Hello everyone!

I haven't much time to write past weeks, but I've not forget to translate my story. By the way, if you read french, next chapter, the 25th already (more than 100k words in total!) will be publish tomorrow (after 3 weeks, it's a yeah!). It's may be more well writen then my translation, haha. So... have a great time!

So today, we discover new OCs. They will have their importance in the story. I've have indeed write a lot about them. Maybe, after the first book will be complete, I'll share their POV in bonus. For the moment, I think it's interested to take it like a mystery, but you know... Not forever ;)

Chapter 5 - The secret of the Bachs

At the Slytherin table, people were talking about their summer with a total lack of enthusiasm according to Jack, who would have had plenty of hilarious anecdotes to tell, since he hadn't really had time to do so on the train due to Merida's attitude and Hiccup's absence. He was sitting between one of his roommates and his twin sister, Dietrich and Liesa Bach.

Both had had a hard time since their first year, and especially last year because of their German background, until Liesa "inadvertently" put a blinding potion in all the drinks in the Great Hall. This had caused a general panic among the students, but the teachers had quickly realized that the culprit was none other than Liesa. After all, only she and her brother had been careful not to consume anything. Fortunately, Slughorn had been able to make occulus potions in record time with the help of the nurse and Liesa, who had been forced not to miss the healing potions on purpose. The Slytherin hourglass had never been so low. After all, ever since Tom Riddle had been at the school, the Slytherins had consistently won the cup, so this was the first time they had fallen behind the Gryffindors. Nevertheless, no one had dared to retaliate, since the potion Liesa had made was only learned in fifth year and it commanded respect in their house. Also, only a short time later, rumors that Dietrich was doing dark magic had mysteriously begun to circulate. Jack, who by some means had become close to the duo, had learned that these rumors were completely fabricated from an unknown source, but that the two of them had shamelessly kept them alive with some pleasure. They liked to be left alone and Jack also suspected that they liked to be feared by the other students.

Still, the hatred of the other students for them was sickening. At one point, when Jack was alone in the dormitory with Dietrich, he explained that he and his sister had fled Germany with their parents two years before the war. They were Jewish and his parents had had a bad feeling about the strength of Nazism in Germany. Jack had been surprised, since being a wizard, the Muggle-German government should not have scared them so much, but it was with a serious face that Dietrich had revealed that his parents did not practice magic.

Jack frowned:

"Still, you have to be pureblooded or at least mixed to be in Slytherin... Unless you were adopted," he joked, a smile on his face.

Dietrich seemed surprised at first, then a little uncomfortable. Apparently, he didn't know that detail about being a Slytherin or didn't believe it was really true. He looked back and forth across the room, as if to make sure no one was spying on them, then whispered to Jack:

"Promise me you won't say anything, especially not to people in our house, okay? "

Jack smiled:

"Do you see me with the people in our house a lot? They blame me for being a traitor, because I have the misfortune to hang out with Merida. What could I have done to get mixed up with such a redhead," he joked.

Dietrich didn't laugh and continued:

"No, but seriously, not even to your friends. "

Curious, Jack made a sign of the cross on his chest, as he had often seen Merida do when she promised something, and the Slytherin seemed reassured:

"My father is a Squib. He comes from a very well-known pureblood family in Germany. His family is even said to be close to Grindelwald. But he was disowned as soon as he was old enough to leave home without his mother feeling guilty. My father is very angry with them, even though he has no contact with them. My mother is Jewish, from a Muggle family. My father didn't tell her about witchcraft because he didn't think that my sister and I could be wizards. Apparently, we could. I think he was disappointed at first when we showed our first signs of magic. "

Dietrich paused in his story, no doubt searching his memory for what had happened. After a moment, he continued:

"Actually, it was Liesa who first did the magic. First, the plants we had in our room grew ten times faster than in the rest of the house, sometimes it seemed like our room was a jungle! The animals had a strange attraction to her. She was able to talk, although they did not answer her, to small wild animals that came to see us in the garden. But it was when she was able to jump over the cabinets in a completely illogical way that she started to say that she was a magician. Our father acted as if nothing was happening and that it was only Liesa's imagination that was playing tricks on him. Once, when she managed to levitate our toys during a game, he got so angry at her that he slapped her and told her that she was crazy and that magic didn't exist. That was the first time I did magic. He fell and hit his head on a table. Mom didn't understand anything, but it eventually went away and I think today he's less mad at magic. "

Jack raised an eyebrow, he found the Bachs' secret fascinating.

Then Dietrich had to tell his sister that he had told Jack about their secret. She had stayed away from them for quite a while, until a fifth-year Gryffindor cornered her in a corridor one May night and blamed her for the whole war in Germany.

Samuel Henry was a Muggle-born who had a French father and an English mother. His father had gone to the south of France to help a group that wanted to liberate it. Samuel was very proud of them. He was often heard to say that thanks to his family, Hitler would be defeated. People knew, as a good Gryffindor, that if his mother had not been so strict, he too would have been at the front despite his young age. He was very aware of Muggle news and kept his house and others informed. The teachers regularly had to tell him to be careful with his sometimes aggressive and judgmental comments about anyone who wasn't fighting.

