The Queens and Kings

Hogwarts...

Hogwarts Castle is a large, seven-storey high building supported by magic, with a hundred and forty two staircases throughout its many towers and turrets and very deep dungeons. The castle was built in the late Early Middle Ages (c. 993) by a wizard architect and the four most celebrated wizards of the age: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin. The Castle houses Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, regarded as the finest wizarding school in the world.

Well, in their opinion at least.

But once, it indeed justly held that title.

But since the era of corruption began around Armando Dippet's tenure wherein funds were slowly stolen from Hogwarts by the Board of Governors, this forced Dippet to lay off some Professors and some classes just to make everything fit within the budget to the point that only six core subjects remain, Flying, and four electives. To make things worse, there was a curse on an important subject and when Slughorn retired, another important subject was compromised.

Since the Family Clique started a revolutionary scandal, Hogwarts regained its stolen money back, and was able to change for the better.

Hogwarts, since its renovation and countless changes caused by the tantrum of 'anonymous', its students' morale maintained its skyrocketing levels.

Cleaner facilities, a renovated, decorated and repainted castle with smooth walls, new doors and windows and lighting systems, and the paintings were happier in their new frames. The armors were replaced with new ones with better armor and the weapons, more dangerous and sharp. However, only a Hogwarts Professor and Headmaster can move the armors and their weapons. The Classrooms are now much-better lit, renovated and with cleaner, more comfortable furniture. The gardens are a paradise of colors, and the Herbology Greenhouses are much bigger, and newly-freshly-built and the Potions Laboratory is also revamped. The library is also a sight to behold now. All complaints of some Professors, are finally answered at long last. Even the bathrooms are now luxurious! Comparable to a really posh hotel! And the food are also used as disciplinary measures to teach children to value a balanced diet in order to properly grow into puberty. There's also a Playground in the grounds! Swings, Slides, Monkey Bars, and there's even Outdoor Gyms and Fitness Trails, and the Obstacle Course Facilities. Humongous Swimming Pools included, with each house having schedules for using the pools to avoid fighting. This became insanely popular with the students. There's also a Swimming Class with Remus as Coach. But he made the students wear black swimsuits for functionality and modesty's sake. In fact, in Free Periods, anyone can use the pools as long as they wear the swimsuits. If anyone dared to wear anything else for the pool, the Elf in charge of the Pools will teleport them back!

Especially when Lily brought in Magical Karaoke Machines to Hogsmeade and opened up a Karaoke Bar in five different places in Hogsmeade...with three floors. And a kitchen that serves drinks and snacks per room. The songs in question are muggle songs by famous muggle singers. Stressed Muggleborns would often vent stress from OWLs and NEWTs in these bars and drag friends. Thankfully, it's soundproof. But on the Wizarding Wireless would be Muggle Songs per Singer every night to give the Wizarding Community an idea on what singing sensations should be. So now bands and singers from the Muggle World are a hit.

Not only that, Madam Pomfrey now found herself with more jobs. Cosmetic Treatments! Removal of blemishes and facial/body hair, skin-tone evening and further whitening, straightening of crooked teeth and fixing damaged teeth, and usages of hair-care products to make hair flyaway/frizz free, and keeping it healthy, vibrant, and silky to touch.

All boys and girls must always have a bottle of Dentrificum Mouthwash and a steady supply of Tooth-Pearling Paste for white teeth and Sleekeazy's Hair Solution. For girls, they have more potions and creams to use. For girls, they have fat-burning, body-sculpting creams, as well as curing of cellulite, making skin baby-soft and smooth, and other things to fix imperfections with. However, these vanity treatments only starts for Third Year Students who become young teenagers nearing adulthood.

But to maintain this new clean image of the 'Hotel'...Peeves has to 'be disciplined'.

And the uniforms and shoes are now much more fashionable as well.

With new, fresh facilities, morale was high for Hogwarts.

The only issues now, are the students' grades.

