The Spiral: The Empress
It took a few days, but Harry soon settled into living with Vivian, Morrigan, Selene, Cerridwen, and Briga. Nothing very exciting happened before school started. That is if you consider miniature dragons, objects hurling around whenever Morrigan got angry, and people being in one room and when you walk down the hall you see them in another as well, normal. And of course you had to get used to the rooms sprouting flowers. But other then that it was a very normal house with very normal people in it, right!
So with little mishap (Morrigan's in the house, do you expect everything to go perfectly?) the day to leave for Hogwarts soon arrived. They where all packed the night before, and because of Morrigan's "superb" driving skills they got to Platform 9 3/4 with time to spear. After loading Harry and Selene's trunks and other bags in a compartment and went outside to say good-bye to Morrigan, Cerridwen, Briga, and Vivian. Little did Harry know that he would soon be seeing them again soon.
"Well come on," said Harry. "Let's look for Hermione, and Ron. I want you to meet them!"
"Slow down, Midget Boy."
"You're one to talk!"
"Oh shut up you prat," Selene said. "So is Ron tall and has bright red hair?"
"Yes, why?" Harry asked looking in the same direction as Selene.
"Well he's coming in this direction with a girl about our height who has brown bushy hair," informed Selene. "I presume that's Hermione?"
"Where are they, I can't see them?" Harry asked in a puzzled voice.
"You have much to learn young Jedi."
"What?"
"Oh, never mind. Look here they are."
Suddenly Harry saw Ron and Hermione in the crowed and called them over. Fred and George appeared a moment later with their best friend Lee Jordan and after being introduced to Selene everyone loaded their things into the apartment. The twins and Lee went off to look for some of their friends, leaving Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Selene to talk.
"So exactly why are you here? I mean Hogwarts practically never takes in exchange students," asked Hermione.
"Well I was home schooled in the magic arts my by aunts. They never put much faith in organized schooling," explained Selene. Harry could imagine Morrigan saying that. "And when we moved to England and my aunts got these jobs they didn't have time to teach me anymore. So here I am!"
"Hey that reminds me. You never told me what your aunts do," exclaimed Harry.
"Well it's supposed to be a surprise. But it has a lot to do with Hogwarts. I not exactly sure, but Morrigan used to be an Auror, so I presume it has something to do with that," Selene said. "I mean we are one of the few wizarding families in America that believes Voldemort is really back." At this Hermione gasped, Ron cringed, and Harry smiled. Finally another person who didn't always say You-Know-Who.
So Harry, Selene, Hermione, and Ron enjoyed the rest of the train ride. They talked, ate some cauldron cakes, chocolate frogs, and Every Flavored Beans, all of which Selene never had before. She was also introduced to Seamus, Dean, and Neville when they stopped in to talk to Harry and Ron, and of course Draco Malfoy and his goons, for what would be a train ride without then.
"Well, well Potty, Weasel, and Granger, still see you're toting around that bush," Draco said, Crabbe and Goyle chuckling in the back round. Because of where Selene was seating they couldn't see her.
Hermione and Harry remained calm but Ron flushed bright red like always. Selene remained silent during all of this, which surprised Harry, as Selene was never quiet. But then she caught his eye and Harry saw a look quiet like Morrigan's when she was planning havoc. Suddenly she seemed to shimmer and Harry could feel his eyes sliding off Selene.
Draco started talking again, but stopped when his cap amazingly left his head. He followed it for a few moments while it hovered above his head until it dropped and covered his eyes.
"Aahhhhhhh!" Draco yelled and started thrashing around with his arms. Goyle and Crabbe abandoned their bodyguard duties and dove out of the room.
"Oh, did I scare them? To bad," came a ghostly voice that soundly slightly like Selene's. Draco pulled his hat off his head and whipped out his wand.
"Who said that?" he asked? "I demand you to show yourself. I am Draco Malfoy and I won't stand for this type of treatment!"
"Well good for you. But Draco hun, don't try to command me. And I really don't give a damn about who you are," Selene voice said from above.
"Show yourself this instant. I'm armed," Draco said, his voice with a quiver in it this time.
"Yeah well it's kinda hard to curse something you can't see now isn't it Draco? So I have the advantage and I suggest you leave before I get angry. He doesn't want to see me angry does he Harry?"
"Not if you're anything like Morrigan," Harry muttered.
At this the ghostly voice of Selene laughed. "Very true. Why do you think Morrigan always sides with me? But Viv always did say that I mustn't use my powers against people with no knowledge about the Old Ways, so I'll stop being invisible," the voice said. Suddenly Selene was sitting with her hands behind her head and legs crossed.
