First Years

~Great Britain, Diagon Alley: Early Afternoon~ {POV 3rd Person}

During their shopping, except for the potion items they bought everything else themselves as the potion is the only subject three of them never practiced because mana in their body is much stronger than magical energies in the potion so none of the potions ever worked on three of them.

One thing that Aruhik forgot due to the excitement was that Draco and Harry meet for the first time during their shopping in Diagon Alley, he remembered it when they actually met in Madam Malkin's Robes for All Occasions, which made Aruhik sigh internally that even after all the changes they have done in this world some events still occur the same way.

When Aruhik's group inside the shop, they saw Harry was already there, Harry also saw them and instinctually raised his hand to greet them but Aruhik, Sia, and Asheal ignored him, only Draco awkwardly greeted him after checking that there was no one beside us. To remove the stiffness between them Aruhik asked Draco in a low voice.

"Draco, do you know him?" Draco responded with a voice low enough that only four of them can hear.

"No, but it looks like he is also shopping for Hogwarts and from clothes, he looks like muggle-born so in future, he might be working under the family of any of us, so it is good to know each other." Growing up with Aruhik changed Draco's future from an arrogant idiot to a calculative wizard, obviously nowhere near Aruhik but still a mature kid. Aruhik also has no important reason to hide the fact that they are good friends with Harry but three of them are attending Hogwarts to enjoy school life. Exposing this fact will bring Dumbledore's attention who will destroy their carefree and exciting school life by his mind games though it won't be able to harm them, they will be annoying for sure. To formally introduced themselves again Aruhik spoke to Draco.

"Then let us introduce ourselves to him, we will also get to know who he is." Then four of them walked towards Harry, and Draco introduced his group.

"Hello, I am Draco Malfoy these are my cousins Aruhik Lestrange and Sitasia Lestrange and she is their maid Asheal Lestrange. From the robe it looks like you are also a Hogwarts student, we will be joining as first-years and you are?" Harry was quite surprised, that the difference between his friend's cousin and his own cousin is so great, he still remembers how Dudley earned a pigtail from Hagrid, he was thinking all these things but he replied instantly.

"Nice to meet you all, my name is Harry Potter and I am also joining Hogwarts as a first-year." This name quite surprised Draco as even though he is a mature kid, he is still a kid and kids like heroes.

"You really are....." Draco wasn't able to complete his sentence as a voice coming from outside interrupted him.

"Let's go, Harry, we need to get you a wand." When Aruhik and his group turned towards the gate they found the source of voice so big that he can't even enter the shop. Noting others confused expression Harry spoke.

"He is Hagrid, he is sent by Hogwarts to help me shopping for school." Harry still wanted to speak something else but Aruhik spoke first to send him out.

"Don't worry we will soon see each other again soon in school." Draco nodded thinking that this sentence was for him so he spoke to Harry.

"I hope you will join us in Slytherin house." Harry had a confused expression but he still nodded. Aruhik never told him about houses in Hogwarts because if he learns about it by himself then he will choose to join Gryffindor which will keep him at a proper distance from Aruhik and he can go on his adventures designed by Dumbledore while Aruhik's group of three can go on their own adventures.

*****

Harry joined with Hagrid after separating from Aruhik and while he was eating the ice cream, Hagrid asked him.

"Made some new friends, did you?" Remembring the promise with Aruhik, Harry decided that he should introduce Aruhik and others to Hagrid as his friends.

"Yes, they are really comfortable to talk to, Aruhik is very friendly in nature, Sitasia and Asheal generally don't talk unless necessary but they are quite easy-going in nature and all three of them are quite helpful and intelligent, I also met their cousin, Draco Malfoy, though I haven't talked much to him he still looked friendly. Also....." Harry wanted to describe them more but he was interrupted by Hagrid. Initially, Hagrid has been happy that Harry has made new friends but when he heard that those are Malfoy and his cousins the expression that appeared on his face, calling it a surprised face would be an understatement.

"Wait, wait...Harry, did you say Malfoy and his cousins?" Harry was shocked by Hagrid's reaction but he still replied.

