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"Well, we still don't know who the Heir of Slytherin is, but at least I can write to Dad and tell them about the hidden room," Ron said as he and Harry went into the stalls to change back into their normal clothes.

"At least you did not miss much Hermione," Harry called to the still-locked stall where his other friend was.

"Did you change the robes in the stalls when we were gone, Mione?" Ron's voice asked.

"I think I got yours in here Ron," Harry said finding the robes left in his stall so big they were hanging off him.

"Thank Merlin, I think I got another set of Crabbe's in here," Ron said as he exited his stall to take the robes. Harry opened his stall to hand them over only to look on in shock as he saw Ron looked like Draco. "What's going on you look like Malfoy?" Ron asked his mouth falling open in shock.

"No, you do?" Harry said before realizing that he was looking right into Ron's eyes which was a random occurrence when they were both standing.

"Actually, you both do," Moaning Myrtle said pointing at the mirror. Both boys shrugged and looked to the mirror only to see that not only did they look sort of like Draco but stranger still they looked the same.

"Hermione, the Polyjuice Potion we made is malfunctioning somehow," Ron said marching over and starting to pound on the stall where Hermione still had locked herself into.

"Yeah they look like Malfoys, while you are a cat," Myrtle said laughing as she floated near the ceiling.

"A cat? Are you okay Mione?" Harry asked catching Ron's hand and gently moving the other boy out of the way to try to get through to her.

"It is true Harry," Hermione said in a slightly higher voice as the sound of the bolt being moved back into place and the door opened. Harry and Ron gasped as they laid eyes on their friend, covered in short brown fur, with a pair of cat-like ears and a tail. The Witch gasped in shock at seeing two identical boys who looked like they belonged to the Malfoy family. "But I brewed the potion correctly, I just know it," Hermione said looking between the two boys not able to tell who was who. "It was a cat's hair that I had used but I have no idea what happened to you,"

"I think we might need to go talk to someone," Harry suggested.

"Madam Pomfrey, she hardly ever asks any questions," Ron said as the other agreed the three of them used the larger robes to hide their forms as they made their way to the Hospital Wing.

Thankfully due to the holiday and most of the students being out of the castle, the trio did not meet anyone during their journey. When they pushed the doors open the Matron was nowhere in sight. "Do you think she is in her office?" Harry asked the others as they closed the door behind them.

"Better that than her not being here at all," Ron said.

"Or she could have been having something to eat," a voice said behind them. As the trio of changed students turned around they found themselves looking at the Medi-Witch.

"So what can I do for you three?"

"Well um we had made some Polyjuice Potion and something seemed to happen," Harry said sticking with the truth as he pulled down the hood of his oversized robe as Ron and Hermione followed suit.

"You all drank it?" she asked pulling out her wand and casting a spell on all of them.

"Um, yes," Harry said hoping she would not ask why they had made or used it.

The Medi-Witch rubbed the bridge of her nose for a moment before she said, "While I commend you for making such a high-level potion, did you not read all the notes about it?"

"What is there to know, it will change you into someone else for an hour then revert you to your normal form," Hermione said as her new tail wagged in agitation.

"No the proper message is it reverts you to your true form. This includes getting rid of any potions that someone is under to change their looks or even a Glamour," Madam Pomfrey said.

"But neither Harry nor I have anything like that on us," Ron said confused.

"It seems you are mistaken Mr. Weasley," Madam Pomfrey stated. "Can you all take a bed, I need to test something?" The three changed Second-Years each took a bed on the right-hand wall as she began to bustle about the room casting various spells for about ten minutes before she went to her office for another ten minutes before she returned with two potions and handed them to Ron and Harry.

"If you would both drink them up it might shine some light on all this," she said as she crossed her arms tapping her wand on her right arm. Ron and Harry trusting her downed the potions which made both their bodies take on a golden glow before a roll of parchment appeared in their laps. Both boys opened the scrolls and began to read them only to drop them at the same time. Madam Pomfrey reached forward to read the results of the Family tree test for both boys.

Name: Damocles Castor Malfoy (Harry Potter after Illegal Blood Adoption)

DOB: March 25, 1981

Parents:

• Lucius Malfoy
• Narcissa Malfoy nee Black

Siblings:

• Draco Malfoy (Older brother)
• Mordred Malfoy (Twin brother)

 Blood Adopted Siblings:

• Lilith Prince

Name: Mordred Pollux Malfoy (Ron Weasley after Illegal Blood Adoption)

DOB: March 25. 1981

Parents:

• Lucius Malfoy
• Narcissa Malfoy nee Black

Siblings:

• Draco Malfoy (Older Brother)
• Damocles Malfoy (Twin Brother)

Blood Adopted Siblings:

• William Black
• Chester Parkinson
• Demeter Flint
• Fredrick Prewett
• George Prewett
• Lilith Prince

"This has to be fake, I am a Weasley," Ron protested.

"That potion does not lie," Madam Pomfrey said as with a flick of her wand summoned the other "Weasley" kids that were at the school to take the test as well.

"It has to be I am not a Malfoy," Ron said pulling his legs to his chest and shaking his head in denial. "And who is this Damocles?" he asked.

"According to the potion I am," Harry said.

"What type of potion was that?" Hermione asked.

"It is called a Family Line Potion and it lists one's immediate family," Madam Pomfrey answered her as she gave the girl a potion to show the boys that the potion did not lie, but even she was shocked as she read the girl's results.

Name: Cleopatra Minuet Riddle (Hermione Granger after Illegal Blood Adoption)

Parents:

• Tom Riddle
• Bellatrix Riddle nee Black (illegally Lestrange)

Siblings:

• Salazar Riddle (Twin Brother)

"I think the only way to clear all this up is for you all to get a full test at Gringotts," Madam Pomfrey said rubbing the bridge of her nose as she tried to think of a way to get all three of them to the bank just as the door opens as the rest of the "Weasley" came in. "Ah good I summoned you due to something that had happened to Ronald, but I think something more is going on.  So I am going to ask you all if you would be willing to break the rules and leave school for a bit."

"What is wrong with Ron?" Percy asked looking around the wing but seeing no sign of his youngest brother only two identical blonde boys who looked to be in their first year and a student that had features of a cat.

"Well, it seems your brother and his friends took some Polyjuice Potion, and well," Madam Pomfrey said as she handed over Ron's form while the group of redheads gathered in to read it.

"Family Line Potion?" Percy asked.

"Correct," the Matron said as Percy collapsed into a chair rubbing his face in thought.

"That can't be true this states we are not even related to each other," Fred said, "well apart from me and George that is."

"That is why I suggest a trip to Gringotts for if you are not actually a family it makes me worry of what else could be in your systems," Pomfrey said. "The only problem is."

"That we need a parent or guardian who approves of us leaving school," Percy finished.

"That is correct and at the moment based on this that gives us two possible choices," Madam Pomfrey said nodding at the eldest student.

"The Malfoys, and who else?" Harry asked as the gathered redheads gasped as they recognized his voice.

"Professor Snape," she answered before adding after seeing the looks of confusion on all their faces "He is the Lord of the Line of Prince meaning he would have some power in young Lilith's life." It took Ron and the other redheads to realize she meant Ginny while Hermione and Harry just looked confused.  For while Harry's test had the name Lilith on it he had no clue who it could be.

"Is this really necessary?" Ron asked not wanting to deal with either of the choices.

"Not really, but I can not reverse what has been done to you so you are left as you are," Pomfrey said once more crossing her arms over her chest and tapping her wand to her shoulder.

"So I either am stuck looking like a Malfoy or have to ask one for help.  Merlin, please just kill me now," Ron said as Harry reached over and patted his back.

"I for one want to find out what is going on," Hermione said as Harry agreed.

They decided to put it for a vote with Harry, Hermione, and Percy wanting to go with the Twins and Ron not wanting to do anything. "So what do you think Gin?" Ron asked hoping she would go with him and the twins.

"Hm," Ginny said sounding a little distracted "I guess whatever thing Harry wants." Ron and the twins let out some groans as Madam Pomfrey starts to contact both Professor Snape and Lord Malfoy.

A short time later the group headed out to Gringotts with Professor Snape and Lord Malfoy, both men a little confused as to why the results had stated they were related to the group. Due to the nature of the events, Lucius had even agreed to pay for all seven of the inheritance tests as he kept close to both Harry and Ron, a fact that neither boy was really comfortable with. The group was led to a large board room as each of the students was handed a silver knife to prick the middle finger of their wand hand with as well as a Potion to add the blood to.

When all the results were collected the group was horrified. Percy found out he was the twin of Marcus Flint, the twins were the sons of Fabian and Gideon Prewett, and a woman named Cynthia McDonald.  The test confirmed that Ron and Harry were the twin sons of Lucius and Draco's younger brother shocking both themselves and Lucius who had no memory of them. Hermione was the daughter of Tom Riddle which shocked Lucius even more and her twin was revealed to be Neville also under illegal blood adoption. But it was Ginny's results that had the biggest impact as she was listed as the daughter of Severus Snape(Prince) and James Potter causing the man to faint and Harry to wonder if he was actually dreaming.

If the identities of their true families were a shock, it was compounded when they got to any spell damage or Potions on them most since every single one of the students had gone through an illegal blood adoption, had blocks on their Magical Cores changing them from Dark to Light. They were under Hatred Potions to their real families while at the same time making them loyal to Molly, Arthur, and Dumbledore. Each of the students also seemed to have some, according to the Goblin running the test, rare magical talents which had all been blocked. Percy had Mage Sight, Fred and George were Metamorphmagus, Harry and Ron both had All-Speech, Hermione was a Seer and Ginny could perform Wandless and Silent Magic. Percy, Hermione, Harry, and Ron also had blocks on their twin bonds, making Fred and George look horrified at the very thought. But it seemed that only Harry and Ron had been doused with age potion making them a year older than they were.

Seeing the information on Harry, Ron and Ginny caused both Severus and Lucius to also get tested. They both found out that besides numerous memory spells on them making them not recall their kids, and in Snape's case, Mate as well, but had also had leeches on their Magic which was feeding into Molly and Arthur. Due to all that had been done to them, it was agreed that they would go through cleansing as well. Lucius had gently gripped both Harry and Ron's shoulders as they were lead away trying to hold back tears for the spells put on him had made it seem that both boys had died in childbirth. As the group went down for their cleansing, the Goblins began to contact their real families as well as schedule a test for Curse Breaker William "Weasley"

As Lucius underwent the ritual, the memory of his sons came back. How after being alerted by the Wards, he had left Narcissa with Draco to check on the boys. Lucius had arrived in time to see Molly Weasley with both boys in her hands giving him a nasty smirk, but before he could do anything he was attacked from behind with a Full-Body Bind Curse. Lucius had been forced to watch helplessly as a third person came out taking his youngest in her arms as they forced the two newborns to drink potions making them go through a blood adoption. The pain that had shot through him as the person behind him ground what felt like a foot into his back. "Is that better Molly," a voice he instantly recognized as Arthur Weasley asked from above him.

"Almost Arthur, I just need a daughter and I know just the brat to add to my collection," Molly said sneering down at Lucius at her feet. "Say goodbye to your brats we will raise them right as a good Light family should."

"Don't...you... have....enough.....already?" Lucius was able to choke out.

"Hardly, I am saving these Dark Side kiddies to be raised in the Light," Molly had said before she spits right onto his upturned face with a laugh before she and her husband Apparated away.

Snape had a similar experience as he went through his cleansing he recalled both his daughter and Mate being taken from him. They had been sitting in the front room as he used his wand to make bubbles for the little girl that James had given them.  Suddenly the door burst open and in barged, as if they owned the place, Albus Dumbledore, Lily Evans, as well as Molly and Arthur Weasley. Before either James or himself could ask what was going on, Snape had been blasted into a wall as both Lilith and James cried out. As he had fought to stay conscious, he watched James get hit with a stunner and drop Lilith only for her to float into Molly's hands where a nozzle was forced into her mouth. The last thing Severus had seen was his daughter's midnight puff of hair turn red.

As the group woke up from their cleansing, they were shown a mirror to take in their new look. Demeter Flint, the former Percy Weasley, found he was a fraternal twin to Marcus for all that really changed was his hair which had gone from its "normal" flaming red to a dark black though he did gain some muscle tone. Fredrick and George found they had not changed that much at all which they put to being the fact that the people they had been told were their uncles were in fact their fathers. Damocles and Mordred were now somewhat used to their new look though they did notice that their noses were not as sharp as Draco's was and their cheeks not as lean leading Lucius to inform them that they took after their mother.

Cleopatra, who no longer looked like a cat, had found she had grown in height making her nearly the same height as Fred and George with hair that was no longer bushy but ran down to the middle of her back was brown though with flecks of black and white in it.  However, it was her eyes that caused her to catch her breath as she now saw she had one red iris and the other one pure black. Lilith's hair had turned midnight back and had become the rat nest that was well known of the Potter Family line, but her nose had also become almost beak-like just as Severus had.

Damocles looked around at everyone as he felt a strange feeling in the middle of his being that he knew was his newly unblocked bond to his twin feeling the other's confusion. Damocles tried to send him feelings of comfort and understanding since he was more accepting of all this than the former Weasley was, due to his desire to have a real family. Mordred breathed in a sigh as he felt the surface of his twin's thoughts. He had always felt a little protective of the other boy and this sort of explained why. He wondered which of them was older, but he knew to find that out he would have to speak to Lucius and he was not ready for that yet.  Not that Damocles seemed to have a problem with it as he had gone over to the man and had started chatting with him with a smile on his face. Mordred wanted to go over to them and pull the other boy behind him and protect him from Lucius. Feeling this, Damocles just sent him a small smile and shook his head at him.

Before Mordred could do anything the doors to the hall opened and in walked Marcus Flint as well as people who could only be his parents, Neville looking rather confused as well as Narcissa and Draco Malfoy. As Neville was led away for his cleansing, still free of charge all expenses were being piled into a bill to be sent to Molly and Arthur the Flints and the rest of the Malfoys came to their missing family members. It seems that Narcissa and the elder Flints had only simple memory charms on them which the Goblins had been able to get rid of with a simple recall potion to unlock them. Draco and Marcus had not been under any spells as they had been too young to recall that they had had siblings or had just been told by their parents that the ones that had been stolen had died as they were born.

Seeing his younger twin brothers, Draco's face broke into a smile as he opened his arms as if asking for a hug. Damocles smiled back and rushed forward letting his former school rival/bully give him an almost bone-breaking hug. But when he turned to Mordred, the boy had just glared at him and stomped off causing Draco to look confused as neither he nor his mother knew who the twins had been. Damocles could feel his twin's anger and once more sent him happy thoughts as he actually leaned into Draco happy to have the family he always wanted, and seemed to be missing, at last.

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Mordred could not deal with this, he had no problem with being the twin of his best friend but he refused to acknowledge Draco or his parents as his real family. Through their newly reawakened Twin Bond, he felt Damocles seemed to accept them easily but after the home life he had had as Harry.  It was not shocking even if they had kidnapped him and the others Molly and Arthur had shown him, such love, more than he had ever seen Mr. and Mrs. Malfoy had ever shown Draco. No, he would rather go back to the Weasleys if they would still accept him looking as he did now.

SLAP

He rubbed his cheek in surprise after Damocles glared at him. "Damocles?" Lucius asked surprised at seeing his youngest slap his twin brother.

"You are not going back, Mor, do you not get it?  They did not love you," Damocles said glaring at his twin. "I don't know why they would want to take kids from their families, but that is not something a good person would do."

"But, but," Mordred said.

"But nothing Mor, just get to know them," Damocles said as he used their twin bond to finish "for me at least."

"Fine only for you and only until the end of Yule, if I don't like it I will be asked to return to the Weasleys," Mordred responded through their bond.

"That is all I ask. Mor," Damocles said out loud placing a hand on the spot where he had stuck his twin and with a bit of magic was able to heal the developing bruise. Which surprised both boys before they found themselves hugged by the former Weasley twins.

"Don't look so surprised you two, it is just a special part of a twin bond it makes it so that you can feel the other's emotions and sometimes thoughts, but also help heal each other," Fredrick said.

"Think of each other as a magical and healthy battery," George said with a laugh as with a slight push sent the two toward their lost parents. Lucius and Narcissa gave them a nod of thanks

"Now we need to discuss what our plans are," Lucius said to everyone as he placed a hand on Damocles's shoulder.

"What do you mean?" Cleopatra asked confused as she and her lost twins leaned against each other.

"Well you can obviously not return to Hogwarts as you are," Severus said.

"And before you do, I will need to collect something from you, Lilith," Lucius said as with a snap of his fingers had a House Elf collect Riddle's diary from the grounds. "I am sorry I was trying to use it to put a stop to some of the laws Arthur and Dumbles were trying to pass in the Wizengamot," he said holding out an old worn diary. Seeing it Lilith blushed a little while Demeter gasped, his gaze shifted between it and Damocles and then after a moment Cleopatra and Salazar.

"Is something wrong honey?" Mrs. Flint asked her long-lost child.

"There is a bond of magic that stretches between the book, Har.... sorry Damocles and the Riddle twins," Demeter stated.

"What do you see, young Demeter?" Lucius asked.

"Some type of shadow on both the book and Damocles that seems to also connect with the twins," Demeter said his eyes going a little out of focus.

"You don't think?" Lucius asked turning to Mrs. Flint and Severus.

"He did speak of finding a way to stave off death," Mrs. Flint said rocking back in her chair.

"Who did?" Lilith asked wondering what was going on with the diary having already come to suspect it had something to do with the opening of the Chamber.

"Why, Tom Riddle, my dear," Narcissa said looking like she wanted to fuss over Mordred but saw him flinch anytime she reached for him.

"Why would our real father want to stave off death?" Salazar asked more willing to accept him over Bellatrix being his parent.

"Well to the larger Magical World, he had a different name," Severus said trying to break the news as gently as he could to the group of kidnapped children. "He is known as Lord Voldemort." Just as he predicted all but Damocles from the missing kids flinched at the name. Both Cleopatra and Salazar's faces go deathly pale as they learn their father was the Dark Lord having heard such horrible things he had done during the last war.

Surprisingly it was Damocles who broke the silence as he asked, "Is there a way to bring him back?"

"You want him back, after all he did to our world and you?" Lilith asked in horror making a motion at his still visible lightning bolt scar.

"Yes for what if what happened to us was done to him as well," Damocles started making everyone wonder if that could be true.

"We could always ask him ourselves," Lucius said waving the diary before putting it on the large table in the middle of the hall of healing. Rather than take out a quill the blonde Wizard flipped open the book to a random page and cast a spell that none of the students recognized at the book. Suddenly a pale ghost-like form rises from the diary and looks around the room at them.

"Where is the Weasley girl?" the ghost-like teen asked.

"That is not important," Severus said seeing his returned daughter open her mouth to speak to the apparition.

"Then why have you brought me out of my prison?" it asked.

"We would like to know about any interactions you have had with a family known as Weasley or Dumbledore outside of class," Lucius stated.

"Ah two names I know well," the ghost said as he seemed to cross his legs in mid-air and floated above the book. "Albus Dumbledore was the one to get me from the orphanage before I came to Hogwarts, and thus witnessed what a horrible place it was.  Yet he convinced Headmaster Armando Dippet to send me back there even after I showed signs of abuse I had received from being a Wizard."

"What about the Weasleys?" Demeter asked.

"Ah, when I was at Hogwarts a student in the year above me found out that I had a Dark Core and did everything they could to make my life miserable.  They constantly told me that since I had a Dark Core, I would go wrong and that I was worthless. It was due to this that I decided to research my family tree to prove I came from a good line unlike them who everyone said were Blood Traitors. I found to my utter joy that I was of the Line of Salazar Slytherin himself and went to show them proof. At first, they scoffed at my claims and told me to prove it. I am sorry to say I did by finding my Ancestors' Chamber, but when I showed them it, I found myself under some spell I found out later was known as the Imperius Curse making me send Salazar's familiar to attack Muggleborns," the ghost said as to many in the rooms shock and surprise drop his face into his hands.

"So why did you make this diary then?" Lilith asked still glaring at him.

"I guess I should say I was worried about going into the Chamber again and unleashing the Basilisk so I took all of my memories on how to get inside of it and placed them into this book, so even if Septimus used the Imperius on me again I would be unable to recall how to get in the Chamber or let lose the snake king," Tom said.

"Why would there be a connection between you and another human-like that you have with the book?" Draco asked reaching over and gently squeezing Damocles's shoulder.

"Maybe another memory," Tom said a little confused before he looked into the former Harry Potter's eyes. "I see, can someone cast Addiderat Integra Interdum Vincula on the young man as he holds this book?" Tom asked before sliding back into the magic tome.

"Are you up for this son?" Narcissa asked.

"I think so," Damocles said gingerly taking the book and holding it in his hands, though away from his body.

"Addiderat Integra Interdum Vincula," Narcissa said as a light shot from the book and her missing son's forehead at the same time before the two lights connected in mid-air. There was a rush of Magic as the two lines of magic were soon joined by five others, with a gasp Damocles toppled out of his chair unconscious while Mordred let a gasp of pain and was knocked out as well. The only thing that prevented the twins from crashing to the floor were their parents, who looked horrified at their returned sons while everyone else looked at the orb of light which was growing in size.

With a bright flash of red-golden light, the orb vanished leaving a man in its place which Mrs. Flint rushed over to check on as well as spell some clothing onto his bare form. Seeing her, he croaked out, "Marcie where (Cough) am I?"

"You are fine, Tom, you are among friends," she said helping him sit up.

"Lucius, Sev, and Marcie, my friends, you look so old," Tom said as he looked at some of his best friends and the Godparents of his kids. Thinking of that he looked around for Bella but was unable to find her or their babies. "Where are Bella and my kids, what has happened?"

"Brace yourself, Tom," Mr. Flint said getting out of his seat to join his wife at the man's side.

"Don't tell me Dumbledore got to them?" the man said, as to the shock of the students saw his bottom lip begin to quiver and tears form in his eyes.

"You have been away a long time, Tom, I am sorry to say Bella was sent to Azkaban, and well it seems someone had placed Cleo and Sal under enchantments making them forget themselves," Marcie said grasping her old friend's arm helping to ground him. "But they are back now and the spells are off them," she added quickly seeing the other start to panic.

"Can I... can I see them?" Tom asked in a tone almost too quiet for them to hear. Rather than answering, Marcie looked up at Cleopatra and Salazar seeing if they would come over or not. Everyone else looked over at them as well, except for the Malfoys who were too busy worrying about the twins. Seeing everyone's gazes shift, Tom looks over and finally notices the pair and as Cleopatra looks just like her mother he smiles at her in recognition. Struggling to his feet, with Marcie's help, he walked over to her and pulled her into a hug only for his Cleo to pull away from him with a flinch.

"I am sorry, Tom, as I said they were just recently freed from an enchantment that had them under Dumbledore's thumb making them hate and fear you," Marcie said still holding onto his arm.

"I am sorry," Cleopatra said, "I don't think I am there yet."

"That is alright, knowing Dumblesnorts, I can only imagine what stories he has been spreading about me," Tom said trying to hide his heartbreak. "Can you at least tell me..... how old?"

"I am twelve, sir," Cleo said still unable to help herself from answering a question if she knew the answer.

"I have been gone so long," Tom said as he wobbled and looked ready to pass out until Marcie summoned a chair over to them and sat him down right beside his kids.

Suddenly the door opened and in walked a pair of strange men being escorted by some Goblins. "What is the meaning of this?" Severus asked as the two men were given seats at the table.

"Just more of the Weasley and Albus's meddling," one of the Goblins said in outrage. "Meet the former Bill and Charlie Weasley," the Goblin said waving his arm at the astonished pair. Both former Weasleys had their gazes locked on the parchment before them showing what had been done to them. "They both had such strong enchantments that they were able to fool our normal hiring test when William became a Cursebreaker," the Goblin said angry but a little impressed by the spell that had bamboozled a near-perfect Goblin hiring exam testing.

"So who are they really?" Fredrick asked for though he knew of the lines the pair came from there was no information on who their actual parents were on his own form.

"Well, William Black is the Son of Remus Lupin and Sirius Black and Chester Parkinson is the son of Lord Antonio and Lady Galas Parkinson," the Goblin explained when neither man answered the question they had been asked themselves. Severus had to whistle at the news as with the memory blocks on him gone he could now recall James's best friends worrying about their kid becoming a werewolf because of Remus's curse, even when Sirius carried him.

"So what are we going to do about the Weasleys?" Draco asked in anger, not only for them taking his little brothers but also for one of his friend's older brothers.

"Well we will ruin them financially," the highest-ranking Goblin in the room said.

"Not good enough, they messed with my family, I want revenge," Lucius said looking up from where he was cradling the still-unconscious Mordred in his arms. The other families agreed as they began to make plans to keep their kids safe from the kidnappers who had decided to mess with them. Through their discussion, Damocles and Mordred lay unconscious all but not dead to the world but due to their reawakened twin bond, they found they could communicate with each other.

"I can't believe, I am Draco's brother, slimy git," Mordred said.

"Are you still on that, don't you think there are more important things at this moment?" Damocles chided his slightly older brother somehow knowing in this space the other boy had been born first between them.

"Like what?"

"Well for instance, since we were given aging Potions we technically have to do our First-Year again," Damocles said making Mordred let out a laugh.

"Great I am the same age as my former little sister."

"You think that is bad, I am the one she had a crush on and now we might be sharing classes," he said keeping a straight face for a moment before the pair roiled in laughter in their twin space.

"Yeah that would be bad, but I still got you beat," Mordred said rolling his eyebrows at the other boy.

"How so?"

"Well I had started to notice, Hermione, but she is the daughter of the Dark Lord."

"Yeah, and I think since her mother is Bellatrix, I think she is also our first cousin."

"Okay ouch, that just proves we will both have bad luck in love," Mordred said as Damocles just shrugged his shoulders. "So how do you actually feel?"

"I know it is going to sound strange, but pretty good to use my actual name from the tales the Muggles have, I no longer fear the Sword of Damocles hanging over my head and cutting me down due to my destiny."

"Muggles are strange,' Mordred stated.

"You will get no arguments from me, but at least I will not have to go back to the Dursleys ever again."

"So there is at least one point in favor of the Malfoys," Mordred said having been horrified by the tales he had been told of the family not to mention the rescue over the summer. There was an awkward silence for a bit before the pair were suddenly aware of what sounded like singing surrounding them.

Hush little children have you no fear
Your dream run together while we remain here
Let Darkness and Light guide you this day
With Wisdom and Love as you run and Play

Dream of adventure out in the world
Live in the moment your wings unfurled
Know you are loved, know you are safe
Together or alone in time and space

We walk beside you holding your hand
Knowing your life will be more than Grand
Here to protect and guard you against

Pain Like an ocean of love filled by the rain

Hush little children have you no fear.
Your dreams run together while we remain here

Damocles and Mordred wake up as the song starts to repeat itself finding themselves lying in two large identical beds while the singer is revealed to be Lucius.  Who sings them a lullaby that he had created for them shortly after their birth. Both boys were amazed not only by his voice but the emotion on his normally stoic visage as he stood between them with tears running down his face. When the older man paused to take a breath both boys could not help themselves as they began to clap causing him to look down at them in shock. "You have a very soothing voice," Mordred had to admit.

"Thank you, son," Lucius said taking a seat on the edge of his bed as he smiled at him.

"How long were we out?" Damocles asked.

"Enough time for us to leave the bank and come back to the Manor, either myself, your mother, or Draco had hardly left your sides."

"So what happened after we conked out?" Mordred asked making Lucius actually chuckle at the phrasing.

"Well Tom, has returned and we decided that since he and his kids had nowhere to stay, they would join us at the Manor as we have the largest home. The Goblins have decided to put their power into ruining the Weasleys financially while we all decided," Lucius said.

"Luci," a voice said in warning causing the three to look at the door to see a sort of annoyed Narcissa. "I thought we agreed, they were too young which is why Lilith, Cleo, Sal, and Draco were asked to leave the room as we went over our plans for them and Dumbles."

"So did you all decide if we would head back to Hogwarts?" Damocles asked, hoping to break the strained silence as he felt the tension in the room.

"That is all up to you son. If you wish, we can claim that due to some poor health issues you had while growing up, we never made the normal announcement of your birth and hid you away during the balls we would throw," Narcissa said coming over and sitting on the edge of his bed.

"But won't people still know who I am thanks to my scar?" Damocles asked which made the two older Malfoys smile at each other as Narcissa pulled out a small compact and handed it to him. With a bemused look, Damocles looked into the small mirror moving his still shaggy hair out of the way to reveal a scar-less forehead. "But... but how it was there earlier?"

"It seems the bit of magic, we used to bring Tom back removed the bit of him within you.  This allowed your scar to able to be healed by magic," Narcissa said, as to her utter joy, her youngest child moved forward and gave her a tight hug.

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The four reunited family members just sat together in an easy silence as Damocles hugged his new mom happy to finally be rid of the scar. He never liked the attention it had drawn to him and was happy that he could now just be a part of the crowd.  Well as much as he could with being Draco's brother. While Mordred shared some of his twin's happiness through their reawakened bond, he even allowed Lucius to start to rub his back gently as the man tried to think of a way to reconnect with the elder twin. Suddenly the door to the room they were in opened with a little too much force making them all jump and causing Damocles to curl up against Narcissa as if in need of protection. "Sorry about that," Draco said actually blushing as he noticed Damocles with his face buried in their mom's robes and Mor glaring at him. "He has arrived."

"Ah good," Lucius said with a smile "Shall we go meet them together?"

"Meet who?" Mor asked still glaring at Draco for not only scaring Damocles but just for being himself.

"Ah yes you were both out by that time," Lucius said rubbing the back of his neck. "Well shortly after we brought Cleo's father back, your former eldest brothers also turned up having also been taken by the Weasleys," Lucius said spitting out the name as if it was a curse. "While we had easily reached the Parkinsons to let them know about Chester it has taken a while for us to reach Remus Black the father of William. So are you both up to seeing everyone?"

"Um, who exactly will be there?" Damocles asked.

"Well as Tom has no place to go at the moment, he, Cleo, and Sal are staying here as are Fredrick and George as we figure out how to deal with that. William will be there to greet Remus as will Severus and Lilith, I believe the others will be heading home soon to get to know each other better," Narcissa explained.

"Oh," Damocles said his face taking on a look of deep thought. "Can I get my old stuff back from Hogwarts, I think I have something that belongs to Lilith?"

"Ah we already had some Elves collect all your and the other's stuff from Hogwarts while you were out," Lucius said pointing at a pair of, in his mind, shabby trunks.

"Thanks," Damocles said as he got out of the bed and headed to his trunk, nearly tripping on the still too-large robes he was wearing. The others looked on as he dug through his trunk before pulling out what he had been told was his father's old Invisibility Cloak making all but Mor gasp.

"Where did you get that?" Draco asked amazed.

"I was sent it last Yule, from Dumbles, with a note stating it belonged to James which means it really should go to Lilith," Damocles stated. "Hopefully by returning it, I can make up for the money I took from what should have been her Vault."

"Ah, there is no problem with that the Goblins are quite canny creatures and have placed the money that you had used as a fee to both the Weasleys and Albus," Narcissa explained as she walked over to comfort her youngest.

A half-hour later, the five Malfoys showed up in one of the Manor's large drawing rooms, now with Mor and Damocles in some of Draco's old clothes. This was due to seeing some of Damocles's old clothes from the year before, which were the only things that could fit either him or Mor now.  Both Draco and Lucius refused to let them be seen in them while Narcissa just rolled her eyes. It had taken so long, for while both twins were used to wearing hand-me-downs, Mor had not liked that they had come from Draco. As soon as they arrived a man Damocles, Mor, and Draco had not met before came marching over. "Alright, Malfoy, I went to the Bank and got cleansed so I could meet this son you said I have, so where is he?" the man asked looking over Damocles and the others.

"What are you talking about he is right there," Lucius said pointing over to William who was awkwardly standing alone by the fireplace.

