Welcome to Chapter 3 of this fanfic, we're now dealing with the biggest try-hard in the Wizarding World since Fart Lord Moldyshorts.
But before that, some review answers to those who commented with guest accounts:
Guest 1: Wait and see my friend :D
Guest 2: I asked specifically not to say it out loud *sigh*
Guest 3: Welcome back, and as stated I don't usually deal with romance in my stories, nor do I plan for it in general. As for Amalia, yes Yugo does that. We also don't know if they can reproduce but Wakfu is Fantasy-Landia and how the design of humans relates to Eliatropes isn't exactly clear.
Also, I want to mention with Season 4 mentioned, I will ignore it. I wasn't aware of it before starting to write all this and the whole Nora/Efrim/Eliatrope thing thrashes the set-up of this fanfic so… yeah, Season 4 is non-canon to this fanfic. This means Nora and Efrim died on Mt. Zinit during Islands of Wakfu and are inside their Dofus in this timeline, while their parents were banished to the world of Harry Potter where they had another Dofus.
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Ellie sighed as they finally left the bank. No offense to the Goblins, and she had grown to appreciate them genuinely, but she had a mild case of claustrophobia.
It didn't help that they had seen a genuine dragon chained up down there, it hurt her to see it to be honest.
Mister Weasley had taken the cup with him to the Ministry shortly after it had been destroyed and neither sister protested, even though he would report it to, among others, Professor Dumbledore. The old headmaster had lost a lot of respect in her eyes over what he did to them.
They first headed to Olivander's, Ellie wanted to be there for Az's, Ron's and Ginny's Wand selection, curious what they would cause. Naturally things went a bit sideways going there. "Hey Neville!" Called Ellie, seeing their classmate and not-so-close but still friend ahead with an older woman with some weird looking hat. Based on previous descriptions, that would be Augusta Longbottom, his grandmother.
"Ellie? Whoa I didn't know you were coming here!" Responded the boy, clearly surprised by her presence but Ellie didn't mind.
"Yup, me and Az need to get our supplies." Stated Ellie, pointing at her sister.
"Nice to meet you again lady Longbottom, it has been a while." Stated Az, bowing to the old woman whose eyes narrowed.
"You remember me, hard to recognize you though young Azkalagora." Stated the woman, to the surprise of Ellie and Neville.
"Uh, so we met before everything went wrong?" Asked Ellie, the question was directed at her sister rather than the older witch, but said woman didn't seem to mind.
"Yeah, mom and dad had some playdates when possible between us and Neville. Though I can't remember him being so nervous." Stated Az, then turned to Neville who… blushed? Really? "Hi there, you don't remember I'm sure, but I'm Azkalagora Potter, we used to play before Halloween 1981 so… wanna be friends?" Asked Az, holding out her hand and Neville blinked, then took it.
"Uh, sure? I- sorry I-" he was stumbling over his words which was… pretty normal actually.
"Don't worry, we can get to know one another over the next school year." Assured Az him and he actually smiled gratefully at that. "So, Ellie mentioned you're using your father's wand, you sure you shouldn't get another?" Asked Az, and Ellie winced at that.
"Why are you suggesting that?" Asked Augusta Longbottom her eyes narrowing down on the small dragon girl.
"Because I can see lingering Wakfu on the wand and it not connecting to Neville here AT ALL, that wand is still connected to his former user, probably the whole reason why Neville can't use it properly. After all, unlike our adopted parents, Neville's are still very much alive, just not getting the help they actually need." Stated Az, and Ellie blinked a moment, then used her own Wakfu Vision and… sure enough.
"Sirius, can you please tell me what in the world she is speaking of?" Asked miss Longbottom and Ellie winced, obviously the older woman hadn't heard.
Sirius proceeded to explain what he knew about Wakfu, or rather what he had been told by Az so far. It was pretty comprehensive but probably not as good as having it explained with visual aids in the middle of an Envision Dream. Either way, miss Longbottom conceded and with Neville's agreement he joined them to Olivander's Wand Shop.
"So, do wands have Wakfu? I thought you said only living things have it." Asked Hermione, evidently deciding to sate her curiosity.
"They don't, but they are extremely conductive to it. I can see it, there is something pulling the Wakfu of everyone who hasn't gotten their wand to it, and there are more than one for a few. I suspect These are all wands that would be compatible. So yeah, wands don't have a mind of their own, but they connect to your life-force and need to be well-attuned to it for compatibility." Explained Az, just as they entered the shop.
"You know young lady, I would love a discussion on that." Spoke Olivander at that point, popping out of literal nowhere which was saying something given Ellie had been trying to see him. He had been in the back of the store less than a second ago.
"How about mail correspondense mister Olivander?" Asked Az with a smirk while Hermione was busy scribbling on some notebook she had.
