"Impossible!" Dumbledore began "I forbid it as his guardian, he is still not in a stable mindset." Molly nodding in the background, showing her support for the elderly wizard.
"There is not a thing that you could do to stop Mr. Potter." The goblin stated "Since he was named the lord of a house, he is now an adult and can do as he wishes. In accordance with the old laws of pureblood wizards, if a minor should be elected as a leader of a family, he is to be emancipated no matter what the case may be in terms of the guardian. The one and only exception comes with the consent of the one in question may he stay under his guardian's supervision, if that is the case, then the guardian would take over the title of lord black until the day that the one in question turns seventeen." The goblin visibly flinched when he saw the glee in Dumbledore's eye.
"Well, I do believe that is for the best." Dumbledore said, everyone smiling with the exception of Bellatrix, Narcissa, Draco, Remus, Tonks. Harry was red in the face, calming himself so it looked like a small blush, remembering what Tonks had told him.
"It doesn't really matter what you think is the best." Harry began "I have things to do, and being lord black will more than likely help me." Tonks and Remus broke out into laughter when they saw the look in Dumbledore and Molly's eyes. Narcissa and Draco looked dumbstruck, the golden boy is defying the headmaster and Voldmort's most feared enemy. Bellatrix looked proud though.
"Harry, being the leader is of utmost impotents toward a family, the economy and even he war, it is quite the responsibility. I don't think that you quite grasp it." Dumbledore said as a twinkle appeared in his eye. Harry felt the odd sensation that he felt Like when he had the dreams before going to DOM, looking to Tonks, she got the message in an instant.
"Sir, I believe that Harry will do what he wants, this truly isn't your decision." Tonks said standing up and knocking over a chair, catching the headmaster's eye. "Go on Harry, you should look in the vault, you won't know what is in them until you see for yourself." Harry gave an appreciative smile.
"No you won't Harry, Dumbledore is right, after all, he is only thinking of your welfare after all." Molly interrupted.
"Calm down Molly." Arthur began "He is emancipated and can do whatever he wishes, our consent given or not." Harry nodded to Arthur and left the yelling of the adults behind.
"Mr. Potter, if I may," the goblin began leading Harry into the underground tunnels. "I am quite pleased that you didn't chose to let your guardian take over the vaults and Lordship, despite his looks, I find that greed, wants, and the desires of a being can get the better of any man, even one with great intentions for his kind. Besides, money means power, we can't have the Dumbledores having that much power." Harry looked down at the goblin and smiled
"He might not be as pure as one might think." Climbing into the cart, they began the long ride to the vault, climbing out, the goblin opened it and allowed Harry to enter. The vault itself was the size of a large house, bookshelves and weapon racks laid against the wall, in the center of the vault was mounds and mounds of Gallons, no sickles of knuts, just the gold coins, on the sides of the mountain, were multiple chest containing jewels and rubies. Harry didn't touch a thing though, this was his families trust fund, and was not meant to be touched unless it absolutely need to be.
"Amazing isn't it." a voice came out from behind. "and it's all yours too…"
The moment that Harry turned around, he thought of Sirius, his murder dared to show her face to him, and now she would suffer. "CRUCIO!" Harry shouted, using all of his hatred, anger and sadness. The spell struck Bellatrix in the chest, she immediately fell to her knees, screaming in pain. Not lifting the spell, Harry walked up to her, lifting it, he gave her a swift kick to the ribs, causing her to role across the vault floor. "Tell me," Harry said, crouching down so his face was inches from hers. "Do I mean it now?" Coughing, Harry kicked her again. "Tell me." Harry demanded. Bellatrix looked up, with glee in her eye. Her sister, finally snapped out of her stupid stare. "IMOBUIS!" Narcissa shouted, ropes went onto Harry, holding him in place. Stepping to her sister, Narcissa hoisted Bellatrix onto her.
"You sure do Harry." Bellatrix smiled and looked down on the young boy. "He showed such potential, in the dark arts, he could have truly been great."
"SHUT IT, YOU CRAZY BITCH!" Harry shouted "WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO SPEAK TO HIM?"
"The fact that she can help drag him out of the veil." Narcissa stated, looking down at Harry, she watched as his eyes went wide.
