Disclaimer: The last time I checked I did not own Harry Potter. However, who knows, it might have changed.
AN: Sorry for the
long wait, but I've been sick and with collage I have almost no
time to write. I will be updating only once a week from now on unless
I can manage to update more. I would like to say thanks to my beta reader Yenom
Chapter 08: Vacation
June 29th, 1991
It was a summer day like any other, with all the many different types of people swarming through Diagon Alley. Many of which were the Hogwarts students that had recently left school for the summer and had come there to meet with friends. In the middle of all this was a young twenty three year old man dressed in all black with dragon hide cloak and boots. His long red hair was tied back in a ponytail, from his left ear dangled a single dragon fang earring; he was currently making his way to the entrance of Gringotts Bank.
For him the day had been a normal one, at least until that point when he heard the most dreaded word in existence and shuddered as two young voices shouted it across the alley. By that alone he recognized the voices immediately as they belonged to the two strangest people he had ever met, yet not in a bad way. These two individuals' were many things to him, they were his best friends who he had met eight years before when taking his OWLs, however they were his direct superiors at work also, furthermore still part of his team at said work place. As if that was not enough they were currently six years younger than him and yet at the moment merely appeared to be no older than ten or eleven years. Normally he liked spending time with them however; he hated it when they said that word moreover he knew that they only uttered it because they knew he hated it.
"Billius, would you stop already?" the young eleven year old looking girl said from besides him as they had caught up with him, the first word causing him to shiver in fright. The girl had sort spiky pink hair and purple eyes and was wearing clothing eerily similar to his, the only differences being the size and the change in cut needed to fit a girl. Her companion who had golden cat-like eyes and long red hair the exact same shade as his own that reached down to his waist also in a ponytail released a snort of amusement at seeing his reaction.
"Now Billius," the young boy spoke in an amused tone, "you know that fear of a name only increases fear of the thing itself. And it is rather silly to fear yourself, don't you think?"
"Harry, you know I hate that name, why do you both insist on calling me that? Only my mother calls me by that name and that's just when she's angry with me." Bill said to his two friends recognizing where the argument was heading and knowing that they would not stop calling him that.
"Well, Billius, I think Ry and me might be a bit more sympathetic if you had told us that was your name from the beginning…" she stopped a moment as if considering her words and then begun once more, "or not, it's fun to see you flinch as most people do when one says Voldemort." At the sound of that name, everyone within hearing distance except the three friends flinched as one followed by glaring at the three young people, who held their laughter at the reaction.
"Well, Nymphadora, "here the young girl had the same reaction that he did at hearing his name, "I hate my first name as much as you hate yours and I always tell people it's William if they ask as most assume that that is my first name anyway. But enough about that, we've been having this argument for years and I don't think either one of us will change our views on those names, so what are you two doing here I thought you would be at Marauders Mansion packing up for your trip." Bill said looking at his young companions as they walked towards the bank.
"We were but we got a message from the Big Head, there was another large spike of magical energy, mage level…" Harry paused interrupted.
By Bill who hissed, "Mage level! I thought all the wizards currently capable of mage level magic were part of the department."
"Well yes, Cypher and us two. Nevertheless, they identified who did it; apparently, it was a muggleborn girl, who just got her Hogwarts letter a few weeks ago. Apparently she was just practicing magic and as she has yet to begin her first year, so they cannot stop her from performing magic unless close to now family muggles. It appears that as she uses her magic she is awakening her power which would have remained asleep as being a muggleborn she would not have know that magic existed and so would not have received any training." Harry finished speaking.
"How can a possible mage go unnoticed until she's eleven? Should not her power have been felt when she was born and, as she grew older by the Seekers? Or even by yourselves, you're powerful enough to have felt someone like her as she grew up." Bill inquired in a confused tone.
