(The Potters and the Prisoner of Azkaban, act three, chapter one)

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Way before any of the Mikaelsons woke up or before anyone of the Scooby-Doo group could return back to the living room so that they could continue watching the life of the two Potters, three spirits reappeared, but this time they were joined with two others.

"Are you sure about this, Jas?" James Potter asked his sister as he turned around to look at her.

Jasmine was looking around in the living room of where the love of her life now lived in. She was finally gonna see him again after years. "Yeah."

"And if he hurts you again, we'll just kick his ass." Sirius said as he picked up a vase and looked at it.

"He's a thousand years old vampire. I wanna see you do that." Regulus said and Jasmine let out a laugh at the thought.

"I could take him." Sirius said, stubbornly as he placed the vase back down on the table.

"Of course you can, Padfoot." James said, encouraging his best friend as he missed the looks passed between the four behind him.

"I hope I can speak to him before the rest of his family wakes up." Jasmine said to Lily as James and Sirius engaged in a conversation with each other besides them, Regulus looked at the pair of best friends.

"I'm sure we can make time for you two to talk before continuing watching." Lily said, grabbing her best friend's hand, which was shaking from being nervous.

"How do you think he'll react?" Jasmine asked. "Maybe he doesn't want to talk to me. What if he thinks I didn't try to protect my little girl and my nephew from living the lives they're living?"

"Of course I'm not thinking that." A voice said from the door, causing all of the six spirits to turn in that way.

"Elijah." Jasmine gasped as she looked at the man, who hadn't changed a bit. Not even his clothing style. It surprised her that he was wearing a suit at six in the morning.

Lily gently pushed Jasmine forwards to Elijah.

"Stop staring, you're going to make it awkward." Lily scolded the men, who all immediately turned to a conversation with each other.

Elijah held out his hand for Jasmine and she grabbed it with hesitation.

"I have a million things to ask you but I don't know where to start." Jasmine said to him as they sat down by the kitchen table.

"I should start with apologising to you, darling." Elijah said to her. "I am deeply sorry for leaving. I did not want too, but I was afraid that if my brother Niklaus found out about you, he would kill. I could have tried to erase your memories of me, but the vervain was already in your system."

"I'm glad you didn't and I understand. James already told me. But I would've gone insane if I was suddenly pregnant and I had no idea who was my baby's father, so I'm really glad you did not take my memories. Even though, you could've told me why." Jasmine answered.

"I understand. That would have been better indeed." Elijah said. "You need to know that I would never blame you for what happened to our daughter or for even letting Sirius be her blood-adopted father. It was Voldemort's fault. All of it and I don't want you to blame yourself for it. Not even for a second." Elijah continued after a short moment of staring in her eyes.

"Thanks." Jasmine replied with a little smile. "I just hate how they grew up. Nora and Harry. After what happened to Sirius and Regulus, I desperately didn't want the same to happen to them." Her smile was gone again as she thought about how her daughter and nephew growing up with the Dursleys.

"Again, that was not your fault. Or Lily or James. It was Dumbledore and the Dursleys for treating them that way."

"Oh, don't start about Dumbledore." Jasmine said, shaking her head. Oh, how she loathed that man who brainwashed her daughter and nephew.

"Is there a way on bringing you back?" Elijah asked for himself and Nora, not knowing if it was different for people from her world. But if she could be brought back, he was not going to stop at any point of trying. Unless she didn't want to.

He would respect her choice, but he knew if she said 'no' it would break his heart.

"Yes." Jasmine nodded but the smile that had appeared on Elijah's face was quickly disappearing again. "But we can't."

"Why not if I may ask?"

"It's dangerous to bring people back and there is only one person who could do it. The power would kill them. And I can't let that happen. Not to her." Jasmine replied.

"Who?" Elijah asked her.

"That's not important. I told you we can't."

"Okay." Elijah nodded in defeat. "But can I ask you a question that does not have anything to do with bringing you back?"

"Anything."

"Where were Sirius and Remus when Harry and Nora were growing up?"

"Why do you think they're here now and not later?" She asked him. "But you have to promise me not to do anything to Sirius, I can't say anything yet because of Dumbledore but it will make sense at the end."

Elijah nodded.

"Boys!" Lily scolded from the other side of the closed off door, dragging the two of them away from the door.

"Lily-flower!" James said. "I-"

"No, stop listening." She turned to Sirius. "You as well. If Jasmine wants to tell us what was said in there, she will tell us herself."

"But as her brother-"

"None of that." Jasmine said as she had heard Lily.

"Now we missed the last of their conversation, Lily." Sirius said to her. "What did you talk about?" He asked Jasmine.

"You'll have to tell figure that out yourselves." Jasmine responded as she sat down on one of the chairs with Elijah next to her.

"Now we just have to wait until the rest of my siblings wake up and the others return."

