A/N:Hey guys:') I'm looking for a beta so if anyone's interested could you drop me a message please? I'd appreciate any thoughts or ideas from you guys. Hope you enjoy:') There's a bit of a time change in this chapter, but it's only a week so you've missed nothing. Review for a snippet of the next chapter.
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Curling his lip distastefully, Lucius malfoy threw the offending news paper into the roaring coal fire his wife insisted they keep despite how much he begged her to get rid of it. The last few years had been rather peaceful for the malfoy family, Lucius was doing very well in his job at the ministry, and his wife Narcissa was quite happy playing the role of the doting, albeit gossipy house wife. Their son Draco had just started his third year at Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, and despite a few problems in his first few years Lucius knew his son would flourish in time to come. Despite how well things were going, Lucius knew a storm was coming, he was no fool, and knew his old master was still alive. The mistakes of his youth often plagued him and it had been hard for him to try and turn his life around. If the dark lord did come back, there was no way he would let his family become associated with him whatsoever. Vow or not. He was but a child when he decided to join the dark lord, and knew little of the world. The dark lords plans and agendas intrigued him, but it was the promise of pure-bloods ruling that really piqued his interest. He was brought up to despise anything that was different, but he knew better now.
He was trying to turn his life around, if not for himself, then for his family. He knew he'd made mistakes, but no more. The malfoy family was now firmly on the light.
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Harry's Pov.
The last week spent with Sirius and Remus had been absolutely amazing. They'd spent all their time together, and they'd both told him lots of stories about his parents, in return, he told them all about what he got up to at Hogwarts. They'd trained a lot too. Harry had worked his way through the books for first to third year, and Remus was buying the next set of books for him to work on. Everything was going perfectly. Well, almost everything. Harry did not trust Dumbledore. And he was worried about his friends, Hermione was trying to figure out a way for him to get inside Hogwarts to see everybody. And she'd brought up another problem. The students weren't learning nearly enough at Hogwarts, and Harry had told Hermione and Ron that Voldemort would be back. But, with the way the wizarding world is, they had no hope of ever defeating voldemorts army, unless they started putting in some effort now. That meant getting a group of students together who excelled in certain subjects, these students would teach classes to anyone who wanted to learn. And they would take place after everyone else had gone to bed of course. Harry would be teaching defense against the darks arts, whilst Hermione would teaching obscure spells that could help in near death situations. As Hogwarts had already started, Hermione had started recruiting people already and Harry was getting ready to sneak into the castle for the first time. He was undoubtedly excited, and although he wouldn't admit it, quite scared about getting caught. Sirius was more excited about the upcoming escapade than he was.
"Can I please come with you? I'll stay in dog form the whole time I promise!" Sirius whined giving Harry his best puppy dog eyes.
"Sirius, as I've explained for the last time, I need you here. We've got a meeting with Amelia bones tonight and you've got to do the ritual remember?" Remus said exasperated.
"What ritual?" Harry asked.
"I'm going to become the head of the house of black". Sirius said with a disgusted look on his face.
"I'll be staying firmly on the light side. I'm doing the ritual before Amelia comes because I want to start forming alliances with other houses for when the war comes. It's always good to have allies". Sirius winked at him before walking off.
Forming alliances did sound like a good idea. He should talk to Hermione about that later, he thought.
"Sirius?" Harry called.
"Yeah" Sirius said, popping his head around the corner half a peace of toast in his hand.
"Since I'm the last potter, would it be possible for me to become the head of the house?" Sirius thought for a moment before nodding.
"It would be possible. I think you may have to wait till your 17th birthday though, it comes with a lot of responsibilities you know. But, you should be able to take on the potter heir ring". Sirius thought for a moment before running off.
"Be right back!" He said leaving Harry in a state of confusion. He'd gotten used to his godfathers impulsiveness but it still shocked him some times.
Several minutes later he came back into the room with Remus.
"Harry, do you still have the key to your gringotts vault?" He asked.
Harry nodded in confusion and went to grab his key out of his trunk.
"Why do I need it?"
"We're going to the main potter vault so you're going to need it for identification".
"The main Potter vault?" Harry asked in confusion. Sirius and Remus shared a glance.
