Power of the Prince Lineage

SeverusxLily & Children

Rated T

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or its characters from the franchise. That honor belongs to JK Rowling

Power of the Prince Lineage

Chapter 19: Metamorphmagus and the Final Plans

Severus finished running a diagnostic on Tobias and looking through one of the books in the Prince library before nodding and saying, "Yes, it would appear that I was right. Tobias is a Metamorphmagus."

"But Metamorphmagi usually show their abilities early on in life, as early as infancy," Lily said in astonishment. "How could it be that Toby's Metamorphmagus magic didn't kick in until now?"

"I don't know, but they have obviously shown themselves now for a reason, though that reason is one that I cannot answer. We didn't even know Eileen was the Seer of our children until she was three."

"But that is different. We already knew one of them was a Seer, so it didn't come as a surprise. Rod being a sudden Parselmouth and Toby a sudden Metamorphmagus—those are what came as a surprise. You, as well as Roderick and Muirrean have stated that there have not been any Parselmouths in the Prince family lineage. And now a Metamorphmagus is added to the mix. It's all so confusing and I know it can't come from my side of the family. I'm Muggleborn, so it's impossible Toby got it from me. But isn't it also hereditary?"

Severus nodded and replied, "It can be, yes. Trust me, this whole situation is as perplexing for me as it is you. Daideo is having the House Elves search all through the family books and scrolls as we speak trying to figure this out."

Lily sighed and sat down next to her husband on their bed, and then she leant her head over to rest on his shoulder. She was quiet for a moment before softly saying, "Maybe our children have these special abilities for a reason, just like you said. Maybe they are meant to do something important soon and thus were chosen." She gave a small laugh. "I'm probably just spouting nonsense, but this all just can't be happening coincidentally."

Taking his wife's hand Severus gave it a comforting squeeze and said, "To tell you the truth, I actually agree with you. But my trouble to it lies in why. What is it that the triplets are meant to do? And yes, I believe it has to do with those three based on the fact that Eileen already had a special ability, and now Rod and Toby have gotten one as well."

"I just hope that whatever it is, our children remain safe, all four of them."

Severus knew Lily was thinking of the Third Task that Harry would be facing tomorrow. Like him, she knew it would be his most dangerous yet but they were going to have faith that everything would turn out alright. Though for Lily, she also couldn't keep the weird feeling in her stomach that something was going to happen tomorrow, something big and that it involved all of her children. She could only hope to Merlin and pray to God that it wasn't true and that they were going to be safe and sound.

Knowing his wife like he did, Severus pulled away from her a bit and began to massage her shoulders, helping her to relax and stop worrying for a bit. Lily sighed as she began to relax under her husband's gentle hands. They sat like that for a while before Severus started placing soft kisses along Lily's neck, causing her to smile and laugh softly as he traveled up her neck to her jaw line. Sighing once again in a bit of pleasure she said, "You're trying to distract me."

"Yes, and I know it is working," Severus replied with a smile, continuing to kiss her neck and up to nip lightly at her ear.

Lily giggled and turned to face Severus, wrapping her arms around his neck and planting a sweet kiss on his lips. The two of them kissed lovingly as Severus gently moved the redhead up the bed to lie on top of her and Lily's hands began to disrobe the Potions Master. Severus took his wand and made sure to place a Locking Charm on the door and a Silencing Charm on the room before putting it to the side and continuing to concentrate on his lovely wife.

Harry, Roderick and Eileen watched Tobias in awe sitting in his room as he changed his hair to many different colors, as well as his eyes. When he finally returned to his natural red hair and green eyes, Eileen asked, "Can you change your face to that of an animal? Perhaps a cat or an owl?" At Tobias' confused expression she said, "I read that Metamorphmagi can change their form to about anything they will themselves to."

Tobias concentrated for a bit as an image of Hedwig popped into his head, then willed his face to take on the Snowy owl's. He felt his face changing and knew he had achieved it when Eileen grinned and clapped her hands and Harry's green eyes widened in amazement. Even Roderick was impressed, though the emotion only shone through his brown eyes. Standing up Harry walked over to him and bent down to look in his face saying, "Amazing! You look just like Hedwig!"

