Practice of the Dark Arts
written by Peeves Tresconova
A series about a man who goes to Hogwarts, his journey there, and then the path he makes as he leaves and goes through life as a wizard.
Last Updated
05/31/21
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Chapter 2: Preparing for the School Year
Chapter 2
Hello, this is Chapter 2 of Practice of the Dark Arts, I hope you all enjoy this second chapter!
1st Person Pov:
“I really do have bad luck don’t I Snape” I say to the one and only professor Snape walking next to me as we are going around the shops picking up my books and supplies for school. “Huh, shut it you thief, all you did was cause trouble for us as we were doing our work, and let’s not forget that you somehow got one of my spells,” he replied as we went into Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions to buy myself some fancy new robes and shoes. Though I don’t know why they made you wear robes, after all, they seriously hinder your movement area, don’t provide much protection, and worst of all they stick out, why would you want to walk around with a blanket over you, and then have every non muggle know that you attend Hogwarts, it’s like painting a target on you back saying, hey if you know how to use stupefy, and also wear a mask, come steal everything I own and then enroll your own kids at Hogwarts with my transcripts! “Come now Peeves, let us just get this over with so that I can go do what I do best.” And with that we spent the next 2 - 3 hours going to stores I only went too when I had something to steal or when I had a target to take out. Luckily between getting my defense for the dark arts book, and us going to buy potions material, we managed to stop by a bar and got ourselves a butter beer with actual alcoholic content of course, which left a nice burning as it went down my throat along with the sweetness the 11 year olds were allowed to drink. After though, Snape got a little more talkative meaning he didn’t just hmph every time I talked to him, and now he was actually saying things like, “I’m going to Avada Kedavra you as soon as Dumbledore isn’t looking over my shoulder,” or “Maybe sticking you into a dungeon and then using Crucio for a couple hours might be fun,” and finally, “I think Cerberus is getting awfully hungry since the last time we fed him, and you have a lot to feed him.” All in good fun of course. Then we continued our shopping spree.
Finally, after the time of tort- shopping, I finally got all of the items I needed for the new year, Snape had a smug look on his face as if he was enjoying my suffering from all the things I had to carry, and he didn’t even let me get a cart to hold everything I needed. “Here’s your ticket, I hope you lose it before you come and become a blight in my classroom.” “Of course Professor Snape, I hope to see you soon as well, I look forward to learning all about defending myself from the dark arts,” I say with a bow as I slowly walk away from him, which was probably a smart move considering that he looked as if he was going to actually kill me once I apparated away from the danger zone. I now had about a week to enjoy my freedom before I was going to once again be trapped, but this time it was a school where I would probably fail all my classes, and not a jail where I was more likely to get my soul sucked out of my body. Oh well, when I say it like that, it doesn’t sound that bad for me. Now then let’s get in a couple more jobs before I have to go school. And with that last thought, switched on my street face, walked down Diagon alley and went to a seemingly random store in the middle of the street, of course this was not true, it was the main place where I got my assignments and payments for all the jobs that I had. Only one of my clients knew where this was, and he would be the only one to give my business cards out, put the assignment into the locker, and put my pay, he of course got 20% of what I made every mission, you know what they say, if you pay a man enough money, he will go to the ends of the world for it. Now there was a plastic card inside of the locker, plugging in my combination of 5-14-4 it opened, now then let’s see who’s unlucky enough to have to die today, opening the card it was brief like all of my missions, but it was all that I needed to complete my task.
