A/N: Hey So sorry for the late update but some really BIG changes happened whilst I was away for more details check my profile or the last chapter of my other book A Harry Potter Fanfiction; Drarry, Just You. I'm too lazy to write what I wrote there here( you'll find more info in the book tho) so umm I'm so sorry.
So in apology I give you this long chapter, that is a filler of sorts and an actual chapter with a plot. So forgive me for letting you wait for long *runs and hides for cover*
Previously on The Zabini that Came to Stay: Harry leaves the Dursleys, Harry meets Maeve and Aquila and reflects
Right now on The Zabini that Came to Stay: Harry meets Narci and Corvus, finds out Aquila's new skill, and MAYBE just maybe mind you we will find out why exactly the name of House Evanesco shares the same name as the spell 'Evanesco' coincidence? I think not. Special Guests : Stan Shunpike, Dre Head & Ernie Prang
Disclaimer: When you see this it means does not belong to me it belongs to J.K Rowling so yeah
#Diagon Alley or Diagonally
The next morning Harry woke up to Aquila shaking him and singing "Wake up HARRISON" in his ear, "Wassappening wheresthe'nake" There's no snake silly, you need to wake up we'll be going to Diagon Alley in 5 hours HURRY UP!" she yelled Harry rolled his eyes "You know we do have 5 hours till we have to go" he said with a smile, Aquila stared at him like he had grown an extra head. "In this house, 5 hours is like 5 minutes, at least it is to me, you know when you have something to do that you really want to the time just flies by, you know what I mean it's like one minute is 6:00 am and the next it's 11:30 so WAKE UP HARRISON, WAKE UP!"
15 minutes later Aquila had managed to get Harry to wake up, brush his teeth and take a shower and was now dragging him down to the smaller dining room for breakfast. Aunt Maeve was already there, so were a couple of people Harry hadn't seen the day before, a brunet with caramel eyes and olive skin and a male with black hair hollowed cheeks and pale skin. "Good morning Harry did you have a good night sleep?" Maeve asked "Yes thank you" "Aquila how about you?" "Oh it was marvelous I dreamt about Hogwarts and going to Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley and The Sorting Hat and Classes and a whole lot of things I also dreamt about my Patronus I think it was a Pomeranian dog or something like that, Harry did you know I could produce a Patronus, well not really more like a little white wisp but it's still something right now I have the perfect memory, do you want to know what it is?" "Sure," Harry answered with an amused smile on his face. "Its...YOU, well specifically its when we found out you were related to us" she said as an ear-splitting grin threatened to materialize on Harry's face, "That's so sweet, maybe, just maybe mind you I can teach you how to form a fully corporeal Patronus" he offered "Really you'd do that for me?" she asked eagerly "Sure, but for a price of course" he answered sweetly, at this the olive-skinned woman started to laugh "You might be in Gryffindor but you have the mind of a Slytherin" Harry beamed, "Thank you, but if you don't mind me asking how did you know that?" "It was all over the Daily Prophet about 3 years ago my colleague Rita Skeeter she did a big front-page article on it something about you being in the same house as your parents, so I kind of put two and two together" "You work for the Daily Prophet?" Harry asked her "Yes I do actually Narci Blackthorne, I do all sorts of journalism, investigative, featured, political, crime, celebrity, entertainment, sports I've got a finger in everything, well everything except the gossip column Rita hogs that one" Narci answered, "So if you're Narci then you're Corvus right?" Harry asked "In the flesh" Corvus answered " Pleasure to meet you, Mr. Potter"
"The pleasure is all mine Mr... Mr..."
" Croover, Corvus Croover"
" The pleasure is all mine Mr. Croover"
"I take it you know how to produce a fully corporeal Patronus"
" Yes sir I do"
"Such an impressive feat for one so young such as yourself"
" I had a good teacher"
"Nonsense boy, it took me years to produce one and sometimes I can't tell what it is, but you, you've mastered it at 13"
" You give me too much credit sir I am yet to master the messenger Patronus"
" Pish posh that's more than some of us have mastered in 20 years" Corvus insisted
Seeing the man wasn't going to give it up Harry just agreed and the matter was dropped for the time being. "Harry dear you haven't touched your food," Aunt Maeve said " Is it not to your liking, we can have the house-elves prepare something else for you, any allergies, health issues or preferences they should take into account" "No no, just thinking is all" He assured her. "Well you can eat and think at the same time I wanted to show you the tapestry before going to Diagon Alley," she said. And as of flipping a switch Aquila prattled on about seeing Diagon Alley for the first time and Hogwarts houses while the other occupants of the table are in science occasionally nodding at the right places and Hmm-ing and Ahh-ing when called for.
