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Child of Silence
By Angelwings Sorrow
Chapter 30 "Like Father and Dad, Like Son"
It was getting ridiculous the attention he was getting from Ginny and Lockhart. Ginny want him to marry her; while Lockhart want to cash in on his fame as Harry Potter. Harry collapsed on cool Saturday afternoon under the group's usual tree tired and legs sore from the constant running he had to do. Seriously they have been in school only two weeks.
"Running again Lokison?" Malfoy asked flipping the page in his text book while ignoring the extremely rude hand gesture.
"Harry was Ginny chasing you again?" Susan asked worriedly. She conjure a cool rag and placed it on the forehead of the flushed prince.
"Yes. I was helping a new first year of my house because the girls in her dorm stole her shoes and hid them. She didn't let it bother her but I could feel that it did. Luna is a seer so she's a bit exocentric her soul is very pure and gentle but it is bruised by the bullying. Anyways after I helper her and set the girls straight I bumped into Ms. Weasley and she started yelling that I was cheating on her with Luna. I ignored her and started walking away but she kept following me. Eventually I had to run for my life because Butterfingers is down for program upgrades that needed to be installed and Shadow is out hunting. I couldn't use my suit because it's for emergencies only." Harry typed out on Friday.
"Sorry mate."
"We've written to dad."
"But we think that Mum."
"Is intercepting the letters." Fred and George apologized.
"I'll talk to my Godfather about getting you an Asgard trained Owl or maybe an Alfheim Trained one. Their fowl have a sweeter disposition than the Asgard owls. My godfather has a snowy owl named Hedwig and she is very sweet. Nátt is only nice to me and my father as he almost bit my dad's finger off once. Either way their magic will be too strong for any Midgard witch or wizard to intercept or redirect them, plus they only deliver to the intended recipient." Harry tapped out.
"That would be great we'll pay you once we get paying customers."
"No just think of them as Christmas presents the owls will be ready about then. You need to have a secure way to send mail." Harry just smiled and began writing an email to his Godfather about twin owls for the twins, describing his mischievous pair of friends.
"You spoil us Prince Firsty." Fred grinned as he lifted the little Ravenclaw into a hug.
"We'll make you the most awesome prank ever." George said as he sandwiched Harry between him and his twin.
"You guys might want to let him breathe or at least let his feet touch the ground." Susan giggled as the Prince's feet dangled off the ground as he was squished between the brothers.
"So the rumors are true, Malfoy, you are socializing with less than desirable company."
"What do you want Parkinson?" Malfoy rolled his eyes at the pug face girl that was disturbing their afternoon picnic. They had been doing these Saturday lunches since the spring of their first year. All of them enjoyed the peace and quiet away from the castle and other students namely Weasley and now Parkinson. Draco had been lucky that Zabini had not tried to stick his nose into their little group.
"I want to know why you have been ignoring your orders to stick with your own society. Seriously Blood traitors, a Squib, a half blood and a Mud-Blood." Pansy sneered and before she could react the whole group was on their feet and wands out. Shadow emerged from the Forbidden Forest in his large battle form.
"Parkinson, I would watch what you say about my friends." Draco Sneered. "While we have developed our own society we have moved beyond the narrow minded thinking that you still use. In fact our grades speak for themselves. So run a long I do not need your dull wittedness to bring down my own thought process."
"What?" The Slytherin was scared with six wands in her face. The giant cat standing too close for comfort she could feel it breathing heavily down on her neck but she didn't understand Draco's large words.
"It means you are not worthy company." Susan simplified.
"I'll show you not worthy. Just wait until I write Lord Malfoy, he'll put you back on the right side of society." Pansy snapped turning on heel and running to the castle.
"Don't worry she'll forget by the time she gets to the castle." Harry signed as a gold magic disappears from around his left hand.
"Harry, you got to be careful with the sorcery you might get caught." Hermione cautioned. "What did you do to her anyways?"
"Absentminded spell it lasts for three days; by the time it wears off she'll totally have forgotten this little encounter."
"How do you all know what he is saying with those hand gestures?" the new voice had the group turning there wands on the newcomer.
