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A/N: Italics mean letters and articles.
Gringotts
Lucius Malfoy was pacing back and forth in the head goblin's office waiting for the obnoxious creature to make its arrival. These things did not understand the importance of his time, and this was a major inconvenience for him. The Wizengamot was meeting once again on one of Arthur Weasley's pro Muggle laws, and if he was not there to oppose it the damned thing would probably pass. He could not allow this to happen. The disgrace to magic would not sully this government's reputation of putting human men first.
The sound of the door opening snapped Lucius' attention to the goblin and Aurors walking into the room. He knew why the goblin was here, but the two Aurors perplexed him. He had covered his tracks in regards to everything. No potions left at his house when the Aurors came to inspect, no witnesses to his activities with women of "ill repute" to speak of, not one hair to be found of the muggles he had brought willingly to his estate, and his wife wouldn't dare speak of his settling of family disputes. So why were they here?
"Good afternoon, Mr Malfoy." The director had a huge smile on his face for some God awful reason.
"Good afternoon Director, to what do I owe the removal of half of my funds to?"
"Good to know you actually read your mail Mr Malfoy." The man just sneered at the ungrateful creature. "Let me cut to the chase then. Lord Black has dissolved your marriage to your former wife, and taken back the dowry with interest, and he has also seized the home in which you now reside as it is a Black family residence." The smile on the creature's face grew with Lucius' rage.
"WHAT!" Lucius screamed at the top of his lungs.
"You heard him Lucius." The crimson haired Auror said in a menacing voice. "And given the bruises we," she gestured to herself and her partner, "found on Aunt Cissa's face we will be adding domestic violence charges to the growing list of infractions you have racked up today." She and her partner drew there wands. "Hands behind your head please Mr Malfoy." The smile on her face was as fake as the woman's hair. The fact that a witch would use muggle products to alter her hair disgusted him.
"Who the bloody hell do you think you are, young lady?" Lucius growled.
"I am…" she cringed but spoke with pride, "Nymphadora Tonks, and formally your niece. Now hands behind your head please."
Lucius looked between the three individuals, and decided to cut his losses. Even at half his wealth, and down to his ancestral home, a hobble compared to the Black home, he could still be out before breakfast tomorrow morning. When he saw Narcissa again he would make her rue the day she didn't wear makeup. "As you wish Auror Tonks," Lucius placed his hands behind his head, had he known what else he was going to be charged with he may not have gone so willingly.
"Good boy." Tonks said as she cuffed him.
Greengrass Manor
At that very moment the only thing keeping Sirius from ripping Lucius Malfoy's head off was Irene, Martha, and Narcissa. Irene had pushed him back into a chair and sat in his lap forcing him to stay put. Martha at the moment was applying some bruise salve to Narcissa's face as the woman recounted how these bruises; the latest came to be. With each word spoken Sirius' blood boiled that much more.
"Did he hurt your son Narcissa?" Irene asked with more than a hint of concern in her voice.
"No, in fact, he egged Draco into joining the 'fun' as he called it." Narcissa sniffed just a little bit more. "Draco would kick my leg whenever I would disagree with him, or when I refused to get him something. Sometimes he would go get his father to 'reinforce' the hierarchy in the house."
"Cissa, I think that's enough; Sirius here is about to blow a gasket." Irene at this point was holding down more forcefully. "Stop squiring or I will stun your sorry arse Sirius." Irene sighed in resignation.
Sirius growled out, "I need to tell Clyde and Amelia about this." Irene kissed him on the lips to calm him down.
"I will accompany you. The last thing we need is for you to actually kill someone, while there is reason behind it, Sirius, it would still be wrong." She kissed him once more on the lips.
Sirius sighed. "I know, but that does not mean I don't want to torture the man."
"NO!" All three women screamed.
"Fine, but can we at least go check on him?" the women continued to glare at him. "Fine, but I will push for the strongest sentence possible."
"Agreed," Sirius turned to see Clyde and Amelia standing at the entrance to the kitchen.
Unused Classroom in Hogwarts
Harry and a group of students were seated in a classroom decorated with a host of dark creature posters, a dragon skeleton, and posters of combative spells some of which Harry already knew. He was seated beside his two oldest friends Daphne and Tracey. Occasionally Tracey would look to the door hoping to see the final member of the quartet to walk into the room. Harry would look towards the door as well. Moony had not arrived as of late, and he wondered if he was okay. He knew that the man still had paperwork to fill out for his accreditation regarding the subject in addition to room and board location.
On his latest look towards the door Harry could only smile as a bushy haired Gryffindor walked into the room. Tracey got up immediately and ran to her second half. The two talked for a moment, and as they walked back towards him Harry could only wondered why Tracey looked murderous and Hermione looked incredibly sheepish.
"Is something wrong Tracey?" Daphne asked.
"If there ever was a time to own a dragon as a familiar today would be it." Tracey huffed as sat down. "I can't believe that ponce!"
"Hermione, what's going on?" Harry asked.
"It's Lockhart's class." She looked down at the ground. "I should have followed you guys out." Hermione confessed with a guilty look.
"What did he do now?" the Lord of Hogwarts asked with exasperated look.
