Ottery Saint Catchpole, the Burrow, an hour later . . .

"Now, Molly . . .!"

"ENOUGH, Arthur!" Molly Weasley snapped as she paced around the kitchen. "It's bad enough that Harry was forced to be raised among those muggles and separated from his sister! It's even worse that when he reunited with his sister, he made friends with people who totally came out of NOWHERE! Who ARE these people? You read Ron's letter! Two Hufflepuffs - THREE with this Hirosaki girl! - and two SLYTHERINS! And he's making people sit at THEIR tables during the meals? I'm going to . . .!"

Both then jolted as a burst of flame exploded from a nearby window to reveal a golden-feathered bird carrying a smoking red letter in her beak. As the elder Weasleys watched, Lucy then landed on the table to one side of them, dropping the letter on the table before she glared at them. Then as they watched her, the phoenix raised her right wing to her eye and pulled down the skin under it as she stuck her tongue out and gave them both a raspberry. As Arthur and Molly gaped at her, Lucy then lifted into the air and soared towards the window, vanishing in a sea of flame . . .

Just as the letter snapped open . . .

Outside . . .

"Did you just feel that, Father?"

Xenophilius Lovegood perked on hearing his daughter's voice. "Feel what, my little crabapple?" he asked as he gazed on Luna.

"Why it . . .!"

Both then blinked as a titanic CRACK! nearly deafened them both as their eyes suddenly locked on the image of the Burrow not too far away from the hedgerow bordering their own property. As both of them watched with twins looks of surprise on their faces, the whole of their neighbour's home seemed to shake violently as windows exploded outward and the front door disintegrated in a flash as a voice that was megaphoned to a level that neither thought was possible - even from one Rose Jamie Potter - boomed like some angry sea god over the plains of east Devon.

"WEASLEY! HOW DARE YOU SAY THOSE THINGS TO MY BROTHER . . .?"

As the Lovegoods listened to that shrieking voice - which was enough to rattle their ears many metres away from the epicentre of that Mother of All Howlers - both remained quite calm. Which was quite different from the others who were close by. All of whom were now gaping at the direction of the Burrow as they heard that screaming voice yell out things that had most adults gasping in shock and disbelief and the few children there all looking up to their parents and guardians wondering what was going on and who on Earth could be so MAD as to yell at the Weasleys like that!

" . . . appears to be Rose ranting at Ginevra's parents," Luna then finished.

Xenophilius nodded. "I wonder what got her so upset."

"I could floo-call her and ask," Luna offered.

Another nod. "It would be the proper thing to do."

Both then nodded as they headed back to their own home . . .

"Oh, Merlin . . .!"

Watching this from the place where he apparated in so he could witness what was now happening at the Burrow, a snickering Severus Snape was trying desperately not to collapse and laugh himself straight into heart failure as he watched and listened to the Kokujun-enhanced howler that Rose had sent Arthur and Molly. As he ignored the people nearby, who were wondering what the hell was going on and who had the magic to make a howler like THAT, the potions master felt himself regretting not taking a sip of Harry's calming draught before he came down here from Hogwarts to watch the action.

Albus is going to be BESIDE himself when he sees THIS in his pensive! he then mused as the booming echo of Rose's voice faded and the smoke finally settled.

And with that, he was gone back to Scotland . . .

The Great Hall, lunchtime . . .

"Oh, Merlin! I don't believe this!"

"Believe it," Harry said as he and his friends stood by the head table as Albus scanned through a copy of the letter Molly Weasley had sent to him. Also there at the head table was a fuming Minerva McGonagall, a neutral Severus Snape, a curious Draco Malfoy and his friends, plus three of the Weasley brothers, all of whom were shaking their heads in sorrow and shame. "If this thing would have gone off inside the Great Hall as this woman obviously planned it, Professor, I would have been embarrassed and humiliated enough to have had no choice but to demand satisfaction for this insult. And what would have happened to Ron in that particular case?"

Percy perked. "Harry, why on Earth would you be concerned about what happened to Ron? You're the one who's been offended here, not him!"

"Respectfully, Percy, it's because I'm concerned that once people heard your mother demand that I be friends with your brother and renounce those of my friends who are not Gryffindors, what respect they might have had for him would be flushed down the privy with next to no chance of recovery," Harry responded. As the Weasley siblings gaped at him and the others nodded in understanding, he added, "He'd be seen as someone who needs his mother to do everything for him. Someone totally unworthy of respect. Much that I can't stand his attitudes, I don't want THAT to happen to him."

"As I stated last night, Albus. A Gryffindor in the true spirit of how people in Minerva's house should live their lives," Severus noted.

"Damn straight about that!" Draco said as he nodded in approval.

Others nodded as well. "I am forced to agree with Severus on this," Minerva stated. "But what the devil do we do now with Molly? She's not going to . . .!"

Albus then tensed. "Oh, dear . . . "

"What?" the transfiguration mistress demanded.

A sigh. "Molly, Arthur and Ginevra are here."

Moans escaped Percy, Fred and George as the others at the head table all gaped in disbelief. "Harry, mate . . .!" the younger twin began.

"Don't apologise," Harry said. "Because I can sense Lucy coming."

"With Rose."

Eyes locked on Chikage . . .

. . . just as an explosion of flame by the main doors of the Great Hall then heralded the arrival of a pretty phoenix carrying a very cute red-haired girl of nine, currently dressed in rather flattering clothes for her age, a black hooded cloak - one without the insignia of Her Majesty's Magical Shire Reeve and Magistrate Magical of the Loyal County of Somerset, those who knew THAT secret realised - draped around her. As people turned to gape at her, Cedric Diggory bolted up. "That's Harry's sister!"

The eyes of EVERYONE in the room all snapped around to stare at the cute redhead with the glasses as some of the prepared ones immediately whipped out cameras to snap pictures. Rose ignored them as she glanced around the room, and then smiled as she headed over to join everyone at the head table, Lucy calmly riding her shoulder as people gaped at them. "Big brother!" she called out, waving her hand.