During the first year, the Family Clique who are a bunch of eccentric geniuses established its dominance with Lyra as the Queen of Gryffindor, Carina and Corona were the Twin Queens of Slytherin, Marina of Ravenclaw and Susan of Hufflepuff, while the boys led their male peers as respective Kings of their houses. Rules has been established to maintain order. They were easily the best students of their year level and were highly influential. In school, they are the highly-political students that others like Draco Malfoy could not do a thing because they have more appeal with Lyra being the strongest.

As a Sky, she attracts under her banner.

Beautiful, aristocratic, intelligent, powerful, and of a good lineage, she has it all with a sassy, brutally-honest-and-blunt personality to match and never puts on airs. Its also hard to say no to her.

The Family Clique also introduced trends. And its mostly muggle influence that Muggleborns and Half-Bloods who live in the Muggle World or those open to Muggle Lifestyles were the quickest to catch on. The latest clothes and shoes, accessories, and even choosing to write in spring notebooks and pens while homework, quizzes and tests are the only things to use Parchment on. Even then, they used high-quality Vellum Parchment.

And it was Lyra who started the 'wear costumes on Halloween' trend. But she's easily the most disturbing and the scariest, when most students would rather dress up as creatures instead.

This left the staunchest pureblood traditionalists utterly baffled and confused. But when the most popular students were easily seen using the outdoor facilities, doing it looks FUN...and seeing girls in swimsuits? Seeing boys in shorts or trunks? Oh, yes!

When the Beauxbatons and Durmstrang Students came...each school gave a performance that Halloween. Although the girls from Beauxbatons looked more like flirting with butterflies and shaking their hips for ahem, sexual appeal than performing...and the Durmstrang boys seemed more into masculine intimidation with a breath of fire as their exit gimmick.

Of course, for the Family Clique, that ain't good enough.

As the Hosting School...they sure did their darndest to outdo them and gave what they felt SHOULD be a magical performance that lasted three minutes and it was a Big WOW. Even better, since its Halloween, the Hogwarts Students, themselves included, are already in costume! And all of them dressed like anime characters, doing Cosplay...and chose characters whose clothes showcased their physiques as fighters while showing Musical and Magical Choreography.

They were easily the most impressive.

The Durmstrang boys were ogling at the Hogwarts girls while the Beauxbatons girls are miffed that they're completely outdone by their hosts' female students.

And after the Champions opened the Yule Ball?

Why, they had a concert! Complete with routines, magical SFX and costumes! And the boys are their band.

Because Lyra is part of the girl-band, Viktor Krum has no idea that his date for the rest of the night, is a controlled illusion. But he DID looked baffled. He is fully-aware that Lyra is his date in disguise so how can there be two of her at the same time?!

They sang choice songs from girl bands took turns with Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston and other songs notable in Karaokes as well as singing englished versions of foreign songs with subtle clever Elf-aided potions for sore throats when they give the signal so they can go the whole party away. Lyra favored J-Pop, Giselle favored German, Marina favored Swedish, Carina and Corona sang Italian and Lyra's little sister Christine sang Chinese!

Not only that, the Buffet is heavenly. Foods one can easily eat without making messes. Finger Party Foods Extraordinaire with delicious varieties of Skewers, Pizzas, Filled Breads, Deviled Eggs and Potatoes, with beautiful pastries, and the drinks are Chilled, Cold Chocolate, Fruit Smoothies, and Butterbeer for the students while the adults of course, has more adult drinks.

If not for the children of the Family Clique, Hogwarts wouldn't have any idea what a party should be like with actual competent performers.

In fact, if not for them, the Weird Sisters would be hired and in their private opinion, their music sucks(just how far behind is the British Wizarding World that they THINK the Weird Sisters are GOOD?!) Celestina Warbeck was a much-better option. Her performances and music are good. Just that, her lyrics needed work. Lots. Whoever wrote her lyrics, should be shot.

Their Concert made Headlines courtesy of Rita Skeeter though.

Hogwarts Students Rock the Party with Concert! with her saying that the sons and daughters of the Potters, Black, Prewetts, Longbottom and Bones performed for the Dance Ball of the Tri-Wizard Yule Ball after the Champions opened the dance. But the girls did the performing, the boys were the band.

