Chapter Six
About a week from the First Task
They were having dinner outside by the fountain in the courtyard when Ginny Weasley decided to try and weasel her way into the group, sitting right next to Harry. "Uhm..." Fred says cocking his head in confusion at her. "What are you doing out here?"
Ginny gave him a disgusted look, not bothering to answer and tried to start a conversation with Harry. "So Harry, how have your classes been going?" she asks moving to touch his shoulder and he moved so it fell to the ground beside him.
"Fine," he answers as he continues writing down information that needed to go in his History essay that was due Monday. She moved to touch him again and he moved again as he continued with organizing his notes.
Aurora was watching this with curious eyes, considering that Harry didn't even know he was moving away when Ginny tried to touch him and Aurora thought it was hilarious. Ginny finally gave up trying to touch him and settled for glaring at the ground, tapping her fingers on her arm. Leaning into Marcus' side, Aurora ran her hand up and down his ribs to get his attention. He looked down at her before leaning his head down so she could whisper into his ear. "She's hoping we slip up and let her overhear something," she breathes before kissing his cheek and settling back against his side.
Aurora turned back to everyone else in time to see a look of disgust cross Ginny's face as she looked at Marcus and her. Though, she did hear the whispered, "Disgusting," Ginny sent in their direction.
"What was that?" Harry asks turning his head to stare at Ginny. "Did you say something?"
Ginny lifted her eyebrow and gave him a smile. "You don't have to defend these Snakes, you know," she breathes and anger flashed through Harry's eyes for a split second before disappearing. "Everyone thinks that Aurora and Marcus' relationship is disgusting, arranged marriage is like selling your child to another family."
"I suggest that you know and understand what you're talking about before opening your trap," Aurora growls staring angrily at Ginny as Marcus wrapped an arm around her waist, kind of scared what would happen if this conversation continued and Aurora got too angry. "Our betrothal was only arranged when our parents saw how well we got along when we were younger, it can end whenever one of us isn't happy with it anymore and neither family is getting crap from us getting married. Now, if the only reason you're over here is to annoy the shit out of everyone, you need to go the fuck away."
Ginny's lip peeled back from her teeth in a snarl and Aurora lunged towards her, a feral screech erupting from between her lips as Marcus' arm tightened around her waist. "Shh," Marcus breathes as he glares at Ginny, using restraining Aurora as a way to keep from growling at the stupid bint.
Harry had froze when Ginny started insulting Aurora's bond with Marcus and shook his head, setting his notes down to the side. "Excuse me?" he murmurs glaring at Ginny as his eyes darken in anger. "Where do you get the idea that you can just come over here and start insulting my friends?"
Aurora froze, eyes widening as she felt the power coming off Harry and stared at him incredulously before her heart began to swell in pride. "Oh, come off it, Harry," Ginny snickers, "you can't seriously consider this bunch of Snakes, barely Gryffs, a Raven and a Puff your friends."
Harry's pupils turned into slits for a second that was too fast for anyone without a Creature side to see and Aurora smirked as Marcus took a quick breath of air, having seen it as well. "Better than a Gryffindor that believes her House gives her the right to bully anyone younger and from a different House than she is," Harry snarls and Ginny jerked back like he'd slapped her, causing a ripple of snickers through the group."So, if you don't mind, I'd like you to get as far from me as humanly possible and don't even think about talking to me unless you're thinking of apologizing to my friends." Ginny stood up, staring at Harry like he'd grown another head before turning around and disappearing back inside the castle.
Hermione shook her head before throwing up an anti-eavesdropping barrier before going back to slapping the twins' hands away from her plate and laughing at the crestfallen looks on their faces. As everything returned to how it was before Ginny had decided to come over, Aurora snuggled closer to Marcus' side and watched everyone interact.
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Snuffles was lying at the foot of Severus' bed, bored out of his mind because his mate wouldn't allow him out of the living quarters, afraid of what Dumbledore might do and the fact that said mate was down in the Potions Lab. The sound of the doors being opened caught his attention and he stood, stealthily moving through the hallway to peer around the corner, chuckling silently when he saw Sev, with his back to him, closing the doors. Slowly padding his way over, he shifted into his human form and wrapped his arms around Sev's waist, nuzzling into the crook of his neck. "I missed you," he breathes and Sev snickers leaning back into him.
"I'm sorry that you have to stay in here," Severus murmurs grasping Sirius' arms when his mate starts peppering kisses and soft nips on his neck. "Sirius?"
"Hmm," he breathes pausing and pulling away to look at Sev who was staring at him in wonder. "Is it really that hard to believe I'm back?"
Sev shook his head, turning in Sirius' arms to place his hands against Sirius' chest, staring into grey eyes he thought he'd never get to look into like this again. "Just happy you're back," he whispers tiptoeing up to kiss him.
