AN: I do not own Harry Potter
Chapter Nine
Percy walked through the Ministry a few days after AJ had removed his blocks at a fast pace, the heels of his new dragonhide boots clicking against the floor as he headed towards his boss' office. Upon reaching his destination, he pushed the door open without knocking and, apparently, interrupting a meeting between his boss and one, Albus Dumbledore. "This is actually good, gets two things out of my way," he says looking between the two men. Looking to Crouch, he smirked, "I quit," he says as loudly and clearly as he could without yelling and turned his attention to Dumbledore. "Don't ever come near me again." Turning on his heel, he headed back the way he came, intent on leaving the Ministry and not stopping till he was outside the Visitor's entrance in Muggle London. "Finally, I'm free," he breathes stepping back into the shadows and using them to travel back to AJ's cottage where her family was staying until Sinclair Castle was done.
Petunia was sitting on the couch in the parlour as she did her needlework and glanced up when he arrived, giving him a small smile when she saw that it was him. "You didn't take as long as AJ thought you would. How did it go, Percy?" she asks and he smiles back, dropping into the chair to her left.
"About as well as it can when both of your objectives are sitting in the same room," he snickers as a House Elf appeared with the book AJ had given him to read when they'd gone through one of her vaults at Gringott's. "The looks on both of their faces when I was done were hilarious." It was about all the different kinds of Demons and Demonkin, it was also written in Demon Runes by one of the many, paranoid Sinclair ancestors that could read them but wasn't Demon.
She chuckled, "I can only imagine. That would've been interesting to see." When Petunia went back to her needlework, Percy opened the book and continued on where he left off.
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Draco was leaning against AJ's shoulder in the great hall, half-asleep, while his cousin berated the two smirking Demonkin sitting across from them and wasn't surprised to be pushed over to lean on Hermione when AJ stood, reaching across to smack them with the Daily Prophet. "Inconsiderate arseholes," she snarls at them as her eyes flash blood-red faster than a normal person could see.
"Fifty points for your foul language, Miss Snape," a Ravenclaw prefect says as she passed the Slytherin table and AJ waited until she was far enough away before sticking her tongue out at her back.
Both sets of twins started chuckling and AJ rolled her eyes at their antics as Luna's hair turned bright pink with lavender leopard spots. Cedric raised an eyebrow at them from his seat on her left as Neville tried not to laugh while trying to glare at them. "I actually kind of like this," she murmurs playing with it and her mates snicker as the two sets of twins glanced around the table for more victims. By the time breakfast was over, Dean had silver dreads, Blaise had cotton-candy blue hair, Draco's hair was Slytherin green and silver, Hermione had blonde hair that was charmed to shift colors every thirty minutes, Harry had rainbow, Cedric's hair was cheetah print, Marcus had a set of black bunny ears sticking out of his hair, Neville had blue skin with green splotches that seemed to move at random times and AJ's hair was stuck as a ridiculously-huge, electric-blue Mohawk. Which, unfortunately, didn't bother her as she retaliated by putting a powerful, timed sticking charm on them that would turn on and off every five minutes for the next four hours.
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The goblins of Gringott's were not surprised to see Bloodshield walking through the halls weighed down by a giant stack of folders as he made his way to his office. If anything, this sight had gotten even more common in the last couple of months and none of the Wizards working at Gringott's knew what was going on, other than the ones involved. Ragnok wanted to keep it that way for as long as possible, the more time they had to gather evidence against Dumbledore, the less time he had to destroy the things he didn't want getting out. Though he was starting to think some of his wizarding employees were spying for the old man by the way several of them seemed to think they needed to know what was going on and when he told them it was classified, they'd get angry. He'd had to update the spells to search for the Imperius Curse placed on any of the employees, be they human or goblin and the spell was removed as soon as they walked through the door.
"This is getting ridiculous, Ragnok," Brokenaxe breathes as another wizard is tagged by the spell and removed down to the Medical Ward to have the curse removed. "We also need to check if any of our wizards are spying for Dumbledore, as well, they've started to question the other goblins about what Bloodshield is up to."
