CHAPTER 1.2: (Chapter Nine)
Ignatius slammed the book shut and he sighed. He glanced around the shelves in the Peverell Castle library. Not one. Nothing in the books has any say about removing Horcruxes. When Ignatius and Augustus found out that Harry's scar was a result of forbidden magic, they were even surprised when a soul was embedded inside the boy.
A Horcrux! Horcrux is one of the most vile and horrible form of magic. It was under high class level forbidden magic. Even Ignatius himself could not imagine trying to split apart his soul for the sake of living. Creating a Horcrux is condemned worse than death to all countries worldwide that the moment one is presented with it, they must immediately destroy it.
The most effective way of destroying a Horcrux is Feindfyre and from Ignatius' ancestors' tomes, he found Basilisk venom another source of destroying Horcruxes. But the problem was, there weren't any sources of sealing a Horcrux on a living thing, such as a human. There was one in an animal but it was killed. How will he destroy a Horcrux without killing the host? A potion perhaps? What kind was the question? Inner cleansing and magical core healing doesn't work on Horcrux. If Ignatius would attempt to remove the Horcrux and sealed in an object then destroy it, would it kill Harry?
Ignatius took a deep breath. If all things lost, consult the goblins. He thought. Many wizards have underestimated the power goblins can do. Ignatius stood up and takes his leave.
Standing still is very difficult for Harry. He found it odd that the woman has to measure him by hand. Doesn't magic do something about it? He's been stabbed by the needles three times already! Iris is much calmer and has only been stabbed once.
Hagrid didn't stay. He told them that he will be back, muttering something about ice cream and Gringotts bloody carts. Also Hagrid find it difficult to enter the shop because of his size.
He noticed a lot of youth roaming around Diagon Alley. This must be the time most of the Hogwart students purchase their supplies. He wondered if there was a chance that he and his sister will meet his parents and brother. He was not looking forward to it. He had asked that the question many times and Aunt Petunia even showed them the letter. It simply stated that Aunt Petunia should watch over them because they have to train their other twin. It didn't even mention the name. All Harry and Iris knew is that their parents are James and Lily Potter.
Harry and Iris were only in Britain in two months and they haven't ventured in the magical community by themselves. They weren't very knowledgeable in the comings and goings on the current events in Britain. Iris still has the knack of blurting out American catchphrases to Harry's annoyance.
"Up here lad. There you go." Madam Malkins, whom Harry and Iris found out to have an odd addiction to the color purple, is escorting another child the same age as they with pale gray eyes, skin and ice blonde hair. She wouldn't stop complimenting Iris' clothes. Harry knows Iris likes purple as well.
The blonde haired boy stood beside Harry when one of Madam Malkin's assistance put one of the robes and started pinning.
"Hi. Hogwarts too?" the blonde haired asked. He has an air of aloofness and pride when he talks. Harry thought he might belong to old rich families.
"Yes." Harry answered.
"My mother's at the book store and my uncle is inside, probably talking to Madam Malkin about fashion. I swear a man like him should be talking about quidditch not the different types of robes worn by men!" the boy started to ramble.
Iris chuckled, amused at the thought. Harry simple stared at the boy. "I still can't believe that first years aren't allowed brooms. I wanted to try out for quidditch. Maybe I could ask my father to sneak it in." the boy continued.
And a bit spoiled. Harry thought. Harry is familiar with quidditch. He remembered how it was televised back in the states. Master Peverell didn't like the idea of quidditch at all. He thinks it was a waste of time. Harry tried flying on one of the brooms once with their Uncle Oggy. He loved it. They even attempted to play quidditch; Oggy said he was a natural seeker. Iris always plays the keeper, but that's because Iris didn't like to move around very much. She'd rather have her feet on the ground.
"I believed that rules are there for a reason."
"Do you?" the boy eyed Harry.
Harry simply nodded. He saw Iris smiling at amusingly. The boy didn't reply. "Hmm. My name is Draco by the way. Draco Malfoy."
"I'm Harry. And this is my sister, Iris." Iris greeted with a quiet hello.
"You have weird eyes." Draco blurted and was surprised that Iris gave her a wide grin. Harry laughed at the inside joke while Draco gave a confused look.
