An: Thank you to those who read my story. This will be the last long chapter I write and hopefully I will also do better as I go in writing this story.
Disclaimer: I own no place or character named in this story other than my original characters all belong to their respective creator's
August 1st 1995
Outside Kyoto Japan
The morning sunshine was growing brighter a the day grew anew. In the Dursley house almost everyone were waking to get things ready for the coming day.
Harry again tries to cover his head to block the sunlight, but that was never to be unlike the day before it was Ivy who woke him by flinging open the door to his room then she changed across the room and climbed up on the bed then started jumping up and down. "Getup getup getup, mamma said breakfast is ready and if you sleep anymore I can eat yours too." she said as she was jumping.
Harry was smiling while hiding under the blanket. This was a bit of a morning routine, Ivy was the best alarm for the boys if they did not want to wake up and Harry would always try to sleep in if he could get away with it. After a few jump's he turns over and reaches out and pulls Ivy into a hug before he started tickling her.
Ivy began laughing which rang trough the house, Petunia who was setting out breakfast for everyone smiles as she heard her daughter laughing. "One day those two will grow out of this and I don't know if I will be ready for that." she said to herself as she set the last plate
Back in Harry's room Ivy was squirming trying to get away from him. "Stoooooop I'ma gooooona pee." she called out as she laughed. Harry let her go quickly kissing her forehead before shooing her out of the room so he could get changed and ready for the day.
After he was finished he left the room he went to the dining room where everyone had gathered, once he sat down everyone began to eat, while eating Petunia and Vernon held a murmured conversation about the days plan before finishing their meal. As each finished they would take their dirty dishes to the kitchen sink for washing, today was Dudley's turn to help with them so Harry, Ivy and River went to the living room to play and wait for Petunia, Vernon and Dudley to finish cleaning up from breakfast.
As they were playing Harry would glance to River as if he wanted to continue with the conversation they had started last night but she would shake her head with barely any movement.
Ten minutes after they began playing the other's came into the room. "Today is the orientation for the school, when we get to the school you three." Petunia said pointing to the older children." Will be taken for a tour with other children while we." she points to herself Vernon and Ivy. " Will take care of the paperwork or in Ivy's case who will be with other children too young to join you." she said then she looked to River.
"Sera has your information and will take care of some things for you." she smiles sadly as her thoughts went to her friend who was no longer with them.
River smiled and nods feeling slightly guilty for deceiving everyone but it must be done. " I forgot last night but thank you for allowing me to live with you." she said while giving a small bow.
Petunia and Vernon smile at her, they walk to a couch and sit while watching the children for a few minutes before Vernon speaks up gaining the children's attention again.
" Boys and River the school is going to be a place not only to learn but also to make friends and acquaintances from around the world, some of whom you will have for a lifetime and that's one of the reasons the school was built." he smiles as he thought of his own time at the school, though he and Petunia had been older than some of the students when they attended they weren't the only ones and they had made many friends from almost every corner of the world.
He comes out of his thoughts. "While it may be overwhelming at first meeting others don't close yourselves off from them." he said with a smile crossing his lips.
They spent the next hour either playing games or talking about nothing of importance, it was the ringing of the house phone that broke the peaceful atmosphere. Petunia got to her feet and made way to the phone.
She came back into the room shaking her head with a frown . "That was Sera, something came up with her job so she's going to need us to swing by Yasaka's place to pick up Sona."
Vernon shook his head as well. "I don't see why she still works that job of her's. It seems that when ever she has time to spend more than a day or two with Sona something pops up and she has to go to work." he said.
Petunia shrugs as she looks over the children and smiles. "At least she did the paperwork last night, she said it was a good thing she did. Last time she had a few days with Sona and also trying to catch up on some paperwork while Sona was down for a nap she got called in, I think she's getting ready to tell her bosses to take long walk off a short pier." she said.
Vernon chuckled at the last bit of what she said while nodding. " Well I'm sure one of these days she will tell them to do exactly that, well if we're going to pick up Sona we need to get going now, it's just a bit out of the way but if we leave now we we can get Sona and make it to the school." he says while looking at the children who are still playing.
When Dudley heard that they were going to get Sona he was up and heading to the door that leads to the garage. Vernon laugh's at his son then calls out to him." Shoes Dud ."
Harry and River smile at each other then get up to get their shoes as Dudley sporting a slight blush as he also gets his shoes and pulls them on then he head's for the garage door again.
Petunia went to pick up Ivy while hiding her laugh about her son forgetting his shoes when he heard he would be seeing Sona even just a little bit sooner than planned. "You know if those two don't change the way they are around each other we may end up with a new daughter in a few years." she said as she was putting Ivy's shoe's on.
Vernon chuckled at this and nods. "Well as long as they are happy even if it only gets as far as them being great friends or a couple, though I don't know what her parents will think. Sera is a good big sister when work allows her to be. But this conversation can wait for a few years, if we don't get a move on Dud will take the van himself to get to Sona." Vernon said while rushing to the door as he heard the motor of the van start up.
Hearing the van she scooped up Ivy and runs through the door to find Vernon laughing. " We were just behind you three." He said while climbing into the driver's seat.
Petunia went to the open side door and put Ivy into her car seat while fastening the restraints to hold Ivy she looked to the other children nodding as she saw that they had their seatbelts on. She then rounded to the passenger side and took her seat pulling her own seatbelt on.
