AN: I don't know what happened, but I have been Inspired. NatashaNiracval and Xanadu Princess asked me about Kira's character so I went back into some of the notes I scrapped early on due to complaints and added some of that aspect back into her in this chapter. Enjoy this Holiday Interlude.
Warning: Not a lot of action; only a little plot but lots of little hints and some foreshadowing if you are paying attention.
Authors Note: You may need this.
Parseltounge
"Speech"
Thoughts/Telepathy
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Map writing
Chapter 10: Holiday Interlude
Sirius had picked Harry up at Kings Cross and used the Floo to go to Midnight Rose Manor. This was done so that any of Dumbledore's spies would think Sirius was taking Harry away from the Riddle family's influence. That was so far from the truth that Sirius often had a hard time not laughing at Dumbledore's gullibility. He also oft-times wondered how James, Peter, Lily and he kept Remus from learning the truth.
Sirius warded and then waited by the fireplace while Harry fetched the gift he had gotten Kira from his room. Sirius sighed as he looked at the photograph on the mantle. The Marauders, in their seventh year, waved at him from the gilded frame. Looking at the smiling faces, the trusting eyes of Remus, Sirius once again felt guilt wash over him. The Marauders had been family, brothers and so much more. Yet three of the Marauders had left the fourth out because he was too wrapped up in believing the rhetoric, the light mantra.
"Ready Sirius?" asked Harry, causing the reminiscing animagus to startle slightly.
"Yeah," he said as he turned to his godson.
Harry knew that look well, the look of a man who misses one of his dearest friends. James and Sirius often wore that look when Remus was mentioned. "You know the only thing keeping him from you and James is his own faith in the wrong side?"
"I know Harry," replied Sirius quietly. "But that doesn't mean I don't miss him. Seeing him this past summer was… painful. I hated lying to him. I hated having to use potions to remove James' scent from me so that Remus wouldn't know. It was so much harder than…"
"Perhaps with the new laws being passed because of Regulus, Rabastan, and Rodolphus he'll begin to see the truth and change his beliefs," Harry said as Sirius seemed to choke up slightly.
"Maybe one day he'll accept the beast within," said Sirius. Then shaking his head he continued, "If you're ready it's time to go." Harry nodded and picked the port-key from the table. Sirius activated it by saying, "Yule."
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The good thing about having well placed contacts and allies were the perks. Calvin Riddle sat with William Dorlinth and Yamoto Suike in field side, fifty yard line, seats at a Dallas Cowboys home game. Calvin loved American Football, and while the Bears were his favorite team, he simply loved watching any good game. The three men were meeting about an alliance between Yamoto's yakuza family, based out of San Jose, CA while retaining contact with the other families in Tokyo and Dorlinth's rather large business based out of Dallas. The fact that the Yamoto Family had an entire magical section helped with the negotiations.
Calvin was there representing his brother. Suike was pleasantly surprised by the offers from both Calvin and William. While he was by no means being offered the world a platter, he was being offered a chance at power, prestige and honor. He was also being offered a solution to a problem that had arisen in Japan after WWII. The Japanese magical community was shrinking, at nearly 25 percent each generation. Many of the most prolifically mystical families had been living in the areas surrounding Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No one could have guessed that radiation would harm magic the way it did. Magic was still very unreliable in the fallout areas.
The Dark family, the Dorlinths and a number of allied families were going to be renting an island for the winter holidays. A Carnival crew had been hired to set up entertaining rides on the island and temporary housing, in the form of magical tents, had been set up on the island for the visitors use. Calvin was now trying to convince Yamoto to bring his family and join the Dark Allies on this holiday. If Yamoto said yes that would mean just over 300 people, adults and children, would be sharing the island retreat.
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Kira, Draco, Miriam, Jared and Blaise called out to their cousins as they ran from the port-key drop-off toward the carnival rides. The younger children saw the Hogwarts students and called excitedly. Hugs were exchanged and questions were answered. A few of the non-dark family children joined them within a few minutes. Soon over thirty children were gathered talking, laughing and trying to decide which rides to go on first. A few muggle couples and their older non-magical children acted as chaperones to the youngsters.
Narcissa, Erica, and Bellatrix smiled indulgently as the students ran to their friends and allies. The three wives then went in search of their tents and husbands. Everyone on the island was aware of magic, even the carnival workers. Although the some of the carnies would be Obliviated before they left. This was the first gathering of the Dark Alliance and only about ten families were unable to make the gather. This gather did not include the death eaters who were not Family. It wasn't yet time to bring them fully back into the fold.
