Because of the time difference between the two towns, Harry and his team had to wait till after lunch to leave. After having a late lunch the team and Albus headed to the front doors to apperate to Houston. Albus made some final instructions, "Harry, you and your group need to remember that you are going to be in a muggle airport. Though the lounge personal are magic folk the rest of the airport isn't. Remember what you say around people while you walk through the airport. That's about it. The apperation room that you will be using is also the lounge you will be using to talk to the students and the headmasters and mistress of the schools. Good luck and we will see you tomorrow."
With that, Harry, Hermione, and Amanda apperated to Houston's British Airways VIP lounge. The personal there were expecting them and welcomed them to Houston. They told them they could leave their bags in the lounge while they go and meet the schools. They looked at their schedules and realized that they had only about 30 minutes to get to their first plane and that was on the other end of the terminal. The staff in the lounge came up with and idea and flagged down a electric cart that would take them to the gate. They were grateful and they got in and headed to their first plane which was the one from Los Angles where the Hollywood school was from. They got to the gate with about 10 minutes to spare and watched in fascination as the plane was assisted in and all.
They didn't have to wait for the passengers to get off but the group they were expecting didn't get off right away.
Harry commented on this, "They must be making sure they come out as a group instead as separate groups."
Hermione nodded, "That would make sense. We just have to wait."
After the last of the passengers got off, they started getting worried. Harry walked up to the attendant that was standing behind the counter in front of the gate and asked if there was a way to check to see if there was anyone else on board the flight.
Harry said, "We are meeting up with a group from LA on this flight and we haven't seen them get off yet."
The lady smiled and said, "Sorry young man, the flight from LA has been moved to the gate next door. This flight came in late."
Harry thanked the young lady and grabbed his sister and Hermione and went next door. Just as they were getting to the gate it would seem that someone had gotten the bright idea to have them paged.
****PA announcement****
"Would Harry Durrani and his Party please report to Gate C-10 to meet your party."
****End of PA announcement****
Harry just smiled at his two companions and walked to the man standing at the counter.
"Hello, I am Harry Durrani," said Harry.
The man shook Harry's hand and said, "Hi I am Professor Johnson and that ragtag group over there are my Head students and prefects."
Harry shook his hand and introduced his group, "This is my fiancé Hermione Durrani and my twin Amanda Durrani. Hermione and I are not blood related, her parents adopted me and my sisters this summer when we lost our only living relatives to an attack. Hermione and I are the Head students of the Combined schools and Amanda is one of 3 prefects of the combined schools. We are also professors at the school. If you will follow me we need to get to D-1 to get the Boston group and the Brenham students are going to meet us at the escalators where they would come up from the security check point to the departure area (A/N: In order to get up to the international gate area you have to go through a security check point and take escalators to the upper level.)
Everyone was walking through the airport instead of riding anything because they had time to meet the other schools for another hour or so. Harry and Hermione spent the time talking mentally trying to figure out what they needed to do once they got all the students to Hogwarts and what to really plan for things like dances and Quiditch.
When they got to the meeting place for the Brenham students, they found that they were waiting for them. Harry went up to the what looked like the headmaster of Brenham.
"Good afternoon, my name is Professor Harry Durrani. Are you from Brenham?" asked Harry.
"Good afternoon Harry. I am Professor William Posey from Brenham. These are my students," said the headmaster of Brenham.
Harry smiled and pointed out the Hollywood students and his team, "This is Professor Johnson from Hollywood and this is my fiancé, Professor Hermione Durrani and my sister Professor Amanda Durrani. Behind them are the Hollywood students."
They all introduced each other and while walking toward the arrival gate for the Salem students, Harry and Hermione couldn't help but notice how the students were intermixing with each other.
