Okay here's chapter 9, few things I want to discuss first, right now there is going to be 6 girls in the harem, if for whatever reason someone wants more, then you have to offer up your suggestion and a connection they could have. Someone wanted to put Gabrielle Delacour in, and it might be a possibility if enough people want me to go bigger. Let me know what you think and want, just remember I won't go to big, if anything I'll only got up to 8 as it fits in line with another important number in my story.
Broken Angel
Chapter 9: The Life of a Queen
"So... how was everyone's first night?" Dumbledore asked the gathered heads of house. It was early in the morning, shortly before breakfast, as Dumbledore was doing his usual first day meeting to see how the students were adjusting and whether or not there were any problems that had arisen already.
"The Weasely twins introduced the first years to their particular brand of comedy, I do believe they enjoyed the show, though I wouldn't be surprised if some of them are tired today." McGonagall replied, causing Dumbledore to chuckle at bit at the Weasely twin's antics.
"My puffs seem to be settling in nicely. A few first years had to be calmed down, as they were found crying in their beds, though it's to be expected, as there is generally a high number of children that miss their homes." Professor Sprout answered, causing Dumbledore and the other teachers to nod in agreement.
"My Claws are settling in nicely. I didn't have any issues; it seems most of the first years are just eager to start learning and performing magic." Professor Flitwick replied with a smile, he generally had few problems with Ravenclaw house as most of them were quiet individuals who rarely got into scuffles with each other, or if they did then they made sure to handle it without him knowing.
"I will be escorting two Seventh years off of school grounds once they recover from their wounds. I had to take the two to Pomfrey for injuries they sustained. One from a duel and another from attacking a fellow student who was unarmed at the time." Snape replied, causing the other teachers to stare at him in surprise, even Dumbledore gave Snape a quizzical look.
"How did that happen?" McGonagall asked after she collected herself.
"It seems that there has been some bullying in my house that I was previously unaware of. One of the new students didn't take to well to it and ensured that the bullying was put to an end." Snape replied.
"Don't you have monitoring charms in your dorms Severus? How could such bullying escape your notice?" Dumbledore asked.
"It seems some years prior a tradition was started where a student would be secretly named 'King' of Slytherin house, they would then infuse some of their magic into a rune that was made by a student from a previous year, that had been tied into my charms without my knowledge, only upon a thorough investigation was I able to locate the modification." Snape explained.
"What did this rune do?" Professor Sprout asked.
"It allowed the King to harm other students without activating my charms." Snape explained in the simplest of ways.
The other teachers had sour looks on their faces, the mere thought that a child would do something like that, just so they could bully innocent children and get away with it, it was a deplorable action.
"So, I assume one of these students we are removing from the grounds is this 'King' you were referring too?" Dumbledore inquired.
"Yes... he and one of his friends. Seventh years. Thou the 'King' will simply need to be thrown out, the other boy is going to be charged with attacking an unarmed Head of a Most Ancient and Most Noble house." Snape informed them.
"Ah... so young Riley was the one to lash out at this bullying, I'm not surprised." Dumbledore said with a chuckle.
"Wait. A first year managed to beat two seventh years?" Sprout asked in surprise.
"Indeed." Snape answered simply.
"How?" Sprout asked, "The girl just got here, she couldn't possibly know more than a few spells, even if she was able to practice in her family's home. Surely someone must have helped her?"
"One of the boys lost his hand when he tried to attack her from behind, while the other had his wand shoved into his groin." Snape replied as he made a face at the thought. Seeing all of the blood left over from the incident had invoked some repressed memories from his youth. He'd seen some truly awful things during his time as a Death Eater and the sight of the Slytherin dorm room the night prior, brought many of those memories rushing back.
"Merlin... that level of violence... and this girl knows the Dark arts too? Something needs to be done about this." McGonagall stated sounding worried for the other student's safety.
"Ah, but young Riley didn't use Dark magic now did she? Such use of the dark arts would have been noticed by myself and Severus here." Dumbledore replied with a knowing look.