"Who are you and how did you do that?" Draco gasped in disbelief. Ron and Hermione both looked amazed as well, Harry knew he was.
"Why me dear," said Selene slipping into an Irish brogue. "me aunts are Morrigan, Cerridwen, Briga, and Vivian, and me name is Selene de Luna. We are the only ones with knowledge of the Old Way left in the world," Selene slipped into her normal American voice. "I just used a simple glamour charm that made me so inconspicuous that I was invisible, a hard feat when talking I tell you."
"T-the Old Ways?" Draco asked stuttering slightly.
"Yes the Old Ways. The magic Ancient witches and wizards used to do. You know like Merlin, Morgan la Fay, Morgause, Vivian and Nimue of the Lake, I could list more but that would bore you. Haven't you learned any of this in History of Magic?" Selene asked skeptically.
Everyone was steering at Selene, who sounded oddly like Hermione. She blinked a few times under their gaze and let out a sigh of exasperation that easily let them all know this was simple knowledge to her and she had gown up knowing this.
"Um...OK," Draco said. "By the way I'm Draco Malfoy, pure-blood. Are you sure you want to hang out with this, filth?
"Draco hun, think very carefully about what you say. I know who you are, and I happen to know your grandmother was muggle-born, I know thousands of things about your family you've never even heard of. I know you're a descendent of that vile Morgause and you seem much like her, because of that I think I am better off sitting with my friends," Selene stated in a very long speech, her voice lowering and eyes cracking like lightning. Harry saw how closely related she was to Vivian at that moment.
With that Draco just shrugged and walked away. Selene turned and saw Harry, Ron, and Hermione gazing at her. "What?" She asked innocently. But Harry, Ron and Hermione were unable to talk to her about what she said as a voice announced the arrival to Hogsmeade in a few minutes and to make sure everyone was dressed.
Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Selene all left the Hogwarts Express, leaving their trunks on the train. Selene departed from the group to join Hagrid and the first years while Harry and the others secured a horse-less carriage.
"I wonder if Selene will be in Gryffindor," mused Ron.
Harry snorted, "What other house would she be in? Definitely not Slytherine or Hufflepuff."
So a lively debate insured on Selene who was at the time sailing across the lake to Hogwarts. Harry, Hermione, and Ron hurried out of the carriage when it pulled up to the stone steps of the school with the rest of the students. It was cooling down considerably and looked like it would rain during the night. They filed into the Great Hall, Ron mumbling about how hungry he was, and took a seat at the Gryffindor table.
The Hall quieted as Professor McGonagall lead the first years and Selene out onto the stage by the Teachers Table. All the students who hadn't met Selene on the train paid particular attention as she stood a head taller then the other students. Harry paid little attention to the Hat's song or the sorting though he did clap whenever someone was placed in Gryffindor. Finally all the first years were done, but before Selene was sorted Dumbledore stood up and cleared his throat.
"As you can all see we have one more student to be sorted, but before she can I would like to explain why we have taken an exchange student. As all of you older students know and some first years, Voldemort is back," said Dumbledore, his voice angry and sad at the same time. Many people gasped at Dumbledore and one Hufflepuff first year girl screamed.
"I know it is alarming," he continued. "But you shall always be safe at Hogwarts, and to ensure your safety I have fired four extremely powerful people to help protect you. Their names are Morrigan la Atropos, Cerridwen Du Lachiesis, Briga le Clotho, Vivian Nemesis De La, and their niece Selene de Luna."
At this everyone turned to look at the Staff Table and there sat Selene's aunts and Vivian. They were all unruffled at the attention, as was Selene. But Harry could see a mischief in Morrigan's eyes.
"No Selene will you please try on the Sorting Hat," finished Dumbledore.
So Selene went so sit on the stool and plopped the Sorting Hat on her head after a cheery 'righty-o then,' to Dumbledore. She seemed to be having a long discussion with the hat as she sat up the a few minutes before it screamed GRYFFINDOR! Selene stood and did a few bows to the cheering Gryffindors before jumping of the stage and walking over to sit next to Hermione.
Food appeared and everyone dug in, though Selene made a bit of a fuss about their being no Chinese. Ron told her he would take her to the kitchen to teach the house elves the wonders of Chinese food if she would shut up. At the mention of house elves Harry glanced sideways at Hermione to see how she would respond, much to his relief she didn't say anything about S.P.E.W.
Later that night when the main course was done and everyone was talking and nibbling on desert Draco decided to make an appearance.
"Took awhile on the hat, hu Luna?" Draco asked. "What did it do ask you to tea?" At this comment Crabbe and Goyal sniggered stupidly while the Gryffindors looked on to see Selene's response.