Sirius kissed back like a starving man and Sev was dessert, the both of them stumbling as they moved away from the door, the back of Sev's knee catching the corner of the coffee table. Siri was barely able to roll them so he wound up on bottom when they hit the floor and Sev chuckled before leaning down to kiss him again.
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Aurora and the others were all sitting in front of the fire in the Room of Requirement as they worked on various projects and homework or, in Draco's case, staring up at the ceiling. Harry finished organizing his notes and put all of his stuff away, picking up the Parseltongue book.
'Among the many creatures that speak Parseltongue, and the one most people don't know about, are the certain species of Dragons that can speak the Snake Tongue.' Harry settled more comfortably into his chair.
'The Dragon species that are able to communicate in Parseltongue are listed below.
-Antipodean Opaleye
-Hebridean Black
-Hungarian Horntail
-Norwegian Ridgeback
-Romanian Longhorn
-Ukrainian Ironbelly'
Aurora was starting to get twinges of pain on her back, like someone was hitting her and she frowned as the feeling seemed to intensify. Looking over at Harry to see if he was in pain at all, she began to get flashes of images as well and realized that it wasn't anyone in this room. "I'm going to bed," she breathes kissing Marcus' cheek and standing up. "See you guys in the morning."
The twins watched her leave the room, looking over at Marcus. "Is she really going to bed?" they ask together and Marcus shrugged.
"Probably not," he breathes leaning back on the couch and staring up at the ceiling.
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A flash of light and the faint hint of ozone was the only sign that she arrived on Privet Drive in Little Whinging, Surrey and Aurora looked around at all of the Muggle houses that looked almost exactly alike except for the yards. "Why would I be getting flashes of someone being hurt from here?" she murmurs as another lash of pain, this one stronger, ripped through her back. "Fuck, that stings."
She walked down the sidewalk as the pain steadily grew worse the closer she got to her destination. The pain reached unbearable as she reached the driveway of the house labeled number four and she stared at the front of the house. An ear-piercing scream ripped through her mind, she ran up the drive to the front door, checking to see if it was locked and finding it open. She didn't bother pulling her wand, aware of the multitude of spells that would alert all sorts of people if she used it while in the house and paused in the hallway, listening for any clue of where to go from there. Whimpers and screams of pain came from upstairs and she slowly made her way up, looking for any sign that this could be a trap. Aurora paused at the first door she came to, the one where the screams were coming from and hissed softly at the metallic smell of blood coming through the cracked open door. "Scream all you want, you stupid bitch, no one can hear you," a male voice snarls before there was the sound of something leather hitting flesh and Aurora used wandless magic to conceal herself, slipping through the crack in the door.
Once she took in the scene inside the bedroom, she knew she shouldn't have bothered concealing herself, neither of the occupants of the room could see her and she grasped the nearest heavy object, a heavy metal jewelry box off the dresser. Moving as quietly as she could, Aurora tiptoed across the room to where the large man was standing with his back to her and slammed the jewelry box as hard as she could into the back of his head. He fell sideways and hit the floor with a thud, Aurora stared at him for a second to make sure he was still alive before moving to the small, thin woman tied face down on the bed. Looking over the woman's back, Aurora felt herself flinch, this woman's back looked even worse than she was used to and she reached up to untie her arms. At the touch of Aurora's hands at her wrists, the woman whimpered until she realized that the hands were too small to be her husband's and she turned her head to see who it was. A girl with green and silver eyes and burgundy hair stood beside her bed, looking at her sadly as she continued to untie her hands. "Are you alright?" she asks and the woman nods, swallowing around the pain in her back as she rolled over and sat up, covering herself with a blanket.
"Please, can you go check on my son?" the woman asks and Aurora frowned, listening for another presence in the house. "Vernon hit him pretty hard when he tried to protect me, he should still be on the floor in the kitchen."
Aurora looked at the woman, wondering why she looked so familiar and then the name she'd used for her husband caught her attention. "Petunia, Petunia Evans?" Aurora asks staring at the woman who nodded. "That lump of lard on the floor would be Vernon Dursley?" Another nod answered her question and she blinked, turning on her heel and walking out of the room, heading downstairs to check on the son. Dudley Dursley was lying on the floor of the kitchen, breathing shallow and heart beating slowly, there was a pretty nasty gash on his forehead. Aurora glanced over the area around him and saw the edge of the counter had blood splatter on it from when his head hit it. "You should be fine with a few Healing potions. I still don't understand why my Sinclair protect instinct would bring me here, the two of you may be Sinclair's but neither of you have the magic needed to call m..." Aurora's voice cut off as she was about to say that and knelt down beside Dudley, placing her hand on his cheek, reaching out with her magic. "There it is," she breathes as she touched a small spark of magic, magic that was emanating from a magical core so heavily blocked that he would be classified as a Squib. "Son of a bitch."
Shaking Dudley to see if she could wake him, Aurora looked around before letting her Creature attributes out and picked him up, setting him on the couch. Covering her Creature attributes back up, she went back upstairs to collect Petunia. "Is he okay?" she asks and Aurora nods, looking over the woman who'd taken the time while she was downstairs to get dressed.