"Greengrass what are you doing here?" Malfoy narrowed his eyes.
"Pansy has been ranting about you since last year. She is after the Lady Malfoy title and is an unbearable room mate. She was finally fed up with you ignoring her and was determined to seek you out. Frankly I am surprised she waited this long." Daphne explained taking a seat on the blanket and a muffin from the pile of food. Seeing as the female Slytherin was at least neutral they group lowered their wands and retook their seats.
"Pansy is not going to go away is she?" Draco asked picking up his potions book.
"Nope. I think she is just getting started, especially now that you are on the house team."
"Don't remind me. I wasn't going to try out for the team but Father bought the team brooms so I would get a place on the starting team. I wrote and asked him why and he said 'A Malfoy is noting but the best in everything.' So I believe that he meant I have to be popular when I couldn't careless about it. I love quidditch don't misunderstand that, but I don't need to play to enjoy it. Now Parkinson is going to be hounding my every step." The Slytherin complained.
"You've got a fan little Malfoy." Fred snickered snatching up a sandwich.
"Looks like you and Harry got Matching stalkers." George pointed out finishing off his butter beer.
"Oh does Lokison have an entitled she devil after his money too?" Daphne asked curiously.
"Yes, the young Miss Weasley is the name of my stalker." Harry tapped out before opening a bottle of butter beer.
"Ah, I see, she takes after your younger brother Ronald, does she not?" the Slytherin asked the twins.
"Yes much to our disgrace." They chorused.
"So Greengrass what is your part in all this?" Hermione asked still weary of their guest.
"Well Granger I have been watching your little group since last year. I must admit you are all intriguing. You are all from different houses but you have created harmony and trust. Slytherin is a cold and socially distant place to live you create Allies and Enemies but there is no trust. I've seen how Draco here is the perfect Slytherin within the dorms but his eyes are dead. Out here or in the Library his eyes are alight with warmth and laughter. He shines with life instead of the dark death that fills the dungeons." Daphne gave an involuntary shiver as did Malfoy.
"That's sad. Draco why didn't you tell us it was that bad in the Dorms." Susan cried.
"I did not want your pity. Besides I spend as little time as I can in there. It's the older generations that seeped the place in darkness and twisted what it means to be a Slytherin." Draco shrugged. "Does this mean you are coming over to the Land of the Living Greengrass?"
"Maybe, it is nicer here. I know that trust is hard earned in this group so I will not be demand my place here just yet." The Slytherin declared with a smirk.
"Well since you are here do you have any advice for DADA? We have all agreed that Lockhart is all hair and not brain." Hermione stated pick up a real book on defense.
"I agree fully. There is something off with some these stories like they weren't really written by the same person. I mean, no body is that strong or resourceful." Daphne laughed and the rest of the grouped looked to their Demi-god Prince.
"Shut up you guys." Harry signed and everyone laughed leaving the lone Slytherin confused about the outburst of laughter.
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"Sir I have found three bases that have fit the parameters you have set for the search."
"Good job J, send the information to Eye Patch." Tony was floating around the workshop testing out the newly upgraded boots and using his gloves for balance.
"Yes, sir. May I warn you that Prince Loki's Familiar is slithering about on the tool bench?"
"What?!" Tony shouted putting too much power into the repuslors sending the billionaire flying straight back in to the wall the fell to the ground. Dum-E took the opportunity to use his fire extinguisher on his creator. "Not on Fire Dum-E!"
"Sir, scans show a slight bump to your head and bruising to your upper shoulders. In short you will live."
"Has Harry upgraded your program to include Sass?" Tony asked as he got up from the floor.
"No, but he did add new software that helps me learn and mimic Human speech patterns." Jarvis explained. Tony rolled his eyes because that meant Harry did reprogram Jarvis with Sass and possibly sarcasm.
"That's my boy." The genius muttered before going over to the work bench. "Alright I know you're here and that you understand me so show yourself."
"Hiss, Hiss, Hiss." The snake made himself visible and stretched his body so he could see Tony at eye level.
