Summary: The inheritance tests are taken, they learn why Catlin only received a Hogwarts letter, and the healers are being called.
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UPDATED: 10/12/18
The Inheritance Tests
Ragnok's Office, Gringotts
July 31, 2001
~*Severus's POV*~
"Look!" Severus looked over at Harry, and the parchment that would contain his inheritance results. He would never admit aloud the anxiety he felt in the wait as it slowly revealed the truth.
As the words started to appear, his eyes grew wider in shocked amazement.
Name: Severus Tobias Snape-Prince
Date of Birth: January 9, 1970
Parents:
Tobias Snape (deceased)
Eileen Snape nee Prince (deceased)
Grandparents:
Rowan Prince (deceased)
Synne Prince nee Avery (deceased)
Family Inheritance(s):
Lord of the Most Ancient and Noble House of Prince (grandfather)
Vaults:
Snape Personal Vault: 88105 Galleons 1 Sickle 6 Knuts, potions, potion ingredients, books
Prince Family Vault: 3,318,458,417 Galleons 14 Sickles 13 Knuts, potions, potion ingredients, family heirlooms, jewelry, furniture, books, precious gems and stones
Properties:
Prince Manor – Wales
Spinner's End – Cokeworth, England
Creature Inheritance:
Vampire – Dominant (mother)
Mates:
Regulus Arcturus Black – Dominant Elf
Catlin Elizabeth Stark – Submissive Neko (Egyptian Mau)
Skills:
Natural Occlumens
Natural Legilimens
Potions (mother)
Spell Crafting (mother)
Animagus (Goblin Bat)
Blood Magic
Defense Against the Dark Arts
Dueling
Masteries:
Defense Against the Dark Arts
Potions
Spell Creation
Curses:
Dark Mark:
Magic Leach – keyed to Tom Marvolo Riddle
Pain Curse – keyed to Severus Snape
He couldn't believe it. His grandfather hadn't disowned him, but this brought up a lot of questions. Why was he just finding this out? Why hadn't he received any notifications from Gringotts? Then anger and fear set in when he learned the properties of the Dark Mark…The megalomaniac had added a magic leach! It was no wonder he was so magically strong, or that he suddenly received a bust in his magic that Halloween night.
"Is there any way, any way at all to remove this accursed mark?" he asked, fear in his voice as he directed his question to Ragnok, but it was Loki who answered.
"There may be a way, but I would have to look at it. We can do so after the children take their test." Loki informed him.
Severus felt a small sense of relief, and his immediate fear diminished. Surly an Asgardian God would be able to remove it where mere mortals have failed.
"Wait…I thought Regulus Black was dead…and…did I read that right?" he asked, looking at the names listed under "Mates".
"Mate? What do you mean Catlin is his mate? He is old enough to be her father! I would know seeing as I am her father!" Stark said, his voice growing louder.
"Dad, remember? Grandfather and I talked to you about this." The girl, no his mate, said as she put her hand on his arm.
"But I thought it would be someone your own age!" he exclaimed.
"Magic decides who her mates are, age matters not, especially seeing as Severus is a Vampire and this Regulus is an Elf. Elves are nearly as immortal as I am, same with vampires. Knowing as much as I do about both species, they are both very protective of their submissive mates. They would give their very lives for her," Loki said.
"Not only that, but nothing would actually happen until Miss Stark has reached her age of maturity at the age of 17 or when she comes into her own inheritance," Ragnok stated.
~*Catlin's POV*~
"You don't have to worry Dad." She said, patting his arm comfortingly. "Besides, he'll be at Hogwarts with me and Harry, so he can keep an eye on us." She said with a smile. "It will give Professor Snape and I a chance to get to know each other, and there's like five or six years before anything would happen between us anyway."
She looked back at the professor and asked, "What do you mean that Regulus Black is dead?"
"He disappeared back in 1989. No one really knows what happened, but we all assumed he had died. Some say he tried leaving the Dark Lord, who then killed him, but in truth, no one knows for sure, not even the Dark Lord himself. It seems, with the lack of deceased next to his name, that's not true," the professor explained.
"So, he followed the same guy you did?" Dad asked.
"Yes, but I believe that he found something that turned him away. Something that was truly horrifying. That would be the only thing that would make sense, knowing who his parents were." He said with a shake of his head.
"Is there a way to find him?" Cat asked.
