Chapter 16 –Garrison Assessment

The Next Day

The information of the situation of last night immediately spread among the prefects and the head boys and girls of each house and predictably it was a worrisome thing, the other students also had worries when this was revealed of what was happening with the garrison. Twilight of course got a message from her friends that they need her to organize on how the activities will be done; her reply was of course that she will come but only after the DA meeting; they had been accompanied by some of the robots assigned to guard the entrance to the common rooms.

"And those incidents happened for a time, last night was the worst so far." Hermione explained to the gathered students.

"We talked with some of the robots assigned to the entrance of our common room, it seems that they are been provoked by their so called 'new colleagues'. They insulted them by saying they defend the house of the scared badgers." Said Justin, resentful of how they had called the Hufflepuff House.

"And according to some younger students, the veterans are trying to avoid much contact with the new ones. There seem to be a lot of animosity." Padma said.

"The situation can't go like this; sooner or later this could go out of control we can't rule this out." Tracy said.

"Does anyone has an idea on how we can figure this thing out?" Draco asked.

"For this situation we need a muggle born that know more about them, either that or Professor Burgbage." Daphne said.

"Hermione you must know something more about them." Twilight said.

"This time, I am not a big expert; my parents who are dentists only have an assistant robot at their clinic that is put to carry the utensils. And there is a difference between one made for this and things like battle robots despite been standard ones." Hermione said.

"What about you Harry?"

"In my case the Dursleys would use robots, but unfortunately they had me to do most of the chores around." Harry said before a certain someone started jumping around, it was Colin who dragged his little brother Dennis.

"Harry, Harry I might have an idea." Colin said tracking his attention.

"What is your idea?"

"My brother Dennis, back home before getting his Hogwarts letter was interested in robotics. He still keeps this as a hobby during the holydays reading and tinkering on some models. Including one of the B1 models we have here." Colin said.

"How do you got one Colin?" Harry asked.

"It was an older one meant to be withdrawn from active service; Dad got it to help at home from a friend of his." Colin said with excitement.

"But that is besides the point, me and Colin can make an assessment on the situation." Dennis explained before Harry turned to the rest.

"What do you think about this?"

"We might have no choice mate, besides he always wanted to help. And he proved a lot last year." Ron said whispering the last phrase.

"It is worth a try." Hermione said as the trio turned to the boy.

"OK Colin, you and your brother must try to make an assessment and figure out why the new ones are doing such things. But try not to cause trouble." Harry said as the boy smiled.

"Don't worry; we will try to come with the answer of why this is happening as soon as we can. But we need one of the tablets that the field commanders have; they might have some answers too." He said.

"Don't worry we shall figure something out, but for the rest of the two hour meeting, we shall do exercises for the NEWT midterm exams at charms." Hermione said as the student started practicing. After the meeting the Trio with the Creevy brothers went to find the inspecting field commanders, Harry was of course having his invisibility cloak with him to be easier to get the tablet. Inside of him he hoped that he didn't had to break school rules, much less when it comes with the garrison. Of course when they were on the corridors they to their luck noticed the one of the security chiefs who alongside 3 assistant field commanders with officer insignia on them and a round yellow dot on their chests were doing the inspection.

"As always the castle is looking good, of course it is still wacky and strange but at least it is pleasant and the patrols inside and in the grounds are working well, always coming from the galleries and always to shape, no students are at harm." Said one of the field commanders.

"While the new ones have their own quarters at their own posts near the former command post." Said another one.

"We still have to cooperate with them; they prove their worth after that skirmish with the rogue shape-shifters." Said TG-20 security chief while placing the tablet on a table, that was the moment of truth Harry immediately took his cloak on and went for the tablet.

"Distract them." Harry said as Ron went to the robots.

"Excuse us." Ron called tracking the attention of the droids.

"Is there something off Head Girl and Head Boy?" Asked one of them.

"We were wondering if you will inspect the entrances to the common rooms too. I know in that case it is us prefects and Head Boys and Head Girls that must give and assessment but maybe you should make a check there as well." Hermione said as Harry managed to get the tablet from the table before Ron gave a nudge to the girl.

"Has something happened?" The security chief asked.

"There had been an incident not too long ago with some and maybe you should go and check." Ron said.

"Immediately." He said before noticing the tablet was gone. "Where is my tablet, it was here a moment ago."

"We don't know, didn't even touched it." Ron said.

"Give me yours OOM-749. We shall continue the inspection before searching for it." He ordered as the droid complied and he looked in it.

"Should after that look for it around sir? It is true that some things do disappear here sometimes." He said.

"We shall make a double check, it will confirm if things are in order." He said as they started to leave as the 2 went to a corner where Harry was with the tablet in his robe.

"Hope this breach of rules was worth it." Harry said coldly.

"I know we shouldn't do this, but we need to find out what is going on." Hermione said as they moved on.

"Let's hope we will figure this out soon. I wonder still where Twilight is right now." Harry said.

"Haven't seen her since the DA meeting." Ron said.

"Don't need to worry Harry I am sure she is around." Hermione said as they went on.

"By the way maybe…."

"Please mate, don't turn literally to live up to the nickname rule-sticker, or worst some started to call you Harry-the-boy-on-edge or other things." Ron said.

"And you can't take point from yourself Harry but I can give you extra work, rule-sticker deputy." Hermione said as Harry rolled his eyes.


Castle of Friendship

"So this is how we shall do the events. First we will do a Qidditch match, then a demonstration of Transfiguration with McGonagall, Charms with Flitwick, then it will be Potions with Snape and last but not least from what I heard Neightsay would want at least two demonstrations with Defence against the Dark Arts, and as for the last a visit around Ponyville." Rarity presented the program.

"The program is fine with me, of course the ponies should brace themselves when it will be the hours with Snape." Twilight said.

"It was the only way we were able to convince Neightsay. We already sent the program to Dumbledore, hopefully the governors will accept." Spike said.

"The only minus we got is how we will do the quidditch match? I found the Wonderbolts would really want to play against Gryffindor." Rainbow Dash said with a face of displeasure from Twilight since Gryffindor was her house and the quidditch team was literally her team.

"Don't take it personally Twily they really want to see if they could be as good at this game as they, no hard feelings. As for the other houses the Pegasus in the Royal Guard they want to stick it to the Slytherins." Shining Armor said.

"As for the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw we started already a training program for a team for the School of Friendship. Of course we only managed to get them to be possibly at the level with the Hufflepuff team. Aside from Smolder and Gallus no pony else is thrilled of pushing the other team's members off their brooms." Starlight said.

"And who would take Ravenclaw team?" Twilight asked.

