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Anyway on with the story I apologies now for any spelling mistakes and grammatical errors it's really late here and I'm trying not to doze off. I will admit now I could not resist having a little bit of fun with this chapter, I hope you will enjoy what happens.
A Timelord His Daughter and A Wizard
Chapter Ten
Sunday proved a little uneventful apart from a discovery made by Angela whilst reading. They gave the updated map to Fred and George along with the Marauders map, that one a bit reluctantly it had to be said. Harry Draco and Blaise also took the Nimbus two thousands out for a fly while Angela made a start on the books that not Pease blossom had delivered.
She selected Tbor the Terrible, The Land He Lost and Who Won It, by the Bard of Avalon. The book started off with the history of Tbor who seemed to be some sort of ancient chieftain, somewhat like a King, who had ruled a small portion of what would become Scotland. One day Tbor made a wager with a traveler; he would give the traveler part of his kingdom if the traveler could show him something that had never had living eyes laid on it. If the traveler could not do so, then he would serve Tbor for the rest of his days. The traveler had smiled when he heard the terms of the wager; even thought to refuse to take it would have meant he would be killed. Then he had simply walked over to a nearby hazel tree and pulled off one of the nuts, with a flourish he handed it to Tbor and told him to open it, as the man did the traveler announced that the simple shell once broken would reveal something that no living eye had never seen before. Thought furious Tbor had no choice but to give the traveler the land he had promised, if he had not his tribe would have turned on him. He asked the traveler his name before he left and the traveler said one word.
Merlin!
Angela smiled she knew who the traveler was, of course she did it was her Dad, it was the Doctor, something that was so him, however why would he want the land? Of course there was the wager and Tbor the terrible did sound like bad news, however the Doctor could have got away if he'd really wanted to. Still she had only just started the book so she had a feeling she was going to find out what had happened to the land that Tbor lost and Merlin won.
Merlin the traveler vanished for a while, however no one ever claimed the land that he had won that day, it was as if the land itself refused to allow anyone else to lay claim to it, down the ages the lush land in the shadow of some cliffs remained unclaimed by human hand. An ancient forest un-harvested by anyone grew unchecked and was rumored to have all sorts of fantastic creatures in it, and there was a lake that stretched out over part of the land, that no man ever sailed on, it too was rumored to be home to fantastic creatures but no one ever dared to brave it waters to find out. Then one day four magical friends looking for a place to start a school for children to learn to use their powers and to work together met a strange man by the lake. He offered them his lands on which to build their school with only one proviso that he be allowed access to the school at any time he wished. The four swayed by the man's obvious power agreed, so from Merlin, Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff received the land on which to build Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It was said that once the magical foundations of the school were laid, Merlin preformed certain magic's that would allow him and his blood line access to the castle for the rest of time.
Well that would be quite a long time Angela reflected, having listened along with Harry to her Dad's stories of the adventures he Jack and Martha had, had at the end of the universe in the time, one hundred trillion. Would the Earth even be there then she wondered, then remembered one of the Doctors stories of his adventures with Rose, five billion years from now the Earth would burn when the sun was finally allowed to expand. The planet had been the property of the national trust and they had run out of money so finally, nature so to speak, had been allowed to run its course. Anyway it sounded like her Dad, and she realised suddenly herself and Harry, would have access to Hogwarts for a long, long time. She stopped her train of thought and reflected on that for a moment, could that really be true, she knew the wards on Slytherin reacted to her.
Blood, maybe the key word here was blood; blood magic was one of the oldest forms of magic, it had prevailed in the dark times when the universe was so much smaller and creatures like the Nestenes and the Great Vampires had flourished, in the times of the Carrionites and the Racnoss. She shivered slightly thinking of what she had learned from her Father of those times. The Carrionites had used a science based on words, much like the magic used by wizards now in some ways she supposed, the Carrionites had tried to use Shakespeare to bring them back out of the deep darkness where they had been trapped by Eternals and establish the millennium of blood. Luckily for all concerned apart from the Carrionites that was, the Doctor had trapped them in a Crystal ball, she thought that was one of the things he had left in the vault in Gringotts. Maybe she and Harry needed to find the foundations of the castle and add their blood to the Doctors so that they could move around the castle freely without setting off any of the wards.