And when they did, everyone was surprised by the two new spirits joining them, but they quickly continued watching Nora's life when Elijah told them he wanted to continue, because his nerves for another year of Nora at Hogwarts was waiting for them. 

An awkward conversation between Elijah and Sirius had also happened so when Rebekah came walking in, they were both glad to turn away.

This summer had been a weird one to say at least. The Dursleys had been the same as ever. Annoying and ignorant towards the two Potters, not that they minded. It gave them time for themselves. Especially Nora.

"Who likes the Dusleys anyway?" Kol asked everyone but nobody answered, letting their silence speak their answers.

For some reason Nora Potter still didn't know, Theodore Nott, a Slytherin boy she met last year in a Quidditch store, had been sending her letters all summer and she had been writing back to him.

So when the girl was not busy writing yet another letter to Theo, she and Harry took walks around Little Whinging just to be away from their aunt, uncle and their spoiled son.

And to Harry's great displeasure, they frequently went on a visit to Miss. Figg. Miss. Figg used to be the person the Dursleys dropped the Potter off when they went off to do something, like holidays, and they didn't want the twins ruining everything.

Harry hated going there. Arabella Figg's house smelled like cabbage, she had to many cats  and she made them look through albums off her cats. She had even given them stale cake.

But Nora loved going to Miss Figg's house and that was the only reason Harry went with her willingly. Because it made her truly happy.

However, Nora and Harry kept it a secret from the Dursleys . They weren't stupid. If they knew Harry and Nora - well Nora - voluntarily went there, they'd be sure to stop these visits for them.

Nora had taken a pity on Miss. Figg at the end of July. She found it sad that the woman always seemed to be alone and she had cats so Nora absolutely didn't mind leaving the Dursleys to go there for a couple hours.

But she did knew Harry hated it, so that was probably the only reason that they didn't go every week, which was not a problem for Arabella Figg at all if they would've come.

"That's actually so sweet, Harry doesn't want to go but does it for Nora." Elena said.

"Yes, and Nora doesn't go like everyday because she knows Harry hates it." Bonnie continued.

"Really does me thinking about you two." Lily said to the Potter twins in the rooms, who grinned at each other in return.

Nora had sent her last letter to Theo of the day off with Theo's owl, Chicken, and took her spell book form her nightstand. Nighttime was probably the only time the two could hold themselves busy with anything magic related.

Harry started practising the spell 'Lumos Maxima' because he was still struggling with keeping the light on for longer than a few seconds under his blanket.

Nora had mastered that spell on two days before and was spending her with something she had been keeping a secret from everyone since the day she picked up the book in the library. She had been working on it ever since, but every single one of her attempts had failed.

"I wonder what that could be." Stefan said, speaking for everyone who didn't know what she was doing yet.

"Is she doing something dangerous?" Elijah asked Jasmine with worry all over his face.

"No." Jasmine answered after doubting what she should answer.

"That wasn't spoken in a way that you were sure." Klaus said to her, raising his eyebrow at her. Them meeting had been quite the scene too. Both hadn't know what to say to each other. Klaus not because he knew that Jasmine would not like him extremely, and Jasmine because she just didn't know how to react to seeing him after James had told her it was because of Klaus, Elijah had left.

So both had just introduced themselves.

"What she is doing is not hurting her." 

She opened her book on the last chapter and read it over and over again, wondering what went wrong the last time she tried it at Hogwarts. She hadn't attempt to do it at home for the past few weeks. Nora held up her wand with light to see better. She also was under her blanket and was so until she heard footsteps coming towards their bedroom.

Nora quickly put out her light as Harry's quickly dimmed. They both came from under the blankets with their heads, lying back down as the door opened and Vernon Dursley appeared in the opening of it, switching on the light to check if they were sleeping.

When he stopped looking around the room, thinking that they were both asleep, he closed the door behind him and went back to bed.

Both of the thirteen-year-olds sat back up, heads under their blankets again and continued with their work, until Vernon walked back in, check once more, and left the room, the door shutting closed as he did so.

"This is too good." Rebekah smiled at the screen on how Nora and Harry were messing with the man.

"Indeed. His face." Caroline said, letting out a laugh.

Grinning at each other at Vernon's failed attempts on catching them, both put their books and wands away, knowing that Vernon was gonna come back anyway, bidding goodnight to the other one as they went to sleep, knowing that tomorrow was a day they had been dreading ever since they found out.

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"Harry! Nora! Open the door!" Aunt Petunia's loud voice came from downstairs and Harry rolled his eyes at Nora in annoyance as they walked out of their bedroom and bounced down the stairs, over to the front door.

Harry was the one to take a hold of the door knob and open the door.

The moment he had opened it, a woman stormed inside with a panting dog, shoving her umbrella to Nora as if she was a coat rack.

"That's just rude." Jeremy said.

Harry closed the door when their uncle was finally inside. Meanwhile the woman had already made her way into the living room with her dog.

