AN: Love all the positive responses I have received on this since posting. As always, I own nothing Harry Potter is owned by JK Rowling. All I own in this is my original characters.
"" Normal Talk
Parseltounge
## Beast Speak
Upon arriving at the Black Family manor, Sirius called for his house elf and with a silent pop, Vokry appeared beside Sirius. "Yes Master Sirius, sir, what can Vokry be doing for you?" "Vokry, this is the Black Family manor and as far as I know it has been uncared for and unlived in for some time. It's where we are going to be living from now on so I need you to clean it up for me." Vokry turned and studied the manor for a second before nodding. "Right away Master Sirius," he said before popping away to begin his work. Sirius approached the manor doors, grabbing the door knob so he could feel the wards judging him to determine if he had the right to be here. In a matter of seconds, the doors clicked open allowing him entrance. Sirius proceeded into the house and up the stairs, stopping at what appeared to be a nursery. Pulling out his wand, Sirius cast detection charms around the room making sure nothing was cursed or could harm Harry. Satisfied, he walked towards the crib laying him down before stepping from the room and casting the monitoring charm.
Once out of the room, Sirius proceeded down the hall finding the master bedroom which Vokry had already cleaned. He stripped down before laying in the bed and falling asleep. Waking early the next morning Sirius walked downstairs to where he knew the floo room to be from his childhood. He grabbed a pinch of floo powder and threw it into the fire calling out, "Tonks household," kneeling down and sticking his head in the flame he called out, "Andy are you home?" Andromeda approached the fire place kneeling down, "Sirius, good heavens what's going on?" "I adopted Harry after the events the other night with Voldemort and I was hoping you could give him a checkup. I know you used to be a healer before little Nymphadora was born." Andromeda considered for a moment before standing up. "Of course, Sirius. I'll have to bring Nymphadora though as Ted has already gone into his practice for the day." Sirius smiled "Great, the floo address is Black Family Manor. Give me a few minutes to key you into the wards." Standing up from the fireplace, Sirius turned and walked towards a section of wall, showed to him by his Grandfather in his younger years, with a hole in it before placing his head of house ring into the indentation. With an audible click the section of wall slid away revealing a room. Stepping inside, he came upon a rune covered stone and in the back corner was a book upon a pedestal. Approaching the book and picking up the quill inside the ink pot, he wrote down Andromeda Tonks nee Black and Nymphadora Tonks to the list. Stepping back out of the room the wall sliding back into place behind the fire flashed green and out stepped Andromeda and Nymphadora.
Sirius immediately pulled Andromeda into a hug before looking down at Nymphadora. "Why little Nymphadora look how big you've gotten!" Her hair turned red and she yelled back stamping her feet, "Don't call me Nymphadora! My name is TONKS!" Sirius laughed, giving her a mock salute before feeling the monitoring charm go off. "I believe Harry is awake! Let's head up and you can check him out." Sirius leads them out of the floo room and up the stairs. Opening the door to Harry's room he finds him standing up inside the crib.
Walking over and picking him up, Sirius tickled his tummy before walking over and placing him on the changing table. Andromeda stepped in and with a flick of her wrist her wand snapped from her holster to her hand. With the precision of a practiced healer, Andromeda began casting various diagnostic charms over Harry, who was giggling at the light coming from her wand. As she finished, she reached into her purse and pulled out a scroll of paper. Pointing her wand at the parchment, the results magically appeared on the scroll.
Medical and Magical status for Harry James Potter
Medical Status:
Cardiac: Above Average Performance
Vascular: Above Average Performance
Muscular: Normal
Skeletal: Normal
Vision: Impaired (Currently healing at current rate will be Above Average by age 6)
Magical Status:
Core Level: 500 Flamels*
Abilities (Tenative):**
Animagus (Multi)
Elemental
Natural Legillmens
Abilities (Permanent):
Natural Occulmency
Parseltounge
Dual-Casting
Shadowmagus
Beast Speak
Taking the results, the group headed downstairs to the dining room where Sirius placed Harry in a highchair to be fed, then taking the seat next to him while Andromeda sat across from him and Tonks took the seat to the left of Harry to play with him while they discussed his results.
