All I own is Drey

Flash back to dinner

In the great hall

"…I have some business to take care of."

With that Drey walked over to Hermione and teleported the two of them up to one of the towers.

Ignoring the wild looks being sent her way by the bushy haired girl Drey conjured up several large soft cushions and arranged them on the floor; with a nod she indicated that Hermione should join her.

"What do you know?"

Dumbfounded Hermione stared at the blonde, her mouth opening and closing like a fish gasping for air.

"Don't just stand there. Sit down and tell me what you know about my brother and I. And don't tell me that you don't know what I'm talking about because I could hear your mind thinking about it in the hall.

Look, I know you're not stupid, and I have nothing against muggle-borns, I just want to know what you know about us and how you figured it out."

Deciding she might as well chance it Hermione seated herself on a large purple cushion, wriggling around to get comfortable, she felt a burning need to know if she was right about her assumptions.

"I thought I knew when I first saw you and Draco come out of the forest. I remembered seeing a scene like that in 'Magical Mythology: Older Races'.

You two made the same picture that the elven royal family did, only there were more of them. When I realised that I did research in the library.

The royal family were killed off about three hundred years ago. There was a war; ice elves attacked the star and fire elves. Fire fought back, the battles almost destroying the court the elven world. Star elves were more remote, but they did fight, except then the prince was killed. Queen Nessa wouldn't let any more elves die, so she took her guards and the closest members of the star court, a few fire elves, and an ice elf that had come to them before the war.

Together they cast the joining spell, it gathered the blood of fire, star and ice together and sent it into the sky, the legend says that the blood floats around the world in a cloud of dust, red, gold, silver and blue, supposedly searching for humans who have the capacity to hold the elven magic and control it. All of the elves are frozen until then, waiting for the elven line to be reborn into the world."

Hermiones's voice died away and the top room of the tower was filled with slow clapping. Leaning against the cold, damp, grey stone Drey's hair shone out brightly. Her face was blank, all emotion hidden away, the only movement in the round space was Drey clapping.

"Well done, very well done."

"I wanted to know, I've always wanted to know as much as I could and this seemed important."

Blushing Hermione lowered her head; she hated telling people that, as far as any of the Gryffindors were concerned she was just a boffin, but it always felt something more, something desperate wanting her to pick up books and find out what was in them, which sounded completely ridiculous.

"Blaise is like that, Pansy too, as soon as they get their teeth into an idea they just don't let go. They could probably use your help actually, you've heard of the coronation potion I assume. I thought you would have. We need to find a way to split it between Draco and myself, three brains would probably be better than two, and you cane be neutral ground for when they start yelling at each other, which they always seem to do."

Drey had not looked away from Hermione, who at some point had lifted her face to look straight into Drey's eyes.

"I'd like to help. But, when did you two first find out that the magic had been reborn in you?"

Drey smiled, her eyes misting over with memories.

"We always knew our magic was different, when we were little we could think something and it would happen, if we wanted it, it would appear. Mother knew, and so did some of the house elves.

Mother told us to keep it from father but he found out when we were five. He tried to bind the power, but it didn't work, that's when he made the decision to separate us. He thought that if our power could be trained it would be a great asset to Voldemort. It also ensured that he could control us. If I did anything he could take it out on Draco, if Draco did anything the Headmaster at the school I was sent to could take it out on me.

But I think it was the court that really let us know that we were something different, and then we researched, but that only told us the detail of what we already knew. We had always liked mythology, and we remembered reading about how the elves created their court.

When we were about five Blaise, Pansy, Greg and Vince were spending a few weeks of the summer with us, we were in a clearing in the woods and we were playing King and Queen, you know how you play that when you're little, we were pretending we were in Narnia actually, and using the spells that one of the elvish courts used.

Draco and I were King and Queen, obviously, we were making up spells to create a magical court, and it actually happened. The colours appeared in their hair, and all the colours in our hair, they weren't very strong, but the bonds were there. We hid them, but as time passed and our powers grew the bond grew stronger.

But then we were split up, Draco had to use glamour to hide his colours, and they faded from the other four, without both of us there to keep solidifying the spells as our power grew.

But now we're back, and reunited.

Doesn't make much sense huh."

Hermione giggled, it sounded so, magical, for lack of a better word.

"What are you going to do now?"

"First worry about the coronation potion, see if we can get it to work. Then we'll try and get all of our land back again, bits and pieces have been chipped away by the Ministry and Voldemort, various estates in France, things like that. And then, we'll just see what happens."

There was silence for a few moments until Hermione spoke up quietly.

"Can I meet them, the court I mean, and help you with your spell."

Drey smirked, and then the tower was filled with coloured smirk as they disappeared.

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