Harry Potter and the Unwanted Ticket.
A twist at the end of Harry's first trip to Diagon Alley with Hagrid.
Chapter 14: Dawn of a New Magical World.
I don't own the Harry Potter verse. Just playing.
Summary: A twist at the end of Harry's first trip to Diagon Alley with Hagrid. As they approach the Leaky Cauldron to leave Diagon Alley, Hagrid decides to present Harry with his gold ticket to the Hogwarts Express, while Harry was really expecting to go directly to Hogwarts with Hagrid now. Harry asks a different question.
And that changes everything. HHr NLLL T for Characters deaths.
25/12/22 Beta alix33 Thank you.
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Continued the same day after the Firefight at Fortress Crouch.
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Sirius had forgotten about breakfast as he reread the article again and again. He had feared that even with Fudge and Crouch out of the path to his freedom, Dumbledore could still do his magic to block his return to life and prevent him from caring for his Godson. Too many sheeple would still believe anything the old wizard said. Even though Rita's article completely exonerated Sirius loud and clear, but would it be enough to correct what the sheeple have believed for ten years. Will they accept that Dumbledore had lied to them or rationalise it away so that they can believe him again? That was Dumbledore's power, the sheeple wanted to trust and believe him and his Greater Good, rather than think for themselves.
Sirius was interrupted by a pop and turned to see Princess.
"The Wolf-man is looking for you, Grim-man." Princess said as she handed him the letter from Remus and popped away.
Sirius ripped the envelope open and read the letter. Remus wrote that he always knew Sirius could never betray James and Lily, but he had no proof that could stand up against the word of Albus Dumbledore. And the headmaster didn't make it easy for the werewolf, and would never say where Harry was and blocked all attempts to visit him for fear of the Death Eaters and other werewolves like him.
Sirius knew how Moony felt and would love to see his old friend. He went looking for Madam Longbottom to ask her for permission to invite his friend.
Sirius returned to the dining room to find it being set for lunch.
"There you are Sirius." Madam Longbottom said.
"Yes, Gran. I received a letter from Remus Lupin wanting to see me." Sirius requested. "Could I invite him over this afternoon?"
"Well, after the events of yesterday and the death of Minister Fudge, I have invited a number of friends from the Light side of the Wizengamot over this afternoon to discuss what to do next. They would all like to talk to you."
"Oh?" Sirius wasn't sure about that.
"Remus has used the basement before, so I don't mind him coming and I am sure Frank and Alice would love to see him. Why don't you invite him for dinner at seven pm and he can stay the night if he wishes."
"Okay, thank you." Sirius gave her his most cheeky smile. "Where is Harry?"
"Oh, Governess Tonks has taken Harry, Neville and Luna visiting. We still need to keep Harry hidden. They couldn't find you so you are stuck here."
"Oh?"
"Now go and clean yourself up, and you must be on your best behaviour this afternoon!"
"Yes, Gran!" Sirius cheekily replied before he rushed out of the room.
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While there was a small celebration at Longbottom Manor, elsewhere the headline of the Daily Prophet, Firefight at Crouch Manor. With the subheadline, The Death Eaters Last Stand, caused pandemonium. Witches and Wizards everywhere read and reread Rita's article, and studied the full page full colour magical moving picture. Everything had changed overnight. Fudge was dead with that evil Death Eater Malfoy and Dumbledore had lied to them. The magic of Rita's amazing article was slowly working as she covered the battle and what led to Fudge and Malfoy to go attack Barty Crouch. Now everyone reading it knew that it was Peter Pettigrew who had betrayed James and Lily Potter, and that Sirius Black was innocent, and had never even had a trial, and had been left to rot in Azkaban by Bagnold and Dumbledore.
In the Hogwarts Infirmary, the Madam of Pain took one look at the latest Daily Prophet and smirked as she placed it on the bottom of the pile of newspapers next to the headmaster's bed. He was still in a magical coma and such news would impair his recovery. In fact she doubted that he would be able to recognise the new Magical World with all the changes so far. With the painful passing of those evil Death Eaters rotting in Azkaban and now the rest of the evil Death Eaters go get themselves incinerated in a firefight they started. Poppy took a moment to remember Bozo and Barty Crouch, wondered when she could visit the Atrium to pay her respects.
While in the Great Hall of Hogwarts, Professor Severus Snape snorted into his Eggs Benedict as he read the headlines of the Daily Prophet, and studied the amazing magical moving picture. He could recognise each and every Death Eater just by their size and shape. Everyone he could remember went on that raid to Fortress Crouch. He had hoped that the grim wouldn't stuff up his suggestion for eliminating the obstacles to Black's freedom but even he was amazed on how far-reaching these changes will be to the Magical World, and was so thankful he had ignored Lucius' invitation to an old time get-together. He was more than glad that he had apologised to Harry. For once he was on the right side of change and it felt so good.
Then he smirked and allowed himself a silent fist-pump, yes, as he realised how much these changes will upset the headmaster and all of his manipulations, plans and schemes.
Severus informed Professor McGonagall that he needed to leave the castle to go comfort his friend, Narcissa and his godson, Draco. They both knew that this will change everything now.
Narcissa was so glad to see Severus as none of their former friends and neighbours, who weren't already dead, were prepared to speak to a Malfoy. As everyone had seen the Daily Prophet headlines and that photo, and knew that Lucius Malfoy was a cruel vicious unrepentant evil Death Eater who would murder anyone. That meant that the Malfoy name was dead and what was left of the Malfoy fortune will soon be all gone. To save herself and her son, she desperately needed to contact the Head of the Black Family and come under his protection. And wouldn't you know it, Severus just so happen to know where the elusive Sirius Black could be found.
Severus sent Princess to contact Sirius and soon Narcissa and Draco dumped the hated Malfoy name and rejoined the Black Family, which also now included members of the Tonks Family. Narcissa was happy to move into Grimmauld Place after she gave up the Country Ancestral Home of the Black Family that Lucius had confiscated after the sudden unexpected death of the former head, Lord Arcturus Black.
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Hermione woke up the pleasant smell of Eggs Benedict with extra side of Bacon, and opened her eyes to see Shere Khan sitting on the window sill sharing a plate of the yummy food with a large white cat.
"Moonlight? How did you get here?" Hermione asked.
"She flew, of course." Another young female voice replied.
"Luna?" Hermione turned to see the witch sitting cross leg in her chair reading her copy of A Brief History of Time: by English physicist Stephen Hawking. (Upside down of course.) "How did you get here?"
"We flew, of course." Luna smiled.
"We?" Hermione jumped up to hug her friend.
