A Hope through time/ Hope Mikaelson in hp and teen wolf

Chapter 42: chapter 42



Amelia caught up to the Fell's and the members of the Emrys family with Tonks beside her. "You wished to discuss something Lady Emrys?"

Hope turned to face the 2 women, motioning them forward past the protective adults, as they passed the line the 2 Aurors took a shuddering breath as they looked shocked at the power of the ward that was now surrounding them.

"My Aunt is holding that privacy ward up for us seeing as I'm running a little ragged at the time, but I wanted to talk to you about Sirius Black. Have you received the Potter's Will from Harry, Madam Bones?"

Tonks sputtered as she turned to her Boss with impressive speed and her hair changed through an array of colours, nearly going through the entire spectrum of colours before settling on her natural light brown hair that lengthened down to the middle of her back, similar to the Black sisters from the previous generation: Narcissa, Bellatrix and Andromeda.

Freya watched the hair change in avid fascination as this wasn't a skill that existed in her world, she looked over to her niece who had an amused smirk on her face before shaking her head with a non-verbal chuckle.

"What!?" Tonks exclaimed loudly.

Daphne gave a look back to the Metamorphmagus with a raised eyebrow. "We are trying to get your cousin exonerated for a crime he couldn't have committed as he is Harry's sworn Godfather. It is written in the Potter's Will."

Tonks looked over to the icy Slytherin girl who had allegiances to the Neutral Faction and furrowed her brows at the blonde girl. "But why would you help? What do you gain from this? I don't have any allegiance to the House of Black."

Hope and Daphne remained silent as their main reason for helping the other man was to gain access to 12 Grimmauld Place or more specifically Kreacher, the House-Elf to the House of Black to get Slytherin's Locket and Voldemort's 5th Horcrux.

As the group entered the Infirmary Madam Pomfrey tried to advance on Hope but bounced off the ward with some confusion on her face.

Hope turned back to the descendant of the Black family as she answered. "A few reasons. If you want the Political reason first, then I'm doing it to gain Harry's favour as the future Lord Potter and potential Heir Black."

Tonks' eyes widened in shock as she looked over Hope's shoulder and the Thunderbird to see Harry observing the silenced group in curiosity before she turned back to Hope with flaming red hair.

Hope lifted her left hand up and melded the woman's mouth together before she could yell at her. "Sorry for that. But if you'd let me finish instead of jumping down my throat for saying I'm manipulating him. I'm not. Ask Amelia, Susan or Neville. I've had him go to the Light Factions for information. The honourable reason I have for helping Sirius is to get Harry away from his Muggle relatives. Look into them and you'll see how creully they treat Harry. It's absolutely horrid."

As Tonks hair returned to a pink colour Hope took away her mouth sealing spell. "My reason is so I can get access to a harmful artefact that is in the Black's possession and destroy it. I have credible intel from an Unspeakable that a Dark Lord is returning soon." Amelia and Tonks paled significantly at that comment. Tonks more so than Amelia as her Metamorph skills reacted to her fear turning her skin and hair nearly a pure white, which attracted a lot of attention to the group.

"When did you speak to the Unspeakables?" Amelia asked warily.

Daphne gazed over to her Mate with curious eyes. "I was about to ask the same question."

Hope locked eyes with Daphne's ice blue ones as they shifted slightly as she answered the question from the Head of the DMLE. "Right before my Task started. He checked me over for any additional magical implements, to which I only had Excalibur."

The two Aurors gaped as they turned their attention to the sword that was sheathed at Hope's left hip.

'The Unspeakable I met was your grandfather, Gareth Greengrass.' Hope informed her Mate privately as she could feel Daphne's pain at hearing her grandfather's name, 'He made an offer to me, or rather my Family on behalf of the Unspeakables. They are wishing to work under my command. Have me lead them.'

'Did he say why?' Daphne softly asked back while the two Aurors' eyes widened asking to see the sword.

Hope drew the blade, holding it between her opened hands, fully aware that neither woman would attempt taking it, they leaned over to inspect it with respectful gazes. 'No. But I asked if I could get back to him when I thought about it. I'm not sure what their endgame is yet, so I'm skeptical… When was the last time you saw him?'

