Shopping and Confortations
As Henrique's eleventh birthday were closing in, the De Castella family started to panic. Their Prince would turn 11, which means he would go to school. Now Valentino wan't that happy. He didn't want to send his Little Emerald away, which sparkled an argument between Valentino and Remus, with Valentino trying to change Remus's mind and hire tutors for Henrique, so he could stay home. That pretty much ended with Remus slaping him on the back of the head and telling him, to not make his Cub sad.
One good thing for Henrique at least, was that his best friend Beatrice was also a witch! Thankfully her father would send her to the same school. Valentino was sure that they would be more than friends and Beatrice's father, Miguel agreed. Sirius was ecstatic, to the point he started singig "My pup is a Ladies man".
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Far away in the Scotish Highlands. Albus was in his office, in deep thought. The Wizarding World found out about Potter's death and unfortunatelly things went titts up! There was Chaos. Thankfully for him, nobody knew he was the one that put the boy with the Muggles. As for Muggles and Muggleborn, things went down hill fast. That could give Tom, all he needs to come back to power, now that his defeater was dead.
Albus needed to gather allies. Maybe re-start the Order Of The Phoenix. But how? Black and Lupin were Merlin knows where, and he doupted that they would help him, not after Potter's death. Severus had left the second he found out about the boy, Minerva too. Half his Order was dead and the other half was scattered. Maybe he could create a New Order Of The Phoenix. Yes, with new allies and a few old of course. But who? Who should he reqruit. He stood there thinking for a while. Then he found it! The Italian! That guy had emence power, Albus felt it that day in the Wizengamont, his son too. They were both powerful and that man already had an Army in his disposal. But how could he make him loyal?
The boy, his son! Yes, the young boy....what was his name.....Henrique yes! He would be turning eleven. Maybe he could invite the boy to Hogwarts, I mean where else would he go? hhhmmm.....His father could send the boy to Durmstrung, we can't have that.He'll send an acceptance letter to the boy, but who should he send with the letter? Minerva was the best option, but she is gone, Severus is out of question, Filius is not a part of his Order nor in his pocket, Pomona is also a no. Hagrid! Of course, he could send Hagrid. He is extremelly loyal and would easily praise him in frond of the boy and his father. Yes. With that in mind he send the letter and called Hagrid in his office.
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Valentino and his family were eating breakfast. Sirius was loading Henrique's plate with pancakes, eggs, bacon and toast. Remus was feeding Kronos, who wasn't a big fan of his breakfast that morning. Valentino was feeding Ares, who loved making a mess. Regulus was sipping his juice from his sippy cup happily, while kicking his feet. Henrique looked up and narrowed his eyes at the window. "Papa. There is an owl there!". They stoped and looked at the owl as it landed in front of Henrique, who looked at the owl like it had offended his mother. "Merlin! That is a Hogwarts owl!" Said Remus and that made Valentino stand up, he took the envelope and opened it, two letters fell from it. One was the acceptance letter for his son, the other was for him, personaly from Dumbledore. Valentino narrowed his eyes "Looks like Dumbledore is getting desperate. He invited Henrique in Hogwarts and also send me a letter asking for a meeting, he also says that a representative would be coming to speak with us.".
Sirius blinked "Something is fishy here!" Remus noded. Valentino's lips thined and he snapped his fingers. A tall black man, with a buzz cut and blue eyes walked in, covered from head to toe in lether. He bowed. "You called My Don". He noded "Ramirez. A representative from Hogwarts will be arriving. He is not to enter our home. Send him back to England and tell him we are not intrested, if he insist and start spluttering nonsense, shot him!" Ramirez noded and bowed again "Your world is my commant, My Don!".
"So boys. How aboy we go get our shopping done in Beautiful Greece?". They all smiled and Henrique blushed "Papa, can Beatrice come with us?". Valentino chuckled and Sirius gave a barking laugh "Of Course My Little Emerald." He send a letter to Rodrigo, to invite him and his daughter on their little outing.
Soon they all left for their shopping trip. Valentino had left some clear instructions with his guards about their future visitor.
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Hagrid arrived at the giant Manor. Headmaster Dumbledore had given him specific orders, into convincing the Don and his son to come to Hogwarts. That was easy since Hagrid was really loyal to Albus and it was easy for him to manipulate the giant in order to do his biding.
Hagrid knocked at the giant door. It opened to reveal a tall black man. "Hello. How can I help you?" Hagrid smilled at the man. "'Ello. I'm Hagrid I'm looking for Mr De Castella. I have young Mr De Castella's acceptance letter for Hogwarts. The Great Headmaster Dumbledore send me to give the lad his letter." The man sneered. "You wasted your time. Our Prince would not be attending your School. Please leave".
Hagrid did not like that answer. Professor Dumbledore insisted on young De Castella, and Hagrid would not disappoint. "Now listen here Sir. The Great Headmaster Albus Dumbledore send me to give young Mister De Castella his Hogwarts letter and to take him to Diagon Alley. He will go to Hogwarts and will be taught by the greates wizard in all time, Headmaster Albus Dumbledore himself!". The man smirked but his eyes remained cold. "Who do you think you are to decide where OUR PRINCE would go to study?! And who is this Dumbledore you're talking about?! Now get the fuck out of here, or it won't end good for you giand!!". Hagrid took out his umbrella.
"Now listen here Mr Muggle. I am here on official Hogwarts buissines. Now please step aside and let me do my job!". The man smirked. "Oh. I was hoping you'd say that. Boys!". About fifty men showed up, 25 of them were holding wands and pointing them at Hagrid, while the other 25 were pointing Muggle guns at him. Hagrid was out numbered, he looked at them and realised that they were all wizards. "Now, let me repeat myself. Leave this place now and never return. And tell your Headmaster to stay away. If he sends another one, or even shows up himself we will use them as target practice!". Hagrid fled faster than the snitch. He had to warn the Headmaster, he would know what to do.