"Actually yes," Selene replied in a very sincere and innocent voice with a sweet smile on her face. "We had a nice heart to heart. You wouldn't believe how lonely it was, no human interaction. I'm a good mind to protest unfair treatment of hats." By this time everyone within hearing distance was laughing hysterically.
Draco sulked away, escorted by his two goons, his ears turning a bight shade of pink. Then Selene seemingly forgetting about the whole incident dragged most of the fifth years and Fred, George, and Lee up to the Staff Table to introduce them to the aunts as she put it.
By the end of the night Fred and George were fighting for Morrigan's attention, joking of course, and telling her tales of their many stunts and jokes. They were of course careful so Snape and McGonagall couldn't hear their confessions.
Finally Dumbledore stood up, announcing the end of the feast and told the prefects to lead the first years up to their dorms. It wasn't until Hermione responded by standing up and shepherding the Gryffindor first years in the direction of the common room, after whispering the password to Ron that Harry noticed the bright, silvery, prefect badge pinned to her robes.
"I didn't know Hermione was a prefect, why didn't she tell us?" He asked Ron as the headed to the picture of the fat lady.
"Tiddlywinks," said Ron to the picture and then to Harry. "Well it isn't a surprise. I mean she must be the only person that read all of 'Hogwarts a History'."
"Um, actually. I read it too. It rather good," replied Selene. At this Ron looked feint and Harry had a very strong feeling like Selene was saying this to eg his on.
Harry was completely content as he got ready for bed. He was back at Hogwarts with his old friends, new one, and Snape and Morrigan would have to talk soon. Things couldn't get much better.
AN: Ok here's the third chapter, finally got it done. It's been a while since I posted anything, when I'm done with chapter four I'll post them together otay? And I will finish this, if I finish nothing else I will finish this, but if you want it posted ya gotta give me some positive feedback, thought I don't mind constructive criticism in the least. So now that ya read it, Review.
Oh and I only own Selene, Morrigan, Briga, Cerridwen, and Vivian, oh and the plot, that's mine. The amazing and wonderful J.K. Rowling, who happens to have an altar devoted to her in my bedroom, owns everything else. It consists of all the books, and pictures I've made of the characters! Now REVIEW!!!!!!!!
It took a few days, but Harry soon settled into living with Vivian, Morrigan, Selene, Cerridwen, and Briga. Nothing very exciting happened before school started. That is if you consider miniature dragons, objects hurling around whenever Morrigan got angry, and people being in one room and when you walk down the hall you see them in another as well, normal. And of course you had to get used to the rooms sprouting flowers. But other then that it was a very normal house with very normal people in it, right!
So with little mishap (Morrigan's in the house, do you expect everything to go perfectly?) the day to leave for Hogwarts soon arrived. They where all packed the night before, and because of Morrigan's "superb" driving skills they got to Platform 9 3/4 with time to spear. After loading Harry and Selene's trunks and other bags in a compartment and went outside to say good-bye to Morrigan, Cerridwen, Briga, and Vivian. Little did Harry know that he would soon be seeing them again soon.
"Well come on," said Harry. "Let's look for Hermione, and Ron. I want you to meet them!"
"Slow down, Midget Boy."
"You're one to talk!"
"Oh shut up you prat," Selene said. "So is Ron tall and has bright red hair?"
"Yes, why?" Harry asked looking in the same direction as Selene.
"Well he's coming in this direction with a girl about our height who has brown bushy hair," informed Selene. "I presume that's Hermione?"
"Where are they, I can't see them?" Harry asked in a puzzled voice.
"You have much to learn young Jedi."
"What?"
"Oh, never mind. Look here they are."
Suddenly Harry saw Ron and Hermione in the crowed and called them over. Fred and George appeared a moment later with their best friend Lee Jordan and after being introduced to Selene everyone loaded their things into the apartment. The twins and Lee went off to look for some of their friends, leaving Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Selene to talk.
"So exactly why are you here? I mean Hogwarts practically never takes in exchange students," asked Hermione.
"Well I was home schooled in the magic arts my by aunts. They never put much faith in organized schooling," explained Selene. Harry could imagine Morrigan saying that. "And when we moved to England and my aunts got these jobs they didn't have time to teach me anymore. So here I am!"
"Hey that reminds me. You never told me what your aunts do," exclaimed Harry.
"Well it's supposed to be a surprise. But it has a lot to do with Hogwarts. I not exactly sure, but Morrigan used to be an Auror, so I presume it has something to do with that," Selene said. "I mean we are one of the few wizarding families in America that believes Voldemort is really back." At this Hermione gasped, Ron cringed, and Harry smiled. Finally another person who didn't always say You-Know-Who.