"Yes, Aruhik, Sitasia, and Asheal Lestrange and Draco Malfoy." Hearing his confirmation Hagrid decided to warn Harry to prevent him from future harm.

"Harry, you must not easily believe those Slytherin kids, Malfoys and Lestranges were among the first ones to join Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Their parents have killed many innocent wizards and muggles and even after he fell, Lestranges continued hunting people." Harry felt that now he understood why Aruhik decided to hide their friendship. For now, deciding to leave this subject and asked Hagrid about the doubts he has in his mind because if he can join that Slytherin's house, that Hagrid just mentioned, to become friends once again in public then he will do it.

"Hagrid, what is Slytherin House?" Hagrid was visibly surprised by Harry's question but he explained it to Harry and cautioned him about them.

"Hogwarts divide their students into four houses Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin. Slytherin is the house where most dark wizards come from even the one who killed your parents was a Slytherin in the later years almost whole batches of Slytherin joined after him. Harry, after Who-Must-Not-Be-Named fell many of his followers escaped the punishment, you must be careful from kids of those evil wizards." After confirming that Harry heard him, Hagrid continued.

"And Gryffindor is the house where most people decided to stand up to fight against him, even greatest wizard Headmaster Dumbledore is also from this house." After this Hadrid continued to explain different facts about all four houses till they reached Ollivanders Wand Shop.

*****

On the other side, after Harry separated from them, watching Draco's smile Aruhik spoke in a teasing tone.

"Ohh, Draco, from your smile even I can tell that you happy for finally meeting your dream idol but at least close your mouth, it really doesn't look good, and what if something entered your mouth."

"Nn...no.....no...it isn't because of... Hey, my mouth was already closed and he isn't my idol. I want to become a Leader class Glaive." Hearing Draco's reply almost cracked Aruhik's smile but he maintained it to not show any unusualness and thought in his mind that kids really do like heroes. Because Glaives are indeed viewed as heroes in the eyes of common people and kids whether it is magical or muggle society. Then Asheal replied with a wide smile in a playful voice.

"Yes, work hard to improve your strength and I am sure they will accept you~." Draco nodded seriously but Aruhik noted let alone Asheal who is trying to stop herself from laughing even Sia had a smile on her face as both of them knew Aruhik's thoughts about why he created Glaives and what went through his mind when someone mentioned him as heroes. So to change the subject Aruhik spoke.

"Let us finish our work here fast, Aunty should be waiting for us outside."

After getting the robes they joined the Mister and Mrs. Malfoy outside, and after buying other remaining items they finally entered Ollivanders Wand Shop. Both adults again waited outside, saying that it takes too much time and the four to be first-year students were sent inside to get their 'first' wand.

All of them entered the shop and observed the shop, it's display consisted of a solitary wand lying on a faded purple cushion in the dusty window. The shop was tiny, empty except for a single, spindly chair in the corner. Thousands of narrow boxes containing wands were piled right up to the ceiling of the tiny shop, and the whole place had a thin layer of dust on it.

Maybe hearing the sound from the door a really old man, supposedly Mr. Ollivander came out from between the shelves and spoke.

"Good Afternoon." To keep the conversation short Aruhik introduced themselves first along with their purpose as from the story he knows that this old man speaks too much about wands and they don't have any interest in knowing about something that might never be useful.

"Good afternoon Mr. Ollivander, I am Aruhik Lestrange and these are Sitasia Lestrange, Asheal Lestrange, and Draco Malfoy we are here to buy our wands. Draco why don't you get yours first." To this Draco nodded and went forward.

"Oh, of course, Mr. Malfoy, I remember like it was yesterday when....."

Aruhik sent Draco first because he knew by noble etiquette Mr. Ollivander might say something like ladies first but he needs to remind them again so they don't explode any of the wands. Ignoring the conversation between Draco and Mr. Ollivander, he reminded Sia and Asheal by his thoughts.

'Sia, Ash, try to control mana output when both of you check wands so at least they don't explode.' Just like they call Sitasia as Sia among three of them, they also started calling Asheal as Ash but still only among three of them.

During these years they have improved their mana control much further so they don't accidentally destroy magical artifacts just by touching them. Soon Draco selected his wand, a 10" long, made of hawthorn wood with unicorn hair as a core after this Mr. Ollivander said.

