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Bellatrix's Curse

Hermione was worried, she looked like the little child she was. Gone was the overconfident Healer Pixie after she'd felt the malevolence around the nice Uncle Dolphi.

Ten house elves, as if feeling her concern, stood at each side of the bed. A couple of elves were ancient, just slept most of the time, and small blankets covered them, but in reality, their magic was the greatest.

Only Grant noticed they all had some transparent symbol hanging from their necks. He hadn't seen it before. He had wondered why such strong magical beings worked as servants; he didn't get it. Not even as servants, indentured servants, slaves according to what Lucius had explained to him. He would do something about; it wasn't right.

Grant pulled out the Healer Pixie book; he had remembered something, and, yes, he was right. He showed it to Lucius.

Lucius read it and smiled. Of course, magic children were sometimes the victims of dark hexes, or would come into accidental contact with nasty entities, or were infected with magical infections; hence the book was made to take the fear away from the children when being treated by healers. The text showed simple healing sessions and even one that was a little dark; with nasty things with teeth and claws.

"Pépère, a moment, please stop for a minute. Read this while I talk to the Pixies." He passed the book to Serpens whose eyes immediately opened with understanding. He passed it to Severus and whispered to pass it to all the adults, except the ones that had just been healed.

"Mimi, love, come here. Ah, excuse me Healer Pixie, Shadow and Light, please come here."

Hermione made an imperious looking face, she hadn't liked being called Mimi, and Lucius had caught her frowning. She was in the Healer Pixie mode, and it was hard to keep a straight face, but he wanted to keep them happy since they were doing serious work.

"Ok, do you remember in the Healer Pixie book when the injured garden fairies came to see her. The poor fairies where no longer white but their skin had turned very dark with color splotches, and they were quite sick, the nasty Dark Fairy had triple hexed them."

"Yes, it's scardy." Draco affirmed and Mimi agreed right away. Harry didn't think one way or the other. He had seen scary, his uncle Vernon. Whatever, he was no longer scared. Harry knew that uncle Vernon would never do anything to him because his daddy was very big and strong, and Mimi had sparklers coming out her fingers. He was sure that she could burn Dudley's butt and uncle Vernon's hands. That thought made him grin and giggle.

"Yes, it was that. Sometimes, Healer Muctis has to take care of little wizards and witches who had been touched by a dark fairy. Sometimes, there are witches, wizards, and even fairies whose bad wands give sickness to people, just like the Dark Fairy's," Lucius was looking at their faces to gauge their understanding.

"Hmm," they all nodded and agreed with Lucius. After he told them about Dark Illa, the bad fairy, Hermione knew that he was right.

"Nasty wizards, like the wizard with the box face? Or like Miss Rose?" Hermione asked. Miss Rose felt dark, all around her, and that wizard that had robbed Traco at her house, had dark clothes and had made them very scared.

"Yes, we smash'im hard, but Mimi you should have sparkled him," Draco said thoughtfully. They had both told Harry about the children's robber and the nasty child at the puppet show. He thought it was a great idea, and whispered to them. He asked them, again, if they would help him to smash uncle Vernon like that, but sparkling was even better. They promised to find him and his cousin and 'take care of them, soon.' Ironically, their actions would actually help Dursley.

Albeit Harry was a good little wizard, his mind was set on revenge, not really bad; however, the idea of sparkling them on the bum made him laugh. He also wanted to make them very scared, maybe something else, put them inside a shadow net. And he would bring it up every second, he had a chance. He wanted them to see how good he had it, and to be punished properly, and lock them in the dark cupboard for a few days, yes, that would do it.

Lucius was glad they had not 'sparkled' the Death Eater at Mimi's home. And what was with the "sparkle", wandless magic at such age? You could only find it in the annals of magic and long ago legends. The children needed to learn to restrict their actions in front of others. The shadow net casting was something amazing, along with the activation of the net, what was it? They could do great damage, yes, that was the problem with such powerful children, at least Mimi was less hot headed than the two boys. He kept wondering what happened between Harry and the Grangers, he would soon find out. He wanted to adopt Harry, and wished he had told him so before.

