Shadow walker

The head of the department of magical law enforcement, one Amelia Bones, was not happy. She had been in her office filling out the plague of paperwork that is mandated to every Auror. She had not been happy with the mess created from the world cup. Her security plans would have made sure that everything was fine, even with the little funding she had.

It was only after the fact, in the hidden investigation that she managed to find that someone had given orders to displace the forces that were supposed to be on duty the night of the incident. This alone shows that there was a massive breach in the security of the event. It was also why she was glad to have an Enforcer at the Tournament.

Her position within the ministry allowed her to know that the minister had been given the equivalent of an ultimatum. Due to his incompetence. Because of this the minister was given a choice of facing an inquiry from the ICW or he would allow to let them place an Enforcer at Hogwarts. It was probably the smartest move of his carrier.

Using a letter to her niece, Amelia had asked the girl to keep an eye on things. While the Enforcers were known to be some of the best there was, there was also very little known about them and their practices. So from the reports from Susan. She only initially heard rumors apart from an incident when the woman arrived.

What she did know was that apparently from the way she acted, she did not hold the headmaster in high regard.

Amelia had to hold in a scream of frustration when she got the report about the drawing of the champions. It had been the duty of the headmasters to ensure that only those of age could apply. The two guest schools had done this by only bringing applicable students, thus limiting their pool but also only having the best to choose from.

Hogwarts however had the most stupid idea possible. Dumbledore had placed an age line. A ward used to restrict movement via age. The ward is a simple spell, so simple in fact that it is usually used by parents to watch over their children. Due to the wards' simplicity it is incredibly useful at its few functions, but anything outside of those functions is stupid. This meant that it would have been a very simple ward to fool.

Thus it was that the ward was tricked and the artifact was used to force a student into the tournament. Another name was pulled from it but few people had any knowledge about it and it was hushed up too quickly for anyone to find anything about who it was.

This was another strike against Albus, Only this time he had an Agent of the ICW there to take notes and report back to their superiors instead of just ignore it like what the majority of Magical Britain would do. Over the following months came revelations that would be uncomfortable for the political landscape in the British Ministry of Magic.

Uncomfortable facts such as the long lost Duchess of Skye was alive. That a Lady Le Fay existed. And that an heir to one of the founders of Hogwarts was in the castle. These were earth-shaking on the political landscape, but when you add in the fact that they were all one person they were a political powerhouse.

All of the factions were trying to gain favor with the new lady le fay. The dark singing praises of the most famous dark house in history. The greys aiming for the lady raven claw to rejoin her house's rightful place. And the light trying to 'redeem' the house of Morgan.

It was ridiculous. None of them had met the woman and they were already plotting on how to use her political power. That was when the flints got into trouble and the revelation of the Le fay charter came to light.

Xxxxx

Clan Le Fay Charter

Marriages:

1. the matriarch of the clan must search for a compatible mate for the clan that will strengthen the clan.

2. the matriarch must be equaled by her prospective mate.

3. if the matriarch finds a mate who is not of the above the matriarch must at first opportunity pass on the title to her successor.

4. a matriarch must always be prepared to protect the clan and children.

Marriage contracts:

1. To gain a contract with a Le fay, a prospective house must prove their strength to the clan in a challenge chosen by the prospective bride. To ensure fairness the challenge must be overseen by a neutral party.

2. Before the signing of any contracts, both parties are tested for a month for the influence of potions and spells.

3. In the case of line theft, the clan Le Fay will retaliate with appropriate force.

Xxxxx

The Only thing she knew was that the Lady Le fays identity was revealed due to an attempted forced marriage contract. Through the use of an old and disgusting practice of subterfuge, the use of which alone which if detected and brought to light would have seen the family using such methods crucified before the assembly.

But this only became worse for them at the reveal of their intended target's titles. Not one of which was below most ancient and most noble. The amount of trouble they were in was enough to see them robbed of all of their titles similar to the Weasley clan. Such an event has not happened often in the history of the assembly.

And so it was that the Clan Flint was arrested by the ICW for the act of attempted against their enforcer. Amelia herself could not be more annoyed, here they were on tenterhooks as it was on the international stage and the fools in the assembly were too busy playing their games to notice. So when things inevitably went wrong they would end up landing on her doorstep.

