Harry Potter and the Shadow Legion

Part 2

Chapter 27

As Aurora and Gabrielle walked towards Anderson's office, they thought about what had happened in the last few hours. Remus and Minerva had readily agreed to be present for Luna's ritual, and Remus had said he still had the ingredients they had used for the 'Fenrir incident'.

Amelia had informed Aurora that Luna's case was rather easy, seeing as she still had a living parent and that parent was a magical, all that was required was for Xenophilius to sign a standard guardianship form. The fact that Harry had adopted her into their family would automatically turn that guardianship into an adoption and so make Luna officially a part of their family.

Gabrielle had likewise had an interesting morning as she had explained the situation to the kids and after Luna had agreed, they had flamed to Sweden where they had soon found the location of Xenophilius' camp. To call it a mess was an understatement and when she met him, Gabrielle could not deny that if he had been a muggle, he would have been immediately relieved of his parental duties.

His robes were torn and dirty, his hair was an unkempt mess and he obviously hadn't washed himself in quite some time. Despite all this, he clearly did care about Luna and when she came in his eyesight, he immediately ran towards her and gave her a hug.

It took some convincing on Gabrielle's part, but Xenophilius signed the guardianship papers, realizing that it would indeed be in Luna's best interest to have a stable and secure home and family.

After Xenophilius had signed, he said goodbye to Luna before returning to his work, seemingly utterly convinced that he was but days away of finding the location of something he called a, 'Crumple-Horned Snorkack,' which she knew for a fact to never have existed.

Afterwards she and Luna had brought the papers to Amelia who promised to take care of it from there. Upon returning to the Manor, they had brought Luna to the quartet, who would spend the day at the beach with Emma and Ilona, who had brought James and Natasha with her. This being her little girls' first introduction to the phenomenon of a beach, she had brought Kreacher with a video camera and asked him to document the entire experience.

When Aurora and Gabrielle entered Anderson's office, they saw the rest of the upper echelon already present. Anderson, Zhukovo, Woolsey, Dan, and Boltrock were sitting around Andersons' desk. The other three colonels, William Moore, Vladimir Azov and Wilhelm Wolff were seated on the couches in the sitting corner of the office along with Ivan.

"Good afternoon gentlemen," Aurora said not to strictly when she and Gabrielle stepped into the office. All men immediately stood up and saluted them before retaking their seats, Aurora and Gabrielle sitting down in their customary seats directly in front of Anderson, which had been kept free by the others.

As they sat down they immediately noticed the scowl on Anderson's face and with a raised eyebrow Gabrielle asked, "What's up Anderson?"

Anderson sighed and replied, "You had best ask them that." While he nodded to Boltrock, and Woolsey.

Now turning to said goblin and admiral, Gabrielle lightly raised her eyebrows and Aurora looked on with an amused grin, surly this would be great to hear.

To their surprise, Woolsey actually looked a little embarrassed but Boltrock was not even a little uncomfortable when he replied with a toothy grin, "A few weeks ago, Woolsey received a message from Thomas O'Neill. Apparently, USAF had a squadron of 16 AC-130A gunships that were in need of replacement, and he offered to hand them over to us for a bargain price.

Woolsey was a bit unhappy with your refusal to allow him to equip the MPACS' with jetfighters, so he asked me if I could figure out a way for him to use those babies on the MPACS' and to ask Anderson if it was okay. Needless to say, I got so caught up in the project that I forgot to inform Anderson until I showed him the prototype this morning."

Contrary to what most of the others were expecting, neither Aurora nor Gabrielle seemed very upset by the news that Anderson's authority had been undermined. Instead they both looked intrigued and Gabrielle asked curiously, "How in Merlin's name did you get a bloody AC-130 to lift off from an Aircraft carrier? The runway isn't even a third of the required distance for safe lift-off for a gunship."

With a savage grin Boltrock pulled a folder out off a pouch on his belt and pulled several schematics from it. Spreading them out over the table he started his explanation. "A Standard AC-130A, has four Allison T56-A-15 turboprop engines with 4.910 SHP each. I replaced them with four Rolls-Royce T406 Liberty engines with each 6.000 SHP. You might know those engines as they are the ones used by our brand-new V-22 Osprey's."

With a toothy grin Boltrock witnessed the realization dawn on Aurora and Gabrielle's faces until Aurora gasped, "You turned them into VTOL's?"

