Here is Chapter Twelve I hope you are going to enjoy it I've tried to move things on a bit hope you like it. I have no intention at this time to make any of the other creatures of the wizarding world into aliens, I read a book where Centaurs were actually an alien space travelling race and I sorta borrowed that.

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A Timelord His Daughter and A Wizard

Chapter Twelve

A month had now passed since Jack had phoned the twins and caused Snape so much embarrassment. For several days after the potions master had taken out his ruffled feelings on the students, deducting points for the slightest reason. However after the call was not repeated he had calmed down a little and returned to his normal acerbic self. To say that he was a little puzzled by the blooming friendship between Neville Longbottom and his star Slytherins was an understatement. Ever since Angela had literally dragged Neville to be her potions partner, the boy had started to tentatively seek the twins out. Something which had not gone un-noticed by the other first year Slytherins, at first they had been most rude to the young Gryffindor. Malfoy and Zabini foremost amongst them, seemingly wanting to keep the Smiths friendship for themselves, not that he blamed them for that, it was a very Slytherin thing to do. However Harry and Angela weren't having that, he was not sure what the pair had said, but suddenly Malfoy and Zabini could be heard pointing out that even if he was a Gryffindor, Longbottom was a pureblood. He also suspected that it did not hurt that Longbottom excelled in Herboligy, a subject young Mr. Malfoy for one, was having problems with.

Professor McGonagall however did not seem so happy with the blossoming friendship, it seemed it was causing some problems in her house. Young Mr Weasley seemed to be particularly vocal in his disparagement of Longbottom and the Smiths, Snape had had the pleasure of removing more than a few points from him for his outbursts during potions lessons and in the corridors. This in turn, was causing problems for Weasley with the rest of the Gryffindors, who naturally were not happy about the amount of points that he was losing for them.

The Quidditch tryouts had been very interesting this year as well, for the first time in living memory, two first years were on the team. Harry Smith had become the Slytherin seeker, much to the delight of himself and Draco Malfoy, who had also made it onto the team becoming one of the chasers. Zabini had tried out too using Angela's broom; Snape was pleased by the girl's show of house spirit even if the boy had not made the team. He could not help feeling happy that Zabini had not made it onto the team; three first years playing for Slytherin might have been a bit much. Some of the other houses were not too pleased that the three first years had been allowed to bring their brooms with them. However since it had been okayed by the Minister there was not a lot anyone could say about it, Lucius always had been one to use his connections to the best advantage for himself and him family, and now it seemed his son's friends.

If Dumbledore was at all worried by Ministry involvement in the school he did not show it outwardly, in fact as far as anyone could tell he did not seem to be too bothered by it. If anything, Snape would have said that the old man was trying to get into Mr. Smiths good graces. The old fool still seemed to be convinced that Smith was in fact the missing Harry Potter. Snape had to admit if only privately to himself that the boys eyes did bear a remarkable resemblance to Lilly's. Not of course that he spent any amount of time looking into his students eyes, especially not his male students eyes, and that train of thought had his blood boiling once more at the thought of Jack. How had the man managed to be completely unaffected by the spells he had shot at him? He hadn't seemed to try and defend himself, just totally ignored them and carried on with what he had been doing. He dragged his thoughts away from Jack and instead thought about Angela.

The girl was not a typical Slytherin, she had befriended Longbottom, lent Zabini her broom for the tryouts, now he had heard from Flint that the girl was allowing him to use her broom for practices and the matches. He really was not sure what to make of her, though it had to be said he was pleased to have such an already accomplished young witch in his house that then brought him to young Harry. Though in some ways quite different to his sister, (thankfully he seemed to sleep through night he didn't need two students up half the night,) the boy was still not a typical Slytherin any more than his sister was, seemingly quite happy to interact with Lonbottom. He had also heard from Madam Pince that they had been seen in the library with the Weasley twins.

The pair of them were certainly more than competent thought, with outstanding marks in class, one might almost think they already knew some of the spells, and homework always well done and turned in right on time. They were always polite, but he felt even with his weekly meetings with his first years he was not really getting to know them very well, they both seemed to talk a lot but then when the meeting was over you realised that they had not really said very much. It might have both surprised and annoyed Snape if he knew that the children he was thinking about, were at that moment trying to make their way to the forbidden corridor on the third floor.

