"Welcome back, Mr. Potter-Black." The Bartender Tom said as he stepped though the door of the Leaky Cauldron.
"It's Harry for you, Tom." Harry lead them to the back of the pub to the entrance to Diagon Alley. "Welcome, to Diagon Alley."
"WOW" they both said trying to look at everything at once.
"First stop, Gringotts." He took both of their small hands and lead them to the large white building.
"Lord Potter-Black, it's a pleasure to see you again, what can Gringotts do for you?" one of the Goblins asked.
"I need to see my private accountant." All the goblins looked up. Asking for one's private accountant could be four things, one: you have a problem with the bank, which normally lead to number two: closing your account, three: you need a loan or four: you want to open a new account. "I need to open two accounts for my children." The goblins smiled. The goblin on duty summoned Griphook. "Hello, Griphook, it is a honor to see you again." Harry bowed to the goblin.
"It is good to see you as well, Harry." Griphook bowed as well. "Come with me the." Harry and the children followed the goblin to a office with stacks of folders and papers.
"I need to open two accounts for these two. School funds, if you will. Ten gallons, five sickles, and fifteen knuts in both, monthly." Harry told the goblin, then turned to the children. "One gold Galleon equals seventeen silver Sickles, which equaled 29 bronze Knuts. Don't let other people cheat you out of your money. There are people out there who would try."
"Father," Harry turned to the girl quickly. "am I to have a wand? Teddy has one, will I be getting one?"
"Yes later though and you both will be getting your owls today." "Alright!" they both shouted.
"I need you to sign here and here. I trust you want access to your children's accounts as well, Harry?" Griphook asked as they signed where they were told.
"Yes please. Is that all?" The goblin nodded. "Thank you, Griphook. May your bank, gold and family be blessed."
"Till we meet again, good day Harry." The goblin started on the paper work as Harry and the children left.
"First stop, Olivander's Wand shop. I have to talk to him about something." They went into the wand shop. "Stay here, don't touch anything, the two of you got that?" They nodded.
"Mr. Black, what a pleasant surprise. Young Mr. Teddy, how is your wand working for you?"
"It's great, Sir! I can do all of the spells Harry teaches me with no problem."
"Yes, well, I had some doubt when Harry told me he was going to give it to you. The wand chooses the wizard, young Teddy."
"When you picked it up Teddy, it sang for you. When I took it away it cried out. I knew it was for you." Harry told him. "Which is another reason why I am here. Olivander, this is my daughter, Lillian Potter-Black."
"It's nice to meet you, Sir." Lillian held out her hand, Olivander shook it, shocked at how much power he felt in her.
"You are a beautiful werewolf, young lady. I can see the spirit of the wolf that protects you." Olivander said inches away from her face. Her green eyes were turning gold and her fangs extended. "I mean you no harm, child."
"Mr. Olivander, I need your assistance, if you would be so kind to assist me." Harry asked pulling the old man to the back of the store. Then used a silencing charm. "I made another wand. I had it with me when we, me and Teddy, found her. When I picked her up, I had this wand in my arm band and it started humming and vibrating. She didn't even touch it, not really, through the clothes of my dress jacket and shirt." He took the wand out of his back pocket.
"That is curious. You made this? It is strong. Willow? From what?" The man questioned.
"The Weeping Willow at Hogwarts. I saved it after it, after some deatheaters thought it would be fun to catch it on fire. It was a piece of a branch that had been badly damaged. So the willow gave it to me."
"Freely given Willow, from the Weeping Willow. That was nice of it." Harry nodded. "The core?"
"Phoenix and Griffin feathers. What else do I use?" Harry asked. "I don't have that much unicorn or dragon stuff. I have a friend of each Sky hunter."
"It is correctly made and it would be good for the young lady. You said it sang for her?" Harry nodded.
"Willow and Phoenix and Griffin feathers." Olivander looked the wand over. "It seems to be in fine working order."
"Great. Would you have a spare box for a wand?" Harry asked politely. The old man turned and dug in a draw, he pulled out a mahogany case with wolves howling at the moon. "That's perfect." Harry said in almost a whisper.
"Take it, you owe me nothing, make her happy, Mr. Potter-Black." Harry nodded. He put the wand inside the box and the box in his traveling robe's inside pocket. "Have a nice day. Have a great time children." The old man showed them out.
"To the robe shop, Madam Milkin's Robes for all Occasions. This is where you get all you school robes, traveling robes, dueling robes, all kinds of fabrics and materials." Harry opened the door for them to enter.
"Good day. How can I help you, Mr. Black?" Madam Milkin asked.
