Chapter 3

I don't own Harry Potter or Vampire Diaries. Although like many others I wish I did. Lol

Summary: Pandora (Female Harry Potter) has won the war but the price was to high she has lost all her friends, and family. She can't stand to be in the wizarding world any more to much pain and loss. Deciding to travel the world one she runs into Klaus on one of her stops. They are different sides to the same coin. He's dark, she's light. This will be around the time before Haley slept which means they won't be sleeping together.

My beta RegdirbArze EzraBridger.

The next morning Pandora woke up feeling truly refreshed and happy. Getting herself out of bed and began to dress for the day. She wore simple shorts, tank top and a pair of sandals. Going down to the kitchen she noticed breakfast was already laid out for her. She made a mental note to thank Nina her house-elf when she saw her next. Grabbing her coffee she began to eat when an owl flow in through the window with a package. Pandora was hoping that the package was the book on Phoenixes she had ordered a few weeks ago. She felt like it had been forever. 'Is this what people feel like when they are waiting for the next season of a show?' The reason for wanting this book so badly was because her animagus form is a Phoenix. The wizarding world thought it to be impossible, but Pandora was known for doing the impossible. She wanted to know the full extent of her powers whether they are from her Phoenix form or her witch side because they could help her get out of a tough situation. And give her something else to do with her normalish life. One thing she knew was that her magic was stronger then ever since she collected all three of the Deathly Hallows. She tried to get rid of the stone and the wand; she dropped the stone in the middle of the ocean and snapped the wand and dropped it in a volcano (aren't helicopters lovely), but the next morning they were sitting innocently on her bedside table. Whether or not she freaked out for three or four hours she would never admit or deny. Pandora didn't know what would happen now that she was the Mistress of Death. But she knew she would love her hectic life to the fullest.

Now that Pandora was a Phoenix animagus on top of being the Mistress of Death she was trying to master all of her new abilities. No not trying because she would not stop until she had mastered each and every one of them. At the moment she knew how to wield fire without a wand, teleport like she had seen Fawkes do in her fifth year, and found out that her tears had healing power. Pandora had a sneaking suspicion that with her being both a Phoenix animagus and Mistress of Death that she was immortal. She didn't know how she felt about that part. A part of her wanted to abuse it a make up for her Hell of a childhood and at the same time she wanted to be able to see her friends and family that had died. Shaking these thoughts out of her head she turned her attention back to the book where she left it on the table. Opening the package she read the title:

Feather color: Scarlet and Golden Tail

Native range: Egypt, India, China
A Guide to Phoenixes; By Dennis Creevey

Smiling at the thought of the twelve year old she had taught in fifth year becoming a world renowned author whose knowledge covered a vast variety of topics she opened the book.

Chapter One: The Basics

Phoenix

Species information:

Eye color: Black

Mortality: Rebirthing mortal

Ministry of Magic Classification: XXXX

Status: Beast

The phoenix is a large swan-sized scarlet bird with red and gold plumage, along with a golden beak and talons, black eyes, and a tail as long as a peacock's. Its scarlet feathers glow faintly in darkness, while its golden tail feathers are hot to the touch.

Phoenixes will usually nest on mountain peaks and are gentle herbivores that are not known for fighting. As phoenixes approach their Burning Day they resemble a half-plucked turkey. Their eyes become dull, their feathers start to fall out, and it begins to make gagging noises. Then the bird suddenly bursts into flames only to rise from the ashes shortly after. In a number of days, they grow back to full size. Thanks to this ability, phoenixes live to an immense age.

Abilities and traits

The most startling of the phoenix's abilities is its ability to regenerate itself. It periodically bursts into flames when its body becomes old, and rises from the ashes as a newborn chick. This event is called Burning Day, and gives these birds a great life span, as well as the ability to take the full force of a Killing Curse and still be reborn. Phoenixes are immune to the gaze of a basilisk, which would normally kill anyone who has direct eye to eye contact, or petrify through indirect eye contact.

The phoenix can also disappear and reappear at will in bursts of flames and take whoever is holding them along, similar to Apparition (though like house-elf magic, they cannot be restricted like wizards are), and boasts magical tears and song. As stated by Dumbledore, they are extremely loyal creatures, and are capable of arriving to the aid of beings who share a similar devotion, which was how Fawkes arrived to assist Pandora Potter in killing the Basilisk down at the Chamber of Secrets. Their tears have potent healing capabilities. For instance, phoenix tears are the only known antidote of basilisk venom. Their tears are also able to bring a person back even from the brink of death, while the phoenix song will increase the courage of the good and strike fear into the hearts of the evil. Phoenixes are capable of lifting a great weight with their tails, such as being able to effortlessly fly up a distance with four people holding on to its tail. They can also leave messages by bursting into flame to reappear elsewhere, leaving behind a single golden tail feather.

