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Lady Hogwarts gave a solemn look. "Without your help, Hogwarts will fall. I need you to bring us back to the glory that we once were. Stay and help us to restore our strength." |
"Oh no. No. No. Not on your life!" Carmen started to pace then paused. "Or afterlife?" She shook her head. "It doesn’t matter. This is my first vacation in years!" |
Many students looked at the spectacle in awe. |
"Please! You must help us. The magic is slowly dying from me. The traditions that are crucial to being a witch or wizard are being lost. What passes for history in this school would be a joke if it was not so pathetic. The common born are being scorned while inbreeding is seen as an acceptable norm. The ones who call t... |
"That’s a lie!" Malfoy shouted. |
The spirit turned towards the Malfoy heir. "Draco. Son of Lucius. I speak the truth and you soon shall see." |
Carmen threw her left hand in a wild gesture at the Head Table. "What about them?! They’re at least citizens of this country! And as previously stated, I’m on vacation!" |
"Citizens who don’t have the same magical background or power as you!" |
Carmen scoffed. "Albus has significant power levels to restore your..." |
"And he is blinded by ideals and not facts. This is a school for magical children first and foremost. You have the power to fix this...to help me." Lady Hogwarts cried. |
Carmen looked at Lady Hogwarts with indignation and forgetting that she could flash or jump, stormed towards the doors. "This conversation is stupid I’m leaving." The doors slammed in front of her and she rounded on the ghosts. "You can’t do this!" |
"I will use the last of my reserves of magic to beg you to see reason." The spirit took a deep breath. "I’m dying. The magic of Hogwarts will cease to exist if we don’t restore the wards. The protection of the castle’s ley lines are fading. Please don’t let the history of magic die in this land." |
Carmen’s hair turned grey as she took a deep calming breath. It was obvious she was angry, but her brothers could see that she was conflicted. |
"Hey sis." Morpheus’ voice said quietly. He held her as she cried. |
She turned to her brother. "Why me Mo? I just wanted to see you, and then I found Harry and I thought I could move on with a lighter heart. I was looking forward to my time away. Why Mo? Why me?" Her big brother would help her understand what she should do. She was a very strong and independent witch, but Mo was her ba... |
"I don’t know baby girl, but what I do know is what we’ve always tried to live by." He said as he held her. |
She sighed. "With great power..." |
"Comes great responsibility." He finished. She smacked his shoulders lightly and dried her eyes. She turned to the five apparitions while still in Morpheus’ embrace. |
"I’ll stay to improve your wards. I can’t guarantee anything else because I have my own business to run you know." |
Lady Hogwarts spoke. "That would be acceptable, however I would feel safer if you would agree to a time frame of say...a year?" |
"Are you insane? This aint my damn home, I have a business to run, and did I mention I was on vacation?!" She turned back to the Head table. "You can’t really approve of this shit can you Albus?" |
Albus was about to answer her, but Lady Hogwarts beat him to it. "He has no say, and it was my understanding that you were on a sabbatical for a year. Well slightly less at this point." She raised a brow in challenge. |
Morpheus whispered something in her ear. She stared at him like he was crazy, but then she relented and turned to the ghosts. |
"I have some conditions." |
"Name them Miss LaVaunt." |
"Call me Carmen. One. I do this my way. None of this half ass bureaucracy that you Brits are so fond of. I have the money, the resources, and the contacts to make this happen." |
"Very well. I would ask that you not bring anyone into the castle that would harm the students." |
"Fair enough. The students will be safe if they don’t attack first. Two. I’m allowed to help tutor in classes that need it." |
"That. I fully agree with." |
"Three. I will need three days away from the castle a month. Just me time. I will be available if it’s an emergency, but other than that it’s just for me. And by emergency I mean the castle or Hogsmeade are under attack or my brother needs me." |
"Four. I get to restock the library. Too many books have been removed about magical culture and it’s detrimental to your society, and it can’t be removed from the library by anyone but me" |
"Without question." |
"Five. I want discipline privileges." |
"You have them already." |
"Six. The children need something to occupy their time. I would like to include age appropriate activities to help keep the mischief down to a minimum." |