Boltrock nodded and replied, "Amongst other things. I also made them foldable. The wings can be detached and then you can split the fuselage in half, allowing them to fit on the elevators and be brought below decks when not needed.

I also updated the armaments. The original AC-130A carried four 7.62 mm GAU-2/A miniguns and four 20 mm M61 Vulcan 6-barrel Gatling cannons. I put in some of my new toys, two 10 mm rapid fire Railguns, one 40 mm rail-cannon and to top it off, one x 120 mm Rail-cannon, all with Hellfire rounds. Optionally they can also be equipped with wing-mounted AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-surface missiles launchers."

Seemingly as an afterthought he added, "O we also have the Mammoth production line up and running with a current capacity of five per week. The mark 7's program is still running on schedule and the Mark 9 program is nearly completed, we just need to find a way to properly integrate the guiding system for the grenade launcher into the helmet's interface, but that's just a matter of time."

"That is excellent to hear Boltrock, but please be a bit more respectful of the chain of command next time. We put Anderson in command for a reason so the least you can do is follow proper protocol about these kinds of things."

Boltrock took Aurora's chastising with a blank face before he bowed slightly and replied, "Of course my Lady, I shall endeavor to do so the next time."

With that cleared up the meeting then turned to what had happened at Hogwarts and in what manner it might influence their preparations for war.

"What are you going to do with the snakes' corpses?" Colonel Wolff asked once they were all informed off what had happened.

"Sell them," came Gabrielle's reply. "Basilisk parts are extremely rare and valuable potions ingredients. We'll keep two of them for our own use, but the rest we'll have sold on the international market by the goblins. All damage considered, they should bring up between 40 and 50 million Galleons total."

"That's all good and well," Colonel Azov said, "but what are we going to do about the Ministry? That idiot Fudge can cause a whole lot of trouble if he wants to."

"Let him," Aurora growled in reply. "I have a lot more influence in both the UN, the U.N.S.C and the ICW. He can't touch us on an international level and my position as the Head of a Founding Family grants me immunity from persecution in Great Britain, so the most he can do is make a fuss and try to use the Wizengamot to do what he can't do on his own."

"But still," Anderson now cut in, "You are immune, that does not count for the rest of us, nor for Gabrielle, or the rest of your family, we're gonne have to be careful. He is still the Minister for Magic, and if he starts digging in what that position means, he'll discover that his position gives him the authority to go around the Wizengamot and do things by Ministerial decree. And that means he can do some nasty things to us."

"We're just gonne have to take it one thing at a time," Gabrielle decided. "We'll see how he reacts to us withdrawing our support, as he has no idea of just what that really means. We have connections on levels he can't even imagine."

"What does it really means then?" Colonel Moore asked curiously.

In reply Anderson threw that morning's edition of the Daily Prophet on his desk. "Read it out loud please."

Colonel Moore did as he was asked and unrolled the paper. Immediately his attention was drawn to the front page article that covered a good deal of the page beneath a series of photographs. The first showed Aurora and was taken during her very short press conference last Christmas after the 'cleansing of the Wizengamot'. The next showed Hogwarts castle from a distance and the last was Fudge giving some impassionate speech.

He began to read the article out loud as he was asked so the others could all hear him.

HEAD OF FOUNDING FAMILY BLAMES MINISTER FOR MAGIC.

In a shocking turn of events, the attack of Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry has gotten a troubling after effect as High Lady Aurora Emrys apparently blames Minister Fudge for the attack.

In a declaration given to this paper the High Lady said the following. "Minister Fudge is co-responsible for this horrific attack because he took an obviously very dark magical artifact, from the DMLE safe evidence storage, and gave it to the fraud Gilderoy Lockhart.

The artifact then possessed Lockhart and used him to smuggle no less than 7 basilisks into the school. How this is possible I do not know since Headmaster Dumbledore has so far refused to give either me or my wife access to the Hogwarts wards. Furthermore, I firmly believe that this attack could have been prevented if the Board of Governors had not been so stupid to fall for the lies of a fiction writer.

Using my powers as the Head of a Founding Family, I have dismissed the current Board and have already begun forming a new one. Since none of the previous members actually had a child still at the school, I believe that they were not completely committed to its safety. In order to prevent this from happening in the future, I will be choosing the new members of the Board from those families who do have at least one child at school and I will be in direct conference with Deputy Headmistress McGonagall in naming these members.

