Here Oberon is going to give the kids some answers.
Chapter 10: Aged to Eleven
The next morning after breakfast Katherine had the teenagers line the children up as she prepared the dosages to age them to eleven.
"Mummy…if we have to take the potion why does it have to taste so nasty?" Minerva asked raising her hand.
"She has a point," Oberon chuckled from his seat behind his daughter.
"All right," Katherine sighed and snapped her fingers and waved her hand over the platter of vials. They all glowed a soft golden color before fading and Katherine held them for the children.
"As per Miss McGonagall's request it will now taste like your favorite treat," Katherine stated.
The children eagerly took the potions and chugged them down commenting on the tastes. Some said chocolate, lemon drops, ginger newts, cauldron cakes, soup, apples, and other items.
Harry and his friends watched as the children grew and changed again.
"Well how do you feel?" Oberon asked.
"Very well sir. Might I take Minerva for a walk?" Albus asked respectfully. Oberon eyed the boy calculatingly and saw his daughter's excited look.
"Mr. Dumbledore I suggest you stay in this castle and call on that bird of yours to come to Katherine and I if there is trouble. Don't go outside and for heaven sakes don't break anything!" Oberon nodded.
"Yes professor," Albus bowed. He took Minerva's hand and they were half way to the door when Harry's voice stopped them.
"Professors you can't really let them go off after yesterday!" Harry shouted angrily.
"Fine. You go with them," Oberon nodded, "Take Mr. Weasley and Severus with you."
"But I…"
"My word is final Mr. Potter," Oberon snapped and waved them off. Harry sighed as he pulled Severus and Ron with him out the door.
"Well I'll be back at lunch," Katherine stated and disappeared with a pop.
"How'd she do that?" Hermione frowned.
Oberon sighed and leaned against the wall in the chair he was in. "Well I know you lot were looking into the records. I assume you read hers and did not get to mine," he stated.
Ginny, Hermione, and Neville colored brightly. The other children sat down knowing this would be a good story.
"Mr. Longbottom to read my wife's file you must know her given name in its original language. What does it mean?" Oberon asked.
"In Greek Katherine means Pure," Hermione answered.
"I did not ask you!" Oberon boomed and the girl silenced immediately.
"P-pure sir. Her name though….Potter…Gaunt…"
"Yes?"
"Well sir from what my Gran told me the Gaunts were poor decrepit purebloods that all they had to their name was the fact they were purebloods and they were direct heirs of Slytherin. The Potters are direct from Gryffindor himself," Neville stated.
"That is true. Do you know where Godric descended from?" Oberon asked. All three shook their heads.
"Morgan LeFay."
"Yo-you mean the arch nemesis of Merlin!? Th….the …well she was King Arthur's half sister is what myth states," Hermione exclaimed.
"Wait a minute," Ginny exclaimed, "Morgan LeFay was burned at the stake in 537. There was never a record of a child."
"Records can be changed quite easily," Oberon stated, "Morgan LeFay had a son named Magnum that grew up in her kingdom of Avalon. No one returned till a daughter…Millicent stepped out of Avalon in 912 and back into the world. She married a Gordon Gryffindor and they had one son; Godric. Godric and his three friends started this school!" Oberon explained gesturing around him.
"Incidentally Merlin's ancestor was Rowena Ravenclaw. I came from that line. Quite funny actually how Kat and I came to be."
"You're Merlin's heir!?" Neville blinked and sunk to the ground seeming to bow. The girls followed a bit more awkwardly.
"Well yeah. But that's the beside the point," Oberon waved lightly, "You see Katherine and I went to school together and hated each other with the same passion we now love each other. We hadn't planned on even being friends but our seventh year…well you've heard of the Bellatine Fires?" he asked.
Hermione nodded stating, "It's an old pagan ritual where a virgin and a male dress up as the god and goddess of the land and make love to bring about the renewal of the earth. Usually it ends in the woman becoming pregnant because the ritual cancels out all forms of contraception."
"Yeah unfortunately no one told me that," Oberon scoffed.
"Wait if you had done that…wouldn't you have eight children?" Ginny asked.
"Ah so you did read the file," Oberon laughed. The girl blushed again.
"Well you see Katherine and I didn't know we were who we were. That is until we went to the cave to perform the ritual. She was timid and skittish like a doe and told me she did not want to have a baby yet. Her voice caught my attention and I took off her mask. That frightened look did something to me and I was never the same. I admitted who I was and we did not perform the ritual. Crops were bad that year but more importantly Kat and I realized we had a lot in common and fell in love. We ran off and married before either of our parents realized we'd gone against the ritual," he explained.