"Well I spoke with Spitfire and she told me there are some cadets who would be interested to play with them. However even among the wonderbolts proper they would like to have a go, but seriously why we should play separately with each team anyways. The Wonderbolts could play with all of them at once. Or we could try to merge the teams to have players from each." Rainbow Dash said.

"That can't be done now. The house system is their tradition, each has their own characteristics and values, plus I doubt the serpents would ever like to play alongside the lions." Applejack said referring to the rivalry between Slytherin and Gryffindor especially because of the different values each had. Don't get her wrong, Applejack wouldn't comment on the positive values of the two but honestly it would be hard for an honorable, chivalrous lion to find common ground with a cunning slithering serpent on one hoof and on the other the history of the two is almost making this hard, due to the reputation of each, Slytherin associated with evil due to some tarnishing the reputation of the house and Gryffindor might be having the problem of been too proud of been the "house of heroes". Despite all this to be taken into consideration Cadence came with an idea.

"Actually if a full day will be dedicated to a quidditch match we can try. The first four teams will be for each to have a go, but at the end the teams will be mixed the best members from each house will be in the final team. When one is knocked from the broom he will be replaced by a member from one of the other teams. And the same will be with the Pegasus." Cadence said.

"Cadence this could really work, such an environment could encourage inter-house cooperation." Twilight said with confidence. "There could be some hiccups but it could work."

"And I am sure there could be a stimulant." Cadence showing them a blue cloak covering something, using her magic Cadence levitated the cloak to reveal a trophy made of white crystal, perfectly shaped in a cup and in the center a blank spot within a heart.

"I had personally commissioned this cup to give everypony a stimulus, whoever wins it will have the crest engraved on it by magic." Cadence explained.

"Every player of every house at Hogwarts will want to get a hold of that now." Twilight said.

"Now the only thing that we need to do is discuss the program with some of the teachers to see if they will accept." Starlight said.

"They have to accept, those three days could really make a difference to expose Mislead. From what I heard Aunt Luna is having doubts about them and so is Aunt Celestia, problem is that they still got supporters everywhere." Cadence said.

"By the way Twilight what are the students talking about those days at Hogwarts for example at the Dumbledore Army meeting?"Rarity asked.

"Well let's just say another issue had arisen now." Twilight started with worry.

"What do you mean?" Fluttershy asked worried.

"There had been some incidents with the garrison. The robots seem to now be at each other's throats."

"At each other's throats?" Shining Armor asked.

"Last night there had been an incident, Harry, Ron and Hermione who were making their rounds as prefects for the evening alongside others discovered that some of the robots were starting to fight among themselves."

"It is normal for some units to be in a rivalry now and then to show who the best is now. Even some of the royal guards do competitions but when on duty they are doing their job." Shining Armor said.

"According to them and to professor Burgbage this should not happen with robots to absolutely any level. On top of that rivalry even between Gryffindor and Slytherin should not result in victims." Twilight said worrying the others.

"Victims?" Rarity asked not liking where this thing is going.

"Last evening there had been a literal fight between the veterans and the new comers. You might expect the veterans to be the trouble, they are not, the new comers are."

"What did they do?" Fluttershy asked.

"Well the new comers have proven to have been robots that had experience up to 5 years and were used on troubled areas of some planets where violence is almost common place, always used against armed mobs and gangsters or even what they call rebels and insurgents."

"Twilight please, the ones we met the first time when we were sending the letter to Dumbledore also seemed as if they were on edge." Applejack said.

"It's because they were on duty, I always heard the students say that when on duty they are doing what they are supposed to do. The new ones are a problem, they behave aggressively even with the students. Some said that they even came up with insults to boast around; according to them they boast around how much experience they got that they annoy them. And that is because up until now there weren't troubles because of the cloaking spells, maybe some troubles here and there had been but no major ones as the new ones know about. But that is besides the point according to the both students and teachers despite all this, they who were here from the first day they arrived had stood their ground very well against Voldemort who had caused a lot of havoc among them been the most obvious, and also they fought hard against the mind controlled changelings, even if they caused injuries to them." Twilight explained.

"Well in this case there shouldn't be any need to bring new ones. Plus the students and the teachers can hold their own, they are also taught how to defend themselves, the school is practically having top safety standards even for the Royal Guards manual. Something is amiss." Shining Armor said.

"Everyone believes that too, they already put Colin and his brother Dennis to make an assessment. But even with that according to them there is someone in the British ministry of magic who might want to stir trouble to present them as either useless or to….." Twilight started before remembering something.

"Get something worst then them to guard the school."

"What do you mean something worst?" Her brother asked.

"There is a creature, which some like the hippogriffs and probably changelings know about. A dark creature whom they fear the most, but they use it as guard in their prisons when locking up the worst." Twilight said.

"What is this creature?" Cadence asked.

"It is too horrible to tell about."

"Is it something like the Cerberus?" Spike asked.

"No, it is way worst then the Cerberus." Twilight said with worry.

"Ah Twilight, better go back to the magic castle." Pinkie said appearing from a drawer.

"Sorry?" Twilight asked before noticing the time.

"Oh yeah, have to get back to Hogwarts at least to find out what the assessment said and before any of them notices I am not there." Twilight said taking her robe up before Spike remembered something.

"Wait before you teleport back to Hogwarts. What did the new droids did last night with the ones who had been before them, the 'veterans'?" Spike asked as the purple alicorn turned to them.

"The new comers used their weapons to literally shoot at them." Pinkie Pie guessed in her usual mood but wasn't a pleasant thing, it was a gloomy one.

"Shoot at them?"

"One of the prefects, Tracy Davis from Slytherin noticed what was happening from the window when 8 of them were pushed by a group outside the castle grounds. She along the others went to see what was happening and what they saw they described as a place for a 'summary execution'."

"Summary execution? Meaning they killed them?" Shining Armor asked.

"One could say that, but they had been mended back thanks to mending charms and they told them what happened. But they weren't the only group, a second one was in the forest and they heard the commotion they had discovered another group that had the same fate but thankfully some managed to escape and fight back. They had told them what happened and now they try to make an assessment of the situation, last night's incident wasn't the only one." Twilight said.

