School… In The Muggle World
Ch. 7 – The Palace of Red Vine
Disclaimer: Check earlier chapters 'cus it's a hassle to write everything.
A/N: Please read and review. ENJOY!!!!!
* = Change of Characters/Conversation (Same Scene/Time)
' ' = Thoughts
" " = Speaking
Italics = Letters/Flashbacks/Dreams
~*~ = Beginning/End of Chapter
~ = Scene/Time/Date Change
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Harry glanced at his sister. She too was looking across the grounds of the school waiting.
After they had both gotten the flow of information from their grandmother, they had both had a head ache for a few minutes. It seemed, however, that the royal family had a healing power to them. Harry wasn't sure but if seemed to have come with the information.
'I wonder when they're going to get here.'
"I'm not sure but I hope they come soon," said Sini.
Harry gaped at her. "I didn't say anything Sini."
She looked at him curiously. "Really? I'd thought you said 'I wonder when they're going to get here.'"
"Nope I didn't say that."
'That's weird.'
"Definitely weird."
"I didn't say anything!" exclaimed Sini. "It's almost like you're reading my mind!"
"That is exactly what the two of you are doing. I said you were powerful."
Harry and Sini turned around to see Arabella standing there.
"What are you doing here?" asked Harry with a half glare not completely forgiving her.
She grinned. "You Grams flooed me and told me about her stopping here. She said that she would be picking you up from school and so I can to walk everyone else home." She saw everyone coming towards them. "I guess we'll be going. I'll see you guys later." She waved at everyone and they walked over to her. "I'm walking you home today."
Lori noticed Harry and Sini a little ways off. "What about them?"
"They're going somewhere. Come on."
Lori ran over to Harry causing everyone to stop and look at the couple. Harry blushed. "Yes?"
"Where are you going?"
"We're going to visit our grandmother."
"Oh. I guess I'll see you at the house then." She stood up on her toes and kissed Harry causing Dean and Ron to cat-call until Ginny and Hermione hit them.
"Bye," said Lori breathlessly when they parted. She returned to the others with a grin and waved goodbye.
"Something you're not telling me brother dear?" asked Sini with a mischievous sparkle in her eye that would have reminded anyone of James.
"And what would that be?" asked Harry as he turned away from his sister so she wouldn't see the blush.
"Wittle Harry has a girlfriend!" squealed Sini.
"Shut up Sini Calypso Potter!" Harry looked at her.
Sini glared at him. "Why did you use that middle name? I have…" she paused. "12 other middle names. That is the worst one."
"Obviously mom and dad didn't think so when they gave you at name… Cynithinia."
Sini gasped. "Who told you?"
Harry smirked. "Arabella told me your real name. I think it fits you perfectly. Cynithinia Calypso Potter."
Sini glared and clenched her fists at her side ready to fly at Harry.
Someone cleared their throat behind them before she could do any harm to Harry. Both teens turned around.
Behind them stood Daneil Vanlee with a raven haired woman with tanned skin.
"Oh, Dan, they look just like their parents. Except for their eyes."
"Umm…" said Sini confused, momentarily forgetting her anger at her brother.
Daneil cleared this throat. "Oh, right. Harry, Sini this is Rose Vanlee, my wife. She was your mother best friend." Rose glared. "Well, one of them and she was also your mom's maid."
Sini snorted. "Harry, I wonder if you will get a maid," she said emphasizing the word maid. "You know, a female to dress you and such."
Harry glared and blushed. "I wonder if they have a zoo in the palace. That way we will have a place to keep you, Miss. Piggy."
"Hey!!!" Sini went to slap Harry but Daneil got to her first and held her back so she couldn't do the future King any bodily harm. (A/N: second time today!)
Rose smiled at them before she turned and scowled at Daneil. "Hey, bloke, aren't we supposed to be back at Red Vine in like… one minute ago?"
She grinned as Daneil let go for Sini, blushed, and muttered something about women and punctuality.
"Well?" asked Rose.
Daneil cleared his throat. "Right my dear. If you will both just follow us to the alley behind the school, we can EBB from there."
Rose chuckled. "Dimwit. They have to be EBBed once before they can EBB on their own." She started walking with Harry, Sini, and Daneil trailing behind her. "Really! Men have no sense. I wonder why I married you Daneil. Or how you became Royal Advisor First Class for that matter. You are so forgetful."
"Hey, that's not fair. I hardly even forget things. Anyways, who else would Uncle Richard (A/N: Lily's father, the king) have appointed to my job? With my dad dead, I was the only option."
"Well, I think it was a stupid one. You were not even twenty when he appointed you. And you are still immature. I wonder why Auntie Faith kept you on?"