"Not it can't be, my and Siri's son would only be about ten years of age there is no way that man could be him," the man who could only be Remus Black stated.

"You know what, you are right.  To be as old as he is, Black would have had to have him while you were both in school," Lucius said rubbing his chin in thought.
Narcissa decided to get to the bottom of it as she beckoned William over to them with her hand.

"William, this is your father Remus, but there seems to be a little issue about your age what is the first thing you remember from your childhood?" she asked

"Oh, I guess it was with my dad, sorry Arthur, at the Ministry where I had been given a tour," William said.

"Do you recall where you had gone to?" Remus asked still not sure if he could trust this man despite how hard it was to fool a Goblin's test.

"Let me think," William said rubbing his forehead as if to stimulate his memory. "Ah yes, he showed me his office, the Auror department, one of the courtrooms and I think he said the Department of Mysteries."

"Wait do you recall the room from the Mysteries part of the tour?" Tom broke in after he heard the name.

"I think it had a large bookcase with small hourglasses and a large bell jar that contained a small creature that shifted from an egg to a chicken," William said as Lucius brought out his wand to cast a quick spell on the young man.

"Did you ever go near the bell jar?" Lucius asked as he ripped a piece of parchment from his wand.

"I think so why?" William asked.

"Well it seems that my boys were not the only ones who were not their proper age," Lucius said shocking everyone. "That bell jar is a field of Time Magic, so unless I missed my guess after you were kidnapped, Arthur brought you to it to make you grow older. It either did not go as well as he planned, or maybe he almost got caught which led them to use Aging Potions on Damocles and Mordred. This also explains this," Lucius said holding out the parchment he showed the results of his spell stating that William had been born just over ten years ago.

"Being in the bell jar must have allowed his Core to mature along with his body, otherwise it would have been broken a long time ago," Remus said in thought as he read over the results of Lucius's test.

Leaving the group to their discussion on what William's interaction with the Bell Jar meant, Damocles, followed by his two elder brothers, moved over to where Lilith was sitting with Professor Snape. Seeing them approach, Severus surprised the twins as he got out of his chair and bowed to them. "I am so sorry for how I have treated you both this last year and a half," he said even surprising Draco. Mor smirked in a way that no one wanted to point out looked exactly like Draco's did, while Damocles rushed forward to get the Potions Master to get up.

"While I thank you for the apology, I do not want anyone to bow to me, plus thanks to them, I have been sort of stealing for you," Damocles said blushing a little.

"Mom and Dad said that has already been dealt with Damocles," Draco said softly as he grabbed onto the younger boy's shoulder.

"I know but I still feel bad about it," he shot back before turning back to Professor Snape and Lilith. "I was also sent this and from the card that came with it, I think it belongs to you," Damocles said holding out the cloak to Lilith making both Prince-Potters gasp.

"My James's cloak," Snape said with actual tears in his eyes as he took the bundle from the youngest Malfoy and held it to his chest. All four children look on in shock as the normally dour and aloof Potions Master cries over the cloak before he reaches over and pulls his returned daughter to his side for a one-armed hug. Feeling that they were intruding the three Malfoys left them to it.

"Well, I never expected that," Draco confided to his little brothers as they headed back to their parents.

"I did," a voice said cutting in as Cleo walked over and pulled her friends into a hug. "Well, it was either that or Snape blasting Damocles for having it.  I am glad it was the good one."

"Still getting used to having the gift?" Draco asked.

"It is annoying seeing at least two possible futures for every choice if I focus on it," Cleo said rubbing her eyes.

"That has to be some way to control it though right?" Damocles asked worried for his friend.

"Well I could go put blocks on it again, but Tom said that is very dangerous," she stated still not at the point to call the man her father or dad.

"You could ask Luna Lovegood, her family has some Seer ability in their line," Draco said helpfully wanting to connect with her not only due to who her father was, but also her friendship with his brothers.

"I might do that," Cleo said giving him a hopeful look.

"So how far can you see?" Damocles asked.

"Well, I don't really have that much control, why do you ask?" Cleo responded.

"I was just wondering if you see what could happen if we decide to go back to Hogwarts," Damocles said as Mor wrapped his arms around him.

"Give me a moment," Cleo said as her eyes went out of focus as she tried to see the future. "I see Mordrid and Damocles in the Great Hall going through a Sorting Ceremony for their new Houses. Ah a shift," she said wobbling in space leading to Salazar coming over and taking her hand. "In one future the Headmaster recognizes them casting a spell that freezes everyone in the hall as he starts to perform a spell to revert things to as they were. Another shows him distracted by the paper where a headline shows Harry Potter Dead," she said struggled to get out even being helped by her twin.

"That is enough, Cleo, come back," Damocles said lifting an arm to touch her only for both Mor and Draco to push it down shaking their heads.

"It is dangerous for any but a Seer's Grounder to touch them during a vision," Draco stated in a low voice as for the first time he and Mor agreed on something.

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After the three young Malfoy shared Cleo's vision with the adults a sort of war council took place to decide what to do next. The first thing was calling back all the other affected families as well as other allied families under the guise of a secondary Yule Ball. They also used it as a way to reintroduce their taken children to everyone as well as help them make connections, and in the former Harry and Hermione cases learn more about Pureblood culture.

While the adults and Demeter made plans for their return to school, Damocles and the others enjoyed a Pureblooded Yule Ball with dancing and creating connections with their peers.  At the start of it, Damocles is surprisingly pulled into a dance with Pansy who taught him how to hold his partner before she leads him in a quick waltz.  Never having danced before, he did step on her feet a few times but she hardly seemed to care as she began to tell him how best to go about the parting making connections with the other families at the end of the dance she bowed to him before heading over to dance with Mor, most likely to give him the same advice.

Through the party, Damocles ended up dancing with some of the female Slytherins from his former class and got better at dancing each time.  Though he had not really gotten into the movements as after Pansy they all expected him to lead, something he was not interested in doing.  Looking around, he saw that unlike him both Draco and Mor seemed to have talent both for dancing and leading while Salazar was just as awkward as he had always been.

At around ten pm the party started to wear down as the allied families started to leave until only the real families of the former Weasleys were left over.  Damocles also noticed a newcomer which apart from Cleo, Salazar, and himself everyone seemed to know.  Narcissa introduced her as Lady Muriel Prewett who had come at their behest to see if, like the others, Fredrick and George had been kidnapped as well.  Or due to them being related to Arthur and Molly, if they had been left there due to some accident in the family.  It seems the old woman was quite formidable for even Tom seemed a little cowered by her as told how nearly ten years ago her grand-nephews, the twins' fathers, had died in an accident and their wife had not been able to be found.  As the closest living relatives to Fabian and Gideon, they were left with their Aunt Molly.  "Do you recall if at that time she had other kids?" Remus asked since it had been around that time that his and Sirius's son had also been taken.

"You know, I am not quite sure, I never really liked Molly with her nose so far up Albus's ass I am surprised she did not go to work at that school," Muriel said with a slight sniff.

"So we can not be sure if the twins were the first and they decided they wanted to have more kids, or if they were just random additions," Tom said tapping his chin with a finger in thought.

"Does it matter," Fredrick asked, "our real fathers are dead and mother is still missing?"

"It does, for if say either of Molly or Arthur is your Godparents, you might be where you are legally meant to be," Lucius explained.  "Though, oddly, your mother vanishes around the same time as your fathers' deaths."

Fredrick and George share a look using their twin bond to have a private conversation before George states, "I do not care if we were legally meant to be there, or not.  After hearing all this and as out of all of us, they tended to barely pay attention to anything we did we do not want to go back."

"Bravo," Tom said reaching over and giving them both hard pats on their backs.  "That being said we have reached what we had planned while you were meeting the others."

"What do you mean?" Damocles asked.

"Well after Cleo's vision and stating she only saw you and Mor waiting for a sort it gave us an idea," Narcissa stated.  "Due to how old Demeter is, we all agreed that he should go to Gringotts to get a Goblin item imbued with a Glamour on it for the rest of the term.  Fredrick and George being perfect Metamorphmagus, they can change themselves to look like they had been for the remainder of the year."

"What about us," Cleo asked.

"Well, I was thinking of either traveling the world for a bit and would welcome you to join me," Tom said softly not knowing how they would react.  "Or if you prefer you could stay with the Malfoys while going to one of the other Magical Schools."  Both Cleo and Salazar had no idea how to respond to the offer as both came from somewhat well-to-do families, compared to the Weasleys, they had not done much traveling.

"As for you and Mor," Lucius said turning to his twin sons, "we thought that rather than you having to redo half of the First-Year, we would have you stay here and maybe return at the end of the next Yule.  Your mother and I do not want to send you to another Magical School so far away right after we got you back."

"There is one slight hiccup in all our planning, however," Severus said, "I still have a contract at Hogwarts, so I am unable to leave and it would best not to use a Glamour to change your appearance so young as it might affect you later in life just as say staying in an Animagus form for years on end would give you animal characteristics from your form."

"So what happens to me?" Lilith asked.

"As of right now, I have no idea," Severus said looking to the others for support.

"Why not just get out of the contract?" Damocles asked.

"That would be harder than you would think, Dumbles make it utterly binding and biased.  He also left me no chance to renegotiate it until the original terms were cleared," the man said clenching his fist in anger.

"What are the conditions?" Damocles asked.

"I had to be the Potions Master at Hogwarts until such a time that "Harry Potter" and "Neville Longbottom" were no longer students," Severus said.

"If we don't return would that mean that part of the contract is taken care of?" Salazar asked making the Potion Master's mouth fall open in shock.

"It would, though I am not sure if Dumbles would accept it until you were found or declared dead," Severus said appearing deep in thought.

"Maybe we could ask the Goblins for help," William suggested causing the younger kids who had not been in the original planning to look at him with looks of confusion.  "Oh yeah, we did not mention that part did we?" William asked.  "The reason Demeter, Fredrick, and George are all going back is to finish their year after which, Chester and I arrive back at the station to pick all three of them up."

"We then take them to Gringotts as "Percy" wants to set up an account as he has plans to get a summer job, while the twins having gotten into the Warding lessons in Ancient Ruins decided to talk to "Bill."  As the five of us are heading down to "Percy's new vault, tragically there will be a cave-in killing us, and with Mor and Lilith already being gone it leaves the Weasleys with no kids, hostages, or back doors into several old family vaults."

"That is brilliant," Mor showing more enthusiasm than he had around the other Malfoys up until now.

"Dark halls caves of learning, Magic taught never yearning," Cleo said starting to sway in place making the other look at her in shock.  "Danger above, ax below gather the blood from a vanquished foe.  Gold for coffers Gems for chest, magic, and action speak it best."  As suddenly as it began, Cleo seemed to shake herself free of the vision before turning towards where Tom and Severus were seated and saying just one more word. "Glorvantia."

"You don't think?" Tom said looking at the others.

"It hasn't been done since Gelspar Flitwick," Marcia said.

"Which means it could happen again," Severus said.

"Can someone explain who or what Glorvantia is?" Damocles interjected and saw that thankfully he was not the only one who had no idea of what it was.

"Ah sorry son," Lucius said "Glorvantia is the local Goblin Magic School for while they tend to be more physical than straight human Magicals, they still have and use Magic.  And we know the school can teach lessons that Human Magicals can use since Filius went to school there before he became the youngest Charms Master that Hogwarts had ever seen."

"So we could go there then rather than go back to Hogwarts?" Mor asked.

"That is a hard question to answer for them to allow a human in they must be considered a Goblin Friend, as well as having done some great deeds to their name.  It is hard to judge what they consider a Great Deed.  Though from the stories Draco told us of your adventures last year, Cleo and Mor might get in while Damocles most certainly fits that criteria."

"There is another way," William said making everyone turn to him.

"Well, what is it, son?" Remus asked.

"Well, to get Lilith in it might be easier if say Severus worked for the bank as during my interview to become one of their Cursebreakers, they told me that if I ever had a child they could be given a small test to see if they could get in as part of working for them."

"And if you get out of the contract with Dumbles and work for the Goblins you would have more say in it plus their contracts supersede almost every other contract besides the ones between a person and Lady Magic and the other Elders," Lucius said having come across multiple instances where someone tried to renege on a Goblin Contract and had come for help only to be told there was nothing anyone could do for them.

"But wouldn't we need to get Professor Snape out of the first contract before then?" Damocles asked.   "I don't see Dumbles letting him go since Lilith was one of the taken."

"He might not let me go but he would send me to investigate the cave-in where the older "Weasleys" died if there was suspicion of it being caused by a potion mishap," Severus said smiling which shocked the former Gryffindors.

"And to be allowed to look into it, the Goblins would need to hire you thus putting a contract in place," Pansy said with an actual laugh as she leaned against her missing older brother's side.

"Correct in one, Miss Parkinson," Severus said.

"Won't Molly, Arthur, and Dumbles not to mention Sal's grandmother and my former parents get suspicious after we disappeared?" Cleo asked rubbing a hand over her forehead as if she had a headache.

"I think Poppy will see to that bit,' Severus said, "she was the one to find out about all this, and rather than give you new Potions, she sent us all to Gringotts to get healed."

"I for one trust her," Damocles said making Mor, Draco, and Cleo let out a chuckle while the former Weasley twins outright laughed.

"Of course, you trust her.  In just two short years you have been in the Hospital Wing more than the rest of us combined," Fredrick said wiping a tear from his eyes due to his mirth.

"Well she is the nicest medical person I have ever met," Damocles said with a slight blush causing Mor, Fredrick, and George to stop laughing at once thinking about what they had seen of his "home" life with the Muggles he had been left with while his parents shared a look knowing they would need to do something about the Dursleys as well.

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As the group decided to contact the Goblins to see about getting Damocles, and the younger students into Glorvantia before the end of the Yule, the affected families began to head to their homes. As Demeter joined his brother heading to the Floo, Pansy gave a start with a strange expression on her face. "Um, I thought I overheard during the last Samhain that Marcus was paying homage to his twin sister who died when they were younger, not his brother," Pansy said. The effect of her statement was immediate as Mordred's former older brothers surrounded Demeter in a show of support.

"I was wondering when this would be brought up," Demeter said as his shoulders slumped. Damocles sent a confused look at his twin, but Mordred as well as Lilith looked just as confused as he was. "Yes I was born as a female and for the first four years of my life, Molly and Arthur treated me as such, but I have never felt like I was a female. When I was four years old, I told them this but they refused to accept it." Demeter said as Chester gave his former younger brother's shoulder a comforting squeeze. "Growing up they had always called me Pricilla, hence my choosing Percy as my new name hoping they would be able to accept it easier." Damocles suddenly realized the twins, who despite how they teased him, would never call him anything other than Percy even if they tended to as "the Prefect" after it.

"Wait if they treated you as a female, why did they always have to get my clothing second-hand?" Lilith asked. This caused Demeter, Fredrick, and George to burst out laughing.

"There is a perfectly good reason for that," Fredrick said leaning into Demeter's side.

"Yeah, we destroyed them in a fire when even after a full year of refusing to acknowledge me for who I really am," Demeter said. "It was then that I started to take William's old clothing to wear."

"We started to use some of our own money to get him his own clothing as well," Chester said "and we began to call him Perc.  As a group, we made sure we were the ones to introduce him to new people thus preventing Molly and Arthur from using his dead name Pricilla so that they had to go along with it or raise questions they did not want to answer."

"That is why just like Damocles, I am rather happy that Molly and Arthur are not my real parents," Demeter said giving his real parents a look worried that just like the Weasleys they would not accept him for who he really was. Rather than answer Marcie and Dimitri moved forward and pulled Demeter into a tight hug.

"So I never had a daughter but twin sons," Marcie said her tone making it plain she was speaking a statement rather than asking Demeter a question with tears running down her face. "So would you rather still be called Percy as it is the name you had chosen for yourself?"

"I only chose it in hopes that they would find it easier to call me it when they finally accepted me," Demeter said with tears of happiness running down his face. "But I do not want that name either for it was based on the lie of love and family. I think all names, I had ever been called are dead to me. I think from now on I would like to be called Dexter."

"Everyone," Dimitri said loudly "I would like to present my son, Dexter Flint." Dexter broke down in tears as he cried into his parent's shoulders while everyone cheered and the Prewett twins gave some wolf-whistles. Marcus joined his parents in hugging his twin brother. As Mor looked on to the scene before him, the message his twin had been trying to convince him of took root. Sure his former third eldest brother had been a dork and a goodie-two-shoes, but he had been family. Molly and Arthur had always stated family stayed together and supported one another, yet they had failed to accept Dexter for who he was.

If they lied about that as well as that he and his "siblings" were their kids, what else had they been keeping from them? Damocles smiled as he felt Mor's resolve to go back to the Molly and Arthur shatter. He knew his twin still had some issues with their real family, but finding out that the Weasleys had not practiced what they preached had turned Mor against them.  Mor began to worry about what would have happened if Dexter had been selected as Headboy next year.  Would Molly and Arthur have written to the school, or maybe since they seemed to be allied with Dumbles would he been made the Headgirl?  That thought alone was enough to make the former Weasley glad to be a Malfoy for the first time.

"So is Penelope your girlfriend?" Lilith asked having come across the pair in the corridor.

"No Molly and Arthur forced me to spend time with her so that, and I quote, "to see what it is like to be a proper girl."  The only reason I did it was that Arthur said he would help me get a job at the Ministry," Dexter said.  "Though I was tempted you "tattle" on me dating her to them to see how they would react.  Would they have admitted it the real reason I was seeing her, thus let you know about my "illness," Percy said using finger quotes when he said illness.  "Or would they have let you believe I was dating a girl which they would not approve of since they never saw me as a male?"

"Why would you have to rely on that asshole, you have been ranked number one every school year bro?" Marcus asked deciding to skip over the Weasley's Anti-LGBTA+ beliefs.

"Your brother is correct, the Ministry tends to scout out the top ten students for their choice of jobs," Lucius said.

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The day after the new year began, Damocles and his family finally received a meeting with the Goblins taking along Cleo, Sal, and Lilith due to their parents being otherwise occupied. Having been told of what the Golden Trio had managed to do at the end of the last school year, Lucius and Narcissa were sure that they would be allowed to attend Glorvantia it was just the other two they were not sure would get in.

Rather than heading to Gringotts, the party arrived at what looked like a normal Muggle office building in the middle of London. As Lucius approached the plainclothes worker manning the desk, they were directed to a set of elevators and told to press the invitation letter to the ID reader inside. When Damocles's father did so rather than head up, the elevator lurched and began to move downward. Having little experience with elevators since the only ones that existed in the Magical world were in the Ministry of Magic and St. Mungos, where Lilith and Mor rarely visited, the pair jumped a little as Mor grabbed hold of Damocles's hand. Sending calm thoughts through their bond as they descended, the twins wondered what sort of requirements were needed to be allowed to go to the Goblin-run school via their twin bond. Damocles smiled seeing Mor no longer flinch as Lucius placed a calming hand on his back after the jump. Ever since hearing the story of his former big brother after the ball, Mor had tried to get to know their real parents better and had a few times had a pleasant conversation with Draco, with only minimal sarcasm.

As the doors opened it was to neither a large board room nor a cavern, but something reminiscent of the Hogwarts' Entrance Hall.  However, rather than four House Hourglasses which kept track of the points three scales also seemed to have the same purpose as the hourglasses. Damocles could only assume this since none of the scales had anything in them while still being unbalanced. Waiting in the middle of the room was a Goblin dressed in a dark suit with a lemon-yellow cape affixed to the back. "Ah Lord and Lady Malfoy welcome, I am Master Kotaro and I am both the leader of the Glorvantia board but also an Instructor for the class on Martial Magic, what you would call Defense Against the Dark Arts," the Goblin said with a flourish turned around making his cape flutter in such a way it would have made Snape jealous as he leads them down the large staircase behind him. "Now unlike your human schools, all Goblin academies are built into the Earth with the highest levels set aside for the school's entrance and Floo rooms, for unlike Hogwarts our students can either dorm at the school or head home at the end of their day. You will all be meeting with the rest of the board who will be going over the list of any great deeds to your name but also your magic levels," Master Kotaro said leading them down two flights of stairs and into a conference room where a group of four Goblins, also in dark suits but with different colored capes, as well as two humans one male and one female.

"Velcome to Glorvantia, Malfoy family party I am Headmaster Shatterfang.  For ziss meeting, I have invited Lord Dexter Shackelbolt and Lady Gabrielle Shakespeare from zee British Ministry of Magic Department of Personal History and Department of Education." Shatterfang seeing the confused look on Damocles, Cleo, and Sal's faces explained. "The department is in charge of track of all a person's major life events. Ve vill be using zem to find out what great deeds you have accomplished in your life to see if you deserve a place here. Ve also have zee results of the Inheritance Test you took at zee end of last year."

"So that there are no issues with the reading of the results of your Histories, we will be holding your meetings one at a time." A Goblin female with a bright orange cape cut in. "But first some introductions are in order. I am Mistress Waystar and I am in charge of teaching Healing as well as Warding. To my right there is Master Bonecrusher who not only teaches Transfiguration but is also the son of the Goblin King in charge of the European region," she said indicating a Goblin man in a gold and silver cape who nodded at them.

"Next there is Headmaster Shatterfang as he stated who runs the schools as well as teaches classes in physical fitness. And finally, there is Mistress Platinum who heads the department of Earth studies which includes classes of Herbology, Mineralogy, as well as Alchemy and Potions," she said pointing out the other female Goblin who had a dark brown cape.

"Nov according to zee results, one of you had been living the life of Harry Potter, so ve vill start wiz him first," Shatterfang said stepping down from his seat and letting his baby blue cape fluttering behind him as he ushered everyone out of the room besides Damocles.

Damocles watched as a ritual was performed that created a list of everything he had ever done of note starting with his living through the Killing Curse to what he had survived at the Dursleys, the task he and the others had used to get the Philosopher's Stone stopping at when he took the Polyjuice Potion. Each major event was gone over with a fine-tooth comb as the Goblins and humans asked about what he recalled was going through his mind during each event that he could recall. After a grueling blow-by-blow account of his fight with Quirrelmort from the end of last school year, Lady Shakespeare stepped away as Lord Shackelbolt stepped forward to take her place.  Both Lady Shakespeare and Lord Shackelbolt had been forced to sign a Secrecy Contract to attend the meeting so they could not give out the former identities of Damocles and the others who had come to the meeting.

"No young Malfoy, we shall move on your academic record," Shackelbolt said as he pulled out his wand and cast a spell summoning Damocles' records from the ones he had been asked to bring to the meeting. "I see it Albus has once again refused to exercise Binns despite numerous orders to do so," the man said looking over the notes. "Ah, but you are up to the Goblins' standards when it comes to Defense, Transfigurations, and Charms, though you will need to improve your Potions skills as well as Herbology. You have passed part of the physical standards, but at the moment you will need to come up to a more healthy weight as Madam Pomfrey has a note of your past health issues as well as until you took the Polyjuice potion being on numerous other potions. You have since gone through a full cleansing?" he asked.

"Yes, sir we did it at Gringotts shortly after our real identities had been discovered," Damocles stated.

"Good good, if you are allowed to come to this institute, you will need to have a tutor in Potions, History, and Herbology. As it stands right now you would be joining students in their Third-Year for Martial Magic, Second-Year for Transfiguration and Charms, and without the tutor join with the new students in Potions, History, Herbology, and Mineralogy. You will for the moment not have to worry about Healing or Warding since to take them you will need to have passed your third-level classes for Charms, and Potions," Shackelbolt finished with his notes.

"Very good, Messor Malfoy, we will reveal our results after everyone has been seen," Mistress Waystar said leading him out a second door to a side room. Before she left, the Goblin woman placed a charm on the door preventing him from entering as well as passing any information to Mor through their bond while the other boy was being tested. The Charm only worked one way since he was able to experience what Mor learned from his interview. As there was nothing to do in the room, Damocles began to meditate as Mor was being interviewed. He felt his twin's surprise when Mor was told about the early days of his time with the Weasleys. According to the report he had received some abuse from Molly and Arthur after he had been taken most likely due to his age, the separation from Damocles, and not being familiar with his kidnappers. It might also have to do with thanks to him, Lilith, and William being all around the same age at the time.

At least it seems after the age of two the abuse had stopped with the next big item on the list was their time at Hogwarts with the Stone. Damocles felt a smug feeling from Mor as his skill at the game of Wizard Chess not to mention how he had been able to keep his head during the Devil's Snare encounter. As they reached this last summer Damocles was surprised to find out how he, Fredrick, and George had tried to convince Molly and Arthur to pick Damocles up almost after they had gotten home from Hogwarts.

The Weasleys had refused, saying that they had to trust Dumbledore, give it a few weeks, and just send "Harry" letters. Mor, it seems did not like having to wait as he tried to think of ways to contact him, especially after a week went by and not a thing was returned from the Muggles. Mor had then spent some time convincing his "older twin brothers" to help him steal the car Arthur had souped up and go rescue him. Damocles felt rather touched that his twin had been the one to lead him to be rescued from the Muggles.

When it reached the point of their discussion about the Polyjuice Potion, they had gone over the numerous spells and potions that he had been under Damocles was shocked to find that Mor had been under more potions than they had been told having one geared to having a short temper as well as raise how lazy he was. It seems that due to these added potions in his system, the cleansing he had gone through was less than successful in removing from his system which sort of explained why even after being cleansed of the potions that caused him to hate his real family. Before they moved on to his class records Mistress Waystar stepped forward to perform secondary cleanings to remove the last traces of the potions that had been in Mor's system. After the cleansing, they moved on to Mor's school records where he had similar results to his twin though he would be placed in Second-Year classes for Martial Magic as well as Potions even without needing a tutor while being placed in Third-Year for Charms before he was brought back to join Damocles in the side room.

It was nearly lunch before everyone had been interviewed and the Goblins shared the results of their interviews. As the five children talked with each other they found that of them actually had a single subject that they had been placed in a higher grade than they had been before. Cleo had been placed in a higher Transfiguration class as well as Potions while Sal was top in Herbology and Lilith to their shock had actually been told that if she went to Glorvantia she would be in the second level classes for History.

In the end, it was revealed while Damocles, Mor, and Cleo had been given places in the Goblin school, Lilith and Sal had not made the cut due to lack of deeds to their name. Though Headmaster Shatterfang did confirm that Lilith would have her place at the school when the plan to have her father come work for the bank still left what to do about Sal's studies.

On the way back to Malfoy Manor, Sal was found to be rather despondent having failed to cut and knowing it would be unwise to head back to Hogwarts with Dumbledore. "What's up, Salazar?" Tom asked seeing his son so down in the dumps.

"I didn't get in," Sal said softly worried about getting a reaction like he would have gotten from his "Gran."

"And?" Tom asked.

"Well everyone else did," Sal said.

Well good job, Cleo," Tom said patting his daughter on the back. "So you did not get in, the offer to join me on my travels around the world to learn magic is still open to you."

"You mean it?" Sal asked his eyes widening as he looked up at his father.

"Let me make myself very clear," Tom said placing a hand on both his kid's shoulders "If I can help it, I would never lie to either of you unless the truth would lead to hurting you."

"It would not hurt us to be apart since our twin bond has been unblocked?" Cleo asked.

"No, of course, not honey it just might take you longer to sense each other's emotions, and would be unable to share dreams when you are asleep," Tom answered. "So Sal would you be willing to join me in my travels as I take a closer look at the different realms of Magic? I will say I did have an aspiration to become a teacher and for most subjects, I would be able to teach you."

"I think, I would like that," Sal said smiling up at his father giving the man he had been told was the Dark Lord a tight hug for the first time since they had found each other again.

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As the group sat down for lunch after their return from Glorvantia, the younger Magicals were surprised to see Madam Pomfrey sitting at the table. "Ah Poppy, good to see you again," Tom said greeting his old housemate.

"Ah, Tom I heard you have returned," Pomfrey said not getting up as she lifted her goblet to him in a small toast.  "Well I must say you all look better than the last time I saw you," she said directing her statement to the formally stolen children.

"Um, why are you here?  Has someone missed us?" Damocles asked.

"No, it is a good thing, that you were the only students staying over Yule in Gryffindor House. It made it easier for Severus and myself to come up with excuses as to why you have not been at meals," the Matron said. "This also makes it quite easy for us to find a way to dispose of you."

"Dispose of us?" Mor asked reaching for his wand.

"Yes just like after the school year where we plan on "killing off" Fred, George, Percy, Charlie, and Bill we have come up with a way to make sure that your former identities end as well," Lucius said seeming to sense Mor's concern.

"And how are you um we going to do that?" Lilith asked.

"With these," Pomfrey said as she pulled some boxes out of her robes and set them on the table before her plate. "And using the current situation at Hogwarts."

"How do boxes help?" Cleo asked picking up the one nearest to her and beginning to turn it in her hands. Tom reached over and gently took the box from her before putting it on the floor between their seats.

"Like this honey," Tom said as he used his magic to grow the box until it looked like a wardrobe. Reaching for a handle Tom opened the door to reveal what looked like a mannequin double of "Ron Weasley." "In each box, there is a Golem double for each of you so that we can stage an attack from Betsy."

"Betsy?" all the young Magicals asked at once.

"Oh sorry that is the name of the Basilisk that inhabits Salazar's chamber," Tom said as everyone else let out a slight laugh at the name of the "Monster of Slytherin." "We had the Golems brought here so that we can add a bit of your magic to them so when their "dead bodies" are found they will be mistaken for you."

"But what about me?" Sal asked "I went "home" for the Yule?"

"We had accounted on that," Narcissa said with a smile. "What we have planned will also punish the Longbottom clan for how they had treated you."

After the meal was finished the other boxers were grown to their full size as the Golems were removed from them. It felt a little strange to Damocles to look up into his old face which just looked blankly forward. To get everything right for whatever Madam Pomfrey had planned, all five of the young Magicals had to give a small bit of blood to anchor the Golems to themselves before one by one, they were taken into a side room. Cleo went first being the oldest where she met with William's father again. "Hello, Cleo since we are going to make it look like you and the others were attacked by the Monster of Slytherin, we are unfortunately going to have to make the Golem look like it is terrifying. I brought something with me that should help called a Boggart," Remus Black stated.

"That is the Magical Creature that takes on the shape of whatever a person fears correct?" Cleo asked.

"Very good, Cleo, you are right. There is a spell to counter it but as we need you to experience the fear, we are going to have to let the Boggart have some time with you first before your father, Poppy, or I will drive it off. Does that sound alright with you?" he asked.

"It does not sound like we have much choice Mr.  Lupin or is it, Consort Black," Cleo stated.

"First off, you can just call me Remus. Secondly ready or not here it comes," Remus said opening a small worn briefcase he had brought with him and stepping back.

As the case opened, a hand appeared around the edge and Professor McGonagall seemed to climb out of it to stare her down. "I am very ashamed of you Cleo I have never seen anyone in all my time as a teacher fail every single class and assignment given to them. I have no choice but to give you the lowest grade.  One that is even lower than Troll. Miss Riddle, I give you the grade of U or in terms that you can understand, Utter Failure.  I want you to pack your bags, you are heading back to the Muggle world after we bind your magic," Boggart McGonagall said.

Cleo shrunk back in terror muttering to herself, "No I am a good student, I could not have failed." Tom felt a little heartbroken at seeing his daughter like this but they needed it to go on just a little bit longer so that they could transfer the terror into her Golem.

Keeping an eye on the Golem and as soon as its face looked terrified, Tom stepped forward between his daughter and the Boggart. As soon as he was between them, the Boggart its shifted its form. No longer cowering in fear, Cleo peeked around Tom's form to see what form it had taken. To her surprise, she saw what looked like an older form of Mr. Weasley* standing before him but her father showed no fear as he forced it back into the case. "You did very well, Cleo," Tom said pulling his daughter into a tight hug.

"Thank you, Dad," she said making him smile as it was the first time she had accepted their relationship to each other out loud.

