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I had someone ask about ages and I completely spaced it for most people. We don't hear much about the time between Marauders Era and what is the first years of the war but I like to think that James and Lilly got married pretty close after their seventh year making them around 19 or 20 when they married, another year or so for them to settle making them about 21 when they find out their pregnant which would make the Marauders currently in their early thirties, around 32. Harri's age of course is problematic because of the time travel but she is physically 14 at the moment (under the glamours and remember when Griphook did the test the first time it was right before her birthday) but mentally 25/26. The twins are 14 (remember their birthday is April 1st, I forgot to add it in first year but I'll try to remember next time). Luna is 11 of course. Percy is technically 17 at the moment. Charlie and Bill are a bit harder but I believe them to be 21 and 24 respectively. Tony, I didn't want to make the age gap to big among the group what with all the other age stuff to work around so he, is 28. Loki is a bit harder because of the whole immortality thing but I believe him to just be reaching his adulthood so about 21 in human years(yes, he was a teen mom, wanna fight about it?) When I and Dakota pin everyone elses ages down we'll let you know!

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Here's this weeks chapter!

Disclaimer in Chapter 1. I don't own M.C. Hammer's Can't Touch This.

Harriet looked between Luna and Bucky, they didn't seem to notice that she was even in the room anymore. Luna was holding a rather impossible conversation, changing between two different topics as she jumped between talking to Bucky and talking to the Soldier. Bucky looked fascinated by the interaction and he hadn't taken his eyes off Luna's face, even while he was adjusting his new Captain Ameribear on his lap. Harri bit her lip as she watched this, she certainly wasn't expecting this. She needed to confirm things though before she could even begin to plan things around the development.

Knowing they most likely wouldn't even notice her absence, Harriet set up a trip alarm on the doorway before closing the door softly and sprinting up toward her room. She swept through the common room, only vaguely noticing that everyone was awake now. She burst into her sitting room and went over to the bookshelf closest to the fire.

"Harriet?" came Fred and George's voice. She glanced behind her and saw all of the Prewetts, Lee, and Sleipnir gathered there looking slightly worried, "What's wrong?"

Harri turned back to the shelf, "'Wrong' may not be the right word for this." She began taking the books off the three shelves right at her level and tossing them over to one of the couches, "I need to confirm it."

Fred and George came over to help her, "Confirm what?" George asked calmly.

Harri let out a breath, "I think Luna and Bucky are Soulmates."

Fred and George shared a confused look, "Wouldn't that be a good thing?" Fred asked.

"It would be a wonderful thing!" Harri exclaimed, "But so very bad at the same time! I would never, never deprive someone of their soulmate but I will have to put more plans into place like right now if that's what is happening."

Bill frowned, "Why? It's not like they're going to complete it now right?"

Harri rolled her eyes, "I highly doubt they're going to go at it now. But Bill, how did you like dealing with Fred and George when they were away from me?" she asked sweetly. Fred and George blushed but Bill paled, Harri nodded, "Now, imagine I was an airy, up and coming seer with a history of being bullied because of the way I am and the twins were one person who had just come out of oh say seventy years of being a brainwashed assassin for Hydra, and we're about to be separated because I have to go to magic school but the twins can't come because technically they're a muggle."

Now Bill and Charlie looked slightly nauseous, Percy himself looked a little green, "Shouldn't you already know?" Percy asked, "From…from last time."

"That's the thing." Harri said wringing her hands, "I don't remember them ever meeting last time." Her face was grave, "As far as I can remember they never did, every time they were about to or Luna showed up to put herself in a place for them to meet, something happened and things were side tracked."

Sleipnir frowned, "The Norns kept them from meeting?"

Harri's lips pressed in a thin line, "That's the only thing I can think of, but I don't know why they would. They're the ones who give people soulmates." She turned back to the shelf, "Whatever was keeping them from meeting has clearly been dealt with but if they are soulmates I need to know so I can plan. Their separation has the potential to be more damaging than mine, Fred, and George's. Plus, there is the fact that once they mate Bucky will be able to use Luna's magic and apparate himself to her if she ever needs him and about a million other things that have the potential to be shared between soulmates." She pulled the last book from the three shelves she was facing and knocked on the wall, the shelves dissolved to nothing and the wall parted to reveal a black leather book with silver pressed into it in beautiful intricate vines.

"What's that?" George asked from Harri's side, Fred looked at it over her shoulder.

"This is everything Morgana ever discovered about soulmates and their connection. According to Griphook no one has ever discovered a way to find soulmates before they meet but we should be able to test it now that they've met. I know the Goblins can confirm it once its completed." Harriet said, running a hand over the cover. Harriet flipped it open and flicked through it quickly until she stopped at a specific page, "Here." Her eyes scanned the page quickly, "Relatively simply ritual. Would be better if it was a spell." She muttered.

Fred frowned at the page, "Do we have the ingredients for the potion they have to drink? A lot of them are illegal."

"It's all in your lab except for the bit of cloud." Harri answered, "I'll be able to get that though."

"Capturing clouds are a pain." George huffed.

Harri looked up at him with a smile, "Ah, but you created a spell for it." She looked down at the book again, "After all, how else were you going to gather the clouds needed for your Weather in a Bottle?"

George blinked before grinning, "I'm awesome."

Harri laughed lightly, "You are."

"Definitely." Fred chuckled.

Someone cleared their throats loudly and drew the trio from their conversation, Lee was cocking an eyebrow at them, "You three want to enlighten us? Remember, you're not the only people in the room."

Fred and George looked a little sheepish while Harriet looked entirely unrepentant, "It's a soulmate thing." She said with a shrug, "If you don't want us to forget about you then you have to speak up and not stand so far away." She turned the book toward the group that was coming closer to them, "We're going to do this ritual. Now that they have seen each other the bond should exist, even if it's just faintly. It will tell us if they really are Soulmates and I need to break out the intensive plans or if it's another type of bond and I can relax, if only slightly."

Percy and Bill were looking over the ritual with interest but Lee was smirking, "Well at least if it's another bond the twins will know what it is. They should be experts after all that research you made them do." Harri rolled her eyes.

"What exactly is 'the bond shall manifest' supposed to mean?" Percy huffed, "If they aren't the ritual will simply do nothing but 'the bond shall manifest' as a description of what happens if they actually are Soulmates is incredibly vague."