"Do you mind if I?" Aurora asks reaching a hand out to her and Petunia stared at her for a second before shaking her head, moving closer to her. Aurora reached out her magic like she had with Dudley and found the same problem her son had, the blocks on her magical core were so layered that she wouldn't have even registered as a Squib. "Do the two of you want to come with me?"
Petunia stared at the girl that couldn't be that much older than Dudley or her nephew and she was asking if they wanted to go with her. "I couldn't burden you with myself and my son..." she begins and the girl gives her a small smile, lifting her hand to show a small silver ring with a large ruby inlaid in the center, a small emerald mounted into the face of the ruby.
"In the magical world, I am Lady Sinclair and I was brought here tonight by a very specific kind of magic," Aurora breathes looking at Petunia. "Family magic differs from family to family in the magical world, in the case of the Sinclair Family Magics, the Lady will feel the pain or emotions of any of her family while they are in distress, it can also be used to find them. In your case, I was all for not liking you after what you've done to Harry but if what I just saw was any indication, yours and your son's lives were just as bad in this house."
Petunia glanced at the man on the floor before looking back up at the girl offering her a brand new start, one that included getting to know the nephew she'd had to treat horribly to keep her husband from hurting their own son. "Dudley and I will go with you," she breathes and the girl nodded, waving her hand and everything that was Petunia's floated into a valise that pulled itself out of the closet. "May I know your name?"
"Aurora, though I answer to AJ most of the time," Aurora says as she finished packing everything that had accioed as Petunia's belongings and shut the valise, motioning Petunia to leave the room ahead of her as she made sure Vernon was still out cold. "Where's Dudley's room?"
Petunia led Aurora to the first door on the left and she walked in, summoning all of the things that Dudley considered his, less than half of what was in there floated into the valise with Petunia's things. "There are things from Lily and James up in the attic," Petunia breathes motioning with a hand at the small closed attic door in the ceiling. "I wasn't allowed to let Harry see them and couldn't go through them myself so I have no idea what they contain." Aurora nodded, letting go of the valise so that it floated in the air as she waved her hand, summoning the things down from the attic. Four large, black trunks squeezed through the small attic opening and she wave her hand again to shrink them, putting them in her pockets.
Grasping Petunia's arm, she transported her to an alley in Diagon and handed her the valise. "Stay here while I go get Dudley, okay?" she breathes and Petunia nods, huddling in on herself against the wall of the alley. Transporting back to the house, she grabbed Dudley's arm, surprised to see him awake and transported him into the same alley where she'd left Petunia. Glad to see that she was still where she'd left her, Aurora made sure Dudley was steady on his feet before grasping Petunia's arm and leading them both out of the alley towards Gringott's. "I'm going to take the two of you to see the goblins first and see if we can do anything about those pesky blocks."
"What do you mean?" Petunia murmurs as they pass through the doors of Gringott's and the feeling of magic all around her made her eyelids flutter.
Aurora looked at Petunia and motioned a goblin over to them, the goblin came over. "Can you tell Head Manager Ragnok that Lady Sinclair is here to see him?" she asks and the goblin scurried off down the long hallway leading to the offices. "You, both of you, have blocks on your Magical Cores, making it seem like you aren't magic."
Petunia looked ready to swoon at any moment and Dudley reached a hand out to steady her, staring at Aurora with curious blue eyes. "I was right," she breathes and Aurora glances at her with a questioning look. "When Harry first started showing signs of magic there were instances that didn't match with him, I made the mistake of saying something to Vernon and got beat, I was unconscious for several days. When I awoke, Vernon had called Dumbledore and had him do something to make sure that Dudley didn't have magic. The odd instances of magic that happened when Harry wasn't around stopped after that but I had a feeling that it had been Dudley."
The goblin had come back and motioned for them to follow before leading the way to Ragnok's office. Aurora pushed the two into the room ahead of her and pulled the door closed behind her as Ragnok stood from his seat. "I hope you've had a good evening so far Ragnok," she says motioning the other two to sit down in the chairs before they collapsed onto the floor.
"Absolutely delightful," he sneers sarcastically before looking over the two sitting across the desk from him. "Why have you brought me an injured Squib and a badly beaten Muggle woman?"
The Sinclair Lady chuckled and sat down between her. "You might want to reassess your statement, Ragnok," she breathes and he walks around the desk, placing a single, clawed finger in the center of Petunia's forehead.
Ragnok snarled something in Gobbledygook under his breath and Petunia dropped into unconsciousness, causing Aurora to snarl and move to stand from her seat. "Calm down," he growls at her and she narrows her eyes at him, "it was necessary or did you not notice the curse on her that triggers when she's around too much magic." Aurora shook her head, glancing at Petunia's unconscious form and Ragnok moved to Dudley, checking him, as well, repeating the process he used with Petunia. "Their blocks have to be removed immediately to avoid further damage but once they're gone, the two of them should be fine." She breathed a sigh of relief, staring up at the big goblin and running a hand through her hair. "Now, if you wouldn't mind explaining..."
