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Harry and Isabella Potter were very well-known people throughout the wizarding world. Given that they had ended one of the worst wars it had ever seen, it was to be expected. However, that did not necessarily mean they would recognize either were they to see them on the street.
This fact was proved very true shortly after Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry received an acceptance letter from those two very people. Since the Potter Twins needed school supplies, they needed to go to Britain's Magical section of town, Diagon Alley, to receive them. The one who would be showing them around and helping them shop would be their "mother", a Potter house-elf named Dinky.
Dinky and the twins popped into the Leaky Cauldron, the inn that served as the gateway between magic and muggle London. No one noticed at first that the odd looking little trio was there. As said trio made their way to the back of the Cauldron, and the brick wall that blocked the entrance to Diagon Alley, people took notice.
However, they did not recognize their saviors, as you would expect them to. The twins did receive some rather odd looks, it's not often a house-elf leads a child, let alone two, around the Alley, but they were not ambushed. They could've been a muggle for all the notice they took.
Dinky looked back at her charges as they stopped in front of the wall. They were looking around calmly, seemingly unperturbed by their surroundings.
"Are yous ready Master and Master's sister?" Dinky asked. She received a double "Well duh!" look from her charges. Dinky rolled her eyes at the children's attitude.
"Wes needs to gets moneys first, so wes be heading to Gringotts. That wizard bank, run by goblins. Wes needs to be visiting the Potter vaults. Does Master's sister want to be visiting Lupin vaults?"
Amber Lupin, for that is who Isabella Potter really was, nodded her head.
"I wants to looks, but I get Moneys from Harry's vault." she replied.
Dinky nodded in understanding before snapping her fingers, using elf magic to open the portal. Neither Amber nor Harry reacted as their mother led them towards the snow white building any witch or wizard worth their magic recognized as the bank. They did point out a couple of shops to the little elf they would like to visit during their shopping trip, though.
The goblin guarding the door looked shocked to see the house-elf leading two wizarding children up the steps and toward the doors, but he bowed them in nevertheless. He got interested looks from the two kids, and a polite thank you from all three, in perfect gobbledygook. The poor goblin nearly fainted at that. House-elves could speak a myriad of languages, often times communicating with other creatures in their preferred language, but that fact that the two kids had spoken it, two humans! It was downright unheard of, especially since these kids could be no older then 11.
Dinky did not notice the shock she had caused with the goblin guard, focused instead on leading the two children to a free goblin teller.
Speaking in gobbledygook, Dinky asked the goblin if they could see the Potter and Lupin vaults, as Harry Potter and his sister needed money for Hogwarts. She was asked for their keys, but Dinky did not have them. In fact, she did not know what happened to them, and was completely unaware that those keys were in the hands of Albus Dumbledore and Remus Lupin, respectively.
"I is sorry, sirs, but I do not knows where their keys are. May they take the blood tests instead?" Dinky asked.
The goblin arched a brow, but nevertheless conceded. He ordered the twins to prick their finger with a needle and let three drops each fall into a bowl. They were to go one at a time, and it would make sure they were really who they said they were.
Neither child objected, and willingly pricked their finger and let the drops fall. The goblin seemed stunned when he read the information provided, and produced two golden keys, which he handed to Dinky. Then he called for another goblin to lead them down into their vaults.
"Thank yous!" Amber called to the teller in Gobbledygook as she left. He fainted.
James and Lily had loved their son very much, which was signified by the stuff in the Potter vault. However, there was more in there then was strictly necessary for one little boy. This was because they loved Amber too, although they knew she was Remus' child. Half of it was for her. They knew that as a natural born werewolf—thanks to her father—she would have problems in both wizarding and muggle worlds. Everyone save other werewolves held prejudices of one kind or another against them.
Harry and Amber gathered much Galleons, Sickles and Knuts for their shopping trip. Once back on the surface, they set out, school lists in hand, to get their materials.
Their first stop was the bookstore, Flourish and Blotts. There, they got all their schoolbooks and a couple for pleasure reading that the Potter library did not have. Then they got their Potions equipment, telescope, and Potions kits.
Their next stop was for robes at Madam Malkin's. Madam Malkin was a squat lady with a kind smile, however she looked dearly surprised to see the twins there, and Dinky their only escort.
"Where are your parents dears?" she had asked. Amber had pointed to Dinky in answer.
While the twins were being fitted for their robes, they met another student their age, a snobby blonde boy who introduced himself as Draco Malfoy. Both Amber and Harry had heard of the Malfoys from the Potter portraits, and they quickly learned that Draco had no opinion of his own, but was simply his father's brainwashed little robot.