"Soulmates are incredibly vague in the first place Percy." Harriet said calmly, "Even with this book we never discovered all we could do with the bond. A lot of it has to do with the abilities of the people involved; magic levels, talents, latent abilities, creature inheritances, all that. After that it's the strength of the bond itself, mine, Fred, and George's will be stronger than Luna and Bucky's at this point but not as strong as our bond was last time. So 'manifest' could mean many different things."

Bill hummed, "Whatever it is we should definitely be able to discern it from 'nothing'." He said, shooting an amused look at Percy who blushed, "Either way, maybe we should have you three do the ritual first. We know for sure you three are Soulmates so we can see a sample of what 'manifest' may look like."

"That could be awesome." Fred said as he took the book from Harriet, ignoring Percy's light protest.

George nodded, "It would defiantly be interesting to see what our 'manifest' looks like."

Harri smiled, "Alright. We can do that. Fred, if you can make the potion. You don't need the cloud until the end so I can go with George to show him is cloud gathering spell."

Fred didn't answer but began drifting toward the door under the stairs that led to their joint lab. "We've lost him." George chuckled, he smiled down at Harriet, "I'll go freshen up and I'll be right back." He ran up the stairs to Harriet's room quickly.

Harriet smiled after them before turning back to the group; all of them, except for Sleipnir, were staring after the twins in disbelief, "They separated." Charlie rasped, his eyes wide.

"What the hell?" Lee muttered.

Harriet giggled and they all focused on her, "The more comfortable they are with a space and a group of people the more willingly they will separate. I am a little surprised that they've done so here, they haven't been in the castle long, but I'm connected to the entire thing so that may be part of it."

Bill bit his lip, "Are you saying they've never been comfortable enough with us before to separate?" guilt stole over the three Prewett's faces.

"Yep." Harriet said bluntly.

"Way to just spit it out Harriet." Lee muttered.

Harri rolled her eyes, "My first and foremost concerns will always be the twins. I'm not going to sugar coat things." She looked directly at her mates' older brothers, "You messed up, but the blame doesn't fall fully on you. You've most likely learned this response to them from watching your parents. What does fall directly on your shoulders is noticing that the twins were different and then treating them differently in turn. No one could miss how close they are and some very simple research will reveal that they are magical twins. Research that I did within my first semester of knowing them last time. Add in the fact that they are both certifiable geniuses in their respective fields, it doesn't make them the easiest to handle by people who are first meeting them but you are their family, you should have taken the time." She softened slightly at their genuinely distraught faces, "There are books about magical twins in the library, take the time to read and understand. You are already starting to make up for things simply by listening to them when they brought you the evidence of Molly's deceptions and trusting them to take you into the Prewett family. Just don't back slide. Like I said, the twins come first for me and I will take care of things that are harming them, physically, mentally, and emotionally."

The three Prewetts stared at her in shock but Harriet's focus was quickly drawn from them when George came running back from the room, she smiled at him as he grabbed her hand, "Let's go! I want to see this spell of mine!" George exclaimed, Harriet laughed happily as he dragged her from the room.

Over at Potter Manor the Marauders' many new wounds were being healed by Loki who was quite happy with the outcome of this little meeting. He may not have had gotten to know Tony well at this point but they certainly played off each other well in a settling like this. They had very efficiently worked through the Marauders doubts and had won Harriet her father's back, even if they may have gone a bit overboard with the weapons demonstrations. Loki was grateful that he could begin repaying all that Harriet had already done for him.

Tony was currently folding his metal suit back down into its small form, "Alright, so Harriet will be at my Expo the day after tomorrow. I would suggest waiting until then. I think she is dealing with Bucky right now, plus all those redheads that showed up."

James frowned, "What redheads? Other Weasleys?"

"Not anymore." Loki said, healing that last of Sirius' gunshot wounds, "They disowned themselves and Fred and George took on the mantle of the Lords of another family. Prewett."

Remus' eyebrows shot up, "I thought Fabian and Gideon had disowned Molly."

"But not her children apparently." Tony said, he picked up his suitcase, "I have to go, the longer I'm gone the bigger Pepper's inevitable rage." He gave the Marauders a light glare, "Remember our talk, I would hate to have to repeat myself." With that Daisy appeared and took him away.

Loki straightened himself, "Yes, we would hate to repeat this experience but we will if it becomes necessary." He said in a low dangerous tone. All three of the Marauders shuddered under his gaze and from the promise in his voice, "If it comes up again we won't stop at muggle weapons." He growled, he gave them one final glare before teleporting away to the beach of Bermuda Island, which rested at one of the tips of the Bermuda Triangle.

He hadn't gotten the full story of how Jörmungandr had joined them last time but Harriet had said he was found in the center of the Bermuda Triangle, in a cave under the water. Loki had made sure to research the area thoroughly before coming to get his third son, he was highly amused with the mortal's ideas about the 'cursed' area. It seemed like his son had found a way to entertain himself at least.

Loki shifted into a raven before taking off, he flew toward the center of the circle, stretching his magic out to pinpoint the origins of his son's magic that had spread over the area. As he came to the center of the triangle he felt a pulse of cold magic against his own, Loki dove and changed to a shark the second he hit the water. He swam down toward the other magic, his sons. Loki felt a happiness rise him as he saw a dark cave ahead, he swam in and found it gave away to a magically made pocket of air. Loki shifted back into his normal appearance and walked along the cave, it was filled with trashed airplanes and ships, bones littering the wreckage from humans and fish alike.

It took a while but Loki soon found his son, at the end of the long cave was a sphere of open space; in the bottom part, amongst what looked to be thousands of pillows, blankets, and plushies, was Jörmungandr, curled up and sleeping in a form that was a fraction of his true size. Loki smiled fondly at his son; Harriet was right, he may be scary to some and highly venomous but no one would be truly scared of him if they saw him cuddling with what looked like Sleipnir and Fenrir plush dolls, half buried in blankets. The serpent was hissing lightly in his sleep, nuzzling into the Sleipnir doll every so often.

Loki chuckled and dropped into the bottom of the sphere area, navigating carefully through the pillows until he reached Jörmungandr's head. He rubbed at the nose in front of him gently, "Wake up Jörmungandr." He said softly, "Come on. Wake up."