"So many theories just disproven or proven Merlin's beard there is so much to learn." Muttered Hermione and Ellie giggled as she leaned back.
"Now, I imagine I can tell who needs a wand. Shall we start with young miss Ginnevra?" Asked Olivander, turning to Ginny and Ellie noted that, like her, Ginny had an uncomfortably long name.
Looking around, Ellie easily spotted the wand with the best connection. "Cabinet 12, top shelf, fifth from the left by our orientation." She stated, leaving Olivander to stop for a second.
"She's right, that is the wand with the strongest atunement to Ginny." Stated Az as she walked to another Wand and, flying up with her own flight magic, grabbed a box for herself, not for Ginny. Olivander just shook his head.
"Well, interesting choice. 10 and a quarter inches, Oak wood with unicorn hair, quite springy. A common wand among Weasleys and quite loyal." Stated the old man as he handed it to Ginny who, as soon as she touched it, felt a surge of power as magic swirled around her. Ellie could see the Wakfu connection snapping into place, same as Az when she took the wand out.
"I could have told you this already young miss Potter, that Wand was custom-made for you, Mahogany, 12 and three quarter inches, rigid and with a core of a dragon's shed skin. Your own, to be exact." Stated Olivander, an unusual fact actually.
"Well that is odd. Did our parents try with me too?" Asked Ellie, curious about that.
"Quite, your hair has magic properties like a unicorn but sadly isn't very conductive for wands. And I only had enough material from your sister to make one wand. You actually weren't compatible with it, and I tried a dozen different dragon heartstring wands with you for that reason." Explained Olivander as Ellie frowned, because that was odd.
"Weird that the connection didn't work, and instead I got the wand with the tail feather of the same phoenix as the wand of Snakeface McNoNose." Stated Ellie and turned around when Ron, who had taken a sip, had started laughing with his drink coming out of his nose to the disgust of Hermione.
"Dear lord, you fought him once and you're already giving him a nickname?" Asked lady Longbottom, shaking her head as Ellie shrugged.
"He can't touch me, and since people don't like it when I call him by his self-given title, it is best to call him something silly." Explained Ellie with a shrug, then moved through the isles. "Now… Here, this looks like the best match for Neville. The only thread stronger is far away from here so probably not even in the UK." Explained Ellie as she took one of the boxes for her friend who blinked in astonishment, taking it.
"I believe I won't have you come to my shop again any time soon Misses Potters, you take all of the fun out of this." Stated Olivander, shaking his head as he looked at that particular wand. "Cherry with unicorn hair, 13 inches. Springy." Stated the man as Neville marveled at the feeling of touching this new wand.
"So, now all that is left is Ron." Stated Ellie, looking around for the connection.
"If you don't mind, may I do it my way?" Asked Olivander and Ellie blinked, looked to Az, who shrugged.
"Okay I guess." She said, her eyes stopped glowing, same as Az as they ended their Wakfu Vision.
"Life Force X-Ray Vision, hell of an ability." Commented Ron, shaking his head at the two god-born.
"To be fair I could teach you guys." Noted Az with a grin as Olivander began to bring wands.
"Wait, we could learn that? I thought it was unique to you two?" Asked Hermione, now genuinely curious about that.
"As Az said, Wakfu is in everybody. Eliatropes like me and dragons like Az just have a natural attunement to it due to our relation to the Goddess of Wakfu, our biological mom Eliatrope." Explained Ellie, thankful for all the myriad lessons on the subject she had from Az. She liked history, it was a lot less dry compared to most subjects. Agripina was also a very interesting private teacher, though she specialized for some reason on Greek Mythology though that was quite interesting in its own right.
"Wait, your mom is a goddess? Gods are real?" Asked Neville, looking stumped.
"Yeah, how do you think a dragon can be her twin sister?" Asked Az, though her tone was nowhere near mean spirited, it was her trying to be funny and pointing out that something had be very wrong for a human to be born from a dragon egg.
"Lets not break his mind even further Az, as Ron began to try out wands, which did go about as well as it usually did with the blind testing Olivander found so enjoyable. The explosion of a wall was kinda funny to be honest. 20 minutes later and Ron finally settled on a Willow Wand, 14 inches, Unicorn hair core. Ellie also confirmed the positive match.
"Well, that went well. Lets get to Flourish and Blotts next for your books." Stated Miss Weasley as they headed in the direction of said book store.
"Question, any idea why the new teacher wants us to buy all those books from this Lockhart guy?" Asked Ellie, still not getting the hype around this man. The book titles sounded so weird to her, not like any kind of book you would normally assign students to learn from, but rather some guy's travel account at best.
As Miss Weasley was about to begin to expouse the virtues of reading the books of Lockhart, they come to the shop and it become obvious that something big was happening even before they saw the sign advertising Gilderoy Lockhart signing autographs inside the shop.