She even wrote a PS at the bottom of her Article. 'To those who wants to watch the Yule Ball, lend the Prophet a Pensieve, she would leave her memories in with one sickle to pay to the Editor for a peep'. And as the concert lasted an incredible three hours. It would take incredible stamina and fitness to last that long on stage! Most bands would know as most concerts were barely an hour and thirty minutes. Three hours were made possible due to magic, and their own fitness. If it was fitness alone, the girls would have lasted longer than an hour and thirty minutes.

The next day...

'Hey Lyra...you're my date yesterday...so how could you be in two places at once?' Viktor asked her, baffled as they were by the Great Lake the next day. Due to the hard dance party last night that the Fourth to Seventh Years virtually has NO sleep at all, they were all allowed to sleep in and have the day off the next day.

'Oh, the one at stage is a magical body-double I was remote-controlling from afar.' liar. Lyra herself is at stage while the double was dancing with Viktor. 'With my ability I can be in two places at once. But controlling two bodies doing two different things is taxing.'

'No kidding, you were on that stage while dancing for a really long while.' Viktor said with a snort. 'By the way...'

'Hmm?'

'I kinda figured out my egg...and the fact that the Headmaster asked me where my date is, wanting to meet her.' said Viktor stiffly. ''Take what I'll sorely miss'. 'One hour to look'. The thing we'll sorely miss are our dates to the Yule Ball.' he griped. 'My family is safely at home and so is my broom and I don't have much friends. The only things I cared about are very safe so that leaves our dates.'

'Like hell I'll be a hostage.' Lyra scoffed. Viktor chuckled.

'I figure as much. In fact, I don't think they can find your well-made different-looking body-double...' Viktor drawled with a scoff. Lyra's body-double in disguise is an incredibly-beautiful girl with honey-blonde hair, and a revealing dress in the chest department. Different face and head, but the body is clearly Lyra's.

'Yep, it took me a lot of trouble to create that beautiful face.' Lyra smirked. 'More beautiful than a Veela no? Outdoing is our middle name if it means kicking this generation forward, not remain stagnant. This community is stagnant that soon in twenty years, Muggle can easily spot the Magicals when technology evolves a bit more that no anti-muggle wards can hide them anymore. The country I live in managed to figure out how Muggles can so their government is obsessed with security research more than about corruption in the government. Because they fear what the militaries do in World War II might be done to our kind.'

'What did the Military do?' Viktor asked, intrigued.

'Its mandatory for muggle students to study History...and World Wars I and II are covered. Japan around late 1930s to mid 1940s began Experimentation on Humans which is essentially a slow, painful death from torture just to know some facts about the body the inhumane, cruel way. What if the muggle government got ahold of a magical? What happened to muggles in the hands of the military will be heavy petting compared to what they'll do to a magical.' Lyra sighed. 'Wanna elaborate?' Viktor balked. 'No for now eh? Read books. If the humans find out about our kind, what will be done to us is ten thousand times worse, and its very easy to capture a magical despite the delusions many have just for having magic. In fact, where I live now is a hundred times safer. My parents chose that country well.'

'My point is having magic is not enough. What is truly the best for our safety is to accept change, adapt and evolve. Rinse and repeat. In the past, all humankind lived in tents made of skin with primitive tools...and look at us now. That's evolution and progress. Refusing to evolve or progress will be our downfall. Exposure, disappearances, screaming in laboratories begging for it all to end while the scientists ignore your pleas and beggings...stuff like that. That will be our future if the wizarding community refuses to change and study what muggles can really do. My friends' families and my family lived alongside muggles and we have seen how far they advanced.'

'How advanced are they exactly?'