On the matter of the Minister, when I confronted him with the evidence he refused to believe it. When I showed him that the auror responsible for 'convincing him' to give the artifact to Lockhart, was in fact a Death Eater, he still refuses to believe that Voldemort is not dead. Even when I told him that more than a 1000 students and staff members saw me exorcize his spirit from the body of Quirinius Quirrel last school year, he still refused to acknowledge the truth. So if he is so determined to ignore me, then we shall see how he will manage without my support."

What this will mean for the school will remain to be seen but the effects for the ministry have become painfully clear already. The High Lady has officially withdrawn her support from Minister Fudge's administration and the results of that are clear.

Gringotts has begun reclaiming all loans owed by the ministry to the House of Emrys, according to rumors to be totaling at over 15 Billion Galleons including interest.

All ministry-led organizations that received financial backing from the House of Emrys, have been cut off from that support.

On an international level Magical Britain has been blocked from attending the ICW and our diplomats in the United States, Russia, Germany, France, China, Italy and Switzerland have been ordered to leave the country within the next 12 hours.

When asked for a reply to why this was ordered, President of the United States, Thomas O'Neill had the following to say. "I have known the High Lady Emrys for more than a decade and I have the utmost trust in her. If she says that Voldemort is not dead, than he is not, and as long as Fudge continues to deny the truth, he shall have no help from me whatsoever. Should he finally open his eyes and publicly acknowledges the truth, and make his public apologies to the High Lady, we are of course more than willing to resume our previous manner of cooperation."

The President of Russia, Vasily Rostock, was likewise asked for his reasons and he gave the following reply, "The Death Eaters have been causing trouble in Russia for more than a decade now, so I wholeheartedly support any and all actions taken to counter, or preferably, neutralize the danger they pose to both the magical and the muggle world. I too have received eye-witness accounts of the exorcizing of Voldemort's ghost from the body of a teacher of Hogwarts and if he is able to do so, than he is obviously not dead."

The other government leaders have so far refused to give a comment besides, "If Fudge acknowledges the truth and publicly apologizes, we shall resume our previous manner of international cooperation."

Minister Fudge had so far yet to respond but one thing is certain, if he is smart, he will do as they demand or he shall pass into the history books as one of the worst Ministers for Magic Britain has ever had.

For the Daily Prophet, this was Rita Skeeter.

"How the hell did you manage to do this?" colonel Moore asked with a little awe in his voice.

"We called in a few favors," Aurora replied with a grin. "There is hardly any country in the world that does not owe us at least a few favors and since we are responsible for Britain's recognition of the American independence, Thomas needed little prodding to do as we asked."

"Indeed," Gabrielle agreed with her wife's words. "I expect Fudge to come crawling back to us within a few days and though he will be very pissed about it, hopefully this will make him realize that we are a lot more influential on an international level than him. Let's hope it will make him a little more responsive to our advice in the future."

The men all agreed with this and shortly afterwards the group disbanded, as no more matters remained for them to discuss. Aurora had ordered Boltrock to have 4 working versions of the AC-130A's, which she had nicknamed 'Project Reaper', before the sea trials for the MPACS, which were scheduled for next summer.

When they returned to Potter Manor, Aurora and Gabrielle decided to change into their swimwear before eating and asked the elves to bring dinner to the pool room. When they arrived at the pool, they couldn't help but stop for a moment and look upon what they saw.

James was playing with his little sister in the shallow water at the beach while his mother and Kreacher, who was wearing a very fashionable silver-colored Speedo, sat in the sand nearby and where taking photo's and were filming everything.

Further in the water, the kids had managed to create a raft from the logs that had originally been intended to be used for the campfires. Harry, Hermione and Fleur were playing in the water, while Ginny and Luna were chatting merrily on the raft.

They joined Ilona and Kreacher on the beach and watched the children until dinner was brought in by the elves.

That evening and the better part of the next day was spend around the pool with no one doing much of anything. Except when Neville came by for their work-out, which they replaced by swimming laps around the lake while being joined by Luna.

They had dinner at 17:00 because they would be leaving for Hogwarts at twilight to begin the preparations for Luna's ritual. They hadn't informed Neville of their plans but just said that they had other plans that evening which is why they had moved their work-out to the afternoon.

Upon finishing dinner, they took the floo to the Three Broomsticks in Hogsmeade, and from there they walked towards the gates of Hogwarts. They found Sirius, Remus, Dora and Minerva already waiting for them at the outer edge of the wards, which Sarah had put back up after the castle had been emptied of the students' belongings.

