Last time Evangeline secured her rights as Harry's mother. Now, it's time to find out something about what happened after. But not too much: write all of that in a row is a bit difficult.

by lord Martiya

P.S.: in the last chapter I made a mistake, placing Dwarves as bankers with the Goblins instead of the Gnomes. For this error, I apologize to you and the Swiss Bankers A.K.A. Gnomes of Zurich. And yes, I know I'm not the only nor the first making this joke in a Harry Potter fanfic, but it was too funny.

FOURTH PERIOD: FLASHBACK MADNESS

"Why so nervous?" Evangeline asked.

"Well, Negi and daddy were stronger than me at my age..." Harry replied.

"For the last time, Negi and Nagi Springfield were so strong because they were clinically INSANE(1)."

"Hey! I heard you!" Nagi shout.

"But it's true."

It was seven years since Evangeline had adopted Harry Potter-no, Harry MCDOWELL, now, and many strange things had happened.

For example, less than a month after the adoption Evangeline had to join the school trip in Kyoto and kick Nagi's archnemesis' ass. In the beginning Evangeline and Chachamaru remained in Mahora to give the impression she was still stuck there, but when a terrorist summoned the demon god Ryomen Sukuna-no-Kami the headmaster faked the only way she could temporarily leave the campus, and so Evangeline went, beated that Fate Averruncus like he was nothing and then damaged Sukuna enough to have it resealed. She could have destroyed it, but it was funnier leave it to remember the Kansai Magical Association that after all they weren't so smart. Then, chatting with Albireo Imma some week later, she found out who Fate was. And placed him on the second place of her 'To Kill' list, just after Voldemort (a madman hellbent to kill her son!!!) and before Dumbledore (for what he wanted to do to her son).

After that, Negi had begged her to teach him, and, after psychologically and physically torturing him for a while (the physical torture involving Chachamaru beating the crap out of him. She had planned to have Chachamaru let him score a hit and so pass the test after being nearly killed, but he managed into hitting her when Sasaki Makie distracted her by cheering Negi), she accepted. And tortured him again and again with her training. Nothing better than beating the crap out of someone and giving him rest to make him stronger, and he managed to beat a Demon Count. Granted, he needed the help of that Inugami Kotaro to do so, but he still beated him, and with an nigh-perfect high level spell he had just started to try and learn. In the meantime she found out what happened to Negi and the psychological trauma that made him insane enough to constantly risk to kill himself by sheer training and helping people, and that changed her feelings for Negi. Before that she was helping Negi just to honor Arica (while it was out of jealousy that she attacked Nagi, finding out from Takamichi that Arica wasn't just a spoiled princess but exactly what Evangeline would have been if Uchtred hadn't pulled his vamping stunt skyrocketed her respect for her. She could now accept her as Nagi's woman, and in the anniversary of her death she went to her tomb and apologized for being such an arse). After that, her mother instinct kicked in again and she unofficially adopted Negi Springfield as her son.

Then, there was the Festival of Mahora and Qiao attempted the greatest breach of the Statute of Secrecy in history, and nearly succeded. And given that her plan included taking over the most defended place in the world, a place Evangeline wasn't sure to be able to take over in a straight fight and whose defences were also boosted by the Muggle students armed to fight Qiao's robotic army, Evangeline had found somebody capable to scare her. After that, Qiao disappeared for a while, only to return with her name cleared by the Supreme Mugwomp himself. She had apparently very good blackmailing stuff about him, and given that she came from a future where he was successful into screwing up with Harry's life and a gossip journalist, a Rita Skeeter, had took the care to publish ALL of his crimes (starting with a book half-filled with assumptions and then going more accurate with the following books) she couldn't even imagine what she had. Well, she was actually able to do so, and a couple data that Qiao used to help her into taking the imagine of 'Voice of the Boy-Who-Lived' from Dumbledore gave her a good starting point, but there are things you just don't want to know, and that fell in the category. The though of young Dumbledore's wet dreams involving Grindelwald was just creepy.

After that she managed to have Albireo Imma spill out many things, on how Nagi faked his death after killing Fate for the second time (he had beated him to death ten years earlier. Then the Mage of Beginnin had to give Fate the final hit while harming Nagi in the process. The fool believed that it would be enough to win. Five minutes later she received his thooth in the eye), why he was on the run, etc.

