A/N – Chapter 3. No major warnings again.
Disclaimer – All Harry Potter Characters are copyright to J.K. Rowling. Alias Demos is copyright to me.
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"Well those introductions were over fast." Harry shook his head slightly. Alias sat in the living room, doing what looked like nothing. He stood in the doorway watching her. After a minute Hermione came walking into the room, sitting beside Alias. They started to talk and Harry found himself with this infinite need to know what they were saying. He took a step closer so he could hear them clearly. "So Alias you wouldn't mind if I ask you a few questions would you? I mean no one's ever been able to study to put it crudely, a Changer." He was sure that Alias was going to refuse and say no way in all bloody hell. To his great surprise she nodded her head yes. "Go ahead. Ask me any questions you can think of." Hermione looked so pleased, her thirst for knowledge was unquenchable and this was just a new pace for learning for her to try. "Okay, first what is your full name?" Alias turned and looked at Harry, motioning for him to come and join them in the living room.
He did so as Alias answered. "Alias Zeniien Demos is my full name." Hermione nodded and wrote it down as Alias told her how to spell her middle name. It was a mouthful, more of a mouthful than Albus Percival Wulfric….Harry stopped the thought. It was just too long of a name. "Alright what kind of animal can you change into?" Alias smirked a little and looked at Harry pointedly. "Harry you commented before that I was very cat-like. Well that is because I transform into a cougar." Hermione wrote it down word for word. "Okay how tall are you?" Alias answered that she was 6 and a half feet tall. Her eyes never left Harry's as she watched him, unblinking eyes boring into his soul. He could feel her gaze until it felt like she was pushing against his mind. She was. "So Harry, finally we can talk alone." He heard her voice echoing in his head. "You're a Leglimens?" She nodded a little without speaking, aloud or inwardly. "Another thing Dumbledore wanted me to do was to teach you to block me from your mind. If you can block me you can block anyone. Including Voldie-Pants." Alias looked over at Hermione.
"I hiss at dogs because it's in my nature, my instincts." She answered the question that Hermione had asked while she had been talking to Harry. "How is that so? He is the most powerful dark wizard since Grindel…whatever his name was." Alias smirked slightly at Harry. "Because darling, I can break into Voldie's mind. That is why Dumbledore knew that he would be at the Ministry when Sirius died. Because I broke into his itsy bitsy little mind. And I can truly say itsy bitsy because he only thinks of three things." Harry was afraid to ask. "Favorite food? Let's see my favorite food is…rats." She sent a look in Harry's direction, stifling her laugh. Hermione looked shocked as Harry and Alias burst into laughter. "Sorry Mione, my real favorite food is Mutton." "What pray tell does Voldie think of all the time Your Ladyship?" Alias sent a glare his way while Mione wasn't looking. "World Domination, Killing You, Oh and that's right capturing me so he can have a constant supply of my blood. Like I said itsy bitsy brain." Harry was shocked now. "He thinks about what?" Mione looked up at him shocked as Alias walked over to him and forced him to sit down in the chair. "Look Harry, I'm here to protect you. Not you to protect me. Leave it at that." She stood and walked out of the room, muttering apologies to Mione saying that she could continue the questionnaire later.
Harry didn't see her for 2 days. When he did see her it was at the Hogwarts Express. She was still dressed in the customary black cloak of a deatheater, but no one seemed to notice her. She blended into crowds well. "Are you coming with us Sass?" Mione and Alias seemed to have gotten on fine. Alias still had made no mention of that night in Sirius' room when Harry had kissed her. "Yea I am. Order's orders." That was a small mouthful, she thought to herself as she stepped onto the train behind Harry and the others. Ron and Hermione had to go to a meeting. They were the Head Boy and Girl. Alias sat next to Harry as the train started to move. "Why are you coming Alias?" She had shooed Ginny, Neville and a few other people from the compartment so she could talk to Harry alone. "Harry I'm your protector, I don't leave you unless I'm dead. Now so no one is asking too many questions about me we need a cover. Fortunately Dumbledore had one prepared for us." She handed him the paper. He read through it. "You're my pet?" He half screamed at her. She nodded. "Yes. I will be in my human form most times and will follow behind you like a pet. The teachers have been given an excuse for why I am at the school. Thanks to McGonagall's quick thinking I am also being installed at the school to protect everyone else." Harry was shocked. She was acting as if this was nothing new and that it happened every day. "Alias do you realize how many kids you'll be protecting now besides me?" She stopped for a minute and seemed to be counting. Finally it looked as if she had come to a conclusion. "Roughly 7000 kids, not including teachers. Adding in teachers roughly 7013 people." She seemed satisfied.