It read,” 8732 avenue, husband, $20,000, 2 days, no witnesses, accidental“ That obviously meant a husband based on his address he was very rich, he had 2 days time to complete his job, there were to be witnesses, and if there where they had to be eliminated no matter what, and that it was to look like an accident, so meaning that there could be no way to trace it back to him with magic, so that means he was a muggle, or he was a very important individual. Now then it was time to get to work. Putting on my black cloak, combat boots, and sunglasses, I apparated away from the sight after burning the card. When I reappeared, I was in front of the police station in the muggle world, after breaking into so many of them, I didn’t even need to think about it as I knocked out every policeman there was, put the cameras into a loop, and hacked into the database with one of the more important looking officer’s badges, after I memorized the layout of his mansion, work schedule, wife’s schedule, kids school hours and extra curricular activities, hobbies, and patterns with a sight spell I invented myself just for this kind of reason, I closed off, wiped their memories, and left the station, then I began to plan, whenever you do a mission, there a at least 3 components that absolutely have to be met with before acting, step 1 is getting to know your target, whether this be finding personal information about them, or just getting information that is complete, it doesn’t matter as long as you know how he will act. Step 2 is finding a pattern, everybody has a pattern, it doesn’t how small, and sadly for our target, he had was very punctual and timely, if he said he was going to leave at a time, then that’s when he left, if he needed something, he would make sure it arrived right when he needed it. All of these were patterns that you needed to know about your target, but you also needed to know his associates patterns, what was going to happen in the next week, when his wife was going to a barber to get a trim, how long his daughter’s violin solo at the school was going to be, if there was going to be a surprise visit by his mom, and every other thing that could go wrong on the day you acted. Lastly step 3, is picking how the target would leave, how you would meet the requirements listed by the client and so on. For our target he would fall through the elevator at his work, all that I needed to do was fool myself into a new worker say someone called about the elevator not working and then he was in. And so the next day, I went and knocked out some unfortunate employee at a shop, headed to the target’s work, and worked my magic on the secretary there. Luckily she seemed tired and with my disguise and act of being recently hired and that this was my first real solo job, she gave me a smile, showed me where the target’s personal elevator was and then I was golden. It was easy after that, using some muggle tools, I took out the elevator floor, cast an undetectable illusion on it, loosened the cable to be destroyed in 3 hours, walked out and then waited.
The next day on the news I saw that mission was successful, apparently, the target had an elevator accident, had fallen, and broke his neck on the way down. This was not something that would warrant the ministry’s snooping, so they wouldn’t even bother to check, and I would get my pay. After another 3 days, I went back to check the locker, and there it was a pile of bills numbering $15,000, meaning mission accomplished. Now that it’s been five days, I will take the next two days to ready myself for the school year. By going through the textbooks, seeing the curriculum, and studying up on the students and staff that caught my eye, I was confident that nothing this year would catch me by surprise. So now I am at the station, taking a deep breath to fool the students there, I walked onto the train and got ready for a year of worthless knowledge trying to be crammed into me.
Ok that is chapter 2, now since I have school tomorrow, I won't be able to post a chapter a day anymore, so it'll probably a chapter every month sorry about this. Again I hope that you liked it and please owl me if you want to help me or want to be added into this book, Thank you!
1st Person Pov:
“I really do have bad luck don’t I Snape” I say to the one and only professor Snape walking next to me as we are going around the shops picking up my books and supplies for school. “Huh, shut it you thief, all you did was cause trouble for us as we were doing our work, and let’s not forget that you somehow got one of my spells,” he replied as we went into Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions to buy myself some fancy new robes and shoes. Though I don’t know why they made you wear robes, after all, they seriously hinder your movement area, don’t provide much protection, and worst of all they stick out, why would you want to walk around with a blanket over you, and then have every non muggle know that you attend Hogwarts, it’s like painting a target on you back saying, hey if you know how to use stupefy, and also wear a mask, come steal everything I own and then enroll your own kids at Hogwarts with my transcripts! “Come now Peeves, let us just get this over with so that I can go do what I do best.” And with that we spent the next 2 - 3 hours going to stores I only went too when I had something to steal or when I had a target to take out. Luckily between getting my defense for the dark arts book, and us going to buy potions material, we managed to stop by a bar and got ourselves a butter beer with actual alcoholic content of course, which left a nice burning as it went down my throat along with the sweetness the 11 year olds were allowed to drink. After though, Snape got a little more talkative meaning he didn’t just hmph every time I talked to him, and now he was actually saying things like, “I’m going to Avada Kedavra you as soon as Dumbledore isn’t looking over my shoulder,” or “Maybe sticking you into a dungeon and then using Crucio for a couple hours might be fun,” and finally, “I think Cerberus is getting awfully hungry since the last time we fed him, and you have a lot to feed him.” All in good fun of course. Then we continued our shopping spree.
