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Everyone else that had followed Harry to the room drew their wands at their five fellows declaration.
"Harry, step away from her," Sirius commanded.
Harry just smiled and stepped in front of Bellatrix.
"Harry..." Dumbledore began, but was cut of as Harry spoke.
"Perhaps you should hurry up," he commented nonchalantly. In fact everyone in the room could think he was calm and posed no threat.
Bellatrix knew different. One of her husbands favorite tactics was to trick his opponents into a false sense of security, before springing into action like an enraged dragon. While everyone was focused on Harry, Bella drew a hidden knife from the folds of her dress, and pricked her thumb to draw blood.
The crowd in the door watched as Bellatrix placed her bloody thumb to her own name and likeness on the tapestry. It glowed for a moment, before her name changed, as did Rudolpus Lestrange's name and likeness next to her. After a few moments, Rudolphus' likeness had changed to Harry's, and the names now read Bellatrix/Morrigan and Harry/Arawn Potter/Le Fey, though none from the order was close enough to read them.
"That should do it," Bellatrix said, walking up to stand next to Harry, her right hand toying with the handle of her wand as her left came to rest on her husbands shoulder. Though she spoke to Harry, she kept her gaze on the stunned Order. "You should be able to handle the books in the library without any ill effects now."
Harry grinned and said, "Thanks love," before placing a chaste kiss on her head, keeping an eye on the Order.
That act seemed to snap the Order member's out of their stupor.
"Harry, do you realize who she is?" he asked, still not lowering his wand.
The man..err, boy...man in a boys body, spoke softly as he answered. "I should hope so. I did marry her after-all. Now if you would all kindly lower your wands, we won't have to hurt you."
"You're in no position to threaten us," Snape growled.
Bellatrix smirked. "Is that so Severus. Just because you've all got the exit blocked, doesn't give you an advantage."
"Severus..." Dumbledore tried to stop the potion's master.
But the arrogant man ignored the older wizard. "You're outnumbered you foolish woman!"
Before the Order could blink, Snape was on the ground, writhing in pain as bolt's of lightning struck his body, coming from Harry's curled fingers.
"Insult me, I don't care," Harry began in a low growl. His face had lost all signs of happiness or joy, and was instead filled with fury. "Insult my father, I get irritated. Insult my wife, and you will suffer more pain than you can possibly imagine."
Dumbledore, quickly followed by several others, tried to stun Harry, only for Bellatrix, wand in hand, to deflect the spells harmlessly against the wall. But before any more spells could be cast she softly said, "Harry, stop."
Her husband snarled, but did so, leaving Snape alive, if badly injured. The smell of burnt flesh permeated the air.
Turning his back on the Order, harry walked over to Bella, and pulled her into a loving embrace, his forehead resting against her's as his anger cooled.
"Harry," Sirius began, his voice full of sadness, "What happened to you?"
"We'll explain in the morning," Bellatrix said calmly, never looking towards the Order. "But tonight, we require a bed. I..we promise to give you an explanation in the morning."
Without waiting for a response, Bellatrix made her way through the Order member's to the hall, guiding Harry as he walked beside her. Once their, the couple made their way to Bellatrix's old room.
A few minutes later, Fred and George's belongings were tossed out into the hallway.
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"It is clear that Harry and Bellatrix's disappearance's were somehow related," Dumbledore said, addressing the gathered member's of the Order. It had been two hour's since Harry's arrival, and he had called an emergency meeting. "What concern's me is how they came to be husband and wife. I'm sure that all of you are aware that Bellatrix is...was, a very loyal follower of Voldemort's."
"Do you think she has some kind of spell on him?" Molly Weasley asked.
Moody snorted. "As much as I would like that, Harry's reaction to Snape insulting his wife cannot be false, not to have happened as quick as it did. Though whatever they know, I can't say. They've somehow figured out how to block my eye, I can't see in their room at all."
"Forget where they've been," Tonks interrupted. "How the hell did you guys recognize Bellatrix, I know I didn't, and I'm related to her!"
"But you didn't grow up with her," Sirius said quietly, his head hung down. "I did. And, before Hogwarts, she and I were incredibly close." He picked his head up. "I'd know her anywhere, regardless of how she looks."
Dumbledore nodded. "Minerva and I taught her. As neither of us have seen much of her after she graduated, the image of her we most easily remember is that of her as a teenager, though how she accomplished such a feat eludes me. And Snape, he was in Slytherin with her throughout their Hogwarts years," he added, speaking for the absent potions master, who was currently in the Hogwarts hospital wing, recovering from Harry's attack. "What about you Remus?"
"Again, I was in school with her. And Sirius pointed her out to me in several photographs when we first came here."
"I want to know what we are to do now," Kingsley Shackbolt spoke up from his position at the table. "Bellatrix is an escaped criminal, and a known follower of Voldemort. Are we to turn her over to the Ministry?"
Albus sighed and shook his head. "No. Not until we've heard what they have to say. Besides, it's not as though she is in our custody. And from Harry's reaction to an insult directed towards her, I have no doubts he'd kill to keep her from prison. What concerns me however, is their new names."
"What do you mean?" Tonks asked, clearly confused, as was the rest of the Order.
"After our confrontation, I went back and looked at the tapestry. They both now carry two names: Harry and Bellatrix Potter, as well as Arawn and Morrigan Le Fey."
"Le Fey?" Remus asked. "As in Morgan Le Fey, Merlin's sworn enemy and the darkest witch to ever live?"
Albus nodded. "Yes. Tell me, do any of you know anything specific about her, aside from what you've learned in stories. I'm talking about actual facts."
When the entire order responded in the negative, the Headmaster continued. "Not much is known as actual fact when it comes to her. But one of the few things that is known, is that she took two apprentices, who seemingly vanished without a trace."
"So?" Sirius asked. "What are you getting at?"
"Their names were Arawn and Morrigan."
No one knew what to say about that.
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