And then the best part, in Evangeline's mind. It happened when Negi, most of the classgirls who somehow knew about him being a mage (Qiao was still at large, and Mana, Hakase, Zazie, Yotsuba and herself had preferred remain at Mahora) went to the Magical World to search for Nagi. The irony of that was immense.

FLASHBACK

"Well done, Harry." Evangeline said when her son managed to lit a flame in mid-air. "N-"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! IT HURTS!!! Damned Blud-Wait, this smell... EVANGELINE, YOU CREEP!!! THAT'S MUSTARD GAS!!!"

Chachazero facepalmed.

"Mum, there's an intruder!" Harry said. Then he saw Evangeline's look. "Mum?"

"Harry, dear, remain here with Chachazero, OK?" Evangeline said smiling in happiness.

Harry decided it was better not to question and nodded.

Evangeline ran in her room, changed in her adult form and wore her 'Lady McDowell Attire' complete with the staff'.

"EVANGELINE!!! FREE ME!!! PLEASE!!!"

Smiling, Evangeline reached the Intruder Room, released the mustard gas antidote she had exactly for that sort of occasion and greeted the 'guest'.

"Hello, Nagi, it's a while you aren't here." she said.

"Care to free me?" he replied.

"Not now. After all, you left me inside here for fifteen years."

"Fif... Wait a second, the curse would wear off at graduation!"

"And they blocked my graduation four times."
"And you didn't blackmailed them into stop being idiots?"

"It was a question of pride. I'm the best cursebreaker and wardbreaker in the world, I couldn't free myself in non-magical ways."

"Couldn't?"

"A time-traveller told me the password."

Nagi started sweating and looked at the rod ready to impale his butt.

"Don't worry, having you in my clutch pretty much covers both your misdeeds." Evangeline said. "I won't impale you, and I also went over my jealousy so I won't rape you."

"Well, thank you." Nagi said.

"By the way, why did you acted so stupidly to try and break in here?"

"I heard a rumor about having fathered your son..."

"Blame the Twilight Princess: when she saw my adopted son Harry she guessed it was our son by blood. And yes, I found out that."

If he was free, Nagi would have facepalmed. Being tied up, the best he got was a rubber hand facepalming him on Evangeline's command. She was SO enjoying the situation.

"After all, young Harry is very like a younger and blackhaired Negi with my eyes..." Evangeline said. "You know, we may even try and give him siblings."

"Wait a second... Harry as in Harry James Potter?" Nagi asked.

"Yes."

"You adopted THE Harry Potter?!"

"Yes. And, as Chachazero pointed out yesterday, I started to act as a mother even for your son. And as such, I find very disturbing that you left your own son on his own and he's now searching for you in the Magic World. You know what? You'll remain here and start acting as a father. I have even the right curse for this..."

END FLASHBACK

That was funny. Then, Evangeline found out how Negi had supposedly destroyed most of the portals to the Magical World. It was obviously a ruse, and she just couldn't let that proceed. She needed a month, but she tracked down him and his group (minus Yue and that Anya girl she found so funny to scare). And Fate was trying to scam Negi. Of course, Evangeline had to ruin everything.

FLASHBACK

Evangeline, in adult form and 'Lady McDowell attire' was searching for the city. She was very near Negi, and just needed a couple minutes...

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING?!?!?!"

... or Asuna's shout.

She followed the shouts, and found Negi, Fate, and Asuna crying that he had no right to sacrifice the entire Magic World for them. Negi had recovered some sense, and was about battling Fate. In the meantime, Evangeline had opened the two slits of her dress (she expected to fight with that, so she had customized her Inverness Dress with hidden and closable slits similar to the ones of the less modest qipaos(2) and wore basilisk hide boots instead of the expected kind of footwear), and attacked Fate at full speed with the added range and punch of her adult form (that, being the natural evolution of Evangeline's body, had on her child form the same strenght and speed advantage that a 25 years-old woman would have on her 10-years version), sending him flying like a full-strenght punch from Jack Rakan would have done. And claiming the attention of everybody.