Daphne turned her head to Hope with tears in her eyes. 'At his funeral.'

Hope looked over to her Mate with sad eyes. 'I'm sorry. I didn't know.'

"Did the Unspeakable say why he wanted to talk to you other than mentioning a Dark Lord's return?" Amelia questioned as she straightened her back.

'Did he actually say that?' Daphne asked skeptically to the light auburn haired girl.

"No." Hope answered aloud to both questions. "I would like to ask if we can keep the information we have discussed to ourselves for the time being. Harry only has to wait another week until he legally becomes the Head of House Potter. Dumbledore isn't aware of this and I want it to remain that way. I don't want to be called into a Wizengamot session any earlier than December. Ragnok says they're hell on Earth."

Amelia snorted as she murmured under her breath. "That's an accurate description." The red headed woman nodded her head at the younger girl.

"I'll keep silent until at least December." She remarked before walking out of the ward and out of the Infirmary.

Tonks was left standing in the middle of 5 very powerful witches and wizards as she slowly nodded her head. "If this can exonerate cousin Sirius, I'll keep quiet unless I think there is a threat to my family, Harry or the Ministry."

"That's fair." Hope agreed, not really concerned if the woman would tell Dumbledore or not. Harry has the backing of enough of the more older Political Houses that not even Dumbledore, the Dark and possibly some of the Light Factions could stop Harry from achieving emancipation. She just really didn't want to go into the Ministry for a Wizengamot session yet. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I believe I have an irritated Healer glaring at me to sit my ass in a bed."

Tonks laughed genuinely. "Yeah, those were the days." She reminisced with a large smile on her face as she took a position against the wall.

Freya removed her privacy ward once she got the clarification from the colourful Auror.

As Hope made her way over to the unoccupied bed she looked around the room to see Fleur sitting gracefully on the edge of her bed in worry with her father standing behind her with her mother and sister sitting on a couple of chairs beside the bed.

The Delacours' jaws dropped as they finally got to see the entire group. Nicolas and Perenelle Flamel walked into the room with Lady Emrys and Perenelle was fussing over Hope like a mother would with her child.

Hope smirked at Fleur as she motioned her eyes to the other Delacours, placing a finger over her lips. Fleur got the unspoken message, turning around and speaking in rapid French as she told her family to wait until they were in private.

Harry actually had a smile on his face as his attention was on Hermione as they were holding hands as they spoke in hushed whispers. Viktor, however, was bandaged up in layers of medical bandages lying back on one of the Infirmary beds with a grimace.

The Headmasters from the 2 remaining schools finally joined everyone in the Infirmary as did Barty Crouch Snr, Head of the Ministry of Magic's Department of International Magical Cooperation, as well as Ludo Bagman, Head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports.

The latter was clapping his hands in excitement. "An absolutely fantastic performance!"

Hope glared past her bed that Madam Pomfrey and Daphne were helping her into. The other 3 Champions saw the look of complete anger on the other girl's face.

"What happened?" Harry cautiously asked.

"A God damn --." Hope's mouth sealed up but she kept trying to mutter some very colourful language while her mouth was melded together. No one could actually hear the words spoken but with the intensity and the anger pouring of Hope in waves was a very clear indication that Hope was beyond aggravated with the Task.

The two magical birds chortled loudly at Hope's inability to speak before Alexandria squeaked once and flew over to Daphne while Myrddin unfurled a wing and smacked Hope over the back of her head with a glare.

The crowd glanced over to Freya who held up a hand as they all made the connection that Heir Emrys was the only person who knew how to use this mouth melding charm other than Hope.

"Good god, my niece can swear. Sorry you had to hear that Alexandria and thank you Myrddin."

"So… Not good then?" Fleur asked the blonde Slytherin girl as she tried to ignore the dynamics between the two birds and Mikaelson women.

"Not even remotely." Daphne replied in a deadpan before explaining the problem to the rest of the Champions who weren't able to see what happened.