If that were true then they would need to find a map of the castle which gave an indication of where the foundations were to be found, and show if it were at all possible to get to them she reflected. It would unfortunately need to be more comprehensive than the Marauders map, since the Marauders would probably have had no interest in something like that.
She continued reading the book till the boys came back from flying, it was obvious that they had, had a good time, they told her that Flint had brought out the Quidditch balls the Quaffle, two Bludgers and the snitch. Harry it seemed had been best at catching the snitch, it sounded as if some of the Slytherin team had come out to play with them and it had turned into quite a competition with them all. Angela was happy that they had, had enjoyed themselvers, Harry seemed to like the game more and more every time he played.
After eating lunch in the great hall, Harry and Angela had headed off to the library to look over the things in the box that not Pease blossom had brought them. They looked over the recipe for the sleep compression potion, the ingredients were not too hard to find apart from a few exotic ingredients, which they found were included in the box. Harry pulled out some of the ingredients looking them over as Angela told him what she had learned from the book about Tbor. Harry laughed a little when she told him about the Hazelnut, then looked thoughtful when she told him about the deal Merlin or rather the Doctor had made with the founders.
"So that means that you should have free access to the place." He commented.
"We should." Angela corrected. "And I know we don't, the wards and charms work on us, I think maybe we need to do something so the castle recognises us." She pulled the book out and flipped it to the page she was looking for. "See here it says that Merlin preformed certain magic's when the foundations were built to allow him and his bloodline free access to the castle, I think it was some sort of blood magic and we need to find that place and add our blood to it so that the castle will recognise us too."
"Yeah that kinda makes sense." Harry replied after thinking for a while. "So we need a really, really good map of the castle the Marauders map just isn't going to cut it."
They spent the rest of the afternoon looking thought any books they could find about Hogwarts for design specs on the castle, it turned out a fruitless search and they headed to the great hall for dinner feeling a little discouraged. Draco and Blaise dragged them off to the common room after the meal and they spent the evening until bed time playing games and talking.
The week progressed quite normally to start with they had their lessons, got to know their classmates a little better, Harry and Angela excelling as always maybe because they had had four years at the academy already learning to use their power. The pair also took the time to study the first years from the other houses when they had lessons with them, most of them seemed okay, though a few were a bit too ready to draw their wands.
Wednesday in the great hall over breakfast was when things changed; the morning owl post was just arriving when suddenly everyone fell silent as Bruce Springsteen's voice could suddenly be heard singing,
But till then tramps like us
Baby we were born to run
Oh honey tramps like us
Baby we were born to run
Come on with me tramps like us
Baby we were born to run
Ru-uh-uh-un
Mm-mm-mm-mm
Uh-uh-uh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Ru-uh-uh-uh-un
Mm-mm-mm-mm
Whoa-oh-oh-oh
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Ru-uh-uh-un
"Oh sorry about this." Angela said as she pulled her mobile phone out of her robes glancing round the hall as she did. "I gotta take this it could be important." As the staff and students watched her in shock she answered the called. "Hello Jack."
"Hey Angel how are you." Jack's voice sounded in her ear. "Put me on speaker will you?"
Putting the mobile on the table between herself and her brother, the girl smiled at him and hit the loudspeaker button, there were squeals and screams from around the hall as a hologram of Jack appeared. It appeared rather ghostly at first as he smiled at Angela and Harry.