Aurora took a deep breath, looking at the two new, sleeping, members of her family and sat forward, motioning Ragnok to retake his seat. "Ragnok, I'd like you to meet Petunia and Dudley Dursley," she breathes and Ragnok moved to stand back up when she shook her head. "Don't bother, I have the feeling that both of them were abused just like Harry."
The big goblin leans back in his chair and looks over the three across from him before his eyes return to the one in the center. "With the blocks on their magic, they should not have been able to reach out to you," he breathes and Aurora nodded, looking towards Petunia. "Meaning that your Family Magics have changed to find members that would not have access to their magic but their emotions will still find you and bring you to them. Am I right to assume that is what happened in the case of the two on either side of you?" Aurora nodded, running a hand over her face as she yawned and stretched to pop her back before turning her attention back to Ragnok. "You will need to be present while their blocks are removed." Aurora raised an eyebrow in question. "They will need a Blood anchor for the Blocks to be removed safely."
Standing up, Aurora stretched again as another yawn slipped from her lips and she picked up Petunia. "Can you have Bloodshield grab some Muggle divorce papers?" she asks and Ragnok nods as he walked around the desk before picking up Dudley, leading the way down into the Ritual room.
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Sirius stretched, curling an arm around Severus when he shifted to roll away and buried his nose in Sev's grease-less hair. "You really shouldn't wear that glamour all the time, Sev," he breathes opening his eyes to stare down at his mate.
"And you have excellent taste in glamours, Siri?" Sev murmurs running his fingers down Sirius' ribs, smirking when he got a stifled laugh as a reaction to the light touch. "The one you've been wearing in and since Azkaban."
Sirius raised an eyebrow before rolling so he was hovering above Severus with a wicked smirk on his face. "My glamour must've been really good if you thought I'd changed that much while in Azkaban," he murmurs leaning down to kiss the corner of his mouth. "Especially if it made it easier for you to be angry with me."
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The ceiling of the Room of Requirement had changed to reflect the sky outside so Harry could do his Astronomy homework and map out the Constellations they'd been asked to find and where they were positioned in the sky at this time of year. Finishing quickly, Harry packed up his bag and then lay back on the couch, staring up at the sky. The necklace AJ had given with the Sinclair Heir ring hanging from it began to heat up and Harry sat up, staring down at the faintly-glowing crest, wondering what she was up to. Suddenly, a small spark of lightning arced from it and his vision spun before he appeared in the Ritual Room at Gringott's. Harry glanced at the three glowing circles before moving to stand beside Ragnok, becoming very interested in the circles once he felt AJ's magic surrounding all three circles. "Why am I here?" he asks and the big goblin glanced at him before returning his attention to the circles as the one in the center began to grow larger.
"I believe Aurora summoned you," Ragnok breathes grasping Harry's arm and taking several big steps back as the center circle absorbed the other two. "Full Magic Blocks are exceedingly difficult to remove and she's removing two at the same time, best not to disrupt her concentration."
A giant pair of silver wings burst free of the circle as an angry roar sounded throughout the room and Harry tried to figure out what was going on. 'I'm going to tear Albus Dumbledore apart,' a hissing voice snarls as a large, silver tail with long, purple spikes all over it lashed out of the circle. A large, silver reptilian head rose up from the circle as the light of the circles slowly faded, revealing two sleeping figures floating in front of what Harry could now tell was a Dragon.
Looking over the Dragon, Harry noticed the sliver of green around the slit pupils of the mostly silver eyes. 'AJ, is that you?' Harry hisses slipping into Parseltongue and the Dragon cocked her head before lowering it down to nudge Harry with her nose, almost knocking him over.
'Of course, Harry,' the Dragon hisses before pulling her head back and nudging the two sleeping forms that were floating close to her. 'Harry, I need to show you something and you need to keep an open mind.'
Harry raised an eyebrow, staring at the silver Dragon before nodding and the Dragon began to shrink, morphing back into AJ, who sighed and stretched, popping her neck. AJ walked over to him and held her hand out to him, taking it Harry felt a tugging sensation in his mind and then they were both falling into a memory.
Two small girls, one with dark red, almost black, hair and the other with auburn played in the front yard. The one with almost black hair looked to be just a little bit older than the other and was showing the younger one something. "Watch this, Lily," she says as the handful of flowers she'd picked started floating above her palm and began to dance around each other, causing the younger sister to giggle before they all fell back to the ground.
"Again, Tunia, again," Lily giggled pulling her sister to sit down next to her and Petunia smiled, staring hard at the flowers to make them rise back into the air.
As they continued to play with the flowers, a man with white hair appeared on the sidewalk with a quiet crack and watched the both of them before pulling out a wand. Harry couldn't hear the spell Dumbledore used but he saw the effects immediately, the red in Petunia's hair faded away as did her green eyes and the flowers stopped floating, falling to the ground.
