Author's Note: Hello everybody!This next chapter is going to be a time jump to the next year, so Iris is the last chapter I didn't mention this but I should tell you now. Iris is a Parselmouth since she is the Slytherin Heiress. This also includes Parselmagic.
Disclaimer:I do not own Harry Potter or any J.K.R characters.
Chapter 2
It had been an entire year since Iris had moved in with the Malfoy's. One whole year and Iris' life had changed for Manor was large and extravagant with lush gardens and beautiful rooms filled with the most magnificent toys that anyone could imagine, but Iris had spent almost all her time in the library reading, plotting, and stretching her magic doing the most complex enchantments and curses anyone had seen since the last war.
All of that had led up to this, not to mention three full hours spent arguing with Lucius and still having to threaten him with the wrath of the Heiress of Slytherin. She was standing outside the bars of her father's cell in Azkaban. It had been her goal since she'd learned about to get her father and aunt out of Azkaban.
She'd planned this all very carefully. One wrong move could affect the futures of half the British wizarding community in the future. Iris took a deep breath. "Well?" she snapped at the wizard beside her. He visibly flinched and opened the gate for her.
She stepped inside the cell and grimaced at the smell. The cell was small and dank and had only one was a bucket in one corner that smelled positively wretched and in the other was a pile of hay that seemed to have a ball of rags curled up on it. She would have mistaken it for rags too if she didn't the steady if a little ragged rise and fall of a chest.
She walked up to the man and shook his to which he awoke with a haunted grey eyes darted around for a second until they landed on her. She took a step back conjured a chair with the flick of her hand and sat down. Once she was comfortable Iris observed the man sitting in front of her. He had a pale sickly looking complexion, long matted black hair and a beard, and sunken grey eyes that were regarding her looked quite the worse for wear but if you looked closely you could see the lingering handsomeness of his youth where Iris had got some of her aristocratic beauty.
After a few second he spoke. " Who are you?" he asked in a voice that was rough with disuse. Iris pursed her lips. She didn't know if her mother had told him of her decided to throw caution to the wind. It wasn't like he could do anything. "My name is Iris Dorea Lily Black. It has recently come to my attention that you are my father" she informed him in a calm confident voice. Sirius eyes bulged in realisation. "Lily-" he rasped but she cut him off "Indeed, but we'll have time for questions and answers later.I am running out of time and you are not the only person I have to see in this god-forsaken fortress." He quieted immediately and she got off her conjured chair and vanished then walked up to her father and handed him satchel. She bent low over him and whispered "Inside that bag is some food, water and a port key in the shape of a sapphire and wear the port key at all times. It took me seven months, twenty-eight books written by Rowena Ravenclaw herself, and half of the gallions in the Hufflepuff vault to get that thing keyed into these wards. If you miss it I will beat you to death with a stick" and with that she left a very confused Sirius Black behind in the cell.
Once she was out of the cell she followed a very frightened looking guard deeper into Azkaban prison. As she passed the cells she took in all of the wretched broken looking people they housed and barely concealed a shudder and a grimace of disgust and fury at the injustice of it all. These people were in prison for following a political leader that was trying to free magic from it's bondage by claiming them to be using illegal curses when the people who were arresting them were using the very same curses .Iris swore to herself that she would one day see these people free.
After ten minutes of walking they stopped outside another cell that looked the same as the first except for the prisoner that it contained. This prisoner was a woman. The only woman in Azkaban as a matter of fact. She like her cousin was sitting on the hay provided in the corner but instead of sleeping her head was held high and proud displaying her once beautiful but now gaunt, hollow and sickly face for Iris to see, but the biggest difference was her onyx eyes burning with a manic passion that made Iris a little proud of her cousin.
The guard was about to open the gate but he hesitated. "Miss Black I-I must warn you against going in there. You see Madame LeStrange isn't-"she interrupted him. "That's quite enough. Open the gate fool" Iris said coldly. He quickly opened the gate and Iris stepped in.
Bellatrix regarded her for a second then said " Who are you to me? And why do you have the Azkaban guard cowering from you and following your commands?". Iris almost sighed. "You ask much more complicated questions than your cousin, did you know? I can't tell you why those 'guards' cower from me since that would make some of my secrets known. But I can tell you that you are my cousin" Iris informed her. She took a step closer and whispered"I am here to get you out of here. I just need you to cooperate". "LIAR!" Bellatrix shrieked "You are no cousin of mine! And Azkaban cannot be breached! You're nothing but a filthy lying-" "Enough woman!" Iris found herself interrupting the third person that day and she had to admit it was becoming tiresome. "Use your brain to think this through would I be here if I weren't family?They don't usually allow visitors in Azkaban, let alone nine years would I be here if I wasn't an expert in manipulation?" she let the words stew in the air and when she saw that Bellatrix had accepted her words she spoke again." After I found out my heritage nigh on a year ago I found out that I was the Black Heiress and that I have a when I found out that you and my father were here I swore to myself to set you free. It is my duty to my family. Please allow me this".Although Iris' voice was composed and a little cold both women heard the pleading undertones to her voice. Bellatrix hesitated for a moment then conceded. Iris sighed in relief and quickly gave Bellatrix a satchel like the one she handed to Sirius and explained to her about the port key.
After that she briskly left Azkaban prison to prepare a place of healing for her family. As she did this she thought to herself you're next Harry James Potter.
Two weeks later at Malfoy Manor…
Iris was had just found out where her brother lives (she didn't want to think of him as her half brother since his father was dead) when her personal house elf Dotty informed her that her father had just woken up. Naturally she hastily made her way to the temporary hospital wing she had setup since both Sirius and Bellatrix were in the same room ( not the best idea but it was for convenience sake) and she wanted to get there before they could kill each other.