~This is going to be easier to inter-mix the students of the schools. They are from the looks of it getting along with each other~ thought Hermione
Amanda agreed ~Sorry but couldn't help listen in, yes I agree with Hermione on that. If Salem is anything like these two groups we won't have problems with them. I am just worried about the reaction of the Hogwarts students~
Harry voiced his beliefs ~you're both right. The only problem we will have is the Hogwarts students, especially the ones that are in Slytherine. We will have to cross that road when we get there.~
They nodded to each other and made plans to talk to the headmasters and mistress about their ideas once they are able to.
Harry and his team lead the two groups toward Gate D-1 after realizing that they had to back track toward where they came from. After reaching the gate, the plane had not arrived yet so they had to wait. Harry went up to the ticket counter to make sure that they were at right gate.
"Hello young man, how can I help you?" asked the Lady behind the ticket counter.
"Hi, I was wondering if I am at the right gate to meet a group from Boston, " said Harry.
"You are at the right gate. They are taxing to the gate as we speak so they will be out soon. Just curious, we don't get a lot of people waiting for people now with the new security procedures in place," answered the lady who had a name tag saying her name was Jullie.
"Oh we are not picking them up and heading into town. My team and I are here to escort them to London. Their school has decided to move their students education to a private and secure location in Scotland for their own safety," answered Harry.
Jullie's eyes went wide when he mentioned that, "wait the students you are meeting are from Salem school?"
Harry nodded in comprehension, "I presume you know someone from the school? My name is Harry Potter Durrani; I am the head boy of the combined schools. I am also a teacher. Because of Tom Riddle coming back and some attacks on the schools, the schools want to move the schools together for a tighter safety. We have 5 Heirs to the Original Five in Scotland and have enough protection in place there so that is why people are going there instead of here somewhere."
Jullie took all this information in and nodded, "My sister is a prefect at Salem and owled me telling me she would be coming through Houston on the way to London for school. I really didn't know exactly why till you said something. I am not really working right now so why don't we move off to wait for the plane."
Harry nodded and they walked back to where the team was standing. Harry introduced his fiancé and his sister. They waited for the flight to arrive. Just then there was an explosion outside towards where the plane was arriving. Instinctively, Harry and his team pulled out their wands and so did the headmasters and July. They ran to the windows and what they saw nearly floored them. Just then there was an announcement on the Public Address System (PA):
May I have your attention please? This is a security emergency. We need everyone to evacuate the C and D terminals immediately. There has been an attack on an arriving flight from Boston. Would the Team from London that is waiting for passengers on this flight make their presence known to the ticket counter at gate D-1 immediately. Thank you.
Harry, Hermione, Amanda, and July ran to the counter.
"I am Harry Durrani. We are the team waiting for people off the Boston flight," Harry said while pointing to Hermione and Amanda.
"Sir, I know you are wizards, those people out there are from the looks of it death eaters. Could you help fight them?" said the man that was wearing a security uniform on.
Harry and his team nodded. Instead of waiting for them to show them the way, Harry and his team apperated to the fight and started fighting the death eaters. The three of them were able to either disable or thwart the rest of the death eaters before too much damage could be inflicted to the plane. Luckily the plane was not fully loaded on fuel or they may not have made it.
Harry and his team then stood guard while the plane was towed into the gate and everything was safe for everyone on board.
Harry and his team apperated back to the gate and by then they were greeted by a few MOM officials and some airport officials. Also there was Albus Dumbledor and Sarah and Sikandar. Sarah and Sikandar ran to Harry and the team and gave them all a hug.
"You did great out there. I am glad we sent you here. Never really thought that Tom would do this but then again we wanted to be careful. I wonder how he found out that they would be on this flight. Anyway what is done is done," said Sikandar.
Harry nodded numbly at this. Sarah noticed this as well as did Hermione. Hermione came over and hugged Harry and noticed that he began to relax a bit.
Albus came over with what looked like his sister, "Harry thank you for what you did out there. You have managed to save the day today. I would like to introduce you to Sarah Dumbledor. She is my niece. Sarah, this is Harry James Potter Durrani, Hermione Durrani, and Amanda Durrani."
Sarah shook there hands, "Thank you for saving us. I am glad that Sikandar and Albus had you guys come and meet us here."