"You are right headmaster. The girl did not use magic to cause the first injury, she merely swiped the boy's wand and stabbed him with it, while the second boy received a wandless counterspell according to my snakes. The older students believe it was Diffindo." Snape informed them, causing the other teachers to gasp, while Dumbledore simply nodded.
"How is that possible? For an Eleven-year-old girl to be able to overpower an almost full-grown boy, and then stab him before he could react, would be exceedingly difficult." Flitwick stated, more to himself then to the others.
"She is of Shinobi descent." Dumbledore replied simply.
"A Shinobi? I didn't think they allowed ones as young as her to be shinobi?" McGonagall asked, more than a little surprised to hear that a ninja would be joining the ranks of Hogwarts this year.
"Well, it seems this one has. She has obviously been trained in their ways." Dumbledore stated with chuckle.
"What should we do Headmaster? Surely she cannot remain, she is a danger to the other students." McGonagall argued.
"Nothing will be done to the girl. She initiated a dual with the 'King' and won, all of my Slytherins confirmed that the boy did agree to a duel, that means that anything she did to him in it was legal. Violence to his genitalia included. While the other boy attempted to attack her from behind, making it self-defense, this was also confirmed by all of my Slytherins." Snape defended the girl. It was something he had taken from his time in service to the Dark Lord. While the dark Lord wouldn't hesitate to torture a man in the most violent of ways, he would never harm an innocent child unless it was absolutely necessary, and he would never stand for hurting children needlessly.
People could say whatever they wanted to about the Dark Lord, but one thing the Dark Lord never did, was torture a child. Nor would he ever allow his Death Eaters to do it. In Lord Voldemort's eyes, all magical blood was precious, and the magical blood of innocents like children was to never be harmed. If a child had to be killed, then it was to be done without pain, if any Death Eater was learned to have been torturing children, the Dark Lord would turn that pain on the perpetrator of such violence, a thousand-fold.
There were only a few who would try to temp the dark lord, and their ends were not dignified or painless. Children were only to be killed if they were suffering from grievous injury and were going to die anyway, or only in extreme circumstances.
"Severus is right. Everything young Riley did was legal, and in fact quite tame, in comparison to what she could have legally done to them. Since the wards did not alert me to this duel, that meant that it was a duel between their two houses, and therefore circumvented the rules on duels here at Hogwarts, which means the duel was carried out based on whatever rules were established between the two before it commenced. If none were, then the duel could be carried out in whatever manner. So, in all honesty we should be thankful that she didn't kill the 'King' and is simply getting him away from the other students by using her victory rights to kick him out. The other boy tried to inflict harm on an Eleven-year-old that had just won a duel, he was both cruel and foolish, and he has, and will, suffer the consequences of attacking someone with such a high station in our world, without initiating a duel." Dumbledore told all of the teachers. Earning nods from all of them.
"Severus please ask young Riley to come up and speak to us before breakfast begins. I wish to make sure she is not feeling any negative effects from the actions she took, as she is still young, and impressionable. Also, we can get her assurance that any act of conflict be carried out in a legal, and perhaps less painful manner from this point on." Dumbledore told the gathered teachers. Snape quickly nodded and departed to fetch Riley.
"Are you sure about this Headmaster?" McGonagall asked, eying the old man with uncertainty.
"She has lived a troubled life, Minerva. There is violence in her heart and sending her away will only make it worse. She has been wandering the world for a while now, she needs a stable place to grow up. A place to mature, and make friends, and form bonds. It will not be easy, but I'm committed to trying." Dumbledore replied, offering his deputy headmistress a kind smile.
His words offered a measure of comfort to his staff as they patiently awaited Snape's return.
Snape entered into his common room finding a handful of students already getting ready. Thankfully the mess had been cleared from the previous night, and the students were trying to forget about it.
"Is Ms. Slytherin still in her room?" Snape inquired.
Earning nods from all of the students present he wandered towards the first-year girls' dorm, after locating her room, he knocked.
"Come in." He heard Riley reply from inside.
