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Chapter 55 - An Eternity In A Second
Dimension: 563 - Earth
Date: 1st September 2001 AD
Country: France - The French Riviera - Marseeleveyre Mountains
Location: Chateau Delacour
Time: Morning
It was time.
Harry, Fleur, The Delacour's, Colette and Adam were gathered in the training room to say goodbye.
"We're going to miss you Harry." Sighed Delphine as she hugged him "Take care of each other and watch out for meddling old fools."
"We will mother." Smiled Fleur.
"Say goodbye to Gabrielle for me." Added Harry before turning to Colette and his mate.
"See you two at Hogwarts."
"Take care of yourself Arry." Smiled Fleur, giving him a tight hug before swapping places with Colette.
"See you Antlers," she grinned "Come back to us in one piece, you still owe me a threesome."
"I promise I'll be in one piece." Harry chuckled.
"We had better be going." commented Dimitri, looking at his watch and heading towards the door.
"Bye Arry." Sighed Fleur, tears in the corners of her eyes.
"Bye Fleur." He returned "See you soon."
The group left the room slowly waving goodbyes, leaving just Harry and Adam.
As soon as the group walking around the corner and out of sight Harry sighed and turned towards Adam who was busy preparing the room, he had already magically drawn a pentagon on the floor and had arranged many candles around the room.
"So what do we do?"
"Sit down in the middle of the pentagon opposite me." Adam explained as he sat down where he had said.
"Now what?" asked Harry.
"Sit still." Came the response before Adam began to chant in a language that Harry did not know.
The light in the room started to get brighter....and brighter.
The light got so bright that Harry had to close his eyes and yet the light continued to brighten.
It brightened and brightened until the light coming out of the crack under the door was like the beam from a light house before all of a sudden....the light went out....
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Hermione, Ron and Ginny clambered into their carriage of the Hogwarts Express.
"What was the masked man like Hermione?" asked Ginny.
"Very polite," she replied sitting down in her seat, Crookshanks immediately settling into her lap "Not to mention very fast and very dangerous, the way he was throwing those swords about was down right scary."
"Is your house repaired yet?"
"Mostly," she replied looking out of the window "There are still some....some....I don't believe it."
"What?" asked Ginny as she moved to the window to see what Hermione was staring at.
"Please tell me that's not who I think it is?"
"It is," sighed Ginny as she saw the person in question "Phlegm."
"Fleur!" exclaimed Ron, moving faster than he normally did to stare at the French beauty, wrapped up in light furs whilst she said goodbye to who were probably her parents.
Hermione and Ginny sent him death glares making him move back to his seat.
"What on earth is she doing here?" asked Ginny as she returned her sight to the Veela's.
"I dread to think," replied Hermione before her eyes widened at a possibility "Oh God, I really hope she's not the new DADA teacher."
"Oh Merlin no." gasped Ginny "Anything but that, I would even prefer Umbridge over her self superiority talk."
"I wonder who the girl is with her, she looks like a Veela and she's getting on the train to so she's obviously coming with us, but what job could she possibly have, all the teaching positions are already filled."
"I really hope we are not going to have two 'self superior' Veela DADA Professors." Gasped Ginny. Ron looked decidedly more keen about the idea.
"They are not DADA teachers." Said a voice from the doorway "Wotcher all."
"Tonks?" exclaimed Hermione "What are you doing here?"
"I am currently on Auror protection detail; why else do you think I am in uniform, Halloween fancy dress?" she grinned "No, Madam Bones ordered a dozen of us to guard the train, didn't you see the other Auror's on the station?"
"Well yes, but I thought it was probably Fudges orders and I doubt he would have thought about actually guarding the train once it had left the station."
Tonks chuckled and squatted down beside them, putting her feet up on the seats opposite.
"It sounds like him doesn't it but no, we are here on the Director's orders which means there are Auror's here, they will be here all the way to Hogwarts, they will actually know what they are doing and will be able to, at the very least, put up a good fight if anything goes wrong. It's mainly thanks to that article of yours Hermione, Fudge dares not do anything against Madam Bones regarding security encase she orders and enquiry of his office or the public hear about it. Madam Bones wanted me to pass along her personal thanks to you."
