Draco looked over and stared. Harry was backing away slowly from his wand and Draco's. Fear coursed through the Potter boy and he winced. Draco tucked his wand in his pocket and the blue glow of Harry's vanished and Harry picked it up. "The wood of my kin," whispered Harry. "With the heartstring of a dragon." His eyes moved to the ground. "The wood of Old shall once again be made; it glows for only Elvish beings. One glows Blue, the other Silver, the same kind of Light hue. The cursed tree of Oiolairë, the mysterious of Olde. The Oiolairë Twins of Olde shall be borne once more and together, the World is at an End." Harry looked up at Draco. Narcissa stood stiffly and paid for their wands, nodding to Ollivander.
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She swept the boys and Narbeleth towards the door and stopped as it opened wide. Narcissa's pale blue eyes slightly widened and Draco tensed. Harry, on the other hand, held his head proudly and levelly met the eyes of Ellil Harrison Potter and Lily Evans Potter. Lily froze in her tracks and Ellil looked between them carelessly. Lily's emerald eyes widened as Harry glided passed her, Draco and Narcissa trailing confusedly behind. Lily watched Harry leave and continued into the store but rounded when she heard a pop and the trio and owl were gone. She sighed sadly.
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Harry dropped to his knees as soon as he exited the main fireplace of Gaunt Manor. His bag was Apparated to the Manor by a house elf named Dobby that Harry had begged be freed as was Narbeleth. The owl sat on a chair next to the stack of school supplies while Harry cringed inside. His stomach contracted and he found himself dry heaving over the carpet. Using his Elvish senses, he found no one was home. Thank god. Toby, Father, and Avery could not see him like this, nor could anyone else. They wouldn't let him leave until they found what was wrong with him. He groaned loudly as he forced his weak human form to stand. He stumbled to his bird that flew to his shoulder and began towards the stairs. He remembered not the walk to the stairs or the climbing into his bed, but he did remember a whispered prophecy before he fell into Sleep's waiting arms.
His next waking moment was when a shadow was cast over his eyes. His senses picked up breathing not of those he knew and his eyes flashed open. He shot up in his bed and rolled off on the side opposite the intruder. Narbeleth was hooting wildly and the guest merely glared at it. Stepping into the light of the fading day was a face Harry thought he never would face again. He took an enormous step back.
"H-how… When… Wh-where?!" he stuttered out. The man inched forward; predatory was the grin on the wizard's face. "NO! GET OUT, GET OUT NOW, THASTI!" he screeched. He strained his ears, and heard the echo of his human voice in the lower regions of the house.
The man, Thasti, grinned wickedly. "But Little Prince," he murmured, his ruby red hair framing his face as he cocked his head to the left slightly, "I want my prize money Albus promised me, o-"
"Silim~!" sang the voice of Alecto Carrow. Usually, Harry would never be happy to see either of the Carrow twins, but this time… She saved his life. Thasti gave Harry one last look.
"You have yet to see the last of me… Thys will come for you as well!" The man dressed in a cloak of gold with hair of ruby and eyes of copper vanished on the spot in Apparation. Harry fled the room as Narbeleth calmed herself. He flew down the stairs and looked at Alecto, Toby, and Father curiously. He nodded to them in turn.
Breaking the ice was Alecto, who smiled. "How was school shopping, Silim?"
Harry nodded. He opened his mouth to say something, thought better of it, closed his mouth, and shook his head.
"Speak. Tell us what troubles you, Silim," encouraged Tom.
"The wood of Old shall once again be made; it glows only for Elvish beings. One glows Blue, the other Silver, the same kind of Light hue. The cursed tree of Oiolairë, the mysterious of Olde. The Oiolairë Twins of Olde shall be borne once more and together, the World is at an End." Harry looked at Tom and Toby who had frowns gracing their lovely faces.
"Troubling is this news," Toby said softly, bronze hair framing his thoughtful face even at the tilted angle. Harry sneered.
"Of course 'tis troubling. Dragon and I are going to destroy the world. Isn't that happy?" inquired Harry sarcastically. Toby glared. "Thasti and Thys are once again tracing me."
Toby glared, swearing in Elvish, cursing Thasti and Thys. "You need-"
"To go to school," Harry cut off. Toby and Tom threw him biting glares. Harry glared back. "I shall have my Dragon and my Snake. I believe I shall be fine. Neither have ever let me down before. And I have back up if need begin to arise." Harry looked chilled and fine, leaning against the fireplace calmly as if he had asked for a chocolate treat, which the house was full of.
Toby looked outraged and Tom calm. Toby took an angry step forward but was stopped when Tom held his arm out across the Elf's chest. Harry, arms folded across his chest and one leg draped coolly over the other, smirked in triumph. He would always win against Toby so long as Thomas Marvolo Riddle was on the Elf Prince's side. Toby hissed, his amber eyes flashing dangerously. Oh, how Toby loathed Harry Potter on occasions. Like now, when Toby's Master was turned against him, Toby loathed Harry. And that smug, cool pose Harry was in did nothing to ease the spite flowing through him. Harry pushed himself from the mantel, looking cool while doing it. His smile of a thousand wonders, the one inducing the swoons of old women, was turned on Alecto who snorted at it. Deterred Harry was not, for he spoke in the way of the Veela, the sweet, seductive voice, the too innocent eyes.
"What did you come for, Alecto?" he whispered. Yet, unlike the Veela, his voice has a bitter edge to it, as only one of the Elves of Olde could have.
Alecto stuttered out her answer, which even with Toby's keen senses could not be deciphered. Harry smiled a sick, twisted smile and turned the slightly plump, short woman to the fire place. He pushed her in, dropped some Floo Powder in, and yelled, "CARROW PALACE!" and Alecto was gone. Harry smiled in satisfaction at a job well-done. Toby spluttered indignantly. Oh, where the hell was Avery? Harry sighed, overcome by the urge to collapse. Not good. He sighed. "I am tired, as my outing was very eventful, as Cissy must have reported, yes?" Tom stepped forward and swept the one who managed to pull off being cool even in a tired state while being in a hug that was very rare. Only when Tom was exceedingly concerned for Harry did the Elf Prince receive a hug.
Toby then drew forward and put his arm around Harry's shoulder and gently whisked him off to his room. Toby stood in the door way of Silim's room, putting up multiple wards and he was removing Harry's Glamour. Toby grinned down at the eleven year old human form of his cousin and tucked him in. Harry nodded mutely and rolled to his side as soon as Toby exited the perimeter. Narbeleth fluttered down to reside on his head board as protection from Thys and Thasti and Harry fell asleep.