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Chapter 2: The Guardian
October 12th, 1987, Great Hall, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
This morning, the Great Hall was full of noise. Mutters from the students, theories, conspiracies (read: pranks being planned) and curiosity filled the Hall. The reason for this is the added person sitting at the staff table. Sitting between Professors Minerva McGonagall and Bathsheda Babbling (respectively professors of Transfiguration and Ancient Runes), was a fairly young man that looked seventeen years old at the most.
Said young man had very wild hair of an unnatural blood-red color, gleaming eyes colored like Sapphires. With high cheekbones and an aristocratic nose, thin lips spreading in a cheeky smirk. He was wearing formal grey robes with different colored hems for each limb: emerald green for the left hand, ruby red for the right hand, cobalt blue for the left leg and topaz yellow for the right leg. The emblem of Hogwarts on the left his chest. He cut a very handsome figure and an impressive sight due to his height (1.95 meters or 6.4 feet tall).
Before the students could ask themselves too much who the handsome young man was, Headmaster Dumbledore stood up from his seat and went to the podium in front of the staff table. It shows how respected he was that the moment the headmaster sat up, every sound dimmed to whispers and finally to nothing.
"Good day to you students! As you have no doubt seen, a young man has joined us, professors, at our table. The reason for this is at the same time simple and not. I have discovered yesterday a position at the school that had been forgotten by everyone for a long time. That position is the Guardian of the School. Someone to protect the castle and any living being from exterior harm. I have chosen the young man before you as Guardian of Hogwarts for several reasons. One of those is his power. Due to having access and control of his magic since young, Iblis Annach has built up his power and control without a wand and is without the shadows of a doubt more powerful than several of our professors united. The other reasons will be yours to ask him on your own time. But I will ask that you respect his privacy, as such he has the right to answer your questions, or to not answer them. I wish you all a good breakfast and a good day. Tuck in!" Silence reigned in the Hall as all the students recovered from the shock of this announcement as plates filled magically across the hall. Before long, whispers arose all around the hall as plates of food were being emptied.
At the staff table, things were not much better as even if the professors have much greater experience hiding or calming their emotions. Most of them were not prepared for such a surprise being sprung upon them, which explains the looks of shock coming from most of the table except Severus Snape, resident Potions Master and Professor, and Dumbledore and Iblis who were subjects to the said looks of shock. Iblis turned towards McGonagall, who had recovered from her surprise, to ask certain questions.
"Excuse me, Professor McGonagall, right?" She looked at him and nodded, she seemed a little stressed and angry at the fact that Dumbledore hadn't said anything to her about Iblis.
"Yes, I am the Transfiguration Professor and Deputy Headmistress." She shot a glare at the Headmaster, before looking at Iblis again "I'm sorry but the Headmaster hadn't informed me of your arrival so nothing was prepared for you yet." Iblis just smiled and waved off her excuse.
"Don't worry Professor, but I have a question. As we are after all in a school, will it be alright for me to attend classes such as Ancient Runes and Potions where I will not need a wand ?" he asked politely with a bit of nervousness. It was the first time meeting her and he could already tell that she wasn't someone to cross, even if she was less powerful than him. The Deputy Headmistress smiled thinly.
"If it were only up to me, I would say yes as you are now a member of the school, but you will have to speak to the professors teaching the classes you wish to attend. That is because you technically became a member of the Faculty of Hogwarts, the same title as a Professor, which is why you need the specified professors to agree." Iblis looked pensive for a time before nodding. They were interrupted by the Ancient Runes professor, Bathsheda Babbling.
"Sorry for eavesdropping, but you have my authorization. The only downside is that you will be with the third-year students." Iblis thanked her and turned back to McGonagall.
"Thank you, Professor. I can only say that it is too bad that only Self-Transfiguration can be done wandlessly, because I might have a talent for it. As a shapeshifter, I suppose it is expected." The Transfiguration Professor looked surprised before a little glint appeared in her eyes, even if it wasn't seen.
"You are a metamorphmagus?" Obviously it was said a little louder than she expected as half the Hall quieted down and listened to the conversation. Iblis smiled at McGonagall.
"Yes and no. You see, it ran in the family. My father, grandfather and all my ancestors from my father's side of the family could shapeshift." While saying this, he changed everything about himself: hair color (going through the whole rainbow), length and thickness. Eye size, color (rainbow) and shapes. His jawline, cheekbones. Everything changed. It settled on wild ink-black hair with jaw-length bangs and dark blue highlights. Blue-green eyes the shape of almonds, tan skin with a strong jawline and lower cheekbones. "But our gift goes beyond just shapeshifting as we can choose to become any animal we want, but I will wait for a bit more private environment for a demonstration if you don't mind."
The transfiguration professor's eyes were wide in astonishment, but she quickly reigned herself in and shook her head. "Of course not, but your gift is absolutely astonishing, the only shapeshifter that comes close to what you described is a Hufflepuff student by the name of Nymphadora Tonks. She never told me the extent of her control over the gift, but I suspect she can do everything except transforming into an animal." Iblis smiled widely at hearing the name. Of course, he recognized it.
"There is another metamorphmagus here ?" He asked eagerly, his hair color going through the rainbow in excitement (even if he can control it, he finds it pointless). McGonagall smiled indulgently and nodded.