"Basically there's going to be a trial to be held during the Wizengamot session at the end of the year to find out why Hope's Task was tampered with so severely. The Dragon had been spelled. The Golden Egg had been moved and cloaked from magic. The barrier had also been altered to act as an impenetrable, unbreakable dome." Daphne answered coldly as she drew upon her Ice Queen persona.

Consort Emrys turned back to Dumbledore to finish her accusation. "So no, Fleur. The entire Legendary House Emrys is undeniably irate at the performance that just occurred." Daphne mentioned with a pissed off expression as she tapped her foot on the ground angrily.

Madam Pomfrey literally shivered at the icy tone the 4th year Slytherin was able to produce while Hope crossed her arms in a huff, throwing herself back against the pillows and her mouth was unsealed not even a second later.

Hope grumbled in defeat as she glared half-heartedly at her aunt. The Tribrid pointed her thumb at Daphne as she grunted out with a frustrated expression on her face. "What my wife said."

The people who weren't in the arena gasped at the announcement while Nelle moved forward to Madam Pomfrey and whispered an ancient phrase used between Healers which caught Poppy's attention as the other woman informed her that Hope wasn't injured and that she's already been healed.

"Now, now my girl. There was no reason to call a trial." Dumbledore mentioned with a condescending tone as he looked at Daphne in displeasure.

Hope's body froze up for a moment as she turned her head oh so slowly to the Hogwarts Headmaster. Daphne's hand landed on Hope's arm and the blonde shook her head at her wife before facing Dumbledore with her icy glare still in place.

"Headmaster. We already gave you the reasons for the trial and we had 3 members of Most Ancient and Noble Houses or higher give their approval to hold the trial at the end of the year. There's nothing you can do to overrule it." Daphne clarified for everyone in the Infirmary.

Dumbledore glared at the blonde Slytherin girl but before he could berate the child, Hope decided to intervene as she saw that Dumbledore was about to verbally attack her Mate. "Unless you are a family member," Hope also noticed Hermione's attendance in the room so she added smoothly, incorporating it into her sentence with ease, "In a relationship with one of the Champions or a Healer. I'd suggest you leave the room until Madam Pomfrey has checked over all the Champions, as it is a requirement of the Tri-Wizard Tournament. Unless your school's Champion requests for continued attendance then you are required to leave."

Hope glared over at Dumbledore as she stated clearly. "And before you even try to demand your attendance. As Hogwarts Champion, I don't want you here."

Harry held up his hands in pre-emptive anticipation as Dumbledore's gaze turned on him with a gleam in his eye.

"Don't bother asking me, Headmaster. I'm not the Hogwarts Champion. That's Hope." The Gryffindor boy admitted with a stoic mask which had Dumbledore gaping at Harry with a deep seated fear of worry as the elderly wizard knew this behaviour was similar to another boy from his past.

Headmaster Karkaroff chose this moment to blow up in the Infirmary before Dumbledore could respond. "How dare you bring our schools into your mess in Britain! This is highly impractical--."

"Impractical? You want to talk about impractical?" Freya interrupted him as she flared her magic dangerously, scaring the man into submission at the raw power from the woman.

"Which part was impractical? The fact that Hope's Golden Egg wasn't in the Dragon's nest like the other Champions? The fact that the Golden Egg was hidden between two of the Dragon's spikes along the Dragon's neck? The fact that the Dragon was clearly compromised especially when she stomped on her own Eggs? Or what about the fact that the magical barrier around the arena was altered? Hope couldn't leave even when the Golden Egg was in her hands! What was she supposed to do? Kill the Dragon and get penalized for it?" Freya ranted in aggravation, heat simmering off the engaged woman in waves.

Hope was moments away from making a comment on her aunt's overprotective streak but Madam Pomfrey moved out into the middle of the room before Hope had a chance and announced with a strict tone. "I will not have this behaviour in my Infirmary!"

The Healer turned her attention to the Headmasters and the Ministry Officials. "Miss Greengrass… Or Consort Emrys now is right. You five need to leave."