"Because she loves me."
"Hard to tell with all the bickering you two do. I swear, you two are worse then Lily and Richard."
Sini cut in for the first time. "Who are Lily and Richard?"
"Our twins. They're five and fight like cats and dogs, but Dani and your Grams are worse. It amazes me."
"Why do you call Grams 'Auntie Faith'?"
Daneil decided to answer this time. "When I was a teenager, my father would had my job was killed and King Richard sorta adopted me. So, I sorta became Lily's brother of sorts. Not royal. I'm noble and the adoption wasn't by blood. Then when your mother died and Faith became Queen and she kept me on acting like an aunt to me."
"HELLO!" said Harry. "I thought we were supposed to go, not sit around talking about nicknames!"
Daneil, Rose, and Sini blushed. "Umm, right you are your majesty."
Harry groaned. Ok, so he had realized that he was royalty, but the reality of it did not sink in until the Daneil person had called him majesty.
'Another thing I'm bloody famous for!'
"Don't swear Harry. It's rude and its not appealing, especially for royalty."
"Since when did I ask you what you thought Cynithinia Calypso Potter?" he growled.
"Stop using my real first name and stop calling me Calypso! If you have to use one of my middle names, at least use Rebecca."
"No, I like Calypso and Cynithinia just fine."
"You are impossible."
"Really? I also heard I was stubborn and had a good humour. You know, traits from my father. You don't seem to have them."
Sini bristled. "What did you say?" she asked quietly.
"You heard me. My father. Not yours. You didn't even know him. You don't have any memories of him. Or of my mom for that matter."
"I'll kill you!" hissed Sini. "You… you… monster. You good for nothing pain in the arse!"
"I thought it wasn't appealing to swear." Harry put on a high voice. "Especially for royalty." He glared.
'Have you seen the look on their faces Harry?' thought Sini.
Harry laughed in his mind. 'I love acting. It has such… flourish.'
"You bastard. That's what you are. A low blow, good for nothing, pain in the arse, bastard."
'I want to see one of them find out what we're doing. Why are we doing this?' asked Sini.
Harry mentally shrugged. 'Don't know, but Faith… I don't know. There's something not right about her. I can feel it around her. Maybe it's just me.'
'I think it is.' Sini paused. 'What do you think sounds more royal: Sini Potter or Cynithinia Potter?'
'The second one.'
'Ok.'
"I'm a man-whore?" yelled Harry. "For kissing Lori? What is wrong with you slut?!?"
'Sorry.'
'It's ok.'
'So… are you going to go by Cynithinia or Sini?'
'Umm… Sini for regular use and Cynithinia for like the royalty stuff.'
'Sounds good… Cynithinia!'
"ME?!? ME?!? What about you? You are not right! You are wrong you man-whore."
'Ok, I'm bored now Sini.'
'Yea, me too and sorry for calling you a man-whore.'
'Sok.'
'So now what?'
'I think we should stop now. Here's the plan…'
'I understand.'
'Ok, I'll start. One, two, three!'
Harry turned to Daneil and Rose blinking innocently at them. "So, are we going now?"
Daneil and Rose stood there with their mouths hanging open making incoherent sounds.
"Well?" asked Sini tapping her foot.
Harry laughed. "You can close your mouths now."
Rose came out of her daze first. "Right." She checked her watch. "Daneil, we were supposed t be there 15 minutes ago!"
Daneil turned to his wife. "Shit! Right, let's get going now."
Harry winked at Sini before they were EBBed to the Palace.
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"WOW!!!!!!!!!!" exclaimed Sini as she looked around at the room they had EBBed into. The room was marble with high ceilings and stone pillars that had vines carved into them.
"You can say that again," commented Harry as he walked around the room.
"WOW!!!!!!!!!!"
"I was being sarcastic but yea. Wow!"
The vines on the pillars seemed to grow and blossom and then die and start again.
Daneil snapped Harry and Sini out of their daze. "Come. Faith hates it when people are late and we are already fifteen minutes late."
"Well, sorry Mr. Advisor," snapped Sini. "But last time I check, Harry was the one with power here."
Daneil laughed. "Princess, the Prince has just as much power as you do at the moment and until he is crowded, he has very little power."
'Can you say split personalities?' Sini asked Harry through their mind link.
'Yea, I know what you mean but if you ask me if looks like he's under a spell of some sort.'
'Do you know which one?'
'I have a guess but we need more evidence and I want to find out who put it on him if he is spelled.'
'Why do you think he's spelled?' she asked curiously.
'Look at his eyes. When we first met him his eyes were a blue/green as they were earlier today, but now they're a dark grey which doesn't make sense.'
