Chapter Seven: The Beginning Of A Plan
"I wonder what sort of Animagus Voldemort has." Harry said abruptly.
The group looked at him.
"Is that really relevant?" Hermione asked.
Harry pouted, "Ron says irrelevant stuff all the time. Why can't I?"
"Because you're meant to be smart, if you said irrelevant stuff all the time, you wouldn't be alpha." Aidan told him.
Harry rolled his eyes. "I don't care. I am alpha; I can do whatever I want."
Izzie coughed expectantly. "I know this little wolf thing you have going is keeping you both amused and out of my hair, but if anyone is the leader, it is me."
Harry stared at her with his piercing gaze for a long moment. "I still want to know what Moldy's Animagus is."
Izzie sighed and then smiled, "Actually, so would I."
Aidan grinned, "That would be fun. I bet it would be a snake."
"I think it would be a crocodile!" Ron said enthusiastically.
Everyone stared at him.
"What?"
Ginny rolled her eyes. "I'm related to an idiot."
"Do you even,"
"Know what,"
"A croco,"
"Dile is?"
Ginny sighed. "I'm related to three idiots." She muttered as Ron stared at the twins in confusion.
Harry just laughed. "You have to teach me how you do that."
Fred raised his eyebrows. "Harry, finishing another person's sentence would require a person to finish the sentence with."
"Which you don't seem to have." George added.
Harry pouted. "I have a sister."
"You have Ginny." Izzie stated.
Ginny blushed.
Lily-flower suddenly jumped on Aidan… whish she seemed to find extremely amusing. In fact, so did the others.
Aidan growled and shoved the panther cub off him.
"Oh, Aidan, I need you to teach me how to use this sword." Izzie said suddenly.
Aidan looked over at her with an odd grin. "Ok."
"Hey, that's not fair. I want a sword!" Harry objected.
"Yeah so do we!" The twins added.
"And me!" Ginny said.
"I want one as well!" Ron exclaimed.
Hermione just eyed the sword on Izzie's back warily.
Izzie sighed. "I suppose I could get you all one. But it would have to be for your birthdays."
The Weasley's cheered.
"But my birthday isn't until next year!" Harry moaned.
Izzie rolled her eyes. "Well than you'll get your's early."
"But you said you'd get me a wolf for mine."
"I'll get you a wolf and a sword." Izzie said in exasperation.
"Ok!"
Izzie rolled her eyes. Then she fiddled with the silver necklace Harry had given her for her birthday.
"Hmm. Ok guys. I have a plan. Duskpaw, you get ready to teach us how to use weapons." Izzie commanded.
Aidan grinned and took off out of the room within seconds.
"Links I want you to set up a room somewhere for your experiments, and then I want you to teach us some of your prank tricks." Izzie ordered them.
The twins nodded and followed Aidan out of the room, with identical grins on their faces.
"Ginger, set up a hex room."
Ginny nodded and left.
"Bushtail, I want a room set up and you ready to teach us anything we might need to know about previous wars, the Dark Lord's tendencies and followers, and anything else you might think relevant."
"You've just doomed us all." Ron groaned, earning a slap on the head by Hermione as she passed.
"Redtooth, your in charge of strategies. I want you to set up a room so the floor is a map of the school. Then we'll go over putting up defences."
Ron left without question, though he was slightly confused.
Harry looked over at his rebellious sister. "So what do we do?"
She grinned. "You and I, dear brother, are going to communicate."
Harry raised his eyebrows. "I'm guessing we're not talking about Muggles of Wizards?"
"Oh no, by all means, Muggles and Wizards if you wish. But animals and magical creatures first." Izzie said.
Harry nodded. "Alliances." He stated, getting an idea of his sister's plan.
She nodded with a small smile.
Harry tilted his head to the side. "You know, I always pictured the war to be a little different from this."
Izzie laughed. "That was before you met me."
"It was."
Harry got up and left the room, "I might take a while longer than the others." He said, glancing back at her.
