Spirits of the Living
a Sailormoon-Harry Potter-Slayers fanfic..
by Kellybug
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The next morning found "the family" (as they started calling themselves) of Tsukino Usagi having breakfast on the landscape outside Slytherin Tower.
"How did everyone sleep, last night?" Usagi asked. "Once we all.. got to sleep?"
Even those members of "the family" that found themselves blushing found themselves laughing from Usagi's question!
"Hai!" Ryu chirped! "Had good sleep!" He glanced at Amelia Katherina Seraphim, held on to her hand, squeezed it, and blushed.
This made Miss Snape-Mizuno blush all the ways to her toes! But? she never let go of his hand!
"Had good dreams. Hai." Ryu smiled softly, looking to Amelia Katherina.
"Hai." Ami Kat peeped.
"Aw.." Minako and Rei cooed. "Bluebirds are lovebirds!"
And, Ryu and Ami leaned into each other, happily.
"Ara..", Minako suddenly piped up Rei. "Is Usagi-ane about to LOSE Ami-imouto?"
Minako and Rei then switched the gazes from Usagi to Ami.
"I.. I.. would not.. could not..?" Amelia Katherina than threw a confused and slightly-terrified look to Usagi. "Aneue? I do not want to hurt you?"
Ryu massauged Ami tensing shoulders!
"You will not hurt me, Amelia-imouto-chan!" Usagi smiled into a cup of tea. "Have not hurt me! Will not hurt me! Iyaa! Did not run away from me to Ryu-kun. Iie! I allow it! You and Ryu are meant to be together! You have your Ryu! Like I have my Mamoru! Hai! Will even have joji! Hai!"
Everybody but a grinning Naru and a grinning Umino turned, opened-mouthed, at Usagi!
"When did you go to Fortune-Teller, Aneue?" Rei asked Usagi.
"Go to Trelawney-Duck?" Minako asked.
"'Trelawny-Quack', Minako-ane." Makoto corrected the Senshi of Venus.
"Tralawny is Quack!" Rei agreed with a huff.
"Did not go to fortune-teller, iyaa!" Usagi giggled, nibbling on a crumpet. "I meet with ghost-talker. Hai."
"Ghost?" Rei blinked.
"What do ghosts know?" Minako blinked.
And Makoto smiled.
"Ghosts know when they can come back. Hai." Usagi explained what she had pieced together from Umino. "Can know who they go back to! Hai. Ghost-talker said ONE GHOST, by name, was asking about My Ami!"
"Who was ghost?" Minako asked.
"Who was ghost-talker?" Rei asked.
"Zoisite was ghost." Usagi smiled reassuringly to Amelia Katherina Seraphim. "Ghost-Talker is Umino! Hai."
"Zoicite.." Amelia Katherina caressed her stomache with a far-away look in her eyes. "We will give you a good-home, me and Ryu, when you come to us." She then kissed Ryu.
And, Minako and Rei started immitating a couple of bluebirds.
"Usagi-Hime?" Ryu asked. "Last dream was.. not peaceful? Iyaa. Felt like someone was.. watching me. Hai. Looking through.. memories."
"'Looking through..'?" Amelia Katherina Seraphim grabbed and held tightly to her Ryu-kun! "They want to steal my doragon?! To change you?! To..?"
"Calm down, My ami!" Usagi arose and looked to her oldest friend among the Senshi. "We do not know if this enemy is even enemy! May be enemy? May just be baka. Ryu-kun! Did you get look at snoop? What did snoop look like?"
At Usagi words, although they were cautious, Uwada Ryu was able to calm down. "Intruder looked - somewhat - like goblins I saw with Snapes at Gringott's Bank?"
"Look like Goblin?" Usagi asked. "Small?"
"Hai hai!" Ryu said, shakily. "Does Hime know intruder?"
"Probably." Usagi said, deep in thought. "Professa Flitawicki, maybe? Ami! First chance you have? Take Ryu to see mother and Nurse Pomferey! Hai.
"Almost time for class! If teachers decide to 'examine' you, again, Ryu? Let me and Amelia Katherina Sarephim know! Same goes for you two, Naru no Umino!"
