Haridian stood in the small guest bedroom of the Potter's house. After explaining more on his origin and the wars and factions of the Origin System, the family spoke of the planet and its history. Lily spoke of the 'muggle side of things' as she put it, while James spoke of wizarding history. Haridian found it fascinating that the two native human subspecies could live such conflicting lives yet still remain in almost complete ignorance of one another.
Another facet of the wizards that Haridian found interesting, is their manipulation of the energy they called magic. It reminded him of a Tenno's manipulation of Void energy, yet it was fundamentally different. Whereas a Tenno would use their body or warframe as a conduit to enhance their body and directly control energy they gathered from their surroundings into powerful attacks or impenetrable defences. The magic that wizards commanded seemed fall into abilities and schools that seemed to manipulate the physical world to their advantage on top of the Tenno's abilities. With the proper training a wizard could be powerful but their reliance on a wooden stick to channel energy is a bit worrying.
Harry looked around the small room, it was barren except for a bed, dresser and mirror, and a small bookshelf. He moved the warframe to a corner and projected his body from the frame and wandered over to the bookshelf. The book shelf contained a few leather-bound books that drew the Tenno's eye, the title Marauders: A Practical Guide for Practical Pranksters was written in silver script, there were 7 volumes.
Harry grabbed volume one and ran a hand over the cover; on the bottom left of the page was writing that said 'written by messrs Moony, Padfoot, and Prongs'. Flipping the book open to a random page he began to read.
"So I can either bake these cookies at 400 degrees for ten minutes or 4,000 degrees for one minute." Padfoot said, excited that he had broken the system. Moony looked up from the house elf he was talking to.
"Padfoot, no. That's not how you make cookies," he said in mild, but firm disapproval. A massive grin spread across Sirius' face.
Sirius whipped out his wand and looked at Remus with a manic grin and said, "FLOOR IT?"
Remus was beginning to panic now. Seeing Sirius with his wand in hand told Remus that he 100 percent believed that if he turned the heat of the ovens up to 4,000 degrees he would make cookies in one minute. "SIRIUS, NO." he said with frantic disapproval, trying to get the raven haired boy to stop.
A sparkle, very similar to the one from our acclaimed headmaster, appeared in Sirius' eye. "HOW ABOUT 4,000,000 DEGREES FOR ONE SECOND?"
"PADFOOT, YOU ARE GOING TO BURN THE SCHOOL DOWN," Remus said now in full panic mode.
Now pointing his wand at the oven Sirius screamed, "I'M GOING TO HARNESS THE POWER OF THE FUCKING SUN TO MAKE COOKIES!"
" ! ! !" Remus pulled out his wand to disar-
Harry was drawn from the book when someone cleared their voice from the door. Looking up from the book, Harry saw James standing in the doorway. "Hello Mr. Potter, how may I be of service?"
"I understand that you don't recognize me as your father, but could you at least call me James. Mr. Potter makes me feel as if I'm about to be scolded by my boss." He gave an awkward chuckle and rubbed the back of his head when Harry only gave a slight nod in affirmation. "Anyway, we were going to head out to Diagon Alley to buy Mary her school stuff."
"What does this have to do with me?"
"Well you agreed to go to school right?" he asked. When I nodded he continued, "Then you should probably get the supplies you need for school. Before that we need to go to Gringotts, a wizarding bank, there we can get money for school supplies and for the right price we can get an inheritance test done."
Harry tilted his head, "what does an 'inheritance test' entail?"
"As far as I understand it, you give the goblins some blood then both of the parents give some blood. They do something to it that compares the DNA and magical residue present in blood freely given," James explained.
The explanation made sense to Harry, it was basically a magic DNA test that looks for some sort of energy marker located in the blood. This marker must have been like a genetic trait that is inherited from the parents but gives no physical sign of its presence. Harry contemplated taking samples of blood from magical and a muggle and doing his own comparison to find the trait. Perhaps they could replicate it.
He gave a slight nod, "Very well, when will we be leaving?" James told Harry they would leave in an hour.
Harry was about to return to reading the book he'd found when he noticed James was still standing in the door. "Was there something else?"
"What do you think of that book," he asked with a strange look in his eye as he looked at the still open book in the Tenno's hand.
"It is too early to judge, I have only read a page from it," He explained "But it seems like a good read." That brought a slight smile to James' face and he nodded and walked away. Haridian sent out a command to Ordis to land the ship in the large open field behind the Potter's house. After placing the book back on the shelf, he reentered his warframe, (A/N: Yes I understand that it isn't his physical body that wanders around when he's outside of his warframe but I don't really have a better way to explain it)
The warframe left Haridian's room and went downstairs, through the kitchen and out the back door onto the back patio. He crossed his arms and waited on the patio, watching the sky for the telltale shimmer in the air that would give away the position of the Prisma Scimitar. The Prisma line of ships were well known for their stealth capabilities, which were a step above most other lines and models.
