Harry Potter and the Vampiric Inheritance

Ok Guys I know its been a long wait and I’m sorry but I hope this can be a small peace offering. I’ll let you get on wit the story now, I hope you like it!


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It had been four weeks since Harry had told the inner group of his trip with the mermaids and they had planned things out. Severus had held a Legion meeting a week ago to inform the members of what the Oracles had told them and to be on the look out for strange behaviour in all the realms the visited. Lucius had been looking through some old texts trying to find out where the Oracles could be. Lupin had been taking care of lesson plans for both Lucius and himself in the Fraternity.

Hermione was loving all this organizing; she had plans drawn up for what needed to be covered in the Fraternity that herself and Harry had made, that would be passed on to Lupin and Lucius. She had then organised days Severus would be easiest to reach so Harry could go over things in his vampiric book and to talk to his father, as well as days they could all hang out together.

Ron was becoming a feared member of their group as he was usually the Gryffindor muscle like Crabbe and Goyle was the Slytherin; they would go around and make sure no one gave any of their members any trouble and usually downplayed anything they were planning to the professors if they got too nosy.

Blaise would help with doing research for homework with Hermione as well as working on more of the Slytherin to renounce the Dark Lord and helping student coming up with plans to stave off their parents over Christmas. Pansy had been helping with the homework when she could be bothered but had mainly taken to working on their contact devices and trying to get them looking better than the string bracelets they had at the moment.

Harry and Draco had been going over vampiric text and trying to figure out how they were ever going to find these other guards of the realms. They also looked at extra wards now that Harry knew how it was done, so he could add to the ones around the Chamber of Secrets.

Everything had been going smoothly really. They had a few hiccups were Ron complained that he never got to hang with Harry like he used to and Draco complained that he wanted everyone to have matching robes. Both easily taken care of with a firewhisky by the Gryffindor fire one night with Ron and by asking Draco if he really wanted to look like everyone else on a weekend when he already had to do that five days a week.

Now Harry sat at the back in Defence Against the Dark Arts today. He had seen fit to tell Mrs Kostova of the secret Fraternity; she was a vampire and he felt a certain bond with her since throughout the year she had been giving him different homework to the rest of the class and helping him with his control, that was helping a lot now that he knew he could do so much new stuff.

She had told him that she would help any way she could; and so the duelling and junior duelling clubs were started, teaching students how to defend themselves as best they could. She had also refrained from asking him any questions or expecting him to pay attention on Fridays as it usually meant he was going over plans for the weekend.

And it was because it was a Friday that Harry sat at the back. That meant that they would be having a Fraternity meeting tomorrow; they usually met every weekend with different groups having a chance to go to Hogsmeade at some point. He was looking over the new list of groups Draco and Hermione had put together. They had been mixing and matching with students trying to see the best combinations and this was the final and complete list. This was the one they would be working from when it came to group work after the holidays.

He smiled at the combinations and slipped the paper to the back of pile of parchments he had. The next one had Slytherin that had been bragging they were getting the Mark during Christmas or had been mouthing off loudly about ‘Potter and these fake rumours to scare everyone’. What Harry found truly frustrating was that by letting it be known he was a vampire and totally in control of it by feeding from Draco in the Great Hall, he had opened the floodgates for the Slytherin to start on Draco; also on this list was people who had mentioned getting Draco back for being a traitor and ranting about the whole situation.

He made a mental note of who was on the list and to get Creevey to get a picture of each one so he could hand them out to Fraternity members, then they know who to look out for so they could foil any pranks they saw them concocting; this would keep himself and Draco out of any trouble hopefully as well as give the members a chance to practise observing and subtlety with spell casting.