When Sal came in next, he did not have to face the Boggart, rather he was told what their plan was with his Golem.  It involved someone taking it to the Longbottom Manor where his companion would put some Memory Charms on the people who had called themselves his family. Making them think that they had tried to make him improve his Magic by locking him out of the Manor, Sal knew it was not that big of a stretch as his "Gran" had done that before something he decided to keep from his father.

He was told that as his companion put on the charms he would be in charge of putting his Golem into a position that looked like it was huddled over for warmth. The Golem would only be dressed in normal casual clothes with no robe on making it seem that "Neville Longbottom" froze to death in the dead of winter. Knowing that this would not only lead to the Longbottoms being brought up on charges but according to his father and the others Dumbles had plans for either him or Damocles to stop Tom. It would put a hamper to the old bastard's plans as well.

Next up was Lilith who was accompanied by her father. After being told what was to be done and accepting the use of the Boggart, she braced herself to face her worst fear. As the case opened up a wave of darkness spread from it. Severus and Remus lifted their eyebrows at the cloud of Darkness as it shifted into a Spector that while resembling a Dementor was still vastly different than the dark creatures. Neither of them could place what it was until it reached out a hand and a scythe appeared in its hand. Severus saw his daughter gulp in fear yet made no move to run away from what they guessed was her version of Death. Severus was rather proud of his little girl seeing that the thing she feared the most was Death itself, yet was willing to face it head-on as her fear was fed into the Ginny Golem.

Once it had reached the proper level, Severus stepped forward to lead it away from her. As he steps before her the Boggart shifts, making him arch an eyebrow at the change to it as under the spells he had on him a Boggart had been his James and their friends, but now he was face to face with his drunken father who began to berate him and call him useless. Thanks to the change of the Boggart, he froze in place for a moment, wand held pointing uselessly down at the floor.  He stayed in place until he felt someone take his hand and saw it was Lilith, while Lupin placed a hand on his shoulder for support. With their help, he was able to force the creature back into the case before letting out a deep sigh and hugging his daughter tightly to himself.

Mor was the next one to face down the Boggart accompanied by his father. Just like when Cleo had faced the fear eater, they placed a Ward on his sibling bond to Damocles before the Boggart was brought out. As the case was opened and six large hairy legs came out of the case Mordred reached over and tightly grabbed Lucius's hand in a death grip. neither Lucius nor Remus was surprised at the form the Boggart took having been warned by Dexter that his former younger brother was deathly afraid of spiders due to a prank Fredrick and George had done to him in their youth.

Lucius could not be more proud of the boy, as his middle child was able to stand up to the giant spider with only some small support as he held Lucius's hand. It took all the strength Lord Malfoy had not to use the grip to pull his son behind him as the spider began to move towards them with ichor dripping from its fangs. Even though the Boggart was not meant for him, Lucius could not help but find the massive eight-legged creature rather intimidating thanks to a long-buried primal fear most humans had of such creatures. It was almost a relief when Remus gave him the signal saying they had passed over enough fear from the Mor for him to take over. Pulling his son behind him as he acted as a human Patronus for Mor.

Still holding onto his father's hand, Mor peeks around the man's form and is shocked to see that lying before them was the form of him, Draco, and Damocles lying dead in a pool of blood. Mor felt his father's hand tighten around his as he noticed the older male's legs begin to shake as if he was about to collapse. Lucius pulled out his wand silently casting the Boggart repealing spell and forcing it back into the briefcase before finally falling to his knees letting Mor see the first unintentional collapse of his father's pureblood mask-making.  Something which led Mor to respect the man even more.

As the youngest one, Damocles was the last to meet with the Boggart and since Lucius had been with Mordred, Narcissa was there to help give support to the youngest Malfoy. During the meeting to discuss this part of the plan, all the Adult Magicals had been able to sort of guess what each of the missing children's Boggart would turn into but not even Severus or the former older Weasley boys had been able to guess what it would be for Damocles. Fredrick and George would have thought it might have been "Voldemort" due to Dumbles, Molly, and Arthur's plans in his life but having met with Tom would have ended that.

As the case opened, Narcissa placed a hand on the back of her baby's shoulder as a form of support for whatever was coming. As the Boggart came out of the case, it began to stretch itself out until it became surprisingly two different things. The Boggart part on the left side took on the form of a large incredibly fat man, who based on his clothing was a Muggle while the other part of the Boggart had shifted into what looked like a simple small white door.

Narcissa felt Damocles' body tense up under her hand as the Boggart of the fat Muggle reached out and grabbed her son by his collar. "What freakiness have you done now boy? Dying your hair will earn you a month." At his words, the door opened revealing a small room with a slanted ceiling with a small mattress that looked like it belonged in a baby's crib. Though the Boggart did not have the strength to lift even a baby off the floor as it had also created the door it brought it in closer making Damocles shudder in fear.

Narcissa became aware her baby was softly muttering to himself, "No Uncle, not the cupboard." Narcissa became pissed they had plans for the Weasleys, Dumbles, and even the Longbottoms but they had forgotten to include the families where Damocles and Cleo had been forced to live with. Seeing this she decided she would take great pleasure in sicking her husband on the Muggles that had done this to her precious baby boy.

Knowing that her baby was the last to deal with the Boggart, as soon as she got the signal rather than force it back into its case she took out her wand and blasted the Boggart apart piece by piece until nothing was left but a memory. Letting her wand fall to the floor Narcissa scooped her son into her arms and began to rock him back and forth as she began to sing gently to him in what she knew was a baby's lullaby.

Hush little darling, calm all your tears.
Mama is with you to help face your fears.
The Monsters in Shadows, and Bullies in Light.
Will come no closer, so find Doki Doki delight.
Love will surround you, leading the way
With family and friends, beside you each day

Much to her delight, the song seemed to work to calm Damocles down who cuddled in her arms making her sad for the time she had been apart. She had already noticed that of all the stolen children. Damocles while being the one to accept them first, was also hiding some deep trouble in his young soul from the time he had been forced to live as Harry. She made a vow to herself that just like the song she had just sung to him she would do her best to protect her baby and make sure he found his Doki Doki or heartfelt delight come what may.

When the group gathers together for a late supper each of the children kept close to the parent who had been with them while facing the Boggart due to the bond that had developed between them for sharing their biggest fears. While Cleo and Sal's twin bond had been restored Narcissa after seeing Damocles's reaction to the Boggart did not unblock the bond between her kids not wanting Mor to get a taste of what his brother had gone through until her baby had calmed down. And as Damocles had barely spoken after meeting with the Boggart, though it happened hours ago, she did not see him becoming calm anytime soon.

During supper, Pomfrey explained that to make the plan of their deaths more believable the four who had faced the Boggarts would have to turn over their wands. This led to Damocles finally reacting as he asked why they needed the wand and not just use duplicates or something. "Well, for one thing, Damocles if we used fake wands someone like Dumbles would be able to know the difference. Secondly, we have found that all your wands have even more powerful than normal tracers on them so if you were to keep using them at Glorvantia people would know. And finally, one of the first things you will do when you actually start at Glorvantia is create a new wand yourself from scratch thanks to the Goblins wanting to make sure that no one had placed any enchantments on any Magical focusing item at their school without their knowledge," Pomfrey explained.

"We will also need to send all your trunks back to the school as well and have to put everything back as they were," Lucius stated.

"Though we have had some of the Goblins create a copy of the Invisibility Cloak so Severus and Lilith may keep it rather than leaving it in Dumbles's hands," Narcissa added.

The next day Pomfrey, Snape, and Tom went to collect Fredrick, George, and Dexter to get them back to the school as well as put their plan in place. As they were doing this Narcissa and Marcie Flint accompanied Sal to Longbottom Manor to set that part into motion. While they were gone Lucius, the remaining kids, and the Malfoy family House Elves began to create a special habitat for Betsy to use so that she would not accidentally kill anyone until they found a more permanent solution for her.

At around four in the afternoon, Tom returned placing Betsy into her new home before he went to join the others to share how it had all gone. "Well, we did it," Tom said slipping into the largest of the Malfoy family rooms smiling as Draco seemed to be losing to Mor in a game of Wizard Chess while Damocles lay on his eldest brother's back. His own kids had their heads bent together as Cleo tutored Sal in both Transfiguration and Potions while he helped her with Herbology.

"So how was it back at Hogwarts?" Lucius said putting aside some paperwork he had begun to go after the Dursleys.

"It was rather quiet," Tom said going to a free seat after he ruffled both his kids' hair. "As we started in Hospital Wing Severus sent Dobby with the older boys back to Gryffindor Tower with all your trunks," Tom said seeing the kids were now paying attention. "From what they said as they came back to wish me goodbye the Fat Lady was angry that they had all been gone for the last week or so leading Severus and Poppy to go up and cast some spells on her so she would not give away that they had been missing. It is only a good thing Minerva never visits the place like she is meant to."

"What do you mean?" Damocles asked, lifting his head from Draco's shoulder blades.

"A Head of House is meant to stop by at least once a week, even during holidays if students, are in the dorm to make sure they are alright and doing okay in classes," Tom explained.

"Anyway Poppy led me to a well-used corridor where she pulled out the Golems as I used my status as a Founder's Heir to call the Head House Elf, Bastilian. I instructed her that the House Elves were to leave this corridor alone until they were asked to clean it personally by Albus.  However, I left them the instruction that if no one had found the corridor within a week after classes started again, they were to report it to the Headmaster at once.  And during a staff meeting, so others would go with him to check it out. I then left Poppy to set up the space as I made my way to the entrance to Salazar's Chamber and collected Betsy. She was rather thankful to see me alive after all this time saying the one who had been speaking to her was making her go against her peaceful nature." From her spot on the floor beside the Malfoy brothers Lilith blushed a little.

Tom gave her an encouraging smile as he continued, "Having Betsy shift into a small form, I was able to slip her around my neck as I made my way back to Poppy who had almost everything finished," Tom said before he visibly gulped. "There is a reason, I fear that woman," he said with a shudder. "The corridor looked like it belonged in one of those gory haunted houses the Muggles seem to like during Halloween. She had used the blood you had given her to splash the walls making it very gruesome. It seems she made Harry stand in front as if defending the others so only his non-wand hand was left with the wand lying shattered nearby. Ron got off a little luckier with only a large bite taken out of his side, we had Betsy bite him so her venom would be within the Golem's body. The Hermione and Ginny Golems were mostly intact seeming as if they had looked into the face of the Monster. Though Poppy did make it look like the Ginny Golem had gotten sick for the front of her robes and around the edges of her mouth there appeared to be some vomit."

"That is enough Tom," Lucius said seeing Damocles look a little green at the description.

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Damocles and the younger children found that the start of term for Glorvantia started a few days after Hogwarts did, so they were all at Malfoy Manor when a huge edition of the Daily Prophet arrived at the breakfast table. Lucius arched an eyebrow at how large the paper was wondering why it was at least until he took a look at the front page and read the main headline out loud for the table to hear.

Disaster at Hogwarts.
by Vincent Cheswick

It is my sad duty to report that Harry Potter, The Boy Who Lived, with several other students have met their end at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. What remains of their bodies were found by Second Year Hufflepuff Ernest Leroy Macmillan, son of Lord Eustace Bagge Macmillan, and Lady Muriel White Macmillan nee Black. I will not reveal the full scene Heir Macmillan found, as seeing it has caused the boy to start to see a Mind Healer. But from what has been reported the corridor in which the bodies had been found was drenched in blood with two students having died in what appears to be fright, and a third having a large chunk of his upper torso in which some form of venom was detected. Of Harry Potter, I am sorry to report that all that was left was the bloodied stump of his left arm and his broken wand.

Wondering what could have killed four students within the Magical School, I began to ask around. After questioning several students and staff I learned that since Samhain of last year, the so-called Chamber of Secrets (for the legend of the Chamber and its relationship with Hogwarts' lore and History turn to page 5) had been opened leading to several other students to be attacked. While Harry and the others are the only ones who have died since the Chamber opened three other students, one Muggle feline, and even a Ghost have been attacked ending up petrified. Since all the students who have been petrified are both underage and Muggleborns we are unable to give their identities, that being said, the Ghost that was affected was the Gryffindor House Spirit, Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington aka Nearly Headless Nick. Though the Muggle students were just petrified their parents had been informed and there are talks of them seeking ways to sue the school.

How the news of these attacks had never been told about before makes me wonder what exactly is going on up at the school (for the School's reaction to the attacks turn to page 10. This would not be the only time in recent years where there has been trouble at the once-great institute. From my interviews with the students, I was informed that just last year the late Harry faced off against the former Muggle Studies Professor turned D.A.D.A. instructor, Quirinus Quinten Quirrell, in a hunt for the legendary Philosopher or Sorcerer's Stone.

The contest between the pair led to the disappearance and possible death of Lord Quirrell and young Harry ending up in a Magical Coma for five days. When I reached out to Master Nicolas Flamel about his stone the man was furious that such an event had happened saying he had left the stone with his old pupil to guard not to be used as an item in a "bloody treasure hunt" or one of Dumbledore's plans for the "Greater Good." Wondering about the "treasure hunt" I returned to talk to several members of the staff to find out that the stone had been protected by, as they were told, Challenges just to reach the stone. These included a two-year-old Cerberus, Devil's Snare, a troll, several enchanted items, a logic Potions puzzle, and another legendary item in the Mirror of Erised, property of the Peverell Line, to "protect" the stone. The Potion Master, one Severus Tobias Snape, scoffed at the idea of protection as he informed me that besides Harry, two other First-Years were able to get past all of the protections and reach the stone (for the full story of Harry trials reaching the stone turn to page 15.

The students who had died alongside Harry were Muggleborn, Hermione Jean Granger, as well as the two youngest of the Weasley children, Ronald Billius, and Ginevra Molly. The hearts and minds of this paper go out to their families. We asked our readers to leave the families in their grief. Though knowing that two of the students had older siblings at the school I did give them a small interview. This was done more to find out when the four students had gone missing as only the three older Weasleys and the four passed students were the only ones staying in the Gryffindor dorms. The eldest Weasley who was at school, a young Sixth-Year Prefect, Percy Diane Weasley, informed me that the four had been missing since the day of the Yule feast. He and his younger brothers had just thought that the four students were just leaving the dorm to work on something. The enchanted entrance to the Gryffindor Dorms shares this observation. Knowing what had happened during the last school year it may be that Harry and his friends might have tried to find out what had been going on around their school, to their misfortune. (Continues page 21.

As Lucius turned to page 21 to continue reading he found the article started up on the page opposite the Prophets Death Notices. "Ah Sal is listed as well," Lucius said as he started to read the notice.

Neville Frank Longbottom (Born 30, July 1980 died December 31, 1992)

The Dowager Longbottom and several members of the Longbottom clan were taken in for questioning during the celebration of the New Year where Heir Neville Longbottom was found dead from hypothermia, Under the first initial questioning it was revealed that Heir Longbottom was left out in the cold by his family to help improve his magic, in little more than a tee-shirt and light pants, it seems while he was out there Dowager Longbottom decided to imbibe a large amount of Firewiskey and forgot about her Grandson. He was only discovered when party-goers arrived for the annual Longbottom New Year Ball.

"Well it looks like they will get their just desserts," Sal said with a grin so much like his father that Lucius almost blanched as he returned to the main article.

Due to his place in our world, some Aurors were sent to let the family of Harry Potter know of his death. Through some favors I found myself tagging along as we arrived at a small two-story Muggle home in Little Whinging, England. As we approached the front door one of the inhabitants of the house came out to put out some milk bottles. Seeing us walk up the path to the house the skinny Muggle woman's face turned dark and ordered us to leave her property. Auror Kingsley Shacklebolt slowly moved forward with his hands raised asking for a chance to talk to her. The woman called for her husband and ran into the house. With a sign, the pair of Aurors walked to the door when Auror Hannity, who thanks to some creature blood in their family, detected the scent of old spilled Magical Blood.

Pushing his way into the home Auror Hannity moved to a small door underneath a stairway leading to the upper story. Ignoring the protesting Muggle family, Auror Hannity opened the door to find a small room where the scent of blood was emanating from. At first glance, it seemed like a normal room with a small comforter lying on the floor. Auror Hannity spotted a small scratched message above the door that denoted it as "Harry's Room.' Having Auror Shacklebolt cover the Muggles, Auror Hannity cast a detection spell on the room finding traces of Magical Blood that could only come from Harry Potter. Pulling out a standard-issue low-grade, and Muggle-approved, version of Veritaserum, Auror Hannity had the pair of Muggles drink it.

Under the Truth Potion, the Muggle family of the late Harry Potter revealed that due to their hatred of Magic, they tried to stop their nephew's magic from manifesting. All three of us were horrified for if they had succeeded they might have turned the Boy-Who-Lived into an Obscurus. As it was they had spent the last eight years, ever since Harry had first accessed his Magic at age four, torturing the boy for his talents and treating him worse than any House Elf. As Aurors Hannity and Shacklebolt took the pair of Muggles in for further questioning.  I could only wonder why Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, who was said to be the male's Magical Guardian, had always told us that he had been raised as a Princeling. As I was left alone to collect my thoughts, I started when I noticed a familiar face in the crowd that had gathered to watch the Muggles be taken in.

Noticing my gaze the person raised their eyebrows turned and walked away. Finding it strange to see someone from my youth, I followed the woman to a house a few blocks away to find a yard full of kneazles. Knocking at the door, I found Arabella Figg nee Schnee, of the Blackthorn Schnee line famous for the creation of Magical Portraits. Recalling from my youth that Arabella was classified as a Squib finding her in the Muggle town was not as much of a surprise as finding her living within a mile of Harry Potter.

Her face paled when I asked her about what she had seen the boy go through during his time with the Muggles. Telling me she had moved there on Headmaster Dumbledore's orders to keep an eye on but never interfere in the boy's life. When I shared with her Harry's recent death the woman collapsed into her chair before she pulled out a bulging notebook and directed me to read through it. Opening it up I began to read her notes that cataloged all the abuse Harry had suffered at his family's hands. As she shakily poured herself a cup of tea she informed me that since the abuse had begun she would contact the Headmaster at least once a month to get him to send the boy to a new home where according to her, the Headmaster would decline while he always state it was for the "Magical's world Greater Good."

I asked if she would allow me to take her notes so that I could share them with the Ministry only for her to tell me to use a summoning spell. After the spell was cast four full-to-bursting notebooks joined the first in my lap as she told me she hoped the Muggles would be thrown in a deep dark hole and forgotten. I thanked her as I used a weightless charm on the five notebooks before putting them in my bag before Apparating to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement at the Ministry. Using one of my contacts, I sent the notebooks to Aurors Hannity and Shacklebolt for their ongoing investigation into the Muggles. With the notebooks in hand and Harry's family having shared they had been paid to look after Harry from his own vaults by leave of Headmaster Dumbledore, the man was brought in for questioning, not only about what happened to Harry but the events that had happened at Hogwarts in recent years. (For transcripts of his first line of questioning turn to page 30.

Being on the scene when the Headmaster was brought in, I saw a very different man than was normally seen. Rather than his usual flamboyant robes Albus Dumbledore was dressed in just plain black robes and seemed to have grown countless years having heard of Harry's death as he willingly let himself be lead in for questioning. From one of my sources, Albus did not even wait to be asked any questions before he began to share information freely.

"Though I doubt he told them about the kidnappings," Narcissa said with a scoff.

"Hey at least he and the Dursleys were brought in," Damocles said unable to stop himself from smiling. He had been shocked to find that Mrs. Figg had been a Squib and had been both keeping an eye on him and trying to get him free of the Muggles.

"Cheers to that," Tom said lifting his morning cup of milk in a toast.

"If only we had got the Weasleys as well," Mor said.

"Don't worry son I think their truth will come out after the "accident" in Gringotts a the end of the school year," Lucius said patting his son's back.

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Narcissa lets her baby and Sal have their moments of happiness before she turns to glare at Remus, who as Lucius worked to get both Sirius and Bellatrix free was staying at Malfoy Manor just like Tom was. "Now can I ask you why Damocles had to go through facing off against the Bogart if his Golem was just going to be reduced to his left arm?" Narcissa growled at the werewolf who gulped and shrunk back. She was rather furious as she had been away from the manor when Tom had told everyone about the scene the Matron had created. While Tom and Poppy had been at Hogwarts setting everything up, Narcissa had checked out the family Cleo had been staying with. She had been surprised to find that, unlike the other families the kidnapped kids had gone to, the Grangers had adopted Cleo and showed her real love. Though it pained her not to inform them of the truth about Cleo, Narcissa did put in place a way to see how they took the news of their "daughter" dying.

"Don't ask me; Madam Pomfrey chose how each of the Golems would be placed," Remus said, getting out of his chair and placing Lucius between the pair of them.

"Oh but she is not here right now, and you are," Narcissa said slowly standing up and making the man flee from the room in fear causing them all to laugh a little. Narcissa would have headed after him only for an Owl dropped a letter on the table before her. Pausing her pursuit of the younger man, Narcissa quickly read the letter and found it was from the source that she had placed on the Grangers. "Well, it seems that after Mr. and Mrs. Granger were told about your "death" and are the ones taking the lead in suing Hogwarts," Narcissa said looking at Cleo who smiled at the news of what her "adopted" parents were doing for her.

The letter about the Grangers was not the only piece of mail that had arrived that morning as Lucius was called in for a meeting of the Hogwarts Governors. Lucius was surprised by how quickly the emergency meeting was to take place, as the Governors usually meet only once a month and would usually require almost a full week just to plan it around all ten member's schedules. Seeing it was a full-day meeting, Lucius kissed Narcissa farewell and ran his hands through the twins' hair as he left the room to go to the meeting.

"Ah, Lucius good you are the last to arrive," Drake Vansel, the leader of the Governors said as Lucius showed up at the unplottable building where the group meets. "Everyone take your seats we are about to begin." Lucius took his normal spot on the third seat from Drake as the meeting began. "Thank you all for coming on such short notice. As you all read the papers this morning, you can guess why I called this meeting. Albus had assured us he had this Monster of Slytherin issue under control and was close to finding it but with the deaths of the four students being added to the students who were petrified already, I think we have no choice but to close the school and send the students home. The three older Weasley children have already been sent home to mourn the loss of their younger siblings with their parents." Lucius had to stop himself from reacting to the news that Fredrick, George, and Dexter were back with the Weasleys.

"And what are we going to do about Albus?" He asked instead.

"What do you mean?" Dedalus Diggle asked as Lucius knew he would, being the Headmaster's pawn placed in the Governors.

"What I mean Lord Diggle, is that despite our esteemed Headmaster telling us that he had it all handled he has lost his Golden Boy along with several other students," Lucius said holding up a hand to prevent anyone from interrupting him. "I am not trying to speak ill of the dead, but while I like the rest of Magicals applaud him for stopping He-Who-Should-Not-Be-Named when he was younger, he was still just a child. A child who thanks to his fame and getting away with his adventures last school year might have been too overconfident leading to his own and the other children's deaths."

"Lord Malfoy does have a point, Lord Diggle," Lady Greengrass said. "If Albus had not let him get off without punishment for the event with the stone, this might have been avoided."

"Also we should discuss his partial favoritism to Harry," Muriel Prewett said causing Diggle to jerk his head to look at her.

"Grand Dame Prewett please explain," Drake said leaning forward.

"Well as Albus always told everyone he was Harry's Magical Guardian, yet he allowed those Muggles mistreatment of him, and by his confession never even visited the place after he left Harry to be raised by them," Muriel said using information both from the Ministry and having talked to Damocles about his previous life at the secondary Yule. "Yet when Harry was at school, apart from one event last year involving Harry and Miss Granger being up in the Astronomy Tower, Harry would only get points lost or one detention in punishment. This also includes the time at the start of this school year when he and my dear departed Great-Great-Nephew flew a flying car to Hogwarts being noticed by several Muggles. Both boys only received one detention for the event and were not even called to explain their actions at the Ministry. Albus used his position as Chief Warlock to push the entire event under the rug apart from a hearing with my Nephew-in-law Arthur, once it was discovered to be his car, yet Arthur did not get charged a single fine."

The other two Light Cored members of the Governors looked at her in shock as she broke down her arguments against the Headmaster, and even the Gray Cored looked a little shocked having never heard the Grand Dame of the group talk so much on any one subject before. "I call for a vote to expel Albus from his position of Headmaster," Muriel said tapping the floor before her with her staff of office, which like Lucius and the others resembled a walking stick where their wands were kept.

"Do we have a second?" Drake asked.

"I second the motion," Lucius and Lady Greengrass called out at once.

"Very well all those for removing Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore from his position of Headmaster please cast your votes," Drake said holding his own vote back in case he needed for the tiebreaker. Lucius, Muriel, as well as the other Dark Cored Magicals, and two of the Gray voted to remove Albus giving their side six out of ten votes.

"This is too close to call what say you Lord Vansel?" Diggle asked turning to the leader of the Governors.

"I must agree with, Grand Dame Prewett, that based on his actions both inside and outside the school Albus must be held accountable for his actions. So I see no choice but to cast my vote in ousting Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore from his position of Headmaster. Not that it really makes any difference, for I was informed yesterday night by Madam Bones that Albus has been arrested," Drake said shocking everyone present.

"Then why did you approve of a vote?" Diggle asked feeling rather slighted and worried for Albus.

"We can discuss that later, right now we need to discuss what to do about Hogwarts. A group of Aurors is being sent to the school, including a couple with Creature Blood to find traces of the Monster of Slytherin. We need to discuss, however, what we should do with the students. Some families have already pulled their kids out to transfer them to either Beauxbatons or Durmstrang, but surprisingly the Goblins have offered to let some students take some classes at Glorvantia," Drake said.

"Did they explain?" Lord Corner asked.

"They only said that they wished to have access to where the Monster is located," Drake said.

"Does that mean they know or have some records of what the Monster of Slytherin is?" Lucius asked.

"If they do they did not share it with me," Drake said with a shrug.

"I vote to agree to the Goblin's offer," Lucius said hoping that the others agreed for it would mean his boys would not be the only humans at the school.

"I second," Lord Corner chimed in not wanting to send his son out of the country for schooling while Hogwarts was closed.

"All in favor of sending as many students that the Goblins will accept to Glorvantia?" Drake said leading to all, but Diggle to agree to the Goblin's offer.

"Alright next order of business, is to decide once Hogwarts reopens who should be the new Headmaster/Mistress," Drake said moving to the next logical point.

"I would like to nominate Severus Snape," Diggle said shocking both Lucius and Muriel until they thought it was done under the belief that he was still under Albus' control.

"I disagree if any of the Heads of Houses that should be promoted to the Head's posting, it should be Minerva since she is already the Deputy Headmistress," Lady Macaroy put forth.

"Any other nominations?" Drake asked. When no one else brought up another person people began to vote on who they thought would be best to take over as the Head. Knowing that Severus wanted to get away from both Dumbles and the Weasleys, Lucius, Muriel, and the other Dark Cored Governors voted in favor of Minerva over Severus leaving Diggle as the only one who had voted for the Potions Master.

"Next before we end this special meeting, I need to bring up the Hogwarts' Groundskeeper and Keeper of Keys*," Drake said.

"Why?" Diggle, Lucius as well as Lady Greengrass.

"Well according to some old records, Hagrid was the one that had been behind the releasing of the Monster during his time at Hogwarts and has been taken to Azkaban," Drak said reading it from a note. "Now based on Hagrid's heritage he had been doing the job of three to four we have also had to talk to the Goblins to free up the funds for the additional hiring. We are still waiting for their response so for our normally scheduled meeting I would like to see if anyone has any suggestions for Hagrid's replacements. We shall vote on them depending on how many the Goblins say we have money for. I shall see you all on the week of the twentieth" Drake said hitting the floor before him with his staff of office ending the meeting.

Rather than stay around to talk to the other Governors like he normally would, Lucius Flooed back to the manor so they could try to figure out a way to rescue Fredrick, George, and Dexter before the Weasleys did something to them. He also had to share about the Goblins letting Hogwarts students come to Glorvantia as the school was shut down and Severus getting nominated but not being made into the next Head. While everyone was surprised by the second bit of information information, they all, kids included, tried to think of a way to get the three away from the Weasleys.

Remus and William wanted to storm the Burrow but despite how it looked.  Lucius was convinced that considering what the family had been up to their Wards would be overpowered. And if the group took too long to breach the Wards the Weasleys most likely would use the Floo to call for help possibly leading to the group ending up in Azkaban next to Dumbles and Hagrid. Narcissa wanted to give the Daily Prophet the results of the kids' test results showing that the Weasleys were not the trio's real parents, but that could also show that Damocles, Mor, Sal, Cleo, and Lilith were still alive thus letting Dumbles out unless they could prove he had been involved as well.

"What about a Will?" Damocles asked having been silent through most of the planning.

"What do you mean a will, honey?" Narcissa asked.

"Well, what if I went to the Goblins and made a Will that leaves the Potter family fortune to Ron and Hermione as they were my only friends or in case they die as well Ron's family? This would cause the Weasleys to go to the bank right Mommy," Damocles asked having started to refer to Narcissa as such after the meeting with the Boggart.

"That could work, but when would you have made it?" Lucius asked.

"Well the Dursleys never paid much attention to me, I could have done it over the summer after I nicked some pocket money to get to England since I thought I was going to die facing Uncle Tom last May, though I would call him Voldemort in the Will," Damocles said.

"That is usually not placed in a Will? Draco said offhandedly but not in a mean-spirited way.

"Yes but if I ramble in the Will like that, as well as not having any real knowledge of the Magical World it would make it seem more legit," Damocles shot back.

"Point," his older brother conceded.

"That might work especially as you make that the Goblins put a blood reading charm on the will so it could only be accessed by say Dexter and the twins since you knew them from school on the change that "Ron and Hermione" had died as well. Thinking that through their plans you had access to the Potter vaults I see the bastards leaping at a chance to get full access to them rather than the small amounts they had thus far collected," Tom said stroking his chin.

"Maybe send Chester or William over to let Dexter and the others know to bring whatever belongings they wish to keep," Remus said patting his son's back who nodded that he would be willing to send the message to the trio.

"Do you think they could collect some of our stuff as well?" Mor asked.

"What do you have there that you can't get here?" Draco asked in wonder.

"Well for one my, pet rat, even if it is worthless I don't want to leave him with them.  Also, I am sure due to "Harry" dying Hedwig was collected by the twins for safekeeping," Mor said a little stiffly.

"I am sure it could be arranged sweetie," Narcissa said trying to calm both of her hot-headed kids down.

"The rat might be easy to bring with them but Hedwig might be harder to get," Lucius said.

"Unless, after they are gone, either Chester or myself goes to get it," William offered.

"But wouldn't you be at the Will reading as well?" Damocles asked.

"Not unless you mentioned us and since you never meet Ron's eldest brothers there would be no reason to put us in the Will," William said.

"Okay then," Damocles said making Narcissa smile at her youngest who unlike his brothers never seemed to get too upset about anything, but she guessed it had to do with those Muggles he had been with showing him that being upset about anything would gain him nothing but more time in the cupboard.

Not wanting to seem too conspicuous by traveling in a full group, Damocles was only accompanied by Narcissa as he went to write the Will of Harry Potter. The Goblins would normally never allow this since he was not really a member of the Potter family or had any access to any of the accounts, but Severus also showed up and using his place as Lord of the House, by marriage created a small vault for Damocles which only had five Galleons in it thus making the Will true that he was giving the Weasleys all the money from his Potter Vault. It was actually scary after that as the two Goblins, the Potter and Malfoy account managers, burst out laughing something none of the three Magicals had ever seen before or wanted to see ever again.

The group of five spent the next hour and a half creating a Will that contained all the information that was needed, but also looked like it had been written in a hurry as if "Harry" was doing it so he could be back before the Dursleys noticed his absence. Satisfied with their results, the Goblins allowed Narcissa to place a Floo call back to the manor to let Chester know to pass along the message to his "brothers" before they finished the Will. This was only done since Harry was registered as Dead as soon as the document was filled a letter would be sent to the Burrow to let them know about it. Worried that the Weasleys might have recast the spells on the trio it was also decided that the Will would be read in a room on the other side of a hastily created Thieves Downfall thus getting ride of any recent spells and potions put on the three kidnaped children, as well as making sure Molly and Arthur did not send anyone else in their place under a Glamour or even an Animagus form just in case the pair were using Golems as they came along as an insect Animagus.

