Chapter 2
The next morning arrived bright and early. Harry made and ate breakfast then changed into his best clothes though they were still pathetic and checked to make sure he had everything. Harry dragged his trunk downstairs and he made it down just as the doorbell rang. It was Alim and he was wearing a dark blue suit with a violet button down shirt. Standing next to him was a young girl wearing a silk blue maxi skirt and a silver, off-the-shoulder peasant blouse. She had dark, curling hair that was down to her butt with strands of blues, greens, reds, and whites in them. She had deep blue eyes with fleck of gold and silver in them, red bow shaped lips, her skin was a smooth cream, and she was very petite. Alim cleared his throat bringing Harry's attention back to him.
"Hello Harry may we come in."
"Of Course," Harry invited them in and led them to the living room where his relatives were sitting. "Headmaster, this is my Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon. Aunt, Uncle, this is Headmaster Qadim."
"Hello Harry it is good to see you again. I would like to introduce you to my companion. This is Elaina Audric and she is half elf and half fairy. She is the same age as you and will, I believe, be a great help to you as she is one of the top of the class."
The children said hello and shook hands. When their hands touched, a burning sensation started in the center of their palms. Harry pulled his hand away and looked down at his hand. In the center of his palm was a silvery tattoo of a sleeping cat and a crown.
"Twin marks," Alim breathed.
"What?" Harry asked.
"I will explain them later for now let us get this over with." When Harry nodded he continued. "Mr. and Mrs. Dursley is there anything about the school that you would like to know?"
"No," Vernon said abruptly, "Just give us the paper work to sign and let us be done with it. We do not care as long as he is no longer our responsibility. We didn't want him in the first place. He was never meant to be part of the normal world and it is past time for him to go back and live with all of you freaks." It sounded like Vernon had wanted to say that for a very long time and as Harry was leaving had to say it now.
"Very well, I have a form to transfer him to Sihr and a letter transferring his guardianship when we find some to take him." Vernon nodded brusquely and they signed the forms.
"Excellent. Well Harry it is time to go."
"Where are we going?"
"We are taking a portkey to the magical bazaar of Cairo. Let me shrink you trunk then we will go." He shrank Harry's trunk then pulled out a silk rope. He told Harry to grab hold. Once all three were holding on he activated the portkey.
As the portkey activated and they disappeared from Private Drive a silver instrument went off in an office in Scotland. It told the manipulative old coot also known as Albus Dumbledore that the blood wards he had placed on Harry Potter's house were gone. More importantly this meant he had lost his weapon, his manipulated pawn.
They arrived at the apparation point in Cairo and Alim caught Harry before he could fall. Harry looked around him in awe as the bazaar was huge. Much of it was made of silk covered stands. At one end was a marble building that held Gringotts. Next to it was several stores. There was a clothing store, a bookstore, and an apothecary. It appeared as if the stores held generic items, things that you could get anywhere. It was the stalls the held the interesting, unusual, and rare items. Alim smiled at Harry's face. "Come we must first go to Gringotts."
"How can we get the money when it is back in Britain, as is Griphook?"
"The doors into Gringotts are an unnoticeable portal. It takes you to the central location of which is unplotable and no one but goblins know. The portal then takes you back to where you entered." With that they entered Gringotts, approached the teller, and asked to speak to Griphook. Griphook seemed happy to see them.
"What can I do for you?"
"First we would like you to remove the glamour from Harry, and then Harry needs to get a debit card connected to his vaults. Also I realized that no mention of his parents' will was ever made."
Griphook waved his hand to remove the glamour and conjured a mirror. Harry took a good look at himself. He had cat ears and a tail that were both black. His eyes were even greener and had a more extreme almond shape making them look very exotic. His lips were very red and bow shaped, his skin was a smooth cream, he was very petite with slightly broadened hips and best of all, his lightning bolt scar was gone. They allowed him several minutes to look at himself before Griphook cleared his throat.
"Harry, I have the card here as well as the will. The will was sealed by Albus Dumbledore after your parents' deaths. I need a drop of blood on the will to unseal it and a drop of blood on the card. Once the card is done your legal name will appear, if you get adopted merely reprick your finger and your new name will appear."
Harry pricked his finger and allowed a drop of blood to fall on the card, on which his full name appeared. Then he let a drop of blood fall on the will. When the blood hit the scroll lit up with a golden light and the voices of Lily and James Potter began to read.
We James Charlus Potter and Lily Antonia Potter nee Evans, being of sound mind and body declare this to be our last will and testament. All others before this are declared null and void.
First to Sirius Black, you are rich Paddy so instead I leave you our Marauder journals. But more importantly we leave you our greatest treasure, our son Harry. Please take care of our son and love him for us.
Second to Remus Lupin, we leave you Marauder's Den and 100,000 galleons. Keep an eye on our son and make sure he learns how to do more than prank.
To Peter Pettigrew, Peter to be honest we are worried about what side you are on. If you stayed true we leave 100,000 galleons. If you became a traitor you get nothing.
To Andromeda Tonk, we leave you 50,000 galleons and hope that you will keep an eye on Remus and Sirius. Make sure they do not do anything stupid like try to get revenge. Teach Harry the pureblood ways as we all know neither man will do it. We named you Harry's godmother and now we name you his proxy on the Wizengamont.
To Minerva McGonagall, Aunt Minnie, you have always been there for both of us and are an aunt to us both. Please watch over our son. I also leave two extremely rare transfiguration books from the Potter vault. Watch out for Harry and teach him well.