Harry smiled as he drew her into his arms while Lucy fluttered off to perch herself on Chikage's shoulder. Seeing this, everyone all crooned in awe and envy as they watched this Kodak moment. "Good afternoon, Rose," Albus then said, his eyes twinkling madly as he gazed on the young woman. "What on Earth brings you here to Hogwarts? You're not scheduled to come here for two years, remember?"

"Oh, I know that, Grandpapa," Rose said as she pulled away from Harry. "But Lucy there told me that after I dropped a howler on that woman who said all those nasty things to Harry that she was going to come up here to yell at him because I yelled at her for being such a nosy busy-body, thinking she's Mama and all that!"

Silence.

"You mean to say . . . "

" . . . that you sent a howler . . . "

" . . . to our own mother?"

Rose stared at Fred and George. "How do you guys do that?" she asked.

"Do what?" the twins asked together, grinning madly.

"Please forgive them, Miss Potter," Percy then noted. "They've been talking like that for as long as we all can remember. You just need to get used to it."

Rose stared at him, and then looked at Harry. "He's too big to be Ron!"

"That's Percy," Harry supplied.

"Oh, the nice one!"

Percy blushed as Harry smiled. "You could say that . . .!"

The Great Hall's doors then exploded inward. "ALBUS!"

Everyone snapped over to the main doors as a huffing - and quite badly hurt, the sharper eyed people in the room were quick to see - Molly Weasley marched in, a still-stunned Arthur beside her holding a frightened girl of ten hugging his leg and a slack-jawed Ron to Molly's other side, staring in wide-eyed shock at how badly banged up his mother was. Albus sighed. "Molly, Arthur, Ginevra, it is good to see you, but is it necessary to interrupt everyone's meal barging in like this?" he clearly asked.

"QUIET!" Molly screamed out as she stormed into the Great Hall. "WHERE IS SHE? WHERE IS THAT BRAT THAT NEARLY DESTROYED MY HOUSE? WHERE IS SHE?"

Albus then turned to Rose. "Rose, did you send Molly a howler?"

Everyone close to the head table all broke out in laugher. "No, Grandpapa, I didn't send her a howler," Rose answered. She then grinned nastily as she reached under her cloak to draw out her Korean pine-and-phoenix feather wand. "I sent her the Mother of All Howlers!" she then snarled before aiming her wand at Molly.

"Kenótētost A'strápsatō dè Teméntō! DÍOST TÚKOST!"

Everyone then gaped as a blast of LIGHTNING came out of nowhere above Rose's head to impact the end of her wand, and then lash out to slam into Molly's chest, roasting her whole body as she was flung back ten metres by the impact! As Arthur, Ron and Ginny all gaped in shock and everyone else all stared in disbelief at what the Girl-Who-Lived just did, Rose then lowered her wand, a satisfied smile on her face. "Sorry for the mess, Grandpapa!" she then said as she gazed sweetly at Albus.

"Rose."

She blinked and turned to stare at Chikage. "What is it?"

Everyone then gulped on seeing the hooded look on the traveller's face as she stared down at the younger woman. Lumps then appeared in the throats of many watching this as they observed Chikage gaze intently at Rose, who now looked VERY scared. Even Lucy seemed quite afraid as she gazed warily at the woman from another Earth.

"You forgot the activation keyword."

Everyone's jaw dropped and many people in the Great Hall all staggered, they staring in shock at Chikage. Rose blinked, and then she laughed. "Whoops! Sorry!"

"Don't say you're sorry. Just make sure that when Elaine teaches you more spells from the Mundus Magicus in the future, you use an activation key."

"Okay!"

"WHAT IN MERLIN'S NAME WAS THAT, ANYWAY?"

Eyes locked on a gaping Filius Flitwick . . .

Later . . .

"So this woman from the Mundus Magicus - who has actually been living HERE amongst us for nearly a decade - is teaching you their type of magic?"

Rose nodded as she gazed up at Percy. People had moved themselves to the Charms classroom in the academic wing as a madly-grinning Filius Flitwick busied himself - with help from Septima Vector and Severus Snape - with arithmantic calculations as they talked about how such a spell was possible. Harry sat beside his sister, his arm wrapped around her waist. Lucy was perched on the back of Rose's chair. Chikage was nearby, her PADD out - seeing THAT had caused the magically-raised students to stare in confusion while the normal-raised ones could only look on enviously - as she tapped things on the keyboard, muttering to herself in over a half-dozen languages (according to Blaise Zabini and Aesup Mun) as she tried to figure something out. "Uh-huh! That's a common attack spell they use when they do formal duels and tournaments."

"'Tournaments?'" Draco asked, his jaw dropped.

"Yes," Veronica Roper said as she walked inside, accompanied by Kingsley Shacklebolt and John Dawlish. "On the Mundus Magicus, to celebrate the founding of both the Northern Federation and the Southern Commonwealth, a cross-cultural celebration is held yearly - roughly eighteen months by our way of telling time - at various cities where the finest warrior mages and sorcerers duel to show off the new spells they've designed."

Everyone gaped. "That's impressive," Percy noted. "When you went there on your honeymoon, Professor, did you get a chance to actually see one of them?"

"Not live, I'm afraid," Veronica admitted. "Travellers from Earth - especially if they're HUMAN travellers - are restricted to Ariadne when they use the Garden of the Galaxy to go to that world. Which is understandable; many of the Tribes are, in their own way, as xenophobic as many Terran magical societies." She then gazed on Rose. "Rose, I don't mean to make you worry, but I'm afraid Percy's mother was quite mad when your howler nearly destroyed her house. Auror Sergeant Shacklebolt and Auror Corporal Dawlish are here to ask you some questions about what happened and why."

Rose didn't appear disturbed by that. "Identification, please."

Kingsley and John perked - though both knew that Rose had every right to ask them since they weren't in duty robes - and then they nodded as they drew out their wallets and handed them over. As with all aurors serving the Ministry, their badges of office were on a fold-out flap. Rose drew out her wand - which made the aurors gape - and aimed it at the former's wallet. "Acclaro Veritas!" she whispered. As everyone watched, a tendril of energy connected the wallet to the older auror. Noting that, she nodded as she placed the wallet down, and then did the same spell to John's wallet. Seeing that, she then smiled as she slipped her wand back under her cloak and then she handed the wallets back to them with a smile. "Thank you very much."

