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Carmen eeped as Moody grabbed her by the arm and dragged her to the magical training area. |
"This is a magical target range. Show me what ya got." |
Carmen cocked her head to the side. "Alright." |
"Where’s your wand?" |
Carmen smirked. "Don’t need one. Go" |
For the following twenty minutes, Carmen took everything that Moody threw at her. Once he realized how physically and magically powerful she was he upped the difficulty. At one point he had Andromeda and Sirius throwing low level spells at her at the same time. |
"What’s wrong girl? Can’t protect the Boy Who Lived? You’re pathetic!" Carmen’s spells became vicious after that, but Madeye dodged them...barely. He was actually enjoying a good fight. |
Carmen blasted the three of them into a wall and then dropped to her knees and sobbed for all that she was worth. Her braids had finally turned back to it’s natural dark brown color. |
Sirius shook his head to clear it. He was glad that the elves insisted on cushioning charms. He stood up and ran over to Carmen. He attempted to wrap his arms around her, but she scrambled away from him. |
"No!" She screamed. "Don’t touch me!" |
Sirius looked like he had been punched in the gut but backed away. |
"Carmen. Should I get your brother?" Andromeda asked quietly. |
"No. He’s here." Carmen pointed to her right temple. "Along with Harry. For some strange reason they’re proud of me." Carmen looked confused. |
"My guess lass is that your brother was the only one who was able to control you if necessary. To find that you could control yourself without him made him happy. Now." |
Moody stalked over to the heavy bag. "Again. Without the theatrics if you please." |
Carmen looked at him like he was crazy. |
"Sir! Yes sir!" Carmen replied automatically. |
"How does he do that?" Hermione asked. As she watched a much calmer Carmen take on the bag. |
"It’s a service thing." Hermione’s father shrugged as he watched the witch in front of him nearly decimate the bag in front of her. |
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"Sorry about that." Carmen said as she put freshening charms on herself while she pulled on her sweater and boots. "Occupational hazard." She pulled her loose braids back into a tail. "Where were we? Have to get back to the school soon." |
"This way." Remus gave her his arm and led her back to the room she was in previously. |
Sirius took a no nonsense approach. "As previously stated,...wait. Your brother and Harry cannot hear this can they?" |
"No. Because I don’t want them to. Keep going." |
"Right. We’ve found another Horcrux. It appears to be the home of Voldemort’s mother. It will take a parselmouth to undue the wards. We wanted to keep Harry out of it, but he was the only parselmouth that we knew of." Sirius looked at her with intensity. |
"Goblins?" She asked |
"On board." Sirius answered. |
She walked over to the board they used to spit ball ideas. She pulled out her notebook and pen and began writing, she pointed with the pen to the board. "Why is Malfoy Snr up here?" |
She looked at Andromeda as she spoke. "In Harry’s second year Lucius Malfoy snuck in an old diary of Voldemort by way of Ginny Weasley’s cauldron while in Diagon Alley." |
"That worthless fucker! Nothing would please me more than to have him taste my blade." Carmen sighed. "Harry and I are going to have a little chat about keeping secrets." |
"He probably didn’t want you to worry about him." Remus said. |
"I guess." She looked up to the board once more. "I’ll bet you my last galleon that he has stashed one away at Hogwarts." |
"What makes you say that?" Sirius asked. |
"My latest intel is that he applied for the Defence Against the Dark Arts position three times. And all three times Albus denied him. Being the narcissistic, megalomaniacal, murdering bastard that he is, it would be the perfect way to say "fuck you’ to the man." |
"Who exactly were these sources?" Sirius asked curiously. |
"Not telling." She said as she made another note. "Once I have the wards fully charged it should be easy enough to find it if it’s there. That is a true example of black magic. Have you given any thought to other founders items. He seems to have a fetish for tainting objects of his past or objects of significance." |
"We’ve been throwing out ideas. Frankly, we were thinking of finally bringing in Albus." Remus said. |
"No." Carmen ground out. |
"I beg your pardon?" Remus said. Shocked at her anger. |
Carmen looked at Remus with a look of annoyance which turned to a look of shock. "You really have no idea do you?" |
The other three shook their heads. |
Carmen walked to the window. She looked out as the snow began to fall once more. She crossed her arms over her chest as she began to speak. "This is one of the reasons I get so upset. You people have no ability to think for yourselves. You don’t ask questions. You just go with the flow. Take whatever he tells you at fa... |
She ignored the looks of indignation and continued. "Remus. The Scholar. What happened to Grindelwald?" |
Remus shrugged. "Albus defeated him in a duel." |
"And where is he now?" |
"Dead." The other three adults said together. |
Carmen smirked. "I’ll let you keep to that illusion for now." |
The three of them looked at each other in confusion. |
"There is an old saying. Trust but verify. Bathilda Bagshot. I hope you are familiar with her?" |
When all three nodded she continued. "The short version is that she lives in Godric’s Hollow. She has for a long time. So long in fact that she knew Albus as a boy." |
The other inhabitants were listening intently, so she continued. "She had a young family member come to stay with her after they were kicked out of school. He became close friends with a very talented boy in the village. His name was Albus Dumbledore. Bagshot’s family member’s name was Gellert Grindelwald." |
Everyone else gasped in shock. |
"They were close. So close in fact it was speculated that they were lovers." She paused at the incredulous looks on their faces. "Dude your nephew/cub/son is gay. You have a problem with gay people now?" She raised a brow. |
"Of course not!" Sirius said firmly. "It’s just Dumbledore is..." |
Carmen rolled her eyes. "Have you seen what he wears? He screams "I’m queer’ every chance he gets! Although most queens I know wouldn’t be caught dead in his get up." She shuddered. "Moving on. Apparently they had plans on world domination, but they had different ways they wanted to proceed. Albus wanted to show non ma... |