"In this case the theory of one who wanted to cause trouble and brought those new more violent ones here should be the most obvious now." Shining Armor started

"I am not an expert in those machines but from what you told us I can only say that this should be nothing but sabotage of the garrison. And this can't go on especially now. I put some guards to spy on Cruel Deed and they reported me the tactics, according to them he is usually very aggressive, he would put his goons to attack when there is an opening or when the guards are few and can be attacked. Of course I believe Mislead is the one who gives him advice on how to do things and for now Hogwarts isn't on the list of interest at the moment. But if they ever get wind of the fact that somehow the garrisons at Hogwarts and Hogsmead are becoming dysfunctional in any ways because of some ill-intended meddling it will be disastrous. He doesn't attack those places only because you are there but because of the high concentration of forces. If this information ever comes to him I don't want to imagine the reaction the wizards will have if their children are endangered because of him." Shining Armor said.

"Strange is the fact that the attacks seem to have subsided for now."

"Maybe because of Mislead, somehow he ordered Cruel Deed to stop for the moment." Rarity said.

"And I think I know the reason, from the unpleasant interactions I had with him I figured out that unlike the foes we had before. He is patient and calculated doesn't to do something reckless like Cruel Deed would do. And on close inspection of his feelings he seems to have a piece of ice for a heart. For him there is only ambition and power and means to get those. In any case he is playing a dangerous game." Cadence said.

"Wonder if we can declare him our version of Voldemort." Applejack asked.

"Not even close. But besides all this let's hope we can somehow show the ponies the truth." Twilight said adjusting her uniform.

"That will be possible only if the governors will agree. Anyways I believe the meeting with the teachers should be somewhere they would declare neutral territory." Shining Armor said before an owl screech was heard and landed on the window with a letter.

"That should be one of the owls of Hogwarts." Fluttershy said as Starlight went to open the window and took the letter with the governors and Hogwarts insignia.

"It is." Starlight said reading the letter.

"So what is the answer?" Applejack asked.

"They had accepted the proposal but there are 2 conditions: only senior years are to come to visit from year 6 to 8 when they will come in the exchange program, they don't oppose the quidditch match however in the situation with the visit to Ponyville and the courses we have to rethink." Starlight said.

"What do you mean we have to rethink?" Twilight asked.

"They rejected the initial idea with having 3 days visit. They will only accept 2 days." Starlight explained giving Twilight the letter.

"Two days, we have to rethink the program then."

"Well from 9 in the morning to 2 in the afternoon it was accepted to have courses. We can still have something till 5 or 6." Rarity said.

"More time for preparing the party." Pinkie said happily.

"There is a slight problem here the courses were supposed to be made in Canterlot, Princess Luna and Chancellor Neyghtsay were precise about this. Not to mention the fact that it will take time to get the students in the train to get them to Ponyvile before the day's end." Shining Armor said.

"There is actually a way and someone who could help." Fluttershy said.

"Don't tell, Discord had volunteered to get them there Fluttershy?" Rainbow Dash said.

"It is kind of the only quick way now. Besides I don't know if the ponies would like to see a demonstration of apparitions considering also it is not comfortable for them as well." Fluttershy said, of course the shy Pegasus knew what she was saying because she asked Twilight about their method of transportation with either portkeys, apparitions or Floo Powder and frankly speaking those methods aside from been not at all comfortable they could also be prawn to accidents that they can't afford.

"Well in this case we have to present Discord and his method when I meet the teachers from Hogwarts. They also wrote they will accept to talk with them either at Hogwarts or in the Changeling Kingdom." Starlight said before giving Twilight the letter.

"I shall then come too, besides in spite of not been present at the moment I still have the position of Headmare." Twilight said as she looked to the list of teachers which turned her nervous.

"What is it?" Shining Armor asked.

"Actually, it might be a bad idea for me to meet with them in my real form." Twilight said.

"Why is that?" Spike asked.

"The teachers who might be supposed to speak with me are Professor McGonagall, Professor Sprout, Professor Flitwick and….Professor Snape." Twilight said.

"All the heads of the houses, alongside Dumbledore if you will go at Hogwarts directly as yourself." Pinkie Pie said.

"But what is the problem?" Starlight said.

"Professor Snape will be the problem alongside McGonagall." Twilight said.

"Come on Twilight, he might be the head of Slytherin which Gryffindor, your house has a rivalry with but it shouldn't impede you. And we know McGonagall might in essence be your head and it could mean that you are fooling her which I do recognize isn't good but what could be the problem?" Applejack said.

"All those are problems Applejack, but not the main ones. Professor Snape might be the potion's master but he actually has a lot of knowledge in the field of the Dark Arts. He had to subsidize Professor Flang for the remainder of a week once and he proven himself extremely demanding but also knowledgeable he was also a double agent who spied on Voldemort and the Death Eater for Dumbledore. Gryffindor students might have a problem with him for always criticizing us in any ways possible including me for that matter. But in this situation the problem is next, he is no fool and with his vast knowledge of the dark arts one doesn't gain this kind of knowledge for been a fool. If he sees any kind of resemblance to my human form the medallion gives me it will surely arouse some suspicions in him. As for Professor McGonagall she teaches Transfigurations the magical art of turning some things into other things she could realize something could be amiss." Twilight explained.

"We can't risk then, Snape will surely know lots of counter-spells to reveal the truth I wouldn't rule out using potions too." Shining Armor said.

"In this case I will make the discussions with Starlight when we meet the teachers. Aunt Celestia wants to follow everything there is to know." Cadence said taking the letter "I will let her know of the reshuffle of the program and the meeting with the teachers, you better go back to Hogwarts Twilight."

"Ooh Twilight expect some to not want to come, they might think it is too dangerous at the moment." Pinkie said.

"I will see what else is happening." Twilight said activating the medallion to be back in her human form. "Wish me luck." She said before teleporting from the room and back to school.

"By the way Pinkie dear, what did you said some would not like to come." Rarity asked.

"Ooh some might be weary of coming, but not the ones who some are interested in." Pinkie said.


Later at Hogwarts

Later that day the students were in the hall outside the Room of Requirement near the time for dinner, aside from the activities everyone had to finish that day from homework to quidditch practice, the students, prefects and Head Boys and Head Girls needed to hear what is the assessment Colin and Dennis managed to get for them. And the assessment couldn't be more troubling. The new robots that were sent to beef up the security weren't new ones that know only of battle, some are but mostly in position of engineers or other tasks or were from other settlements from around and were placed under their security chiefs but that number was not even close to 3 thousand and luckily they were numbered. The ones that didn't had numbers on the other hand were from troubled location of different worlds that experiences civil strife, crime related troubles and some even to fight dangerous native animals or native peoples, those been employed by corporations to get resources and the problem was they still remember.

"So in essence the majority of the new robots that we got never had a memory wipe to accommodate to the new surroundings, they remember the past experiences of troubled world. It is not a behavior glitch from their servers, they had formed those personalities." Colin said after reading the assessment they made on a piece of paper, Twilight has been late a bit but came on time to hear half of it.

