Title: Truth behind the name and the lies pt.5
Pairing: DracoxHarry, OliverxPercy, twincest?
Fandom: HP
Notes: An abused boy finds out he's a wizard and a hero; his tormented mind rebels. One person sees through the misconceptions to the real Harry and treats him the way he deserves. How does this change them both and those around them?
Chapter 12- Developments
Severus had between his contacts and Lucius' as well as his own potion's closet acquired all the ingredients for the rare potion parentus divinus. A few could be used for other potions but some were unique to this one.
Draco wasn't used to brewing of this caliber and the reasoning hadn't been explained quite yet. It was a test of his abilities, whatever reasoning they had for this probably warranted the secrecy. To not ask a potions mistress to brew this potion must mean it was 'need to know.'
Severus hovered, "You sure you have a small silver cauldron? A silver knife? The roots of a mandrake? A vial of Dragon's blood? Phoenix feathers?"
"Yes Uncle Sev. I wish you could just brew this. You've never hovered over my cauldron before. Why can't you tell me what's going on?" Draco said about at his wits end.
"I can't tell you just yet. Though eventually, you'll figure it out. You're a bright young man." Severus with a sigh, he was thankful to have his sons growing inside him but he did miss brewing. He only had less then two months left, male pregnancies were allowed to exist through potions usually but it was the magic of both fathers that allowed it to continue. The greater the bearer's magic the shorter the pregnancy was, Merlin's had progresses at twice the normal gestation. A normal wizard's pregnancy was between seven and eight months.
"It would make it so much easier if you would tell me why we're brewing such an obscure potion." Draco scowled.
"Pour the Dragon's blood into the silver cauldron, stir counter-clockwise seven times adding one phoenix feather each stir with the silver staff."
Draco nodded, following the directions.
Severus watched him like a hawk, "Next stir three times clockwise and then add the mandrake roots."
Draco did as he was instructed.
"Now place it in stasis. In three days you will ad the next ingredients."
"Yes Moonstones and four dangerous ingredients." Draco said a bit annoyed at the secrecies.
"Very well." Severus said, pleased he would do so well. The colour of the potion was exactly as described, if all went well they could simmer it with Luna's blood in three weeks. IT was a unique potion, you added the blood of the person whose ancestry was in question when the potion was complete you poured it on blank parchment. The parents and other predecessors were written by the magic of blood, a completed Blood adoption might mean that the potion would have to be stronger. Just to be sure they were brewing this at full strength.
Harry wandered into papa's private lab, letting his glamour down because it was exhausting him
Severus sensed a change in his son's magic, he turned to welcome him and stammered, "Harry?"
Harry was surprised, "Yes papa?"
"Sit." Severus hurried over to him and started casting spells, "I don't understand it, I thought you were experiencing a normal male pregnancy."
Benia chuckled from her place near the hearth, "Like any child born to the Lion and the Dragon would be normal."
Draco was concerned, the potion forgotten, "What's wrong?"
"He concieved on his birthday at the end of July, it's barely the second week of October. Harry should only be about eleven weeks pregnant, almost the end of the first trimester." Severus said worried.
"What's wrong with me?" Harry asked, touching his stomach with shaking hands.
"His fetuses appear closer to six months. They're maturing faster then they were before." Severus said nervously.
"Is that dangerous?"
Severus shrugged, "Most wizard pregnancies last between seven to eight months unlike a witch's that is between nine and ten on average."
"Yours is also progressing quickly, Severus." Benia pointed out. "You were expecting to deliver in late November."
Harry recast the same charms to detect how far along his brothers were in development. "She's right, they're almost ready to come out. They look stronger then George's."
Severus was a bit surprised; "You mean I can have them now? I can take over my classes? I can start brewing again?"
Draco rolled his eyes; as much as Uncle Sev wanted his babies he loved brewing more. "Why don't you schedule your delivery for this weekend."
"I have to tell Remus he'll be a papa sooner then we thought." Severus darted off.
