Matar Latrunculus Nex Black
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Chapter One- Welcome to the Mass Confusion
Halloween 1981
The Village of Godric's Hallow
Regulus was no fool, he knew that what he had just done, the Dark Lord would notice . . . eventually. His plan had so far worked, he had stolen the Dark Lord's horcrux, and faked his and the Dark Lord's son's death by conjuring look alike corpses and altering the memories of the person who was supposed to kill him. Wincing remembering his first twelve attempts to make a corpse and wondering how he managed to make one a look alike of Molly Weasley, if she was male, which was creepy. He shook his head to clear his thoughts and remembered what he was doing.
He had left 'his' son at the house, along with a house elf, he had bought when he first thought of going threw with his plan. So now he was just waiting for the Dark Lord to attack the Potters to make another horcrux then he would go inside the house to see if he had left the horcrux at the house for it to be passed over and thrown into a dump or to be given to a friend of the family who would unknowingly safeguard it or if he took it with him.
He watched as the Dark Lord unlocked the door and listened as the attack took place from his hiding spot in a bush a few blocks away and thought (trying to get his mind off the fact he was letting innocent people die) what Sirius would think of him doing something like this; hiding around in bushes, destroying horcruxes and two weeks ago being bit by a vampire because he got lost in an department store and ran into one in the frozen meat section.
His thoughts however were interrupted when he heard a woman who he after a moment he realized was Lily shout "Not Harry, not Harry, please not Harry!" After a few moments he heard her scream "Not Harry! Please... have mercy... have mercy" and end with a final scream.
After a few seconds in which Regulus assumed he had killed Harry the house started on fire. He blinked, now why would the Dark Lord set the house on fire? He counted to 300 then went inside after putting a flame-freezing charm on himself.
He entered the living room and saw James Potter lying still on the floor, dead. He raised his wand about to put a flame resistant charm on him when he realized that the ministry would be able to find him if he left his magical signature here and lowered it, and continued his examination going up the steps. He went threw an open door and found a pile of robes and Lily dead. He wondered why a pile of robes was on the floor when he heard loud crying he looked down did she in her dying moments de-age the Dark Lord . Thankfully she had not as he soon noticed after staring at the pile of robes for twelve seconds and realizing the noise was not coming from there but from her arms in which she held Harry.
He looked down at Harry and immediately noticed two things:
One: he was not dead
Two: He had a cut on his forehead that was oozing blood.
He decided that he would clean his cut and put a charm on him so he would not be burned to death then decided to watch him for awhile.
Two hours later he was getting bored because no one was coming
Four hours later the fire stopped and he was attempting to count from 100 backwards using only prime numbers.
One hour later he had gotten to 61.
Five hours later he gave up hope of anyone coming and was thinking of what to do next and came to the following conclusions
1.)He could take Harry in.
2.)If he did take him in he would have another mouth to feed.
3.)It would give Ophiuchus someone to play with if he took him in.
4.)His conscience would never let him sleep a peaceful night again if he did not take the helpless orphan in.
5.)It would repay the debt owed to the Potter family if he took him in.
After reviewing the facts he decided to get Harry himself. He returned to the room that held the baby and picked him up trying not to look at Lily's burned face near him as he did so. He quickly left the house and went back to his hiding spot, checked for muggles and apparated back to his house, spliching one of his eyebrows off in the process and proceeding to remind himself, why exactly wizards and vampires do not do intercontinental apparition. After making sure Harry was still in one piece, he thought about what to do next and decided that since he was going to be a Black, Harry would need a different name. He thought about what his first name would be, it would have to be something near Harry because the baby would probably have subconsciously realized his own name, after a moment of thought he came up with a excellent name! It was perfect, it continued the Black family tradition of star names and was slightly similar to Harry, he would change his name to Horologium! After a moment of thought he realized that the only thing the names had in common was they started with the same letter and had an 'r' in the same place. Sighing he tried to come up with a better name and unable to he decided his first name would have to be different from Harry and he would have to pray he would get used to it and decided upon naming him after the star Matar. After a few seconds of thought he decided that since Ophiuchus's middle name was Eorum Caedo, Matar's middle name could be Latrunculus Nex . He thought idly that when his two sons were old enough to go to school they would probably hate having to sign their full names. He sighed and headed to Exhuban's, Ministry of Magic's, Department of Magical Adoption through his floo after reattaching his eyebrow that until then he had forgotten about and got in line.
Three hours later he was standing in line to go to the line for the line that would take him to an extremely long line where he would have to retake a test that he took a year and several months previous.
An hour later he was halfway threw the line that would take him to the extremely long line.
Four hours later he had gotten to the test.
Three hours later he had finished the test and was finished with the paperwork when the lady checking it over mumbled " Matar Latrunculus Nex Black? I pity him..." and gave Regulus an odd look then handed him his adoption certificate and gave him access to Ophiuchus's official paper for him to change his last name after repeating the process with his own name.
He apparated back to his house to get some well deserved sleep. Moments after his head hit his pillow his alarm clock came on. He had forgotten to turn it off on Friday. After using the Reductor Curse on the clock he fell asleep unknowing to the fact he was raising two Parselmouths one of which was going to be missing their parents very badly when he woke up at four in the morning.
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