A Storm in Hogwarts
Chapter 2
"Veela?"
"Is she a veela?"
"She's certainly pretty enough to be a veela." Was whispered throughout the Leaky Cauldron as everyone turned to look at Ro. The busy pub suddenly became silent until Minerva spoke up, "Everyone back to your own business staring is rude."
With that everyone went about their business, and Ro and Moira both raised an eyebrow to Minerva who, simply then turned on her heals and walked out a back exit, Ro and Mura shrugged and followed. Once outside Ro said, "Professor, could you spell my hood to stay up and cover my face I don't want to spend the whole day with people staring at me thinking I'm a veela or something."
"Sure dear, not a problem."
As Minerva spelled Ro's hood so that only Ro could remove it, Moira asked, "What is a veela?"
"Ma, I thought you were the leading muggle authority on magic and mutants and you don't know what veela is?" Ro teased.
"Well, missy, being the leading authority doesn't mean I know everything just that I know more than most, now, what's a veela."
"It's a magical being, they are humanoid, and reported to be very beautiful with white hair and I think blue eyes. They have only a single mate for their whole life that can be from any other humanoid race, like muggles, or wizards, or vampire, or werewolf, or centaur or anything humanoid really. Also their mate can be same gender or not. A veela has an allure ability that can make any male fall over themselves to get with a veela. When a veela is enraged however they transform into a giant birdlike creature with wings, sharp claws and beaks. It is said that a veela's love is the purist love there is. So if a veela falls in love with you, it's considered a great honor. Any children you have with the veela are then part-veelas and may have all or some of the traits of the veela parent." Said Ro knowledgably.
"And you are sure that you are not a veela?" queried Moira.
"Well, I thought about it and aside from the hair and the eyes, I don't seem to have the allure ability, or turn into the bird creature because heaven knows, Rahne would have been cut to shreds by now." Said Ro sarcastically. Moira quickly smacked the back of Ro's head. "Hey, I'm just saying…"
"Let's go you have to get the rest of your supplies." Said Minerva.
McGonagall lead the way to the Flourish and Blotts to buy Ro's text books for the basically all her school from first year to present. Ro was literally like a kid in a candy store. She was everywhere and wanted darn near every book they had. Moira took her list of schoolbooks and shopped for those while Ro looked at all the books that caught her fancy. Minerva in the meanwhile had a nice quiet conversation with Mr. Blotts, on of the owners of the bookstore.
"Taking another new student out for their books again Minerva? I would have thought as deputy headmistress you would have delegated this duty to another teacher." Said Mr. Blotts.
"I could have, but I like meeting muggleborns and muggle raised students and introducing them to the magical world. It reminds me how special and lucky we are to be witches and wizards. There is nothing like the wonder in their eyes when I explain to them that magic is real and that they can access it. It's truly a fascinating thing to see. I think that if it wasn't a part of my job, I would have left teaching long ago, they remind me that magic is a special and rare gift and that most of the world's population can't do even the simplest spell. It's real easy to take magic for granted, but when I tell a muggleborn or muggle-raised student about it, I'm reminded of how special it is, and how lucky I am to be able to use it." Minerva stated in all sincerity.
Ro was had already collected over a dozen books, and Moira was going over her selection to make sure she wasn't getting books they already had. Since she was the leading authority on Magic and Mutants in England, Moira already had pretty extensive collection. And even though her library at home was pretty good sized it wasn't all that she had, she had wherehoused a large number in her second facility on Muir Island that she had not yet had time to take Ro to see. After checking Ro's selection four of the books she wanted Moira did indeed already have. Ro wanted more books, but they only had so much time in the day and they still needed to get Ro's robes, potions supplies and of course her wand. Ro had met Kurt and Bobby and they had pranked her three times on their visit to Muir island, when Minerva told about Zonko's joke shop, she had to insisted to go to she could get something to prank those two.
The next stop was Madam Maulken's for new robes. Moira bought Ro casual as well as dress and school robes, she wanted to make sure her daughter was prepared for any occasion. After the finished in Madam Maulken's they went to the apothecary for the potion ingredients. It didn't take long since it was still a month until the Hogwart's letter were due to come out.
The next stop was the wand shop. Moira wanted to hit the joke shop first but Ro wanted her and she was at the end of her patience. The three ladies entered the dusty little shop, that had a single wand in the window, a bell rang as the door was opened. And old man came from behind some curtains and greeted the ladies.
"Hello Minerva, I wasn't expecting you for another two weeks, starting early this year introducing muggleborns to the wizarding world?" Asked Mr. Ollivander
"Yes, actually, Ro here's a special case, she starting a bit late and needs all the time she get to get caught up." Said Minerva and she sat on the spindly stool.
