Harry Potter and the Life Unlived

By

Vulpine Nox

Underlined is writing

Italics is telepathy

Bold is parseltounge

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Filch saw a flash of light in his office and approach silently. He turned the lock slowly and opened the door quickly. He let out a howl of rage when he saw his office was completely empty. He was completely perplexed when he saw a -

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a picture of a large black fox with nine tails seeming burned into the floor, and a hasty message was scrawled on a wall in silver paint.

Thanks for the stuff.

Using the distraction caused by the theft Silver went and investigated the third floor corridor and found a large three headed dog, which she became very fond of and brought it treats whenever she had the time.

The next day the castle was abuzz with the theft of Filch entire office, and who exactly Fox was. Interestingly enough anyone claiming that they where Fox found themselves with a giant black paw print of a fox was covering their entire face. Shade sighed, Silver had snuck potions into the food. Needless to say the student quickly stopped proclaiming themselves the Fox. Throughout Saturday their Head of house called various known troublemakers into question. The teachers didn't bother the first or second years because they didn't consider them knowledgeable enough to have pulled off such a stunt, even third years were a stretch. Filch himself was nearly frothing at the mouth. Everyone avoided him because he interrogated anyone he saw for hours. Several of the younger years had to go the Hospital Wing because they had a nervous breakdown under the caretaker's glare.

The return of his cabinets, empty except for all records of previous wrong, in the Great Hall during breakfast, without any clue's to who Fox was had only made him angrier. It was quite fortunate that he couldn't give out detentions, only recommend them, the amount that the Weasley twins pestered him.

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It wasn't until the notice of that Quidditch was starting the next day (four after the day of the theft) that the students were excited about something else. Flint surprisingly invited the two first years to try out, though it was probably due to the pressure that the purist members of the Nine, the nine strongest members of the house after Elfi Lonic, were putting on him.

Neither Shade nor Silver had ever flown on brooms and the first years flying lessons were scheduled for next week. They had snuck out late at night using a couple of the schools old brooms, and found it fairly straightforward.

When they approach the field there were a fair number of students standing around, they pushed their way to the front when Flint started to talk. Which annoyed a good many students, it enraged them further that the two and only first years didn't seem to notice.

"Listen up, in Slytherin every year all of the positions are up for grabs. Even mine, not that you will be able to beat me. We will have three reserves for the chaser, and beater position. Two for the Beater, Seeker and Keeper position. Seekers are up first, use the brooms in front of you, they are better than the school's. Mount up and who ever catch the most practice snitches get the position."

It was a rather short trial, due mostly to the amount of potentials Shade tricked into running into each other, the ground, the stands and the other hard objects. The students on the ground were looking at him in disbelief. He had caught more that half of the snitches.

Flint called out, "That's enough. Chasers get up there." That trial was rather short and it oblivious winners were Flint, Bletchly, and a muggleborn fifth year named John Stephens. Then there was the Keeper trial, which Elfi Lonic won.

"Alright beaters it is your turn." Silver was the only female participating in and a couple of the boys that she was trying out with tried to knock her off her broom before Flint even released the bludgers. They were swiftly taken care of with a few swift hits of her beater bat. Flint then told them that the last two people flying would be the beaters. They result conflict, with thirteen people and fourteen bludgers, was quite short and violent. In the end there was over fifty broken bone and too many bruises to count. Flint was amazed to see that Silver didn't have a scratch on her, hell she hardly breathing hard. Even the other beater that made it, Derrick Boyle one of the beaters for last year was sporting a sprained wrist and favoring his left leg.

"Myself, Bletchly, Stephens, Lonic, Potter, Myst, Boyle are on the team. I will post the reserve players on the board in the common. Everyone who I didn't name get lost. There will be two practices a week. If anyone sees us I make sure you sleep with the firsties. Next practice will be on Monday seven in the morning. Be there on time or you're off the team. Boyle, Myst come see me."

Silver had never previously heard Boyle speak and was surprised by his whiny tone "Yes captain?" Flint paced as he looked at them and spoke.

"I think you would work better separately. I want each of you to follow only one bludger, unless you both decide to trade. Now go away I need to plan strategy."

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Getting on the Quidditch further improved their standing in the Rule. There had been quite a few duels with the younger years, but none of them were any competition and the older years left them alone in fear of incurring the wrath of Lonic. Though the duo learned spells quickly, at least one everyday they trained with Elfi, but she was only available on the weekends for a few hours. Silver was quite a bit weaker than Shade in wizarding magic not having a talent for instrumental magic of any kind, but she was learning the wizards' runes at quite a pace. Lonic still had not come to see the Rooms, which had grown larger once again. Silver added a floor, though it was empty except for the library, which was nearly full to bursting with all the books and more were being added everyday by the copying quills and pens. As well as rooms for the sister that had yet to be sorted, separate from the main Rooms so no one would discover them. They also added four new occupants, June Moon, Daphne Greenglass, Theodore Nott and Tracey Davis, who were all tired of the rude upper years.