"Fantastic, just what we needed: Media Rabies." Muttered Az with a scowl on her face, recognizing what would be happening if they were caught here. "Maybe we should come back some other time, preferably without the Lockhart Bloke here." Muttered the dragonness and Ellie was inclined to agree with her twin sister.
"Now now, I'm sure someone as distinguished as mister Lockhart would love to sign your books too!" Exclaimed Miss Weasley in a tone that was kind of disturbing for Ellie.
"Ron, isn't your mom still married to your dad? Why does she sound like the woman over there?" Asked Ellie, seriously contemplating just going into a portal and finding out what would happen to her if she didn't make a second before going in.
"Yeah, she is. He's also a fair bit younger than her so..." Ron shook his head, and Ellie was thankful that she had driven the puppy-crush out of Hermione, and that Ginny didn't seem to have one, so the only one in their group gushing over the man whose images were plastered everywhere, was Miss Weasley.
"What a Nargle infestation." Ellie eeped and somehow portalled herself onto a roof by instinct, when she heard those words. Peaking down she found a girl Ginny's age standing there, smiling rather vacantly up at her. "Look daddy, it is a Crumple-Horned Snorkack and her sister." Stated the girl and Ellie blinked, staring down at her.
She was an odd girl, with dirty blonde hair, very light eyebrows and protuberant, silver eyes which seemed locked into a surprised expression all the time. As Ginny approached her, Ellie activated her Wakfu Vision and frowned in confusion over the girl's weird Wakfu, it was largely blue like most people, and looked very much like the Wakfu of a good person, but there were dots of gold mixed in.
The man who followed the girl had the same odd properties to his Wakfu, which was odd. A moment later she come down with a portal, staring at the girl. "Uh, hi? Who are you? And why do you call me sister a "Crumple-Horned Snorkack"? She's a Eliatropian Dragon." Asked Ellie, staring at the girl who cocked her head to the side.
"Is that what your people call them? I only ever saw the big gray one who lives on the little planets with all the children with your hat." Stated the girl and Ellie stopped for a moment, a memory flashing to her mind of a vision where she and Az had Envisioned to the realm of Emrub, seeing their older brother for the first time.
"You can see Emrub, you have seen Balthazar and the Eliatrope children?" Asked Ellie, and got startled looks from the others at that as the girl nodded.
"Yes, me and daddy can sometimes see the wonder place, do you know how to find it? I want to see the big Crumple-Horned Snorkack." Stated the girl, a dreamy smile on her face as Ellie felt REALLY uncomfortable at this point.
"Um, Ellie? Are you telling me one of your relatives may be that thing they've been talking about for years?" Asked Sirius, evidently he knew what the girl was talking about.
"Yeah, I think she is speaking of Balthazar, twin of Glip of the Council, one of my older brothers like Grougaloragran and Phaeris. He's been in the dimension of Emrub with all the Eliatrope children that were evacuated millennia ago." Explained Az instead of Ellie, realizing what she was talking about.
"Yeah, especially that description, we've seen it with out own vision ability, which makes me wonder how you two know about that place. And no, I don't know how to get there, at least not right now. I'm pretty sure it takes several adult Eliatropes or an enormous source of Wakfu to open a Portal to Emrub." Explained Ellie, not sure why she was telling her that but the idea of someone else knowing of the dimension her people were was fascinating.
"Oh, that is disappointing. But I'm glad you believe us, people usually don't." Stated the girl, smiling happily as Ellie shrugged.
"Kinda hard not to when you describe Emrub. Nobody else should know about that place, much less be able to say there are children like Ellie or a dragon like me there." Stated Az, joining the conversation as she did so. The twins were both a bit baffled by this whole turn of events.
"Would you be willing to do an interview? Interviewing Crumple-Horned Snorkacks would be fantastic for the Quibbler." Asked the girl and Ellie raised an eyebrow.
"How about you tell us first who you are, and what a "Quibbler" exactly is? And neither Balthazar nor either of us are called "Crumple-Horned Snorkack, Az and Balthazar are dragons and I'm an Eliatrope." Stated Ellie, she didn't like people putting a label on her siblings like that, it was kind of weird.
"Okay, though doesn't that cause confusion? And I'm Luna Lovegood, star reporter of my Daddy's magazine, the Quibbler." Introduced the girl herself.
"Uh, nice to meet you? I'm Ellie and this is Az, we-" Ellie didn't get further than this, as someone grabbed her.
"My lord! It is Elizabeth Potter! What fortune! But what am I saying? Obviously she come here to buy my books! Everyone sho-" Ellie didn't know what come over her, but being manhandled by a man, getting dragged INTO the crowd, and a camera moments away from photographing her against her will, triggered something.
