Boiling Hogwarts
Whispers broke out the moment Sirius's head hit the table, as they all looked between Luz and Sirius confused. Ron was glaring at Luz which worried Harry slightly. He really hoped that Ron wouldn't gain a grudge against her for some reason, after all he knew what his best friend was like.
Luz looked at the fainted man at the end of the table and asked gently 'Is he all alright?' The man who had introduced himself as Dumbledore to her stared at her gently which reminded her of Principal Grump after his heart warmed to her and group after a while when he said 'He will be yes, he seems to just be in a bit of shock. After all he is probably the Sirius Black you're looking for' Without thinking uz let out 'Santo cielo' a single thought ran through her head that is my father? She looked at Harry who was looking at her potential dad concerned as she fought off a yawn, she needed to rest up soon.
Choosing to take her mind off that for the moment, she gently took off her bag from her shoulders and said 'Mr Dumledore? Can I ask you how you know of the boiling Isles...not many know of my home, especially not from this world?' the Man stroking his beard, a jolly smile on his face that reassured her greatly even though she wasn't even sure what exactly she was nervous about, in a calming way he said 'I'm very old, even by wizard standards and I have had plenty of time to study the history of magic and learn about the other magical realms and their doorways, like that door key you have around your neck.'
Luz grabbed the magicless key which had originally opened the door portal to the Boiling ISles that she had followed Owlbert through all those many years ago. Harry was looking between Luz and the headmaster, now slightly confused. He didn't actually think Luz was telling the truth when she said she was a different kind of witch to them, but it was clear by Dumbledore's attitude that she was. Next to him he heard Hermione whisper 'Harry, Ron, do you see what DUmbledore is doing?' Both of them shook their heads making Harmione sigh as she moved her curly hair behind her back and said 'He's studying her ears and clothes. Clearly whatever this boiling isles stuff has to do with their ears'.
Suddenly Sirius groaned and his voice croaked out 'ugh I just had the weirdest dream….This Girl...well not even a girl...a woman arrived here with Harry and said she was looking for her father who turned out to be me?!' He slowly looked around as everyone gave him a, it wasn't a dream! look which forced the innocent convict to look at Dumbledore and ask 'it really happened?' Dumbledore nodded and singled to Luz at the head of the table who was breathing slowly and heavily and said 'Sirius, meet your potential Daughter Luz Noceda' :uz looked up with glowing eyes and said 'Hola papá' giving a small wave.
Sirius gulped loudly, he knew he had always been a bit of a player when he was a teenager as he tried to live as much of a carefree life as possible….he even fell truly in love once but to actually have a daughter...that came as a surprise. Staring at the Young Woman at the other end of the table from him he could immediately see some things that screamed at him such as her nose and the way shuffled from foot to foot as everyone stared at her even though she wasn't nervous.
Speaking up slowly he said 'It's nice to meet you Luz…' Noceda...he recognized that last name but from where….it felt close to him already. He gulped again and asked while giving a quick glance 'I apologize, my memory has been very hazy these past few years Luz….can you give me your mum's name?' she nodded, summoning a white wooden staff with an owl on top of it which she started to stroke 'of course….Mr Black, My mom is called Camila Noceda' Camila?
His eyes widened as he whispered 'Camila?' He remembered her now, the woman he met in Spain as a teenager who he fell madly in love with...the woman he was torn away from. Speaking up he said 'wait a minute….Camilla and I met roughly 17 years ago….you look older than 16.' Glances of suspicion started to be aimed at LUz. She rolled her eyes while continuing to stroke Owlzura 'your correct, I'm 21 but time works differently in the boiling isles. I would be roughly 16/17 if I didn't reside in the isles.'