"How?" Harry asked
"Simple, in the black family library, it makes a reference to a prison from long ago. Bellatrix did some reading and found out that in there it is like a limbo, you don't feel anything, yet you exist. Anyway, time stops in there, so everyone that was thrown in the veil, would still be alive, including Sirius. Inside the black family library, there is a book with runes drawn on it that should free Sirius, the only problem is that the one who put him in the veil has to be the one who frees him. So if you kill Bellatrix, then the mutt will stay put." Harry appeared to have an inner argument, weighing his options, and finally deciding to trust the sisters.
"Fine," Harry said, "Two things first, I want to check out the small library down here then I want Bellatrix to come home with me."
"Aren't I a little old for you Potter?" Bellatrix asked, smiling flirtatiously.
"No I like them insane," Harry stated sarcastically "What do you think, I don't want you to go running back to your lord."
"What about me?" Narcissa asked
"What about you?" Harry replied "Your dear husband gave all of his money to Voldie, so if you want any funds to support Draco, you wouldn't dare challenge me." Narcissa smirked like Bella, setting her down on her feet.
"Maybe you aren't as pure as everyone thinks." Ruffling his hair she pointed to a bookshelf in the corner and whispered into his ear. "In that shelf, there is a ritual that will bond Bella to you, it would break her bond to the dark lord."
Harry looked to her and raised an eyebrow. "Let's play a game, it's called fill in the blanks. You would tell me this because…"
Sighing Narcissa looked to Harry, picking up Bellatrix's wand from the ground. "Honestly, do you ever think Harry. In pureblood family, we hold obligations to our family not just to maintain our pureblood lineage within our children, but to do what the family would instruct. Bellatrix and Regulus got the short end of the stick. Within our family, there is only two choices, to marry an honorable family, or to serve the dark lord. Andromada and Sirius took option C and left the family, I married, and Bellatrix joined the dark lord with Regulus. With our father as the lord, she still married and was forced to serve." Harry looked like he couldn't care less "Don' t you see, with you there is hope that you can change all that, if you bond her to you, she will have a semi clean slate, and can correct the things that she has done wrong. She is more than willing to do anything, I mean…after all, she let father make all these bad decisions, why won't she let you make a good one?" Harry looked down and sighed heavily in defeat.
"Where is the damned book?"
Narcissa clapped and jumped up and down. "Over their, now go. She's not doing too good." Groaning and muttering something that sounded like school girls never grow up, he searched the shelves, finding a book called marking your own, he wandered back over to Narcissa. "Ok, stop eyeing the giant pile and grab what you want. Where is Bellatrix?" Narcissa pointed to a corner, she was looking a family tapestry.
"You know, now that you are lord black, you could kill me if you wanted to, technically I did remove Sirius from this world. You could seek out justice." Bellatrix said with a look of fear in her eyes.
"Some things in life are just beyond your control. So I won't kill you." Reaching for a dagger that was on the shelf, he slit her wrist, then his own.
"What the fuck, I thought that you were going to let me live?" Bellatrix said backing away, remembering that her sister still had her wand.
"I am," opening the book to the right page, made a few hand jesters, muttered a few words, and in an instant, the two were surrounded in a bright blue light. Looking down on her left fore arm, she saw the tattoo that her former master gave her slowly fade away, leaving pale skin in it's place. The light faded as Harry mashed their wrists together. Panting, Harry watched as the slits healed over. Finally, he passed out into her arms.
Waking up, Harry found himself laying down in a dark room, looking around, he saw three figures sitting a little ways away from the bed. As his eyes adjusted, he identified the figures as his aunt Nia, Narcissa and Draco. They were asleep in the chairs, leaning on one another for support. Trying to sit up, Harry found it very difficult, as his arms wouldn't obey, looking to his left, he saw familiar pink hair and violet eyes. To his left, he saw dark hair, an extremely skinny face and slightly gray skin. Sighing, he carefully climbed out of his bed, taking care not to wake anyone in the room, stumbling slightly, he walked out of the room and into the kitchen. Taking a look at the clock, he noticed that it was six in the morning. Yawning, he began with making eggs, toast, bacon and sausage. Finally, he readied the pancake mix. 'The smells bound to attract wild animals.' Harry thought as he saw his cosine Dudley walk through the door to the kitchen and begin to load up his plate, taking nearly half of what Harry worked so hard to make. Taking a tight grip on his wrist, Harry jerked the plate from his cosine's meaty fist. "Dud, I have company, I don't care if you do take food, but for Christ's sake, they have to eat too." Harry began to put the food back in it's place, he turned and saw stars as Dudley's frying pan sized hand connected with Harry's cheek.
