Author note: This was a really hard chapter to write because of laziness and writer's block.
I do not Harry Potter.
Enjoy!
From the looks, suddenly cast their way, the twins quickly know they, couldn't start asking question about what Harry meant, by all the food in front of them was potioned.
They were wise enough, not to touch the food again, and instead walked over to Carla quietly, who was enjoying a apple pie, and whispered something to her ear.
Her immediate reaction was to pale instantly, before looking at her harmless looking apple pie, as if she suddenly found a tape worm in it.
Naturally, people around them, were curious about what the twins had whispered into her ear, but knowing them, they assumed they had played a prank on her and tampered with her food while she wasn't looking.
Not anything serious, that would affect them as well.
Never, had the twins reputation helped them so much as in that moment, since it never crossed any of the teacher's mind or the headmaster's own, that they had found something wrong with the food they had been served.
The Twins, had long since mastered the art, of making it look like they were eaten when in reality they were not, the food was actually stuffed into their pocket's, thankfully it was all solid, just in case they really did have to test them, for laced potions.
Harry found it, ridiculously easy to hide the fact, he wasn't actually eating, because unlike his father who could see even the tiniest of details from miles away, the people around him were too hungry to notice anything off.
So, all of four of them, pretended to eat, and when the meal was finally over, and they were told to go back to their room's, they all gathered in the twin's room instead.
Ch 17: The only adult to trust.
Never had Harry, been so thankful for having a father like Xander.
The man had insisted on packing sandwhich's into his trunk, just in case something like this, did in fact happen, on his first day.
So Harry had gone to his room, gotten those sandwich's and cracker's out, along with Viva, who was safely tucked into his shirt, since the bird had all but threatened him, to let her out of her cage.
He also know that owning a Phoenix, was a rare thing, and some people may come after her, once they learned he owned one, so it would be safer to keep her with him, when he could.
He met up with his friends, who lead him to his twin's room, something he couldn't believe the teacher's were willing to lump the two together in one room.
"The Beast" Both brothers said, making Carla and Harry raise an eyebrow, remembering the Disney film that had come out the same year.
Apparently the twins had gone to see it, and especially liked the beast.
The door opened and they all entered a room about the same size as Harry own room except for, it looked like a blizzard had flown through instead of the tidiness you would expect.
Harry own room, had never been so messy as the one in front of him, because he was encouraged to pick up after himself despite having servants to clean up after him.
"Come in" They both said.
"Boy's" Carla said, rolling her eyes before saw Harry, and quickly said. "I mean, you know, Ping and Pong, am I right?"
"…" was Harry response, before he merely smiled as he wondered where to sit.
"Just sit on any bed" Ping said, sitting on his, both Harry and Carla sat on the bed that didn't look too bad, as long as they moved the mountain of crisp packets out of the way.
They had only arrived some hours ago, so how was this room so messy, already?
"Hey, isn't that your parents T.V?" Carla said, seeing a familiar object in the room on a desk.
"Yep..." Ping said.
"And, our parents going to kill us at christmas-" Pong said.
"But at least we have three months-" Ping said.
"to watch whatever we want-" Pong finished, before they said together.
"The moment, we make it work."
It was going to be hard getting it to work when there was no electricity or satellite.
And Harry and Carla couldn't help but look at each other, knowing their own parents would skin them alive if they even thought of attempting what the twins had gone through with
"So... is it true that our food was really drugged?" Ping said, getting down to business, he and his brother didn't know what to think of eating, tainted food, after all, they had been eaten it for almost three years.
They would have surely seen the effects, right?
Carla, thought she would never look at an innocent looking, Apple Pie the same way again.
But Harry wanted to confirm one thing.
"Can I ask, you guys something." He said, getting their attention. "Do you remember your first day of school, when you were first years?"
"Yeah, why?" Carla said.
"I remember, the scavenger hunt and the long boring test" Pong said, sounding groany.
"But can you remember, what you had to find in that hunt, and what question were on the test?" Harry said.
"Sorry, harry. There is no way, I can remember that" Ping said, "That was almost three years ago for us" and Pong nodded, before they all turned to Carla, who been here for a year.
"Huh, that's odd" She said, "I can't remember, even though it was a year ago." that truly was odd, she took the test and hunt just a couple months back. You would think, she would remember the day, that she and the other transfer students came to the school.
