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Chapter 18: School, Scandal & Sorrow

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School was school and one has to remember that despite everything going on around and among them that Hogwarts is a school. There were lessons and tests in addition to the clubs that had formed. Horus just chuckled at every Ministry Educational Decree that came out. The routine around the school had continued and things were going to be rather amusing for the sorcerer as he watched the road being paved before him.

Horus wondered for a moment if the mere existent of having the students watch mundy movies or as they say muggle movies would facilitate the massive exodus that would come when the Wizarding Civil War breaks out. It had been a matter of contention among historians why that at the end of the twentieth century that wiz finally realized that they could have a long productive, safe and enjoyable life outside the Wizarding World.

That momentary thought passed as Horus was enjoying his morning breakfast. Luna had adopted Nev as her boy toy and as such he spent most of his time sitting next to her during meals. That was when she had not dragged him somewhere where they alternated who would be the platter while the other ate. Horus had a minor tremor of terror at the vicious and sinister smile she gave Weasel Boy. The Weasley Twins had created the second interactive pensive sphere and had gladly turned it over to Luna when Angela and Alicia had dragged the two over and asked about borrowing Luna's other toy.

Horus had been quite irritable when the Twins were unable to think about anything but what happened while Luna used the Cum and Go Room to create the contents. He was fairly certain that Nev and Su had been dragged along and got to experience and create the training methods for Luna's Love Slaves. Thankfully Nev was with Luna often enough that he never risked finding out what methods she had favored. He had been unlucky with the Weasley Twins despite his precautions. He had to admit that Chang had been properly used and it had broadened the Twins horizons beyond doubling up and swapping with the Double A's. He had literally had to shag himself delirious with Hannah during a study break to get that image out of his mind. The twins had double stuffed Chang and been kept muffled by the girls gagging them with a better use of their tongue while the girls kept each others mouths occupied.

He had best not start thinking along those lines or he would be late for class not that he didn't know enough to pass his OWLS and even NEWTS with perfect Os. His attention was thankfully diverted by the wave of positively giddiness radiating from Delores this morning. Something was up and he was sure that it did not have a good thing for the Headmaster. As soon as the man had enough power cut he could do away with Binns as the ghost was extremely annoying. He had in fact had to resist using the idiot as a weapon as the sheer boredom that he generated was a very affective weapon. That the fool had changed from Goblin Wars of which most were bullshit Pro Wizarding Propaganda to the Giant Wars which had actually resulted in the almost complete decline of their culture to almost the near savages that the wizards portrayed.

The only reason he had not dealt with Binns as he had the other ghosts and even Peeves was that Binns seemed to have a complete lack of memories that seemed the opposite of typical ghosts. Besides if the seer had not had enough of a gift to know better than to show while Dumbles was around he would have Binns gone already and replaced with Cissa. She was a good study of History as well as having a bit of the Black Curse. They did have some seer blood from way back, but it was diluted almost to the point of complete latency.

'They say the only thing any Black could see was their own death,' Horus thought. 'Still the bit about Binns cannot be helped at the moment something is keeping him here besides the usual. He stayed not out of the usual reasons and it is almost as if he is being actively prevented from completing his required tasks.'

That he lectured from rote did seem a bit to useful to keeping the students ignorant of proper History. That he had been allowed to teach even after death had seemed unlikely. It was almost as if Dumbles had him in a beyond death contract and those were normally made by the various demon organizations or the more jaded necromancers than even himself. If he had not known better he would have suspected Dumbles of being at least part demon, but that was a thankful impossibility. No Mystic could have demonic blood or traits and if they had it would have been destroyed during awakening.

That was one of the reasons that he had wondered why that soul cursed blood demon animated so called vampire had not tried to gain the attention of one of the other breeds as any of the non demonic varieties could if the blood was strong enough re-sire the idiot and the demon would be destroyed by that. The mystics would never consent to that as he was a pathetic unworthy child in life and more so for most of his unlife. Last he heard the idiot was in New York living on rats. Sure their was rumors on the grapevine that he had done something useful during WWII, but most thought that was self preservation.

He had planned to meet the idiot one day and sock him one. The idiot had come close to cause open revelation in a most unpleasant light with his actions with the Scourge of Europe. Not that they had Anything to do with those Nazi like fuckers of the Scourge. WWII had been one of the closest that the supernatural had come to outing itself to deal with a menace. Although open destruction of the Axis would have led to revelation a good number of mystics sheltered and smuggled as many as they could out. Although it had made many wish to return to the old and illegal practice of kidnapping detected mystics from mundane society. It still happened for the most part if they were orphans.

Those who knew of Riddle had originally planned to relocate him from the orphanage he had been placed with. The problem was that something had prevented them from doing so besides the ban of wizard identified students. Stupid Dumbles mistakes created the hate driven creature he had became. Rage and vengeance where living things after all. That it had been either a muggle or more likely a squib caretaker that had so destroyed his innocence did only further the issues.

'Maybe Riddle will calm down once he is dead,' Horus thought. 'Meeting his mother would help, still he had really ruined most of his chances at redemption. Still the plan would get around his fragmentation and letting his mother yell at him for all time will be so much more fulfilling than simply destroying him. Maybe someday he will reincarnate and things will be different than. A shame that Snake's line among the wizards would end so not with a bang but a whimper. If I ever end in a past before that I would probably do whatever I could to prevent his fall. Then again I would find away that Dumbles did a mutual take out of Grindelwald. I should have done a better research on the guy as I don't know anything about him.'

Horus's thoughts were interrupted by the arrival of the morning owls and the dropping off of the Daily Prophet. Horus was grateful that there was nothing in his mouth as his eyes bulged out at what he saw on the front page. Things were definitely not going Dumbles way and this was another nail in his coffin.

On the plus time he was slowly turning his troops into something usable. The sad thing was he was mostly teaching the second section so that they would be those that survived the innate nightmare that would far too soon come among them. He should have studied his history more but he had always been anti-wiz and had been probably the sorcerer equivalent of a pure blood supremacist. Hell the only group that was more despised he had learned to tolerate.

The Invokers were the only group more despised by the mystics in general and that was because they tended to cause more problems than most thought as possible. Then again, they were loathed because of what they had done to the many other groups. Unlike summoners who had a relationship with their summons of mutual benefit, invokers had tended to cause problems especially among shifters and even vampires. It was do to the fact that even after the Mystic Wars and the forming of the Pan-Were Council that the Invokers had used and abused what some deemed as lesser lycanthropes. Well there was also the fact that they tended to leak when using magic which caused problems.

Not that leaking magic was bad as everyone leaks some energy into the ambient energies, but that most never shield properly and leak so much that things go bad. The illustrious case of Maggy Welds and how she accidentally called almost every dormant and active spirit the night she preformed a minor spell in a graveyard all because she did not read the warning which said not to cast that spell on a full moon in a graveyard. The main issue with Invokers and Practitioners in general is that they tend to get lost in the rush when casting anything big. That means that they get hyped up on a rush that would make most pharmaceutical highs seem tame.

The main thing that saved her from accidentally causing the first Witch Hunt after Discovery is that she lived in the middle of nowhere and that she had friends that were able to give good advice. That she was the first sensitive below Adept that was allowed into one of the Mystics communities' havens. That mundane schools had an introduction to magic class allowed those from mundane backgrounds to avoid causing problems.

'The only reason that the Kunos and the rest of the Nerima loons had so many magical items,' Horus thought, 'was that Nerima was a chaos nexus and the unexpected happened there and the items were concealed by the background interference. Than again, most of them were items that would be considered chi magic and as such have less discernible signatures. Still there was a time when I almost worried that the insanity there would be noticed outside. Warlocks are respected as law enforcement, but there are enough people that are still distrustful of all the enhanced humans making them feel inferior at this time. It is not like the future where over half the population would be considered sensitives. This is a time where mundanes are the majority and that they have not discovered the true scale of magic.'

That had been a point that had rather blown up in the face of the Nerima police department as misuse of magic was rather harsh and mind control and similar things harshly dealt with. The Amazons would have been dealt with harshly if they had been caught using their potions. That the easiest they would have been was an advisory committee to oversee them was rather troubling. Mind control was a serious taboo by pretty much every group sensitive, mundane, magical and mystical alike had a rather high regard for free will. While ways to restrict harmful behavior existed modifying the mind without a good reason was not recommended. That even most psychics and psionics had a firm code of behavior kept the world from cracking down and prevented the puppet legions that most feared.

Still certain occupations were allowed to use the high end control spells. Warlocks and Hunter Squads being two of the groups that had licensed mind art practitioners. While before discovery there had been groups that modified memories to keep their secrecy hidden that did not mean that it was tolerated after. Most groups were better at covering it up than the wizards were and as such the greater ability to blend in allowed them not to resort to such methods as often.

Still there were things that would need to be dealt with and that might cause problems later. The slow limitations of the Headmasters authority were necessary but that had allowed the Minister too much leeway in the future. With the control of the governors the decrees that did not fit into his plans were scrapped and those that did went forward. However Horus was disgusted at how much sway that the so called pure bloods held.

'Nothing but inbred squibs, the lot of them,' Horus thought in a huff. 'I can only do so much for them. That is all things considered and that there are far too many things to do to keep to the plan. Still most of the pure bloods will be the last to accept the integration into the real world. Then again, that is because they have so little power there.'

The morning paper had arrived and the latest Ministry decree had arrived. The ones dealing with clubs had been dealt with and Horus had only needed to glare at her to nod her head that any group he headed would be recognized. With Trelawney gone the chances for more students to actually pass their OWL and NEWT divination tests had increased. Decree twenty five gave Umbridge a good deal of power. Not that she would be foolish enough to go after him when he had presented her with a copy of a blood oath she had signed. So while the newest decree gave her the power to give, alter or remove any punishments including sanctions and removal of privileges there was no way that she wanted to spend time in the play room. The poor teacher had gone positively pale when he had told her if she stepped out of line he would let Luna deal with her punishments and that even Narcissa said that she went further than Lucius ever had.

So Horus had enjoyed the look on her face as he hoped that the Twins would have the final version of the mind only interactive pensive ready. It had to be a shame that he could not market the one that would allow physical conditioning although it could be misused far too easily. Soon enough it was time to go to class. Maybe they would reach something interesting today although that was something that he highly doubted.

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Classrooms were dull especially at Hogwarts. While they were not the meticulous gray and off white that infected the mundane institution that did not do anything for the fact that as stone work they were bricks and students might start counting then similarly to ceiling tiles when they got bored. Horus was very bored and this did not sit well with him even if it was not something new. Potions was were he had a chance to impart some sense of art into their closed off minds and even most other classes had something to do as part of the work. However, dealing with Binns was not something that he enjoyed. That was mostly do to the fact that he had to resist the urge to simply exorcise the spirit or more for his used reap his soul.

That was one of the things he had found that Necromancers and Speakers tended to do and that was collect minions. A Necromancer would collect skeletons and zombies while a Speaker would collect spirits and souls similar to shaman. Horus had a large collection from his slaughtering of Death Eaters and other undesirables and would possibly almost qualify to become a Master Necromancer if he dropped off them with Riddle's soul. Why the system acted in a matter similar to a game he had once played when in one of the cyber-caf�s that were already popular at the time. Unknown to him several game developments and other media ventures happened sooner than they would if the mystical had remained hidden and the technological boom of technomagick had not occurred.

Then again, there was the fact that by the new year the number of mundane households that had clone spell-tops even if they were less powerful would be telling. That within the next year streaming high speed video on demand would reach levels that most technologically sole realities would not achieve for at a minimum of a decade more. The main thing was that communications based technology in addition to medicinal and similar discoveries were several decades if not centuries accelerated.

All this meant that he was very bored in the middle of Binns class and had to try not to do something. For the twentieth time in less than ten minutes he had felt his hand twitch and the temptation to deal with Binns rise up once again. There is only so much regurgitated fiction being passed off as history that one can take.

