"So my Dark King, whatever do you plan to do about our enemies? I'm oh so very curious." Shifting slightly to perch on Harrys lap instead of being cuddled into his side Luna looked up with a curious light in her eyes. "I know you said you plan to kill them all but your plan in details has me most curious my beloved" she said trying to pull off the cute begging eyes.

Harry smiled thinly and merely pecked Luna on the lips. "Curiosity killed the cat my sweet lunar rose and that will not happen to you again. I will give you a hint and let you spin your wheels for a little bit to see if you can connect the dots. Titania and Oberon were some of our biggest enemies. They in conjunction with Ginerva Weasleywere the reason I lost you and our baby bird. One of the three is already neutralized" he said teasingly.

Luna frowned at that thinking hard for a moment. Titania and Oberon referred to Neville and Hermoine, they'd been called the titles by others it stuck with them, who had become the leaders of a faction called the 'New Blood Reformers' in the time just before her death. Being activists of the highest degree of breaking down the Statute of Secrecy after Voldemorts permanent defeat and integrating both sides of the world had been their main goal; magic and technology working together, witches wizards & muggles co-existing in peace. Of course while Neville and Hermoine had their supporters the overwhelming majority was against it. Not even with all the Wizengamot Lords and Ladies who survived the Battle for Hogwarts, the then heirs and heiresses, did they have enough votes with their supporters to beat down the new faction.

"You killed one of them already didn't you?" Luna asked poking Harry on the chest. His coy smirk made her frown deepen. A coy smirk didn't answer yes or no a certain way, something she knew well from their many years together happily married. He didn't smell of blood either and she'd know the smell of blood on him even if it was the most minute trace.

"Maybe I did. Maybe I didn't. Maybe you're on the right track but the wrong...trail of track" Harry said letting his hands settle on Lunas waist. Her pout made his smirk fall a little as he leaned in kissing her ever so gently. "When I say neutralize, I mean I did something I should have donenthe first time around my light queen. Something you yourself had suggested to me but I had not done because of hopeful outlooks for the future and I had been too deep in Dumblefucks dragon shite to see what was right in front of me."

Lunas brow furrowed at this new hint. She had suggested many things to Harry in their last life, or was it their future?, but what could he be referring to exactly. If he said she was on the right track but the wrong trail regarding his use of the word neutralized... Her eyes widened slightly before her lips pulled into a tiny malefic grin. Ginerva wasn't the cause of the basilisk attack yet and he didn't save her from it or the possessed diary of Tom Riddle so that could only mean one thing. "You finally took my advice and called on the Life Debt owed to you by that twit Granger" she said factually.

Harry just raised his eyebrow in answer. He knew there was no love lost between Hermoine and Luna in the timeline where her, Ron, Neville and Ginny had been key figures in the death of his wife & unborn child but to hear Luna speak about Hermoine like so was unlike her. Even when he and Luna banded together with the Old Guard to fight the New Blood Reformers tyrannical charge to abolish the one thing that kept them safe Luna had been at least civil no matter what. Then again why be civil to the person who helped orchestrate your murder once whem you're given a chamce to rewrite history? "She is my slave with very strict orders and consequences if she breaks my rules orders or tries to rebel against me. I just love this thing we call Magic, not nearly ad much as I love you but I do love Magic so. Such a cruel mistress when wielded by one with the mindset to..." he shivered feeling Luna nibble and kiss at his neck "get due justice."

Luna grinned internally and continued for a moment her actions before nuzzling the soft flesh. Harry might be a demon at heart seeking to prevent the tragedies that would be the future if left unchecked and she might be his binding angelic leash to keep him from doing excessive harm but that didn't mean after the many years she & Raven watched the man they loved, for different reasons obviously, carve a warpath across the world she hadn't felt a slight darkness pull at her own heart. It had scared her intially but very blunt conversations with her daughter had her see that she needed that little bit of darkness to truly be the balancing light Harry needed. "And just what rules & standing orders did you give her my beloved?" she asked with a purr against his throat. If they were older there was little doubt in her mind this would be foreplay to some rough kinky sex but given their age and physical developement, it was more playful and teasing promise than anything else.