"We need robes, every day robes, dueling robes, dress robes, with tear protection, chemical protection and minor spell protection. Any color they want. I on the other hand need teaching robes and some new every day and dress robes. My teaching robes will be black, every day robes will be three black and three dark forest green, my dress robes, surprise me."
"My every day robes will be black, dress robe a dark royal blue color and my dueling robes will be, um…" Teddy hair started shifting different colors and shades trying to pick a color.
"We have a robe that could change to your color every day, self cleaning and all the other requirements you have listed, but it's expensive." Madam Milkin said to him. "But with your guardian being the Man who lived, I don't think that would be a problem." Teddy looked to Harry, who sighed.
"If you want it." Teddy smiled. "Lillian will be getting something expensive of her choice as well. It's only fair." Teddy nodded, Lillian looked shocked.
"I've never had anything expensive before." She said, her eyes were big and misty.
"You'll get use to it." Harry said to her, picking her up. "Now tell the nice lady what kind of robes you want."
"I want, um, I am assuming black is a useful every day robe, so I will go with that. Um, dueling robes? Hum, I think I would like that to be a dark red color, almost a black but still red enough to be called red. What's a dress robe?"
"Dress robes are what you wear to formal occasions. Like meeting the Minister. Since you are a member of this family, you will attend them so you will need something you will like and look good in. I hate formal events, but as a Lord of two families and as up and coming Lord and Lady, we have to attend."
"What's wrong with formal events?" she asked as Madam Milkin took their measurements.
"They are the most boring thing any creature would have to sit though." Teddy told her.
"Unfortunately, he's right." Harry laughed as she scrunched up her nose. "Maybe with you in the picture, you and Teddy can cause some mayhem and liven them up." Teddy's eyes flamed to life.
"What color do you think would look good on me?" Lillian asked Madam Milkin.
"You look a lot like Mr. Black's mother, Lily, almost exactly like her. Lily asked for black every day robes, red dueling robes, not many people could pull off the red robes but she did it with style. Her dress robes dark green. She looked like a forest princess with hair of fire."
"Dark green and gold then. If you would."
"Okay be back in four hours." Walking into the back room.
"Who wants ice cream?" he asked and got a chorus of 'me'. "Okay let's go!" Harry laughed enthusiastically. They got to the ice cream shop and took their time eating their ice cream. After they were done eating, a beautiful black and gold trunk caught Lillian's eye. So they went to investigate it, it turned out to be a three layered trunk, a built in three acre forest, a library, and a small house. The house had a kitchen, a full bathroom, laundry room and three bedrooms. Harry paid sixteen gallons, five sickles and thirteen knuts for it.
"So Lillian, what do you want to do? We have two and a half hours, then we can do what Teddy wants to do. What do you both say?"
"Owls." Lillian said instantly. "Weasley's." Teddy said.
"What is Weasley's?" Lillian asked.
"Only the coolest people in the world. They are our adopted family."
"Okay. Owls and Weasley's." 'I hope Ron and Ginny are not there.' He thought to himself. So they went over to the owl shop and as soon as they walked in a gold-brown eagle owl flew to Lillian's shoulder. She named him Merlin. Teddy went with a white and golden brown barn owl and named it Jareth, he looked like the owl the goblin king turned to in the muggle movie 'The Labyrinth'. Harry paid for the owls and their cages, shrank the cages and put them in his pockets. "Sol?" The black owl screeched at him. "We are going to the WWW. Take Merlin and Jareth with you." Sol dipped his head three times, squawked at the other two owls and took off. "Hang on to me okay?" he told them after he picked them up. They both clung to him.
They appeared outside the Weasley Wizard Wheeze. Harry put them down and walked in the door, nobody was there, he took a step and a bell rang. Two male voices came from the back room, they were swearing. Fred and George. "Don't tell them I'm here. Shh." Harry slipped under the invisibility cloak. The twins came out of the room walking right by Harry. Teddy shifted his hair to Weasley red when they came close to him.
"Teddy, I believe we are interrupting rutting session." Her nose crinkled at the smell of sex.
"Yes, Lillian, I believe you are correct." Teddy said matter of fact like. Harry slipped out from under the cloak. "I wonder what Harry would say, if he knew they were going at it without him."
"Oh, I think I would have to ask why I wasn't invited." Harry said as he wrapped his arms around the twins shoulders. "but seeing as it is we just got here today, I'll let it slide."
"HARRY!" They both said, and hugged him.
"Feorge and Gred, these are my children. Lillian and Teddy."
"She's a trouble-maker, I see it in her." Fred said.
"I would pay to see her classes. I wonder how much trouble she's going to get in." George said to his twin.
"If she's anything like Harry, she'll live in detention." Fred laughed.
"What do they mean, Father?" Lillian asked.
