Severus had been working as an assistant at a shop in Diagon Alley. He just wanted to make some money and help his mother. His mother was also working as a sales assistant at another potion shop. The salary was not enough if a single person worked only, so, with Severus' addition, the money problem was solved.
But, it wasn't like Severus was poor. His modified potion patents were making him a good amount of money, but, for now, he was spending all that on building his lab in the new house's basement.
He knew that if he were to ask Magnus for it he would get the whole lab set up in a single day, but he felt that Magnus already had done too many favours to him and he couldn't always go to him to ask for help. This time, he needed to do it himself.
*BELLS*
Someone entered the shop. Severus was prepared to take the order. The Potion shops normally had a pre-designated way of working. They would usually keep a stock of some high-demand potions in the shop at all times, like some beauty potions, anti-venom portions, some blood replenishing or health potions. But if someone wants to buy anything specific from the catalogue then they would need to order it and wait for it to be brewed. The wait depends on the complexity of the potion, it could be a few hours or even days.
Severus looked towards the door, but instead of greeting, he could only look in disgust. It was none other than Lucius Malfoy and Avery. They had graduated from the school and were now probably a part of the Death Eater army.
Lucius had a smile on his face as if he was the most gentle creature on earth. "Hello, Severus. Good to see you here, honing your talents."
"Hmm..." Severus acknowledged their existence but didn't say anything. He just pushed the catalogue of potions towards them.
"Ah, what did I do to be treated with such animosity? I thought we Slytherins were all friends." Lucius said.
Severus replied in an irritated voice, "But I am a half-blood, I thought I didn't deserve to be in Slytherin."
"You are wrong then. What your parents did is not your fault. We only have a problem with mudbloods, as they're the ones stealing our magic from us. Let me see what I will require from this shop." He started looking at the catalogue while Avery started looking around.
"Hmm, give me Babbling Beverage, Antidote to Common Poisons and Dizziness Draught. That's about it." Lucius ordered.
Severus started to pack all these items as they were common potions and were already in stock.
"Hmm... are you still circling around that Magnus? No doubt, he's a genius of no match. But, book knowledge can not cover your lack of physical skills." Lucius started weaving the threads of what he considered brainwashing.
But Severus, who was now experienced in Occlumency and Legilimency, had a much sharper and stronger brain.
He mockingly replied, "Then how will you explain him killing 4 death eaters all alone?"
"Luck and help from his bloodline. I heard he was using a strange staff during that time. Must be some kind of an artefact. Will he still be able to fight without it?" Lucius argued.
But Severus immediately argued, "He already did. Don't forget the Battle of Diagon Alley. He stopped a killing curse and also defeated many more enemies with a normal wand. Just admit it, he's strong in both mind and power. And he's just of my age."
"Overconfidence, I hope you put your money on the right player, or you might lose everything." Avery suddenly advised which sounded more like a warning.
"You too..." Severus replied and handed the package to them.
Lucius took it but also handed Severus a piece of paper, "It was good meeting you. If someday you need something, this is where you can find me."
Severus saw them leave with a plain face. He really didn't care about them at all. He looked at the piece of paper, it has an address in Knockturn Alley.
"Wasted my time." He muttered and threw the paper in the fire. Then, he started brewing his potions.
~Today I will be able to buy the important equipment. Then I can practice Potions with Lily.~ he thought in his head.
...
Outside the shop, Lucius stood with a cold smile on his face. He held the package of potion vials in his hand and squeezed them little by little until they broke and spilt on the ground.
"Malfoy..." Avery shook him.
Lucius's face turned angry and ugly, "Did you see that? Even a poor filthy half-blood like him now talk back to us. If it weren't for his talents, I would have snapped his neck long ago."
"Calm down, our lord has ordered us not to harm talented wizards, especially if they are Magnus' friends." Avery reminded him.
Lucius frustratedly looked around himself. Ever since his father had died, he had found it getting harder to keep himself calm all the time.
But then his eyes fell on a shop just across the street. It was a store of Nimbus Racing Broom Company. A girl was inside the shop, happily cleaning the brooms on the showcase.
