Chapter One: Caffeine

The death of Donald had left the school vulnerable and it was not long before Marvol managed to take control of the school, he put the man who killed the old Headmaster in as a headmaster. So Sebestian Saint stared down at the students as they filed in, to his surprise he saw the Golden Trio had even come back even though DeathGroup now ran the school. Rowan Weasel and Helen Great were both watching their friend who seemed rather content. For Henry Raiden had a cup of coffee in his hands and was smiling as he drank it. The students all thought Henry would never return if Marvol controlled the school, and yet there he sat a silly smile on his face.

It was an even bigger shock when the Dark Lord himself sat at the Head table and did not strike Henry down as soon as he saw him, instead the man, who looked twenty once again, simply watched as the 'hero' sat down not even bothering to glare at the DeathGroup. The students who seemed to expect Henry to jump up and defend the school got a shock when he hummed softly while blowing on the hot coffee and looked at the Head table as if expecting a speech or something. Sebestian saw the odd behavior and had to wonder why the teen was so relaxed now, when not even four months ago he had been chasing the very DeathGroup that sat in front of him through Helwons.

Standing the Dark Lord said calmly, "If it occurs that anyone in this school tries rebelling against me I will have that person killed here at dinner, to prove just how serious I am," he expected a drastic reaction from Henry but all he got was a content little smile and the teen sipped his drink again as if accepting the threat as a fact of life, "I shall be wandering the halls randomly, so don't let me catch breaking any of the new rules."

As soon as the Dark Lord stepped down and was seated once again Sebestian started the sorting and watched the Gryffin table closely wondering which idiot would be the first to be killed from the lion's den as the majority looked pissed off. The Claws were calculating the risk of being taught by DeathGroup, while the Hufflepups looked terrified, and the Sky snake seemed smug. Every thing went smoothly until Helen and Rowon both smacked Henry in the head after the sorting, causing him to spill his coffee.

Henry looked at the dark stain forming on the table and felt his eye twitch, "That was my coffee," his voice shocked the hell out of everyone as it was the first time he had spoken all night, when Dean and Sam saw his hand twitch slightly they both summoned him coffee as they knew if Henry lost his temper it would be a bad thing, especially now, "Yay! Thanks guys," his cold tone from earlier vanished and he was all smiles again, smiling he sipped the fresh coffee humming in satisfaction.

Through the rest of dinner Sam and Dean berated Helen and Rowon as if they were small children playing with fire, Henry smiled through the entire thing as if not worrying about anything any more. The Sly snake found Henry's attitude change to be slightly scary as he had gone from smile, to cold as ice, and back to smiles in the span of thirty seconds. While all the teachers watched the seventeen year old with curious eyes some wondering when he would save them, others were wondering if he would be this interesting in their classes.

The schedules were passed out that night during dinner as classes started first thing in the morning, as Henry read the schedule while holding his coffee cup in one hand the DeathGroup and Dark Lord were hoping for some sort of reaction that would allow them to curse him but all Henry did was hum slightly as if agreeing with the paper. Rowan almost fainted when he saw their defense class had been pushed away and they would be learning the Dark Arts now. Helen felt nauseous when she read that most their classes were hands on not book subjects. Kevin glanced at Henry and smiled at him hoping his friend would be able to help him with the scheduled classes.

Blinking Henry smiled back at Kevin, "Let me see," getting handed the other teens schedule he read through it a few times before grinning and standing to move around the table and sit next to Kevin, summoning the teen some coffee Henry handed it to him, "Drink this and then reread the schedule."

"Okay," Kevin whispered before drinking the coffee almost choking on the strong flavor but he drank it down and felt his nerves calm down some, reading the schedule once more he grinned as he saw Henry had marked half the classes in green ink. That meant they had them together, Dark Arts, Ritual Magic, Pures Ethics, Potions, and Wizarding Politics they had together. kevin was without Henry for Herbs, Transfiguration, Charms, and History of Magic so he was good as he knew Henry would still help him, "Why have you been drinking coffee?"

That question caused a smile to spread across Henry's face, "That is very simple to answer, I'm addicted," seeing Kevin laugh made him chuckle before he sipped the coffee again, "I'd suggest a cup of coffee every morning Kev helps with the nerves, you might relax and not blow up half the school."