"No, we don't have anything that is personal or any blood for tracking spells to work. The only thing that I can think of that would be able to find him would be when you reach your majority or come into your inheritance, whichever is first. Only then would your bond with him lead you to him." Snape said.
"Oh, Ok." She sighed, and then looked at Ragnok. "Guess I'll go next. I'm really curious to learn everything that I'll be inheriting."
"Very well." Ragnok said as he poured the potion into her bowl and handed her the dagger.
Catlin held the dagger over her palm, bit her lip, and pressed firmly enough into her hand to cut the skin, but not hard enough to make it bleed far more than was necessary. She inhaled at the sting and set the dagger on the desk. She closed her hand and held it over the bowl, letting the needed seven drops of blood to fall into the potion.
Ragnok once again repeated the process he had with Snape's potion, and they waited for her results to show. As they waited, Harry followed the same steps as her and the professor.
"There!" she said, as the words started to appear. Once it had finished, they read her results.
Name: Catlin Elizabeth Stark-Silvertongue
Date of Birth:
August 31, 1990
Date of Death:
July 18, 1996
Rebirth:
July 18, 1996
Parents:
Jonathan Mark Michelson nee Stark
Clare Marie Michelson
Anthony "Tony" Edward Stark (by adoption)
Grandparents:
Howard Stark (deceased)
Maria Stark (deceased)
Peter Michelson (adopted-deceased)
Sarah Michelson nee Peters (adopted-deceased)
Loki Odinson/Laufeyson-Silvertongue
Elizabeth Evans
Great-Grandparents:
Odin – King of Asgard (by adoption)
Frigga – Queen of Asgard (by adoption)
Laufey – King of Jotunheim
Fárbauti – Queen of Jotunheim
Howard Stark Sr.
Lydia Stark nee Miller
Robert Evans
Elizabeth Evans nee Thompson
Family Inheritances:
Heiress to the Most Ancient and Most Royal House Silvertongue (maternal grandfather)
Heiress of the Most Ancient and Most Noble House of Hufflepuff (Maternal grandmother)
Princess of Asgard and Jotunheim
Vaults:
Silvertongue Family Vault – 132,738,336,713 Galleons 16 Sickles 27 Knuts, family heirlooms, jewelry, furniture, books, precious gems and stones
Hufflepuff Family Vault – 14,933,062,880 Galleons 5 Sickles 15 Knuts, family heirlooms, jewelry, furniture, books, precious gems and stones
Properties:
Silvertongue Manor – London
Hufflepuff Castle – Wales
Hufflepuff Burrow – Scotland
25% Hogwarts
Creature Inheritance:
½ Frost Giant (Loki Silvertongue)
Egyptian Mau Neko – Submissive (Hela Lokidottir)
Mates:
Severus Tobias Snape-Prince – Dominant Vampire
Regulus Arcturus Black – Dominant Elf
Skills:
Healing (Hufflepuff)
Herbology (Hufflepuff)
Earth Magic (Hufflepuff)
Enhanced Senses (Hela Lokidottir)
Enhanced Speed (Hela Lokidottir)
Enhanced Strength (Hela Lokidottir)
Enhanced Agility (Hela Lokidottir)
Night Vision (Hela Lokidottir)
Illusion (Silvertongue)
Natural Occlumency (Silvertongue)
Natural Legilimency (Silvertongue)
Spell Crafting (Silvertongue)
Wandless Magic (Silvertongue)
Before Catlin could comment on her results, she felt her grandfather's magic fill the room. "Grandfather? Are you all right? Is something wrong?"
"Odin has lied to me!" he said through his anger. "I am a Frost Giant. It's the only way you would be, even if it is half." He turned from the desk, and the results, and began pacing. "How could they? Does Mother know? Thor? How could he keep this from me? What would have happened if I had found out in a different way, in a different situation?" he muttered to himself, but loud enough for everyone to hear.
"Is it a bad thing? To be a Frost Giant I mean?" Harry asked.
Cat looked at him with a smile, happy someone other than her asked. Grandfather stopped pacing and looked at him. "I…I am unsure at this time. It…has come as a shock, something I never expected." He answered.
~*Harry's POV*~
Harry didn't understand what the big deal was. Sure, Loki was adopted, but so were Catlin and her mother according to her test. So why was Loki so angry? He guessed it could be that his father, Odin, kept it from him. Maybe he didn't even plan to tell Loki that he was adopted. He felt that he should be happy to have parents and a brother to grow up with while all he had were an aunt, uncle, and cousin that hated him and never wanted him to begin with.