"The Dark Lord told us not to target his friends and we shall obey his command. Isn't she the girl rumoured to be that filth's girlfriend?" He asked.
Avery nodded, "Indeed. Disgusting how a pureblood could fall for a mud-blood."
"Let's see if those rumours are correct, besides, blood-traitors need to be taught a lesson," Lucius said with a smile.
...
Back inside the shop.
Severus' shift was about to come to an end. After talking to Lucius just now, his mood was also not too good. However, he needed to wait for a little as the delivery of the empty vials was supposed to arrive today.
*GLASS BREAKING SOUND.*
"Argh.. did he break the vials?" Severus got annoyed hearing it coming from outside the shop's door. He went there to check it, but, he only saw Lucius and Avery standing a distance away and talking.
Severus used his mind quickly and took a hearing enhancing potion and drank it. And then he heard everything the two were talking about.
His face turned anxious as soon as he found out what they were planning. In a hurry, he went to his table and started writing a letter addressed to Magnus. Then he used the shop's delivery owl and sent it.
"His girlfriend or not, she is a Slytherin, a wizard, and nobody deserves to be targeted for just being close to Magnus." He muttered to himself and started putting a lot of potion vials in his pocket. Then he strapped his wand to his coat. If needed, he will intervene. But he hoped that the two fools would not outright attack them in the shop.
...
Magnus' Mansion
"GRAAAAAA..."
"YOU WILD DRAGON. I WILL SLAY YOU AND WIN ALL THE GLORY IN THE KINGDOM..." Magnus waved his fake wooden sword in front of Duck while the two played fighting.
Duck was also fully into it and acted hurt whenever the sword would touch his body.
Grace, Martha, Adam and Ragnar were sitting by the side and watching the show. They were also clapping every once in a while.
"CHAD! SUMMER! Come and help, my friends." Magnus shouted.
"MEOWWW..."
All of a sudden, Summer appeared in the sky, she was wearing a Superman costume while Chad was wearing a Batman costume. Summer was carrying Chad with her claws.
Summer hovered over Duck and then released Chad. The fat cat started punching Duck with his paws, in response Duck made fake cries of pain and moved around.
"GRAAAAA..." Duck threw flames from his mouth as he saw Magnus coming towards him.
"AAAH!" Magnus acted hurt. But Magnus was actually fully immune to fire damage.
But, sadly, his clothes were not. Slowly, all of his clothes burned to ashes and his naked body was present for all to see.
"AH! DUCK, DAMN YOU!" He genuinely cursed and quickly hid his manhood with his hands.
*WHISTLE*
Ragnar whistled and shouted, "MAG... USE YOUR OTHER SWORD."
*KA-CHAK*
A sudden flash attracted Magnus' gaze, he saw a camera in Adam's hand. "DAD, DON'T..."
But, Adam laughed, "It's okay, Mag, I will frame this picture, I will show it to your kids, nobody will guess that this little naked boy is the King of Britain."
"Hehe..." Grace also chuckled.
"GAHAHA..." Even Duck chuckled.
Magnus, seeing this, shouted at Duck, "You did it on purpose? Take this... HAAAA..."
Now both Magnus and Duck started throwing fire from their mouths. Magnus even threw it from his palms and feet. He was also hiding his manhood with fire. Meanwhile, everyone else clapped.
"HOOR..."
But they stopped when suddenly a big owl arrived there. Summer intercepted the owl and brought it to Magnus. Still naked but secure with fire, Magnus took the letter and made Ragnar throw some food to the owl.
~Hmm... Sev sent it?~
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He read the letter and slowly his face turned from goofy to serious. He crumpled the letter and walked back to his family, he waved his wand and accio his clothes from his room.
"Mum, Dad, I need to go to Diagon Alley. I will be visiting the bank there." He informed them.
"Is everything okay, sweetie?" Grace asked in concern. Magnus' face didn't really hide anything.
"Everything's fine, mum. Just some business-related issues. I will solve it quickly and return for dinner." He said.