Jörmungandr shifted, making the pillows and blankets around them shift in a soft avalanche. Loki tumbled backward as one of his son's hidden coils shifted under him, he spluttered and tried to right himself quickly. Before he could get his own feet under him Jörmungandr's tail slid under him and helped him up, he was greeted immediately by a large light green eye, blinking at him in surprise. *Father?*

Loki smiled, "Hello Jörmungandr."

*Father!* the serpent exclaimed excitedly, magic flowed around him and suddenly a small boy that looked about eight by Midgardian standards stood there. He threw himself at Loki and clung to him even as Loki locked his arms around the thin shoulders of his son. "Father you're here! How? Why?" he asked, he tensed, "It isn't Ragnarök is it?"

Loki swallowed down the lump in his throat that was threatening to make him cry, "No Jörmungandr, it's not Ragnarök. I have come to take you from here."

Jörmungandr pulled back slightly so he could look up at his father, "And go where? Has Grandfather allowed me to come to Asgard?"

Loki shook his head, "No, one of Midgardian's powerful magic users saved me from a terrible fate and brought me under her protection. Sleipnir is already there with her, waiting."

Jörmungandr cocked his head, "Her protection is enough to save Sleipnir from being Grandfather's unwilling steed?"

Loki knelt in front of his son, "She is a Midgardian who has achieved a phoenix transformation and has claimed me as flock. By the Phoenix laws we are protected."

Jörmungandr wrung his hands slightly, "Will she let me be in my other form? I like it better."

Loki gave his son a soft smile, "She already knows that."

"How?"

"I will tell you all I know later once we are under the protections of her wards." Loki said, "I can't feel him now but I'm sure Heimdall is checking in on you periodically to find me. Just know she knows and she is more than fine with it. She can also speak the snake tongue. I'm sure she would enjoy speaking to you in your other form."

"Alright." Jörmungandr said, he turned to look at his pillow and blanket pile, "Can I bring my stuff?"

"I'm not sure where you will be sleeping so just a little bit for right now." Loki said.

Jörmungandr frowned, "How am I supposed to choose?" he asked in despair, Loki chuckled and stood back as his son began to sort through all of his pillows, blankets, and plushies.

Back at LeFay Castle everyone but Luna and Bucky were standing around a ritual circle in the ritual room. Percy was holding the book, he would be reading the incantation once Harriet, Fred, and George stepped into the circle. The rest were there mostly because they were curious about how the trios bond would manifest. Fred popped the cork from the first potion, "Ready?" George nodded and Harriet smiled.

Fred drank a third of the potion before passing it to George who drank and passed it to Harriet; she drank the last of it before throwing the vial into the bowl of ingredients at the center of the circle, making the vial break and the last dregs of the potion drain into the ingredients. As one Harriet, Fred, and George stepped into the circle; making the candles within, standing in to mark the four directions, flare. Percy spoke the incantation perfectly, his voice even as he read through the Latin. Once the incantation ended everyone leaned forward in anticipation.

The candles flared into pillars of flames and magic burst between the trio within the circle, their magic twined together and flared pure white around them with streaks of red, green, and gold flying through it. Invisible wind lifted Harriet's hair up and her eyes glowed Avada Kedavra green, Fred and George's long hair lifted as well but their eyes flared golden. Two phoenix cries broke from the center of the circle and two figures bloomed in between Harriet and the twins. One was a wispy ice blue phoenix that looked like Glacia and the other was a lighter orange phoenix with two red streaks running down its back and into its four pure red tail feathers. The two phoenixes locked talons before bursting into flames and making the magic blow outward from the circle in a blinding display that made the group of observers cover their eyes.

Once the light died down and it was safe to look again everyone looked back to the circle to find all of the lights done and the candles blown out. All three were out of breath, their eyes were still glowing slightly. Harriet's feathers had caught fire and the blue streaks look whiter than usual, Fred and George's hair though seemed to be shimmering gold at the tips.

"Holy crap guys." Charlie said, drawing their attention to him.

"That was awesome!" Lee exclaimed, "We have to do it again! I don't think I got all of it!"

Fred and George chuckled while Harriet gave him a smile, "Maybe later. We have to test Luna and Bucky now." She stepped from the circle and she went back to normal; her eyes stopped glowing completely, her feathers stopped flaming, and her streaks went back to bluish white. Fred and George stepped after her and their extras disappeared as well, their eyes went back to warm brown and the tips of their hair went back to red.

"What was with the second phoenix?" Percy asked, looking back to the book, hoping for answers.

Harriet shrugged, "Dunno. Never seen that phoenix before. I've only ever seen three other than myself."

Bill frowned, "Three? One was Fawkes but most never see one phoenix in their life time, let alone three."

Harri smiled, "Unfortunately I've never been most people."

"Where would be the fun in that?" came Luna's dreamy voice.

Everyone turned to see Bucky standing in the doorway looking hesitant, Luna was riding on his shoulders, her hands running through his long hair. Bucky stepped into the room uncertainly, eyeing the people around warily. He settled a little when he saw Harriet, she stepped forward with a smile, "Hey Bucky, I see Luna's got you out of your room."

He reached up with his flesh hand and gripped Luna's ankle gently, "Um, yeah. She…she said you needed us?"

"I'm sure you've realized that there is something between you and Luna." Harri said, Bucky nodded, "It's a bond of some kind, we have an idea of what it is but we want to make sure."

"How?" Bucky asked.

"Just a quick ritual." Harri said with a smile, "All you have to do is drink a potion and step in a circle with Luna."

Bucky frowned as he looked at the circle but Luna tugged on his hair gently, "It will be fine, Winter." She said softly, Harriet gave her a fond smile.

"Alright." Bucky said, he helped Luna down from his shoulders and she led him over to the circle.

George relit the candles while Harriet put new ingredients in the bowl, Fred brought Bucky the second potion, "You have to drink half and then give it to Luna." Bucky took it carefully, eyeing the liquid uncertainly, Fred smiled at him, "Don't worry. It's not harmful. It's from the same batch we used for this same ritual just a few minutes ago." Luna looked over to Bucky and smiled reassuringly.

Bucky nodded again, his hand clenching around the vial, "Alright."

Everyone stood back, "Okay Bucky." Harri said, "Go ahead and start."

