31st July 1987
It was almost Harry's 7th Birthday, a Big deal in the Wizarding world. Harry would accept his Potter family Heirship ring today in Gringotts Bank. John McDougal was waiting for Harry at Gringotts international Portkey station in one of the rooms inside Gringotts.
At 9 A.M. Harry potter arrived with Mr William Scott, his guardian and beloved uncle. He greeted Mr McDougal happily and acted like any other 7-year-old kid on sugar high.
The difference between 4 years old shy and scared Harry Potter and this 7 years old smiling boy couldn't be more different than an elf and a Kneazle
They were lead to the Potter family Account manager, who went by Narfang to humans.
"Greeting Heir Potter, May Mother magic Bless you on your 7th turning" Narfang bowed lightly in greetings towards harry.
"Greeting Manager Narfang, Thankyou for Blessings." Harry copied Narfang as he was taught in the sentient beings class in the academy and bowed gracefully.
Narfang looked at the Potter heir carefully. Harry Potter was tall for his age with a lithe build, his pale skin had a light tan and trademark potter hair was artfully tousled and looked thick and shiny. He had Oval glasses on his face and was wearing a good Quality open robe with a Green shirt and Black trousers underneath it with Black dragonhide boots used outdoors. His scar was covered with what looked the things used on face by human females.
He nodded satisfied to himself, Potter heir was in good health. Mr Scott went outside the bank to spend his day as he won't be allowed in the private Potter family business. Mr McDougal was there in his capacity as Law-wizard to represent Heir Potter.
Narfang took out a small dagger with the Potter coat of arms on it and put it in front of Heir Potter.
"Nick your finger and put few drops in this inkwell"
Harry did as asked carefully. Blades were handled with care and he was taught proper method by his Caretaker Mr Scott back at home.
Narfang put some golden liquid potion in the same inkwell in which harry has dropped his blood and he asked Harry to write his full name on a thick piece of parchment with a black quill using the liquid mix in the inkwell.
Harry carefully took the quill and Wrote
"HARRY JAMES POTTER" on the top of the page and quill slipped from his fingers when the last alphabet was written and started writing from itself. The back of his hand pricked for a moment but he ignored it because he was a big boy now and big boys didn't cry.
"HARRY JAMES POTTER
NAME - HARRISON JAMESON CHARLUS POTTER
FATHER - JAMESON CHARLUS HENRY POTTER
MOTHER - LILY PRIMROSE POTTER NEÈ EVANS
OATH-BOUND GODFATHER - SIRIUS ORION BLACK
HEIR APPARENT TO HOUSE OF POTTER
HEIR APPARENT TO HOUSE OF BLACK"
Narfang carefully took the parchment from Harry and said something to himself in gobbledegook.
"Wait here Heir Potter, Law-wizard McDougal" and he left the room in hurry with parchment. After a few minutes, he came back with another goblin who looked equally ancient as narfang.
"This is SlipBlood Heir Potter, Account manager to House of Black. We are surprised that you're the Heir apparent to House of Black" Narfang said taking his seat behind the desk after introducing them to an another ancient goblin while SlipBlood studied the parchment carefully.
"Heir Potter, I have to contact Lord Arcturus Black and tell him about this," SlipBlood said in gravelly voice.
"Lord Arcturus Black need to approve this Heirship."
Harry Just nodded following the example of Mr McDougal and followed the conversation happening between 2 goblins and His Law-wizard.
"Is Harry related to Blacks by blood?" Mr McDougal asked
"Grandson of Late Lady Dorea Potter neè Black and Great nephew of Lord Arcturus Black" SlipBlood replied.
"Can we make an appointment with Lord Black soon?" Mr McDougal pushed.
"He would meet you at 3 today, Be punctual." slipblood said curtly.
"Alright, is there any more business for today?" Mr McDougal inquired and narfang nodded
"Heir Potter would go through a purification and wards removal ritual tonight and would sleep in a Purified room. He would Accept his Heir ring At 5 minute to Midnight at the time he was born." Narfang was to the point in his instructions.