"She gets that a lot." Harry replied.
"You two have weird accents too." Draco commented.
"We grew up in America, we kind of pick it up from there. We just got back in Britain." Iris replied.
"Oh. I've never been to America. But I've been to France, Germany, Russia and Switzerland. Durmstrang is said to be located in Russia but no one knows. My father wanted me to go there but my mother insisted she wants me near."
Iris chuckled at the thought of being a mommy's boy. "Durmstrang is a nice school. I heard they have really good magical research application and focuses on dark magic." Harry stated.
Draco looked surprised at this. He never expected someone would talk about dark magic casually. "…but Alexandria Academy is the best in wards and arcane magic and most of the Asian magical schools are really good at elemental magic. Shame Hogwarts doesn't teach elemental magic."
"How'd you know all those?" Draco asked.
"Iris and I explored those different magic schools they have to offer. I wanted to go to Alexandria, Iris wanted to go to Arashi but our M-uncle wanted us to study in Hogwarts." Harry didn't want to know that they were being tutored by Master Peverell. Oggy told them how a lot of people are trying to contact him. Some women even attempted to send him love letters laced with love potions to their master's annoyance. They know how he hated being known.
"Well, at least we'll be in Hogwarts. What house are you planning to get in to?" Draco asked. "I'm planning on Slytherin. All my family has been a Slytherin for centuries."
"I don't know." Harry replied.
"All the houses sound alright to me." Iris piped.
"If I would choose, I'd rather be Ravenclaw or Slytherin." Harry said.
"I don't mind any of them." Iris said.
"Even Hufflepuff?" Draco asked.
Iris glared at the blonde. "What's wrong with Hufflepuff?"
"Er, nothing." Draco said quickly looking warily at Iris' glare and the glare on one of the girls who was pinning Harry's robes. "Where are you going after this?"
"We're going to the bookstore to buy our books…" Harry started.
"…and a few references on the way…"
"…then the potions ingredients…"
"…we'd rather handpicked it ourselves…"
"…and the other school supplies…"
"…I can't believe you guys still used parchments and quills…"
"…and our wands…"
"…looking forward to that one."
Harry wanted to give Draco kudos for not batting an eye on their regular twin-way communication (triplet-way if Dudley was here).
"Alright." Draco said. "Maybe we should go together?"
"Sure." Harry and Iris replied.
"Malfoy." James hissed at the sight of blonde haired lord who was standing in front of the purple store of Madam Malkins. His daughter found the purple attractive.
"Potter." Lucius Malfoy greeted frostily.
"What are you doing here?"
"Tut. Tut. Still so disrespectful aren't you Potter? Surely you know what a father would be doing in front of an establishment such as this?"
James snorted. He still can't believe a man like Lucius Malfoy reproduced. Lily came by and slapped her husband on the arm. "Now is not the time to pick on fights James." James sighed and glared at Malfoy.
Algie Longbottom was also glaring at the blonde man. After all, it was his sister-in-law's fault why he's brother is in St. Mungo's.
The five children, Seamus, Godric, Lilac, Neville and Ron are looking back and forth on the adults.
After five minutes of intense staring and Lily Potter rolling her eyes, Hagrid arrived with two large scoops of ice cream.
"Hagrid!" Lilac, Godric and Ron ran and hugged the man.
"Oh-hoh! Ey 'der Godric, Ron, Little Lily. Be careful. I mighta drop the ice creams."
James who completely ignored the Malfoy turned to his large friend. "What are you doing here Hagrid? Looking for some creatures selling in Knockturn?"
The boys turned to James, light bulbs lighting on their heads. "James!" Lily chastised. She does not want the boys to have wild ideas about sneaking into Knockturn.
"Eh, no. I'm here on official Hogwarts business. Dumbledore's orders."
"Does that order involve eating two large cones of ice cream?" Malfoy asked incredulously.
"'Dis isn't for me. I bought dis for the two kiddies I'm escorting. Dey grew up in the muggle world see?"