'I can take the bullshit lies of Goblin Rebellions,' Horus thought as he had started to tap his finger on the table while his pad recorded the lecture. 'I need to do something and just using this class to make up for sleep loss is a waste of my time. Do I really want to interrupt him though? From what I have found the only time anyone interrupted him was when Hermione asked about the Chamber of Secrets and that was more about the myths and legends than the actual facts. Might as well ask about something relevant. Let's see he is droning about Giant Wars not like they ever bothered us after an Initiate was sent to their tournaments and then beat the living hell out of their champion without using magic. Wizards just neglect their bodies too much.'

"Professor," Horus asked in a tone designed to get his attention.

"Yes Bobby," Binns said.

"Well I was wondering why you always talk about Giants and other magical beings being the aggressors in these wars when half the time it was because a fanatic who despised them. I know for a fact that most would rather exorcise you than allow you to continue teaching. So why not go into the more recent history and why things happened the way it did," Horus said allowing just a bit of power into his voice which should theoretically override Dumbledore's commands.

"Why what a marvelous Idea Gary," Binns said.

"Thank you Professor," Horus said. 'I wonder if that is another command to not get students names right or if he had problems remembering his students when alive,' he thought. 'Just something else to ask once the class is over.'

"Well as Terry asked," Binns begins. "The recent history of the wizarding world is spotty while there has not been a war with other magical creatures the war between the light, the dark and the Ministry has been the common theme of the past century. During the rise of Grindelwald during the first half of the century there was a unification of the dark for the first time in centuries as the preceding centuries were full of dark lords that were relatively weak."

"What do you mean by relatively weak?" Hermione asked.

"Well Sherry," Binns said. "The past few centuries have been full of dark lords that at most had a handful of followers and they were rather weak in comparison to those of this century. To call them dark lords is stretching it as they were closer to dark wizards with a few followers. In the time after the past few wars with the various magical creatures such as Goblins and Giants, the wizards as well as the creatures lost a rather large number of there more powerful members and those that remained were those that had been considered too weak to fight in the war."

"So what you are saying is that every war tends to kill of the best and brightest of there generation?" Hermione asked.

"Yes and that is why most tended to marry early which is a tradition that continues today along with the still popular arranged marriages between the old families," Binns said. "Such families as the Blacks, Malfoy, Parkinson, and similar families keep this tradition. Most of the Gryffindor families do not yet they too pay attention to tradition in attire, dress and behavior."

Soon enough the lesson continued on that vein as questions the students had were actually answered as Dumbledore's compulsions were blocked for the lesson. The students learned of the rise and fall of Grindelwald and of Voldemort with the true reasons and desires instead of those popularized by the media. The Headmasters mistakes as Transfiguration Professor were not covered however the desire for Immortality and not just power or the Pureblood supremacist idea did give them things to think about. It was a shame that the controls would return before any Slytherin class arrived.

"Hello Professor Binns," Horus said after the students had left. "Tell me clearly why you remain. Just teaching is no good reason to stay."

"I stay to complete my works on the true legacy of Slytherin and that does include the Chamber of Secrets. Alas as a ghost here the Headmaster has a measure of control over us," he said. "He forbids me from publishing any of that work and as such I must remain here."

"Compelled to stay here as a Ghost and not for reasons otherwise," Horus said with a bit of thought in his voice. "Normally I would force you along but you have reason enough to stay. I will help you publish the truth about Slytherin and then you can move on. I take it you do not like lecturing on Goblin Rebellions and such?"

"No," Binns admitted. "It has so little relevance with the current things and the bias in all the books is horrendous."

"I had suspected that Dumbledore had done something to keep you here," Horus said. "Still the other ghosts are mostly here because they fear to move on. Why when the Netherworld is known almost as well as this world I will never know."

"Because Wizards lost all the information there," Binns said. "What little remains are convoluted myths. Most of the current and the past few ages believe they will go to Avalon to be beside Merlin."

"Yeah why they deified a drop out I will never know," Horus said. "Still I almost think that Dumbles wants to take his place and be so remembered that they swear by him like saying Holy Dumbledore or by Dumbledore's beard. Silly what greed some people have."

"You're not a wizard are you?" Binns asked. "You do not act like one after all."

"I take it part of the reason that he does not wish you to publish is you found out where they came from," Horus said.

"Yes," Binns said. "Still as much as it would destroy the current beliefs the truth is more important."

"Some of them are not ready to know the truth," Horus said. "Perhaps someday they would react without fear. Still the mundys know more about the origin of magic than wizards as sad as that is. Still I might share the truth with some of my friends."

"The truth is a beautiful thing," Binns said.

"Yet it can be a terrible thing," Horus said. "For as beautiful as it is we pale before its splendor and feel cheapened that truths are shrouded with misdirections and lies."

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After hours potions was something that Horus enjoyed but with the already hectic schedule around the added defense and Quidditch it became more time consuming than anything else. Then again, it was one of the few times he could interact with Draco unobserved by any of the Headmasters spies. It did help that he understood his potions or at least as much as a wizard could do to their limited knowledge of potions.

That was why he was here in the potions lab brewing an introductory potion that the wizards had never discovered or even something similar enough that a similar ingredient combination had not been seen. It was a rather useful potion having several useful applications. That it was a necessary potion to brew a cure for long term Cruciutus Exposure. A potion to undo the temporary and residual effects was simple, but the effects of overexposure went into something more. It normally took a high level of skill in the mental arts to remove the buried psyche from where it had hidden. The main reason that overexposure caused insanity was that the mind retreated from the pain as those it was used on did not and could not block the signals overloading their nerves.

This potion also had a difficulty in that it eased several psychological disorders that were too uncommon among the magical denizens to have had them think about. The potion was commonly known as the Serenity Potion as it calmed the mind without any other side effects that similar mind altering potions would cause. The main advantage was that it did not make the subject more suggestible like the calming draft would do. The potion was for neural-muscular issues and had many other uses in application. Its general use was why it was used instead of a large number of wizarding potions as it replaced the calming draft, dreamless sleep and similar potions.

They were near the end stages and despite its similarities to other potions the ingredients were quite different. The resulting potion would be a purplish blue and rather thick liquid almost gel like. Most people used it in a balm to sooth muscle aches as well as stimulate muscle growth. The liquid form when ingested buffers the nerves in a matter similar to a pain killer without other effects. The only known side effect was that it did have a slight and unnoticeable outside combat effect on reflexes as the nerves were buffered which slowed down the signals.

"I still can't believe I have never heard of this potion," Draco said with a mumble. "I thought I had at least heard of most potions that were useful."

"I had not as well Draco," Severus said. "That is not to say that I should not have thought to research similar potions. I am a potions master and you an apprentice for that it is expected for me to know more than you."

"It is neither your fault that the Ministries in Europe have overlooked things with their excessive regulations," Horus said. "The Serenity potion is the basis for most psychological and physiological nervous ailment treatments. That it can form a jelled drop that is easily digested just made it more useful. Remember that in America most potion masters end up working with muggle pharmaceuticals and become for want of a better term filthy rich. That they get percentages for those that work with their original potions is to be expected. Then again muggle medicine is more likely to give them much larger budgets than wizarding."

"It still seems wrong that muggles are aware of magic," Draco said with a sign. "Why do we have the secrecy statues for anyways then?"

"Because it is only in the past century that the religious fanatics have mellowed enough for magic not to be seen as consorting with the infernal," Horus said. "It all goes back to a misinterpretation of what a word incorrectly translated to witch meant. The correct translation was usurper or more accurately poisoner. In this case, it meant those that instilled distrust and fear between a community. Then again there are plenty of people who work the old magicks in America."

"Old Magicks?" Draco asked while stirring the potion.

Horus sighed as he wrote a bit in his lab book and then said, "The Old Magicks are rather different than the usual wand waving and often seem strange to those in the modern magical world."

"Draco means he wants to know a bit more," Severus said in a slightly sarcastic tone before he continued in his head with, 'Not like I don't want to know myself.'

"I sometimes forget how little is known here," Horus said with a chuckle. "Alright the Old Magicks is just that the old magic that is mostly forgotten. The usual type of things that the ministry would throw a fit for being too powerful or too visible. That and even squibs and the like can use them with the proper preparation as they do not require a wand to use. To better explain things do you know why you are for the most part told that you need a wand to do most magic? Or to better phrase it that wandless magic is difficult?"

"I thought that it took great power to use wandless magic," Draco said in a questioning tone.

"More like great control," Severus said thinking about Legilimancy.

"Actually it is both," Horus said. "There are other groups of magic users, but they just don't respect you for a simple reason. They see you as crippled similar to how a wizard would view a squib that being unable to do magic as they think is proper."

"There are groups that think we are squibs," Draco said incredulously.

"Yeah, you didn't make it into the second section," Horus said. "That did rather disappoint me. Then again you did have more of a grasp of magic as the wizarding world of Britain and Europe knows it so thinking creatively was not your foray . I guess that is something to work on for later thought. Now first thing to break to you is the fact that yes I was raised by one of the other groups and that is why I also have a better grasp on potions than most here do. Severus would have done far better there as he is one of the more brilliant potion masters that there are. The problem that he has had is that the necessary research to make some jumps in knowledge never occurred here."

"It is good to be respected and not sucked up to," Severus said. "That is why we have to go in steps with the potion so that we understand the research and basis for the cure since some potions require certain alterations do to conditions. While simple potions such as those OWL level and below can be done by recipe, the higher potions have other factors to take into account and since this is a higher potion that we need to understand the basis and how other factors work. That such a simple potion could treat so much is rather surprising since most potions here become rather specialized."

"Wars," Horus said with a nod. "Carrying a variety of potions for each specific thing is dangerous and it is better to have general purpose potions to get people back into the fight. Humanity is a war like race irregardless and sometimes more so if they have magic."

The two nodded as they knew that conflict was natural. Draco had accepted that he was not someone to taunt into trouble especially after the long talks with his mother. He had overheard the talks about what had happened at the graveyard and while he had idolized his father he knew better than to antagonize someone that powerful and that was without the terms of the duel. He was a pure blood and he had obeyed his father as was proper as both his sire and Lord Malfoy. So he obeyed him originally for those reasons. It had helped that his mother had a very long talk about why his father had let his ambition blind him to danger and that was a very non-Slytherin trait. They were to be ambitious and cunning and his mother had almost ensured his complete cooperation even before that. He was disgusted that he had acted so obvious and he was grateful that Lucius had died since he had found out what his father had planned to do to him. He was grateful that the previous year his mother had prevented him from doing Anything stupid that his father bedridden as he had been for most of the year would have suggested.

Severus had long since gotten used to the fact that regardless of the fact that a Potter had sired him that he was nothing like the man. He was neither arrogant nor a bully and most certainly not a prankster at least to such humiliation as he had undergone. It was a shame that the meddlesome old fool had placed him in Gryffindor as he would have ruled Slytherin house within hours. In addition to that was the fact that he was brilliant and understood potions to be a peer and that allowed him to work on proper potions projects and not to suffer with all the imbecile mistakes that the dunderheads tended to make.

"There is more that you are not telling us," Severus said in a query.

"Many secrets are not mine to tell Severus," Horus said.

"That is understandable," Severus said. "Still one would like to know why?"

"What do you know of the first wizards?" Horus asked.

"They were gifted with magic by the Greater Gods of the Land," Draco said. "At least that is what the stories say and I was told them as nursery stories."

"What would a god be to a wizard?" Horus asked. "If a powerful wizard could seem god like to the muggles what would a person need to seem god like to those that knew magic and how to use it?"

"More powerful," Severus said. "they would have to do something that a wizard could not explain away."

"Muggles were impressed that someone parted the seas even to this day," Horus said. "What would cause someone that could do things that make Dumbledore and the past few Dark Lords look like muggle parlor tricks to believe that someone was a god?"