Snape entered and was a little taken aback by what he saw, Riley was currently balancing on the backrest of a chair, which was balancing on one of its four legs. Snape couldn't help but admire the girl's balance. She was of Shinobi descent, which afforded her incredible natural abilities. It was always fascinating to see how a Shinobi interacted with the world, considering their physical and magical abilities had been left unregulated for thousands of years, unlike the rest of the Magical World.
Despite his fascination, he had to remind himself that she was an innocent little girl, to keep a sneer from appearing on his face.
Snape had a bad history with shinobi, during his time in school his best friend Lily Evans, a girl he cared very deeply about, had befriended and started writing to a blonde-haired shinobi whom she had met while he had been visiting Dumbledore alongside one of his village leaders. He and Lily started to hang out and when he left, she wrote to him. Snape got jealous and a little later he and Lily got into a fight, and he called her a name he shouldn't have. She was so angry that it looked like their fight might become physical, but then suddenly a bright yellow flash of light appeared, and that blonde haired ninja materialized next to her. He asked if she was alright, and what had happened to cause her to feel so much anger. She told him what Snape had said, and that caused him to shoot a glare at Snape that could have peeled flesh from bone. The blonde ninja then told her that Snape was just a pathetic nobody, whom wasn't worth her time. Lily agreed and he and her never spoke again.
Ever since then, Snape had hated that blonde ninja, who later became world famous and killed so many of his friends in the last war.
Severus Snape would always hate Minato Namikaze for everything he had done to him.
But this girl wasn't him. She was just a girl from the Elemental Nations who happened to have a close connection to Slytherin. He would treat her with the respect her position deserved, and she would have to earn the rest.
"The headmaster wishes to speak with you before breakfast. Get dressed and meet me in the common room." Snape ordered as he turned to leave.
Riley hopped off the chair and cast a wandless Scourgify on herself to clean all of the sweat on her body. She then tied her hair into a single loose ponytail, threw on her school robes and headed out to meet with Snape.
He then led her to the headmaster's office. He stopped in front of a gargoyle and said the word Kit-kat, which Riley was sure was a muggle candy of some sort, and the gargoyle moved aside.
They went up to the office and Riley spotted the headmaster and a couple of teachers. She also spotted a very beautiful bird that was sitting on a perch next to the headmaster. The bird stared at her intently, and Riley quickly guessed it was a Phoenix of some sort.
The bird trilled happily, and Riley felt a warm feeling in her heart, it made her feel happy. However, she also felt a powerful burning pain in her veins and stomach.
Riley quickly realized why it hurt so much and cleared her throat loudly to stop the bird's singing.
"I'm sorry dear phoenix, while your song fills my heart with joy, my tenant does not enjoy it. If you could please cease from singing while I am present, I would be most thankful as he has been asleep for the last eleven years and I would like him to remain that way?" Riley asked the bird with a look of sadness.
Fawkes gave the girl a closer look before trilling sadly and nodding, the bird then hopped off its perch and landed on her shoulder. Upon contact she instantly felt the burning pain vanish and it was replaced by a soothing quietness.
'Holy hell! I saw the fox stirring in here from the song, and then the bird touches you and it just collapses.' Madara laughed
"Well, it seems you have made quick friends with Fawkes, though I feel I must apologize. I had forgotten of your condition dear Riley, if I had remembered I would have asked Fawkes to avoid singing while you were present as it could cause your tenant to react poorly." Dumbledore apologized. All of the teachers present gave the girl odd looks, most of them knew that if you weren't pure of heart, then you couldn't receive joy from the Pheonix's song, and that if you were evil then it actually hurt you to hear it. The girl seemed like she had enjoyed hearing the song for a moment, but then started to cringe in pain.
They were worried, but Dumbledore didn't seem bothered so she must have had another reason for being in pain.
The only ones that even had the slightest clue as to what Dumbledore was referring to when he said 'tenant' were McGonagall and Snape. McGonagall knew of the sealing arts that shinobi possessed and guessed that the girl may house something dark within her and that's what caused her pain. Snape on the other hand, knew a bit more. He knew 'tenant' was just a kind way of saying demon, and though it bothered him to know that one of his students had a demon living inside of her, once again he was calmed by the headmaster's relaxed attitude about it.
