A/N: Sorry about the late update, a friend of mine got married this past weekend so I did not have as much time to write as normal. Please leave a review. Thank you.

The next seven years passed quickly for the Blacks, Alastor and Cassie married, each keeping their maiden names so the Moody family would not die and so the Italian Blacks would have a Head. Cassie rarely spent time in Italy, she normally stayed either at Moody Manor or Black Manor. Remus and Narcissa wed in the summer of 1982 and welcomed their first child, Romulus, two months later.

The years went by with Harry, Susan, and Nymphadora growing up together, with Neville often coming to stay for longer periods of time when Frank and Alice both had long term missions for work. Neville and Susan were close, much the same as Nymphadora and Harry were ever since the pair began training their Metamorphagus talents, Harry's talent was discovered on Christmas day 1981, Nymphadora's hair was changing rapidly after she opened her present, a toy broom, handmade by Uncles Alastor, Remus, and Sirius, Harry saw her hair turn a new color. Never had her hair turn such a dark purple color. He giggled madly and his hair turned the same shade. Amelia almost had a heart attack when she turned to see Harry's hair. From that day forth, mostly as a game for the first few years, Harry and Nymphadora would practice morphing together. By age five, Harry had complete control over his hair and eye color but normally left them natural when in public. His facial morphs didn't come along completely until his seventh birthday. And by his eighth, he could change his full appearance, hair, eyes, face, height (within several inches) and weight (within twenty pounds). Just like Nymphadora, who could do the same, almost without thinking. The pair had developed a strong friendship that knew no bounds. From ages five and up, Neville, Susan, Harry, and Nymphadora had practiced their reading, writing, muggle maths, Occlumency, and potion theory. They had lessons on how to behave formally from Grandfather Arcturus and Gran Longbottom as the Black children called her. Susan and Neville would play together while Harry and Nymphadora were practicing. They soon became close, as well, which suited their parents just fine.

ooooooo

Harry was shaken awake on his eighth birthday by an ecstatic Nymphadora. After a thorough shaking, she grabbed one of his arms and dragged him out of bed. It took Harry a few seconds to transition from horizontal sleeping to conscious thought. He stood to find Nymphadora tapping her foot impatiently. "What?" he asked.

"We're getting wands today!" She cheered. "We leave in ten minutes. Be glad I came to wake you. Sue and Neville wanted to drop you out of your window. See you downstairs a few, breakfast is waiting." She said as she walked out of the room. 'Wands' Harry thought. 'I can finally practice spells.' He was shaking with excitement at the realization. Potions, Runes, and Arithmancy were fun and all, but spells were what magic was meant for. Channeling your magic to make a feather float or to alter the appearance of an object was just the beginning of what spells would allow him to do. He jumped up and quickly dressed to meet the others downstairs for breakfast.

"Look the walking dead!" Sue said teasingly as she pointed at them. Even Harry chuckled at that, he had long ago accepted his deep sleeping and the teasing that came from oversleeping. Living with the two remaining Marauders had taught the Black children and Neville how to take a joke and how to plot revenge on the jokester.

"Thanks Sue." He sarcastically replied Sirius set a plate of eggs with a couple of pieces of bacon in front of him while the everyone except Nymphadora, who decided to sit with him, went to floo over to Horizont Alley, a lesser-known wizarding community in Liverpool about the size of Hogsmeade. Alastor and Andi volunteered to help chaperone. After everyone was through, Sirius came back to the dining room to get Nymphadora and Harry.

"Come along Harry, Nymphadora, everyone else is already at the Alley." Sirius gestured for them to hurry up. Chimes of "Ok dad." And "Alright Uncle." Came from the two and the quickly hopped into the fireplace and shouted "Horizont Alley." As they came out of the fireplace Nymphadora tripped on the rug and grabbed Harry for support, which only succeeded in bringing him down with her, much to the rest of the family's amusement. Nymphadora's clumsiness was well known and Harry was usually the one to cushion her fall.

