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Chapter 15:

The talk with the Elves went well. They were so happy to hear about Hedwig and her eggs, they just about vibrated. Elves loved having babies around, Harry learned, even if they are owl chicks. He could just immagine them after hearing that Harry himself would have a baby. They would vibrate out of their skin from happiness.

After a delicious dinner made by Kreacher, Harry went to the living room so he could read some more in the books and Grimoires left for him.

Tomorrow would be the meeting with Andromeda Tonks nee Black and he wanted to make her the offer to become a Black again to her and her family. Althought he did want her daughter, Tonks, out of the Order if they accepted. It would be awkward to accept her back in the family only to serve her with a restraining order.

Harry grabbed the book about Wixen Culture so that he could look up how exactly one brings a blood relative back into the family. He hoped it wasn't too complicated.

Harry was still reading when he saw from the corner of his eye that Othello was flying through the window with a letter from Hermione.

Harry rememberd his promise to Hedwig but he just coudn't help saying, "Well, well, well, who do we have here." Harry used a slightly sing-song tone of voice which he was gratified to see made the owl who made Hedwig pregnant startle.

Othello hooted in question while staring at Harry with wide golden orange eyes.

"No, I will not tell you what is wrong. Hedwig will tell you herself. And you better be kind to her when she does!" And Harry quickly took the letter from Othello before the owl could fly to the owlery with the letter he still carried.

Harry opened the letter and read,

Dear Harry,

First of all sorry for the late reply. I was in France for a week with my parents as I told you a while ago. It is beautiful there and the bookshops and the other sights were very interesting. I bought some books for you too.

What do you mean Othello is flirting with Hedwig?

I'm very glad we will meet soon. I have the feeling you have a lot to tell me. So I will see you on the 24th of August on 3 o'clock in the afternoon in front of Gringotts.

I got a small letter from Ron in the start of summer break asking if I knew where you were and if I had seen the Cudley Cannons play a few days before.

Honestly Harry, I don't know why that boy keeps trying. We got nothing in common except for you. I sent a short reply back and after that he kept silent. Is it bad of me to hope that it will stay that way?

Love,

Hermione

Harry immediately grabbed a quill and some parchment so he could tell Hermione about Hedwig nesting and the three eggs. He also knew why Ron kept trying to contact her. He had a crush on Hermoine since he noticed that she was a girl back at the Yule ball. Harry felt a bit sorry for Ron since he really didn't see that crush going anywhere any time soon. If ever.

Dear Hermione,

Your family owl got Hedwig pregnant! She is nesting and has laid three eggs. Hedwig seems to be doing fine and now that Othello is back here they can talk about their expectations. Do owls have those, you think?

Thank you for the books you bought for me. I'm sure they will be great. I ordered the schoolbooks again so that I can make the homework assignments for this summer and I am almost done with it.

I understand your feelings about Ron and I think you are in the right. He was often not kind to you and I'm sorry that I never said anything about it to him. If you want I can tell him to back off?

I got in contact with a few allies. They will help.

Tell you more when we can meet in person.

Sincerely,

Harry

He would wait for Othello to come back and ask if he wanted to go back to Hermione or wait for a day so he could spent some time with Hedwig. He hoped Othello would be a good father to the chicks, otherwise they would have a problem.

Harry went to the hallway so he could have a talk with Alphard about Andromeda. If he was Sirius favorite uncle growing up he definitely knew Andromeda too.

Harry walked up to Alphard's portrait and found him reading in one of the books he was painted in, "Good evening, Alphard." Harry said.

The man in the painting calmly looked up from his book and said, "Good evening, my Lord."

Harry decided to just ask his question since it was getting late and he knew how people, Hermione, could react when they got disturbed in their reading, "I will be quick so that you can continue reading your book but I had just a question, if you don't mind? Tomorrow is the meeting with Andromeda and I wondered if you could give me any advice about her?"

The portrait made of the late Alphard Black looked happy that someone respectfully asked for his advice and he quickly answered with, "Andromeda is the middle daughter out of that family and the only one with some kindness in her for others outside the family. She always was a proud but kind girl but when she fell in love with a muggleborn, well, it was not taken kindly by her family."

Alphard continued with, "She was disowned without any hesitation and without anything to take with her. Luckily she was a smart girl and she quickly found a job as a healer and married her love, Ted Tonks. I believe that Sirus told me they had a daughter?"

Harry nodded, "Yes, she is a metamorphmagus and she goes by her surname. Tonks is a Auror and part of the Order."

Alphard looked shocked when he heard that Tonks was a metamorphmagus and said, "Merlin, it has been a long time since our family has been blessed with a metamorphmagus! But, you said is a part of the Order? If you plan on asking Andromeda back in the family perhaps you should tell her about what the Order did to you. I think she will agree with you that it is not a good thing for her daughter."

Harry was hopeful that Andromeda would help him after hearing more about her and perhaps the rest of her family too. She sounded like a good person to have in the Black family again. That reminded him that he needed to disown Bellatrix from the Black family. He didn't want her anywhere near him. Harry would ask Bloodaxe about it since he was the manager of the Black family.

He thanked Alphard for his advice and let him go back to his reading.

By now it was late in the evening and Othello still hadn't gotten back from the owlery so Harry decided to just go to bed. It was a busy day today and tomorrow he would have to get up early to go to Longbottom Manor to see if there was any news about Amelia Bones and for the meeting with Andromeda Tonks.