"Now those are real problems, what about the one who requested them to be sent here in the first place?" Ron asked.

"I am looking." Dennis said as he scrolled through the data on the tablet.

"Only from hearing this, one can realize the fact that we got a problem on our hands. Robots this violent could only provoke the natives if we aren't careful, especially the ones who were used in punitive actions." Hermione said.

"Well its official they were sent here on purpose." Draco said.

"Problem is also the new security chief, TB-6 he prefers them especially with his programming of aggressive actions. The other two are more cautious, it is easy to see from the orders he gives." Justin Finch-Fletchley said.

"Guys I found more about TB-6." Dennis said showing them the tablet.

"According to this TB-6 had been employed by the British army for a time before coming here, according to this he was put here only for a time 'as borrowed' it isn't here permanently. The problem is the one who asked for him." Dennis said scrawling down to see the name Dolores Umbridge the most hated temporary headmistress Hogwarts got.

"This must add up to everything she has surely done this on purpose. It shouldn't have come as a surprise to any of us." Harry commented.

"But for what reason is she doing this? I know that she opposed the use of robots from day one since wizards came here. But why putting them to fight one another?" Ernie asked.

"It should be obvious, she wants them replaced with something else, probably still wants to demonstrate that they can't be reliable and how better could this be done by provoking the natives and also by fighting with the veterans." Dean Thomas said.

"On that regard it seems he got special order for this task. He so call encourages 'tests' on the veterans to see how prepared they are. Not to mention that TB-6 seems to have almost full command of the new ones." Dennis said.

"What do you mean full command?" Neville said.

"According to the information here he seems to have full responsibility in their organization, he still needs to cooperate and coordinate with the other chiefs of security on many issues, but it seems Umbrige had made sure he will stay separately from them in the old transport ship landed near the firing range at the north edge of forest. He isn't staying in the galleries or the former chamber of secrets. But overall he has the responsibility of organizing the new robots, staying separately from the two means he could sometimes act with impunity. The strategy he employs with regards to the natives is what some commanders apply to keep them at bay on other planets where the other robots came from, it's no wonder he prefers them." Dennis said.

"But this almost seems there are two separate garrisons now. This kind of situation makes it nearly dysfunctional, it can't work properly. I don't have family members in the army but my dad explained to me that if this happens it is a problem." Dean Thomas said.

"This can't go like this; this situation must be fixed somehow." Ginny said.

"Only the governors, aurors and the teachers of Hogwarts can remedy this. Problem is it might need a special order for those things to stop. Either that or we might really have to make two separate garrisons here." Draco said.

"We need to talk to Professor Dumbledore to tell him of the situation. We aren't experts in those kinds of situations but at least we can try to prevent this from degenerating further. In any case it's better to have veterans around then those bullies." Daphne said.

"Don't want to imagine the harassments that probably happen at this moment now." Tracy commented before beeps started to come on the tablet Dennis was holding.

"What is happening?"

"It's a message, it seems there will be a discussion with Dumbledore on new military drills with the intent of 'scaring the natives'." Dennis read.

"And those exercises are?"

"Live fire exercises this weekend, it seems after the light artillery drill exercises during the week they are trying to make up for the disturbance. After been admonished by McGonagall." Dennis said.

"Those situation will be a mess, when is the meeting?" Harry asked.

"In an hour?"

"Let's go to Professor Dumbledore we have to tell him what we found out." Hermione said as the students started to disperse, before that Harry took the tablet back from Dennis. The prefects were of course going in the direction of the Headmaster's office, with them joined Twilight.

"Heard everything, it is really troubling." Twilight said.

"Not only troubling but also disruptive, it will be a problem if the situation isn't solved." Harry said before Twilight turned to Tracy who seemed equally worried.

"By the way why is Tracy so concerned about the garrison?"

"Tracy and I fought last year against Voldemort bravely; however Tracy was nearly killed in combat it was because of the large number of robots that she managed to survive. They helped her out of the battle while been unconscious a large number were destroyed mostly due to their efforts to protect us." Daphne said to Twilight.

"In any case we can't accept the idea of having a garrison fighting with itself." Harry said as they walked on toward the headmaster's office where not only Professor Dumbledore was present but Professor McGonagall and Professor Burgbage.


Headmaster's Office

"It is good that you all had done this assessment I do have to admit that this is not something I had expected to see or hear." Dumbledore said.

"Can something be done in this situation Professor?" Hermione asked.

"As it happened, our two chiefs had informed me of this issue, they tried from day one to prevent this by placing them in separate units and never mix them with our initial ones. It helped this in some ways to a degree but I believe that after this incident a much wider separation must be in order." Professor Burgbage said.

"Problem is how it will be done." Tracy asked.

"It shall be discussed with our two main security chiefs, however maybe it will be a good idea if one of you give back one of their electric tablet whom it seems was misplaced." Dumbledore said with a chuckle.

"Immediately professor." Harry said knowing this would come before the door opened for the two security chiefs to come in with 3 field commanders.

"Aah, I was wondering when you will arrive." The headmaster asked.

"We came as soon as we could Professor Dumbledore." Said TR-10.

"By the way, were you looking for this?" Professor McGonagall asked showing them the tablet that previously was in Harry's robe.

"The prefects found it." McGonagall said as TG-20 took the tablet.

"I must have misplaced it."

"In any case I believe we have to discuss the problems with your new colleague, because of some incidents." Dumbledore said.

"We heard of the incident from last night and we devised a countermeasure." Said TR-10 as he showed up a map of the area.

"We can put the veterans to be concentrated mostly around the school and the village while the newcomers will be concentrated at the peripheries. Exercises and drills will still be done together but the patrols will be done also separately."

"What if native envoys would come around?" McGonagall asked.

"We came up with the solution." TR-10 said showing two sketches of one wooden watch tower and one wooden square bunker. "On the main roads in the forest we will have those constructed, the towers will have 5 meters high with 3 veterans in, while the bunkers will have 4 to 8 occupants. The first two will be at the edge of the forest at the border, while the second in the middle and the last at the entrance of the populated areas. Natives that are friendly or are envoys will be signaled with either while or blue flare while aggressive ones with a red one."

"And the occupants will all be veterans?" McGonagall asked.

"Affirmative deputy headmistress." Said a field commander before the third chief came.

"Apologies for the late arrival I had some issues that had to be solved." He said.

"Understandable, but I wish for all of us to talk about what is to be done, and from now on it will be wise the faculty to be briefed on any developments." Dumbledore said in his calm but stern manner.