"It's good to hear that something good came of that, I ended up getting heaps of mail, half of them saying 'well done', 'good for you', 'way to go' or 'you are in inspiration to us all' and the rest saying 'you glory seeker', 'you lying piece of Dragon excrement' or else trying to kill me by exploding and splattering hot wax everywhere."
"Ooh, nasty." Exclaimed Ginny "What happened with that one?"
"Luckily Remus recognised the signs of the spell and threw it away so that it exploded safely on the other side of the room."
They were interrupted by the door sliding open.
"Hey guys."
"Hey Nev, Luna." Returned Ron "This is Tonks; she's one of the Auror guards, Tonks this is Neville and Luna, you may have met briefly at the Ministry."
"Hello." Greeted Neville nervously, it was not everyday that you saw Auror's with pink hair.
"Hi."
"Wotcher folks."
As the pair settled in an Auror in his blue robed uniform knocked and entered.
"Sorry to intrude Auror Tonks, Auror Kingsley wanted me to inform you that the train will be leaving imminently and that you are now in charge of the detail."
"Thank you Williams, dismissed." Replied Tonks.
"You're in charge of the detail?" asked Ginny as Williams left.
"Yep, I got promoted; you are now talking to N. Tonks, Level Two Auror, Detail Leader."
"Congratulations." Said Hermione "When did this happen?"
"A few days ago, Madam Bones has asked many of the normal L.E.O's to become Auror's in preparation for the coming war and they needed more Detail Leaders. Kingsley was also promoted; he's now a Level One Tactical Commander, he's now the highest rank short of actually commanding the entire Auror division."
"Wow," replied Ginny "That's wonderful, that should be a big help to our side."
"Speaking of our side," commented Luna from Neville's lap "Does anyone know anything more about Harry?"
"We haven't seen him since he left Hogwarts in the middle of the summer, he...." began Hermione before stopping and listening "We'll tell you later, we've got company."
On cue there was a knock on the door before it slid open to reveal a pair of blonds.
"Ello, may we join you."
"Wotcher Fleur." Greeted Tonks brightly, gesturing to the empty seats, ignoring the death glares she was receiving from Hermione and Ginny.
The others all greeted her with different levels of enthusiasm, Luna was pleasantly surprised when Neville pulled her back tight against him and tried to not look at the beautiful women now occupying their compartment.
"Everyone I vould like you to meet Colette, my best friend."
Luna deciding to go against the will of the other girls, stood and shook both the Veela's hands.
"Luna Lovegood," she greeted "This is my boyfriend Neville Longbottom."
Neville tried his best to keep cognisant while acting the civilised man, kissing the back of both extended hands.
"A pleasure to meet you."
"Such a gentleman." Smiled Colette, making Neville blush "Would you be so kind as to introduce me to your friends."
"Certainly." he replied rather UN-certainly "This is Hermione Granger."
"Hello." Replied the bushy haired witch, trying not to assume automatically that this Veela was like Fleur.
"Ginny Weasley."
"Hi."
"Ron Weasley."
"...."Ron replied mutely as Colette gently stretched, letting her fur coat slide of her shoulders to reveal the pale skin at the top of her arms.
"Colette, behave yourself." Warned Fleur "And turn of your powers, even your introducer is struggling to remain himself."
Looking to Neville, Colette could see him staring as hard as he could towards his girlfriend muttering something that looked like 'I like Luna' over and over under his breath.
Shrugging she pulled her coat back up onto her shoulders and turning to Ron who was looking very embarrassed.
"My apologize, I do like a good tease," she explained before turning to Neville who was still muttering his mantra "Your will is strong," she complimented before giving him a kiss on the cheek "If you ever decide that you want another lover let me know."
Neville's eyes went so wide that they were beginning to look like bludgers, much to the amusement of Luna who, far from staring daggers at the Veela, was actually beaming widely at Neville.
"Colette," said Fleur again "Remember the rules about teacher/student relations."
"Rules can be so boring at times." Colette sighed whilst moving back to her seat.
"What subjects will you be teaching Professors?" asked Luna.
"It's just Colette and Fleur when we are not in class." Explained Colette "We will be teaching two of the four new classes; Fleur's going to be doing History of Magical Creatures which will be supplementing the normal History Of Magic classes and I will be teaching Alternative Magic."
"Alternative Magic?" asked Hermione sitting forward; Fleur and Colette had to suppress smiles as Hermione reacted exactly the way Harry said she would when they started talking about their jobs.
