AN: This is a continuation of my saga. This story covers summer vacation and the second year at story has been re-edited and is written in the present tense. I hope you get the feel that you are there in the action with the characters. That is my intention as I think it is more exciting to read it as it happens vs reading about something that happened in the past.

As usual: I don't own the rights to the Harry Potter or the DC Comics worlds and am making no money from this. Please enjoy for your own entertainment.

Chapter 16: The trip Home, Planning a Vacation

After the feast Harry and Hermione return to their room to pack for the trip home for the summer holiday. They are excited to be going home to be with their parents. The Grangers had written to them about some trips planned for this summer to France and possibly Switzerland if they have time to fit both in. After a good night's sleep, they are leaving their rooms to go to breakfast the next morning when professor Sprout comes up to them and gives each one a hug.

"It's been a pleasure having you in my house this year Harry and Hermione. You two helped to motivate the rest of the house into doing their school work diligently." She says with a big smile," of course the change in Professor Snape helped as well."

"Removing his dark mark made him into the man he was meant to be," Hermione says, smiling back at her," He is now one of the best teachers we have."

Harry takes Hermione's hand and says to the professor," We would like to have one more meeting of the council after the train leaves. We have a means of catching up to the train when the meeting is over."

"Yes, Professor Dumbledore mentioned that you had talked to him about the Wizengamot session this summer. He thought you would like have a meeting so he set one for eleven thirty." She replies while nodding in agreement.

"That's good. We will see you there professor." Harry says," We are going to go eat now and talk to our friends."

Professor Sprout waves them off and they walk hand in hand to the Great Hall to sit with their friends for breakfast.

"Hi guys," Harry says as they sit down," Ready for the trip home?"

Susan answers," Yea, it's been a long year and I can't wait to tell aunty all about it."

Harry looks over at the Gryffindor table and waves at Neville, who is talking to one of the twins, over to sit with them. Neville greets everyone when he arrives, then sits and fills his plate with a variety of breakfast foods before digging in.

Harry says, while looking at Neville, Susan, Hannah and Hermione, " Now that the gangs all here, I wanted to let you know Hermione and I have a meeting with the heads of all the houses along with the Headmaster this morning after the train leaves. We will join you as soon as the meeting is over, so keep a place open for us."

"How will you get on the train if you miss it," Susan asks?

"We will concentrate on you three to home in on your compartment." Hermione answers.

"What do you mean by home in? Can you two apparate already?" Neville asks astonished," I didn't know you could do that onto a moving object."

"We don't really apparate like other wizards," Hermione says," we sort of phase in and out. It's a lot more pleasant than apparition."

"What does phase mean." Hannah asks.

"Well," Hermione thinks about how to describe it," Has any of you ever watched Star Trek on the telly."

Hannah says," Yea, it's one of my favorite shows."

"Even though we call what we do phasing, it's more like the transporters on that show. We phase out here and phase in at our destination and there is no noise." Hermione says," We can home in on your magical signatures to find you."

"What do you mean by magical signatures Hermione," Hannah asks as she pauses from taking a bite of her eggs.,

"Everyone has a unique magical signature, like a fingerprint. Harry and I are able to sense the different signatures that witches and wizards have."

"Can you teach us," Susan asks?

"Sensing magical signatures just takes practice. You have to be able to sense your own first. To do that, just close your eyes and reach down inside yourself to feel your magic. When you get that done, keep practicing until you can feel your magic as a constant companion. You will find it a lot easier to cast spells and control your power." Hermione says explaining," I'm afraid phasing is a unique ability that only Harry and I have. I'm sorry but we can't teach that to you as normal witches and wizards aren't able to do what we do. You will have to learn apparition when the time comes."

The others are disappointed but accept the reality of it. After breakfast Harry and Hermione ride with their friends to the station to see them off. After the train leaves, the couple returns to the castle where they proceed up to the Headmaster's office for the meeting.

