I have come to the conclusion that either something is wrong with or my readers hate me. I cried myself to sleep the past couple of nights when only one person really reviewed to my new chapter...well except for me but I don't count!!!!
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Oh yeah and if any of you are reading this fic(and forgot to review I might add...) Then you must know that Chapter 4 will not be about the Hogwarts Founders or anything because I made it a separate story, what I promised in Chapter 5 will be in Chapter 4. So you should read that(and review because besides Lady of Masbolle I was the only one to review for that one...you guys suck!!)
And the separate story on the Hogwarts founder will be expanded and the title will be changed. It is just going to be a bunch of stories people are telling Harry. Like Dumbledore verse Grindewald and all that other stuff. All of it will tie into this story though so if I say something you don't understand it will most likely be because I mentioned it in there.
Sorry about the spacing problem before. Didn't realize it was like that but hopefully now I fixed it.
Chapter 3 Quidditch Cup and Family History
"Let me introduce to you the star players of Puddlemere United! Chasers Owens, Wadcock and Hamman! Beater and Captain Hoff, fellow Beater Paura. Keeper Wood and their seeker Jarl!" Half the crowd wearing blue and gold including Harry and his friends(except Ron who was still complaining that the Cannons were robbed) went wild.
"And now let me introduce to you the ever popular Sweetwater All-Stars! Chasers Greer, Gaines and Haworth Beaters Hamm and Scurry. Their Captain, Keeper Staley and Seeker Jacobi!" (If you noticed, the players of the Sweetwater All-Stars, who are an American team, are all named after members of the U.S. Olympic team.) The half of the crowd who were wearing blue and red cheered loudly.
"Special Referee Justin Harrigan!" a young looking fellow came onto the field wearing the special referee robe.
"I know him!" Ron said. "He use to play for the Cannons until he broke his arms so many times that if he broke it a couple more times then magic would no longer be able to work on it and his arm would have to be amputated!"
"Wow that is great to know Ron!!!" Harry said sarcastically.
"Just thought I'd let you know" he muttered.
"The balls are released. Their goes the bludgers, followed closely by the golden snitch" Harry kept his eye closely on the snitch but lost it as he saw the players move into action. "Wadcock snatches the Quaffle. He goes straight for the all-Stars goal. He dodges Greer and ducks a bludger! Gaines and Haworth are coming at him. Bloody hell! I beautifully done Reverse Pass by Wadcock right to Owens! Owens shoots and scores!" Harry cheered wildly along with half the crowd.
"Greer takes the Quaffle and is speeding up the pitch. Passes to Gaines who ducks a bludger. Gaines goes to pass it back to Greer but intercepted by Wadcock! He flies down the pitch! He goes to shoot but oh excellent bludger work by Hamm! Greer back in possession. And the All-Star chasers are pulling off a Hawkshead Attacking Formation! Greer passes it back to Gaines who takes a shot! Oh brilliant save by Puddlemere Keeper Oliver Wood who moved up from the reserves a couple fo weeks ago!" the announcer...announced.
"Hamman has the Quaffle and his zooming to the All-Star goal. Haworth comes besides him and steals the Quaffle. He is heading for Wood. DID YOU SEE THAT!?!" the announcer yelled. "The Puddlemere beaters have just done a Doppleganger Defense!" The bludger that the two beaters had hit collided with Haworth in the small of his back.
He flipped forward off his broom and started to fall to the ground. Luckily he wasn't that far from it. A medical team rushed to check him and a minute or two later he got back onto his broom and shot into the air.
After that the game turned violent. Harry saw a number of fouls being used. There was blagging, blatching, blurting, cobbing, flacking, haversacking, skinning and stooging. Hell there was even a bumphing! And if that wasn't bad enough the bludger flew right at them! Harry managed to pull Blaise out of the way before the black ball collided with her head. Her seat however wasn't as lucky and a guy had to come and repair it.