"I see." Said Mr. Ollivander. "So and who are you two may I ask?"
"I'm Moira McTaggert of the Clan McTaggert and this is my daughter Ororo McTaggert. She'll be the one needing a wand today."
"All right, now which is your wand arm?" Asked Mr. Ollivander.
"My right." Ro said confidently.
"Alright then," Said Mr. Ollivander, suddenly a tape measure came up from behind the counter and started measuring Ro's arm, then her fingers, then in-between her fingers and basically everywhere. All the while Mr. Ollivander stared at the girl. "That's enough." Said Mr. Ollivander, who then disappeared in the backroom and came back with boxes of wands.
"Here you Miss MacTaggert, try this one, Rosewood with Unicorn tail hair, 9 and half inches."
Ro waved the wand and there was a loud bang. Mr. Ollivander quickly grabbed the wand muttering it was not the one.
"Here, Miss try this one, Oak with Dragon heartstring 10 inches, very sturdy, good for transfiguration."
Ro waved the wand, another loud bang and Minerva hair bun blew apart sending her hair cascading down her shoulders.
"You know, Minerva, you look good with your hair down." Said Moira with a smile.
Minerva snorted waved her wand and her hair was back in it's usual neat bun.
Ninety minutes later countless wands and mini-explosions later a tired and increasingly cranky Ro was about to ask if maybe she could just go to Xavier's after all, because obviously she wasn't magical enough to even get a wand.
"Another tricky customer, I haven't had anyone this hard to match to a wand in three years… Hmm? I wonder, hold on, I'll be right back." Mr. Ollivander disappeared behind the curtain. He returned to them with an obviously new looking box. He opened the box and handed the wand to Ro.
"Give that a swish, will you, Miss?"
Ro sighed, and waved the wand, red, gold, blue and silver sparks shot out.
"Excellent," said a relieved looking Mr. Ollivander. "Curious though."
"What curious, Ollie?" Asked Minerva.
"Well that wand is brand new, I just finished it yesterday. It's a very special wand; its wood is rosewood and willow, willow from the whomping willow at Hogwarts. Its core was given to me a week ago, by a certain phoenix that had ever only given two other feathers, this wand has two brother wands. This phoenix just appeared about a week ago, plucked a tail feather and dropped off a piece of the whomping willow and left. This wand is even more special because two very powerful wizards own the two brother wands. I think we can expect great things from you Miss MacTaggert."
They left the shop deep in thought. Next stop was Zonko's. Ro took her time and found just the pranks to play on Bobby and Kurt, she smiled to herself thinking thpse two won't know what hit them. Yes, she definitely liked magic. She bought a candy that turned hair pink. She figured a certain blue fuzzy elf was going to be just too cute being pink from head to toe. For a certain ice baby she got a candy that made the person that ate it think they were naked for six hours. As she was heading to the cashier she spotted a display of fake wands.
Fool your friends, with life like fake wands. Tap a real wand against it and this fake wand will turn into an exact copy except it will be powerless. This wand has just enough power in it to mirror the magical signature of the real wand. Switch out your friend's wands for one of these and laugh at your friend's frustration, as their spells don't work. Read the sign.
Ro thought about it and figure it could be fun to have a dupe of her wand, and maybe a couple of dupes for safety sake, in case she had to give up her wand for some reason, then she could give a fake wand and keep her real one hidden. She grabbed three of the fake wands, and a couple of pranks to play on Rahne. She knew she shouldn't but Rahne didn't mind if Kurt or Bobby played a prank maybe she won't mind a prank by Ro, too.
When Ro got to the cashier she was surprised to see her mother had bought some pranks too, "Note to self, stay on guard around Ma." She said out loud, and Moira blushed.
"Well, this is strictly for study, young lady." Said Moira as she got out the galleons to cover their purchases.
"Suuure, it is." Said Ro with a smirk. "So you don't mind if I tell Jean, Scott, Charles, and Logan about your purchases, then right?"
"Of course not, I don't care if you tell them…." Said Moira "However, I would prefer you not to tell them."
Ro smiled.
The next to last stop was the Eyelops Owl Emporium. Ro wanted an owl so that she could owl her mother, since cell phone and other modern modes of communication didn't work at Hogwart's.
"You know Ma, since I can fly and all, an owl would be really get pet for me, I'll have someone to fly with me."
"That would be nice Ro, it'll be nice for you to have some to watch out for you, if you use your power too, if you get hurt than the owl could go and get you help." Said Moira.