"It's alright headmaster the pain has stopped. So, what's up?" Riley asked.
"We just wished inquire as to your wellbeing in regard to the events of last night. Also, we wished to hear from you, exactly what happened?" Dumbledore told her, as the teachers focused their attention on her.
"Well... right after Professor Snape left from giving us our welcoming speech, some of the older Slytherin started to tell us about certain other rules in Slytherin house. They told us about how they were in charge, and if we didn't want to get hurt, we should do what they said. One of them then tried to bully me into complying and I refused, so he decided to duel me. I asked him, he said yes, so I stabbed him with his wand. Then another boy who I heard whisper something about 'doing a firstie' pulled his wand out to fight me. He launched a spell at me, which I promptly dodged, then I sent a Difindo at him, removing his hand, and ensuring that he could no longer harm me or my fellow first years. And to answer your first question, I am fine headmaster, I hold no regrets for my actions, and in fact slept very well last night. This isn't the first time I've had to fight someone, and it won't be the last." Riley explained to them, a neutral expression on her face.
"I see... very well. I do wish to ask you however to cease with the fighting. By all means defend yourself and your house's honor, but please try not to maim the offending party too badly, they are still children after all." Dumbledore asked.
"Of course, headmaster. I would never dream of hurting an ignorant child. These boys however were threatening rape, and of causing harm unto others, that is the one and only reason I inflicted such harm. I'll let the legal system deal with the rest. I am happy that neither will be present here any longer." Riley replied respectfully.
"Good good... now, I do believe breakfast has started so run along and get yourself something to eat. I'm sure the Aurors will be arriving soon to deal with the boy who attacked you, they will probably wish to speak with you, to get the details. If you require a guardian present, myself, or Professor Snape will be available." Dumbledore told her.
"Great! If you wouldn't mind, Professor Snape, I would actually like your assistance when they arrive, I haven't been in Britain very long and my understanding of policy in dealing with Aurors is somewhat lacking." Riley asked.
"Very well. We will meet with them when they arrive." Snape stated before turning and leaving along with the other teachers.
"One last thing before you depart dear girl..." Dumbledore called out to her.
"Yes headmaster?" Riley asked as Fawkes hopped off her shoulder and flew over to Dumbledore.
"How is Remus doing? I haven't seen the man in quite a while. I do hope he is doing well?" Dumbledore asked.
"Uncle Remus is fine. He took quite good care of me. And I've been keeping a close eye on Moony. I do hope that he stays good while I'm away." Riley replied.
"Hm... yes. I read your name on the Animagus registration list. A fox? I do believe it fits." Dumbledore stated with a chuckle.
"Still haven't figured out why I don't have a tail." Riley muttered.
"Well, when you've felt you've reached that level of trust, I'm sure Professor McGonagall would be willing to help you with that." Dumbledore informed her with a smile.
"Hm... I'll think about it. Thanks Headmaster I'll see you around." Riley bid him goodbye and headed off to breakfast.
Riley found her way down to the main hall and made her way to the Slytherin table. The older kids eyed her fearfully, while the younger looked up to her in awe. She sat down next to Draco and Pansy, and immediately set about gathering her breakfast.
"So how are you guys this wonderful morning?" Riley asked cheerfully.
"How can you act like this?" Pansy asked after a moment.
"Act like what?" Riley asked innocently.
"Like nothing has happened. I mean... you beat up two seventh years. The whole house is talking about it. I'm sure the other houses will know about what you did soon enough." Pansy explained.
"Let them talk. It's not like I'm ashamed of what I did or anything. I fucked up some bullies, what is there to say?" Riley replied.
"You... you destroyed those two, and you didn't even need a wand. How did you do all of that?" Pansy asked, causing many of the surrounding Slytherin to lean closer to hear her reply.
"Well, I could tell you... but I want you all to figure it out on your own. The only thing I'll tell you is that I'm from a land far to the east. The rest is up to you." Riley stated with a devilish smile, causing a few of the older Slytherin to start whispering their ideas amongst each other.
"You really showed them who's boss. All of the upper years are scared of you now." Draco whispered to her.
