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Turning tides	By : KusanoSaku Category: Harry Potter AU/AR > Het - Male/Female Views: 6133 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
Disclaimer: I don't own the Harry Potter franchise, so obviously I'm broke since I don't make a dime. If I did, Ginny would have died instead of Fred. Since I don't, I'm going to have fun and write AU HP.

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Title: Turning tides
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairings: Preslash snupin and preslash JamesxLily
Notes: Marauder Era. AR/AU. Evil Dumbledore.
Summary: Lily and Severus recently learned they were twins and are now attending Durmstrang with fellow former Hogwarts student Remus Lupin. There they shall learn new subjects and make interesting friends. Durmstrang has a more lax view of Dark Arts and Dark Creatures. Who exactly is the author of their Dark Arts textbook?
A/N: I know I said that this would primarily revolve around James, Lily, Remus and Severus but I realised I skipped over plot points in my hurry to deal with the Horcruxes...
This is my attempt to rectify the oversight...

Chapter 3
September 23, 1971
When Lady Walpurga Black received a letter from her troublesome son Sirius informing her that he had been summoned to the Headmaster's office and questioned regarding the transfer of the Prince children Severus and Lily as well as Remus Lupin she immediately sent an elf to ask Lord Slytherin and Lord Prince for an interview…
To her surprise, not soon after an elf escorted her aunt Odorita, who was called Doria, Bondmate Charlus Potter into her office off the library at Grimmauld Place.
Walpurga scowled, "What brings you here Charlus?"
Charlus sank wearily into a chair, "Parenthood is likely exhausting at any age but it exasperated Doria's weak heart and I do not wish to worry her. Her heath has worsened and mine as well, my stress levels are too high and I've been warned about the possibility of a stroke. I don't have my sire Lyall's constitution…I don't think Marrok does either."
Walpurga frowned, "Marrok has been standoffish of late hasn't he?"
"Yes, with my nephew's removal from Hogwarts I am worried. After all, I know that Marrok would never approve it…"
"Would you trust me to look into this Uncle Charlus?" Walpurga mused, "You have enough to worry about with Aunt Doria…"
"Would you? If James were older, I wouldn't worry as much."
"For both your sakes, why don't we meet with Apollus Malfoy to discuss a guardianship for James in case of your health failing?" Walpurga offered.
"If Marrok's finances are as ruined as rumours claim then he is not capable of be trusted with James or the Potter estate." Charlus said in a weary tone.
"What about your elder sister Matilda's family, the Parkinsons?" Walpurga asked curiously.
"I am not fond of them, Father Lyall has been a workaholic since Father George passed. He sends gifts but rarely makes an appearance; his relationship with Marrok is very strained. He believes that Marrok tricked and seduced a Muggle woman only to end up trapped in marriage." Charlus shrugged. "Matilda and I were lucky enough to have Father George to negotiate our bondings especially since we were registered as his heirs. Marrok was registered under the House of Lupin, he came into only a partial inheritance upon his majority rather then what I received due to Lyall still being among the living…"
"I know that James is no more fond of me then Sirius is…" Walpurga sighed, "However it seems that are close to Madam Bone's consort, my brother Alphard. Orion is not the right sort of guardian, ours is a marriage of convenience but we have little in common and he is not a strong enough Head of House. I know that we're looked down on because it's perceived that I run the Black Family. Unfortunately, it is because Orion is weak. He is too easily led and would be tricked into gambling away our estate if I let him. It's best that he spend much of his time with Cygnus doing undamaging things and out of our circle of acquaintances."
Charlus agreed to let her investigate the report of Albus attempting to bully their heirs for information on the Prince twins and the Lupin boy.
Walpurga was determined to do just that, as well as discuss with Alphard about his acceptance of a possible guardianship of their aunt's son James Potter.
XoooooX
James was surprised to receive letters from unfamiliar owls at breakfast the morning after being called into the Headmaster's office…
He opened the first one, that had more of a feminine hand.
Dear James,
In case you didn't guess already, it's Lily. I thought I would let you know that
I arrived at Durmstrang safely with Remus and Severus. We are unfortunately
Sorted into different Houses here; I am in the House of Eagle- don't ask me to
pronounce any of the four House names here I would slaughter them, Remus is
in the House of the wolf and Severus was sorted into the Lynx house. I won't tell
you how we were sorted, it seems to be a secret. I did had the sense that we would
definitely meet again as students, here of all places.
Anyway, about our classes… we use many of the same books here as we did at Hogwarts.
Our teachers are stricter and we have more classes, its much more
rigorous and the three of us are getting use to the differences but we're still needing
a translation charm because the lingua franca is Russian despite Durmstrang being
in the Norse countries. Classes are set up in lecture halls and instead of us
moving classrooms, the professors do.
I think they use time-turners or there are multiple professors in a subject otherwise
how could they instruct all of us properly? Anyway, I do somewhat miss