"I called this meeting because Harry and Hermione had an idea that I thought would be a good opportunity for them to learn about our government and allow us to be involved as a group in the decision making process," Albus says to get the meeting started.

Professor Snape speaks up and adds," Yes, they talked to me about it a little earlier in the week and I think it is a good idea as well. It will go a long way to bring prestige to the school and allow each of us to have a vote on the Wizengamot."

Albus looks at the Potters and says," Would one of you like to explain your idea so we can discuss it?"

Harry looks at Hermione and nods so she gets up to address the council first.

"Since Harry and I have five votes on the Wizengamot we would like to assign proxies to fill the founder's seats as is our right by law. We would like the seat for each founder to be represented by the head of house for that founder. We think that each of you is experts on your own house and would vote according to the way the founder for your house would. Professor Snape would vote for Salazar Slytherin because he is ambitious, cunning and knowledgeable enough to make decisions for Slytherin. Professor Flitwick would vote for Ravenclaw. He has the intelligence of Rowena and understands the real world with the unique advantage his race mixture gives him," Hermione looks directly at professor Flitwick and continues," Don't worry about what others might think about you professor. Harry and I will be there and we will expose every death eater in the Wizengomot if they say anything."

"Those are my two proxies," she concludes, gesturing to Harry.

Harry gets up and says," Since I am the heir to the other two houses, I also chose the house heads as the best persons to be my proxies. Professor McGonagall understands the bravery Godric Gryffindor needed to be a leader of people while Professor Sprout understands Hufflepuff's loyalty to the hard work of the working class people and will vote accordingly. These four people working together will change our government to what the founders would have wanted it to be. Professor Dumbledore will vote the Potter proxy and as we support the founders he will too. We will be in the gallery during the session and if you think you need to consult with us call a short recess and we can meet."

"There you have it." Albus says," Do we need to discuss this? Are we all in agreement? This will give us an inroad to the Wizengamot where we can keep an eye on the minister and his undersecretary and also catch wind of any emergencies that need to be dealt with by the Hunters."

After a general discussion of the ramifications this will cause in the magical community, they all look around at each other and agree to take the positions.

"Who are the Hunters, Albus," Minerva asks?

Severus smirks as Harry and Hermione stand up and morph into their alter egos and say in unison," we are the Hunters, fighters for truth and justice."

Harry explains," With these disguises, we can do what needs to be done without giving our real selves away and with our hoods up you can't see our faces. This will hopefully keep the muggle government from finding out who we are and causing trouble. We recently rescued Draco's mother from his father and now they are together, untouched by Lucious' hatred. With you five on the inside, we can hopefully respond quicker to any trouble that comes our way. This is one of the reasons for the council. To send us on missions that needs doing for the betterment of the wizarding world. We may intervene in the muggle world to stop a robbery or terrorist if the situation comes up and we are aware of it."

Hermione continues," We are going to be here for a long time and will slowly build up our reputation so muggles and wizards will respect us and want us around."

"Sounds Slythern to me," Severus says with a smirk," very cunning and ambitious."

The hat clears it's throat and says," Yes it does, doesn't it. I had difficulty placing them in a house as they have the traits to be in all of them. I decided on Hufflepuff due to their loyalty to each other and their love for the world in general."

"Yes, we do love the world we were born into and will eventually have to do something about all the nuclear weapons lying around in third world countries. Our greatest fear is a group of suicide terrorists getting a hold of one and setting it off in a major city such as London." Hermione responds to the hat.

Harry looks over at Albus and asks," What needs to be done next to get everyone set up as our proxies?"

"You will need to appear at the start of the session for a swearing in ceremony to set your proxies. I will arrange it with the Wizengomot as the first order of the day," he says," I will come and get you a little before the session starts, so make sure you are in your best robes to make a good impression on the other members."

"We will Grandpa," they say in unison," We are off to join our friends now. We will see everyone at the session." And with that, they phase out silently to the train to join their friends for the rest of the trip home.