"Who taught you that spell?" John demanded as they took the wallets back.

A shrug. "Uncle Moony did."

Their jaws dropped. "Remus is teaching you spells?" Kingsley asked. "And you already have a wand? But you're only nine years old! How . . .?"

Harry gave them sympathetic looks. "Show them, Rose."

Rose reached into her blouse to draw out her own wallet, pulling out a plastic card - similar to a credit card - which she then handed to Kingsley. The auror took that, and then stared at it before his jaw dropped. "Oh, my heavens . . .!" he gasped.

Eyes locked on him. "What's the problem, sir?" Percy asked.

Kingsley showed the card to John. "What it means, Mister Weasley, is that Miss Potter, after she had the Neuwied Test done on her, was judged worthy enough to commence wand training much earlier than usual," he said as John tried desperately to pick up his jaw from the floor. "Hence, she has the right to weld a wand and learn magic as if she was actually her brother's age and attending Hogwarts."

"But that's only allowed when someone scores at least 185 on the Test," Hermione protested as she stared in wide-eyed shock at Rose. "Oh, my God! Is THAT . . .?"

"The result of what Grandpa Glaston did," Harry affirmed with a nod.

"A tragedy indeed," Kingsley said as he handed the card back to Rose. "So now that we've established the fact that you can have a wand and are using it well, what actually provoked what happened at the Weasley residence earlier today, Miss Potter?"

"An insult on my brother's personal honour and his sanctioned rights in the eyes of Her Majesty as the Marquess Potter of Taunton Deane," Rose immediately answered as she pulled a folded sheet of parchment from under her cloak and handed it over. "I made a copy of it for our own use. The original I give to you, Sergeant."

Kingsley took it, and then opened it to read it. He then gaped before showing it to John. "Who gives her the right to make such demands?" he asked as the other auror blinked as he took it in his hand, several students coming over to gaze at it.

"She has none, Sergeant. My late parents' will was unsealed and read to my brother and I five years ago, shortly after we began living together and Defence Master Lupin took his Loyal Oath and was permitted by the Queen to become my brother's magical guardian," Rose stated. "Nowhere in Father's will was anyone of the Yeoman Magical House of Weasley of the Loyal County of Devon listed as candidates to act as Harry's magical guardian. And my magical guardians are Healer Hamilton St. John and your retired co-worker, Nancy Snagge, who is Her Majesty's chief constable where we live."

Both men gaped. "NANCY'S your godmother?" John asked.

"She was there when Rose was born and Mom died," Harry supplied.

Silence fell for a moment, and then both aurors nodded. "Your opinion, John?" Kingsley asked as he gazed on his co-worker.

"Everything's on the up-and-up, Kingsley," John replied, nodding. "Though there is one small thing, Lord Potter. Given the gravity of what Mrs. Weasley tried to do to you, you do have the right to demand almost anything in reparations."

"That is true, Auror Corporal Dawlish. But I'm not going to be a barbarian about it," Harry noted as he relaxed in his chair. "As a matter of fact, as I do have access now to my family fortune, I'll be more than willing to pay for the physical and ward repairs to their home and have my friends at Gringotts do those repairs."

Everyone gaped at him. "Harry, that's not . . .!" Percy began.

"Percy, it's not your fault, much less Fred's and George's - and heck, not even Ron's fault, either! - that your mother is so backward in her attitudes," Harry cut him off. "I'm fully aware of how hard-working your father and eldest brother are. And in a way, I can even forgive your mother for her mistakes. As long as she learns that there are certain lines she can't cross. And I will draw that line if I have to."

Silence fell as people gazed in admiration on him. "That is quite forgiving, Harry," Kingsley stated. "I assume you're about to tell us your condition for that."

"I am. And it is this: She must swear on her magic, before Rose and me as well as you two fine gentlemen - and in the headmaster's office with Professors Dumbledore, McGonagall and Snape also present! - that she will NEVER again seek to force her will either directly or through proxies like her son and daughter on myself or my sister."

Eyes locked on the Weasley boys who were there as they exchanged a look. "That sounds fair to me," Fred then said. "What do you guys think?"

"I've got nothing against it," George noted. "Perce?"

"Indeed." Percy then straightened himself. "Lord Potter?"

"Yes, Young Master Weasley?" Harry asked.

The older student sighed. "Forgive me, but how do you wish to be properly addressed? I heard your sister use 'marquess' for you, but I don't understand it. Anyone who has the right to sit in the Wizengamot is normally addressed as 'lord.'"

"Because I, thanks to my taking the Loyal Oath to the Crown in 1986, also acknowledge that my family is seen as holding a magical marquisate in the overall Peerage of the Realm," Harry stated. "If you feel it proper, I am 'Marquess Potter.'"

A deep bow. "I understand that, Marquess Potter. And speaking for our parts of our family, I deeply extend my thanks to you for your generosity. And I hope this sordid incident will not permanently sour your opinions of our family."

"I'm sure that will never happen in the future, especially when your mother is made to finally see the light," Harry stated. "And it is my pleasure. My beloved sister can be quite passionate when she senses a threat to my life or well-being." He then winked. "In other words, I've seen the results of Rose's rants and howlers, Percy. Save for the Dark Dorkhead, I really wouldn't wish that on anyone!"

"HEY!" Rose snapped.

Laughter filled the room. "So are we finished posturing like peacocks?"

Eyes locked on Chikage, and then more laughter filled the room, even from the three professors at the blackboard. "What were you doing?" Pansy asked.

"Writing up Rose's activation key," the traveller said.

Everyone gazed at her. "What's that?" Kingsley asked.

"Rose is learning some aspects of magic from the Mundus Magicus, Sergeant Shacklebolt," Chikage said. "I am familiar with that as the man who saved my life five years ago - in my dimension and timeline - is trained in their ways. In the Great Hall, she made use of an attack Negi - that's his name, Negi Springfield - is often fond of using. But she couldn't use the full potential of that attack because she didn't comprehend how she could tap into the power that makes the Lightning Axe - or as it would be more properly translated, 'Zeus' Hammer' - so deadly when used by an expert."