Ragnok growled his agreement as Bloodshield signaled the two of them to come into his office and the two of them glanced at each other before heading over. Closing the door behind them with a quiet click, he moved around to stand behind his desk which was littered with large piles of folders. Looking at the two goblins he'd called in before he began separating the folders by families that show sign of mental illness, spell damage, missing children, children reported dead and the folders for a bloodline that suddenly died out or disappeared. "These are all the files that fit the criteria Lady Sinclair suggested," he says causing both of the larger goblins to step closer to his desk, looking over the stacks of folders. "I'm going to start with the children reported missing or dead in the last sixty years as they could be leads into the other folders."
"How's the case against Dumbledore coming?" Brokenaxe asks picking up one of the folders in the missing children's stack.
Bloodshield snapped his fingers and a leather-bound folder, half a foot thick landed on his desk woth a loud thunk. "It's going very well," Bloodshield murmurs as Ragnok takes the folder off his desk. "Fortunately, he hasn't covered his tracks as well as he thought he did and our tests have changed so much over the last forty years that he doesn't know that his covers are no longer working."
Brokenaxe was looking at the contents of the folder with Ragnok and was surprised the little goblin's work was thorough. "There are plenty of powerful families backing this," he says flipping through the information as Ragnok handed him the folder. He saw Ragnok freeze from the corner of his eye a second before he left the room, moving at a clipped pace and Brokenaxe closed the folder, handing it to Bloodshield before leaving, as well, hurrying to catch up with Ragnok. "What's going on, Ragnok?"
The big goblin motioned for Brokenaxe to follow him to the carts and stayed quiet until they were flying down the rails towards the older vaults, passing the first dragon. "Someone was trying to get into the main Sinclair vault," Ragnok sneers, "Xaddus has called Lady Sinclair but he was nice enough to trip a Gringott's alarm to inform us, as well." There was a flash of lightning and suddenly Lady Sinclair was sitting in the cart beside Brokenaxe. "Having fun scaring old goblins? Nice hair, by the way. "
AJ gave a half-hearted hollow chuckle while mock-glaring at Ragnok. "Hilarious," she chuckles leaning back in the seat. "The Weasley and Greyback twins seem to think it's a wonderful idea to prank me. They will be sticking to things on and off for another hour before my revenge turns up a notch."
"As long as it isn't damaging," Brokenaxe chuckles and she shook her head.
Sparks flew up as Ragnok pulled the brake and AJ was out seconds after it had come to a full-stop, running down the stairs at a break-neck pace that the goblins weren't going to try to keep up with. "It's a goblin," she yells up to them, causing them to quicken their pace before the Demon could do anything before they were able to question him. They arrived to see a bound goblin and AJ petting Xaddus' head, "Whose such a good lion?" she murmurs and the cat bumps his head against her shoulder, a loud purr echoing off the rocks around them.
Ragnok and Brokenaxe both froze at the sight of the bound goblin lying on the floor, a bite on his arm bleeding weakly like AJ had healed him enough that he wouldn't die. "Griphook?" Ragnok growls and the small goblin jerks at the sound, black eyes widening when he saw the other two goblins. "What are you doing trying to get into the Sinclair vault?"
Griphook opened his mouth but Brokenaxe began to speak before he could get a word out. "Remember the punishment for lying," he growls as his black eyes flash white a second and AJ raised an eyebrow, continuing to scratch behind Xaddus' ears.
"Dumbledore heard that the Sinclair vaults had been reopened," Griphook murmurs watching Brokenaxe with fear-filled eyes before his eyes flitted to AJ for a second. "He wanted me to retrieve something that the Sinclair family had stolen from the Dumbledore family over three-hundred and fifty years ago."
AJ snarled as her eyes flashed blood-red and her pupils changed, taking a step towards him but Ragnok shook his head, walking towards him. "What did he want from the Sinclair vaults, Griphook?"
Griphook took a shallow breath, his eyes flickering back and forth between the people around him and he swallowed audibly. "He wanted something called the Demon's Eye, it was stolen from Wulfric Dumbledore in August of 1644 by Lucien Sinclair and put into the Sinclair vault," he answers and AJ scoffs patting Xaddus' head one last time before walking over to the vault door.