"Did you see that Albus," Minerva gasps," they apparated right out of your office."

"That's not apparition, it is something they call phasing. It is unique to them and no wards will stop them. They can fly without a broom too. The most amazing experience I've ever had." Albus says proudly about his grandchildren, then stands up," Meeting adjourned, have a good summer everyone and I will see you again for the session."

They all leave the office and head their separate ways for the summer holidays.

While the meeting is going on in the Headmaster's office Neville, Susan and Hannah have a conversation while covering for the Potters.

"So, do you have any plans for the summer Neville," Susan asks?

"Not really, "he answers," I usually just work in my greenhouses."

"I'm sure aunty wouldn't mind you coming over to spend time with us," Susan invites, "we're always going over to Hannah's to swim and play volley ball."

"That sounds like fun, I'll ask Gran if I can come over," Neville says with a smile.

At that time the door to their compartment is opened, uninvited, by Theodor Knott. With Crabbe and Goyle on each side of him, he sneers while looking into the compartment," Where's Potter and his mudblood, I have a message for him."

As he finishes speaking Harry and Hermione phase in behind the trio in the hallway.

"We're right here Knott, what can me and my mudblood do for you, other than throw you off the train?" Harry asks amused at the trio as they start in surprise.

Knott, along with his sidekicks pull out their wands, thinking to hex Harry when a second later they find themselves disarmed with Harry holding their wands. No one saw him move except Hermione.

"Did you really have a message, or were you trying to show your pureblood stupidity." Harry says with a serious look on his face," you three can have these back at King's Cross."

"The message is from Malfoy Sr., He want's Draco back and thinks you had something to do with his mother's abduction." Knott says trembling a little at how easy he was disarmed.

"Why would he think a couple of first year students could pull that off? We're the same age as you." Harry asks back?

"I don't know. He sent an owl to me with the message and I'm giving it to you, as I was told to." Knott explains.

"Your message has been delivered, come back here just before we arrive at King's Cross and you can have your wands back." Harry says to the three.

They leave to go back to their compartment while Harry and Hermione enter the compartment with their friends and sit down.

"That was awesome Harry, I saw you appear right behind them and I think you scared them a bit." Neville says excitedly.

"Maybe, we better watch out for Malfoy Sr. when we arrive," Hermione says to Harry," He might try to cause trouble."

The rest of the trip passes without incident and as they are approaching the station the three boys come back for their wands, which are returned. The boys and girls trade out using the compartment to change out of their school robes for as they get ready to depart the train. The train arrives and as the Potters step down from the train, Malfoy Sr. grabs Harry's arm and apparates away. Hermione screams and follows Harry to Malfoy Manor. She appears right next to Harry startling Lucius who aims his wand at her.

"Crucio," He screams.

The spell hits her, washing over her as she just stands there looking back at him. Mr. Malfoy can't believe that his spell is having no effect on her. He is sweating from the effort it takes to hold the spell on her, like he is having to push the spell through a thick barrier.

"Are you quite finished," She says as she summons his wand from him," What do you want that you would abduct children to get."

"What are you? No one can withstand that spell." He gasps, breathing hard.

"Doesn't matter what we are, you haven't answered my question." She says impatiently while twirling his wand through her fingers.

"I want my son back," He says, eying his wand," It was reported to me that he wasn't on the train."

"And you thought abducting Harry would get your son back," she asks incredulously?

"No, making Harry Potter disappear, would affect the whole magical world and I would get revenge for my master. Then Draco would have seen I am right about pureblood supremacy. " He says smugly.

"You do know that your way of thinking is killing off the pureblood families," She states.

He looks at her with disbelief and says," That's not true. What would you know about it, you're just a kid?"

"Harry and I have full muggle educations. Meaning we understand about genetics." She responds.

"Bah, Muggles are just animals, what do they know." He scoffs.