"Are you sure you're okay Adder?"
"The glamour just drains me." Harry said snuggling.
Draco hugged him, "I was hoping for a Bonding at New Years, but I don't think you'll make it. I don't want our babies to be born outside a legal Bonding." Was it the strength of their magic affecting the length of time his babies need to mature or was it Harry's worry about being pregnant now?
XoooooX
Hermione was assigned the Fifth floor as her prefect assignment and she was partnered with Terry Boot who wasn't a bad sort. Though after seeing how Luna was abused by her own housemates, she was starting to wonder.
There was a scuffle coming from behind a tapestry, muttering voices.
Hermione stopped dead, moving closer barely noticing that Boot was trying to distance himself. Annoyed Hermione threw back the tapestry.
"You think you're safe now that you have Snakes and Lions protecting you?"
"Not so tough are you without your bodyguards."
"No Poof Wizards are going to scare me away."
Luna's bag had been split along all the seams, her books were splashed with ink and someone was using bright red ink the colour of blood to write, 'DIE! DIE!'
The tiny Ravenclaw was being attacked with different jinxes and hexes; her legs were floppingly trying to dance as if she'd been hit with both Jelly-legs jinx and the Tarantallegra jinx. Her body was swelling as if she'd been hit with a Stinging hex, she was being attacked by something that looked like bogeys, her knees were backwards and she seemed to have teeth far too large for her tiny mouth. Luna also seemed to have Horns.
There were choruses of 'Loony Loony Luna. Uglier then Tuna. Not much bigger then a dish but smarter then a fish! They would laugh…
"Expelliarmus Totalus!" Hermione growled, "You think you're all so clever! Petrificus Totalus Magna."
Those were new spell. It worked, they worked, disarming and petrifying the students. Hermione summoned Malfoy house elves.
Dippy, Dobby and Stria appeared at once.
"Yes Miss Hermione?"
"Dobby bring Professor Severus here at once. Dippy, bring Professor Flitwick. Stria I need Adrian Pucey, the head boy. Tell them to come. After you find Adrian I want Angelina the Head Girl." Hermione was furious; this kind of behavior wasn't going to be tolerated while she was a Prefect!
Terry shifted nervously watching her take that crazy blonde's tormentors to task.
"Boot!"
Terry jumped at her tone, "Yes Granger?"
"I want you to do something productive. Go find Rodger and that girl who claims to be a Seventh Year Ravenclaw prefect." Hermione was furious, Ron had been an awful bully but at least even his own brother had punished him.
XoooooX
Adrian was in the library doing N.E.W.T. homework when a house elf appeared at his s right.
"Mr. Pucey?" the elf asked.
Adrian nodded.
"Ms. Hermione wants you. Said it's important."
"Granger?" Adrian started packing up, either something happened to Neville or that poor little Ravenclaw was in trouble. "Show me where they are."
"Just down the hall to the right, listen for the lecturing." The elf disappeared to find the Head Girl as instructed.
XoooooX
Severus was with Remus and they were talking about becoming parents of a child that had their blood when Dobby Apparated into the room.
"Master Severus, Miss Hermione be calling for you. Dobby told to bring you. A little girl is hurt bad. Dobby feel sorry for her."
Severus looked at Remus, limping quickly to his feet. "Luna." He was finding himself extremely protective of the girl.
Remus followed him. What happened? Was Firenze's prediction of her being in danger coming true?
XoooooX
Professor Flitwick was tutoring a student in Charms when he was interrupted by a loud pop.
"Professor Flitwick?" Dippy asked.
"Yes." The tiny charms instructor replied.
"Dippy sent by Miss Hermione. She said you must come. Someone hurt really bad." The elf tugged on his sleeve.
Flitwick was almost never summoned, Hermione? The young Gryffindor prefect, she would have made a fine addition to his house. "Very well Burrow. I'll see you tomorrow to continue."
The Ravenclaw made himself scared.
