Chapter 3

Hermione and Ron didn't know whether to follow the intruders or warn the headmaster, but by sheer luck or bad luck, the intruders made their way to the entrance to the headmaster's office. They both hid behind the statue of Lachlan the Lanky as they watched the intruders.

"Chocolat gateau!" the hooded girls screamed, lifting the rabbit in front of the gargoyle.

"There are students awake in the hallway!"

Everyone looked across the hall where Argus Filch was smirking, but soon he realized he should have kept quiet. The rabbit squeaked floating in the air and several rabbit-eared discs appeared emitting red lights. Filch muttered about asking for a pay raise before running off screaming as saucers followed him firing lasers at him down the hall.

The stone gargoyle shifted revealing the entrance that was opened by Albus Dumbledore who didn't look too surprised to see a group of hooded men and a floating rabbit staring at him. He said calmly:

"What would this agitation be on such a peaceful night for a good night's sleep?"

The rabbit squeaked, but there was a snap, and she became a young woman in a rabbit mask, pink hair, and a pink robe strange to wizards. One of the hooded women threw herself on the ground, bowing to that apparition:

"Lisette de Lapin, the mother of all rabbits! It's an honour to see her true form!"

"Did you say... Lisette de Lapin?" Dumbledore questioned her with a twinkle in his eye.

Lapin glared at him as he clenched his fists and grinned sadistically, but said in an oddly animated voice:

"Just call me Lapin! I haven't reverted to my human form in ages, but now I'm here to bring my sisters back!"

With a twinkle in his eye, Dumbledore looked at her curiously as if he were remembering something very important forgotten long ago, but a new opportunity was before his eyes. Dumbledore muttered with a twinkle in his eye:

"So, you came through Room Convenience for the…greater good?"

"You mean to prolong the existence of the universe? Maybe, but I want to bring my family back so I can cause carnage and take a hot shower together like before!" Lapin grumbled.

"I can relate to something, but for that you need..."

"Too slow!"

Dumbledore's wand escaped him before he could do anything and flew into Lapin's hands.

Hermione screamed raising her wand against her coming out of hiding but was pinned down by the girl who bowed to Lapin while Ron was grabbed by the statue that had come to life. The girl scoffed:

"That was for making fun of my Binky! How is my Petrificus Totalus? It took me a long time to learn that!"

"Hey, are you Lavender?" Ron asked in surprise.

Hermione wanted to argue that that spell was something she'd already mastered when she was just eleven years old, but she was as still as a statue. Lapin had no time to waste other than muttering:

"Whatever you guys are doing, but I'll slaughter you when I have more free time!"

Lapin turned into a rabbit again and flew over Hermione and Ron as the girls followed her down the hall. Dumbledore casually approached Hermione and Ron as if it were normal to see them immobilized in the middle of the hallway in the middle of the night. Ron exclaimed:

"Director, we need to do something!"

Dumbledore looked around and muttered:

"Weasley. I know the truth about your family of opportunists, so straight to the point: You won't report me to Potter about why you didn't help him and I'll give you a trillion gallons!"

"What? My family doesn't... Okay, maybe Fred and George, but we're not all opportunists!"

Dumbledore ignored him and looked at Hermione who was already regaining control to at least mutter:

"Professor...Hogwarts...Danger!"

"Do you think Hogwarts would really be in danger while I'm headmaster of this school? Think Granger think!"

And Dumbledore returned to his office leaving Hermione and Ron both confused and surprised. Unfortunately both of them couldn't do anything while waiting for the enchantment to end so they could do something.

Meanwhile, Lapin had already ripped off the portrait of the Fat Lady who didn't even have time to ask for a password and ran to the boys' dormitory while the others tried to follow her. All the other students besides Harry continued to sleep because they used soundproof incantation to prevent Harry's snoring, but he woke up quickly and exclaimed, trying to grab his glasses:

"What is happening now?"

The girls rummaged through Harry's possessions, including Sirius' present that was thrown onto the bed, while muttering about where the Invisibility Cloak was. When Harry put on his glasses to process the situation, Lapin jumped on him and started jumping hard enough to break the bed.

"It's been a long time since I've hurt someone so weak!" Lapin perked up.

Harry swung out of bed, dodging her jumps and tried to catch the wand that flew away before he did.

''Can't you do anything without your wand? It just makes me want to hit you more, but I want to go back to my sisters..."

"I found this!" One of the hooded girls spoke while holding the Invisibility Cloak.