"Something discernible that they could not," Draco said. "Something that even today we could not do like levitate a mountain."

"With enough power and will anything is possible," Horus said. "Why would someone with that much power deign to gift even a fraction of their gift to what they would view as lesser beings."

"Tools," Severus said. "They may be more powerful but were they omnipresent? If they could not be everywhere then they would need someone to delegate and giving a vassal power to act in there name is a common occurrence."

"Got it in one Severus," Horus admitted with a sigh. "There was a time where magic users actually fought with armies of muggles to prove their superiority."

"I know that some of the magically gifted nobility tended to do such but you make it sound as if it was widespread," Draco said.

"Long ago," Horus said. "It was. Tens of thousands of years ago things were different and as such the way people fought was different. It began innocently enough in the rebuilding after a rather disastrous event, but the event itself is germane to the issue at hand. Natural disasters and other things had reduced the population to a handful of villages at most on any continent. A deal was struck where the magic users provided the magic and the villagers provided a tribute. You know that wizards live longer than muggles right?"

"Yes," the two Slytherins said.

"Well as you may know the more magic you have the longer you can live theoretically. So since these people had more magic they lived longer and lo and behold the muggles started to form religions around them since they were active and the villagers saw miracles enough to increase the tithes. Even with the increase the rising villages were doing better than those that did not have a magic user in charge. Things changed though when the villages grew and needed to expand. Eventually they ran across other villages with their own deities and they fought. There had been a rough alliance between masters and their former apprentices to cooperate. Similar to the muggles in their First World War the alliances entangled and things went bad. Muggles were not enough on there own so they experimented similar to the creation of house elves. By the time the conflict ended human civilization was forced to rebuild once again. The general gist was that wide spread war was bad and a system of resolution besides the duels that had escalated was brought into affect."

"There was more to it wasn't there?" Draco asked.

"Yes," Horus said, "but it is better for you not to know. While wizards have done similar things they never reduced entire civilizations to ruin. What was once plains were mountains and mountains sunk beneath the seas. Forests were reduced to deserts and many things have never been the same."

"So let us get back to the potion," Severus said. "As much as this talk is enlightening there are things to be done."

"Of course Severus," Horus said as they went back to work.

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Ronald Weasley was not what one would consider smart. He was a rather typical underachiever who did not now or ever apply himself. He had issues and he wanted to stand out even without putting an effort into it. He was also one of the most jealous people in the world. This was mostly do to being the youngest son of a rather average financially family and had lived on second hand or even more worn things. His wand was even a hand me down from his brother. He had two things that he cared about and put at least some effort in that being chess and Quidditch. Then again, all the Weasleys were interested and almost obsessed with the sport. That he liked the Chudley Cannons was mostly do to being the first team he had seen live. There was also the fact that they like him were not the most determined of teams.

He was jealous of his brothers since they each had a way that they stood out. Charlie with his dragon handling and Quidditch as he could have gone professional in addition to being prefect and Head Boy. Bill had been similar in his success at Hogwarts and had gone on to be a success in a rather lucrative field as a Curse Breaker.

Percy had followed in their footsteps at least where success in school was and had then gone on to slowly work his way up at the Ministry. He had been Barty Crouches personal assistant and had moved up after his boss's untimely disappearance. It did look like if things kept up that he would eventually succeed in his goals of being in charge.

The Twins had there pranks and to make matters worse seemed to have turned their idea of a mail order joke shop into something extremely profitable. They had worked to ensure that when their mother found out that they would not be solely about the pranks.

Ronald did not know about the more lucrative ventures though. He had overheard in his usual manner about something new that they were working on something that could allow him to improve enough in his classes to get his mother off his back. She had been going on and on about how the twins had shaped up and that it was shocking that they wanted to be mostly respected business man even if she had originally wanted them to be in the Ministry like their father.

So Ronald was looking at the item he had stolen or as he thought borrowed from his brothers. It was supposed to allow for rapid learning which was far quicker and efficient than reading which he loathed doing if it was not about Quidditch of chess. He did not notice the little note attached which said prototype and to handle with care. He did not know what was on the item and he mistook the education to mean the two had tried to find a way to cram all the schoolwork so that it explained their current higher scores.

Now as ickle Ronnikins is not the sharpest tool in the shed that he failed to actually look at the title which said 'Education and Training' in rather bold print with 'Luna's Love Slaves' in a rather small subscript. Some might feel a moment of pity for the boy especially after finding out that Ginny had joined the team and he had not, but after the fit he had thrown Ginny would likely be doing a good example of villainous laughter when she found him in the common room wide eyes with the sphere.

Ginny had after smirking gone of to fetch Mistress Luna with her pet Nev and as much as she did not want to annoy them by interrupting there was no way that she was going to miss the fun of seeing Ronald put in his proper place. Her brother had been a right bastard after he finally realized that she was with Horus or as her bratty big brother prat called him Potter.

So while Ronnikins was getting the treatment to be Luna's next little love slave, Ginny ran her way to where Luna was playing with her pet. For reasons the redhead did not want to think about Horus had the place as his including the playroom except for the two sessions held there and the rooms were still accessible just to the side in some strange manner of thought.

Ginny was getting to the corridor when she noticed that the charm to allow her to tell if the room was occupied showed that it was. Steeling herself she made her way to the door and entered. Thankfully the room provided a welcoming and reception room before anyone entered the dueling or other areas.

"Luna, I am sorry for disturbing you, but it is important," Ginny said in announcement. "Ronald borrowed the Twins gift for you. He is ready and waiting."

"We will be there in a little bit," Luna's husky voice came back.

"Thank you and I will see you later," Ginny said and she ran as fast as her legs could carry her. 'As much as I want to see Ronald put in place I don't want to get caught up in the fun and games,' she thought. 'Luna tends to go a bit overboard when she plays and I was sore after the last time she was involved. Shame that we cannot go to Madame Pomfrey for any of those sores as that would be too embarrassing.'

Ginny was far gone when the two exited the room. Luna seemed to have a gift to be ignored when she did strange things so no one would likely gossip about the skin tight leather she was wearing nor the stains on them let alone what Nev was wearing. As much as Ginny would like to see what Nev was wearing she had long since learned that no matter how good someone looked in skin tight clothing one did not want to be around when Luna started playing. She did not regret that she would miss seeing Nev only wearing tight pants and a collar and leash as she much preferred not to get Luna's attention after she had ended up hanging and being teased and used for what felt like hours.

That was not to say that Ginny had gone back to her bad habits and was therefore not nestled in a corner of the common room under an invisibility cloak when they came through. This allowed her to watch without hopefully being pulled into the problems that would occur. So she was crouched watching as Luna sauntered in with Nev trailing behind. She barely resisted licking her lips as she saw how much of there bodies were outlined by there clothes.

Luna stalked forward and grabbed Ronald's head and lifted it sharply while she glared at him and asked, "What are you doing pet?"

"Whatever Mistress wants," Ronald answered. "How may this lowly pet serve?"
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Lemon Scene

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Luna was despite what most thought of her a rather stern and demanding dominant. After letting her two dirty consciences influence her, Luna was going to do everything that she could to savor having her newest toy pre broken even if she loved breaking them.

"Well pet," Luna said. "You will be evaluated and if worthy I might gift you with a name. How does that make you feel pet?"

"I am pleased if you are pleased mistress," Ronald answered.

"Good answer pet," Luna said. "Now let's see what talents you have. You are to bring me to climax with just your hands and tongue. No kissing as you have to earn that pet."

"Yes mistress," Ronald said before going to task.

Ronald was kissing and nibbling at her breasts as Nev sat to the side waiting. The boy knew this would happen eventually and he just hoped that She would not be creative in Her play that night. Luna while enjoying teasing and leaving her pets on edge preferred to climax sooner and as the training was based on her ideal play toy it is no wonder that Ronald was soon buried as he practically worshiped her pussy.

Ginny was grateful that she had added a silencing charm when she had donned the invisibility cloak as she knew things were going to get intense sooner or later. With Nev wearing tight leather and a flip up cover being the only thing hiding his erection she knew that things would be getting hotter.

Luna was reclining with her legs spread as Ronald tried to use every hard learned lesson. He did not want a punishment this early. Luna grabbed his head as he started to use his tongue properly and she held his face there as she let herself climax. She enjoyed squirting into a struggling mouth and things were just getting started with her new toy.

"Nev, come here," Luna said. "Pet, move your head and lick there."

Nev walked to Luna and he did not resist as she lowered his head to her pussy as she had Ronald doing what most would consider the degrading task of kissing and licking her ass. So Luna ground against there tongues as the silenced, naked Ginny watched there play.

'Damn I am wet already form watching,' Ginny thought as she lightly rubbed her pussy. 'This is going to get very distracting although I need to make sure I am not caught as she would make me do worse.'

Luna let Ronald keep doing his job of tonguing her ass as she pulled Nev up from the floor. She flipped the cover off and stroked him before placing his cock against her pussy. He waited until she gave him a look and then he was at it thrusting into her which also ground her ass against Ronald's tongue. That is when she was not thrusting alternatively between Nev's cock and Ronald's tongue. Still she wanted more and they were Hers so that she did what was natural when she played with one of her toys, she simply moved them to suit her needs. In this case she pulled Nev's head and hands to her tits and let him pleasure her.

Luna had cum a few times from there tongues and was cuming more often now that she had a cock in her. She looked down to see that her newest pet was starting to feel the strain as his straining cock was dribbling getting his pants dirty. Still she would not show her new toy any favoritism. Besides even if Nev had learned some good control she liked feeling cum shooting inside her.

"Nev," Luna said gaining his attention. "Cum!"

With that said Nev thrust and held himself as he bucked against her as he came inside her. Luna growled as she pulled his head forcefully into a kiss as she savored the thrill that the sudden tug on her nipple had caused. Nev held himself deeply inside her with each shot before stroking himself inside her as she kissed him hungrily. She let him keep moving inside her for a little while savoring the fact that minor ritual had worked so good and making a note to use it on her other pet.

"Good Nev," Luna said as she released her kiss. "Up pet. Come here."

Nev withdrew from Luna and stood to the side as Ronald slowly crawled out from under Luna. She let his cock out and frowned in disappointment before tugging him forward to take Nev's place. He stood there with the tip of his cock being dribbled on by her and Nev's cum before a kick to his ass drove him home. She beckoned Nev forward and the two boys nursed at her nipples as her newest toy fucked her pussy.

After a while of this Luna tugged Nev off her tit while she wrapped herself around Ronald which caused his knees to sag a bit to support her. She sighed and positioned Nev behind her and she sat down sliding his cock into her ass using the lubrication that Ronald's mouth had supplied and her and Nev's cum on his cock. She released Ronald from her grip and soon she was writhing between the thrusts of their cocks.

Ginny was eternally grateful for the silencing charm as she had worked three fingers into her sopping wet snatch as she sucked on her own right tit as her hand fondled her left tit. She was horny as hell and seeing her brother being used like a living dildo was turning her on more than she thought she would be. She had been diddling her clit while finger fucking herself for almost half an hour and now she slid one of her two free fingers into her ass since she had started to picture her in Luna's place. She may have had a clone gang bang and tentacle sex, but there was something different about being the one controlling the fucking that she wished she could have.

Luna was content to have her two pets fucking her holes like crazy and the constant stream of cums did not hurt either. She was grateful that as a witch there was a simple spell to clean up. Still she had to put her new pet in his place and as much as she might enjoy sandwiching the boy that was something to try later.

'Hmm,' she thought. 'As much fun as using Ronald like a strap on as I take Nev's ass again would be that is a bit of a step. Sides I feel like rewarding my good pet while breaking in my new one and that would not do either. So perhaps I should suck my Nev off while breaking Ronald. No that does not fit for a name. I think I will call him Ronny and as much fun as making him suck Nev off while I take his ass would be that I can wait for that when he is good and broken in. Perhaps I should let Nev cum down my throat as I take Ronny's anal cherry? Yes that will be so much fun and there is nothing gay about that. Stupid boys and there strange ideas. Guys get to see us girls go down on each other and they won't. Well I know why Horus doesn't as that is something that a male dominant is not likely to do any more than taking something other than a tongue up the ass. Classical dominant position from the Greeks.'