Just then Jullie came over with a 15 year old clinging to here crying.
"Harry, I would like to thank you for saving my sister, Michelle's life. When the security man asked if you could defend the plane you didn't even hesitate to fight. Thank you," said Jullie.
"It was our pleasure Jullie. Remember me saying that there are 5 Heirs of the Original 5? Well my team is made up 3 of the 5 of them. The other two is my younger sister and Sikandar over there. We would not have hesitated for a minute to save anyone's life if we had to," said Harry while also pointing to Sikandar when he mentioned his name.
Jullie hugged Harry and then the others and then so did Michelle. After everyone got their acts together they started walking toward the BA VIP lounge to go sit down and discuss what had just happened and what will be happening. Meanwhile around the group they could see people bustling around making sure everything was ok and passengers that were just let back into the terminal getting to their gates as quickly as possible. When they approached the lounged they were assaulted by news people that had gotten hold of information that there were going to be people that were on the Boston flight heading toward the lounge.
After making their way through the Muggle reporters that were not allowed into the lounge they got into the lounge and sat down. Harry and his team was asked to approach a stage area that they realized was surrounded by news people from the Magic community news alliances. Seems that there was a impromptu news conference setup.
The Minister of Magic of America stood up and got everyone's attention.
"Good afternoon. Today has been a trying day for all. About 30 minutes ago a flight from Boston's Logan International Airport in Boston was attacked as it approached its gate at Houston's Bush Intercontinental Airport by Death Eaters. This flight was carrying a delegation of students from the Salem school of Witchcraft and Wizardry that were headed to London to prepare for the rest of the students that were going to be attending their new school year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The flight was to be met by three teachers from Hogwarts that would then escort them all the way to Hogwarts this year. I am pleased to announce that the attack was thwarted by the three teachers and no one loss their lives. I would like to introduce the three people responsible for repelling the attack this afternoon on the flight. Standing next to me is Harry James Potter Durrani. Next to him is Hermione Anne Durrani and next to her is Amanda Marie Potter Durrani. They are professors at Hogwarts starting this year and were asked to come here today to help the headmasters and mistress of the three schools here in the mainland United States travel to Hogwarts with their head students and prefects. I would like to thank them for their help and hope they have a great journey home."
With this the press started asking questions. The minister pointed to one of the reporters who then asked her question, "Mr. Durrani, is it true that you and Hermione are engaged to get married?"
Harry answered, "Yes we are but I am not sure we should be discussing my personal life."
After hearing that Harry and his team weren't going into anything that didn't pertain to the attack they didn't really push on asking too many questions and the press conference was over as fast as it started.
Harry and his team were relieved that it was over and said their good byes to the minister and headed over to the students and teachers. They waited for the press and the ministry people to leave and that the only people in the rooms were either the staff for the lounge or the students and headmasters and mistresses.
Harry stood up and started talking:
"Good afternoon. Let me formally introduce my self and my team mates. I am Professor Harry James Potter Durrani, I am going to be teaching Transfiguration with my fiancé Hermione Durrani who is standing next to me. Professor Amanda Marie Potter Durrani, who is standing on the other side of me will be teaching Charms with our younger sister Virginia Potter Durrani. Hermione and I are the Head Girl and Boy of the combined schools. We are basically the assistants to the Headmaster and Assistant Headmistress of the combined schools Sikandar and Sarah Durrani who are waving in the back over there. For those of you that are not from the same schools I would like to introduce in the back, the young man with the white beard as being Professor Albus Dumbledor, Headmaster of Hogwarts. Standing next to him is his niece and the Headmistress of Salem, Professor Michelle Dumbledor. Standing next to her is Professor William Posey of Brenham. And finally next to him is Professor Brian Johnson of Hollywood. For those of you that are from Salem, my self and my family are very glad we were able to keep the death eaters from harming you all. The plan for the trip is for you all to travel with us on British Airway Flight 2025 to London Getwick Airport and then take a bus from the airport's VIP lounge to the Kings Crossing where we will board the Hogwarts Express to Hogwarts. It is a straight forward trip once we get to London so no fuss there. We should not have that much problems getting to Hogwarts. It was the getting here part that worried us. I was told before coming up here we had about an hour left before we had to get to the gate area for our flight so if you all want to relax that would be great. You can go out to the gate area and see if there is anything you want from the shops like books or magazines before you leave. If you want to talk to us we will be relaxing over there so feel free to come by. Thanks."