Placing her hand against the door, she barely felt it when it tested her blood and stepped into her vault, walking over to the jewelry case. Picking up the guady piece of jewelry Dumbledore's ancestor had made out of one of her ancestor's eyes and walked back out of the vault, leaving the door open, Xaddus sitting in front of it. "You mean this?" she asks kneeling down to hold the necklace in front of his eyes. "Take a good look at it and then look into my eyes." Griphook studied the stone in the center setting of the necklace before glancing up into her eyes, pale skin paling even more. "Lucien Sinclair was retrieving his sister's eye after Wulfric Dumbledore cut it out of her face and left her to bleed to death. Unfortunately for him, Blood Demons take an awful long time to die and Sienna lived long enough to tell Lucien who to go after." The small goblin had gone deathly pale by this point and AJ smirked, pulling the necklace back from his face. "Do you want to take a guess at why Dumbledore whould want this?" Griphook shook his head, causing AJ to snicker and lean her face down to stare into his eyes. "A Blood Demon whose powers are fully developed can take one look at another demon and tell you what kind they are, a crystallized eye from one has the same ability. It's something that most Light families with God complexes would want to use to get rid of those families that have not so friendly and not so Light creatures in their bloodline. Giving it to him would've put, not just my family, but hundreds of others, in danger." Griphook looked like he wanted to be anywhere but here, bound and helpless with an angry Blood Demon and two furious goblins staring at him. AJ stood up, heading back into the vault, necklace dangling from her fist, "He's all yours, Ragnok."
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Rage, scorching hot, swirled through Percy's link with AJ and he saw Bill flinch where he was sitting across the room from him. Marcus appeared a couple of seconds later, lookng around the room for her, "She's not here?" he asks and they both shake their heads. "Damnit, I thought she was with the two of you."
"Why would you think that?" Bill asks standing from his seat at the same time Percy stood from his and walked over to Marcus.
"She disappeared from the school about thirty minutes ago and said something abut Gringott's right before leaving so I might've assumed she was with one of you," he says and Percy grabbed both of them by the shoulder as shadows wrapped around the three of them.
They stumbled as they landed just inside Gringott's, Percy's magic leaving them as he headed for the carts, Bill and Marcus hurrying after him. "I don't suggest heading down there," Brokenaxe says heading them off before the three of them could reach a cart. "Letting her vent is probably the best option, wait until she's a little more calm."
"Why is she like this anyway?" Percy asks and Brokenaxe glances over them to nod at whatever was going on behind them.
"A goblin tried to steal from the main Sinclair vault," the goblin says. "He was trying to retrieve a rare and powerful artifact for Dumbledore."
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Down in the Sinclair vault, AJ paced back and forth as she tried to calm herself so her worried mates didn't have to. She came to a stop just in front of the family tapestry and clenched her fist around the necklace as her eyes zeroed in on Sienna Sinclair's picture before she sat down. Tracing the family lines on the tapestry was starting to calm her when her eyes came to Lucien's great-granddaughter, Illia, and her rage disappeared. According to the tapestry, Illia was the last from Sienna and Lucien's branch of the family, but the memories in AJ's blood proved it wrong when an image of Illia and a pink-haired child flashed through her mind. "Illia gave birth to Narcis, who was born a Dhampir and later became a full Vampire after his human mate died, they had six children, three of whom lived to adulthood." As she spoke, the tapestry cleared over Narcis, a line linking him with a woman named Esme and a line down between their names that connected to six pictures, three of them no older than five while the older three had grown up. AJ eyes narrowed before she went over to the weapon display, grabbing a dagger and leant down to grab a chalice out of a trunk she passed before sitting back down in front of the tapestry. Slicing into the palm of her hand, she held it over the cup and watched as it slowly filled with her blood. Once it was filled, she used her magic to seal the wound on her hand and threw the dagger at the display case before standing up, moving closer to the tapestry. Infusing the blood with as much magic as it could hold, she slung the contents all over the blank parts of the tapestry, watching in fascination as it filled in and rearranged so everyone was in the right spot, pushing her and Harry closer, under the main branch of the family. "Son of a mother-fucking bitch," she roars chunking the chalice across the vault so hard that it embedded itself into the rock as birth dates and death dates appeared underneath every single picture. She gave very little attention to that part of the tapestry until she saw that there wasn't a death date for Lily and her eyes narrowed, flashing back and forth between dragon and demon. "I'll check that later."
