Chapter 10: The Guard
After the election Harry put a poster on the notice board for people to sign up to be in the Gryffindor Guard. Harry, Ginny, Isacc and Abigail were walking down to the great hall and they were already entering. Once they entered everyone looked at them. The most likely reason was because they heard of the election results. The Gryffindor they all knew hated the hierarchy system and now that they changed ideology completely must have been shocking news.
Harry looked over to the Slytherin table and saw that many of them were very shocked to say the least. Harry saw Malfoy make a gesture that meant to meet him later and Daphne Greengrass nodded. Harry told the others what they wanted and they agreed to meet them. Harry motioned for them to meet at the bridge and they both nodded. Ginny and the other two saw Harry motion the bridge and they quickly caught onto where they would.
Since it was Sunday they ate a little longer than usual. They got up to leave and Daphne and Draco stood and followed them to the bridge. Once they made it outside Harry used wandless magic to close the front doors to give them more privacy.
"We're Just going to meet on the bridge with zero privacy?" Draco asked in annoyance.
"God damn it you're not making this easy. No we are not." Ginny said with exasperation.
Harry, annoyed by the bickering, called on lightning to take them to the Marauder Manor. The Lightning struck them all then they felt their air be squeezed out of their lungs. They felt nice clean air that didn't smell like it was burning so they opened their eyes and began breathing again. The two Slytherins looked around in awe at the Manor. Being from insanely rich families they lived in Manors that were big. They were shocked because this manor was the biggest they have ever seen and that said a lot as they were Purebloods(in fact they were all Purebloods).
"Holy shit. This is giant." Daphne gasped with her eyes wide.
"Indeed, it's the biggest house in the world." Abigail said with a small smile.
"Alright, let's head to the meeting room." Harry said as they were climbing the stairs to the circular chamber.
"You have a damn office?!" Draco said in shock.
"Well it was dad's but yes pretty much. In here." Harry said while he pointed to the door.
"Does anybody live here?" Daphne asked
"No, not really but me and my cousin were planning to move here in the summer." Harry said as he opened the door to the meeting room and sat down.
"What did you need to talk about?" Isaac asked while having his emotionless mask he usually wore around people.
"We have a proposition." Draco said while pulling a piece of parchment and quill and ink.
"Read it." Daphne instructed
"Alright, Mickey!" Harry called and a house elf with pointy ears appeared with a tray of tea and biscuits.
Mickey the house elf sat the tray down on the table then quickly popped out with a small crack. Harry grabbed the parchment then began reading.
Dear Prince of Gryffindor,
I as Prince and Leader of the Slytherin house of Hogwarts have a proposition.
I wish to create an alliance between the two long rivals to finally create peace in Hogwarts. I wish to do this by creating an alliance to create friendship. Both houses have similar things in common. Now that Gryffindor house has changed Ideology into a monarchy I wish to make this alliance between monarchies.
If you, as Harry Potter the prince of Gryffindor, decide to accept this treaty/alliance, you will receive Slytherin aid in conflicts between the other houses of Hogwarts or other turmoil. We will aid you in most things if your people aid us most things as well.
Another purpose for this is because I feel like we could be great allies in a war that is slowly brewing. What I mean by this is because the house of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw have signed a treaty and are training many of their house members. I fear that they will attack us both. I hope you have spies in Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw to help us in this conflict.
If you agree to accept this agreement, then you will be getting more aid, people/soldiers and economic aid. If you agree we both become great allies and we create peace between the two houses. I wish for you to help train our fellow peers to fight in this conflict although I'm not sure it will become war or a series of duels.
King of Gryffindor sign:
Queen of Gryffindor sign:
Leaders, Draco Malfoy and Daphne Greengrass.
"Do you agree?" Malfoy said
"I do." Harry said and Ginny nodded.
Harry grabbed the quill and dipped it into the ink then signed his name onto the parchment then he passed it to Ginny who did the same. Harry took out his wand then copied the parchment and put it into his pocket. They were about to continue talking when the door burst open and Susan Bones came in with a panicked expression.
"Hold on, calm down Susan what happened?" Harry asked. Susan looked at the two Slytherins then at Harry," they're fine I trust them."
"It's Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw." Susan said as she took a seat next to Daphne.
"What do you mean?" Draco asked with a raised eyebrow.
"They signed an alliance. They are plotting and preparing for a war or conflict against both of your houses." Susan said her panicked expression back.
"As we have feared." Ginny said while Harry remained silent until he spoke up.
"Most likely because the balance of power changed at Hogwarts." Harry said with a sigh before he continued."As I have feared. They will most likely like to control the power Gryffindor and Slytherin have. Damn it, we can't let them win or they'll treat us especially badly for the problems we have caused." Harry said as he rubbed his temples.
"That's basically it." Susan said with a nod sadly.
"How did they come to sign an agreement?" Isaac said finally speaking for the first time in half an hour.
"Well they both hated the change of power and the Hufflepuffs sent the request but when the Ravenclaws received it, it began a lot of internal problems. The anti-monarchists won in the end but they are facing some rebellion. They chose to join the Hufflepuffs in hope to destroy the rebellion which sort of worked." Susan said, looking at the British flag in the corner.
"What happened to the Hogwarts we knew a year ago?" Daphne asked in a sad voice.
"I'm not sure, but hopefully we can restore the peace." Harry said as he rested his head on Ginny's shoulder.
"There wasn't even a monarchy in Slytherin. There used to be only an elite for influential people." Draco said as he stood up and walked to the British flag.
"I think Fudge drank so much that we had to start our own government at school." Abigail joked with a grin.
