Fantastic Beasts: Betrayal

1 - Return

A/N: This is the second book of the series, the first book is on my account, it's called Fantastic Beasts: The New Arrival. Please read that one before you do this one, or it will get confusing! Thanks for checking this book out! Enjoy!

I woke up, energetic. Today was the day I would return to Hogwarts, my beloved school! Except this time, I would be a second-year, and would have a year below me! I quickly changed into normal, Muggle clothes, then raced downstairs to meet Newt.

Sorry, I forgot. Introductions. My name is Lia. I'm a Scamander, in fact, Newt Scamander's daughter. Well, not daughter, but... nevermind. My name is Lia Scamander, and I'm 11 years old. The previous year, in 1926, Newt and I boarded a boat to New York to release our beloved Frank, our thunderbird, but that did not go to plan. Oh well. It ended up alright. Newt and I returned home a few days after we arrived, Frank was no longer in our possession, and is probably, hopefully, in Arizona, happy, and Newt has published his book, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, which has ultimately made him... kind of famous. Very famous. But enough of that.

"Hello, Lia!" Newt said as I entered the kitchen. 

I smiled at him. "Hi, Newt!" 

Newt laughed. "You're energetic!"

"I'm just excited to get back to Hogwarts, back to Edwin..."

"Well, if you don't get ready, you'll be late and then you won't be getting to Hogwarts at all!" Newt commented. I laughed and sat down to eat breakfast. Edwin was, and still is to this day, my best friend. We were inseparable. And to think, first time I met him...

Newt snapped me out of my thought process. "What have you packed, Lia?" He asked, setting down a bowl of porridge in front of me.

"Spare robes, clothes, another pair of shoes, my textbooks, my ink pots and quills, parchment-"

"Where's your wand?" He asked, interrupting my list.

"Oh, it's on the coun-" I turned to where I left my wand, only to find it missing. Newt looked at me, eyebrows raised.

"It's not there now...?" He said, not sure whether to laugh or be concerned.

"Uh... It- it was." I said, standing up.

"Perhaps we should look for it?" Newt asked, frowning slightly. He hadn't picked it up, so where was it?!

"But I... I don't understand. I left it there last night...?" I said, searching around the counter to see if it had fallen off it. I carefully checked under Newt's notes, under unopened mail-

I stopped, staring into the sitting room, which was visible from the kitchen. I frowned as I watched one of the baby nifflers having a look at it.

Oh, something I haven't mentioned yet. Newt's 'infamous niffler', Teddy, had babies! There were three in total, and they were just at catastrophic as Teddy, as you're about to see...

"Lia?" Newt said, clearly not seeing the baby niffler. He caught sight of it just as it launched itself and the wand onto the light above it.

"Bugger..." He breathed, before he ran over to the light to catch the niffler, who was long gone. "Lia, can you see it?" 

I could see the troublesome niffler. It was running along the bookshelf, which I could just about reach. I ran to it, cupping my hands to catch the niffler, who tried to run, but failed to as I cupped my hands around it and brought my arms down. I gave it to Newt, who looked at me, impressed.

"Deja vu?" I said, laughing, remembering exactly a year ago, when Teddy had done pretty much exactly the same thing with Newt's wand.

"You're learning." He said, giving the baby niffler 'the look', before running down the ladder into the case to put him away.

I laughed as I quickly ate my porridge, before washing it (I, unfortunately, hadn't learnt how to use magic to do this for me) and putting it away. A minute or two later, Newt came back up, smiling.

"That niffler, honestly..." He said, chuckling. I smiled in response.

"They'll learn..." I said, picking up my wand from the floor.

"They won't..." He said, correcting me. "Nifflers are incorrigible. They won't stop."

"At least it's amusing after it happens." I said, lightening the air again.

"Speaking of magical creatures, where's Ari?" Newt asked, walking over to his work table.

"In my pocket." I replied confidently.

"Good. Now, your case needs to come down..." Newt said, about to make his way upstairs.

"No, it's okay." I said, stopping him. "I'll get it. It isn't that heavy, and I want to put something else in there." Newt nodded, and I headed upstairs to get my case.

My case was even lighter and more empty than last year. All I had in it were the basics (clothes, required reading material, other small things I needed, a few potions ingredients - many of which Newt frowned upon, as they often came from magical creatures - and my equipment) and a very small drawstring bag, which was filled with around 15 Galleons, 5 Sickles and 2 or 3 Knuts.

 I walked over to my drawers, opened the bottom drawer and took out a small piece of paper. I opened up my case and put the paper inside, before closing it again and taking it down. It was a little heavier than I expected it to be, but I wasn't too surprised - when you have a caldron, a set of phials, a spyglass and a set of brass scales, what could you expect?

"Right," Newt said from the kitchen. I frowned, confused. Who was Newt talking to? "Pick, I've told you not to deliberately fall out of my pocket to get my attention, haven't I?" I smiled, amused. This was a daily conversation...

"Yes, I have told you. No, don't... Pickett..." I walked in on Pickett pushing a glass that Newt had left on the side to the ground. Newt caught it as it fell, and put it in the cupboard, before turning on his heels to see Pick unscrewing a handle on a different cupboard, causing it, and Pickett, to fall to the ground. I was watching all this, and caught Pickett as he tried to run, with the handle, away from Newt, who sighed and was looking around for his wand.

"Newt..." I said, holding Pickett in my hand. Newt turned and smiled slightly.

"Well done, Lia..." He said, taking Pickett from Lia's hand and dropping Pick back in his pocket, frowning at him. "I hope Ari isn't so much trouble!" I smiled nervously, remembering the multiple occasions that Ari had once decided, for example, to pick the lock to a Hufflepuff dorm room and made a mess, leaving me to deal with it and I received detention for a week.

"Sure, he's well-behaved!" I said, trying my best not to look like I was lying. Newt seemed to buy it, as he smiled back and took my case from the hall where I had set it down and grabbed his keys, ready to go. I put on my school shoes, made sure that Ari was in my pocket, which, thankfully, he was, and picked up my bag with the Undetectable Extension Charm, which had my robes to change into on the train. I smiled at Newt, who smiled back, before we raced out of the door, and off to King's Cross Station.