The next piece of parchment wasn’t to do with the coming meeting or his lesson work. It was in fact his Christmas list, considering that Hermione had sorted these papers for him since she had produced most of them he didn’t know whether to feel ashamed to be letting her organise everything-including his Christmas shopping or relieved that he had a friend who could do all this for him and not suffer for it. He smiled regardless and checked it over;

Ron- New set of Quidditch protector gloves and winter keeper’s cloak – on order and will be coming next week
Hermione- Books would be great! I’ll never have enough you know that!
Pansy- Mystic Elf Essence perfume and nail kit- bought and wrapped
Blaise- Warlock Sauron’s Diary of Darkness- bought and wrapped
Draco- Order has been sent and it will arrive Christmas day pre-wrapped with the personalised note you sent with the order.
Ginny- Hair styling tips for Quidditch girls book, personalised wand holsters with leg, waist and arm attachments- book and holster bought and wrapped.
Severus- Abraxan hide covered journal with leather attached bookmark and Engraving on front and back- bought and wrapped with you own message written on the first page.
Lucius- Silver snake shaped ink pot case and Irish Phoenix feathered quill with Black granite shaped coiled snake holder- They’re ordering the black holder from Australia but will have it next week and they promised to wrap them all for you before sending them to you.
Narcissa- large Jade dragon shaped hair clips and diamond stud earrings- bought and wrapped.
Jessica- Sweets, Storybook and bathrobe with Puffskein on the back-you said you wanted to get the sweets on our last Hogsmeade trip, the rest is bought and I’ll be wrapping more presents tonight if you want me to do them for you.
Caleb- Draco has bought you a present for him and has wrapped it as well.
Remus- you still haven’t gotten him anything!!
Sirius- you were talking about getting him a Nintendo DS but you still haven’t done anything about it!
Fred and George– you signed over the old shop with connecting apartment in New York from you estate vault. You were sent the deeds with your signature and you bought a wooden box to put it in and the deeds are in it and wrapped.
Molly- An evergreen family tree- bought, boxed and wrapped
Arthur- A remote control car – you haven’t bought this yet!

All this must have cost a pretty Galleon!!
Draco said that his mother was going into muggle Leeds tomorrow if you wanted her to pick anything up for you, I would suggest getting her to buy that control car for you as well as maybe that DS oh and why don’t you buy that value pack we saw in the catalogue! It comes with four different games!

Harry frowned he had no idea what to get Remus for Christmas. He put the list to the back of the pile; he was going to Hogsmeade sometime tomorrow so he still had a chance to shop. He sighed only two more Hogsmeade weekends after this and then it was Christmas. He wouldn’t see Hermione or Ron for two weeks, well that was a lie actually; he would be seeing Ron a few times before Christmas to make sure his plans were working.

Harry shook his head, he needed to focus. The next parchment had the notes Severus had written on the Order meeting that was on Wednesday.

*~ First the Order had talked about me keeping the fact that I was a vampire a secret from them. Then they had gone over how I was your father along with how Lily was involved. It had then been agreed that, although I had kept this from them, I was still on the light side (only after brutal use of Veritaserum).


Dumbledore had then brought up your demand and many had laughed it off. But I, with the help of the Weasley twins, had told them you were not joking and you wanted to take an active part in the group that was supposedly helping you fight against Voldemort.

Moody had complained the most; ranting about You being just a boy and even went so far as to suggest that with you learning about being a vampire you would not be trustworthy. ~*

Harry frowned, he hadn’t really thought about the Order members being prejudice against vampires. They were fighting for the greater good and he had always presumed they treat everybody the same, Lupin was a member for Merlin’s beard and he was a werewolf. But he would definitely have to prove his worth as being old enough.

If he joined he would be the youngest member but he didn’t just want to join. He wanted control over it. With everything he has to do it would help to have a few extra hands that weren’t tide down with school work just like he was.

Severus, Remus and Lucius were great but, Severus has the Order, school, Voldemort and the Legion to worry about. Remus has his Lycanthropy and Lucius has his businesses and Voldemort. Even if everyone had a second job to do, it would lighten the load if there were more people he could get access to. He read on.

*~ The meeting had ended with Moody storming out, Tonks stumbling after him with a leaving remark that she would talk him round. Dumbledore had agreed that he wished you would wait until you finished school but was prepared to let you join and take some control if the others agreed. Charlie, Bill and the twins had all readily agreed, along with Remus and Sirius.

Minerva McGonagall had frowned and protested that you were just a child but after Dumbledore had appeased her worries over the matter she had agreed. Shacklebolt had thought about it and had even had a quiet word with me and I had answered any questions he had asked and then he agreed.