As he waited for the ship to descend from the atmosphere he heard the door behind him open and shut. He looked over his shoulder just enough for his optic sensors to take in the new arrival. It was his "maybe sister", as she put it, and she stood looking at him. What was odd was she was wearing some sort of black cloak or robe that was laced shut from the neck to the waist and she wore thick pants that were padded from the knee down. She was also carrying what looked like a finely crafted broom, it had a rounded broom head with all the twigs that made it up closely bound together to form a sort of cone. On the broom's shaft was what looked like the seat from a bike, and on the top of the handle was little golden script that said 'Nimbus 2000'.
She looked surprised to see him out there but took it in stride. "What are you doing out here?" she questioned as she walked up to stand next to him.
He turned slightly toward her, "I could ask you the same." Mary opened her mouth to reply but Haridian continued to speak, "but to answer your question, I am waiting for my ship."
"Your ship?"
If the warframe had a mouth it would be shaped into a mischievous smirk. "Yes," he replied.
Mary waited for Haridian to explain and after a moment she realized he was most likely not going to answer, she huffed in annoyance. She was about to walk off into the field when Haridian spoke. "My question still stands, you know."
Mary paused to think what question he had asked but couldn't think if he had asked a question. "I don't think you asked a question?"
"Ah, I see the problem now, it seems that I didn't say it as a question. What are you doing out here?"
She raised a brow, "What, the robes and broom don't give it away?"
"I'm sorry ma'am, but I am unfamiliar with Wizarding dress and customs." at Haridian's revelation Mary let out a sheepish laugh.
"Right, sorry, I keep forgetting that all this is new to you," she apologized. "Well i was just going to have a quick fly before we left to get our school supplies." she said gesturing to the broom in her hand.
"On a broom?"
Mary let a small smirk for on her face. Two can play at this game she thought to herself. "Yes."
Haridian fell for the trap and paused waiting for elaboration that wouldn't come. When he realized what she had done he let out a small chuckle. "Well played Ms. Mary Potter, well played." Haridian paused and looked at the sky.
Mary followed his gaze but didn't see anything, she was about to ask what he was looking at when he spoke. "My ship." She glanced at him but refocused on the sky to try and see 'his ship'. The wind began to pick up and her robes billowed a bit but she ignored it. There was a slight shimmer in the air that drew her eye, she squinted, focusing on it as best as she could. It almost looked like a disillusionment charm.
She was pulled from her thoughts when Haridian spoke, "I'm impressed, most don't see it on their first go. Ordis, decloak the ship." Mary's jaw dropped as what could be best described as a spaceship straight out of muggle science fiction.
It was black and blue, and almost seemed to glow. It reminded Mary of a giant, flying, glowing manta ray from the future. She watched in awe as the ship gracefully set on the ground with a dull thump.
"Amazing!" Mary exclaimed. "Can I go aboard?"
"No." Haridian strode toward the Scimitar.
Mary chased after him. "What? Why not?"
"Because there are many things aboard that ship that can, if not used properly or mistakenly activated, kill you." In reality, Haridian just didn't want a random kid he knew for all of two hours wandering inside of his ship. That's also not to mention the security risk of having a random person wandering around a Tenno grade ship.
Mary huffed and crossed her arms, broom resting in the crook of her arm, "Doubt that, I bet you're hiding all sorts of cool things in there."
"Oh, I am." Mary looked at him in surprise at his admittance. "It's just most of those 'cool things' in the ship were made to kill things or prepare other things to kill things." That seemed to stop the young witch in her tracks.
"That's fair I suppose. Can I ask you something? It'll be my last question for now, I promise." she begged.
"Just one, I suppose," he sighed.
"What's with the armor wearing?" Haridian tilted his head questioningly. "Like, I know you said that it's called a warframe and that it's has 'fantastic power' but why are you always wearing it?" She believed him safe here and it didn't make sense to Mary for him to be wearing battle armor here.
Haridian looked away and thought for a moment on how to answer or if he should even answer at all. "I'm not wearing armor, not really." He settled on the good old fashioned cryptic answer.
"Must you be so cryptic and mysterious?! You'll not make any friends this way." She huffed in annoyance and walked back to the house, not in the mood to fly anymore.
Haridian shook his head and entered the ship through an airlock on the side of the ship that slid open at his approach.
Mary
Mary took of her quidditch robes and put on a pair of grey jeans and a white hoodie with black sleeves and white hightop Converse. She looked out her window at the ship in the back yard, Maybe I was a bit harsh.
There was a knock on her door, "Come in."
Her mom walked in, "Ready to go, dear?" Mary nodded and stood up. She walked over to the small desk in the corner of her room ad grabbed the list of books and supplies she would need for the coming school year.
