Reading the Imperial Shadow Circle

Prolugue : The introduction

Ship: Daphne/Harry

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Prologue: The introduction - The Imperial Shadow Circle

When everyone was told to come to the great hall for an announcement from Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, a small group of people were worried that it would take up their time on the recently activated mission, This group was known to the wizarding community as The Imperial Shadow Circle.

This group was known for the assassinations of corrupt politicians and criminals that had bribed and blackmailed their way out of trouble, escaping justice. The circle also did interrogations and spying on said targets, leaving only the list(s) of crimes the victims had done and insignia of their symbol. What the public didn't know was the identities of the members. Within the circle, there was a total of thirty two members, several of them were across the seas in countries like France, Russia, Japan, Greece, Italy and the United States.

The leader of the British sector was known as Lightning, Bolt by his friends, because of his elemental power over lightning. Bolt had the highest kill count in the British Isles and feared by the corrupted because of this, but he was recognised as a hero by many in Europe after rising dark lord reign in Turkey, Cyprus and Greece was ended by Bolts cursed blade ( it's a Katana). However, he was never alone when on the missions, three others help him complete the missions.

His second in command was known as Vipress, due to her skill with poisons and ability to speak to snakes. At first the public thought she was a dark lady because of the ability, but this had changed when she assassinated a well known death eater that had escaped Azkaban. She had conjured a black dragon the size of a ten year old, and told it to eliminate the death eater with parseltounge. It was rumoured that Lightning and Vipress were a couple, but unfortunately for the curious public, there was never any evidence that supported the theory.

The next member was known as Huntress, she was called Artemis by her friends, because of her abilities with a bow and she was known for being able to transform in to a multiple of different animals, and the capture of a murderer had shown to the wizarding world her skill in psychological torture, mentally scaring the murderer permanently.

The last member of the group was known as 'Shade', he was also called Kage no akuma (Shadow demon). This was due to his eyes being similar to a demon and his strong abilities over shadows and fire. Shade had been discovered during a mission in eastern Russia near the border of North Korea fighting a clan of vampires and a pack of werewolves, his ability allowed him to use a power that he call shadow fire, named after it's colour of black with flickers of purple. A vampire escaped after the battle, seeing the rest of its allies be vaporised by the flames. Shade's anger was known to be uncontrollable by anyone except for Huntress.

However, their alter egos weren't well known. The four assassins were fifth year students at Hogwarts.

Bolt's real name was Hadrien 'Harry' James Potter, the neglected first born child of Lily and James Potter, elder twin brother to the so called 'boy-who-lived' Albus Brian Potter. Harry preferred to be called Hadrien by everyone but his friends, taking a Slytherin approach. Hadrien was sorted in to Slytherin in his first year along with three friends, Daphne Greengrass (Vipress), Tracy Davis and Blaise Zabini. He only had four other friends in Hogwarts aside to the Slytherin trio. These four are Sarah Black who was in Ravenclaw with Joseph Kennedy (who is Shade), Hope dodds (Huntress) in Hufflepuff and Samuel Longbottom, the unknown twin brother of Neville Longbottom, in Gryffindor.

Daphne Elizabeth Greengrass, nicknamed as ice queen, was the eldest daughter of Cyrus and Diana Greengrass. Being born to parents that supported the dark lord but never took an active part led her to almost being brainwashed by their ideas like her younger brother and sister had. However, when Daphne was eight, she met four other kids whom became her friends. Her closest friend and lover, Harry had been the reason she learned the truth from the lies her parents gave her. She had joined the Imperial Shadow Circle a year before she joined Hogwarts with Harry, Hope and Joseph.

Albus stood up from his throne at the front of the Great hall, looking at his students. He saw his apprentice, Albus Potter, sit with his friends Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley and Neville Longbottom, and smiled in pride. His protégé became very popular after that night on halloween, so many years ago, after defeating the dark lord.

The headmaster turned his head to the gathering professors, catching Lily Potter, Muggle studies, looking at the young hero. He eyed the note he got the night before along with a book, before trying to find Albus's elder twin. He found him sitting at the end of the Ravenclaw table along with three other Slytherins, as well as ms Dodds from Hufflepuff, mr Kennedy and ms Black from Ravenclaw and Neville's twin brother, Samuel.

"Silence," Albus called to the hall, quieting the students. "Now then, you may be wondering what I have called you here for," several fifth years including Ron interrupted him with their agreement to the headmaster's statement.

Albus fired of a explosive sounding spell, silencing them,. "Last night I received a book with an note, saying the book was about four heroes that fights the dark forces and we should learn the truth of what really happened that night," he announced. This had almost every student to gain a confused look, they thought that they knew what happened, Albus Potter had saved them from Voldemort.

Except for a small group of students on the Ravenclaw table, Dumbledore noticed, in fact they seemed more worried than they should be. 'Maybe reading the book would tell me why' the old Headmaster thought.

"We should start reading then," Remus lupin said, knowing what was most likely in the book. "The quicker we read the book, the quicker we can get back to doing what we were doing," Severus Snape sneered.

"Okay then, Chapter One, the First kill.." Albus trailed off.

~end~

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