Chapter 24-Hogwarts and Family

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"Jones. Just the scum I wanted to catch after class, and all alone."

"I'm not alone, Malfoy; or did you go blind along with your brainless rhetoric?"

"Oh, I don't count mudbloods and blood traders wandering around. You all are what, animals? Low-level scum in our world of pureblood wizards?"

Jones and Malfoy were not alone in that hallway. There were half a dozen students in the hallway besides myself and my wives, only three were with Malfoy. Atleast now we were able to now put a face to the name Malfoy. This Malfoy was really a shrimp with mousey brown hair and acme riddled face. I was interested to see how this would play out.

The blond headed girl that was Jones got the curses flying by saying, "Well that scum of the mudblood still beat you in DADA today."

Malfoy whipped out his wand and yelled, 'Sectums….' But got hit with two wide angle stunning spell from Daphne and Gabby. All the bad guys fell in one go.

What is going on? I'll see somebody expelled over this!" Chang the Transfiguration teacher looked like she wanted to curse someone.

She was acting a bit to Snape-ish as far as I was concerned. "I suggest you levitate them up to the Headmaster's office if you want to see somebody expelled. We'll be right behind you as witnesses to the event."

As we followed Chang, Daphne sent me a thought, "And this is how you keep a low profile and not get confrontational with the professors?" She was making me feel like I was a third year student again and they had thrown the spells. This would be all over the school before the day was over. This Malfoy had not sounded any different from the Draco we once knew.

The Headmaster just shook his head as we entered his office and asked, "Lord Perevell what happened…"

"Headmaster he is a student and I am the professor!"

"My apologies Professor Chang, would you be so kind as to explain what has transpired."

"I entered the hallway and found these four students stunned and those three standing over them."

"Thank you Professor Chang, now Lord Perevell if you would be so kind."

After a quick explanation Miss Jones was sent to her next class while Malfoy got a months detention for attempting to use the 'Sectumsempra' curse. Chang just sat around grinding her teeth.

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The girls had the elves decorate the cottage inside and out as we were going to spend Christmas Eve at the cottage and not at the Yule ball. Both girls planned out the Christmas break so all I had to do was smile and look pretty.

Shops and restaurants usually remain open until the last minute to pick up that last few Dollars or Knuts. After on excellent meal we strolled Diagon alley take in the decorations. More of our evening was spent taxiing to other Christmas decorating areas to enjoy the Christmas spirit and each other. It was Christmas day when Voldemort decided to deliver his Christmas present to Hogwarts.

The Perevells had decided, late in the morning, that another stroll was an order. A walk in the crisp cold weather would set the scene for a nice hot cocoa at the Three Broomsticks.

"You know this is nice. I feel so locked up in confined there at Hogwarts." Gabby sighed.

"We are just used to doing what we want and dragging Harry along. After all these years it's still nice to take these strolls to go visit some amusement park with insane rides. How many people can brag about being hormonal teens after three hundred years?"

"And of course spend a lot of money in the boutiques." That got me a slap to the shoulder on each side.

"Harry you know you like spending all those galleons we have stacked behind our house. Even now Bloodlust wants you to contact him about a vault."

"Daphne's right! You're not even close to spending all that Barkley bank money."

"Hey! I'm not the one doing all that spending." That got me some more slaps the my shoulders.

"What in Merlin's name was that noise?"

"I've no idea Daphne but it sounds like it came from Hogwarts. Grab hold and I'll flash us over to the Main Gates and maybe we can see what that was."

Call it an instinct or call it training but rather than flash directly in front of the Main Gates I flashed to a grove of trees which were basically across the road from the Main Gates. It was a happy me in my place of arrival decision. We found Voldemort and about a dozen Death Eaters apparently trying to gain entrance through the Main Gates.

Of course the mental chatter started about what we should do or what we could do or…

I just dragged the girls over and behind some bushes. As we were kneeling there we got to watch what could only be described as strange and different. Voldemort and crew were of course throwing curses and spells at the Main Gates. But then they started picking up rocks and throwing them and hurling conjured items at the gates? There was a lot of spark and smoke as the gates and fencing was hit with the assorted items. It didn't look like a ward as much as looked like visible electrical electricity that was swirling and forming a fence over the physical fence. We were as stumped as Voldemort was. Being polite students we decided not to interrupt and shortly thereafter all the imbeciles left. Questions for the headmaster could wait as we decided to return to our cottage for a very large hot toddy, the cold had won the day.