"Understood professor Dumbledore." Said the other two security chiefs before Dumbledore and McGonagall turned to the prefects and head girls and boys.

"As for your task now it is better for you to take those lists on whoever would want to come in this exchange program that had been proposed." McGonagall said as the students from each house took the lists.

"It was already decided?" Twilight asked.

"We still wait for an answer it was decided however by professor snape for me, him and the other heads of houses however to meet with the equestrians in the changeling kingdom to discuss the new program." Said the Transfiguration professor, Twilight had to suppress a wide smile to not think it is odd.

"We shall put in on the notice boards Professor." Harry said before each started to leave the room.

"By the way, the introduction to this event will start with a quidditch match from what we know so far in the first day the second will be the course and a visit to the local town."

"Understood, is there anything else more specific in the program that was decided?" Harry asked.

"When we meet the equestrian we will know more." Dumbledore said.

"Very well, good day professor." Harry said as they left.

"The introduction will be with a quidditch match?" Ron asked looking over what is the general view of the program. "How the hell do they even know about quidditch anyways?"

"They watched us for sure, probably the Pegasus during our first match." Harry said.

"Either that or some other locals told them." Daphne said.

"At least to make a good impression there at the match, wonder which teams will compete?" Draco asked looking at what to expect.

"Still I hope Professor Snape will not be too harsh on the shape-shift….I mean changelings." Harry said tracking Twilight's attention.

"What do you mean harsh?"

"In our second year Twilight, there had been an incident when the changelings were bad. A group of four had come across the barrier; one of them impersonated Professor Snape." Harry explained as the group except Draco started to laugh.

"And what did he do?"

"He-he it was a brilliant show." Ron said with a chuckle.

"What had happened?"

"Well let's just say that when we met him he asked us to come to potions when we didn't had potions that day. We tried to tell him but didn't listen." Hermione started.

"Things started to go weirder when he asked us to make literally the potion and revise the ingredients he was supposed to give us for the test the next day. He literally gave us all the answers." Harry said.

"But the weirdest part however, he smiled like a fool the whole time as if he wasn't himself and other things." Ron said smiling remembering the memory very fondly.

"He called Neville alongside Draco and me his most faithful students." Harry said and to be honest that part was the weirdest part Harry saw in Snape that day and he realized that something was off immediately, since in reality Snape actually detests him.

"It was such an embarrassment." Draco said resentful however he couldn't deny it was funny in the end after realizing what it was and after he was given a just dessert.

"The only thing I was glad about was saving me from Lockheart that day." Harry said.

"And no one realized anything strange with him?" Twilight asked.

"Oh we realized something happened, the next day Snape was back to his normal self again but not after been embarrassed by that shape-shifter to the whole school. He was dumbstruck that everyone had done well at that potion test and he couldn't realize why." Ron said.

"What happened after that?"

"Well the next day the robots detected and captured the other changelings whom Snape used Veritaserum on them to tell the truth. The other had given himself up by showing up in front of the real professor before the whole faculty and the students. He tried to say that he was the real thing but he gave himself up as the fraud after I was put to indentify who is the real one was." Harry said.

"How did you manage to tell the difference?"

"Everyone realized who the fake one was when he complimented me and talked to me in a sweet manner instead of his harsh manner and that I was part of his House." Harry said and Twilight knew this was the gravest mistake since truth be told, Snape never was kind to Harry, he was always harsh and seemed to want to pick on him at nearly every turn as for other aspects she surely thought that been in Griffindor would have been his biggest nightmare.

"Yeah and since then Snape kind of has a bad impression on the changelings, despite their new king he still harbors some resentments." Ron said.

"What happened to them still?"

"The three changelings who were caught had been given memory charms to forget the location of Hogwarts, but not before Professor Snape extracted information from them." Tracy said.

"As for the one who impersonated him well let's just say some students from our house had given him a hard time. And don't blame us it wasn't as if any of you wouldn't have done the same. Different students came in line to jinx him." Draco commented.

"Yeah can't argue with that." Ron said and truth be told if McGonagall was embarrassed like that before the whole school because of a rogue changeling now all the Gryffindor students would have been furious and he wouldn't have ruled out the idea of the older ones beating, jinxing and cursing that one who did it to a pulp.

"And what happened with that changeling afterwards?"

"Probably dead if it wasn't set free soon. Some parents were shocked when they heard what happened and asked for him to be sent to New Azkaban." Draco said.

"To the dementors?" Twilight asked shocked.

"Unfortunately, Dumbledore and some other tried to make sure he was somehow pardoned but unfortunately they barely managed to make sure he was given a light sentence in New Azkaban of staying for nearly a month which was sufficiently harsh." Harry said.

"Dear me."

"He was between the lucky ones, first shape-shifter to be sent there and to be set free but I heard he was badly affected by that experience." Ron said.

"Natives don't resist among hordes of dementors for more than several weeks to a month and a half or so. Other incidents with dark shape-shif/ changelings I mean were given longer 3 of them died in two months." Hermione said.

"And there were other incidents with dementors, not related to us been attacked but more like trying their luck." Ron said.

"What do you mean 'trying their luck'?"

"Some wanted to see them by themselves thinking we were exaggerating with the warnings. They figured out the harsh way what we said was true. That is the reason why everyone is nervous about this subject; no one can blame anyone on this regard." Harry said.

"Don't think I want to know more." Twilight said as the prefects arrived in the main hall and started to disperse each going to their common rooms. When Harry and the rest arrived in the common room they placed the list on the notice board, Harry offered himself volunteer to watch who was signing.

"All right everyone who wants to come in the exchange program to come here, only senior years from the sixth to the eight." Hermione announced to the common room that came to see.

"Can't believe the first thing will be a quidditch match in the first day, wonder what will be the other activities." Seamus said looking to what might be in the program.

"We will figure more out when the full program will be decided for the second day." Harry said as Twilight took a quill and wrote her name on the list.

"I shall go I really am interested, anyone else?" Twilight said and Harry with a bit of thought decided to give a go, since he is the Gryffindor quidditch captain he has to.

"I will come, all the team will have to come anyways especially if the first day will be a quidditch match." Harry said placing his name on the list.

"But what if the teams will be mixed to be players from all houses?" Asked Dean.

"I don't think it will be that, it is possible that they made teams to compete with every team at Hogwarts." Twilight said of course she knew better what will actually happen since to be honest, she really wish to see how each house could cooperate when they had to make a common front.

"They had watched from the beginning surely how we do the training. Luna was right when we played against Ravenclaw that she saw Pegasus ponies flying above the quidditch pitch." Ron said.