It was the early next morning when Harry popped with Dobby to the entrance hall of Longbottom Manor. Dobby looked around himself before he popped away again with a disappointed expression. Harry went to the dining room where he knew the small family would be eating their breakfast.

"Good morning gran, Neville. Have you heard anything about the attack on Bones Manor?" Harry asked while he took a seat at the dining table.

"Good morning Harry. Yes, there was a article in the Daily Prophet about the attack. The house was ransacked and the dark mark was cast above the Manor but no one was hurt, thank Merlin. They think that the plan was to kill Amelia since she is very much a powerful oppointment to have and very against their ideas for a 'better' society." Gran said while sipping her tea.

"Then it was very lucky indeed that we invited her that day for a meeting here. Who knows what would have happend if she were at home at the time of the attack. Have there been any arrests made by the Aurors?"

Again it was gran who anwsered since Neville had his mouth full with toast, "No there have been no arrests made. The attackers were gone by the time aurors arrived on the scene. Thought they do know that the werewolf Fenrir Greyback was part of the attack. This is why I have invited Amelia and her niece Susan to stay here for a while. At least until the wards of their Manor are safe again."

Gran continued with, "They will arrive later this afternoon. I do hope you boys will make them feel welcome?" She said with a raised eyebrow.

Harry and Neville replied at the same time with, "Of course, gran." And grinned at each other as gran smiled at them.

"Now Harry, as you know in a few short hours it will be time for the meeting with Andromeda Tonks. I feel like I should warn you before hand thought, Andromeda Tonks looks very much like her horrible sister, Bellatrix Lestrange." Gran said with a look of distaste when she spoke Bellatrix Lestrange her name.

Harry was glad for her warning. He really woudn't want to start this meeting with pulling his wand on her for looking like her sister.

After a nice breakfast with the two people whom really started to feel like family to Harry, he went to practice some magic with Neville in the training room of Longbottom Manor. While Neville wasn't as good as Harry with the power and speed of casting, he was better then Harry in the precision of casting a spell.

Neville used one of the other wands Harry had but coudn't use that were without the trace. It was a Elm and Unicorn hair wand that absolutly refused to work for Harry but was a good fit for Neville just not as good as his normal wand.

It felt like only a short time later when a House Elf named popped in to tell them to go clean up before the guest arrived. She was a cute little Elf with big blue eyes and that hadn't gone unnoticed by Dobby.

Harry had noticed that it was always Dobby that popped him over to Longbottom Manor and he started wearing his best clothes while coming here. Dobby was clearly trying to impress the cute House Elf named Tessy. It was very funny to watch for Harry. He hoped they would get together.

Harry and Augusta were once again sitting in the sun room when another female Elf led a guarded looking Andromeda Tonk into the room.

She was a regal looking woman around forty years old and Harry was very glad for the warning gran gave him, because Andromeda looked strikingly like her older sister. The only difference was that she has neat curly brown hair instead of the unkept wild black hair that Bellatrix has.

She looked surpised to see him there. He was pretty sure that she recognised the Black features in his face and that that was what surprised her and not him being Harry Potter.

Gran stood up from where she sat and introduced him to the other woman, "Andromeda, this is Hadrian James Potter-Black, the Lord of House Black."

Andromeda looked shocked at the introduction but she quickly cursied to him and he air kissed her hand like the lady she still clearly was and she looked pleased at that gesture.

She said, "It is very nice to meet you, my Lord. What can I do for you?"

And so Harry told his tale once again. He told her about his life with the Dursley's, about his school years, the Prophecy and about the Horcruxes. And then he asked for her help.

Andromeda looked disbelieving at all that he went through is his short life without much help from the adults around him but that quickly turned to the famous temper of the Black family. She seemed to regain her composure when he asked for her help in this war.

The first thing she told him after everything was, "I will preform a scan on you to see what you will need to get you as healthy as possible. I see that the blood-adoption already took care of some things as you look a lot less skinny then in the news paper photo's." And she took out her wand to perform the health scan.

Harry was surpised at her immediate help. He didn't even have to ask her for a healing session!

He could see her face cloud at whatever she could see on the scan. He had hoped it woudn't be too bad but now, seeing her face, he was pretty sure there were a few nastly tasting potions in his future.

When the scan was done, it was Healer Tonks that looked at him. She asked him to sit down and said, "It is a miracle that you are even still alive. Most of your bones are brittle, you have a few badly healed breaks and are at least twenty pounds underweight which causes distress for your organs. You have also a very deadly venom running through your veins and the only reason you aren't dead from it all is because of the Phoenix Tears in your bloodstream that seem to keep healing you at least a little. There is also a very dark magic in the area of your scar." She said all of this calmly while looking him directly in the eyes.

Harry was shocked to hear all of this. He knew his life wasn't the best of lives but this bad?

Gran looked worried and she asked the other woman, "Is there anything you can to to help him?"

Andromeda looked sure as she said, "The Basilisk venom is contained by the Phoenix Tears so the most important thing to take care of are your bones and weight. They need to get stronger as soon as possible. I will get you the potions that will take care of that and you will need to take them every day before dinner for at least two weeks. After that I will do another scan to see were you are."

Andromeda continued with, "You will also get nutrition potions for the two weeks you are drinking the other potions. These ones you will drink every day after breakfast. Hopefully that is enough to get you to a normal weight. I don't know what to do about the magic in your scar yet. Perhaps the goblins will know what to do about that?"

Harry nodded. He would do as she said. He wanted to be as healthy and strong as possible. Althought he did get a nasty feeling in his stomach when he thought about what the dark magic in his scar could be.