"Draco, can you get the Slytherins to meet the Gryffindor guard outside the quidditch pitch?" Harry asked Draco as he stood up.
"Yeah I can." Draco said as he turned back to the group.
"Daphne, go through the front door and think of the quidditch pitch then walk through the door." Harry ordered and Daphne left the room to do as instructed.
Harry ordered Susan to act as if they didn't meet at all so she went to the Hufflepuff common room. Harry and Ginny walked downstairs and went to the dungeons where they passed the potion lab and potion storage chambers. They walked past their gym and went into their armory that had many weapons like swords, maces, clubs, axes, bows and arrows, spears, pikes, javelins, and shields. There were many armor sets and robes but they went to the other side of the room where there were large crates that had uniforms for both the Gryffindor and Slytherin guards.
Harry and Ginny pulled out their wands and began using strong banishing charms to send the crates outside the quidditch pitch. After a few minutes they took their swords and put them in their sword scabbards that made the hilts of the swords stop at the top of the scabbard. They put the scabbards on their legs. The scabbards quickly disappeared becoming invisible, they both quickly left the room then zapped outside the quidditch pitch to find the Gryffindor guard that consisted of about 57 people and the Slytherin guard had about 53.
Everyone jumped when they saw the two appear. The bad side of making your scabbard invisible was that when you zap it reappears visible. Everyone's eyes widened in shock as they saw two swords materialize on both of them.
"Alright before we start training you need a uniform." Ginny said with a bright smile.
"Thanks to Gin we all have uniforms that she made." Harry said as he opened the crates and grabbed both his and Ginny's uniform.
The uniform was a pair of silver trousers with golden buttons on it. They also got a grey trench coat that had golden buttons and it also had green and scarlet on the collar of the coat. After a while everyone realized that the material was dragon hide and there were bone armor plates inside the uniform making it more like armor. The trench coat also had a hood you could pull on to make night attacks better for you and to make you less visible. The uniform also came with leather gloves without the fingertips to help with your grip. A lot of the people there began putting it on and pretty much all of them had boots. Some had combat boots, others had snow boots and different types of shoes.
"Ginny, you did this?" the voice of Hermione asked.
"Yes, why?" Ginny asked
"Because this is amazing." Hermione said as she walked up to them.
"It is." Ginny said as Draco and Daphne came with their uniforms that were slightly different than the other as they had the same design on their uniforms as Ginny and Harry.
On Harry, Ginny, Draco and Daphne's coats had a patch on their right shoulder. The patch had a design of a golden crown on it with two wands crossed with their tips red and green. On their left shoulder it had the same design as the other people. The design for that patch was a Griffon holding a serpent in its beak on a peak.
"Here." Harry said as he gave the other three a holster and a dagger with a green tip. On the handle of the dagger a serpent fighting an eagle was carved into it.
"Thank you." Draco said politely while the other three nodded in thanks.
Unknown to them Dumbledore and Mcgonagall were watching the entire thing happen from the trees. Dumbledore was getting worried at what Harry could do with that force which was more of an army. Meanwhile Minerva was in awe at Harry for him being able to stop the hatred between Gryffindor and Slytherin. She was also in awe at how they managed to make such a good looking uniform that looked better than the Hogwarts ones.
Meanwhile at the field
"Alright everyone pair up with someone and I'll tell you when to start dueling. No unforgivables, no fatal curses, only spells like hexes, jinxes and curses that don't cause permanent damage." Harry instructed as everyone paired up with someone.
"DUEL!" Ginny ordered and they began dueling.
"I feel like the 6 and 7th years are shooting very inaccurately but they certainly have a lot of power behind the spells." Daphne observed the others.
"Definitely, some students are even trying to use nonverbal spells." Draco pointed out.
"I feel like you could train them in accuracy, Draco." Harry said to Draco while still watching the students.
"The younger students get tired too quickly to actually duel. They also don't have a lot of power behind those spells." Ginny pointed out
"They also lack speed." Daphne added
"Ginny, you could probably help the younger students. Like the 1st to 3rd years." Harry told Ginny while he stared at the other kids.
"We could have like one training session on spells and the other on martial arts and working out." Malfoy recommended
"I feel like we could pull that off." Ginny said
"Once a week we could have tests in the form of duels. On magical sessions we could give them goals and once they're done they can work out or rest." Harry said with a smile at the others.
"Yeah true." Daphne said nodding
Harry pulled his wand out and made a loud bang to get everyone's attention.
"That is it for today." Harry said
Everyone left for their dorms as it was pretty late in the day as it was 8:43 pm. The four went their separate ways and Harry and Ginny went to Gryffindor tower to head to sleep. When they made it there they agreed to sleep in the common room on a couch. When they entered Professor Mcgonagall pulled them into an unused classroom.
"What is it professor?" Ginny asked and Harry nodded his head.
"I heard that you guys created a sort of army. I see that you have uniforms so I'll allow you to use them in the castle. Is there anything special in the uniform that causes a change in how to wash it?" Mcgonagall asked the two.
"Yes there are dragon bone armor plates in there but it doesn't really change too much." Harry answered. All Mcgonagall did was raise an eyebrow and say nothing so she let them go to sleep.
Harry and Ginny went to a couch and fell asleep in each other's arms. They were so tired that they didn't bother taking their uniforms out. Ember the Phoenix came out of his tattoo and wrote a note on two pieces of parchment. She grabbed the two notes and stuck one note to the bulletin board then she flashed to the Slytherin common room and did the same thing.
Harry and Ginny fell asleep quickly after laying down and they both dreamed about a conflict between the two alliances.