"Yes, it's very impressive," Roderick said. "But can you turn into a person? Say perhaps…Holly?"

Tobias' face quickly changed back to his own and a bright blush appeared on his face before mumbling, "Shut up, Rod."

"Change into Rod, then," Eileen piped up.

Nodding Tobias very quickly turn into his brother, his hair darkening and growing to his shoulders, his eyes darkening to brown, and his facial features sharpening a bit to resemble their father's until standing in front of them was another Roderick Snape. Harry grinned and said, "Wicked."

"Do you think I can turn into someone taller?" Tobias asked.

"I'll bet you can change your entire gender with very little effort. If you can already do this without the aid of Polyjuice Potion, imagine what you could do with being a Metamorphmagus, Toby."

Turning back into himself Tobias grinned and said, "Yeah, this is pretty cool."

Harry chuckled and ruffled the redhead's hair before saying, "Well, I'm going to go to bed now. Uncle Kyle has already retired, as have mum and dad. And I have a big day tomorrow, so good night you three."

"Good night, Harry," the triplets replied as their older brother left Tobias' room to head to his own.

When Roderick was sure that Harry had gone into his room and closed the door, he turned to his siblings and said, "Okay, so as we know the Third Task is tomorrow and we already know without a doubt that we have to be with Harry during that time."

Tobias nodded and replied, "Of course, it's the reason we've been studying higher levels of magic for. We literally just started Seventh Year material."

"I think the reason why we've suddenly gotten these new abilities is for tomorrow. Something big is going to happen tomorrow and we need to be a part of it."

Eileen nodded at that, thinking that had to be the reason why her brothers were suddenly a Parselmouth and a Metamorphmagus. But she didn't understand however what the reason for them becoming those things were. She did feel though that it would have to do with tomorrow. Just as that thought passed through her mind she gasped and her eyes widened, the black orbs turning grey and cloudy and her body tensing up. Roderick and Tobias looked at their sister as she once again was pulled into a vision.

Eileen had Seen this vision before, earlier in the year. Two pairs of hands reached out to grab the handles of the Goblet of Fire. As soon as the hands touched the goblet, the goblet and hands were transported suddenly to a desolate and unnerving graveyard. There was a large cauldron and a sort of Grim Reaper grave marker. There was yelling, and the yell of a name...Cedric. And the voice sounded like…Harry. Suddenly there was a flash of green light. But then the vision changed.

She and her brothers were in a maze or a labyrinth of some sort. And in front of them were Harry and Cedric, both of them standing in front of the Goblet of Fire. Cedric was urging Harry to take the large cup because he saved him. Harry looked back at the Goblet long enough for Roderick to petrify Cedric, Tobias morphing into the Hufflepuff and moving Cedric out of the way to take his place next to Harry. Roderick sent a red spark up into the air just in time to grab Tobias'—as Cedric—hand and he grab hers before all of them were suddenly transported away, all of them landing in the graveyard.

The vision changed once again and she could see Roderick speaking Parseltongue near snake hole in the ground and the large snake she had Seen in another vision slither out, hissing back at Roderick. That was the snake Horcrux! The snake slithered closer to Roderick, obviously intrigued to be talking to the Parselmouth and seemingly trusting him. The next thing she knew, Roderick was dousing the snake in some sort of liquid, venom maybe, and the snake hissed in pain as it disintegrated and die, black smoke rising from its scales.

Once again, the vision changed and it was her and her brothers all standing strong together and facing off against the evil wizard with red eyes and the strange men in dark cloaks and masks. And then his and Harry's spells they through from their wands connected, causing a whole lot of magic to spout everywhere.

Eileen gasped once again and blinked her eyes rapidly to clear her vision before looking at her brothers and saying, "I know why you two have the abilities that you've got! It's all in accordance to us being with Harry when he reaches the Goblet of Fire tomorrow, and is transported to the graveyard that I Saw earlier this school year."

Tobias' eyes widened in surprise at the words Eileen had spoken, his hair turning blond in accordance with his surprise. Looking at his siblings he asked, "So…so do you think that maybe…just maybe…we're meant to aid Harry is facing off against this bad man? And it's up to Rod to destroy the last Horcrux?"

