Chapter 5
"Come on. Get up. Damn it, Draco stop being melodramatic. So the world thinks your dating Harry Potter. It's not apocalyptic, honestly." I glared up at Millicent, a sneer working its way down to my toes.
Yesterday, after the dance, Harry; I tried to call him Potter but nooo I had to 'just call him Harry', after all 'wouldn't it be wierd if we still adressed each other by our last names when we've been dating so long'. It should be against the law for a grin that sexy to exist. Anyway, afterwards he walked me to the gates of Hogwarts. I had to wait 5 bloody hours for it to be safe to go back to our dorms. My soon-to-be-deceased traitorous friends sadistic humor did not help.
"Dating I can handle. Dating I'd welcome at this point. But noooo, apparently i'm in LOVE with the bloody git. Why oh why did I say that."
If the night wasn't bad enough; I woke up to an owl dropping the prophet in my lap. Only comment on that is that the person who took that stupid picture better stay anonymous if he/she wants to keep thier head on thier shoulders. I always did like the Red Queen, Alice was too... plushy.
"You know you do have a point there, why did you add the love part. Saying he was your boyfriend would've sufficed." Again with the know-it-all look. I swear Trace is Grangers soulmate.
"You also didn't have to dance with him." Daphne helpfully pointed out.
"Or look that cosy during."Tori added.
A pause. "I was under stress and frightened out of my wits. You saw, the bloody Weasel was going to KISS ME. Kiss ME! Oh the horror, the horror."
Even Greg and Vince chuckled on that one.
"That still doesn't explain why you came up with love. Panic tends to stick to thoughts that already occupied our minds. It doesn't often lie. If anything it forces the truth. Is that why it scares you." Ah Theo, our very own blunt guru. Full of so much reason.
Go drown in a tub of sludge.
I didn't answer the question and they didn't push. With the way our lives went, it's an adventure to even think about finding that one person. Its why we have yet to accept Neville. It takes a lot to earn our trust, let alone approval to date one of our own. If I was honest I wasn't scared per say. Its more complicated than that. Harry Potter has always been able to get under my skin even when I don't want a confrontation and am actively avoiding it. Not many can do that. I can never seem to help it with him though, sometimes it goes so far as to feel like I crave his attension. Be it negative or not. It baffles me like nothing else. Still Harry was always an enigma. Stranger still I'm probably the one person to truly see him and not be blinded by his popularity or statis or even that mask he so skillfully created. It does scare me like nothing else could. What if he figures me out? What if I do love him? I really rather live in denial than face a truth that can only hurt in the end. It doesn't help that the only pain I couldn't hide or forget was when he turned down my hand. Maybe I didn't deserve it but I think I derserved a chance atleast. Weasel got a chance and I know for a fact he said degrading things about people too. It's actually funny how the very people who hate us for our prejudice, are just as prejudice if not a little more. At least we give people a chance before lumping them with all the others.
I should've just let the Weasel kiss me, I thought as I finally made my way to the bathroom and a-sure-to-be draining day.
As I thought the great hall was teeming with gossip about Hogwarts newest illustrious couple. Honestly if this goes on I'll be secretly married to the git by nightfall. Only silver lining is Harrys refusal to comment. Doesn't help matters much though. I still felt like a swarm of pixies have found thier home in my stomach.
"Stop mangling your breakfast and wipe that scowl of your face. Even the Golden Trio are starting to notice." Blaise hissed through his teeth.
I blinked and a covert look around told its own story. My scowl morphed into a look of pure practiced boredom. Theo snorted. Even Milli cracked a grin, however fleeting. We went back to eating and I shoved all Lyras feelings aside, for the time being anyway. I never noticed the green eyes that never left my table.
...The day officiallly sucked. You would've thought the joy of going home for quality Christmas fam time would divert some tounges. Nope, if anything now thier gossiping even MORE! I wonder if its too late to find that cliff.
Albus is looking for you. Seems the Weasleys have asked for your presence for the Christmas holidays.
Geez Maha can you be anymore amused. This ain't funny. I don't want spend Christmas with people Weasels. They hate me and I'll be all alone. I want to stay with you.
Hogwarts must've caught the fear beneath my snark, like only family was apt to do.
Dragon, ...call your brothers and sisters. Meet me at our usual place. I fear this may be where your part in the war escalate and we stil have many a thing to discuss.
A spike of cold entered my heart but I didn't delay. If there was one thing I learned about Mother Hogwarts; it's to never take her words for granted. Barely minutes later we were huddled in the room of requirement.
What's this about Maha? Pansy was the first to ask.
"I feel life will become difficult from now onwards my children. It will only be a matter of time before you are forced to reveal your true selves. It is why I wish to open the last lock on your souls."