"Hai, Usagi!" Naru snaped out a salute. "Me and Umino arlready had visit! Hai. Compare dreams. Visitor looked like potato! For both of us!"
"Mrs. Potato-Head!" Rei and Minako squealed like little girls.
And, Usagi sighed.
"Usagi-chan?" A cat called from a tree-branch. "What will you do?"
"Go insane, Luna-Sensei, trying to keep guys from going insane." Usagi sighed as the black cat jumped onto Usagi's shoulder. "Going to first class of day. Hai."
In the Nurse' Wing, Ami and Ryu were speaking with Nurses Pomfrey and Mizuno-Snape:
"Filius Flitwick is a good teacher, he is," Poppie said, "but..?"
"Is too much Goblin when it comes to testing in mind!" Saeko finished the thought. "Like commando-raid! In and out!"
"Just be grateful we are not at war with the goblin-nation, Saeko-chan!" Poppie shivered involuntarily. "Goblins would be in and out, and take no prisoners!"
"Not helping patient, I am sure!" Saeko slowly bowed and grinned. "Pomferey-Sama."
And, Poppie shivered, once more.
"Actually, Snape-Sansei?" Ryu smiled at the women. "Description is very assuring! Assured that Flitiwicka-Sensei will not eat me."
After Transformations Class, Usagi had a private-talk with McGonigall:
"I am sorry.. to hear about what happened to Mr. Uwada, your Highness!" Minerva said. "So is Filius."
"Goshinpainaku! Ryu-kun is alright!" Usagi smiled reassingly. "Heard from Amelia Katherina! Hai. She heard, telepathically, from Ryu! Empathic-link. Almost as strong as me and girls! Hai. Ami, also, let me know... Judge Longabottom wishes to speak to me? About.. Deatheaters?"
"Yes.. your.. Highness." Minerva shattered, still getting used to the Sailorsenshi's empathy and telepathy. "Augusta.. Judge Longbottom.. has had a.. bad history..
with The Deatheaters. Or? One of them?"
"Hai! Have heard of Bellatrix LaStrange! From, Bellatrix Lastrange, herself. Has been watching over Augusta-Sensei's son and daughter-in-law, whenever she can!"
"She has?" Minerva asked. "Does she know? About their disappearances?"
"She knows!" Usagi nodded. "Organized removal from St. Mungo's, herself! Two months ago."
"She did?" Minerva's voice started to quiver. "Did.. did she say.. why.. she did it?"
"To care for Aurors, herself! Hai." Usagi answered. "To finish what she started! Cannot be done in Asyllem demo. St. Mungo's would be - hostile - to her presence.
Needs full-concentration of powers to do what she has to! Cannot devide powers to do two jobs. One, or the other? Or both? Would not be perfect."
"What.. do I tell Augusta, then?" McGonigall asked Usagi. "What can I tell her? She's my friend, after all is said and done?"
"Tell friend to meet me in Slytherin Tower! Hai. we will talk there. My dorm, if she wishes privacy?"
After lunch, Usagi, Lina, Filia, Xellos, Amelia Wil Seyruun, and the Senshi headed to the Quidditch field to practice flying! This time? Four others joined them to observe the lessons.
"I.. hope.. that the brooms will be gentle with Amelia." Zelgadis commented to the others. "She is still a child, in many ways! Only place she does not take after Phil, is when the time comes to over-rule spirits! Hai. Sometimes? She listens to a spirit when she should ignore the bakayarou."
"Same, a few times, as Amelia Katherina Seraphim! Hai." Ryu sighed. "Has been afraid to anger spirits! Lets too many have their way! Has not always been best for my blue angel! Iie."
"Parents know this?" Zeldagis asked, trying not to laugh.
"Tousan ano kaasan threaten offending-spirits with excorcism!" Ryu replied.
'Amelia Wil Seyruun no Amelia Katherina Seraphim sound like sisters' Zeldagis thought.
'Amelia no Amelia are sisters!" Ryu grinned, 'in every way but name and blood!'
"Hooch-Sensei?" Naru bowed to the witch. "Why is broom so combative?"
"A combative-broom? Oosaka-chan? Or, is it Hagrid-chan?" Hooch asked. "You heard it?"
