The Maker
Chapter two
-Harry-
"Alright Matthew I want you to be careful at Hogwarts." Lily Potter was telling her youngest son in-between bouts of smothering him as the four prepared to journey to platform 9 ¾…. well the two parents and the youngest Potter intended to go together he was just tagging along.
Once Lily Potter let go of her youngest James Potter kneeled down in front of him and pulled out two objects, "Matthew these two items are very important in the history of our family. The cloak is the family cloak of invisibility which has been passed down from father to son for centuries. The second item is a map known as the Marauders Map which shows all of Hogwarts and everyone in it as well as all of the secret passageways.".
At what his father had told him Matthew's face lit up in excitement before he grabbed them and smirked at Harry, "Well, well looks like I get the family heirlooms. I guess that being the oldest isn't going to do you much good.".
Rolling his eyes he replied "I prefer to get by on my own merits seeing as I am more intelligent than you. Besides the family by laws say that the eldest son becomes the next Head of House when the current one dies or retires. Those laws cannot be changed so you will never become Lord Potter. You keep your toys, I will keep the power of this House." and with those parting words he walked into the next room where his familiars and trunk waited. Grabbing the tail of Artemis, his silver phoenix, he flashed onto the back car of the Hogwarts express and entered the compartment looking out on the platform.
After about five minutes the other three Potters walked out of the floo and looked around for him before shrugging and helping his brother onto the train. As he relaxed and waited for the train to begin moving he pulled out his wand and enlarged the compartment so that Artemis, Morgana, and Romulus would have more room to move around. Around ten minutes before the train was scheduled to leave the compartment door opened and a scrawny blonde little ponce who he knew to be Draco Malfoy walked in. Looking around he nodded and said "Ah this is a cabin worthy for the Heir of House Malfoy. You," Draco pointed towards him "leave my compartment, the snake can stay though. I shall be its new owner.".
Glaring at the scrawny little brat he stood up and set a hard gaze while Romulus began growling making the two hulking masses behind him back off warily "I will say this once and only once Malfoy… do not test me. I am stronger than you could ever hope to be and my familiars remain with me. Also be grateful that Morgana does not meet you after I fully bond with her for you are not likely to survive angering her again.".
Sneering Malfoy replied "I have a powerful wand from Circe's Scepters. Yew and dragon heartstring. I doubt you would even be allowed through the door of any establishment owned by Tiberius Maker.".
These words made him laugh hysterically, both at the irony of Malfoy's last statement and at the sheer arrogance behind it, and said "My wand is also from Circe's Scepters. It is made from wood from the Fortingall Yew and the core is a phoenix feather soaked in freely given phoenix tears intertwined with a bicorn tail hair soaked in freely given bicorn blood and the heartstring from the dragon of immortality and soaked in its venom, basically all things devoted to immortality. That is just my main wand though, I also have an experimental Ollivander wand made from elder wood with the intertwined cores of augury soaked in its own tears, the tail hair of a thestral soaked in its freely given blood, and the heartstring of a Stygian emperor Dragon soaked in its venom and was an attempt to recreate the wand of destiny. Only one Ollivander wand ever made has been more powerful.".
"You lie you miserable Mud-blood!" Malfoy roared pulling his wand before stopping in fear.
Malfoy looked in terror upon him as he glowed with an angry aura with a wand in each hand as Romulus snarled, Morgana hissed, and Artemis shrieked. "Leave now little worm…while you can." he growled out and the Malfoy heir quickly ran leaving a trail of urine behind.
Once Malfoy and his two bodyguards left two more head peaked around the doorway. The first was a girl with honey blonde hair and startling blue eyes who looked like she would become the classic aristocratic beauty while the second was a boy with a light tan, brown hair, and pale blue eyes and looked like he belonged in a city like Rome due to his Italian features. "Are you the one who made Malfoy run screaming away like a little girl?" the Italian boy asked only to get slapped upside the head from the girl.
"Do not insult girls." she scolded making him laugh and bringing their attention back to him.
"Yes I am. And you can join me in here so long as you don't try to order me around or piss me off." he said gesturing for them to sit.
"Piss of the man who can scare the irritating blonde ponce?" the Italian boy asked incredulously "Why the hell would I want to do that? It was awesome!".
Rolling her eyes the blonde girl said "You'll have to ignore my friend he is very excitable." this got a glare from the other boy "I'm Daphne Greengrass and my hyper friend is Blaise Zabini.".
"Not Hyper." Blaise grumbled pouting while Daphne laughed and ruffled his hair.
"I'm Harry Potter." he said and they looked at him surprised which he could understand, his parents never talked about him so most people never even knew he existed, "And just so you know one of the quickest ways to piss me off is to go into fan-girl mode about my irritating brother.".
"I've met him. The idiot tried making advances on my sister and even tried to order my mother to issue a marriage contract between them." Blaise scowled.
"I remember that," he laughed out "he came home pouting and whined about it for a month. Although I feel that I should apologize, I slipped him a potion that temporarily activated his hormones for a few weeks just to freak him out but he took to it quickly, I think he takes too much after my father, which caused that situation.".
