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Sorry for the wait, but I have realized that if I don't slow down just a little bit I'm going to burn out. From now on I'm going take a little time instead of just flying through a chapter and putting it up.
Over the next year several things happened, Roselyn learned how to talk a bit, her first words were bubby and teddy which led to Lily taking time off of work to bond with her baby girl, Angelus spent most of his time traveling to and from Diagon Alley, without his parents knowledge and with Remus' help, James ended up getting promoted into a purely desk position that he only accepted to spend more time at home, and Remus managed to go through three jobs before he managed to find a shop owner in Diagon that was a vampire and had no problem with him being a werewolf as long as he didn't show up for work all furry. Sirius started to spend more time with the Potters, apparently whatever woman he was dating didn't understand why he still spent time with his school friends and he dropped her without a second thought. Overall it was a good year, other then Dumbledore's continued attempts to get Angelus taken away from his parents.
He had brought them in front of the entire Wizarding Gamut with accusations that Sirius was a bad influence for the savior of the Wizarding World with his dark heritage and that Lily and James were trying to corrupt the boy and turn him into the next Dark Lord. Angelus spent most of the trial trying desperately to keep from laughing. Sirius was about as much of a Dark Wizard as Dumbledore was a young woman. The court humored him with every test that they had at their disposal to test Sirius' magic and mind for traces of any dark magic and every test came up the same, absolutely nothing dark had been cast by Sirius in the last five years which is how far back the tests went. Which was great, considering that his parents made him learn a wide repertoire of dark spells throughout his school career, he had all the knowledge to be a great dark wizard just not the desire. The only good thing that came out of the charade was that Dumbledore lost his position as the head of the Gamut and was barred from putting any accusations against the Potters or anyone associated with them without presenting proof before hand to the courts and having them deem the matter worth pursuing. Dumbledore left the courtroom with a red face, cursing under his breath the entire time.
Angelus spent most of his time relearning most of the things that he had forgotten from his early years. He was shocked about how many of the smaller things that he had forgotten or maybe never even got the chance to learn. He spent quite a bit of his spare time bonding with his little sister and with his parents; he enjoyed that more then anything, just soaking up the love of his family. He was also seen spending plenty of time with Sirius, planning pranks, executing them and gathering future blackmail material. He spent at least one weekend a month, a new moon weekend, with Remus reading and talking about anything that crossed his mind. He felt comfortable in Remus' company even if he couldn't see him as anything but the good friend he had become in Angelus' previous life.
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As it neared time for Angelus to begin his schooling at Siren Academy his house turned into a madhouse. Lily was almost constantly hovering over him trying to make sure she spent as much time with him as she could before he left. James spent his time using his contacts at the Ministry trying to make sure that no one would find out the Angelus was not going to Hogwarts until they wanted them to. Remus ended up working double shifts at the shop because one of the other employees was killed by a muggleborn witch for being a creature, the witch wasn't even punished because she acted as if she was just defending herself against an insane creature, Sara was one of the most gentle and loving people Remus had ever met. Sirius was trying to compile a book full of his best pranks for Angelus to take with him. As the day got nearer they all knew that they wouldn't be able to put off the trip to Diagon Alley any longer so they applied their strongest glamours and headed out as a group just in case.
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Because they had put the trip off for as long as they did the Alley was filled with parents and children clogging up the street and every shop as they tried to gather all of the necessary supplies. Luckily they already had most of the books through owl order as many of them were not available in Diagon and Lily's shopping sprees had taken care of the others so all they really had to get were the basic class supplies and the extra things that Angelus might need or want while he was gone. Remus headed to the apothecary to get the rather long list of potion supplies along with several extra things just in case. James and Sirius immediately made a beeline for the nearest prank shop with their next stop already planned, candy, after all every growing boy needs to prank and then enjoy the show with candy. This left Lily and Angelus to take on the most important place for almost any witch or wizard in Diagon Alley, Ollivander's.
Even though Siren Academy was focused on the use of wandless magic it was still necessary to have a wand. The academy also taught the full range of wand based magic as most of the rest of Wizarding kind thought that wandless magic was too difficult to use on anything beyond the most simple of spells and the students and teachers of the academy wanted to keep it that way.
