Dumbledore nodded. But first, they needed to talk to the legal guardian of David, or else Sister Mary might get jailed if a child went missing.
"Well, the standard protocol says you need to inform the guardian. The same goes for orphan children. But, in this case, she's a firm believer in god. Religious people rarely take the existence of magic kindly and are quick to call it dark magic, demonic or whatnot." Dumbledore told them, indirectly asking what they should do.
"She knows..." David spoke up.
They all turned to him in surprise. Magnus quickly asked, "And what did she say?"
"Well, since I came here, weird things were constantly happening to me or around me. She noticed once, when we had run out of water in the Orphanage due to some pipeline problem, I was somehow able to create water in a jar. I didn't know how I did it but I was just thirsty.
"She started praying to god at that moment, calling it a miracle and that I was loved by God. I think she will appreciate getting some answers about why I am able to do all this, because even now she sees me doing strange things."
Magnus and Dumbledore looked at each other's faces. "Professor, let's try telling her. We can always obliviate her if things go left."
~This kid...~ Dumbledore was shocked by how cool Magnus was with this. But he knew that the Ministry obliviates people on a daily basis in thousands.
"I will go and ask her to come here. Aunt Grace can keep the kids downstairs." Ragnar got up.
He went downstairs and told Sister Mary to come upstairs. Grace already knew everything so she handled the kids. George also helped her while making himself look like a human old man.
Sister Mary was confused as she arrived upstairs. There, she saw David and the old man.
"What's the matter?" She asked.
"Please take a seat, Sister." Magnus helped her to a chair. She smiled towards Magnus and took a seat. In her eyes, Magnus was like an angel now.
Dumbledore started, "Sister Mary, do you know about the strange things that have been happening around David? Ever since you met him?"
Sister Mary's eyes fully opened. "Yes... D-did he do something to you? I assure you it was an accident..."
Magnus sighed and simply took out his wand from his sleeves and levitated the side table in the room. Then he turned to Ragnar and made him fly too. Ragnar though was having fun and started imitating fish.
"O Lord, my God you are my..." But Sister Mary was shocked beyond belief and started chanting prayers so fast they only understood the starting words.
Dumbledore quickly waved his wand and cast a charm that soothes people. Sister Mary slowly stopped praying and looked at Magnus with a newfound idea.
"You are blessed by the lord too..." she muttered.
Magnus scratched his head, "Umm... I guess you can say that. Well, Sister Mary, what you saw was something called magic. Not the kind you read in the Bible, it's neither related to miracles or demons.
"In this world, there lives a secret society in each country that can do magic. Leaving aside the magical beasts and creatures, all are humans, just like you and me. But, our ancestors evolved differently and now a small group of people have such gifted powers.
"There is a whole community of wizards out there that live in hiding, with their own banks, schools and markets. The reason why they hide should be imaginable by you, Sister."
Her mouth stayed open for a while. But thankfully she didn't seem scared, perhaps because Magnus had already impressed her.
"Why are you telling me... Ah... Is David also?" She realised.
Dumbledore took the wheel this time, "Yes, he is a Wizard. I'm Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts, a school for children who can do magic. It's not necessarily a hereditary thing. Anyone's child could turn out to be a magic-user.
"But, poor David here was left out, because of never receiving the acceptance letter. He was probably looked for by the faculty but he couldn't be found. Till now he's been suppressing his magic and it's not good.
"Just as an overloaded water pipe will burst, David's body is now overloaded with magic. If something is not done he will lose his life. For this, I want to take him to a teacher, who will also help him overcome this situation.
"You, as his guardian, need to permit it."
Sister Mary gasped and quickly went to David to hold his hand. "I'm sorry, child. I never knew you were in such danger. Yes... You must go with Magnus... I... But... What about the adoption papers?"
Dumbledore had it covered, "No need to worry there, Sister. Many orphans study at Hogwarts. Our Magical community has the Ministry of Magic that works with the Prime Minister's office. Everything will be taken care of."
Sister Mary actually felt very relieved knowing that at least the government knew about all this.
She turned to David and caressed his head, "I'm... Sorry, child. I wasn't able to help you all this time. I let you suffer all this time. You should go now, and become a powerful magician..."