She come to her senses moments later as a bookshelf crushed to pieces, and she realized she had thrown some brown haired dingus in a robe into one of the shelves, on the other side of the room. And there was silence as she slowly got her breathing under control again. "Do- Don't touch me against my will, g- got it?" She asked, slowly realizing that she had gotten a bit of an adrenaline rush just now, that she had panicked for a second.
"Uh, Ellie? You just threw Gilderoy Lockhart across the room." Stated Ron from the side, sounding as if he was unsure whether to laugh or be concerned by this fact as Ellie Portalled back to their group.
"Yeah, I don't like it when people grab me." Grumbled Ellie, rubbing her upper arm where he had grabbed her, wondering if this was some kind of repressed urge to do the same to the man she definitely couldn't, in effect, Judo Throw to the other side of a bookstore, namely the adult abuser of her life before running away.
"Yeah, and for the record people! What he did just now was battery! We can SUE his ass for grabbing my sister against her will for a fucking PR stunt of some sort!" Called Az to the crowd which had been getting rowdier in the time since Ellie did to Gilderoy Lockhart what she wanted to do to Vernon Dursley.
"N- now don't get so hasty Azkalagora, I'm sure he didn't mean harm." Tried Miss Weasley to placate her and Ellie could tell why, they had the contact info of Gravehook, they were on good terms with the Nightmare Lawyer of Gringott's. The idea of them going up against anyone in court was horror movie material.
"I think I do want to press charges, and against whoever decided to hire a professor who would want us to buy an entire book series from this man too." Stated Ellie, shaking her head. "It looks to me like this guy was hired and he decided to take advantage of that to force all the students to buy his books in bulk to stuff his pockets." Added Ellie to the pile of negative opinions she had of this man. He seemed slimy enough to do something like that if she was honest.
"Miss Potter, those are some serious accusations you're levvying against mister Lockhart. Aren't you concerned for the media backlash?" Asked one woman who Ellie, not long after looking at her, realized FELT slimier than Lockhart, she just had this feeling she didn't like this woman.
"And why should I answer that miss…?" Asked Ellie, not even knowing who the hell this nosy woman was.
"Rita Skeeter, Star Reporter of the Daily Prophet and I don't think you would want to be on our front-page for assaulting a celebrity, why not be a good little girl and smile for the came- AAAH!" Ellie decided to cut her off by dropping her into a portal, with a second above it, leaving her to fall through for several seconds.
"Yeah no, I don't give crap." She said out loud before closing the upper portal, then the lower, and then opening a portal that opened to the top so the woman was jettisoned out and landed with the portal closing before she come back down. At which point she vomited on the ground.
"And just for the record, I'm not afraid to sue anyone who tries making an article about me without my consent or lies about me in a different article, got it?" Asked Ellie, already getting sick of this. Her time at Hogwarts hadn't prepared her for this sort of treatment, but she had gotten sick and tired of media frenzies like this during the trial.
"You can't silence the press! We're backed by the Ministry of Magic!" Argued the woman's apparent partner, raising his camera only for it to be blocked by a portal opening up in front of it, moving forward, and closing to cut the camera in half when he let go in fright.
"And Ellie is backed by a literal Dragon and a Courtroom Warcrime on legs known as Gravehook. I'm pretty sure he would love suing you guys." Stated Az, stepping next to her sister and puffing out some sparks for emphasize which silenced the man even better than his camera getting cut in half.
"And that my dear friends, is how people deal with the press who don't give a shit about fame and fortune." Ellie heard Sirius say that, sounding pretty proud of them. The man wasn't a fan of the press either, something the twins were able to bond over with their godfather.
"How about we just grab the books and get out, before anyone else picks a fight with the two aliens?" Asked Hermione, sounding nervous. Whether it was for the health of those who wanted a piece of the twins, or for the twins themselves wasn't clear.
"Yeah I guess we should, even if hopefully we get this guy's books off the list before the term starts." Stated Ellie, moving to the still standing bookshelves. Wasn't like anything important had happened, though she would need to visit Gringott's later.
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"Ah Misses Potters, I wasn't expecting you back so soon." Stated Gravehook, a genuine smile on his face as he watched the dragon and Eliatrope enter his office, their adult supervision staying out due to concerns of confidentiality.
"Sorry we didn't get an appointment mister Gravehook, there was a bit of an incident." Explained Azkalagora, as always with her refreshingly respectful tone.
"At the bookstore, correct? Hard to not have heard of it." Stated Gravehook, watching the girls who didn't take a seat without being prompted, a bit cautious as usual. "Take a seat, let us discuss the next targets, shall we?" Asked Gravehook, smirking to himself.
These girls were the best excuse to put some infernos under the asses of those wizards thanks to their heir status.
Goblins normally wouldn't be able to do it on their own for legal reasons after all.