"Ah Lestrange Family, I also clearly remember your parents, when they bought their first wand. Miss Lestrange why don't we start with you." By the time he finished speaking Ash was already standing in front of him because even though she started late, Ash has the highest mana control among the three of them due to her hard work to catch up with the other two and probably also her attribute. After Ash became Aruhik's Beast Vassal, she got Lightning Elemancy, one permanent weapon slot, and Lightning Resistance, while the other two got new Elemancy which they are currently referring to as Dark attribute along with its resistance. When all of compared different elemancy they found even though Dark attribute is very weak in head-on fighting compared to other attributes but it is very easy to manipulate and quite versatile.

Mr. Ollivander has shown more than a dozen wands to Ash but he doesn't feel like any of them are fit for her. From their senses, the trio can tell the difference because in Draco's case magical energy automatically filled all the channels in his wand but Ash has to do it by herself, and the trio doesn't think that something similar to Draco's case will ever happen to them after all they are different energy systems.

The trio decided that staying anymore will be useless so Ash picked up a wand with comparatively less complicated magical channels in it and spoke.

"It's okay Mr. Ollivander, this wand works fine for me so let me choose this one." After this, the trio, mainly Aruhik had to convince Mr. Ollivander who was repeating his pet phrase "Wand chooses the Wizard." but he can't do anything as we are customers and he is a shopkeeper. Then Aruhik and Sia also choose a wand with similar criteria because the simpler the channels lesser the chance of it exploding during forced mana transfer.

Draco didn't interrupt them when they were discussing with Mr. Ollivander as he has understood while growing that his cousin is very intelligent and he won't do a reckless move like choosing the wrong wand so when they were going out of the shop he asked his doubt.

"Why didn't you all choose a matching wand, even though I am not adult yet but I can feel this wand serves me better then all those I have used before?"

"Do you thing strong wizards like Glaives will depend on a wand? No, considering the circumstances they face during their work they can't let their capabilities be dependent on a mere wand. Obviously keeping a wand with you is always better but you can't let yourself become like a muggle without a wand, so you should also start training in wandless spells." Aruhik didn't exactly reply to his question but distracted him with something that would surely interest him and it really worked. Also, this is a fact, all the glaives know wandless spells to such an extent that they can at least buy enough time for the help to arrive during an emergency.

*****

~One Month Later~ {POV 3rd Person}

During this one month, Draco significantly increased the amount of practice for mastering wandless spells as he made a goal for himself to at least master the first year spells in wandless form. Aruhik also didn't expect that a single statement from him would motivate him to such an extent.

Since the trio didn't have anything major to do during this month as they have learned all the major spells that will be useful for them after all three brains working simultaneously with thoughts connected increased their learning rate dramatically, Glaives work will depend on when new information is received and V.N. is making great progress due to addition of muggle researchers but it will take time so they decided to teach wandless spells to Draco.

Even though their energy system is different but due to high senses all of them can easily point out mistakes in his spell casting which really helped Draco improve quite fast. Initially, Draco was hit quite hard that all three of them have mastered quite a lot of wandless spells but he has been hit so many times that he easily recovered from it and increased the level of training. During this month Draco stayed in Lestrange manor for most of the time and till the end of the month, he even mastered most spells of the third year in wandless form.

Currently, on the Platform 9¾, Narcissa Malfoy is hugging all four of them and telling.

"When you all reach the school call us to inform that you have safely arrived, also you all are not allowed to stay up all night like this month and all four of you must come back for Christmas otherwise I will be very angry..." She still wanted to continue but Lucius Malfoy consoled his wife and spoke.

"It's alright Narcissa, the train is about to leave and I wish you all a smooth semester." After saying goodbye once again the group of four took their suitcase to find an empty compartment in the first-years section but they weren't holding their suitcase by hand, it was floating beside them as even Draco is proficient enough to move his suitcase without even touching his wand and for the trio, Ash was using the spell. Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy weren't much affected by watching a floating suitcase without the use of wand as Aruhik's plan worked out quite well, they have received so many surprises from four of them that they have become numb and easily accept new things related to magic.