The ride to get to Yasaka's place to pick up Sona was quite. Harry was looking around at the sites while there were some modern buildings and houses most of Kyoto was filled with homes and shops look like they were built to be in ancient Japanese times and he loved it over how cramped and disorganized England seems to be compared to what he was seeing with the buildings with beautiful fronts and gardens.
The many temples and Torii Gates he could see made him smile. In his old life he had always wanted to visit Japan and now he lives in Kyoto where some of the most beautiful sites during certain seasons of the year.
Although they were skirting around the older parts of Kyoto as it was both impossible to drive the paths as they were not built for anything more than a hand drawn cart and foot traffic, also it was a law to keep the ancient Japanese capital city in it's traditional atmosphere.
But the roads they drove had many pull off points for tourist can pull off if they find a place to take pictures of themselves with the one of the many beautiful views, so it was not a boring ride. The road also acted as a kind of boundary marking where modern meets ancient.
After a twenty minute drive they pulled off the road in on of the pull off spots and smiled as they saw a beautiful woman with long silky blonde hair sitting on a bench beside a Torii gate with a long set of stairs leading up to a beautiful palace like building, she was dressed in in a kimono that shows off her large belly showing that she was heavily pregnant.
Beside her sat Sona with a book in her lap as she read, as they pulled to a stop she looks up from the books page's and smiles at them as Dudley threw off his seatbelt and flung open the door and ran to them, first he spoke to Yasaka and received a nod and smile. After the nod he put his hand on her belly and rubbed it gently causing Yasaka to laugh.
While Dudley was doing this everyone got out of the van and made way to them. "You could have waited for us up at the house. You are so close to delivering and walking up and down those stairs can't be fun while you are so far along." Petunia said while holding Ivy as she walks to them.
Once Dudley was done feeling Yasaka's belly he turns to Sona and starts talking about the book she was reading. Vernon chuckled at his son then he basically copies Dudley by asking about feeling her belly to see if the baby would kick and was rewarded with a small bump from her belly hitting the palm of his hand. Everyone did so but Ivy squirmed in her mother's arm's and begged to be let down.
Once on her feet Ivy clambered up on the bench beside Yasaka and lay her ear against her belly she smiles and giggles as she can hear the heartbeat and small movements of the baby.
Yasaka blinks for a second then she lays a hand on Ivy's head and slowly ran her fingers trough her cherry blonde hair. " I'm fine for now, still have a few weeks before I'll need to stay up at the house." Yasaka answered Petunia.
Soft snoring caused everyone to look to Ivy who's head still lay on Yasaka's belly, between the sounds of the baby and Yasaka stroking her hair relaxed her into sleep.
"You know if you want to Ivy can stay here while you all are doing the orientation. I'm sure she would love it, the children living up with the staff would help keep her occupied." Yasaka ask while she still ran her fingers trough the little girls hair.
Petunia and Vernon exchange glances before she looks to Yasaka. "Are you sure that it will be ok?" she ask.
Yasaka nods and grins. "Kuroka and Shirone will be here in about thirty minutes for Kuroka to do some training with the shrine maiden so Shirone will be alone for some time and then there's the staff's children they can play with, and you know that Ivy and Shirone love to play together when they can." She says with a small chuckle.
Petunia groans some remembering some of the pranks Kuroka would pull while Shirone was a quiet girl who loves sweet's and as far as she knew would only share her snack's with Ivy.
But after some thinking about it Petunia looks to Vernon again and nods, they would be busy with the school paperwork and leaving Ivy with people they knew would be easier on their minds over the parents of the younger children. They nod to each other then she turns to Yasaka and nods. "That will be ok with us but we will need to wake her up and ask if she wants to stay." she said
Yasaka smiles then she lifts her hand from Ivy's head and reaches to her shoulder and gently shakes it to wake Ivy.
When Ivy woke and sat up Petunia steps to be in front of her the crouches to be eye level with her. "Do you want to stay with auntie Yasaka while we go take care of the boring stuff?" she ask with simile. "Kuroka and Shirone will be here in a few minutes and you'll have other children to play with Yasaka said the staff's children are up at the house."
Ivy looks back and forth between her mother and Yasaka. She gets a smile and nod from each. She leaps from the bench and hug's Petunia before then Yasaka who laugh's while patting the little girls head.
The other children had been talking River and Sona were working on getting to know each other a bit more and the boys were looking over Sona's book. It was a story of a wizard child who was going through ridiculous adventures.
When Ivy charged over for hug's from the others she was chattering about staying so she could play with Kuroka and Shirone. They could only laugh and tell her to have fun.
After a few more minutes of talking Petunia looks at her watch. " Oh my we need to get going." She gasp out noticing that it was almost time to be at the school. Yasaka looks at her own watch and nods while she tries to stand her belly weight didn't help her any. Vernon chuckled as he steps over and helps her stand.
"The paperwork for Sona and River is in Sona's backpack along with all she will need today." Yasaka said as she nods in thanks to Vernon.
After a few goodbye's everyone other than Ivy climb into the van and head for the school that is another twenty minutes down the road.
When they arrived at the school the children were awed by what they saw. There was not just a single building but many attached with bridges and pathways that while modern the still seem to flow with the surrounding environment. The adults smile and laugh at the children's faces.
" That's not all there is to the place, come on you four we need to get some things done then there is a speaker you will have to listen to." Vernon chuckled as he corralled them towards the main building.
