FIRST MEETING
James was over the moon, his daughter was a witch, not a squib but a 'witch' and that too a beautiful one, he then remembered that Malfoy brat falling over his daughter and grimaced, that brat needs to know where to put his hands. He was suddenly feeling very protective of his daughter and promised himself that he would make up for the time lost with her.'only if she let you anywhere near herself after what you have done to her' said a voice that sounds suspiciously like Remus inside his head, and James Potter was left with nothing but guilt, then and there he promised he would stop at nothing but Harry's forgiveness
The flames suddenly turned green and leapt six feet tall before diminishing completely. James looked up at three very familiar visitors. Sirius and Remus grinned at him.
"Hey Prongs!" Sirius greeted, stepping out of the fireplace."You could at least let me know you were coming," he playfully complained. "I could've been busy." Sirius made his way to the kitchen, poking around the dishe
"You got any dinner left?" he asked.
"Leftovers are in the fridge!" James yelled over to him.
"How can you still be hungry after all you ate at the restaurant?" Remus asked Sirius, following him to the kitchen.
Remus has finally forgiven his friends and have decided to start afresh with them but he will never forget the loss of his cub
"I have a very fast metabolism." Sirius answered, pulling out the leftovers of roast beef from the fridge. "I need to be fed at regular intervals."
"You're such a child!" Remus chastised.
"Which is why I'm so damn precious!" Sirius grinned as he began picking at the food, not bothering with a plate.
"Why prongs you are looking quite happy today, devised a new plan to get Minnie's knickers in a twist" asked Sirius black grinning madly. James just rolled his eyes, "no, padfood something even better, I will tell you about it when it is confirmed" he said the last line looking directly at Remus.
Remus lupin was near the forbidden forest, waiting for his new class, this class consisted of their guest students from beauxbatons and usual gryfindors and Slytherins. Today he was going to introduce them to the unicorns, "welcome class, today is our first care of magical creatures lecture with our foreign guests" he said. "Today we shall be learning about, unicorns, now who among you can tell me what exactly a unicorn is" he asked.
"A Unicorn is a white, equine creature with a single horn on its forehead. Unicorn foals are born pure gold in colour. They remain so until they are about two years old, at which time they turn silver in colour." answered Hermione. "Very good Hermione, take ten points to Griffindor" he said proudly.
"Did she swallowed a text book" commented a silver blonde girl that Remus was sure has to be a veela. At the comment the students around her started to laugh loudly making Hermione's face to go red in embarrassment.
Remus rescued Hermione by continuing the lecture "At around four-years-old their horn grows in. They are fully grown at about seven years old, at which at this age they turn a shade of pure white that is so bright that it makes freshly fallen snow look grey in comparison. Their hooves are golden, (remaining so from their gold stage, the first two years of their life), and their blood is silver-blue in colour and shines under the moonlight. It is not mentioned how long a Unicorn can live for." "now the one we have here is still very young, Unicorns prefer a woman's touch, but the young ones are more trusting and do not mind men as much. Unicorns are also so fleet-of-hoof that they can rarely be caught by humans., so I want all the boys to step away and the girls to silently approach it"
The girls silently approached the unicorn, Remus looked up to see that the leader of the beauxbatons students have not moved from her plan and was looking at the unicorn with a bored expression on her face. "May I enquire Why are you not approaching it like you peers, miss..?" Asked Remus. The girl just looked up at him with a black face and Remus got a good look at her face, particularly her eyes. Their was only one person ever to have eyes that bright. 'No, this can't be possible, it just can't be possible' he thought to himself. he has searched day and night every orphanage, every adoption form to search for her but has found nothing and has finally given up a few years prior to search for her when he was presented with evidence of a child name Harry dying in an orphanage in London. He still remembers the day
Flashback
' Wool's orphanage'
Remus met the head matron of the orphanage, it was one of the last orphanages left in London where he has yet to search for Harry.
"Yes, Mr..?" the head matron inquired ones they reached her office, the orphanage was a dingy building and just by looking at it, one could feel misery and loneliness, he wish every God that his Harry has not been brought up in such an atmosphere.