"Now you know the rules you are not allowed in my Workshop. So why are you invading my space?" Tony crossed his arms glaring at Jörmungandr.
"Hiss, hiss, hiss." The snake replied then leaned against Tony's reactor core looking up at the genius.
"I don't care that you want to be close to me, this is a dangerous place to be. Loki would kill me if anything happened to you."
"Hiss, hiss, Hiss." Jörmungandr slithered up Tony's chest and wrapped lightly around his neck.
"Just because you are wrapped around me doesn't mean you won't get hurt. I hurt myself all the time and I get burned on the face from the welding sparks. You would be right in the line of fire." The inventor argued.
"Hiss, hiss, Hiss." There was a sudden tingling feeling that washed over the two of them like a shield had been raised to protect them.
"So I take it that this is one of your magical talents. Fine you can stay but as soon as you get in my way you're out of here." Tony gave in again. He really was too soft he thought as he received a Hissy Kiss as thanks.
"Were you just talking to a snake, Tony?"
"Hey Cap, what are you and Frosty doing on this side of the pond?" Tony asked turning to Steve. Even though the captain was alone he knew that Barnes wasn't to far away. The two tended to travel as a pair since Wakanda.
"Fury just sent us the information on the bases. We were flying back from a mission and thought we would confirm the information."
"That was pretty quick Jarvis just sent it ten minutes ago. So you had to already be on your way here to get here so fast after getting the message." Tony eyed the American hero with suspicion; Jörmungandr gave the intruder a glare well the best glare a snake could manage.
"We didn't want to tell Fury until we told you and Loki first. We took out a small Mandarin cell in Argentina. It's an old Photo but Mandarin is close to tracking Harry." Steve sighed handing over the photo that was taken last spring when he and Bucky took Harry to the movies in London.
"Shit they are getting close but it seems that they still don't realize he has magic. They know that Loki survived the attack because of the press release we did last winter. If they don't than they're idiots. We'll have to travel by Magic until we take them down. The less they see Harry the better." Tony thought out loud as he stroked his goatee and Jörmungandr bobbing his head in agreement.
"Is it me or does that snake understand everything we are saying?"
"This Jörmungandr, Loki's snake familiar, that has been misidentified as his son. Yes, he can understand what we are saying too bad it doesn't work both ways."
"It looked like you were doing pretty well when I walked in here."
"Yeah well I am a genius; I seem to be able to get a read on his body language and what he wants. Loki says after were married chances are his bond with Jörmungandr will transfer to me as well. Then I'll be able to understand him too, just like Loki and Harry." Tony said as he began taking off his gloves and boots, missing the surprised look on the captain's face.
"Harry can talk with snakes?"
"Yup, Hissing doesn't require a voice box, so he and Jor here were hissing up a storm before he left. It turns out little green, here has been very lonely with no one to talk too. Hey did you bring your shield? I have those new electro magnets Harry order for it. He redesigned the arm band for it to make it more comfortable." Tony asked as he went over to Harry's side of the lab pulling up the design on the 3D hologram.
"When did he do this? It's amazing." Steve said in awe looking over the schematics.
"I think during one of his therapy sessions at the tower, when you were out looking for your hubby. We had a hard time keeping him distracted from worrying over you guys. Sam just mentioned that your shield straps looked a little worn but still in good condition for being so old and then Harry was off to the lab creating this."
"I'm sorry for worrying him like that; I didn't except to be gone for so long when I went to retrieve Bucky."
"Don't beat yourself up about it. Harry knows we have the tough job of being heroes. This is how he copes with it. You recommending Sam was a great help for his mental state. Now that he can talk about his magic he's been more open with Sam and us about how he's feeling." Tony said trying to be reassuring. He never imagined that Spangles would take the Godfather thing seriously. It was great for Harry the more love the better and it gave him a bond equal to the bond that Harry had with Barnes. He worried a bit about the old man's mental state. But he was sure that Sam was helping the captain to work out that little issue. The genius would do what he could to keep the peace within their family.