Harry finished his speech and sat down with Hermione sitting on his lap. Amanda sat across from them with Sarah sitting next to her. Sikandar sat in a chair to the side and they all just relaxed for a while. One of the Brenham students came up to them and asked about sports that they would be able to play at Hogwarts.
"Well that is one of a few things that my family and the teachers at Hogwarts were discussing yesterday. The strongest idea was Quiditch between the schools. At Hogwarts we play Quiditch between the houses, but if we do it now we would have a harder time getting the schedule properly done between the houses. I think we can if you all want to, set up what muggles call intramural sports like muggle sports like Soccer (Football), American football, baseball, etc. Another idea that was brought up but I and some of the staff flatly turned down due to the nature of the competition and the make up of the student body, was a dueling competition, too dangerous in my opinion. We will be offering a dueling club and class as an extra course if anyone is interested," said Harry.
The student introduced himself to them, "Oh by the way my name is Timothy Granger. All of our schools play Quiditch so that would be a great sport of the two houses. By the way you wouldn't be Hermione Granger by any chance?"
It had just dawned on Hermione why she recognized the boy and then jumped up and hugged him, "Timmy, my god I haven't seen you in a few years. Your aunt and uncle are actually my great aunt and uncle. Martha was my mom's aunt. I was living under the Granger last name for my own protection till last summer. Now I am going by my natural parent's last name of Durrani."
Timmy was surprised and happy that he knew someone at Hogwarts now. He was scared that he wouldn't know anyone there. "I am so glad that I know someone there. It makes my transition so much easier."
Harry nodded on this and said his own comforting words, "I know the feeling Tim. When I first started my first year I had no knowledge about the magic world and what lay ahead of me. I had not even known that my parents were wizards. The reason for my lack of knowledge was the same reason why Hermione was living with the Grangers, for my protection. We had memory charms put on us to help us grow up a normal life. Didn't help much but still it was easier. I know you will enjoy Hogwarts and everything."
Just then a British Airways agent came to Harry and told him that they would be boarding the airplane in a few minutes so they needed to head to the gate immediately. They all gathered their stuff and headed out to the gate. Harry was the first to get there and he and the rest of the Professors made sure all the students got on the plane before going on themselves. Harry and Hermione were the last ones on making sure there were no stragglers left behind.
Upon boarding the plane, Harry was surprised on how big the plane was and how comfortable the seats were on the plane. Hermione pointed out that this was the business class seats and that most people that travel for fun travel in coach where the seats were not so comfortable.
Once the plane was fully loaded they took off. It was surprising to Harry how the muggle contraption took off and traveled almost like a gigantic broom stick. He wasn't so comfortable with the sensation of traveling in the air with the feel of the air through his air. Hermione sensed this and gave his hand a gentle squeeze.
The rest of the flight went by really quickly and they finally arrived at the Getwick airport in London. After clearing through customs, the students and teachers headed to the VIP lounge where they found the ministry had hired muggle busses to take them to Kings Crossing.
When they got to Kings Crossing they were met by what looked like the prefects from Hogwarts. With the help of the prefects the group made their way through the station to platforms 9 and 10. In pairs, everyone went through the barrier to the platform 9 ¾ and they put their trunks and bags into the baggage compartment and got on the train. Harry, Hermione, Amanda, and the Head students from all the schools including the Hogwarts ones, Roger Davies and Alicia Spinet, got into the first car of the train.