Finally, after the time of tort- shopping, I finally got all of the items I needed for the new year, Snape had a smug look on his face as if he was enjoying my suffering from all the things I had to carry, and he didn’t even let me get a cart to hold everything I needed. “Here’s your ticket, I hope you lose it before you come and become a blight in my classroom.” “Of course Professor Snape, I hope to see you soon as well, I look forward to learning all about defending myself from the dark arts,” I say with a bow as I slowly walk away from him, which was probably a smart move considering that he looked as if he was going to actually kill me once I apparated away from the danger zone. I now had about a week to enjoy my freedom before I was going to once again be trapped, but this time it was a school where I would probably fail all my classes, and not a jail where I was more likely to get my soul sucked out of my body. Oh well, when I say it like that, it doesn’t sound that bad for me. Now then let’s get in a couple more jobs before I have to go school. And with that last thought, switched on my street face, walked down Diagon alley and went to a seemingly random store in the middle of the street, of course this was not true, it was the main place where I got my assignments and payments for all the jobs that I had. Only one of my clients knew where this was, and he would be the only one to give my business cards out, put the assignment into the locker, and put my pay, he of course got 20% of what I made every mission, you know what they say, if you pay a man enough money, he will go to the ends of the world for it. Now there was a plastic card inside of the locker, plugging in my combination of 5-14-4 it opened, now then let’s see who’s unlucky enough to have to die today, opening the card it was brief like all of my missions, but it was all that I needed to complete my task.
It read,” 8732 avenue, husband, $20,000, 2 days, no witnesses, accidental“ That obviously meant a husband based on his address he was very rich, he had 2 days time to complete his job, there were to be witnesses, and if there where they had to be eliminated no matter what, and that it was to look like an accident, so meaning that there could be no way to trace it back to him with magic, so that means he was a muggle, or he was a very important individual. Now then it was time to get to work. Putting on my black cloak, combat boots, and sunglasses, I apparated away from the sight after burning the card. When I reappeared, I was in front of the police station in the muggle world, after breaking into so many of them, I didn’t even need to think about it as I knocked out every policeman there was, put the cameras into a loop, and hacked into the database with one of the more important looking officer’s badges, after I memorized the layout of his mansion, work schedule, wife’s schedule, kids school hours and extra curricular activities, hobbies, and patterns with a sight spell I invented myself just for this kind of reason, I closed off, wiped their memories, and left the station, then I began to plan, whenever you do a mission, there a at least 3 components that absolutely have to be met with before acting, step 1 is getting to know your target, whether this be finding personal information about them, or just getting information that is complete, it doesn’t matter as long as you know how he will act. Step 2 is finding a pattern, everybody has a pattern, it doesn’t how small, and sadly for our target, he had was very punctual and timely, if he said he was going to leave at a time, then that’s when he left, if he needed something, he would make sure it arrived right when he needed it. All of these were patterns that you needed to know about your target, but you also needed to know his associates patterns, what was going to happen in the next week, when his wife was going to a barber to get a trim, how long his daughter’s violin solo at the school was going to be, if there was going to be a surprise visit by his mom, and every other thing that could go wrong on the day you acted. Lastly step 3, is picking how the target would leave, how you would meet the requirements listed by the client and so on. For our target he would fall through the elevator at his work, all that I needed to do was fool myself into a new worker say someone called about the elevator not working and then he was in. And so the next day, I went and knocked out some unfortunate employee at a shop, headed to the target’s work, and worked my magic on the secretary there. Luckily she seemed tired and with my disguise and act of being recently hired and that this was my first real solo job, she gave me a smile, showed me where the target’s personal elevator was and then I was golden. It was easy after that, using some muggle tools, I took out the elevator floor, cast an undetectable illusion on it, loosened the cable to be destroyed in 3 hours, walked out and then waited.
The next day on the news I saw that mission was successful, apparently, the target had an elevator accident, had fallen, and broke his neck on the way down. This was not something that would warrant the ministry’s snooping, so they wouldn’t even bother to check, and I would get my pay. After another 3 days, I went back to check the locker, and there it was a pile of bills numbering $15,000, meaning mission accomplished. Now that it’s been five days, I will take the next two days to ready myself for the school year. By going through the textbooks, seeing the curriculum, and studying up on the students and staff that caught my eye, I was confident that nothing this year would catch me by surprise. So now I am at the station, taking a deep breath to fool the students there, I walked onto the train and got ready for a year of worthless knowledge trying to be crammed into me.
Ok that is chapter 2, now since I have school tomorrow, I won't be able to post a chapter a day anymore, so it'll probably a chapter every month sorry about this. Again I hope that you liked it and please owl me if you want to help me or want to be added into this book, Thank you!
