This is my first attempt at writing a long Harry Potter fic. I do not own JK Rowling's characters. This will follow cannon loosely. I have a weird sense of humor, so sorry if you are not amused. I welcome all reviews and comments. Thanks for reading and for your comments.
Harry will now be referred to as Rhys and Snape is now Sebastian.
Rhys POV
I watched with Sebastian and Nymphadora as Sirius struck poses for his photo shoot. He insisted even though Xeno had said that one photo was fine. Luna was taking the pictures and Jewel was changing the backgrounds and playing music for Sirius. She even made the wind blow through his hair. They were equally crazy.
"So, Mr. Lexington, what house do you think you will sort into this coming fall?" I smiled at Sebastian as he asked me to call him. "Sebastian, please call me Rhys or Lex like Drake does. I believe I will become a Raven. It will be easier for me to fit in with the knowledge I gained from our studying in the time chamber. What of you, sir?" He smiled. It was a predatory smile.
"I will of course procure my mastery by taking my exam again and I will release a couple of the potions that I have invented but did not dare to share under my old name. Dumbledore will beg me to come to Hogwarts. I will not take on the Head of Slytherin house. I will also change the location of the potions labs. It will be an adventure. I must thank you again for what you have done for me, Lex." I shrugged.
"You were as much a slave to that man as I was. Now he will search for Harry Potter and he will be under fire for having been the one to drive him away. Now, what is really bothering you, sir? You do not suffer small talk." He stared at me and then he asked for an oath from myself and Nymphadora. Sirius just nodded from across the room. Apparently they had discussed this.
Once we took our oaths, he explained how he had heard the beginning of a prophecy and told it to Voldemort and this caused the man to come after the Potters and their subsequent deaths. When he was finished his story, he had his head bowed. Nymphie had tears running down her face. I thought about what he said.
"Sir, is it customary to have a job interview in a private room at a pub that is actually near enough to Hogwarts that it should have been there? Why would there not have been privacy spells on the room in any event? Has Trelawny given any real prophecies since that one?" He shook his head.
I stood up and paced. "Can we think about this? Maybe the prophecy is not real. I was not born to them and I was not even related to the Dursleys. My adopted mother was herself adopted by the Evans family. Blood wards would not have worked anyway because they did not love me and it was not a home to me." Sebastian and Nymphadora seemed transfixed by my story.
"Maybe we can go and check the Hall of Prophecies for the orb. The Goblins would have told me if I was 'The Chosen One'. They said war is bad for business and they went crazy about something in my scar and then they went on a mission and destroyed things called horcruxes. I have a reliable source that says the next time he dies, he will stay dead." I watched him take a shuddering breath.
"I am not uncaring, sir. I would not allow my new friends and family to be in an unsafe world. No, I think Voldemort and Dumbledore will destroy themselves." When I finished talking, Sebastian got up and hugged me. This was new.
"Even if she was not your birth mother, she loved you and I vowed to protect you. I feel so much better now knowing that you are not captured or about to become a martyr as was Dumbledore's plan." He sat back down and drank his cranberry juice. Sirius was just talking to Xeno now.
It looked like they were wrapping it up. "I must say, this person you have become, that Dumbledore tried to stop you from becoming, is intelligent and is not at all that charging forward fool you used to be." And he is back.
I smiled anyway. "Thank you, sir. Now let's head on over to my manor. I left the group and we are playing mini golf. Come on, Sirius!"
We shook hands with Xeno. He threatened to feed me to a blubbering humdinger in small pieces if I hurt his little Moon Child. I agreed with him that I would deserve it and he clapped me on the back and said I was a good lad and left to write his story and go back to his expedition.
At the manor, Drake came up to me, walking confidently in his jeans and tee shirt. It said "Slytherins do it better" and there were snakes slithering on it. I smiled. "Nice shirt, Drake. Sirius tells me he knows you already. So let's play. Shall we have the girls against the guys?" He smiled and nodded.
I kissed Lu on the cheek and we all set out to tackle the course which had been magically altered so that some of the holes moved and the exhibits were charmed to talk back and to goad us. Sirius found this hilarious. He was a hit with the boys because he kept telling his Hogwarts stories.
Luna had corralled the girls and they were in short denim skirts and when they bent over to take their putts, we all forgot what we were doing. "I say, Lex, this game is pretty awesome. I love their little clothes. It is such a shame that they cannot dress like this at Hogwarts." I smiled at Draco.
