Harry Potter and the Slayerette
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X-Lander: Thanks for the compliments!! *grins happily* Chocolate?
Karen Murray: Thank you so much for your wonderful reviews!!! As for Professor Regan being a vampire…close but no cigar I'm afraid. Lockhart is actually spelt correctly. Yes, I am adding a few pieces of my own lore. May I suggest that you read Darkling if you want to learn a little more about the lore I'm using? I'm glad that you're enjoying the fic so far!! *grins and offers chocolate*
Anonymous Person Who Didn't Sign Their Review: You said:- "The fact that Willow from "Buffy" was in was very surprising just the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Weasly were killed." Which has totally baffled me so far. Congratulations! *lol* Thank you for also saying that it's a good story.
Spuffy: I know they didn't deserve it. That's what made it so hard!!! Damn Voldemort.
Alien: Glad you liked the vase!
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They were a subdued group on the train. Much more subdued than they had ever been.
The two Professors accompanying them tried hard to keep the conversation going. But after two hours of purely monosyllabic answers, they gave up and began to talk to each other instead. Harry tried to follow their conversation for a while, but it was all about people he'd never met and his own thoughts were calling so he gave up. He was shaken out of his silent reverie however, when Hermione unexpectedly addressed a question to Professor Regan.
"Excuse me." She said. "But who's Basil?"
"Huh?" Professor Regan answered eloquently.
"When Harry and I were looking for Ron you mentioned someone called Basil. I was just wondering who he is."
Professor Regan sighed unhappily. "He was my brother." She explained. "He was turned into a vampire. After some friends of mine and I killed the vampire that turned him, he decided to hunt us down and kill us. I travelled to where my friends lived to warn them and he was already there. After a while, we fought and I killed him."
"Oh." Hermione said, her eyes wide. "I'm sorry."
"Don't be." Professor Regan told her. "At that point he wasn't my brother anymore. You see, before he was turned into a vampire, he was stuck in the body of a cat. After he was turned, one of his vampire friends helped him to assume human form again. But she was a bit crazy so Basil wound up female. I think I actually did him a favour when I staked him."
"Wow." Said Ron, awestruck. "That's… insane. I mean, imagine killing your female brother." He shook his head.
"That's nothing." Professor Rosenburg informed him. "Darcy's mother, father and identical twin sister were also turned into vampires. My friends and I helped her to destroy them. Darcy killed both her mother and her sister, although one of my friends killed her father."
"I didn't kill Maria." Professor Regan informed her.
Professor Rosenburg frowned. "Really? Then who did?"
Harry noticed a strange expression cross Professor Regan's face. It was as though she knew the answer but was unable to reveal it, he thought.
Professor Regan shrugged. "It was dark. Who knows what really happened."
"Good point." Professor Rosenburg admitted.
Harry remembered another name that the two Professors had mentioned. "So who's Angel?" He asked.
Professor Rosenburg shook her head. "Uh-uh." She told the group of avidly listening teenagers. "No-one is learning a thing about Angel until your next Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson."
Professor Regan laughed at their crestfallen faces. "He's a very good friend of ours." She told them and refused to say anymore.
A short while after that, the train pulled in at Kings Cross Station and the group became silent once again, the teenagers remembering the last time that they were there.
From the station they travelled via the underground to an area of London that Harry recognised as being close to Diagon Alley. As it was very late, a vague suspicion formed in his mind, but he didn't say a word to anyone.
It was as well that he didn't for, when they were about two roads away from the Leaky Cauldron, Professor Rosenburg abruptly stuck her wand hand out into the road and with a loud bang, the Knight Bus appeared.
Apparently, the Professors had planned their journey out well. The Knight bus had a set route that it took every night. As it so happened, after a short two-minute journey on the Knight Bus they were dropped off outside a residence on the outskirts of Bath.
When the teenagers questioned their temporary guardians, all they would tell them was that the house belonged to a very good friend of theirs who was kindly loaning it to them whilst he was visiting London.
As there were only four bedrooms, three of which had single beds, Professor Regan added another bed to each of the rooms using magic, whilst Professor Rosenburg microwaved some food for them all to eat.
After they had eaten, the students went to bed. At some point in the night, Harry awoke, thirsty, and went down to the kitchen to get a drink. As he passed the study he heard noises coming from inside and peered around the door. Professor Rosenburg was sat in front of a laptop, a soft yellow glow emanating from the keyboard. Harry looked closer, she seemed to have her fingers actually inside the keyboard. Harry closed the door and went back to bed and sleep.
The next morning they were woken early as the funeral had been planned so that they would have time to return to school. Before they left, the two Professors tidied the house and got rid of the beds. Harry saw Professor Rosenburg leave a book and a letter for her friend in the study.
They were all wearing black dress robes that Dumbledore had presented them all with as a mark of his respect for their parents. Ron had had to be persuaded by Hermione to wear them, insisting that it was charity. Eventually however, she had managed to get him to wear them.
They caught two muggle taxis to the small village where the Weasley's lived and entered the small muggle church for the funeral service.
The funeral was attended by what the vicar conducting the service would later describe as the weirdest bunch of people that ever walked the earth. It didn't help that the man had never actually met Mr and Mrs Weasley so he couldn't say anything personal about them. Despite this handicap however, he managed to get through the service tolerably.
The elder Weasley children had made arrangements for a small wake to be held at the Weasley house, whilst the members of the Weasley family attended the actual burial of their parents. Harry found it extremely unnerving to be at the Weasley house without the comforting presence of Mrs Weasley. She had been the closest thing he had to a mother and now she was gone. He could only imagine how Ron, Ginny and the others felt.
After about an hour, the Weasley family and Professor Regan (Who had also attended the burial in the form of protection for the remaining Weasley's) returned to their house and Fred, George, Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny set off to the local train station where the Hogwarts Express was waiting to convey them back to school.