The shop had many creatures in it, not just owls. Ro looked at many of the owls but didn't really feel pulled to any of them, the way the books said she would. She did see some cats, and frogs but they didn't seem right to either. Then suddenly something came flying at her fast from the rafters, it was like a silver streak but for some reason Ro didn't feel like she needed to duck. Moira turned and saw the silver streak heading towards Ro, who just stood there and looked at it curiously. Suddenly the streak stopped and Ro held out her arm, a beautiful silver owl landed on her arm. The owl was the same color as Ro's hair, and it's eyes were the same color blue as Ro's. The creature looked like it was made for Ro.
"Well, I see you've finally chosen someone." The salesman said.
"Um, yes." Said Ro.
"I wasn't talking to you young lady, I talking to that owl. She's been here for 3 years, sitting up there in the rafters watching people come and go, but never coming down to be chosen to be with someone. A couple of people have chosen her, they've spotted her up there in the rafters and she did go home with them, but always flew back here the next day. It's like she's been waiting for the right person. You are the first person she's ever voluntarily flown too. You know what's special about her, she the sister to the boy-who-lived's owl. Tell you what, since she likes you, I'll let you have her for free."
"That's great!" Chirped Ro.
"Yep, the owl is free, the cage, feeding bowls, and owl treats, those you will have to pay for." Said the salesman with a smile.
"I knew there be a catch," grumbled Moira. She and Ro went to pick out a cage for the owl. They picked a very ornate and sturdy cage for the owl got two bags of owl treats and two silver feeding bowls one for water, one for food. They left the show and headed to the their final stop of the day the trunk store.
Moira got one of the more expensive trunks for Ro. Minerva said it really wasn't necessary for students to have auror class trunks but Moira said someday maybe Ro would be an X-Man, then a trunk like this seven key trunk will be very usual to her in the muggle and mutant world. A seven key trunk changed depending upon which keep was used to open the trunk. The trunk's first two keys opened the trunk to essential be like any ordinary trunk. The third key opened the trunk to reveal a larger compartment to store potion ingredients in. Fourth key opened the trunk to reveal a private library to store books it even had a table and a couple of chairs in so that the student could stay in there and read in peace. Fifth key opened to a large private wardrobe with enough space to hold tons of clothes and shoes. The sixth key opened up to a private gym, filled with magical and muggle exercise equipment. The seventh and final key opened up to a private apartment that had a fully functional bathroom with tub/shower and Jacuzzi. A full kitchen with all the major appliances powered by magic, a common/living room area, and dining room. There was a door that led to the library section just off the common room. There were also two bedrooms, one a master bedroom with a four poster bed, and dressers, wardrobe and an entire bedroom of furniture. The other bedroom was smaller but was tasteful decorated and also had a four poster bed, but smaller than the one in the master bedroom. Moira was so impressed with the trunk that she bought one for herself as well, then asked Ro, to not show all of the secrets of the trunk to Rahne, it was probably too magical for her. The trunks came with a permanent weightless charm on it so that it never too heavy to move and it had security measures so that only the own could use it, which was a new feature they added this year.
Moira was just paying for the trunks, when all of sudden they heard people start screaming.
"Can you hold the trunks for me I'll be back to get them later. Here's my card said Moira in a rush, oh and get one initialed MM and the other OM, we'll be back later or within the week to get them." She said in a rush. "Yes ma'am said the salesman as he ran to the front of the shop and pulled down the blinds and the storm shutters.
Moira, Minerva and Ro all ran outside to see what the commotion was.
"Death eaters!" said Minerva, who then grabbed Ro's and Moira's hands and tried to head back to the shop. A crowd of people running, in the opposite direction cut them off from returning to the shop. Ro turned looked down the street, about three blocks down Ro could make out people in black robes with white masks, they seemed to be shooting spells everywhere, some were red, some were blue but the ones that worried Ro were the green ones, she'd read about them, and they were flying as freely as any other spell.
Minerva pulled them into a small alley, "Where are the aurors?"
"Minerva, is my hood still spelled to stay up?" Asked Ro.
"Huh? Oh yes it is, why?"
"Good, I need you to transfigure this fake wand so that it looks the same but has a copper core." Ro said.
"Why?"
"Because I'm under aged and uneducated I don't know enough magic to help out there. But I am still a mutant." Said Ro.
"I get it, a copper core to the wand, that's brilliant Ro." Said Moira. "Wait, you are not going out there, young lady."