Bucky drank half the potion and then handed it to Luna, she drank the rest and then threw the vial into the fresh bowl of ingredients. Together they stepped into the ritual circle, the candles flare, and Percy began the incantation for the second time. The second the incantation stopped the candles flickered and then they expanded, becoming pillars of what looked like pure moon light. Bucky seemed to panic as what seemed to be blood frothed and rose within the boundary of the circle until it reached Luna's waist. Luna reached over and took his metal hand and the blood pool calmed. From the pool a glowing blue moon rose with a red metal star held in its center. The moon held its position for several long seconds before it faded and the blood rushed outward. The moon light pillars dissipated right after, leaving the candles out.

"What…what does it mean?" Bucky asked, looking over to Harriet questioningly.

Harriet gave him a bright smile, "It means, James Buchanan Barnes, I'd like you to meet your Soulmate, Luna Pandora Lovegood." Bucky's eyes flew back to Luna and his mouth dropped open.

Meanwhile, in St. Mungos, the remnants of the Weasley family were gathered at the bedside of Arthur, who had been brought here after he had been found unresponsive in his office. Dumbledore was also present, though he stood at the door, waiting for Arthur to wake so he could figure out what happened. He had a very bad feeling about this but he couldn't pinpoint the cause, it didn't help that he had yet to locate Harriet.

"He's waking up!" Ginny exclaimed.

"Arthur!" Molly exclaimed, immediately taking his hand in hers. "Arthur I'm here!"

In the bed Arthur groaned, screwing up his face before he blinked his eyes open. "Molly?" he rasped, he squinted up at her.

"I'm here." Molly reassured, "Oh Arthur, what happened? Was it a curse?"

Arthur looked confused for a moment before pain came over his features, "The boys." He croaked.

Dumbledore leaned forward even as Molly tightened her grip on Arthur's hand, "What about the boys? Which ones?"

"Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, and George." Arthur said, his voice fighting a sob, "They've disowned themselves."

Dumbledore's eyes widened, not being able to contain his surprise. Apparently Ron couldn't either, "What! How could they do that!" Ginny made a soft noise of disbelief as she clenched her hands into fists.

Molly's free hand flew to her mouth, "Why?" she let out shakily.

"I…I don't know." Arthur said, tears starting to flow from his eyes, "But they all left at the same time." Ginny rushed over to her father's side, while Ron frowned in the corner with his face turning red, and Molly began to tear up.

Dumbledore, feeling a little uncomfortable with where the emotions in the room were heading, cleared his throat to bring the attention to him. "I think, in light of this, I will be reinstating the Order. Not only will they be able to help us find Miss Potter but they can help find the boys so we can get some answers."

Arthur looked uncertain but Molly let out a sigh of relief, "Thank you Albus." Dumbledore bowed his head before leaving the room, his mind a whirlwind of possibilities. He needed answers and he needed them now.

As soon as he reached the hospital's apparation area he popped away, landing moments later in front of the Granger residence, just within the wards he had set up. He didn't really need Hermione at the moment, but it would do his apprentice good to begin seeing the inner workings of the Order.

Albus rapped sharply on the door and it was answered promptly by a glassy eyes middle aged woman. "Well done Hermione my dear." Albus praised as he walked past the woman without care, he came into a cozy living room and found his apprentice surrounded by ancient texts, "Your Imperious is improving."

Hermione looked up from her book and beamed at him, "Thank you Headmaster!" she gushed, "It has really helped being able to practice it at home."

"I'm sure." Albus chuckled, taking a seat across from her, "How are your studies coming dear? Your plans?"

"I have just gotten into the laws for 1677, so far there are only three still active that would hinder us. I have added them to the repeal list." Hermione said, passing over a scroll to the Headmaster, "As for the plans I have come up with, if I can't get Ronald to behave by the end of the next semester subtly I want to make it clear that my position is higher than his and hope that it will temper things. I have been working on my Cruciatus, I'm positive it will be perfect by the time I may have to use it. I've also made several small plans to help integrate Ginny into Harriet's circle and use that to bring me in."

Dumbledore nodded, "I see, do be careful that Ron doesn't say anything if you have to result to punishments to get him to behave Hermione. Molly could wreck things if she gets wind that we are harming one of her children."

Hermione hummed but scribbled something on another piece of parchment, "I will do that but I will also start building an argument to present to Molly if she does find out. She agreed to help you after all, we can ruin the last bits of her much easier than she can you. Plus, I'm sure that a few cruios to help Ron get motivated to get control of Harriet won't be taken too badly, especially if I bring up that his failure is getting us further away from her money."

Dumbledore chuckled, "Excellent my dear. You are doing very well. By the time you graduate I'm positive you will be ready to take Fudge's position and give us full control of the Ministry." He put down the law scroll once he had finished perusing it, "Now, are you in the middle of anything incredibly important?"

Hermione frowned down at her book, "I was in the middle of examining another law, but I can mark my place Headmaster. Why? Did you find Harriet?"

Albus sighed, "Unfortunately not Hermione. I've just come from St. Mungos where Arthur was taken. When he woke up he told me all of the elder Weasley boys have disowned themselves."

Hermine gasped, "Really? I thought they were a close family!"

Albus' face dropped into a displeased frown, "Not as much as they used to be unfortunately. Molly's enthusiasm for the mission involving Harriet has driven a wedge through the family. I'm sure you've seen what it's done to Ronald and Ginerva. I'm not positive, but I fear that one of the older boys overheard me suggest Arthur enact family magic on the twins to keep them away from Harriet. They may have thought it was going too far."

"What a load of dragon dung." Hermione huffed, "It's needed! How are we supposed to insinuate ourselves as Harriet's best friends if they're always hanging around her?"

"I'm afraid that they would indeed see it as going too far as Molly didn't wish to involve them in our plans." Albus sighed, he stood, "I've decided to bring the Order in now. We need to find Harriet and all of the previous Weasleys. Bill is our in with the Goblins, we can't afford to lose him. Percy is slated for the Ministry as soon as he graduates, I need to get him onside before he leaves. The others can prove useful as well if we can guide them a bit." He looked down at Hermione, "If you're not busy my dear I'd like you to come see a little of how the Order works."

Hermione jumped up, "I would love that Headmaster!" she exclaimed, she pulled free her wand, "I just need to refresh the Imperious on my parents."

