The next morning Hadrian woke up early. He went into the bathroom that was connected to their bedroom and took a shower. He dried himself with a spell, got dressed in regular robes, and cleaned his teeth with a spell that he now knew that had been lost to the centuries because the one who created it died before they could introduce it.
Then he went down to the kitchen and began to prepare a huge breakfast of pancakes, waffles, french toast, sausages, regular toast, assorted muffins, english muffins, and mushrooms in gravy to put over the english muffins. He could hear Hera finishing up with her shower, and Tyler and Luna getting dressed. He knew that they could smell breakfast and were hurrying.
"Breakfast is ready," he said and he got out the dishes and put them on the table. Then he sat down and began serving himself. There was plenty for everybody, even if two of them were pregnant with multiples. He grinned to himself. Soon, five little sets of feet would be running around the Manor. Plus Harry, of course.
The other three soon entered the dining room and sat down. Just as they were finished eating an owl flew through the window and dropped a letter into Hadrian's lap. He looked at it curiously and saw the Gringotts seal on it. Shrugging, he opened it.
"Dear Mr. Potter,
Congratulations on returning back to us. Lord Hades explained to us that you would be needing our assistance in giving you and your friends your lady and lordships, and that is what we will do. It is the least that we can do for you coming back and saving us. He explained to us that Voldemort killed everyone in magical England and most of the Muggle half too.
Furthermore, we at Gringotts would like to offer our help to you so that you may achieve what you would like to do with the rest of your existence. Please come to Gringotts at your earliest convenience and ask for your Account Manager Rocktooth. He will assist you with whatever you need his assistance for.
Thank you, and congratulations again,
Ragnok,
Director of Gringotts, London Branch," Hadrian read.
He looked up. "Well, I say that we go before we take care of the Dark Tosser," he said. The others nodded in agreement.
He tucked the letter away and looked at the table with no end of amusement. He had made enough to feed eight very hungry people with overactive metabolisms, and it was all gone. 'Well, pregnant women need to eat a lot, of course. I guess that I'm just not used to feeding them anymore,' he thought. Then he mentally shrugged. 'Guess I'll just have to get used to it again.'
He cleaned up the mess with a flick of his hand and stood up. A sudden thought hit him. 'Jacob, can you protect the babies while we're on this trip?' he asked with his thoughts. 'Yes, Master. They are already protected, the moment that their mothers became immortal,' Jacob sent back. Hadrian sighed with relief. 'Thank you, Jacob,' he sent. 'You're welcome, Master,' Jacob sent back. Then it went silent.
"Okay, are we all ready to go?" he asked. They all answered in the affirmative. They went to the floo and flooed to the Leaky Cauldron. From there they walked to Gringotts, gaining some curious and questioning looks on the way. They walked up to a free teller and Hadrian handed over the letter silently. The Goblin read through it, then beckoned them to follow him. They followed him down a hallway and stopped at a plain door marked 'Rocktooth, Account Manager for the Potter family.'
He went through and they couldn't hear what was said so they guessed that there was a silencing charm placed on the door. The goblin came back out and ushered them inside. He bowed to them and then left. They turned to a middle-aged goblin and they bowed. ~Greetings, Rocktooth. I am Hadrian Evans Potter and this is my wife, Hera. These are our friends, Tyler Rivermoor and his wife, Luna,~ Hadrian said, in gobbledegook.
Rocktooth bowed back. ~Welcome. I am your Account manager, as you already know, but only to the Potter accounts. I am here to give all of you your Lord and Lady rings as the Heads of your Houses. Men, I assume that you know that because there are no others in your wives lines that you are the Heads and Lords of their Houses too?~ he asked.
~Yes, we know that. Thank you for thinking to tell us, though,~ Hadrian said. Rocktooth nodded ~I am also here to help you with anything else you might need Gringotts help with, I have the authorization from Ragnok himself,~ he said. "Excellent, I would like to make you the Account manager for the rest of my accounts, if no one else is already their Account manager," Hadrian said.
"I, too, would like that," Hera said. Tyler and Luna nodded in agreement. To give him credit, Rocktooth merely raised an eyebrow at this and nodded. "There is no-one else managing your accounts as they have been unused for a long time, and only gathering dust and more gold with the long-term interest. Is there anything else?" he asked.