After breakfast, Maeve and Harry headed towards the tapestry.
On the top of the tapestry in big bold font were the words 'EVANESKO TOXO PROS TIN OCHI ANDRAS.
"'Evanesko toxo pros tin ochi andras'. Greek, means 'Evanesco bow to no man' our ancestor was a very staunch woman." Maeve explained "When most people see the inscription the first thing that comes to mind is a proud person who believes their selves to be better than the rest, but its actually very far from the truth. You see Cassiopeia Thorne was a very... what's the word... opinionated, strong-headed woman, yes that's quite right. In those days those qualities weren't appreciated in a woman, but Cassiopeia's family was very supportive they actually found it a form of endearment. But when the time came for Cassiopeia to be wedded of the her betrothed; Her second cousin Ovidius Thorne, she refused. See Cassiopeia didn't believe in inbreeding she thought it reduced fertility and increased the possibility of genetic disorders which is all quite true, also Ovidius was not a very pleasant man, he believed the only thing woman and females were made to do was to mate, bring forth the next generation, raise them and serve their husbands and obey them without protest. And naturally Cassiopeia couldn't and wouldn't stand for that, her mother and father weren't like that, sure Dana Thorne nee Lomyrs never argued with her husband on matters but that was because they had a mutual respect for each other and Damien Thorne never tried to rule over his wife, so Cassiopeia couldn't for the life of her have possibly agreed to marry such a man, so she packed up some of her things and told her parents and her betrothed 2 months before the wedding date that she was going to visit her friend in Egypt for a couple of weeks, She ended up staying for 9 months in the city of Athens then living for 5 months in Rome. When she finally returned Ovidius had married her younger sister Asterope 13 months prior. Her Ovidius had mockingly commented that they ought to call her Evanesca a word derived from the Latin word Evanesco meaning Vanish or Disappear. Cassiopeia determined not to allow Ovidius the upper hand didn't protest and her name unofficially became Cassiopeia 'Evanesca' Thorne." Maeve said and paused looking at Harry as if to make sure he wasn't bored or had left, when she confirmed he was there she continued
"She was now 29 years old and wanted to get married, one of her admirers Lloyd Leander two years older than her in Hogwarts and was infatuated with her during her schooldays approached her and eventually they started courting. When he finally asked her to marry him she said yes, but on one condition, that he took her name, Lloyd being the third son of his family was willing to agree, but both their fathers and the Lords of their Houses wouldn't have allowed it, so Lloyd proposed a compromise; They could take Cassiopeia's moniker Evanesca as their last name. Cassiopeia the equalist that she was decided it was not fair so she made some changes to the name after spending a long time in Greece, she had grown to like the Greek language so meshed the two languages Greek and Latin to create the name Evanesko. They had both agreed to the name all that was left was to seek the approval of their Houses, the Thornes didn't mind they found her independence endearing and were willing to accept it but the Leanders weren't to crazy about it in fact the Lord of their house Lloyd's oldest brother Llycanther mocked Lloyd for allowing a woman to rob him of his name but seeing Lloyd wasn't going to back down he approved it- Llycanther loved his brothers very much and didn't want them to do something they will regret but he loved them enough to let them choose their own paths. After they had signed the paper work and performed the necessary rituals to create a new house they moved to Beaconsfield and built the first ever magical home in that area, that's why we are right in the middle of all the other magical homes in Beaconsfield" Maeve announced proudly "So you are saying they kind of founded this community?" Harry asked.