They soon found an empty compartment Aruhik and Draco sat near the window in front of each other, and Ash sat beside Aruhik while Sia sat on Aruhik's lap. This started from when Ash arrived in Lestrange manor as initially Sia and Ash used to sit on each side of Aruhik but Sia soon got jealous as she considers herself at a higher position than Ash, so Sia demanded higher treatment than the other girl, this is one of the reasons, along with her inferiority complex, why Ash assumed the role of a maid instead of something on equal status. Even though, now Sia considers Ash as her equal but this is one of those habits that remained from that time and the trio can feel that both Aruhik and Sia are happy with this position.

Soon after the train started, Daphne Greengrass, Pansy Parkinson, and Tracey Davis joined them in the compartment, since Sia was sitting on Aruhik's lap they just had enough space for three of them. All of the girls have actually come to meet Aruhik because they have met before in parties arranged pureblood families and a vampire subconsciously attracts other people especially the opposite sex to make it much easier for a vampire to get blood from other species, Aruhik went through many tests to confirm this effect of vampire bloodline.

There is also a fact that Lucius Malfoy has spread in the pureblood community which is Draco, Aruhik, Sia, and Ash are very good in magical capabilities but the popularity of Aruhik easily cover Draco due to fact, Lestrange owns 39% of V.N. Pvt. Ltd. shares which Aruhik made public that their family Lawyer helped them get it which make them stand among top 3 richest family in the world, what people don't know is that other 51% is also in name of Lestrange family, though they do know 10% is in name of Malfoy family, Draco's parents are still with him so rather than contacting him they reach for his parents.

Due to this many marriage proposals have come for both Aruhik and Sia some even came for Ash. When the first marriage proposal came which was for Aruhik, and Sia learned about this marriage proposal, both Sia and Ash started planning on assassinating the family overnight Aruhik had to console them for quite some time to drop this idea but he didn't know at that time that two days later due to these arguments he had to stop his plan on destroying a magical family both politically and physically, as two days later a marriage proposal came for Sia so if he destroyed this family then Sia and Ash will destroy the family they initially decided to and with the increasing number of proposals received even he didn't know how many families will be destroyed.

This also made them announce the decision that both Aruhik and Sia has made together when Sia learned about marriage for the first time and due to connected thoughts they instantly understood each others' desires perfectly and agreed upon it. They announced in the Magical Society that they will be marrying each other.

Though many still consider this as a hasty decision made by two alone children to not separate from each other, the amount of marriage proposal coming decreased sharply and surprisingly Malfoys agreed to the decision of marrying each other their reason being that with their connection they can't be separated from each other and marrying each other is the best choice.

While all of them were having regular talks, Pansy asked a question related to a fact that Aruhik hadn't been able to find the reason till now.

"Aruhik, why all of you are wearing hoods and if I am not wrong you even attached it to your robes? Though I can't deny it looks really good on all three of you." This question caused all of them to look towards the trio as even in the parties three of them wore clothes that had a matching hood in them.

"Well, actually this is due to the habit we got from as long as I can remember. We indeed attached it to our robes but it can be hidden inside if the condition requires it." Even now Aruhik wonders how the hell did he actually get pointed ears as none of the bloodlines he chose actually have pointed ears. Three of them can create an illusion to make it seem like normal ears but during high-intensity mana-channeling pointed ears become visible again as mana leaking out of their body interfere with the illusion and they obviously won't sacrifice their fighting efficiency just for an illusion. And after wearing it for a long time, it has indeed become a habit.

As Aruhik was about to change the subject he sensed someone reaching for every door one by one next was their door, so three of them turned towards the door as Draco has already experienced their sharp senses that can even perceive changes in floo network seconds before flame change its color so he understood someone is coming and he also turned towards the door while remaining girls were confused the door opened quite roughly and as expected a girl with bushy brown hair and slightly large front teeth stood there along with a round-faced boy who was on verge of tears, then the girl questioned them in a somewhat arrogant way.

"Have you seen a toad? Neville lost it." Aruhik might have helped them because it is quite easy for them as due to habit they have been scanning their surroundings periodically so they already know there is a toad in the toilet at the end of the wagon but her way of speaking and actions really isn't liked by anyone especially Sia as she doesn't like the fact that a lower organism is speaking to them in such a rude way so three of them decided to remain silent about it.