The others had grudging agreed as long as you were not allowed to run rampant with the Order. Molly and Arthur had been quiet until I reminded them that you had not kept this from them, you had simply not known until this years school term, then they had agreed that you should have some say in what the people protecting you should be doing.

All in all a rather tedious meeting were in I spent the better part of it babying members into agreeing with you. I Expect a good bottle of scotch as a peace offering. ~*

Harry put down the papers as he heard Mrs Kostova’s heeled shoes make their way towards his desk. She smiled as she got to his side.

“I see you have been practising your selective hearing. It’s good that you can pick up on walking patterns and judge where they will go.” Harry smiled up at her and nodded his thanks to the compliment.

“I can pick up heartbeats too. They have to be pretty close and I haven’t had the chance to practice judging what the person is feeling by the heartbeat but it’s definitely getting there.” He explained in a quiet voice. The rest of the class must have been set a written task because all heads were down and he could hear the scratching of the quills.

“That’s good to hear. I also heard in the teacher lounge that you are going to be accepted into the Order after Christmas. Well done to you for getting through to them. I want you to practice something over Christmas for me. You have a free period next don’t you?” Harry nodded slowly thinking about what he had planned for the free period.

He was going to hide out in Divination under his invisibility cloak next to Draco who was taking that class and copy down Draco’s DADA notes from the lesson they had just been in. It didn’t matter though, Divination usually kept the door open- free flowing energy and all that- so he could sneak in anyway.

“I won’t keep you long. I will just discuss it with you and show you how it’s done. I’m sure with the bloodlink you can pick up the rest pretty easily.” Harry nodded again and smiled when she patted his head and walked away. She always did that and she did it to everyone she favoured.

The last thing he had to look over before tomorrow was the list of family members in need of protection. Some of the Slytherin were putting a lot on the line by actively siding with him, not to mention that it wasn’t only Slytherin that was under pressure to join Voldemort. He would see about what protection he could offer.

He had some ideas; with the amount of properties he had dotted about the world he could easily turn one or two into safe houses. The amount of Vampiric powered wards up should be enough to keep them safe. He would have to see what his father thought. Right now there were seven families under direct pressure from Voldemort.

Harry watched as Draco packed up his things and waited for the others to get to the door. He had a quiet word with them and when he had finished all but Draco looked back over at him with a nod before going their separate ways; either to other lessons or to wander around during their free period.

He smiled in thanks at Draco since it was obvious he had overheard him talking with Mrs. Kostova and had told the others for him why he was staying behind. Mrs. Kostova walked over to the door and locked it when the last student had left.

“Now, What I’m going to show you, I don’t want you practising the first few times with out your father, I am going to show you how to transform. It will feel itchy when you turn but not painful…if you do it right anyway.” She gave a sly smiled and walked over to an open part of the classroom at the front.

“I assume you know that all vampires take the form of a wolf?” Harry smiled and shook his head. When he saw that he was about to get a telling off for not reading his vampiric books thoroughly he held his hands up in surrender.

“I did read them. It’s just when I sit down to read the books, eventually Hermione will make her self comfortable at my side or on my lap to read with me. She likes to read them when I’m there so I can look through the bloodlink and explain things better when we hit some old text or long explanations. Its easier that way I guess, but its just the way she sort of sneaks up like a small child pretending I can’t see her.” Harry laughed again at the memory and shook his head again.

Mrs. Kostova raised a fine brow and them smiled. She shrugged of the cloak she had taken to wearing in the colder months and stepped forward.

She closed her eyes and then took a deep breath. Harry had always admired Mrs. Kostova; she was tall and even taller in her knee high dragon hide boots, she always wore clothes instead of robes and they were always just this side of indecently tight. with a few seconds she had turned into a beautiful gray wolf with an even colouring all over save for her face and tail where the colour was slightly darker. He smiled at the wolf and bent down so he was eye level with her.

“I bet this is the only time I could ever call you a bitch without dying.” The wolf growled and bared its teeth but Harry just chuckled and scratched behind the pointed ear. He stepped back and watched as the wolf bowed its head and then began to change back into Mrs. Kostova’s human form.

