Vegas Magic - Chapter 3

Not my league


After brief consideration, Harry nodded. "Then let's go to Luthor Plaza."

Dobby grabbed both of their hands and the two disappeared.


The two teens (and one house-elf) appeared in front of the doors to the building. Harry could hear the battle going on very close, so they ran toward the entrance only to find the doors locked. Through the glass, he could see a thick, metal block that stopped them from entering.

"Dobby! Get us inside!" Harry shouted over the sound of the battle that was going on very close to where they were standing.

The elf, bless him, managed to levitate the chunks of concrete that would otherwise smash into the teens, saving them. "Dobby can't. Dobby is sorry but Dobby can't get inside the building. Building be warded against Dobby."

"Then we better get the hell out of here!" Zatanna shouted.

Just as dobby was about to apparate them away, a beam of energy struck right in front of them and knocked them back. In the distance, Harry could hear several screams directed at them. When the world finally stopped spinning, Harry carefully took note of his environment. He was surrounded by rubble. Next to him, Zatanna was just getting up. He quickly started to search for Dobby, only to find him unconscious by the doors to the Plaza. One of his hands was twisted in a strange way.

Heavy steps got Harry's attention. He turned his head to see a large… something approach. It looked mostly like a very muscular human, except its body was covered in black lines and its skin tone was an unnatural mix of yellow and green. Probably the most prominent features were its pointy ears and red eyes, but Harry was much more focused on the fact that whatever it was just picked Zatanna by the neck.

"Do not come closer or I will snap her neck." The thing spoke, directing it to a group of heroes that approached. Its voice was metallic and heavy.

"Zatanna!" The League's mage shouted. He immediately pointed his wand at the monster, but hearing his daughter whimper in pain made him hesitate.

"You are not my target. Leave now."

Harry managed to lift himself up at least partially. He was now supporting himself on a larger chunk of debris. He also managed to covertly get his wand out.

Zatanna for her part refused to play an idle hostage. She kept trying to free herself from the android while simultaneously kicking the air with her legs. It was fruitless, but she was not about to go away without a fight. She was unable to say anything because of the tight grip, so magic was out.

Slowly, her resistance started to die out as less and less air reached her lungs. Seeing this made Harry's blood boil.

"Diffindo!" He quickly made a sharp slash with his wand, firing an overpowered cutting curse at the hand that was holding Zatanna in the air. Pink wave traveled at incredible speed, severing the appendage from the android. The girl landed on the ground before it, but before it had a chance to grab her again, Harry followed with a volley of other spells.

"Bombarda! Diffindo! Defodio!" His wand was like a blur while he continued the onslaught.

"Access: Martian Manhunter." The android turned intangible, allowing most of the curses to pass harmlessly through him.

"Incendio! Aqua Eructo! Glacia! Reducto!" The next chain of spells forced it to abandon the intangibility as the flames actually hurt. Before the water managed to it though, the android declared something else and disappeared in a blur. Acting on pure instincts forged by years of being in life-or-death situations, Harry quickly shifted strategy. "Immobulus!" The pulse traveled from his wand in all directions. The android appeared mere foot from him, clearly about to strike him. Harry focused his magic before he made an exasperate move with his wand before jabbing it at his enemy. "Fulmini Maxima!"

A bolt of white lightning erupted from his wand and smashed into the android's chest. The pushback was enough to make his opponent fly about a dozen feet back. Harry himself was launched back by the power of the spell. When the dust cleared, the android got up. His chest was partially destroyed, revealing some wires and electricity.

The League members were too afraid to interfere least they hurt the civilian. Now, when the distance formed, they wanted to jump into action, but Harry made yet another complicated wave of his wand before pointing it in Android's direction. "Ars Magica!" A colorless spell traveled fast through the air. Before his opponent managed to perceive the threat, it already connected.

At once, most of his wires started to burn heavily and android stopped in its track. The glow disappeared from his eyes. Harry allowed himself to smile. He was about to fire another reductor and dispose of the carcass when someone gripped him by his wrist.

"He's already down." Green Lantern scolded him.

"It." Harry corrected. "It is already down. It's just a machine." He was completely obvious to the fact that one of the League's member was an android too.

"We still need to analyze it. Maybe we will find out who…" Batman was suddenly interrupted by Zatara who stormed toward Harry, wand in hand.

"Did the two of you lost your minds?! Apparating in the middle of battle?! I change my mind! This was the most irresponsible idea the two of you could possibly have!" He lowered his wand, but it was clear he was not exactly calmed down. "You already have a trial about breaking the statue of secrecy back in Britain. Do you know how much more mess you just made?"

