Avian Anarchy
by Teddylonglong
All recognizable characters belong to J. K. Rowling or Disney, and I am not earning anything by writing this story. I am merely borrowing the characters to play with them.
I am not a native speaker of English. Please excuse my mistakes.
Warnings: Completely AU, partly OOC, magically powerful Harry. Dumbledore/Weasley bashing.
"A master or mistress of Concealment Magic should be able to cancel a Fidelius Charm, don't you think so?" Luna smiled at Harry and Tobi.
The yeti listened, wide-eyed. "This sounds like a reasonable, albeit difficult task. Good luck to the two of you."
Professor Ito immediately agreed, when Harry asked if it would be possible for him to study for the mastery in Laser Magic.
"While I agree, I wish you to work on a project, which goes in a different direction from the strict field of Laser Magic," the professor informed him, giving him a pensive look. "Would you be willing to spend the rest of your holidays at the Mirai School in Japan? I could ask Headmaster Abe if he was willing to teach you his way of performing laser magic. I will then supervise you for the mastery. I'm sure he wouldn't mind if Ms. Luna accompanied you," he added as an afterthought.
"All right," Harry agreed, although he had no idea what he was supposed to do. 'Oh well, Luna always knows everything,' he consoled himself. 'I hope she'll be willing to accompany me to Japan.'
HP
To Harry's relief, not only Luna, but also Hedwig accompanied him to Japan, while Paws remained on the North Pole looking after his children. 'Thank Merlin Holly can take us anywhere in the world with a sleigh,' he thought, when they hugged the kind elf good-bye and headed towards the entrance doors of the school.
During the remaining six weeks of the holidays, they studied Laser Magic in Japan. The Mirai School was the world's leading school in the subject, and he, Luna and Hedwig found the futuristic field of research highly interesting.
By the time they returned to the North Pole at the end of August, Harry had already decided for himself to return to the Mirai School during the following summer to more efficiently work on his project for the mastery.
HP
During their sixth Hogwarts year, Harry and Luna used every free minute to work on their Concealment Magic mastery and their project for the Laser Magic mastery.
When they returned from Japan shortly before the beginning of their seventh year, Minerva informed Harry that Tom had made him head boy.
"I hope that's all right with you." She looked questioningly from Harry to Luna. "You surely would have been a prefect already if you hadn't been absent for your fifth year," she added as an afterthought.
"That's fine," Luna replied first. "We've made much progress in both our projects, and we'll manage on time for the mastery exams."
"Sorry Professor, but who's the head girl?"
=That's my boy,= Paws quipped, before he apologetically licked Luna's hand and transformed into his human form. "Only joking."
"Hermione Granger."
Harry inwardly groaned, however, nodded in understanding. 'At least, Luna has no reason to be jealous. Oh well, she wouldn't be anyway,' he thought, recalling a time when he had gone to Hogsmeade together with Daphne, after Luna had wished him a nice day.
HP
At Christmas six months before their NEWTs, Minerva gathered Harry, Luna, Annika, Dudley, Ariana and Lily for a conversation in private and asked. "What are your plans for the time after your NEWTs?"
"Ariana would like to replace Professor Binns as the History of Magic Professor." Luna cast their friend a bright smile.
"I'd love that."
"Very well." Minerva nodded in understanding. "I believe that it's time for Professor Binns to retire in any case, and we'll be happy to have you as the new professor for the subject."
"Thank you so much," Ariana replied, seemingly happy.
"Very well," Minerva continued. "We are considering setting up two new subjects, Laser Magic and Concealment Magic. Luna and Harry, would you be willing to teach these?"
"Yes." Their response came simultaneously, and they exchanged a look of pure delight. "Thank you, Professor."
Minerva nodded, seemingly pleased. "We have more plans, however. Professors Flitwick and Sprout wish to retire. Lily, is there any way we could convince you to become our Charms professor?"
Lily let out a deep sigh. "I'll need to speak with James, but I'd like that. I might have to bring our children with me to Hogwarts though, considering that he'll probably go back to working as an Auror if I become a Hogwarts professor."
"Mum, he could always just join us as Paws."
"He certainly will be able to live at Hogwarts together with you, even if his human form," Minerva said, gently. "Seeing how many young couples we're going to employ at our school in the near future, we'll have to set up a primary school sooner or later I suppose."
"Then, yes please. I'd love to teach Charms."
"Dudley, would you be interested to take the Herbology position? Professor Sprout recommended either you or Neville Longbottom, but I have decided to ask you first."
"Yes please. I'd love to teach Herbology." Dudley grinned happily.
"Professor Sprout will remain for another year to assist you, so that you'll be able to take over as smoothly as possible."
"That's highly appreciated." Dudley stared at Ariana with apparent enthusiasm, and the girl returned a huge smile.
"I've already spoken with Draco and Ginny, and they have agreed to teach Defence and the third new subject of House Keeping, since Alastor Moody wishes to finally retire. Annika, would you be interested to become the Arithmancy professor?"