Harry's head was bouncing between them as he listened to their conversation intently, Luz didn't seem to be lying at all but Sirius was very understandably upset. Suddenly Professor Snape spoke up and said in his chilling voice 'Headmaster, I'm certain that you should be able to cast a spell to confirm their bond….however may I suggest we do this in the morning, many of the younger members seem rather sleepy and I can tell our guest has travelled a long way to be here'
Luz let out a loud yawn that surprised everyone and she went bright red not expecting to be so loud. Dumbledore chuckled and said 'Well said Severus. This meeting of the order is adjourned. I will catch you all up with what's happening once it's resolved tomorrow morning. For those not staying here tonight I bid you a goodnight.' Several people around the room said goodnight until it was just Sirius, Luz, Harry, ROn, HErmione, Remus, Tonks The rest of the Weasleys and Dumbeldore.
Luz looked around the much quieter room and let out another yawn. The lack of sleep from the past couple of nights was catching up with her, she could tell. She would have to call Eda and Amity before she went to sleep. Dumbeldore turned to face the pink haired one that they called Tonks and said 'please take our guest to one of the cleared out guest rooms Nymphadora' the pink hair changed to bright red but she nodded and said 'come on Miss Luz' leading her out of the room which she was very much grateful for.
Those still in the room turned to face Sirius who looked like he was having a meltdown, his head in his hands as he stomped his foot in frustration, 'Damn it! i let another kid grow up with me' Dumbeldore slowly went around to him placing a hand down on Sirius's shoulder 'SO you believe she is telling the truth then Sirius my boy?' Sirius's breathing hitched before he replied 'Well I knew Camila Noceda… I met her when I was on Holiday in Spain for a couple of months. We were dating but then my bi...witch of a Mother found out and dragged me back to Britain. We spend enough time that way for a kid to be born….Also who would want to state their my daughter? All the Death Eaters know I'm actually an innocent man and nobody outside of them would ever want to be associated with me because they believe I'm guilty'.
Harry wanted to reach out and comfort his godfather but he felt like him getting involved might make Sirius feel even worse than he currently was feeling. Dumbledore rubbed Sirius's back and said to the older man 'go get some sleep my boy, it's going to be a long day tomorrow as we discover the truth.' Sirius nodded and left the room slowly. Then Dumbledore turned to face Harry, suddenly becoming a lot more stern 'Now Harry, please tell me everything that has happened tonight. Do not leave anything out at all!' Harry looked at Hermione and Ron, sighing before telling his headmaster everything.
Luz sat in the room that she had been led to by the woman called Tonks and let out a loud yawn. Pulling out her scrollbile she prepared to phone Eda to check in with the Owl House. She pressed the call button waiting a few minutes until the grey haired Eda Clawthorne answered and said 'Is that you Luz?' Luz smiled at her magical mother/Paternal Figure and said 'Hi Eda just checking in, how are you and the kids doing?' THe Woman grinned as she made a circle and said 'we're all doing great, Zula and Alya have both been putting me and Lilith through our paces, for only being 2 they are way too full of energy and the two of us aren't as young as we used to be… By the Titan when did I become a grandmother.'
Luz chuckled loudly and said 'When you became mi mamá all those years ago when you took in me.' Eda groaned 'it's only been 7 Years kid. Anyway, how are things on your end since Camila talked to you?' In the background Luz could hear her and Amity's two daughters laugh with Lilith 'Not too bad, I met my Birth Father. I can say more tomorrow though.' Eda nodded with a smile and said 'I better go before King gets the wise idea to play with the kids and wake them up properly again.' Turning off the call when she finished speaking.
Luz smiled contentedly knowing that her kids were fine and that Eda and Lilith were both doing well too. She decided to phone Amity now. The phone rang for barely a second before her girlfriend answered by saying firmly 'how are things in the human world?' Luz gave the brown haired coven leader a brief rundown of what happened since they last talked earlier that evening, ending it with 'so yeah that's everything so far, how has the day been for you?' Amity sighed letting her hair down 'well… My siblings decided to mess with one of my dad's machines which forced me and Gus to take it down… which made dad very happy to be honest as he got to see it in action but We had to remind the twins that they run Blight Industries now and that they do unfortunately have responsibilities now.'