Looking over the results, they were both stunned. Breaking the silence, Sirius started off. "Well he's healthy.. so that's good, but these magical results? I don't think there's ever been anyone that powerful at his age or someone with that many abilities. Some of these I haven't even heard of…" he trailed off just looking between the giggling child and the scroll holding the results. Andromeda wanting to help, remarked, "He's already at 500 flamels and barely just 1 ½ years old! He is going to be the most powerful wizard since Merlin himself… who was rumored to be at 3500 at the time of his death! As for the abilities, the tentative ones aren't common, but in fact they border on the rare.. but he may not get them all. It's the permanent ones that worry me… you know how he will be viewed by magicals if this gets out." Sirius picked up the scroll and studied it for a moment before throwing it into the fireplace. "Now no one except us will know and Harry when he gets older." He looked over to Andromeda who nodded before casting tempus. "Good heavens, look at the time. I better get going, Ted will be home soon and I haven't started dinner." She got Tonks up and moving before shuffling towards the fireplace. "Tonks Household," stepping into the fire, they were gone.
Sirius turned around seeing that Vokry had popped in with food. He sat down and began feeding Harry, who after he finished burped and started falling asleep. Sirius picked him up and carried him upstairs to give him a bath and clean him up before he fell asleep. Once bathed, Sirius carried him to his room and laid him in the crib dimming the lights.
Time Skip Harry 3 Years old:
It was at three years old that Harry first started coming into some of his abilities, namely his shadowmagus abilities given to him by the darkness bestowed upon him by Death. He was playing hide and seek with Neville, who Sirius thought would be a good friend his age and Tonks, who came over regularly to play with Harry since having gotten attached to him during his checkup. When he couldn't find a place to hide, he used the darkness to hide in the shadows under a table. Unaware of what he was doing, it was after not being found for 15 minutes he began to cry. Sirius found him hiding there. Explaining what had happened and about his shadowmagus abilities, Sirius began teaching him to control his powers using several books he found in the Black Family Library.
Time Skip Harry 5 Years old:
It was at five years old that Harry discovered his first familiar. He was outside playing with Sirius in his Padfoot form, when he heard what sounded like a wounded bird cry out. Running over towards the sound, Padfoot bounding behind him, he found a golden bird laying in the grass, bleeding. Sirius transformed back to himself upon reaching them. "What could have hurt this phoenix? it takes a lot to injure one.." he asked mostly to himself while getting his wand from his holster incase there was danger.
Harry who still didn't have much grasp over his budding shadowmagus powers and his powers over the Dark, gasped, sensing its masters want to help the injured phoenix. Dark tendrils extended from his body and reached out towards the phoenix. Normally against such darkness, the phoenix, a creature of pure light, would attempt to fight, but it was to weak to fight and so assuming it would die gave in to dark tendrils. However reacting to their masters will, the tendrils reached into the essence of the phoenix and began to heal it, changing it. The golden colors first dulled and then changed from their golden hue to black with blue wingtips. Its work complete, the tendrils returned to Harry, who gasped and sank to the ground from the exertion.
Sirius seeing this quickly got behind his godson to support him, as the now changed phoenix jumped up and hopped around, studying itself for a moment. Then flamed up; where a bright red and gold flame should have been, it was a dark flame with a blue center. Appearing on Harry's shoulder, the phoenix stared him in the eyes and as the phoenix began to trill, another of Harry's abilities revealed itself #Your power has healed me and changed me in ways my kind has never seen. I will stand by your side.# Harry gasped at being able to understand it. #Thank you, majestic bird. What do I call you?# Studying Harry for a moment, it thought before responding. #Before I was known as Soleil, but that no longer seems fitting. With my new form and my rebirth as a Shadow Phoenix, I wish to be known as Étoile.#
Harry reached up and stroked his plumage before turning to Sirius. "This is Étoile. He is a shadow phoenix and my new friend. He says he is going to be by my side." Sirius unable to believe what he just witnessed, decided to just roll with it.
