Chapter 76: "A somewhat complex day off"
"A somewhat complex day off"
"Vile wicked witch, let my sister free from your charm!" Astoria shouted, pointing at Wanda, while behind them stood Luna and Ginny. For some reason, the three of them were dressed in female steel armor.
Armor based on Valkyries, which made them look really good in it.
"Muahahaha, useless little girl, it's too late! Your sister is mine now, muahaha!" Wanda said, laughing like a noble villain, putting her hand over her mouth.
Behind her stood Daphne, who was doing her best to hide the expressions on her face, but it was clear how her ears were turning redder and redder from embarrassment.
"What the heck is that laugh?" Stephen asked, just as he was passing by and came across this scene.
"Prince!" Astoria shouted happily when she saw Stephen arrive. "You must help us defeat the wicked witch who kidnapped my sister!" she said courageously.
"Muahaha, foolish girl! Stephen won't help you. After all, he's part of my evil family," Wanda said, as if she had unraveled a great secret.
"What?!" Astoria screamed in surprise, showing a face of betrayal as she looked at Stephen.
"What are you doing? Grandma is going to get mad if you talk like that about the family," Stephen said, still not fully understanding what was happening.
"Silence, subject!" Wanda told Stephen.
"Wasn't he part of your evil family? Sigh," Stephen said, already tired of whatever was going on, as he took out his phone and sent a message.
The sound of an incoming message was heard on Astoria's phone, which she stopped to look at.
"There you go, the embarrassing childhood pictures of Wanda. Misty found them hidden while cleaning her room," Stephen said as he walked away with a victorious smile.
"Traitor brother!" Wanda shouted.
"Muahaha, now you'll have to bow before me, witch!" Astoria said, smiling, this time like a villain.
"You corrupted by power way too quickly," Stephen said, stopping for a second and then continuing on his way, ignoring whatever the girls were doing.
After the encounter they had with Natasha, it was finally time to return to school.
Stephen, in these days, thought about what Natasha had said, but quickly pushed it out of his mind.
"If someone else shows up, so be it. It's not like it's going to change my lifestyle," he told himself, more like self-hypnosis, since with just one more Wanda, everything had become noisier around him.
Obviously, not counting Harry, because he knew how Gryffindor Harry and his friends could be when they invited him to join the family.
"Talking like that makes it sound like a mafia family, haha," Stephen thought with a smile, as something else caught his attention.
It was Draco Malfoy, who was being accompanied by Hagrid while crying and holding his arm.
"I'll tell my father!" he kept shouting the whole time.
Moments later, he saw the golden trio running into the castle with worried faces.
"Stephen, you have to help Buckbeak!" Harry said, looking at Stephen as if he had found the savior of the world.
Well... technically, he was.
"Hagrid's hippogriff? It should be in the safe zone in the Forbidden Forest," Stephen said, a little confused.
"No. Hagrid taught us how to greet hippogriffs today," Harry explained.
"Even Harry flew over the castle. It was awesome!" Ron said, a bit excited.
"But the idiot Malfoy tried to force Buckbeak to let him ride, and Buckbeak scratched him," Harry quickly said.
"Buckbeak was just defending himself," Hermione explained.
The three spoke without giving Stephen a moment to breathe, making him a little stunned.
"Alright. Calm down," Stephen said, calming the trio. "Just call Grandma and have her prepare a lawyer."
"A lawyer?" the three asked confused.
"Malfoy will probably try to take this to court. So, get a lawyer for Hagrid and Buckbeak," Stephen quickly explained.
"I see. I'll call Grandma," Harry said as he ran off, followed by the other two after they waved goodbye to Stephen.
"Why did they run off? Don't they have their phones?" Stephen said, watching the three of them run with all their might.
Before they were stopped by McGonagall's shout, who told them not to run in the hallways.
Sigh. "I feel like my intelligence drops every time I cross paths with someone today. Could it be my imagination?" Stephen said, while continuing on his way again.
"Boss, found you!" Fred yelled from afar when he saw Stephen.
"Boss, we got some Honeydukes contraband. Want something?" George asked, showing his bag full of magical candies.