Dumbledore chuckled, "Shall I stand back and give you pointers then?"

"Please?" Hermione asked sweetly, he nodded again and followed her into the kitchen where her mother was cooking and her father was sitting staring blankly at a wall. "Imperio." Hermione intoned, aiming at her mother even as her face scrunched up in concentration.

Dumbledore smiled slightly and nudged her wand down, breaking the connection, "You need to be a bit more fluid with that wand movement." He said, Albus reached up and rubbed between her eyes to make her face smooth back to normal, "And this is not so much extra concentration but more confidence, you have to believe that your will stronger than theirs just as much as making your will stronger."

"Yes, Master." Hermione replied, her face determined.

Albus watched his apprentice take his suggestions and easily take control of her parents with a smile. He never thought he would have an apprentice, he had never really wanted one, but when the Book of Names at Hogwarts had reported strong accidental magics at a muggle residence he had investigated. It was like this that he had found many of his best pawns after all. What he had found was Hermione, suffering through an exorcism at the hands of a member of the clergy. She had looked over at him the second he had come into the room, even wrapped in disillusionment charms as he had been. He had killed the clergy man before revealing himself fully. It turned out that Hermione had already suspected that she had magic and was better than those without, a view point he shared.

So Albus had continued to visit the, at the time, seven-year-old to test her intelligence and her magic. Soon he found his plans for her far past that of any of his normal pawns and offered to take her as his apprentice when she turned nine. She was nowhere near as powerful as he was or as Harriet was sure to be, but that could be fixed at some point and her devotion to him and his cause was unquestionable. She was eager to take both the magical and muggle worlds under their control; for the greater good of course.

Almost two hours after the ritual found the group at LeFay Castle in the common room, waiting for Loki to come back. Griphook had sent over the Prewett portfolio and the five males were pouring over things, Percy and Bill helping Fred and George make decisions based on their knowledge and Charlie wrote down things that they would need to have done. They all seemed genuinely surprised at the size and amounts of the Prewett holdings, without Molly to corrupt things the Prewett family was still holding strong with investments and patents that they had secured over time. Needless to say, the new family of five was hardly strapped for Galleons any more.

Bucky, who was still a little wary of everyone, had settled into one of the arm chairs that had the best sight lines of the entire room with Luna settled across his lap, reading, with one hand tangled with Bucky's metal hand. He was just watching everyone, studying them, watching for danger. Ever since they had confirmed that Luna was his Soulmate he hadn't let her more than a foot from him and Harriet was torn between cooing at them and groaning. She knew that Bucky wouldn't allow any separation, Luna may allow it but she wouldn't be happy either. Harriet had to figure out how to keep them together during school without too much danger, she wanted her siblings to be happy after all.

Harriet herself was currently curled up with Sleipnir on the couch, she was continuing on the catalog of the twins' prank products while Sleipnir read more from his book to keep himself occupied while waiting for his mother and brother to arrive. Harriet accepted the weight on her hip without complaint and every so often would run her fingers through his hair soothingly. Lee was sitting at the other end of the couch, reading a comic that he had brought up from his room. All in all the room was peaceful.

As Harriet was finishing up the descriptions of the defense line she felt a shift in the castle wards. She rolled up the scroll once more and tugged on Sleipnir's hair gently, "Sleipnir, guess whose home?" she sang.

The boy shot to his feet, dumping the book onto the couch, "Mum's back? Did he bring Jörmungandr?"

Harriet giggled, "Yes, he's in the foyer. And yes, I can feel Jörmungandr." She stood and held out her hand to him with a grin, "Shall we go greet them?" Sleipnir bypassed her hand completely and wrapped his arms around her in a hug. Harri smiled and looked around to the rest, "We shall be back soon with one more member of the family."

With that they flamed to the bottom steps in the foyer and were greeted by a snake just about the size of Samarra. Sleipnir let go of Harriet and ran toward Loki and Jörmungandr, "Mother! Brother!" Harri watched with a happy smile as the two siblings reunited, Sleipnir changed to his horse form and Jörmungandr practically wrapped himself around the enormous eight legged horse.

Loki joined Harriet on the step and she looked over at him with a small smile, "How did it go?"

Loki looked down at Harriet with a raised eyebrow, "He was easy to find. The biggest problem was getting him to choose only a few of his blankets, pillows, and stuffed animals."

Harriet looked back to Jörmungandr who was currently running his forked tongue up Sleipnir's muzzle, making the horse startle and let out a distressed whinny. "He could have brought them all." She said softly, "But that wasn't what I was talking about." Loki kept his face blank and Harri huffed, "Most of the time the wards on a manor are connected only to the Lord but special wards made by the heir will remain connected to the heir until the ward has time to integrate into the old ward scheme."

Loki sighed, "It took a bit but I'm confident that they understand better. We will know at the Expo. That's when they are supposed to show up if they've accepted things."

Harri nodded before looking back to him again, "Thank you Loki." She said softly, she stepped closer and wrapped her arms around him in a hug.

Loki froze in shock for a second, unused to the contact and the thank, before hugging her back, "You're quite welcome Harriet. It is what families are supposed to do, yes?"

Harriet pulled back and beamed up at him, "Yes."

Loki nodded and awkwardly extracted himself from Harri who gave him an amused look, Loki cleared his throat, "So…Jörmungandr. Did we have a room for him in the castle?"

Harriet giggled, "A room is not accurate. It was more like, every room had a place for Jörmungandr. He would move where ever he was comfortable." She turned back to look at the two brothers and was greeted by an enormous snake head a foot in front of her. Instead of jumping like Jörmungandr probably planned her to do Harri just smiled, *Hello Jörmungandr. It's nice to meet you.* she said calmly.

*You're not scared.* the snake noted with surprise.

Harriet chuckled, *No, I'm not. Right now you're about the size of Salazar's Basilisk and I've seen you much, much larger than this.*

Jörmungandr titled his head, *We've never met.*

Harri shot Loki a look but smiled when she looked back to the snake, *Time travel is a funny thing.* she said simply. Jörmungandr's tongue flicked out to her face and she raised an eyebrow at him, his tongue shot out to scent her again and she caught his tongue in her arms; he froze but she started to stroke along the smooth, forked tongue. He practically melted. *Aw, you big adorable baby.* Harriet cooed, *Are you hungry darling?*

Off to the side Loki and Sleipnir was watching the interaction with wide disbelieving eyes. Dianna appeared a few seconds later with a bored looking cow, "I have brought a meal for your newest guest Lady LeFay."