"Ow," Harry grunted as the others chuckled at the misfortune of the metamorphs. Sirius stepped through and helped the two up and guided them to Tara's Wands. They entered the building and triggered the bell that let Tara know that someone was there. They heard a muffled 'just a minute' and a few moments later a young short blonde woman with piercing blue eyes came out from behind a shelf holding two bags and a wooden stick with lines on it. She greeted them. "Hello, I am Tara, and you must be the Blacks?" She asked Sirius and he nodded. "Excellent, I will explain the process and we can get started but first how many wands will you be purchasing today?"

"Four total, one for each of our children," Andi told her.

"Splendid. First, you will place your hand over the blue bag, clear your mind, and pull a wood out for me. Second, you will do the same for the red bag that contains cores and finally, grab hold of this measuring stick and push a little magic into it. Understand?" She asked sweetly. The four kids nodded, and Tara asked. "So, who's first?"

Nymphadora stepped up. "I'll go." She placed her hand above the blue bag and a second later a branch flew into her hand. "Dogwood," Tara said. "A wood that has a mischievous and playful nature and will insist that you provide it with entertainment Miss Black. Next bag please." Nymphadora waved her hand above the red bag and a few seconds later a Hungarian Horntail figurine flew into her hand. "Horntail Heartstring, Heartstring is one of the more powerful cores I craft with and the Horntail my Heartstring comes from was one of the oldest to ever be documented and with age comes power. You'll have quite the wand Miss. The measurer please." Nym placed her hand on the wood and felt a slight pull on her magic, much like when her mom was testing her Occlumency shields, she let the wood enter her mind and a single tic mark glowed a bright red color. "Twelve and a half inches. Alright, that will be all for you, Miss. Next please." She called and Sue stepped forward. Her wand measured ten and one-quarter inches was made of Black Walnut and had a core of a feather from the phoenix that lived in Tara's residence and had watched over her family for the past seven centuries. "A wonderful wand indeed Miss. Next please." Harry pushed Neville up to the counter. Neville's wand was an unyielding eleven-inch English Oak wand with a tail hair from a female unicorn that was freely given after Tara had saved it from a werewolf. "You will also have a fine wand, Mr. Longbottom. Finally, young Mr. Black. Come up and place your hand over to wood bag please." Harry obliged her and placed his hand over the blue bag and after a minute and a half of waiting a red wood flew into his hand. "Cherry. A beautiful wood that rarely chooses a wizard. Next bag please." She motioned Harry over to the red bag. He held his hand above the bag and after three minutes a singular red feather flew into his hand. "Astonishing, I found a baby phoenix on my travels in the Americas that was badly injured. After I nursed it back to health, I awoke one morning to find it missing and on its perch was a feather. Your wand will have-" She was cut off as another item flew out of the bag and into Harry's hand. "Well, I never!" Tara said, looking at the vial. "I didn't know I had this!" The chaperones were confused, and Andi asked. "Well, what is it?"

"Basilisk venom," Tara announced. Gasps came from the Black group. "How are you supposed to use that in a wand?" Sirius asked.

"Well, I believe if I soak the phoenix feather in the venom it will retain its' own properties and gain the powers of the venom. Mr. Black, it is curious that a wand has multiple cores and unheard of that wand has cores so very different from one another. A phoenix is a symbol of Light and a basilisk is believed to be one of the darker creatures to roam this earth. Your wand is going to be extremely powerful. I believe that this wand will be the best wand I have ever created. It will take me about four hours to complete this work. Feel free to look around the alley while I work." Tara said and the Blacks went out to see what Horizont Alley had to offer.

ooooooo

After four hours of meandering and window shopping, the Blacks came back to Tara's to pick up their wands. Sirius had taken the bags of books and potion ingredients back to the manor. Alastor and Andi followed the kids into the shop. Tara greeted them. "Hi, welcome back. I have your wands here if you each could take it and give it a flick." The kids walked up to the table and grabbed their wands. They all picked them up and swished them and brightly colored sparks shot out of the end.

Alastor came up and paid for the wands. "Can we get these youngsters wrist holsters with anti-summoning enchantments as well."

"Of course, Master Auror," Tara said as she went to the back room and returned a minute later carrying four packages. She set them on the counter. "They are undetectable and are tuned to the wearers magical signature." Moody set more galleons onto the table.