"Yes, you smashed him and did that feel good? You weren't afraid because we were there. The Healer Pixies call the wizard and the witch who own the Hospital, and they all stand around and join their lights together, remember?" Lucius was repeating what he saw.

It made sense, the hospitals and clinics had curse breakers, and those who specialized in building walls of light around those cursed. But you had to be specially gifted and those were few and far in between, however, they could all contribute to form a decent circle of protection. Nobody in here had the needed power, but they would try.

"Yes, I forgot," Mimi turned bright red, she had forgotten something important, and it was good he reminded them.

"You wants to play Healer Pixie, you are prettier than the Wizard in the book, he had a long hairs in the face, daddy says is a beard, and Mommy Cissy is the witch? She is also prettier. You two are very pretty." Mimi said as a matter of fact.

"I phink my mommy is prettier." Harry blushed when he said that, "And my daddy is prettier than Dwaco's daddy." Harry was no longer calling Cissy and Lucius by name.

Cissy noticed, he would ask him to call them uncle and aunt, and why was he calling Grant and Jeanie mommy and daddy, had they missed their chance? Remus also caught that as well as Sirius and they look at each other, questioning it?

Jeanie had a tear on her eye, "Thanks honey, but Cissy is very pretty." Grant jumped in, "And Jeanie, am I prettier than Lucius?"

Jeanie was still irritated with him over the marking and turned quite red. "No honey, you aren't prettier." And now Grant turned red himself, she was still angry, and he was still jealous.

Too many good looking wizards and all with powers he lacked. Grant probably needed to thank his mother for depriving him of his birthright. Little did he know that Lucius was jealous of him and of all the other wizards as well? Cissy had made the mistake of commenting how handsome Grant was, and of how surprised that he had such beautiful features being a Muggle. She had said he looked like a Pureblood and many witches were going to be after him...which had also led to her marking last night.

By now everyone was talking at the same time.

Thallia and Serpens had noticed the young men all half in love with the beautiful young women, and the married roosters staking out their territory. It was too sweet. The Manor was alive and well. Not since the twenties, the Manor had been so full of life. This was perfect. He hoped to be alive to see Draco's and Mimi's children, although it would be a long wait.

Finally Serpens interrupted the banter, "Pixies, I have an idea, there are more wizards here, and some who know how to smash dark things really well. Remus, Severus and Healer Muctis, can help, and Mémère can also help, she is a powerful witch. We already have the elves whose assistance has been welcome and even more now. We all want to play, and we can let Jeanie and Grant take care of the young men that are not yet strong enough, but after a few days they will be."

The pixies nodded their heads, and they went back to the bed. Harry stood on the floor at the right as the other two times, next to Lucius and Cissy; Severus, and Remus and Muctis were right behind, "Thallia you stand behind Healer Pixie. Keep your hand on her shoulder and chant a protection spell. And, you must channel their energies to build light walls of protection." Serpens' voice was firm and commanding, to give the children confidence.

All the adult wizards pulled their wands and cleaned their minds. They prepared, as they had learned, to clean their minds before specials spells, they called for good energy and used a technique learned at Hogwarts to create a wall of light.

The elves well went down on knee and were very quiet, their spindly hands all directed in the Healer Pixie's direction. This was different from the first sessions.

This time she repeated the motions twice more, and then as in the book.

"Healer Pixie is not happy. She thinks a Dark bug bit Rorolfus and made his belly and his head dark inside. We are first erasing the dark with the clean water." Lucius was ready and gave her a glass of plain water.

Healer Pixie's hands were not the most coordinated of all, and instead of sprinkling, just dumped handfuls of water on Rodolphus chest, and he jumped. Smiles could be seen across the room.

"Oh, oh," Healer Pixie remember something. She moved and tapped Rodolphus' forehead twice. She looked at Lucius and Cissy, who did the same with their fingers.

