Title: Harry Potter and the Demise of an Enemy
Genre: Romance/Action/Adventure
Summary: Harry begins's his sixth year at Hogwarts… a bit differently, this is my take on Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.
Harry awoke quickly to see Lupin had arrived at the house, he crawled over to Hermione who was still out on the floor, he could also see the dark haired woman who had put them in the shape they where in lying on the floor.
"Mione," Harry cried kneeling on the floor beside his fallen friend.
"It's ok Harry, she's just been stunned," Dumbledore said moving over beside Harry as Lupin sheepishly followed.
"Stunned, but the light it was green," Harry said surprised.
"Ennervate," a cold female voice said clearly. Harry smiled broadly as Hermione awoke, she pulled out her wand at the sight of the woman but Lupin quickly moved between them as a devilish smile grew on the young woman's face.
"Now, now let's explain first," he said, Hermione glared at the girl put consented by putting her wand away, the girl did the same although the wand itself seemed to vanish into thin air.
"Well Remus, the floor is yours," Albus said with a slight smirk.
"Well, ah, see the thing is… well… the part of the prophecy that Voldemort knows involved a child born on the day and well… Voldemort had lots of vampires under his control at the time and… oh bugger I'm making a huge mess of this aren't I," Remus said putting his head in his hands.
"Perhaps I should explain," the girl said stepping forward slightly amused.
"That would be fine yes," Remus said from where his head was buried in his hands.
"My name, is Josephine Lilly Potter, I am your twin sister. At St. Mungo's a Vampire made it into the hospital saw the name Potter, bit and ran. Mum and dad apparently kept me… Voldemort died before he noticed I was there, I'm a vampire, Sirius has been keeping an eye on me… teaching me magic I'm up to sixth year magic… after he, after he died Lupin took over," she said showing only some sorrow at the death of Sirius.
"Look Harry, Albus I'm sorry I didn't tell you but we didn't want anything to happen to her," Remus said moving closer to the girl.
"Well I dare say this leaves us open to more options… Ms. Potter how would you like to come to Hogwarts?" Albus said his eyes twinkling as he looked at the door.
"But professor, sunlight," Harry said cocking his head to the side.
"Oh don't be daft Harry, that's just a myth," Hermione said before Josephine could even open her mouth.
"Well why don't you continue," she said inclining her head slightly as Hermione stood on shaky legs.
"Well, vampires don't need to feed off humans; they can feed off other vampires or just animals. Decapitation and a wooden stake through the hart would kill anybody so their vulnerable to that. But magic can't kill them, their fast as lightning and they age to twenty five before aging stops all together, the only "Transformations," they can manage is fangs which if I remember correctly would turn your eyes blue," Hermione said looking up at the Josephine who wore a cheerful smile.
"Excellent, here let me show you," she said, she closed her eyes and when they opened her eyes where a light almost white crystal blue, she smiled at Harry he could see fangs protruding from her mouth.
"And my question?" Dumbledore asked pointedly.
"Sure," she said shrugging.
"Wow, that's incredible," Ron said inspecting Josephine as though she was a hunk of meat up for display. The girl obviously didn't like this judging by the low growl in the back of her throaght. A small white tiger lifted his head uninterested, the infant tiger had been a gift from Sirius Josephine had explained and was as loyal as the two dog's resting in Harry and Hermione's laps… the Tiger went by the name of Padfoot.
"Well this solves a dilemma I had been wrangling with," Albus said clapping his hands together as he realized that Josephine was thinking about multiple ways to kill the young man.
"What professor," Tonks asked smiling at Josephine.
"Well, I would like to make Ms. Potter and Mr. Weasley our other head boy and girl… before you say anything Ms. Granger in a time of war I believe as Alastor would say in
"Constant Vilagence." Albus said smiling at Tonk's snort.
"Fine by me," the easygoing vampire said plopping down in an available seat in the large common room.
"Cool," Ron agreed nodding.
"Oh Ronald I'm so proud of you," Luna said dreamily causing Ron's ears to turn a light shade of pink.