"And Miss Lovegood, are you looking forward to tonight?" Minerva asked with a kind smile she rarely showed in class.

"Ehh, it's Emrys now professor." Luna said with a mixture of pride and anxiousness, while showing the professor her new ring.

Minerva looked up with surprise upon seeing the ring and hearing the name, and looked between Aurora and Gabrielle with a raised eyebrow. "Is it now, how did that happen?"

"I adopted her into the family." Harry replied while putting his arm around her shoulder, "After what happened, she needed a family that could ensure her safety, and the Emrys name is one of the most powerful names there is."

Minerva nodded approvingly and said, "I am glad that you now have a safe place to call your home. But you haven't answered me, are you looking forward to tonight?"

Luna nodded and said softly but enthusiastically, "I am. The others have told me much about how it feels to be able to let your inner animal out and be free. I want that to."

"Good," Minerva replied with a small smile and she let the group towards the field next to the black lake. "I thought this would be a fitting location, seeing as we don't know the animal, it allows for all possibilities, whether it needs water, land or air."

The others all agreed and together, Remus, Sirius and Minerva started the preparations for the ritual. With a wave of her wand, Minerva conjured the familiar circle of torches and then continued to light them by hand helped by Dora, as Remus and Sirius were creating the pattern from the powder they had left from the quartet's ritual.

They were working on it for nearly fifteen minutes before they were ready, in the meantime one of the Hogwarts' house elves had brought out Sarah's painting from Emrys Tower and placed it on a stand on the grass. Luna had already changed before they left the manor so she removed her thick outer robe to reveal the thin white robe she would wear during the ritual.

In the meantime, Aurora and Gabrielle were once again having one of their mental debates.

"We can't force this on her love," Gabrielle said.

"We won't force it on her at all. I'm just saying that we should at least give her the choice. She is our daughter now Gabby, and I'll be damned before I sit around and watch her age, wither and die."

"We won't have to, once the kids get the Philosophers Stone, she can use that."

"And how will that help her, she'll be depended on the Elixir for the rest of time and it won't strengthen her any bit. Whether we like it or not, she's going to be a part of this war, just like the others, and we can give her the means to greatly increase her changes of coming out of it unharmed."

"I don't like this Rora, it feels like we're getting to dependent on this power we have. It's not natural to tamper with human life as we do. We did the others because we had to, but now we don't."

"Don't we? How do you think she will feel if she sees her brother and sisters face the decades without aging while she slowly withers away by the gears of time. We're going to give her the choice Gabby, and it will be up to her to decide."

"Fine, but if she declines, you are not going to push her. Agreed?"

"Agreed, and you do the same if she accepts."

Having reached an agreement both woman turned to the five kids. "Luna," Aurora began, "we need to talk before we begin."

The kids looked up curiously as they had not been expecting the serious look on both their faces and the tone in Aurora's voice.

"What about?" Luna inquired with a little hesitation.

"About why Aurora and I do not age." Gabrielle replied. "You probably know already, but neither me, nor Aurora, nor Harry, Hermione, Fleur and Ginny are fully human. With Aurora and I even less than those four, since we gave them what we have to change them into what they are now."

"You mean about the fact that you two are part Elder Dragon and you gave your blood to those four to help them make stronger and to save their lives?"

Luna's reply shocked all six of them and when Aurora and Gabrielle turned to the quartet, they all raised their hands and Harry said quickly, "We didn't tell her anything."

"They didn't have to," Luna added softly, "I knew what you two were ever since the broom party at Weasley Manor. The night after that I had a dream about you two and about what had happened to you."

This caused a shocked silence to fall on the ground as Sirius, Remus, Dora and Minerva had also heard Luna's words and were now walking closer to sate their own curiosity.

"Why didn't you tell us Luna?"

Gabrielle's question was asked so softly that only Luna and her wife could hear her. "Because I don't want your pity," Luna replied equally soft. "I want you to love me for who I am, not for what I am."

Aurora couldn't contain herself and pulled Luna against her chest. Whispering into her ear she said, "Sweetie, we love you unconditionally, and the choice is yours to make. We will love you no matter what you decide, we are simply offering you this chance, and if you turn it down now and regret it later we can do it then."

Luna nodded silently and buried her head into Aurora's chest and hair while she thought about it. She remained silent for nearly half an hour, all the time not letting go of Aurora, nor even moving her feet.