Amber had made their stance in concern to Draco very clear when the part-wolf bared her teeth at him in a silent snarl.
"Yous a bad boy yous are!" exclaimed Harry. "Yous not knowing anything!"
Draco had looked miffed for half a second before his wounded pride gave way to shock. No wizard he had ever met had ever spoken like that, and it had nothing to do with what Harry had said. His grammar sounded like a house-elf's.
Before he could ask about it, the lady fitting him told him he was done and helped him down, where she helped him pay for his uniform. He glanced back, however, at the twins as he left with his mother. Harry took no notice, but Amber did, and she glared at him, and curled her lip back, revealing a tooth. Had she been a vampire, Draco knew that tooth would've been a fang…
Ollivander's was next. The wand shop was creepy, but the wand maker did not manage to sneak up on the twins like he did with his other customers. Amber the wolf heard him and turned around to greet him.
It took forever for the twins to get their wands, and in the end, they did not actually get any. Ollivander was very curious about this. He'd never had a customer who hadn't found their wand within his stock.
"Now I wonder, what could possibly be the reason why you do not have any matches?" he asked. Then he noticed Dinky.
"A house-elf? Are you not here with your parents?" he asked curiously.
Amber gave a frustrated sigh and pointed at Dinky. "That be Momma!" she exclaimed.
Ollivander had a flash of insight. Turning to the creature, he asked it kindly, "Did you raise these two?"
Dinky nodded. "Yes. Wes be raising Master and Master's sister since infancy under Master Padfoot's orders, sir!"
"I see. That's the problem then. Having been raised by you and, presumably, other house-elves, it seems that these two have adapted their magic to a more house-elf brand. None of these wands are made for elf magic. I'll have to custom make these wands for them to match." he explained. Gently taking Harry and Amber by the hand, he led them into a back room, where all sort of stuff for wand making was set out. Woods, cores, potions, etc.
"Now I want you to run your hand over these woods. If one seems to jump out at you in any way, please inform me." Ollivander instructed the twins. He received two curious looks in return, even as the duo did as they were told.
Ollivander found that Amber's wand was to be made of gentle fir tree wood, while Harry's was to be made from a firm snakewood. After instructing the duo to do the same with the long row of cores, he discovered just how powerful these two would be, house-elf magic or not. Harry came back with two different, extremely different, cores, a runespoor heartstring and a griffin wing feather. Amber came back with three. A thestral mane hair, a unicorn bicorn, and a werewolf fang.
Ollivander nearly had a heart attack. It was going to take a miracle to make these two wands!
He managed to get their address, and promised to send them on once they were complete, and they would be on the house to boot! Dinky gave the wand maker a strange and slightly concerned look as she herded her "Children" out, and towards their chosen leisure shops.
First was the Quidditch store, in which Harry brought a new Nimbus 2000 broomstick, then the pet store. Amber had a natural affinity for animals, and being a werewolf born had nothing to do with it, and wanted desperately to get a pet. The school list said cats, owls or toads, but Amber wasn't gonna settle for that alone.
Harry found this amusing. He himself had gotten a beautiful snowy owl, which he named Hedwig. This way, he could send letters back and forth with the rest of his family—the rest of the Potter house-elves not going with them to Hogwarts—without waiting for them to write or taking one of the Potter owls with him.
Amber had seen the beauty of Hedwig, but she didn't want an owl. And while she liked cats, she wanted to see what else was offered. Maybe she could find another animal that she liked just as much to take with her.
She had found a cat to take to Hogwarts, but it wasn't the kind any were expecting. When it listed cats as allowed pets, it was thinking domestic kinds. Or kneazles, the wizarding variety. Wild ones were not exactly what Hogwarts considered cats. However, that's exactly the kind of feline Amber would be taking with her to school. Along with two beautiful dogs.
The Andean Cat was a beautiful creature, with a small body but much longer tail. Amber's new Andean, which she had named Jobita, was still a kitten, although according to the book the pet store clerk had given her to help her care for her new cat, it would always look like a kitten in body, and as such, her newest friend wasn't gonna get much bigger then it was already. It's seemingly natural kitten look made it the more adorable, however, and with it's beautiful long tail and long fur—Amber had picked one with black fur tipped with beautiful sliver and having a couple of thick white strips—it was an impressive feline.