"In my defense, we wanted to get inside the hotel right where Sirius went. Somebody warded the bloody thing." Harry pointed out. That got Giovanni's attention. A few swishes of his wand confirmed that there were several basic wards erected around the Plaza.

"While that is some excuse, you still made a magical show. You almost cost my daughter her life."

"She wanted to come here. Do you believe I could stop her… sir?" The boy decided to maybe try and not antagonize his father-in-law. At least not too much. "I did what I could to protect her. My only regret is that I couldn't act faster."

"That was still a great tactical skill on your side. Not many keep a cool head in a combat situation." Black Canary interjected before Zatara could respond. "How did you know to use fire when he turned intangible?"

"I… I improvised. I thought that while physical attacks might pass through, an elemental spell might have a chance to hit. That's why I used fire, followed by water and ice."

"Impressive." Wonder Woman complimented him. "You have the heart of a true warrior."

"More like years of experience," Harry grumbled.

Dinah and Diana were startled by the confession, but before either had a chance to comment, the metal blocks that locked the Luthor Plaza were lowered and a crowd of people walked outside. On the front were Sirius, Bellatrix, Narcissa, and Remus.

"When I get my hands on the imbecile that designed the wards around the Luthor Plaza I will personally shove him his wand so far down…" Sirius stopped when he saw pretty much the whole League gathered in front of Harry and Zatanna. "Oh…"

"Harry!" Remus called. "You were supposed to be waiting back… on the other side." He stopped himself from yelling about Mag Vegas in public.

"Harry and I decided to join you, but someone erected wards around the Plaza." Zatanna defended her husband.

"And who are you, young lady?" Remus asked in confusion.

"Don't you remember? The two of you," she waved at Narcissa and him, "were at our wedding." To prove the claim, she showed them her ring.

Sirius moved to the side to actually see his best friend's reaction. Both Remus and Narcissa looked stunned. They were gaping with open mouths at the girl in front of them.

"Wedding?" Superman, who was floating nearby, asked with a raised eyebrow. "Aren't you… young?"

Batman looked at Zatara. It was clear he would question him about it later. "What was that about the wards?"

Sirius looked at the Dark Knight, trying to get a feel of him in person. "Well, some son of a… witch integrated wards into the safety lock. The moment this hotel went on complete lockdown, an anti-apparition and anti-portkey wands went up. Someone made sure that neither wizards nor muggles, sorry mundanes, can get in or out."

"As much as I too find it suspicious," Remus started, "I think we have a bigger problem. Harry bloody Potter got hitched in Vegas with me as an apparent witness. Dumbledore is gonna tear me a new one right after Molly turns into full-on Banshee." Narcissa looked at the man with a mixture of intrigue and distaste.

"Don't worry Moony. They will be too busy yelling at me for faking my death. Or as I don't plan to ever return to that den of corruption and incompetence, on my mortal co-pranksters"

"Are you implying you have achieved immortality?" Red tornado asked, clearly working his processor to comprehend the magical show he witnessed.

"Nah. I faked my death, but they can't join me until they finish school."

Zatanna decided that she would rather not suffer father's scolding in front of half of the Justice League and instead walked closer to Harry. She leaned over and whispered to his ear. "Maybe we could leave it to them to sort out and disappear?"

"Won't we get in trouble?" he whispered back.

"That depends. Do you prefer to receive a scolding from adults or anger your lovely wife?" She smiled innocently at him, but there was a mischievous twinkle in her eyes. Harry gulped.

"After consideration, a trip to Black Manor doesn't sound so bad…"

"Good boy" she patted him on the head. The two called Dobby and disappeared, leaving behind a conjured note informing everyone that they are at Black Manor.


The couple appeared in Gotham City. Immediately, they felt dark magic that was so prevalent around. Neither was sure if it was the city or the manor. It looked well kept, with no visible damage. They felt the wards buzzing around them, but Harry could actually manipulate them to an extent. He had no idea where the knowledge came from, but he didn't complain.

"That is the Black Manor?!" Zatanna shouted in surprise.

"Yes, missy Zana" Dobby confirmed.

"It's huuuge. I expected some large house, not a palace!" She marveled. "It looks almost as big as Wayne Manor." She looked around a bit.

Harry couldn't help but chuckle. "Well, that's where we will be living, Lady Potter." He smiled at her. The words sounded funny, yet right. "I imagine there will be enough space for us to never see each other…" Suddenly, there was this sadness in his voice. Zatanna got angry.