"Then take care. Take Martha with you." She suggested.
Magnus looked at Martha, "Will you come with me?"
"Why not, let's go right away." She was ready.
Both Magnus and Ragnar left with her. But Martha kept herself invisible all this while. It was unknown how she was doing it though.
Martha apparated with them to Diagon Alley. From there Magnus quickly made strides towards the Nimbus broom shop. When he reached there, luckily nothing had happened. The shop still had customers and Emma was there just having fun. She didn't really need to work anyway but liked helping around in the shop.
He entered the shop, and as expected, the moment Emma saw him a big smile appeared on her face.
"Ah, MAGNUS?... You came here because you missed me?" She asked as she ran up to him.
Magnus sighed, "Nah, I came here to talk to your dad. Where is he?"
She pouted, "You're no fun. Huh, dad's in the office on the backside. Follow me."
"Hehe... she likes you..." As they were walking Ragnar whispered in Magnus' ear.
Magnus just elbowed him in the stomach, "Not now,"
*Knock Knock*
Emma knocked on the door, "Dad, Magnus is here, he wants to talk to you."
All of a sudden a lot of noise came from the other side as if some stuff fell. The door then opened loudly, "Magnus? Where?"
And there was the father of Emma, Mr Whitehorn. A tall dark-haired wizard. But Magnus felt like he had seen him somewhere.
"Wait... have we met before?" Magnus inquired.
"Yes yes, and I want to say thank you for what you did that day. If it were not for you, I would have died." Mr Whitehorn replied, confusing Magnus.
"What do you mean, when did I save you?" Magnus asked further.
"Don't you remember? Well, I wouldn't blame you, it was a very bad situation that day. Remember when you were attacked by some Death Eaters in Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour? I was also there, you jumped and protected me from getting hit by a spell." Mr Whitehorn revealed.
. . .
Magnus quickly reminded himself of that day, "AH! I remember now, you were frozen due to fear."
Mr Whitehorn embarrassingly scratched his head, "Well, thank you for saving me that day."
"HEHE..."
Magnus turned to see Emma, she was smiling at him. ~So this was why she said thank you to me that day in the great hall.~
"You came at the right time, Magnus. We were just going to celebrate Emma's birthday," Mr Whitehorn said.
~Oh, so that's why she was so excited.~ Magnus realised.
"Don't you have friends from school coming?" Ragnar asked her.
"I have no girlfriends in Slytherin, all of them are a pretentious bit... girls." She blurted but corrected her words midway due to her dad being there.
Magnus felt bad for her and took out a gold coin from his pocket and handed it to her. She also confusedly took it while looking at Magnus's face.
"What is this?" She inquired.
*PAT PAT*
Magnus patted her head, "Buy some candies with it. Happy Birthday."
"Pfft... HAHAHA..." Ragnar started laughing loudly.
Emma looked at Magnus angrily and stomped on his foot, "HUH... Cheapstakes. Let's go, dad, no need to invite him. Here I thought he would love to eat mum's special pancakes."
"WAIT!" Magnus stopped her.
Quickly, he threw a pouch full of coins at her, "Here, a hundred galleons, buy whatever you want. Now, where are the pancakes?"
"Hehe... see dad, he worships pancakes." Emma chuckled.
"Let's go, Ragnar, to her birthday party. Call Sev too, he's across the street, and Martha, you can show yourself." Magnus blurted instructions.
Martha immediately made herself visible, and all of a sudden Emma lept at her and hugged her, "Aww... you are so cute and soft..."
Martha patted her head, "Calm down, child."
Emma in shock looked at Martha, "Sh... She speaks..."
Magnus sighed and explained, "Yes, she does. She's not a simple cat. She is a very powerful wizard and is older than even Dumbledore. You can also call her Grandma Martha."
"Yes yes... Grandma Martha. Ah, your name is the same as Batman and Superman's mothers'" Emma commented.
Magnus looked like a light bulb lit up over his head, "YES! Exactly, I remember now, no wonder I felt familiar with her name."
"Who is this superman and batman?" Martha inquired confusedly.