The game was really long though. The score was 20 to 100 after seven hours off playing. Oliver was going good and had great stamina and endurance. He was the last player to have to come off the field for a break, he played for six hours. There were several snitch spottings and a couple of Wronski Feints attempts but they didn't lead to anything.
It was almost going on to the eighth hour when Harry decided he had to pee like a race horse. He was just outside the bath room door when he heard voices talking.
"...a couple ov doors down" the man that entered his room earlier said. Harry peaked in and saw the man and several others gathered in the bathroom. They all had their back turned to him so he snuck in.
"I hate that Potter brat. Besides our lord would award us greatly if we brought him in." one of them replied.
"Ya but I vould like a piece ov Potter myself" the man with the accent said.
"Aye I say we drag him outside and beat the shit out of him!" Harry yelled.
"YEAH!!!" the others shouted in agreement.
"Wait a minute" a gruff voice said. A man turned around and saw Harry leaning against the wall, wand in hand and grinning like a maniac.
"Hello boys" he smiled at them.
They all made quick grabs for their wands. "Potente Multiple Stupefy" Harry yelled. The red beans collided with the figures and they all fell to the ground. "That was easy" Harry said. He walked over to a stall, took a piss and left the bathroom. He passed an Auror on the way. "You can find a bunch of Death Eaters knocked out in the loo" Harry told him as he walked by.
He walked back into their room and saw that everyone was on the edge of theirs seats. When Harry looked out over the pitch he spotted it immediately. The snitch was hovering above the ground and the seekers were in a mad dive to get it. The score was 130-20 Puddlemere in the lead so whoever caught the snitch would win.
The snitch shot upwards and the two seekers pulled hard on their brooms. Soon the snitch started to fly towards the All-Star goal post. The Puddlemere seeker was in the lead and he reached his hand out to capture the little golden ball. However a bludger sent by Hamm hit him in the side. He fell f course and the All-Star seeker used this to his advantage. Soon he had the snitch firmly in his grasp.
Harry let out a loud boo when the All-Star fans erupted into cheers. "So close...if only we had three more goals" Harry sighed loudly.
"Isn't this one of the best birthdays you had Harry?" Sirius asked, grinning from ear to ear.
"Yeah it was awesome Can't wait to get my presents. Wait...oh no"
"What?" Hermione asked.
"I wonder how Oliver is taking it" Harry said.
"What do you mean?" Ron asked.
"Remember in third year when we lost against Hufflepuff? He almost drowned himself in the shower" Harry told them
"Oh yeah" Ginny muttered. They got up to leave, like everyone else when screams could be heard around the stadium. A nundu had appeared out of no where in the middle of the pitch.
Harry cursed before looking at Ron. "Summon me in a minute" he told him before reaching into his pocket and activating the portkey which will take him to Potter manor. Where he ran inside and to the Order room. He gathered as many as the gasmask as he could. The Order symbol on his hand burned and he answered the summons.
He quickly distributed the mask before grabbing his right hand and concentrating hard. Looking out on the pitch he sees several people firing spells at the gigantic beast. 'People are so stupid. If everyone here just fired a stunner at it then the thing would be down with out a problem but no they all have to run for their pathetic lives because they are too afraid to do anything. That is the problem with this world, everyone is to afraid to do anything' Harry thought miserably.
"Get everyone out safely. I'll distract the nundu" Harry said. The kids all nodded, either too petrified to take on a nundu or obeying their leader.
They all ran out off the room and down a flights of stairs. After running for a while they come out by the bottom seats. Harry jumps over the barrier, Sirius and Remus right behind him.
"What are you two doing?" he asked them bewildered.
"Oh sure Harry we'll let you take on a bloody nundu all by yourself besides the damn fact that it takes 100 grown witches and wizards to subdue it!" Sirius says sarcastically.
"......." Harry looked at him blankly.
"Let's just go" Remus said sighing. So the two animagus and the werewolf rush forward to the nundu. It was just about to breath down upon a small family when Harry hit it with a Reductor Curse in its ass. The nundu, who Harry called Chuck, which confused Sirius and Remus, raised his head into the air and let out a loud roar. Green gas flowed from its mouth.