"Yes, Miss Tonks is the only metamorphmagus to cross our halls for over fifty years, and as I said earlier she is exceptionally gifted. Though you might want to not call her by her first name as she greatly dislikes it." Iblis nodded but inwardly sweatdropped, greatly disliking and absolutely hating are different.
"I can understand it, Nymphadora is an exceptionally eccentric, if beautiful name. I myself do not like anyone calling me by my family name." Their conversation quieted as they ate, not realizing that half the Great Hall heard their conversation, which includes a very surprised and eager pink-haired metamorphmagus.
(Just after the previous conversation, Hufflepuff table)
YES! Finally someone else like me! If someone had told me that my fourth year would start this good, I would have hexed the bastard. Did I hear right? He's going to study the wandless subjects? Damn! I wonder if it's possible to start studying Ancient Runes and drop Divinations. I don't have the gift of the 'Third Eye' anyway. I turn to my fellow Hufflepuff Penny Haywood.
"Hey, Penny." she turns to me, still chewing on something. "Do you think it's possible for me to drop Divination and start Ancient Runes?" She looks at me wide-eyed and swallows before giving me a sly look.
"What, do you already have a crush on our new Guardian?" she asks with a smirk. I smirk a little before shaking my head.
"Hell no, I don't know the guy. It's just that I find divination useless and I don't have the gift for it anyway." she gives a small laugh.
"Hah! Do you think you're going to do better in Runes? With your legendary clumsiness, you wouldn't be able to carve a rune correctly!" I roll my eyes, if I can calm myself, I should do a good job.
"Just tell me, do you think it's possible?" She turns more serious and thinks before turning left towards one of our prefects.
"Hey, Hawkins!" the black-haired prefect turns to her and approaches us.
"What is it, Haywood?" He smiles at me in greeting, which I return, but when his eyes go to my pink hair for a moment, I roll my eyes. I've been here for more than three years and some still aren't used to it.
"Tonks here wants to drop Divination and start Runes instead, do you think it's possible?" He looks pensive for a moment before turning to me.
"I think it's possible, but you would be in with the third years in Runes. You'll probably have to talk about it to Professor McGonagall for this." I nod, I'll probably stay after class today to ask her about it.
"Thanks, Hawkins." he nods at me with a smile.
"Anytime, see you later girls." He goes back to his seat to eat. I can clearly see Penny looking at his retreating back. I smirk evilly, time for some payback.
"What are you staring at, his back, his head or his a-" she interrupts me by putting a hand on my mouth hurriedly while shushing me.
"Shhhhh! Be quiet, I wasn't staring!" I smirk wider and lick her palm. She retrieves it and wipes it on a napkin.
"Eww Tonks. Just ew." I ignore it, the smirk still in place on my face.
"Sure, you weren't staring. If you weren't, I'm not a metamorph." She glares at me, but there's no real heat in it. I smirk still, before she returns it.
"Ok, I was staring. But so will you stare at our Guardian once you get to know him. You know what, let's bet." I lose my smirk and raise an eyebrow, a bet? There's no way I'm just going to stare at the guy just 'cause he's like me.
"Bet? On what?" I don't like the fact that her smirk grew, and what is that glint in her blue eyes?
"I bet that before Christmas, you'll have healthy thoughts of our new Guardian. What was his name again? Iblis? Talk about a weird name, something else you've got in common with him." she wriggles her eyebrows, giving me a sly look. I roll my eyes and snort, there's no way I'll be interested, so let's not talk about Christmas.
"You're on! I'm not interested in the guy, and that's not going to change." I stick my tongue at her, but she just smirks knowingly. I don't know why but on her pretty face it's annoying.
"Hah! We'll talk about it at Christmas. And what tells you he won't be the one to get interested in you? He certainly looked excited to meet you during his conversation with McGonagall." I snort and roll my eyes, but I can't help but be excited to talk to him too. I mean, that's the first person that I'm going to meet that has the same gift as mine!
"Yeah, right. I'm pretty sure he's going to be like other guys anyway." She looks at me like I said something dumb.
"Tonks, are you insane? The guy probably has the same problem as you so it would be weird for him to be this crass like other guys." She says with a frown. Looking at it this way, she may be right but it could also make him worse than other guys. I frown at the thought.
" You know, he might be interested in you, Miss Most-Popular-Girl-Of-The-School. I guess we'll see." She gives me a look I don't quite understand.
"Sure, we will." This year sure is going to be interesting, that's for sure.
A/N: I know this chapter is kinda short, but this is really just to capture the start. It will be the same for a couple of chapters after, because it will be a series of meetings between Iblis and the different professors, and then the start of classes for Iblis. Just to tell you, I'm going to try and give a technical side to subjects not often analyzed in the series like Potions, Ancient Runes or Astronomy and how interconnected some can be. As for the pairing, you'll just have to see, but be prepared for some sort of drama. It isn't just going to be sunshine and rainbows, and don't forget that Nymphadora and Penny are just fourteen right now. Expect some kind of time-skips in later chapters. Thank you Naruto009523 and Japnit for the reviews and positiveness. Cheers people! And don't forget to review! I need the criticism, whether good or bad, to become better!