"What the hell do you want?!?!?!" Fate shout.

"Punish you. Kick your sore ass. Clean the name of the Thousand Master firstborn with your blood." Evangeline replied after producing her staff and starting a Legilimency assault on Fate. "A name you dirted by destroying the portals to the Old World using his face."

"Wha-"

"Or you didn't? Who did it, Voldemort?"

"Hell, no, I did it! But how you think you'll cleanse his name?"

"By punching you to call everybody's attention, starting a Legilimency assault on you to divert your attention from your tongue and then making you confess before hundreds of thousands people. And I just did it."

Fate looked around himself, and found that he had just confessed an act of terrorism and framing the son of a hero in front of hundreds of thousands people. It was just sad. And a badass-looking man was laughing with gusto.

"Seriously, even I wouldn't have dared something like that!" he said. "It's too stupid to think!"

"See? I just fooled you with a trick that the most idiotic badass in the universe would deem too stupid." Evangeline said. "NO, YOU DON'T!"

Evangeline throw an Ice Arrow at Asuna's direction. Tearing away the arm of a girl with a sleep potion that was about kidnapping her.

"Bad day..." Fate commented before producing a copy of Fat Man(3) and running away while Negi, the badass and Evangeline crashed while catching the device.

"But... THAT'S A CARDBOARD COPY!!!" Negi shout seeing that from short distance.

"Well, he payed us back for mocking him. Hello, I'm Jack Rakan, I was your dad's main rival." the badass said before laughing at himself.

Evangeline just facepalmed, then pursued Fate (who still managed to escape), devastated his hideout and saved Anya.

END FLASHBACK

Evangeline and Rakan then forced Negi to save some girl of the group that had gone into indentured servage and tortured/trained him in the process to make him strong enough to take on Fate, and with the help of Aoyama Motoko, sent there by Lily with a lot of data from Qiao, gave a lesson to New Ostia's governor general, finally killed Fate (and Evangeline used A LOT of rituals to make him remain dead) and his partners and cleared Arica's name. Then, there was the return on Earth. Where Qiao had returned, made all the class know about magic (and that made Evangeline think she was having a good influence on people: after guessing that, Ayaka, who was smarter than people normally thought, had bet with the cheerleaders that magic exists, and won 100000 yen(4)) and joined Chachazero into tormenting Nagi (who had been left to take care of Harry).

But after that, it was the moment of the moving reunions. And of tie up Asuna: she had recovered all her memories in the Magic World (the last act of Fate before Evangeline caught him and started killing him), and was a bit enraged at Nagi, her second favorite guardian (and childhood crush) faking his death, and tried to maul him with the blunt side of her sword. It was funny.

FLASHBACK

"Dad!" Negi said, seeing Nagi.

"Hello, Negi." Nagi replied.

The two started running to hug each other, then Nagi kicked the air, blocked Asuna's sword and started looking in his notebook.

"Bad mood, eh?" he commented. "Ah, found it. FERROSUS INCARCEROUS."

While Asuna's power would have cancelled every kind of magical binding, something physical like conjured chains could restrain her. And, to her dismay, Nagi knew.

"Hi, Asuna, I'm happy to see you too." Nagi said.

"YOU [ VERY FOUL WORD IN OSTIAN LANGUAGE ]!!! I BELIEVED YOU WERE DEAD!!!" Asuna shout.

"Relax, he got punished by remaining tied up with a stick ready to impale his arse for two days and then being cursed with a Infernus Scholasticus variant I developed for him." Evangeline said.

Asuna looked decided it was the right moment to prove that, apart for eye color and hair color, she looked a lot alike Chisame, and imitated PERFECTLY her Classical Skeptical/Annoyed Look.

"Hey, it's 5000 yen of copyright for that!"

And Chisame had to be Chisame.

"Asuna, I'd like you to remember that I'm a sadistic 600-years old vampire who got her bounty removed by treathening the Magical World with absolute destruction and who CREATED the Infernus Scholasticus with her sister. If Nagi managed to do what he did, what can I do him?" Evangeline asked.

The Panic Crysis beated all records.