Harry shuddered wishing they were older so he ravage Luna rightt there and then but he was a good boy who could and would wait. A part of his mind did snort in amusement saying good boys didn't murder and massacre without care across most of the worlds continents. He shoved that part back scowling internally. His rampage was fucking justified in the wake of Luna and Ravens death! Shaking his head to focus on the only person who mattered, for the moment that was, he regaled Luna with the recap of his coversation he had with Hermoine regarding rules, standing orders and how to address him depending on where they were. "Though now that I think about it.." he tiled his head down so their eyes met "she does need to meet her Mistress now doesn't she?" he asked witb a dark twinkle in his eyes.

Lunas eyes glowed with a similar dark amusement as Harry the last part. With Hermoine under their thumb the power structure of the New Blood Reformers was essentially shattered. The Granger twit was the driving voice behind the formation of the movement and practically had to brow beat her husand Lord Neville Longbottom to add the weight of his family name to give it legitimacy. "She does love but" she moved to be fully seated on Harrys lap with her head resting on his chest comfortably "I want to spend this time alone with you. The chaos about to unfold will he tiresome for the both of us. Our toy can wait on meeting her Mistress until later." She yawned cutely and nuzzled her face against his chest breathing him in.

Harrys eyes softened as he lovingly wrapped his arms securely around the petite blonde using him as a pillow. "I was almost afraid the ritual wouldn't work you know" he said quietly as he rested his chin gently on top of Lunas head. "Afraid I messed something up or I didn't use enough materials to get it right" He hesitated for a moment before his voice dropped to a near silent whisper. "Afraid I would never see you ever again."

Lunas heart clenched at the confessions and felt the need to give more support than she already had that all this was real, that she was real. But what she could do to prove it? "When I was twenty two and you asked me to marry you Harry, you asked me a secondary question after I said yes. Do you remember what you asked me?" she asked trailing her fingers so gently over his exposed skin.

"If I asked you to follow me to Hell and be my second would you ever hesitate" Harry said glancing briefly out the window. The countryside was speeding by and he noted that unlike his memories there were some big but subtle differences.

"And I told you then with no hesitation in my heart that I would follow you even if you tried to keep me from doing so. Because we were a team then and always will be" Luna said tracing the ghost light outline of several runes, unending love devotion loyalty honor respect- the same ones they tattooed on each other with their own magic after being married, on Harrys arm drawing a shiver from him. "Even if the ritual failed Harry, Raven and I would haved searched every realm of existence to find you. Not just because you are my husband in all but legalities with this timeline and not just because to our baby bird you are the father she loves with all her heart. We three are a team linked together til the end of eternity by the chains of love, family magic and fate. Where you go or could have gone if ritual had blown up in your face, we would have found you eventually. We would have been a family there and in this time, we WILL be a family even if I have to cripple or kill everyone who stands in our way."

Harry shuddered feeling the warmth of love he had for Luna threatening to overflow. Even with the dark spark she now seemed to possess his angel knew just what he needed to hear. The assurances he needed to know that despite a part of him still denying this was really real and he was dead in a sick twisted version version of Hell about to come down around his ears. The stronger part of himself, the part of himself responsible for every act as the Dark Menace, though crushed the part denying itall saying it was all fake under its heel and set it on fire with Fiendfyre before dark emerald eyes looked to the younger form of the woman they loved nestled in his physical embrace. She would not die again, he swore she would not and their daughter would get to live her life instead of living it in purgatory watching him carve death and destruction into the world like she did for decades.

"So close your eyes my love and breathe. I am very real" Luna laid a kiss on Harrys shoulder gently "and nothing or no one will separate you from me ever again. Not even the Sorting Hat trying to put me in Ravenclaw."

"How do you plan to cheat the hat to put you in Gryffindor?"

Luna grinned slightly as she gently raises hand to push Harrys head up a little before arching her neck just slightly before she began whispering her plan in his ear.

Nearly everyone on the train shuddered at the same moment as cold malicious laughter seemed to echo in every compartment. Whoever was laughing like that was not someone they wanted to cross. The sheer sense of unbridled malice and sinister intent unnerved even the most stoic of students, chief among them a blonde sorted Slytherin by the name of Daphne Greengrass who shivered violently hearing the laugh before hightailing it towards the front of the train ignoring completely her housemates yells for her stop.

Back in their own little compartment Harrys malicious laugh died down to a chuckle before emerald eyes locked with blue he adored so. "Thats very cunning of you Ms. Lovegood. Some might even say its very...Slytherin of you" he teased flitting his tongue out like a snake.

Luna smirked at the tease and nipped gently at Harrys tongue. "Well I have a very good mate who was a millions times more snake-like than lion. It helps he is my Lord Slytherin and the man I love with all my heart & soul" she said with a rather playful possessive squeeze of him. "So we're agreed then?" she asked rhetorically.

