Mess with the wrong star
Months passed after the Quidditch debacle, and like all wounds at Hogwarts, the hostility between Ravenclaw and Slytherin slowly scabbed over. It never truly healed—but time dulled the sharpest edges. Ravenclaw students chose a quieter revenge: higher marks, longer hours in the library, brilliance sharpened into something almost defiant. Lyra, the moment Madam Pomfrey released her, went straight to studying with an intensity that bordered on obsession. Leo seeing her sister get so determined cheer for her.
Leo, meanwhile, finally began to feel like Hogwarts was home.
He still got lost when distracted once, ending up in a fourth-floor corridor that definitely hadn't existed the day before but the castle no longer felt like it might swallow him whole. By winter's end, it was a well-known truth among first years that Leo Lee and Cedric Diggory were the standouts of their year. Good-looking, yes—but more than that, consistent, sharp, frighteningly capable.
They answered questions with ease. Spells came naturally. Even Professor Flitwick and Professor McGonagall, half-joking and half-envious, remarked that Professor Sprout was unfairly lucky to have them both in Hufflepuff while she herself simply smiled and waved it off, utterly unconcerned with house rivalry.
Leo's popularity grew quickly. He was known to always sketching in the Hufflepuff common room, his art pinned lovingly along the walls. When he wasn't painting, he was playing music soft melodies that turned late evenings warm and communal. Yet despite all the attention and the new friend coming on to his life, Leo stayed rooted with his closest circle: Cedric, Elowen, Maribel, Tobias, and Rowan.
He tried following Cedric and Rowan to Herbology on weekends, despite having the worst luck with plants imaginable. One particularly aggressive specimen tried to eat him again.
"Why do they always choose you?" Cedric asked once, laughing as Leo fled.
"I think they sense fear," Leo replied solemnly.
Leo was invited to the transfiguration club lead by professor McGonigal, professor McGonigal acknowledge that despite Leo being a first year, his control and creativity earned him a place. Leo transfiguration skill soared higher as he gain a reliable club members that could help him.
Hogwarts was full. Bright. Alive.
Until the day it wasn't.
The Encounter
Leo was returning from the library, arms full of books and head pleasantly buzzing with half-formed ideas, when he saw them exiting the Headmaster's office.
Narcissa Malfoy.
And beside her, unmistakable even without the cane raised , he know him at the daily prophet where he was part of a group of people who will attend an important meeting occurs in the ministry of magic, he none other than Narcissa husband Lucius Malfoy.
Leo's stomach dropped.
He considered turning around but it was Too late both party's eyes meet each other .
As they passed, Leo bowed his head politely. "Good afternoon."
Narcissa's eyes lingered on him—cool, assessing.
Lucius stopped.
A hand clamped down on Leo's shoulder.
"Lucius Malfoy," the man said smoothly, voice edged with steel. "Your uncle."
Leo froze.
Lucius leaned closer, examining Leo's face like a flawed artifact. "A mixture of looks," he murmured. "How… interesting."
Then, with a faint smile that didn't reach his eyes:
"You're a Metamorphmagus, aren't you? Why don't you change that face?"
Leo felt heat crawl up his neck.
Narcissa tilted her head. "If he wished," she added coolly, "he could become something more… desirable. Life would be easier, for someone like him."
The words hit like a slap.
Something in Leo locked in place. His breath stopped working properly. These weren't careless remarks. They were deliberate, sharp enough to cut.
He didn't wait for more.
Leo turned and ran without looking at their reaction.
The Breaking Point
He didn't stop until he reached the Lee siblings' hideaway.
When he reach his destination, he immediacy slam the door making a loud bang , he lean on the door and afterward His strength vanished.
Leo slid down and sobbed.
His magic reacted instantly—hair fading into a pale, watery blue, eyes drooping and reshaping with grief. He cried until his throat burned, for a while the room was only filled with the sound of crying, but now it was quiet to quiet…..until the sound broke down into silent shaking and both fist meet the door frame with a loud thud.
They had taken his gift—his self—and twisted it into something filthy and making me feel less than human.