"I'm glad that Sam is helping, I just feel bad that I added to his stress. He is an amazing kid. Sometimes I forget that he had another parent he is so much like you and looks like Loki." Steve smiled as he read over plans to upgrade his shield. "Is this Nanotech?"
"Yeah," the genius pouted. "Now this band will look and works just like a regular watch. Then you tap on the face of the watch and you entire forearm will be encased in a Vibranium arm band that you shield will magnetize to and after some practice you will be able to turn the magnets on and off with one or two wrist movements. You better be grateful Harry won't share his nanotech goodies with me, but anything for his godfather Stars and Stripes."
"I am grateful for this gift; it was unexpected but not unappreciated. I'm sure Harry will share his tech with you once he has it perfected. You know how he is; everything he works on has to be perfect before he shows it to his parents." Steve consoled the sulky father.
"POP!" Winky appeared before the two Avengers.
"Master Loki says enough with lab work it is time for lunch."
"Thanks Winky. Jarvis save all the work and lock down until after lunch."
"Yes sir."
"Shall we go Capsicle?"
"Lead the way Stark. After lunch I'll bring down my shield and you can tell me all about Harry's new tech." The Captain grinned as he watched the Billionaire with the snake scarf pout more and stomp out of the workshop.
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"Class I have great news. The Headmaster has granted me permission to start a dueling club." Lockhart announced to the second year class of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.
"Will everyone be allowed to attend or are there restrictions?" Terry asked.
"It is open to one and all. I want you all to be well prepare should the need arise." Lockhart gave another dazzling smile.
"This guy is a joke." Harry signed to Susan.
"Not everyone can be an Asgardian warrior." Susan signed back.
"Miss Bone can you translate to Mr. Potter I expect him to be the first to sign up for the dueling club." Lockhart grinned as he passed out the test sheets.
"Professor, his name is Lokison and he can hear you just fine he just can't speak." The Hufflepuff clarified while taking her test paper.
"Yes, Professor Dumbledore explained that he is very confused on his name after such a tragic life. Now, you all have been in this class long enough to know everything in my books so I expect all the questions to be answered. You all have until the end of class then leave the finished test on my desk. I will also leave the sign-up sheet on my desk as well. You may begin." Lockhart then sat at his desk and answered his fan mail.
Harry and Susan shared a look after seeing the questions on the test. Seriously the guy's ego was beyond help. Every question on the test had to do with the professor's likes, dislikes, hobbies, and nothing to do with Defense Against the Dark Arts. It looks like their group going have to do some major studying on real Defense if they wanted to be ready for OWL's in fifth year. There was no way that Harry and Susan were signing up for the Dueling club.
The two quickly finished the test and slipped out of the class before the air head professor could notice. The Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw nearly tripped over a fallen figure in the hall. The figure became a familiar sight as the rolled him over.
"Draco what happened?" Susan gasped.
"My house elf is trying to kill me."
"I doubt that Malfoy, it goes against their magic." Harry signed.
"Okay, he's not trying to kill me, its worst; he's trying to save me." The blond sat up rubbing the back of his head. Then he winced as a pain shot up from his ankle. "I'm lucky I was close to the last step before he pushed me off the step. I think I twisted my ankle to go along with the bump to the head."
"Okay why is he trying to save you?" the Hufflepuff asked trying to hide her laughter.
"My mother sent him to protect me. You remember I told you last year that my father got a package and then closed himself away right? Well there seems to be a plan in play. Before school started, my Mother walked in on a meeting between Father and his friends. They were talking about sending the package here to Hogwarts. Mother is scared that something might happen to me now that whatever they had in now here at the school."
"Well it seems we now have the Mystery of the year. Let's get you to the hospital wing and then send a text to everyone that we need to meet up." Harry signed before lifting the Slytherin up in his arms with very little effort.
"You know Harry this looks a little weird since you are almost half a foot shorter than Draco." Susan laughed and the blonde blushed. Harry just rolled his eyes as he started up the stairs.
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"So this new mystery has to do with an unknown supposedly dark object here at school." Hermione summed up take some more Chow mien noodles on to her plate. Harry and Hermione had been expanding the purebloods' Muggle pallet with different takeaway from the local Muggle village.