The inside of the building was beautifully decorated several murals of iconic scenes from around the world covered the walls. Harry loved the one of Mount Fuji from a point of view that had no building's around.
As they were walking toward a crowd of people gathered Petunia was telling them about the school but the children were barely aware that she was even talking.
As they walked Harry was also looking at the children from around the world there were so many people that it didn't look like the building would hold them all. Again he looks to River asking with his eyes what is going on, he didn't think Japan had an international summer program.
" later." She whispered to him. " the opening speech is the same every year, I still need to finish my story and this is as good as anytime to finish once everyone is seated."
They followed the other children while looking around still taking in the beauty of the building. They were moving toward a set of large elaborately carved mahogany doors. On the other side of the doors was a expensive room that looks as if it could hold an entire soccer stadium, Harry turns to look at River again eyebrows raised in question. She just shrugs at his look.
" The goblin's were getting paid and not being cheated out of money so they weren't going to do the shoddy work the British get for throwing those rebellions in their faces, most of which were started by the wizards, but if you pay and don't insult them they actually aren't that hard to get along with." She says while they were ushered into seats.
They sat in the seats to wait for the speaker to begin. Petunia and Vernon stood and looked over the crowd waving at a few friends who's children would be starting this year. Petunia was also looking in Sona's back pack for the paperwork for the two girls.
After a few minutes a voice called out from all around the room. "All parents and children not attending please leave the room, those attending please take a seat the orientation will begin in just a few minutes." the voice said. After the announcement the room filled with noise as parents and smaller children made to leave the room.
Once everyone was trough moving around or leaving the room the children began talking about many different things but Harry couldn't make anything from so many people talking at once.
Another few minutes later the lights around the room and except on the stage in the center of the room. A woman dressed in a business suit walked to the center of the stage. Clearing her throat she began to speak, her voice carried all around the room. "Welcome to the summer classes of the Kyoto branch of the Watanabe academy..." the voice of the speaker fade from Harry's hearing as it did he looked to River again.
"So after Gringots I didn't have much to do for the week so I started working on the design for this place..."
Flashback
Unknown location. 1970
Summer steps out of thin air, after leaving Gringots she only had to wait for the answer from Yasaka. She didn't dout that she would agree with the idea, the Yokai Faction needs voth the money and influence from the people that would pass trough the school, the parents and children both even if they don't stay in Japan they would still build ties to the country and maybe support them in other ways that money could be of no use.
Before she made anymore decision's she pulled the bag Chuck had given her from somewhere and opened it and gasps as she finds several items inside.
The first item was a small box about the size of a matchbox, but she knew it was more than that but decided to wait to open it for now.
The other items were replications of the Deathly Hallows but she could feel that they were nowhere near as powerful as the originals. Seeing these she knew she had been given the task of swapping them out.
The last two items were crystal's, one pitch black that felt similar to the void, she got the feeling that it was for the horcrux's but that was for later some she could get before the fall of Voldemort some she could get to before that night but most she would gather between the fall and Harry being dropped off at the Dursley's.
The other crystal was perfectly clear with a golden bead of light in the center, the feeling she got from this crystal was one of waiting for a certain time before it was needed.
She put all the items except the box back into the bag as most of the things were of no use to her for the time being.
Holding up the box she turns it over inspeting it from every angle, after looking at it for a time she set it down and ran a finger across what appeared to be a lock.
When she did that the box grew unto it was the size of a travel truck with many patterns delicately carved into it's surface. Opening the truck she found a set of stairs leading into a hallway covered in paneling with a a lite staining that brought out grain patterns of the wood. As she moved through thall she found doors that lead to empty rooms or completely empty spaces, until she came to the last door.
Inside this door was an office like space filled with empty bookshelves and display cases. The desk in the center of the room held a computer screen, keyboard and mouse but she did not see the wires and other things that connects them together like all computes she knows about.
she rounds the desk and pulls the comfortable looking rolling chair out from under the desk and sits, she looks over the desk top finding pens, paper and other office supplies. As she reaches for one of the pens her hand bumps the mouse which causes the screen to turn on with a soft light.
'Welcome to the Manor trunk's control and office, from this terminal you may set each room or space to your preference, each room can be as small as a closet to as large as five hundred and fifty thousand square feet Each space can be as small as a hundred square feet to as large as one thousand square miles set to what biomes you may need or want. Be warned the spaces once set can not be charged but room's are able to change at need furniture will be furnished once the room is designed.'
She gasps as she finishes reading the set to looking trough choice that were give for the room settings until she found one that she likes. It was a room of about two hundred square feet that was furnished wita large duble queen size bed several couches and chairs. A large walk in closet with long hanger rails and shoe racks that could hold over a hundred pair of shoes.
The walls were covered in the same paneling as the hallway while the floor was covered in a plus carpet that had random paterns. The ceiling was amazing it was made to show random skies from anywhere or it could be set to a choice if she found one she likes.
The attached bathroom was a quarter the size with a shower stall that had a large overhead plate that simulates rain fall with alternateing colored LED light panels, there was a sunken bathtub/jacuzzi.
the walls, flloor and ceiling were covered in tial with random placements of the colors, some of the tiles while colored they were opaque with LED lights under them set to light up in a way that made the floor to seem to ripple like water.