Madam Pomfrey then turned to Freya as she berated the powerful witch without fear much to Hope's amazement. "If you don't regain control of your magic I'll toss you out as well."

Freya met the Healer's eyes, realising how serious the woman was and reigned in her power with a deep breath before giving a slight nod to the Healer. "Good."

Madam Profrey noticed that one of her former students was standing against the wall and the young woman changed her skin tone to match the castle walls behind her.

"Miss Tonks. What are you doing here?" Pomfrey asks in exasperation as she pinches the bridge of her nose.

Tonks scratched the back of her head as she changed her features back to her most preferred look of pale grey eyes, thin lips and spiky bubblegum pink hair.

"Uh… Madam Bones has requested for me to remain with the Champions for the foreseeable future. She wasn't impressed by the assassination attepmt on Hope… Uh sorry. I mean Lady Emrys." The Junior Cadet mentioned in a rush as the school Healer made her nervous.

Madam Pomfrey sighed. "I would need confirmation of that from your boss, Miss Tonks." Causing the pink-haired girl to gulp.

"Mum?" Hope called out drawing Perenelle's attention, "Could you send a Patronus message to Madam Bones? It would be the fastest way to get a reply from Amelia as quickly as possible."

Perenelle sighed lightly as she pulled out her wand.

"Expecto Patronum." The immortal Healer clearly pronounces with a small swish of her wand.

A beautiful, almost pearl coloured mare shook out her mane with a neigh before coming to stand in front of her caster, waiting quietly, patiently for its task.

"Madam Bones. We require your word in leaving Junior Cadet Tonks in the Infirmary to safeguard the Champions. Please confirm if you have given this order for Junior Cadet Tonks. With regards, Nelle Fell." The Flamel woman politely informed her Patronus.

The mare bowed her head once before galloping through the castle walls at a breakneck pace.

"While we wait for Madam Bones' response. I do believe I told you five to exit my Infirmary. What are you waiting for? A written dismissal? Go!" Madam Pomfrey remarked with a stern voice and straightened back.

"I still have to diagnose Miss Mikaelson because none of you are allowing me to do my job! So leave!"

The Ministry Officials grumbled but did as told.

Karkaroff received a glare from Freya which made him tuck his tail between his legs and briskly walk away, although others if you asked any of the Champions, they would say Headmaster Karkaroff ran away like a scalded dog. Madam Maxine was planning on staying, to walk over to her Champion but one look from Sebastian Delacour had her turning on her heel.

As the other four judges left the room and Dumbledore could tell that he wasn't going to talk his way into this room. So instead he placed multiple listening charms within the room and activated the listening charm he had on Harry before swishing his robes in a strangely elegant fashion for a man his age.

Freya waved her hand as soon as Dumbledore cleared the entryway, closing the door loudly against his back as Myrddin's feathers flared to life and static electricity crackled around Alexandria's body as they felt the additional charms Dumbledore used to eavesdrop.

But the Immortal Witch was faster than the birds. "Vis sera portus." Freya murmured as a shimmer of magic covered the door, locking it so no one else could enter. Heir Emrys also immediately snapped her fingers before anyone could start talking, erecting a privacy ward around the room and cancelling out all of Dumbledore's charms.

The room heard a loud swear from the other side of the door causing most of the attendants to frown openly at the door as they recognised the voice as Dumbledore's.

"He really doesn't understand the meaning of privacy does he?" Freya asks her niece with an exasperated sigh as the birds calmed down slightly and flew over to the top of Hope's bed to perch above her, acting as sentries.

Instead of Hope answering it was Harry from the far most bed. "No. He really doesn't."

Madam Pomfrey strode over to Hope's bed with her wand out casting diagnostic charms. Hope was tense at the start but was able to relax after recalling the similar spells Nelle would cast to teach her Healing.

Hope gave Daphne a vague look as Madam Pomfrey was scanning her for injuries that should be there but have already been healed by her enhanced healing, mainly from her vampiric side but both sides heal decently well.

Daphne shook her head slightly, telling her without speaking not to tell her anything about her healing abilities.

The Emrys couple watched as Fleur's parents got up and walked over to the Flamels with disbelieving eyes.