"What do you mean 'never see each other'?!" She spat at him.

Instantly, Harry understood he made a mistake. "Well… um… I meant… I got you trapped in this. I thought you would not want to see me again… especially after I almost got you killed before…" He lowered his head. Taught by his experience with the Dursleys, he pretty much expected her to start shouting at him or maybe smack him. He was surprised when instead she pulled him into a deep kiss.

For her part, Zatanna stayed angry for as long as he started speaking. He sincerely wanted to appease her, not offend her. Then, when he started to talk about the Amazo incident, taking all the blame on himself even if she was as guilty as him touched her. She tried to resist the urge to kiss him. He is your husband. Screw this… maybe not literally. Not yet… Ah! With that thought, she ignored the rest of her thoughts and just pulled him into a hot kiss. At first, he only stiffened. Instead of pulling away, she pressed on, wrapping her arms around his neck and shifting her weight slightly toward. This seemed to actually earn a response from him. Harry embraced her and deepened the kiss.

After a moment, Zatanna decided to experiment some more and prodded his lips with her tongue. At first, Harry didn't come along, but after a moment he granted her entrance and the kiss turned into a make-out session in front of the Black Manor. Or snogging session if one was a brit. Their tongues fought for dominance a bit before Harry relented. He had almost zero experience in this area. Ignoring his drunken escapades, it was his first real kiss. And it was the best experience to date.

With the kiss, Harry's brain shut off. He barely registered anything but the girl that was kissing him. He was floating on cloud nine. For a moment, he forgot about the trouble, the impending death, Voldemort, Ministry, trial, everything. There was only here and now and a beautiful girl that was kissing him. When she first prodded with her tongue he didn't know what to do. For a fraction of a second, he almost broke the kiss, but then he remembered the talks of boys in his dormitory after the Yule Ball last year. He allowed her entrance and turned the kiss into a snogging session that nearly caused his legs to buckle. Through sheer willpower, he managed to stay standing and not collapse. His mind briefly wondered if they could stay like that forever, but a more rational part (mostly his barely-existing self-preservation instinct) reminded him that they need to actually breathe.

Reluctantly, Harry pulled away. At this point, both Zatanna and he were panting heavily, trying to catch their breath.

"Wow… That was…" She looked at Harry with a smile. He had a goofy grin on his face. If that's how our marriage will look like, I think it won't be that bad.

"Yeah… Maybe we should move inside?" He asked. "Not necessarily to snog." He immediately added. "but it would be nice to see how it looks on the inside."


After pressing his hand to the doorknob, Harry felt a tinge of pain like someone plucked him with a needle. The doors clicked and let them in. The inside of the manor was dark and gloomy. The main doors led to a large atrium with a fountain in the center. In the background, there was a set of large stairs leading to the upper floor. There were more rooms than the two kids could count. Harry found a fireplace in the corner that, upon quick inspection, turned out to be a floo entrance. It had a movable gate that would allow you to trap anyone coming in unannounced in the flames. Upon lighting the fireplace and tossing some Floo powder to reconnect it to the network, Harry ensured that the fire would not die out on its own before moving on. Once Sirius and his 'entourage' arrived, they might lock the gate to secure the location. They admired the portraits that hang around. Strangely, none of them moved and Harry didn't recognize any of the names.

On the first floor, they quickly found themselves in the master bedroom. As expected, there was only one bed. It was large enough to fit them three times over, but still.

"Um… I will look for a guest room." Harry declared and was about to leave, but was left with facing five sets of doors. He guessed that one was the exit and one was a bathroom, but he could never guess what were the other three. He tried the second from the right and found a walk-in closet. There were thousands of dresses, skirts, shoes and everything in between for a woman to wear. Strangely, it seemed all to be muggle in origin.

Zatanna, on the other hand, chose second doors from the left. It was also the walk-in closet that contained suits, shirts, and various formal and semi-formal man's clothing. All mundane. Not a single robe or even anything enchanted as far as she could tell.

"Either American Blacks were very pro-muggle or something's wrong here," Harry commented.

"Maybe let's look around some more?" Zatanna suggested and opened the doors to the right of the ones she opened and stepped into a large study. There were multiple books on mundane law, novels, works of fiction as well as several tomes of poetry. Again. Not a single magical book. "Harry! Are you sure it's the Black Manor in America?"

"Yes. I can still feel the wards buzzing. They are set on the lowest possible setting, only keeping the ill-meaning away, but I'm certain."