All that was left was waiting for the "family" to arrive for the meeting and whisk Fredrick, George and Dexter away as the Goblins took in Molly and Arthur for Goblin's justice. However, it seems that the Weasleys were a little more crafty than the group had given them credit for. While Fredrick, George, and Dexter had shown up it seems the Weasleys had sent Golems in their place which had stopped working as soon as the cart the group had been on passed under the Thieves Downfall. And while Molly and Arthur had not been there in an Animagus form, but to everyone's surprise Mordred's rat had been one for the cart pulled up a strange adult was riding along with the others.

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After Lucius had returned from the meeting with the Governors reporting Dumbles' arrest, as well as Minerva becoming the Headmistress, Severus, had gone to talk to her about leaving his job since by the terms his contract was over. She had been so in shock over the recent events she did not even ask him what he had planned to do as she mutely took his notice. Shortly afterward the Potion Master applied to Gringotts so  Lilith could join the others at Glorvantia. Thus he was with the group of Goblins who had been waiting for Fredrick, George, Dexter, and the Weasleys to arrive.

As the magic cart stopped at the landing, the group moved forward to find the Golems Molly and Arthur had sent in their place inert, but also another person in the cart with the three young Magicals. Severus recognized the newcomer right away, pulled out his wand, and bound Peter Pettigrew in magical ropes knowing if they could hand him over to the Ministry it would free Remus's husband and William's dad. Knowing that the man was considered to be dead, Severus talked the Goblins into giving the man a test to see if he had any connections to the Weasleys or if it had been just a random chance he had been living as Mor's rat. The results had been startling, to say the least when after the test came back it was revealed that Pettigrew was actually a fake name and his real name was Peter Ratigan Weasley, and was Arthur's half-brother. Mor was horrified that he had been sleeping with the man for a few years, ever since Dexter turned him over to him when he got his Owl.

If anything it got even worse when the man was given some Goblin-made Truth Potion where the man revealed that as "Ron" slept since he was all alone and would not be heard Peter had plans in the next couple of years to start playing with him as he slept. Lucius and Narcissa were beside themselves in anger and had to be stopped from killing the man right then and there.  They were only stopped by Tom and Severus so that Peter could be sent unharmed to the Ministry and get Sirius released. The only good thing was during the whole questioning of the man, all the kids had been out of the room so that Mor had not learned what had been in store for him.

A short time later William and Chester arrived with some startling news, having gone to the Burrow to get the items Fredrick, George, and Dexter had wanted to keep, as well as Hedwig. Having gone after the others had left for the bank when they got there the place was deserted, and not even a single Ward was left in place around the ramshackle house. Tom guessed that they might have overplayed their hand with the Will, which if it had been a real one the Weasleys would have been notified about it as soon as "Harry" had died not a week or so later.

Even going to the Magical neighbors of the Weasleys turned up nothing as the Diggorys and the Lovegoods had received no notice of the pair leaving the home. Marcie Flint thinking that maybe the pair while having backdoor access to multiple vaults had claimed property from one of the families and were hiding out in it also turned out to be a wild Niffler chase. Each family going through a check on their properties showing none being in use when they should not be. Not knowing what else to do and with the Goblins blocking access to all the Weasley family vaults, the group decided it was time to take it to the press.

A few days later the whole of Magical Britain was shocked as both the Prophet and the Quibbler posted the same sensational story of the Weasley family being at the center of a massive kidnapping plot. However, the real identities of the "Weasley children" were not given to protect them and their real families. Both papers wrote an alternate version of the events making it seem that it had been at the Will reading that the three school-aged kids were under Glamours and Blood Apportions after they had gone through a Thief's Downfall at the bank.

The news that Molly and Arthur had not been there and had not been seen since led to the largest manhunt that the country had seen in over three centuries. The papers were so focused on telling the tale of the Weasleys that it was hardly even a side note that Peter "Pettigrew" had been found alive and well and was being sent to Azkaban for being the one to betray the Potter. While Sirius Black was being freed from his false imprisonment and returned home, though they did write it was a little sad that it had been the man's Godson's death that finally set him free.

As soon as Sirius was released, Remus picked him up and took him to get cleansed by the Goblins. Sirius had at first been inconsolable for the death of his Godson until he had gone through his cleansing where his emotions turned to anger at what had been done to his family while he had been in Azkaban. Even meeting his real Godchild, Lilith, and his son William had not little to calm him down forcing Severus to magic almost two full Calming Potions into his stomach.

Damocles, Mor, and Cleo had not been involved that much with all this, since on the day the article about the Weasleys had been printed, the three of them began their classes at Glorvantia. While her father now worked at the bank as a Potions Master for one of the Curse Breaker teams, Lilith could also start but Severus had her miss the first day so she could meet her Godfather. When Damocles, Mor, and Cleo were brought in before Headmaster Shatterfang he began to tell them about the Magical School.

"Nov unlike Hogvarts viz ze four House system Glorvantia runs on a zre Clan dynamic. Ze Clans are Flame, Cave, and Lake. Zis has more to do viz the branch of Magic your talents lie," Shatterfang said as they met with him in a small classroom. "Messor Damocles due to your skill in Martial Magic, and Transfigurations it vould point to you being in ze Flame Clan vhich also includes the study of Runes and Varding. Vhile your brozer's skill in Charms, and some Herbology points to him being in the Cave Clan, vhich also includes Mineralogy and Magical Zoology. Ze Magical Zoology course is taught zrough correspondence lessons and interning on location razer zan doing on campus. Finally, Miss Riddle vhile you have some skill in Transfiguration as vell your skill in Potions mark you for the Lake Clan, zis clan also contains Healing, and Alchemy.

Also unlike Hogvarts vhat Clan, you are in does not dictate vho you haves classes vith or your sleeping arrangements. You might have noticed the scales in ze Entrance Hall hall above zese are not like ze Hourglasses zat keep track of points you earn, for ve do not have a point system, razer zey keep track of hov many of each Clan are taking classes out of ze full population. As one progresses in one's classes it is not uncommon zat zey can shift vich Clan zey belong to.

As I stated, ve do not follow a point system to spur our students onvard to greatness, no do ve believe actions show it best so ve only use a normal ranking system to shov vhere students hov zey are doing. Ve also only shov ze student zemself vhere they are in ze rankings but not vhere zeir classmates are on ze list. Zhough, ve do not care if you decided to share your rankings, but do not try to make someone vho does not vant to share lest you earn detention," Shatterfang said. "Zis school also relies heavily on physical and practical skills so zere is actually very little vritten assignments, outside of ze History class." Damocles and Mor shot a look at Cleo to see how she took the news that there was not going to be much actual writing for their classes. To their shock, she just nodded in acceptance of the changes, both for the moment forgetting that some of the arrogance she had shown as Hermione during class was down to some of the enchantments she had been under.

"Nov you also have ze option of Flooing from your homes razer zan stay in ze dorms, but ve ask zat if you do so you get here right after breakfast so zat you may start the day viz the rest of ze students here. Breakfast ends at 7:30 am on ze dot, by ze vay, and aftervards is ze time ze entire school has zeir physical fitness class. Zere are many activities zat one may choose from such as team sports or just running laps but it last until 8:15 no exceptions," the Goblin Headmaster said in a voice that said he had heard every excuse imaginable for why a student should not take part in such activates.

"Um, Headmaster Shatterfang, why is that so important?" Cleo asked.

"Vell Miss Riddle, besides ze fact zat Goblins believe a strong body is good for zem. Ve have found it has a bonus for Human Magicals as having a healthy and strong body also strengzens a Human's Magical Core," he answered getting a nod from the girl. "Starting tomorrov you vill be joining in viz ze rest of your new classmates, but today ve vill be vorking on creating your vands. Somezing zat may take all day long to do. I am also pleased to tell you zat you and Miss Prince-Potter vill not be ze only Humans at ze school. Not counting all ze students coming from Hogvarts, I mean. Miss Prince-Potter's fazer's new team has kids so vile he gets to knov zem, zeir children vill be attending class viz you. Zee are also tvins named Kim and Paris Janevay and are actually around your ages as vell."

When the Goblin Headmaster finished sharing this news he waved a hand, filling up all the other desks in the room with large boxes of items. "You vill now start to create your vand. As it is one of ze items vhich vill stay viz you vhile you are here, it vill be very personal to you all. One at a time I vill cast a spell to block out your vision and have you follov vhere your Magic leads you to select items vhich vill make up you vands," Shatterfang said as once more the group went from oldest to youngest. As Cleo was blinded by the Headmaster's spell Damocles and Mor were led by him into a corner to let the girl work.

Rather than have her stumble around the room and possibly run into things, Shatterfang had her sit at a desk and would levitate the boxes of items over to her, wherein she would reach out to see if they responded to her magic. In the end, Cleo ended up with four items that reacted to her and were put into a pouch at her side so that they would remain with her as Mor and Damocles were tested. During the selection of items for their new wands Mor and Damocles once more had their twin bond blocked so they would not interfere with each other's selections. Mor also had four items respond to him, but Damocles had a total of six items sing to him through his magic.

With each of the three having their collected items in a bag on their person, they were told to find some way to meditate to either clear or focus their mind for a while. Shatterfang then left the three in the room together alone to do as he requested. An hour later when someone came back into the room it was not their new Headmaster, but rather a Goblin in a set of red robes with a magnifying glass design looking over some gems over his left breast. "Greetings young ones, I am Master Slashvolt and I will be helping you create your wands today," the Goblin said and just as the trio had been taught they bowed low to the Goblin exposing their necks to him. "Now there is no call for that here, though thank you.  There is less formality here at Glorvantia than at Gringotts, you will also find that if you graduate from here the bow will no longer be needed as you will be seen as horary Goblins," Slashvolt said. "Now let's see what we have to work with here."

Taking over the large desk at the front of the small classroom, he had Cleo come forward and pull out the items from her bag. "Alright some wood from a Cedar tree meaning you are a very shrewd and calculating person," Slashvolt said making a mark on some parchment as he laid the wood gently before him. "As well as some Rowan meaning you have high morals very nice. Ah for a core your magic was pulled towards the remains of ancient Magical Papyrus meaning you love books and learning. And finally, for a focusing gem, you have some Lapis Lazuli showing me friendship is high on your list of priorities." Slashvolt said placing the blue crystal between the two blocks of wood alongside the jar of rainbow-colored dust that was the papyrus. The Goblin then waved his wand over the four items creating what looked like a see-through bubble muttering under his breath. As the three young Magicals watched the items begin to send or possibly receive sparks from the bubble, it was really hard to say which, as they were brought into further focus with each other.

After a few minutes where Slashvolt let the bubble work, he called Mor forward to hand over his items. "Let's see what you have young man, ah English Oak showing that you are extremely loyal to those you believe in, but if someone would break that trust your loyalty to them would break," the Goblin said taking the block of wood as it seems, unlike Cleo, Mor only had the one type of wood for his wand. "Oh, a duel core of a Phoenix feather and a Magically imbued chess piece. This speaks to both your inner light and sort of rebirth as well as a keen mind strategy. And lastly, we have a focusing gem of Azurite Azurite that shows that you are a person that has forgiveness in high regard."

"Wait so according to this I am loyal unless someone breaks my trust, but I will forgive them?" Mor asked.

"Well not as clear as that, you see. The items that make up your wand can tell a being a lot about themselves, but now if someone breaks your trust completely you will not waste time on them to forgive them. You will forgive a lot from people but not at your own expense or pain, maybe a friend who you have known for a long while you would forgive them if they ask for it if they have not broken your trust," Slashvolt said. Mor thought that made sense for even after everything he had been able to forgive Draco and his father for how they had treated him in the past. At the same time, if Molly or Arthur showed up and asked for forgiveness for taking him and the others, he would not hesitate to turn them in. As Mor was running this through his head Slashvolt had placed his wand components under their bubble charm.

With the other two done it was Damocles' turn who brought his bag up and started to pull everything out. Slashvolt whistled all six items were pulled out of the bag before he began to mark them all down. "Wow, a duel wood, core, and focusing gem you have quite a lot of power young man. Let's see some wood from a Hawthorn tree showing you are just as ready to heal as you are to attack. As well as the wood of the Beech tree meaning you have a very open mind. The feather of a dove and some Unicorn hair means that no matter what life can throw at you, you will remain pure and almost innocent," the Goblin said making Cleo and Mor smirk at him a little as he blushed. "And then we have your focusing gems with a Diamond for a strong connection to love and family. Finally, you have an Imperial Topaz which helps protect one from illness but also untimely death. This is all a remarkable set of items lad," Slashvolt said as he set up a multi-layered Bubble spell around Damocles' items to focus them more on bonding together.

As the wand elements rested beneath their Bubble spells, Slashvolt brought out some sandwiches and asked if they all preferred to keep using stick-formed wands or if they wished to have their wand in a different shape such as a staff or bracelet. As they munched on their food, feeling rather more hungry than they would have thought, the trio mulled over the question. After a while Cleo decided to just stick with a normal stick-type wand, while Mor wanted a bracelet so that he could cast spells by waving his own hands around, thinking it would make Draco a little jealous. Damocles rolled his eyes at his older twin brother before choosing a normal wand like Cleo.

For some reason, after eating their sandwiches the three had become rather sleepy as they cuddled up together while watching Slashvolt work on their wands and were soon asleep. Waking up sometime later the red-robed Goblin clapped his hands when he had finished with the last wand. "Oh sorry about that, guess I forgot to warn you that as your wands were forming the spell I placed on them was using your magic to better bond it to you. Thus with your magic feeding into your wands, it would of course make you sleepy, but the good news is they are done," Slashvolt said handing each of them a small box where their new wand sat on red velvet.

As each picked up their wands, they each let out a surprised gasp quickly followed by a sigh at how right the wand felt in their hands. Cleo's wand turned out to be almost thirteen inches long but not that flexible which the Goblin explained meant she was lively if not a bit dramatic but also had some issues with her adaptability. Mor's bracelet was a little thick almost like a sleeve cuff while being very light meaning he showed both more adaptability and dramatic flair than Cleo.

Damocles's wand was a good nine inches in length and rather springy showing that he was less dramatic than the others but had high adaptability to events that were taking place around him.  In Cleo and Damocles' box, there was also a wand holster that would be attached to their wand arm for easy access and control of their wands.  Once the holsters were placed on them. they were told they could go home with a reminder to show up before 7:30 the next morning.  Looking at the clock once they had left the room the three were surprised to find that it was already almost 5:35 PM for it had felt like they had been there, apart from their small nap, maybe only an hour or two.  Having been told they could use the Floo without issue, Mor directed the other two, since he had the most experience with Floo travel, back home to Malfoy Manor to rejoin their families.

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The next morning, Damocles, Mor, and Cleo arrived earlier than the prescribed 7:30 AM alongside Lilith and Tom Riddle who had a meeting with one of the Goblin Educational supervisors to discuss lesson plans for Sal as they traveled the world. Cleo also wanted to arrive early just in case they were meant to start their physical activities at 7:30 rather than just arrive for it.

As Headmaster Shatterfang arrived to lead Lilith away to give her the same speech as the others before she created her new wand, another Goblin arrived walking up to Damocles and the others. The newcomer greeted all three with the Goblin equivalent of a smile. "Welcome you three, I am pleased that you are early it will let us get some stuff out of the way so you will not have to be late for your first classes," the Goblin said holding out his hand to them. "Now with your new magic casting item created, you can officially be called students so I must ask you to present me your casting hand please."

The three Humans held out their hands which they used to cast spells as the Goblin took hold of Cleo's arm. "Do not be afraid I will just prick your finger with your badge. The badges will show everyone what Clan you belong to and will automatically attach themselves to your robes while you are here," the Goblin said as he gently pricked Cleo's pointer finger of her left hand with what looked like a label pin before attaching it to the collar of her robes. The pin changed shape to that of a single drop of water.

"As Headmaster Shatterfang told you yesterday, a student's Clan can actually change as they progress and your badge will keep track of that as well. As it will either fully shift to another clan or in some cases form a circle showing a mix of colors for the two clans that you belong to," he said indicating his own badge which, to Damocles, looked like the Muggle symbol for Yin-Yang, but rather than black and white it was red and brown. "Each clan has a rather obvious color with the Flame Clan being red, the Cave Clan being brown, and the Lake Clan being blue.

It could almost be considered a legend but there have also been students who Master all the Magic and skills to be considered part of all three Clans which give them a pure white badge, but such an event has not happened in the last four hundred and fifty years." The Goblin said pricking Mor's right pointer finger and placing his badge on his robe's collar which shifted to look like it was stone. "Now not only will these badges let everyone know what clan you belong to but there are actually several areas of Glorvantia that can only be accessed by a certain Clan.

I know you may not be staying at the school overnight but at least once a month there are also Clan Meetings where each member of the Clan is expected to be there whether they have anything to say during the meeting or not," the Goblin said moving on to Damocles and pricking his finger, which to his surprise he did not even feel, before placing the badge which had shifted into the form of a flame onto his robes.

"Now if you follow me I will lead you to the Physical Fitness Hall," the Goblin said as he turned on his heel and led the three down the Grand staircase.

"Um, Mister Goblin what is your name?" Cleo asked.

The Goblin hesitated, for just a moment, before responding, "You can call me Vincent."

"Pardon if this sounds rude, but that does not sound like any Goblin name I have ever heard of before," Damocles said in an apologetic tone afraid that he had just insulted their guide.

"It is alright young Human," Vincent said coming to the first basement landing and coming to a stop. "I take it you mostly have contact with my kind from the Bank where they all have names like Griphook, Bonecrusher, and Shatterfang?"

"That is correct," Damocles stated, recognizing all three names of Goblins he had come across since reentering the Magical World.

"Well in truth those are what we call the Goblin's Chosen Name. You see, unlike Human Magicals, Goblins usually have only two names. Now Vincent is my first or Public Name. My second name is my Clan name which unless one has formed a strong bond with a fellow and has undertaken a special ritual. it is rude to use in public. Now the Goblins at this school will always call you by your first name as it is our culture. But we will not hold you to our standards if you use each others' family names in public or those of the incoming students.  When one has reached adulthood as a Goblin, which means both finishing school and doing a term of service they are granted the right to select their Chosen Name, and most tend to go with names that are hard to forget like my father Griphook. I myself am in the middle of doing my service as a Guide to new students such as your selves." Vincent explained.

"You speak of service what exactly does that involve?" Cleo asked.

"Well as I stated I am a guide mostly due to being in both the Flame and Cave Clans," Vincent began.

"What does that have to do with anything?" Mor asked interrupting him.

"Unlike the Houses at Hogwarts where your House is really only important at the School, the Clans are all part of our culture. As most Goblins work for Gringotts the three Clans actually help point out their placement in the Bank itself. Those from Flame Clan tend to end up as the bank's guards and security forces, Lake Clan usually ends up as Healers, and Brewers and will work with Flame Clan to form our Curse Breaking Teams. As for the Cave Clan, they tend to work alongside your kind and other Magical Creatures whether it be a teller or account manager for the bank, but they will also take their place in the Governing Council of the Goblins under our King.

As I am both Flame and Cave Clan my service is not only to help guide students but also to act as part of the security forces that protect the school. As it was determined that the three of you were all parts of the different Clans it was actually decided that three of us who are doing service to the school at this moment would be your guides. The others will join us after the physical fitness rounds. Their Public Names are Douglas and Selina. Douglas is doing his service in the Medical ward and will be your guide young Cleo, Selina is a full-time guard and will be your guide Damocles while I will mostly work with you Mordred," Vincent stated placing a hand on Mor's shoulder before he started leading them to their destination again.

Arriving at the Physical Fitness Hall all three humans gasped for the place had been expanded by Magic so that it looked big enough that if measured it would be the size of an Olympic stadium. Their group had arrived before most of the students had finished eating for the place was rather empty with only a few Goblins here and there playing a mix of Muggle sports and activities Damocles did not recognize. "You can do any activity you wish while here, but you have until 7:35 to start an activity."

The group began to look around for something to do before stopping at a set of tennis courts. As it was an activity that Damocles knew and all four could play he asked the others if they wanted to play that. Mor having never played before decided to watch a short match.   Since it was still early Vincent allowed it, as Damocles and Cleo picked up some rackets and began a quick match. While familiar with the game from the Dursleys watching it, Damocles had never actually played it before leading to him losing to Cleo with only scoring a single point. By the time the quick game had ended more students had begun to trickle in including the other two Humans who were attending classes, The pair came over to introduce themselves revealing that like Cleo and Sal this pair of twins were fraternal with Kim having black hair neatly combed with similar-colored eyes while his brother Paris was a few inches taller than him with messy blonde hair and blue eyes. It also seemed that Kim was a member of the Lake Clan while Paris was part of the Flame Clan.

The new set of twins asked if Damocles and the others would like to play a doubles game. Thinking it would be alright and that as he and Cleo faced them Mor could work with Vincent to learn how to play the game since he did not want to leave his twin and friend. The doubles game was a more even match-up with Paris and Damocles seeming to have similar skills at the game while Kim and Cleo were at least halfway good at it. Damocles had a lot of trouble with his ball control as well as controlling the power of his hits sometimes never getting it over the net and at one point hitting it so high it went over the net, the rest of the court, and hit Mor on the back of his head the next court over. Damocles blushed and apologized to his twin as the others laughed a little. The group was having such a good time at the game they did not realize that the mandatory exercise period was over until Douglas and Selina came over to lead Cleo and Damocles to their first-class leaving the final score 30-15 in the Janeway twin's favor.

Before the group broke up, Damocles and Mor were given special cuffs that would dampen their Twin bond so that being able to sense each other would prevent them from communicating with Twin Telepathy during classes. It felt strange to Damocles to be separated from his twin and Cleo having attended the same classes with them since his start at magical school. "Now unlike Hogwarts, which according to my records you had to leave for some reason before the castle was closed," Celina said looking at a piece of parchment as she led Damocles to his first class. "Glorvantia classes work a little differently with having two main classes a day separated by a lunch period. Today you will have lessons in Martial Magic and Charms, If you had attended yesterday you would have had Potions and Transfigurations. Wednesday is set aside for both Herbology and Mineralogy. On Thursday will be your History class followed by your second lesson on Martial Magic. And on Friday you will be taking Transfiguration and a study hall to help work on homework."

"Why do I have two classes of Martial Magic and Transfiguration and only one of the others?" Damocles asked.

"Well as you are a member of the Fire Clan you will have more classes that fit with the Clan than not. In the future, if you decide to take Warding and Runes you could change your schedule to having three lessons a day if you are still a member of the Clan. Now while I am to guide you to your lessons just so you can familiarize yourself with the place I can not help you, and in fact, after I see you to class and it has begun I will be returning to my rounds until it is time to show you one of the lunchrooms," Selina stated.

"One of? How many lunchrooms are there? they are not separated by Clans are they?" Damocles asked worried about not seeing Mor and Cleo until it was time to go back to Malfoy Manor at the end of the day.

"There are maybe ten to fifteen lunchrooms, and while some are in Clan-controlled territory most of them are open to all," Selina answered as she led Damocles down to the fourth-floor basement and a classroom.

After the Physical Fitness Hall, Damocles expected a larger classroom like a lecture hall in a Muggle College, but the room looked just a bit bigger than a classroom at Hogwarts. The room already had some Goblin students inside at a single-person desk. "There are no assigned seats in classes and any books you need will be inside the desk," Selina whispered to him. Due to the height difference between Humans and Goblins, Damocles decided to take one of the desks in the back to not block anyone's view. Even though he had returned to his true age of eleven and was in the third-level Martial Magic class he was still the tallest student in the room. He saw some of his new classmates throwing him looks, which made him a little self-conscious of their expressions though it also allowed him to see their badges. It seemed that Headmaster Shatterfang had not lied when he said that Clans had no impact in actual classes as he noticed Goblins with both Cave and Lake mixed in with the larger number of Flame students.

"Oh great we get the Human not only in our Clan but in this class, he better not hold back the lessons," Damocles heard one of the Goblins say to another student in the row right in front of him.

"I don't plan on interfering with the class at all," Damocles said making the Goblin that had spoken start a little.

"You could understand me?" the Goblin asked giving him a look that was both startled and impressed.

"Of course I did you were not exactly whispering," Damocles said arching an eyebrow at him.

"It might be helpful to know Ralph that Young Damocles and his Twin both have a natural talent for All-Speech, so they can understand Gobbledegook," Selina said sounding as if she was about to start laughing.

"I apologize for my remarks," the Goblin known as Ralph said standing up from his seat and bowing low to Damocles exposing the back of his neck. All eyes turned towards them to see how Damocles would respond.

"It is quite alright," Damocles said "I have had harsher words and actions given to me than that." Yet Ralph stays in his bowed position making Damocles look towards Selina for help.

"He will remain like that until you touch his neck with your bare flesh to approve his apology, place your weapon/magical caster on it to show you did not or the Professor shows up and begins the class. If you wait until then the pair of you will fall in social ranking, though, so you better decide quickly," Selina whispered to him holding back a small grin. As Damocles had been honest in his earlier statement about not taking offense he placed his hand on the back of Ralph's neck for a moment and when his hand was moved away Ralph stood back up giving him a nod as he resumed his seat. "Nicely handled Damocles, not only forgiving him but showing you had not lied about it," Selina said.

"How would anyone know if I had done so?" Damocles asked back in a whisper.

"Your badge would flash signifying you were doing it for some other reason than actual forgiveness which means you might have been looking to form an alliance or repay a debt," Selina said just as an older Goblin entered and made their way to the front of the room. Damocles assumed that this was the instructor not only for their age but the fact that they were not wearing a Clan badge.

"Good morning class," the older Goblin said in a voice that allowed Damocles to see it was a female.

"Good Morning Second Marshal," his fellow students called out, standing from their desk and bowing at her. After a moment Damocles followed suit earning him a smile from the Second Marshal.

"Alright I hope you have read your text for today we will be starting on Stunning Magic in its various forms," the Second Marshal stated as she lifted her arm letting Damocles see a Magic focusing Cuff just like Mor had selected rather than use his wand. As all the student Goblins followed suit Damocles saw that the majority of his new classmates also had Cuffs, though a few had a wand-like and a pair seemed to have their Magical focusing item in the shape of a type of weapon. "Now repeat after me Paralytico Saleto," she instructed as the class parroted the spell back at her while she tilted her head. "Grace put some more emphasis on Para. Jordan it is Saleto not Seleko. Everyone else, nicely done. Now on to the movements," she stated as she waved the hand with her Cuff on it in a circle two times before she quickly jabbed out with her arm. She did the move again with the spell causing a sort of yellow-green light to shoot out of the Cuff before she began to walk among them watching as they performed the movement of the spell helping out if needed.

Damocles experienced some small bit of vindictive pleasure when the Second Marshal directed Ralph in his movements while she just gave an approving nod to him as he did it for her. After she gave her approval to all the students' movements, everyone stood from their seats and approached a cordoned-off area where she summoned some Golems for everyone to practice the spell on. "Now remember this spell only paralyzes a single part of the body so depending on what you are going for it is best to aim for your opponent's legs or casting hand," Second Marshal said as she had everyone try out the spell. Damocles expected the Golems would be moving targets, but what he had not expected was as soon as a student was in the practice area the Golems would charge them as if to attack with what looked like a Magic Casting item in their grip. Damocles watched as most of the Goblins seemed to aim their spell at one of the legs causing the Golem to trip, yet if it did not "knock them out" the Golem would shoot sparks at the caster. Some would cast it at the arm holding the casting tool but then the Golem would just continue with its charge and attack physically at close range.

When it was Damocles's turn, he took a steadying breath as he stepped into the position gripping his wand. As the Golem rushed him rather than aim at either of its legs or the arm that held the casting tool he aimed and cast his spell on the opposite arm just as it was furthest away from the body, having noticed that as the Golems ran they had all swung their arms a little. There were some snickers from the other students as his spell hit his target but he kept focus smiling as he saw he had been correct. While the swing of the arms was not much his spell hitting the joint of the arm when it was at its furthest from the body in the backswing caused the Golem to turn around a little so that Damocles second spell at the joint of the Golem's knee caused it to fall forward but at an angle which did not give it a shot at him. The snickering stopped at once seeing him take down the Golem with two spells. "That was some good timing Damocles," the Second Marshal stated.

"Thank you, Second Marshal," he said with a bow of his head, as he had seen other students who had been complimented do.

"But he cast the spell more than once," someone shot out.

"I am sorry if I did it wrong, but I don't recall saying we only could cast the spell just one time," Damocles said looking at the instructor of the class.

"I did not, and while it is not always the best idea to cast too many spells at an opponent lest you tire yourself out, sometimes it is better than the alternative," Second Marshal stated. The Goblins who followed Damocles also did a multi-spell casting though they tended to do weapon arm followed by the Golem's feet which sometimes led to the Goblin getting head-butted by the Golem.

After everyone had a chance to practice the spell for a bit the class moved on to the next spell under the classification of Stunning Magic, so that by the time the class ended, nearly two and a half hours later, they had worked on not only Paralytico Saleto, but also on Stupify, the Full-Body Bind Charm, and a spell known as Dispro which caused a person's joints to lock up making it harder for them to move. In the last half hour of the class, all the students were allowed to practice any spells they had done that day on the Golems in their own small area so that by the end of the class, Damocles enjoyed it so much better than the ones back at Hogwarts under Quirrell and Lockhart. He also saw that while this class was the only one that put him above the normal year he had at Hogwarts, he was not the worst in the class, but somewhere in the upper ranking in the class.

Selina did show up, as she promised, to show him to one of the lunchrooms telling him on the way there that if he ever got lost or in need of finding say the nearest restroom and no Wardens, what she called the Goblins doing their service at the school, were around all he had to do was press his badge and say bathroom and it would direct him to the nearest one by flashing. She even gave him a quick example on the way there letting him see that the badge would flash faster when he was aimed towards the room he was looking for.

Damocles smiled as he saw not only his twin and cousin but Kim and Paris in the room as he joined them at their table. Kim and Paris explained how meals were done at the school as they picked up menus that were before each place at the table. As they did so the menus began to fill up with recommended healthy choices of food on one side, and deserts on the other. Paris showed how to place an order as he tapped on the menu and selected a bowl of hot tomato soup, some garlic breadsticks, some plain water, and a small cake for dessert. Looking down at his own menu Damocles decided to order the soup but had it accompanied by some grilled cheese and grape juice and without the cake.

As the group ate, Damocles learned that Mor's first class had been in Charms which he said was similarly done to Hogwarts apart from the length of the lesson. While Cleo told of her time in Potions it made the Malfoy twins smile for it seemed, at least, in her class each student not only got a book where the potion they were to work on was written, but also a personal board in their brewing station which told the best ways to prepare their ingredients. She even said it came with step-by-step ways on what to do with the ingredients but also showed the steps in diagrams. Kim revealed that his class that morning was Charms as well, but at a different level from Mor so they were not in the same class, and Paris had Martial Magic also at a different level since he had not been in with Damocles. After the lunch hour was finished, Damocles said goodbye to everyone as he followed Selina up to the second-floor basement for his Second-level Charms class seeing if it was just like Mor said and taught exactly like it was at Hogwarts.

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Damocles, Mor, Cleo, and Lilith soon found acceptance in the school, with only one slight issue when Cleo learned due to her talents Lilith was a member of both Lake and Cave Clans. However, this only led to some playful teasing from the older girl rather than the reaction "Hermione" would have given due to the enchantments she had been under. Their group had also grown to include the Janeway twins since apart from their classes at higher levels, the pair shared their lessons with Damocles and Mor.