"Those animals, as you put it, outnumber us magicals by at least one thousand to one. They put a man on the moon in 1969 in one of their rockets and are about two hundred years ahead of us in technology. What we do with magic, they do with their technology. They could destroy this house with a single bomb and there would be nothing left but a big hole in the ground. You do not want them to perceive us as a threat. Muggle genetics is what made us what we are. If you don't understand what that means then you won't understand about inbreeding. Inbreeding is what happens when cousins marry and have children. You only have a single heir like most of the other pureblood families for this reason. If intermixing with half blood and muggleborn does not take place, there won't be any major families left in Britain within the next two hundred years." She lectures.

Harry says," What she says is true; you can bet your life on it. Draco took a port key from school so we don't know where he is. Come on Hermione, mum and dad will be worried if we take too long."

"This is for abducting Harry," She says as she snaps his wand between two of her fingers.

They grab each other's hand and phase out back to the platform where they grab their trollies and exit to greet her parents. The whole event takes less than fifteen minutes and no one has noticed their absence. As soon as they exit to the muggle side they are met by their parents with hugs all around. Putting their trunks in the boot. everyone gets in the car to go home.

Back at Malfoy manor Mr. Malfoy is sitting at his desk with a bottle of fire whisky and a glass in his hand trying to puzzle out what went wrong.

"How could she have shown up almost the same instant he and his hostage did, blowing right through the wards like they weren't even there. What kind of wizards are those two?" he sits there thinking, his hands still shaking a little," she didn't even flinch when my curse hit her. I'll have to come up with another way to eliminate them."

Then his face contorts in to a big evil smile as he remembered the diary in his desk's special hiding place. He gets it out and sets it on top of the desk, then gets his spare wand out and waves it over the diary, putting a strong compulsion charm on it to entice the person he plans on planting it on to want to write in it, activating the curse.

"This should make the little blood traitor open the chamber, releasing Slytherin's monster to cleanse the school of the half-bloods and mudbloods." He says laughing to himself," I can't wait for school to start back up so I can get my revenge."

He didn't notice the house elf creeping through the rafters above him, listening to everything he is saying. He is Draco's elf and was sent to get his master's things when he heard Malfoy Sr. talking to himself. The elf decides to investigate to see if he can learn anything before completing his task.

"I will needs to warn the Elders," he thinks to himself," that's what I wills do, as soon as I get master's things."

The elf pops away silently to Draco's room and collects all of his things, leaving nothing behind. He then pops back to his master to tell him the news and get his advice.

"Master, I overhears your father plottings to set a monster loose on the school whens it starts backs up. I woulds like your permissions to informs the Elders so they cans be ready." The elf says.

Draco's and his mother's eyes get wide at the mention of word "Elders" and ask.

"Who are the Elders you speak of Dobby?" asks Draco.

"Theys be the great Lord and Lady Potter master," Dobby says bowing deeply.

"You have my permission Dobby, but wait for a few weeks, so they can have a good summer before hearing the news," Draco says with his mother's approval.

"As you command master," Dobby says and pops out to sort and put away his master belongings.

Draco looks at his mother and says," I had no idea they were Elders. I thought the story of the elders was just a legend, but it explains a lot about them and how they conduct themselves at school."

"How so?" she asks.

"Well," he says thinking back," I had to put on a pretty good act to fool the other Slytherins. While doing so, I had several encounters with the Potters and tried to antagonize them to no avail. They never raised their voices to anyone except once when I carried it too far and she sent me to my room by waving her hand. I appeared in my room with a sign around my neck and had to stay there for a week. A little embarrassing, but that was the one act of power that convinced me they might be able to help us. I'm glad I followed through with my instincts about them."

"Me too son," she says," me too."