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Dumbledore sighed as he sat down in his office chair, though not in his usual office.
The last few weeks he had spent far too much time in the Ministry and his office there, with the sweeping littigation and on-going investigation which both come from the Potter v Ministry of Magic case, he had little time for anything else beyond hiring the Try Hard Lockhart.
He was about to begin looking through some new reports he usually left to be sorted by his secretary, which he now had to go over himself to make sure nothing slipped by, like reports on Azkalagora had, when his secretary burst into the room.
This left him in a bit of a panic. Last time the Latin American woman had done this was when she informed him of the incoming lawsuit from the Potter Twins, so he had a bad feeling about this.
"Mister Dumbledore, I have a notice from Lawyer Gravehook concerning another lawsuit by the Potters." Stated the woman, her strong Latino accent shining through.
"Against whom?" He asked, resigned to the possibility they found another bit of something to sue him or the ministry over.
"Gilderoy Lockhart, they're suing him for battery against Elizabeth Evergreen Potter, and Hogwarts for dereliction of duty partaining to hiring a proper teacher in the form of a class-action lawsuit for the student body." Explained the woman and he was not ashamed of the fact he startled her by slamming his forehead into the desk.
"What did he do?" He asked after three additional pounds against the mahogany table.
"He grabbed miss Potter against her will to try and get her on a photo for the Daily Prophet without asking and trying to make a propaganda campaign out of her and his new position. She Judo Flipped him across the room just as the photo was taken." Stated the woman, handing him a new Daily Prophet article and yes, it showed Elizabeth Potter Judo Flipping, although with some obvious flaws in her stance, the grown ass man known as Gilderoy Lockhart off picture where he soon after come back, only for her to Judo Flip him again.
"Oh dear lord why? It is like these girls would sue even God for discrimination if they could." Muttered Dumbledore, groaning into his hand.
At least he wasn't party to the lawsuit, rather the school and Lockhart which was bad enough.
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"My-Motherfucking-God of Dragons, is this house held together by just magic?" Asked Az, genuinely mesmerized by "The Burrow" and how thrown together it looked. The place seemed to really not be soundly constructed.
"Hey, be nice Az, this is Ron's home." Admonished Ellie, elbowing her sister in the ribs as they come up to the house with Sirius. They had decided to visit the Weasleys a few days after the Diagon Alley War, and to stay there until school started.
Miss Weasley was at least not too upset with Ellie for basically throwing her favorite author through the book shop. She could apparently understand why after it was pointed out by Az given what she had heard apparently from Ron. "So, it isn't too run-down?" Asked Ron, a bit nervous as he come up to the twins who didn't look the part.
"Ron, I lived almost my entire life in a cupboard under the stairs of a small family home, with just enough space for me to move in. And since moving in with Az, I've been living in a cabin made by a dragon who has her entire knowledge base of cabin engineering off of the equivalent of precognitive Youtube. And besides, it looks damn cool." Explained Ellie, giving him a hug and she could feel him relaxing just a bit knowing that.
"Glad to hear, I'm not sure about our home's history though, probably been in the family forever." Explained Ron with a smile as they moved to the living room which lacked a few things most modern living rooms would have, like a TV. Then again they had a radio so that was something.
"Someone should get working on making a Magic Shielding for more complicated electronics, I'm still so used to a TV running in the Living Room." Stated Ellie, shaking her head, it was one odd thing she had been dealing with this whole time. Admittedly she wasn't used to watching TV either, it was just the noise that was missing and some glimpses of it.
"Afraid that's illegal, mixing Muggle stuff with magic and all that. The radio is somehow resistant to magical fields so we can use it anyway." Stated Ron and Az snorted.
"Not so much resistant as it is too simple to be fried by the magic's EMP-like effects. Problem is getting the antennae of a TV protected enough to make it capable of receiving signals, not making the whole thing enchanted. Not to mention how most TVs don't run on battery." Noted Az, as usual she was right on that point.
"Uh, okay? Anyway, ah… we got some books?" Offered Ron and the twins smiled at him before turning to look up the variety of books on offer.
"Elizabeth Potter and the Fairy's Gift?" Asked Ellie in disbelieve a minute later, seeing what had to be a fiction book.
Ron had the decency to wince. "Yeah, some people decided to make books about you, everyone knows they're entirely fictional but… You can guess where some of the perceptions come from. I'm 90% sure Professor Snape got at least some of his animosity from them. Ginny though is a big fan at least of the stories." Explained Ron and Ellie scowled.
"Hey do you have a Flood connection? I can smell the incoming lawsuit." Stated Az to the side, not much happier about it. And Ellie knew they were on the same page. Not only was this using her name without permission, but profiting off of it! She would be foregoing a demand to take the books down if she found them at least somewhat entertaining but there were royalties she was owed and rich or not, Ellie had spent enough time with Gravehook to know that one didn't let something like this slide.
