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"Doesn’t everyone call them Squibs?" George asked confusedly. |
"No. They don’t. Many countries are actually in awe of the shortsightedness of the Western European community." |
At Fred’s frown she continued. |
"Your country looks down on what you call Squibs. They are treated as an abomination, and are often sent to the Nomaj world to..." |
"Non Magical!" Fred and George piped up proudly. |
Lauren rolled her eyes. "Congratulations, you figured it out. If I may be allowed to continue? As I was saying, you send them to the Nomaj world to live because they have no active magic that can be used with a wand from your Ollivander. What you should be doing is integrating them into your society. Did you know there... |
"You’re bloody shitting me!" Fred exclaimed. |
Lauren sent a stinging hex to his groin under the table, and smirked as Fred jumped out of his chair. "I warned you about your language." |
"Merciful heavens woman! I plan on having kids someday!" Fred said while rubbing his crotch. |
"Then watch your mouth, and your little swimmers will be just fine." |
George cleared his throat after he had picked himself up from the floor from laughing so hard. Fred had been warned so many times before, but he just couldn’t keep his tongue from swearing in front of Lauren. "So focal points for Sq..." |
Lauren glared at him. "While you are here, you will refer to them as Parma or Parmaj. I will not have that disrespectful term uttered in my presence. Are we clear?" |
"Crystal." They both chorused while they both clasped their hands over their privates |
Lauren’s eyes softened. "As I was saying, in most countries Parmas are given a focal point to harness the magic that they do have. For example. There are quite a few Parmas that are potions masters." |
"Get the f...erm...really?" Fred had caught himself for once. |
Lauren laughed. "Yes Fred. Potions doesn’t take active magic. It takes more patience, than anything else. Although a banishing spell comes in handy. If you have active magic." |
"Why are we not taught this Georgie?" |
"Beats me Freddie." |
"I have a theory if you’re interested?" Natasha said from the door. |
"Please?" George asked. |
"What is the best way for a government to keep their people under their control?" She asked. |
"Umm...the Imperius?" Fred answered. |
Natasha shook her head. "You are thinking small scale little one. Think along the lines of a population scale." |
Fred and George looked to each other. And then it hit them like a ton of bricks. All of the times that they would ask a question about some subject or another they were usually patted on the head or shoulder. Followed by Come now. That’s not possible. Or some other such non answer, as the adult in question walked away. |
"Information!" They chorused. |
"Exactly!" Natasha pushed herself from the doorway, and walked fully into the room. "If they can control the information that the populace at large receives, then they can control the populace." Natasha stated. |
The twins looked at each other. George could sense his brother’s feelings becoming erratic. He reached for him and held him like he always did when Fred was about to lose control. He looked at Natasha and mouthed "Leo’. |
In their mind healing sessions, George was fine just talking and would go for a run afterwards. Freddie needed to hit something first, and then he would calm down enough to talk to Cara again. |
Natasha nodded and snuck out quickly to bring in Leo. |
Leo came in took one look at George trying to contain his brother’s anger, and tugged him gently by the arm. |
"I see it’s time for some anger management Fredrick. Come along." Leo said with a smirk. |
Fred turned his eyes on his brother. "Traitor." |
"Love you too!" George said with a grin. As he watched while his brother was led out of the room by the tall vampire. He then turned to Natasha and Lauren. "You were saying." |
"Look George. I didn’t mean to upset him."Natasha started. |
George waved her apologies away. "We’ll deal with it like we always do. Together. What I want you both to tell me is how the world sees my homeland. The full truth this time, if you would be so kind." George sat back in his chair, crossed his arms over his chest, and waited. He had asked this question once before, but ... |
Natasha looked at Lauren and Lauren stared right back. After Natasha subtlety shook her head, Lauren gave a deep sigh. |
"Go on then." George grunted. |
Lauren sighed again. "Look kiddo you have to understand that great strides have been taken in the field of magic and all of her disciplines all around the world, and the British have a tendency to label many things dark and therefore illegal." Lauren gestured to Natasha. "George. What do you think of Natasha?" |
"She’s bloody brilliant, and wicked funny, if a bit scary. Anybody who could make Padfoot heel is brilliant!" George said with enthusiasm. |
"I’m glad you think so." Natasha said with a smile. "Now if I were to go home with you, would you introduce me to your friends? What about your family? Could you walk down the streets of Magical England and proclaim that a Vampire Witch is your good friend? Your "aunty’ as you often refer to me." |
"I..." George trailed off because he knew the point that had just been made. |
