Chapter 9
5 years later
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Cassiopeia looked at her notes from NEWT. All "O", in all the subjects that she had taken that were literally all. Apparently formal education was not for her. She had taken twenty NEWTs. The average was seven
The truth was that at first it was difficult. Very difficult. The basis of it was totally wrong and she had to forget what was wrongly taught. Even the things she had learned on her own were wrong due to how manipulated the Hogwarts library was.
According to her first tutor she had perfect knowledge of magic as she normally did a hundred years ago. But magic had hit a great acceleration in the last century. So Cassiopeia had to banish everything she knew and start from scratch.
Luckily for her, she didn't have to study common subjects like English, math, and Muggle history. It was still difficult, until she learned to do well at things like transformation or potions.
But later everything went well. She did well without Ron Weasley weighing her down and Hermione Granger sabotaging her with false knowledge. Besides that having access to the books and grimoires of her family was a joy.
Sirius had gone to see her, what's more, now he lived in New York, the man had his own magic motorcycle workshop. Along with Remus who had shown up one day to stay. He helped that in the United States the rights for werewolves were better than in England
The old country had suffered an earthquake after Haresa Potter's flight from the country. The first major event was the murder / suicide in the Weasley family.
It turned out that the money was going to an account in Arthur's name, but controlled by Molly. When the woman found out that she had to pay the money back, instead of saying it, she prepared a batch of poisoned food that she served at dinner with a smile. It turned out that Percy Weasley had eaten less because he was distracted with a rehearsal and noticed that something strange was happening to him. He was able to get on the flu network and ask St. Mungo's for help.
In this way Percy, the twins and Arthur survived after a stomach wash. But Ginny, Ron and Molly had repeated and could do nothing to save them. Cassiopeia felt bad and she financed the twins' store, in addition to forgiving the debt
For the ministry, things were also bad, since the ICW had gotten fully involved and had begun to remove the stagnant waters. They fired a lot of people who had gotten the position by relatives working in the ministry and took away the hereditary positions. They also found many laws that according to the International Statutes should never have been approved or remain in force.
Basically, the British Ministry was a burning horse heading down a ravine before the ICW came along. It had been difficult, very difficult and it was still a work in progress, but things were looking up for the British. With fewer abusive laws, and a ministry that was doing its job instead of having just four working and the rest of the plugged-in ones sitting on their asses and getting paid for doing nothing.
Although this had pissed off quite a few old families until ICW had threatened to start investigating where exactly each galleon that had been used as ministry funds went. After that they had been quiet
Albus Dumbledore had fallen too easily. It turned out that the keys were from "mugle-born" students who actually came from squib lines. Albus Dumbledore had been given the keys as the children's magical guardian upon entering Hogwarts and had been emptying their accounts for years. Hermione Granger's loyalty lasted until she learned that she did indeed have a magical family and that Dumbledore had emptied her vault which originally contained 14,000 galleons and various ancient writings.
She had sung like a canary about what they were doing with Haresa's education. Which had led to Dumbledore being fired by the school board and later sentenced to the Ice Mansion after breaking his bond with Fawkes. The phoenix had appeared a couple of weeks later at Cassiopeia's window and had since bonded with her and shared a white wooden tree perch with Hedwing.
After Dumbledore's departure they had also taken care of the educational level of Hogwarts, showing them that they were the second to last wizarding school in the world. The last was a school in a village in China that only had eight students and a teacher who was half deaf. They had to close Hogwarts for two years and send the students to other schools while everything was reformed. Even the Hogwarts wards were in a terrible state
In the end, after facing reality in other countries, many students had to go back several years or start over to catch up. They had even taken the title of Potions Master away from Severus Snape due to how badly he had been teaching a subject in which he was supposedly a genius.
And Voldemort had been defeated without much noise in the background. It turned out that the meaty snake that came out of Cassiopeia's mouth was a Horcrux. Well, the ICW tracked down the other Horcruxes but only Cassiopeia could destroy them, so she did it with the sword of Gryffindor. The last thing left was a fragment of the man's spirit sealed in a homunculus like a misshapen baby.
It was a horrible thing to do, but she did it.
On the other hand things on the non-magical side hadn't been easy either. Especially because right after the announcement of who she was, a photographer captured Captain America and Iron Man kissing her.
The press was almost catatonic without knowing whether to publish images of the two leaders of the Avengers or of the new heiress of Stark Industries. Especially after learning that she had entered the university, at a distance, a year before her father
The scandal took almost two years to subside, but she still had to be careful when leaving the tower because there was always someone taking pictures of her. The last time she went to the beach she was wearing a vintage-style black and white one-piece swimsuit. It was not provocative, but a photo of her butt had appeared in quite a few newspapers saying that she had taken her attributes from her father.
She was disgusting and since she was still a minor, her father had reported to the magazine that they had published the images of her. And the Stark family had closed them, the rest of the world was wiser not to publish photos sexualizing a girl and seventeen without consent
Cassiopeia looked at Steve who was clearly looking for his shield. The man refused to be called pops in any way
-Steve, is something wrong?
-A situation has arisen with Bucky. I have to go
-Does know dad?
Steve grimaced and Cassiopeia knew she didn't know.
-I don't want to worry Tony. -One of the things Cassiopeia hated most about Steve was his heroic altruism. The lone hero who takes action without help
-Steve, it's going to hurt a lot that you don't ask him for help. You need people by your side
-I have already asked for help from part of the team- Cassiopeia put her hands to her head, that was worse than going alone. She took out her phone and put her father's number
-Here, tell my father or I will make you a spell that will leave you sexually impotent for years but at the same time will make you feel super hot.- The man paled and took the phone that she offered him
The conversation was difficult, but Cassiopeia knew she had gone well when Steve smiled as he hung up the phone. The man thanked her with his eyes
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Five months later Cassiopeia saw her father and Steve enter the tower. And a man with a metal arm. The agreements in the end had not been signed after someone went with a star on her clothes. The mark of the Nazis for the Jews. When they asked who she was wearing it to, she just said
-If we are going to start marking for our differences, it will be the same as when this symbol was mandatory for the Jews. So I put it on ahead of time- It was amazing what a campaign of hate racism well run and financed by an anonymous could do