Next she chose a space to configure, she set the size to the limit then she went through the biomes not many caught her intrest, after looking over several of the choices she chose one that was similar to Japan's natural environment and let the control center take over the process it needed to use to build her room and biome
She then looks through the rest of what the computer may have in it's system when she came across a system called regal gear. From what she could understand this system had only one purpose and that was to create an item similar to sacred gears like blade blacksmith or sword birth but it also could make armor suited to the host of the gear as well, the most interesting part of the system was that she could set up a requirement to obtain a gear. She did not know if having this is going to be a good thing or not but she had a few years before she would possibly need to set it up, for now she set it to standby mode.
Another system was a probe type, but instead of spying on people or places it sent fake books to anywhere on the planet with a library to copy any and all books within range then move to another place to start over again. The one limit was that if she wanted to copy from some faction she would have to get the probe in place such as the library of the Olimpian faction by taking it there herself. After finding this she quickly went back to the room set up menu and set up a library set to use the probe's data to fill with books and scroll's with the room growing to match the intake. If the probe's cause the library reach it's limit the neeer copies would remain digital until she set up a new one.
Once she had that set she decided to leave rest for the time being and went to the bathroom and stripped off her clothes to take a shower, waving her hand soaps, shampoo and conditioner appear in the shower stall. After setting the water temperature and letting the water warm up she took a long shower. After drying off she went to the bed, pulling the covers down she climbed under them still naled and closed her eyes, though she didn't really need sleep she had nothing really important to do until she gets word from Yasaka. She set her awareness. to pick up Yasaka's call she let her mind drift until she reaches a point as close to sleep as she could reach.
It was three days later when Yasaka sent out the call for Summer who slowly came out of her rest, she ssy up feeling lost for a moment before she heard the call a second time. ' I can hear you ' She sent to Yasaka. ' Have you made a decision or do you have questions?' she ask as she stood from the bed and waving a hand forming clothes on her body.
' I have decided to accept the offer but your timeline is going to need some explanation if you don't mind.' Yasaka sent her answer.
Summer smiles to herself as she looks around the room realizing she did not set up a kitchen attached to the room, making her way to the office she began going through the computer and finding a set up for a kitchen too add to her room. Though she did not need to eat now but that would change later. Deciding it was better to get into the habit she went about putting together a simple breakfast.
' I'm going to hire the goblin's to do the building, the one I spoke to is waiting to hear from me on when and where to get things going. I'll be setting up a time bubble around the site to give them five years inside while the rest of us only have to wait two months.' Summer sent to Yasaka while slowly eating her breakfast. ' I will retrieve Ragknock and bring him to you for meeting, as you can not leave Japan. I'm sure he would like to get things going as soon as possible.' She sent as she finishes her food.
It was a few hours later that Summer and Ragknock appeared in Yasaka's office giving her shock. Summer looks to Yasaka with her head tilted to the side as she looked at her with a curious expression. "Where are your tails?" she ask.
Yasaka blinks a few times then laughs. " Well I have to deal with people that are not aware of the supernatural world so I shrink them until I can hide them easily, thought it gets uncomfortable I don't think they would do business with us if they knew some of us were not human." she says while her nine tails seem to grow as she spoke.
Ragknock sat quietly both having nothing to say at the time as well as being awed by being in the same room as one of the most powerful people in the world. After a bit of time the women settled into silence while Yasaka looks to Ragknock an nods to him." Summer here says your people will be doing the construction for her project, I have a few locations to choose from so the main thing is picking when and where to build it."
Summer pulled a folder from somewhere and lay it on the desk, then taped it with a finger. The folder glows briefly then opens, a glowing diagram of one large five stories L shaped building surrounded by more buildings none more than two stories high, all of them were modeled on modern Japanese construction. Ragknock and Yasaka were taken aback by the display then look to Summer then to the display again. "Can you patent this and contract my people to make them, they will make a large profit?" Ragknock ask with a gleam in his eyes.
Summer nods and pulls another one out and passed it to Ragknock with a small smile. " Draw up the paper work this one will show the diagram of how to make them. Fifty fifty split." she said to an amazed Ragknock.
After that they got down to talking about where to build and when to begin. They agreed on a plot of land a few miles away from Yasaka's home and office, and they agreed that a month to gather the construction crews and their support staff.
1991 Unknown location
October 31st
The last nineteen years both flew by in a flash but at the same time seemed to crawl agonizingly slow to Summer. Between the founding the school and setting up all she needed to get the British muggle born children on the list for the school did take a bit of work but now it's just waiting for the last few things fall into place.
Even though she did some of the running of the school, that didn't take up more than two months at relative time while inside the ward's of the school ten years would pass though none aged, some students would only take one session others would take as many as possible before reaching several masteries and muggle equivalent educations. All of the children were given paperwork to prove that they took home schooling to keep the government from coming after the parents because their children were not attending regular school.
One of the main things she did was buy number 6 privet drive so when the old man would drop Harry off she could take the horcrux from the scar and stop any possible spells or curse's from attaching to the family if such things were being used. Now from time to time she would speak to Petunia who was a happy seeming young mother and nothing like the books and movies.
Now it was time to get ready for her other plans to be fulfilled, she had located all of the horcrux's so while the attacks would be taking place she would remove the soul fragments then wait for Harry to be dropped on the door step.