"In this country." Lauren continued. "Rose is allowed to defend herself against abuse, and the one who abused her can face prosecution. Can you say the same about your country?" |
"But...but they’re house elves!" |
"So." Lauren challenged. "They don’t deserve your respect? They take care of your children, your home and your food among other things. There have been many stories that come out of England and France, where the children are more attached to their house elves than their own parents!" Lauren fumed. |
"Calm down my friend." Natasha said soothingly. |
"Sorry." Lauren muttered as she took a deep breath. |
Natashed continued. "George I would like to give you a little background on myself. I have traveled the world extensively as a healer and a doctor. I have worked in the jungles of Thailand, all the way to the lands of the African continent. I have done my best to help all that I have come in contact with. I run a clini... |
George just shrugged his shoulders, while wishing his twin would come back soon. His head was swimming with all kinds of thoughts, and as much as Freddie could be wild, he soothed him. |
They had been lied to their whole lives! The only thing that he knew about "dark creatures’ was that they only wanted to kill everyone. That they were blood thirsty beasts. It turns out that they were just magical beings like witches and wizards were. His head hurt. |
Natasha could read his turmoil in his facial features. "Britain is not all bad. There are some really fantastic and important magical theories that came from the U.K. In fact it was Phillip Carmichael who perfected what is known as the bobble head charm. His theories further lead to..." Natasha didn’t realize that she ... |
"Is she always like this?" George muttered out of the side of his mouth. |
"I’m sure I saw a book here somewhere." The other two in the room just looked at the powerful vampire, as she went scurrying through the room. |
"She’s very enthusiastic about history. Best bet is to let her burn herself. Otherwise, we’ll be here all day." Lauren murmured from the side of her mouth. |
"Hey! I heard that!" Natasha spun around from the shelf she was perusing, and put her hands on her hips. "I’m not that bad." |
"Yes you are." Lauren deadpanned. "But we all still love you." |
Natasha crossed her arms and frowned. "Whatever. Anyway the point I was attempting to make was that England has a very rich magical history, but it is being shunned. Many of your rituals are labeled as "dark", and therefore illegal. Hence the hypocritical part." |
"And that’s where we meet our next lesson George. What your homeland considers dark, is taught at most schools of magic around the world. But that is a lesson for another time." Lauren waved a hand absently. |
"But you just said that..." |
"Yes yes. We will get into the whole "Light vs Dark’ magic debate another time. (Lauren was honestly done with Magical Britain's perceptions for the moment). "We need to talk about skill vs power, and the combination of the two. Now. No doubt about it, Harry has more magical power, but if you increase your skill, you c... |
"Ookaay..." George frowned. They were taught that power was more important. |
"Take your Bellatrix LeStrange for example. Her power has been somewhat diminished because of breeding too close to the line, but her knowledge of spells makes her a formidable opponent. If you should come across her, never underestimate her just because she’s crazy. In fact the crazier they are, the harder they are to... |
"She’s in prison." George countered. |
"She’s in a British prison. It’s no secret that your government can be bought and sold to the highest bidder." Lauren, Natasha, and Cara took position as they spread out and surrounded him. They took to ambushing the twins together like this, but this was the first time that George was on his own. |
Cara continued to speak, but then George noticed something out of the corner of his eye; a pink spell. He rolled to the left as he knew that he would need to take cover. He kicked over the table that was there, and reinforced it. He remembered from his training with Leo to remember that last position that he saw all of... |
"This is training George, but in the real world there are no timeouts. I showed you the spell to check your surroundings. Why haven’t you done it?" |
Of course it would be Natasha mocking him. "Was just waiting on the go ahead." George said cheekily. |
George fired a spell at a wall she didn’t anticipate, and saw he was facing not only Natasha, Lauren, Aditi, and Cara, Leo was there with Fred in the corner appearing to hold him hostage with a knife to his throat. |
Fred winked at him slowly. They would forever be able to communicate with each other. It was a test for both of them they realized, and they would rise to the occasion. |
Suddenly Fred swung his head back as hard as he could into Leo’s face and pushed his magic towards the knife away from his throat. |
George wasted no time taking out Aditi and Cara. He knew he was no match for Natasha but he gave it everything he had. Fred had joined the fray and they both gave it their best. |
"TIME!!" Leo called out. |
Fred and George were still ready to do battle. They each had sweat pouring from their bodies. Fred had a bruise to his right cheek, and George had a broken ankle. |