Looking over the new names that had appeared all over the tapestry, she stopped on four children a row to the left of herself and Harry's pictures. The pictures of their parents pinned them as Harry and AJ's cousins from a close branch of the family, magic was still dormant in this branch so they were safe, and AJ stepped back from the tapestry, looking over the tapestry for any other living relations. Finding two more far below and to the right, twins, barely older than four or five months, whose parents were dead and they had magic. "Lana and Lucas Walters." Concentrating on the two of them, she closed her eyes and felt her magic swirl around her, leaving the vault empty as the door slammed shut.
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Marcus' eyes flew open as he felt AJ's magic fade away from Gringott's and looked towards his other two mates, knowing by their faces that they'd felt her disappear again. "I'm going to sit here until she comes back," Percy says leaning back in his chair and closing his eyes. "And before the two of you ask, she will be back, she's just going to retrieve something."
"How do you know that?" Bill asks and Percy cracks an eye open to look at him through the corner of his eye.
"Was I the only one paying attention to her emotions?" he asks before closing his eye and going silent.
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AJ appeared outside an almost dilapidated Muggle Orphanage and she stared at the building in disgust that people, children, lived here before walking to the door. "Really?" she murmurs when she reached put to check the door, it wasn't even locked and she cast silencing and disillusionment spells on herself before continuing into the building, pulling the door closed behind her. Looking over the doors she passed, she found the office and stepped in, raising an eyebrow at the woman slumped on top of the desk, a bottle of bourbon held loosely in her hand. "That's wonderful, it's the middle of the damned day." Shaking her head, she looked over the filing cabinets until she found the one labeled with a 'W' and pulled it open. "Walters, Walters, Walters," she mutters going through the files and coming up empty. "Where the hell is their file?" She heard the knob on the door rattle and closed the cabinet slowly so as not to make noise, turning to look at the door.
"Shh..." a voice hushes as the door was opened and a boy of ten, maybe eleven, walked into the room, followed by two older boys, maybe thirteen, both of whom carried a baby. "There's no one here but Miss Nancy, Ace."
"Yes, there is," the elder boy with blond hair says as his eyes scanned the room, stopping on where AJ was standing, disillusioned. "I can sense the magic you're using, Miss Nancy is so drunk she wouldn't wake up if a herd of bright pink elephants danced through her office." AJ moved to the left and watched as the boy's eyes followed her.
"Impressive," AJ murmurs lifting the disillusionment and silencing spells on herself, appearing so that the other children could see her. Her eyes went to the baby in his arms and she moved to step towards him when the baby in the other teens arms started crying. Casting a silencing spell at the woman sitting at the desk, she moved over to the teen holding the crying baby who looked like he didn't know what to do and held her arms out for the baby.
He looked to the other teen before handing the baby to her, AJ's magic flared briefly once the baby was in her arms. "You're related to her," the blond says and AJ nodded as she felt the Demon in her blood singing happily. "Can you take us with you?"
AJ looked over them before letting her magic flow over them and froze when all of them had magic cores. "Why aren't the two of you in school?" she asks looking at the two elder boys and the blond scoffed as he handed her the other baby as well.
"Some old man with twinkly-blue eyes, glasses and a long, white beard came here a few years ago and did something so that no magic could reach the three of us," he says and AJ took a closer look at him, cocking her head to the side. "Whatever spell he used doesn't work on the twins... yet."
Taking a deep breath, AJ nodded and motioned them to come over. "I need the three of you to hold onto me as tight as you can and don't let go, actually, you might want to close your eyes," she breathes and they all look at her for a second before crowding around her and wrapping their arms around each other and AJ as tight as they could. Picturing Ragnok's office in her mind, she let her magic wrap around her and the boys, tightening her arms around the babies and took off, leaving no trace any of them had been there.
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Harry was sitting in the DADA classroom, listening to 'Moody' go on and on about constant vigilance, or some other nonsense, waiting for class to end so he could go to lunch. Hermione bumped his shoulder to get his attention and he glanced at her. "Do you think AJ will be back before the next stage in her revenge on the twins begins?" she asks watching as Draco swatted Dean's hand away from his hair and Blaise snickered.
"Maybe," he breathes as he began braiding his shoulder-length, rainbow hair which he could tell Barty was still laughing about on the inside so he didn't break his role as 'Moody.' "She'd probably be disappointed if she missed it."