"The way other cultures use magic among other things."
"What are the other classes that will be taught this year?" asked Neville from his position under Luna, now having regained his composure.
"Muggle Defence and Duelling," replied Tonks "Professor Dumbledore is bringing in a Master."
"A real Duelling Master?" asked Ron "Who is he and is he actually any good?"
"He's a friend of ours actually," smiled Fleur "His names Daniel Radcliffe and he's been teaching Defence Against Assault and Flying at Beauxbatons all summer, every single one of his students passed with flying colours, two of them have even taken over his positions now that he is coming to Hogwarts."
"Well, at least he can actually teach." Sighed Ginny "Every other new teacher that has come to the school has had to leave or has been useless, dangerous or has had to leave."
"Don't worry Umbridge isn't coming back." Replied Tonks with a knowing smile "DADA will be much better this year."
"Who?" said all the students at once.
"You will find out." Said Tonks standing and heading for the door "Now if you will excuse me I have a job to do."
Tonks left grinning as the students began to ponder on who their latest attempt at a Professor was going to be.
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Dimension: 563 - Earth
Date: 1st September 2001 AD
Country: France - The French Riviera - Marseeleveyre Mountains
Location: Chateau Delacour
Time: Morning
There was silence at the Chateau Delacour, after the flash of light the last of the Chateau's residence had left, leaving just the staff and House Elves.
One minute after the flash another followed and two people appeared, one was the same as when he had left but the other was not.
The boy with a lightning shaped scar had grown, he was taller, his muscles where fully developed into an athletic figure, his demeanour had changed as well, he was standing tall, there was an experienced look to him that complemented the maturity he already had.
Two swords hung across his back and a pair of guns rested in their holsters at his hips. The shirt and jeans he had left in were now accompanied by a leather jacket, all of which had a worn and used look to them.
Harry turned to Adam.
"When are we?"
"About a minute after when we left. Colette, Fleur and her parents are now on their way to London."
"Let's go and meet them." Said Harry eagerly.
"No," replied Adam "There are other things we must do."
"What?"
"First we need to take a trip to Diagon Alley and then we have some Veela to visit."
Dimension: 563 - Earth
Date: 1st September 2001 AD
Country: France - The French Riviera - Marseeleveyre Mountains
Location: Chateau Delacour
Time: Morning
It was time.
Harry, Fleur, The Delacour's, Colette and Adam were gathered in the training room to say goodbye.
"We're going to miss you Harry." Sighed Delphine as she hugged him "Take care of each other and watch out for meddling old fools."
"We will mother." Smiled Fleur.
"Say goodbye to Gabrielle for me." Added Harry before turning to Colette and his mate.
"See you two at Hogwarts."
"Take care of yourself Arry." Smiled Fleur, giving him a tight hug before swapping places with Colette.
"See you Antlers," she grinned "Come back to us in one piece, you still owe me a threesome."
"I promise I'll be in one piece." Harry chuckled.
"We had better be going." commented Dimitri, looking at his watch and heading towards the door.
"Bye Arry." Sighed Fleur, tears in the corners of her eyes.
"Bye Fleur." He returned "See you soon."
The group left the room slowly waving goodbyes, leaving just Harry and Adam.
As soon as the group walking around the corner and out of sight Harry sighed and turned towards Adam who was busy preparing the room, he had already magically drawn a pentagon on the floor and had arranged many candles around the room.
"So what do we do?"
"Sit down in the middle of the pentagon opposite me." Adam explained as he sat down where he had said.
"Now what?" asked Harry.
"Sit still." Came the response before Adam began to chant in a language that Harry did not know.
The light in the room started to get brighter....and brighter.
The light got so bright that Harry had to close his eyes and yet the light continued to brighten.
It brightened and brightened until the light coming out of the crack under the door was like the beam from a light house before all of a sudden....the light went out....
________________________________________________________________________
Hermione, Ron and Ginny clambered into their carriage of the Hogwarts Express.
"What was the masked man like Hermione?" asked Ginny.
"Very polite," she replied sitting down in her seat, Crookshanks immediately settling into her lap "Not to mention very fast and very dangerous, the way he was throwing those swords about was down right scary."
"Is your house repaired yet?"
"Mostly," she replied looking out of the window "There are still some....some....I don't believe it."
