Wednesday evening
1st September
Hogwarts
"SLYTHERIN!"
"Bit of a cliché isn't it? I mean, I am the Lord Slytherin, oh well, I'm not the talking hat with the weird voice."
Before the hat could reply Ares took it off and made his way over to the Slytherin table.
Tracey, Pansy and Draco greeted him with smiles and congratulations, Daphne merely nodded.
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Dumbledore had to admit he was a little disappointed, he had been expecting the newest member of the Hogwarts family to be in Ravenclaw, however, this was no big failure as he could merely get to know the young man in private meetings and begin to influence him there.
Yes, Ares II would make a fine addition to the group of people Dumbledore was building around Harry.
When Voldemort returned the wizarding world would need brave people to kill the Dark Lord after Harry sacrificed himself.
Eyes twinkling, he watched the young boy integrate himself into what was in Dumbledore's opinion the most dangerous house at Hogwarts.
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Minerva McGonagall had her full attention on the latest addition to the house of snakes, he reminded her far too much of Sirius Black, and with the man having escaped she was incredibly suspicious.
She knew about ageing amulets and wouldn't put it past the death eater to infiltrate the school, although the hat hadn't seemed to mind.
So, if he wasn't Sirius in disguise was he related? All Pureblood families tended to be related in some fashion.
She would have to wait and see.
After all, it would not do to make assumptions before she had proof, she was a respectable figure and respectable figures didn't make unnecessary accusations, although she might mention it to Albus in passing.
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Ares was talking with Tracey about the benefits of Chess when Dumbledore began his start of term speech.
"Welcome! Welcome to another year at Hogwarts.
Now, I'd like to say a few words before we all become too befuddled by our excellent feast.
First, I'm pleased to welcome Professor R.J. Lupin who's kindly consented to fill the post of Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher.
Good luck, professor. Of course. Our Care of Magical Creatures instructor has decided to retire in order to spend more time with his remaining limbs.
Fortunately, I'm delighted to announce that his place will be taken by none other than our own Rubeus Hagrid.
Finally, on a more disquieting note at the request of the Ministry of Magic Hogwarts will, until further notice, play host to the dementors of Azkaban until such a time as Sirius Black is captured.
The dementors will be stationed at every entrance to the grounds.
Now whilst I've been assured that their presence will not disrupt
our day-to-day activities a word of caution. Dementors are vicious creatures. They'll not distinguish between the one they hunt
and the one who gets in their way.
Therefore, I must warn
each and every one of you to give them no reason
to harm you. It is not in the nature of a dementor to be forgiving.
But you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Now let us all enjoy this wonderful feast!"
Ares could see that Malfoy wanted to shout something at Harry, but a quick glare from him was enough to stop him.
Dumbledore was going to be looking for Sirius this year so that gave Ares the chance to make a power base at Hogwarts before the manipulative old man found out.
Turning to look down the table he struck up a conversation with Felix Rosier, a rather average wizard who was the third child of his family.
He was a good conversationalist and seemed to be amicable enough, with no real feelings about blood purity, wanting only to spend time with Anastasia Avery.
Anastasia, however, was very keen on power, she had no love for pureblood or muggleborns only those who had power and influence, and since most people with power and influence were purebloods...
She was the niece of the ruling lord of the Avery house and was with Felix because he was pureblood and there was a chance, he would outlive his older brother.
Felix was a large boy, larger than Ares at least, with a rugged look about him, and a warm personality, at least with Anastasia.
Anastasia was a shoulder length brunette with brown eyes and lips which loved to laugh, although not always in an amicable way.
She was rather petite, around 5"2, whereas Felix was more like 5"9.
They would make good followers, all Ares had to do was convince Anastasia and Felix would fall in line.
So he preached to the choir, speaking of the power that could be gained by working for him, and how he would only accept the smartest and most cunning.
He flattered her and beseeched her, one by one destroying her defences and bringing her round to the way of thinking that he wanted her to have, urging her to view this as the opportunity of a lifetime.
She might have been dangerous to the average fourteen-year-old, but Ares was not fourteen and he was certainly not average.
It took him fifteen minutes to convince her he was her God.
Soon afterwards they were led back to their dormitories, with the password being "Wizard Supremacy",
'Creative' Ares thought.
The wall opened to reveal the Slytherin common room which was a long, low underground room with rough stone walls and ceiling, from which round, greenish lamps were hanging on chains. A fire was crackling under an elaborately carved mantelpiece ahead of them. It had a soothing look, with the sound of the water in the Black lake reverberating off the walls. Snape stood up to give his speech which would no doubt be ridiculous, so Ares merely walked off not caring to dally around wasting time.
He made his way into the boy's corridor and found a room he liked, walking in he found that someone had already claimed it.
