"Oh shit oh shit oh shi-" Was as far as Harry got before the ground behind him exploded as a giant skeletal claw slammed into the ground behind him causing him and the bodies of Susan and Neville to go flying up in the air. After landing he shot a beam out towards where the claw came from before dashing across and grabbing the two knocked out teens and grabbed them before using his claws to scale the side of the graveyard they were in and finding a safe spot to put them.
"Ok good they're still alive, now how the hell am I supposed to fight this thing on my own?" Harry asked himself out loud looking a the skeletal …. Thing searching the grounds beneath them for the three. While Harry was trying to figure it out his own mind wandered to how they even got to this situation in the first place…
.
.
.
.
.
After the troll incident the rest of their first year went fairly smoothly. Professor Quirrel seemed to have lost his stutter but still seemed a timid man before he mysteriously disappeared as the year ended. While professor Vector picked up her role as a head of house fairly quickly. When Mina asked why she made it seem so easy all she said was,
"There's only a handful of you right now and after killing a troll I feel like I can handle anything!" She laughed with a smile and taking that answer the kids just decided to go with it seeing the odd logic in that statement.
During the holidays the kids stayed at the school so they could spend the holiday's together as a house much to the disappointment and approval of their parents who while sad that they couldn't spend time with the kids that year, understood that with such a small house and a new experience the kids were going to grow strongly attached together while discussing amongst themselves to just all make arrangements to meet up next year.
Harry ended up getting a gift from a anonymous sender saying it was a invisibility cloak that belonged to his dad which made Persephone laugh and explain to the house that their grandfather has the cloak and this one was a fake made for some reason.
"That's dumb? If they wanted Harry to feel like he owes them then shouldn't they have put who it's from?" Naturally Professor Vector took the cloak and checked it to be safe and found tracking and compulsion charms on it which she removed quickly while adding Runes to add a permanent notice me not charm and a charm that removes the sound caused inside the cloak and even an expansion charm to make the cloak stretch out to cover the entire house without a problem before giving it back saying,
"There now it's a gift from me, don't go causing trouble with it and I'll gladly accept you being in my debt," She said while mocking shooting her nose up in the air like a stuck up noblewoman which caused the kids to laugh while Harry told them he'll leave the cloak out here and they can all use it when they need it. Needless to say the rest of the year was filled with laughter and small pranks around the school as the kids just enjoyed being kids. After a month or so Professor Vector was shocked when the sorting hat told her about the mental connection and that she could access her kids anytime with it even outside of school. Naturally she asked about shutting it off when she need to and was grateful that she could when she wanted to or at least mute it unless there was an emergency because hey she was an adult who wanted to be able to do adult things without traumatizing children, not that she does adult things but she could!
.
.
.
.
After a relaxing summer the kids came back for their second year and were shocked to find out the Gilderoy Lockhart was the new defense teacher and needless to say the wizard raised kids were excited before explaining it to the muggleborn children who also grew excited at having a celebrity teach them.
"Hey who knows Harry maybe one day you'll teach us and we can say two celebrities taught us eh?" Sofia said as she nudged Harry in the ribs while the rest of the house laughed and Harry's face grew red in embarrassment. As they sat in the great Hall Susan leaned into Harry and whispered,
"Goats are staring at us," She said causing Harry to turn and notice Dumbledore immediately look away and if Harry didn't know in the first place he wouldn't even have realized the man was staring.
"Geez you would think after that talk you're grandfather had with him he would step back," Neville said referencing the fact that Dumbledore called Harry in at the end of the year to their office but after a quick call on Persephone's end Harry was only in there on his own for about 5 minutes before the door was slammed open by Charlus Potter. Naturally the man introduced himself to Harry for shows sake before he was told to stand back and slammed his magical pressure down into the room while Dumbledore tried to match it but without the elder wand all he could do was barely meet Charlus's force while Persephone was standing next to Harry shielding the kid from the effects with a small amount of her own aura. After spouting out some nonsense of it being for the greater good that Harry stays with his aunt Charlus just told him to shove it and keep his crooked nose out of the family's business.
Needless to say Dumbledore didn't like that but didn't bother on arguing any longer. So Harry officially spent the first summer with them. It was nice to not have to hide under a hidden identity and live as Hadrian Potter instead of Hadrian Crafter. Overall though he was surprised when he went to his Mom's shop and found Penelope there working and was even more surprised when she explained to him that she figured out his Mom and dad's identity and didn't bother saying anything just because, well to put it simply the family was shocked.
Yet that was probably the highlight to what led up to a boring year for the kids. Outside of training and awkward puberty moments there wasn't really much going on. Which leads us to now the summer after third year where we find Susan, Neville, and Harry walking around Diagon alley with Susan happily licking an Ice cream cone.