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"I'm sorry Lord Perevell but I did warn you about running into something strange. We picked up a number of devices from the Americans. What you saw there was basically a deadly force field.

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The school year ended without fanfare. The elves packed up our belongings and we retired to our cottage.

The girls and I settled in the first night on the couch in the living room before a roaring fire. The elves had provided the girls with their margaritas while I was sipping my special concoction. I was never one for the taste of alcohol as it reminded me in a way of weak skeleton-grow. However a rum and Pepsi with a maraschino cherry and a splash of its juice hit the taste quite nicely. Kind of like a Sherry Temple on steroids. As we all relax and were feeling comfortable…

So I yelled "HEDWIG!

She flamed in and clipping my head with her wing before settling on an over stuffed chair.

"Hedwig we want some answers and if you can't give them find somebody who can. Otherwise you're going to end up like one plucked chicken… Nothing to say you say? Fine were going on vacation for the next couple of years. Don't call us, we'll call you" I then fired a feather plucking charm at Hedwig. Unfortunately she was too quick and she flamed away.

The next morning we stopped by Gringotts Wizarding Bank to see Bloodlust.

"It's good to see you again as gold is the subject. We need authorization for us to move the gold or you need to request a larger vault." Bloodlust was rubbing his hands together in a traditional greed mode.

"Surely the Potter family vault can't be full?" The Goblins had consolidated my Gallions to a new vault which the girls emptied long ago. Surely my subsequent income could not have filled a vault that size.

"Not at all, the vault that I am referring to was originally open long ago and is one of the smallest that we provided. It was actually labeled WWW but upon closer inspection it was opened for Harry Potter's share as an investor in WWW. It appears the business is still doing quite well."

"Whichever way you think is best Bloodlust. We will look into it later right now we're heading out on our vacation."

And vacation we did in America, water sports in the Bahamas to Indonesian dining and in France for French cuisine. The girls had insisted that we spend my birthday on the beaches of France with the entire family. As I was surveying the party I was again thinking about hiring a ghostwriter there had to be a novel in this somewhere. In the beginning it wasn't long before the girls had started to wonder if they could have children only just to find out how fertile they really were. Then came the phase about how they thought they were fat and ugly. One avian transformation cured one problem and luckily the next burning cycle cured the others problems on how they looked. Well until it started all over again. Then came the point in our lives of being able to look at some of our children who look like Dumbledore's in age. Unfortunately our traits in longevity did not transfer to our children. The party was at its high point when Fawkes arrived.

"Hatchling, you're making a lot of people unhappy. You are supposed to be at Hogwarts."

"Me return to Hogwarts?"

"Granddad I thought you gave up going to Hogwarts and to England?" Jonathan, if I remember correctly, was just around a hundred years old and was still calling me granddad.

"I have no reason to be there Jonathan and I'm definitely not going to ask or beg anyone to invite me to Hogwarts." I glared at Fawkes and said, "Let the people upstairs know if they want me there they can have it arranged but until then we're on vacation." Fawkes flamed but it wasn't many days before he returned.

"Hatchling you're to ride the Hogwarts express on September 1st. Your new position at Hogwarts will be coordinator and counselor for the school ghosts." Fawkes flamed before I could ask any questions, or even give a, "What!".

"Okay Harry, since were going back that means Voldemort will be our problem once again. That means were all going to have to go into research mode."

I was just nodding when Gabby stated the obvious,"But we've already researched the terms that we heard."

"Right! But we researched where he came from and what he is supposed to be based on some terms. We should have remembered that he split his soul and what if one part of the soul was trying to be saved while more parts were in for lack of a better description, in Hell. I really don't know maybe we should look into how to get rid of demonic entities."

"I think Daphne's right we need to try to research all the different angles while I'm counseling ghosts. We all broke into laughter.

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The magical libraries in France were somewhat informative as were the Italian libraries but as ordered, on September 1st we were on the Hogwarts express. Unfortunately the ride was not without surprises. Our worst discovery was that Malfoy and his little group were not seventh year students until this year. I was definitely not smelling any roses with this news.