It had been a busy month for Angela and Harry they had found a forgotten classroom down in the dungeons where they were able to brew the first assigned potion for their correspondence course from the academy. The Sleep Compression potion was brewing nicely and should soon be ready; Harry just knew that he was going to be the test subject for that one. He was already using the Endless Energy potion to keep up with the extra work he had to do, and suspected that it too would be a potion they would be brewing. They were both using the Notice me not potion, thankful that had been sent to them, it enabled them to make their way un-noticed around the castle and make a dent on the extra curricula work they had to do. Harry had spent two weeks looking for a way to get around the charms on the Slytherin dorms and common room, they were both sure there had to be a way around them and he had eventually found a counter charm in the library. They both concluded that it was something that was expected that Slytherin's would be able to do, especially as Fred and George and then Neville as well told them there were no wards on the Gryffindor dorms. Angela had been scouring the library looking for any sort of map she could find of Hogwarts; however she was so far coming up blank. She was sure there had to be a map somewhere showing the way to an area where they could get to the foundations and perform the magic that would surely allow them to move freely around the castle.

No one in Slytherin seemed to know about their friendship with the Weasley twins, which was probably for the best, since the two were the biggest pranksters the school had known for some time. The two boys had shown Harry and Angela how to get into the kitchen; so they could get food whenever they wanted. The Marauders map showed them various secret passages that would allow them to get out of the castle something first years were not allowed to do. The Corsairs as they were calling themselves met up in the library of all places, much to the consternation of Madam Pince, who suspected they were up to no good, which of course they were. The four of them had managed to get into the forest again and though the Centaurs had not shown themselves, Harry and Angela were pretty sure they were around and keeping an eye on them. They were able to add to the Corsairs map however, and George and Fred were extremely happy with how much detail had been added since they had met the other twins. It was a satisfying friendship for all parties, so much so that the Weasley's were lending Angela their books, as she was bemoaning the lack of available reading material.

The developing friendship with Neville was another story, at first it did not go down well with either Slytherin or Gryffindor houses. After practically forcing Neville to partner her in the potions lesson, Angela was not sure how the boy would react to her. However when Snape grudgingly commended his work in the next class and even given him five points for his work, the nervous boy had given her a bright happy smile, then offered to partner her in their next Herboligy lesson, something that did not go un-noticed by everyone else. While Angela had already promised she would partner Blaise in the next potions lesson, this time it was Harry who offered to partner with Neville, shocking the boy and annoying Draco slightly. However the pureblood Malfoy already knew better than to alienate the Smith's Angela was taking notes for all of them in history of magic and both the twins were often to be found helping him and Blaise out with some of their homework. Finally Draco was heard to grudgingly comment, that if his friends had to associate with a Gryffindor at least it was a pureblood. With Draco and soon Blaise accepting the friendship the other first year Slytherins soon came around, if Pansy and Millicent were unhappy with what their room mate was doing they had already learned to keep their opinions to themselves as Angela had already proved that she was more than a match for them. In turn, Neville actually began seeking the twins out, finding it hard to make friends in his own house, he was happy enough to have some in another house even if it was Slytherin. Harry and Angela always seemed happy to see him, and did not care if he was practically a squib, even if he was a pureblood, or that his parents had fought against you-know-who in the war.

For their own part Harry and Angela spent time trying to bolster Neville's fragile confidence, Harry helped him with charms and transfiguration, while Angela found herself helping him with potions, Snape stalking round the classroom growling and belittling people worried Neville, so she found herself teaching him how to control his breathing, and so calm himself. She also encouraged him to keep on reading over the instructions, checking and double checking that he was doing the right thing. Acting on a suggestion from Harry she also provided him with a copy of her notes from their history of magic lessons, so that Neville was soon delighted that his marks for the class were second only to Hermionie's amongst the Gryffindors. Neville did find that Ron and some of the other Gryffindors made scathing remarks, or played some mean tricks on him for his friendship with the twins. However he was not as worried by it as he might have been if he had not had friends, he was also surprised by the fact, that once George and Fred Weasley found out about what was happening to him, they played pranks on his tormenters. The others seemed to quickly get the message that pranking Neville would, for some reason, bring the wrath of the Weasley pranksters and their friend Jordon down on the perpetrators heads, and left him alone.