"Uncle Vernon. We need you to sign these forms." Harry said to his uncle, who was taking off his coat as Nora placed the umbrella on the stairs.

"What is it?" Vernon asked them, uninterested, dropping his coat on a bench in the hall.

"Nothing. School stuff." Nora replied and both of the twins held out their form that would grant them permission to go to Hogsmeade on the weekends.

"Later perhaps. If you both behave." Vernon said, not looking down at the papers and walking towards the living room where his sister was petting her dog.

"We will if she does." Nora said, glaring at the back of Marge's head.

"Ah, you're still here, are ya?" The woman asked them and the twins shared a look with each other. Did she really expect them to have suddenly gone poof.

"Yes." Harry replied in an obvious tone.

"Don't say 'yes' in that ungrateful way." Marge said to him, handing her dog's leash to Petunia, who held on to it by the very end. It made Nora laugh how she was almost on the table because she was so scared of the dog. It was the same way she reacted when Belle sneaked out of the Potter's their bedroom.

"How else is he supposed to say it? With tears?" Nora questioned her in return. It was a way they could have answered which was more truthful to their true feelings. They wanted out of this house.

"This one is even more ungrateful and she isn't even family." Marge spoke. "Damn good of my brother to keep you." She turned to her brother. "They'd been straight to an orphanage if they'd been dumped on my doorstep." Then she noticed Dudley sitting on the couch watching some show. "Is that my Dudders? Is that my little neffy-pooh." She walked over to him and pulled him back so that she could give him a tight hug.

"I don't like this woman." Stefan said as he looked at the screen in front of them.

"Yes, how could anyone hate them?" Bonnie asked.

"They're literally the best." Rebekah agreed.

"They really are." Elijah said with a little smile on his face on hearing their words, not the ones from Marge.

This moment was another one that Nora was happy she was not a child of the Dursleys.

"Take Marge's suitcase upstairs." Uncle Vernon demanded of them.

"I truly forgot how much I hated that woman." Nora said as they dropped Marge's suitcase in the guest room of the house.

An hour later all the Dursleys were seated around the dining table. Aunt Marge placed down her own empty but dirty plate on the ground so that her dog, Ripper, could lick it off. "Finish that off for Mummy. There's a good boy, Rippy-pooh."

Seeing that everyone except for Dudley was done eating, the Potters started going around to collect the empty plates and wash them off. Knowing if they didn't, they wouldn't get supper and they were quite hungry.

"We are going to prepare them the biggest meal they have ever seen when we finally meet." Finn said to his siblings, who agreed with him fast.

"I don't think you're gonna top Molly's dinners." James said to them.

"Can I tempt you, Marge?" Uncle Vernon asked his sister, showing her the brandy.

"Just a small one." She answered as she turned to Petunia. "Excellent nosh, Petunia." She snapped her fingers at Nora, pointing them to the ground where her dog was already done with her dirty plate.

"Just a bit more." Marge said as Vernon started to pour some of the liquid into a glass, but it was clearly not enough for her. "Usually just a fry-up for me, what with twelve dog." She said as Nora picked up the plate and looked at the dog who started up at her with pity.

"See! Even the dog knows!" Jeremy said, pointing at the screen.

"Oh, look, Nik, a friend for you."

"Shut up." Klaus said, slapping Kol on the back of his head, while Kol smirked. Telling these dog jokes about his brother were never going to be not funny.

"A bit more. That's a boy!" Marge picked up the brandy from the table and Nora was sure if Petunia didn't stop smiling soon it was gonna be on her face permanently.

Uncle Vernon sat back down at the table while the Potter, in the kitchen, started to scrape off the food so that it would be easier to clean them.

"You want to try a little drop of brandy?" Marge asked her dog, holding the glass down for him. "A little drop of brandy-brandy windy-wandy for Rippy-pippy-pooh?" She placed her glass back on the table, looking at the Potters. "What are you two smirking at?"

They shrugged as response.

"Where did you send the boy and the girl, Vernon?"

"St. Brutus's. It's a fine institution for hopeless cases."

"Do they use the can at St. Brutus's?" Marge asked, turning back to the Potters.

From behind her, they saw Uncle Vernon gave the a look, telling them both to play along.

"Oh, yeah! Yeah, we've been beaten loads of times." Harry replied and Nora felt herself wanting to laugh at how sarcastic he was speaking. The two turned around, showing their backs to the Dursleys, knowing that if Marge saw them laughing, they would have some serious problems.

"Excellent! I won't have this namby-pamby, wishy-washy nonsense about not hitting people who deserve it. But you mustn't blame yourself about how this these two turned out, Vernon, it's all to do with blood. Bad blood will out. What is it the boy's father did, Petunia?" Marge asked her sister-in-law as the smiles of amusement slowly started to fall.

"Nothing. He didn't work. He was unemployed." Petunia responded.

"And a drunk too, no doubt."

"That's a lie." Nora and Harry spoke at the same time in anger.