"Hey Micky can you tweak things a bit, it's a bit fuzzy on this end." Jacks image solidified slightly. "Ahh that's better, hello kid's nice place I must say." Jacks hologram was turning around and having a good look at the great hall. "Nice ceiling." He was looking up now. "Kinda reminds me of one I saw on Caporiaxan, nice people the Caporiaxan's blue skin and very, very friendly if you know what I mean." He seemed lost in thought for a moment, while both Harry and Angela face palmed themselves.
Hermione Granger seemed to have recovered the ability to speak first because suddenly she started talking loudly about the misuse of muggle artifacts, along with the penalties for misuse of them.
Jack turned round to look at her before saying. "What a little know it all, maybe you could call me in a few years though, you're going to be a cute little thing."
"Jack be nice and behave." Harry groaned, as the former time agent continued to look around the hall.
"You guys never want me to have any fun." Jack protested. "Hey there sweet cheeks call me." He had spotted one or more of the elder students, though just who he was speaking too was anybody guess.
Snape seemed to be the first of the professors to recover he stormed over to his houses table where the strange man had appeared. Jack was dressed in his normal world war two RAF uniform minus his great coat so did look a little out of place.
"What is the meaning of this?" The professor demanded. "As Miss Granger pointed out meddling with muggle artifacts is forbidden."
"Well hello, and who are you?" Jack was eyeing Snape with undisguised interest.
"I'm professor Snape, head of Slytherin house, potions master here at Hogwarts, and you who are you sir just how did you breach the wards protecting this castle?"
Jack gave a broad toothy grin. "Oh dark and brooding, you so remind me of someone, how about we get better acquainted with each other, I learned this trick on Antimasque its to die for, well not literally you understand, but I'm sure you'd like it."
Snape pulled out his wand and cast a wordless spell at Jack, of course with Jack being a hologram it had no effect on him, apart that is from a look of interest appearing on his face and his grin getting wider. With a look of frustration on his face Snape cast another ineffective spell at the former time agent. He jumped back however when the face of Micky Smith suddenly appeared on Jack's shoulder, obviously back in the hub he was trying to see what Jack up to. Snape sat down heavily on the bench when that happened looking worried and giving both men dirty looks.
"What the hell is going on Captain Cheesecake?" Micky demanded. "You said you needed to ask Harry and Angela something, oh nice castle room by the way, you're bloody lucky Ianto is upstairs or you'd be on decaff or worse instant."
"Why does everyone want to spoil my fun?" Jack demanded turning to face Angela and Harry once more. "And that's captain beefcake to you, how many times do I have to tell you that, besides you know you want some of this." He moved his hands to indicate his body.
"Jack that's my fiancé you're flirting with there, now pack it in." Martha's face appeared on Jacks other shoulder causing some more screams from the more easily alarmed students. "Hey you two how are you?" She added spotting Harry and Angela, while professor Snape just sat there on the bench, totally lost as to what he could say in reply to the irrepressible Captain.
"Anyway tall dark and brooding do you have a first name?" Jack continued to flirt. "Unless you're into role playing that is, in that case bring it on."
Snape sat there opening and closing his mouth with no words coming out, several of the students were whispering to each other, while some of the other professors were sniggering watching the undignified position the normally unflappable potions master was in.
"Jack I'll call Dad." Angela threatened drawing Jacks eyes back to her.
"Oh yes your Dad, knew there was a good reason I called, need to talk to him and well we can't seem to get hold of him, for some reason he's not picking up." Jack was now refocused.
Harry and Angela looked at each other this sounded interesting, maybe even fun. Jack caught the look on their faces and started shaking his head, before either of them could say anything. They both knew without asking that he was not going to give them any details short of the fact that he needed to talk to the Doctor.
"Jack, come on tell us?" Angela pleaded, pouting slightly, as Micky and Martha stepped back and their heads vanished from Jacks shoulders.
"Not no way, not no how, I just need to get hold of your Dad so I need you two to tell me where he is." Jack stated firmly.