"I've never blown up half the school," Kevin said jokingly which made Henry grin at him, as he was relaxing finally he had been on pins and needles since stepping into the school that morning, "Thanks Henry I needed this."

"Anytime," Henry said grinning and pausing suddenly as if listening to a distant sound, twisting around he locked eyes on Theo Nott who had just whispered 'Think Raiden's lost his mind?' to Blaze Zabi, "Can't lose what you never had," he called out in a sing song voice which made the two Sly snake freeze for not even Draconian had heard them and he was seated across from them while Henry was on the opposite side of them at a different table.

"Eagle ears." Dean laughed, "Henry your not human I swear," getting a slight bow from Henry he laughed and the three teens who were talking to Henry almost forgot about the evil people in the room watching them, "So what's you schedule look like?" when it was handed over he saw Henry had rather difficult sounding classes, "Have you ever even tried to be an Animagi ?"

"Yep," Henry answered sipping the coffee, "Brewed the animagus potion, know my form and such, just never bothered trying to actually transform," getting blinked at he blinked back at his friends, "What?"

"What is your form?" Sam asked, they were dieing to know what it was.

"Aw, tsk tsk that would be ruining the surprise," Henry said before checking his watch, "Oh dinners over," standing and pocketing his schedule and grabbing up his coffee he started to leave the three following him asking about his form, the DeathGroup were startled by the fact Henry was not fighting them yet and the Dark Lord was shocked for Henry acted quite a bit like he did in school.

Chapter Two: Crazed Starts

The first thing the teachers saw as they entered the Great Hall for breakfast was Henry and his three friends sitting at the table drawing up some sort of schedule of their own. The Dark Lord paused as he walked past and glanced down at the graphs and times tables the teens were making, it looked like a study schedule, and Henry was still writing more with his one hand while his other hand held tight to a cup of coffee. The plans seemed focused to keep Kevin and the others from falling behind, when Henry glanced at him he saw the teen looked like he was wide awake as if he was buzzed slightly.

"How much coffee have you drank already?" Sam asked as Henry turned back to the paper, his friend was not really blinking just writing and discussing the scheduled sessions of study, "Henry how many cups have you had today?"

"Um…eight," Henry said before finishing off the cup in his hand, "Nine," summoning another cup he went to drink it but dropped the cup as he bolted backwards standing up as all three of his friends threw water in his face, sputtering for a moment he wiped the water from his eyes and glared playfully at them, "Okay you do realize this means war right?"

"Three against one seems unfair," Dean pointed out with a grin before he was hanging by his ankles and Sam was glued to the ceiling and kevin was on the floor laughing as invisible hands tickled him, "Whoa!" looking at Henry he saw the teen twirl his wand once, "Okay we give up."

"You guys are really slow in reaction time do you realize that?" Henry said with a laugh before setting his friends right, sitting back down he glanced at them and grinned suddenly, "Hey guys I just got an idea."

"Oh no," Kevin whispered as they all leaned in to listen to the teen talk hurried and whispered as if not wanting anyone to overhear the plan. The teachers all watched as the four students plotted at the table, they really had nothing else to do as the other students had yet to arrive. By the time the four leaned away from each other all four had wicked grins on their face and Henry got a nod from the other three as if agreeing to the plan.

"Okay when did you become smart?" Dean teased which made Henry slap his arm, Sam and Kevin laughed as Henry summoned another cup of coffee, "Ah, the coffee is making you evil my friend."

"If coffee is evil then I embrace the evil happily," Henry said sticking his tongue out at Dean, "You might be my friend but I'd sell you to the devil for a lifetime supply of coffee," that got the others laughing again and he had some bacon with his coffee. Seriously he had two pieces of bacon and three cups of coffee for breakfast.

"Raiden," Draconian Maoy said as he walked over to the table, he was with a group of Sly snake who had come up for breakfast and was surprised to see Henry already at breakfast with the other three boys.

Turning Henry glanced at the blond teen, "Good Morning Maoy," Henry said before turning his head around once again to look at his friends, "Hey where did my coffee go?" shrugging he summoned another cup and grinned as he sipped it and turned back to Draconian, "So what's up?"