Appearing just outside a small house that was no more than a single room, she reaches out and opens a gap in the ward's and entered walking directly to the fallen in fireplace she kneels and lifts a few floor boards to get to the box that held the ring, reaching into a pocket she pulls out the black crystal and places it on the box, a muffled scream can be heard from inside the box then the crystal flashes. Once that was done she puts the crystal away and pulls out the fake stone from another pocket and dose the same until the stone seems to fall into it then another one appeared in it's place.
After that one the next three were simple to get for the one on Gringots she simply appeared next to the cup in the vault held the crystal near it and waited for the screaming wraith to be pulled from the cup and sealed in the crystal, for the one that the house elf had she called for it and being what she is she ordered him to bring her the necklace and did the same as the cup once that was done and giving the necklace back she ordered him to keep what had happened secret, basically the same thing happened to the one kept in the Malfoy home.
When she tries to enter Hogwarts she is stoped at the border of the ward's when she reaches out to the ward's while they are weaker than she expected the were set to only allow students and contracted teachers enter shaking her head she knew Harry would have to get the one in the hidden room, but with this one left intact they could not seal and destroy the main wraith that Voldemort becomes.
Without being able to retrieve the last one she decides to return to the house in Surrey for now and wait for events to play out. She fades from view and reappears in the living room of a small quaint house. Once there she moves around the house checking a few ward's she had placed to keep meddlesome people away like that crazy cat lady a few houses down the street, the cat's are nice and all but the lady just gives everyone on the street vibes of someone who is stuck fifty or more years in the past. Of course Summer knows it is Mrs Figg but ignores her for the most part.
It's been two days and after gushing over the children that dressed up for Halloween and giving them a small handful of candy each, she would sit at random windows to watch for anything out of place.
It was early afternoon noon that something caught her attention, a smallish tabby cat was pawing around in Petunia's flowerbed that drew her eyes. Watching the cat for several minutes she knows that tonight will be when everything starts to really change.
After a few minutes the cat is done in the flowerbed it makes it's way to the fence that Vernon had put up so that Dudley could play in the front yard and not be able to get out into the street, once at the fence the cat jump's to the top of it and makes way to the gate post to sit and look around. A few minutes later Petunia comes out with Dudley who is crying and flailing his arms and legs about. ' Poor baby his teeth are coming in badly, I think I'll fix that later on when he is older.' Summer thought as she watches Petunia pull a lollipop from her purse and give it to him as she walks. The cat seems to have a disgusted look on it's face as they pass it. Petunia looks to the cat but doesn't bother with it as she has to get Dudley to a dentist appointment to see if and how to get his teeth corrected.
Summer gets a gleam in her eyes as she watches then makes way to her front door. " Hello Petunia and little Dudley." She calls out as she opens the door, then she looks at Dudley happily sucking on the lollipop. "His teeth still bothering him?" She ask as she nears them.
Petunia waves her free hand and nods a bit. "Yes and poor Dudikins isn't happy one bit with them, if it weren't for these new lollipops that numb the pain I don't think he would even be able to eat." she says while ruffling Dudley's hair.
Summer smiles some as she looks at Dudley, she reaches out and lay a hand on his cheek sending a small bit of healing energy to start the corrections to his teeth. As she does this she speaks to Petunia. " I know a dentist couple who's daughter had the same problem, and it took a few minor adjustments to fix her teeth right up. If you want I can give you their address." She says as she reaches into her jeans pocket and pulls out a card. " They may be young but do good work. My co workers use them, mainly because the other dentist in the area are either only and don't do well with children or just too expensive." She then smiles. But the Granger's having a little girl just a few months older than Dudley will know how to handle him and take care of this it will just take a bit of time." She hands Petunia the card then pat's Dudley on the head. " You be a good boy for your mum." she say while Dudley smiles around his candy.
Petunia looks at the card and nods as the address is about the same distance from the house just in the opposite direction. " Thank you Summer we've been meaning to look for a new dentist for a little while now this should help." she said. She then looks to Dudley and smiles. " Let's go see a new place to get your teeth looked at." she said with a small bit of hope in her voice while Dudley just smiles again and nods.
As she watches them go Summer makes her way over to the cat that is still watching Petunia and Dudley. "You know cats don't sit straight backed like that right?" She asks as she gets near it. The cat's head snaps to face Summer eyes narrowing. " And they don't react like that as well." she said then she scoops the cat into her arms and walks back to her house with the cat squirming to be let free. " None of that now Mini or I'll send you back to that meddlesome old man the long way round." she says as they get trough the front door.
Once across the threshold the cat seems to spasms a bit then goes limp. "Oh my I didn't expect him to do anything like that to you." she said as she lay the cat on the sofa and goes into the kitchen to ready some tea and cookies. ' I will never understand calling them biscuits ' she thinks as she pulls out some shortbreads and jammy dodgers.
After the water is ready she put everything on a serving platter and returns to the living room to find an extremely confused and angry Scott's woman sitting in the place of the cat. "So Minerva McGonagall care to tell me why you've been prowling about the neighborhood for the last two days. "she ask as she sat the platter on the coffee table and takes a seat across from Minerva and begins to make a cup of tea adding a spoon of sugar and a dash of milk, she sits back holding the cup of tea and gestures for Minerva to make her tea to preference.