END FLASHBACK

What was NOT funny was that Chisame had lost most of her inibitions. And that had created unforeseen problems.

FLASHBACK

Evangeline was going to the park with Harry, Chachamaru and Nagi when they heard a loud explosion, followed by a series of curses in 'Olelo Hawa'i(5) and Hawaiian Pidgin(6). Evangeline ran at the explosion's site, only to find Sakura Mei knocked out, the poor Takane D. Goodman naked (her clothes burned away by some explosion) and Chisame cursing and pointing at Takane the Gustav Rifle she bought from Mana months earlier.

"What the hell is happening?" Evangeline asked.

"We were speaking of the situation of M&W in Britain and US, and this missionary(7) revisionist DARED to say, as example of how better is in US, that the Kingdom of Hawaii joined US instead of having the American residents strip king Kalakaua of his powers, queen Lili'uokalani being overthrown with the help of the US Marines and then an outright annexion(8)." Chisame said with venom in her voice.

Evangeline facepalmed: amongst the middle school students, Chisame was quite infamous for being not only the local native Hawaiian(9) but a fervent Hawaiian indipendentist (while still admiring the United States for their ideals) who had scared to hell and forced to flee the country a P.E. teacher, guilty of exactly the same ignorant revisionism of Takane, with a salvo of curses and a BAD look who gained her the nickname of Hawaiian She-Batman. Saving Takane required a lot of effort on Evangeline's part and a lot of money on Takane's part (as Takane had to pay for her idiocy, only her death by explosion would be excessive), both as payment for the service and efforts to study Hawa'ian history and Chisame's family claim to the Hawa'ian crown as the most direct descendents of the House of Kamehameha(10). In the end, Takane ended working as Chisame's bodyguard.

END FLASHBACK

Obviously, there was also Harry to raise. And, given that he had deeply bounded with Chachazero rather quickly (quicker than Evangeline did with her first partner. But given the circumstances of their first encounter...), it was more difficult than keeping the 3-A quiet. Luckyly, after their last love potion stunt they had calmed enough to not make Evangeline go mad.

FLASHBACK

In her resort, Evangeline was searching for Harry and Chachazero, but the two of them had disappeared. Again.

"Found anything?" Nagi asked after appearing from nowhere.

"Not a clue." Evangeline replied while producing some cold tea for Nagi.

Nagi drank, then said: "They did it, again."

"Will they ever learn that we recognize love potion at a moment's notice?" Evangeline muttered while Nagi drank the love potion antidote he always carried. "At least this time they haven't tried to make me fall for Albireo to make you jealous..."

"But they replaced the antidote with a very powerful aphrodisiac." Nagi deadpanned.

Evangeline produced antidote to both the love potion and the aphrodisiac (she carried it just in case), muttering that Chachazero should know that she would kill her love rather than marry him in a shotgun marriage.

"Wait, what?" Nagi asked.

"Just one of my many mental traumas." Evangeline replied with nonchalanche. "It may happens when your betrothed try and slay you the day before the marriage when you have only 10 years just because a moron vampirized you..."

"And for YOUR problem you would kill ME?"

"It was just an example of my relutance."

"Will you DO in that case?"
Evangeline tried to find a polite answer. And failed.

"With no exitation nor guilt feelings." Evangeline replied.

"WHAT?!"

"Relax, it's only if anything else failed."

"YOU ARE TALKING OF KILLING ME!!! WEREN'T YOU SUPPOSED TO BE ONE OF MY FANGIRLS?!?!?!"

"HOW YOU DARE CALL ME A FANGIRL?!?!?!"

The two verbally fought for a while, then Nagi kissed Evangeline. The two french-kissed for a while, then they had a strange feeling and looked. Finding out that Albireo Imma and Jack Rakan had captured Chachazero and Harry, Harry was thanking Chachazero for having pulled his parents together, Qiao was paying Chachazero for a bet and the entire class plus Negi, Kotaro, Takane, her partner Mei, Misora's partner (and suspect lolicon lover) Cocone, Harry, Chachazero, the first four Chachamaru models, Rakan, Takamichi and Albireo Imma had seen the scene.

"Next time we don't ask their help in searching the two pests." Evangeline said.