Time Skip Harry 10 Years old:
It was at ten years old that Sirius had taken Harry to Gringotts for a bloodline test to see what families he was heir of and to see the vaults. It was there that Harry met the second of his two familiars. Upon arriving they went to the counter and asked for Lurkar.
Once shown to his office, they were greeted by Lurkar. "Lord Black, Heir Potter! Come in, come in! I have everything prepared for the bloodline test," he said gesturing to an engraved bowl, jeweled dagger, and scroll. He gestured for Harry to approach the desk. Harry did so, picking up the dagger. He drew it along the palm of his hand, letting the blood fall onto the parchment. Once the appropriate amount fell onto it, the cut healed itself. Grasping the parchment, Lurkar dropped it into the bowl with the potion, which started to fizz and bubble. Once the magic in Harry's blood interacted with the magic in the potion, the scroll rolled itself up and floated up and out of the bowl.
Blood Line Results for Harry James Potter
Heir to Potter Family (By blood)
Heir to Peverell Family (By blood)
Heir to Mors Family (By Magic)
Heir to Sors Family (By Magic)
Looking over the results, Harry looked up at Sirius and Lurkar. "I know the Potter Family but Peverell, Mors, and Sors, what are those families?" Lurkar, who was the first to recover responded "Well Peverell I am sure you have at least heard of through the tale of the three brothers. The Mors and Sors family, I am not surprised you have never heard of them as it has been quite sometime since there was an heir or lord to either of the families. They were last seen during the time before Merlin. It is said they held dominion over Death and Fate Respectively." Harry looked up at Sirius unsure of what to say. Sirius seeing this looked to Lurkar, "can we go the family vaults and collect the heir rings for Harry?" Lurkar nodded affirmative and led them out and down the carts. "We will start with Potter and work our way from there."
The trip to the Potter, Peverell, and Mors family vault was uneventful, but when they reached the Sors family vault that things took a turn. Inside the vault, next to the pedestal holding the Heir ring was a second pedestal with a green colored egg. Harry felt a compulsion to touch it. He reached out touching the shell, which upon his touch started to hatch. Mesmerized by the cracks, they watched as a dark green serpent with a red stripe along its head slither out and up Harry's arm $Hello there young one, what are you?$ Harry hissed to the serpent. Looking up at Harry, $I am a basilisk left here for the one whose magic would bond with mine.$ It was at that point Etoile flamed to Harry's shoulder looking at the basilisk #Little one you must cover your eye or you will kill the small one.# Doing so the basilisk looked at Harry $Can I bond with you, young one$, looking between the basilisk and the phoenix Harry nodded and with that the basilisk bit him. Sirius went to interfere only to be stopped by Etoile. Grinding his teeth as the venom ran through him, the basilisk let up and then Etoile flew over and cried tears into the wound, healing it. $Do you have a name young one?$ Harry asked $You may name me.$ thinking for a second Harry considered $I shall call you Ranua.$
Turning to Sirius after picking up the heir ring, Harry introduced his new friend. "This is Ranua; she is my second familiar" Sirius had a bark laugh. "A shadow phoenix and basilisk you don't do anything by halves pup." With that they turned and stepped from the vault, ready to return home.
AN: While this chapter was a lot of fluff, it was setting the scene for the rest of the story and setting up my version of Harry a bit more. From here it will slowly get much darker
AN * In this story magical power is defined by Flamels this is the chart
0-10 Muggle
11-90 Squib
91- 120 Below Average Wizard
121-220 Average Wizard
221-320 Above Average Wizard
321-499 Powerful Wizard
500+ Top level
AN ** Of the Tentative Abilities I haven't decided which of any of these I am going to keep. I will be putting up a poll for help deciding this one will be up longer as most wont play a part until 2nd year and later.