Disclaimer: Harry Potter and all the characters of the books and movies belong to J. and W.B. The OCs. are mine.
Birthday
„Who is my father? "Since he was thirteen Adrian Wietner has asked his mother this question many times. The idea that he was somehow different in comparison to his younger brothers and sisters was even older. While Peter and Johannes had blond straight hair his was curly and raven black. His brothers were sturdy like their father while Adrian was a bit gangly. His sisters Gudrun and Ludovica instead were perfect little copies of their mother and all four of them had inherited the dark brown eyes of their father while Adrians' where of a blue-grey colour.
When he asked his mother Caroline for the first time she only told him that his real father had died shortly after his birth and when Adrian saw the pain stroked expression on his mother's face he never dared to dig deeper. Oh and yes there was another difference to his siblings. While Adrian was a wizard all of them were muggels. Caroline, a witch, once told him that it is rare but possible even more in their home country where magical people and muggles have even more rarely mixed, over the centuries, then in other magical nations.
So the years past and Adrian dared to ask his mother the dreaded question, on a few occasions, like today on his 21st. birthday. As the times before his mother had gone into a short stupor and then was busy to get his birthday cake out of the kitchen while his siblings sang their congratulations. Like the years before the little party ran its usual way. A few well meant presents which he as a wizard had not really any use for and some, real, magic tricks.
Although it was already late Adrian still sat on his place and watched the little dragon he had conjured crawling along his left hand while his head was resting on his right arm when he heard a sound behind him. He turned and saw his mother standing in the kitchen door with the, to him, well known expression on her face; „ I'm sorry but you cannot hold a grudge against me only because I want to know something about him". Caroline said nothing but took a silver pocket watch out of her apron while she was taking a seat opposite of Adrian. „ This watch belonged to your father he has given it to me shortly before he died". A tear was running down her cheek while she placed it on the table in front of her son.
She wiped it away with a silken handkerchief; "He wanted me to give it to you when you turned seventeen, it is a tradition from where he came from, but I kept it for today". Adrian took the pocket watch into his hand and looked closer at it; "What kind of men was he? " „ A good and honest one and you are almost the spitting image of him". She said and made a small gulp. „How did you meet him? "; Adrian asked. „You know that I am a muggelborn". Asked Caroline and Adrian nodded; „ I have visited a friend of mine in old Kesselburg when I literally stumbled over him. You could say it was like a little fairytale we liked each other from the first moment on. He was a wonderful and loving young man and from that moment on he never left my side. After a few months he asked me to marry him and short time later you came along". When he heard his mothers' story it reminded him about some of the cheesy movies from the other side of the great pond, which he had seen from time to time, when he accompanied his sisters to the muggle cinema.
„How did he. "; Adrian finally asked and his mothers' face turned even more pale. „It happened so fast. We had just finished our first walk with you and it was already dusk when suddenly this monster Friedrichsen attacked the city. On Grindelwalds' order he set his dark forces free and later unleashed a fiend fire that was so gigantic that it consumed almost the whole city. We hurried threw the smoke filled alleys and streets but in the end we were cornered by the Nachtjäger.
Your father kept them busy while we escaped". She paused for a short moment. „I stood on top of one of the many hills which surrounded Kesselburg and had to watch how it was consumed by the fire". „Did you try to find him?" Adrian wanted to know. „Yes sure but after two weeks I had to abandon the search because I had to care for a newborn and although your father, like you, was a very talented wizard I do not think he survived the inferno". Again the room was filled with depressing silence when it came to Adrians' mind that he even has not asked for his fathers' name; „What was his name? " Caroline looked up from the table; „Alphard, Alphard Black he was British from London". „Have you ever tried to find him there maybe he also thought that we have died and returned to his former home? " His mother shook her head; „Your father gave me a direct warning". „Why". „Because, the Black family, or at least the greater part of it, has very old fashioned and dangerous opinions, they are pureblood fanatics and who knows what they would have done to us if I a mudblood and her son suddenly turned up in front of their door! "Adrian examined the pocket watch for a last time and made a decision; „ I will go at least I want to know if he is still alive? " Caroline looked at her son with an aghast expression. „Didn't you hear what I have just told you? " „Yes, but if he has survived I just want to meet him once in my live? " His mother sadly shook her head when he left the kitchen and started to throw a few things in his magically enlarged trunk. „You really want to"; He heard his mothers' voice, which seemed to have followed him in a short distance. Adrian just nodded while he took his best cloak out of the cupboard; „You have to understand that I at least have to try to find him! " Caroline gave him a short glance before she silently left the room.
Adrian did not know what was to come when he left his home on this splendid April day. His mother gave him a firm hug and adjured Adrian to look after himself. His half-sisters gave him a very tearful farewell while his stepfather wished him all the best for his journey and admonished him not to do any stupidities.
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