"Oi fuck off mate, we were already here!" The unknown boy shouted.
Ares didn't appreciate being talked to like that.
"Yeah listen to Cassius! Bloody get out of our room." Graham Montague encouraged.
Had Cassius Warrington and Graham Montague known who they were attempting strong arm they may have decided against it, alas they did not and so the following events occurred.
Ares cast three spells, at each of them in rapid succession, before they had even noticed he had drawn his wand.
"Furnunculus. Densaugeo. Rictumsempra."
The two boys were soon on the floor, covered in boils, teeth abnormally large and laughing their hearts out.
With a final swish and flick of his wand and a "Wingardium Leviosa!" they were sent flying out of the room along with all their belongings.
Satisfied Ares unshrank his trunk and began unpacking.
Banishing the other bed and began to design the room again, turning the remaining bed a dark green, and creating Slytherin and Peverell crests around the room to ensure it was obvious whose room it was. He created several cupboards that he filled with quills, ink, paper and textbooks.
He created silver snakes which wrapped around the posts on the King-sized bed and then warded them to warn him of anyone in close proximity while he was sleeping. When that was done, he unshrank his personal desk from his study back at the manor as well as silk green drapes for the windows that looked out into the lake. Then with a few flicks of his wand, he organised all the books he had brought on the bookshelves provided.
Finally, he conjured a sofa and a day bed to recline on when he was reading.
Happy with the look of the room he began warding the door and the entrances.
He cast several protective charms on the wood and the handle, and then a spell that hid the door from people who were not intentionally looking for it.
Lastly, he placed a warning spell in case someone tried to break or sneak in.
Finished he made his way back to the common room were Professor Snape had finished his speech and everyone was just relaxing.
Walking towards Felix and Anastasia he heard them muttering about what had happened to Warrington and Montague an hour ago.
Stopping at a standstill in front of Anastasia he handed her the magical contract they had discussed. He would give her a well-paying job straight out of Hogwarts for at least ten years so long as she remained a loyal follower to him and did everything (within reason) she was told.
There would be no orders that consisted of self-harm or sexual favours, Felix had made sure of that. He offered the same contract to Felix, who agreed to sign once Anastasia had.
With a few scratchings of the blood quill, the contract was done, and Ares felt a new bond attach itself to his magical core in recognition of the fact they both were loyal to him now.
Sitting down opposite them he decided to spend the rest of the evening chatting with them.
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2nd September 1993
Breakfast, The Great hall
Ares was sitting between Tracey and Felix who were both eating eagerly, although nothing like Weasley, and chatting amicably about last night.
Montague and Warrington were still in the Medical bay, the laughing and large teeth having worn off, but the boils refused to leave even after a Finite Incantem. They were having to wait for twenty-four hours while the poultice applied worked.
The two boys had been smart enough to keep quiet about who had done it, although it was obvious given Ares had taken up residency of their room.
At 9 am Ares walked to Advanced Arithmancy along with Anastasia and Felix, and were surprised when they walked in and Dumbledore was sitting at the desk.
"Come in, come in. I hope you don't mind but I will be taking these classes as Professor vector expressed a wish to focus more on the third years." The old man explained.
Sitting down at the front of the class with his new friends (servants) he watched as the old professor began the class.
"Please open your textbooks 'Numerology VI' and begin to look over the coursework for the year."
Ares did and was pleasantly surprised to see that it was not as dull and easy as he thought it would be, still easy, but not as easy as he would have suspected.
Dumbledore set them several questions and over the course of the class, it became quite apparent that Ares was by far the most adept there except maybe Dumbledore. The two began to banter as the rest of the class got on with their work and soon began debating theories about the difference in Arithmancy between Dark and Light spells.
"There is no difference in how they are made as spells cannot be classified by use only intent and what the Ministry deems dangerous. I could just as easily kill someone with laughing hex as a cutting curse. You simply have to overpower the laughing spell and they suffocate." Ares put forward.
"Yes, but most dark spells are not just intent, and power based, it entirely depends on whether emotions are needed to trigger the spell, the unforgivable 'Crucio' for example, you need to really hate someone to use it. Arithmancy is required to channel that emotion." Dumbledore countered.
"But the Cruciatus curse was devised using the same arithmancy as spells meant to rebuild nerve receptors, it was not the arithmancy that was different simply the intent and use. You said it yourself that intent is what defines a spell, the Cruciatus curse could be used in small amounts to restart the nervous system should it shut down. Emotion is just a side effect that corrupted the spell." Ares declared.
Dumbledore was smiling wide, eyes set to full twinkle as he had several verbal battles with the young man.
His views were interesting if not a little dangerous, however, Dumbledore chalked that up to the naivety of being young.