When they touched his forehead, they felt a shock go through their fingers. And both sensed the same picture at once, the same that Serpens had seen. A stick figure, the same tiny figure inside the head, it was Bellatrix with a brush of dark paint.

Both Malfoys realized this was the way the children saw her. She, Bellatrix, was painting inside the head, using a brush that looked like a rat's tail, with dark paint spotted with marshy green and red blotches. It was scary as you could sense her evil intent. They looked at the wizards, "Everyone sends the light to the Pixies, concentrate."

The elves were all sending small streams of pink light around the Pixies, which was being absorbed by their skins.

Draco and Hermione started to work. The pink light seemed to be keeping them happy and tranquil; a very nasty stench permeated the air and stunk all the room. As for Rodolphus, his skin had actually turned dark, not a healthy dark shade, but a nasty greyish-purple and now he had light patches, as if he was being painted over.

~~~*H*~~~*D*~~~*H*~~~

Fighting Bellatrix

The elves well went down on knee and were very quiet, their spindly hands all directed at the Healer Pixie's direction This time, she repeated the motions twice more, and then, as in the book, once more.

"Healer Pixie isn't happy. She thinks a dark bug bit Rololfus and made his belly and head scary and dark inside. We are first erasing the dark with the clean water." Lucius was ready and gave her a glass of plain water.

Healer Pixie's hands weren't the most coordinated of all, and instead of sprinkling, just dumped handfuls of water on Rodolphus and made him jump. Smiles could be seen across the room.

"Oh, oh," Healer Pixie remember something. She moved and tapped Rodolphus' forehead twice. She looked at Lucius and Cissy, who did the same with their fingers.

When they touched his forehead, they felt a shock go through their fingers. sensed the same picture at once, the same that Serpens had seen. A stick figure, the same tiny figure inside the head, it was Bellatrix with a brush of dark paint.

Both Malfoys realized it was the way the children saw her. She was painting inside the head with dark paint spotted with marshy green and red blotches. It was scary as you could feel her evil intent. They looked at the wizards, "Everyone sends the light to the Pixies, concentrate."

•●◊The healing and the Bellatrix figure◊●•

The elves directed shorts burst sofy pink light around the Pixies, which was immediately absorbed by their skins.

Draco and Hermione started to work. The pink light seemed to be keeping them happy and relaxed; everyone could smell a very nasty stench, as if some animal had died; Rodolphus skin had actually turned dark, and now he had light patches.

"Traco, smash the bug inside, yes get it, grab that bug swatter, the pink one, yes dear that one, I me, ah, acksusme, Pixie Lit dear," and both giggled.

Serpens later told them, "First there was the small figure with curly hair, she was a miniature witch. When the children 'came in,' to the outside viewers they were pulling the goo out the ears, inside the figure had turned into an ugly giant bug. It had a big stinger and sharp teeth; it was like nothing I had ever seen before. It was ominous, so nasty that I was actually scared, and I'm grown-up wizard. It was trying to attack the children; however, before I could figure out what to do, they both chased it with shinny pink swatters which appeared out of no where. Armed with the swatters, they swatted it over and over, until all that was left was a smashed bug on the ground."

That was when the group saw a dark light projected from inside Rodolphus head, right at the center of his forehead.

"Yuck, it smells bad," the three pixies said at once.

Grant, Jeanie, Sirius, and Rabastan, were amazed, as the dark came out, the group working with the children, were surrounded by a dome of light. Nobody was sure where it came from, Thallia said the light originated from each of the children, probably reinforced by the 'wall of lights.'

Rodolphus body was hardly visible; he was in a shroud of dark smoke slowly changing to circles of light surrounding his body. The stench was horrible, and again it reminded them of rotten flesh, thankfully it was dissipating.

The adults all saw a shrouded figure, a ghostly apparition as it rose out of Rodolphus. While rising it solidified; luckily once it hit the top of the dome, it dissipated into pale ashes that rained onto everyone, but at touching any surface, the ashes just evaporated into a grey vapor.