Luna waited until the two had become on edge and poor Ronny was going to cum before saying, "Stop!"

The two boys stopped with tremendous effort. They wanted to cum but they knew better. Nev had learned and he did not want to be kept on edge all night with a modified trainer that brings a guy to where he almost spurts before stopping leaving him waiting. He had suffered a night of that and as such he stopped with less effort than Ronald who had been conditioned mentally but had not gained the muscle control that she would soon instill in him.

"Pet on your hands and knees," Luna ordered. "Nev, stand next to him."

The two jumped to obey as regardless of real experiences both of them had the memories about what a punishment session entailed and neither wished to experience it. Ronald was on his hands and knees with his ass unknowingly in the air with Nev standing next to him. Nev's eyes widened and Ronald was looking forward so he did not see when Luna strapped a trainer on and started stroking the pseudo cock. She rubbed against him causing him to tense even as she started to jack him off.

"Relax pet," Luna said as she felt him shiver and moan from her manipulations.

She slid into the poor boys virgin ass as she grabbed Nev with her free hand and tugged him to her mouth. She teased him until he calmed down from her quick suck. She had changed her mind. No Ronny sandwich for today but a second Luna one sounded fun to her. She positioned Nev at her ass and he slid in driving her deeper into Ronald's ass. The poor boy was straight as all but what her hand was telling his brain made him give in sooner than one would think.

Ginny was glaze eyed as she watched the scene in front of her. Her brother was thrusting back as Luna sodomized him while jacking him off and she was taking a cock up her ass as she did so. Then only thing more humiliating for her brother than Luna causing him to whitewash his stomach as she reamed his ass was if he had been sucking Nev off while she did so. While Ginny was a Weasley she loathed Ronald for the way that he had scared any guy from approaching her and that was one of the reasons she had started shagging Hermione since she was around and he did not want to drive her away.

Ronald was confused as he felt humiliated and used by his Mistress using his ass almost as much as he felt his cock throbbing from her hands. It did not help him that he felt the thrusts that Nev was driving into them with. Soon enough he was light headed and his cock was throbbing. He wanted to cum but a good pet had to have permission first.

"Ronny," Luna said causing him to shiver that he was at least not Pet anymore. "Cum"

With that Ronny as he now thought of himself as came shooting his cum as his cock jerked against his stomach. He closed his eyes as for some reason his mistress kept up her pounding into his ass. He wondered about that but he was still spurting so he didn't think about it much.

Luna was rubbing his cum into his skin as his cock jerked about and she rubbed it against him before she said, "Nev cum."

Luna felt Nev spurting into her ass and she felt herself spurt into her Ronny's ass. She smirked as he shuddered and growled as she filled him. That he had surged to life and spurted again made her feel in control. She collapsed driving herself deeper as Ronny slumped beneath her.

"Pets," Luna said. "Present cocks."

The two slid off first Nev as he was on top and then Ronny as he had to crawl out from under her. The two boys were slouched on the floor and Luna decided to indulge. She licked and sucked the cum off of them, yet as there Dom she had to make them feel in there place. So she kissed them and made them suck the cum from her mouth. Only a little bit enough to get a taste.

"Good pets," Luna said as she pet there heads like one would a puppy. "You earned a reward Ronny. Nev, switch places."

Nev went to his hands and knees and Ronny stood next to Luna. She slid into Nev and then set Ronny to work as she moved between them. However Luna was playing things differently this time and after cuming to her satisfaction so that she was rather drained and her pets would barely be able to get to bed.

"Pets," Luna said. "Present cocks standing."

With that said Luna preceded to give the two boys a bit more play. After sucking the two boys' cocks she positioned Nev to slide between her breasts as she sucked Ronny off. Ronny being newer did not last as long and Nev was still fucking her tits as Ronny felt his cum being drained out of his balls. Ronny slumped to the ground kneeling and watched as Luna gave Nev a toe curling suck that left him arching as he shot into her mouth.

"Good boys," Luna said. "What do you have to say?"

"Thank you Mistress," the two said in sink.

"Good pets," Luna said. "Ronny let Nev help you to your bed you are rather out of it. Next time I think you will be playing with some of my other pets."

"Yes mistress," the two said as Nev helped Ronny to his room.

'If I was not so tired,' Luna thought. 'I would have dragged Gin-Gin into things. Think how mortified she would be to have to eat me out as my pets work her over. Maybe leave her tied with Ronny inside her. If they couldn�t move it would be entertaining. Did she really think my friends could not see her. Still I might as well let her think she got away with it. The apprehension will only make her arousal grow.'

"I might as well see what Nev is able to do still," Luna said to the room. "A shame Ronny didn't last long enough. I guess we will have to work on that."
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End Lemon Scene

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Ginny was sleeping having watched the play until she had fallen asleep. Luna had Nev carry her newest pet to his bed. Ginny had watched through it all and was grateful that she had not been allowed to play with anyone that day as she would have been foolish enough to have drawn there attention and Luna had practically zero squicks and almost any kink she had in the extreme.

Ginny was grateful that Luna had decided to accost Nev on the stairs or she would have been found as she snuck back to her bed and settled in for the night. She had enjoyed watching her brother being used and abused but she knew that if she had messed up and made a single sound that she would have been dragged into their play.

'Luna would have more than likely used the three of us to pleasure herself and amuse herself,' Ginny thought. 'I enjoyed seeing Ronnikins punished but there was no way that I wanted to join in. Luna would have either had a Luna or a Ginny sandwich and that is without her complete caring about degrading and using her pets.'

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'Scandals happen,' Horus thought as he read the morning paper. 'Dumbles is stuck at the Ministry in a holding cell and things are looking better everyday. Still I feel a sense of apprehension in the air. At least now I can openly interact with Draco. Dumbles was watching and Draco did not have the same ease to block the man from snooping. Even being Severus's godson did not help. Then again, I did interact a bit when he helped with potions, but that is not enough. It just seems wrong for Severus Snape to shoot puppy dog eyes for more information. As much as I would like to give him a proper potions manual, the information is radically different. I have been slowly building the necessary practical and theoretical information or it would be like trying to explain chemistry to someone without the knowledge of atoms.'

Horus's mussing was cut off as he got a rather intense headache. It was as if a siren had gone off in his head. Such a thing rarely happened and it was only for the most serious reasons that such a signal would ever be sent.

'Attention all snakelings,' the voice said. 'A new priority contract has been issued. The Pan-Were Council has an open contract on the matter of a rogue werewolf. He is spreading grade one form one lycanthrope and it is being detected by the wanders. The ferals are then allowed to shift and kill family and friends. This is a priority open contract regardless of his being known he must be destroyed. The werewolf is Fenrir Greyback and the Council wants some heavy hitters before any other organizations get involved. At the moment neither Hellsing nor Iscariot is aware of this and this would be bad for all of us. Find Him. Kill Him. A bonus is offered for every kit rescued before the wanders find them. He broke our sacred tenets and must be dealt with. The Council has offered a remarkable bounty for his head and we do not fail. We are not Teraka we are not amateurs and killers. This bastard turns children and lets them kill their kin and does it so they are hated and feared so they join him. He will die!'

'Oh shit this is bad,' Horus thought. 'A complete open contract is rare. It takes priority over everything else. Only thing more important is an Armageddon instance. It means drop everything and go. Fuck this is bad I have to go, but I cannot leave. Clones are a godsend for instances like this.'

With that thought, Horus left behind a duplicate. It was in all intents and purposes a true replication existing as a true second existence of himself. That this would allow him to hopefully complete his mission while keeping his cover was a good thing. He may trust his friends and lovers, but the oaths he took were important. Besides some things were better left untold and despite his actions and knowledge of him killing Death Eaters, vampires and other monsters, the nature of his work was secrecy and neither the Order of Shadow nor the elite assassins of the Order of Serpent was known to have good reputations. The only thing going for them was that unlike Teraka they did not go after the innocent or children.

Horus appeared in Knocturn Alley and made his way to the most disreputable pub that he could find. Walking in with his cloak up he went and ordered a rather stiff drink. He listened to the gossip getting a feel for things and trying to blend in. Unlike the rest of those on the hunt Horus was aware of how to use the Wizarding World to get a better fix on his target. He was going to find him and kill him and it was as simple as that to him.

"Can you believe that the Wolf that Kills for Fun busted out," one of the customers said who was dressed rather shabbily.

"Yeah Fenrir Greyback at large again," his friend said. "Man has a grudge a mile wide for the ministry, but then who doesn't?"

Horus listened in and hoped that they would drop any more information but it was not to be. Horus set up in the alley and waited for the two to come out as he made sure that they were unable to floo, apparate or portkey out. They eventually would have to leave the pub to get where they were going and they would have to pass where he was.

It took less than twenty minutes for them to come out and no one noticed when a shadow diverted them into the alley. The two were rather foolish to walk drunk around in the alley and they would most likely have to be rather dangerous to do so that however would not save them this night.

"Good evening," Horus said with a slight hiss. "I here you two might know where a certain individual may be. Am I right?"

"We know a lot of things but none of them are free," the shabbily dressed one said.

"Ah the negotiation part of things and you don't even know who I am asking about what a shame," Horus said. "Then again you did drop a few names before."

"So you want to get in with one of the groups then?" the man's associate asked.

"To be blunt know," Horus said. "I have a rather sizable reward being offered to me for the whereabouts of a certain individual..."

"Ten percent," the shabbily dressed man piped in.

"Finders fee," his associate added.

"You two really are rather dumb are you not?" Horus asked. "Fine ten percent."

"So who you want to know about?" the shabby man said.

"Fenrir," Horus stated.

"Ain't no way we gettin' in with 'im," the associate said.

"What about your finder's fee?" Horus asked. "If you don't tell me you don't get one."

"It's not worth it as he would kill us," the man said.

"What is to say that any of you would be alive for that to take place," Horus said.

"What you talking about," the associate said. "Your just another ministry puke trolling in the alley."

Horus ripped the man's arm almost completely off causing him to scream before he said, "Do I act like a Ministry puke? You have a simple choice tell me where he is and die slowly or I kill you and keep your souls to join my collection."

With that said Horus pulled out his dagger and they saw the souls trapped inside. The two looked sick as seeing the souls of Death Eaters being tortured inside his blade in front of them. The two looked at each other and they barely managed to keep their stomachs together as they looked at each other.

"Right he is in Romania trying to recruit," the shabby man said.

"That is good to know, but a better location would help," Horus said.

"Here man! We told you. Now let us go," the associate said.

"So you could warn him," Horus said. "I think not."

The less shabbily dressed man even if he was in tattered robes tried to run. Try being the operative word as while his associate stood there as he ran Horus caught up to him. He froze with a jerk as he looked down to see his robe pushed open. He saw a hand sticking out of his chest and his heart in that hand.

"Damn," the man said before slumping down before falling to his feet when Horus removed his arm from his chest.

"Really running like that," Horus said. "What was he thinking or was he even thinking? Well can't let you run off as well."

Horus moved and stabbed the man with his dagger into the heart before pulling it out. He whipped the blade off on the mans clothes before sidestepping as he fell down to the ground in a slump.

"Running and planning on double crossing me," Horus said. "What were you too thinking? Still you did tell me where he is even if it was unwilling. Lying like that when he is actually near Nice, France. Still Romania would have fit with what was known about him."

With that dealt with, Horus left the alley with two bodies that were soon devoured by the inhabitants of the alley. He disappeared as the shadows darkened in the alley for a moment only to reappear near where he needed to go. Things would have been simpler if the Dark Mark was easier to detect from a significant distance instead of needing to be less than a hundred feet away to detect the magic behind the link. So instead he ghosted and stayed listening from shadow to shadow as he searched the less reputable parts of the city. The man did not suppress his wolf at all and that would allow anyone with even a mediocre ability to detect auric traces to follow him with the ease of a bloodhound.