"Maybe in the next couple of weeks, but for now, no. so let's just get on our Head of House rings and if you could just give each of us one of those Magical wallets that take the money from our accounts, give us the exact amount we need, and will turn into a Muggle wallet when needed, we would be grateful," Hadrian said.
Rocktooth nodded and gave them their rings, each of their rings merged with the others. "Just think about the ring you want to show and it will show," he informed them. Then he gave them the wallets and bid them a good day.
They walked out of Gringotts and apparated to the forest in Albania that contained Voldemort. They closed their eyes and listened. Soon they heard the swishing of a shade and Voldemort's cursing. They opened their eyes and Hadrian led the way to where Voldemort was.
They had planned this the night before and hid behind trees in a square around Voldemort. They made no noise as they were masters at this. Hadrian took out his Elder wand and knew that the other three were taking out their wands. Making themselves invisible, they stepped out from behind their trees and pointed their wands at the shade. Casting without sound, they cast a barrier around Voldemort to keep him inside that he couldn't see, as it was invisible to all but their eyes. Then, again casting without sound, they cast the excorsism spell.
They had to cast it twice as he was a particularly stubborn spirit, but eventually it worked. When the last scream was gone and the last wisp couldn't be seen, they let up on the spell. The forest lightened, it felt less oppressive and more bright, more breathable.
They let down their invisibility and grinned at eachother. "Let's go home!" Hadrian said. The others nodded and they apparated back to Potter Manor.
They sat down in the living room and began to talk. "We need to build the barns, coops, pastures and the garden, orchard and vineyard fences," Hadrian said, still elated by destroying the Dark Tosser.
"Ok, you build the barns and the pastures, I'll do the coops and fences," Tyler said. Hera and Luna frowned. "What are we going to do?" Luna asked. "You're going to go through some horse magazines and decide upon what type of horses, plants, and trees we get," Hadrian said smoothly, to avoid their ire of not letting them help.
Just because Jacob said that the babies were safe didn't mean that he and Tyler were going to let them do physically demanding things. No, not at all.
They looked hesitant. "Are you sure that you don't want a say?" Hera asked. Hadrian smiled. "As long as I get a Spanish Mustang, I'm fine," he said. Tyler smiled cheerfully. "I don't actually know anything about horses, so suggest a good one and I'm fine!" he said. The girls smiled and nodded their acceptance.
Hadrian conjured up many books on horse breeds and then left with Tyler to go buy the boards and chicken wire for the garden so that their birds wouldn't be able to get into it and eat everything. They could only buy so much in that one day, so they went to other lumberyards and bought supplies there too. When they were done they went back to the Manor and began to build what they needed to.
They paused long enough for lunch, then went back to work. Tyler finished first so he began to help Hadrian get it done faster. "Thanks," Hadrian said as he screwed in a board, having already finished with the pastures and now on the barns. "No problem," Tyler said. They continued working until it was almost five.
They both overlooked their work. "I think that we did good," Tyler said. Hadrian nodded. "You two did fine, don't worry about it," they heard Hera say from inside. They chuckled. "Yeah, you're right. So, are you finished?" Hadrian asked. "Yeah, we finished about two hours ago, we're now in the library reading books," Luna said. "Good," the boys said.
They ran back inside and into the library to see the girls putting away their books. "I'm gonna make dinner. What do you two want?" Hadrian asked. "Pizza, meat lovers," Hera said. "With pickles, dill," Luna said. Hadrian was amused. "Ok, I'll make four pizzas, two meat lovers with dill pickles, one regular meat lovers, and what do you want, Tyler?" he asked.
"Hawaiian," Tyler answered. Hadrian nodded and went down to make them. He thought as he made them. What if he could get a breeding license for magical animals and beasts? Like Kneazles and Crups? Or Mokes? And if he did that, why not Demiguises? And maybe make a small nature preserve for abandoned or abused creatures?
Of course, he stepped back a few steps, before his imagination could get ahead of him, this was only if the other three agreed and they could convince the Ministry to give them that right.
He heard Jacob in his head. "Master, the Four Founders were given the right to domesticate any beast, magical or not, that they wished. Since that right was not taken away, nor can it anymore, from your families line, you may do as you wish. However, I do agree that the wise course of action is to speak with the others."
'Thank you, Jacob. Why can't they be taken from me?' Hadrian asked through his thoughts. "Because, once a thousand years pass without anyone taking away the right, it is the families forever. Besides that, it was given with the permission of both of the reigning Monarchs of that day and age, and only they can take it away," Jacob said.