"I know, right? I asked my elves to find out what a typical teenager wears in the summertime in America and they got us all these clothes. Who needs those long robes at the Manor? We should be having fun and this way we get used to wearing it for our Disney trip. We will be able to fit in."
I looked around and what I saw frustrated me."Sirius, stop using your wand to get it into the hole!" Theo and Neville collapsed into laughter and Drake looked like he was holding it in. Blaise just high fived me. Well, we are teenaged boys.
The girls won and we had a cookout for lunch with ribs, burgers, hot dogs and barbeque chicken. The purebloods were enthralled. "So, this food is great! Why can't we have this at Hogwarts?" This was from Hannah Abbott. I smiled at her and called Socks.
He popped in wearing black cargos and a tee shirt that said "Puff Puff Pass". I did not want to know. "Socks, can you talk to the Hogwarts elves about adding this type of food to their menus?" He stared at me, nodded and exhaled a large cloud of smoke. Alrighty.
"Socks, please note that while I asked you to study teenaged culture, I did not mean that you had to take part in everything. Please do not do drugs anymore. At least not while you are on duty." He nodded at me.
"Cool, Master Rhys. I will be doing what you asked. Do you and the lovely ladies need anything else? Bitsy better be about her business!" Bitsy popped in wearing clothes like the girls and they howled laughing at her little high heels.
"Socks needs to recognize that Bitsy can do her jobs well. Go eat something, Socks, you will feel better. Stop looking at me like that!" She smacked him and we all watched him duck and grab a plate and then disappear.
"Wow, Rhys, your elves are a hoot. Mine are all afraid of me and they never give me their opinions."
I turned to Neville. "Did you ever ask them for their input? They have been around for a long time, Nev. They know things and they know all of the family secrets." He nodded deep in thought and then he got an owl that made him get up and start having some type of fit.
"You help him!" I shook my head as Drake, Theo, Blaise and Sirius argued about who would stun Neville. Where were the Ravenclaws?
Socks popped back in. "They is being on the terrace outside the library. They are researching muggle technology, Master Rhys. They are also eating. I checked on them. I think Master Neville is dancing. Huh.
"Neville? Can you stop that gyrating for a moment? What is making you, um, dance?" He grinned and picked up Susan Bones and kissed her deeply on the mouth and let her go. She sank to the ground and her friend Hannah helped her up. She stared at Neville with a predatory gleam in her eye.
Neville nodded at her and she blushed. Wow. What has happened to Neville? He wrote a note and attached his wand and the owl left. Okay, he is just being crazy now. I tried to wait patiently. He finally turned to me.
"Rhys, Sirius, Lord Prince, might you all accompany me to the shopping district? It seems that I need a new wand as my father wanted his back!" Wow. We all race to him and hug him. This was excellent news.
"I am so happy for you, Neville, really. Well, sadly, this means we have to change clothes, but the girls can wear summer dresses and open robes. Alright, everyone, let's change and be ready in an hour. Thanks for lunch, Bitsy. Please take the leftover food to the local orphanage without being seen and do not forget the toys and clothes." She smiled and nodded.
"That was very charitable of you, Lex. I am proud of you for doing that." What is Former Snape's deal? Is he trying to parent me? I smiled and nodded at him. Maybe he just has a build-up of emotions that he has to get out. I was ready to like this new guy. He was kind of cool, and he balanced out Sirius who kept trying to start a prank war.
Fred POV
"So, my uglier twin, what do we do now?" George sat in the orchard with me. I sighed.
"I have no idea, George. Poor Harry must think that we are as horrible as our family. I have been thinking, though. Maybe we should be Prewitts. We can go to the bank and try to take on the Prewitt name and maybe there is money there. I cannot believe Mum was stealing from Harrykins. Ron is a git and he does not deserve to be friends with Harry and did you notice the bushy haired bookworm was just as evil?" He threw an apple and a gnome caught it and ran away with it.
"I know, Fred. So it is settled. We will head to the bank. I am tired of being put down all of the time just because we are not just like Perfect Percy. Let's leave now." We stood and nodded and used the Knight Bus to get to the bank.
The first goblin we walked up to was gruff and he was named Bloodfang. "Honored goblin, we seek inheritance tests. We no longer wish to be related to our family." The goblin looked at George and me and smiled. It was a scary smile.