"What Tribe is he from?" Veronica asked.

"He's human, Professor. Unlike the situation here, my Earth and the Mundus Magicus in that dimension have interacted deeply for twenty-six centuries. Many human magicals have migrated to the Mundus Magicus ever since that time. Negi himself is blood descent of the ruling family of the city-state of Ostia in that world."

"So what's an activation keyword?" Hermione asked.

"In the Mundus Magicus - thanks very much to the fact that the whole PLANET is brimming with magic - it became the norm to conserve one's magical core by using key phrases to call upon a higher Power or Powers to 'loan' the energy over to make a spell work better," Veronica stated. "The phrase used to make that calling is called the 'activation keyword.' I've heard Rose's friend Elaine Buckshire use one when she practices her magic. It's personalised to the wizard or witch who uses it."

Silence.

"You mean there's a native of that world here on Earth?" Kingsley asked.

"Sure!" Rose said. "She's here to study our society so she could get her mastery in interspecies relations and be licensed to teach back home in Ariadne."

"And by the way, Mistress Buckshire is considered a guest of the Crown, Sergeant Shacklebolt," Veronica then warned. "Legally, she's no different than Chikage."

People tensed on hearing that. "I must get the chance to meet this woman," Filius stated. "A pity, Veronica, that you don't have any sixth years or seventh years currently studying for NEWT History in Magic. If she lives near this Garden of the Galaxy that Miss Hirosaki's grandfather created, I'd love to come for the journey!"

"Well, that depends on the people in fifth year now, Filius," Veronica said as she gazed on Percy and Penelope Clearwater. "We'll see how they do in spring."

"I think you'll have a good class next year, Professor Roper," the Ravenclaw fifth year prefect then said. "At least YOU make history INTERESTING!"

Everyone laughed as Chikage showed Rose her PADD. The younger girl read over the words there, and then she nodded. "Okay! I can do that . . . " she said as she stood up and placed herself in the middle of the room. Drawing her wand, she then aimed it into the air as she began to channel her power.

"Rose."

She tensed. "WHAT? What's wrong now?"

"I don't believe Professor Flitwick, much less the people who teach in the classrooms above here, would appreciate you calling down a lightning bolt through the ceiling and all the intervening floors," Chikage said as she nodded up.

The younger girl tensed, and then looked up. "Whoops . . .!"

More laughter filled the room. "Well, that's easily resolved," Filius then said. "Let's head out onto the back lawn near the outer wall."

People nodded as they headed out of the classroom, Chikage shutting down her PADD and slipping it into her white cloak as they went. Soon enough, they had walked out onto the lawn where the first years went out to learn how to fly a broom. Coming up from the gate that lead to the pathway towards the quidditch pitch was Rubeus Hagrid, who was walking up a three-headed hellhound as big as he. The gamekeeper blinked on seeing who was there with the crowd, and then he grinned. "Why, there's Rose! What are ye doin' here, lass? You're not supposed to be here for two years!"

"A bit of a problem with someone who can't mind their own business, Grand-uncle," Rose said, and then she stopped, her jaw dropping in shock as her eyes danced over what lay out close to the border of the Forbidden Forest. "Oh, GOODY . . .!"

"Rose."

Rose spun around to glare at Harry. "WHAT?"

"You CAN'T blow up the quidditch pitch!" he said.

Jaws dropped, even Hagrid's, as the Weasley twins made dramatic gasps as they grasped their hearts. "WHY NOT?" Rose demanded.

"Because no one's declared it a Taboo," Harry told her.

Silence.

"Well it's not MY fault people are crazy!" Rose spat out.

She turned away in a huff as she crossed her arms. Lucy flew over to sit on her shoulder, immediately trilling out a song to calm the upset girl down. Eyes locked on Harry. "Blimey, Harry! Your sister hates QUIDDITCH?" Hagrid exclaimed.

"We were at the Holocaust," Harry explained.

Silence.

"That would do it," Septima noted as many people around them nodded.

"Indeed," Chikage said. "Can someone provide a target at thirty metres?"

"Allow me, Miss Hirosaki."

Eyes blinked as a straw scarecrow then appeared close to the northeast corner of the walled enclosure of the castle. Rose turned and grinned. "Thanks, Grandpapa!" she said before she then scowled at Molly Weasley, who - along with her husband, youngest son and daughter - had followed Albus onto the back yard to join the crowd there. She then turned away as she drew out her wand and raised it high into the air.

Seeing that, Molly gasped. "ALBUS! WHAT IS THAT GIRL . . .?"

Albus made a motion with his hand. "Please be silent, Molly," he ordered as her voice was cut off. "And watch. You will learn something."

"In Nomine Reginae Meae . . . "

A rumble echoed through the air as people turned up to see dark clouds forming.

" . . . Neumas Iuris Voco Dare Mihi Vim . . . "

Wind picked up as the rumble turned into loud sparks.

" . . . Kenótētost A'strápsatō dè Teméntō!"

The sparks were now merging into a cacophony of deafening sound.

"DÍOST TÚKOST!"

Everyone blinked hard as a thunderous CRACK! nearly shattered people's eardrums, a flash of pure power ripping down from the sky to touch the tip of Rose's wand before she flung it forth at the doomed scarecrow. The thunder of the magical lightning was then followed by a titanic blast that disintegrated the scarecrow and left a five-metre wide and three-metre deep crater in the soil below it! And over it, a mushroom cloud - just like the one that appeared above Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 after the visit of the B-29 Superfortress named Enola Gay - billowed into the sky.

As soon as the smoke and debris cleared and people looked at the damage, they then jolted as panicked howls and yelps escaped the hellhound that Hagrid was walking towards the castle. "Now! Easy there, Fluffy! Easy!" the groundskeeper gasped as he tried to calm the animal down as it tried to put as much distance between itself and the little human girl that had called down that HUGE bolt of energy from the clouds.

"Sorry, Grand-uncle!" Rose said. "I didn't mean to scare the doggy!"

