Author's Notes: Shout of to my Beta, Thewriterisme93 for fixing the errors~ I'm sorry for the long wait, I just had my finals. I'm now working on the next chapter, hopefully, it will be out soon! Comment or leave any critics about the story :) I'd love to hear your thought on it and your theories
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Harry Potter Characters~~~
Chapter 3˜
Screndus wandered through the Slytherin common room. Lukas nudged him in the direction of the fireplace. The green plush couch caught his eyes, the very couch his father said symbolizes authority in Slytherin house.
"Our fathers sat there once." Lukas smiled at him.
Screndus smiled back, "Now, it's our turn to rule this place."
The two boys grinned at each other before launching themselves onto the couch and relaxing in front of the fire.
Unbeknown to them, a dark shadow hissed at the two boys from within the dark.
HP
"Mr. Malfoy, would you tell us the use of polyjuice?" Professor Snape spoke as he looked to his godson.
Screndus looked up at him with attentive eyes, "Polyjuice is used to transform one's figure to look like another. Most importantly you must have the hair of the others put inside the potion. Though the potion could transform one's appearance, the voice cannot be changed. It is usually brewed to change the drinker into another person, but there are some cases that had changed the brewer into animals."
"Precisely correct." Snape nodded, "I see your parents have taught you well, Mr. Malfoy. 20 points to Slytherin. "
He looked around the room, "But that's not what we're going to learn about today, that's a NEWT level potion. It's a brief reminder to you all what potions could do. Now look at the board..."
HP
Harry was seated at the auror's head office, looking stressed out. He had his sleeves rolled up and was flipping through files attentively when Ron walked into his office.
"Harry, I didn't think you'd take the hat's words so seriously." Ron said as he took a seat across from him. He had just returned from an auror mission and decided to pop in to see his oddly quiet friend.
Harry sighed as he marked his page and closed the book, "I don't know…I just don't want anything to happen to our children…I don't want them to go through what we had to go through."
He set down the papers and stared off into space, "I can't get the hat's words out of my mind…"
"Did you tell Ginny?" Ron asked, understanding where his best friend is coming from. None of them wanted their children to experience the horrific war they had gone through.
Harry shook his head, "I didn't want her to worry unless I do get a lead into my suspicions."
"I've got a lead." Harry and Ron's attention shot to the doorway where Blaise stood leaning his shoulder against the frame and his arms crossed.
"Do you always have to come in unannounced?" Harry frowned at him.
"Well, it's all a part of my charm, isn't it?" Blaise smirked.
"So, what's your lead?" Ron asked, directing the conversation back on topic. The three aurors had worked on enough cases to trust each other's instincts.
Blaise uncrossed his arms, "We'd need to visit the Draco."
HP
Draco was going through documents on muggle technology. He had been glad that he had listened to Hermione and brought smart phones, TV and computers into the wizarding world. It had been a pain at the beginning but his hard work was finally paying off. He was about to sign documents about new projects the Malfoy company was working on when his door flew open. He sighed without even looking up.
"I thought you've learned your lesson to knock before you walked into my office Blaise." Draco spoke.
Blaise scrunched as he recalled the last time he barged in unannounced. He had walked in on Draco and Hermione in the office, in a rather compromising situation. He hadn't been able to look Hermione in the eyes for weeks.
"I checked that you were alone before I decided to barge in." Blaise spoke as he stepped in.
"Harry, Ron." Draco nodded at them, "What brings you two here?"
The solemn look on their faces indicated that it's going to be a long talk. Draco pushed aside his work and leaned towards the small speaker on the corner of his desk.
"Cancel my meetings for today, Tim." Draco said into the speaker before plopping down onto the sofa in the middle of the room. The others followed his suit and sat around in a circle.
"It's about what the hat said." Harry spoke gravely.
Blaise nodded, "I remembered hearing it from my father. I think it was an ancient rhyme, more specifically, Slytherin rhyme."
Draco shook his head, "It's a little more than that."
"What do you mean?" Ron asked as he set down his cup of coffee.
Draco took out a piece of paper and set it on the table in front of them. "Screndus said that it sounded familiar, I couldn't get it off my mind...so I wrote it down."
More ashes shall fall from what was once ashes.
Again the dark swirls for the new.
Likewise, the Phoenix shall rise once more to be in flames.
Fear shall take the greatest treasure of all.
Over the unending green line of trees.
Your precious one will stand out in red so deep like blood.
Harry, Ron and Blaise looked towards the note where the fist letter of each line had been circled.
"Malfoy?" Ron raised an eyebrow at the bold letters.
Draco nodded, " It's an old Malfoy rhyme, I think my mother used to sing it to me when I was little, it never really made sense though. There's something behind the words that I can't decipher…"
"Did you tell Hermione?" Blaise asked.
Draco sighed, "No, she's got too much on her mind about the war orphans project. So don't you worry her about this."
"You know she'll be mad when she finds out."Harry said.
Draco looked at his friends, "You know that all our wives will all be mad when they find out, yet none of you are willing to tell them either."