He was starting to learn she didn't let her real emotions show through. She fell asleep on the ride to Hogsmeade station, but Harry had a feeling that she wasn't really sleeping. Because before the train had even stopped she had grabbed his trunk, Hermione's trunk, Ron's trunk, Ginny's trunk and her own trunk and was walking out. Lifting them as if they were nothing. Crookshanks lay along her shoulders as she walked. As they walked behind her, they heard Crookshanks giving very animated mews and hisses at Alias. She was returning them. They weren't that surprised, Hermione had been telling them on the ride to Kings Cross Station that Alias was very closely related to Kneazles and cats. "Alias? 'ho woulda thought t' find you 'ere." Alias smiled at Hagrid. He gave her a quick hug before she went and reserved a carriage for the group. She dealt with their entire luggage load as she stood and petted the thestrals.
Harry didn't see her again until McGonagall was giving the opening speech. "Welcome back everyone. Now I know you don't want to hear a big speech on house unity, but it is what we need. I'm not going to give you a large speech, just to introduce some new people here at Hogwarts. Ms Olivia Stanwick has accepted the place of Gryffindor Head and Transfiguration Professor. Professor Remus Lupin has taken back his job of Defence Against the Dark Arts Teacher." There was a large amount of murmuring through the Great Hall. Even people at the Gryffindor table, who new what Lupin was, were wondering why he was allowed to teach again. "Please." Everyone quieted down to listen to their Headmistress. "Someone else that is going to protect this school against evil and against any werewolf attacks that could happen with Professor Lupin around. Please welcome Ms Alias Demos." She clapped as did the teachers, Harry, Mione, Ron, Ginny and a few others. Mione actually whistled. Everything stopped because Alias didn't appear. She came in just a few seconds after everyone had stopped clapping. She was bleeding a little. "Sorry had to go help Hagrid with some family problems." She walked forward, her wounds healing in front of everyone's eyes as she walked down the aisle to the head table. Her hair dried and new clothes formed around her ripped ones. Her ripped ones simply faded away. She was now wearing a pair of faded hip huggers and a black long sleeve shirt with a dragon in red in the middle. On the back, in the middle was a red cougar. She was alongside the Slytherin Table when Draco sneered at her. "How could that walking whore protect us?" She had heard him fine. She didn't even look to McGonagall for permission. She walked over to Draco. "Stand up Mr. Malfoy." Draco did as she bid him. He was as tall as her. "Now what was it you said? And please repeat it to the entire Great Hall." He words left no room for argument. "I asked how a walking whore like you could protect us." She smirked. He paled, if that was possible. She took a step closer to him. She held out her hand and Harry's wand flew from the inside of his robes and into her hand. She hadn't said anything and had no wand.
She pointed it at Draco. "You might want to take that back Draco." Her words dripped with malice as she looked Draco in the eye. Everyone could basically see the flames around each other and the lightning crack between their eyes. His cold eyes shot ice at her. Her amber eyes that were colder still shot daggers right back at him. "No." He said it simply. She laughed hollowly and turned to walk away before turning back to him. Everyone could see the change in her face. It was a little more primal, still pretty, but primal and very carnivorous. Fangs rested on her bottom lip. Her eyes were no longer amber but a fierce yellowy amber color. Her pupils were slits that made her face even more carnivorous. "Are you sure." She took a step forward and pointed Harry's wand at him. She waited a second and turned and walked towards Harry. She then turned and looked at Draco again. "Oh by the Draco, Dawling you might want to change your pants. You wet yourself." Everyone burst out laughing, even the Slytherins. She stopped next to Harry. "Thanks for letting me borrow your wand. I needed to deal with a certain little ass munch." Harry laughed. There was a scream at the Slytherin table. Everyone turned and saw that Draco was now about two feet tall and a walking ass. Literally, crack and all.
McGonagall stood up in her seat. "Alias! Change him back this instant!" Lupin himself was coughing horribly, covering up his laughter. As was the rest of the Head Table. Even McGonagall was letting out horrible racking coughs as she tried to hide her laughter and be mad at the same time. Alias looked at McGonagall. "But Professor!" She whined piteously. McGonagall looked at Harry. "Harry Potter she is your pet make her turn him back I swear that you'll scrub every single piece of stone in this castle!" Harry gulped. "Change him back Sass." She sighed and did as she was told. Walking towards a wall and simply climbing up it to sit in a window. Hedwig beside her.