So Harry, Selene, Hermione, and Ron enjoyed the rest of the train ride. They talked, ate some cauldron cakes, chocolate frogs, and Every Flavored Beans, all of which Selene never had before. She was also introduced to Seamus, Dean, and Neville when they stopped in to talk to Harry and Ron, and of course Draco Malfoy and his goons, for what would be a train ride without then.
"Well, well Potty, Weasel, and Granger, still see you're toting around that bush," Draco said, Crabbe and Goyle chuckling in the back round. Because of where Selene was seating they couldn't see her.
Hermione and Harry remained calm but Ron flushed bright red like always. Selene remained silent during all of this, which surprised Harry, as Selene was never quiet. But then she caught his eye and Harry saw a look quiet like Morrigan's when she was planning havoc. Suddenly she seemed to shimmer and Harry could feel his eyes sliding off Selene.
Draco started talking again, but stopped when his cap amazingly left his head. He followed it for a few moments while it hovered above his head until it dropped and covered his eyes.
"Aahhhhhhh!" Draco yelled and started thrashing around with his arms. Goyle and Crabbe abandoned their bodyguard duties and dove out of the room.
"Oh, did I scare them? To bad," came a ghostly voice that soundly slightly like Selene's. Draco pulled his hat off his head and whipped out his wand.
"Who said that?" he asked? "I demand you to show yourself. I am Draco Malfoy and I won't stand for this type of treatment!"
"Well good for you. But Draco hun, don't try to command me. And I really don't give a damn about who you are," Selene voice said from above.
"Show yourself this instant. I'm armed," Draco said, his voice with a quiver in it this time.
"Yeah well it's kinda hard to curse something you can't see now isn't it Draco? So I have the advantage and I suggest you leave before I get angry. He doesn't want to see me angry does he Harry?"
"Not if you're anything like Morrigan," Harry muttered.
At this the ghostly voice of Selene laughed. "Very true. Why do you think Morrigan always sides with me? But Viv always did say that I mustn't use my powers against people with no knowledge about the Old Ways, so I'll stop being invisible," the voice said. Suddenly Selene was sitting with her hands behind her head and legs crossed.
"Who are you and how did you do that?" Draco gasped in disbelief. Ron and Hermione both looked amazed as well, Harry knew he was.
"Why me dear," said Selene slipping into an Irish brogue. "me aunts are Morrigan, Cerridwen, Briga, and Vivian, and me name is Selene de Luna. We are the only ones with knowledge of the Old Way left in the world," Selene slipped into her normal American voice. "I just used a simple glamour charm that made me so inconspicuous that I was invisible, a hard feat when talking I tell you."
"T-the Old Ways?" Draco asked stuttering slightly.
"Yes the Old Ways. The magic Ancient witches and wizards used to do. You know like Merlin, Morgan la Fay, Morgause, Vivian and Nimue of the Lake, I could list more but that would bore you. Haven't you learned any of this in History of Magic?" Selene asked skeptically.
Everyone was steering at Selene, who sounded oddly like Hermione. She blinked a few times under their gaze and let out a sigh of exasperation that easily let them all know this was simple knowledge to her and she had gown up knowing this.
"Um...OK," Draco said. "By the way I'm Draco Malfoy, pure-blood. Are you sure you want to hang out with this, filth?
"Draco hun, think very carefully about what you say. I know who you are, and I happen to know your grandmother was muggle-born, I know thousands of things about your family you've never even heard of. I know you're a descendent of that vile Morgause and you seem much like her, because of that I think I am better off sitting with my friends," Selene stated in a very long speech, her voice lowering and eyes cracking like lightning. Harry saw how closely related she was to Vivian at that moment.
With that Draco just shrugged and walked away. Selene turned and saw Harry, Ron, and Hermione gazing at her. "What?" She asked innocently. But Harry, Ron and Hermione were unable to talk to her about what she said as a voice announced the arrival to Hogsmeade in a few minutes and to make sure everyone was dressed.
Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Selene all left the Hogwarts Express, leaving their trunks on the train. Selene departed from the group to join Hagrid and the first years while Harry and the others secured a horse-less carriage.
"I wonder if Selene will be in Gryffindor," mused Ron.
Harry snorted, "What other house would she be in? Definitely not Slytherine or Hufflepuff."