Horus went over what he knew of the bastard which was not much just that he liked to infect children and set them on their families as he considered it fun. There was also that he would take in those he infected after the humans turned on them. With those thoughts in mind he spent more than enough time waiting at the various large orphanages that inevitably would be targeted by any of the conversionable dark creatures. In a good chunk of them he found the orphanages to be fair and better than the streets but he knew that the bastard would most likely pick from one of the worst so he slowly opened him to trying to sense the sheer despair that would be sought by the wolf to find somewhere where hate and rage would be used to forge his shock troops.

France had not changed any in the past centuries and it would not even in centuries hence. If one knew where to look the old trades still flourished. Prostitution was as always a way to at least survive when one had no noticeable skills and here at least there were still some that were the type to play. The Mystic in France had always been considered a bit strange since they had been part of the Roman Empire and some spoke that they had been different even when the Celtic and similar civilizations were the dominant ones. Times long ago when the faiths of the moon ruled before the rise of the solar religions of the modern era. It is interesting how many things are either condoned or despised and how it changes from time to time. Before the twentieth century there was no idea of labor or children's rights and the bare concept of equality of the sexes existed.

While the Mystics may have gotten over some ideas sooner the difference is still there and even the various other communities had them. One of the main issue that the Sorcerers had issues with was the modern ideas of age that being similar to ancient cultures in regards to when one was an adult. That mostly being considered having completed ones Initiate study was treated like being eighteen in the states or similar. The closest this issue created a problem was that in France the concepts of sex have had less taboos and that one could even in the twentieth and twenty first centuries find flower girls that would play with strangers for money. Child molestation is a modern crime after all and in the ancient past was similar to rape that being considered a property crime. Sensitives and Mystics were the first groups to have codified the ideas of ones person being a possession. What that meant was that while certain strictures existed mostly about willingness outside of proscribable punishment that the age laws were when someone was no longer the responsibility and under the protection of someone.

What this all meant was that one had to filter the various things that Horus was sensing. So he waited and meddled a bit from the shadows. So many things occur in the dark that one forgets that it does not just hide the fearful but the sinister. All the accidents that happened that night while improving things were done with the least amount of effort possible. It would be a rather odd night as the number of deaths rose even if the number of violent crimes fell. It was a city after all. Someone would do something bad.

Many things still happened that night. There were still crimes that went unpunished but those were mostly statutory crimes. Nothing that was truly evil but merely prohibited. The number of the more violent individuals that died of mysterious causes in the alleys that night would not have caused much of a stir and would be passed off as it was a big city. It was amazing how a dagger that left no physical wounds could so easily catch souls.

It was difficult to find a werewolf when they could not shift in such a large city with its own population of lycanthropes of various types and other similar beings. So it was left for Horus to play the waiting game. One would wonder why he did not alert the others and that was simple and that was that most of them were slowly zooming in on the bastard's location. Sadly most would not and could not get there soon enough do to the hell of bureaucracy. While things were simpler for mundanes and sorcerers moving around the various breeds of vampires and lycanthropes tended to require a good deal of negotiation for traveling borders and while they were appointed at the behest of the Pan Were Council there still was a need to arrange transportation. For those reasons Horus was the one there first and the others would be there in less than a day, but he planned on being done before then.

'Waiting,' Horus thought. 'Can be very annoying. If only the guy was a proper werewolf this would take far less time instead of having to wait for his aura to surge enough to identify him.'

There was a rather disturbing scene and a surge of energy even if it was not a full moon. Horus looked through the shadows and what he found sickened him even more then the rest of the bastard's actions for in the room were two young children who he was going to break and then infect.

'A brother and sister not even six years old and the bastard is going to rape and infect the both of them,' Horus thought. 'Not on my watch.'

With that thought dealt with Horus rematerialized into the room directly behind Fenrir and gave the bastard as ignoble a death as possible. The downside was that the two children had to see a blade jut out of their attacker's chest before the body fell back. This left Horus alone with a dead body and two almost naked children.

Horus looked over the children both physically and metaphysically. What he found sickened him as it appeared that this night was not the only incident. There was evidence that Fenrir had tried to infect them purposefully with the only alternative since the spread was far less when not in wolf form. In the case of magical breed werewolves the infectious material is not just present during wolf form even though it is relatively nonexistent in the body when not transformed. The secondary method with the highest likelihood of success was that the transformative agent a magically created virus was present in blood, saliva and other bodily fluids. It was the reason that the bite transmitted it as the virus is more prevalent in wolf form but also surges in amount as the full moon approaches. What this meant is that Horus had to deal with containment of a corpse and two children that have been raped and abused who might be effected by an infection of magical based lycanthropy.

All of that went through his head in a moment as he had examined the two before he had said, "Shh. It will be all right he cannot hurt you anymore."

He had barely gotten that out before the two had tackled onto him as there savior. The two however were acting different than he had suspected. They had acted like wolf cubs with the way they were deferring to him and the fact that the girl was rubbing against him was not something he wanted to deal with right now.

Horus sighed and moved with the additional weight of the two cuddled and gripped onto him. They did not look away or move as they were rubbing their heads against him even as he cut off Fenrir's head and disposed of the body. Relaxing for a moment he let the scents of the two almost drown out his sense of smell.

'Crap,' he thought. 'Most likely they are too far gone as they smell wolf like yet not changed yet. Guess I should take them with me even if they have latched on to me.'

With that thought Horus let the shadows wrap around him and his burdens to almost free float into a chamber over a continent away. The Pan Were Council Headquarters was for reasons long since forgotten a place of imposing importance and the room was not lit with a lot of light as weres had no need for excess light do to their heightened senses.

"What news do you bring to us?" the shadowed leader asks.

Horus knows exactly who that is by the sound of his voice and says in a tone of utmost respect, "Lord Xi Fang Lin, Pan-Were Alpha, He-Who-Hunts-The-Deserts, I bring news of the hunt for Fenrir Greyback."

"What news is this," he asks.

"I bring the head of Fenrir and the two cubs he has so recently violated," Horus answers as he raises the head up to be seen by the head and his council.

"Proof of a kill but not that it is his head," Lin states.

"I listened to those of his ilk among the wanders to see where he was supposed to be," Horus admitted. "They lied and said he was in Romania when I checked their memories they had been among those that were to arrange for those seeking him to suffer an untimely death in Romania when he was in France."

"So you checked all of France to find him," one of the other council states in disbelief.

"He was to be in Nice and he was the only one of his kind there," Horus admitted. "In addition to that he was behaving to form with his actions to the cubs."

"You have not introduced yourself cub," one council member said.

"Eater of Demons," Horus said.

"You were the one who informed Grayson of this abomination," Lin stated. "I take it you were aware of what he did but not where he was."

"He was in a wander prison in Russia," Horus said. "He escaped with the help of a wander possessed by a renegade."

"So you used information on the wanders to find him?" Lin asked.

"They are aware of some kin," Horus admitted. "How well has Remus Lupin come into the community?"

"He is coming along well," one admitted. "I take it you were the one to teach him?"

"Yes," Horus said. "There is a more important matter to deal with though. What of these cubs?"

"Do they have any family?" a lady asks.

The two shake their heads and clutch Horus tighter so he sighs before saying, "No the family is either already dead or as good as dead. He most likely killed them since he was unable to have them changed before the full moon. They are coming along but not too far along. I ask for them to be made kin and not leave them as lesser kin."

"You ask for a lot," Lin says. "Why should we do this?"

"They have not been identified as lesser kin and as such if they are changed the wanders will remain ignorant of them," Horus said. "This will also allow them a proper childhood compared to how as lesser kin they would take years to gain control. As they are now they would change at the whim of the moon for what better way is there to remove the stain on our honor that he had created than to raise those he would make despised and feared?"

"Kin they may be," Lin said. "You have not asked wither they should join our numbers?"

"To ask that they would be a pan were is not something to ask of such kitlings," Horus said. "They are wolf this much is sure but to add more to their plate is not my place to ask."

"What do you seek for the cubs," Lin asked.

"Someone to take them in and raise them as I am currently in a deep cover mission," Horus admitted.

"So you seek someone to take them in and raise them as you are unable to do so at the moment," Lin said. "Agreeable but they might not wish to separate from you."

"If that is unavoidable I will take them with me," Horus acknowledged. "Still I would prefer if they could be with someone who had more time to watch them."

"Since you are unable to watch them, we have some things to talk about," Lin said. "I would ask that you are the one to change them as they are far more likely to feel less apathy with you than any of us since you did save them."

'I might as well,' Horus thought. 'That way they are part of the community.'

"Fine I accept," Horus said before turning to the children. "Kids I don't know how to say this but you are going to be turning into werewolves on the next full moon."

"He told us that we would," the girl said in a sniffle as she pulled her head from his leg.

"Well you could be a werewolf or a Were Wolf," Horus said to them.

"What's the difference?" the boy managed to ask.

"Not having the dependency on the moon or the weakness of Silver," Horus said.

"I always wanted to be a cat girl," she admitted. "Could I do that?"

"Yes," Horus said as he ruffled her hair. "You can at least be part cat girl. Do you really want that?"

"More than anything," she admitted. "Wanna be a cat."

"Alright," Horus said. "What about you kid?"

"Wanna be like sis but fox instead," he admitted. "Guy wanted us to kill our parents and do things to us and each other."

"Ok kids," Horus said as he shifted. "Council members, they have accepted of their own free will. While we do not do such to children there is little choice than to allow them as lesser kin than this. What say you?"

"By right of retribution," a female council member said.

"By right of restitution," one says.

"By right of resolution," one other says.

"We welcome you now and forever," Lin says.

"As Kin," Horus says as he nips both of their hands with his fangs.

The two suddenly throw their heads back as they shift from mere lycanthropes to Pan Weres of the wolf and cat persuasion for the girl and wolf and fox for the boy.

"Welcome cubs," the group said to the two children.

"Can you settle them in or should I?" Horus asked.

"You can if you have the time," Lin says.

"I might as well," Horus admitted. "Come along you two."

With that Horus took them through the various corridors which led to the community that was hidden in France. They were no longer in Nice, but Horus was not going to tell them where they were yet just in case they were ever captured. The hiding places of the various packs, and other groups had remained hidden for centuries and he was not going to reveal where they were to cubs.

It was getting late and he could leave in the morning and so he settled into a room to rest for the rest of the night as his clone would last that long. The two brats however had originally slept together as they had grown up and since they saw him as their savior they had cuddled up in a matter all parents with little kids are familiar with.

As he was drifting off with the two shifted and cuddled up and sleeping while holding on to him he heard a message, "Attention all snakelings. One of our own has found the bastard and dealt with him. This snakeling has also rescued two hatchlings from the bastard and taken them to safety among the weres. To this snakeling I give thanks for such a quick and decisive completion of the contract. Your accounts will show the happiness the Council has with our services. Rest well snakelings for a job well done.'

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Morning after the events dealing with Fenrir was tense as Horus woke to the presence of two kits cuddled against him. He was grateful that Fenrir, may his soul suffer in the depths of his blade for eternity, had not yet instilled certain behaviors that he suspected the bastard would do. That was that it would be strange to wake to kits trying to arouse and arise him in the morning. The problem was what to do when he had to leave. He had to find someone to act as a surrogate as he could not take the two to Hogwarts and that with the few bits of conditioning he did not want them around any of his harem as the two would become far too likely to get in the groove.

