Hello all this is the next chapter of Legends, sorry it took awhile for me to update but sometimes Im busy other times just lazy. Also there is a bit of Hermione bashing in this chapter, and there will be for a little while, until I have her grow a bit. First off I like Hermione she is one of my favorite characters and its not easy for me to write her like this, as I like her. Point is though don't read that if you don't want to, and this is mainly to prepare those of you who don't like it.
To those of you who reviewed thank you.
Chapter 3
The last month until Hogwarts started went by quickly for the Potter family, with Lily reviewing the first year curriculum with Jade so she was prepared, and Harry studying his new books as well as winning the England U-17 dueling competition earning him the right to represent England at a national level next summer.
Harry's godmother had never been happier than when he won the tournament, she even gave him a new book on spell chaining for his tournament next year.
The Potters along with Jade and Harry's godparents were on their way to platform 9 ¾ to board the Hogwarts express.
"I'm telling you we should've just apparated them onto the platform Lily!" Jade's godfather Sirius Black whined to Lily as he was tired of walking.
"Shut up Sirius before I show you why I am the reigning national champion on the dueling circuit." Harry's Godmother Bellatrix Black said crossly quickly getting her cousin to shut up. Bellatrix was an odd addition to the group as she was rather anti-social but she had been one of Lily's best friends at Hogwarts and that landed her the position as Harry's godmother, and she couldn't have been prouder of the boy.
She would often say she was the reason he was a dueling prodigy and no one disagreed, while James and Lily were both exceptional with a wand Bellatrix was in a league of her own and Harry was on his way to her level.
Jade was giggling at her godfather's antics though she was much more excited about walking onto the platform for the first time as a student. It was a tradition that for each child's first year the Potters walked to the platform.
Harry, his mother, his godfather Remus, and Jade's godmother Emmeline Vance were all sighing at Sirius as he did this every time he had walked to the platform since he began Hogwarts and it was annoying each and every time.
When they finally reached the barrier Jade couldn't stop bouncing around n excitement and ran through pulling her trunk and Hedwig's cage behind her.
Shaking their heads at Jade's excitable nature the rest of the group followed after her onto the platform to see the large red and black steam engine that was the Hogwarts express.
As they made their way towards the train they heard a shout of "Harry!"
Turning around Harry smiled warmly at his best friend Susan Bones. They had known each other since they could crawl and she always made Harry's slightly icy demeanor melt away.
As Susan reached Harry she engulfed him in a hug, which he happily returned. Susan was the epitome of beauty in Harry's eyes. She was slightly shorter than him standing at 5'5'' with dark red hair that fell in waves past her shoulders. She was also developing curves a girl years older would be jealous of.
Harry and Susan were interrupted by snickering from both Sirius and Jade who making bets with each other on the wedding date. Both blushed furiously at this but it was Harry that reacted by shooting a small jet of flame at Sirius causing him to yelp and run behind Remus.
Laughing lightly at the man Harry went back to talking to Susan when he heard his sister shout "Dora!"
Looking over Harry saw Sirius' extended family the Tonks. He saw Andromeda, Sirius' cousin, and her husband Ted along with their eleven year old daughter Nymphadora, though she liked to go by her last name. The only exception to that was his sister, who she allowed to call her Dora due to their friendship.
The two had met when Sirius brought Andromeda and her family over to meet his godchild, imagine everyone's surprise when both Jade and Dora started giggling and changing their hair colors. The girls had been friends ever since though Harry knew both harbored a semi-secret crush on the other.
Harry was happy his sister liked girls, it saved him the trouble of beating up and threatening any of the boys that would try to use her, and same sex relationships were not looked down upon in the Wizarding world like they were in the muggle world. This was mainly due to the presence of several potions and spells that allowed for children to be born to same sex couples, with a temporary sex change.
Many of the muggle-born students especially those from a religious back rounds were often disgusted by this but most wizards and witches didn't care, it was actually part of the reason muggle-borns were looked down upon. While they could be accepted into society easily and even given positions that were high up in the world it was only once they accepted wizarding traditions that it was allowed.
Seeing his sister hug her crush and both blush at the contact made him chuckle at the fact that she was making fun of him for it not two minutes earlier.