"Because I have a study here filled with mundane books to the roof…"

The teens were about to explore more when Harry felt wards respond to someone shortly before they heard a car pull upfront. "Gotham is on the west coast, right?" He asked, but in reality, he already knew the answer.

"Yeah… Maybe they took a zeta tube with the League?" She asked while already making way to the stairs to greet them. Harry shrugged and followed his wife.

To the teens' surprise, instead of Sirius, two strangers were entering. The man was dressed in a very expensive suit while the woman wore a dress that probably costed more than Mr. Weasley's monthly salary.

"Jack! Did you remember lighting the fireplace in the atrium?"

"No Janet Honey." The man answered.

Harry pulled his wand out and motioned to Zatanna to follow him. They swiftly made way downstairs unnoticed, taking advantage that both of the adults were focused on the fireplace.

"Are you really sure this is Black Manor?" Zatanna whispered in a bit of accusing voice.

"Unless some other manor in Gotham has wards that are bonded to me…" Harry answered. "Should we confront them?"

"They seem to believe that they own this place. Maybe…"

Harry never had a chance to finish that sentence, because at this moment flame turned green, scaring the life out of two adults. From the flames marched Sirius, followed by Bellatrix, Narcissa, Remus, and Zatara.

"...they will be fine. I'm telling you the Manor is the safest place for them to be." Sirius was in the middle of some speech. "Besides, what is the worst that could happen? Some…" He stopped dead in tracks before he almost crashed into the still paralyzed couple of mundanes. "What in merlin's name!?"

The cry seemed to finally wake the adults.

"Jack! Call the police! Someone broke in!" The woman commanded.

"Broke in? I bloody own this place!" Sirius shouted.

"Excuse me?" Jack asked. "I bought this place seven years ago!"

"Definitely not. Gringotts assured me that the manor is still in my family's possession and wards are strong." Sirius countered.

"What seems to be the problem?" Zatara decided to try a peaceful solution. Their discussion with the league proved that Black was quick to jump the wand.

"Wait! Mr. Zatara! I've seen you on TV! You are with the Justice League, right?" Janet asked, ignoring the fact that there was a group of strangers in 'her' house.

"Yes… Well… That I do… There seems to be some mistake. Mr. and Mrs…"

"Drake." The woman quickly supplemented. "Jack and Janet Drake. We own the Drake industry."

"For now. Goblins love…" Sirius' muttering was interrupted when Bellatrix gave him a strong elbow to the stomach.

"Behave yourself cousin." She whispered into his ear.

Harry and Zatanna decided that it was safe enough to show themselves.

"Sirius/Dad!" They shouted to get the attention of adults.

"Good. I was starting to worry." Remus commented.

"Can someone explain to me what's going on here?! Who are these kids!?" Janet said louder than necessary.

"I believe introductions are in order." Sirius decided. "I am Lord Sirius Orion Black the third of Noble and Most Ancient House of Black, Son of Orion Arcturus Black. With me are my cousins Narcissa and Bellatrix Black and my steward, Remus Lupin. This," He pointed to Harry and Zatanna, "Are Lord Harry James and Lady Zatanna Potter of Noble and Most Ancient House of Potter. And accompanying us is Giovanni Zatara of Magical House of Zatara, father of Lady Potter." He finished the formal introduction. "We are currently in Black Manor, the ancestral home of the House of Black in the New World. I can easily prove it in multiple ways."

"But… But…" Janet had no idea which information to argue with first. Her husband on the other hand started to sweat a bit. Remus picked up on it quickly.

"Squib?" He asked suddenly.

"Second generation, sir." He answered quickly. "M-my mother was a squib."

"No need to be nervous, Mr. Drake. I don't bite." Remus cracked a weak joke, but it was enough to make Sirius barking laughter. It seemed to break the tension a bit and made everyone relax.

"Well, since you are already aware of Magic, you can introduce your wife. I don't really see a problem as long as you don't go spreading it around." Zatara nodded.

"Is this going to be another long discussion?" Zatanna asked resigned.

"Yes, sweetheart. Why don't you and you… husband," it was clear he still didn't like the boy much, "go look around for now?"

"Maybe we can go look through yesterday's winnings?" Harry suggested.

"Yes. You go do that and I will… sort through this mess…" Sirius probably wanted to say something harsher, but the evil eye from Bellatrix and Narcissa stopped him.

After Zatanna and Harry left, the adults proceeded to the sitting room.

"What do you mean magic?" Janet had wide eyes.


A/N This story is not dead! I'm working on all my stories in various speed! Lately, I'm just very much into Star Wars. I'm not neglecting any stories on purpose. Hang on there folks!