But others really find tearful round face searching for a toad quite funny including Aruhik even though he didn't comment about it.

"Hahaha...I know toads are officially allowed in school but I seriously didn't expect somebody to actually bring them...haha...."

"Hahaha....."

"Don't worry you will find it soon but if some senior find it before you, it might already be inside a glass jar so you also start searching for dead toad...hahaha....."

"Hahaha....."

Due to their teasing round-faced boy on verge of tearing up evolved to a sobbing round-faced boy. When Aruhik was about to tell the position of his toad to Neville because at least he is an innocent insecure boy who is already crying, the girl beside him decided to step on a landmine as she spoke while looking towards Aruhik.

"Why are you sitting in such an indecent way? The school absolutely won't allow it." Aruhik understood she is doing it because of anger due to teasing so she caught the group that was completely ignoring her. This also made Aruhik notice that currently, he might indeed look like a shameless young master a beauty is sitting on his lap another is almost leaning on him there are three also three other girls with fairly above average faces there is one other boy but by the net quantity, he can be ignored or included in the same group of shameless young masters like him.

The girl was surprised when she saw everybody in the compartment went silent then Sia spoke to her.

"How dare you lowly creature actually think that you can talk to us. He is my little brother, future husband, and companion for eternity so we will live however we like and the school must allow it because I wish for it otherwise....." At this point, Aruhik stopped Sia by rubbing her head because he knew what she was about to say.

"You don't need to care and reply to every other people's statement, just ignore it." Because Aruhik spoke and kept on patting her head Sia turned her head away from the gate and ignored the girl standing there. Understanding Aruhik's thoughts Ash waved her hand and the dumbstruck girl got slightly pushed out of the gate and compartment door closed, after doing this she spoke.

"Why don't we all have some ice-cream to lighten our mood. Master, and Mistress especially like these flavors." After this, she waved her hand again and different types of ice cream came out of her ring and started floating between the two long seats. The spatial ring she is wearing is the one Aruhik was wearing as due to her role as a maid she requires it more so he gave it to her. Soon the mood again returned to the previous one as the first ones to start eating ice creams were Aruhik and Sia just before Ash and due to the fact that kids, especially girls, love sweets.

*****

When Aruhik and Sia announced their marriage to the public, a lot of criticism arose from the public as many families wanted shares of V.N. and the easiest way was through marriage so they controlled media, Aruhik even fired when a group of people working on a show in V.N. news channel which was broadcasted live on magic televisions when they suddenly started heavily criticizing Aruhik and Sia over their relationship calling them words like unhealthy, immoral and other similar words. All of them were working together so till Aruhik got news of it they have already spread dangers of inbreeding using muggle science which even pureblood found convincing as they have witnessed it first hand.

Due to this, five families completely destroyed, two of them were the ones behind buying the workers and also sent marriage proposals for Aruhik and Sia, the other three were those who lent help to them when the trio was working on destroying them. First, they were destroyed politically as no one in this world is an absolutely clean saint, after this, major members of these families died or entered jail in theft attacks and charges of fighting with higher officials. As for those people who got fired from the show, they have already disappeared from the face of the earth along with their close relatives who can give birth to thoughts of taking revenge.

This series of events really shocked both Glaives and high society people. Some of the Glaives were uncomfortable initially even though some of their companions voluntarily helped in the destruction of these families, but after some time the previous atmosphere returned again as those who have deeply interacted with Aruhik, Sia, and Ash know that they love and care for each other more than everything else in the world.

But high society families were really scared from these events and most of them are still scared as they know Lestrange can literally destroy any family in the world, maybe fighting too many families will result in its own destruction but those fighting it will surely be crippled for centuries, so all the criticisms suddenly died down even young people in families like Parkinson and Greengrass who are close to Lestrange have warned them to not utter a single word about the relationship between Sia and Aruhik.

This was the reason everybody in the compartment went silent when their relationship was mentioned. Malfoys and other people still think that this event was executed by those working under Lestrange family but others except Malfoys are still afraid because they all understand that at least permission to use family resources was given by the pair of Lestrange siblings.

