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Slytherin Rising was created by J.L. Matthews

"speech"

(thoughts)

As Marcia's 11th birthday approached, Harry and Luella began worrying about the magical education of their children. Without Hogwort's, they would have to teach their children themselves. Wands were a problem though. Without dragons, unicorns and phoenixes, how would they provide wand cores? Then Luella came up with the idea that since they were the only magical creatures in the world, their hair could be used for wand cores. Harry made wands from a variety of woods with either his or Luella's hair at its' core so that their children would have a variety from which to choose.
The curriculum was another problem. Without magical creatures and plants to provide potion ingredients, potion making would be a lost art. And herbalogy would be just a series of gardening techniques. History of Magic was also an irrelevant subject. Luella was still trying to reinvent Astronomy for this new world they were on. Thus far, she had been unable to figure out which of the stars was their old sun. Care of Magical Creatures was another useless subject, though Harry was making great progress in domesticating owls and snakes. And with out Dark Creatures, Defense against the Dark Arts would be a greatly reduced subject. They decided to emphasize dueling in Defense class since any Dark Art their children would have to defend themselves against would be wielded by their siblings. They also made a decision, not to teach the unforgivables to their children. Charms and Transfiguration, however, would be pretty much, what they were taught at Hogwort's. Divination would little alteration too. Though neither of them was a seer, they didn't know if their children might turn out to be. After some debate, Harry and Luella decided that Marcia's first year curriculum would consist of:

Charms
Transfiguration
Divination
Occlumancy
Astronomy

One evening, when Harry, Luella and their family were having dinner at their closest neighbors house, a traveling storyteller came to visit. The neighbors had no collective family name. They consisted of Talorga, her adult son Aniel, her adult daughter Eripa, and her grandchildren: Drusta, Nechton, Galanana, Garthnac, Giroma, and Cailtran. Apparently, around here, people didn't believe in marriage. Men lived with their mothers and women took whatever lover caught their fancy. Harry had already rebuffed advances from both Talorga and Eripa. All of their neighbors thought that Harry and Luella's relationship was a bit odd. Everyone was dressed in the local style which consisted of a cloth (for women) or leather (for men) mini-skirt and a cloak when it was cold. Luella had some trouble getting used to going around topless, but her children, who had never known anything different thought of it as perfectly normal.

The wandering storyteller had a fantastic story to tell about the Eagle people who are able to fly all over the world and their recent war with "the Wauka", an evil giant who is able to crush entire villages with a single step. The Eagle People had triumphed and slain the Wauka and were now calling together a meeting of all the Queens of Women at their 'tucker Aerie in the West. According to the tale, The Eagle People had nests all over the world and their nest on Alba (the Fiernan name for Britain) was located at the Great Wisdom. Harry was unsure if the Great Wisdom was Glastonbury or Stonehenge or even if either of those two places had counterparts on this parallel world.

After they went home and discuss this story, Harry decided to check it out. They had checked out local legends before and had always been disappointed but Harry thought it was worth a try. Taking his firebolt and invisibility cloak, he apparated to a point about a mile from where Stonehenge was supposed to be. (if it even exists)

Harry found himself in the midst of a cornfield. This was extremely remarkable because since he had been to this world, he had not seen a single ear of corn. He had thought that maze did not exist on this world. As he made his way through the cornfield as quietly as he could under the concealment of his invisibility cloak, he heard the unmistakable sounds of a couple making love. Harry snuck closer. As they were catching their breath afterwards, the man said, in English:

"Ciniacha, I love you! Why don't you come back to Nantucket with me and be my wife?"

(English!) thought Harry. (They're speaking English!)