Just as the thought passed through her head the floo connection lit and the heir of the Longbottom family appeared. If she was being honest with herself, there was nothing she wanted more than to just completely ignore this. She knew that it was a call from Hogwart. So with a heavy sigh, she turned and acknowledged the boy.

"yes what is it?" she asked, trying to be gentle knowing that the boy was shy from the times in which she had seen him interacting with Susan.

"Erm... madam bones I was asked to request your presence by the lady Le fay." he stuttered out quickly. This caught her off guard, why would she be needed?

"Okay, and what has caused my presence to be required?" The suddenly paling face of the boy gave her a premonition that she was not going to like the answer. "when she arrives at the meal just now she skewered professor Moody with her spear she then sent me to get you, under her authority." Yep, she knew it. This was going to be a long day.

Well, she did not take this job because it was easy.

Xxxxx

Lilith was just standing there with her weapons in her hands keeping an eye over the great hall, subtly releasing a small undercurrent of pressure to keep the people in line till the Aurors arrive.

She had her weapons in her hands, as she still had wands pointed at her from all directions. The teachers, the students even the minister all had their wands upon her and while she had a high magic resistance, but enough spells and she would be overwhelmed. So here she stood glaring down a hall of magic users and waiting. A body pinned to a wall. Hatred plastered on the faces of a few of the people on the teachers' table only to be met by her mask of cold indifference

She could see her 'father' was just itching for a reason to curse her, in his eyes she shamed the family, She had only proven him right in his eyes by using what he viewed as 'dark magic.' This is her 'father's' view made her evil.

She still had a hard time believing she was related to such an ignorant man, his ignorance was one of the reasons he was classed as an 'inferior' by the clan charter, he was also weaker magically. The only reason that Lily was not removed outright from the family was due to his magic allowing for the rebirth of some bloodlines within their children, so while he was inferior to her. meaning she lost the right of being the clan Matriarch, she salvaged her right to stay in the clan when both Lilith and Evan were born with Parseltongue and Lilith a partial meta-morph.

It was with a great sigh of relief that she heard the doors open behind her, having used her right as Lady Ravenclaw to lock them out till she had finished this job. She could not allow for the possibility of her target escaping. But once he was eliminated she was caught in the middle of a possible crossfire so she sent for the DMLE.

Thus when the Aurors walked in they saw a Mexican standoff of sorts, they had never seen before. On one hand, they had the purple combat suited woman, her deadly agile figure standing in what appeared to be a relaxed posture in the center of the hall but to the combat veterans in the group, they were on edge.

The way she held herself, loose but alert, ready to move at the slightest provocation. Her eyes were darting scanning the room not focused on any one person but taking in all threats in all comers. And her weapons, the two intricate and lethally barbed spears held at the ready in her hands each, with a slightly red haze surrounding them, The aura alone showing just how magically potent those weapons were. This was a blooded warrior. She would have no trouble tearing her way out of this room if she needed to.

It was after this evaluation that Amelia decided that if she did not intervene now someone would get spell happy and then things would go to hell. "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!" barked out Amelia in a voice filled with authority. So it was not a surprise that a few people flinched from her. An eyebrow raised and a smirk that came onto the Lady Le-Fays face.

"Amelia I want her arrested for murder!" screamed out Fudge pointing a shaky finger at Le-Fay. The woman in question though just laughed. "Oh, I am sorry, minister, I thought you just tried to have me arrested?" she asked in an innocent voice. "Of course you Dark witch, you just killed someone!" This caused Amelia to raise an eyebrow, which caused Potter to have such an explosive reaction to the woman.

"Lady Le-Fay did you kill someone?" Asked Amelia pointedly ignoring the body pinned to the wall. "of course, its part of my job." she said as if she was talking about the weather. This caused an uproar of disbelief

The armed woman sighed in disappointment while shaking her head. " I see you do not believe me, well why not have one of your men go and check the corpse's hip flask, tell the audience what it contains, I can wait." With that Le-Fay settled back down gaining more scowls from those around her.

Seeing no other option Amelia walked up to the body and took out the flask. Looking at it she saw that it was Moody's. She scanned it for traps and other enchantments, the paranoid old bugger would have rigged it. To her shock and then understanding there was not any. Flicking it open she sniffed it, she knew that Moody had fire whiskey in his flask, he used it to dull the pain from his wounds that had not healed properly.