'At least I did not wake with either of the two kits mouths trying to awaken me,' Horus thought. 'I recall that some people break pets to do so. Luna probably did that to her two boys and girls. Still even among the Kin these two are a bit young. They have not even seen seven summers and most are not physically able or interested earlier. Just one of the ways that the born differ. As soon as physically able we have also emotionally developed that far. Knowing Fenrir's past behavior he would have used them without concern of them gaining anything. His scent it all over them and especially prevalent on their mouths and some almost as much elsewhere. He definitely sodomized the pair yet he did nothing with their other virginities. Knowing the bastard he would have had him rape his sister to break them both more.'

The two cubs nuzzled against him as they woke up. They were shifted partly just enough to have the additional appendages without looking like bipedal animals.

"Morning cubs," Horus said.

"Morning," they sleepily replied.

"Well we have some things to go over cubs," Horus said. 'Yeah like were you will live for one,' he thought. 'Can't stay at the manor and the French Ministry considers werewolves almost persona non grata. Well the Loup Garou do still have some controls, but as you are not just that I need you elsewhere. Still I could go over the things they need to know to get them settled, but monitoring only is on natives and not on those outside there birth country. Hmmm... Remus needs something to occupy him and they might get into a proper pack that way.'

"What things?" she asked. 'Please don't send us away,' she thought.

Horus looked at her and sighed at the obvious body language that the two had. They were just cubs and he didn't know there names and were to young to be named. The Kin had not brought many in for a long time as most were born and fewer still were made these days.

"I am not going to send you away," he said as he scooped them up letting them hold on to him. "Still I can't look after you two all the time and there is a lot for you two to learn."

"Like what?" he asked.

"Well like how to act and the usual social niceties that are different," Horus said. "Then the usual schooling that you two have to take. In addition to about us and our world."

"Your not going to send us away really?" she asked.

"No," Horus said. "Although I am rather busy so I will have to find someone to look over you two. Speaking of you two, I never got your names or do you two want new names?"

The two kids just looked at each other trying to convey what they wanted to say without speaking. They were not yet used to picking up scents so they did not realize that their emotions were obvious to Horus as he waited for them to make up their minds. This did allow Horus a few thoughts on that Remus had been a good teacher from what he had heard and that the guy wished he could have kids but that British infected magical lycanthropes were prohibited even if their strain of lycanthropy did not pass sexually and had to be done with bodily fluids and then it was low without blood and more often the infection did not occur without a bite. The two had been unlucky that Fenrir had raped them rather roughly and that torn flesh had allowed the infection to spread as easily as it had. The repeated abuse and malnutrition had not helped.

"New," the two whispered.

It was obvious that the wanted to put there dead past behind them although he would have to think of names. The Council was adept enough with adding names to mundane records as some places still disowned those that were infected. Not as much among the accidental spread of the sealed, but those that had hidden before among the other breeds.

"Hmm Names for a Cat-Girl and a Fox-Boy eh?" Horus asked. "Got any favorites? Or should I pick?"

"You pick," she said in a rumbling voice almost purring as she snuggled against her savior.

'Need names that are different yet not any of my friends,' he thought before saying, "A cat-girl and a fox-boy need appropriate names. How about Felicia and James?"

The two cubs thought about it while pulling away a bit from where they had been gripped onto his legs like squids. That was before nodding their heads and returning to resting their heads on his legs. Horus sighed and started to pet there heads causing the two to make appreciative noises. He had to tell them about some things.

"Well before you two get settled in," Horus said. "I might as well explain some things..."

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What followed after was the rather droll breakdown of Shifter culture, history and politics or at least enough so that they were as well informed as any other cub their age would be. Still there would be a lot that would not make sense to them now at least the basic ideas of pack structure made sense. Pack was your family and you had to work with them even if you didn't like some of them. Pack first was a mantra that he had repeated to them. Horus was grateful that he had not had to go beyond the basics as the convoluted system that had developed was far less straight forward than the hierarchy of Mystic vampires which was mostly a city state system with the Princes having authority over their kind with the King being tasked to do what was best for the Nation and his people as a whole.

'Yeah at least the cubs don't need to know about the Council makeup or how the head functions as a head of a board for all intents and purposes,' he thought. 'Vampires are simple and that the convoluted mess that was the treaties between the various breeds in each area. Its more convoluted than the treaties between the various tribes in America.'

"Now are you two ready?" Horus asked. They both nodded their heads. "Good then off we go."

One moment they were in the room they had slept in and the next they were elsewhere. Silent and quick an assassin's best friend was teleporting as unlike apparition this method was truly silent and discrete in its arrival as well as its departure.

"Hello Remi, Siri," Horus said. "Sorry to pop in like this but I needed to talk to you two."

Suffice it to say they were not expecting this. The warding against apparition or portkeys by people who were not keyed in should have made what happened impossible. That Horus had managed to easily bypass the wards put up by Dumbledore while carrying passengers was shocking.

"Why don't you two get a bit to eat and drink in the kitchens, Ok?" Horus asked.

The two nodded and rushed off to the kitchen to get something to eat and drink. The two blinked but it was unsurprisingly Remus who recovered first.

"Who are they?" he asked while he thought, 'Why do they smell like a mix of wolf with the boy having fox and the girl cat added?'

"Those are Felicia and James," Horus said as he sat down. "I found them in a bad place and there is no where else for them to go at the moment."

"Bad place?" Sirius asked as he had finally started to get over his shock before.

"Yeah," Horus said. "I seem to collect strays, but I feel better than leaving them where they were."

"Why do I think this is going to be bad," Remus said.

"Because they were in a very bad place," Horus said. "Um Remus I hate to ask but who was it that bit you?"

"Fenrir Greyback," Remus said in a dull tone. "He was not a nice guy."

"Yeah he most assuredly was not a nice guy," Horus said.

"Was?" Remus asked in concern. "Don't you mean is?"

"No, was. He is rather dead actually," Horus said.

"He's dead," Remus said with a bit of hope in his eyes.

"Yep," Horus said. "Killed him myself. Caught him doing things with the kids."

"Things?" Sirius asked dreading the answer.

"Yes," Horus said. "It seems besides biting children and having them change and slaughter their families that he had some rather unsavory practices with said children."

The two looked rather sick and then got worse as they realized that he said he had caught him with the kids. There are somethings that one finds revolting even of murderers and criminals and that was one of them. Remus actually looked even worse when he realized that the man had planned to do such to him as well and that he had lucked out to only be a werewolf and not been Fenrir's plaything.

"That is a rather revolting revelation," Remus said looking rather off. "At least that didn't happen to me. I hate to ask but you said the kids so does that mean that he did things to both of them?"

"Yeah," Horus said. "It was bad enough biting random people to cause chaos, but this was quite worse than I had thought. I mean I knew that Death Eaters killed, tortured and raped, but it just seems worse that it was kids if you know what I mean?"

"Yeah," Sirius said. "Somehow that just makes it worse. I mean Pure Bloods tend to have strict punishments, but that is something else."

"Tell me about it," Horus said with a sigh. "He was planning on having them broken where they liked it and even worse did that to each other. At least he had not gotten that far."

"But it still went to far didn't it?" Remus asked.

"Yeah, it did," Horus responded. "He started small with training them to pleasure him first. Then had had gotten as far as sodomizing them. At least he hadn't gotten far enough to where they craved being used."

"So why us?" Remus asked. "Why here? Why not with others that could better care for them?"

"They need someone to teach them about a proper family again," Horus admitted. "You do have to admit that my relationships are no where near normal enough to help them get over things. I have to say that I was worried that he had trained them to wake him up, but that thankfully was not the case. Besides you two need to get out of the funk you have been since I left. You need someone to worry about."

"Your setting us up with two kids?" Sirius asked in shock.

"Well you are a bit older and here they have less chance of running into someone that might have something against me or into situations that are confusing," Horus said.

"Confusing?" Remus asked.

"They were for all intents and purposes being raised to be sex slaves," Horus said. "What affect would the for all intents and purposes harem have on there lives be?"

"That is a point," Remus conceded. "But still us as parents?"

"Mostly it is that everyone else I can think of has enemies and problems more life threatening," Horus said.

"More dangerous than Death Eaters and the like," Sirius said in derision.

"Actually... Yes," Horus admitted. "Besides Remi can introduce them around and soon enough they will be in school. It is just that keeping them at Hogwarts is impossible as it is. If they had a bit of training maybe, but not as they are now."

"So you're trusting us to look after them," Sirius said.

"You didn't get to raise me so this is good practice for when you finally settle down," Horus said.

The two looked doubtful but eventually nodded there acceptance. Now all Horus had to do was explain it to the kids.

Kids you can come back in now," Horus said as they marched back in with some food and drinks in there hands. "Kids there are Remi and Siri and they are going to look after you while I am busy. Don't let the innocent act fool you they are pranksters at heart. Remi Siri these are Felicia and James. Now all of you try not to prank each other too much ok?"

James and Felicia nodded right away while the two Marauders seemed reluctant to do so. Some things are not easy and this is one of them.

"I did not say no pranking," Horus said to the two overgrown boys. "Just not so much that you need medical attention ok?"

That was a bit better and the two agreed with some hesitation. The two cubs were looking almost giddy as they regardless of before were tricksters by nature. The only thing left was the goodbye bit which most guys hate to do. The hugging and such just does not go with the macho image. Then again a guy can get away with hugging brats if he does it right.

"Well you two don't give them any gray hairs ok?" he said as way of goodbye to his brats. "Now I will be back to check on you when I can and I will see about getting things a bit more normal for you."

With that he hugged the two brats and then completed the manly back clapping goodbyes and waved as he disappeared. The two Marauders were left with one thought and that being, 'How does he do that.' Sadly they would not find out for a good long while.

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Tonks had made her way to Hogwarts because Dumbledore had summoned her here. The paper was starting to really cut into him and he was having a harder time sneaking out to Grimmauld place lately. Nym was well aware that no matter what the Headmaster thought there was no way that she would be able to escape the castle without paying respects to the true power here.

'I cannot believe what has happened since I met him,' she thought with a sigh. 'I am grateful that Aurors have to learn Legilimancy or I would really worry about him finding out from reading my mind. Dumbledore would never have approved of the near slut like behavior at the airport and over the summer at Head Quarters. Molly would have been a right terror. She would have treated me worse if she found out what has been happening. First I end up shacked up with Horus's vampiress and spend more than a few days as her plaything. She would have started calling me a Harlot for any of those things, but I don't want to think what she would think about the past few weeks. Seras had been busy and dropped me off to stay at her home and not her work home at that. Potter Manor was impressive. I should have remembered that he had Veela lovers.'

Tonks shivered as she remembered what had happened. She had been the centerpiece of a lesbian Veela orgy and had spent most of her vacation learning that it was not just Seras that she lusted for as a women, but that she had never realized that almost all women have at least some leanings in that direction.
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Flashback

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Tonks was supposed to meet Seras at Potter Manor unfortunately for her Seras had gotten delayed by the one shared hell that they had as law enforcement types. The hell that is paperwork. All Hellsing agents had to right up a duty report as standard procedure and it had while being an uneventful night for the most part had just enough problems that the longer form had been needed which resulted in Nymphadora arriving to a house whose sole inhabitants was Horny Veela.

Tonks had arrived at the apparation point that was set to allow her entrance. Sadly for reasons that no one should have thought of the point was in the living room of all places and she had just arrived in the middle of a couch full of naked squirming Veela who were aroused enough not to care who they were grabbing onto as long as their lust was sated. Tonks had slowly gotten used to the rather forward behavior that Seras had been using with her and had for the most part no longer resisted when the vampiress glomped onto her before dragging her to the floor to have her wicked way with her.

Tonks also had the misfortune of having do to her activities with Seras gained a better understanding of the attractiveness of the female form. That Seras had worked her resistance down enough that partially clad women would arouse her led to a further complication as the moving Veela proved to be enticing and arousing enough that Tonks had gotten wet before she had a chance to move. With Veela presented with the scent of horny pussy when they are in the middle of for all intents and purposes a lesbian orgy they were not the most clear headed that they had ever been.