"That's awfully romantic," Sybil sighed.
"You were a gentleman," Isabel smiled.
"Thank you cuties," he winked and the two girls blushed, "But anyway…oh yes well you see being who we are and what we are..."
"What are you exactly?" Hermione asked.
"A Witch and Wizard blessed with Fairy blood. Katherine is pure and sweet and the Children Fairy. Her reason for being is to protect the Children of Hogwarts. And that does not mean you," Oberon explained looking at the three Gryffindors, "The Children of Hogwarts were chosen by the founders themselves when this school was founded. They are a select group that draw strength from the very foundation of the school and which the school grows attached to. They are meant to band together when the school is threatened and protect the students and the school."
"And you?" Ginny asked.
"I am the War Fairy. My job is to protect the three strongest Children of Hogwarts and to control the Children Fairy. She's the one with the greater fire power. I am her controller and I am a Hunter," he shrugged.
The three students looked at each other as their minds slowly grasped this information.
"Can't we get rid of this git? He gets on my nerves," Albus whispered, "He thinks he's so high and mighty."
He, Minerva, and Severus were in the library with the two teenagers who were seated at a different table staring at the whispering children.
"I bet they make a break for it," Harry whispered and Ron nodded.
"We could …hey I could throw a banshee fit. Mum always comes then. If you can bust your nose up we'll get her to believe they attacked!" Minerva exclaimed quietly with a scary glint in her beady green eyes.
"Minnie you're an evil genius and I love you!" Albus grinned.
"Thanks but don't call me Minnie," Minerva warned.
"Why do we want to get them in trouble?" Severus asked quietly.
"Because they're gits. Gits should always get in trouble," Albus explained.
"Oh," Severus nodded quietly.
"Right then let's go," Minerva nodded as they all jumped down.
"Ready to go?" Harry asked standing.
"No," Minerva shook her head as she pulled Severus and Albus into an aisle.
Harry and Ron sighed sitting back down.
"She's annoying. Why does she only play with Dumbledore and Snape?" Ron asked.
"Well Dumbledore is obvious. Snape though I haven't a clue. That kid is really skittish though," Harry stated as an unholy screech filled the room.
The two ran into the next aisle and found Severus with his eyes wide in fear, Minerva on the floor kicking and screaming like a demon, and Albus looking quite pale with what appeared to be a broke nose.
"What happened?" Harry shouted leaning down to Albus and getting some of the blood on him.
It was then a cold wind whipped around them and Katherine appeared with glowing green eyes and her hair whipping around her looking like a modern Medusa.
"You want to explain to me what happened to my children?" Katherine asked with a deadly snake like hiss in her voice.
"I don't know. They just started screaming!" Ron exclaimed.
"Mummy, Harry and Ron are horrid. Please get daddy to hurt them. Look what they did to my boyfriend's nose!" Minerva exclaimed. She was quite the little actress. "They scared poor Severus too!"
The boys gulped seeing the deadly fierce look in Katherine's brilliant eyes.
"Did you or did you not harm my children?" she asked quietly.
"No we didn't honest!" Ron cried out.
"Come with me children," Katherine called. Albus, Minerva, and Severus scrambled over to her and grabbed the hem of her dress as they disappeared with a quiet pop.
The boys blinked at the spot and then each other before running back to the nursery as fast as they could go.
***************************Professor Children****************************
Meanwhile in a grand manor on the outskirts of Romania three people stood in front of a mirror decorated much like the Mirror of Erised; but unlike it they were watching a bunch of children dancing in a circle around a tall man playing a fiddle.
"Hmm she's got them aged faster than I anticipated. Then again Mother Katherine was always the best at Potions," a ginger haired man chuckled sinisterly.
"We have to act fast my lord before they're back to normal," Bellatrix Lestrange exclaimed.
"Proceed as planned. I'll make a visit just to see," Voldemort stated.
"Best go at night Voldemort. Katherine's powers are weaker during a full moon…and that's in eight hours," the man stated looking at his watch. The same watch Katherine gave all men she took a shining to. A gold pocket watch with the moons and stars to tell the time instead of numbers.
"Perhaps. I believe I should like very much to see where dearest Minerva sprung from," Voldemort sneered and disappeared in a swirl of black.
"Bellatrix you come with me. If we want to kill those Hogwarts Children we'll need a poison Katherine will never be able to reverse in time…plus one that will cause the most pain," the man grinned.
Bella's eyes lit up at this thought as she giddily followed the man out of the room.
huzzah! Actually all of the de-aged Professors are not Hogwarts Children. You will see all eight soon enough though. Two from each house a boy and girl.