Besides, what kind of bizarro image was that on the cover? She didn't have black hair!
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"Let me guess, another lawsuit?"
"Yes sir, this time against every single publisher of any sort of Elizabeth Potter books."
"She does know those books are marketed as fantasy, and are great for morale? I doubt even Gravehook can get them banned."
"Actually she is just suing over royalties and because they failed to get her consent."
"She does know she is only approaching 12, right?"
"Yes. She doesn't appear to care."
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Ellie was quite happy with her twelfth Birthday.
Az had the idea of it, and Miss Weasley had been genuinely apologetic she didn't think about it herself. The party had been put together by the adults, Sirius and mister Lovegood had come over to help with the latter bringing his daughter who distracted the twins by doing the Interview they had agreed to.
The party itself wasn't too extravagant, Ellie had lost a taste for excess like that due to watching Dudley, but having a party at all was new to her. The cake was made right in the house, fairly large and it had an equal, but opposite twin with it being Vanilla with Choko bits and a blue coating while its twin was chocolate with vanilla pieces in it and a purple coating.
It wasn't lost on either twin that this was a clear homage to their respective sides of the divine divide, with the shade of purple matching Stasis while the blue matched Wakfu. Hermione and her family had joined them at one point too and Ellie was surprised to find quite a few presents. More than she had gotten for christmas the last year, which also meant more than she had gotten the entire rest of her life.
The biggest surprise had been a Nimbus 2001 from Sirius, one for each of the sisters, reasoning that he had lost out on 10 Birthdays already for both, so splurging on them was no big deal and hey, maybe Az could try out for the team as well. For understandable reasons, their fellow twins BEGGED Az not to try for Beater, because one of them would be thrown out immediately on account of a literal DRAGON on a NIMBUS 2001(!) being the competition.
Ellie decided in turn to donate her Nimbus 2000 to the team in turn since, well, she had it spare now. And Az agreed that if she didn't get on the team, she could lend her own Nimbus 2001 to the team too. George used the opportunity for a prophetic joke about them earning a new worshiper in turn from Oliver Wood for that.
"Better not, I don't want to know what would happen if he devotes himself to me, our nephews and nieces kind of transform their devotees." Stated Ellie with a giggle, which got her odd looks from the Weasley Twins.
Az was the one who ellaborated. "When mom and dad did the Vertical Tango the first time they created the Krosmoz, that parallel universe they were the creator deities of. Well, from that creation 10 gods and 10 Greater Demons, think Demon Gods, were born. The Krosmoz is, in other words, technically our older sibling and the parent of those gods." Explained Az, which did help explain which nephews they were talking about but…
"What do you mean they transform people?" Asked Hermione, sounding a bit worried.
Ellie decided to take this one. "So, on the world where humans live in the Krosmoz, known today as the World of Twelve but it had been our people's colony before that, their souls decide which god to follow before being reborn. When that happens the child will take physical aspects of one of these gods as well as being born to at least one follower of this god. Followers of Iop are Muscle-brained Gingers, followers of Cra are stereotypical Fantasy Elves, Followers of Sadida come in Males with their face covered in green hair, dark skin, and the girls are really dark skinned with green hair but no face covers, Enutrofs look like they went to school with the Headmaster, and then there are Ecaflips, which are literal cat people." Explained Ellie and got incredulous looks from the others.
"Wait, that other world has girls with cat ears?" Asked Hermione incredulously and Ellie blinked at her for a moment, needing to figure out what she meant.
"Uh, you mean like those images I've seen Seamus show off to some of the other boys, of na-" Ellie didn't get to finish her sentence before Ron covered her mouth, deliberately looking at Ginny nearby.
"Ellie, my sister may be only a year younger than me, but your mom help me if you finish that sentence." Stated Ron and Ellie nodded after a second, realizing what he meant so he let her go.
"Okay, ah, and no, not like that. Think humanoid cats, like, full on furry. Some of them are also more cat-like. Especially Ecaflip Demigods." Explained Ellie, and that got some weird looks.
"Your parents come from an odd world. So, what would happen if your mom had the same effect and worshiping you could cause the same? I mean, you look like a human, unless you have cat ears under that hat." Stated Hermione and Ellie gave a flat look.
"Not gonna tell you, but I don't have those. But yeah, he would probably become a Eliatrope, or at least a discou-… Az, we should start a cult." Stated Ellie, as an idea struck her.
Az gave her a sideways glance. "I'm not sure if doing that would create Eliatropes, I can remember some incident happening leading to a bunch of Eliatrope knock-offs called Eliotropes appearing all over time on the World of Twelve. And they have weird skin." Stated Az, crossing her arms.
