I'm glad to see you guys liked the turn of events thus far, and therefore its' helped me to get this chapter out by Christmas so consider this my holiday gift to you.
This chapter we have Loki and Molly, then Sif and Snape, and after that Hermione shows. Towards the end we have a little surprise for Narcissa. Drama drama drama, and after this we start with a nasty battle that's underway.
Sorry if I made you wait too long, but hopefully this is worth it for you.
I don't own Harry Potter or Marvel.
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The Burrow:
"Molly, I'm working a double tonight so don't wait up." Arthur Weasley stood at the door about to leave for work when he saw Molly cleaning up dishes from their breakfast.
"Alright." Molly gave her husband a smile, but just as he was about to walk out of the door an owl flew in and landed on table. It had a letter, and so Molly took it but after she opened and skimmed over the contents she let out an angry shriek.
"What's going on?" Arthur was almost afraid to hear the answer.
"That…that disgusting cad! How dare he hurt poor Ginny!"
"Molly what do you mean?" Arthur took the letter from her shaking hands. He had to admit he wasn't happy about the words, but it angered him more what Ginny had the gall to say.
Mum,
I wish I didn't have to tell you this, but I think I should.
Harry still won't talk to me, I've tried everything I can think of but he keeps ignoring me. His parents are always watching me and now he has those animals with him, a wolf and a horse. He says they're his brothers, but that's impossible right?
To top it off Mum he had this strange woman show up, she calls herself his sister Helia or Hela I can't remember. She threatened me, said I would pay if I kept bothering Harry and called me a spoiled little brat. He's still with Malfoy too, they have to be brainwashing him.
Loki won't leave me alone either Mum, he calls me names all the time like silly girl, or foolish. Everyone else seems to agree with them, I don't know what to do Mum.
Please write back soon.
Love,
Ginny
"Molly don't you dare start anything." Arthur balled up the letter and threw it in the wastebasket. "You know full well Ginny exaggerates just as you do."
"Arthur I won't stand for it anymore! I am going to have a word with that Loki and I will make sure he leaves Ginny alone!" Molly grabbed her robe and wand before Arthur could stop her, and then she vanished into the floo just as he was about to call her name.
"Damn." Arthur rubbed his tired eyes, he knew once Molly got back she would be in a fit or she'd be so scarred for life she'd likely never leave the house again.
He just hoped Molly wouldn't make things any worse than she likely had already.
Hogwarts, Headmaster's office:
"Albus!" Molly Weasley came running through the floo and just in time to see Dumbledore entering his office.
"Molly, I didn't expect you."
"I just received a letter from Ginny about that family!" the way she said it she might as well be spitting venom. Dumbledore's face paled slightly and he sighed in frustration.
"Molly I'm afraid I have to ask you leave it be, whatever Ginevra told you is likely false. Eli and his family are here and they are not to be trifled with." Molly's face turned an angry red.
"She said they've been calling her names and keeping her from talking to Harry!"
"No she's done that herself, the talking part I mean. As for the names…she brought that on herself as well with the badgering. I've gotten complaints not just from them on her, but also her fellow classmates." Molly shook her head.
"I want to talk with Loki; I am not going to let this go!" Dumbledore shook his head.
"Molly things are already hard enough with them around, if you push any further it will only get worse."
"Albus I demand you call him up here! If you don't I will march down myself and drag him out until the entire school can hear me!"
"They already can." both wizard and witch jumped at the sound of Loki's voice coming from the door, which was now opened with him leaning against the frame. "I knew you'd be coming Mrs. Weasley, and I suggest whatever you have to say to me…to choose wisely lest you wish to be turned into a foghorn for your husband's muggle collection." Molly didn't back down.
"How dare you frighten my daughter, she is trying to help Harry and you are keeping her from him!" Loki's green eyes flashed.
"Your daughter is a stalker and obsessed with the idea of a boy who doesn't exist. You have filled her head with stories on her becoming his wife when in reality he prefers someone else. He is in love with young Draco, and she is delusional as you are."
"Ginny has been in love with Harry for years, he is perfect for her."
"You mean he's rich, because of the inheritance two people left him despite that he isn't their blood son. Yes I know of her fantasies, my daughter is very good at reading the minds of the living despite her title as Queen of the Dead." Molly paled.
"Hela…is your daughter?" of course she knew the legends, but she thought they were only myth.
"She is, and she has already warned your daughter once. Next time I will have to step in and if I do she will not like the consequences."
"You are brainwashing Harry!" that time Loki got so close to Molly's face a single breath could make her fall backwards.