"Yes, dear." Nagi replied.

END FLASHBACK

Apparently, their main purpose in rivaling the Narutaki twins was having Nagi fall in love with Evangeline by continous stress, and the kiss show made them believed they were successful. Later that week, Nagi ACTUALLY fell in love with Evangeline, so maybe Harry's and Chachazero's stunts were successful after all...

"Mom, why are you cackling?" Harry asked.

"Nothing... I was just thinking about the past." Evangeline said. "And Dumbledore's face when I enrolled you in Hogwarts."

Harry and his junior triplet sisters (who were actually Nagi's daughters) started to laugh. While he survived the consequences of breaking in her house, the Hogwarts' Headmaster had gained a healthy fear of Evangeline, and when the vampire had told him that Harry would study wizarding magic in Hogwarts he nearly had a stroke. Evangeline briefly wondered what he was doing now.


Hogwarts.

Dumbledore had announced to everybody had a word in ruling the school (professors, House Ghosts, the caretaker Filch, the librarian Madame Pince, the Groundkeeper and Gamekeeper Hagrid, the Board of Governors and Peeves) that the son of Evangeline would enroll the school.

"Seriously, it's just a name!" Lucius Malfoy said while many of his fellow Governors shivered in fear at Evangeline's name. "It's not like Evangeline-"

"THAT NAME!"

"-will appear and eat you if you call her name. By the way, it's a name meaning 'messenger of good news', so I don't see why you should fear that name. Apart professor Binns. By the way, is it true that she tortured you to death?"

"She just impaled me on some hundred of her Ice Arrows, and then survived my traps." Binns replied. "And I find her son a useful asset, and I'm not alone in this."

The only ghost professor of Hogwarts pointed at the local Potion Master, who was ringing like an old-style cash counter.

"Still no cure for that cartoonish curse, I see." Lucius stated. "Severus, why are you ringing?"

After Severus explained, Evangeline became immediatly very popular among the school staff.


"Now, Harry, let's do the One Thing you and your father fear most." Evangeline said. "Now, let's do SHOPPING!"

"Eva, I refuse to play scared anymore." Nagi replied.

"Still, you get to carry everything. It's not like I can call Connor for something like that, Ares got beheaded in 1985, Chachamaru is being revisioned and Chachazero has something else to do."

Harry was still trying to understand them. They bickered all the time, then went in a room and started doing strange noises, and were suddendly happy. But now wasn't the moment, and he had to tell them.

"All right, what's on the list?" Nagi asked.

"For pets, they say an owl, a cat or a toad, but it's not applied." Evangeline replied. "We could send Harry with Albireo's dragon and if they protest say that some pureblood could bring another pet not on the list... It was an EXAMPLE, I'm not idiot enough to send a dragon in a school as a pet."

"Would you send a dragon in a school as something else?"

"That school houses a basilisk and a giant squib."

"Point taken. What else?"

"A collapsible cauldron. I'll control that personally, lately some moron in China or Korea is exporting too thin ones(11). Oh, no broomsticks for first years... SHUT UP, ALL OF YOU!!!"

Nagi and Harry closed their mouths.

"It's just a safety, try and find a way to show them how good you are and I'll deliver your broomstick personally." Evangeline said to Harry. "Now, the textbooks... Why the hell they'll have a first year buy Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them if the class that uses it is an elective since third year?"

"It describes many creatures studied in Defence Against Dark Arts." Nagi said.

"Point taken. Uh, Magical Drafts and Potions, a nice textbook for a beginner. One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi, I hope that Yue didn't actually sent that request for renaming... The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection, again, good for the beginners... A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration, I'll kick Albireo 'till he give one of his copies, I'm still wondering why he used a pseudonim... The Standard Book of Spells, nice work but a bit limited... A History of Magic of Bathilda Bagshot?!?!?! That limited piece of revisionism?!?!?! I had heard that Binns had problems since I killed him(12), but that's ridicolous! We'll talk, oh, we'll talk..."