"I guess you're right, we'd have to figure out how that works before we start a cult to repopulate our people." Stated Ellie, and from the corner of her eye she noticed her friends blanching just a bit.
"Dear Jupiter you sure are forward." Stated Luna, cocking her head to the side. Weirdly the Lovegoods seemed to follow the Roman branch of Hellenistic believes. Why that was, Ellie wasn't sure, she wasn't even aware that there were still people who believed in those old religions.
"Hey, if it works? I mean, we're among the last of our people so sue me for wanting to maybe help them out. Not to mention it would have benefits for the convertees unlike Christianity or the like. You get actual powers from it." Stated Ellie, huffing at the somewhat implied accusation that come with those words.
"I don't think that would work in Britain, too many Protestants." Stated Hermione, shaking her head at yet another hairbrained idea of her best friend, which had a non-zero percent chance of working given previous experiences with the Eliatrope girl.
"Only because Magic is so hidden, I could advertise it really well." Stated Ellie with another huff but didn't go further as the party moved on from there.
She did notice Luna shooting her curious looks.
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"What do you think is with that commotion?" Asked Ellie, looking back at the barrier to the Platform as she exited the Floo access of the magical train station.
"No idea." Stated Az as both could, through the portal, sense the commotion going on.
"Come on you two, we've gotta get you on the train." Stated Sirius as he and the other adults, namely the Grangers, Weasleys, Lady Longbottom and Mister Lovegood, were herding the rather large group of children to the train. Ellie could already tell that Neville was on the train, so that was a nice info in her opinion, he wasn't caught up back there. Though she did detect the Malfoys on the other side which was kind of amusing, whatever was going on.
A few minutes later, with their luggage stowed away from Ellie's portal dimension, they had settled into one cabin together and were chatting. Main topic? Where Az, Ginny and Luna would be sorted into.
"Better be Gryffindor, if that hat decides to take me from Ellie I'll fucking wreck it with Stassis." Grumbled Az as Ellie patted her shoulder awkwardly at that. She wasn't exactly doubtful her sister qualified for Gryffindor. Took some serious dragon balls to take on adult dragons.
"Maybe I should try convincing the talking hat to put me there too..." Contemplated Luna, looking as dreamily as usual as she did so.
Ellie smiled at that, rustling the younger girl's hair. "Sure, the damn thing wanted to put me in Slytherin for some reason, but he's kinda reasonable I think, you can ask to go to some other House if you really want to." Stated Ellie with a big smile on her face.
"Wait seriously? How in the hell did that hat want to put you with the snakes?" Asked Ron in disbelieve, laughing just as Ellie did about this notion.
"No idea, he said I would thrive there but with my history I'd probably be spending all year in detention for punching bullies if I had to stay around them so much." Stated Ellie, shaking her head.
"I'd be more concerned with the fact that there are so many kids in there who would hate you for being the Girl-who-Lived." Stated Hermione with a shake of her head. Ellie couldn't argue with that.
"Well, good point." Admitted Ellie with a shake of her head.
It was at this point that the train stopped and, sticking her head out using a portal for easier sight, Ellie noted Lucius Malfoy standing in front of the train, arguing with the conductor, with Draco looking despondent about something. Pulling her head back and closing the portal, Ellie snorted.
"Looks like Malfoy didn't get on the train on time so his daddy had to apparate him and stop the train to let him on." Stated Ellie with a snort, she could barely stand the snob at the best of times but seeing him having some trouble was well worth it.
"Heh, I wonder what held them up like that. They come to the barrier just after us I think?" Asked Az and Ellie nodded, it was true after all.
With the Food Trolley coming by soon after, and the friends able to buy a good amount of the snacks, they settled in for the remaining train ride which would take the remainder of the day as they all knew. They were riding the train straight to Scotland after all.
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"What in the world are those?" Asked Ellie, a bit startled by the near undead looking horses standing in front of various carriages. They had bat-like wings, were emaciated and Ellie could see fangs in their mouths, indicating they were carnivores.
"Uh, magic carriages?" Suggested Ron, his eyes following a moving carriage.
"No, I mean the weird bat-like Pegasi pulling them." Stated Ellie which earned her odd looks from Ron and Hermione.
It was however Neville who answered. "They're Thestrals, they're magical equines who are invisible to those who haven't seen death." Stated the boy nervously looking at them.
"Wait, I read about those, but why can you see them Ellie? I thought you can't remember the night of, well, that night you know?" Asked Hermione, looking to the Eliatrope child.
"I think I know why." Spoke up Az as they made their way to some of the carriages, Ginny and Luna were going with Haggrid after all. "We've been using our Envision power to look into our people's past, we've seen thousands of them die during the second war trying to buy time for the evacuation. Not to mention Nora and Efrim's sacrifice. I'm more concerned for you Neville, how come you can see them?" Asked Az, looking at their fellow victim of the Death Eater madness.