This was further exasperated by the fact that Tonks had been unconsciously thinking about her next encounter with Seras and had neglected to wear either her panties or her bra. That she was for all purposes starkers under her robe allowed the rapid removal to the questing Veela. By the time she had blinked and turned her head she had already had a girl fastened to her pussy with her head moving her robe about and that the girl had her hands searching higher under her robe.

She had not actually moved a step before she had been de-robed and set on like a fresh meal by a starving pack of wolves. Soon she was trapped under a pile of ravenous horny Veela who had there hands and mouths everywhere.

"Can we talk about this," Tonks managed to stutter out as her hips started bucking from the attention she was getting.

The Veela who Tonks vaguely recalled as Fleur from the pictures of the Tri-Wizard tournament was currently nursing at her left nipple and let go long enough to say, "No."

"She needs something to keep that mouth of hers occupied," Nova said who had been rubbing her head over the toned abs that Tonks had worked on.

"Dibs," Tasha said as she crawled up from where she had been teasing Tonk's bellybutton. "I am sure that you can better put that tongue of yours to good use."

After saying that Tasha settled down on Tonk's face and soon enough Tonks gave in and Tasha was squirming about instead of muffling her shouts. Fleur and Talia were busy tormenting Tonks with their play of her sensitive breasts. Ana was busy ridding the bucking Tonks pussy.

She had lost track of the time as the Veela moved about as they writhed about the glaze eyed thrusting Tonks. She had been so out of it that she had to noticed when Seras had arrived and joined in. She had been so into it that there had been no resistance as the Veela had worked her over or when they had slipped trainers on after their foreplay and moved around the Tonks once more this time as she was being stimulated every which way she was bucking against every motion trying to get more.

She had been distracted by being the center of four Veela and a half Veela drowning her in sexual games that she had been dazed and missed that Seras had been keeping the other bits of the Veela occupied before pulling the slumped and used Tonks off the ground into a kiss that snapped her eyes open.

"Looks like you decided to play without me," Seras had told her. "Really having all this fun while I had to do paperwork. You will have to be punished for that."

Tonks had of course enjoyed every minute of her punishment as the two had a go with the Veela adding the spare hand and mouth to tease them more. When it finally ended the lot of them were slumped in a pile and Tonks was slick with sweat and other liquids but she had a wry grin on her face.

She had drifted off with one final thought in her head and that was, 'I cannot believe that I like girls after all the previous ignorance. Then again that one attempt was horrible and none of these have been. To think that this would start after meeting Seras after work one day. Then again, all this started when I met Horus and got dragged along to some fun times.'
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End Flashback

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'I cannot believe that I acted like that,' Tonks thought. 'Still it was fun and I have the feeling that something similar will happen. After I deal with the old man.'

With that thought out of the way she made her way to the Headmasters office. With the increased watch that Umbridge was giving they had to meet there and at least there was a plausible reason for her to be there. The volunteering to job shadow an Auror for those who were interested in the Academy and that someone less jaded would do better with the discussions with the potential recruits.

"Come in Nymphadora," the headmasters voice said as she approached the door.

'I really hate when he does that,' she thought before saying, "You called for me sir?"

"Ah yes Nymphadora," Dumbledore said. "We have a few things to talk about."

"What would those be sir?" Tonks asked while wishing she could just beat him for calling her Nymphadora. 'At least he doesn't call me Nym," she thought. 'There are only too people that can call me that. Those Veela jumping me like that do not count even if I went a bit out of it.'

"Is there any chances to recruit among the Aurors?" he asked. "Kinsley has not had much success and I had hoped being younger would allow the less jaded members to be easily approached by you."

"Sir to be frank," Tonks said. "Most of the department does not respect me even if I was one of the youngest even with a very high score at the Academy. Most see me as a Metamorphmagus first and feel that using that ability is the only one I have in the department."

"I see," he said. "Any chance to better recruit future Auror prospects?"

"That is one of the reasons that I am here, sir," Tonks said. 'Not that you care you see me the same way,' she thought. 'You probably would use me to get information from Death Eaters through pillow talk after swearing me to secrecy because you are a manipulative old bastard. You tried to make sure that Sirius was not cleared so you could use him being a wanted fugitive to control him and thus have access to Grimmauld place. God why couldn�t you and Riddle be left sealed in a room with a lust potion to keep you out of our hair forever.'

"Well than you should go do that Nymphadora," Dumbledore said in dismissal.

"Thank you sir," she said. 'Drop dead you mangy bastard,' she thought. 'I was going to do it anyways and you have to keep calling me Nymphadora. I hate that name! If I was not planning on getting a few hard cums to mellow me out I would so find a way to prank your wrinkly old ass!'

With that she descended from his office and made her way to where Umbridge had set aside room for the potential Aurors to talk to a real Auror. In other words she was to help sift out the incompetent so they did not waist their or the Ministries time and money washing out of the Academy.

Tonks looked at the first brat that she would have to deal with. It was Ronald Weasley and she so wanted to just kick him a few times in the balls for being a rat bastard to her and the way he had ogled her had made her sick. Deciding to use light Legilimancy to see what sick things he was thinking put her in shock.

'The little fucker is acting down right submissive,' she thought. 'Holy shit Mistress Luna and he has accepted being a sub. What the Fuck is going on? Let's see he wants to be an Auror for a good reason now instead of the fame and glory bullshit. He wants to be one to protect his Mistress well that is an improvement.'

"Now Mr. Weasley," she said. "You want to be an Auror care to tell me why?"

"I want to be an Auror for a few reasons," he said.

"Everything you say here is confidential," Tonks said.

"I...," he said.

"You want to protect her Ronny," Tonks said getting a startled gasp out of him.

"How did you know," he whispered.

"Legilimancy, Ronny," she said as she looked at his slowly balled up form. "It allows someone like me to tell if you were lying and in this case I know about your relationship. Don't worry I won't tell your mother. Now there is the matter of if you still want to be an Auror."

"I have to," he said.

"Yes," Tonks said. "If you had been ordered to do so you would. However, you did not ask permission and as thus I expect you to go and return with her."

"She doesn't want to be disturbed right now," he whispered.

"She will punish you worse if you do something like this without telling her," Tonks told him. "Now go!"

Ronny bowed his head and ran to his Mistress. Tonks sat back and waited for them to return. She had plenty of time before the next appointment as there were not a lot of people wishing to become Aurors. While it was a noble career, the Ministry did not pay as well as outside ventures and those with the skills tended to go into more lucrative careers. For a moment she contemplated what kind of trouble the boy had gotten into but she brushed it aside as irrelevant.

"You wished to see us," Luna said as she came in wearing something that the rest of the students would never believe she would wear.

"Yes your pet Ronny was about to make a decision that he should have consulted with you," Tonks said as she focused on not watching Luna using Ronny right in front of her.

"Your a pet as well," Luna said after looking her over for a bit.

Tonks smiled at her as she had gotten that from body language alone and said, "Very good. I take it you know both my Master and Mistress?"

"Your Master is Horus," she said. "But I don't know who your Mistress is."

"Mistress Seras," Tonks said. "We are getting off point though. Your pet wishes to be an Auror so that he can better protect you."

"He should have told me," she admitted. "Ronny you will be punished for this and to think that tonight I would only be punishing Nev."

"I don't think I need to know about the punishment," Tonks said. "Still there is some things to discuss before the meeting later."

"Yes," Luna said. "Does he meet the requirements?"

"Not as he is now," she admitted. "Your other pet has a better chance. Perhaps training this one as a strategist perhaps."

"Yes my pet is good at that," Luna acknowledged. "Anything else we should discuss?"

"Not really," Tonks admitted. "I would suggest that at least one of your pets or yourself learn the healer's arts in case things go to far."

"Of course," Luna said. "I will look into it."

"Well that is all for this meeting," Tonks said. "I will see you later."

"My pet should make up for the time he has wasted," Luna admitted. "How long until your next meeting?"

"Almost an hour, why?" Tonks asked.

"You should be allowed to aid in his punishment since he wasted your time so," Luna admitted.

"What do you suggest?" Tonks asked.

In response Luna tossed a trainer to Tonks and said, "Put it on. He needs a good seeing too anyways."

Tonks sighed and thought, 'This is better than just waiting here for the next appointment.

Luna pulled Ronny up and slid him in as she motioned Tonks behind him. Tonks taking the hint slid into Ronny. There was just something about making the brat do something useful.

"A much better use of our time?" Luna asked as Tonks ground Ronny into her.

"Yes," Tonks hissed out as she felt Ronny sandwiched between them.

Soon enough the three were moving and Tonks and Luna were enjoying using Ronny. The two girls savored the time while Ronny was kept frustrated. A part of Luna's punishment for him.

Tonks settled back after taking the trainer off and settled in for her next appointment. That was of course after muffling Ronny long enough for the two to feel mellow afterwards.

'Today is looking up' she thought. 'That made me almost forget about the meddlers nuisances.'

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Tonks had just joined the rest of them in the Come and Go Room and it was odd that everyone seemed to be there. It seemed that something important was about to happen if everyone even those that could normally not make it were there. The room was for the most part set up with the largest couch that she had ever seen. It looked as if someone had put several large beds together and Horus was reclining in the center of the mess.

At that moment Seras and Amber came into the room rising out of the floor. Tonks eyes and some of the others widened when they noticed that in addition to the strange basket that Amber was carrying there was a snake draped over Seras.

Before any of them could say anything Horus's eyes lit up and he said, "Mia! How have you been?"

The rest of the girls blinked when he started cooing over a snake and it took most of them a tremendous effort not to faint when he acted so out of character. Some things one does not expect of a guy who has gone head to head with some of the most dangerous beings on the planet. One thing for certain is he is not supposed to coo over and cuddle with a snake as that just seems wrong. The snake was most definitely not supposed to rumble in a purring like manner.

"Stop that," Mia said. "Your embarrassing me."

Suffice it to say that despite having been in the magical world and having seen a lot of things and the Senshi having talking cats they were the first to recover as the rest unused to such things just blinked in confusion.

"Oh sorry about that," Horus said a bit sheepishly. "It's just been so long since I have seen you and I missed you. So how did the hatching go?"

"I missed you too," Mia admitted. "The hatching went well."

Looking over at the basket he asked, "Hatchlings?"

"Yes," Mia answered. "They seek a companion."

"How many?" Horus asked.

"Enough for your followers," Mia answered honestly.

"Well then how best to see who matches with who?" Horus asked.

"Let them be presented and the one that matches will choose their companion," Mia said.

"As it has always bee," Horus replied. "Well girls looks like each of you is getting someone to look over and keep each other safe."

Amber set the basket down and the girls walked up to the basket and each ended up with a rather talkative companion snake. That each of the snakes would be able to defend them was not something that they would have to worry about. Familiars for Sorcerers were far more closely linked than the average wizard would with their owl or their cat as the bond made them familial in their closeness. Most viewed them as their closest friends and all but the closeness of a long term lover would be a deeper bond.

It did help that they were at least as smart as people even if they had a slightly different emotional makeup. Now at least Horus would not have to worry about his girls getting into trouble. They would always have someone to watch their backs as some people were not completely accepting of the changes that had been going on.

'At least they will be safe and always have someone they can confide in,' Horus thought as they settled down. 'It is nice to be together again. There is just something about the closeness of being puppy piled to ease ones fears and our companions slithering about will soon seem normal.'

One would think that with the lot of them being too tired for strenuous activity that nothing would happen. Suffice it to say that the snakes slithering had a teasing effect and that the group woke a few times and that there is a wide range of pleasurable and even orgasm inducing touching that can occur without too much movement. One of the better and more likely reasons that things were so mellow was that Luna had left her two male pets tied up and rather would enjoy their enthusiasm when she released them.

Ginny was just grateful that Luna nor one of the others had caught her returns to voyeurism or Luna would have another pet to play with and Ginny did not want to join in after the time Luna had played with Nev, her brother and Su Li. To distract herself from those thoughts the girl had managed to maneuver herself so that she could rub herself against him as she slept.