"It's alright, lass!" Hagrid called back. "It's alright!"

As some people laughed as Hagrid tried to calm the yelping Fluffy down, Rose slipped her wand under her cloak and walked over to rejoin her brother and his friends. "Well done, Rose," Chikage said as people came up to join them. "I don't think even Negi or Evangeline herself could do better with the Lightning Axe."

"Thanks, Chikage!" Rose gushed before she turned and focused her eyes on Molly. "Now . . . " she growled as she marched over to glare intently at Ron's mother. As she came on, both Ron and Ginny immediately backed away, not wanting to get the young redhead mad and have her call a lightning blast down on THEM! "You and I are going to have words!" she snarled. "In Grandpapa's office right now with Sergeant Shacklebolt and Corporal Dawlish with us, not to mention Aunt Minerva and Uncle Severus! GOT ME?"

Molly jaw fluttered up and down as people stared at her . . .

Sunday 8 September 1991
Lucius A. & Narcissa I. Malfoy,
The Manor,
Solway Lookout
Dear Father and Mother,
I trust this letter finds you both well.
Father, thank you for sending the Nimbus 2000. I hope I will do both you and Mother proud when I'm allowed to join the Slytherin Quidditch Team.
I am writing this to report of all the events concerning the first week of schooling here at Hogwarts. And believe me, they have been quite unbelievable.
As you asked me, Father, I tried to befriend Harry Potter when we were on the Express to Hogwarts on Sunday afternoon. He refused to see me - even going all the way to somehow having his train compartment magically sealed from all access - stating that he had no desire to speak to the children of the Dark Lord's followers, no doubt out of a more than understandable desire to seek vengeance concerning what happened to his parents (and what nearly happened to his sister Rose, as we all now know) ten years ago. At the time, I thought that would be the final end of it and there would be no way to convert Harry (and by extension Rose) to our noble cause.
But Harry soon surprised me and all of us here in Slytherin.
While he was sorted into Gryffindor (as we all suspected would happen) and did face Uncle Severus' wrath when we had our first Potions class on Monday, he soon came to show a level of temperament that - while I personally believe may not allow him to fully ally with us in the future - WOULD pretty much guarantee he will stay totally neutral when it comes to our striving to seek our ultimate goals.
He demonstrated this on Tuesday morning when, just before our initial flying lesson, he gladly REFUSED to support Ron Weasley's pathetic attempts at badgering me into verbally sparring with Harry. After Weasley insulted all of us by calling us "snakes," Harry - much to ALL our shock! - formally apologised to all of my year, addressing my housemates with formal titles and using the proper forms. And while we were tempted to accept such a heartfelt apology in the spirit it was given, glad to know that Harry had chosen to forge his own path in lieu of falling in alongside families such as the Weasleys, we simply could not since Harry felt it was necessary to apologise for the actions of Weasley instead of something he personally had done.
You both, I believe, know what happened next.
While I was showing up Neville Longbottom for his stupidity, I took his Remembrall and move to leave it in a nearby tree. Harry - he and Neville share a room, so I've heard - came after me, showing the stunning flying ability he clearly inherited from his late father. On seeing him come at me, I was startled enough to drop the Remembrall and Harry pulled the most perfect Wronski Feint I've ever seen to catch the Remembrall before it hit the ground. Of course, his head-of-house saw what happened and tried to get him to become a seeker on his house quidditch team.
He REFUSED to join!
I was shocked. I couldn't believe that Harry would do that. But he felt it was only proper to refuse to play quidditch when other deserving first year students couldn't get the chance. And, thanks to Chikage Hirosaki (of whom I will write of soon enough), the Headmaster discovered that the school rules would permit first years to play quidditch as long as they prove they could handle a broom safely.
As I said above, I promise I'll do my best to prove myself worthy of that gift.
Ever since that time, Harry has acted with respect and politeness when he has been with anyone of our house. He has also proven himself more than a match for Weasley's mother, as was just proven yesterday after she sent him a howler demanding he submit to the boy's demands and reject all his friends - especially Achelois Runcorn and Camellia Matthews - who are not part of Gryffindor. It actually got to the point where Rose came to the castle with help of their phoenix companion, demonstrating a remarkable skill in magic when she unleashed a spell from the Mundus Magicus called "Zeus' Hammer" on Weasley's mother, which she later demonstrated on the back lawn of the school, leaving a real big hole there after she learned how to better use the spell thanks to Chikage. And right in front of Weasley, his parents and his brat sister!
Oh, speaking of which, Weasley is pretty much cut off from Harry. In response to his mother's attempt at controlling Harry, Rose - with help from the Aurors - forced her to take an oath on her magic to vow never again to make either of them bow to her wishes, either by herself or through her son and daughter. You should have seen the look on her face when she walked out of the Headmaster's office. It was priceless!
I'll try to hang onto the memory so you can see it in your Pensieve later.
And now, the OTHER big news: The Traveller's granddaughter.
Chikage - her name, I learned from Camellia, means "a thousand shadows," which sounds like a decent name; it fits her so well - didn't just appear at the end of the Sorting to nearly scare everyone to death like her grandfather did back in 1932. She arrived on Harry's birthday where he and Rose live (I apologise for not knowing where that is), no doubt causing that event that caused such a panic in the Ministry. She rode with Harry, Aesup Mun and a muggleborn girl named Hermione Granger on the Express to Hogwarts, then (as we were waiting for the Sorting Ceremony to begin) she GREETED all the house ghosts by NAME. At that time, she demonstrated to Blaise Zabini that she is as much a polyglot as he; the languages he says she can speak (atop Japanese and English) include Korean, Latin, Greek, French, Italian and Mandarin Chinese.
She was sorted into Hufflepuff at the end of the ceremony, which really hurt the Ravenclaws badly. I've yet to understand why, but Pansy, Daphne and their friends seem to be getting close to her, so I'll report on it when I can. And she's just as well skilled in non-magical power as her grandfather was said to have been. On Tuesday, she discovered a most loathsome creature called a 'tsidoki' in the History of Magic classroom, then fought it with a something she called a 'soulsword' (I don't know how one makes one, though). She then gladly stood as judge over the creature, asking Harry (who, much to my shock, speaks perfect Gobbledegook!), the Headmaster, Professor Flitwick, Professor Binns - and even the poltergeist Peeves! - to render judgement.
Said judgement was death by beheading thanks to the soulsword, which exhausted Chikage, but she recovered to rejoin us for supper, when the Headmaster awarded her 100 points, fifty of which was for her concern for Professor Binns' spirit. I asked her about it later and she told me, "Draco, if it was YOU who was trapped like that, I would have done the same." Which clearly reflects well on her grandfather's beliefs, I think.
Chikage has also caused a bit of a revolution to happen here, especially if what I remember of what you both told me of your time at Hogwarts was like. She's fluent in the laws of the Wizengamot and the rules of Hogwarts, which she showed on Monday when she told everyone that it was alright for students to sit with friends regardless of house (save if it was a formal feast like the start-of-year and end-of-year banquets or celebrations like Hallowe'en and Yule). Harry and the others followed suit and even I found it comfortable enough to sit at other tables after watching them for a while.
Speaking of her personally, I will confess that she is most admiringly reserved like other Japanese wizards and witches we've met over the years. She gladly - when the occasion calls for it, like the tsidoki - addresses anyone by proper rank title. Harry, for example, is "Marquess Potter" (and I learned yesterday that we, as we are equal in stature as Harry's family in the Wizengamot, would also be marquesses in the muggle ranking system). And she is quite polite to anyone she speaks to, even those who wouldn't really care for someone as quite unique as she is.
I've yet to engage her in a conversation concerning what her views towards our society might be - they must be considerable given that she came HERE to study magic in lieu of her own universe's Hogwarts or Dejima - but I will try to do that when the chance offers itself. However, if you feel I should back away, I'll gladly do so.
I will write again on news here next weekend.
With love,
Your son Draco