"It's not your fault," Blaise waved it off "but my family hates marriage contracts. My mother found out about the seven that were with my family and she keeps entering herself into them to try and make sure that my sister and I don't have to. The problem was that almost every contract was for a very dark and very arrogant family who always got themselves killed. Usually on the honeymoon another wizard in a different country would try to make advances on my mother and the two wizards killed each-other in a fight. Within three years after she left Hogwarts she had gone through six of the seven contracts and was horribly depressed even though she knew that now none of her kids would have to marry because a piece of paper said so she had been forcibly married six times in three years. Then she entered her seventh contract and married my father Arulious Zabini who was the only person she married who wasn't Dark. He managed to pull her out of her funk and they fell in love. A few years ago they had my older sister, the me a year later, and seven years ago they had a third child which was another girl. I love my family but my mom still has the reputation for being a black-widow even though it's been over fifteen years since the last one died.".
"I'm sorry about that Blaise." he said sincerely "You said your sister was a year older than you right? I would like to meet her to apologize about the situation with my brother.".
"That'll be interesting." Daphne laughed, "While neither his mother, Aria, nor his sister, Maria, have the black widow mentality they are terrible flirts. Mrs. Zabini only does it with her husband but Maria loves making boys blush.".
The three new friends spent the next couple of hours talking and getting to know each other until the compartment door opened and a girl slightly older than them walked in scowling. She had brown hair that stopped slightly above her shoulders, warm brown eyes, skin that was ever so lightly tanned, and soft pink lips and a figure that hinted to extraordinary beauty in a few years. "Maria!" Blaise said jumping up and hugging the girl who he assumed was the boy's sister.
"Blaise!" the girl, Maria, said her scowl leaving as she hugged her brother before turning to hug Daphne. Finally she turned to him and raised an eyebrow in confusion "Didn't I just leave you moaning on the ground in pain several train cars back?" she asked.
"Let me guess," he said happily "you kneed Matthew Potter in-between his legs?" to which he got a nod. "I'm his older twin Harry and right now there are two things I wish to do.".
"What would those be?" she asked amused and mollified at who he was.
"First I want to shake the hand of the person who did that to the idiot I am unfortunately related to." he said and laughing she shook his hand while Blaise and Daphne chuckled in the background.
"What was the second thing?" she asked amused and clearly expecting something along the lines of the first item.
"To apologize," he said and she blinked in surprise several times before gesturing him on "when my brother tried to force your mother to write a marriage contract several years ago he was only doing so because I gave him a potion that made his hormones activate to the extreme for a few weeks. I figured he would just be scared and confused and stay in his bedroom for a fortnight, not that he would do something as insulting as he did to your family.".
"It wasn't your fault but thank you for apologizing." Maria said smiling before kissing his cheek "And that was for being noble." she finished ignoring his furious blush. Give him a company to start or a new spell to create and he was all over it but when it came to girls… he was as dumb as his brother.
"Would you like to join us for the rest of the trip?" Blaise asked hopefully and Maria smiled at him.
"And miss the chance to tease your new friend?" she asked in mock incredulity "Not a chance." making him groan and everyone else laugh.
The next few hours of the trip were spent filled with laughter and conversation as the four friends talked, ate, and played with the animals in the compartment. Finally when they were an hour from the school the compartment door opened again only this time it was his brother standing at the entrance. "What do you want Matthew?" he asked irritated at his brother.
"What are you doing with my future wife?" he demanded pointing at Maria.
Groaning she snapped "I am not marrying you and that is final!" she yelled at his furious brother.
"Yeah and who could compare to me?" Matthew demanded striking what he must have assumed was a heroic pose.
"Well your brother is very handsome." she said before she lunged forward and kissed him without warning making his eyes widen in shock as his brother fainted right out.
After a moment she removed her lips and smirked at his gob-smacked face before looking at his passed out brother, "You do realize that he is now going to spread rumors that we're engaged right?" he asked her once he got his bearings back.
"If people are dumb enough to believe him than that's their problem," she said shrugging "but it will probably give you extra respect from the males in the school and might get some of the more persistent ones to lay off.".
"Oh goody but it also means that my home life just got whole lot harder now that my parent's golden boy didn't get something he wanted." he grumbled.
"Oh no!" Maria exclaimed "I didn't mean for that… I could explain…" she began stammering before he cut her off.
"Maria it's fine, I'll just have to move my contingency plans up farther than I expected." he said placing a hand on the twelve year old girl's shoulder as she finally calmed down.
"Are you sure?" she asked hesitantly and when he nodded she sighed in relief before smiling at him.
"Are you two sure you aren't really dating?" Daphne asked amused surprising them both as they had forgotten her and Blaise were there, "Because you sure seem to act like it.".
"What's wrong Daphne? Jealous?" Maria asked coyly as she sat right next to him and rested her head on his shoulder playfully.
"What? No?" Daphne exclaimed "Not that he isn't handsome I mean… but I don't… I" before they all burst out laughing.
"Don't worry Daph I understand," he said reassuringly as she sighed in relief "besides it's obvious you have a crush on Blaise anyway.".
"Harry!" the two embarrassed first years yelled out while he and Maria laughed at them.