Hermione looked down, and tried to avoid Harry's neon green eyes glowing. "Well, when you guys left he decided to open the cage and allow the pixies to attack the students. He tried to calm us by saying they wouldn't harm us, but the class wasn't listening. Anyway, the pixies all then decided to gang up on the redhead moron, and lifted him into the air. The pixies then hung him from one of the dragon skeleton suspended on the ceiling. Lockhart tried to use a spell that, quite frankly, I have never heard of. In fact, I am sure is not a real spell. Anyway the pixies grabbed his wand, then began throw around spells at random. Several students were hit with the boil hex, some were left unconscious from, what I presume were random stunners, and one student was frozen solid. Lockhart then insisted that we try to stop them, as he ran up to his office. A few of us used imobilus to keep them still, whereas I used the levitation charm to put them all back in their cage. After that little show of bravery or lack thereof I knew that he was fraud, and knew that I would never learn anything. Tracey was so kind to remind me that you had hired a private tutor to teach you for the rest of the year. So here I am ready to learn from someone who knows what their talking about."
Harry nodded, but deep down he was a shaking volcano. Several students had been hit by random curses thrown from the fraud's wand. Granted, he wasn't the one using the wand, but still, he should never have allowed those pixies out of the cage, and if he had to allow a single one out. Harry was not going to allow this to slide. After all he was Lord Hogwarts, and students should feel safe walking within his walls. Harry then had a sly grin. He could use this to get the good-for-nothing fraud on report. Then if he was to screw up again he could terminate his contract without threat of consequence. Harry was bought out of his thoughts by the door opening. Harry smiled at the change in his Uncle Moony; gone were the shaggy robes, and in their place, were brand new black robes. Harry also noticed that Lupin had given himself a shave and brushed his hair.
Lupin walked into the classroom. He looked around a saw a small group of students. Walking to the front of the classroom, he turned and used his wand to write his name on the blackboard.
"Good morning class, as you are no doubt aware. Lord Hogwarts has hired me to teach you Defense Against the Dark Arts. In this class we will be learning theory and practical ways to combat the dark arts. For our first lesson we will look at ghouls. Who can tell me what ghouls are?"
Hermione raised her arm in the air, and waited to be asked to answer.
Lupin looked out over the class. He spotted Hermione hand raised "Yes, Lady Dagworth-Granger-Dumbledore."
Hermione took a deep breath. "Ghouls are said to roam graveyards and dark places. They mostly pull pranks and scare their victims. However, some are known to have consumed human flesh in history."
Lupin grinned, "A very good answer Lady Dagworth-Granger-Dumbledore. Now, although, ghouls can be extremely troublesome; does anyone know how to combat them?"
Lupin again looked out over the class. This time no one raised their hands. Remus pulled his wand out. "Ghouls hate light. Believe it or not, but the most effective way to beat a ghoul is a simple lumos. Anything involving light will work just as well. However, like all creatures; unless you are confident in your spellwork. The best thing to do is run. A Ghouls is extremely slow, so outrunning it is easy. Now for the rest of the class we will be doing some simple duelling. Who can tell me the spell used to disarm someone?"
Harry raised his hand. Remus pointed at him, signalling for him to answer. "Professor, the spell is expelliarmus."
Remus smiled. "Very good, Lord Hogwarts, the spell used is expelliarmus, now just saying the spell will not work. The wand movement is a small circle with your wand. Now everyone please take out your wand and practice the wand movement needed."
It took a while, but soon most of the class had got the hang of it. Remus called for everyone to stop. "Now that you know how to do the wand movement. I want you to pair up, and take turns casting the spell at each other. The walls around this room have been warded with cushioning charm, so no one will be hurt."
Harry paired off with his betrothed, while Hermione paired off with Tracey. Daphne and Harry stood opposite each other "Alright Daph, we know I can cast it so let's see if you can do it."
Daphne pointed her wand at Harry. She quickly rotated her wrist and shouted "Expelliarmus!"
Harry was completely caught off guard and felt the spell hit him full force. He staggered getting up, after picking up his wand. He then stood ready. "Okay, Daphne. I am ready this time. Let's see you do that again."
Daphne smiled mischievously. "Whatever you say hun."
Somewhere between Time and Space
Destiny was walking along the corridor when she heard Magic muttering from her room. Intrigued at what the Magic was up to, so she listened at the door.
"Where is that blasted book! I know I put it around here somewhere. Huh? There you are!"
Destiny removed her ear from the door and wondered just what book Magic was going on about. She heard footsteps coming towards the door. Quickly she rushed into her own room which just happened to across from Magic's. She spotted the young girl looking up the corridor; clutched to her chest was a leather bound book. Destiny's eyes widened when she recognized the book. That was Merlin's own spell book. What the hell was Magic planning to do with that? Destiny decided not to interfere for now and just watched as Magic headed towards the barrier that separated their world from that of the mortals. Destiny's eyes narrowed. "Just what are you up to Magic?"
Hogwarts
Magic appeared on the seventh floor of Hogwarts, still holding onto the book. She knew about that secret room on this corridor and thought it would be the perfect place for the chosen mortal to find her gift. She opened the huge oak door that appeared and walked into a room full of junk. She placed the book into one of the many bookcases, so that not just anyone would be able to find it. She then giggled before leaving the room.
"Now to get the mortal to retrieve the book."
A/N: Hope you enjoyed chapter 18. As you can see the changes are going to happen from this chapter forward. So this story and the current Animagi Fury will not match.
Again a Big Thank you to HowlnMadHowie. For Proof-reading and helping the story flow better.