Damocles had also been delighted to find out that he shared classes with all his friends, both old and new, all day Wednesday due to none of them had higher levels in the two Earth Study classes. It was due to this that Damocles and Mor learned that Cleo's talent in Herbology had come from Sal tutoring her when they were at Hogwarts, for she should have been in just the first-year class due to her age. Damocles had even been approached by Ralph who had asked, after seeing Damocles's talent in their class, if they could practice together. Selina had whispered to Damocles that this was another way the older Goblin was making up for his rude comments on the first day. Damocles had agreed and surprisingly had some fun with Ralph and a few of the Goblin's friends/allies, Damocles was not sure, as the pair worked on various spells together under Selina's watchful eye.

Damocles had even attended a small Flame Clan meeting, not the mandatory one just a side one to see what went on during it. Though he was sworn to secrecy from revealing what had taken place not only to his friends but to family as well. He could talk to Paris Janway about it since they were both in the Flame Clan. Though no one could take his twin and Cleo's place in his life due to similar ages and Clans, Damocles shared all but his Martial Magic lesson with Paris. At the end of his first week, Paris had told him that he had no issue with Damocles learning his full name, though pointing out to keep just using Paris during classes due to Goblin Culture.

Damocles also began to notice some changes to his former friends, and now current family, with their enchantments gone. Sometimes Mor would stay late to work in the library after their lessons were done for the day something that seemed more in line with Cleo's former nature. Currently, though Cleo would arrive earlier than the twins so she could try out different physical activities seemed to choose a different one to do each morning before joining the others for their tennis game. That suited Damocles and the others quite well for she was by far the best at tennis which the rest of them had kept with after the first day. Damocles was getting better at controlling the ball at least keeping it inside his own court rather than smashing it into the ones the others were playing at. Granted he and the others still could not beat Kim Janway, who had also given them his full name, but they were getting there.

On the Friday at the end of their first week at Glorvantia, their four Goblin guides had informed them that while they were not required to come in on the weekends, due to having no classes during that time, they were still welcome to come by the school. Damocles had to hide a laugh as Mor headed to the school to do some work in the library while Cleo went to spend some more time in the Physical Fitness Hall. When Damocles asked her about it she revealed that from information from her father and Luna Lovegood, who was also a Seer, it was even more important to her to have the benefits to her Core through fitness than it was to the others due to her Visions.

After talking to Selina to find out if it was permitted, Damocles brought Draco, Fredrick, George, and Dexter to the school during the weekend to give them a tour. All four of them would be joining the group of Hogwarts students coming to the Goblin school shortly. During the tour, he gave them a quick rundown of some rules and procedures at the school such as making sure to only use a person's first name during classes no matter their relationship with them. He could not tell them about any specific Clan based items about the school for as far as he knew the coming Hogwarts students would not be placed into Clans while they attended classes. Seline, who was accompanying them on the tour could not even tell any of them if they were required to come for the physical fitness classes early in the morning, though if they were not she did not think it was a problem if they showed up at it anyway. When they got to the Physical Fitness Hall, Damocles saw even his older brother was impressed by the size and various activities within.

Deciding to take a break from the tour Damocles leads the group to the tennis courts, in the hope of challenging his older brother to a game and beating him at something for once other than Quidditch. He was not even shocked to find Kim and Cleo in the middle of a game as Paris sat to the side reading what looked like an old mystery novel. Seeing Damocles's group arrive, Paris marked his place in his book and came over. "Oh thank Merlin, you are here those two have been locked in a game all morning. I have never seen Kim take it so seriously, he said it was only going to be a quick one before he headed up to the Music Hall to practice his clarinet," Paris said to his new friend only to blush when he saw the group of older humans behind him. "Sorry about that, nice to meet you I am Paris," the blonde boy said holding out his hand as Damocles introduced the others to him.

"Come on it can't be that bad their games are usually over before classes start," Damocles said gently patting the slightly taller boy's back.

"Well, it seems they were both holding back when we were involved.  Please say you will join me in asking to step in so their set will end?" Paris asked with an almost plea in his voice.

"Will it be alright?" Damocles asked Draco and the others.

"Sure thing bro I have wanted to see how well you play. Um, Miss Selina, I know we are not students but if it is allowed can we play or use the equipment ourselves?" Draco asked

"There is no rule against it that I am aware of," Selina said catching both Paris and Damocles's eyes who knew that thanks to her position as one of the school's guards, she was required to know most rules by heart. With a nod of thanks, Fredrick and George had moved off to the area where some brooms were set aside to go flying. Selina soon followed them as they began getting frustrated when the brooms had not taken off, informing the older twins that the brooms they had chosen were for the activity of curling before leading them to the flying area. Draco and Dexter had not headed out for another activity but had taken Paris' place in the small stands to watch. Before breaking into Cleo and Kim's game Paris and Damocles had a single match themselves for a warm-up.

Draco had to smile seeing how much fun his baby brother was having as he played the game thinking maybe he could talk to their parents to create a court for him at the manor. It might also give their family something to bond over with that was not dealing with the search for the Weasleys as Damocles and Mor taught them the game. To Draco, it looked simple enough but he could not figure out the point system at all with Paris calling out stuff like love, fifteen, thirty, forty as he tossed the ball into the air. Dexter for his part knew a little about the game thanks to Arthur's love of Muggle things so was able to just focus on the warm-up game itself.

After finishing their warm-up, Damocles and Paris waited until the next serve in Kim and Cleo's game before asking if they wanted to make it a doubles match. To Paris's delight, his brother agreed meaning he could get out of here soon. Since they had worked out a system in the mornings due to the skill level of Cleo and Kim compared to the others everyone switched who their partners were. So as Draco and Dexter watched Damocles joined Kim while the other boy became Cleo's partner. Even Draco could see the difference in skill between Damocles, and Paris against Cleo and Kim due to the amount of confidence in their hits to the ball, as well as control of the said ball.

When the match ended though he was not sure who had won, Draco pulled his brother into a hug offering congratulations on the game. "I did not win Draco," Damocles informed him rolling his eyes a little at his brother's reaction to his match.

"So what?  You looked like you were having fun, and that is what matters," Draco said.

"Your Clanmate is correct Damocles," Selina said, "now if you wanted to pay attention to the points, I do know that sometimes tournaments are scheduled throughout the year." As she said this Paris, face-palmed before sending a hopeful look at his younger twin brother hoping Kim had not heard the news. Damocles could only chuckle seeing Paris had not gotten his wish as both Cleo and Kim's faces lit up at the talk of a tournament.

"What to join us on our tour I don't think your brother will be leaving here anytime soon?" Damocles asked his friend.

"Oh Merlin, please and thank you," Paris said picking up his book as he left a note for his brother before joining the others.

Damocles was thankful for Paris joining them on the tour due to the golden-haired male had been at the school longer and knew more paths through the place showing off rooms Damocles had never seen before. Damocles and the others had been surprised as they were shown rooms dedicated to music, dancing, and art which were not part of the curriculum at the school. Paris informed them that the rooms usually opened after the classes ended for the day as a way for students to relax as he showed them a room dedicated to free-form writing. "I can usually be found here myself while Kim is practicing with his clarinet before either our Mom or Dad shows up to take us home," Paris shared.

"You write?" Damocles having not known that about his new friend.

"I dabble," Paris said blushing a little.

"I would love to see your work," Damocles said.

"Maybe later," Paris said blushing as red as Fredrick and George's hair.

"Okay," Damocles said taking Paris' hand and starting to swing it as they continued their tour missing the arch eyebrow from his older brother at their interaction.

During lunch in one of Glorvantia's numerous lunchrooms, the group was joined by Cleo, Mor, and Kim. Damocles was even able to meet Paris and Kim's parents as they stopped by to eat as well finding out that their mom was a nice woman with her auburn hair in a bun on her head with smiling eyes despite her very business-like nature who introduced herself as Kathrine. Their father was a tall man with a skin tone that marked him as having either Latin or Native American roots with a small tattoo on the left side of his face with bright green eyes and introduced himself as Chakotay.

During the meal, Selina once more informed them that she was not sure if the same method of dining would happen once the Hogwarts students arrived on Monday for classes. Damocles and the other new students of the Goblin school gave a start not realizing the Hogwarts students would be arriving so soon. Having spent a lot of time with her Damocles could see that Selina was not happy about the Hogwarts students coming to the school, but he knew by now that Goblin culture would prevent her from sharing it lest she offends Dexter, Draco, or the oldest set of twins.

Damocles soon saw what she was worried about come Monday morning as he noticed that the members of the school's guard had been conscripted to direct the visiting students to their destination. Damocles, who had become used to the less crowded halls at Glorvantia compared to Hogwarts, over the last week soon began to agree with her. It was as if some great damn had broken at the Hogwarts students' arrival as the corridors had become rather crowded and several classrooms had to be expanded to suit the influx of students.

It was not until he had shown up at his first class, Potions, that Damocles saw that like the students at Glorvantai, the visitors all wore badges, but rather than be Clan badges they wore ones in the shape of the Hogwarts school crest. Thinking he would talk to Draco or one of the others to see if the Hogwarts badges also had a search function. Looking over at Lilith to see how she felt in seeing her old classmates again she just gave a small shrug as they took out their supplies for the lesson. The Hogwarts students gave a small chuckle as Damocles, Lilith, Mor, Kim, and Paris joined the Goblins in standing to greet the Potions Master as he walked into the room but they just ignored it.

Damocles and Mor were happy to see that Cleo's discussion about the class had been correct having found their work was better than normal, even with the numerous students crowding the classroom, with the info boards, as Cleo had dubbed them, helping them out. In fact, apart from Kim and Paris, all the humans in that class had sent the boards a glad look as they worked on their potions finding them more useful than Severus had been as a teacher under the spells Dumbles and the Weasels had put him under.

Damocles and Mor meet their own old classmates after class when they went to lunch, which thankfully had not changed in how one ordered food. Though they did not really interact with any of the few they knew well, having lunch with Draco and his friends to see how they were getting on with the place so far. As the group of Slytherins had had Charms before lunch they had not really had much to say due to Flitwick having taught his classes like he had been taught when he had been at Glorvantai. Draco even beamed with pride as he informed his younger brothers that due to them telling him about the class, he had gained some respect from the instructor when he stood to greet them as she walked in.

After lunch, Damocles really noticed the change to the classroom as he headed to his second-level Transfiguration class for the first time he had classes with his old classmates since last year. Also due to it being one of his secondary Clan classes*, he was not joined by either Cleo or Mor. Damocles spotted several students he knew such as Dean Thomas, Seamus Finnigan, the Patil twins, Micheal Corner, Crabbe, Goyle, and a few students he knew by sight but not by name seated around the room, usually with members of their Hogwarts House. Not sure if he wanted to sit by his old Housemates lest he reveal who he had been Damocles took a seat by Draco's friends giving both hulking boys a small nod which they returned. As Master Bonecrusher entered the room the Goblin students and Damocles got out of their seats, but unlike other classes where they would call out a greeting to the teacher, they all sunk to a knee to the Goblin Prince raising many eyebrows from the Hogwarts students.

The Hogwarts students, apart from those allied with Damocles's family, had also freaked out a little as Prince Bonecrusher pulled out his magical focusing item due to it being a large broad ax. Several Hogwarts students who had decided to sit in the front row, blocking the sight of the board of the Goblins behind them, nearly fell out of their chairs as Prince Bonecrusher pulled out the ax to start the lesson. Having gotten used to numerous Goblins especially if they were members of his Clan to choose weapon forms as their magical focusing item Damocles had rolled his eyes and joined in with several of the Goblins who let out a quick snicker before Prince Bonecrusher's hand called the class to attention for their lesson.

Before the lesson was to begin, Damocles had noticed that numerous Hogwarts students had shown signs of arrogance to the Goblins in the class, seeming to think that they would be able to outperform them in the lesson. But as Prince Bonecrusher began to instruct them in the day's lesson which was transfiguring small creatures like rats into items. The Patil twins let out a gasp as Prince Bonecrusher first demonstrated the spell it looked like he was about to cut off the rat's head with his ax only for it to stop a distance above the rat as the spell changed the creature into a water goblet. The Hogwarts students once more showed looks of arrogance which Damolcles had put down to Professor McGonagall having taught a similar spell to them before Hogwarts had closed. This only grew as the class was told to stand up and practice the spell as Bonecrusher looked over their movements and listened to their pronunciation of the spell. Damocles had learned himself that was a bad attitude to have, as Bonecrusher put most of the Hogwarts students to tasks at their movement which had become sloppy in their arrogance and would weaken the power of the spell.

At least as the lesson progressed many of the Hogwarts students had lost their attitudes as they were shown multiple spells to perform the same purpose as the one Professor McGonagall had taught them. After class, Damocles had been able to learn that of the students from Hogwarts only Dean Thomas was staying overnight, due to how out of the way it was for his Mom to come to pick him up and drop him off each day from where they lived, though Damocles had overheard him tell Seamus that he was allowed to go home on the weekends. As Damocles met up with his older brothers and Cleo to head back to Malfoy Manor he once more had to deal with the overflow of students from Hogwarts as the normal maybe two-minute wait to use the Floo had taken nearly forty-five minutes making him glad that the others had let him go first due to his dislike of crowds. Letting him breathe a sigh of relief as he returned home and got a hug from his Mom and Dad.

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As Tom's daughter and the rest of the children returned for their second day of classes at Glorvantia since the Hogwarts Students started, he and Narcissa were heading to St. Mungos. Ever since "Neville Longbottom" died, Tom had been trying to get into seeing Alice and Frank Longbottom and find out if they had been part in taking his son. Having been told that his Bella had been sent to Azkaban for her part in attacking the Longbottoms and putting them into St. Mungos's Janus Thickey Ward, something that did not sound like his wife at all.

Thanks to Galas Parkinson working in the Magical Law offices, their group was able to slip in some real blood and other needed samples from Sal so that they could be submitted so no one knew "Neville's" corpse was, in fact, a Golem. Having found out that Sal had been forced to go through a Blood Adoption after he was taken they had tried to find out if the potion for the adoption had come from Frank, Alice, or one of "Neville's" family now in custody. Unfortunately, Galas could not give a reason to run a check on the Lognbottoms in custody to see if they were the ones to supply the supplies for the Blood Adoption. Tom hoped that if they could prove Frank or Alice had not been responsible for the blood, their allies could get a confession out of Dowager Longbottom or one of the others.

It had taken almost a full month before Tom and Narcissa had been able to get even a meeting with Lester Clayborn, the current head of St. Mungos, and Rustoffo Seamus the Ward's Healer in Charge. It had taken another week for the pair to agree to let them have access to Frank and Alice which had only really been successful when Galas had come to say it was needed due to "Neville's" death. Leaving Sal at Malfoy Manor Tom and Narcissa left for St. Mungos to collect some samples from Frank and Alice. Met at their Floo by Galas and Healer Seamus, the group headed up to the fourth floor where the Janus Thickey Ward was located.

After Healer Seamus unlocked the door to the Ward, he introduced them to Miriam Strout the Healer who was manning the Ward at the moment. "Hello my dears, I have heard the unhappy news that has brought you here today," Healer Strout said her face falling as she shook Tom, Narcissa, and Galas's hands. "Now due to their mental state, Frank or Alice might try to fight you off as you collect your samples, Healer Malfoy so I will be helping you so they will see a familiar face," Healer Strout said before her face fell and tears began to fall from her eyes.

"Are you alright Healer Strout?" Narcissa asked placing a comforting arm on the other woman's arm.

"I know he is not my child but I have (sniff) watched Neville grow up as he was (sniff) brought in to see his parents. I... I just can't believe the poor boy is dead. If only I had noticed the signs of his family's abuse of him," Healer Strout said opening crying now as Tom seeing that she did care for his son wanted to pull her into a tight hug but did not want to overstep himself. He did offer her a small prayer of thanks to Lady Magic for her kind heart as they all gave Healer Strout some time to collect herself.

Once the kind-hearted Matronly Healer had calmed down she led the group over to the part of the Ward in which Frank and Alice had occupied for the last ten years give or take a few months. "Hello, Alice," Healer Strout said in her kind voice her eyes still glistening in unfallen tears. "Mr. Riddle, Healer Malfoy, and Mrs. Parkinson have come to see you and Frank today to do some simple test." Healer Strout gently took the arm of a woman who Tom would never have guessed was an old friend of James and Severus if not for the healer naming her.

Gone were Alice's bouncy brown locks that looked like they were made of spun silk over her green eyes filled with gentle humor and intelligence. In their place, Alice's hair looked like dried twigs sticking out at odd angles which seemed so brittle that they would crumble into dust if anything touched them, while her eyes still green reminded him of a window that was both fogged over and covered in cobwebs. As Healer Strout held Alice gently in a seat Narcissa pulled out her wand to painlessly take some blood from the woman for them to test later.

Before the wand could touch Alice's arm, however, the doors to the Ward burst open with such force they banged off the walls and caused several of the Ward's residents to start yelling and freaking out. Healer Seamus looked furious as a man in lilac robes strutted into the Wards as if he was walking on a catwalk as a man in a black robe and a hat pulled down low obstructing his eyes followed at his heels. "Now see here what do you think you are doing?" Healer Seamus asked in a harsh yet quiet voice lest he upset any more of his patients.

"Hello there," the man in the lilac-colored robe said smiling at him and showing a mouth full of shiny white teeth.

"What are you doing here?" Rustoffo asked again through gritted teeth as Narcissa and Healer Strout tried to calm the residence down.

"Hello, my dear man, you know me of course. Gilderoy Lockhart, winner of Witch Weekly Most Charming Smile Awards multiple times, and Champion against everything Dark," Gilderoy said smiling at Rustoffo again.

"What do you want Mr. Lockhart?" Rustoffo asked rubbing the bridge of his nose in exasperation.

"Well as you have also most likely heard, recently our world has lost young Harry Potter and Hogwarts has closed down. I had been at the castle at the time of his death but had been unable to save him. I thought I would travel around the country to remind everyone that while the Boy-Who-Lived is gone, there are still those who fight for all that is good and just in our world," Lockhart said in a smooth voice he seemed like a snake oil salesman that Damocles had called him.

"While that is a noble goal, this is a restricted Ward," Rustoffo said making as if to grab the man's arm and lead him out of the Ward.

"Ah, since I am here anyway I might as well meet my public," Lockhart said easily slipping out of Rustoffo's grip and moving further into the room.

"These people are not your public, they are my patients now kindly get out before I call security," Rustoffo said.

"You can call security all you want, my dear man," Lockhart said flashing his teeth again, "but I was permitted by Lester Clayborn himself.  That gives me full access to the place so I can help lift everyone's spirits." At his words, the man who had been following him pulled a document out of his robes and passed it over to Healer Seamus.  Rustoffo took a moment to read the document before he crumpled it into his fist.

"That utter moron," Rustoffo said with a grimace. "Fine Mr. Lockhart, you can stay and chat with everyone for now, but I am going to see Clayborn about this at once. Healer Strout, please do your best to keep everyone calm. Mr. Riddle Mrs. Parkinson, your business will have to wait until I get back." Rustoffo then left the Ward and placed a strong locking charm on the door to prevent anyone from leaving.  Including Lockhart, his bodyguard, as well as Tom and his party.

Lockhart did not seem to mind as he started to go up to all the inhabitants of the hall and began to speak to them in a highly pompous yet kind voice. Tom while he did not trust the man from the stories he had heard about him from the returned kids, had to admit that the man seemed to be able to charm many of the residents who called the Ward home. As Lockhart shook the hand of a woman whose entire head was that of a bulldog chatting with her about random stuff he had done, Tom's nose picked up a scent he recognized causing him to tense up.

While not having the same senses for potions that Severus had as a Potions Master due to the life he had led, Tom had a nose for poison and he smelled one now. He shifted his eyes to the locked Healers' section on the Ward to see if a resident had somehow gotten into it and was mixing healing potions but found the door closed. Lockhart had his hands full shaking hands with everyone so unless he used some sort of magic to open up some poison he had brought with him into the room it could not be him, Tom knew it would not be from any member of his party so he shifted to Healer Strout who was working to calm one of the residences down who had not stopped screaming at the top of their lungs since Lockhart had crashed his way into the Ward. That left the man who arrived with Lockhart, who Tom suddenly saw was no longer near the fool. In fact, Tom did not see him anywhere in the common area of the ward. Seeing the curtains that blocked the Longbottoms' area from the rest of the ward Tom tilted his head to look past them to see the man holding Frank Longbottom's head in one hand as he tried to force a bottle to the man's lips.

Fearing this was the poison he was smelling, he nudged Narcissa with his elbow and nodded to the curtains mouthing the words, "catch the bottle." Getting a nod in return the pair moved into a better position their wands out but tucked into their sleeves. Once he was sure Naricass was in a good position to get the bottle of possible poison, Tom lifted his arm and cast a stunner at the man. As the man was blasted into the wall behind him causing the residents to start freaking out again, Narcissa was thankfully able to catch the bottle and keep most of the liquid inside of it.

"What the?" Healer Strout asked having heard the man's body hit the wall and coming over to see what had happened.

"Why did you attack my bodyguard?   Not that I need him, but still," Lockhart asked at the same time.

"Narcissa can you tell me what is in that bottle?" Tom asked turning to Narcissa rather than respond to either question.

"Just a moment Tom," Narcissa stated as she used her want to cast a spell on the liquid in the bottle to determine what it was. "Dear Merlin and Morgan," she said her face going utterly pale.

"What is it?' Healer Strout asked before casting her own spell. "How the hell did that get through our Protection Wards?"

"What is it?" Lockhart asked looking at the bottle but having no talent to check out the contents of it.

"It is a potion known as Death's Kiss," Narcissa said.

"Kay," Lockhart said sounding confused as Tom gasped.

"It is one of the most deadly poisons in the world," Tom explained to the idiot. "A single drop if added to a water supply could kill everyone on this island and still be potent enough to kill the rest of Europe. The brewing of this poison was outlawed nearly three centuries ago and all books that showed how to make it, as well as all that existed at the time, were thought to be destroyed, but evidently not."

"Why do you have it then?" Lockhart asked looking at Narcissa.

"I took it off him," she said pointing to the unknown man lying stunned crumbled on the ground after smashing into the wall. "He had been trying to get Frank to drink it." Healer Strout and Lockhart gasped.

"Those assholes," Lockhart said, surprising everyone as he went over and harshly kicked the stunned man. "How dare you use me like this," he said about to deliver another kick before Narcissa used her magic to pull him away from the man. Even though the man had tried to kill someone, Narcissa healed the large bruise from Lockhart's kick so that the man would be in perfect health when they questioned him about why he had tried to poison Frank.

"Who is he?" Tom asked Lockhart who was so angry at getting used he was actually snarling and shaking so much that a wig had started to slip off the man's head. Tom took in a familiar shade of red hair under the blonde wig.

"It was my older sister's idea, she thought I should do a goodwill tour of St. Mungos and bring her husband along for protection," Lockhart said.

"I was unaware you had a sibling, you never mention them in your book," Healer Strout said in a confused voice.

With a deep sigh and a sinking of his shoulders, Lockhart looked at the Healer. "When I first tried to publish my stories every publisher I went to turned me down not wanting to deal with me due to my family's status as Blood Traitor. So I decided to use a different name and wear a wig to hide who I really am," he said pulling off the wig. "I was born the youngest of four kids my elder twin brothers died mysteriously, though I think my older sister, who was the middle child did it to become the leader of our house."

"What is your original name?" Tom asked finding the story rather familiar.

"My real name is Percival Gilderoy Prewett," Lockhart said making Narcissa, Tom, and Galas share a look. Narcissa stopped her healing spells on the stunned man and quickly cast one that would remove a Glamor or revert a person to their normal form as well as ripping the hat off the man's head. As her spells took effect it looked like the man's skin and hair began to melt for a moment before the face of Arthur Weasley returned. Healer Strout gave a small gasp to find one of the most wanted men in Great Britain lying there stunned in the middle of her workplace.

Galas wasted no time in using magic to put some bindings on the man before turning to Gilderoy. "As soon as Healer Seamus comes back and lets us out again, I am going to need you to accompany me back to the Ministry for questioning," Galas said her hand still clutching her wand in case she needed to bind the youngest Prewett as well.

"I quite understand," Gilderoy said having lost his former pompous attitude. "Though I must state I have no idea where my older sister is. I had just received instructions to meet Arthur at a public place before we came here."

"Be that as it may, I still need you to come," Galas said as Gilderoy gave a slight nod of understanding. Even though Arthur had been captured and they had saved Frank Longbottom from the man meaning more than likely Frank and Alice were not allies of the group who had stolen the children all those years ago, Tom and Narcissa still collected some blood and hair from the Longbottoms before they left to report the good news to their allies.

One of the lunchrooms at Glorvantia

Damocles stopped eating as he and his friends began to notice Cleo's head roll a little. Paris reached forward to touch her to make sure she was okay. Damocles having seen his friend and cousin do this before quickly grabbed his arm. "Don't touch her, Paris, she is having a vision," he said.

"A vision?' Paris asked.

"Cleo has the gift of a Seer," Draco explained.

"Red Knight down, Black Queen approaching," Cleo mumbled to herself before her head stopped rolling and shot up with tears falling from her eyes.

"Are you alright Cleo? Do you need to go home to Sal?" Mor asked seeing her come out of her vision.

"I am alright," she said lifting one of her hands and using the sleeve of her robe to wipe the tears away.

"Alright, Cleo, you are crying," Kim pointed out.

"In my vision, I saw the capture of the criminal Arthur Weasley, but also my mother coming home soon," Cleo said shocking all the humans eating their lunches around her

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Ministry of Magic

While Galas Parkinson was responsible for bringing Arthur Weasely in, she forced herself to follow the proper procedures by turning him over to a pair of other agents. Explaining to them that as her eldest son had been one of the children taken by the Weasley and Dumbledore, she had to maintain some distance so they would not have to let the red-headed bastard go on a technicality. Before the pair of Law officers went in to see Arthur, she shared the identities of the other children that had been taken by the man's group. While she did mention Damocles, Mor, Lilith, and Cleo she made no mention of who the Weasleys had turned them into before they had been found. Agents Tuvix and Carey nodded in thanks as they jotted down the names of the children who had been kidnapped by Arthur and his wife in case they needed to use them against the man later. As Tuvix and Carey went to see Arthur a third agent, a man by the name of Doctor, headed in to talk with Gilderory Percival Prewett.

"Hello Arthur," Agent Carey said as he entered the interrogation room and took the single seat across the table from the redhead who was bound to his seat while Tuvix landed against the wall near the door without saying a word.

"Hey, Joe, how's the wife?" Arthur asked as if the pair had come across each other in the Ministry's corridors and not in an interrogation room.

"Wondering like many of us, about why you and Molly did all this," Carey said.

"Did what?" Arthur asked.

"How about we go with the kidnapping, and whatever you were planning to do with the Longbottoms and work from there?" Tuvix asked in his deep voice.

"And why should I tell you that? What good will it do me at all?" Arthur asked leaning back into his seat as much as he could while bound.

"How about you not spending the remainder of your pitiful life in the deepest darkest hole of Azkaban or Nurmengard?" Tuvix said.

"What else you got?" the red-headed bastard asked.

"Come now Arthur, be reasonable, just tell us what we want to know," Carey said.

"Look this good cop bad cop routine is not going to work on me," Arthur said.

"Who said anything about us doing that?" Carey asked but Arthur just raised an eyebrow at him in response. "Fine, Tuvix leave us for a moment please." Tuvix shot a look at his partner before he shrugged his broad shoulders and left the room. Joe Carey locked, Warded, and put a soundproofing charm on the door as soon as it was shut. "I don't know what happened Arthur but unless it was something drastic.\, I can't see you doing this unless you were enchanted somehow," Carey said to his old dormmate.

"If that is what you want to think," Arthur said.

"That is what I hoped is the case, but I will not work solely on that hypothesis," Carey said. "That is why before we came in here Agent Tuvix and I got permission from Amelia and Scrimgeour to have a Truth Charm be placed on your bonds after a while. Tuvix just left to activate the spell. So tell me Arthur why did you and Molly kidnap all those kids?"

"FUCK YOU, BASTARD," Arthur said as he thought against the Truth spell.

"Language Arthur," Carey said with a slight smirk before prompting, " the kids?"

"It is due to Molly's parents," Arthur said through gritted teeth.

"Your mother and father-in-law made you kidnap kids?" Carey asked.

"When Molly and I got together, my father celebrated our relationship, but Molly's folks did not for she had a Marriage Contract with Antonio Parkinson. They tried to talk her out of it and when she refused to honor the contract and be bound to that Dark Bastard, her folks used the Prewett Family magic to punish her. While they did not remove her from the Prewett family magic or line, the punishment they gave her was a lot worse by making her unable to have kids," Arthur said. Carey's mouth fell open in shock and a growing understanding of why the couple did what they did.

"Why did you not just adopt a kid then?" Carey asked.

As if," Arthur said with a scoff. "Her folks punished her for following her heart and not an archaic contract with an evil magical. Molly was determined to show that she and I could raise a kid right. So as soon as the man her family wanted to marry had a child with another evil magic user, we took the child in and decided to raise it right. We made sure the boy was loved and even corrected its core so it would not grow up to be evil like its birth parents."

"Well, that explains why you took Chester Parkinson but why the others as well?" Carey asked.

"We saved one kid from its evil course, yet her parents did not remove her curse, so we decided to prove we could handle more kids. We saved those kids as we only targeted the evil magical with Dark Cores always changing them to have Light Cores." Arthur said still looking as if he was trying to prevent what he was saying from leaving his mouth.

"And Molly's nephews, Fredrick and George?" Carey prompted.

"Taking in those brats had less to do with the core of their parents. It was more down to the unnaturalness of Molly's brothers married to the same woman to produce a child. A Marriage is only proper between a male and woman and only if at least one of them has a Light Core. That person male or female is of course the one to lead the relationship for a Gray or Dark Cored Magical is a little more than a savage," Arthur explained.

Carey could not believe his old friend and classmate was so bigoted but did not say anything as the redhead continued. "It is the same with the girl we rescued from the Flints, thinking she is a male what nonsense.  We were too soft on her and the other kids to make them think that her mental illness should be allowed." Carey had to grit his teeth and harshing grab his knee under the table to prevent himself from attacking the bound man and hearing the man talk. While Carey was not a close ally to some of the families who had kids that had been recovered from the Weasley's kidnapping, his wife was the teammate of Marcie Flint on the Holly Head Harpies so had been invited to the party to welcome back her new sone Dexter. At the party, Marcia and Douglas had shown off some old baby pictures of the twins showing that Dexter had been born a female but considered himself a guy, at least based on the picture showing the baby in a green baby blanket, the color the Magical World associated with female babies.

"So your nephews were not placed in your care due to your brothers-in-law's deaths?" Carey asked just to clarify.

"Hades, no. We saved them along with the others and killed Molly's freakish brothers," Arthur answered.

"What about Cynthia McDonald?" Carey asked about Fredrick and Geroge's mother.

"With Albus's help, we erased her entire memory and placed a Magic Dampening cuff on her cutting her off from accessing magic before placing her in some random Muggle hospital," the redhead bragged.

"Is she still there?" Carey inquired.

"Hades if I know. We did not keep track of her after dumping the bitch," the man said with a small sneer.

Carey decided to leave the room at that moment to pass on what he had learned so far from Arthur. Tuvix did not reenter the room to maintain the illusion that he was casting the truth spell on Arthur's chains outside. "So did you get anything?" Tuvix asked while Galas waited nearby.

"Arthur said that Molly, Dumbledore, and he erased Cynthia's memory and blocked her from accessing her magic before leaving her in a Muggle hospital," Carey shared taking a cup of coffee from his partner and taking a long drink from it.

"We'll start to look into it," Tuvix promised.

"Good," Carey said, "any news from the Doctor dealing with Gilderoy?"

"Unfortunately it seems that Molly did something to prevent the Blood Trace from finding her," Galas said going over the notes the balding agent had passed to her a short while ago.

"Why did we not use the Blood Trace on Fredrick and George to find her earlier?" Carey asked who had never really used Blood Traces that much.