"With abusing the Hogwarts charter to kickstart a campaign of carnage that will make that muggle-born claiming to be a Purebloods terrorist activities look tame? You insult me by even asking. Of course I'm in" Harry said smirking back at Luna.


Within the boundaries of Dumbledores office a chorus whirring and warning bells blared a cacophony of eardrum busting noise. Trinkets melted left and right leaving no trace of having ever existed yet the clouds of smoke that had exited them lingered for moments making Fawkes' eys narrow. Though the phoenix had an idea of what the human do-dads did thanks to the bond with his bonded partner, he did not possess the knowledge of what every specific one was meang to monitor. Shaking his head the phoenix put it out of mind before he ducked his head under his wing ready to slumber, his trip to and from The Fireheart Commune had taken a lot of magic to flame there & ten back here once his business was done.

Down in the Great Hall some houts later noise began to fill it as returning students took seats at their sorted house tables. All of them except one Harry James Potter who was striding toward the teachers table with a strong confident. "Apologies for being the one to interrupt tradition ladies and gents but I must speak with Professor Snape privately before we kick off the new scholastic year right" he said with a respectful nod, truthfully it was respectful only towards Filius Flitwick who had served as his mentor in dueling after graduating from Hogwarts and the younger female teachers who mentored Luna but that was about it.

"Harry my boy surely this can wait. The Sorting is about to get underway" Dumbledore said steepling his fingers.

"I am aware Headmaster but it cannot. Not unless you are willfully and knowingly standing in the way of a student who is Lord or Lady of their House from doing business & wish to be ejected from the wards with your memory of this institution. Per the Hogwarts charter of course" Harry said with an 'innocent' smile. "It shant take more than a moments time I promise. I just need to have a word with the good professor."

Half the staff table was shocked to see Harry wearing the very distinct Lord Potter ring. He shouldn't have had it til his majority was their thoughts. How in Merlins saggy bits he got it this young was a mystery to them while the other half shook their heads to themselves knowing exactly he got it so young. The Last Scion Rite, the one singular loophole that allowed for the last remaining person of a House claim Lord or Ladyship while still a minor. It emanicipsted them entirely making them a technical legal adult without the right to sit their families Wizengamot seat if they had one, that was the downside but they could appoint their own proxy to vote on their behalf as long as they were over the age of majority.

Dumbledores thought were far more angry as he fought to keep his granfatherly facade up. Damn the boy! Now he needed a plan b and he didn't bloody have one right now. "Make it quick Harry-"

"Lord Potter Headmaster, we are not friends so do not speak so familiarly like I'm one of your potioned stooges" Harry said without apology. He made for the antechamber he knew would be used in two years time for the Tri-Wizard Tournament after he made a forced respectful follow me motion to the potion master who reluctantly followed. It took less than the moment Harry said he would need before he was back to the Hall proper looking pleased while Snape came in pale as a ghost.

The entire student body was perplexed what Harry said to shock or scare the potion master so badly yet it was in that same moment that Minerva led in the First Years to be sorted.

At his seat closest to the Hall door, he had mouthed an order to Hermoine about 'keeping that pig Ron away from me by any means necessary even if you must physically deck him unconscious' as he passed her,' Harry listened with little interest til he heard the one name he had been waiting for.

"Lovegood, Luna."

The petite blonde witch skipped up to the stool and instead of sitting the Sorting Hat on her head she took it from the Deputy Headmistress. For the longest minute the two had a staring contest with neither Luna or the Sorting Hat blinking. "Tsk tsk tsk, for an important magical artifact to this school they really don't take good care of you do they Flopsy? Your felt is torn and ragged, a hole in your tip. Its a wonder they haven't destroyed the runic matrices containing your soul and mind scanning magic with their carelessness" she said breaking the silence first.

While most of the teachers were lost the Arithmancy and Ancient Runes professors eyes widened to astronomical levels. A rune cluster fueling magic to scan the mind and soul of students is what gave the Sorting Hats its ability to sort students?! Those sorts of magics were illegal to use on minors!

"Curious bird you are young witch but it is a bone of contention that I share with you. My saving grace is that the Founders, might they rest in peace, placed a self fortification spell where the matrices are located to protect them from being destroyed or messed with. Now if you could be so kind to put me on your head so I might sort you into the proper House" the hat said with 'furrowed brow'.