"We would contact Lord Black and he would determine that Heir potter would be heir to his house of not. You're not to tell this to anyone Heir Potter, Law-Wizard McDougal" Slipblood said.
"Okay Account Manager Narfang, Account manager Slipblood" Harry nodded at both seriously as did John McDougal.
They both left the office and in the hallway, John produced a wizard Hat for harry which was a bit big.
Harry grumbled but put on the hat which covered his makeup covered forehead and hair. now only little tufts of black hair were escaping the hat but his eyes were shaded and looked black and his scar was hidden fully. Potters were known for generations in the wizarding world and recognising Harry wasn't hard.
He held John's hand and they spent the day in Diagon alley after withdrawing 100 galleons from the Harry's trust vault. Harry wanted to purchase a British Broom for himself as they were the fastest in the world and John allowed harry to get a broom as it was the kid's birthday and a Children broom was a good investment for next 3-4 Years till harry was ready for a more Mature and expensive broom.
They went to various shops looking at trinkets, bought a few books which went into one of the extended pockets in Harry's Green robe. They even had some ice cream at Famous fortesque ice cream parlour.
It was a lovely Friday day and they were joined by the Rest of the McDougals and Mr Scott for lunch at 12 in the muggle world in a small cafe for cake and gifts. It was booked for a few hours and Harry was happy that he didn't spend the whole day inside the stuffy Gringotts office with scary goblins. He received various little trinkets from everyone in the Mcdougal family and Rosaline even gave him a framed photo of Hogwarts castle which was taken from the middle of a big lake in the night.
"This is Hogwarts which your parents attended Harry, we don't know you would be able to attend or not but keep this as a memory" Rosaline hugged harry who looked a bit teary-eyed looking at the still coloured photo of Hogwarts in all her glory.
At around 2:30 group broke off, Mr Scott was going back to the academy and harry would go back on Monday morning Canadian time for his classes. He would stay with Elder McDougals in their warded home and spend a day with rosaline who looked at Harry like he was her brother.
They arrived at Gringotts a few minutes later as John side along with apparated Harry to apparition point just outside in a side alley to Gringotts. Harry donned his Wizard hat again making a face. His extended pockets were still full and Mr Scott had left his overnight bag with Mrs McDougal.
They made there way inside the Account managers hallway where at every few feet there was a door with the name of the account manager. They walked deep and arrived at Narfang's door which narfang opened from inside but instead of inviting them inside asked them to follow him.
They walked for a steps and arrived at the Door which had a plate SlipBlood on it. Narfang knocked at the door and it opened itself. Inside the office, an Old Man was sitting on the chair in front of the desk behind which SlipBlood was Working on some Parchments.
"Greetings Lord Black, Slipblood" Narfang bowed a tiny bow to occupants of the room.
They looked at Narfang and replied accordingly.
"These are my Companions, Heir Potter and His Law-Wizard McDougal"
Lord Black looked at Harry arching an eyebrow and harry hastily bought down his hat,
"Greetings Lord Black, Account manager SlipBlood" he bowed low in front of lord black as was the custom.
Arcturus nodded satisfied. This boy atleast knew some basic etiquettes, he hadn't presumed any seat on his own and was standing more than 4 feet away.
"Take a seat Young Potter and Mr McDougal."
As everyone sat down Arcturus arched an eyebrow at the direction of SlipBlood who started speaking,
"Lord Black, as you know Harry Potter is your Great Nephew, Grandson of your 1st Cousin Dorea Potter Neè Black, who married Charlus Potter in 1946 and had a son named Jameson in 1960. Harrison Potter was born in 1980 and he was named Godson of the son of House Black, Direct heir from Mainline of Blacks, Sirius Orion black on 1st August 1981 in Potter Office here at Gringotts in presence of Lord and Lady potter, Witnessed by a Remus Lupin and a Peter Pettigrew.
Heir Sirius Black then filed a Will which was to be executed if he was killed, then immediately or imprisoned then after 3 years which is an acceptable waiting period.