"Well, since the twins are her nephews, even if she Blood adopted them, they do not have a close enough connection to her to get an accurate reading, Yet from what Gilderoy had shared at St. Mungos about him being her younger brother it should have normally worked," Galas explained. "It seems that they were prepared for Gilderoy to turn on them and a Blood Trace being used. Or for all, we know they did it as soon as they went on the run."

"Shall I shift to ask where Molly and he went?" Carey asked.

"I think that can wait for later, you should focus on how he got his hands on some Death's Kiss and why he was targeting the Longbottoms," Galas said for she doubted Molly would still be wherever Arthur and she had been now that he had been captured even if news of the redhead's capture had not yet been released.

Heading back to the interrogation room with his unfinished coffee, Carey once again locked, Warded, and put the soundproof charm in place. "Hello again Artie," he said just to rile the redhead up recalling that the man hated to be called that while they had been at Hogwarts. "Hope you enjoyed your small break. Since we covered why you had "rescued" the kids you had taken how about you tell me why you tried to poison Frank Longbottom?"

"I will not," Arthur said as sweat began to pour down the sides of his face as he tried to prevent the truth spell from making him spill his guts.

"Come now, Artie, we know what is going to happen why not just get it over with," Carey said taking an overly nonchalant sip of his coffee.

"Mn-Mn," Arthur muttered as he bit his bottom lip and shook his head in denial.

"Why did you try to poison Frank and possibly Alice?" Carey prompted.

With a growl Arthur found himself explaining why to the law agent. "After Molly and I had gone on the run, she recalled reading the death notice of the Longbottom brat. She was worried that when someone did the autopsy of the brat they would find out that he was not a Longbottom at all but another kid we rescued. But having too many kids by this point we handed him off to the Longbottom."

"So you were getting rid of your co-conspirators?" Carey asked.

"No, we were getting rid of the weak links. We offered the brat to them having heard Frank was having trouble getting Alice pregnant, even though they had gone to see a Muggle specialist who said Frank had a low sperm count. But the cowards refused the brat and even threatened to turn us in. We had no choice we hit them with the Cruciatus Curse until they lost their minds. Molly then gathered some of their blood so she could perform a Blood Adoption on the brat. We shared the story that we had arrived too late to save them but drove off their attackers to protect their son. As the brat was so young everyone, even Alice and Frank's family thought that he had not yet been introduced before the attack. Augusta gladly took the brat in, though under some direction from Albus, we told her that the attack had somewhat damaged the brat's core and he would need a firm hand for the boy to access magic properly," Arthur explained.

Carey was horrified by what he had heard even more so when Arthur had told of Molly's punishment from her parents. No matter how much a sob story Arthur or Molly told the pair were destined for Azkaban for using one of the Unforgivable Curses on others. "So then Bellatrix, Rudolphus, Rabastan Lestrange, and Bartemius Crouch Junior had been innocent?" he asked.

"Hardly they all had Dark Cores so were evil as could be," Arthur said.

"But you and Molly were the ones that performed the Cruciatus on Frank and Alice, not them," Carey said trying to keep the edge from his voice as the hand holding the coffee cup began to shake in his anger.

"Fine, yes they were innocent in that regard, but guilty nonetheless," the redhead responded. Carey could not take it anyone and once more had to leave the room not only to report this latest bit of news but also to calm down a little.

"So Crouch's son was telling the truth during their sentencing about them being innocent," Galas said holding her breath hoping this bit of news would allow Bella to become free of Azkaban so she could get Cleansed and be reunited with her husband, Cleo, and Salzar.

"It seems like it," Carey said. "Unless Arthur figured out we were tricking him with the story about the truth charm on his cuffs so that his mind would undergo the placebo effect and cause him to tell the truth."

"We will just have to confirm it later with some Veritaserum," Tuvix said.

"We should do that as soon as possible, I would hate to think that we sent even more innocent people to Azkaban like what happened to Sirius Black," Galas said.

"Especially since Crouch's son died in the prison," Tuvix said having served as a human guard for a stint before his current post in the law enforcement department.

"Ouch. You are correct, we need to verify that he is telling the truth before the others possibly die as well," Carey said writing up a form to ask permission to give their prisoner some Veritaserum or other Truth Potion to make sure he was telling the truth.

Glorvantia

Damocles had to stay late to attend the mandatory Flame Clan meeting so was eating supper with Paris before the meeting started. Damocles found that there was a wider selection of food during supper than there was offered at lunch as well as breakfast. Not only that the room was a little fuller than he was used to leading him to barely speak as he found himself sitting across the table from Dean Thomas and Seamus, who Dean had talked into staying the night. Not wishing to say something and have his two old dorm mates possibly recognize his voice Damocles focused on his meal. This led to him listening to the pair's conversation. It seems that since they had attended the Goblin Magical School for a couple of days now, rather than discussing how it was different from Hogwarts, the pair was talking about the Weasleys.

"You don't think Ron and Ginny had also been kidnapped from their real families as well?" Dean asked Seamus as he ate a medium-well steak.

"No way, didn't you ever notice that besides Ron's rat, the pair had nicer belongings compared to the twins and Percy?" Seamus asked.

"No, I did not. Though with Ginny being the only girl in the family it makes sense that she would have newer items," Dean said. Damocles bites his tongue to not respond to the pair's conversation.

"Maybe besides kidnapping Mr. and Mrs. Weasley had been stealing money from someone or were splurging on Ron and Ginny due to their friendship with Harry," Seamus suggested.

"Yeah, that makes sense who knows what sort of other crimes they did," Dean said nodding along with his friend. "If they were kidnapped, I hope their real families are doing alright since Ron and Ginny were killed by Slytherin's Monster."

Damocles could not take it anymore as he took his half-full plate to the disposal. He hated having to waste food but the conversation he had listened to from his old dorm mates made him lose his appetite thinking of what would have happened if Mor, Lillith, Cleo, and he had died thanks to Betsy before finding out the truth. Damocles after dealing with his plate, headed to the Flame Clan meeting room and was surprised that he was not the first one there. Nodding in greeting to several of his fellow Clan members, Damocles went to a corner and tried to meditate like Mistress Waystar of the Healing department, who was one of the Flame Clan advisors, had led them through during the last meeting he had attended. Yet before he could work his mind into the proper state, Paris showed up and asked why he had left supper so suddenly. Though he hated to lie to his new friend and Clan member, Damocles said that his nerves about his first official meeting had gotten to him and he had lost his appetite. Paris seemed to accept the lie having noticed that Damocles had barely talked during the meal.

The meeting turned out to be very similar to the non-mandatory meeting Damocles had attended the week before. It started with some meditation before doing some simple target practice for some possible increase in Clan's standing. After the target practice, the current leader of the Flame Clan at Glorvantia moved forward to give some announcements. Besides thanking the members of the Clan who were serving as the school's guards regarding the increase of students from Hogwarts, Clan Master Sudor informed everyone that a tournament would be held over the next month for Martial Magic for each year for any who wished to participate.

As Martial Magic was one of the primary subjects for members of the Clan most participants would be from them, though students from the other Clans and even Hogwarts students would be allowed to take part in it as well if they so wished. Clan Master Sudor explained to the First-Year Clan members, as well as Damocles and Paris, that the tournament would be a way to drastically increase their standing within the Clan for their year. "Would I face first years or third years?" Damocles asked since he was technically a First Year student but due to his level of magic attending Third Year Martial Magic lessons.

"A person's opponent in the tournament is based on the lessons they attend, so you would face Third Years," Sudor answered.

After the discussion on the upcoming tournament, Clan Master Sudor talked about upcoming opportunities for apprenticeships for Clan members at Gringotts Bank, the Goblin Royal Household, and even some new openings at the school for new guards. There were some shocked mutterings as he shared that some human Magicals were open to taking up some Flame Clan members who leaned more towards Transfiguration than Martial Magic as well. Sudor then opened the meeting up to bidding on the postings with some of the older Goblin students getting pretty heated in their bids to gain the spot with the human Transfiguration Masters.

After the bidding came to an end, Sudor moved on to the last bit of business for the meeting as he informed everyone that the Board had agreed to send a member of each Clan to Hogwarts to look over the contents of the so-called Chamber of Secrets. There was some grumbling as Sudor revealed that anyone who had won an earlier bid was not eligible to be selected to be chosen. Damocles received some dark looks as Sudor explained that Mor, Cleo, Lilith, and Damocles had been permitted to go with the team already. Since only the governing board and allies knew who Damocles and the others had been as well as why they were getting granted this privilege many were wondering how they rated such special treatment.

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Many in the Flame Clan could not help but wonder why the four humans had been granted the special privilege to join the team heading to Hogwarts to look for the Chamber of Secrets. None of the Goblins asked Damocles due to their culture which prized not only strength but also privacy. Even if they could go against Goblin's cultural norms since Damocles was a human, they would have been disappointed since Damocles had learned about him, his twin brother, and two friends/cousins being sent to Hogwarts during the Clan meeting himself. Only Paris was able to ask Damocles what was going on and found out that this was the first his new friend had heard about him going to Hogwarts.

"You know I am sort of jealous," Paris said after Damocles explained he had been blindsided.

"Why?" Damocles asked.

"Well, Mum and Dad traveled a lot with their job as Curse Breakers, so Kim and I have always studied at Goblin-run schools. I have always wondered about the classes at Hogwarts and the other Human control institutions," Paris explained.

"There was less material being taught," Damocles said without thinking.

"That's right, your older brother went to Hogwarts before it closed down," Paris said thankfully misunderstanding Damocles's statement as something Draco had told him rather than a personal account.

"Um, yeah, he told Mor and me that they had somewhere between four to five classes a day rather than just two. So they learned only one type of spell for each action. Like they just had Wingardrum Leviosa, not Sprinvalasa, Flosaya, or Areona Geki," Damocles said using the spells they had just gone over in their last Charms Lessons. "Draco also had to stay at the castle except for the summer and two holiday breaks. Both of which annoyed him and my dad."

"Why?" Paris asked.

"The former Headmaster who got arrested did not call the holidays breaks after their Magical days but the Muggle ones. So rather than Hogwarts calling it the Yule break it was called Christmas," he said.

"You know that is a little messed up," Paris said knowing of the Muggle holiday due to his dad being a Muggleborn and knowing for any student of history that using Christmas rather than Yule was a kick in the face to all Magical families. Christmas was a holiday for the group who had led the witch hunts when Hogwarts had been founded. "I am surprised the school Governors or by-laws allowed the man to do that," Paris said.

It was Damocle's turn to ask, "Why?"

"Well from what I know about Hogwarts, it was founded around the time of the Witch Hunts you would think the Founders would have had an issue with celebrating a holiday from the group who were hunting them at the time. Even if they had Muggleborn, or from what Mistress Chornas said in one of her lessons last year, Untouched you would think that if they celebrated the holiday before coming to Hogwarts and learning they could do magic, they would not want to do it after going to that castle."

"It could have just been Dumble's idea he, um according to my dad and older brother, wanted to bring the Muggle and Magical World closer together, and he did have a lot of power. Dad said he even convinced the Wizengamont to outlaw several old rituals that would strengthen the nation's magic before he got arrested and people started to fix the mess he had made."

"He would have had to have a lot of power to not only promote those holidays and to get people to vote against things that would make them stronger. Either that or the Wizengamot in this country is filled with morons. Um... except for your dad of course," Paris said blushing a little.

"My dad is not perfect, just like everyone else," Damocles said thinking of meeting the man before finding out who he really was and how his dad had been almost fooled by the shopkeeper of Borgan and Burks, not to mention how the Weasleys and Dumbles had stolen him and Mor from them. However, in that case, it had been just his dad against multiple attackers, one of which had cast a spell at him from behind. Damocles' mum had not been able to help for when Molly and Arthur had attacked his dad to kidnap him and Mor she had been busy as Lily and Dumbles came in to cast the memory charm on her to make her think Mor and he had died during childbirth.*1

Damocles learned that Cleo, Mor, and Lilith had also not been told they would be returning to Hogwarts with the group of Goblins. All three of them were floored when he asked them about it when he got back to the Manor. This leads them to ask their parents if this was part of the plan. "We were going to tell you," Tom said. "I guess it was brought up at that clan meeting of yours, Damocles?"

"Yeah," he said.

"Alright since the Glorvantia governing board along with several highly placed Goblins know of your real identities, and thus are aware that you did not die from Betsy. We worked out a deal. A Curse Breaker team will be allowed into the Chamber to look for any artifacts inside. I am not sure if there were any since I just got inside before showing it to Septimus. The team will be told that the Monster has been disposed of, thus protecting Betsy from harm, before being allowed to go look around."

"But why are we going?" Mor asked.

"We planned for the visit to happen on the day Bella gets released," Tom said holding up a hand to prevent any of them from interrupting him. "Since we think that she will be still enchanted Narcissa and Sirius are going to work together to force her to Gringotts if they have to. After she gets Cleansed to not overwhelm her and seeing how hard it was for Sirius after his release, we will stick with just Salazar and me to greet her when she wakes back up." Tom got out of his seat and took Cleo's hands in his. "I know you want to be there, but you recall how Sirius reacted when he found out William had been aged up due to the Belljar meaning no potion, spell, or cleanse could reverse his age. And while your age was never changed, your mom is about to find out she has missed almost eleven years of your and Salazar's lives. It will be hard enough to witness it with Salazar alone. So while we ease your mom into everything just go with the Goblins," Tom begged his daughter. Damocles wondered if Cleo had had a vision of meeting her mom vs going back to Hogwarts as she looked into her dad's eyes but she agreed to join the party heading to Hogwarts.

While she agreed to go to Hogwarts, Damocles saw the longing on Cleo's face as they left Tom and Sal by the Floo waiting for Cousin Sirius and his mom's message that Aunt Bella's Cleansing had begun. Damocles and Mor took Cleo's hands while Lilith held onto the older girl's back as the group Flooed to Glorvantia to meet up with the Curse Breaker team heading to Hogwarts, They got another shock to find out it was Lilth's father's team led by Kathrin Janeway and her husband. Looking over at them as they arrived Katherin turned to Clan Master Sudor. "Alright I was told that they were coming, but can you please explain why we need them for this mission?" Katherin asked.

"It is quite simple," Clan Master Sudor said. "Cleo's family is connected to the Slytherin Line so in case there are any hidden rooms within the chamber that can only be opened by a member of the family, she must be there since I have been told her father and brother are busy at the moment.*2 Damocles and Mordred are here due to them possessing All-Speech, we would not normally need them but the team who first entered the Chamber to collect the Monster of Slytherin revealed they had to use Parsletongue. Cleo, unfortunately, does not possess that gift, so with Damocles being in the Flame Clan and readily available we decided to bring him along. Since he and Mordred are magical twins their All-Speech would be better if they are together. As for Lilith despite her young age, she has skills in both Wandless and silent spell casting, so just in case there are more traps inside the Chamber that might render us all silent, she could still perform," Clan Master Suror explained.

"First-year spells at least," one of the Goblins from Damocles' clan muttered to himself in Gobblygook.

Knowing that both Damoclse and Mor could understand what the Goblin said led Clan Master Sudor to add, "And in preparation for her part in this job, she has undergone some special training to learn some spells that might prove useful such as a low-powered Cleansing Charm which would hopefully counteract any silencing or muting magic we might come across."  The Goblin which had spoken blushed a little and bowed before Lilith exposing his neck in apology. Having been told of Damocles's first class at the school, Lilith accepted the apology and touched the Goblin's neck so they could get on with the job.

Having gotten everything settled, Clan Master Sudor opened the Floo to Hogwarts and had everyone walk through it. Damocles saw that they had arrived in Professor Snape's office and saw Lilith's dad give them a small wink as he led the way out to wherever the Chamber was located. It felt strange to be back at Hogwarts, at least to Damocles and Mor as they felt their combined feelings through their Twin bond. It felt unnaturally quiet and that was after the last time they were here which had been during the break with only about twenty-five or so students and staff at the castle. And while the Curse Breaker team was made up of thirty beings the fact that they were traveling together made it seem like the silence of the castle was bearing down on them from all sides as if to suffocate them. Feeling a rising panic in his twin, Mor took hold of Damocles' hand to help center him and help take his mind off the silence.

Yet when the silence was broken by Peeves, Damocles and the rest of the team jumped in alarm. "Oh, some visitors. Are people returning now?" the Poltragist asked in what sounded like a hopeful voice to Damoclse. "It has been so boring without Livings to prank, the old sheets are just a bunch of wet blankets," Peeves joked as he pulled out some batons and began to juggle them above the groups' heads using whatever magic he seemed to possess to set the batons on fire.

"Washiba," Chakotay said using a water-creating spell to dose the flaming batons.

"Oh, you are no fun," Peeves said as he blew a raspberry getting ready to zoom away from the group maybe to set up some sort of prank. Yet his movement stopped as he laid eyes on Damocles, "Ah Potty-wee Potter, what are you doing here? I heard you died, yet living you still seem to be?" Peeves said slipping into a sing-songy voice. At the Poltragist's statement, Snape, Damocles, Mor, Cleo, and Lilith's eyes widen in shock.

Clan Master Sudor moves to block Damocles' body, as much as he could considering he was a head shorter than the human, from Peeve's view. "You are mistaken. Peeves this lad is Damocles Malfoy an Honorary Goblin-in-training."

Damocles saw the Poltragist gulp a little, as he had done last school year when Mor lied about them being the Bloody Barron at what Clan Master Sudor had told him. "I see. I must have gone a little crazy... well crazier with no one around to play with. Pardon me," Peeves said taking off his top hat and bowing to the party before zooming away and giving Damocles and the other formerly kidnapped kids a knowing look. Damocles looked up at Snape but the man gave him a look that they would discuss it later when the Goblins or more likely the other members of his Curse Breaker team were not around.

Damocles, Mor, and Cleo were amazed to find the entrance to Salazar's Chamber was the bathroom where they had brewed the Polyjuice Potion. Once more Snape caught their eye to signal they would talk about stuff a little later when Cleo tried to casually look into the stall where she had brewed the potion. Snape motioned them over to him when Myrtle showed up asking why they were in her bathroom. When she also appeared to recognize Damocles and the others, Snape placed a finger to his mouth using his eyes to beg her not to reveal who they were to the others. Myrtle seemed to get the message as she watched Clan Master Sudor call Mor forward to open the entrance to the Chamber.  When Mor had an etching of a snake pointed out to him he spoke, "Open Sesame," though only Damocles and the entrance could understand him.  Cleo would inform them later that when Mor had spoken, unlike the other times they would use their All-Speech ability, his words had come out as hisses rather than white noise.

At Mor's words, the sink sunk into a grate in the floor revealing a large pipe behind it.  Chakotay went first followed by Cleo, Lilith, Snape, and then the majority of the Flame Clan Goblins who had joined the party.  Mor and Damocles were the second and third last to slide down the large pipe just having been told to wait in case the passage began to close at some point.  The last person to enter the pipe was Katherin Janeway, though Myrtle did follow her wanting to find out what was down there.  As Damocles slid out of the pipe he found Chakotay examining a large snakeskin that Betsy had shed.  "This is fascinating," the man said as he opened a small pouch he wore and pulled out a glass flask to put a piece of the shredded skin into.

"I am sure it is dear, but let's wait until we reach the main Chamber before we start to collect samples, hm?" Katherin suggested.

"Right," Chakotay said as he finished placing the snakeskin into the flask before storing it in his pouch.

His wife just rolled her eyes at him as she took the lead calling out, "Everyone, follow me and Miss Cleo just in case."  After about a five-minute walk through dirt, grime, and sometimes sludge, they arrived at an ornate door that seemed to be held shut but a ring of serpents made of emerald.  Katherine started by casting a Detection Charm on the door to make sure it had no dangerous spells or traps attached to it before she tried various spells to unlock the door.  When that did not work she had Cleo move forward and place a hand on the door to see if it needed a Slytherin to unlock it.  After that produced no results, she had Damoclse come forward and speak to the door to get it to open, which it finally did.

Some of the Goblins were left at the door not only to prevent it from closing, just in case something happened to either Mor or Damocles inside the Chamber but also to study the door.  Chakotay looked for an instant if he wanted to stay before he joined the rest heading deeper into the Chamber.  At least this the area behind the door was cleaner making it easier to move down the room.    After a fifteen-minute walk, they reached the other side of the Chamber and came face to face with a giant stone statue of a wild-looking man.  Clan Master Sudor pulled out some notes given to him by Tom about the words needed to make the statue sink to the floor and its mouth open.  Tom had said that inside the mouth was where the Basilisk had its nest, but he had not explored it so there could be anything inside.  Mor read out the small speech to start the mechanism to sink the status that Tom had shared with the party.

When the statue had sunk so deep into the floor that the only thing above the water where it rested was the face with its gaping mouth, the party split into two teams.  Chakotay would guide Cleo, Damocles, Clan Master Sudor, and several additional Goblins into the statue to look for any hidden rooms or devices while Katherine, Snape, Mor,  Lilith, and the remaining Goblins would move around the statue to see if it was sinking into the small man-made body of water had opened up a passage that had been blocked by the statue's default position.  Damocles and Mor had been separated just in case either team would need to use Parelsetounge, but thanks to the boy's twin bond they could also be used as living walkie-talkies to keep the teams apprised of the other's results.

Chakotay used a spell to create a small ladder making it easier to climb into the mouth since only he and Cleo were tall enough to do it in a single step without needing a leg up.  Right inside the mouth, Chakotay stopped as he saw marks on the stone wall of the passage.  Using a Light-producing Charm, he saw the marks were a list of names of people who had entered the statue most written by the person gouging out the stone by the look of it.  Taking some supplies out of his pouch, Chakotay made a rubbing of the names having to use nearly two feet of parchment to get them all from Salazar Slytherin himself down to someone named Omnis Gaunt.  Once the man was satisfied with his work, he rolled the parchment back up and headed deeper into the statue.

When they reached Betsy's nest it looked like they would find nothing more since they had come across no branching paths nor was there an exit to the nest besides the one they had just come from.  Chakotay was not discouraged as he directed everyone to move about the walls of both the nest and passage casting a Detection Charm to see if they could find a hidden door.  "There has to be more in here, otherwise why else would your ancestors write their names on the wall by the entrance," he reasoned looking over at Cleo.  The team got to work, Damocles even moving about the area speaking in Parseltongue to see if he could find anything.  Sensing him doing this, Mor started to speak it outside looking for other chambers beyond the statue.

Damocles got two responses of opening any secret doors.  The first he found when he headed back to the names and asked, "Please unlock anything you protect or guard."  In response to his words the stone holding the name of Tom and Cleo's family swung open revealing several books which looked to be journals not only written by Salazar himself but other members of the Slytherin family.  The Goblin he had been working with, Kes, went running off to get Chakotay as Damocles checked off the various books with the names on the door that they had been behind.  Damocles had found that all except for Omnis Gaunt had a book behind the wall before Chakotay had shown up.  The tattooed man had cast another Detection Charm on the books and though it showed there were no magical protections in place, he still had Cleo be the one to grab a book to start looking through it.  Leaving Cleo, Chakotay, and some Goblins from the Lake Clan to look over the books, Damocles started down the passageway looking for more hidden areas.  

He finally found a second Pareselmouth-locked door when he reached the main nest room.  As he walked around the room, Damocles and the Goblins working around the wall heard a click.  Everyone immediately tried to find out if the wall they had been working around had bulged or changed in any way.  But were unable to find it when a second click was heard which everyone assumed meant whatever had been unlocked by Damocles's request had locked itself since they had not found it.  It took three more tries before the group discovered what was unlocking and relocking at Damocles' words.   For rather than a door opening in the wall, the compartment Damocles was unlocking was right under Betsy's nest.  Moving aside the nest as gently as they could so it could be preserved the group found a hidden trap door.  Damocles's "Please unlock anything you protect or guard," led to a trap door opening up a little.  Before it locked again, Kes and Anaika pulled the door open to reveal a ladder heading deeper into the statue.  

Chakotay was summoned again as he had Cleo follow them down the ladder accompanied only by a pair of Goblins, Reg and Seska. The rest of the team inside the Nesting room watched their progress seeing at some point Chakotay used another light-producing spell as he reached the bottom of the ladder.  "There appears to be one more room down here," the man called up the ladder.  Chakotay kept up a steady stream of talk as he shared everything he could see as the light produced by his wand became blocked from their view.  "Dear Merlin," they heard him call making Clan Master Sudor ask what had happened.

"I think we just discovered Salazar Slytherin's private study," Chakotay called back.

"How can you tell?" Clan Master Sudor asked.

"Well, a large clue is that his Magic Portrait is in here and is in the process of talking with Cleo having recognized her as one of his descendants," Chakotay called.

"Okay, that seemed like a logical theory.  Do you need me to send down Damocles to check for further Chambers?" Clan Master Sudor asked.

"No, I think this is it, though Salazar just told me that there is another room but he said it is his old potions lab so I think we should bring someone else back to check it just in case any of the ingredients over the years mixed together and produced something unexpected," Chakotay relayed.

"Do you want us to summon Potions Master Snape from the other team?" Clan Master Sudor asked.

"No, the study is too cramped as it is.  I think we might need to wait until Lord Riddle is free since he can speak Parseltongue and from what I heard has an O or at least a high EE in Potions and while he might not be a Potions Master he could handle it better than trying to squeeze Potions Master Snape and Damocles down here.  I think we should just catalog everything in Salazr's study for the moment.  I will start to send them up presently,"

"Understood, we will be ready to start working on them," Clan Master Sudor said as he arranged for everyone in the room to start sorting and cataloging whatever was brought up.

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Sal was feeling envious of Cleo, Mor, Damocles, and Lilith to be able to return to Hogwarts. Since they had discovered what had happened to them thanks to the Weasleys and Dumbledore, Sal had been spending less time with everyone since everyone else was attending Glorvantia. He had not met the requirements that the Goblins had looked for to join the school, nor could they explain why he was joining with the Hogwarts students after the castle had closed after "Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny's" deaths, Sal was being taught by his father and Mr. Lupin-Black. Granted he was doing a lot better in his studies thanks to both the personal attention but also getting a new wand that was bonded to him before anyone else.

Sal was just glad that, unlike Hogwarts, Glorvantia allowed students to head home after their day's classes so Sal was able to spend the late afternoons and nights with his siblings and friends not to mention the weekends. Unless of course, like today they had been requested to take part in a mission while he was going to meet his mother after she had been released from Azkaban and got Cleansed of any spells on her. This meeting was making Sal rather nervous since all he knew about her, apart from stories from his dad, was what the Longbottoms had said about her being part of the party who tortured "Neville's parents" to insanity. Sal did not need to be reminded that it had actually been Molly and Arthur Weasley who had tortured Frank and Alice, but he could not shake the fear that his birthmother might be as disappointed with him as the Longbottoms had been.

There was also the issue of the Lestrange marriage, which Uncle Lucius, Aunt Narcissa, his dad, and the others still could not explain. He was sure he was not alone in wondering if Bellatrix had gotten married after the Weasleys had placed spells on her, compared to if the "marriage" was also part of the enchantments she had been placed under. This led his father and uncle to campaign for the Ministry to perform Cleansing on not only his mother but the Lestrange Brothers as well. Everyone hoped that the marriage between Bellatrix and Ridolphus had just been a false memory placed on the pair rather than having really taken place. They figured that if they looked it up in the Ministry's records they could find proof of the marriage's legal status but just in case Albus before he was sent away to Akzaban had set a trap tied to Tom's name which would out him as "Voldemort" no one wanted to take the chance.

Everyone's biggest fear was that the enchantments that had been placed on Bellatrix and possibly the Lestrange Brothers had not forced Bella and Rodophus to undergo a full Soul Bonding Ritual when they got married. Granted both Sal and Cleo's forms only listed Tom and Bella as their parents, but even Tom and Mr. Lupin-Black could not be sure if there would be any data geared towards Rodulphus due to the possible marriage being done after everyone had been enchanted.

Sal was also not quite sure if the flashes of worry he was experiencing from his twin bond with Cleo had to do with her anxiety towards his meeting with their mother or if something had gone wrong at Hogwarts. Since they had not received any message from Professor Snape, who was also on the team visiting the school, Sal did not want to mention it to anyone else lest they get distracted with the coming meeting as he was. Sal wanted to pace the length of the waiting room while at the same time, he wanted to curl up with his father for comfort as they waited for the Goblins to let them know his mother's ritual had ended and she could receive visitors.

When they finally got word that his mother was awake and could see them, Aunt Narcissa went first followed by Mr. Black-Lupin. "It will be alright," Sal's father said gently rubbing his back as the pair waited for the go-ahead from the pair of cousins that they could enter the room.

"What if she doesn't like me? Or what if she thinks Cleo died during her time under enchantments? Maybe she has so many enchantments she will be like Mordred and the ritual will not get rid of everything," Sal said curled into his dad's side.

"She will adore you as much I do. As for your sister's absence, we will just tell her the truth that we did not want to overwhelm her so soon. And since the Glorvantia Board were the ones to find the added enchantments on young Mordred, the Goblins here will be on the lookout for any ones they might miss before she was even allowed to leave the Ritual Room," Tom said still rubbing his son's back.

"But what if?" Sal began.

"It will be fine, son," Tom said, as he stopped rubbing Sal's back and had his son look him right in the eye. "Everything will be fine. If not we will face it together."

As his dad gave his shoulder a comforting squeeze, Sal realized his dad was as nervous as he was but trying to put on a brave face for him. "I am sure you are right, Dad.'

"Of course, I am right, I am your father," Tom said making Sal chuckle a little since he sounded more like Mr. Black-Lupin than himself when he spoke like that.

"And we are from the noble line of Slytherin, if there is a problem I am sure we can find a solution to it," Sal said trying to sound as confident as his father did.

"Yeah, who knows what your sister, cousin, and your friend Lilith might find in our Ancestor's chamber at Hogwarts," Tom said trying to take his son's mind off of the coming meeting.

"Some snake skin," Sal said with a weak joke which still made his dad laugh a little.

"You know what I mean sport," Tom said affectionately rubbing the top of his son's head.

Their father-son moment came to an end as the door to the waiting room opened and Aunt Narcissa and Mr. Black-Lupin came in. "Well, Belle is doing better. She is at least not letting out random mad cackles like she had done when she was released from Azkaban," Aunt Narcissa reported. "However, she is still very weak and will be on bed rest for the next two weeks."

"Why?" Sal asked. "Mr. Black-Lupin only required a day?"

"I keep telling you Sprout, call me Sirius," Sirius said, who had started to call Sal "Sprout" seeing the shy boy had a lot of talent in Herbology.

"Your mother was in a more secure location of the prison than Sirius was. Plus, she could not slip into an Animagus form to reduce the effects of the Dementors," Aunt Narcissa reported.

"Can we still see her, or should we wait until we transfer her to Malfoy Manor?" Tom asked returning to rubbing Sal's back.

"You can go see her, but go slowly with her," Aunt Narcissa cautioned.

Feeling, more nervous and skittish than when he would visit Frank and Alice Longbottom, Sal took his dad's hand and held it in a death grip as they were led to his mother's room. "We have the lights lower than normal due to some problem with her eyesight from where her cell had been in Azkaban," Sirius shared as he opened the door to Bellatrix's recovery room. Unlike the waiting room or the corridor leading to it, Bellatrix's room looked like it was being in perpetual twilight. " M'Lord is that you?" Bellatrix asked her voice cracking a little.

"We talked about this Bella, you were under some enchantments, Tom is your husband, not the Dark Lord," Aunt Narcissa said closing the door behind her.

"Right, right, you said I was whammyed and was made to forget my family. So that means this young man is my son or he one of yours?" Bellatrix asked her eyes slightly out of focus as he body and magic worked to equalize her.

"Whammyed?" Sal asked quietly having never heard the term before.

"He is ours, Bella," Tom said moving forward and pulling Sal with him.

"Then, hello um son, or do you see yourself as something different?" Bellatrix asked. "Did I say something wrong?" she asked as Sal began to giggle.