"Hm, I do think… Sammy, Chudley," Dumbledore said. Two cracks and two house elves appeared before Dumbledore bowing low. "Now Sammy you will be in the service of Josephine and Chudley you shall work for Ronald," Albus said, the two elves bowed low to their respective owners.
"Please don't call me that," Josephine said hotly.
"What would you like me to call you then," Albus said his eyes twinkling as he thought of a younger Tonks.
"Joey's fine," she said nodding.
"Well, I do believe you all have had a rough day, tomorrow we will have a sorting ceremony for Ms. Potter and Harry, Hermione if your done with all you need I suppose you could return to classes," Albus said his eyebrows furrowing thoughtfully.
"Thank you professor," Hermione said answering for both herself and Harry.
"So can you fly?" Tonks asked as the headmaster exited.
"Gryffindor," the sorting hat proclaimed at the top of it's lungs for all to hear. Amid subdued clapping Joey made her way to the seat between Harry and Ron wearing her head girl badge.
"Good show," Harry said clapping his sister on the back.
"Well it looks as though scarface has a pet, care to bite me vampire," Draco drawled walking over to the four students with Crabe and Goyle flanking him. Joey turned and Draco stopped short unprepared for the sheer beauty that enveloped the girl.
"Depends," she said changing, "Are you insulting my brother?"
"No," Crabe squeaked stepping back and pulling Goyle along with him.
"I'm not afraid of you Vampire," Draco sneered.
"We'll see… we'll see," Joey said her teeth vanishing as she turned in her seat.
"Bloody brilliant," Ron commented before returning to stuffing his face. Joey opened her eyes wide and ducked for cover as the owls in the Great Hall all pelted towards her; Padfoot took that as an opportunity to lick her face as every owl stopped on the table she was hiding under.
"Go away will you," she hissed, the owl's simply hooted in response.
"Well I see we have encountered a problem," Albus said interrupting a hissing Joey.
"Owl's are deeply attracted to the scent of vampires, owls are said to be modified forms of them," Hermione said in answer to Harry's unasked question.
"And their bloody annoying," Joey said hotly (no pun intended) from under the table. She quickly resumed her hissing finally managing to get the majority of owls to return to their respective owners. "That'll teach you, all over my new robes," she mumbled cursing the owls multiple times under her breath.
"Well if it isn't the Owl speaker," was Snape's greeting as they entered the dungeon.
"Greasy haired slime ball," was Joey's mumbled response as she otherwise silently set up her cauldron.
"I like her," Harry whispered to Hermione.
"She's pretty nice… I think Ron's afraid of her though," Hermione responded quietly.
"Now, for today we will be making a potion to ward off werewolves, unfortunately their isn't one for vampires," Snape said, Joey hissed at him.
"Natural reaction to slime," she said, Harry looked at her shocked but she innocently pointed to a jar holding a slimy red glob that looked suspiciously like a human heart that Harry could have sworn wasn't there before.
"Bloody brilliant," Harry heard Ron mutter as he went about getting together his ingredients.
"Harry cut those smaller," Hermione whispered as Harry went about chopping the ingredient he couldn't pronounce let alone chop right. He had been interested in watching Draco sneak looks at his sister when he thought nobody was looking.
"Well looks like the Mudblood got it right," Draco drawled after a moment.
"She's not a Mudblood Draco, didn't your read the paper," Harry responded sweetly. Crabe hurriedly handed Draco a copy of the paper which he scanned quickly… his eyes went wide and he raised his hand to be excused.
"Wonder where he's going," Joey muttered, before Harry could say a word he watched the shorter girl all but disappear as she followed Draco from the room. Hermione rolled her eyes and muttered a quick spell.
"Copie feminin," she muttered pointing her wand at Harry, he looked surprised as an almost exact copy of Joey began chopping her ingredients just as Snape turned around.
"Master, master the Mudblood is pure, daughter of Sirius Black," Draco was saying into a mirror as Joey crept up behind him.
"I am aware of this Draco… perhaps she is worth more than the torturous death we believed, sympathy towards her and the vampire make them friends," Joey looked into the mirror and saw a cloaked figure on the other end.
"Yes master," Draco said, he returned the mirror to his pocket and on separate sides of the school both Harry and Joey where hit with waves of unbearable pain.