Domesticated phoenixes

Phoenixes are very difficult to domesticate, as Newton Scamander says in his book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: "The phoenix gains a XXXX rating not because it is aggressive, but because very few wizards have ever succeeded in domesticating it." There are two known domesticated phoenixes, one Albus Dumbledore's pet phoenix Fawkes, and the other Sparky the team mascot for the New Zealand Quidditch team the Moutohora Macaws.

Phoenixes that have been domesticated are extremely loyal to their owners, and would depart to find their own paths if their owners die, rather than finding a new master.

Sparky

Sparky is the phoenix mascot of the Moutohora Macaws, a Quidditch team from New Zealand. Apart from Fawkes, Sparky is now the only known domesticated phoenix.

Phoenix feathers are a powerful magical substance, and as such are an accepted wand core. Fawkes gave two feathers, which ended up in the wands of Pandora Potter and Lord Voldemort, which is said to be the reason why they locked in Priori Incantatem when the two wizards attempted to engage in a magical battle in the Little Hangleton graveyard. Due to phoenixes being very difficult to tame, the wands with such feathers are the pickiest of owners, and usually act on their own accord, due to having the most initiative of all core types. Phoenix feathers are sometimes used as writing quills.

Mating:

Phoenix have what humans would call soul-mates, when soul-mates are found they mate for life. They bind themselves together once the bond is complete they can't torn apart. Its unknown how they find there mates as we don't have a full understanding of it.

Behind the scenes

Besides representing its element of fire, sometimes a phoenix can also represent death, and the element of wind.

The phoenix is the only life-form in existence that defies the otherwise absolute rule of nothing can truly bring back the dead.

It wasn't much but she got a better understanding about her animal form. But what really stood out was the soul-mates part. Thinking about it, it would make since to her about it starting after Voldemort soul being taken from her that she would begin to feel the ache of wanting her other half. She knew that not everything would work the same way as being a real phoenix but at least she now how a better understanding of what she should keep an eye on. Pulling out her wand she summoned her book on the three hollows. She had done a lot of research on the hollows trying to find out what it means to have all three of them.

"That is a children's tale, told to amuse rather than to instruct. Those of us who understand these matters, however, recognize that the ancient story refers to three objects, or Hallows, which, if united, will make the possessor Master of Death"

In The Tales of Beedle the Bard, the author presented his own version of the origin of the Hallows.

Hundreds of years ago, the three Peverell brothers were travelling at twilight, and reached a river too dangerous to cross. The three brothers, being trained in the magical arts, simply waved their wands and created a bridge across the river. They were then stopped by Death himself, who felt cheated that they had gotten across the river, as most travelers drowned in it.

Death, a cunning liar, then pretended to congratulate them on being clever enough to evade him, and offered each of them a powerful magical item. The first brother, Antioch Peverell, wished to have the most powerful wand out of his combative personality; Death broke a branch off a nearby elder tree and created for him the Elder Wand, a wand more powerful than any other in existence. The second brother, Cadmus Peverell, out of arrogance, wanted to humiliate Death even further, and wished to have the power to bring loved ones from the grave; Death then took a stone from the riverbed and created for him the Resurrection Stone, a stone capable of bringing the dead back to the living world. The third brother, Ignotus Peverell, who was a humble man, did not trust Death and asked to go on from the river without being followed by Death; Death then gave him his own Cloak of Invisibility, an invisibility cloak that never lost its power through curses or age.

The three legendary objects, (the cloak, the wand and the stone) together make up the Deathly Hallows.

"[...] I think it more likely that the Peverell brothers were simply gifted, dangerous wizards who succeeded in creating those powerful objects"

—Albus Dumbledore's speculation

Instead of being rewards for their cleverness, the Deathly Hallows were actually part of a cunning plan by Death to kill off the Peverells so he could take them for his own.

However, Albus Dumbledore felt that it was more likely that the Hallows were actually created by the very talented and powerful brothers, and that the story of their origins as objects fashioned by Death sprang up around them as result of the powers they possessed.

"So the oldest brother, who was a combative man, asked for a wand more powerful than any in existence: a wand that must always win duels for its owner, a wand worthy of a wizard who had conquered Death!"

Antioch Peverell receiving the Elder Wand

In time, the brothers went their separate ways. Antioch Peverell travelled to a wizarding village where he killed a wizard he had once dueled with, he then boasted of the power of the Elder Wand, that it was unbeatable and in his possession, invoking envy amongst the many wanting to possess it for themselves. His throat was slit in his sleep by another wizard who stole the Elder Wand.