"Why are you acting so…not you?" Draconian asked blinking at the teen before him, "And what is with the coffee?"

"Try it," Henry said holding out his cup of coffee, "You might enjoy it."

"No thanks," Draconian said stepping back, "You have lost your mind," turning he left the area and went to his won table muttering bout how odd Henry was acting.

"I don't think Maoy's do coffee," Kevin said which made Henry laugh and Sam laughed while Dean smacked his head wondering when they would all snap out of the coffee induced craze, as Henry had gotten Sam and Kevin to both drink coffee with him.

About halfway through breakfast Henry suddenly asked a question that had his friends puzzled, "What's the difference between a sly lion and a loyal snake?" Henry said which made them pause trying to think of the answer.

"I don't know, what is the difference?" Sam asked which made Henry blink at them.

"If I knew the answer I wouldn't be asking the question," Henry said rolling his eyes before yelping as Rowon sent a stinging charm at his back, twisting around to look at the redhead his eyes were hard and seemed deadly, "You little-"

Yet Kevin and Dean both grabbed Henry's arms and held him down while Sam covered his mouth and said calmly, "Henry no killing at breakfast," getting a laugh he let go as did the others and they all looked at Rowon with looks saying he had a death wish.

"What do you have first thing?" Kevin asked looking at the schedule, "Henry how can you read this thing? It's written in scribbles…"

"That's not scribbles, its Parsel," Sam said getting blinked at by the people around him he shrugged, "Henry's been writing in it for ages now, makes copying his notes a pain in the ***."

"And yet you still learned the bloody language instead of taking your own notes," Henry said rolling his eyes, "Seriously you prerogatives are screwed up."

"Not really, I had you teach me how to read it so I can read the journal you keep," Sam said which made Henry swat him with a spoon, "It's rather an-ow! Seriously?" he asked raising an eyebrow, "When did you learn how to-ow!"

"Shut up," Henry said eyes darting to Helen who was listening in, "Back off," he snapped at her before grabbing another cup of coffee and glancing at his friends, "Come on we have Wizards Politics first thing today."

"Think we'll be able to understand it?" Dean asked as they followed out of the hall.

"If not we'll kidnap a Sly snake," Henry said with a chuckle, "They understand these things just fine."

"Good thing we have you then," Dean said which earned a playful glare, they were at the door to the Great Hall getting waiting for Kevin to catch up when Henry smacked him in the head, "Deny it all you like!"

"Oh shut up," Henry said rolling his eyes and leaving the room.

Chapter Three: Love Coffee lordship

Lucus Maoy entered his classroom and saw Henry and his group of friends sitting already towards the middle on the right. Kevin was going over a textbook while Dean and Sam tried to get Henry to explain the whole Lord thing to them. He set his things on his desk and watched as the teens entertained themselves. The four were twenty minutes early.

"I don't know much, just that there are seven levels of Lords, three families in each level, and that the highest level is called the elites," Henry said which made them blink at him, rolling his eyes he smacked his forehead, "Seriously how did you not understand that? Here," pulling out a parchment and quill he sketched circles and pointed to the center circle, "These are the elites," he drew three triangle in each circle, "These are the families in the levels, these three families are the elites, only two known elite families are alive as they were Gryffin, Sly snake and Claws, and Hufflepups was one circle down, along with Black, and Maoy, then there is the Raidens, Lovelock, and Longtums."

"I'm part of a Lord family?" Kevin asked to lift his head from the book.

"Yes but you are a lesser branch of the Lord family tree," Henry said which got him blinked at, "Guys you do realize I'm not the bloody Professor of this course!"

"But he scares us," Dean admitted glancing at Lucus.

"Lucus Maoy scares you?" Henry asked, getting three nods he rubbed his temples, "Okay you three are so dense, you realize we have a Dark Lord in the school and you're scared of a Maoy?"

"But he's not here at the moment," Dean pointed out.

"He doesn't need to be in the same room as you to kill you," Henry said before smacking his forehead again, "Okay tonight I'll explain everything I know about Lords, and Dark Lords and then will you promise not to be terrified of our Professors?"

"Except Saint," Kevin said.

"Of course except him, he's a bloody terror!" Henry said looking freaked out, "How the hell I managed to get in his class is beyond me, I tried to fail."