Gryffindor and Hogwarts but I'm more intellectually stimulated here just as
Remus and Severus are. We haven't quite made friends with our housemates quite
yet but we do still study together and surprisingly all first years attend the same classes.
I have made the acquaintance of the Highmaster's granddaughter Anastasia who
has been quite helpful to my acclimating, I believe that Remus and Severus are
being looked after by the Krum siblings.
Missing you all muchly,
Lillian Prince
Curious, James picked up the second letter…
James,
So we started at Durmstrang on Monday and is it every different. We share classes in a lecture style with all of the other First Years so Severus and myself look after Lily. The older students are quite polite in my House and though I have yet to make friends in the House of the wolf, I am slowly growing comfortable here.
It's different then sharing a dormitory with you and Sirius. After all the beds are built into the wall and are something like berths on a ship. We have chests and wardrobes also built into the wall and there are four desks for studying. We're assigned rooms with three other boys, only I share a room with a single boy.
Actually, its one of the Frauwaz- we'd call them prefects? The youngest Frauwaz is assigned as a dorm head for the first years, then the next three years are also assigned a Frauwaz. They assign the same Frauwaz so theoretically if you are not appointed as one then you keep the same Frauwaz until they graduate. The prefects look after us all for three years and then it's our turn? Well one of us is recommended by our Frauwaz to join their ranks, I wonder if I might have a chance…
Anyway just wanted to let you know that we arrived safe.
Remus Lyall Lupin
James felt a little better about them being at Durmstrang if they were writing. He'd be sure to write back the first moment he learned that the Headmaster was absent…
XooooooX
Walpurga was grateful when she was invited to meet with Lord Slytherin and Lord Prince…
They looked harried when she arrived.
Walpurga quickly imparted the contents of the letters from her son and his best friend, her distant cousin James Potter.
It was Lord Prince who looked the most disturbed, "James Potter wrote that he was concerned about Albus' interest in the absence and withdrawal of Lily, Remus and Severus? He doesn't trust Albus Dumbledore?"
Walpurga shrugged, "It shows maturity to realise that Albus is untrustworthy does it not?"
Aurelius murmured, "Albus has already lost the Prewetts and the Weasleys, now it seems that he's lost the Potters…his power base is weakening." A smirk crossed his features, "You are related to the Bones are you not?"
"My brother Alphard is the sire of Edgar, Emelia and Ethan…" Walpurga frowned.
"I would recommend that Ethan attend the Tahquamenon Institute across the pond when he turns eleven. As a spare male heir it would likely be his best option. Edgar will graduate soon, but I would inform Alphard about those letters. It would be wise to open Emelia's eyes up to Albus' machinations and manipulations."
"Why so?"
"I said I was a bit of a seer did I not?" Aurelius smirked, "If my hints are ignored then much of the Bones family will join the Prewetts beyond the Veil."
Walpurga flinched; the idea that much of Alphard's family might perish did not sit well with her even if he wasn't her favourite brother. "I will discuss this with Madam Bones…"
"The sooner the better…the more open-eyed persons who have some concern for Albus' machinations and manipulations will prevent the very war he has been prophesising and encouraging. One that will lead to the extinction of some pureblood families or slaughter of many more which would lead to a reversal of power…" Aurelius warned. "Resulting in the fall of the Wizengamot and the rise of a democratically appointed legislative power that would likely be full of Muggleborns and Halfbloods."
The very idea of such a legislative body was nauseating but the warning did not fall on deaf ears…
"I hear and I will look into this. Is there no way of hastening your inventory of your estate so that you can properly request a courtship with my aunt and we two can begin discussions of the bonding contract?" Walpurga addressed Lord Slytherin nervously; afraid perhaps she had overstepped herself.
"Nothing at this time…it is in the hands of Apollus Malfoy and the goblins. You are welcome to submit what Lady Cassiopeia would bring to the bonding, as a second bonding, I doubt that you would request a bride price of offer a dowry but I will pay the former for she is worth it." Lord Slytherin said gruffly. "I would wish to be bonded to her as soon as possible but there are some matters that must be dealt with prior."
"No previous marriage contracts or betrothals I trust?" Walpurga frowned.
"Other then the one between my mother and the Black that was found in my document vault? No, I have never considered bonding because despite my academic achievements I felt that I had nothing to offer, thanks to Aurelius I was proven wrong in that assumption." Her master shrugged.
Walpurga dare not pry more, "Thank you for meeting with me on such short notice. I hope that your children are settling into Durmstrang Aurelius."
"To my knowledge yes, I believe that the more strenuous curriculum will benefit their intellectual and magical promise." Aurelius smirked, rising to escort her to the floo room at Merrivale Manor.
"I am sure that James and Sirius will be glad to hear that." Walpurga said before stepping into the floo and calling out the address to her brother's office in Diagon Alley…

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