"Probably it raised their interest to try it." Twilight said with confidence.

"Anyways if this comes we have to represents our school properly, we can't disgrace ourselves." Hermione said signing up too and little by little each from year seven and sixth signed and a few from the now eight year, not all of them signed up but were enough for Gryffindor at the end of the day each house had their own representatives of course in the case of the quidditch teams they had to sign all even if they wouldn't participate in the second day. For Twilight it was a big win for sure, Mislead now will have no escape. However even with this she somehow had the feeling that things couldn't work as smooth as she was hoping. For the moment she decided to put this aside for now.

Till evening came it seems that the situation had been remedied with the garrison, on the surface at least. It was decided that a much stricter policy of seclusion to be implemented, in most cases it was decided that veterans will patrol specific designated areas and the new robots will do the same. Hogwarts itself and Hogsmead will be where veterans will be mostly stationed while the others take the other areas. Thing was however that the veterans were now occupying a smaller area of activity always close to settlements (in the case of bunkers and watchtowers made of wood where they had to watch) while the most part was occupied by the so called battle hardened new robots. This meant that most of the veterans are not used, but also it was with the purpose to not have tensions with no party either wizards, veteran robots, new comers or natives. However there was a glitch because the new comers are allowed to come in the areas especially during the afternoons and when drills are conducted, it will be done together under strict supervision from the security chiefs and field commanders.

Unfortunately this arrangement to Dumbledore alongside the other faculty alongside head boys, girls and prefects believed had hiccups in it and that was because they found that TB-6 actually had a degree of authority due to a ministry order due to his 'experience' in native and insurrection problems, but many do believe that it was with another purpose. In order to make sure incidents wouldn't happen the other two security chiefs decided to propose the prefects and head boys and head girls to have a bit of authority over the new droids when in the school compound, in order for that thing to be implemented however it was decided to adopt a degree of military outfit meaning they will have to wear epaulets, each house prefect and head boy and girl now had to sew epaulets that bore the signature and colors of the houses they are in, alongside the initials of prefects and head boys and girls which for some especially Ron it was ridiculous.

"Did Umbridge in her free time studied muggle military traditions or something that this is the only way with it now." Ron complained as Harry was helping him adjusting his right epaulet on the uniform as they were sitting at the Gryffindor table.

"Bet two galleons she did." Harry said adjusting Ron's epaulets.

"I knew that those new ones will be trouble from their behavior." Ron commented.

"Yeah but at least the garrison now is adjusted, the strict rules that the new ones are not allowed to be near the veterans will prevent further glitches of incidents among them, at least for a time." Hermione said.

"And further good news is they wouldn't send anymore of them from what we heard. It would not however be ruled out the possibility of them been rotated somewhere else." Harry said.

"I got to ask, did Umbridge really hated the garrison that is trying to sabotage it now I know she didn't wanted robots but are there other reasons?"

"Unfortunately yes, during our fifth year while she was here she was trying to put the garrison to enforce ministry rules but she couldn't due to them having another mission from the governors to keep aggressive natives away and they didn't complied. Another reason to add was the fact that Dumbledore had respected them for some years, the security chiefs also didn't had memory wipes, they alongside the field commanders grew loyal to him as well as well as the rest of the teachers." Hermione explained.

"Another reason was Dumbledore expected that she will try to replace him as headmaster and so he decided to make arrangements so Professor McGonagall will have the authority over them. That ensured that the robots wouldn't be abused, the garrison in essence was never loyal to her." Harry said.

"In this situation I do have to agree it was for the best especially for how she was when here. And somehow at least we could make sure now with this new arrangement to prevent further problems with the garrison." Twilight said.

"Incidents still can happen but at least if a situation comes around the veterans will be sent. And I am speaking with regard to the future exchange program." Lavander said.

"How do you know?" Twilight asked.

"Was in Divination's class with Professor Trelawny and it seems there will be problems before and during the exchange program, problems that will surely force the security chiefs to send a squad, luckily veterans most of them. But to no less extent they will resort to severe measure if provoked by any of locals." Parvati said.

"You really believe this is a certainty?" Twilight asked of course she did believe that some things could happen but to no extend will the ponies or the other provoke them in any way.

"Hey it surely will be a certainty." Lavander said.

"Can't rule that out." Harry said finishing the adjustment of the epaulets "Excuse me." He said as he left the table.

"Hey but don't you want to eat some dessert, it will come soon?" Ron asked.

"I will not be long." Harry said as he exited the main hall.

"Wonder if he goes back near that statue?" Parvati asked.

"Well the future night paladin has to honor his patron now." Lavander said with a chuckle.

"You were the ones who spread the gossip on him becoming a devotee to Princess Luna?" Hermione asked rolling her eyes.

"Don't blame us it really does seem so since he goes by that statue nearly every evening. I saw him during my rounds." Lavander said.

"When you want to do you rounds." Hermione murmured knowing that Lavander wasn't so much for the prefect's job.

"From where did you come up with all this?" Twilight asked, she in essence didn't know the gossips because it never interested her what the two had made about him, she noticed Harry was gloomy but she didn't knew that he started to develop some devotion for the Lunar Princess.

"You should sometimes get yourself out of the books Twi. However you will do me a favor if you take my prefect job." Lavander said.

"And besides you know what professor Zecora told us about the Celestial sisters in my opinion the Lunar Princess seems to fit him due to her sad history. Not to mention the fact that he really is gloomy for some time starting from the beginning of the previous year. If you tell me, Harry would surely make a paladin for her." Parvati said with a laugh.

"A night paladin for the night goddess, why not, she would like that to have him as a personal student. But not for the nightmare side represented in the statue outside." Ron commented before hearing the clanking of several robot veterans entering the hall some carrying crates.

"Dessert is supposed to come?" Asked the lead one that came to the Gryffindor table.

"Why you ask?" Ron asked before the robot pulled out from the crate a jar with honey and with a honeycomb.

"From today till the next week the dessert will consist only with products made of honey. It will be the only sweetener for the time." He said.

"And why is that?" Lavander asked.

"The beehives that were brought in were full of honey and there is an excess of it. The content in those jars are extra, professor Hagrid ordered us to place them at every table. No sugar products for a time only honey. Be my guest if you want to eat the honeycombs too, don't remove the jars from the table and don't spill them around." The robot said as they went on to place jars just in time for the dessert to come with tea.

"As if anyone needs excess sweets or to spill the honey on the table." Hermione said taking her tea spoon to take some honey to put in her tea. Twilight then decided to go outside too to get Harry back in the great hall.