Both of them chuckled before Amity continued 'So we are clearing up that mess right now, I was just about to call Eda and Lilith to see if they could look after Zulu and Ally for me overnight' smiling I said 'Lilith was just leading them to sleep so I don't think it will be to much of an issue' Amity sighed in relief before saying 'good. Now get to sleep honey, love you… vye' hanging up very quickly, most likely to strangle her siblings. Happy Luz bullied off her T-shirt so she was just wearing her tank top and sweaters. She cuddled into the bed as her scrollbile showed a picture of her, Amity, Zula, Ally, Eda and Lilith on its magical paper.
The Next morning there was a loud knock on Harry, Ron and Hermione's room waking them up. They had decided to spend a large amount of time catching up after not seeing each other for well over a month which for them was a long amount of time for three people who basically lived with each other for nine months out of the year. Hermione groaned out loud mumbling 'we should have fallen to sleep earlier' Harry chuckled from where he was on the floor 'Probably' suddenly there was another knock on the door as Mrs Weasley called in 'rise and shine boys and Girls. We have lots to do today and not much time'.
Hermione and Harry turned to face Ron who was just snoozing away, they grabbed a pair of pillows and slammed them down on his chest forcing the red headed boy to wake up 'I'm awake okay!' he groaned. The Three of them grabbed what they were going to wear that day with Harry grabbing a pair of robes and they all set about getting to the bathrooms as quickly as possible.
Luz on the other hand woke up with a strained neck shortly before there was a knock on the door. She was cracking it back into place when Tonks asked from outside 'Is it okay for me to come in?' Luz Looked up at the door and said 'Sure thing' the door creaked open and Tonks entered now with bright red hair 'So you're Sirius's kid huh?' Looking at Luz curiously, she had been extremely bored and tired last night so she wasn't really paying attention until the Woman who was only a year younger than her said she was Siriu's daughter. Luz was also looking at Tonks curiously, fully noticing the others' curious glances. Luz however was extremely interested in Tonk's hair. It had been pink the night before and it didn't look like hair dye.
However Luz knew she shouldn't leave the other woman's question hanging. 'According to my mamá he is, I hope she's telling the truth...it would be good to learn about him in person if he really is my father, what's it to you though?' Tonks smiled 'Sirius is my mum's cousin...She believed he was innocent for years and yeah he turned out to be innocent...I swore to help him out in any way.' Luz looked at her worried 'Innocent? For what?' Tonks started to sweat at the neck 'it's probably better if he told you himself...Anyway if the check comes out clear that means your family!' Luz chuckled a bit nervous now that she heard her potential father was "Innocent" of something.
Actually, why was she Nervous?! She literally lived with Eda the Owl Lady for 6 years who was one of the most wanted criminals in the boiling isles during the reign of the failed Emperor Belos. Toks pulled her hair up into a pun as Luz was thinking to herself, 'When your ready, just call for me and I will lead you back down to the dining room, you won't want to miss breakfast' Luz smiled and threw on her T-Shirt, not bothering with her cloak. She then tapped the rune on her shoulder and the fibers that were all across her clothes were replaced with new ones practically making her a new identical set of clothes, 'Ready!' was also she said.
Tonks's eyes were widened at the way the Luz had used magic but started to lead the girl down to the dining room, there were just at the door when they heard Harry yell 'I'VE BEEN WHAT?!' The two women looked between each other but Tonks opened the door to find Harry, Ron, Hermione, Sirius, Mrs Weasley and a young girl who Luz didn't recognise but going off the other red headed people assumed was a Weasley too.