Still laughing to himself Harry said goodbye to his mother with the usual promises to keep safe and out of trouble and with the additional one to watch out for Jade, Harry made his way onto the train with Susan and leaving Jade and Tonks to say goodbye before meeting them onboard.
As soon as Harry and Susan found an empty compartment they went in and stowed their trunks on the overhead racks and waited for Jade and Tonks to come.
The two were soon joined by the two first years and helped them stow their trunks before sitting down and talking about their summer. Harry had not had as much time to spend with his best friend this summer due to the tournament, and some extra prepping due to Jade going to Hogwarts this year.
Harry found out that Susan hadn't had a very interesting summer mainly hanging out with her friend Hannah Abbot, and learning some family magic from her Aunt.
Soon enough Jade and Tonks' curiosity won out over their patience and they began asking any question they could think of about Hogwarts.
Harry laughed at his sister as though she had read several books about Hogwarts, as had Tonks, both new next to nothing about the actual place and neither Harry or his mother had told them what to expect, wanting most of it to be a surprise.
Harry took pity on his sister this time however wanting her to be prepared.
"Well to begin, you know about the house system and each of the four houses correct?" Harry asked making sure there wasn't a gap in their knowledge. Seeing both girls nod he continued-
"Well there are two other systems that run within Hogwarts, the first is the standard points system, which is a sort of competition between the houses, but that's not overly important, the second system however is."
"The second system was designed as an incentive for students in Ravenclaw to do better, but it eventually spread to all four houses. You see about 600 years ago the standards in Ravenclaw fell, and the house of knowledge lost a lot of prestige, but the Ravenclaw head during that time came up with a way to get his students motivated by creating perks so to speak depending on how well his students did." Harry explained getting nods from the girls.
"The perks were mainly comfort things, extra space in rooms, single rooms, longer curfews, but there were some very rare ones as well for the better students, like enchantment tables or lessons with masters in certain crafts like wand and broom crafters or duelists." Susan said picking up where Harry left off.
That bit of knowledge got the two first years eyes to widen as they had never heard of such an honor being gifted to Hogwarts students.
"However at the time since it was for Ravenclaw only it was mainly academic achievements that earned these, but when the headmaster at the time recognized it as a way to motivate all students he expanded the system. While many of the rewards were the same, though many new ones have been added over the years, there were now more ways to get those rewards. The headmaster at the time added in athletic achievements, for quiddich, and began the house dueling tournament and gave rewards for that, and several other ways people could earn them." Harry finished making the girls one again go wide eyed before they looking at each other and simultaneously saying "Wicked".
Harry laughed lightly at his sister and her best friend before grasping his wand from the holster on his wrist as he heard the door open.
When Harry looked at who opened the door he saw it was a girl, probably a first year, who had a wild mane of bushy brown hair and had two slightly bucked front teeth making Harry think of a beaver.
"Excuse me," the girl began in a slightly snobbish tone "have any of you seen a toad Neville here has lost his." The girl continued pointing to the boy behind him who sighed at the girl, he had not wanted help looking for the toad, he knew it would come back eventually, though he perked up when he saw who was in the compartment.
"Hello Jade, Tonks, Heir Potter, Heiress Bones" Neville said causing those in the compartment to smile at him and the bushy haired girl to frown at his manner of speech.
"Hello Neville," Harry began smiling at the boy who often times acted as he did around Jade, treating her like a younger sister. "How was your, summer and how is you brother doing?"
"My summer was fine, Harry, I got to spend a lot of time in my garden and Alistair is fine, he still wants a rematch though." Neville answered with a chuckle.
Alistair Longbottom had been a seventh year during Harry and Susan's first and was the reason Harry had not won the interhouse dueling tournament that year, as Alistair had beaten him in the semi-finals. Harry had managed to pay him back the next year however when Alistair had been interning at the school as part of his Auror training, and he had been allowed to enter the tournament again. That year however Harry managed to best him before going on to win the whole thing, and even though Alistair was far better than most with a wand Harry had natural talent for the dueling arts that were present in very few people.
