Dedicated to my dear friend Asura-chan ...
It's so awesome I get so many reviews... I'm gonna faint one of these days! Ah, and as you said you wanted more Ed... I'm giving you more Ed. I'm afraid I can't make the chapters longer, because that would mean updating slower...
CHAPTER FOUR: First impressions
'What are you going to do to him?' a female voice asked- 'He's just a kid...'
'The laws are unbreakable. But first comes the interrogation, proffessor. And to confirm that one rumor...' A person entered the room, holding a copy of The Prophet 'There are reports of a dragon-sighting over the place of the incident!' he said, slightly agitated, but mostly excited.
The woman spoke again, with relief in her voice. 'Then all pieces of evidence must be considered before the matter goes higher up into the Ministry.' She fixed her witch hat, which was sliding down. 'Now that Amelia Bones is dead, there are no decent judges left in the Magical Court.'
'I am well aware of that, Minerva, that is why I thought you would be interested in knowing about the dragon.' Another man said. 'Now, please tell us about it, mr. Weasley.'
A frank smile appeared in Charlie's face. 'I looked at the burns, and some of the corpses, and those are unmistakable marks of an aereal attack. As you might have noticed, there were no footprints, and that kind of damage can only be caused by a dragon, with a slight snake-like build to its body.'
'That makes things much easier.' Proffessor MacGonagall said. 'But, what would a kid like this be doing in that place?'
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'Lord Envy...?' Envy tugged at the expensive velvet of which the sleeves of his musk-colored robe consisted. 'Pay attention.' the wizard said with a frown. He was tall, bony, and extremely pale, moreso than Envy, if possible. He had little, frosty eyes, and even without being told, the sin knew there was something strange with the man. After all he had learned so far, he would have been keen to hear that the wizard teaching him the basics of witchcraft was nothing less than a vampire.
'Lift the wand this way...'
Envy looked on, bored to death, and mimicked the other's wrist movement. Why the Dark Lord wanted him to learn this stupid stuff was beyond his concern.
'Now, repeat: Wingardium Levi-o-sa...'
'Yeah Yeah, Wingardium Levi--o--sa and all that.' And he watched with amusement how the raven feather he was practising with rose in the air... almost levitating.
That was certainly something alchemy couldn't achieve. A smirk crept through his face.
It was getting good, and Envy felt it all was just beginning...
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Charlie had made a rough sketch of how the dragon that was supposed to have destroyed the village should have looked like. But then, Minerva MacGonagall, now Headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy, had been quite uneasy. Because there was no actual breed of dragons that fit that description...
And to top it all, that dragon was said to be green, and green dragons were among the most dangerous.
Mr. Diggory's job in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures had become more and more important since Voldemort's rise, so he knew quite well what kind of magical animals were likely to cause chaos in that moment. 'The thing is' he said, concerned, 'That dragons, though hostile, are among the wisest and oldest creatures alive. Mr Weasley will agree with me,' he nodded towards Charlie, 'That they are not the kind of creatures one would expect to join... You-Know-Who.'
'We thought this one dragon might be acting upon own will' the readhead concluded, as he forged a slight smile.
MacGonagall sighed. 'We all agree that this kid can't be responsible for the murder of an entire village...'
'The problem now is, to intercept the dragon.' Charlie said, sitting on a chair and crossing his arms over the back of it. 'It looks like it dissappeared into thin air...'
'And what are you going to do with him, Minerva?' Diggory asked, eyeing the blonde kid that snore lightly on the couch.
'He's so small-built, he can't be too old...' Charlie commented.
'What the... where am I?' a male voice,that pertained undoubtedly to the now-not-so-unconscious blonde, chirped.
The three wizards turned their heads to look at him, and Charlie and Amos Diggory drew their wands out of insctinct. The short teen got on his feet immediately, and clapped his hands...
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Voldy doesn't want to become a homunculus- he just wants to be immortal, cuz you know, now he's alive but he ain't gonna live forever, and he feels that Envy has the knowledge about immortality (which he does but I'm not gonna spoil it for you! XP even if you liked spoilers...) so yeah...