"What's the problem with that book?"
"The Ministry forced Bagshot to completely ignore the link between the Forty-Five and the last Goblin Rebellion. The Waffling's book with the same name(13) is more accurate and talks even about the birth of Wizardry... Now let's stop ranting and go to Diagon Alley!"

footnotes

(1)While with Nagi may exist some doubt, Negi was confirmed as suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder and survivor's guilt since Period 66. It may not be enough for closing him in an asylum, but still count as being insane. For Nagi... Well, he seems that as a child he was as battle fanatic as a Saiyan, and for a Human that's being insane.

(2)You probably know this dress as the Chinese long dress.

(3)The first and currently only plutonium bomb used in warfare. Similar in design to the bulkier 'Gadget' detonated in the Trinity Test, it destroyed Nagasaki with a yield of 21 kiloton (Hiroshima's bomb was a less powerful uranium bomb).

(4)In the very moment I'm writing, 100000 are exchanged for 1043,82 USD.

(5)The native language of the island of Hawaii, later the official language of the Kingdom of Hawa'i and spoken on all the islands. It was nearly eradicated between the start of the American intromission in the local politics and 1950, and while there're efforts to increase the number of native speakers as of 2000 they were still the 0.1% of the Hawaiian population.

(6)A version of English originated from and spoken in the Hawaii Islands. It's the main language spoke locally, more than the official state's languages 'Olelo Hawa'i and English.

(7)In Hawaii Island, an insult coming from the high number of missionaries who came in the islands, abandoned their callings, amassed wealth and messed with the politics of the Kingdom.

(8)That's how Ke Aupuni O Hawa'i, or Kingdom of Hawa'i in English, came to be a state of the United States: in 1887 a riot of American and European residents led by the American Walter M. Gibson forced king Kalakaua to sign the 'Bayonet Constitution', that stripped him of administrative authority, eliminated voting rights for the Asian population and setted minimum wealth requirement for American, European and Hawaiian voters, thus giving the right to vote to the American and European residents and a very little number of Hawaiian who had amassed some wealth; in 1893 queen Lili'uokalani tried to establish a new constitution, but the Committee of Safety, formed by American and European residents, overthrow the Kingdom and established a Republic of Hawa'i while the presence of a company of Marines summoned by the American ambassador (without informing the US President and the Congress) prevented the monarchy from defending itself, with only the eloquent speech of the president Grover Cleveland to the Congress preventing this coup from becoming an outright invasion and annexation; finally in 1898 the Republic of Hawa'i was annexed by the United States as the Territory of Hawaii under a resolution of the Congress (illegal under international law, requiring a conquest or a cession) and in spite of the protests from the native population, with translation in State of Hawaii in 1959. While Chisame's account is a bit biased against the U.S. governement, but is still very accurate. Today, there're many PACIFIC indipendence movements ranging from requests for 'nation-within-a-nation' status (most notably the controverse Akaka Bill) to movements for restauration of the Kingdom of Hawa'i (one of them managed to legally occupy the grounds of 'Iolani Palace in 2008 and is still there) or the Republic, while the US Congress passed in 1993 the Apology Resolution, recognizing both the role of the US in the overthrown of the monarchy and that the people of Hawa'i never relinquished their sovereignity to anybody but with no pratical effect.

(9)That's one of my three little private jokes on Chisame, whose last name Hasegawa is very similar to the surname of a Lilo and Stitch character, the elderly Mrs. Hasagawa.

(10)My second little private joke on Chisame. After all, she's a manga aficionado and a cosplayer, and the dinasty who founded the Kingdom of Hawa'i and ruled it until 1872 was the Hale O KAMEHAMEHA, the House of Kamehameha, named after the founder of the kingdom Kamehameha I the Great...

(11)In those cauldron they'll cook potions hot enough to MELT THE CAULDRON. That's why Evangeline is so worried about their bottoms' thickness and, in the book, Percy was trying some sort of crusade...

(12)As everybody has met an historian and/or history professor knows, there's no way he could be so distracted to die during sleep and not noticing to be now a ghost. That's why I refuse to believe the rumor about Binns being a ghost who didn't noticed to have died. For why he still teaches, or why Evangeline killed him... Well, you'll see.

(13)That's to explain why A History of Magic in the first novel is authored by Bathilda Bagshot and in the third is authored by Adalbert Waffling.