The giant cat like beast turned around and looked at them. Harry gave it a polite wave before it pounced at him. Jumping out of the way, the three wizards ran away making sure to run in opposite directions from each other.
The thing took off after Remus and it was close to catching up to him when Harry punched the thing in its leg. For the nundu it probably felt like a small sting but it turned to Harry any way. Harry whacked it as hard as he could on the nose "Bad, bad nundu!" Harry yelled at it. "Go lay down" he was pointing to a corner of the pitch. The nundu growled at him and Harry ran away his hands waving in the air like a little kid. The nundu let out a growl before chasing after him.
The thing was just about to pounce on Harry before a big black dog's teeth sank into it hind leg. The nundu gave its leg a violent shake and the dog flew into the stands. By that time Harry had gotten away.
"Bugger" Harry muttered as someone ran up to help Sirius, who changed back to his human form. The nundu turned back to him and was stalking slowly towards him. Remus was shooting spell after spell at it but it did not affect the huge beast.
When it was several feet away three large shadows passed over the pitch. As the nundu took another step closer it was knocked out of the way by another large beast. Harry looked and saw to his satisfaction that three lammusas were circling and fighting the nundu.
He watched with fascination as they found a weak spot on beast who was bigger by a at least a meter length, width and height wise and about 100 pounds. After several minutes the bigger beast was dead and the three lammusas were leaving, one wounded, among many thanks from Harry.
Harry grabbed his wand from his pocket and aimed it at the nundu. "Stupefy" he said.
"You do know it is dead don't you?" Remus asked him.
"Just making sure" Harry replied taking off his mask. "You can never be to careful"
"Harry we have bad news" Hermione said coming up to him. "Over 10,000 are dead."
"That many?" he asked her, eyes surveying the scene. She just nodded her head in response. "Fucking Voldemort. Already we have had over 100,000 casualties both wizarding and muggle and I fear the war has just began"
"Harry? Remus? Sirius? Hermione?" Dumbledore asked coming up from behind them. "Will you like to accompany me to Potter Manor with everyone else and explain to me what happened? I fear it is not safe hear the house you were staying at has been broken in too"
"Sure" Remus replied.
"I can't though!" Sirius said. "I have to return the cars, cancel our plane tickets and tell the owner of the house we are leaving early. Plus what about all our stuff?" Sirius asked frantically.
"All ready taken care of" Albus replied.
"Oh...Alright then" Sirius said.
So soon everyone was gathered around a round(hehehe) table in the Library at Potter Manor. Harry had just finished telling the story and everyone gave a heavy sigh.
"Come on guys, look at the bright side" Harry said.
"What bright side?" Ron asked annoyed.
"I don't know but when ever people are thinking negative someone always says look at the bright side" Harry replied, shrugging his shoulders.
"You scare me Harry" Blaise looked at him funny.
"Yeah and sometimes you've been acting all weird, like Albus here" Sirius replied jerking his head to the old man sitting next to him.
"Which reminds me" Harry dug into his cloak pocket. He found what he was looking for and pulled out a paper bag. "Lemon drop?" he asked innocently showing the yellow candies to everyone. (Thanks for the idea Klover P)
"Ooooo, thank you" Albus replied picking one up and popping it in his mouth. He made a slight face and looked at Harry. "I see you got the sour kind" he said.
"Yes. I find that the regular ones are to plain for me." Harry stated. "But these sour ones offer an adventure every time you have one"
"Yes they are but I fear in my old age it is better to stick to the plain ones" Dumbledore said nodding his head.
"Oh crap. Not another one" Sirius muttered under his breath. Soon the only people left in the room were Remus, Michelle, Sirius, Harry and Albus.
"Now that I have a chance to talk to you Harry. Now you told me that you have been experiencing increase in your sense, strength and speed. Now I remember your father complaining about the same thing, as did your Aunt"
"You did?" Harry looked at her.
"Yes but I didn't think anything of it." Michelle told him.