“I would let you try this now but I would prefer to wait until after the holidays when you can have a chance to practice clearing your mind.” Harry frowned, he wanted to learn as much as possible as soon as possible.

“Why can’t I just open the bloodlink to try this?” Mrs. Kostova smiled sympathetically and pulled a scroll out from her robes.


“This was written by Sakura Uchia, she is a Japanese vampire and has studied the changing of the werewolf and the form changing of vampire for many years, this is her published works. She explains extensively the processes, strains as advancements the werewolf and vampire goes through.” Harry took the scroll and felt over the single column of gold leaf symbols running down it.

“Is it all written in Japanese?” Mrs. Kostova nodded and smiled at him.

“Alucard knows how to read the symbols. You will need his help anyway; Sakura is a ninja and has written it all in coded Japanese. Don’t worry though; Alucard knew Sakura’s mother and learnt many things from her.”

Harry looked at the scroll in his hand and shook his head; his life just kept getting weirder. He smiled and turned to his professor.

“Is that all you needed to show me? It’s just I have to write up the notes from this class and I usually do that while sitting in Divination with Draco.”

“Doesn’t Professor Trelawney mind that you…oh the invisibility cloak. Yes, I see now. Very well then, that is it for today. Have a good weekend.” She winked at him with her last comment; knowing that he had a meeting planed for this weekend.

Harry waved and collected his bag and heading for Divination. On the way he formed a wicked plan. He knew Draco like to sit at the back where the professor forgets to look when she rambles on.

When he stepped into the divination class room he spotted Draco in the back at the right sitting next to Blaise. He smirked at the blonde who was really trying to pay attention, but the professor was just chattering again to no one in particular.

He walked up the stairs and managed to pass Blaise without touching him and sat on Draco’s other side.

He put his bag down and, still under the invisibility cloak, he gently pressed a hand to Draco’s crotch and rubbed it lightly.

Instantly Draco had sat up straight and gasped softly. He gripped his quill a little tighter and bit his lip while dropping his head.

“Fuck! Potter stop this…now!” He whispered. Harry chuckled quietly and took his hand away and giving the blondes thigh a soft squeeze before he got his stuff ready; he took Draco's notes and put a blank piece of parchment on top of it, then he spelled his quill to copy what was written under the blank parchment.

He then rested his head on Draco’s thigh, pulling down the hood so it was easier to breath. He was thankful Hermione hand found that copying spell and even more thankful that she actually told him about it.

Draco looked down at the head on his thigh and smiled. So many evil things he could do now…So while copying notes with one hand he ran his hand through the black mass of bed-head styled hair; He couldn’t possibly do anything evil to the vamp when he had turned his fringe green and silver as he had requested. Harry had taken a lot of teasing over that already so he would be nice to him.

“Can I ask you a question without you getting angry?” Blaise asked quietly.

“I think so, although I hold no responsibility to when Harry does when I tell him your indecent question.” Both boys smirked.

“How come you two are so…relaxed around each other? I mean, Hermione and I are just getting to hand holding in public and actually seeing things from the others point of view and here you two are, making out in the Great Hall and you stroking his hair while he sleeps on your lap.”

Draco though for a minute, Blaise had a point really. It did seem like they had just suddenly stated to like each other. He bit his lip when he realised they hadn’t really talked anything over; past arguments or future opinions.

But…when they had started to be friends Draco had noticed that they seemed to instinctively know what topics they could discuss with each other and which ones they could leave for a later time.

And then when he thought Harry had jumped to his watery death in the lake he had become hysterical and was so overwhelmed when Harry had come back up. They hadn’t really been all that fast getting together either;

There had been a couple in France years ago that had been school enemies. One had bullied the other for years but when they had come into their inheritance and matured as well they were now partners in business and war and godparents to the others children!

Harry and Draco were not far off that themselves. He smiled, turned to Blaise and smirked confidently at him.

“We are just amazing, I guess.” Blaise snorted and Draco just pets Harry’s head while the boy took his nap.

