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Thou Shalt Not!	By : KusanoSaku Category: Harry Potter AU/AR > Slash - Male/Male Views: 17650 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 4
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Title: Thou Shalt Not!
Fandom: Harry Potter
Notes: Post-Battle of Hogwarts fic in part. Non-Epilogue complient. AR/AU. Evil Dumbledore.
Summary: Severus Snape survives the war, only to realize he has nothing left to live for. While musing what he might have done differently, he is interrupted by the arrival of Dumbledore who is doing some 'housekeeping'. A duel begins and in an attempt to save himself, Severus does the unthinkable and breaks one of the greatest tenets of Magic!
What has he done and where has he gone?
The Past - Ch 31

August 30, 1972

Andromeda and her companions were set to fly via brooms to the location where Beauxbatons students assembled to take charmed boats to the Palace.

Unlike her fourth and second year sisters Bellatrix and Narcissa respectively, she would not be returning to Hogwarts at all this year.

Lucius would be part of the Hogwarts Triwizard Candidates as well representing the House of Malfoy.

Aurelius and Alaric had been requested to tutor the Candidates along with Headmaster Filius, Fontaine Fortescue, Septimus Weasley and Lord Alger Wood.

Not many of the Candidates had achieved Outstandings for their Potions OWL so Aurelius didn’t have to teach more than four.

Alaric was overseeing their Defence, Filius Charms, Alger Herbology, Septimus Transfiguration and Fontaine History. The electives had been arranged to either take place on the weekends for practical lessons and pensive lectures freeing up the Hogwarts professors from adding too much work.

Filius had reinstated taking apprentices as part of the staffs’ duty and allowing the apprentices to teach the lower years while adding to the staff that Albus had trimmed down to one professor per subject which was rediculous.

Alaric had his ‘dream job’ of teaching Defence, while Aurelius was reluctantly teaching potions again.

Aurelius despised flying unlike Alaric who chose to fly with Filius and the Hogwarts Triwizard Candidates, chose to use the international floo network.

They could have portkeyed but had chosen not to.

A floo was a better way to travel for a snake.

Alaric and Aurelius knew quite well that the scar hidden from view on his throat came from a snake not only like Alaric’s Aurora but was technically an older Aurora.

In his past life, Aurelius knew that Nagini had been a gift from Rodolphus’ sire Renard and the idea of the gift had originated with Bellatrix who had become enamoured with the Dark Lord while still at Hogwarts.

An obsession Aurelius planned to deal with before it caused irreparable harm to those like Alys Dearborn and Franciscus Longbottom; who in Aurelius’ past life were known as Aurors Alice and Frank Longbottom.

“Aurelius…”

Aurelius was interrupted from his silent musing by a vaguely familiar voice: that of Septimus Weasley.

“Septimus…how are you?” Aurelius asked raising a privacy ward.

“Rather disheartened. I had hoped that your interference would allow Arcturus and Gideon to be happy together…”

“What is wrong?”

“Mary chose to curse Gideon so he couldn’t conceive…the only way to ensure that those brilliant sons born to the House of Prewett and for the House of Weasley were to be born was to allow Molly to remain as a surrogate. A rather disconcerting choice… Molly was content to bask in her pregnancy avoiding all notions of studying and when she lost Bill to Gideon; she taunted him that he’d never satisfy ‘her Arthur’ because she’d ensured that he was infertile. In retaliation, we demanded that she carry the other pregnancies but lose all rights to the children since she attempted line theft. Afterwards, she will be released from the House of Prewett at which time she’ll have the choice to sit her OWLS. She was withdrawn from Hogwarts at Drystan’s choice but chose to allow her studies to lapse. If all goes to plan, Charlus Erec is due in December…”

“So you’ve chosen to get away for a while?”

“Since Gideon is living at Wellsley Hall with Arcturus; they did manage to sit their NEWT last May with Fabian. Arcturus and Fabian have entered into Auror training of course but due to his young son, Arcturus is not required to live in the Auror Dormitory. The knowledge of his cursed infertility has crushed Gideon and he spends his days with Bill, rather than studying for his Healer entrance exams. Mary’s double betrayal broke his heart… seeing her carrying children that ought to be his is painful to watch.

“So you’ve decided you need some fresh air as it were away from the scandal?

“Mary is under the guardianship of her Aunt Muriel Malfoy who has always disliked her, she was staying at the Hall until she infuriated Cedrella and to keep the peace Drystan sent her to Muriel. While Arcturus wasn’t Head Boy, he was so full of hope and excitement last September but this year has crushed his spirit.”

“It could be worse…he could be bonded to Mary and forever separated from Gideon.”

“Perhaps so… I hate to see my heir and his bondmate so crushed…”

“Lady Andromeda will be going into healing; she has a gift for it. Perhaps, she can undo whatever it is that Mary did to Gideon. She will be representing Hogwarts after all…”

“London to Port-Miou five o’clock!”

Aurelius, Septimus and the other NEWTS tutors stepped into the large commercial floo.