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Suike, his wife Keiko, and their only surviving child Jukio arrived on the privately rented Caribbean island with five bodyguards. Three of the bodyguards were wizards. Suike and Keiko were magical as well, but their son was a squib. Their other three children had shown signs of accidental magic, but all three had died of unknown illnesses. Healers and Doctors alike had been unable to help the Yamoto children.
Calvin, Lily, Jessica and Tom Riddle greeted the Yamoto family as they arrived. Yamoto almost lost his composure when his Sight alighted upon Tom Riddle, the Dark Lord. Shocking his wife and bodyguards, Suike bowed extremely low, as low as a samurai to his daimyo. "It is an honor to meet you, Lord of Chaos. Your brother did not tell all. I offer my family's allegiance to you."
"You are an ally, not a servant. Please do not bow so lowly," responded Tom, offering a hand to the man bent with his head nearly touching the ground.
Suike accepted the hand and straightened. He had never in his life believed he would meet a chaos mage. Now he understood why Calvin said that Tom may be able to awaken any magic in his son. Chaos mages were myths in Japan. The idea that someone could be shaped by chaos, could be a channel for that aspect of magic, and not become lost in madness was often thought of as a legend. It was spoken of in the same way youkai were spoken of. It was well known that the last powerful youkai was sent into the spirit world centuries ago by the last order mage recorded in Japan, the Miko Reika.
"Forgive my faux pass. I did not expect an actual Chaos Mage. I apologize."
"Not many expect a Chaos Mage in the current world. Especially since the last six, who attempted the ancient tests before me, failed," replied Tom.
"They all became lost in the madness," said Lily quietly, "because they were not strong enough, or because they failed the final lesson."
"Join us for dinner," said Calvin, breaking the slight awkwardness which seemed to settle.
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The carnival workers knew they would have to work harder than normal, but that was okay. The carnival was being paid a much larger sum of money than they would have gotten being in a town at this time of year. In fact this time of year, winter, was normally very unproductive even in the southern part of the United States. Not only was the carnival as a whole being well paid, but the carnival was also allowed, and encouraged, to sell their food. The game booths were also going to be allowed to charge for access. The carnival employees knew this was an opportunity not to screw up.
The Sunday after most of the guests arrived on the Island, the carnival opened its gates to the guests at ten in the morning. This was the time Tom and William had negotiated. The carnival would open everyday at ten, close for family time at four, and reopen at seven until ten in the evening. The guests to the Island had been informed and while some of the children didn't like the fact that the carnival would be closed for three hours every day, they accepted it.
Harry, Kira, the Malfoy children, the Zabini children, the Lestrange children, and the Pettigrew children met up at the carnival entrance at 9:45 and waited for the gates to open. They were not the only ones to arrive early. Morgan Dorlinth, her nine year old son Joshua and four year old daughter Lizia arrived just after them. By the time the gates opened, five families, three groups of muggle teens, and two couples who as yet were without children were ready to enter the carnival. The Dark family ran to the tilt-a-world first. It was a ride that was just exiting enough without being dangerous to the smaller children. Of course all the rides had been charmed so that the small children, at least five years old, would be able to enjoy the more vigorous rides.
The dark children wanted to be sure that the youngest, such as Carol-Anne Lestrange and Henry Pettigrew were comfortable before they went on rides like the zipper. Kira loved the zipper while Harry loved the Pirate ship, especially if he was in an end seat where you free fell for a second as the ship began to swing from its apex to the center of the pendulum motion. Draco surprisingly enough like bumper cars while Blaise adored the 'spaceship', a ride where centrifugal force held you to the wall while the floor dropped out beneath you. Blaise liked to climb the wall after the floor dropped so that when the ride stopped she fell a foot or so to the floor. The younger children each had their favorites as well.
While running around enjoying the carnival the dark children had their attention caught by the sound of a person saying "Ew!" Looking around they saw Uncle James and Sirius sharing a hotdog, including the licking of ketchup and mustard from around the other's mouth. The sounds of disgust were coming from three boys of about eight years old. The dark children nodded silently to one another and burst into the school-yard song "James and Siri sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G…" The two Marauders jumped in surprise, causing their hotdog to fall and make a mess. The resulting laughter was met by a growl.