"Tunia?" Lily asks touching Petunia's arm and Petunia frowned, staring at the closest flower and trying to make it float.
"It's not working anymore," she breathes looking at Lily who wrapped her arms around her big sister.
Harry and Aurora were pulled into another memory. Petunia and Lily were sitting together on a couch across from Albus Dumbledore as he explained that Lily was a Witch to the two adults hovering ehind the back of the couch. "Lily has been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and will start school on September 1st," the old man says, blue eyes twinkling as Lily and Petunia glanced at each other.
"Can Tunia come with me?" Lily asks and Albus looked towards the elder of the two before slowly shaking his head, giving Lily a sad look.
"You have to have magic to go to Hogwarts," he answers and Lily hugged Petunia. Harry saw the smirk that flit across Dumbledore's face and felt a snarl tug at the corners of his lips.
AJ tugged on his arm and they were sucked into another memory, this one in a place Harry was quite familiar with, Privet Drive, and Harry could tell it was cold by the ice that covered the sidewalk. Crying could be heard from inside the house and Harry moved forward, AJ following closely behind him. Petunia sat on the floor in the living room, trying to shush the two-year old Dudley, tears beginning to leak from the corners of her eyes when he wouldn't quiet. "You stupid freak, keep our son quiet or do I have to do so," an angry voice, Vernon, snarls as the giant man moved until he stood in the doorway between the kitchen and family room. Petunia shook her head, picking up their son and scooting back until she was sitting against the wall, staring at Vernon with scared eye. Dudley had gone quiet at the sound of the angry male voice and whimpered against his mother's neck. A whimpering wail came from the cupboard beneath the stairs and Vernon snarled, kicking the door and the rying stopped. "Anymore noise, from either of them, and I'm going to take them both and drop them into the river."
Petunia gave a shakey nod, eyes wide and fearful as she stood to go to the cupboard, edging around Vernon. Slipping into the cupboard, Petunia made sure not to step on Harry and sat down, picking him up as she placed Dudley in her lap, closing the cupboard door between them and Vernon. "You have to be quiet, Harry," she breathes placing him on the small mattress so she could change him real quick. "Can you do that for Aunt Tunia?" The baby Harry stared up at Petunia with green eyes that glowed with intelligence and cooed softly, reaching up towards her hair. Petunia smiled, placing Dudley on the mattress next to Harry and the two boys gurgled at each other, grabbing each other's hands. Harry noticed theo slight red tint to Dudley's blond hair that wasn't there in his memories and narrowed his , glancing at Aurora who grit her teeth as the memory changed.
Six-year old Dudley and Harry were sitting together in the cupboard, holding each other's hands as they tried to block out the sounds of Vernon beating Petunia and suddenly everything went silent until there were loud footsteps coming dow, the stairs. The door was ripped open and Vernon grabbed Harry by the collar of his shirt, knocking Dudley away as he pulled the small boy out of the cupboard. "Damned, worthless freak," he snarls in Harry's face. Dudley stared at his father as he wrapped his beefy hands around Harry's neck and began to choke him. Not wanting his father to hurt Harry, he got up and ran out of the cupboard, even though he knew it was a bad idea and tried to think of something to do that would stop his father. Harry's face was starting to turn blue and Dudley stared at his father's hands before running across the room, trying to pry his father's fingers from around Harry's throat. As Dudley got more desperate to get his father's fingers from around Harry's neck, Vernon's fingers suddenly all bent at odd angles with a sickening crack and Dudley grabbed Harry, pulling him back into the cupboard as his father roared in pain.
The memory changed again. Harry and Dudley were huddled together on the floor as Petunia sat beside Vernon on the couch, staring at Albus Dumbledore with blank eyes. "Stupid Freaks, the lot of them," Vernon snarls at Albus who smirked, looking down at the two boys who held onto each other as they stared up at him.
"I wasn't expecting your son to inherit magic, Mr. Dursley, and for that I apologize," Dumbledore says pulling out his wand and pointing it at the bigger of the two boys, swishing it silently in the boy's direction. "He will be normal from now on, no magic of any kind. Now," he stands, "if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to Hogwarts."
Harry gasped and shivered as the memories faded away before he glanced towards the two floating figures that were still asleep. "When will they wake?" he asks looking towards Ragnok who was sitting in a chair that looked like it had been summoned from his office.
Ragnok stood from his seat and walked over to the sleeping figures, running a quick scan on them before plucking Petunia from the air. "A couple of hours," he says bringing her over to them and handing her to AJ before heading back to grab Dudley, as well. "I must ask where you're going to take them? The renovations on Sinclair Castle are not completed yet and none of your other residences are protected enough for them to hide at."