"My son's name is Eli, and he is not brainwashed. My child has finally learned the truth of his past, and you are so set on having him in your family you fail to see how happy he is. You had best let this little dream go Mrs. Weasley, or else you and your daughter will pay the price." Molly's hand went back and slapped Loki's face, but he didn't flinch.
"You are a monster, threatening a child!" she went to hit him again but he grabbed her arm and she winced at the tight grip. She tried to pull back but he was stronger than she thought.
"Molly…" Albus tried to move closer but Loki held up his free hand to halt him.
"You are trying my patience you fat cow." Molly's mouth dropped open. "This is my final warning to you, leave this school and get your child under control…or else my dear Hela will add an extra space in her realm for the two of you." he gave an evil smirk, and Molly moved away after he released her.
"We'll see who's better for Harry, in the end he will choose what's right for him." with that said she left through the floo. Dumbledore looked at Loki with a calm expression, it was almost a look of relief.
"She will not give up you know." Loki glared at the old man, and then smirked.
"I know, which is why I have alerted the entire school."
"How?" blue eyes narrowed slightly, and Loki waved his hand in the air.
"A simple sonorous charm, loud enough for all to hear within these walls; Ginevra will be so embarrassed, I suggest you write to her father on this." Dumbledore didn't feel like arguing, so of course he agreed with a nod. "Good day headmaster." Loki took the opportunity and left out the door, and all Dumbledore could do was wonder how in the hell this had all gone so wrong so fast.
Meanwhile, Potions' class:
BOOM! SPLASH!
"LONGBOTTOM!" a furious roar from an angry potions master echoed throughout the dungeons of Hogwarts. It turned out not to be so bad at first, but somehow, well not entirely, Neville Longbottom's potion started bubbling and exploded all over the class splashing several students.
"S-Sorry professor…" the Gryffindor boy started shaking when Professor Snape's angry glare towered over him.
"Sorry? You can't even fix a simple hangnail remedy! And here's why, you've added too many quills; a first year could do better! Fifty points from Gryffindor, and one week of detention with me."
"That's completely unfair professor! He didn't mean to mess it up it was an accident!" Ron Weasley stood next to Neville, this was the second time in a week the death eater teacher had wrongfully punished a student, docking points was one thing, detention was another, but both for accidentally adding too much was torture!
"Another ten points for your mouth Mr. Weasley, keep it up and you'll be in detention with Longbottom." no one knew what had Snape on edge today, but his ire was worse by tenfold when Neville's potion blew up. Everyone around suspected foul play, but then again no one could tell who as everyone had gone near Neville's station to gather ingredients. Eli had been dismissed from the class for some training, but he would turn in a foot long report on the potion they were brewing.
"Professor it had to be someone else, Neville wouldn't have done it on purpose." Susan Bones stepped up as well but Snape's glare turned on her.
"Twenty points from Hufflepuff Ms. Bones, you would do well to stay clear of other people's problems."
"You could learn from that yourself." all eyes turned to the classroom door, and everyone's eyes minus Snape's widened at the sight of the Aesir warrior Lady Sif standing there. Her armor gleamed in the dim lighting of the room, and she had a hard look on her face as her dark eyes stared down the potions master. "I would like a word with you Professor Snape, immediately."
"This class is still in session, you shall have to wait." she stepped a bit closer.
"I'm sure you will comply, this concerns my prince Eli Thorson."
"The boy was dismissed from today's lesson, he is of no concern to me." her glare intensified.
"I'll be sure to tell Thor that, I'm certain he's warned you about spouting venomous words on his son?" Snape wanted to argue further, clearly he did, but he also noticed the sword on her back and remembered her strength.
"Everyone clear up your stations at once, we will continue this lesson tomorrow." the class quickly moved and in about ten minutes everyone was gone. The entire lab was almost spotless, so Snape waved his wand and whatever was left disappeared.
"Glad to see you complied, for once." she turned and shut the door behind her. "The way you treat those kids is unacceptable, though considering your past of bullying and scaring students compared to today…it was rather tame minus the detention part."
"I do not tolerate laziness nor arrogance from petty Gryffindors, they would rather spend their days playing Quidditch or lying about as if everything applies to them. Your little prince is the worst of all, a spoiled little brat that thinks nothing of hard work and has everything given to him." Sif grabbed his arm tightly.