But whenever she tried to really remember, her mind started wondering somewhere else, as if to say 'it's not important, so forget it even exists'.
"What about school class?" Harry said, "Have you ever gone through any odd class, before?"
"No, it seemed pretty standard to me" Ping said, "Why?"
"Because, I just want through a paper that asked me what the three unforgivable were and had to take a book on blood magic for a treasure hunt" He confessed.
"Bloody hell!" Ping and Pong said, summing up what Carla was also feeling.
"There are a ton of dark books in the library, too. More than half of them, I saw as illegal" He said.
"I had a class, in the library every day on Tuesdays and Thursday's, last year and I didn't see a thing!" Carla said, how had she not come across, anything like that before?
"And it got worse, I don't think anybody other than me, truly understood what they were filling out or doing. They all just want along with it." He said.
"Seriously!?" The twins said, any person would at least ask question's, and not a single person raised their hand about the questioning being asked or the items they collected!?
Did they also fill out such a questionair and hunt for dark objects, on their first day of school, as well?
They've been to the library loads of time's, and it looked standard to them.
"So either, my eyes were playing tricks on me" He said, "Or my pendant blocked something that was keeping those around me from truly seeing what they were doing."
"Your pendant?" Carla said, as Harry took off, his very first gift, his father gave him with and held it with such care that you couldn't help but notice.
"This was my very first present my father gave to me" He said, remembering that moment fondly. "At first it was a communicator between me and him, but recently he's added a way to detect anything laced with potion, and put up a mild invisible barrier, to protect me if spells were used against me, you, know, because of who I am"
And they did know, what he meant.
They had long since been filled in, on who the Felix family was, and they also understood the constant danger Harry was in because of the blood running through his veins, even though he seemed so happy as a child.
"Damn, that sounds useful" Pong said, but Harry needed all the help he could get, now that his father wasn't here to save him.
"You said, it was a two way communicator, originally" Carla said, getting everybody attention. "Can you call your dad. Since, the owlery may be watched?"
That sounded like a great idea.
Ping, Pon and Carla, hadn't noticed it, but the headmaster always made it a point to see them eating the food, maybe the owlery was being watched, on the first few nights to catch those who hadn't eaten yet and had noted something wrong, with the school.
Just than Viva, got fed up with being ignored and Harry felt a building burning sensation in his chest, making him let go, releasing Viva.
"What the?" Pong said, as the unique Phoenix flow out of Harry chest and circled the room, leaving a trailed of ice and fire floating above them.
"Is that a, Phoenix?" Carla said, her mouth was wide open.
The only Phoenix, she had ever seen was Headmaster's Dumbledore one and she had to admit, that bird was beautiful but this Phoenix was something else, for one thing she was pretty sure a Phoenix wasn't supposed to be able to control two elements.
"Everybody, meet Viva" Harry said, oh, yeah, he hadn't introduced them to her yet. "I got her when I was shopping for school."
The bird landed on a desk near them and stood in a proud way, obviously loving the attention she was getting, and giving Harry a look that said 'feed me creakers, slave'.
"Bloody hell, I've never seen a real life Phoenix, before" Ping said, reaching out to touch her head while imagining, all the possibility pranks, they could do, with such a bird at their disposal.
"Um, I wouldn't do that" Harry began to say, but it was too late.
Ping finger tips were suddenly encased in ice before they catch on fire.
The boy screamed as he immediately tried to put it out and free his finger's from the sensation.
The bird just huffed and flow onto Harry lap, while Ping fixed his finger's.
"Sorry about that, she only let's my father and I, touch her" He said, stroking her feather's and the bird peened. "She doesn't like to be touched by unfamiliar people and is almost never in her cage." Getting out some crackers and feeding it.
The bird gave each of them all a certain look.
That bird...Carla, Ping and Pong thought, wondering where this irritation was coming from, that suddenly rose in their chests.
"So" Harry said, not knowing, it was going to be hard for him to get a girlfriend in the coming years because one bird. "I think, we should call my father now, since he's the only adult we have access to us to, that can help us right now"
In another life, Harry didn't know, that he would be so distrustful of adults, that he would have tried to do everything himself, because Hogwarts teacher's refused to be the adults he needed in life.