"Out of all my seven years at Hogwarts, I sent half of it in detention. I'm counting on you two to help me these coming years, nothing serious."
"Oy, Harry, what are we? Flubberworms?" Fred asked
"If the two of you need anything, just send us a letter, we'll send it right to you." George told them.
"Would there be any way I could talk you guys in to telling Mom, the three of us are coming over tonight?" Harry asked hopefully. "I have some very important information to give you all. I know that look in your eyes, ask me after I tell you what my information is okay. Then I will think about it."
"Party pooper." They both said. "Fine." "We'll floo mom." "But we won't tell her it's you." They jumped over to the fireplace and stuck their heads in the floo fire. They told her, and came out of the fire place. "She said okay."
"Here," Fred handed him a square mirror. "Communication mirrors, in case something happens."
"And you disappear again." George finished.
"Nope, not going anywhere. I'll tell you why over dinner." Harry gave them a Slytherin smirk.
"Dinner at six?" the twins nodded. "We will be there. We'll be going now, so you two can get back to your rutting session." Harry laughed, the three of them walked out as the twins went back to the back room. "Lillian, sweetheart, some things you just don't point out, even if it was coming for them. How would you feel if someone smelt that on you and pointed it out? You would be embarrassed, right?" She blushed and nodded her head. "What if there was other people in the store? Think about what you say, before you say it, okay? Having a mouth like that can get you in to trouble." She looked like she was about to cry. "Come here, you too, Teddy." He took his children in his arms and hugged them tightly. "But that was funny. How about we go to Muggle London and get some clothing?"
They spent the rest of their time trying on clothes in several different stores. After they were done, Harry had spent over a thousand dollars on dresses, tuxedoes, shoes, underwear, jackets, pants, shirts, belts and socks. Almost two thousand on jewelry, watches, perfumes, colognes, purses and hats. Teddy had a hat fetish like Harry had a mask fetish. They were going back to the empty alley they apparated to, to leave when something caught Lillian's attention, she stopped right in front of Harry. She turned to a dark alley way where a man was eating into something behind a large garbage dumpster, then a pale, but bloody hand fell to the ground. The man looked up, Harry recognized him, he picked his children up and ran through the crowd to the alley and apparated to Madam Milkin's, ran inside, slammed the door shut and locked it with the most powerful locking charm he knew and shut all the blinds.
"Good heaven, child, you look as if you had deatheaters chasing you!" Madam Milkin said pouring him a glass of water. Harry downed the water, panting.
"Greyback." Madam Milkin's hand covered her mouth. "He was eating somebody." She paled. After he calmed down, he paid for the robes and apparated them to the Potter Manor.
"Okay let's put all of our things in our trunks, shrink them, put them in our pockets and go to the Weasley's house. How about that?" They nodded. "For the moment if you would let us, Lillian, use two of the rooms in your trunk until we get to Hogwarts." She nodded. "I was surprised when we found this and I already had a forest inside of it." Lillian gave him a curious look. "I mean on the full moons, we don't have to worry about you running about in the forbidden forest and if your safe or not. And we could run with you."
"Running with me in the full moon? That's impossible." She said sadly.
"No, it's not impossible. Teddy's real dad, Remus was a werewolf, my father, James Potter, and their two friends, Peter Pettigrew, and Sirius Black all ran together. James was a stag, Pettigrew was a rat and Sirius was a massive black dog. Animagus, that's how. At first it will be just me, but after Teddy learns how to shift, he will join us during the moon nights." She beamed.
"Really? You'll teach me?" Teddy asked jumping around, Harry nodded.
"We need to get ready to go to supper with the Weasley's." Harry took out one of his new white muscle shirt that clung to his muscles and a pair of low riding blue jeans, black tennis shoes, and a thick black leather belt with a snake buckle. Teddy wore blue jeans, a white shirt and black shoes. Lillian wore a brown, blue and white dress with brown flip flops. "Do you want me to do your hair Lillian?" Harry asked her, she nodded, so he French braided her hair. "All ready to go?" They nodded, Harry picked them both up and apparated to the Burrow with two minutes to spare. Harry put the children down and went to the door, then knocked.
"Let mom and dad get this one you guys." They heard one of the twins say. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley opened the door.
"Harry." Mrs. Weasley whispered before she wailed and latched herself on to him.
"Welcome home, son." Author said pulling him into a hug. Harry broke away from them.
"Mother, Father. You remember my godson, Teddy." Harry said stepping to the side. "And my daughter, Lillian."
"Come in, come in." The Weasley parents showed them to the small dining room. The room went quiet as a grave.
"Who the hell invited that." Ron shouted.
"We did." The Twins said together.