"You are speaking lies against Prince Eli, believing him to be the same boy who bullied you as a child." Severus froze. "Loki knows of your past, Hela knows of it so she informed us of the trauma you have suffered. Your own parents weren't good, your mother tried but she was abused by your alcoholic father who hated having a magical child. He took his anger out on you both, and you had a good friend you loved for years…Lily." she let him draw his arm back.
"Do not speak of her, you know nothing." he turned away.
"I know you cared for her, but I also know of the name you called her which ended your friendship at fifteen. You were also jealous of the boy who stole her heart, James Potterson."
"Potter…" he sneered the name.
"He bullied you, along with his friends. One of them acted foolishly and nearly caused another to kill you but James saved your life; you never thanked him. "
"He took her from me, he had everything he could ever want even her." Sif kept her guard up, but she understood the man's hatred.
"She hated him at first like you, but then she fell in love with him. She had a child with him, but she lost the child, and then she took in one and died for him. You couldn't accept that, and haven't accepted it all these years. So you take your anger out on his adopted child, and you despise the fact that she died protecting a boy who isn't hers by blood. You also bully the children of the others, and protect the Slytherins letting them get away with almost anything."
"Someone has to protect them, their parents are mostly death eaters or supporters of the dark side. Many of them are terrified of becoming like them, they fear death and pain."
"We all do, but you are not saving them by keeping them sheltered from the truth. You're just teaching them to be cowards and hide from the fight when they could stand up for themselves and stop it."
"They are not ready to fight."
"Because you won't let them, that's something you and Dumbledore have in common, you think they'll be ready to fight when the time comes and instead they'll be frightened to move because they have no idea what they're up against."
"That is not true."
"It is, Loki and all the others can see it even Prince Eli. These are children Professor Snape and you seem to forget that, children do stupid things all the time and that's how they learn. Adults the same, but as a child you get multiple chances as an adult you only get so much before it's too late."
"You have no right to patronize me woman, I don't care how strong you are or what realm you come from. Your young prince is a foolish child who can't understand sacrifices." Sif's eyes glared again.
"That's what you want to believe, but you know it's not true. If you would stop and look with your eyes, you would see that Eli is nothing like the man you hated…a man who is dead might I add." she sighed and turned towards the door, but stopped with her hand on the knob. "For the record though, I know how you feel." onyx eyes focused on Sif, full of disbelief.
"You couldn't possibly understand." she sighed, closing her eyes before focusing on him again.
"I know how it is to watch the person you love fall for someone else, after so many years of friendship and adventure together. You try to be everything they'd want you to be, only to have them turn around and love another. It's like a white hot dagger in your heart, as if you feel you were never good enough and yes…you feel anger and hatred towards the other person and towards your love, only to realize perhaps it was never meant to be." Snape stared at her for a moment, and then realization hit him.
"Thor, you were in love with Thor." she nodded.
"Since I was a child, when I saw him battle with the other boys I felt like he was perfect. I wanted to be like him, strong, brave, powerful…respected, even loved. I was all but the last, Thor never loved me more than a friend and I was too blind to see it. I thought he loved another woman, but it turned out to be Loki…his own adopted brother. I hated Loki for a while, but after some time I saw that he and Thor were a perfect match. Loki is the opposite of Thor, but he's everything Thor needs in a partner."
"You let it all happen, let him take the man you loved?" Snape was a bit confused, Sif didn't seem like the type of woman would just give up if she wanted something.
"Thor is not an object to claim, he is a man who knows exactly what he wants. Hogun is my life now, he respects me as a warrior and loves me as a woman. Lily might have been your first love, but I doubt she would want you to spend the rest of your days wallowing in your own hate and misery."
"You speak of things you shouldn't." the man's stark white teeth snarled at Sif. "My past is none of your business, nor is it those idiot princes of yours." his air was cut off as a hand wrapped around his throat and pushed him up against the wall.
"I have had enough of your insults, and this is my final warning to you. Cease this bitter attempt at believing Prince Eli is the son of a dead man, and open your eyes to the truth for once in your pathetic life. If you bully him or any other child in this school again, then I will not hesitate to plunge my sword into your hollow chest." she dropped him to the ground, and the death eater spy gasped for breath as he rubbed his throat.
"You…cannot…threaten me…" he panted.
"I can, your rules are not bound to me." Sif turned on her heel and left to the door, but before she left she took one last look at the man on the floor and sneered. "She would be ashamed of you." with that said, the door to the dungeon classroom slammed and Snape was left on the floor angry and terrified at the same time.
Later that day:
"Hey Eli, did you hear about Snape?" Ron and Neville joined Eli in the Great Hall for dinner and Merlin where they excited to tell him the news they'd just heard.