"Your Heir is Lady Emrys?" Sebastian whispered harshly in French to the immortal pair.

Hope and Daphne looked over in Fleur's direction with worry in their eyes and Fleur noticed the looks before standing up to join the two couples in the middle of the Infirmary.

Nicolas shrugged boredly before replying in his native language. "No one asked. Besides we did bring her to your Yule Ball as requested last year, so you can't hold that against us. Your daughter Fleur practically located her immediately."

Fleur made it to the group just in time to hear her involvement and chose to defend herself. "To be fair, I didn't know that she was Heir Flamel. She gave me her name, Hope Mikaelson. I didn't think much more about it. I mainly hung around her at the time because she was able to block my allure from affecting the guests as well as not be consumed by the allure herself. Besides, Hope had pointed out how mum was looking over at us during the night. It's not my fault for not being able to find a non-descriptive person in a crowd full of strangers."

A translucent leopard streaked through the Infirmary door, gaining the room's attention as the big cat opened her mouth, Amelia's voice rang out with an exhausted sigh. "I, Amelia Bones, Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, grant permission for Junior Cadet Tonks to stay with the Champions until the scores of the Task have been given… Any longer and I think Heir Emrys may have my head for suggesting her Head of House can't defend herself… Perhaps even the Consort Emrys as well."

Madam Pomfrey groaned loudly. "Very well you can stay. Go make yourself useful and check on Mr Potter instead of eavesdropping on what appears to be a private conversation."

Tonks blushed as did her hair turning a bright shade of red for a moment before she shook her head and her hair went back to bright pink.

Tonks made her way over to the Gryffindor pair with a large smile on her face. "Wotcher Harry! I'm your cousin, like twice removed or something like that."

"Great introduction there." Daphne muttered under her breath so only Hope could hear.

Hope gave the blonde a small smile as she replied. "Actually it was. Tonks just told him that she's related to him, Harry will ask how and Tonks will give her mother's maiden name, informing Harry of the relation between Sirius and her mother."

Hope moved back in surprise when Madam Pomfrey waved her wand directly in front of Hope's face.

"Whoa! Okay. That's friendly. Hi." Hope blurted out in rapid fire as she looked past the wand to the Healer in surprise, not expecting the Healer's wand to be directly in her face.

The Healer frowned at the girl before erecting a smaller more personalised privacy ward around herself and her patient. "I don't understand. I know your mother told me you were fine. But with all the information you've given me. How dangerous your Task was. How is it that I can not find a single injury or mark on your body?"

Hope stayed silent for a moment as she decided whether to tell them about her being a Werewolf or lie and say she healed herself while in the Task. "I healed myself during the Task. I learned some Healing charms from my mum and Aunt Freya."

"You do know that performing Healing charms on yourself is reckless, right?" The Healer mentioned with an unimpressed arched eyebrow.

Hope nodded her head. "Normally I would completely agree with you. Except my magic works in complete harmony with my desires. I was able to heal butterflies as a 7 year old. I healed a couple of girls during the Quidditch World Cup." At that example all Delacour heads turned to Hope as a look of realisation crossed their faces, except Fleur who was smiling proudly at Hope as she continued.

"Hell, I just healed the same Dragon that tried to kill me! I am totally capable of healing myself." Hope crossed her arms confidently over her chest as she looked at the stunned Healer.

"You… Healed… A Dragon?" Madam Pomfrey says slowly as she tries to understand each separate word in that one statement.

"Yep. She did." Perenelle proudly stated before an unimpressed look crossed her face.

"Even knowing how suicidal it was to go up to an injured Dragon who had just lost her clutch of Eggs and let's not forget that same Dragon had only just tried to kill you no more than 5 minutes prior. That was stupid." Nelle scolded her daughter.

Hope shrugged sheepishly. "It worked?" There was a flapping of wings above her head as the birds pulled off a face-palm much to Hope's displeasure as she rolled her eyes at their theratrics.