"That's pretty much it." Susan replied trying to get the hang of using chop sticks.
"Susie like this." Fred said showing her how to use the chopsticks and how to hold them.
"How did you two learn to use chop sticks? " Neville asked trying to mimic them.
"That voice at Harry's manor introduced us to a website called Youtube and Local Muggle cuisine." George answered snatching the last egg roll.
"How do you not know Longbottom?" Greengrass asked sitting between Harry and Draco and picking up a plate and taking the box of sweet'n'sour pork.
"Gran doesn't like anything outside of traditional food." The Gryffindor shrugged watching the Slytherin girl expertly use the wooden sticks.
"She's just showing off Longbottom. The Greengrass dynasty is founded in Import and Exportation." Malfoy rolled his eyes. "They travel a lot through out the year and Daphne here is a big fan of the orient."
"Thanks for spilling all my secrets Draco. So what are discussing today?"
"The mystery of the day." Fred smirked.
"Also the idiot of the year." George finished before he cracked open his fortune cookie.
"Oh you mean Lockhart's dueling club?"
"You mean Lockhart's joke." Harry tapped out on Friday before finishing off his third box of beef and broccoli.
"You have to come to the next dueling club meeting. He said he was going to do an exposition with Professor Snape." Hermione smirked. Hermione signed up for the club to see if there was anything real that could be learned from the duels.
"How did he get my godfather to agree to that?" Draco asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Who cares Malfoy; I want to see Snape beat the shit out of that pretender." Harry rolled his eyes as Friday spoke for him.
"Language!"
"Yes, Uncle Steve." Harry signed and Hermione just glared at him.
"Well Language aside, I believe we all want to see that, but other than watching Lockhart fail, what is this Mystery of the day?" Daphne asked enjoying the fried rice. "Delicious, Muggles definitely make better take away."
"Well Greengrass you have been eating lunch with us for only a month."
"Are you ready to see just how deep the rabbit hole goes?"
"Take the Blue Pill you will fall asleep no memory of what we have discussed here today."
"Take the red pill and you stay in wonderland and become a part of the Resistance to the Matrix." Fred stated holding out one blue M&M and George, Holding out red one. While the purebloods looked at each other worriedly Harry and Hermione fell over laughing.
"Seriously? That has got to be the most over used Muggle reference there is!" Hermione gasped out between giggles Harry gave up on breathing it was just too much.
"Awe, spoil our fun." The twins pouted.
"Grange what is going on and I think the twins just killed Lokison." Malfoy stated looking at Harry with a bit of concern as the Ravenclaw laid flat out trying to catch his breath.
"The Matrix is a Muggle Moive that came out in at then end of the nineties. About a guy who finds out he is in a virtual world. It was a very good and popular movie." Hermione explained.
"We put the manor to good use over the summer."
"Voice in the manor gave us great ideas and showed us lots of Muggle things."
"My brother's name is Just A Rather Very Intelligent System or J.A.R.V.I.S for short. He runs all Stark household systems." Friday stated switching to her own voice.
"Friday, be nice. They don't mean to insult you or your brother, Jarvis. They are wizards and still learning the ways of the Muggles." Harry scolded as he typed not wanting the others to hear or another Sam incident to occur.
"Yes Jarvis was a big help." Fred Smiled.
"They have great pizza from Muggle town near the manor too." George confirmed.
"Okay, we got a bit off topic. Do you want to join our group officially Greengrass? If you do there are two conditions to joining." Malfoy redirected.
"Oh and what are those conditions."
"First is that you learn sign language. We will teach you and Harry here will help you get up to our speed with the accelerated learning spell on you. It is perfectly safe he used it on all of us to get us to his level." Susan stated.
"The second is all secrets are kept within this group. If you betray that trust you will suffer the pain of all those here." Neville glared his voice strong with conviction.
"I see." Daphne said quietly. They are serious and surprisingly it didn't scare her. In fact she felt relieved that they all had such a strong bond between them. This was what she had been looking forward to when she came to school, real friends. "I agree to your terms."