We were not able to execute the will of Sirius Orion Black which was to be executed on 5 November 1984, 3 years from the day he was imprisoned in the Azkaban by the British Ministry of Magic, as there was no formal record of Imprisonment and trial in records of Gringotts. Enquiry to Ministry of Magic was sent and it went unanswered as were the multiple enquiry to Lady Walburga Black on 6th of November 1984.
Lady Black passed on 4th May 1985 and between 5th November and 4th may, an enquiry was dispatched every month to both Ministry of magic and Lady Walburga Black. Enquiry to Ministry is still sent once a month on every 5th of the month and there is no response till now.
As Godfather-Godson Bond is sacred in Wizarding world and no other heir was named by House of Black after Sirius Orion Black, Harrison potter of the house of the potter was Destined heir to House of Black and would be presented Heir Ring when Sirius Black passes away from any circumstances or if don't updates his will and name someone else his heir within next 10 years. Else on the majority of Harrison Potter, he would be declared official heir unless Current Lord Black or Sirius Orion Black changes it. "
Harry was not able to comprehend everything said in fast tones but Lord Black was Fuming. McDougal looked gobsmacked as well as thoughtful as he processed what was being said.
"My Grandson didn't receive a trial when all the rest of the criminals in my family received one." Lord Black was muttering to himself.
"SlipBlood, Present Heir Potter and his law-wizard Heirship paperwork. Harrison Potter would accept Heirship in his birth hour with His Potter ring. I'd be there to witness the ceremony."
"Ceremony would happen in between 11:30 to 12:30 tonight lord black. Paperwork would be settled before that, Please be present before 10:00 P.m. for the purification ritual." Slipblood instructed.
"Heir Potter, Blessings to you on your 7th sacred turning. May fortunes always favour Bold like Potters" Arcturus said directly addressing harry finally.
Harry came out of whatever he was thinking and replied, "Thank you, Lord Black. May lady Magic Bless you and your family."
"You and your chaperone would have dinner with me tonight at 7 P.m. after Gringotts business. We would discuss the family business there. Mr Mcdougal, Bring Heir potter safely to Griffin's Beak Restaurant on time. Blessings." Arcturus said nodding at both of them.
Macdougal replied positively and Harry smiled happily after meeting one of his family members.
Everyone stood as Arcturus stood to leave the room. He patted Harry on his Shoulders and head giving him a smile which was valuable to harry more than all the galleons in his vault.
As harry played with one of the practice snitches he was gifted by Elder Mrs Mcdougal, John filled all the paperwork making which made Harry heir Black Legally. Potter heirship paperwork was completed for ages but a new Heirship meant lots of work and Blacks were a fair bit older than Potters in the name.
Harry knew his history but he had never met anyone related to him before in his memory. He was super excited to meet his great uncle and know more about his grandparents. He didn't remember his time at Dursleys much but he still had a bit of claustrophobia and liked open spaces because of them.
He knew what Dursleys did was wrong and they had died in a car crash and his parents were killed by a dark lord who was a super bad man and wanted to kill him as well. Auntie Niramyee as Mrs Scott was address has told him this some time ago. He knew he has to hide his forehead and hair in European Public places as there were lots of meanie people out there.
A half-hour before 7:00 P.m., Important and urgent paperwork was complete and rest could be done later on as it didn't need Harry's magical signature imprint on it.
John and Harry left Gringotts after stuffing harry's head with a hat once again. Griffin's Claw was a few minutes walk from Gringotts in the Posh Vertical alley.
In a side alley, John spent a few minutes Spelling harry clean, ironing his now wrinkled clothes with a few charms, polished his shoes, removed his hat and spelt his hair in some degree of semblance. They emptied Harry's bulging pockets in a half-filled extended pocket of John's briefcase and he cleaned harry's hand of stickiness as well. Children always had sticky hand at young age no matter magical or muggle, he remembered fondly cleaning the hands and clothes of his children and grandchildren when they were young at a moment's notice.