To Filius Flitwick, you have been a mentor to me Filius and as such I leave my notes on my experimental charms. I hope that you will one day be able to finish my work. Keep an eye on Harry for me and teach him about my love for charms.
To Albus Dumbledore, we leave you nothing. We may have been on the same side of the war but you're a manipulative old man and we do not trust you. You are to have nothing to do with our son outside of school. Stay away from Harry.
To Severus Snape. First I James Charlus Potter, release you from your life debt and offer my heartfelt apologies for how we treated you in school. Please do not take it out on Harry as he is as much his mother's son as he is mine. We leave you 100,000 galleons and #34 Diagon Alley, so that you can start that apothecary you have always wanted. Just please do not teach.
Hadrian, Harry you are so loved, and if you are reading this then the worst had happened and we died. We are so sorry for not being able to be there for you. We leave you everything else that was not previously stated. You will have the right to make any changes you desire to our will. We also leave your guardian or guardians, permission to blood adopt you if they wish. Live life to the fullest and be happy. Do not concern yourself with the war or anything else.
We leave our son to the following people:
Sirius Black
Andromeda Tonks
Severus Snape
Minerva McGonagall
Remus Lupin
At no time is he to be left at my sister's as she hates magic and would abuse him.
Thus ends our will, so mote in be.
Lord James Charlus Potter
Lady Lily Marie Potter nee Evans
Harry listened to the will finish with tears running down his cheeks.
"What happened to Sirius? Why did he not take me in?"
"Your godfather was arrested for betraying you parents and murdering Peter Pettigrew. Though Pettigrew is not dead and he never received a trial."
"Can you push through a trial? Use my name if you have to. I want to know the truth."
"We can do that. It will probably take a year or more to do though."
"That's fine. At no point is anyone to be informed where we are. I will deal with the will later, I… I need to decide as many of those on the will were either not there for me or cruel when I did meet them." Griphook looked as if he wanted to say something but just nodded his head and bowed them out.
Elaina turned to them with a huge smile on her face. "Let's get the clothing first as it will take a while." The males shared nervous looks before reluctantly agreeing. They entered the clothing store and were directed towards a back room with a tailor in it. The tailor smiled at them. "How can I help you?"
"My friend is a submissive nekomata and is starting at Sihr Academy. He needs uniforms as well as a full wardrobe."
"Elaina what if I grow? Plus I have clothes and do not want to spend the money."
"Harry, no Ry. First off, you are likely done growing, most submissives are by the time they are twelve. Second, you will only buy the uniforms. The wardrobe will be my early birthday present to you. Before you argue let me explain quickly. That mark on your hand means that we are now family. You cannot inherit but you are family and my family is very powerful and must dress appropriately plus your clothes are awful."
Ry sighed, "Oh very well but I pay for my school things." Elaina turned back to the tailor who smiled at them. "Do his school uniform first." The uniform turned out to be black trousers, a white button down shirt though once he had his house it would change to the pale color of the house, a vest, a silk tie, and a cloak. The trousers would develop stripes in the house colors on them, the vest would turn the main color of the house with the house animal in the secondary color on the breast, the tie would be striped, and the cloak would become the main house color with the house animal in the secondary color on the back. As Elaina was in charge everything was made of the fines fabrics. One the uniform was done they moved onto the battle uniform. It was leather trousers, dragonhide boots, basilisk armor and dueling robes to go over the armor made of lethifold skin. Then he got his wardrobe tailored. He got black trousers, khakis, and leather trousers. His shoes were mostly dragonhide boots but in different colors. His shirts and robes were made of silk and acromantula silk and his sweaters were made of cashmere. The colors were mainly blues and greens but there were some in red and silver. He got mostly casual robes but was talked into two dress robes. He also got a fall cloak in velvet lined in satin and winter coat of Qiriut wool lined in fox fur. When Ry finished Eliana got new uniforms and some clothing as well.
"Why are you getting more uniforms?"
"Because I finally reached my full height this winter and so my uniforms are either worn out or I have grown out of them." Her uniform was very similar though hers had color. She was in the house of fire and so the colors were red and gold. The only difference was that she had an elfish looking skirt in panels of red and gold silk; also the animal of her house was a gold phoenix so her vest and cloak had a gold phoenix on them. Her battle armor was similar with only a lethifold skin skirt over the leggings. She picked up several pairs of dragonhide boots but ones that were mostly heeled as they were for every day not fighting. She also got two chiffon skirts and two peasant blouses. The clothes were then wrapped up and they paid. Ry spent 50 galleons on his uniforms and Elaina spent 175 on the rest. They then went next door to the bookstore. "Harry," Alim stopped at Elaina's glare, "Ry, for now we are getting the books you will need for the summer. The ones for fall we will get before the semester starts."
"Ok, what books will I need?"
"You need The Standard book of spells grades 2, 3, 4 and 5. Three books each for Transfiguration, Defense against the Dark Arts, Potions, Astronomy, Arithmancy, Runes, muggle history, and magical history. You will also need a book on wizarding customs, on politics, and on magical theory. You will have to work hard but if you do you should be caught up by the time the fall semester ends."
"Ok, thanks. And I will do the best I can."
"I know you will."
They picked out the books and paid for them. They then went to the apothecary to get a potion's kit. They then walked around a bit before wrapping everything and heading out. Ry got a lot of things. He had gotten a protection amulet in the shape of an ankh, several belts in different colors and a brand new, beautiful book bag in softest black leather. They portkeyed to the gates of Sihr.