Things seemed to settle down after that the Slytherins tolerated the friendship, while the Gryffindors knew what would be in store for them if the messed with three of them. What surprised everyone was that Draco and Blaise started hanging out with them too, at first a little shy and nervous around the other two boys Neville eventually relaxed enough to interact with them. The other two Slytherins soon realised the advantages of the friendship when their Herboligy marks went up.

Not Pease blossom turned up once a week delivering letters from their friends and the academy teachers, and taking back finished assignments and letters with him. Thankfully though, he had been coming to the dungeon classroom, instead of crashing his way into the great hall causing havoc. They were however always glad to see him because of the news he brought them from their friends, even if the alien fairy did have a serious attitude, at least it sounded as if he had not had another run in with the locals.

Today however Harry and Angela had managed to give everyone else the slip and were headed to the third floor. They had made several attempts over the weeks, the castle however seemed to be actively trying to discourage them, this time they were using the See, see potion they had received in the mail and things were going better. They had made it to the third floor glad they had finally decided to see if the potion could help them, which it had, allowing them to avoid a few trick stairs and moving rooms, when they heard a noise.

"What's that?" Harry asked quietly.

Angela looked round before replying. "Sounds like swearing."

"Bloody hell." The voice could be heard more clearly now. "I'm gonna be stuck here forever, then Mum's going to kill me, and I'm going to kill them."

Trying to make as little noise as possible the twins advanced towards the swearing boy, wondering who could possibly be in trouble up here. Turning a corner they found one of the last people they would expect to run into up here, Ron Weasley. The angry boy was stuck in one of the vanishing stairs up to his ankle, and looked very uncomfortable as he struggled against the magic to free himself. He was red in the face and a few tears showed on his cheeks as he wrenched at his ankle again, obviously causing himself pain.

"Weasley stop struggling, you'll only make it worse, it's like a finger trap the more you fight it the tighter it'll get." Ron looked up in surprise as he heard Harry's voice.

"Oh no not you two, what are you going to do get your friends, so you can have a good laugh at me?" The other boy was obviously feeling hostile, which they could both understand since he was stuck in such an uncomfortable position.

"Of course we're not." Angela said quietly. "Do you see how the charms are winding round the ankle and set in the stair?" She continued to her brother.

Harry nodded his head. "Yeah almost like interwoven strands, I don't think I'm strong enough to break them."

Ron looked at the pair of them as they looked at him and the stair; he had no idea what they were talking about or what they were going to do.

"How did you end up here anyway?" Angela questioned Ron, while Harry crouched down taking a closer look at the stair.

"My brothers Fred and George told me there was a shortcut, but the stairs started moving and brought me up here, then I stepped on this stair and got stuck."

"They pranked you huh?" Harry questioned poking at the stair and then pulling back before he could get stuck.

Ron nodded his head having no idea why the Slytherin's were being nice, but all the same glad to have someone there with him, he had been stuck for over an hour and he had been getting scared. He half expected them to start laughing at him, or just leave him stuck there with a flippant comment. He knew he had been horrible to them, but he couldn't help himself, they were Slytherin's and he was a Gryffindor, they were natural enemies. He was shocked out of his musings as he saw Angela draw a strange silver wand out of her pocket.

"What's that?" The startled boy asked looking at it.

"It's a screwdriver." Angela said as Harry also pulled his out. "I think we can get him out if we can get the stair to resonate at the right frequency."

Harry nodded, before the pair of them fiddled with the settings on their sonic screwdrivers. Ron looked on in shock, surely they were not actually going to help him? The pair of them pointed the strange wands, no screwdrivers, what the hell were screwdrivers he wondered? Then he felt the stair start to vibrate, what was going on? He could not help his shock as Harry held out his hand to him; he froze for a second before reaching out to take it, pushing with his free foot as the other boy pulled. For a moment it felt as if nothing was happening and then with a pop his foot was free, and Harry helped him over the step, and onto the landing. Dropping the other boys hand as soon as he was able, Ron looked at the twins in surprise.