"Remus.. Remus lupin, miss Ashford" he replied. "Very well then Mr Remus, to what do I owe this pleasure, are you here to adopt a child " she inquired. "no miss Ashford, I am here to inquire about a child, a girl named Harry, she was...lost a few months ago" he completed sadly. the matron gasped. "I am sorry for your loss, and to answer your question yes there was indeed a girl named Harry that was brought to the orphanage a few month ago" Remus felt hope blooming in his chest, finally he has found her, he let a small smile to come out on his face. "But she died, a few days later due to severe illness" she finished. Remus felt like he has been kick hard in the shin. 'No, it was not possible, she couldn't have died' he refused to believe that lying women.
end flashback
"Valorix, its miss valorix, professor" were the words that broke Remus out of his thoughts. He stared at her, he had to make sure it was his Harry, his cub.
After the class ended "miss valorix could you please stay back" he said. He saw people around her tense and subtly surround her like a human shield, 'wow this is interesting it seems they are quite protective of her like loyal soldiers to their Queen.' He thought. Harry(or suspected Harry) ordered them to back off with just a shake of her head. "you wanted to see me professor?" She inquired. He was stunned. Seeing her up close, any doubts of him about not being Harry fled his mind. "Harry" he whispered.
The girl just raised her eyebrows but inside Harry was thinking furiously 'should she reveal her identity to like she planned or should she make the suspense last a little longer, no Remus was the only one before father that ever cared for her' as much as she wanted she was unable to bring herself to break that hope on Remus's face. "Yes" she sighed "I am Harry". The joy in remus's face was priceless. he immediately crushed Harry in a tight hug " oh Merlin, Harry how are you? Where have you been?, gods how I missed you, I tried to find you everywhere" he has tears in his eyes as he said this. "But now that we have you back, I would never let you go"
Harry jearked out of his arms "I am sorry moony, but I can't stay, I have a family now, one that loves me and I would never leave them, I revealed myself to you because I thought you deserved it, you have always stood for me but now its time you move on and think of your self" she said. "Harry please" he pleaded "no moony, I am sorry but this is for the greater good" and that said she turned around and left.
The next day when Harry entered great Hall with her usual band of follower's she heard a loud and arrogant voice that she immediately recognized as her supposed father's. James Potter was standing there and boasting that how unfair was it about the age restrictions that his son could not enter as he was sure that Daemon could easily win the tournament and Daemon Potter stood there basking in the adoring eyes of people.
"I have never seen another person so self centered, any more praise and one would start thinking that Potter is the incarnation of Merlin himself" said Leon Winchester from beside harry.
Just before passing through the massive doors leading into the entrance hall, their small group was joined by Viktor krum and his friend, Friedrich Conrad. No words were spoken as they walked inside to see a fairly large group of students already crowded around the ancient artifact. Among those present was a young man Viktor recognized as Cedric Diggory, who was just placing his name in the cup. The Hogwarts students cheered as a semi bright green flame belched briefly before going dormant once again.
The hall went quite as the Durmstrang and beauxbatons students approached and silently placed bits of parchment with their names written on them into the cup. Harriet cast an appraising look at the age line that surrounded the area before shaking her head in disgust. The 'security', as Dumbledore called it, to ensure that younger students did not enter the competition did nothing but prevent them from entering themselves, there was nothing inhibiting an older student from entering the name of their younger schoolmates. she was about to comment on this shoddy work and lack of detail when Fleur nudged her shoulder and led her to the other side of the hall.
Voices of protest was heard from the Hogwarts population about the underage beauxbatons students being permitted to participate while they were not, what those idiots failed to see was that age limit for a witch and wizard to be declared adult was fifteen in France thus making them eligible to compete according to the set conditions.
Tom Marvolo Riddle was strolling in the corridors of his precious Hogwarts as if he owns the place, think about it he did own a quarter of it. He had no idea why he came to Hogwarts today of all days not that he did not have a reason, on the contrary he had a very good reason, something that will get Dumbledore's knickers in a twist. but something inside of him told that it was in his best interests to visit the school today.
He headed straight to the headmasters office."cockroach clusters" he gave the password with sheer disgust in his voice, so much for a matured and powerful wizard, Dumbledore defiantly had the worst choices of password. The old coot was sitting on his chair behind large oak table decorated with weird magical artifacts.