"What did you say?" Marge asked, daring them to repeat themselves, because she had heard them loud and clear.

"My dad wasn't a drunk!" Harry spoke louder as they turned around to face aunt Marge. The lights around them started to flicker, representing Harry and Nora's anger. Harry even made Marge's glass filled with brandy break in her hand, making aunt Petunia let out a scream.

"Don't worry. Don't fuss, Petunia. I have a very firm grip." Marge said, laughing it off.

"I think it's time you both went to bed." Vernon said to the twins, glaring at them in anger. They had gone to far with that.

"Quiet Vernon." Aunt Marge said, silencing him. She pointed at Nora before clicking her fingers and pointing at the broken glass brandy on the dining table.

Nora came over to clear up the shells of broken glass with a towel so she wouldn't cut herself.

"Actually it's nothing to do with the father. It's always to do with the mother. You see it all the time with dogs. If there's something wrong with the bitch then there's something wrong with the pup."

"Shut up!" Harry screamed at her in so much anger the Dursleys had never seen him in. And Nora threw the towel with the broken glass pieces back on the table, right next to Marge's hand. Maybe if she got lucky one of the pieces would get stuck in Marge's hand when she slammed it back down on the table.

Marge was already pleased with herself when she saw this outburst, but she still continued, this time focusing on Nora's family. "But I guess it can also just relate to the family. The girl's mother and the boy's father are they not? And her father ever seen him? Maybe the sister was just some whore who got herself knocked up, leaving the baby with your family since she didn't want to take care of it."

"Oh, this woman is seriously crossing over the line." Rebekah said.

"She doesn't even live there. What gives her the right to treat Harry and Nora as servants?" Bonnie asked.

"Yes, and attacking you five. What the hell." Caroline said to the parents of the youngest Potter twins.

Elijah felt his anger raising. Firstly that woman goes around, demanding the Potters to clean up their stuff, goes on to humiliate them and lastly started talking badly about their parents.

"She hasn't even met you. She has no right to call you all these names." Elena said.

"Yes, she is the whore, but I doubt with that personality, she can even find a man who is willing to spend his time with her." Caroline said.

"Another person on the murder list, I see." Kol said, writing Marge Dursley on the paper that he was holding.

"Kol, what is that?" Finn asked as he looked at the paper.

"Like I said, murder list."

"Who's on it?" Damon asked.

"The Dursleys. Lily, I know Petunia is your sister, but she is a bitch, who only cares about her own child." Lily nodded, agreeing with him. If the roles had been reversed, she and James would've never treated Dudley like the Dursleys have been treating their children.

"Then Dumbledore. I don't trust that man." Kol continued. "Voldemort, obviously. Then Lucius Malfoy, or as my dear niece likes to call him, Barbie. He tried to kill her and Harry so. Then this bitch." He nodded at the screen. Marcus Flint because he stepped Nora in her stomach-"

"We get it. Many people who have hurt Harry and Nora." Finn said while Klaus was looking down at the long list of names, completely agreeing with his youngest brother. It's what he enjoyed most. Glorious murder.

"When did you even make that?" Regulus asked him.

"Last night." Kol simply answered.

"You bitch." Nora screamed, feeling like attacking the woman. And she probably would've done if she didn't see what was happening.

"Right, let me tell you-" The woman cut herself as she looked down at her finger, noticing what Harry and Nora were looking at. It had started to swell. Then she looked down at the rest of her body just like everyone in the room, except for Dudley who was still busy eating the rest on his plate. The rest of it was starting to swell as well.

Petunia closed her eyes a few times to check if her mind wasn't playing tricks on her.

One of the many beads of her necklace flew off, hitting a cuckoo clock, which activated it into working and making sound.

"Vernon, do something!" Aunt Marge repeatedly yelled at her brother as the buttons off her shirt go flying off somewhere in the room and her chair went backwards since she didn't fit under the table anymore.

The man stood up, wanting to help his sister, but her dog got to him first, setting his teeth in Vernon's ankle. Marge's necklace was completely broken by now, and when some of the beads flew right into Dudley's board the boy looked up to see his aunt floating around in front of him, the chair broken in pieces as she raised up.

One of the buttons of her shirt hit Dudley straight in the face, knocking him to the ground.

Marge grabbed a hold of the tablecloth, breaking the bottle brandy as another button hit Dudley in the face.

Ripper still hadn't let go off Vernon's leg when his owner started bouncing up and down the room, before going straight to the garden.

Once outside, Vernon grabbed a hold of Marge's hands. "I've got you, Marge. I've got you." Him holding on to his sister, caused him and Ripper to fly up with Marge as well.

"Hold on!" The woman yelled back.

"Get off." Vernon screamed, shaking his leg to get the dog off.

But when that didn't work, he looked back up at his sister, who knew what he was thinking. "Don't you dare."

"Sorry!" Vernon quickly apologized as he let go of her hands and fell face down on the ground below them.