"Yes… There's the inheritance vault. That's the one you've got a key for, it has a certain amount of money for you to spend each year on whatever you want. And then, there's the main Potter vault. That's where most of the Potter money and heirlooms and such are. You didn't know that?" Remus asked. When Harry shook his head, Sirius and Remus shared yet another look.
"We'll talk more about this later, let's get going. We've all got a busy day ahead". Remus said with a kind smile whilst holding his arm out for Harry to hold onto as they apparated.
They arrived at the entrance to gringotts several seconds later and Remus lead them inside and over to one of the goblin tellers.
"Hello, we'd like to visit the potter vault". Remus said kindly. The goblin grunted and held out his hand.
"Identification" Harry handed him the key, and once the goblin was satisfied off they went to vault 79.
After an eventful carriage ride that left Remus feeling rather sick, they made it to the Potter vault. There was a long corridor with two rooms. Opening the first door Harry was astounded. It was filled with mountains of gold.
"You're pretty well off kid". Sirius said whilst slapping Harry on the back.
"Everything we need is in the other room though". He said, dragging a disappointed Harry into the adjoining room. This room was filled with all sorts of things from books, to very old looking artifacts. Weapons adorned the walls and trunks and boxes of all kinds littered the floors.
"Take whatever you want Harry, it's all yours after all. Just make sure it isn't something dark".
"Why would there be anything dark in here?" Harry asked in confusion.
"The potters kept lots of dark artifacts hidden here so no one could use them" Remus said. Harry nodded before walking off and looking around. He walked over to one of the many bookshelves and pulled off a few books that looked interesting. Several about defense against the dark arts and some about something called mind magic. He put all the books he wanted into a bag he'd brought with him before walking back over to Remus and Sirius.
"Harry, I want you to go and pick out some weapons. I'm going to be training you in hand to hand combat and weapons soon". Sirius said with a grin.
After they got everything they needed, including an ornate black box, with a griffin on top. They made their way back home.
Harry took all of his things up to his room and began getting ready for the meeting that night. He put on some black robes with the potter crest, and put in some muggle eye contacts. They were a lot better than glasses, and he'd prefer to wear them untill he could get his eyes corrected.
As soon as 7 o'clock came around, Remus took Harry to Hogsmeade, and he made his way honeydukes where there was a secret passageway into Hogwarts. It took him a good half an hour to walk through the passage and he found Hermione and Ron waiting for him at the end. After quickly catching up with his friends they made their way to the room of requirement.
"I found out about it in that book I told you about. You just think of what you want and it appears". Hermione said excitedly.
"It's that simple?" Harry asked
"Yes, although it can't conjure food or water. We've already tested it out and there's some people waiting there for us. We wanted to sort out teaching schedules. We have a list of people who have signed up and we're going to split them into groups and such".
"Wouldn't it be easier to just do it by house?" Ron asked.
"We want to promote inter house alliances Ron" Hermione said rolling her eyes. They made it to the seventh floor without a hitch, and Hermione showed him how to get into the room of requirement. Inside, large bookshelves lined the walls, and several bean bags and comfy chairs were placed around the room.
Several people from different houses and years were sat around the room, quietly talking and getting to know each other, but the chatter ceased as soon as Harry entered. All eyes were on him as he took a seat. The group consisted of Hermione, Ron, Fred, George. Cedric diggory, Susan bones, Luna lovegood, Roger davies and sue Li. A flush of embarrassment welled up in him but he pushed it back down. Sirius and Remus had taught him that confidence could get you anywhere. Clearing his throat he began to speak.
"Hello, as Hermione has probably told you, we're not happy with the way things are being run at Hogwarts. We're not being taught enough and we're not learning to our full potential. So, we wanted to get a group of smart, talented people together so we could start training students". He paused for a second to see the reactions of the people inside the room. They were hanging on to his every word, and he saw nods and murmurs of agreement from several people.
"Now, there is another reason we want to do this, and you probably won't like it". Before he could carry on speaking he was cut off as the door opened. He glanced at Hermione and she shrugged in confusion. All eyes were trained on the door as it slowly opened, and three forms stood in the doorway. Several people gasped as they walked in.
"We want to join your group, we're sick of the way things are being run at Hogwarts and we want to help" one of them said. " Things need to change". Draco malfoy said, walking out from the shadows.