"How do you know all of this?" Andromeda asked. |
Carmen gave it some thought, and decided brutal honesty was the best. "I was raised to question everything around me. I talked to his brother. I also sent an agent to have tea with Madame Bagshot. We were developing a...time line of sorts I guess you could say." She looked out the window once more. "I take my little br... |
"Who is his brother?" Andromeda asked. She was still shaken by the revelations made today. |
Carmen raised a brow. "Fifty galleons to someone who can guess who in Hogsmeade looks like a slightly younger version of Albus. Especially the eyes." |
"Abe!" Remus said. His face still in shock at the new knowledge. His wolf could always feel something was familiar about the man. |
"And you win the fifty galleon prize. Aberforth and his brother are estranged. The details I’m still working out, but suffice it to say...they are not friends." She turned to Remus. "I’ll have your money in your vault after I get back to Hogwarts." |
Carmen hesitated. Her brother had told her that it wasn’t their problem, but Harry was her little brother. "I have...discovered some information related to Harry and Albus. I haven’t said anything because Mo has asked me to maintain control, and stay out of your business." |
Sirius stood furiously and grabbed Carmen’s arms in fear for his son. "What?!" |
Thankfully, Remus grabbed him by the back of his neck with one hand and pushed him into the wall by the throat with the other as Andromeda summoned his wand. She then faced off against her Lord with wand in hand. |
It had been at his request that she and Remus controlled him when necessary, if his temper got out of control. Even before the dementors, Sirius was extremely impulsive. |
"Carry on Miss LaVaunt." Andromeda requested politely. |
Carmen nodded. "I think he is going to try to break the guardianship, the emancipation, and then his freedom from allowing Albus to guide him." |
"How do you know this?" Remus asked in shock. |
"Like I said I was raised to ask questions." She shrugged and continued. "A few galleons here, a seemingly innocent question there. I was helping Harry go through his accounts along with his friends. My task was to look over his foreign investments as my own portfolio includes a large number of them. I was crunching so... |
Sirius shrugged. "As Headmaster, he is allowed to inquire about the status of an account to make sure that the student could pay the fees." |
"For the love of...I said accounts! Meaning all of them. Lily Evans Potter’s personal account, James Potter’s personal account, and the House of Potter account. Not just the school account from where his funds are being drawn. He used his position as so called guardian to make inquiries after the first day of school. E... |
"He told you?" Remus asked in shock. |
Carmen shrugged. "My mind is stronger than one might think. I have traps upon traps in at least nine different languages including mermish and parseltongue. Dumbledore has already tried to breach my mind and failed spectacularly. Voldemort was actually kind of fun." |
"You have had Voldemort in your head?" Sirius asked. |
"Yup. He’s almost as good as the jackhole Severus and I blasted that twit into a stone wall without breaking sweat the first time he fired an actual Legilimens at me. Back to my original point. Harry doesn’t believe in the prophecy, but Dumbledore does. Do you really think he would just let Harry walk away without a fi... |
The other three adults looked at each other pensively. |
"I also have a vague memory that he knew something was inside of Harry’s scar." She scrunched up her face trying to bring forth the memory. |
"He didn’t." Andromeda breathed in. |
"He’ll have that scar forever.’* |
"Couldn’t you do something about it Albus?’* |
"Even if I could. I wouldn’t. Scars could be useful. I have one myself above my left knee.’* |
"He knew." Sirius said in revulsion. "That son of a bitch knew." |
Carmen shrugged. "Whether he knew exactly what it was I can’t say for sure. That may also be why he blocked part of Harry’s core. If that fragment leached on to Harry’s full power, then it may have completely possessed him. The alternative reason is that Albus is a power hungry douche bag." |
"What I believe is this. He knew that Harry was not loved in that house, but he needed to keep him away from any influence other than him. And since the Weasleys were not only loyal followers they also had a son his age it made perfect sense to put them together. Since I have met Ron, everything seemed to click into pl... |
Carmen took a breath to calm herself. "I will say this. The younger Weasley children do love him like a brother. Whatever manipulations that were going on behind the scene’s had nothing to do with them. Ron and Ginny will fight to the death for that kid. Not because he is the "Great Harry Potter.’ But because he is the... |
All the adults contemplated the information that had been shared for a moment. |
"Perhaps Miss LaVaunt it would be best to return to the school. You have been gone for a while and the castle must be worried." Andromeda gave her a pointed look. |
"Very well." She summoned her coat. As she was putting it on she asked. "Do you have a headache potion? I’ve closed off my mind to my brothers, and I’m about to let them in. Tends to hurt when they scream at me at once." |
Andromeda produced one from her robes. "When can we arrange the retrieval of the Horcrux?" |
"Saturday would be best. I have a shopping appointment on Friday." Carmen said as she dropped her shields to her brothers. |
Carmen grabbed the sides of her head and grimaced as Morpheus and Harry’s thoughts came knocking on her shields. |
"Are you alright?" Sirius asked in concern. |
"No. I’m getting yelled at in five different languages. Including parseltongue." |
"Here." Remus handed over a pain potion. "It should help." |
The warden drank both down gratefully. After checking them of course. |
She walked towards the exit, thanked them for their hospitality and...vanished. |
"How does she do that?" Sirius asked. |
"Magic. I suppose." Andromeda answered. She herself was curious. She was also curious why Sirius seemed to be fascinated by the spot that the witch had vanished from. |
"Are you calm enough now?" Remus asked. |
"Yeah. Sorry about that." Sirius said embarrassedly as Remus released him. |
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