"Follow me, humans." Okay then. We nodded and followed him through a maze of torch lit hallways and we came to his office.
He gave us both a knife and said to make a cut on our palm and to place it onto the parchment. We followed the instructions and the results were shocking! We were the twin sons of Fabian Prewitt. He died and Molly took us to raise. Well, that helps things along.
We were given flushing potions so that we could take on our true looks which were more distinguished. Our hair was longer and a more reddish blonde. It must be from our mother who also died and was named Mary. We were given the keys to our vaults and our lordship rings.
We asked Bloodfang if we could get a letter to Harry Potter because we were not like the Weasleys. He said if we wrote to him, he would make sure it reached Mr. Potter, but that a reply would take time. We asked him to be our account manager and he grinned that scary grin again. After picking a flat with two bedrooms and that was in Hogsmeade to live in, we left for a shopping spree.
"Freddie, we have to write a letter to Molly or she will go to the auror's." I sighed. I hated that George was the smart and thoughtful twin.
"Fine, I will write her a letter. It can be her favorite kind. A howler." I was the mean and vindictive twin.
All this time we had money and she made us have hand me downs. It would not have been so bad if she treated us all the same, but no! She treated us differently and with a small amount of disdain that we were creative.
We wrote the note and sent a letter to the Daily Prophet stating that we took up the Prewitt Lordship. We mailed both and started our shopping spree.
George sighed again. What does the bleeding heart want now? I turned to him as I checked myself out in the mirror. "What is it, Georgie? Do you want a puppy or something?" He shoved me.
"Freddie, let's talk to Lee and Angelina and Alicia. They are our friends. We can invite them to come over. You know what we really need?" I shook my head no. "We need a house elf!" He was right again. We paid for our purchases and put them into our new trunks and headed off to Knockturn Alley. We needed new wands, too. If we are going to do it, we need to do it right. The summer was looking up.
Rhys POV
We sent the Ravenclaws a note with another elf named Daisy and they agreed to go shopping with us. They acted like another species or something and this is the group I am going to take up with? I sighed. It was necessary. They needed to loosen up. I had Socks to bake them some special brownies for later.
As per the plan, Sirius and Sebastian were shopping together and we had broken up into groups. I was with Neville, Drake and Anthony. We looked rich and handsome and awesome.
We entered a pet shop because I felt like something was calling me and I followed the pull up to a covered cage. How very creepy. I read the plaque and it was a raven. How predictable. I had to give Hedwig to Hagrid. My note to him thanked him for taking care of her. He wrote back that she liked another owl and that maybe they would raise a clutch of eggs. I am not ready to be a grandpa yet.
Anyway, I took the bird out of its cage and it stared at me, and then the fucker bit my shoulder! I took out my onyx wand that had thestral hair and basilisk venom inside it ready to curse the bird and hit it with a mild cutting curse at the last moment. It touched its bleeding wing to the blood on my shoulder. Oh. Right, it will be my bonded familiar.
There was a glow and now the bird, who told me his name is Romeo is my familiar. He sat on my shoulder looking imposing and talking to me mentally about people. Drake got a baby panther that would not get too big and that could masquerade as a cat and Neville got a freaking koala cub. Anthony had another book. It was on familiars. He was hopeless. We made him get a pet and he got an owl that seemed to like to read, too. Whatever.
After frustrating Mr. Vito until he wanted to curse him, Neville got a custom wand that had wood from a whomping willow and a feather from a storm phoenix inside. There was ivy wrapped around it and Neville made the whole shop fill with flowers and vines before he vanished them.
Neville had a new swagger and I liked it. He just got a new holster and walked out with a new laid back confidence. Drake and Anthony just smiled. I think they liked the new Neville Longbottom, too.
Neville said that after tonight he was going home for a day or two to be with his parents and to see what the deal was with them. I said that they were welcomed at my manor and he hugged me. We sent our pets back to the manor with Bitsy because she said Socks was baking.
We avoided the reporters crowded around Sirius, Nymphie and Sebastian and went to the jewelry store. We all got titanium and gold bracelets as a symbol of our new friendship and then we found the rest of our group and went to a movie in the muggle world. It was an animated one, but it was still cool. The purebloods were extremely fascinated and asked to come again. I just smiled. I never felt like this being with Ron and Hermione. Like Luna said, it was great having friends.