"Well tell your big bad Auror brother that if he thinks he can take me, I'll be happy to oblige Neville" Harry said causing Susan, Jade, and Tonks to giggle and Neville to let out a small laugh.
By this point the bushy headed girl had seemingly had enough and interjected into the conversation,
"Yes well anyway, do you know anything about the toad?" she asked rudely, making the other five wonder if she had any manners.
"Well, I suppose I could just summon trevor here if you want Neville" Harry said making Neville shake his head no before saying that the toad always turned up eventually.
This caused Jade and Tonks to giggle which made their hair change into vibrant shades of yellow showing their amusement.
This of course attracted Bushy's attention.
"Oh my God! How did you do that?" The girl demanded of Jade and Tonks making the others all frown at her.
"Well we're, that is myself and Dora here, are what is known as metamorphagi and we have the ability to change out appearance at will, and before you ask no it cannot be learned it is a hereditary gift that I received from my godfather and that Dora got from her family." Jade explained as she took Tonks' hand and smiled at her.
Bushy frowned again, though his time at the fact that there was something she couldn't learn, and the close contact between the two girls, her parents were very devout Christians, and she had the same values and did not approve of same sex couplings, though the hypocrisy about a witch being religious never occurred to her.
"Well it seems highly unlikely that there is something that can't be learned natural gift or not" she said causing everyone in the compartment to laugh at her.
Harry stopped laughing long enough to explain to the frustrated looking girl what the point was when they said it couldn't be learned.
"You see, girl, it's not a matter of learning it some witches and wizards are naturally predisposed to be better at certain things, take my family for instance, we are better at transfiguration and destruction spells naturally, while families like Neville's are better at spells that strengthen the body, along with morale boosting spells. That's not to say that people can't be good at those areas, it's just that you'll never be as good as someone who is born to be better at these things." Harry began causing the girl to frown and open her mouth and spout something about how now one could just be better causing Harry to sigh at her.
"No you don't understand, as much as I hate to say this but those of pureblood or halfblood lineage, are generally better than muggle-borns. Now before you spout out some shit about how I'm a supremacist let me continue." Harry said causing the girl to shut her mouth.
"Now all magical families have generally been doing the same thing for generations, like the black family have always been warders, the Bones' have usually been law enforcement officers, and so on. Now this eventually lead to specializations for all magical families, with each one being better at certain things. This does not mean muggle-borns can't be good, my mother is a muggle-born and is a phenomenal witch and one of the best curse breakers Gringotts employs, but she could never beat my father at transfiguration which was his forte" Harry said, getting nods from most of the compartment.
Bushy however did not seem to understand and began a rant about how she would show them, before Harry cut her off and said, "Look bushy, we don't really care what you think eventually you will understand how the wizarding world works, and also stop looking down at my sister and her friend, it's clear you were raised by a religious family but it doesn't work like that in our world. In our world there is no prejudice, except for those who cannot accept our culture, but like I said eventually you will understand."
Harry then waved his wand and forced her out of the compartment, before closing and locking the door with a silent spell.
The girl tried to open the door but eventually realized she couldn't and stormed off.
Harry sighed before looking at Neville who shrugged as he sat down not, particularly caring where the girl went, he hadn't wanted to go looking for the toad but was too nice to say no.
A few hours later the train had pulled into Hogsmeade station and Harry and Susan were making their way over to the carriages after sending Jade and Tonks over to the boats.
On the way there they met up with four of their other friends, Roger Davies-Harry's teammate and best male friend since first year-, Hannah Abbot-Susan's best female friend-, Aries Black-Regulus Black's son and Sirius's nephew and one of the first friends Harry had made during his first year-, and Annabella Zabini- Aries' girlfriend and one of Susan's best friends.
The six of them had been close since first year and together they had been deemed the Hogwarts six, as each one held the top six spots in their year and were better than most of the students in the years above them. Harry was the best out of the six but they never allowed things like that to come between them.
As they made their way from the carriages to the hall they got looks from the rest of the population, either those of admiration or jealousy. As they reached the great hall they split up to their house tables, Susan and Hannah to Hufflepuff, Aries and Annabella to Slytherin, and Harry and Roger to Ravenclaw.