"Wise choice Greengrass. Granger will get you the books you'll need to start learning sign language. As for the Mystery we were discussing, it involves my father sending a dark artifact to school." Malfoy stated waving his wand to clean up the dirty dishes. "Butterfinger you can sever the dessert, now."
The robot wheel forward to the middle of the group and opened his refrigeration unit, bringing the dishes of green tea ice cream to the top. Harry waved his hand and all the ice cream floated out to everyone.
"Wandless magic?"
"Sorcery actually." Harry opened his locket and connected with the mind stone. Now that Daphne agreed to keep his secrets he could use it freely.
"Fascinating. Do you offer lessons in that as well?" the blond girl asked.
"You'll find that we do a little bit of everything." Susan supplied.
"Especially hand to hand combat." Neville said twirling a dagger in his hand.
"They pushed for that one. I was totally against teaching them." Harry protested.
"After the dragon Prince Firsty,"
"We all agreed you needed back up." The twins stated. Harry rolled his eyes but what they said was true. Shortly after the dragon incident they all said if he was going to be doing crazy stunts that he should have back up. Harry had been totally against until Hermione pointed out that the Avengers are a team that always goes out in pairs or more. They have been working every weekend and on Wednesdays to learn from Harry. He had to call his aunt to write up a starter program for his friends.
It seemed that everyone kept up their training over the summer because it took him ten minutes to actually take them all down when they had their first session of the new school year. That's why all of them thought the dueling club was a joke. They were learning real skills from the Asgardian Prince not like the fake that was Lockhart.
"I think this is going to be a mutually beneficial friendship. As Draco has said I have a fascination with the orient and I have learned things from the wizards there that blend with Muggle martial arts. I think you will find I can bring a lot to your group." Daphne smiled.
"Good we'll test you on Wednesday after Draco's quidditch practice." The Hufflepuff smiled.
"Speaking of quiddtich, why haven't you tried out for your house team Lokison?" Draco was hoping Harry would join quidditch because it go a bit lonely on the field without real competition. The twins were on their house team but they were beaters not really seeker competition.
"Because Malfoy, I don't need a broom to fly and plus I am not into the house glory. Sure I'd win but that's not much of a challenge for me." Harry said finishing off his ice cream.
"Yeah little Malfoy he's got a nice blue suit."
"With rockets and jets and stuff." Fred and George smiled.
"Alright knock it off you two. Homework time. You two run down some proper defense spells. Neville and Susan will start Greengrass' assessment on Wednesday. Hermione you and I will work on debunking the fake. Malfoy you will get Greengrass up to speed on everything we know so far and Muggle tech I'll get her a phone by next week." Harry order with everyone agreeing to their assigned tasks.
"If we're good can we have a Halloween Movie Night?" Fred asked with Puppy eyes.
"Yeah Harry can we? We can show these guys the Awesomeness that is the Matrix!" George begged.
"Fine if you guys get every thing done by Halloween I'll set up a real Muggle Movie night. I'm turning into my dad, too soft to say no." Harry rolled his eyes.
"There, there, Harry, you know you are looking forward to movie night." Hermione soothed as the other laughed. Yeah they were a crazy bunch but he wouldn't trade them for the world. He finally understood that need for acceptance and friendship. His father was denied because he was Jotun, his dad pushed others away afraid to be hurt, but now having Friends changed them both for the better. These people were changing him as well but not forcing him to be something he wasn't. They were showing him it was okay to be open with them and to trust them. He was changing for the better just like his parents and that was a good place to be.
A/N: Sorry for the lateness of the Chapter my middle child is graduating this coming week. Due to the Pandemic it was a virtual experience he was recorded getting his diploma from a hologram. How weird is that? Then they are going to stream the graduation this week. This is one for the record books. Anyways the Plot bunnies are fighting. Half of them want me to write the other half wants Plot Bun Portraits done because the last one came out to their satisfaction. I got an Avenger Bun Civil War going on here Hp Bun is the only neutral one hiding out of the line of fire. Silly Buns. Thanks for reading Keep Reviewing. Reviews feed the plot Bunnines.