Herbert made a mistake!
“Herbert! Herbert! You called that plant Herbert!” an astounded fourteen year old Severus Snape exclaimed to his second best friend in the world Dolores Dodds (although her squibs father name was Umbridge). Hermione his best, best friend and Hell Hound (don’t ask) just sighed and continued reading her muggle chemistry book that Dolores had lent her to study from
“Herbert is SO MISUNDERSTOOD! NOT and I repeat NOT his fault that he caught what he thought was 3 intruders on the school grounds last night!......and he gets a bit peckish at night…..and he has bad indigestion from his mid night snack….So not his fault!” sniffed Dolores
“May I remind you that mild mannered Herbert tried to eat two of our peers namely Siruris Black and James Potter……and apparently Peter Pettigrew has gone missing as well..” Severus Snape childe of vampire council member Tobias Snape and his bonded Eileen Snape stated with bit of an aspirated voice to Dolores
“Perhaps if the other two idiots had gone missing as well, then Herbert would not be on his way to live with your parents in the undead nation this morning” commented a reasonable voiced Hermoine “Of course last night's events has meant that Lupin has been sent to live with a werewolf pack in the middle of the Amazon Jungle! You could say that Herbert’s midnight snack has done most of the school a massive favor…… if the face and attitude of Amelia Bones the Head boss of Department of mysteries was anything to go by!”
“It was an accident!” sniffed Dolores “And now one of my best friends has to live with your parents……..They won’t know what he likes to eat, the things that matter” sniffed Dolores “and he will miss my family Christmas! He won’t get to have the scarf I have knitted for him…(sniff)..(sniff)...and he won’t have the remains of the turkey and pigs in blankets, with the after eight mints for a snack afterwards…and he loves to watch the Queens speech in the afternoon, before Top of the Pops yearly round up on TV”
“Well I am sure Herbert is thankful for small mercies….ah! Dolores who are you going to give the scarf to now….I am not complaining…but the wool you are knitting the scarf with with brings me out in hives” Severus quickly added (Dolores really had no talent with knitting but sewing, cooking and other crafts she was ace at. But knitting, no way in this universe was she a knitter)
“I thought I would gift it to your Uncle Sanguini, after all he loves everything human and must go to very cold places….besides (sniff) still was not fair for your dad to get my older brother to give HERBERT to him to look after”
“Look Herbert will be fine, dad will spoil him rotten, and you will see him when you visit us……I mean Herbert did try to eat Potter and Black….last night” Severus comforted Dolores, by putting an arm around her, and letting her weep into his shoulder.
“You have always said Herbert only ate animals, bugs…..but he promised you NOT to eat humans, unless of course they were unluckily enough to attack you” Commented Hermoine “So why did Herbert try to eat Potter and Black last night on the full moon?” she questioned
“That is a strange thing!” Delores answered, and then continued “Herbert was ensuring that Lupin was (sniff) imprisoned in the shrieking shack, as he never really believed that the precautions to keep Lupin imprisoned were strong enough…..(sniff) when a Stag, a black grim and a rat appeared in front of him from nowhere….well he was peckish…and he thought they weren’t human. So all fairs in a midnight canteen, he swallowed the rat whole, and started on the Stag and Grim when they turned into Potter and Black…so he did what a clever carnivorous slytherin plant would do….high tailed back to our (pointed at Hermione) dormitory”
“Couldn’t have happened to more deserving two gryffindor bullies and Dumbledore's favorites” Severus added to the conversation
“Pity for Black that he lost his left leg and manhood seeing that is where his brains are located” Hermoine stated matter of factly
“We…..ll at least Potter will be able to father future crouch Goblins but he lost his wand arm and a chunk out of his left side…..best of all for everyone Lupin got the blame for it…and Michael Johnson said that Lupin being sent to his new home was the best thing to happen for the other werewolves present at this cess-pit”
“Do you think they will remove Dumbleidiot as headmaster now?” questioned Hermoine
“No! The school would have to be blown up for that to happen” Dolores answered “After all, everybody in Slytherin knows he will lie etc to keep his power bases….by the way (a happy little smile played on Dolores lips) I have found a new friend…..She is called Medusa after her first owner, her previous owner called her Betsy which she hated. I found her wandering down below the school dungeons! She is so pretty…and Uncle Tony is sending me everything to house a snake! She is at the moment asleep under my bed covers….she was so hungry this morning…had twice as much eggs and bacon with black pudding that poor Herbert had….before your Da came to imprison him…I raised him from a little plant….and now (sniff)...(sniff)...he won’t know where he is……(sniff)...(sniff)...he is such a sensitive soul…would NEVER normally hurt anybody….how was he to know that the Stag and Grim was Potter and Black….some people just have no understanding about plants and their feelings. Prince Charles would….HE TALKS TO HIS HOUSE PLANTS…he would understand..(sniff)” Dolores continued
“BUT PRINCE CHARLES does not have a BIG BLOODY SENSITIVE CARNIVOROUS MAN EATING PLANT in his house plant collection” interrupted a harassed Severus, then a look of horror filled his face and he asked with a heavy heart “Dolores…exactly what type of snake is Medusa?”
