Quetzal - hello! chapter 2 here! i'm sorry its taken me so long to update. I was really sick for awhile there and and just getting back into the swing of writing. The next chapter of Becoming the wind has hit a road block, i know whats going to happen but it refuses to be written for some inexplicable reason. next chapter of snow point of about a third done.

hope you enjoy this!

update! 1-24-13 - there is now a forum for my stories! if you'd like to toss out ideas for future chapters or just complain to each other about my updating habits drop by and take a look! fanfiction net/forum/Dragons-Nest/126848/

(nonBeta'd version)

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Chapter 2

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Jamie stared at the glowing butterflies dumbfounded, that, he hadn't been expecting that. "your..?" He trailed off.

"A Wizard." Harry agreed grinning. Jamie blinked and looked blankly at him while Sophie tried to grab the glowing bugs.

"Pretty!" She giggled jumping up and down on the bed. Jamie stared at Harry for a few moments longer while Harry looked on with a faint smile.

"I didn't think magic like this was real." Jamie finally said, Harry quirked an eye brow up at his wording but let it pass, nodding and conjuring more butterflies for Sophie to grab at. Using the spell work to surreptitiously cast a silencing ward on the room.

"Oh magic is very real, but I didn't learn about it until I was 11 and I got my letter."

"Letter?" Jamie shot him a puzzled look.

"Back home, when someone with the ability to use magic turns 11 they get a letter from a school of magic. A lot of kids are born into families that already know about magic and are mostly witches and wizards, but some like my mother are from families who never had anything to do with magic before. You can imagine how many people think somebodies playing a prank on them when a letter from a school of magic turns up in the mail." Jamie grinned at this nodding.

"Do magic?" Sophie asked curiously, momentarily distracted from her butterfly hunt. Harry looked at her with a smile.

"Yes I can do magic, Sophie. Would you like to see another spell?" He asked Sophie nodded excitedly.

"Magic!" she demanded Harry looked thoughtful for a moment before glancing at her little stuffed rabbit and grinning, a few muttered words later and Sophie was squealing excitedly as her bunny hopped around the room, the little girl in hot pursuit.

"So what can you do?" Jamie asked,

"Oh just about anything you can think of and then some. The only real limit with magic is imagination. Everyone has their area's of expertise though, I'm currently training to be a healer, but I can fight too. I'm a special consultant for the wizards police over in Britain, I have a lot more raw power then most people and sometimes they need the extra muscle."

"wait, so your like, a secret agent too?" Jamie demanded Harry burst out laughing and shook his head no.

"Oh no, never. They couldn't pay me enough to make me take that job...not that they didn't try." He added thoughtfully, making Jamie's eyes bug out a bit.

"So they wanted you to be a secret agent!?" He asked in awe, Harry snorted.

"Unfortunately yes, but were getting a little off topic here, you don't mind that I'm a wizard? Do you still want to live with me?" Harry tired not to look as anxious as he felt. Jamie grinned and laughed.

"Dude this is awesome! Of course I still want to come!" He said happily, Harry gave him a slightly bemused look, he wasn't used to people being this enthusiastic about magic.

"Alright then, let me grab Miss Evan's and we can get the paper work started ok?" He asked Jamie nodded rapidly, a frown crossed the boy face and Harry winced internally knowing what had just happened.

"I shouldn't be happy." He muttered to himself, staring at the cheap quilt on the bed, Harry sighed softly.

"She would want you to be happy Jamie, there was nothing you could have done." He said quietly knowing the kid was going to blow up on him, but also knowing that Jamie needed to hear it. Jamie snapped a glare up at him. Harry braced himself, this wasn't going to be fun, and things had been going so well too!

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A screaming fit, and a startling amount of tears later Harry closed the door to the hotel room. It was almost eight o'clock now and Miss Evans must have been worrying how things had gone. Walking down the hall way his thoughts turned once more to the two sleeping children he'd left in the room. Jamie had, as predicted, started screaming at him which had upset Sophie which had resulted in them both crying in his arms before too long. At least Jamie had been able to vent a bit, he knew it helped, even if it made you feel worse at first.

"So how did it go?" Harry looked up startled by the voice to find that he had arrived in the little sitting area just passed the elevator without even realizing it. Miss. Evan's was looking at him hopefully, harry sighed, and flopped down ungracefully into a chair.

"They want to come with me, it was a little rocky there for a bit, but they agreed and are both sleeping now." He answered Miss. Evan beamed at him.

"Thats wonderful! I was getting worried that they might end up separated after their father refused to take them in." She explained Harry frowned.

"Id assumed their father was dead, divorced I'm guessing?" he asked, Miss Evan nodded.

"The father was cheating. They were divorced when Sophie was a little less then a year old. He didn't want anything to do with them." She explained, Harry's expression darkened but he didn't say anything. At least the man had the decency to refuse to take them if he was going to be an ass, he hated to think of those two ending up with someone like the Dursleys.

"Well the better for me then, Teddy will love them.."

"Teddy?"

"My godson, I adopted him three years ago, his parents were killed in a terrorist attack in London and his grandmother is a bit old to take care of a toddler full time. I don't mind, my fathers family was old, and left behind a ridiculous amount of money, I won't have any issue taking care of three kids." Miss Evan nodded thoughtfully, before opening her briefcase and pulling out a folder.