"Thank you Dianna." Harriet said, *Jörmungandr? You hungry?*

Jörmungandr perked up and pulled free from Harri's grip to look at the cow, *It's been forever since I've had cow!* he exclaimed.

Harriet giggled, *Here you can have cow whenever you want. Welcome to your new home.*

Two days later the large group at the castle was standing in the common room, waiting for Jarvis to summon Harriet. Harri had brought some Ironman gear for everyone so they could show their support for Tony, but not all of them were so agreeable to the red and gold. She had managed to get the twins into jeans, something they didn't have in the British wizarding world but that she knew they had liked when they moved to America, and an Ironman shirt. It had nothing to do with the fact that she mentioned she thought they looked good in them, not at all.

It had taken some convincing to get Bucky to come along but once Luna had said she was going he had agreed, though he had hidden multiple weapons on his person. Harriet and Luna had managed to get him to wear jeans and one of the Ironman t-shirts Harriet had bought as well, he insisted that they glamour his arm. Luna was standing by him in a low key red and gold sun dress and gold flats with a hair pin that looked like the new arc reactor.

Everyone else was a bit harder to convince without proper leverage. Lee wore jeans and one of the t-shirts after the twins threatened him with being the test subject for all their products. Bill and Percy refused to try jeans so Harriet had changed their dress shirt hot rod red and gave them gold pins with a glowing blue arc reactor to put on their pockets. Charlie ended up liking the jeans but didn't like any of the shirts, so Harriet had retrieved some old Ironman gloves that Jarvis had said were scrapped and resized them for the redhead, she charmed the repulsors to glow blue since they weren't operational. Jörmungandr didn't want to shift for this so had shrunk down to his smaller form so he could be carried by Sleipnir, Fred and George had worked together to charm his scales red and gold.

Loki flat out refused to wear red and gold and once he had said that Sleipnir refused too. They did wear more muggle America appropriate attire though so Harri guessed it would have to do.

"Well." Harriet said, clapping her hands together, "We look like Gryffindor raiding party." She herself, though under her school glamours for safety, was in an Ironman dress, hers was metallic to mimic the actual suit. She had charmed the triangle at her breasts to glow blue as well as the fake repulsors on her elbow length gloves and the ones on the bottom of her gold flat leather boots. A red headband held back her hair which she had blown out to look more windswept than usual. Harriet looked over to Loki and Sleipnir who both looked way too amused by the groups appearances, "With two intruding Slytherins." She joked, Loki rolled his eyes at her. Harri cast a quick tempus, "Alright, last chance to grab things if you need it." She brought her school bag up over her shoulder, it was filled with her usual essentials.

Bill rolled his eyes, "We're fine. You've been doing last checks for five minutes."

Harri shrugged, "You'd be surprised what superheroes can leave behind. I remember one time Steve actually forgot his shield, his main weapon! Just because he was in the middle of a conversation with Thor as they made their way to the Quinjet." Bucky gave a low chuckle.

Lee rolled his eyes, "Honestly, you sound much more like their mum instead of their sister."

Harri crossed her arms over her chest, "I may have to be, Merlin know they could use some mothering." She huffed, Fred and George laughed and Harri looked to them with raised eyes, "Why are you guys laughing? That would make you their dads!" the twins stopped laughing and exchanged a look, Harriet felt her heart ache and promised herself she would tell them about their child once things had calmed down, after the Expo. Harri shook herself from her thoughts when she felt the pull of Jarvis' summoning, "Alright, gather round. It's time." Everyone gathered close, all connecting with their hands in other peoples or with a hand on someone's shoulder. Harriet brought up her fire around them and drug through, following the tug of the summons.

They landed in a large empty room, they pulled apart to looked around curiously when a familiar hand grabbed Harriet and drug her from the group, "Harriet!" Tony exclaimed, "You came!"

Harri laughed and snuggled into her brother's embrace, "Of course big brother!"

Tony pulled back to take in her outfit, "Very nice, and…are those fake repulsors glowing?" he asked, looking at the smooth circles on Harriet's gloves.

"Yep, the ones on my boots glow too." Harriet said with a grin.

Tony looked over the entire group, "Well you all look amazing." He wiped a fake tear from his eye, "It's been so long since I've had a posse."

"What like two years." Harri teased.

"That long?" Tony whined, his face brightened and immediately went to a whole new topic, "Ah! The first of the many tracking devices!"

"I thought it was going to be a bracelet." Harriet said with a smile as Tony ran over to a table that stood next to the only door. His folded up suit sat on it next to a small box.

"I thought you should have something for missions first!" Tony was saying, ignoring her comment, "Since that's when you're so gung-ho to go places by yourself." He pulled a thick rectangular piece of dark metal from the box, "I already had Daisy take the charger over to the Castle for you." Tony explained as he walked back over to her and clicked something on the metal, it popped apart to form a head band with two nodes connected at each end.

Harri's eyebrows shot up, "Is that similar to your augmented cognition headset?" she asked.

Tony stopped in front of her with a frown, "My what?"

Harri winced, "Right, you haven't made it yet. After the invasion." She muttered. She looked back to Tony who was raising an eyebrow at her, "It works like a Heads Up Display right? Like in the helmet?"

"Yeah." Tony said, handing the headband to her, "I assume that means you know how to use it."

Harriet smiled as she put it on, with the back along her neck under her hair and the nodes pressed to her temples and cheek bones. "I think so, if it's similar to what you wore last time then…" she reached up on her left and felt for a button, she nodded and pressed it, holograms popped to life in front of her face.

"Hello Miss Potter." Jarvis greeted.

"Hello Jarvis." Harri answered, she grinned at Tony and gave him another hug, "Thank you Tony."

"Just taking care of my little sister." Tony muttered, kissing her forehead. He pulled away again with a grin, "Now, glamour me up and we'll go explore! I haven't seen half this stuff but I don't feel like getting mobbed going as myself. You can meet Pepper…"

"Before we go to Hammer's presentation." Luna interrupted airily.