They emerged in the tiny wizarding village of Port-Miou, near the Muggle Village of Cassis in the Calanques.

While instruction usually began on the first of September, Beauxbatons students left the Palais on July first only to return August thirtieth when the Calanques were closed due to ‘fire hazards’.

Fenrir would see to it that his wards; Remus and Corey, Aurelius’ wards Lily and Severus as well as Regulus arrived at Durmstrang tomorrow.

The palace was quite different than Hogwarts castle…

Even Filius’ stories about his time there as a duelling instructor failed to do it justice…

Beauxbatons was built on the top of one of the lower fjords which unlike their Norwegian counterparts were created by fluvial erosion. The Palais was surrounded by water on all sides, part of the Cote de Azure but the architecture was very pastoral with statues of nymphs, dryads, fauns and satyrs everywhere.

The clear blue waters in front of the Palais were very lagoon-like; a favoured past-time at Beauxbatons was swimming in the warm waters.

According to Filius Beauxbatons was affectionately called the chateau d'eau ("water castle") because the building was centred on the structure of an elaborate fountain. At the summit of the fountain are sculptures of four large bulls and three women—a central figure representing the Durance flanked by one who represents grapes/vines and one who represents wheat/fertility. Behind the women, within the central structure of the palace, is a manmade stone grotto decorated with carved stalactites and nymphs. From beneath the three women and from the bulls, water flows into a secondary basin, and then into an artificial pond. The water drains out of the pond into underground pipes, from which it emerges in a waterfall-like structure, and in twelve ornate bronze fountains lined alongside it, flowing into a second, larger lagoon like structure.

The central feature of the garden behind the palace is a classic garden à la française, which is known as the Jardin du plateau. The garden also includes an English landscape garden, with winding alleys and many notable trees, including a 150-year-old plane tree and an oak and a Siberian elm that are both 120 years old. It was a feat of magic that such a garden could exist in the Calanques…

Due to its proximity to Cassis and Marseille, it was in the Heart of the Calanques only truly accessible by floo or by boat.

Its location was as heavily protected as Hogwarts and Hogsmeade or Durmstrang and Durmsǿy.

The tutors were met by Beauxbatons’ very large and very young Headmistress Madame Maxime who escorted them into the Palais showing them their classroom and apartments which were in a disused wing for privacy.

Their student charges were to stay in whichever ‘House’ they felt comfortable in.

Each foreign student had been assigned a Beauxbatons student as a host as Madame Maxime’s insistence.

At the end of the tour they were escorted to the great open-air dining room where there were six ‘House’ tables as well as the staff tables.

The tables appeared to be crystal and the air was perfumed with the sea and flowers that grew around the pillars. It appeared that Fleur Delacour’s tale about being serenaded while they dine by choirs of wood nymphs was not as unreliable a tale as Viktor’s to Granger about Durmstrang…

Beauxbatons was a far younger school in comparison to Hogwarts’ millennia history and Durmstrang was around two hundred years younger according to legend; while Beauxbatons had been a school less than a hundred years when the Triwizard Tournament was established in 1294. In his past life, during Fudge’s disastrous attempt to resurrect the Triwizard on the seven hundredth anniversary it had been claimed that Beauxbatons had reached approximately seven-hundred and ninety-four years as an educational institution.

Once all of the Beauxbatons students were present, Durmstrang arrived.

Aurelius recognised Branislav ‘Branko’ Krum of House Hiisi who escorted him to meet with the High Master, Dragomir Ionescue of House Hróðvitnir and Igor Karkaroff of House Hræsvelgr

Hogwarts entered last, you wouldn’t know that they flew if it weren’t for the poker straight spine of one Andromeda Black. Clearly, she hadn’t enjoyed the flight…

Lucius didn’t look the worse for his flight; his hair was immaculately tied back in a black velvet ribbon and his robes pristine.

From his past life Aurelius recognised all of the Hogwarts students.

Andromeda Black, Lucius Malfoy, Chadwick Montague and Tiberius Pucey also of Slytherin; Emelia Bones, Mairsile O’Flaherty and Edwin Tonks of Hufflepuff, Alvin Wood to represent Gryffindor [the future father of Oliver Wood] as well as Prefects Aurora Sinestra and Septima Vector of Ravenclaw.

Madam Maxime welcomed them to Beauxbatons with heavily accented English.

Introducing Durmstrang first and as each student was introduced a Beauxbatons student rose and escorted them to the student in question’s table.

The Beauxbatons students were only mentioned by name rather than House Affiliation.

Despite the book that Abraxus had procured on European Wizarding Education, its information on the Beauxbatons Academy was quite sparse.

Aurelius waited both impatiently and curiously to see how Beauxbatons ‘Sorted’.

What do you think? Outstanding? Exceeds Expectations? Acceptable? Poor? Dreadful? Troll?
A/N: I know its a cliffy. Unfortunately, I've created/built five wizarding Schools most of them American and yet I didn't actually build/plot out Beauxbatons. I'll post as soon as I figure out how Beauxbatons sorts and what the Houses are...
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