"Why?" He got out, startled at how strange his voice sounded, clearing his throat he tried again. "Why did you help me?"

"You were in trouble." Harry replied.

"Did you really think we would leave you stuck there?" Angela questioned the surprise showing on her face. "We don't have a problem with you, you have one with us, we'll leave you in peace if you are okay, but maybe you should think twice about taking one of Gred and Forge's shortcuts again, you know what pranksters your brothers are."

Ron's mouth fell open when he heard that, most of the students didn't know the half of what George and Fred did, or the names they called each other. "How do you know they call each other that?"

Harry laughed, the sound echoing around the landing. "We're friends with them; we meet up in the library a couple times a week."

Ron was too shocked to say anything, the Slytherin twin's friends with his brothers, the two that hung out with Malfoy, friends with his brothers, he wondered if the other Slytherin's knew that one. Suddenly a lot of things made sense, the way George and Fred stood up for Neville, who was also friends with the Smiths, no wonder they did that if they were mates. Slowly he stuck out his hand to them.

"Thanks for helping me I know you didn't have too; I've been a right git to you both." Harry took his hand and shook it, as Angela took a step closer something fell from her body and Ron bent to pick it up, it was a jewel from the snake around her neck. "Here." He said handing it back to her, suddenly noticing that the torc looked rather tatty like the surface was peeling off.

"It's okay we couldn't leave you there." Angela looked at the jewel. "You can keep it if you want." Ron was even more surprised, shocked and a little jealous, that she would tell him he could keep it in such as off hand way. "It's probably not worth much since she's only small they'll get bigger as she grows."

Ron was not sure he understood and who was she. "I don't follow you."

"My bejewelled viper is growing and shedding her skin." Angela explained matter of factly.

"It's alive?" Ron was really in shock now, as Angela nodded and then spoke to the snake in Silurian. He watched as it let go of its tail and then slithered from her neck down her arm and let its head rest on the back of her hand. "Wow that's incredible."

The snake hissed at him softly, its head slowly swaying back and forth as it looked at him, before slithering back up the girls arm and around her neck. He watched as it gripped its tail in its mouth and once more appeared to be nothing more than an enchanted necklace, a few more jewels dropping off as it did so.

"Are you okay you look a bit pale?" Harry enquired. "Do you need to sit down or something?"

"It's just wow; I mean I never thought, that's real live snakes around your necks, you both have an actual living snake around you neck, where did you get them, I've never heard of anything like that before, everyone thinks they're charmed items." Ron was almost tripping over his words.

"They were gifts from some very powerful wizards." Harry was quick to answer. "If you're all right we'll be on our way, okay."

"Wait, I mean well thanks for the jewel, she dropped some more by the way." He bent down to pick them up and went to hand them to Angela.

"Keep em." Angela said with a smile. "Like I said she'll grow more." She turned away from the boy, ready for herself and Harry to get back to trying to get to the corridor.

"Hang on." Ron slipped the jewels into his pocket. "Where are you going, can I come with you?" He still wasn't sure about the twins, but he was willing to forget they were snakes and try to get to know them better, they had rescued him after all.

Harry grinned at him. "Yeah sure, but I have to warn you we could be getting into trouble, we want to have a look at that forbidden corridor."

Ron grinned and followed the pair across the landing. "So where did you get those, what did you say they were, screwdrivers?

"Our Dad." Angela said with a grin. "They're actually called sonic screwdrivers."

Chatting tentatively and slowly starting to get to know each other better the three of them headed in the direction that they wanted to go. If Ron was surprised by the fact that the twins easily avoided the traps he didn't say anything. More surprised by the fact that now he was giving them a chance, and actually talking to them they were actually quite nice, no wonder his brothers and Neville wanted to be friends with them. The twins were friendly, chatty and had already given him a few hints towards some of his homework, which would please his parents no doubt. By the time they reached the door they were headed for he was regretting not giving them a chance before, and it had nothing to do with the few jewels in his pocket that Angela had just given him.

"Are you sure you want to do this Ron?" Harry questioned him. "Up to this point you're not likely to get into trouble, after this though if we get caught." He let the sentence trail away.

Ron squared his shoulders. "If you're going I'm going, but aren't you worried it might be dangerous?"