"Yes, Harry has this potion his mother created called Poly-Animagus-Juice Potion. You add some DNA and poof, you turn into a clone of that creature for some time depending on how much you drank." Luna explained as she enjoyed a Hermione hug. "We added a feather from Hedwig for me and a feather from Louis for Neville, and turned into snowy owls. We are so jealous of Harry as he has the gift of super Metamorphmagus and can turn into anything he wishes. We followed Hedwig and Louis as they carried Moonlight here. It was only ten minutes as the Magical Mail Owl flies and poor Moonlight was missing her Crookshanks terribly."
Hermione chuckled. "It's Shere Khan now. Father gave him the new name when they became drinking mates. Where are Harry and Neville?"
"Oh, they are in the kitchen cooking breakfast. Neville and I wanted to see a Muggle home."
"Oh? Are my parents up?"
"No, their door was closed and I think that they are exercising." Luna explained thoughtfully.
"Oh?" Hermione smiled and then she grabbed Luna hand and ran down the stairs to the kitchen together.
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Dan and Emma were relaxing after their exercise and heard the pitter-patter of little feet.
"That doesn't sound like Hermione." Emma said.
"Could be rats." Dan wondered. "Not to worry, Shere Khan will sort them out."
And rolled over and went back to sleep.
While Emma couldn't, so she got up to investigate.
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Hermione and Luna ran down the stairs, through the hall and skidded to a stop in the kitchen to see Harry placing the last of the bacon on a large serving plate while Neville placed the last of the pancakes on another large serving plate on the kitchen bench. Harry managed to put down the frying pan just before Hermione hugged him.
"Hi, Hermione." Harry said as he enjoyed the hug. "Hope you don't mind us visiting. Gran and my dogfather were celebrating some good news with some old friends and we took the opportunity to go visiting as Neville and Luna wanted to see a Muggle home and Moonlight was missing her Crookshanks."
"No, I don't mind and Crookshanks answers to Shere Khan now." Hermione replied as she saw the dining room table was set and Hedwig and Louis were patiently waiting for their breakfast. "I didn't realise that you could cook."
"Yeah, I had a lot of practice with my relatives." Harry smiled. "I cooked the Eggs Benedict with extra side of Bacon, while Neville tried his hand at pancakes."
Hermione was going to hug Neville but he just put his hand up for a high-five as he was covered in a light dusting of flour.
Luna pulled Hermione to sit next to her with Neville on the other side and Shere Khan and Moonlight sitting on the next chair together waiting for more Eggs Benedict with extra side of Bacon while Harry served Hermione, Neville, Luna and the hungry owls and cats. He prepared another plate of Eggs Benedict with extra side of Bacon and then called out.
"G T!"
A crash was heard coming from another room.
"Damn! Reparo!" A voice was heard with a flash of light. "There, good as new."
An older teenage witch walked into the kitchen with a limp. She had a pale heart-shaped face, dark twinkling eyes, and short spiky hair that was a violent shade of violet. She smiled as she saw the young witch sitting next to Harry.
"Wotcher, Hermione! A pleasure to meet you." Tonks said with a wicked smile as she transformed her features to mirror Hermione. A seventeen year old Hermione with beautiful wavy brown hair and large front teeth. She wrinkled her nose and shrunk the front teeth until they were perfect.
"This is G T, she is our Governess Tonks for today, and she said that she is our Big Sister but didn't like it when we shortened it to B S. Said it was like the 'M' word." Harry explained.
"B S? The 'M' word?" Hermione wondered.
"Yeah, she wouldn't tell us what the 'M' word was, nor the problems with B S. We are not old enough, apparently." Harry said with a huff. "Anyway, G T, is a Metamorphmagus and has the rare magical ability to change her physical appearance through sheer magical will alone." Harry explained as Tonks whirled his hair for the governess bit.
"Oh, that's amazing!" A surprised Hermione said and froze as she recognised how perfect the witch's smile was. "But? Your teeth are perfect."
Tonks noticed the insecurity. "Would you like me to do something with your front teeth?"
Hermione looked at Harry who nodded encouragement, and she nodded a yes.
Tonks triggered her wand into her hand a conjured a small mirror and gave it to Hermione and then pointed her wand at those over size front teeth. "Say when."
Hermione's eyes went wide as she saw her rather large front teeth slowly shrink. "Stop!" She said clearly when they were the perfect size and her smile radiated her joy.
"Thank you, G T!" She said as she jumped up to hug her older self.
"Thank you, G T." Harry said as he gave her the plate of delicious Eggs Benedict with extra side of Bacon.
"Thank you, Harry. You know how to spoil a girl." Tonks teased as she sat at the table.
Harry prepared another plate with a small serving and called out.
"Princess?"
Pop!
And three elves appeared. Princess was holding a younger upset female elf with a young male elf in an old pillowcase, with rips for arm- and leg-holes.
Hermione recognise the little old lady from her strange dream and finally discovered who the mysterious 'P' was.
"Er — hello," said Harry nervously.
"Harry Potter!" said the young male elf in a high-pitched voice. "So long has Dobby wanted to meet you, sir... Such an honour it is..."
"Oh?" An embarrassed Harry mumbled as Luna moved to hold the younger female elf and comfort her on her lap.
Princess did the introductions. "This is Dobby and this is Winky, one of the granddaughters of Princess. Their masters have died unexpectedly and they find themselves without a family. They used to belong to the Potter Family, but bad old whitebeard gave them away to other masters so they couldn't find young master. Princess was hoping that good young master Harry would be their family again."
Harry looked at the two young elves. "You knew my parents?"
Dobby and Winky nodded hopefully.
"And you wish to be my family again?"
They quickly nodded again.
"Okay, what do I have to do?" Harry asked.
Princess explained. "Just place your hands on their head and share your magic."
Dobby and Winky stood before Harry as he did so and there was a faint glow as he felt his magic flow into their heads and they all saw the change and improvement in the two elves. Dobby snapped his fingers and his old pillowcase turned into a tuxedo with the Potter Crest and Winky's clothes turned into a mini dress robe with the Potter Crest.
"Wow!" Hermione said.
"Welcome back to the family, Dobby and Winky." Dobby wrapped himself around Harry's knees as Princess snapped her fingers to magically extend the table and conjure more chairs. Harry smiled while he prepared two more serving of Eggs Benedict with extra side of Bacon, and pancakes and handed them to the three elves.
Princess smiled as she accepted the plate of Eggs Benedict from Harry. While Dobby and Winky were surprised that the Great Harry Potter had served them. They hesitated for a moment and looked at each other before they gratefully accepted the delicious food. Winky returned to Luna's lap while Dobby sat next to her.
"Master Harry, you spoil old Princess." The happy elf said as she sat down next to Dobby. She noticed that Neville was covered in flour and snapped her fingers to clean up the boy while Hermione silently watched in wonder.
"Thanks, Princess." Neville replied as he enjoyed the delicious food that he had surprisingly helped cooked with Harry's guidance.
Harry sat between Hermione and Princess. He answered Hermione's unasked question. "This is Princess, and Princess, this is my best friend, Hermione."