The dark children took off running as Sirius bounded after them in dog form. A regal, normally regal, looking male deer ran after them. The children stayed together and as Sirius pounced on Lawrence the other youths turned on the dog, rubbing the ticklish or itchy spots. This gave James time to transform and begin tickling Harry. Laughter rang out from the pile of children as it turned into an all out tickle-war, everyone for themselves.
"That unruly cousin of yours is teaching our children bad habits," said an aristocratic voice near the laughing pile.
The tickle-war stopped as everyone sheepishly looked up at a smirking Lucius and a Narcissa holding back laughter. "I don't know dear. I think laughter is just what was needed," replied Narcissa.
"Want to join us?" asked James with a suggestive smile.
"As if I would ever allow myself to be that close to either of you flee-bitten animals, I am going to have to sanitize my son and daughter before they enter our tent as it is," was Lucius' sarcastic reply. Anyone who didn't know him would not have realized he was joking.
Sirius and James both pouted as the children stood and started dusting off. Dusting and cleaning charms were cast by Narcissa and within a few moments most evidence of the tickle-war was gone. Only the disheveled hair and flushed faces gave indication of the fun.
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Tom Riddle, Xain Natchine, and Valerie Malachite were discussing the upcoming full-moon. Both were leaders of their small packs and were worried about being on the island during the full-moon. While all seven werewolves, from both packs, had accepted their beasts they were still dangerous to normal humans.
There were two types of werewolves; those who accepted their beast and those who did not. The wolfs-bane potion, which allowed the werewolf to retain their human mind and control while in were-wolf form only worked for those who did not accept their beast. Tom was currently explaining the wolfs-friend potion he and Lily had recently perfected. The potion worked like wolfs-bane, but only for those who accepted their beast. They knew the potion worked because the pack which ran their manor grounds on the full-moon had been successfully using it for six months.
The wolfs-friend potion was nearly identical to wolfs-bane. The only differences were replacing the ounce of powdered aconite with a single phoenix tear and waiting ten minutes rather than five before adding a single drop of moon-dew. Two simple changes and the wolfs-bane potion was no longer harmful to the inner beast. Unbeknownst to the creator and users of wolfs-bane, the potion slowly wounded the beast. Whenever a wolfs-bane user went a lunar cycle without the potion the following transformation was worse and the beast much more violent. Wolfs-friend had no such damaging side effects; the only side effect to stopping its use was that the werewolf was once again pure instinct on the full-moon.
"Will this potion be supplied for our pack's use in the future?" asked Valerie.
"At the moment only Lily and I can make the potion; however as soon as we can train a few others, it will become available. We are also still looking for the ingredient list for the wolfs-truth potion. So far we have been unable to find anything other than the fact that phoenix tears and freely given unicorn blood are needed for it."
"That's the potion that when combined with a spell will give permanent full control of the beast to the werewolf?" asked Xain. Tom nodded.
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The full-moon was Christmas Eve. Everyone was told that there would be werewolves running around the island that night. They were also told that the werewolves would be completely safe due to a potion supplied by the Dark Lord. The werewolves knew they were allowed to have fun, but they were to avoid biting anyone. The werewolves knew that if they bit anyone they would be killed swiftly, if they were lucky or slowly if not.
The moon rose beautifully full in the warm night, casting a path of silver over the calm ocean. The werewolves waited in their tents for the change and then slipped out into the night air. Four of the large dire-wolves were varying shades of gray while the other three were brown. The pack alphas were obvious as they were the two largest. The other members of their packs were smaller. The gray pack even had one wolf the size of a normal timber wolf, the boy was eight years old and much smaller than his father Xain.
The seven werewolves were joined by a large black grim-like dog and light brown stag. The two packs knew who the new-comers were and welcomed the mated animaguses. They were very surprised when an ebony wolf, larger than a normal wolf but smaller than Xain or Valerie, joined them. The wolf's eyes were the color of the killing curse and there was small lightning bolt of silver fur on his forehead. Xain, Valerie and their packs knew he wasn't a true werewolf, they could feel the slight difference from themselves; however he was not an animagus.
The ten transformed humans ran and played around the island. The werewolves were supplied with a feast of raw meat since there were no animals, other than birds, on the rented island. The werewolves were very happy and all of them hoped that the potion would be readily available soon. They also hoped that they would soon have the wolfs-truth as well.
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"Why aren't you joining them?" asked a quiet female voice.