HP~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~VI

Harry sat with Hermione and Ron outside after dinner. Draco was doing some damage control with a fight that had broken out between a Slytherin and Gryffindor Pansy had left a few minutes ago to write to her mother and Blaise was working with a few first years - some Slytherin tutor program Snape had set up years ago.

It was cold out and it threatened to snow any day now. The Christmas holidays were only a week away and Harry had to admit to being nervous. He had grown used to Snape and had called him father a few times when they had been discussing things-either in the professors rooms or in the Chamber of Secrets. The thought of being so close to this man for two whole weeks was a little nerve-wrecking though; could they be able to stand each other?

“Harry? What are you thinking?” Hermione asked as she rested her head on his shoulder; having double the amount of lessons was tough on a girl. Harry smiled and nudged her head.

“Nothing really. I was just going over the next few weeks and how Christmas will be spent. Oh and could you ask Narcissa to get that value pack for the DS and any one of those monster truck remote control cars? I still don’t know what I’m going to get Remus though.” Harry frowned. “I’m going into Hogsmeade after the meeting though so I can have a look round there. Oh and Ron it's all sorted now; I’m staying with my father for Christmas and have already told your mum and dad so that’s done. So that’s Christmas day with my dad and some family members, Boxing day with the Malfoy family coming round for dinner and lunch, I’ll be visiting you at the Burrow in between the two weeks and staying with the Malfoy family over New Year with my father; they’re having a party or something on the night but we’re spending the day there as well as the next.”

“So…plenty of opportunities for you then. Are you really sure you want to go through with this? I mean…you haven’t been with Malfoy that long and well…I don’t see why you had to have all this planned out; its not like your marrying the guy.” Harry chuckled and hugged Hermione with one arm as she shivered at the cold.

“I’m pretty sure yeah. Look I know you guys think this is just our host bond thing working and making us ok with each other but…look what I tell you doesn’t leave us, if my dad found out or Lucius did, they would be even more strict with how much me and Draco do together ok?” They both nodded, wide eyed.

“I felt the bond take hold when I first bit Draco but each day I’ve felt it lessen you know? At first I had this overwhelming urge to protect him and make sure he knew his place but…after awhile it faded and being with him on a day to day bases and working with him has sort of…I don’t know, being a vampire I’m more in tune with feelings and that, that’s why I knew Hermione liked Blaise and he liked her. I felt that warming feeling every time he looked at me and the little niggle of longing I felt before bed and knew that it was because I liked him…a lot…and I feel it off of him too, in his eyes and his body.”

Hermione smiled at her love-sick friend and shook her head at Ron’s clueless stare.

“I, also feel him fighting the feeling, not letting it take over or going too far and I think it has something to do with the rule that were not allowed to be together because of the whole host thing…but I think we have gotten around that now.” He nodded to Ron. Hermione looked between the two and frowned.

“Am I missing something?” Harry and Ron shared a look and then both threw a snowball at her effectively changing the subject as she shrieked as the cold hit her and began to recite a spell that blew up the snow and covered the boys until only there heads where visible.

“Well…you the powerful one here, get us out of this, next class will be starting soon.”


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Harry sat with his father in the Chamber of Secrets, waiting for he others to arrive. They were usually the first ones here; Lucius would never be anything other than fashionably late, Draco just refused to get up before 8 on the weekend, Ron and Blaise would be the last to arrive to make sure everyone got here ok, Pansy was the same as Draco and Hermione was deflecting Flitch and other teachers until she got the clear from Ron that all the students had made it.

The two of them sat in silence and at times like this; where nothing was influencing their movements, their train of thought, their whole being. It was easy to see that these two where at the very least related.

Harry sat in the brown, high backed armchair; One foot resting on his other knee and one elbow resting on the arm of the chair also holding his chin. Hermione had told him that today he would be talking with each group of students with her and making sure they all felt comfortable in the groups and safe. Today the students would be given tasks that they had to complete by the end of the session; each group would be given a task and they had to work together how they would accomplish this, the tasks would take them out and around Hogsmeade so they had to be careful and and work together since they had to fit in their Hogsmeade time as well were they could do their shopping or what every they wanted.

He and the others would be going over what they would be doing when they came back after Christmas. He looked over at his father. The man sat similar to him, but where Harry slouched Severus sat properly.