The Welcoming Feast and the Sorting proceeded without trauma or incident other than my receiving a note to see the Headmaster, at my convenience.

"Lord Perevell and his lovely ladies, please have a seat." The headmaster was saying as I glanced up at the portrait. "Not to worry I have already silenced the normal offenders. There were indeed not happy about your return to Hogwarts. I also must add that you have a very unusual assortment of friends who all insisted on your return to Hogwarts this year."

"I hope their persuasive abilities were not traumatic Headmaster as I find some of them to be quite intimidating."

"Indeed! I just wanted to say that there is no work associated with the position and you will have full Professor privileges and authority."

"Thank you Headmaster. I will let you know if I have any problems or make any headway with our research on Voldemort.

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Our first lead was a reference that Holy water has been believed to ward off or act as a weapon against mythical evil creatures. In Eastern Europe, they would sprinkle holy water onto a corpse of a suspected vampire in order to destroy it or render it inert.

"You know Daphne I keep asking myself why the people upstairs just don't tell us what to do, you know I mean, it's not like they haven't sent us messages before."

"I know Harry. Their like these books, they talk all around it but they don't tell us how. Like this section 'They know only war. They prowl about the world constantly seeking to ruin our souls, to cause us to despair and to drag us to hell. We must do battle and fight evil. We cannot run away, because 'surrender is not an option'. Where have we heard that before?"

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We were sitting in the library about two months since school started when the Klaxons went off. Hogwarts was under attack!

"Let's set off to the Headmaster's office and see if he has any plans for us." At least I hoped he knew what was going on as I sure didn't.

The Gargoyle sprang aside and we raced up and into the Headmaster's office. He was studying a map that covered his entire desk, it looked a lot like the old Marauders map.

"I'm afraid they have somehow bypassed our fencing and gate protections and are headed for Hogwarts."

One of the nice things about being married for such a long time is a twitch of an eyebrow can send a lot of information to the others in the bond. Daphne I transformed and Gabby was hanging on my tail feathers as the window blew open and we flashed.

As we arrived we transform back to ourselves only to find ourselves facing an odd assortment. Voldemort had brought about fifty Dementors and about thirty Death Eaters of varying heights. The other twenty look to be vampires. The vampires were probably under some kind of a anti-Sun charm while the shorter Death Eaters were probably recently graduated Hogwarts students. Voldemort still look like an inferi in that his skin looked like it was going to fall off his bones in flakes and chunks. I hadn't seen any help coming and apparently the wards were down. Overall it really did make a difference this mob was going to run over and squash us like bugs under a boot.

I was waiting for Voldemort normal diatribe but instead got a variation, "You haven't aged a day Harry Potter." Voldemort marveled, "Tell your secret or die!

I was a bit confused as I didn't think demons died so why did he need my secret? If I looked like he did I probably kill myself. But then Voldemort yelled as I gave him the middle finger… "Kill them all!"

The Family Potter then went into action! I was offensive, Daphne was defensive and Gabby just caused pandemonium.

Daphne was throwing up 'Protego Totalum' shields in all directions and would recast as they collapsed. I immediately sent 'Expecto Patronum'. Prongs was just a bit stronger each year that I aged and at this point he was a multi-hundred pound terror. Oh yes the mist was quite solid now. I then started using my favorite curse and kept repeating "Bombarda". Gabby had transformed and was tossing multiple fireballs which made the vampires ash heaps. But alas , the numbers were about to overcome us. That's when all of the fighting stopped. I look over my right shoulder see what the funny noise was.

"We're in Merlin's name did he get that?" Apparently Daphne had said to no one in particular. Like I had an answer to that, thing.

My head snapped back to Voldemort as he started…"It's finally time for you to die Harry Potter!" The ugly inferi Voldemort started to transform into some demonic creature when a sizzling noise came from behind. A beam of sparkly something shot past us and hit Voldemort. Voldemort then seem to turn into a black fog but then the fog and those who accompanied Voldemort disappeared. All we could do was turn and look at the little miniature Star Wars type rolling mini trash can in awe. I think that maybe I hadn't been keeping up with current technology the best that I could.