Harry Potter and the Aliens

Part 10

The next morning: Emiko went up to Minerva as she was leaving breakfast, and said, "I thought over what Mr. Ollivander said."

"And?" Minerva asked.

"I think it would be good to have a wand," Emiko admitted. "At the very least, it'll throw people off if I let them think I only use my wand, and then blast them without one."

"Alright," Minerva said. "I'm curious as to what Mr. Ollivander meant yesterday, so go get Kisshu, and I will inform Pomona that she needs to keep our guests company for a bit."

Emiko nodded and skipped off. Minerva went to talk to Professor Sprout, knowing Emiko would be able to find her.

Sure enough, Emiko and Kisshu ran up to the two women as they finished their talk, and Minerva said, "Alright you two, we're going to London."

"I'm not sure I can teleport that far," Emiko commented.

"That's fine, I was going to use the Floo Network," Minerva said. "I'll show you how it works." She led the way to what used to be Dumbldore's office, and picked up a tin of Floo powder. She took out a handful and threw it in the fire, and the flames turned green as she said, "We're going to Diagon Alley, so follow my lead." Then she stepped up to the fire and said clearly, "Diagon Alley." Then she walked into the flames and disappeared with a pop. Emiko and Kisshu did the same, but when Emiko landed, she was in an office, and Kisshu and Minerva weren't there. Emiko looked around, and spotted something that looked like a large pink toad sitting behind the desk. "Great, I got kidnapped by a toad," she sighed. "So why am I here, Toad Person?"

"That is NOT my name, I am Dolores Umbridge, Senior Undersecretary to the Minister of Magic!" the toad woman said in a high-pitched, girly voice.

"Yeah, whatever," Emiko said. "Care to explain why you kidnapped me?"

"Part of my duty is to wipe out obstacles to Minister Fudge's job, and that includes you," Umbridge said.

"So you're going to kill me because you have some weird delusion that I'm trying to overthrow the Ministry?" Emiko asked. "Jeez, you're stupid. I'm eleven years old; what reason would I have to overthrow the Ministry? You know what, don't answer that. I'll just make sure that you can't hurt anyone else your delusional mind thinks is a hazard ever again."

Umbridge turned red and pulled her wand out; Emiko Disarmed her and snapped her fingers. Where Umbridge had been standing, there was now a real pink toad, glaring at Emiko malevolently. Emiko Transfigured the small filing cabinet next to the desk into a metal cage with a flat metal bottom, and Levitated the toad into it, then sealed the top of the cage. Luckily it was a small cage, and Emiko easily carried it off. She left the room, and asked a passing wizard, "Can you tell me where to find Amelia Bones?"

"Her office is on the next floor up; she should be there," the wizard said. "Hey, what's with the cage?"

"This is what happens when people attack me," Emiko said sweetly.

The wizard looked at her oddly, and then suddenly dragged her off. "Where are we going?" she asked.

"You did ask to see Amelia Bones," the wizard said. He went to a nearby elevator, and pressed a button. The elevator came back soon after, and a few people stepped out. The wizard dragged Emiko into the elevator, and pressed the button for the next floor up. Once they were there, the wizard took Emiko to a door labeled 'Amelia Bones, Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement'. The wizard knocked, and Emiko heard Amelia's voice say, "Enter."

The wizard opened the door, and said, "Madame Bones, I found this girl outside the Umbridge woman's office, holding a cage with a pink toad in it. She claims someone attacked her, so I brought her here, as she was asking to see you anyways."

Amelia looked over, and asked incredulously, "Emiko? What happened?"

"Umbridge kidnapped me and told me she was going to get rid of me for trying to overthrow the Ministry," Emiko said. "She got angry when I told her that she was delusional, and pulled her wand on me. I Disarmed her, and then I turned her into this pink toad. Oh, and I transfigured her filing cabinet into this cage. I didn't think attacking children for saying rude things was legal, and I knew kidnapping me was illegal, so I decided to bring her to you. I left her wand behind so she wouldn't be able to attack you."

Amelia got a very feral grin on her face. "I've been trying to get her tried for various things for years; this is perfect," she said. Looking past Emiko, she said to the wizard who had brought her there, "Harrison, please inform the Minister that I require his presence immediately."

"Yes ma'am," Harrison said, and left.

Amelia looked at Emiko and asked, "So where were you before?"

"I was trying to get to Diagon Alley by Floo with Minerva-san and Oniichan, but Toad Lady must have done something to redirect me," Emiko said. "I landed in her office, and the rest I already told you."

Before Amelia could respond, Fudge came in, and asked, "Madame Bones, may I ask what happened?"