Also, this event led to Sia getting annoyed at anyone who questions her relationship with Aruhik due to this she got angry at the girl previously even though from Aruhik's thoughts she knew the real reason behind her actions. Anyways the actual reason for her commenting their relationship was also not something respectful.

*****

"We're Hogwarts in five minutes. Please leave your luggage on the train, it will be delivered to school separately." Hearing the loud announcement that rang across the wagons the three girls got up from their seats to go back to their own compartment and change their clothes. After the girls went out Aruhik, Sia and Ash also left the compartment as three of them are already wearing the dress but Draco still needs to change his clothes.

After the train stopped they got out on a small platform without any lights even though light bulbs have become quite famous in wizarding society. Soon the three girls also joined them along with another girl named Millicent Bulstrode only after observing them Aruhik found out it is cold outside for normal humans and all of them including Draco are shivering. Soon Draco and girls started feeling warm, as the Aruhik consider some of them as friends so Ash used a warming spell on them. Girls also understood that either Aruhik or Ash used the spell on them because they really can't imagine Sia helping anyone else other than Aruhik and Ash while Draco was surprised because he didn't even find when or even who used the spell.

"Freshmen, freshmen over here. Hey Harry, are you all right?" Soon they heard a voice calling for them and its source was a very big man with tangled black hair, wearing a thick fur coat and carrying a lamp in his hand, the keeper of keys and grounds of Hogwarts, Rubeus Hagrid that Harry has introduced to them in the shop. After everyone gathered he took all the first-years through a different path from other students.

"Everyone gathered from first-years?.... Okay, then follow me and mind your steps." Hagrid took them to narrow steep path but students except for the trio, who were able to see in the dark, kept on slipping and stumbling, this time Draco acted instantly and raised his right hand without a wand to create three light orbs in the front, middle and back of the group of eight people. Soon another light source appeared in the front along with the lamp carried by Hagrid, it was Harry who used the spell but he used a wand.

"Soon you'll be able to see the Hogwarts, just around the corner."

Exclamation sounds were heard from students, the narrow path opened wide onto the edge of the large black lake which had some small boats waiting there, on its other side was a large castle, with shining windows along with multiple turrets and towers, attached on side of a hill. The castle was really magnificent even for the vampire trio who has traveled almost all over the world.

"Get on the boats, no more than four in one." Following the instructions, all students started getting on the boats, Aruhik, Sia, Ash, and Draco sat in one, soon Hagrid's voice was heard again.

"Everybody seated?.... Then forward." During the journey, Sia was constantly sensing different lifeforms in the lake and scaring them which mostly resulted in stunning them by releasing her presence as a higher lifeform directly towards them due to her increased control. During these years even though she left her rule of 'See one kill one.' for aquatic creatures but it doesn't mean she started liking them, she still hates them for sure.

But the time the boat reached the dark tunnel hidden by a curtain of ivy that leads to the castle Sia has stunned 14 merpeople and other creatures that they didn't bother counting, she also stunned the giant squid that she got to know from Aruhik. If somebody checked the inside of the lake right now they will find a large part of it is covered in dark ink which squid releases when they are afraid.

Soon they reached a large wooden door through a flight of stone steps, on which knocked three times. The door opened and a tall black-haired witch in emerald robes stood there maintaining a strict facial expression.

"Here are all the freshmen Professor McGonagall, I personally counted them."

"Thank you Hagrid, I will take it from here."

All students followed her to a small empty room beside the hall as they were able to hear many voices coming through the door. After all the students entered the chamber she started speaking.

"Welcome to Hogwarts. The start-of-term banquet will begin shortly, but before you take your seats in the Great Hall, you will be sorted into your houses. The Sorting is a very important ceremony because, while you are here, your house will be something like your family within Hogwarts. You will have classes with the rest of your house, sleep in your house dormitory, and spend free time in your house common room. The four houses are called Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Each house has its own noble history and each has produced outstanding witches and wizards. While you are at Hogwarts, your triumphs will earn your house points, while any rulebreaking will lose house points. At the end of the year, the house with the most points is awarded the house cup, a great honor. I hope each of you will be a credit to whichever house becomes yours...The Sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I suggest you all smarten yourselves up as much as you can while you are waiting." Her eyes stayed for few moments on Neville's cloak, which was fastened under his left ear, and on Ron's smudged nose.