"Hello, Princess." Hermione shyly answered.
"Good morning, Hermione. Best friend of good young master Harry." The elf greeted as Hermione smiled when the elf took the effort to pronounce her name correctly.
"Princess is Sev's family house-elf. She has been looking after him since he was a baby." Harry explained.
"Yes, Princess changed little baby Sev's cute little tush and vanished the nappies clean." Princess replied while Tonks choked at the image of Professor Snape in nappies, while the children giggled. Hermione giggled because it sounded funny while Neville and Luna giggled from personal experience.
Then she added. "Winky and Dobby did the same for good young master, Harry."
Harry blushed as everyone chuckled while Tonks choked again and then replied.
"Oh, my family would visit the Potters when you were a baby Harry and I was so glad Winky changed your nappy. I don't know what you were eating but the terrible smell was absolutely atrocious. When I heard that you had defeated You-Know-Who, I assumed that you had chucked a bucket of your soiled nappies at him." Tonks explained. "Your nappies were toxic magical waste."
"Oh? I remember my mother screaming and a green flash." Harry said slowly, but saw Tonks shocked expression. "I will have to remember the nappies for next time."
Hermione wrapped an arm around Harry.
"Princess also knew my mother." Harry continued.
"A beautiful powerful witch was Mistress Lily." Princess said sadly as she patted Harry's arm. "Princess misses her dearly, but good young master Harry is so much like her."
Harry smiled as he continued. "Sev was a childhood friend of my mother and my Aunt took me to him once I knew I was a wizard. He is also Professor Severus Snape, the Potions Professor at Hogwarts, so you will meet him there. He may look like a vampire, but you will like him as he is a nice fun cool dude."
Hermione chuckled. "I hope he is a good teacher."
While Tonks looked shocked. That was not the Professor Snape she knew.
Harry smiled. "Professor Snape is a brilliant Master of Potions."
"Great." Hermione smiled as she enjoyed her Eggs Benedict with extra side of Bacon, and pancakes. "This is so delicious. Thank you Harry and Neville."
"You're welcome."
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Emma wrapped herself in her dressing gown and opens the master bedroom door and slowly walked along the hallway. Hermione's door was open but her room was empty. She slowly walked down the stairs and along the hallway as she heard the giggle of happy children which was odd as she only had a single child last night. She smell the delicious aroma of Eggs Benedict with extra side of Bacon, and pancakes as she approached the dining room and saw the amazing sight of a happy Hermione enjoying breakfast with the three friends she made yesterday along with two cats, two owls and three little people that have pointed ears and must be some sort of magical elves. Then she notices the older Hermione and recognised herself as she looked when she went to uni.
"Hermione?" Emma asked.
"Oh, good morning, mum." Hermione greeted her mother. "You remember Harry, Neville, Luna, Moonlight, Hedwig and Louis, and the older me is G T, er, Governess Tonks for the day. This is Dobby and Winky, Harry's family elves, and Princess, Sev's family elf."
"Hi, Mrs G." Harry greeted.
"Wotcher, Mrs G!" Tonks greeted.
"Hi, all. Please call me, Emma." She greeted them as Harry served her a plate of Eggs Benedict with extra side of Bacon, and pancakes. "This smells delicious, Harry."
"Thank you, and Neville cooked the pancakes."
"Thank you Neville." Emma replied as she sat down next to Moonlight. "Shere Khan?"
The tiger cat looked at her.
"Could you go get, Dan, please?" Emma requested. "He won't want to miss this."
The tiger cat nodded with a wicked grin and looked at Moonlight. Both cats disappeared down the hallway side by side with their upright curved tails linked together to form the shape of a love heart.
"Oh, that's so sweet!" Hermione said as everyone looked and agreed.
"So, how did you get here?" Emma asked.
Luna answered. "Well, Moonlight was missing her Shere Khan and so Hedwig flew her here in her wickerwork basket while Harry, G T, Neville and I flew along."
"Flew along?"
"Yes, Harry has the gift of being a super Metamorphmagus and can turn into a snowy owl like Louis." Luna explained as Harry demonstrated and turned into a snowy owl with bright emerald green eyes, and hopped onto the table.
"Oh?" Hermione and Emma exclaimed.
"You are so cute and beautiful." They said as they patted Harry.
Luna continued. "While G T, Neville and I had to use a potion that Harry's mother had created with Sev, called Poly-Animagus-Juice Potion. We turned into a clone of Hedwig and Louis. It took us ten minutes to reach here as the Magical Mail Owl flies."
"Oh, how did you get inside?"
"Well that was our cunningly devised plan as Hedwig is a Magical Mail Owl and she flew Moonlight's wickerwork basket through the crack below the door." Luna explained as she pointed the basket in the corner. "Shere Khan let Moonlight out and she asked him to open the door to let us in. I hope you don't mind."
"No, I don't mind, but that is rather an extraordinary cunningly devised plan." Emma replied.
"Yeah, Luna is part seer and very good at cunningly devised plans." Neville smiled as snowy owl Harry turned back into just Harry.
Emma continued. "Or you could have just rang the doorbell."
"What's a doorbell?" Neville asked as Hedwig gave Harry a look with a twist.
"We will add that to the list of Muggle things to show you, Neville." Harry explained as his owl continued her antics and communicated with her master. "Hedwig got here first and she doesn't need doorbells to get inside to deliver the mail. She also said that you were rather busy and she didn't wish to interrupt you. Something about the birds and bees?" He turned to Hedwig. "Birds and Bees? What on earth are you talking about Hedwig?"
Hedwig just ducked her head under her wing as Harry wondered what he had missed. While Emma, Hermione, Tonks and Luna choked on their food, and Princess shook her head.
Hedwig peeked at Harry and rolled her eyes.
Then Emma and Tonks snorted as they saw the exasperated look the disappointed owl gave the hapless boy that reminded them of exasperated looks their own mothers would give them. Emma and Tonks shared a glance and smiled as they had heard each other's laugh and wondered if they had shared a kindred spirit.
Then the silence hit Harry and made him wonder.
He leant close to his familiar and whispered. "You're talking about s-e-x, aren't you?" Harry spelt out.
Hedwig nodded and barked. 'What an idiot!'
"Hey!"
Hedwig threw her wings up and barked. 'What do you call it!'
"Oh, well, that's the bull elephant and the gazelle." Harry continued to whisper, while his owl gave him a questioning look for more information. "Well, that's what my relatives sounded like. The thud, thud, thud, of a bull elephant stomping followed by his trumpet of triumph, and then the gazelle escaping and running off to the bathroom. The house shook like an earthquake but fortunately it was all over in less than minute otherwise I am sure the house would have collapsed on top of me."
Harry may have been whispering but everyone else was silent and not looking at each other and trying desperately not to laugh.