"I'd love that." Annika cast the Gryffindor head a delighted look. "Thank you so much for offering the position to me."
HP
Six months later, the friends finished their NEWTs, and shortly later, Harry and Luna took their mastery exams in both subjects, Concealment Magic and Laser Magic at the SAMS and the Mirai school.
"Do you want to teach Concealment Magic or Laser Magic?" Harry gave Luna a questioning look.
"What if we share both positions?" Luna returned a dreamy smile. "We could take turns teaching them."
To their surprise, Minerva and Tom agreed for them to try out teaching together, stating that they could decide otherwise and separate the positions at any time.
HP
During the summer on the North Pole, a huge wedding took place, when Harry and Luna, Annika and Severus, Draco and Ginny and to everyone's surprise Dudley and Ariana married.
"When did the two of you get so close?" Santa looked from Ariana to Dudley in apparent surprise.
"Ah, didn't you watch them on the screen, while we were at Hogwarts?" Harry quipped. "They've been snogging in the common room all the time."
"Harry," Annika scolded him lightly, causing him to chuckle.
HP
A few days after the wedding, Harry and Luna travelled to Hogwarts to prepare their classrooms and work on the curriculum for their classes. To their relief, Ariana, Draco, Annika, Severus, Ginny and Minerva all decided to return to the school at the same time.
Instead of occupying new living quarters like Draco and Ginny as well as Dudley and Ariana did, while Annika simply moved in with Severus, Harry and Luna decided to live in the founders' quarters. Luna had asked Alicia and Diablo, who had both no interest in transforming into their former human forms and happily agreed that the young couple could use the founders' quarters, especially as the founders in the life size portrait in the living room would be happy to be able to talk to them at any time.
They had much fun decorating the classrooms, for which they chose the corridor behind the hospital wing and in front of the founders' quarters, which seemed to have been unused for a long time. They first worked on the Laser Magic classroom, for which they chose a futuristic design.
"I love that room," Harry said. "It's so completely different from all the other classrooms. It somehow reminds me of the Mirai School though."
Luna smiled, knowingly.
"I hope you didn't choose the spot right behind the hospital wing due to possibly upcoming dangers in your class." Tom gave the new professors a questioning look.
"No."
"We chose the spot, because it's near to our living quarters, so that we won't have to carry the little ones all over the castle." Luna gave Harry one of her dreamy looks, who in return stared at her, wide-eyed.
"Did you not notice that I've become fat?" Smiling happily, Luna placed a hand onto her stomach and gently caressed it. "Men."
Tom and Harry exchanged a look that clearly said, "Witches."
The setup of the classroom for Concealment Magic was much more difficult, and it took the two young teachers several weeks. In the end, the room was an outright artistic classroom. Depending on where someone was standing or sitting, they were able to see only certain parts of the room.
"How are you going to oversee all of your students at the same time?" Tom asked with apparent interest, when he and Minerva came to inspect the new classroom one day.
Harry and Luna blurted out laughing, before Luna said in a soft voice, "We're masters of concealment. A simple anti-concealment charm will take care of it."
Harry nodded. "This is the only spell that we're not going to teach our students, at least not before they have taken their NEWT."
HP
On the first day of the Christmas holidays, Harry and Luna travelled to Italy, feeling extremely grateful that Holly took them near Dumbledore's home by sleigh, although all sleighs were supposed to be needed on the North Pole now.
"Sorry Holly. We really should have done this during the summer, but we were so busy setting up everything at Hogwarts…" He slowly trailed off, giving his favourite elf a sheepish look.
"That's fine, and it's still three days before Christmas, so Santa will be able to spare this small sleigh for an hour." The elf nodded, reassuringly.
"I just hope it'll work," Harry said, when they both got ready to cast the spell they had developed. It was a combination of concealment magic and laser magic and was supposed to cancel the Fidelius charm around the manor.
"Now," Luna said, and they both raised her wands to cast the spell together. An instant later, a huge, southern looking building came into view.
"We did it," Harry said in relief, before he leaned over and pulled his wife into a passionate kiss.
Only when Holly cleared his throat, the young couple realised that they should return to the North Pole, before anyone would see them.
HP
"Very well, I will alert the Aurors that they can go and arrest Dumbledore," Santa said, once they arrived back home and informed everyone about their success.
"Santa, will you please leave it to me?" Lily spoke up. "There's something I'd like to do, before he'll be shipped to Azkaban."
"Do nothing that I wouldn't do," Paws instructed her. "And be safe!"
"I'm going to be invisible, and I'll only be away for an hour or two," Lily replied, before she transformed into her phoenix form.
"Hedwig, take a sleigh."
#Thank you, Santa, but no. I'm going to live out my anarchist tendencies, so I can't take a sleigh.#
"Be careful."
#I will.#
With that, Hedwig turned herself invisible and flashed right to Africa, to a spot, where she knew from searching the screen that a horde of manticores could be found.