"He's in the Tricros system, he said he was going to consult with the Technomages about something." Harry offered, trying not to smile at the way the whole school was paying attention to what he was saying, which was why he had switched to galactic standard, as spoken in the fifty first century.
"We could send him a message on our psychic paper if you want?" Angela offered in the same tongue. "Or have you tried that?"
Jack shook his head indicating that he hadn't and smiled as Martha elbowed him in the ribs. "Oh all right, Christmas, any Christmas plans yet, cos if you don't we were thinking that maybe you could spend it at the hub with us?" Jack was back to English now. "Oh all right yes I know, the thing is Micky refuses to spend Christmas with Martha's family because we all know there'll be nothing but trouble if they all get together plus the fact what a know it all and attention hog Annalise is." He cast a sympathetic look over his shoulder. "Anyway Ianto's getting a tree and Gwen and Martha are cooking, and I'm in charge of the bar." He eyed Snape again. "I'd even include you, the fun we could have in greenhouse." Jack ducked as Martha's hand appeared over his head and they knew she had taken a swipe at him.
"Yeah I think we'll talk to Dad and see what he has planned before committing." Harry replied quickly he had a bad feeling that they were going to be in a whole heap of trouble for what Jack was doing. "Was there anything else?"
Jack shook his head smiling at them as Angela picked up her phone, then with a wicked grin on his face leaned forward and whispered something in Snape's ear. No one else heard what Jack had to say to the obviously flustered professor but the man blushed slightly and leapt to his feet as Angela hurriedly broke the connection. Once Jack vanished Snape held out his hand for the mobile and Angela handed it to him without a word.
"Obviously this will need to be examined to see what magic's have been done on it." The potions master said trying to regain his composure. "We will be contacting your Father about this."
"Dad already knows about it." Harry said quietly. "He's the one who altered it and it's not magic, its jiggery pokery, Dad's really good at jiggery pokery."
Snape slipped the phone into his robes and swept out of the hall leaving the students and teachers whispering and giggling in his wake. It was going to be a trying and awkward day for the students who had potions lessons that day that was for sure, and since the Slytherin and Gryffindor first years had him first they were not looking forward to the lesson that much. Harry and Angela continued with their breakfast, seemingly unaffected by the uproar that the phone call from Jack had caused. Hermione could be heard over at the Gryffindor table quoting cases of magical misuse of muggle artifacts and the punishments that the perpetrators had received, occasionally glancing over at Harry and Angela who were ignoring her.
"I can't believe how that guy spoke to Snape." Draco finally addressed his two friends.
"It's Jack." Angela said as if that explained everything. "He'll flirt with anything and at his age, well he's not going to stop now?"
"So is the guy you know, like gay?" Blaise asked quietly, flushing slightly at the implied mention of sex.
"Gay no, omnisexual yes."
"Omnisexual?" Blaise questioned.
"Yeah." Angela replied seemingly unconcerned as she popped a bite of toast into her mouth and chewed swallowing before adding. "You know, not just humans."
"Bloody hell." Draco swore then looked round quickly to make sure none of the professors had picked up on the fact that he had done so.
"Dad can make him behave though." Harry continued. "Though he says that Jack needs to go everywhere twice, the second time to apologise."
That brought the conversation to a close as the professors started getting up from the head table and making their way out of the hall, signaling to the students that it was time to get off to class. There was a general scramble for the exits and the four of them joined in the general exodus their bags over their shoulders as they headed for the dungeons and their potions lesson.
Soon the first year Slytherin's and Gryffindor's were milling round in the corridor and the potions lab. Hermione was still trying to tell anyone who would listen how wrong it was to misuse muggle artifacts, then some of the horror stories she knew of about what had happened to muggles who had got hold of magically altered devices.
"Serves them right." Draco muttered earning himself a hard look from Harry and Angela, which did not go un-noticed by Blaise.
