Chapter 5

Halloween

Harriet came out of her common room the night after the duel and went looking for Erebus she found him about to enter the great hall she stopped him, "Erebus can we talk?" asked Harrie.

"Yeah sure." said Erebus.

Erebus followed Harrie to the halls, "Nott bailed on the duel sent Snape and Filch after me." said Harrie.

"Well then looks like that's one point for us if I beat Nott in a duel then he'll have only one chance to reclaim his honor and if he looses again then I get his entire family." said Erebus.

"What do you mean?" asked Harrie.

"In the wizarding world if members of two different houses have a feud it can go one of two ways it either becomes a blood feud which spans generations, or the two participate in an honor duel which is pretty much what Nott challenged you two last night since he was a no show he forfeited the match which means it was an automatic win for you and since you were fighting in my name that means it was a win for me." said Erebus.

"So if he challenges you again and one more time you get all his money and property?" asked Harrie.

"Yep, and seems I need to show Nott who the real king of serpents is." said Erebus.

Harrie followed Erebus into the great hall, "Nott I challenge you to an honor duel." said Erebus.

This seemed to shock Nott, "I-I don't have to accept your challenge Low born." said Nott.

"Wrong Nott you do first I'm higher born than you are second I'm laying down everything my honor, and my house, beat me and your family gains control of house Black, but if I beat you house Nott and everything it owns is mine." said Erebus.

"I accept your duel Black." said Nott the thought of the wealth and power of the Blacks belonging to his family he didn't even think there was a chance he could lose.

Professor Flitwick set them up outside and explained the rules, "this is an official honor duel between Theodore Nott of House Nott and Erebus Black of house Black the Duel will be over when one of them disarms the other there will be no time limit." said Flitwick, both drew their wands, they met in the center wands in front of their faces vertically, they bowed to each other and turned and walked to the other end of the courtyard.

"One, two, three begin." said Flitwick.

Nott shouted an incantation which sent Erebus flying back, "Experialmus." said Erebus and Notts wand flew to Erebuses hand.

"Duel over the winner is Erebus Black." said Flitwick.

"No I was not beaten how did you learn a spell like that." shouted Nott.

"I read a book and paid attention maybe if you paid more attention to any spells that weren't pure dark magic you'd have found one to disarm me." said Erebus.

Erebus threw Notts wand to the ground and walked off.

Grimauld Place

Morgana Black sat at the table drinking tea when a letter from Gringotts arrived, "Hmm whats this?" Morgana took the letter and began to read it.

Dear Lady Black,

Due to your nephew and heir Erebus Black winning an honor duel you are now in control of the Nott family till Heir Black is of age, that includes money, properties, business, and contracts.

Signed Ragnarok head of Gringotts bank London branch

"Well isn't this interesting." said Morgana.

Hogwarts

Erebus and Harrie were now in Charms class "now an important part of any wizards arsenal is levitation." said Flitwick, "now its a simple movement of whish and flick." said Flitwick.

"Whish and Flick." everybody repeated after Flitwick

"Now the incantation goes as so, wingardium leviosa." said Flitwick.

The class repeated the incantation, Erebus and Harrie heard Ron getting the incantation wrong and Hermione Granger trying to correct him till he challenged her to do it if she's so clever and she did proving the boy an idiot.

"Well done, see students miss. Grangers done it." said Flitwick.

seeing that Seamus Finnegan another Gryffindor in Harrie, and Erebuses year tried it till like most of his spells it blew up in face.

"I think were going to need another feather professor." said Harrie.

After class

"Harrie I know tonight is a sad night for you so why don't we meet before the feast tonight." said Erebus.

"Thanks Erebus I could use the help of someone who isn't going to think me for defeating Voldemort on this night." said Harrie.

"You're welcome Harrie, but I better go see my fellow snakes before your pride try to get rid of me." said Erebus.

Harrie was once again upset with the prejudice of her fellow house mates, she couldn't believe that just because he was in Slytherin that made Erebus evil just because ninety percent of you-know-who's followers came from slytherin after all the other one percent were from gryffindor, and Ravenclaw.

Harrie left the classroom with Dean, Nevile, Ron, and Seamus, Ron complaining about Hermione, "It's Leviosa, not Leviosaw, she's a nightmare honestly it's no wonder she doesn't have friends." said Ron with Hermione pushing past them about to cry.

"Ron your an idiot." said Harrie and she went to try and catch up with Hermione but she was already gone.

After finishing all her classes and putting her school books away Harrie went to meet Erebus in the courtyard, "Hey Harrie." said Erebus.

"Erebus I think there is someone we can make friends with." said Harrie.

"Who?" asked Erebus.

"Hermione Granger, Ron was being an idiot after charms and made her upset I think she went to the bathroom to cry." said Harrie.

"Not a bad idea we'll ask her to be friends with us tomorrow." said Erebus.

"Ok." said Harrie.

