Chapter Six: Pre-Christmas Explosions: Part Two

Last chapter: He looked to the side just in time see his Master appear from thin air, and behind her, the ghostly forms of his parents, outlined in a fuzzy blue colour. Kiara glanced at him and motioned towards the door. Harry shifted closer towards it and out of the line of fire. Once he was safely out of the way, he and a very stunned and shocked Minerva McGonagall watched the normally calm and controlled Jedi Master explode.

"Coward am I?" Kiara began coldly. Harry backed up slightly; he'd never seen his master this angry before. "I was there when Darth Vader led the clones into the Temple; I was there the day the entire Order was pretty much wiped out. When Vader killed those padawans in the Council Chamber, he had to go through me first!" Kiara was breathing fast, trying to control the absolute fury that was threatening to overwhelm her. She shook herself and continued. "I lay on the floor, among hundreds of dead knights, masters, and padawans, and Vader stood over me and said that I could die from my wounds, knowing that I wasn't good enough to save those five-year-old children". She wiped her eyes briefly before her voice dropped to a volume and tone that Harry recognised instantly as being her most dangerous.

"I adopted Harry when he was one-year-old, in both the magical and Muggle worlds following the deaths of Lily and James Potter. To both worlds I am his legal guardian and he thinks of me as not only his master but also his surrogate mother. The treaty my padawan spoke about is very much legally binding and you have just far overstepped your boundaries. You have absolutely no right to keep Harry here at Hogwarts and if you try to, I will bring in the Head of the Magical Law Enforcement so fast your head will spin. You might have a lot of titles but know this: I am not impressed. The life expectancy for someone who harmed, or attempted to harm a Jedi Padawan was usually measured in nanoseconds when the Jedi Order was around. The Order might not be around any more but I still hold to the old ways; attempt to harm my padawan, or to use him as a pawn, or do anything with his life that goes beyond that of school headmaster, and that includes meddling in his finances, and your life won't be worth one Knut by the time I'm finished with you. I might not kill you but I will see your titles stripped from you and your credibility in the negatives if you try anything else with Harry". The Jedi Master then got up into Dumbledore's face and hissed softly, menacingly "Do I make myself clear, Dumbledore".

Dumbledore nodded shakily; he was currently very much afraid of the Jedi Master who was now walking over to his deputy headmistress. McGonagall had her hand on Harry's shoulder, whether to hold him back or for reassurance, he didn't know. James and Lily Potter then appeared in front of him and treated him to a shorter but no less intense tongue lashing as well. By the time they finished and faded from sight, McGonagall, Kiara and Harry had gone.

Harry was wide eyed; his master had defended him from authority figures before but nothing like this. Kiara was walking beside him, calming down now that she was away from Dumbledore. Minerva was also silent, trying to come to terms with what she had seen. The silence was broken by Kiara.

"Minerva, I'm sorry if what happened alarmed you in any way. I tend to be rather protective of Harry and I also couldn't allow Dumbledore to get away with insulting me like that".

"Don't worry about it; I'm just glad that you could protect him. I couldn't have, I don't know enough about that treaty you mentioned. The events you mentioned, they sound similar to a muggle saga of films known as Star Wars, are they connected?"

Kiara laughed hollowly. "Connected? The first three episodes are an eerily accurate representation of what happened."

Harry was silent, until he saw Gryffindor Tower coming up. Hesitantly he sent a query through the bond with his Master. : Master, do you still want to meet Hermione:

:Yes, Padawan I do. I'm OK, don't worry about me. Letting off that steam actually makes me feel more relaxed now:

Harry opened the portrait hole and was about to invite his master inside when McGonagall offered to host the meeting in her quarters. Kiara accepted and Harry and Hermione found themselves in their Head of House's living room, drinking tea and eating biscuits while Hermione and McGonagall grilled Kiara for details on the Jedi, as well as anecdotes from her days in the Order. Harry laughed so hard he almost made himself sick when his master revealed that she had been the leader of a group known to the Jedi Order as the Demons, which were a group that played pranks left, right and centre. They never did it in a cruel way though. One of the pranks had apparently been a spur of the moment affair:

Flashback:

"This isn't fair," Jay grumbled as he along with the rest of the Demons washed the Council Chamber floor. They had been given buckets of water, sponges, rags and wax and told to make the floor shiny and spotless as punishment for their latest prank.

Kiara looked up as she finished drying her part of the floor. "Oh stop grumbling, it could have been worse," she replied. Holding up the wax she looked at the bottle. "Uh, guys, they said to wax the floor right?"

"Right," the rest of the group responded.

"Well they do know that wax that hardens as it dries makes the floor very slippery don't they?"

The group of four Padawans grinned evilly as the same idea struck all of them. "I can't wait for them to start slipping and sliding," one of them said with glee.

"Not to mention that they can't punish us for this as they were the ones who gave us the wax in the first place," Kiara crowed. The Padawans finished waxing the floor and then called the Coucil Members. The Masters came and had a look, before stepping onto the floor to go to their seats, and that's when they started sliding around. Yoda slid into the wall, Mace Windu slid into the holoprojector, Even Piell slid into his seat and then fell on top of Yoda. The rest of the council went to the hospital wing with various pulled muscles from trying to stay upright. The Padawans walked off down the hall almost sick with laughter, and holding several cameras.

End flashback

Harry and Hermione fell out of their seats laughing while Minerva chuckled at the pictures. "We can probably make them move with the correct potion," she said innocently. Harry, Hermione and Kiara looked at her and each other before breaking into gales of laughter again. Soon though, it was curfew, so Kiara walked the two Gryffindors back to Gryffindor Tower. At the entrance she hugged Harry, and whispered "See you at Christmas," before letting him go. She then pulled Hermione into a brief hug as well, saying the same thing, before turning and heading back to McGonagall's office to leave via the Floo. Harry and Hermione both fell into bed that night dreaming happily about Christmas.