Uni: Well
I am sorry that this is so short, but this is only the prologue. I
hope you enjoy. Matt!
Matt: What kind of time is this to be
posting a story? It's in the middle of the bloody night!
Uni:
If you hurry you can go to bed again before you wake up
completely
Matt: -.- She doesn't own Harry Potter or anything
connected to the universe, same goes for Naruto. Goodnight!!
Uni:
Nighty night Matt
Thanks to Cheryl-chan and Omen-chan for
betaing
Harry Potter and the Demon Seals
Let it be known
Professor
Minerva McGonagall, highly respected teacher and head of Gryffindor
house, was finding herself having trouble breathing as she hurried
across the large courtyard towards the main part of the huge castle
that was Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
She swore
as a sudden harsh breath of warm summer air ruffled her clothes and
carried her pointy hat off of her head, only to place it on the
ground a few meters behind her.
It was not something she did
very often - swear that is - but at this point she really couldn't
help herself. It had been a fairly stressful morning to say the
least, and having the wind against her as well was just about the
last straw.
Not even bothering to turn around, the dark haired
witch pulled out her wand from the inside of her cape, swung it
aggressively in the air and yelled 'Accio Hat,' resulting in the hat
flying through the air, and immediately returning to it's original
place. By the time the hat had returned to her head, she was already
at the main entrance to the castle.
Not bothering to open the
doors by hand, she swung the wand she still had in her hand in the
air again, this time resulting in the doors bursting open. The
professor almost stumbled through the doors in her haste to reach her
destination, cursing a little more for good measure as she hurried
down the long halls and corridors.
Moment's later, Dumbledore
looked up at a rather dishevelled looking McGonagall bursting through
the door to his office, not even bothering to knock.
"Albus,
you cannot be serious!" she practically yelled at the elderly
man, currently seated behind his desk, at the other end of the
room.
"Oh, but I am quite serious Minerva," the
headmaster replied calmly as he rifled searchingly through the papers
placed in front of him.
McGonagall sat down across from
Dumbledore. The Headmaster sighed silently and stopped going through
his papers, folding his hands on top of the small pile. He opened his
mouth to say something, only to let it stay open in slight chock as
yet another member of his teaching staff burst through the door,
without knocking. He quickly composed himself again, however, closing
his mouth.
"Tell me that you have not already done it!"
Professor Severus Snape exclaimed hastily, the usual drawl gone from
his voice as he slammed the door shut behind him.
"I am
afraid that I can not do that Severus," Dumbledore answered a
little annoyed that so many of his employees apparently seemed to
have no problems bringing his authority into question, and then not
even have the decency to knock when they came to do so.
Dumbledore
quickly calmed himself though, and yet again opened his mouth to say
something, just to let it stay open, yet again, in pure amazement,
because yet again, he was interrupted by a teacher who did not bother
knocking before literally flying through the door.
Professor
Flitwick, the new acquisition, at least had the decency to apologise
for his rude interruption, before he hurried to the other side of the
room as Professor Sprout stormed in behind him. She was followed by
Madams Hooch and Pomfrey, thus collecting all the teachers that were
currently on school grounds in one room, and in no time at all, every
one of the aforementioned teachers began arguing.
All the
teachers, that is, except Dumbledore, who was beginning to believe he
had made a fatal error in telling the Hogwarts faculty about his
decision via owl instead of waiting for the opportunity to tell them
face to face.
It had seemed such a good idea at the time. He
hadn't felt like having the discussion with the teachers, seeing as
how he had been up all night thinking about it. But even though he
wasn't in the mood to discuss it with the staff that day, it didn't
mean they didn't have a right to know what he had decided, so he had
owled them all about it shortly after sunrise.
It was
currently seven o'clock and he could see now that they had all come
running the moment they had received his owl.
So realising
that today was not going to be the day he got to catch up on the
previous night's loss of sleep, he slowly but determinedly rose
from his seat.
"Yes, thank you. That will be quite
enough!" he boomed. The previously noisy room growing quickly
and eerily silent. "Thank you. Now, if you will all be so kind
as to take a seat, then I will try to explain to you all why I made
the decision I did."
The teachers took their respective
seats in silence while Dumbledore moved his fingers to rub his
temples, giving a barely audible sigh as he sat down across from his
staff. He could feel a slowly developing headache coming on.
"Well,"
he said, taking a deep breath. "I understand that all of you are
very upset with the decision I made, but I can assure you all that I
have thought long and hard about this, and I have come to the
conclusion that we do not have a choice."
"What do
you mean we don't have a choice?" Snape spoke up. "Of
course we do!"
"No Severus, we don't,"
Dumbledore continued, a little annoyed at being interrupted again,
for Merlin knows which time. "We don't have a choice, because we
are responsible for the safety of both of them. Even though none of
them are really connected to the magical world, the threat against
them is. And could you imagine what a disaster it would be to the
wizarding society if they fell into the wrong hands?"
"But
Albus, what do you want us to do with them? Where are they going to
stay while they're here?" McGonagall asked nervously, tugging
at her robes.
"The first four will be sorted into the
houses at the same time as the first year students. The last one will
arrive later, if at all. When he arrives he will spend the days with
me, while the other four go to regular school. I will try to make him
useful."
"Those two!? In the houses?! Now!?"
McGonagall shrieked. "They are dangerous! He is
dangerous, Albus! He is unstable! In a fit of rage he could kill all
the students!" The raven-haired witch was now breathing heavily
again, but this time it wasn't from running.
Dumbledore rose
and walked around to the other side of his large desk. He put a
comforting hand on McGonagall's right shoulder. "Minerva, we
need him to be able to work with others his own age, not just his
team-mates. Believe me, if there was any other way for us to do this,
we would, but we just don't have the time."
McGonagall
breathed a large sigh of defeat. "You are right, as always,
Professor Dumbledore," she said, smiling a little.
"Well,
that is why I am the head master," the older man replied, eyes
twinkling.
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Well,
there you go. I have no idea where this came from O.o I am going to
pull a Cheryl here and say that it is an experiment and if it doesn't
go well, then I will make it a discontinuation Next chapter: The
Sorting.