Hermione giggled as her hair shifted to silver from the violet color it'd been for the last thirty minutes. Some of the Gryffindor girls sitting behind them giggled, too and Harry snickered when Dean was finally able to touch Draco's hair and the color swirled before turning a glittery-blue with gold swirls throughout, causing some of the Slytherins to chuckle. "Really Dean?" Draco growls smacking Dean's hand away before laying his head down on the desk and glaring at him.
"What, I didn't know it was going to change color?" he chuckles and Draco raised an eyebrow, lifting one pale hand up and touching Dean's dreads which changed from silver to white with red stripes, like a bunch of Muggle candy canes were growing from his head. "Damn it." Could be heard throughout the room as Dean caught sight of his hair and Blaise reached over Draco to touch his hair and the color changed again, pink and lilac.
"There, much better," he snickers making Draco snicker and Dean glare at him.
"The three of you need to pay attention in class or I'm going to give you detention with Hagrid," Barty growls in Moody's voice and the three stopped, paying attention to the board as Dean stretched his arms out on either side, fingers barely touching Blaise's hair. At the bare scrape of his fingertips, Blaise's haircolor shifted to dark green with lighter green vines with small red, white and pink flowers blooming on it.
Everyone in class laughed, Slytherins included and Blaise glared at Dean as he tried to find something in his bag that he could use to see his hair. Hermione transfigured a piece of parchment into a mirror and floated it over to sit in front of Blaise who growled, reaching over Draco to hit Dean on the back of the head, which changed the color of his dreads to black and yellow. "Pain in the arse," he hisses and Dean chuckled leaning back in his chair as he put an arm along the back of Draco's chair.
Harry coughed to cover his chuckle when Pansy gave a small screech when she noticed and Hermione smirked, covering it with her hand. "Miss Parkinson, please refrain from screeching like an angry owl in my classroom," 'Moody' says turning back to the class as he begins going over the next chapter that they'd be starting on next class.
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AJ, Marcus, Bill and Percy arrived at the cottage with Lana and Lucas, planning to explain everything to Perunia and then Marcus and AJ were going to head back to the school so they didn't miss more of the day. After a quick explanation to Petunia and her being ecstatic to take care of two babies, AJ made sure everything was going okay with their private tutors and disappeared back to school with Marcus in tow, thirty minutes before lunch. Marcus had to go explain his absence to Professor Sinistra while AJ went to McGonagall to explain hers before she headed down to the great hall for lunch, the angry tirade of Minerva McGonagall ringing in her ears. Taking a seat next to Isadora at the Hufflepuff table, she ruffled the little girl's hair and waited for the rest of heir group to arrive.
Both sets of twins arrived before lunch began, probably after having asked to leave early so they could make it to lunch on time. "You're an evil, evil woman, you know that?" Alec growls as all four of them ended up stuck to the floor a little away from the Hufflepuff table. AJ raised an eyebrow as Isadora started laughing when she noticed that they couldn't move, causing the four of them to growl at her.
"I told you two," AJ says to the Weasley twins, "prank me and I'll prank you back. And it'll be several times worse."
"Causing us to stick to things randomly isn't worse than your hair," George says and AJ smirked, tapping the side of her nose where the small diamond piercing was, the sticking charm ending for the last time as the Weasley twins' skin turned neon green and their hair turned pink, the other two turning blue with scarlet hair.
Isadora fell against AJ's side, laughing hard and causing the four of them to glance down at themselves before looking at each other. "Bollocks," all four of them groan at the same time before glaring at AJ, moving to sit at the table, across from her.
When the rest arrived for lunch, they all began snickering at the four's predicament as AJ and Isadora laughed at the changes to their hair since breakfast. Marcus joined them a few minutes later, shaking with the urge to laugh as he sat on AJ's other side and trying to avoid provoking the twins, it had apparently been hell to get the bunny ears to go away. "So, what was so important that you had to leave in such a hurry?" Alec asks as he begins filling his plate and everyone looked to AJ before Marcus put up a silencing spell around them.
"Someone convinced a goblin to try and break into my vault to steal something," she says barely moving her lips as she caught sight of Dumbledore watching her and leaned into Marcus' side, laying her head on his shoulder, gasping when her hair fell down around her face in tumultuous copper-colored curls. "So happy that mohawk is gone." Was her only comment about her hair as the others continued to stare at her, thinking she would elaborate on what happened at Gringott's. "We'll talk more about it after class." They nodded, turning back to their lunch and AJ snuggled closer against Marcus' side, reaching out through her connections for Percy and Bill, getting a wave of peaceful emotions from both of them as they sensed the anger she was holding at bay. Taking her attention away from Dumbledore, she listened to the conversations going on around her and smirked when she heard both sets of twins plotting revenge.