"Dumbledore sent you to escort muggle borns into our world?" Lucius Malfoy almost raised his voice in anger. What was that old man thinking?! You don't send a game keeper. You send a teacher? He will have a long talk about the Board about this!
"Dey are not muggle borns. Dey hav magic. Dey're Harry and Iris Potter. Godric's twins!"
"What?"
Sirius Black always liked Madam Malkins robes. In fact, he wasn't really that crazy about fashion. He was more interested on Malkin's innovations. He wore one whenever he was on duty. It has a stun protection charm and turn and off disillusion charm on it, very good when you want to hide or don't want to get stunned from behind.
Alexandra Malkins or Alex keeps hounding him about questions and feedback on how to improve some of her work. Sirius has to laugh that she better be careful or else, criminals would get a chance at her robes and make Sirius' job as an auror difficult.
"Draco? Are you finished?" Sirius asked behind the curtains.
"Yes Uncle Sirius!"
Sirius opened the curtains revealing Draco and two other eleven year olds being hand out with their wrapped purchases. Sirius almost said something but froze when he caught sight of the boy next to Draco.
"Jam-Harry?" he sputtered.
The boy stared at him those calculatingly looking green eyes. "Yes?"
Sirius felt like the world just came crashing down.
Iris didn't know what happened. They just finished getting their clothes pinned and were surprised that they made a friend their age. Harry, Iris and Dudley were not social outcasts. In fact, everyone in school likes them. It was just; they rarely have interaction with magical kids.
Then this tall handsome man who looks like he is in his early thirties in black robes came looking for their new friend and just blurted out Harry's name. Iris doesn't like strangers. He doesn't like it when people know who they are and they don't. This man is a stranger and he's going to hug Harry.
"Oh no you don't!" Iris glared as she grabbed her older brother away from him. "Stranger! Before we talk to you, I need three forms of identification!"
The dark haired man blinked at her and Iris could feel Harry rolling his eyes. He knows how paranoid Iris can be sometimes.
"Iris?" The man said, startling the girl. "You've grown so big." Why do adults always say that? "Today's August 5th! I missed both of your birthdays! I never thought I could see you again!" The two twins were surprised by this.
"Wait a minute. You mean to tell me that you two are Harry and Iris Potter. The twins of the Boy-Who-Lived Godric Potter?" Draco asked.
"Godric? That's the name of our other twin?" Harry asked.
"At least we finally got a name." Iris muttered.
The tall man looked at them with shock. "You don't know your other twin's name?"
Harry and Iris both shrugged. "We were left on the porch in the middle of the night with a letter for our Aunt Petunia." Harry said.
"We were told we have a twin but it was never mentioned who he is." Iris continued
"What's the Boy-Who-Lived?"
"It sounds like a title of a bad movie."
Draco stared at them confusingly.
"Oh Harry, Iris. I'm so sorry. I would have thought your parents would have the decency to explain things to you properly." The man said. "I'm Sirius. Sirius Black. I'm actually your godfather Harry. I looked for you two but I could never found you."
That's because we have a secrecy ward on us so magical people like you can't find us. Harry and Iris both thought but didn't say. We still don't know why.
"Do I have a godfather?" Iris asked curiously.
Sirius smiled. "Yes. Your godfather is Severus Snape. He's a potions professor at Hogwarts."
Harry's ears peeked when he heard the name. "Wait, you mean the Severus Snape? The youngest ever, multi awardee, world renowned potions master,Severus Snape?!"
Sirius looked completely shocked at Harry's reaction. Iris rolled her eyes and groaned. She was horrible at potions. Well not that horrible. Her knack of experimenting had caused way too many cauldron melts and blowing up in the Peverell manor. Master Peverell said if she blew up another cauldron he'll hang her at the top of his roof.
"Iris, do you think we could exchange godfathers?" Harry asked.
"WHAT?!" Sirius cried in shock. Draco winds up laughing.
It would seem this chapter is full of WHAT?! I'll be busy this month so I might not be able to update soon. I already have the chapters written just needed some boosting and additions and possible some checkings and revisions. I find it hilarious how many HP1 and HP1.1 and HP1.2 titles in my documents! Drop a comment and don't forget to give me your opinion about Harry and Iris' houses. ^_^