"That ugly toad you hired ATTACKED Emiko," Amelia snarled. "She redirected a Floo, pulled Emiko into her office, and attacked her. You are extremely lucky Emiko is so good at self-defense already, or I have no doubt her family would make you and Umbridge their next targets, especially since I informed Yuki Ikisatashi that she was not allowed to kill Dumbledore, nor was she to let her children kill him."

"Are we dealing with another Molly Weasley?" Fudge asked nervously.

"Ten times worse, actually," Emiko said. "Toad Lady informed me before her attempt to attack me that you're afraid of losing your job. It could happen a lot faster if you don't uphold the law. While I myself have no designs on your job, others will see an opportunity if you hide things from them or protect lawbreakers, and it gets out. And you KNOW it's going to get out, so I'd recommend letting Amelia-san deal with Toad Lady."

"And I suppose you have some recommendation for dealing with Ms. Umbridge?" Fudge asked wearily.

"Have Amelia find out everything she's done that's illegal; it sounds like it's not just today's incident," Emiko replied calmly. "And once that is done, sentence her to a punishment that fits the crimes she's committed. I don't know much about magical law, so I would recommend leaving this in Amelia's hands. I think at the very least she should lose her job, however. It doesn't reflect well on you as a leader if your most trusted subordinate is a criminal, does it?"

Fudge looked nervous, and said, "Point taken…. Amelia, can I trust that you'll take care of this?"

"Of course, Minister," Amelia said. "Emiko, will a normal spell undo the transfiguration?"

"Yes, the only reason she's pink is that she was so much like a toad already, all the spell did was shrink her down to size," Emiko replied. "Call Minerva if you can't get it off, but I think you'll be fine."

"Thanks," Amelia said.

Suddenly one of the Aurors ran in and said urgently, "Minerva McGonagall and some kid with green hair are demanding to know what the Minister did with Emiko Ikisatashi!"

"As I have some work to do in regards to Dolores Umbridge, I suggest you and Minister Fudge take Emiko to the Atrium before her brother does any permanent damage," Amelia told the woman.

"Yes ma'am!" the woman said, snapping a salute, and motioned to Emiko and Fudge. Emiko went with her; Fudge was a bit more reluctant. Emiko looked back, and he hurried to catch up.

They found Kisshu and Minerva in the Atrium, and both of them looked relieved to see Emiko. "What happened?" Minerva asked.

"Toad Lady, aka the Minister's underling, decided that she was going to eliminate me because she thought I wanted Mr. Fudge's job," Emiko said. "I turned her into a pink toad and left her with Amelia Bones."

Kisshu snickered. "That's my imouto," he said. "Ready to go find a wand?"

"Yup!" Emiko said cheerfully. "Hey, I just thought of something to try when we get back to school!"

"What's that?" Minerva asked warily.

"I want to see if Oniichan can turn things into animals too!" Emiko said. "Oniichan can use the color-changing and clothes-changing spells that I do; what if he can also turn Malfoy into something pink?"

"No more human Transfiguration, Emiko," Minerva sighed. "We'll give Kisshu something else to practice on."

"Oh, fine," Emiko said sulkily. She went over to them, and Kisshu took her and Minerva by the hand, then teleported.

They landed in a darkened shop, and Emiko looked around. "Ah, good," Mr. Ollivander's voice said. "You found her."

"Yes, and yet another person is now a pink animal," Minerva sighed. "Oh well, Umbridge deserved it."

"Quite so," Mr. Ollivander said. "Now, Miss Emiko, what do you know about wands?"

"They're tools used by the Wizarding population to perform magic," Emiko said. "I've also heard people say that the wand chooses the wizard. Maybe that's why I prefer wandless magic; when I first started training my magic, I was too young to legally own a wand, so I had to use my mom's."

Mr. Ollivander nodded. "It sounds like you've never had a wand that's specific to your needs," he said. "And while it's quite clear that you can use others' wands to a certain extent, a wand that suits you perfectly would be better than borrowing from other people if you need to do a spell that you require a wand for."

"I agree," Emiko said. "I don't like borrowing like that anyways."

Mr. Ollivander gave a pleased nod, and said, "Well then, let's see which wand suits you." He pulled out a box from the wall, and said, "Try this; yew, ten inches, unicorn hair core." Emiko waved it, but nothing happened. Mr. Ollivander took it back, and pulled out another box, seemingly at random. "I wasn't entirely sure unicorn hair would work for you," he admitted. "This one is ash, nine inches, with a dragon heartstring core."

Emiko gave it a wave, but again, nothing happened. Mr. Ollivander took the wand back, and pulled another box. "This one is made of ivy, eleven inches, slightly bendy, with a phoenix feather core," he told Emiko.

The minute she took the wand, Emiko's body lit up with a pale blue light. Sparks of the same blue trailed through the air as she waved the wand. Mr. Ollivander became extremely excited as Minerva asked, "What happened? I've never seen a reaction like that before."