The 'sickness-black-goo' coming out was like the one in the book, it was very dark with appendages, and the kids giggled remembering the book. It was splotchy red and green, and Sirius thought that the red was blood and shuddered. Jeanie and Grant nearly ran, picked up the children, and took them away.

Harry was angry at the thing, he was not sure why, but he was smashing it hard, and it was not being affected. So he dropped the shoe and kept repeating, "I Pixie Shadou cover the dark zing; I Pixie Shadou tells you to go and covers the dark zing."

Sirius chuckled softly at Harry's struggle with the words. The Pixies changed the way they pronounced words in their effort to create the right sounds, it was wonderful.

And said and done, the shadow turned into a net with smaller mesh than the previous one, Lucius and Cissy had read the book, so they waited for Light, who pulled the last of the black and red wriggly mess; and as in the book, at each of the ends it had a head with teeth. As it was the case with many dark curses, it would turn into a dangerous creature trying to cause lasting damage to the curse breakers/healers.

The book wanted to prepare the little ones in case they were under a dark curse and had to be healed. Many parents, for decades now, would carry the book to Mungo's or read it to their children before the healers. Magical children were exposed to things that would scare a grownup Muggle out their minds. Jeanie and Grant felt as if they were watching a reel of the Exorcist, a felt proud and scared for the children.

•●◊Scared Pixies - The goo strikes back◊●•

As in the book, Lucius and Cissy pointed their wand to the heads, and turned them into a potato like head. Mimi though of Mr. Potato head, but these potatoes had teeth. The kids giggled, the adult hearts were going very fast. Jeanie fell nauseous and wanted to vomit. She wanted this over now. Cissy, Thallia, Remus and Muctis were tempted to end this right then.

Draco jumped and casted his spell, "I Pixie Lit cover the dark phing." As his Light touched and covered the thing, the screeches started, and the Pixies were very afraid, all at the same time. Things nearly went south, and the Pixies had not yet completed the healing.

Rodolphus was not longer dark, and Rabastan prayed for a miracle, for his brother to be well.

Dobby saved the day. He stood up, and with his foot, stomped over the potato shape. Lucius and Cissy did the same and laughed to make it look like fun; soon thereafter Harry and Draco joined. When they did, the thing finally shriveled up and transformed into the fly, one very large fly, and then the centipede thing, which Severus was ready to put into the vial.

Severus made a face, which was caught by the ones watching. His hand actually burned, and he had to cast a cooling charm. He put several wards around the vial and later asked Lucius to seal it in a protected box. He had an awful feeling that it was a piece of Bellatrix's soul, or maybe a demon. The thing was not really dead. It was in stasis, and they still need to kill it once more, later when there was time.

Healer Pixie started tracing her symbols; this was when Cissy, who studied runes, recognized one rune, then another. She made a mental note of the combinations. This was unreal, how would a child know runes? She recognized Uruz and Algiz, for health and protection; it was as if a greater force was guiding her, like the old healers of legends.

She repeated her magic, and then, "I Healer Pixie, I say to the sick stuff inside of the sick Pixie, go away, we don't want you. You are bad, go. Orange, Blue and White, bring lights to his heart." She wrote the love sign, and a couple other symbols that later turned out to be a happy face, her own creation, and a number three, for the three pixies. The adults laughed for days at the pensive, and finally figured it out.

"Healer daddy Liushius, send the light. Healer Mommy Cissy, send the light, Healer Uncle Serus send the light, Healer Uncle Remy send the light, Healer Dobby send the light."

"Send the Orange, blue, white, red and gold, keep the dark away, make him bedderr" the three pixies knew this part of the book.

"Shadou and Lit hold your hands over the Big Pixie, put the Shadow and Light." She had more or less done as in the book. So Harry moved the hands over and casted a net made out clear strings, and then Draco changed to streams of light, the light was made of pulsating energy, orange, blue, red and gold. It shone all over the room in the small alcoves by the terraces, and around the windows. It was beautiful.

•●◊The Healed◊●•