"What did you get on your Owls?" Dean asked.

"An O, but that is not the point," Henry said before getting blinked at, "What?"

"You're afraid of Saint?" Dean asked blinking, he did not know any one scared Henry.

"He's scary, and that creepy swishing cloak thing he does, and the way he – we are not having this discussion," Henry said crossing his arms, "I am not going to explain my irrational fear of one man."

Lucus was trying not to smirk as he listened to the chatter, it sounded quite like how him, Sebestian, the Dark Lord and Fenrir would talk in private. He was loath to admit that Henry and the Dark Lord were quite similar. Watching as the others started in the class, he saw Blaze and Theo make way towards the Gryffin and sit near the little group. Lucus watched as Dean and Sam both seemed to square their shoulders defensively while Henry and Kevin discussed something in hushed voices.

As soon as the clock chimed in class Lucus watched as Henry and Kevin shut up, Henry had his coffee in hand and seemed very calm. The rest of the Gryffin were in the back of the room trying not to be seen or heard, while the Sly snake sat in the front all watching contently.

"This is Wizards Politics, I want no horsing around in this room, twenty percent of your grade will be on in class projects, ten percent will be book assignments, and the other seventy percent is for tests and homework," Lucus said before going into explaining the basics, about how wizards had used the same system for over ten thousand years and it was still effective.

Near the end of class Kevin yelped and Henry whipped around to look at the teen behind him, Kevin's arm was bleeding. Hearing a curse shoot his way he pushed up a shield and turned to look directly at Rowon who had his wand trained on the group. Lucus moved towards the group and was permitted by Henry's shield to pass through and see the wound, which Dean had wrapped in his tie so it would not bleed even more.

"You may take him to the Infirmary," Lucus told Henry; he knew the whole group would go. But he was surprised when it took both Dean and Sam kicking Henry in the shins to get him to drop his killer glare at Rowon and turn and nod at him. Watching as Rowon shot another cutting curse at the group he banished the spell and looked at the redhead, "Headmasters office."

After dismissing the class and making sure Rowon was where he was sent Lucus headed up to the Infirmary and saw Madam Poppy had Henry on a bed and a thermometer in his mouth, Kevin was all healed up and the three boys sat on a bed watching as she ran diagnostics over Henry.

"I'm not sick," Henry tried to say but she pushed his mouth shut and pulled out the thermometer, "See perfect temperature."

"Hmm, still," the nurse said pulling out a vial of potion, "Drink this and lay back."

"I don't-" Henry started but she tilted his head back and poured the potion down his throat, coughing he went to say something else but she pushed him down onto the bed, "I'm fine I promise!"

"You did not come to my office first thing after dinner yesterday like you normally do," she said before checking a list of things, "Where did you spend the summer?"

"Parkersburg Drive where else?" Henry asked rolling his eyes.

"And they fed you?" she asked if eyes were narrowed on Henry's small form.

"I ate three square meals a day, slept eight hours every night, was not attacked, assaulted, or harmed all summer," Henry said, his friends were the only ones who knew about the abuse at the Dorothy's which is why he was willing to say this all, especially since he did not know Lucus was listening, "They went to America for the summer."

"All summer?" Sam asked, getting a nod as Henry sat back up and he narrowed his eyes, "What did you do?"

"I did nothing, not directly," Henry said jumping off the bed and grinning, "I had a friend who happened to be a high up in my Uncles firm send out fake invites to a resort there that should have lasted for a week, and another fake passports so they got arrested as soon as they crossed the borders."

"Good," Madam Poppy said before asking, "Have they returned?"

"Three days ago, but I was already at the Vertical Alley," Henry said before getting blinked at, "What I have friends in the States and they owed me favors."

"You are way too tricky to be a lion," Kevin said before suddenly looking at Henry his jaw hanging, "Wait is the secret Sam and Dean know about why you're a lion?"

"Possibly," Henry admitted before checking the time, "We have five minutes before we're late for Potions."

"Short cuts!" Dean called out pushing Henry towards the door, "Get us to class on time! Hop to it Wonder Boy."

"Fine…but you have to…keep up," Henry said before darting down the hall and jumping through a tunnel that dropped him three floors.