Predictably when she arrived it was to shouts of "... disgusting blood traitor!" from Bellatrix and "Don't call me that you filthy Dark Arts wielding bitch!". They were standing so close together that their noses were practically touching and their magic was cracking in the air with their ire. Iris quickly cast a shield between them and said "Technically the both of you are right and wrong at the same time. Cousin Bellatrix uses a variety Dark magic that the Ministry labels " filthy Dark Arts" but is actually about as filthy as casting a lumos . As for you father, you are technically a blood traitor for sleeping with a woman who was considered a mudblood. She wasn't, she actually came from a long line of squibs marrying squibs until she was born a witch but you still thought she was a mudblood and didn't care". Sirius looked outraged while Bellatrix looked contemplative. "Who are you?" Sirius asked coldy clearly not enjoying being called a blood traitor. "I've already told you as to what happened, as soon as I was born my mother fell unconscious from fatigue. James had already found out about your affair and had gone to had decided to take me away and say that I died after birth which they did and left me at a muggle orphanage. I found Diagonally two years ago and last year claimed my Heirships and came to live with the Malfoys" she stated. Any hopes of approval she might have been hoping to get from her father when out the window when he said in an icy tone "He should have killed 's obvious that you are disgusting and Dark just like the other Blacks. You are nothing like Lily and you will never be my daughter. I'm going to Dumbledore right now to tell him what's going on and you can't stop me".
Iris almost snarled at the fool. Did he seriously not think for himself at all? "I think not. It is abundantly clear to me that years of Light propaganda and a further seven years surrounded by Dementors has addled your brains.I could have got you out the political way considering that we both know you're innocent. I didn't because I had a feeling that as soon as the Dark Lord came back then you would go running to the Light and offer money, weapons, and land. This way they all think you're a traitor and you can't be politically active. That being said I still can't allow you to as active Magickal Heiress to the Most Noble and Ancient House of Black I hereby put Sirius Orion Black under house arrest on the grounds of threatening the fellow members of the House of Black's safety. So mote it be". The room around them glowed red for a second then receded to normal. Sirius shouted indignantly "You can't do that! Only the Black Lord can do that! I'm not stupid you know". Bellatrix snorted and said "Clearly that's not true Cousin" Bellatrix said 'Cousin' with obvious spite and venom "You may be Black Lord legally but not magically. You were kicked off the family tree remember? The Black family magick has clearly chosen her as Lord but for her the fact that she knows more about the family magicks at her age just shows what a shameful Lord you are". Sirius Black went a disgusting shade of red after that. He was about to start shouting when Iris had enough of his childish antics and stunned him with an overpowered wandless wordless stupify.
Bellatrix smirked at her "You are definitely a Black. You may call me Bella. I suppose the mudblood from squib descendants was your mother?". Iris almost sighed but kept her mask firmly in place " Indeed. You may call me was also the late Lily Potter. I am telling you this because I am about to go fetch my younger brother and I want to ask your cooperation once more. He will be swayed to the Dark easily, Dumbledore ensured that. Harry was just a baby when it happened. It is not his fault. No power he may hold could have vanquished your Lord. So I ask you please do not bother him". Bella let out a long suffering sigh and said with a pout "Fine. I won't. But only because he's got Black blood flowing through his veins". Iris smiled and said sincerely " Thank you Bella.I must go get Harry now. Cissa will be here in a moment to tend to your needs and cry for ten minutes straight while Draco pats her back awkwardly and Lucius stands in the doorway looking utterly at a loss of what to with such an open display of emotion". Bella cackled gleefully and said "I think I'll like you a lot Iris". Iris smirked and left the room. She went to her study picked up a portkey that could take you anywhere you wanted( an invention of her own that very few people could use since you had to say your destination in parseltongue) and said in parseltongue "Number 4, Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey".
She was transported to a disgustingly average neighborhood where all the houses were identical with pristine lawns, white picket fences, and brightly colored flower beds. It was nauseating. She walked down the street until sgr saw a garden that had a little boy in it tending the flowers. He was short and painfully skinny with unruly black hair and startling green eyes. Her green eyes.
She walked up to the fence and said in a soft voice " Harry?". The boy, Harry, looked up into her eyes and Iris almost cried at the hopelessness in those viridian eyes. She dropped her masks right then because she knew they wouldn't help her with Harry. She walked into the garden with Harry still watching her closely. When she was close enough to him she asked in a warm comforting voice "Can I give you a hug?". Harry looked startled "Me?". Iris nodded. "Ok" was all Harry said before Iris pulled him into a warm soft hug and started carding her fingers through his hair.
Why was this beautiful girl hugging him? Harry thought that she must be an angel though he wasn't sure what he did to deserve an angel he asked. Iris just laughed softly and said "No though I do have a lot to explain" she didn't release him from the hug as she explained everything about wizards, the Light and the Dark, Harry's history and their parents. "So" Iris concluded as she finally released Harry to hold him at arm's length and look him in the eyes "I am here to as your big sister to take you away from this hellhole. I'm sorry Harry I should have come for you first but Azkaban drives even the strongest wizards you forgive me?". Even if Iris would only admit it to herself the answer was important. "Of course I forgive you Iris. Let's just leave here so that we can learn more magic please?". Iris grinned grabbed Harry and whispered to the portkey "Malfoy Manor".
Miles away at Hogwarts Albus Dumbledore couldn't shake the feeling that something was very wrong. Oh how right he was.
Author's Note: Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Please review. Will try post again next week.