“I wanted to ask you a favour.” Severus turned to him and arched a brow.

“I want to see my mothers grave…and James’. There is something I want to try.” Severus frowned and sat straighter.

“Harry, I know what you are thing of doing and I must tell you that yes Vampires are stronger that many others but many of us have still died trying to do what you are thinking.” Harry sighed and looked at his black jean clad knee,

“S, Father…I know what I’m doing…and I think I need to do this.” He looked the man straight in the eye so he knew he wasn’t lying. “I have been talking with Alucard and he said that if you gave me permission he would tell me how the secret tribes in Siwa connected to the dead and help me do it.”

Severus sighed and looked over to the blackboards with team leaders and groups with a number next them written down. He was so out of the loop on how to be a father. It was true that his nephews, nieces, cousins and even his godson thought he was good to them and he got along fine with them, but he didn’t have to shape their lives, wasn’t responsible for them.

“I will accompany you to see them. You will do only what Alucard tells you and when I say that is enough I will expect you to stop.” He said tightly, looking at his son to let him know how displeased he was at doing this. Harry simply smiled and nodded.

“Thanks Dad.” They sat in a comfortable silence and both took a check as people started to arrive. When Harry saw the Slytherin twins Derrick and Melanie Tomlinson arrive and smile shyly at him he was reminded of the safe houses idea.

“Father, I was wondering…You know that people here are under increasing amount of pressure to join the Voldemort? Well I was think that maybe we could look at the properties I have and choose the biggest of them, then turn it into a safe house for those that need it. When the summer comes a lot of the families will expect their kids to join him and we could let them stay there for the holidays. The bigger the property the more people we can house. Some have said their families are under just as much pressure as they are from them. What do you think?”

He looked over at his father again and saw that he was thinking. The man got up and began walking towards the fake windows that had been put up at one side of the room, but before he got there he vanished in a haze of red smoke.

# He’s gone. # Harry shook his head at the voice.

## That’s kind of obvious. How did he leave though, because with apparition there is a cracking sound whatever being you are right? ##

# Yes, house elves use a different method for moving place to place and so do many Vampires who stick to the old ways. In its simplest explanation; he travelled through the bloodlink so I assume he has gone to visit a family member. You can tell when someone used the link to travel because they leave and arrive in a red smoke. ## And Harry could just imagine him pulling lightly on his lapels of his suit jacket, nose in the air, knowing his knows more than anyone.

# You could have been a professor with that tone you know ## Harry chuckled as the voice in his head growled.

## Why you insolent little…## Harry tuned out the voice as Lucius showed up in front of him.

“Having an internal conversation?” He asked as he sat down gracefully and rubbed his shin. Harry snickered at the man.

“Having a bad day with the wife?” He asked in the same sarcastic tone. Lucius smirked and crossed his legs.

“Forget you Potter just stand her against the dark Lord and she could take him down on a one of her bad day. All I said to the woman was to keep indoors because it was going to be colder than usual and then she kicks me, KICKS me! Ranting about not in the dark ages and she would do what she bloody well liked because she only chooses not to wear trousers and that I had better learn that fast. That’s it! no more children; I’ll have four kids by February, I don’t need anymore.” Lucius said while looking out over the growing number of students.

They were quiet for a moment and watched the student mingle, many already forming the groups they have been working in. He felt a strong shift in the wards and knew that it could only mean his father was back.

“Ah Severus, I was wondering when you was going to show up.” Lucius asked as he motioned to the other chair beside Harry.

“I was in fact here before you. I had gone to sort out arrangements for a safe house.” He turned to Harry now as it was the teen that had brought it up before.

“The family already has three safe house from previous wars. I went to Hyperion and asked what he thought of the idea and he has requested that before he invites anyone to stay at the house that you have a written contract with each person and a hidden charm placed on each person also.” Harry frowned; a hidden charm was meant for the mind, it would assure that whenever the person left the house they forgot its location and everything that happened it there but if they were to return then so would the memories.

It seemed a little unfair since all of the people going there wouldn’t be returning once the war was over so they would be missing months at a time of memories.

