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The Protector

Chapter Two: The Reluctant Charge

The wind disappeared as Amy appeared in a ball of flames. Amy and I are quite special in that we control both the elements possessed by our race.

The Veela control fire and earth and the elves water and wind. Amy and I control both we didn't always but thanks to an accident concerning healing roots and a witchcraft accusation we both have control over both elements we can control.

Darkness had fallen and it was just as well since I don't think that the Muggles would have taken well to two people appearing amidst a tornado and a blaze of flames. Amy looked around the street critically and said, "Boring place this isn't it?"

I smiled and rolled my eyes. Amy complained about life at Court and that was anything but boring but she didn't particularly like that either. "Come on." I led her to Four Privet Drive and flinched as I heard the raised voices within. "Looks like we're about to enter world war three." Amy said.

"Wouldn't be the first time." I shrugged before knocking on the door. The knocks cut short the yells and there was a scuffle before the door was opened. Harry stood in the doorway.

"Hello Harry." I said softly. His eyes narrowed. "Who are you?" "A friend. Can I come in?" "I want to know who you are first." Harry said.

"I'm with the Order." I said gently. "She's the Order's new Leader." Amy cut in. I spun to face her. "I wish you wouldn't do that." "Look he needs to know." Amy shot back.

"Can we come in please I need to speak to your aunt and uncle." "How do I know you're telling the truth." I took on my wand, which was more of a decoration than anything and called up my Ice Phoenix.

"That was Dumbledore's Prontus!" Harry snarled pointing his wand at me. "It's an ice Phoenix." I said calmly. "Dumbledore wanted me to be your mentor. He sent me instructions just before his death." Harry flinched.

"Harry quit wasting time!" Amy snapped. "Kate is here to help you. We can't stay here Death Eaters could be anywhere." Harry seemed to listen and then open the door. "Thank-you." Harry led us into the front room and his uncle Vernon was waiting.

"What took you so long boy!" He snapped. "I suggest that while I'm here you do not talk to Harry that way." I said quietly. Vernon looked at me and I was pleased to see that it seemed he remembered me.

"YOU!" He screamed. "I'm pleased you remember me. You seem to forgotten my warning." I said dangerously. I watched as Harry looked at me with renewed interest. "I warned you Vernon. I warned you years ago that if I came back and you had not changed your ways there would be hell to pay."

"This is my house!" Vernon screeched. "Harry is also your nephew whatever you think. We trusted you to look after him. You didn't." I flung my arm out and Vernon went flying to the sofa and sat down as if forced by an invisible hand.

"Now where did Albus say in his letter that you were to keep Harry under the stairs and treat him like a house elf. I don't remember you treating your son as such why should your nephew be any different."

"HE IS A FREAK!" Vernon screeched. Amy and I were on our feet in an instant. I advanced on Vernon I could almost feel myself burning up with anger. "You make me sick. He is your nephew and whether he was a muggle or a wizard it shouldn't matter! You're as evil as the creatures I fight on a daily basis you just have nice possessions and a good reputation to hide behind." I scoffed. "Though how you've maintained that is beyond me! You can't stand anything out the ordinary but I thought you'd change for your nephew. I believed you'd love him."

Amy laughed. "Guess we made a mistake Kate." She looked at Vernon and snarled, "Though I can't believe how we didn't guess." Her eyes had gone from ice blue to molten gold. Not a good sign that only ever happened when she was seriously pissed off.

I looked at Vernon and he had gone white with fear I didn't understand until Amy whispered in my ear, "Honey not to spoil your fun but you're better off doing this on ground level."

I looked down and realised that Vernon and I were floating on the ceiling and Amy had commandeered a ride to come and help me.

I shrugged. "Opps." I lowered us to the floor again Harry was looking at me with an owlish expression. I looked at him and smiled. "I really hate it when people do not keep their promises."

"Why are you doing this for me." I smiled sadly "Because the one who should have is no longer here. I mean you no harm Harry, quite the opposite in fact. Dumbledore wanted me to look after you. I don't expect you to trust me, at least not yet but can you at least trust in Dumbledore and…"

At that point the doorbell rang. "Remus." I smiled. "Right on cue." Harry's eyes lit up. Amy smiled and said, "I'll get it. You deal with the whale here." She smirked at Vernon.

I turned back to my quarry with a vicious smile. "Now I seem to be remembering promising you something Vernon." I turned to Harry and winked and he smiled as he saw his uncle wilt right in front of him.