"Hai!" Naru smiled. "First broom in row, when we get to field! Name is 'Hagrid', now! Tousan and Kaasan will be remarried as soon as possible!"
"Ah, that broom - the one Miss Aino hit the ground on!" Hooch sighed. "It's still shy about being ridden! It was a shame, too! Miss Aino had her best ride, ever, that day! You are Rubeus's daughter? Are you sure you hven't had training in witchcraft, before? Not many witches can communicate wth a broom, straight off the handle! Not even empathic ones?"
"I felt pain." Naru told Hooch. "Could not commune with it demo. Why I ask about it."
In back of Naru, Umino skickered.
"Ara..", Naru turned to Umino, "what is funny, Umino-kun?"
"You are calm, hai!". Umino grinned. "While mahautsukai are running around wondering what to do with us! Like Usagi-san at Fruit Parlor! Kukuku!"
"Kukukuku!" Naru chortled. "Was funny, hai hai! You are bad, kyongshi! Hai! very bad! Let's watch flyers! Hai!"
"Kyongshi?" Madam Hooch asked Naru and Umino.
"'Vampire'!" Umino answered Hooch with a smile. "Hai!"
"But? You're in the full-sun?" Hooch noted. "And where are your fangs?"
"Kyongshi one-thousand years ago." Umino explained. "At least one reincarnation back! Hai. Servant on Lunarian Kingdom. Butler to Usagi-Hime."
"Oh?" Hooch perked up. "Well, now, and that explains how close you are to Miss Tsukino! And, she's about to land, she is! And, what of you, little Naru? What were you,
a thousand years ago?"
"Ookami! Werewolf!" The redhead bowed. "Usagi-Hime's Chambermaiden! Hai."
Then, Usagi came up with her broom:
"How was my flight, Hooch-Sensei?" Usagi asked.
"Very good, Slytherin-Usagi!" Hooch answered one of her favorite second-years. "You're remembered your lessons from last semester, well! I think we'll have you flying in no time, your Highness!"
Meanwhile, first Naru, and then Umino, developed a strange stare, somewhat akin to a sniper, and stood as rigid as statues.
Naru, and then Umino, then relaxed their muscles, and started giggling as their eyesight returned to normal.
"Naru? Umino? Nani-yo?" Usagi asked worriedly as Amelia Katherina performed an emergancy-examination after dismounting her broom.
"Goshinpainaku, Usagi-Hime!" Naru giggled. "Professa caught snooping in mind! Did not snoop long. Iyaa."
"Hai." Umino managed to, somehow, swallow his giggle. "Was going through memories, I think? Then, bowed to me and left!"
"Left?" Usagi asked. "So soon?"
"Hai hai, Usagi-Sama!" Naru chirped. "Me, too!"
"Hai!" Usagi smirked. "Maybe, find out Butler no Chambermaid are Kyongshi no Ookami?"
"'Are'?" Hooch asked, as the Slytherins and Gryffendors gathered in rapt attention to the news.
"Hai." Usagi nodded as Naru and Umino snapped to military-attention:
"Hai! Why I use Naru and Umino as Agents to talk to Wolves and Vampires two nights ago as Kaasan used them more than a thousand years ago! Wolves and vampires are more-trustful of their own! Hai."
"Well? Goblins are a bit respectful of Vampires and Werewolves, I guess?" Hooch replied. "They're being night-creatures."
"Ara.. Naru-chan? Umino-kun?" Usagi told her oldest-friends in this life, "We will, probably, have visitors to dorm-room, tonight! Be courteous!"
After dinner in the Great Hall, Usagi sat in the Slytherin Common-Room, concentrating on a deck of Tarot Cards, when three special-visitors entered the room:
"Ara! Longabottom Augusta-Sama! Longabottom Nevi-kun! McGoniga-Sensei! I have been expecting you!" Usagi smiled warmly. "Shall we.. talk here? Or? In dorm-room?"
"I guess.. a bit of privacy.. shall calm me down?" Magistrate Longbottom said.
"I understand.. Your Lady-Honor! Some things can be - painful - to remember! Best to be alone as possible. Follw me, onegai." The odangoed witchling then lead the visitors up the stairs to the girls' dorms.