"ACTUALLY... *BAM*" Ragnar wanted to point out that it's wizards and ruin their moment, but Magnus put a tape on his mouth.
"Remember, you will always have a home here. Besides, children will miss you." She emotionally said.
David was also feeling overwhelmed by emotions. He suddenly stepped forward and hugged Sister Mary.
"I... Thank you for keeping me here. Whatever my past was... You treated me like your own son. To me, you are also a mother. This was and will be my home. I will return as soon as I can learn magic." He released the hug and sniffed a few times. He was 16 but there was no harm in showing emotion when necessary.
Sister Mary warmly smiled and ruffled his hair, "Good luck. How will you be going there?"
Dumbledore replied, "We'll be going to the south coast. It's very far away but Fawkes here is an excellent teleporter. We will leave right now. Magnus, Ragnar and David, come to me and hold my arm."
Magnus excitedly ran first. "Sister, tell mum that I'm going to see a war hero. I might come back late, she can return home with George. Oh, yes she knows about magic."
He could only say that and David had just waved his hand when Fawkes suddenly burst into flames. With that, all of them vanished with fire.
Sister Mary once again started chanting prayers, influenced by the majestic cry of Fawkes.
...
*Fire sound*
The fire appeared in a field of grass. Not too far was the sea and in front of them was a house.
"Ah, this place feels so refreshing." Ragnar took a long breath. While David was checking his body to see if he was hurt.
Magnus, however, had already dashed towards the big house. But when he arrived at the door, he was shockingly greeted by a grumpy looking Goblin.
"Stop... Human. Gringotts business going on here. Come later." The goblin told him, actually it sounded like an order.
"No, I will meet him today. It's also urgent. Besides, don't you recognise me?" Magnus cockily asked while standing with a raised chin.
Goblin silently looked at Magnus and talked to himself internally.
~Hmm... I think I've indeed seen him. Blonde hair, check. Chubby face, check. Blue eyes, check. A scar on the left eye, check... F*CK.~
"Oho... Your Majesty... Welcome..." The goblin had a full change of attitude.
"Hehe, why are you standing here?" Magnus kindly asked him, knowing that the goblin was probably just doing his job and there was no need for face slapping.
"My boss is inside. Please, you may enter. My boss would fire me if I stopped you." The Goblin even opened the door for him.
At the same time, everyone else had caught up to him.
As Magnus proceeded to enter, for being in good mood he decided to give a Galleon to the goblin. He quickly put his hand in his pocket to take out the coins.
*PAT* *PAT*
But, he felt nothing. There were no coins in any pocket. Then, he realised even some rings were missing from his fingers, which he wore for some natural elements protection.
"What the hell..." He wondered where it went.
But, as he looked around, he had a glimpse of a disappearing figure. He could only see its back, a small cat-sized grey creature.
Magnus knew what he was against. "DAMN THOSE NIFFLERS. NOBODY TAKES MY GOLD!"
Poor Nifflers had no idea that someone else who loved gold more than them had arrived.
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"GIVE MY MONEY BACK, YOU GIANT RAT!" Magnus gave the Niffler a chase.
He was very fast and was also casting some charms. But Niffler was quick to avoid charms, obviously used to them.
So Magnus had no option but to outrun it and corner it.
He chased him around the house, through the kitchen where a fat old man was cooking food. To the old man's shock, out of nowhere, a kid ran by his cooking table.
But Magnus only had the Niffler in his eyes.
"Haha... How far can you run? I have monstrous stamina. I can do this all day." He tried to intimidate it.
"Khekhe..." But the Niffler sounds like he just chuckled.
Now shamed, Magnus had his self-respect on the line. He must catch the oversized rat.
He followed it for a few more minutes and finally was able to corner it in a large room. It was empty for the most part so there was no furniture to hide it.
The Niffler desperately stood in the corner, facing Magnus as if a thief caught red-handed. But, it was so shameless that even now it was squeezing the last remaining coin from Magnus pouch into his invisible pocket.