Izzie laughed, "Go Lightning."
Harry grinned. Izzie blinked and a large black wolf was running off in her brother's place.
"Now for Daddy dearest." She murmured.
Ruins…
Izzie wandered the halls quietly. Where was everyone? Had Voldemort finally lost it and killed everyone.
Izzie sniggered. She would find it extremely amusing if he had.
She almost didn't see the little yellow duckling before she trod on it. "Oh!" She gasped in surprise. "What are you doing here?"
The duckling chirped and started to run away. Izzie scooped it up before it got too far. "Hey, it's ok, I won't hurt you. But the idiots who run around here probably will. You shouldn't be here."
She started to walk out of the ruins. When she got near the forest she placed the duckling on the ground.
"Run along. Don't want you getting squished now do we?" She said to it.
Then she turned and ran back to the crumbling mansion to find and irritate her father.
Voldemort…
"That was much to close." He muttered, slipping behind a door before Isabeau could spot him.
He sighed and turned to look at the room. And groaned.
It was her room.
Good thing he had sent everyone away on business. He wanted to get this war over with. Without his infuriating daughter interfering. Which didn't seem likely. It was only a matter of time before she cornered him again, and demanded what ever she wanted this time. He was going to go insane.
"Maybe I should have been a tax agent?" He murmured.
"Daddy?" Izzie called sweetly.
He groaned. That meant she'd found him.
"Hi daddy!" She said, coming in the room.
Voldemort just groaned.
"I was wondering, that sword is so pretty, well, I wanted to know if I could get some more?" She asked.
Voldemort stared at her in disbelief. "How many?" He asked in defeat, knowing it was pointless to argue.
"Six." She said confidently.
"Six?" Voldemort exclaimed.
"Well they are exceptionally nice."
Voldemort groaned. He just knew he was going to regret this. "Fine."
"Thank you daddy!"
Voldemort sighed and felt like blowing something up. Turning he looked out the window and flicked his wand… several parts of the ruins exploded.
"Maybe you should look into anger management? It might do you good. And buy some new cloths, black is such a depressing colour, no wonder you are so grumpy all the time, here I'll help you." Izzie flicked her own wand and left quickly.
Voldemort looked down at his robes and snarled angrily. They had been turned into a rainbow. The colours swirled around each other and the light reflected off the walls in little glimmers of colour.
He was going to kill that child one day, either that or he was going to kill himself!
Isabeau…
Izzie laughed as Ron slipped and Aidan's dagger sliced across his shoulder.
"Concentrate." Aidan growled.
"I am!" Ron snapped ignoring the sting in his shoulder, a week ago he would have stopped and complained about it.
Izzie was sitting impatiently on the side lines watching. Surprisingly, Ron was a quick learner. They all were. And they were all very good. Izzie was happy about that. If she wanted to drive her father to the limit they had to be prepared for whatever he brought on when he snapped.
Another two weeks and Izzie guessed they would be ready. They had booby-traps up all over the school. Not only for the students or teachers, but for intruders. Harry had spent four nights running through the forest making alliances with all its creatures. Then for the last three nights he had been working with the Goblins.
How he managed to keep up with the rest of them and actually get better grades Izzie had no idea.
He was one of the best at fighting. With and without weapons. Aidan pissed him off two days ago and Harry won the fight within five seconds. It was almost scary!
But Izzie had confidence in her brother. She knew he would win this battle for them.
They met every morning in the room Ron had organised to go over plans, in case there was an invasion at Hogwarts.
Izzie was looking forward to a fight. She badly wanted to prove Dumbledore wrong. She wanted to show him the mistake he had made.
She also wanted to prove her father wrong. She wanted to show him the mistake he had made. She wanted so many things.
But most of all, she wanted Harry to see that she was worth it. She wanted him to know that she was a good guy. That it didn't matter who her father was because she wasn't like him.
Looking over at Ron and Aidan she smiled. She would beat her father, and she would teach him a lesson.