Sini laughed in her mind. 'Very interesting. I didn't notice that.'
'I notice small details after spending four years with Hermione.'
Sini laughed again. 'Maybe you should become an Auror instead of king so that you can solve crime scenes.'
Harry laughed out loud and was going to answer the same way when Daneil glared at him. 'And leave you will all the power? Anyways back to our last subject, what was shoved up his arse?'
Sini grinned at him. "A broomstick maybe?"
Harry snorted and ignored the glare from Daneil who reminded Harry of Percy.
"Either share your joke or be quiet!"
'Either share your joke or be quiet!' mimicked Sini. 'Who does he think he is, our father?'
"Why?" asked Harry trying to bait the man who was leading them somewhere.
"Because I said so and the Queen doesn't like noise in her palace!"
'Watch this.'
"Oh! The QUEEN doesn't like noise in HER palace," Harry said loudly. "I thought it was MY palace, since you know, my mom left it to ME!"
Daneil turned red and brought his fist up to hit Harry. He turned to look at Sini when she cleared her throat.
"I don't think so!" she said as she stunned him. "Ok, so…" She turned to Harry who was grinning. "Where to now?"
Harry's grin widened. "We're not the kids of Prongs for nothing. Come on, lets go explore," said Harry as he pulled his invisibility cloak out of his bag.
Sini grin and laughed. "Of course good sir." She looked down at her feet. "What should we do with him?" she asked giving Daneil still form a soft kick.
Harry looked around the corridor and spotted a cupboard. "There," he said pointing to it.
"Perfect." With the help of Harry, Sini dragged Daneil and placed him in the cupboard.
"You know, it would have been easier to use magic," said Harry as they set off down the hall.
"Yeah, but magic can be traced dummy."
Harry laughed and tousled her hair. "Of course. Come on, let's go see this palace."
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Daneil shook his head. "Why'd I have to be the mean one? Why couldn't Rose have put on the contacts and pretend to be evil? I'm starting to hate my job!" He stood up and opened the door, checking to make sure that it was safe to leave.
"Damn stunning curse," he muttered as he made his way to the Queen's rooms. "But she is strong."
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"Where are they Rose? First you're late to come here and now they're missing?" cried a voice from behind an eloquently carved door.
"Daneil was running late and when we got there, Harry and Sini were arguing and them we came here. Daneil was supposed to bring them here twenty minutes but I don't know where they have gone off to."
"This is not good Rose. What if the staff sees them? How are we going to explain that? You know we have to introduce them to the staff in a few days but not before that."
Harry grinned at Sini and pushed open the doors to see Daneil, Rose, and Faith in the room. "Are we interrupting something?" he asked innocently.
Rose winked at Daneil when Harry and Sini were not looking.
Faith smiled. "No Harry. Anyways Harry, one thing you have to learn is that it is not polite to eavesdrop on conversations. You are soon to be King, use the power."
Sini glared at Daneil. "What's he doing here?"
Faith looked at Daneil who was rubbing his head from time to time. "Him? He's First Class Royal Advisor."
"But he's evil!"
Faith and Rose laughed as Daneil glared at them. "Will you be quiet? I have a horrid headache and you two are not helping. Miss. Sini, you have quite a strong stunning curse."
Sini was confused. "Is it just me or is something missing?"
"It's just you," said Harry not missing to the chance to make fun of his sister.
She stuck her tongue out at him. "Lori lover!"
"Enough you two. You're almost as bad as your parents were. Now," said Faith. "Let me explain. We decided to give Daneil contacts to make it look like he was under a spell and for him to act differently to see how you would react. Congratulations, you passed."
Harry and Sini glanced at each other. 'WEIRD!' they thought together.
"Now, children, we must talk about a few things. First how are we to introduce you to the staff and second, what middle name will you use when presented?"
Sini raised an eyebrow. "Huh?"
Faith laughed. "Sini, it is never 'huh' as you said but 'pardon' or 'pardon me'." She stood up from her chair. "It has been tradition since the royal family has come about that to keep privacy available to them they use one of their many middle names and the last name Boyle and alter their appearance a little. That way they can have a normal life away from the palace. Some however chose not to do this."
Harry smiled. "I understand perfectly grandmother. I think I will go with…"
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Every student staying with the Blacks' had their wands drawn when they heard to pops.
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A/N: Sorry that I took soooooooooo long to update but school is hell… well not really but I've had a lot of work. I hope you enjoyed this and if anyone can guess what Harry will decide, I'll reward you. (I so sound like I'm talking to a dog… Damn!) Anywho… review.
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