"I don't think so," Tom said looking down at their son.

"I am just surprised, in a good way," Sal said as he brought his giggles under control.

"Why?" Bellatrix asked.

"You asked if I saw myself as something else than my birth gender," Sal said.

"Is that not something that is done anymore?" Bellatrix asked as Sal noticed she grabbed her blanket and began to twist it as if worried she had made a mistake.

"It is wonderful, and I just did not expect it," Sal said a smile coming to his face. "Just like you and Dad, I had been enchanted after I was taken from you. I was placed with an abusive family, and while I had never seen myself as anything other than a CIS male, they would always go on about how mentally unstable anyone who thought they were a different gender than they were born with, were binary or even gender neutral was. Since under the enchantments, I had been told you were among those responsible for torturing my "parents" to insanity. While I know you did not do so, it is cool that you don't share their bigotry beliefs about stuff like that."

"Torture oh dear," Bellatrix said her face draining of what little color she had, however, gaining a small touch of green as if she was about to be sick. "I could never do that. I hate violence." Aunt Narciss gave both Sal and Tom a pointed look as if they needed to be told not to talk about anything Bella might have been forced to do under the enchantments.

"I was told that today is January eighteenth, shouldn't you be in school even if it is the weekend? Or did they give you special permission to come see me?" Bellatrix asked.

"Um, Dad and Mr. Lupin-Black are teaching me at home," Sal answered.

"You can call him, Remus," Sirius said almost in a whisper not wanting to distract from the conversation between reunited son and mother.

"You earned your teaching degree that is fantastic M'L... Tom," Bellatrix said.

"I did... before we got enchanted," Tom said shooting a look to Narcissa who made a note of it on a list of things they would have to work on.

"Sissy, I thought you and Cousin Sirius said I had twins, where is his sibling?" Bellatrix asked.

"We did not want to overwhelm you, dear," Tom said reaching forward and taking one of his wife's hands.

"So she is doing some schoolwork with Remus?" Bellatrix asked.

"No she is helping some of the Goblins on a job," Sirius answered before wincing a little having not wanted to get into stuff like that yet.

"My baby is helping some Goblins? Why?" Bellatrix asked.

"We can talk about it later," Tom said as he and Narcissa shot Sirius some dark looks. "And even if she wasn't our daughter is not being taught by Remus or me. She has been accepted into Glorvantia."

"WHAT? HOW? WHA?" Bellatrix asked.

"Once more we will talk about it later, but a short version is that the life she had lived under the enchantments she had been under led her to get accepted into the school," Tom said.

"Yet not our son?" Bellatrix asked making Sal curl in on himself afraid that she would be disappointed in him like "Gran" always was.

"I'm sorry," Sal said in a low voice.

Bellatrix turned to look at Sal and seeing him curl in on himself a little she got angry at whomever he had been forced to live with. "I guess that just means you take after me and your sister must take after your dad," Bellatrix said bringing up her free hand to cup his cheek. "Some of us are not meant to be heroes, but help those who take that role. Just like I did... do with your dad," she said leaning forward and kissing Sal's forehead.

"I guess that is true," Sal said thinking that unlike his sister who had gained the Magical talent as a Seer from their family line, his family talent was rather mundane. Back when he had been tested to find what enchantments had been done to him after he had been kidnapped, they had discovered that the Weasley and Longbottoms had blocked his Family's magical talent of Dreamwalking.

In other words, when he slept, he could travel to other's minds and communicate with them even over long distances. This also made sure that every dream he had was a lucid dream in case he wanted to use his skill, something he had not tried yet. He wanted to use it the first time after he and Dad had started to travel the world as a means to keep in touch with his sister and the others.

"Sounds like a story there, come up here and tell me about it, as well as yourself," Bellatrix said patting the spot beside her on the bed. "Assuming your Aunt Narcissa says it is okay," she said shooting a look at her youngest sister.

"Only if the bed is expanded first, and he stays away from certain topics," Narcissa said as she cast the Expansion Charm on the bed herself.
Sal settled in beside Bellatrix who threw an arm around him and began to tell part about his life growing up. Sal avoided talking about the abuse he had received at the hands of the Longbottoms, as well as the horror stories he had heard about Bellatrix had done during the war. Instead, he focused on his time at Hogwarts and how even with their twin bond being blocked he had befriended his twin sister as well as Narcissa's youngest sons. "I was not friends with her eldest son when I was enchanted, in fact, he used to bully us," Sal reported. "Though that was partially down to some of the enchantments we were under to hate Dark Cored Magicals, and in the case of his brothers hating him and the rest of their family even more."

"So how old is your oldest, Sissy?" Bellatrix asked, turning to her sister.

"He is the same age as Salazar and Cleo, give or take a few months," Narcissa answered.

"So you were friends with her younger twins outside of school?" Bellatrix asked looking back to her son snuggled up against her.

"Not at all, Bella honey," Tom said moving to lean in on her other side. "The boys along with another child who had been kidnapped by the Weasleys had been forcefully aged up. Thankfully in the boy's case, they only had been under potions to do so. Once they were Clenased they reverted to their real age."

"Actually it happened before they got fully Cleansed, since Mor and Damocles regained their ages after taking some Polyjuice Potion alongside Cleo," Sal interjected.

"First off why did they take that potion in the first place, and secondly which kidnapped kid was aged up but can not be reverted to their birth age?" Bellatrix asked.

"It was Remus and my son, Arthur for some strange reason decided to use the Department of Mysteries Temporal Belljar to make him older. Our William is now somewhere between twenty-two to twenty-three years old," Sirius said pissed off that he had missed so much of his son's life not only being falsely imprisoned in Azkaban but what the Weasleys had done to him.

"They took the potion as a means to find out if cousin Draco was the Heir of Slytherin who was opening the Chamber of Secrets and releasing the Monster on Muggleborns," Sal added in answer to his mom's question.

"Don't tell me you or your sister had been doing it thanks to the enchantments they had you under?" Bellatrix asked.

"This is another thing that we planned on going over with you later," Narcissa said giving her nephew a disappointed look but not being able to hold it knowing that he had been so worried about this meeting he had not paid attention to what she had wanted to wait to discuss with Bellatrix until she was in better health.

"Alright, I can wait," Bellatrix said though sounding a little disappointed.

"So since you are trying not to overwhelm me is that why Andy is not here?" Bellatrix asked.

"Actually we have not been in contact with her," Narcissa said looking to Sirius.

"Why not?" Bellatrix asked looking between her sister, cousin, and Tom. Sal also looked confused not knowing who Andy was.

"One of the people involved in the kidnapping plot was Albus Dumbledore and after Andy was removed from the family for marrying that husband of hers, she joined Albu's camp. We can not be sure if she was involved with the plot or just one of his hardliners," Narcissa said.

"It does not help that despite the paper saying I had been freed from my false imprisonment she has not even tried to get in contact with me," Sirius added.

"Well, she could be busy with her family or job," Bellatrix said.

"Since she never kept in contact after she was removed from the family, " Narcissa added as she sadly shook her head at her and Bella's eldest sister's lack of response to the letters Narcissa had sent her over the years.

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Tom had hoped the job he had been summoned to do at Gringotts would be quick. Narcissa had finally cleared Bella to leave the Manor for a while. The whole family and their allies were planning to go to Glorvantia for the martial magic tournament Damocles was taking part in because he was a member of the Flame Clan. Everything had been going fine until Tom was contacted by the Slytherin Account Manager, Scythtooth, with the order to come to the bank so they could do an inventory of all the artifacts that had been removed from Salazar Slytherin's statue down in the Chamber of Secrets. Or at least all of the artifacts that had been in the first room since Tom still had not found time to check out the hidden potions lab within the statue yet.

"Why does it have to be today?" Tom had asked Scythtooth when the Goblin had contacted him via the Floo. It was strange enough in itself to have a Goblin, even an Account Manager, to use a Floo rather than sending a Raven.

"The quicker we can get this done the faster we can reopen Hogwarts," Scythtooth responded.

"Fine," Tom said with a grumble. Tom quickly said goodbye to his wife and kids promising he would do his best to get the job done quickly so he could watch his nephew's matches. Even if Damocles was facing off against Goblins a few years older than himself due to what level he was in Martial Magic, Tom did not see him losing in the first couple of rounds. Damocles might even make it to the final, which he rather hoped to see.

As Tom got to the storage vault where the artifacts had been transferred to, he was delighted to see that he might have some help in the form of Salazar's Magical Portrait. "I assume you know of everything that had been placed in the chamber?" Tom asked the Portriat.

"Naturally," Salazar said with a small nod.

"So I can just call out what I find and get confirmation of its presence as well as any further information on it?" Tom checked.

"Naturally," Salazar said again.

"Um, you can say more than that, right? You were not somehow damaged when you were in storage?" Tom asked.

"Just because I answer in my normal version of affirmative young man does not mean I have been damaged. I prefer to say what I need to in the fewest amount of words possible," Salazar said glaring at him.

"Sorry just checking," Tom said as he started to go through the artifacts.

After a while, Tom and Salazar began to find a natural rhythm as they worked leading to them being able to talk a little things other than the artifacts. "You know it was quite strange to see human children working with the Goblins who found my portrait," Salazar commented.

"They are students at Glorvantia," Tom said before he added some more information since he was not sure if the place had been around when Salazar had been alive or last talked to. "It is the Goblin's Magical school."

"So your daughter goes to a Goblin School?" Salazar asked.

"It's complicated," Tom said thinking if he explained what was going on it would take their focus away from the artifacts and make him late for the tournament.

"And the boy who was there?" Salazar asked.

"Which one?" Tom asked knowing that both Mor and Damocles had been with the team.

"The one to unlock the chamber when my Portrait had been kept. I noticed something about him as I was removed from the chamber," Salazar said.

"Hm," Tom said wondering if the portrait had been able to know the identity that Damocles had had under his enchantments like Severus said Peeves and the ghost of Mrytle had been able to.

"Yes, it was strange seeing on him the connection of not only our family, but the Blacks, the Malfoys, the Potters, Peverells, and even my old friend Godric's family," Salazar said.

"Wait he still has connections to those families, but the Goblins removed all the Illegal Blood Adoptions from him?" Tom said looking away from the artifacts he had been working on,

"Illegal Blood Adoption, no that was not what I sensed in the lad. It was as if he had been attacked by a member of the family and lived," Salazar said.

"Oh Fucking Merlin's Jockstrap," Tom swore.

"What?" Salazar asked confused.

"I found your chamber when I was in school and made the mistake of showing it to a member of the Weasley family. The asshole placed enchantments on me to use Betsy to attack Muggles. After someone had died during an attack, I had been able to free myself just enough to remove the memory of how to access the Chamber and place it into a book. Unfortunately, since it happened so soon after the girl had died, I inadvertently created a Horcrux. This allowed Albus Dumbledore to enchant me years later after he and the Weasleys kidnapped my kids as well as kids from other families. Under the enchantments, I created more Horcruxes, which thankfully were cleansed a little over two months ago when I was brought back to life."

"Brought back to life?" Salazar asked their tasks of doing inventory utterly forgotten by the pair.

"Under those fucking enchantments I led a campaign against the country which started out to fix some of the damage Albus had done. I had been tricked along with several others who had their kids kidnapped to attack the lad you saw in the Chamber. He is my nephew from my wife's side of the family, but I thought he was the son of the enchanted husband of one of my friends. I had been forced to kill my friend's husband, and thankfully the bitch that had been enchanting him. Unfortunately, the bitch also died for my nephew who she had kidnapped from another family leading my killing curse to rebound on me. Thanks to the Horcruxes I had been forced to make I survived yet my already enchantment-addled mind broke. I can only assume the reason the attack was not seen as a Line Duel and Damocles gaining control of our house was due to him being my nephew," Tom guessed.

"Makes sense," Salazar said. "So your nephew is a Black then? That was the other family I sensed in your daughter."

"His mother is from the Black family his father is a Malfoy. But I don't know why you would sense the other families on him," Tom said running his fingers through his hair.
"It could be that your attack solidified his families if he had been under some Blood Adoptions at the time. What family did the bitch who was keeping your friend's husband enchanted belong to?"

"She was a Muggle," Tom answered.

"Ah too bad you could have punished her family by calling on Lady Magic for help. You still do stuff like that these days right?" Salazar asked.

"We do, but we did not want to do so with the kidnapped children," Tom said.

"Why?" the Portrait asked.

"Well, we did it for the kids' protection. Albus, the Weasleys, and the bitch, kidnapped ten children in total. To protect the five youngest we staged their death making it look like Betsy killed them. But if we call on Lady Magic to pass judgment on the kidnappers the Ministry would get a copy of her judgment which will reveal that the five are still alive. Since their "deaths" led to the imprisonment of Albus and the abusive families two of the kids had been sent to, we don't want the cases to be thrown out by revealing they are alive," Tom explained.

"I see, that is rather troubling," Salazar said stroking his long graying beard for a moment. "It is just too bad that none of the kidnapped kids were related to the assholes before their kidnapping."

"Well, two of the kids were... um are,' Tom said.

"So punish the assholes by calling on family magic, it would not produce a record with the Ministry but just within the family records," Salazar suggested.

"We would but although we have all but one member of the group that kidnapped our kids, the one who is related to them remains free," Tom said.

"So?" Salazar asked.

"So yes we could punish her, maybe even cut off her access to her family's magic since the kids that were taken were a pair of magical twins from a line whose family is led by such people. But since the bitch married into the Weasley line she would still have access to magic and on the run," Tom explained.

"There was a book among the artifacts in the chamber entitled Family Magic Made Easy," Salazar said nodding to a pile of books they had not reached yet.

"I have read it," Tom said not sure what his ancestor's Portrait was getting at.

"Ah, so you know all about Blood Tracking that can be added to the ritual when a Lord/Lady/Xr removes someone from the family. So the removed member can be brought in to face legal punishment?" Salazar asked.

"Wait What!?!?" Tom asked as he went over to grab the book and rifle through it. "It must have been removed in future printings,"

"I am afraid, I had to use it myself on my daughter's eldest son when he ended up killing Hegla Ravenclaw," Salazar said.

"Wait I am related to the Blood Baron?" Tom asked knowing the story of Helga Ravenclaw as the Gray Lady from when he had been enchanted.

"You are not, I had to remove the lad from our family, he might still be considered related to you since he was not removed from his father's family," Salzar said.

"Who were they?" Tom asked still looking through the book to find the Blood Tracking spell.

"The Bloody Baron was born as Bartholomew Augustus Reginald Black-Slytherin before I removed him from the family after killing Rowena's daughter," Salazar explained.

"Wait how does that work?" Tom asked, "He was your grandson yet Helga was Rowena's daughter I thought they were the same age."

"Rowena had kids late in life, while my wife gave birth to Bartholomew's mother when were were in our twenties," Salazar said with a small shrug.

"So you heard he killed Helga and removed him from the Slytherin line and used this Blood Tracking to hunt him down?" Tom asked.

"Well, we tried. It did work we managed to find him only to discover that he had killed himself for accidentally killing Helga Ravenclaw," Salazar said.

"I guessed he faced his own judgment for his actions before others could reach him," Tom said.

"HE WAS A BLOODY COWARD!" Salzar screamed.

"Because he took his own life rather than face judgment?" Tom asked.

"NO," Salazar Screeched making the fabric of his portrait actually ripple which Tom had never seen before. "He died after killing Helga but we found out later that he had been her husband and they had a child. Why do you think I came back to Hogwarts after leaving?"

"I don't know, I thought the story of your leaving had been just part of the legend for the Chamber," Tom said.

"No I did leave, because they all made fun of Betsy's name as if Fawks or Growlwo were so much better," Salazar said pouting a little.

"Growlwo?" Tom asked.

"Helga's name for her familiar, the Giant Squid," Salzar explained. "Anyway I came back to help bring Helga and Bartholomew's son up alongside Rowena since his parents were dead and my daughter had moved out to America with her family there was only us."

"So the takeaway from this is that we can use this Blood Trace to find Molly Weasley no matter where she ends up being if we have Fredrick and George banish her from their family?" Tom asked.

"Indeed. But from the sound of it you have gotten the rest of the group that kidnapped those kids. So this will end it, unless of course they have allies that you are unaware of.. Which you never know they might do," Salazar said with a shrug. "But it would hopefully give you peace of mind and let you relax and enjoy the time with your reunited families."

"There is that," Tom said.

Thanks to their chat, Tom was a little late in arriving at the tournament. Unfortunately, after Damocles had been eliminated. "Sorry, about that," Tom said as he took his spot next to his wife.

"Damocles was rather talented for one so young," Bella said. "I just hate the reason why."

"Hey at least, he did come in fourth for those competing in his class," Cleo said leaning around Bella to talk to him.

"Out of how many?" Tom asked.

"Seventeen," Sal said from Cleo's other side.

"So still pretty impressive," Tom said.

Tom waited until after the group returned to Malfoy Manor before he told the group about his talk with Salazar Slytherin's Portrait and the use of the Blood Tracking spell added to the ritual to remove Molly Weasley from the Prewett family. Barely had his explanation finished before the Prewett twins got to their feet. "As Co-Lords of the Prewett Family, we cast Molly Weasley ne Prewett from the family Magic. As we do so we call upon the Ancestors of our line to track the blood which once held the Magic of our noble line and pass it on to us so that we may bring Molly Weasley formerly Prewett and bring her to justice by non-magical means."

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Molly knew Arthur must have failed his mission and been captured by now, even without reading a stolen issue of the Prophet. He was just too long overdue, she blamed her baby brother, Percival for the idiot but had messed up somehow and got her perfect husband caught. If her brother had not made a small fortune under the pen name of Gilderoy Lockhart, she would have nothing to do with the idiot. Yet his fame allowed her to blackmail him to send a percent of his profits her way lest she leak his real identity and ruin his career. And while he was useful and good with a Memory Charm, her brother was an idiot and could mess up even the most concrete plans, so he had never been involved with her building her family.

Molly was just glad that she and Arthur had several meet-up spots that she might have headed to after he and Percival went to St. Mungos. Just in case Arthur had been captured he had agreed to give up the spots she would head to later rather than the ones she might have been which had given Molly enough time to escape the officers once more pursuing her. She was currently in one of her safe houses, one that was built a little way outside the wards of Shell Cottage, which had been her main safe house. At least until the birth identity of her kids had been discovered and their families had regained control of their properties. She did not think anyone would look for her so close to one of the places she had claimed when she had the backdoor access to the vaults of her rescued kids.

Since she was good on supplies, at least for the moment, Molly was just cursing out Percival for getting her Arthur captured. Suddenly she let out a scream of pain as the Prewett Family Magic was torn from her. She was actually surprised the offspring of her freaky older brothers had finally grown the balls to remove her from the family magic. Not that it would do them any good since Arthur and her had taken part in a full soul bonding when they were married so she still had access to the Weasley Family Magic.

The loss of the Prewett Magic still caused Molly to pass out, making her slump over the table and spill the Fire Whiskey she had been nursing. Since her last thoughts before she had passed out had been anger at her younger brother for getting Arthru captured, Molly's mind made her relive the kidnapping of the kids all those years ago.

Molly could not believe her parents had sent up a marriage contract between her and Antonio Parkinson. She did not care that he was a rich fashion designer who could treat her to the life she always wanted, nor did she give a damn that when they had been younger her magic had sung to his. All Molly cared about was that the man had a Dark Magical Core which meant he was evil and as rotten as it could be. She knew this as true since Headmaster Dumbledore had told her and the rest of Gryffindor House during a House Meeting before Minerva McGonagall became the new Head of House for Gryffindor. It also did not hurt that Arthur Weasley who was in her year and House was a total hottie.

Yet her parents refused to cancel the contract between her and Antonio. They even got on her case when she decided to settle the matter herself by marrying Arthur during the summer before her last year at Hogwarts. Unlike Arthur's dad, her parents were horrible after she and Arthur got married as they kicked her out of the family and then had the gull to place a curse on her. They must have thought that she would agree to marry the Dark Magical bastard just so she could have the family she always wanted, but she was determined to discover a way around the curse that had made her unable to have kids until it was removed.

Even with Septimus's approval for her to use the Weasley Family Grimoire, Molly had been unable to find a way to undo the curse that her parents had placed on her. She did, however, find a spell that would make people believe a kid was hers if the child itself believed it. Deciding to use the Weasley Family Spell to shock her parents and make them accept her marriage to Arthur, Molly decided to kidnap the son of Antonio and his wife, Galas. The plan to kidnap the kid worked perfectly and thanks to the Weasley spell no one tried to come "rescue" the brat from Arthur and her.

Besides casting the spell to make everyone believe the kid was hers so long as the kids themselves believed it, Molly also used a spell to change the brat's core into a Light one so he would not go bad like his parents. And while her parents had been shocked when she had "given birth" to Charlie Weasley, they had not accepted her marriage to Arthur. Rather than just abandoning the kid since her plan had not worked out like she had thought it would, Molly decided to show her parents that Arthur was a good man by proving they were good parents to Charlie.

She thought her parents were coming around, they at least came to meet Charlie. And while they still treated Arthur with distant and sometimes outright hatred they enjoyed their first Grandbaby. After a couple of years, Molly decided to "give birth" to another child as she heard about the Flints having twins. What was even better one of the twins was a girl. Molly had always wanted a daughter, and thinking the girl would show her parents that Arthur was a good father to both boys and girls, she talked her husband into kidnapping the young Flint girl.

As Molly introduced Pricilla Weasley to the world, Arthur had made a startling discovery. Despite the spell they had placed first on Charlie and now Percilla to make them believe they were her and Arthur's kids, her husband found out the kids could still be used to get into their birth family's bank accounts. Arthur and her would occasionally dip into the funds making sure never to take so much that it might get noticed, but with Antonio being a famous fashion designer and Marcie Flint being an up-and-coming Quidditch player there was a lot of money in both accounts.

The access to the Parkinson and Flint's accounts helped the Weasleys keep above the water financially with two young kids with two separate clothing with one being a girl and the other a boy. Molly was sure that her parents would finally reverse their decision to kick her out of the family after spending time with Pricilla. Arthur sometimes asked her why they were focusing on her parents when her older brothers were in charge of the Prewett family, but she would remind him that her freaky brothers let their parents run things as they did whatever freaky thing they tended to do.

Molly knew her older brothers were freaks, after all, they married the same person and got the slut pregnant with a pair of twins. Yet her parents loved those brats better than Charlie and Pricilla, who were obviously better. Especially since when they were tested her older brothers' twins were revealed to somehow have Dark Magical Cores, the first ones ever to exist within the Prewett Family. Molly did try to play nice with the brats, though goading her babies to pick on and tease them if no one other than she and Arthur were around.

Molly's plans changed a little shortly after her nephew's first birthday when her parents died within a few months of each other. Rather than being upset her parents had both died, Molly bemoaned the loss of hard work she had done to get them to undo the curse they had placed on her. What was worse, since her freaky older brothers believed that she had given birth to Charlie and Pircilla they would not undo the curse that was on her. They did not even welcome her back to the family and allowed her to access the Prewett Family vaults again, the bastards.

Having no desire to try to grovel or make them accept her, Molly just decided to get rid of them both as well as their wife. No matter how much she wanted to, she decided not to also kill her nephews but chose to make them more of her kids and bring them up properly. Since they would one day be the Heads of the Prewett family, she would make sure they learned to obey her so that when they stepped into their post, they would remove the curse her parents had placed on her all those years ago.

Molly had thought she had done a good job staging an attack on her brother's place as a means to kidnap her nephews while Arthur placed a Memory Charm and a stolen Magic Surpresent Cuff on Cynthia McDonald-Prewetts wrist making her forget she had been a Magical before dumping her in a Muggle hospital. Molly had been overjoyed at taking a small bit of revenge on the curse that her parents had placed on her by killing her freaky older brothers, however, it seems she had gotten a little careless.

A week after her brother's deaths and revealing that she had given birth to Fred and George, Molly received a letter from her old Headmaster. Since she had not spoken to him since leaving Hogwarts, she could not figure out what the man wanted with her. Something told her it would be a good idea to go see him, which was fortuitous when he revealed that Fabian and Giddon had been part of something called the Order of the Phoenix which was standing up against Dark Cored Magicals in the Wizengamot. Albus had somehow found out that Molly had killed her brothers, but rather than turn her in, he asked her why she had done it.

Molly had found herself telling her old Headmaster everything from the curse her parents had placed on her and even kidnapping her kids. Rather than get angry or even threaten to turn her in to the authorities, Albus congratulated her on a wonderful idea on how to deal with Dark Cored Magical children. She had been so shocked she had accepted his words and left the meeting still a little bemused.

She should have known that would not be the end of it, when a few years later, Albus summoned her to another meeting and laid out a plan. Albus had heard that Tom Riddle the leader of the Dark Faction within the Wizengamot had just become a father of a pair of twins. Albus wanted her to kidnap the man's kids as a means to distract the man. What was stranger was Arthur, who had been summoned this time, had agreed to it. Saying his father had always hated Riddle letting slip to both Molly and Albus the man's connection to Slytherin.

Hearing about his rival in the Wizengamot's connection to one of the Founders, Albus decided to come with them as they kidnapped the man's twins. Neither Arthur or Molly knew what the man had done while they had stunned Lady Riddle, but a few days later Riddle had vanished from the public eye only to repeat as Lord Voldemort as he started to attack Light Cored Magicals and Muggles alike. Lady Riddle, now for some reason known as Bellatrix Lestrange by his side and showing a ferocity that seemed out of place for the meek woman Molly had stunned to kidnap the pair's brats.

Molly did not focus on Voldemort's appearance as she now had two new kids to deal with, but the problem was she did not want them. Albus was able to offer a solution as he took both kids saying they would be given to some good homes. Molly did not even ask about the homes since even without the two new brats she had to deal with her sweet little Pricilla revealing that she was touched in the head. Most likely due to Molly miscasting the spell to correct the girl's Magical Core since her Princess was saying she was a boy. Molly and Arthur tried to stamp that idea out, but for some reason, Charlie helped Pricilla out and even began to introduce her to others as Percy.

The year after Albus had them kidnap Riddle's kids, he summoned Arthur and Molly back to his office. He laid out a plan that would lead to the country outlawing a person being born with a Dark Core, and all it would take was for them to kidnap four more kids. Molly actually agreed to kidnap two of the kids since both the Prewetts and the Weasleys had a long Blood Feud with the Malofys but she could not figure out why the Headmaster wanted to kidnap the Black-Lupin boy or the Prince-Potter brat who had not even been introduced to the Magical World yet.

Albus had patiently explained that the Black family had some of the largest vaults in the Magical World as well as access to a great library that might hold a spell to finally counter the curse Molly was under. As for the Prince-Potter brat, Albus revealed that the child was a girl, and having heard some of the issues Molly was having with Pricilla would give her another girl which they could make sure was not mentally unstable. Albus also said they would have some help in the form of Lily Evans who wanted James Potter as her boytoy but did not want the man's daughter. One of the Malfoy twins would be given to the pair to raise as their own allowing Albus, Lily, and the Weasleys to have access to the Potter's vaults which the Headmaster revealed were connected to the Gryffindor Vaults.

Once again the plan to kidnap the kids went perfectly as well as enchanting James Potter to make him believe he had married Lily and had young Harry. The only problem was now Arthur and Molly had three babies to take care of. Unlike her nephews who could be calmed a little by the Prewett family magic, the three brats would cry and scream all night long. Charlie was not much help since he was "protecting" Pricilla from them rather than taking care of his new siblings. Molly did not want Prcilla to help out lest she spread her mental illness to Ginny despite the enchantments that had been placed on the girl to make her know that she was and would always be female. Fred and George, of course, were too young to help being only three years old themselves.

After a month of almost no sleep, Molly and Arthur could not take it anymore as Arthur took Bill to the Ministry so he could sneak the boy into the Time Room of the Department of Mysteries to make him grow up. Since Charlie had revealed himself to be a horrible eldest child, they had decided to make Bill a year older than Charlie was. Yet something had gone wrong during the procedure and Arthur brought back a boy who was almost old enough to go to Hogwarts. Not wanting to mess up again when the made Ron older, Molly decided to just brew him an Aging Potion thus only making him a single year older.

As Molly had Ron take the potion, she discovered one of the reasons he was such a brat was there was a Magical Twin Bond with Harry since the potion made both boys ages increase despite Harry not being given the potion. Albus had revealed this when he had called Molly to his office, but rather than have her remove the potion he congratulated her on her idea and worked it into his plans. However, he did make her cast a spell to fully block the twin bond between the pair of former Malfoys. Which did make it easier to handle Ron.

Molly sometimes wondered why was doing all this, raising seven kidnapped kids she really only needed Fred and George to reverse the curse, and of course her little princess Ginny. As if he sensed her desire to get rid of the other kids, Albus called Molly forward the day after Voldemort tried to attack the Potters. Albus had her join him in writing up a Marriage Contract between Ginny and Harry which would allow Molly to have more access to the Potter Family vaults than she had with the other kidnapped kids. Albus instructed her to keep the other kidnapped kids so that Harry would try to help them out by giving them some funds himself unaware that they belonged to Ginny. Albus had revealed that thanks to an ally he had within Gringotts any money Harry would take from his vaults to help the Weasleys would not come from the Potter vaults but from the combined Malfoy and Black vaults.

Since Molly knew that "Harry" would become friends with Ginny and of course Ron, she began to treat them better than her other kids. Yet in truth, she only really cared about Ginny. Hence why she had not raised an issue when Athur's cousin, Peter Ratigan Weasley showed up looking for a place to hide from the Dark Lord's Forces. She had not liked the man, but Peter before coming there had made sure that Bill's birthfather had been sent to Azkaban which would allow her and Arthur to pull out more funds from the Black Vaults without notice. Arthur had some misgivings about his cousin hiding there due to Peter's perverse nature. When Molly asked her husband about it, Arthur had explained that Peter liked to groom and have sex with kids.

As Molly only needed to keep Ginny for Harry when the pair got married and the twins so they would get rid of the curse, Molly actually did not have an issue with Peter having access to the other kids. She made sure that Peter in his Animagus form was found by Pricilla so the girl would take the "rat" as her pet. Molly hoped that Peter would fuck the girl's mind back to normal, or at least show the brat the pleasure of being taken by a male. If Peter had done anything with Pricilla, Molly never heard a peep about it, which she could not tell was a good or a bad thing.

Molly only found out later, when Pricilla passed Peter down to Ron, that Arthur's cousin had not done anything to rape the girl back into the right frame of mind. Molly had almost kicked the asshole out since she had seen it as Peter's one good quality but it seems the asshole only liked little boys. The only thing preventing Molly from kicking the man out, was despite how she treated Ron compared to her older kids, the boy had still be born a Malfoy so would deserve to be sexually abused by Peter. She still told Albus about it in case it messed up with the Headmaster's plan, but once again he just smiled at her and said it was a good idea as he thought of maybe placing some enchantments on the Muggles who Harry lived with sexually abuse Harry as well.

Molly was able to talk him out of it, not wanting Harry to possibly pick up some Muggle disease and pass it on to Ginny in case the pair ever had premarital sex. She was glad he saw the value of her argument though from what she had heard he did have the Muggle increase the physical abuse of Harry after their talk. It was around this time that Molly learned what Albus had done with Voldemort's kids as he laughed when he told her that they were also to become friends with Harry and Ron and work to kill off their father.

Since Molly had cast the spell to give two kids now called Hermione and Neville, Light Cores she thought it was just dessert for the pair to kill the Dark-Cored Magical Parents. Thinking it would be a good addition to the laws Albus passed after Harry had saved the world from Voldemort again. Though how he was to do so when the man had died when he had attacked Harry as a baby, Molly still did not know.

As Molly regained consciousness after passing out from being stripped of the Prewett Family Magic she found herself staring down a pair of wands pointed at her by two Ministry Agents telling her she was under arrest. She could not help but wonder how they had found her, but also knew she had a card to play in the fact that Harry was still alive due to his "Will" showing up only after Fred, George, and Pricilla had been allowed to return to the Burrow after Ginny, Ron, Hermione, and Harry had called died to the Monster of Slytherin. Molly was sure if she revealed this it might get Albus out who could free her and Arthur for all the work they had done for him.