At the beginning of May, Samuel had gone home for a week. Everyone knew something had happened. In fact, his two older brothers, who were all muggles, his father, his uncle and a cousin had been killed. All had died in the same bombing. The whole division had been destroyed. On his way back, the Gryffindor had expressed his sadness and guilt for not having been there, not being an adult yet, through revenge towards the only German family in the school. At first, he had wanted to find Dietrich, but he had run into his sister. Jack didn't know how long he'd subjected her to his hatred, but when he arrived at the scene, Liesa was curled up on the floor, blood covering her face and hair. Her wand was across the hall and all she could manage to say was, "Bitte, bitte. " Please. Samuel looked completely crazy and was yelling incomprehensible words at her. Maybe it was French or maybe it was nothing at all. Jack had immobilized Samuel with a spell. He was too blinded by hatred to notice. Then he had led Liesa back to the infirmary. He had stayed with her and Dietrich, who had been quickly briefed, that night until she fell asleep and the nurse kicked them out. Dumbledore, the principal of Gryffindors House, had taken Samuel under his wing and he had been sent home.

Since then, the German considered Jack to be, if not a friend, an ally. At least his presence was tolerated and she sat with him and his brother at meals. Still, when she had poisoned everyone, she had been careful not to tell him. Perhaps it was her way of keeping a certain pride and distance since the incident with the fifth year.

Dietrich leaned over Jack to talk to his sister:

"Hey, Lili, sieh mal. "

Liesa turned toward the direction her brother was pointing.

"Arschloch," she swore clearly in German.

Sensing that the situation was getting out of hand Jack intervened:

"You know that if you just wanted to talk to each other it would have been enough to sit next to and not on either side of me. "

Liesa crossed her arms and turned her head away. It was a good start to the year. At least Dietrich finally seemed to realize his classmate's presence:

"Oh yeah, sorry. It's just that the Gryffindor, he's back. "

"He should have been expelled," Liesa said dryly in a thick German accent.

"Look on the bright side, now you'll get your revenge," Dietrich offered.

"Oh yeah..." remarked Jack, turning to the Gryffindor table. Besides, he could see Merida who didn't seem to be holding still.

He had not been able to talk to her since she had put them there, Rapunzel and him, when they got off the train. But from the look on her face, she seemed even less inclined to talk than on the train. Jack felt like he had missed something, especially since Merida was sitting with the older kids, including the famous Samuel, and not the people in their year. Liesa also seemed to have noticed:

"How about that! Your little redhead is well accompanied. "

Jack rolled his eyes.

"Oh, it's okay, Lies'. You made me promise not to tell them, I held my tongue. "

Liesa hissed at Jack's nickname for her.

"Still," Dietrich continued, "They're all brute in Gryffondor."

Jack sighed. This beginning of the year was frankly not super pleasant and he was looking for a way to change the subject.

"Well. I had a question. Do you have any idea what I can send my sister this year? It has to be even more glorious than last year's piece of armor. "

Liesa rolled her eyes as Dietrich stared at him in amazement. These two were frankly not very funny, and Jack had forgotten that detail with the summer gone by.

"Isn't it kind of stupid to send pieces from school? I mean, you might get caught and what is she going to do with a piece of armor, your sister?"

"Oh, but who cares Diet'. It makes her laugh and that's all. Next year she'll be with us at Hogwarts anyway. Until then, it doesn't take much for me to please her. "

"You're making your sister happy by sending her armor... Decidedly, you are really strange in your family. Unless it's the English at all," Liesa said haughtily.

"And, well, Mer' did the same thing for her brothers and they're not English, they're from the Highlands Islands. "

"I thought the Highlanders were just pretending to be independent, but actually belonged to Britain," Dietrich remarked.

Jack wanted to correct his friend, who was apparently confusing England with Britain, although Merida didn't indeed consider herself British, but Liesa was too quick:

"Worse, don't tell me about that hothead. She's in Gryffindor, stupidity is their watchword. You, on the other hand, should be a little more decent," Liesa said to Jack.

Jack burst out laughing as the duo stared at him.

"You guys can be so heavy. It's amazing when you get into it," he explained.

Liesa frowned, offended, and Dietrich seemed too surprised to react. Nevertheless, Jack didn't let them react, because the door to the Great Hall had just opened and he could clearly hear Professeur Galatea Merrythought shouting:

"And let that be a lesson to you, young man! "

Red-faced, branches all over his hair, his clothes torn and cuts all over his face, Hiccup walked through the doors behind which the first years were surely waiting. Jack stood up, much more relieved than he would have thought to see him like this. He met Rapunzel's eyes, who had also stood up. He could not help but blush.

"Are you blushing for Haddock? "Avery asked, laughing.

Jack didn't even bother to turn around and asked:

"Your jealous? "

"If you're gay, I mind," said Mulciber.

"It's still better than being a big jerk," Liesa added, glowering at him.

Mulciber stood up, his wand in hand, followed by Liesa, Avery and Dietrich.

"I'm not afraid of you Dietrich. "

"You should be. "

"That's enough. Sit back down," Tom simply said in such an authoritative tone that even Jack sat back down, especially since now the Slytherin was wearing the prefect's badge.

A few of the teachers had indeed turned to their table and seemed to be starting to wonder what was going on there.

Jack turned to Hiccup who had just been joined by Merida who had hugged him before slapping him. He couldn't hear what they were saying to each other, but he could clearly hear the Headmaster taking points away from Gryffindor, which caused some hissing at their table. Hiccup returned to his table and Merida to hers. Silence was quickly restored and the first years entered.

Thanks for reading!

So, Hiccup is return. What do you think about the Bachs? Tom appear! And he would appear there and there.

Please comment if you can. It help a lot and make me smile so munch ! In addition, I answer to everyone, héhé!