Harry recognized her voice as one of the Slytherin girls, but not because he was particularly interested in her. In his mind, all Slytherins were Death Eaters in formation and therefore he always kept an eye on them. And he knew what to do to distract them and escape as quickly as possible, so he shouted:

"Voldemort!"

Harry reached for the wand without waiting to see their reaction, but Lapin jumped on him and exclaimed:

"Voldemort? Flight of the Death? Sounds like a name for some of my sister's moves! Hey, what's this not-so-subtle mental link?"

Harry's mind was taken away from Hogwarts and he found himself like Voldemort conveniently looking into a huge mirror. He turned to Wormtail who was holding a perfectly normal rock, but that made Voldemort furious with a scream that nearly drove Harry from his mind. Wormtail remained motionless he was so terrified.

"Wormtail, what does that mean?"

"My Lord, I... I went to Little Hangleton to guard this stone in that little house as you asked me to, but I felt something suspicious and decided to bring it here. Isn't it safer?"

Voldemort roared waving his wand causing the stone to dissolve in Wormtail's arms, spewing smoke so hot it made him fall to the ground writhing in pain and crying for mercy. Ignoring Wormtail's whimpers, Voldemort calmed himself by reminding himself that the stone was a fake, but he was still troubled by the suspicious presence that he might be searching for the real stone in that house.

Suddenly, Augustus Rookwood arrived ignoring Wormtail and walked up to Voldemort in a respectful bow.

"My Lord, I have excellent news!"

Voldemort looked at him as if he had never seen him before. Augustus looked younger, less scarred, and seemed strangely confident for someone who had been scared a few days earlier about having to send a bad message about the fiasco at the Ministry. Voldemort exclaimed:

"I hope it's valuable news."

"Yes, Department of Mysteries informants told me the experiment was a success." Rookwood said with an odd twinkle in his eye.

"What your little club of idle dreamers does doesn't interest me, just focus on what's useful for my goals!"

As if to prove a point, Voldemort shoved Wormtail as he tried to get up, but Rookwood was not too impressed to see the same thing for the umpteenth time.

"My Lord..."

"Wait, making the boy act recklessly by not having enough information is one thing, but he doesn't need to know everything!"

As Harry's mind returned to his own body, he realized that the girls were already gone. All he could do was stand up while seeing floating runes and grumbled that he never took Ancient Runes class seriously.

Meanwhile, Lapin had already returned to Room Convenience with her followers and hugged her sister with more enthusiasm than she ever had.

"I have been missing you so much, Minou!"

"We've been apart for five minutes."

"It doesn't make up four hundred years without seeing you!'

"Don't worry because we won't be parted again, now let us complete the ritual for our family to come back." Minou responded by taking the Invisibility Cloak.

Minou threw the cape into the cauldron as Lapin stared at the crowd of hooded men who watched him in silence.

"After all these years, are there still Brits bold enough to help us without question?"

"Sort of, but a Frenchwoman smart enough to know her place brought this stone." Minou threw the three Hallows into the steaming cauldron.

Lapin and Minou held each other's hands and exclaimed the incantation that made the cauldron spew more dark smoke. And a young woman with white hair and a hood emerged from the cauldron, but Lapin gave her a big hug shouting:

"Corbeau! I haven't seen you in literally ages! Do you still remember me?"

"Oh, how I miss this satisfyingly painful hug…and my sisters, but I also miss feeling pain!" Corbeau said watching the great hall.

"Welcome back, sister." Minou said.

"I missed you too, Minou! But what is this place? Do we go back to our era or are we going to control another school and then destroy it like last time?"

"I hope we won't be dependent on if-pedia because that was too complicated!" Lapin grumbled.

"My sisters, you may not have much memory of what happened in the past, but I have taken steps to bring our benefactor with the help of our old enemy: La Pucelle de Blancheur!"

"And finally, our family will be together!" Lapin said jumping up like a rabbit.

"And I can't wait to beat those old fangs again!" Corbeau said with such a sadistic expression that even her mask showed expression.

"Aren't you the least bit surprised that I have to turn to our greatest enemy?" Minou questioned in surprise.

"You always say you would do anything for our benefactor, so that doesn't surprise me!"

"You even broke my Soul Gem because you thought I wasn't loyal enough to our benefactor!" Corbeau replied.

"And what did you learn from that?" Minou said cautiously.

"That having the Soul Gem broken can kill us, but it doesn't cause as pleasurable pain as you might expect."

"...Only that?" Minou frowned at Corbeau.

"Our well-done is more important than anything, even our own efforts to help her don't compare to the greatness of our well-done mother."