Shade and Silver formed an official club, backed by a Lonic's friend, the Headboy, and got permission for anyone who joined to sleep in their dorm. Officially the club was for those who excelled many subjects and wanted to be friends with those of equal ability. There were already several of these kinds of clubs so it was given little notice. And over the next several weeks it gained six more members, Morag MacDougal, Lisa Turpin, Raine, Anea, Anora, and Susan Bones. The last was quite a surprise for her fellow Hufflepuffs, to have a Hufflepuff join a club with Slytherins in it? The horror! Anea and Anora didn't count they were Mysts and Mysts do what they want. Susan herself was quiet, but very intelligent. Her aunt was a prominent judge for the ministry and the rest of her family worked in the ministry, but she didn't want to follow them. She wanted to become a Potions Mistress, and was quite upset that the Potions Master was an utter git. Therefore the club were her best option. Only the Slytherins moved into the Rooms, the others just visited them, but Silver gave them all bedrooms. Silver had to remove the unsorted sisters rooms and give them their own quarters. Cat didn't participate because she was in Griffindor.

Silver continued meeting the twins under the guise of Fox, and gave them all the prank products and help them ward a room a floor away from the Gryffindors' Common. The school was swamped with all the restolen pranks and it was dangerous to leave your common room. Silver set aside all the unknown items that she had collect and decided to work on them after school and the club had calmed down a bit.

Silver made it clear that they had to be very ahead on their studies and pushed everyone very hard. After a couple of week the next grades of those that had join Silver's club had jumped greatly, though most of them were reevaluating their decision on join the it. They readjusted their sleep schedules and now none of them got more than six hours of sleep a night. Finally after five weeks, Silver laid off. She was rather pleased with their progress, they all held a slot in the top grades slots of their year, and knew minimal occlumency, though they didn't know what it was, they just though it was a muggle technique. Forge had looked it up and was fairly proficient in it, and was now experimenting with the opposite art, because he couldn't get into the restricted section. Silver had taught the Club basic occlumency because it would improve information retention and their concentration. They had studied many subjects everyday ranging from muggle to magic. Silver told them that they would still study hard but they would have more free time to themselves and they had better not fall from the top slots or they would have another massive learning session. They took it to heart, even in flying. Shade caught the Longbottom boy with the help of Silver, and Tracey retrieved the broom from the lake, during their first flying lesson. Madam Hooch was pleased and excused Shade, Silver and Tracey from any further flying lessons.

Naturally Malfoy was enraged and the combination of being told publicly that he had flown wrong way for years and the praise of Shade and Silver, he snapped and challenged Shade to a duel. In the company of Slytherins, but public nonetheless, which was sure to earn the anger of many of Slytherin's older years. Shade agreed happily and told him he would meet him in the Slytherin common room during lunch. Silver had the Slytherin members of the Club pass the word to older Slytherins and when Malfoy arrived in the common room nearly every student was there and an area was cleared with Shade standing at one end. Obviously Malfoy hadn't believed that Shade had beaten Higgs, ignoring what Zabini told him.

"Are you ready Malfoy or would you like to catch your breath?" Shade said in an arrogant tone. Malfoy realized that he had been insulted and having no witty comeback he spat "No Potter, whenever you're ready."

Pansy Parkinson older brother, Mark, walked forward with a frown, obliviously not approving of Malfoy, "This will be a full duel everything is allowed, except for permanent maiming, and death. On the count of three you will start to duel. One, two, three." Malfoy had shot off a curse as soon as Mark said one, Shade leaned back a bit and the curse flew behind him. There was a shower of red sparks when the stunning curse hit an unseen barrier, a few feet behind him. Dimly Malfoy realized that it was to protect the spectators for stray curses.