"All right you lot go on in and sit down." Snape had walked up unseen by any of them. "Miss Granger five points from Gryffindor for making such a noise when you should be waiting quietly." He swept past them all leading them into the room. "Mr. Smith Miss Smith you are to report to the headmaster after you have eaten lunch, I trust you remember the password from last time Mr. Smith?" He glowered at the class. "Be warned all of you if I hear one mention of that, that, man in the great hall you will find yourselves facing my displeasure." He flicked his wand at the board revealing the potion written there. "You will work in pairs again, not however the pairs you were in for your last lesson, well what are you waiting for get on with it and work quietly."
Harry and Angela looked at each other, having to be silent did not affect them since they could talk mind to mind. Angela suggested Harry partner either Draco or Blaise, since she had a partner of her own in mind, though she did mention that she thought that he might end up working with both of the other boys. The Slytherin's and Gryffindors were pairing up, Harry walked up to Draco and Blaise looked hopefully towards Angela then frowned as he saw her walking towards the Gryffindors.
"You're working with me Neville." She grabbed the arm of the startled boy and towed him after her, as everyone else including Snape stared at the pair of them in shock.
"Are you sure about this, I mess up everything?" Neville questioned her as she found an unoccupied desk for the two of them.
"You don't mess up in herbology." The girl replied. "Sit there and get a fire going for the cauldron, I'll get the things we need."
Everyone else started pairing up quickly, however two boys, one from each house were left. Ron and Blaise looked at each other, neither one willing to make the first move.
That is until Ron spat out. "I'm not working with a filthy snake."
"Ten points from Gryffindor." Snape snapped looking up. "Mr. Zabini, join one of the pairs and you can work in a three, as for you Mr. Weasley you may sit at the back of the class quietly, you fail the assignment and I will see you tonight for detention."
"That's not fair." Ron all but shouted, looking at the professor.
"Make that twenty points, and a weeks worth of detentions would you care to try and make it any more?" Ron shook his head. "I thought so, carry on the rest of you."
Blaise quickly joined Harry and Draco, knowing that apart from Angela, they were the best at potions in the class. His two friends smiled at him and made room for him at their table.
Meanwhile Angela had Neville reading out the instructions to her, hoping it would help him to focus his mind on what they were doing. After watching the boy carefully for the week in the classes they shared, she had come to the conclusion that all he was really lacking was self confidence. She tried to get him talking as they worked, while carefully keeping an eye on what he was doing. He was very quiet at first but eventually started to open up to her, telling her that he had been raised by his Grandmother. His family had been scared he was a squib and various relations had tried to force his magic. Angela sighed softly no wonder the poor boy lacked self confidence; he'd had any confidence knocked out of him by his family.
Angela had memorised the potion instructions when she looked at the board and it was one she had made before, so she concentrated on getting Neville to do most of the work in the hopes of building up his confidence, while making sure he did not mess it all up. Surprisingly it seemed to be working, though she did have to keep reassuring him as Snape stalked around the classroom glaring at people as he passed, or growling at those who got things wrong.
Finally the lesson came to an end and they began bottling their potions for marking, Harry, Draco, Blaise, Angela and Neville were the only ones who's potions were the right shade of colour, of the others Hermione's was closest to the ones they had brewed, but still not the exact colour that the potion called for. After handing in their potions, everyone thankfully exited the classroom with a disgruntled Ron trailing after them. The rest of the morning was uneventful, thought Angela did promise to partner with Blaise in the next potions lesson which seemed to make him happy especially after Harry told him that Angela was the better one at potions.
The pair of them ate their lunch with the other two boys before telling them they would see them in class and headed off to the headmasters study. After giving the password and riding up the spiral staircase they found themselves outside Dumbledore's door. Harry knocked and they went in, to see the old man sitting at his desk looking at them, Angela's phone lay in front of him.