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Molly could not offer any form of resistance to her arrest at the hands of the two Ministry Agents. This was not only due to how weak she felt having just been removed from the Prewett Family Magic, but she found that before she had regained consciousness one of the agents had collected her wand. "I surrender," was all she could say lifting her arms into the air and letting them place some cuffs on them.

While they led her out of her safe house, it was not as if she did not have a plan for what to do next. As soon as she was processed and met with someone at the Ministry she would share her belief that Harry was still alive despite the story of him, Ron, Ginny, and Hermione being killed by the Monster of Slytherin. She would not tell either of these Ministry grunts since she doubted they would believe her. The person she met at the Ministry might not believe her either, but at least while she was there she could request a Truth Potion. Molly just knew Harry was alive thanks to the Will that had been sent to the Burrow about him leaving stuff to Ron in the case of his "death" which had arrived several weeks after Harry had supposedly died. Knowing it had to be some sort of trap, Molly had convinced Arthur to allow Fred, George, and Pricilla to go the the Will reading while sending Golems of themselves just in case.

It had seemed that her intuition had been correct since shortly afterward Bill had arrived to collect his younger brothers' and sister's belongings causing her and Arthur to flee knowing that somehow someone had learned that their kids were not their own. From the papers they had scrounged up while on the run, Arthur and her had learned that Peter had been brought to the bank along with the twins and Pricilla leading to his capture and Sirius Black getting freed from Azkaban. And while all that was bad news for her and her beloved husband the fact that Harry was alive meant that Albus had been sent to prison without proper cause. She did not consider the fact that Albus had left Harry with the Dursleys to be abused and neglected to inform Harry about the magical world as a reason to send the Headmaster to Akzaban.

Molly was sure once she spread the news that Harry was alive, Albus would be freed from prison and he would make sure she and Arthur would be pardoned and get their kids back. After all, she was a Light Cored Magical unlike the original parents of the kids so had a better chance of making sure the kids became proper members of society.

Molly was brought out of her plans to get both the agents fired after she was released when she realized that they had brought her not to the Ministry but to Gringotts. She did not give the grunts the satisfaction of asking why they had brought her to the bank. She could only guess that since she had avoided the plot to get her to the bank earlier and her use of a Golem before, the Goblins were going to process her as part of her arrest to make sure she was a human. Yet, the Ministry grunts did not accompany her into the bank but passed her over to of the nasty creatures who forced her to head into the bank.

"What is going on? Why have I been brought here?" she finally asked once she had been left in a conference room rather than a medical suite.

"You have been brought here to be processed before your trial, Molly Antoinette Weasley," a Goblin in a suit that was so black that it seemed the flickering candlelight avoided it altogether.

"But why here? Why not at the Ministry?" Molly asked.

"Due to the crimes committed by both you and your husband, it was decided that one of you would stand trial in the Hume's Ministry while the other would be handed over to the Goblin Nation. And since your husband had been captured first along with having Death's Kiss in his possession he was tried by your kind. Which means we have the pleasure of putting you on trial ourselves," the Goblin said giving Molly a smirk that made her feel as if she had just swallowed a fifteen-pound lump of ice and it had just landed in her gut.

"You can't do that, I am a Light-Cored Witch, not some Dark-Cored Beast without rights," she protested.

"Your Core's alignment has nothing to do with anything. You and your husband broke numerous laws and embezzled quite a lot of money from various accounts you will be tried by my people and face your punishment or you will be put immediately to death," the Goblin said. As if to emphasize the point, the Goblin pulled out an ax and slammed it on the table to show he would not hesitate to use it on Molly if she chose death.

"Fine I will be tried, but I think there is something you need to know first," Molly grumbled.

"And what is that Prisoner Weasley?" the Goblin asked.

"The story that the Prophet ran shortly after the year began was a lie, Harry Potter is not dead," Molly said.

"Technically true since there was never a person known as Harry Potter to begin with. But I get what you are trying to say, not that it makes any difference since we already know," the Goblin said.

"Of course you do," Molly grumbled again. "But you can pass it on to the Ministry so they can also know about it," she said.

"No, we will not be doing that," the Goblin said giving her another deadly smirk.

"And why the hell not?" she asked.

"It is not their business. Now if your husband brings it out during his trial there is nothing we can do, but you were handed over to us to be tried and any court documents will be kept within the Goblin Nation," the Goblin said still smirking. Molly could only grumble since while she loved Arthur with all her heart the man was sort of an idiot and was unaware of her belief that Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny were still alive so he would be unable to bring it up during his trial.

It took a few days after Molly was processed at the bank for her trial to be held. The time it took allowed members of the Riddle, Black, Malfoy, Flint, Parkinson, and Snape to join the crowd at Arthur's trial at the Ministry. While he was charged with several accounts of kidnapping, embezzling, and attacking several families leading to possibly Line Theft, Arthur's main crime was possession of Death's Kiss intending to use it. Due to the deadly nature of the poison which could have wiped out everyone on the island and a large part of the rest of Europe, there was very little deliberation before the man was given four consecutive life sentences before he was sent to Azkaban.

When it was time for Molly's trial she was brought to the main Goblin Nation Courtroom of Europe, but unlike other extradited human prisoners, she was not the only human in the courtroom. On one side of the room were the families that she and Arthur had messed with. Dexter, Marcus, Fredrick, George, Draco, Mor, Cleo, Damocles, Lilith, and even Pansy have been permitted to take the day off of class at Glorvantia to attend the trial along with the rest of their families. Molly stumbled a little as she saw the kids seated with their parents right at the front of the courtroom. The opposite side from where she was led to face the judgment of the court.

Unlike in Human courts, the Goblins use a triumvirate of highly placed Goblins during trials so that those passing judgment on Molly were Prince Bonecrusher the VIII, Gringotts Overseerer Ragnok the IV, and Odinsphere the European Goblin clan's Cheif Loremaster. Bonecrusher called the court to order by using an obsidian gavel, "The Goblin Nation vs Molly Weasley begins now. Before the accused speaks, I will inform her that Goblin Courts are not called to determine a being's innocence or guilt but to pass judgment on them."

"Now See Here," Molly screeched. "I am a Human, and must be allowed to prove what I did was right no matter what your dirty little minds think." Damocles and the others who had gotten to know the Goblins better since starting to go to Glorvantia all winced at her words knowing the bitch was not doing herself any favors.

"And as Prince Bonecrusher said, that is not how Goblin Courts work, Prisoner Weasley," Odinspehre said sticking an emerald gavel on the bench. "We do not need to know why you did your crimes the fact that you did them is proof enough."

"You have embezzled money from accounts which you had no claim to, kidnapped numerous children and abused them, enchanted Lords and Ladies messing with their accounts and lives, you conspired with Goblin traitors to create fake documents, among other crimes," Rangok said having memories the list so he was able to give it all from memory.

"I never abuse any of my kids," Molly protested.

"You claim you never berated or made light of Dexter Flint after kidnapping them and calling them Pricilla despite being informed by them that they were male?" Odinsphere asked.

"It is hardly abuse to try to fix the mental instability in one's kid," Molly said as Marcus, Marcie, and Douglas reached over and placed a comforting hand on Dexter's form.

"For one, that was not your kid, and secondly there was no "mental instability" as you call it," Bonecrusher growled at the woman having come to know Dexter in some of his classes at Glorvantia.

"Then what do you call it when a female thinks they are a male or vice versa?" she shot back.

"Well, for one their choice," Bonecrusher growled. "Something you have no control over just like one should have no control over their Magical Core, or who they fall in love with. Something you and your Husband thought you did since you changed all the children you kidnapped to have Light Cores from what they were born with and tried to force a Marriage Contract between two people who had never met nor had Magic that Sang for each other."

"Prince Bonecrusher you will remain calm," Ragnok cautioned his fellow Judge.

"I will not, this bitch deserves to die not get off with any other punishment," Bonecrusher snarled. As Bonecrusher growled at Ragnok but before Ragnok could offer a response, Odinsphere banged his emerald gavel creating a screen around the judges' bench.

While she knew it would be pointless to try to leave while the nasty beasts were distracted by their arguments, Molly thought she could gain some help from one of her children. Turning in her chair to face the other humans in the court, Molly looked at the pair of Malfoy brats knowing that one of them was her precious Ronnykins. Since no one was moving to stop her, Molly spoke up. "Ron you can tell them I never abused you. I treated you with the greatest of love." She chose not to bring up what Peter said he was planning to do with Ron in a few years just in case Peter had not shared his plans after he had been captured.

"My name is Damocles," the Malfoy brat said, making Molly wince recognizing not Ron's voice but Harry's.

"Harry, I gave you a place to stay from those abusive Miggle relatives of yours. I helped Albus make sure you were prepared for You-Know-Who's return," she quickly said.

"The Dursleys were not related to anyone but your fellow kidnapper Lily Evans," Severus said leaning forward to place himself between Molly and Damocles.

"Snape, you out of everyone should know that Albus always had a reason to do what he did," Molly shot back.

"There is no valid reason to kidnap children from their families," Severus said glowering at her.

"And don't even say it was Albus's idea to start kidnapping the kids, since only Severus, Bella, Tom, and my wife recall seeing him when our kids were taken," Lucius said placing a hand on his youngest son's shoulder.

"Shut it Malfoy," Molly screeched at him.

"I think you are the one who should be quiet, Molly, before you did yourself deeper," Cynthia McDonald said. She had been found after an extensive search once Arthur had revealed what had happened to the woman. Cynthia had been found and cleansed before she had been reunited with her twins and finally reunited the last family that the Weasleys had messed with.

"Cynthia, how great to see you again, I thought you died," Molly said with a fake smile.

"You are not fooling anyone, Molly," Cynthia said glaring at her former sister-in-law. "I for one can't wait to see you get your just desserts, and hope Prince Bonecrusher gets his way so I can see you die like you and your fucking husband killed my mate."

"Cynthia, I am shocked and appalled," Molly protested in fake shock.

"No, you are a criminal," Sirius said holding Cynthia back from getting out of her seat and attacking the woman.

"Keep out of this Sirius Black, if there is any criminal here it is you for turning in Lily and James to You-Know-Who," Molly said glaring at him.

"Who do you think you are fooling, Molly?" Remus asked confused about who the woman was trying to convince she was a good person.

Before Molly could respond to Remus and possibly show off more of her Anti-Creature Bigorty the three Goblin Judges's barrier came down. "Sorry about the interruption," Ragnok said striking a diamond gavel making Molly turn back to the front of the room.

"Yes, I apologize for my outburst," Bonecrusher said standing up and bending low to expose his neck to the court. Everyone, apart from Molly, lifted an arm with their palm out as a sign of acceptance to Bonecrusher's apology, which he was only aware of after Odinespehere tapped his shoulder.  "As my fellow judges reminded me of proper court protocol, we also reached our decision on your punishment Prisoner Weasley."

"And what did you wise guys come up with?" Molly asked her voice dripping in sarcasm.

"You are to be sent to level four of the mines for the remainder of your life," Ragnok pronounced.

"I have to work in the mines?" Molly asked knowing that was the normal punishment but was surprised it was only one life sentence when she had been informed her husband had gained multiple life sentences.

"Well, since you and your husband were the last members of the Weasley family, the contents of the Weasley vaults will be seized and will be separated so equal shares will be given to eachchild you and your husband kidnapped," Bonecrusher added with a smirk.

"Great bonus that," Fredrick could not stop himself from muttering.

"It is, Co-Heir Prewett," Ragnok said.  "While Prisoner Weasley's father-in-law, Septimus Weasley, accepted her marriage to his son, the former Head of the family did not cutting off Septimus, Arthur and Molly from the majority of the Weasley vaults."

"How dare they," Molly growled.

Ignoring her interjection Ragnok continued, "At the current time the Weasley vaults total twenty thousand Galleons meaning each of you get around two thousand a piece."  While their real families all had larger quantities in their vaults than the two thousand they had just been given, each of the formerly kidnapped children let out a whistle since it was the largest amount of money they had ever been given in one go.

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Post Trial

The families all cheered as Molly was escorted out of the Goblin courtroom to be sent to the Mines. With Molly, Arthur, and Albus all arrested as well as Lily having died all those years ago it looked like the group who had been responsible for messing with their families had all been dealt with. The Goblins confirmed that they had even dealt with some traitors who had conspired with Albus and the others to allow the group of kidnappers access to their various vaults. Unlike the human members of the group Prince Bonecrusher admitted that the Goblin traitors were executed as per Goblin Cultural protocol. While some of the adults tried to shield the ears of their younger kids, Damocles, Mor, Cleo, and Lilith all nodded in agreement since their time at Glorvantia had helped them better understand how Goblins operated.

While most of the group were just happy to know that Molly and the others were locked away and did not think about them any longer, William knew he had to act. Since he was still a Curse Breaker for the bank, William sought out the Goblin in charge of the Level Four Mines to give them a warning. "Thank you for seeing me Mine Lord Shatterstone," William said bowing low to expose his neck to the Mine Overseer.

"Curse Breaker Weal... Black what do I owe this meeting?" Shatterstone said almost slipping up and calling William by his former job title since he had little contact with Human employees of the bank.

"I felt that I should warn you about your newest human prisoner," William said taking an offered seat before Shatterstone's desk.

"You think, I need it?" Shatterstone asked arching an eyebrow at William.

"I mean no disrespect, Mine Lord Shatterstone, but having been brought up by Prisoner Molly Weasley, I can tell you that while she has no access to Banshee Blood, the woman's normal tone of voice is usually loud and screeching. I don't know the state of the caves you might assign her to work in but I fear just by talking she might cause a collapse," William explained.

"It has already almost happened," Shatterstone admitted as he had been going over some paperwork just before William had arrived about Molly almost causing a cave-in due to her complaining which had been louder than all the mining instruments being used in the cave put together.

"So I am not telling you anything you did not already know. I am sorry I butted in," William said bowing low to expose his neck again.

"It is alright, it is comforting that you had concerns about the other prisoners who might be working with Prisoner Weasley as well as the guards. Out of curiosity what do you suggest we do about her?" Shatterstone said waving away Willaim's apology.

"I would say just gag the bitch, but I know she will be a terror to work with normally let alone if she was gagged since she would most likely just spend her shifts in the tunnels trying to remove the gag rather than working," William said. "However, recently my team had found an artifact that might help you during a dig in South America." William pulled out what looked like a ridged neck cuff and placed it on Shatterstone's desk.

"And what does this artifact do?" Shatterstone asked.

"The researcher on my team discovered that the artifact is sort of the reverse of noise-canceling ear guards. Instead of cutting off Prisoner Weasley's voice the artifact's magic would modulate it so that it would be just loud enough to be heard when it was needed. I can think of two reasons it would be useful the first of which is that due to how rare the artifact is Prisoner Weasley would not know what it is so it could be passed off as part of her prisoner gear. Secondly, my team also found a control box, for lack of a better term, which would allow you or those watching Prisoner Weasley to turn her voice off in case she still manages to distract the other prisoners during a shift in the minds," William explained.

"That is fantastic. Thank you Curse Breaker Black, I shall pass the artifact and control box over to Prisoner Weasleys's handler right away," Shatterstone said taking the two parts of the artifact and shaking William's hand in thanks.

In Azkaban, Arthur was informed shortly after his sentencing that Molly had been captured. The red-headed bastard while upset his beloved wife had been caught had his spirits crushed when he was informed that rather than be tried in the Ministry, Molly's crimes had landed her before a Goblin Tribunal and she had been sent to the mines. While Molly had been responsible for raising their kids, Arthur had been closer to them just to make sure the spells that had been placed on them after they had been "rescued" were still working. So Arthur knew what Molly would be dealing with thanks to learning about Goblin's punishments from Bill as his eldest son told him about aspects of his job that he could share around his Goblin Secrecy Contract.

Arthur not only worried for his wife's well-being working in the mines but was incredibly disappointed that there would be no chance that he might run into Molly if he was ever allowed out of his cell. Not that it had happened yet but there was always a chance that prisoners were taken to meetings with councilors or exercise which he had never heard about before, nor had it been his time to go to one. As for Albus, he was never informed about Molly or Arthur's capture even if the pair were co-conspirators to kidnap multiple children. He was just locked in his cell in the prison slowly going insane thanks to the Dementors. The Dementors's presence and having nothing else to do caused Albus to think about what he had done with his life from killing his little sister, to casting a spell on his younger brother to make Aberforth believe he had been responsible for Ariana's death. He had starting a "war" with Grindelwald before getting cold feet leading to countless Muggle and Magical Deaths, coming up with a plan to discredit his main rival within the Wizengamot, "Voldemort" which led to the death of his and Gridelwald's daughter Lily.

Albus was also going mad due to his belief that his plans for Harry had gone so wrong with the boy he planned to be the final weapon against Voldemort being killed within Hogwarts by the Monster of Slytherin. Since Septimus Weasley, when he had been a student had informed Albus not only where the Chamber of Secrets had been but what sort of creature had been inside before Voldemort had taken measures to lock the Chamber, Albus knew the Monster had been a Basilisk the whole time. That was why when he had been preparing his weapon before giving Harry to his daughter and her enchanted crush, Albus had cast a spell to make sure Harry could speak to snakes. He had not seen Harry emboldened by his adventures with the Stone from the previous school year to seek out the strange voice he had to be hearing around the castle once the Basilisk had been free let alone try to confront it leading to not only his death but Ron, Hermione, and Ginny's deaths as well.

Albus should have snuck into the Gryffindor Tower as soon as the Wards notified him that the book that would unlock the Chamber had been brought in by Ginny. Albus had not cared that the girl had brought it, but if he had know what was to happen, he would have cast enchantments on it to make sure Ginny did her best to prevent Harry from going after the Basilisk until it was the proper time. But he had gotten lax in recent years and had not bothered with it. Now Harry was dead along with his "friends" and Albus was locked away in Azkaban due to what he had allowed to happen to Harry after his daughter and James's deaths.

Shortly after Molly and Arthur had been tried, Hogwarts reopened under the leadership of Headmistress Minerva McGonagall. Since she had done most of the day-to-day running of the castle under Albus, there was no training for her new post. However, she had to first deal with the hurdle of finding a new Professor for Transfigurations, Potions, Defense, and due to Albus not being there to stop it a new teacher for History of Magic as well. Since she had a Masters in Transfigurations, Minerva easily found her replacement using contacts she had within the field. As there were few Potion Masters on the island and not many in Europe who wished to come to teach at Hogwarts, Minerva tried to get in contact with Severus to see if he could help her. She was only informed that after his job in the Chamber of Secrets, Severus's new Curse Breaker team had started a dig somewhere in Asia and was unreachable.

Having no other option at the moment, Minerva dug into the records of people who applied to work at the castle in recent years hoping one of them had a Mastery of Potions which would allow her to hire them. While her plan did not work, she did find some candidates for Defense and History leading her to hire Jonathan Lei to take over as the History Professor and Remus Lupin to come teach Defense. Lupin also gave her an idea since after so long apart from his husband due to Sirius's false imprisonment, Remus had talked her into hiring some more staff so there would be two teachers for each of the core classes. Thus Sirius was able to be brought in to teach the other Defense Class due to his former job as an Auror.

But it also meant that Minerva had to find two Potions teachers now leading her to ask for help from St. Mungos to see if any Healer would be willing to come work at Hogwarts to teach brewing for the students. She was surprised when the recently released Bellatrix Riddle applied for the job after getting recertified as a Healer under the condition that her long-missing son was allowed to attend Hogwarts. When Sal did resume his studies at Hogwarts, William passed on an artifact that his team had found that would modify Sal's voice so no one would be able to tell he had once been Neville Longbottom. Well, no one but the Sorting Hat who was able to see into his mind before sorting him into Hufflepuff as it had wanted to if not for the enchantments Albus had placed on it to make sure all the kidnapped kids had ended up in Gryffindor. Bellatrix also informed Minerva that her husband, who had also been under enchantments hence why he had never argued for her release from Azkaban nor protested that she was married to one of the Lestrange brothers also had a Masters in Potions. Minerva immediately got in contact with Tom Riddle and offered him the job which he had accepted at once having always wanted to teach at Hogwarts before Albus and Septimus had interfered with his life.

The Children's futures:

Damocles Malfoy- formerly Harry Potter

While the Hogwarts students were sent back to the castle after it had reopened, Damocles, Mor, Cleo, and Lilith all remained at Glorvantia for the rest of their education. While he liked tennis, Damocles would only take part in the game during the daily required exercises if Cleo or Kim were not around so he could just play for fun rather than getting too serious with it. During his time at the Goblin-run Magical school, Damocles remained a member of the Flame Clan and even worked as one of the school's guards when he was older. As a Flame Clan member, Damocles took part in the yearly tournament against others of his clan moving up the ranks until he was the number one in his bracket the final year he was allowed to compete.

Since Damocles had been put into Martial Magic with students two grades above him the last two years at the school rather than attending those lessons as a student, Damocles spent the time between guard duty and even helping Prince Bonecrusher as an apprentice for the younger years. Damocles's time as Bonecrusher's apprentice inspired him to earn a teaching degree while he worked on gaining his Masters in Defense or as he had started to call it thanks to working with the Goblins Martial Magic. After four years to gain his Mastery, Damocles applied for a teaching job not at Hogwarts but at Glorvantia.

Thanks to attending classes at the Goblin School which allowed him to be seen as a Goblin Friend, Damocles was hired on a trial basis before he became the first human to work as an instructor at the Goblin School. To better fit in with his new students Damocles went to see a Goblin Artifactor to create a new casting object and had the Goblin make it in the form of a pair of gloves that he could wear. Some incoming students to the school were always shocked by the presence of a human instructor leading Damocles to tell them some of his accomplishments such as winning the school's Martial Magic Tournament and his status as a Goblin Friend. The students while impressed by some of his actions also learned he was not to be underestimated since he could understand them possibly bad-mouthing him thanks to his talent in All-Speach.

Damocles remained friends with Paris after they both graduated even when the blonde boy got married and pursued a career in writing, while Kim became a musician and went on tour with an orchestra rather than the pair working with the Goblins.

Mordred "Mor" Malfoy- formerly Ron Weasley.

Just like his twin brother, Mor remained a member of the Cave clan. Unlike Damocles, however, Mor spent the time after his advanced place Transfigurations classes ended by taking some internship opportunities at Gringotts itself. Thanks to his gift in All-Speech as well as his time interning at Gringotts while a student, Mor was able to be hired right out of school to work at the bank. Thanks to his Magical gift and previous training at both Glorvantia and Gringotts, Mor was quickly able to advance in his job. Since he was a human worker Mor worked as a liaison with Muggle banks if there were any issues. Mor also helped Muggleborn and their families better understand the economy and banks in the Magical World.

He also helped Muggleborns to set up their vaults after they found jobs in the Magical World. Due to how rare a human in his post was, Mor was often called on to branches of Gringotss all over the world to help out, and thanks to his All-Speech the Goblins did not need to hire an interpreter or use any magical artifact to help him understand the local language or Gobbygook.

Cleopatra "Cleo" Riddle- formerly Hermione Granger.

Cleo also stayed in her Clan at Glorvantia just like her former best friends who had been discovered to be her cousins. Besides her studies, Cleo learned how to handle her Seer's gifts so that it would not cause her to experience headaches when she used it. This was rather helpful since after she left Glorvantia, Cleo began to use her gifts at the start of each day at work. Her time at the Goblin-run school and as a member of the Lake Clan led Cleo to study healing and work towards gaining a Master in Potions and Healing. She could have become a teacher like Damocles but, Cleo preferred just to work as a Healer.

She became quite famous for it, since at the start of each of her shifts, Cleo would tap into her Seer abilities to see what might happen during that day's work. While she still tended to get at least two possible futures, sometimes more, her glimpse into what might happen during her shift allowed her to have any material she might need ready for her patients. Also if she received a vision of some horrible accident that might take place during a day, Cleo passed on a warning to her fellow Healers. She would only warn them that there could be more patients coming in, she would never try to actively get involved with the accident she might learn about lest she make it worse than what she had seen in her vision.

Salazar "Sal" Riddle- formerly Neville Longbottom

Sal was glad he had been allowed to return to Hogwarts under his real identity and it had nothing to do with his parents working at the castle. With his voice being modified so no one would discover he had been Neville, and with a newfound confidence Sal easily made friends in his new House and stood up for himself unlike what he had done before finding out who he really was. It did not hurt that thanks to the greater relationship between the families of the kidnapped children, as well as finding out he was Draco's cousin through his mom, Sal was not bullied by members of the Slytherin House but was friends with many of them.

Since Hogwarts still was a full-time boarding school, Sal would use his Dream Walking talent to chat with his sister and the others at Glorvantia at least once a week. While his twin sister ended up following their birth mother's footsteps into becoming a Healer, Sal ended up taking a similar path to their father. Sal did not become a teacher like Tom Riddle, rather Sal became interested in the laws of the nation making him take on the responsibility of the Slytherin Family Seats within the Wizengamot as he worked with the others in the Governing body to fox some of the damage Albus had done to their nation when he had been the Cheif Warlock. Most saw Sal as a calm and collected influence in the Wizengamot, never raising his voice or seeming to get angry but maintaining a cool head at all times. Some were also shocked to find out that Sal also had control of the Longbott family seats, but Sal never explained how he held them after the majority of the family had been arrested after "Nevilles's death."

Lilith Prince-Potter formerly Ginny Weasley

Lilith never did manage to become a member of all three clans at Glorvantia, though she still was considered a member of the Lake and Cave Clans until she graduated. Just like Damocles, Mor, and Cleo after she left the Goblin-run school, Lilith got a job at the bank. She ended up following both her former eldest brother's and her father's footsteps as she joined the rank of the ranks on one of the bank's Curse Breaker teams. Unlike her father, however, Lilith became her team's trap breaker and disarmer rather than being the team's potions brewer or researcher of any brews the team found.

Thanks to her skill at her job, it only took Lilith five years to gain a team of her own, sometimes getting WIlliam Black or her father to join her team on some of their jobs for the bank all over the world.

Fredrick Prewett

Fredrick invested the money he received from the Weasley vaults after Molly's trial for his plans for the future. George and he had always wanted to open a joke shop which Molly always dismissed as too childish. Not that it changed anything from their plans. Now that they had a supportive mother as well as two Pseudo-Uncles Sirius and Remus Black who the twins had discovered were two of the Marauders, their dreams of the joke shop seemed achievable.

Fredrick had always been a more behind-the-scenes person between himself and George who had always tested out their products. So when Fredrick was struggling with an aspect of upgrading their Fake Wands, he ended up working with Draco who was working as an apprentice to a Wand Maker. Unlike "Ron's" attitude when they had been Weasleys Fredrick had never had any issues with the Malfoy family. In fact, George and him knowing that Arthur and Molly hated the Malfoys went out of their way to be nice to the younger boy when they had been at Hogwarts before finding their real family.

Since there was no animosity even before finding out about Molly and Arthur kidnapping them, Draco had agreed to help Fredrick improve the Fake Wands. This not only helped Draco learn about wand creation but made the Fake Wands more believable before they changed into joke items. Spending time with Draco also allowed Fredrick to keep up with what his former younger siblings were up to.

George Prewett

Due to the chaos of Hogwarts having to close down after "Harry's Death" the Triwizard Tournament which had been in the process of being brought back in a few years had been put on hold for a single year.  When it took place during Fred and George's last year at the school, George being the more active of the pair of them put his name into the Goblet of Fire and was selected as Hogwarts Champion.

After a tournament, that had been safer than the ones from the past, but still rather challenging and dangerous George ended up winning it as well as meeting someone from one of the visiting schools.  While he used his winnings to help start the joke shop the Prewett twins had always wanted to open, George did not spend that much time in the shop as he moved to Spain to marry the person he had met during the Triwizard and had asked him to the Yule Ball.  His moving did allow George to open up a second store  that they had named Marauders' Legacy after getting permission to use the name from Sirius and Remus.  Both stores did do a lot of business with the one George ran doing just a little bit more than Fred's just due to people coming to the store to hear about George's experiences during the tournament. 

Dexter Flint- former Percy Weasley

Dexter got his lifelong wish to work at the Ministry of Magic.  What was better was without the Weasleys bullying him to take up a more high-profile job that could have "helping the family out," Dexter was able to apply to the post he wanted for himself.  He knew that some would consider him strange, but Dexter always liked record keeping and simple facts leading him to the Ministry's Records department.  Which was his new supervisor saw as a gift from Lady Magic herself, since they were still dealing with uncovering the corruption Albus had undertaken when he had been the Chief Warlock.

With Dexter's help, the department found all instances of Albus abusing power in just three months as well as uncovering similar corruption being performed by Minister for Magic Fudge leading to the man's arrest as well as some of his followers like Dolorus Umbridge.  Dexter was glad for the bitch getting arrested finding out she had passed laws that had made William's Sire have a hard time when back when the Weasleys and Albus had been around.  While he was not related to the former Weasley kids, Dexter along with the rest of the kidnapped children did still see themselves as siblings ever after finding their real families.

Unfortunately, thanks to his success in uncovering the corruption within the Ministry, Dexter was promoted out of the Records Department into the Ministry's Internal Affairs Department to make sure no one else could abuse the system again or at least do it for so long as Albus and Fudge had managed to do before they had been caught and health with.  It had taken Dexter's twin brother and parents to make him see that Internal Affairs was just a more comprehensive and important part of the records department for him to change his mind about the job.

Chester Parkinson- formerly Charlie Weasley

Since Chester had already finished school and had a life of his own, the only real changes he made after discovering his real identity had been to inform his employer as well as the Ministry of his real name so they could change their records.  Since he no longer had to avoid Molly and Arthur getting on his case for having such a dangerous job, Chester applied for some work with an Animal Sanctuary closer to home to stay in contact with his birthparents and new younger sister.

Since his personality had not really changed that much, Chester let his unknown Heirship to the Parkinson family pass him over to his younger sister Pansy.  He had no desire to either run their family nor have to attend Wizengamot meetings once his mother Marcia had stepped down from the post.  Even being told he could have someone be his Proxy during meetings did not change Chester's mind since he would still be required to go over all the documents regarding votes and trials when he would rather keep working with dragons and other wild creatures.

William Black- formerly Bill Weasley

Just like Chester, William's life did not change much at least at work after they changed his name on all the official documents.  Well, the Goblins did increase the strength of the test they used while screening new hires so they could possibly catch the enchantments that had been on William that they had missed when he had started to work at the bank.  William was also a little jealous of Damocles, Mor, and Cleo,  since ever after all the time he had worked for the bank he was not considered a Goblin Friend as the three were since they had attended and graduated Glovantia.

Outside of work, William got to know his birthparents better as well as getting used to having parents who were less than ten years older than he was.  He found it easier just to accept Sirius and Remus as a pair of older friends rather than his birthparents and the pair were happy to share the idea.  It did not hurt that Sirius reminded William of an older version of Fredrick and George, while Remus was a mix between Chester and Dexter.

During William's first posting as a Cruse Breaker Team Leader for the bank, he had a new transfer from the French branch named Fleur Delacour.  Despite the fact that the Goblins used measures to protect their teams from pheromones even those given off by team members that blocked Fleur's Veela Allure, William found himself drawn to the younger woman.   Despite her Allur and beauty, Fleur never acted like a girl who needed things done for her but was willing to get her hands dirty during the course of their job.

By the time their mission was over, William and Fleur had started to court each other as he informed her what he had gone through in his life as well as introducing Fleur to his former little sister Lilith who had already become a team leader herself.  Rather than be put off by what she had learned of his past, Fleur stood by him, and in a few years the pair ended up getting married and had it attended by not only members of their Curse Breaker team, but all the families of the formerly kidnapped children in one large event that was talked about as the "it" event for the next few years that people wished they had been able to attend.