"Thank you for letting me craft your wands. If you need anything wand related, just stop in." Tara said, waving to the family as they left the shop. After they were gone Tara reminded herself. "I think, I'll keep an eye on those four. They sure will make a splash.

ooooooo

The Blacks came out of the Floo at the Manor to see all their parents, Gran Longbottom, and Grandfather Arcturus waiting for them in the sitting room. The confused looks from the kids prompted Arcturus to speak up.

"The wands you hold now are the tools that you can use to reshape this world. But to do that, you must know how to properly use it. If you wish, we will teach you the basics of wand work, magical theory, and dueling so you can come into the world as a proper pureblood, without all the bullshit blood purity that normally comes along with it. So, what say you four. Do you want an education before you go for your education?"

Harry stepped forward with Nymphadora right beside him. His eyes flashed a bright blue as he said. "Grandfather, I would appreciate that very much." Nymphadora chimed in as well with Neville and Sue stepping up behind them. "I as well would enjoy a proper education." She said with a wink at Bellatrix. Neville and Sue came to stand on either side of the pair and said in unison. "We're in." Arcturus and Alastor burst out laughing. Cassie had enough and sent two stinging hexes at them and after they quickly calmed down, she asked. "What is so funny boys?"

"I pity the fool who tries to start something with these four. At age eight, and nine…" Arcturus added, nodding to Nym and Alastor continued. "They have a bond that veteran Auror teams struggle to create."

"The Wizarding World is not ready for them," Tobias added.

"Ready or not," Harry said.

"We're coming." Nymphadora continued.

"And it is in one's best interests," Sue added.

"To not get in our way," Neville added

"Oh, sweet Merlin." Narcissa and Remus said, holding Romulus on his lap.

"So, your education will be one area every day except Sundays in the morning added to your other studies. A part of your dueling training will be some strength and conditioning exercises that you will do every day. All other times are your own to do what you wish. We do not expect you to do everything perfectly, but we do want you to do your best." Arcturus told the four, "But above all, we expect you to have fun and to be young and have fun. If at any time, you feel overwhelmed or you stop having fun, I want you to tell me immediately and we will stop our education. Understand?" He asked them, they all nodded. Harry spoke. "Grandfather, fun for us is learning, and this means we get to learn more. That's fun." He finished and Sirius shooed them away. He plopped back down into his seat at the table. "So." He said.

"So. Alastor and Amelia. You take their dueling lessons. Narcissa and Remus will continue as potions instructors. Sirius and Tobias, you will be their strength and conditioning trainers. Frank, Alice, you will continue their maths and writing. Andi and Bella, magical theory, and basic spell casting is your task, Cassie. Whether or not you give them anything Dark is up to you. Augusta and I will still coach them on pureblood mannerisms." He finished. Andi had a question that had been bugging her for a while.

"Why are we teaching them pureblood mannerisms if we do not like them?" She asked

"We do not," Arcturus answered. "But if we are to destroy the bigots, what better way than through their own ways?" He said as the table of the most powerful witches and wizards in Britain, except for perhaps Albus Dumbledore and a handful of Aurors, chuckled at the picture painted by the leader of the family. The Blacks had put their eggs in one basket. And that basket was Harry James Black.

ooooooo

Harry awoke before sunrise on September 1, 1980, for his normal run with Nym. The quartet had broken into pairs for their strength and conditioning, with Harry and Nymphadora liked running before dawn because no one was around, and it was much more tranquil than during the day. He dressed and met up with Nym at the front door.

"How far today?" He asked.

"I was thinking 10 kilometers since it is our last run until Christmas," Nymphadora replied.

"It may be your last run until Christmas, but I plan on running every day until then." Harry retorted.

"I meant our last run together you idiot." She scoffed. "C'mon, let's go." She said as she opened the door.

An hour later, the two stumbled back through the door. "I won. You make breakfast." Harry spoke, triumphantly.

"Yeah, well since I am the one who has to go to Hogwarts today, so you make the pancakes and I'll go clean up. Or you can ask Hoppy nicely to bail you out so you can clean up too." Nym said as she ran up the stairs.