While Draco and his mother are talking about them, the Potters and Grangers are driving home with the Potters telling all about their school year and how they won the house cup for the first time ever. A few cars ahead of them on the highway a tractor-trailer combo with large pipes on the back swerves to avoid a stray animal in the road. One of the tie-down straps has a tear in it, unbeknownst to the driver, and gives way. This causes the load of pipes to swing to the side as the rig swerves suddenly, breaking more straps as the pipes start to un-stack themselves, falling off the sides of the trailer onto the road. The pipes are the concrete type used for drainage ditches, which are quite large and heavy. The driver does his best to slow his rig down to minimize the damage, but the load and inertia is too much for the truck and trailer causing it to overturn and land on its side.

Jeeves manages to slow the Rolls down and pull over to the side of the road to avoid being hit by the load. When the Grangers look in the rear seat to see if Harry and Hermione are okay they notice that they are no longer in the car. Looking around outside the car for them, they don't see them anywhere but the do see that one of the cars ahead of them is not so lucky. One of the pipes from the truck has landed on top of the car, caving the roof down to the level of the hood. The police and fire department soon arrive and the officer in charge calls for an ambulance as they try to get the doors open on the car. Harry and Hermione are standing on the side of the road disillusioned, in their Pantheras guise, waiting to see what they can do to help.

"They're jammed pretty good," the officer says while trying to get the doors to open," I can't budge them, even with my crow bar. We need a crane to move the pipe off the top to even have a chance to get them out."

Hunter and Huntress look at each other and think together: "This will be our official introduction to the world. Let's do this."

As the officer in charge is calling for a crane the police and bystanders hear a whooshing sound and feel the air swirl around them when something unusual starts to happen. The pipe slowly starts to lift off the top of the car as the two Pantheras fade into view on either end of the pipe. They lift the pipe up using their hands and float up about ten feet in the air where they move the pipe safely over to the side of the road and set it down. The firemen immediately go to work trying to use the Jaws of Life to get the doors open. The Hunters ask the firemen to stand back and then fly to a door each where they grab hold and pull. The doors come right off allowing the paramedics that have arrived with the ambulances that were called to go to work. They manage to stabilize the driver and his wife, who are then loaded into ambulances to be taken to hospital with the sirens screaming and lights flashing.

The couple walk up to the officer in charge and after looking at her badge ask," Officer Constance, how can we help further?"

"Who are you and how did you do that?" she asks, amazed and grateful for their abilities.

"I am Hunter and this lovely lady is my wife, Huntress, we call ourselves the Pantheras, Hunters of Truth and Justice. We were flying by while cloaked and saw the accident happen and thought we could help." Hunter says." We can remove the other pipes from the roadway and right the truck if someone will direct us on where they want everything placed."

"As for how we can do this; let's save that for another time. There's work to be done" Huntress says.

The couple flies over to the other pipes, removing them from the trailer and setting them together along the side of the road. They then proceed to right the truck and move it off the road so the firemen can use their hoses to clean it for traffic use. When they are done, the Pantheras salute farewell to the officers and firemen with two fingers to their brows and fly up about twenty feet in the air where they fade from view. A few seconds later the air swirls again and everyone hears a swooshing sound as they leave.

As the rescue and cleanup happens the Grangers stay sitting in their car, watching the whole scene. They watch as the pipe slowly lifts up, astonished as everyone else until the couple fades into view; then they know what is happening. That is their children out there helping to save those people. When the couple flies over to the Big Rig and effortlessly lifts it from the ground to right it, they know right then how special their children really are and are very proud of them. When everything is done and the couple fade out they almost immediately feel a shift in the air and when they look back, Harry and Hermione are sitting in the back seat as if they had never left.

"We're so proud of you the way you handled yourselves out there." Mrs. Granger says smiling," You gave those people a chance to live."

"The paramedics said they should be fine since they were able to treat them sooner rather than later and thanked us for showing up when we did." Hermione says.

"That's good news," Mr. Granger adds.

"We thought so as well and were grateful we could help." Harry says.

Jeeves has been watching the officers who start waving traffic through and says, "Looks like it is okay to proceed now. Let's go home."