"What?" asked Ginny as she moved to the window to see what Hermione was staring at.
"Please tell me that's not who I think it is?"
"It is," sighed Ginny as she saw the person in question "Phlegm."
"Fleur!" exclaimed Ron, moving faster than he normally did to stare at the French beauty, wrapped up in light furs whilst she said goodbye to who were probably her parents.
Hermione and Ginny sent him death glares making him move back to his seat.
"What on earth is she doing here?" asked Ginny as she returned her sight to the Veela's.
"I dread to think," replied Hermione before her eyes widened at a possibility "Oh God, I really hope she's not the new DADA teacher."
"Oh Merlin no." gasped Ginny "Anything but that, I would even prefer Umbridge over her self superiority talk."
"I wonder who the girl is with her, she looks like a Veela and she's getting on the train to so she's obviously coming with us, but what job could she possibly have, all the teaching positions are already filled."
"I really hope we are not going to have two 'self superior' Veela DADA Professors." Gasped Ginny. Ron looked decidedly more keen about the idea.
"They are not DADA teachers." Said a voice from the doorway "Wotcher all."
"Tonks?" exclaimed Hermione "What are you doing here?"
"I am currently on Auror protection detail; why else do you think I am in uniform, Halloween fancy dress?" she grinned "No, Madam Bones ordered a dozen of us to guard the train, didn't you see the other Auror's on the station?"
"Well yes, but I thought it was probably Fudges orders and I doubt he would have thought about actually guarding the train once it had left the station."
Tonks chuckled and squatted down beside them, putting her feet up on the seats opposite.
"It sounds like him doesn't it but no, we are here on the Director's orders which means there are Auror's here, they will be here all the way to Hogwarts, they will actually know what they are doing and will be able to, at the very least, put up a good fight if anything goes wrong. It's mainly thanks to that article of yours Hermione, Fudge dares not do anything against Madam Bones regarding security encase she orders and enquiry of his office or the public hear about it. Madam Bones wanted me to pass along her personal thanks to you."
"It's good to hear that something good came of that, I ended up getting heaps of mail, half of them saying 'well done', 'good for you', 'way to go' or 'you are in inspiration to us all' and the rest saying 'you glory seeker', 'you lying piece of Dragon excrement' or else trying to kill me by exploding and splattering hot wax everywhere."
"Ooh, nasty." Exclaimed Ginny "What happened with that one?"
"Luckily Remus recognised the signs of the spell and threw it away so that it exploded safely on the other side of the room."
They were interrupted by the door sliding open.
"Hey guys."
"Hey Nev, Luna." Returned Ron "This is Tonks; she's one of the Auror guards, Tonks this is Neville and Luna, you may have met briefly at the Ministry."
"Hello." Greeted Neville nervously, it was not everyday that you saw Auror's with pink hair.
"Hi."
"Wotcher folks."
As the pair settled in an Auror in his blue robed uniform knocked and entered.
"Sorry to intrude Auror Tonks, Auror Kingsley wanted me to inform you that the train will be leaving imminently and that you are now in charge of the detail."
"Thank you Williams, dismissed." Replied Tonks.
"You're in charge of the detail?" asked Ginny as Williams left.
"Yep, I got promoted; you are now talking to N. Tonks, Level Two Auror, Detail Leader."
"Congratulations." Said Hermione "When did this happen?"
"A few days ago, Madam Bones has asked many of the normal L.E.O's to become Auror's in preparation for the coming war and they needed more Detail Leaders. Kingsley was also promoted; he's now a Level One Tactical Commander, he's now the highest rank short of actually commanding the entire Auror division."
"Wow," replied Ginny "That's wonderful, that should be a big help to our side."
"Speaking of our side," commented Luna from Neville's lap "Does anyone know anything more about Harry?"
"We haven't seen him since he left Hogwarts in the middle of the summer, he...." began Hermione before stopping and listening "We'll tell you later, we've got company."
On cue there was a knock on the door before it slid open to reveal a pair of blonds.
"Ello, may we join you."
"Wotcher Fleur." Greeted Tonks brightly, gesturing to the empty seats, ignoring the death glares she was receiving from Hermione and Ginny.
The others all greeted her with different levels of enthusiasm, Luna was pleasantly surprised when Neville pulled her back tight against him and tried to not look at the beautiful women now occupying their compartment.