"Vernon! Oh, God!" Petunia screamed in worry as she ran towards her husband.

"Marge!" Vernon yelled out as the two of them and the dog looked up to see Marge floating further away.

Harry was looking outside until he heard his sister next to him, in a sign- song voice. "I'm like a bird, I only fly away. I don't know where my soul is. I don't know where my home is." Harry nudged her arm before grabbing her arm and taking her with him.

Everyone in the room was laughing at the woman who was flying away from the house.

"This is brilliant." Kol said.

"Got me last time. Still got me now." James said.

"She just kept floating away more and more." Sirius said as he though back about it.

"This is fucking genius." Caroline added.

"I don't know how they did it, but awesome." Jeremy spoke.

The two Potters quickly made their way up the stairs, Harry kicked their desk in anger before sitting down on his bed and looking at the photograph of his parents.

"I don't know about you, Harold, but I'm packing. I'm not staying here one more minute." Nora spoke to him, grabbing her trunk from under her bed and laying it open on her bed so that she could fill it with everything she needed for this year at Hogwarts. She would rather sleep on the streets than look one more second at the people down stairs.

Harry quickly agreed with her as he started to do the same.

Once done, the two ran back down, but more slow this time since the trunks were slowing them down.

"You bring her back! One of you brings her back right now! You put her right!" Vernon yelled at them, stopping them from setting a foot further.

"No. She deserved what she got." Harry told him.

"And more." Nora said as Belle hissed at Vernon.

"Way more." Rebekah said.

Vernon extended his arms to take a hold of Harry's collar, but he was too slow. Both of the Potters had their wands out and pointed it at his face, causing him to take a step back.

"Keep away from us." Harry said, pushing the wand closer to his uncle so that they could make their way off the stairs.

"You're not allowed to do magic outside school." Vernon shook his head, stepping back, every time the Potters came down a step.

"Yeah? Try me." Harry spoke, shrugging.

"They won't let you back now." Vernon spoke and his wife and son watched the interaction in silence. "You have nowhere to go."

"We don't care. Literal hell is better than staying one more second in this stupid place." Nora said, opening the door and walking through it, Harry following right behind her as he slammed the door shut in the three Dursleys their faces.

The two of them ran off in the streets with their trunks. Marge was still visible flying above them. In front of a playground they came to a stop, realizing that they really had nowhere to go.

"Well, shit." Nora whispered.

As it hit Elijah, they had nowhere to go, his worry started growing once more.

"Come on." Harry said as he walked over to the side of the road, sitting down on the pavement and dropping his trunk next to him.

Nora did the same, laying her head down on Harry's shoulder for comfort and warmth. It was a summer night but it was still freezing.

"It's gonna be fine." Harry said, placing a little kiss on his sister's head, knowing that would calm her down. It always did.

However, they didn't have much time to think about solutions when the streetlight above them started flickering, causing them to look up. Then a carousel behind them started to turn and the swings started to rock back and forth.

The Potters turned their heads back forwards when they heard the bush moving and a dog made its way out of it and started to bark, causing them to stand up and point their wands at him.

But when they stepped back, Harry tripped, causing him to take Nora with him to the ground.

An to make their day even more crazy a purple bus suddenly came out of nowhere, stopping right in front of the twins.

"Welcome to the Knight Bus. Emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. My name is Stan Shunpike, and I will be your conductor this evening." Stan read of a little paper before putting it away and looking around, seeing no one, until he peered down to the street. "What you doin' there?"

"We fell over." Harry responded.

"What you fall over for?"

"We didn't do it on purpose." Nora said as they stood back up.

"Well, come on, then. Let's not wait for the grass to grow." Stan told them, but instead the twins walked to the end of the bus to see if the dog was still there, but the spot was empty now.

Stan Shunpike appeared next to them. "What you looking at?"

"Nothing."

"Well, come on, then. In." Stan said. The two Potter went to pick up their trunk. "No, I'll get that. You both get in." He picked up Harry's trunk with a struggle as the two Potters and Belle made their way up the bus, looking around to see only beds in it. No seats.

"Come on. Move on. Move on. Move on." Stan spoke, following behind them after he also placed Nora's trunk inside.

Stan picked a paper out of his machine and handed it to Harry. "Take 'er away, Ern." He knocked on the glass and Nora saw the head of the chauffeur appear.

"Yeah, take it away, Ernie! It's gonna be a bumpy ride!" A shrunken head said to Ernie from next to him.

As soon as the bus drove forwards in a fast speed, the Potters fell back on the bed behind them, holding on to it to not roll further. The bed went back forwards and the twins were being stared at by Stan. "What did you say your names were?"

"That is going a bit fast isn't it?" Elijah asked the others as he saw the Knight Bus drive like it was on fire.

"It does. But that's always been." Sirius said.

"If you ever think about taking it, don't. It's makes you nauseous as hell." Regulus told everyone, warning them.