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Severus was living his best life. After resigning from Hogwarts he left Brittan. He traveled the world and was currently enjoying Greece. He finally had the job of his dreams, he had opened his own apothecary/potions shop. He was at the moment shoping in the Greek Market, when he spotted the last people he ever whised to see. Sirius Black and Remus Lupin!
He stopped and was about to leave, when Black turned his head and saw him. "Snivellus??!!" That got Lupin's attention who turned around and saw him. What had Severus's eyes gow round was the small boy in Lupin's arms. "Well, that is a surprise. I didn't expect to see you here Snape". Severus was frozen in place, the Marauders walked towards him. "Now that is a surprise. I thought you were in Hogwarts." Said Remus, but Snape could not take his eyes of the young child in his arms. Sirius smirked "Snivellus, this is our son Regulus. Reggie love this is Snivellus." Remus slaped the back of his head. "Be nice padfoot. Regulus love, say hallo to Snape".
The young boy looked up and waved. Severus was still shocked "What in Merlin's bloody underpants??!!" That made Remus growl. "No cursing in frond of my child Snape!". Just then, another man came walking towards them. A young boy around eleven years old was walking in front of him, while he was holding two young boys, twins by the looks of it. "Dadfoot, Moomy! Look what we got with Papa!" The young boy stoped in front of him and Snape almost had a heart attack. "Hello, Who is your friend?" the man finally reached them and narrowed his eyes at him "I'd like to know that too". Remus chuckled and Sirius had a feral grin in his face, that gave Snape the chills. "Well Val. This is Severus Snape, an old classmate from Hogwarts. Snape this is our husband Don Valentino De Castella and these are our sons. Princes Henrique De Castella, Kronos De Castella and Ares De Catella. And you've already met Reggulus."
Severus looked ready to pass out. An entire world and he managed to bumb into Sirius Black and Remus Lupin. Shit, did they know that the Potter brat was dead? Sirius picked up one of the twins "So, Snivellus. What brings you here in Greece?" Snape swallowed "I live here Black. I have an apothecary." Valentino's eyes gleamed "Really? Well looks like it's our lucky day. An apothecary is next in our shoping list." Of course Valentino knew who that guy was. His husbands and Father Death had informed him of Severus Snape. Let's just say that Valentino had his own plans for this Death Eater.
Another man showed up, with a little girl in tow, the girl jumbed on the older boy who laughed. "Uncle Val, can we have ice cream?" The man gave a disapointed shake of his head "Beatrice, what happened to your manners?" the girl blushed and mumbled a 'sorry', she looked up at the dark man and held out her hand "Hello. My name is Beatrice Maria Carolina Isabella Al Fuerte. Nice to meet you". Snape blinked, what was going on?
The man chuckled "My name is Rodrigo Al Fuerte. And you are?". Confused, that's what Snape was, confused. "Why don't we all visit Mr Snape's apothecary and we could explain everything on our way there?" Ofered Valentino. Snape could only nod, so on they went.
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Valentino, Sirius, Remus and Rodrigo let the kids run around in the store, so they could have a long discussion with Snape. It took almost an hour to explain everything to the Potions Master, by the end of it the kids had raided the entire store. Severus in fact looked relieved to find that Lily's son was alive. By the end of the explanation the De Castellas had one more ally.
After the store the two families, including Snape went for ice cream as per the Princess's demand aka Beatrice. The kids had a blast and Severus had a second shock after finding that Black was the one that gave birth to one of them. And to Valentino's delight and the Marauders shock, Snape offered to tutor both the eleven year olds in potions.
Their trip to the book store was an even biger blast. Henrique looked like he was in heaven when he found the Necromacy section. Beatrice gave a loud sqeal when she spoted the Herbology section. Rodrigo chuckled at his daughter's antics. Sirius took Kronos and Ares to the kids section, to find some new bedtime stories. Remus took Regulus to look for some creature books. That left Severus with Valentino and Rodrigo. Although Valentino followed his son, when he yelled to come and look at a book he found. Severus managed to find some pretty rare potion books, while Rodrigo found a few books about Ancient Greece's History. All and all their trip was a success. Henrique bought 15 new books on Necromacy, 5 new books on Herbology, 7 History books, 3 Transfiguration books, 5 Charms books, 8 books on Blood Magic and 3 new books in Prseltongue. He also bought 3 books on Alchemy, 7 books in Greek, 5 in Ancient Greek and 5 in Latin.
Beatrice had 12 new Herbology books, 7 Charms, 5 on Transfiguration, 6 on Arithmacy, 10 on Auras, 5 books on Elemental Magic one for each element, 2 books on Ancient runes, 2 on Old Norse Runes, 2 on Celtic Runes, 5 books on Healing and 6 books on Warding.
To be honest they raided the book store. The owner was in ecstasy, he had sold over 200 books in one day. He had made a years income in just one visit. The group left behind a very happy and gratefull owner.
Severus had to admit, that spending the day with those people was in fact refreshing. He couldn't wait to start his lessons with those two. At first he wasn't so sure about this Valentino guy, but turns out he was wrong. Leaving Brittan was eventually the best thing that could ever happen. Potter...No, Henrique wasn't even attenting Hogwarts, he was going to a school here in Greece. He would be safe. Albus would never know.
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As for our meddling Headmaster, he was looking at Hagrid like he had grown a second head. After the giant's explanation Albus was confused. Indeed Mr De Castella had an impresing army, that combined wizards and muggle weapons. But how was he going to persuade the man to side with him, if his son did not attend Hogwarts?
It was time for some serious planning.