Perenelle and Nicolas wanted to laugh at the display the birds gave but groaned instead. Nelle, however, went a little further in her frustration and banged her head against Nic's shoulder while angrily muttering, "I'm seriously questioning your sanity, Hope."

Freya chuckled in complete understanding but nodded along with the other woman's exasperation against her niece.

Harry and Hermione, as much as they were enjoying Tonks' company. The Gryffindor pair stood up and invited the pink haired girl to come along with them as they took the chairs on the other side of Hope's bed. Viktor had either fallen asleep or passed out in the meantime since he had taken the most damage during his task.

"So, are you two now officially a thing? I heard you both throwing the word 'wife' around." Harry mentioned with a shit-eating grin on his face.

Daphne took notice of the Gryffindor boy's wide grin before leveling a mischievous smirk at the other couple. "I could ask you two the same thing. Are you both together?"

"Oui. They are. And they are so cute together!" Fleur grins as she sits on the edge of Hope's bed.

The Gryffindor Duo blushed, looking away from Fleur.

Harry was the first to notice the other set of parents in the room. "Are these your parents Hope?" Wishing to change the subject off of their combined relationships.

Hope gave a chuff of laughter at the deflection but answered anyway. "Yes. These are my parents. Nic and Nelle Fell."

Hermione took an interest in the new topic as well, turning to face the set of wizarding parents other than the Weasley's. "So what do you both do for a living?" Hermione politely asked considering she didn't know what careers awaited her after school and wished to learn from personal experiences.

Nic and Nelle shared a look before shrugging. Nic answered first for his wife. "My beautiful wife is an independent Healer. She takes cases that are a little too bizarre, even for wizards and dedicates her time to finding cures for unknown diseases and Curses. However she will also help out from time to time in one of the hospitals if they are severely short-staffed."

Madam Pomfrey managed to hide the roll of her eyes as she continued to check on Hope but before she could perform her spell to check the patient's magical core, the auburn haired girl stopped her.

"There is no reason to check my magical core and as the Head of the Legendary House Emrys, it is my right to deny certain forms of medical tests. I don't want to know what my magical core looks like." Hope firmly stated as she stared down the Healer with her two birds glaring at the Healer meaningfully.

Madam Pomfrey twitched her nose slightly at the brush off, but Hope was right. She does have the claim to deny specific medical tests, such as the magical core test. "Very well."

Perenelle wraps her arms around Nicolas' arm as she beamed up at him. "He's being too generous. Honestly since we adopted Hope, I've spent more time at home so I could be with my daughter. However, Hope is an excellent source of information. She's even teached me new forms of healing including a poultice that is relatively easy to make and will heal most wounds quickly. Although after meeting Freya. I never knew how many more Healing spells and potions there are to learn and trust me, I've had a very long time to pick up everything there is to learn about Healing."

"However, Nic here is an Alchemist." Nelle smirked cheekily as she bumped into his shoulder.

Nic gave a disgruntled look towards his wife that basically asked, 'really, did you have to say that?'

Perenelle just grinned evilly as the Delacour's mouths dropped open in shock, even Fleur's jaw dropped slightly at the blatant hint.

"Wow… I don't think there was an ounce of subtlety there." Daphne remarked to her Mate in bed.

"Not really. And here I thought I was going to be the one to blurt out their secret." Hope murmured back.

Perenelle shrugged as the proverbial light turned on brightly in both Harry's and Hermione's heads as they both shouted out together. "You're Nicolas Flamel!"

Myrddin being the theretrical bird he is, whistled loudly as he spread his wings and shook them slightly to imitate jazz hands. The whistle had a distinct sound that sounded like, 'Ta da'.

Hope turned her head and frowned at the midnight Phoenix and shook her head at him before facing Tonks and Madam Pomfrey before pointing a threatening finger at the two shocked women before Nelle slapped her hand down on top of Hope's loudly. "Hope Andrea Mikaelson! Do not threaten anyone in this room or I'll ground you!"

Hope's mouth opened wide as she frowned at Nelle as she tried to argue with her mother. "But they could ruin your anonymity.

"Don't worry about it, Hope. Nelle and I have discussed this at length." Nic explained with a smile.