"We didn't." Harry responded as both him and his sisters grabbed a hold of a pole of the bed. It surprised Nora that the woman on the first bed wasn't awake yet.

"Whereabouts are you headed?" Stan continued to ask them with suspicion. He knew he recognized them from somewhere, he just didn't know from what exactly.

"The Leaky Cauldron. That's in London." Nora responded as she thought for a minute. Even though she wanted to go to the Weasleys, they already had cared so much for them so she didn't want to interrupted them for just a night. Nora did almost fell off the bed if it wasn't for Harry pulling her back.

"You hear that, Ernie? The Leaky Cauldron. That's in London." Stan let out a laugh as Nora looked at him with offence.

"The Leaky Cauldron?" Finn asked, having head the name before. "Isn't it were they went with Hagrid in their first year?"

"Yes. They passed through it to get to Diagon Alley." Lily said.

"The Leaky Cauldron." The head stated. "If you have pea soup, make sure you eat it, before it eats you." The head started cackling at them.

"But the Muggles." Harry started as he looked up ahead of them, to see them going at a speed faster than light. "Can't they see us?"

"Muggles?" Stan asked. "They don't see nothing, do they?"

"No, but if you jab them with a fork, they feel." The head started laughing again at its own joke as they turned left. "Ernie! Little old lady at 12 o'clock." It said, warning the chauffeur of the Knight Bus next to him.

Harry and Nora stared ahead of them terrified at the passing lady with her walker. Ernie quickly stepped on the brakes of the car, stopping the bus fast. This caused the Potters to fly forwards, face pressed flat against the window.

The camera showed outside the Knight Bus to the grandma slowly passing them.

Back inside the bus, the head started counting. "Ten, night, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, three and a half, two, one and three quarters. Yes!" The head screamed out as the lady finally passed them. The bus drove further and the Potters fell back once more.

"Who's that on your newspaper? That man?" Nora asked Stan, spotting the cover of the Daily Prophet.

"Is that you?" Rebekah asked as she squinted her eyes to look at the paper.

"So, here is the thing. Don't kill me." Sirius said to the Mikaelson family, who threw him looks of suspicion.

Stan closed his paper with a sigh and looked at the photo with confusion as to how she and Harry didn't know him. "Who is that?" He asked, voice laced with sarcasm. "Who is-?" He cut himself off when he turned the paper to them. "That is Sirius Black, that is. Don't tell me you've never been hearing of Sirius Black."

The two shook their heads together and Stan came closer to them. "He's a murderer. Got himself locked up in Azkaban for it."

"Excuse me?" Elijah asked as he turned to the Black.

"Elijah, remember what I said." Jasmine said, not one bit surprised as the others kept throwing looks of hatred and confusion at Sirius. Elijah nodded in return, giving Sirius one last look before turning back.

He trusted her. But if Sirius even did just one thing to hurt Nora, Elijah would kill him without blinking. 

"You made a murder the father of my niece?" Klaus asked Jasmine, face hardend.

"Aren't you like a mass murder?" Jasmine asked in return, silencing the Mikaelson.

"Wait, but if you're here? Aren't you dead?" Jeremy asked the new spirit who he had thought was still alive.

"Well, yes." Sirius answered.

"How did he escape?" Harry asked him.

"Well, that's the question, isn't it? He's the first one that's done it. He was a big supporter of You-Know-Who. I reckon you've heard of him."

"Yeah. Him I've heard of." Harry answered as Nora nodded her head.

"Ernie! Two double-deckers at 12 o'clock." The head warned Ernie once more and if Nora and Harry though they should feel worried for the old lady, they were wrong. "They're getting closer, Ernie. Ernie, they're right on top of us!" The head said but suddenly everything around them slowed down. Both of the double-deckers were driving more slowly and Stan went back to reading his paper.

"Mind your head." The head said to the Potters as Ernie pulled on something next to him. The bus seemed to press itself together, making everyone inside of it also press together, unable to move. Nora was if anyone could see them right now, they would've looked like cartoon characters right now. "Hey, guys, guys. Why the long face?" The head started laughing again as the bus finally went back to it's normal form.

As soon as they were sure they were from between the two double-deckers, the Knight Bus started going back to its usual speed, turning left once more at the end of their route.

"Yeah, yeah! Nearly there. Nearly there." The head spoke. Ernie pressed his feet back on the braces, the Potters flew forwards once again, and the bus crashed against a car, making the alarm of it go off.

"The Leaky Cauldron." Stan said, pointing his arm at the door.

A man stepped inside of the bus. "Ah, Mr. and Miss. Potter, at last." He said as he took their trunks and left the bus again, this time followed by the twins.

The Knight Bus drove away as they entered the Leaky Cauldron. Walking inside they noticed it was not that crowed for this time of night. Tom pointed them up the stairs and didn't stop them until they were at a door.

"Hedwig." Harry said as he spotted his owl in the room.

