A/N: The Harry Potter books, world and characters belong to JKR. I take no credit for any repeated quote or event from the original source.
A Blue Starred Sky
Chapter 10
Date: 12, January 2006 Entry Number: 167 Location: Brittan, London
"Where's Harry?" Dora asked her as she hugged her from behind.
"He went on a raid with Neville and Alastor. With any luck they'll get some intel on the death eater's location.
"Hopefully" She said letting out a sigh. The war had been going from bad to worse. It reached the point that she wasn't sure if there was any point in wining any more.
"Cheer up!" Hermione said as she put her book down, returning the hug as she comforted her. "You stink." She said in a deadpanned voice as Dora snorted.
"You wouldn't complain if you worked out more often." She pointed out in amusement, making sure to hold her tightly.
"Unlike certain people, I rely on my brains rather than relaying on an exercise nut." She counted as Dora let out an amused laugh.
"You wouldn't call Harry an exercise nut. Especially after all the subjects he beat you at NEWT's!" Dora said as Mione let out a grown. Love him or not that had been a huge blow to her ego.
"However I beat every one of your subject's excluding Defence Against the Dark Arts!" She defended herself returning to her amusing taunting. "Besides, I might just start thinking that you prefer Harry over me." She said in a slight fake offended tone.
"Harry? No. Now Harrier? That's a complete different question." She answered in amusement gaining a slap to the shoulder.
"Prat." She said returning the joke before a mischievous grin formed on her face. "That's quite narcistic of you Nymphadora. After all, Harrier is your Polyjuice self." She said as Dora gowned from the use of her name and the fact that she was right.
"In my defence, Harry ended up choosing his style, so..." She tried explaining but was completely denied by Hemiones feral grin.
"Of course, of course. So you keep saying. The fact of the matter is that you fallen in love with yourself." Hermione said in a singing like tone.
"Says the girl that wanted to see her boyfriend squirm from changing gender and being put in a dress." Dora commented as Hermione shrugged in amusement.
"Harry or Harriet, as long as either squirm alongside you then I'm more than satisfied." She said as Dora eye twitched.
"You have a serious sadistic issue, you know that, right?" She said in a somewhat serious manner.
"Oh? I'm sure I have no idea what-" Hermione started saying before a loud explosion hit the building.
Flying debris flew through the library as both reached for their wands, raising a shield to protect themselves only to realise that the building itself was collapsing. The ground formed a huge crack as it fall apart, the last thing visible being a glimpse of the dark sky before she could only see pitch black.
Groaning, she opened her eyes to met an equally pitch black as the one shed been forced upon minute's ago. Panicking, she reached for her wand, pulling it from her left sleeve as she cast the light charm.
"Lumos" She whispered, finding herself in a somewhat large space of fallen debris, seemingly ready to collapse at any second. "Hermione?" She called softly with a hint of panic in her voice, realising that the whole place could collapse in any second.
When no response could be heard she dimmed the light being emitted from her wand, not wanting to attract the wrong short of attention as she looked for her lover. From what she knew, only half of the Order had been inside the building when they'd been collapsed. So there's what? Roughly ten of us against a hole army of Death Eaters? Great!
She immediately mouthed a 'nox' as she heard a large group of people from afar. I'm going have to fight my way out of this one...under a collapsing dead zone…Morgana someone up there must really hate me!
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"Something wrong Mione?" Violet asked curiously as she fidgeted nervously.
"You remember the time turner I used in third year?" She asked as Violet locked at her with a raised eyebrow before she let out a grown.
"Please tell me you didn't continue?" Violet asked hopefully.
"I mean, it's a time turner! Some few extra hours of clash is worth it if..." Mione tried explaining as Violet raised her hand.
"Hermione, I figured out how to slow down time years ago." Violet explained as she stared at the girl in front of him, gaping in shook. Violet decided that it would be a good idea to raise a powerful silencing charm as she opened her mouth.
"WHAT!?" Mione yelled at the top of her lungs as Violet shrugged.
"I needed time to work on my Animagus form, but with the amount of time we spent moving from one place to another, not to mention the number of attacks, it simple became easier to find a way to slow down time. Granted, it doesn't allow you to be in two places at the same time, but If we really needed a time turner we could buy one at the black market or what not." She calmly explained as Hermione kept staring at her probably crazy girlfriend.
"Your an Animagus?" She asked in surprised. Violet blink with an equal amount of surprise, realising that she only told Hermione the basic event's from the future.
"A snowy owl, have been for years." She explained as Hermione snorted.
"Of course it's a white owl! How could you forget to tell me that!" She asked as Violet shrugged.
"I stopped using it, at least for the most part in the last few years. I was an easy target, not to mention could only do some wandless magic in that form. I kind of forgot completely in the shock that I could actually see the moon and the stars, you know?" She explained as Hermione nodded slowly, remembering how she had spent hours simple staring at the sky the first time she saw it.
"You know I'm expecting you to teach me right?" Mione asked as Violet nodded, having expected that demand.
