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It was the weekend and both Harry and Jim had been called to the bank to deal with Lordship business. Dumbledore was shocked by this turn of events but allowed them to go seeing as they would be back shortly afterwards. They entered the bank with such presence that owning two of the richest family vaults in the bank brought them. They both went together into one room and were presented with a file each containing everything which had been voted on in their absence or in Jim's case everything his father had voted on. Most of his things were actually fine and he only had a few amendments to make.
In Harry's case everything had to be amended and every no vote ever given was changed into a yes vote simply to spite his ancestors and their stupidity. Now a lot of laws in their country were changing. It was now no longer against the law for werewolves who could prove themselves to be safe to get jobs. Being the Lord of a dark family or one which had been previously dark did help. He asked to be brought to the layer with the dragons in it claiming he wanted to see them alone. He was taken there and left there with them whereupon using a very dark spell that the Black family had he was able to conjure Fenrir Greyback to him whom he immediately levitated into the pit with the Dragons who thanked him and proceeded to eat him but not before giving him a finger which he cast a preservation spell on and sent on ahead to Remus Lupin with a letter in mysterious writing which could not be traced. It said Fenrir Greyback was now dead and would not be hurting anyone ever again. Thinking again on his feet he summoned every single legitimately dangerous werewolf in Britain to the dragon pit to be eaten. He was shocked as fifty men appeared there and were quickly all dead and eaten as he watched.
It would be later on that the dragon handlers would complain of their dragons suddenly being too full to eat anything else. Their shit would be bad for a few days too after that but it was worth it. Casting a few light spells he went up to meet his brother with a smile on his face. He was shocked when Professor Snape himself walked in to drop something off he wished to be deposited into his account. He greeted them both happily.
"Professor do you have time now to come to my house and look at those potions as it is the weekend? We can just tell Dumbledore we got held up!" Harry said as Snape turned to him. It was a Saturday after all.
"Yes I do actually. Please ask your elf to take you there and then key us into the wards!" he said as Harry smirked.
"I already did that a few days ago. Just yourself, mum and Jim are allowed in for now. I'll decide on Mr Lupin and Mr Black later. Mr Black did inform me however that he had no desire to enter the house again so he won't be bothered by it" he said as Snape smiled. Lolly appeared and took all three of them to the foyer of Grimmauld Place. Severus was shocked. He had been here many times with Regulus before but it had never looked so great. The hallway which had once been black and decaying on it's walls which had been filled with old dusty pictures was now gone. In it's place were beautiful cream walls, proper lighting and a golden stain resistant carpet. The living room which once had filthy carpets, broken chairs and cursed curtains was now painted a nice royal blue shade. Gone were the old dilapidated chairs and now in their place were two teal fancy couches in a queen Anne style along with matching armchairs one at either side of the fireplace. The curtains in here were now white and bright. The chandelier in here was brand new. It would seem no expense was spared in this renovation of the home.
The kitchen had been merely cleaned up and some new cabinets had been put inside where the real good china was now shining brightly. The floors were made of a gorgeous new stone design and the long dining table which used to exist before had been changed. Now instead there was a divine mahogany wood leaf shaped table with a golden inlay on the veins of the leaves and six matching chairs. It looked positively Elvin.
Upstairs all of the bedrooms and bathrooms had new suits of furniture in them and the main bathroom now contained a prefect styled bath in it. As everything old or cursed had been taken away the house was breath of fresh air for sure. Four of the bedrooms had been designed like the Hogwarts houses and the remaining six were just designed tastefully. The main bedroom or one he used was teal in colour with celestial designs painted on the ceiling. His four poster queen sized bed was mahogany wood with golden curtains on it. It looked wonderful and Snape marvelled at it on his brief tour of the house before they reached the potions lab in the dungeons of the house.
"Now I didn't want Lolly doing too much in here because it might not be safe so I simply had her remove all of the dust in here and place any potions with fading or not clear labels on them in the centre of this brewing station here. As you can see there are one hundred of them. She also counted them. The rest are all neat and accounted for. Some of them were found in other parts of the house too. Please check them out at your leisure. Lolly! Please prepare some tea and sandwiches for us at your leisure!" he said as she popped in.
"I will sir. Thank you" she said as he hugged her before she left again. Snape wasted no time getting to work.
"Ok so these here are veritas serum the label has just faded too much. There now that fixes those. If I give you ten galleons Harry may I have a bottle of this?" he asked as Harry regarded him seriously.
"Severus you're family so you may take any potions you want from here at any time as long as you tell me what they were and how much of it you took. Actually wait a moment I know that the Blacks were an overzealous family that never did anything by half!" he said waving his wand around and muttering as various vials floated over and into a box with sections which he'd conjured.
"Now you can have ten of every potion in here. There are hundreds after all and what am I going to do with them?" he asked as an emotional Snape shed a tear and thanked him profusely.
Jim was shocked to see this emotional side to his previously hated teacher however he'd only ever really hated him because his father had said he should so much as a child when he was growing up. He'd heard it his whole life.