"Miss Smith, Mr. Smith, Angela, Harry, come in and sit down." The children approached the desk and each one sat in one of the comfortable chairs while the old man picked up the phone turning it over in his hands. "I take it this is a muggle item?" Angela nodded. "Fascinating quite fascinating, ingenious in fact, and that it should work here where muggle devices don't work, one would think it had been enchanted in some way." He looked at both the children who in turn looked straight back at him. "And therein lies the puzzle, since neither I, professor Snape, professor McGonagall or professor Flitwick can find any sort of enchantment on it." He looked expectantly at the pair of them and both the children could feel him pushing at their minds with legilimency, though all he was getting from both of them was a long corridor with lots of closed and bolted doors.
"We did tell professor Snape it wasn't magically altered sir, Dad just did a little jiggery pokery as he calls it on them so they work anywhere." Harry stated while Angela experimentally pushed at Dumbledore's mind since he had opened the connection.
"Well since the item has not been magically altered I suppose I had better return it to you." Dumbledore seemed to be unaware of Angela's attempt to probe his mind, he passed the phone over to them and Harry took it slipping it into his robes. "Now there is the other matter of how your friends." He paused at that word looking at them both again hoping they would start to think about Jack; however he was still getting nothing. "Gained access to this castle at breakfast, somehow circumventing all the wards on this school meant to keep out anyone and everyone."
"That's cos he wasn't really here sir." Harry said talking for both of them. "It was just his image that everyone could see, and as for his behavior." He just knew something was going to be said about Jack flirting especially with Professor Snape who so he had over heard was still talking out his embarrassment on the other houses. "Well that's just Jack he's not going to change anytime soon if at all, and considering he's ancient, I really don't think that's going to happen." He smiled as Dumbledore actually laughed.
"Come now young Mr. Potter, your friend is not ancient, just a few decades older than you, where as I maybe. could be called ancient."
"Oh no sir, Jack is Ancient you're just old and its Smith sir, not Potter."
Dumbledore looked at the pair of them with a little sigh breaking off his attempt at legilimency, Angela let the connection break as he did and the twins looked at him, wide eyed and innocent.
"I really fail to see how that would work." Dumbledore replied since I am undoubtedly much older than your friend." That caused Harry and Angela to look at each other and grin. "Well although your house master may have been somewhat embarrassed, that was not your doing, so I find there is nothing to punish either of you for." He looked over his glasses at them. "I would be more interested in finding out how those devices of yours showed your friends image in the great hall."
"Oh the phone didn't do that, that was happening from Jacks end, the
Phone just gave him a signal to lock onto." Angela replied quickly.
Dumbledore smiled again. "Oh well." He gestured to the bowl of lemon drops on his desk. "Lemon drop either of you." Both of them declined. "Well you may go you don't want to be late for class."
"No sir, good day sir." They both coursed making a hasty retreat.
Once outside they looked at each other. "So what did you find out?" Harry enquired as they headed off to class.
"Well he still thinks you're Harry Potter, and he thinks he might be able to trip you up into admitting it." They quickened their pace as they headed for class, "You're supposed to be some hero, and he wants to use you in a war against some dark wizard called Voldemort." They looked at each other.
"Like Dad would ever let that happen." Harry commented, while Angela silently agreed. "Did you send him a message about Jack wanting him?"
Angela shook her head and pulled out her psychic paper and looked at it picturing the message she wanted the Doctor to see. Once that was done they quickly headed off to their first afternoon class, hoping that Jack's antics of the morning would soon be forgotten.
So there you have it, I just could not resist having Jack flirt with Snape, it just seemed like something he would do and I have a feeling Snape would be at a bit of a loss for words especially when his spells did'nt work. I hope you have enjoyed this chapter and will continue to read my story. I'm sure you are all wondering what the Doctor is up to and when he will be back. It won't be long till you find out.
I am very glad to read all of the comments and views that you leave me in fact I love getting reviews. However having said that I do also realise that there are some people out there who are not going to like my story and I'm fine with that after all it would be a pretty boring world if we all liked the same thing now wouldn't it? And to quote a line from a film even Bambi had haters.