Whatever was in this was not Fire whiskey. Walking over to poppy getting her to sniff the contents as none of the potion masters from the department were here. She needed an answer quickly. "Polyjuice potion" the woman growled in disgust. While glancing at the spear woman who just smirked.

Spinning her spears into a stand by position Lilith turned and started walking towards the large doors before calling over her shoulders. " I am going to search his office to see what I can find. I will give my report to you in the morning, a copy of which will be sent to both her majesty and the ICW." with that she left leaving a shocked group behind.

Xxxxx

Lilith was giggling as she made her way through the school. She could tell by how agitated Amelia's magical signature was that she was not amused. The woman was probably going to be tearing into the staff for answers on what has been happening at the school. So, here she was taking a leisurely stroll to the DADA classroom.

The room in which the Imposter Moody had been taking up residence while staying within the walls of the school. She had been using the newly replaced ward schemes to monitor the goings-on within the school as the lady of the castle. While Aldus would be notified of any dangerous activities so would she.

They should know this since she was declared as the lady of house Ravenclaw but she doubted anyone even put the pieces together. So using the wards she was able to cut down on the amount of work she needed to do. It also allowed her to avoid any... uncomfortable encounters. She would use her shadows to conceal herself to investigate anything that showed up in the wards but most of it was just small cases of bullying or spells gone wrong.

However that was till she noticed two of the same name. Barty crouch. She also noticed that one Allister Moody had never moved from his office. This was worrying since it meant that moody was not the one teaching his class. If it wasn't him then who?

With this information she started her investigation, it did not take long since the first task was approaching and she was able to get both Moody and crouch in the same room and thus proving via the wards that whoever was posing as moody was called Barty crouch.

It was then she sent a report off and waited for orders on what to do.

So, here she was in the office looking around, at the odds and ends that probably belonged to the famous Auror. She looked for anything out of the ordinary. Not that it mattered, she had claimed the fake Moody to the shadowlands when she killed him, she will just interrogate him later.

Moving to the multicompartment trunk, she tried to open it only to find it sealed. with a sigh, she drew a rune on each lock in sequence as she checked them. Finally in the last one she found what could only be described as a prison. At the bottom of which was a tortured man.

Yeah her job was done, this man would have remembered something. He was too stubborn not to.

Xxxxx

Evan had no idea what to think. Here he was eating his food alongside his friends talking about what he had found out from his parents. It was still hard to swallow, his sister was an Enforcer, she was also a mystery wrapped within an enigma.

A person who uses forgotten and lost magics. A person who flaunts if not blatantly ignores the authority of the Ministry. She had no respect for most people In Magical Britain. His sister all round was an enigma. That did not even get into her weapon.

His father had declared that Morgan was a dark witch. Evan did not know why. He knew his father was narrow-minded in his beliefs so if he had to guess it was probably because of her magic and views. Shadow magic which he had seen her use in the hospital wing would not have been taken well by his father. His mother on the other hand seemed... conflicted.

He could understand why, he too he wanted to get to know his twin but from what he had seen she wanted nothing to do with the potter name or those associated with it. She seemed to consider it a curse.

So as he sat there in his own world, the student around him chatting away the doors to the hall were pushed open and suddenly everyone could feel the pressure. They started to sweat as if someone had a blade at their throat. Turning to the sound of footsteps as all other sounds in the room had died. Evan saw his sister stalk in, her purple eyes were razor-sharp and focused. He knew instantly something was going to happen. She was too focused.

Further into the room that she prowled, as more the magic built. Her spear appearing in her hand. Evan was watching, he held his breath on instinct he did not know he even had. Watching this predator hunt.

Further she prowled and a bloody haze started to leak from the blade of the weapon mesmerizing those that had enough of a magical sense to witness it. The way the mists of Mana flowed along with the weapon as if it was alive. It was entrancing.

She seemed to finally arrive at her destination. He did not know how he knew. It was more sense than anything, but as he watched the magic suddenly spiked and with a sudden burst of movement she burst into the air above the students clearing their heads by a few feet and then launched the spear so fast all he could see was red.

It was here that Evan decided that he needed information on one Lady Le-Fay as she was too dangerous not to know about. Even if she was his sister he was wary of her after this display. So as he watched the woman face down the teachers Evan made plans on how to find out about his quarry.