Mrs Weasley sighed 'Calm down Harry, It says you're expelled and to have your wand snapped for use of underage magic in front of a muggle but we know from your account that you didn't do anything. Plus Dumbledore would never allow anything like that to happen.' She looked up at Luz and said 'ah good morning dearie, What do you want to eat?' Luz seemed to hum and haw at what to have but she ate so much food from the boiling isles that she forgot what Earth had sometimes. She then just decided to go for anything and said 'whatever you have Mam'. Mrs Weasley broke out into a grin and started frying up food for the Boiling Isles Witch.
Luz grabbed a seat across from Harry, a couple seats down from Sirius and close enough to the kitchen counter that she could probably grab more snacks if she wanted to. She looked Harry up and down slightly and said 'Did you sleep alright kid?' Harry nodded, trying to process what Mrs Weasley had just told him replying 'Yeah, how about you Luz?' Luz grinned and Chuckled 'Exactly like king!' Despite being exhausted, Hermione asked 'DOn't you mean like a King?'
Shaking her head Luz replied 'nope, just like King my demon.' Sirius turned to face her from further along the tabe where he was stuffing his mouth 'You have a demon?' Luz truend to face the poor man who looked like he hadn't slept 'Yeah, lots of people on the boiling Isles have demons for friends/pets. We look after them to make sure they stay safe and they provide us with protection from mindless demons.' Hermione, ever curious, asked 'You keep mentioning the boiling isles but what is it, I've never heard of it in any of the books I've ever read?'
Just as Luz was about to answer Mrs Weasley placed a plateful of food down in front of Luz and the door to the room slammed open again as Dumbledore entered the room with jolly 'Good Morning Everyone' Several people in the room turned to wish him good morning but Luz was currently stuffing her face full of delicious food. She had forgotten to eat dinner the night before so she was pretty hungry.
Dumbeldore swiftly and naturally made his way to the end of the table where he had sat the night before sitting down in the chair with Mrs Weasley providing him with a similar portion of food to that of Luz with a cheeky comment from mrs Weasley who said 'You are to think even for a man of your age.' Luz leaned over to Tonks and once she finished swallowing the current bit of food asked her 'How old is Dumbledore?' Tonks replied '113!' Luz's eyes widened and she almost spat out her drink.
The Boiling Isles was full of people who lived to different ages but she didn't know anyone who lived to 110 yet never mind 113 in the human realm. The trio of teenagers brought the slightly younger ginger haired girl into their conversations while everyone else ate their breakfast.
Once everyone was finished, Dumlbedore stood up and said 'Sirius, Miss Noceda can you please come up here?' Both of them stood up and made their way up to Dumbelodre at the end of the table who was holding two small dishes. 'I need some blood from you both, Slash the palms of your hands with this nice, it should heal the wound a few seconds later.' Sirius nodded understanding what Dumbledore was doing...Luz however didn't and held the knife awkwardly watching as Sirius cut open his palm, blood dripping from his hand...then stopping, the injury completely healed.
Luz sighed before pulling the metal blade across her hand letting blood pool out of it, she could feel her hand grow the skin back over it withins seconds as she watched blood that did come out drip out onto the small dish. DUmbeldore took the two knives away, handing them to Mrs Weasley to carefully take them away to be cleaned. The Elderly Man pulled out another dish and his wand placing both on the table's. He tipped a small bit of blood from both dishes into the new dish before waving his wand. The blood mixed before a line of blood shot up in the hair first with Sirius's name then a line coming down from it was Luz's name with (daughter) right next to it'. To fully put the doubt to rest three more lines appeared, one of them pushed Sirius to the Side and led up to a name that read Camila Noceda, one going up from Sirius which showed his parents names and one that went across from Luz stating "Amity Blight (Noceda)"
Sirius slowly turned to face Luz 'So….you're really my daughter….Do you want to come talk with me in another room?' LUz was following the lines noticing that her daughters weren't on the line but nodded saying 'I would like that...Dad' Sirius started to lead her out of the room with Harry whispering good luck to her as she passed him.