"So Harrie do you want to talk about anything you might remember about that night?" asked Erebus.

"When I go to sleep sometimes I see a green light, and hear a woman screaming, I think its my mom dying." said Harrie.

"That green light might be the killing curse." said Erebus.

"The killing curse?" asked Harrie.

"There are three very dark, very illegal curses in the wizarding world, the imperious, which controls a person against there will, the cruciatas curse which is for torture, and finally the killing curse which is self explanatory it kills people." said Erebus.

That Night

Erebus sat with Draconis, and Daphne eating some food at the feast that night, Erebus kept an eye on Harrie she was talking to Neville Longbottom, seems Neville was taking on the role of her Gryffindor best friend.

Thats when professor Quierell came in screaming "Troll, in the dungeon, troolll in the dungeon." said Quierell, "Thought you ought to know." said Quierell and he fainted, and everyone started screaming and freaking out.

"Silence." shouted Dumbledore, "Everyone please do not panic, prefects please escort your houses to the dormitories, teachers will follow me to the dungeons." said Dumbledore.

"I have issues with this plan." Erebus whispered to Draconis.

"Definitely aren't our dorms in the dungeons?"Draconis asked sarcastically.

"Erebus, Hermione never came back from the girls bathroom." Daphne whispered to Erebus.

"Damn, c'mon." Erebus said to the two girls and they went to find Hermione they also came across Harrie and Ron.

The children then saw the giant shadow of the troll, "I think the troll's left the dungeon." said Ron.

the kids all hid, "It's going into the girls bathroom." said Harrie as the Troll passed by completely.

Erebus, Draconis, Daphne, Harrie, and Ron quickly ran inside and found the Troll trying to swing it's club at her, "Hermione move." Erebus shouted, and he Ron, Harrie, Draconis, and Daphne began throwing the wooden remains of the stall at the troll.

"Hey Pea brain." shouted Ron and he threw a piece of wood at the trolls head.

Hermione crawled to the sinks the Troll noticed her and swung its club down on the sink and broke it spraying water everywhere, "Damn c'mon think Erebus." said Erebus to himself.

"Ok so Trolls have a very magic resistant hide, so for magic I would need something very powerful that does a lot of damage or maybe I don't need to attack directly with magic, hmmm." Erebus thought as he analyzed everything Harrie then jumped on the Trolls club got on its neck and stuck her wand up it's nose.

"Gross." Erebus thought, "wait that club if I can use the levitation charm on it and drop it on the trolls head that should knock it out." Erebus thought.

"Ok I need to time this just right." while Erebus was planning Harrie was hanging upside down in the trolls hand while the troll tried to whack her with it, "someone do something?" shouted Harrie.

"Wingardium Leviosa." Erebus said and the club floated above the trolls head and the dumb creature looked up and the club dropped on its head, the troll dropped Harrie and she backed away as the beast fell down.

"Is it dead?" asked Hermione.

"No it's just knocked out, I didn't drop the club from high enough to kill it." said Erebus.

"Wow a junior death eater who doesn't kill everything." said Ron.

"Hey Ron, screw you." said Erebus.

"Nice cuz." said Draconis.

at this point the teachers arrived.

"Oh my goodness you lot better explain yourself." said Mcgonagall.

"Well you see." the four rescuers were saying till Hermione stopped them.

"It was my fault professor Mcgonagall." said Hermione.

"Miss Granger?" asked Mcgonagall.

"I went looking for the troll I read about them and thought I could handle it, if Harrie, Ron, Erebus, Draconis, and Daphne hadn't found me, I'd probably be dead." said Hermione.

"I'd say all of you showed poor judgement, 10 points will be docked from each of you, but you each will receive 20 points for sheer dumb luck." said Mcgonagall Harrie and Erebus looked at Snapes leg and saw it was bleeding.

"This is suspicious." Erebus thought to himself.

"Now all of you off to your rooms." said Mcgonagall and the slytherins and gryffindors went off to bed.

End of Chapter 5 alright guys I'm gonna make some changes and retcons to this story before moving on first change I think I'm taking Ginny out and putting it to where she'll start next year, I just can't think of any reason of why she's here and other than I just wanted a Weasley who didn't hate Erebus plus she really doesn't have much to do till second year other than be in the background.

Second I'm giving Erebus's wands a dual core one core will be what I started with a phoenix feather but its not a feather from Fawkes just another phoenix kind enough to donate a feather, the second core is a dragon heartstring and I'm not just making this up two cores are a thing in the Harry Potter universe, Harry Potter wand lore says that wands need a minimum of one core and one wood but dual cores are a thing in Harry Potter but it's recommended that you only have two cores more than that could have fatal back lashes.

Anyway those are the only changes to the story I'll go back to the first chapter and add Dragon Heartstrings and this is no reason other than Blackthorn and Dragon heartstrings are a appropriate combination for a warrior which is what I want Erebus to be, plus I like Dragons and Phoenixes.