Until Luna, bless her heart, cheerfully contributed in that bright innocent Luna way.
"Mummy and Daddy would say, Tarzan and Jane, because Daddy loved to swing from the crystal chandelier wearing only a smile."
And they lost it, and laughed uncontrollably.
AN: What code words did your parents use? Share it in a review. Or you will never get the image out of your head of Rhys Ifans swinging on a chandelier wearing only a smile.
And you know Rhys would so do that!
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Shere Khan and Moonlight found Dan asleep on the bed and Shere Khan implemented phase one of the master plan called; Operation, Awake Up Dan, He jumped up on the bed, walked over to the sleeping Dan and sat on his chest and stared into his face. Phase two would be for Shere Khan to gently open Dan's eyelid with his claw and look inside to see why Dan was still asleep, while phase three would have Moonlight fall asleep on Dan's face.
Fortunately, Dan felt this weight on his chest crushing his lungs so he couldn't breathe and woke up coughing.
"Shere Khan, what are you doing?" Dan sat up and tried to push the tiger cat off his chest.
Shere Khan just made a low growl, nodded towards the open door and gave Dan a look that said 'you need to get up as breakfast is waiting'. He left with Moonlight leaving Dan all alone.
With the door open, Dan detected the faint delicious aroma of Eggs Benedict with extra side of Bacon, and pancakes, and cheerful uncontrollable laughter. He followed the delicious aroma and wandered into an amazing sight in the dining room. Where everyone was laughing themselves silly.
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Dan's innocent question of.
"What did I miss?"
Just caused everyone to look at him and start hysterically laughing again.
Eventually, Emma was able to control herself enough to stand and hug her husband, and do the introductions, as Harry handed him a plate of Eggs Benedict with extra side of Bacon, and pancakes. He sat next to Emma while she tried to explain what was so funny.
Neville thumped the table like an elephant, Harry trumpeted and Hermione made the pitter-patter sound of a gazelle running to the bathroom. While Luna gave a Tarzan call as she pretended to swing.
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"Anyways! Harry, you can understand your owl?" Emma asked when she got her breath back, a little surprised and slightly embarrassed.
"Yeah, Magical Mail Owls are amazing and are charmed to lift heavy loads effortlessly and deliver mail anywhere at the speed of magic." Harry smiled are he nodded to Hedwig. "They even gave my aunt a flight like Mary Poppins and delivered her back to her car."
"Oh that's amazing and being able to transform into an owl. Well, that is quite some magical gift you have Harry." Emma chuckled. "As long as you don't turn into a Tyrannosaurus Rex."
The children laughed as Harry replied. "No! Of course not."
"Good!" A relieved Emma replied.
"It's too small in here, anyway." Harry finished.
"Oh?"
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There was a lot of friendly discussion on the obvious differences between the Magical World and Mundane.
Then Harry took out four small mirrors about two by four inches, and presented them to Hermione and her parents. "Here Hermione, my dogfather made this for us. It is a two-way communication mirror he called an 'M-Phone'. If you need to speak to me, just say my name into it; you'll appear in my mirror and I will be able to talk to you. My dad and Sirius used them when they were in separate detentions."
Hermione smiled as she held the mirror M-Phone and said Harry's name into it. Harry's mirror vibrated and they heard Hermione's voice say his name. He held up the mirror to show Hermione's smiling face. Emma held her mirror M-Phone and said Dan's name and it connected to Dan's mirror. Harry explained to tap the mirror to end the call.
"This is great Harry. We will be able to talk to Hermione at Hogwarts." Emma said and Harry nodded.
Hermione asked. "Harry, which house do you hope to be in at Hogwarts?"
"Oh, Sev suggested I ask for Ravenclaw." Harry replied.
"Oh? I thought you would want to be in Gryffindor like your parents. Professor Dumbledore was in Gryffindor." Hermione queried but Harry, Neville and Luna frowned at the mention of the name while Hedwig and Louis spat onto their plates. A reaction that didn't go unnoticed by Hermione, Dan and Emma or G T.
"I am not too happy with the actions and behaviour of the headmaster." Harry replied.
"Oh, but he is…" Hermione was cut off by her father.
"What do you mean, Harry?" Dan asked, as his daughter could be a little too trusting of authority figures, and he had his concerns about this new magical world.
"Well, the headmaster kept me ignorant of the Magical World by dumping me on my magic hating aunt and uncle, and I didn't know I was a wizard until Hagrid told me on my birthday last month. And that was after a certain somebody kept upsetting my relatives by sending me my Hogwarts Acceptance Letters."
"Letters?" Emma asked. "Hermione only received one and that was hand delivered by Professor McGonagall."
"You're lucky. My first Hogwarts acceptance letter was delivered by an owl and the Dursleys snatched it off me and burnt it. The next day another letter arrived and they burnt that one too. Then three letters arrived and met the same fate. Then twelve, then twenty-four, then hundreds arrived on the Sunday, and uncle Vernon put us all in the car and drove around the country as he tried to hide. But the letters still kept coming until Hagrid found me on my birthday, told me that I was a wizard and finally gave me my Hogwarts acceptance letter." Harry explained. "To say that the Dursleys were a little upset would be an understatement, and it was all the headmaster's doing. It caused so much trouble for me and my relatives."
"Wow, I am so sorry to hear that." Emma said as Hermione wrapped Harry in a hug.
"We have not been told much about the Magical World other than there was a civil war that you ended ten years ago." Dan explained. "Has much changed?"
Neville answered. "Until a month ago, very little. Gran said that after He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named was blown up by Harry, only the worst, most evil Death Eaters were sent to rot in Azkaban." He noticed their questioning look. "A Death Eaters is what the bad guys called themselves, and Azkaban is a terrible wizard's prison in the middle of the North Sea. And then the rich Death Eaters claimed that were acting under the Imperius Curse. That's an evil curse that can enslave you to do terrible things against your own will. Then they used their gold to get off Scot-free. I doubt that they ever stopped being Death Eaters and they had important powerful positions in the Magical Britain. But since Harry finally got his Hogwarts acceptance letter, everything has changed. All the worse most evil Death Eaters in Azkaban have died and then last night the remaining exonerated Death Eaters attacked the fortified home of a retired Ministry official, and they all died in the firefight."
"Oh? We haven't heard of any incidents overnight." Dan wondered.
"It happened in a magical area and only involved magicals." Neville explained.
"That was almost everyone who had a vested interest to block my dogfather from getting his freedom." Harry added.
"That's why we are here. Gran was having guests over to discuss the events and what happens next." Neville continued. "And we needed to keep Harry's location a secret from the headmaster."
Luna added. "The Magical World is a far safer place now and could even become magical."
"Just Voldemort and the headmaster to go." Harry finished.
"Oh?"