"Are you scared of me Draco?" She asked innocently.
"Yes." Draco replied honestly.
"Good. Fear is a good thing to have when facing the unknown. You have no clue how I did what I did yesterday, so you should be afraid. But thank you for your honesty." Riley told him.
"No problem." Draco replied. A few moments passed before Snape came by with everyone's schedules, then he escorted Riley out to meet with the Aurors whom had just arrived.
They asked a few questions but other than their surprise at hearing how a first year bested two seventh years, they remained professional. It only took about fifteen minutes, and then they were gone, and Riley was off to her first class, which was transfiguration with the Gryffindor's
She entered and sat next to Draco, who seemed to be wondering where the teacher was. Riley saw a cat sitting at the front desk taking the hint provided by Dumbledore, it wasn't that hard for Riley to piece together where McGonagall was hiding.
Finally, the moment for the official time for class to start, passed. A few moments after it did, two Gryffindors came running into the room. One was a dark-skinned boy, and the other was the redhead, who made Riley lose her appetite the night prior.
"See, I told you she wouldn't find out." The red head stated, while trying to regain his breath.
The cat on the table meowed and then transformed into Professor McGonagall. "It seems you two are late."
"Um... sorry. We got lost." the Dark-skinned boy stated.
"Yeah, this bloody castle is huge." The red head agreed.
"Then perhaps you should have found a map." McGonagall stated impatiently as she ushered the two boys to sit down.
The Slytherin students giggled as both boys grumbled and took their seats. With that, McGonagall began the lesson for the day. Riley was nearly bored out of her mind, within five minutes of it commencing. She was now really regretting spending so much time practicing magic, as it was just dawning on her that she may be too far ahead and was now trapped with nothing to do.
Eventually McGonagall passed out a bunch of matches that she told them to transfigure into needles.
Riley actually had to remind herself to use her wand before doing it, other than that she got in on her first try without really putting in any effort.
McGonagall walked by and saw the needle sitting on Riley's desk.
"Ms. Slytherin, that is impressive. Getting it down so quickly. Five points to Slytherin" McGonagall stated.
"Thanks professor." Riley replied as she waved her wand again and it returned to a match, then she changed its color, made it bigger, turned it back into a needle, gave the needle little legs, and then made it dance. "I think I came too prepared for school."
McGonagall watched in awe as the first year accomplished several impressive feats of Transfiguration. She must have been at the level of a third or fourth year already.
"Well Ms. Slytherin if you are bored you may help your fellow classmates." McGonagall told her.
"Okay." Riley replied as she turned to Draco to ask if he needed help. He said no, as he looked to already be getting it, so she moved on to another.
By the end of the lesson half of the Slytherins had done it and only one of the Gryffindors.
"Ms. Slytherin, may I speak to you for a moment?" McGonagall asked after class.
"Sure, what do you need?" Riley asked.
"Well... you obviously are much farther ahead than your classmates so instead of sitting around bored all of class time I was wondering if you would like to take advanced lessons?" McGonagall asked.
"Advanced lessons ma'am?" Riley inquired curiously.
"Yes. I will teach you at the rate you can learn, if you make it through to second year material in a few weeks, then so be it, if you make it farther then that's fine too. I will just teach you ahead of the others for a part of the lesson, you will spend the rest of the lesson either studying for other classes or helping your fellow students. Does that seem fair?" McGonagall asked.
"So, you'll basically just teach me all of the course material at the rate I can learn it, and all I have to do is help out the others... I'm in!" Riley answered with a wide grin.
"Now... in order for you to move on to further work you need to prove to me you can master each spell not just learn it. I will quiz you harder than the other students, and if at any point it becomes too much for you, you can return to normal class routines." McGonagall explained.
"Alright, thanks professor. See you at dinner!" Riley stated as she headed off to her next class. Draco, Tracy, Daphne, Goyle and Crabbe were waiting in the hallway for her. They all walked to their next class and inquired to what her meeting with McGonagall was about.