Soon, Usagi lead the other witches and wizard into her dorm-room:
"Umino-kun? Naru-chan?" Usagi addressed her friends and allies. "I would like to introduce Longabottom Augusta-Sama and Longabottom Neville-kun, and McGoniga Minerva-Sensei! Longabottom-Sama? Nevi-kun? McGoniga-Sensei? These are my oldest-friends, Gurio Umino-kun and Oosaka Naru-chan! May we all have some tea? To start meeting?"
After Naru graciously served the tea, Usagi pulled out her deck of Tarot Cards ,and gave them a quick shuffle. Then, she pulled the Death Card for Judge Longbottom:
"Am learning not to stay on niceties, here! A friend of mine says, 'When ones stays on niceties, one goes nowhere.' Longabottom-Sama? Judge? You have - fears - of Lastrange Balla-Sama?"
"I do!" Augusta snapped out. And? Immediately wished she hadn't. "A few. I beg your pardon, your Highness, but..?"
"Not need to beg, Longabottom-Sensei!" Usagi smiled, and sipped from a re-filled teacup.. "I did that when I was younger! Beg. All it did was annoy people. Hai."
"Yes, Your Highness!" Augusta nervously chuckled.
"No 'Your Highness', please?" Usagi asked. "'Usagi' will do! I am.. still a child. Use 'Serenity', if you must! Although? At this moment? Do not feel serene! Iie."
"You don't, Usagi-chan?" Neville Longbottom asked. "You certainly look serene, right now?"
A glint came from Usagi's eye as a quick smile played on her face.
And, Minerva McGonigal rased an eyebrow.
"Looks can deceive, Young Longabottom!", Usagi said, "as I have learned, and? Still learn! Bella Lastange has taken Frank-tousan and Alice-kaasan from St. Mungo's!
Question is, why?" She then turned to Augusta. "Why would vengeful witch bother taking two curse-victims from hospital? Victims cannot be tortured! Bella-Sama knows that."
"Than, why spirit my son and daughter-in-law from where they were cared for?" Augusta pleaded. "If not to torture them? To torture my Grandson and I? Do you know what has happened to them? Where they were taken?"
"Nothing has happened to them, Judge Longabottom!" Usagi tried to reassure the woman! "Nothing will happen to them, iyaa. Not without your permission, yours and young Nevi-kun's! Parent's have been taken to Wiltshire. Lastrange-Sama wishes to speak with you, there! You and musuko."
"Why?" Judge Longbottom shot a worried glance to Minerva, then tightly held to Neville's hands! "Why? Does.. does she..plan to.. ambush me grandson and I?"
"She does not plan an ambush!" Usagi smiled. "Has explained to me why you think that demo! Last Wizarding War was fight-to-death! Death in Azkaban. Have me tell you to come to Malfoys armed wth spells! You and Nevi-kun."
"Should we expact trouble, Miss Usagi?" Neville asked.
Usagi drew The Devil and The Hanged Man from her Tarot deck.
"That depends!" Usagi chirped, much like Her Ami. "On how close you stand to Devil! How long dano."
A knock was heard at the door. Umino softly answered it:
Komban-wa, Butler!" Ami smiled and bowed. "Usagi-Sama? Dad wishes to see Umino and Naru?"
"Ah! Amelia Katherina Seraphim!" Usagi's smile grew. "Come in! You remember Magistrate Longabottom Augusta-Sama? You know Longabottom Neville-kun ano McGoniga-Sensei?"
"Ah!" Augusta's eyes lit up, as she arose and nodded. "The Slytherin in a Gryffendor-uniform!"
"Only because Hat-baka put me in Grieffendoro," Amelia Katherina moped. "Longabottom-Sensei."
"Yes. Yes." Augusta chuckled. "The hat does have it's moments!"
"Hai hai!" Usagi giggled. "Ami-imouto should be with me from beginning. Mistake has been fixed demo! Naru? Umino? Go see Professa ano Doctor!"
"Hai, your Highness!" Amelia Katherina, Naru, and Umino snapped out!