'They can create a giant explosive enough to blow up a city. A weapon where they can rain bullets to kill a group of Aurors and Hitwizards before they can take out their wands. Something like this.' She switched to Mist Mode and created an illusion of herself carrying a gun, and a group of aurors. Lyra easily annihilated them while effortlessly dodging spells. Then from Gun to a BAR, Shotgun, Machine Pistol, Machine Gun, the results are the same. 'A spell takes a few seconds to reach the enemy. Most of our spells are visible so its easy to dodge with plenty of time to spare. But the bullets of a gun take only the speed of our blinking eyes. We call it the Blink of Death because a muggle who owns a gun can shoot you anywhere. Instant death if shot at your head, your heart, and your spine.' Viktor shuddered as she poked the locations of the parts. 'You have time before you die if you're shot in your lungs, your kidneys, your liver before you're a Death-on-Arrival case in a Hospital. In other locations, you'll live as long as you get medical treatment and you'll be OK in a few weeks.'

'A-ah...' Viktor shuddered.

'Of course, not just guns...' Lyra showed Viktor many ways on how can 'trained muggles' kill magicals. The only ones who can do this are those willing to defend themselves and those trained to fight. 'So that sums it up.'

'I see...so its that horrifying and you're a trained fighter and most likely, so are your cousins and friends too.' Viktor shivered. If Lyra is this incredible, what more about them? In his mind's eye, he sees their figures. While Lyra is colored, the others are of ominous shadow figures with creepy glowing eyes and a wide sinister smile. And if Lyra can do magic wandless, naturally, so can they!

Viktor resolved to do some training of his own at home because Lyra's display freaked him out.

February came. The Second Task of the Tri-Wizard Tournament. Because Viktor's date is...unavailable, they used a classmate instead. They could see what was going on, courtesy of enlarged mirrors linked to the lake, each showing a Champion and their progress, courtesy of subtle magic and Mist Flames.

But Fleur had to be censored with even a banner of explanation that read, 'young adolescent boys should NOT ogle at girls in swimsuits' which is why Fleur's swimsuit was censored. While she really wore a swimsuit in the lake, the illusion view showed her wearing a black baggy shirt and spandex shorts.

But one day, before Easter...

Lyra had a dream.

A dream of the kiss-thief from years ago, in front of a prison!

'I know you're there...come out now.' Mukuro called out and Lyra, knowing he sensed her, showed up as an illusion. In her pajamas with messy hair.

'Honestly, I just had a weird dream since it was night...and it turned out to be real.' Lyra yawned sleepily, showing up in her pajamas. 'And to think the kiss-thief from four years ago is here in front of a prison of all things.' Mukuro did a double-take. There's many ways to remember him and that's how she remembers him?

'That's how you remember me? Kufufufufu...that's mean, Lyra.' Mukuro chuckled, shaking his head in amusement.

'To be fair I didn't know your name.' Lyra retorted flatly. 'But why are you here? This place is ridiculously cold!' she exclaimed, seeing that Mukuro wore heavy furs and jackets. It showed how cold it is for Mukuro while Lyra whose presence in Mukuro is just an illusion could not feel it.

'Well, I'll break some friends out.' Mukuro smiled but his eyes held darkness in them. 'Because we have something to do. Don't worry your pretty li'l head about this. So you share the same power as me?'

'Not really...I can just do little bits of things. My power regarding illusions is not as strong as yours since my true power and potential isn't illusions.' Lyra explained. 'How have you been? Lancia seems to have defrosted your manly wiener...' Mukuro really did NOT want to remember THAT... 'So lesson learned?' Lyra giggled as Mukuro sported crosshairs. 'A girl's first kiss is sacred to us,' she stated with a wink, '-given only to our Mr. I do's in marriage but you took it.' she pouted. 'Oh well, what he won't know won't hurt if I ever find my ideal man.' she sighed in a fake-gloomy expression. 'Don't be too reckless or it'll be YOU behind bars.' then she yawned. 'I'm going back to sleep...exams tomorrow...' and she was gone.

'She seems to have old fashioned beliefs when most girls our age slept around with a boy or two by now and kissed a lot before getting married.' Mukuro snorted, just finding the whole thing funny but Lyra was innocent that way.

For now, he has a job.

A job that led to him getting stuck with the mafia again, and Lyra having Lancia living with her family as her Guardian.

But before Summer Vacation came...things went a bit crazier.