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We last saw Jade getting Dumbledore's permission to attend Hogwarts. Now we will see how she handles her family.

And a couple of people have mentioned that she seems like she's heading down the goody-goody path. Trust me, she isn't. Just give me a little time.

CHAPTER TWO: KNITE HEIR

Upon arriving at the Knite family home where so many of her ancestors had lived and ruled and inspired fear in all those around them, Jade Knite evaluated what she had just done.

She had just broken hundreds of years of tradition to attend school under the one person her family thought was truly a loon. She had disregarded her father's direct orders and dismissed her family's expectations.

She was going to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

She smiled as she looked around at her childhood home. She remembered when her mother had slid down the banisters with her and they had made hot chocolate by the fire while telling ghost stories. She thought of the secret passageways she alone possessed knowledge of. Not even their numerous house elves knew all the ins and outs of the Knite mansion. But this wasn't a home anymore. Not since her mother died. Since that day it was a prison.

It was extravagant and held exuberant balls full of people who thought themselves superior to all the world around them. It held clandestine meetings that made the officials in the wizarding world shake in their beds at night in worry. This was the cage she had been raised in, taught in.

This was the vase holding all the precious, prehistoric ideals of the Knite family. So easily broken if you find the weak spot. Or just shatter it against the stone will she possessed.

She went to the kitchen and was handed a cookie from the house elf who had been her nursemaid since her mother's death. The old elf didn't speak anymore, not since Jade had started asking for the things she wanted. She was the only good thing left in her family home and she was getting old. She kissed the top of her head and made her way to her father's study, the study she would one day take over where her large family would come to ask her permission for whatever it was they wanted.

Her father was sitting at the big mahogany desk in a great wing-backed chair. He looked like the powerful aristocrat he was in slim black pants and a dark purple buttown down with the black and silver Knite's Elder Robe around his shoulders. He was a very handsome man if you could look past the fierce scowl and the plotting in his silver eyes. He didn't look up when she enterred but he spoke around his morning newspaper at the daughter who would one day replace him.

"Where have you been? You were supposed to meet with the council this morning." "You know very well that I had a meeting with Albus Dumbledore this morning." "Are you still planning to disrupt the traditions of our family?" "I have let you teach me the ways of our family, father. Now I wish to learn the ways of the world." "The ways of the world are weak. We are Knites and this world belongs to us." "No it does not. We share this world and who are we to lord over everyone around us simply because they are not as talented naturally as our family?" "I forbid you to go to that place. You are already more frivolous than is proper. These preposterous ideas you come up with are getting out of control. Tomorrow you will begin your lessons with Uncle Ramses." "No. Tomorrow I will be on the train to Hogwarts."

He looked at her now and his gaze was fierce and terrifying even as she knew he could no longer hurt her. She knew her power exceeded his and she had finally learned to use it but she could not escape the stilling panic that overtook her as he turned that gaze upon her. For a moment. And then she remembered who she was and what she had accomplished in only eleven years of life.

"You not only disobeyme and forsake your family, now you intend to travel with those low-life mudbloods as if you were a common witch!" "There is nothing wrong with being a common witch. They live and grow and learn just as we do. And mudbloods at least have a choice in their life." "You will not go to Hogwarts. You will not ruin this family with your antics. You will stay here and take up your proper role as the Knite Heir and you will do so willingly, or so help me God I will make you."

What once scared her now made her defensive and she bit back like a cobra striking: fast and deadly. "You cannot force me to do anything. I am the Knite Heir and it is my destiny to surpass you and lead this family. Tradition dictates that I must wait until my seventeenth birthday to lead this family but if you think to live that long then you will not threaten me, Vladimir Knite. I shall do as I please and you will remain here, dictating to the Knite family and our followers. You will not interfere with my education at Hogwarts and you will do nothing threatening or damaging to anyone or anything that takes part of that school. Do I make myself clear?"

He was seething with hatred as she turned her own Knite glare on him. Her silver eyes literally shown in the dim light of his study, flickering more brightly then the candles lit around the room. He would not back down easily but he knew when he was beaten. She would not be moved and he knew he could not move her himself. Eventually he gave in and cast his eyes down to his desk.

"Good. Be very careful how you handle your power here. I am strong enough to lead this family and I will take up my mantel before my time if need be. I must pack now."

"If you go to that place and subjugate yourself to their rules then you are no daughter of mine." "I am of your flesh but I have never truly been your child. This does not pain me." "You will be disowned." "Then the Knites will come to an end. My power was not given to me with my naming. It is who I am more than my name could ever be. A name is just a name." "You will never lead this family." "I accept the consequences of my actions. But know that I will not sit idly by and let you dominate those weaker than yourself. I will come for you in the end. Think carefully and consider your own consequences."

So that is the end of chapter two. Just showing a little of the family dynamic and what makes Jade Knite tick.

Hope you didn't hate it.

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