The Prince of Denial

Chapter 9 - Year 1

Sorry for the wait, I'm busy as shit and get such little sleep at the moment due to multiple reasons, 😉, and as such don't have much time to write.

I'll still try to publish chapters though.

Also, I've been sick recently, not Covid, but still sick. It sucks. I've been stuck in bed away from my phone. What a pain. All I've had is my music which I used Siri to do since my mom is limiting my phone use for "safety reasons", what a pain.

Raven supposed that it was kinda annoying having all this attention on him. It had somehow gotten out that he had slayed the troll and everyone kept bugging him with questions.

Of course, rumors had always flown around about how he did it, and eventually, the whole school thought it was he and Rose who had slain the troll.

Oh, how he was so tempted to just tell everyone in the Great Hall the truth, but he decided not to as the many changing rumors of how it happened were amusing.

Of course, he quelled some of the more disgusting ones with quick words, and small cases of threats for some, mostly older Slytherins who made those rumors because he was a "mud blood" to them which was kinda amusing considering he was of their most fabled families.

How did he scare them? By used an illusion to create a giant snake which was ironic, and when questioned about the giant snake he would state truthfully he didn't own a snake.

Even if the teachers knew he was only telling a half-truth, they couldn't do anything about it, plus the fact he didn't lie also.

Of course, no one noticed when Snape gave him a few gallons for pranking some of his more unruly Slytherins.

Raven found it particularly amusing when a 7th-year-old ran screaming for his life from a 27-foot-long snake. Of course, it was a real snake that time since he had been in a bad mood.

Denial of Nothingness was a massively overpowered ability to have and no one could deny that. Especially since he was modified by the root to be better than the normal denial.

If he so happened to tell the snake a way to get out unnoticed by anyone, well they didn't need to know it was now living in the Forbidden Forest.

"Hehehehe!" Raven chuckled evilly to himself in a way that would remind people of his mother. His tone would cause shivers down a 7th-year-old who heard him and decided to take the longer way to his destination.

"Oh well, now how can I make this project?" Raven said as he pondered over his plans in an unused classroom while pondering just how he was going to solve his issues.

"Maybe gravity magic? If I did it would need a way to sustain itself after I figure out how to make it generate or absorb enough energy to delegate the proper amount needed without overfilling it?" Raven muttered before putting that down as a possible way.

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After many hours of working on his project and coming no closer to making any progress besides a possible design way, he decided to call it a night.

"Where would I find that many magical circuits or a core capable of using that much power anyway?" Raven muttered to himself as he walked through the hallways while making sure to avoid being noticed by people, aka the professors, walking through to make sure no students were wandering the halls past curfew.

"Psh, who needs sleep?" Raven muttered before he heard three people arguing and blinked when he saw Rose, Granger, and Weasley walking through the hallway with Granger arguing about it being a trap.

"What's a trap?" Raven asked curiously scaring them all into jumping as he appeared right behind them.

They all had different reactions.