"Hehaha... Where will you run now? I'm going to take back my gold and also the interest for the work you made me do. COME HERE, YOU OVERSIZED GREEDY RAT!"
With a full scoop of his hand, Magnus caught the Niffler's feet and held it upside-down. And then came the shaking.
One by one, Magnus' stuff started to fall from the secret pocket of the creatures. But, even after all of Magnus' stuff, he didn't stop.
Soon, gold plated spoons, pendants and whatnot fell from the Niffler.
Magnus was in shock, "Where the hell do you store all this? Are you Doremon or something?"
[A/N: Doremon Manga came out in 1969 and became popular.]
*CLANK*
But then a full shining gold bar fell. Magnus' eyes sparkled. "Bwahaha... Jackpot..."
He held the Niffler in one hand and started to pick stuff up from the floor. One by one, he took everything.
He looked at the annoyed Niffler, "Heh, now it's time to return you to your boss... Where is he?"
Magnus turned around to see where he was. But... his mouth fell open and eyes froze, the Niffler from his hand fell down as well. The whole world seemed to freeze and he felt imbalanced. This was the highest level of humiliation.
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He was in the living room, and there sat everyone. Dumbledore, Ragnar, David... And Newton Artemis Fido Scamander with his wife Porpentina Goldstein and another Goblin in a neat dress.
"GREETINGS, YOUR MAJESTY!" the Goblin was unable to understand the awkwardness of the situation because the bastard would have done the same to the Niffler if it was him.
Then, the awkwardness was broken by Ragnar, whom Magnus felt like cursing.
"PFFT... AHAHAHAHAHAHAH... OH... I CAN'T BREATHE... BWAHAHAHAHAH... look at his face... Oh oh..." He fell from his seat and started rolling on the floor in laughter. Even Dumbledore made a small snort, meaning he was controlling his laughter. Newt and Tina were just shocked though, as in front of them stood the legendary descendant of Merlin and the future king of Britain.
Magnus' lips twitched, he wanted to say so much in his defence but knew it would only do more damage. ~Damn my obsession with gold. That Ragnar will now tell everyone at the school... I must shut his mouth at any cost... But first... Damage control.~
Magnus turned to the still-standing Goblin and politely greeted back, "Good evening,"
But, to Magnus' sorrow, Ragnar started to laugh even more seeing his act, and his laugh was contagious.
"Hahaha... Do you think we'll forget everything that just happened? Oh... I need to find a Pensieve. I need to make copies and sell them to the world. This is the descendant of Merlin and Arthur... Ahahaha..." Ragnar nonstop blurted.
Magnus kept his fist tight, ~I need to silence him.~
Meanwhile, Dumbledore for some reason was feeling nervous. ~They must never know of the Pensieve in my office.~
"Oh, Professor Dumbledore has one in his office."
Those words silenced everyone. The atmosphere turned tense. Dumbledore felt like he was being stared down at by two hungry predators. He couldn't bring himself to look to his left or right.
He could only look at Newt's old face, with a sense of betrayal and sorrow.
"Professor, I have a. Few business propositions for you. I will come to your office later." Magnus spoke.
"Ah, good to see you again, Newt." Dumbledore ignored him and talked to Newton.
~THIS OLD MAN. HEHE... HE WAS TRYING TO HIDE IT FROM ME. NOW WE'LL SEE WHERE YOU HIDE IT.~ Magnus thought. But, a scary smile leaked on his face.
Dumbledore took a glance and turned back. That was the smile of a greedy capitalist. He knew he needed to hide his treasure now.
But, to his relief, both Newt and Tina immediately stood up. Then stiffly proceed to bow to Magnus.
Magnus stopped acting goofy and scratched his head, "Umm... What are you doing?"
"Greeting the king..." Tina tried to speak but Magnus interrupted.
"Oh that, don't do that. I'm not a king yet, and my mum taught me well not to make old people strain their backs. It can lead to injury... So sit." He jokingly said, making Tina start laughing.
She chuckled while looking at her husband and said, "I like him, happy to know he's not like those obnoxious young lords of Pure-blood families."
"What's going on? Why are Gringotts representatives here?" Magnus asked them.