Minerva takes her tea with two sugars and a dash of milk, she sips the tea as she does it seems to calm her down. "I was told by Albus that he would be bringing the oldest and squib son of the Potter's to Lily's sister and that I may be needed to be there to make sure nothing happens to him while he sets up ward's around the house. but I was also told that they were not the nicest of people, and was thinking such until you carried me trough the door. Now I'm not sure if what I was told was correct now." Minerva said before taking another sip of tea.
"Yeah they not really that bad, I've been watching Petunia since she was a little girl and before lily went to Hogwarts they were like twins, the that Snape boy told Lily about magic after seeing her use it make a flower float on her palm, then after the first year lily came back treating Petunia like the way pure bloods treat muggles so yeah that whole ' she's a magic hating muggle who would like nothing more than to watch a witch burning
' is just some crap lily made up because your world brainwashed her and the last few generations of muggle born the same way." Summer growls out before she drinks more of her tea. "I've also noticed two other things from your world that really makes me want to tare it down, number one is that there are many more muggle born out there than that school of yours take in and because of that law until a few years ago they were losing their magic because they couldn't get the O.W.Ls or N.E.W.Ts but I set up a place for them to get the education to pass those tests and then they get jobs all over the world, number two is that in the last fifty years the education from Hogwarts has fallen so much that even with high scores in N.E.W.Ts they are not educated enough to work outside Britain, as a matter of fact your graduating class was the last class that could even work where you want in the world." she sets the cup down and looks to Minerva who is frowning.
Minerva takes another sip of her tea then also set's the cup down. "We've been told that the classes are above I.C.W standards and that the muggle born numbers have dropped because of the latest Dark Lord having his people killing them." she trails off as several things seems to click on her mind. " That bumbling long bearded goat molester." she almost yelled the last bit.
Summer stands up and walks to the front door and taps a spot beside the frame, after she does this a readout of the last people entering the house appears, she reaches to the table beside the door and picks up a sheet of paper and presses it to the readout. Turning to Minerva she sighs. "That old man had you so loaded with mind whammy spell's I am amazed you could even walk and talk." She walks back to her seat and lay the paper on the coffee table close to Minerva so that she could read it
Minerva takes up the paper and begins to read, with each line she reads her face grows red with rage. "I'm going to skin that bastard and hang his hide on the gate's of the school." she practically screeches.
Summer is first shocked then amazed at how she said she would get her revenge. "How about a better way for getting back at the man, such as every summer break you teach at my summer school in Japan where you can insure the students are taught well and if you can bring Sprout and Flitwick here for evening tea we may have two more to help with that and some spare teachers, you will be paid for your time so it won't be a problem. If you think of any the other teachers brine a list of names and I will see what I can do for them." she say as she slides a piece of paper across the table, on the paper are some numbers that causes Minerva to gasp and look at Summer with a thoughtful look.
"That is more than I've made in the last thirty years working at Hogwarts, how long do the classes run and how many students per class?" she ask still looking at the paper.
Yes and you will work for every knut, an hour per class with fifteen students , the school is held in time dilation the two months will stretch into ten years with small week breaks every two months inside the school, you won't only be teaching, we offer adult classes as well so adults can keep up with new spells and skills such as your animagus skill is just at the basic level, your cat form we call a stealth type there are also a travel form and a combat form, we didn't know about the other two forms until someone from China decided to teach, she got a major bonus in pat that year now she teaches anyone who wants to learn." Summer smiles at Minerva's expression at what she had said.
"And you teach these things to children, what about accidents and or the children use the ability to cause harm, also what level of education do your students receive?" she asked while seriously wanting to learn the other forms.
"I would say no more trouble for other students maybe like the Marauders at most the students are taught that other than defending themselves their combat form is a last stand option because it sometimes has a drawback such as using up magical energy or stamina so we tend to get them to where they can change to the form fast then they usually have a recovery time to learn, the other two forms will cause little to no trouble and all students who achieve animagus are registered and licensed with the I.C.W. on a restricted file until someone not from the school, if someone is found to have a form their home country gets a copy of their file to save from legal trouble. As for the limits to the education it is up to the students some only go through two sessions to getting up to two masteries of their choice and full muggle equivalent of masteries." Minerva's jaw was almost to the floor.
As for classes the list for what we teach is long enough that it would take an hour just to name them, but I can tell you that we teach everything that Hogwarts offers as well as alchemy and enchanting." Summer said.
Minerva keeps face calm but Summer can see interest in her eyes. "And how are the students from here in Britain different from the other countries that you have allowed to send children to your school." she ask as she reaches for her now cool tea but she still sips it.
"Britain's children are bound by a law that if they do not either attend Hogwarts or pass a few O.W.Ls they lose their magic so the students that do not receive a invite to Hogwarts when they reach elven years of age they take the O.W.Ls to keep their magic then either attend muggle school or fake home schooling record's are given and they join classmates to form work groups from jewelers to curse breaking, their options are not limited other than their ages." Summer said as she too drink's more of her tea. "Also the students are trained in one or two martial disciplines ' Healthy body healthy mind healthy magic' is the school's unofficial moto."she adds as an after thought.
Minerva nods at this it is not know but she does keep up a physical exercise regime to keep herself strong. "So you are training them to be fighters then?" she ask.