Everyone looked to her, Tony frowned, "Why would we want to go see him? His presentation isn't even supposed to be that exciting. He couldn't do anything awesome like me so he's showing off some mini drones or something."

"The Nargles are positive it will be very exciting." Luna hummed.

Harri's eyebrows raised a bit, "Any other details Luna?"

Luna frowned and cocked her head, "There will be a storm later." Loki and Sleipnir tensed while Jörmungandr hissed incoherently. "Everything else is uncertain at the moment."

Harri nodded, "Alright, thank you for the heads up Luna." The blonde gave Harri a dreamy smile before latching herself onto Bucky's glamoured metal arm.

"I should have brought comms." Tony muttered.

Harriet put her hand on his arm, "It'll be fine Tony." She let her magic flow over him to change his most noticeable features and locked the glamour tight over him. "Let's just enjoy the Expo while we can." Tony gave a short nod. Harriet turned off the headset for now so they wouldn't draw too much extra attention and led the way toward the door.

They all exited the building and blended into the crowds of happy Expo visitors, Tony explained things to the Prewetts as they came across the different technologies. Loki seemed to enjoy the organized chaos that was the Expo though his shoulders still held some tension from Luna's warning, keeping Sleipnir as close as possible and his eyes constantly straying to Jörmungandr, Harri was able to calm him a little but it was still there. The twins were looking around at all the technology, quickly descending into prank planning mode, thinking of ways to integrate muggle tech like Harri had last year. Bucky was doing rather well for his first time out so close to his new recovery, but a lot of that had to do with Luna, her natural excitement and curiosity over things distracted him from worrying too much and she kept close to him. Lee was hanging off every word Tony said, only slightly less starstruck while his current favorite superhero was under the glamour.

Harriet was enjoying herself too, buying things every so often and jumping from conversation to conversation but she was really looking for her fathers. She was slightly disappointed that they weren't here yet but tried to calm herself, keeping in mind the time differences or figuring that they might be doing something. She was still wearing the leather cuff they had given her at the beginning of first year after all, they should be able to track her. Harriet just tried to keep her hopes up as she spent time with part of her family.

About an hour before Hammer's big presentation, just as the sun began sinking lower in the sky, Tony led them toward the main stage, Harriet slowly eased his glamour away so no one would notice the sudden magic and turned back on her new headset. "Jarvis tell Pepper we're coming." Harri said.

"Will do Miss Potter." Jarvis replied.

"Anything strange going on with Hammer's devices so far?" she asked softly.

"I have been monitoring them since Miss Lovegood's warning. There is nothing as of yet." Jarvis said.

"Alright, keep watch please."

"Of course." Jarvis replied, sounding a bit offended. By the time they reached the entrance to the backstage area, Tony was himself again and quickly ordered VIP passes for everyone in the group. After a quick argument it was decided that only Harriet would go meet Pepper right now so she wouldn't be overwhelmed by the big group, so rest went up to the private level to settle in their seats for the presentation later.

Tony led Harriet through the back and to a video command center that would control which camera angles were shown on the broadcast. There, standing behind the tech and checking over a clipboard, was Pepper, wearing a smart cream colored pant suit with her hair pulled up behind her in a smart bun. "Pep!" Tony called, making the red head spin and focus on him immediately, "Pepper! Hey!"

Pepper smiled and came over to them, Harri discretely put up a privacy ward, knowing Tony's babbling ability. "Tony! You actually showed up! You know, Jarvis told me you were here but I thought you were just going to completely skip this presentation because of who was involved."

Tony pouted, "Would I have done that?"

"Yes." Pepper deadpanned.

Tony rolled his eyes before doing another conversation 180, "Hey, so you know how I keep talking about Harriet?"

Pepper's mouth pressed into a thin line, "Yes, the mysterious girl who you claim is just a sister but won't allow me to meet."

Harriet giggled drawing Pepper's gaze to her, "I understand where you're coming from Miss Potts but Tony isn't my type and, in fact, I'm quite taken."

Pepper's eyes were wide as she took in Harriet, "Taken? What are you like twelve?"

Harri shrugged, "In a way, I won't be twelve until two weeks from now."

"In a way?" Pepper repeated, "In what way, look at you!"

Tony jumped in, "It's a long story Pepper, one of those good ones you know, with romance and danger and villains and superheroes and family and magic and time travel…"

"Time travel!" Pepper sputtered, Harriet face palmed.

Tony didn't notice, just plowed right on ahead, "And we're all one big family! But Harriet won't tell me who everyone is because apparently I will 'go over the top trying to bring them in too fast', can you believe she said that?! Like I-"

"I can yes." Pepper said dryly, Harri giggled and they two woman shared a grin.

"Tony." Harri called, putting a hand on her brother's shoulder and effectively calling him to a stop. "Slow down a bit. We don't have time for the full story right now." Harri turned fully to Pepper, ignoring Tony's grumbling, "Hello, I'm Harriet Rose Potter, but most people just call me Harri. Nice to meet you." She said with a bright smile.

Pepper shook her outstretched hand, "Virginia Potts, but you can call me Pepper. Nice to meet you as well." She glanced over at the pouting genius, "I'm not sure what I think about this time travel stuff but obviously you know how to handle him. If I understand correctly, you were also the one who helped Jarvis stop that man Vanko from coming after Tony."

Harri nodded, "Yes, he would have attempted to kill Tony."

"And have you had something to do with his recent better health?" Pepper asked.

Harri laughed, "Yes, I sent him some help that would get him on a schedule and keep him fed correctly."

"Well I'm glad you're here to look out for him." Pepper said with a smile.

"My family's safety is very important to me." Harri said seriously.

Pepper beamed, "I think we'll get on just fine then."

"Great." Tony muttered next to them, "Potts and Potter together at last, here to ruin all my fun." Pepper looked amused at that.

Harriet pouted at Tony, "But big brother, we only want you safe and healthy." She whined.

"Safe and healthy is boring." Tony whined in return.

"Yeah, but in between safe and healthy we have our fights with villains, isn't that enough?" Harri countered, Tony looked to consider it before deflating and giving her a nod.

Pepper laughed lightly, watching the exchange, "Yup, your good for him." She announced, she pointed a manicured finger at them, "But I want the full story later."

Tony perked up immediately, "She and everyone else can come over to the mansion later tonight!"