Kira looked to the right. Bellatrix had joined her up the transfigured tree and was beside her on the large branch. She could see the concern in her aunt's countenance. "I do not have the wolf shadow within," she replied simply.
"That never stops you during the summer," pointed out Bella.
Kira smiled sadly, "But during the summer the packs know me. These packs… they are new. They have never run with Harry and I under the solstice moon."
"They do tonight."
Kira started as she realized Bella was correct. Tonight was the full-moon of the winter solstice. Kira could run with them… "What if they don't like the order within me?"
Bella chuckled slightly. She knew that vampires were order creatures, as were Dementors, both of which were Kira's 'shadows' as she called them. For all that Kira was slowly becoming a chaos mage, just as Harry was, Kira's shadow path was far more order oriented than Harry's. It was rather humorous when Bella thought about it. Kira, the child who was almost completely Tom's child, was the one who had Order destabilizing her; while Harry, the child who was almost completely James' child, was the one who had chaos destabilizing him. In the end the Legacy Children would be chaos and order mages, both. They would become the paradox that is the Legacy.
"Just don't drain their joy and I'm sure they will welcome you," Bellatrix smiled at Kira.
Kira nodded and smiled back, revealing small fangs. Her eyes turned a dark violet as red seeped into them and then she jumped off the branch to hang in the air. A red shimmer surrounded her body and she levitated toward where the transformed humans were.
Xain padded over to the dark lord's daughter and was surprised by her scent. Her scent was very similar, but not quite, to that of a vampire. Valerie and Xian growled and yipped to each other. They agreed to allow Kira to join them. Harry mentally relayed this to Kira and she gave her thanks verbally to the alphas.
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Christmas morning was spent in the Malfoy tent. The tent was nearly as grand as the Hall of Malfoy manor. The house elves supplied a sumptuous feast to the dark family. The other families, in their own tents, were being supplied grand meals by the house elves of the Black, Lestrange, Pettigrew, Potter and Zabini estates. The dark family kept their traditions just to themselves. Before breakfast commenced they each expressed their appreciation for the joys of the past year.
Regulus' joy was the accomplishment from only a few days before the holiday break of the Wizengamot. "I'm pleased to announce I finally got a draft of our fair employment act passed by the drafting committee. It was voted into Tempus Law the last day of this season's Wizengamot." The cheers from around the table were joyous.
"How long will it be a Tempus Law?" asked Kira. She found wizarding law to be fascinating and oftentimes contradictory. When she was seven her father had been afraid she'd become a lawyer; he no longer feared that because she discovered potions the next year.
"Unfortunately Dolores Umbridge, the head of the Department of Control and Disposal of Dangerous Creatures, created such an uproar while the law was being discussed that the only way to pass it at all was to put a ten year tempus on it."
"Did Dumbledore's representative vote for or against it?" asked Lily.
"Dumbledore was actually present and he was the one who suggested a ten year tempus. Normally a tempus is no more than five years, but the moment he suggested ten the ones who were wavering on the approval agreed to it," replied Regulus.
"We'll continue this discussion later," said Tom, cutting off Kira before she could ask another question. "Bellatrix it is your turn."
When the appreciation was over, food appeared on the table. The meal was joyous and the feeling of togetherness was almost tangible. The meal ended and the family moved from the table to the large palm tree which had been decorated as if it was a pine tree. The palm tree looked rather odd with glistening icicles and dancing fairies.
Tom gave the normal warning about opening your present early and then summoned each present. He then sent it to the correct recipient. Harry watched as each of his owl-order gifts were sent to the proper people. He was smirking as the gift he had found, while Sirius, Remus and he had been in Italy, over the summer went over to Kira. Kira sent a questioning look at him when she noticed her gift from him wasn't wrapped in green paper with golden snitches flying around on it. Hers was wrapped in simple brown and tied with a blue ribbon.
Once the gifts were all distributed Tom shot up the customary green and silver sparks. The children tore into the wrapping with enthusiasm while as usual the adults were more subdued. Kira opened Harry's gift last. Her mouth formed an "O" of surprise while moisture glistened in her eyes. She reverently took the violin out of the wadded tissue. She had only seen and heard an authentic Velintcia once in her life. They had spent a month in Florence when they were eight and the wizarding symphony was hosting the top wizarding violinist in the world. A Velintcia instrument was rarer and more valuable within the wizarding world than even a Stradivarius in the muggle world.
"Where did you find this?" asked Kira in a hushed, awed voice.