"Ok well I can't identify these ones so we'll have to test them out in a while. This here is the draft of despair. It doesn't surprise me to see a few bottles of this one here. This makes the drinker wish for death and indeed very thirsty. I would not advise getting rid of it more like storing it away for use later when you need it. I used to be a death eater however I discovered one thing Riddle or Voldemort did not think of about his dark mark. You see he hated muggles so much he never thought of the regrowth of bones and the like. I had decided before he died the first time to make my shoulder numb and quickly sliced off my arm with the dark mark on it. The magic within mark killed the arm in one or two minutes maximum. Had it been on me I would have died for sure. I sealed the wound and gave myself a blood replenishing potion. Madam Pomfrey believed I had been attacked by a savage I didn't see and healed my arm. It did take a whole week to recover fully but it was worth it to be free. This potion would be useful against his remaining death eaters who have remained loyal should they screw up!" he said wisely as Jim gasped.
"That's genius. I never would have thought to use Potions as a weapon but I see how foolish I and almost everyone else in our world has been! I mean I would assume if you tossed potions at someone forcefully and the container broke upon impact it would seriously damage them. Wow just wow!" Jim said in awe as Severus himself gasped.
"Actually that is not at all what I had meant but it is something I will seriously look into with Lily. She can help me see if it works or not. If it does well the world will be our oyster. I had just meant poisoning them in ways they wouldn't expect but that Jim is truly Slytherin. Well done and I know I'm not there but fuck it I'm feeling generous ten points to Slytherin!" he said kindly as Jim thanked him. Once he'd realised Jim was now Lord Potter himself he'd been much nicer to him and vice versa.
"Thank you so much sir. Please tell me Severus when you find out if that theory is correct or not" he said as Snape nodded at him.
"Those over there are the draft of peace; here we have the draft of living death, a cure for boils, a shrinking solution, enlarging solution and polyjuice potion. Hmm this one is a mandrake restorative draft and that one there is instant Peruvian darkness broth. One drop of that last one in any space turns it pitch black for ten minutes at a time. This one is handy indeed. Now those twenty five potions there I cannot identify. How about we summon some rats to test them out on huh?" he asked as Harry summoned a rat from somewhere.
The rat turned multicoloured, invisible, every colour you could think of and even started singing at one point. These were definitely prank potions. He left those with Harry after labelling what they could do clearly. Once he was done he put them all on the various empty shelves and properly cleaned up the area which the elf had not done so as not to hurt herself accidentally on Harry's orders. She had merely cleared the dust nothing more.
"Harry you will need to burn these tables in the fireplace and get two new ones as they are as old as the hills and highly unstable. They don't look it but they could fall down at any point and you need a stable work surface when you brew. Also I have installed a timer and an alarm which will sound all over the house if you're brewing a potion which needs to be left brewing for a long time so you will know when it's done. You need to simply write on this parchment here on the wall how long it should take and tap on the parchment and it will start timing for you. To end the spell tap on it again and the alarm will go off!" he said wisely as they retired to the lounge for tea and sandwiches. As usual Lolly had outdone herself and actually prepared an afternoon tea set up for them. They thoroughly enjoyed their lunch.
Elsewhere Remus Lupin screamed as he held the now dead Fenrir Greyback's finger in his hand. Unfortunately he'd know that scent anywhere. He read the letter again as he had been so focused on the finger he'd read it wrong the first time. Then he burst into tears as he saw that Fenrir was now dead. At long last Justice had been served. He told Lily and Sirius who were delighted for him. Sirius was now living in one a house of his own which he had purchased with money Harry had given him from the Black funds. He'd been allowed to take any amount of money he wanted to one time only. This would save him constantly needing to ask Harry for money all the time and so he understood it. He took more then enough money so he could live comfortably all of his life. He was more then happy right now. He had his best friend Remus and his godson Harry back. Remus had been Jim's godfather so he was happy too. He had been literally dressed down by Harry something he now found funny.
They returned back to school after being gone for several hours. It was amazing what being friends with the new Lord Black could get you if you were nice to him and indeed his family. Severus would treasure the potions he'd been given since he now had over one hundred of them and hadn't even dented the ones at the Black residence. He thought then about his own godson Draco. He was actually shining in Gryffindor and had been shocked Lucius didn't truly care about the house he got into so long as it was not Hufflepuff. Draco was truly coming into his own. He'd never be as brash and bold as the other Gryffindors because it simply wasn't in his nature to do so but he didn't necessarily stand out for it. He was exceedingly cunning or as cunning as a first year can be at least and had affected his house well in the sense that more of them thought about what they did before blindly rushing in guns blazing. Now however most of them still did whatever it was anyway but they did still think about it first.
James was mortified and had been left with no choice but to create a separate Gringotts account for his work earnings to go into. Jim had given him a monthly allowance of ten thousand galleons and told him to spend it wisely. He was furious but accepted none the less. That was the amount he made at work each month so they were well and truly limited to buying things on a budget now. Violet was furious she couldn't have any of the Potter family jewels as she always used to be able to have but did wear the ones he'd given her with pride. She was disgusted they'd not be able to spend thousands casually as they had done before however twenty thousand galleons a month was nothing to scoff at if they did things correctly. Violet was giving James the cold shoulder but soon came round when he looked at her with those puppy dog eyes she couldn't resist. William had divorced her and although she'd gotten a small settlement out of it as their laws required it wasn't enough.
She was slightly sad about her divorce. I mean she loved James with all of her heart but William had not been a mudblood disgrace as Lily had. It hurt to have to leave him but that was purely because she wanted to be able to have her cake and eat it too which was no longer an option. William had stopped her seeing Lavender which broke her heart. She cried for so many days when that happened however she had arranged to meet up with her at school for a small while just for a chat. She walked into the floo and left in a swirl of green flames. It would be an interesting chat for sure.