Nelle hopped up on the bed and sat next to Hope as she brushed a hand through Hope's dirty hair. "I'm planning on staying at the school for a while to help out in the Infirmary."

The Immortal Healer sent a quick glance over to Freya with a small smirk. "Apparently there has been a large increase in students coming into the Infirmary after some Duels…" Freya turned to face Hope's new mother with a raised eyebrow but didn't say anything.

"Then there are the other students who keep activating the wards from the Slytherin Wardstone."

Nic continued on with his wife's thoughts. "We also spoke to Freya and she mentioned that you may be running low on some potions. I'm willing to help out in brewing these potions since Snape hasn't gotten around to doing this for you." Nic directed his response to the school Healer.

Madam Pomfrey was astounded by the Flamel's request and nodded slowly. "I could definitely use the additional hands and potions. Thank you."

Hope rolled her eyes as she collapsed back onto her bed. "Oh joy! Now my entire family will be joining me at school."

"Suck it up, princess." Daphne smirked in amusement.

Hope frowned in displeasure at her Mate but before she could make some inappropriate remark to Daphne, Nelle cut her off as she saw Hope's mischievous expression. "Someone has to keep you in line, kid. I've heard about Dumbledore's attempts to hinder you in the Tri-Wizard Tournament from your aunt. Watching the Task today only authenticated my worries."

Hope groaned. "Great. Momma bear mode has activated and is in full effect."

Nelle glared over at her daughter while the rest of the room laughed quietly at the interaction between mother and daughter.

"From that look you're getting Lady Emrys. I would say that 'Momma Bear Mode' is in overdrive." Tonks joked from Harry's side.

Hope, Freya, Nic and Daphne snorted at the interrupting while Nelle groaned in annoyance and slapped Hope's leg under the blankets to try rein in her daughter's behaviour.

Before the Flamel and Emrys families could divulge any further a loud squeal came from the youngest Delacour as she bypassed her parents and sister. Gabrielle ran past everyone before jumping up onto Hope's bed and throwing herself into Lady Emrys' body, hugging her tightly as rapid French flowed out of her mouth much to the horrification of the Delacour elders whereas Fleur looked crestfallen at her sister's words.

"You saved me! You saved my sister! How can I ever repay you? You stopped those men from doing unspeakable things to both Fleur and I. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! You are my hero."

Hope remained motionless for a few moments before pursing her lips together in remembrance and wrapped her arms loosely around Gabrielle's small body. Myrddin thrilled a song to try and lift the young girl's spirit which had a decent effect as the young Veela visibly sighed against Hope. "Gabi… You don't owe me anything. Not really. I'm just glad I got there in time to help you and your sister."

Hermione gasped in shock as she whispered quietly to Harry what she heard. Tonks' paled slightly as she overheard the Gryffindor girl before realising her boss had a memory phial from Lady Emrys, Hope, from the night of the Quidditch World Cup.

Fleur looked away in shame but Daphne was beside her within a moment pulling her into a hug and gave a light kiss on her temple as she whispered reassurances into her ear.

Hope looked over Gabrielle's head as she locked eyes with Sebastian Delacour. "For the record. I never wanted to use either of the Life-Debts you owe me or any other Life-Debts I may accumulate over the years. But I will need to use one of the Life-Debts you owe me Sebastian."

Hope mentioned with an emotionless tone.

Fleur's brow furrowed as she broke the hug with Daphne to watch the proceedings with a curious expression. Hermione was utterly confused but stayed quiet at Tonks and Harry's insistence.

"What do you want?" Sebastian warily asked as he stood stiffly beside his wife.

Hope gave a small smile to the Delacours. "Relax a little, Monsieur Delacour, Mademoiselle. It's not that bad considering the circumstances." Lady Emrys remarked with a roll of her eyes.

Sebastian and Apolline gave a quick glance at once another before taking in their daughters. Fleur looked comfortable with the Greengrass Heiress or they suppose it's now Consort Emrys. Gabrielle was stiff in Lady Emrys' arms but not in fear, she was burying her face even further into Hope's shoulder.

