Dany gets her very own Alice in Wonderland experience, it's almost an omake but not quite, I know it's a bit silly but the idea just amused me and I didn't feel that it justified a new story being published. Plus, it's going to be a fun way to end the year.
I'm honestly trying to decide how to handle fourth year, does Dany prevent Harry from getting entered into the tournament, does she enter herself to protect him, does she cause Crouch's cover to be blown or decide to keep him around so she can keep a closer eye on a known quantity? It's something for me to think over certainly. Regardless thanks to all my readers, and a special thanks to all those that make the effort to review.
As always, enjoy!
Without the Horcrux mucking things up the Room of Lost Things was...still potentially hazardous because wizards were idiots and what they considered to be a threat varied from person to person. Thankfully the group Dancia brought with her was in fact the brightest of the next generation, and she turned towards their awe struck gazes with a wide smile and spread out arms.
"Welcome everyone, to the Room of Requirement!"
She had brought Harry and Hermione, of course, Neville, Susan, Luna, Su, Padma, Parvati, Daphne, Tracey, Hannah, Theo, Blaise, Fred, George, Ginny, Penelope, Cho, and a positively brimming with excitement Colin into the secret room holding a thousand years of lost history.
Penelope, spoke up first, "How... I mean what is all of this?"
"This is Hogwarts lost and found," the previously unnoticed Dora stated while stepping out from behind one of the massive stacks of refuse, "This is every single thing that has been lost, broken, discarded, and stolen in this school since she was built. Nifty ain't it?"
The large group turned to the magenta haired witch in auror robes while Dancia gestured towards her, "Everyone this is my cousin Auror Tonks-"
"Just call me Tonks," she interrupted before her given name was even brought up.
Dany continued without missing a beat, "-and she has graciously agreed to supervise our scavenger hunt through a millennia of discarded artifacts that have long lost anyone capable of claiming them."
Dora grinned at that, "So basically what you find is yours, but before you pick up anything interesting I want you all to learn this basic diagnostic spell. If the item doesn't glow, it is not enchanted thus safe, if it glows blue it is a passive item that won't hurt you, green means it is an active enhancement, red is hostile and you come and grab me to look at it, and purple..."
"Run away and scream that we need to evacuate the room," Dany stated, losing her smile in the process.
The gathered group exchanged glances then nodded as they learned the simple charm from the off duty Auror, once they all got it they broke up into groups and began exploring. Dany stood next to Dora and the older witch finally muttered, "Are you sure about this?"
Dany sighed in return, "Everything in this room was lost because Vinny torched it with fiendfyre, a thousand years of history gone," she clicked her fingers, "just like that. I can't trust the professors outside of Uncle Sev, and he's beholden to the almighty goat, so if I want to find out if there is anything interesting in here, I need help."
"How're you going to claim something someone else finds?"
Dany rolled her eyes at that, "Dora I'm a Malfoy, I'll throw money at them until I get what I want."
"Crude, but effective," the metamorph replied while nodding slowly.
Dany cracked her neck to the side while grinning at her cousin, "Well, I'm going to go find my besties and have a bit of fun sifting through the ashes of yesteryear, and thanks for doing this."
Dora gave her a casual salute before turning around following Colin, Ginny, and Luna at a discrete distance.
Throwing her arms around Harry and Hermione's shoulders Dany grinned at them while asking, "Shall we begin?"
Dany had thought this end of the school year jaunt out for quite a bit, it was relatively harmless, she had brought adult supervision, and unlike her first life there were no dementors or mass murderers involved. Plus, Harry's smile was stuck in a perpetual 'I love magic' loop and Mia was vibrating with glee as she found more and more ancient texts in the stacks.
She should have known something stupid was going to happen soon.
"DANCIA! TO ME NOW!" was screamed from off to the right, eyes widening she broke away from her friends and sprinted towards Dora who was staring down at a bronze bracelet sitting in velvet lined wood box.
It was glowing purple.
"Evac, evac now," she stated in horror, Dora just nodded and turned to yell at the spread out students when the bracelet shifted, and then shot out to wrap around Dancia's wrist.
She screamed in agony, then knew nothing.
On another plane of existence Destiny turned towards Fate and took in his smirking visage for only a moment before she socked him in the jaw with an empowered haymaker, sending her brother to the floor knocked out cold.
She let out a huff and tried to center her calm, her favorite little witch was not going to be in any long term danger, sure, but Dancia was a Child of Destiny, and she certainly did not wish for her sadistic brother's antics to hurt her too much.
Still this...was going to be interesting...
Dany landed in a heap and took a few moments to gather herself before shaking her head slowly, standing up she realized she was outside for some reason, and she could hear a group of boys laughing to themselves.