Harry continued. "So for the Hogwarts house. The children of the Death Eaters favour Slytherin House while the headmaster openly favours Gryffindor House and there is a lot of bitter rivalry between the two houses. So that is why we are going to try for Ravenclaw House to avoid the headmaster's manipulations."
"I think you should try for Ravenclaw too, Hermione." Dan suggested as he looked at Emma and agreed they would discuss the matter later.
When they had finished eating, Harry started to gather the dirty dishes when the old elf spoke.
"No, good young master Harry. Princess shall clean up. Go have some fun."
The old elf snapped her fingers and all the dirty cups, plates and cutlery came alive and flew off the table towards the sink as Dobby and Winky snapped their fingers and the cups, plates and cutlery started to dance around as they washed themselves in the sink with the brush, then spun to dry and returned to their place in the cupboard or drawers. Hermione, Emma and Dan watched in amazement as Princess, Dobby and Winky went on to cleaned whole house, then trimmed the lawn and garden, and vanished the clippings into compost. It was just like the Sorceress' Apprentice only better without the mess, and it didn't take too long.
Then Hermione and Harry gave Neville, Luna, Princess, Dobby and Winky a tour of Hermione's completely Muggle home and showed how everything worked without magic. Dan and Emma watched Neville and Luna's reactions as they marvelled at the magical Muggle things. They loved the garden and greenhouse with the automatic watering. Inside they were amazed by the refrigerator, dishwasher, washing machine, computers, huge wide screen TV with surround sound.
For lunch, Dan and Emma ordered takeaway Chinese and pizza and drive through KFC. Neville and Luna got to ride in a car for the first time when they went to pick up the food in the Grangers' Range Rover. Shere Khan rode shotgun on Hermione's lap, and seemed to sense Dan's growing frustration with some inattentive, impatient, annoying and less skilled drivers they had to unfortunately share the road with.
One such agitated driver was following Dan so closely that there was barely six inches between their bummer bars and it filled the rear view mirror. Dan heard the engine rev up and the impatient idiot attempted to undertake on the left. As the idiot drew level, Shere Khan gave them a gentle reminder of the road rules. He pushed the down button of the electric window and Dan heard a low growl and smirked as he put his left hand over his left ear and prepared himself for what was about to happen.
RAAWWRR GRRAW RAAWWRR!
The ginger tiger cat was hanging out of the open window and let loose a deafening bloodcurdling roar of one hundred and thirty decibels of sabre-tooth tiger goodness directly at the agitated driver that drowned out their loud angry horrible noise that some think is music and scared the crap out of all the occupants of the offending automotive vehicle which stalled due to effect of the magic from the Kneazle shorting out the electrics of the car, seizing the engine and locking up the rear wheels. Fortunately the car skidded to a stop just missing a parked truck.
Dan tried hard to contain his snicker while G T, Harry, Neville and Luna were quite amused but Hermione was totally embarrassed as Dan and Shere Khan shared a high-five, palm to paw, while she mumbled something that sounded like, 'A bad influence and corrupting my familiar!' But a tiny small part of her really wanted to introduce her courageous familiar to all those bullies who always seemed to find her. She wondered if that made her a bad person.
Anyway, Hermione would grow to love her tiger cat and his abilities to defend and protect her. While certain obnoxious loud-mouth opinionated narrow-minded individuals with the emotional range of a teaspoon, will learn to fear the wrath of Shere Khan. The hard way.
Dan parked the Range Rover in a large car park and Shere Khan climbed up onto the roof to guard the Grangermobile and catch some rays with G T. Hermione took Luna's hand while Harry kept a close watch on Neville as they navigated the car park with all the cars, SUVs, vans and trucks. Neville and Luna looked around in wonder at all the different shops, smells and noises, and all the people, and all the different foods.
Dan went alone into the Chinese Restaurant as it was crowded and returned with two large bags of containers of hot Chinese food. Harry took the bags from Dan as they made their way to the Pizza shop.
Dan looked at Harry to see he was empty-handed. "Where is the food Harry?"
"Oh, Dobby popped in and placed some warming charms on it, then took it home." Harry explained. "We stood around to keep him hidden."
"Oh, that makes it easy." Dan replied. "Just, don't mention that to Emma otherwise she will never stop shopping if she doesn't have to carry the parcels."
Dan went into the Pizza shop and came out with four pizzas boxes and gave them to Harry. They had also disappeared before they returned to the Grangermobile. They notice no one had parked next to them as they piled back in and Shere Khan took his shotgun position as they drove off to the KFC drive-through. Neville was amazed by the delicious sensation of the KFC.
On the return trip they found the offending automotive vehicle was still stuck on the side of the road with the terrified occupants outside looking everywhere for the escaped tiger while the car windows were down with the doors open to allow the smell out as the seats were cleaned. Harry recognised the scrawny boy with a face like a rat and his mother.
"Hey, that is Dudley's best friend, Piers Polkiss. His family was in that car. Piers usually was the one who held people's arms behind their backs while Dudley hit them. Way to go, Shere Khan!" Harry cheered as he reached over and high-fived the tiger cat.
The grin of satisfaction on Harry's face told Hermione that maybe Harry was one of those who had been held by this Polkiss while Dudley hit him. She felt better that her familiar was a Warrior for Justice.
Shere Khan was rewarded with a triple serving of KFC and beer.
It was the first time Harry, Neville and Luna with the elves, owls and pussy cats, had tasted Chinese, pizza and KFC, and enjoyed the treat very much.
To finish off the scrumptious lunch, Emma sent Louis off to Diagon Alley with an Owl Order for the new healthy ice cream treat Emma's Knickerbocker Glory, from Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour. Louis soon returned with the treat in perfect condition due to the freezing charms on the packaging. Dan was most amused to be eating an EKG but he had to admit it was delicious and he would love seconds.
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Later Hermione asked. "Harry, can I try the Poly-Animagus-Juice Potion for a snowy owl?"
Harry handed her a phial marked Hedwig.
"Will you have enough to fly home?" Hermione wondered as Emma and Dan looked interested.
"Go ahead, Hermione." Luna replied. "It can be very exhausting if you are not use to all that exercise, and Neville and I can ask Princess to pop us home."
Encouraged, Hermione took a sip and gave the phial back to Harry as she shrank down into a clone of Hedwig and flapped her wings.
"Wow, can I try that?" Emma asked and Harry gave her the phial.
Emma looked at Dan and then finished off the phial but nothing happened.
Luna suggested. "You may need some more magic, Emma. Harry give her a hug and share your magic.
Harry opened his arms and Emma wrapped the shy boy in a Hermione hug. Where was a faint glow and in a moment Harry was holding another clone of Hedwig. He released her onto the table as Dan came over to pat his snowy owl wife.
"Would you like to try, Dan?" Harry asked as he held out the phial marked Louis.
Dan couldn't resist and drank the phial and Harry hugged him as he felt himself transform into a snowy owl. Harry released him on the table with the snowy owls of Hermione and Emma as Hedwig barked to catch their attention and give them their first beginner's lesson in flying.
