If canon Harry Potter had the makings of a Slytherin, as the Sorting Hat convinced us, then it was somewhere very, very deep, making itself felt at most a couple of times over the course of seven years. But what if you give the boy, a little more special than everyone thought, a little prudence and healthy calculation, let him feel like a simple child for a while, and then return him to Privet Street to the Dursleys? Will he turn out to be a hero? Work for a competition from Authors Time. Author's notes: The work was written for the first round of the Authors Time competition. Assignment: apply the features of a randomly selected creature to a character/characters or the plot as a whole. Creature: Explosive Pot. Initially the story was written in one huge part, but here for ease of reading it will be divided into chapters. On my TG: - a short atmospheric animation on motives with a reference to the prod - - animated starter with an excerpt from the draft of the second part - The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.