"Right smart bird you got there, Mr. Potter. He arrived here just five minutes before yourself." Tom said to Harry, who was already by Hegwid's side but a cough from someone else in the room interrupted their conversation.

"As Minister for Magic, it is my duty to inform you, Mr. and Miss. Potter earlier this evening your uncle's sister was located a little south of Sheffield, circling a chimney stack." Fudge spoke to them but he kept looking out of the window, so he didn't see how Tom pushed the Potters into a seat and offered them tea. Both of them shook their heads. "The Accidental Magic Reversal Department was dispatched immediately." By now Tom was offering them cake. "She has been properly punctured and her memory modified."

"What a pity." Nora whispered with sarcasm as she kept petting her cat Belle to calm her down from the Knight Bus.

"Right? I would've just let her hanging there." Kol said, a smirk on his face as he imagined  it.

"And taken a picture of it." Caroline added.

"You know, you're not so bad, blondie." Kol said as he turned to Caroline.

"Thanks."

"She will have no recollection of the incident whatsoever. So that's that and no harm done." Fudge finally turned around to face them. This time the Potters could look back at him with him knowing. Unlike the last time in Hagrid's hut. The minister walked over to them. "Pea soup?" He offered and thinking back of what the head had told them, they both politely declined.

"Minister?" Harry asked.

"Yes?"

"I don't understand."

"Understand?"

"We broke the law. Underage wizards can't use magic at home."

"Come now, Harry. The Ministry doesn't send people to Azkaban for blowing up their aunt." The Minister answered and Tom let out a laugh, stopping when the Minister looked at him, disturbed.

"On the other hand, running away like that, given the state of things was very, very irresponsible." Minister Fudge said, walking around them and putting his hands of Harry's chair.

"'The state of things', sir?" Harry asked him, confused.

"We have a killer on the loose."

"Sirius Black. But what does he have to do with us?" Nora asked him.

"A lot. I'm your father, Nora and Harry's god-father." Sirius said, pretending to be hurt. But what the others didn't know was that he was hurt. He was supposed to be there for them. If it just wasn't for that stupid rat, they would've known him.

The minister shrugged it off with a laugh. "Nothing of course. You're both safe. And that's what matters. And tomorrow you'll be on your way back to Hogwarts." He said to them as he walked over to the desk in the room. "Oh, and these are your new schoolbooks. I took the liberty of having them brought here. Now, Tom will show you to your rooms."

Tom pulled them both out of their seat and Harry stopped by the door to call for Hedwig, who came flying towards him as soon as she heard him say his name.

"Oh, by the way, Potters. Whilst you're here, it would be best if you didn't wander." The Minister warned them and the Potters nodded before walking away from the room and following Tom towards their rooms, which luckily for them were next to each other.

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When she woke up the next morning Nora's eyes fell on a book. The Monster Book of Monsters, which was growling and moving around. To see if she could stop it, Nora tried to open it by the rope bound around it, but when she wanted to open it, the book started biting in her direction. Some pieces of paper fell out of it.

"Of course." Damon said. "They're had to biting books as well."

When she didn't get it to open (and as the biting became more vicious), she dropped it to the floor and backed all the way up to the bed, sitting on it so that the Monster Book couldn't reach her, watching as the book continued its way under the bed.

Once it reached the back of the bed, the growling stopped. Nora laid down on the bed so that she could look what it was doing. At first it didn't acknowledge her presence, but then it started to move back, causing Nora to sit back up, waiting for it to come from under the bed.

When it didn't see her, it returned back under the bed.

Nora grabbed a pillow and threw it on the ground. When the book lounged forwards, she jumped off the bed and on it, grabbing the rope to bind it back together.

She heard a knock on her door.

When Harry walked in, he saw his sister struggling on the ground to actually bind the book back together.

"So the book tried to attack you as well?" Harry asked her.

"It tried to eat my bloody face." Nora replied, finally lying the book back on the table and picking up Belle from the bed.

When they stepped out of the room, into the hall, the first thing they saw was a ginger cat chasing a rat. The two made their way down the stairs, joking together about what had happened to aunt Marge, both kind of disappointed that she had been turned back to normal.

Elijah and Finn didn't miss it this time when all of the spirits their faces turned sour at the sight of the rat. They had no idea that that has also happened the last two movies. This was the first time they had noticed it. But it is just a rat, how bad could it be?

"I'm warning you, Hermione. Keep that bloody beast away from Scabbers, or I'll turn it into a tea cozy!" A voice they immediately recognized warned Hermione. And by hearing their friend the two walked down even quicker.

"It's a cat, Ronald. What do you expect?" Hermione asked him. "It's in his nature."

"I love Crookshanks." Lily said as she looked at the ginger cat, that reminded her off the cat they had had when Harry and Nora were born.

"A cat? Is that what they told you? Looks more like a pig with hair." Ron kept insulting the cat, making Hermione even more mad.