"Do you like it?" answered Harry.
Kira nodded, "It's exquisite, but how did you…"
Harry laughed and took pity on Kira's curiosity; he also knew every adult other than Sirius would want to know how he got a priceless antique like the violin. "There was a small muggle antique store in this small town, I can't remember the name, and when I felt magic from it I asked Sirius and Remus if we could go in. That was sitting next to one of those muggle Stradivariuses. It was marked, "Stradivarius Imitation" and was only a small fraction of the price of the Stradivarius." Kira reverently set it back within the tissue and then launched herself at her brother. She hugged him tightly while saying thank you over and over again.
When everyone was done thanking everyone else for their gifts Selene asked Kira to play something on her new violin. Kira carefully tuned the violin, listening to each string until the tone was perfect. Then she set the bow upon the strings. She closed her eyes and moved the griffin mane bow across the thestral mane strings. The hair used in the Velintcia masterpiece reacted to the emotion as well as talent of the musician.
Most violinists create a somber, eerie or haunting sound with a violin. Kira drew from the instrument a soft joy. The sound was graceful, full of promise, and seemed to giggle with a touch of bells. The sound had an almost living presence as is danced around and through the dark family. It touched the heart as phoenix song does and spoke of love. The music ended on a quiet note as though one was slipping into a peaceful rest.
The dark family clapped and Kira beamed happily. She had felt her magic entwine with the music. Her joy at having received such a wondrous gift from her brother had filled her only to overflow into the music. She didn't get to play for others very often, not since going to Hogwarts, but she knew she would resolve to play more often at family gatherings. She tilted her head as a thought came to her, "Mother?" she inquired.
"Yes," said Lily.
"Does the nursing home still need entertainment volunteers during the summer?"
Lily, knowing where her daughter's thoughts were going smiled brightly, "Yes they still need more volunteers for Wednesday and Friday night entertainment."
Sirius cleared his throat. As everyone looked at him he began, "Remus asked Harry who the violin was for and after being told he got Kira a Christmas gift." He withdrew a shrunken present from his pocket and enlarged it. "This is from Remus."
Harry and Sirius had also received gifts from the werewolf, but their gifts had been in the pile under the tree. Kira accepted the package and opened it. Inside the rectangular box was a violin case, old and somewhat battered, of dark mahogany. Its color matched her new violin perfectly. Kira smiled brightly. "I'll have to be sure to send him a thank you gift," she said as she moved her violin from the tissue filled box to the case. The instrument fit so well it was almost as if the case had been made for it. No one allowed themselves to notice the glistening crystalline light in the eyes of four of their number.
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Remus had been overjoyed when Sirius' owl arrived. It told him that Harry had appeared at Hogwarts. He even asked for Remus' help to get the Black family summer home, Midnight Rose Manor, on the Riviera ready for when Sirius picked his godson up from Hogwarts at the end of the school year. Remus had jumped at the chance to see his best friend again.
Sirius was waiting at the edge of the wards when Remus arrived. The house was magnificent and the architecture harkened back the French Renaissance period. It was a huge with light gray walls, numerous windows, dark mauve roofs, and open-air spires topped with domes. The windows were enhanced with engraved roses. The thick glass in the front door bore the Black family seal, two dragons entwined around a wand, encircled with rose vines.
Midnight Rose Manor had been built in the very late sixteenth century when Lady Raylean Freylin Black had become head of the Black family after the untimely death of her husband. Her eldest son was still a child and there had been no other Black males of her husband's generation. During her twelve years as family head the Black family had almost lost its reputation as a Dark family. Her sons and daughter as well as her sisters in law quickly proved their loyalty to the dark when Dark Lady Vinteria came to power in the earliest years of the seventeenth century. She was the last true Dark Lady, the last western Chaos mage before Voldemort.
Sirius hugged Remus. "Its good to see you," said Sirius with a slight hitch in his voice.
Remus breathed in the scent of his friend. There was something different about it, but then again he hadn't held his friend in almost a decade. "It's good to see you, too." They drew apart, "Did you contact Peter or his wife?"
Sirius' eyes widened comically, "You mean the mouse is married?" His voice squeaked slightly.
Remus nodded with a smile. Something about Sirius' response felt wrong, but he couldn't tell why. "Yes, he got married… god, spring of 1983."
"Is she cute?"
Again something tickled at the back of Remus' mind. "Her name is Jasmine and she is a beautiful muggle-born American witch."