Summer shakes her head. "No what they do after school is up to each person but we will step in if any of our former students become troublesome but so far we have only had to do that once in the twenty years the school has been open, he had been working as a curse breaker in South America when he found something that held a control type curse that drove him to be a Dark Lord, he had just started recruiting followers when we stepped in and lifted the curse. After seeing a mind healer he is now teaching course breaking for us and the goblin's pay him for saving them from having to use their curse breaker master the time it takes them to train the humans, from what Ragknock has told me he is saving them millions and they are getting some very well trained team's so paying him the same pay as a goblin master is the least they could do for him, also I believe he is close to offering the title of goblin friend to young man, one master who has no heir's was even heard of thinking about adopting him into his family." this causes statement almost causes Minerva to drop her tea cup.
"Very well if you will allow I shall bring Pamona and Filius during the yule break, but I will first need to go to Gringots to speak about a few things and also something to save from being put under these spells again." Minerva says holding up the list of mind whammies.
Summer reaches out and touches the paper and it becomes a bracelet that has small quidditch ball's hanging off of it. " That's not necessary Ragknock had that door taken care of when I bought this house because he don't trust Albus." Summer says while Minerva has a dreamy look in her eyes at the bracelet or more than likely the trinkets on it." It lifts any harmful spells or potions both normal and alchemical the bracelet will stop you from being put under them again but also if the caster scan's you they will get a false confirmation that the spells are still in effect." she add to catch Minerva's attention.
Minerva nods then she puts it on her wrist. "Please pass on my gratitude to." she said with a small smile.
After a short silence they begin to talk more about the school and how each subject it offers, with everything spoken about Minerva grows more and more interested in both attending and teaching there. But eventually night time came after Summer offers dinner to Minerva who had realized she had not eaten anything after breakfast so she accepted and was amazed at the healthy food she was served and even more amazed when she was told that the meal was a common dinner selection for the school.
Finally it was time for Minerva to leave and be ready for Albus to get there. "Don't worry about the child the old man is bringing, he is one of the reasons I bought this house, Vernon was offered a job position in Japan last week and they gave him until June to give them an answer. I intend to help him to chose going for it so that the child will grow up with the love of a family that Albus is trying to force the child onto to sew resentment and anger to cause more friction between Lily and Petunia, I'm still not really sure what his reasoning for causing this friction is but I will make sure that the child grows up correctly." Summer says just before leading Minerva to the door and seeing her out.
Minerva nods as she leaves the house and transforms back into her cat form to resume her watch over the Dursley's house.
Summer watches her for a moment and then returns to the kitchen to clean up after dinner.
A few hours later the noise of a loud motor catches Summer's attention. She looks out the window facing the street in time to catch Rubeus Hagrid landing the flying motorcycle belonging to Sirius Black.
She watches as Minerva tries to talk Albus out of leaving the child with the muggles, there was a gleam flashing quickly in his eyes, as he thought his deputy was acting like he wants. But while Albus was looking away from Minerva she had a flash of anger cross her face, she then looks to Summer's house and nods slightly then she looks back to Albus.
As soon as they had left Summer exited her house and walks to where the child was left on the Dursley's door step waving a hand she causing the basket to float and follow her as she walks back to her house.
Once inside the house she pulls out the black crystal and keeping her hand from touching him she rest the crystal on his forehead right over the scar, this one doesn't scream as it was fresh and not fully attached to him it was done in just a few seconds. She then waves her hand again causing a small holographic image of the child to float above him as she looks at the image and growl's at what she see's. Magical and mental binding that the door way could not remove, she made a mental note to let Ragknock know about that as the type of binding was not commonly used, after she removes the bindings her phone begins to ring.
She steps away from Harry and answers the call. "Hello... What do you mean he was born into the body and not put into it after the curse hit him that could have forced him to move on again and be extremely difficult to find again... well yes the bosses could help if that happened... what have you been doing for this year since you can't talk to him until the system activates... well that's one way of not truly being bored... not keep it at that setting better you only experience a few days over ten years... what the hell do you mean you have had the pawns on a different time scale than you are experiencing and that they have gathered enough metals to build a Death Star?...no stop that right now and put them either back into the pawn stone or the same time scale you are underneath that amount of stuff is too much... well then let them run dungeons and raids and stop the gathering of metals ... cloth's are fine and plants as well until they have an amount similar to the metals oh and leather working stuff as well but some well most of that stuff he may never need or use...fine after the gathering have them work on crafting things and place it in the bank maybe we can use the stuff to build him up a decent Gringots account if he wants... yes I've gotten most of the things that would cause him trouble later on...yeah I've been here for twenty years working on things... alright goodbye and call me in a day or so your time...talk to you later." after hanging up the phone she looks to Harry and smiles as he is still sleeping.
She then walks to the desk beside the door and wrote a short note.' Petunia can you and Dudley come over as early as possible. package was delivered to your house late and it was too late to wake you so I brought it into my house to keep it safe for you... Summer ' after signing the note she dashed to the door of number four and slips the note through the mail flap.
She ten went home and watched over Harry all night without taking her eyes off of him, until there was a knock on her door causes both her and Harry to jump. She runs to the door and opens it to find Minerva standing on her doorstep. She waves her in and show's her where Harry is laying on her couch with pillows keeping him from rolling off of it.
" I can't touch him or I'll lose my powers so can you please check him over and let me know what he needs, also that letter was covered in so many compulsion charm's to make them hate him and abuse him until he is eleven and then they would basically ignore him, another thing is he was bound to the level of just a bit more magical than a squib as well as a mental binding that would cause him to have no ability to learn enough to survive in the world." her statement causes Minerva to growl like a feral cat.