"Then the second brother, who was an arrogant man, decided that he wanted to humiliate Death still further, and asked for the power to recall others from Death."

—Cadmus Peverell receiving the stone

Cadmus travelled back home and used the Resurrection Stone to bring back the woman he loved, but was dismayed to find that it was only a pale imitation of her: the dead did not truly belong in the living world. In the end, Cadmus committed suicide by hanging himself so he could truly join her.

"It was only when he had attained great age that the youngest brother finally took off the Cloak of Invisibility and gave it to his son."

—Ignotus Peverell passing on the cloak

Ignotus used the cloak to remain hidden from Death for a long time. When he was an old man, he passed the cloak onto his son, greeted Death as an old friend, and went with him to the next world.

The cloak continued to be passed down through the descendants of the Peverells (although the name became extinct in the male line). The wand passed from wizard to wizard, nearly always by the murder of its previous owner. The wand, during its passing from wizard to wizard, has been called "The Death Stick" and the "Wand of Destiny". On an interesting note, no witch is ever stated to have held possession of the wand. The stone was also passed down through the Peverells' descendants. It eventually ended up in the possession of the House of Gaunt, and was later stolen by Tom Marvolo Riddle, neither Tom nor Marvolo Gaunt were aware of the powers of the stone, nor that it was a Hallow. Marvolo was solely concerned with the "noble origins" of the stone, made into a ring, and thought that the Hallows symbol on it was the family coat of arms. Lord Voldemort could not have been aware of the stone's true origin either, as he transformed the stone into a Horcrux.

The Master of Death:

The Master of Death (also known as Conqueror of Death, Vanquisher of Death and others) is the one who masters all three of the legendary Deathly Hallows, which are the Elder Wand, Resurrection Stone, and Cloak of Invisibility. While it is generally assumed that becoming the master of Death refers to some form of immortality, the true Master of Death truly accepts the fact that death is inevitable, and that there are other things worse than dying.

The Peverell brothers mastered only one of the Hallows each, but accepted the inevitability of death.

Albus Dumbledore possessed all three Hallows, but not at the same time. He mastered the Elder Wand, borrowed the Cloak of Invisibility from James Potter before giving it to Pandora during his first year at Hogwarts, and found the Resurrection Stone in the Gaunt shack. Also he accepted his own death.

Pandora Potter possessed all three Hallows and accepted his own death. First, she inherited the Cloak of Invisibility from her father, James. Then, she inherited the Resurrection Stone from Dumbledore, which was inside a snitch. Finally, she won the Elder Wand from Draco Malfoy during the escape from Malfoy Manor. All three were directly or indirectly employed by Pandora in the Forbidden Forest: she was wearing the Cloak, using the Stone, and preparing to be killed by the Wand, which Pandora had already won. Given that Pandora was the initial reason for Voldemort's obsession with the Elder Wand, it was highly unlikely that he would have killed Pandora with Nagini or some other means. Although Pandora may not have realized that she was the master of Elder Wand at that time, she was well aware of its importance to Voldemort. Considering that she also asked if dying hurt, she probably assumed that she would not be attacked by Nagini this time, which would doubtless have been a physically painful death.

Sighing Pandora put down her notes. She didn't' really know what it all meant but with her luck she would end up living a very long time. Suddenly she thought back to her time at The Grill when that man walked in, the sudden pleasure filled hum she felt. She didn't know what it meant but she knew she would have to investigate to get some answers. Getting up and stretched herself out, she began to look around her new home.

The home was big for one person but she figured she needed some where to store her stuff when she was off traveling. The master bedroom was her room it was huge with a king sized bed, tv, and she had a very nice balcony. The second room was turned into a library that held just a fraction of the books she picked up in her travels. Rooms three and four had been turned into guest bedrooms just in case she needed them. The fifth room was her art room, she truly loved her art and now had an amazing sized room to work in/have the typical art messiness that was her way of organizing her supplies. The last room was just a storage where she would keep things that she needed. The elves had done an amazing job getting everything set up for her.

Smiling to herself she grabbed her keys and decided to get out of the house for lunch. She wanted to get some new friends so she decided to go back to the grill. It was only a ten minute drive and it being a Tuesday afternoon all the teen where at school so not many people where there. Walking into the Grill she sat down at the same table that she sat previously.

"Hello, my name is Shella, what would you like to order?" she said to Pandora. Pandora looked at the young women she must have been a few years younger then her and smiled.

"Hello, I would like a grilled chicken salad with ranch bbq sauce please and a coke to drink." She said. Shella, nodded and went to hand in her order. Pandora took off her light jacket and sat back on her seat. Suddenly looking up the gorgeous man for the night before was sitting in front of her.

"Hello, love." He said smiling at her.