Sunday 8 September 1991
Raven C. Malfoy & Cassiopeia U. Lestrange,
The Manor,
Solway Lookout
Dear Raven and Cassi,
Well, the first week's done at Hogwarts and a lot's happened here.
I don't know whether or not to kiss you two or kill you, though!
Why didn't you WARN me Chikage was here, for Merlin's sake?
You dream-talk to Harry's sister Rose all the time and I KNOW Chikage's going to stay with them wherever they live! Father and Mother know about her now and you KNOW they're gonna be as interested in her as they are in Harry and his sister!
Anyhow, like I said, a lot's happened here. Thanks to Harry and his sense of fair play, I'm going to try out for the house quidditch team.
DON'T SEND ME HOWLERS ABOUT THAT, OKAY?
I KNOW you two hate the sport, but I like to fly! Deal with it!
I'm sure Rose is gonna fill you in on details about yesterday's events here, but I have to ask you: Is Rose ACTUALLY learning the magic of the Mundus Magicus from some woman from that planet that lives close to where she does now? Some lady named Elaine (I forget her last name)? I saw a spell both she and Chikage called "Zeus' Hammer" - Rose actually USED it on Ron Weasley's mother in the Great Hall after she tried to sic a howler on Harry! - and it's just AWESOME! You should see the hole in the back yard after Chikage taught Rose something called an "activation key" that's supposed to be used to make the spell work even better. It's HUGE!
As for Chikage herself, she's really causing a stir here. When you get here, you'll be able to sit with Rose at any table (except the head one, of course) save for the start-of-year and end-of-year banquets and the special banquets like Hallowe'en and Yule. I'm sitting with a lot of people from the other houses these days, especially Harry and all his friends, including a really smart muggleborn girl (I know! I know! You hate the word "muggle" too!) named Hermione Granger, whom Harry likes a lot and Chikage seems to like a lot, too. And there's this other muggleborn named Sally-Anne Perks, who actually ran into squib relatives of Blaise Zabini's near where she lived. She doesn't even mind them calling her a "mudblood" since her mom taught her something from the muggle Bible that says that we're all "mudbloods" since the first man was made from dust. I couldn't believe that myself, even after Chikage quoted the actual lines from this "Book of Genesis." Could you two find out anything about that?
And while I've got to act like I don't care about them, I have to admit Hermione and Sally-Anne are trying to fit in, especially since I think Harry likes Hermione a lot (and he's got friends like Achelois, Camellia, Aesup and the others here, too!).
Still, there's one GOOD thing about it: Poor Ron Weasley's totally cut off from them! I can't WAIT to see what happens when the Weaslette shows up here next year and finds herself cut off from her precious Boy-Who-Lived!
It'll just make the first year you guys are here all the sweeter!
By the way, if Grace starts yelling about me picking on her brother Neville, tell her to cool off, okay? The guy's totally helpless here! I think she ruined him every time she dived in to stop his grand-uncle from picking on him all the time!
Anyhow, other than Chikage killing a tsidoki (I didn't see it, but from what Harry and his friends said, it was awful!) and we getting a new History teacher in Jane Roper's mom Veronica, it seems like a normal start-of-school year here.
I'll write when I can.
Love,
Drake