With a sigh, Harry turned back to the desk, ignoring Loki, Catlin, and even Professor Snape. He took the dagger, cleaned of Catlin's blood, and dragged it across his palm. He didn't even flinch at the sting it caused. Holding his bleeding hand over the potion, he let the required seven drops fall. First it turned red from his blood, but quickly turned blue.
Without the others realizing, Ragnok took the bowl and tipped it over his parchment. Harry had grown curious at seeing the name Evans on Cat's test. He wondered if they were really related. So, in a whisper, Harry asked Ragnok if he could get a copy of his family tree. The only way to know for sure would be to see the connection between his great-grandfather on his mother's side and Catlin's great-grandfather on her mother's side. He found himself hoping that there was, that they were cousins. It would be nice to have family other than the Dursley's. Maybe Mr. Stark would let him live with them. Anywhere was better than the Dursley's in his opinion.
After Ragnok had nodded his agreement, he wrote a quick note to have a family tree brought up. By that time, Harry's own results had finished, and what he saw confused and upset him.
Name: Hadrian James Potter-Black
Date of Birth: July 31, 1990
Parents:
James Charlus Potter (deceased)
Lily May Potter nee Evans (deceased)
Sirius Orion Black (by blood adoption)
Grandparents:
Charlus Potter (deceased)
Dorea Potter Nee Black (deceased)
Richard Evans (deceased)
Rosemary Evans (deceased)
Great-Grandparents:
Fleamont Potter (deceased)
Euphemia Potter nee Selwen (deceased)
Richard Evans (deceased)
Iris Evans nee Holmes (deceased)
Godparents:
Sirius Orion Black
Alice Longbottom
Family Inheritances:
Heir of the Most Ancient and Noble House of Potter
4 Unknown (blocked by Albus Dumbledore)
Vaults:
Potter Trust Vault – 300000 Galleons 87 Sickles 8 Knuts
Potter Family Vault – 4977687626 Galleons 13 Sickles 5 Knuts, family heirlooms, jewelry, furniture, books, precious gems and stones, Lily's school trunk, James' school trunk
4 Unknown (blocked by Albus Dumbledore)
Properties:
Potter Manor
Potter Cottage
Potter Villa
6 Unknown
Creature Inheritance:
Unknown (blocked by Albus Dumbledore)
Mates:
Unknown (blocked by Albus Dumbledore)
Blocks:
Magical Core: (blocked 70% by Albus Dumbledore, 30% broken)
Parseltongue (blocked 80% by Albus Dumbledore, 20% broken)
Parselmagic (100% blocked by Albus Dumbledore)
Healing (blocked 75% by Albus Dumbledore, 25% broken)
Wandless Magic (blocked 95% by Albus Dumbledore, 5% broken)
Metamorphmagus (blocked 90% by Albus Dumbledore, 10% broken)
Natural Occlumency (blocked 100% by Albus Dumbledore)
Natural Legilimency (blocked 100% by Albus Dumbledore)
Eidetic Memory (blocked 95% by Albus Dumbledore)
Defense Against the Dark Arts (25% blocked)
Charms (60% blocked)
Transfiguration (75% blocked)
Potions (95% blocked)
6 Unknown (blocked 100% by Albus Dumbledore)
It was Harry's gasp of distress and Ragnok's growl of anger that brought the attention of the others to them, where they saw Harry and Ragnok looking down at a third parchment.
"Harry? Are you ok? What's happened?" Catlin asked as she went over to him, only to gasp as she saw his results. "How could anyone do something like this?" she asked.
"How indeed, Miss Stark." Ragnok growled out. "I'm afraid, Mr. Potter, that we will also be doing a diagnostic test as well. I've already called for the healers and they'll be here shortly along with the goblin that fetched your family tree as well. It certainly looks possible that you and Miss Stark are somehow related. I've already gone ahead and requested yours as well Miss Stark. I'm sure we are all curious as to how you gained Hufflepuff in your family, though I suspect it was through a squib line descending from her eldest son, but it's best not to speculate such things."
Harry let out a quite whimper when Ragnok said that he had called for the healers. He didn't want anyone to know about what the Dursley's did to him. It was embarrassing, and he would refuse if he could. He knew that no matter what he said, they would all insist. All because of this Albus Dumbledore. He sighed and nodded his agreement. He kept his head down and hugged his arms too his chest. He would no cry, he told himself.