"Bother," Harry said, sniffing his shirt. "Hoppy. I need a favor." He asked. The elf nodded and he ran off to his bedroom to take a shower in the bath that he and Neville shared.

ooooooo

Nymphadora, Harry, Sirius, Amelia, Andi, and Tobias arrived at Platform Nine and Three Quarters with a half-hour until the train was going to depart. Nymphadora had her trunk while Harry had volunteered to carry her owl, Hedwig, a beautiful Snowy owl. Hedwig had bonded to Nymphadora instantly and warmed up to Harry in a week. But she had yet to bond to any of the others. They passed through the barrier and walked over to a car to say their goodbyes. The adults each gave her hugs, and Andi kissed her cheek, which Nym gave a whine of 'Mom!' The adults were done with their hugs and Nym asked if Harry could bring Hedwig to her compartment. They walked a few cars to find an empty compartment. Nym shut the door and hugged Harry tightly.

"I'm gonna miss you so much, Harry."

"I'll miss you too Nym. Just make sure to cause enough havoc for the two of us." Harry told her.

"It just won't be the same without my partner in crime." She responded.

"About that, I think I have a plan that'll cause some trouble and get us in the same classes next year." Harry chimed.

"I like it when you plan things out. So, tell me about this plan of yours." She said as she sat down on the sat as Harry told her his plan. After fifteen minutes he completed his tale, "Well? What do you think?" He asked. She thought for a moment and responded happily. "I think, it's great! But, you have to get your dad on board." Harry had been expecting this and had already taken measures. "Nym, my dear, my plan my just give Dumbledore a stroke, so yeah I think father will be on board with this. He'll probably actively encourage us to study more. You just focus on causing trouble without getting into trouble and we'll talk more over Christmas." Harry said as he walked to the door. "Remember to write, Aunt Andi is nervous about you going away without me to watch out for you." He teased as he shut the door and walked out of the train to meet up with the adults.

"So, what did you two talk about for so long?" Tobias asked.

"Not now Toby, that's a conversation for later. Now we say goodbye to Nymphadora for a few months." Harry said calmly waving at Nym as the train left the station.

"I wasn't concerned before, but now, I am." Sirius whispered to Amelia who chuckled, "It won't be that bad honey. I'm sure it's something to do with the fact that Nym is the only one of us in her class and Harry wants to rectify that."

"Are you sure you're not Harry's blood mother? Because you know him better than anyone else." Sirius asked as Amelia laughed even harder as the family departed.

ooooooo

"So, you want to learn the first year magic so you can test out of first-year so you can come in as a second year? Did I get that right?" Arcturus asked as the kids nodded. "Alright. I'm in."

ooooooo

A week after they dropped Nymphadora at the train station, the Blacks received the first letter home from Nym.

Hey guys,

I'm fine. Hogwarts is so cool. The castle is huge, and I haven't quite met enough prefects to go wandering yet but I'm working on it. My Sorting took ten minutes because Stewart, the Sorting Hat, waffled between Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Gryffindor, but told me that our plan is very Slytherin. We settled on Gryffindor. There're only two girls in Gryffindor in my year, me and a muggle-born girl Katie Bell. She's really cool and thought me being a metamorphagus was really neat. The potions professor, Snape, really doesn't like me. Maybe it's because I accidentally dumped a cauldron of potion on him when I tripped during my first class. I really miss all of you and I especially miss my running buddy. I hope you are practicing the same stuff that I am, but I think some of your professors are more entertaining than mine. History of Magic is a joke. The prof is literally a ghost! Are you shitting me? Can you send me some earplugs for Katie and myself so we can study in peace? I really miss you guys, but Katie and I are hanging out and talking a lot. I think you guys are going to like her, she's spunky, smart, and bloody hilarious. She may have a taste for pranking Harry, we'll have to bring her into the fold a little. Fred and George Weasley also seem to be a pranking sort, we may have quite the squad here in Gryffindor when you get here Harry. I'll probably write again before Halloween and then I'll see you for the Holidays.

Love,

Nymphadora

'New recruits, an intriguing proposition Nym' Harry thought.