"I don't care what mom says or if you have freaks over, I won't do what you tell me to." Dudley stated smugly, grabbing the plate once more and loading just as much food on it as he did before. Harry felt a level of contempt that he only felt toward Voldemort. Standing up and grabbing his shoulder tightly Harry spun Dudley around, taking his plate, Harry set it down and gave his cosine a hard right, knocking him out of the room and near the front door, darting at Dudley, Harry knocked him through the front door and out onto the lawn. Getting up, Dudley assumed his boxing stance, it was all Harry could do to dodge and wait for the right moment. Dudley pulled his arm far back and gave Harry a haymaker to his eye, falling back Harry saw out of his left eye that his cosine was coming again, darting forward, Harry gave his cosine a quick uppercut, not letting up Harry gave Dudley another three sharp hits to his ribs and a shot to his nose, knocking Dudley out. Then Harry heard the most unlikely thing, clapping, turning toward the street he saw a young girl clapping.
"Nice job," The girl said "couldn't have done better myself."
"Thanks," Harry said sheepishly "Sorry, I don't think we've met. Can I ask your name?"
"Isis Evans." The girl stated proudly. "Thanks for that, the git has been pestering me to go out with him for a while, he even resorted to letting his little gang threaten me." Harry and the girl talked for a little while, it turned out that the two went to the same school (not Hogwarts, elementary school). "I didn't know that you lived here Harry, I haven't seen you for a while, what school do you go to now?" Iris asked
"Ummm….It's like a boarding school." Harry said
"So it's true." Iris looked a little down.
"What?"
"Well, that you go to Saint Brutus. You always seemed nice, shy, but nice."
"Nooo, they make that up. Turns out that I wasn't really wanted here. A real shocker, I'm probably only going to be home for the summer, than I'm going to go back to school. Where do you go?"
"Some weird school, just recently got transferred you know. Hogwarty or something like that."
"Wait, your going to Hogwarts?" Harry asked astonished. It was a little weird that the girl had his mothers last name, but the girl was a witch as well?
"Yeah, you're one aren't you?" Iris asked and Harry nodded "Sucks not being able to do any magic doesn't it, honestly, in America people don't tend to care."
"I can if I want. I was recently emancipated." Iris looked as if her eyes would pop out of her head.
Harry gave a small chuckle "Hey, I made breakfast, do you want to join us? Either way I got to go inside, my eye is killing me." nodding, Iris followed Harry inside. For the first time, he was taking in the girl's features. She had long light brown hair and a slim build. Her eyes weren't green or blue, but a tealish color. Her skin was soft and blemish free, just an inch or two shorter than Harry. She had a slight tan, and full lips.
"You ok?" Iris asked
"Yeah, I'll be fine, why?"
"Besides your eye, you seem to be staring at me." Harry blushed a little and tried to think of a cover story
"Um, it's just that you have something in your hair." Harry lied, reaching forward, and pretending to brush something out of her hair with his hand.
"Potter, aren't you a little young to be picking girls up off the street?" A familiar voice asked, turning he saw Draco smiling at him. "By the way, breakfast is getting cold." Turning he saw that Iris was blushing.
"That's my distant cosine, don't worry about him." Harry said. Taking Iris's hand and leading her into the house and sat her down at the table.
"HARRY BROUGHT A GIRL INSIDE FROM THE STREET!" Draco shouted upstairs. Two woman came tumbling down and straight in front of the table, both looked slightly jealous of the fact that Harry was still holding the girls hand.
"Where's Bellatrix?" Harry asked
"She's still upstairs, she won't come down." Narcissa said, still eyeing the young girl holding Harry's hand."
"Help yourself to the food, I'm going to go get her." Harry said, running up the stairs and knocking on the door. Opening it, he saw that Bellatrix was staring out the window. Taking a seat next to her he began to speak "You won't get better if you don't eat." Bellatrix slowly turned her head and looked Harry in the eye.
"Why do you care?" Bellatrix asked
"Lord Black, Hello. It's my job to take care of the family, and you aren't doing so good." Harry grabbed Bellatrix's arm and began to lead her away.