Amber's new dogs were also beautiful in their own way. According to the sign over its cage, it was called a Shiloh Shepherd Dog. There was a litter in there, and Amber took home two pups. One was a beautiful tri colored thing, with gold, sliver and cream all mixed in to make a most interesting coat pattern. The other was blue and sable bi, and had a swirled mix to the pattern. The tri colored was a very bright and vibrant while the other was not quite as much, and had a paler look to the colors. Amber named the tri Sunset and the bi had now been labeled Storm. This was, of course, reference to the way the two pups' colors and patterns reminded Amber of the sky at those time.
Now, both creatures were known to muggles, and thought to be muggle creatures. Many national kennel clubs recognized the Shiloh as registered breeds and several muggles had managed to catch glimpses of wild Andean Cats. So then, what were two mundane creatures doing in a magical pet shop?
What the muggles thought they knew was that their pet dogs were supposedly normal or the wild cats of the mountains they see were everyday creatures. However, they were wrong. They thought, for instance, that Andean Cats were the rarest of all felines. This was not true. It was simply that Andean Cats possessed the abilities to go invisible and teleport, so that they could easily escape people or lose them. Many never really showed themselves at all, which is why muggles thought the cat so rare. Poaching these kitties were major headaches for Magical governments, because muggle poachers tended to take the still magical pelts and either keep them or sell them off. Most muggles don't notice the magic residue on their newest pelts, but the magical worlds, in their efforts to stay hidden, always had to go after each and every one.
Shilohs weren't much better. They were supposedly the dog breed that resulted when several people attempted to save the German Shepherd breed they knew from becoming what the dog breed has become today. However, what they bred to make this particular breed included several magical sled dog type breeds that were magical twins to muggle Malamutes. As such, the muggles had unknowingly bred a new magical breed of dog. With registered breed status in many national kennel clubs and as such shown at dog shows, Shilohs were an even bigger headache then Andean Cats. Many wizarding governments had several agents out in the muggle worlds, all paid to keep a strict eye on the muggles and their magical companion dogs. It was tedious job, given that many Shilohs weren't even bred and sold for dog shows, but as family pets.
Amber, Harry and Dinky made one last stop at the ice cream parlor, and then made their way back to the Leaky Cauldron. With all their purchases in one bag, Harry holding Hedwig's cage and Amber firmly holding her pets by their scruffs, Dinky popped home, followed by Harry and Amber. They made it back a couple hours before dinner, and the twins, after a full day of shopping, decided to take a nap till dinner.
They were perfectly unaware that Albus Dumbledore had called in several people who used to work under him in the war, in an organization called the Order of the Phoenix, and they had been combing the alley all day for the past several days. They bypassed all the Order members at least once, received an odd look from said member, and completely ignored them. Remus Lupin, Amber's biological father, was helping, but wasn't on duty during their time in Diagon, and therefore, they went perfectly undiscovered.
What Albus Dumbledore did not know was that neither he, nor anyone else for that matter, would be seeing neither hide nor hair of either Amber or Harry till the start of term.
But you had to give them credit. They didn't give up till the very last minute. And by then, Dinky, Toopy, Floop, Harry and Amber had already made plans, and were headed for Hogwarts, via the most unusual means possible. They took notice of the train tickets, but neither Amber nor Harry had any intention of taking the train. They were going travel straight to Hogwarts; although they were gonna end up several hours early.
Hogwarts, a History, says many things about Hogwarts. The Great Hall ceiling is charmed to look like the outside sky, for instance. It also says, very bluntly, that you can't apparate or disapparate on Hogwarts grounds. However, it makes no mention of the loophole within the wards that says house-elves could do as they please.
Neither Amber nor Harry were really wizards anymore. Since being taken in by house-elves and raised by them, their magic had mutated to have house-elf flavors. As such, while staff and students may see them as students, Hogwarts herself saw them as house-elves, and all rules therein apply.
They were gonna make history, the Potter twins, although they just didn't know it yet. For one, they would be the very first wizards able to apparate on Hogwarts grounds. They were capable of the wandless, wordless magic all house-elves used to do their jobs. And they would be the first willing human servants, particularly, the first willing human servants who prefer to work, but not get paid.
September First was gonna be a very interesting day. Hogwarts was going to get more students. Hogwarts was going to get many more things like Quidditch injuries, and another wizarding pregnancy.
However, it was also getting 5 new house-elves, two of which weren't even real elves. And they came in the forms of Harry James Potter and Amber Dawn Lupin.
Hogwarts and her inhabitants would never know what hit them.