"I don't sugget either of those plans," Marcus snickers at the four of them, "not unless you want her to prank you even worse."
Harry snickers, "Don't pick on a Marauder's kid."
Fred and George stopped speaking before looking from AJ to Harry. "Uh... I thought your father was the only Marauder to have children?" George asks and Hermione snickers into the potion that Gringott's had sent her, it was a substitute for drinking blood so her secret didn't travel through the school.
"Moony or Padfoot?" Fred asks, blue eyes pleading as both twins looked at AJ.
"Padfoot," she answers and they looked at each other, gulping audibly as she glanced at the Greyback twins sitting beside them. "Moony is Isadora, Alec and Aiden's bearer."
The three of them had figured out that they were related during the first full moon that they were all at Hogwarts. Though, AJ and Luna were the only ones who'd known who their bearer was and Luna had to tell AJ. "That means that Moony's mate is Fenr..." Harry stopped speaking when he saw Dumbledore look over to where they were sitting and fought hard not to snarl at the old man. "He hasn't been answering my letters in the past few weeks."
AJ hummed, pulling the crusts off her peanut butter, banana and honey sandwich, keeping her gaze away from Dumbledore so she didn't do something regrettable. "Dad said he's been Obliviated so much that he's lucky he knows his own name," AJ murmurs cutting her sandwich in half diagonally and taking a bite out of the smaller half. Marcus took the other half, knowing Aurora wasn't going to eat it and she straightened up, cocking her head to the side as a big, black eagle flew in, heading straight down to her. "Hmm?" Catching the envelope it dropped to her, she glances at the front of it as the eagle circled her for a second before leaving the great hall, swerving to avoid the tracking spell cast at it by Dumbledore.
"Whose it from?" Isadora asks and AJ shrugged, putting it into the inside pocket of her robes.
"It doesn't say but I'm definitely not opening it here," she breathes, lips not moving as she reached for her cup. "The old man is watching."
Once everyone was done eating they retreated outside to the courtyard and AJ pulled the letter out of her robes, opening it as she sat on the edge of the fountain. Finding several letters, she looked them over and handed them to the people they were addressed to, keeping the one with her name on it. 'Lady Sinclair, first, I would like this letter to be destroyed once you're done reading it as it will put Harry in danger should anyone find it. Second, I would like to thank you for having the blocks removed from him and making it so that he no longer fears me. I would like for you to keep guiding him, though I know you would do so even if I hadn't asked. I would also like to meet with you in person, as myself. I feel that I should explain what went on during Harry's first and second years at Hogwarts. My gle, Nyx, will be back in the morning for your answer. Sincerely, TMRS.' AJ stared at the letter for a few more seconds before it was consumed by fire, burning down to ash that she banished with a thought.
Harry hummed happily at whatever his letter said before it burst into flames, as well. Alec and Aiden rolled their eyes at their letter before Aiden banished it. Hermione started sniffling as she read and reread hers before it burst into flames, too. Isadora looked like she was the happiest kid ever, even as she pulled her wand out of her robes and banished her letter with a flick. The clock chimed for classes and Isadora skipped back inside, silver braid swinging back and forth as she moved. Everyone else was a little more sedate as they disappeared to their classes, thinking over whatever had been written in their letters.
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That night found all of them in the library under heavy silencing spells as each of them made it look they were studying for their classes. AJ was writing her answering letter to Tom's, glancing up every now and then to make sure their barrier was still working as the others discussed what had been in their letters. All except Hermione, who'd disappeared over to the law section and came back with a book on obscure loopholes that weren't used all thay often and was reading away, probably looking for something her letter must've mentioned. "Yes," she whoops, standing up before she remembered she was in the library and going quiet, glancing around for Madame Pince.
"Silencing spell, remember?" Fred and George ask her and she gives them a withering glare before going back to her book, copying down whatever she'd found on a small piece of parchment.