"What about him?" Eli noticed Snape wasn't at the teachers' table this evening, but he didn't think much on it.
"Sif scared the bloody shit out of him mate, she showed up at his class and while I have no idea what she did to him he hasn't left the dungeons in hours." Neville had a small smirk.
"He even cancelled the detentions he assigned me, he never does that unless another head of house asks him." Eli was a bit surprised; Sif had talked to Snape alone? And she didn't kill him?
"Did you see him?" they both nodded.
"He looked like a ghost, I've never seen him so pale." Ron laughed. "Serves the git right after what he did to Neville."
"True, but I see a lecture in my future." the boys laughed and started to eat, but when Eli looked towards the door he spotted Hermione talking to Ginny who had tears running down her face. She was as red as her hair, and then he saw several of the students staring and snickering at the youngest Weasley. Hermione tried to calm her down, but Ginny just shook her head and ran from the hall.
"What's up with your sister Ron?" Ron was about to answer when Hermione headed their way.
"Do you have any idea what you've done to Ginny? How can you be so callous to ignore her feelings?" Eli was confused, he'd been in training with his dad most of the day but clearly he'd missed out on a lot.
"He wasn't here Granger, so don't blame him. Besides it's Ginny's own fault for her obsession, he told her to back off and she didn't listen." Ron waved her off but Hermione wouldn't relent.
"The whole school heard Loki call her a brat! She's been getting teased all day you need to talk to her." Eli glared at the bookworm.
"I don't need to do anything with or for her, I warned Ginny and she chose to ignore it. It's not my fault if she can't take a hint."
"Why are you bothering with this anyway Hermione? Last I recall you didn't believe anything about Eli's parents yet every time I see you I can see you making weird faces at Loki." Eli looked at Neville.
"Weird how?"
"Her eyes get all glossy and her face gets red…" Neville gasped. "She has a crush on him!"
"What?! I do not that's absurd!" Hermione denied it but her face said it all, and it made Eli laugh.
"You actually have the hots for my mum? Are you mental?"
"I…I…" Granger was at a loss for words for once. Eli just rolled his eyes.
"He's married Granger, get over yourself. You're too young and not in his league so don't expect him to give you the time of day." Eli took a bite of his food. "I'm not sorry Ron and I saved you from a troll in first year, but I am sorry I ever made friends with you."
"If you had just stuck to the rules and kept out of trouble we would still be friends."
"Yeah well at least he has friends Granger, you just have study partners it's not the same thing. Maybe if you pulled your nose out of the books and actually socialized once in a while you might make some." Ron laughed lowly, but it wasn't out of meanness.
"How can you just sit with him? He's been…"
"He's been a good friend to me and a brother; I would do anything to keep that. My mum and sister might think otherwise, but they're not his guardians so they have no say in what he does. Ginny embarrassed herself with her own fantasies, so she can cry to someone else about it." Hermione looked ready to explode.
"He's nothing but trouble!"
"No Granger you are, now go away." Eli waved her off and the girl had the gall to look insulted.
"Just leave it Hermione, you're making a scene." Neville pointed around where several students were staring at Hermione, some smirking and others intrigued by her stupidity.
"Ms. Granger is there a problem here?" Hermione jumped when Loki appeared behind her and the students laughed. "I dare say I just saw Ms. Weasley looking rather distraught, I wonder what could've caused such a state." Hermione glared.
"You know well what, you did this."
"I only stated the truth Ms. Granger, and I would advise that someone of your…intelligence to advise her to keep her delusions at bay or she might get more than some nasty name calling." Loki winked at Eli and strolled off towards the teachers' table.
"Go away Hermione, no one wants to talk to you." the boys went back to their meals and the bookworm grabbed her stuff leaving the Great Hall. As the rest of the evening went on Eli began to sense a strange presence somewhere around the castle, but he couldn't quite figure out what it was. It felt strangely familiar to him, but it was strong.
"Mum…?" Eli looked to Loki who only nodded at him. He sensed it too, but whatever it was might still be outside the wards.
He could only hope Hela hadn't left yet, perhaps she could catch it before whatever it was escaped.
Hey guys I wanted to get this out on Christmas but I didn't get the chance sorry. Hopefully this makes up for the wait .
Next chapter we have an attack on the school, but I won't say how bad just yet. Someone shows up, someone gets hurt, and someone gets a huge slap to the face.
I can't say when the next chapter will be up, but I'll try my best to get it ready.
R&R
Later!