Sunday 8 September 1991
Malcolm A. & V. Gruoch Parkinson,
The Manor on the Ridge,
Morecambe Bluffs
Dear Mom and Dad,
Well, the first week's over and a lot's happened here.
You probably read some stuff in the Prophet, so I'll give you the details.
First, there's Harry.
He's just like you always hoped he'd be once you learned that he was away from his muggle relations and living under Uncle Remus' charge: Looks totally like Uncle James did at that age yet he's got Aunt Lily's eyes.
And he's so POLITE and FRIENDLY!
He got into Gryffindor (Surprise! Surprise!), but he doesn't seem to care too much about house rivalries, especially when it comes to Slytherin. He's polite (I wouldn't really say friendly) to Draco and his bookends. And he's willing to sit with anyone regardless of house for meals (yes, the Regula Hogwarts allows that to happen!). I've confirmed that he's really close to Aunt Napaeae's daughter Achelois, Aunt Diana's daughter Melli (they're Slytherins and already standing up to Draco!), Aunt Ronnie's daughter Jane, Aunt Corry's daughter Mary (they're both Hufflepuffs) as well as Uncle Brian's daughter Brianna and the eldest daughter of that North Korean family whose son graduated last year, Aesup Mun (they're Gryffindors).
Atop that, there's this really smart muggleborn girl named Hermione Granger who's now part of his group. From what I've been able to guess, she met Harry and his sister when they were in Diagon helping Chikage (Hang on! I'll get to her soon enough!) get her school supplies, and they hit it off right then and there.
The real big surprise here is that while Harry does seem to get along with the older Weasley brothers like Percy and the Joker Twins, Harry doesn't care too much for Ron Weasley. As a matter of fact, yesterday, Harry nearly got a howler from Ron's mother, but Uncle Severus caught it in time. And then Harry contacted his sister - would you believe that they have a PHOENIX? - and she sent a howler that nearly brought the Burrow down! When Ron's parents came here with Ginny, Rose - who came here thanks to that phoenix; she calls her "Lucy," don't ask me why! - then blasted her down with magic from the Mundus Magicus of all places! And then, when Chikage told Rose about a special trick of their type of magic, Rose let go with another attack on the back lawn that left a hole there as big as what an airplane bomb can do!
Believe me, if the Dark Lord ever comes back, Harry and Rose are going to be ready for him!
And now Chikage.
Dad, please don't be upset that she's a Hufflepuff. Turns out that Chikage - and she's so nice and polite, just like everyone says her grandfather was! - thinks of herself as a "reincarnationist," believing she has lived in past lives, just like that muggle American general George Patton did. She even thinks that she has this great love that has been with her in all her lifetimes. But in THIS life, he's her half-brother back home, which really must hurt her bad. Hence, Hufflepuff.
And even better, she's willing to teach people all sorts of things. Like her grandfather, she's mastered some weird martial arts stuff in her universe that I actually saw her pull on Peeves the poltergeist on Monday morning. She also used something even nastier on a tsidoki she discovered in the History of Magic classroom on Tuesday; she actually chopped off the thing's HEAD with it after she got Harry (and yes, he DOES speak Gobbledegook!), Professor Flitwick, Professor Binns, the Headmaster and Peeves to judge the thing for what it did to make History of Magic so boring back when you were here. And thanks to that, Aunt Ronnie now teaches History.
Chikage is also teaching Daph, Trace, Millie and me a Japanese martial art named "aikidō" (Harry and his friends, plus Hermione, are in on it too) in the Vanished Wing, which is where her granddad came up with all the great stuff he did, including the you-know-what that he later gave to people like Aunt Napaeae. She also discovered the charms and potions notes for something called "Aelf Evolutio," which made house elves human in form and behaviour. If you want our elves to have it, I'll ask her.
Mom, things in Slytherin are pretty much like you described it was to me, but now that Harry and Chikage are here, things might actually turn out pretty okay.
Knock on wood!
Love,
Pansy

From The Daily Prophet, edition of Monday 9 September 1991 . . .