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Bloodshield was going through files in the Ministry when Ragnok's request for Muggle divorce papers reached him and he raised an eyebrow for a second before summoning the needed papers and sending them straight to Ragnok's office. Returning to his search through the records, Bloodshield decided to narrow his search down to any of the families who had an increase in mental, health or magic issues, also including the families that suddenly became lost or the bloodline ended. Everything that matched his search he made copies of and sent them to his office for extensive looking over before snapping his fingers and appearing in the same room as Ragnok who was alone in his office. "Why did you need the Muggle divorce papers?" he asks sitting down across from Ragnok, noticing that he was filling in the blank spaces on the Muggle divorce papers.
"To end the marriage between Petunia Evans and her abusive Muggle husband," he growls filling in the last page of information and looking up when there was a knock on the door. "Come in." The door opened and Bill Weasley stepped into the room, looking extremely tired. "Ah, William, your mate and Harry are in the Medical Ward downstairs."
Bill perked up once he heard that Aurora was at the bank and glanced at the documents Ragnok was filing. "Gringott's doesn't normally deal with Muggle divorces," he says and Ragnok sighs.
"We normally don't have a thirty-something year old Witch who was under a Full Magic Block show up married to an abusive Muggle," Ragnok breathes reviewing the papers before standing from his seat. "If the two of you would please follow me."
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Petunia opened her eyes to see AJ and Harry staring down at her with concerned eyes before Harry moved away to check on Dudley when he groaned. "Are we okay now?" she asks and AJ nods, taking a seat on the edge of her bed.
"We're just waiting for Ragnok to finish looking over the divorce papers so you can sign them and then I have to go over all of my properties and see which ones I can make safe for the two of you to use until our main home is done being renovated," AJ breathes as Harry comes back into Petunia's field of vision. "Do you need anything?"
Petunia sat up, running a hand through her hair and nodded. "Can I get some water?" she breathes and Harry went over to the dresser sitting beside the bed, pouring her a cup of water from the pitcher and handing it to her.
"Are you okay, Mum?" Dudley asks from Petunia's left and she nods, taking small sips of her water. "What is this place and where'd the large, scarey goblin go?"
"This is the Medical Ward beneath Gringott's and Ragnok is probably in his office," Harry says stiffly, like he didn't know how to interact with them.
AJ smiled before standing up and skipping away, towards the door to the Medical Ward. "I'll leave you guys alone to talk," she says disappearing out the door, leaving Harry staring after her in a mix of fear, horror and annoyance.
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Albus sat down heavily in the chair behind his desk and stared up at the ceiling, unable to believe that several people were taking their power back from him, even people he knew wouldn't even remember that they'd had power. Looking down at the rings that had held Petunia and Dudley Dursley's magic, snarling when he saw that the stone had turned black and was badly cracked. The trinket he'd used to hold what he'd taken from Arthur Weasley was sitting in a cabinet after it had exploded almost a week and a half ago, it was sitting beside Harry Potter's, Luna Lovegood's and Hermione Granger's as well. "What is going on?" he snarls and the portrait of Phineas Nigellus Black smirked before walking out of his portrait, the magic of the confinement charm on his portrait having weakened with Dumbledore's magic.
The old Headmaster didn't notice him leave and didn't notice he was gone, fifteen minutes later, he returned to his portrait, continuing to smirk at the Headmaster before looking around the room for any other containers of magic. "Aurora Snape," Dumbledore snarls banging his hand on the desk. "That stupid, little bint coming back has everything to do with this." Standing from his seat, Albus went over to the glass-fronted cabinet that held other magic containers and searched through them, looking for Sirius Black's. "Ah, there you are," picking up a glass sphere that held a grey Horntail dragon with black spikes and horns all over. There was a hair-fine crack inside close to the dragon amd Albus' lip curled up in a snarl. "So, you remember, I'm about to change that, again."
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Sev was cuddled into Sirius' side when his mate began to convulse and woke him, causing him to sit up and start checking on Sirius. Sirius's eyes were open and staring at Sev with a pleading look as his eyes began to get cloudy. "He's resetting the Memory Block, Sev," Sirius whimpers causing Severus to place his hands on either side of Sirius' head and try to place blocks around the memories Albus was after, as well as all of his other memories, strengthening the ones around the memories of himself and AJ.
Sirius let out a whine when Albus ripped down the first set of blocks and Sev's onyx eyes were beginning to fill with unshed tears, he wasn't going to be able to stop Dumbledore from ripping his mate away from him again. Unknown to him, he was sending out enough distress to make AJ stop in her tracks as she skipped through the halls of Gringott's. He jerked in surprise when his hands lit up with red light where they touched Sirius' face.
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Albus was smirking happily as he slowly ripped through the blocks placed in Black's mind to keep him out. He chuckled joyfully as he ripped down the last of them and found the memories he needed to get rid of. As he was reaching out to rip them away, a red haze descended on Black's mind and a very female giggle floated through as the jingling of chains announced the arrival of someone else inside Black's mind. A shadow version of Snape's and Black's daughter sauntered towards him through the red haze hiding everything inside Black's mind, red eyes with a four-pointed star for a pupil stared blankly at him before filling with rage. "You don't belong here," the girl snarls and Albus was suddenly sent stumbling backwards, out of Black's mind.