Minerva looks over Harry, when she saw the scar was nothing more than a thin line she waves her wand over it and mutters a healing spell that finishes the healing. " Albus said it was a curse scar and would never heal, and if I ever do skin home I'm going to stretch his hide on the wall behind the teacher's table in the great hall." she said as she then lift Harry and holds him in her arms gently.
"Yeah that scar was cursed but I have delt with similar curse's before so I knew how to remove it. Also you should know that Harry is part of a prophecy, it's why Albus did all this he wants a malleable pawn later." Summer says causing Minerva to growl again this time waking Harry who smiles at har then he calls he "Tabbyma"
which causes Minerva to shed a few tears while she hugs him just a bit tighter.
While she is crying and holding Harry there is another knock on the door. Summer makes way to see who it is and finds Petunia with Dudley in her arms, waving her in Summer steps back to let them in. As Petunia steps in she flashes a bit then a wave of magic sweep's through the house causing all the adults to gasp but both Dudley and Harry laugh.
"Ok so Petunia can help me skin that rotten old man." Minerva say after getting over the shock. She then walks to get a look at Dudley as well she then looks to Summer who nods and scans him and finds the same bindings with a wave of her hand the bond's were removed.
Petunia looks from one to the other as it all hits her like a to of bricks then she is as ferrous as Minerva. "Someone took my magic and caused me to lose my sister as well as doing the same thing to my baby."she snarls out.
She then see's Harry in Minerva's arm's then she saw his eyes reminding her of Lily's eyes. She steps to get a closer look at him and tears form in her eyes. " He has Lily's eyes and looks like that Potter jackass that took her from us." she reaches out and runs the tips of her fingers along his cheek. Harry reaches out and grasp her pinky finger with his tiny hand.
Minerva nods and indicated the couches. She then explains what has happened and that Harry is a triplet with a identical twin brother and fraternal twin sister. And how Albus had told the Potter's that Harry had lost his magical powers after being hit by a curse and that he was going to add new ward's to protect them but they would not work well for more than four people, so he talked them into giving up on the now squib Harry and leaving him with Lily's sister.
Petunia was outraged at the story she had been told. And that grew to higher levels when she heard about the letter and how it would make them hate Harry. Sometime while they were talking Dudley and Harry had gotten out of the arms of the women and were playing around on the floor which lightened up the atmosphere.
Summer then made her offer about the school now that her magic was unbound. While they were talking about that someone knocks on the door Summer opens it to find Vernon holding a letter.
"Pet left a note saying she was here and I just wanted to say that I was heading out for work." he says as Summer smiles and waves him in as he is speaking. the same thing happened as he steps into the house causing more cursing and giggles from the women and children playing. So Summer again goes over the school again, to which catches Vernon attention when he hear Japan being where the school was.
Seeing his look Summer said that she had not set up the job it was his youth and work ethic that got him the offer.
As she was telling Vernon about how her school would not interfere with his work Harry ran up to her and hugged her legs while saying. " Peeety lady got food?" as Harry touches her a very bright light flashes and Summer sags as if she has just been running around.
This causes everyone else to look at her with concern. She waves them off. "Harry is a child of prophecy and I was a roaming goddess, we are not allowed to interfere with children of prophecy, by touching him it is seen as interfering so now I will fade into a new life but I have at most five years before that will happen." she pats Harry's head and waves a hand causing fruit's to appear on the coffee table and points to them. " There you go ,eat up."
After that they speak more about the school then Summer smiles and lay's a hand on Petunia's stomach. " Stay here for a while, I need to look over your house and make sure nothing else is going to cause trouble for the little family. She found several ward stones in the garden and flower bed. All of them would cause blood based ward's that would draw it's power from all in the house and cause Petunia to lose the newest member.
After destroying them, she went back to her house. She told them what she found and what would happen if those stones were still there and Harry had been taken into the house.
Vernon left for work intending on telling his boss he would take the offer if they could still wait for June only to be told June was when the new factory would be open for work but he would not have to start until September, so they could hire people to fill the job's which went over well so that he could attend the school and learn how to use his unlocked magic.
Flashback ends
River finished telling Harry what she had set up by telling him that Minerva, Pamona and Filius had joined the teaching staff and had took many new classes where they had gained masteries that complimented what they already had.
Just as she finishes so did the speaker but not in a way river expected. "And now I have some news that may not shock new students but as of this morning the bord of governors has unanimously voted to change the name of the school from Watanabe school to Summer's Rest as our school's founder has passed away several days ago and even now makes sure that the school will remain to operate for the foreseeable future. So please join me in a moment of silence for our founder Summer." the speaker lowers his head as do all in the room.
After a few minutes the speaker looks up and smiles at the crowd. "Now knowing Summer she would tell us to get on with making the future brighter and not sit around here moping around here missing her so let's see what we can do to make sure that when she looks upon us from wherever she is she will see us working to make sure we make the brightest future we can." He finished to a loud round of applause.
River is groaning in embarrassment from the reminder of a speech she once gave. Harry looks to her in concern but she waves him off. " Not important." She said as stood with the other children.
AM: ok this is the last of the long chapters. I'm hoping that once I cut down on the word count the story will flow better and a little head's up the next chapter will have a time jump.
hope you all like this one and again I ask for a name for the Goddess in the System