After the tears came stillness.
Then anger.
His hair darkened.
Crimson flooded in.
If looks could kill then the Malfoy are done for.
The Act
Leo use a plan that made from impulse, usually when he want to do something big he plan it thoroughly and with his friend and family but he did not wait to find them and wanted to execute and punish them immediately.
He moved, every step feel with more confident deliberation.
The greenhouse loomed ahead, and the smell of earth hit him like memory and rage combined. He saw a Dragon dung fertilizer sat at the edge. He find the largest and smelliest sack he could find and then
He lifted it with a levitation charm.
The weight was immense. Sweat broke across his skin as he held the levitation steady.
As he was trying to find the Malfoys, he immediately saw them not far from the green house, idea flickered when he saw an unmoving full knight Armor, he Then had the second idea, he knows a transfiguration spell that Professor McGonagall taught in the Transfiguration club. He did the spell toward the knight Armor and then the knight groaned into motion, clanking loudly. It moved toward the Malfoys albeit ungracefully due to it being a complex spell, with one command only..to distract them.
As the sound of armour clanking each move the Malfoys saw the knight moving toward them, they didn't understand and didn't thinks it a threat as the knight look worn and didn't have a weapon with it.
But just before they could cancel the magic of the transfigured Armor to fall down.
The fertilizer slowly crept into their unguarded back. Just before they notice the presence of a foul odor, the rope that cover the sack was removed
Lucius and Narcissa turned just as the fertilizer fell.
Chaos in sued a pile of dung keep on pouring in to them like waterfall.
Dung splattered on robes, hair, skin. Narcissa screamed—then gagged as some caught her mouth. Lucius roared.
"WHO DID THIS?" while his whole body look like it was mix with brown, dark green and some redness.
Lucious was looking around, he saw a silhouette of a person hiding in a corner,
Lucious immediately perform a spell, but Leo dodged it and then he
ran. Leo was angry that he acknowledge that the reason he was caught is due to his ranged of magic is insufficient, he went a little closer due to the weight of the fertilizer cannot be maintain for longer distance.
Escape and Alibi
A game of cat and mouse was in sued, Lucious who was already used scourgify to clean himself was chasing Leo, although he didn't see Leo body , he follow him through the noise Leo make when he was running. Lucious was focusing on catching the perpetrator while forgetting that his wife still puking near the greenhouse,
The chase was intense magic spell came at Leo like firework and the distance gap become narrowed quickly.
He change himself into a Slytherin hoping it will stop Lucious but the pace is still the same, he couldn't change into someone else or he will get caught easily as there is only two metamorphmagus in school.
As he reach the hall near the entrance of great hall, he saw the trophy display of quidditch cup adorned with green colour, he remember it was lunch time so a lot of people will be at the great hall. Leo immediately taught of a plan to distract luscious, he pointing out his wand and yelled a "Flipendo "spell on to the trophy display of the Slytherin Cup, the glass exploding into fragments the noise is loud enough where noises of people chattering from the great hall stop for a second and then continue with a sound of student movement get closer to the door of the great hall.
More and more students went outside the Great Hall and
Immediately the hall was filled with student witnessing the shattered glass,
without missing a beat.
Leo changed.
Again.
And again.
Discreetly, while all of the student detracted by the shattered glass.
He keep on changing his appearance Until he change into professor flitweek, with a short stature it hard for people to notice him.
As he was in this form
Lucius stormed past him.
Leo didn't breathe until he was gone.
After that he walking calmy among student to avoid suspicion and after he was out of the cluster of student he change into someone from the Hufflepuff senior who was know to be a fast runner and then he ran straight to the lee hideout since he remember Orion and Tonks mention they want to do their homework there.
He burst into the hideout room moments later, slamming the door.
As his body back to his original form while his face still face the door, trying to hide his guilty-ridden face.
"I did something stupid," he blurted.
Tonks was stunned about the sudden statement and immediately was laughing, since it wad rare for Leo to get this frantic
Orion didn't laugh but was analysing the situation
Before he could say anything the door opened again.