"Well, you can help me write a letter and invite them to help with the house later. Let's get you keyed to the wards and get to work."
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Remus was still trying to figure out why he felt something was off. The introduction of Jasmine and the two little kids had been rather smooth. Sirius seemed to get along with the third Marauder's wife yet something had bugged him the entire time. He remembered the last time he felts this tingling.
The time James and Lily announced they had gotten married. The fact that they had eloped in Los Vegas, USA had shocked the rest of the order and Remus; but Remus remembered that Sirius and Peter hadn't seemed all that surprised. Then a month later Lily had announced her pregnancy. The entire time, from surprise marriage all the way to their deaths, Remus had felt something was amiss. He still couldn't understand why James had used his half brother as the secret keeper.
Remus looked up at the gibbous moon. The full-moon was three days away. He knew Sirius would invite him to stay, but if he wanted the wolfs-bane he would have to go to the Ministry holding house. Sirius couldn't go with him because he was still an unregistered animagus. He turned from the back terrace and entered the manor. He feet took him up the huge spiral staircase and as he passed Sirius' room he heard "I wish I was with you tonight my love." and the sound of a frame being placed on a nightstand. The light went out and Remus slipped silently past his friend's room not sure why he felt a pain in his heart.
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James walked with Sirius around Black Rose Manor. "You've done an excellent job getting this place back together after the way we carefully trashed it."
Sirius chuckled, "I know. When Lils recommended we use the manor as the place I would take Harry for the summer… I thought she had finally lost it. I mean how was I to explain to Dumbledork how this manor was in perfect repair when I've supposedly been in near constant travel around the world looking for Harry?"
James chuckled as well, "Well now you have two reliable accounts about how much work had to go into it."
Sirius' expression turned sad. "It was so… hard seeing him and keeping my silence. When we reminisced he cried about you. As I was holding him… gods it was so difficult. I ended up crying as well, but he didn't know my tears were from guilt about the lies."
"I wish he had seen the truth about Dumbledore. If he had… do you know how much I still wish we had been able to bring him into our relationship?"
"I think I do. I can't even tell you how much restraint I showed in not kissing him while he stayed here."
"Maybe if Tom and Lils find the directions for the wolfs-truth potion we'll finally get him back?"
Sirius took James hand in his. Trying to get away from the depressing subject he said, "Let's go rechristen the bed."
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The muggle parents sat in on a special lesson. The muggle-born students normally received instruction once a week depending on age. The ones who were five port-keyed to class for two hours in the afternoon on Monday, six year olds went Tuesday, seven on Wednesday, eight on Thursday, nine on Friday and the ten year olds went for four hours every Saturday. The parents did not go to the class with them and so this was the first time they had the opportunity to watch their children perform magic.
The Hogwarts students also joined the lesson. There was no reason not to get a refresher course in blood, mind and soul magic basics. Jasmine and Lily had Harry and Kira demonstrate some of the potential power of mind-magic. They levitated some rocks without word or wand and then went on to read the surface thoughts of every unprotected mind in the lesson tent. Lily also asked Blaise to demonstrate the soul-shield, a shield which protected against Imperio. The shield had originally been a Prewitt bloodline soul magic and was now being added to the curriculum being taught to the next generation of witches and wizards within Tom's revolution.
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Sirius escorted Harry to Platform nine and three quarters on January fifth. He watched as his godson joined Kira and their friends. He smiled. Life was good.
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Glossary of terms you may not have recognized.
Youkai – Japanese for demon
Daimyo – a Japanese Feudal lord
Miko – Japanese for Priestess
Velintcia – The name of a Wizarding instrument maker from the late Renaissance which I made up for this story.
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japanese-jew
The heirs could in theory knock out all the students. But the only way to know if a possessing entity is within someone (at least until the possessing entity takes over completely and replaces the original spirit) is to actively observe it while its in control. This means possession is very hard to spot (why else would canon Dumbles miss Quirrel's possession in book one?) and only somewhat visible to magic Sight in my story.
table42
It is slightly more complicated than that, but essentially yes.
Touch of the Wind
James and Lily are alive, yet there are caskets in their graves in the cemetery in Godrics Hollow. … Is this a fast enough update? I don't expect another update this fast though… sorry.
SiriusRulz14
Here was a bit more of the truth, but not quite the whole story yet. Harry and Kira are magical twins; they have the same parents and once shared a womb.
TanyaPotter
Thank You