"That's rich coming from the owner of that smelly old shoe brush. That's right Crookshanks , just ignore the mean little boy." Hermione said to the cat in her arms.

"Harry! Nora!" Ron greeted as he saw the twins watching the argument, causing Hermione to turn around as well. "Hey!"

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"Egypt, what's it like?" Harry asked Ron as they all sat down together at the large table in the room.

"Brilliant. Loads of old stuff like mummies, tombs, even Scabbers enjoyed himself." Ron replied.

"You know Egyptians used to worship cats." Hermione interfered the conversation.

"Yeah, along with the dung beetle." Ron answered as he glared at Crookshanks as both Hermione's cat and Nora's cat looked at the rat with hatred from the other side of the table.

Nora had never seen her cat acting like that, but she figured she must have a reason. She herself never quite trusted that rat.

"Not flashing that clipping again, are you Ron?" George Weasley asked his little brother as he came walking into the room.

"I haven't shown anyone." Ron replied.

"No, not a soul. Unless you countTom." Fred said to him as he picked the Daily Propeth.

"The day maid." George continued.

"The nightmaid."

"The cook."

"The bloke thatcame to fix the toilet."

"That wizard from Belgium." George ended. 

Nora stood up to hug them both. Fred just holding her a bit longer than his twin. "Had a good summer, love?" Fred asked her as the all sat back down on the chairs around the table.

"Great. Yours?" Nora asked him as she half lied about her answer.

"Also. Egypt was the best."

"I'm so happy for you guys that you got to go." Nora said, truthfully.

"Well, next time you'll just have to come with." Fred said to her in reply.

"I'm more of a beach person tho Freddie." Nora said with a little smile.

"Well then we'll go anywhere you want once school is finished." Fred smiled at her. "With a beach, deal?" He added, making the girl smile even wider as she nodded.

Hermione stood up to say hi to Ginny and Nora wanted to go with her if it wasn't for Mrs. Weasley calling her over to the other side of the table with her brother.

"Good to see you, dears."

"Good to see you." The twins replied, smiling back at her.

"Now got everything you need?" She asked, putting a hand on both of their cheeks.

"Yep."

"Yes? All your books?" She asked.

"It's all upstairs."

"All your clothes?" Molly checked.

"Everything."

"Good." Molly nodded at them.

"Nora and Harry Potter." Mr. Weasley greeted them as he joined the conversation.

"Mr. Weasley." Nora and Harry said, both shaking his hand.

"I wonder if I might have a word?" Arthur asked them.

"This is not good." Klaus muttered but Rebekah had heard him.

"Why not?" 

"With Sirius on the loose and the minister telling them not to wander around while they're there. It definitely has something to do with Sirius." Klaus explained to her what he was thinking, also making his sister think about it.

"Yeah, sure." Harry replied as Nora nodded. They passed Hermione and Ginny. While Mr. Weasley greeted Hermione, Nora shortly hugged Ginny.

"Looking forward to a new term?" Mr. Weasley asked them both as they both followed him away from the table.

"Yeah. It should be great." Harry answered.

"It's gonna be awesome." Nora said.

"Harry, Nora, some within the Ministry would strongly discourage me for divulging what I'm about to reveal to you both. But I think you need to know the facts." He said as he pulled the away since more people started passing next to them. They stopped next to the wall with the poster of Sirius Black on it. "But you are both in danger. Grave danger."

"Has this anything to do with Sirius Black, sir?" Harry asked him.

"What do you know about Sirius Black?" Mr. Weasley asked, turning his back to the people around the table.

"Only that he has escaped from Azkaban, which nobody has been able to do before and that he was a murder. Maybe still is." Nora replied.

"Do you know why he has escaped?"

The twins shook their heads.

"Thirteen year ago when you stopped-"

"Voldemort." The twins said.

"Don't say his name."

"Sorry." They both apologized.

"When you stopped You-Know-Who Black lost everything. But to this day, he still remains a faithful servant. And in his mind you both are the only two things that stand in the way of You-Know-Who returning back to power." Mr. Weasley said as he took them even further away from the people in the room. "And that is why he has escaped from Azkaban. To find you."

"Lies." Sirius said, before he could stop himself. He knew that Arthur of course thought that because everyone thought that ever since that Halloween, but he just hated the thought that Harry and Nora thought about him as a follower of Voldemort for a while.

"And kill us." Harry said, having it figured out by now.

"Harry, Nora, I want you both to swear to me that whatever you might hear, you won't go looking for Black." Mr. Weasley said in a serious tone.

"Sir, why would we go looking for someone who wants to kill us?" Nora asked him but she did understand his concern. Especially after last year and what happened in the Chamber of Secrets.

"With what has happened the past two years, I wouldn't be very surprised." Stefan said.

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New layout at the start, I loved it with one of my other books too, so I decided to put it here as well :)

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Posted: July 22, 2024

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