Hermoine looked up from reading the chemistry book, and suddenly cottoned on to where Severus was going with his questions. She was so glad that she had dragged the three of them to sit under the whomping willow, which Dolores had befriended within their first week of school. No wonder Herbert had ‘loved’ Dolores, if she looked after him half as well as ‘Betty the womper’. But no she couldn’t have, there was never a Ba… in their room!
“We…..ll” stammered Delores, my adopted da you know taught me most languages…including the Indian language of snakes…and I found a chamber that led of the second floor girls abandoned bathroom….(sniff) I was being chased by the Gryfindor girls including that wretched girl Lilly Evans…and as they were coming in to the bathroom to beat me up (if I was lucky, thought Dolores to her self) Myrtle told me about a chamber leading from one of the sinks….bu…tt you could only access it, if you told it to open in snakeise, so I called out open in snake…and a small door opened from under one of the sinks…and I met Medusa….who is a lovely Ba…., and won’t petrify you. Well unless you piss her off!”
“Oh for all the Gods and Goddess above and below..” shrieked Hermoine, now putting down the chemistry book she was studying “I am sharing my room with a man eating snake called Medusa!...wasn’t Herbert the bloody carnivorous eat first and ask questions last enough….”
“She was lonely and hungry! Nobody should have to go through their life without friends!....and look at it this way, I am doing everybody at this cesspit of a school a favour. Medusa won’t be a threat to them now, she is so knowledgeable and kind hearted” Dolores explained, her heart sinking as she knew where Medusa would be soon heading now. Oh it was alright to have ‘friends’ in this, the repeat of her life, but they just didn’t understand that she wanted something to call her own.
Her older half brother Tony (short for Anthony) was really her dad than an older brother, he loved her lots and she loved him with their Aunt who had taken her and Tony in. But Tony, although spoiling her rotten, pressed her to take all the advantages her life had to offer. To do well at Hogwarts, as well keep on top of muggle academic and physical subjects.
He played with her, and when he wasn’t working on an active case and out of the office (which to be fair was most of the time!) He took her along to his favorite places in Bath. One being the Library, she had known her way around a muggle library Dewey system, before most of her muggle peers had known what a library was! Instead of watching crap children shows according to her Aunt, she had watched with Tony and their Aunt the quiz programmes Countdown, The chase and Tipping point.
It had been great when she had attended Hogwarts for the second time, promising her adopted da (so cuddly) the God Thantos, that she would try to obtain at least one of the so called deathly hallows. Her Uncle Chronos last Christmas had granted her pressie of increasing her Aunts life for a bit longer! Her da Thantos had got her own familiar puppy Cerberus as her Christmas present before she attended Hogwarts, from her adopted grand-dad Hades. Of course Wilf (Short for Wilfred) had looked like a normal highland terrier to her family and other people.
Dumbleidiot had banned her friend Wilf for coming with her to Hogwarts. So she had brought her other friend at the time Herbert, and now Herbert was with Severus' family and it looked like Medusa was to be unfairly taken away to the undead nation as well. Oh why couldn’t she be allowed to have her lovely comforting friends with her! But at least this her second or redo of her life was loads lot better than her last life.
But on the plus side, she had her first human type friends in the vampire childe Severus and his da’s hellhound pup Hermoine. They were such great friends, but didn’t understand that Herbert was such a sensitive plant. Herbert needed his leaves misted with Evain Spring bottled water and dried, shined with a soft chemise cloth at least twice a week. Herbert also loved a certain compost put around his roots and needed just the right amount of water for him to thrive. He also loved a cup of gray earl tea and Latte dashed with whiskey or rum. Herbert also loved a full english breakfast minus of course the tomatoes and bake beans (Herbert wasn’t a carnivore), who would look after him, give him little strokes and presents. Tell him about things and the work her uncle Tony did, he even liked to watch Top gear and Formula one, supported Crystal Palace football team and also the numerous cookery programs on the television. He was so clever that he got most of the questions correct when watching The Chase!
