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[toujours_sirius]

It may or may not have been coincidental, but at almost the exact same time, eight figures walked through the front door of Hogwarts and into the Entrance Hall. Well, seven walked. The eighth blibbled.

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[vislor_turlough]

"Oh, hello again, you idiotic-wait." Turlough held out a hand, at about Lezard's height, which was a bit taller than Harry's. "You're not that idiot, sorry."

[kill_voldemort]

Had the man before him been Professor Snape, Harry would have considered his greeting to be quite mild, and even rather friendly. But even though this turned out not to be the case, Harry found it a refreshing change to be mistaken for someone else, even someone who was apparently disliked, rather than gawked at for the infamous scar on his forehead.

"I, er...I reckon not, no." He reached a hand up in a futile attempt to flatten his fringe over his forehead. "Er...exactly which idiot do you mean?"

There was no dearth of idiots at Hogwarts, so Harry figured it couldn't hurt to whittle the selection down to just which one he had been mistaken for.

[vislor_turlough]

"Lezard Valeth. Idiot with a god complex. Looks kinda like you except taller and without that scar. I should give him one."

I was going to make a comparison of Snape and Harry to Turlough and Lezard, but then I realized I have no idea which one's Harry.

"Slythein, predictably enough. Idiot."

[kill_voldemort]

"Hey, wait a minute, I'm a Slyth-...er, never mind." Re-Sorted Slytherin or not, there was no way Harry was going to defend that House.

And then it occurred to him just who Turlough was talking about. "Oh. Him." In all of the time Harry had spent chasing down ice cream trucks and culling through chipwiches, he had managed to put the whole mess with Lezard out of his mind -- chiefly, the bizarre similarities between the two of them and the possibility that these similarities meant Harry himself was a god. "How do you know him? And how do you know he's just got a god complex and isn't actually a god?"

[vislor_turlough]

"Bastard transported an entire grove of trees to Hogwarts without asking and it's gone downhill ever since. And okay, technically, he IS a god, but I know which member of the staff is better than him, so that keeps him in check."

[kill_voldemort]

Harry could think of far worse things than transporting a grove of trees somewhere they didn't belong, but he wasn't going to belabor the point.

"Is it the Jenga blocks that keep him in check?" Lezard had implied that Homsar, too, was a god, and so Harry figured Turlough must have been referring to him. Lezard had also possibly implied that Jenga blocks wielded as much power as Philosopher's Stones!

[vislor_turlough]

"No. It's a long story, and I promised the teacher I wouldn't reveal his identity, so I can't say much more than in a way, they're the same person."

[kill_voldemort]

Merlin's pimply arsecheeks! So now it was possibly being suggested that Homsar and Lezard were somehow the same person. And since Harry and Lezard shared some sort of mysterious connection, did this mean that Harry and Homsar were linked in such a way as well? Harry was quite sure that he spoke coherently and did not blibble. But he also had been quite sure that Remus Lupin was just a human, and that Professor Moody had not been a Polyjuiced version of Barty Crouch, Jr., and that Ron's hand would never have an obnoxious puppet version of Ron stuck to it.

In other words, nothing was certain any more.

"Do a lot of people have problems with this Lezard person?" Harry figured it was best to know what he was up against, in case other people started to mistake him for Lezard as well.

[vislor_turlough]

"I think it varies. He's actually made friends, surprisingly. Then again, said friends are not entirely sane either."

With apologies to Amaranth.

[kill_voldemort]

Well, even gits had friends, Harry reckoned, and more than likely, the friends were gits themselves. Case in point: Dracoy Malfoy.

And given the number of insane people, creatures, beings, and otherwise at Hogwarts, Lezard probably had a large pool to choose from.

"Right. Well, if you meet anyone who seems to be confused about him and me, could you just...I dunno, set them right or something?"

[vislor_turlough]

"Sure. Who're you, anyway?" Ah, the joys of being an alien.

[kill_voldemort]

For a moment, Harry thought about assuming Neville's identity again, this time to avoid the inevitable reaction, but ended up going with the truth.

"Er...Harry Potter."

[vislor_turlough]

"Right. So. Shorter brunette with glasses, Harry Potter, not the idiot, noted. I'm Turlough. Groundskeeper here."

[kill_voldemort]

From The Boy Who Lived to Not the Idiot. Harry was completely fine with that.

Groundskeeper. That had been Hagrid's job. As yet unaware that Hagrid had returned to Hogwarts, Harry found himself missing him dearly and hoping that, wherever he was, he was happy and surrounded by his favourite sorts of lethal pets.

"Right. It's nice to meet you, Turlough. Which House were you Sorted into?" Assumingly, not Slytherin, but that left three -- no, wait, seven -- other options.

[vislor_turlough]

"Hufflepuff. It was okay, but believe me, I was glad to get out of there and into that hut. Couldn't stand to be around Earthlings more than necessary."

[kill_voldemort]

Harry wasn't really sure he would want to live with the Hufflepuffs either (not that Slytherin had been any better, but at least he had Ron and Sirius there).

"So you're from another planet, then?" This sort of information would have surprised Harry a long time ago, but he had been around Hogwarts long enough to expect this sort of thing now. In fact, what he found strangest of all was that Homsar was supposedly from Earth (and America, to be exact!).