“Surely there must be another spell we could use…like an unspeakable?”

“Harry an unspeakable will only stop them from mentioning anything that happened in the house to anyone who doesn’t have that memory and from saying what the place looks like or where it is. They will still be able to find the place themselves and they could easily bring enemies.” Lucius explained.

“Yeah but they are just wizards and we would have vampiric wards around the estate so what’s the problem? They wouldn’t be able to get through or anything.” Severus sat in thought for a moment.

“We could then put a repelling on the people who we kept there so that if they ever tried to get back to the house without a family member of the house knowing they would be pushed back to there own house?” He looked to Lucius.

“That is true. Then they wouldn’t be able to tell any one and wouldn’t be able to show anyone so no one would know.” Lucius said frowning at Harry.

“You can sure work you way around things can’t you?” He asked rhetorically. Harry just stuck his tongue out.

“Right. I suggest you start this meeting; everyone is here…save for Draco.” Severus said with a look to Lucius.

“If my boy wishes more beauty sleep, then he shall have it.” Harry just shook his head and stood up in front over everyone.

And for the first time it hit him. He was the leader of the defence against Voldemort. He looked out over the people and saw the determined look everyone had. Everyone here knew they were learning battle techniques to help them survive in a war they weren’t a part of. They all knew he was the one they had to trust and follow. Everyone had stopped talking as soon as he stood up. They respected him as their leader.

“Good morning everyone. Before I begin I want to tell you that I’m proud of the progress you have all made. I want you all to know that everyone in this room has grown stronger and I respect you all for what you have all accomplished. I look out and I don’t see separate houses just barely able to even stand next to each other…I see a united school, banding together to protect those that can not defend them selves. I see one body of people who I know I can trust with my life. Know that you are all here for the same reason; you all want to be rid of a man that decided, in a time before we were born, that he would rule the world. We are all here to make sure that he doesn’t take anymore lives from this school. What I'm trying to say is that…I can’t do this without your help and I appreciate everything your giving to make this work. Many of you are defying your families, others are working with people you wouldn’t look at in school and some of you are afraid to be here but still come each meeting. Be proud of what you have done, because if we continue like this the death eaters wont know what hit them.”

Everyone cheered and whistled. Harry looked over again and saw Draco stood at the back smiled at him; so he had been here to hear him then. He got everyone to quiet down and explained that each group would be given a task to complete and they had to fit in there their time at Hogsmeade. They would have to be back for three o’clock so Harry and Hermione could go over what worked well and what happened in each group before they went back up to the castle.

When the minor groups had dispatched; it left Luna Lovegood, Neville Longbottom, Ginny Weasley, Ron Weasley, Blaise Zabini, Pansy Parkinson, Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy and Harry himself.

Which was actually two groups; you had Neville, Ginny, Blaise, Pansy, they were the group that kept an eye on the school and its surroundings. Then Draco, Ron, Hermione, Luna and Harry who looked at bigger things, things going on around the world.

These were the people that needed to know everything that was going on. So they would be sitting in on the discussions with the professors and heads of the group.

Lucius called the large table over from the back of the room and transfigured chairs for those that didn’t have one. Harry sat at the head of the table with Severus and Lucius on either side of him, next to severus sat Hermione, then Ron, Pansy and Ginny. Next to Lucius was Draco, then Luna, Blaise and Neville. Lupin had been called to the Order for some investigating of the werewolf clan.

“Right, so first order of business is; is there anything that urgently needs discussing…that isn’t war related?” Luna raised her hand slowly and looked over to Severus.

“The Brakinix are gearing up for war against the Dorsals. They like to fight near bubbling cauldrons sir.’ They all stared at her save for Lucius and Severus who both sighed.

“I thought you got rid of that infestation years ago Severus?” The potions master frowned at his friend.

“I did, they must have come back, I still have some banshee hair, I’ll make a brew tonight and leave it out.” The teens, save for Luna, turned to the adults now.

“What! They’re real?!” Harry asked unbelievingly. Severus turned his frown to his son.