The door to the shop creaked inward slowly and Lily and Angelus entered the seemingly empty shop. Lily began to look over the massive stacks of wands as she waited for the old man to make his customary entrance. Angelus moved over to one of the less rickety looking stools and gently perched on it and kept his eye on Ollivander's magical signature, he had spent quite a bit of time developing his Magic Sight. It was a dormant trait of the Potter line that most of them never took the time to unlock; it was one of the main reasons that he had made such a good seeker even with glasses. He subconsciously tapped into the trait when he was playing which allowed him to follow the snitches magic rather then trying to catch sight of a small ball of gold in the sunlight. Angelus sat calmly as he watched one of his favorite wizards work his way toward the front of the store, he had probably been working on a new project in his workroom when they interrupted him.
Ollivander found himself intensely curious when he noticed that the young mister Potter was in his shop a full five years early and that the boy seemed to know he was there. He was aware that the Potters had the Magic Sight ability but it had been at least four generations since one of them brought the ability to its full power. He waited several moments more as he observed the boy who never took his eyes off of him before he revealed himself causing Lily to jump despite the fact that she knew he was going to do it. "Lily Potter, twelve inch elm with a hair from a unicorn hair, a very adaptable wand. I assume you are having no problems with your wand?" He nodded as she confirmed that her wand was in excellent condition, which would mean that they could only be here for one thing. "Then I shall assume that you have come here to acquire a wand for the young Mr. Potter and I shall also assume that you do not wish for certain parties to become aware of the purchase."
Lily felt the blush rise to her cheeks rather rapidly. "Yes, well, Angelus has been accepted into a magical academy and we would like to keep that under the strictest of confidences for now to keep his fans and certain other people from making things difficult." The look in Ollivander's silver eyes made her feel like a schoolgirl again.
Ollivander could practically feel the young Angelus' eyes boring into him. "I do believe that we could make a deal of sorts." He watched as both of his customers shifted. "I am in need of someone to help me with my craft and the upkeep of my shop during the busy summer months and I am sure that young Angelus would fit the bill perfectly."
Angelus felt his eyes grow wide; he never would have imagined a job at Ollivander's shop! He answered before his mother could even process the question. "I would love to help you!" He blushed scarlet as Ollivander raised his eyebrows and his mother almost got whiplash when she swung around to face him. "I would like to learn anything you could teach me and it would give me something to do over the summers instead of hanging around the house all of the time and I really do need the wand and it's a small price to pay to keep everyone else out of the loop." He knew that he was starting to babble, but they were both staring at him and it was starting to make him a little nervous.
Lily stared at her baby boy in utter disbelief; he was never one to speak out about anything. "Well, it certainly does sound like a good deal and since Angelus seems to be eager to help you out I don't see any problem with letting him help you out during the summer, under a glamour of course."
"Of course, now why don't we start looking for the wand that will choose you Mr. Potter, after all, the wand chooses the wizard." What followed was one of the longest searches of Ollivander's career, he even tried to give the boy the brother wand to Voldemort's and the wand had literally exploded, luckily no one was hurt but the wand was useless now. He found himself more excited then he had been in decades, he must have shown the boy every normal wand in his possession and he finally decided to break out the big guns. "Well Mr. Potter, I don't believe that you are suited for a wand at all." He couldn't stop the grin that surfaced at the looks of disbelief from both of the Potters. "Perhaps it would be better to look into another focus."
"Can't you just make a custom wand to match his magic?" Lily didn't want her boy to be anymore different from other children then he already was; she could sometimes see the eyes of a much older person shine through his eyes and she wanted at least something to connect him to other children.
"Unfortunately, none of the ingredients in this room reacted properly to his magic, so any wand I tried to craft for him would be just as unsuited, but there are plenty of foci that work in the same way as a wand would." Ollivander turned and began to walk toward his back room. "If you would follow me, I think that I know just the thing to focus that power of yours, consider it your first lesson in wand-making, wands are only the beginning."
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Angelus stared at the room in awe; there were things here that most wizards would give half their interest in hell to see. There were samples of all manner of magical being in glass cabinets and baskets throughout the room, everything from ballisk teeth to zombie hair and some things he couldn't even name. Ollivander led them to a small table in the middle of the room that had a small cauldron in the middle as well as an unadorned chest. He opened the chest carefully and turned it toward them to reveal that it was filled with many stones of varying sizes and shapes as well as small bits of metal. "All I require is that you choose whichever metal calls to you as well as any stones that do the same, just let your instincts guide you."
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By the time they left Ollivander's shop they had to rush to meet the others at a small café run by a small dainty witch that looked like a small breeze would carry her away. Lilly was the one to tell the men what had happened at Ollivander's as Angelus found himself in a daze, he spent the rest of the trip in his own mind going over everything that he had learned and thinking about how much there was that he still didn't know. He then made a vow that he would no longer take anything he knew for granted, he had thought that wands or wandless magic was the only way to go, even music based magic was wandless but now he knew that foci came in all manners of power and form. What else had he learned that was actually untrue?