"Yes they did, though the refused to take credit for it. Any ways Lloyd and Cassiopeia gave birth to a son a few years after they moved here, they named him Lucan-Lloyd Evanesko, or Lu. Lucan-Lloyd was a fairly normal magical baby except he never once had a burst of accidental magic or any kind of magic to be honest, Cassiopeia and Lloyd loved him regardless. Ovidius Thorne now the Lord of the House of Thorne and Liam Leander second born son of Archibald Leander and younger brother of Llycanther Leander tried to convince Lloyd to dispose of his son and sire another, but Lloyd refused even when Ovidius threatened to burn Cassiopeia of the family tree and Liam threatened to convince Llycanther to revoke the monthly stipend for their family. Cassiopeia and Lloyd didn't believe their son was a Squib and that he was just waiting to show of his magic, but Lucan-Lloyd turned 11 and got no Hogwarts letter because he had still not performed any magic. Lloyd was distraught his only son, first and only child could not perform magic, Cassiopeia had wisely refrained from telling Lucan-Lloyd about Hogwarts and instead taught him Magical Theory, Astronomy and many other subjects that did not require magic from the wizards core. When Lucan-Lloyd was about turning 13 and Cassiopeia had assigned him a 15 inch essay on all the uses of Dragon blood that he finally snapped, he wished that all the parchment in the house would just disappear and it did, he told his mother and tried to blame it on an invisible imp who wanted him in trouble Cassiopeia saw through the lie and told him him he could do magic and that he just performed the rarest piece of magic ever seen-even accidentally Vanishing something was rare-, you see at first to Vanish so you had to draw various runes and chant a long incantation so to Vanish something immediately was a great feat, Crafters had been trying for decades to craft a spell that could immediately vanish something. Lucan-Lloyd was ecstatic, he wasn't stupid he had heard his mom and dad talk about a place called Hogwarts and how he would not be able to attend and so to finally prove to them that he was just like everyone else was a victory. So on the day before his 13th birthday Headmaster Fytherly Undercliffe visited their manor and presented Lucan-Lloyd his Hogwarts letter after congratulating him on his great feat. Lucan-Lloyd immediately persuaded his mother to arrange for them to go to Diagon Alley to get a wand at Ollivander's Wand shop. When they got to Ollivander's Lucan-Lloyd met Gervaise Ollivander the owner of the shop he was an eccentric man much like his great-grandson today but I suspect the Ollivanders are like that, Gervaise was excited to see a new customer he bustled leaving the enchanted tape measure to do its work, he then checked the measurements and started shoving wands into Lucan-Lloyd's hand and then snatching them out not even acknowledging Lucan-Lloyd or Cassiopeia, Lucan-Lloyd was annoyed by the fact he was being ignored but Cassiopeia merely shook her head at the old wandmakers antics. Suddenly Gervaise stopped and as if seeing Lucan-Lloyd for the first time clicked his tongue and asked Lucan-Lloyd to stretch forth his wand hand, when Gervaise saw it he started muttering to himself and disappeared to the back of the store, he arrived back with and old battered looking wand box, opened it with gloves and carefully picked up a wand and handed it to Lucan-Lloyd immediately the wand tip started glowing, Germaine jumped and told them that this wand was very old and that it was made by his ancestor Geraint Ollivander who was a very 'experimental' wizard and liked to push himself he made a 7 inch acacia wood ward with male veela hair, Boomslang venom in its liquid form, Fairy Wings and Werewolf hair, he explained that this wand had never chosen an owner and always burnt whoever held it hands leaving behind a tiny white mark and only the wizard it chose could wield it unscarred, the wand had an affinity with charms and spells and Veela hair mostly gravitated towards Veela's or in some cases potential Ravenclaws." "Let me guess when Lucan was being sorted the hat said Ravenclaw" Harry said. "Funnily enough he wasn't but he became best friends and fell in love a relative of Rowena Ravenclaw and Ravenclaw Aracely Crowhaven who he later married but that's not the point the point is his wand had an affinity to charms" she answered in a voice that suggested that a big secret had been revealed.
