She giggled. "Yeah, Harry was actually really sad about that. He has a real problem remembering to use his wand." Hermione grinned. "He actually taught a few of us how to do a few of the things he can do... well, sort of anyway."
Tracy leaned in. "So... think he will teach a couple of snakes?"
The look Hermione gave them had something cold in it for a moment. "Maybe. You two are not bullies, are you?" Her face looked a bit serious. "I saw what Harry does to people who are bullies. It is a bit... frightening."
Daphne bit her lip. "He doesn't... um. Does he threaten people?"
She shook her head. "Worse, makes them feel guilty somehow. Wasn't even directed at me and I felt ashamed to be in the area." Hermione shivered. "When Harry likes you, the world is full of sunlight and stuff... but you saw how Draco acts around him, right?"
Before Daphne could really respond, everyone in the area burst into conversations, seeing Madam Hooch who was almost skipping and Harry Potter being followed by a small army of brooms.
The Nimbus felt strange to Harry. There was some strange pattern inside the shaft, shaped similar to the inside of some of the wands he had used back in Diagon Alley. There were many more runes near the bristles, and the complexity and number of charms on the wood and even on the twigs were amazing. Still the magic in the broom itself seemed like new, and connected in several places to the charms and enchantments on the broom.
One of the larger differences was a small set of runes that was on some of the school brooms. When Harry examined those runes, he could feel that magic going through it could be artificially restricted to control maximum speed, height, and turning speed. The Nimbus on the other hand seemed designed to have as little as possible on it. Even the cushioning was trimmed. As Harry took one of the older brooms and used scrap to duplicate the shape and length of the Nimbus, he absently added on the speed and power restriction runes and increased the quality of the cushioning charms to be like the ones he felt on some of the other brooms. It needed more power added to the core of his creation, but power was never an issue for him before.
Duplicating spells turned out to be much easier when he had existing examples to play with. Even as Madam Hooch watched with awe in her eyes and a grin, his hands glowed as a glowing broom changed shape in his hands. As he finished he pushed feelings of calmness, of peace and safety into the core of his creation, and colored the wood a dark blue with silver twigs at the end. Solid white letters spelled "Ravenclaw" where "Nimbus 2000" was etched into her broom. He grinned as his fingers felt for imperfections. "How many do you need for each house? Maybe one just for the referee?"
Madam Hooch gave him an actual hug. "Young man, you are precious. Make 15 for each school and you can fly however you want for the entire period, as long as you do it safely. Heck, you can make one just for yourself and keep it WITH the 100 points."
He jerked. "Isn't there a rule that you have to be a second year to own a broom?"
She snorted. "Pretty sure we never had 11 year old broom builders before, exceptions are SUPPOSED to be unusual." She touched a small Hogwarts logo near the twigs softly. "What did you do to this logo?"
Harry shrugged as another Ravenclaw broom was being constructed from the pile of brooms. "There are restriction runes there. Press it with your wand and tell it max speed, turning radius, and height in that order. You can also clear it by request." He pointed at he stick itself as his other hand continued construction. "I also improved the cushioning charm, which required me to increase how much magic is embedded in the core of the broom."
She grinned as she touched the raised logo. "I will have to pass on a message to Nimbus. You can probably expect someone to come down and beg for your permission to use the new design."
Seeing his raised eyebrow, she grinned. "Think boy, a Nimbus broom design modified by the Boy-Who-Lived? It would outsell the rest of the market easily."
He grinned back. "I bet I could donate my chunk to the school too, maybe prevent this from happening again... Let me see the letter before you owl it and I will sign it too." After MANY new brooms were created Harry absently raised a hand as he and Madam Hooch walked back to the class which had fallen into small gossiping groups. A good number of Ravenclaw and Slytherin brooms followed behind the two as Madam Hooch examined her new referee broom, designed to be bright orange so players would see her more easily.
That was probably why she didn't notice an army of brooms following along, although Harry remembered to pretend and use his wand this time. No one noticed the wand-less thing, right?
He sighed. Harry was not really good at subtle.
Harry was just ignoring his friends at this point.
Padma of course took this to mean poking was back in season. Susan and Hermione were both trying to stay awake. Terry was playing with his telescope, waiting for Astronomy to start. Hannah kept grinning at Harry's annoyance. Hermione sighed. "Look Harry, this stuff will keep happening because... well, you are just different." She waved off his glare. "All the other students just fly during that class, sometimes fall, or whatever. You rebuilt the schools broom supply using wand-less magic. I mean, that just is different, right?"
Padma nodded, poking Harry's neck. "Yep. Course, different is cool."
Harry relaxed a bit. "Thanks. I just... sometimes I do stuff without really thinking about all the repercussions."
Terry grinned. "Aww, the Claw is a bit of a Cub."
Harry waved his hand, and a snowball smacked Terry in the face. Ignoring the funny noises the boy started to make, he tried to focus more on the class. "So what is the point of this one again? Why do we learn about the stars and stuff?" Hermione stretched a bit. "Well, there are magical stars and stuff. If they have flares then magic here can go off. Stronger or weaker, or with strange results. A lot of really powerful or fickle rituals need specific amounts of solar magic or it will do odd stuff."
Hannah was grinning. "Mione, that was... I followed that! You've been practicing putting stuff in basic terms!"
Hermione blushed and looked away. "Yeah yeah. Harry gave me a book about teaching that covered the topic."
The boy in question nodded, somehow also dodging a fairly large snowball being launched by Terry. "Yeah, I want to be a healer at some point and teaching others goes well with the job. I found that just repeating raw knowledge doesn't do as much good as paraphrasing just the cool stuff into easy to remember chunks." A snowball almost hit him in the eye when it paused.
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