The French couple turned back to face the most recent Duelling Champion and sighed heavily as they understood there was nothing they could do to stop Lady Emrys' request. "Very well. What do you require from the Most Ancient and Noble House Delacour?"

"I've spoken to my advisor and proxy, King Ragnok and he's mentioned that I am able to pass down a Life-Debt from my Legendary House to another house that I am affiliated with. Considering you already know that I am also the Heir Flamel. I've passed down one of the debts so I can neutralise the Life-Debt between the Delacour's and Flamel's. That's it." Hope informed the French family.

Sebastian and Apolline looked devastated at the news but took the information in stride as Nic and Nelle shook their heads in annoyance.

"You didn't need to do that, Hope. We would've been fine." Nicolas mentioned softly.

Hope shrugged slightly as she stroked the soft hairs of the child in her arms. "I know. But I'd prefer if I could get to know the Delacour's on neutral ground or at least as close to neutral ground as we can get."

Freya rolled her eyes at the political talks before speaking up. "Well as entertaining as this conversation has been. I would much prefer if we finished up here and got the stupid results of this damn Task then head to bed. I can't take anymore of this stupidity for today."

Freya turned her attention to the Delacours. "My niece and I will speak to you both before the Bi-Annual Wizengamot session. Fleur will let you know when." Apolline and Sebastian's eyes widened as they looked over to their eldest daughter in surprise while Fleur looked down, avoiding their gaze.

"Madam Pomfrey? You've checked over my niece as well as Perenelle, both of you are accomplished Healers. So I'm assuming that after checking Hope over, you can both confirm that she is healthy and not bleeding to death." Freya stated with such annoyance in her voice as she was so over today she just wanted it to end.

Perenelle and Poppy shared a quick glance and sighed quietly as they both wanted Hope to stay in the Infirmary for a little while longer to rest and recover more of her magic before heading out. However as they looked at Freya and Hope's frustrated expressions they knew both Mikaelson's wanted out of the Infirmary ASAP, so they nodded to the Emrys family.

Hope grinned happily as she tightened her arms around Gabrielle and swung her legs over the side of the bed to stand up. The youngest Delacour yelped at the sudden movement, instinctively wrapping her arms and legs around Hope.

Daphne shook her head slightly in exasperation as she snapped her fingers, removing the bedsheet from between Hope and Gabrielle before folding the sheet telekinetically and placing it at the end of the bed.

"I'm starting to learn that you two are a terrible influence on one another." Daphne groaned out as she looked frustrated towards Freya as she didn't want to glare at the young girl in Hope's arms due to proxy.

Freya rolled her eyes at Daphne as she replied in a deadpan. "You haven't seen anything yet, Elsa."

Daphne grinded her teeth together in anger as she murmured. "I don't know which part pisses me off more. The fact you both have done something worse than magically depleting yourselves and choosing to push on with no energy, which is beyond stupid or the damn nickname you've given me."

Hope snorted quietly into Gabrielle's hair as she whispered to the little girl. "My wife is overbearing. Don't you agree, little bird?"

Gabrielle chuckled a little at the teasing tone in Hope's voice as she wasn't completely sure what was really going on around her. Hope walked past her glaring Mate as she stood beside Fleur. Hope tickled the baby Veela's sides causing the young girl to seize in a fit of laughter.

The Tribrid managed to pluck the girl off her body and handed the squirming girl to her sister. "Here. Take your sister Fleur. I think your parents are confused about what's happening. You may as well fill them in."

Fleur nodded as she leaned in to take her sister in a hug. "Come on Gabi. Mama and Papa need you to stick by them when the other Champions and I collect our scores."

Notes:

Sooo... This is as far as I have written in this story. I probably won't be adding to it for a while as I've currently lost the inspiration to write and I wanted to see how this story matched up to other fanfictions. I'm hoping to come back to this story as I've actually started a sequel. I know how this book will end but I am still working out some of the kinks.

I also have a plan if I continue to keep writing to have Hope return to her own universe but I haven't started writing this yet.

I hope you enjoy this story... or at least I hope it provided some entertainment.


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