Lord of time (chapter 41-107)

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1971 - Three years later

Hadrian and Tom made quite a spectacle (with guards blending in all from Tom's Walpurgis group) as they apparated to the wizarding side of the platform. Ready to see the kids off for their first year of Hogwarts. It was already bustling with activity, and Hadrian watched the scene in front of him feeling a sense of surrealism unlike ever before.

"I don't see why we couldn't just stay at Hogwarts," Kali sighed, exasperated by all the drama this morning had created. She was very much like her father in both temperament and ability to charm everyone around her. She hadn't a taste for murder though thank Merlin. She'd learned Hadrian's diplomacy and was rather adept at using it.

"And miss the train ride?" Hadrian commented, "You'll enjoy yourself; it is a right of passage." He reassured his daughter, kissing her lovingly on the forehead. There was no doubt his little girl was going to end up in the house of silver and blue, a Ravenclaw at heart.

"Is Fenrir coming?" Severus asked hopeful, he absolutely adored the ground his brother walked on. He'd been teased by one of the boys at school when Fenrir picked him up and taken ten years of the boy that was bullying Severus. Since then, Severus had dotted on his big brother. That's not to say they hadn't loved each other, they had, but they had become very close.

"He wouldn't miss your first train ride," Tom stated, and his word was never met with 'are you sure' since he kept his word. If he couldn't do it, he said, if he wasn't sure he would declare as such.

"Merlin, Tom, you can see the Muggle-borns that didn't attend school from a mile away," Hadrian commented, "Just look at them, I...was I like that at the beginning?" not even asking Tom here just befuddled.

"SEV! KALI!" came several distinctive voices from the crowd as they rushed up to meet their friends.

"James! Sirius! Reg! Artemis! Andrew!" Severus proclaimed a massive grin on his face, Artemis and Andrew had been blood adopted into the Avery family after they were abandoned by their Muggle relations. Naturally neither child knew, they believed that the Avery family was the one they were born into. "Ivy! Aunt Imogen! Uncle Abraxas!"

"Good morning, and good luck at your sorting young James, Sirius, Regulus, last but no means least Andrew." Imogen said warmly, aging very well, as she hugged Ivy to her, she wouldn't miss it for the world.

"Do us all proud, children," Abraxas, he'd been rather irritated when Hadrian begun using the term aunt and uncle for his friends. It just felt rather wrong, they weren't related after all. Yet he'd warmed to it, it wasn't as if he or Imogen had siblings so they'd never be aunts or uncles. He was close to them all, and rather loved the title he'd been bestow now.

"Where's Aiden?" he saw his children but couldn't see the wizard in question.

"His wife went into labour, we had the children last night," Imogen explained, as she kissed Hadrian's cheek and was kissed in turn. Aiden had married rather late in life, not like everyone else. He'd chosen to marry for love, as had Lord Nott.

"FENRIR!" Severus and Kali called out ecstatic to see their big brother, of course Henry and Lupe weren't there. They wouldn't be attending Hogwarts until next year, along with Regulus and Marlon.

"Why didn't he say anything?" Hadrian asked, straightening up, already planning on visiting St. Mungo's as soon as the kids were off.

"Hady!" Lyra shrieked in sheer excitement, as she wiggled to get down.

"Lyra! Do calm down," Walburga said sighing in exasperation, she set the three-year-old down on the train station ground at Hadrian's nod. Walburga gracefully stood back up, her daughter was a very welcoming accident, both her brothers adored her and spoiled her something fierce.