"Don't you care? About why I did it." Bellatrix asked, sitting down with Harry next to her. "Well, in pureblood, you are obligated to please the head of the house, at the time it was my father. Anyway, he told me that I had a choice, go against him and die, or marry Rudolphus, I chose marriage. Anyway, I became obligated to do what he told me, when I refused, he placed me under the imperious curse and made me a death eater. When I wasn't doing what Voldemort made me do, Rudolphus forced himself on me." Something happened that Harry never thought would happen, a tear rolled down her cheek. "Anyway, we went to Azkaband, he was cruel as usual, when we finally broke out, we went to the DOM and he recast the imperious curse on me, when you fought me and put the Curcio on me, it broke the imperious, I still couldn't risk being found out, so I fought with you…until yesterday, I was planning on killing him, and then myself." Harry didn't say anything at first just looked at her. Standing on his feet, he put out his hand and pulled her up.
"Like I said before. Some things, no matter how hard we fight, are out of our control. Sirius isn't dead. Maybe we could cure the Longbottoms with something in the library, after that, you should be good. Or did you kill anyone else?" Surprisingly, Bellatrix shook her head. "What about that trial, you were accused of murdering someone else weren't you?"
"No, I didn't, I was an accessory, I didn't hurt anyone." Bellatrix finished. "Hold still, I can heal that eye." Nodding, Harry told her about his fight with his cosine, causing Bellatrix to laugh.
"Look, your sick, I made a big breakfast, then your going straight back to bed." Harry said scoldingly, Bellatrix giggle, another thing that Harry never thought that he would never hear. Leading her downstairs, they saw something….rather special. In the chair sat a very uncomfortable Iris, Tonks on her left, pointing a light in her face, and on her right Narcissa, asking a lot of odd questions.
"What are your intentions with young Harry?" Narcissa asked sternly
"I was…"Iris began
"What our your intentions with our Harry?" Tonks asked again.
"I was…" Iris began and was interrupted again.
"Oh what are you two going to say to the poor girl now?" Draco began "We were with Harry last night, he's ours?"
"Oh my god…" Harry half shouted "What you three doing to her?" Bellatrix was on the ground laughing at how quick the blush took over her face. "I leave for three seconds and you guys decided to play uber protective cops?"
"I gotta go Harry." Iris said, blushing even more.
"Oh no…Iris don't….Awww….Iris…..AWW….AWWWW!" Harry watched her walk out of the front door, following her slightly. "Wait up," Harry said, jogging up behind her. "I'm sorry, how's about we restart, this time at a restaurant?" Iris looked at Harry and laughed.
"Your family always that…productive?"
"Sadly yes." Iris laughed again and they continued to walk down to a restaurant. "Umm, I forgot to get my money…could you pay?"
"You cheap punk." Iris smiled and gently pushed him. Sitting in the booth, they began to talk, Harry was genially interested in what she had to say, which is more than he can say for when he's at school. Finally paying the bill, nearly two hours later, they walked out of the restaurant and over to a local park. Sitting on the swings, she continued to talk. "You ever try that?" Iris said, pointing to a small skate park that they recently put up. Harry shook his head as she dragged him over. "Come on, you only live once." Grabbing a rent-a-skateboard, she lead Harry to the edge of a ramp. With a small push from Iris, Harry went down, managing to stay standing, Harry went back up, then he fell. Harry's back slammed into the ground with a loud thud. "Oh Harry you ok?" Nodding to Iris, he looked to his left and saw a few of Dudley's gang standing near, smiling.
"Poor Potty, need a wittle girwl to hewp him up?" Piers mocked.
"Shut it rat face." Iris said, leading Harry to a bench, laying him down and letting his head rest on her lap. "You hit the ground hard, just rest for a little while." Nodding, he relaxed, and didn't even hear the footsteps of people coming toward him.
"You know, I didn't like that rat face comment. You could make it up to me though." Peers glared down at Harry, who returned the favor. "I'm sorry, I mean that you will make it up to me. All you need to do is open your mouth, get down on your knees and …." Harry had heard enough, with two quick shots, Piers was knocked down. Looking up, he took out a pocket knife "You'll regret that Potter." Storming off, Harry turned to Iris.
"I think I had enough fun for a day. You?" Harry said
"Plenty. I'll see you around." Taking out a piece of paper, she scribbled some numbers on it "call me if your board or anything." Iris said as they went their separate ways.
Harry walked into Private Drive and found his uncle was waiting for him. "YOU FREAK, YOU THINK THAT YOU COULD GET AWAY WITH IT?" Vernon shouted, closing the distance between him and Harry, rising his fist only to be stopped by his wife, coming between the two. "Petunia, why are you stopping me?"
