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"Come." He said with kind eyes. "Come meet my friends."
Luna tilted her head to the side, and then smiled. "Your soulmates?" She yipped quietly. "Oh I do so love Fred and George and their pranks. Although it sometimes borders on bullying. You should talk to them about that."
Harry was about to respond when Hermione and Ron stood next to him.
"So. Harry. Is there a reason why you are standing next to Luna Lovegood in the hallway?" Ron asked as he watched blue eyes turn in his direction.
"I’m about to take care of it mate. In the mean time, take her to Fred and George please. She’s a friend." Harry watched as his friends took Luna and her luggage away. And then fighting Harry came out to play.
He knocked on the door that Luna was bodily thrown out of, and made sure to keep his mask in place.
Sophia Callistor answered the knock. Upon seeing who it was, she gave a sneer.
"What do you want Potter?"
Harry cocked his head to the side. "Your life. I was thinking about taking it from you. You threatened a Friend of House Potter. I could make it a formal blood feud if you wish."
"I’ve threatened no one of your line Potter. You have no challenge."
Harry rubbed his chin mocking her while he looked pensive. "You have a point. Though she is not of my blood, Luna Lovegood is a good friend of the House of Potter."
Sophia looked nervous, until she had remembered the rumours that he was raised by muggles. To be honest, he was probably just playing a big boy in front of his friends. "I Challenge you to a duel of honour Potter. For your threats against my House."
George and Fred had been in the hallway when the challenge was issued. They were concerned that Harry would lose control, but one look at his face and they knew he was in control.
The look on Harry’s face was almost...happy. "I accept your challenge House Callistor. We shall duel after the Sorting Ceremony tonight."
Harry looked to George and Fred. "Luna?"
"Shes fine. She’s in our compartment, and my sister and Herms are comforting her." George said.
"You alright there Harry?" Fred could feel the magic coming off of him, but to Harry’s credit he was controlling it. Good. He’s been meditating.
"If you three blood traitors are done, I’m going back to my friends." The sixth year Ravenclaw declared as she slammed the door in their face.
As Harry walked to where George and Fred had secured a seat for everyone, Fred put a hand on Harry’s shoulder. "Don’t kill her. She’s a kid like us. She’s just been brain washed by her family."
"Take the challenge out of everything why don’t you." Harry murmured.
"Not funny Harry! George hissed as he put his hand on his other shoulder. "She’s a young moron, and this will not be on the field of battle. It’s a damn duel at a school. Embarrass the hell out of her, but nothing permanent."
Harry stopped in his tracks, and turned to look at his loves. The look of hurt made Fred and George’s heart ache.
"You...you think so little of me?" Harry asked in a broken voice. They really thought he would kill the silly bitch.
George looked to Fred. "We’ve fucked up’ was spoken without words.
"I’m just gonna...go." Harry turned and walked away with tears in his eyes. He ignored the pleading of Fred and George.
"No let him go. We’ll find him in a few minutes. He needs to calm down and us babying him right now isn’t what he needs at the moment." Fred said as he grabbed his brother’s arm. "Let’s get to the compartment, think about our royal fuck up and then go find him."
It had been twenty minutes since that conversation, and in that twenty minutes Fred and George had been subjected to all manors of "you morons and how could yous’ from everyone in the compartment that they were sharing. But the highlight of their royal fuck up was when Neville Longbottom opened the door and stared hole...
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Harry made his way through the train wandering aimlessly. How could they think I would kill her? It’s a fucking school yard duel! Unknown to Harry he was following a hidden thread of magic. He stopped outside of a compartment, and opened it.
Neville had been sitting with Seamus, Dean, and the Creeveys. He was in the middle of not listening to Seamus telling of his latest conquest of the summer when the door opened. His magic recognized that Harry was in distress.
"I need everyone to leave for a moment. Ancient and Noble House business and all that rot." He gave a weak smile.
The other boys shrugged and said they would find somewhere else to sit for a while, and left.
Harry nodded his thanks and took a seat, as he sealed the doors.
"What’s happened Harry?"
Harry broke down sobbing. All of his fears and worries. Maybe George and Fred didn’t really love him if they could think so little of him. Was he strong enough to fight Voldemort. Harry cried until he had nothing left. He was sitting on the floor, when he felt someone sitting beside him.
"A Longbottom has always been at the side of a Potter in battle. And no matter what, I’ll be at your side Harry. We’re not as close as I had hoped..."