"'You Highness'?" Judge Longbottom raised an eyebrow.
"They are friends." Usagi sighed. "From them? Come to expect it! McGoniga-Sensei? Look after friends! Look out for Dumbadodo, demo."
The next morning, at breakfast, Albus Dumbledor - to his surprise - introduced four new Slytherins: Oosaka Naru, Gurio Umino, Uwada Ryu and Zelgadis Graywords! And, Slytherin cheered their new additions!
As did Amelia Katherina Seraphim Snape-Mizuno and Amelia Wil Tesla Seyruun, and Hermoine Granger and Hary Potter and Neville Longbottom from the Gryffendor-Table! Much to Dumbledor's chagrin.
When and where did his grand scheme start going so wrong?
The next full-moon, several extra-visitors were seen at the Malfoy-Estate in Wiltshire.
"Ara..", Usagi waved, "Daraco-kun! We are here! You have met my Inner-Court! And, Naru, Umino and Ryu! Ano.. Lina, Filia, Xellos, Amelia, and Zelgadis!"
Draco smiled and bowed:
"My family awaits your company, Your Highness!"
"Arigatounisai, Daraco-san!" Usagi courtseyed. "We shall follow Crabbe and Goyle inside! Bella-obasan's guests are just behind us! Help them.. stay calm?"
"Arigatou, Usagi-Sama!" Draco smiled and bowed.
Soon, Usagi was introducing (or, re-introducing) her Court to the full-compliment of Death-Eaters and their guests:
"So! You've been keeping yourself busy this past moon, Your Highness!" Valdemorte said with the cheery smile. "Much to Dumbledor's displeasure, I am sure?"
"Dumbadoro-Headamasta.. looked a bit ill," Usagi tried not to giggle, "When he finally learned of part of plan, Lord Thomas Riddle, Younger, of Valdemorte! Hai!"
"He'll, probably, drop over dead when he learns of the whole plan!" Valdemorte chuckled.
"We can only hope!" Rei whispered to Minako.
"Hai." Minako whispered back, tonguing Rei's ear.
"That we can, childen!" McGonigal agreed with Rei's whisper. "That we can."
"Ah! Minerva McGonigal!" Valdemorte smiled, as the rest of the Death-Eaters grew quiet. "When did you start agreeing with the anti-Dumbledore-faction?"
"After Miss Tsukino and Miss Snape came to visit me in my office, O Riddle of Valdemorte!" The Transformations-teacher and Deputy of Hogwarts replied. "What they had to say offended my ears, at first, but? They had more than a ring of truth in them!"
"That Old Goat has always been a smooth talker!" Augusta Longbottom spat out.
"That he has, Lady Longbottom! That he has." Bellatrix Black Lastrange responded to the Magistrate. "I am glad Her Highness was able to get my message to you and Heir Longbottom!"
"I was intrigued, Lady LaStrange!" Augusta said, then drew a breath. "I feel no wand at my back, yet! But? I sense your doubts of me, Lucius Malfoy! I admire your loyalty to Thomas Riddle, Jr. of Valdemorte! You have no worries! Neither do you, Lady Narcissa! I sense Bellatrix is unarmed, so am I."
She and Neville moved toward Bellatrix LaStrange:
"You've taken my son and my daghterin-law, Neville's parents, from Saint Mungo's. And brought them here, to the Estates of Malfoy! And, then, you make contact with me? Why? Miss Tsukino said you needed my and Neville's aid and fulfilling what you have started? Whyso? What did you start when you attacked House Longbottom?"
"I did what I did to save a friend, your Honor!" Bellatrix swore to Augusta. "And, know this? If I had it to do, again? I would. We were at war, a fight for our lives!
And? Because of the words of a certain - seer - and a very-questionable reporter? We were forced to see two young boys as nothing more than a Old Puppetmaster's weapons-of-choice! But? We were working to.. spare the children! If we could. The Imperius Curse I used was supposed to slice young Neville's Mind from his body, so I could spirit it away and keep it safe! Until such a time as I could safely restore the mind to the body! I was ready to do the same for Frank and Alice. But? Unfortunately? That time has not appeared, until now!"