"Everyone I vould like you to meet Colette, my best friend."
Luna deciding to go against the will of the other girls, stood and shook both the Veela's hands.
"Luna Lovegood," she greeted "This is my boyfriend Neville Longbottom."
Neville tried his best to keep cognisant while acting the civilised man, kissing the back of both extended hands.
"A pleasure to meet you."
"Such a gentleman." Smiled Colette, making Neville blush "Would you be so kind as to introduce me to your friends."
"Certainly." he replied rather UN-certainly "This is Hermione Granger."
"Hello." Replied the bushy haired witch, trying not to assume automatically that this Veela was like Fleur.
"Ginny Weasley."
"Hi."
"Ron Weasley."
"...."Ron replied mutely as Colette gently stretched, letting her fur coat slide of her shoulders to reveal the pale skin at the top of her arms.
"Colette, behave yourself." Warned Fleur "And turn of your powers, even your introducer is struggling to remain himself."
Looking to Neville, Colette could see him staring as hard as he could towards his girlfriend muttering something that looked like 'I like Luna' over and over under his breath.
Shrugging she pulled her coat back up onto her shoulders and turning to Ron who was looking very embarrassed.
"My apologize, I do like a good tease," she explained before turning to Neville who was still muttering his mantra "Your will is strong," she complimented before giving him a kiss on the cheek "If you ever decide that you want another lover let me know."
Neville's eyes went so wide that they were beginning to look like bludgers, much to the amusement of Luna who, far from staring daggers at the Veela, was actually beaming widely at Neville.
"Colette," said Fleur again "Remember the rules about teacher/student relations."
"Rules can be so boring at times." Colette sighed whilst moving back to her seat.
"What subjects will you be teaching Professors?" asked Luna.
"It's just Colette and Fleur when we are not in class." Explained Colette "We will be teaching two of the four new classes; Fleur's going to be doing History of Magical Creatures which will be supplementing the normal History Of Magic classes and I will be teaching Alternative Magic."
"Alternative Magic?" asked Hermione sitting forward; Fleur and Colette had to suppress smiles as Hermione reacted exactly the way Harry said she would when they started talking about their jobs.
"The way other cultures use magic among other things."
"What are the other classes that will be taught this year?" asked Neville from his position under Luna, now having regained his composure.
"Muggle Defence and Duelling," replied Tonks "Professor Dumbledore is bringing in a Master."
"A real Duelling Master?" asked Ron "Who is he and is he actually any good?"
"He's a friend of ours actually," smiled Fleur "His names Daniel Radcliffe and he's been teaching Defence Against Assault and Flying at Beauxbatons all summer, every single one of his students passed with flying colours, two of them have even taken over his positions now that he is coming to Hogwarts."
"Well, at least he can actually teach." Sighed Ginny "Every other new teacher that has come to the school has had to leave or has been useless, dangerous or has had to leave."
"Don't worry Umbridge isn't coming back." Replied Tonks with a knowing smile "DADA will be much better this year."
"Who?" said all the students at once.
"You will find out." Said Tonks standing and heading for the door "Now if you will excuse me I have a job to do."
Tonks left grinning as the students began to ponder on who their latest attempt at a Professor was going to be.
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Dimension: 563 - Earth
Date: 1st September 2001 AD
Country: France - The French Riviera - Marseeleveyre Mountains
Location: Chateau Delacour
Time: Morning
There was silence at the Chateau Delacour, after the flash of light the last of the Chateau's residence had left, leaving just the staff and House Elves.
One minute after the flash another followed and two people appeared, one was the same as when he had left but the other was not.
The boy with a lightning shaped scar had grown, he was taller, his muscles where fully developed into an athletic figure, his demeanour had changed as well, he was standing tall, there was an experienced look to him that complemented the maturity he already had.
Two swords hung across his back and a pair of guns rested in their holsters at his hips. The shirt and jeans he had left in were now accompanied by a leather jacket, all of which had a worn and used look to them.
Harry turned to Adam.
"When are we?"
"About a minute after when we left. Colette, Fleur and her parents are now on their way to London."
"Let's go and meet them." Said Harry eagerly.
"No," replied Adam "There are other things we must do."
"What?"
"First we need to take a trip to Diagon Alley and then we have some Veela to visit."
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