Flitwick knew it was important if he was summoned. "Take me there."
XoooooX
Hermione stood over the torments, writing down names and waiting for back up. She looked up at approaching footsteps.
Adrian burst in, seeing the mess the tiny blonde had been he was furious. "Where's Boot?"
Hermione growled, "I sent him after his sorry excuses for Seventh Year Prefects Davies and whoever the girl's Prefect is. Not surprised to see Weasley, I'm glad her brothers aren't here to be embarrassed." Besides Charlie of course…good thing that Mr. Weasley wasn't responsible for her anymore, being Head Auror and having a daughter like this…
Severus froze in the archway, the tapestry spelled away. "Luna!"
Remus was absolutely furious, that poor little girl. He was very angry to see a Gryffindor involved in this but not surprised it was Ginny Weasley.
Professor Flitwick Apparated nearly on top of his fellow teachers. It took less then thirty seconds for him to be absolutely furious, "Ravenclaws? I can't believe this. My Eagles attacking one of our own! Where's Rodger Davies?"
"Right here sir." Rodger said in his pompous voice.
Flitwick turned towards him, tiny hands on his hips, "I'm suspending the Ravenclaw team and deducting 500 points from my own house." He glared at the three prefects belonging to his house.
Rodger stammered, "But Professor,"
"Don't but me! You're responsible for your house; you're its leader. I hold you responsible for this!" he pointed a shaking hand at the jinxed and hexed crying mess that was one of his smartest Eagles; she was her mother's daughter at Charms.
Severus did his best to examine her; he had to document this. "Remus, I need Creevey and his camera."
Remus stormed off to find the boy.
Adrian finally spoke, "What the Hell is going on in Ravenclaw Davies?" his voice thundering through the hallway no doubt going to bring Ms. Pince running. "I thought that her stuff being stole was bad! Professor, her shoes were stolen and she was walking on cold stone floors barefoot. It's a wonder she didn't die of pneumonia! She had be textbooks defaced. Look at her bag!"
"You can't hold me responsible for what a select group from my house has done." Rodger protested.
"Miss Felicity Eastchurch, I hold you responsible for her things being stolen."
"Why me?" the girl said crossing her arms at her Head of House.
"Because, the girls dorms can't be accessed by the boys. Therefore all the thefts of her possession must have occurred there."
"How do we know she didn't simply loose things? She is a bit Looney." Miss Eastchurch said defensively.
"You're no longer Seventh Year prefects. Give me your badges. I am also removing you as Quidditch Captain Davies. A leader is responsible for all of his people not just a few." Flitwick was spitting mad.
Adrian was a bit pleased that Davies was being brought down a peg, he just wish it was under different circumstances. Five hundred points deducted from their house? No Quidditch? That was a difficult punishment…he hadn't seen such an attack on a member of one's own house since he'd heard about the attack on Blaise which had been dealt with swiftly.
Remus returned with Colin.
"Creevey, come take some pictures for me."
Colin wiggled his way through the crowd of teachers and students, staggering as he spotted a girl from his year. "Lovegood? Oh no."
"Hurry boy. She needs treatment, you're the best with a camera."
Colin took pictures as quickly as he could, that poor girl. Who could do this awful thing? He vaguely noticed Ginny Weasley and shook his head, that girl was trouble…
Severus waited until the camera was dropped from Creevey's shaking hands and hung from the cord on his neck. He did his best to reverse the spell damage as best he could, reducing the teeth and fixing her knees was easy. Her legs had incurred the most damage due to no less then three spells impacting nearly at once. "There, there. You're safe now little one." Trying to soothe her, she looked far worse then anything Sirius and James had done to him.
Remus was shaking, the poor girl looked like she'd been attack by four James and Siriuses. It was heartbreaking…
Adrian was still furious, "This type of thing won't happen without consequences. "
"You're right. If Pari Patil turns out to be innocent she'll be replacing Ms. Eastchurch." Flitwick said glaring at his students, "I have never been so embarrassed to be a Ravenclaw as I am right now."