"You.. didn't.. destroy their minds.. Mrs. LaStrange?" The Judge asked Bellatrix.
"If the destruction of a mind were my intent, Judge Longbottom?" Bellatrix spoke without vemon. "I would have used a curse much more destructive then the Imperius. We Blacks have never been that afraid of losing our souls! To protect those we deem worthy of the act."
"If you can repair their minds on your own?" Neville asked Bellatrix. "And, I believe you can! Why do you need he help of my grandmother and I, Mrs. LaStrange?"
"Putting your faith in an Enemy's words, young Neville? Thank you!" The wild-haired witch hugged and kissed the young man. "I don't really know if I deserve such charity? But? Back to the subject! Although I can repair the damage I caused? Frank and Alice will only have their memories from before I performed the Imperius! Plus, those times I tried to let their minds 'see' the two of you! So? for the next two moons - about - their present-world will seem - foreign - to them! And they will need your help recognizing and learning their place in it! Are you and your grandmum up to the task I, hereby, put before you?"
Augusta and Neville looked at each other.
"We are," Augusta said, "Madam LaSrange!"
"Then, fallow Rodolpho and I, and Tom," Bellatrix said, "Into the Dungeouns of Malfoy."
"What is Madame McGonigal doing here, my Lord?", Peter Pettigrew asked.
"Finally coming out of the fog of Dumbledor, if I heard she and Judge Longbottom, correctly?" Tom Riddle answered his spy.
"You heard correctly, Riddle Tom of Valdemorte!" Rei answered the two wizards. "Learned ocolomasy long ago! Learn to break it! Hai. Witches not hide feelings about Dumbadoro! Except for McGoniga! Poor woman tried to hide how hurt betrayal by Headamaster left her!"
"That old goat could teach day-long CLASSES on the Art of Betrayel!" Pettigrew growled.
"He has had AGES to learn, Friend Peter!" Riddle hissed.
"On that? I have to agree!" A shy-looking gentleman, walking arm-in-arm with Luna Lovegood, with long pale strands of hair and wearing an odd assortmnt of yellow and white, spoke. "Hello, Tom! Hello, Peter! Reminescing about Dumbledor, are you? He does seem to enjoy the game of betrayel, and has for however many decades poeople have known him! That's what the old-people remember him remember him for, anyway. That? And his love of lemon-drops."
The old man then trned to Rei and Minako:
"Ah! Just the girls I wanted to meet! Well? You and your leader? I am Xenophilius Lovegood, the father of Luna Lovegood! And? You must be her 'sisters', Hino Rei and Aino Minako! Yes. Yes. Well? Rei-chan? Mina-chan? Luna has written me so much about you!"
"Ara.. Hai! Hai!" Rei nd Minako started hopping, excitedly. And, joined Luna in a game of "Ring-around-the-Rosie", around her father!
Xenofilius, of course, was laughing with merriment!
"By the way!" Luna asked, taking a breather from the barefoot dancing, "Where.. is Lady Usagi?"
"In Dungeouns!" Minako answered excitedly. "Follow Harry-kun ano Hermi-chan!"
"Follow McGoniga-Sensei no Longabottom-Sama, dano!" Rei followed up, emmediately.
"The Longbottoms went into the Dungeouns?" Xenophilius asked. "Then, I've heard, correctly? Frank and Alice were brought here from St. Mungo's?"
"They were, indeed, Friend Xenophilius!" Tom smiled. "At the request, herself, of Bellatrix!"
"She still has Frank's and Alice' minds, then?" Xenophilious enquired.
"Tis why the LaStranges went to St. Mungo's!" Tom stated.
"Oh! Lord Riddle of Valdemorte! There is a half-Giant in the courtyard! Wondering if he may come in?" Xeno's eyes lit up!
"Ah!" Tom chuckled. "That would be Rubeus and his family! His daughter is, supposedly, a good friend of Usagi-Hime's! Tell Lucius they may come in! And? the boy who is with them!"
"Harid Naru-chan is here?" Amelia Katherina Seraphim, alias "Ami", spoke as she exited the Dungeouns, "Umino-kun is here? Doko Naru? Doko Umino?"