"Your very generous to take in three children Mr. Potter. Most men your age would cower and run for the hills at the first sign of parental responsibility." Harry snorted at her grin, but nodded all the same, it was very true. "Alright then, how about we get the paperwork started? This is just the initial forms you need to fill out there will be more once we get the process started." She chuckled at his groan and began handing him forms to fill out.

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Jack drifted down to the window of Jamie and Sophie's hotel room, glancing in to see both of them curled up in one of the beds, he gave the window a tug and it slid open easily unknowingly tripping a spell Harry had left on the room. The unfortunate man who even three hours later was still filling out paperwork (miss Evan had left after only one, telling him he could give it to her tomorrow) tensed on the bed of the hotel room he had rented for the night.

Jack flitted into the room brining a light flurry of snowflakes with him, he settled down on the end of the bed and smiled sadly at the sleeping children. The slight shift in the bed from him lading on it proved to be enough to wake up Jamie. The boy blinked sleepy eyes at him for a moment before he realized who was in his room. "Jack!" Jamie tackled him in a hug. Unknowingly averting the arrival of a certain wizard. Harry watched the scene in confusion through the monitoring spell he had set on the room before he left.

"How are you doing Jamie?" Jack asked leaning his staff against the bed as Jamie let go of him and sat down next to his still sleeping sister.

"...alright I guess." Jamie answered quietly after a moment, Jack frowned, worriedly.

"No nightmares? I can call Sandy if Pitch if giving you trouble." Jamie shook his head.

"No actually...oh!" Jack tensed at the exclamation wondering if he was going to have to hunt the nightmare spirit down and kick his ass. "The social worker lady found a cousin of ours, he's from Europe!"

"Europe?" Jack echoed blankly. "And he's going to take care of you?" He added Jamie nodded rapidly.

"Yup! And Jack guess what!" Jamie was grinning mischievously now, Jack raised an eye brow.

"What?"

"He's a WIZARD!"

"WHAT?" Jack stared at him in shock, a wizard? The only wizard he'd ever heard of was Norths old teacher! Sure there were always people claiming to be witches and wizards but they were frauds!

"I know! Its awesome!" Jamie agreed gesturing excitedly, " He made this cloud of glowing butterflies! And then he made Sophie's rabbit run around the room like it was alive! It was cool!"

"Um...ok?" Jack answered after a moment still a bit shocked.

Harry listened to the conversation with a raised eye brow, ready to teleport to the other room at a moments notice. He wasn't sure what the visitor was, but Jamie obviously knew him and considered him a friend so he was willing to him him the benefit of the doubt for now. It certainly explained what Jamie had meant earlier when he had said "magic like this" the visitor obviously had magic of some kind; although, it was apparently very different then using spells like he did.

Harry tensed again as another presence passed his detection ward, a tiny man who seemed to be made of golden sand drifted into the room through the still open window. "Sandy!" Jamie exclaimed with a grin, the tiny man smiled back, images forming over his head from the sand that drifted around him.

"Bed time Jamie." Jack commented as Sandy tossed a ribbon of sand at the boy, Jamie ducked, grinning.

"You missed!" He taunted, Sandy quirked an eyebrow up and Jack laughed.

"You've done it now Jamie," He mocked with a smile, Sandy rolled his eyes and the sand snuck up on Jamie while he was looking at Jack. Jamie blinked suddenly tired.

"No fair!" He grumbled before falling over sound asleep. Jack shook his head and tucked Jamie back under the covers.

"Well Sandy I need to head up to the pole and talk to North." And the question mark of Sandy's head he elaborated. "Apparently some cousin of theirs from Eroupe is going to take them in, but he's apparently a wizard I wanted to go ask north what he knows about them seeing as Ombric was one, can you watch them for awhile?" At Sandy's nod Jack glanced back at the kids one last time before darting out the window. Harry watched for another few minutes but Sandy just directed glowing streamers of sand out the window so he switched off the image of the room, and sat back in the uncomfortable bed.

He would have never guessed that Jamie had contact with anything magical, sure he could sense that the boy had magic and his sister might as well (it was really to early to tell in her case), but apparently being friends with a pair of spirits was odd. That and the spirits themselves felt odd, almost like himself really. Harry sighed and ran a hand through his hair before nodding to himself and turning his attention to his own mind, searching for a link that had formed the moment he left the train station between life and death. He smiled faintly as a cloaked figure faded into existence in the room. "Master," Harry said with a faint grin, he always thought it was funny how wrong everyone got the magic of the hollows. A soul that proved themselves to be able to use their power without being corrupted didn't become the master of death, but rather the servant. Not that he minded, death was surprisingly nice.

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Quetzal - like that last bit? Bit of a different spin, but don't worry! I'm actually going somewhere with it, I'm not just trying to be different!

And before someone asks the reason jack doesn't know about modern wizards is simply because they would have gone into hiding around the same time he was created, so they were probably a lot more paranoid around that time and jack never saw them or if he did they didn't do anything to draw attention to themselves, and its not like he was looking for them..