"So I'm not saying that I'm happy Lockhart got arrested but I'm also not not saying that. I mean seriously do you haver any idea how many times I caught him offering the older girls private lessons!" Susan yelled out with her hands in the air catching a few odd looks but thankfully they were ignored meanwhile Harry and Neville shared a look before saying,
"Well nobody took him up on the offer right?" Neville asked before straightening up immediately with the glare Susan gave him while she practically growled out,
"Thank the gods above no, but that was mostly because everyone was either creeped out, realized how dumb he was, or to bloody nervous to actually give him an answer!"
Deciding to change the subject Harry just threw out a new suggestion before jumping behind Neville for cover,
"So who wants to go visit Penelope?" To which Susan took a complete turn with her personality due to the fact that she basically idolized Penelope who took the time during her vacations to use James and Sirius's mirrors to help tutor the kids and help with their homework which really helped them during the year. Coincidentally she was also the reason Lockhart was arrested because of her quite literally running into one of the victims of his memory charms who she immediately took to get help and when the truth came out the aurors were on him faster than a nimbus. As Susan led the charge over to the potions shop Neville whispered to Harry,
"Thanks for interfering there mate, I was scared for my life!" and after he said that he let out an "eep" as Susan immediate turned around with a scary smile and said,
"Don't worry Neville I wouldn't have killed you, just hurt you…badly and only if you deserved it" Which caused a shiver to go down both boys back as she grabbed them by the collars and dragged them to the store.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
"Oh Penelopeeeee your favorite underclassmen came to visit!" Susan shouted out after tossing Harry and Neville onto the couch where a customer was waiting for her potion before gasping as two boys literally landed in her lap looking dazed.
"I am so sorry about that miss, here's your wolfsbane potion please feel free to come back anytime!" Penelope said as she brought the potion over to the woman who walked away in a daze after paying for the potion still not quite processing what was going on.
"Susan we've all told you that you can't just drag these two around." Penelope sighed used to their antics by now.
'I swear it's insane how amazing these three are yet they can still act their age.' She thought happy that these kids weren't tainted yet by the politics and darkness of the older generation of the wizarding world. Especially considering that they all came from prominent families and will gain a lot of influence in the next couple years as well due to them being respective heirs.
As she was sitting there thinking the kids were walking around the shop looking at all the projects and such that Lily and Penelope were working on. Seeing something in the back room on the table Harry called out to Penelope,
"Hey Penelope what's up with this golden sand?" He asked making sure to stay away from it seeing all the runes surrounding the bowl. But he was still close enough to look at it and see what was inside the large bowl and saw a bunch of swirling golden sand that was mesmerizing to watch.
"Oh this? It's a project that Lily and I are working on with Master Flamel, but I'm not surprised that you don't know what the sand is after all the department of mysteries keeps a pretty tight lock on the sands of time." She said shocking the kids who heard about the sands of time that every time turner uses.
"Whooooa" All three kids gasped in awe as they watched the swirling sands with a new respect in their eyes.
"What are you doing with so much? Aren't time turners supposed to only have a little bit?" Neville asked causing the other two to nod excitedly.
"Well like I said it's a project we're working on but it's nothing extreme it's just to see what would happen if we could transfer the effects of time onto things like making seeds grow faster or turning back food into a time where it doesn't get moldy anymore and such. Nothing extreme like full blown time travel just yet." She explained knowing that she had their undivided attention for once.
"Right now though the sand is just settling but it should be done soon and getting used to the runes. After that is when the trials begin." The kids just gave "ahh" noises enraptured by this test.
'Why can't managing these three ever be this easy?' she thought and after a moment of the kids gawking they heard the bell ring from the front door.
"Well duty calls let's go!" Penelope said leading the kids out before closing the door to greet the customer and saw an older man standing there in the front.
"Hello sir how can I help you?" She asked as the man walked up to the counter and said,
"Ah nothing yet I was told by some old friend of mine I haven't seen in awhile to meet them here. Has anybody else shown up yet?" He asked Penelope who took a moment to think about it before answering,
"No sir I cannot say that I have but you can feel free to sit and wait for them or look around here while you do wait," Penelope responded as professional as ever.
"Ah well looks like I arrived a bit early, I'll just wait outside for a bit, maybe I'll see them as they arrive then." He said before stepping outside and standing in front of the window facing the street.
'Huh well that was weird' Penelope thought before going to the breakroom and seeing the kids eating snacks and talking.
As she stepped into the room and was about to say something she suddenly turned catching the kids attention who also felt the influx of magic. Little did they know the sands finished settling but due to the interference of a certain deity acted a bit differently compared to the expected results. In doing so the magic interacted a bit extremely before shining out and covering the shop in a golden light.
Meanwhile the man outside turned around and grabbed the door handle to the shop before thinking,
'It will be good to see my old friends again before he walked into the shop for and the bell rang out throughout the entire store.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Sorry for this chapter taking so long I had to figure out the direction I was taking this story and had to cut some ideas but the first major arc of the story is underway! Please Review and let me know what you think so far and stay tuned for the next chapter!