"We are here, Snape-Chan! Hai!" Naru squeeezed Ami tightly. "Umino is withe kaasan. Wants to talk with Malfoy-Sama! About allowing Kyongshi to rest in Malfoy-Estates. Doko Usagi-Hime?"
"Hime is is Dungeoun!" Amelia Katherina Seraphim chirped.
"In DUNGEOUN?" Naru howled melodramatically. Then, she got a sly grin on her face and whispered. "Alright. Who did Usagi piss-off?"
"Iiede iiede iiede! Kukukukuku!" Ami chirped. "Usagi did not get into pissing-contest! She followed McGoniga ano Longabottom ano Harry and Hermoine into Dungeoun!"
Naru blinked in response:
"Teacher and Majestrate get into pissing-contest? Harry and Hermi-chan get into pissing-contest?"
Most in the Malfoy-Estate, including the servants, who were drawn into the "argument" between the two fast-friends were - by now - in various stages of laughter!
"Iyaa Iyaa Iyaa!" Ami laughed. "No one get into pissing-contest! Nevi-kun's parents are in Dungeoun, so Bellatrix can repair what she damaged years ago! Harry-kun ano Hermi-chan are caring for Harry's parents! Hai!"
"Thought Harry's parents were dead demo?" Rei asked the bluenette.
"So does most of Hogwarts! Hai!" Ami grinned and nodded. "Potters want it to stay that way! For now. Harry says safer for parents! Hermi-chan agrees!"
"'Safer for parents'?" Minako closed her eyes in thought."Let me guess! Old Goat? With long white beard?"
"Good guess!" Ami chirped.
"What are in parents' graves, then?" Rei asked.
"My guess?" Zelgadis Greywords grinned. "Golems?"
"Good guess!" Amelia Wil Seyruun chirped as she held hands with Zelgadis. "Easy to make with proper-spells and potions? Can be made to any likeness?"
"That is why the Death-Eaters charged me to make the Golems!" Severus Snape smiled. "My crafting was so good it even conned the 'great' Dumbledor! All I had to do was switch the duppelgangers for their flesh-and-bone counterparts during the firefight! Had to ask my father how to best do that! He had to get soldiers off the battlefields in the thick of fighting."
"Should let Artie into Dumbadoro's room in Hogarts', hai!" Minako fumed. "Give Old Goat fatal case of Cat-Scratch Fever!"
"Usagi thoght of letting Luna to that!" Ami grinned like a cat.
"Amelia Katherina Seraphim Snape-Mizuno?" Makoto exclaimed. "You are KOWAII what you smile like that! What goes on in your mind!"
"Arigatounisai, Mako-chan!" Ami smiled, and raised her hand and curled her fingers like a paw. "Mew!"
"So! These are the young ladies my daughter call 'sisters'!" A brown-haired man smiled as he came upon the Senshi. "I am Dr. John Granger, dentist, and, this is my wife, Mary. Which one of you young woman is 'Kino Makoto'? and is there a "Tsukino Usagi' among you?"
"I am Mokoto!" Makoto turned a bit to speak to the gentleman. "Usagi is with friends, right now, in..."
"I am here, Mako-chan! Harry and Hermione are with me! Harry's parents are well! Asked how things were at school!" Usagi called out. "Who is gentleman and lady next to you? Look like..."
"Dad! Mum!" Hermoine ran into and tried to hug the air out of her parents!
"Chuu!" Usagi chirped.
"Well, hello to you, too, Hermoine Jean!", her mother smiled after she was able to breathe, again. "You are getting a bit faster and stronger, aren't you? Heehee!"
"Sorry about that, mum!" Hermoine smile shily in apology.
"No need to apologize, dear!" Mrs. Granger smiled towards Makoto. "Karate-lessons can do that, I am sure?"
"Another thing, Miss Kino, that we have to thank you for!" Mr. Granger smiled and took Makoto's hand.
"'Another thing'?" Makoto asked in surprise! "What is first thing?"
"Getting Hermi-chan away from Weasel Ronal-baka, maybe?" Rei whispered n Minako's ear, causing the blonde double-over and wheeze out a giggle.