Choosing a strong looking male species, she cast a silent charm at the animal, before she instructed him to grab her tail feathers. Seeing that the wild animal obeyed like a tamed pet, she flashed right to Dumbledore's manor in Italy and dropped the manticore right over the spot, where she could sense the magic of the old wizard. Giving the manticore a minute, she cast the same spell, which she had once cast at her former sister Petunia's house several years ago.
HP
Albus Dumbledore was sitting in his armchair in front of the fireplace, reading a book and enjoying a small bowl of lemon drops, when a strange noise from above made him look up in confusion – only to stare right into the open mouth of 'A manticore!'
Alert, Albus immediately transformed into his phoenix form and flashed into the next room, just before the whole house exploded in large fireworks and he was buried under it.
He did not know what happened, however, all of a sudden, he felt cold. Just cold, and he knew nothing more.
HP
Hedwig was sitting on a nearby tree observing the results of her latest anarchistic movement, when Santa's voice suddenly penetrated her mind.
'Hedwig, you can't leave him there to die. Remember that you're one of the white animals of the North Pole. He is alive and a naked phoenix baby without any memories, and it's freezing outside. You need to pick him up and bring him here. Anarchistic as you are, you're not a murderer of an innocent baby.'
'He's alive?' Hedwig thought in shock and slowly made her way to the burning remains of the house, where a group of elves was busily searching the rubble. 'I can't let them have him,' she thought and flashed to the spot, where a tiny baby head was looking out from under the rubble. Carefully taking the naked baby phoenix into her beak, she flashed home and put him right into Santa's hands that provided the necessary care for the baby.
"What are we going to do with him?" Everyone looked at Santa, questioningly.
"Does he remember anything?" Ariana glanced at the small animal with a combination of apparent fright and amazement.
"No, I don't think so."
"If you can guarantee that he does not remember anything, I… we… perhaps we could raise him?"
Dudley nodded, gently laying his arm around Ariana's back. "We can do that if that's what you want, but are you really sure?"
Apparently sensing that Ariana seemed to be uncertain, Luna smiled. "Harry?"
"Yes dear. Ariana, Luna and I will raise him together with our first baby, who is supposed to be born any day now. We'll raise them as twins."
Santa gave Lily, who had in the meantime transformed back into her human form, a stern look. "Now, seeing that you're going to be a grandmother soon, you better give up your anarchist tendencies."
"In my human form, I don't have these tendencies. That's only my avian anarchy side, and it's still not my fault that I'm a bird. I always wanted to be a white tiger."
'How she can manage to tell Santa that and still keep a straight face I don't know,' Harry thought, as everyone began to laugh. 'Perhaps, she and Severus took classes for that in her former life. He'd manage the same blank mask in any situation.'
Epilogue – 11 years later
Harry was sitting between Ariana and Luna at the high table, when Minerva brought the new first-years into the Great Hall. A screen on the wall opposite the head table gave them a close-up look onto the small faces of the children.
He leaned forward, when Minerva called, "Potter, Julia." 'I wonder where she's going to be sorted,' he thought, smiling, when his daughter was sorted into Slytherin. She walked up to the Slytherin table in apparent happiness, where she was greeted by her Aunt Lucy, who was a fifth-year prefect, and Uncle Regulus, the Quidditch captain.
To Harry's surprise, Julia's official twin brother Marco followed in her footsteps and was also sorted into Slytherin.
"Oh Merlin, another double trouble couple and Potters at that. As if having one of these couples in my house wasn't bad enough."
Harry glared at the Slytherin head, who was sitting on Luna's other side. "At least, you have a fair chance at winning the Quidditch Cup again."
"That might be true. Headmaster Riddle, let's forgo the first-year-rule once and for all times and allow first-years to become a member of the house-teams."
"Minerva?" Tom gave his wife a questioning look.
Minerva groaned. "We should have made someone headmaster, who graduated from Gryffindor," she mumbled, causing everyone at the high table to laugh.
"Well, you see, the Slytherins obviously are the better students, considering that eighty percent of our staff consists of former Slytherins," Severus replied, smirking.
"Now please let Minerva continue with the Sorting." Luna cast the remaining first-years a reassuring look, just when Minerva read the next name from her list.
"Oh, by the way," Harry whispered to Severus behind his wife's back. "They've already set up this year's team at the end of last year, just like we always did, while I was still on the team. Think Slytherin."
Five minutes later, the Sorting was over, and while Minerva brought the Sorting Hat out of the Great Hall, Lily turned to Severus. "Congratulations Sev, you've got every single one of our youngsters' children in Slytherin."
Severus quirked an eyebrow. "As long as they don't have anarchistic avians as familiars like one of their parents, Slytherin house will be fine."
The End
A huge thanks to the kind readers who motivated my muse by commenting on each chapter. I appreicate it very much, and I hope that you had as much fun reading this story as I had writing it!
P.S. My new story "Double Trouble" will be up tonight :)