"Ma I have to, I can't stand by and let people get hurt. I don't know if I'm your friend Storm or not, but I do know that she wouldn't be able to stand by and let innocent people get hurt or killed and neither can I. And neither can you. I know that once I go out there, you will go and try to get as many people to safety as you can. Ma, please I have to do this." Pleaded Ro.
"Minerva, do it. Transfigure the wand." Said Moira in a defeated tone.
"I love you, Ma." Said Ro as she hugged her adoptive mother.
"Are you sure, Moira?" Asked Minerva.
"She's trained to use her power to protect, it's a part of who she is whether she's Storm or just some look-alike, she's a hero in her heart and I can't stop that. If we don't help her she'll ditch us and go back alone. So it's best we stand by her and be there to help if she needs it, besides, she a very powerful mutant, they won't know what hit them, by time she's done."
Minerva tapped the wand and muttered something under breath the wand glowed red for a moment then it was looked normal again.
"Now, Minerva one last thing, can you spell these robes to black and spell Ma's clothes into robes. Her going out there in muggle clothes will make her a target."
"Sure I can do both. We better hurry, they are getting closer." Minerva did the spells and Ro gave Moira one of her fake wands, then told Minerva to hold her real one. She didn't want to risk any damage to it, was really to difficult to get. Ro thanked Minerva one last time, then hugged her mother.
"Don't worry, Ma. I can handle this. They won't be expecting me, and I just have to hold them until the aurors arrive. Oh Minerva can you spell my voice so that it sounds big and powerful." Minerva nodded and pointed her wand and Ro's throat with that Ro turned around headed deeper into the alley they were hiding in and then flew straight up, she didn't want the death eaters to see where she came from and thus target her mother and professor.
Avery Nott and Lucius Malfoy were leading the attack on Diagon Alley. Nott was in rare form; he cursed men, women and children. He even cursed to babies in strollers with the Cruciatus curse and laughed as their petrified mothers had tears rolling down their faces. It was late in the day and the sun was just going down as the attack started. Suddenly storm clouds appeared out of a cloudless sky. At first the death eaters didn't notice, then suddenly there was a bright flash of lightning in the sky, then a loud clap of thunder, louder than anything that had been heard in the alley before. The death eaters and the people in the street looked up at the strange weather. Moira shook Minerva who was looking up too, and they started silently moving people into stores and off the streets. Another flash of lighting and a woman in black robes floated fifty feet away from the death eaters.
"HERE ME! I WILL TOLERATE ANY MORE OF YOUR VIOLENCE THIS DAY LEAVE OR FACE MY WRATH!"
Nott shot a curse at Ro, but a bolt of lightning appeared in front of her and shielded her from the spell.
"LEAVE THIS PLACE!" Ro yelled. Then she fired a bolt of lighting from her 'wand' that hit Nott in the chest and knocked him back into 5 death eaters who were all knocked to the ground.
"Who are you? How dare you, interfere with the work of the Dark Lord!" screamed Malfoy and he fired a crucio at Ro. Again the lightning appeared in from of her and shielded her from the spell.
"MY TURN!" She fired another bolt of lightning, Malfoy dove out of the way, however the bolt took out 5 death eaters who were standing behind Malfoy.
Ro rose higher into the air, and summoned the rain then hail, the size of golf balls rained down on the street.
"LEAVE or I'LL BRING YOU HELL ON EARTH!" Screamed Ro, who was getting really angry.
The death eaters stood their ground and started firing curses at Ro, she only ducked and dodged the green killing curses she wasn't sure her lightning could shield her from that. A little girl about nine years old tried to cross the street to get to her mother, her mother signaled for her to stay where she was, but in fright all the girl could think was to get to her mom. A death eater spotted her and brought her to Nott.
Nott pulled the girl in front of her, and everything stopped. "Listen give up and come down or the girl is the one who'll pay!"
"LET HER GO, AND LEAVE AND I"LL NOT STOP YOU! HARM HER AND YOU'LL THINK HELL IS A SUNNY VACATION SPOT BY THE TIME I'M THROUGH WITH YOU!"
"I said, surrender mudblood or the girl pays!" Nott screamed then to emphasize his point used his wand to send a cut across her cheek, the child screamed.
"LET HER GO!" Ro screamed and a bolt of lightning from the sky struck down three death eater, who lay on the ground twitching like they'd be hit with a prolonged crucio.
"That's it, let the girl's death be on your head!" Screamed Nott. He think cut the child's throat. A power wind blew up and knocked the death eaters of their feet, another wind came and picked up the now abandoned girl and flew her over to Minerva and Moira. Ro watched and Minerva used a spell to stop the bleeding. Ro prayed the child would be okay or at least could be healed when this was over. Right now though what Ro wanted was to deal with these death eaters once and for all.