All the older wizards and Cissa and Thallia joined as well, the elves all put their spindly hands over the wizard's arms and his legs. They all sent their healing charms into Rodolphus. Who, finally, started to cry like the others had, and the tears changed from dark to normal tears.

A fresh fragrance of fresh trees, and flower blossoms, with freesias and orange blossoms filled the room. Serpens saw a vineyard emerging inside the dark labyrinth that was the sick wizards' mind. A soft, yellow, warm light illuminated dark recesses, the areas around the blocks were now visible; a gently cleansing breeze blew all around, and the musty moldy stench was vastly improved.

He saw two boys riding a broom in the distance, and it felt as if were a spring day. He saw a young wizard riding a horse; and next second he was walking holding a chubby boy; next, he saw him walking with three very pretty young witches. At first, it was hard to see the plants that were blooming little by little. The shadows were mostly gone, and peace was finally present when a light rain begun.

Thallia stared at Serpens totally amazed, he was getting soaking wet, so were the Healer Pixies and everyone else. Indeed, it was raining in the room; the warm rain smelled of fresh earth, of blooming plants and fragrant herbs. The rain was getting rid of the leftover sick smell around the room, and it made everyone forget the stench.

After the healing nobody remembered about the head with teeth, or the stench permeating the room. The children had no memories of the nasty bug, or the stick figure, the rain washed it all. Finally, the wall of light broke out into tiny sparks, and the kids were happy.

Some results would not be apparent for a long time, while others would be noticed within the days to follow. Everyone was looking at each with empathy, feeling the wellbeing enoyed by each and everyone in this room, to include the house-elves. The dogs and owl that sat and perched by the room entrance, had gained many years to their life span, and a stronger link with the children.

Some of the room occupants had visions of children and future families, and some felt the last of their hurts going away. All understood that the fight had justo begun, and they were just getting ready.

Someone in the room was gifted with a mundane yet special gift. It was Severus, nobody would ever call him a greasy bat, his oily hair was not more, and although his nose was still big, it was no longer crooked since the breaks inflicted by his father had healed. He felt ready to love again, to take new chances with his heart, and to watch over Lily's child as he had promised her. He no longer trusted Albus, and his mission would now include deceiving him as well.

Remus' facial scars were hardly visible, and he would later discover that even if he still were a werewolf, his transformation was rather smooth. No more pain and he retained his mind, but not always. And the added bonus, he was a true shifter, he could now shift at will, but on full moon, he had to change, it was not a choice. During the full moon, he would still lock himself, and the Wolfbane was enough.

Rodolphus had not woken up like the others, and Healer Pixie noticed.

"Daddy, what is going on? Uncle Dolfy is still sleeping." This was Hermione, not longer a Pixie.

"I don't want to play this game anymore, it was scardy." She told her daddy and asked to be picked up while Grant sat at the edge of the bed. She laid her head on his chest and snuggled up to him. He kissed her head and breathed in her sweet scent. His little girl, he didn't want her doing this, no more.

Draco and Harry had already decided the game was not a lot of fun, even if the worse parts were gone forever.

Draco wanted to climb on his daddy's lap. Lucius complied with alacrity, picked him up, and leaned his cheek on his son. Harry went to Jeanie and asked, "Can you pick me up, please?" He was hopeful yet his little heart skipped a beat.

She bent to get him and held him tight, close to her heart. Her little boy, she had decided, she would move to the continent and do what it took. They would hide if necessary. There was the organization that Elly and Grant worked for, undercover. They would do whatever was required in order to keep him. She would not let any system take her little boy away from them. Forget about playing their game. He was a treasure and needed to be treated like one. She sighed and kisses his forehead.

Harry burrowed onto his mommy's arms and closed his eyes enjoying the moment, happy to have come home.

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