They entered the high-end restaurant a few minutes before the given time to make a good impression. They were guided to a Circular table where Lord Black were already seated and was having a glass of wine.
Harry was tired but seeing his new relative, his face split into a smile and he greeted his great uncle with a bow before sitting.
"Sit young lad, I'm your great uncle and you'll call me uncle Arcturus from now on. Keep the formalities for the formal occasions. Welcome, Mr McDougal." Arcturus said approving harry's manners.
"Okay, Uncle Arty." Harry hadn't stopped smiling but he minded his manners while sitting. His legs were swinging on the chair but he tried to keep them still and elbows off the table as aunt Niramyee always instructed.
Arcturus activated rune based privacy barrier on the table with his wand and addressed the adult harry was accompanied with.
"Where is Young Heir currently residing Mr.McDougal?"
"He lives and studies at an exclusive Private academy in Canada, My lord."
"Good, Lad's Education is important. What do you Like there Harrison? who do you live with?"
Harry started talking in a way only a 7-year-old could do and Arcturus and John ordered their meals as well a light meal for harry who had a lot of sugar in his afternoon birthday party.
As Harry started dozing off lightly after dinner, John told Arcturus how harry came into the care of his family about 3 years ago and what they have discovered and done for harry when they had no one else to turn to.
Arcturus accepted the explanation and thanked John for taking care of harry. He said that John and his firm would be Black family lawyers from now on after they completed the formalities as the Black family lawyer contract was dissolved by Walburga when she was the acting lady and he had returned to England that day only from his residence in France, where he is living with his cousin Cassiopeia, sister of Harry's grandmother after the death of his wife in 1980. He was out of the country in mourning when all the mess with Voldemort happened and came back only for Walburga's funeral last year with his cousin for a day and then today after receiving an emergency summons from the bank.
They made their way towards the bank around 9:30 P.m., John carrying harry as he had fallen asleep more than an hour ago after dinner when adults were discussing important stuff.
A group of 3, 2 adults and a child entered Gringotts at around 9:30 p.m., the child was being carried by one of the adults with practised ease. They ventured to a teller a bit different from others and he motioned one of his brethren in a tongue only half understood by humans present.
They were led to different purification chambers, given white shapeless robes, 2 adults and 1 child sized. They bathed in pure water and in the case of harry, was bathed by John, who had done this to harry when he was younger and stayed with them on occasion, fearing water and it's depths, those days were gone but still John thought of harry as his honarary grandson. He applied calming oils on harry's body and after exiting the chamber gave him a minor dose of pepper up for the ritual.
A goblin present transferred all the wards present on Harry's person to a Crystal as they could interfere during the ritual.
This ritual was sometimes even hard for adults and harry was a child currently, and even then he was going to perform it twice in one night. In their world, a person can hold upto 2 titles and can be a regent of any numbers of families.
Harry who could in future inherit other titles would not be able to claim them as head but would remain, heir and regent, till he passes them to his children or people of his choice in case of non blood inheritance. Still, Potter and Black lordship held major votes and sway in the British Wizarding world and it was to keep Harry safe. They won't be able to hold his hand always and he was sorrowful that harry has to grow up so soon.
After he explained to harry what he has to do inside the chamber harry nodded and hugged him one last time that night. They would go in and conquer this quest just like many of the games harry used to play with rosaline, john's granddaughter when they was younger.
The ritual chamber was made of white marble wholly with an elevated circular platform in middle than 3 steps from the platform 3 points in triangle than 5 steps away from them 5 points in a star formation and then 7 steps away a seven pointed star, all positioned carefully. Currently 7 white clad goblins, 5 white clad house-elves and Arcturus and one other white clad female were standing there all silently. Everyone knew their roles.
John McDougal took his place with other humans in 3 point circle as harry was leviated by a house elf on the platform. Everything including magical foci and enchanted objects were left behind in the magically sealed bags in a locker provided by goblins to them. This ritual was one of the more expensive ritual provided by goblins, it could be done wholly by humans as well but they needed blood connection to do it with each other to some degree. Here with 3 different beings it was performed as ritual of harmony and they would lend harry their magical motivation to do his part.
