A/N: This is my first attempt at a Fanfic. So hopefully it's not to bad. Just my take on how Harry Potter could have gone. Alternate Universe. Dumbles, selective weasley bashing. Bad dumbles.
Thank you to all those who are following this story. If any of you have something you would like to see happen, then let me know. If it fits into the basic plot I have planned or is better than something else that i was going to use than i will add it and give you credit at the beginning of the chapter.
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Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or any concepts dreamed up in the mind of J.K Rowlings.
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"talking in the mind"
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Chapter Two: The Lords
~Hadrian's P.O.V~
Five years had passed since our first meeting with Lady Magic. In all aspects that matter she was our mother. She comforted us, taught us, and loved us no matter what was going on in our lives. The abuse from our relatives had not stopped, instead it had gotten worse. Luckily I have managed to keep my Uncle away from my sisters, if he had touched one of them in that way, I propably would have killed him no matter how bad it would have affected our plans. The first time was three months ago on our 9th birthday. Needless to say I would have preferred to be ignored like usual. I pushed away the memory of his body pushing into mine, locking them behind the strongest barriers I could erect.
One of the first things Lady Magic had taught us was occlumency, the act of organising and protecting your mind. It made hiding the bad memories easier. It also made learning much faster. Everything learned was remembered after it was sorted properly. We also have gained complete control of our magic, it is nothing for us to use it now, no longer does it lash out randomly. We also found blocks on our magic, we can only assume that they were placed there by Dumbledore seeing as he is the only wizard that had access to us after our parents died. It took us several months to finally break the block on all three of us, and let me tell you trying to adjust to THAT much extra power is hard, we had a few accidents before it was under control again.
Back in our cupboard for the night, I cuddle up with my sisters while waiting for Lady Magic to start the next lesson. We were inseperable no one was able to come between us. Unlike most siblings we never even argued. It might have something to do with the fact that we spent most of our time in each others mind, playing in our mindscapes since we couldn't play any other time. There were no secrets you could keep from people that share that much of you. We were just different facets of the same person, well thats how it seemed sometimes.
"Mother should be here soon, she said she was going to tell us the history of the Lords of Magic." Ivory's voice in my head distracting me from my thoughts. Before I could respond a warmth spread through the small cupboard, signaling the arrival of Lady Magic or mother as we called her most of the time.
"Hello children tonight is going to be a slight history lesson, and since I believe you are old enough I will tell you why I call you my Chosen. I have taught you all I can, when you go to Gringotts and take the inheritence test it will tell you the special branches of magic that you can master. Those you will have to start working with on your own, there is only so much I am allowed to step in. Now onto the story." you could here the love and pride she had in us. She waited while we got situated into a better position.
"Now as I told you many times before every witch or wizard has a core. There are three types of cores; light, grey, and dark. For each type of core there is a witch or wizard that are chosen by me to be Lords, this choice is made before they are even born. A Lord is stronger in magic than any other. In the beginning the Lords and their spouses made up a counsel that made the laws that all magical beings lived by. There came a time however when the muggles started attacking wizards for being different, during this time the Lords kept getting killed before they could come into their power and the Wizarding world began to suffer.
Eventually the three Lords were able to grow up. They became the founders of Hogwarts there was Rowena Ravenclaw the Light Lord, Helga Hufflepuff the Grey Lord, and Salazar Slytherin the Dark Lord. There was also Godric Gryffindor surprisingly he was also a Dark Lord. During their lives the Wizarding world became more stable, there were still deaths but they made the witches and wizards feel safer. They spent there adult lives teaching young witches and wizards how to use magic, until Salazar was killed trying to defend a young wizard. He managed to get his young charge to Hogwarts and then died of his wounds. Once again the Wizarding world started to suffer, no matter how the other founders tried to keep things together.
So the Lords once again became lost, you would here stories of a Dark Lord or Light Lord popping up again every now and then, but they always faded. Until Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald were born. They grew up and became close and my hopes were once again raised and then the unthinkable happened Albus started to go against Gellert, turning people against him and dark magic in general. After Gellert's defeat he continued to lead a war against dark magic.
When the new Dark Lord was born dark magic was illegal and only practiced in secret. As soon as Albus saw him, he knew what he was, but he liked his power to much and didn't want to share it. Eventually Tom Riddle became Lord Voldemort one of the most ruthless dark lords ever seen. In an attempt to stop him Albus leaked a false prophecy setting Voldemort against you three when you were babies. When he came after you I protected you and he lost his body, he will be back however, but he is not the enemy. He was trying to bring equality back to the world of magic but no one would listen to him. Albus has become hungry for power not wanting to share his hold on the Wizarding world."
By the end of her story you could feel the sadness rolling off of her "Magic is dying. I am dying, my strength comes from the power of all magical beings and with the way the dark children are being treated, I am being weakened. When your mother first concieved I decided to step in. I made the three of you were my Lords hoping that by being raised together you would work together and bring balance back to me. There is alot of work to be done and I will not be able to tell you how to do it, but I can promise you that the three of you are My children and I will always be here to listen."
I sat silently for a moment thinking until I felt the presence of my sisters enter my mind. Turning my attention inwards I entered my mindscape. My sisters were already sitting on the blanket that was located in the middle of the field. I looked around, I loved this place not that I had ever seen one in real life but I had a good imagination. We were in a meadow surrounded on all sides by tall trees, there was even a breeze. It was a great defense too the only way to my memories was a specific path that you had to take through the woods. One wrong turn and you ended up back in the meadow or face to face with one of the creatures that lived in the woods. Walking over I sat down on the blanket and Ivory immediately curled up in my lap. It was her favorite place to be, she said I made her feel safe since I kept anything bad from happening to her.
"Well what do you think. Mother said that she wanted us to help restore balance. How do you think we should go about it?" There was no question of us not doing it. We would help mother in anyway that we could.
"We are going to Hogwarts in two years, I think that we should start by making friends. When we feel that we can trust them we start teaching them the correct beliefs of Magic. We are still young, adults are going to look down on us they are not going to take us seriously." Ivory was the first to speak.
Sylvian looked thoughtful "When we get out of Hogwarts we will have people that believe us and follow us."
"What about Voldemort and Dumbledore though" Ivory asked "I know mother loves him, but what are we supposed to do if he tries to attack Hadrian? Thinks to the fake prophecy he thinks you are the one that will be able to kill him."
She does have a point. I'm not really sure what to do about him, I don't want him dead because that would make mother sad. "For now we will leave him alone. Mother said he was just a spirit at the moment so he's not to dangerous right now. If he becomes a problem later than I will try to stay out of his way until we can set up a meeting in a safe place."
"Sounds good brother." their voices blended together bringing a smile to my face.
"Now how about a game of hide and seek." covering my face I start to count "one...two...three..."
Lady Magic watched her children running around in Hadrians mind and felt hope spread in her chest once again. Her children were perfect.