Seeing the expression of confusion on Harry's face she explained "A month after he got into Hogwarts since one of his electives was Crafting he wrote an essay on the theory of a Vanishing Spell for extra credit. He later studied how the Vanishing ritual worked and compared it with his theory and in his 4th year created and perfected the Vanishing spell with the incantation being Evanesco with it being the masculine version of Evanesca his mothers moniker and the Latin version of Evanesko his last name. The spell was bought by the British ministry for billions of galleons and sold to other parts of the wizarding word with 60 percent of the earnings going straight to the Evanesko vault. Which made the house of Evanesko a shoe-in for the compilation of the Sacred 28 but was later taken out because it produced a fair amount of Squibs. But over time people kept on mixing Evanesco with Evanesko and our name became Evanesco. So that's how we got our name the history behind one of the widely used spells, this area and how the Ravenclaw line has not yet died out but lives through you directly though I'm Lady Ravenclaw now and before you were found out Aquila would have become Lady Ravenclaw but now it will be your wife or your daughter if you don't have any daughters it goes to Aquila, and also why Your name only shows up on the tapestry when you pass 13 by a considerable number of months. Unfortunately the Head of the house only gets a notification to this fact when the next Lord passes 13 which is why were not able to see that Lily Evans was a part of the family it would have notified us when your cousin Dudley turned 13 but he is not only a Squib but he condemned Magic several times along with his Muggle father and Squib mother" Maeve said with a sad sort of voice "So you're saying I'm actually related to Petunia and her family and Dudley is a Half-blood Squib!" Harry asked crushed by the fact that he was actually related to the Dursleys and Dumbledore hadn't made some sort of mistake. "Well yes it is and it also means that you are now the Lord of the House of Evanesco but I'm still the Head since you are not of age, you are also Lord Potter and another title I can't remember, we shall have to pay a visit to Gringotts before shopping" Maeve announced
Aquila was practically buzzing as she took her first step out of Evanesco Manor Gate, "Holy Merlin, Mordred and Morgana I actually did it"
"Look Darling our baby's taking her first step" mocked Harry rolling his eyes
"Sassy little fuc-"
"Language Aquila!" Narci chided
"Yes mother" Aquila answered glaring at Harry who held his hand to his mouth with a mock shocked expression, mouthing 'Why I never'
"Okay so how do you want to travel, Muggle transportation, the Knight Bus, Apparition or Portkey" Maeve asked
"Well the Knight Bus, Apparition and Portkey will get you there immediately so if you want to see scenery we could go the Muggle way Aquila" Corvus informed her
"Well I want to get there quickly I also want to see everything so... how about we Knight Bus there and Muggle way back"
"Ok then" Maeve said and lifted her wand hand into the air. There was a deafening BANG and the group shielded their eyes against a sudden blinding light, Maeve ushered them back just in time, A second later, a gigantic pair of wheels and headlights screeched to a halt exactly where they had just been standing. They belonged , as the group saw when they raised their heads, to a triple decker, violently purple bus, which had appeared out of thin air . Gold lettering over the windshield spelled Knight Bus.
Then a conductor in a purple uniform leapt out of the bus and began to speak loudly. "Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard, just stick out your wand hand, step on board, and we can take you anywhere you want to go. My name is Stan Shunpike, and I will be your conductor this aft-. The conductor stopped abruptly.
"Ay, you're not stranded" accused Stan dropping his professional tone
"Yeah we noticed" Harry said dryly coming out from behind Maeve
" Blimey! Ernie would you look at that its 'Arry, why the last time you flagg'd us you s'd yor name's Neville, fooled us too dinnit Ern, right bugger this 'un"
"You know these people Harry?" Aquila asked
"It's unfortunately fortunate that I do"
"Wicked!"
"How exactly do you know these people, Harry? Maeve asked concerned
" I run away from the Dursley's last year"
"Well are you humans going to stand out there lolly-gagging we have places to be!" the shrunken head in the front of the bus yelled
"Ignore 'im 'e's a righ' toss'r, now it'll be eleven Sickles" said Stan, "but for firteen you get 'ot chocolate, and for firteen you get an 'ot-water bottle an' a toofbrush in the color of your choice."
"We'll just be going to London please, nothing else" Maeve said
"That'll be eleven Sickles ma'am" and as if an afterthought "for all of yer frends too"
"Take it away Ernie!" Dre Head yelled
There was another tremendous BANG, and the next moment the group found themselves flat on a bed, thrown backward by the speed of the Knight Bus, Pulling themselves up, they stared out of the window and saw they were now bowling along a completely different street. The streets seemed to change as they rocketed past lamp posts and mailboxes, cats and cars, old ladies and buildings jumping out of their way and in a minute the were right outside the Leaky Cauldron.
Stan ushered them out the doors and shut them out with a loud BANG and the Knight Bus disappeared again
"Wow, that was an interesting experience" Aquila commented as white as chalk, clutching her stomach, even the usually prim Corvus was looking a little green around the gills, Narci and Maeve were still trying to see straight and Harry had jelly for legs.
The group took a minute to get them selves into sorts and entered the Leaky Cauldron.
"Would you look at that its Harry" Tom exclaimed as he came to greet them "Good to see you old friend and who are these lovely people you have with you, Come, come sit down for a drink"
"No thank you sir, we are in quite a hurry" Narci said
"Well then I wouldn't want to keep you waiting, but come back again!"
TBC..
Okay so actually I wanted to complete this chapter but I realised that you guys hadn't received an update in a long time so I started this chapter a long time ago (like really really long time ago) but with school and other issues I settled for updating it bit by bit so now that Im on Easter Break I can work on it more sooo yeah
And all text in bold is from the book Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban none of its mine