At exact 11:45, a bell rang outside and than first goblins started chanting after 3 mins house elfs started chanting and then 3 minute later humans in the room started chanting. Magic was thick in the room, and Harry focused on his family's ring to summon it to him wandlessly and wordlessly.
He was sweating from the stress.
Every voice was lending him power but John knew harry was expert at summoning, his many pranks were proof of that. Still summoning or displacement of object as they were doing wandlessly was hard for the adults even.
At 11:54 , a ring appeared in Harry's left pinky finger and chanting took turn of somber tones and now was the task that no one knew would happen or not as many have failed to summon black heirship ring in past. There was a reason that Sirius Black wasn't disinherited properly as it wasn't possible for the Lord black to arrange every member of black family to try for ring. Harry having connection to Sirius could try, at 11:59 another ring appeared on Harry's right hand and chanting came to close a few minutes later.
Magic was still thick in air as rings has appeared but magic needed to settle in Harry's body. He was on verge of collapsing so a house elf present conjured a mattress and blanket for harry and silently signalled him to sleep on it as everyone except said house elf filed outside. They congratulated each other on successful acceptance of Harry as heir to both the families and two goblins who were healers and 1 female present who was a curse breaker in the ritual went to rest in a side room as it was going to be long night for them.
While maximum time person's body accepted the magicks ring provided and they settled easily, many a times at some point during transition which was of 7 hours time period, body rejected the magic and they needed to help with ritual chanting or if body was carrying harmful magicks then as well. Harry was receiver of killing curse at age of 1, his body could have lingering effects of that night.
Suspicions of healers was proven correct when a bell rang around 3:30 A.m. when the veil between both worlds was thinner and they rushed into the chamber still clad in their white robes and one other elf also appeared in the room. They all saw a black mist clinging to Harry's forehead and him moaning and crying because of pain, still lying on the conjured mattress. They needed to save the heir of Potter and black.
One elf vanished the conjured materials and harry was now on marble platform lying, 5 of them present in the room took position in 5 star circle and started chanting of a very ancient ritual which was used by Romans when dispelling curses placed on their people by enemies. Chanting grew louder and louder as the black mist lost its hold over Harry's body and started disappearing, it took hours of chanting and magic was once again thick in the air when last of black mist left Harry's forehead.
It was around 6 o' clock in morning when chanting came down and everyone's knees gave out be it goblins, human or elves present in the room.
No one said a word and sat in the circle not leaving their position's till 7th hour passed and a bell signalled 7 o'clock outside meaning the ritual was now complete.
Curse-breaker present in the room lifted harry who was a bit heavy for his age and she and healers left for infirmary and house elfs went back to their duties or to rest. Harry had blood and black ooze on his forehead, she made no move towards cleaning it and just laid harry into one of the softest cot present there and left wordlessly. She hasn't seen such darkness since she was last posted in the Egypt and have to dispell curses on millineam old objects and was shaken that a child was burdened with such darkness.
Healers present in the room who were part of ritual now collected whatever came out of Harry's scar in an vial for the future research. After cleaning Harry's face and spelling his hair clean they saw that infamous scar on Potter heir's forehead was now a few shades lighter and would probably heal in due time. It was now not raised like before and settled in the skin and as it was being properly accessed by professionals for first time they noted that it looked hand drawn and not a wand movement.
It was a runic protection symbol which was keeping darkness at bay and so they noted down their research and conclusions. After casting diagnostic spells they declared Potter and black heir was in optimum health and left him to sleep after transferring the wards present on crystal to his person with an armoured goblin standing there as guard till his guardians arrived. They were told to come at 9.
In Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardary a few silver objects kept on shelves in headmaster's office stopped working suddenly and a spirit possessing a small snake had screamed during that course of night. A few objects all located in different places rattled for few second but then no proof remained outside of gringotts of what have happened in the dawn of 1st August 1987.