Harry looked up at that last part. "Why didn’t you tell me Neville?"
"Tell you what?"
"About our alliance. I knew nothing about it. All of those times we shared our horrible childhood with each other and you said nothing."
Neville turned away. "To be honest, when you didn’t acknowledge the alliance, I thought that you were ashamed of it. Me being a weak wizard and all."
"You’re not weak! It’s that damned wand that isn’t meant for you but your father! Add to that your lack of self confidence..."
Neville put a hand on Harry’s shoulder to calm him. "Yes Harry I know. You’ve only said it a million times." He chuckled. "Back to the topic. We were all told that you were being raised to know your place in society. I just assumed you knew."
Neville stood and held out a hand to Harry. Harry allowed him to help him up. Neville gave Harry a short man hug. "Now that we both know about the alliance, which we will make more formal at some point, I want to help you now. Have a seat. I’ll be right back."
And that is what the twins were now facing. A pissed off Longbottom, who was defending his friend.
"I don’t care, what you thought was a good idea at the time. I don’t care that you’re sorry. I don’t give a bloody fuck what you were thinking! All that I care about is that my friend was sitting on the floor sobbing himself sick because he thinks that you think he is weak and unworthy!"
Both Fred and George were shocked. "We never..."
The twins cringed a bit.
"Now. There has been some misunderstanding I’m going to presume?" Neville asked in a calm voice
Fred and George nodded their heads.
"Good. Because if I find that you have toyed with his feelings or made him feel like this again, I will gladly find a way to plant Devils Snare into your nether regions. Are we clear?"
Fred and George gulped, while automatically grabbing their crotches and nodded.
"Alright then. He’s down the corridor to the left. Forth door down. Off you go." Neville shooed them out.
"Damn. You can be scary as hell mate." Ron stared at Neville in wonder. Where the hell has this Neville been?
"Mrs Tonks gave me a kick up the rear this summer." He shrugged and looked out of the window from the seat that the twins had vacated.
After many "We’re sorry’ "That’s not what we meant’ "We’re idiots’ and a whole host of other apologies, Harry had left the compartment with George and Fred, and went back to their original one. With their being so many people, Harry cast cushioning charms and Luna, Lee Jordan and himself, sat on the floor comfortably. ...
"So this is the spot for Mudbloods and Blood Traitors I see." Draco just couldn’t help himself.
No one bothered to look up from what they were doing. Luna at the moment was destroying Harry in chess. "I really need to learn to play this game someday’ He thought.
Draco became enraged. "How dare they ignore me’. The three Slytherns made to pull their wands. Big mistake. Fred summoned all three while George and Lee pushed Luna behind them. All available wands in the compartment were trained on them. Harry made a show of stretching like a cat and standing.
"You were saying Heir of Malfoy?" Harry took a defensive stance.
"How dare you summon the wands of superior Pureblood wizards." Malfoy lunged at Harry.
"Pathetic’ Harry thought. He easily grabbed the wrist of the hand that was aiming for his face, twisted it behind Malfoy’s back, and pushed him into the wall in the corridor across from their space. Hard.
"I warn you now Malfoy. I’m not the same boy who left Kings Cross in June. If you fuck with me again, I will end you. Do you understand?" Harry pushed some of his aura out into the threat.
Draco got the message. He was a Slytherin after all, and Slytherins knew power. He was still going to inform his godfather. He must have contemplated too long, because he felt pressure on the back of his neck.
"Do. You. Understand?"
"Good." Harry held out his hand as he released Malfoy and Fred gave him the wands. "I will give these back to you. Actually you know what? I won’t. I just remembered something" Harry tilted his head and smiled. "Oh Hermione." Harry sing songed in a deceptively overly sweet voice. George had to turn his head to try not ...
"I believe that it is in the rules that if a wand is drawn in an offensive measure on the train, the prefects can hold them until we arrive at Hogsmeade."
Hermione didn’t let out the cackle that she wanted to, but she simply tilted her head and said. "Yes."
"Great! Hold these please." Harry handed them to Hermione, and slammed the door on the idiots.
Harry rubbed his hands together in glee. "That was fun!"
Everyone just rolled their eyes. Yes. This new Harry was going to be something to watch, and boy what a ride it will be. He was equal parts James and Lily, with a bit of Lord Black, a dash of Natasha and Caleb, a bit of Lauren, with a healthy Sprinkling of Leo and Cara to top it all off. His Aditi side? Well that was a...
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While the students were making their way towards Hogwarts, the teachers were having a staff meeting.