The family continues with the drive home while conversing about the school year. Due to the delay from the accident it is decided to get take out for dinner so Jeeves wouldn't have to cook. When they arrive at home everyone piles out of the car to go inside with Jeeves leading the way so he can hold the door. Once inside, Jeeves snaps his fingers and both the school trunks are transferred from the boot to Harry and Hermione's room. After dinner everyone gathers in the sitting room for tea and brandy. The telly is turned on to watch the late evening news before bed and there is the accident for all to see. Mr. Granger turns up the sound to hear what is being said.

"An extraordinary thing happened on the M4 highway today. A tractor trailer combo turned over on its side spilling its cargo of pipes onto the road with one landing on a car, crushing the roof. The police and paramedics showed up shortly after and began the work of rescuing the unfortunate victims of the crash. Using the Jaws of Life the firemen tried to remove the doors to the crushed car without success. The weight of the pipe on top was preventing the Jaws form working. I overheard the fireman say that a crane was needed to remove the pipe when it suddenly started floating up from the car. Two beings faded into view holding the pipe on each end while lifting it up into the air about three meters to clear the car top and other debris setting the pipe out of the way. They then flew over to the car and calmly removed the doors by pulling with their bare hands. This allowed the paramedics to save the couple in the crushed car. The two beings then talked to the officer in charge and proceeded to right the tractor trailer, then removed the rest of the load and the truck itself to the side of the road allowing clean up to happen. Without these beings showing up there might have been two fatalities today. When asked who the beings were, the officer they talked to said they were flying by when they witnessed the accident happen and decided to stop and help. They said the stylized 'P' that was on their cloaks stood for Pantheras, Hunters for Truth and Justice. I call them beings because even though they look human, no human being I know of could have done what those two did. Whatever they are, this reporter is glad they showed up when they did allowing two lives to be saved. I wonder if we will see them again in the future. I for one, hope so."

While the reporter was talking, the camera holder was catching it all on tape for the viewers. The screen showed all the action with clear shots of the Pantheras at work.

"Well, the government will definitely be looking for those obvious aliens" Mrs. Granger prompted after seeing the video.

"We flew off a few hundred miles to the north before phasing to the back of the car. Even if they have a way of tracking us, they will never find us here due to the phasing. No one can track that." Hermione says.

"That's good to know," Mrs. Granger says in relief," Every time you two do something I worry about being discovered."

"It's aright mum and dad," Harry reassures them," We always take precautions."

"I know you do. You two have always had our best interests at heart as we have yours." Mr. Granger says," Anything we should know about this summer before vacation plans are made?"

"Just one thing dad," Hermione responds," The annual summer Wizengamot session is at the end of July and we have to be there to seat our proxies."

"Okay, that gives us about a month. Let's plan a vacation in the south of France starting next week to be back in time for the session. Can muggles attend?" Mr. Granger asks?

"If we disguise you as wizards I don't see why not. It's just a swearing in ceremony and you can sit in the gallery with the ordinary people and no one will know the difference. Hold out your watches please." He commands.

They hold their watches out and Harry places his hand on Mr. Granger's watch face while Hermione does the same to her mother's. The watches glow for a few seconds and when the glow fades Harry says," Now you two are protected from all curses and charms that can harm you including the unforgivable's. Never take the watches off please. This will make you safe in the chamber while the session runs."

The Grangers look at their watches with a new reverence and vow to never take them off.

"What about airport security Harry?" Mr. Granger asks because they travel a lot.

"The watches have Notice Me Not charms on them and can't be picked up by the metal detectors so you should be okay for traveling." Hermione answers.

"That makes me feel safer," Mrs. Granger says.

"You're welcome mum." Harry says.

She hugs both of her children and says," Off to bed with you we have a long planning session tomorrow."

Harry and Hermione both yawn and say together," Good night."

Everyone heads to their rooms for a good night's sleep knowing they had a fulfilling day, looking forward to going on vacation.