"Bloody hell Fredrick! I need my nose ya know!" Leo was trying to stem the flow of blood from his nose. Fred’s eyes widened to comical proportions. A) because there was blood everywhere, and B) Leo just said bloody hell. Next he will start saying wanker. Natasha who was also panting only slightly, came over to inspect ... |
"No. They have been learning basic healing. Let them give it a try." Leo turned to Fred. "You broke it. You fix it." |
"I am so sorry Leo. I didn’t mean to hit you that hard." Fred pulled out his wand and began doing the treatment that Natasha had taught them. |
"Nonsense boy! You surprised the hell out of me is all. It will be fine in a moment. We stood in the circle and gave our vow. You did not mean to hurt me." |
Fred and George were led out to the back garden where their herbology lessons were held. There was a casting circle made out of a white chalk of some kind. Everyone besides Harry and Sirius were there. |
"This is casting circle. In it we will take a vow saying that we are here to train you. It will never be personal whatever happens. Our goal is to help you survive the upcoming battle, so that you could live a prosperous life. There will be bruises and blood shed, but nothing meant to be long lasting, or done in anger.... |
"Yes." Fred and George answered. |
"Good. Because it goes both ways. We swear to teach you to the best of our abilities, and you swear to learn to the best of yours. But in no way will we intentionally hurt you outside of the context of training, and you will vow to do the same. No revenge, no anger, no "teaching you a lesson’ because we were bested. Ho... |
"Yes" They answered again. |
"Excellent!" Natasha clapped. "Well get in here and let’s do the ritual so that we can get started." Three drops of blood from everyone and a chant later, the spell was complete...and then Natasha threw a punch at George. Which thankfully he dodged...barely. |
And now Fred was healing the nose of his mentor. He had cleaned the blood, stopped the flow, and fixed the break, but he knew that he was forgetting something. Fred stared at the offending nose as if it could tell him the secret. |
"You were close Fred, but when you leave here I want two pages on why SFCS is important in the field. Include examples and pictures please." Natasha turned to George. "SFCS?" |
George looked at his brother with a mouthed "sorry’. "Sanitize. It is important to sanitize your patient and yourself to the best of your ability to prevent the addition of new micro organisms into the wound, and to remove any that are there already. Thereby helping to prevent the spread of infection. Fix. Heal your pa... |
"Excellent! Now go get cleaned up the both of you while I talk to the old folks. This schedule was tentative for a reason, and I think we need to add some more stuff while removing others." Natasha said as she checked to make sure George healed himself properly. |
Fred and George groaned in unison. |
"Go on shoo. We have work to do." Aditi rushed the boys out of the room, while flapping her hands at them to get out of the door. |
Leo turned to Natasha. "Your plan?" |
"I think we have been spending too much time on theory, because that is what they are used to. Not only that, George is so damn good at potions, I think that him being in potions five days a week is a waste. Aditi?" |
Aditi nodded her head. "George could cut down to two days a week without a problem. I would suggest, that we add world magical and non magical government, in there somewhere. Along with continuing the impromptu world magical history. Their knowledge of the world outside of their homeland is appalling." |
Lauren shook her head. "There is so much rich magical history in the U.K, and they don’t even know it. By the Goddess! The ancient Celts alone are probably plotting against them all in the afterlife!" |
"Okay, but we need..." Natasha was interrupted by a blaring alarm that could be heard through out the house. Her head tilted to the left for a moment, before, her eyes went comically wide. Everyone was a tad bit shaken, but Natasha was the epitome of calm and collected. The going theory was that if she was surprised or... |
"Seriously? Already?" Natasha was out of her seat like a bolt of lightning as she made her way upstairs. She knew that the others were behind her asking questions, but she only had eyes for her patients. |
Natasha slowly opened the bedroom where her patients were supposed to be healing to see what the cause of the alarm was. What she saw shocked and amazed her. She had no way of knowing that she would be researching the godfather oath in great detail over the next two years. |
Her honorary nephew was levitating above the bed surrounded by a golden light. Then Sirius also began to levitate above his bed. Natasha watched as they both reached out and closed the small distance between them. |
They grasped hands without looking at each other and with their eyes closed. Natasha was completely floored. Mother magic had spoken. |
It had been a long time since Lauren had seen magic react that way. It was truly a gift to behold. |
Everyone had to shield their eyes from the blinding white light that had engulfed the room after the two of them had joined hands. |
Sirius had managed to pull Harry close to him and, they ended up in the bed that Sirius had originally occupied. He held his godson close to him, as they both fell into a contented and deep sleep. |
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