Albus was suddenly back in his office clutching an orb glowing with red light, dropping it when an eye with a four-pointed star pupil appeared. The orb floated where he'd let it go before laughter filled the office around him and the orb shattered along the points of the eye before exploding. Albus stumbled back into his desk as more of his stolen magic left him to return to it's original user.
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Bill, Ragnok and Bloodshield paused in the hallway a little ways from the Medical Ward when they caught sight of AJ standing frozen in the hallway, her glowing eyes were blood-red and the pupil had turned to a four-pointed star. "AJ?" Bill murmurs moving towards her, feeling for something in her magic that would give him an idea of what was going on.
"Her Blood Demon is out, so it has something to do with her family," Ragnok says and Bill nods wrapping his arms around her as she came back to herself and cuddled into his arms, her eyes returning to normal as she blinked up at him.
AJ wrapped her arms around Bill's waist, laying her head on his chest and sighed, silver and green eyes slipping closed. "Hi Bill," she breathes as her magic slowly starts to calm down, tendrils of it slowly wrapping around the two of them. Moving up onto her toes, AJ gave him a kiss on the cheek before cuddling back up to his chest.
Ragnok and Bloodshield continued down the hall past them, disappearing into the Medical Ward and Bill sighed, putting his head atop hers. "We should go see how Harry's doing with his aunt and cousin," he breathes and AJ nods, lifting her head so that their foreheads were touching before pulling away.
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Two identical, fifteen-year old boys with honey-gold hair and gold eyes were yelling at each other over a flickering fire, catching the attention of another, much older and bigger man with many of the same features standing in the shadows. Fenrir glared at his two eldest as they launched themselves at each other and started rolling around on the ground, fighting. 'I miss my mate,' he thinks watching his sons for a few more moments before stepping free of the shadows and moving towards them to pull them apart, 'they always listened to him better.'
"Alec, get the hell off your brother," Fenrir snarls and the elder of the twins was up and off his brother in less than a second, staring at Fenrir with wide, gold eyes before helping his brother off the ground. "What were the two of you fighting over this time, Aiden?"
The lankier of the twins shrugged, crossing his arms over his chest and stared at Fenrir. "I sensed a strong magical pull towards London and so did Alec but he doesn't want to admit it," Aiden breathes when he realized his father wasn't going to stop glaring at him til he said something.
Fenrir raised an eyebrow, turning his gaze to Alec who huffed and shoved his hands into the pockets of his jeans. "Alec, if your mate or mates are calling to you, you don't ignore it," he breathes and his eldest rolled his eyes turning his face away, barely flinching when his brother socked him in the shoulder.
"Then why don't you go when our dad calls you?" he mutters under his breath and Fenrir sighs, rubbing at the side of his face, secretly wishing his son would stop asking that damn question.
Fenrir sat by the fire, placing his head in his hands as he thought of all the reasons why he couldn't go to his mate whenever he felt his magic calling out to him and wanted to snarl as Dumbledore's fave flashed through his mind. "Your dad doesn't..." Fenrir stopped speaking when a chorus of howls caught his attention and he stood back up, motioning for his sons to move behind him. As the rest of his pack gathered in the clearing to await their visitors, Alec and Aiden moved closer together, the backs of their hands touching as they looked around their father to see several wizards in black walking into the clearing. "To what do I owe this visit, Marvolo?" Fenrir asks stepping forward as Tom did the same and they clasped arms.
"Plotting Dumbledore's demise," Tom snickers letting go of Fenrir's arm and glancing back at the two twins. "Might have a job for your boys."
Fenrir raised an eyebrow, glancing over his shoulder at the boys and motioning for them to come forward. Both boys looked at their father for a second before stepping forward, inclining their heads at Tom before straightening and moving closer together. "What would this job entail?" Fenrir murmurs and Tom smiles before inclining his head towards the fire.
"Maybe, we should sit down to discuss this," he answers and Fenrir motioned for the pack to go back to their duties before returning to his seat by the fire. Alec and Aiden took a seat on their father's left, staring at Tom as he sat down across from them. "Lucius has offered to take them to Gringott's and get them fake identities so they can go to Hogwarts to help Aurora watch my mate."
Fenrir was about to respond negatively when the boys turned to each other and started murmuring to each other in what Fenrir liked to call their 'Twin Speak.' Tom turned his attention to them, raising an eyebrow when he didn't understand a single thing they were saying before he looked over at Fenrir who shrugged. "I thought Barty was already spying on Dumbledore, why can't he help watch your mate?" Fenrir asks and the twins went silent, looking at Tom with curious eyes.