With Hedwig's excellent tutelage, the three new snowy owls were soon flying solo and earnt their wings and graduated Hedwig's Royal Magical Mail Owl Academy. They flew around the dining room while Louis and Harry flew after them to catch anything they knocked over. Soon they ready to venture outside and into the wide blue yonder. But twenty minutes later, Dan learnt the important lesson of only fly as high as you are prepared to fall, as without magic, Dan's owl only lasted half as long as Hermione and dramatically transformed back to human mid flight some ten metres above the ground. Fortunately Hedwig sensed something was happening and managed to catch Dan with Louis and Harry's owl help before Dan fell too far. Emma's owl lasted a little longer which could mean that she had a little magic. Both Dan and Emma were so excited to experience the joy of magic for the first time.
Princess popped in with the Muggle version of the Pick-Me-Up potion, another serving of the new healthy ice cream treat Emma's Knickerbocker Glory in Dark Chocolate, to help Dan and Emma recover a little of their strength after their exciting flying lessons. At least enough to walk up stairs to their bedroom.
In the afternoon Dan and Emma slept exhausted from all their death-defying flying. While G T, Harry, Hermione, Neville, Luna, Hedwig, Louis, Shere Khan, Moonlight, Dobby, Winky and Princess watched the video Emma had taken of Hermione's Night at the Museum, called Dino Snores for Kids. They loved the heroine, as brave little Indiana Jones stared down the two enormous creatures, while Neville, Harry, Louis, Dobby and Shere Khan laughed themselves silly at the antics of the two dinosaurs and particularly the Triceratops with the bad case of Dino flatus, and raspberry blowing Tyrannosaurus Rex. Somehow Neville will never be afraid of a Dino flatus Triceratops Sev. Hermione showed them her favourite movies until it was time to go. Neville and Luna loved the historical documentaries; Sword in the Stone, and Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark. They decided to save the other historical documentaries; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins, and Star Wars, for another visit.
After an amazing fun day of magic and Muggleness, Princess, Dobby and Winky popped G T, Neville and Luna home while Harry flew with Hedwig, Louis and Moonlight.
- Harry Potter and the Unwanted Ticket. -
Meanwhile earlier that day in a large conference room deep inside of Gringotts, a meeting was being chaired by Lord Ragnok with his senior managers and the Account Managers of the recently departed Death Eaters and their associates. They were there to discuss the estates these witches and wizards left behind.
Lord Ragnok spoke. "From the photo in the Daily Prophet, it clearly shows that these Death Eaters and their associates were there for conquest and as they died in the firefight, their estates were forfeit to the victor. And that victor was Mr Barty Crouch until the final duel. The final victor was the last one to die. Our records from the Life-stones, show that Mr Barty Crouch died a moment before Lord Malfoy, Less than a second, so a Killing Curse is quicker than Fiendfyre. So then by the rules of conquest, all the estates won by conquest by Mr Crouch are forfeit to Lord Lucius Malfoy. Which according to his will, the sole beneficiary is the Dark Lord Riddle."
"My lord." A brave Goblin spoke. "Our records show that the Dark Lord Riddle has lost another battle to Lord Harry Potter on the last day of July and a part of his soul was actually destroyed."
Lord Ragnok grimaced as he was not looking forward in dealing with the self-appointed guardian of Harry Potter, one Albus Dumbledore.
But the Potter Account Manager smiled. "My lord, I have good news. Recently the Guardianship of Lord Harry Potter was changed."
"Changed?"
"Yes, my lord. The new Guardian of Lord Harry Potter is Madam Augusta Longbottom. She came in with Lord Potter and had a change of guardianship letter from a Petunia Dursley, the mundane sister of Lady Lily Potter. We expedited the change and removed all of Dumbledore's access to the Potter vaults and properties."
Lord Ragnok smiled. "Please send a request for Madam Longbottom to come to Gringotts to discuss the affairs of her ward."
The Potter Account Manager rushed out of the meeting. He knew when Lord Ragnok smiled like that and made a request to come to Gringotts. That meant now!
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Madam Longbottom was relaxing with her brother Unspeakable Croaker, Madam Bones and Madam Marchbanks, and Ted Tonks. They were happy after a successful meeting with their friends and associates from the Wizengamot to discuss the possible future of the Magical World with the opportunities presented by the sudden death of the Wizengamot members of the Dark Side following their disastrous murderous attack on Barty Crouch. Everyone supported Madam Bones to become the next Minister of Magic and they felt that they had the numbers to make that happen.
When Betsy, the Longbottom house-elf popped in. "Mistress Longbottom. Goldenclaw, the Potter account Manager from Gringotts, requests an audience."
"Goldenclaw sent an owl?" Madam Longbottom asked.
Betsy shook her head. "No, Mistress. Goldenclaw sent himself."
"Goldenclaw is here?" A surprised Madam Longbottom questioned and Betsy nodded.
The adults looked at each other for it was most unusual for a Gringotts Account Manager to make house calls.
"Please send him in."
Betsy popped away and returned with the Goblin.
"Madam Longbottom. Thank you for seeing me at such short notice." Goldenclaw said with a bow.
"You are welcome." Madam Longbottom replied. "Is there a problem?"
"More of an opportunity, Madam Longbottom. Lord Ragnok has requested your presence to discuss a matter concerning your ward, Lord Harry Potter."
"Oh, when would he like to see us?"
"Now would good. If you are available? Your associates would be most welcome to accompany you."
"Oh?" Madam Longbottom looked at Croaker, Madam Bones and Madam Marchbanks, and Ted Tonks, and they nodded.
"Great! Please hold onto this gold ring." Goldenclaw held a large heavy gold ring that was one foot in diameter.
They touched the ring and Goldenclaw snapped his fingers as they disappeared from Longbottom Manor.
They reappeared in a large conference room surrounded by Account Managers and sitting at the head was Lord Ragnok. He rose up to greet his guests and was pleased to see Madam Bones was with them. He quickly explained why they were there and how Madam Longbottom's ward had just received via conquest over He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, the estates of the fallen Death Eaters and their associates who had attacked Barty Crouch as well as the Crouch, Fudge and Toad estates.
Madam Longbottom was amazed. "So, young Harry now controls sixty percent of the wealth of the Magical Britain?"
"Yes, and actually it is seventy-five percent when you include the Potter fortunes." Lord Ragnok replied. "And you can not imagine our relief that you are his guardian and not the Manipulative Old Fool."
"My word." Madam Bones said.