Voldemort stood above the prone form of a man in a death eater mask, Harry looked to his right and saw Joey beside him looking just as bewildered.
"You have failed me Anton," the man said angrily.
"I am sorry master, so sorry," the boy said, Joey could feel the energy rolling off the man.
"Vampire," she said to Harry who nodded absorbing the new information.
"Your mission is to go to the school Dumbledore is expecting your arrival, befriend the one of your kind and when you are ready… kill her," Voldemort said angrily. Harry snuck a look at his sister and saw her face become pale.
"Yes master," the man said disappearing with a crack.
Harry awoke in the hospital wing his eyes on the ceiling; he felt something warm on top of him and looked down to see a bushy mane of hair signifying Hermione sleeping on his chest. Joey was awake with her legs dangling over the edge of the bed she had been given and she nodded amused to Harry's other side where Ron was. He was teetering on the two back legs of his chair with his feet propped up on Harry's bed snoring.
"You two look comfortable" Joey smirked nodding to Hermione.
"Well we ah… we… we spent the summer together see and…" Harry trailed off seeing Joey shake with silent laughter.
"Not to worry brother, I approve," she said inclining her head slightly.
"So what did you find out?" Harry asked not moving to allow Hermione sleep.
"Well Draco is definitely working for Voldemort if that's what you mean, Voldemort told him to befriend Hermione and me I guess he thinks that since she's a pureblood she's worthy of his attentions," Joey said nodding to Hermione.
"She's worthy of everything," Harry murmured, he looked up alarmed just in time to see his sister pretend to lock her mouth and throw away the key.
"So looks like I'm in trouble, should we talk to Dumblededore?" Joey said smirking at her play on words.
"Well I must say I've heard many in my time but that one's new," Dumbledore said smiling as he entered the room.
"He's already here," Harry said in surprise. A young man Harry did not recognize entered the hospital wing and literally in the blink of an eye Joey had him pinned against the wall growling much like a cat deep in her chest.
"Put him down please Ms. Potter, Anton is harmless I promise," Dumbledore said, Joey looked at Harry who nodded and she let the man fall to the ground rubbing his neck.
"And all for walking into a room," the man commented rubbing his injured throaght.
"Maybe you shouldn't do it again," Harry said loudly, Ron gave a snort and promptly fell to the ground as he andHermione awoke.
"Well it's not like I mind being pinned to the wall by such a good looking witch I just usually prefer dinner first," the man said smirking as Joey glared at him but didn't touch him.
"Anton is a spy Mr. Potter, he came to us two years ago at the age of fifteen when Wormtail first approached him in Voldemort's name," Dumbledore said smirking.
"Can we question him under Veritaserum?" Hermione asked fully awake.
"I thought you might request that, this is a smaller dose it only will keep him under it's effects for five minuets," Albus said handing it to Anton who drank it down with a smile.
"Do you have a girlfriend?" Joey promptly asked.
"Joey," Harry said exasperated.
"What?" she asked.
"Nope," Anton answered. He was a handsome man with eyes that where deep gray and dark hair tied up behind his head in a ponytail. His sharp features and strong chin along with his muscular figure would interest many of the Hogwarts girls.
"Who are you loyal to in this war?" Harry asked rolling his eyes at Joey who again shrugged.
"Albus Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix," he answered the smile fading from his face.
"What was your mission?" Ron asked having recovered.
"To befriend the vampire and dispose of her," he answered, "Not that I would mind the first part."
"Would you be willing to attend Hogwarts in a head boy capacity?" Albus asked sighing.
"Cool, can a share a room with the babe with the eyes?" he asked, Harry rolled his eyes and only Hermione's presence on his chest stopped him from attacking the boy on the floor.
"Well… I wonder if Ms. Lovegood would like to join the group," Dumbledore said seeming unhappy with adding another set of head boys and girls to the group but seeing no other option.
"Professor the dorm is already a bit crowded?" Harry asked looking hopefully at Dumbledore.
"Private quarters for everyone can be arranged," the old man agreed tiredness taking over, "You still have a few minutes, I dare say Joey would like to have some fun," Dumbledore said his eyes twinkling.