Angelina showed up finally, to see defensive and chastised Ravenclaw prefects, irate Gryffindors and a lecturing Slytherin Head Boy. "What happened?"
"What happened? What happened is that there are some seriously bad eggs in Ravenclaw! They got their team suspended and lost 500 points, which I guess would put them at the bottom of the running for House Cup." Adrian glared.
Davies winced at the venom in the other boy's voice.
Hermione walked towards Angelina, "Luna Lovegood was attacked by four Hufflepuffs, five Ravenclaws and one Gryffindor."
"Why hasn't Professor Spout been summoned?" Angelina asked.
"I didn't think of it. I summoned Professor Snape because he's Deputy Headmaster as well as a healer. I summoned Professor Flitwick because Luna was hurt badly." Hermione said looking abashed at her mistake.
"I'll go get her right away." Angelina said running off, something this big hadn't happened before. Hufflepuffs? Attacking another student? How awful…
"Hermione, we were amiss in not informing the Headmistress. Would you be so good as to inform her that we will be in her office in thirty minutes." Severus said not looking up from treating the tiny disfigured, crying girl. She was in so much pain from the Stinging hex and the stress on her jaw from the teeth growing hex.
Hermione nodded setting off on her mission.
Severus did as best he could, "Adrian do me a favor, go to my office and bring two vials of anti-stinging potion. She'll need it…poor thing." He looked for his bondmate, "Remus? Would you carry her please?"
Adrian darted off at a near run, still making nasty comments about Rodger Davies and Felicity Eastchurch.
Remus lifted the tiny crying girl in his arms, "You're safe now little one."
Luna clutched his robes with her hands and hid her face.
Severus and Flitwick levitated the students under the Full Body-Bind curse and guided them towards the Headmistress' office.
The group followed hard on the Heads of Slytherin and Ravenclaw's heels.
A rather shocked McGonagall was waiting for them.
"I have never been so embarrassed of Hogwarts students since Nott, Goyle and Crabbe attacked Zabini or Ron Weasley hit a girl." The formidable headmistress glared. "Weasley? Ginny Weasley? What are you doing here? As if your previous transgressions weren't bad enough. Going from opening the Chamber of Secrets and setting its monster against two students as well as trying to give potion laced chocolates to a fellow student. You are as much of a scapegrace as your brother. What do you students have say for yourselves?"
Severus and Flitwick released them from the Full Body-Bind curse.
Severus held up his hand, "they show traces of a strange spell. One I don't recognize."
The room stayed quiet.
Flitwick joined him in examining the spell's signature. "That's strange, it has the echo of two magical signatures."
"Yes." Severus said intrigued, his eyes narrowed. "Dumbledore!"
The Headmistress' tower's occupants stiffened.
"What has that man done now?" McGonagall asked.
"I think he cast a compulsion spell." Severus said looking irate.
"A compulsion spell?"
"It would seem so." Flitwick nodded, "It was cast on Miss Lovegood, those with weak wills would be compelled to attack and humiliate her. Overexposure to this spell would make them more violent."
"SO they aren't responsible for this?" Remus was furious, holding the girl close. "That's terrible." If he didn't already hate the man, he would now. Dumbledore had allowed James and Lily as well as their daughter to be murdered. He'd placed Harry with relatives who nearly killed him, he'd made Severus his spy without doing anything to help him.
Severus examined the spell on Luna more carefully, "I can't remove it. It will take someone stronger then me."
McGonagall looked startled, "Who? We can't have her attracting students to torment her."
Hermione raised her hand, "There is a Head Boy's suite near Gryffindor Tower. I'm sure
Professor Lupin-Prince would have no problem letting us stay there."
"Excuse me?"
They all turned towards the Sorting Hat.
"Am I allowed to speak about this girl now?"
"Of course." The headmistress nodded.
"While very bright she started a year early."
Flitwick blinked in amazement.