"Her birth was felt, but it was recorded as a mistake and that it was only a very powerful sorceress, or High sorceress. The one who did the report also wrote that Dumbledore had been there to put some power blocks on the child. Now we know that as head of the Wizengamot he has every right to put blocks like those on muggleborn, at least until they get to Hogwarts for their first year, as if they are too powerful for risk of our worlds expose sure. However, he had to know that she was a mage level which leaves the question as to why did he block her power and then warded her home so that magic could not be sensed from outside it. When Cipher went to investigate with his team they found the remains of the wards that Dumbledore put up, they had been destroyed by her when her power spiked, as were her blocks before." Nym spoke this time and as she stopped to get her breath.
Harry continued for her, "The big head wants a team around her all the time, less Dumbledore try something again with her, he may be on the side of Light, but he's getting to meddlesome. Right now Draknulls' team is guarding but apparently, her family is going on vacation for this entire month and since Nym and me were already going on vacation. We have been assigned to keep close so were going to the same place as them and you my dear friend get to come with us, without option of refusing, like you did when we invited you before," Harry said grinning at the older man.
"What! What will I tell my family I told them I was still here in main Gringotts checking the wards on some of the high security vaults; I can't just leave like that." Bill said, while pondering how to explain his disappearance to not only his family but also his new girlfriend.
"Well, you can tell them that there has been a new find and as you are one of the best curse breakers, that which is true, you have been called to sight immediately. That is why we came here; we were going to inform Knoktor about it so that Gringotts can stick with the same story. We are doing it since Draknulls will not be coming back to his job here as a banker for another two days." Nym continued.
It was a fact unknown outside the Department of Mysteries that they employ members of any race as long as they prove to be extremely capable in their field. Therefore, the Department treats everyone equally with the same chances and in all actuality, the wizards compose the least amount of the Department of Mysteries members and most of these wizards are either muggleborns or descended from muggleborns so few hold the prejudices of most pureblooded families. Traditionally the Head of the department was a human since no one outside the department knew of their policy to accept non-humans, which led to the creation of the True Head of the Department, who while it might have been a human it could also not be as was often the case. Nevertheless, even while this posts name was True Head most members of the department jokingly referred to it as the Big Head post.
Two days later on July 1st, five people tried to make their way inconspicuously through the airport but only the two youngest managed it. Harry and Nymphadora used to the muggle world walked without staring at everything as if they'd never seen it before. The other three while staring at even the most normal looking things. Luckily, they had dressed normally by muggle terms as both Harry and Nym had transfiguring their clothing into appropriate ones to ensure they did not stand out. Remus and Sirius had come as the appointed Guardians of the three eleven year old looking boys as they were the only ones that could easily leave their jobs and did not stand out as much as Mad-Eye would have.
Bill for the first time in many hours was showing an emotion that was not annoyance at his two best friends. He had looked annoyed since they forced him to drink a temporary de-aging potion so he would appear their age for the next month and a half.
Harry and Nym had kept their standard hair color and eyes with the exception of making their irises look human instead of cat-like, they were both currently sharing grins at seeing the looks on the faces of their three companions.
They would soon board the plane and go to an island in the Caribbean, where they would spend their month long vacation watching over the muggleborn's family and maybe even make contact and befriend her.
"Harry, you sure this piece of metal can fly? I mean they are muggles, you never know if things will work." Bill spoke in a slightly scared and slightly awed voice. Hearing him speak both Remus and Sirius paid attention as they had been wondering the same thing. None of them noticed the young girl who had heard this said and was now frowning in their direction with a thoughtful look on her face.
"Honestly, have more confidence men, of course it works we both have been on them many times and my dad more than us and they have never had a problem." Nym answered in the tone of voice Harry usually used when explaining something he saw as obvious to other people. Her answer took the other three by surprise and they stared at her oddly while wondering if she was really Nym and not Harry in disguise, while at the moment Harry grinned proudly at the way Nym had spoken.
"Shadowfang?" Moony asked while Nym was thinking that she was Harry. The real Harry who did happened to be looking like himself at this moment held up his right hand where one ring adorned his ring finger, it was the one identifying him as the Potter-Black heir.
"Over here, we haven't mistaken each other yet." He answered in a low voice, which caused their three companions to hold in the laughter what was shining in their eyes while Nym and Harry blushed.
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