"Anyway" Dumbledore began. "I had several hunches that I looked up and all turned out false. I did much research into this matter. Luckily I have a book on myths, that is very old and very very rare, that gave me an understanding of your situation.
"Now the story I read is the legend of the aphthartos. The aphthartos(immortal in Ancient Greek) were immortals who walked the earth thousands of years ago. They were similar yet very different to Vampires and closely related to the Ancient Elves. They had tanned skin, with either black or golden hair and were tall. The aphthartos powers weren't as strong in females as they were in males.
"Now when they were children they looked just like humans but, when they start to come of age the aphthartos became stronger, faster and their senses sharpened. The men grow to around 7 feet in height, their ears became pointed, their teeth became sharper and their eyes looked like that of a hawks. For the women their ears developed a slight point, their eyes become more intense and only their canine teeth grow, similar to that of a vampire. They grew to around 6foot five inches." Dumbledore looked at him. Harry felt around his ear.
"Yeah but my appearance didn't change much! I just grew about 4 inches!" Harry exclaimed.
"I'm not done Harry" Dumbledore replied. "As you know now and then humans fear that which they cannot understand and that which they cannot control. The aphthartos were peaceful beings, who ruled a beautiful kingdom that you know as Atlantis. Well wizards and muggles alike feared them. So an army was formed of muggles and wizards that was sent to destroy their race."
Harry's kitten Theseus who Hagrid gave to him for Christmas came into the room and curled up on his lap. He absentmindedly petted the little fuzzball as Dumbledore continued the story.
"Gold was deadly to the aphthartos, like silver is to werewolves. So with weapons of gold the army marched through the beautiful kingdom at night. They were slaughtered before day came children and adults alike. However a female aphthartos named Zoogoneo(survive in Ancient Greek), who had yet to reach age, was able to escape before her fellow aphthartos were massacred. The empire of Atlantis sunk to the bottom of the ocean with the army that destroyed the people who ruled it still upon it." Dumbledore took a big breath.
"Zoogoneo was found by a Greek wizard King named Epios(gentle in Ancient Greek Kerameus(not gonna tell you yet) who took her in. She was 13 at the time and you don't come of age until you are 17. One of his servants asked to raise the young beauty and he allowed it. King Kerameus has a son Prince Dianoia(understanding in Ancient Greek) who was 14 when they brought young Zoogoneo in. Well soon the two fell in love and the King had them married.
"Now a year before she was to turn of age Zoogoneo became pregnant with twins. No one knew of her heritage because she feared that if she told them she would be executed like the others. However seeing no other option she approached her husband. She told him everything and he was understanding. He told her since he loved her so much he would help her and his unborn children.
"He changed her appearance with spells taught to him by Ares, who muggles thought was a goddess but was really just a powerful witch. So he was able to make sure her eyes stay the same instead of turning into that of a hawk, her teeth appeared to be normal instead of sharp and her ears appeared round instead of pointed.
"The babies were born and the family lived happily, the father casting the same spell on his son and daughter when they came of age and on his grandchildren when they came of age. He died before his grandchildren's children came of age but it wasn't necessary to cast the spell on them because their ears stayed relatively round and their eyes only became more intense looking.
"Well by the time she had great-grandchildren the spells that hid her appearance wore off and Zoogoneo was killed and no one ever knew she was actually their Queen. Her children since they are results of a mortal and a immortal lived for several generations before dying. And since the powers of the aphthartos weren't as strong in females as they were in males females barely inherited the powers. So soon the wizarding kingdoms of Ancient Greece fell like that of the muggle empire and the wizards fled. The kingdom of Kerameus fled to Britain where civilizations were settling and building.
"Generations later when Britain was formed with its own language the children of the last aphthartos and the son of the great King Epios Kerameus were forgetful of their heritage and only thought they were blessed with their gifts of heightened senses, being stronger and faster the regular mortals and long life. The Kerameus's changed their last name to what Kerameus would mean in English....Potter" Dumbledore finished his story and looked at Harry and Michelle.
"This means that you and any of your remaining blood relatives from the Potter side no matter how distant they are part Aphthartos."