"FOOLS! MAY THE BRIGHT LADY GRANT YOU MERCY FOR I SHALL NOT!!" Ro looked around saw that most of the civilians had gone she let loose with a tornado. The death eater fired spell after spell to try and stop it but it was complete under Ro's control. It went after them sucking them up with the debris from the damage they caused. They whirled around in the tornado like they were in a giant mixer. Ro was suddenly loosing herself. She had one advantage over the original Storm the weather didn't always mirror her emotions, like it did with original Ororo. However when Ro was really emotional, her and the weather she created became one, she seemed to lose her humanity. She became a force of nature, without pity or remorse and the terrible thing was her power seemed to always be much stronger when she was in that state. The clouds that had been solely over Diagon Alley were now covering all of London. The muggles were running for cover as golf ball hailstones fell from the sky. People ran indoor wherever they were to get out of the powerful and freakish storm that appeared literally out of nowhere. News anchors and weathermen were at a loss to explain the sudden wild weather and just advised everyone to stay indoors.
During Ro's training on Muir Island she had twice gotten angry and used her power and lost herself to them. The first time she nearly killed Rahne during a training session. The second time, she nearly destroyed the land the storm she created was huge and if not for Kurt (Nightcrawler) teleporting behind her with a hypo needle of a tranquilizer, Muir Island and much of England may have been destroyed. Since then Ro went through extensive therapy and training and could now control herself while in that state or at least get herself out of that state. However she didn't seem to be trying to do that at the moment and it has Moira worried.
Ro stopped the tornado suddenly and watched as the death eaters fell to the ground like rain. She was about to advance on them when the aurors finally arrived. She looked and saw Moira motioning for her, to come back so that they could leave. Ro gave no acknowledgement of having seen her mother but instead rose up into the clouds and quieted the storm. The hail stopped but the rain continued and slowly became a simple summer shower. She then rose up into the clouds and disappeared from sight. Ro actually rose up outside and then created a thick mist around herself then slowly returned to the alley where she and Minerva met last. She descended down unseen the mist and the night. She waited a few minutes then Minerva and Moira appeared in the alley. Minerva cancelled the spells she had done to hide Ro's identity and then Minerva apparated the two women and their shrunk packages back to Muir Island.
"I think it's best you two stay out of sight so no one can make a connection between Ro and the person who stopped the death eaters." Said Minerva.
"How's the child is she going to be alright?" Ask a worried Ro.
"Yes, child, she'll be fine, I stopped the bleeding, she shouldn't even have a scar after she's treated in St. Mungo's Hospital. Don't worry, and you did a lot of good out there. A lot of people could have been killed and it took those aurors forever to turn up. Security has gotten entirely too lax since You-Know-Who's defeat. I better go, I have to get to Hogwart's. It's been nice seeing you again Moira and nice meeting you Ro. Oh let me unshrink your packages before I go." Minerva waved her wand and muttered some words and the packages returned to normal size. "I'll look forward to see you at Hogwarts Ro, I hope you get into my house. Bye." And with that Minerva vanished.
---------------End of Chapter 2---------------
AN: Well, I hoped you all enjoyed chapter 2, and Harry and crew will be here for Chapter 3 and remainder of the story. Sorry it took so long to get to it, Ro and Harry are the stars of this fic, and I figured you all know everything about Harry so I spent the first three chapters getting you introduced to Ro.
Now some of you who are X-Men fans are probably thinking she doesn't exactly match the canon. Well, that's true, I wanted Ro to be what Ororo would have been like if she didn't have hold her emotions in check all the time because she was afraid of what it would do to the weather and the people around her. Ro doesn't have that problem so she gets to be more of a kid than Ororo in the canon. Ro does have a problem with losing herself to the forces she controls, but you'll learn more about that as well.
Also expect that this will be a super!harry story, as a matter of fact it will be a super!Ororo as well. There is some slash action for a couple of the characters as well. I originally said that the other X-men would not be in this story but I'm thinking of bringing a couple of them to Hogwarts so if you have a preference as to who you would like to see attend Hogwarts or just make a visit leave your choice in your review. I'm kind of leaning to Bobby and Kurt visiting since they are pranksters, and the twins would probably love them. Which could be more slashiness. Note: slash IS NOT the main point of this story, it's just a fun subplot, so don't expect a lot of it. And Finally I will update when I can, however the more reviews I get the more incentive I have to update, oui? Have a nice day.
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