"I- I saw my grandfather die, that is why I can see them." Admitted Neville nervously, clearly his memory of that wasn't pleasant.
"Sorry Nev, I didn't know that." Admitted Ellie with a wince but the boy just shook his head.
"It is alright, you didn't know. I mean, at least I have my grandma." Stated Neville, and it was pretty clear he was talking about what allowed the twins to see the horses.
They kept quiet for the remaining time up to Hogwarts, their group of five fitting in well enough into one carriage with Az just popping into a small bird, a canary this time, and sitting under Ellie's hat. The article of clothing was just so big and comfy as Az had told Ellie, which was amusing to her.
A few minutes later saw the entire group together with their schoolmates from the year before, sans the graduates, at the front door of Hogwarts where they were met by Professor Sprout. "Ah, I see you all have arrived." Stated the woman pleasantly, looking at them all as her eyes scanned the crowd.
"Ah, Ellie? Where is your sister? We were kind of expecting her to go with the first years even if she skips that grade." Stated the woman and Ellie blinked, then Az come out from under her hat, flew over and transformed into her usual form.
"I'm here, Professor Sprout right?" Asked the dragon, looking the woman up and down.
"Correct, now, I don't think we need you to try and get to where the new students are, so, please everyone, come along." Stated the professor and the entirety of Hogwarts' Student Body followed her into the castle with Ellie catching up to Az soon enough.
"So, this is how it feels being led in as any year other than a first year. Neat." Noted Ellie as the group followed the professor, looking around the familiar castle.
"Well to me it is the first time being here. I don't think I'm losing out on anything though, right?" Asked Az with a shrug.
"Well there is the Kraken in the lake… Or I guess it is a Loch actually. We're in Scotland after all… I wonder if this is what Muggle call Loch Ness, would explain a few things." Muttered Ellie, her train of thought going off on a tangent at the end.
"No Ellie, the Muggles wouldn't even know about it if this was Loch Ness." Corrected Hermione with a sigh, shaking her head as they were led into the Great Hall with the students soon breaking up into the four houses with Professor Sprout leading Az to the side of the Great Hall to wait for sorting to commence.
"So, how long until the first years..." Ellie trailed off when the main doors opened and, strolling into the Great Hall, were Professor Flitwick this year, and the first years. 48 kids in total were coming in as Haggrid had already been settled on the head table with the professors, looking just as happy as he had the previous year.
"Alright everyone, before we commence with the first years, there is a bit of a special case." Announced Professor Dumbledore after the Sorting Hat had completed his annual song. "As most of you have likely heard, we have a new student joining the second year students, namely Azkalagora Tempesta Potter, Twin Sister of Elizabeth Evergreen Potter. As such, she will need to be sorted as well. And as I am sure everyone wants to see it sooner than later, we shall start with her." Announced Dumbledore, and Ellie couldn't help a giggle.
He seemed to think it was best not to let the dragon wait.
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Az sat down on the chair as instructed, the beaten up hat landing on her head soon after and settling a bit awkwardly over her horns.
"Well well well, I am over a thousand years old and yet, this is a first for me. Congratulations miss Potter, not many can claim that." Spoke the hat to her, sounding contemplative.
"I hope you don't mind the horns, haven't learned how to remove them by transformation." Stated Az apologetically, not meaning to make it harder on the magical artifact.
"Oh don't worry, working with those wings last year was way harder." Stated the hat and Az frowned, she had forgotten to ask that.
"How did Ellie get sorted? I know for a fact she hasn't shown anyone what is under her hat." Asked Az, curious about that.
"Oh, your sister argued rather vehemently about that. She was ultimately allowed to go into a side room with me for privacy as the headmaster already knew of them. In fact, most of the professors do, thus why they won't bother her about it. Poppy Pomfrey in particular is rather familiar having had to treat her a few times." Stated the hat and Az hummed in response to that.
"Now, onto your sorting..." Stated the hat and Az narrowed her eyes.
"I know you can tell that already, but if you plan on putting me away from my sister, they will need a new method of sorting students because you will be annihilated." Warned Az, the hat and could feel him stiffening, which was kind of funny to her because he was a hat.
"Well, I must confess you bring some good arguments, but I don't think I would've chosen otherwise. Those Adamantium balls you have dominating those dragons at your age..." Muttered the hat as Az chuckled, smart hat.
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"Gryffindor!" Announced the Sorting Hat and Ellie was the first to jump up and cheer for her sister as the rest of Gryffindor joined her, some hollering "We have a FUCKING HOUSE DRAGON!" which earned some protests from a professor or another but who cares?
Also, good proof the hat was smart enough not to risk it.
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And that is the end of Chapter 3, at over 7800 words in length :D
I hope to see you in the next chapter :D