They were all shocked when she told them. Tracy immediately asked for help on her future transfiguration homework, to which Riley just chuckled in reply. And from there they made it to their next class. And the day went pretty normally from there, professor Flitwick offered Riley pretty much the same deal which she took without hesitation. Though surprisingly the stuttering fool Quirrel their DADA teacher didn't. He didn't seem to want to spend a lot of time around Riley for some reason or another.
Riley also enjoyed her lesson with Professor Snape. She loved making things and always had a small knack for potions. She wasn't a genius in it or anything mostly because she preferred active magic, rather than passive brewing but she still took to it, amazingly well. It was calming, like learning Fuinjutsu.
She had potions with the Gryffindors and naturally they made idiots of themselves. Her charms class was with the Ravenclaws so she got to see Hermione there. The two would often compete to see whom knew more answers, and whenever Riley beat her, Hermione took it as a challenge to do better.
She had Herbology with the puffs so she saw Neville there. The boy was great at the subject and was often able to help Riley whenever she was confused about something.
A couple of weeks went by, it was Halloween night, Riley and the others were busy having dinner when Quirell came busting through the doors.
"Tr- Troll in the Dungeons... Tho- Thought you sh- should know!" He stuttered before passing out.
"Alright prefects, please guide your houses to their common rooms. Slytherins please report to the library." Dumbledore stated as he stood to calm the masses. He spotted Riley heading for the door.
"Ms. Slytherin! Where do you think you're going?" Dumbledore called out drawing all attention in the room to her.
"Gonna go kick that troll out of our school. Be right back." Riley replied with a glance over the shoulder.
"Hey... Hermione isn't here." Riley heard one of the Ravenclaws say as she departed.
"Where is she?" Riley called back.
"The Bathroom, she was crying when I heard her." The same person replied.
Riley was in the hallway in a flash, before any of the teachers could stop her. She quickly made a few Shadow Clones and sent them all to each of the bathrooms since the girl hadn't specified which one, she was in.
Riley quickly shot toward the nearest one and began to search. A few moments passed before one of her clones popped. She quickly Shunshined to the location just as she saw a troll enter into one of the girls' bathrooms. She then heard a scream.
Riley was down the hallway in a flash. She rounded the corner and spotted the troll advancing towards a cowering Hermione.
Riley quickly pulled out her wand and fired off a Reducto at the creature's leg. It grunted in pain as a chunk of flesh exploded outward, though its magically resilient skin made it shrug off most of the damage. With Hermione so near, and vulnerable, Riley immediately decided not to play games. She was making friends here in Hogwarts, and she wasn't about to let anything happen to them.
It turned around and spotted Riley, in its hand it carried a giant club. It locked onto her and started to move towards her.
Riley's eyes glowed red as her Mangekyou activated, just as the troll raised its club up to strike her.
It brought the club down but was surprised when it saw a giant blue skeletal hand holding the club in place. The troll didn't have time to react as another blue arm appeared and this one wrapped its giant hand around the troll's head. The troll struggled for a moment before the hand around its head twisted sharply to the right. A loud cracking could be heard as the troll went limp. It's body then fell to the ground with a loud crash.
"Hermione! Are you alright?" Riley asked as she stepped around the creature's fallen body.
"Ri- Riley." Hermione whimpered. Riley found the girl cowering under a sink. She didn't look hurt, just shaken.
Riley heard the sound of footsteps and then gasps behind her. She turned around and shot a glare at the professors that had shown up.
"Alright..." Riley began as they all spotted her menacing Sharingan enhanced glare, "Someone want to explain to me how this fucking thing got in here?"
All of the teachers were frozen in place at the sight of the mighty doujutsu, not even Snape who had served the Dark Lord could move. The anger and rage in those mighty eyes, was unlike anything, any of them had seen before.
But something about them did ring familiar to Snape. For some reason, he thought about the glare that Minato had thrown at him the day of his and Lily's fight. For some reason Snape couldn't help but shudder, at the sight of those eyes.
"Well? Someone going to answer me? Or not?" Riley asked this time a menacing smirk appeared on her face. Hermione was her friend, and Riley wasn't going to lose another person she cared for. No one was going to hurt her friends, no one.
-To be continued-
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