"The new candies that make you float came out," Fred said, starting to swim in the air like a frog, just as the effect wore off and he fell face-first to the floor.
After all, those candies only last a few seconds; if not, they'd be strategic weapons.
"Pass," said Stephen, as the twins quickly accepted his refusal and ran off again, only to be scolded by McGonagall, who wasn't too far away.
Sigh. "I don't think it's my imagination," Stephen said again, while arriving at the Black Lake.
Turning a rock into a lounge chair, he simply lay down and looked at the large tentacle that occasionally emerged from the lake.
While somewhat distracted, he felt a gaze on him coming from the edge of the forest.
When Stephen turned around, he saw a large black dog staring at him.
"Right! I had forgotten about you," Stephen said, recalling the story of that dog. But before he could get up and approach, a loud noise caught his attention at the castle entrance.
When he tried to look back at where the dog was, it had already escaped.
"Tsk. Later," he said, as he headed toward the loud noise in the castle.
When he arrived, he saw all the students excited about a big fight that had started between Gryffindor and Slytherin.
Furious, the Slytherins had started an eight-against-two fight with Gryffindor, but one of them was an apprentice in mystical arts, so he managed to keep them at bay by simply defending himself and protecting his companion.
"Okay, enough," said Stephen, as magical chains trapped everyone involved.
"Boss!" yelled one of the Gryffindor students, surprised and happy to see Stephen.
"Dean, what happened?" asked Stephen, recognizing the boy, one of Harry's friends, Dean Thomas.
"They started it. They were talking badly about Wanda and you, so I told them they were jealous of our house. Then they started attacking us," Dean quickly explained.
The Slytherins remained silent, glaring at Stephen with hatred.
"Aah, what a nuisance," Stephen said, but quickly noticed the approaching professors running toward them.
He left the mess to them and was about to leave when McGonagall stopped him, informing him that the headmaster wanted to see him.
So, he headed to the headmaster's office after making sure everything was under control.
Knock, knock. "You wanted to see me, Headmaster?" Stephen asked as he entered the office.
"Stephen, yes, please take a seat," Dumbledore said, seeing him walk in.
"Stephen, I wanted—" but before he could continue, Stephen turned around with a serious expression.
"Now what?" he said, a little angry.
Dumbledore followed Stephen's gaze and saw three boys who appeared in the center of the office, holding a time-turner in their hands.
The three boys had black, blonde, and red hair. When they recovered from the flash, they stood frozen, staring at Stephen.
"Shit, Albus, it's the uncle!" yelled the red-haired boy in surprise.
"Shut up, Pietro, idiot! He'll figure out who we are," replied the dark-haired boy.
"I think he already figured us out, thanks to you idiots," he then looked at Stephen and said, "Hello, Uncle Stephen, I'm Scorpius Greengrass. Technically, we're relatives in the future," the blonde boy said, presenting himself elegantly.
"Idiot! Why are you introducing yourself?" Albus shouted angrily at Scorpius, pulling him back toward them.
"Alright. My mom said our duty is to annoy the uncle when we see him," Pietro said with a smile, waving at Stephen after recovering from his surprise.
Albus didn't know what to say, so he just took his criminal allies and reactivated the special time-turner.
They disappeared just as a portal appeared above where they were. Stephen felt a gaze from the portal, but before he could do anything, it closed.
Sigh. "At least I know I don't have the worst part... yet," he said, turning his gaze back to the surprised Dumbledore.
The headmaster was whispering, "Albus, eh," with a big smile.
"You can go, Stephen," Dumbledore said, still smiling, while eating some candies from his desk.
Stephen, a bit furious, grabbed all the candies and ran off while shouting, "Senile old man!"
_Author's note
Scorpius is Astoria's son, but not Malfoy's.
Pietro is one of Wanda's sons.
Albus is Harry's son (though that's well known).
The two boys who looked alike are the children of the twins, and since they are twins, their kids resemble each other quite a bit, with slight differences from their mothers.
Rosie is Stephen's second daughter.
Lily is Harry's daughter. (Also known), but maybe not Ginny's. e.e still thinking about it. I'll see who's more popular; you all choose.
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