"Christmas, or Summer at the latest but yes, I predicted that demand." She admitted with a fond smile before a pensive thought graced her features. "Wait, you've been to every class?" She asked with a slight jealous and longing glance.
"Yes?" Mione answered in slight confusion. Those two emotions had rarely appeared on her girlfriends face. The only time she saw them had been when they'd left the train station and she-..."Oh." She breathed out in understanding. "Yes, including your mothers." She admitted.
"What is she like?" Violet asked with a great amount of curiosity. Hermione had to think about it for some few seconds before answering.
"She's actually a lot like you. Calm, intelligent and kind." She said before she frowned for a second. "Thought now that I think about it, she did seem slightly stressed out." She admitted thoughtfully as Violet nodded.
"Does Rose take muggle studies?" She asked curiously.
"No, I would have seen her if she did." Mione answered.
"So they probably live in the muggle world." Violet thoughtfully.
"It's a safe bet. Muggleborn or not, knowing the muggle world isn't something that can be taught. Thought it's possible Rose didn't take it to not cause problem with the purebloods." Hermione commented, to witch Violet nodded slightly absently.
"On another note, I never asked what Susan gave you." She said, not missing the sudden nervousness on Violets face.
"I was actually about to tell you. I asked Amelia to do me the favour we talked about...actually, I think it's best if you just read it." She said handing Mione the letter, to witch she read slowly before locking up.
"Tomorrow?" She asked quietly as Violet nodded.
"Tomorrow." She said hopefully.
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"You asked to see me ma'am?" An Auror in her mid twenty's asked as she closed the door.
She had caused a lot of talking in the Auror force with her change of appearance and attitude. While before she had looked somewhere in her early forties with short, bubble gum spiky hair, she now looked her age, having short black hair with one bang dyed a bright red. However, it was her similarities to Moody that had caused the most talking in the department, her skyrocketing increase in her work added to the fact that Amelia noted some similarities between her and Violet, left her with little doubt that Violet's assumption was correct.
"I did, please have a sear Auror Tonks" Amelia responded as she discreetly studying the women.
"Something wrong ma'am?" She asked with a stoic face.
"Nothing like that, I simply was interested if something happened recently?"
"Ma'am?" She asked in fake ignorance.
"I was curious about you sudden change Auror, no problems I hope?" Amelia explained, to witch Tonks tensed ever so slightly.
"No. Nothing major happened, just some change in lifestyle." She said, a faint flicker of emotion passed through her face before completely disappearing.
"Oh? Well, if your sure." Amelia said, reaching the conclusion that Violet had been correct.
"Completely." She said unemotionally, to witch Amelia nodded.
"Very well then." She said.
"May I take my leave now ma'am?" Tonks asked.
"You may Auror." Amelia responded. "Harry Potter" Amelia suddenly said as Tonks took her fast step, causing her to almost trip before turning her head sharply.
"Wha-, who told you that name?" She demanded with many emotions showing on her face.
"The person himself." Amelia responded, as a flash of relief and joy flashed through her face.
"He's alive?" She finally whispered.
"Very. If you did happen to be who he though you where, he asked me to bring you though this." She said placing a portkey on the desk. Tonks immediately touched the object without a second thought as it emitted a white light alongside a sensation of slight movement.
Both women landed on a wooden floor as the moving sensation disappeared. Apart from a slight surprise of recognition, Tonks just speared the place a second glance before franticly looking around, her eyes coming to a stop as she inhaled deeply, staring at the two girls in front of her.
"Pst" Mione said to Violet in a very indiscreet way. "Do you think we already broke Nymphadora?" She asked in amusement as Violet snorted.
"I think we just may have. Though Nymphadora cant use it as an excuse seeing how she's still the same gender." Violet agreed as she smiled.
"True, but Nympha-"
Hermione never got to finish that sentence. Since both girls where embraced by a hysterically crying women.
"Don't call me Nymphadora, brats!" She chastised with hardly any interest in it.
As Violet and Hermione returned the hug, Amelia was getting over the shook that she was in a menacing looking floating pice of steel that was over 200 meters long! Making a note to ask the two...well, now three women not to attempt world domination, she decided to give them some few minutes alone."
So...where are we?" A still teary Dora asked.
"Northern France" Hermione answered just as happily.
"I still cant believe this!" She said staring the two girl's, almost as if she thought they'd disappear if she stopped.
Both Hermione and Violet held each hand tightly in a reasoning manner, having already experienced the exact same situation less than a week previously.
"So, what's the plan?" She asked with her usual mischievous smile.
"World conquest?" Hermione asked hopefully, both heads turning to look at Violet.
"Maybe later" She said as she let out a sigh before returning the smile to both witches. "Thought first we working on fixing Brittan."
"Stage one of world conquering it is!" Mione said as she high fived Dora.
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"Okay, that would make some sort of sense, but why would the Deathly Hallows drag me and Mione along?" Dora asked thoughtfully before eating another spoonful of her pudding.