"Yes, that's the spirit! Now we just need a little more energy on the other side to restore our doer mother. So let's start our part now."

On the other side of the closet, the twins were in a huge room with a dark floating ball that looked like smoke contained in a bell jar. And through the brightly lit walls, appeared a young woman who wore white armor and an elderly woman who looked to be over six hundred years old. As soon as Fred saw the young woman, he said:

"Hey, you look a lot like that woman in black. You're in white, so you're the good twin?"

"Or the less impulsive twin who always talks after his other twin?" George added.

"My name is Jeanne, but my friends call me Tart." The young woman responded with a hospitable smile.

"I'm Perenelle Flamel, we've been waiting for you for a long time." The elder said.

"Are you Nicolas Flame's wife?" Fred was surprised.

"I see that I am still well known even among the British, so this will save our time."

"Actually, I remembered because you have the same last name as the guy who made a rock that was almost stolen a few knots ago or something..." George said, struggling to remember the details.

The old woman briefly glared at George, but Tart stepped forward:

"We've been waiting for you for a long time…Fred and George, right? We hope you will use your twin wands to purify my friend, Riz Hawkwood." She said indicating the smoke ball that gave off a strange aura.

The twins remembered when they got their wand from Ollivander's wand shop. Mrs Weasley had apologized in advance to Ollivander fearing the worst after the twins were permanently kicked out of Gringotts, Flourish and Blotts and Madam Malkin's Robes. But the twins still hadn't finished their daily quota of trouble.

Ollivander, strangely calm, took out a wand that was stashed in a box that looked like it had been sitting on the shelf for ages. Before he could ask who would try first, Fred grabbed his wand and broke it in half as he exclaimed:

"See mother! That way, we don't even have to pay for two wands!"

"You read my mind, brother!" George said taking one of the wand halves.

Mistress Weasley turned as red as her hair, but before she could decide whether to scold her or run away, never to be seen again, the twins' wands flashed as if they had deemed the trick fair. Ollivander said:

"This wand contains traces of dark creatures, I would never have expected them to fall into the hands of two prodigies from the Noble and Most Ancient House of Weasley! Mrs Weasley, I understand it was an accident and I will sell this as if it were still one!"

"Thank you, Lord Ollivander, but we don't deserve this kindness!"

"Considering how much you detest charity, so you really deserve it. Also, I think it bodes well." Ollivander said with his eyes fixed on the wands.

After several years of theories, the twins realized what was happening. Something much bigger than themselves could be manipulating them, but what stimulated them the most was the opportunity to do something dangerous with no one to stop them. They both went to the Obscurus that had been Riz Hawkwood. Perenelle said:

"All you have to do is raise your wand to Riz and the effect will do the rest."

"Looks like we don't have much of a choice, George." Fred muttered;

"Looks like this is our only option!" George said.

The twins raised their wand at Riz, but when nothing seemed to happen, Tart threw a red rock at Riz who absorbed it. Two streams of light shot out of the twins' wands and hit Riz hard, causing a loud bang with intense glow.

"Which?" the twins screamed.

"If you expected me to discard that valuable stone, then it was foolish of you." Perenelle said.

"The reaction seems more violent than I expected, but it seems to be working!" Tart said worriedly.

A loud crash resounded throughout the castle as Umbridge, Draco and their two henchmen emerged from the dungeon partially flooded by lake water. Umbridge jumped out of the dungeon and said in exasperation to them:

"This is unacceptable! I'm soaking wet, I broke one of my shoes and we lost some students that I pushed out of my way while we were running away from the fish people! Also, it seems like whenever I looked away, one of you disappeared… Any idea why?"

"I don't know Professor, but whenever Draco walked away telling us to go soon, we would pull him close to you." Goyle said.

"Yeah, when one of us strayed out of the way, Draco said to ignore it and take our chance..."

Umbridge looked suspicious while Draco glared at Crabble and Goyle who were literally thinking about nothing. Umbridge said:

"Malfoy, I've heard very good things about your family and remarkable intellect, so what do you think should be done in a situation like this?"

"Use this as a pretext to defame the Gryffindors?" Draco said with malicious anticipation.

"You think small like your father and that's why I like you, little Malfoy! Yes, we will go after certain Gryffindors, specifically those two identical boys!"

"You mean the Weasley twins?" Peeves said in front of Umbridge, causing her to stumble backwards.

"What is it? Do you know who you're messing with?"

"Oh, I'd say you feel like a frog trying to walk backwards, but that would be mean… After all, frogs are much prettier than you are! But I am kind and will warn you not to go to the kitchen!"