"That, Minerva, is why I called you here," Mr. Ollivander said. "I had a hunch about Emiko from the moment you mentioned she could cast wordlessly AND wandlessly. There are not many people who can do that, and even back before wands, it wasn't that common, as staffs were used. In fact, the only other person who was ever recorded to have that ability found the ability at age four. The child's parents couldn't keep up with the accidental magic outbursts, and finally decided to try to explain to their child the idea of controlling the magic. By the time their son reached school age, he was already ahead of the curriculum for the magic school in his country."

"This was not a Hogwarts student, then?" Minerva asked.

"Oh no, not at all," Mr. Ollivander said, chuckling slightly. "No, this was a student who would have been in seventh year when I was in first, had he not gone to the magic school in Kyoto, Japan."

"Uh… you wouldn't happen to be talking about Imamura Hideo, would you?" Emiko asked.

"Who is that?" Minerva asked.

"My great-grandfather," Emiko said. "He died shortly after I turned two, but I've heard plenty of stories about him; he was one of the greatest wandmakers that Japan's ever seen, according to my parents."

"Exactly," Mr. Ollivander said. "But you claim your name isn't Imamura, correct?"

"In our culture, the children who are adopted take their adoptive family's name," Kisshu explained. "Emiko's real name is Imamura Emiko, but she took my uncle's name when I asked them to adopt her, in thanks and to honor our traditions."

"Imamura Hideo was widely respected as a wandmaker, and his family was a bit disappointed when it seemed none of his descendants had inherited his gift," Mr. Ollivander said. "Neither his children nor his grandchildren showed any signs of the talent it would take to become a wandmaker, nor the talent to cast wandlessly and wordlessly at the same time, much less at such a young age. As the wandmaking art is so rare, I wasn't surprised that he died without an heir to his works."

"He actually did have an heir," Emiko said. "A young woman who showed a lot of promise, right from the start. Unless something happened to her, I imagine she took over his work and his business. Her name was Miyamoto Tsukiko, and she was appointed the wandmaker for that part of Japan. I believe she actually started to take over more and more duties as my great-grandfather got older; I heard he had eyesight issues. By the time he died, she had probably taken everything over. Okaasan used to say that she wished Tsukiko luck; she was grateful Great-Grandfather didn't put Otousan in that position. And it turned out to be a good thing, because Otousan was murdered along with Okaasan just four years after Great-Grandfather died. After Kisshu-oniichan rescued me from the people who murdered them, though, I pretty much swore off the magical world. I still used my powers from time to time, so I wouldn't get rusty, but most of the time I kept them inside."

"Emiko, I don't mean to pry, and you don't have to answer this, but do you know why the people who killed your parents took you?" Minerva asked.

"For the same reason Dumbledore want me; to control me," Emiko replied bitterly. "I was very powerful, even at age six, and they thought injecting me with something would make me obey them. I think they actually injected me with the wrong thing; before I blew the lot of them up, one of them mentioned that he thought they were trying to control me, not turn me into a Cyniclon. I thought the way I dealt with the assassin they hired would scare them off, but it just made them want me more, and at age six, I couldn't maintain the amount of spells to hold them off for as long as I needed to, and I ended up collapsing. However, I did manage to get rid of the assassin; I took Okaasan's wand and Crucio'd him to death. The curse was overpowered due to my emotions at the time, and he died from it."

Kisshu hugged Emiko around the shoulders, and she leaned into him gratefully.

After a few minutes of silence, Mr. Ollivander said, "Miss Emiko, I have a proposition that I would like you to think over. In this world, some wizards and witches take apprentices, to teach them their craft and have their own teachings passed on. I know that you're too young to be an apprentice; that would normally start when you turn thirteen, and the apprenticeship would go on for seven years. As I'm sure you can tell, I myself am not getting any younger, and while I probably have at least a decade left in me, if not more, I would like to have someone to pass my teachings on to. Up until this point, I have never found anyone even remotely suitable, but judging by your wand's reaction to you, I would say that you definitely have the talent required for wandmaking. I would like you to think over, and talk to your family, teachers and friends, about becoming my apprentice when you turn thirteen."

"That's a very great honor; I will definitely think it over," Emiko replied. "Can I come back when I've reached a decision?"

"Of course, and should you decide to take me up on this offer, I would like to talk to your guardians as well," Mr. Ollivander said. "I won't take any more of your time, but please let me know when you've made your decision."

"I will, and thank you," Emiko said, bowing. Mr. Ollivander nodded in a pleased manner, and allowed them to Floo back to Hogwarts from his office.

Well, there's what Ollivander wanted from them. I know Umbridge doesn't show up until Book 5, but I hate her, so since (spoiler possibility!) I MIGHT be considering a sequel, I thought I'd get her out of the way first. Notice the capital letters on MIGHT, however. Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed this, and please review on your way out!