"It is a magical number." Violet commented thoughtfully as considered the idea. "Three artefacts, closely related through the power through death. Then there is us three, we all died after being touched by the magic, and we were all closely connected, to the point that it was through magic." She finished as Mione let out an agreement sound.
As their left the restaurant Dora suddenly started to frown. A very serious girlfriend turned towards the other two with strong conviction as she opened her mouth. "When am I moving into your bed?" She asked in a tone of great importance witch caused Amelia to choke on her drink. A look of surprised crossed both girlfriends.
"Tonight" Mione said first. "I would have thought that it would be obvious." She said as Violet nodded. In all honestly, the thought of not sharing a bed when both were alive was practically unthinkable.
"Wait, wait, wait!" Amelia said as she looked at all three witches, trying to figure out if their were serious or not. "You do realised that Dumbledore has complete control over the words, don't you?" She said looking at Violet.
Out of the three, Amelia had concluded that she was the best one to rationalise with. Hermione had the same thinking of a dark lady, she saw something, it was hers, and Amelia would be eternally grateful that all she wanted the two witches in front of her, with world conquest being a minor after thought. Tonks, while maybe one of her Aurors, seemed to agree with most of what Hermione said, only arguing when it served to amuse her. Violet mostly let them go at it, occasionally putting her foot down when they went to far.
"Amelia, you do realise who I am right?" Violet asked with a raise eyebrow. When she realised that Amelia didn't understand she started to explain in more detail. "Hogwarts herself could be considered a sentient being, while not in the way that we are sentient, she protects the students, and she protects the founders. Why else do up think Voldemort was so obsessed with taking Hogwarts over?" With a curios look, Violet continued explaining.
"That being said, I am Lady and Lord of two of the four houses that made her. Think of it as lending, our family's lent the school to the Headmaster, but at the end of the day, she belongs to us, and answered to us before the Headmaster in terms of authority chain." She finished as Amelia nodded in surprise, before a look of panic crossed her face.
"Wasn't Voldemort the heir of Slytherin?" She asked, to witch Violet smiled in amusement.
"No, he was a descendant, but that's the best part of the school. She literally judges you, if you not worthy, then she treats you as any other student. I think there was some descendant of Hufflepuff in Hogwarts right now, but nothings happened, because she deemed that he wasn't worthy. On the other hand take both Rose and myself into consideration. The reason we survived all those life and death situations is because it took part in Hogwarts. Giants, Basilisk, Dementors, Dragon's, dark wizards and witches, etcetera, etcetera. Its half the reason I'm allowing the tournament to happen, they all occur in Hogwarts grounds, meaning that the school will pretty much make her invulnerable while sees inside the caste. Don't get me wrong, she can still be severally injured, but not as long as isn't an overwhelming force, and it's much more difficult to occur than to anyone else." Violet finished explain as Amelia nodded, satisfied with the answer she was given before turning towards her Auror.
"I want you back at work first thing in the morning." She said, receiving a very eager nod from the women.
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"Don't you think you may have just over done in a little bit?" Dora asked in slight amusement as Violet put down her wand.
"What did you put up anyway, I only recognised half of what you put up." She said curiously, realising that both girlfriends had probably become a spring of knowledge that she was happily going to bath in.
"Just the basic's. Silencing charms, anti eavesdropping ward, kinetic energy freezing charm, external heat detection, age detection charms, notice me not charms, confundus charms, distance based ignorance wards, code wards, identification wards and a fidelius charm with Dora as the secret keeper since she isn't a student." Violet said with a shrug as both women stared at her in surprise.
"So, ready to have some fun?" Mione said ignoring the fact that Violet had just surpassed Mad-eye.
Both girlfriends eagerly nodded, having missed each other in just as much as she had.
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Spell dictionary:
"Venena Conscidisti" ~ Poisonous Cut ~ A cutting spell coated with a slightly potent venom.
"Hastam Glacies" ~ Ice Spear ~ A projectile in the shape of a spear formed from ice. (Works best in cold temperatures)
"Daemones lenta ~ Demons Touch ~ Disintegrates any organic material it touches. (Harder for protective ones, such as basilisk skin.)
Ward dictionary (Or defensive charm's):
Kinetic energy freezing charm ~ Prevents kinetic energy from passing from the inside of the charm to the outside. (From a week punch to a variety of sounds.)
External heat detection ~ Alerts the caster if a concentrated amount of heat suddenly changes. (Usually detects body movements, working best in cold locations.)
Age detection charms ~ Charm alerts the caster if someone of a specific age approaches. (Can be set to an age to anything older)
Distance based ignorance wards ~ The closer someone get's to the ward, the more likely it is for someone to suddenly 'remember' something important. (Effects weaken on the mentally disciplined)
code wards ~ Anyone passing through this wards will set them of if they do not state the code the caster has set.
Identification wards ~ Allows any connected wards to activate if the sentient is not identified.
Fidelius charm ~ Hides a secret from every sentient conscious. The secret keeper must be someone that isn't directly linked to the secret.