"I shall return when we are ready for you. Please wait quietly." After saying this she left the chamber. Students formed small groups to discuss how sorting ceremony will happen or which house is better, the four girls again joined Aruhik's group and they all know if nothing strange happens then they all should be joining Slytherin but Aruhik found a strange fact that none of the students were told the way of sorting into different houses, like all of the adults collectively agreed to not disclose this fact.

Soon after freshmen saw Hogwarts' ghosts for the first time and three of them lowered their hoods Professor McGonagall called them inside. All the first-years entered the hall forming a line, the roof of which was decorated with hundreds of burning candles floating in the air below it four long tables were arranged corresponding to four different houses. The vampire trio also observed a person looking like Gandalf due to his white beard and hairs, they sensed that amount of magical energy in his body is multiple times that of other adult wizards like Mr. Malfoy and Professor McGonagall. As for Quirinus Quirrell they can feel that he has an unstable and larger magical energy reserve containing two magical signatures.

As they reached the teachers' table all of them stopped moving and turned around to face the hall, Sia also heard a familiar voice telling about the weak magic used to make the ceiling more beautiful but these weak people can't identify it by eyes. Seniors also started observing the first-years but finally, most eyes got fixed on three people, to be more precise girls on Aruhik and boys on Sia and Ash.

During their travels, Aruhik performed many tests with his vampire charm, he found that it tempts people from the opposite sex irrespective of age, from kid to old granny. If a girl finds him even slightly attractive, which generally is the case since he indeed has a face that can be called fairly handsome and slightly cute even with a body of 11 years old kid, then his vampire constitution tries to amplify those feelings of the target, once attraction increase then it gets amplified again and this process continues till that girl has completely fallen for him. If he brought the thought of feeding on the target's blood in his mind, the rate of amplification increases, outside his control, based on the desire Aruhik possesses to feed on the target's blood, they can only suppress this trait of theirs from acting they haven't been able to completely stop it from acting.

Another important thing that he noted is the relationship created by this charm is an unequal one, to be more precise something in the line of the master-slave relationship as those who have completely fallen will easily give their lives to protect the vampire they had fallen for. Also, victims don't become idiot dolls, they still keep their intellect, just the requirements of their Master take much higher priority than their own.

After the hat completed the song in its somewhat coarse voice the sorting started, starting from a girl named Hannah Abbott who got sorted into Hufflepuff. Among the group of four, the first one to be called was Aruhik.

"Lestrange, Aruhik!" Though there were no visible changes in the hall, with their sensitive hearing the three of them were able to hear that many people were discussing the Lestranges that fought in the previous war as death-eaters. But most of the people in the hall were able to hear the exclamation sound of Neville Longbottom, who was starring towards Aruhik with many emotions visible on his face but greatest among them was fear.

Aruhik walked over and sat on the stool, soon after putting the hat on his head he heard a low voice in his mind.

"Can you lower your shields?"

"Sorry, but no. You should send me to Slytherin, as my parents have directly killed family members of at least one student in the other three houses if you send me there isn't it just telling us to kill each other." Since this Hat is intelligent it also means the hat can also learn so while giving his own reason he also gave a suggestion to the Hat that he should also consider the family standing of the students. Sia, Ash, and Draco know Occlumency they can easily join Slytherin but the problem is with Harry as he also knows Occlumency so he might choose Slytherin, but this reason can also be understood as keeping Harry in Slytherin might create a hard school life for him.

"Indeed, so...SLYTHERIN." After keeping the hat on stool Aruhik walked towards Slytherin table after greeting with some of the seniors and took his seat near other first-years.

Soon Sia, Ash, and Draco were also sorted into Slytherin. Sia and Ash sat on either side of him and Draco in front of him. They continued with their normal talks until a name was called.

"Potter, Harry!" As Harry stepped forward, whispers suddenly broke out like little hissing fires all over the hall.

"She said, Potter?"

"The same Harry Potter?"