"I want to do it." The whispered words brought a soft smile to Gabrielle's face as she looked at her wife and nodded her head.

Aurora slowly let go of the girl in her arms and kneeled down to look her in the eyes. "Are you certain about this Luna?"

Luna nodded her head softly and looking into Aurora's eyes she said, "Yes. this is my choice. My old life is over, and a part of me died with it. It is time for a new beginning, with a new family and a new life."

"Very well, then let's get to it. With the others, we did it before they went to sleep, so their bodies could deal with the change as they slept, but if we do it before the ritual, that will serve the same purpose."

Gabrielle's words brought out a determined look on Luna's face and she nodded. "How are you going to do it?"

"It's rather simple actually," Gabrielle replied, "Charles." Said elf immediately appeared when he was called and Gabrielle told him, "Will you please bring me the dagger." Charles nodded and he popped away.

Taking Luna's hands between them, Aurora and Gabrielle led the group towards the finished ritual circle and gently sat Luna down in the middle of it. The other all stayed out of the circle as Aurora and Gabrielle stayed with Luna and waited for Charles to return.

"Give me your right hand sweetie." Luna did as she asked and swallowed as she saw Gabrielle accept an ornate silver dagger from Charles when he reappeared. "I am sorry sweetie, but this will hurt."

Luna hardened her face and said harshly, "I know pain. He taught me that much."

A single tear fell from Gabrielle's eyes as she nodded sadly and drew the blade across the girl's palm, Luna didn't even flinch as her skin was cut deep. Next Gabrielle used the blade to prick her own finger and that of Aurora. They both drop three drops of their blood into the open cut and as they landed, Luna's blood began to boil.

She didn't scream, or cry, or even showed any sign of feeling pain when Aurora and Gabrielle left her sitting in the circle, holding her bleeding hand in her lap.

As soon as they had cleared the circle, Sirius, Remus and Minerva began the incantation in ancient Greek, "We call upon the spirit of the moon, shine your light upon your image and reveal the animal within. Help this child on her path to discover who she is, so that she might use her powers for good."

At that moment, several things happened and Dora had an awful sense of déjà-vu as she saw the ritual go tits-up.

As the dome formed, golden flames erupted all over the circle, engulfing Luna and everything within the dome. In the sky they could hear the song of the Phoenix, as Fawkes dived down and landed in the circle the moment the dome closed.

Above them the full moon and the stars disappeared behind suddenly forming storm clouds that covered the night sky. Heavy rains started to poor down from the heavens as lighting started to fork from the clouds.

Harry, Hermione, Fleur and Ginny fell on the ground and started to transform into their Fenrir forms. Sirius and Minerva likewise fell down and forcefully transformed into their animagus forms.

Aurora and Gabrielle also felt the urge to transform into their dragon forms but their iron wills were able to suppress the urge and they forced the instinct back into the background of their minds.

With an expression on their faces that mirrored the thunderstorm above them and a hint of their dragon forms in her voice, Gabrielle growled, "Sarah, what has that bloody bird of yours done?"

Sarah had turned a pale white and said quickly, "I… I don't know. He isn't listening to me."

"DAD'S FUCKING SHORTS." Aurora roared over the grounds and the black lake.

Until the dome shattered they could do nothing but wait and try to keep Sirius from eating Minerva as their instincts kicked in and he chased her across the lawn. The kids meanwhile where running around chasing each other while Dora and Remus stood in the middle of it all, not knowing what to do.

A sudden piercing shriek broke through the sound of the thunder and the dome exploded with golden flames and mist banks spread around the field. Fawkes launched himself into the sky and somehow, he seemed bigger and his colors where brighter.

A massive gust of wind broke through the mist and once they had cleared they finally beheld the animal that was responsible for the strange happenings around them. A massive bird stood within the circle of doused torches, easily the same size as Ragnarok. Its head was the size of a man's chest and it's feathers were a beautiful golden color with silver mixed within. It had three wings on either side of its body and two long plumes that went on 15 feet after its tail.

The golden eyes of the bird stared curiously around it until they fell on Aurora and Gabrielle and a questioning soft shriek left its massive beak. Aurora and Gabrielle were equally speechless at seeing the beautiful animal and immediately recognized it.