A heavy silence loomed over the room, all the men in the room felt seriously troubled. The door suddenly flew open cutting through the heavy atmosphere and two tiny figured rushed towards Draco.
"Daddy!" The twins cried in unison.
"What are you two doing here?"Draco chuckled as he scooped them up. His quickly pushed his thoughts about the hats words to the back of his mind.
"We wanted to see you work!" Scordius beamed.
"I guess that means you two sneaked out didn't you?" Ron asked as he ruffled Scorpius's head.
"Twinky didn't even notice!" Scorpius announced smugly.
"Since you're both here, why don't we all get ourselves some pie?" Ron asked as he lifted Scordius from Draco's lap.
"You sure you won't steal my pie?"Scordius eyed Ron suspiciously.
Ron rolled his eyes, "Come...on! I won't!"
"Alright, Scors' did you bring your jackets?" The two boy shook their head in unison smiling brightly. Draco sighed as he configured up two coats for them.
"Put them on, and if you're fast enough we could get some ice cream before your mom finds out." Draco smiled as his hand reached around the note with the hats words and concealed it in his back pocket.
Hermione had become a magical rights lawyer. She was currently working on projects regarding werewolves. She took a break from her work and looked up to look at Soteira who was seated on a big armchair. On her lap was a book almost as big as hers. Hermione smiled as Soteira read through the book tentatively, thinking she looked so much like her younger self. Although Soteira sported the unmistakable Malfoy blonde hair, she has the exact duplicate of Hermione's features.
"Mrs. Malfoy." Her secretary entered the room, "Mr. Tathom wants you to run over some things with him."
Hermione nodded, "Is it about the war orphans project again?"
Though the war had been years ago, the aftermath chaos it left behind was problematic and required many people like Hermione, to help to resolve it.
"Yes." her secretary replied.
Hermione nodded, "Alright, get my files, will you?"
She then turned to Soteira, "Sweetie wait for mommy in here alright?"
Soteira nodded as she continued to read her book.
On her way to the boss's office she bumped into Ginny who mentioned that she would be dropping by to visit Harry after her quidditch practice.
"Ginny! Glad I caught you, can you look over Soteira for me? She's in my office." Hermione asked.
"Sure, although you know she'll just have her nose in a book. Not like she'll get into any trouble.' Ginny chuckled.
Ginny watched as Hermione smiled and speeded off towards her meeting. Ginny headed for Hermione's office. As she approached the office she heard rustles behind the door. Stepping closer, Ginny heard the whimpering of Soteira.
Acting quickly, Ginny threw the door open and to her shock, she saw a large black book flapping around the office like a bird. The book zoomed around the office viscously as it dived towards the desk that Soteira was curled under, taking refuge. As the book once again smacked against the desk, Soteria released a cry.
Ginny pointed her wand and quickly set it ablaze. She watched the book take two more flaps of its wings before disintegrating into tiny shreds of paper. She turned to see Soteira, who was shivering under the desk with her arms around her knees and her eyes still wide.
Ginny quickly engulfed her in a hug, "Are you hurt?"
Soteira shook her head slowly and Ginny rushed the little girl out of the office.
Hp
Soteira swung her legs as she sat on the bed, looking at the healer who was examining her.
"Nothings seems to be wrong." The healer concluded.
"Are you sure?" Draco asked soothing Hermione's pale hands that where gripped tightly to his own.
The healer nodded, "We've gone through every possible tests, everything is functioning normally for Soteira."
"Did you check for any traces of dark spells?" Hermione spoke up.
The healer nodded once more, "We assure you everything's alright with her, but if you're worried, we could have her stay overnight in case anything does happen."
"I don't think that will be necessa-"Hermione started but was cut off by Draco.
"Yes, she'll stay, for precaution." Draco insisted.
"I'm fine daddy!" Soteira pouted.
Draco sighed as he lifted his daughter into his arms, "Just one night, Daddy and Mommy will be here with you, and tomorrow we'll go to any place you want."
"Zoo?" Soteira cocked her head.
Draco nodded, "Zoo it is."
"Everyone will come too?" Soteira asked as she turned to look at the crowd that had came with her father.
"Yes, we'll come with." Ron nodded.
Hermione frowned, "Please don't feel like you hav-"
"Come on Hermione," Blaise interrupted as he crossed his arms, "We're obliged to spend time with the lovely little princess. You can't possibly take that away from us. Besides, it could be a family outing for all of us."
Hermione smiled back at Blaise appreciatively. It was times like this that she rally was grateful to all her friends.
Soetira beamed, "Lily and Scarlet be coming too?"
Ginny smiled, "I'm sure they will be delighted, I'll ask Lily when she comes back from her kid's quidditich practice."
Draco smiled as he watched Soteria's face break into an enormous grin. He was glad that she was no longer scared. Among the chatter, a dark shadow hissed before disappearing, leaving one haunted word that caused Draco tense. Draco looked around the group to see everyone else chatting happily with each other until his eye's caught Harry's who looked equally fearful.
It had seemed that only Harry and Draco caught the chilling whisper of "soon."
Any ideas on what caused the book to attack and who the whisperer is?