"We don't invite betrayers to our table." Ginny said in a hiss.
"Daddy, she's not very nice." Lillian said stepping out from behind him.
"I know, sweetheart. The rest of the family is awesome." He said picking the girl up then picked Teddy up. "This is Author and Molly, grandma or grandpa, Charlie, Bill, his wife, Fleur, Percy, his wife Penelope, the Twins, Ronald Weasley, his wife Hermione, and Ginny. This is our family."
"It's nice to meet you." Lillian said politely.
"She's beautiful, Harry." Charlie said to him after he was seated.
"Yes, she is." Harry grinned at the little girl that sat across from him next to Teddy.
"How old are you Lillian?" Hermione asked.
"I'll be nine in August." Hermione's eyebrows shot up then did the math.
"Harry, when did you…? We were in the middle of nowhere." Hermione questioned him.
"You cheated on me! How could you!" Ginny screeched at him. Lillian had to cover her ears at the sound.
"She is unfortunately not my biological daughter, I wish she were. She's a werewolf as well, so if you would not screech like a bloody cat, that would be helpful."
"Oh, I'm sorry." Ginny said. Half way through the meal Harry stood and announced his reason why he comeback.
"I have some news as to why I came back to Britain." He paused. "Snape asked me to teach at Hogwarts as the DADA teacher. And as I promised, Lily Wolf, I have her a wand. Mr. Olivander approved it today. Ten inch Weeping Willow and Phoenix and Griffin feathers." Harry handed Lillian a mahogany box.
"WOW." She said then opened the lid and took out the wand. The room vibrated and a wolf's howl could be heard in the distance. "Thank you, Harry." She said.
"Congratulations on the getting the job, Harry." Author said
"Well, it's the interview, but the position is "cursed" and he is have a hard time finding a person who wants the position."
"That's really cool I took Hagrid's place after, he died. Poor man. And Hermione and Ginny are working on their apprenticeship programs." Harry looked confused. "Oh that's right, you don't know about that. Severus has done a lot of good for Hogwarts. For those who don't have much money, like us, and are working on their associates for school, they can go to Hogwarts to work for their degree. You would know it as duel enrollment."
"Half the class is going to live in the Hospital wing." Ron said.
"I think he is going to do great! He's already teaching me how to do magic, and I haven't hurt myself yet." Teddy said sticking out his tongue.
"Teddy, you know better than that, don't let children of any age make you look like an idiot." Teddy nodded. "I don't remember sending anyone to the hospital wing after the DA sessions."
"You'll do fine Harry." Charlie told him.
"Thank you. Molly the food was great and it was good to see you guys again, but we have to get home." Harry said getting out of his seat. "We have to look good tomorrow, the kids have to get to bed." The two groaned, Lillian yawned, causing all of them to laugh.
They apparated to the Potter Manor, Harry showed them to their rooms, waited for them to get changed and tucked them in. Around midnight there was a soft knock on his door, Lillian poked her head through.
"Your still awake?" She asked him, he was standing in front of a large wine rack.
"Yeah, I'm not sure which one I want to give to Severus." Harry said. "Last time I heard, his favorite was strawberry wine. Why are you still up?"
"I couldn't sleep, new place and all. I've never had a bed before." Another knock on the door.
"Come in, Teddy." Harry said.
"How did you know it was me?" Teddy asked then saw Lillian already there. "Oh. You couldn't sleep either?"
"Yeah, new place and all, not use to it."
"If I get this job at Hogwarts, you will get use to there. Heated beds, magic showers, amazing food that goes on and on." Harry went on and on about Hogwarts, never noticing the two children had already fallen asleep. Harry picked out two eight year old bottles of Strawberry wine and a bottle of Firewhisky, then crawled into bed with his children. He was woken up at ten thirty with two little heads on his chest, by Emily. She held a tray with a large stack of toast, eggs, bacon, and orange juice.
The smell of food woke the children up. Teddy sat up, his hair blue and he had bed hair, which caused both Lillian and Harry to laugh. They ate, showered and got ready to go. Harry chose his black combat boot he got in America, they went up to mid calf, which his black cargo pants tucked into, he wore a long sleeved black muscle shirt that tucked into his pants which now had a thick black leather belt, the buckle was a flying Phoenix. A few years ago, he had his eyes fixed so he didn't need those hideous glasses of his, then got his right eyebrow and his left ear pierced. He stuck a small silver bar in his eye brow and the smallest fang from the basilisk in the chamber of secrets, he made into an earring and put it in. Teddy wore the same shirt and pants, but he wore tennis shoes instead. Lillian wore a silk like blue dress, with white sandals. They all put black traveling cloaks on and apparated to Hogwarts front gates.