'Anything to put away the thoughts of what getting caught would entail,' she thought. 'Last time was bad enough, but this time would be worse as Luna would be the one to punish me and she gets creative.'

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Dumbledore was most displeased at the look on High Inquisitor Umbridge's face. He wondered what could make her so happy this morning. For some reason the paper seemed to be late this morning which was quite unusual for the Daily Prophet. Just as he was enjoying his breakfast the doors to the Great Hall banged open and the Minister walked in with a rather large group of Aurors, Unspeakables and Hit Wizards.

'Now why would they need such a powerful group,' he mussed.

"Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorcerer, Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards, Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, defeater of the Dark Lord Grindelwald, and currently Headmaster of Hogwarts school of Wizardry and Witchcraft, you are charged with Violations of Ministry Edicts in addition to breaches of the Gringott's Charter. You are charged with crimes against the Wizengamot and Confederation in regards to the violations of the Will and Testament of the Estate of Lord Potter in addition to placing Lord Potter with muggles that you knew would harm and even torture. In addition to these heinous crimes you have continued to intercept the mail and other correspondences of and act as guardian of the former minor Harry Potter," Cornelius read off with contempt. "For these charges you are stripped of your titles and positions while you are held for trial. Aurors take him away."

"These are baseless allegations," Albus said as he rose from his chair although he did not draw his wand.

"There is one other relatively minor charge to add," Horus said. "He has been misusing his position as Headmaster to weaken the students' abilities in addition to teaching them completely inaccurate information in History of Magic. To make matters worse he has purposely insured that Professor Binns remains here as he ordered him as a Hogwarts ghost to never complete his final task as it would be detrimental to his goals. That final task would have prevented the rising of You-Know-Who as it was a full explanation of the original purposes behind the so called Chamber of Secrets and why Salazar Slytherin really left Hogwarts. Either or both of these issues would have undone all of his efforts to destroy Slytherin's true legacy and has been the reason for the increased hatred for anyone having been of Slytherin House especially by Gryffindors."

That this was considered a minor charge shocked the student body as they now had to wonder what could have destroyed the mythos of Slytherin as an evil dark wizard. That the Chamber of Secrets now seemed to have not been set up to allow the Heir of Slytherin to continue a purge of mudbloods was going to cause a lot of confusion of the masses.

'I cannot believe he has ruined so many of my plans,' Albus thought. 'I cannot let this happen now. I was so close to destroying Slytherin's legacy and then I would be the all hailed ruler over these wanders. I would be able to remove the constraints with the forbidden knowledge.'

"Come with us," one of the Aurors said.

Albus let his wand slide into his hand putting the Ministry representatives onto alert. He was too sure of his position and power to leave too easily.

"There is no need for this," Albus said in an authoritative tone.

"Put your wand down and come with us," an Auror said.

'Why did Shacklebolt not warn me,' Albus thought. 'Still that all the Aurors and Hot Wizards here are people that are less than likely to let me talk them out of this will make things difficult. Damn you Potter for ruining my plans!'

Finally realizing that they meant it he placed his wand down and said, "Really gentleman there is no reason to go to all this trouble. If you wished to talk to me you only had to ask."

"We will not repeat ourselves. Come with us now or we will be forced to force you," one of the Aurors said.

Knowing that if he actually fought in front of the students that they would loose what respect they had and that would result in even more of a loss of their devotion Albus Dumbledore was escorted from the Great Hall and Hogwarts with little fuss. As soon as he was gone the hushed silence fell from the room as the students began a hurried and rather loud discussion among themselves about what they had just witnessed.

McGonagall got to her feet and in her usual harsh disciplinarian tone said, "Quite! The Headmaster will be questioned but that is no reason to panic. None of us expected this and things will go on as normal. All of you none of the classes are canceled and you will go to them." 'They need to be kept busy so that they are not distracted by this mess,' she thought. 'Albus if you even did half of those things I will be most displeased.'

"You heard the Deputy Headmistress," Delores said. "There is no reason to panic or to let this breach of our trust shake you. The Ministry will get to the bottom of this. There has been some worries over the years about the effect of some of the resolutions that he supported. His behavior for the past decade has made his previous actions seem tame. Allegations of trying to gain control of various family fortunes has been whispered about. Suffice it to say there is no need to panic and justice will be swift but sure."

"OF course the Minister as such a champion of Justice and a tireless proponent of fairness will see too it," Horus said. "Why he worked ever so diligently to remove the travesties of the previous administration."

Suffice it to say that Horus's little speech helped settle down the students even more so than before. On the plus side those families who had never trusted Dumbledore but tradition demanded that they send there children to Hogwarts had done so. Strangely enough none of those students had ever been sorted into Gryffindor as far too many of that house had been conditioned to be his puppets.

That afternoon the paper hit and even more allegations came down. It would appear that the former Headmaster had been well abusing his skills in Legilimancy to snoop in students' heads and he had done nothing to stop cases of child abuse and had in fact used such cases to make the victims more likely to think of him as an authoritative figure. Rumor would spread that he knew of Riddle's childhood and had hoped that he could have cultivated the boy to be his tool. That spectacular blunder would be one of the more shocking to the Wizarding World.

'If things go to plan,' Horus thought. 'Slytherin and the other founders' legacy will be restored. They may have left the Mystic world, but they did have a good reason for it. To prevent the Wanders from revealing magic or worse the rise again of past mistakes. To think they did things to get kicked out in part to do something for the wanders that as mystics they would have been prevented from doing. Still my actions will have repercussions. Most of the muggleborns and halfbloods were the ones who left the Wizarding World to rot in the Great Wizard Civil War. I know that sympathizers of Riddle and their descendants once more tried to rise to prominence, but how is that possible with the way things are going? The Death Eaters are almost all dead and their Heirs have sworn Unbreakable Oaths not to follow in their paths. I guess that the next bit will come not from England but the continent. Those Pureblood supremacists who were unmarked sympathizers will be the ones to rise. Have I made this inevitable confrontation in the first place? With the rise of muggle artifacts and enchanted objects that do not fall under the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Department which is a department that should not exist in its current form, does this change for the better eventually have a backlash?'

"Hey you look like your worried," Lavender said as she sits down next to him.

"Yeah I guess I am," Horus said. "Things seem to be improving, but I am worried about a backlash. One of the fundamental rules of the Universe is that nothing is free that there is always a cost even if you do not see it."

"For every joy a little sorrow must enter the world," Hermione said as she sat down as well.

"It may seem a bit of silly poetry," Horus said, "but it holds true to often. To gain something must be lost. We have gained a lot this year, but what will we lose?"

"We lost our innocence," Ginny said. "Before this year the world was simple. Dumbledore was the grandfatherly leader of the light and all that was good and Riddle led the dark and all that was bad. To think things are so much more complicated."

"To know that with a simple action there would have never been such tragedy," Parvati said.

"For evil to win all a good man must do is nothing," Hermione said.

"But for good to spread one must work for ever for a single moment of hesitation will allow evil to spread," Luna said.

"We are getting rather philosophical today," Horus said. "I will say this that despite all the bad things that have happened and the things that inevitably will go wrong that does not mean that things will fall to ruin."

"We must remember that the times shape us," Padma said. "We are products of our environment."

"Would we be as strong or able without the harshness and sorrows that have forged us so?" Horus asked. "No we would not be who we were without the tragedy that shaped us. Still we can plan and work for a better future. Sadly someone will object. The unknown is the greatest fear and as the movie said..."

"Fear leads to anger, Anger leads to hate and hatred leads to suffering," the girls said.

"Yeah and Riddle is a good example," Horus said. "Somehow Crinkle knew Riddle was different and he feared the difference. That fear led to his hate being directed on to a young boy. He feared death and abuse which led him to be angry at the muggle that abused him. That anger led him to eventually hate all muggles and muggleborns and then that hatred led to all the suffering he caused."

The group was quite after that. If only Dumbledore had done something to prevent the abuse he knew happened. If only Tom Riddle Sr. had not feared his wife being a witch and if even then she had not died things would have been different. Alas the smallest of actions can grow beyond anyone's ability to control like a single snowflake falling can lead to an avalanche. Sometime the smallest of actions can lead to great change sometimes that is for the better and sometimes for the worse. Horus hopes that his actions can save a few instead of allowing them to die through inaction. Sadly fate and destiny while balanced by free will and chance sometimes cannot allow certain things to change. The events that no one even a time traveler can succeed in changing. Still things were being set in motion. There was still a wizard planning on stealing all the glory even if he was currently without his wand in a holding cell at the Ministry.

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With Dumbledore under arrest Umbridge easily took over temporary control of the school. McGonagall was the obvious choice but not until the time that she was no longer completely under Dumbledore's blind devotion.

These thoughts were going through Horus's head as he sat down to breakfast the day after Dumbledore was taken away. With Trelawney gone and the compulsions on Binns no longer there, the worst classes were no longer leading to the determent of the students.

'Sinistra, McGonagall, Snape and Flitwick are competent teachers,' Horus thought. 'With a slight change to the curriculum things will be better for all involved. The students will be better prepared for life outside school and Dumbledore's sabotage of the Wizarding World will end. To think that he was so jealous that he had to erode what little of the gift they have by crippling them even more.'

His girls were settled around him and he looked over to see Luna with her pets. Luna, Su Li, Cho, Nev and Ronny made an interesting grouping but who was he to judge. His girls at least those attending Hogwarts were arrayed around him while he was getting the usual jealous looks form both sexes. With the first stages of the potion for Neville�s parents dealt with there was not much to worry about. As soon as Binns completed his last tasks he would move on and Bella and Cissa could take that over as with Dumbledore gone the replacement seer from Devon would arrive. He had to have picked one that was enough of a seer to know to stay away while the manipulative old man was there.

He looked down at his morning paper and the new charges would completely undermine Dumbledore's credibility. Three stories on the front page that would destroy all of his credibility and they would turn his closest supporters into his most vicious critics. Hagrid and McGonagall would be very angry with the stories. He looked up and noticed the smoldering rage that was wafting off them was not the only clues as Hagrid's beady black eyes were smoldering with rage.

'I guess he read the story about how Dumbledore could have prevented his being expelled that he knew what Tom did but hadn�t cared about Hagrid more than getting him in his debt,' he thought. 'Hmmm... Looks like McGonagall just read about the Gauntlet and the Chamber. She looks mighty angry that he put her students in danger. To think that he planned on using the Gauntlet and the Chamber to hone Neville as a replacement since I didn't show to fit his role of tool. I guess she hasn't gotten to the fact that he could have let me out anytime from the Tournament and let me join as a test and to better make me pliable since he thought I would go to him for help.'

Horus smirked along with his friends and companions as the look of complete rage settled onto McGonagall's face. Things were not looking good for Albus Dumbledore. Plenty of his supporters had been removed from effect if not swayed completely. Moody, Snape, Hagrid and McGonagall had been rendered against him with Trelawney gone and Sprout and Flitwick feeling a slow buildup of rage over what he had risked their students. With that accomplished, the only ones that might support him were the Weasleys and with the knowledge that he allowed Riddle's diary in and that he allowed her youngest daughter to be possessed and only interfered when it looked like Neville would not be up to the task and that was after there had been students who had been petrified and risk of death for her children would remove that support rather quickly.

'It all comes crumbling down,' Horus thought. 'To think if he had left me alone and had not tried to pull all this shit on me that he would still have a job. By the time the fines alone are done he will be penniless and he will be remembered not as the killer of Grindelwald, but as the bastard that tried to become the hidden ruler of the Wizarding World and that he risked the heirs of the old families to do so. Then again, the worst he tried to do was make sure that the heirs and descendants of the students were so weak he could easily control them. Amazing that all of those restrictive legislations over the past century have been the result of his work.'

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Continued in Chapter 19: Some Soul Show Shadow's Secret

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