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The day that Angelus was set to leave for Siren's Academy was hectic to say the very least. Lily spent the better part of the morning switching between checking to make sure that everything was packed to crying about how her baby was going to be so far away and about how he would have to write her tons of letters and tell her everything about the school and about any friends he made. The resident men were smart enough to stay firmly out of her way and just waited until it was closer to time to leave and then interrupted her only long enough to get Angelus' trunk and get them all ready to portkey to the necessary station to catch the boat to Siren's Academy. Angelus made sure to keep a calm face as he bid his parents. Sirius and Remus goodbye and entered the boat, rather proud that he managed to do it without crying. Luckily they had managed to get to the station early, even with Lily's little episode and he was able to find a room without having to deal with the curiosity he was sure the other students were going to have.
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The boat was rather comfortable on the inside, most likely due to magic and all of the rooms were situated like the compartments on the Hogwarts train only slightly bigger. Angelus settled into one toward the front of the boat and took out one of his favorite books before putting his trunk up and sitting back to relax and wait for the other children to arrive.
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Angelus was so absorbed in his reading that he almost shot four feet off of the seat when the door slammed open before a rather ragged looking youth dragged his trunk in before slamming the door closed. The boy looked to be about fourteen with buzzed blonde hair and crystal blue eyes. He was of the muscular athletic type and yelped in pain as he finally noticed Angelus and dropped his trunk on his toe.
He rubbed the back of his head as he blushed. "Sorry, didn't know that one of the teacher's children was using this room."
Angelus felt the heat rise to his cheeks, that was a very low blow. "I'm not a teacher's kid, my name is Angelus and I applied to the school early."
The boy seemed to perk up. "You applied early and got accepted?" Angelus nodded slowly. "That's totally awesome. The name is Anton Sedalia; I am in my fourth year with a ritual major." Anton heaved his trunk into the overhead and plopped into the seat across from Angelus. "You didn't tell me your family name."
Angelus closed his book and sat it beside him in the seat; he had the feeling that he wasn't going to get the chance to finish. "My full name is Angelus Orion Potter." He winced as Anton's eyes widen slightly. "Yes I am that Angelus Potter. I didn't want to end up forced to go to Hogwarts so I applied to Siren Academy, took the exam and managed to score high enough to gain admittance. I didn't want to go to Hogwarts because of all of the fanatics in England."
Anton leaned further into his seat and looked to be in deep thought for a moment. "Yeah, I can see how having people mobbing you every minute of the day could get to be a little annoying. Well, how about I help keep any of the fans that you have at the Academy from getting too close?" He grinned at the confused look on Angelus' face, he had a feeling he was really going to like this kid. "There are probably going to be a least a couple fanatics in even Siren's Academy and they'll be all over you to share a room. We may not have houses like Hogwarts but students still have to share rooms though it's normally only two or three to a room. Most of the others won't share a room with me so you wouldn't have to worry about someone trying to molest you in the dark."
Angelus tried to ignore the images that that last remark brought forth and focused on the rest of it. "Why doesn't anyone want to share a room with you?"
A rueful look passed over Anton's face. "Even though most of the people in the Academy are rather open-minded most of them still have problems sharing a room with a vampire, there's even a small group of muggleborns that tried to stake me last year." He face became playful. "You should have seen their faces when it didn't work and when a professor that caught them had them summarily expelled. They tried to convince the professor that I had attacked them and they were just trying to defend themselves and that the school shouldn't let dangerous creatures into the school. They about pissed themselves when the professor flashed his fangs at them and told them that they smelt so bad that even the most desperate of vampires wouldn't touch them."
Angelus found himself giggling before he could stop himself and froze, he had never giggled. He shook himself and focused on Anton. "I wouldn't mind sharing a room with you, and if you ever need a nightcap let me know." He smiled at the astonished look on Anton's face. "You can't help what you are and I'm not one of those foolish people that think that you'll drain me in my sleep or that one bite will turn me."
The rest of the trip was spent talking about how the school was run and what all the classes were like. Anton spent a good hour talking about his fiancée, a girl that he had known for three years from another coven. Vampires know who their mate is on sight and he went into detail about how amazing it was to know that she was his and he was hers for the rest of their lives. Angelus could honestly admit that he was more then a little jealous.
The event with Ollivander will get explained bit by bit. Review and let me know what you think.