Pepper raised an eyebrow at the everyone else but nodded, "That's sounds good. Now go sit for Hammer's presentation. You have to make a good impression."

Tony sighed dramatically but nodded and led Harriet up to find their seats with the rest of their group just as the five-minute warning for the Hammer Industries presentation was announced. "Can't we sneak out the back." Tony whined.

Fred and George looked over to him in confusion, "What's your deal with Hammer?" Fred asked.

"He's a douche." Tony huffed.

"That's not an answer." George stated.

Harri smiled, "He's the self-absorbed, morally ambiguous guy who runs Hammer Industries, the company who took over the U.S. defense contract after Stark Industries stopped making weapons. His product is inferior in every way to Tony's and he gets reminded of it almost constantly. He likes to try and one up Tony a lot, never works but he can be a pain."

Tony looked over to the twins suddenly, a wide grin on his face, "Could I hire you two to prank him?"

Fred and George chuckled, "We never thought"

"of hiring ourselves out"

"like that, but we can"

"give you some of our"

"prank products once Harriet"

"shows us how to make them." They offered.

Tony nodded, "Deal."

Harri rolled her eyes fondly at them and focused on her headset, "Jarvis you have control of the sound system right?" she asked softly, so only Jarvis would pick it up.

"Of course."

"Can you play a more…appropriate…song once Justin begins walking out on stage?" she asked.

"My pleasure." Jarvis said, his voice managing to sound amused.

A few minutes later the lights dimmed and a spot light focused on the left of the stage, a funky jazz music began to play as Justin walked out but the music quickly stopped with what sounded like a scratching record before another broke over the speakers, "Stop! Hammer time!" the music continued playing as the crowd roared with laughter and many began dancing in their seats. Lee, one of the only ones of the group to know the song, broke into loud laughter, while the rest just looked amused at Justin's rapidly reddening face.

Tony looked to Harriet who pointed at her head set with a smirk, "Awesome!" Tony crowed, they shared a high five.

Justin made his way quickly to the front of the stage, his face resembling a tomato, and waved his hands for quiet, "Yes, yes. Hilarious." He joked into his mic, Jarvis finally cut the music and the crowd died down.

"Well the rest of this thing can be boring. That just made my evening." Tony laughed.

They settled in to watch Justin's presentation. A few minutes after he began talking platforms rose from the stage with what looked to be seventy large dragonfly looking drones. They were split in four groups, each with different capabilities. The front group, only ten in number, were apparently the most packed models. Harri sighed, ready for a long convoluted explanation.

"Miss Potter." Jarvis interrupted seriously, "I've lost eyes on Vanko."

Harriet frowned, "See if you can find him. If you can't I'll track him from his last known location after this is done." She said softly.

"Will do Miss Potter."

Harriet focused on the presentation again and narrowed her eyes when she saw one of the dragonflies in the back flex it's wings. She slid her hands into her bag and drug her mission clothes up from the bottom. Harri slid her eyes over the rest and leaned forward as she saw more wings begin to move, "Tony." She said warningly, he sat forward next to her and frowned at the movement.

"All weapons demos were ordered to keep explosives and ammunition clear of the Expo to avoid misfires harming civilians." He muttered.

"How likely is Hammer to have followed that?' Harri asked, in answer Tony reached for his suit. Noticing the movement, Bucky reached for his gun and Loki's armor began to slowly form around him.

"Miss Potter, someone is hacking into the Hammer drones." Jarvis reported.

"Can you stop it?" Harri asked, loud enough to draw Fred and George's attention this time.

"I'm attempting to but I'm being blocked right now." Jarvis said, all of the dragonflies were beating their wings now

Harriet didn't waste any more time, she did the switching charm on her clothes, "Jarvis, tech protocol when identities are still under protection are full lock down on any footage. Keep it contained. The World isn't ready to know all of our identities yet."

"Yes ma'am." Jarvis said seriously just as the drones lifted from their display stands as one. Justin spun as one of the crowd shouted and threw himself to the ground as the first shot went off.

Chapter Notes:

The twins never separated with Lee, not because of a lack of trust but, because they were always sin a relatively strange environment. School or Diagon Alley, even Lee's house to an extent because while they like Mr. And Mrs. Jordan they never really sat down and got to know them.

I know many of you probably wanted to see the talk Tony and Loki gave the Marauders but I never planned to show it. I planned for it to be one of those things that a character is threatened with. You know, like "Should we have another talk, James?" "No! No, I'm good! I'll be good! I promise! No talk!" lol

The age problem with Loki's children I have decided to play with. Obviously they are older than our other characters, several hundreds of years old but I have decided (mostly for the adorability factor) that so long in their animal forms kept them from aging correctly in their bipedal forms. So in looks, Sleipnir is a preteen, about twelve, Fenrir will be about nine, and Jor is about eight.

Jor is totally a cuddler. Someone want to draw me a cuddly Jor? Please? *bats eyes at you*

I built Harriet, Fred, and George's ritual right into the story because I knew you all would ask! Hope you liked it!

I"M NOT REDEEMING THE REST OF THE WEASLEY FAMILY(besides Arthur). They reacted like they did because they care but when they realize that the boys chose Harriet over them they will be hateful. They still think they're in the right. Arthur is the only other salvageable person in that family and I plan to reveal Harriet's child to them when she brings him over and he attempts to plea for a lesser sentence for the remaining members of the family. So again, don't ask, Molly, Ginny, and Ron are lost causes.

Finally! Some backstory on Hermione's involvement!

Okay so the tongue thing for Jor, I just thought the scene in How to Train Your Dragon 2 was adorable and wanted to add it somewhere but random dragon when no dragon AT ALL is needed wasn't the way I wanted to go. So Jor got it. The adorable little baby.

I'm actually not sure if the Wizarding world has jeans, I didn't remember them in the movies on anyone but Harry. I looked up pictures(didn't want to marathon the entire series again just to look for jeans*rolls eyes*) but they always seem so damn formal so I figured they didn't have them. But have you seen some of the pictures of James and Oliver Phelps in jeans? Damn.

Yes! Jesus the Avengers could use a mom! Someone write it! I need to see it! Send me the link!

The head set he gave Harri is like the one Tony was wearing in Ironman 3 that allowed him to control the suit form a distance.

Cliffy!

There is a new Outtake for you all to check out over on Ao3!