Shade yawned and stretched his arms over his head, not even holding his wand. "Did we start already? I must of miss it I was pondering the meaning of life. Please excuse my ignorance and continue." There was a round of quiet snickers. Malfoy nearly threw a fit, how dare he ignore a Malfoy! He let off a strong, illegal, pain curse, fueled by anger and Shade drew his wand and gave it a flick. An invisible force, a mixture of Free and Wand magic, intercepted the purple light and it was driven into the shield. The shield quivered and collapsed. The second year shield holder, why a second year no one could fathom, fainted. Malfoy let off the same spell again when he saw Shade sweep aside the first one. Shade stepped to the side and the curse passed millimeters from him. Silver was standing directly in path of the curse, seemingly unaware that the shield had fallen. She mutter under her breath and closed her eyes for a moment, what many students thought was a prayer. Her eyes snapped open, shining liquid silver, when the curse was nearly upon her and an intricate black and silver rune formed in front of her. When the curse hit it a loud gonging sound was heard, the rune glowed brighter and absorbed the curse. Malfoy took no notice and the rest of the students were looking slightly surprised, runes weren't normally used for anything but enchanting, they tended to be to slow to cast in a fight and took too much concentration.

She looked at the second year then at the older students and raised an eyebrow, "Isn't there supposed a competent shield holder at all times?" There was a scramble for wands when a few more curses flew towards the students. Another volley came towards the second year that had fainted and silver tentacles shot out from the rune and intercepted the curses, once again making a loud gonging sound.

Shade had only uses a convex shield so far and all of Malfoy curses were sliding off it. His curses were weakened ten minutes into the duel and when one totally dissipated on the shield, Shade let the it drop and flicked his wand in Malfoy's direction. The same invisible force that had broken the shield was now rushing towards the blonde, he feverishly shot off curse after curse, but they were just deflected of the spell. It hit Malfoy, raised him up off the ground, and slammed him into the shield, which had just been erected. He fell to the ground, face first promptly lost consciousness. After a moment his goons shuffled forward, picked him up and left the common room with the rest of his group. The student departed in a flood to get back to classes on time. After his brutal defeat, Malfoy bothered Shade less and left him alone for the most part.

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Halloween was fast approaching and the school seemed to slow down, and become calmed. Though most likely that was because Forge had laid off on the pranks somewhat, now trying to figure out how to make them. Silver had finished her computer project and made a runic computer. It was about the size of a marble and made of quartz. She had gotten powdered quartz dust and layered it and remade the gem, and in doing so creating numerous levels of miniaturized runes. It ran on surrounding magic and was controlled mentally, sending and receiving signals to and from the brain. Silver wore it on a chain around her neck surrounded in a delicate cage made of thin silver wire. It wasn't her best work but it would be sufficient for sorting the books she was copying, until she made a better one.

Shade too had been busy, he found wizarding magic entirely fascinating and was mastering as many spells as he could on his own. The lessons with Elfi Lonic expanded into the theory behind the magic, occlumency (you could only go so far without someone who knew what there were doing), wizarding law, culture and etiquette. He had also visited Hagrid and managed to weasel out of him that someone named Nicholas Flamel was involved with the grubby little package. He kept an eye out for the name when he was studying.

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Much to the students chagrin there were still lesson on Halloween day, Silver and Shade were sitting in Charms, relearning how to float a feather. Flitwick was going on about a wizard, buffalos, and mispronunciation of spells. None of the students were having much luck besides their study group and they had covered it ages ago. Weasley was waving his arms wildly and only pointing in the general direction of the feather. Granger, his partner, looked ready to explode. She twitched her hand slightly when he bellowed "Wingardium Leviosa," the feather exploded knocking Weasley off his chair. Silver and Shade perked up, 'that was Weave magic.' Titters broke out and Granger said "Really! You're not even saying it right. It's wing-gar-dium levi-o-sa, the gar supposed to be long."

"You do it if you are so clever." She promptly did it and the Weasley turned red. He was in a bad mood the rest of the class.

When the students were leaving the class Weasley said in a loud voice "It no wonder no one can stand her. She is a nightmare honestly." Shortly after he was hit with an elbow in the back, knocked to the ground and trampled on by Cat. Who was hurrying after Hermione. Shade had never approached her about joining the Club, which was invitation only, believing that she was to authority centered. Maybe after a while Cat could convince her he mused. He had gathered those who were mistrusting of the government and other authority figures. But now, she had shown what he though to be Weave magic, this made thing more complicated.

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Shade wandered into the Great Hall for the feast pondering Hermione Granger, only half paying attention to his surroundings. He remained this was until Silver jabbed him in the side. Quirrell just came running in, looking terrified she paused for a moment nostrils flaring as he passed by, He certainly doesn't smell it. Wrinkling her nose He smells foul, like he visited someone who hasn't taken a bath in years. 'Hn.' Is that all you are going to say? Ooo look he is going to speak.

"Trolls---in the dungeon---though you ought to know." He fell onto his face in a dead faint, in front of the teachers' table. There was silence for a moment and then the hall burst into screams.

Dumbledore had to let off several conjured firecrackers before he could bring silence.

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