Hadrian nodded, pleased with this revelation, but still convinced that the right course of action was to talk to the others. "Hey, guys, I've been thinking," he started.
Someone snorted. This was followed by giggles. "Always a dangerous course of action, for you," Luna said between her giggles. This was followed by more giggles.
He couldn't find it within himself to be annoyed, he'd missed that sound. So he settled on smiling. "Funny," he said. And it was. "So, what were you thinking about?" Hera asked.
"Well, the Four Founders had a beast, magical and muggle, breeding license, it was given to their entire line to make use of. Seeing as I am the last of their line, I thought, why not create both a breeding place for Kneazles, Crups, Mokes, Demiguises, and things like that, and a nature preserve on our land?" he asked.
"Well, for the breeding, I say, why not? But do you have any idea how much land a nature preserve for beasts will take?" Tyler asked. The girls made sounds of agreement.
"Master, Mistress, Lord Nico, Lady Luna, if I may speak?" Jacob asked, appearing in the kitchen. "Go ahead," Hadrian said, giving him a mild look that said, 'You should be resting.' Jacob bowed his head a little, but spoke.
"The Romanov Castle holds roughly the same amount of land around it as the Potter Manor, if you do not wish to have me expand your lands with a large-scale undetectable expansion spell modified for use on land," he said.
"You can do that? Wait, you're Jacob, of course you can do that," Hera said, coming into the kitchen followed by the other two. Jacob smiled a little at the praise.
"Yes, I can do that, but depending on how much you want it expanded I might need some of my siblings help," he said. "How much can you expand it on your own?" Hadrian asked.
"A little over 450,000 acres each way, any more than that and I'll need the help of my siblings," Jacob answered honestly. "And how much can they do?" Hadrian asked. "Another 300,000 acres each," Jacob answered promptly.
"You know, each square mile is 640 acres, so you're giving us 3,650,000 acres if you combine it with our current 500,000 acres, which is 5,703 square miles. That's A LOT of land!" Hera said.
"If you give us three weeks we would be recharged and able to give you another 3,150,000 acres," Jacob said in a helpful voice. She nearly fainted right there.
Hadrian coughed into his fist to disguise his chuckle. "So, that will work, if we decide upon creating a preserve. Hey, do we have the right to create a preserve?" he asked.
"Merlin did, and now so does Lord Tyler," Jacob said.
"Ok, I agree. But we need the paperwork," Tyler said. In front of him appeared the paperwork that they needed, and in front of Hadrian was the breeding papers. They picked them up and looked them over, nodding when they finished.
"My family can breed even dark creatures it says," Hadrian said. "I can put dark creatures in a preserve," Tyler said. "Well, you see, they weren't labeled as dark back then," Jacob said. They nodded in understanding. The boys looked at the girls. "Do you agree of this venture?" Hadrian asked.
Luna nodded but Hera hesitated. "Why don't we get our regular farm going before we do this?" she asked. Hadrian smiled. "Of course, we're going to have to grow the food to feed them, afterall," he said. The other two who agreed with him nodded in support. Hera smiled. "Then I have no problems with doing this. If we're going to do this we need a separate house-or several- for all the half-breeds, like half-fairy, half-pixie, half-naiad, half-dryad, and many other half-nymphs, just to name a few," she said.
Hadrian nodded and committed that to memory. He turned to Jacob. "Ok, Jacob, gather the others and do as you've said you'll do. Then go rest until we need you for picking out your horses. And that reminds me, do you have your helpers yet?" he asked. "Yes, Master, I will, and yes, Master, we have," Jacob said.
Hadrian smiled. "Good, go do it then. Send me a mind message when you're done, then go rest," he said. Jacob bowed. "Yes, Master," he said, then he phased out.
By this time three of the pizzas were done and Hadrian served one pizza to each girl and one to Tyler, who immediately dug into them. His was done soon after and he, too, dug in. They all went to bed soon after, after deciding that they'd split up tomorrow to get the garden seeds and orchard trees, and the hay seeds and grain supply seeds, as they were going to be making their own grain for their animals.
Then after that, they were going to meet up and go into muggle London to buy their regular farm animals. After that, they'd go to a known Kneazle and Crup breeder-both if they had to get each from separate breeders- and buy from them.
But as I said, they went to bed.