Carmen sighed. "Let’s get this over with." She pulled her blade. |
"I must protest the use of blood magic!" Albus implored. |
"Was he always like this?" Carmen asked Lady Hogwarts. |
She just shrugged "He has many secrets Carmen of LaVaunt." |
"Right." Carmen slashed her palm, got to her knees and placed her palm over the floor as her blood dripped. Everyone watched as she glowed orange. "Mother Magick I give this vow in front of these witnesses, that I will protect this school with my magic, my skills, and my resources. I will be fair to all those who seek ... |
"Rise Warden of Hogwarts." Lady Hogwarts smiled at her. |
"Warden? Really?" Carmen stood but was almost immediately knocked back when the weight of the wards almost took her out. |
"Yes. That is your official title. What would your first orders be?" |
"She’s gonna kill me." Carmen muttered. She had just got back to her feet. As her magic took in the wards, she realized that they weren’t so much as weak but fragmented. She mentally sighed. "Which makes them weak.’ "Caille." |
Everyone was shocked as an elf who was quite a bit taller than most British house elves popped in. She had long white hair all over her head, that was braided at the sides, and the braids were used to keep her hair back. She wore elf sized dark jeans and black combat boots, with a pink sweater over top. |
"What’s up boss? Thought we were on vacay, and I had a date." She stood with her hands on her hips |
Everyone except for Morpheus and Carmen stared in awe at the elf who spoke and looked in such a way. |
"I’ve taken a job." Carmen quickly filled her in on the situation. |
"Okay." Caille drew out. "You know I’m gonna sic Jack on your ass right?" |
"I know I know." Carmen sighed. "See you in a few days. Have fun on your date, and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do." |
Caille snorted "What wouldn’t you do slut puppy?" And she was gone. |
Carmen took a deep breath. "Right. Baron. You’re my second in command of the afterlife. I want to have a meeting with all the ghosts in the castle in four days time. See to it please." |
The Baron nodded. "As you command Carmen" |
Next she summoned the Head Elf. "Pappy." |
"Mistress Warden summoned Pappy?" The elf bowed low. |
She nodded. "First of all call me Carmen. That’s an order. Second of all I want a meeting with all elves in four days time. Inform them that to me they are very much on the same plane as myself. I have faith in the magic of the elves because that is what I’ve been taught. They can come to me with any important concerns... |
"It will be done Carmen." Pappy popped away. |
"Good. Now I’m going to my apartment, find something strong to drink and find me a decent lay for the night because this shit right here...is not cool!" She ran to one of the windows and jumped on the ledge. She pressed her palm against the glass and muttered something that no one could hear. The glass disappeared and ... |
"She’s fine. She just needs to let off some steam." Morpheus tried to assure them. He turned to her escorts. "Sorry about all of this, but I relieve you." |
The tall Caucasian male named Brian nodded. "We are relieved." And they both vanished. |
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Harry was sitting in the library with his head in an old defence book, while taking notes with a biro. It had been two days since Carmen had took off to "let off some steam’ as Morpheus had put it. |
He was jotting down a few last notes when he heard the last voice that he wanted to hear. |
"I see your Mudblood mother has rubbed off on you after all Potter." Draco Malfoy drawled. |
Harry didn’t even twitch he just kept writing his notes on the advanced form of Lumos that could blind a room the size of the Great Hall. He had one week to finish this assignment and he wasn’t going to let it be ruined by this git. Despite his OWL scores he was given a TON of extra work by Uncles Leo and Caleb to make... |
He was very excited with the extra work Caleb had sent him. It kept him from getting too bored and he wanted to make him proud. |
"Could you be more specific Malfoy? Are you speaking of my eyes? Or the fact that her test scores outshone even your father’s as I will have most likely done to you? Damn! So close. Maybe if. Yes that should do it. Ha got it! Well maybe." It was obvious that Harry had immersed himself back into his work. |
"How dare you ignore your betters!" |
That was Parkinson. Harry sighed as he came to the conclusion that he wouldn’t get any more work done here. He had been holed up in his trunk since Friday night studying and experimenting, but Hermione rightly pointed out that he should make an appearance at some point before the student body would start talking. So he... |