Aruhik observed that unlike a long time it took in original, within a few moments after wearing the hat, it shouted.

"GRYFFINDOR." Gryffindor students gave him the loudest cheer yet. Draco was looking towards Harry with a surprised expression so Aruhik spoke in a slightly low voice.

"What happened Draco, are sad that your idol got sorted into a different house?" Due to him being already distracted and Aruhik's low voice that mixed with surrounding noise, Draco instinctually answered.

"Yes....N.....no, no...I mean, he isn't my idol." Nearby first-year girls were already giggling but Sia's question and Aruhik's answer made it more unbearable for him.

"Why?" Understanding Sia's doubts Aruhik answered.

"He is just shy to admit it. Don't worry Draco we understand." What Aruhik just said is indeed somewhat true for Draco, so understanding Aruhik's meaning Sia gave her suggestion to him.

"Be bold, just like I love Aruhik." After this comment, everybody nearby except Draco and Sia started laughing out loud, which included Ash and Aruhik because her comparison made it look like Draco secretly loves Harry. Aruhik also immediately apologized to Draco.

"Hahaha...Sorry, Draco...haha....but you also know...that Sia is not intentional...hahaha...." Understanding what I am talking about Sia asked her new doubt.

"Is it wrong?" Again understanding her meaning Aruhik stopped laughing and answered.

"Haha....No, a love between male and male is not wrong but generally people with one preference don't tend to like people with a different preference."

"Why?"

"Because."

"Admiring?"

"It is different from love because it is."

Looking at the strange conversation going on between Aruhik and Sia, Daphne muttered as like many of them she saw it for the first time.

"So the rumors are indeed true, their thoughts are connected." Hearing her voice and confusion on many others' faces, Ash decided to explain to them as it is an open secret.

"Indeed, but it is not as simple as just thoughts being connected. Whatever Master see and hear Mistress is able to see and hear them instantly, whenever Mistress feel happy or sad Master will feel the same emotions, when Master gets hurt Mistress also instantly feel the pain and for their thoughts, Master and Mistress don't actually need to speak to each for a conversation they can instantly feel thoughts of each other, they still try to keep the habit of speaking but thoughts are much faster and some things really can't be expressed in words." Hearing Ash's words Draco added to it.

"You all don't know about its other advantages especially in learning, though they say it just doubles their learning speed, I really doubt this fact. Also, it is very difficult to insert in their discussion even in case of spell discussion, I might hear an hour-long discussion but I won't know which spell they were discussing. The only one I have ever seen being able to that is Asheal." Then Theodore asked towards Ash.

"Doesn't that mean they can never lie to each other or hide anything from each other?" Ash again replied.

"Master and Mistress once told me that they don't want to hide anything and lie to each other, that's why they will make a perfect couple." At this statement, Aruhik and Sia who were having a conversation with each other can understand her thoughts that she is also referring to Aruhik and herself. Aruhik, Sia, and Ash have already agreed to this but they can't announce it now as it will create more problems for them.

Understanding her meaning some of the girls were feeling envious because if you look in a romantic way it might really work out for some who are really in love with each other. Suddenly Tracey's cheeks turned red and she spoke in a low voice.

"But doesn't that mean Aruhik will also see Girls Dormitory due to Sitasia." Ash immediately cleared her doubt before it spread any further and create problems.

"No, it won't happen as Master, Mistress, and I will be assigned a separate room from girls and boys dormitory, and the school has agreed to our request." Though most girls had relieved expression on their faces, few were also showing disappointment. Remembring something Theodore once again asked.

"Asheal, since you are the only one who can join in their discussion, does that mean you are also connected to them?" Ash replied in a playful voice.

"Well, who knows~." But this was a big blow to Draco.

"Three times....this should be officially declared as cheating."

Aruhik allowed other students to know about their connection because this is something people will eventually know so giving information themselves is much better than wrong rumors disturbing them later on.

Soon after Dumbledores' speech for baiting students to the third floor, then dinner, and school song all Slytherins were taken by a girl named Gemma Farley who is Prefect to Slytherin's common room while explaining first-years about different features of Hogwarts castle such as moving staircase, short-cuts, and other similar things.