Laughing softly the twins looked at each other. "We live for the danger." Angela said. "Well that and the running we all love the running."

Ron was not sure he understood what the pair of them were talking about, but he followed them anyway. The door was locked but it didn't take Harry long to open it, he was learning to use his wand and used it now along with Alohomora spell the first years had recently learned in charms. Pushing the door open the three of them gazed into the room spotting the huge creature in there.

"Merlin's beard, what the bloody hell is that?" Ron swore as the creature spotted them and started to growl loudly.

"That would be a Cerberus." Angela said looking at the creature who seemed to be sizing them up. "Cerberus was said to be the offspring of Echidna, a hybrid half-man and half-serpent, and Typhon, a fire-breathing giant whom even the Greek gods feared." She paused looking at both the boys. ". Its brother is Orthrus, who is always depicted as a two-headed hellhound you can tell the difference between them because Cerberus has the third head." Ron looked as if he could not believe she was giving them a lecture on the thing that looked like it wanted to eat them. "In some works describing the beast, the three-heads each respectively see and represent the past, the present, and the future, while other sources suggest the heads represent birth, youth, and old age." Harry was looking interested as she continued with her lecture on the beast. "Each of Cerberus' heads is said to have an appetite only for live meat and thus allows only the spirits of the dead to freely enter the underworld, but allows none to leave." Ron gulped loudly as she mentioned the live meat, because as far as he was concerned the thing looked like it was ready for lunch and had a feeling they were it. "Cerberus was always employed as Hades' loyal watchdog, and guarded the gates that granted access and exit to the underworld, oh and Merlin does not have, nor has he ever had a beard, thought he would like to be ginger"

"Yeah that's very interesting and all but I really don't need a lecture about the thing that is about to eat me, it's eyeing us like a snack for each head." Ron squealed at them before pausing and realising what Angela had said at the end of her lecture. "What do you mean Merlin doesn't have a beard, every picture I've seen of him is an old man with twinkling eyes and a bloody long beard."

"Pure invention." Harry replied. "Just cos he's nearly a thousand years old does not mean he has a beard."

"Got it." Angela said suddenly and started singing.

The boys watching in shock as the three headed dog looked at them before its heads looked at each other and yawned. Slowly the dog sank down and closed its eyes, within moments it was fast asleep. Backing up the children closed the door and Harry relocked it, before they all leaned against the wall with huge sighs of relief.

"Who the bloody hell puts a thing like that in a school?" Ron demanded.

"That would be why it's out of bounds and Dumbledore gave us the warning about dying a very painful death if we came up here." Harry suggested. "By the way Angela how did you know singing to it would help?"

"Poetry." Angela replied as they began to make their way down the staircases to the lower floors. "Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, to soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak. I've read, that things inanimate have mov'd, and, as with living Souls, have been inform'd,

By Magick Numbers and persuasive Sound. What then am I? Am I more senseless grown Than Trees, or Flint? O force of constant Woe! 'Tis not in Harmony to calm my Griefs. Anselmo sleeps, and is at Peace; last Night The silent Tomb receiv'd the good Old King; He and his Sorrows now are safely lodg'd Within its cold, but hospitable Bosom. Why am not I at Peace?" She quoted to them adding. "That's from The Mourning Bride, written by William Congreve in 1697, seemed like something to try, guess he knew something after all, cos music soothed the savage beast"

They reached the entrance hall in what seemed like no time at all where they parted company, Harry and Angela heading to the dungeons and Ron to see if he could find his older brothers to give them a piece of his mind.

"So." Harry began as soon as Ron was out of earshot. "Did you see the trapdoor it was standing on?" Angela nodded. "That thing is guarding something and I bet whatever it is, is worth taking a look at."

Angela smiled at her brother as they headed for the common room. "So we're going back again?"

Harry nodded yes and the pair of them entered the Slytherin common room where they found Draco and Blaise who were discussing the upcoming Quiddich match that was Slytherin versus Gryffindor.


So there you have chapter twelve I hope you enjoyed it, I had always planned to have Harry Angela and Ron get on and this was always the way I had planned for it to happen. More to follow later I hope to get another chapter up sometime this week and don't worry the Doctor is lurking with a plan of his own to implement and will show up in the near future.