Outside

Harry was walking through the grounds of school silently, he in essence liked night time mostly because it was the times where his relatives would leave him alone due to them been sleeping but now it was because he was feeling a sense of peacefulness. His life could be characterized to one word and that was mayhem. In essence if he wasn't at Hogwarts he didn't wanted to imagine despite all that the struggle with Voldemort whom he managed to defeat at last the previous year he seemed to have managed to lifted some burden from him only to find another situation whom a few believe he had to solve, as if natives were a bigger problem than a psychotic murderous wizard, those that were panicking that is. Despite that he somehow felt a bit freer then before; going near the statue with the representation of the nightmare he took a long look at it, in this image she might look menacing due to the form of it been one of an evil one but deep down he was feeling that her true self really was someone else, he knew it because he still could remember when she came here to put them to her 'test' and said that they will meet again.

"Wonder how you really are Your Highness, I only saw you for a brief moment when you revealed yourself from this image I see before me. I know you are kind and I know you are a good person." He said placing his hand on the statue, touching the front hoof of the statue. "Whatever happened in this legend of the Nightmare I believe that we got something in common and that is we both have had a turbulent history behind us that we both want to forget." He said looking at his surroundings before feeling a hand on his shoulder, turning around he noticed Twilight.

"Harry, are you alright?" Twilight asked as he looked down.

"In a way."

"Is something bothering you?" Twilight asked.

"Just trying to collect my thoughts." Harry said with calm.

"You don't have to keep everything inside you, you can tell everything that bothers you. It is more trouble for you then for others if you keep thing inside of you. I know what you told me and the other about been abused by your relatives but what else?" Twilight said looking in his eyes.

"Let's just say that there are some things that are hard for me to tell and I don't see yet the appropriate time when I could." Harry said before Twilight took him by the hand.

"I will not force you on anything but please try your best to say what you need to say. It is not good for your health and you are not alone you never will." Twilight said with an encouraging smile as the wizard returning the gesture.

"Thank you Twilight." Harry said as they went back inside towards the great hall where everyone was enjoying their honey cakes.

"What is with all this honey here?" Harry asked.

"It's from the beehives that was at the train station in that "special transport" apparently they were full and for and next week if we want something sweet it will only be with honey." Ron said as Harry took his cup to drink some tea.

"Meaning no sugar or other sweeteners for a time, as if that will be a loss for any of us." Hermione commented.

"For a friend of mine it would be different if you tell me." Twilight said.

"How so?" Hermione asked.

"She is working in a cake shop as a party organizer, and she has the tendency of both making and also eating a lot of sweets more of them in one bite even." Twilight said and it seemed Hermione turned pale.

"That is something not many would like to see now, and also I wonder, has she ever turned sick because of this habit?" Ron asked eating some of his honey cake.

"If I see something like this I am sure going to be sick only by watching." Hermione commented.

"Don't need to worry about this I am also feeling sick when I see something like this. In your case it would be worst for sure." Twilight said knowing that Hermione's parents are dentists and also it was obvious that she would not agree at all.

"In my case it will be brilliant to see how much one resists." Ron said with a chuckle.


The Next Day

If there was one thing the teachers of Hogwarts like Professor McGonagall, Professor Snape, Professor Flitwick and Professor Sprout would discuss the exchange program that had been agreed upon they never expected to be guided by someone who was literally a draconiqus who was able to conjure portals to other locations. They did not however expected that upon the insistence of a literal princess of Equestria to discuss the program with the deputy headmistress of the school in the town they would visit, so far the program was already agreed upon, at the Castle near the said school thanks to the draconiqus whom the teachers realised had a playful and very sneaking demeanour. He literally rushed to get the teachers to the castle not the neutral place they wanted.

"With this program I do have to say Your Highness that the match will surely be very interesting as long as some students wouldn't know about this small arrangement." McGonagall said as they were walking on the corridors of the school.

"It was an idea I came up with the Princess of Friendship she was the initiator of this activity starting from small." Cadence said with a smile.

"Ooh this will surely be a wonderful experience for our students." Flitwick said with a smile.

"Indeed as long as nothing bad happens that is till then." Professor Sprout said.

"Yet I wonder where the princess of friendship is, since like you said she is among the one who came up with it and from what I know she is the founder of this school as well." Professor Snape said with suspicion as he watched a mural that represented the Princess and in a sense a glimmer of suspicion was arising in him due to some similarities to a specific student.

"I have to unfortunately say that she wasn't able to come because of some issues she has to take care of, since you have to agree to the fact that a princess is having lots of responsibilities." Starlight said wanting to reassure the potion's master.

"I don't say one hasn't work to do like how many the celestial sisters are probably having. But it is still very unfortunate that she didn't manage to grace us with her presence because of them." Snape said in a calm manner.

"It is indeed unfortunate but it is with all intents and purposes a very good thing how she thought of this program especially in such times." McGonagall said she in essence was also having her suspicions as of why she didn't show up for this meeting.

"I am still wondering however if we can trust the security for our students. One can't come simply out of good will; we need to know if there will be no troubles." Professor Sprout said.

"That issue will be taken care of by my husband, who is also the captain of the royal guard. Of course we can't guarantee if something could happen while you are here." Cadence said turning to her husband who was near.

"We know that and unfortunately our security chiefs might be force to act and I wouldn't rule out a squad been sent, of course our own security chiefs might be forced to do something if interferences and incidents happen." Sprout said.

"Are you worried they could do something too much if sent Professor McGonagall?" Princess Cadence asked.

"Not so much doing something out of hand, as doing too much. We aren't denying their abilities since they had proven themselves in an event where Hogwarts had to be defended, but we are worried they could do too much that could damage the progress that is made." The charms teacher said.

"Can they turn aggressive out of sudden?" Shining Armour asked.

"No, they never would turn aggressive out of sudden but they could however react severely if provoked with any act of aggression like throwing stones or things like this. We are not allowed of course to tell much about them but we can tell the fact that they could react very punitively if they see the students or the faculty in danger. Of course this will be for us an embarrassment if things will go out of hand. The only thing we can give you is only a word of caution from Professor Dumbledore; do not try to give a reason to provoke them so later they would harm someone." McGonagall explained.

"Professor McGonagall you might be surprised to know that at this moment even we can't afford incidents to happen." Shining Armour said.

"How so?" Professor Snape asked curiously.

"Well let's just say that there are some ponies that don't seem to like you too much, on one side, and on the other, well several nasty rumours had been reported about you which is starting to cause panic. Those to be frank are profiteers on the situation and well let's just say we are weary of them. We hope this activity will debunk some of those rumours that had been created." The white unicorn explained.