I didn't move but the next instant Vernon was pinned against the wall as if I had pinned him there. "Whoa!" Harry yelled. "Katherine NO!" A voice yelled as Remus barrelled into the room. "Relax Remus." I said not taking my eyes off Vernon.

"I'm not going to hurt him." I grinned. "Much." Amy rolled her eyes. "I told you we should have made him bounce off the ceiling a few times." She said conversationally. I didn't have to look at her to know she was grinning and had her arms crossed ready to back me up. She knew though that Harry was my charge whether he wanted it or not and I could handle this.

I looked hard at Vernon and he gasped. Petunia made an appearance coming in from the kitchen she stopped dead when she saw me. "Katherine…" "Hello Petunia long time no see." "What are you doing?" She asked fearfully. "Just teaching your husband a lesson." I turned to face Vernon.

"Aren't we Vernon?" Vernon struggled to nod trying to keep the fear out of his eyes. It wasn't working. What can I say? I had warned him after all. "Katherine look, this is not the way to do this. Albus wouldn't have done it this way would he?" Remus asked pointedly.

"Albus," I snarled, spinning round to face Remus "Isn't here now and believe me when I get hold of that slimy git I will kill him for it."

"You mean Snape?" Harry's eyes burning with a fire I was sure was destroying my insides. "Who else?" I asked rhetorically. "He will pay for crossing Me." I said my anger starting to seep through my icy façade again. "Not before me." Harry said in a cold voice that made me sure he meant it.

Before I could say anything else Amy appeared at my shoulder. "Kate!" She whispered in my head. "What?" I snarled. "Let him go I think you've made your point." I looked back at Vernon and realised he was going blue.

I rolled my eyes and let him go he fell down the wall with a crash. I walked over to him and said, "Get the hell up." He whimpered and used the wall as leverage to get up. Vernon was bigger than me in more ways than one but he feared what I'd do to him. Unlike Harry I could use magic outside school and I had shown that was not afraid to use it.

"Now, this is the last time Harry has to return to this household and I am sure no one is as pleased as he is that he doesn't have to put with you anymore." Vernon looked like he was going to say something but Amy said pleasantly, "I wouldn't do that if I were you." "Vernon," I warned.

He closed his mouth. "You'd think that Harry was a slave the way you treat him. He's not a slave to be pushed around and he's not someone you can get rid of. He is your nephew and while I loathe to admit your houseroom has probably kept him alive for most of his life."

I spun then on Petunia and she visibly paled. "Petunia did you really hate your sister that much? I know you disliked her. You disliked the magic and the fact that she forgot about you when she went off to Hogwarts but do you truly hate her so much to alienate the son she died to protect?"

Petunia seemed to have forgotten how to speak and opened and closed her mouth staring at me. I shook my head. "Oh forget it. Harry is coming with me and I pray he never has to return here again."

Remus was talking quietly to Harry and I looked at him. "You don't have to leave with me if you do not wish to Harry." I said heavily. Albus had always laughed at my go in all magic blazing approach and now I realised why he was truly better at this stuff than me.

Because despite my ability to keep up an icy façade I had a fiery temper, on a long fuse, but a temper just the same. When it got going it was hard to control and Amy always says that she points me in a direction and lets me go.

My powers been known to go insane just like now in fact. I took a deep breath and refused to look at Vernon because it would only get me annoyed all over again.

I looked at Amy and Remus. "Remus you stay here with Harry Goddess knows he needs someone who actually cares about him." I shot a venomous look at Petunia and Vernon who shrank back from my gaze.

"Amy we have something to do." She nodded and followed me to the door. We were about to step outside when Harry yelled, "Wait!"

I turned and smiled. "Harry?"

Amy crossed her arms across her chest and narrowed her eyes. I wish she wouldn't do that but since Harry had already hit me where it hurt, without knowing it of course, she was not as respectful of him as she could have been.

Sometimes Witches and Wizards can do nothing right by her because they alienated her kind, most have alienated mine but since my brother was half wizard and so very human I could never hate them. Albus was the only mortal, the only wizard that truly had her respect and I could tell from the way she was looking at him that Harry was going to have to earn it as well.

Harry looked at me and seemed to frown for a moment and then shook his head. "Look, I didn't mean to say those things to you, It's just…Well I have a job to do…It's kind of complicated."

"I'm aware of Tom Riddle's extended life help." I said crossing my arms across my chest. Harry looked at me shocked. "Albus told very few people of his findings but he did tell me." "Why would he do that?" Harry asked suspicious all over again.

I sighed. Amy was right this was getting tiresome. I could not blame Harry for his caution in fact I commended it but right now I needed him to trust me.