"Gettinng my daughter away from that ignorant dungpile, Ronald Weasley!" Dr. Granger said. "Mary and I had the unfortunate experience of meeting the boy, once!"
"And, pardon me for speaking so, Hermoine and ," Dr. Mary Granger apologized, "especially in the presense of other witches and wizards! But? Ronald is an idiot!"
"Ronald comes from a good family, Mrs. Granger!" Lord Riddle of Valdemorte spoke. "Unfortunately? Ronald and his young sister take more after their mother!"
"Who takes after their mother?" Harry asked as he returned from the Dungeouns.
"Ah! And, there's young Harry!" Mary Granger smiled. "The new man in our daughter's life!"
"The BETTER man, accoring to our Hermone!" John smiled. "And? Our daughter tells us we have YOU to thank for that, Miss Kino!"
"Well.. ara..", Makoto shily blushed and giggled, "me and Usagi, hai! Harry needed help, needed new protector, and Usagi pretected him! Hai! After.. My? Hermione.. told him to speak to Usagi-Sama? Harry need nurse? Thought best nurse would be Hermi-chan! Hai hai!"
"And Lady Usagi's.. grandparents?" John Granger chuckled. "The ones who taxied us here?"
"Wondered how Hermoine's parents make it to Malfoys so fast!" Usagi smirked.
"Your grandfather is a fairly-pleasant chap!" Mary smiled kindly. "A bit scary, however!"
"Obasan is just as scary! Why she is obasan!" Xello smiled, before kissing Filia.
"Hai!" Usagi smiled. "That is jiisan! Again, to Harry's question! Who takes after their mother?"
"Ronal-baka!" Makoto hissed, then chortled. "Baka baka baka!"
"My dad thinks highly of Mr. Weasley!" Harry said. "Not about Prewitt, though. Called them 'Money-hungry'! The whole family! His words. Only slightly edited."
"Only the explitives, Harry!" Hermoine giggled.
"They are, young Harry!" Narcissa Malfoy made a sour-face. "And? Always were! Hardly anyone thought highly of them!"
"Only one who did was Albus Dumbledor." Lucius Malfoy sneared. "And? Hardly anyone thinks highly of Albus! Not even his brother."
"That's the truth it anybody's told it!" Lord Riddle snapped out.
"I'll agree with that!" Dr. John Granger growled.
"He's the one who fostered that idiot, Ronald, on our daughter!" Mary breathed out dangerously.
"Tried to pawn-off her Ginerva on me, too!" Harry groused. "Had to have my system flushed from Pewitt's love-potions! Thank you, Doctor Mizuno!"
"Doctor mizuno-SNAPE!" Saeeko chirped happily, before she kissed Severus. "You are welcome, Potta Harry-kun, dano!"
"Will not have to worry about Ronal-baka ano Ginny-baka much longer?" Usagi giggled and, then, sipped a goblet of water. "Will not have to worry about Gryffendoro, either! Due for make-over! Hai." She the motioned to Lord Malfoy and Lord Riddle. "Have question! May muggle-parents stay in Malfoy-Estates? Should be at Hogwarts to bear witness to what hapoens to Dumbadoro!"
"They are welcomed here, Hime!" Lucius Malfoy smiled easily. "Despite the stories that have spread since the last wars? MOST Dark-Magic families do not hate Muggles! We have just come to FEAR those who fall under the influence of the White-Magic forces of Dumbledor!"
"That - I understand!" Usagi nodded. "Dumbadoro will not be a problem for much longer! Especially, as our forces gather! Hai hai!"
"And, believe musume!" A regal form stood in above the Courtyard's Entrance to the Courtyard. "She says forces will be ready to bring Headmaster down? Headamaster will be brought down!"
The Innersenshi came to attention, facing Queen Serenity with Usagi!
"Komban-wa.. your Majesty!" Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy and Bellatrix and Rodolf LaStrange and Tom Riddle bowed.
"Queen Serenity!" Minako whispered.
"Did not sense ghost!" Rei squeaked as she gripped Minako's hand. "Why did I not sense ghost?"
"Not ghost!" Amelia Katherina chirped and grinned, holding onto Usagi's hand.
"Not ghost," Usagi smiled. "Not for over thirty years!"