She was having a hard time not panicking as he led her to one of the rooms in the house. While she didn't know how this magic worked completely, It Showed Amity's name so she assumed it was pretty accurate. She went to pull out her scrobile to distract her for a few minutes but realised that she had left it in the room that she had been sleeping in. Suddenly her dad came to a stop in front of a closed door and slowly opened it up. Sirius said to her without really looking at her 'we can talk in here.'
The room was dark when they entered but Luz decided to fix that by grabbing a light glyph from her bag, activating it with a slight finger press creating several orbs of light which floated up knocking against the ceiling. Her dad looked up in amazement asking 'How did you do that?' Luz pulled out more light glyphs and replied 'You and everyone else here uses magic using Wands….but I can't do that so I use magic from drawn glyphs which are powered by a mixture of my own magic and the magic of my home the boiling Isles.'
Sirius nodded unsure but fascinated 'and what are these boiling isles that you keep mentioning?' Sitting down in one of the seats as he continued to stare at his daughter and the magical light she had created without a wand, 'The Boiling Isles in a land mass within the Demon realm...it's called boiling because the sea actually boils and it's a set of island within that sea within the rib cage of a massive dead Titan Demon….you know what it's to early to explain of this right now'. Sirius nodded as he watched Luz sit in a chair across from him.
He studied her up and down for a couple of minutes. He could clearly tell that she was Camila's daughter but he could just about see parts of himself in there like he thought earlier. However she seemed to hold herself with a lot of confidence like the world was nothing to her. He sighed and said 'I'm Sorry for not being there….god I'm not only a crap Godfather but a crap father too…' Luz reached a hand out and pressed a hand against his arm 'I don't blame you at all. Mamá told me how your mom forced you back to Britain before my mamá could tell you where she lived. Also for the past 7 years I've barely lived in the human realm anyway. Even if you were in my life….I doubt you would have seen me much anyway.'
Sirius hung his head in shame 'but still...' Luz interrupted him and said 'Now what was this that Tonks told me about you being innocent.' Sirius refused to look up at Luz and replied with a mumble 'I was arrested for a crime I didn't commit. When Harry's parents were murdered I went out looking for vengeance and then was framed.' Luz's voice hitched slightly 'Harry's parents were murdered?!' Sirius could only nod trying to not think back to that Halloween night.
Luz could see the despair on his face and decided to change the subject and said 'actually you're not just a father….you're also a grandfather.' His head shot up, his eyes wide 'a Grandfather?!' Luz nodded moving to catch her dad should he faint like he did last night. He looked at her shocked 'But you're only 21! You have your whole life ahead of you?!' Luz chuckled 'I'm happy with my decision. I get to be a magical explorer while also being a mother. A Lady can be both without neglecting one or the other.'
Sirius calmed down remembering that technically he had been a ttenager when he sired the woman in front of him as he said '38 and already a grandad, I feel old. SO who's the lucky father?' Luz smiled 'My girlfriend Amity from the Boiling Isles.' Sirius raised his eyebrows at that but didn't comment, clearly magic worked quite differently in this boiling isles thing and the details weren't really of any concern to him, 'SO how old is my grandchild then?' Luz smiled and said 'Zulu and Ally just turned two last month'. Sirius's eyes widened 'Twins?! Wow okay…. So is your girlfriend looking after the kids at the moment?' Luz nodded 'yeah, well at least when she is not working. When she is my Mamá in the boiling isles and her sister looks after them.'
Sirius sighed 'do You think I can see what they look like?' Luz nodded understanding that her dad might be struggling to understand that he was a dad and grandad on the same day and reached for her normal phone which was in her pocket when all of a sudden the door to the room burst open as Harry charged in yelling 'SIRIUS! FUDGE IS TAKING ME TO COURT!'.
A/N New Chapter! Just in time for the release of Season 2 too! God I can't wait! I've referenced things we see in the trailer A LOT in this chapter btw. And yes this chapter is very much a Luz chapter and not very much of a Harry one but there was a reason for that. UNtil next time byeee