Tugging at the far too warm bracelet that she could not remove from her wrist, she stepped around one of the large stones scattered about the area just in time to see Hermione rush up to a blonde boy while grating out, "You foul loathsome evil little cockroach!"
Dany's eyes widened in shock as the furious brunette stuck her wand under the all too familiar blonde's neck while Ronald quickly shot out, "Hermione don't! He's not worth it!" She lowered her wand, the blonde relaxed and sneered, then she socked him in the face.
Dancia winced, but let out a laugh that caught everyone's attention, even the now concussed boy, "Speaking from experience, you have one hell of a right hook Mia..."
The group of Slytherins and Gryffindors stared at her in open confusion when Harry finally spoke up, "Who...are you?"
Dancia sighed to herself, it was her own fault for involving herself with a Potter, their chaotic luck would eventually rub off on her and she had been aware of that from the beginning after all.
Still...propriety.
She curtsied, "Hello I am the Lady Dancia Alya Malfoy, heiress to the Noble house of Malfoy and I am just going out on a limb here but I think I may have accidentally entered an alternate reality."
Dead silence, then Draco, nose bleeding said, "What!? You are not the heir to the Malfoy title, I AM! When my father hears about this-"
"Stupefy," Dany drawled out in a bored tone with a casual flick of her wand, then Draco simply fell to the ground, she pinched the bridge of her nose, and let out a very vexed sigh.
Something told her the next few minutes were going to be terribly trying...
That's when Vinny and Greg moved towards her in a menacing manner, she didn't even look at them as she hit them with stunners as well and moved towards the shocked Golden Trio without missing a beat.
Stopping before Harry she stared at him a moment, then grabbed him by his collar and pulled him in for a kiss, a moment later she pushed the shocked boy back while shaking her head, "Nope, my Harry is better. Ok listen up I have no idea how long this thing," she lifted up her wrist and shook the bracelet with barely restrained malice, "is going to keep me here so let me make this quick because if someone is going to throw a wrench in my life, you damn well better believe I'm going to throw an anvil into theirs."
She pointed at Hermione, "Marry Harry or Neville, they both adore you and are completely pants at dealing with women so you're going to have to take the initiative," she pointed at Ronald, "Stop being a jealous traitorous jackass and actually focus on studying. You aren't stupid just lazy, and if you try to pursue Hermione yeah, you'll eventually marry her but she'll divorce you when you want her to resign from the ministry to stay home and be a house wife."
Turning away from the stunned silent pair she pointed at Harry who seemed to finally get over the fact that a witch that looked to be a High Elf Princess just snogged him and focused on her finger pointing between his eyes.
"The Dursleys are monsters, they are the dictionary definition of 'filthy muggle' and you don't deserve to suffer their presence. You did nothing wrong, you are a brilliant wizard who should put his all into his studies and stop handicapping yourself to appear average. Also, Sirius Black is your godfather, which in the magical world means he could not betray you or he would have died. He was never charged, never tried, never convicted for his crimes. He is innocent, and he broke out of prison to protect you because he found out that your parents actual betrayer was sleeping in your dorm mates bed."
She shot her thumb at Ronald while looking over her shoulder meeting his absolutely poleaxed visage, "Scabbers was actually an animagus, one Peter Pettigrew also known as Wormtail. He is a Death Eater who betrayed everyone who trusted him and has been hiding in your bed for years, plus side, I don't think he's into boys so you probably were not molested. Silver lining and all."
Turning away from the now pale redhead she faced Harry again, "Also Professor Lupin is a werewolf, one of your father's best friends, and a total coward, handle that however you want. Oh and watch out for professor Moody next year and talk to Sirius about Horcruxes, it's how Voldemort is still alive...ish? Alivish... Is that word? I'm not-OH! Looking like my time is up, tata!"
With that the burning heat of the bracelet flashed through her body and she vanished leaving three stunned unconscious, and three stunned into silence, teenagers behind.
Fate sat up and looked at the now horrifically altered timeline before him while his sister grinned down at him, he stared at her, then the portal before them, then let out a sigh.
"Well...that back fired..."
Destiny's grin shifted into a self satisfied smirk, "Never bet against my girl, try something like that again and I'm involving Uncle Death."
Fate sulked, nodded, then walked away.
Dancia landed on the floor hard, but before she could move a hand reached out and tore the bracelet from her wrist, and before she knew it she was cradled in Dora's arms being carried to the infirmary. She allowed it, today had been weird and she decided that this little misadventure was going to be slept off like a bad hangover, though it would make for a rather interesting story later on.
Harry blinked, stared down at Malfoy and his cronies, back towards Hermione and Ron, and said the only thing that came to mind.
"What. The. Fuck."
That'll be an interesting timeline to explore at some point eh? Hope you liked it, until next time!