"Yeah but that could be basically anybody!" Sirius said. "Basically all purebloods in England are related. And I know for a fact that the Blacks have relatives in France, China and Australia!"
"Not the Potters" Michelle said. "The Potters barely have any children and most of the time it is a boy. In fact I was the first girl in the Potter family for 150 years." Harry oddly felt like the Weasley family who has many boys and barely if any girls, except his family only had one boy. "According to the family tapestry I have a female relative who married a Prewett..."
"Wait a minute. Prewett wasn't their two brothers who were Prewetts?" Harry asked.
"Yes Gideon and Fabian Prewett" Remus said.
"And isn't Mrs. Weasley's maiden name Prewett?" Sirius nodded. "Than doesn't that mean that the Weasley kids are all part aphthartos?"
"It is a great possibility Harry. I will speak with them in a little while" Dumbledore said.
"Well" Michelle continued "Potter's are not known to marry those of the evil pureblooded families in Britain. Malfoy, Snape, Nott, Moon, Golye, Crabbe, Lestrange, Black, Rookwood, Avery, Parkinson, Macnair, Mulciber, Dolohov, Jugson, Rosier, Travers, Warrington, Pucey, Montague, Pritchard, Higgs, Greengass, Flint, Derrick, Davis, Bulstrode, Bole, Bletchley, Baddock and Wilkes." she said naming most of the evil purebloods in Britain.
"We stick to those who are either good or neutral."(I actually wanted to make a list of pureblooded families in Britain but I don't know all of them. In fact some of the names I listed above are questionable. I found the last names listed as Death Eaters or Slytherins. Some of them could actually be muggle-born or half-blood.) "We'll have to look at the family tapestry"
So they all got up and walked to the study and looked at the tapestry. Harry was glad to see that members of the Potter family had no qualms about marrying muggles, muggleborns and half-bloods, but his line of grandfathers were all pureblooded and all married pureblooded. Harry was shocked to see he was related to several of his classmates. A great-great aunt of his married a Robert Longbottom, who was Neville's Great-Grandfather, making his great-great aunt Neville's great-grandmother and his grandmother's name was Anna Weasley. Anna Weasley was Arthur Weasley's aunt. His father and Aunt were cousins of Mr. Weasley and his three other brothers. Which meant Arthur Weasley is his second cousin and Ron is his second cousin once removed or something like that. So he was related to the Weasley's by both parents because a great-great-great-great aunt of his married a Joseph Prewett, who was Molly Weasley's great-great-great Grandmother. (All this family history is confusing, isn't it?)
Looking at the tapestry Harry saw he had relatives in Greece, Italy, America, Australia, Japan, Antarctica, and France as well as Britain, but they were all distant. His closes relative besides his Aunt Michelle and the Dursley's was Mr. Weasley then the Weasley kids. Lisa Turpin, Lavender Brown, Luna Lovegood and Terry Boot were four classmates Harry knew who were closest to being related to Harry. They were all like third cousins twice removed, something or other.
When they were done discussing everything and Dumbledore had a list of about 20 more people who could be part aphthartos Harry went to his pile of presents. After all it was his birthday. Opening up the presents he saw he got books, sweets, food and a car, which was courtesy of Sirius. Morgana, Remus and Michelle. And of course they wouldn't let him drive it unless he got his driver license.
It was a really expensive car, according to Sirius. It was a dark blue BMW 3 Series Convertible with a beige colored leather interior. It came with the works including a car phone and a hi-fi cd system with 5 CD changer and 6 speakers. Of course there were several things magical about the car. Like the fact that it could fly and become invisible if you hit a certain button. It could originally fir four but with a little help from magic it could fit six comfortably and eight if you didn't mind less room.
Harry sighed as he got into bed. They had arranged for him to take his driving test in two weeks and until then he couldn't touch his car. Sirius and Remus would teach him to drive in Sirius's old Cadillac.
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Expect driving lessons from Sirius and Remus and an attack from Voldy next chapter.