His trust in adults, were all thanks to his father successfully showing him, that if he was ever was in some kind of trouble, that there was always an adult around to help him so he didn't need to prove anything, by trying to solve it himself.
They all agreed to call, the only trustworthy adult they could get their hands on since the staff, at the school were pretty much, a no go area.
"Hello, son" Came a voice, from a pendant that they all recognized as Harry father. "I was expecting you to call me, much later..."
"Well...Father..." Harry began, how was he supposed to say, he had been exposed to the world of dark magic already and he was kind of afraid to go through his first real class tomorrow.
Luckily, he didn't have to say anything as the man said.
"Something happened, didn't it?" His father said, knowing because of Harry's sudden silence. "Well, Harry. Just say the word and I will have you transferred to another school. Maybe you can be home schooled again, or I can enroll you into a good, secondary school, if you still want to go to school, at least we know there would be no magic there."
"Father, I still want to stay" He said.
And judging by the man's silence, this wasn't what he was expecting.
"Father, I still want to attend because I know that one day, I will encounter these things, sometime in the future. Isn't it better for me to learn to deal with them now. So that in the future, when I become the head of house, I won't be naive to the world around me" He said.
There was a long a brief pause on the other end.
It's true what they say. They grow up so fast. Xander thought before saying "Alright, than. So what's the problem? I assume, your friends are there to?"
And Ping, Pong and Carla seemed shocked that he could somehow sense them, when they were staying so quiet.
"We'll, the pendent picked up different potion's in the food." Harry said.
"It's a good thing, we brought so many snack's." Ping said, he and his brother were saddened that they had to dig into their secret stash, so early.
"And eventually, all our food will run out." Carla said, "We can't afford to go back to the dining hall whenever we are hungry and eventually starve to death."
"That is a problem" His father said, on the other line, thinking for a good two minutes before coming up with something and asking. "Do, any of you know, the way to the kitchen?"
"I saw it on the way to my dorm room." Harry said.
"I'm sure, if you talk to somebody there and dangle the threat of going to the Auror's in their face's, they would allow you to eat there without the food being tempered with" His father said.
"But wouldn't people notice were missing?" Carla said, people were bound to notice if they don't show up after the first day and the teacher's would be asking them where they go and force them to attend.
"Well, do, any of you know, the Doubling charm?" His father asked, and suddenly Ping and Pong were looking very suspicious.
"We learnt it, within the first month of going to school here" Ping confessed.
"It helps with creating alibi's. The teacher still haven't figured out, how we pull of pranks when they can see us the whole time." Pong said.
"Great, teach Carla and Harry, that charm." His father said. "This way, whenever they call you for dinner, they can create, a double and switch with them, and wait, until everybody is in the hall before going to the kitchen. I'm sure, you can figure out a way to make sure nobody see's you, when your doing it."
"The Disillusionment charm" Carla said, "I learnt that in first year. I can easily teach Harry, that"
"No need. I don't think, my son needs the training. He already knows how to do it." his father said, while Harry cheeks heated up, when he remembered trying to sneak into his father room, when he was younger, without the man knowing, having somehow turned invisible.
Unfortunately, the sound of his tiny feet gave him away pretty easily.
Ping, Pong and Carla suddenly had an understanding look, they weren't even surprised anymore, Harry had shown them, he could do magic without a wand consciously, for quiet some time now.
"So that's sorted" his father said, "Oh, and can you all, somehow preserve some of the poisoned food? And send it to me on the weekend? You don't think I'll just sit back and let the school serve mind altering liquids to children everyday? If you find anything else, suspicious, you can always send it back to me to analysis, it would help with the case against the school"
"So, we'll be detectives!" Ping and Pong said, very excited to be snooping around and trying to get the headmaster fired.
"So, Harry is there is everything else, worrying you. You can always talk to me" his father said, before saying. "Britain is one hour more advanced than where you are, so you don't have to worry about me being asleep when you need to talk. So, goodbye." He cut the connection.
They all sat in silence before Pong said to Harry.
"Did, I ever tell you, Harry. That your father is bloody brilliant?"
Carla just rolled her eyes.
And scene!
Finally, I've done this chapter! Next chapter, Xander attends the Wizengamot and has a little chat with Lucius Malfoy who want to invit Harry over for summer, while Harry channels his father when he's told to get on a broom that looks even more unstable than the one's at Hogwarts. Review/ fav and follow!