Magnus went close to her and explained, "They are fictional comic book characters made by muggles. Read about them, they are very interesting."
"Really? It seems I need to do some research about muggles again." Martha now finally had a new hobby.
But amidst all the talk, Magnus quickly remembered why he was here in the first place.
"Mr Whiteborn, I came here this quickly for another reason. I just found out the news that Death Eaters will now be attacking you because Emma is associated with me..." He revealed.
*DOOR OPENS*
But before Magnus could finish speaking, Ragnar and Severus arrived. Seeing that there was a party mood, Magnus did not continue.
"Let's go now, where are the pancakes?" He asked.
"Follow us, our house is connected with floo network." Mr Whitehorn said and went to the fireplace. He picked a bit of ash and told everyone what to say to reach that place.
All of them got transported to a new place, it was a big hall and it was decorated with lots of colourful balloons. There were one or two elfs working as well, they were wearing minimal clothing but they looked clean and the elfs themselves also looked healthy.
"Where are we?" Magnus inquired.
"Near the west coast. Come, the preparations are already done." Mr Whitehorn answered and took them to meet his wife, Mrs Vanity. Emma took her mother's surname.
Mrs Vanity was a beautiful lady who seemed to have an air of pride and respect around her.
"Welcome, everyone, glad to see Emma's school friends are here, the cake is ready." She happily greeted them.
But Mr Whitehorn quickly went close to her and whispered something. ~Can't you recognise him? He's his majesty Pendragon.~
"I do recognise him, but he's our guest today and our little Emma is the main focus of the evening." She replied to her husband. Magnus heard her and actually liked it that she treated him normally.
Soon, a big cake was bought there. It seems they did not invite anyone else, something Magnus appreciated. These were dark times and anybody could backstab you.
Emma had already changed her clothes and had come to cut the cake. But instead of quickly cutting it, she turned to Magnus, "Hey, can I cut the cake with that famous cool sword?"
"Sure," Magnus obliged to make the birthday girl happy and gave her his Hope sword.
"EEEEEEE..." But as she tried to lift it up her face turned red, she realised how heavy it was.
"MERLIN'S BEARD... How do you even swing this?" She was panting.
Taking pity, he helped her. And this way, she was finally able to cut the cake, though it was very messy now.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" They cheered.
Ragnar took out a small vial of potions from his pocket and threw it in the air. It started to make small colourful sparkles above them like miniature fireworks. Severus also threw a potion in the air that spread the fresh aroma of flowers.
Magnus on the other hand, made a funnel with his right hand in front of his mouth and aimed his head up.
"FUUUUU..." He breathed out and let out a flame from his mouth. The flame then wrote letters in the air, 'Happy Birthday, Emma.'
"THAT'S SO COOL..." She was so happy with this, looking at the fire with her beautiful light blue eyes.
"Hehe, glad you liked it. NOW, PANCAKES, WHERE?" Magnus asked with his eyes looking greedy.
Mrs Vanity quickly led them to the dinner table where the elfs started to put their plates. They all took their seats and talked.
"Why are there no other guests?" Magnus inquired.
Mr Whitehorn made a depressed face, "I stopped celebrating big parties at home 3 years back. 3 years ago, on Emma's birthday, a pureblood family tried to force me to sign a marriage contract for Emma with their son. I said no but they tried to threaten me. Thankfully, some powerful family friends helped me then."
"Let me guess, Blacks?" Magnus asked.
Emma's mum and dad looked at each other's faces and nodded.
*Sigh*
"Oh, you were telling us that we will be targeted? Why?" Mr Whitehorn finally asked as he remembered that incident.
Magnus quickly explained everything to him. This really scared the small family, it was just the three of them after all.
"And do you have a way to solve this?" Mrs Vanity asked with a frown on her face. Emma seemed worried for her family too.
Magnus smiled, "Of course. They are scared of touching me or my property since their last act. The best way I can think of that will keep you and your business safe is simple.
"I WILL BUY NIMBUS RACING BROOM COMPANY!" he declared.
The faces of everyone in the room were worth seeing after this.
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