They spent the rest of the meeting discussing the three certainties of life; death, taxes and bank fees, and the future care of the surviving victims of the Death Eaters, and the Death Eaters' widows and families. Particularly arranging the search by Unspeakables and Gringotts Curse Breakers for cursed dark artefacts that had been contaminated by the evil soul of Tom Marvolo Riddle. They searched in the vaults and properties of the fallen Death Eaters. Over the next week a cursed gold cup was found in a certain vault, and an ugly gold ring was found in the old Gaunt Hovel protected by Voldemort's familiar, Nagini. Sadly Nagini was cursed when she touched the ugly gold ring and died a horrible painful death. Augusta asked Sirius for permission to search the Black properties and a cursed black diary belonging t Riddle was found with the help of a certain elf in the former Malfoy Manor that Sirius restored back to the Black Family Ancestral Home in Wilshire, and a gold locket was found in Grimmauld Place with an old elf with a sad tale.
But by the end of summer they knew only one cursed dark artefact was missing, hidden behind ancient magic, and powerful wards.
Ancient magic, and powerful wards that could mean only one place.
Hogwarts.
So, how would they search the castle for the missing Horcrux of Voldemort without tipping off the interfering Manipulative Old Fool?
- Harry Potter and the Unwanted Ticket. -
There was an emergency Wizengamot meeting two days after the Firefight at Fortress Crouch and the day following the revelation of the distribution of the wealth of the Dark Side of Magical Britain to Harry Potter. A distribution that included all the hereditary seats of the Dark Side in the Wizengamot. As Dumbledore was still indisposed and in another magical coma after his second run-in with the Acceptance Letters from Hell. So Madam Griselda Marchbanks was voted in to be the Chief Witch.
The first order of business was to announce that the former guardian of Harry Potter had signed the Guardianship over to Madam Augusta Longbottom. That was the first wave of change as no one expected Dumbledore would give up his total control of the Boy-Who-Lived. Only Madams Longbottom, Bones and Marchbanks knew it was Harry's Muggle Guardian who had signed it off as Dumbledore had never bothered to lodge any official parchments and never really was the Official Wizengamot Approved Guardian no matter what he claimed. The Chief Warlock can not have a Wizengamot quorum made up of three, to wit, me, myself and I.
The next wave of change was the announcement of the extra seats and votes House Potter had gained by conquest over He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named in the aftermath of the Firefight at Fortress Crouch. The following wave of change was the election of Madam Bones as the new Minister of Magic with a massive majority.
As everyone had read the Daily Prophet and knew the reason for the deadly Firefight at Fortress Crouch, along with innocence of Sirius Black, and the betrayal of James and Lily Potter by their actual Secret-Keeper, Peter Pettigrew, along with the failure of Albus Dumbledore to do the right thing. So the trial of Peter Pettigrew was next and he confirmed his betrayal of the Potters and his framing of Sirius Black.
While under the influence of Veritaserum, Minister Bones asked. "Peter Piper Pettigrew, can you name all the Death Eater raids you know of?"
Pettigrew spoke in the monotone Veritaserum voice. "All of them? There were so many."
"All of them. When was the first?"
"During my seventh year at Hogwarts. We raided a Muggle village at Yule. That was when I took the Dark Mark for raping and murdering Muggle-borns."
"What did you do?"
"I have a special skill set to be able to transform into a rat and sneak past most wards, locked doors and disarm the victims before they even knew we were there. I disabled their wards from the inside, and opened their locked doors to let everyone in. Then burnt it to the ground to hide our secrets."
"Who was we?"
"Malfoy, Nott, Crabbe, Goyle and me."
"Severus Snape?"
Pettigrew snorted. "He didn't have the stomach for murder. He couldn't even kill Potter, and besides he was too busy brewing potions for the injured Death Eaters."
"Did Dumbledore know?"
"Of course he did, he never missed a trick. But he would continuously forgive me and tried to lead me back to the light. Stupid old fool!" Pettigrew explained. "He never understood the power of the Dark Lord."
There was a murmur through the Wizengamot as they began to realise how much Dumbledore knew but still let it happen as he failed to redeem those who didn't want to be redeemed.
"Continue to list the Death Eaters raids."
Pettigrew started to list the raids, who went and who was murdered, but not how they died. That was too gruesome. It went on for half an hour as there were so many and tears were shed for family and friends lost.
Hearing the names of her brother and his family brought Minister Bones to tears, as did Madam Longbottom when the rat told of the raid on Longbottom Manor. But the murders didn't stop with the fall of Voldemort.
"My last victim was Celeste Lovegood. She recognised me near where I had been hiding and I had to kill her before she exposed me to the DMLE."
Peter Piper Pettigrew fell silent as was the Wizengamot. There had been so much death and destruction. Way too much. All of it senseless and a complete waste.
Minister Bones asked. "Why didn't you surrender to the DMLE and the Death Eater Trials?"
"I didn't have enough gold to pay and I knew far too many secrets of the Death Eaters, the Dark Lord and Dumbledore. Surrender would be an instant death sentence. I saw what happened to Sirius Black. Besides Dumbledore got me an Order of Merlin, so my mother was looked after."
It was obvious from the rat's answers, that Dumbledore knew a lot more about the Death Eater raids and had done nothing to prevent such loss of life and destruction. So Minister Bones skipped asking the questions about Dumbledore's darkest secrets as she and Croaker already knew from their previous questioning of the rat, and they didn't want to ask a question that they didn't want answered. The secret about Dumbledore and Grindelwald was already bad enough. But the secret that Dumbledore had faked a prophecy to trick Voldemort to attack Harry Potter before the young mage became too powerful, was a secret that was too much for the sheeple to accept. Even if it was true. Even if both Dumbledore and Voldemort were powerful enough to make such a fake prophecy self-fulfilling. Even Minister Bones, Mad-Eye and Croaker had found it hard to accept just how powerful young Harry was, until Pettigrew told them. "I was there. You didn't see what that Little Boy did to the Dark Lord. Oh the screaming. The screaming was horrendous. Then the Dark Lord was gone!"
It was a unanimous vote by the Wizengamot of guilty and the rat was sentenced to be Kissed by a Dementor immediately. One was brought into the Wizengamot Chamber and kissed the crying rat.
But the crimes of the rat were too much for the poor Dementor to stomach and it vomited up the black soul of Peter Piper Pettigrew. Unspeakable Croaker was quick to react and waved his wand and trapped the evil soul of the rat in a stone parchment weight.
That had never happened before so the Wizengamot decided to throw the soulless husk of Pettigrew and stone parchment weight containing the trapped the evil soul of the rat, through the Veil in the Death Chamber.
After a long lunch, the trial of Sirius Black was very short and the Wizengamot found him completely innocent. Though Sirius did try to lodge a protest at being found completely innocent to lighten the mood.
The final wave of change was the repeal of a lot of recent laws championed by either Dumbledore or Malfoy that were written in such a duplicitous, insidious and hypocritical way with loopholes big enough to drive the Knight Bus through, that they could never achieve their intended stated purpose, but actually achieved the complete opposite and advanced the Pure-blood Agenda while they were clearly aimed at restricting the rights of half-bloods, Muggle-born witches and wizards and Magical Creatures including Werewolves, Vampires, Goblins and House-elves.