Once the train started moving Harry got up and started speaking, "Good morning everyone. Everyone here knows who I am. I hope you all have introduced yourselves but I will introduce the Hogwarts Head Boy and Girl. The head boy is Roger Davies and the head girl is Alicia Spinet. What I wanted to discuss while we make our way to the castle is what we plan to do with the students to make them welcome and to encourage inter-house/inter-school relations. One of the prefects earlier came to me and Hermione and wondered if we would have Quiditch this year. I said that if we do we would have a inter-school Quiditch competition because an inter-house one would take too much time and resources. I believe that we should also have a few dances. Lets say we have one at the beginning of the term to welcome your schools to Hogwarts and to also get them used to how we handle dances. Another dance could happen after the annual Halloween feast. The beginning term dance is open to everyone. Halloween is for 3rd year and up with the underage students allowed if they are asked by an upper classman. Same with the other ones except one and that is the Yule Ball if we have one this year and I suggest we do. That one will be 4th year and up only with the same exceptions. Anyone else have any suggestions?"
Megan Thomas from Salem started to speak, "I have an idea for things that may be fun for the underclass men, especially those that can not make it to Hogsmede. We could maybe have little demonstrations on Quiditch for the 1st years, things like that. We should have different items for different times. I presume that there will be a few Hogsmede trips during the year. Maybe we could setup movie viewings on one weekend. It would be very interesting to see what happens."
Harry and Hermione looked at each other and nodded, "Those are great ideas. We are going to have to take the suggestions up with both our parents and the headmasters and Headmistress of the schools, but I don't see a problem."
Joseph Jenkins from Hollywood came up with another idea, "to build on what Megan came up with the Quiditch for the underclassmen that don't make the main team. Why don't we have a minor league team for each school that are basically the backups for the primary teams. But that will still leave out the 1st years. But then again most first years with the exception of Harry over there don't have the natural skills to play Quiditch in their first years."
Harry nodded, "I agree with the back up teams. But I tend to think there should not be a problem to have the 1st years on the backup teams. They will probably not see action on the primary teams yet. Again that one will have to be decided on by the professors."
Over the next few hours they started making plans for dances and different programs that could be offered for discussion with the headmasters and headmistress when they got in.
***************************************************************** (A/N: Reviews) Piper Black: I am glad the Author Notes chapter was helpful. Wytil: I don't like the God-Like stories either. Most of this story is going to be Harry helping the other students learn to defend themselves and not dependant on him. There will be times where Harry will meet Tom and/or his followers like this chapter but otherwise at least not for the next year or two will there be a point where Harry and Hermione will combine their powers to remove Tom from power. What I plan to do is show some interaction and etc. of the characters and things like that. Sew2100: Glad you like the chapter. Beth (Moonglaze89): I am glad it makes sense to you. You will love the next chapter. Takari4ever7: Honestly if you read the A/N you would notice that the love for each other dates back to before Harry's parents death. Otherwise I am glad you like the story. Ettedanreb: I am glad you like my story and I will always continue reading your story it is also great. Kristen (Hermharry): *Blushes* I am not as good as you are Kristen. I am happy you like my conversations with the founders. I hope you liked this chapter. the next one and so on are going to be interesting to read. Indigostar12020: I am glad you love this story. I hope I don't have to send the Paramedics to revive you. I had some interesting problems at work that had me busy for a few weeks. Now I am back. Sometime in the near future I will be out for a while so this could be interesting to see how many chapters I can post before then. Cris (Jude12184): Hey Cris. I love your stories you are working on right now. Keep going the story is really good. I am glad you like the plot I have and my characters. You may find that I have a few plots running at once. I hope you like the chapter. Alexiel: I am glad you like the way I have written the story. The R/C unfortunately really is not going to be much play in the story other then during the balls and all. Unfortunately I will say this right now I am not a big fan of Ron because like another author put it, Ron is really not being friends with Harry because of friendship. I believe it is because of wanting the fame of being friends with the boy-who-lived. Hopefully I haven't alienated a few of my readers.