As they waited for the sorting to start Harry caught up with his other classmates, who asked him about his summer, few were willing to speak with him due to his icy demeanor, but those who did, like Susan and his other friends often found that it was well worth the time and effort to have Harry as a friend.
When McGonagal finally did bring the first years in Harry saw his sister and Tonks come in looking around in awe at the ceiling before calming themselves down and smiling at each other and looking forward.
McGonagal finally started calling out names, Harry didn't pay attention many, only those few who went into Ravenclaw, and Neville and Bushy going to Gryffindor.
Finally McGonagal called out "Potter, Jade" making the whole hall go silent as Jade walked up to the stool with the hat.
Jade was nervous when she walked up to be sorted, she didn't know where she would be sorted. She knew Harry and her mother, and her godparents would be proud of her, even if she went to Slytherin, but she wasn't sure what she wanted.
As the hat came down over her head her last thought was of Dora, hoping that wherever she ended up, Dora went their too.
"Hmm, you have a very intriguing mind young one just like your brother. You however have a different destiny than him and though you have the intelligence you are not right for the house of knowledge. You are rather brave and cunning so both Gryffindor and Slytherin would work, but there is something more in you. Such loyalty to both your family and the young Tonks girl, yes I think that will do. Better be-
HUFFLEPUFF!" the hat shouted getting a massive round of applause from the yellow and black table.
Harry smiled knowing his sister would do well in Hufflepuff, especially with Susan there to help her along where he could not. Harry frowned however when he noticed the headmaster and a red headed boy in the sorting line scowl, he knew who the boy was one of Dumbledore's lackeys, but he had faith in the boys brothers too keep him in line, if they did not Harry would step in.
It was Tonks' turn to be sorted now and she was quickly placed in Hufflepuff where she ran over and hugged the life out of Jade getting blushes from both girls and a round of giggles throughout the hall.
When the sorting was finished with Anabella's younger brother being sorted into Slytherin, Dumbledore stood up and spoke.
"Welcome to another year at Hogwarts, before we start the feast I have a few announcements to make. First off to the first years the rewards system will be explained by your Heads of Houses in the morning. Secondly the forbidden forest is out of bounds for those without a teacher or the proper permission to enter, and finally the third floor corridor on the right hand side is out of bounds, to those who do not wish to die a most painful death. Now tuck in!"
Harry frowned at the last part of Dumbledore's speech wondering what could possibly be in the corridor, he looked at Susan who nodded to him silently letting him know she would not let Jade get into any of her usual situations.
Harry ate silently for the rest of the night before heading up to his dorm room with the rest of the older ravens.
When Harry made it into his room he saw that it was still set up like last year, with a large in the middle of the back wall below the window, a large mahogany desk in the far right corner with an attached table meeting it perpendicularly creating extra workspace. Harry also had 2 book cases which he filled with some of his personal collection and selections from the Potter library. Finally he had a large soft looking couch in front of the fireplace that was set up in one of the walls.
He smiled at the knowledge that the house elves had set it up exactly the same, while leaving him room to set up worktables for some of the projects he did throughout the year.
Seeing his cat, Roxy, sleeping on his bed made Harry yawn, before he changed into a pair of sweat pants and got into bed causing Roxy to wake up before leaping onto his chest and rubbing her head against his before laying down on his chest to go back to sleep.
Harry smiled at his cat, she had been with him since he began Hogwarts and his chest had always been her favorite spot to sleep, it was something Harry liked about her, she was far more affectionate than most cats.
Harry quickly fell asleep wondering what the year would bring.
End
Ok first off I know this took forever to update but, I will try and do things on a regular basis now, my finals are over tomorrow so itll be better.
Second I know there are some OC's in here, so im gonna explain some of them. Since Bellatrix wasn't a death eater and didn't torture Neville's parents, he still has them, the Lestranges and Crouch never got to them, also since Bella wasn't there to influence regulus into joining the death eaters, he didn't join. IDK if ill introduce him or his wife, but his son will be part of Harry's crew, Regulus and Sirius wont get along all that great, but they will be civil with each other. Neville's brother well I just wanted someone to beat harry first year in dueling, I was going to make it tonks' brother but decided against it.
Other than that read and review.