“Of course they are! Half the things that child babbles about are real. She just never says anything helpful about them so I mainly ignore her, but this war would mean my potions brewing would be ruined by the little creatures fighting in the fires and froth of the potion. I must say though she does only mention the smaller rarer creatures usually only seen by or taken notice by elves.” Severus explained. Lucius coughed and Harry shook his head.

“Right well…now that that has been taken care of…is there…anything else?” He was slightly afraid to ask really.

“That fight I had to sort out yesterday was between Anthony and Robert. There on the same team together and they wouldn’t tell me much about why they were fighting so you should keep an eye on them and ask them about it when you talk with the groups later.” Draco said, remembering the stupid fight and just barely getting it under control before McGonagall got there.

“Yes, they ignored each other for the rest of the day but Terry said he had seen them talking outside the Great Hall during dinner. I wonder if they have sorted it out yet.” Hermione asked as the quill in front of her wrote everything down.

“It’s a little late to be re-sorting groups really…Maybe we could get them to sit down and talk it out if they haven’t already sorted it out. Right anything else?” When no one brought anything up he sighed and took the papers that Hermione handed over to him.

“Ok so, everyone is ok with the group skills building until the Christmas holidays right? It would be silly to start some new stuff now with only two weeks left.” Everyone nodded and Neville sat forward.

“Harry, what are you going to do about finding these other…people? I mean is there anything we can do to help?” Harry smiled, he liked Neville, the kid was always looking out for other people and always stood his ground when he thought someone was doing wrong by other people…

“Neville…When’s your birthday? Thirtieth of July?” Neville nods and Harry roughly grabs his father by his arm and drags him over to where he left the vampire texts from last time.

He lets go of the arm when he gets to the desk and starts flicking through the books Lucius had brought from the Prince library.

“Harry, what is the meaning of this?” Severus said slightly miffed at being man-handled. Harry just kept flicking until he stopped and started reading out loud so only his father and himself could here.

“The bond will begin with a sex and end with the same, obviously this translates to all of them will either be male or all will be female…ah here it is! It is through great care of reading the hidden text that we have all agreed that the chosen four will be born no more than ten years apart and within three months of each other. We have concluded that all the texts describe that the closer they are born together the stronger they will be. No one can find any evidence as to why this would be but it is yet another fact that is written throughout the realms.

Each will be born into a life that was not expected of them and will have overcome many things before their eighteenth birthday. This was taken from the text of Francis Spooner written in the seventeen hundreds. It is also written that each guard will develop the skills to communicate with each other, through the mind, naturally and should have at least have the skill to visit the others dreams by their eleventh birthday…”

“That could be Neville. Think about it. We were born a day apart, he had to go live with his grandmother because of what happened to his parents he fought with me at the department of mysteries, he’s brave when he seems more cowardly and he’s a wizard.”

He looked at his father who was re-read what Harry had.

“I can’t believe one of them has been here all this time!” Severus frowned and looked to Harry.

“But nether of you have shared any dream. Only you and with Voldemort.” Harry deflated slightly and then smiled.

“Yeah but we never knew we could do anything like this. We had no need to try it since we found other people to help us. Look I’ll try talking to Neville and ask him to answer out loud and to then ask me a question in his head. Even if I can get into his, if he isn’t a chosen one then he shouldn’t be able to ask me through the link right?” Severus nodded and watched.

## Neville?...Hey I’m going to ask you something and I want you to say the answer out loud. Then I want you to try and link to me like this ok? Here goes…What did you get for that transfigurations test?##

Neville flinched when Harry had begun speaking through a link but nothing else showed he had heard him. Then Neville had smiled and turned to them when he asked the question.

“Sixty-seven out of a hundred.” He said cheeks flaming at seeming to say something so random. Everyone looked at Neville then at Harry and Severus. Neville just sat back in his chair and closed his eyes.

Suddenly Harry felt something in the back of his head, he twitched and then heard Neville’s quiet, timid voice.

#H…Harry? Are you there?## Harry smiled

## Hey Neville! I’m here. I have some big news for you.##


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Ok so again I’m sorry for taking so long with this. I really appreciate all of you for sticking with me and I do try to be as quick as possible. Thank you all for the supportive reviews and the compliments to the story, they do make me try harder to write my best. Thank for reading and please review!

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