GIRL-WHO-LIVED MAKES FIRST KNOWN VISIT TO HOGWARTS
Rose Potter Demonstrates Attack Spell From Mundus Magicus To Defend Harry!
by Rita Skeeter
As many rumours percolating out of Hogwarts this incredible school year are on the lips of everyone from Hogsmeade to Ottery Saint Catchpole and from Diagon Alley to Tinworth, a new story is being told throughout wizarding Britain about an unbelievable event that has given many a first-chance look at the power of the Girl-Who-Lived.
Rose Potter shocked the wizarding world on her brother's eleventh birthday with her appearance at the Leaky Cauldron in Diagon, revealing the incredible hidden story of the attack of You-Know-Who on the Potters that awful Hallowe'en night ten years ago. And while it will still be a couple years before she begins her own magical journey at Hogwarts, joining her beloved brother Harry and the Young Traveller, Chikage Hirosaki, among the ranks of students there, she gladly demonstrated on Saturday last that she is more than prepared to deal with threats to herself or her family.
While your crusading reporter did not have the chance to personally witness Rose in action when she came to Hogwarts on Saturday, the news she got from others currently attending Hogwarts as students or teaching there as staff has told me plenty.
This is what is known:
We all know how Rose came to survive the attack on Godric's Hollow. How Glaston Tore, best friend to the Traveller himself while he was here in the 1930s, went to the Potter cottage the night You-Know-Who went there to murder James, Lily and Harry. Once there, he sensed Lily was pregnant with a child, then gladly sacrificed his life (and even more importantly, his magic!) to ensure Lily would temporarily survive the Killing Curse cast on her by You-Know-Who, allowing a family friend of the Potters, Napaeae Runcorn, to get her moved to a secret location, where Lily could give birth to Rose in peace and safety before she departed this life for the next.
What has now been revealed is the sheer level of power Rose received when Glaston made that incredible and gallant sacrifice in 1981.
When her blood was examined by Healer Poppy Pomfrey at Hogwarts shortly after she united at last with her famous brother in the summer of 1986, Rose scored a shocking 205 points on the Neuwied Test, introduced to the wizarding world by Senior Unspeakable Johannes Neuwied of the German Department of Mysteries. As was revealed when the Neuwied Test was brought to Britain in 1984, this would make this nine year-old girl the near-equal of current Hogwarts headmaster Albus Dumbledore himself!
Because of that, Rose qualified as one of the few children to earn the right to begin wand training years before taking formal classes at Hogwarts, which your stylish crusader for the truth has now confirmed is now been directed by Harry's current magical guardian Remus Lupin, the first werewolf ever to be accredited as a Defence Master and the only living true close friend of James and Lily Potter.
And she's not stinting on it.
On Saturday, Harry - who has, at the passionate urging of Chikage, been doing a lot to promote inter-house unity since he began attending Hogwarts last week - was the near-recipient of a Howler from Molly Weasley, mother of Harry's housemates Ronald (who is in the same year as the Boy-Who-Lived), twins Frederick and George (both in third year) and Percival (a prefect in fifth year). Said Howler, whose contents are unknown, demanded that Harry end his friendships with close lady friends in his year like Napaeae Runcorn's daughter Achelois (a Slytherin), Camellia Matthews (also a Slytherin), Jane Roper (a Hufflepuff, daughter of new History of Magic professor Veronica Roper), Marian Rivers (also a Hufflepuff) . . . and shockingly enough, the Young Traveller herself, who is being hosted by the Potter siblings at their residence, yet clearly does not pass muster with Mrs. Weasley as she herself is a Hufflepuff!
People should also know that Achelois and Jane are Harry's oldest witch friends, having gone to Little Whinging in 1986 to introduce the Boy-Who-Lived to the world of magic after Rose and their house elf guardian Lilian Evans (a physical and mental replica of the late Lily Potter, once owned by Glaston Tore, who was allowed to become virtually human in looks and behaviour thanks to a spell-and-potions regime called the "Elf Evolution" invented by Ryūji Hirosaki as part of his NEWT studies in 1938-39) rescued him and the Dursley family from an awful prank played on Harry's aunt and uncle by James Potter on their wedding day in 1978.
Fortunately for Harry and everyone else, he wasn't in the Great Hall of Hogwarts when the Howler came from the Weasleys. Intercepted by Potions Master Severus Snape and deactivated before it could be publicly heard, it was immediately delivered to the Boy-Who-Lived. Harry then showed a display of true determination to not let this insult on his family, much less this threat against his personal desire to live his life in peace and under his control, pass. Sending the now-harmless Howler to Rose via phoenix, Harry provoked a retaliation that rocked Ottery Saint Catchpole to its foundations when Rose demonstrated that she too could make use of a Howler. Or, as a close family friend of the Potter siblings, Luna Lovegood, called it:
The Mother of All Howlers!
Clearly stunned that someone - to say anything of that someone being a CHILD! - would stand up to her demands, Molly raced to Hogwarts with her husband Arthur and daughter Ginny to publicly demand Rose be brought forth for punishment. Well, Rose was already there, having been transported to the castle just minutes before by her family phoenix, Lucy. With her wand. And knowledge of a very powerful spell.
The Lightning Axe.
Never heard of it? Don't be surprised, for the spell actually comes from the Magical World, the Mundus Magicus that was discovered by Glaston Tore and Ryūji Hirosaki in 1936. A world full of magical beings that has, it is now known, been watching over events on Earth since that day. And from where came a woman named Elaine Buckshire, another personal friend of the Potter siblings, who taught Rose the Lightning Axe that she used on Molly Weasley when she threatened Harry.
"It was the most incredible thing you ever saw!" fourth year Slytherin Peregrine Derrick said in a letter to the Prophet on that incredible display of spell work at the Great Hall on Saturday. "The actual words of the spell were pretty long, but when it was cast, it nearly blew Weasley's mom out of the Great Hall itself!"
"After seeing what Rose did to Weasley's mom, I hope she never gets sorted into Gryffindor," second year Gryffindor Cormac McLaggen wrote. "Given the way Harry refused to play quidditch and how everyone here's hating that, if Rose comes here (and she HATES quidditch, PERIOD!), no one's going to be safe from her!"
And if that demonstration wasn't enough, Rose then learned how to IMPROVE her use of the Lightning Axe thanks to Chikage, who gladly claimed that it was a wizard from the Mundus Magicus of her own dimension who saved her life five years ago. Once she learned that - it was called an "activation keyword" by Professor Roper, who is quite knowledgeable in the ways of the Mundus Magicus - Rose then tested it out on the back lawn of Hogwarts, leaving behind a crater as big as a giant!
While some people might disapprove of the Girl-Who-Lived learning a spell that was actually created on another planet, we must not forget the many improvements to our own ways of magic that were gladly given to us by Ryūji Hirosaki when he studied at Hogwarts from 1932 to 1939, just before Grindelwald's War. Improvements that we use right to this very day and are taught to eager young wizards and witches at Hogwarts.
For those who might be concerned about Rose Potter actually using magic while she is still too young to attend Hogwarts, your tireless investigator of the facts learned this from Mafalda Hopkirk from the Improper Use of Magic Office: "While it is improper for a girl who is not even eleven to possess and learn how to use a wand, Miss Potter was tested as having scored high enough on the Neuwied Test in 1986 to grant her an exemption under the High Potential Magical Children's Act of 1985. An application - which was kept totally secret, obviously to protect Miss Potter from those of You-Know-Who's supporters who might have sought her out to kill her for what happened before she was born - for such an exemption was made on her behalf by Albus Dumbledore and approved by this office shortly after her brother went to live with her. I should also note that Harry Potter, who scored 197 points on the Test, was also granted a special exemption, which is quite good since it would be grossly unfair for Rose to learn wand magic while her brother couldn't."
As for the use of the Lightning Axe - which is cast using the Greek phrase "Kenótētost A'strápsatō dè Teméntō: Díost Túkost" (in English: "Come down, Oh Lightning, from the Void and cut down my enemies: Zeus' Hammer") by the Girl-Who-Lived, International Magical Office of Law director Gerald Oxfam said, "While the spell could be seen as questionable by British standards - especially given the considerable amount of words needed to cast it - it must not be forgotten that certain societies on Earth have unique spells and rituals they like to keep to themselves and ARE considered legal to use no matter wherever they go. I understand there is a treaty between the United Kingdom and Madame Buckshire's home city of Ariadne on the Mundus Magicus which does permit natives of that city to use their magic here without any restrictions save for when they threaten innocent lives. There is also no prohibition in that treaty on any native of Ariadne - I've heard Madame Buckshire is aspiring to be a professor when she completes her studies here and returns home - on teaching said magic to any worthy student who is one of Her Majesty's subjects, as Miss Potter is."
He then laughed as he added, "Given that Miss Hirosaki is now with us, it would be rather quite hypocritical of anyone in the Ministry of Magic to comment on foreign magic when her grandfather, when he was studying at Hogwarts, introduced and improved on our own magical lore with what he learned in summer holidays on travelling to six separate dimensions. I'm personally glad we're learning more magic from other places. I can't wait to see what Miss Hirosaki will bring to us during her summer trips."
This reporter gladly adds that we at the Daily Prophet hope so, too!

To be continued . . .