"Harry?" he heard in front of him. He reluctantly looked up, and saw the Snape was there in front of him again, kneeling so that they were closer to eye level. He appreciated that.
"Yeah?" Harry mumbled.
"It will be alright. I promise you that. You will never return to your dreadful relatives again whether or not you're related to Catlin. You'll never go back there, ever!" his future professor told him as he squeezed his shoulder reassuringly. "Goblin healers are the best, and they will do everything they can to make sure that your as healthy as you possibly can be, and I'll personally make any and all potions that you may need, ok?"
Harry nodded and leaned forward. Professor Snape seemed to understand and wrapped his arms around him in a hug reminiscent to the one he had received from Harry early. As Snape comforted him, the door to the office opened again, admitting two goblins, each holding a rolled-up tapestry that could only be his and Catlin's family trees, and three other goblins, all female by the looks of them, and wearing green robes that must have marked them as healers.
Harry reluctantly pulled out of Snape's arms and sat back down, the others following his lead. "Ah, very good. Thank you. Now, Mr. Potter, Miss Stark, would the two of you like to look at your family trees before we go on to our other business?"
Harry quickly nodded, wanting to put off the healers for as long as possible. "Yes, please!" he said as he saw Catlin nod and make her way over to where the two goblins had set up the tapestries.
Once they were gathered around them, it was Snape who spotted the connection between the Evanses. "Look here. It seems that Richard and Robert were brothers. That would make you cousins."
"I have a family other than the Dursley's?" Harry asked with hope and awe.
"So, it would seem, kiddo." Mr. Stark said with a grin. "Not to worry, you'll be going home with us to Malibu before you two head off to Hogwarts. Of course, your welcome to join us as well, Severus."
"Really? I can come stay with you?" Harry asked, hope swelling in his chest that maybe, just maybe, he had finally found a family that would love him.
"Of course! Wouldn't have it any other way." Mr. Stark said with a grin as he ruffled his bird's nest of hair.
"Ah…Here is the Hufflepuff connection. It seems you were right Ragnok. It looks as though Catlin's great-grandmother Elizabeth is a descendant of the eldest son of Helga Hufflepuff." Loki said.
"Is it because I'm the Hufflepuff heiress the reason why I only received the Hogwarts Acceptance letter, and none from the Salem Institute for Witches or Ilvermorny?" Catlin asked.
"That is exactly why. Let me explain first how you are the heiress to Hufflepuff, then I'll explain the letter." Ragnok said. "To begin with, Lady Helga had put a stipulation in her will that if her eldest son's line was to go dormant, in this case become squibs, then her youngest son's line would take over the lordship, but if the eldest son's line was to produce a witch or wizard, then the lordship would automatically return to that line. So, until you were born Miss Stark, the Smith family held the Hufflepuff lordship. The heir would have been Zacharias Smith.
"Another thing being, Lady Helga insisted that the female in the family would have precedence over the males. For example, let's say you had a biological older brother that turned out to be a wizard, just as you are a witch. You, Miss Stark would be the heir to Hufflepuff over your brother, who would then be your heir until you had a son or daughter. Does that make sense?" he asked.
Harry glanced around and saw everyone nod. It did make sense in an odd way. It seemed that the Hufflepuff line was matriarchal instead of patriarchal, and he wondered if it was the same with his houses. Shrugging to himself, he looked back at Ragnok when Mr. Stark asked about Catlin's letter.
"Now with the Hogwarts letter, there is a stipulation in the Hogwarts Charter that is very rarely used. It states that any heirs or heiresses to any of the founders of Hogwarts are to only attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry no matter what their country of origin is. This means, that even though you are an American, you are also the heiress to Hufflepuff, meaning you will only be able to attend Hogwarts. There is a loophole though, that some have taken advantage of. The only way around attending Hogwarts would be if you were to be homeschooled. That is the only exception."
"Well, that clears that up then doesn't it?" Mr. Stark said.
"It does indeed," Professor Snape added.
"Now, Mr. Potter." Ragnok said, turning to face him.
Harry felt the professor squeeze his shoulder, and he stood straighter, determined to see this through, even if he didn't like it,
"Are you ready for the healers to see you?"
"Yes."
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