It took us awhile to realize she spoke aloud but even longer to recognize exactly what she said. See when we started this back in first year, we had trouble keeping our two lives seperate. It was easier, before when all we had to do was supress any independence and keep it supressed. It wasn't ideal but it kept us safe. Having all that freedom and sense of self made it increasingly harder to contain that independence. It got to the point where we leaked some of the magic that we kept so closely hidden. Thats when Hogwarts adopted us. We placed our glamors and thus our independence in a necklace we each received with our adoption and kept most our magic locked with them. When we release the glamors they go back to us and the only problem we had left is resisting the impulse to merge back. The only downside was never being able to take the necklace off. A safety feature that we fully approved when we found out the concequences otherwise. If the necklace were to leave us a certain distance we would slowly become insane, till we were nothing more than mindless zombies. Expected really considering a good part of oursouls are in there. It needed double sealing after the ceremony was all said and done. Being Hogwarts children certainly gave us a magical boost.
"Loony," Greg randomly uttered.
"Lovegood," Vincent declared at almost the same time.
It brought the rest of us out of our funk enough to remember Maha TALKED. You would think we were synchronized with the way we all reacted at once.
"Maha y..yu..you TALKED!" Tracey, always eloquent.
"Anyone else wondering why Luna's here." Milli sure knows how to state the obvious.
"She obviously wants to join.." Tori starts.
"In on all the fun." Daphne finishes. It's times like this where we know why we strive to keep them away from the Weasley twins. Shame really too, since they're practically the only Weasleys so far to get in our good graces without even trying.
"Maha how did you possess the Lovegood girl?" Theo never gives up an opportunity to learn.
"Whoaaa, this is kinda freaky!" Blaise is nothing if not frank.
"This won't damage you afterwards will it?"Ahh Pans, health is always first.
I just studied her. From the looks of it Lovegood doesn't seem possessed. Atleast not in the normal sense. Sure she looks dazed, but this is LOVEGOOD. It'd be worrisome if she didn't look dazed. If anything she looks a little less dazed; like she finally found something to ground her to earth. Its almost as if she's sharing her mind with Mother H. It makes you wonder...
"You are partially correct Dragon." Its commical how easily quiet it gets with just a few words from Maha.
"I am sharing her mind right now in a way that doesn't kick her out but allows me to control the majority. No Albion, as excited as you seem I did not possess Luna." Yep she is definitely laughing. Is it a crime to make it vocalized. Her lips twitch as Theo glares.
" Luna is a seer. A very powerful one that has been having trouble staying in this realm." Thats a nice way to say she was going insane.
"I have given her a part of my magic to aid her in return for the use of her body when I have need of it. She will go with you to the Weasleys Dragon."
No wonder Maha was always able to see the future. She's practically connected to a prophetess. "Did she see something to make you unseal us Maha." Theo, addicted to aliens and possession or not, hes always quick to pick up the clues.
"...Its not wise to know your future Albion, despite what knowledge you can glean from it. No Blaze it is not convenient." Nothing gets past Maha. "But I will say this you know I would never do anything big without your knowledge and support. Despite forever being my cherubs, you are adults and I would not betray your trust by going behind your back."
"We know that Maha. We never thought otherwise. But can't you give some clue as to Why?" Pansy was always the one with the most trouble keeping her power hidden. She was always the first to destroy something in a fit of, however rare anger. We never had a problem helping with damage control and we told her so many times, but she still always felt guilty at any rate. I could se why she'd be so apprehensive with having the built in container unsealed.
"No Illya I cannot but you need not be afraid swanling. You will still have me. And your brothers and sisters will never abandon you."
We all shook our heads in headache inducing speed. It eased her enough that we could see.
"Which actually brings us to the final thing I wanted to give you. The seal allowed us to comunicate when you were elsewhere."
"And with the seal broken we'd have to be within Hogwarts to be able to communicate." It was surprising that Trace, out of us all was the first to figure it out. Then again, he relied on Maha the most. He was the baby of this family.
"Yes, that is why I'd like to give you a piece of my magic. It will allow us to keep communicating through any distance as well as keep you safe and more in control of you powers. It wont seal it, that would defeat the purpose but it will help keep a level head when you seem otherwise out of control."
Did I forget to mention that we each got a unique ability added to the extra magic boost. I can control the weather with just a mood. Pans became an empath. Theo somehow got the ability to control minds. Tori loves the water and Daphne couldn't stop starting fires. Blaise gained what Maha called mimicry. Milli never had to worry about flying again. She can manipulate air. Trace, not surprisingly bonded with spirit gaining the ability to heal along with it.. Vince has the earth as his new playground and Greg, probably because of his sister got the strangest yet still most useful. Hes able to increase or decrease any physical and/or other aspects, strength, speed... once he started to mumble words even Theo had trouble recognizing.
"Will it interfere with the magic that already allows us to keep in contact with each other worldwide."Theo is the reason and brain but Milli is the one to always question when it comes to important matters.
"No Hera, it will not interfere with any magic already in place." That seemed to appease everyone.
"Alrighty then when do we get this started, I'm starved." Leave it to Trace to break a serious discussion with the rumblings of his stomache. It served its purpose though. With a good hour of concentration and random lights we had a new Hogwarts crest on our necklaces as well as a killer migraine.
We stayed there for the rest of the night despite a certain headmaster looking for me, even Maha agreed that Albus could wait. Getting accustumed to new influx of power was much more important. I could always find him tomorrow.