"Because Harry, I was the second- in-command of the Order, and if Albus always told me his findings in case there was a time when he was never here. Unfortunately this is now the case."

"But why you?" Harry asked again. I opened my mouth and said, "I had hoped I would not have to tell you my ancestry for sometime. But…"

I never got to tell Harry though because at that moment Amy whipped out in front of me and snarled, "Kate No! It's too dangerous! Not here." She looked at Harry her eyes burning. "Kate came here to do nothing but help you Harry if you do not want her help then simply say so. To be truthful in Kate's current position she is more danger than you are. So I am not letting her answer that question."

I looked at her. "Since when do I listen to you?" I asked. "Since I could tell your uncle." Amy said smirking. I was horrified. "You wouldn't dare!" "Watch me." She stood and I knew she wasn't going to back down. I said nothing but Amy's eyes softened.

"Kate, honey, Albus may have told you to protect Harry and I know you'd die keeping your promise but I promised your uncle I'd protect you and I'd die keeping my promise."

I nodded. "I know. It doesn't mean I have to like it though." I turned and looked at Harry. But he was staring at me like he'd never seen me before. "What?" I asked him smiling.

"You'd die to protect me?" I didn't even hesitate. "Yes. I would." Harry looked down. "Enough people have died because of me. I don't want anyone else too." "Harry," I said gently, "Look at me." He looked like he was fighting me for a moment and then looked up.

I ignored the fact he looked close to tears I didn't think he would appreciate me making a deal of it.

"Everyone that has died has not died because of you but because they believed in the same things you do. They were fighting for the same things you are and I know your parents if they were alive would be very proud of everything you have achieved. Albus always spoke very highly of you. I know the loss is hard to shoulder but it will only make you stronger. The pain will never go away I'll not lie to you, but it will get easier."

I smiled at him. I pushed my hair behind my ears and grinned. "I happen to be quite hard to kill. It'll take more than one or two Death Eater curses to take care of me."

Harry's eyes went round. "You're Elvin!" I nodded. "Yes I am." I reached into the collar of my dress and pulled out a medallion. I took it off and put it round Harry's neck. "If you ever need me speak into the medallion and I will hear your call."

Then I turned to leave. "Wait?" I turned back again. "I have something to do. Something I have to do before I do what Dumbledore wanted me to do. I'm going to my friend Ron's brother's wedding would you be coming to that?"

I nodded smiling. "Molly and Arthur invited me tonight I know Bill really well. I also have a vendetta against Ferir Grayback for Remus and now for Bill."

As I said Remus' name he appeared at the door. "Harry if you choose to stay I promise that your aunt and uncle will not bother you." "Do I even want to know what you did Remus?" Harry said affectionately.

"No more than Katherine did." He said winking at me. Harry looked at Remus and then looked at me. "Is it ok if I come with you now?" He asked. I smiled. "Of course it is! I was going to introduce you to the Order so that you know what's going on and things. I assume you want to be a member your birthday is soon isn't it?"

Harry nodded eagerly. "Yeah I want to be part of the Order. My birthday is in three days. Amy smirked. "Your Seventeen Harry right?" Harry nodded. "Just think Remus will be able to take you for your apparition test and more importantly you can do magic outside Hogwarts." Harry's eyes shined with something that looked like triumph.

"The Ministry won't be able to pin anything on me after that." "He's Dumbledore's charge alright." Amy said nodding. I could tell that she was still hostile but wasn't about to let Harry know that and I was grateful to her.

"The Minister of Magic called me Dumbledore's man." Harry said. "Are you?" I asked. "Yeah." Harry said without any hesitation. "Good so are we." I said. "Right then Remus you help Harry get ready and then I'll take him to Headquarters it will be safer and the Death Eaters won't be able to track me."

Remus nodded and he and Harry disappeared inside the house. Amy watched them go and then turned to me.

"Kate I swear if you do anything to endanger yourself more than you already are I swear I'll get King Rhys to pull you out." My eyes flashed. "There are bigger things than me here Amy!" I said angrily.

"Not to your Uncle." Amy shot back. "Not to the elves. And not to me. You're my best friend, my blood sister you think I'm going to let you walk straight into a trap because Voldemort finds out who you are? You've got another thing coming Kate. I won't let that happen."

I snarled. More at the situation and at my station than Amy herself. My status as princess was forcing Amy to do her job as bodyguard rather than be my friend like I needed to be and I didn't like it.