Tina suddenly folded her arms, "We're late on payments for this farm. So, they came here to remind us."
"But, how do you not have the money? Magical beasts and where to find them is a world-famous book." Magnus asked in confusion.
Newt averted his gaze in what could be taken as shame.
Tina scoffed, "Huh, he said he wanted to spread the knowledge about magical beasts and made the copyright of the book open for all. Now, the book is present in every magical book shop but he gets not a knut from it."
Magnus laughed after seeing the guilty face of Newt. "Haha... That's exactly what I expected Mister Scamander to be like."
He then turned to the Goblin, "Tell the head goblin, Novgor, consider the payment settled."
"NO! I can't let you do that. It's our responsibility to pay..." Tina wanted to protest.
But Magnus didn't allow it. "How can my idol be troubled over such small things? Besides, I know that Mister Scamander played a big role during the world wizarding war. He should've been rewarded with money and Order of Merlin first class. But it seems the Ministry is very cheap when it comes to treating their heroes."
"But I thought your idol was Nicolas Flamel." Ragnar voiced.
Magnus smirked, "Hehe... I've got a hundred idols, Rag. When it comes to alchemy and living a long life, Nicolas is my idol. When it comes to making friends with magical beasts, Mr Scamander is my idol."
Ragnar then turned to Dumbledore, "What about Professor? He's a legendary wizard too."
Magnus silently stared at Dumbledore. He seemed to be thinking hard.
~Why such silence?~ Dumbledore wondered.
"YES! Beard... He's my idol for beard growing." Magnus claimed.
"It feels like a consolation prize," Dumbledore muttered to himself.
By now, the atmosphere had turned so friendly, the Goblin had also decided to leave now as Magnus had paid off the money.
Newt stutteringly started, "You shouldn't have paid them. I was about to sell some precious beast hairs that they shed."
Ragnar's eyes shined, "CAN I HAVE THEM? I WILL BUY THEM ALL. JUST NAME THE PRICE."
"Yeah, I think Ragnar will use them to the fullest. He's the best potioneer I know. Also, don't worry about the payment. Consider it my tuition fee for when I will come to you to learn about magical beasts." Magnus told the couple.
It took them a second to realise what Magnus had said. The descendant of Merlin was going to learn to care for magical beasts? What could be more exciting to Newt than this?
"Y-you are welcome any time, your majesty," Newt said, with happiness in his heart.
"Just call me Magnus. And... Oh, this is David, by the way. The main reason we came here today is for him. We need your help, Mr Scamander." Magnus quickly told Newt everything about David.
As Dumbledore had said, it was very rare for kids to survive for so long while suppressing their magic. It was strange he didn't turn into an obscurus yet. Maybe it was due to his calm nature and support of gentle people like Sister Mary.
Dumbledore also tried to convince Newt. "Newt, I know your relationship with your son hasn't been great, but David is a very good child. And he needs your help, he has nowhere else to go, no family to care for him."
David also spoke with a heavy heart, "Sir, I will be good, I swear. I will even help you with your work. I just want to learn magic and not turn into this... Obscurus... I want to live, sir."
Well, by now, even if Newt wouldn't take him in, Tina would as she was looking emotional. The memories of her past remerged in her mind. She had met another boy like David in the past, and she knew the pain he went through.
Now old, and like a grandma, she walked to David and patted his shoulder, "Don't worry, David. We will help you. Newt will help you too."
Newt silently thought about something. His bitter experience with his son refreshed in his mind. His son was disappointed in him, for being so successful and yet not making a fortune off the rare beasts he raises. In the end, his son left them behind to venture out there and make riches.
But, seeing the look on David's face, he saw a familiar desperation from long ago. He was unsuccessful back then, but this time he wanted to find a cure to not turn into an obscurus. Maybe there was a beast in his huge living space that could help David.
"I will help you." He announced.
Magnus and Ragnar high-fived. "YES!"
Seeing an opportunity, Magnus decided to ask a very important question to Newt.
"Mr Scamander. I have a very important question to ask. Umm... How do I make a Phoenix cry?" He asked.
"REEEE..." Fawkes protested, thinking Magnus was planning something scheming on him.
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