So a lively debate insured on Selene who was at the time sailing across the lake to Hogwarts. Harry, Hermione, and Ron hurried out of the carriage when it pulled up to the stone steps of the school with the rest of the students. It was cooling down considerably and looked like it would rain during the night. They filed into the Great Hall, Ron mumbling about how hungry he was, and took a seat at the Gryffindor table.
The Hall quieted as Professor McGonagall lead the first years and Selene out onto the stage by the Teachers Table. All the students who hadn't met Selene on the train paid particular attention as she stood a head taller then the other students. Harry paid little attention to the Hat's song or the sorting though he did clap whenever someone was placed in Gryffindor. Finally all the first years were done, but before Selene was sorted Dumbledore stood up and cleared his throat.
"As you can all see we have one more student to be sorted, but before she can I would like to explain why we have taken an exchange student. As all of you older students know and some first years, Voldemort is back," said Dumbledore, his voice angry and sad at the same time. Many people gasped at Dumbledore and one Hufflepuff first year girl screamed.
"I know it is alarming," he continued. "But you shall always be safe at Hogwarts, and to ensure your safety I have fired four extremely powerful people to help protect you. Their names are Morrigan la Atropos, Cerridwen Du Lachiesis, Briga le Clotho, Vivian Nemesis De La, and their niece Selene de Luna."
At this everyone turned to look at the Staff Table and there sat Selene's aunts and Vivian. They were all unruffled at the attention, as was Selene. But Harry could see a mischief in Morrigan's eyes.
"No Selene will you please try on the Sorting Hat," finished Dumbledore.
So Selene went so sit on the stool and plopped the Sorting Hat on her head after a cheery 'righty-o then,' to Dumbledore. She seemed to be having a long discussion with the hat as she sat up the a few minutes before it screamed GRYFFINDOR! Selene stood and did a few bows to the cheering Gryffindors before jumping of the stage and walking over to sit next to Hermione.
Food appeared and everyone dug in, though Selene made a bit of a fuss about their being no Chinese. Ron told her he would take her to the kitchen to teach the house elves the wonders of Chinese food if she would shut up. At the mention of house elves Harry glanced sideways at Hermione to see how she would respond, much to his relief she didn't say anything about S.P.E.W.
Later that night when the main course was done and everyone was talking and nibbling on desert Draco decided to make an appearance.
"Took awhile on the hat, hu Luna?" Draco asked. "What did it do ask you to tea?" At this comment Crabbe and Goyal sniggered stupidly while the Gryffindors looked on to see Selene's response.
"Actually yes," Selene replied in a very sincere and innocent voice with a sweet smile on her face. "We had a nice heart to heart. You wouldn't believe how lonely it was, no human interaction. I'm a good mind to protest unfair treatment of hats." By this time everyone within hearing distance was laughing hysterically.
Draco sulked away, escorted by his two goons, his ears turning a bight shade of pink. Then Selene seemingly forgetting about the whole incident dragged most of the fifth years and Fred, George, and Lee up to the Staff Table to introduce them to the aunts as she put it.
By the end of the night Fred and George were fighting for Morrigan's attention, joking of course, and telling her tales of their many stunts and jokes. They were of course careful so Snape and McGonagall couldn't hear their confessions.
Finally Dumbledore stood up, announcing the end of the feast and told the prefects to lead the first years up to their dorms. It wasn't until Hermione responded by standing up and shepherding the Gryffindor first years in the direction of the common room, after whispering the password to Ron that Harry noticed the bright, silvery, prefect badge pinned to her robes.
"I didn't know Hermione was a prefect, why didn't she tell us?" He asked Ron as the headed to the picture of the fat lady.
"Tiddlywinks," said Ron to the picture and then to Harry. "Well it isn't a surprise. I mean she must be the only person that read all of 'Hogwarts a History'."
"Um, actually. I read it too. It rather good," replied Selene. At this Ron looked feint and Harry had a very strong feeling like Selene was saying this to eg his on.
Harry was completely content as he got ready for bed. He was back at Hogwarts with his old friends, new one, and Snape and Morrigan would have to talk soon. Things couldn't get much better.
AN: Ok here's the third chapter, finally got it done. It's been a while since I posted anything, when I'm done with chapter four I'll post them together otay? And I will finish this, if I finish nothing else I will finish this, but if you want it posted ya gotta give me some positive feedback, thought I don't mind constructive criticism in the least. So now that ya read it, Review.
Oh and I only own Selene, Morrigan, Briga, Cerridwen, and Vivian, oh and the plot, that's mine. The amazing and wonderful J.K. Rowling, who happens to have an altar devoted to her in my bedroom, owns everything else. It consists of all the books, and pictures I've made of the characters! Now REVIEW!!!!!!!!