"Can't you stop being a bodyguard for a minute!" I hissed. "Amy this is important to me. I may be heir to the throne but the likelihood of me becoming Queen is slim. Galen is the rightful heir to the throne as he should be and I'm pretty sure Katrina is soon to be expecting. I'm doing this for all of us Amy." I said looking at her.

"I don't care what our Councils say. Voldemort will become their fight before long and if I can help Harry stop him I will and Princess be damned I'll do it with or without your help."

She looked shocked at my outburst and recovered quickly. "I can't help that your uncle has given me a job sweetie." She said quietly. "But I will try to remember to be your friend first unless it's totally necessary ok?"

I felt slightly guilty after the outburst but I knew what she was saying she was saying she understood that she had not been my friends since we left home and she would remember that she was my friend first and bodyguard second.

"Thank-you." I said.

As I said this Harry and Remus reappeared. I looked at Harry and smiled. "Right then Harry come with me. Remus, Amy I'll see you at Headquarters ok?" They nodded. Remus disappeared with a pop and flames appeared round Amy and then she was gone.

Harry's eyes were wide and I laughed. "That is Elemental magic Harry most Immortals have control over some part of it." He looked at me. "And you?" I nodded. "And me." I grasped his arm and the wind gathered around us our feet lifted from the floor and then we were moving.

Once we landed the wind cleared and I grabbed Harry's arm to steady him. "Whoa!" Harry said. "Now that is loads better than apperating." I grinned. "It does come in handy." Amy was waiting for me with Remus and Remus hustled Harry up to the house while Amy in turn hustled me.

I rolled my eyes but to give her credit she did it subtlety although I was sure Remus had realised what she was doing he didn't comment and I was pleased for that.

I had often wondered before how much Remus had known, he would probably know more than most wizards because the Werewolves and the Vampires knew more about the Elves and the Veela than the Wizards did so I wondered whether he knew my true position in the Elven courts.

For my and his sake I hoped not. The fewer people that knew about me the better. I did not need to be putting the Order in any more danger than they were already. Of course if the Order knew my true position then I'm sure it would just be another secret they have to keep. I just didn't want to have to take that chance.

I smiled knowing that the new wards had been put in place. Remus, Amy and I put our hands up against the door and I motioned for Harry to do the same. "Phoenix Leader override security system one to admit Phoenix members four."

I saw Harry winced and knew it was reading his magical signature after that was done I rang the bell and Moody's voice rang out "Password!" Remus spoke first, "Phoenix Ice Tears."

Moody opened the door and looked at me. "These wards are strong. Well done." I smiled. "The praise never ceases to amaze me Alastor." He nodded and grinned. "I give credit where it is due Lady." I swept inside and the others followed me.

"It will be a short visit Harry has a wedding to attend." "You're letting me go to that?" Harry asked. "Why not?" I asked. "Before I came here you were intending to do it all alone so why not? Besides in every dark place there must be room for a little light. In every Shadow there is light because the light creates them, Remember that Harry."

"You sound a lot like Dumbledore." I turned and looked at him. "I'll take that as a compliment." "It was meant as one." He said.

I smiled. "One day I will tell you why I am now your mentor but my own guard dog here has her reasons for being hostile." I said throwing my arms round Amy. "Ignore her it takes a while to get used to her but she doesn't bite." I smiled. "Much."

Harry laughed. I was all business again in a matter of seconds. "We'll stay until your seventeenth birthday and then we'll go to Ron's that way I can make sure that you're a full member of the Order before we leave."

Harry nodded and left with Remus to unpack and I turned to Amy. "This is gonna be difficult he isn't gonna accept help easily." Amy shook her head. "No. But then you know yourself that if you're used to doing things yourself it becomes harder to rely on someone else."

I signed and nodded. "I know it's just difficult. He's gonna be one hell of a reluctant charge and it's only going to make things harder. This is going to be hard enough as it is I'm not good at these things."

Amy smirked, as Frost, Deacon, and Beck appeared obviously to make sure I had returned and to make sure I was in one piece. "You should know that feeling well Kate." She said seriously. "Since you're a reluctant charge yourself."

In answer to that I took a well-aimed swipe at her head. After that we play fought for about ten minutes surrounded by my bodyguards and it reminded me of when I first met Amy when I was nineteen and I allowed myself a small moment of light in all the darkness that surrounded me

Because I knew that soon enough there would be very little Light in the shadows of the path that we were going to have to walk if we wanted to make sure Voldemort would be well and truly defeated forever.

Okay so i know this chapter was kinda fluffy and a filler chapter of sorts but it sort of sets up Kate and Harry's relationship and anyway soon the fighting will begin my favouite part!

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