"Although she thinks she's a descendant of Rowena Ravenclaw on her mother's side and her father was a supposed embarrassment to his family who were Slytherins she is not theirs. I know her parents' magic, her mother should have been a Ravenclaw but she was handpicked from the beginning to be bonded to her father. I was made to put her in Gryffindor."
"You mean Albus was interfering with Sorting for decades?"
"Of course. Including his own. He refused to be in Slytherin. Lupin should have been in Ravenclaw like Granger and Percy Weasley." The hat said rather annoyed. "It is such a pleasure to be allowed to Sort as the Founders intended."
"What should her father have been?" Severus asked.
"Gryffindor was best suited, would have placed him there anyway. Sirius Black would have been in Slytherin if he hadn't refused it and Dumbledore hadn't forbid it. Pettigrew should have been in Hufflepuff, he was as terrible a wizard as Gregory Goyle." The hat grumbled.
None of the Marauders should have been in the same house? That threw Remus for a loop…
"So can we protect the students affected?" McGonagall asked.
"We'd have to study the spell longer. I'm sure Hermione can help her with assignments. Some of the other students like Potter, Malfoy and Pucey can look in on her."
The door opened.
"What's this about Hufflepuffs attacking someone?" Professor Sprout asked incredulously.
"It seems that our former headmaster put a spell on a student and it caused some members of your house to attack her." The Headmistress said trying to make it seem less the students' fault.
"Ernie Macmillan, Hannah Abbott, Justin Finch-Fletchley and Zacharias Smith?" Sprout was terrible upset.
Hermione blinked, in her anger she hadn't realized prefects had done this…
"How could a descendant of our House's founder do something like this? Tell me Zacharias? I shall be writing to your parents. As for Abbott and Macmillan I am so very disappointed. Spell or not, you should know better, this sort of thing is supposed to be against our nature. I will be discussing this in front of our House Badgers do not behave like this. We don't attack other students. If you think Malfoy's speech to his house last year was legendary Hufflepuff will learn that we police our own." Pomona was very upset…
"I will leave the discipline of your houses to you, since they were magically influenced it seems that Ms. Weasley is once again not completely responsible for her actions."
Remus sighed, "Weasley, you will serve out your detentions every night after dinner for one hour you will scrub bed pans without magic until the end of term."
Ginny groaned.
"I'm already replacing my prefects. I am disappointed in them." Flitwick glowered at his shaking Ravenclaws.
"Very well it's settled. You'll punish your own miscreants. Severus and Filius will try to find a way to reverse this spell. If anyone who visits here starts feeling like they want to hurt her they have to leave." McGonagall said imperiously.
"Very well, Minerva." Severus said. "I should hopefully resume my usually duties by the end of next week."
"Very well then." She nodded.
Remus smiled at his mate, "I'll go set Hermione and Luna up in the Gryffindor Head Boy suite. They can have meals sent up and study ahead. I'm sure Hermione can tutor her easily, she did have all Outstanding in her O.W.L.s after all."
Hermione blushed; proud that she was strong willed enough to resist whatever terrible spell that horrible man Dumbledore had cast on such an innocent girl.
"I'll inform Harry and Draco about what happened to Luna. They'll want to help find a way to reverse it." Severus said, "I also have to firecall Narcissa."
Yay the Potion has been started.
Congrats to Remus and Severus for being almost parents...trust Wizards with magic like Severus and Harry to have kids that develop fast...
Poor Luna. She's been cursed by Dumbledore. Thank Merlin that Hermione was smart enough to realize something was wrong. I almost feel sorry for her tormentors. they should have known what they were doing was wrong despite being compelled to do such awful things. I do feel sorry for Sprout and Flitwick, their House's reputations have been tarnished. I don't think anyone was surprised at Ginny's involvement...
I'm glad that Hermione offer to take care of her since its too dangerous for her to be around students...
Outstanding? Exceeds Expectations? Acceptable? Troll?
Hope you like.