"Ah..welcome Tom, is there a reason you are here today, you certainly are busy enough to not be here only to pass time, after all living two lives at the same time must be tiring" said Dumbledore.' So the old fool intends to play Tom, but two can play this game' Tom thought. "I have no idea what dual life you talk about Dumbledore, may be Fudge is right and you are indeed loosing you touch, but not to worry happens to the best of them" he said with a smirk on his handsome face. "I am here because of an entirely professional cause, u see the minister thinks that moody is not apt for the job for the defense against dark arts as a complaint was filed against him Turing a student into ferret recently. So I offered my services till the end of the tournament to add extra protection as the Hogwarts governors also agreed on" that said he openly grinned at the look on Dumbledore's face. " I will be joining my duties from coming Monday, hopefully you will make announcement as I will be living in the castle starting tomorrow, good day headmaster " and Tom Riddle gracefully strolled out of the office. Leaving a very aged looking headmaster beside him
October 31st came and all the students from the three schools were gathered at the Great Hall to see who will be the champions. Dumbledore started the dinner feast and Harry had his customary seat next to fleur and Leon. all the Beauxbatons students were looking at her knowing that she will be the one selected out of them, and they were right, but Harry wasn't paying any attention to what was going on, her eyes were trained in the handsome wizard sitting on Dumbledore's right, she has never seen something so beautiful, it felt like she knew the wizard but think as much she might she could not point out where. 'Perhaps in some other life' whispered a voice in her brain. She brushed it aside quickly because at the very moment Dumbledore stood up
"Attension everybody, professor moody will be unable to continue his classes due to some reason and thus welcome professor Marvolo Slytherin who has graciously decided to replace him fir the duration of the term on minister's request, also professor Slytherin will be sitting on the TRIWIZARD judging panel due to Mr. Crouch's bad health"
After Dumbledore was done speaking professor Riddle, looked and smiled at the students, his smile alone had many girls in the hall swooning at him and giggling like love sick puppies.
"Oh my god, what a handsome man..!, I think I might just be worth to stay at Hogwarts even if to catch a glace of him everyday" said Amara, a girl in their group to fleur who was sitting beside her. Harry didn't like the girl talking the way she did and had to resist cruciating the girl within an inch of her life. She did not know why but she was feeling very possessive of the handsome professor.
Dumbledore was announcing Tom as a Hogwarts professor, oh how long has Tom waited to see this day, know that it was finally here his attension was drawn to something or someone in particular, she was beautiful, the most beautiful creature he has ever seen, and she was looking directly towards... Him!, that is when Tom looked into those eyes,
eyes that he could recognize anywhere, those were the eyes that has been his hope and light in the darkest of times, those were the eyes he thought of every night before going to sleep.
The last time he has seen the owner of those eyes in person was when she was merely a baby, and then every night till she was six but then she was detached from his heart and mind and vanished, but know that she was here Tom felt his possessive nature come to surface. Merlin, this absolutely stunning creature was his and only his to cherish and worship, he would destroy any man, women or creature who stood between them now that he finally have her, his soulmate, his other half.
The spell was broken by Dumbledore standing and introducing him, green eyes suddenly started to pay attention when he was mentioned and it send pleasant feeling inside of Tom, he could only mange to smile at her in return.
The headmaster continued, "Now that you are all silent, we are ready to announce the three champions for the tri-wizard tournament!" He reached for the Goblet and declared,The champion for Durmstrang is… VIKTOR KRUM!" Everyone cheered for Krum, especially Karakoff was very delighted. "Finally the Hogwarts champion is… CEDRIC DIGGORY!" All of Hogwarts cheered the Puff seeker as he was declared the latest champion. one by one as their names were announced the champions were sent to a small room adjucent to the head table. and finally the The champion for Beauxbatons is… ASTORIA VALORIX !" There was a cheer from the French camp and even Malfoy and his friends congratulated them. Tom noticed very carefully as Astoria (as he know she was called) stood to go to the room all the while eyes watching him every now and then
"Will the three champions make their way to the back room please? Now that we have the champions-" before Dumbledore could finish, the Goblet went crazy and blew a piece of parchment, and the headmaster looked pale when he looked at it. He read out, "daemon Potter!" Daemon didn't answer, and Dumbledore said with a loud voice, "DAEMON POTTER! Can you please come to the front"