Ink and Parchment ~ blood and bone

62

All in all January was a calm month. They returned to Hogwarts in high spirits, still happy from their New Year’s celebration. They settled in easily, classes and homework, annoying Theo – teasing Daphne. Eliza ran around the grounds in her fox form, visited Jormy, won a duel against Sev and actually remembered to respond to Sirius and Remus’ letters.

It was a calm month. Or at least it had been, until Eliza had grown a bit too bored and her court had grown a bit too complacent when it came to predicting her chaos.

“Eliza” Daphne said, only mildly hysterical as they all read the headlines of the day’s issue of The insider “You need to explain this right now”

Eliza took a sip of her coffee, ignoring the loud raising volume of the entire great hall as they all read the paper at the same time “I would think the article is pretty self-explanatory itself”

“The myth of muggle-borns” Draco read out incredulously, Theo was the only one actually reading the paper and Eliza enjoyed the blatant shock on his face. It wasn’t every day you could get the best of Theo Nott.

“Want to explain Theo?” she asked, a smirk on her face as even the teachers started gossiping amongst each other.

“Research recently published by the Department of Mysteries reveals that muggleborns are not actually descendants of muggles but are in fact born from abandoned squib lines” Theo read aloud and Eliza felt her grin grow.

“All the research is in there, clear as day, in black and white – and will be reaching every major news agency in Britain as we speak”

Her court exploded into questions, how and why asked in various tones with various curses that made even Eliza blink in surprise. And she had grown up in London.

“How did you even think of this?” Draco questioned, running a hand through his hair looking particularly distressed and Eliza gave a wry grin.

“What’s one of the first things we learn about magic?” she asked her court, taking another sip of her coffee as she waited for an answer.

“Wingardium leviosa?” Theo cut in drily and Eliza barely muffled a snort, shaking her head in response.

“We’re taught that all magic comes from something, ambient magic, magical cores – it doesn’t just spontaneously appear into existence. So why the hell were random children being born with innate magic when there were no conditions met for it to appear in the first place?”

“You’re insane” Daphne said and Eliza wasn’t sure if it was directed at her or to the heavens “No-one else would think like that, no-one else would care too research that”

“Well I didn’t research it, not really”

“She bribed me” Blaise said in glum realisation “That’s why you agreed to do my defence homework isn’t it?”

Eliza didn’t even try to pretend to be ashamed.

“What did she have you do?” Draco asked curiously as Theo flipped another page of The Insider, continuing to read the article.

“I asked a few muggle-born students if they ever did the bloodline test at Gringotts, that the results would help me with some extra credit history of magic assignment”

“Blaise can get anyone to do anything” Eliza said with a proud grin whilst he helped himself to a commiseration croissant “After that I sent my preliminary findings off to Gemma in the department of mysteries, Tom funded the project too fast-track the researching process and here we are”

“Here we are” Daphne repeated, still looking quite shell-shocked “You’ve changed the world – there’ll be mass chaos after this”

“That’s not all she’s done” Theo said, eyes scanning over the paper as a smirk played at his lips “For years the wizarding community has cast squibs aside, but magic finds magic and their descendants have always inevitably found their way back home to us. I leave you with some simple food for thought; magic would not have to find magic if we had never cast aside our people to begin with”