"Certainly." Luna put the hat on and to her amusement the alarm that rang out in her mind almost made her giggle. The half thoughts, broken stuttered sentences and over all 'what the fuck'ness was too funny. When it yelled out Gryffindor she took the hat off and with a extremely subtle pulse of magic she knew not even Dumbledore would feel she ripped from the hat everything it saw in her mind. Even though she knew that the magic that made it prevented it from revealing aanything she knew men like Dumbledore would tear out the information on their own with the same method. Handing the hat back she skipped down to where Harry was and without reservation cuddled into his side ignoring the many looks sent their way.

The feast passed quickly and before they knew it desserts were gone as Dumbledore gave the closing comments and made them sing the school song. The walk to Gryffindor tower wss just as quick a walk for them all but Luna took in non-chalant stride as she spent it pressed into Harrys side, his fingers absently but lovingly carding through her hair. The gesture almost made her purr in happiness but she just barely managed to suppress that urge as most of the older kids went to their year dorms while the First Years like herself, plus Harry though she kinda forced him to stay through looping her arm around his waist, were kept in the common room.

"Something you need Mr. Potter? Or perhaps something you want to say to our newest cubs?" Percy asked with a haughy sniff.

Harry felt the need to rip out Percys throat there and then but he refrained from that course of action. "Though I am only a Second Year student and not having clearly memorized all of the school rules like you or the other Prefects Percy, I thought they might appreciate a little more realistic view of how the status quo is inside this castle instead of reciting five hundred rules at them" he said rather bluntly. Turning his gaze to the other First Years he gave a sort of sarcastic grin. "When McGonagall said our house is our family here she mesnt it. You will be target by Slytherins just because you were sorted here. Targeted could mean harsh words, ambiguous curses like tripping jinxes or jelly leg curses. Hell, they may do something rule breaking itself for shites and giggles only to try setting the blame on you because they think you're all stupid reckless morons as our house has been stereotyped to be for a long time." He paused resting his chin on Lunas head."Using my new friend Luna here as an example, everyone thinks the Lovegood family is completely spare andl without any acorns in the tree. They might think her as clueless as a drownig man who doesn't know how to swim and try to take advantage of what they perceive to be truth."

Some of the girls looked between each other muttering nervously.

"However" Harry said cutting off the nervoud chatter "you are a Gryffindor now and that means you do not back down fron your enemies standing in your way. You stand proud, tall and your head high but for Morganas saggy bits think before you act. Dare I say it but be somewhat Slytherin and talk your way out of a situation if you can. Knowing when to pick your battles to fight and which ones are not going to land in your favour is half the knowing. Saying that though, I am not advodating you get into a fight or duel to solve your problems."

"Thats rich coming from you considering last year" Percy said rolling his eyes.

Harrys eyes narrowed to slits as he glared at the elder Weasley. "No Percival, its rich because I WASN'T the one to accept that fucking duel. It was half-wit idiot brother" he said with his top lip curling into a sneer. "Or do you want me to embarrass your entire bloodline by showing this entire batch of Firsties how stupid a Weasley can truly be?" he asked challengingly. "I found this nifty spell in a book that replicates the effects of a penseive but it projects the memory onto any surface."

You could hear a pin drop as the First Years looked between the Prefect and the Boy-Who-Lived himself having a verbal pissing match. The very fact the Prefect actually looked nervous had some of the boys and girls exchanging looks. Those raised in the magical world knew the Weasleys were dimmest and dull 'Pureblood House' to disgrace the name of wizards and witches but the implication that a duel was accepted for Harry by a Weasley had more implications than the raven haired boy was saying.

Deciding to cut the tension Luna slapped Harrys arm lightly. "Though the implications are rather dark and the recourse you could take against the Noble House of Weasley is limited Harry you should let the poor boy do his discharged duty before you give him a heart attack" she said with a light tone. "But do come to me if you need the name of a barrister. Daddy keeps one on retainer just in case and from my understanding she is nearly as good as Madame Bones was when she headed the Prosecutors Office shortly before her promotion to the Director of the DMLE."

Harry smirked slightly as he saw Percy pale more before his eyes flicked down to Luna. "That was very sly little lion cub" he teased with a chuckle. "Duly noted though. One should always have a barrister on retainer on the off-chance they one. After all" his gaze flicked back to Percy "you never know when you need to stamp the letter of the law into the ass of the people who wrong you."