"Well since the match and the classes we had been invited to teach will be held at the biggest institute of magic that is in your capital it will surely help in this one way or the other." Professor Sprout said.

"I wonder still if those rumours are among the problems that give the culprits the reason to attack." Professor McGonagall said which really hit a nerve now.

"To a degree it could. And we are aware of this situation, that is causing worry in any case we want this to stop and we believe that debunking those rumours could wipe out the root to the problem." Starlight explained.

"Question will be which root, to a plant even a weed there could be multiple roots. The dangerous ideas and those rumours that picture us negatively are indeed one of them could even be the main one, however the problem is the seed that caused the weed which usually is coming from either an event or even a person who misunderstood things or had a bad experience." Professor Sprout said.

"Unfortunately the only thing that could be done now is preventing other seeds from making more weeds. It is better to make sure we isolate the current spore before it spreads." Princess Cadence explained.

"A good reason I would say, question will be however if the spore hasn't already spread like a disease." Flitwick said.

"We hope it didn't, in any case this activity should help us make sure it will not go further and at least make it beat into retreat." Shining Armour said.

"Let's hope those activities would work to a degree, who knows maybe with it we could start a tradition of doing those activities. Maybe students from this school could come to Hogwarts as well." McGonagall said.

"That would be wonderful we couldn't dream of anything less." Cadence said while taking a glimpse at the potion's master who took a last long look at the stain glass where the Royal Sisters, herself as well as Twilight were represented which really was worrying in her view but something else had brought to her knowledge the reason why he is so bitter due to her magic analyzing his heart.

"In any case." Snape started as he turned to the Princess and Shining Armour. "We will be looking forwards with how things could be and to the upcoming days of activity."

"We really wish for you to teach in Canterlot, it will be a great pleasure for many of students there. You will found that the unicorns there are really gifted magical users." Starlight said.

"We really don't doubt that, but one thing is one's skill in magic and the choices he or she decided to do with the said skill that could be either for good or for evil." McGonagall said.

"Not to mention that one can have magic. However one thing is having it, and another to not know how to use it and for what." Snape said.

"One can't deny this." Shining Armour said before Discord came out from literally another stain glass.

"Ooh, Professor you should try to relax instead of been this stiff all the time, wouldn't make many friends." Discord said as he disguised with a coat just like him making him to murmur angrily.

"And I wonder where have you been all this time?"

"Never left, also was interested to hear what you all have to say especially you Professor Snake." He said angering him even more.

"Discord, stop it!" Cadence commanded sternly.

"Excuse him but this is how he is, he isn't declared the spirit of chaos with no reason." Starlight said.

"I really believe he didn't only offer himself to bring you and your students here for the activities out of good faith and to show how we could bring you here."

"It kind of reminds us off Peeves the Poltergeist at Hogwarts, he is doing the same thing to us and our students." Professor Flitwick said rolling his eyes for this one's antics.

"So you offered yourself to bring us here for your amusement didn't you?" Snape asked.

"Ooo of course not I wanted to be nice but it doesn't mean I couldn't enjoy myself." Discord said with a smirk.

"One can see this from a mile away." Professor Sprout said before Discord literally slithered above the group on the ceiling.

"Anyways I brought you here, I will get you back, do you have the letters on you?" Discord asked before they showed the rolled parchments each had.

"Perfect." Discord said as he opened another portal that showed the Hogwarts before Discord moved towards the main Hall already filled with students who were startled along the few droids in who started to scramble along a prefect (Harry from Gryffindor) and a head boy (Ernie from Hufflepuff) who were present.

"Keep distance from the portal please." Harry said.

"No one is to pass through or go near it." Ernie said.

"You heard the prefects, keep distance please." Said called a robot.

"This one will get you home?"

"You really had to open it in a populated place?" Asked McGonagall.

"I have to make sure you get back safe." Discord said with a smirk.

"We will send you letters if any developments will occur from now." Shining Armour said embarrassed by Discord's little side show.

"We shall wait then, but in any case the program in my view is reasonable and well made there will be no problems, the timing is also good. I shall show this to Professor Dumbledore to come up with the final verdict." McGonagall said as she went across the portal and back to the castle followed by the charms and the Herbology teachers the last one was only the Potion's master who was moving slower than the others but one can tell he was still thoughtful.

"Is something wrong Professor Snape?" Shining Armour asked.

"Let's just be all hopeful that nothing off will happen. It will be very sad if un pleasantries occur." He said as he went through the portal back to Hogwarts before Discord closed it with something in mind to please the potion's master.

"Don't you like the heads of the houses?" Discord said.

"Twilight was right about McGonagall and Snape, they can't be fooled easily and all of them including Sprout and Flitwick surely got a good insight as what might be happening here." Shining Armour said.

"This two days program is still our best bet meaning we can't allow Mislead to destroy it, by causing something that could jeopardise this." Cadence said.

"I wonder still if one from the faculty there has something insidious in mind." Discord said.

"Stop it Discord and if you are referring to Snape I do admit that now Twilight will be suspected for a time by him." Shining Armour said, truth be told after watching the stain glass which represented her as an alicorn this could be trouble for a time.

"What loss that will be for the house of lions if the truth is revealed now. I really do like McGonagall as well as Snape, who knows maybe our dear Twilight has a bit of Slytherin in her too." Discord said.

"Seriously? Personally I am glad that Twilight is in Gryffindor with McGonagall I am sure she is safe alongside her friends there." The royal guard's captain said in an annoyed tone. Although he does have to agree that it will be a catastrophe if it ever occurs to McGonagall what the truth was worst will be from Snape.

"Didn't mean that as a bad thing."

"Just between us, there is more to each of them than meets the eye and also I am sure that even we will find out more about each of them during their visit." Cadence said.


Back at Hogwarts

"So I believe the visit went well?" Harry asked McGonagall.

"We only need to hear the final verdict, but in any case we do need to find out how to conjure those kinds of portals. This will be the way how the students who will go to the activities when they come." She said.

"It's better than apparitions by the looks of it I don't think my stomach will tolerate a long distance there." Ernie said.

"Not to mention Floo powder." Harry said.

"Better safe than sorry."

"I still don't trust that mix of a creature." Said the robot guard.

"I agree, watch out for that draconiqus he has the tendency of doing insidious things." Professor Snape said he wouldn't of course rule out the possibility of him doing some twisted prank.


Author's note: This is the new chapter, sorry for taking this long and I hope to hear from you all soon, by the way please read and leave reviews and feedbacks as to what you want to see happening from now on.

And if any have an idea to change the name of the story just write.