Tom leant forward, holding his hands over the fire to warm them and pulled his cloak tighter around himself. "Seems Dumbledore loses his composure whenever there are transfer students he doesn't want there," he breathes and Fenrir snickered, looking down into the fire as his sons begin to speak in their own language again, like they were discussing their opinion about the assignment from Tom. "He had an interesting reaction to Aurora's arrival and then, a few days ago, another child, a second year, transferred from Russia. A little girl with greyish-silver hair and honey-gold eyes, goes by the name of Isadora."
Fenrir shot up onto his feet, staring across the fire at Tom and he suddenly held his hands up on either side of his head when several of the wizards that had come with Tom pointed their wands at him. "You're sure?" he breathes as Tom waved for his entourage to calm down and put their wands away.
"Severus has mentioned that she looks like a feminine version of your mate but with your hair and eyes," Tom murmurs in the silence left by his earlier statement. "And Dumbledore has already tried to get rid of Aurora, Severus was furious when he told me about that episode in Dumbledore's office."
The twins were staring at their father, gold eyes glittering in the firelight and they looked away from him to Tom. "So, we go to Hogwarts, help this Aurora person keep your mate safe and we get to meet our younger sister?" Alec and Aiden ask at the same time.
Tom nods, glancing at Fenrir to see if he approved and the older werewolf shrugged, motioning that it was up to the two of them. "The two of you want to do it?" he asks and the twins glance at each other before looking back at him, nodding. "Great, I'll be back in three days to take you to Malfoy Manor, hopefully Lucius will have everything done by then."
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Harry was still shell-shocked from his trip into the Forbidden Forest with Hagrid. They had Dragons for the First Task and he was kind of freaking out, he wasn't scared, he already had a plan, several actually but he didn't know if any of them would work, which is why he was freaking out. Taking a deep breath, he turned left, heading down into the dungeon and ducking into the first alcove he could find, he sat down. As he tried to calm down, he leaned back against the wall and stared up at the ceiling, throwing up a Barrier Spell at the entrance to the alcove so no one could come in. 'My first plan will only work with the Horntail and, even then, it'll only work if the creature is in the mood to listen,' he thinks running a hand over the side of his face as he released the Glamour he was wearing. 'My second plan will work for all four, no matter which one I get.'
There was a ping noise from the entrance of the alcove and he glanced over to see AJ standing there, tapping against the Barrier keeping her out of the alcove. He stood up and walked over to stand in front of her, taking down the spell and she gave him a grin before grabbing his hand. "I have a surprise for you," she sing-songs as she drags him through the dungeon halls. They came to a stop in front of a portrait and Aurora leant forward, whispering the password. The portrait slid out of the way and she knocked on the door behind it, waiting for whoever was in there to come open the door. Harry was surprised to see a very different-looking Snape open the door and step out of the way so they could come in. "Go in, go in." AJ pushed Harry through the door and Snape closed it behind them as a giant black dog loped out from the hallway.
"Sirius?" Harry exclaims and the dog barked in answer before changing back into a human being. "How long have you been here and why haven't you shown up on the map?"
AJ giggled, dropping down to sit on the couch to watch her father and Harry as they spoke. "Been here since I got your letter with AJ's necklace in it," Sirius says as him and Harry took the seats next to her on the couch. "I won't show up on the map unless I want to. Sorry, I didn't get a chance before this to see you, we've been trying to make sure that Dumbledore doesn't figure out I'm here."
"Yeah, that probably wouldn't end well," Harry snickers glancing at AJ, who'd let out a soft chuckle. "Especially, after what AJ told him the day of the Weighing of the Wands Ceremony or the thing with Aunt Petunia and Dudley."
AJ cursed and stood up from her seat on the couch. "Speaking of Petunia and Dudley, I'm supposed to go get them tomorrow so they can spend the whole week before the First Task with you and see you compete," she says causing Sirius to raise an eyebrow and Harry glanced at her.
"I don't think it's such a good idea for them to come to the First Task," Harry breathes looking away from the others in the room.
AJ looked him over and glanced at Sirius before looking back at Harry. "But they're looking forward to it," she says sitting back down next to him, "they want to cheer you on."
Harry nodded, running a hand through his hair and giving AJ a sheepish look. "Its just, the First Task is Dragons, one for each of us and I don't know how either of them will react to seeing me face a Dragon," he says and AJ chuckles, throwing an arm over his shoulder as her pupils changed shape to slits.
"Can't be any worse than watching me turn into one," she snickers ruffling his hair and Harry shook his head, leaning against her shoulder. "As long as you don't do anything stupid, you should do fine and they're coming, I promised to take them to lunch before bringing them here."
Sighing softly, he ran a hand through his long, red hair and straightened up, yawning. "I'm going to send a quick note to Cedric about the Dragons, seeing as the other Headmasters know and will, most likely, tell their Champions, it leaves him out of the loop as Dumbledore doesn't seem too interested in making sure this damn thing is fair," he murmurs and Aurora makes a noise of agreement, leaning back on the couch to stare up at the ceiling.