Pricking the pad of her pointer finger with her wand, she pressed the small drop of blood to the letter and watched as the ink flashed for a second before folding it in half, sealing it with a wave of her wand. "I'll be back," she says standing up and putting it into the inner pocket of her robes and her set of twins stood to go with her and she seemed about to tell them to stay when Harry glanced at her.
"Let them go with you, please," he murmured and she sighs before nodding, glancing at the twins before leaving the library for the owlery.
AJ shook her head, going back to the letter to Tom and specifying where and when they'd meet, as well as anymore conditions she had to make the meeting as peaceful as possible. Marcus was proofreading it over her shoulder to make sure she didn't accidentally, which with AJ would be purposely, piss the man off. Once they were both satisfied that it was done, she began rewriting it and once finished sealed it within an envelope that wouldn't open for anyone but Tom, placing it in the inner pocket of her robes. "Now, I need to schedule a magic-negating room at Gringott's for the meeting and then I'll finish up the little bit of homework I have left for this week," she breathes writing down her request for the room and addressing it to Ragnok before sending it to Gringott's with a thought.
"Hey AJ, do you know when our dresses will be finished?" Luna asks pulling AJ's mind away from her History of Magic essay for Binns and she finished it up real quick before searching through her bag for the bill that had come from Valencia's Formal Wear yesterday.
"The week before the Yule Ball," she answers handing Luna the slip of parchment as she reached into her bag for the rest of her homework. "Is Hermione still going to go with..."
"Yep, to make the twins jealous," she says cutting off AJ's question as she looked over the information on the parchment. "I have the Heir rings for my vaults and wanted to go see what jewelry I could find that matches my dress, considering Harry asked me to go with him so he doesn't have to deal with Ginny trying."
"Lucky him," Neville grumbles and Cedric snickers ruffling his dark hair.
Harry gave Neville an apologetic look for stealing Luna for the Yule Ball and Neville waves it off, chuckling. "Be glad you don't have to go with someone whose obsessed with you," Cedric murmurs and Luna's eyes narrowed as she glances over Cedric's shoulder to look at Cho Chang hanging around in the aisle closest to their table.
Luna's lips pursed in agitation before she looked back down at the bill for the dresses. "We also have to go shopping for Marcus' dress robes," she says and AJ snickered at the looks both Nev and Cedric got on their faces. "I'm not angry, I just don't like either of your dates." They nodded, both of them giving her small smiles before turning back to their homework. "Would you mind taking me to Diagon on your trip to Gringott's, AJ?"
"No problem," she murmurs continuing on her Arithmancy work, a frown appearing between her brows as she concentrated on trying to put the next part into words. "Though I may have something that will match."
"Is no one else scared of the fact that she can concentrate on her Arithmancy paper and preparations for the Yule Ball?" Alec asks staring at AJ like she'd grown an extra head and all the boy's at the table mumbled negative answers to his question.
"Girls do that," Isadora snickers from her seat beside Alec and Aiden as she continued work on her Potions essay. "AJ, a correctly brewed Antidote to Common Poisons is teal, right?"
AJ finished what she was working on before standing up to lean across the table to take a look at Isadora's parchment. "Yes," she says scanning over the rest of the information, "and its two mistletoe berries, not three."
"Thanks," Isadora breathes scratching out the three and writing in a two, as well as the place where she'd put that the potion would turn green and wrote in teal. "I want to go but it's for fourth years and up unless you've been asked."
Luna glanced up from her Transfiguration textbook and glared towards Hugh and Adrian where they sat beside Marcus at the table, both of whom paled at the look. "We weren't going to go because she couldn't," Adrian murmurs and AJ snickered as she finished up her Arithmancy and put it away in her bag, pulling out her Ancient Runes book and homework.
"Didn't even bother to ask if she wanted to, though, did you?" Luna asks and they shook their heads, both glancing at Isadora with apologetic looks. "Well, now you know that she does want to go."
"Isadora, do you want to go to the Yule Ball with Adrian and I?" Hugh asks and Isadora looked up from her essay to raise an eyebrow at them.
She gave them a thoughtful look before nodding. "I suppose," she murmurs giving them a small smile before going back to her homework. "Would you mind taking me to Diagon Alley, as well, AJ?"
"You, me, Luna and I can probably get Hermione to come with us," AJ breathes translating the Runes for her last homework assignment without even glancing at her book. "It'll be easier to get permission to go to London this weekend."