"Yes, that's what I'm thinking. And I Saw Rod pour something on the snake to kill it; venom, I think. But how did daddy and Uncle Lucius destroy the first one?"

"Fiendfyre, I'd imagine. It's a Dark form of magic and Horcruxes are made from Dark magic, so it's not too far-fetched," Roderick said thoughtfully. "But as for what you Saw Eileen, if it is venom that I am to use, the only venom I can think of that would be powerful enough to kill a Horcrux would be Basilisk venom."

Tobias frowned and asked, "Do you think dad has some in his in his potions ingredient storage room?"

Roderick shrugged and answered, "Only one way to find out."

He stood up and walked over to the open door, looking out into the corridor to see if anyone was there. He knew everyone else had retired for the night, but it didn't hurt to make sure. Seeing that the coast was clear, he beckoned the other two halves of him to follow and the three of them crept down the stairs quietly until they reached the first floor of Prince Manor. They turned down another corridor and headed down it until they reached a closed door that always remained locked. It was their father's potions ingredients storage room. Holding his wand up to the lock Roderick said, "Alohomora."

The room unlocked and they walked inside, pulling the string hanging from the ceiling that would turn on the light. Once the room was lit up for them to view the many ingredients their father kept for his potions, Eileen asked, "If he has Basilisk venom in here, do you think he keeps it under 'B' or 'V'?"

"I'd say 'R'," Tobias answered looking at a shelf.

"What makes you say that?"

"For 'rare ingredients'."

And true to his words, the Basalisk venom was located with other rare ingredients that were kept in the room. There were about six phials of the venom on the shelf and Roderick grabbed two of them. All three of them knew their father would question them about it later, knowing he kept a mental record of every ingredient he had and the amount he had of each, but it was for a good reason. They left the room and Roderick locked it back with the Locking Spell, and then they headed back up stairs back to Tobias' room. Once inside and closing the door behind them, Roderick turned to Eileen and Tobias and began to speak.

"We need to make our final plans for tomorrow tonight, right now. What we'll do tomorrow at the start of the tournament is sneak into the arena using the Disillusionment Charm, just like we did for the First Task. We'll tail Harry through the maze—I believe that's what Eileen said—and follow him all the way to the Goblet of Fire. We'll run into Cedric at some point as Eileen has Seen, and Toby will turn into him while I petrify him and send up a red spark, and then we'll go with Harry to the graveyard."

"And what about when we get there?" Eileen asked.

"I'll look for the snake and once I find it, I'll kill it. Toby, try to maintain Cedric's form for as long as possible before Harry knows we're with him. And when the time comes for when the Dark wizard comes back, we'll be ready to face off against his followers, since it is apparent Harry will be going against the wizard."

Tobias frowned and asked, "But do we know enough magic to go against them, though? I mean, we're only twelve years old."

Roderick nodded and said, "True, but Harry is fourteen and will be facing off against someone that is trying to kill him, the same person that tried to kill him as a baby and mum was able to escape with him before he could do so. And he also tried once again before we were born and dad thwarted him. I'd say we can do the same."

"Yes, you can," a voice suddenly came from the portrait behind them.

Quickly turning around three pairs of eyes landed on the landscape portrait hanging on the wall to see the Prince patriarch looking down at them. Roderick's black eyes regarded them for a moment before saying, "I hope you three know what it is you're going into tomorrow. And I know you three are going to end the Dark Lord before he can begin his tyranny and with the utmost confidence and power than you've ever experienced. You will help your brother succeed and no matter the outcome tomorrow, all of you will be alright. Do you know why? It's because you are of the Prince lineage; you have Prince blood flowing through your veins. And no matter what you will do the Prince family proud. Muirrean and I couldn't be prouder of what it is that you three are doing. And once Severus and Lily get over their anger—because they will be angry—they will be proud too."

The triplets all smiled up at him and said, "Go raibh maith agat, daídeo."

Roderick smiled proudly down at them before nodding and turning to leave the portrait and head back down to his own. After he left the triplets all looked at each other and made plans to meet up once again before the start of the Third Task of the tournament, all the while hoping everything would go according to plan; or rather, that no one left tournament dead.