"You're sillier than I thought because it's obvious you're hiding something there! Come on, little snakes!"

"Good luck!" Peeves chuckled mischievously as Umbridge and the Slytherins entered the Great Hall.

They walked to the kitchen entrance, but Umbridge had no idea how to open it, so once again she broke down the door. The elves continued to work on the food, while one of them approached wearing a sweater and Christmas hat. Umbridge shouted pointing to the Christmas elf:

"What does that mean? You are not allowed to wear anything but filthy rags!"

"I am Dobby the free elf!"

The other elves shuddered, giving Dobby glares, but continued to work.

"This looks like a paradox!" Draco laughed.

"Hey, Malfoy! Don't you remember Dobby? Remember when you were my size and decided to steal cookies in the middle of the night while I was taking you to the bathroom?"

Crabble and Goyle laughed at Draco's embarrassment, but Umbridge shouted:

"This is unacceptable...Wait, is that roasted frog?" Umbridge questioned pointing to one of the large cauldrons, but Dobby ignored it.

"But there are several other things far more horrible than Malfoy's parents..."

"Shut up, you are an independent thinking house elf and this goes against the authority of the Ministry! Know your place, filthy little creature!" Umbridge yelled pointing her wand at Dobby.

"Not anymore, Dobby didn't like what his ministry did to Harry Potter, so from now on we're going to please those who care about our freedom!"

The kitchen ceiling shook as Dobby said freedom as the elves shouted to each other that the food was ready. Umbridge, who was already getting hoarse from screaming, exclaimed:

"Where are you coming from with all this nonsense, filthy little creature?"

"Dobby is a free elf and you are you, nothing more needs to be said to explain my actions!"

Umbridge roared, losing her voice as she raised her wand, but Dobby moved the door with his magic and slammed the door against her and the Slytherins, kicking them out of the kitchen. Umbridge muttered:

"The management of this school is out of control! I will send a notice to the Ministry while you can stop the identical boys for me!"

"That elf idolizes Potty, just like the Weasel King who is the twins' brother...So it's all Potty's fault! "Draco said.

"Excellent, Malfoy! 100 points to Slytherin for her cleverness! As a reward, you will be the leader of the Inquisitorial Squad and you will lead these five that are with you to...Wait, what is this stench?"

"Looks like it's coming from above!" Draco spoke without sounding bothered.

They went to the Great Hall and they saw a huge dark mass on top of the four tables that was gathered and heaped with more French food. The dark mass had a mask as if it were a face, but it had arms that picked up food and put it inside a glowing ball as if it devoured that way.

"Merlin's beard... What is this?" Umbridge whispered.

"I bet Hagrid has something to do with it! He'd be the kind of idiot who would bring something like that to the castle…" Draco said, daydreaming about Hagrid getting fired.

They noticed a light next to the dark mass that was Tart along with two other young women, one of whom was blonde in a red robe while the other dressed like a French maid dressed in blue. Dobby reappeared near the girl in blue and said:

"Melissa de Vignolles, I've been waiting for you all this time!"

"Keep it down, Riz is a little moody in this form and Tart needs focus." The girl in red snapped.

"Don't be so hard on him, Elisa." Melissa scolded her and said to Dobby, "Tell me where is the frog witch who has been plaguing this castle and oppressing you?"

"She's coming right now...Right there, actually!" Dobby pointed at Umbridge who was limping towards them.

"This is unacceptable..."

Melissa came over and lifted Umbridge with such force and speed that she dropped her wand. Umbridge muttered:

"You know who I am?"

"Yes, that's why we'll have to use you as a human sacrifice."

Before Umbridge could process what was said, Melissa threw it towards Riz who absorbed Umbridge into the shadows. Draco was almost across the Great Hall when Crabble and Goyle caught his eye while eating dangerously close to Riz.

"Hey Draco, this food is for eating, so why don't you come eat it?" Crabble spoke.

"Stay with us, or we'll have no idea what to do." Goyle said.

Riz roared and then spiked arms emerged from the shadows and grabbed Crabble and Goyle who continued eating even as they were pulled into the shadows.

"Why do I walk with you?" Draco whimpered as he tried to run for the exit before being caught in one of Riz's arms.

"Now!" Tart screamed.

Tart's sword gleamed brightly, and she brandished it before the shadow that was focused on absorbing French food and almost absorbing Draco who grumbled:

"Why is this happening to me and not Potty or King Weasel or any of those mudbloods infest this castle?"

And a flash took over the castle.