"Where's Haridian? We don't want to be late for our appointment with the goblins." Lily asked.
"He's in the back, in his ship." Lily raised a brow and crossed her arms. "No really go look out my window."
Lily sighed but decided to humor her daughter, after all this wouldn't be the weirdest thing that has happened to her daughter. In the past three years she had gotten into more trouble than most aurors get into. Looking out the window her jaw dropped.
Sitting in the Quidditch pitch in the backyard was a black and blue manta ray shaped space ship. "He's in there? It looks like it just flew straight out of muggle science fiction." He had said he came from another world but this just sort of drove the point home for Lily.
"Shall we go get him? Dad was staring at it through the kitchen window so he's probably still there staring in awe." Mary giggled a little at the thought of her dad's face when she walked through the kitchen to get to the stairs.
They walked down stairs and to the kitchen where her dad was looking out the window. "Dad, it's time to go." James' head turned to look at her incomprehensive.
"We.. need... to go… get… school… supplies," Lily said slowly, as if she were talking to a small child.
"I'm in awe at the spaceship parked in my backyard, not an idiot!" James shouted in mock offense. Lily and Mary just shared a look, then stared at James. "Okay, I may be an idiot from time to time, but I still understand you!"
They went outside and looked at the ship. James leaned over to Lily, "So how do we-" his question was cut off as a panel on the side of the ship slid open. "Never mind."
Mary was surprised when it wasn't the towering 6 foot armored form of of Haridian that stepped out of the ship. What stepped out was a boy, based on body shape, who stood at a short 5 foot 9. He wore a strange suit that looked to be made of some sort of synthetic leather like material. She couldn't see his face because it was covered by some sort of hood and mask combination. She didn't understand the practicality of this as there were no eye holes to allow him to see and the material of the suit made the full mask seem dreadfully hard to breath in. In his hand he had a grey and blue staff that was taller than he was and seemed to match suits coloration. It was topped with an ornate crescent like shape and on its base was shaped like a half of a sphere topped with a cone that led to the rest of the staff.
As he approached, James walked forward to meet him. "Good to see you out of that armor of your's Haridian." Lily and Mary glanced at each other, surprised at the fact James had seen him without his armor and that this is what Haridian looked like outside of his armor; ignoring the fact that none of his skin was even visible.
He tilted his head down in a semi bow, "I was never in the Warframe." Mary furrowed her brow in confusion at his statement but resolved to think it over later.
"Umm, Okay?" Apparently James was confused by the statement as well but he chose to brush it off. "Anyway, are you ready to go."
Haridian nodded, "How will we be getting to this… Diagon Alley, I think it was?" A Marauder's grin ™ spread across James' face he gestured for them to follow him.
Haridian tilted his head in in what Mary took to be confusion but followed James into and through the house. James led him to to sitting room with a grand gesture he held his arms out to the fireplace. Mary realized why James had that horrible grin on his face.
Floo travel was notoriously difficult to get used to as a method of travel. It was particularly horrible on first time floo travelers. This is due to the unusual feeling combination of magic closing in around you like straight jacket and spinning like a tornado.
Haridian looked from the fireplace to James, to the fireplace, and back to James. "I get the feeling you're messing with me somehow." Haridian said.
"Me? Mess with you? Preposterous!" James said in mock indignation.
"That shit eating grin on your face says otherwise." The eyeless mask of Haridian's hood stared at James making him shift uncomfortably.
Despite the intense eyeless stare, the Marauder Grin ™ never left James' face. "Don't worry I'll prove it's perfectly safe. Just grab a handful of Floo Powder," he reached into a vase sitting beside the fireplace and pulled out a handful of glittering black and green powder. "Step into the fireplace, state your intended destination and throw down the powder. You should come out a fireplace on the other side."
"Should?"
"Oh right, remember to be very clear when saying your destination or you may end up someplace completely random." Mary remembered her first trip to Diagon Alley, she pronounced it die gone lily and ended up in Knockturn Alley. Not a fun time, let her be the first to say.
James stepped into the fireplace, Floo Powder at the ready, and said loudly and clearly "Diagon Alley!"
Mary chuckled a little when Haridian took a step back when her father was swept away in whirl of emerald flames. When the flames died down he stepped up to the fireplace and inspected every inch of it with some sort of camera he pulled from one of the pockets of his getup. After a minute or two he put the thing away and scratched his head.
Tentatively he reached into the vase and grabbed his handful of powder and stepped into the fireplace. "Diagon Alley" and poof he was away just like James. Lily and Mary followed a few moments later.
A/N: alright, Im ending it here, initially i wanted to go all the way through Gringots but i figured ive made uou ladys and gents wait long enough for a chapter.