The class was soon over, and Dumbledore set homework, except for Ares, who he told to research the disintegration spell and come up with the arithmancy of it and how it could be used for good.
'uanescere' was its incantation and Ares was a little stumped on how disintegrating people could be used in a light spell context.
He had charms next which was rather boring as he knew all the syllabus off by heart but couldn't seem to convince the half-goblin to speed up his education, something about sticking as a team in their learning. Utter bullshit, but what could he do.
Ares had lunch with Daphne, Tracey, Pansy, Draco, Goyle and Crabbe.
Who told him about their days and Tracey talked about how fake Trelawney was and how she regretted taking the subject. She even mentioned Hermione and Professor Trelawney's fight, which then caused Daphne to mention that it was impossible as Hermione had been in Arithmancy with her.
This was the start of a long argument about how this was possible, which Ares didn't bother to tell them as that would cause suspicion.
He had advanced potions next, he hadn't bothered to sign up for normal potions as he would have fallen asleep and still been able to brew the potion better than anyone else in his class.
Snape seemed to come alive when he walked into the class, and after everyone had sat down launched the beginning of his tirade.
"All of you will believe that because you are in this class you are blessed with amazing potion brewing talent. You are wrong. You are merely not as inadequate as your fellow schoolmates. I have decided to bestow my valuable time on you and teach you as much as your little brains can comprehend. Let us begin with a simple potion, the antidote to Veritaserum. You have forty minutes starting now."
The time limit was utterly unfair, no competent or even talented potion brewer would have been able to brew the complex potion. Only very talented and master potion brewers would have been able to do it.
Snape was trying to destroy their egos before they had even come into existence.
So, Ares helped all his classmates complete the potion before the time limit, you know just to spite Snape, although he didn't obviously help the others.
He added extra potion ingredients here and there speeding up the process and ensuring that the potion would be finished in time.
However just as class finished Snape rushed off without checking them, which Ares knew was because Draco had been injured in the care of magical creatures' class.
Satisfied that he would receive an outstanding for his work he returned to the room and started researching the disintegration spell.
He went to supper but left rather quickly as he grew tired of Pansy's incessant whining about Draco.
Hours later when he was finally satisfied with all his homework he went to bed.
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2nd September 1993
Ares had been having a ridiculously abnormal day, the only interesting thing being Professor Lupins Boggart class and the consequences of it.
He was having a lot of fun irritating Snape now that the man couldn't deduct points without punishing his favoured house, be it hair colour spells or musical farts.
So taking some initiative he moved to the room of requirement for a few hours and began researching and practising the building of golems.
After all, the ability to build an army out of non-living material was quite appealing.
His first few goes were pretty pathetic, but he reckoned with enough practice he could make some epic soldiers.
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15 October 1993
Ares had managed to build a golem that worked at last.
It didn't work very well, but it moved.
It was like watching an overgrown snail, the runes and animation charms were not as effective as they should have been, but Ares put that down to his abysmal talent for Ancient runes and charms.
However, it was an interesting use of his time and whenever he hit a dead end, he could practise the disintegration spell 'uanescere' on the remains of the golem due to the magic dissolved in the material.
HIs golem consisted of clay infused with magic using runes, the disintegration spell worked off being fuelled by the magic in the target it was cast at.
The first Hogsmeade weekend had been announced for the end of the month and Ares had a lot of planning to do to make the best use of the time afforded to him. After all the wizarding world wasn't going to change itself while he went to school.
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16th October 1993
Ares wrote a letter to Lucius before breakfast asking him to at Hogsmeade with a change of clothes and another wand for him to use.
Next, he compiled a list of all the people who he would need to meet.
Barty Crouch Jr. was a problem that needed to be dealt with, as was his father.
He had several plans ready to be implemented.
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Hogwarts
31st October
Harry was full of excitement, it was his first Hogsmeade weekend! The Dursely's had refused to sign his permission form but Lord Peverell had convinced the minister to sign it for him. He pulled Ron out of bed and poked his ginger friend until he stood up. They both took a shower and pulled on their clothes eager to investigate the local village.
Hermione was waiting for them at breakfast, just as eager as them as she wanted to buy quills and paper.
Draco and his goons were just as keen but trying not to show it, going on about how they thought it was such a trivial thing.
Ares was already heading out, having paid Filch a few Galleons to be signed in early. He moved quickly making his way towards the outskirts of Hogsmeade where he met Lucius who was waiting with a full-sized set of robes and a non-remarkable wand.
Ares aged himself up to his mid-thirties and changed clothes, giving Lucius the elder wand in exchange for the other one. Telling Lucius to meet him back here in four hours he disapparated.
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The Lovegood Residence
31st October
Xenophilius Lovegood was having a relatively normal day, investigating and researching obscure animals and conspiracies.