"Finally allow me to introduce to you two new professors. Madame Dolores Umbridge, and Mr. Morpheus LaVaunt. As you know we have been having trouble finding qualified applicants for the Defense Against the Dark Arts position, and the Ministry has been kind enough to help us fill the empty spot with Madame Umbridge."
Severus held back a snort as he and Minerva locked eyes for a moment. The look between them said one word. Bullshit! He would have to arrange study groups for his snakes, so that they could pass their exams, because anyone the Ministry sent most definitely had to be a fraud at best.
"Next." Albus continued. "We have professor..."
"Hem Hem." The woman covered in pink cleared her throat. "Thank you Headmaster for that wonderful introduction." She turned to her colleagues with a smile so fake, that even Severus lost his composure and rolled his eyes slightly. "I just want you all to know that the Ministry of Magic places it’s highest priority on t...
Dumbledore was trying to regain his happy persona, but in truth it was a well known secret that nobody liked Umbridge. "Yes well thank you Dolores. May I also introduce to you Professor LaVaunt."
Professor LaVaunt, was a tall man of around 6’3", and 176 lbs. He had long brown hair that stopped at his shoulders. He was muscular but not overly so. He had deep blue eyes that seemed to draw you in somehow. LaVaunt would be what Lavender Brown would have called "dreamy’. Smooth pale skin, and nice full lips. He scre...
"I have been terribly unfair to Minerva. She has been doing the job of the Head of House, Deputy, and Transfiguration professor. And to be honest, many of my duties as well. I am beginning a pilot programme, agreed to by the board. Professor LaVaunt, will be taking the first through fourth years in transfiguration, whi...
Morpheus nodded his head. "I am well versed in many disciplines of Magic, but transfiguration is by far my favorite. As you can tell from the lack of an accent..." Morpheus cocked his head to the side "Actually, I believe as I’m not native to this part of the world, it would be me who has the accent." He had a thought ...
"One last thing. My little sister will be coming here for a month or two. She owns her own security firm and this will be her first vacation in five years. She’s going to be visiting her many properties around the world as a vacation, and I have not seen her in nearly two years." Morpheus rolled his eyes at the thought...
Albus chuckled as he took a sip of his tea. Sounds like another Nymphadora in their midst he mused. "Oh my. What does she prefer to be referred to as?"
LaVaunt gave a small smile. "Her middle name. Carmen."
As the train pulled into the station, Harry took in the sight of his first true home. He always felt safe when he stepped off of the train in Hogsmeade. It meant that he was for sure away from the Dursleys for at least another school year. It somehow meant something more and yet with all that he had seen over the summe...
Sirius was sitting in a fine wing back black leather chair staring at the youth before him, as he sipped his whiskey.
"Why do you want to go back? You don’t have to."
"I’ve been reading the family journals like you said to Sirius." Harry slammed his fist to his chest. "This is my home! My heritage! The blood of my ancestors has been spilled for many more centuries than most families alive. Will I actively seek Voldemort? Hell no! But I want to build a better society, than the one th...
Sirius chuckled and looked to the twins. "And the two of you? You could start on your shop right now if you like. Why stay?"
"We stay for the reasons that Harry gave. We’ve decided to leave after summer solstice, and start our extra studies. I’ll be going to Australia..."
"And I’ll be in India. Well who knows actually. Aunt Aditi said something about a world potions tour. I’m kind of scared a bit actually."
"We support Harry one hundred percent. At the end of the day his station is higher than ours, and he could do a lot of good for someone like Herms or the Creepy Creaveys." Fred said.
"We love Harry to the nine levels of heaven and hell and back, but he has made it clear that he wants us to be at our fullest potential. Well he actually threatened us with a curse he found in his mother’s journals."
"But make no mistake Sirius. He grounds us."
"As we do him."
"We are made for him by the Goddess and we won’t abandon him ever." They both said firmly.
Sirius merely raised his glass and said. "Good to know." And smirked. "Besides, we’re wizards you could make a trip across the world in five minutes or less in most cases."
Harry threw up his hands. "That’s what I said!"
"Are you alright love?" Fred whispered in his ear as he rubbed Harry’s neck slowly while they walked.
"I’m confused I guess." Harry said in low tones so that those around him except Fred and George couldn’t hear. "I don’t want to fight. In truth I would like to get started on my Mastery, and say fuck it all but..." Harry sighed.
"But..." Fred pressed after a few moments of silence.