"Temmy?" they both asked surprised and upon hearing that word, the four Fenrirs stopped their game and looked at them before running towards them. From the looks in the Fenrirs' eyes they could see that Harry and the girls were, 'on vacation', and that Ragnarok and his sisters were once again occupying their bodies.

As soon as they reached them, Ragnarok started rubbing his head against the birds' neck and it replied the affectionate gesture in kind. In the distance, Sirius and Minerva were finally able to get their instincts under control and once they changed back into their human forms, they joined Remus and Dora and walked over to the small group.

"TEMMY?" the voice of Melody was heard from the direction of the castle and her massive form came slithering at them at a record speed. Upon reaching them, Melody shrunk her body to six feet and slithered up the bird's back until she nestled herself amongst the feathers.

All the while the four humans were staring in awe until Gabrielle noticed their confusion. With a small grin she said, "Let me introduce to you, in order;

Tempestea, Guardian Spirit of the skies and storms.

Melody, Guardian Spirit of the land and the marches.

Ragnarok and the Valkyries, Guardian Spirits of the waters and the frozen plains.

Aurora, Guardian Spirit of fire and warfare."

"Gabrielle, Guardian Spirit of healing and magic." Aurora added and to the flabbergasted humans' growing amazement, a soft white glow, like the halo's seen on images of Christian saints, enveloped each of them as they were named.

"Remus, am I dreaming?" Dora asked her fiancé softly.

"If you are then we are all having the same messed up dream love."

"You're not dreaming Dora, you are looking at nine of the ten remaining Guardian Spirits, only Rubeon is missing, the Guardian Spirit of Nature and the forests." Gabrielle explained gently.

Dora nodded weakly and Minerva asked, "What… what kind of animal is she?"

"Her children spread out in two separate species, the larger ones who looked like her became known as Thunderbirds, and the smaller ones became the Phoenixes. She died nearly a thousand years ago, but just like the rest of us, she is the real one, the original one. Back in the day she was known as the 'Storm Goddess'."

"How did she die?" Dora's question caused a silence to fall over the group as the animals froze and slowly turned towards Dora.

"There is one thing you need to understand Dora," Aurora began, "As Guardian Spirits, we are incredibly powerful and very hard to kill, but we are not immortal. Ragnarok was killed when he had a spear lodged in his heart, Temmy was shot down with a crossbow before being buried alive under an avalanche."

The humans looked surprised at hearing that they could die, as according to the legends they had heard about the Guardian Spirits, they were immortal beings that had no worldly ending.

"But… but, what?"

Aurora slightly raised her eyebrows at Dora's question and said, "What kind of animal are Gabrielle and I you mean?" Dora nodded and Remus had to quickly catch her as both ladies changed into their dragon forms and she fainted on the spot.

Remus and Sirius were trying to wake up Dora while Minerva was staring in awe as for the first time in a thousand years, she was one of a few to witness to so many of the Guardian Spirits United. Aurora and Gabrielle had moved themselves to the water and left their heads on the grass, where the others gathered around.

When Dora was awake again, she took a few good looks before she was ushered away by Remus and Sirius who decided to leave and let the others have their privacy for as long as the night lasted. Minerva followed shortly after when she had sent Sarah's portrait back to the castle.

The rest of that night the nine magical animals spent in the same spot, talking about times long past and discussing what was happening in Britain at the moment.

When dawn returned and the light of the full moon waned, the four Fenrirs and the Thunderbird were pulled back to the afterlife, after having said goodbye to their still living friends.

Author's note:

So that's it for another chapter done and with this we come nearly to the end of year 2.

I know what I said about Luna not becoming like the quartet but I couldn't help it. And besides, she's not exactly the same as them as with the advantages of the blood pact, each of them individually is still a whole lot stronger than her. It is just my way of having her feel not left out within the family.

Please let me know what you think of the chapter and of Luna's animagus form.

The next chapter will show a time-skip to the last week before summer and an event I have had several questions about, the Philosopher's Stone.

Now I have to admit that I haven't quite filled in all of the challenges they will face and I need about two or three more, so if you feel creative, give me a PM with your idea and if I like it I might just use it. Of course, credit will be given to those whose ideas I would use. To give you an idea of what I'm looking for, here is the list;

Hagrid = Fluffy.

Sprout = open for suggestion.

Flitwick = taken.

McGonagall = taken.

Quirrel = taken.

Snape = open for suggestion.

Flamel = taken.

Dumbles = taken but open for consideration.

So good luck to you all and I'm hoping to hear from you.