The first to be repealed was the amendment to the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery. This Decree was originally written in 1875 by the Ministry of Magic and forbids the use of underage magic in the presence of Muggles who didn't have the knowledge of Magic. So underage Muggle-born witches and wizards were allowed to practice magic in the privacy of their homes and keep the International Statute of Secrecy. In 1982 Dumbledore had championed the amendment with the support of Malfoy to restrict all underage magic outside of his school, and Malfoy supported to have this new decree enforced by the new expanded Improper Use of Magic Office and was staffed by the relatives of the Pure-blood Agenda. Dumbledore's reasoning was based on the fear that modern Muggle cameras could expose magic. While Malfoy's support was based on restricting Muggle-borns from using magic at all, knowing full well that, of course, Pure-bloods would have Pure-blood privilege. The bonus being that they could easily find miscreant Muggle-borns that would need to be taught a lesson.
Fortunately, Improper Use of Magic Office had somehow managed to surround Number four Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey, the secret Muggle home of the Boy-Who-Lived, with magic detection sensors, and when the headmaster had accidentally blown the house up, the magical backlash had destroyed all the sensors and caused a chain reaction to destroy all the recording instruments in the Improper Use of Magic Office. Lucius Malfoy had of course, demanded Fudge replace all of the equipment and even loaned Fudge the Gold to pay for it. These funds had not spent yet, and with the repeal of Dumbledore's amendment to the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery, the Wizengamot decided to close Improper Use of Magic Office and reallocate Malfoy's 'donation' to Misuse of Muggle Artefacts Office.
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That night, Harry woke up with a strange feeling. Something wasn't quite right, but he didn't know what.
The clock in the hall struck two am, and Harry heard his mirror start to vibrate and make a low growl. Moonlight ran into Neville's bedroom and jumped up on the dressing table and touched the Harry's mirror with her paw. She meowed when she saw Shere Khan's furry face but he growled a little louder.
Concerned, Harry jumped out of bed and quickly got dressed as Luna ran into the bedroom. He called for Princess and Princess, Dobby and Winky popped into the bedroom as Luna got Neville up.
"Something is not right with Hermione!" Luna said and Harry turned to the elves. "Please, take us to Hermione."
Princess grabbed Harry's hand as Dobby grabbed Neville's hand while Winky grabbed Luna and Moonlight.
Pop!
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Emma had been woken up by Hermione crying. She had had a nightmare and Emma was sitting on Hermione's bed comforting her in her arms. She noticed Shere Khan growling into Hermione's mirror M-Phone, and wondered how intelligent the pocket tiger was.
Pop!
Three elves popped into the bedroom with three children and Moonlight.
Harry, Neville and Luna jumped onto the bed to join the hug around Hermione and Emma.
Harry's presence helped calm Hermione and she sadly explained. "I am so sorry. I had a nightmare that you, Neville and Luna were just a dream. A figment of my imagination, and that I wasn't magical. And I would be all alone again!"
Harry hugged her tighter. "Yeah, I know how you feel. So much has happened in the last few weeks that I find it hard to believe too."
He held out his hand and said.
"Lumos!"
A small golden ball of light appeared over his palm.
"And then I see the light, and know that I am a wizard and that I am loved and have friends."
Hermione smiled through her tears and held out her hand.
"Lumos!"
A small golden ball of light appeared over her palm, and she saw the light and felt loved.
Emma smiled as she saw and felt the love. She was so happy that Hermione had friends who loved her.
Winky popped in with a tray of hot chocolate to help them sleep, and a bowl of milk for Moonlight, three Butterbeers for the elves, and two dry vodka martini shaken not stirred for Emma and Shere Khan.
They stayed until Hermione was asleep and them Princess and Dobby popped Harry, Neville and Luna back to Longbottom Manor while Winky watched over Hermione.
Emma turned to Shere Khan who was finishing his third dry vodka martini shaken not stirred. "Thank you, Shere khan. I was at a loss at what to do, and you decided to call the cavalry."
Shere Khan replied with a low growl and a tilt of his head.
"I was worried sick how Hermione will fit in with this strange new world she is going into, and that we couldn't follow. But now I know she will be safe and loved. Just promise me this, that you will always bring her home."
Shere Khan replied with a low growl, a nod of his head and a burp.
Emma chuckled as she heard a pop behind her and she turned from Shere Khan to look at Luna and Winky.
Luna climbed up on to Emma's lap and snuggled in as Emma wrapped her arms around her.
"You're a real little snuggle bug, Luna."
"You have no idea." Luna smiled and lit up the room. "I can see magic and I see that Hermione has a good and brave heart."
"Oh?"
"She is dreaming sweet dreams of a certain wizard with emerald green eyes." Luna explained.
"That's nice. Hermione has been alone for so long."
"Hermione will never be alone anymore." Luna replied as she moved to look Emma eye to eye. "I can see a little magic in you but something could be blocking it. If you see Madam Tonks at the Surprise Birthday Party, please tell her what I said and have her check you."
"Oh, okay?"
That was something interesting Emma thought.
Luna snuggled in again and was quiet for a while.
Then she softly spoke. "I found out today that my mother didn't die in a magical accident."
"Oh? I am so sorry, Luna." Emma cuddled the teary eye little witch.
"My mother was murdered by the same rat who betrayed Harry's parents and he also betrayed Neville's parents. It all came out at his trial before the Wizengamot today." Luna said softly. "Neville is snuggling with his mother and father and Gran."
Emma snuggled the teary eye little witch and tried to comfort her.
"My mother was a beautiful brilliant brave kind loving witch, and that evil coward killed her because he was careless and didn't want to be caught."
Emma continued to love the teary eye little witch as if she was her own daughter.
After a while Emma asked. "How is Harry taking it?"
"Adults have failed Harry for so long that he is creating his own family." Luna pointed to the smile of Hermione's face. "Harry is sharing a sweet dream with Hermione."
"How?"
Luna pointed to the two small golden balls of light that floated together over Hermione's bed.
"Magic can be truly magical when there is love."
Emma snuggled Luna and kissed the top of her head as she cried for her dear beautiful mother, and was soon asleep.
Being so late, Emma carefully laid the sleeping Luna next to Hermione and tucked her in. She smiled as they snuggled.
Emma looked at the two small golden balls of light that floated together over Hermione's bed, and wondered how long they would stay.
Well, they are still floating there today.
Showing the true Power of Magic is Love.
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Thank you for reading.
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AN: What code words did your parents use for the birds and the bees? Share it in a review. Or you will never get the image out of your head of Rhys Ifans swinging on a chandelier wearing only a smile.
And you know Rhys would so do that!