He was sitting in his office at the top of his rook shaped tower when he felt a pull on the wards, someone had entered his grounds.
Luna was at school so it had to be someone else. He stood up and made his way downstairs picking his wand up as he left the room. Half stumbling down the stairs, due to his low blood pressure from sitting down for so long.
He composed himself and opened the door to meet his visitor.
A flash of green was the last thing Xenophilius Lovegood saw.
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Doge Manor
31st October
Elphias Doge was a prominent member of the Wizarding world and as such he was expected to be on call every day all day in case of emergencies.
So when he received a message from Lucius Malfoy mentioning a meeting regarding an upcoming vote he assumed it would be the normal, 'vote for me because..' meeting.
Preparing for the meeting was simple, all he had to do was ensure there were tea and biscuits. He would find the encounter tedious, he would always vote for whatever Dumbledore wanted so the result was a foregone conclusion. However, this did not seem to stop other Lord and Ladies from partitioning him.
Feeling someone walking through the gates he made his way into the sitting room. The door opened as the visitor walked in.
"Make yourself comfortable! Let's get on with it." Elphias said as he relaxed into his chair not bothering to see who had come in.
"I thank you for your hospitality Lord Doge."
Elphias immediately opened his eyes in alarm. That was not Lucius Malfoy's voice.
"Lord Peverell! This is certainly an unexpected pleasure!" Elphias said recognising the man from his speech in the Wizengamoat.
Sitting down opposite him Ares smiled,
"I thank you for your kind words, sir, alas we cannot talk long."
Elphias raised an eyebrow at that.
"Why ever not? Surely you have lots of time."
Ares shook his head at that,
"I have plenty of time, you are the one who has run out of time."
Before the old man could fully contemplate what Ares had told him a flash of green light had hit him, causing him to slump into his chair.
Standing up Ares disapparated, smashing through the wards of the house, which were dissolving with the last member of House Doge dead.
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Mad-Eye Moody Residence
31st October
The Moody residence was a testament to its owner's paranoia. The bins were warded to attack intruders, the property was riddled with anti-muggle charms, warning spells, locking charms and traps.
Mad-Eye Moody had just returned from a shift surveying a location suspected to be hiding dark wizards when he returned home.
He had been relaxing as much as was possible for a half-insane Auror when he heard his bins go off. Immediately he was alert and moved to the window careful to avoid being seen.
Peaking carefully out he saw a wizard garbed in black raising his wand and incanting something.
'Fiendfyre'
Mad-eye heard the incantation and went into action immediately, diving towards his fireplace hand flinging floo powder simultaneously.
Fire engulfed the house completely burning everything it came in contact with.
Lucius Malfoy took off his mask and admired his handiwork, it had been a long time since he had indulged himself in a little arson.
"That should have killed the old bastard! Master will be happy." Lucius said satisfied he had accomplished his orders.
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Hogsmeade
October 31st, 1993
Ares appeared with a pop quickly followed by Lucius. Ares turned himself back to fourteen, changed his clothes and swapped his wand back.
After listening to Malfoy senior's report, he gave him further orders and quickly made his way back to Hogwarts for the evening feast.
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Gryffindor Tower
October 31st, 1993
Sirius Black felt hunger, immense hunger and fatigue. After the Fat Lady had refused to allow him access to the tower, he had been angered more than anything he had ever felt before.
He had destroyed her painting and tried to force his way through, but he had been forced back for fear of being caught before he could capture the rat.
Running away he could not help but feel depressed at how his circumstances had turned out.
"Hello, Sirius, a friend of yours wants to talk."
A red flash and he was out cold.
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Headmasters Office
November 1st
Dumbledore was incredibly annoyed, Sirius Black had snuck into his school without him noticing.
Now he was having to organise a search with the dementors in the vain hope they could find the man.
Just as he thought the day couldn't get any worse his longtime friend Mad-eye Moody came hurtling through his floo.
He was severely burned, and Albus had to get him to the med bay immediately for fear of his condition worsening.
This couldn't be a coincidence!
Turning to Severus and Minerva he expressed his solution,
"Call the order together, we may be facing a threat far worse than just Sirius Black!"
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Hey guys! I know Slytherin is a little cliché, but it was what you voted as you can see on my poll.
I know some of you are confused so ill straighten this out.
Ares jr is Ares senior, they are both Ares using a time turner and an amulet that lets you change your age. Ares will be paired with Narcissa, Daphne and Fleur, although Narcissa is more of a side interest. Harry will have his own pairing.
If the story gets over 500 favourites ill hold a poll so you can choose who Harry ends up with. If not well... I know who I might be choosing.
All reviews are appreciated, although negative reviews that aren't productive delay any updates by a week for each one!
Bye!