"Now what?" He asked with a sigh. |
"The Dark Lord has plans for you Potter. I would suggest that you bow down now before you or your little blood traitor whores gets hurt." |
They probably thought that Harry had no idea how many people had followed him, but that was one of the things that they had been taught over the summer. There was three of them. |
He turned around slowly. "What do you want?" Harry sounded exasperated, but the truth was he was sizing up everyone. His biggest threat was the seventh year in front of him. Draco and Pansy were not going to be a problem. |
"We want you to remember your place you filthy half blood." And with that Smithers attempted to choke Harry. The problem was that between the Dursleys, Natasha, and Leo he moved out of the way with ease. He grabbed the boy’s wrist that was coming towards him and twisted it behind his back and using the other hand, he f... |
Harry stalked towards The Malfoy scion. "Maybe I was too subtle Malfoy." Harry pulled a knife from his waist as he bent down to stare into his eyes. "I will give you leave for now as I’ve recently found out that we share blood, although it’s distant. We’re also kids, and I’ve also recently discovered that we’re stupid ... |
The elf popped in. "Yes, Master Potter?" |
"I’m going back to my trunk; can you please bring me something small to eat? And please let Fred and George know where I am?" |
"Arned will do it Master. Shall I..." He trailed off looking at the students on the floor. |
"No. Thank you anyway though." |
"Very well Master." Arned popped away. |
"Now I’ll never be allowed to go anywhere by myself.’ Harry muttered to himself as he made his way back to the dorms. He opened his trunk and climbed in, closing it as he did so. He dropped his bag in the foyer and went to take a long hot shower. When he was finished drying off, he put on a pair of sleep pants and clim... |
"Hey yourself. What happened?" |
Fred was always straight to the point. "Malfoy, Parkinson, and Smithers tried to ambush me." Harry shrugged. "I handled it. How long have I been asleep?" |
"I’ve been here for an hour, and you must’ve done more than handle it, because the whole castle is looking for you at the moment." Fred chuckled. |
Harry rolled over onto his back and put his forearm over his eyes as he moaned. "Can’t you just tell them I ran away or something?" |
Fred outright laughed as he stood up so that he could grab his lover something to wear. "Nope and you better put on something nice and intimidating because Smithers’ father is in Dumbledore’s office. Along with Minister Fudge, Lucius Malfoy, Mr. Parkinson, Amelia Bones, Professors Snape and McGonagall and Sirius." Fred... |
Harry nodded and got up and got ready. Ten minutes later, Harry was dressed and sitting at his vanity. He decided to put on a bit of liner to his eyes, just to freak them out. Fred began to brush his hair and placed it in a half tail, afterwards he handed Harry his blades. |
"Where’s George?" |
"Still tucking his tail I suppose. That or pranking Hermione with some new potion he said he wanted to try." Fred shrugged. |
Harry smiled and secured his wand to his holster on his arm, and preceded Fred out of the trunk. |
Once they had reached the entrance to the Headmaster’s office, Fred spun Harry around and kissed him deeply. "Give em hell. I heard it when Uncle Leo and me were watching a movie." Fred slapped him on the butt and turned him towards the gargoyle. |
Through his post kiss daze, Harry nodded and made his way to the Headmaster’s office. He spoke to the gargoyle. "I’m here at the Headmaster’s request." The gargoyle moved aside. |
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The door opened at Harry’s approach and everyone went silent. A man who looked like an older version of Mat Smithers drew his wand with a look of pure rage at Harry, but he was quicker. |
"Expelliarmus!" Harry yelled as he dove and rolled out of the way of whatever curse was going to be cast. The wand went sailing into Harry’s hand and he caught it with a seeker’s reflexes. He walked to Madame Bones and gave a slight bow as he handed over the wand. "For you, my Lady." Harry turned to go and stand by Sir... |
Harry looked at the crumpled man on the ground who had a bruise blooming on his face, and raised a brow. "Over power much Siri?" |
Sirius shrugged. "Never liked his arse anyway." |
Harry just chuckled and turned to the others. "So. What can I do for you?" |
"You could start by putting your wand away boy." Malfoy drawled with a look of utmost contempt. |
Harry just raised a brow and turned away from him. "Headmaster why am I here?" |
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