.

"I was wondering if perhaps you would like to hang out for a bit?" Harry asked and Jessie smiled but shook her head.

"I would love to but I had asked Qin Shi Huang to help me earlier." Jessie said and Harry raised an eyebrow.

"Help you with what?" He asked and Jessie shook her head once more.

"That will be a secret until I'm ready to tell you." She said and Harry nodded.

"Very well then, I think I'll go read in my room for a bit then." Harry said as he waved to his sister before he left.

Harry sat in his room as he read his book in silence as he closed his eyes for a moment and looked around the room as his eyes narrowed.

He slowly stood up and walked to his trunk and opened it as he reached in as he slowly took out a large switchblade knife as he brought out one of the blades from it as he looked around.

He closed his eyes activating his sixth sense.

The entire room had lost its colour replacing it with black and a white outline of the objects in the room.

Outside he could see the shapes of people in different colours.

Ordinary people were blue, those that Harry considered his enemies were red while his targets were a golden colour.

He slowly opened his eyes looking for the golden hue that led to his target as he found it trailing towards his bed.

Harry followed the trail as he held rh weapon in his hand as he quickly looked under the bed to see nothing which confused him.

He chuckled as he felt something press against his neck.

"Interesting." Harry said as he turned his head slightly.

Our of the corner of his eye Daphne had a smirk on her face.

"It seems that I've become better than my teacher." Daphne said and Harry raised an eyebrow.

"Oh really?" He said as he grabbed her arm and flipped her over onto his bed.

Landing on her back Daphne opened an eye to see Harry holding the switchblade just barely over her neck.

"It seems you still have quite a bit to learn." Harry said with a small smirk as he moved the switchblade away and closed it before he put it away.

Daphne huffed and sat up on his bed as he sat down as well.

"How long did you wait for me to return to my room?" He asked curiously.

"Not long, I merely wanted to see how skilled I have become against you." She said and Harry smiled.

"Excellent."

"You have taken well to this perhaps we can arrange another kill for you soon enough."

Daphne turned a bit green hearing that.

"Do you...think we could hold off on that a bit?" Daphne asked and Harry looked at her for a moment.

"Very well, you will not kill but you observe me as I do and from it you will learn." Harry said as he stood up.

"Come let's practice your knife throwing."

Daphne nodded as they walked out of the room.

They were outside near the lake as Harry put up a target on the tree as he held up a knife.

"Alright, now steady your hand, breath and fire focusing on your target." Harry said as he handed her the knife.

Daphne nodded as she took the knife and turned to the target and aimed before throwing it.

It just missed its intended target as it embedded itself right next to it.

Harry walked and grabbed the knife walking back to Daphne.

"I followed what you said." Daphne said and Harry nodded.

"While that may be true, you need to relax your arm, even missing once can be deadly if you are trying to assassinate a dangerous target." Harry said as he held his knife out to her again.

Taking the knife she repeated what she had done before but the same results happened.

Harry grabbed the knife and walked over to her as he took her hand gently and put the knife in his hand guiding her.

"The knife is more than a tool." Harry said as he moved closer and used his other hand to aim her while the other held the closed hand that was wielding the knife.

"Every weapon that is wielded by an assassin becomes an extension of their body similar to the wand of a wizard, now stop thinking of it as a tool." Harry said as he let go of her.

"You are my student and I am very impressed with all you have done in the time we've spent." Harry said.

Feeling a boost of confidence from Harry's words she smiled and turned back to the target and focused.

Throwing the knife, this time it was stabbed deep into the target.

She turned to Harry and smiled as he nodded to her.

"Well done."

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