"Because fighting won't change a thing, Harry's guest attended to Dudley's wounds, he's fine." Nia said to Vernon, she changed back to Petunia , so not to shock her husband. "Harry, apologize to my son for hitting him. Dudley, apologize to Harry for taking all his food and breaking you diet." Harry and Dudley grudgingly muttered a sorry. "Now, both of you will stay in your rooms for the rest of the day as punishment." Mumbling, they both trudged up the stairs and into their rooms, Immediately, Dudley's room filled with the noise of a tantrum. Turning, Harry found that his room was much bigger, a few beds conjured and two very angry woman waiting for him.
"Harry what were you thinking?" Tonks began.
"I mean, you didn't even know that girl." Narcissa finished
"Uh…yeah, that's why I went with her." Harry replied. "To get to know her."
"She could have been a deatheater for all you know." Tonks said
"No she wouldn't. If Voldie was going to go after me, he would have used the image of someone that I trust, not some random girl." knowing that Harry was right, they quieted down.
"We were just worried about you." Tonks said looking down slightly ashamed.
Sighing, Harry lifted her face. "Nothing to worry about or to be sorry about. The end of this summer, I am going to Black Manor, then we'll look for a cure for the Longbottoms and how to draw Sirius out of the veil."
"um, why can't we leave today?" Draco asked.
"I want Bellatrix to get better soon. She might not be better for a little while." Harry took a seat next to her sleeping form, lightly blushing the hair out of her face. "Besides, I want to get to know Iris and aunt Nia. Something seems odd about Iris though, then again I could just be imaging it." Harry finished. The day went on and on. The girls eventually got Harry to tell them what he and Iris did when they went out, and Draco was actually interested in how a lot of the muggles magic worked, especially the computer and the internet. The rest of the day was spent getting to know Narcissa, Draco and Tonks. What he found out about Narcissa was that her relationship with Lucius wasn't too different from Bellatrix, both wished that they followed in Sirius's and Andromeda's footsteps. Draco seemed to like everything that Harry did, but made it clear that they weren't friends and he never wanted to be 'Yeah right.' Harry thought. When he talked to Tonks, he was revolted even more, turned out that during a mission, Dumbledore tried to get her to sleep with a supposed death eater so he could get more information.
"That's sooo gross." Narcissa said.
"You didn't did you?" Bellatrix asked. Blushing, Tonks shook her head.
"Whatever." Draco began "I was wondering Harr…I mean Potter, if you were willing to, over the summer to train with these three. If you do go up against Voldemort, you will need all the help you can get. Hell, you could bring Iris along." The three woman scowled at the mention of her name.
"If you want to get trained, you have to be up and sunrise and in bed by sunset, no exceptions." Bellatrix said.
"No problem, I'll call Iris and ask if she wants the training." Walking downstairs, Harry didn't noticed the drop in temperature when her name was mentioned again.
"Hey is Iris there?"
"This is her, who's calling?"
"It's Harry, I was wondering if you would want to come over early tomorrow, my family is going to be training. I dunno, sorta thought that you might want to come with." Harry heard her laugh on the other line.
"No problem, I'll come by at around seven, I'll talk to you then. Bye." Harry hung up the phone and wandered up stairs. He saw that there were only three beds, Narcissa laid in one, Draco in another, and Bellatrix in another. "Um, where should Tonks and I sleep?" Harry asked
"Just hop in a bed stupid." Bellatrix shot out. So, like any guy, he excepted her challenged, and got into bed with her. Tonks right behind him.
During the night, Harry found Tonks shivering and muttering to herself. Only half awake, Harry wrapped his arm around her waist, pulling her closer to him. Before going back to sleep, he felt Tonk's fingers interlace with his own. Whispering a quick goodnight, they fell back into a deep sleep.
Ok, in this chapter, I wanted Harry to get the feeling of independence. If you were emancipated, then you would feel the same way. I also wanted him to stand up for himself. Before you ask, Harry hasn't totally forgiven Bellatrix, but knows that these things weren't her fault. Ok, I wrote the character Iris in here because Draco needs a girl, I don't see Draco and Hermione happening. Also, the scene with Peirs did happen to me and the girl that I am modeling Iris, so don't ask where that came from. Harry and Iris will have a brother/sister relationship. Hermione will be important to the story, but Ron will get bashed, not sure about Ginny yet. Now, I would like for you guys to vote for pairings. Doesn't have to involve Harry at all, it could be like Luna and Neville or something like that. Just leave a review.