But there was one black lined cloud in this whole mess, she had managed to snag for her da his cloak of invisibility which Perseus had gifted to him by Athena. The elder wand was her adopted da’s scythe that Perseus beheaded Medusa with. His golden shield which allowed him to behead Medusa was transfigured into the resurrection stone by the head of the Peverell family, the head of the family Dumbledore.
When Perseus had given back on the altar of Athena the five gifts that the Gods had given him, The head of the Peverell family, their uncle Dumbledore stole three of the gifts. The first gift was the cloak of invisibility, the second gift was death’s scythe and the final gift stolen was the golden and polished shield.The third and final gift that Dumbledore dared to steal was the golden polished shield.
Dumbledore (translated from the Greek name) was very pleased with the hoard of stolen goods, the Dumbledore family had been favored by the gods, even more so than other wixen family and people. The Gods allowed the Dumbledore family to be able to transfigure objects permanently into other items.
At first the Dumbledore family was an honorable Greek family, they worshiped and prayed to the God and Goddess for the unique talent and power they had been given. The Dumbledore family assisted everybody they could, whether muggle, magical. But over time the Dumbledore family became conceited and only used their magical talents to further their own wants, needs and aspirations
As the Dumbledore family fell to conceit and powerful hunger, they started to see themselves as if not greater than the minor Gods and Goddess of Greece at least as powerful as them.
They started to take what was not theirs to take, they charge outrageous prices to people for the services they provided. They laughed in the Gods faces and even took from the Gods temple the offerings left to them by the worshiping people.
Dumbledore kept the cloak, transfigured the Scythe in the elder wand, whose power made it the unbeatable in any wizarding duel. The shield he transfigured in the resurrection stone, to call up the recently dead to inform him and his family of how to rob recently bereaved families.
That night the three Peverell brothers, a minor branch of the Dumbledore family plotted amongst themselves, why should the head of the family have use and the power of the three stolen items from the Athena’s temple. They crept into their Uncle’s house and stole the three items from the temple. One took the transfigured elder wand, one took the resurrection stone to see his beloved wife again and the third took procession of the invisibility cloak. They stole away in the night, and as in the tale of the deathly hallows. Thantos found and caught two of the brothers quickly, the third brother scared about what he and his brothers had done, lived a quiet life hiding from death and making amends for his and his siblings stealing of the transfigured three hallows.
Thantos was so enraged by the theft of the three hallows, that he cursed the Peverell line, that until he had gathered the three deathly hallows, their line would only bear one magical fruit from the tree of life in each generation. The rest of the fruit would have magic but not the gift of using magic. This ensured that magic decline in the Peverell line, but the curse also affected the other magical family lines that joined their blood and magic to the Peverell line. At first this did not very much adversely affect magical world, there were many families that had the gift of magic. But as the generations and centuries past the magical lines or pureblood families joined the other pureblood families that had previously joined the Peverell family line, as the curse and the reason for it became lost in time, and the fabricated story of the three deathly hallows, became the only account of what had happened. T
The pureblood families in their disgust and hate of all things non-magical, discarded their squib children to the muggle world. Because another God or Goddess could not interfere with another Gods punishment or blessings. The Goddess Hecate, the Goddess of witchcraft and magic found two ways in which magical families could bring the blessing of not only strong family magic but numerous offspring, squibs that had been abandoned in the muggle world would be allowed at times to produce randomly magical children (muggle born), these children were in the past blood adopted by the pureblood families.
The other way in which Hecates allowed the family lines to prosper, was to have the female wixen mate with a muggle man, leading to strong magical offspring. These two ways, allowed the magical families to prosper and thrive
But Dumbledore had ensured that throughout the years, as the leader of the majority of the light side that blood adoption was discouraged! So instead of the muggle born and half-blood wixen being welcomed into the magical world, they become to be seen as being the bringers of unwanted change into the magical society. But still female wixen bonded into old dying magical bloodlines still with the blessing of Hecates and sometimes their bonded have sex with a muggle man, to drive the spark of magic in their offspring and their lines again.